A STORY WITH COMMENTS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIV, Issue VII, 17 February 1900, Page 333

A STORY WITH COMMENTS.

She war the preferred reporter on the staff of a weekly newspaper devoted to society items. Every week her copy went to the editor beautifully written and faultless, considere I ns copy from a printer's point of view; but any little suggestion she wanted to make she ran along with the nrtie’e in the following fashion: — “Mr and Mrs Brown-Smyth gave on Monday an elegant dinner of fourteen covers. (For goodness’ sake, speil her name Siny—last week it went in Smi, and she was fearfully cross about 't.) Mrs Indigo Blueblood has sent cut cards for a ball, at which she will introduce into society her love'v daughter. (This is ail right. This Mrs Bineblood has some sense, and doesn’t in the least mind seeing her name in print. It’s the other Mrs Blueblood 'we had the fuss with.) Mrs De Porkins contemplates a visit to Paris early in the spring. (Don’t stick her down at the tail end of the column, whatever you do. I want to please her somehow, because last week she went in as one of the ‘many others.’).

This time the editor was away, and the Toiemau was so busy he hadn’t time to read the proof of this, and it went in the paper in full, exactly as she had written it!