Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-02-12
A Lady's Visit TO the Printers.

So you sit there all day and cut out pieces
from the newspapers think should like that
1t is so much like patch work.
Yes, madam, we excissorize some. though
we are obliged TO weave considerable cloth our
selves. Suppose you occupy our chair, and
give the public your ideas of editing paper
! Me! goodness wouldn't sit down here and
write where every body is writing alone for the
world; wiring makes person so cross Be-
sides, your table is all ink, il would soil nv
dress; why dom, you have nice mahogany
table. and white curtains al the windows =
What makes you hang up these dusty old pa
pers round The room! II was obliged 10 stay
here, the floor should be washed and carpe,
laid down; i, must be dreadful to live So
Oh those are our flies we couldn't dispense
with them very well ; and as for carpet, We
fear it would frgh'en away our customers.
Dear me: the gentlemen are so careless
about every thing nice, that | don't think they
are comfortable, unless they can have their
rooms all Uttered up. Did you write all those
sheets to-day
Certainly, and we are moi through yet.
Why ii takes me whole day TO compose
and copy letter. hope you don't scrawl
and blot so when you write TO the ladies ?
We never have tha, pleasure, madam
No-and you don't write for them either, or
you would no, print such dry stuff as you do.
DON'T put any thing more about Oregon and
Congress in the paper, will you its so dull
But what are those men doing in the other room
with the sleeves rolled up, and making motions
as if they were going TO fight somebody!
Those are our cnmpositors setting type; you
see they all have a stick in one hand, and they
place the types in i, with the other
| don't see any sticks, unless you call those
little square pieces of iron so; what curious
names you have. always thought stick was
TO walk with
Well, ours make he words walk those lit
tie boxes, lha, we call cases, contain the letters:
and the printers put them together into words
and sentences by the aid Of lha, ltle piece of
iron that you speak Of.
Well, declare! Doctors and lawyers
knew had cases, but never knew that printers
had before.
Certainly. madam; they sometimes are foul
cases and hard cases, too but What can be ex.
pected of those who lead The lives Of devils!
Why do they! I'm sorry to hear it. Do
hot n i'll
water for.
He's a-going to wet paper, you know
Oh, yes | thought you always sprinkled
your papers and ironed them, 10 make ihem
look SO smooth; and suppose this grea, gal
lows looking machine is your mangle.
That's the press, madam, and this handle
here is the ArchimedIan lever, which moves
the world Just notice It's power; you perceive
that il's broken lever
Why in the world, then, don't you have il
mended The men are always so slack but
what are those things that resemble long PIC
lure frames
Those are what we Term galIeys.
You have galleys, hey! | didn't know that
the printers were so much like the Row- mans
before.
Look yonder-wha,'s that boy doing!
Oh, he's distributing a handful of pie.
Well. shouldn't think handful of pie would
be much among many. What are you ago
ing to do with these slips of printed paper!
These are proofs, and we are obliged TO read
them; won, you sit down and help US!
No, indeed! | can't bear 10 read any kind
of proof unless sometimes in trials for breach
of promise | donl believe the ladies' would
make very good printers.
Pardon US, madam, but we think they would
their slender fingers would be the very things
for handling Small Caps, Nonpareil, Diamond
and Mnion they might do well even with
Long Primer
Pshaw. don't mention it ! never could abide
the name of The hong primer since ma nsed TO
make me learn The calechism ouI of il. Good
ness oracious if I haven't sDoIted nv gloves