The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-12-01

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umn, you are absurd Some trimm;n, ! 'Oi'
to such an extent, would be mu,ila,;en N'"a
ruin. Some things, indeed. are spun an, a. ao0
column, but some others cannot be ;amm.s
into q column. II a column or two ..Ir. Va
are not readable, 1t is not because thew 80
long. but because they are stupid, or d1l '
dIfuse, or obscure. or 10 some wav has
But mother dIiiness nor dffaseness i: 4u'
patiblc with brevity, althou h brevi,y cn,,.I
and diminishes The force of both. An a,';"''
may be short and wordy. 1t nav be Io1
and compact. If man is diffuso 10 a eon.to
be will be difl'ose 10 half column. onIv -
will not be at it half so long. Oaap,ji. :;
not the opposite Of quality.
Nor again is it the hight Of excellence :,
newspaper writing simply to state your case
When you write for newspapers, you do M
write to show yourself off, nor to furnish
storehouse o! fact for all who choose to draw
on write In order to get things into peonIo,
heads and hearts for practical purposes. M,
as general rule, the only way to get ,hpg,
ia is to dang them in. 1t is not cncu h =
say that A is B. People will read it, and
90 s,raightway and forget it. You mus,sar
not only that A is B, that A 10 eopiy,
lent to b, that A is the same thing a,
that A aud b are int cbangeatle, t6.t thew
perform the same functions and DO the samc
thinss. You must draw a picture Of A and
OF b, and SLOW that they are one aud he
same. Take little gin in CoIburn'8 Arirh.
mctic, and you will see what mean. i.
! is 80 OF what number3 You ask, and she
looks at you in dismay. What is the puu.
Der of which L. is not the whole, but l2.a
part Of it. u is not one half OF it. but it
is 5 p Still a stare. Go Oh asking her
the same question FIVE times slowly and dis.
'inctIy, looking into her eyes straight all tie
time, holding her with your gaze, and at the
end she will give you the answer, and he as
happy as a queen. Why =? You have said
nothing more than you said the first time.
do not knew only it is fact that every
iteration seems to give the anger ,wis,
through the skull till it reaches the brain,
and the idea spur'5 out.
No, Assertion is not enough If it were
the text would be all. loa would not need to
have any sermon. Aph prism and apohegms
are very we'll, bat you must have expansions
and explanation first, or the apothegm has no
meaning. You must drive the paiI thoroughly
in before you ciDch 1t.
But it is said, people will not read long
articles. Tae very look Of the thing fright.
ems them So much the worse for lhc PEG.
pie but let DOT the crown be narrowed to
meet their puny brows. If grown-up men
aud women are terrified by two columns Of q
newspaper, they ought to be ashamed Of
themselves Let them take their primers
and suck what milk they can out OF them,
but dout let sense, and morality, aud religion
be chopped into mincc meat that they may
SHALLOW without chewing. think altogether
too much OF this thing is done both IN press
and pulpit. 1t takes the tone out Of people
, Nothing is better for he teeth than to eat
crust, and the crust is tie sweetest part OF
he leaf besides. Ii Is thoroughly childish
for inca to insist on having everything SOAKED
into pap, and then fed out to them with
teaspoon. What are thc teeth for bnt to use
e the inCi.ors 10 bite and the molars to grind
You Cannot bite mi!k,porridgc, nor grind Wa
Ter gTuel
! Again say, if the article is trivia or
e spun out, or III any way bad, that Is dilsF'
Cnt thing. Two columns OF lwaddie Is apFaI'
ing to any body SO is one. So is Hait
coIumn cuitlng IL down diminlshcs tae
amount, b 1T does not change the character
: and say furthermore, that The writer VINO
r ahether from inexperlence Or Inability, hnaSs
y 10 better than to spread over 4 PAGE Sha'
II can be pu; into half page, does not know
"a enough to write Tor the press at all Lex
II him 70 TO school another term.
70 know there are many subjects which cal
: 9 discussed at length III an abe and lutefe"
~ lug manner, bu: for whose discussion news
~ paper is rot the appropriate place. Du
u there are subjects which not only can DC
10 brt ought to be discussed, especially 10 rel
W gious newspapers, aud which cannot be crow
~ ed into haf u column perhaps not into VINO
&c one. II people don't like this, they oOs'
0u to learn to like it. Let them buckle dow
." to 1t aud master it, and not clammor to nav
w everything u mere touch and 90. II know
ID ledge must be laid on thin in order to ha'
TIC 1t 90 far, don't see that much Is game
H. II the only difference between ourselves al
our fathers Is that we know little about
:" good many things, wnle they knew mu'
p about a lew things, why, the balance Is
'' their side.
IN At any rate, il people will not have
:I adequate presentation OF SUBJECT tn'
leu shourd not have any You may compress