Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-10-05
JUST AS ALL EDITORS WRITE.

\ charming little story of the way
in which Bjornsterne Bjornscn. the
great Norwegian novelist, turps off
ni- literary work, is floating through
the newspapers This is the para
graph:
" Biornsterne Djornson is an easy
and rapid but titful writer. Some
times his Zen will he seized by an in
spiration and rcpl off whole cEapters
in few hours. The forenoon i his
work time, and he docs not care If his
desk Is surrounded by visitors talking
OF Ey dozen romtiHg children at
play. Nothing short of ali earth
quake. he say, can disturb his flow Of
thoughts.
We've Away, admired Nj. Bjurn-
son and have passed many happy
hours reading his st"rle' III the
original: but now oar heart warns
towards him with Il warmth it never
knew before. for We discover that THIS
great man and We have tastes and
feelings in commun. hich it Is the
lot of few PERSONS to share. Bjorn-
stcrne, You're just like lis. my dear
fellow, We're just like YOU only a
little more SO We. too. delight in
being surrounded by the laughing
prattlc of children as We tell. As
these desirable surroundings are not
easily to he had in the editorial sane
tum. we usually write oar heavy
articles in our lowly cottage, with
the little romling darlings on our
knees. in our arms, in the midst Of
our hair and whiskers. and riding to
Banbury Cross on our in-step. Ii
possible. we send out for a few of the
neighbrr's children, and lis the racket
grows merrier and the little prattlers
grow more humorous the faster flies
our pen and the more irresistible be
comes our logic. Perhaps ourreaders
have noticed that some of orr most
brilliant articles have appeared in the
green apple season. In the jubilee
of collie and stomach ache we are in
spired with our subiimest ideas. and
write with a rapidity and viyor that
drives all witnesses aghast
Yes. we're happy to have score or
two of visitors talking and chattering
around orr desk, as We write. They
give light and airy glance to olr
style, make lis crisp and epigram
matte. and cur work seems but pas
time But Il writer for a provincial
newspaper can afford to hire twenty
10 forty people to talk to him every
day in the week, and that's why the
public don't get more of that class of
work from us. When we get hard
pushed for stimulous Of this sort,
we order in the foreman of the com
posing room. the Office boy and the
pressman. whom we have trained to
l'repeat one of Joseph Cooks lectures
| backward. in three different Ian
guages, at the rate of seventy five
words per minute together and at the
same time. We have found this ex-
pedient exceedingly useful and eco
nomical, as a last resort, Brother
| Bjornson. No, not even an earth
quake can disturb the flow of oar
thought. On the contrary, the flow
| of our thought has often disturbed
earthquakes. The flow Of our thought
reaches its flood in the midst of earth
quakes, volcanic cruptions, Tomatoes
thunder:storms, waterspouts, boiler
explosions, Fourth of July cclehra-
tons, upheaving foundations and tot
tering walls. The earth may yawn
but the torrent OF our thoughts rolls
on in all its dignity and grandeur.
The flow of our thoughts was never
disturbed but once; and that was
when the tidings reached us. at the
minute of going to press, on the day
after election, that the elevator had
busted and two forms pied" Have
you ever been there. Bjornson?-
Lewiston tMe) Weekly journal.