Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-04-27
A YOUNG JOURNALISTS DIFFICULTIES.

A YOUNG JOURNALISTS DIFFICULTIES
Some Of the newspaper fellows
were a little disappointed when the
Opera Festival press tickets We're
passed around. A youug gentleman.
here and there. after having made ar
rangemcnis To escort Young lady to
one Of the operas. would be more or
less paincd tu discover. for example.
that he was destined to be an end
man in the northeastern corner of the
gallery. while his lady love occupied
IA seat behind a pillar two floors below
1t will readily be seen that much
of the pleasure OF companionship
would thus be seriously interfcred
with. The beaning smiles of ar-
proval, the soft spoken words that are
wont to he interchan~ed during Il
performance. the animated cOnycrs;i-
tlons. between acts. the recognition
and pointing ont Of mutual friends.
the young mans carefully studied OK
planation of the plot. all of these de
lightful little social amenitie, would
have to be foregone.
Apropos Of tins, the experience of
IL young mali connected with one of
the dailies He had. in the full con
iidence of being able to fulfill his on
gagements, asked his sweetheart to
pick ont three or four operas that She
was especially desirUls of hearing.
which she did with commendable
alacrity. naming four and adding. Il
would dearly love to see but no mat
ter"
OF course he insisted on knowing
what else she had set her heart upon
hearing, and she mentioned two
other operas, and he agreed to get
seats for all of them. She was en-
raptured with her prospective rich
entertainment and went immediately
to tell the folks, and then they had IA
delightful time in planning for the
week, and the old man didn't stick
his head into the parlor that night
to tell his daughter that it was ten
o'clock, and altogether the young fal
low spent the most enjoyable evening
of his existence.
When he got out into the air and
had chance to think he began to
have serious misgivings as to his
. ability to carry out his plans and sub
sequent events developed the shrewd-
ness of this latter conviction, for
when the office tickets were divided
up, our young man found that he had
his choice between taking two seats
for one performance or staying away
He took them with a sinking heart,
but he did take them, for there were
four other fellows who were waiting
anxiously for a CHARGE to snap them
up, and indeed. the editor who offered
them to him, did so with considerable
hesitation.
1t was fearful ordeal that the
: young man found it necessary to
face, but he did not finch from it.
he was a newspaper man.. and the
bravery. that seems to be inherent in
men of his profession never forsook
him.
He told his girl that the chief editor
of his paper had been waylaid the
night before n going home from his
office and robbed of $500 in money,
solitaire diamond stud worth $500.
and worst of ali, ninety six Opera
Festival season tickets, with which
Col. Nicholas had with characteristic
generosity supplied the Office That
thereupon he, the young man, had
secured the town for tickets, and had
finally procured two seats, he was
really ashamed to say how much he
had paid for them, but they were the
best that could be had at this late hour.
"You see he added imprudently,
''the spectators have all the seats
that they could get hold Of"
''But wouldn't the spectators sell
them to youW
''Certainly not.
But what do the, spectators do
with them p she persisted.
Then you don't know" he said
mysteriously, and trying. to think of
some way out of his dilemma 'Now.
if Itell yolr this you must promise
. never to breathe a word of it to liy-
ing soul. You see it is not generally
known. and was told -me in the
strictest confidence. and inasmuch as
it is contrary TO the ethics of journal
ism tc betray trust, l would never
consent TO divulge the secret to any
one else, but with you it is different.
and 1 feel tha: L can confide in you"
She WIS nnch affected by this eyi-