Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-02-15

'Detrpit Free Press.

Detroit Free Prese-
NV son. there are several things
about newspapers which you viii DO we'll
TO heed. Daily newspapers are div'deo
into two Glasses.
What are tbey?
"Ti ey are called blanket sheets ana
table napkins.
What il a blanket sheeiT
II, is an eirh.-psee paper. cut. pasted
and foIdt d IN the mnst convenient form.
II belongs TO the associated press. and
has all the news from all parts OF the
world fresh and crisp each morning. IL
has correspondents in all the large cities.
State correspondents in every town IN
Michigan. ard nothing worth prin-ina
happens in ans country today that you
do not O.. the particulars OF tomorrow.
Its ed ors are posted on the political
situation. its correspondents and report
ers have ripses foot long for news, and
yeu get all the news. all the politics. all
tie talk of the whole county put Up IN
a neat, readable shape and left on yonr
doorstep for she snn of 20 cents per
" ek."
And there is lots Of aavertisina!
Dead loads. my boy. Every firm Of
any account in city like Detroit has
It's space ia blanket sheet. When tue
live business mt Z, force newspaper
from a folio to a quarto form there's n
hen on, and don't You forget is. Some
dry goods men do business for half a
century in a 15xa0 store and have Its
Of room. Others are crowded into i've
story buildings by their increase Of
trade. DO you catch on. sOnnyY'
And what is table napkin
ct il four-paee sheet which steals
half its teiepraphic news and berrovs
the remainder. Its politics is the hung
hole of the barrel. Its local news IL the
meat stolen from the in0rnine papsrs
and nasaed xp under rev head. Ii II
independent aud. when it does sup
port any particular candidate. there II
| = strsng odor of Rreenbacks around the
shop"
"But they live!"
90. yes. some folks make it a rule tG
chuck a cent 10 every hand organ, nc
matter how bad che tune"
"And don't they IN AXE great blow
about condepsati ,nT'
"They d., sonny. and in the next is
sue they publish love stories two col
umns long. When there is a murder
burglary or scandal. you keep your eye'
| peeled and notice the efforts Of ths
table napkins ~ write by the yard stick
About the only condensed thing in q
tsbl. napkin 10 it, advertising patron
age"
Bot have read that los Of business
men hsven't time TO look over blauks
sheet for the Rews.'
| d" That's another stale oystor. A maj
who has taken Newspaper for ten day
Gan open il TO any department. he de
Sizes with his eyes shut and his mother
in law standing over him with club
And, my boy. whenever You find q maj
20 terribly busy that he hasn't time 4
read newspaper headings, you have 80
= chap who'll lean against a lamp pos
a whole hour IT, hear hOrse-raoe, doc
fight or scandal nsws We are bus,
lot in this country, bat tine extremel,
busy men don't take newspapers as all
They move on ahead Of til sheriff, o
its too much trouble for them to spell
out their words"
"rhen that theory il busted?'
"k'rect, you are! Why, boy, tn
matter OF boiling down. goes on i
every newspaper ia tie land, from su
to sun, aud from dark 10 dawn. tn
great question Is what 10 leave out, nc
what 10 put IA. W aere table napki
lops of one line a blanket sheet cuts q
i've. Every table napkin in this coun,r
IL publishing in sv ry issue reprint ma,
ter from one to fifty years old, and "
they bugle about compactness and Got
densation."