The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-28
THE GUESS VINO COLUMN.
GU cries That May Lead to Duels and
Revolutions.
From the atlanta (Ga.) Journal.

From the 4tlantG (Ga.) Journal.
"The Guess Who'k column.
Few people in Georgia who are not read
what Guess Who column is.
1t is distinctly Georgian-a home stroke
originated in and maintained by some Of the
Georgia weekly editors.
The new journalistic feat furnishes enter
tainment, produces qusrrels, causes fights,
brings threats of lawsuits and upsets COM
munities.
Can you guess what "Guess Who" col
umn is?
A few samples of some of the papers will
convey letter idea of this new departure
in newspaperdom than could be given by a
written description or explanation.
The Sandersville Mercury of Tuesday
wants its readers, among other things, to
"Guess who sends kisses to pay for chewing
| gum" Guess who the young lady is that
left our Johnnie;' Guess who is the young
| man who left his hot, in excitement, at his
girls house, and went home bareheaded, y
| etc.
Such questions in the public prints of a
small town are calculated to cause row if
anybody gets SO indignant as to betray
himself by giving vent TO his anger.
The most absurd questions are sometimes
propounded. Here are a few samples
clipped from different papers:
Guess who would rather be dead than
see the Georgia train go TO Augusta to-
morrow with certain young lady who is
going homeP Guess who got the malten
last nightF Guess who fell in ditch last
night and had to be helped outY Guess
who tried to open the night latch with his
pocket-knife"
Here are couple of staggerers: "Guess
who our new devil will be?" "Guess who
wants to be our wifew They come from a
Middle Georgia paper.
You are asked to guess all sorts of things.
To guess who wants TO go to the legisIa-
ture, who has nothing to eat at home,
whose wife wants divorce, and who wants
TO get married.
You are asked to guess who has but one
shirt, who laughs in church, who walks
slowly with his girl, who has a terrible
temper, who admires dogs, who eats
snails, who drinks ink, who writes like a
hen scratching, who acts like dunce, who
splits rails on Sunday. who cried when
young lady went away, who is sweet on
Jim Sanders, and who wishes his wife would
die.
In no instances are answers given to the
questions.
When this is begun, the disturbances
growing out OF the column will treble. At
present parties hit don't yelp, but lay low
and say nothing.
AS it is, however, the "Guess Who' column
has caused whole communities to quarrel,
and more than one editor has fallen from
grace in consequence. There is on record
an instance where brothers won't speak
because of the column, another where the
heads of two families fought, and the num-
Der of young ladies who have been crushed
and young men who have teen Inundated
could only be expressed by thousands.
The Guess Who" is a dangerous col
umn.
Purely personal matters are touched
upon, which aggravates things.
Sometimes question covers more than
one person-accidentally Instinctively,
aged men, matrons, maids and young men
heave sigh of relief when they read their
papers "Gusss Who" column and ascertain
that they have escaped stab
Then the whole town prays the week out
to be spared next ISSUE Feeling is at high
tension.
The Guess Whon column, if it has come
to stay, will cause trouble in Georgia.