Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-09-06
.sThe CompIete songster. !,

If q managing editor ever In the on
ward course of his professional career
came to and lived through q day in
which he gave perfect satisfaction to
all the readers of his paper, he ought TO
be an angel, and on that day he should
die and be taken to heaven. He should
not miss the chance of his ever pleasing
verybody again, says the NelC Orleans
PicGytI1le. One reader thinks daily
paper should have a puzzle-depart-
ment, and various other departments
for children and religious readers. An
other thinks it should give q synopsis
of all new books, while his neighbors
wonder why papers talk so much about
trash books that are not fit to read.
One person says New Orleans papers
should publish few columns In French
every day, because there are 50 many
French readers here. A novice, with
her first manuscript for sale, says there
is deal of undeveloped talent here
that should be encouraged by home
journals.
Critical readers say when they see
written for the So-and-So" over q
story, marking it as original in the pa
per publishing it, they read no more,
because they can guess it Is stupid
The tough wants more sporting matter.
He hears it read in the saloons. The
men about town want more theatrical
news and social gossip. The young
Sunday school superintendents say the
paper ought to work up the Sunday
schools more than they do, and make
the public take an interest in them.
Some loyal old churchgoers, who think
it their duty to listen to the dryest and
dullest old sermons Sunday after Sun
cay, wish the papers would work their
reporters and printers on the Lords
day, and publish all the other preachers
sermons on Monday so they can read
them aud get spiritual good without
deserving their own pews.
When the huckleberry season Of re-
union comes on, number of correspon-
dents ask about poem called @The
Blue and the Gray and can it be pub
lished, because a number of people
want to see it? At the North they
want Beautiful Snow" when winter is
on. A back number reader is always
sending and suggesting the publication
of recipe to cook something or kill
something. Those too lazy to open o
dictionary or consult simple school
books ask questions of history, geogra-
ply, grammar, spelling and the mean
ing of words, and want to know the
real name of "Ouida," and if Lawrence
Barrett acts on Sunday nights. The
editor of the Picaylt71e has just received
a communication which reads as fol-
lows: New Orleans, La, June %,
$780, Would you please print in your
next Wednesdays issue of your paper,
if possible, the following songs: 1.
Over the Garden Wall; 2. I Took
Ny .GirIsto the Fancy Ball; or, Had
But Fifty Cents; 3. The Letter That
Came at Last and oblige a daily sub
scriber" 1t would be a pleasing &C
commodation to leave out q column of
telegraph news, or whatever might be
pressing, to make room for those
charming ballads in Wednesday pa
per, but the chances are that the nov
city would not suit great many other
readers. especially among those who do
not sing. And then, as q matter of
fact, the words of ell the latest songs
are not always at hand. Some time
and trouble would be required in look
ing them up. A man down town is
keeping complete son9sters," and 81
daily subscriber" might go there and
get barrelful of them; but the man
does not advertise his wares, and no
editor feels like giving away the care
fully guarded secret Of man in Eusi-
ness. So it comes to this: A news
paper cannot conveniently become q
complete songster itself, nor tell where
all the latest songs can be bought.