The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1891-06-25
MY MAGAZINE FUND.


: For months before 1 srsdusted from
Wellesley College, some years ago, VA
!. troubled With the perpltrips problem o
! how to get . very nice graduating dresl
: 81 : very low cost; for my father vilIas,
merchant 10 Maine. could III sford Il
spend more money than was absolutely
necessary Tor my regular expenses.
do wish could think Of some way Il
earn the money for my dress. | said ons
I day TO my insepsrsble friend. Msdse Bet
nett
Why don't you write stories for the pa
pers' she said impulsively.
What pspersf said With surprise.
3 Why any papers all papers maya
zines, qusrterlies. literary syndicstes-any
thing or anybody, she answered, spring
ing TO her idea in her usual enthusiastic
way.
But I've no talent for writing, pro.
tested
Yes. dear. you must have. she urged,
efiusively. You doa't know how often I've
stood eDlaptured TO hear you 60 on tell'
iug some yarn that | knew (sissiog me
feryently) hsdnt word Of truth in in.
Oh. know you could be great novelistl
rbink OF being pointed out by strangers
on the street as the celebrated Millicent
Warner OF Warmers Fsllsl What rap.
ture
But what could write q story about2
said l. ignoring her little reflection on my
veraciiy at times.
Write love story. Everybody likes
them, she answered.
But I've never had love affair, and
never can have. added mournfully, for
there isn't man 10 my town that I'd look
at for love. and You know I've got to stay
At home while the other girls take their
turn away st school. know its predes.
tinsted that shall be an old maid, but
don't like the outlook. said |, telling the
truth for once ct least.
Tisn't OF the least consequence. Msdge
said, encoursgingly People never need
to know shout the subjects they write
about. Why, all the books about the
management OF children are written by
old msids; and do You suppose that the
people who write Lord This and Lady
That ever saw q real lord. even with an
opera glsss2
don't know. said l with simplicity.
Why. OF course not. she ratified on; half
the stories OF travel and adventure are
made up by men who have never been out
side Of Coney Island. Indeed, the less
you really know about q subject the better
off you are. you see, because you're not
hampersd by facts and your imagination
can have full scope.
I'm afraid l couldn't succeed that way,
said musingly.
Indeed you could, she still asserted.
Last year my cousin. Joe schuyler. who
always has lived in New York and has Just
graduated at Columbis mot even coun
try college like Harvard : took charge Of
the agricultural department OF city pT
per while the regular editor went to Eu'
rope for three months. end he got along
finely. he iust hunted over the rural eI'
changes and rewrote their articles. using
Q little different wording, that was all.
Didn't he make any blunders2 ! ssk.
ed.
No, not in the paper, she said. but be
did get into bit Of scrspe for farmer
wrote him asking for more explicit direc'
tions for using new remedy for pip in
chickens, aud a. Joe was full Of fun. be
wrote. the farmer private letter sending
him a prescription shout like this.
HNcb.tus. One sppncauon
shake well Lefols using.
Jbis il an absolute anu instantaneous cCre.
So the farmer drove of Ave miles to the
nearest town. to the drug store, where the
clerk sssured him he'd been trifed with
and that IL was all joke. That enraged
the farmer and he took il into the county
paper. which happened to be published in
tha, town, aud rs the editor was prohi
bl,ionist, and hated the city daily snywsy
be m ade the most Of poor Joe's Joke and
all the county stopped their subscriptions
in consequence. Ia, Joe did't care,
Didn't the head editor care2
sked.
Dear mel don't know Joe didn't
tell me what be raid. But Miliceni, do
try. know you could write 9 sweet love
story. or yachting adventure.
Why, Inever was on yacht in my life,
1 demonstrated.
But assure you, dear. II isn't Of any /
ccnseq nence II you never re. Now. IL
you'll never. never divulgs my s.cret, III
tell you ,hs, sm writing story myself.
aud am dong jos. ~hs. I've advised you
TO do, for nv story is named "a Night
9Th Gamblers. aud I've located il on the
Mississippi River steamer. ls'ss thril
,iag tale. aud I've got place where Que
N sn il jusi gong IL stab another.
Do rad II To mel begged. bat M.dee
would 20, unless would agree to write
one and read IT to her. -snd 70 this vas
the way my fret stiemp TO write for the
press came about.
Itaok Ler sdyiee, nc, onl, wrote
leve s,o'y bu, l pisced the lovers 90 :
zach, sud sel them sf -, 10 Georgisn Bay
probably because tpe- less Of ibs'
shee, al water than OF most others
Thsis sii right. ssid Msdgel eheerfuliy |
Send il 10 some inls1d newspaper. The
editor himself Won't know any more about
IL than ycu do. II be ssnds you hfty doll