Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-02
A MODEL PACE!


In pointing out editorially the SUPER
excellence of it's own editorial style. the
Anaconda Standard this morning says
editorially: 1.-The Standards editorial
page is recognized as a model through
out the country"
At first blush this would appear to be
a deplorable exhibition of Journalistic
egotism. and the throughtless reader
may accus that paper of showing alto
gether too much enthusiasm in footing
its own horn.
But it should be noted by the analyti-
cal student of higsh-class journalism that
while the Standard says its editorial page
is recognized as a model. it does not say
what it is a model Of!
Amy one who has mad a study OF
models a verify the statement that
models differ from each other, as one
star differeth from another in glory.
Take the model for a corset. for in
stance. and it is different in many inn
portant respects from the model of a
1880 AAN =" "a LIZ HI All ia
nection, we do mot mean thai which may
be owned by the poor but honest farmer
throughout u broad land. but that
which is in daily use by the fat and
sylph-1ike actress.
Such models, as displayed in the store
windows. for advertising purposes, are
intended to represent symmetry.
In this respect they may differ matte
rally from editorial models like the An
aconda Standard, in which the calf-but
we forbear!
1t is mot our intention to get a model
editorial page mixed up with the live
stock industry. OF to intimate hat it's
articles are as we'll rounded as the corset
models to which reference has hereinbe-
fore been made.
The Standard, like the corset model,
contains considerable waste matter; but
it does not look as neat as a corset when
it is ON a bust.
But of corset stays braced up on such
occasions, and steels the opportunity to
embrace a good thing. thereby making
itself a recognized editorial model
throughout the country" as we'll as to
some extent in the towns and villages.
Still. it must be noted, that the great
question of what kind of an editorial
model the Standard purports to be re-
mains unanswered.
| AS shot ,,,o r
going into details the b~enighted public
! can only guess at 1t.
With such expressions in it's editorial
columns as "off Of and "such an inyok-
ing is wholly unnecessary" and kindred
flashes of genius, it must be admitted
that it is not a literary model, except it's
Sunday issues, which are edited by the
office boy.
Neither can the Standard claim to be
a political model, for while the wind
bloweth where 1t listeth the Standard
blows where it is ordered to, it's bellows
being tilted to an angle required by the
exigencies Of the interests to which it
daily models.
1t must be that the Standard is a re-
Fgious model, for no newspaper in the
country has as large a stock of Chris
tian charity-all Of which is still unused.
The work Of publication in which it is
engaged. pounding grace into the grace
less and glory into the withered reputa-
tions OF political ~has-beens, indicates
that it is indeed a model.
No wonder that it Is recognized
throughout the country as an editorial
model, and that the man in, the moon
wears a patent clothes pin on his nose
every night when he passes over Ana
conha.
Truly, the influence of thai sheet is
widely felt. extending from Houston,
Texas, to the settlements of heaven.