The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-04
FACE POWDER
Put to n Queer Use in Detecting Pub
Iiahing House Tricks.
New York Herald.

New York Herald.
The young woman who writes pieces
for the paper felt the spirit move her to
a declaration, what fraud some of these
literary publications are" she murmured
to her best friend Listen to this" She
held up monthly magazine and read:
1T is brains, not names, we want. 1t
doesn't make any difference what a writer
has done in the past. What he does when
he submits us an article is what counts
And then the announcement goes on TO
tell how carefully the publishers read
everything that is turned into them. Well,
they don't do anything of the kind. When
L was somewhat younger in the business
of writing / used to take a good deal of
consolation in the saying of that dear old
DIR. Holmes. you know. the one about
writer's
mo, what was that?" asked her best
friend
Il think / can repeat the passage" said
the young woman. II have said 1t over
often enough TO remember it: The world
is pretty quick nowadays to catch the
flavor of true originality; If you write
anything remarkable the magazines and
newspapers will find you out, as the
schooboys find out where the ripe apples
and pears are. Produce something really
good and an intelligent editor will jump
at il. Don't hatter yourself that any ar
ticle of yours is rejected because you are
editor more than to get anything worth
having from Il new hand That's fine,
isn't 1t? Well, some time after reading
that, L came across this magazine, and
they were then running the same line
they now use, about brains being wanted,
and all that. Well, L thought, L surely
have no name to carry story Let US
what brains will do. And L sat me
down and wrote really good thing.
After i had written it 1 thought,
Maybe, after all, this announcement about
the editor reading all manuscripts. and lilS-
ing to get new talent, is not sincere And
then L became what my male friends call
foxy. L got quantity of very fine face
powder, and put it on the second page.
4 put my name and address on the first
page together with the title of the article,
and about a sentence or so of the story.
j knew the powder would be disturbed If
The editor turned To the second page.
"A day two afterward back came my
article, with the usual little printed decli-
nation. I turned to the second page and
there was the powder intact, just as I
had placed il there The editor had never
even taken the trouble to turn the page
perhaps he read the first page" sug-
gested her friend sweetly.
The young woman ignored the remark
Another magazine not long ago printed
something along the same line" she said,
and L sent them a story of the kind they
make speciality Of | got it back so quick
it shocked me. Then l sent 1t TO "A friend
OF mine VINO Is Il regular Contributor, ask
ing him to turn it in as his own, If he
didn't think it would detract from his rep
utation. He did so. and it promptly
accepted and a check mailed to him,
which he Endorsed Tor me. You see they
had never even read the story in the first
place"
Maybe you're right, said her best
friend, ''but I'd rather believe Dr. Holiness
That quotation of his comes back TO me
row. since you question il, but it goes a
little further Do you remember of
1,.f,. ,.in Nod min arn af
below the sea level, some have water
enough but head. some bead enough
but no water. and only two or three are
from full reservoirs high up that hill
which is so hard to climb :"