The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-09-03
YOU NEVER CAN TELL.
Not BY the Mans Looks, Anyway
And Not If He's a Newspaper
Man.

/ Il don't know so much about this
theory that you can come close to
telling a mans occupation by his
manners and appearance" said a pill.
grim returned from the Pan-Ameri
can exposition, and who talked to
Boston Herald man. stopping at the
same hotel with me in Buffalo. and
with rooms right across the way from
me were three Chicago newspaper
men. The proprietor of the hotel in
troduced me to them a couple of days
after had registered, and we went
around a good deal together They
were on their vacation.
One of them was quite young
chap not more than 25, should say
"a big brawny, well dressed lad who
looked good deal like a typical col
legian, and football player at that
He was clever skylarkish young
fellow with a boisterous laugh. and
he was always playing jokes on his
two companions. Also, he could down
the demon Rum a-plenty.
Another Of the three was a slight
ly understood man OF 30 or SO, rather
thin and dyspeptic looking, who didn't
have a great deal to say, and who
seemed so diffident with women folks
that he almost collapsed when the
four of us were presented to jolly
lot of young women on the grounds.
This nnn dressed in modest black,
always spoke in a low tone. and al
though he was perfectly good natured
and agreeable and quite obviously a
man Of parts, he kept under cover
about as much as any man ever met
UP with.
"The third of the party OF news
paper men was a stout. very precise
man of 4C--a man of such natural dig.
nifty that the sense of It would i'm
press you at once. He was exceeding
ly welldressed at all times and old
maidish in his habits. wherefore he
was considerably guyed by the others.
The excellence OF the language he EN-
ployed, even when conversing on ordi-
nary topics, struck me very soon after
! met him. He never permitted him
self to fall into slip shod methods of
expressing himself. and though his
talk wos by no means stilted, It was
almost oldfashioned in its undeyiat-
ing allegiance TO a conversational
standard other than that of our day.
well, one night the trio and yours
ever wound up the night with a little
game Of draw. After the last jack
not. and when we We're doing a bit OF
desultory talking before turning in,
got to asking few questions about
newspapers and the making Of them
This was a subject that had always
Interested me considerably, though
didn't know much about 10. Finally
put them few questions as 20 the
personnel Of a metropolitan newspa
per.
"'For example, said ], addressing
the big, loudlaughing lad who under
stood the difficult art of punishlne
high balls without letting them gel
away with him. what do you do OF
the paperg
fSky-pilot' he replied unconcern
edly, religious editor. that is to say
And have charge Of the morgue-
the biographical department, you un
derstand.'
This struck me as being laughable
but the others didn't see anything
particularly funny IN it, so l went OF
TO the sedate. dyspeptic-looking littl'
, man who was always dressed in blacl
J and eurled up so awfully when he wa
introduced to a woman.
And what is your stunt on you
lsaper@ asked him.
Racing man he replied. Cove
the track and edit the racing depart
ment in general.
They didn't seem 70 see anything
incongruous In this either, and 50
inquired Of the third man, who was 81
old-maidish IN his habits and SO abso
lutely precise IN his manner Of usinl
the kings English. what was hil
speciality
"'Ob, I write the stories Of th'
streets-slang stories, he aaswere'
me.
> And there you are. Each Of thes'
men had been following his specia