The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-09

Please publish the enclosed article a' soon as possible and forward remit tance at your very earliest convenience Anxiously awaiting your reply" etc
 Another:
 Dear Sir: In consequence of my bus
 bands social position, I am obliged tt
 make expenditures that cannot be GOV
 cred by his meagre salary. have therefore concluded to resort to my per
 as means of ameEorating the evil
 You would confer great favor upon
 me and earn my lasting gratitude fl
 you would accept the manuscript en-
 closed" etc, etc.
 1 As different as the various letters thus I received by the publishers may be, they
 are all alike in this, their prime motive:
 Most of the women who write look upon 1 their work as the means toward the end | of furthering their own interests and personal aspirations. They do not
 seem to consider that their given req sons honorable and touching though they be, cannot, must not turn the pulp fishers scales in their favor, for a pub fishing house, an editorial department, is not a charitable institution that can
 allow itself to be swayed by purely Humanitarian impulses and cannot make it's selections on such grounds.
 It is evident that only such articles can be accepted that are suitable for the paper in question, follow it's trend and thus satisfy it's readers A work which does not i'll these requirements must be excluded, no matter how noble the mo- lives may have been that actuated its creation.
 Among the large number of would-be authoresses who are anxious to attain literary fame may be found young girls, barely escaped from the school-room, devoid of any experience, who are not mature enough to have made any ob- servations in life and who have, mildly spoken, but vague idea of the con- struction of a plot, it's development and conclusion Unquestionably there arc quite q number among this class of young women who are we'll educated, who also possess a certain amount of mental ability and can express their thoughts correctly. All these qualiflca- tiors are however, but the necessary bricks for the building to be erected. The mortar Is the capabillty to fashion this raw material into literary arci1i- lecture in harmony with, and true to life, real life-such as experience mas given our elders "aye, there's the rub" Not all women possess sufficient imagination to create connected and complete tale of action nor have the talent to mould characters whose ac- tions remain true to their own idiosyn- cracies throughout the story. In some romances written by women, the hero, at the outset marred by thousand faults, loses them in the course of events. and, as the narrative draws to a close, assumes the virtues of an angel. Such a transformation Is incongruous with real life.
 Two or three hundred pages of writ ing does not by any means make TO- nance The descriptions, observations and conversation therein, which gene rally constitute the principal part of the name cannot be looked upon as a ,omance. A romance only becomes life ike through it's action not through It's of travels, walks, land- scapes, etc. Then, too, style plays an part Every one is not the .appy possessor of good style; this is ,lso a natural talent which can be ifne i proved by the reading of good literature seadng-much reading-and good read- | ng is one of the essentials for those yho aspire to become good writer's