El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-31
AID TO JOURNALISTS.
New-Fledged Reporters Will Find
Handy

New-Fledged Reporters Will Find
Handy.
A local newspaper man who has for
some years felt in his own experience
the need of handbook for standard
Irepertorial phrases, has undertaken
the compilation of a work of that
character. The writer hereof was re-
Gently permitted to glance through a
number of proof pages of this work
which will undoubtedly prove of in
estimable value if not absolutely indis-
pensable in the teaching of the science
of journalism, in so far as that science
appertains to local or reportorial work.
In order to impress the standard phraS-
es upon the students mind, the compil-
er of the book has arranged the ma
terial in the form of questions and an
swers. The excellence of this arrange
| ment will be shown by a few of the
Questions and answers taken at random
from the proof pages:
Q.-Where does the famous man or
woman in need of rest generally go?
A.-For from the maddening crowd.
! Q.-What ceremony inevitably pre-
| cedes the interment of a we'll known
| citizen?
| A.-The last sad rites.
Q.-By whom is the departed citizen
invariably mourned?
| A.-By a wide circle of sorrowing
| friends
Q.-What notable discovery has the
well matured diva or actress always
succeed in making before the opening
of each season?
A.-The fountain of perpetual youth.
Q.-What pitiable noises always fol-
low serious railroad disaster?
A.-The shrieks of the wounded and
dying.
Q.-What does the doomed man al
ways do on the morning he is to be
hung?
Ale chats with the death watch
and partakeS of heavy breakfast of
ham and eggs.
Q.-Who always says that the last
big snow storm is the worst in his
recollection?
A.-The oldest inhabitant.
Q.-What always happens when a
big after-dark fire is on?
A.-The lurid flames shoot high into
the night sky.
Q.-By what are the burning cor
nices of the doomed building licked?
A.-Tongues of flame.
Q.-What does the captured embez-
zler sometimes do?
Ale makes al clean breast of his
speculations which he admits have
been going on for years.
Q.-What is an inaugural parade?
Am inspiring pageant.
Q.-How would you describe a de-
butante?
A.-As beautiful and vivacious.
A.-Blushingly beautiful.
Q.-A divorce?
A.-Fascinatingiy beautiful.
Q.-How does the adventures al
ways win her victims?
A-She twists them around her lit
tie finger.
O.-What always happen to the vic
tim of a powder magazine explosion?
Ale is hurled through the air a
distance of 120 feet and blown into an
understandable mass.
Q.-Wbat does the hero who stops
the runaway team generally do?
Ale refuses to give his name and
disappears in the crowd.
Q.-What is the registering son of
the wealthy man usually called?
guished family.
Q.-When you are a trif1e doubtful
as to your facts. how do you introduce
your story?
A-By saying that it is stated upon
the highest authority.
Off you wanted to interview your
self on the financial situation, what
authority would you SlVeE
Am eminent figure in the world
of finance. who for obvious reasons
desires that his name be withheld
Q.-What does the famous parsonage
do when he gets in?
Ale arrives in our midst.
Q-What is the years initial fall of
snow?
A-The first furry of the season.
Q.-How would you aIlude to a
wiped out polar expedition?
A.-More victims of the frozen north. |
Q--How would you intimate that an |
exalted couple were about to separate? |
Alt is whispered about that a |
scandal in high life is brewing.
Q.-What does the young mother. |
finding herself and her child in peril. |
do?
A.-She frenziedly clasps her babe |
in her embrace.
Q.-Is there such n thing as a baby |
in these descriptions?
A.-Nc; only babes.
On what state does the oldest in |
habitant usually go hencef
A.-Full of years and honors.
Q.-What happens to the hero of the |
football game?
Ale is carried off the field On the |
shoulders of his enthusiastic admirers. |
These as stated above are only a few |
quotations taken at random, but |
enough are given to indicate of what |
value the book will be to !
Observation-Disclosures Star.