Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-08-12
RESPECTFULLY DECLINED.
Oar Manuscript Expert Takes Us Into
His Confidence.

don't like articles written in blue ink
paper, nor yet on shirt cuffs. MS 1 have
occasionally had them. Brown paper
ruled In pencil IS also inadvlsable for
writing contributions on. But It isn't ex-
aotly barred, Nothing is. II something
brilliant enough came up chalked on a
blackboard dare say we would have H.
Tho trouble Is these eccentric things are
never brilliant These senders are always
amateurs who have read OF the odds and
ends on which great writer's wrote In the
past, and seek to emulate those great
men. But the emulation never extends be-
yond the writing materials employed,
To get an article printed and send II up
In type is to go to another extreme. It's
expensive, and II Isn't necessary. An artl-
Gle neatly typewriter and not rolled will
do as well AS anything,
| hate articles that are telegraphed up.
as they have been sometimes. There Is
seldom anything IN them, and they take
their chance with the rest
once ! got q, post card with single
word on II. ! didn't know what TO make
Of Il, The next day there came another
and the day after that yet another. l beg
TO preceive, After we'd had postal card
daily for over a year, the separate words
we'd have II because Of the Joke. We
didn't see the Joke, nor anything in the
story. which went back
Another poor thing sent an article writ
ten In what he declared 20 DO his life
blood" | was impressed I'LL / bad the
blood analysed and II turned out 20 DO
red paint. 1 didn't accept that article
elther
vas sorely tempted when got a let
ter saying: "You bcggarl IN make you
take this at any rhte-usual rates will
do" Inside was a storyette written on
6-pound note, IL I'd taken II 1 should
have been about a. los 10 the good. But
I'm proud TO say my virtue and my fear
the storyette back with the usual rejeo-
ton form,
1t was mean thing OF that alleged man
who, having broken with his girl. sent
up bundle Of her letters to him, in the
hope that our readers might derive some
amusement from them I've told her
what I've dOne-wont there be some
tears1' the writer sardonically added
The Idea was ridiculous, " course, but
by the same post came pretty scented
note, implorlng us not 20 use any OF the
letters. 1 took the liberty of sending the
bundle Of letters back to the girl not the
man,
! don't like articles written crosswise on
other articles, or even on love letters
would prefer them blue poncied across
old newspapers IA I've had them moro
than once.
once II nearly broke by heart TO reject
no appeal, was a pitous plea IN Itself IL
was written across tho back OF unpaid
tallors' bills.
Articles we don't want and won't have
are those abusing tho leaders OF any po-
litical parties or public body We don't
require any articles abusing anybody or
anything.
Nor do we like anything technical. Doc
tors, lawyers, engineers, and any other
professional men sometimes send nm con.
trlbutioup which no ADMIT ara fnpdcis d,
their way and would be Jumped az by
professional paper-as, | dare say they
often arc after we reject them. Judging
from the number OF them | afterwards
see IN print In those journals But they
are not In our line
Big words MagcstlC sentences. Classical
allusionA These are the salient charac-
teristlCs " another class NJ article we
don't want IN the least
When was a small bow had an
Idea that an editors we're profound gram-
marlaas, that all articles rejected were No..
iected bccuse hawg had been discovered