The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-03
THE LADY AsprRANT.
William Allen White Tells Why Ons Did Not Get the Job on His Paper.

William Allen White Tells Why One
 hid Not Get the Job on His Paper.
 Newspaper men who are not follow ing William Allen Whites series of stories from country editors stand point, which are appearing in The Saturday Evening Post. are missing something. Here is an extract:
 When she said she would like to accept a position with our paper, 1t was all over between us. After that we knew that she was at least highly improbable, if not entirely impossible. But then we might have expected as much from girl who called herself
 "She had written something that she called a critikue on Hamlet which she submitted to us, and was deeply pained when we told her that we didn't care for editorial matter; that what our paper needed was the names of the people in our own country town and county, printed as many times a day or a week or a month as they could be put in type. We tried to tell her that more important to us than the infiu- ence of the Celtic element on our na- tional life and literature. was the fact that John Jones, of Lebo--that is to say, red John, as distinguished from black John. or Jones the timer, or Jones of the Possum Holler Settle ment--was in town with a load of hay. Others we explained carefully, while she looked as sympathetic and inteiii- gent as collie--'other papers might be interested in tn eradio activity of uranium x; they might care to print articles on the psychological phenome- ma of mobs--to which she snapped eager agreement with her eyes-;oth- CTS. with entire propriety, might be in- terested in inorganic evolution'-aud she cheeped Yes. yes with feveFish in- tensity-'but in our little local paper we cared only for the person who could tell our readers with the most deIicacy and precision how many spoons Mrs. Watkins had to borrow for her party. who had the largest number of finger bowls in town, what Mrs. Kersey paid for the broilers she served at her marty last February, and the name of the country woman who raised them, and why 1t was that all the women failed to make Jennie's recipe for sunshine cake work when they tried it. These are the things that interest our people. and he. she or 1t who can turn in two or three columns day of items set ting forth these things in a good-na- tured way. so that the persons men, tioned will only grin and wonder who told 1t, Is good fer ten dollars of our money every Saturday night. And Maybelle thought 1t was such interest ing work and her eyes fioated in tears of happiness at the thought of such joy. If she could only have a chance It would be just lovely-simply grand. and she knew she could do 1t! Some thing in her inmost soul thrilled with standardization that made her culver with anticipation. Whereupon she went out and came back in three days with five sheets of foolscap on which she had written an article beginning. When Memory draws aside the cur tains of her magic chamber, revealing the pictures Meditation paints, and we see through the windows of our dreams the sweet vale of yesterday. lying out side and beyond; when stern Ambition. with relentless hand turns us away from all this to ride in the sombre chariot of Duty-then 1t is that en- tranclng Pleasure beckons N1s back to sit by Memory's fire and sip our tea with Maiden Meditation What if was all about no one ever found out; but the Young Prince at the local desk who read it clear through said sometimes he~thought 1t was a report of fire and at other times 1t seemed like a dress goods cataiogue. It would have made four columns As he put the roll back Tn the drawer he rose and paced grand ly out. At the front door he stonned and said You'll never make anvtbine . l out Of her-she's a handholder, When girl begins to get corns on her hands
 l notice she has mush on the brainv j