The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-03
TELLS FAMILY SECRET
LETTER WRITER'S FAULT WITH
WoMAN'S DEPARTMENT
Agreement Between This Page and
Foreman--Writer Reminds Marie
That Mrs. Chadwick Is Woman

Dear Marie: have been reading
your page with much pleasure for a
long time, and as / am very
particular about grammar and
the construction of sentences, have
rather taken pride in the fact
that you do not make mistakes-but
alas, my faith in you was sadly shaken
the other day when you did make a
mistake. Or was it the types? l do
not know very much about the news
paper business, but sufficient to realize
that no matter how we'll -intentioned a
writer may be, the printers play you
false occasionally, and so I want to
blame it on them. You said, "there
are multiplicity of women" etc. Now,
multiplicity is a singular noun mean
ing many and should be preceded or
followed by is. AS rule. have not
much fault to find with you, but do
you not think you are a trifie hard on
Mrs. Chadwick? She is woman, you
know With good wishes for 1905,
am your friend, IT.
Now, isn't that a nice slap in the
face for one of the first days of a
brand new year? / think my friend
must be. at least, the president of the
SOtAtCl1i1l1S -Of-OlilGI educational dSSO-
citation which has been foregathering
hereabouts. The question is, how is
this department to continue with the
knowledge that the eagle eye of the
above martinez is upon it? Life-and
newspapers-haye been full enough of
perilS before, but now there is new
one added, and it's no laughing matter,
ellher. Grammar and the construction
OF sentences! Two things one would
like to forget
AS Tor the particular case cited by
the writer, in order to get out of it, I
Will have to tell little inside Clio
FAMILY history which was never in
tended for publication. Some time ago
this department had a heart to heart
Talk with the foreman of the compos-
Ing room-one of it's best friends, by
the way-and in speaking of some
eases where the types had done strange
lnlngS on this page, he said, confiden-
TALLY, that hereafter always to blame
every untoWard sentence or break of
any kind upon him and his men. He
said: Our shoulders are broad, we can
stand it.. Now, of course, the relief
OF this is great; it simply means that
II should say-what my correspon-
dent says I did-that it was the fault
OF the types and not mine. I am sim
ply forced to tell about this private
arrangement in order to convince the
writer of the above letter that never,
never could have said multiplicity
are. In return for this courtesy on
the part of the composing room-and
to show that the woman's department
is not dead to the emotion of graft
tude-it returns the compliment by
sorting out the Vogue patterns for the
foreman who said confidentially that
ne did not know a redingote from
dolman. If he should put picture of
Il,
ans page. and then underneath it
should be described as a dark red
eloth street suit, things would be do
ing In the pattern department and the
women who depend upon this page for
their fashions, would think that some
thing was decidedly wrong. So the
department takes the pictures and de-
ScrlptlonS once in a wilhelm return
for ceurtesies described above-and
makes the punishment fit the crime In
the way OF matching UP. Now, of
course, this would never have
come out had it not been for the
friend who was by way OF having his
faith IN this page shattered. 1t is a
crucial moment and something had to
be done to retain the good will of that
very particular person.
so Mrs. Chadwick is woman! Well,
who would have thunk 1T. It was to
try and conceal my shame that such
was the fact that I have said cruel
things about that wonderful financier.
MY real sympathy is for DR.. Chadwick,
who must have been simple soul, so
easy that he did not even know the
past life of the woman he married.
The question which nobody seems to
be able to answer is, where are the
immense sums which the lady in ques-
ton has Chadwicked SO many kind
bankers out of. Write again, friend.