University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-10-21

authors whose names decorate the
covers of the monthlies.
Apparently the safest rule that can
be laid down is this: Anything that
can suitably appear in magazine can
be worked ever for the use of the
dailies, and conversely, everything
that appears in a newspaper will fur
nish at least an idea for the bound
publications. The difference between
he two is not so much in the matter
published as in the emphasis placed
on the kinds of matter used
There is field closely approaching
news which lies open invitingly to
the magazine editor. One of the most
famous examples of work in this line
vas the series of Thomas w. Lawson
Iexposures" in Everybody's. For more
recent examples take the Mcclure feat
ure. The Diary of New York Police
man." or the special article on modern
surgery in the January McClures,
"On the Trail of Immortality" The
title of the latter especially sounds as
if it might have been taken from a
sunday newspaper magazine section
Golfers is recognized as the "newsi-
est" Of the magazines. Consider its
les of articles two years ago on
The American Newspaper" by Will
Irwin. There was subject which no
newspaper could treat properly for
lack of perspective, yet the great
and increasing Importance of the
newspaper in modern life made dis
cussion of the matter news, as Golfers
explained in an editorial note
In fact almost every special article
"hich appears in magazine is news
handled differently perhaps from the
way in which 1t would be treated in a
daily, but still news. Politics is
! favorite subject-witnesS the action of
the Saturday Evening Post in printing
| just before the last national election
articles from the pens of the foremost
three candidates for President, and
also a political forecast by Samuel
/ Blythe.
But it is not only in the publication
of these news features that the maya
Tine is within the field of the newspa-
rer. The editorial. formerly the most
important part of the daily paper, has
now found itself permanent place
in certain periodicals. Golfers and the
Ladies Home Journal. and perhaps a
few others, put their editorials prom
inentiy in the first part of the publi-
cation; other periodicals, such as
McClure's, give them less prominence;
but in most of the higher class maya
zines one will find some expression of
opinion on matters of public interest.
Along with the general tendency to
use more pictures has come the car
toon in the magazine. Some of the
periodicals-the Review of Reviews
notably-reprint cartoons from the
dailies; others use their own cartoons.
Perhaps some of us would not consider
this borrowing from the daily, but
the first cartoon published in this
country appeared in newspaper.
The borrowing has not been alto
gether on the side of the magazine; it
has been even more pronounced in the
papers themselves. Short stories, seri-
ais, verse, humor-all are to be found
in these daily magazines" Their
quality is good, too, and they frequent
ly come from the pens of writer's who
are among the best of the day. The
Kansas City Star may be cited as one
OF the foremost in this line, as it pub
fishes such fiction on weekdays with
out waiting for the Sunday edition
Many papers, however, confne their
fiction to the Sunday magazine along
with the special articles.
These same special articles are the
!. feature that chiefly justifies the name
magazine section" Their number
and variety are amazing. They fire.
quently contain minimum of news
, The chief quality demanded is that
they be readable and capable of illus.
tration. In them we find the most
profound political problems and the
, Oldest sociological questions solved
with equal readiness.
Can Wife Love the Woman Who
Her Husband From Herr" dis.
'ntes space with What Makes a Prize
. Beauty" in the Denver Post. From
he columns of the St. Louis Star. We
y fill our minds with ponderings
on why Dancers Big Toes Break.
why Singing Makes You Hungry" o,
the woman who spends $4,000 8
Year for My Clothes" Meanwhile the
Kansas City Star offers to tell one
How Uncle Toms Cabin Was Writ.
ten" or Why | Married Again"
| In some cases the written matte,
, may be wholly subordinate to the
| illustrations. A case of that is ir