Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1922-12-07

paper, IL was all over DSlWebu
us. After that we knew that she was
at least highly improbable If not en-
tirely impossible. But then we might
have expected as much from a girl who
called herself Maybelle. There is,
however, this much to be said In May
bellies favor: she was persistent. She
add not let go till it Numbered We
GcOuld have stood it well enough if she
had limited her campaign for a job on
the paper to an occasional call at the
office. But she had a fiendish instinct
which told her who were the friends
we liked most to oblige: the banker,
for instance, who carried our over
drafts, the leading advertiser, the
chairman of the printing committee Of
The town cOunctl-and she found ways
TO make them ask if we couldn't do
something for Miss Bolton. She could
teach school; indeed, she had a place
in the acaderly. But she lOathed
school-teaching. She had always felt
that, if she coun once get a start, she
could make a Name for herself.
She had written something that she
called "A CritiIle on Hamlet" which
she submitted IL us, and was deeply
panied when wa told her that we didn't
care for edito;dal matter; that what
our paper nee,IeJ was the names of
the people in our own country town
and county, printed as many times a
day or a Wee(. ca q month as they
could be put iato type We tried to
tell her that mere important to us than
the influence CT the Celtic element on
oar national l!fe and literature was
the fact that JOhl Jones of LebO-
that Is to say, red John, as distin-
Euished from back John-Or Jones the
timer, or Jone" Of the Possum Holer
settlement was in town with a load of
nay. "Other pHpers," we explained
carefully, while she looked as sympa-
thetic and intelligent as a collie, "other
papers might lie interested in the
radio-activty % uranium X; they
might care to print articles on the
psychological phenomena of mobs"-
TO which she snapped eager agreement
),
prOpriety, might be interested In inOr-
game evOlutiOn"-and she cheeped
YES, yes" with feverish intensity
but in our little LEGAL paper we cared
only for the person who could tell our
readers with the most dencacy and
precision how many spoons Mrs.
N0rthingtOn had to borrow for her
party, who had the largest number of
flnger-boWls in town, what Mrs COnk-
lin paid for the brOiers she served at
her party 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, Such are the things that
interest our people, and he, she or it
who can turn in two or three columns
day Of items setting forth these
things in good-natured way, so that
the persons mentioned will only grin
and wonder who told it, IS good for ten
dollars Of our money every Saturday
night.
Maybele thought 1t was such inter
eSting work, and her eyes floated in
tears of happiness at the thought of
such JOY. If she cOzld only have a
chance! 1t would be just lovely
simply grand, and she knew she could
90 it! Something in her innermost
soul thrilled with a naturalization
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 curtains of her magic
chamber, revealing the pictures medi-
tatiOn paints. and we see through the
windows of our dreams the sweet vale
Of yesterday, lying outside and be-
yond; when stern Ambition, with re-
lentlcss hand, turns us away from all
this to ride in the sOmber chariot Of
Duty-then 1t Is that enhancing
Pleasure beckOns us back to sit by
MemOry's fire and sip our tea with
Maiden meditation" What it was all
about no one ever found out but the
Young Prince at the local desk who
read IT clear through said that some
times he thought that it was a report
of fire and at other times 1t seemed
like dress-gOOds catalogue. 1t would
have made four columns. AS he put
the roll back in the drawer the Young
Prince rose and paced grandly out
At the front door he stopped and said
You'll never make anything out Of her
she's q handholder! When a Cir
begins to get corns on her hands,
notice she has mush on the brain! !"
But Maybee returned, and we wen
all over the same ground again. W.
explained that what we wanted wa!
short items-two or three lines each
little references to home dongs; some
thing telling who has company, who Il
sick, who Is putting shingles on thu
barn or an 81" on the house. And sh'
said "Oh, yes!" so passlonatey tina
II seemed as though she would bark o
put her front feet on the table. ON
felt like taking her jaws In his hand
and pulling her ears.
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