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It was a bright, newsy epistle, brimming over with kindly wishes for her happiness, and ending with a hope that the writer might see her soon. "Who is it from?" asked her uncle. The girl dutifully read it out for him. "He seems to be a right nice young man, and quite taken up with you, little Jess," he said, laughingly. He saw by the distressed look on her face that this idea did not please her.
How I loved to receive her appreciative, newsy letters! but oh, how they saddened me as I more than ever realized the truth of that statement that "whatsoever we sow, that shall we also reap," Gal. 6:7. But one more incident and story before we leave Eureka.
As he approached to speak to the artist he noticed that the boy was as dirty a specimen of the London "newsy" as he had ever encountered he seemed smeared all over literally covered with dirt. Whistler had just asked him a question, and the boy answered: "Yes, sir; I've been selling papers three years." "How old are you?" inquired Whistler. "Seven, sir." "Oh, you must be more than that."
Scarcely less important than promptly seizing and printing the news is the attractive arrangement of it, its effective presentation to the eye. Two papers may have exactly the same important intelligence, identically the same despatches: the one will be called bright, attractive, "newsy"; the other, dull and stupid.
And I must say Quimby ain't been none too newsy on the subject. I threatened to come up and join in the proceedings myself, especially when I heard about the book-writing cook Providence had sent you." "You would have found us on the porch with outstretched arms," Mr. Magee assured her. It was on Kendrick that Mrs.
"You don't send a reporter to report the Board of Education meetings, do you?" "No; those meetings are rarely newsy enough to be worth while. I can't afford to take up the evening of a salaried reporter in that way. But Spencer generally drops around, at the time the Board is expected to adjourn, or else he telephones the clerk, from this office, and learns what has been done.
Scarcely less important than promptly seizing and printing the news is the attractive arrangement of it, its effective presentation to the eye. Two papers may have exactly the same important intelligence, identically the same despatches: the one will be called bright, attractive, "newsy"; the other, dull and stupid.
If you have the journalistic eye for what is picturesque and newsy the camera will quickly return 100 per cent. upon the investment. The one great difficulty for the beginner in photography is that he does not know how to "time" the exposure of a picture. The books on photography are all too technical.
That was all from me, mind you, and yet I'd gone out there with the idea in my head of getting material for a long newsy piece out of him what we call in this business heart-interest stuff.
Later, in 1824, to Richard Henry Dana's newsy letter about Cooper's foreign standing, Bryant replies: "What you tell me of the success of our countryman, Cooper, in England, is an omen of good things. I hope it is the breaking of a bright day for American literature." Bryant's memorial address after Cooper's death remains a splendid record of their unclouded friendship, based on mutual respect.
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