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It was evident that he took the editing of this little four-page weekly rather seriously but, then, a man must needs be business-like to produce even four pages weekly with one assistant, and Strong had to economize time enough from strictly editorial functions to do a goodly share of type-setting and the rest of the mechanics of the office. "I beg your pardon for interrupting you, Mr.
In 1840 Harriet Martineau found only seven employments open to women in the United States, viz., teaching, needlework, keeping boarders, working in cotton mills and in book binderies, type-setting, and household service. I shall now present a series of fifty tables, by means of which the reader may see at a glance the status of women in all the States to-day.
"Take this composing-stick and try your hand; let me see what you can do." Benjamin proceeded to give an exhibition of his skill at type-setting, which he did so rapidly and easily that Keimer was delighted. "Very well done, indeed. I think you told the truth; you must have had considerable experience. I will employ you as soon as I have sufficient work. At present, I have nothing for you to do."
The organization of elementary education has no doubt been an important factor, but the essential influence working through this circumstance is the fact that paper is relatively cheap to type-setting, and both cheap to authorship even the commonest sorts of authorship and the wider the area a periodical or book serves the bigger, more attractive, and better it can be made for the same money.
Burgess might have no objections to starting Eugene as a reporter if he could write, or as a student of type-setting, or both. He appealed to Burgess one day on the street. "Say, Burgess," he said, "you wouldn't have a place over in your shop for that boy of mine, would you? He likes to scribble a little, I notice.
It was close to the hour for the first edition to go to press, and every one was in a hurry. The compositor fairly ran to his type-setting machine and began to operate the keys, which were arranged like those on a very large typewriter. He did not strike them, as one does who operates a typewriter, but gently touched them.
He realized this was a commentary on his loafing propensities. He wasn't doing very well, that was certain. Still type-setting was no bright field for a person of his temperament. "I will," he concluded, "when school's over." "Better speak before school ends. Some of the other fellows might ask for it around that time. It wouldn't hurt you to try your hand at it."
The employment of women in type-setting has struck this noble industry to the heart, and consummated its degradation. I have seen a female compositor and she was one of the best who did not know how to read, and was acquainted only with the forms of the letters.
I knew when the Visiter started that it could not live and pay for type-setting the same price as paid by the New York Tribune, and the day the office became mine, I stated that fact to the printers, who took their hats and left. In '52, I had spent some part of every day for two weeks in a composing room, and with the knowledge then acquired, I, in '58 started the business of practical printer.
"So you think you would like to go into the newspaper business, do you?" queried Burgess. "I'd like to try my hand at it," replied the boy. "I'd like to see whether I like it." "I can tell you right now there's very little in it. Your father says you like to write." "I'd like to well enough, but I don't think I can. I wouldn't mind learning type-setting.
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