Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1883 — Avoid Repetitions. [ARTICLE]

Avoid Repetitions.

Senator Vance, of North Carolina, says he admires newspapers, because they avoid repetition, get into the heart of a subject, and put it before their readers in -a clear, terse style. The Senator gives a bit of personal experience, which we oommend to those who would acquire the ait of public speaking. He says, “I experienced great difficultjv when I first entered the Senate in avoiding a repetition of a sentence. “It was my habit in my qtump speeches frequently to refer several times, in the course of a speech, to anything that I considered aagood point I wanted to beat it in the heads of my listeners, as it were. • I got into the Senate, where every word I uttered was taken down, I found that JL had to be more careful. “I horrified to read one of my speecher in which I noticed I had repeated an entire sentence six times. I found that might do in If Orth Carolina, but it would not do inf he Senate."