Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1919 — You've Heard 'Em. [ARTICLE]

You've Heard 'Em.

“Lookhere,” said the city editor to the cub reporter, “you should write everything as briefly as possible. Instead of saying ‘the middle-aged baldheaded performer in the hired aggregation of followers of Orpheus who nightly provide the harmony at one of our leading temples of mirth, seized his trombone firmly in his hands, placed his feverish lips to the mouthpiece and sounded thereon an unearthly tone like the wailing of a lost Soul on z the main street of Inferno’—now shorten that up.” 1 i So the reporter merely wrote: “The slip horn^ player in the orchestra blew a helva note.” 3