Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1916 — Journalism in Kansas. [ARTICLE]

Journalism in Kansas.

This riewspaper business is a great c ame. Just in the midst of an obituary of a dear friend and when hot tears threaten to flow down arid | blot out the words you write, there breaks through the office door the radiant, face of the daddy of a new boy! Tears and joy mingle in the same breath, and the giving and taking away of life are recorded on the same page. Before you have finished the obituary the breezy advance man for a comedy show pops in and asks you to write a scream for his “forty fat' frolicsome fairies” and how joyous they are. Before you have done wit’ll the kind words about your departed friend, the joy over the new' baby and finished the showman’s ad, a fellow sneaks in to ask you to suppress the story of the fight that he was mixed up in. Then, after putting all the lace and trimmings on the bride’s wedding gown, dressing the groom in the conventional black and starting them off with congratulations and best wishes, you turn again to the tear side of life and write: “But the stately ship moves on, To the haven under the hill; And, oh! for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still.” Then comes a lull and the old typewriter is content to record the commonplace facts, knowing that just around the corner and each awaiting his tprn stands Joy, Grief, Sorrow, Mirth, Sarcasm, Wit and Laughter.—Oakley (Kansas) GraplUc . . /