PREPARATION FOR SPECIAL FEATURE WRITING
QUALIFICATIONS FOR FEATURE WRITING. To attain success as a writer of special feature articles a person must possess at least four qualifications: (1) ability to find subjects that will interest the average man and woman, and to see the picturesque... PREPARING AND SELLING THE MANUSCRIPT
IMPORTANCE OF GOOD MANUSCRIPT. After an article has been carefully revised, it is ready to be copied in the form in which it will be submitted to editors. Because hundreds of contributions are examined every day in editorial offices of large publi... SALES WITHOUT SALESMANSHIP
BY JAMES H. COLLINS "Say, you're a funny salesman!" exclaimed the business man. "Here I make up my own mind that I need two motor trucks and decide to buy 'em from your company. Then I send for a salesman. You come down and spend a week looking i... SIX YEARS OF TEA ROOMS
BUSINESS CAREER OF A WOMAN COLLEGE GRADUATE "For the last three years I have cleared $5,000 a year on my tea rooms," declared a young woman who six years ago was graduated with distinction at one of the leading colleges of the country. "I attai... STYLE
STYLE DEFINED. Style, or the manner in which ideas and emotions are expressed, is as important in special feature writing as it is in any other kind of literary work. A writer may select an excellent subject, may formulate a definite purpose, and ... TEACH CHILDREN LOVE OF ART THROUGH STORYTELLING
(_Boston Herald_) "----And so," ended the story, "St. George slew the dragon." A great sigh, long drawn and sibilant, which for the last five minutes had been swelling 57 little thoraxes, burst out and filled the space of the lecture hall at the ... THE ACCIDENT THAT GAVE US WOODPULP PAPER
HOW A MIGHTY MODERN INDUSTRY OWED ITS BEGINNING TO GOTTFRIED KELLER AND A WASP BY PARKE F. HANLEY On the day when President Wilson was inaugurated to his second term, this country had its fiftieth anniversary of the introduction of wood-pulp. ... THE BRENNAN MONORAIL CAR
BY PERCEVAL GIBBON It was November 10, 1909--a day that will surely have its place in history beside that other day, eighty-five years ago, when George Stephenson drove the first railway locomotive between Stockton and Darlington. In the great sq... THE CONFESSIONS OF A COLLEGE PROFESSOR'S WIFE
A college professor--as may be proved by any number of novels and plays--is a quaint, pedantic person, with spectacles and a beard, but without any passions--except for books. He takes delight in large fat words, but is utterly indifferent to such t... THE FIELD FOR SPECIAL ARTICLES
ORIGIN OF SPECIAL ARTICLES. The rise of popular magazines and of magazine sections of daily newspapers during the last thirty years has resulted in a type of writing known as the "special feature article." Such articles, presenting interesting and... THE GENTLE ART OF BLOWING BOTTLES
And the Story of How Sand is Melted into Glass BY F. GREGORY HARTSWICK Remedies for our manifold ills; the refreshment that our infant lips craved; coolness in time of heat; yes--even tho July 1st has come and gone--drafts to assuage our thirst; ... THE JOB LADY
GIVES THE YOUNG WAGE-EARNER A FAIR WORKING CHANCE BY MARY E. TITZEL The Jones School, the oldest public school building in Chicago, is at Harrison Street and Plymouth Court. When it was new, it was surrounded by "brown-stone fronts," and boys a... THE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYHOUSE
A GIFT TO THE EAST SIDE--HOW THE SETTLEMENT WORK OF MISSES IRENE AND ALICE LEWISOHN HAS CULMINATED AT LAST IN A REAL THEATRE--ITS ATTRACTIONS AND EDUCATIONAL VALUE The piece is the Biblical "Jephthah's Daughter," adapted from the Book of Judges... THE OCCUPATION AND EXERCISE CURE
BY FRANK MARSHALL WHITE The nerve specialist leaned back in his chair behind the great mahogany desk in his consulting-room and studied the features of the capitalist as that important factor in commerce and industry explained the symptoms that h... THE SINGULAR STORY OF THE MOSQUITO MAN
BY HELEN BULLITT LOWRY "Now you just hold up a minute"--the bungalow-owner waved an indignant hand at the man in the little car chug-chugging over the bumpy road. "Now I just want to tell you," he protested, "that a mosquito got into my room la...

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