Part 20 (1/2)

At the close of an outdoor publicthe chairman, with fatuous ineptitude, shouts that everybody will sing three verses of ”A that the tune is pitched coor and certitude, but not for long; dismay soon smites the crowd in sections as the individual consciousness backs and fills a hopefully at a neighbor's phrase usually serves to defeat itself, as it unhbor, and the tune ends in a sort of polyglotto the denizens of an enlightened colimpses are not a whit over-drawn, and it is safe to say that they mirror practically every corner of our land to-day Why is it, then, that the people make such a sorry exhibition of thes of our country? Is it the tunes or the words or we ourselves?

BEGINNING WITH A STRIKING STATEMENT When the thought expressed in the first sentence of an article is sufficiently unusual, or is presented in a sufficiently striking for interest and curiosity, it leads the average person to read on until he is satisfied

A striking statement of this sort may serve as the first sentence of one of the other types of beginning, such as the narrative or the descriptive introduction, the quotation, the question, or the direct address But it reat size is i is usually striking Nu sentences to produce the ie that the rasp them, it is well, by means of comparisons, to translate them into terer of overwhel a person with statistics that in theto hi is the first or the only one of its kind immediately arrests attention, because of the universal interest in the unique

An unusual prediction is another for of an article of so that the future holds in store for hie person as er of exaggeration, however, in nify the i us that what they are explaining will ”revolutionize” our ideas and practices, we are inclined to discount these exaggerated and trite forure of speech--an unusualof an article to arouse curiosity As the comparison in a metaphor is implied rather than expressed, the points of likeness urative statement piques his curiosity A comparison in the forory,introduction

A paradox, as a self-contradictory statement, arrests the attention in the initial sentence of an article Although not always easy to fraht be, a paradoxical expression is an excellent device for a writer to keep in mind when soinning

Besides these readily classified forms of unusual statements, any novel, extraordinary expression that is not too bizarre ainst is that of erated, or false statements, merely to catch the reader's notice

STRIKING STATEMENT BEGINNINGS

(1)

(_Illustrated World_)

FIRE WRITES A HEART'S RECORD

BY HG HUNTING

A huer of fla spectacle that has recently been witnessed by scientists It sounds fanciful, doesn't it? But it is literally a fact that the autos from the point of a tiny blaze appears to have beenthe condition of the heart, more reliable than any other test that can be applied

(2)

(_Boston Transcript_)

TAKING HOSPITALS TO THE EMERGENCY By FW COBURN

Taking the hospital to the eency to the hospital is the underlying idea of the Bay State's newest medical unit--one which was installed in three hours on the top of Corey Hill, and which in much less than half that time may tomorrow or the next day be en route post haste for Peru, Plymouth, or Pawtucketville

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(_Kansas City Star_)

MUST YOUR HOME BURN?

Autu hohted They have been unused all summer and rubbish may have been piled near them or the flues may have rusted and slipped out of place unobserved in the long period of disuse Persons start their fires in a sudden cold snap They don't take tiate Then the fire department has work to do