re just pining away from lonesomeness, |
|owing to the fact that no one writes to them. At |
|least this is the sorrowful plea of G. H. Jones, a |
|sailor aboard the U. S. S. BUFFALO, who writes THE |
|SENTINEL from San Francisco as follows: |
| |
|Girls--Why not use some of your idle moments in |
|writing to us? I have been in the navy five years |
|and have never received any mail. G. H. Jones, |
|U. S. S. Buffalo, San Francisco, Cal.[14] |

[14] _Milwaukee Sentinel_, August 7, 1914.

=117. Extraordinary Statement in Lead.=--An extraordinary statement made
by a person in a speech, an interview, or a trial scene is often used in
the informal lead. If, however, the quoted statement is so long or of
such a nature that it summarizes the whole story, it places the lead, of
course, not in the informal class, but in the normal summarizing group.
The following illustrates well the extraordinary statement:

=FRIEND WIFE WENT TOO FAR=

|Mr. David Elliott, |
| Chicago. |
| |
|Sir: |
| You can go to the d----l, and the quicker the |
|better. |
| |
| Sincerely, |
| Your Wife. |
| |
|This is the letter in which David Elliot thinks his |
|wife "went too far." He produced it before Judge |
|David Matchett Saturday in a suit for divorce. |

=118. Suspense Lead.=--The most difficult to handle of all the informal
leads is the suspense lead, where the writer purposely begins with
unimportant but enticing details and lures the reader on from paragraph
to paragraph, always holding out a half-promise of something worth while
if one will continue a bit further. In this way the reader is tempted to
the middle or end of the story before he is told the real point of the
article. A difficult type of lead, this, but forceful when well handled.

|Pierre L. Corbin, 60 years old, of Eatontown, who |
|runs a dairy and drives h