|
|fix it." ... |

| =AMERICAN WASTE= |
| |
|If it were not for our industrial wastefulness, it |
|is a fair guess that the income of the United States|
|would be sixteen times--Well, do you know that |
|America burns up forty thousand tons of paper a day,|
|worth fifty dollars a ton? That alone is $2,000,000 |
|a day wasted.... |

| =FINDS WOMAN DEAD IN BARN= |
| |
|Stephen Garrity of 1124 Seventy-third street stepped|
|into a deserted barn at Seventy-fourth street and |
|Ashland avenue yesterday afternoon to get out of the|
|wind and light his pipe. |
| |
|He was just about to apply a lighted match to the |
|pipe when he saw the form of a woman hanging to one |
|of the rafters. A long black silk-lined coat hung so|
|that Garrity could see a black skirt, a white waist,|
|and black shoes. The woman had a fair complexion and|
|brown hair. |
| |
|The match burned Garrity's fingers and went out.... |

=281. Suspense Story.=--In some feature stories the writers attempt to
hold their readers' interest by making the narrative suspensive
throughout.

| ="MISSOURI" IN CHICAGO= |
| |
|"Missouri" Perkins is sixteen and hails from Kansas |
|City. This morning he walked into the office of the |
|Postal Telegraph Company on Dearborn Street and |
|asked for a job. The manager happened to want a |
|messenger boy just at that moment and gave him a |
|message to deliver in a hurry. |
| |
|"Here's your chance, my boy," said the manager. |
|"These people have been kicking about undelivered |
|messages. Now don't come back until you deliver it."|
| |
|A while afterward the telephone rang. On the other |
|end of the wire was a building watchman, somewhat