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Young Folks (W), 1716 Arch st., Philadelphia. 6oc.; samples free request. on Rev. W. L. Hunton,

Ph.D., editor.

Now Lutheran Young Folks. Young Judean (M), 44 East 23d st., New York. $1.50; 15c. J. H. Newmann, editor.

All matter must be Jewish in subject and spirit. Uses short stories, humorous verse, jokes, and juvenile matter; prefers fiction to treat of Jewish life, and buys photographs of Jewish interest. Pays for accepted matter within thirty days. Young People's Paper (M, in weekly parts), American Sunday School Union, 1816 Chestnut st., Philadelphia. 55c. James McConaughy, editor.

A Sunday-school paper to interest and benefit young people of from twelve to twenty years of age. Uses wholesome stories, short serials, and instructive articles on nature, biography, invention, etc., especially if accompanied by suitable photographs. Serials should not exceed 10,000 words, and short stories should be of 1,500 to 2,000 words. Payment within a month, at about $4 a thousand words.

Young People (W), American Baptist Publication Society, 1701-1703 Chestnut st.. Philadelphia. $1.00; 88c. in clubs. W. Edward Raffety, Ph.D., editor in chief. Sunday School publications; Frank O. Erb, editor.

A Sunday School paper suitable for young people of eighteen over. Uses short stories, serials, general articles, biographies, poetry, humorous verse, and jokes. Sets length limits at about 2,500 words for stories, not more than ten chapters for serials, and from 1,500 to 1,800 words for general articles. Buys photographs for feature pictures or with articles, and pays on acceptance.

Young People's Weekly (W). David C. Cook Publishing Company, Elgin, Ill. 75c.; not sold by single copy - samples free to writers on request. Belle Kellogg Towne, editor. Address for manuscripts: 1142 Wrightwood ave.. Chicago. Young Pilgrim : A Weekly Illustrated Sundayschool Paper for Young People and Children, 835 Adams st., Dorchester, Mass. II. E. Thompson, editor.

Does not pay for manuscripts. Young's Magazine (M) 377 Fourth ave., New York. $2.00 200. Cashel Pomeroy, editor.

Uses novelettes of from 23,000 to 40,000 words, and short stories of from 1,500 to 6,000 words. Prefers vivid, unusual, and unconventional stories of life. love stories with a sex interest. Does not buy photographs, and pays on acceptance. Youth's Companion (W), Perry Mason Company, 205 Columbus ave., Boston. $2.00: 5c.

Uses articles of general interest; short stories : serials; poetry; humorous verse; jokes; and juvenile matter for the Children's Page. Sets length limit at 4,000 words for short stories and general articles, and 40,000 words for serials: prefers fiction dealing with everyday American life; seldom buys photographs; and pays on acceptance.

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Submit your Book MSS, even if already seen by others. New, unusual writers wanted. Dorrance & Co., 308-10 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Youth's World (W), American Baptist Publication Society, 1701-1703 Chestnut st., Philadelphia. 60c.; W. Edward Raffety, editor.

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A paper for boys of from thirteen to sixteen. Uses short stories ; serials; and general articles; but no poetry or humorous verse; and does not buy jokes. Sets length limit for stories at from 1,000 to 2,500 words; general articles should not exceed 1,000 words, and much shorter ones are preferred; buys photographs; and pays once a month, soon after acceptance. Stories may be serious, practical, humorous, or full of adventure, but must be clean and of high moral tone. Photographs should be accompanied by descriptions. Short, snappy, up-to-date articles and brief paragraphs of a serious nature are also used.

Zion's Herald (W), 581 Boylston st., Boston. $3.50: 5c. Rev. Lewis Oliver Hartman, Ph. D., editor. A Methodist periodical.

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One of the main reasons why some writers for trade publications have so many rejected manuscripts is that they fail to follow closely enough the styles of the various periodicals. When I first began writing for trade periodicals my rejections were heavy. I would simply take a subject which I thought would be desired by some publication, write it up haphazard and send in the manuscript. The result was that ninety per cent. of the manuscripts came back, the other ten per cent. fortunately being close enough to the wants of the different publications to be acceptable.

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ideas for articles as well, with the result that my bank account will now testify that the ratio has swung to ninety per cent. acceptances. Practically seventy per cent, of the local items in the newspapers can be sold to some one. I check all of the county papers daily, column by column, for tips as well as for stories. I find a story concerning wireless. In it goes to Radio News, New York City,

which pays a cent a word on publication.

Here is an item about a new electric power station. It goes to the McGraw-Hill Company, publishers of the Electrical World, New York City, for a cent a word, payable on the first of the month following publication. I notice that a local chain store has installed a new credit system. An excellent tip. I interview the manager, get his photograph and in goes the story to A. W. Shaw Company, Chicago, for use in System. By the way, the Shaw Company also publishes Factory, and the editors furnish some good tips to regular correspondents and pay a cent a word and up, depending on the value of the article. If they reject an article, a personal letter is sent, telling just why it was not used, which helps the writer in preparing future copy.

Hotel Management, a new publication printed at 342 Madison avenue, New York city, by the Ahrens Publishing Company, is conducted along the same lines as Factory and System, except that it is limited to articles bearing on the hotel world. James S. Warren, the editor, writes me that their minimum rate is a cent a word, with additional payment for charts, photographs, etc. They have accepted several articles from me and paid promptly on acceptance.

For those who are in touch with the newspaper world there is a market with the Edi

tor and Publisher, which pays regular correspondents $2.50 a column for any news relating to newspapers, advertising, etc., furnishing two copies of the publication weekly to regular correspondents, one to be clipped for the writer's "string," and the other for his files. Payment is made monthly on the fifteenth on receipt of the string." This

publication also conducts two pages of "Hunches" and "Dollar Pullers," articles which are paid for at the rate of one dollar each, even though they may be only ten

words. In the Hunch" column tips on sources of newspaper stories or features are wanted; in the "Dollar-Puller" column are used tips for increasing advertising or circulation or decreasing expenses in newspaper offices.

To the "cub" trade paper correspondent I say: If you would increase your output, first study the trade publications and get acquainted with what your "buyer" wants; you will find plenty to market then. SPRINGFIELD, Ohio. Bert A. Teeters.

If short-story writing were an exact science it wouldn't be short-story writing, for a great short story may be weak in plot and still be called great; it may lack in one of several points and still be great. On the other hand, it may have a strong plot, or a vital theme, or other bolstering props and still not get into the model class.

Not to all of us do the same stories appeal with equal force or interest. We may make the bromidic assertion that we know what we like, even if we can't tell why. Some of us don't get much joy or inspiration from reading all of the stories set up in the model list, although we may be deeply impressed by the skill of their authors. We may also be filled with wonder as to why those same authors did not expend their skill on more pleasing themes and plots.

There's De Maupassant's grim, ironical "Necklace," for instance. In most treatises on the art of short-story writing it is held high as a model to be emulated. It is developed with the utmost skill. The plot is unusual, being founded on an accident. Not an incident is used that does not further the plot development, not a word that does n't count for all it is worth. The story is almost purely realistic, with one touch of idealism in Mathilde's adherence to her idea of duty; the only touch of romance is Mathilde's one adventure into a world of gaiety.

The author's false statement in regard to the paste diamond necklace which Mathilde borrowed from her friend is not only unnecessary but it makes one doubt his veracity. In a less skilled writer such deceit would not be easily condoned.

During the ten hard years in which the heroine and her no less heroic husband paid for the lost necklace there came to them no recompense, no philosophy deduced from their bitter experience, no softening of character, no little wayside flowers of joy, not even a big joy and satisfaction when their task was finished. From reading the story no encouragement comes to those who are struggling to pay a debt or right an error. If the author means us to infer that he thinks life's uphill efforts are rewarded by so much paste he should have kept such ignoble ideas to himself, rather than to have put them into a short-story model.

The reading of the "Necklace" is not pleasure-giving nor inspiring to most of us, even though the story is an artistic bit technically. The matter, not the manner, is at fault. As a model to coax would-be writers upward it is like the copy in a long-ago copy book, cold and mechanically perfect but as unattainable as the top of Pike's Peak in the dead of winter.

Then there is "The Piece of String" by the same author, another realistic bit, unpleasant and depressing. Well done, to be sure,

but leaving the reader shrugging his shoulders in vexation. With all his skill in depicting, De Maupassant was lacking in the greatest gift of all-spiritual power and discernment, without which his stories must fall short except in technique.

Prosper Merimée's "Mateo Falcone" is another model, a tragedy too mournful for any but the very youthful, who often revel in the harrowing. Older folk are apt to want stories that put their minds into a rosy mood. Merimée's story is powerfully done. The Rhadamanthine justice meted out by Mateo, the father, curdles one's blood. If one likes bloodcurdling, this story is sure to do it.

The Cask of Amontillado," by Poe, Balzac's "La Grande Bretèche," and De Maupassant's "La Mère Sauvage" are similar in effect and perfect in mechanism. Stevenson's dark tragedy, "Markheim," is another lauded model, and it, too, leaves one in lowering spirits. To be sure, there is a glimmer of satisfaction in the fact that Markheim gives himself up to justice.

it is, lifts one up, high on the road of encouragement. Tolstoi's "Where Love Is" is more uplifting than the average sermon.

One might say a great deal about the singleness of conception shown in the models mentioned. One might add items about their quick, strong impressions, the strength of their portrayal, and all that. Yet one can't take away the harrowing feelings of sin and horror which such stories leave. Art only accents..

One wonders why so many models in shortstory writing have for their subject matter the meanness and sinfulness of humanity, and why they end disappointingly. Some will say: "That is life." Yes, life of the kind we get in the daily newspapers, perhaps. In short stories why not find inspiration, encouragement? We do find them in many stories, most of which are not in the list of models.

Howells said that "people like to be melted, horrified, and astonished, and bloodcurdled, and goosefleshed, no less than to be 'chippered up,'" which explains why some people once in a blue moon like to read stories of the kind mentioned. Even so, most of us just ordinary mortals prefer for steady story diet the "melting and chippering-up" kind - not necessarily of the Pollyannish sort, but the kind that pulls us out of a rut and makes us want to get up and go on.

The point? You see it.

Ida Charlotte Roberts..

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