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Psmith Journalist

Chapter 6 The Tenements

Word Count: 1387    |    Released on: 19/11/2017

smissal of _Cosy Moments_' entire staff of contributors left a gap in the paper which had to be filled,

!!! See foot of page" printing in the space at the bottom the legend, "Next Week! See Editorial!" and compili

per to me, even in the midst of my triumphs in the New Asiatic Bank, that there were other fields. For the moment it seems to me that I have found the job for which nature specially designed me. At last I have Scope. And without Scope, where are we? Wedged tightly in among the ribstons. There are some very

Mike. "Are you and Windsor going t

in stout fellows, reporters on other papers, who will b

-her-name and the others

the miss-in-baulk in no uncertain voice were only despatched yesterday. But

red with

"I'm jolly glad it's not my paper. It's pretty lucky

ed him with p

d the paper for a while, he will go singing about his hotel. His beaming smile will be a by-word in Carlsbad. Visitors will be shown it as one of the sights. His only

d think that first number would br

ilberfloss--his name is Wilberfloss--has been ordered complete rest during his holiday. The kindly medico, realising the fearful strain

return, what are

ut a murmur. In the meantime, Comrade Jackson, I would call your attention to the fact that we seem to have lost our way. In the exhilaration

on the other side

t? I fancy that the master-mind who chose that nam

ness. All the smells and noises, which are many and varied, are penned up in a sort of canyon, and gain in vehemence from the fact. The masses of dirty clothes hanging from the fire-escapes increase the depression. Nowh

groups of ragged children who covered the r

"It must be awful livi

floors one could see into dark, bare rooms. These were the star apartments of the tenement-houses, for they open

's what you might call room for improvement. It wouldn't be a scaly idea

ed on a f

m going in to have a look round. I expect some muscular household

e wall looked at them without curiosity. Probably they took them for reporters hunting for a s

opening they had a glimpse of a number of women sitting round on boxes. The floor was covered with little heaps of linen. All the women were sewing.

n this case had given rein to a passion for originality. He had constructed the room without a window of any sort whatsoever. There was

the street. By contrast with the conditions

d on, "is where _Cosy Moments_ get

going to do?

d in the tone of a family doctor prescribing for a patient, "is disembowelling. I fancy, however, that a mawkishly sentimental legislature will prevent our performing that national service. We

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