A DIVISION OF LABOUR
["Journalism.—Gentleman (barrister) offers furnished bedroom in comfortable, cheerful chambers in Temple in return for equivalent journalistic assistance, &c."—Times.]
The "equivalent" is rather a nice point. Mr. Punch suggests for other gentlemen barristers the following table of equivalence:—
| 1 furnished bedroom. | = | 1 introduction (by letter) to sub-editor of daily paper. |
| 1 furnished bedroom with use of bath. | = | 1 introduction (personal) to sub-editor. |
| 1 bed-sitting-room. | = | 1 introduction and interview (five minutes guaranteed) with editor. |
| 2 furnished rooms. | = | 1 lunch (cold) with Dr. Robertson Nicoll. |
| 2 furnished rooms, with use of bath. | = | 1 lunch (hot) with Dr. Nicoll and Claudius Clear. |
| 1 furnished flat, with all modern conveniences, electric light, trams to the corner, &c. | = | 1 bridge night with Lord Northcliffe, Sir George Newnes, and Mr. C. A. Pearson. |
When is an author most likely to be sick of his own writing?
When he's regularly in the swing.
