LAREDO, TEX., Nov. 19.—“Mexico to-night faces the most serious crisis in recent years.”
The foregoing statement made to-night by United States Consul Garrett at Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, just across the border, summarizes the situation as it exists now along the frontier.
VIII. Illustrating the use of direct quotation in the lead to give the “atmosphere” of an interview:
NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—“This is the age of woman, the domestic pet. Also it is the age of gold, which is necessary to the proper coddling of domestic pets.”
This is one of the ideas which Miss Margaret McMillan has come to America to lecture about. Miss McMillan is not “another of those English suffragists.” She was born in Westchester, N. Y., and is an authority in England on the education and needs of children.
IX. Lead in which the feature is put in indirect quotation:
BALTIMORE, Nov. 12.—Drinking and cigarette smoking are not on the increase among the women of America, according to Lillian M. N. Stevens, president of the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Addressing the annual convention of the organization here to-day, she said in part:
(Direct quotation follows.)
X. The chronological method of telling a story which is so short that a summary of the facts in a formal lead would be useless:
NYACK, N. Y., Oct. 27.—Joseph de Bonti, an 8-year-old boy of Haverstraw, before starting for school put a revolver cartridge in his mouth and began biting on it.
The cartridge exploded and the boy fell to the floor dead, the bullet having gone upward through the brain.
XI. Example of the use that is sometimes made of an apt quotation to precede a feature story. From the Kansas City Star:
Matilda wash the dishes; Lucinda fetch the broom;
And Sookey set the chairs nice all around the room.
—Old Song
HUTCHINSON, KAN., Nov. 18.—Because Stubbs won in Kansas, Ernest Switzer, an employé of the Bell Telephone Company, must play the part of an unwilling Cinderella while the hired girl spends the evening taking in the canned drama at the motion picture shows.
XII. Where the time is the feature of the story: