[Sidenote: _Frivolous. Change._] Of the Latter-Day Church, King Solomon’s sect--which is awfully rum. (_Stuck_.) ... the lot of it ... Anglo-Saxons ... shout it aloud ... at it again? ... back the crowd? (_Fill in. Mem.--must be consecutive_) Things are not as they were (_commonplace_) (_delete_) Things are not as they.... Things and the Change.... Things and ... things.... (_Leave this to fill in_) * * * * * And some of ye stand at a wicket, and they are the luckier men, [Sidenote: _Whenas. Good. Mem.--use in “Horeb.”_] But others field afar on a field, and ever and then, When-as the over is over, they cross to the other side, A weary thing to the flesh and a wounding thing to the pride. [Sidenote: _He will have to go._] And Cabinet Ministers play at a game ye should all avoid, It is played with youngling bats and a pellet of celluloid, And a little net on a table, and is known as the named (_better_) PING and the PONG. England, Daughter of Sion, why do you do this wrong? And some, like witherless Frenchmen, circle around in rings, England, Daughter of Sion, why do you do these things? Why do you.... (_Mem.--after Uncle to-morrow. Billy’s: refuse terms._) These are the chance lines as they came--the disjointed words--everything--just as He wrote them down. Reader--or whatever you be--was that a small reward? Are you willing _now_ to say that Interviewing has no wages of its own? Will you sneer at it as unfit to take its place in your art? Truly, “Better is he that humbleth himself than a pillar of brass, and a meek heart than many fastenings.” PERSONAL PARS. THE PERSONAL PAR. Closely connected with the Interview, and forming a natural sequel to any treatise upon that Exercise, is the Personal Par. It contains, as it were, all the qualities of the Interview condensed into the smallest possible space; it advertises the subject, instructs the reader, and is a yet sharper trial of the young writer’s character. The homely advice given in the preceding section, where mention was made of “pride” and of “pockets,” applies with far more force to the Personal Par. With the Interview, it is well to mask one’s name; with the Personal Par, it is absolutely necessary to conceal it. The danger the author runs is an attraction to Mrs. Railston, who in her book strongly advises this form of sport--she herself does Bess in _All About Them_. On the other hand, Lieut.-Col. Lory says, in his _Journalist’s Vade-mecum_ (p. 63): “A Personal Par should never be penned by the Aspirant to Literary honours. Undetected, it renders life a burden of suspense; detected, it spells ruin.”[9] He quotes twenty-five well-known peers and financiers who rose by steadily refusing to do this kind of work during their period of probation on the press.