Ir it is true that all classes of society, from Princes down, were in the habit of risking their shillings in Missing Word Competitions, the issue of the prosecution of the proprietor and printers of Pick-e-Up must have been the most important topic of the week ending the 16th of December, Sir John Bridge found that the so-called competition was technically n "lottery," and fined the acoused one shilling, all the newspapers which did not try to increase their circulation by this somewhat illegitimate means agreeing that the magistrate's was a common-sense decision, The Daily News "Now it is impossible for any one who has given even the most cursory examination to the facts of the case to believe it ikely to succeed in proportion to the cleverness or literary taste which he displays; it is not the fitness appropriateness of the missing word has caused it to be selected by editor, but solely an accidental and trary choice. The conclu:
obvious that we have in what is neither more nor less than a lot-Punch makes this craze the luting out, howe poem how badly misture is in thinking. that issing word which will retrieve her fortunes, The Standerd writes forcibly on one aspect of the matter Tt is quite as much to the demoralisati of the newspapers as to that of their that we desire to direct attention, No ong
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