A Japanese Editor

Editors may find some consolation in the fact that they have inspired feelings of envy in the breasts of a young Japanese boy. A recent issue of an East Indian paper contained the followingnote: "A schoolboy in Loerabaya -was asked to describe an editor of a paper. He did so in this way: 'An editor is the luckiest man in the world. He can go to a circus every afternoon and every evening without paying a cent. He can go also to the court houses, the places of execution and the races. "He has f ree tickets toall theaters, receives presents at his office, and gets his ears boxed too. He goes also to Prigen, Malang or Lawang (places of amusement). He does not do this often, however. In one paper he can deny every'thing that was said in the previous one, and he does so, as a rule. When other people are already in bed, the editor is still up. He stays up late to see wliat happens. When I grow big I shall become an editor? Then I'can stay up too."