e, but the right, of |
|every American citizen and should be |
|considered a duty," said the Rev. |
|Frederick W. Hamilton, president of Tufts|
|College, who spoke on "The Political |
|Duties of the American Citizen" at the |
|monthly men's neighborhood meeting in the|
|Roxbury Neighborhood House last |
|night.--_Boston Herald._ |

Here the reporter has given us a sentence that is practically a summary
of the speech, has told us who said it, when and where, and has
completed the paragraph with the title of the speech. Sometimes the
title of the speech is not of great importance and its place in the lead
may be given to a little summary as in the following:

| "The modern man isn't afraid of hell," |
|was the concise explanation which W. |
|Lathrop Meaker gave in Franklin Union |
|Hall yesterday afternoon and evening of |
|the fact that the churches are losing |
|their grip on the average man.--_New York|
|Sun._ |

A question which embodies the content of a speech may often be quoted at
the beginning; thus:

| "Will the Baptist church continue to |
|maintain an attitude of timidity when |
|John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil is |
|mentioned?" asked the Rev. R. A. Bateman,|
|from East Jaffrey, N. H., of the |
|ministers assembled in Ford Hall last |
|evening at the New England Baptist |
|conference.--_Boston Herald._ |

The opening quotation may sometimes be made an excuse for a brief
description of the speaker or his gestures as in the following. This is
good at times but it may easily be overworked or become "yellow" in
tone.

| "There is no fire escape," remarked |
|Gypsy Smith, the famous English |
|evangelist, yesterday before the |
|fashionable audience of the Fifth Avenue |
|Baptist Church. He held aloft a Bible as |
|he made this declaration during an |
|eloquent sermon on the possibility of |
|losing faith and wandering from the |
|n