New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-02
Esthetics-No. j.

cities was alarmed by the app Iillon ol coiossA
letter p standing vertically upon the rooitree oil
tall brick building, in crowded street. The East
ern King was not more scared BY the mystic words
that burned upon the wall than was BY this threat
epnr initial AT distance It seemed to stand alone
to be about to lump into the populcus wayfsre
recovered my self possession as l approached and
found it to be prepped and held by bars, guys
and stanchons without number, which laid hold oil
avery firm object in the neighborhOod, in order TO
keep in its place. 1t occurred TO me at sne same
instant that this huge was intended to inform me
that Pottery Pepper Paint Pastry or Poetry was 70
be had in the building below. fastened away In
cu,e dudeeon. determined not TO look at the shop,
for fear that might be tempted by the Pepper or
the Poetry into encouraging what seemed to me an
outrageous evasion OF advertising expense. Horned
the design of expostulatng with the pastry cook, IL
such he were, and my words were these
Sir your pepper or paint, or wha. not, is doubtless
equal to any in this market-nay, superior believe
IT, Why Sir, will you take such means OF calling
attention to it, One man who buys, hnding your
pepper, etc. good, will say so, and then other men
will come and buy likewise. But perhaps you are
not vet known-recently estabisaed-canno1 wall
until the quality of your pottery is discovered you
wish to sell your paint new-immeda'ely-caht
wait. Then why not have recourse to newspapers,
where people look expressly to see who says MS
pastry is the best II is not idly that urge this
matter. Reflect. II you succeed in thus attracting
the discerning pubc-R. S. t., nay, even DINER RS,
larger than your own, will rise all around to look
you down your will be lost In maze oil COLOSSAL
initials, sxiding over the shops, making this City
look Like huge horn-book, seen In the nightmare OF
afrighted school.boy. Besides, Sir, your letter r
b,,@x vbo
for the consequences when each shop shall be sur
mounted by some letter of the alphabet and OF dmen
SONS to which no statute limit has been set. The
fixture of these advertisements will soon be done by
contract and then some equnoctial gale will prove
too much for them, and we shall have the gigantic
A b about our ears.
believe there is no law against what you have
done l think law is called for In all civilized
congresses, parliaments, &C., person Is chosen
with the title of Moderator, Speaker or Chairman,
whose duty it is to prevent all from talking together
and some individuals from getting more than their
share of the speaking. For even among we'll
bred people, where there Is point to be carried,
A, B or c will sometimes try to drown his neigh
boris voice, laugh down his arguments, and
browbeat him into silence. There is always some
unruly fellow in every assembly who thinks that his
Il
bawl and roar and have it all his own way. Mod
orator sets all this rght-takes the tmd and modest
F. G. H. under his protection, and forces the bus
teiing p. to sit down and keep quiet.
Now / should like to have moderator of signs,
a person with authority to reduce this sort Of puff
ing to its simplest expression In the end the result
would be the same for although the largest signs
were made as small as the smallest now are, each
al chanr in hat Qnoct
while many other modes of putting and advertising
would still be open for those who have capital to in
vest in that manner.
To supply people with what they want is the
noble end OF commerce. Let us by no means inter
fere with this prerogative but I" est modus in re-
bus" In Olmutz, Bohemia, there is great Hard
ware establishment at the sign Of Gods eye Gum
Auge GOttes) and that organ is painted thereon of
huge size. 1t is of bright blue, as the Teutonic
eyes are apt to be- so true is it that nclines to
make his Maker in his own image. No one can
say where the determination to ou.sign and output
ones neighbor will stop In one OF the great
squares OF great city in Italy saw coffee house
OF the Holy Ghost and dove was painted, Sir, as
descending upon il "Sunt certw denique nnes :"
l mention these facts to show how hardened men
can become in then eagerness to get of their old
stock of pottery pepper and the like.
The commercial spirit, like any other element OF
civilization, may grow morbdly active, break the
balance Of functions and usurp the whole of which
i, is but part 1, is not long since England the
free, the just the phanthropic, the friend of the
black man, forced China to take her opium noeHs
lens The trade, it was argued, impOrtanttaat
China had no right to check it. 1t was unlike the
inhuman traffic in negroes, for the Chinese were
49, tha
prohibition grounded on fanatcal assertion, that
opium is not good to eat.
In the Fortunes of Nigel we learn that English
commerce began with the courteous question, Whist
90 ye lack, Sirs This has grown and blossomel,
and now the fruit is what Stand and deliver omin-
Gus phrase No longer ago than October last,
saw on the pavement of the London side walk cOf-
fms painted at every 5Oth step. Even in the most
decent and quiet streets at the West End, collins
collins. collins On each coffin was inscribed the
name and address Of the mechanic who took this
delicate means of getting what he fain to con-
slider has share of coffin making This infamy lasted
until sufficient number of accidents to ladies in
delicate situation and consumptive or hypochondriac
people took place. to rouse the public Indignation.
Sir, your huge seems to me milder form Of the
same vruleRt disorder. 1t is breach of good man
ners 1t too large, too prominent an expression of
ereedness. II occupies on my retina space which
neither pepper nor paint, nor even poetry has any
rightto uSurp sgains. my will. You have no more
RIGHT thus to assal my eyes than you would have to
let of pistol at my ear every time l pass, accom-
psnyng the explosion with the questionable YOU
want auy pepper, etc. SCULPTOR.
Mes HAYES AND THE SCHOOLS.
grand MATINEE Musicale for the Pupils of the Free
Schools OF New-York yesterday was signaltrumph
for all concerned. The house was well filed with
delegations from all the principal schools in the City
a! an early hour We have never seen better order
IN any audience than exhibited by the pupils.
The Concert was openedb by Nh Brsham, in the bal
lad "Of in the Silly Night" which was rapturously
applsuded Miss Hayes and Herr Mengis next ap.
peared in a comic Duet, In which the au hence