New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-05-24


A Pisa FOR OLD THINGs.-Respectable
antiquity is to my liking. Furniture should
be hanged about and made dusty and ripped
up a little before il is ht to be used. Anew
and stiff chair can not be an easy chair
under any circumstances. It should be a
little loose in the joints, yielding, and ready
% lend ttseif 70 jour slightest motion.
Nothing that's new looks well or feels well.
What Is worse to the cultivated taste than a
staring shiny hat, a coat fresh from under
the goose (tbereis a difference between an
egg and q coat, or patent leather boots
New babies are not particularly nice, either.
And who likes the new and natty young
man, with his little mustache, and his
little cane, and his little brain.
Veal never was good, and in these DAYS
of false calves | view it with particular
distrnst in any shape. I have in nv
mind a dear delightful old club that
used to meet in a cheerful, cosy room,
and sit round a dark mahogany table
that bore the honorable dints Of / don't
know how many pewter mugs. There
were a few old smoky pictures on
the Walls-no one knew what they were,
and nobody cared-bUt they were very good
pictures for all that, and had the great merit
OF not smelling OF paint. I'm not aware
that they had much other merit, nor do
! know that any other was expected. One
blessing Was that 40 n expected you to
stand In 'front.' OF them and screw your hand
up to your eye, and talk about them for
nall an hour with a show Of enthusiasm
and interest. Who Is that by2v "Ahl
strange that / did not recognize his style
before p "A genre picture indeed GIN.
enect that; some good feeling-ah-
excellent tone, well managed and 50 forth
q 50 on. There's the curse Of nice mic.
lures 81 clubs especially when the artists
hang tnem free, aud stand behind you when
you lookat them. Il may not Be SO with
0LneTH. bNf IL Hud ~ atH4aulFr 60 H. -swlAI-
Jolly when things are too new ana too nice.
When ladies are catered for. elegance IA IN
keeping, but II has q ~singularly depressing
elect on the masculine habit Of mind and
body. footstooi that is too nice to pat
yoqf lees On cslsnes p g 1resence; White
test against smoking-aH Webb
How ColoEel Bates came tobe ueminales
for State Treasurer Of Illinois fbstn4d ~
General Smith, the present i~nefnhenf. a
thus explained by the Chicago N0n 5ghe.
Post says up to the time Thar tho tuil Tfas
called General Smiths success was d6dmei
Protested down q fourth Of the hst 81
counties that shy dangerous Opposition was
-encou1tere1s Al that STAKE fhe chairman
Of 3 delegation rising 20 v5ts tor di8 county
declared; u cast the ave votes Of my c0un.
. ioI me eslApt eple1sl Batss the starved
prisoner OF Andefsonsul efn The appeal 70
the cenVentseR cantgiHea lnthese few words
wasirregigtlble. He was dominated on i
hrst call Hhe ipcident b noteworthy as
showing the slight OAuaes Which ehnefimcs.
give alrectton - Me rcelen 81 poBufar as-
sembaggH aud aaa4 dem0nsfrafltn ~ thel
deep haTeu of the people Tor fhe adfhofs1f
that Ereat crime o. TIE centafr-tko faia
military prison system Of eks 15nth. -
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