The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-15
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ErOm Our O,On oOrrespondcrt.

SCHOOLS are opening with a vengeance. Withii
ten days or two weeks the advertisements will
all have dropped out one by one. It is amusin,
to read some of them. Indeed, when other de
pattments OF a newspaper fail to amuse, thu
advertising department can be safely relied
upon. That department probably contain,
more lies than all the other departments pu,
together Ye who read the worlds life given
dey after day, and ariaign before you in iude
ment the various departments which you ch srge
with being filled with canards, do you ever
reflect, If you are an advertiser that
you are the father Of more misrepresentatiops
than any news-edtor or writer OF leaders whom
you can lay 6uger on But these remarks.
however, are particularly applicable to the
educational advertisements in question, ONLY
they promise so much that it is no wonder our
boys and girls don't turn out to be the moral
compendiums which they are guaranteed to
become. The proverb says, Train up child in
the way he should go, and when he is oid he
will not depart from it-which Is the same as
saying that he will return to first principles
when he has sown his wild oats. (No allusion
to John Allen is here intended.) Teachers
train, or think they train, up children in the way
they should go, but the children part cularly New
York children, seem to shunt off from the
parental track as soon as pdter .fdnilias thai
slowgoing loconoton is out of sight. OF all
these one hundred aud fourteen advertisements
spread out before me, don't know that should
solicit one of them if l had children of my own
Here is a boarding school for ten boys, whose
respective fathers, of more or less celebrity, are
referred to for recommendation. Here is a semi.
nary that combines in an unusual degree the
choicest home influences with thorough and
accomplished education. Here is a classical
commercial, and military boarding. ng.school, with
separate sleeping apartment for each pupil.
Here is an English training school for BOYS,
where the object system iis sGoptea. a. The
GJglenic family school girls and boys are fed,
exercised, and educated physically and
mentally, In accordance with the primary
law of their being This institution for young
ladies aspiIes to be substantial not a fashion
able, school. at the Mount Washington Col
legiate Institute "Llttle Boys" are advertised as
watched over with especial kindness and care.
The difference between fashionable and un-
fashionable instructresses is discovered at
glance, and plain Mrs. and Miss are liperalIy
iuterspersed with Madame and Madamoiselle.
In the masculine Advertisements not a hint is
given as to the practice of corporeal punish
mept, and let us, therefore, hope that Solomon,
who, for all his wisdom, was practical fool in
some things, has been outwitted in this nine
teenth century; or that a! least such castgations
as are necessary are performed in darkness and
secrecy, and that the birch most in vogue at
present is Billy Birch OF the San Francisco
Minstrels.
1t would be worse than carrying Goals to
Newcastle OF owls to Athens Tor me to mention
the fact that Mr.. George W. Childs, who rams
newspaper called the Philadelphia Public
Ledqer, Is going to buy the Herald for one mil
lion dollars In gold! Add to this that old Ben
netts stepping out is to be synonymous with the
stepping out of Horace Greeley. Old White Hat
who may daily be seen trotting down Broadway
with his face like full moon, and his pockets
like portable newspaper stand, is going to be
supplanted by Charles A. Dana, who is going to
sink the Sun in the Tribune. l wonder What
John Young thinks of all this. wonder what
Mr.. England the hitherto managing editor of
the Sun, thinks of it. wonder whether it's so.
/ wonder whether, perhaps, hire amt just
little humbug in it. wonder-no, give up
wondering. l sink upon the beach of supne-
ness and wait until another wave Of intelligence
washes over me. ...
The All-England Eleven, all new men to this
country, and the best cricketers that England
can produce, arrived at this port on Sunday
afternoon, and are stopping now at the Everett
House. Yesterday afternoon they spent In prac-
tlsing on the st. Georges ground. To-day they
will witness the baseball match between the
Mutuals and Unions, at Morrlsana. Tomorrow
they commence their first match on the St.
Georges grounds against picked twenty-five of
New York and vicinity. On the 22d, they play
in Montreal; ON the 29th, in Boston. They will
then proceed to your city, and remain until
October IL.
Each cricketer gets $3.50 in gold for his SER
vices. Their last game in this country will pro-
baby be enc at baseball, somewhere near the
middle of October, after which they will return
to England. They contain some Of the mos;
perfect specimens of manly vlgor that have
ever laid eyes on.
Something ought to be said about Mademoi-
selIe Irma to prepare PniladelPh ha for the proper
reception of her when she comes along. She is
a blonde with wide, large, dark, beautiful blue
eyes, fringed darkly, and heightened In their
brilliancy by tender tint Of rouge just above
the cheek bones. Her manner of questioning
the will of the audience, of accepting applause,
and receiving bouquets, is altogether bewitch-
ing, and all the witchery is in her eyes
and corresponding movement of her
arms. NJ. Aujac is a superb specimen of good
nature and chivalry. ] don't wonder that
Niblo's continues so full. A new play called
'1868" is to be produced at the New York Thea
ire. Janauschek has arrived with her Teu-
tonic troupe. Grau's opera bogfe troupe com
mences at the Theatre Francaise on October g.