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The Round Table, in an article upon
this subject, has some remarks, which
are not at all complimentary to, the
Home Joarnal. Itsays -: = e = =
Another feature has lately been thrust
upon public attention, more particularly
by portion of the metropolitan press,
that scarcely calls for qualified treat
ment. We refer to the indecent publ
cation Of personal details, the unscrupu-
lous revelation Of scenes and incidents
of private life by which certain Journals
have sought to force themselves into
notoriety and circulation. tits pitlable
to add that paper once Of decent, II OF
somewhat weak and frivolous charac-
ter, has been in this respect leading
offender. Whatever may have been
said or thought of the deceased founder
of this journal, he was at least gen.
tleman-a man who thoroughly knew
the co,oenances of life-and the degen-
cracy of his paper into sort of flash
organ of pinchbeck society must be ex-
tremely distressing to his surviving
friends. But it is somthing worse. 1t
is an insult to the good sense and the
good feeling of the community that such
nauseous twaddle should be spread each
week before it in a print which depends
upon former respctability to gain adj
mittance into decent families. We are
quite aware that society has changed
somewhat of late years in New York.
We are quite ready to believe that there.
may be some scores of uneducated,
Cycling girls. and feeble snobs of young
men, whose fathers have made money
IN haste to spend it in folly, and who
may be tickled to see, in print descrip-
tions of their gowns and waistcoats,
their dancings and iunketings, their
Germans and hirtations, and their ineff-
ably puerile conversation. But is this
rAe kind of stuff to print in q paper
claiming to be respectable in sensi-
ble and educated community? We cam
not conceive of father of average
sense and feelings, whatever his culture,
seeing such things as we have lately
seen published about hundred young
women of tbs city, without finding his
fingers itching to get hold of horse
whip; and we have certainly been very
much surprised that no such inclination
has as yet developed into a practical
form.
The journal in question has set up,
we believe, the ridiculous defence that
similar practices are tolerated nreputa-
bic newspapers abroad, that it is the
court journal of America, and so on.
The position is untenable for q number
of obvious reasons, among which the
fact that the method Of treatment is
radically different. 1t is true some of
the London papers describe the dresses
worn by ladies of rank upon state and
other important occasions; but they new
crby any chance allow themselves, or for
day would be allowed, the impudent
familiarity of publishing conanendatory
orfiattering notices of the persons of the
ladies themselves. We never read in
their columns that the sweetly fascina-
ting Miss Jones wore blue MORE
with pointlace andpearls, or that the vo-
luptuous-looking Miss jenkins whose
respected parent did such heavy thing
III pork last year. was. quite ravishing
in purple velvet and diamonds. Stuff
like this has for some time disgraced
more than one of Our papers; and it is
high time it were reformed, put down
either by ridicule or something less
gentle.
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