The Republican journal., 1869-03-04
The Curioslties Of Advertising.

advertisements that appear therein. GER
tainly lose the benefit of an interesting por-
ton of the sheet. We wouldn't of course
recommend that our readers should every
week carefully peruse the column that is
headed be the benevolent countenance of
Miss Sawyer, with her readiness to salve
the hurts OF all creation-albeit her story
is told in an interesting way. But the
fresh announcements of merchandise, of
bargains, of amusements, of real estate, of
medicines, and even the dry details of legal
notices, have an interest for the thoughtful
and oftentimes substantial value.
a spicy department in advertising is the
Personals Of paper like the New York
Herald, and one that is daily used by all
sorts Of people for all sorts of purposes.
Its persual gives a wide scope to the imagi-
nation, and conjecture as to who the par
ties making public such queer ideas can
possibly be; and the subjects take the wild
est range. Here, for instance, is one from
late number
WILL THE LADY WITH GOLDEN HAIR WHO
w recognized gentleman in Broadway car on Sat
on Sunday, address Discretion Herald ofice2
1.-THE golden-haired lady is SO inclined, she
sends note to the Herald office, where a
delivery is kept, and responds to Discre-
ton, which may be an indiscretion. What
al! ho1o, to +6o &C
1t may be matrmony, or it may not.
The art Of concealment is one not always
understood, especially of secret correspond
ence. Poe has story of parsonage in
France, possessed of great cunning, into
whose hands came document comprom-
Using a certain person in high position. The
secret police undertook to recover the pa
dug up his cellar floor, searched the furni-
ture, and probed the beds. Disguised as
highwaymen, they twice halted and search
ed him at highland gave up the job. All
the time the document was before their
eyes, in an old envelope, stuck in a rack
over the mantle piece. Acute cunning
was foiled by the cunning OF simplicity.
So it would not at first appear that the best
way carry on ones secret correspondence
is to publish it in the paper. Yet such is
literally the fact. A gentleman, for IN
stance, who wishes to convey certain hint
to lady, whom he has no business to ad-
dress, and to whom he could not conve-
nlenuy send a note, puts a personal adver-
tisement in the Herald. OF course the lady
may read the daily papers, and therein,
even in her husbands presence, she is in
formed when, where and how she may see
one whom she has no business to see. OF
this class are such as these
WILL THE LADY ADDRESSED BY GENTLE.
w man yesterday at G,amercy. Park Miss R., of
Albany, correspond appoint interview: Address
Admirer, box 1914 Herald office.
VXYALLACK's DRESS CIRCLE, FRIDAY EVE
w ming. Please be on Fifth avenue, between Four
teenth and Iwentythrd streets to-day Tuesday), At
O'Clock.
MILL THE LADY At NIBLO'S. ON MONDAY
I w evening be good enough to address the gentle
who next to her and whose efforts acquain
ance she kind altogether to ignore Direct
to T. 6. Dalrymple, New York Post oficea
/ r Z. f., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15-WILL 1OU.
e. communicate confdentially with T. H. Jr No.
! TI ERALD PERSONALS BLEEkER STREET
i car. Please meet me at Sixth avenue and Twenty
t ird street at noon to-day Thursday.
NJ BE THERE AT TIME AND PLACE.
SO they 60 There are favoring avenues