Connecticut western news., 1873-04-18
Advertising Medley.

| We learn from an exchange that a German musician intends to compose a series of airs to a medley of newspaper advertisements. The idea seems to us to be good one, and it has occurred to us that we may help the composer lit tie perhaps by arranging few advertise ments in suitable form for adaptation to music. For instance, suppose it is a tailor's advertisement that is selected. We should work it up into some such tender strain as this l:
 Oh! come into the garden Maud;
 And sit beneath the rose.
 And see me prance around the beds.
 Dressed in my Sunday clothes.
 Oh! come and bring your uncles, Maud.
 Your sisters and your aunts,
 And tell them Johnson made my coat,
 My waistcoat, and my pants.
 This is pathetic and practical. The verse is filled with sentiment and with 8 sweet, melodious cadence peculiarly it's own :; and yet it makes Johnson's pants charmingly conspicuous, and calls at tention to his waistcoat, while it ideal izes and spiritualizes that useful but comparatively uninteresting article. Then, say we want to set to music to- bacconist's advertisement. Would we not choose some such fairy-like verse as this:
 Gaily young Ferguson
 Bought his cigar
 Bought it at Mulligans,
 Where the best are.
 When he wants fine-cut. or
 Snuff for his nose,
 Gaily young Ferguson
 Purchases those.
 Few poets could soar as we do thus into the realms of fancy with such theme; but it is ever thus with genius when it's salary is promptly paid, as ours is. We would soar higher if the con- pensation were larger. As it is, we have given exactly the moneys worth. Or, again Suppose the composer desired to wed 8 grocer's advertisement to inn mortal music. We should give him a chance with some such glowing imagery as this. - Oh! say not love you because the molasses You purchased at Simpsons was golden and clear;
 The sirup, the sugar. the jelly in glasses, The crackers, the mack'rel, I know, were not But when you came to me with Simpsons smok- ed salmon,
 Auu snOWeu me nS samples Of Llmburger cheese,
 felt that his claim to be cheap was not gam loved you, and said so, dear Jane, on my knees.
 It will be perceived here that the of mackerel with emotion, and Limburger cheese with heartfelt affec- 5ion, gives to each object peculiar ex- altation, and, as it were, tends to fill the sympathetic spirit with-with- it never mind. Take another case. We have an umbrella man to deal with. We desire to embalm his adver- lsement in verse, and we therefore offer t, let us say, in the form of a serenade
 Oh, wake dearest lilly,
 And list while I tell
 Story of where you may
 Buy an umbrella.
 Oh! go to McGuinnigan's,
 Ask for gingham,
 A silk or alpaca,
 And make the man bring lem.
 If you want ribs put in,
 Or new cover,
 Come to McGuinnigan's.
 Come with your lover. We charge our German friend nothing or these suggestions. As far as he is oncerned, we offer them in the interest f art. If these songs-the labor of an dle hour-shall make any sorrowful and soul happier, or shall bring onsolatlon to any stricken heart, we hall not only be amply repaid and eeply gratifed, but we shall be exceed lgly surprised.-,Su7adoy TeZeora9oh.