Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-07-19
=. REPORTERS AND LoAPERs.n
The Gaze Of tho Harvard Boat Crews Coke
illustrated by . Dog Parallel. v8T
From the New York Tribune

When that cultivated and intel.
lectual middle-aged person, Miss
Mary Ann Moxon, of Cambridge,
Mass, had the collar OF her offensive
littIo poodle inscribed, I'm Mary
Ann Moxon's dog; whose dog are
your she thought it was rather
q clever joke on the casual citizen
who might encounter the pup, and
investigate his reason for being. She
was of that mind for several days.
But one morning the poodle, howl
ing as though he was carrying all
the part for Sirius in the chorus of
the morning stars, and sudden, as if
fired out OF a gun, shot into the Mox-
on presence, and with his tail tucked
very close, and business card tied
on his collar. Divining that some
one had set the poodle up in the
carrier. dove business, Miss Moxon
seized the missive and read: Eur
pontine is what ails me; what's the
matter with you r Miss Moxon
may not have changed her mind as
10 the clevorness Of the original in
Inscription, but she did make some
remarks, while applying lotions to
the pup, concerning the utter inca
pacity of the average man to
take Joke, which showed that tho
turpentine had Illuminated her I'M
Outstanding 10 an unusual degree.
Now no one doubts that the very
able but obviously very young per-
sons who had the Harvard boat
crews headquarters at Springfield
inscribed REPORTERS and Loafers not
Wanted Here were quite honest
in putting reporters and loafers on
level and exercising in this manner
their contempt for both. 1t is, also,
clever joke, fully as good as Mary
Ann Moxon's. Mary Ann inscribed
her rebuke to public curiosity on
the collar of her puppy. Had she
been an institution OF learning, with
more poodles than one, doubtless
she would have had it put over the
kennel, and then, possibly in tho
press of the country-which is 80
obtuse as not to appreciate the clev-
erness of joke which classes with
'loaters' the hardest worked and
most faithful men of profession
which not more than one in fifty
University graduates can get into
at all, and not one in q thousand
succeeds in-might have touched
them off with turpentine and sent
them home bowling. The Harvard
young gentlemen if they read the
newspapers since they won their
great victory last Saturday, have
probably made up their minds that
the newspaper press cant take
Joke For the press has been pro-
nouncing opinions regarding the con-
duct and manners of the Harvard
young men which cannot by any
stretch of fancy, or reasonable con-
struction of the mother tongue, be
called complimentary. 1t was
local newspaper, we believe-one
whose reporters had experienced
the civilities of these young persons
which said in language that no
right minded person will approve,
that they acted like a set of(we
think there was an emphatic blank
inserted here) hogs. Other news
papers have characterized them va
rlously, but none, so far as we have
seen, have set them up as models of
department or the pattern of good
manners. The general sense of the
press, so far as we can discover, is
that the Harvard sign board, like
Mary Ann Moxon's dog collar, al
though intended as heightened and
dignified rebuke to that indecent
public curiosity which interests itself
in the antecedents and circumstances
and name of every puppy that
wears collar, was really a gratu.
tious impertinence If, accordingly
the stern of the Harvard boat has
been literally painted with turpen>
tine, it is due to the same lack of
capacity to take joke which sent
Mary Ann Moxon,s dog home in
pain with his tail tucked very, very
close.