The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-06
COMMON SENSE VS.. NONSENSE.

Last week humorous discussion between
the papers OF this city was provoked by some
sentimental twaddle printed in the Monday
Times headed "Social Growls.''l That paper,
In short, told as local facts, two old stories
that we and everybody else had read in forty
different cheap novels These stories we said,
IN facetious way, were stolen from some
dime novel, and we characterized the maudlin
Sentimentality In which they were swimming
as "hog wash"
The Social Growler, who seems to be a
weak sort of sentimentalist with a soft
head, Is much distressed of our estimate of
his philanthropic labors to improve the con-
dition of the poor women Of New Orleans
and prints q very pretty letter telling about
the pitiable condition of poor girls and the
shameful lives some of them from real dis
tress, and some of them from love of Dress
have been driven to- This letter Social
Growler," as he calls himself, says he re-
ceived from most estimable lady, and the
sentiments expressed in it he says the DEM
ooRAT called "hog wash"
Now, then, before this soft-headed gentle
man goes further into the business of reform
ing the condition-physical and mental-of
the working women, he had better reform his
own moral state, to the extent at least of
learning how not to bear false witness against
his contemporaries. We said those pitiable
stories about the rich woman and the sewing
girl, and the hard-hearted merchant and the
poor lady, were clipped bodily from some
dime novel, and that the Growers twaddle
was 'hog wash"
We are as alive to the distress of the DOOR
as sensitive to their sufferings and as anxious
to see something done to relieve their wants
as any one; but no good can be accomplished
by telling narrowing romances and seeking to
create maudlin sentimentality through them
Indeed, some months ago the DEMOCRAT, real
izing that there were hundreds of men and
women in the city who wanted work, and that
there were always people who required clerks,
nurses, seamstresses teachers, cooks, etc.,
for the purpose of bringing these two classes
together for the benefit of the first established
b column for the free advertisement OF
wants, which has proved practical success.
Any poor man or woman who wants situation
can now advertise for it through this paper
without paying one cent. Since this column
has been established large number of adver-
tisements of both classes have been printed,
and the result is that we have enabled seven
ty-three Door women and forty-sx men to
obtain situations. The value of the adver-
Using through which this was accomplished
was something over $3.50, at our lowest rates,
though it cost the beneficiaries not cent.
The counting-room of the DEMOCRAT has
actually become a sort of postofice for these
advertisers, and every morning numbers of
them crowd around the counter to get the
responses to their advertisements; the young
man who delivers these letters tells us that it
Il often real qualification to notice the glow
If Measure which beams in the eyes Of some
Of those who receive favorable responses.
some ten days ago we were in the counting
rom when a young girl came in to inquire If
there was an answer to her advertisement.
The clerk found none for her, and there was a
look Of real disappointment on her young
face. She was unusually pretty, with dark
q seem sorrowful looking eyes, modest and
4 In her manner and quite shabbily though
Il sssnlv dressed. We asked the young man
3 III she had advertised for; well, we had
received two days previously Iroin an
q SS1S6 very dear friend up the river in re-
u |'|772 pthat very advertisement and ask
Il make inquiries, etc. The girl was
:sbe was willing to 60 70 the copn-