The Colfax chronicle. (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-04-14
Sbe Gulfan Cbrunifle.
SATURDAY, APRIL IA, 1877.
(}ur New York Letter.
NEw YORK, March 20, '76.

Editor CHRONICLE st.
To say that it's the fashion
doesn't do the subject half justice.
It's the rage; it's the mania; its the
sensation. Even the little dogs
are only waiting for hot weather
TO don blue glass goggles and trot
around impervious to hydrophobia.
I am not quite certain that the
newly discovered panacea will cure
balky mule or a man with q
wooden leg, but We are assured by
eopious testimony that no lesser
ailment can withstand its benefi-
cent influences more than ma hour
or so at the outside.
It is rather q novel business to
Soy the least, for Major General
Of the army to turn quack doctor
and set the whole Yankee nation
BY the ears over his queer cure-all;
but still, as we have no war on
hand or in prospect, l don't know
that General Pleasanton is to be
blamed to turning his restless
talent to getting up big sensation
especially as he has made such a
frst-class success of it. Indeed,
be may have had a very bencvo-
lent intention in throwing out his
pretty and innocent bauble to
catch and distract the public eye
alta moment when that organ, in
consequence of an overdose of
politics had begun to have "blood"
in it, and seemed for a time to be
bent on mischief. If this was his
rotive he done noblv, for blue
glass has certainly divided public
attention with the Joint Commits
sion, and who can say that its mol
Gfying rays have not been instru-
mental in holding subdued the
riotous blood of party feeling?
Then, again, it is possible that
The distinguished officer that ia
theirs the latest wonder really be-
lieves in it. He persists that a
course of blue glass cured him,
and adduces letter after letter to
prove that it cured a good many
others-all of which is important
II true. The professional scien-
lists turn up their noses at the
whole thing, calling it "silly ma
ma and chasing it along with the
Aeeley Motor excitement; and to
tell the truth it is hard to believe
that at this late day, any man, even
a Pleasant-one, has been able to
impress on the old original sun
nght under which the world has
tnrived ever since the creation.
Stlll, it isn't safe. in this age of
discovery to scott at anything new,
Just because it is new, and we must
,la until the very jealous and
faithful trial which the new notion
Is receiving has had time to show
entirely.
NO one can pass a day in this
Guy without being astonished at
70 .ae hold o blue glass has got upon
.s s. Every paint shop, glass store
and house furnishing establish
nent has blossomed out with pla-
safds and azure panes. On Broad
va sSy TWO or three shops have open
81 70 deal exclusively in the arti.
s ne, wnile SO much of it has been
s sG, !, already and hung up in the
', windows of upper tendon, that
,o-cay Filth avenue and the neigh
pOnns aristocratic streets look like
..u8 rows OF second and third
s ssy drug stores. One of our
aernoon dailies has published a
nSs extra printed in blue ink and
SeVS s!s. solely TO the history and
TUadition of the new Science )"
; .ae n horse cars are even putting it
~. ~'o Their windows. To crown all,
~ 70 settle finally the question
s u It's prominence, blue glass has
s 8. onto the stage. Now the
s SSs. is to any topic of interest
u S1 a the hand organ is to a piece
:; music, namely, the touchstone
vi, y It's popularity. just the mo-
aS1. that "a, Tramp, Tramp" or
bsa Iver Threads among the Cold"
sms to be ground out at the
s .es' corners, We know that it is a
H.. Leo faet; and so likewise when
mn ,Ss, week y Augustin DAILY came out
sl sn the play Of "Blue Glass" at
es ~. Filth Avenue Theatre it be-
ans evident that these magic
''us were to pass into history.