New-York tribune., 1880-10-24
CHRISTMAS CARDS.
A SECOND COMPETITION.

Messrs. L. Prang & Company announce their
intention 10 repeat experiment they made last year
IN Offering prizes of for the best designs that shh
he sent IN for Christmas Cards The terms Of the COM
peon are to be the those of last wear and the
sum of money TO distributed is also the ame the dates
the sending in Of the de gns and for the opening Oh
the exhibition not yet fixed upon This much Is de-
cided however: That more time will be given
tnan last year for preparation on the part OF
the designers and more time taken by the judges III
considering the designs sent in. II IL TO be hoped hat
the contributions OF this year will Show somctfng 10
have been learned during the time that has passed rce
the last competition and that the lessons taught IN hat
experment have not been wholly lost on the amateurs
of wnum the greater part of the competing body was
made up. II can do them no harm to remember ina
the public is no longer altogether complacent
observer of what is before 1t in these
exhibitions. but that 1t demands ripper
fruit tnan at first seemed to satisfy IT,
Even those few medical men who maintain that green
apples do 40 great the human animal at GER
ain stage of its growth are ready to admit that the
period Of immunity short one AMI that the adut
organism greet the Intrusion OF crude matter
bv no ueonsidrabe amount Of wrhin and cOntortion
Let those intending To send Their wOE 10 the coming
show enGeavJr send something that belongs honesty
20 themselves. something not borrowed from the
fashionable and successful illustrators OF lhe
day the Kate Greenaways, the Waller cranes,
the Caldecous, whatever Frenchman or Ger
man has the cry Nothing IS easier than mlIatlon anu
uotnug is at the same timc less interesting and more
scnu-arng TO the spectator who for the matter
The Mcssrs Prang desire that every one concerned III
he coming competition should 90 his Oes for although
H. is easy to say their offer str ke Of business
everybody who knows Mr.. Prang himself and his cher
assistants knows that they really care great deal Tor
tie artistic side OF business. ard tnat they nave
often r.sked time and money enterprises which, IN
q society ready than ours Is. as yel' -
appreciate such things, would nave been encouraged
with SUCCESS The Mcssrs. Prang would be
glad. and we should be glad, #, instead OF
our market being flooded at Christmas time
with card, and tokens OF foreign make and our own
forced 10 take a back scat, c3ud ourselves show
carGs az pretty as neghb0rs. and send abroad as
well AS do all the inviting. No doubt tbs Is small
matter In itself but ~ said last sJrin- these Christ
mas cards are a straw show which way the Wihd oil
art blowing just al the arts ara Initiative
WITH US ana the models chosen are for tAc most part
such as appeal not TO the healthy taste
of the pc 3pls at large, but TO the ian
c.es and wnius Of few. We arc ripe FOR a
change IN this respect anyone VINO minister 10
the love OF smp e, happy human thm-s, VINO can ap-
pta 10 the instincts Of bis cOuntrymen rather than 10
their acquired notions. aud draw the water he offers
them to drink from tlelr wells brmmed with na-
ti-. flower, and weed and giving back as in mirror
ne D. uc Of hIs own sky-nO The gray France nor the
mdrky tcg Eugaud-wll. make the designs that VIII
d.