Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-11-19
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1881.
Advertisements Are EnIerta lining
Reading.
Washington Republican.

Advertisements Are Enterta lining
Reading.
Washington Republican.
William Walker, 1.-THE grey-eyed man
of destiny" and himself an editor, used
to say that no man knew how to enjoy
newspaper who did not read the adyer-
tisements. And he was right. Let the
reader try the experiment, If he ever
has done SO, and cast his eye through the
advertising columns of the paper he now
holds in his hands.
Wanted-Help. This column opens
up the whole domestic play called ser
vant-galism." 1t tells, too, of trades
people in want of steady men for sales
men and bright boys for errands, of tail
Ors who want cutters, managers who
want ballet-girls, and preachers who
want old barrels of sermons.
Wanted Situations. This column
distress, as we'll as Of thrift and industry;
brought to want, pathetic pleas for i'm
subsistence. Interspersed with these
who never so much as saw good meal,
except behind a pillow, and of others, real
experts in their business. 81
sWanted--ROOms; quiet, second floor,
south front, northwestern section, com
fOrtably furnished, convenient to cars,
neatness, ETC., etc These advertisers
are seekers of the ideal. They wander
about from year to year to find the rooms
to which no objection can be made.
They clasp the phantom and they find it
air. The real rooms which are to be
found are advertised in an other column
under the head of.
For RentAROOms. And oh! the elatiOn
of seeker and renter when the former.
having read the description of what he
wants, pulls the dOOr-bell of the latter
and they meet at the opening door. Let
the veil be drawn as the rOOm-hunter
turns up at his or her nose at the el0-
quent advocacy and defense Of the apart
ments by the landlord or lady. The new
and the old, the bright and the gloomy,
are all described alike in the advertise
ments. We leave the parties to settle
the matter for themselves, and as we re-
tire timid voice saying, as she leads the
way through dark and narrow passage
to a room with one window looking out
upon small back alley: Here is q
very chifful ROOM" Speaking of rooms to
rent reminds US of what western wag
said who had held bureau Office here
under Grant, and was transferred to q
local Office in his own home. mo man,
said he, 'can describe my expressible re-
lief at getting safely out of Washington
/ had been in mortal dread of finding
myself out of Office and dead broke, and
when the nightmare visited me my dis.
ordered fancy invariably represented
me to myself as occupying an old tumb.
le-dOwn building. on the door post OF
which was the sign Claim Agent and
on the other Rooms to Rent With or
Without Board"
Business chances for gentlemen with
money; horses to sell by gentlemen who
have not been obliged to raise the money
but who contemplate leaving town
furniture to sell by others who "declin,
housekeeping" and whose housekeeping
has declined; stoves set up and cOrns re
moved; clothes received on pawn; los
and found pOOdles and pOcketbOOks, sum!
of money, valuable papers, and here i!
of a lost lady-nO, lady's lost shoe, "lef
FOOT No. e." chow many gallants are
seeking it far and wide for the promised
rewardp) -sducation, mutton, lotter.
tickets, railroads and steamboats,, hotels
and theaters, undertakers and milliners
and 80 on to the end. Certainly adver
Using is a most interesting branch o
literature, and pleasant relief from
the dull and hackneyed editorial page
Nothing affords the Republican greater
pleasure than to bring advertisers ant
the reading public nearer and nearer to
gether.