The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-05-27

will always make their paper success in
auentislly as well as financially. The read
ing public Of this day and time demands
daily newspapers, and those daily newsps-
pers must be filled with news, the very latest
current news of every description and char
acter. There is no class or variety of news
that will not be read by almost
everybody and by avidity by some. The
religious world, While i. may find a passing
interest in the general news afost, is espe.
cially interested in religious news of all
kinds. The merchant is especially anxious
to SEQ all about the markets and the crops
and financial matters. The spectators soap
closely all stock operations and news of that
character. The sporting news, accounts of
casualties, court proceedings, everything in
fact that can be put into the news columns
OF paper, are read and enjoyed, and every
local on dit must OF necessity be published,
otherwise the reading public ia dissatisfied.
Many people say to newspaper men, "What
do you want to fill your columns with elabo.
rate accounts of school examinations, giving
details of what this, that or the other young
lady wore, and publishing the romantic and
sentimental essays they read, for? Who do
you suppose, when life is so short and prac-
tica, wants to read all that sort of stuff"
Such question is conclusive evidence that
the querist knows nothing about Journalism.
Such matter is always interesting, intensely
interesting to large circle of people. Every
young lady at the school, 10 fact all the
schools, and all the teachers and all the par
ents and relatives of the children, are inter-
ested in these publications. They help to
make up the public aud it Is right and
proper to cater to their desires and pleasures.
A man who docs not like eggs would be Just
as reasonable in Directing to hia boarding
house proprietor, having egg, on tho table
for those ofhis guests who do not like them,
as the man is who objects to full accounts of
school examinations. There are several
other reasons we might give why school
examinations and exercises should be pub
lished in full, but what We .have said will
suffice. We have not the slightest
doubt that if We were to interview
the young ladies OF this city
and ask them If they found congressional
proceedings and market reports pleasant
reading, but that every one would answer us
in tho negative, while their pretty faces put
on o look Of WEAKNESS at the moro thought,
but not one of them we arc sure would so
much as hint TO US that wo we're foolish 70
publish such stuff. 1t may DO that there arc
few Miss Nancies in this city, specimens Of
the genus homo who part their hair in the
middle and sport fancy cravats who aro in
leres,ed in our fashion column which we now
and then publish, bat excepting these, if
there DO any, no other man is, yet the ladies
arc delighted with ii. Should they be IL.
nored? Should not their tastes DO grauiied
N tho columns of daily paper striving each |
morning to serve up an ola podrida OF fact
md fancy, of logic and rhetoric, of news and
'f theory, so as to please all who
nay read? filings at tho Chicago
Times for publishing in full tho revised New
Testament are tho extreme of folly. The
Times is great newspaper. 1t knows when
md where to spend money; Il knows how 10
please tho reading public, and that it may do
10 successfully II serves up daily menu of
side dishes, deserts, fruits
pastry, wines, etc. Ithas bacon and collards
or those who want bacon and collards
'asvass back ducks and trout tenderloins for
hose whose tastes incline to them, and
'u'sards, lady fingers, macaroons and ices for
no dainty appe.i,es of those who desire
hem. TIA reader wants an intellectual or
literary brandy smash or whisky punch, no
lnds !. in the columns Of the Times or il he
prefers the moro high toned aud ethereal
'xhilarssion OF champagne, 1t Is there ready
o his haad and his ment,l palate
That Is what makes newspaper
,roat and sought after. We do not say tina.
ho Times 10 above and beyond criticism, for
i lacks deal Of H. There Is a current of
avsin Of Timonism, 90 to speak
pervading in editorial columns that Is un.
pleasant to tho reader, that makes him Jay
down tho paper with feeling Of discomfort.
n makes him think Of Ishmael and wonder
u 'he Bedouin Arabs arc not An unhappy
people. This asce!iclsm 30 prominen. In tho
rimo' editorial columns makes ono imagine
that II 10 always cloudy In Chicago with
mover ray Of sunlight 70 make thu hear.
g'adi IL copjures up visions Of miserable dys. |
peps'es sucking Al lime'wa.er bottles. Edi,
sorally, tho Times 10 always n broth OF a
boy Na Donuybrook fsir, with . big shels. |