Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-26
Newspaper Mourning.

It is full time that great public journals abandon the relic of rude barbarian that re quires them to invert all their columns and other rules, and make their newspapers hid eous with shoddy like display of what is often the affectation of sorrow.
 A few of our prominent journals have ad- vanced beyond this rule that requires them to disfgure their pages and make them un- slightly and rude even as emblems of woe, and the sooner journalism rejects all such folly, the sooner will the people learn to re- spect the integrity of newspapers.
 The modest draping of buildings at times of great public sorrow is eommendable and the dark lines of mourning are becoming in some appropriate place in the columns of a public journal when announcing common bereavement; but there is no more fitness in whole pages of newspapers plotted with rag ged black column lines, enclosing the current news, the jest, the patent medicine or the lottery advertisement, as well as the an uouncement of the death of Q President, than there would be in the editor draping his din ner table, his rocking chair, his bed or his carriage with profusion of crape.
 Such abuse of the black lines in newspa- pers is simply an imitation of shoddy mourn ing and well deserves to be classed as shoddy journalism. It is offensive pretension and it is one of the lingering relics of ignorance and darkness that the enlightened progress of the pE0S0ub dBc SuOulu uOb GC1GrdI0. UOuIudllSu is the great teacher of a free people, and 1t must discard all the mookeries of ignorance and affectation to fulfill its great mission.
 From the Boston Heraldl
 There are various fancies about wearing emblems of mourning. Some women drape their lap dogs in black. correspondent writes us that he can no longer take the Her gld because we did not disfgure our pages by inverting the rules between the columns on the morning after the Presidents death.
 [From the Waterbury Americanl
 There is difference in taste in mourning as there is in everything else There is also criticism of taste in mourning, as there is of almost everything else. Some of the news papers are criticising each other for an excess lack of the outward expressions of grief. Some journals turned every rule in the paper, no matter what the character of the news contained between the rules. Marriages and patent medicine advertisements appeared be- tween black rules the same as the news of the Presidents death and the editorials writ ten upon it. Others turned all the rules on certain pages, containing sad news. Others again turned rules at the head and foot of articles on the subject of the nations bereave- ment, and left the rest of the news, the we'd dings, the advertisements, etc, to appear in their ordinary dress. There is question about the sincerity of the grief manifested in every instance in such variety of ways. It was not deeper in the office with the blackest lines, nor did that paper convey to it's readers any greater impression of strong feeling than was the case with papers of different taste in the matter There is no reason why one should find fault with the other, any more than private persons should find fault with the style of mourning adopted by their neigh bors. There is nothing conventional about it among newspapers It is matter of taste and not matter involving depth of feeling or intensity of expression.