Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-01-05

There is boom in calendars Ii can not
be said that the demand is unprecedented,
for there are nopreccdcuts in calendar booms.
The calendar ant has come like n comet. but
proposes to stay like fixed star. The cien-
dar appears to be the incarnation of uliquity.
The shrew dest business men en- to have
simultaneously discovered that. next to the
daily newspaper, the cqleudar is the '.cutcst''
advertising medium. In 1880 small BOYS
begged calendars. In 1882 en- crpri,ins cor
porati)ns and business establishments keep
ag' nls busy for a week and fortnight in dis
ibnti ~ their calendars throughout the city.
" th:s genus calendar there are two species
aud 10 UUO 0OO, 900 kinds. 1t would aLpcur
tina not Since the Union was formed has
'n re been any such strain put upon the in.
venlivc facul,; Of the country as the calendar
business has imposed aud II all comes in IL
heap, Tor half Il decade measures the cOnse-
quential lie ot thccalondar. And now 1t has
come 10 pass that the Yankee who has not
patented some hiri OF Il tommurc al calendar
is roor stick aud entirely unworthy his
prOgehitorS.
The ex'cnt and magnitude of the calendar
Dusin' s. Is rn"r uuus, and Tic demand comes
IRON every gu rt'r Ui tn g'n'c. Within a
week ihr Sh II" Line railroad company las
diS'r butcu 200 of its unique calendars in
Il stpn. The New York Mutual Life Insur-
nnc' Company is distributing lis stitched
hl"ticr caienuats by the ton, while the New
En4l nj Mutual Life will issue for 1888 40
uOJ 80, OG0 calendars One printing estab-
lislnent in Boston has alout $50 orders,
who! aggregate in the hundreds of thou.
sands, Two or three hundred thousand steel
epgIaving calendars originate in Boston this
"a lsh
900 OF calendars for 1883 viii b. turned
out In that city. Another, and perhaps
the crowning evidence of the high character
OF this calendar boom, is found in tic fact
That II has invaded the domain of literature.
Daily and monthly pads now pCrpetuatc the
Dest sayings OF the most celebrated authors.
Appropriate selections from littcratcurs are
coupled with Washin ltnn's birthday. the first
day of April and the Fourth OF July. The
very eliminating calendar attraction is found
in Tic Longieiow calendar, the Emerson
calendar. and the calendar sct 10 verse in the
measure Of the poet laureate. The next
move will probably be in the diicCtlou OF re-
form calendars. The woman sutfrugis,s. Of
course, will not he b, linh in tic muittr oi
calendars and, in fact, all "n,Ovtmrnts,' us
well as business intc'csts, vii find thai the
caleddar blom is that Il u IN the nffaiis If
men which, taken at tie flood, leads
on to fortune. The demaui ior these
calendars is considerably il excess of the
supply. Every Eotc barber shop, etc, is
anxious to secure one or more, ant, for nipc
months in tie yer, tic demand upon the
large establishments iss ling Them is ooG-
tinuous and heavy. Dustun curpJraii1Ls
send their calendars to every par OF Amer.
lca, and one insurance company reports that
il receives larre numbers OF letters with Ic-
quests from private individuals from Luudou,
Paris, India, Japan, SlGth Africl, Australia
and the Sandwich Islands Ton copies Of his
calendars. The cal' ndar is II great hit, 1t
is everywhere