Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-07-18

lady frlend, "Dut Sne is from -, an(
was at the party last night, and cam,
| in here to see what the papers sale
i about it, so she could get some tC
send home to her mother. And it:
too bad, it is, just to think that neithel
one of the papers has word to SAY
( about ii. And am sure there's moth
ling else in them, either, SO they
needn't have left this out for any wan
of room. But then ] suppose the peo
pie neglected the newspapers anC
| didn't invite them, and, of course
they can't blame the newspapers fol
neglecting them. But it's too bad
anyhow" "a f
/ assured my fried that j had seen
tive notices ofthe party in one of the
papers, but she declared she had
looked them over from beginning to
end and could not find word about
it. We looked. again, however, and ]
easily found her couple of brief yet
very plimentary notices of the
afIair-notices which seemed to me as
elaborate and as complimentary as
well-bred people would care to have
| For it always occurs to me when | see
| people anxious so have Il hah-column
notice of every entertainment they
give that maybe they haven't given
many parties, and the giving of one is
great event in their lives, which they
think impresses the general public
with lis huge proportions as much as
it does themselves. But soon found
that did not know anything about it.
Just as l had found the. articles re-
ferred to the young lady passed by ON
her way up the street, and was called
in by my feminine friend TO see the
notices. I found that she was a for
mer acquaintance Of mine who had
grown into ladyhood since / knew her
some years ago, and at once pointed
out the articles she wished to see.
"O-o-o-oh!p said she disdainfully. 81
saw them, but i don't consider them
notices at all They don't tell who
was there nor what any one wore nor
anything at aiI about the party. They
might as well have had nothing at all
in the paper about it as to have put in
that sort of stuiI" And she looked as
daintily contemptuous rs if she would
like to say that newspaper people are
just horrid anyhow, you KNOW which
was about the size of her thoughts, /
Judge. But continuing, she said: "Of
course don't care anything about it
myself | detest newspaper notoriety,
and I'm so glad they didn't put my
name in the paper, but then mother,
you know, she is not here, and she
made me promise to send her q paper,
so she could see who was there and all
about it, and now it's no use to send
her one of these thingsln and the fair
creature looked almost ready to cry
with vexation, and certainly at that
moment she hated the editor and
every, other body connected in any
way with the Objectionable sheet.
From this we gradually got into
conversation ON the general subject of
Fsocietv items" in the newspapers, and
these two ladies gave me more infor-
nation about how to conduct Il news
paper in ten minutes than Horace
Greely could have impaired in ten
years. Among other things, the lady
who presided at the newsstand
assured me that if this party had been
properly reported, with the names OF
the guests and the costumes worn by
the ladies. she would have sold not less
than fifty copies each of the two morn
ing papers to persons who wanted |
them for that article alone. She
talked 10 me more freely after the |
young lady had gone, and while shar
ing with her the sympathies and the
tastes peculiar to her sex, she dis
cussed the matter from purely prac-
teal and business standpoint.
Her idea was that every lady whose |
name appeared in the report would |
have at least two copies of each paper
-one to preserve and one to send to
her bosom friend and confident, to
whom she would write about the
party. Then the hostess would want,
half dozen, and a good |
many young men whose sweethearts
had been complimented highly by the
reporters would want copies contain
ing the piece to show to their. cronies.
Before she concluded was convinced /
that full and elaborate report of one
small party would bring more fman-
cial prosperity to aa.snewspaper than i
The announcement of Gen. Grants |
ieath, or the well-authentiCated
rumor that the Louisville club was
playing baseball to win.
And yet social gatherings of all sorts
ire very plentiful just now. AT this
season of the year young women be-
come very gregarious, and lay all sorts
1f plans for procuring the assembling
1f themselves together with herd OF
1eaux. The matrons lend their aid to
he merry war, and find a thousand
,retexts for bringing the men and the
maids together. It is cool enough to
lance yet in the nights, and warm
,nough to wear tennis suits and daily
n the shade with croquet balls in the
lay time. There are picnics and
hurch fairs and festivals and club
,arties and horseback rides and lawn
Of idle love-making and
hirtations, in none of which
5 the general public interested. II
he newspapers publish in full all OF
hese social extrayagances, the Attain
ic cable would be turned over to the
ender mercies OF Ham Griffin and
he deep-sea suckers, and England +
nd Russia could make a war and
ight it to finish before any OF us on
his side OF the pond would be the
wiser of it, A war is great and hor-
ible catastrophe, and we shudder to
lear of it. but then Miss Salina Slim
) visiting Miss Roberta RolypoIy, and
hat must have room in the papers,
nd how can we read in any peace the ,
lumber OF cholera victims in Spain
until we know what Miss
sunice McPhat wore at the Crimson
'eak reception
Ny experience may fit many editors, /
nut / write it for the special benefit of
ny friends who engineer the Lexing- II
on illuminators OF the mind. Let I
hem hire dude, and club him, if he
nils TO tell their readers when Miss II
'ootsey Wootsey is visiting Miss X
Willy VALLEY, and how long she aims :
b stay. Let them shay him. with q
low poison il he sets mot forth in a
lowing periods the grandeur of 1
fadam Macaroni's fee clanapetre. Let I
hem stop his salary and send him /
heolward by the inanition route II he I
escribe not all the dresses at the I
'anshawe wedding. Go to. ! say, the j