The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
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E c me for the support of the services of III
church, which is entirely snd perfectl
. proper.
4 Newspapers with 80 0)0 snd 10000 circu
! liation. instead OF con renting themselves b,
crease their importance In the public eve
and espec allv IN the eye Of the advertiser
J by claiming $4,000 Or
100 o00 DAILY CIRCULATION.
other papers Continually cha ut their ovr
sue less, ana clam marvellous ST. des in pop
lua ", when every rival can tell 10 q copy
no a many Ia oers are printed. and every
news dealer knows whether the paper /,
sought Tor. or is severely iet alone. fhe De-
calla ity If this, and all other shsms, is that
IN reality il dtceives nobody What doe
the average man. who buys to read a paper
care whether IL has a circulation of 200 or
100 900 &c pies2 That's nothing IN him, and
he is part aud parcel of the public. and il
an advertiser knows and every advertiser
does kno ', that tie Gil Collation. is at such
q cure, when the publisher insists that 1t IS
a. a much higher figure, who is foolp
Surely not the advertiser because be has
means Of sscertsining absolutely the circu-
IatIon Surely not the publisher for he
kno We very we'll when ne lies, although /
thiuk 1t would be difficult for him TO tell
why he lies. Certain newspapers in this
country print what purpoTts to be the news
from Europe. Every cable agent knows ths.
it never came across the water by cable
Every contemporary knows, very well,
whether ii came or not. Why say anything
sbout II? Why not publish interesting mat
ter about European affairs, without pre-
tending that ii came by cable? OF the phys-
ical shsms one might write hours
1 always lsugh-I can't help it-when
see slim n'cked. spindle shanked man
with al overcOat three feet wide across the
back. He must know that his shoulders are
padded. Everybody else eau see il. Whom
d Jes he foot? The tailor, who makes it,
knows he is a narrow chested fellow, he
knows it. his friends know ID, everybody
who sees him on the street recognizes the
essentis wrinkle, which speaks in trumpet
tones. This Is the difference between the
man and the body. Was there ever a man
with dyed bearo who really believed that
other people didn't know that he wore lie
upon his face?
One OF he handsomest men in New York
CITY Is popular actor. His hair and beard
ara as white ss the driven snow. For maay
years be dyed il blue jet black. he always
looked like an old man trying to pretend he
was young and. a. he grew older, be became
careless Part Of his beard was black, part
was red and rusty and part was white. be
ooked like an ass. Everybody laughed at
him. de knew be was old, AID that his
Seard Was wnile. Every body else knew hat
le was old add that has beard was white.
WHY, THEN. PAINT IT BLACK?
| saw last evening in the Fifth Avenue
b ptel, charming ola gentleman, whose
onR curly nair is white and silyery, d per-
tct picture OF kerens anlab.e, intelligent
BID age a year ago / "a him IN the same
, ace. He l.. ked like an unmItigated vii
ANGUS pirate His ha T vas dyed blacker
han raven wing. He rs one Of the FORE
most juri' Is of MS age For many years he
adorned the court OF appeals. His opinions
ire quoted Ia every land; but he lived q
life of sham and deceit, his blacg hair con-
.IAstlog foolishly with his wrinkled face.
Every body then knew him to be a dyed old
man. Now everybody sees him TO be q
charming old man
Look at the women with their false front
pieces and their switches tied in behind to
make believe their hair is thick aud long,
when it isn't. Why there was a fashion
he e . little while ago that made every wo-
nan look as though she had two little
lumps, one on each shoulder, and even now
hey wear bustles up in the small of their
iacks, making them look like u-csnpy CAM
lis. Now, just for q moment suppose that
he creator of these beautiful creatures had
made them with these humps on their shoul-
iers one little peak upon each shoulder.
md had deformed them with pronounced
md conspicu9u growth outward from the
middle of their backs-what funny people
hey would be. What COED is that hump
behind? They can't sit on IL. Ii simply pre-
tents an ungainlY contour, misshapen, I'M
Every woman has il In her power
20 see how ridiculous every other woman
ooks who dresses that way, but she thinks
The might as we'll be out of the world as out
Of the fashion, so she makes hereof look just
Is ridiculous as others look; and again L
,ome back TO the question, Who is deceived
oy it?' We all know that women have those
title peaks on their shoulders, and of course
hey know, too, so where does the profit
come? IL seems to me, one of the best
points fathers and mothers and teachers can
possibly make with young people is that
honesty Is the best policy, and that truth
pays better than deceit, aud that nothing Is
10 quickly detected as sham, and that moth
ng is so utterly prodtless, so absolutely sb-
Iurd as veneer. III q man is q clergyman,
iont let him assume to oe journalist If
ne Is lawyer, don't let him ape the airs and
,races of a dancing IN aster. II ne isame-
,hanic don't let HIM pretend to be doctor.
II he Is In poor or embarrassed circumstsn-
,es, don't let him try to hoodw wink and de-
,elve his fellow man. If he hasn't bat q
thousand year, don't let him live as though
Ills income was ten times that humble sum.
make two points on this: First, that il Ii
we're possible to lead a life OF deceit without
1t isn't as profitable, and il isn't
rs pleasant; but, further than that, ] con-
'endthat IL is an absolute impossibllity for
! man or woman TO lead Undecided life of
deceit, or carry on for any continued length
1f time programme that isn't in harmony
with truth, as 1t is universally accepted by
his fellows.