New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-10
CHAPTERS FROM RE1L LIFE.

Columns, ana many OF tneIn, IN lO-udy 5 ISSUE
of The Tribune are filed with Short bright, crisp
little paragraphs describing in brief, direct
way the varied requirements of host Of people.
We are bound 20 say that no more interesting
pages can be found in the paper than those thus
occupied. The Trbune's wide columns have been
so divided as TO afford US an exceptionally neat
and attractive form in which TO present these
little advertisements of the people, and in them
can be caught many curious glimpses of life, many
odd situations The briefest Of these advertise
nIents are often the most eloquent often
the most heavily freighted with those qualities
and conditions common TO all human kind,
ambition, hope promise and want. Many OF them
are remarkably suggestive in revealing the char
actor of the advertisers. Sometimes they seem
TO call before ones mind clear photograph Of
the signer, so graphic and picturesque are the
words and phrases employed in telling his ne
cessities. To the student OF human nature, mob
less than TO the man who has On unqualified wish,
these columns will be found brimful Of interest
II Is really amazing what a range OF human
desire is trayersed by these little notices. They
are as important 20 the man who wants summer
castle in scotland or a villa along Lake Lncerne rs
IN him whose cravings will be satisfied By patent
seat In his bath-tub or new ier-
10 imagine what any one could wish
unon the ACQUISITION of which some light is not
thrown here. They reflect one upon another,
They ask and answer. Very often one of them
puts a question TO which that directly above
or below IL furnishes the desired reply. Whole
ehapters OF autobiography, whole pages OF de-
scription. whole stories OF qualification. are in
many cases told within The limits Of hve-line
paragraph.
In one OF these man offers 10 sell large clay
farmp In another refined French family
volunteer the comforts Of a home 20 F" few
select gentlemen" in a third IL is represented
that something is Just OUT indispensable to
farmers and most merchants" which seventy-iive
cents will procure in another Baxter engine Is
said to be for sale; In another young woman de
seribes herself as on elegant bias ftter,' and
,ays she makes I" Directoire and Empire o
speciality expressions dare say, of great sig
nIacance. Another advertiser desires 10 cut
waists and another. wishing TO dispose OF
stock farm. narratcs that its cattle have always
taken the first prize at the country fairs and that
an invalid In need OF salubrDus air whose physi-
clan had warned him TO go TO Southern Cali
fornia OF prepare 20 die, had instead come TO that
stock farm aud straghtway recovered.
A night watchmnn significantly points out that
he never uses tobacco coachman represen ts
himself as n total abstainer" ; two young Paris
iennesn say they have Just arrived from Paris
with all the latest styles Hosts OF cooks,
chambermaids, Nurses stenographers, statesmen, ac-
countants walters booSxeepers, buffers gardeners,
drivers. dish-washers housekeepers, seamstresses,
porters, companions and other useful and Orna-
mental persons decribc in language earnest anx-
ious paintiye, commonplace and enthusiastic their
varied accomplishments and the many advantages
20 be derived from the employment Of their SER
vices. young man offers nve-dOllar bonus
for a ninedolar lob; male nure for an aged
invalid or mentally afflicted gentleman says he
can shave" various young women make u point
OF the fact that they have just landed with
whatever OF merit that may suggest One in
genious advertiser fetches his late employer into
the breach with an encomum beginning highly
recommend my man. Much is made of nation
atty Il" by a German by n French lady," " by
a neat Scandinavian" being frequent phrases. In
one case an intelligent German" proposes TO be-
come a Chinaman.' paradoxical as that may APP
pear TO those who have china.
Indeed. there is neither beginning nor end TO
these little advertisements. They run along the
whole gamut of human necessity. They appeal
to every kind and condition of man and woman.
No who is interested in anything can fail TO be
interested in them They awaken all the human
sympathies and tell tale more varied. more true,
and more striking than is within the imagination
of many an acreoted novelist