New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-09
QUEER METHODS OF ADVERTISING.

PEG AsUs HAENFSsED TO A DELIVERY WAGON
ANYTHING TO ATTRACT ATTENTION.
The many ingenious ways of advertising that have
sprung ND during recent years have created good
deal OF amaxement, some for their foostness and
some for their humor, for many are undmptedy
humorous and not a few are exssperating.
poet In America can earn glory, and even bread
a new departure in the profession, II he turns his
imagination to grinding out good patent-medicine
sonnets and soap grease ballads IL Is true That TINS
sort of poetry requires perhaps more genius than the
the old STYLE from the fact that the poetic inspiration
Is not awakened by the subject matter, but must he
selfevoIved. Who can refrain from writing poetry
when smiling spring perches every bough sves the
wink to the budding grass and pats the little warbers
OF the grove on the back. Spring makes poets, but
business poets born They can splritualze lung
plaster or sing sweetly OF a washboaN. Their ef-
fuslons are always welcomed by the news
papers, when paid for by the manufacturer ana they
are read by the public How charmingy the poet
embodies the sweet confidence Of childhood when he
says:
"No harm danger can environ
The man whose systems filed with iron."
OF course one knows that this is overdrawn. The
poet has ideazed his subject, been carried away with
poetic frenzy but how sweetIy true ii is after ALL
Not only In the higher flights Of fancy does tho
modern poet excel but he comes down to the every.
day walks Of life and speaks with voice pOecsI a.
most statistical, as when he says:
mo end of mammon
Is paid for Jouls's picked salmon,
Passing from the d eamy to the exciting. there ia
the conundrm variety, In which answers appear in
our next, One Is confronted by this statement In
big letters 742 more'a sign that makes tho nervous
man uneasy. thinking it to be some secret signal Of
the Malta or the Band Of Hope, and may mean 74o
more assassins wanted victims, perhaps tho de-
mand Is for 742 boys TO people to sign the
temperance pledge. 1t wOrketh different ways in differ
ent minds but who does not thrill In the strangest way
when, some day after weeks OF puzxling over It, his
boy cries breathlessly: "Pop. know what TAG more
isl" "what is atl' ask tho family eagerly. "Psn-
cakes - yells the boy, and then you learn that 742
more pancakes can be made with box OF Puff baking
powder than with any other
After this the thrilling newspaper story which
brings you down from confagrat0n and the weirdest
kind Of murder, through railroad accident and an
earthquake and lands quietly in bottle of castor
oil.
tTtic I'm some ways and not pleasant to
look upon for many people who would rather
not know that men driven to such necessity
and glad to fill their mouths at the expense Of their
pride; but one Of the most outrageous methods Of
attracting public attention adopted put in
operation the other day In Brooklyn.
A colored man and woman, both we'll dressed, were
WINNING uown ruitou-st, when tne Woman suddenly
turned upon the man like tieress. and began shaking
him by the collar and scolding him. The man meekly
tried to stop her, crowd gathered. Then the wom-
an let 20 Of the man and they both walked quickly
away. As this crowd had dispersed the woman
began shake her consort again and gathered another
crowd and this scene repeated almost every cor
ner along that busy thoroughf&re Between the mans
shoulders q placard pasted to his overcoat. nd
vocating the Of some new nosrum. But the crowd
was slow to understand whether the woman WA
really abusing the sandwich, man or NOT No
policeman came In sight, though the scene was nm.
pleasantly well acted and the crowds obtructcd
pedestrians CO nsdcrably.