San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-27
TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY.

The Rounder-The road along which
the average advance agent travels in
pursuit OF wealth and good press notices,
| is not a macadamiZed one, nor does IL
lead through pleasant scenes and by well
springs OF delight. 1t is a rough and
rugged path, beSet with smart city edi-
tors and critics, who say Sullivan is the
author of Chimes of Normandy and Boo
calassi and the Mikado. The diamonds
he usually sports, lack lustre, and the
mince-pie flavor the other agent has inn
| parted to his breath Is sometimes due to a
premature effort to embalm him in case
OF an accident in the elevator. Poor fell
low, his life is hard one as il is, let's let
him down light, we don't have to accede
| TO his (as rule) absurd requests. They
are based on the same reasoning the He
braic clothing man uses in advancing the
price of his goods to an unwilling GUS
toner. If he can't get much he will take
Having once been newspaper man and
enjoyed all the emoluments OF that eX-
allied calling he feels at home In the sane
tums of the faber showers. Knowing
from past experience that no matter how
much he has fallen from mightiness Or
that fall be not by crimel he is sure OF
kindly reception even If his requests for
good notices are not complied with. he
knows that city editor Is monument OF
genius, a sparkling dome of thought and
a temple of virtue, but he also thinks him
human and newspaper man, who some
times descends from his exalted perch, in
this he is frequently mistaken.
Mrs. Warbarton, "They have condem-
ned the Kreutzer Sonata as abScene, and
will not allow its carriage through the
mails, but all the same it would do some
of our girls lots of good to read it.
Women have weaker appetities and
weaker intellect than men, but stronger
affections. The Kreutzer Sonata would
tell woman just how much stronger and
and more bestial mems appetites were,
and while putting her on her.guard, teach
her wholesome lesson as to the danger
of trifiing with them. Grand Danes
whose costly diamonds "Corruscate as
meteors on summer night could know
in Just what estimation many leige lords
hold the lay figure from whose neck,
hair and ears, the jewels "corruscate."
of fortunes wheel, will obtain for the
wives and daughters of the persons on
whom the tickle goddess has bestowed
her favors, such descriptions as Laps
Lapuli Eyed" face repOseful rather than
etc. mo matter if they be as
homely as sin. While on the other hand
a shop girl as beautiful as an houri is
simply a shop girl. The kreutzer
tells the plain unvarhished truth as to
classes. While one will be attacked with
finesse due to fortune, the other with
brutality due to poverty. The world OF
women would be wiser were they to read
it. Such men are every where.
Mr.. j. II. Hosack captured the rounder,
Gaylor, of Lights and Shad-
Ows," and Manager Clayton. of Lillian
Lewis company, yesterday afternoon, and
behind pair of spanking bays" proceed
ed to show them the suburban beauties
Of San Antonio, the beautiful San Pedro
park, Government Hill and West End.
The party were especially charmed with
boating palace. Mr.. Hosack explained to
his guests that the West End would be
to San Antonio, what the Back bay and
Hill are to Boston and New York
and they could well believe it. After a
delightful drive, the party Supped at the
and occupied box at the even
ing performance of Lights and Shad-
owS."
As an entertainer, Mr.. Hosack is peer
less, and the entire party voted him their
sincerest thank for one OF the pleaSantest
afternoons and evenings they had ever
spent.
X X
Carl Mule and wife, of Galveston. Chas.
S. Petit, of Monterey, Mex, and Col j.
d. Jenkins, of Louisville, are at the
Mr.. Nat. +. Kelly has returned with
his family from Waco. and will make San
Antonio his home in the future.
I. Il. johnson, business manager of the
LIGHT, returned last night from Dallas,
and expresses himself as delighted with
her fair. He estimated Saturdays attend
ance at 10000. San Antonio ought TO
take a wrinkle from Dallas.