Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-07
rHr RICHMoND DIsPATCH-sUNDAY. JUNE Z. 1881:

a--.SUNDAI. JUNE
fine itself TO the issue Of enormous Illus.
trated magazines on Sundays. That -
sa,nefhipc familiar enough among the
uswspspers of other cities. More ae-
structiye Of profits Is she cutting OF rates
on advertisements. This was BAD enousn
before tho two new papers star'oo 90
n ners print great quantities Of adj
rrert;sine matter. but there isn't
much money in II. An advertising
agent tells me that one OF the very best
known dailies recently printed q reading
notice over column In length with sew
efaI cuts. making the cuts itself, Tor SO.
Prompt upon the heels Of the publication
came whole swarm OF agents-it usea 20
be the rule In Now York that the pest
papers did not solicit adyertislng. yue
That don't 90 now. One would print IL Tor
1900. another for sl75, and so on. When
S25 was suggested they all wilted except
one. who offered to print 1t for nothing II
any decent amount of advertising Mt regu-
lar rates would be promised later on.
The advertising bonanzas in New YORK
ut present are the monthly magazines ana
such papers "a the Eueninj Posi-, when
have held aloot from the scramble AFTER
bigness and plod along in the old-fashioned
way with their old clientage.
And yet there is talk OF starting stu an
other new morning daily in the fall with
Colonel Cockerill as its editor!
THIS isn't A " CONTEST"
"who Is the most popular actress?"
No, don't ba alarmed; there is no occa-
sion. am not proposing prize contest,
with piano for the stage star getting the
81 nm / aaxQn
great photograph-seller. and this was ms
unhesitating answer: Lillian Russell, by
o large majority, il you judge by the sale
of photographs"
And who next?" / asked. wherenpon
the photograph-man walked up and down
his cases scanning the long rows of cabi-
nets. Then he came back and wrote on
slip of paper four names in this order :
Lillian Russell, Agnes Huntington, Mrs.
Kendall, Ada Renan.
Here's food for philosophy. The. &C
knowledged queen of comic opera leads IN
favor with one of the aspirant Crown
Princesses next, and the plain-faced,
| heavy British matron ahead of the more
beautiful and equally gifted American
| comedienne. Why? Heaven knows, GER
tainly, but / don't, and it isn't worth
while TO waste too much effort over the
| solution.
CURE TOR NEhNES.
Near Central Park there is huge gym
nasium devoted almost wholly to medical
cases-straightening up lateral curvature
of the spine, reforming bent shoulders
and wrv necks, curing digestive difficult
ties, and the like. | was somewhat sur,
prised when DR.. Savage the director, told
me the other day that nerves" was a
common disease sent TO him for curative
| treatment.
The nervous patients, he says, are usual
| ly women who have ruined their systems
| by drugs, whether prescribed as medicines
| by fool doctors or taken on their own re-
sponsibllity. In either case there comes a
| time when drugs have no more power To
stimulate tbe tagging strength, and an ut.
! ter collapse follows. Then the specialist
steps in and prescribes exercise and abso-
| lutte abstention from drugs, aud the gym
nasium-man gradually builds up the lost
| strength and returns the nervous woman
| to her health again. Wonderful, isn't 1t
| The modern athletic girl is taking the best
means 20 avoid such difficulty, evidently
THE UsJoNTED RUSSIAN NOSE.
1t has puzzled some people 10 under
| stand why the Illness of the painter We.
restchagrin should interfere with the pro
posed sale Of his paintings. which has beer
indefinitely postponed. The truth is that
| the Russian nose is out of Joint in New
York. Only last year Russian dresses were
all the rage and society matrons dealt out
caravan tea from sdmOrdrS at after
noons." Now they SIT by low, hexagona
Armenian tables inlaid with mother-ot
pearl in curious patterns and pour tea o.
coffee from copper pots. Hence the shrewC
dealers fear that even Russian picture:
would get small favor from buyers who ar,
| necessarily influenced by the whlms anC
caprices of fashion.
Within two or three years we have hat
Japanese, Russian, and Turkish crazes, mo-
to mention such variations on civilized
themes as Empire, Directory. Louis Seize
DO. What next2
THE HUMoRs OF HELL.
Briggs men and anti-Briggs men may
fume about doctrines all they like. Ih'
fact is that people won't take hell FIRE
seriously-ordinary people, mean; Ire
member we'll frivolous young fellow O
my acquaintance who bad occasion som,
years ago to mourn the loss OF the blacl
sheep of the family, his own brother, whC
died unrepentant. The conversation
turning one day upon the future world
nv frivolous acquaintance announced hi,
belief that his brother was at that momen
enduring the tortues of the damned.
Then his countenance lightened, and h
said with queer, half-ashamed chuckle
Wouldn't it be funny to see HIM sizzling
away there in the hre?n
What's the use of talking theology TO
man like thatI
AN EXPENSIVE DRUNK.
Newspaper-men are fond of saying tina
the old days of the Bohemian journals
are gone never to return, but here is a stor.
that sounds suspiciously like REPUTATION
of too sweeping statement OF the altered
times.
The city editorship of one of the great
est papers in the metropolitan region wa
offered to certain bright young journals
and his commission was practically mad
out. In his Joy he went down TO tn
Gravesend race-track with chosen cron.
and got on glorious spree. The bushes
manager of the paper heard or IT somehow
and before the drunk had simmered ava
TO the subsequent katzenjammer the va
cant desk was offered to and accepted b.
another young man, who keeps sober
That was an expensive drunk.
THE EToN SUIT.
There are symptoms of the beginning
use in this country of Elton schoolbol
suits for youths under eighteen. Any
thing more supremely ridiculous than tn
Eton suit when put on long legged boy
short jacket with long sleeves, long
straight trousers, stoyepIpe hat, wild
white cuffs, and Bryon collar-can't b
imagined. Imagine playing football in
stoyepipe hat! But this monstrous ap
parel is superlatively English in all its asso
Citations, and that will carry 1t great wa
toward the affection of certain class o
Americans.
To The Editor of The Dispatch.
The following comments IN reply TO tn
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