The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-09-30
AS L WAS SAYING.

The NEWS self-laudation as n we'll
printed paper yesterday brings a note OF
dissent. Some say that our pages look
rather pale and colorless. They aren't
black enough. The headlines DO not stand
out sufficiently.
That's because, gentle readers, with all
due Difference 10 your opinion, you have
been accustomed 20 reading the Boston
Herald and Globe, which with their star
ing great headlines, heavy tumble of ad-
vertisements, and the like, are the worst
looking of the great papers of the country;
It's a little queer that the best printed
paper in the country, the Herald OF Chica-
20, should be made in the fer West, and
chat it should be left for cultured Boston
TO publish such glaring masses OF black
ink OF course the Herald and Globe
are great papers both but ask any intel
ligent printer If the NEWS isn't rs much
prottier as it is smaller.
Again last evening, after printing what
the distrif uting man thought would be
more than enough NEWS or NEwsEs, late
orders completely exhausted every copy on
hand No on was disappointed, however,
! except that there wasn't copy left IN the
Office 10. the stan.
was calling the other day ON n woman
/ who is blessed with a young hopeful of
/ tumultuous years. Master Charley on
/ this occasion, however, was quiet enough,
/ being absorbed in the marvels of the
! 4" Arabian Nights which he read lying
| face downward on the broad window-seat,
/ his heels kicking in air or sudden he
! looked up and asked, " Mamma, how much
| is a squeonW
Il took the two Of us some little time TO
! discover that the word he was trying 20
! get at was "scquiu' anu 90 look 10 up IN
] Webster and find on. that the sequin in
! Venice Is Sd 80 and I'm Turkey Sl.SJ
/ ]. III mot fiftnng
through their mispronunciations re-
member when / began studying geogra-
! phy ] used TO reCite very glibly, "An
| oasis is n frecklo spot in the desert" and
/ don't think anybody ever corrected me.
| Then ] used 70 read about a shipwreCk
wherein the narrator said, Ny very vitals
froze with terror This | pronounced rs
! If spelled "vittals" mixing il up with
! "victualsn and wondering how terror
could freeze food.
saw a little happening on the street
yesterday that illustrated what Gail
! Hamilton would call 1.-THE dcpravity Of
| things" Three mechanics We're crossing
a street at the noon hour, and as they were
/ about midway the hat of the one in the
| middle blew OF Ii was a weather worn
straw. just behind, an express wagon
was coming along slowly. The hat rolled
fitfully in the direction Of the wagon, and
after swaying backward and forward,
seeming to hesitate il fell fat Just in time
10 be run owe by one of the hind wheels.
! The owner picked it up ruefully, but no
one else who saw the affair could resist
the inclination 20 laugh.
Notwithstanding the charge that the
| newspapers are mcrtnalN, tIe feet rc-
| mains that great reforms are always helped
! along by their means Publicity itself is
| helpful. IL clears the air, aud causes un-
clean things to fly to their holes.
|
If there is any one place in Providence
| where you see everybody in the course of
| the day il is the pOStoil1ce. Almost every
| one may be seen on Westminster street,
/ but not everyone. Most business men
and politicians may be seen at Tilling-
! hasts restaurant as the reporters know
very well, but II you really want TO be
| sure of seeing one try the postofice
| You will see there digniiied old gentle
| men who have visited the place almost
| every day for years, under many different
postmasters and in all the varying fnan-
| cial and political history of the city.
! Women and children, natives and foreign
ers, meet there and you see the same peo-
/ pie day after day. Every day some one
| asks you in which opening TO drop letters
! for certain places. These are the new
| COmers.
! The most interesting thing is perhaps
| the people at the stamp window. People
will persist in going In the wrong way and
/ irving TO crowd past those who are wait
/ ing in order 90 get ont. Then there is the
man who puts down 10 cents and says,
"Two,' when the clerk doesn't know
| whether he means two stamps or two
wrappers. II Us interesting, too, TO see the
different people and the different bundles
OF mail taken from the locy-boNes. \ very
useful custom Is that of selling stamps az
the rear window until . o'clock Il. NJ, and
many people take advantage Of it.
The most conspicuous people about the
corridors are tho boy who sells papers who
is a general favorite ON account of his good
humor and the night watChmau. who sits
in chair i'm the corridor before the doors
are closed. The most important people
are those least seen 10y the public, but be-
hind the door at the left Hs Won enter are
the two men who keen things going, Post
master George and his assistant, Mr.. VIII
liams.
All this talk about James G.. Blaine re-
minds me of the time / interviewed him,
on rather assisted at am interview. was
at Springfield, Mass. Mr.. Blaine had re
Gently returned from bis European trip.
and City Editor GiddIngs now managing
editor OF the Union, the ubiquitous
Charlie Eusti. of The Springfield ErD1hI'-
cOn and myself found him on a chair car
on the boston uut Al'aN hc was
accompanied by Mrs. Blaine, who like a
rood New England wife. had "a basket of
lunch Mr.. Blaine was eating piece OF
pie and Mrs. Blaine was contentedly
munching a doughnut and did not seem
very much pleased at the intrusion.
We talked 90 Mr. Blaine for some min
utcs about his trip aud the political ont
look All az once he looked up between
bites and remarked "What 10 You think
Gen. Harrison majority will bc In Mas,a-
chusett-' Mr. Giddiugs suid bee thought
10 would De- about -UuUJ