St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-16
PERSONAL JOURNALISM.

1t is announced that the Eye has been
put out. For the benefit of our readers
who may have forgotten it, we should
say that the Eye was weekly periodi-
cal published in ST. Paul and Minneapo-
lis, devoted to the reporting of move
mentS in what is known as society and
to general literature. In the early
stages of it's career it gave a good deal of
space to articles which were rather broad
in their suggestiveness, and to others
which were personally abusive of very
innocent and inoffensive people. 1t was
eagerly read for while by class of
persons who like this sort of thing, but
about whose numbers in these two
cities we have no information. Under
it's more recent management it has
been geographically very attractive.
and has published number of things
which had some literary merit and
which would not bring the blush of
shame to the most virginia. brow. They
have lacked the merit, however, of ap-
pealing to anybody in particular or
bearing on their face any especial
apology for existing. The public has
not cared to read them. ana the paper,
after valiant losing fight, has sus-
pended. There exists a very worthy
society for the suppression of useless
publications, which has Iimitless men,
bershlp and which uses Indifference as
its weapon. 1t accomplishes good re-
suits everywhere, except when it has to
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it has been active among us.
Personal journalism has one field in
which it is practically untrammeled,
and only one. That is among men in
public life. HORACE long ago said that
the candidate for Office was the legiti-
mate object of public criticism and COM
ment, and must expect them as the man
who posed as a professional beauty
must expect to hear the girls make re-
marks on the shape of his legs and the
color of his eyebrows. The foibleS, the
weaknesses and the personal history of
officeholders or aSpirants for Office are
matters which the world ought to be
told about, because their fitness for
preferment will depend on these things
public has no right to see the skeletons
in the closet of the woman who dill
gently sweeps simply her own floor
every day and every lover Of the sacred
ness of households, with their mingled
JOYS and sorrows, stands against the
prying intruder and condemns his
methods, however interesting the secret
may be. The household has it's own
tribunals for the determination of its
strifes, and its own bulletins for the
circulation of their opinions and de-
cisions. tits only when they come into
the category of crimes and misdemean-
ors, and within the jurisdiction of courts
| of law, that the public press should. and
the respectable public press DOGS, noise
them abroad and hold them up to the
general gaze.
Personal journalism of another kind
consists of noting the doings Of private
people, their goings and their comings
and social entertainments of one kind
and another which have been and are te
| be. There is no objection to this, ex
! cept that it is apt to be trivial and moi
generally entertaining. In big city
there are 80 many coteries that it is moi
easy to do justice to them all, and cir
Gle in one quarter of the city finds very
little interest in reading of the dinner
parties of people of whom they have
! never heard. A man who knows aImos