New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-22
Nrr ROSTOV ENTERPRISE.

II is suspected-pcrhaps rather more than sus-
pectcd-by some old, some very old-fashloheu ieo-
ole that several things get into the newspapers
o,,, nd tbcn which have no business there. Wash
;rctor IRVING observed Of George Washington that
ho had worry little private life But person
whom fotc summons 10 be the father OF his coun-
try in accepting the position t2citly consents lhat
mo shou have no private life TO speak Of But
how about the Boston girl, seeing that she IL not
the father OF her country nor any other sort OF
a public character Is there any reason why shc
ought not 20 lie allowed 10 enjoy the lnallenaDIe
right of privacy, with none TO modest or make her
afraid? one Of the Boston journals, and ven
cradle one at that returns practical answer
10 these questions. The Boston girl may SHRINK
from the public gaze being nice girl, OF course
she docs-but nevertheless. regardless OF her feel
ings in the matter, The Post has determined
that tic fierce white light Of publicity Shall peat
upon her.
In order that the Boston girl may be fairy
flooded with this variety Of light "The Post pro-
ceeds to stimulate its production by Offering TO
nay for it, In an advertisement IN its columns
we read this:
What IS more Interesting than the Typical Boston
Gini ...u. no. manila ,er
defect her charms, her wisdom, her foes, her fads'
fhe To't." As slight incentive to competition.
viii present q $40 gold piece 10 the writer oi tnc
lost description Of the Typical Boston "lr. "r'e
An descriptions must BE- ono hundred words or less
Write only on side u The paper. rs between eel,
me 81 g Siar Mss Miriam o'Lcary, the
f,vorc Museum actress. Will act - judge
II one came upon this advertisement in The
Arizona Kicker it might not excite his SPECIAL
wonder. But in a Boston paper! Those VINO
know the Hub best agree that it hns changed n
good deal of late years, and that some OF the
amendments do not stand for either intellectual
or moral progress Certainly there was time IN
its history when it, people would not have
tolerated the idea that the Boston girl should be
made the victim Of a contest involving ten dollars
True. ours is not distinctly an axe of chivalry
Bat then neither is it an age destitute of chivaric
instincts. and there must be thousands of Bos-
,onians who will Indignantly protest against an
ENTERPRISE which invites all sorts of persons to
gossip in print for a purse about the Boston girl
I'm lis cagcrncss 10 have her written up, The
POST ignores the sound and consideratc piece of
advice long ago placed at the service Of whom
il may concern by Matthew PRIOR
lie to her virtues very Kind
BE to her faults n little blind
The competitors for the ten dollars are invited not
10 be blind at all 10 the defects or the folllcs'
of the Boston GIRL but TO make them public along
with her charms. ~ was suppoecu tidb c'ciJ-
body in Boston regarded the Boston girl as a
perfect woman nobly planned to warn, to com
fort and command that is how NewYork and
the other cities OF the country regard their re-
spcctiye girls II is sad to think that a Boston
editor repudatcs this generous theory, and that in
order to encourage an opposite one he offers to
give ten dollars for the best list OF the defects and
foll.cs Of the Boston girl.
Of no of thic
enterprise is well supplied with lcXicons But
how strange that from all of their vocabuarics
the word "impcrtncnce" should be conspicuously
abspnt