The record-union., 1896-05-31

he knows you are able to serve him with
biscuits that do not threaten dangers
untold to his dentistry, and can broil
beefsteak equal to that Of his own
mother.
The McNeilI Club members are form
ing a class among themselves for the
purpose of learning sight reading. This
is a commendable move on the part or
the club. Everyone knows what
drawback poor reader is to everyone
about him, and he is invariably placed
beside one who can read in order that
he may perforce be kept up with the
other voices. Too many vocaltsts ignore
this part of their education, whereas IL
should be taken up in the very nrst
stage of vocal training. I think TINS
will prove to be a great Improvements
to the club in many ways.
Miss Jennie Shook, who has been ser1-
ously i'll for some time past, to the
great anxiety of a host of friends, IS
at last on the road to entire recovery.
Saint-Saens, whose somewhat erratic
movements are watched with redoub-
led interest since the death of Am
broise Thomas, and his own consequent
chance at the French Conservato1re'
dictatorship, has Of late been in Egypt,
where he has been hard at work by the
fertile banks of the Nile on new COM
positions, one of which, a sonata for
violin, was written for the celebration
of the composers fftieth anniversary
since his appearance as an infant phe-
nomenon of the pianofOrte. He mas
finished, also, concerto for piano ana
orchestra, in which the solo part Will
be taken by himself The concerto is
to be brought out in London, and Is
awaited with anxious expectation by a
horde of admirers.
The recent rise and fall of huge
billboard on one of our principal resi-
dence streets calls to mind many facts
ir connection with the question, sucn
a nuisance has it already become. one
grows accustomed to great glaring
signboardS in the heart of the business
portion of our city, and we even grow
to look for advertisements setting forth
the main and attractive features OF
certain plays, in which, for one cause
or another, we are interested. But
when we awake some fine morning to
a realizing sense that one OF these
works of art have sprung up like Alad-
din's palace over night, under our very
noses, hideous eye-sore upon an other
wise quiet and well-regulated street,
and in a certain sense as utterly out
OF place as an elephant In a china
closet, we naturally feel that our own
particular domains have been invaded
by an unwelcome and foreign element,
and resent it with all the feeling of
which we are capable.
On the occasion to which I refer the
gentleman who owned the property in
question had erected in front of 1t an
advertising fence, merely because he
had no immediate use for the property
which il inclosed. But upon the COM
plants Of the neighbors he Immediately
and in the hndest possible spirit, re-
moved it. 1t is not always nor alto
gether the location, but as often the
matter one sees set forth in glowing
characters, that makes the question
one to be regarded seriously. There
should be a law controlling advertising
rights. to an extent which would make
it impossible that obscene or question
able matter of any sort be thus pre-
sented in so attractive a style, to the
eyes OF our embryo citizens. We are
certainly responsible TO an appalling
degree for the coming generation, and
upon our heads be it. If we place diff
culties in their paths and pervert their
minds when a little care and effort on
our part could so easily avoid it.
One of the most disgraceful Of all ad
vertising mediums. and one which
should become a violation of national
law, just as much as the using of ma
tional envelopes for private matter, or
any of the direct personal property of
Uncle Sam, and punishable in a like
degree, is the desecrat ton of Old Glory
whom our children are taught to honor
and pay homage to from their cradles,
whom our nations defenders are in
duty bound to salute every day in the
year with uncovered heads-thls to be
used as a common advertising instru-
ment in the hands Of the unpa triotic,
to set forth the merits of a new brand
os tobacco bearing its autographed rep
resentation, is disgraceful. AS 1 said
before, some law should be made that
would reach this matter and limit the
powers of advertising ghouls within
the pale of common decency at least.