The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-23
OUT IND ABOUT
JOURNALISTIC vICISsITUDEs IN
ITALY.
Position of the Press-How They Treat
Editors-Latin Justice-The Church
Supper-Chit-cha

Editors-Latin Justice-The Church
Supper-Chit-cha
James Russell Lowell, who, having
been United States minister to Spain,
had the opportunity of judging the
Spaniards at first hand, and was also
a reasonably good judge of his own
townsmen, said in a letter to w. D.
Howells; Spain is as primitive in some
ways as the books Of Moses, and as
oriental. Spaniards have, I believe,
every possible falkland yet love the
jades for a. that. Their indifference
to legitimate profit is a continual COM
fort, and they have no more enter
prise than an old Cambridge man."
Yesterday was one of the worst dog
days of the year. Such hot vapor- bath
days may be healthy for mushrooms,
but they are death on collars and
bangs.
Cyrano de Bergerac's nose appears
to be the most prominent feature Of
the play.
BY the way isn't Cyrano de Bergerac
one of him-coming to Worcester this
winter? With five or six Cyranos in
existence there ought. with economy,
to be enough to so around.
Cyrano de Bergerac ought to have no
difficulty in proving an alibi, if it ever
came to the pinch.
. The three prizes offered by the Cen
fury Company for the best story writ
ten by college graduates of 1897 have
all been won by young women, all
though more men than girls contested.
The Century Company will keep on
trying till it succeeds in landing a man.
Mr.. Gericke thought himself in a new
Boston till he walked up Hamilton
place and entered Music hall. Music hall
is one of the things in Boston that have
not been improved. 1t is as dark and
dingy and sombre as in the days gone
ten years, when Mr.. Gericke first gath
cred his long haired foreign musicians
there.
Mrs. George II. Gould has been elect
ed a director of the Wheaton Seminary
Club. Shei is also chairman Of the enter
tainment committee.
With the Inauguration of the church
supper season, will it be out of place to
register a petition for mercy? The
church supper ("followed by miscel-
laneous entertainment is admittedly
the favorite diversion of the Worcester
public, so that it would be hopeless as
we'll as in bad taste to try to put it
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destinies of the supper tables in the
several churches would but temper
their success with discretion, they
would confer a benefit upon the help
less eater which would not fail of due
appreciation.
Why not invent a new kind of sup
per? This is the question which the la
dies who hope to feed the hungry and
clothe the naked this winter out of the
proceeds of the church supper, should
ask themselves in all seriousness. The
Worcester public begins to show un-
mistakable signs of having had enough
salad supper, chicken pie suppers,
baked bean suppers. A new kind of
supper may serve to hold 1t in check
for one more year, keeping it off the
streets and out of the saloons at least
until the spring zephyrs begin to chase
each other over the common.
Get up something new, can't you,
ladies? Think of some new kind of
winged creature to replace the over
worked chicken; invent a new species
of salad; Danish cold ham and tongue
and run in something that can not be
identified at the first worm's-eye view
you get at the table. Dismiss the faith
full baked bean from service-he has
earned his freedom.
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novelty, sensation. Give it something
sensational to eat Ono, thank you no
shredded wheatD and you can rake in
sheckelS Try hash, or pate de foie
gras or anything else you like, only let
it be new and strange. Show a little
mercy upon your constituents who,
year after year. patronize your shows
without hope of reward, and who un-
selfishly eat what is put before them.
Have pity, for the time may come
when you will pray to be delivered
from the church supper, and then peo-
pie will do to you as you did to them.
Remember, too, that worms have a
way of turning. There is nothing like
too much chicken pie and lobster salad
for making a Worcester worm turn.
The press censorship much be an in
thing in italy for both jour-
nalists and public, if Signoro Dario
Papa's description of it's workings was
correct. Her account of the trials of the
Italian journalist made the women as
sembled in New Bedford shudder, but
there was also another side to it. How
about the general reader, who after
buying his paper is as likely as not to
find a column or so blank the word
"sequestrato" announcing the work Of
the censor.
Each city has censor, appointed by
the king or his representative. Before