The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14
PICTURE SUPPLEMENTS.


The New York Evening Post doesn't as
pire toward levity to any extent. Occasion
ally, however, the funny" editor says
something forcefully funny. The picture
supplements i'm some OF the dailes of. this
city have tired the Posts busy and serious
editor and he has rebelled in spirit Wig
orous and hostile. With bitter language he
often ridicules the new journalism"-in
spite OF all its boasted progressiveness and
gaudy colored pictures OF uncomfortable sub
jects.
The Boston Beacon is displaying symp-
toms of indigestion. too. and has Joined the
venerable and prosperous Post In its Kick
Neither paper says the funny pages" have
not proved a success. but they amuse them
selves. and their readers incidentally. by
printing humorous stories that are funnier
and more interesting than the comic sup
plements themselves. Here is the Beacons
latest effort-and it's a decided success
as display OF spontaneous wit:
These pages, IL will be recalled. supply
blank outline pictures and little dabs or
various coors which. when moistened, serve
in a way the same purpose as blocks or
paint, though they are harder for child
to eat. Another form OF this page gives
monochrome pictures which when soaked
Tor licked with the tongue) burst forth on
the aStonished gaze in multitinted glory.
Now, from the reaction OF such art TO
that of domestic science is but a step, and
yet the Sunday 'yellows' have failed entire
ly TO appreciate this line of public utility.
What would be easier than for the Fooled
or Diurnal to get out a really nourishing
edition or a sort OF dispensary issue? For
example, would anything be simpler than
TO print the picture of a soup bone with ex-
tracts of beef and vegetables instead OF
ink? The family buying the paper could
4 fNr.f1 eh. and
| tritious dish of consomme for the entire
| household at a most reasonable cost. The
| soups could be varied from time 10 time
turtle, chicken. oyster, celery, cream OF as
paragus, and what not else-all giving ex-
cuse for beautiful illustration. Again, the
paper could get out sheet on rice paper
| properly impregnated with baking powder
| and illustrated with luscious gride cakes.
All that would be necessary would be TO
| soak this sheet, cut IL out-an amusement
| for the children-and fry 1t on a IRE made
| out of the rest of the paper. In the spare
corners pictures tinted with chocolate or
coffee extract would supply necessary bev-
| To supply seasoning. pepper could be used
instead Of periods in the directions. These
are but a few of the dishes which would
lend themselves TO this type of so-called
| late-day modern Journalism.
I'm other departments of the household
the work of the newspaper could be ex-
| tended widely. A soap paper could be
printed for the laundry; sticky fypaper
| edition for the kitchen. well coal
oil-impregnated sheet for the cook TO use
| in explosions; a hower-seed supplement-
| might be added for the garden, and this
would lead to burying these papers-not
| bad idea, even if nothing sprouts. In
| the nursery and sick room the paper could
be made most effective. Imagine the bene-
| fits of a cough syrup bottle pictured by
| means of some good mixture! One lick
| and a cold is cured. TONES. Quinine. fla
| voring extracts, medicinal teas and many
| other things could be provided I'm attractive
form. The white page and blue page would
| make a literary seidlitz powder yellow
| page, would do for a mustard plaster, a
black page for court plaster and so on ad
| infinitum. 1t is a great scheme and one
| admitting of many variations, but the new
Journalism is pretty slow after all. Still.
here's the suggestion-free for the benefit
| Of the 15.000.000 subscribers of EACH"