Puck — November 19, 1879 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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PUCK. 593 THE CHARITY BUSINESS. And the charitable public comes down with its gold. No. CLX. FASHIONABLE JOUR- NALISM AGAIN, Ya-as, I expwess- ed my intention some time ago to N wecur to the aw Wp, subject of fashion- RY) able journalism. 1 mean those kinds of fellaws who wite weports of pwivate gatherwings, and hav em pwinted in news- Papahs supposed to wesemble, but verwy far wemoved fwom the aw A/orning Post, the aw Court Circular and Court Journal, which, as everwy pwopah person knows, are considahed the corwect medium to have one’s movements at home and abwoad chwonicled in. Now, if there existed in this wepublic any weal arwistocwacy, I don't think I should offah any opposition to their sayings and doings being witten about and distwibuted faw the benefit of the lowah classes outside the charmed circle—but aw, ye see, there isn’t any charmed | They get up a Society for the Benefit of the Poorer And the society takes care’of itself, The other members have various duties! a lass, and Jones is elected President signed them, with appropriate salaries (salary, $5,000); Brown, Vice (salary, $3,000), prop ies! While the Foor must take care of themselves. circle he-ah, and consequently nothing in society worth wecording faw fewchah historwi- cal weferwence, But this is no dwawback to the averwage Amerwican witah faw the pwess—he manufac- tures his own arwistocwacy out of any materwial that may be handy, and pwints its most twivial doings, as if they were positively of interwest to the worwld. Faw instance, it is a verwy common occur- wence to wead in a papah that Miss Bwown is wesiding with Miss Smith faw a temporwary perwiod in some wemote village. I wondah who the d-d-deuce cares where Miss Bwown is, or that the Wobinsons have weturned to town and had a weception in honah of the Andwews, and that Miss Way Andrew wore a gween silk fwock aw gown a /a Pwincesse. But these things are comparwatively twifling to the elaborwate account that some of the pwetended literwarwy fellaws give in the news- papahs of the doings at some unpwetentious weception where ordinarwy though verwy we- spectable people may be pwesent. As a wule such mattahs do not interwest me, but Jack said the pwactice was so outwageously absurd that 1 couldn't wefwain fwom taking it into considerwation. Aw, ye see, a pwivate Amerwican gentleman can’t take into his head to ask a few fwiends to dwop in without an exaggerwated weport of the affai-ah appearwing in some of these town or countwy n« wspapahs, The most obscure nobody is in thisway made to appe-ah to ignorwant people who wead the | descwiption as necessarwy to the wevolution of the earth on its axis, or wound aw—I’m not verwy stwong in astwonomy—its pwopah natur- wal machinerwy in space. Such a system is demorwalizing, and is a de- cided injurwy to some clevah and pwominent individuals who perhaps have a wight to have their movements chrwonicled on account of aw something that may have wendered them objects of interwest. But de-ah Miss Marguerwite assures me that it is only the vulgah and half-bwed Amerwicans who wejoice at seeing their names in pwint in the mannah I have descwibed. Sometimes decent people cannot pwevent it, because these newspapah weportahs are he-ah, there and everwywhere, and pwy into pwivate mattahs for the purpose of waising a sensation. . Jack says that no pwess-witah ought to we- ceive an invitation anywhere in a pwivate cir- cle unless he makes a guarwantee not to say anything about it in his papah aw. comicbooks.com