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Show ew Pelpreeen. weniaeag ae e- Pe eee ee eee ae ty THE REVIEW. » ce this good of the One of our reporters stroled into The Patrick Henry Lyceum the other night, ADVERTISING. shall we article little for as well as the public. themselves ED a subject which has much misused and in Tus is been very correct this evil future. their absence in the ([LLEGITIMATE them, therefore we recommend firms to to instruct their distributors old style affairs with the new models and we will guarantee accidents to be consp'cious for ence ea patronizing of instead Now a word Replace the belle of the line. to the company. creata en- deavor to show the people what we think is an imposition on the public, in the guise of legitimate advertising. The first of these schemes a certain bicycle firm of this city are using for an ad. They are offering one of their and. as he had always heard it spoken of and advertised so highly, that, of course, he naturely expected to see, at least, something hajf way worth seeing; but to his | utter disgust, he saw nothing but so muny boys sittin, or rather havin their seats struug around the form of a cresec nt while their occupants walked about among the audience, chatting with the girls; some throwed notes; and a few indulged in fis of laughing. -Mrrior. In first place the Mr, Editor a prize, for the most your spelling is terrible and your position being that everyone wil! True one may make allowance for acompositor’s mistake, but wheels as the sup-_ | srammar is unfit for publication. beautiful lady in Utah, vote for the one he considers the But this is not most beautiful. there as the way it is done are hardly 1000 of the votes for the so called favorites that have been purchased, the small not boy making pocket money by dispos- ing of votes to admirers of the famous(?) beauties, at the rate Again we of 2Y%cents apiece. hear of men counterfeiting votes and voting with them. If you must win in a disgusting con-test of this kind you should at recom- Wewould least win fair. mend ‘the firm to adopt some better way of advertising than this scheme, as it does not add to any firms name to be concerned in so much newspaper notority. Every woman who is a beauty and a lady will with- draw from a contest of this kind, for the world will not look upon you as a beauty because you won a wheel with votes that were purchased. Another scheme as far as it goes is all right, that is Circular distributing. When circulars are distributed in the best part of town, they are thrown upon the residents lawns and are picked up and thrown away, the resident cursing the firm for making his lawn untidy or ‘“‘havin’’ such wordsas “‘sittin’’ Again as to are unexcusable. This the throwing of notes. childish amuseinent ‘is not in- dulged in hy the members Of the Society and though it were, it would have been decidedly more proper to have said threw in place ‘of ‘“‘throwed.”’ . But the crowning evil is the attack on Great credit should the Societv. be given the boys for the courage displayed in starting a juvenile literary clubin this city, and in spite of the Mirror’s dishonorable attacks we trust that the Patrick Henry Lyceum will continue to prosper althougk a pe: is against them that iscontrolled by one of the mightiest editors in our western region. eT Several of America’s most not- ed colleges during the years of 92°93 and ’94 discarded Greek. That is, it was taught, but only as an extra study. The latest move however, is the shelving of commencement long, tiresome This improvement exercises. by all, as the will be appreciated public have long since become tired of the torturing exercises given at the end of school. |