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Show Jarleyism. I wish to retain, and would be glad to have others retain a vivid recollection recollec-tion of the very justly celebrated Mrs. Jarley. Mrs. Jarley is typical and a prophetess. She is the beautiful fragrant fra-grant blossom, betokening and developing de-veloping the rich fruit that is on the way to luscious maturity. George Jarley is also a rare gem, and promises, prom-ises, or rather heralds a good time coming. One would bo much like to see Mr. Jarley. Where is he all the while ? What sort of man is he ? Is he like his famous consort, or is he nowhere that is, is Mrs. J. a widow? Jarley must have lived probably died in the odor of mechanical sanctity, leaving to his wise and beautilul relict the elaborate philosophical philo-sophical theory out of which ha grown the wax figure exhibition. I aay he must have lived is perhaps alive now perhaps, indeed, is the secret, undiscovered inspircr of Mrs. ; Jarley; incomparable "inspirations." Well, what is this new and incomparable theory the Jarley theory ot perfection? The Jarley sttmmum honum. Because Mrs. Jar ley deriving inspiration prouauiy irom Mr. Jarley who is either dead, having in that case left to society a legacy of wit of which Mrs. J. is the sole dispenser, dis-penser, or els'i he is alive and lives and travels incocnito. At all events there is in the Jarley family an ideal of human perfection; and they have thereore a mission. Let this theorj and its practical development be called Jarleyism by way ot conciseness. concise-ness. Money and mechanism are at last .found to be ultimate and eumcient Pluto and Seneca never understood themselves or the world; and St. Paul waa a flat-footed old wiien he said that the lovo of money is tlie root of all evil. Mechanism and money are simply all, and contain the answer to tjo question in the back part ol the primer "What is the true eud of man?" The "Aggers" and the tees at the door of the theatre are the summit in. John Bunyan had a 'j Pliable" in his story or parable of life, put into the parable however to he laughed at. But what is " Pliable." as an object of scorn in comparison with "wax" honored by being the universal aeslhetical solvent? I must correct myself the ideal ail is money, mechanism and "wax." The wax and the mechanism developed into money this is Jarleyism. An Old Foor. April 2oth, iS7G. |