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Show . oc ENGLAND'S HOMEOPATHIC YELLOW PRESS Have wo a yellow press In England? I think we undoubtedly have, hut In a different and less concentrated, and therefore less harmful form If you wqre to take a paper llko Lloyd's News or The People and mix It up with the Police Gazette and Comic Cuts and All Slopor and Illustrated Bits and the Tatlor or whatever other oth-er of our wcokly papers In the chosen haunt and promenade of our actresses and chorus girls and add a dash of tho Dally Mall in ono of Its more ebullient moods, and publish the resultant re-sultant medley overy day, and especially es-pecially on Sunday, you would got something that tamoly and distantly resembled the ordinary "yellow" journal of tho United Statos. The British "yellowness" is diffused among a multitude of little sheets, mostly weeklies, that the ordinary man ccr sees, The American "yellowness" "yel-lowness" Is brought together under a single cover and exploded upon tho city in a way there Is no escaping Still, the diseuse is with us, but in a mild form and isolated casce There are any number of penny weeklies In England that hand out to their readers every week a serial story about life in the "highest circlos," a short story packed with "heart interest," in-terest," articles on tho removal of grease spots and tko best method of coping with the cold mutton, anecdotes anec-dotes of royalty, photographs of peeresses, peer-esses, hints on dross, chats about , baby and sweet peas and preraaturo grayne8S, groat thoughts from the dead, half hours In the editor's cozy sanctum, a slab of brown paper as a pnttern for tasty tunic advice on matters of the heart by Dr. Cupid, picture puzzles, missing word competitions com-petitions (which are smeared over with grcHse of piety In the case of the American 'yellows." So I do not think that v.e religious papers), a -ssU .---J Jjpg pound a week for life or a cottage and a wife, whichever you please, if you guess thc number of woids in Mr. Lloyd-George's next speech, 'and a paper cooking-bag. I do not know whether these productions ought to be called "yellow," but I am very sure that for sbeor bralnlessness, snobbishness snob-bishness and stifling inanity they are , as bad as the worst of the American "yellows." So I do not think thatt wo English should give ourselves too many airs. Sidney Brooks in Harper's Har-per's Weekly. |