Page 3 Advertisements Column 7

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10132, 15 May 1896, Page 3

Bom* of the leading members of the Royal Academy hare been severely criticised and taken to task for selling their creations to advertising firms, and even executing " weeks of art" to the specific order of" somobody't soap" "General pills." ~ " Punch has recently issued a clever skit on the advertising mania introduced between paragraphs of bono Mt interest) and publishes a specimen of what we may expect in the novel of the future. - f ' \ " There is (says a London paper) undoubtedly a grievance in this respect, j There is nothing more annoying, or more likely to make a man want to get up and kick himself than to commence a sub-leader on the Chitrai war or the Salisbury foreign policy, and eventually find himself literally in a father of Seagull's Moonlight Soap. - .? ;<-*< • • We quite agree with this (s&ys another ex. change), and hold such a practice to be quits indefensible. There is a time and a place ioi thing, and there is plenty of scope foi advertising without monopolising the reading matter*! public interest. - There is only one plea d{ justification, and that is when an article' of sterling value and indisputable quality, such as Vanity Fair Cigarette** is to be brought and kept before the public. The Rhun-Eeßi Curtain Pole: J. £°™ Garlick. has just imported the . greates» novelty in curtain poles. This patent p < works without rings, runs , - and uo fear of tearing { WW g aside— feet, 4s 9d » 6 feet, sa, 12 feet wide, • 9s*6di j •**» A ' " ' ' ' ' " •