A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times.Sampson, Henry
History
A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times.
Sampson, Henry
Advertising -- History
WANTED, for a newly erected Chapel, near Grosvenor Square, a gentleman
of elegant manners, and insinuating address, to conduct the
theological department to a refined audience. It is not necessary that
he believe in the Thirty-nine Articles; but it is expected that he
should possess a white hand and a diamond ring; he will be expected to
leave out vulgar ideas, and denunciations against polite vices which
he may meet with in the Bible; and, upon no account, be guilty of
wounding the ears of his auditory with the words h----ll, or d----n.
One who lisps, is near-sighted, and who has a due regard for amiable
weaknesses, will be preferred.
N.B.--If he is of pleasing and _accommodating_ manners, he will have a
chance of being introduced to the first company, and three card
parties every Sunday evening. One who knows a few college jokes, or
who has been Chaplain to the Whip Club, will be preferred. He will
have no occasion to administer Baptism, &c. &c. there being an old
gentleman employed, who, on account of extreme distress, has agreed,
for ten pounds per annum, to preach in the afternoon, and do all the
under work.
Letters must be addressed to James Speculate, Esq., Surveyor’s Office,
New Square, Mary-le-Bone.
Apropos of the foregoing, “The Goodfellow’s Calendar,” a handbook of
humorous anecdote and criticism for nearly every day in the year--some
stray leaves of which have found their way into our possession--gives
some account of a parson who, it says, would have been eminently fitted
for the situation. “The Rev. R. C. Maturin, Curate of St. Peter’s,
Dublin, and author of one of the most immoral and trumpery tragedies,
‘Bertram,’ that ever disgraced the stage, or gratified the low taste of
an acting manager, died October 30th 1824. This exemplary pillar of the
Established Church was exceedingly vain, both of his person and
accomplishments, and as his income would not allow him to attract
attention by the splendour of his dress and manners, he seldom failed to
do so by their singularity. Mr Maturin was tall, slender, but well
proportioned, and on the whole a good figure, which he took care to
display in a well-made black coat tightly buttoned, and some odd
light-coloured stocking-web pantaloons, surmounted, in winter, by a coat
of prodigious dimensions, gracefully thrown on, so as not to obscure the
symmetry it affected to protect. The Curate of St. Peters sang and
danced, and prided himself on performing the movements and evolutions of
the quadrille, certainly equal to any other divine of the Established
Church, if not to any private lay gentleman of the three kingdoms. It
often happened, too, that Mr. Maturin, either laboured under an attack
of gout or met with some accident, which compelled the use of a slipper
or bandage on one foot or one leg; and by an unaccountable congruity of
mischances he was uniformly compelled on these occasions to appear in
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