Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1863-12-19
"Sophia" Again.
OLYMPIA, w. r., Dec. ID, 1863.

| OLYMPIA, w. L., Dec. I'd, 1863.
Ed. STANDARD: Dear Sir Each of YOU
correspondents appears to have pet scliem
of his or her own to advocate. If We all hav
our way-and / don't See why we shouldn'
Except that growler Flibernian' )-ther.
will be no lack of entertainments this winte
dances, operas, theatres. singing SCHOOL,
and lyccums, and then we'll have the Legisla
ture as kind of after piece.
"Sally Ann" may have her lyceum, If sh,
chooses, for all mt, but / can tell her that
am not going to set myself up in public II
make speeches and argue questions, for til,
amusement or benefit of anybody. Sucl
things may be right and proper for ladies'
but they are associated too strongly in my
mind with bloomer dresses and riding horse
back squaw. fashion, for me to take part ir
them.
My hobby is the charade party, and l will
endravor to ride it gracefully, even if it does
kick up its heels little when too much put
upon. AS all l have to say at present may
be in answer to one of yonr correspondents,
proceed to business.
Hibernian" deserves notice for nothing
but his coarseness. He being mere denun
ciator-a retailer Of set slang; one of those
fellows who satisfies himself and thinks that
he satisfies everybody else that he has the
right side Of an argument by calling the OPP
posite hard names and swearing ut it. A
pretty advocate of good morals and good IMAM
ners indeed If theatres were worse places
than he represents them to be. and lie had
never been outside of one he could not have
done worse.
lie asks, "Who are the actors and actresses
who perform ia this vestibule Of hell !" Isn't
that swearingU And then answers, "Thry
are the same now as they were when the dra.
ma and circus were first appended to the Ro-
man Mythology" etc. hope he will tell
us in his next what part Of the mythology
they arc appended to, when, where and by
whom, and when they were taken down. J
Proceeding he informs us that the actors and
actresses are shocking bad people. and that
the auditors in the pit are "the quintessence
of the scum and dregs Of all villainies"!
(chaste language, is it not, to be addressed to
one whom the writer denomnatcs " fnir'' and
those in the boxes not much better.
! feel under no obligations to make gen.
eral defense for tho stage or those who like it.
There is scarcely an end to the illustrious
names who have written for and performed on
it-bpcause " Ilibernan" chooses to assume
that am an admirer of tho theatre. In this
he treats his subject as a certain physician
treated patient who was sick of fcve he
did not understand. The poor fellow was
first thrown into fit, that Leing in the. doc.
tors line. So E;bernian" is death on the
aires, and gives them jessie in his way. but
without connecting them very materially with
charades performed by the young people Of
Olympia, at their own firesides, for their own
amusement and cultivation. Who can doubt
but that dialogues and plays which teach good
language and address might DO Of service in
Olympia, since under skilful teaching even
monkeys have learned to initiate the bearing
ofgentlemep SOPHIA.