The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-25

been competed heretofore 10 DE euurely "itnout
library. Not only that, but in all the years
which it has existed, never yet have the children
enjoyed a Christmas tree, the wherewithsi
being always lacking. The affair tomorrow
night has been undertaken to obtain for them
q library, 80 that hereafter that important
adjunct Of a Sunday School shall not be wanting.
We hope that the appeal will not fall to the
ground unanswered. but that there are many who
will gladly contribute their mite to so good an
end. The admttance is but so cents. On Mon
day evening. another demand will be made upon
the cbaIitably disposed. A grand floral concert
tablesux and ball are to be given at the Ma
tional Thester for the benefit of various chart
table associations Of the city. The concert may
embrace the operetta entitled " Drowning of the
Rose. but this has not yet been certainly decided
upon. At any rate, the evening will surely pass
of pleasantly. and will, we hope, prove very
profitable to those to be benefited by it. Let Us
all remember that this is the merry Christmas
time, and let us make ourselves happy by making
others so.
As an instance Of the extreme GOODNESS Of the
weather, yesterday, friend of ours informs Us he
saw a bucket of water thrown upon the deck OF a
steamer and the water froze before it got to the
ground.
Theater goers cannot have failed TO notice the
peculiar expression of countenance caused by the
utterance of certain words. This may perhaps be
accounted for, in some measure, on the ground
that certain muscles of the face used in pro-
ducing certain sounds-the muscles used, by 9
curious coincidence, giving the face cognate
expression. For Instance, in uttering tae ex.
camation "fre," the distended lips and conse-
quent contraction of brow inevitably depict more
or less of dsmsy and CONSERVATION. Our Thes-
plans, however, we regret to say. carry their
efforts too far. Why should they dwell upon the
second syllable of the word innocent! Do they
ima CINE that the emphasis on the syllable mo" in
that word conveys any additional idea Of guileess
ness? Do the open eyes consequent upon
| sounding it innocent overcome US with notions
of purity? We might advert also to the some what
prevalent method of saying whats hec-C Cuba to
him or he to hec Cuba!' The melancholy Dane
certainly cared not for the Ever Faithful Isle.
| Again, when the heavy hero enunciates
those startliDgly novel statements regarding
| that horror for wrong inherent in the
breast of every honest gentleman, how greatly
the effect is ENLARGED by giving two ms to honest
and with what telling force he renders gentel'
mani The manly straightforwardness aud con
sciousness that he has done a good thing, that
| prompts him 10 defy sl opposition by majestic
ally crossing to the fOotlights R. H.-does 1t moi
always bring down the house? And when the
heroine, SO soon as she can get him to turn his
face toward her, takes upon herself Gas though
the stirring plsttude was elocutioDized for her
! benefit and not directed solely to the sudience)
| 10 assure him that such a sen-tee.ment could only
emsnaie from truly nobel ma tytT; and when
she assures him, with tremendous gush Of emo
ton, that she will ever hold him in high Regard
does not the sffable smile engendered by thus
rendering regard amply atone for ali the outrages
| on Webster and Worcester! This subject might
| be extended to fill a quarto, and still the cata
logue of Improvements for which language /:
indebted to the stage would be incomplete.
The line, "One touch of nature makes the
whole world kin" may have been true at the