The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-11-29
PORTLAND CORRESPONDENCE.

Dear Mrs. Dunirdy:-I now take up
my pen las we school girls say, when
addressing our cousins to inform you
concerning the Escaped Nuns lecture.
Wouldn't undertake it if l hadn't prom
ised, for the manner in which she
scotched those who dared to notice her
with aught but fiattery is caution to
poor timid scribblers like Yosrs Truly,
who never saw her own name in print
and never wants TO.
The "lecturess," as the papers style
her-though why lectures any more
than "teacheressr or "speakeress" I'm
sure L know not-came boldly to the
front in her hat and mantle, and in a
free and easy, tragic and sensational,
laughing and weeping, witty and meek,
herolc-its no use, adjectives fail ME,
and give it up. Well, she read diverse
and sundry-that's quotation from edi-
torials in the NEW NORTHWEST, of
which I'm constant reader-letters,
comments, criticism and so forth from
diverse and sundry-there it is again
Catholics and Protestants, whom she
proceeded to scold or laud in proportion
to their blame or praises, while yours
truly settled herself back in her shoes
and thanked God that she was herself
no correspondent of the "frail, weak"
Escaped.
The editor Of the Bulletin came in for
full share of her favor. Now, I wept
for my friend O'Meara when you pun
ished him so severely, but oh, horrors!
how did wall for the poor ghost that
was left of him after Edith had finished
with her acknowledgements. In bit
terness OF spirit 1 felt like exclaiming in
Mr.. Waldron's classic style, "Oh, Meara!
get thee to Nunnery! Go! gol gop'
But the most amusing part of her
theatrical performance is the smooth
way in which she "ropes inn the Meth
Odist preachers. They set gazing into
her face with smiles of victory beaming
from their selfcomplacent yisages and
listen and believe in her tragic fustian,
when il Mrs. Waldron says better things
on the Orc Fino stage, they draw their
faces down and groan because Yours
Truly will attend and listen.
The speakers time was almost wholly
occupied in noticing the personals in re-
gard to her "frail weak" self, but the
general verdict is that if she is redk-
minded, her tongue is quite strong
enough. She evidently believes in her
rights. /, for one, can testify that she
takes them.
Somebody don't know but she
meant you, dear Duniwsy-had said
that she was loud in her dress. With
the most comic imaginable look of as
sumed simplicity, the little shrew looked
up and said, "What does dressing loud
mean?" Yours Truly is only a school
girl, but she is well enough versed in her
mother tongue to tell the great Escaped
that cloud" as applied to dress in Amer
lea means the same rs Outre in France-oT
-or-or-I really don't know what they
call it in Ireland. Perhaps she can tell.
Her French husband can probably ex-
plain the meaning of Outre. can't
except by the term cloud" which she
says she cannot comprehend.
am glad that Edith O'Gorman came
to town. feel that Brother Roberts
will never scold me again for going to
the theater, and / have sometimes been
deeply annoyed by his admonitions.
After have been to Orc Fino Hall on
Saturday to see Madam Vine die so
! Christ-like and beautiful in the last act;
or have seen wrong-doing meet its just
reward in many ways, to have the min
lsters give me Hail Columbia over my
waywardness isn't pleasant, and 1 do
hate to be obliged to endure it; so now
that Brothers Driver, Roberts, Dillon
and Royal have visited Edith OGor-
mans theater about half dozen times
on complimentary" 1 hope they'll let
me go to see Mrs. Waldron act in peace.
Well, Mrs. D., Pm afraid you will
think this q very poor account Of the
''show," but promised to be faithful
chronicle of what saw and heard and
thought, and if it does not please you,
you must hereafter go yourself and hear
the Nuns 'last lectures or give your
ticket to some more acceptable item
taker than Yours TRULY.
PORTLAND, Nov. 26, 1872.
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