Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-29

hints morkeo OF lOE thcln. tAOJ "0.S
given n different houses. the tickets sold
privately, ore lady disposing Of eleven hun
bred. Ibis year Mr. Riddle has been en-
gage to deliSer similar course, several OF
which have already been given, and others
are 10 come on succeeding Tuesdays and
F,i6a,s. Rrs Tbomas Hicks, wife Of the
p-ssiSent OF TIE Artists Fund Society, and
Ms Geo Wm. Batts are the prime movers.
The neat reading takes place at the house
Of NIs. (Proftssor) Satts
m IrteresfinE Course OF Lectures,
is,irg of,hirtt,B. (the original number
a S:ates5 is in progress At ChIckering hall,
NJ on the STORY Of the american revolution,
by Professor John Fiske. Unfortunately
lie lectures are given in the morning, 50
u ST men DO Lot hear them and the subject
foes not sound attractive 10 women, who
imagine they know all about the 'revolu-
ton" But in reality the story Is more fas-
cipa,iug than the most exciting novel, the
! side Lis oy is to d, he personal history,
so 10 speak, and in manner which would
re-awakeu old epthusiasms. and STIR dulled
blood into sympathetic activity, If only the
audience were sufficiently large, aud men,
as well as women, composed them. What
Mr.. Fiske has to give IS s., indeed, what
men need 10 remind them Of what they owe
for what they now possess, and at what a
c, st 1t VAS won.
Old Samuel Adams, the FIRST Adams,
looms up noble figure. He 1t was that
moved the resolution that the tea should
not be landed" think | bad rather be
an Adams than the posse Of any other
/ inheritance On Ihefaee OF this earth.
Art Talks.
Another notable course Of lecturee Is that
/ Of Mr.. Edmond p Russell, the head OF the
art department OF the GrammeIcy park
! school house. Mr.. Russell lectures on art
from quite q new point OF view. First, on
art principles as basis for criticism. ms
on criticism. Next, light and shade, scuIP-
( ture, their decoration. Finally on art as
applied to dress, ard ideal subjects, in which
| ali srt eliminates. The Froe5ell society, OF
B,ooklyn, have engaged Mr.. Rus
sell for a course Of twenty-four lectures
next SEE son, to include art in dress
| household decoration, furniture and the like,
and TIE Women's club of Brooklyn for q
course of twelve lectures. At recent
talk" in a drawing room, some ladies beg
! ped for more specific information in regard
10 the way they should dress This he said
it Was impossible TO give them, the first ct
fort they should make must be for indepen-
deuce 10 get away from authority, not
/ merely change its form. They must think
for themselves they must refuse to accept
fashion that was at war With their Judge
ment and taste, and they must learn to ap-
! DIV the principles Of art to the detail OF
( dress. as well as to the interior OF their
! houses. He said, however, that a pretty
/ good rule was to make color, or tone OF the
/ d ess harmonic with the color Of the hair.
Tale of Two Artists
vas drs matized or rather presented in drs-
/ matte form toe other evening at Chickerlng
hal by Mr.. A. P. Burbank, the most intel
lectuai reader perhaps we have in the
/ United States. Mr.. Burbank has made sew
eral original experiments in his line OF
work, which have shown great artistic ex-
preston and refinement, but they have gen
eranv been too good for the average audi
ence, particularly the reading audience, fed
! on Sunday school shows and variety en-
ttTtainments.
/ II is q remarkable fact that the most in
! tellectually sppreciative audience in the
world is made up of theater habitues, the
/ least appreciative and discriminating those
who are drawn from Sunday school societies
/ and church associations. The fact Is sim
ply due TO experience on the one side and
want oft on the other. The average Sun
7 dsy school trustee appearing to think that
/ the morality Of an entertainment IS In
an inverse ratio to the ability displayed
/ in the performance. One of Mr..
Burbanks previous efforts was the
reading and illustration by lantern of famous
roems an experiment which he hoped to
follow by the presentation in the same way
of Boydell's Shakespeare. His latest effort,
the dramatizstion Of the Tale OF Two
Cities" attracted q large audience, who were
ioter sely interested from the beginning to
the c'ose. Mr.. Burbank has grouped his In
cider Is most effectively, and himself repre-
SCENTS ten speaking characters. he has been
urged 10 add little local color and music
and prepare it for regular stage presenta'
ton.
The Wit and Humor of Women
received gratifying exempEfcation at the
hands of Mrs. Kate Sanborn. in q lecture
delivered in the parlor Of Mrs. William 4,
Budd recently. Miss Sanborn surprised
her auditors, many OF whom were men, BY
the amount OF evidence she has collected Of
the POSSESSION Of true wit and humor by wo
men and declares the reason why 1t wa;
no, appreciated was because its quality wa:
so delicate, refined and spontaneous as to
be dffcult to hold and put into HARD
lines She quoted from over two hundred
women authors, her own charm OF style 20
sessing thread Of gold upon which she
strung witticisms and flashes Of humor like
beads, keeping q brilliant audience in a con
tint ed vibration oil laughter and applause
Her researches, she remarked, had con
yirced her that women have shown more
true Wit and humor in their writings thar
men, and II the lies, the profanity and thu
snuibs &c sinst women were eliminated from
the "humor" Of men. there would be littlC
eft OF it.
A Club Anniversary.
Sorosis, the woman's club of this city
held lis six eenth anniversary on Monda,
last, it having the previous Monday elected
its president, Mrs. Croly, and its recordin.
secretary, Mrs. II. J. Newton, Tor the tent
sucee ssiye term. Sorosis was never s
prosperous as now. 1t has lived dow
adverse criticism and misrepresentation
and is admitted to be a poWa
abroad, as well as at home. At its annus
evening reception AID dinner given feV
DAYS ago it seated members and guest
nearly three hundred ct the tables in Del
monicos large Banquet hall Hon. DayiC
Dudley Field and Judge Noah Davis, VIII
were among the guests, psid it some higl
compliments, and indeed it was not only tn
largest dinner given at Delmonicos thi
season, but formed by far the finest spects
Gle. JENNY JUNE.
He Found the End of the Rainbow.
Rome Ca COEriSr.