Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-20
Your Daughter Wants Flo Re An Ac'


 IBurnand, in the Fortnightly Review.l Now supposing young lady at once ob- tains an engagement at a reputable theater and is cast for good part. What then! Then the atmosphere of the theater at it's best is not pleasant one. Your daughter will be astonished at the extraordinary yarla- lions of manner, from the ahlect sery1le to the free-and- easy, described in NIT. Namby's case as EBotany Bay gentility." She Will hear everybody my dearing' one another. At first she will not understand half what is said and very little that is meant. When they are all warm to their work, the veneer of roliteness is soon rubbed off, and actor and actress are seen as the real artists they are. The stage manager comes out strongly, too; strange words are used, and whether It be high art or not that IS being illustrated, there is pretty sure to bs considerable amount of forcible language employed in the excitement of the moment. Your daughters ideas of proprity will be rudely shocked at every turn. When she ceases to be even as tonished she will be unconsciously deteriorat- ing. There is one sort of girl to whom ail thls ices no harm, and that is the girl that comes of ard-working professional theat- rical family, who has been decently brought up in it ali from a child, whose father and mother are in the theater, thoroughly respec- table people, and careful of their daugh- ter's morals as though she were the niece ot d bishop. Such a girl as this, if she remain on the stage, will be 8 tolerable actress, al ways sure of an engagement. She will marry a decent. respectable actor, or some one con nected with theatricals: will bring up a fam1- ly excellently; will be really religious with out ostentation; will never lose her self respect, and in her own way be perfectly domesticated, happy, and eontented Or sne may marry some one in good social posi- ton; if so she will leave the stage without regret, because she is not of the stuff of what great actresses are made; but she will look back on her theatrical experience with affec- ton for her parents to whom she owed so much. She is neither Esther nor Polly Eccles, nor is she in the posi- ton of well-brought-up young lady we have been considering. But she is an admirable woman, in whatever station of fife her lot may be cast, and not a bit of a snob. For young lady travelling with company would be simply impossible, unless accompanied by her mother, CT by some trustworthy relative. 4 manageress might undertake the guardianship and execute the trust conscientiously. But this is an excep- tional case There is another point, and a very important one, to be considered, and that is the artistic temperament. If young lady of attractive personal appearance pos sesses histfionic talent, then in proportion to her talent will be her tempeFament.Sh She will be impulsive, passionate, impresslonabie, self-wiiled, impatient of control simple, con ddipg, and vain, but artistlcally Valn, and desilous of applause. She will be illogical, inconsistent, full of contradiction, fond of variety and unable to exist without excite ment. It only requires her to be genus tG be; dipped by the first schemer who throws himself in her way.