The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
MINOR MENTION.

teachers that the length of their purses by no
means corresponds with the length of the
summer vacation Stretch the useful article as
they will it is apt to reach the last hopeless stage
of attenuation before the holiday is done and
September and salary come again. Various
methods, more or less successful, have been
devised for bridging the gap, but the efforts to
earn money in a legitimate way during play
time are so uniformly discouraging that the wise
teacher soon gives over the attempt, and has
recourse to his uncle-it is she" who gets
stranded most frequently-or mortgages his
salary. Mr.. Sweaton, a New York professor
IN the pubic schools, had not learned
wisdom when the approaching end Of his vaca-
ton found him without sufficient funds to tide
himself and wife over the remaining time without
discomfort He decided to borrow" to be sure
he called it borrowing-but his method, though
unique on the part of a school teacher, is not to
be recommended. He addressed letter to a
certain hotel-keeper and informed that person
that he knew damaging facts concerning him
and certain young lady. If the hotel-keeper
would lend him, the writer, one hundred dollars
the facts would not be divulged, otherwise they
would go to the newspapers and the families Of
himself and the young woman. Mr. Sweaton. who
represented himself as a private detective and
and signed himself Williams" excused this
request for money by the statement that he was
in financial strait and would regard the
hundred dollars if received, as a loan to be
repaid within four months, at per cent inter
est. Instead of sending the money by bearer,
as desired the hotel proprietor wrote note
requesting an interview and went to the place
designated in company with police officer.
When the guileless and unsuspecting instructor
of youth walkedin and placed under arrest ne was
completely overcome confessing everything and
cut short, and his future prospects ruined Mr.
Sweaton will hardly be expected to recommend
matchmaking as vacation pastime to other
members of his profession.
IF Rev. Edward Everett Hale's ideas are to
prevail in the matter of church music it behooves
choir leaders to get religion" without delay.
Mr.. Hale thinks the leader of choir should be
as pious as the pastor. Just how the matter is
to be gagged the promugator of the idea does
not state but a commission something the
civilservice plan, will doubtless have to be
organized in each church to examine the musical
candidate and measure the degree of piety to
which he has attained. There should be, and
generally is, in every religious organiza-
ton, a high-water mark of piety in
the person of some good brother or sister by
which the applicants, both clerical and choral,
can be tested. If no member of sufficiently high
religious requirements can be agreed upon, the
traditions concerning some saint who has gone
before can be made to serve as measure.
Church Quantities usually know very little
about music, but they are generally good Judges of
the amount Of piety other ought people to possess
if they do not and cannot be depended upon to
choose choir which is devout ey en- if it can't sing
worth a cent. Not, us he good singer" but
us he wicked sinner" is the question to
be propounded concerning the future leader of
sacred song when the latest ChautauQua notion
shall prevail. Probably Mr. Hae's belief is that
the silyery tenor voice, when raised in a hvmn
of praise, will carry the hearers closer to heay-
ems gate if the singer loves the Lord 1t is by
no means certain, either, that the Rev. Hale is
not right in his theory. At all events the ladies
of choirs usually need religion badly enough.
and whether their musical abilities are helped bv
Its possession or not to get it. and that soon will
be excellent thing for them and the churches
where they perform
ABOUT this time of year look out for glowing
and gushing advertisements and press notices of
young and aspiring actresses who are about to
electrify the world with their respective rendi-
tons of Juliet. If the reading public put i'm
plicit faith in these representations it would be
filed with establishment at the number of gifted
young women who are annually filled with a de-
termination to interpret Juliet to the world,
each according to her own highly original and
unique conception of the part. Long and sad
experience, however, has led wary readers to
delay all rejoicing tho rise of the stars until
later returns prove cOnclu, lively whether or not
they are Of the boosted first magnitude A little
later than this time of year experience has
taught them to look out fer report, or a series
of them equaling in number the Julets. which,
in figuratlve sense, may be compared to dull
thud, being nothing less than the discovery by
were not genuine, but were meteors which had
flashed up once and swiftly gone out of sight
1t is a little early in the season, but one ambi-
tlous juliet has already eSsayed her flight in
New York and has met the usual fate. Although
her name is Moore she will be heard of no more;
but others, undaunled by her failure, will ven
ture where unquestioned genius has hesitated to
tread
THE deep concern displayed by a number of
esteemed contemporaries over ''the decline of
marriage gives rise 20 the suspicion that large
stock Of mittens has accumulated among the
personal belongings of the respective editors.
TO-DAY closes the month of formal mourning
for General Grant Over 100000 has already
been subscribed for Grant monuments at various
points, which, while not all that was hoped, is
not a bad showing.
VERY few departments of science, philosophy
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