Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1888-09-01
FALLING ON the srAos.
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q Getting Hurt
'Wan4 70 know how W fallt' said the
beautiful, graceful woman. why, see.
this way. First your knee. and then your
hip. and than your shoulder. and you arc
down." and the graeeful figure VA prone
On the carpet With o~utstretched arms.
1vssy fold Of hr lace drapery In tho pref.
Nest possible place, not an inch Of her
ankle or gleam Of the snowy skirts va
visible. and tho falling has BEEN a. noise.
less and g1aesful % q buttsr6yis dip and
swoop down 70 tho heart Of 0 rose. Then,
With . supple grace and quick. agile
spring. she was On her fest In . second.
I'm this way-adsways, you So" and
with . dip and curve and sweep Of the
Lace drapesass. down she AoAtsd a swift
and noiselsss ~ . swallows downward
sweep. and abe lay appaxently lifeless,
With her faee hidden. Another little
spring and she doated backward into .
chair 20 limp and faint that even the
smile on her lips hardly treasured you
that Il wasn't an actual sudden faintness.
I'VE sre taught in tho schools, and
practice on . rug at home drst, you know;
and Of course we get many bruises while
learning. We fall frat to tho knee and
then to the hip. the shoulder. and down.
OF course We do this very slowly at first
and awkwaEdly. but We do It over and
over again until ono fall blends into the
other 20 completely that you cannot dis.
tinguish It. Oh. yes. 1t IL hard At first,
but Ill there 10 to It ID to take al the
Will out Of your body and collapse. Make
your muscles involuntary aud inspired
With the part you are playing. 20 that at
the proper time you Will fall almost un.
consciously. and then you won't DO hurt.
Our prompter tainted the other night,
and tell and hurt himself very badly.
Now. I could fall In . faint . hundred
times and not DO hurt-you see my fall 10
an unconscaously mechanical action. You
60 into . familiar room In the dark and
your body win unoonsciously take the
right direction to avoid coming In con.
tact with the objects In the room, 30 my
body takes the mechanical curve and
poise regulate TO avoid . hurt without
my thinking anything about II II I make
myself perfectly insFt-give myself al
up, you know.
~ have been hurt several times. Those
old osaa f.: !so;s. slSPins st. 81. were trsseh,
ing on an unfamiliar stage We were hurt
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ouos-almost broke II. Everything wa
dark for . minute, and then there asshei
out al the considerations known to man
and several moro that haven't bean dis
covered, but I went ON with my part am
no one knew. Then I had another fol
that made my hip black Ill over-though
that would never get we'll, for 1had Il
fall On u every night, No matter how 1
hurt.
"Ars We afraid Of bsing HURT Oh, no
We are constsntlyin danger. Great heav]
things are hanging ' our heads that
II some stage carpenter shall blundsr o.
some piece Of machinery break, woult
como down end make shoft work Of ~.
bad . heavy iron bar fall not four inches
from my face mes. and . man cut my
FOREHEAD With Q dagger. and Other people,
have accidents. bat We don't think any
thing about them after II u ovsr. Lax
nervous peoplson shipbosxd fancy bsfors
thsy sail thst thsy are eoiug to think Of
their danger III fhs ttns, bot two day.
ont thsy WI foegst Ill thsf fear and To-
- sats - On land 90 " throw our
solves down On the boards and roll Of
sofas snd down tss1aess and out Of chairs
knowing N mdsh4 break our bones, but
never thin6ng d. Il. No ono sver did
such Q fsaefuly dangerous thing a. that
1i0 Jsktse, t6p1gh II seemed strangt
The papsn &dntSpsak Of II before. Tor Il
Just seemed crual tor hse to endanese hen
hse health. and svsn hsr Life Just 70 MAXI
ooe moss funny point In The play.
"4su ssy Sometimes that women fell
more easily and lightly than thsy them.
solves. This may bs true, for women an
supple. 1.-the and elastic and not 10 tall,
for the fall u Just q mechanical. Psopls
only watch the pretty curves and grace.
ful sweep Of . woman's drspesy. and do
not SEQ the mechanical studied action
underneath. We doat down very grace.
fully. but the floating Il done q eecu.
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York Sun.