Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-24
THE TOPICAL TALKER,

Short Prayers for the Heuted Term-A say.
ton Who Wished TO be Prayed For
The Heroine Was Lost Whhout Her
Cue Ono Man Whom the Heat Re-
joices.
As the pastor of a certain Presbyterian
Church was walking home after the morn.
ing service few Sundays ago, one of his flock.
a pillar of the church and a privileged char.
acter stepped up to him, and after the ems.
tomary greetings, said: "Dr. do Won
know how long your prayer was this morn.
ing?"
':No, really do not" the good man replied.
make a guessp'
"Four or five minutesF'
mo, over fifteenr'
II did not time myself. and L suppose the
prayer was too long,"
"This hot weather it is"
"Well, PT cut it short next Sabbath. butt
continued DR.. -, "this is not the first time
that complaint has been made to me about the
length Of the prayer, though the complainant
in the previous instance objected, If anything
to its brevity. 1t was the sexton of my first
charge, church in a little country town who
approached me in the church lobby after the
morning service. He said, after beating about
the bush o little: You'll excuse me- sir, if
ands fault with the prayer you made this morn
ing.'
Certainly, Mr.. replied, What was
wrong with it% why. sir, you prayed for
the United States, Pennsylvany the President,
the church. the congregation, the sunday
school, Mrs. Jones who's sick, an yourself. but
you never even mentioned the sexton. Now if
Pm not worth praying for I'll resign"
DRAMATIC authors have many trials; the
actors are one Of them. The actors may
reply. and with justice no doubt, that they
have many trials, and that playwrights are not
the least of them.
few weeks before the Bijou Theater closed
was present at the rehearsal of play that
will be seen here next season. 1t is unneces-
sary to particularize further. The rehearsal
went smoothly enough until the third act was
reached. The act was opened by the heroine
who had to come on the stage alone and bewail-
ing her misfortunes in a manner becoming
heroine with nearly two acts of misery befor
her. But instead of presenting pretty pitch
of grief, the pretty girl who played the heroine
walked on with her hands by her sides and a
composed look of vacuity upon her face.
That's not 1t at all,' said the author sharply.
You ought TO bury your face in your hands
and jerk out your lines between sobs," and the
author gave masculine imitation of feminine
grief.
"Yes; know" said the actress, "but can't
do it."
"Why not" asked the author.
because I've got no cuer' And that was
the excuse she stuck to. OF course she could
have no cue but the rising of the curtain, for
hers were the first words spoken in the act. It
may be added that silent grief was substituted
for the opening lines.
EVERYBODY abused the weather yesterday
1t may not have been the hottest day
Pittsburg has known for years. but the heat
affected more people more unpleasantly than
has happened for long while.
A half dozen men stood at the corner of D1a-
mond and w ood streets after luncn yesterday
and kicked alb out the weather. They were all
prosperous men. of the sort that have adipose
tissue and cash to spare, and they kicked vigor-
ousy, as such men do when solemnly COM
PEELED. All but one. He wiped his moist brow
and sponged OF his neck as the others did, but
he kept saying: "Well, the weather suits me
well enough gentlemen; it suits mel'
And as he left them still swearing at the
.eather. they looked after him with black envy
IN their eyes.
He deals in icei