The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-26
Correspondence of THE SUNDAY HERALD.

CritlC.
Correspondence OF THE SUNDAY HERALD.
New YORK, April pa don't believe that
the men of this world are credited with being
half as good as they are. The natural instinct
of man is to have home and companion.
Nine times out of ten, instead of this, he has
a ballroom in a boarding-house, and he has
to take whatever company he can. Very often
he knocks round, here, there, and everywhere,
for while, then some day he meets woman
who is more or less pleasant and who has the
art of making him feel contented, and he de-
votes most of his time after that to her.
Everybody holds up their hands in horror, and
yet if you boil the whole thing down you find
out that the poor chap did as he was doing be-
cause he was lonely. Then why don't women
get lonely? Well, they do; but the woman in
the same position in life gets into her room,
remembers that her frock needs new binding;
she is crocheting pair of slippers, and she is
going to write letter home, and as she has
usually done considerable talking during the
day, she is not consumed with the desire to
salk all evening. The man, however, as nat
urally longs for the companionship of a
woman when he is lonely as he does for water
when he is thirsty; real thirsty, the sort of
thirst that only water satisfies l don't see
any remedy for it.
MODERN LIFE IN BoARDING-HoUsEs.
The unfortunate wretch says m"rriageis too
expensive and the average woman keeps on
making him believe that. He don't see any
possibility of making home in boarding
house, which is about as difficult to do as to
make home on the top of Cleopatra's Needle.
People have been happy in boarding houses,
but they can't make homes there. Homes are
not made for the multitude, and that's the
reason cooperative housekeeping will never be
a success. You know where it is success
Well, then there is something wrong with the
people. But can't help thinking about that
young man. He may be your son or mine,
and his excuse for whatever he does, that of
loneliness, is pitiful one l can't offer the
remedy. l can only say to people who have
homes, think of this boy once in while and
let him into the charmed circle, make him as
far as possible one of yourselves, let him see
good women and kind women, so that he
won't ask as did one wretched young fellow,
'Are there any good women in the world ?''
And when some one said has mother he
answered with sigh, "Oh, of course, but then
mother don't count"
THE WOMAN WHO is POPULAR.
Part of the trouble is that in great desire
to be clever and charming the average woman
forgets to be comfortable, and it is the COM
Portable woman who keeps mankind straight
She mayn't know very much about Darwin or
Homer, but the woman who knows how to saw
and do pleasant thing, the woman who knows
how make man feel at ease, is the one who
is going to have the greatest control over him.
There is here woman who is not particularly
beautiful, who barely speaks decent English,
and who is said to have the most marvellous
power over men. Fortunes have come to her.
and everybody has wondered why. l had the
curiosity to ask man who knew her. / said
''There are five hundred women who are better
looking, thousands who are better educated
and yet about this woman the men gather as
the bees do about the sugar. What's the Sc
eret?' And he answered: GA pleasant man
ner. She always has an agreeable greeting
when you meet her, she is sufficiently full of
tact to put an end to disagreeable topic, and
no man ever saw her out of temper. She's
thoroughly comfortable" Now there, nv
friends, is a,woman for you to initiate in some
things 1t is the old story of the charmeuse
not of necessity being lovely to look upon.
4 HINT FOR THEATRICAL MANAGERS.
Do you go much to the theatre? If you do
have you noticed the tendency to present plays
in which hereditary diseases are made the sub
jects of great importance? And don't you
think that it is absolutely dreadful? We all
like to go to laugh at farce, to mix tears and
laughter at a good melodrama, to see virtue
triumphant and vice conquered, but we don't
go to hear heroine give the full details of
hereditary insanity, or pathetically cough
through five acts and dilate on the horrors of
consumption. A manager shows lack of bust
ness tact when he presents such play He
does not know who in that audience he is hit
ting. There are few families that have not had
either consumption or insanity somewhere in
them, and the woman who may be crying next
to me is not crying because of the play, but is
crying because it brings up to her such dread
full memories and such horrible thoughts
When she goes home you can be very sure she
is going TO keep the rest of the family from
going there. She doesn't want everybody else
to have their feelings hurt as hers have BEEN
and that's why il shows lack of business
knowledge TO put such play before the pub
lie.
4 THEATRES WORST BOOMERANG.
Nobody would invite friend who wished to
have merry evening To the dissecting-room
IF a hospital, and Yet that's exactly what's
done when a sensitive woman is taken to see
one of these medical horrors inappropriately
called plays. Have motive in your play if
you wish. But let it be moral, not ply
sical one. Dilate as much as you please
ABOUT the wrong Of lying, Of stealing, of kill