The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-06-28


present, lest woman in acquiring a taste for
intellectual pleasures should grow less domes-
tic, but one has only to walk through Glen
Echo to see what bosh that idea is. Nothing
is palmer to be seen there than that woman
is a woman still, although she attends two
concerts and three lectures every day of the
week, besides the C. L. S. c. The flies of
numerous tents at the Glen Echo grounds are
flung wide open at an hour of the day that
citizen would consider heathenish, but which
the tent dwellers pronounce 'heavenly," the
freshness and beauty of the dawn being upon
il all and the choir of early birds piping UP
merry melody as the sun comes up over the
hills, round-faeed and bathed in bushes of de-
light. The tent flies being flung open to catch
the early sunlight, one has an opportunity to
see how feminine the occupants are in spite of
the contiguity of Philosophy Hall. This is
what you may see: A pretty breakfast table
just as likely as not which is set in the fore
ground of the tent, with pot of wild posies
for a centre-piece, and the tent walls gay with
draperies, and tall lamps, and pretty rugs on
the floor, and easy chairs standing about.
Perhaps a couch and pillows piled high
are the framework of this domestic pict-
ure, where the cookery may or may
not have been prepared in corner of the rear
apartment. 1t is quite inconceivable how
muCn Iun anu ease can pe SObten OUT Oh the
unconventional life of tenting party. They
even stand the drenchingest rain falls, as of
last week, with nothing more inconvient than
a little dampness which the sunshine soon
dispels. This Glen is beginning now to put
on cityted airs, for broad board walk leads
from wide circular promenade to the
amphitheatre entrance; and we can get bed
or dinner with ice cream and soda, indeed
almost anything necessary for housekeeping,
in the Arcade where the merchants and
dealers have at last settled down into comfort
able quarters. 1t is one of the amusements of
THE HERALD reporter to watch this onward
march of improvement as it developes from
day to day.
The tents are increasing on the west side of
Minnehaha. Among the new ones is that of
Mr.. Edwin BaltZley, overlooking the amphi-
theatre, and across the way DR.. Ada Heilberger
is located. Her tent wears an air of womanly
refinement in its appointments that testifes to
her housewifely tastes. Mrs. NJ. S. Lock
woods tent, and the Woman's National Press
Association tent, come next in the line. Going
beyond the Red Cross Building, there is
cluster of tents in the cool bit of woodland
that overlooks the river, and the electric light
lines are running in front OF tent doors now in
every directions.
There are two well-known singers here,
Miss Gertrude Smith and Mrs. Jennie Hall
Smith. Both ladies are young and fair, and
public opinion is divided as to which is the
sweetest singer, since both are so good. They,
however. nave put IlSnU the Olu opinion
that one prima donna pitted against another
is always jealous and wants to scratch the
others eyes out. These two are good friends,
and openly admire each other and lead in the
applause at the close of a musical number.
They happened to be waiting the other morn
ing at that most intensely interesting spot
where the Glen Echoite receives his stipend
Of daily mail, and sitting together they de-
murely ate cherries out of a bag held by the
genial organist from Minnesota. When
prima donnas can do that criticism has to
veil her face and hold her tongue.
There is apparently no end to the good
things going on in the amphitheatre. DR..
j. Lafferty's lecture on slack of Luck with
Lee" was one of them during the early part
of last week. 1t was also treat to hear
Thomas Nelson Page read "Edinburg's
Drowndin'," !" and greater pleasure to see the
man. When ones fame is established those
who never heard of you before the lucky
hit, or who do not care a rap
for you, personally, consider it privilege to
see the men who wrote those entertaining
things, especially the writer's of the dialect
stories of our time. Thomas Nelson Page Is
a Virgipian, himself, from top to toe. His
accent, manner, and use of coloquialisms,
not set down in the books, show how satur-
ated his personality is with his native en-
vironment. He has fair skin, sandy hair, and
the blue-gray eye of intellect with the caress
ing cadence of voice, which is typcally
Southern of the masculine gender. He also
III Ills MIlGnRb DTluSb OUT lue WdrIn, SenSuOuS,
and refined pleasure-loving temperament of
the South. He seems to do this unconsciously.
The sentimental and gay cavalier, the lover of
adventure, and the hot-headed Southerner sits
in the saddle with all these fiery arrows in his
bow ready tipped for action on the slightest
proyocation.
On the same day that Mr.. Page closed his
lecture Jane Mead Weleh began course on
'Amercan History" that is full enough of
solid meat to satisfy the most masculine of
tastes. Miss Wech is somewhere on the
debatable land between youth and maturity,
and without being handsome she has a dark
eyed, fine, and intellectual face, with very
pretty even white teeth. Her manner of
standing when speaking is not Delsar-
tian, but her statements are so clear that
one forgets that in what she has to
say. She enjoys the enviable distinction
ished friends, and she owes much of her pres
ent prestige 30 that aniable womans bringing
her out before New York audience last sea
son. Good backing is not to be despised,
however brilliant ones original gifts Miss
Welch is an evidence of Mrs. Cleveland's
sound judgment.
The Georgetown Orchestra, with its many
stringed instruments in the hands of musical
experts, was much enjoyed on Tuesday even
ing, and to foreigners the fact OF there being
young ladies among the performers added tc
the zest OF their enjoyment, and now that
Alice Raymond has successfully conquered the
cornet it only remains for some Venturesomt
maid to tackle the big horns, when the whole
band Will have to surrender. Speaking o.
bands, Rogers Band, which is stationed here
Is an excellent one, but they cap the climax O
their popularity when they play the fantasia
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