The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-02
Bah SEEKS CULTURE.
SEE DOESN'T Xix THE GLEN
EC4O CHAUTAUQUA.

Corssts and How ne LoCks-WEere
Flies We're Plenty and Milk Served
in Shaving Cups-Art Is Made W lille
You Wait Tent Life Among ~Cul-
tured" Women Why the Women
Needed Phy5cal Culturs-Two Kinds
OF Reli2ion-Tce Skim Milk of Life.
TIE ARLINGTON, WASHINGTON, Aug.
IL am back here in Washington, where l
can get go1d things to eat, where | can have
pleasant drives, and find interesting people.
1t isn't bad way to spend cur summer, by
the-by, to have pleasant headquarters, and
then go tramplng around seeing pleasant
places.
IN SEARCH OF CULTURE.
My first experience was in search of cult
ure. 1t had teen brought upon me, with a
force of bucket Of cold water, that hadn't
the kind Of culture that scorned pretty
frocks, thought corsets Au abomination, the
history of my country as necessary to life
as bread and butter, or now to sketch in the
open air. blessing far above the knows
edge of how to maGe good cup of coffee.
For one whole morning | bemoaDed my
lack of culture. Then man came t. the
rescue. Do you know that all through il is
generally a man that does come to the res
Cucf Anu lie bhlu. lIbb US no huu SOCK
culture" And we went.
THERE WERE PLENTY OF FLIES.
We went over one of the most beautiful
reads mag Unable, to a place called Glen
Echo. where culture is d0sed out according
to the capacity of the adult, and where
children under 10 can imbibe culture for
nothing. When we cot there, a sort Of gong
and dance culture business had Just been
finished. ] suppose the Glen Echo school Of
culture would object to its being called that,
but it was some sort of musical selections
done on tumblerS while a man read things
that he had written himself We were too
late for this, and we felt that, at last, Provi-
dence was good to the Irish. So we roved
around, the man and |, and saw
how people lived cultured lives,
learned to be great and noble My friend,
l don't believe that you and | will
be put at the head Of the class for greatness
and mobility, If we have goS to live that
sort Of life to obtain these virtues There
we're lot of tents, and in them we're visi-
BILE very crude household arrangements,
Observation-Disclosures beds, untidy looking
women and few disconsolate children,
who seemed TO find good in nothing. And
flies On my honor, l think flies are more
eager for culture than people are, for
there we're about 500 flies to every person,
and they we much more active in their
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women who sacrificed their good looks that
they might grow wise. l don't thiuk cult
ure and family life, that is culture as ex-
pressed at Glen Echo, are harmonious.
ART MADE WHILE YOU WAIT.
The man who was my leader has lean
ing himself toward good pictures aud good
plaster casts, SO with the eyes of several
wise women upon me, disappearing eyes
eyes that said: Young woman, come
away from the folly of cool looking frooks
and white paraSolS, and the support of a
man, ana learn of the sweetness that come
from dramatic and humorous readings
from chorus concerts, from stereopticon
lectures. and from such culture as can only
be gair cd here" with these eyes upon us we
went into the fine art tent, and conde-
scendiug young woman showed me an old
woman modelling boys head aud q
younger woman modelling something else:
probably by this time she has made up her
mind what it shall be. The man who was
with me, wishing to be polite, told the old
woman, who ought to have known better,
that she had the boys hair down to a fine
point. Now, that boys hair had been cut
by clipping machine, and COW could
have modelled it with her hind foot. Ho@-
ever, 1t was taken as a compliment, and
the young woman who was showing us
about, and who evidently felt sorry because
we we're not like her. said that it was the
old lady's second attempt. Though, blythe
by. she dldn't say the odd LADY, she said
her" That is one popularity of culture In
tents. You are Invariably expected to know
who he and she, and her and him, are. titles
or names being counted as of no worth.
THE GIRL LONG SOUGHT FOR.
The Young Indy who know it all then in
formed US that she went ont sketchino every
afternoon, and looked at her and | thought:
"Grscious, goodness, she is the girl all over
the United States who writes to the mapn-
zines and puts two questions, and she always
joins them and says: Are you a Christian.
and what will remove frecklesP" I had
bsen looking for her for years. l had
found her at last, and feel perfectly GER
tain that those are the questions uppermost
in her mind at all times
MILK IN SHAVING CUPS.
At Glen Echo, If you are thirsty. Won
can get lemonade that was made in the time
when men were giants, aud which has
weakened as they have, with civilization;
you can also get milk; we took milk. and
! we little knew what we were doing when
we ordered it. 1t was served to us in shay
ing mugs, and my masculine companion
said he felt as if he was chewing lather.
while had u sensation of having swallowed
a razor. To aid culture, they have fur
niture shop, a grocery shop and a cigar
shop; the last was rather a shock to me. as
| didn't know the extremely cultivated who
lived in tents believed III the soothing infiu-
ence Of smoke.
LOOKING BACKWARD AT THAT SCENE.
When we got away from there looked at
the man, and the man looked at me, and
said he: what do you think Of itF' Idont
know whether il was the razor in the milk
that gave me the courage, or just what it
was. but l answered as bravely as possible:
sit is fraud YES answered he. ''but
some people like itn II know they do.n
said /: "but some people like to murder and
steal, and be bad fathers and bad mothers.
bad housakeepers and bad cooks, but that is
no reason why right-tbinking people should
approve OF it.n Then he leaned back in the
carriage with an air of polite martyrdom,
and announced his willingness to hear nv
opinion of Glen Echo. OF course, it was
the only Chautauqua I had ever been to,
still l had an opinion, and gave it to him
woMAN's IDEA OF 1T.
First, the adjectives that describe il are
dirty, tiresome and improper. You saw
the dirt you saw the evident effort to live
in the untidy way that a certain type of
women think geniuses prefer, making clean
Illness of SO little moment that Won know
it will be many long day before they reach
goodness 1t was tireso he because they had
only lust enough culture to make them
think they knew everything, and it hadn't
vet dawned on them how little
they did know, and what con-
summate fools they were to permit their
appearance as dainty women to be sacrificed
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