Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-14
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
THE burlesque actress and the ballet man
age to keep tight hold on the public.

THE burlesque actress and the ballet man.
| age to keep tight hold on the public.
FRIVOLOUS, aren't we? It's hop, skip and
| jump now over the old roadway our fathers
| and their fathers trod with deliberation and
| resignation. The river is high. the stream is
wide, the current is swift and the boat is grand,
| SO we sail away on the sea Of night.
| on the ocean of day, without exam
| lining the papers of the pilot, with
out closely scanning the chart without
| counting the life preservers, without inspect
ing the steam gauges without looking at the
| barometer, without overhauling the lifeboats
| or untangling the life lines. Care seems to
| perch high and sorrow is sent to the hold. With
| matches battened down, the weather side of the
ship protected from sudden gusts and combers,
we snuggle down in the saloon and, wrapped in
| the thought-proofn cloak woven by pleasure
the woof joy the warp sorrow-defy the ele-
ments which give life while destroying it
Some of course, dive down, but most of US
are satisfied to dip our wings in the froth of
the sea and dry our wet feathers in the sun
bathed air. The divers get the pearls.
to be sure, but who wears themY
Why, those who stand on the shore
and smell the flowers, pick up the
shells, scrawl their names in the sand, build
mud forts for the sun to harden and the waves
to wash away, of CO urse. One labors the other
plays; one fasrs, the other feasts: one pats the
mold around the roots of the plant, the other
crushes the petals and inhales the sweet
odors; one thinks. the other enjoys
the thought; one strives, the other
thrives; one lives the other dies. And SO life
goes and iows-so 1t binds and weaves. He
who handles the shuttle and colors the yarns
makes the soft carpet on which others
tread noiselessly. He who dives down to
the pearls and opens the shells let's you
polish, string and set them. So both are salts
fed. Like children with a new toy, the pos
SCISSOR is no better off than his associates who
enjoy it. Hence all are satisfied. We haven't
got time to think about the struggle which
its production may have cost, or what we
would have missed had it been lost. In Its en-
joyment all else is forgotten. Frivolous sailors
we on life's wide, rough sea, caring not how.
where or when the anchor Is dropped, SO long
as the winds blow free and we ride on the crest
of the wave whose white foam hides the grave.
THE average legislator does not believe that
one coed act deserves another.
THE battle ground has been shifted from Pine
Ridge to New Orleans. The Louisiana author
tiles should surround the savages and force
them to surrender.
JOHNNY BULL has turned the tables on
Blaine. and transferred the Bering Sea snarl
from diplomatic to court circles. The justices
are expected to render sealed verdict.
THE prize-fghter who cannot write always
makes his mark by dotting the eyes.
IT looks as if Padlewski had gone to meet
| Tascott.
THE signal of distress is flying all over old
Europe, but the horn of plenty is still with
young America. Here the food is not taken
out of the mouths of the hungry to feed
| courtiers and soldiers.
THE poor do not need looking-glasses to see
| themselves starve to death.
A GOOD penman can scratch his way through
| the world.
THE State Legislature has recognized the
| weaker sex. 1t has selected corps Of scrub
| women.
KISSES sent in letters by lovers are undoubt-
loIl, HI a1I4rr, o1ra