Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-11-10
BOSTON LETTER.

buch confession coming from q Benuoman
who is sin society,"" shows considerable In
trepidity on his part. For, be 1t known that
the symphony concerts on Friday afternoons
and Saturday evenings are Bostons especial
hobbies 1t is thought In some quarters to be
a desecration TO speak Ill Of these concerts. 1t
isvery much 'the thing" to be irregular attend
ant. And how anyone can no clearly prove bis
utter nothingness by confessing an inability
to appreciate this sort of thing Is quite beyond
the ken Of some afIectedly fashionable
people.
A Well-KnOwn Literary Gentleman
overheard the above confession and gave the
following advice. 81 was In your predlcs-
ment exactly some years ago. went TO the
symphonies to see the people, and partly,
suppose, because my wife wanted to go.
did not know anything about music,-couid
not play, read, or sing. After a while con-
cluded that would learn 10 understand high
class music. SO l simply put myself In
receptive mood and allowed the sounds 10
produce their effects on me. l ignored the
other people in the hall entirely. Now and
tain facts with which WAS familiar. These
helped me to get an idea Of what the com
poser was driving at. To cut long story
short, soon found that understood ana ap-
preciated classic music. Any intelligent per
son can do the same. l count on the sym
phony concerts now as one Of my greatest
pleasures during the winter months
A Serio-Comic Enlistment
was the result Of the Brazilian troubles on Sat
urday night last week During the day 1t had
been .so1orted on the water front that one Of
the staunch steamers OF the Metropolitan line
either the Herman Winter or the II. +.
| Dimmock-had been bought by Brazil for
use as cruiser An advertisement In
morning paper had called for few generals
admirals, navgators, engineers and defeated
prize fighters ''to enlist at once for Brazil
via Liverpool US cattlemen, bring along your
small arms, rations and clothing" large
crowd surrounded the place OF enlistment on
Commercial street. They all wanted to be
generals and admirals. About three hun
dred men registered and at night they
were marched up and down Atlantic
avenue ito learn to keep step.
Then they were dismissed to meet
again on Monday, when they would be taken
to Apple Island aid each man paid 200 as
bounty. The whole thing proved to be
Joke, though for while 1t was taken seriously
by the men who spent their money lavishly
In the North End resorts in view OF their
great expectations. When they found out
that they had been duped, a number OF them
proceeded to break in the windows OF the
store where they had been enlisted, and to
show their disapprobaton Of such treatment
in other ways. But while they we're march
ing they created considerable excitement
and recalled to some extent the scenes OF the
early sixties.
The Divine Patti
Is once more within our borders. She is
making another OF her perennial last appear
ances. We shall all go to see and hear her
again, because it will certainly be the last op-
portunty, though we won't eyince any sur
prise when she comes around next season,
She NAV sing whatever opera she chooses.
, and all the sweet old songs, and we won't be
able to tell whether she has a fine voice still
or not. We shall simply know that this Is
the great Patti, and 80 shall close
, our eyes and listen, and then applaud
her vociferously. Such Is fame. But
. 1t is not wonderful that this woman
Of sixty is able to look 80 young, act 80 young
and sing so sweetly? She accounts for her
apparently everlasting youth by the fact that
she takes such good care OF herself. At the
Parker House where she puts up when in
: Boston, she has billiard table in one of the
rooms OF her suite where she daily exercises
by game with her husband or friends.
Her care for her voice is illustrated by
the fact that she takes cup Of
A chocolate In the morning before
speaking word or endangering her yoca
2 organ by any possible contact with the 600
d air. She Is wonderfully well preserved
woman.
PIaygOers Are Ali Agog
o over the Kendalls this week at the Hollis
Mr.. and Mrs Kendall are not the cause of tn
talk directly. They are all right In themselve
and are accepted In very high social circles
1t is Pinero's play, "The Second Mira Tanque
5 ray" that causes the excitement. New Yor
saw the performance and pronounced 1t I'm
moral Although several noted critics pro
81 nounced 1t the strongest play produced In tn
N last half Of this top-heavy century, the New Yor
people said 1t was very unbecoming in Mr.
Kendall, who has been such an exemplar O
8, purity on the stage, to appear In the role Q
Paula Ray. Boston has said that the YER
W fact that Mrs. Kendall played the part prove
that 1t is not an improper character, 80 pop
es ular is she in Boston. Thus the old questio
Is brought up again, ais the theatre tn
~ n. teacher or the reflector Of public moral
"A Arguments are handed back an
g, forth. In the meantime, the Ho
- - Lis Street theatre Is packed to th
IN doors, and "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray"
6, easily the best advertised play on the board
~ today.
K The Other Theatres
~ are not lacking either IN the quality OF thai
.ly attractions or In numbers OF beholder
"venus" Is proving such an unexpected SUI
lr- cess that preparations are already being mad
ed al for the Tooth performance. New songs and In
or provements In the cast have greatly enhance
al the beauty and mirth-proyoking qualities
this comic opera. The Lillputians In "a Tn
IRE to Mars," are at tho Treuont "a Lady
"' Venice" holds the boards at the Globe, to
.is followed next week by Wilson Barrett, h
English actor In "virginius." 'The BlaC
d, Crook, at tho Boston, and Pauline Hall
~ tho "iIoneymooners" at tho Columbia .
X. both doing u good business. Lovers
% melodrama may take their okoioe betwe,
% "Tho Danger signal" at the Grand Ops