Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-01-08

h:.ir snrsrsd 10 have caaght The g1eam OF
a dy1ux Day IN October. Hs was just
the kind If luan - szaiD . Low. dirty.
drunken. imported nanrtszer mad. he
looked 30 cool and clean aad sweet
he had bean At Hurley running shotsl-
He had worn white vest ons day last
summer tn niarkes, also = tai hak He
did not set his marketing. but 10 got
wealth OK tobacco juice on hs white vest,
and his hat Wa found On the roof u the
otera house after ten days had sped ON
winged wings.
Hurley has seven or eight opera houses
which are open every day in tho year.
The audiences are enstrei esnan folks, and
opera glasses are nos called for. The
Sabbath is set aside as day for recover
ing from tho Saturday night debauch.
but the recovery also requires Monday,
and even Tuesday forenoon The Hurley
Jag has . worldwide reputation and
speaks Tor itself. :
Social matinees are held In the morn
ing 10 accommodate the miners who
work at night and cannot see society ex-
cept In tho daytime Men wear their
hats and smoke Gable tobacco g. to-
bacco that one can smoke III Wisconsin
and smell in Europe. Wearing their
hats at these theatrical performances Is
u cheap imitation Of the custom among
i'll hammered ladies, but tho tobacco
habit they have picked up out Of their
own heads
The opera is in the line Of comic opera
and consists OF varied specialties and Is
played by artists who wear thin property
clothes on tho street. and their tights
when on the stage show how high their
boot legs como when they are dressed Cor
the street.
The girl who sings about the picture
that was turned toward the wall has an
.Eoiean nose. through which she sings a
sad Law. She stands on tho outside Of
her feet as she MARBLES. and there are
traces of sadness ON her face. also traces
Of iron orc around her waist. Possibly
some one has loved her-some man under
the influence of drink, i mean-and with
his iron covered arm has clasped her ore
and ore. only to DO repulsed impatiently
by those thoughtless words, ''Oh, go and
chase yourselfr'
And SO he has gone away, leaving her
there alone TO face all those people and
sing and try to be gay. Girls ought to
be more careful what they say to men
who are intoxicated.
once knew of young lady who told
a man to avaunt under those circum-
stances, and now, although she is happy
and wealthy, she is an old maid.
How much better il is to have some
one you can call your own. no matter
how worthless and low, than to be an
old madi
Hurley is gay and lively with its for
eign tongues heard here and there, the
merry music of the orchestra Of tho
nearest theater and the duh thud that
strikes ones ear as he is richly repaid for
wearing eyeglasses on the street or WHIP
ing his nose with q handkerchief
can imagine a sweet voiced onjene,c
girl elocutionist reading one Of Brown
ing's poems here to these great, strong,
manly fellows who wear whiskers wher-
ever they happen TO spring up. and who
drink to excess.
We did not play Hurley.
Iwould not mind playing the Siberian
tallow candle circuit, but Hurley does
not appreciate real art.
Opposite to as one day In Pullman
there was n pair of newly welded people.
was reading, but the story was too
massive for me, treating Of fin de cycles
and one thing or another, and Of living
for a purpose, and of getting firm grasp
ON the tail of the age in which we live.
and SO forth, and thus ] sort of listened
to tho bright and childlike talk of the
two sweet things cuddled up there to-
gether, with her little gray gloved hand
now and then gliding through his
whiskers in such way as to make him
feed that he was one great solid mass Of
whiskers. whereas he only had little
''siders." which looked like ear muffs
that had worked forward.
''And so we go to New Orleans, Am
brose?" she asked as she opened her now
travelling bag and took out new cake of
soap 10 smell OF.
Yes said Ambrose, scowling at the
toe Of his new boot, which was hurting
him. Judge. 1--WE take the Q. and G.
from Cincinnati. or we take the luxuri-
ocs Illinois Central, which has such cum
ming little depots al along its line. and
we viii spend a week in New Orleans"