The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-19

/ AANNA 1OAg 1911 ~ HUGH luLGTeSLCu III bHlS
performance, that an encore resulted, and
then he sang something alone about a gal
liant lover who died for her, and she came
in on the chorus about a noble maid who
lived for him. Whichever way you fix it,
she got the better. because she could live
and be a widow while he would be where
he expressed such desire to go-in the
cold ground.
''vOGEER'' AND LEMONADE.
Then we had a selection on the violin
I must mention that we have a great deal
of home talent. haven't anything
against the young man that played the
viOlin-he was graduated at Princeton,
and is studying medicine-but did feel
sorry for the fiddle itself. He made it
squeak and howl and bring out frightful
yells and act altogether as il it were pos
sessed of various demons. Then when he
got through. he said the piece was by
Wagner. He called it ''Vogner," which,
of course, showed at once what q great
musician he was, and how little we knew.
After this there came lemonade. 1t
was needy sadly. l never before knew
just how much a small boy could take.
| One. to my certain knowledge. drank
seven tum oilers empty, and l never saw
him return the glass, consequently ! am
| forced to believe chat he swallowed it. 1t
! is dreadful thing to see a magnificent
thirst like this wasted on a small boy
The remainder Of the programme was
! literary. A lady who doesn't believe in
| cOrsets, or anything that is frivolous,
| cheered US by reading a poem called
| The Hearse," calculated to harrow the
feelings OF any mothers present. and to
give Nightmares to nervous women. For
tunately for me l can say, as Sidney
Smith did, that, though l may ride an
occasional nightmare, l don't keep a sta
BILE of them, so l was spared Then the
wit of the hOnep tho fnrnnu oil
ecdotes and conundrums, and made US
more conscious of the fact that he had
been born out Of his time, and that he
ought to have lived when even STUPID
fools were accepted at courts. After this
came the collection. 1t was a curious
thing, but everybody hid what they put
IN. Nobody wished to make another feel
badly if she couldn't give as much as her
neighbor. To my certain knowledge seven
ladies said confidently that each had given
dollar, number told me that they had
given 80 cents, and yet when the money
was counted there was only 1857 for the
coral beads and Bibles. 1 don't pretend
to understand it, but then was never
good at arithmetic.
After the collection we
RETURNED TO THE PIANO,
and lady who keeps it in order by prac-
ticing all day gave US selection. never
y
man near me said that Dante heard it
Just before he returned to Florence,
whilc he was visiting in q place that po-
| lite people don't mention. This lady
| played all over. Her body shook, her
| feet worked first on one pedal and then
on the other, her hands danced up and
| down, and the piano shook as If fright
ened out of its senses. We all felt that
this was high art, and when the per-
| former made her bow, the audience APP
| plauded rapturously, and every woman
| took an opportunity later on to say to the
| fair goddess of music. IT enjoyed it so
/ much l could not give you vulgar APP
| plause." And she smiled and bowed as
/ If she had never heard this said before
| AT last the musicale ended. and we went
| to bed, and an hour later | heard two old
| darkies singing some plantation songs,
ana the amount of feeling they threw in
| the words, and the sweetness of their
voices, would not, am afraid, have been
| as much appreciated by the performers
| OF the musicale as it was by me, yet it
] brought tears to my eyes.
WHY THERE WERE NO TABLEAux.
Before the musicale there had been a
| thought of having tableaux, but, owing
TO the fact that every girl in the house
| wanted to stand with her best young
| man in the position of the "Huguenot
Lovers" it had to be given up. I'm
doubtedly, it would have been interesting
to have had a succession of the same
pictures, though it might have proved to
be monotonous. One wicked young man
was more than anxious to do it, for, as
he put it, he wanted to see how many
different kinds of a fool young men in
love could make Of themselves. Getting
up entertainments at summer places is
about as thankless a job as any one
ever undertook. In the first place, the
number of infant prodigies who are will
ing to exhibit is wonderful, and the num-
Der of indignant mammas who announce
that they will leave the house unless
| their children are in the show is equally
| great. Certainly, it is beautiful to see
young people, especially very young ones,
devoted to music and literature, but one
can't but wonder why they don't try
| their ability on
AN AUDIENCE OF DOGS
| rather than on one of human beings
| Because my baby daughter happens to
drum out a popular tune on the piano,
| and my son and heir accompanies her
| on the mouth organ, is that any reason
why must intiict their accomplishments
on my neighbor2 If a visiting niece of 10
is given over to saying smart things, shall
| my day be spent in retailing them to my
| neighoor who is interested in her novel?
| Have you, or /, or anybody else any RICH
| whatever to foist bad music, worse sing
| ing and tiresome stories on the world at
| large2 Not the slightest Your children
or mine are interesting to us,
but unless they are quiet and polite and
kept out of the way, the world at large
| finds them very troublesome. That a
mother should love her child and feel
proud of her is only human but that she
| should expect every other woman to
| share her feeling is ridiculous. Children
| cease to be children and cease to be
lovable when they are developed into
bores by being put on exhibition. OF
course, it is the mothers who are to
blame; but the world does not always
stop TO consider that.
Oh, FOR REALLY GOOD CHILDREN.
like good child. but rather than see
one that is connected with me bother peo-
pie by asking questions, giving them
headaches by banging on the piano, or
making them wish that poets had never
lived by giving recitations, would con-
! duct that child uDstairs and ont Herod