Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-08-23

stupid fools were accepted at courts. |
After this came the collection. II was |
q 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 GER
tain knowledge seven ladies said conf
IDENTIFY that each had given a dollar, a
number told me that they had given so
cents, and yet when the money was
counted there was only $5.S7 for the
coral beads and Bibles. 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
practicing all day gave us n selection.
never heard where it was from, but
young man near me said that Dante
heard it just before he returned to Flor
ence, while he was visiting in place
that polite 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
frightened out Of its senses. We all felt
that this was high art, and when the
performer made her bow, the audience
applauded rapturously, and every
woman took an opportunity later on to
say to the fair goddess of music, II
| enjoyed ii so much could not give you
vulgar applause" And she smiled and
| bowed as ii 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, and the amount of
| feeling they threw in the words, and
| the sweetness of their voices, would not,
am afraid, have been as much appre-
ciated by the performers of the musicale
as it was by me, yet it brought tears to
my eyes.
WHY THERE WERE NO TABLEAUX TALK.
Before the musicale there had been a
thought of having tableaux, but, owing
to the fact that every girl i'll the house
| wanted to stand with her best young
man in the position of the "lIugucnot
] Lovers" it had to be given up. I'm
doubtedly, 1t would have been interest
ing to have had succession of the same
pictures, though 1t 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 ii
love could make of themselves. Getting
IN entertainments at summer places Is
| about as thankless n lob as any one ever
undertook. In the first place, the num-
her If infant nroliries Who are willing
to exhibit is wonderful, and the number
of INDIGNANT mnmmas who announce
that they will leave the house unless
their children are in the show. il equally
rreat Cerfainiy il is beautiful 10 see
younr people. especially yery Young
onrs devoted to muslc and literature
mt ono can't Int wonder whv thew
don't try their ability on
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Because nv babv daughter ha6nens
10 drnm ont nopuIar time on The
piano, and nv son and heir accom-.
panies her on The mouth organ. i that
any reason why | must INFECT their
ACCOMPLISHMENTS on nv neirhbor? If a
visiting niece Of 10 is given over In saw
inn smart thinrs. shall nv dav he snent
n ratailinr them TO nv neighbor who's
interested In her novel; Have Won or /
mr. anvbodv else anv rirht whatevey
To foist bad music. worse SINGING and
tiresome stories on The world nj larpe
Not The slightest. Sonr children q,
mine are interesting 10 rs mi nnless
thew are ouiet and nolite and kent ont
Of the wav. the world nj large finds
them yery troublesome. That a mothe,