Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-08-17

| tides and changes of the moon, of fash
ion and of politics Where are Romeo
| and Juliet of Verona nowadays! Where
| would you find an army of people hghI-
| ing another army of people for woman
as men did years ago for Helen! Where
would you find
A Whole City at the Feet of One Woman,
| as very often happened years ago in
| Athens, or in Rome? | do most posi-
lively believe that if Romeo and Juliet
and all the rest of them were living
nowadays, that Juliet would marry Paris
and carry on a Irritation, after mar
riage, with Romeo.
She would lunch with him at the fash
| iOnable restaurant, she would drive out
| with him in his hanson, and make him
send her bouquets of flowers every day;
| she would name her first baby after him,
and the chances are her husband would
| grow fond of him, and talk about the
| time when there used to be some ridlcu-
| lous feeling. but that was all nonsense,
and my wife and Rooney and ! are the
most devoted friends possible. He would
| call him Rooney, | am certain! 1t is the
| fashion Of the day, to take all dignity out
| of names. Think of my beautiful name
Betty" Though, really. | should feel
very badly if anybody called me by my
name in all its stateliness. | am bit
| interested as to the emotional period that
| we are in just now, and. my dear, except
| that we have vulgarized it little, DO
| believe that we have gotten to the
| Egyptian stage. People are trying to
| prove that
Cleopatra was a Small, Blonde Woman,
very excitable, and liable at any moment
| to an attack of the nerves. This, of
| course, makes her seem very like the av-
erage woman in society today Then,
! if Cleopatra were like this, it is fair to
conclude that Antony and Julius Gaze
| sar could not have been such tiresome
men as history makes them, but really
very nice sort of fellows who wore their
| hair short and went in for athletics. Per-
haps they took them little differently
| from the way men do nowadays. When
| ever they wanted to get into a good,
| healthy glow, thew did not punch away
with the gloves, or practice on the hori-
zontal bar, but called their servants and
went out and killed a few people.
wish this were the mode nowadays. Of
course, it would not be very agreeable
having to kill people, but SO many people
| could be spared.
We are told there were street cars
and telegraph wires, telephone and mes
senger boys in the days of Cleopatra.
| Fancy Cleopatra receiving a telegram
| from Antony saying he would come for
her to dine with him at 1870. In those
days the telegraph companies probably
managed just as they do now. So she
would receive her message at ITO, al
though it was started at 3, and she
would have just twenty minutes in
which to rush around and dress herself
before her noble lord arrived. Then
Antony would hunt up the girl that took
the message, and the boy that delivered
! it, and kill them both. Nowadays he
would not have that very proper privi-
lege. He could only write a letter of
complaint to the company, and the COM
pany, with its usual appreciation of the
rights of the individna,, would take no
notice of it. And still, We are in the
i Egyptian cycle.
Bah Sees Ballet.
! | am all the more certain of it because
when l was in the city | was taken by
one of my nephews to see a ballet. The
women in that ballet certainly belonged
to the Egyptian period-probab to the
ballet of Cleopatra. Some were so
scrawny that it seemed pitiful to take
them out of their graves and make them
dance; others were so fat that one re-
GREETED that their bandages had been I'M
| done and their mummies let loose. They
were not fat in pretty way; they were
| fat in lumpy way, and in ballet, at
| least that is what | always thought, the
fat should be evenly distributed Of
course, my dear, am only one girl CIV
ing my opinion Of how things seemed to
me in the city, and [ may be wrong,
but | doubt it.
l was just going to ask Miss Anne
what she thought of the ballet when her
me not to mention it to her. She con-
siders Miss Anne too young to look at
such things. Miss Betty, herself. is
thoroughly up-to-date, although she does
not approve of this particular date; but
the eyes of her sister never rest upon
h RhoE
! wonder what is quite proper IN this
world. Just as soon as you want to en-
joy yourself somebody decides that this
special mode Of enjoyment is not right.
Just as soon as an interesting book
comes out, critic decides that it would
Cause Blush to Come
upon the face of the young person. Ger
needs to be kept guarded. Taken as Il
type she is not given to blushing. She is
self-satisfied. She believes she knows
enough to set the world on fire If she
used her knowledge, and she is perfectly
ready at any time to give the people,
who know more OF life and more OF books
and more of people, than she ever
dreamed of, her opinion of everything
and everybody. The advanced girl is not
agreeable. She is a failure as a sweet
heart, she is tiresome as a companion,
and she is a fraud as woman. The
| best thing tor her to 90 would De TO De
come a bicyclist, and give her tilne eX-
| clusively to the study of the wheel and
it's possibilities Then she will act as did
the beggar who was put on horseback
and no one will regret her disappearance.
| say no one; really [ cannot vouch for
all the world, though l can vouch for
the emotion that would be experienced
by Bah.
A Mocking Birds Dance.
With bodies stiff and straight as an ar
row, head erect and feathers fattened,