The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26

Take a KALEIDOSCOPE ana roll IL IN your
soft and shapely hands. Apply an Oh
servant eve to the end. One eye will do
The other may be reserved for the con-
temptation of patrician tingers-your own,
of course-tapering away until they cul-
inmate in pink nails, delicately pink, if
you please, as a bit of sundown scene.
Look so al yourself and at the phantasma-
goric glor1es which glitter in the octagon
before you simultaneously. Baubles and
crowns, and perhaps crosses, tumble and
disappear. New combinations surprise,
delight or disappoint. Illusion of the
mirrors. this brave and gaudy show in
miniature, is nevertheless pleasing, al
though you know that you deceive your
self. "Ah, but" you say, ''it is my pleas
ure to be deceived; but have not lost the
true sense of perspective, nor am 1 blind
to realizes" No, indeed, the patrician
fingers and the pink nails are real. You
are real as you use the lorgnette; in
dubitably real as you weep over mimic
woes and are thrilled by stage pageantry.
Yoa are as real as rainbow and at your
dainty foot is really what is not at the
foot of any rainbow-a pot of gold. You
feed on illusions and the manager de-
lights in having found real gold-ledge
rainbow-you, fair lady, really you-backed
up by the coin of the realm which you
cheerfully expend for tickets.
And, come to think of it, that idea of
the kaleidoscope and of your own fair self
as the principal admirer of what is re-
veaIed is not inapplicable. Carmen, the
wicked, the enhancing; chic and fierce;
moth huttering toward the predestined
fame; a moth loving the sound of the
castanets-enraptured with the bolero.
You have seen Carmen and have sighed.
/ heard you sigh as you raised your
daintiIy perfumed handkerchief, and not
only the sigh-some bright, saline drops
fell from your eyes! Then that quartet
in Martha" and the 'Last Rose of
Summer" type of so much that is
pathetic, and all the rest of 1t. You were
there. Then you saw Moths" as done
by the Frawley company. Turn the
kaleidoscope once more. see you obey
and you smile and wonder at Biondi-
multi-personal Biondi. Why should you
not be pleased with Irish Inspiration" {?
OF course you will.
Your own imagination was the combina-
ton of mirrors which helped the glitter
ing dramatic fragments of the week to
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Pleasing in themselves they relied upon
you to see them in the best possible light.
They relied not in vain. Sometimes you
SO far forgot your pink nails, type of your
own self, roseate and polished, and gave
your undivided attention to the play
That was when your personality was
stronger than your realization of that
entity. The skill of the stage people
played upon you as upon many -stringed
harp; titillated and strummed upon your
heartstrings; poked out fuzzy feather
at the region of your risibilities and
tickled you much until you laughed
laugh for which you gave yourself credit
''iolly dogs, we are young yet," some of
you said; asked you to come again and
you will
OF course you viii go this week and
many of you will go the rounds and take
in varied attractions. That is turning the
kaleidoscope in real earnest. The crowns
and baubles are more exhilarating by their
very variety. The kaleid oscope is ready.
All the fragments have been gathered
within the septagonal limit of seven days
and they will glitter duly and at the
proper time. Below is some mention of
what you can see and hear during the
coming week.