Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-02

because it is done by her. Possibly you
know the story because you saw Fanny
Davenport play it, or else because you
have heard Calve sing it. and then you
talk about the perfect emotion of Bern
hardt or Duse, and how one did not need
to understand the words. their art and
their soulfulness making the story intel
igibe! Bosh! Or perhaps you have Il
smattering of the language. In that
case you weep or laugh when it is de-
sirable and you tell your friends how
sorry you feel for them in their igno-
rance.
This nonsense about the art and the
soul telling the story is another bit of
tommy rot. With Il picture it is differ
ent. 1t tells one episode in a life, not
the story of lifetime. How in the mis-
chief are you to know whether the curl
on a Frenchman's forehead means that
he is in the depth of despair, or that
he is joyful because he is going to run
away with his friends wife that night?
When Sarah rustles her petticoats you
listen to the frou-frou, and say, ooh,
it is so intense. it seems as if her soul
were going from her, and escaping to
another and better world Whereas
she shakes it so you may realize that it
is silk If she raise one arm in the
air and droops her head, you whisper
that that is concealed love! And then
If she folds her arms, you hint at it
meaning murderous, passionate love
Cudt WOuIuu hesitate at killing an du-
dience. Go to see Sarah all you want
if you enjoy her-fortunately her roper
tOire is composed of plays that are we'll
known here, inasmuch as they were pre-
sented by Miss Davenport with better
company, better clothes and a decidedly
better stage setting than any French
company ever gave but don't buy even
an admission ticket to see Duse. Give
her a chance to appreciate what America
can do when a womn insults it by pro-
nouncing her dislike publicly.
Perhaps my opinion in regard to Duse
and her acting is worthless, but I give
you my word, dreadful as it sounds, I
should have had a much better time if
had spent that afternoon with "Chim-
ME Fadden," and | would have been in
a dollar and half. | am perfectly will
ing. to acknowledge her greatness, if it
will please anybody, but she is dread
fully tiresome, and though the critics are
given to talking about her concealed
emotion and great sorrow, she looks to
me as if her liver were not quite right
and | could not but wonder what early
spring medicine would be adapted to
her; and whether since she goes in so
strongly for realism it would be proper
to send her bottle of doctor Dinkey's
Drivelling Drink instead of roses
Flowers fade, but the liver and its medi-
clnes are always with her. Bother!
Let's be truthful and seek in the theater
what we enjoy and what we understand.
l want an evening that makes me feel
when | get home, as if / had had a good
time, and not one where have to strain
ears and eyes to catch a little of the
strange language. and grow weary DUR
ing the long waits There are plenty of
people who will say, "Bab is STUPID, we
understand French" All right; go
to the French play then whenever you
wish to- But | am perfectly certain
that not three-quarters of the average
American audience, outside of New Or
leans, understand what these strange
goddesses are saying.
BY the. by the girl of the Twentieth
century is fitting her hat down, down,
touches her nose, and looks, well, / must
confess, if it is the right shape hat,
that it looks extremely coquettish The
new springtime hats are coquettish, and
she of the summertime will be quite as
pretty as q picture when she puts them
on. am told by people interested in
missionary work that with one church
collection went a book on physical cul-
ture to the missionary, so that to gain a
convert, after reading his book the CIV
ing of pair of stays, which had been
general was no longer IN vogue For the
last four years when missionary was
shy on souls, he presented a pair Of cor
sets to lady from the happy land of
-ha-to-la-ni, after she announced her.
willingness to join the sect he represent
Ou; size INSTABILITY I0IiEoU 10 assume Tile
stays which she put on over the alto
gether,'' but during the assumption she
required two of the strongest warriors in
camp to pull the strings. | have always
longed for picture of the simple soul,
yearning for civilization as expressed by
stays, when she paraded the camp with
a warrior on each side of her, the stays
encircling her person, hymn book in
her hand and an apOplectic color in her
face. Now, the gentle missionary offers
powder and rogue. The heather lady
read the book on culture, at least some
of the missionary family read it to her,
and she declined to give her soul for
pair of stays, remarking mo take stays;
no able to wriggle" But she eagerly
grasps the powder and rogue, and looks
almost as we'll as does the fashionable
girl who contributed to the collection.
and who puts her faith in missionaries
and make-upS.
A woman needs lot of things besides
those in the bottles and boxes on her
dressing case. At the present period,
when the openings are to the fore, she is
certain that she needs. q new bonnet.
She always needs bunch of yiolets, q
box of sweets, and all the agreea BILE
things that the brain of man can invent
and the tongue of man can speak.
She needs information about the Mon
roe doctrine; she thinks it has something
to do with baptism by immersion or
sprinkling, an she also needs to know
why, when messenger service is cheaper
than it used to be, orris powder is just
as expensive.
She needs to learn to smile and raress,
and even to kiss, when tired man doesn't
remember that dressmakers want their
bills settled within a month
She needs to be little bit more care
full about the things she says; the tongue
is a divine organ, but the devil often
plays upon it,
She needs to improve her manners, to
lower her voice, to laugh rather than to
giggle, and to learn to speak English IN
defiled.
She needs to do so many things, poor
soul, and she wants so many things.
But I think she will get them since she
is a woman, and an American l tell
you that is something to be proud of,
for even in the North pole there is a So
ciety that has for it's leader an American
woman. And go where you will, she has
been before you. Sometimes she is too
rapid walker-she arrives too soon.
The thing to learn after all, is the value
of mod Won think that