The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-22
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Summer Visitors dp Behalf of the Poorest Church the Pash
Giving TumFery the Lord.

programme would be literary, and the
mother OF the young man with roach
said she thought people would have liked
n little more music. But there appeared
on the stage a lady who lives next door
to us and who doesn't believe in c0rsets
or anything that's frivolous, and she
cheered us by reading a poem called
THE Hearse," which was calculated to
harrow the feelings of any mothers pres
ent and give Nightmares to nervous wo-
men. Nobody applauded loudly enough
for her to give another recitation, al
though she was prepared to do so at
the slightest encouragement; but. as she
said to me this morning over the fence,
"W-hat can you expect of a neighborhood
where they never heard of Browning
and don't know whether Buddhists live
on vegetables or not" l answered by say
ing. What can you?' And she's invited
me in to have tea and hear her read.
/ The end OF the musicale was on the
violin. Now. / haven't anything against
the young man that played that violin
he was graduated at Princeton, and, al
though there's nothing nearer to us in
the way of water than pond, he wears
n Yachting get up all the time-but |
did feel sorry for the fiddle itself. He
made it howl and squeak, emit fearful
yels, and act altogether as If it were
possessed of all the little red and black
devils that ever existed When he got
through he said the piece was by Wag
ner. He called it "VOgner." which, of
course, showed at once what a great
musician he is and how little we know.
A lady then gave us Il recitation that
was called comic. Perhaps it was, but
it didn't seen so to me- | never can I'M
derstand why women will go out Of the
way to make monkeys of themselves. In
many instances the good Lord has saved
| them the trouble. But that a presuma-
bly, sane person of the sex known as fair
should indulge in horse play and make
general donkey of herself convinces me
more than ever that a limited suffrage is
what we want.
ALL DRANK LEMONADE.
When everything was over we bought
lemonade We needed It sadly. Never
before did / realize b. much lemonade
a small boy could dr. !. One, to my GER
tain knowledge. drank seven tumblers
empty. and ms l never saw him return
the eighth glass | am forced to believe
that he swallowed it. It's a dreadful
thing to have a magnificent thirst like
that wasted on a small boy. Naturally
we all had a good time. But the fair
and entertainment started me to won
dering some things:
Why, because my baby daughter hap
pens to be able to drum out a popular
tune on the piano and my son and heir
is able to accompany her on the mouth
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ments on their neighbor?
Why, if a visiting niece Of ten years
is given over to saying smart things.
shall my day be spent in retailing them
to my neighbour who is bored by them?
Have You or l or anybody else any
right whatever to foist bad music worse
singing and tiresome stories on the
world at large? Not the slightest. Child
rem cease to be children and cease to be
lovable when they are developed into
bores by being put on exhibition. / like
good child, but rather than see one
over whom have any control bother peo-
pie by asking questions, give them head
aches b!s banging the piano or make
them wish that poets had never lived by
reciting, / would conduct that child up
stairs and Out-Herod Herod by cutting
its head off.
Undoubtedly child is a wellspring of
pleasure, but the world at large, off for
a summer outing, wishes very very often
that that spring were dry. Teach child
rem to be polite. to be happy, and allow
them to be children, not interested in
what their elders are saying, not curious
about every bit of gossip, not tiresome
prigs or juvenile offenders, but healthy,
happy children That's the sort you like,
isn't it? And that's the variety approved
of by Bah.