The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-18
BURDETTE'S LECTURE.
THE RISE AND FALL OF TIE
MUSTACHE.
Humor and Pathos Judiciously Mixed
Delights Large Audience at the
Congregational Church Last Night

! ROBERT j. Burdette delivered his famous
lecture. THE Rise and Eau of the Mus
! tache." before large audience, at the
congregational church, last night. From
his Introduction by Mr.. Frank b. Stephens
to the conclusion, which Mr.. Burdette in
sisted was only the middle point. the au-
dience was under the spell of the humor
and pathos that flowed alternately so
smoothly from the lips of the lecturer.
The ladies were invited to remove their
hats by a volley of sarcasm and compli-
ments and an exclama ton of how lovely
they looked with their hats off-to the
men behind them.
To Mr.. Burdette the boy is a person
capable of approaching the very best
trea tment that can be bestowed upon him.
ne mas ms troubles and sorrows which
are more pathetic than mems who have
the same old troubles 500 times while the
boys is new one in every instance.
There was the trouble of books. The lee
turer recognized at a glance an algebra.
that he had not seen for 30 years, in the
hands of an individual who wanted light
on the subject but as ne didn't cant
heaven spoiled Mr. Burdette told him to
go on No siding, He had wrestied
and wept over algebra and believes i'm
plicitly in miracles. after having passed
an examination in mathematics.
He took the boys part from personal
experience, for he remembered when his
father asked him. What is this l have
heard about you, Robert?" Not being a
often gave up things that his father knew
not of. Growing wiser, he determined
that his father must read the indictment
before answering.
The boys room is small, and the furni-
ture has taken post graduate course
from the kitchen. ''Oh, but the boy don't
notice very much they say. Don't he?
Observe how he can notice a pie in the
kitchen Saturday afternoon
MORE REFINED THAN HIS SISTER.
The boy is more refined and aesthetic in
taste than his sister: proof of which is
shown when he marries. Look at the
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one place where he can have the best
time on Gods green footstool, so he won't
have to go away somewhere to have
good time. Furnish his room with pic
lures. He wouldn't pick the same picture
as his mother. He isn't a mother yet by
a long chalk Pictures leading toward
fighting were recommended. because the
boy must become tighter. Along that
line he believed in football, even for
your darling boy, he was made for it,.
From the side lines, Mr. Burdette was
but wanted to be delivered from seeing
him slide his limbs into golf stockings. If
our fathers had played more football, the
task would have been expedited of pun
ishing Spain, the fourth rate nation which
ought to have been blown off the earth
long ago.
DRIFTS AWAY
With deep feeling. the lecturer told how
the boy is being carried out into the world
with every tick of the clock, drifting from
his mothers side, never 10 come back.
ou say he comes back2' A fellow who
looks like him returns, but it is the man
who comes back, wearing a bronze Glus-
tache, and proud of his beautiful bride.
gu would like to be a boy again and
pillow your head on the dearest pillow
that a heart with an ache can, but you
can [. You are a man now. You must
set your teeth and let the rain beat in
your face, and say nothing"
Mr. Burdette described the boy in his
awkward state, making his first appear
ance at formal party when i'll at ease
he would like to be taken out and shot
A few years later, with mustache pas
asks her to become his wife Life be-
gins that night There breathes into his
life second soul. There is nothing great
er; nothing equal" But he has not said .
gum
The father is reluctant to understand
why young folks can fall in love nova 1
days.
THE NEW WOMAN.
The lecturer believes in the new woman
who is the old woman with new and
broader environment. There is something
for her besides kitchen walls and getting
to eat for three men.
As TO young engaged people, they |
though they were very happy. and were |
as, much as they could. But happiness
oToadens with pain and suffering; all the i
Joys don't fade with the honeymoon. 1t /
takes years of disappointment, sorrow
and bearing one another's infirmities for /
ld-pliGcS ~ blOSSptIl-
The mothers love goes out to her child +
'en--her boys and girls-thoueh they may
De gray haired. There is one love that
leyer changes, save as it grows tenderer
Ind sweeter.
Mr.. Burdette gave d bit of his expe-
fence as pastor of a Baptist church in
He didn't object to the con-
sregation sleeping if sleep meant edifica-
ion, but he likes to see them pay for the
;ame. Sleeping car rates should be es-
ablished and no man should slip a cent
nto the box and get 50 cents worth of
sleep. When he got his cents worth he
should be awakened and made to dig up;
) cents, he thought, ought to carry one
through the sermon.
In concluding, said Mr.. Burdette beau
'verfiowing hearts, you will thank God
or the gray days, with quiet rest and
'eace. Time passes on. Old Tom steps out
# young Toms way, and the cycle is