Evening journal., 1898-03-30

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pleasantly about the weather Miss
Lambert remarked to the Wayfarer,
just after Mr.. Friend had returned to
her the epresents she had given him, that
It was top-heavy house, and that one
of her heavy men had a severe cold AT
ter the great emotional scene between
Mr.. Roberts and Miss Barnwell in
which she rejected the advances Of MIR.
Davenport, and was discovered in his
rooms by her husband, Miss Barnwell
took seat in Mr.. Fighters electric
light station and laughed and talked
with Mr.. Davenport just as though he
had never insulted her so grossly. The
outraged husband did not entertain the
least resentment after he got out OF
sight of the audience. In fact, he ap-
peared to be rather solicitous about the
state OF the villains health. Miss Paget
/ spent a few seconds in the electric
| light station, inadvertently touched
some OF the levers, and the flash which
| followed almost made her jump out OF
her chair. Miss Blanche Rice, whose
role was Annette Donnelly, remarked
to the Wayfarer, while waiting to 10
on, that the company had played to-
/ gether so long that it needed no
/ prompter. She said that it had been
on the road for tWenty-eight weeks
and had given nearly 200 performances.
| She i'd not know how much longer the
| engagement would last, but imagined
! until about the middle OF May, for
bookings were still being made. just
then 1t came her turn to go on the
stage, to be folded in the arms of Mr..
Friend and to receive the blessings OF
the sporting duchess, whose prospec-
tive. husband was her true lover.
When Clipston was sold, Allen Dav-
export bid something like $4,000 for
him, being determined to rlIin poor
| bankrupt Mr.. Roberts at any cost, and
no doubt, after the performance was
over, he went to the poor bankrupt
and borrowed five or ten dollars for a
| few days.
And so the thing went on behind the
| scenes, while the audience was being
tickled to death and consumed with
| Indignation by turns. After 1t was all
| over the hero and heroine, the villain
| and funny man, in fact, the entire out
| At, washed up, put on their street
| clothes, and left the house, breathing
maledictions on the miserable weather,
| just the same as did those upon
whose sympathies they had played so
/ skilfully but a few minutes before.
IN DEFENSE OF OLD MAIDS.
Mr.. Wayfarer: In an effort on the
| part OF one OF the Sunday newspapers
| TO give momentum to the Peninsula
trade movement, It holds up to public
ridicule those OF our saleswomen who
have passed that indefinite line
/ o,,.I,f old
maidhcod. It is not right to do such a
thing for, goodness knows, many Of our
best saleswomen are old maids.
A woman is am old maid for one OF
two reasons. Either she could not get
the man she wanted, and knew no sec
end choice; or she did not care to trust
her happiness to the keeping of any
man; having seen so many evidences
| OF marital unhappiness among her
| friends and neighbors. If she could not
get the man she wanted, she is to be
pltied; and, IL she did not care to trust
her happiness to any man, whatever it
was her own business and the public
has no concern in il. She only had one
happiness, and it was her duty to take
care of IL.
AS a rule, however, it is not a
wOman's fault that she is an old maid.
There are a thousaDd-and-one things
which may convert a lovely young girl
into a sOured and distempered men,
Der of that great class OF women COM
monty ydenominatedo oldmaids. Her lover
may be false, and some other girl OF de-
signing mind may get him. At times he
dies Just prior to the wedding, and she
swears newer to love another, but to
dedicate herself to his memory. What
ever may be the cause of an old maids
state OF singleness she is entitled to
| pity and forbearance. She has no pres
l ent, no future and but dreary, canker-
eaten past. She Is miserable herself
and we know what great world this is
/ for wanting company. l do not see
how she can help envying others their
happiness. Young girls deride her.
young men avoid her; married women
pity her, and married men drop a tear
to the memory OF her who has seen bet
ter days. At nuptial feasts she never
has an opportunity to say: God bless
you. my children!" She is entirely out
Of place at a christening No curly
head ever nestles on her bosom and
lisps childish prattle in which papa"
and mamma" are the keynotes. She
never waits in joyful anticipation for
someone to come home. because she has
I y
She never has an opportunity to expa-
tiate upon the many virtues Of her sons
and daughters. or to make life miser-
able for her sons-in-law and daughters
in-law. She just lives and waits for
; death. While she is waiting she has to
have something to do, and a place be-
) hind the counter is Que OF the best
[ openings she can find. With such a
retrospect and prospect can We expect
) her to be happy? Should we be happy
ourselves il we were in her position? I
think not. She has to live. and it is
wrong fer any newspaper to interpOse
5 itself between her and her living. even
when it comes 10 the matter OF the Sc
} curement of the Peninsula trade. Il
! should rather point out to the public
, the dreariness of her lot, and request
! customers to bear with her eccentrici-
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