The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-22
HER POINT OF VIEW.

| capable OF variety of applications.
| Here is a specimen:
Dear Saucy Bess:-I read your sermon
| last Saturday and II certainly had a good
| text as to foundation. 1t set me to think
| ing that could apply the fault finding
| clause to myself. It's growing easy for
me TO say spiteful things of other people
| ana haven't realized 1t, 50 / Thought Il
start ON a new tack. You may Judge
for yourself as to the results.
| L began Monday. Three girl friends
We're calling and one remarked: "Sallie's
| engagement is just about off again 1
| should think she'd Keep this one. She's
fading" Now if there's a girl whose
very name gets on my nerves it's Salle
| L simply can't endure her in the same
| room. We always dis agree about every
thing and the other girls know II ana
doh invite us together. They expected
| me to take this chance to express my
opinion rather freely. | opened my
mouth to state: Engagement! | pity the
| man that marries her." when / thought
IN time and declared with an uuueccs-
| sary degree of enthusiasm.
Il suspect Sallies found him out. L
dont believe he'd make her happy and
m sure, for her sake, l hope shell send
him on" The girls almost tumbled IF
their chairs and for a minute wsre
speechless, then they shouted at concert
pitch: "Gou-you always said nobodv'd
nave her finally And then each one
went on 10 recall o-her such pleasant lit
tie remarks ia made about Sallie. 1
tried to stand by my new code and the
consequence was that the girls went away
after awhile more than half indignant
and puzzled and they have regarded me
with suspicion ever since one of them
tolu a friend that she never had thought
ME deceitful, but had about made up her
Illhu m not to be trusted. SO much for
my trst attempt at reform; l don't won
der any more that politicians cant get
oach 10 the innocence and trustfulnrss
OF early days.
The next experience was purely domes-
tic My mother decreed that | couldn't
nave the new tailor-made gown | had
counted on. She deCreed it rather Of
tensively, for she expected il to be the
signal for hostilities end a cyclone in the
household for week; but she made up
her mind to be firm, for she wanted new
curtains in the library. | thought about
the sunshine theory and that it would be
at least new sensation to surprise mo-
ther by not making Il row and finding
fault with everything under the shining
sun, and as she was blinking very fast SO
as not to be shaken in her determination
by my sore displeasureS [ smiled idiotiC-
any ana said: "Oh, last winters cloth
dress will do with some new braid"
Mother gasped and leaned mp against the
sdebodrd and It wasn't long till | heard
her telephonng the doctor for "tonlc
for Madge" The time I've had in refrain
ing from throwing tina horrid tonic OUT
the window!
Jack, who calls at our house freuuent-
ly, forgot himself the other night and
fell to expatiating on the charms of a
western girl who is visiting Isabel l..
l wanted to tell him tha she had a slight
cast in her left eye and that her hats
are the craziest looking creations girl
ever achieved, but instead / listened and
smiled and said yes" and that dense
specimen of humanity maundcrd on all
the evening. Oh, how was bored! And
just word of ridcule of that foolish girl
would have brought him to his senses
Now it's been less than Il week and these
few incidents are only a beginning. I've
prepared little list of results of your
advice. Here they are:
Loss-Fivc dollars which papa would
have added to my allowance if I'd agreed
with him in saying John Wanamaker is
n hypoCrite. Q've always been in the
habit of agreeing with papa in politics..
Made brother Ned furious because 1
insisted there must be some good in Sam
D., who likes the same girl.
Have lost my reputation for good taste
because / didn't call Mrs. BIS new
cape "a fright.
Had sixteen distinct snubs from peo-
pie who used to depend on my authority
for opinions of persons they didn't like.
The minister wanted to pray with me-
believing that I am seeing light on the
foreign mission work.
Was invited to make speech" before
a suffrage meeting because I was quoted
as speaking kindly of the movement.
Overheard two of my friends say I'm
getting queer and one Of the house
maids confide to her "steady company"
thot the family thinks I'm going into a
decline.
My dearest friend statel frankly last
night that hitherto she had always be-
lieved me consistent. but now she didn't
know what to think"
ON the whole, dear Bess, what do You
think of the weeks category?
Madge B.
Miss Caroline Conkling. the teacher
of physical culture a the Conservatory
of Music, in half amused half vexed
manner said the other day: "Of all
the overworked words in the English
language Delsarte' is the most abused.
The indiscriminate applications ii re-
ceives are simply maddening; anything
from dumb bell exercise to an
Amazon march is termed Delsarte. and
struggle as you may you can't get
away from its all pervadingness. The
fact is that Delsarte himself had no
design of instructing in physical cul-
ture, his sole idea was of giving eX-
preston to thought by means of ges-
ture. While ! have studied under NJ.
Delsarte's daughter I do not call nv
work Delsartean because, while it
takes up the aesthetic side of human
expression, it does not go far enough
to develop the body symmetrically and
give great place to the hygienic princi-
pies of correct exercise. / teach Del
sarte, oh, yes but it does weary me to
near the wcrd misapplied tS every
form of physical culture"
There is no doubt that this criticism
is just in this country. Do up a girl i'm
twenty-five or thirty yards of white
cheese cloth, more or less unsafely
draped and let her go through with
a variety of contortions of face and
body while she recites "Curfew Shall
Not Ring Tonight" and everybody
goes home satisfied that they have seen
Delsarte. Ten girls arrayed in bloom
ers and armed with Indian clubs which
they swing in perilous proximity to
each others heads, constitute an eXDo-
sition of Delsarte. Ten more girls.
similarly attired, and engaged in hop
ping over q horizontal bar are Delsar-
teams. A Mrs. Edmund Russell now
Mrs. Hoveyl clothed in a nondescript
hued gown made la Mother Hubbard
and adorned with a collection of saw
age looking Jewels, occupying herself
by tumbling down stairs to show a
number of fearful-eyed and awe struck
women in tight corsets, high collars
and narrow shoes, how to fall grace
fully and with no danger to the tumb-
ler, is another specimen of Delsarte.