The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-11-11
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
wM ONDAY is the hardest day
60 IEA have" said an over-workcd d
N dressmaker the other morn
4 IA ing. ITS the hardest day
most of us have, from the
laundress up" replied woman who
was assisting in over-working the
dressmaker. No, but it is different
with my business" explained the lat
ter. Saturday they hurry me, and in
sist on having their things done for
Sunday, as if anybody nowadays in
town has to have a new dress for
Sunday! Tney do need 'em for balls
and teas and weddings and for going
away on visits, but they don't need
'em for Sunday. But Saturday is
nothing compared with Monday for
bother and extra work. 1t does seem
as If what women do all day Sunday
is to plan clothes. One of my patrons
told me that she always thinks about
her gowns and studies up new ideas
during the sermon, and then Monday
morning bright and early she comes
and camps out in my reception room
and takes up my whole forenoon. She
is only one that makes Monday a bur-
den to me-
There is good reason to believe that
this dolorous tale is not overIrawn.
although it does not exactly fit in
with the idea of feminine saintliness.
The trouble is that American women
hurry and rush and are so driven about
rNi1 -, II,
when comes the one day in the week
when they have an hour or two of sill
ence and rest the rush habit has be-
come so firmly fixed that they simply
have to occupy the time with planning
something which will goad them on a
little faster the succeeding six days.
1t may be the menu of dinners, or il
may be the talk they are to give be-
fore the club. or q mentally tabulatel
list of letters which must be written
that afternoon. More than likely il is
the way that old gray dress can be
transformed by means Of Il tunic and
circular flounce to delude the very
elect into the belief that 1t is new.
Perhaps a hat in the next pew gives a
Hash of enlightenment concerning the
possibilities to be found in a certain
box on shelf in the attic. Or maybe,
as the preacher speaks in the rich
embroidery of speech which is his privi-
lege and gift of the lace-work Of the
frost, she suddenly falls to contriving
a set Of curtains for the iurary to
be made out of two pairs whose use
tulness has ended as far as the draw
Ing room is concerned. Then, over
and over again. as it has for weeks,
that big ink spot produced by Johnny
last summer at the corner of the din
ing room carpet comes between her
eyes and the preachers face, and in
spite OF the best intentions she tries
for the fftieth time to mentally ar
range the furniture so that horrid
blotch may be concealed.
AT any rate, after the enforced
quietude of the day, she starts out
Monday morning with a whiz and a
rush like a newly-Wound mechanical
toy and proceeds to worry the dress
maker and hurry the clerks and fuss
over the slOwness of everybody with
all the pent-up nervous hysterical en-
erby accumulated from the blessed
Day of Rest.
Poor, busy little body! How she does
scramble through life and how fast
she does get through with It all. for
there never are any hurrying old la
dies, In fact, there aren't any old Ia
dies any morc-and how very soon she
Is strangely quiet and calm and fast
hidden away beneath the soft turf. One
cannot but wonder whether there she
sleeps peacefully, or beyond in the
other country, where they say Sabbath
never ends, the restless, driving brain,
the unquiet spirit will wander like q
bird of passage through the infinite
years.
This town is striving after Culture,
with a big c. There are ways and
ways of acquiring that uncertain COM
modify. Some people take theirs in
doses by means of ex
elusive reading clubs where consider
abe attention is given to unique
luncheons. Others devour omnivor-
ously the new books and magazines
in order to be able to say: do you
thing Richard Carvel is perfectly nne?"
or, I've read No. John Street be-
cause I think one ought, but it's hor-
rid," or Through how many more
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make those poor victims march along
Their Wedding Journey"
Some actually lay out a schedule of
study and follow 1t assiduously, ac-
curing a new language or another
Etorehouse full of scientific knowledge
every year.
Still others endeavor to absorb cul-
ture without much effort on their own
part. They do it by means OF lee
lures. It isn't bad way, supplement
tarily speaking, but as an original
method 1t doesn't meet the require
ments. The great obstacle is that one
enjoys and receives benefit from a
lecture precisely in proportion to ones
previous knowledge of the subject
What particular satisfaction, for in
stance, would be a lecture on Italian
art to a person who did not know the
name of Orcagna from George Inness,
jr., as far as acquaintance with the
times or works of either is concerned?
The average listener attends lectures
for one of the following reasons: To
'" "in the swim" II the affair is un-