The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-01-28
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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Did you ever feel impressed with the
unconscious exaggeration of some one,
not alone in speech, but in personality,
appearance, manner? For instance,
there is the woman who seems to have
too much of everything; too much
color, too much hair, too much dress,
too many jewels, too many smiles. too
many adjcctives in her vocabulary,
and too many italics in her conversa-
ton, not to mention too intense greet
ings and too gushing a manner with
ordinary acquaintances.
Then, there is the man who is too
tall and broad. whose eyes are far too
big and melting, whose hair curls too
much to be interesting, whose nose is so
straight as to be characterless, whose
lips are too red. whose teeth are too
white and seemingly too profuse,
whose clothing is too new, and who, in
short, if he did not seem to possess
! a superabundance of certain quail
ties would be ideal.
These people belong to a type which
when their friends might be contented
| to have one automobile in which to
be conveyed about would own at least
| two. If it were the fashion to have q
pair of elephants as pets, they would
deem it necessary to own three. II
seven golf clubs constituted a sort of
heaven for the ordinary mortal, they
would find it impossible to get along
with less than u dozen. and nothing
but the highest Of high churches and
collars. the biggest coat of arms and
the most exaggerated of everything in
general viii satisfy them.
Sometimes it seems that too
many people entirely are acquir-
| ing this over-taste. They may not
be SO pronounced in every di-
lection, but The pre- llcctlon is evident
| in more ways than one. There is the
woman Of the exaggerated humble
| type. In the prayer meeting she is a
| TCOr, miserable sinner or Il worm"
! Among her friends she usually prefaces
| her remarks with: "Of course don't
pretend to know about these things"
when that is just what she does pre-
| tend to do. She tells her pastor "in
| i
| thus or so. When he knows and she
knows that her way is neither poor
nor struggling and that she is q pro-
| nounced success at most things. She
| causes her immediate family to re-
| peatedly break commandments since
one of her most endearing state
ments is, "NO, l never do any
thing for anybody. OF course it's no
wonder you wish me out of the way
| realize my deficiencies. but some of
these days you won't have me to both
er you. .'-ah, she Is enough to drive a
whole household to drink, this excess
lively humble lady!
An eXaggeratiOn of a good quality
isn't Of course as unhappy in it's eff
fects as the eXaggeration of a bad one,
but it is generally unfortunate for the
| people in the vicinity. There is the
woman fond of good works; so fond that
the child of the slums seems to her
to need all her thought and care while
her own family is neglected.
| There Is the excessively neat woman.
| Now cleanliness is a virtue but in
| an exaggerated form, where the victim
Is POSSESSED of a clean devil, it has its
| disadvantages. There is the one who
| is so intellectual as to appall all the
people who think it worth while to dc
| a few other things besides devotinG
entire attention to reading, and tho
other one who believes the only thing
worth living for is foreig;. missions
| Then there is the man--but dear me
where would one stop if one began tell
ing about the exaggerated virtues OF
men?
To employ word used in business
life, "The Ladies' Home Journal
seem to have suffered a slump. The
only really meritorious production that
has appeared in it for the past two
numbers was +. Hopkinson Smith S
dialect story of "A Kentucky Cinder-
ella " The last issue is positively Hat
Even Mary wilkins whose stories are
always welcomed clamorously should
be criticised for The Jamesons in the
Country" which bears profuse marks
of carelessness and some of the old
time serial faults. / would never have
believed it of Mary that she could SO
lar deteriorate in her standards as t.
incorporate in "a typical" New Eng
land sketch, the old, rickety, decrepit
moss s-cOvered joke of feeding the pie
one day and starving him the next 20
give the desired streak OF lean and
streak Of fat; of tying up the chickens
feet in cloth boots so that they could
not scratch the garden; of setting the
hens on hard-boiled eggs so that the
latter would not spoil, and sending
back to would-be sellers various re-
lays of COWS because they had no up
per teeth,
Then there is that Minister of Car
thage," by Caroline A. Mason. can't,
for the life of me. see why those diff
ferent churches We're so wildly anxious
to call so tame and foolish preacher.
He is about the feebest creation in
the way of a central character that
has recently been devised in hction.
As for THE Girls of Camp Already"
it Is actually too fiat for even a sun
day school library in the country.
Some of the conversation Is really
idotic.
"Wake up Maud The sky is bright