The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-01-05
CHATTER TX

I he Saturday matinee at the Audi
torium in Chicago was Just over and
the us17"l crowd was STRUGGLING to Ger
to It's carriage before any one else The
Auditorium attendant was shouting on
Che number of different carriages, and
the carriage doors were slamnling as
the horses We're driven rapidly to the
curb, held there impatient by the
drivers, who had shivered long i'll the
raw east wind, and then let go to
plunge for few minutes into the river
of vehicles that tossed under the Gle
waited railway and finally went whirling
off up the avenue.
"Now. then, gal" shouted the Au-
ditorium attendant. .'Six hundred and
twenty-fou he repeated as there
dashed up to the curb q splendid span
having the monogram &c. r. S. :" in
gilt letters on the panel of the door
Two girls stepped out of the crowd
toward the carriage. The older one had
entered and taken her seat, and the at
tendant was still holding the door open
for the younger. who stood hesitating
on the curb
Come, Felicial What arc you wait
ing for? I shall freeze to death!'' called
the voice from the carriage.
The girl outside of the carriage hast
lily unpinned a bunch of English violets
from her dress and handed them to a
small boy who was standing shivering
on the edge of the sidewalk, almost
under the horses feet He took them
with a look of establishment and a
''Thank ye, ladyl" and instantly buried
very gri,ny face in the bunch of per-
frme The girl stepped into the car
riage, the door shut with the incisive
| bang peculiar to well made carriages Of
this sort. and in q few moments the
coachman was speeding the horses rap
| idly up one of the boulevards
You are always doing some queer
thing or other, Felicia" said the older
girl as the carriage whirled on past the
great residences already brilliantly
| lighted.
Am L? What have l done that is
queer now, Rose?' asked the other,
looking up suddenly and turning her
| head toward her sister
ooh, giving those violets to that boy /!
He looked as if he needed good hot
supper more than bunch of violets
| It's o wonder you didn't invite him
home with us. shouldn't have been
surprised if you had. You are always
doing such queer things, Felicia. .
'sWould it be queer to invite boy
like that to come to the house and get
a hot SUPPER Felicia asked the ques-
ton softly and almost as if she were
alone
"Queer isn't just the word. of
course, > replied Rose indifferently. ut
would be what Nine. Blanc calls outre
decidedly. Therefore you will please
not invite him or others like him to hot
suppers because suggested it Oh.
dear I'm awfully tired -
She yawned, and Felicia silently
looked out of the window in the door.
''The concert was stupid, and the
yiolinist was simply bore. l don t see
how you could sit so still through it
all, Z" Rose exclaimed, little impa-
tiently.
az liked the music . answered Felicia
quietly
lyon like anything. l never saw !.
girl with SO little critical taste"
Felicia colored slightly, but would
not answer. Rose yawned again and
then hummed a fragment of popular
song. Then she exclaimed abruptly
"I'm sick of almost everything.
| hope the Shadows of London will be
exciting tonight
The Shadows of Chicagor muir
INJURED Felicia
I" The Shadows of Chicagol The
Shadows OF London, the play, the great
drama with it's wonderful scenery, the
sensation of New York for two months
You know we have box with the De
lanos tonight. -
sister. Her great brown eyes were very
expressive and not altogether free from
a sparkle of luminous heat.
s'And yet we never weep over the
real thing on the actual stage of life
What are the shadows of London on the
stage to the shadows of London or Chi
cago as they really exist? Why DOM
we get excited over the facts as they
are2'
Because the actual people are dirty
and disagreeable and it's too mucl
bother, suppose, replied Rose care
lessly Felicia, you never can reform
the world. What's the use? We're moi
to blame for the poverty and misery
There have always been rich and poor
and there always will be. We ought tt
be thankful we're rich -
Suppose Christ had gone on tina
principle, replied Felicia, with un
usual persistence. ''Do you remember
Dr. Bruce's sermon on that verse a few
Sundays ago For We know the grac,
of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though
he was rich, yet for our sakes he be
came poor, that yo through his poverty
might become rich?'
81 remember it well enough, (" sai(
Rose, with some petulance. "Ant
didn't DR.. Bruce go on to say that Their,
was no blame attached to people whc
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