The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-16

So why should you your grief disclose!
Look cheerful!
Thougs you are blue as indigo,
Look cheerful!
You're prettier when you smile, you
Look cheerful
The world abhors a gloomy face,
And tales of woe are commonplace,
| So stir yourself, and take a brace
Look cheerful!
-Somerville Journal
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Now we have run through all these
erazes and men as we'll as women have
learned to take their outdoor sports
nationally 1t is the vulgarian, the
parvenu and the cheap cad who carries
around with him the predominating
characteristics of the dress of his
favorite sport Well-bred men and
/ women ignore everything that in any
way favors of sport in their formal
dress The dress designed for bust
ness and social wear must lack all the
forms and colors suggestive of links,
race tracks or other fields of sport. We
have, l believe, arrived at that ad-
vanced stage of development in our
dress when we can leave behind us
every vestige of the garb of the sport
we follow when dressing for the formal
and serious occasions that are so inn
portant a part of our social life.
This formality in dress is noticeable
in the popularity of the silk hat, the
Chesterfield overcoat the frock and the
'cutaway. Business men wear the high
hat with the Chesterfield and cutaway
all day. The number of men engaged
in the banking business and in the pro-
fessions end in the offices of large cor
porations where they are required by
their calling to dress formally, have
made an impression on the business
dress of the period, for there is some
thing homogeneous in the Jacket and the
soft hat in an office where dignity is
one of the powers required in the
transaction of affairs of great magni-
tude.-The Haberdasher.
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The New York Times tells story
which, while it illustrates WI Ting
Fang's comfortable opinion of himself,
also contains a lesson which is worth
considering. 1t seems that Minister WI
was presented to several Americans
one night lately, and one of them,
seeking to fiatter the Chinese diplo-
mat, spoke of the purity of his Eng
fish and asked where he had learned
it, in this country or China. Il learned
it. in China" replied WI.
1T is wonderful" said the question
err, how well you use it. You use 1t as
well as 1 do"
Il use it better than you do" re-
piled WI Ting Fang, because you
who live in this country do not use
pure English"
After a moments hesitation caused
by the minister's extreme frankness,
the native-born American said: II
know we do not, but mean you speak
it as correctly as if you had learned
it at Harvard College"
This was met by still greater frank
ness.
Il speak purer English than I would
if l had been taught anywhere in this
country" the minister said. I'm China,
when we learn English, we learn the
pure English. At Harvard every one
has some Yankee dialect"
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Edna Darch, Nine. Calves adopted
daughter, is to go to France next
spring and study for an operatic
career She was born in Los Angeles,
and, though only IA years old, plays
the piano well, and is said to have a
voice of exceptionally beautiful quail
ity.
Maestro Oreffice, an Italian COM
poser, has conceived the idea of writ
ing an opera in which he will incorpo-
rate as much as possible Of Chopin's
music, and make the Polish composer
the hero of the story. The book has
been prepared by well known Ital-
ian poet, OrVieto. 1t is in four acts,
and brings in many characteristic
episodes Of the composers life. Accord
ing to an exchange, in the first act,
Christmas" Chopin is seen at the age
of 16 hard by a village in the neigh
borhood of Warsaw. Here, amid the
noise of a skating festival and other
rejoicings, he meets Stella, a young
girl who is supposed to typify pure
and exalted love. Thus an idyllic love
story begins, broken in upon only by
churchward to celebrate Christmas.
April" as the second act is entitled,
shows us Chopin in the prime of life.
He is dwelling near Paris at the villa
of Flora, under which name George
Sand is represented. A Polish legend,
related by a friend of the composer to
a group Of children, brings forward in
the orchestra Chopin's most famous
Polonaise, while the hero himself, in
the course of the act, becomes inspired,
and composes one of his Nocturnes.
The third act of this strange work
is entitled storm" Chopin is now on
the island of Majorca, whittier he has
gone to seek renewed health. There he
confides his sorrows to an old priest,
who offers him consolation. A tempest
falls upon the island, while Flora clio,
and other friends are at sea on a plea
sure trip. Chopin, after trembling for
their lives, sees ell return in safety
save Grace, a young girl, who is
drowned, and whose funeral forthwith
takes place. Twelve more years elapse,
and then the fourth act, Autumn"
shows the musicians end. The scene is
laid at Chopins house, in Paris, where
the master is dying. Memories of
Stella, the Polish girl, disturb the fail
ing mantle girl he loved before he
knew aught of evil. Then, in the dis
lance, a song is heard. and Stella her
self comes to soothe Chopin's last mo-
ments. Maestro Oreffice is said to have
welded Chopin's music into his plan
with great dexterity filling out the
score, where necessary, with matter Of
his own.
Green in all shades is likely to be
the most fashionable color for the next
two or three months. It is combined
with most colors, but principally with
white. black, gray and brown. A broad
trimmed hat of white felt, worn off the
face, has the brim caught back to the
crown in front by a twisted band of
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