Arizona daily citizen. (Tucson, Ariz. Territory [i.e. Ariz.]) 1884-1901, 1901-02-12
The Dancing Teacher
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| HE peculiar thu 4 about Marie
L yanderpooI was that she had an
Incorporate appetite for happiness.
She took to dancing slippers as natural
~ as other folk take to goloshes or
walking boots. She sang as read
lily as other people sigh. She
discovered a chance for froIic
with the same enthusiasm that
Others found an opportunity for work.
No one ever claimed that she was of
any use, and she certainly never made
any such claim herself It never oc-
Cured to her that she could be useful.
and she often reflected that to world
so swarming with useful persons as
this appeared to be-if one judged by
the self-placed estimate of these per-
sons-there was plenty of room for ONE
bilSsfuI creature of the nonutilitarian
sort.
All of the other members of heHfan-
lly were industrious, and several of
them were wise. They won distinction
along commercial and intellectual
lines, were noted for their philanthro-
pies, and were solicited to lend their
names to causes" They were associ-
ated with nearly all of the leading
benevolent enterprises of the city.
Now, it is impossible for any seeing
and hearing person to go about Chi.
cago without becoming aware of the
fact that large number of the citizens
OF this busy town are not having good
time. Even Marie observed it. She
saw children with old faces, and men
with despair looking out of their eyes,
and women nervous and crushed under
buI4en of toll. She saw homes that
would not keep out the cold, and coats
that hung in rags from the shoulders
that supported them. And, what was
equally pathetic, she noticed that
many persons worked so hard to
silence 1.-The VOLTS long howl" that
they had no heart for pleasure.
at is as likely as not" said Marie to
herself, that they have never discov-
cred how TO be happy" And she felt
vast commisseration for them. Not
to be happy! It was fearful-or it was
stupid!
1t CHANGED that on one occasion
there was a certain festivity at set
Element house in one of the most
crowded and poverty stricken parts Of
the city, and that Marie was invited to
go. 1t was not. perhaps, just the sort
OF thing she would have selected, butas
there was nothing else doing that even
ing, for wonder, and as she had no
mind to sit down with book, she con-
cluded to go. She was good deal puz-
zied to know what to wear, for she was
particular about the proprieties, but
she hit upon a costume at length that
seemed to be neither too plain nor too
tine. She surveyed herself with pleas
ure. 1t was pleasant to have large and
brilliant brown eyes, mass OF way
ward golden hair, snow white neck
and shoulders, nodded with tender
and abundant grace, and a mouth that
smiled with more merriment than the
common run of mouths.
But what Marie saw ut the settle
ment was calculated to make her for
get, for once, the appearance of which
she was SO proud. She even forgot to
be resentful because some of the peo-
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time she found herself face to face with
the serious problem of life-for the
first time dim notion that life was
given to be used, struggled up
through her consciousness. She found
women as well born as herself, and
much better educated and trained, de-
voting their lives to others-and there
fore to themselves, since in the ex-
penditure of life in service comes the
best development. This type Of wom-
anhood was new to her. She had been
acquainted with many who patroniEed
charities and benevolences, but here
were women who found it privilege to
life in terms of love. Moreover.
she found the ''neighbors" who came to
The settlements interesting In the en-
IRENE. Here was whole library or
human documents. 50 To speak, await
ng her perusal. She looked Ia the
aces of the girls, serious before they
should be SO, showing the signs Of close
in stores and sweating
hops, and the binderies and tobacco
'actories, and it seemed to her as lie
he must pour sunligfH into their lives
rom the abundant source of Il within
Ter own heart.
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