New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-28

the corridors The PTGp9S2 Tas ecsF o
body could be expected 10 join
Seeing in what an unreal light the modern young
man is presented by the average dramatist II
strikes one as a moot point whether women should
be taken to the theatre at young and impress
sionab BILE age says a writer in The Ladies Field.
Behind the footIights the handsome clean-shaven
fellow has principles as unimPeachable as his
dress clothes a soul speckless as his dazzling
waistcoat. The very embodiment Of self-sacrihce
and chivaIrv he always turns away from the
woman OF his heart should she possess a handsome
balance al the bankers, and invariably covers his
spotiess name with infamy should the eXgencies
brother or lover happens TO have forged & check;
He will take any amount OF ooloquy upon hlInseiI
10 save pink and white chits feelings, and Will
walk off fright centre) into the abysmal night as
sss5i, as I Would hail a hanson In short he a
,IS-sSgor eTrb a. never vet existed on sea or land
and Is as misleading 10 the ordinary youthful MIND
description Of some imaginary monster IN 1t
IS sufficiently alarming without adding the pangs
OF disillusion its other trials. why bring up
Imaginative Young persons TO think they are going
mat existence indeed is anything else but a m
bat for money. fame and position? Everybody
and there must be some secret understanding be-
tween the Two to keep up a purely nG[aGpS Pre-
DO not exist except in front Of painted cloth The
women are the great patrons OF the theatre. and
carry thei- menEind along with them in the trail
In the last OF the articles The Sin and Scan
daI Of the Smart Set which have been running for
some time past in The Gentewoman.' the triumph
OF the foreign smart invasion Is attributed in
great part the retirement OF Queen Victoria from
social LEADERSHIP When society came INTO her
presence II had 10 comport itself with due dignity:
society became a law unto itself
A novelty in table decoration is a small fountain.
The water is thrown up by compressed air, and
viii play. for about two hours II may be deco
rises from a bed OF blossoms.
Dame Fashion has decreed that no evening Golf
,ure shall be an unqualified success this year unless
it Is finished of with some handsome combs.
Margaret Deland in the current number Of ''Har-
pers Bazar." makes strong plea for letting chill
dren alone. II IS indifference. she says. to re-
frain from digging Up seeds TO II they have
sprouted or carelessness 10 permit the plant
take the buhctings OF wind and rain heaven
sends them or responsibility to let IL seek its
own support instead Of supplying it with a trellis
according a pattern Of your What flowers
OF health and goodness and ability came out of old
fashioned gardens OF a generation ago. where such
letting alone practised! The fact IS in
effort 10 improve the nursery flower beds $50 to
speak) such risk OF forgetting nature!
We toll over our little people as japanese garden,
toll over certain trees-pluching them and
pruning them. stimulating them or starving them.
and in the end developing dwarfs All this is not
done without pain and sacrifice on the gardener
part, as any anxious. up TO date mother VIII tell
you. The mere reading OF the innumerabe books
On child culture is light task the testing upon
the poor little human the host OF health expert
mems is a wearing responsibility: flannel
nanuel@ shoes shOes2 food. orwell no
food has yet been suggested, but doubtless, in
the next years IL will be considered II theories
continue 10 ran amuck IN nurseries Then too. the
mental strain OF incessant watchfulness. of OBJ
serving not only actions. but motives, is serious
burden: the fear OF neglecting an instinct that
sbOulS ted the distress the revelation
~ some unlovsly trait that must be uipped in the
bud-fhese things make life a worry and fatigue TO
scientific parents. What II makes OF the children
NJ NAV not say. yet. But this thing OF making
them good or wise with other peoples goodness
Weldon fv any other way than example. has its
dangers.