The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13

ment she did not possess The remark
seemed TO be satirical. but do you think it
is silly I'm woman 10 like to win commen-
dation at a point where she knows she Il
weak? And don't you believe men like to
be praised I'm that way. too Now. I don't
care for any one to tell me that my new
frock is pretty; / think il is pretty my
self, and / consider that / am a Judge,
but 1 fairly strutted when the Critical
One told me that my paper on Baron
Steuben before the ID. A. r. was inter-
esting. And Peter wouldn't thank any
body for telling him that he is a good
business mamie knows ne is. But you
ought 10 have seen him beam when Colonel
Snyder commended his choice OF a horse"
Your remarks are very discriminating"
said the Critical One when 1 was q
child, l knew 1 could spell correctly any
word 1 had ever seen, so what did 1 care
for compliments my spellins7 But II
my teacher could once have said that q
line in my copy-book was fairly well writ
ten, I should have been wild with JOY
"And Miss Peaches-and-cream doesn't
need to be told that her complexion II
lovely, but when her chum told her the
other day that she really believed her pro-
file was improving. and that perhaps her
nose would be straight by the time she was
thirty. her JOY and gratitude were almost
pathetic"
And there is Mrs. Bluestocking." said
the Botanical One. II really believe she
doesn't care to be praised for her maga-
zine stories or poems-she knows they are
good. or they wouldn't be printed, and she
knows. too, that she never will attain to
greatness but If you want to bring tears
of qualification to her eyes, just praise
her pickles or her coffee"
eff you can," said the Notable One, soto
voce.
'And Mrs. Sofia values herself more on
some impossible verses on the death OF q
friend, published in some country paper,
than on her really fine singing and play
ing"
81 knew judge" said the Critical One,
In a tone of amused Renaissance, "a very
tall and imposing man, of distinction in his
profession. and the achievement OF which
he seemed to be really proud was the coup
let he used to recite TO any acquaintance
who sat by him. as the crowd in the trolley
car thinned out toward the farther end of
the track,
our load grows beautifully less
AS we progress
"a laugh at that feeble witticism srati-
fed him more than any amount Of appreci-
alton of his eminence as a lawyer"
I'm short said the Good Listener, I'VE
all know pretty well what our own good
points are, and just how good they are, and
we know that our friends know them-at
least, we fondly believe they do. But IL
get word of praise on the point where
we feel ourselves deficient, that lifts US up
and gives us confidence"
Not to change the subject at all" said
the Young Mother, did you notice that a
Chicago University professor says that the
reason that girls OF fourteen are so much
better scholars than boys OF that age, Is
because the boys are growing fast? The
professor must have been In straits for an
excuse. If boys of fourteen are growing
fast, what are the girls doing? That is the
very age when girls shoot up inches taller
than boys, so that the little playmates who
were the same age and size a year or two
before, now look almost ludicrous walking
together; the boy is a little boy still, and
the girl only needs to put up her hair and
let down her skirts TO look like young tall
lady,
guages, but did you ever hear OF little
girl that was a prodigy In that line, like
John Stuart Mill or Sir William Hamil-
ton?-the astronomer royal, 1 mean. not
the metaphysician."
You must remember that girls have not
always had a chance to learn" said the
Critical One. However, I know of one
remarkable case. Miss Susan Hayes Ward,
office editor of the Independent before it
changed its form and character, read the
Bible in the original tongues, three times
through before she was ten years old. L
think that is as surprising as the infant
achievements of the famous men you men
ton"
There is an old saying, eff you could
buy such a one for what he is worth,
and sell him for what he thinks he is worth,
you would make a fine profit" There are
two persons known TO the American public
who would make a dazzling speculation IL
that operation were possible-Edward
Box and Professor Harry Thurston Peck.
The gentle professor is in his most in
fallible mood when he begins TO criticise
people at summer resorts. Just now he is
declaiming On the utter ignorance and
Grass materialism of the people between
Pennsylvania and the Mississippi. The
Clubwoman feels moved TO offer him an
illustration of their inferiority TO the people
OF the cultured East. A pleasure party
from the banks of the Mississippi took a
summer trip to the Atlantic coast some
years since. In Chicago the materialistic.
the popular summer amusement that drew
the crowds was the Theodore Thomas
orchestra, playing Beethoven and Wagner.
In aesthetic Boston, the only entertain
ville-neither of them good Of their kind.
1t appears. moreover, that the fatal list
OF ways in which you must not pronounce
words correctly is increasing. We have
long known that cultured English ears are
panied because Americans pronounce the
initial h and the final & with such shocking
distinctness, and now Professor Peck is
suffering agonies of rasped nerves because
the Westerners pronounce their r.
All this is very sad, especially IL is not
the first time the professor has suffered
at summer resorts. Two three years
ago ii was the crime of the summer visitors
I'm writing verses descriptive of the natural
beauties of their chosen resorts which out
ragged his sensibilities. IL was the admiral
ton and popularity achieved by the writer's
among their fellow pleasure-seekers that
especially panied him. First he quoted
and saVagely criticised some rather feeble
verses on Sweet Silver Lake." then he
gave some similar trash on Block Island