The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-11-01
LETTER NUMBER TWO
In which the Brother Touches on
the Hysterical Adulation of Pub
lie Idols by Women.

In Which the Brother Toucnes OF
| the Hysterical Adulation of Pub
lie Idols by Women.
From the Ladies Home Journal for Nov.
M Dear Rsttens
You will be interested I think
if not altogether pleased. atsan OK!
perience l had, spropos of youl
last letter
You told me in that letter aboui
The lime pf jour liver that yoe
girls had at Music 4dll TIE othsl
afternoon at Iecitst given by
how his playing simply
carried you off your feet:" how it
.enthralled" you and made you all
feel that this pianist was "simply
divine" Ali the girls had "creepe
down their spines:" they were "hot
and cold all over" etc. In short,
you had one of those hysterical
flings that seem to appeal to girls
L
| and women at these recitals.
"WeII, what of it, if we did2"
you ask Nothing, Kittens: IT you
had let it go at all that. except that
1 don't think this sort of thing is
healthy for you, since you say
yourself that you we're all "as limp
as wet rags after it." But never
mind all that. That sort Of en-
joyment () iH feminine, l suppose,
and cannot be understood by 9
man. But then you say that you
girls, at the close of the recital.
crowded around the stage and
fairly buried this artist with your
corsage- bouquets, waylaid him as
he came out of the stage door,
threw yiolets at him, and fairly
surrounded him until he had to
fight his way through us to his
carriage" And you say: "He
was tiokled to pieces, and smiled
and smiled and waved his hand
and took of his hat again and
4gain, etc." That is, you thought
be felt "tiokled." You retort, II
knOao he did"
But I am going to give you q
side Of that picture that You don't
expect.
Now 1 happen to know this idol
of yours. 1 met him two years
ago, got to know him pretty we'll,
md day before yesterday 1 spent
an hour with him, and yesterday
the best part of the afternoon,
Coincidence, wasn't it? Well, not
exactly, for 1 put myself into the
way of it-for a-purpos, although,
l confess, 1 didn't expect to hear
and experience what l did.
Except for recital in Philadel
phia he had come direct from the
one at which you heard him in
Cincinnati to New York. So, dur
ing our chat, 1 turned the talk TO
his work and finally led the con
versation to his recital at Cincin-
natl.
"The women there gave you the
usual appreciative reception that
we read about, 1 supposef" ]
4sked him with smile.
But he didn't smile, Sis, for.
your idol is much more of sensi
Die. manly ohap than you girls
blink he is
well, Mr.. Carecn." he replied.
my experience in Cincinnati was
unfortunately too much like my
experience in other cities to diffe,
very muoh."
"How 'uDfortunatep' 1 asked
well, sir replied he, looking
At me in serious way, 81 oanno,
help wishing that your American
girls and their mothers, too, may
say-had a little more-what dc
you call it--?'
"Restraintf" l filled in
Yes, decidedly" he said; res
traint: self-poise I should call it.
perhaps. Ioan't believe" continu
ed this man vino, you say, was SO
'tiokled" with you girls, "that
this hysteria with which they
favor" (here there was sickly
smile) "me and other performers
is gocd for these girls physically
In fact, L know it is not. Not
only that. but if You will excuse
me for saying SO. it does rot seem
to be womanly. 1t is certainly
not in good taste"
Very much "tiokled," wasn't bei
But listen:
nOe oo1rsa.s he sa;d uT