The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-29

Has II ever struck you thnt the person
who exaggerates habitually is not actu-
ally q criminal2 He comes very near to
IT, but. as n matter OF fact, he is saved
from that desperate end BY no grace OF
his own, 1t Is because eXaggeration Is
so wholly and intensely vulgar that 1t
stops short OF being criminal.
The curse of eXaSgeration Is let loose
upon suffering humanity In many forms.
II begins with the artless and wanton
Indifference to truth of the small boy
our yard last night" You know the
story, OF course. how the forbearing mo-
tier said. NC, Tommy, not hfty;
We'll, there were five and forty"
NO, Tommy. not five and forty
"Well, there were twenty,
81 shouldn't even say there were TWEEN
Is, Tommy"
And so on downwards. as a chcap-jack
lowers his prices. until at last. In despera
tion, Tommy remarks We'll. | know
there was our tomcat and another
Most children are prone TO this little
Vice, and l may say without any spite
fUlness. the larger proportion of very
Young people are unged with 1t. 1t Is so
fatally easy for the young girl who
monds than she knows about Greek
roots and Dover street prices, to describe
Richie on n certain occasion as being
worth at least 10, 90
Talking in Italics.
Every body in London was there" an
other VIII say when speaking OF some
function at which by no chance could
more than thousand people have been
present,
so H." says another. that l thought
to convey that she was In any danger
of death. Perhaps she was very sea-sick
or her room was stuffy and she left lit
tie faint but she neither conveys, nor In
tends TO convey. that the worst was at
all !, likely 1oy,tSo TO happen then no,,o .,u
thought l should have killed myself"
She didn't think so. She doesn't dream
of wanting you TO understand that she
really thought she would have killed her
self. No. II Is just that subtle. Innate
yulgarity which makes some people al
ways talk in Italics, and Insist upon em-
ploying the superlatve when the positive
or even the comparative would be more
literally accurate
In all matters pertaining to fashion and
every sort and kind of decoration. and
in everything connected with the table,
oNaggeration is completely vicious Moth
ing can be more dctcstable than anything
te eat which Is over9weetened. ovcr-salt-
ed or ovcr-spiced Nothing can be more
entirely vulgar than woman who is
oNer-dfcssed, or room which is over
decorated And especially does this apply
to everything In tho shane OF makeup
An actress who wears grease-palnt In the
daytime is byc-word among her fell
lows.
The other day / was a. a garden party.
and / stood for some time talking to a
lady whose complexion was certainly
wholly ARTIFICIAL i went presently to
have refreshments with a man who when
he had supplied my warts asked me
quite casually. and who was behind
that mask YOU were talking to just now?"
And think / ought TO explain that tho
lady did not belong to the theatrical pro-
fesslon.
Cheap Fashions.
II Is very difficult to do anything In tho
way OF what Is nowadays chilled touch
lng-up' without drifting imperceptibly
into eXaSgeration. A woman who Is turn
Ing gray and powders her hair In order 10 |
bide the fact by occentuating IT, never |
stops short OF that point at which powder
Ia loathsomc. woman who touches I'M |
her eyebrows always ends by making |
them too long, and too black; and the ono |
who begins with that delicate and fas
chatting line OF kohl, or the moro homcIy
halr-pin which hos been held In tho gas |
FOR few seconds invariably ends by |
looking as though her eyes were two |
burnt holes In a blanket
You Will find as you leave Dover street |