The Greeley tribune., 1908-06-04

garments. waited . little as men do
while his wife was getting ready, and
then started at the time when Clodius
might have returned. II indeed he had
been coming homo that day"
Cicero never delivered that speech.
he prepared II and then In the sug.
Eestive language Of the gentleman
from Gawjah. got skeered OF 1t" and
cut 1t out leaving his client to bis fate.
But to all intents and purposes Cicero
got # in the record. Just the same,
that he had himself waited "as men
do for his Mn. c. to get on her duds,
and had growled about 1t. a. men con-
tinue to do to this day.
sinesrs Who Nssuss to Sing
Nothing 10 better known and more
generally commented upon IN modern
musical circles than the disinclina.
tion Of the performer. or the singer
and especially II a woman. to sing or
play upon the request Of her asso-
states and personal friends. 1t has be-
come a byword in society; and here
II anywhere. we might suppose. our.
selves to have developed a trait or
tendency modern In its character; II
for no other reason, because In SO far
as we know, music as an art did not
in ancient times exist In the perfection
II now does. nor the performer or sing
er of either sex meet with the de
mand. or secure the footing and in
fiuence in society that excellence will
command, today. But here as every
where in our Investigations We find
that what for any reason appears to
word, OF phrase. or even trait II
character in animal or man is the
heritage OF bygone age or parent
age And so even In the present in
stance we should not be surprised to
find the Poet Horace at the dawn Of
the Christian era noticing the peculiar
trait under consideration. which he
did at the beginning OF his third Satire
as follows:
This IL fault common to all sing
ers. that among their friends they
never are inclined to sing when they
arc asked. but unasked tAsy never de-
sist."
Thus We may observe that even the
clown who boasted Of obtaining fifteen
dollars through singing . single song
five for beginning and ten for quitting
was borrowing from ancient and clas
sical sources.
Would "0e . Sister 70 Him."
At what period Of her intellectual
development woman first resorted to
this bit OF feminine pleasantly In dis
posing OF an unwelcome suitor nothing
can with certainty be affirmed. Prob
ably very soon after her sex had no
far emerged from primitive barbism
a. to permit her some sort OF choice
in the matter Of her brief concern In
life, instead OF being bodily carried off
whether willing or unwilling whenever
some OF the neighboring tribesmen
made a foray and n forcible seizure
Of her person In the camp OF her peo-
pie 1t is more than likely that the
practice OF giving the mitten" that
Is to say. as some Of our dictionaries
put II. Ito be given. or to get the nit
ten. only, when the desired hand Is
withdrawn" preceded in actual use
this other and politer method Of in
jecting cold chills down her patients
back instead OF falling into his arms
In our day the phase is banded
about among young people as a sort OF
standing joke between sexes; and yet
instances are within the knowledge
OF many where the artifice has been
used in an emergency. l suppose
majority Of people regard the idea
as OF quite recent origin. but in Troll
us and Criseyde Chaucer makes the
woman reply to her ardent lover:
She tonked him OF al ne vel mente
Towards hir. but holden him In
honde
She nolde nought ne make hirself
bounden
In love, but as his suster, him to
plese
She wolde fayn, to doom his herte An
ese.''
This 10 Our Busy Day
II any OF the bright, trite, pertinent
savings or phrases of our time are
found on investigation to be Of really
modern invention and origin we would
naturally assume this to be one OF
them. II smacks of an age OF rush'
and push. and get there, and this Is