The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-10
A SAD CASE.

Shut off his tariff views.
The hero of the thrilling play
Had made a noble fight;
But just before the final words
Could set the tangle right
A merry widow" just in front
Shut out the rest from sight.
Despairing of the things of earth,
And all that bore its guise,
He tried TO read his title clear
To mansions in the skies.
"A merry widow" in her pew
Filled full his weeping eyes!
Mammal"
Yes, my child
rs this a Pensacola theatre We
are in"
so / am told by the sign out in
front-besides, there is the stage"
DO they charge TO let US in?''
Yes, my child 1 paid $50 apiece
for these seats"
Isn't that lots of money!"
Yes, and as the play goes on, l
realize more and more how big s1.50
may SEEM
is that the funny man talking
now?"
Wait till / look at my program.
Yes, that is the funny man"
Why isn't that man next to US
laughing, mama?"
He is deaf and cannot hear what
the funny man says"
Why isn't the man next to him
Because he is not deaf, and can
hear what the funny man is saying"
Are they singing now"
Certainly; don't you hear the or
chestra playing along with them and
see their mouths move? Besides, il
says on the program that they are
to sing now. l am surprised at you"
How many people are here to-
nignL?"
"A good many more than will be
here next time unless the people
fall dead before they have a chance
to spread the news"
Are all summer shows as bad as
these, mama?"
No. dear; they can't be, but rey
are all willing workers"
why do they have poor shows in
Pensacola in the summer time,
mama?"
Because that rs the time of year
when there is nothing much to go to,
and the management wants the people
u pay Wcl4 IOI nOIulHS muCH All par
How long have We been here,
About hours, / think-no, my
watch says it is only 15 minutes. But
We must be going.
You are dear, kind mama to take
me out of this-tomorrOw, let's us go
to the cemetery and get cheered up
"of course" said the Pensacola
girl, everybody knows there
are styles in slang and epidemics of
certain phrases ana crazes for walking
or sitting special ways. Que girl
with a gift for leadership will intro
duce the idea and the rest will follow
like sheep.
I've noticed how much time most
persons devote just to following
others ever since a man directed my
attention to the amusing fact that
when sitting with half a dozen per
sons If you fold your arms it will
not be ten minutes before the whole
half dozen have followed suit. Since
then the pleasure l have taken in
experimenting has quite illumined my
lifei
This season there has been
radical change in adjectives and catch
words. 1t is just as noticeable as
when they stop making sleeves baggy
at the shoulders and have them baggy
at the wrists. No girl with the least
regard for fashion would dream OF
saying that anything was perfectly
lovely or knowingly swell or Just
beautiful She says instead that it
is 'awfully good-looking- 1t does not
matter in the least whether the sub
ject under diScussian be an embroid-
cred waist. chocolate cake, a noun
tain range, or a Warrington man. 1t
is awfully goodlooking, and that is
all there is to it
There is an air OF reserve about
the phrase which enables one TO pro-
nounce ii with an impressive grace
The effect upon one of the Uninitiated
"a person who still uses worLs of a
style two or three years old-iS al
ways sudden and decisive. He or she
after an admiring blink mentally
practicing on the cook or one of the
family brazenly introduces them into
his or her drawing-room conversation
with the air of an old hand That is
one nice thing about 'awfuIIy g0Oi
lookilg'-it is easy TO say. One does
not bashfully and embarrassedlv have
to struggle as one formerly did with
'eyther' and 'nyther.'
IF an occasion arises when .aN full
ly gOOd-looking' does not seem quite
up 10 the mark, nobody in style this
summer would make the mistake of
saying anything except that il vaS
terribly attractive That is the real
and only superlative allowed. In
your heart of hearts YOU might feel
that nothing short of jHSt gorgeous
or perfectly elegant properly would
express what you feel, 5u- You must
restrain yourself. Keep your voice
low and even md remark that the
dinner party or the lace collar, the
brand OF face powder or your grand
fathers last viii and testament is
terribly attractive Everybody Jnen
Will know you are true beionger
than which there is nothing more de-
Sirable
That low and even voice. by The
way, Is another fashion of this SUM-
mer. 1t got started by the return ar
number of girls who had been
travelling in the north, where the per
son now who can make hins heart