The San Francisco call., 1910-02-06

the ablest critics of the day and it will
be truly interesting TO listen to his
message as Miss Kemble delivers it
tomorrow, half music and partly story.
Paul Dukas is not unknown in this
country as some, alas, of his distin-
guished brethren in art, but has had
his fantasy, 'LApprenti Sorcier' pro-
duced in New York, Boston and Chi
cago. BY the way, "Ariane ct Barbe
Bleue" win be given this winter at the
Metropolitan opera house in New York.
In the meantime the story of Blue
beard Will be heard at the st. Francis.
In former times
In the warmest climes
\ gentleman glored in his crimes:
Some terrible deed he was known 10 have done,
Had been rid of their lives
In the darkest manner under the sun
Now that the shades of Lent have be-
gun to cast a gloom on the festivities
of the winter. there is much moralizing
anent dancing and the disadvantage of
late hours passed in the fascinating
on the subject has these illuminating
words to say, and the remarks may
or may not be taken seriously, ac-
cordng to the years and the mind of
the one who reads: IF there ever was
an overworked class with nothing
coming to it--as a rule--in return for
hard labor, it is the socalIed leisure
class and in that class. especially the
debutante. Leisure. My dear she
works unlimitedly, unremittingly, and
while sociologists prate in all solemnity
of protecting girls and women against
night work in close, overheated work
shops, and even II European nations
have entered into bond to put down
such an enormity 'on account of the
future of the race, no one-parents
less than any one else-seems to care
to protect these girls from this unholy
folly. Six nights out of seven, after
standing for hours at the dress makers,
they return to the nightly treadmill
and breathe the exhausted and vitiated
atmosphere eXhaled from 1000 painting
chests. made. yet closer by the heavy
scents and flowers
| For hours and hours they polish the floor,
| Fair misses of tenderest ages
And not until dawn are their labors all Ger,
| Yet nothing they garner wages.
Oh. folly unholy. that challenges ire
| This wasting of time and of health;
| If done for living. how soon 1T would tire
Those hard working daughters OF wealth.
! But of what use in preaching asks
| the Lenten philosopher. Some years
ago number of we'll known matrons,
who had dattered themselves that they
were in truth social leaders, held a
meeting in the interest of earlier
hours. They realized that to stand up
all night dancing playing the but
terhy to the rose was not conducive to
masculine health or business success.
OF the girls apparently no one thought.
They might sleep all day. But the men
had their way to make. So they de-
cided upon making joint effort to
bring about nationally normal con-
dition of social intercourse. Several of
them actually put the dream into prac-
| tiGe They stated hours on their in
vitations, and for a time themselves
made a point to arrive at balls at 10
o'clock. 1t was about that time that
the dinner before the ball came into
vogue-the thought being to adjourn
from the dinner to the ball, arriving e
there at 10 or 1890. But these wise
and we'll meaning matrons soon dis
covered that they might lead-but none
would follow. The young spirits they
called from the vasty deep came not.
They assembled in empty halls and
talked with one another hours before
THE youngsters struggled in"
| There is no use in preaching
As well to the breath:
The youths you would be teaching
Iou only bore TO DEATH
Mrs George D. Toy gave another of