The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-02

| Nerinan VINO went cfAIJ auu hi',o'
himself had this matter Of modern dis
traction all figured out. He said it
was all due to the increasing femlniza,
tiou of the world l believe he computed
that % per cent of civilized men already
were so femin2ed that they thought
and acted just like vomen-had their
hysterical periods, their blues, their
moods, their nerves, their aPportunitlc
and intuitive minds; couldn't think
SLOWLY and logically; got at things by
mental jumps, were intellectual kanga-
roos or nntcIopcs, or something Of the
sort, By the way, have you ever
talked to the average rich modern girl
Her conversation portrays in its little
way the CHASTITY tumult Of our life to-
day w
stayed at the Regina. Look at that
funny little man, Heavens. think Of
pannier skirts. I love dogs-sman ones
not the big ones. Did you sec Kis-
metz such funny looking people in it;
wasn't it thrilling? Bob's got a sixty
horsepower Duplex now
| All in djsiointed spasms OF sociabil-
ity; and almost i'll one breath.
That seems TO be what we arc all
| coming to-men, women and children
snatches OF imbecile loquacity and run
This is the sort of influence which
everlastingly demands amusement,
which demands that some sort of per
former do something TO keep your wits
from working. This is the sort OF in
fluence which makes for cabaret shows
and general alien clatter at meal
time. You honestly wouldn't want TO
take the average loquacious girl or man
of today into q cool, quiet hotel dining
a nr CCn
If you did take her to such place
Ihere are plontY of Hers among the
Hes Of today, your mind would have
st. Vltus's dance in twenty minutes,
She just naturally fits into the coon.
shouting and Gaby glides Of the Raj
mata restaurant.
Right here somebody is going to say
stern things; Somebody is going TO
point out that the cabaret show is
hardly a novelty; that it is no spring
chicken in the calendar Of this earth.
The soused and stunning Vikings at
their bowls Of mead had their scalds,
or poet-singers Nike my Mac-of-the-
hickory limb) who thumped instruments
Of musical torture and ululated twelve.
foot verse through the vastly halls Of
Norseland.
Socrates and Alcibiades at a feast
listened to singers and beheld dancers
down to the real business Of the even.
ing-which was getting drunk and
talking their heads off.
The Romans, rolling on sofas, ban
quettipg six hours MT stretch with
occasional diversions of ipecac out OF.
respect to the limitations Of the human
stomachl, had their Salome wrigglers
ct al.-aJ. covering a multitude of sins.
Farther back. it is presumable that
L L,
the wilderness, giving a cabaret show
Of singing, while beneath the hough he
quaffcd his jug of wine and nibbled his
loaf Of bread. Somebody Is going to
point out that food should not be
botcd, but should be taken with lam
guor and music and sociability. Chew
ing to four-four time is salubrious.
Well, ye-e-es. Any union philosopher
worthy Of his card will tell you that Of
every topic under the sun much might
be said upon both sides.
There is no use railing at Tendencies,
because, after all, they are only ten
denotes. On the other hand, there is
every use In railing at tendencies be-
cause later on they may become hab.
it's and hence, facts.
For instance, to take a horrible ex-
ample: Nobody would think Of com
planning because the public developed
tendency to 90 to the Little theater
Of Mr.. Ames, or because the. public
thought Of once going to the Little
theater of Mr.. Ames. So far. 80 good.
Such mental dream would merely
show ale elasticity and versatility of
the human mind.
But suppose this subtle restless idea
actually became concrete action: sup
pose determined public should per
sistently fill west Forty-fourth street
and demand by the thousands to be
Ames. From q mental virtue, the thing
at once becomes mental vice. The
whole affair ut once becomes disas-
trous to all coneerned: to the public,
to Mr.. Ames, to the Little theater it
self.
For, instead of "select audiences of
the best quality" being admitted and
duly aestheticized by tinctured tab,
loids Of drama, the vast green and
rough commonalty of New York would
become universally aestheticized fine
IL meticulous and ome-internal- where
or other, poignantly panied before MIR,
Ames s dramatic samples.
The occupation of Mr.. Ames, the en-
tire idea and entity and message and
career Of Mr.. Ames would he gone
because every last soul in town would
np 40 HuNH VI dH HcStucJS dS ne.
And, finally, the Little theater itself
would cease to exist because. to ae
commodate the hungry millions, it
would have TO become a big theater-
and nothing so completely abolshes
Little theater as a Big theater in its
place.
Thus We see that philosopher must
raise his voice against those tenden-
cics which might become habits. There
is that fear in my heart against the
cabaret show and those who have the
price to enter and chew against it's
music.
Chewing the four-four time Is all
right: but the rich are chewing the
rag-time. Thus far, nobody cares
much. ] don 't-for one. refuse to
feel pity or alarm or anything else ex-
cept envy for the rich man.
Only, il everybody gets TO doing it
figure to Yourself.
Somebodv-was it Edison?-once
said that from continued use Of mod
ern conveniences for travel the future |
human being would have labby, almost |
useless legs?
Our social legs ayo aIrcady. oott;no