The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-01
"ELOPING WITH AN IDEA"
Getting Off Into Silence the shibboeth of One of the New Thought Cults, Which Very Appealing to ManyIt is Good Thing to Be Alone Sometimes and Take Men
 tai Inventory of Things and Life
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

| as much during the intermission of
 the play as they did at luncheon, and
 the conversations eddy about you just
 as if you were a little rock in the
 midst of seething stream-for 1t IS a
 seething stream of talk. Just back of you is a perfectly good lady wearing out her voice telling her | companion about what her cook doesn't
 do, and what she does. In return her
 ear drums are punctured with what the
 other woman's maid does and doesn't do.
 The conversation then drifts to the
 price of foodstuffs and the latest styles and in the meantime the actors back of the footlights are doing their level best to entertain the chatterboxes but they so on Just as if nothing were happening.
 Directly in front of you Is another woman with miles of false hair on her head so you can't possibly see what is going on behind the footlights and In extremis you listen to HER chat ter.
 Your position is that of person
 who is blind and you might as well say deaf, too for. the eternal chatter and gabble drowns everything else and your feelings are so narrowed up that absolutely you resort to i'll bred and inconsiderate things that you never dreamed you'd be guilty of. The woman in front of you Is as in- teresting from one point of view almost as the problem the play Is presenting, and since you can't see or hear what's happening on the stage, why the next best thing is to listen to the gabble. Presently you are overcome by the person who arrives late. YOU are alone and don't have to talk to anybody-you have ample op- portunity to make observations of your l own.
 The one who arrives late probably doesn't miss any of the show that
 SHE cares to see, but you have come for an afternoon of pleasure, of being alcne and enjoying yourself and tho result Is that you are somewhat per turbed by the lady's late advent to the theatre,
 She comes in, disturbing everybody about her--their laps full of wraps and
 hats and opera glasses; dropping their gloves and programme, and all the other paraphernalia incident to femin- inity, and instead of enjoying your sol itary afternoon with yourself you find yourself becoming furious with the woman who comes in late. | But you have learned something. And what is it?
 Why
 | Just how YOU might appear to other people by behaving that way when they are trying to "get off into silence and rest
 It Is a perspective of life that you've needed for a long time and you can't get it until you see for yourself and 1 form some sort of idea of what YOU | YOURSELF are like. Haven't you seen people bewailing
 over a photograph. declaring that they
 hadn't any idea they looked like
 THAT?
 | No more have you and I, for the most part. any idea of what we are
 REALLY like-of the things that we do and the things that we say every day without thinking that by doing | them we arc interfering with some cne's else privileges and rights unless we occasionally get off ourselves and
 take a thoroughly impersonal. view of l the situation and of OURSELVES.
  1 inc Malone, Miss Mary Dull and Miss
 Lillian Ivanhood-gave the camp mem-
 bers a Halloween party. | Children as well as grown-ups par ticipated in the Halloween pranks. All
 wore masks but six and 1t fell to thelr lot to guess the names of the others
 Those en masque, however disguised
 themselves so completely as to defy detection.
 A table spread with apples. lemon
 ade, ginger cakes and candies had for it's only lights candles placed about
 the room The cheery dining room looked most attractive with it's decor
 ations of autumn leaves.