The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-02-16
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By EMMA TRENTINI
The "Vest Pocket" Prirna Donna.

one with me- for II did I would talk. Then come
home and take off my clothes and my bed the
shades drawn for two hours At rise and take my
dinner. At break the silence for go 10 my piSno
Since II the night before have let down. down,
down. Now I lift up up, up. From that momenr !
must be the gay Trentni the happy IrentnL emu tns
you laugh and tries to coax you to IKE her anu I
you to forget her. / can do this. why? because Ill
the long day have not talked. =
1 have shown you how Trentin makes the mos most i
for myself and do the best can with the taien @ -
that have been given Now, may ] snow you-tne
American woman-how you may save your own heaisn
and beauty and talents, and your husbands forsune1
Try for week saying only what Is necessary
Say it softly and pleasantly but use no Tora TOO t
You will be surprised with how little talk you can go.
on, and your mirror Will give you your re"afa' ou
face will lose its drawn lines, -,
Don't go to after.theatre suppers II you Co. you VIII
be expected to talk That Is the bad American naolt
You may not sit quiet and look lovely In Amerlca
that is not enough In Europe 1t might be- 20 nome
The next day do what must be done. but not go
furiously you have a habit of doing everything In
this country and whatever it bordering breakfast or
going to market seeing your dressmaker-remember
that word is shining gold coin OF your life and
silent Then don't go to receptions OF what use are
they? Three four hundred persons crowded to-,
gether IN sitting and losing their tempers and
reputationsl Have courage to decline Mrs As invita-
ton and refuse to go to Mrs BIS conversation storm
Don't hustle into taxlcab clirib upon car, but
part the sheets Of bed and crawl gratefully be-
tween them. Remain there 'or two hours Let nothing
the house burning down interrupt those hours
You are never home. you American women. Stay
at home. 1t Is luxury and becomes delight. At
least do not out evening 1t is we'll to go to
the theatre sometimes, yes But two evenings week
stay at home. Go to bed at 10.
have heard that to soothe the nerves for sleep
one should undress In the dark That IS very good.
Darkness iB part OF the silence cure. 1t luls the
tempest of nerves.
For vanty's sake do not talk much. You have
heard the gorgeous bird the peacock? Then know
what disappointment is that voice after seeing his
magnificent feathers, So the handsomely dressed
American woman impresses the European; We think
hearing s not acute refined else she would be
shocked ut the sound OF her thin, high. monoto-
voice.
You have In this country habit of making gestures
with your mouth. Do you not know that you your
mouth1 Italians our hands to talk2 You
twist them about to supply the expression missing
from your eyes and other features. The American
eye does not talk and the mouth talks and twists 1t
seems that, being conscious that faces do not
reflect your thoughts try to make mouths do
all that work.
And let tell you that you waste your hus
bands fortune by wasting his time Or It be that
you waste another mans time by talking too long at
the telephone. II you have business at his office.
For every great work need to think We cannot
think amidst strident voices. II Is with lag hands
crossed in laps and head bent in meditation that
great work is planned Planning Is doing. Learn to
be silent dear American Talk little and you
will become not only beautiful. but you will
reach the greatness to which your brain entities