Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15
BY EMMA TRENTTNI
The "Vest Pocket" Prirna Donna.

one with me- Tor if | did would talk. Then come
home and take off my clothes ana rest On my pGu NV
dinner. At break the silence for so 10 my pianN
and try my voice. ,
down. Now lift up up, up. From that moment
must be the gay Trentni, the happy Trentlnl tne
Trentin who flashes and sparkes and sings and maees
you laugh and tries to coax you to Ike her anu oene
you to forget her. l can do this. Why? Because all
the long day have not talked.
I have shown you how Trentini makes the most
for myself and do the best with the talents
that nave peen gwen me NOW, may snow 2 booIt6
American woman-how you may save your own neaish
and beauty and talents, and husbands fortune!
Try for week saying only what is necessary
You will be surprised with how little talk you can get
on and your mirror will give you your reward Your
face will lose its drawn lines
Don't go after-theatre suppers. If you will
be expected to talk. That is the bad American habit
You may not sit quiet and look lovely. In America
that is not enough In Europe it might be. Go home
from the play and go straight to bed
The next day do what must be done, but not so
furously you have a habit of doing everything in
this country and whatever it is-ordering breakfast
going to market or seeing your ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
that every word is shining gold coin of your life, and
don't fling away Use it to good purpose or be
silent Then don't go to receptions. OF what
they? Three or four hundred persons crowded to-
gether in sitting losing their tempers and
regulations! Have courage decline Mrs AS invita-
ton and refuse to to Mrs. S conversation storm.
Don't hustle into taXlcab clr,b upon car, but
part the sheets of your bed and crawl gratefully be-
tween them. Remain there hours. Let nothing
except the house burning down interrupt those hours
OF rest and silence.
lou are never nome, you American women. stay
at home. 1t is luxury and becomes delight At
least do not go out evening 1t is well to go
the theatre sometimes yes. But two evenings week
stay at home. Go to bed at 10.
have heard that to soothe the for sleep
one should undress in the d"rk That very good
Darkness is part of the silence cure 1t ulls the
tempest of nerves.
For vanitys sake do not talk so much You have
heard the gorgeous bird, the peacock? Then you
what disappointment is that voice after seeing his
magnificent feathers. SO the handsomely dressed
american woman impresses the European. We think
her hearing Is not acute'or refined she would
shocked at 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
mouths as we Italians hands to talk? 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 twists. 1t
seems that being conscious that your faces do not
reflect your thoughts, try to make your mouths do
all that work.
And now let me tell you that you waste your hus.
oahd fortune by wasting his time Or it may be that
you waste another mans time by talking too long at
the telephone, or If you have business at his office
For every great work need to think We cannot
THINK amidst strdent voices. 1t is with lax hands
crossed In our laps and head bent in meditation that
great work is planned. Planning is doing Learn to
be silent dear American women. Talk little and you
VIII become not only beautiful, but you will
reach the greatness which brain entities you