Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1893 — Page 5

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 1893.

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THE T1IEATER AS A SCHOOL

Staqe Ways Are Tiresome, Unnatural and Would Elsewhere Be Bad. An Objection to tic Sentiment That Allocs GirU to Do the Courting Study in Colors cmstLins: Mce in Spring Luncheons. Cat torotnrn to. sulpbnr and molasses, vbich I do with great regularity every prioff. and which llutialo Bill, the pap, is alto taking. 1 would like to Bay that there are tome aotors I would enjoy tteeine dosed with mental sulphur and molasses. New York gets its fads, and itinsbts, or, rather, wants to insist, on everybody accepting that fed. And this is just toe result of looking at them from the front, and con eluding in my heart of hearts how provincial aud cocky Xow York is, to expect all the other towns to swallow its ignorance. It is carious bow one can look at things and people, and if one is quite independent, say "Go to! I will think as I list!" I never near I anybody say that, but it sounds very nice, and it U what I mean. Yon and 1 both no to the theater, and oh. what we endure! We read a lovely notice about "So and o. tho great character actor," and wo wish thatbimor berbad nocbaracter at all, and knew nothing abont them. That may be bad grammar: 1 don't know whether it is or not. The eulpbur hasn't affected me grammatically as yet. Somebody comes on and imitates a so-called gentleinm'i servant; and yoa feel perfectly certain if a gentleman ever had u servant like that ho would have introduced his bootmaker to the servant's tailor within one hour after his appearance. Then aomo one else comes on as the lady's maid, and wears a cap and diamond earrings, and takes the centre of the stage in the draw mg room, and addresses the company assembled and you feel that the lady must liavelorgotten all that she ever read that Mrs. Sherwood wrote about etiquette or would have boxed that maid's ears. Then nome of them to to other extremes, and produce what they call naturalism, which isn't half as natural as when your babies or mine "play lady" in the nursery. People come on and do things that in decent societ.v they would be cowhided for. The base villain tells of bis conquest, and how he has won the Tillage maid, and people of good breeding are expected to be interested in it; and then he kicks the village maid, and she moans and die. Whereas in real life the village maid would get mad and hit the villain in a way that would be u living lesson to an athlete, liy-the-by the village maid is greatly overrated. 1 once knrw a village maid, aua her one desire seemed to be to strike the primrose path of dalliance, and el.) appeared a little surprised that millionaires were not waiting around to lead her th?re instead of permitting her to act hs maid-servant in a boarding house. The villace maid is more knowing than one would think. 1 like the villain. I like the village maid. I like the stern parent, I like the fool of a mother. I like the baby brother. 1 like the gentle clergyman on the atas. but on, 1 do wish. In these spring days, that the villain onldn't aooear in dres clothes at 11 o'clock in the morning, aud that the Tillage maid would not come in from haying dreasfd in a still white frock and a blue sash, and crowned by a leghorn hat trimmed with blue ribbous. 1 don't pretend to deny that the combination expresses iunocence, but 1 think if she left oil some o the rouge and had a more possible get-np, she would look equally innocent. Then 1 don't see why the clergyman should always talk through his none; this cltns not seem peculiar to any denomination on the stage, but to all. And as I understand thins nowadays, the first thing a preacher learns is how to speak well. Will yoa nleane tell me why the stern parent invariably hides his grief in a red pock handkerchieif I never saw any body use them aud neither did you. Aud the gentle mother is always gotten up after the fashion of the Quakers, whether she is one ' or not. These are said to be stage traditions, liut yoa know alter a while one gets tired of them. And what 1 would like to see just now would be a villain in check trousers and an ordinary cutaway coat; a village maideu in a gingham frock; a clegryman whose voice was swet aud gentle; a stern parent who did not hide his grief, bat would howl it out from the booeetops, and n mother whose t'iddy costume suggested that her daughter had gotten her vain and improper ways through a natural channel. They talk about the theater being a school. Did yon ever watoh the people on the stage when they are supposed to be eating? They either lly along in a hurried manner that is snpposed to be comedy, and which would result in the ruin of one's manners as well as of one's digestion, or else the wife says to the hunhand, in a '.vhtning way, "Darling, this is the last xnouthtnl we have iu the house." That's a Dice example to set anybody. Suppose it was the last, the more reason to be cheerful about it. with a hope of euconraging "darliug" to go out and clean some pavements and wet another mouthful. Don't you suppose ''darling'' would amount to a great deal more if he were chaffed over that last mouthful? And then the idol of his heart said: "Sweetest, we have eaten all we have; go out and earn the docat to get some more, o we can havo another good time." But they never do that on the stage. On, no! They sit down and wait for somebody to come in and bring them something low. lazy lot. Sometimes I think the plays themselves have an effect on the actor. If you had to fay nasty, fault-finding sentences night after night, don't you suppose the tiist thing you knew you would be saying them in the daytime? Really, when the announcement is made in the papers. "Another Actor in Trouble." it ought to read, "The Dire Work of a riay Writer as Shown in the Actions, of an Actor." Things are bound to have an Intluence on you. 1 know n man who had an awful oross dog, aud it got to be a case of like dog, like master; and once he met an amiable dog. and took a great fancy to bim, and from that day on his family have been afraid be is going to be an angel. Still, as he cao distinguish the ditlerence between right and wrong, I think there is a hope of his living, and it is to be trusted that he will remain to live up to the example set him by the angel dog for some time. The I)cty or Chtvulry. A writer who proclaims herself an oldfashioned mother laments through the columns of the Boston Transcript the tendency of the modern young man to overrate his importance and to require the girls to make the social advances. She ays "it is very, very bad for young men' to be conrted, and adulated, and run after astney are nowadays. They get so that they think themselves lords of creation beforo thr-y are out of college. Why, at the nttttinbly ball one young man came strolling up to my Margaret, and drawled out, with a manner between dialling and seriousnehM, 'Well, I suppose I must dance this time with you.' 'Not at all.' said Margaret, sweet as a peach and sitting still, though she knew she was engaged to him for that dance and the next oue, too. She would have eat still the rent of the evening beforo she would have condoned that condescension. Just then up c-ime another niau and asked for the dance, and away went Murgaret. Sbo told me that the other one came to her afterwards and said, 'What did you do that for? I intended to dance that waltz with you.' You intended?' said she, and made him a little curtsey. Now. of course, I don't want young men to crawl and eat from a girl's Hand, but I don't want them to be insuff erably rude. One time at a tea at our house I saw a young man fall in lore with a regular little rosebud of a girl of eighteen, who bad never been at any party but the one her mother gave for her when she came out. It was still winter, and dark at o'clock, and I. jest to help him out. asked hue to take her botnn when she started to go home. She lives only a few doors away, and has always been in and out of our honse ince she was a babv. What do you suppose that young man and he's thirty years old and ought to have some seuse said to me next time I saw him? I expected him to thank ne for sending him with her. I'm sure I ought to be thanked, for every woman I know, including the girl's mother, would say 1 was a sentimental creature and dis

pensed with all the formalities, doing sneh a thing just because 1 saw he fell in love at rirst sight. Well, the conceited creaturo said, dejectedly, 'Mis did not ask met cull the other night.' I may ssy I resd bitu a chapter. 1 told him she would have been scared to death to ask any man to call. I told him that men sigh to see sweet, retiring girls, and mourn over the ideal women they can't find, aud then force the girl of to-day toiloulltheseekingandalioostall of the iuvltiug. with the mistaken idea that they are tnemselres the proper objects of admiration. It wasn't so when I was young. I am sure my husband asked to come to see me the rirst time he ever came. My girls' grandmother would hae locked eu up on bread and water for a week if she had heard me say: 'Mamma and 1 are at home Thursdays.' as 1 heard my Fanny to say nothing of the usual modern girl's everlasting 'Como to see rne.'" 'You are very old-fashioned." "I am very new style, too, the vary latest style indeed. These ways comeback into fashion now and then; but I ued to embroider, too, when it was quite out of fashion to know how."

A Spring Luucheon. Philadelphia Times. If you have any sooial obligations to be discharged, give a spring luncheon, for no prettier or more simple function can be imagined, and you are certain to win the gratitude of those friends whom yon invite to the vernal feast. To begin with, have your decorations all green and white. This can be very easily accomplished, for you need not buy Dowers unless you so desire, but can substitute in their place a white wicker basket tilled with ferns, tbemaidenhair being most effective. This centerpiece can be hired at small expense. A spotless white cloth, over which a pale green silk scarf is laid, will suffice if you do not own an open-work one that can be placed over irreen. The china, pure white and the candlesticks, also white, with pale green shades, will lend their quota to the general daintiness, l'ale greeu linger bowls Hhould be used, with doilies of white worked in pale green, tho maiden-hair fern being a particularly pretty pattern. Therep:ist itself should, of course, partake ns much as possible of the general character of the luncheon. Spring chicken, peas, asparagus, spinach and white potatoes, green bon-bons in white wicker china baskets, any pure white water ico. and pistache cream. The petit pam should be tied with pale green and white baby ribbon and at each place a couple of hunches of. white hyacinths held together with green ribbon will be a (spring Honveuir certain to be highly prized. 'I he menu cards will suggest endless original ideas, aud altogether yon will find that a spring luncheon is a most delighttul a flair, the resources of which are endless. A little later on apple and cherry blossom luncheons can be carried out in the same general manner. Injudicious Use of Colors. New York Leaser. It's a curious fact that many women accept colors in a matter-of-course sort of way, following tradition and usage in an absolutely blind fashion. They have heard it said that blue is the proper thing for a blonde and pink and yellow for brunettes. Thoy seem to take it for granted that a blonde is any sort ot a person having light hair and medium to light complexion, and so we see colorless, dull, Hat-looking faces set oil in pale blue that makes them look as tallowy and spiritless as their most vicious enemy could desire. A young woman with dark hair and an abundance of color comes out in pink and makes herself simply a caricature. It would pay any young woman tn buy and keen ou hand one yard of paper muslin of every conceivable shade. It would only cost 5 or 6 ce its a yard, and when she wanted a new dress or a combination suit all she would have to do would bo to wrap some of those colors around her face or neck and study the eftect before the mirror. Then, if she were not as blind as the proverbial bat, she might spare herself the humiliation of being told that her now suit wasn't becoming and her friends the tor tnre of seeing her make herself simply ridiculous. This suggestion is by no means an idle one, and would save a great deal of trouble as well as discomfort. Fnahloti Notes All the nine-gored skirts are lined to the knee with crinoline, and, as a rule, the seams are either covered with narrow gimps or jet bands, or piped with silk or satin. , The sloping shoulders are a relief almost after the high deformities of the past. The shoulder seam is hardly long enough to interfere with the movement of the arm. Its length is added to in appearance by the high throat and by the deep bertha that falls over the top of the sleeve. Handsome Persian patterned silks and sti tins, used for vests and facings, give a rich and recherche effect to eouie of the new tailor jackets of Venetian cloth and three-quarter coats of English kersey. These elegant brochee are also used to liue the canes and stole-fronted pelerines of ilk or velvet designed for special lulldress occasions. After seasons of pookotless ing which tho handkerchief gowns, d aril as crawled up sleeves, tucked itself in corsages, been thrust under waist edges, to he lost by the dozens from any of these unreliable holding places, the dressmakers have announced that in the eight-yarns-around skirts there will be spared a few inches somewhero for a pocket slit, aud that a pocket will be attached thereto. It is believed by many leaders of fashion that the present outre modes cannot hold, they being too hideous to last even for one season. English designers are talking of the coming in of fashions set by Anne of Austria, others believe that Elizabethan ruttles and atomuchers will be worn. The slashed sleeves of the Valois period are already in vogue, also the Anne of Austria sleeve formed of three pulls with wide, upturned laco r utile. Pretty circular capes for summer are made of a foundation of black surah or light lining satin; this covered with black Bourdon laco, either of ono deep width or ot a series of capes frills, the first six inches wide, the next ten, the lowest fourteen inches. There is a standing lace frill for a finish, and a twisted silk or satin ribbon goes round the neck below this frill, with long iloating ends to tie in front. The bertha is a very different atlair from the outstanding, stiffened collarette seen on the big-sleeved, big-skirted gowns. This bertha is a fall of lace or embroidery, six inches or more in width, that drops softly down in a modiste, demure sort of way that, in contrast with the demonstrative style of gown, wins instant approval. The skirt, too. does not flare, but rather is of the clinging order; though full, . it is straight and round, and the sleeves hide their pulls under the bertha and are not at all objectionable. Black is exceedingly fashionable this season, but, fortunately for many, not exclusively so. Black is in very many cases eminently and undeniably becoming. Black velvet is, of course, always "complimentary." BlacK in other rich fabrics, like brocade or lustrous silk,' jet or velvet trimmed, is likewiss most becoming. In other instances, however, it proves very much the reverse, being frequently tar more uncomplimentary in its effect than colors; for while eminently refined and ladylike as a dress, it has in scores of instances a tendeucy to accentuate paleness or sallowness. to give a decidedly gray tinge to a colorless complexion, and to add years to its wearer's appearance, or, if the face is extremely ruddy, to deepeu its glow to a magenta rod. The choosing of a black gown has. iu most cases, to be decided personally, and a mirror and a good light are far better guides than either a kindhearted friend who dislikes to bn frank, or a modiste who is neither independent nor competent. Absurdities of the Modern "Itomsnce." FreJer.c Harrison, la the Ai rll Forma. If another Dickens were to break out tomorrow with the riotous tomfoolery of Tickwick at the trial, or of Weller and Stiggins. a thousand lucid criticisms would denounce it as a vulgar balderdash. Ulaucusand Nydia at I'ompeii would be called melodramatic- rant, Ihe "House of the Seven Gables'' would be rejeoted by a six penny magazine, nnd "Jane Kyre" would not rise above a common 'shocker." lience the enormous growth of the "kodak" school of romance the snapshots at evertf-doy realism with a hand camera. We know how it is done. A woman of forty, stont. plain, and dull, sits in an ordintry parlor at a tea table, near an angular girl with a bad squint. "Some tea?" said Mary, touching the pot. "I don't mind." replied Jane, in a careless tone; "I am rather tired, and it Is a dull day!" "It is." said Mary, as ber lacklustre eyes glanced at the murky sky with-

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