Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1885 — Mother and Daughter. [ARTICLE]

Mother and Daughter.

The most incongruous letter by parent to the offspring that ever came under my attention was that of Selina Dolaro, the opera bouffe and burlesque actress. You may recall her as a plump, pretty creature, with all the sprightliness common to her specialty in the theatrical profession, and evidencing no dislike for, the skirtlessness of some of the costumes prescribed for her roles. Selina has a daughter as big as herself, but only half her age, if the figures 36 are correct. Esther stood in the wings of the stage on which her mamma was cavorting. While the daughter was watching the antics of the mother, seems that the latter had a sly eye bn the behavior of the former, and thus discovered that the younster was flirting with an occucupant of a proscenium box. “Look her, Esther,” she said, severly, on retiring from the scene, “I don’t want to see any more of this giddiness,” and so on through a stretch of sound maternal advice as to decorum in a maiden. But it was fnnny to see the actress, in the audacious undress of her part, just from the duty of mashing a whole audience, imparting the truth of modesty and propriety to a daughter clothed in all possible demurdhess of innocent girlhood. I have no idea that the garb of the adviser weakened the advice at all, so accustomed do stage folks get to that sort of costume; and when Selina and Esther walk together in Broadway the one is as conventionally fashionable as the other. —New York Letter. Thb family and friends of the drunkard should be protected from the shame and dangers of his drunkenness.