The Greencastle Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 January 1897 — Page 2

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Bj VIOLA B0SEB020’. [Copyright, 1K«), by the Author.) “Aunt Maggie, it’s mining. Hava you get your mhlx 1 • ? Yes, I brought the big umbrell i. Ven’d better tie a handkerchief over your In rl, though." TLi 1 remurks were intwle in a queer, half mincing yet uiakcaliue voice outside my dr« -sing r.xtm d<K r. T1 ey were evidently tv.Lin - -< d to tome t.ue in another dn ssti.g room. We vi rt'm a dirty little j Ir.co called by its patrons an opera house. I recognized the queer voice. II belonged to an odd, active bey who had taken a part in the evening’s theatrical performance. But what caught my attention was the statement that it was raining. I bad that day rente on frein New York to join this company. I was exhausted with fatigue. I had no umbrella. Certainly I should need a handker chief ovi r my head. When I was ready to leave the hah. it seemed deserted, but as I reached the 1 utc r door I ramo on the herald of the \vi ather. He was on his knees, his month full of pins, shortening Aunt Maggie's petticoats. The woman was also a member of the company. They barn d my way. As I stopped they both looked up and spoke together. “Why, it's Miss Addington. Miss Addington, allow us to introduce our--.lives.The boy had sprung to his feet with preternatural alertness, and now, continuing the last speech I have quoted, said, “This is Mrs. Mason, and I am Cassius Wetherby. ” Then with ati abrupt c-haugo of tone: “Let me pin up your skirts too. 1 have a whole paper of pins here. Allow me. ” And there he was upon his knees at my f< < t working away with professional dexterity and speed. “We were saying it must have been a very hard evening for you. You did wonderfully. ” “No rehearsal at all. It was wonderful.” "Why, Cassius, she has no umbrella. ” “Well, we’ve one big enough fo* three.” With a loquacity and good nature too .treat to he quelled by a mouthful of pins Cassius ki pt up his part in a conversational duet till he had arranged my wet weather toilet to his mind. Then, with all possible care for my comfort, the two esccrtcd me to the hotel, the hotel where all the company were housed. I bad had a good fire kept in my room, so I asked them to come in with mo and dry themselves. Theatrical people avc apt to be reserved and indifferent with any new unknown raembe

AjuI there he wan upon his knees.

xirning into a theatrical company, inhospitality, obvious or disguised, being always tl-o natural resultof continuously multiplied dealings with strangers, so as we ranged ourselves about my -iifity stove, s]leaking upon an unconvuously reasoned hypothesis, I said: "You are new to this business. You won’t take so much trouble about people when you’ve been longer on the road.” Both my visitors answered me. I had not thought of this middle aged woman is being new to anything, but with the toy she cried out, “Oh, we’ve had a aood deal of e xperience. ” “Indeed wo’ro quite old stagers,” said he. Then 1 realized that here were indeed fvo novices, stage struck novices. The company to which we belonged vas a meluncholyWrganizatiou. Itplayil a “repertory, ” and it staid a week in towns that “combinations” and stars -real stars—leave in one night, and it. -•isited places that such more fortunate summers neglect altogether. The bill Pas changed at every performance, taking our sojourn in one town, and nine ,T more performances were given in thi 'Veek. In short, we were a “snide’’ company. WV represented theatrical lift in one of the least glittering phases. Nevertheless he knows little of showfolk who would assume the absence of good talent among us. We, like many another such bankrupt organization, were headed by au excellent, solidly trained old actor. He was our star and our mauager, and, “down on his luck” as ho was, I had been glad to join his company for the experience I could get out of it. I already had enough experience to know that these was little prospet t of any othi r compensation from him. This being my position, I hastily «o explained it to Mrs. Mason and Mr. Wetherby, hoping to - the their feelings by calling myself u novice. They exchanged glances of satisfaction at the announcement. “That’s just what I’ve told Aunt Mag,” said Cassius. “Cassius and I tliink you can’t have too much experience,” said Aunt Mag continuing: “Wo come for experience too. Mr. Lc-roy isn’t altogether wha» I’d wish in some respects.” “This is between ourselves,of course, '* put in Cassius. “Cassius, Miss Addington is a lady, and a lady of discretion,” Mrs. Masoa certified with au astuteness squally suv arising and gratifying. ’ He soma-

times U'cs profane language, Mis., i Addington, and—but 1 won’t talk about it. I don’t wish to gossip, but he is a first rate stage manager, isn’t he, Cassius? We fei 1 that \\e have learn- u a great deal in this t:-gageincut, don't we?" Cu-Aius did, end he also reminded Mrs. Mason that it was Into and that 1 was tired, and he told me that it just ruined Aunt Maggie not to have her sleep. “I’ll have to bring her breakfast up to her now. They elose the dining room so early. They don’t show the consideration they ought to professional people. " 1 congratulated Mrs. Mason on her prospect of breakfast in bid. That, truth brought forth more conversation: “Oh, Miss Addington, he is so good tome. I don’t know—I suppose I’d have iiorn sewing in Chicago yet if he hadn't —no, 1 wouldn’t, I’d have been dead. I couldn’t have sewed another year. ” “t-he’sso gcod to me; that’s the thing of it." “And ho isn’t my nephew at all, you know. ’ ’ “No; we’re no relation. ” "We’re just friends. I don’t know why people say just friends. He’s more than a sen to me. He never tries to make in* over into something else as your own family do, Miss Addington.” I put in a word of thanks for her divination of my case; but. unconscious of interruption, sbe was saying that tomorrow she must tell me all about it— her and Cassius’ friendship. “I think, ” said she, “it’s real pleasant to know that people can find such friends in the world—an old woman and a boy, tr-o—that they can take so much comfort in each other. He is just a hoy, for all he’s so ambitious, bnt he isn’t like other boys. He’s so good. Some ways he’s more like a girl, but he's manly, too, you know.” The next day after rehearsal Mrs. Mason visited me again. She overflowed with friendliness and talk, biographical and autobiographical. One thing about Mrs. Mason must have antagonized many a person and made her stand in the minds of the judicious as an example of the demoralizing effects of the stage. Buch au (xample she was, to be sure, for she was painted like a barber’s polo, and that was undoubtedly the result of the achievement, too late in life for safety, of a make up box. But when one saw how simple and kind and more than respectable she was the effect of all that red and white and block stuff on bu tired, worn, middle aged face became as touchingly humor- us ms it was a-s-tbetieally disastrous. It was put on with the confidence of a creature who has little practice in deceit and none at all in the detection of it. She had that flat backed, slim figure which a 60-ycar-old possessor always believes to Lo youthful in effect, but only the dullest ( f ol m rvers could have been blind to the time wearied and labored character of Mrs. Mason’s uprightness. She dressed with a painstaking, inexpensive elaboration of details that showed she loved her clothes. But she was one of those not uncommon women whose Jove of personal adornment, to be understood aright, must be understood somewhat subtly. She had, as I soon learned, as little personal vanity and as little delusion as to in r own natural charms as possible (you sen, I do not say who had none), but site loved beauty so passionately that she must, for the peace of her life, play at being better looking than sho was, and it was necessary to this game that she exaggerated the power of art to help her. Early in this our second interview she said, “I have a daughter, Florence— that’s her name. ” When she said "EL reuce, ” my mind automatically answered, “Florence Mason,” and as with the turning of a key I re mem ben d a long ago had passed from my mind, as if to be forgotten forever. A whole history that. It was this woman’s history, heard years tiefore— the history of her most eventful and momentous years. Florence Mason, au airy, irresponsive young person, the kind one in shallow moments calls harmless, I had once chanced to know. She had a pretty voice, musical aspirations and a habit of talking about herself. During the fortnight in which she considered me a congenial soul (I am a good listener) she told me a great deal about her mind, her gifts, her nature, and incidentally her heredity, bhe said she ow( d her moral attributes tq her moth* r, her power of self sacrifice and her sternness of principle—that her mother had sacrifice d everything tc principle. Homo people might have found it confusing to learn on top of all this and a great deal more that her mother was, in the daughter’s phrase, a “grass widow,” now seeking to go upon the stage. But this announcement found mo prepared to recognize that its general air did its subject injustice. I had heard the outlines of her story and had managed to gather from it some notion of the woman’s simple and singular character, a character singular only iu its simplicity, for the love of pleasure and the passion for moral uprightness that were its basis arc surely the 1 very stuff from which man and fate weave human destiny. It was because in this wtray, witless bit of humanity this typical combination of forces was so uncomplicated by other issues that sin- was so interesting and so touching. Sho felt no sense of inconsistency in her d< sires; she did not dream of pleasure and duty as things created to conflict; she was innocent of all such modern feeling, a feeling that penetrates so many souls even when they reject it us a doctrine. No; she was au interesting survival, a simple pagan who wanted all of life she could get, hut who was ruled by her couscitOice. However, whether or not the last of life is necessarily at war with the hunger and thirst after righteousness, this queer, tragic human experience may he safely trusted to bring them to battle sooner or later. With Mrs. Mason the conflict Imd come both soon and lat<‘, early and often, yet with-

jut -vt r altering tbe '.rigiiial terms, the original simplicity of h. r attuchuM :i; o each. So with her the now struggl* waulways tbe old typical one, unsofteued, uncased by any belief in the doctrine of si If abnegation for its own sake. Something of nil this I had gathered even from the daughter's taler When Fie ri nee was at out 4 years old, Mrs. Mason had discovered that her bus band was cheating a poor family in a sale of land. < if his integrity she had had doubts before, but when she made this discovery and con Id doubt no more she took a course that sei ins to have presented itself to hi r mind as the only one possible. With a singular obsirvatice of feminize mistiness as to masculine busimss sue simply took her child in her arms, and with nothing iu her pocket left him at once and forever. The significance i f this act remains dubious until t.e learn that, although all this happened in Illinois in the days of the famous easy divorce laws, Mrs. Mason never -'ought a divorce or tolerated with patience any suggestion that sho should have one. The husband, by

“i hare n Oauijhter, Florence. tbe way, wont to California, where it appears he 1. ver felt any need of legal freedom. Ho was never hoard of any more, so we are not to be bothered with him. "No, my moth* r always said she was a married woman; that you couldn’t he married bur once, it seemed to her, but she couldn’t, she just couldn’t. If you knew her, you’d know sin really couldn't live with a man who cheated people, particularly poor people. She just pickid me up and wait to Chicago and begat) sewing fer a living. That was all sin* could do, and she just hated it. i’i rhups you think she oughtn't to have told mi) oil this about ii.y father, hut she couldn’t keep thing.! to herself. M10 isn’t that way a 1 it. “Hie worries mo ilreai’.fnlly telling things. I can’t think how any one with so much moral principle can have so little dignity. Then I was all she had, ami sho didn't know but my father would come back and claim me somo time, or sho might die, and then I might come v,t v.-ith linn some time, and she was so afraid I might be like that and not care a)- '.fright and wrong. She cares enough, hut people eriticiso her dreadfully. Tin y always did, and I wish she wani’t so I .-•it cn ing on the stage. One doesn't v, unt o-u-V mother on the stage, you know. But she's been awfully good to mo as fur as she could understand me, and I know I’m u strange nature. I said: ‘Mother, I’m not going to 1: op on awiinst thi- stage business. You'll just have to be happy your own way, bt 1 I can’t stand being around mixed up with it. I’ve got to consider myself and my future,' So I got a place to live away from Ja for I had some music pupils. My nether spent a lot of money on my music. So I got some pupils as soon us 11< ft school—beginners. It would have been bad for my pupils to get wind of her going on the stage, andl told you she never could keep) anything. I adore dignity and reticence myself. Don’t you?” And here before me was the woman that for a personal pcruple of conscience had for 20 years fought such a bitter battle; who had fought it and won it with her hated needle; who with no other weapi u had actually conquered au education for her child, had sent her to private schools and good music masters. No wonder she wanted to do something she liked now. I was to learn more details of her campaign. The horror of those years of sewing was so strong upon hir that some expression of it was always likely to break in upon her general conversation. In this first tete-a tide she inti rrupted the story she had begun about her first acquaintance with Mr. Wetherby by exclaiming: "But when I say I’d been doing dressmaking for years, that don’t tell you anything. You don’t know anything about it. You don’t know anything about it. ” Then with a sort of solemn retrospective desperation she went on : “Miss Addington, I never learned dressmaking. I always bated to sew worse than anything in this world, but I was handy at it, and I liked to make my own clothes look nice, because I couldn’t afford to have any one else do it for me. But it’s one thing to make your own clothes and another—indeed it is another—to make other people’s. I never did understand any sure way to make a fit —nothing about lots of things real dressmakers know. I had taste; that was all. I could do things others couldn’t and make things look like pictures—when I had any luck. Y’ou ask any one that ever saw my work. That was the only reason I ever got anything to do. “I never cut into a fine piece of goods that I wasn’t so giddy with fear that I thought I should faint. I'm absent minded, and I get mixed up so easy, Mid such awful accidents etui happen in dressmaking, and it wasn't only cutting into it, it was the whole time any hand--ume thing was around I never drew a breath but in fear. That’s away to live, isn't it? You don’t know anything about it. I eut two side gores once for the same side, and it was brown brocaded velvet, and we never could match it. But I dou’'; want to think about it. Yes, of courie, that’s what every one said—learn a system, learn a system— »nd I’ve nothing to say buck that doesn’t sound silly, but after all one’s own way

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