Judge — January 13, 1883 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. ure is something like a sigh of relief U along the whole line of * the profession” when the liull- days are over and business swings into its straight and ove, to ran along till the end of the season. idays Involve extra work for the player folk, and, for reasons that Tie Jcpoe bas already com. mented upon, no extra emolument. So good-bye to the holidays and Santa Claus, and all the rest of them, Everybody bas bad pretty nearly enough of them— everybody of the amusement fraternity aod when Tur Jcpae attends the play, be looks at life and its events with the player's eyes. We have been treated to little in the way of novelty lately. Bartley Campbell's * White Slave” opened the week at Haverly’s, Strange as it may appear, that cssentiatly bad drama has not been shelved yet. There are people who get tired of good roast and boited, and prefer their Joints when they make a second appear- ance In the questionable guise of hash. Certainly, there is more vanety in hash, and even if it be only the fag ends of yesterday's Lanquet, wecan find beet, matton and potatoes in the same dish, which wo could not doin th al. It must be the hash-loving pablic that bave kept +The White Slave " alive—** The White Slave,” compounded of equal parts of “Kit, +The Octoroon,” and Bartley Cam} iscent spice of many another drama, concocted and compounded by that unequaled gutherer-up of un- considered trifles, Mr. Bartley Campbell. The same autbor has produced a play called + Siberia” in Califor- nia, Tue Jcpoe {3 rather curious to see it, when op- portunity offers. Will “The Exiles " and “The Dant- chetfs" Le taxed as heavily for its support as were “Kit and "The Octoroon" for “The WhiteSlave!” But, after all, Siberia is. big country. There may bo room for originality there. Mme, Modjeska is closing her season at Booth’s with that impossible stady of maternal agony long drawn oat, and barped upon in every possible phase of morbid shading which has Leen given to our stage under the style and title of ** Odette.” Tu Jvoce had the priv- ilege of seeing this beautiful piece of mental and moro! | vivisection at Daly's a little while azo, sidered itan unwholesom tirely uninteresting. play He then con- rather disgusting, and en \ not much better than **The Rantzaus,"and a good deal worse than** Daniel Rochat.” When he saw the title afterwards, and read itin the light of acquired experience, he mentally altered it to “Ob — I" (not dette, but something else beginning with D.) Ada Rehan on that ocassion furnished the sulgect for the dramatists dissecting-knife, and the whole performance was diss enough. With Modjeska on the surgery table, it was somewhat worse. Modjeska is a good actress, and gave a vitality to the writhings of the unfortunate victim which brought more tears to silly 4 eyes, and gave an unwhole- some air of possibility to the Impossible collection of entson which the dramatist depends for his agony. Bateven with Modjeska in the title role, the effect was inexpressibly dreary and the whole performance dispir- iting. Long, arid atretches of dialogue, unrelieved by A single spot of verdare, stretch from act toact, till the wearied auditor fancies the piece will never have an end. There is no special reason for carrying it on to that length except to fill up the regula‘ion three hours, Nothing particular happens; the dialogne, in ite vap) drearineas, serves no other purpose than to anatomize sane azong,and where we look for a situation we are pre- sented with anew woe, which the dramatist unexpect- edly tarns up, a8. grave-dizzer turns up a fresh shovel full of earth, and on which he moralizes ad nauseam. ‘Tis an unwholesome play, and is well worth staying away from. won ell, with a remin- | Kate Claxton has been playing ** The Two Orphans” atthe Fifth Avenue Theater. There is a marvelous vitality Ia that old melodrama, but the lady needs a new play all the same. But the Orphans’ bave lasted wonderfully, and there has been more than one fortune male oat of their sorrows and trials. Will the ** Ro- many Rye,” and “Taken From Life," and * Youth, and all the reat of that kidney, stand the test of re- Seasons as the Orphans have. We trust not. Which is just where the difference is most plainly dis- cernible between a good melodrama and | Good goods are good at any time, and they will | succeed whether they come as comedy or tragedy, | a3 farce or melodrama. But Tur Seow: bas seen noth- ing feom Mr. Pettitt of Mr. Sims whicb he can call ood, | whereforo—— But why pause to draw the induction. | The case goes to the jury. bad one, Hints for Housewives. the great English philosopher, “Hints to Women,” printed in | American newspapers during the past year, were cut out and pasted together in one continuous st would reach twice around the globe and penetrate seventeen miles into Oshkosh. That he should think the American people are overworked is not strange. The trouble is, the domestic hints thrown oat in such ‘a profuse and promiscaons manner, with the purpose of ligbtening the labors and improving the knowledsy of American women, 3 sufficiently practical f this utilitarian age. is the use of telling a er, who has raised soventeen children, * How to or to Instruct a young lady who has a night inthe week * How to Entertain. Company?" An entirely new set of hints and suzgea- tions, based upon common sense, and clear and com. prehensive in their treatmen for instance, like the followin; Never give a baby a seventy-tive dollar mirror to play with, unless it ts a second-hand one. N. B.— Second-hand” refers to the mirror, not the baby. Breakfast dishes should be washed at least once a week, even though the novel 18 intensely interesting, and you are desirous of reaching the end, to ascertain whether Count Potopscoptki marries the inn-keeper's daughter or becomes the husband of the bigh-born Lady Oleomargareet Don’t use your husband's best silk hat to stop up a broken window-pane. Some men are so queer, and make a fuss about the merest trifle. When a member of the family is sick abod, and ex- presses a desire to partake of a little choice food, don't follow the regulation plan and set before him a plate of boiled cabbage, half a dozen potatoes, a slicn of fried pork, and a bowl of vegetable soup. Encourage his appetite with a piece of Limburger cheese, and a dish of | raw sauerkraut | To remove stains from table linen, saturate the | soited parts with co: d apply a lighted mateh. “Never boil nice white goods.” A better scheme isto fey them, let them smmer over a slow fire, and season to suit the taste, S vat sauce. For the benefit of the few women who are still grop- n darkness as to the best method of building fires, it should be stated that kerosene oil poured on the tardy flames will hurry them wonderfally; and the wom- an who resorta to this p will never have any more trouble with fires—in this world, at least. To prevent potatoes from rottivg in the cellar give le they are still ina sound condi- * refers to the potatoes, not to | Herneer Srescer, | estimates that if th is needed—something, Never wash the baby with lampblack and tnrpen- Une. Water is cheaper, and leas injurious to health Don’t perform the family wasbing in the parlor, nor keep the coals in the garret. If you have an esthetic taste, and, to be in tho fashion, hang the coal-scattle, fire-shovel and frying- pan on the parlor walls, be carefal to have the wall paper harmonize. A deep parple wonld be incon- graous. It shonld be a. warm tone, to match the frying- pan and fire-shovel. Mackerel shonld never be put to soak in the silver ice-pitcher or bread-pan, and sauerkraut served in wine-glasses is no longer en regle. they | A bandsome ornament for the dinner-table is a cover garnished with roast turkey stuffed with oysters, and trimmed with stewed vegetables, and an artistic border of ice-cream, jellies and pastry “Kitchen tables may be made as white as snow” by applying a couple of coats of whitewash. Au excellent scrap-basket may be made of a Jup- anese umbrella, A tifty-cent Japanese umbrella, at an expense of a dollar or 80 and several hours’ labor, may be converted Into a very pretty work-basket worth at least twenty-five cents. Procure seven dollars’ worth of oll colors, pay one dollar for brushes, and fifty cents fora design, which any one without a particle ofartistic talent can transfer toa parlor screen in variegated tinta, in such a striking and orizinal manner, that the house-dog, as soon as be gets.a gliinpse at it, will clap his tall between bis legs and shoot out of the door, howli Ityou have a piece of cloth worth two dollars, for which you have no other use, purchase a dollar and a half's worth of colored floss, aad work on the cloth a green cat with pink ears and blue tail. Another way to spoil the cloth Is to spill a bow! of gravy over it, In “dressing a chicken,” a new fas introduced. For instance, the polonaise might be cut gored, trimmed with black Chantilly lace, and the plastrons and lambrequins, @ fa Pompadour, garnished with iridescent beads, V-shaped at the neck, with a kilt undershirt, and sage green—or green eage—rullles and pale lavender silk stockings. For chickens in the Spring” variety, a very 4 the best—say, a dynamite Alling and a ion should be plain dressing slow mateh, Tidies for chair-backs should be hand-painted on white satin, and then sent to the Fiji Islands, to develop an art taste in the heathen and make bim swear. *. A@ELLow whose best yirl's name is Alice, called her number ten shoes alligators. But the girl's father heard of the insinustion, and now the young fellow swears the old man wears Uattering-rams. WHIFFS WITH CORRESPONDENTS. Jey Jossox.—Not avatlavie. CB L=It ts too slow for as inp. U. ©. (Vine!and)—a “Gem ie the Rovg catting or oar columns, Try someting already poliated. J.P, D.—We cannot pablish your eflusion, * Predte Ray."* We areatraid Freddie would raise us place a copper ou the yoker) if we utd, 3. 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