Life — April 3, 1884 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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or, perhaps, I should say at the ends of her eyelashes. What is certain is that she is never at her ease, and is always in a state of snuffing and snivelling. She has, of course, no mind to speak of, At any rate, she makes up her mind on very rare occasions. If a coherent person should say toher: ‘‘ Now, come to the point, What do you mean? What are you troubled about ?” She would reply in a demi-shrieck: ‘Ah, heaven! what a wretch I am. I cannot tell you what you want to know. My secret is buried in my heart. Do not ask me to speak. Forgive me, oh! forgive me. Boo-hoo!” And she would continue to '‘ boo-hoo” through five long and melancholy acts. That is the hysterical heroine. She is the heroine who, according to our dramatists, represents the ordinary girl and woman. Perhaps she does. She represents, I know, mental and physical debility, and one turns from her with delight to the woman of sense, candor, and humor, A conspicuous example of the hysterical heroine is shown in the brilliantly hysterical play called ‘‘ Her Sacrifice,’’ which is now visible at the New Park Theatre. case, is made principally by those who visit the theatre. As to her sacrifice, that is an odd thing. The young and lachrymose woman in the play happens to know that her father murdered a certain countess and stole this countess’s will. It is natural, at first, that she should not want to make her father’s guilt known, but she marries an estimable man, whom she loves desperately and whom she drags through four acts of misery because she is unwilling to quiet his mind by revealing her secret to him. Nothing could be more exasperating and unreal than a piece like | “Her Sacrifice,” melodrama. which is, by the way, a rehash of stale French The sacrifice, in this | | (shell; he ducks his head to avoid it) ‘‘and gentlemen” J RENDER: VNTO SCIS§OR$ THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE SCISSORS - ‘ARE you sick ?” asked the old physician of his eldest son, who appeared dispirited and ill at ease. “* Not exactly,” said the young man; ‘‘only.an eastern house has drawn on me unexpectedly for $400.” “ How often have I cautioned you,” said the angry father, ‘not to expose yourself to a draft."—Health' Fournal. AFTER chattering a long while to the exchange girl, they connected him with the doctor's. “ Doctor,” said he, ‘‘I’ve got a bad case of chills. How soon can you come up and see me?” And he gave him his number. “Be up in twenty minutes,” came the reply over the wire. “Yes, but what shall I do in the meantime?” “Shake 1” was the re ply. And he shook.—Medical Review. 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