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While pretending with every appearance 1 honesty to be its owner's fe: ul servant it is merely awaiting a particularly ay

ward moment, say the critics, to betray him ignominiously. It is unquestionably grue that modern menyories, the best of them, are degenerates when compared with the ancient ones. If the task of perpetu- ating Homer’s ‘Iliad’? and ** The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment’? now depended wholly upon some one’s ability to memo- rize those leng productions, it is quite safe to assume that the next generation would pear them in an exceedingly abridged form.

But the fault of its present weakness cannot be laid altogether at the door of memory itself. That is probably still capa- ble of performing vastly more than it ever does at present, but, like all servants, it must be trained ard then kept up to its work. Whether on the whole this is worth while is another question. It would un- dovbtedly be most convenient on many oc- easions to recall things at will, without any written assistance. But considering the time in which we live, when every- thing worth remembering is printed, or ean be without much trouble, there is lit- tle real need for much memorizing. The majority of people prefer to be dependent upon books and notes rather than to con- : rert their heads into storerooms, the stock < of which is likely to be considerably jum- “=bied up and, at least in part, rubbish.

It is a peculiar fact that a speaker who is accustomed to rely upon some outside aid to his memory, even though he may, by much repetition, have learned the words

heart, is almost always thrown into confusion if the usual aid is suddenly with- drawe. Episcopal clergymen who have tead the serivees of the church for many years are good examples of this. Most of them confess to the worst of verbal mem- ories. Although they actually know the whole susbtance of the ritual as well as they do their own names, they have grown soused toreading it that the absence of 4 the familiar printed lines would drive words and ideas completely out of their heads. Many of them are “‘slaves of the book” down to the shortest portions of the service, not even venturing to recite the lord's Prayer without the text at hand. Not infrequently this absolute dependence is the cause of odd delays and mistakes.

There is a certain clergyman who has, however, a precisely opposite method. For one thing he has memorized the marriage serivee so perfectly that he never refreshes 4 his mind on any point by reading it, and, : in fact, does not even have a book within reach. This latter practice often appears like tempting fate to those who hear him, and manya guest has speeulated, as he listened, upon what would happen if the minister's memory suddenly played him a trick,

On the stage a similar state of affairs may be found. It might be thought that fince they are required by the rature of their work to memorize so much, actors Would find the task an easy one in time, and would not object toa trifle more or

m scot it. Butthis isnotso. As arule they never learn anything which there is a possible chance for reading. If a few lines are to be spoken behind the scenes or any- Where out of sight of the audience, the ac- tor has a copy of them and saves himself he trouble of committing the passage to memory. All stage letters read by actors are fully written out, and the player, in at the number of times he has. repeat-

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Mrs. Kendal, however, does not believe in the customary way of managing the let- tcr business. She insists upon having any meniber of her company under such cir- cumstances get the letter by heart, so that in case the proper piece of paper should be lost any blank sheet might be instantly substituted and the difference never be de- tected.

In a German theater, where it is usual to produce a large number of plays chang- ing the bill every two or three nights, the work of the acters would be exceedingly hard but for the extraordinary method of prompting which is employed. Instead of standing in the wings and rendering his services only on the rare occasions when some actor forgets his lines, the prompter sits in a hood, like that at the Metropolitan Opere House, directly in front of the mid- dle of the stage. The hood looks somewhat like an exaggerated footlight, and its shape serves to throw back the prompter’s voice toward the people on the stage. Sitting here he reads the whole play through from beginning to end, keeping just a lineahead of the actors. Such a process sounds as if it would be extremely confusing to every one in the play, but they have accustomed themselves to depend upon this support. The rather low monotone in which the prompter reads is not audible to the rest of the house, except sometimes to those in the first row or in the stage boxes. At the opera the prompter generally repeats the first words of each line of the air dur- ing the performance.

Singers are as much averse as actors to learning what may just as well be read. M. Castelmary, who sang behind the scenes, the part of the dragon Fafner in “Siegfried,’’ did so entirely from his notes, and Miss Schilling, the voice of the bird, follows the same method.—New York Tribune.

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It is a vast extent of country, compara- tively speaking, from which the cattail is gathered. It comes from the swamps | along the numerous creeks that put in | from the Delaware bay, from Morris river to Cape May. The average amount gath- ered in the season is a ton aday. ‘The work of gathering and transporting it, and then weaving it into the many forms which it must take before becoming sala- ble, constitutes a considerable industry.

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The family album which graces the cen- ter table in the parlor of so many farm- houses is also in many instances adorned | with cattail covers, although the house-, wife cannot be convinced they are not plush. She has doubtless paid almost as) much as if they were what she supposes, | and naturally she scoffs at any person whe | hints that she has been victimized. It ie | becoming a prevalent custom to use cattail | fur on the back of hand mirrors and brushes, which have heretofore been hacked | with plush. Some say that the substitute | is really proving better than the original.

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