It was while revolving these pleasing reflections in my mind, that our
friend Delorme walked across the stage in the fourth act, and though
there was nothing in the situation nor in the text of the play to
warrant it, I broke into tremendous applause, from which I desisted
only at the scowl of an usher--an object in a celluloid collar and
a claw-hammer coat. My solitary ovation to Master Delorme was an
involuntary and, I think, pardonable protest against the male costume of
our own time.
ON A CERTAIN AFFECTATION
EXCEPTING on the ground that youth is the age of vain fantasy, there is
no accounting for the fact that young men and young women of poetical
temperament should so frequently assume to look upon an early demise
for themselves as the most desirable thing in the world. Though one may
incidentally be tempted to agree with them in the abstract, one cannot
help wondering. That persons who are exceptionally fortunate in their
environment, and in private do not pretend to be otherwise, should
openly announce their intention of retiring at once into the family
tomb, is a problem not easily solved.
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