^ C-' c ||iiiliiiHin«> g 018 378 049 9 V 1 Hollinger Corp. pH 8.5 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 018 378 049 9 • * Corptaov (IncorbomteA) Co|>^ri0\>t 1904 t^.— .-^ y&U) 2)vl T\' ?ARY of CONGRESS vo Copies Received lAY 20 1904 eepyrlffht Entry THESE ARE THE TEACHERS THAT T^:t;'^'^ V jV^erner^s SelectionLS With !Clocutioi\ Lessons No. 1 • . BRINGS TO YOUR HOME • . EMMA DUNNING BANKS, Actress, Public Reader, Teacher, Author of "Banks's Recitations with Lesson-Talks." BERTHA L. COLBURN, Teacher, Author of "Graded Physical Exercises." ANNA D. COOPER, Teacher, Public Reader, Director of Poses in the Pantomimes, "Star-Spangled Banner," ard "The Listening Ear of Night." ANNA RANDALL-DIEHL, Teacher, Public Reader, Author of "Elocutionary Studies," etc. CRACK B. FAXON, Teacher, Public Reader, Formerly an Editor of "Werner's Magazine." HENRY GAINES HAWN, Teacher, Author, President of the National Association of Elocutionists. ERNEST LEGOUVE, of the French Academy, Eminent Playwright and Dramatic Teacher. J. M. D. MEIKLEJOHN, Eminent English Elocutionist. SAIDEE V. MILNE, Teacher, Public Reader, Author. AMELIA RING MORGENROTH, Teacher, Director of Entertainments at Educational Alliance. E. V. SHERIDAN, Actress, Teacher of Dramatic Art, Author, Playwright. HERMANN VEZIN, the Eminent London Teacher of Elocution. ELISE WEST, Teacher, Public Reader, Formerly an Editor of "Werner's Magazifie." CORA W. WHEELER, Teacher, Author, Formerly First Vice-President of the National Association of Elocutionists. THESE CONTR.IBUTOR.S REPRESENT ALL THE LEADING CONTEMPORANEOUS SCHOOLS OR. SYSTEMS OF ELOCUTION AND PHYSICAL CULTURE Following is a list of selections, which are exhaustively analyzed, and on which elaborate lesson-talks are given, by the above-named eminent teachers: American Flag.— J. R. Drake. Bishop and the Caterpillar.— M. E. Manners. Brier-Rose. — H. H. Boyesen. Captor Captive (from "Ingomar"). Como,— J. Miller. Cupe's Courtship.— J. U- Lloyd. Dog's Funeral.— S. V. Milne. Higher Culture in Dixie.— D. Dix. How He Saved St. Michael's.— M. A. P. Stansbury. How to Prepare a Selection for Public Rendering.— C. M. Wheeler. Jaffar.— L. Hunt. Julius Caesar, Act I., Scene I.— W. Shake- speare. King Richard's Dream.— W. Shakespeare. Kitty Clive.-F. F. Moore. Legend of the Organ-Builder. T. C. R. Dorr. Light on Deadman's Bar.— E. E. Rexford. Little Christel.-M. F. Bradley. Little Hugo. Order for a Picture.— A. Cary. Organist.— A. Lampman. Parthenia, a Hostage (from "Ingomar"). Peggy's Serpulae.— L. C. Austin. Pied Piper of Hamelin. — R. Browning. Rejected Suitor (from "Ingomar"). Rivals. — B. Chandler. Savage Conquered (from "Ingomar"). Shaker Romance.— C. S. Haight. Sheltered.— S. O. Jewett. Sioux Chief's Daughter. — J. Miller. Soul of the Violin. -M. M. Merrill. Study of Fables. — E. Legouve. Tom's Little Star.— F. Foster. Two Souls with but a Single Thought (from "Ingomar"). White Lily.— M. L. Wright. Wooing Scene from "King Henry V-" — W. Shakespeare. 35 SPLENDID LESSONS IN ELOCUTION FOR. $1.25 Book sent postpaid on receipt of price EDaAft: 5;. .WBRriEft PjaBllSflINQ & SUPPLY CO. Hnc.) 43=45 East Nineteenth St., New York /2- .-?■> •>/<-- V-' l^'yjJiy^^iS-^^ , 1 C^^-^^&.^A.^v.'UZ. Deacon Slocum's Presence of Mind MONOLOGUE FOR A WOMAN BY PAULINE PHELPS Copyright, /Q04. by Edgar S. IVerner Deacon Slocum is a likely man, and he's been payin' me attention for nigh twenty year — time enough to git acquainted, goodness knows! An' it's my opinion we'd have been married an' settled long ago if it hadn't been that — well, he's a believer in men's rights and I'm a believer in women's, and he always has to switch off just at the proposin' point, and say somethin' about the weaker sex needin' husbands to look after 'em. And then I flare up, and say I'm acquainted w^ith one of the weaker sex that don't, and the next thing I know^ I'll be lookin' out of the window at the back of his head goin' down the road. Now, take it last Thursday night, he dropped in unexpected like from the grocer's, where he'd been to buy some crackers an' cheese for his supper — he has a dreadful time over indigestion, poor man, with no one to do his cookin' for him — and, says he, a lielpin' himself to a chair: ''Luranny, I've b'en thinkin' what the bible says about it's not bein' good lor man to live alone. There's a heap of sense in them words, Luranny." "Yes," says I, "They sound pretty convincin'." "Man and woman was intended for companion," says he, a-hitchin' closer, and puttin' his arm sort of — well — sort of natural like round the back of my chair. 4 DEACON SLOCUM S PRESENCE OF MIND '^Specially when they've been acquainted a long spell," says I, a-hitchin' my chair up a little, too, jest to be neighborly. "Woman without a helpmate is a poor, no-account, pitiable creature," says he. "The first on 'em wan't sent into the world until the Lord had a man standin' by an' reconciled to takin' her off His hands." "Yes," says I, "He saw Adam was makin' such an awful fizzle try in' to get along by himself, He took pity on him, and created Eve to help him out." "The trouble with women is, they ain't calm an' cool an' collected," says he, payin' no attention to my words. "Supposin' they was to the head of our Government, an' supposin' our Ship of State got into a tight place an' there wan't but one chance in a hundred of gittin' her out, an' not a minute to decide it; would a woman have the presence of mind to take that hundredth chance? No, Sir!" "Deacon Slocum," say I, "if the women was runnin' this Ship of State, do you suppose they'd be fools enough to let her get into a place where there wan't but one chance in a hundred of her gettin' out? No, Sir! An' I've thought all along you men was a-sendin' this country to de- struction, and now I know it." "Man's presence of mind in emergencies," says he. "Woman's good commonsense every day in the week," says I. "Good-night," says he. "Good riddance," says I. An' there was another time he didn't propose. The Women's Sewing Society met to our house the next day to sew for the heathen, and I had my time pretty well occupied gettin' tea for 'em. They're a real woi^thy DEACON SLOCUAPS PRESENCE OF MIND 5 society — they et up sixty-three biscuits, and five loaves of cake and eight pies and a pan of baked beans and four jars of best quince preserves and two pounds of butter and a quart of pickles, and basted the hem down to two gingham aprons and put together a calico tea-gown, with the sleeves wrong side to. An' I felt real sorry for the woman agoin' to wear it; for, while the poor thing was a lookin' forward hopeful like to the future, in them sleeves she'd feel like her arms was a reachin' back after a dead and gone past, that most likely she'd rather forget. Some of the men folks dropped in after tea to chat awhile and beau their wives home,, and the .Deacon he dropped in too, but he wan't in a pleasant frame of mind. What I'd said to him the day before was still ranklin', and he begin on't again as soon as he'd got sit down. ' 'The more I think about woman tryin' to take her place in history the equal of man, the more I know she can't do it. She's got to stick to her spere," says he, brandishing a fork, an' glarin' fiercely at the assembled company. "She's well enough at some things likecookin' and preserviu'," he went on, helpin' himself to a left-over biscuit an' some goose-berry jam. ''But you just wait till an emergency comes along, and you'll see which is the superior sex a-manifestin' the highest type of presence of mind." And he nodded his head so forcible to emphasize his words, that his specs flew off and lit in the middle of the butter. 'Twas jest as I was pickin' 'em out that Petunia Bilkins give an awful shriek, and pointed down the road. "Look! there's a fire," cried she, and the whole society arose and stuck it's head out of the window as one man, false fronts, pompydores, bald spots, and all. "Where? Which way? How d'you know it ? Why, it's the new schoolhouse!" cried they. 6 DEACON SLOCUM'S PRESENCE OF MIND "The schoolhouse afire! '-yells the Deacon, dancin' up an' down like a jumpin'-jack. Some of you men go and ring the meetin'- house bell and alarm the town. Save it! Help.' Murder." ''What's the use?" says I, "there's a dozen of you here, an' buckets an' water handy." "Don't interfere, woman!" roars the Deacon, "that schoolhouse a burnin' is a national calamity, and the town must be aroused. James Ebenezer, go and rouse it. Some of the rest of you fly around and get a ladder. We've got to climb up to that roof." ' 'What's the matter with goin' up the stairs? They're finished!" says I. ''The ladder ain't long enough, we'll need barrels and boxes to piece em out," yells he, a disappearin' down the cellar- way, and comin' up agin staggerin' under the weight of my molasses hogshead. "L eacon," shouted I in his ear, a-grabbin' him by the coat-tails, "the head of that barrel ain't strong, and any- how you don't need it. You can go up the stairs on the inside.'' '^Inside!" snorted the Deacon, "Avhat in thunder do we want to go up on the inside for, when the fire's on the outside. It's on the roof . " And down the road goes the whole pack of 'em, boxes, barrels, ladders, an' all, a kick- in' the dust up like a regiment. And I didn't say no more, but beckoned quiet like to three or four of the women, an' while the men was a pilin' barrels and boxes up agin' the north side of the schoolhouse, we went around to the south door an' opened it, an' filled the fire-buckets. We could hear the Deacon givin' commands as we carried the water up the stairs. "Now, then," says he, 'T'm runnin' the fire. Do as DEACON SLOCUM'S PRESENCE OE MIND 7 I say. Hand up that ladder, and I'll stand on this barrel here an' steady it/' "Good land sakes!" gasped I. ^^I told him that barrel was not strong — " An' then there come a terrific crash, an' we looked out of the window jest in time to see it give way, an' the Deacon precipitated downward, an' wedged tight in half a barrel of best New Orleans molasses, and I jest shut my ears to his language, for there's some expressions I wouldn't want to lay uj) agin no man who is a Deacon and a neighbor. But by the time we reached the roof, an' emptied the water on part of the blaze an' danced out the rest — dancin's wicked, but the Lord'll forgive the kind that tramps out fire, I guess — we heard the Deacon's voice again. ''Git another barrel! Steady that ladder! Never say die! Excelsior, we'll reach the burning pinnacle yet!'' And the next moment he rose up over the edge of the roof, with a hero expression on his face, and a drippin' New Orleans from head to foot. "Come on," says he, a-wavin' a bucket in the air and spillin' all the water out, "follow me, boys! Courage, we'll quench the fire — why, where is the fire?" says he. "Where is it gone to?" "I reckon it's gone visitin'," says I, "anyhow it's out. The inferior sex come up the stairs, while the superior one was a-buildin' a barricade." But I kept back the burnin' words I was dyin' to add about- man's presence of mind. That night, after I'd helped the Deacon clean the molasses off his clothes, he up and asked me to marry him. PS 3531 .H37 D4 1904 Copy 1 mi ^ MkY 20 101 Cwo Beautiful '^ fntertainments pr-!* BY MYRA POLLARD :r PANTOMIME OF ♦<« or IKp Soul/* Seventeen Poses Photographed and Grouped in an original and artistic Design. Words and Music Given. Printed in colored ink on heavy enameled paper 17x25 inches, suitable for fram ing. 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