| Show CALVE the cudgel taken up ir in defeats becente of newtons New tons young ladies EDITOR JOURNAL in your issue issue of the alth fanst I 1 notice an article si signed ried calve in which the writer scurrilous lv attacks some of the young ladies who took part in our sunday school entertainment As I 1 had the honor to be chairman of that committee commit tee on entertain enter entertainment tai and as those whom he atta attacks are the most highly respected young ladies of our ward I 1 deem it my duty to reply I 1 submit that the writer is ashamed to acknowledge the authenticity of his article or he would not hide bide behind a non de plume I 1 and had bad his attack gone no farther than newton it would have needed no reply the people here well understand his sini sinister sier motives when this pseudonymous slanderer berer says miss mina alina funk whose heart beats bi high h with hope and whose face beamed before the soft glare of the footlights foot lights seemed to le be one of those young ladies who thinks it would be 0 just too nice for anything to be an ac he stoops to that which is unworthy of a man he knows perfectly well that there ther ewas was nothing in miss funks bunks conduct that thai would woul a justify any such euch conclusion on the contrary miss funk received universal praise for the splendid manner in which she acquitted berF berfeld he relf elf the part she too took would have been all right in real lifs life but on the stage it was truly out of place says calve prestol how ridiculous does he not know that to act lifelike life like and natural upon the stage is to act well he sug suggests a dail daily Y rehearsal of the fainting scene pray ray allow me to su suggest 0 that before lie he pose as a critic he take a thorough course in civility and then learn something of the art of acting but bat when in speaking of the party given by the Y L 11 i 1 A mr calve says says the young ladies who wrote the invitations missed several severah of the young dancers and created bad fe feelings elinas he gives ives us the keynote to his e entire litiere article which is actuated throughout by a personal pique miss funk was chairman of the committee on invitations who omitted the young dancers for the benefit of I 1 calve however I 1 will say eay that the omission was unintentional in conclusion allow me to aate I 1 th that at a man who continually lies in the gate and watches for something with which to find fault is no more to be despised than one who chooses such 9 a method of venting the venom of his spleen C M christensen NEWTON jan |
