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Audiences, as she well knew, were not slow to express their likes and dislikes and especially their dislikes in the most unmistakeable fashion. The difficulty of her dress had been overcome. Palmer was shrewd. He had an eye for contrast. He would have no finery and fallals, he said. "Your songs are simple, so must your gown be. If the people take to you in the one they will in t'other."
As to the effect of his preaching on his American audiences, I find the following evidence in Mr. Cooke's diligently gathered collections. Mr. Sanborn says: "His pulpit eloquence was singularly attractive, though by no means equally so to all persons. In 1829, before the two friends had met, Bronson Alcott heard him preach in Dr.
Westerdale, present pastor, successfully managed the program of the day, especially the collections, for he met the expense of the rebuilding and past indebtedness with the sum of over fifteen thousand dollars. He told those discouraged ministers with big audiences to go and take courage from what the mother-church, with her small number of poor parishioners, had done.
He, however, gradually extended his audiences, and at length came out upon the public stage, first, however, in order to prepare the public mind for what they would have otherwise considered a great degradation, inducing the sons of some of the principal nobility to come forward in similar entertainments.
I first came on them on these two sets of ears, in my experiences as a young man in speaking to audiences.
Other offices were filled and then the women hurried home to engage in Red Cross work, Liberty Loan work, anti-vice work; to knit, to sew, to tramp the highways and byways for the various "drives"; to make speeches before all sorts of audiences women who a year before were too timid to second a motion. Following the instructions of the convention Mrs.
Of late, too, we have seen vast audiences break forth into wild hootings at the mention of its name; but not the less did the hooters buy it the next morning. Nevertheless, as soon as there exists a paper which to the Herald's good points adds the other features of a complete newspaper, and avoids its faults, from that hour the Herald wanes and falls speedily to the second rank.
The composer made another musical journey in Austria and Hungary in 1844-'45, where he was again received with the most enthusiastic praise and pleasure. It was in Hungary, especially, that the warmth of his audiences overran all bounds.
"The critics insist upon it," he observed drily. "Evidently your audience last night shared their opinion." She nodded. "I love them to applaud like that, and yet audiences don't really know, do they? Perhaps " She relapsed into silence, and they took their places in the car. She settled herself down with a little sigh of content and drew the rug over her.
How can we expect good morals among three to five thousand men who are forcibly separated from wives and children? Admit their wives to prevent deterioration. This argument was used by a Hindu addressing audiences in Toronto. What right have Canadians to point the finger of scorn at the reproach of the child wife when the age of marriage in one province is twelve years?
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