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CHARLOTTE DAILT OBSERVER, FEBRT&IST 21, lS Nr. Dooleg s THE THEATRE JY FIXLEY Copyright, 1908, by H. Hi McClura ' & Co.) "It teems to me," said Mr. PnoU-j , "it's time these here attacks on Art : : thud be stopped." "What's the manner?" aked Mr. ' Hennessy. "Well," said Mr. Dooley, "a lot iv iiarrow-mltided people, w.'io have n Idee Iv Art at all. ar.- niakin' an at- ' tack on th- modhren stBge. Th- say j tt Is immoral, an' has a bad effect on I th' youth lv th' land an' ought to be , refprmed. An' hy. I ?k e? Sim - j ply because Iv th" inthrest in Art an j Ft no other reaatm, th' theatrical I managers iv th' countrv an- . -1 i rt 1 1 - natinir clothlne as inartistic an arc I attimpting to r-prJ ' II' as 11 exists in parts iv th wurruld well known to th' polis f r th' Oinitit iv humanity. "It's a disgrace to our civilization to tiave -what a leading Mind In th' the atrical syndicate liu called bone fcieaded purist.-, in'.-, rf. rin with th progress iv Culture. I don't know Slow It all startf.l. Bui. t';iith, I don't enow how anything stinted in this gloryoua counthiy lv o ns. As ilogan Bays, ye dislodge a pi-tjMe, an it roils down hill and be onis a hurricane at th' bottom. An' so it is with a moral wae Som wan goes to th theaytre an' sees an actor lady on h' stage dhressed f r Hleep if she (hadn't f'rgotten something an' th' Crst thing ye know th' second lady fr'm th left end Iv th' tirst row Iv th' chorus Is arr-sted f'r not vvcarln' enough roochilng around her neck. 6thrange to say. '.mth sidea admit lhat th theaytre is an idjacational institu tion 1 nlver toouglit Iv it thai way. 1 always Supposed that people wlnt to th' theaytre because they had no com fortable homes I" go to or to f'rgit that th' dish. weren't wa-sh ed or to laugh or cry or have a good pell iv coughing where It wud at thratst attlntion. But it seems I was wrong. Th theaytre Is iiuinded to b more like a nUht school thin a circus It's a good thing f r th theaytres thai th' people that go to thlm don't know this If they felt they were belli' Idjacated whin they thuught they (were negUctin' their minds they'd mob th' box ofTW to get their money back. Anny recollection they have Iv Idjacatlon la clouded with soriow "But there it Is an met frin I. Mosa Einstein, th' well-known manag. r Iv h' Forty Kapphos Kit hrav a canza Company, is ready to admit that h. occyples th' same position In th" wurruld Iv Cultuie Dock Kliot Iv Harvard. 1 sec him th' other dv In Halsted sthreet ilisrussin' Ibsen with his fl-nan ial backer, a glut h um u that Slogan calls th' Mesei nas iv th dhrama, but his right name Is Ht nwj! i - nn' he runs a hand took in th s..- ,...-r time. Mi. Einstein readily cons'.ntt . to talk f'r publication, too Vlcl. i M. name v th' tt lira, t i.n an' t!j . n lv th h'oiso was not men rttine.i too promlnentiy. 'I undhfr stand,' he says, 'that a itapti.-t latyv man up town has .ailed on th' pops, to close this Temple iv Th'spl.-.' -aJi he. "At laste hav.- so advertised In ! th' enlightened press. I . people! gln'rally rallze what this means' j... they undherstanl that thinly -veiled undher a pretlns Iv morality this is j nawthln' hut an attack on Art" Ivry thlng J have done in th' production iv I this show has been in the Inthrests iv I Art. I have even gone so far as to five th' dhressmikcr a vacation An' m glad to say that in spite u th'l narrow-minded bigots who vvu.l v.. j hanged th' sculptor lv Hi' '.-ru . Mllo (if I have th' name right i in cor.sequince. I mipht almost sav Iv their attaoke--th puhiic ins apore- J cyated our efforts Th nisa ds . .one i Ivry niht to see th' wo.i lie rful Clasnrrai scene in tn TurM.-li hath where th' heeroyine kills th villain with a champagne bottle i,n' thin nances on his riu-st. Ih Amen, an i publlr will niver m Art s;o rl'i ed to i Hypocrisy. Why. let me t. II ye- afth. r this here dhrama f'r th nung was I uppresred be th' clue. K polls In! Plkestown on ar.-u:int iv I. is insane' hathred lv our press lik. .,t . h i.m j en y ton, an- we c.,.. i,:l. k r th methropolis ye ru.lil. n : k.-i wt-dm bloek lv th' theaytre th -1 t w , to crowded with p. "p!' thr ,!,' i . Chow their appreciation iv .nn llinn- : g;le f'r American Art I thru d :. s:1(. press h' facts but th iv.-i . u it.i ; press Was too alert f'r m ;,n i . i. i omehow or another -r. pi .i t . th Advertisements.' I "An" there y are. It's a di-tr'H. o to ; our civilization that otisei-i-.i meti like , this ehud be perset-ut.-d ;.. mp h .m; extlnt that they have to p:," : ,-Mhra eats while titero is plenty iv r.-mm in I th" theaytres that don't ralize their mission as art schools !: . (.),.. ,,n I us. It makes us th lauK.e.n' sto. k iv I tb' wurruld. Why. they're , n-n talkin'l It suppressin' laioruy y.- Mvr heern Iv Salomy w i;. 'tis a im,;nt little thing haM!v up to t)f Uui lntllligence Iv a grown man more suited to childher at: me.ii- a. . vp. rts. Mogan wint to .-e, ) tn ..tp. r r::'ht. 'What was it like." says 1. it wa.- a Very artistic perform..:. ..' s,, he. "T don't say0' says 1 Was p, ra.tlv that bad? Wait a m:u; .'! 1 p., n th' dure an' pull down th !u.i." JS'OW tell me all about it W'-l!.' my Hogan. 'th' play was wtote he u man, '.that I wont mintion th' natne iv or ye'd throw me ..U!. x--- st to music be s Ijcrmmi r: . ip 1. y n :. th' name Iv Pthrauss 1 n .-r p. ei.l mote thrillin' music. All th tin,.- I fet a though I was In a iiditist - v h,.ir harln' me tooth filled he a p. timber helpr. This grand composer is th j first man to inthraio... e ;, scissor" i grinder, a n.an plm a saw ai. a lawn mower Into an orch.sthrv It i.-.-i t th' . kind It music ye w u I li- Ve cud-i dent "hJstle annything in it. Ve . might cough it or ye might repra j.e.ce j It be ahakin' th' .-.u.ve an' stipjon on i - th dOK's tall at th' same time. Put ye i Cudden't whistle it Its what ye might call a quarrelsome kind Iv music with all th' insthruments hurlia Insults at each other, iiut 'tis ..well suited to th' play. Th' play was taken fr'm th' Bible, but I doubt if It wud lit into th' place if t.ley tuned to put It back. Th' author dorv It - e 4 JytoaJ- U' xa.a. Ue light ful alnsation Iv wondhrin' what name ye wfil Invint at th' station whin th' place Is pulled be th polls. ?'. "I nlver was so horrified an . shocked in me life. It was worth twinty times th' price lv admission. . Aa'-t&ln th' danciBgl My. but it was l.tie. Y see th' lady in this Biblical dhrama has a saint's head cut off be ts use she is in love with him an' thin does a dance In front It th' head. I w SU ' say awthin' about what she wore an' I have now described her t ostume. But I didn't think Iv that U was all so graceful, so artltrtlc, th' jiethry J moUoa, I'm aorry I forgot tne opry g biases. Tb' next time 1 go Ml get a front att an' take along a tit'.yscope. Ta bet I wlIL But thera . was nawthlii' vulgar svbout It, Not a Discourses I'rTTKR DIXXB, thing. Whin th' great artist come out an' began to hop the man settin' to -xt to me. a man not aisily moved he th' higher things iv life, give me a dig in th' ribs with his elbo1- an' whis pered: 'I'll risk wan eye on It anny how ' But It's no use thryin' to cre scribe it to ye'er vulgar mind, Martin. Ve don t undherstand Art.' Rays he. 'I undherstand Hogan.' pays 1. "Well, annyhow, Hennissy, Morality an' Art are cllnjhed an' 'tla always ammusln' to me to see thlm two great champeens My at each other. 1 will say wan thing about Art. It's a great march-maker. Ye won't get Art to go on until he's counted tip th' house. He Is no bush-nhter. Th' threasurer calls out fr'm tn' box-office window: 'There's a kick against this show fr'm Morality. Come out an' stand up f'r If." 'Oh. ye want me now, do ye?' says Art. It's th' first time I've been cast this year. How much money Is there In th' house? Two thousand dollars? Let me at him.' An' in th' middle Iv th" argrymlnt Art looks over his shouldher an' ohsarves that a line Is formln' f'r th' advance sale. Dye know I have me suspicions w hin I see thlm two fellows hooked up that they're botli engaged be th press agent. I'll bet ye ye ud ill people? to go an' s'm- Shakesp- are acted it ye cud inju.rce th' clargy to denounce him as immoral I'oor old iilll! He done well until th' church become his frln.l. Now, as he wud say himsilf, there's none so poor as wud take a free pass to see him acted ' W ell, anny how, it don't make much dlff'ren e ,o me I am wlllln' to have th' stag" made daclnt or I'm willing to have it go on as It is In th' sarvlce lv Art, because 1 nlver go to Ih theaytre if 1 can help it. 1 only go whin Hogan tukes me an' thin 'tis very pleasant Nawthln' cud be morn agreeable thin to be dhragged away fr'm th' middle Iv' ye'er supper an' out Into th braving weather Iv our exhllaratln' winter an' hang to th' sthrap Iv a sthreet car laden with pleasure lovers like ye'ersllf. We're join to th' most modhern playhouse In existence, says Hogan. 'Ve il he tut prised at th' sumchuseness iv It.' says he. In time we arrive at th' temple an' afthar bein' scrootlnized be th' man at th' dure to make sure we got our tickets fr'm th' splculator. we are conducted down a runway be a young man who pushes a programme Into me nlomaoh an' pints to two seats that seem to be as far away as Ban Fiancisco with a large part lv th' popylatlon Iv America between. These li.'ic devotees Iv th' dhrama are settin' with their coats on their laps an' Ihelr sn.-es closely pr -ssed sgaln t h' seats iv th' row in front. They greet me with an expression Iv great agony. How am 1 goin to et In'." says I. In me youth 1 cud hurdle tbim but if i thried It now- I'd on y land in th' p. p Iv that stout lady w hose vllet eyes at this mliiyit denounce no. as a murdhrer,' says I 'tjo on In.' says Hogan 1 feel th' hoi Hush iv shame mant log me crow but I take th' plunge. A gronn iv misery goes up tr in th' row as .h' ladles collect their hats, coats, fans, handkerchiefs, pro Kr.'imrnes an' bottles i snullin' salts in a large bundle nn' slowly ripe an' stand in a furyois row. Th' pintle men back up agiinst their jii'vv silk hats in Ih' com. nolens racks provide. I i .- n llb'ral toil na k t-nt undher th chairs. Th' space thus left between thlm an' th' ba-ks I v th people in fr.oit is meant f'r me tliriumphal ent hry "How I got through I'll nlver tell ye. Me figure Is suitable to a man iv disnltb .1 yens an' pursuits I have a lecolle tiori iv shrieks iv pain, mut tered o.iths. th tearln' sn' rendiii' Iv garments Th' back buttons Iv me coat become picked In a buckle belt. I lore mesllf lM.it... wttii a sti pern u man efl'oit. stepped on :i hat an' found niesllf at me seat, with a leather boa Hioimd me legs an' me watch an' chain haniiln' on th' ear lv a man in fmnl lv me At last I was safe but I .hired not look behind at th desola tion an rooii I had wrought. 1 soon re. t.vered inesilf. I pi o ed nie over eat on th' flure an' tu ked mc new hat Into th' ra'k undher th' seat, f mforchnltely I f'rgot to lower th' scat before attemptln' to set ,n it. This im cbnl .- err.ed vrrv plc;i.-iir to th' h :i. e;e . oi. m ole no avenin' more t. i..vaPe thin It mitht ve I. eon olher- ' N ivvthin' is more i i modhren playhouse ' h upp. r l.eith in . ie a : t -o 1 u u r b . niifortable thin ex, l.t. p'raps a sleepln' car. S. Th' people till- c-'ti' ration jtre pampered W h y shi.it tii' ma naucrs lv Ih' tlieavtrcs be tlted on I" p,a-e th lows iv seats .. m i: ti.x'tli-r that even a small man . m lest h,s kne.s on th' ha k Iv a fri ml in fn nt iv him" Why shod they be so l n y.uir. msl V urru tiged that hll ye have to do is to leave ye cr seat to start a speiikln' '-nu,iiiituno with Ivrvbodv in th same rmv 1 hadn't be. n in the house t.v tninvits before th. r.. wasn't wun iv me to"i;hhors who h..d;-. t spoken to me if it was no more thin t.. say, (let off me feet.' Hut 1 m w hat Ho-ran calls n sl'.iirite. I guess, an' 1 reveled in tlr luxury. I cud hardly believe It was thri.e. me settin' there In a gra. ful attitude like a .1a. k-knife. an' d brink In" In th' air that two thousand other people had used Countln' th' number iv pi. asure i vers that bad a cold in their h.-ad. wat.-hln" th' elmmv Dutchmen In th' hand comln' out Iv th' hole undher th' j -age. wondhrin' how th' Icidln' la.ly, .ud see hersllf in a loukin' glass made iv tin h--w piece Iv pa-aper cud make j th' orphan shiver, an' why she h?td to wait urn her hands on a roarln' tire Iv j red e ecthrii- gbe In th' fireplace. I i , see w hoe th' lawn In front lv th' ilukfs' fahif was sewed up with; white thread an' I wondhercd why1 tl.ev hadn't hung th' storm at sea on a i !oihe line an' Pa" th' dust out Iv it before they jut It on. Thin I read th' programme an' found out that a green Prime Albert coat with yellow f.u in an' pants lv blue crepe du s haync. Is tatv wear f'r th1 ulthry ' fniat this winter. I didn't dare to j in out between th' acts, an' pass through th' afflicted disthrlct but th' monotony was uroke be sivral sur-i Ivors makin' me feet a part Iv th'l downward path to Rum Th' play? I : didn't pay much attintion to that. I got th' plot f-'m wli-at th servant girl Mid mUiln duaLia' .uff. Ih: .fucaUure In, th' first act an' knew how It wud come out Hogan was ! i mortal terror that th' villain wud marry th' heeroyine. but me an" th' hired girl knew he was mar-rid already. iTs a great play." ha id Hogan whin w come out. 'It is." nays I. 1 didn't see ye laugh at the Jokes.' says he. 'I cannot.' says I, 'be hllaryous In th" presence Iv suffrrin'. ssvs I. W "hat d'ye mean?' says he. "I was lo?ok1n' at th" mimbers It th' orrhesthry." says I. -,-Are ve In favor Hr reformln' th1 Morality" It th' stage?" asked Mr. Hsnnemtr "D'ye take me f a billboard V sail Mr. Dootey. "Bede. Hennissy. 'tis a misdemeanor In this" State to Interfer with th' polia In th' pursoot Iv their Jootty." CAXJUED JLEB A TRAITOB. and Woo a Prlso rive Award f D Aldermen and Smith U tb Minne sota Lady. The following la published by The Ohftrver by request: To the Editor of The Statesvllle Land mark. Dr. '&. A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia, and Dr. Alphonso C. Smith, of the University of Nurph Carolina, have attempted to explain their action in awarding the 1100 offered by the Daughters of the Confederacy for the best essay on Lee. The priie was given to a young lady of Minnesota, who spoke of Lee as a traitor, and the Richmond, va., chapter of the Daughtere of the Confederacy, and some chapters of Louisiana, have condemned the no tion of Messrs. Aldermen and Smith. It is surprising to me that no newa haper In North Carolina has had a word of rebuke for these gentlemen. Lr. Smith's explanation, which doesn't explain, is befogged with a lot of high sounding phrases, finely spun theories, as to the meaning of traitor and a touch of patriotic self-laudatlon. Ho Insists lhat an Injustice 'has teen done him by his critics In taht they left out tha last half of the following sentence: "Lee was a traitor In that lie sacrificed all to aid the enemiea of his country, out so were George Washington. John Hampden and Wil liam of Orange." It strikes me that It requires a re markably discriminating vision to ex tract any comfort out of the last clause above Quoted. it Is stated In cold, bold type that "Lee Is a traitor," and It Is no palliation to say, so also weie Wahington and others. Wrf are 'n nowise concerned with what the writer thought or said of Wash ngton or Hampden or William of Orange, but we do know that she call ed Lee a traitor. Dr. Aldermen says that he 'was 111 at the time the papers were given him to examine, but that he gave them as careful attention as he had strength to give." I was pained to hear of the illness of the distinguish ed president of the University of Virginia. There Is a comfort, how ever, In the thought that at the time his mental attitude was not such aa to render him a competent Judge. I certainly have io nlcllrvatlon to be unkind or unjust to these gentlemen. They are recognized, the country ver. as men of the broadest culture. lofty Ideals, splendid manhood and herolo achievement. We all know that what is best and most beauti ful In their heart and brain has flow- ered In the moral and educational ; nt a8 tne green fields and simple farm upllfe of the 8tat"; and yet, I honest- tlouM.a tn the polling of such little girls )y believe that if the Daughters of the ? g thls ona who hiid com ,nt0 mg llfe7 i dnfoderacy approve this award, they! had aa well disband. It was a blnn- 0 be 2,'8Cn,e 1,, & der for which there can be no valid ! ""all matter then. The worlrtly ambition reason 1 al,no,t praiseworthy. So the young man The next thing we know our school j dreamed his hspply dreams and saw his histories will state that "Lee was a beautiful visions, and the girl realized traitor." and when the people con- that the way of escape from drudgery demn the histories they will be told ! and monotont and loneliness was open that Dr. Alderman and Dr. Smith j lng for her. approved the statement. The girl was not conscious of selfish- It Is simply trifling with language neHS or duplicity or deception. The man to suggest that Immature, uncultl- ,h. hra rie.rv .nmih. ated minds will grusp the qualifying lause on which Dr. Bmlth largely his so-called defense. Th r.ss may shield these gentlemen be- cause of tlielr prominence in eauca cational circles, but the people will ! lkpn 8rl10',sl . . ...... i hear of the matter an de.xpress Ihem-scp.e-. as they should. powerful as is The Charlotte Observer. It cannot wave aside tnis snair wun ine speei inz headline. "A Tempest In Tea- The Haleili Kvenlng Times lO rises up to remark in substance, that the i Titles worked themselves j lie rcmemnerea now jusi wnen sue ioi not or one man only, Dut or many. nto a frenzy before they know what i off being simply pretty and became beau- j From Paradise went there two by dlf they were talking about " They ttiful, how quickly Bhe developed from an I ferent ways, and for them the earth knew 'That they were talking about unsophisticated little country girl Into a must bring forth thorns to the end. .piite as well is the editor of The , s,rHi favorite. ' It seems to m that the false step Is not Times and are possibly as competent j tmt he had gone on with the dreams far from ,Me v,,,y beginning. Perhaps It Judge of "structural ana ineiary excellence." I have Just received a letter from a prominent and dlstln- Hfi SHW 1)OW hou. cooiy he had gone gulshed lady of Richmond, Va . whoj6,t n an of course she had loved him. writes The statement that Lee hl) on)v BS ,,, tn an Pna. He felt, wss a traitor carries its own cotidem- j ( ypn pf 1hM gh(f had npv(,r hem abl nation, mil nnai wo nsmi-u-jB.. , , , l. kl. .nn 1 i,,r.n 11, ,,,.iB, an rAI.illIV UU ,n UUIUUIH III ""1 h iZ". TT, thl.nd unri 1 " remembered how deliberately she j ; vegtable garden. Had the home accom erHlH his so Idlers his u'a.nd' an(1 , hni h choice. But then hart 'he modeled Itself to her seeming supertor- re Mtoilv of the Smith's nart n trie. v, a r neiween me suu.-h o mii-iiiiun- . i I human beings could only result fn rirldlnir them of prejudices and mis- conceptions, no matter what had been their enlightenment or UP- bringing." There you have it. Tne do tor w ould have 113 say a long fare- well to the history and traditions of ti.e Old South, and Join In with the new awakening, whose god Is a god o ferab. 'the moral, social and busl- ness standards of the Old South were far above those now proffered us The men who professed and practiced them were of larger mould and loft ier stature than can be bred by prostration before the altars of mam mon. They gave quallt yand tone. illznlty and character to our clvlllrn- ; t on 1 ney mat ten iue nniinri o, , . , . truth on sunlit hills. where those j the sort had been taken Into her reck still In darkness could see Its folds onlng. and struggle toward it. They kept This sort of thing might do very well watch over free government and saw j for people who liked it. but she bellev !i. It that Intelligence and honor were ed In a higher life. She must have a not displaced by craft and cunning, j home that she would not be ashamed to The spirit "f patriotism enriched and open to her friends, and leisure and free illumlned their altars. They never j d0m from care that she might entertain "Hent the pregnant hinges of the knee j them. That thrift might follow fuwnlnc" I And there were many of the worldly The New South. repudiating the! wise who congratulated the young hus-gb-ry of her war-time heroes, fashion- 'band upon his good fortune. A wife who ed after the models of this era of I Is a social success is an admirable help graft, greed and subserviency, might meet, these said. It is the successful who In time produce a figure worthy to be succeed. There Is nothing like taking 'anonlxed with such educational hold with a Arm hand that reaches up saints as Robert C. Ogden and Os- ; nnd up. higher and higher, wabl Garrison Vl'lard; such financial j He caught the Infection. It had never saints as Rockefe'ler and Harrlman: but It would never- produce another I.ee. Let us the rather boast, that "We are a people w ho are loyal to our past. Who in held by heart-traditions and will hold them to the last. Who would not setl In shame. The glory of our name. Though a world were in the balance And a sword thereon were cast." Respectfully. C. F. Morganton. Feb. 10th, 190D. M. The La.t Straw. Atchison Globe. An Atchison man has been married five years, and three times a day for five years, or. to be exact, 5,175 tlm.-s. he has stepped to the dresssr to brush li s hair and hag had to tip th mirror back to get a look In. While dress ing for an evening out. his wife would keep the mirror see-sawlng back and forth, she pulling It out to see how her clothes hung In the back and the man pushing It back to ad Just his tie and comb his hair, etc. Finally, in desperation, he bought a Ahuranler fox J?is own Jise. but one evening he went rtome Vrouch'ya'rTa" found -his chiffonier turned around snd the mirror tipped forward: hla wife wss using them both. This was too much, nnd grabbing hla heavily mounted military brushes, he slam med one each mlrror.Wterejl scream and disappeared. If yon eutrer from constipation and liver trouble Foley's Orino Lajtativo will rnre you permanently by stimulating the digestive organs so they wtll act natural Iv. Foley's Orino Iaxillre does not irine. Is pleasant to take and you do not ) ave to take Uxathres continually after itnr Ortno. Foley's Orino Laxative cures constipation without irritating the stomach or bowels like ordinary pvrga. R. H. Jordan Co. and Greene's AS IT SEEMS TO ME" BY A KUSCKTER OF HOPE! Hs was a man who had failed. Berne how be had missed his c hence, every time. It was la all the papers. It was belug talked aJbeut everywhere. He was nst the sort ef man to whom failure cemeii as a matter of course, put It had come, accompanied by its ' companion, dishonor. Vet the face of the man would have passed examination by the shrewdest phj iognonust. Nature had not Intended tha man for a weakling. The laws of heredity failed also. There was no transmitted tendency to crime sufficiently marked to be traceable In a long line of honest ancestry. The man had been bright, frank, am bitious, ingenuous. The sort of young fellow that sucoeesful men take into training. A clean young man ready for his share of the world's work. And yet he had tailed. He was no longer to be free among other man. He sat In a place where the sunshine fell between bars and the shadow of a cross sprawled blackly at his feet. It was all over. There was never going to be another chance. Something within lihii had died and neither he ner the world believed in Its ?poselble resurrec tion. It was all over. The pain of It was not so keen now that the something within was really Quite dead. The man was dulled by his own disgrace, half asleep under the spell i " complete failure. But his wife. He wondered vaguely w hy be could not think of her as a strick tn WOmun lying crushed and broken in lne ghadow of his sin. But when he feebly asserted his weakened will and tailed this picture up, it came, dim and uncertainly defined, and melted like a cloud wreath to make place for the pic ture that was more real than the bars. The real picture was the girl who had come into his life a quarter of a century ago A smiling, rosy, bright-eyed girl from a quiet country home. He had felt the fascination of women before, but his ideal had always been the sweet un- i spoiled country glrL There was In him the love of home. How could he know that worldly am i-It ion and marbid discontent reach far Tim Kerm nf discontent, the microbe of ; ambition were too small, too Insignificant . ,, ,, 'rhni, .ffu.1 ,mnn : ' .. . . Kven whfln he knew that she was not unite slmpla and direct, he was not afraid When her choice of friends in dicated unusual tact and discrimination ' he was not surprised, and when ghe he- i came the centre of her chosen social cir- cle he was not dismayed. mK, visions, for ne had given Mmseit up , )(1 ,ne fa.clnatlnn of the girl's charm . h) (..in-tie,,. . "e ....,,.. . ...o ........ ...... t'PVer T.iotjjcni oi i.itun iiik He was glad now that lie had held nut stoutly against the dlsalluslonlng that liHtne all too soon He had heard some- , where of a "period of adjustment." This I could be nothing but that unavoidable , period. It would pass, j ne go( USeft to It after awhile because j.h(, WBH ton husy to give It attention, j with a wave of her little white hand , fhfI mp,f,i his vision of a modest home. n cosy place for which he could pay. She was far too ambitious and progressive for any such nonsense as that. Rhe had no idea of settling down to lommon domestic duties as her mother bad done. She hated cooking and dish washing and housekeeping and" nothing worked briskly in his blood as It worked In hers, for he was naturally a simple. home-!vlng man. But he was weaker than his wife. His lofe for her was the strongest force In his nature. When her ambition outgrew the first home he found another in a more fash ionable neighborhood. This meant more servants, larger expenditures. But his wife was In the very front rank. Her Invitations were eagerly sought for. Ho realised now that no one had ever had the courage to disappoint tha woman who was his wife. He thought of the farm house that had been her home, of the plain working people who were her parents. He bad always loved to go to the old place. His wife was rarely ever able to accompany him. It seemed to him now that there had been a sort of leader pity In the old people's consideration for him. He had never known his own mother, nor a real home Ufa It la usually the or phan, the homeless who sing the sweet est songs of home. He wondered how the spirit of nnrest TtstT eorrtr to twewh-grfe There-was-no open way back to the answer. Be sides, why need he know now when It was all overt ' "The taw to a reckless driver, lad," the old man had said when he fonnd tbem m the blgrer hone. "Better go Tear ewa I rait. fts like to be safer." " V He remembered IK now. but then he had been nan orungen wun Tne success of a risky speculation. Foif tt had come to that Ha had been tn danger, and he was not used to.lt then., ivr.bad he learned about the bltssfuL rest, that can be folded h a strip of white paper, or ) " ""' r,. , mn..lnj f feme later. He r'mD" shot In a tiny cos. the beginning. The Bttle bablee had died, before, tie had not realised, how much he had cared till out lived. : ter all, the neuaa was going to be a home. It was always easy enough (or him to spend his evening with the child,' The nurse was glad of an hour or two outside, and his wife was nver at home to her family In the evenings. He was glad new that the little boy had lived only a little longer than the others. Eut It was then that he had found the rest In the dangerous drug the sleep that comes from the siren touch ef the goddess of destruction. There were other children, bat he had somehow not cared. He waa sorry now that It was too late, now mat 'tne nuns of his disgrace had fallen about them. He was not saying to his Accusing Angel, "The woman tempted me." - He waa only looking dumbly at the pano rama of his life as the scenes rolled slow ly out, across, away. He was making no effort. It came like a slow, awful dream. There was no escape. Beside the agony through which he had passed had used up all his strength. He was not even suffering now. He waa not making any conscious effort to think or - to recollect. He had not seen the newspapers, but he knew all that they were saying. ng columns that he had not expected to find in his memory appeared In cruel clear ness before him. He had only to substi tute his own name for the name of the other fellow who had failed. It was quite distinct. He had known the other man. He had talked over the shocking details with the men who were now discussing his own fall. His name looked queer there where the other man's used to be. It had been such a .clean old name. He stretched out his hand, as If he would snatch It back and save it. Then he laughed. Once in a while he felt the grasp of a hand. He had been a little boy once, and In danger of drowning. It was a hand clasp that had saved him. Would any of these but no. He had failed. He was not a man, now. He was. It was queer that he could not learn to speak the new word. His wife was 111. Utterly crushed and broken by his crime. She could not come. But the old people toiled up to where be was, every day. He hadn't heard them say anything, but they came. They were very old now, these two. Somehow they seemed to be sharing hla burden of guilt. It was strange. This honest old man. this saintly old woman!. Well, he was not reasoning things out now. He had got down to primitive Instinct. He was trying dully to trace out the first false step as tha beginning came round again in the ceaseless panorama. He wondered If his wife was going over It all with him. He hoped not. He I could see the truth now. aa a man In he bottora or gome dcep place may iook up and see, even at midday, the shining stars. He knew. But he had been weak. He was guilty. It is given to a man to be strong. But alas, he had loved her. This is no romance, no bit of overdone sentiment, no scrap of fiction. It Is true. . s trarable to the quiet farm house. Light and shade fall upon the cradle. A child may "catch the trick of grief and sighs amid his playthings." Was the little girl started wrong, I wonder? She had been a pretty, dainty little I I Inn an n...t. CI.. I . iUi OUw wung mism easily happen and the spoilers hardly know. She was too pretty for common tasks. Why her hands were like lilies 1 for delicate whiteness. Surely she had 1 been moulded for better things! Perhaps no one said this. Plain people do not put their convictions Into words. But thought Is a mighty power odtself. Perhaps It created an atmosphere that was full of harm to the girl. Who can tell? To a little ambitious country girl who Is beautiful there is one door that opens out Into the world. It Is marriage. Per haps the girl of whom we are thinking knew this. Maybe she learned all about it in some foolish story. For, of course, she must read what pleased her. The visit to town was an opportunity not to be neglected. It was not with malice aforethought tfiat she cultivated the promlsig young man's acquaintance. But, wlthsut condescending te actual de sign, she evidently had her wits about her. It Is not at all probable that her so cial career waa all plain sailing. The exercise of her powers strengthened them. A taste of success Increased her ambi tion. She was getting away from the discon tent and unrest that she Imagined be longed to the state Into which she had been bom. But these demons pursued her. It waa not so much what she was getting to, as whst she was getting away from, that mattered. Only there was no getting away. She alone knows the struggle that car ried her forward to her envied place. For It was not the easy victory that her husband Imagined. Inviting a man and his wife, of whose antecedents one. knows nothing, to the social functions of an aristocratic old city, IS very different from extending the same courtesy to a promising and at tractive young man who already has formed friendships with "the boys." This Is not what the woman who has social aspirations bargains for, and she finds ways of her own out of the em barrassing dilemma. She richly deserves every Inch she gains, but alas, and alas, the price she pays! 1 Why could no one help these two?' If only she ould have been less selfish and toore genuine- If he could have been stronger and braver. , It seems to me such a very pitiful thing that a story like this can be true. That men and women can be acting the scenes of it every day. And the great .world- audience watches snd llstens,afidli ready for the final crash, the sensational denouement, the inevitable climax. - Kven if the play does not rank high aa tragedy. If tt gets down to .he level of the onspeakable farce, as i' aes. now and then, even yet- hi H pitiful. Climbing, fighting, sinning fof placet ' ; ' . - ' e . ? e ' '-"'.'! e Not always do the sunbeams fan be tween the bars upon the guilty man. Not si ways does the lethargy of absolute de spair quiet the fierce tearing of his an guish. : . ::.;' '- jvTet always Is the woman wlio belongs to him blameworthynot quite 'always. But there Is many a man to-day facing a Mack n sea beside wnicn any pKnorea h. Inferno is like a drift of moonlight, and somebody ts to blame. - It doesn't look dangerou , ' this ' Uttle pushing, pushing of white, clinging hands! Not very. . Not even the owner ef the lit tle-white hands has any idea of the strength of their pushing. And the man who loves them -, .-. t A woman, when she is young, has no idea of the limit of a man's, strength, Have you seen one of tha dear' little things drive a horse half to death in an afternoon without ? knowing the . least thing about It? '-- .. ; Vl They simply con't know. And tha man and the horse go at the dangerous pace because they are in harness. ?. . - ' If it is not true, I shall not mind taking it back. There, are men who have been made nobly successful by their . wives. The influence of a woman who is not a mere stick or string, always tells tn tha life and character of her husband. He is better because of her, or else be Is worse. ; ' - ' It seems to me that we are seeing In these days a good deal of the recklessly dangerous driving. Elegant homes,, ex travangant dress, social aspirations where do we look for these? Tha boy lM.iifi ENGnAYIHG ATLATITA.GA. 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