Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-18


Strephons explanation that the lady is
his mother is met with derision. Lord
Mount Ararat says:
This gentleman is seen
With maid of seventeen,
Attacking OF his dolce for 3jeate;
And wonders he'd achieve,
For he asks us TO believe
She's his mother, and he's nearly fiye-and-
twenty
Phyllis. convinced Of her lovers faith
Iessness. expresses her determination to
wed the first peer that comes handy, it
matters not whom, and the curtain feIIs
upon an effective table0u.
The scene Of the second act is Palace
yard. Westminster. Private Willis is dis
covered On sentry, and he efuses thus Tyr
ically:
When all night long chap remains
On seutry--o, to chase mOnotony
He exercises OF his brains;
That Is, assuming that he's got any.
Though never uurtured in the lap
On luxury, Yet l admOnish you,
I am an intellectual chap,
And think of things that would astonisa you.
| often think its comlcal (fai, Ial, Ia!)
How nature always does contrive( fal, lal, la
That every boy and every gal
That's born into the world alive
Is either a Little Liberal
Or else Il little Conservative.
Strephon has been installed a member
of Parliament. When backed by fairy
influence ne carries everything he chooses,
and has things all his own way. Among
his bills Is one to throw the peerage open
to competitive examination, which annoys
the mobiles greatly. Lord Mount Ararat,
however, docs not want to say a word
against brains" He has ''often wished he
had some himself" The fairies fall in
love with the 'self-contained dignity and
airy condescension" of the peers and regret
the measures they have taken to incon-
Qenience them.
One of the best songs of the opera is the
following, in which Lord Mount Ararat ex-
plains the principle of how people come to
be made peers:
De Belville was regarded as the Crichton of his
His tragedies were reckoned much too thought
full for the stage;
His poems held q noble rank, although it's very
true
That, being very proper, they were read by very
few:
he was a famous painter too, and shone upon
the line,
And even Mr. Ruskin came and worshiped at
his shrine;
But alas! the school he followed was heroically
high,
The kind of art mea rave about, but very seldom
buy;
And ev'ry body said,
''How can he be repaid
This very great, this very good, this very gifted
mau?'
But nobody could hit upon practicable
He was great inventor, and discovered, all
alone,
A plan for making everybody's fortune but
his own;
For in business an inventors little better than
fool,
And my highly-gifted friend was no exception
to the rule.
His poems-people read 'em in the sixpenny
Reviews,
His pictures-they engraved 'em in the Illus
trated News;
His inventions-they perhaps might have en-
riched him by degrees,
But all his little income went in patent office
fees.
So everybody said,
''How can he be repaid
This very great, this very good, this very
learned man."
But nobody could hit upon practicable plan.
At last the point was given up1n absolute de-
spair.
When distant cousin died, and he became a
millionaire.
With county seat in Parliament and moor or
two Of grouse,
And a taste for making inconvenient speeches in
the House.
Then government conferred on him the highest
of rewards;
They took him from the Commons and they put
him in the Lords.
And who so fit to sit in it, deny it if you can
As this very great, this very good, and very
gifted man?
Though I'm more than half afraid
That it sometimes may be said
That we never should have reveled in this source
of proper pride,
However great his merits, if his cousin hadn't
died.
The next number of Importance is
song in which the lord chancellor describes
the miseries of unreouited love and bad
case of nightmare. Later, Phyllis and
Strephon have making up scene and a
charming duet. The lord chancellor dis
covers IOlanthe to be his long lost wife and
Strephon is welcomed as his son. The
fairies and peers pair off, and the law,
every fairy must die who marries mortal
is changed to every fairy must die who
don't marry mortal. Then all prepare
for an excursion into fairy land.
The Abbott company's cast of this
opera is admitted to be the best in this
country. New scenery and costumes mark
the production aud it will be given here in
unexceptional style.
Middle measures are often but middling
measures" There are no ''middlings'' about
Kidney Wort. 1t is the most thoroughly re-
fined flower of medicine. 1t knows no half
way measures, but radically uproots all diseases
of the kidneys, liver and bowels. It over
throws piles, abolishes constipation, and treats
the system so gently and sOothingly as to prove
its true kinship TO nature in all It's praises It
is prepared in both liquid and dry forms.
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