The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-10-05
How The Stage Does Not Hold the Mirror
Upt to Nature.
TLondon Graphical


and 60 to the play. In the world
there Is much that is awfully perplex-
ing. One is worrying the whole day
long about the causes of things, for
the motives on which people act In
real life are very much mixed and ex-
tremely difficult to fathOm. Now IN
the play all this Is changed; the char
acters you meet there seize the very
first opportunity to put you In possess
sion ofiheir motives, so that life on
the stage becomes to US simple and
Harmonious. This is, no doubt, the
real cause of the pleasure which peo-
pie In ell ages have taken in the the.
atre. Linz lights may be something
scenery may be something more, even
dresses may play a fractional part; but
the perennial source of attraction ia no
doubt the incidity Of dramatic motive.
It is pleasing to contrast the fog and
muddle of human affairs with the
sweetness aud light of the drama in
this matter. II Jones asks you to
20 and stay fortnight In his countrye
house, you are usually as a man OF exc
perience, much perplexed as to his
real motives In go doing. With world
~ wisdom you shrewdly conclude that
there must be some motive accom-
psnying the hospitality, and you puz>
xle yourself as to what 1t may be. Is
he going to catch your caution on the
hop after dinner, and sell you some
shares or O horse? Does he want to
borrow more money on that miserable
town lot, on which there is absolutely
no margin left? Are you to be thrown
into the society OF his eldest daughter
Tabitha aud her corkscrew curls, with
matrimonial intentions? Are you
simply going as makeweight? o.
are you Intended to take the edge of
Brown, the heavy, who Is invited At
well, and keep him from borini
Jones? All these possible motives
cross your mind as you are whirlini
down into the country, and you can
not make head or tail OF it.
But on the stage 1t is very different
There, when man asks another t
come to his country house, there is n
such perplexity, for he takes care t
tell you his motive in penetratip
"aside." "I will get him down TO M,
country place." he says, Sand in th
blue chamber, at IL, he shall wipe on
With his gore the insult bis double
dyed grandfather passed upon m
great.pncle ON the mothers side!'
it may be the taside'' will run
"Once in my house, I will ply hir
with liquor day and night till he d
vulges to me In his dreams the exat
spot on the coast Of Terra del Fueg
where he has buried the billions.
But whatever the motive may be, b
states 1t clearly aud distinctly, so ths
there is no spessible mistake aoot
1t, aud we always tind afte
wards that what he says ID correc
How thankful we should be
Jones would do the same.
Again, In prctical life we are muc
perplexed as to the motives of poop
who NEEDLE with the tender passion
There Is, for instance, no more constaI
source of trouble to the British matrC
than the endeavor 10 discover the re
motives OF the young men who hal
around her dovecot. edo they mes
busipess or do they not?" is the pla
question she Is often asking herse
Young Green seems very tender
Matilda, calls very often on her broth
Samuel aud stays In the evening
sing duets, while the gush OF Nj
Green is more sparkling than ev'
Does he mean to come forward? yh
Young Smith goes SO far as to keep
other eligible men from Fiorrie; dc
ne Intend to pronounce himself or is
going TO behave like brute? s
would give good deal to have trus
worthy answer 10 these questions, b
even the whole family in solemn CO
clave Is not equal to supplying it. \
wonder, then, that 1t is relief to h
to 60 to the play. There, young ge
flenan. when he meets a young lad