The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-23
A PLAY OF HUMAN LIFE.
SOME INTERESTING QUESTIONS
DISCUSSED.


Always Wrong 1.-Two Paths in Life
The Pure Lily and the Crushed
Rose-The Women of Sorosis Deadly
Fond of Women, But They Rely on
Mans Brains-Where is Woman's
Place2-Doctors in Petticosts.
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NEW YORK, Nov 22-What is abso-
lutely mos interesting in this worldl The
men and women who make it. Books, pict-
ures, wonderful houses, magnificent
scenery, great discoveries in mechanics or
chemistry. or the power to kill or the
power to cure, all become as nothing be
fore the story of human life. full of sin and
virtue, Joy and sorrow. remuneration and
love-
For this reason tho play called MEN and
Women" attracts by its very name and
curiously enough, il shows something that
is gradually making itself felt on the Amer
lean stage, and that is that an audience
may become interested, thoroughly inter
ested, in the right or wrong Of some thing
or somebody's life without demanding that
the little love story which comes to all
should be made most prominent. In Men
and Women" you see how a young man,
having the opportunity, defraGded a rich
bank OF its money and put the sin on the
shoulders of another, his own familiar
friend. You see how conscience kept up
braidlng him, you see him go through q
violent mental struggle, right fighting
wrong, when his friend is to be arrested for
the crime that he has committed, and after
he has asked, as so many men have asked,
'W here shall turns Who viii help mel"
you see right conQuer-you see
THE REAL MAN ASSERT HIMSELF,
and the best part of him, his honesty, rises
triumphant over everything else. When
he Is calling for help, the moon comes out
and hghtens q stained glass window, which
Is just over the fireplace, aud the eyes that
do not know where 20 rest or who to turn TO
see this; 1t is picture of Christ telling
Magdalene to go and sin no more. At first,
the newspapers questioned the putting OF
this picture IN the house of Jew, ard now
the jew himself. in the play, gives the
reason for it l think it worth remember
ing, myself. 1t is this: why should ]
not have the picture in my housel 1t is the
picture Of Ii Jew, of one of the best Jews
that ever lived He can teach me to be
mercifuI, and because | am Jew and be-
cause he was one, no one has better right
to it,"
THE JEW ON THE STAGE OF TODAY
occupies different position from the one
which Shakespeare painted; he Is recognized
as power in the land, intellectually and
materially. In this country, he has not
been accorded the position given him either
In France or England though in Baltimore,
Richmond and Charleston some of the old
est and most aristocratic families are Jews,
who live up to their fath and who are
respected of all men. The type of Jew
shown in Israel Cohen. in "Men and
Women" is by no means uncommon, and
aren't there great many of us christians
'who, can think of Jews who have done great
kindnesSes irrespective Of creedl There is
no narrower type in this world than the
man or woman who believes that nothing
good can come out of Judea. ard it is quite
time tat, as in the more civilized countries
In the world, the intelligent, intellectual
Jew, the one who is a gentleman by birth
and education, should have that honor
given him which is his due.
is IT THE 'DEsPIsED JEw!"
When Jewess is married to one OF the
relgnlng princes Of Europe, when Jew
aspires TO the hand of the daughter of the
Prince of Wales, when in literature and art
the name OF the Jew stands foremost, don't
you think it's time that the narrow cant of
Jne ignorant man or woman Is scoffei at
rather than agreed with9 Look at the
stage Rachel, Madam Bernhardt, Adelina
Patti, Mrs. Kendall, and how mauy others,
ali have Jewish blood in them? Take up
the book Of the French salon, and look at
the list of painters. Take up a list of French
writers. and see where the Jew stands
among them, and do not, because YOU are
supposed to be an intelligent man, make a
fool OF yourself by attempting to hit the
one people in the world who have, through
everything, chung together and preserved
their religion.
Is WRONG ALWAYS WRONG!
This question OF religion is very delicate
one to handle, because we never know lust
who we may be hitting. But, says some
body: Right is right, and wrong Is wrong"
-, is lt. say /, then what is a sin for you
is o sin for lueF' Certainly" answers the
woman VINO knows everything, and /, who
know very little, but hope very much,
answer: Certainly not. just take the clse
OF woman; take your own daughter: YOU
have built about her a wall of sweetness and
purity that protects her from even hearing
about SIN; you keep her like a uure
white lily, and some day you hand her
over TO her husband and he protects her in
the same way. Her children love ana rev
ereace her. She lives a sweet, peaceful life,
dies. and has written on her tombstone
Blessed are the Pure in Heart Take YOUR
neghbor's daughter: from the time OF her
birth she has seen trouble; she wasn't wei.
come when she came; she's pushed away
when she would tell her mother of her little
woes and worries, and day after day she
hears continual plant for money, aud
ScttS
indifferent TO, she is SO used to them.
Some day they marry her to somebody ANY
thing to get away from that home. Then
when she learns little more she sees what
MISTAKE her life has been, aud how she
has made it a greater one by not refusing
t. marry when she did. Only too soon
temptation comes; somebody who is tender
al heart, who is sympathetic, who feels
both heart and brain, meets her. Some day
she IS gone. Her people never speak of her
any more, and when death comes TO her sue
is laid away in secrecy, and over her head
is little stone marked with her Initials and
nothing else"
THE PURE LILY AND THE CRUSHED ROSE.
SIM Well, I don't know. It's question
that only God himself can decide, and on
the great Judgment day when he looks at
your lily and at the poor crushed rose
trampied and beaten, don't you suppose he
is going to remember how carefully the one
was nurtured and how the other was left to
take care of itselff How by education and
by lnneritancs it was SO little capable of
unls, and don't you believe the God who
made these two women is merciful as well
as Justf tell you / can't decide and neither
can you just what sin is. We know that it
is wrong to steal, to kill, or to 6efraud our
nelghoors in any way. but who can blame
fnr sEo ol,. l.