New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-09
THE INFLUENZA PLAY.


az miracle PLAYS and passion plays every school
hoy Ia, heard. but who Knows oil tlc Ola lhiuelHa
plsys As paved at Nuremberg and AussocrS IN me
riitl, ACES IL Is a strange idea, 10 dramatic an
epidemic and make the plague st'n HDlVau III niiht .
Jack L'Eventreur wnlcn - tn uron. ' in
ject enough We must not gr.dSc inc Por h phn
IL chccrcd up his spirits when he had coiu Ia la;
head and could not sleep o nights for ooushhs, anu
If was probably cihcaciOus than Jugs OF tisaho
Well. II was about the beginning OF the hitecnth
ccntury-anon lil4 say the chrOniccrs-trniat UNI
strange dramatic HOnstrOsliy was born. me year
was 4 very unlucky one, everyone down with BAD
csils and pans IN the head. symptoms very mu'n
.im,scs who has unearihed the influenza play out OF
the Wondering archives somewhere IN badcn ana TO
we are deeply gaSi% r@' R SgPSn s So%
ON tie temples because OF the unpleasant feeling yen
N S'% :" could could stay the course Of the
epidemic. Kaiser slsismund. who was then
Of Mother Church at The Council OF Constants scc 70
dave much time for cnring the colds of ms nes1 n
rcsdcs Dya'dust would tel you tlat ha,e; % Sis
IN fact know no Latin, coull not possibly cur H.,
Il simple thing as bad cold H. the head. ana ,i'e
their own fourteen feet In hot mustard amt water
the while But the bnrshcrs of Nuremberg mads ,lIe
best of bad job. They sent for Their gaPc' ,nnl
and bat a wooden stage and sum SUMMONED , oneat
'prcntccs to the play. AUD the prrnilces p'uyea
right mcrrily and this was the manner OF the per
fOrmancc . On.
FIRST came figure dressed up to r TIn IN the the
i"hnsn1a on to the stage tra Gn.e Tne scene repre-
col
scntS large court Of justice perhaps neouuSo oicd
are best caught In such places 1he ns'uv, , u
"Tauawcchscl' as said just now, J. sui,,I 1 y,
10 the bar and behind him come a motley cruNu Va
his hapcss yictmsng. knight schVI 'n rag"e has
peasant. nun and fair damscl. whom inc Paasuo y,
not spared And they all begin WIN one ,S snr ~ ~
make complaint unto the Marshal ana ,nu s ,o"' Tho
SCISSORS, who SIT at hand to near az, ~ , l., 81
King becins BIZ virtue Of his high once ana nc s .
EMMY sWears that he cannot go to war against thc
pavri,n for that he has a running at the nose. ana
can indeed scarce speak for the catarIn. ~ n't
las lost his dame, who has been .ail'cu Vh ~ .so
rlaaTo. the fair damscl mouins 'h' "'a'h vi nur
ta,hcr. tho scholar has lost all pleasure In hol
dav ramhlcs over moor and fell. and must stop
AZ home instead and rore Over .or , ana
hmrg knew Of good thing In flax. bnt
could not ret to the mart q Nuremberg ana SO no
,sd cen forced n STAY AZ honc and grumbcd not n
~. a. Tor the nun. her tale was that she had
forrofcn 10 tell her beads, anT could not Keep early
mass for her Influenza. and had conehcd so much ~
.hn ddav service that she had disturbed her sisters
49, A.. Now when they had all made end Of
sncalinr the Marshal made the prisoner al the bar
nicad in his defence Then spake the "Tsnawechsel,'
And. as is the wont Of prisoners, declared his nno-
sccnsers who had brought their sorrows themselves
The King had drunk too much raubcr wine: the
scholar had been singing love nv night and had
c,ucht chill the citizen II Augsburg had dincd too
well al the Three N0ors", the fair damse had raugt
10 Of for her father old and well Strichen
waist when she fat and forty while the nun had
not taken open air exercise with hawk and hounds
So spale the accused. WhcrcupOn judgment pro-
nonnccd All the judges were ~ opinion that the
prisoner was guilty and should die the death by tho
sword. No convenient Home Secretary Criminal
Appeal Court existing at Nuremberg he Is led OH
straghtway TO the scafod. Poor "ranawechsel"
saws his prayers, and them hey presto Master Pausen