The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-21
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A satrloal skit Upon Oscar wilde's
Latest Play.

Latest Play.
Frosn the 81. James Gazette.
Scene-A The Duke OF Danodn.
Lord Oswald Annesley, the Countess Of
Bury St. Edmunds and Mrs. Enfield Rog-
ers discovered in graceful attitudes.
The Countess Of B. St. E-And have
YOU really been in Africa, Lord OSWALD
It seems such a short time since you went
away.
Lord o. A.-To me it seems a century.
What is Africal
Duke of D.-Africa is the grave Of re-
putations and the forcing house Of liberal
unionist candidates.
Mrs. +. r. %, nv dear duke, don't
mention politics. It's such a practical sub
Jet.
Lord o. A.-There are no politicians In
Africa, only rhinoceroses.
The Contest saw the rhinoceros
last week at the geological gardens. I
thought it such depressing animal
The Duke-Depressin dear lady} o, no /!
It is full of character. IF 1 were not a
bore, l would be rhinoceros.
Mrs. E. R.-With wreath of straw
berry leaves. And / would come and feed
you with buns. How delightful! But are
you really bore7
The Duke-Theysay so in the House of
Lords.
Lord o. A.-The House of Lords is an
anachronism, tempered by breweries.
Mrs. E.R,-And bishoprics. like bis
hops. They are so unorigiual.
Lord o. A.-Originality is the thief Of
time. But what is time, and why should
it not be stolen2
The Duke-Time is the revolution of lati-
Gude, and evolution of platitudes
The Countess-How very true Lord Os-
wald, If you will give me that chair / will
sit down to think it over.
The Duke-Don't sit on a chair. It's so
human to sit on a chair.
Mrs. E. R.-Is humanity necessarily
original?
The Duke-Humanity, when sober, is
invariably tiresome.
Mrs. 3. R-Thapk you. I was never
drunk in my life.
Lord .. Allow can you ever be sober
when your presence constitutes inebriety
in others2 To know Mrs. Enfield Rogers
is liberal intoxication.
The Duke-And not to know her is the
blue ribbon of blameless life-the red
Jersey of the Salvation army There is
nothing so terrible as blamelessness
The Countess-I knew a blaneless man
nee, He was desperately in love with
me- but he would never say so.
Mrs. e. R.-O, how interesting! But
what did he say2
The Countess-He never said ANYTHING.
The Duke-I am convinced that l was
that lover. How should beautiful emo
ton find expression in anything so usual
as words2 Indeed, how should IL find ex-
preston at all2
Lord o. Alt cannot; because, as long
as it is beautiful, it must be art Only
nature speaks. The heavens are telling
but they are not so telling as an emotion
which can find no outward expression of
any sort.
Mrs. E. RI like the idea so much. A
great, blind, dumb, deaf emotion is
surely what we must all wish for
The Duke-We should never wish. A
wish is a bubble distended by its own
emptiness. II is vitalized incompeteI oe.
The Countess-O, yes, that is it exactly.
/ once wished to be married, and / have
been sorry for it ever since.
Lord o. A.-Marriage is the entangle-
ment of the unintelligible with the inhar-
monious. No one can understand a woman,
and no one can listen to man. Marriage
is also a failure
The Duke-Life would be intolera Bile
but for its failures. But that particular
failure should be severelylefJ to other
people.
Mrs. E. R.-Bury st. Edmunds, for ex-
ample.
The Countess-O, Bury st. Edmunds
Did l tell you he's been writing a book2
The d uke-Books are the torment of
the nursery, and the ultimate resource of
the dull. The man who reads book
is within measurable distance of writing
a play.
The Countess-And if he writes play,
is his destruction certain?
Lord o. A-Nothing is certain except
death and taxes.
Mrs. E. RI almost feel as if had
heard that before OF course it can't
have been in a book
Lord O. A.-You may have said it your
self. 1t is so necessary, when beautiful
thing is said, 70 say it over, and over, and
over again, When arrived in Africa 1
asked them to put up board on the
beach, saying Missionaries Shot Here. s"
l said it every morning.
The Duke-Is it wise to say anything in
the morning? There is something bour-
geois about the morning.
Mrs. E. Rand plays are always acted
in the evening
The Countess-But if there are to be no
plays?
The Duke-A playa beautiful play
may be acted if it has not been written,
and if il is not work of art The artist
cannot work, for work is tiresome, and
what is worse, ugly. A work of art is a
contradiction in terms
Mrs. e. Rand yet contradiction, in
some terms, Is essential to conversation.
The Duke-There is no conversation
nowadays, only
Curtain. But they go on conversing
behind it.