Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-09-28

when gentlemen andladies made low bows
to each other, and were profuse IN their
thanks and their apologies. liked the
whole framing-the tea drinking, the
courteous greetings and farewelis. Perhaps
] even liked the somewhat eNtravagant
speeches. but it all seemed like perfect
picture of the eighteenth century that it
was very much worth ones while to see.
liked the way the men were dressed. |
liked the brocades and the powder, the
shoe buckles and the little blackamoors,
and all the dignity attendant"
why queried the man. 'why is it
that although you object to-day to man
being in anything morecheerful than dead
black and white in the evening, yet you all
love to see him come on the stage in his
satin coat and knee breeches; in his lace
ties and white gloves, his powdered hair
and paste bucklesP
WE RUSH TOO MUCH NOWADAYS.
'.Why? Well, because in those days
don't think he played polo; he did not get
up early in the morning and rush to the
tape to see how stocks were. Life was not
the hurry and furry it is now, and his
costumes suited his manners and his era,
He could not say 'Adzooks" to-day;
neither could he cause six bottles of port
to disappear after dinner. His love-making
would sound little weird, and yet, GER
tainly he loved just as well then If not
better than he does now. Look at the suf-
fering and sorry that Betty and her Dick
went through before he became the great
celebrity that he was. And think how.
through all the years, when ladies plead
with him for his love, when all England
adored him, his heart was true TO the
gentle woman who had become his wife i'll
the days when there was not full and
plenty. You laugh and shake your head,
and remind me that sometimes he did
stray from her. That may be, for Dick was
young and handsome, and there were
MANY BEAUTIFUL WOMEN IN THE WORLD
but he always came back, and when she
died. and she was only IS years old then,
he mourned for her as a man only mourns
for the love of his life"
Again my cynic laughs. but there is a
qnaver in the laugh, aud | think even he
| is willing to confess that but one love
comes in lifetime. Sometimes that love
is gotten, sometimes it is never more than
a beautiful dream; but while there may be
many loves, each one good, yet each one
| is different from that perfect love which
| fills all of the heart, the brain and the
| soul. 1t seems to me that that was the
love that young Sotnern pictured-I do
not like to say acted" for he did better
than that. He took out of the life that
| Tom Moore wrote and that ever so many
Others have written from, the Dick Sheri-
dan of 20, and brought him before us with
a heart overlooking with love for peautl-
full, virtuous girl, and brain overlooking
with an ambition that was bound to sue
coed. If all Of England had Missed Sheri-
dan he would have succeeded, for Kissing
to men of his build is only an incentive to
success. II breaks down Chatterton, it
kills Keats. but it urges on the Sheridans
and the Byrons, until their names are
written high up on the temples of fame.
1t is curious how, just about once Il year,
this New York first night meets and Is en-,
thusiastic. 1t applauded young SOthern
when, for dear loves sake, he became
The Highest Bidder" it applauded and
encouraged again when, for friendships
sake, he introduced us to that most lovely
of characters, 'Chumley;" it wept tears oil
sympathy and welcomed back the prodiga
when, going step higher on the ladder o.
good acting, he bowed as The Master oil
Woodbarrow" it applauded and appre-
ciated the good acting, rejoiced over the
resurrection, and yet didnOt so much low
the hero in 'The Dancing Girl;' and j
felt that ''Letterblair," while it was swee
3 and pleasant, was not strong enough TO
the actor; but this year. when at its bes
! first night Dick Sheridan bowed ant
bowed his thanks to an audience that hat
SO many times applauded THE Rivals" i
was felt that now indeed young Sotherl
t had shown what he could do and wa
] doing it. 1t is just once in year that W
t get enthusiastic, anu this is the time. An
e think it is good that we are so enthusias
D tic over a play that Robert Buchana
5 made failure of, which it took some on
e at home TO write, and which 'Edwar
a Sothern, born i'll New Orleans, acted.
g Bah BELIEVES IN ENTHUSIASM.
: It is good for US to be enthusiastic.
starts the best part of us 10 going, II take