Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-07


 sented: Socrates. Miss % Emily ChensX Minerva. M1s. H IsHmbn4 cssssndia. Mrs; "; Cheney 6en9Dia. i;isa M $ Rohinson Ma1imiiia R. ssantnore. Ms. shipman Gaer0as Gaar05se fa SSf NsW Miss B.rnsrd The oonvention"fne Saturday Morning Club Prologue: ,-
 Boston Epnogue:
 The author of "A Mssque of Culture" is herself one of the foremost members of that orgsniz ation. She is Aiss Trumbull. who writes under the name of Annie Eliot. She is well known to many readers of cur rent literature, and this clever piece 6om- psres well with her previous efforts.
 The scene opens with Confucius and Socrates seated in an arbor in . contem- plative mood. After time Minerva ar- rives and desires them to represent her at @ convention of women to be held in Bos- ton, which they reluctantly consent to do.
 The confused and tangled-up scenes of the convention at Boston, which form the BcCUuu 0CvS oAAAOSv No4A1o A06O44PeAOns 4u0 philosophers are received under protest. Maxlmilia R Stantmore sententiously re- marks, when somebody says that this is hardly the place for men: '.It may be that 1t Is not, but is there in the wide domain of action, is there really any place for mana Is he not always . paIaaite.n The philosophers get all they want of the convention, however. The women feel that they are rather behind the times, but Charlotte [of Boston, is rather interested in Socrates and insisted on discussing the- ology with him. 'It occurs to me" she says, "that Plato may not have done you entire justice. Naturally I have always understood you to be Unitarian" .,
 The Boston girl again makes little speech on "Women in Literature" "What has she did," shs exclsims, fin hteraturei She has established Browning clubs and Ibsen clubs. She hes exploited Sophocles. In some cases she has even read" Again in speaking of the various places for which woman is fitted, she said: ''I be- lisve in women being on the school com mittee, but do not think she belongs in the militia, in spite of the Daughters of tue Revolution"
 The two philosophers cannot keep abso- lute silence during all the babel, and in the advancement of various ideas and theories they are reproved for their seem- ing desire to make fun of the proceedings. The convention becumes more confusing and the things said more intolerable to the worthy anoients. Socrates sinks into his chair, wraps his head in his togs, and at last insists to Confusius that they should 90, intimating thtt he feels very badly. They return to Olympus and give their report to Minerva. They are completely worn out. When they have somewhat fv. perstion says: "Waat have you been doing, anywsyg" Socrates, totteripg to a chair, replies: "Hearing women talk" And Confucius, also tottering to a chair, adds: "When thing seheth | and craveth for rest it is an ear-drum.' J Minervs expresses her surprise that Sccra- tes should be alarmed at the tongues of women. He answers that Xsntippe didn't have but one. After being seated they fall back into their old habits of random philosophy and drive Minerva nearly crazy She Is consumed with curiosity to know 1 who was there and what they wore and
 what they said, and on the suggestion oi the Greek philosopher they proceed ac cording to the Socrstic method. In this the learned reporters and wonderfully ss
 sisted by two copies of woman's pspel
 which they have carried away from thu
 earth with them and from which they gel
 their answers on the ally.
 Socrates impressively ssye: "Thell
 speech is like the sands washed by tn,
 ocean of time--the waves dash the1efron
 and behold they leave no mark" .'~
 Minerva inquires: II have often heard
 of Boston IS being the modern Athens
 Have they an Aeropolisa"
 "They have;" is the answer, "they cal
 it Bunker Hi1t, think"
 Minerva feels that she Is very much be
 hind the times. She thinks things mus
 have changed wonderfully since the time
 that she was more intimately connected
 with human affairs. When she learns tha
 women do not carry shields, but fans and
 parssols in their stead; that they do no
 wear helmets, but sailor hats, her despair increases and she at last in discomatur, gives up the woman of to-day.
 The various characters wore all excel len.ly impersonated and the entertainment
 was justly considered 8 great success b, all present. ....