Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-08-15

stead of quarter OF pound for your
fathers complaint. How unlucky better
luck next time but was so very busy.
There is no better mourning than that
you mention. What do you think OF
that? Certainly fool did rush in there
and undoubtedly the angels are tread
ing 7-some place.
After everybody had laughed at this,
there was silence because a man was
talking, think of it! Of Trilby. Said
he: 1.-THE play was good, with one ex.
ception. The jew was not the jew Du
Maurier drew, 1t was played by an
actor who simply vulgarized it. Sven
gall was dirty; he was most pro
nouneed type Of the unpleasant Polish
jew, but he would never have been
able to have given birth to such beau
tiful music IL, beyond the dirt and
beyond the caddishness, there had not
Zen certain spirituality. The actor
made him coarse and common, dirty and
offensive, and never gave a glimpse Of
the inner nature of the man who could
control people like Gecko and Trilby.
His Svengli was a burlesque--the mar
who played it, whose name | think il
Lackaye, and who looks his name, made
Just such creature as the variety actor
who tells Jewish stories at Tony Pas
tors would make him. And with all his
wickedness. this man had
MUSIC IN HIS SOUL
30 strongly that when he made the
music he became another creature, liv-
ing another life. By-the-by, / have
seen this same actor in other parts, and
| cannot understand his being liked.
He is fat, awkward and wears his
clothes--just heavens, how he does wear
his clothes! You know there is shol
conducted by some of the good Sisters,
where all sorts of clothes are sent by
rich people, and the Sisters freshen
them up and sell them to Door people
who need them. Very often they get
the dress clothes thrown aside by a
man Of fashion, an this actors dress
! clothes always looks as il they had been
bought there and fit well for the price.
That's where the English are ahead
of us. They don't let a man come on
the stage looking as if evening clothes
were new things to him, but when he
plays the part of gentleman, an actor
is expected to at least look like one.
| should like to see Henry Irving play
Svengali--I think Mansfield would have
understood the part but it seemed a
pity that it should have been given to
man whose only idea of it was that
hideous Jew must appear, and that
no brains were necessary to picture
him. But then, poor soul, perhaps he
hadn't any wit to start with.
Did you know that good Queen
Anne--I shouldn't think they would
call her good-had all actors placed in
the category with rogues and vaga-
bonds, and to-day in Holland it is not
considered the thing--indeed, / have
heard it is against the law-to permit
an actor to enter respectable house,
hold.
81 have always maintained that less
brain was necessary for acting than for
anything else. A child can act. a man
or woman with no intelligence can
initiate, and though, as in all work,
a. brain is a good thing to have,
still the actor can get along with
less of it than any other man. It is
fortunate, isn't it?''
cHAMPIoNINe WIDOWS.
Somebody was standing up for the
widows. This was kind thing, for,
from Mr.. Weller down and back, they
seem to be regarded as at once danger
GUS and desirable. 1t was widow who
was talking, and evidently she had
studied the subject Said she
Wouldn't you have preferred Marie
Stuart to Elizabeth? And did you know
that, of the rulers of the world, 1926
have been widows? The first widow?
Eve. The Talmund proves that
Adam died before her and that she
lived to fascinate the rest of mankind
Cleopatra, with her yellow hair and
white skin, was a widow, before either
Caesar or Antony fell in love with her.
Zenobia was widow and took for her
second mate a Roman Senator, with
whom she lived very happily, and dur
ing her second marriage she became re-
nowned as good housekeeper 1t was
widow who raised the most magnificent
tomb to her husband, 'Mausoleus, and
SO gave the name to all superb monu-
ments; and it was another widow,
Boadicea, who led the armies of Eng
land and committed suicide when they
were defeated. Madam Maiutenon was
a widow, nd to-day the most powerful
woman in the world and the one ad-
mire the most, Victoria, Queen of Eng
land and Empress of India, is also a
widow. Widows usually make good
wives, because they have had a training
and know what pleases a man.
"Then, too, they are not apt to be
young and selfish. After all, age has
very little to do with it. Helen Of Troy
was over 40 when Paris made that
trouble for her, and Cleopatra was So
when she met Antony Aspasia was SO
when she landed that shy fish, Pericles,
and Ninon was y when her grandson
fell victim to her charms. Catherine
of Russia Vas 36 when she seized the
throne and ruled the heart of Orloff,
and Annie OF Austria was 38 when
buckingham fell in love with her. They
always say man is as old as he feels,
and woman as old as she looks. /
don't know that that is true. A woman
is as old as the everlasting hills
WHEN SHE CEASES TO CHARM,
and then she may be only II. No, that
woman is young who can make man
feel his own importance, for that is the
art of fascination. -
And SO the chatter went on, and the
women adjourned to the drawing-roo
leaving the men to smoke, because
dainty. women know that chiffons cease
to be feminine when the perfume of
tobacco fingers over them. And all Of
them asked the hostess to take them
up to the nursery to see the babies
asleep, and Mrs. Millionaire knelt down
beside her babies crib, leaned over
and kissed its soft little cheek, and
am sure she said prayer in her heart
for it, just as you, or |, or the other
woman would do.
1t is mistake to think that because
people are rich they are handkerchief
/ have known of meaner pride and
greater selfshness under a shabby gown
than under a fine one. Rich women
have so many RESPONSIBILITIES. They