The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-11

are trcading-some place"
( After every body mad laughed at this
/ there was silence because man was
I talking, think Of it, OF Trilby. said he
/ The play was good. with one exception.
/ The Jew was not the Jew Du Maurier
I drew u was played by an actor who
! simply vulgarized it. Svengau was dirty:
ne vas most PRONOUNCED
ype q the unpleasant Pc
/ lish Jew. but he would never have
/ been able to have given birth to such
/ beautiful music II, beyond the dirt and
I beyond the caddishness, there had not
/ been certain spirituality. The actor
/ made him a coarse and common. dirty and
I offensive, and never gave a glimpse Of
| the inner nature Of the man who
I could control people Ike Gecko and Tril-
I by His Svengali was a burlesque-the
| man VINO played il, whose name I think
| 3 Lackayc and who looks his name, made
/ nm Just such a creature as the variety
/ actor who tells Jewish stories at Tony
/ Pastor 3 would make him. And with all
| his wickedness. this man had music in his
soul so strongly that when he made the
music he became another creature, living
another life. Bye-the-bye, / have seen
| TINS same actor in other parts. and can
| not understand his being liked He is
tat. awkward, and wears his clothes-iust
heavens, how he does wear his clothesi
GU know there is a shop 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 poor people who need them. Very Of
ten they get the dress clothes thrown
aside by man Of fashion. and this ac-
tors dress clothes always look as if 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 II evening clothes
We're new things to him, but when he
plays the part Of a 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 IL seemed pity
that 1t should have been given TO man
whose only idea Of il was that a 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
1 shouldn't think they would call her
good-had all actors placed in the cate
CORY with rOgues and vagabonds. and to-
day In Holland il is not considered the
thing-indeed. / have heard il is against
the iaw-to permit an actor TO enter a re-
spectacle household.
Il have always maintained that less
brain was necessary for acting than for
anything else. child can act, a man
or woman with no intelligence can imi-
tate and though, as in all work, a brain
Is a good thing to have, stilI the actor
can get along with less OF IL than any
other man. II is fortunate, isn't it?''
Somebody was standing UP for the
widows. This was kind thing, for. from
Mr. Weller down and back they seem 10
be regarded as at once dangerous and de-
ssrable, 1t was a widow who was talk
ing, 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 326 have been widows? The first
widow? Eve. The Talmud proves that
Adam died before her and that she lived
to fascinate the rest Of mankind. Cleo
patra, 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 during her second
marriage she became renowned as a good
housekeeper. 1t was a widow who raised
the most magnificent tomb TO her hus-
band, 'Mausoleus,' and so gave the name
TO all superb monuments; and It was an
other widow, Boadicea. who led the armies
Of England, and committed suicide when
they were defeated. Madam Maintenon
was a widow. and to-day the most power
full woman in the world, and the one
admire 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 II. Helen of Troy was over 40
when Paris made that trouble for her, and
Cleopatra was 80 when she met Antony
Aspasia was IS when she landed that shy
FISH, Pericles, and Ninon was Y when her
grandson fell a victim to her charms
Catherine of Russia was IS when she
seized the throne and ruled the heart of
Orion, and Annie of Austria was IS when
buckingham fell in love with her They
always say a man is as old as he feels.
and a 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
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 nurs-
Rery to see the babies asleep and Mrs
| Millionaire knelt down beside her babies
crib, leaned over and kissed it's soft little
cheek, and am sure she said a prayer in
her heart for it, just as you, or /, or
the other woman would do.
1t Is a mistake to think that because
people are rich they are hard hearted. I
have known of meaner pride and greater
/ selrshness under a shabby gown than I'M
| der fine one. Rich women have so many
| responsibilities. They have so much TO
do, so much TO consider. They are re-
| spOnsible for so much. And many of
| them realize how hard IL is for them to
/ get TO the kingdom OF heaven. And look
at the beautiful house. and I think of
/ Mrs. Millionaire. and / am satisfied. 1
I can enjoy all she has with her, and l am
/ not answerable for it. And l can appre-
1 ciate her sweetness and her goodness, and
4 / do not have to think. as she does many
a time, that less fortunate women envy
I me- ] might, with very little trouble, see
/ the skeleton in the millionaire establish
| ment, but that would be bad form They
I have asked you and me and the other wO-
/ man 10 share their pleasures, and we
/ have no right 10 hunt out their sorrow,s.
/ And the time comes when l am In my
/ own room, and almost asleep, and here