Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-10-29

word "hired - you prefer to say en-
gagged, or asked, or solicited. Now, l
like the word. 1t is suggestive TO mo
of that book in which thsre is the
most direct and the finest English.
There 1t says the laborer is worthy of
his hire.
What sermon could be written ON
that text: and who is worthy OF his
hire? Not the ordinary preacher, weak
in faith, doubtful in hope and utterly
lacking in charity; not the average
church member, indolent in good
works, narrow in belief and doubtful
of all charity that does not result in
being seen by men. And yet. there
arc great many people worthy OF their
hire, and they yet it-sometime. In
this world. my friend, you and may
count on getting good bit OF our bell
and good bit OF our heaven. God
has always said that He Was Just, con-
sequently lie cannot be inhuman to
poor humanity He is not going to
give eternal punishment to soul in
capable nf reaching perfection, and
firmly believe that here or hereafter
He is going to give everybody chance.
Yon may lose your chance here; you
may be too ignorant, or too blind, to
see it; but you are going to have
another trial You are not going to be
condemned because you have made a
mistake, and the reason of that mis-
take, the why and the wherefore of it,
which means not only your present,
but your past and your environments,
and everything concerning you, il
going to be considered.
He looks into the heart and sees,
with absolute clearness everything
that influences poor sinner, and He
is going to forgive a great deal. But
must leave that text to the preacher. l
would like to hear good sermon On it.
Personally, l love good sermon, one
that calls spade spade, and doesn't,
in flowery mass of words, soothe you
to sleep.
From the pulpit to some new books,
and from there TO the stage, is dis
lance, but not such great one.
There have been two books, published
within a year, that were great sue
cesses. Each was the story of a woman
One, of a woman who lived when the
Grape of the Lock- was written; a
who was ambitious; who was beau
wickedness, from which she was res
cued and made great and good by the
love of great and good man. OF
course, you know the book ! mean
"A Lady of Quality" 1t will make a
fine play, but where is the actress who
could become Clorinda? She must be
not a foolish suubrette, not merely a
beautiful woman; and yet, sins must be
beautiful; but she must, even in the
days of her folly, be a woman who
could suggest all that the future would
make Of her. l have thought and
thought as to the Clorinda of the
stage; no weak singenue need try the
part; no girl whose only talent is that
she looks we'll in tights need try the
role; but woman of brain, woman
of beauty, and woman of dignity,
must cause Clorinda to appear in flesh
and blood before us. ! don't suppose
she will play the part, but there is one
actress who could do it, and that is
Fanny Davenport.
The other book is such a contrast,
although 1t, too, is the story Of a
woman, that l smile as yoke them
together. This one is story of a
woman of the people-a woman of to.
| day, a woman of business; not young
woman, not beautiful woman, but a
woman magnificent in her moral, men.
tai and physical strength. Your lips
form her name--you are right-it il
Tom Grogan. You don't want harsh
voiced termagant to play this part, the
book never made Tom that You want
a clear. eyed, clear Drained woman,
who, in her acting of the part, will
suggest the keynote Iof Tom Grogan's
haracter-womanly forcs. This actress
must be magnetic woman, but not q
flippant woman. Tom Grogan dealt
with questions that were serious. and
she comes nearer to Victor Hugo't
ideal woman, she who is "homme pai
la pensee ct femmepar la coeur," thar
any other know. You cannot helr
but feel when you read the book thai
you have become acquainted with Ton
she is so CHEEKY, so whole-souled, sc
really flesh and blood, that count hel
as living.
Some one said that an actress who il
big, loud-voiced, ugly, and entirely
lacking in the womanliness that per-
vaded Tom Grogan's personality was tt
play this part. hope not. Because
there is one woman who could be Ton
Grogan, and she is-Agnes Booth
Will she? l do not know but J. hop,
that unless the proper woman is in tn,
proper place, mother CloIinda nor Ton
Grogan will appear upon the stage; TO
l do not want to zee them as degener
ates IL am to meet them in hesi
and blood, and l long to, | want then
to come to me az | think Of them
One really suffers, when one loves
book, at seeing it's people lessened
And you and /, feel sure, do love tn,
books that interest us. They becom,
part OF our lives; we know them; thos
pen and-ink people. know them bette
than we know flesh and blood people
they become real to US, and we do no
want to lose ono OF our ideals. Life il
the poorer when we do. Life Is futile
and richer when the ideal is cultivated
and when our pen-and- ink friends in
auence us to good deeda. And the,
do. After becoming acquainted will
Tom Grogan, If you are the sort of
woman like, you could no more b,
dishonest than you could be immodest
You'd be ashamed to face the book
That's the way the book affect Bah.
| Return of Delegates.
The following Delaware delegates t,
the Supreme Circle, Brotherhood of tn
Union, have returned from the annua
session held at Reading, Pa. Edga
4. Hastings. II. Il. Sergeant, Il. H
lnnis. George Il. Dodd, W. ]. Poll
and Charles g. Bossert. The session
was one of the most interesting and in
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