The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-25

and doubtful of all charity that does not
result in being seen of men. And yet, there
are great many people worthy of their
hlre, and they get Jt-some time. In this
world, my friend, you and 1 may count on
getting a good bit of our he'll and a good
bit of our heaven. God has always said
that he was just, consequently he cannot
be inhuman to poor humanity, He is not
going to give eternal punishment to soul
incapable of reaching perfection, and
hrmly believe that here or hereafter, he
is going to give everybody a chance. You
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
nave made a mistake, and the reason Oh
that mistake, the why and the wherefore
of 1t, which means not only your present,
but your past and your environments, and
everything concerning you, is going to be
considered. God doesn't judge as men Go.
He looks into the heart and sees, with alb
solute clearness, everything that influ-
ences poor sinner, and He is going to
forgive great deal. l would like to hear
a good sermon on it. Personally, l love
a good sermon, one that calls spade
spade, and doesn't, in fiowery mass of
words, soothe you to sleep.
From the pulpit to some new books, and
from there to the stage, is a distance, but
not such a great one. There have been
two books published within a year, that
were great successes. Each was the
story of woman-one, of a woman who
lived when the Rape of the Lock- was
written; a woman who was familiar with
courts; who was ambitious; who was
beautiful, but who had a girlhood of wick
edness, from which she was rescued and
made great and good by the love of
great and good man. OF course, you
know the book mean-"A Lady of Quail
ity." 1t will make a fine play, but where
is the actress who could become Clorinda?
She must be not a foolish soubrette, not
merely beautiful woman; and yet she
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
lngenue need try the part; no girl whose
only talent is that she looks well in tights
need try the role; but a woman of brain,
woman of beauty, and a woman of dig
nifty, must cause Clorinda to appear in
flesh and blood before us. 1 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, al
though it, too. is the story of a woman.
that l smile as 1 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 a beau
tiful woman, but a woman magnificent
in her moral, mental and physical
strength. Your lips form her name-you
are right-it is Tom Grogan. You don't
want a harsh-voiced termagant to play
this part, the book never made Tom that.
you want clear-eyed, clear-brained wo-
man, who, in her acting of the part. will
suggest the keynote to Tom Grogan's
character-womanly force. This actress
must be magnetic woman, but not A
hippant woman. Tom Grogan dealt with
questions that were serious, and she
comes nearer to Victor Hugo's ideal wo-
man, she who is "homme par la pensee ct
femme par la occur" than any other 7
know. You cannot help but feel when
you read the book that you have become
acquainted with Tom-she is so CHEEKY.
SO Whote-souled, so really flesh and blood
that count her as living.
Some one said that an actress who is
Dig loud-voiced, ugly, and entirely lack
ing in the womanliness that pervaded Tom
Grogan's personality was to play this
part. l hope not. Because there is one
woman who could be Tom Grogan. and
she is Agnes Booth. Will she? 1 do not
know, but l hope that unless the proper
woman is in the proper place, neither
Clorlnda nor Tom Grogan will appear upon
the stage; for, do not want to see them
as degenerates. If 1 am to meet them
IN flesh and blood, and long to. want
them to come to me as 1 think of them
One really suffers, when one loves a book
at seeing its people lessened. And you and
l, l feel sure, do love the books that in
terest US. They become part of our lives:
we know them; those pen-and-ink people.
know them better than we know fiesh-and-
piood people-they become real to US, and
we do not want to lose one of our ideals
Life is the poorer when we do. Life Is
fuller and richer when the ideal is culti
waited and when our pen-and-ink friends
influence us to good deeds. And they do.
After becoming acquainted with Tom Gro
gan, If you are the sort of a woman 7
like, you could no more be dishonest than
you could be immodest. You'd be asham
ed to face the book. That's the way the
pooA dHects Bah.
THE FIRE OPAL AND OTHERS.