Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-10-25

many beautiful belongings, women who
know how to treat them properly are
hired to do II. Really, it takes lady
to appreciate the elegancies OF life.
You object TO that word "hired;" You
prefer to say engaged, or asked, or so
hcited. Now, l like the word. 1t is
suggestive to me of that book in which
there is the most direct and the finest
English. There II says
THE LABORER IS WORTHY OF
HIS HIRE"
What a 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 lack
ing In charity; not the average church
member indolent in good works, mar
row in belief and doubtful Of all char
| ity that does not result in being seen
| Of men. And VET. there are great
many people worthy Of their hire and
they get H-scmettme. In this world,
my friend, you and may count on get
! ting q good bit Of our he'll and a good
bit Of our heaven, God has always said
| that He was just, consequently He can
not be inhuman to poor humanity. He
Is not going to give eternal punishment
to a soul incapable OF reaching perfec-
ton. and I firmly 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 have made
u mistake, and the reason OF that mis-
| take. 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 DO.
He lookes into the heart and sees, with
absolute clearness, everything that In
huences a poor sinner. and He IS going
to forgive a great deal. But must
leave that text to the preacher. would
like to hear a good sermon on 1t. Per-
sOnally, I love good sermon. one tnat
calls q spade q spade and doesn't, in
Dwery 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 succe sSeS. EaCl
was the history OF a wOman-one, OF
woman VINO lived when the Rape OF
the Lock" was written; a woman who
was familiar with courts who was am
bilious; whd was beautiful, but VINO
had a girlhoOt of wckedness, from which
she was rescued and made great and
good by the love Of a great and good
man. OF course, you know the book l
mean-"A Lady of Quality 1t will
make a fine display, but where is the ac-
tress who could become ClOrinda? She
must be not a foolish soubrette, nor
merely a beautiful woman; and yet, she
must be beautiful but she must, even in
the days of her folly, be woman who
could suggest all that the future would
make Of her have thought and
thought as to the Clorinda of the stage;
no weak ingenue need try the part; no
girl whose only talent is that she looks
well in tights need try rhe role; but
woman of brain, a woman OF beauty,
and a woman Of dignity, must cause
Clorlnda 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 Daven-
port.
The other book is such a contrast, al
Enough it too, is the story of woman,
that I smile as yoke them together
This one is
A STORY OF A WOMAN OF THE
PEOPLE
a woman of to-day, a woman Of bus
mess; not a young woman, not 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 termagnant
TO play thls part, the book never named
Tom that. You want a cleareyed, clear
Drained woman. who, in her acting Of
me part will suggest the keynote OF
Tom GrOgan's charac'er-womanlT
force. This actress must be magnetic
woman, but not flippant woman. Tom
Grogan dealt with questions that were
serious. and she comes nearer 10 Victor
Hugo's ideal woman, she who is HON
me par la pensee ct femme par la coeur,
than any other | know. You cannot
aeIp but feel when you read the book
that YOU have become acquainted with
Tom-she is so CHEEKY. so whOle-soulfd,
so really flesh and blood, that count her
as living.
Some said that an actress who is
big. loud-voiced, ugly, and entirely lack
ing In tho WOmanliness that pervaded
Tom Grogan's personality was to play
this part I hope not Because there
is one woman who could be Tom Grogan
and she is-Agnes Booth. Will she?
| do not know, but | hope that unless
The proper woman is in the proper place,
neither Clornda nor Tom Grogan will
appear upon the stage; for, do not want
to see them as degenerates. il am to
meet them in flesh and blood, and ! long
to. want them 10 come to me as think
of them. One really suffers, when one
loves a book, at seeing its people lss-
tsened. And you and /, I feel sure, do
iove the books that interest us. They
become part Of our lives; we know
them; those pen-and-ink people, know
them better than We know flesh-and-
blood people-they become real to usand'
I'VE do not want to bse one Of our ideals,
Life Is the poorer when we do. Life
is fuller and richer when the ideal is
cultivated and when our pen-and-ink
friends influence us TO good deeds. And
&hey do. After becoming acquainted
with Tom Grcgan, II you are the sort OF
a woman 1 like. YOU could no more be
dishonest than you could be lmmOdest.
You'd be ashamed 70 face the book.
That's the way the book affects Bah.
THE REDEEMING ACT.