The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-08

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/ pectant man. 1t seems wrong ever to
make these dear things with the aid OF
a sewing machine. Every stitch ought
| TO be put in with needle directly by
the feminine fingers. So ii is proper that
/, the woman who wants to earn money
should be making all these beautiful he
| longings, and best of all that, making
| them we'll which means daintily AMI
exquisitely, she is being paid well for
| her work
There were women members cleaners
and busters. If you own any fine books
| of any beautiful bric-a-brac then you
| know that the buster which passes over
/ them must not be n feather brush, WELD
/ ed by q recent rough female importa-
| ton from abroad, but that they must be
| kept free from the bloom of time by a
| silk buster with a brain behind it. And
| that is why, where there are so many
| beautiful belongings, women who know
how to treat them properly are hired to
do it. Really, it takes a lady to appre
ciate the eleganeies of life. You object
to that word hired" you prefer to say
engaged, or asked, or solicited. Now,
| like the word. 1t is suggestive to me
of that book in which there is the most
direct and the finest English. There it
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 lacking in
charity; not the average church member,
INDECENT in good works. narrow in behalf
and doubtful of all charity that does not
result in being seen of men, And yet.
of their hire, and they get it-some time.
In this world, my friend, you and | may
count on getting a good bit of our hell
and good bit of our heaven. God has
always said that He was Just. conse-
quently He cannot be inhuman to poor
humanity. He is not going to give eter-
nal punishment to soul incapable of
reaching perfection, and ! firmly believe
that here of hereafter He is going to
give everybody a chance. You may lose
your chance here; you may be too ignor-
ant, or too blind, to see it; but you are
not going to be condemned because you
have made mistake. and the reason of
that mistake, the why and the wherefore
of it, which means not only your pre-
sent, but your past and your environ
ments, and everything concerning you is
going to be considered.
COD DOESN'T JUDGE AS MEN DO.
He looks into the heart and sees. with
absolute clearness, everything that in
fluences poor sinner, and He is going
to forgive a great deal. But | must
leave that text to the preacher. | would
like to hear good sermon on it. Person
ally / love a good sermon, one that calls
a 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 a distance.
but not such a great one. There have
been two books published within year,
that were great successes. EatA was
the story Of a womau-one, Of n 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 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 viii make D fine play. but
where is the actress who could become
| Clorinda? She must be not foolish
soubrette, not merely beautiful wo-
man; 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
the role; but woman of brain, a wo-
man of beauty, and a 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 Da-
yenport
The other book is such a contrast, al
though, it, too, is the story of woman
that / smile as / yoke them together.
This one is story of woman of the
people, a woman Of to-day, a woman of
business; not a young woman, not a
beautiful woman, but a woman magni-
fcent in her moral, mental and physical
strength. Your lips form her name
you are right--it is 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 OF Tom
Grogans womanly force.
This actress must be magnetic woman,
| but not a hippant woman. Tom Gro
| gan dealt with questions that were seri-
Gus, and she comes nearer to Victor
| Hugo's ideal woman, she who is "homme
| par la pensee ct femme par la coeur,"
| than any other / know. You cannot
| help but feel when you read the book
that you have become acquainted with
| Tom-she is SO CHEEKY, so whole souled,
| so really flesh and loud-voiced, ugly and
entirely lacking in the womanliness that
pervaded Tom Grogan's personality, was
to play this part. / hope not. Because
there is one woman who could be Tom
Grogan, and she is-Agnes Booth. viii
she? / do not know, but I hope that
unless the proper woman is in the proper
place, neither Clorinda nor Tom Grogan
will appear upon the stage; for / do not
want to see them as degenerates. If
am to meet them in flesh and blood, and
long to, ] want them to come to me
as / think of them. One really suffers,
when one loves a book, at seeing its peo-
I Mo laceanad And van and / feel