Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-01-31
VIRTUE OF PATRIOTISM.
Bah Wants the Incoming Administra-
ton TO InOculate the Nation. Free
of Charge, With Patriotism.

Vi UHargP, Win FdJTIOllSIl.
AMERICANS TOO FOND OF PRAIS-
| ING FOREIGN SCENES - OUR
OWN COUNTRY ABOUNDS IN
BEAUTY PUBLIC IDOLS - MR..
GLADSTONE AND SARAH BERN
HARDT-DOES AGE KILL PUBLIC
FAVORITES?-THE WRITER AND
ACTOR OF YESTERDAY-LIL-
LIAM RUSSELL AND LILLE
LANGTRY'S ADMIRERS--A WORD
ABOUT HISTORICAL BEAUTIES
AND GREATNESS.
CFrom our Regular Correspondent
New York. January 27.-There is an
undoubted lack of pride in the average
American. don't mean a lack OF per-
sonal pride or, to put it palmer, lack
of pride in himself, but there is lack
of pride in that which is distinctly Am
, erican. When he gets rich, the aver
, age American talks about the Alps, tells
you the exact height of the most won
derful peak, fingers over the dangers
of climbing and never troubles him
self to remember there are. out in Col
orado, great mountains and deep val
leys in any one of which the entire
/ Alps could be hidden away like a
Christmas gift in a stocking He talks
about the balmy air of Italy. forget
ting Florida and California; and then,
he is, in addition to being unpatriotic,
too often. unfaithful-I mean unfaith
full to his public idols. The whole
English nation, Notwithstanding he is
out OF power, and is an old man. wor-
ships the great statesman William
Ewart Gladstone. and recognizes his
powerful brain while claiming him as
its own.
AMERICAN FICKLENESS.
With an average American age kills
a public favorite. The fact that his
mind may not perhaps be at its best
blots out Of the great mental deeds
that were the children Of his brain.
| and statesmen and writer's and painters
| and actors. are spoken of as belonging
to the past as soon as their years are
many. The average American is not
| only tickle. but ungTateful. The ac-
tress of yesterday did great works, but
is. to-day, beginning TO show some
( wrinkles on her face, the result of
giving TO an ungrateful public the best
of her life. physically and mentally;
and the very public that threw roses
to her Yesterday, to-day looks through
a magnifying glass, sees only her wrin-
kles. fCrgets the good acting, shrugs its
shoulders and says: She's growing
old: / don't want to see her act any
more" Ten to one she is better ac-
tress than ever before. \ great the
atrical critic once said: NO woman
under forty can play Juliet as it should
be played and yet, no woman over
forty can absolutely look the part:
which will you have. art without
beauty. or beauty without art?' Mary
! Anderson knew her own people. When
she was at her best. when she was
really acting well, something she did
not always do. when she was hand
soonest. and when she was most pOpu-
lar. she bowed her goodbye to the
tickle American public and gracefully
retired
The Englishmen look with delight at
a dignified old lady and say: THAT
! is our Mrs. Dash. who was great
beauty and great artist, and we must
always have the hand of applause for
her" The French is giving its recog-
milton. its applause. its crown of honor.
TO a great artist who is over fifty. and
a grandmother-wou the American
public do that? Certainly not No
matter how great was the act there
I would be hundreds who would forget
all about it, and simply remember the
years and the grandchild. refusing TO
think even of good work that had been
offered to it. The writer of yesterday
is spoken to-day as a man who IN
his time worked we'll but now does
nothing but poor work. There are no
thanks given for that which did en-
| terrain and the effort made by age TO
still interest is not appreciated. My
friend. YOU know that | am telling the
truth.
ADMIRATION OF BEAUTIFUL WO-
MEN.
And what do you suppose evoked it?
The seeing woman who is now more
beautiful than ever she was before:
who is singing better than ever she ana
before: who is greeted by thousands
with applause; and that woman is
Lillian Russell a clever woman who
knows her public. If she were an Eng
Ish woman. or a French woman, she
would be held up by the nation 10
which she belonged as the most beauti-
ful woman of the day. and there would
he special pride felt by each person VINO
saw her in having been born in the
! same country. The French, to-day
have few beautiful women, but they
nick out the one or two who nave
greatest claim to beauty and elevate
them. and have pictures OF them
broadcast: and if you or | happen TO
admire one Of them, French man or
woman quickly assures you OF her
French birth, and expresses a national
Dride in her. When Mrs. Langtry was
at the height of her beauty the bobby
at the corner. the driver on the BUS;
as we'll as the men and women in all
the other classes of life. eagerly claim
ed her good looks as English-and so
thew we're very distinctly. But We ac-
cent the beauty of Lillian Russell, IN
tho same careless way that we DO our
neaches. our oranges. our grapes. our
melons. our magnolias, jessamines, or
roses. It's all right. And yet loI 4