Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-08-11

their lives! Think of the women weep
Jog for their lost loves and their dead
children! Think OF the people who
would always and externally suffer frnm
remorHs! Why, We never had anything
10 good as forgetfulneas given to US !!
Bythnt, however, mean the right
kind OF forgetfulness; mean the
ability to forget the disagreeable side
of life, to soften all the unpleasant
things aud to bring before us the
agreeable side of everybody, even OF
the villain"
"That's true" agreed, "but look
at the people who affect III in a way
that We cannot explain, yet who, while
they are strangers, give us seuss
either OF great attraction or great and
impersonal DISLIKE. would quote to
show you what mean about come
stage people. because thay are really
before the public--you know them.
Now, there 10 Agnes Booth, a superb
actress woman, who can make every
word tall, who has queer incisiveness,
but who never could bring tear to my
sye nur make me think of her as any
thing else than an actress. She ia re-
fsrred to as highly finished actress.
Look at little Maude Adams. do you
think Agnes booth, no matter what
abe played, could Bring tears to the
eyes ard make the hearts beat as this
girl woman does? Now. l know you
will all disagree with me, hut while
acknowledging the charm of her acting
/ have never felt that there was any
thing in Ellen Terry that controlled
me personally.
"You think this ia dense? I'll tell
you how mean. have shed buckets
of tears over her charming characteri-
cation Of the wife of Charles l., but
never FIR an instant did l forget that
she was acting. have wept for the
queen because OF her past sorrows. oil
her sad life, but never dreamed OF
thinking that the real woman was
standing before me. she was always
| Ellen Terry, who off the stage was
rather sderly, very idowdy anu very
odd hammered person, and when
ACTRESSES go into society they should
assume If they have not naturally the
manners that are polite. But the divine
Sara. the sad Duse-ah, how different
they ars r
"Thsy become the women they repre-
sent. They live during the few hours
the lifetime Of SONS other woman, and
whose soul they have crept and learned
every heart beat and every sign OF Joy
land grief that she has had. Do you
know that there are few men who ever
control an audience as women dol
Why 10 thatG''
We all tried our hest to think ouI
beat and at last Molly said; =" 1t is fol
this cause: If woman is properly
constituted, her heart controls her
brain. and she is unsexed when she is
all brain and no heart. -
Then We looked at the stars fol
awbie and wondered what the man IL
the moon wins pondering over and tried
to belieye that away oil somewhere
the ono each loved best would somt
day be little nearer. Molly unnbashee
10 her real love. drew little closer t.
the ensign anG put her little hand IL
his. II said that the life of the average
girl begins when she cries over be-
first broken doll, aud from that time OF
her education lie series of hopes ant
disnppointmente. She ia always oe
lieving that some day she will meet ne
affinity, who, understanding her. viii
remind her that che must not or.
either for q broken doll or broker
heart. Life is the great melodrama. L
is the story Of suffering, of Joy, O
sorrow and forgiveness.
After that there was a long silence
and the captain, standing at the end O
the boat, looked as il be were trying t
get the great deep sea to whisper of tn
truth. We said g Good night" in unison
but the colonel, With his perfect polite
ness, announced, Good night to a
ideal marty. for that is an ideal part
where We can think or speak as "
plsase.'' :.
Molly's eyes laughed the questio
she did not ask. but he bowed to be
| aud answered it. "Surely this is a
: ideal party, since it consists OF Mis-
: Molly, the captain, the ensign and th
: colonel, not to mention. Bah. !"