Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02

, would go home, live well with hel
means, make some sacrifice q
her tastes and preserve her self
respect II the right man hap
pened along, she would marry
him without reference to his worldly
! possessions, if she loved him, and if not
she would die single and happy in the
consciousness that the one unworthy
act Of her life had passed over without
working harm to anybody.
But when the time came to leave,
this reformed would-be husband-catch-
er could not resist the temptation to
immortalize her sentiments upon the
scarcity of elegibles al the summer Ie-
sorts, and she thereupOn inditeG in the
hotel register while the proprietor S
back was nomentarily turned the dog
gerel which appears at the beginning of
this little screed:
OF all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these: There were no
men,
The admirers Of pretty and talented
Virginia Harned-aud every matinee
SRI in New York City is in that cate
gory-are just now In high feather
Why? Simply because she mas the OPP
portunity of her professional career in
The Adventures Of Lady Ursula" in
which she is appearing as the leading
woman with her husband at the
Lyceum Theatre. Sothern is nominally
the star, but the piece is so essentially
Woman's play that Miss Harmed re-
ally gets the lions share of the ap-
plause and sympathy Of the audience.
| hear that when her spouse produces
his next piece she and he will separate,
though only in a professional and tenn
pOrary way, and that she will then be-
gin a starring tour of the country in
THE Adventures of Lady Ursula"
By the way, Miss Harmed wears some
charming gowns in this play, and the
fact is additionally worth chrcnicling,
since it is her proud boast, not that
they all came from Paris, but that they
are made in this country under her
own supervision.
While | am on the subject of theat-
ricals | wish to express my astonish-
ment at the marvellous success which
so frequently attends entertainments in
New York City whose only recommen-
ddtlOu lies ia tIlOfe t1IuL Cno- ufU-.10S-
of the women are cut nigh at the bot
tom and low at the top, naturally at
fording a more than literal view OF the
anatomy of the wearar l haze often
questioned the sagac,ty Of this policy,
but | am forced to abandon my pet
theory, for, so far at least as New York
is concerned, these shows always fall
fiat unless they contain something
which is a sop to those who effect to
like the French school of dramatic art
in its application to the lighter forms
of entertainment. This is usually in
terpreted here to mean vulgarity Or,
at the best, poorly yelled suggestive
ness. but it is supposed to be the right
thing and we, poor fools that we are,
proceed to swallow it without a muir
muir. 1t has never seemed to- occur to
some Of our managers that possibly
real merit in exhibitions of a light,
frothy character might prove an &C
ceptable substitute for double enten-
Dire" However, if the popular impress
sion as to- theatrical magnates be cor
rect, they are not addicted to the
mind wearing practice Of thinking, and
as IAN open confession is good for the
soul" must admit that the pernicious
habit is also tabooed ty