The age-herald., 1900-02-21
AS SEEN THROUGH
 THIEVES OF A WOMAN

Mrs. Marielou Armstrong Cory, in her Montgomery Medley in the Georgian and New Era, thus sums up the Shakespe- rlan turn that political affairs have taken in Alabama:
 :" What if a man delight ito pass his time In spinning reason into harmless rhyme, Or sometimes boldly venture to play
 Say where's the crime
 "A very delightful and refreshing feat ure has developed in the politics of Ala bama. I don't believe there's another state in the union where it could have happened. Kentucky politics drive men to assassina- tion, Tennessee politics drive men to tine fiddle and the bow Georgia politics to pro- Inhibition, but Alabama politics has driven men to poverty. One would not have been surprised to find this last state of affairs in eL State Federation of Womens Clubs but in a great senatorial and gubernatorial fight politicians of long standing -fwhy, 1t is indeed remarkable. The best part is that this poetry is not doggerel, mot the com mon verse, or rhyme; no indeed its as- piring, this peetry-bt's bonafide blank verse, la Shakespeare. You see 1t in al- most every daily you scan, and you know it's from the politicians, for it is always 6HtbIl6u YAH dcI uIiOHl Aut StItttOlbdi OA e1AhuJ or something like it 1t abounds in names that are really too familiar to be Shake spepaan, and epithets and sentences unnnis- talsably political Tt is such an improve ment on the wicked and vitialting cartoon that it is ito ibe hoped all the states will take up this political poetry method.
 q have seen some really artistic Acts from Dramas among these astonishing productions, from both sides of the party, which Shakespeare himself would have smile over, and dare say, have ackniwl- edged that it was not he who wrote them but his friend and-would be usurper Bacon. But. indeed I am in earnest when I com mend this Alabama blank-verse, in lieu of the cartoon I have read many of these Acts and have laughed almost as hearti- ly as the bard of Avon. If perchance any have escaped on the wings of Pegasus up to that bourne from whence no traveller returns-yet up-to-date have seen no real sting, no mean villianous filings, as I re- gret to say have otherwise been expressed. to Shakespeare.
 ''It is whispered that in Birmingham the political Alumni have discarded concealed weapons, TOT COucedieu OHdhSSpelSS nave advanced so rapidly in price, that Shake spere trust is imminent.
 -"They say also that time was in Birming- ham when if man put his hand on his hip pocket, men, women and children would unceremoniously get out of the way. But now when a politician reaches back there they all just smile and walk leisurely on, and the knowing news boys grin and say: He's got it bad
 "But another funny thing is, it has de- veloped the fact that there are Alumni and Alumni.
 Heretofore there has been an effort to spread 1t abroad that an alumnus was university man who would take up arms against a of falsehoods, and by es- pousing end them Now it transpires that even among the alumni there are others, and that these others are they who do take up arms against a sea of falsehoods and by opposing end them. Blessed be the poetry that could bring this to light. And I am told by the very best Shakespeare critics that the poetry of the last described alumnus is far superior to that of the first. It is also whispered that one young alumnus who has been studying the gen. tie bard for some time, who has roamed with the concealed pocket edition and slept with a larger print under his pillow, has become so infatuated with the planet like music of poetry that soon he shall give up politics altogether. and so soon shall new Shakespeare burst into splen- dor on this new century. Hail the day!
 Well. well; knew 1t was coming, thought I knew the men could not stand it much longer-women in their clubs and their studies of Shakespeare were learning too rapidly-man must need bring poetry into politics. Then If politics make man poetic, why should poetry make women political? don't say 1t shoulds now, mind yon-dear me, no! I don't say a thing; I'm just asking for informatien--as the club woman says when she's making a home thrust"
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