Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-19
WEST SIDE SHAKESPEARE c1,11p

The West Side Shakespeare club came
over on the east side. meeting with their
secretary. Mrs. A. ]. Daum, 3o1 East
Broadway. The " act Of King Lear"
was read. and this was followed by an
able paper by Mrs. Nellie Mullins. on
The Men Of King Lear" but which
she said should be named "Gloster and
his Sons asiftdealt almost wholly with
Gloster, Edgar and Edmund 1t is given
in full. The quotations We're all taken
from the act read: Mrs Alice Stevens
gave. s"World, world, o world But that
thy strange mutations make us hate thee,
life would not yield to age
Mrs. George Berry-"To be worst,
the lowest and most detected thing of
fortune, stands still in esperance, lives
not in fear the lamentahe change is
from the best; the worst returns to
laughter"
Mrs. Sheehy-"As flies to wanton boys
are we to the gods; they kill us for their
sport
Mrs. Gilbert-"Humanity must perforce
prey on itself, like monsters of the deep"
Mrs. Dammit is the stars. the stars
above us. govern our conditions"
Mrs. NuckOlls-"And yet / know not
how conceit may rob the treasury of life,
when life itself yields to the theft
Miss Coffin-"Through tattered clothes
small vices do appear; robes and furred
gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and
the strong lance of justice hurtless
breaks
Mrs. Dickson-''To know our enemies
minds. we rip their hearts,
Mrs. Mullns-"Woes by strong mag
nations lose the knowledge of them
selves"
Mrs. Cutting-"Full oft tbs seen our
means secure us; and our mere defects
prove our commodities"
Mrs. Whitcher-'' 'Tis the times plague
when madmen lead the blind"
In the discussion instead of current
topics each member gave some scientific
fact of recent date. Mrs. Cutting spoke
of the new photograph to be attached to
the telephone to record everything said.
Mrs. Daum told of the new underground
moving sidewalks of Paris. Mrs. Sheehy
of the recent discovery of stationary
electrical waves and how it would effect
wireless biography. Mrs Berry spoke of
the gigantic electric plant at Harvard,
the largest in the world. Mrs. Stevens
told of the way hot and cold air would
in the future be turned from spigOts just
as hot and cold water is now. Mrs.
Dickson told how astronomers are dis
cussing the alleged message Tesla receiv-
ed from Mars. Miss Coffin spoke of ry-
thematic heart beats, and the action of
different kinds of salts Mrs. Mullins of
the recent discovery of colored photo
graphy. Mrs. Nuckolls told of the plan
of establishing communication by tele-
phone with a besieged camp in times of
war by means of kites. Also of scientific
| kites, and how used. Mrs. Mullins read
| the following paper on the men of King
Lear.
| The play opens with the conversation
of Gloster concerning his family rela-
tions. He speaks of his incontinence with
| light hearted frivolity. The fruit of it is
| a grown up son who has come to visit
his father after long absence, bat must
be sent away again. That son hears his
! own shame from the lips of his indiscreet
parent, and we can we'll imagine the bit
( terness in his heart. and his resolution
| to thwart his fathers purpose. Here is
| indicated the crime of Gloster and the in
strument of his retribution. He has COM
mitted the deepest wrong against the
, family; he has called a social contradict
! ton into existence which it is impossible
to heal. A son, and not a son; child by
nature. yet child which the family re-
! jects disowns. banishes, though it is the
special function of the family to rear
and cherish the child. The wrong of
Gloster is therefore double.