The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-11

I'VE will hold nothing as secret one
from the other" he said;
'Thus shall our life's page be stain
less, when the last volume is
read"
So they began by exchanging nightly
accounts of their days.
Each found a little to censure, both
found a deal to praise.
Till, as her frankness oercame her,
nothing she cared to conceal;
Though the tales sometimes displeased
him, she would infinitely reveal
Each grlish within and its ending, Oft
times more bitter than sweet,
Till, in despair, he forbade her more of
her life to repeat.
For he at last learned the lesson 'Wo-
man unquestioned must go
If the stern mind of her master is to
have peace here below"
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Rev. DR.. w. c. Gordon of the Sec
ond Congregational Church. Westfeld,
lectured yesterday at 10 a. m. at the Y.
w. C. A. building, before the Woman's
Club class in the study of drama.
There were present, by invitation of the
class, many guests.
The subject of DR.. Gordon's lecture
was lie OGNGlODtUGul anu AlloolOil VI
the Dramatic Principle in Social Evo-
luton" He said that drama is a poem
or fictitious narrative in dialect in which
the actions are not related but acted.
The basal dramatic instinct is in
nate in every humap being and the
history of the development of the
drama of the race follows the devel-
opment of the same instinct in the in
diVidual
The beginnings of the drama may be
found in the fantastic orgies of the
Greek peasants, who worshipped Bac-
chus with song and dance.
English drama, like Greek drama,
was religious in it's origin and the
earliest plays given in England were the
miracle and morality plays which were
dramatic presentation of the Bible
narrative, at first by the ministers
themselves in the churches and later
inatbe church yard by the laymen. In
many of these old plays God appeared
on the stage with the devil, angels and
biblical characters.
The morality play was the next stage
in the development of English drama.
Then came comedy and lastly tragedy
In summarizing the progress of the
drama an upward movement is appar-
emit First is found the play instinct
and the instinct of imitation: second,
comes the distinctly religious drama
lacking in creative art. Third, alb
stract qualities have been introduced
for the sake of moral enlightenment
Fourth, comes the actual drama of
life IN which love and villiany and
war are the sum and substance of ac-
ton. In the fifth stage old chivalric
ideals are combined with the study of
character. The most recent drama sub
ordinates situation to character. The
psychological drama of today repre-
sents this stage.
At the present day there are three
classes: Those who are pessimists
and think that the drama is all bad,
as the low character of many plays re-
veals. 2.-Those who are reaIists and
think drama should portray life as it
is, good or bad 3.-Those who are OPP
timists and think that realism should
be combined with idealism.
The lecture was the opening of the
course on Creative periods in English
drama" under the auspices of the lit
erature department, Mrs. Carrie Cor
don Leland chairman.
DR.. Gordon is the guest of his sis
ter, Mrs. Carrie Gordon Leland, Q Dix
Street, during his stay in Worcester.
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The annual meeting Of the Associated
Charities will be Monday evening. Oct. !
q, at s o'clock, in Memorial Hall. The /
reports of the general secretary. Miss /
Miriam F. Witherspoon, and the treas /
urer, Halleck Bartlett, will be heard |
Reports will also be given by s. F. |
Streeter, superintendent of the Bows .
Club. and Col E. ]. Russell concerning
his work as probation officer.
There will be reports ny representa-
tives of the District Nurses Associa-
ton. the Good Samaritan Society and
the Flower Mission. The public is in
vited to attend.
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About 60 former students Of the
Dread Collegiate Institute held a re-
union at the Bay State House vester-
day noon. The assembly was the arst
Of the kind in the schools bistorv
Mrs. John d. Rockefeller and her Sic
.er Miss Lucy stillman, sent letters
which were read at the meeting. Mrs