The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-21
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We smiled when Little Willie wrote
His note to Santa Claus,
And yet we didn't have the heart
To bid the youngster pause.
For have we not in silence kept
The hopes that we have priced
Without the chance that Willie's have
OF being realized?
Let him who in his day dreams builds
No castle in the air,
Who never hopes the morn will dawn
With gifts surprising fair
Who never made the best Of less
Than what he fain would ask
Let him make bold to stay the child
In his fond, trustful task.
Washington Star.
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at the Y. w. c. A. building will have
to do so before this evening as the
goods exhibited for sale must be pack
ed tonight at an early hour for the
journey of the Sisters" from Worces-
ter.
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Prof Percival Lowell of Cambridge
will lecture on Mars at the next meet
ing of the Woman's Club. The lecture,
which will be illustrated, is under the
auspices of the department of science,
Mrs. Adelaide M. Swasey chairman.
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The cast for "The Rivals" to be CIV
en- in February by English High
School pupils is as follows:
Sir Anthony Absolute. -. .Halford Park
Capt. Jack Absolute. $500. Leon Yatter
Faulkland ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ------- -------
Thomas ................ George Boutelle
Bob Acres ............... Howard Smith
Sir Lucius O'Trigger. Cyril Siebers
Fag .,................ William Newcomb
David ......................L Leroy Handy
Mrs Malaprop. Edith Bottomly
Lydia Languish. ............E Edna Smith
Lucy ......'..............M Margaret Hines
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Contributions of toys or clothing for
the poor chiIdrens Christmas tree,
which is to be given by the Lend-a-
Hand Club of the Church of the Unity,
Tuesday morning, may be left at the
church this afternoon.
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An exchange asks: Is the matinee
girl" responsible for the unhealthy, not
to say immoral, plays that so abound
in these days? That is the opinion of a
member Of the Professional Womans
League, an organization of actresses.
She insists that managers calculate
nicely upon the number of persons who
will go to see a play because it is con-
sidered improper" and that the re-
spectacle women who attend afternoon
performances figure largely in the
reckoning. These matinees of immoral
plays" she says, ARE always crowded
yet matinees are supposed to be given
for the quiet, supplemented woman
who cannot get away from home in the
evenings. The fact is that while the
minded woman goes honestly in
the evening with her escort, her slyer
sister, who poses as a woman of fine
feeling, nevertheless sneaks in and
revels in the matinee" 1t is quite like
ly that there is some truth in the ac-
cusation. The world will still believe
that forbidden fruit is sweet. Yet it is
unfair to put the whole responsibility
for the existence of such fruit upon
those who taste it furtively. In many
cases it is the actor quite as much as
the play whom the matinee girl goes
to see; and she will swallow anything
for his sake. This does not relieve good
women, however from the duty of dis
eliminating between the proper and
the improper.
The engagement is announced of
Miss Alice e. Bracket of Worcester
to Dr. Henry Field Smyth of German
town, Pa.
Rev. Henry G. Spauldng of Boston
gave an enjoyable lecture last night
at Memorial Hall, before the Worces-
ter Art Club. His subject was Great
Religious Paintings" on which he is
an authority, and the lecture was illus
trated with very fine stereopticon
views.
The paintings which he showed last
night were descriptive of the life of
Christ as portrayed by the old masters.
In introduction he said that every page
of the gospels has its picture. The
parallels especially are word pictures.
The patrons of the Renaissance
painters were the churches and monas-
teries, and the great facts which they
wished to impress were those of the
incarnation of Christ and the atone
ment. Hence there is a greater album
dance of paintings of the nativity and
death of Christ than of the events
which took place during his active min
istry. These latter however, were the
ones which Mr.. Spaulding showed last
night.
He began with views of John the
Baptist and the baptism Of Christ,
several paintings by Venetian
and Florentine artists.
Then came the temptation Of Christ
in the wilderness. Other paintings
which he showed and described were
scenes of the marriage feast at Cana
of Galilee, Jesus and the woman of
Samaria the draught of fishes, the re-
surrection of Lazarus, the feast at the
house of Simon the Pharisee, Mary and
Martha, the Good Samaritan, Christ
and the four penitents, the scene of the
tribute money and the TRANSPORTATION.
OF the TRANSPORTATION he showed
first Fra AngelicO's painting and then
Raphaels. On the latter he dwelt at
some length, taking 1t up in detail and
a number of different slides.
The last paintings which he took up
were heads of Christ by different art
lists The pilgrim Christ, by Fra An
gelico, he said was the most haunting
picture of Christ ever painted. No one
who had ever seen it could forget It.
Among the great painters whose
works were shown were the Flemings,
Rubens and Rembrandt; the Floren-
tines Titan, Botticelli, Andrea Del
Sarto, Leonardo da Vinci. Fra An
gelico and a number of the Venetian
school.