Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-11-16

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Nay, there you are laughing at ms.
! hat Is against all reason" cried the
country maiden.
| Your grandfather will bear ont my
! words, said Sir Gervas. But to re-
turn to your reading, III warrant that
/ there IS not page of Schudery and her
| Grand Cyrus which YOU have not read.
Gu. are familiar. doubtless. with every
den?'
Who are these?'' she asked. at
what church do they preachg'
| Faith. cIied the baronpt with n
| laugh. honest John breaches ut the
chur Of VIII Unwin, commonly known
| as Wills, where many time il is >
| IN the morning before he comes 10 the
end Of his sermon. But why this ques-
| ton: DO YOU think that no one may
a right 10 wear a gown and climb MP a
p1lpltE | hud thought that all Of yOur
sex had read Dryden. Pray what are
your own favorite books"
There is Alieine's Alarm To the Tn
converted, said she. 1T is stirring
work, and one which hath wrought much
good: Hast thou not found it tn fructify
within thee?'
II have not read the book yon name
SIR Gervas confessed.
Not read it?' she cried. with raised
eyebrows. Truly | had thought that
everyone had read the Alarm What
dost thou think, then, of Faithful C"..-
| tCudjugS|"
IL have not read it,
| Or of Bakers ScrmonsE she asked.
II have not read them"
or Bulls Spirit Cordial, thcn?"
| Il have not read it,.
! Mistress Ruth Tmewall stared M HIM
IN und!sgulSed wonder. "You may think
me ill-hred To say it, sir" she remarked.
| but | cannot but marvel where Won
! nave been, or what you have done M
your life. Why, the very children in the
street have read these books.
"ln truth, such works come little in
our way in London" Sir Gcrvas an
swercd. "a play OF George Etherege's
or jingle of Sir John Stockings Is light
| err, though mayhap less wholesome food
| for the mind. a man in London may
Keep pace with the world of letters with
out much reading, for what with the
gossip Of the coifechouscs and the news
| letters that fall in his way, and the bah
bic of poets or wits ut the assemblies,
with mayhap an evening or two in the
week Mt he play with Vanbrugh
! or tarquhar, one can never part com
! pany for long with the muses.. Then,
after the play, il man is in no humor
| Tor 4 turn of luck at the green table at
the Groom I'arter'S, he may stroll down
10 the Coca Tree if he he Il Tory. or t0
| ~. james If he be II Wing. and il is
ten to one if The talk turn not upon the
! turning Of alcaics, or the contest between
blank verse or rhyme. Then ONE may,
after an arrierc supper, drop into Wills
or Slaughtcr's, and find Old John, with
llckcll and Congreve, ana the rest
| Of them, hard at work on The
| dramatic Unities. or poeficaI
| justice, or some such matter. confess
| that my own tastes lay little in that
line, for about that hour | was likely
volt
! dico-hoX. or"
Hem! hemr' cried I, warnnsly. for
several of the Puritaus were listening
with faces which expressed anything but
! approval.
what you say of London is of much
| interest to me- said the Puritan maid
en-, though these names and places have
| little meaning to my ignorant ears. Ym
| uld speak, however. of the playhouse.
! Surely no worthy man goes near those
! SINKS Of inlquity, the haited traps of the
| Evil One! Has not the good and sancti-
! ned Master Bull declared from the pulpit
| that they are the gathering place of the
! froward, the chosen haunts of the per-
! verse Assyrlans, rs dangerous to the soul
| lS any OF these papal steeple houses
wherein the creature Is sacrilegi0usly
! confounded with the Creator?1
:" Wei and truly spoken, Mistress
| Timewell." cried the lean young Puri-
tan upon the right, who had been an at
! tentivc listener to the whole conversa-
! ton. There IS more evil in such houses
than even in the cities Of the plain
doubt not that the wrath of the Lord
VIII descend upon them, and destroy
| them, and wreck them utterly, together
| with the diss0lute men and abandoned
women who frequent them"
our strong opinions, friend" said
Sir Gervas, quietly, are borne ont doubt
! less by your full knowledge Of the sub
iect. How often, prithec, have you been
in these playhouses which you are so
! ready to decry?''
II thank the Lord that have never
| been 80 far tempted from the straight
path as 10 set foot within one" the puri-
tan answered, NOR have ! ever been in
that great sewer which is called London
! trust, however, that | with others or
the faithful may find orr way thither
| win our tucks at our sides ere this husi~
ness Is finished, when we shall not be
content, III warrant with shutting these
| homes of vice, as Cromwell did, but We
shall not leave one stone upon another,
and shall sow the spot with sah, that Il
! may he kissing and a by-word among
| the people,
You are right. John Derrick" said thc
mayor who had overheard the latter part
| Of his remarks Yet mrthinks that
lower tone and more backward manner
| would become you better when YOU are
| speaking with your masters guests.
| Touching these same playhouscs. colonel
when we have carried the upperhand this
| time, we shall not allow the old tares TO
check the new wheat. We know what
| fruit these places have borne in the days
of Charles, the Gwynnes, the Planners,
and the whole base crew Of foul. ieeher-
Gus parasites. Have You ever been i'm
London, Capt. Clarke"'
Nay, sir; | am country bonn and
bred"
The better man you," said our host.
II have been there twice. The first time
was IN the days Of the Rump when Lam
bert brought in his division to overawe
me Commons. ] was then qnarterod at
the sign Of the -Four Crosses in South
Wark then kept by worthy man, one
John Doman, with whom / had mnch
cdifying speech concerning prcdcstina-
ton. All was quiet and sober then, I
promise you, and you might have walked
from Westminster 10 the Tower in the
dead Of the night without hearing aught
save the mnrmur Of prayer and the
chanting Of hymns. Not q rufler or z
Wench was in the streets after dark. nor
any one save staid citizens upon their