The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-19
AS Shakespeare Is Read.

They were group of Thespiaas on
corner of the Rialto talking shop" a,
usual-all save one, who evidently rank.
ed himself as a dramatic critic, and h..
was the speaker of the moment.
"You people follow Hamlet's advice all
right" he said. "as you read it, but vor
don't know how to read Shakpsnnaro
This is his instruction to the PLAYERS ..
you see it:
Speak the speech, 1 pray You. As
pronounce it to you, tripping on the
tongue, and saw the air much with VIM,
hands, not gently. Tear a passion to tat.
tiers, to very rags. Out-Herod Hero5
DO not suit the word to the action or the
action to the word, and hesitate nor fl
o'erstep the modesty of nature. The end
of playing is to hold a convex mirror nm
to nature. Have not the gait of Chris.
tian, pagan or man, but strut and below
and initiate humanity abominablyn
And, | tell you, you fellows DO it to
perfection.
He walked away, leaving stiffness
behind.-New York Herald.
Oak Shutters In Riot Times,
II reckon there are enough policemen
in New York to squelch any riot that Won
might have" said a western man who
had been studying Broadway, for
don't see any old time shutters on the
windows of the stores. In my town. as
well as many others in the west, during
the civil war, where we had no police
the old fashioned shutters were all tbe
protection the business men had against
jayhawkers and bushwhackers. The sbut.
tiers were made of oak and were screwed
IN front of the windows at night and tax.
en- down in the morning. When the iay.
hawkers and bushwhackers came yelling
down the street, our merchants rushed
out and put up the shutters, il they had
time.
The enemy knew better than to try to
batter the shutters or shoot through
them, for they couldn't do it. When the
merchants put up the shutters in such an
attack, they locked the door and fled to
the cellars and staid there until the dis
turbance was over. Cellars were as safe
from Jayhawkers and bushwhackers as
they are from cyclones. Cellars and oak
shutters are great protection. But
haven't seen an oak shutter In New
York. New York Sun.
PhOtOsraphins Closed Pages.
Library rules ordinarily forbid the re.
moval Of valuable books aud engraving;
from the premises, so that there is trou.
Die IN obtaining Photographic copies Of
pictures or plates. the introduction OF ar
tificial light or even of a camera being
commonly prohibited. A method OF get.
ting over this difficulty which has been
tried recently with success is to coat
piece OF cardboard with a phosphorescent
substance and, after sufficient exposure
to the sun, place it at the back of the
picture to be reproduced. Then (suppos
Ing that the picture is in book dry
plate Is put against the face Of it, and
the volume is closed. This can be man
aged very easily by manipulating the dry
plate under a cloth that covers the book
The dry plate Is allowed to remain from
IL to 70 minutes, according to the ma
ture and thickness of the paper Then ii
Is withdrawn, under the cloth as before
and put into a dark box for subsequent
development. II is stated by the invent
or Of this process that if films are used
instead OF dry plates large number Of
copies of different engravings in the same
book may be made at thsSEane time
Saturday Evening Post.