Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-11-27
audience as it was beginning to move

the play, 1t was generally understood
throughout the house that all trouble
would be Strengthened out and all
bills paid before the evening was
over. When the audience was scat
tering tears in every direction in Act
III. it did so with the complete
knowledge that in the next act the
bero would suddenly remember what
he had done with his alibi, and the
story would wind up in free-for-all
dance and general good time.
But, with the onward march of the
dramatization, plays have. gone out Of
style, and when the fracas opens up
i'll the first act now the audience
doesn't have the faintest idea wheth-
CT the hero will wind up in the peni-
tertiary or the United States senate,
and it is unable to detect until the
very last whether the pretty heroine
with the light and expensive hair is
to- become the victim of matrimony
or emotional insanity.
You can never count on the drama
tlzation. 1t may get you to weeping
till your nose is red and you are out
OF breath, and then turn you loose in
that condition to go forth and battle
with life crushed and broken-heart-
ed man, or it may send you away un
der the impression that George Wash
ington crossed the Delaware river in
a .naphtha launch called the "Ruther-
ford B. Hayes with Sousa's band
playing the Liberty Bell'' march all
the way over and the mayor of Tren-
ton waiting at the boat landing in an
open carriage.
You may read the latest novel from
your favorite author. It has an av.
erage population of 1850 characters,
all of whom are allowed to hang
around until the very last page: but
when you go to the theater you are
panied to note that the dramatist has
whitfield down the characters to nine
IN order to save expenses. You may
go to the theater expecting to deliver
first one shrek of laughter and then
another, and find that you are wit
Messing the dramatization of an ed.
itorial you read in morning news
paper on the theme, Segregation as
Preventive of Divorce
Some pleasing dramatizations will
be brought out this winter. The Con
gressional Record will be dramatized
and put on the road for the relief of
persons who have become the victims
of insomnia. The fall crop bulletins
and the coal strike commissioners re-
port will also be put on the stage the
moment they are published, and about
Christmas a drama tization will be
made of the extemporaneous remarks
delivered by President Roosevelt to
the Massachusetts motorman.
With the coming of winter, the sea-
son of indoor games will also open in
real earnest, and ping-pong: cherades,
Copenhagen, bridge whist and two
handed checkers will again be all the
rage.
Ping-pong will, as usual be found at
the head of the list, for it is as good
a game as was ever made to while
away the carpets and brio -brac. and
anything else of value that may hap
pen to be in the room while the fury
and excitement of the game is on.
Take the average man while he is in
the mad pursuit of flying, darling
png-pong ball, and there is no obstacle
from coal scuttle to, baby grand
piano that can brook his progress. We
have seen ping-pongest after ping
pongest, while under the spell of the
chase, sweep from one end of a room
to the other, climb the night-bloom-
ing oleander, yank the bird cage out
by the roots, wade around through the
bottoms of the rocking chairs and
grind the what-not down to a worth
less and unacceptable pulp, who, in
their lucid moments, would be per-
fectly safe around any home.
Persons who may have furniture
about the house that has become more
or less of nuisance, and of which they
yearn to be relieved, can have their
wishes gratifed by stalking out
ping-pong set in their home and then
inviting some gentleman who is COM
paratively new to the game and who
is gifted with a pair of large, robust
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be worked up to high and violent
state of excitement
And, SO, with all these delightful
Festivities in store, winter, we are
| pleased to note, is at hand; winter,
that magic time when the freight
CLEANS cheerily upon the hearthstone
and the appetite becomes Of some
service to it's proprietor; winter, that
most charmed season of all the year,
when the cheek is aglow with the
bloom of health, and the oyster is fat
and when every other form of amuse-
ment from grand opera to the buck
wheat pancake seeks to WOO US away
from every thought Of displeasure and
gloom.
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