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Critical status of the 12merican Drama.

/ Is no secret that the drama in
America is in a parlous state.
The voices of protest have long
been heard. On the one hand
are the veterans who chant the
praises of the epoch that is clos
ed. For modern plays and writ
ers they have scant tolerance or open
contempt but they wax eloquent over
the memories of ancient stock COM
panies, such as those of the Boston
Museum and Wallack's theater in New
York, and of the stars of the elder day
who interpreted the great Shaksperean
parts-Fechter, Salvini, Booth, Char
lotte Cushman and Adelaide Nelson
These are the prophets of despair. On
the other hand are the devotees of the
modern literary dramatists-Ibsen,
Sudermann, Hauptmann, Maeterlinck.
Tolstoi and Echegaray. They have lit
tie to say of actors, past or present,
and they are likely to think in their
hearts that Ibsen is greater than Shake
speare. But they have much to say of
eleVating the drama. From time to
Time they have organized theaters in
imitation of the independent theaters
or Paris and London. Except for the
somewhat dreary nature of the plays
they champion, they might be called
the prophets of hope. Over against
both of these are the scribes of the
present, who, because they are of the
present, know neither hope nor de-
SPAR They write for the great theater-
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have the foremost place in the
answer Of the college. Whether sci
ence will ever show radical difference
between woman's mind and mans or
not may be we'll doubted, but what
ever the possible differences, they
will never bear against the fact that
the intellectual training given must be
tho rough, definite, accurate, scholarly.
Girls ought often to be shown in
the course of their early studies, just
how much that seems uninteresting
and pointless is yet helping to give
them mental force and direction, as
truly as their gymnastics are forming
r1uscles and making possible quick
response of body to will The skill
gradually acquired in any game, ten
mis-, basketball, may illustrate how
important to mental skill and readiness
is this definite, strict, steady, mental
discipline.
Necessarily with this training the
addition to the resources of
life is continuous. Every study
adds a vista to the life of the
mind, new suggestions of knowledge,
fresh interests to be pursued some
day, facts that will come back most
unexpectedly and happily in our hour
Of need.
know, for example, one college
sirl who cares for q charming home
end family and finds recreation in the
study of the habits of spiders, and
has made herself an authority on that
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BY Miss Ray Frank.

and tireless efforts to re1I the child
according to the law, he comprehended
IN their real nature. And when he
thanked God he was not a woman it
was because he appreciated the lot
of a woman as far harder than his
own. His treatment of her throughout
The centuries yerities this interpreta-
ton.
Long before the Saxon mird hogan
to analyze the sentiment of love for
woman 1t had cccme Tart of the He-
brews being-:nany a JAG b having la
ored long for his Rachel ere the APP
Ocryphal story became tn, keynote of
Jewish national life.
In the Ketubah the document where
in is expressed the obligations of the
husband to the wife, is written: "Be
my wife according to the law Of Moses
and Israel and for thee l will work
ahee l will honor, thee 1 will SUPP ort
and. provide for according to =; e GUS
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whit easier to, reform. 1t has won
for us a great liberty in the physical
world, a liberty from superstitious fear
and from disease, a freedom to use
nature as familiar. servant, but it has
not freed us from ourselves. 1t has
lot purged us of passion or disposed
us to virtue 1t has not made us less
covetous or less ambitious or less self
inGulgent. On the contrary, it may be
suspected of having enhanced our
passions, by making wealth so quick
10 come, so tickle to stay. 1t has
wrought such instant, incredible i'm
proVement in all the physical setting
CT our life, that we have grown the
more impatient of the unrefcrmed
condition of the part it has not touch
ed or bettered, and we want to get at
our spirits and reconstruct them in
like radical fashion by like processes
of experiment. We have broken with
the past and have come into q new
world.
Can anyone wonder, them, that
csk for the old drill, the old memory
of times gone by, the old schooling
in precedent and tradition, the old
keeping of faith with the past, as a
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and perhaps more; and in case Of
mishap or mismanagement it may be
necessary to call on private subscrip-
lions for aid. But no people in the
world are as liberal in public munifi-
cence as we in America. The nation
that has freely contributed hundreds
of millions to it's universities has only
to realize the educational power of the
drama, and its civilizing influence
upon manners, in order to do at least
as we'll by 1t as has been done by the
crowned heads of Germany. A similar
obstacle is to be met in the case OF
the managers. One result OF the op-
erations of the syndicate, as has been
pointed out, is that the art of stage
management Is almost dead. But the
country that has already shown the
highest intelligence in so many fields
Of science and art will scarcely fail
in stage management when the oppor-
tunity arises. At any rate, the ex-
perience of past years has shown that
actors are increasingly anxious to play
the best parts, and that a large and
increasing element in the great
theater- going public is ready to en-
courage them. When there is strong
and vital upward tendency the final
triumph of good sense is only a matter
of time; and nothing could so greatly
facilitate the regeneration of the
drama as an intelligent study Of the
means by which France and Germany
have so far outstripped English speak,
ing countries.
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va ious nations of the East was tn:
manner of caring for women during
childbirth. Amongst the Egyptians,
Indians, Persians and Turks, numer-
oVs precepts and customs expressed
aversion and sometimes even hatred
to the woman VINO was about to be-
come a mother, the function of mater
nifty being regarded as something low
and british. The birth of a girl often
meant torture for both mother and
child, and the horrors of infanticide by
all these peoples remain CHASTITY blots
in history. With the Jews, however,
nleternity was regarded as most sacre
and shelter and care were hers by
right, while a birth was made an occa-
sion for prayers of thanksgiving feast
ing and general; rejoicing. From the
beginning family life was the corner
stone of the Jewish temple, woman
the strength of that stone
In a recently published book, 1.-THE
Jewish Woman" the autho., Nahiua
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TT is quite impossible for girl of
today to appreciate how vast a
change has taken place in one
generation.
There were colleges more than thirty.
years ago that educated women, but
instead of a general recognition of the
wtlth of such education there was
dlrbt, suspicion, derisi~s scorn.
In the early part of the last CEN
ny Mrs. John Adams said that the
education of girls was confined to writ
my and arithmetic, and, in the case
Of those specially favored, music and
dancing. Frances Power Cobbe, is still
living, and her training at one of the
best schools for girls IN England, where
a chief point in education was to en-
ter and leave a carriage gracefully,
would interest and amuse any girl
WI will read that chapter of her au-
tol Biography.
Emma Willard, tho great American
leader in this educational reform, who
Cicd about thirty years ago, tested
hel proficiency i'll mathematics on a
college sophomore before she quite
vcntured to believe that women could
IN: ster geometry. Some educators
lack in the opening days Of Nassar,
in 1855, and even later, raised queS-
tins as to the capacity of woman's
mind for college education, and chal-
lcnged the sanity of those who were
attempting the task. That was only
atout htirty-tive years ago.
Now the great majority of colleges
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on the table of every class room. It's
own masters have known it's limita-
lions; they have stopped short at the
confines of the physical universe; they
have declined to reckon with the spir-
it or with the stuffs of the mind, have
eschewed sense and confined them
selves to sensation. But their work
has been so stupendous that all other
men of all other studies have been set
staring at their methods, initiating
their ways of thought, ogling their
results. We look in our study of the
classics nowadays more at the phe-
nomena of language than at the move
lnent of spirit; we suppose the world
which is invisible to the unreal; we
doubt the efficacy of feeling and ex-
aggerate the efficacy of knowledge;
we speak OF society as an organism
and believe that we can contrive for
it a new environment which will
cnange the very nature of it's constit-
uent parts; worst of all, we believe
in the present and in the future more
than in the past, and deem the newest
theory of society the likedest. This is
the disservice scientific study has dcre
US; it has given us agnoSticiSm in
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Reny, one of Europe's most learned
women and a leader in German
thought, asks this question: Were
the ancient Jews so much ahead of
their time, or did modern legislators
retiograde so far behind the anciert
Jews?" Their special care for won-
en- and the raVerential regard for her
are remarkable and fall nothing Tho,
Of homage" These words bear addi-
tioral weight, coming as they do from
a Christian who has been able 70 pur-
sue her studies of Jewish history and
legislation in Hebrew.
Now and then one Of the asserters
says: How is it that the Jews thank
God they were not born women?" At
tHe bottom there is an excellent rea-
son for this. The Jew, a subtle psy-
biologist even in antiquity, under-
stood full we'll the complexity of
worlan's life; her sufferines in n ster-
nifty; her quick sympathy for all that
lived and breathed, her unrestricted
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quiet chambers, with men Of olden
time, stored walls about her and calm
voices infinitely sweet; here magic
easements, opening on the foam of
pcrilous seas, in fairy lands foyIorn,'
to which you may withdraw and use
your youth at pleasure; there windows
open straight upon the street, where
many stand and talk intent upon the
world Of men and business. A place
where ideals are kept in heart in an
air they can breathe; but no fools
paradise. place where TO hear the
truth about the past and hold debate
DC ut the affairs of the present, with
knowledge and without passion: like
the world in having all mems life
at heart, place for men and all that
concerns them; but unlike the world in
lis self possession, it's thorough way
CT talk, its care to know more than
The moment brings to light: slow to
take excitement, it's air pure and
wholesome with a breath of faith;
every eye within it bright in the clear
day and quick to look toward heaven
FOR the confirmation of its hope. Who
shall Show us the way to this place?
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preparation for leadership in days of
social change? We have. not given
science too big place in our educa-
ton, but we have made perilous mis-
take in giving it too great preponder-
ance in the method over every otker
branch of study. We must make the
numanities human again; must re-
call what manner of man we are; must
turn back once more to the region
CT practical ideals.
OF course, when all is said, it is not
les rning, but the spirit of service, that
VIII give a college place in the public
annals of the nation. 1t is indispensa-
bic, it seems to me, If it is to do it's
l'& hit service, that the air of affairs
should be admitted to all it's class
rooms. I do not mean the air of party
rt'iticS, but the air of the world s
transo ctions. the consciousness of the
solidarity of the race, the sense of the
duty of man toward man, of the pres
ence of men in every problem, Of the
significance of truth for guidance as
well as for knowledge, of the potency
of ideas, of the promise and the hope
th&t shine in the face of all knowl-
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is meant to the Jew, to whom marri-
ase was q sacred obligation, as it was
written BE fruitful and multiply"
What these diverging lines of thought
LED to has been practically illustrated
l'y the position of Jewish and non
Jewish women in succeeding centuries.
In SO brief a paper one can touch
hut few of the salient features which
made the history of Jewish women so
distinctive. To know her as she has
bee she must be compared with wonl-
en- of Greece and of Rome under the
en- perors. During the highest civiliza-
ton of the former she never rose be-
"ond being chattel, mentally neglect
I'd and morally degraded. Under the
latter she is best understood when
pictured by a Juvenal or by an analy-
sis of a Messalina, who was the reac-
ton of an era of unnatural wedlock
and more unnatural celibracy.
That which best illustrates the DIFF
ference in treatment of women by the
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fom of Jewish husbands who work
for, honor and support heir wivc and
p, Divide for them in veity"
At death he was Obliged to leave
his property to his wife and her chil-
dren. She could not be divorced with
out his consent, and all sorts Of devi"rs
were used to make him considerable
ere performing toward her any act
CT injustice.
The wife had the right to s.'cct the
first dwelling place after marriage.
Unfaithfulness on part of the wife
was fearfully punished but fearful al
so was the punishment of the accuser
If his accusation proved false. Stern
laws encompassed both husband and
ife. Disobedience was never excus-
ed. The ideal was justice, and nature
does not deal in palliations
A strict morality was exact ID from
both men and women, that the progeny
might be physically perfect.
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the realm of philosophy, scientific an
archism in the field of politics. 1t has
made the legislator confident that he
can create, and the philosopher sure
that God cannot. Past experience is
Giscredited, and the laws of matter are
supposed to apply 10 spirit and the
makeup of society.
Let me say once more, this is not
the fault of the scientist; he has done
his work with an intelligence and sue
cess which cannot be too much admir-
ed. 1t is the work of noXious, intoxi-
eating gas which has somehow got
into the lungs of the rest of us from
out of the crevices of his workshop
a gas, it would seem, which forms
only in the outer air, and where men
do not know the right use of their
lungs. I should dread to see social
reform led by men who had breathed
it. I should fear nothing better than
utter destruction from a revolution
conceived and led in the scientific spir-
it. Science has not changed the laws
OF social growth or betterment. Sci
ence has net changed the nature of
society, has not made history a whit
easier to understand, human nature q
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by God. The false idea that not I'M
til the introduction of Christianity
wss woman freed from her letters
nee DIS only to be confronted, on the one
hand, with the position of woman in
the Jewish commonwealth, and on the
other hand, with the sayings of the
apostles and teachers of Christian
morality. Christianity, keeping in
mind the words imputed to Christ, that
There are, however, some who are
circumsized for heavens sake" viewed
women and matrimony not as high adj
juncts to the perfection of things, but
as necessary evils. Paul said: Who
soever gives his daughter in marri-
ge commits not exactly a sin; but
he who does not give her in marriage
Gaes good deed" 1t was such ideas
as these which led, it seems to me,
70 the celibate priesthood of the early
Christian church. In his epistles to
The Corinthians, chapter vii, Paul, as
/ read it, divests marriage of all that
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NTIL very recent years the asser-
ton that the Jewish women were
slaves to the male half of hui
mainly in the same degree as
females of other Oriental ma
lions have been, has in most
cases passed unqu~ STONED. How
ever, the light of modern criticism
shows that had less time been spent
in assertion and more in investigation
it would have been seen that from
the beginning the Jewess had been
or of the geratest factors for progress
and that it was owing to her peculiar
environment and inherent tendencies
that monOgamy became the basis of
higher family life and the foundation
fer the future civilization of Western
Europe.
The women of Apocryphal books in
voluntarily impress one with their no.
ht'ty of character, and no one, not
prejudiced, can say that said women
were not revered by man and loved
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HAVE no laboratory but the
world Of books and men in
which I live, but l am much
- mistaken if the scientific spir-
it of the age is not doing us great
disservice, working in US a certain
great degeneracy. Science has bred in
us a spirit of experiment and con-
tempt for the past. 1t has made us
Credulous of quick Improvement hope
full of discovering panaceas, confident
of success in every new thing.
1 wish to be as explicit as carefully
chosen words will enable NE to be
Upon a matter so critical so radical
as this. l have no indictment against
what science has done; L have only
q warning to utter against the atmos-
rhere which has stolen from laborator-
les into lecture rooms and into the gen
eraI air of the world at large. Science
- our science-is new. 1t is a child
OF the nineteenth century. 1t has
transformed the world and owes little
debt of obligation to any past age. 1t
las driven mystery out of the universe;
it has made malleable stuff of the hard
world. and laid out in its elements up
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uncertain; why not insure against
death, which is absolutely certain?
We have referred t, the objections,
sometimes made to taking tut life in
surance. On reason Tor these may be
the tact that instances are recorded
where policy was paid in a lump
sum, and the funds spent lavishly or
invested unwisely. When the appli-
cant for insurance suspects this con-
dition might coma to pass it would be
advisable for him to take our what Is
termed a monthly pshsion policy. This
kind of insurance is very rare as yet,
but provides for an immediate death
benefit of 20 per cent of the face of
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ford to carry. The remark,
II am a man of small
means, and i can't afford to
pay the premiums is an excuse often
heard, and in nine cases out of ten
the man who says that spends enough
money in luxuries to pay the premium
on a life insurance policy and, al
though he may yet be in the very best
of health, If he could look into the flu
ture and sec the many diseases and &C.
cidents he would acquire the foresight
to keep his family from beggary after
he is dead.
A business man will always find
many advantages in life insurance It
secures an increase in firms mer-
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Merit in a New Form of sEJe policy.

~ ONE years ago a great number
of people looked on life insur-
ance as gambling and a thing to
- be Stunned. Even to this day
some skeptical ministers mani
fest that thought and incite their
congregations to refrain from
making life insurance contract. For
tunately, this idea is vanishing to a
great extent, and the public, instead,
sees the benefit.
In the early history of life insur-
ance there was no reliable basis on
which to compute the premium, but
now mortuary statistics are gathered
by all civilized countries, making il
possible for actuaries to get at basis
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on which to formulate the premium
rates.
1t is fact that every man who has
a, family ought to carry a policy com
mensrrate with his ability to pay the
premium. The man who insures may
lose some luxuries while he lives, but
ne VIII provide for loved ones after
death. He discounts the RISKS and
anxleties of years and Increases very
largely the probability that his family
VIII always have suitable support.
He buys a fortune on installments to
be delivered to his family In the event
of his own death. He secures a prize
for them and he enters the race of life
free from those burdens which anxiety
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for the family entail His mind is
free, his capital is free, and so far as
his family is concerned, a fortune is
practically secured.
To every man the future is a sealed
book, and no one knows what, the hour
may bring forth. He should insure i'm
mediately, as the result of a neglected
opportunity may render the family
penniless, and there is no more cruel
thing for man to do than to leave his
family on charity.
The man who does not insure shows
tnat. ne lacks one qualification of
Iaf-sishted business man, and that one
great qualification is the disposition to
pay In advance for risks he canRDt af-
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By Frank z. Smith.

camille credit, furnishes capital at
time of greatest neeu and replaces it
When it is withdrawn. 1t enables the
surviving partner to. continue the BUSH
ness on his own account with the same
financial strength as before, without
embarrassment or interruption to the
business In any way, a I'D is available
Immediately on the death of part
ner. Wholesale merchants, particu-
larly, can be secured. ny their custom
ers effecting insurance for the benefit
Of their creditors, thus increasing the
security of the wholesale merchant
and the credit of his customer. Mer-
chants insure against fire, which is
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the policy, the remainder to be paid
in monthly pensions for ten years.
This will give an assured monthly in
come during the period that children
are growing up and at a tirre vhen
they are non self-supporting.
In this way a man could provide his
family with such an amount as they
had been in the habit Of receiving
while he was living. and the applicant
can prevent his family living too ex-,
travagantly and dissipating it's means
of support. $4,000 policy would pro-
vide for $500 funeral and Incidental ex-
penscs and pension of 500 per month
for the ensuing ten y .ars.
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T r is quite impossible for a girl of
today to appreciate how vast a
change has taken place in one
oranara tiOO
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