The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-19
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
THE CHURCH AND THE THEATRE.

THE CHURCH AND THE THEATNE' Harper's Weekly.
 It may often be that the theater IS ahead of the church with its preach ment on social evils. Wendell Phillips contended, in his address on the "Abo- lition Movements Philosophy that the theater of the North was ahead of the church of the North in its welcoming 0f anti-slavery views. Ibsen long since pointedlout what the practical effects of the dominant spirit of the age-in- dividualism-is to be on the institu- tion of the family. Fourteen of the leading denominations of the country have just issued an appeal to the Chris kian public to awake to the meaning pf the tendencies in this country which kbsen long since saw in Europe.
 So long as the best people of com munity undiscriminatingly condemn an institution as old as the stage and profession as historic and important as khe actors. 1t Is tnot likely that con- uitions within that profession can i'm brove But when men have faith in inc high ideals of actors such as Car lyle had In Macready when he sent him with a noble letter of introduction to Emerson, when they believe with Nor man Kerr, one of the most eminent of British physicians who said that he had found "as unaffected piety. as mo- bie unselfishness and as true practical Christian charity" emong actors and actresses as he had ever seen among medicai and clerical patients, and such proofs of an inner religious life as to preclude any supposition of posing for effect, then the profession of actor will be elevated as 1t can not be when it is lgnorantiy despised.
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 THE NEED OF SOCIETY MEN. Philadelphia Record.
 What we need is society men" de- elared a weary matron. "Our men are 50 Jagged by their attention to busi- ness that they are next to worthless They regard the average social func- Non as an awful bore. and leave every khing pertaining to entertaining and to going about to theif wives. In case The poor wife succumbs to the strain. khey hunt around for a spinster or widowed sister or sister-in-law or oth- hr relative who will consent to take epon her shoulders this social side of khe matter.
 "As for looking after a daughter. kheir duty Is done when they've given earte blanche with checkbook An Englishnian of high title often chape- kons his motherless daughter during m entire season, and from his knowledge Df ineligfbleS IS aDIe to keep neF well informed How about the American papa? His only ammunition consists In an occasional rabid. blustery re- mark about the nincompoop fortune hunters who hover about the daughter bf the house As for sane. thoughtful tounsel he gives not bit of 1t. So- Nety is game he got into without in- ,tention or effort. and he utterly refuses Do take any trouble about his fellow players. Even his own daughters have to go 1t blind! As said before, what bociety needs is society men,"
 EMANCIPATION OF WOMAN.
 The modern movement for the eman- hpation of woman, and the enlarge hent of her life. Is not to be meas bred by the incidental errors and evils which have accompanied it. It is not b be measured by the few hysterical women whose utterances get so large ] share in the daily papers, not because hey are extraordinary and whose in- Duence is in the inverse ratio to the lensation they produce; nor by the so hety woman whose ambition 1t is to Ie up to date" and who seek to prove themselves twentieth century woman ly following the fashions, and even ping the vices, of men; nor by the lAmAnd by a small minority of ag-