The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-23

RV peared in Carnegie hall, New N York before an immense audi-
 ence, presenting My Only Speech" He
 scored triumph. The hall would
 not hold the immense audience that flocked to see the democratic star MT.
 Cleveland was ably supported by John G.
 Carlisle. cabinet player who won lau-
 rels in the ante-McKinley regime.
 | Thus we see the advantage to be de- 1 rived from speaking once and only once. | If the man who builds up reputation
 for silence is capable of voicing senti-
 ments at the proper time that will compel ] the attention of a nation he can be said I to have solved the problem of how and
 when to talk. MT. Cleveland has made his l first and last speech in the present cam l paign yet a score of spellbinders could not attract so much attention, nor would their addresses carry half the weight
 which attaches to the sole deliverance
 of the honorable Grover C. The rally
 in New York shows that Grover cieve-
 land Is big man. a very big man, not | only in avoirdupoise but in national im- 1 pcrtance. Although his political career
 seems to be ended. he is still demo- cratic star of the first magnitude and
 wrinkles very conspicuously along the 1 democratic horizon.
 The appearance of Maude Adams here l last Friday night has started rather
 interesting discussion among Birmingham l theatregoers. Those who are familiar 1 with Barries novel, "The Little Minis ter" contend that Arthur Byron was to- l tally unfit for the role of Mir. Dishart.
 They say that the minister should have been small, slight of frame with thin, I intellectual face and typifying in every gesture> the scholar. whereas MT Byron showed him an athletic young man, | strong vigorous and mature-something of a ministerial cavalier. But these crit ics should stop to consider the require ments of a stage here. MT. Dishart Is certainly the hero of '"rhe Little Min
 ister," and what shock it would be to
 romantic matinee maids If Lady Babbie
 should make love to undersized weak ling! To be effective a stage hero must always be stronger than the woman. If he is handsome, hath good figure
  ter, regardless of what the novel or the
 play may demand. MT. Dishart in the
 novel is very young and inexperienced m | the ways of the world, 1t Is true, put
 the term little" does not imply that he 1 is not every inch man. Although ne l ia not an athlete, on the stage the
 maturity of theatregoers would prefer to l have him fashioned after the conventional l hero.
 The philosophic statement that the way | to a mans heart lies via his stomach IS l heinz verified every day We have heard /, the story of the young woman who tested l the affections of a suitor by cooking him | a bad dinner and found that he could not | stand the test. Now comes the complaint | of a married man who wants divorce because his wife fed him on delicatessen l fare. The conduct of a husband at the | breakfast table when the coffee is bad, l the mullins soggy and the bacon scorched | has been dilated upon in the past. The number of divorce cases wherein the kitchen figures is considerable and it is safe to assume that much of the bliss or
 married life depends on prosaic, eunnary I w nlle TedSOnS OI sentiment
 and chivalry force us to believe that the road to some mems hearts does not touch | their stomachs still the stomach route is
 a very important branch line, and one
 to be considered by all maidens who are
 matrimonialy inclined
 ] A club has been started in Chicago for
 the promotion of politeness. There was a time when the youth starting out on his | career was told to place almost as much reliance on courtesy to win him reward
 as honest endeavor ana upright character, but nowadays the injunction to ''get out and dig Is about all that is vouchsafed
 young man. He Is expected to hustle
 and he hustles so vigorously that he is apt to forget the little amenities of busi- | ness entercourse that are as necessary | in counting room as in a drawing room. But thAys is no cause fer aRprehsnsioa