Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-12

One Is sometimes moved to wonder In IAN
artless Japanese way" why all writers who
aspire to greatness devote their efforts to
a discussion of the relations between man
and woman. and why writers who have I'M
dertaken to enlighten their fellow men
along other lines are given such short hear
ing. Surely, the sum and ending of the in
terest of the human race is not in the sole
incident of what disposition a woman shall
make of her affections or of her person.
That question we have with us, world with
out end, and 1t has always been answered
by the Individual in such way as suited the
Individual temperament. From Helen OF
Troy's time to now, each woman who has
ID the chance has done as she jolly well
liked, and while mere man has raised more
or less of a row at different times, 1t hasn't
altered the result in the least And, after
all Is said and done, the women are not
nowadays any more prone than they ever
were to go wandering off into the misty I'M
known suggested by the authors who so
cleverly and vehemently argue for theories
that are opposed to commonsense. Woman
in America has q larger measure Of in
dividual freedom of choice in her companion
for life than elsewhere among civilized ma
tions, and she has shown that society is in
nowise menaced, nor is the sanctity Of mar
riage endangered by the condition. If a
little more commonsense and a little less
unhealthy speculation were applied to the
problem, the debate would soon be on a diff
ferent plane, and Mrs. Alving, Candida and
the others Of the kind would be sent to the
specimen cabinet, where they belong They
are not types in America, for which Amer
lean institutions may be thanked.
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At other times The Bee has contended
that a play could be both interesting and
decent. AS further proof. contrast the ex-
ampes of Maude Adams and Mary Shaw.
While Miss Shaw is exploiting, or was, the
profession that has been aptly denominated
1.-THE oldest in the world" Miss Adams is
winning new fame in Peter Pan" And
what is Peter Pan? Just a fairly tale
used to illustrate a point Here is the story
of the Barrie play:
Peter Pan is a boy who does not want
TO grow up. During the twilight when
Mrs. Darling was telling stories to her
children, he would sit outside the window
shadow. He comes back to the house
and, finding the children sleeping and alone
he jumps IN and searches for the lost
trio, awakes, and he tells her about the
fairies, and how long ago a babys smile
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and he tells her about the Never. Never
Never Land. where he lives with his band
He shows her how easy NJ Is 20 fly. The
other children awake and they soon learn
how to fly, and Peter persuades them 10
follow him to his own land They agree
and soaring above the nursery floor, they
fly out of the window
The next scene Is in the Never, Never
Never Land, and Peters band is building
a house for Wendy. And here is where
we first meet the bold pirate Hook. who
is an arch enemy OF Pan. Always on the
track OF the pirate is a crocodile, which
having tasted OF enc arm. wants the other
Pan and his children go to live in his
house below the woods, where Wendy be
comes the imaginary little mother. Above
the redskins, who are Peters friends, are
camping and with them Is the dark-skinneC
Tiger LILY, who loves Peter Pan. Through
this scene and all of them floats the charac
ter of Tinker Bell, fairy whom morta
eyes only sees as a dancing flash of light
The pirates attack the redskins and driv,
them away, and Hook puts poison in PAM
medicine glass, but Tinker Bell drinks 4
and is about 10 die, when she is saved by