The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-01
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our neIgbbors. aud those @ho affect
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handwriting on the wall and await
with the smile OF coneentiouaiity th.
solution of the Jest We make of life.
thus wrote an eastern critic OF the
famous Ncfwegian's purpose his
motive
Hedda" is woman of neurottc
mind She Is married TO an impossi-
BILE husband. "a nervous. eso'isgic
professor. who loves Hedda dearly
In his own peculiar way but who sees
In her only physical beauty, not the
beauty OF wifehood Hedda had
love affair in her girlhood with Ell
lert Lovborg. also a man OF letters,
who is completing his niagnum opus
Ebert would have ruined Hedda
were it not that she defended her
honor with IA pistol. Then came her
marriage to Tesman, the constant
irritant, who becomes Lovhorg's ri
val for university honors
In the meantime Lovborg secures
position as tutor TO the step-ehil-
dren of Mrs. Elvsted. the sheriffs
wife. a good and beautiful woman,
who assists Lovborg in his life's
achievement, finally becoming en-
meshed in the perplexities of exist
ence, she leaves home 10 hold a
clandestine meeting with bovborg.
| She too is married unhappily. Mrs.
Elvsted calls on Hedda, who drags
| from her. her secret. Jealousy is at
i once aroused in Hedda's breast The
| knowledge of Mrs. Elvsted's love
for Lovborg causes Hedda to resent
i the woman's affection for the lover
of her youth.
Lovborg calls on the Tesmans
land rerews his protestation OF pas
sion and love for Hedda, forgettin,
the woman who had helped him to
ward fame. Judge Brack. the fanik
friend. who is determined to gal
Hedda by any means and who tell
her so, Judge Brack, the cool, cali
} man of the world. who sees in Held
only plaything, accompanies Tes
man and LovbOrg to the club, whicl
lends in a debauch.
The woman expects them to re
turn at 1890 O'Clock at which houl
Mrs. Elvsted intends to meet Low
| borg but when midnight has passed
and none appear Hedda and the
F., poor, misguided wife retire Hedda
greets her husbands return at an
early hour in the morning, learns
that Lovborg lost his manuscript
and discovering his loss in the house
of Diana, a demi-monde, creates
such a disturbance that he is arrest
ed and thrown in prison. Tesman
finds the document and gives il TO
Hedda. who to save her husband
from the shame of failure for he
too is writing on the same subject
as Lovborg for high honors in the
university and is Respondent because
his competitors work is so infinitely
greater) as well as To wreak her re-
venge on Mrs. Elvsted. burns the
manuscript.
Loyborg is released and al once
hastens to Hedda. He tells her ne
has destroyed the manuscript and
that his ambition to live is over
fiedda then realizes that he loves |