The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-03-30
NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
sanctity ofHoIy Week Shadows Delightful
City with Its Sweet solemnity Revival
Services at Baptist Churches Some
Opinions Of John Drew.

as. This final epoch OF lenten SO.
briefly shadows our busy town with Its
sweet solemnity, and throughout the
hours OF the soft spring days church.
goers throng the streets and an at.
mosphere of sacredness and gentle
religion pervades the senses like the
subtle fragrance of a flower. There is
much peace and calm in this season oi
prayer and penance which we call lent,
and to my mind there has always been
something more than beauti ful in the
way that Roman Catholics, during the
closing week of the forty.day period,
figuratively live out in thought and
erucifxion OF the Redeemer of the
world. love tsl see the little children
churchWard-bound, graye-eyed and
earnest, with their small hands clasped
about dimfnutive prayer books or
tiny rosaries twined around their
chubby fingers. There is something in
fnitely appealing to even the most
advanced thinker in the manifestation
of so much simple faith and tender
religion, and think the practice of
having little white-robed white-veiled
maidens precede the priest in the
triumpha1 march down the church
ais1es on Holy Thursday is one of the
sweetest and most inspiring customs
of the Catholic church. And again,
the cherubic- looking laddies bearing
lighted candles, who follow in their
snowy cassocks. 1t is the exquisite
purity of the thing that grips you like
a wise and causes your eyes TO blur
and humbles your spirit to the dust.
Easter is knocking at our door at the
door Of our hearts and our consciences.
Let us open and bid the spirit OF its
blessedness enter that our souls may
rise to the realization of greater
g1ories and holier aspirationsl
Revival services were held in the
local Baptist churches during the past
week.
A movement is on foot to secure a
decrease in the. fare charged public
school children on the street cars
throughout the city.
T. w. Holloman was elected presi-
dent OF the Louisiana Sunday School
Association at the closing session of
that organization on Thursday night
oflast week.
George Wharton James, associate
editor of the Arena and noted an-
thor, lecturer and preacher, is in New
Orleans making q special study Of
local conditions for series of articles
he is to write for his magazine.
John Drew was in town last week.
They tell me that John is fearfully
conceited. $50 confoundedly stuck
on himself, by Jovel'' as one man put
1t; FThe most self-opinionated ass on
the stage next to Mansfield, y &C.
cording to another. and A matinee
idol, and he knows it!''-this from a
third. But to my way OF thinking
John Drew is dear, pure and simple,
not in the least conceited, and, any
way, with perfect right to be. Which
last remark may be paradoxical and
Illogical, but nevertheless eminently
true. He has such perfectly de-
licious and natural way about him,
and his support is always distin-
guished by its excellence the evidence
of a good actors willingness to share
his laurels. Wait, didn't mean to
say his entire support is distinguished
by its excellence meant to bar his
leading woman. Margaret Dale was
Mr.. Drew's first af1t ion In this re-
spect, freallysI never saw what that
young woman had beyond her beauty
to commend her TO the histrionic
world1 and Margaret Illington John
seems TO be long on the sMargarets .
lis the present incumbent, mild,
very mild, Improvement on Margaret
the first. Both these ladies' seem to
find a difficulty In extricattng their
voices from their respective tlroats;
Miss Ellington struggles valiantIy with
hers only to havsi it perish finally and
hope1essly in her accent. And Miss
Illington's k-shades OF gracei but
the lady walks across the stage with q
movement resembling the conyolutions
of a baby seal. understand that in
private life Miss Ellington is Mrs.
Daniel Frohman and that next year
she will be scintIllating in a company
Of her own. ssHis House in Order . in
which Mr.. Drew starred at the Tulane
last week, is a typical English play,
novel in plot and exceptionally orig.
inal In development, and affords this
accomplished actor an opportunity 10
appear TO w onderful advantage.
A peep at milady's newest head
gear affords convincing evidence that
spring is indeed upon US. It is a
vision OF flowers and airy loyeliness,
and is enough TO turn q less favored
sister green with envy, and the hus-
band, father or brother who pays the
BILL pale with apprehension. In the
spring the young mans fancy may
lightly turn TO thoughts of love, bai
sure as shooting Woman's turns to
millinery, and who shall say which
subject lis the more absorbing!
e. B.
The cures that stand 70 fts credit make Ruck
lens Agpica SaIve scientific wonder. Iscured
& & Aulf9Eds lecturer for the Patrons Of