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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-27

numbers failed to be encored last
night by the large audience; nearly
every number was repeated several
times, 50 that the last curtain did
not fall until long after IL O'Clock.
Appreciative laughter invariably re-
warded the comedians, the chief of
whom, Arthur DEACON, was COM
PEELED, with numerous curtain calls,
TO make speech after the first act
his admirers could wait no longer.
And, indeed, there was every rea-
son why this musical play should
please. 1t makes no pretense to lofty
art. and can not be judged by an
artistic gauge; it has been prepared
by experts in popular taste, it con-
tains nearly every possible elemeEt of
popularity. Good extravaganza is in
it, the liveliest of farce, even some
clever specimens of drawing-room
wit, 1t is well stocked with melo-
drama, the most enduring of dramatic
forms 1t has its intervals of serious
ness rising TO pathos, which is gen
orally so well timed that the sympa-
thetic audience substitutes for laughter
an intense silence. The magic that $
in pretty girls eXerts full sway, es-
pecially through the many and pic
torial activities of youthful chorus
ingeniously trained. The theme of
the consistent. if interrupted story
is the charm and triumph of mas
terful man-an ideal; which, how
ever opposed to the trend of refined
civilization. has found favor with
basic human nature since long before
Sweet William tanned his shrew.
To this battery of magnets is
added music that would alone make
any popular entertainment "a success.
That well-nigh every number in the
score could be whistled. and was
whistled most fervently by the gal
lery-chOir. is convincing proof how
contagi ously tuneful were the melo-
dies.
The cast almost duplicates, in
gifts and ability, the very competent
Interpreters who are still giving
eleven performances each week at the
La Sale; one is surprised to find how
well the merit of the earlier organiza-
tion is sustained.
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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-27
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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-27
Jimmy's Luv Affare.

l. ask me why sulk frown,
& why seam be cast down.
o lissum me 4 find why
tharze blud & thunder in my /.
/ am in luv 4 doant care
a Darn who nose it emmy where,
the CURL She goZe my same skool
WHARF am made A servul tool.
she sits acrost the lie from me
& she is bootifu see.
gaze at Her & o my hart
gifts hit at wunst by Kewpuds dart.
dassent brace up her yet,
but will do il sune u bet.
lie say her o Inv u,
know nife can cut over luv in 2.
d il she spurns me will Flea
far far out West o will bee
a Pirut fearse 4 will slay
awl those who dast git in my way.
today met her with the Kid
what lives next door Her she did
Knot blush so myself sed
o curses on his dogon he'd.
il he doant leave my best CURL be
lie bust his he'd rite in by q.
am not iellus as rule.
butt this Is WHARF fife dule.
Kalamazoo Gazette.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-27
Federal Post Office Site.

Tomorrow is the date set by the
United States government for the
decision and purchase of site for
Decorah's federal post office The
citizens are very anxious to know
which of the sites will be selected,
and will await the decision with in
faraet
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-27

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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-27
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Chamberlain Salve is for sale by
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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-27
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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-27
To Whom il MAY Concern.

The mail in my box on Route No. .
in School District No. 1, Madison
Twp, has been interferred with. If
any further interference is made by
anyone the undersigned Will ask that
the party so interfering be dealt with
according to law
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-27

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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-02-27

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Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-12
SHAKESPEARE THEN AND NOW
HAS THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IMPROVED ON THE
SEVENTEENTH IN DRAMATIC PRESENTATIONS

costumes were magnificent rather than
appropriate.
A typical Elizabethan playhouse, like
the Globe or the Blackfriars, stood roof
less to the air. The stage was pro-
jecting platform, surrounded on three
sides by "hoi polloi." who had paid three
pence for the privilege of standing in
the pit; and around this pit were con-
structed boxes for the ladies and gentle
men of means. Often the sides of the
stage itself were lined with young gal
lants perched on three-legged stools, who
twitted the actors when they pleased, or
disturbed the play by boisterous inter-
ruptions, very like the students of to-
day at New Haven or Ann Arbor AT
the back of the platform was hung an
arras, through which the players made
their entrances and their exits, and
which could be drawn aside to reveal
piece of stage furnishing. No scenery
was employed except some rude proper
ties which could be drawn on and off
before the eyes of the spectators. Since
there was no curtain, the actors could
never be discovered" ON the stage, and
were forced to exit at the end of every
scene. This drama Of rhetoric had to
appeal to the ears of the audience rather
than the eyes. Spectacular elements
it had TO some extent, but no illusion in
the reality of representment could pos
lsibly be effected.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-12

Have we moderns, producing and act
ing in the twentieth century plays writ
ten by bard of the seventeenth cen
tury, constructed for the exigencies of
that period, made an advancement in
art, or should the plays of Shakespeare
be presented with such an investiture
as the author was accustomed?
The drama of every age is conditioned
by various influences brought to bear on
the playwright; the physical condition
of the theater itself, the methods of the
actors and the tastes of the audience
Thus there have been three distinct
steps in evolution of the English drama,
During the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries it was essentially a drama OF
rhetoric, 'full of stately speeches and
high sounding terms;'' throughout the
eighteenth century it was mainly q
drama of conversation, and during the
nineteenth century 1t has become a
drama of illusion.
Acting in Elizabethan days was a
preventative rather than a representative
art. Instead of losing himself in the
part, the actor of that period lost the
part in himself. The thespian of thai
time-usually a rotund, peri-wigged fel
low who sawed the air with his hands
and tore passion of tatters-wishes al
eyes to be directed upon himself and
never desired to be merely considered {
component part Of stage picture. Stage
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-12

Imagine Annie Russell playing in "A
Midsummer Nights Dream" amid such
rude environment as that
Upon the assurance from some func-
tionary that all was in readiness, the
first person seen by the audience would
be that of an urchin who would appear,
bearing a board upon which had been
roughly painted "Act l., Scene 1, Athens,
the Palace of Theseus," thus easily and
effectively Transforming at least for the
audience, the rough planking and gen
eral sordidness into the royal hall of the
proud and mighty duke.
The fact that the stage was surround
ed on three sides by standing spectators
forced the actor to emulate the platfrom
orator. Set speeches were introduced
bodily into the text of play, the most
notable example being in the second act
of ga Midsummer Nights Dream"
where the progress of the action of the
piece was impeded by these interlarded
bits, which, although a portion of the
original version, have been expurgated
as unnecessary in a revision of the man.
uscript for later presentations. Soliloquies
were common and formal dialogues pre-
vailed. By convention, all characters,
regardless of their education or station
in life were considered capable of talk
ing, not only in verse, but in poetry
Thus, in the play just referred to, we
see Ounce, carpenter; Snug, joiner:
Flite. a bellows maker; Snout, tinker,
and Bottom, a weaver, conversing in the
most high flown and scholarly way at
intervals concerning the old story of
Pyramus and Thisby.
Nowadays elabora teness of stage illu-
sion has made spoiled children of us all.
We must have been pampered with me-
chanical toys until we have lost the art
of playing without them. Where have
our imaginations gone that we must have
real rain upon the stage? Shall we labor
for real snow before long, that must be
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-12
A MODERN POETS VIEW.

sSv,nburne in the Fortnightly, Review T,S, i,,Sa.
But in the final poem, when concluuos
and crowns the first epoch OF snakes-
neare's work, the special graces ana pc
culiar glories of each that went pefore
ore gathered together as in one garland
"of every hue and every scent, ING
Loune genius of the master OF an poets
f;nds its consummation in the "Midsum-
mer Nights Dream" The blank verse
Is as full, sweet and strong as the pest
of Riron's or Romeo's! the rhymed verse
90 clear. pure and true as the simplest
aud truest melody of ''Venus and Adonis'
or the ''Comedy of Errors" But here
zach kind of excellence is equal through
ont. there are here no purple patches on
gown of serge, but one seamless ana
-;n1erial robe of single dye. or the
lv,.ic and prosaic part, the counterchange
of loves and daughters, of fancy fine as
air and imagination high as heaven, what
need can there be for any one to shame
himself by the helpless attempt to say
some word not utterly unworthy? Let it
suffice TO accept this poem as landmark
Of our first stage. and pause to look back
from il on what lies behind us of partial
Or of perfect work. M ...., ...,.,..
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-12

where Miss Walsh, in the role of Moll
O'Hara, girl of the slums, is led to be-
lieve that her lover has discarded her.
She has become a reformed woman for
his sake, and now in a spasm of hope
lessness and utter despair she determines
to forget her former avowal to. walk the
straight road and to drown her troubles
in q wild debauch. Like mad woman
she tears at the furniture; she grasps
a flask Of liquor and pulls the cork with
her teeth; she tears the shade from the
window, and then stands quivering with
the liquor in her appraised hand. For
the sweeping away of the window COW
ering has flooded the room with light,
and one stray moonbeam illumincs weird
ly picture of the Virgin hung on the
wall The woman falls on her Knees be-
fore the picture of the Mother of Sor-
rows in an agony Of contrite weeping.
The scene is almost terrible.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-12

In the effort to decide on the one
great scene," no end of good has been
done; attention has been directed to
many almost unheard of plays, and it
has been shown that many plays are
greatly admired that have not succeeded
with the vast army Of the persons who
attend the theatre. But what it has done
best is to bring strongly forward the
essence of what really "great scene"
must be. Told in a/few words it is this:
A great scene must be vital human
nature, not exaggerated, but intensely
dramatic. More than this, it must come
just at the psychological moment of the
play; it must be worked up to logically,
naturally, and with every due sense of
dramatic propriety.
After much deliberation, it has finally
been decided that the great scene of the
present decade is the so-called Madonna
Scene," in Blanche Walsh's new Clyde
Fitch play, "The Straight Road" OF
course this decision was not arrived at
without endless argument. The strong
est objection was that the scene is main
ly great because of the artistic ability
of Blanche Walsh, conceded to be the
greatest emotional actress on the Ameri-
can stage to-day. The argument was ad-
vanced that almost any scene might be
called "great scene' in her hands
But the result arrived at in the end was
that this particular portion of "The
Straight Road" is far and away the
greatest scene of many years; that it is
throbhing bit of intensity, concerning
which there have appeared more ethical
and contradictions reViaws than have
been written of any offering on Broad
way in many years.
The scene occurs in the third act
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-12
PUCK AND THE FAIRIES.

From Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespeare .
Plays"
Puck is the leader of the fairy band
madcap sprite, full of wanton-
ness and mischief, who laughs at those
whom he misleads-'Lord, what fools
these mortals be!' Puck is
borne along ON his fairy errands like the
light and glttering gossamer before the
breeze. He is>indeed most epicurean
little gentleman dealing in quaint devices
and faring in dainty delights.
With Oberon and his fairies we are
launched at once into the empire of the
butterflies. How beautifully is thisrace
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-12

and notice that the furniture is natural.
Modern stage craft in the theatre has
made possible many worthy things that
were not dreamed of in the philosophy
of Shakespeare. But the financial out
lay to accomplish this end is fairly
staggering. We have outgrown our
pristine simplicity, but perhaps we have
not yet arrived at the age of wisdom.
WherD playgoers have progressed for
another century or two they may see
fit to discard some of the trappings of
the present day drama, becoming again
like little children, content with simple
toys and in that happy day the produc-
ton of "a Midsummer Nights Dream"
will not approximate an outlay which
seems all but foolhardy, such for exam
pie as the Wagenhals & Kemper produc-
ton, which Annie Russell is offering this
year, which required an outlay close upon
900.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-12

of beings contrasted with the men ,h,nn ann
women actors, by single epithet wr,rn ,or.
Titania gives the latter, "the human ,no u.Iov
talsp' y The reading OF the plns
is like wandering in grove by moon moon
light; the descriptions breathe s1Ss smseL ~
ness like odors thrown upon peas u
flowers. f.e
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-12
CRUCIAL MOMENT IN A PLAY.

This Season.
WHAT'S the strongest scene in any modern
play? This is the text that has furnished
substance for decidedly heated discus
sion recently in New York, and has been
taken part in by theatregoers, dramatic
critics, managers and actors. The dis
cussion has been intensely interesting
and decidedly instructive. Scenes have
been pointed ont from every sort of a
play. from the Broadway success to the
Bowery thriller, and the pickers and
choosers have presented all kinds of
reasons why they think their choice
should be first choice.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-12

kept in cold storage against the
spring and summer seasons? A
longing for concreteness has be-
fogged our fantasy. We thea
tregoers have come to man
hood and have put away child
ish things. No longer do we
dream ourselves in a garden of
springtime blossom; we only
look upon canvas trees and
painted flowers. No longer are
we charmed away to that i'm
agined spot where journeys end
in lovers meetings; we can
only look upon love in "a parlor
Free press., 1907-07-20
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Free press., 1907-07-20

A plan for drawing trade to a town
that has been successfully worked at
several points might be adopted to ad-
vantage in this city The plan is as
follows: An agreement was reached
between all the merchants whereby
they offered special sales on certain
days, each merchant selecting some
special line of goods upon which he
made a lower price than usual. Thus
one dry goods house would sell gloves
while another would offer bargains in
dress goods. One hardware merchant
would reduce the price on rifles. Every
line of business was represented and
care was taken that no conflicts occurr-
ed Prizes were than offered to the
farmer bringing in the best load of
grain or the handsomest baby and the
bargain day was extensively advertised
in the surrounding country, the names
of the merchants and their special
sales being in all cases stated. The
farmers responded in most crafty
ing manner and the merchants were
well pleased with the plan. The idea
has already been carried out in sever
al cities.
Free press., 1907-07-20

For some time on the Post Cards
you could write on part of addressed
side. as some are very handsome and
it is a shame to spoil them the Postal
Album being quite fad.
Now the Government are having
printed and will send out Aug. 1st,
their new Postal cards that also allow
writing or printing, the ruling provid-
ing that the face side of postal card
may be divided by vertical line placed
approximately one third of the distance
from the left end of the card, the
space to the left of the line to be used
for a message, ETC., the portion to the
right to be used for the address only.
A very thin sheet of paper may be at
tached if it completely adheres to the
card and such paster may bear both
writing and printing. Advertisements,
illustrations, or writing may appear
on the back of the card and on the
left third of the front. Postal cards
bearing particles of glass, metal, mica,
sand, tinsel or other such substances,
are declared to be unmailable, except
when enclosed in envelopes with
proper postage affixed, or when treat
ed in such a manner as will prevent
the Objectionable materials from be-
ing rubbed off or injuring the hands
of persons handling the mails.
Free press., 1907-07-20

One of the conceits, sometimes anus
ing, sometimes disgusting, always de-
plorable, is the dis isposition of little
punches of mankind to arrogate i'm
portance to themselves, and so justify
Jobs irony, mo doubt but ye." For
example, names are appropriated by
religious sects, as Christians, (by a
Sect tho there may be millions more
of Christians who never heard of such
sects; Congregational, - tho Baptists
and many other sects are congregational
Catholic, " tho all Christians believe
their church to be catholic, (that is uni
versaD either in a broad or narrow
sense; Baptist tho many sects are
baptist, if the term be restricted to
immersion; Evangelical tho all
orthodox Christians are evangelical;
Brethren tho all followers of Jesus
profess to be brethren; and so on.
The professedly meek and lowly are
especially presumptuous in claiming
these names.
Free press., 1907-07-20

twenty-five years ago September
18th, Editor Harry Freese came in
from his dairy farm north of town to
help run the Charlie Miller German
Advocate during the campaign then on.
From that day he has remained with
you as your Editor, his paper has not
missed an issue and has received the
liberal support of our business men,
citizens generally and farmers in every
part of the county Tor which he feels
grateful to all. But our land, pension
and outside business needs our atten-
ton and to-day turn the Office over to
John H. Freese, who will give it new
vim, and make it worthy of your
support.
With four months practical expe-
rience in the progressive Salina
JOURNAL office in all its departments,
and the Lindsborg Record, with its
superior job-printing he should give
you the latest and best, and the
Lindsborg paper says this of your new
Editor:
''John Freese, the competent jobman
who has been employed in this office
for the last two months, leaves for his
home at Hays City, Kans., tomorrow.
We hate to see John go. He is a fine
workman, and splendid good fellow,
who has won many. friends during his
stay here. Mr.. Freese was employed
in the Salina Journals office as ad and
job compositor before he came here tc
aid in the rush which is always on ir
our office Much of the fine work
that has been put out here lately is
from his hand. Mr.. Freese goes home
to assume the management and editor
ship of his fathers newspaper, the
Hays Free Press. We wish him al
kinds of success.
Free press., 1907-07-20

Why should / use Hughes Crescent
Cottage paint? Because it is pure paint.
contains no water or Barytes. Do
some manufacturers put water in
paint? Yes; some paints on the mar
ket contain 25 per cent of water. Why
is water put in paint? Answer. To
cheaper it. Is that the only reason?
Answer. No What else does water
do in paint? Answer. 1t makes
paint look thick. What is the object
of that? Answer. To cause the
people to believe they are getting more
for their money. In what way? An
swer. Paint makers furnish the
water which costs nothing. and then
you furnish the oil. You are the
Sc cats paw" Now you may ask and
say this is broad statement, but don't
take our word for it, come and see US
and we viii prove it to you
HENRY WOLF & Son.