The National tribune., 1908-02-27

cause would make no progress ana Eng
lish women would continue to be the
victims Of unjust laws for another NAN
century. They had either to be crlm-
inal or silly, and they preferred the lat-
ter. No one knows what they Will do
next, and they certainly keep things
humming. In order to raise funds 1or
their campaign one woman has elected
to go thru the streets with barrel Or
gan, others are to make five-minute
speeches between the acts at the thea
tiers and pass around collection hasKets,
others will stand at the railway stations
soliciting contributions, and sympathetic
clearinghouse mistresses have pledged
themselves to fine all boarders who
mention the suffragettes at table. In
this country renewed activity is obserV-
able among the suffragists, whether in
spired by the militant women of Merrie
England or not, and recent addition
to their ranks is Mrs. Katherine Reed
Balentine, the daughter of Speaker Tom
Reed, who, in his lifetime, was known
to be much opposed to the suffrage
| movement.
There are certain subjects which one
| feels inStinctively are not suitable Tor
public discussion or even mention, ana
one of these is that most sacred earthly
possession of a man-hiS family, his
wife and children. Even in private,
| when among his intimate friends, a
truly refined and sensitive man seldom
| speaks of his wife, tho he may of his
children. OF course, men have occa-
sionally in public utterance referred TO
| their wives in terms of such dignified
praise and respect that no one has
| thought of criticizing them adversely
for it, but generally speaking this is
subject not touched upon by men, and
| very properly so. 1t seems as If Mr.
Bryan, therefore, made something of a
| faux pas, when he introduced his wife
| into his speech at the luncheon of the
| goth Century Club of Buffalo the other
day. He had been requested to speak
on Abraham Lincoln, and the injection
of Mrs. Bryan into his remarks was IN
every way foreign to the subject ana
quite unnecessary. He spoke very beau
tifully of his wife, it is true, of her SUI
perior mental attainments and OF the
great assistance she had been to him in
his career, the apparent object of these
personalities being to prove that she
was eminently fitted to grace the White
House should fate place her there as
| it's mistress. The effect on his hearers
of this tribute to the graces of his Wife's
mind and heart was not happy; 1t seem
ed too theatrical, too much like that
prince of posers, Ebert Hubbard, whose
recent almost fulsome praise of his wife
| IN MS DOCK CdleO w me
caused no little amusement and much
criticism.
| Coquelin, the famous French actor
| celebrated for his comedy as well as his
tragic roles, has Joined that army OF
! unfortunates in whom reason has been
dethroned from one cause or another
and has just been committed to an asy-
| lum for the insane. This gifted actor
| has portrayed the great Napoleon or
| the stage more frequently than any
other character, and his mania takes the
form of imagining that he is himself
| the celebrated Corsican. 1t is rather
surprising that SO few actors, specially
those who play mad parts, go insane
John Mccullough lost his reason finally
after playing "Virginius" for years, in
which his feigned madness was entirely
Itoo natural to admit of comfortable con-
| temptation, but no other actor who has
met with this misfortune suggests him
self at this moment. 1t always seemed
| a wonder that Irving kept his reason
| after playing The Bells" night aftel
night, as he did for long time. Those
who remember the creepy scene of the
| dream, which is worked out on the
| stage as a court scene, where, befor'
| his Judges and under the influence of ;
| mesmerist, the murderer, Matthias
| Grying), confesses his crime, cannot dc
so without a shudder. 1t would seem
as if such roles would surely affect the
brain, and yet they do not appear t
| do