The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-18

None sufficiently lovely to satisfy her
| expectations can be secured. They de
eide to have a manikin made in waxen
I beauty TO fool her. This doll with an
internal talking machine fixed TO howl
at all others, but gOO-gOO delightfully."-
at the aunty, is placed in a cradle just
before the time Of her arrival.
vengeful enemy removes il. and hires
dwarf TO substitute, who is a worse lit
tie rascal than any of our stage Buster
Browns have been; oh, shockingly
wickeder; for he acts to his aunty like
bold, bad man. However, she takes
his adult behavior for precOcity, likes
it very much, and makes him the heir
to her fortune. 1 can't with prOpriety
state the nature Of his misconduct fur
Their than to say that he makes amends
by confessing that he is 80 years old and
offering to marry her She gleefully
takes this pig of a child" home as a
husband
ConjugaI inf1delity is the best joke in
the world in the estimation of French
authors. and faithful wives and nus
bands are butts for their ridicule. At
one of the many theatres that you have
never heard of, and that are devoted to
the short plays of the kind liked In
Paris, the heroine I saw was a young
wife utterly devoid of vicious tendency.
" she reused to intense curiosity about
the ways of the wicked. So she goes
with an admirer to a place wherein, rs
she has resolved, she will refuse to do
anything wrong; but she Overhears her
husband in the next room with a wOm-
an and therefore vengefully keeps
faith with her own companion. A col
lege professor at another house is hit
hard by a young girl, although thrice
her = 70 n rel7rvG70iz To
him of his malady Of love. A calming
potion is prescribed. but by a bluuder
a love philtre is given him, while the
girl gets the other medicine. The CUu-
bic disaster involves the professor ;
disgrace as an assaiIant Of virtue, and
the girls cOldness to a fiance loses him
to her.
At the Theatre Of Arts THE Bedev-
illed" was a sedate study in sociology;
an audience manifestly containing
many meditative persons Of culture
paid the closest attention; and the Gle
ment of marital vice wasn't paramount.
A chemist and a painter were young
! brothers of promising talent, The chem
| list devOtes himself so absOrbedly to his
own professional advancement as to
| take no care of his son, and let his wife
! die Of neglect. The painter cOntraTily
| permitted his career to 60 to naugh
| rather imam SLlIk his Quty 10 Ills "lAN
and daughter. So one gets rich and the
| other stays poor. The plays problem IS
| CenteTed in the chemists son, who mar
ries his cousin. By which example, his
/ father, or his uncle, shall he fashion
/ his own life? He seemed to pick out
J the weakest and worst traits Of both
men, so that he drifts from affluenCe to
poverty, and from that TO hopeless mad
ness. Americans would stand that, and
might like it-a little.
At the Renaissance, after half an
evening of "The Bells" I saw what the
audiences behavior made me regard as
a popular satisfaction in I've Had
Enough Of MargOt" A COnCeited au-
thor, having taken a girl away from
her own ways of life to his very bad
ones, becomes tired of her and says t.
his chum: Il see you are fond of my
Margot. Well, you may have her I've
had enough" The transfer is made
Soon ne desires to resume the intimacy
privately, though, and when she won't
consent to the duplicity, ne gets her
hack by making her his wife She loves
the new fellow by this time, and would