The Washington times., 1909-02-06
Extensive Travels Give Her
Opportunity to Observe
Conditions.
GREAT APOSTLE OF
GOSPEL OF HEALTH
Blames Rich American Business
Man for Deplorable State Of
Affairs in TenementS.

II YOU are an American business man
and should see Miss Olga Nethersole on
the street. dodge her. She has it in for
YOU She says no one has any business
n get the tOothache or the heartache
or any kind OF ache, and that as q. ma
ton Of intelligent people we ought 10
he ashamed Of ourselves for ever taking
sick.
What's more. ne says she's going TO
see about II, tool And. judging from her
determination and her ineXhaustible
energy, she will, which means that all
al better look out Especially the
American business man.
Miss Nethersole declares that he is
highly developed at the top and al ire
bottom. but is somewhat thin under the
ribs. in the region Of the heart-which
can only mean. stated in other words
big head, biz feet, little heart Rather
sn unpleasant diagnosis.
II is a fauacy peculiar 10 some folks
to regard actors as pretty far removed
fEom the ordinary walks and conditions
of life. to say they know nothing 81
poIitics and business and other ques-
tions Of the street
She'd Convince Slzeptics.
Miss Nethersole is a living coHtradic-
tiou OF such foolishness. She would soon
make the average citizen with an aver
axe stock of general information upon
the body polite conscious OF his decided
SHORTCOMINGS Far from being an $50
lated being. as some would make Of an
actress, she has seized upon the eGcep-
Uiona1 advantages OF seeing the World
nd has turned them into so many op-
puTtunities to study men and women,
their conditions. and their needs.
TO converse with her Tor any length
LIZ H.nf Ia. #EaHH fHr
that line little word in our language
brain
Now no woman without a brain could
have won such extraordinary popularity
and renown as Miss Nethersole IN The
depictiOu of a group OF stage creations
demanding the most acute and subtle
analysis. Her style Of acting has been
sIWays that of cunning minute mental
dissection Of human character. Allow
such surgery II be applied TO society as
= whole and you Will understand that IL
IS Out loioWIls me StuIsS U Llo5. s'l q, g
csents that Miss NetheTsole should be
a keen student of sociology.
Student Of Society.
or English birth and residence, with
Spanish blood IN her veins. she has
studied, studied. studied, the society Of
almost every country on the globe That
is one Of the reasons why the average
American would md himself in deep
water il he attempted TO argue her out
of her convictions regarding social ana
moral evils in America.
she was sitting in her room at a New
York hotel II was late afternoon ana
EHe had lust come in from a brisk walk
In the wind. Her healthy cheeks were
all aElow and in her enthusiasm she
sailed right into her thoughts without
even so much as waiting - take or her
black fur hat She was the picture OF
health and animation. her auburn hair
and deep-green velvet street dress of
80 a essH AL Ia
Questions Close to Heart.
s-Oh. 7 am so glad YOU have come"
she cried. because do 30 love 20 tslk
about the things which lie closest to my
heart. which 7 feel so very. very keenly.
or course. the stage is my livelihood
and I dearly love it. but there are so
many other things that are 80 infinitely
bigger and sTauder and OF such tremen-
dOus consequence
Greater than church greater than
stage greater than politics OF govern
menE or hook education. or anything,
the burning question that the world ts
facing TODAY is that Of health The
health Of an Of the people all Of the
tine. I meaU. Every other problem Won
will md 10 be conferred upon the prob
lem Of the health Of the masses
Without health among all OF the DeO-
nls We can have no progress IN any de-
pzrLfneut or human activity. To obtain
20 for the great mass OF mankind every
agency should he nut into action Re
fiE1cn. education. literature the neWEpz-
oers, the drama all should turn their
LCizhty guns uDon disease. II is the
@sad Goliath OF these later DAYS.
Disease Cause Of An.
Disease IS the cause Of all SIM crime.
drunkenness. insanity. all belong in The
same cIaEEifCstions they are but various
manifestations of physical uuhea1th- Oh
~ We could but see it, Tf J. for one
could hut head a victorious crusade TO
sIsv the ignorance Of this so-calIed en-,
liEhfened age that seems so dulI-cared
TO the death zneils Of disease
Miss EethersoIe did not speak wifi
vague. Tl-thought seutimenraIitg. Ba
cher. ia her deep-seeinE eyes there
seemed 70 be the earnest visions. tiuEed
with the tragedy Of sympathy. that pic
f1ire attaina.ble ideals. She spoke with
2 marvellous vOubili-y and with a Styl'
Or diCtion that indicated the devoted
reader on the table were books O
philosophy and classics Of literature.
80, If YOU were 10 ask Of me VIVA