The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1910-02-05
THE MOVING PICTURE
SHOW.
BY ELBERT HUBBARD.
Are We doRn-hearted :?


Moo 0 !
| One reason, Terese, why l am able
to roll off the tasks and keep my sky
piece working in double shifts is because
I am a moving picture fiend.
| do not drink and do not smoke, but
spend ten cents on a moving picture
show whenever l have the chance.
Sometimes l spend dollar and take
nine kids with me.
Between the nicotine and the nickle-
dom prefer the latter.
The moving picture show cheers, but
does not inebriate.
1t lubricates the wheels of existence,
rests, refreshes, stirs the inlaginations,
brings into play a new set OF convolu-
tons and costs dime.
1t meyer gives you that dark brown
taste the day after, nor headache and
that tired feeling; nor does it make for
hike to the BOBBY hatch.
For nervous prostration or nervous
prosperity try the moving pictures.
go to see the moving pictures so as
to keep from having nervous prostra-
ton.
If you go to the races you'll probably
bet-and, anyway, you'll get excited.
If you go to the theatre you will have
to dress for it, perhaps have carriage
and a little feed afterward And you'll
get tired out.
But the moving pictures are Jefferso-
nian simplicity and practical democracy.
You slide in and out, and the whole
thing is free from frills, fads and fussi-
ness. You always get your moneys
worth, and there are no haunting re-
| grets as to your having made fool of
yourself by spending whole evening
on a bum play and knocking five
dollar bill all to flinders.
Another thing about moving pictures
| is that the invention is one of the great
educational factors of the time. 1t is
one of the things that is helping to make
| this old world better and happier
| place.
Up to less than a hundred years ago
civilization was provincial. Only few
people could travel, see and know. The
many were submerged in ignorance and
superstition. The sailors who went
around the world were nature takers.
| The stories they told US would make
your hair curl.
Now we are getting acquainted with
the world. Quick transportation, the
mails, the daily papers, the telegraph,
| the telephone, the talking machines and
moving pictures are bringing the world
to our doors.
once knew a dear old lady who had
a way of saying when you told her any
thing, 81 want to know want to
know"
used to laugh at this, but now sym
pathize with the sentiment, 81 want to
/ know want to know"
In Missouri the folks ask for visual
demonstrations This to me is also beau
tiful. Show me! l want 10 know.
The moving picture satisfies our de-
sire to know, because it shows US.
The extent of knowledge which it dis
tributes as to the ways, customs and
habits of the people of the world is
great and far reaching for good.
| l am writer of books. In these
books | describe what I have seen, and
the things imagine, and l state some
of the things which seem to me to be
true. Just to the degree that I express
truth and make men think do benefit
| them.
No criticism can be brought against
moving pictures which cannot be
brought against books with equal truth.
There are good books, there are bad
books, and there are bum books written
by punk parties with literary eczema,
which are neither bad nor good.
It is exactly so with moving pictures.
These pictures tell a story, playing
the thing while you sit and look on.
Good people only want to see the
truthful and the worthy.