The daily sentinel., 1910-03-31

At the conclusion of the ceremony, he
must needs bear off his bride to his
house, ere the festivities so dear to
brides heart have begun. On the
road, by his servants account, he
shows little enough concern when
she is tumbled from her saddle into
the mire. Arrived at home he per-
mits her neither food or rest, until
the poor girl is ready to die from
exhaustion. Time after time her old
spirit rises in arms and enters protest
against such treatment. only to meet
smiling impenetrable stone wall in
the attitude of Petruchio.
There was but one possible method
by which Petruchio could by any
chance have carried out such a
scheme successfully. When Katha-
rine Is weak from starvation, giddy
from lack of sleep, and all but broken
hearted from missing the little crea-
ture comforts to which she is accus-
toned, she pants out to Grumio the
reason of her oppresser's success.
And that which spites me more than
all these wants.
He does 1t under name of perfect
love"
IL is under cover of a pretended
anxiety for her well-being and COM
tort that her husband has made her
thus miserable. She cannot in logic
overwhelm man whose every action
with regard to her is colored appar-
emily by the deepest and tenderest
affection for her. Such an attitude
battles her completely, and leaves her
no defense.
There is another phase of Petru-
chio's method which is notable.
Search his lines from curtain to cur
tain, and it is impossible to find one
ill-tempered word addressed to his
VIE His scheme requires a hearty
boisterousness, but his tone is ever
kindly and affectionate, even when
he is giving her the sharpest disci-
pine. This is important, for it means
that the tanned shrew will have no
angry sore to tester and spoil the
perfection of the love which she is
ultimately destined to give her con-
queror.
The tanning is not ACCOMPLISHED
suddenly. Katharine's high spirit
flares again and again into teasful
opposition to her lords whims. But
the husbands determination never
wavers, his course remains the same
no matter what tempests of feminine
wrath and waiting he encounters. We
see her finally on the road back to
Padu content to call the sun the
moon, and old man blushing
maiden. exactly as Petruchio DEGREES.
The tanning is complete. The shrew
is dead. But what has Petruchio in
her place? Has the conquest broken
her spirit beyond repair? VIII Petru-
chic be tied for life to a pale indi-
viduality who stands so much in awe
OF his strength as to render her a
slave rather than a mate?
| The answer is found in the wager
scene which precedes the final cur
tain. The sometime shrew comes at
her lords call. obeys his arbitrary
whim with regard to her personal
adornment, with a promptness that
betokens not fear but love. Petru-
| chic has purged the dross and all
that remains is pure gold Katherine
is no longer the shrew but devoted.
obedient woman who sees with noon
day clearness where her happiness
| lies.
The address on wifely duty. with
which she makes her exit from the
stage, is of surprising beauty in its
womanliness, it's pathos, its glorified
trust in her husband. twentieth
century reader or spectator of the
masculine persuasion. is apt to won
der whether there breaths a man