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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-11-25
Not What You Pay.

1T isn't what you pay for clothes
that makes you well dressed" said
Mrs Knicker-
And Mrs. Booker remarked. mo. in
deed; It's what you owe
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-11-25

Few Hens in England.
England has one hen to the acre
of territory
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SYNOPSIS.

Elan Harnish, known all through Alas
ka as Burning Daylight, celebrates his
Goth birthday with crowd of miners at
the Circle City Tfvoli- The dance leads
to heavy gambling.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-11-25
MY
DAUGHTER
WASCURED
By Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Baltimore, MIDI send you here
with the picture of my fifteen year old
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-11-25

practical joke is never what it's
cracked up to be.
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MRS. sELBY AND PRIZE BABY


81 have always used Cuticura' Soap
and no other for my baby and he has
never had a sore of any kind. He
does not even chafe as most babies
do. feel sure that it is all owing to
Cuticura Soap, for he is fine and
healthy, and when five months old,
won a prize in baby contest. 1t
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many homes and see a sweet-faced
baby with the whole top of its head
a solid mass of scurf. caused by poor
soap. ! always recommend Cuticura,
and nine times out of ten the next
time see the mother she says: oh!
I am so glad you told me of Cuticura.'
(Signed) Mrs. G. A Selby, Redondo
Beach, California, Jan. 15, 1911.
Although Cuticura Soap and ONT
ment are sold everywhere, sample
of each, with 32-page book, will be
mailed free on application to "Cut-
cura," Dept 20 L. Boston.
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ApicuItura

Agricultural.
Mother-Yes, Johnny, the queen bee
is boss.
Johnny-How about the presidential
bee?
The Washington herald., 1911-10-01
IDEALS IN DRAMATIC ART;
WILLIAM WINTERS STAND
Campaign for Clean Plays Has Eminent Critical
Support.
Support.

forgot spectacle of lewdness stigma
tized by William Winter as one of the
monsters of art. 1T was sickening ex-
hibition Of amorous intrigue, matrimonial
disgrace, inoontinence, depravity, and
shame. 1t was of the kind that substi-
tutes horror and the sickness of disgust
for the health of delight in the mind Of
the spectator. Despite Mansfield's won
derful impersonation of the lascivious
baron, he never raised it. says his biogra-
pher, nor could it ever be raised into
the realm of noble dramatic art. Mans
field acted Chevrial so many times that
he conceived a strong liking for the
character, partly, no doubt, because of
the admiration extorted by his embodi-
ment of it.
Yet toward the close of his COM
paratively shot and melancholy life, he
longed and frequently asked for sweeter
and gentler plays. He wished" writes
his appreciative biographer. Ito illus
trate subjects that are beautiful; to be
the interpreter of that dramatic poetry
that allures by its enticing glamour"
And though Mansfield acted Cnevrial in
repertoire shortl:- before his death, he
fully realized the emptiness OF that spe-
ciOus doctrine populariZed by Zola and
his fieshly school to the effect that the
best way to exhibit, exalt, and inculcate
virtue is to portray all that is foul and
hideous in vice William Winter is never
better in his writing than when indignant
ly repudiating this theory.
~ more sophistiCal and pernicious
form OF reasoning" he writes. has not
heen attempted; for nothing is more GER
tain than that work of art which is
absolutely moral in its precept can at
the same time be distinctly and poten-
TALLY immoral in its influence, by reason
not Of what 1t teaches, but of what II
displays. The method of teaching
by means of the frightfuI example
The Washington herald., 1911-10-01

Goethe put into the story OF Hamlet
IN the month Of his Wilhelm Meister.
Although essentially a Teuton, Shakes
pears's mind was so different from that
Of Goethe that he doubtless saw little in
Hamlet that Goethe saw; but on the
other hand. may he not have recognized
truths and experienced feelings Of which
Goethe never dreamed? As there is
nothing either good or bad but thinking
makes 1t so,' Mona Lisa" like Ham
let" can be simple or subtle, good or
evil, beautiful or ugly, as It impresses
the varying receptive minds OF individ-
uals.
Allowing for this difference in point Of
view. there is nevertheless a great deal
or cant and humbug in the appreciation
OF acknowledged masterpieces. Won Bu-
low once tested the sincerity Of a culti-
waited German audiences appreciation OF
music by transpOsing, without notice. two
pieces on symphony programme. the
one by an unknown composer and the
other by Beethoven. The result was that
Beethoven, incognito, was greeted with
icy indifference, while the composition
of the unknown writer was received with
ecstatIc exclamations of delight. On an
other occasion Felix Weingartner, who
was giving a concert in a German city,
was unable to give comparatively un-
known Schubert number on account of
his failure to receive the musical scores.
He substituted the work OF an unknown
composer, which was received with all
the reverent appreciation due to the mas
ter melodist.
Pictorial PnradOxes.
II all the Corots that ever were paint
ed should be destroyed and If the very
Of them should perish from the
minds Of men, and an unknown artist
should send to the Paris Salon or the
New York Academy exhibition a paint
ing similar in design, color scheme and
craftsmanship of the average
Corot, what would its reception be? If
the picture could not stand on its own
merits, without regard to the exalted
name Of the painter. is not art criti-
cism as uncertain as theology or law?
The Washington herald., 1911-10-01

and healthier forms OF theatrical pres
entations is well begun, 1t Is the mani
fest duty Of intelligent criticism to stim.
ulate the public conscience as wen as to
guard the movement against the >ex-
tremists in both camps; 1t is the duty
of a vigilant and conscientious press to
act as a sort of literary DR.. Wiley and
enforce a pure play spirit-equally nee
essary for the nations moral health as
the pure food law is for the health of
its body; 1t is the duty of an Intelligent
press to unteach a common fallacy OF
the past few years that the stage Is
a commercial venture to be exploited
for gain alone, and above all 1t is the
duty of an unmuzzled press, as the
spokesman Of the people. to repudiate
the insulting apology not infrequently
urged by, parties financially interested.
that the indecent plays were offered on
the principle of supply and demand. just
as merchants display such goods as the
public will probably buy. The falsity of
this lame excuse has been repeatedly
demonstrated by the almost unprece-
dented popularity Of such plays as THE
Servant in the House" and THE Pass
ing of the Third Floor Back" which
latter, it might be remarked. Walter
Pritchard Eaton has somewhere classed,
surely with disregard of its nature and
purpose. as "a good play with bad
morals
Early History of Drama.
Acting is the most natural of the fine
arts, and was among the first to be de-
veloped among primitive nations. AL
though the drama asa finished and per-
fected product arrived rather late in the
history OF literature, preceded by the epic
and lyric, still the researches of anthro-
biologists and archaeologists among the
tombs of the past and the relics OF an
Cient nations reveal the existence OF a
crude, pantomimic folk drama. One OF
these investigators, Prof. HIrn says:
Although we do not meet with any
tragedies. nor even with any real come
dies, at this stage OF evolution, we can at
least point to the fact that simple farces,
pantomimes, and pantomimic dances are
to be found among tribes who so far have
been unable to create any kind of epic,
and whose lyrical poetry is restricted to
a few rhythmical phrases with no intrin-
sic meaning. And II We use the term in
its widest sense. so as to include every
by action. drama can be
spoken of as the very earliest of all the
The Washington herald., 1911-10-01
THE ARTISTIC DELUSIONS
ASINVOLVED IN "MONALISA"

Did the average man really see in the
smiling lady Of Da Vinci's Imagination
all that he thinks he did? To call La
Jaconde" the greatest portrait that was
ever painted seems extravagant and it
would tax the resourcefuI Imagination OF
the greatest connoisseur to specify in
any intelligible words in what respect
Mona Lisa" was superior to the greatest
portraits of VelasQuez. HoIbein, Durer,
Rembrandt, Franz Halls. or Vandyke
Undoubtedly the Inscrutable smile has
been a fascinating mystery, the heart Of
which only Da Vinci himself could have
plucked out, and possibly even Da Vinci
had as little real idea as to what he
meant by the smile, which may have been
an accident of the brush. as Thackeray
had when asked what he had meant by
the picture in Vanity Fair" under
which he wrote the name CIytemnestra.
The world. however. feels or affects to
feel an exceptional interest in this master
work of the great Italian and sympa-
thizes with Henri Rochefort. who. despite
his eighty years, said when informed as
to the theft from the walls OF the
league, II cried tears Of sorrow and OF
rage"
HypnotIsm of Art.
This suggests the interesting subject
of the hypnotism of art. Has it not a
tendency to confuse the imagination. dis
turb the balance Of judgment, and delude
the unwary, especially when the work of
art is the product of a name great
enough, like that OF Shakespeare. not to
abide our question:" No doubt thou
sands OF critics, especially the sapient
Thebans Of German universities, found
depth in many sayings Of Shakespeare
Of which Shakespeare never dreamed. AS
he said you take 1t wiselier than
meant you should The poet Of STRAIT
ford. whose native and inexhaustible
charm was the simple candor of his
thought. would probably have rubbed his
eyes with amazement II he could have
heard the far-fetChed meaning which
The Washington herald., 1911-10-01

Initiative arts. It was certainly in use
long before the invention of writing,
either by pictures or by letters; perhaps
It is even older than language Itself. As
an outward sign of thought, action is
more immediate than words"
What this learned investigator says has
peen borne out by the results of recent
explorations and Investigations, so that
we may safely predicate the existence, in
crude form, OF the drama even during the
earnest stages OF culture. And why is
tnlsE Why does the rough savage and
the child take such keen pleasure in the
mlmetc art? Aristotle, the prince of
critics, says in his 'Poetics:"
10 initiate Is instructive in man from
his infancy. By this he is distinguished
from other animals, that he is of all the
most Initiative, and through this instinct
receives his earliest education. All men
likewise receive pleasure from imitation.
This Is evident from actual experience,
FOR we contemplate with pleasure, and
with the more pleasure the more exactly
they are initiated, such objects as, If real,
We could not see without pain; as the
figures of the meanest and most dis
gusting animals dead bodies, and the
like.
And the reason of this is that 10
learn is a natural pleasure. not confined
to philosophers, but common to all men:
with this difference only, that the multi
tude pnrtake of It in a more transient
AMI compendious manner. Hence the
pleasure they receive from a picture. In
viewing they learn, they infer, they dis
cover, what every object is; that this, for
jg such a particular man, &c.
For, II We suppose the object to be some
thing which the spectator had never seen,
his pleasure, in that case, will not arise
from the initiation, but. from the work
the colors, or some such cause.
Imitation. then, being thus natural TO
us-those persons in whom originally
these propensities were the strongest
were naturally led to rude and ex-
attempts. which, gradually
Improved, gave birth to poetry"
=
The Washington herald., 1911-10-01

--latest crop of dramas meets only mild
success
Public theatrical taste runs in strange
cycles"
ITO form public taste, rather than to
cater to it, to say this shall be the pop
uIar type of play. because it is worthy
this is the opportunity of the great man
ager."
Campaign for clean plays"
The theatrical conservative has sue
ceeded TO the throne occupied by the rad
ical, the liberal, year ago"
Fewer plays and better ones"
The above headlines and others of like
significance are now greeting the theater-
goer on almost every page of his morn
ing newspaper. And he is approving
them. They indicate the latest phase in
the dramatic world-the inevitable re-
action and uprising of public opinion
against the type of drama that has been
persistently Haunted in the face of the
American nation during the last few sea-
sons. If, as has been said, public opinion
IS as q pendulum, this latest movement
is the back wing to first principles and
to a realization that the drama has
strayed far afield from the right road and
lost not a few Of its high ideals as a fine
art. Intelligent patrons of the theater
seem TO have had surfeit of nondes0ipt.
decadent, and unspeakabl indecent plays:
they seem to have experienced as a body
the same spiritual evolution wrought by
twenty years and more of stage work in
the eoIl Of the late Richard Mansfield.
Mansfield ns "ChevriaI."
This brilliant but erratic and hence
much-abUsed actor first appeared as a
star in 1855 in the role of Baron Chevrial
in "A Partisan Romance" that almost
The Washington herald., 1911-10-01

may serve the purpose Of the lecturer on
total abstinence, but 1t is incompatible
with the conditions of dramatic art; it
offends the instinct of decency, and is
revolving to good taste. No benefit was
ever derived from a spectacle of lewd-
ness, and that is the spectacle presented
in "A Partisan Romance It Is true, as
Tennyson says, that the low sun makes
the color and it is true that some OF
the most effective theatrical creations
cxtant, not only in French, but in Eng
lish, are the monsters and villains of art.
The lola Movement.
But that is not q SUFFICIENT reason for
making them public. No art cam dignity
a creature who trades on mans misfor-
tune and trafics in woman's Weakness,
a miscreant who lives merely for carnal
pleasure. There is no doubt that such
men as Chevrial exist, and indeed are
common, especially in the worlds great
emporiums of wealth and luxury; but
the sewers also exist, and there is no
more reason for presenting the one than
there is for presenting the other in a
work Of dramatic art. The laurel
wreaths that are gained by the imper-
sonation OF sensual wretches, the mon
quickly wither.
The coHquerors who reign in the
hearts of humanity reign for love. The
people may admire an object that they
hate, but they will not long endure It.
Many such experiments have been tried.
but their fruits have ever been like those
apples of the Dead Sea that turn to
ashes on the lips. After seeing Mans
field in Chevrial, the spectator remem-
bered wonderful piece of acting but
was disgusted and depressed by a sense
of the possible depravity of human ma
ture and of the dreadful wickedness
that is in the world. 1t was a splendid
manifestation of personal power and ar
tlstic skill, but 1t was nothing more.
Not unless an actor succeeds In rallying
the forces of human sympathy under the
banner OF his art can he hold the scepter
with a sure grasp"
Has not the American theatergoer
passed through some such process in his
attitude toward the stage? The head
lines and dramatic reports from almost
every section Of the country, from Bos-
ton, New York, Philadelphia, Washing
ton. Norfolk, and the far West, seem to
warrant an affirmative answer. And now
that the movement back to the truer
The Washington herald., 1911-10-01
Still on the Map.

From the St. Louis Republic.
Good morning, Mistress Canada! We
see that you are still on the map, the
brightest jewel in Britannias crown and
Brother JOhathans nearest and sweetest
neighbor. What an awful scare you did
have, to be sure!
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-04
CAUSES SICKNESS
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THEY ALL TAKE NOTICE
OF KEOKUK,S DAM
Los Angeles Express Makes Mention
Of the Greatest Power Dam in
the vnrjd

Los Angeles Express Makes Mention
Of the Greatest Power Dam in
the, World.
The widespread publicity that is be-
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asserts itself continuously and fire.
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press says:
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-04
ST. LOUIS MAN
HIGH IN SINGLES
Smith Shoots 636 at Des Moincs |
Mid West Tourna.
ment.

DIES MONIES, Dec. August
Smith of st. Louis won first place In
the singles in yesterday afternoons
events of the middle westernebowlina
tournament. finishing with a. score OF
Sac George Qualey and H. Deem, both
of St Louis, were second and third
with scores of GIT and 615 respective
.ly.
In the doubles Slogan and Blouin
of Chicago scored high with 1,165 and
Lamson and Hilker of st. Louis won
second place with score of 1,164
Harmon and White also Of st. Louis,
were third with i, 152. .sgss Il M
Five-nan teams from Waterloo, St
Joseph, Sioux City and Rock Island
contested last night.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-04

local opera house. The participants
of the exhibition, however, arc re-
ported to be angry at the interference
Ct, law with art" A large number of
The audience also was disappointed
with the performance.
Considerable agitation followed the
recent production OF burlesque show
and when an exhibition supposed to
be of the same kind was billed for this
week, local city and county officers
Immediately took steps to prevent
the presentation Of anything sensation.
FL. The company was notified to purge
the actors lines of anything improper
they may have contained, on penalty
of having the show stopped.
1t is said considerable portion OF
the show was omitted.