Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-08

tremendous. One hardly knows WI ere 10
commence in the attempt TO characterize
It, To call il strong would be putting
the matter very inadequately. Rather 1t
might be called overwhelming.
1t is tragedy. pure and simple. with
the terrible and the superb mixed in
about equal proportions.
Although matrimonial infdelity is the
handspring that sets all tie wheels in
motion, yet the feature of the drama IS
dealt with in way to leave upon the
hearts of the spectators no touch of faint,
but quite the reverse. Holding the mir
enough if the mirror is held at such an
angle as not To throw back the reflected
image in coorS that beguile and fasci-
nate
1T Is interesting and encouraging TO OBJ
serve the crowds that throng theater
which do not bait the public with over
lures to passions that are disreputabie
and vile. Although scenes as highly
x are fictitious and not true To history.
yet they are true to fact. If nothing like
what is being acted in this play had ever
occurred, no audience would have felt the
brutality shown by Floriot TO Jacqueine.
If there were no actual Jacquelines IN
real life that were drive to degradation
by brutal husbands we should not nave
felt our Eeartstrings plucked at by the
sin and despair of the fictitious JAG
queline
IF there were no mothers that lived a
life of slow death. consumed by the IN
ternal fires If unSatified yearnlng Tor Il
dear son that was lest. our eyes would not
have overtiOwed at sight of the seeming
grief of the fictitious mother whom We
watched as sic at last slipped to her
death in the grasp nf her recovered BOY.
This glad and joyous world mas very
sad side to it, and do not know the
world 50 long as we remain ignorant OF
that side and the more II can come 10
us in the form of sharp appeal to our
sensibilities the more complete am
searching our understanding of ii be
comes.
AT the same time il behooves us to re-
member that we de- not wash away the
worlds sorrow by the eye water We eN
pend at the theater. and tha' the onlN
productive service that dramatic repre-
sentation of sin and sorrow can render us
is to send us forth with more tender
appreciation of the sin and sorrow ti,'i'
exist in actual life, and with more ue
terInined desire and effort To correc' tiie
worlds evil and to mitigate It's pains
HE WAI-R THE GOAT.-As every one
who has ever met him knows Harry
Lauder. the comedian. is a thrifty sort oi
ScotChman. Not stingy, or anything oii
that line, but simply shrewd. wise as 10
the value of dollars and dimes-or pouhos
and shillings-and never overlooking
good investment
Not long ago as Mr.. Lauder proudly an
noUnced to all his friends, he bought +"
fine old Scottish estate near l'uhooh'
and thus became a real laird AFTER year
of saving and planning Every Scot
homes and dreams that he VIII some daS
be laird and the truest proof OF Iau-
der's Caledonian blood is shown IN the
ca gerness with which he bought the ola
estate and the pride with which he as
sumed his new dignites.
Harrys thrifty soul. however was
doomed TO joyous jar before he had
long been a laird of Dunoon. y day or
so after he acquired the old place he
one of the tenants. gray ola
cotter. and questioned him as to the lives
and habits of the previous lairds.
I'VE wull- ken. Sunday. mon' said
Harry. that | weesh ia follow a the
auld customs q the lairds o Dunoon.
Wull We speer to me o these customs
That I wull. an gladly, said the old
fellow. First o "a, il haze been the Gus
tom O ilka laird o Dunoon ia gle
grand supper ia a the lads an lasses
the estate When wull it please ye ia
baud the first ane?'
AS We say in America. says Harry,
ruefully II waur the goat The festi-
val was duly held. and Mr.. Lauder 5 ten
antry say that the new laird fed them
we'll but Harry has been careful since
about inquiring as to the ancient customs