Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-07-11

the quaint, shrewd philosophy Of tn,
/ pieces have seldom had more sym
pathetic Interpretation. She seemed
t. be Dooley himself, and one cou.t
almost see the redoubtable HinIess.
standing by her side. In the after
noon, Dooley on Christmas presents
made the audience roar, and at night
Cooley on the Anti-fat Treatments
did surely drive dull care away. Ac-
tion for damages ought to lie against
the Chautauqua management fol
mischief done to twenty-four thous-
and ribs by reason of the immoder-
ate laughter provoked by Miss
Doyle's readings. The action might
lie against Miss Doyle herself, but
her platform pace is so rapid that
she clearly lives beyond the sheriff
range, and SO she shall go free to
bless other parts of the world with
healthy laughter.
Last night the tent was full with
an audience that was again charm
ed by Miss Doyle's reading. the
Nest Egg" was her chief piece, and
it was very funny. Her lines are as
yet unpublished. It is comedy
drama, its author is Miss Anne Cald-
we'll, and last season it was played
at the New York Bijou. Miss Helen
Candy is the spinster heroine, more
properly denominated as Lady in
waiting" Miss Candy is senti-
mentalist. In her loneliness she
writes some lines on an egg. After
lying three long years in cold stor-
age, the egg lines bring Miss Candy
strange returns which she mistakes
for the much-longed-for matrimonial
proposal. A pawky humor haunts
the lines, and Miss Doyle interprets
the unusual situations with artistic
skill. Under her magic touch Miss
Helen Candy is convincing, and from
the first, although the audience
laughed at her old maidish foib,es,
tho genial spinster won the sympa-
thy of the audience. The laughter
was hilarious, but the sympathy was
genuine and complete. Laughter and
tears were never far apart during the
recital. Miss Doyle makes us want
to see the entire play, parts Of the
first two acts Of which only had she
time to give Webster City Chautau-
qua last evening. Miss Doyle would
be very welcome on the program
next year, for she read this humor-
GUS human document with rare IL
sight and skill.
With Miss Doyle as preludist
yesterday afternoon, J. Adam Bede
gave his lecture on what might be
called The Newer Outlook. He took
for his text his own injunction TO
American citizenship to think in the
terms of continents and centuries
rather than in the terms of town
ships or merely for today. On this
text Mr.. Bede built
practical homily for the times in
which we live. His political sermon
embraced such topics as, the case of
the black man in the south: present
conditions among the solons at
Washington, where the government
lad strangely failed to take the 1ect-
urer's advice to swap the Philippines
for Ireland in order that we might
raise our own policemen! the evils
lurking in the practice of marriage
and divorce; problems Of transpor-
tation, continental and worldwide;
needed cooperation in retail as we'll
as in the wholesale trade and In
manufactures; the newer and the
better socialism; healthy amuse-
ments in the home, in order that we
may create conditions under which
outside influences could not pry chill
dren from parental control; the new
view Of farm life, and the new con-
ditions under which rural life must
be conserved away from the evils Ut
city life; the certainty that the par
cells post is overdue and will soon
arrive, and the question of Canadian
reciprocity. On all these questions
the wider view, the thinking In
terms of continents and Of centuries
rather than merely in the interests
of townships or for this present day,
will insure the correct solution of
the problems involved, and the CEN
trries that are to come will be our
debtors, said optimistic Mr.. Bede. 1t
was an afternoon audience, which f.
smaller and which develops less In
forest and responsive sympathy than
is the case at the evening hour, but
those who heard the address were
pleased. Mr.. Bede is earnest In his
speech, and he becomes so vehement
in his exposition Of his social and po-