The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-01
|ISTUR EDDITUR: This is an age of
 all kinds of reforms. They say that
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k.z4 all kinds of reforms. They say that ezGy necessity is the muther of invension, and guess we need reforms, and that must be the answer for the fact that we have so menny kind of them now on the market The wimmin all ovver the country want re- form of the ballots they want it reformed so they can vote, they have reformed 1t in sum states and air now voting, and anuther reform movemint will have to be started totsave their husbands who have been driv- ven to drink The wimmin-God bless them air grate on reform enny how. They re- form themselves evvery time they go out. The form they ware down town looks better than the one they ware round the house too, evven if we know it is faults. But reform ing the stage is what we want to discuss at this trying time. There is much talk of re- forming the stage, and it is a very interest ing subject. We have seen sum stages and sum actors that needed reforming, and then agin we have seen sum that looked good to us. The folks who air working for the up lift of the stage air verry much Ill earnest and have the good of the peepul at hart They say that the stage should be elevated and no plays allowed which do not teech sum grate moral truth. They point out that the kind of plays one sees now a days is not good for the innersent and the pure and is labull to make marryed man leeve his happy home.
 They say that man who has six chll- dren and luvving wife and muther, with a limited incum and a mortgage on his flat, has no bizness sitting in the frunt row at a lite opera throwing flowers and things to a bunch of chickens who haven't got on enuff feethers. They argur that these new danses that air now being introduced air not dignyfied and air entirely too riskay- whatever that is. We don t know so much about the riskay bizness, but take it frum us they air pretty Friskay. They declare that nuthing should be seen or herd in the theatre but good homelike plays that ele- vate the sole. One should be better man or woman aftur going to show, Is there ar gurment, and cum away with firm de turminasion to go home and Iced bettur , life They figger that man who is as close as the next secmd, and only coffs up three bones annually for his wife's spending mummy, and bites peeces out of the furni- tlre evvery time she asks him for two bits. and whips the children and takes to the woods evvery time his mutherinlaw pays them vissit, and yet will go down town and slosh around in parlor chairs and eat up $8 worth of Commick Operer, and take broiler frum the Chorus out to dinner aftur the show, and throw fifteen bones worth of shampain and costly grub at her appitite, when the myonaise dressing has on moor clothes than she has, is Bruit
 Still when one desires to make studdy of human nature, he can see a grate deel of it, at one of those shows that is so severely criticized and condemned by the Reform , Leege. There is no phase I can think of Where one can see moor human nature for ,Eifty cents than frum sect in the ball. heded TOW looking ovveE the chorus of Musical Commedy. Why should us stu dents of human nature be deprived of the