The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-30
CHILDREN OF THE sLUMs
Little Village Of Ulster County Has
Visions of Capturing the
Salt Market Of tho
World.
[Ry Ed. i. Keen. London correspon-


LONDON. Nov. 29.-Should the
woman tell? No. says the Rev. A. ].
Waldron, vicar Of Brixton and chap
lain of the Actors union. And, more
over, he contends that she is entire
ly justified in lying to the over-curi-
GUS lover whose own past Is unfit
for publication. So strongly does he
feel on the subject that the vicar re-
i Gently wrote a sketch celebrating his
views which is now being produced
on the London music hall stage. The
enthusiastic approval with which 1t
/ has been received indicated that the
theatre-going public at least answer
the question the same way the vicar
does.
The scene Is a Wears study and
the characters are the Woman, the
Man Of the World, the Convert, and
the Vicar. The woman, wooed by
i the convert, has come to ask the
wears advice. Her fiance, on the
eve Of the day set for their wedding,
has questioned her about her past.
She has lied to him. After she sobs
out her pitiful story to the vicar-how
the man of the world had befriended
her, when she was trying to live and
support an invalid mother on q clerk 8
wage of 1915 a week, and had sub
seauently betrayed and left her-the
minister tells her that she did per
fectly right in concealing these facts
from the convert. The latter, how
ever, was not deceived. But he
! threw the girl over apparently not SO
much on account of her unfortunate
. past as because she lied to him
While the vicar is beratfng him the
long arm OF coincidence gets In It's
work and the man of the world, who
, proves to be the wears nephew, ap
pears on the scene. Here the parson
z playwright emphasizes his approval
of the girls lie by having the story
!, end happily. Unlike the tradltiona
9 stage betrayer the man of the worlt
a marries his victim
. Despite the popular verdict |
t could scarcely be expected that tht
/ members of the Rev. Waldron's owl
J. cloth would support his unconvention
s al views. 81 cannot agree that 1T i
sound to suggest that there is eve
" any Justification fer the telling of al
n untruth," frankly said the Rev. w. G
d Gomersall, a personal friend of Wal
b, dron's, and the vicar of neighbo1
ing parish, after seeing the playlet
1.-The woman should tell-and trus
God. At the same time admire tn
i courageous way in which the autho
i. sets forth his belief
- II am sure the general opinion |
;, against Mr.. Waldron's views" sal
the Rev. Carey Bonner, general SCI
: rotary Of the Sunday school unior
= There can never be perfect unde
: standing and trust between ma
q. and woman unless there be mutua
confidence, which is the very basis {
love. To secure this there must b
no secrets"
Among those who have Q KID tn
= sketch Is Gaby Deslys. I'm England
- - or in America, she observed, "a won
- an SIloulu NOT Iell, DIS lol FIdH
WELL that's a different matter
es
It To teach shlm children how
lie play. This is the unique object
what has proved to be one of I'll
= most successful Of London's mar
charitable enterprises, which ne,
Saturday will celebrate its 25!h anr
yersary by giving the kids monst'
treat at the Albert hall.
PROFESSIONALLY the saddest featu,
of slum life in the metropolis is ii
cherries lot of the children, tho
sands OF whom grow prematurely O
and wizenea without ever having e
0 perienced anything of the joys of {
e binary youth. 1t was to remedy tn
, condition that Lady Bland-Sutton al
/ a number of other philanthrop'c wo1
l. en- who had been working among t
S poor of south and east London orga
lied the Children's Happy Eyenin
Association. During the first we