The Washington herald., 1914-03-01

the children themselves represent nature and the Brit
ish by petng him with snowballs? Similarly the
terry retreats of Washington could be taught by
such sport for example, revolutionary tag, hide
and seek, Washington being 1T and the children repre-
senng the British trying to find him and lay hands
Upon him"
And then. such episodes as cannot be taught
through the medium of the ordinary games of child
hood be conveyed to them in other highly agree
able ways. AT the beginning OF course IN the French
Revolution you could have magnificent specimen OF
rooster. for instance shutting about the barnyard
exciting the anmosity of all the other festhered bpeds
within reach, and representing Louis the Sixteenth
After awhile bring a bedraggled gamecock named
Robcsperre. Let the latter lick the stufns-out OF
Louis and then as grand climacteric, get and
the heads off both OF them and emphasize the
whole affair in the youthful mind by serving the two
combatants in a fricasse free lunch as symbol of
the dawn OF Liberty Equality, and Fraternity. No
child will be able forget the fate of those
famous actors in that great tragedy after such dem
orstTation of the facts as that The idea of George
the Third trying TO get more and more taxes OF
the colonsts with passing day could be indicated
by the abeau Ola hafbaked farmland trying to milk
a that had gone dry, with the result that after
being rrtated past the possibility of further bovine
durance the lets out with her left hind leg and
kicks her tormentor through barbedwire fence back
TO his bailiwick on the other side OF the duck
pond. That would be some allegory all right, eh?
The that rang the bell in rebellion would
rival her sister who jumped over the moon in the
hearts OF the young and the causes and effects of the
American Revolution would be indeliby impressed
upon their minds forever"
The SchoolmaSter gurgled like a about to
have a fit, and the Idiot haStened on.
Then there always the moving pictures you
know" he said, TO take the place of the old
methods. | read somewhere the other day that
Mr. Edison thinks that day children will be de-
lighted to go to school, will cry for il, and not be
happy TIL they get ii, because everything, from the
alphabet down to the latest discoveries the science
of hygiene, will be taught by moving pictures It's
mighty interesting theory that; and I'd like to
it tried on once I'd love to rst-cass troupe of
star actors playing the alphabet for instance drama
tized by Gus Thomas, Charles klcn-or maybe
Bernard Shaw would get up new arrangement of the
known manner. 1t would be some show Imagine
John Drew trying TO play G. supported by William
Faversham as F, and Robert Man;e II, all of them
in pursuit OF the lovely ., impersonated by Lillian
Russell, with little love comedy the side acted
by Southern as and Julia Marlowe T. Others in
the cast might be R. S, and V, interpreted by Eddie
Foy, Wilton Lackaye, and Arnold DAILY, with Beer
bohm Tree doing TO the intense satisfaction of every
body the New York critics, who like any
thing. tell You the idea of thrilling dramatizaton
of the alphabet played for moving picture purposes by
all-stsr cast fills me with rrepressible enthu
siasm"
The Doctor laughed.
=, They'd have some trouble finding anybody to do
"Oh, no." said the Idiot George NJ Cohan
could do q almost without makeup. He has
supplcy adaptable figure and he could bring to the
Interpretation the buoyant human interest that
he imparts to everything else he touches. would be
the hardest letter to do and don't suppose it really
have to be handled by team like Weber and Fields
Montgomery and Stone. be taken by almost
any who is able to stand his head and wave
his legs in the air. and the way actresses stand
nowadays. would be perfect cinch for almost any
woman of slender, wiowy figure
by Jove it almost makes me wish were
schooboy again just for the pleasure of learning the
alphabet in delightfully."- attractive fashion. No
trouble. No effort. No head-splitting concen-
tration. No more having to sit up in hot, stuffy
room under the burning rays of smelling lamp try
ing to commit those everlasting letters and their proper
sequence to memory but just nice easy soft arm
chair in darkened schooroom, with beautiful NOV
ing pictures flashing along close upon each others
heels long delirious drama of Joyous human in
terest after witnessing the complications of which, say
three times week for four successive weeks, that
dear old alphabet so full of romance so teeninp with
literary and dramatic masterpieces would become in
delby fixed in the childish mind forever. Heigho!
was born too soon, guess.
you've guessed right" shifted the Bibliomaniac
It would have been better for all of us if you'd wait
ed thousand years instead of coming along when YOU
did. I've been trying for years to place Won as a
logical development OF anything past or present but
all in vain. Mr. Idiot am therefore, perforce. COM
PEELED to conclude that you don't belong to eiher-but