The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24

and he told me for the simple reason 1 that he wished to clearly define, two
 principles, both revolutionary in charac-
 ter; one, is that no matter how bad n
 wife woman is, according to society. how undutiful, how unfaithful she is
 the mother instinct Is still there no mat l ter what deficiencies a wife may have
 how many other men she may be asso-
 ciated withalways there is the protec-
 tive feeling of her young; her own; just 1 so Mrs Warren the blood money which l she had extracted from society and which had cost her her ideals, her hope 1 of responsibility, which she so craved in 1 after life, when she became old and merely a scion of the profession which | had been hers all her life work, her 1 heart beats, her truer instincts were in protection of her daughter, just to save her from such life was all she asked. The other idea that MT. Shaw wished to convey was in the character of the girl: that every soul born into this world has right to it's own life; it's own in- depreciation Of life; it's own ideals. No more pathetic thing was ever drawn than MT. Shaw drew in the girls ingratitude to her mother The scene with Sir George Cross in which she upbraids him for having put up the money which made 1t possible at first for Mrs. Warren to establish her profession is nothing short of classic; it appeals to every woman who ever saw the play.
 Bernard Shaw Mrs Shaw said, 'is one of the most wonderful men In the world; he is absolutely honest; absolutely sincere; he hates sham; he loathes hypoc- risy, he said to me once: People never express their thoughts when they talk, they are parrots they've heard some thing they think is clever; they apply it to life and parrotlike they repeat it. This conversation was the inspiration of lit Ia hr%<al I k~ ,5x,l, IIa1 Parrot Cage In it I allowed the 'Philis- tine Parrot The Idealist Parrot The Nationalist Parrot and others to ex- press themselves. It was suggested. as said, by Mir Shaw's conversation with me.
 Bernard Shaw has a peculiar habit Of attaching his ideas of life to anything which will serve his purpose of an expo- sition of his theories; art, music per- sonality-anything to hang his theories on Mrs. Warren's Profession was at- tached to the character of woman he knew personally: it was her own life in a measure with Shaws obligates and cadenzas.
 Many people have asked me about my friendship and my acquaintance with MT. Shaw said Miss Shaw, 'and what I really think of him, and not long ago found the most exquisitely appropriate simile which fits him to nicety. Maar- ten Martens, the Dutch writer of aphor-
 sms, analogues-what you whichever
 sms, told a little story about the death of great satirist. According to the story the satirist died and all the great men of the city where he lived gathered about his bier to- express their regrets and opinion of him, which they had not dared to do during his life. Comment after comment was made, finally one great man said:
 "Alas, we have indeed lost master mind; peculiar as it was we must pay homage to it; he used the whole round earth as his football and kicked it. Just then the corpse opened one eye and looking disdainfully at the man who had expressed his opinion, said:
 But toward the goal-always.'