The Press., 1922-10-19
WENT ALL UNSUNG
Tragedies in the Wake of Unde.
 IiVered Speeches.
Men Have Bowed to Fate, but Will , Women, Pedestal of Rights" s~ Survive Disappointment?

Of all the tragedies of masculine ex' uerience ever since the Stone age none has been more poignant than that or the undelivered speech. And now one wonders whether the women, the dear souls, will prove more or less Sensl- tive to the blighting sorrow of prepar ing graceful speech for some impOr- tant occasion and then being cheated by fate of the opportunity of deliv- ering it.
 And when it's 8 clever speech, truly brilliant speech, with a carefully pre- pared climax seasoned with flashes Of wit and droll anecdotes that would make 'em roar-what a tragedy Is there, HOratiO!
 How different the history of the village. of the county, of the world might be If all the speeches that were ever prepared had been actually de- livered according to schedule! But some pesky accident happens. The hour grows late. Earlier speakers hog more than their share of the time. Careless people in the audience ger sleepy and go home. The chairman has to catch a train. Somebody has to move vote of thanks and you Alas! poor you, after hours Of an- gushing suspense, you with that mag nificent speech in your pocket, you who have so fulsOmely clapped for the other tiresOme speakers-you, the most promising orator i'll the place, are left biting your nails with all vour music in you" It's maddenlng.
 That blighted sorrow fell upon nice woman in Washington the other dav. remarks the New York Sun. She was the head of a distinguished fe- male delegation that called at former President Woodrow Wilson's house to present their respects to him in for mai way. She had prepared speech perhaps a most able and moving one | But the delegation was accorded nc more than a fleeting and dramatic glimpse of the invalided statesman.
 It's an old story for the hardened I male sex, but a new one for the WOm pn-a silver-tOngued orator left witt
 the mouth Open,'' as the Spanish say | And it sets the imagination wander ing into the highways and byways O ! history in search of the speeches tha
 might have been delivered if thing
 had gone d little differently.
 For instance, it is probable tha
 among the papers of the former kaise
 is manuscript of the speech that h.
 was gnilGg to deliver at that Christ
 mas dinner in Paris.
 And then there's the speech tha
 General SemenOff was just about |
 deliver when he arrived in New Tor
 and mistOOk Sheriff Nagle and bunc
 of deputies for the mayor and alder
 men. He thought they had come t
 the station to present him with tn
 freedom of the city, and he was Jus I opening his mouth to make prOperl
 rhetorical response when sOmebod
 explained to him in Russian that til
 paper the sheriff was showing him wa
 warrant for his arrest.
 Frederick MacMOnnies may hay prepared a speech to deliver to an
 delegation of women who should dal ! tO beard him on the subject of u manners of the stalwart young ma who symbOliZes Civic Virtue in tf sculutors statue of that name. B' as feminine agitation over the statl is simmering down the sculptor speech to his amateur critics may fated to pass into the limbo speeches that never got themselV spoken.