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Is Disease a Crime? Not co vrjr long tgo, a popular maga zine pfiWUhtd an editorial article In which the rlter asserted. In g.tbstance, that all d!..e should be regarded as criminal. Certain It Is, that much of the sickness and suffering of mankind Is due to the violation nf Nature's laws, which. If un derstood and Implicit? followed, would re sult In the rntlon of much of the slck ntss and suffering o humanity. Rut to may that all skknens should be regarded a rlmtnal, rnunt, on a little sober reflfctlon, r-pral to every reasonable and Intelligent individual as radically wrong. f ThoueamUr suffer frwm contagious and In fect lone dleeas.es most Innocently uncon- l"usly contracted. Other thousands suf fer and die of cancerous affections, the cause cf Meh no medical man has yel been wlso enough jo fercet out and de termine, and which can not, therefore, be nvolded. Then, too, many tlmea stress of circumstances compel pP' to expose themselves to various disease-producing ' s gencles, such as malaria, bad air In over heated factories, coal mines, and many other situations, and surely those who stif- fer therefrom should not be branded as criminals. In-so-far as disease Is contracted or brought on one's self from harmful ex cesses, overheating. Intemperance and other j like indulgences and debauchery, we think, i with our editor friend, that It should be resnrdel as little lees than criminal. On J the other hand, wa think it would be harsh, ; tinsympathlc, cruel, yes criminal, to con- damn the poor, weak, over-worked house wife who sinks under the heavy load of i household cares end burdens which she is ? obliged to struggle along under until she succumbs to" the strain and over-exertion, mtiA amfTor. fmm wnVneMn. various dis placements of pelvic organs and other de rangements peculiar to her sex. The-, too frequent bearing of children, with Its exacting demands upon the system, coupled with the tare, worry and labor of rearing a large family. Is often the cause of weaknesses, derangements and debility wTllch the mother has to bear and which are aggravated by the many household cares, and the hard, and never-ending work which she Is called upon to perform. Dr. Pierce, the maker of that world-famed remedy for women's peculiar Ills Dr. FJerce'i Favorite Prescription says that one of the greatest obstacles to the cure of this class of maladies Is the fact that the poor, over-worked housewife can not get the needed rest from her many house hold cares and labor to enable her to secure from the use of his "Prescription". Its full benefits. It Is a matter of frequent ex perience, he says. In his extensive practice in these cases, to meet with thdse In which Ma treatment falla by reason of the pa tient's Inability to abstain from hard work long enough to be cured. With those suf fering from prolapsus, ante-version and retro-version of the uterus or other dis placement of the womanly organs. It Is very' necessary that. In addition to taking his 'Favorite Prescription" they abstain from being very much, or for long per , lods. on their feet. All heavy lifting or straining of any kind should also be avoid ed.' As much out-door air as possible, with moderate, light exorcise Is also very Im portant. It la Dr. Pierce's observation that many housewives suffer much )n a weakened con dition of their system from too close con finement In-doora. Often the kitchen, where they snehd' most of their time, la Illy ventilated and the bad air and over heating thereof act most unfavorably upon tha woman's strength, until she finds her self suffering from various weaknesses at tended by backache, beartng-down pains. Of aragging-aown sensauons iuai mi tremely hard to bear. A catarrhal, 'pelvlo drain, of most debllttlatlng and disagree able nature, Is a common symptom of the congested or Inflamed condition of the lin ing membranes of the pelvlo organs, at tended, perhaps, with tenderness and pain In these regions. . Now with all tha foregoing disagreeable symptoms and sensations will generally yield to the faithful and somewhat per sistent use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre scription, to reallxe the very best results from Its use, the patient must, as far as possible, abstain from over-work, worry 1 nilU W llirm v .. .in... .. I . ... .. .. ',nnnnmM Inliwn To such women as are not seriously out of health, but who have exacting duties to perform, either in the way of household duties or In social duties and functions which seriously tax their strength, as well as to nursing mothers, the "-aonte t-re crlptlon" has proved a most valuable aup porting tonlo and Invigorating nervine. By Its timely use, much serious sickness and suffering may be avoided. The operating table and tha surgeon's knife, would. It Is believed, seldom have to be resorted to If this most valuable woman's remedy were resorted to In good time. The "Fav orlte Prescription" has proven a great boon to expectant mothers by preparing fha sys tem for the coming of baby, thereby rend- erlng - the child-birth safe, easy, and al moat painless. Bear In mind please, that Dr. Pierce's Favorite PresertDtlon Is not a secret or - patent medicine, against which the most intelligent people are quite naturally averse Hawaii... nf tha tinrertalnlt v II to their harmless character, but la a medicine of known Composition, a full list of all Its Ingredients being printed, in plain English. on every bottle wrapper. An examination of this list of Ingredients will disclose tha feot that It Is non-alcoholic In Its com position, chemically purs glycerine taking the place of tha commonly used alcohol. In Its make-up. In this connection It may not be out of place to state that the "Favorite prescription" of Dr. Plena Is the only med iciae put up for the cure of woman's ptM'u liar weaknesses and ailments, and sold throuah druggists, that doea not contain alcohol, and that too, In large quantities. Furthermore. It Is the only medicine for woman's special diseases, the Inirredlentt of which have the unanimous endorsement of all the leading medical 'writers and teachers of all the several schools of practice, and that too as remedies for the all-uents for which "Favorite Prescription" Is reoom rtsnded. ' A little book of these endorsements will be sent to any address, poitpald, and ah solately free If you request name by postal . .eatd. or letter, of Dr. R. V. Pierce, Huf iW N. T. Don't forget that Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, for woman's weaknesses and delicate ailments. Is not a patent or secret medicine, being the "Favorite Prescription' of a regularly educated . and graduated physician, engaged In the practice of his choaea specialty that of diseases or wo menthat Its Ingredients are prtnted In plain FJig'.!h on every bottle-wrapper; that It Is the only medicine especially designed for the cure of woman's diseases that con : tains no alcohol, aad the only one that has a professional' endorsement worth more than all Ihe so-tailed, "test'jnonlals" ever published for othur medlclnoa. CHRISTMAS EXPOSITION WEEK December 2d. Craig-'s Plan for Cleansing" the Stage 'X)RENCE, Nov. (1 Learning tha F other day that Gordon Craig and Ms associates were reform Ing the atage Just across tha Arno. I took the tram and looked the matter up.' "Generally such, news would hardly have stirred ma, for a long experience with reform and re formers has taught me that usually these benefactors of the race know nothing prac tically about their affair. Do not total ab stainers make up the temperance societies? Is not the social evil dealt with by those wflo know the scarlet woman only academ ically? Are not the missionaries of tha world cheerfully attacking venerable relig ions which they precelva only under tha generic condemnation of heathenism or Idolatry? V Observation of this sort has made me eon- tent to forego the acquaintance of all re forms whose brass bands do not pass my garden gate conveniently. But Mr. Craig's venture was plainly of another sort. Ona may think It wise or foolish to try to clean tip the stage by cleaning out the actor and playwright, but nobody can say that Mr. Craig does not know the stage aa It ac tually Is. The eon of the first English actress of our times, Ellen Terry, he was born to the theater. He has acted and served as stage fiianager. He has mastered the mod ern realistic method of stage setting before passing on to a mora abstract manner all his own. After nearly twenty years of experiments and various attempts at Improving the the ater as It Is, he has arrived at the Eccles last's conclusion that It is all vanity and vexstlon of spirit. The Institution Is so corrupt and Inherently defective that it needs rmt reform, but destruction. Knewlng the drift of Mr. Crala's ODlnlons from previous talks with him and from his Interesting pamphlet. "A New Art of the Theater," I was not surprised when he early flung at me Eleanors Duae's famous taunt that the stage might con ceivably be reformed If all living actors would first die of tbe plague. He hastened' to explain that he took no such lenient view of the situation. TThat wo wanted was not simply a new and bettor crop of players, but to get rid of them once for all. What really alia the stage Is the actor who Is too poor for It and the drama which is possibly too good, at least too complicated for It. Eliminate the actor and the drama and you will have left, what? Why tha stage Itaelf-a cleared foundation upon which ona may reasonably hope to rebuild something worth while. '' Pitying my astonishment, Mr. Craig went back and explained. The actor Is the bane of the stage partly from his per sonal Incapacity, partly In the nature of the case. Admittedly we have In any gen eration only a handful of artists who are competent to Interpret a fine play,' and only a few dosen who are even tolerable In such a capacity. This remnant we necessarily enjoy under grave drawbacks. Their associates are '5 V ( GORDON CRAJO. often absurd and offensive. We may con ceive of a worthy rendering of a great character, but hardly of a great play. In short, persona of taste who still endure the theater do so for the sake or In the hope of the rare actor of genius. Mr. Craig protested against such an optimism aa highly Impracticable. We would never employ a piano that played In tune once In fifty notes, nor a clerk who ciphered correctly once a year, and considered merely on the basis of common sense tha modern theater scored so many misses to hits that patience with It was no longer Justified. Artistically the stage Is dead, why delay to carry out the corpse? I demurred that In America at least the stage was very much alive. Yes, ho ad mitted, but in a condition that means noth ing for the theater or the drama as art The popularity of the modern player is on the cheapest personal basia. Tom Brows of Clapham or East Orange likes of course to see his friend Will Johnson, or more particularly his admiration. Jenny Jones, appear engagingly In charades, but ha likes them not for their cleverness tn cha rades but because they are dear Will and Jenny. To this complexion are wa come in the theater. We go out to aee, for example, John Drew or Blanche Bates perform. In what It really doesn't matter. Partly the fault of the players, who naturally trade on a lucrative personal popularity, this state of things Is even more the fault of our theatrical system Itself. The human In terpreter of a dramatist's creation remain hopelessly Mr. This or Miss That. The Greeks did their best to escape the ''"" h vhen they set he actor up on clogs, covered his face with a mask, re in . ted his gestures to the simplest and most typical, and made him declatra through a speaking trumpet. Evidently these were palliatives, but the best use we can make of them Is to see that they point emphatically to the elimination of the actor. On my asking what would become of the drama when the actor had Joined the Pharaohs. Mr. Craig replied that the drama would remain what it always had been except tn its Infancy, a cherished literary form. It was already that to those who appreciated It at I I true worth. Critics from those of Coleridge's great generation down had questioned whether any material representation of a One Iti. aginative play were not Inevitably a vulaertiation. and trained testes had gen erally confirmed this opinion. . When w are asked to accept tbe limelight for that which "sleeps on yonder bank," when plays like "The Tempest" and "A Midsummer Ntght'e Dream" are so overdressed that the spectacle effaces the poetry, when the very art of declaiming dramatic verse is lost tn Ljik'UnJ and America. It Is no V i : : v. i S 'v1 WVV DRAWN BY JOHN BALANCE OF 8AN LEONARDO FROM THf! ACTVAL BCENB ANn FIGURES AS THEY ATPEAR IN THE VISION CALLED " THANKSGIVING." wonder that a sensitive appreciation pre fers a good recital of a play to any stage presentation, and possibly Its own silent reading to either. The drama, tn other words, In spite of century-long precedent, was really poor material for the stage, for' It was material that was inevitably spoiled In the using. As to the real material of the stage Mr. Craig refused to commit himself definitely. He was experimenting to find It, he said, modestly. He surmised and hoped that It would be found In some rather simple and abstract form of motion and Illumination, needing neither the presence of the actor nor any overt explanation In' words. In short, the stage of the future, like the earl test we know, might turn out to find Ha true ally not In literature or declamation, but In the dance. But I was welcome to see for, myself his experimental stage aa It was at present. The puppet, he explained, showing a num ber In their board, was the provisional sub stitute for the actor; a set of what might be called movements on the puppet stage, the trial substitute for the drama. For a moment my hopes of a novelty were dashed. Surely, I thought, nothing very new Is to be made of the puppet stage. To begin with It la a vigorous institution here In Italy. We have had the remarkable Ombres Chlnolses at the departed Chat Nolr, not to mention half a dozen recent attempts to revive the marionettes under aesthetic auspices. But aa I doubted the difference of Mr. Craig's undertaking emerged. The otrier puppets were either definite literal symbols or a recited text or else episodic Illustra tions for muslo or a fable. Mr. Craig's, I precelved, would have a sort of Independ ent value. Their presence, motions, com position In groups, relation to the setting, would constitute less an accompaniment to a parallel performance than tha very the ater itself. This ia .the gist of the endeavor pure cene, or as Mr. Craig puts It, a aeries of movements that shsll be beautiful In them selves and shall need no other Interpreta tion than the Imagination of the spectator. An Inanimate pantomime doing many things that the modern theater vainly professes to do la the present form of the experi ment. The Inspection of a sheaf of puppets I must not say the personages of the new drama, for Mr. Craig repudiates both words easily convinced me that something In teresting was In hand and that the whole acheme waa more concrete than It aounds In the telling. These little figurants were like fine pre-Raphaellte sketches that had eaten their way into thin boards. Each had a bold and expressive silhouette a characier stlo pose that the nrrpst holds for an entire act. They were boldly' and almply scored with the chisel affording splendid Unas of delineating shadow when the puppet is swept by the strong side light. Their make may be Inferred from, the fact that two of the illustrations are printed on an ordinary press from the inked puppet Itself. I need hardly say that the flatness, the pictorial quality of these marionettes dif ferences them from those tn the round, and requires a different aort of manipulation of the atage. Rather at a venture I have auggested pre-Raphaellte Influence In the dealgna, but technically the linear pattern la akin to those strange drawings which Rodin makes with a single sweep of the brush, or, as It happens, with a finger dipped In the morning coffee. I urge these analogies merely to describe the work, if superficially. Blake, of whom Craig Is a devout admirer, Is the real Influence behind it all. The coloring of Mr. Craig's puppets Is still tentative, but he Is moving away from a fully tinted scheme toward one that lets most of the white poplar appear. Indeed the experimental atmosphere per vades the place refreshingly. Looking about, I saw that the present simplified style of marionette had been adopted only after many trials with more complicated i-l i - ANOTHER WOODEN FIG IT. El Tin; OMAITA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 1, 1907. I - V- u- . 4 ; -3?: -Hr. Av;'li.-..s.: forms. There was, for example, a very Im pressive creature evidently Inspired by an Egyptian bas-relief. It was quite half the size of life and appeared to be striding for midably along Its platform. On pulling a aeries of strings many accom plishments declared themselves a skinny arm was extended as If to summon an Imaginary host, then the fingers opened quickly as If to grasp a victory and finally the left hand fell for the hip as If to swing the scabbard within reach before the clash of the charge. And these were beautlfull rhythmical gestured puch as hardly aa aotot of our day commands. Mr. Craig explained that the torao moved, and also the missing head, but that the whole thing was too complicated and had ceased to Interest him. In the main the new puppets will have no Individual ges tures, though of course they may be moved readily about the stage. An exception will be made for heroes and heroines, who will have a crucial ges ture or two, as It were, up their sleeve. But In general action will be subordinate to scene. The whole picture will be more Important than any single act of one pup pet. The stage I found nearly finished In the vaulted room downstairs. On the way I looked Into a printing office. Mr. Craig and his associate, the Callfornlan, Mr. Carmichael, do with their own hands all that the enterprise calls for, whether It be cutting a wood block for a program, carving or tinting a puppet, or the heavier work about the stags. In this they have the aid of an Italian carpenter, who varies the mere sawing and measuring by group ing the trial marionettes after his own whim. The stage la seen through an advanced proscenium behind which the lights are worked. Thus the picture is to be well within the frame. Naturally the most Interesting of tbe new various devices will and should appear to an audlenoe merely aa an Inexplicable effect, much of which will depend upon the handling of the light Although fiat back scenes will often be used, the, most will be made of projecting acreena and blocks which afford a fine pattern of light and shadow. The lllustra tlon'i of a typical setting give an idea of th sort of effects toward which Mr. Craig Is working. To the general publlo he ha been represented as the enemy of foot lights, and In fact he has always eschewed their uniform or mechanical use. But he makes no virtue of avoiding them when they serve his turn. In a word, chiaro scuro, rather than color though that too he employe with originality Is hia favorite material. I may perhapa Indicate aome evident ad vantagea of thie atage over that of every day. The effect of the tiny aeene when set la distinctly that of spaciousness. The scene painter of today can and does give the aense of depth and distance to the atage, but the players are always hope lessly In the foreground. Attempts to give remoteneas to them only land in the absurdity of the chieftain bow ing bis head to pass out of the gate of hla own fortress, or the watchman diszlly pa trollng a wall barely higher than himself. The gathering of crowds, the approach of armies, the actual stage can only travesty. Who has ever witnessed the dire advance of McDutr warriors without pain of amusement according to his mood? There they pass, costumed humans, a few feet away, pitilessly evident: and here they repass, ditto, we must suppose them half a mile nearer. Or take the gathering of mobe. Splen didly as the mob In "Julius Caesar'" was done under the late' Laurence Barrett's management It still waa a mere traveaty of the reality. Impressive It waa. but ter ribly .like the rallying of a green company to the colors. The people were there wait ing to be called. Now If there la anything appalling In the world It is the swift gathering of a single eouled mob out of scattered Individuals. As I have seen It in Paris, tt approaches the miracle of making something out of nothing. There Is a premonitory growl and It la there, as a great organized whirlpool suddenly appears In the casualty of a pounding surf. These things, a orltlo will say. simply transcend the stage; we must Indicate thein crudely or get along without them. But they do not transcend Mr. Cralg'B tiny stage. By the simple device of dimin ishing the size and definition of his puppetj be can set them in the remote distance. I eould see, for example, a mother and child moving curiously out of a portico appar ently a hundred feet away toward an agi tated group about an altar. Aa for armies, they can be run in silhou ette across the back scene or revealed through colonnades at a great distance. Mobs may give their hint in distant arches, roofs and doorways before they meet In silent tumult near the curtain. In fact I feel that this evident advantage would quite Justify Mr. Craig's venture if no further reault were In sight. I felt Indeed so strongly the various ap plications of this stage to weak points tn the standard drama that I learned with aome regret that the rule of silence was to obtain. ' The play first In hand is "Romeo and Juliet," and an argument will be read as a concession to the unimaginative, after which no word will be spoken. For the present well known fables will be given. I take It the ideal Is a scene in dependent not merely of the drama, but Uo of these vaguer literary reminiscences. Hut on such points Mr. Craig decllnaa to commit himself. Sufficient unto the day, be says. Is the experiment thereof. Whether the lunovatlon U a big thing. destined to supersede the present theater, or whether It la little and precious thing, delightful In Itself but leading nowhere. Is the question that criticism will sooner or later havs to answer. It evidently Is premature to raise the question In advance of a performance, to answer It would be Imply Impertinent At Munich they have thought well enough ct .he venture to aupport a trial on a large Scale, In Florence we are looking forward eagerly to the rehearsal which must Boon come on the smaller stage. Bavarians and Tuscans, we are both right, for whstever the ulterior Importance of the experiment the decorator of "The Vikings" and of "Bethlehem" will not fall to give us some thing to delight the eye and the mind. I should be surprised also If these minia ture performances should not afford valu able hints to the moribund stage ef todsy. And this. I reminded Mr. Crslg In parting, would be only fair; the orueleat pagans have never failed first to adorn the victim they destined for the Immolating knife. FRANCIS COTTON. A Letter to F.leoaora Daae Frees Gordoa Craig. "To aave the theater the theater must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art Impossible. It Is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theater." You have aald this and more. You have spoken even greater truths, however, bitter they may be, about the theater and Ita art, revealing by many Inspired flashes that you understand what la HI with the theater. But tt ta not enough to see, to speak, nor even to destroy; one must reconstruct. It Is not enough to say the actors and actresses set must all die of the plague; en must show what Is to take their place. The entire world of Intelligence Is with you In your statement and expectant for the result. They know that when you say the actors and actresses must all die of the plague you do not mean Individuals, but you mean the entire family, and the entire family Includes yourself. Tou say you all poison the air and you all make art Impossible. Well, then, you would exterminate your profession, those only would survive who were more than "professionals;" those who have the spirit would live, those who are without a grain of selfishness and thou who desire nothing but the triumph of beauty and courage. t Let what you say be no longer a phrase or a fear. Do tt! You who may perhaps fear all else In the world cannot fear that. I, who fear all things uon earth, have no fear of dying for mr art. And as I have the liberty to chocse the form Which that death shall .tako, I will choose the most painful, the roost long drawn out; the dally death, living but fighting every Inch of the way and not giving in one-hundredth part of an inch until the last breath of me shall be consumed; neither compromising when alone In my room nor compromising before others; but deliberately undermining and destroying ugliness while constructing if! ' '- -k S - " '. m til ONE OF FIGURES CUT IN WOOD. The Ftftnres Are of All Sixes. This Repre sents One of the Smallest. It Was Printed From the Figure Itself From an Ordi nary Printing Press. beauty the most dangerous and difficult of all tasks. Oh, how right you are! "It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theater." How right Is this statement of yours! Make it more right by deed. Cease to play "pieces for the theater!" Tou have aald, too, "I have tried, I have failed. I am condemned to play Sardou and Ptnero. Some day another woman will come, young, beautiful, a being all tire and flame, and will do what I have dreamed yes, I am sure of It, It will come. At my age I can not begin over again." Tou have not tried If you have failed; but you have Bot failed because you have only Just begun; It Is not a matter of be ginning over again you are now to com mence for the first time. , Another women would not be able to do what you dreamed because of her ycnith or her beauty, but only because of her intelligence, and her Intelligence will only be equal to the task when she ta your age. For It does not need youth and beauty to die for the art, and It does not need youth and beauty to cease playing "pieces for the theater." Both of these things need Intelligence, sternest, gayest, young est Intelligence. "Which is the strongest remedy?" "Victory!" cries Kietxche. How true this is. Victory the Remedy. Besides and I am going to be bitterly critical It is not you who have dreamed and It Is not another woman who will come, and do. Others have dreamed fer you poets, painters, musicians. Tou shall not take It as your crown that you have dreamed this. Your crown you shall only win by doing, and when perfect enjoy ment lies in the. doing what should hinder the deed? Others have acted, others have failed, others have wearied. But you, the young est daughter of the Muse, rhall justify her, your mother. Is not this proud passion which contains divine pain and est Is all Joy? A passion seemir:yrty cre ated only for the supreme Intelligence. No one In our art dares to welcome suoh a joy. Are we not all of us cvwarUa in the theater? If we are avctura ws suffer jeal ousies, disai.t'.'ti.t'urnts: we see our wosk lU'd; we tiij ourselves only it la to portray a cfciinln round of emotions; we suffer te..tta,o n are olI!Kxl to siuy this 42Ch. Jli-LIULJIJ o You IBIear Well? 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WlT"t, 11 Tcsxs wits. x. 4. PemfoM m Opticl-t. WUFtN OF riCAL 1 .aSST M r a7 ..-assyS- Commands Attention Beoauao of Its purity, holthfulnaaa and unaur paiaaed. flavor. I Tho Udy with J . .a I V V way prepereu '-' v... w w ' what could bo moro welcoma than a gtaaa of oool aparKlln j foam-eroaatod dold Top. Wo will aond a oaao to your horns, Jotter Brev, Tol. No. 8, South or that stupid play, saying that the better playa do not make money. We speak of the pains whloh come from being unable at tlmea to do our work; we suffer a little In having to work nder un pleasant circumstances. All this we call pain. Is it not rather irritation, and doea it not all spring from one source com promise? Pain is so great a Joy that few of us have the courage to face tt. Some poets have enfolded pain to their hearts, and from the embrace came forth Joy unapeakably clear that they at laat have aung. This matter of the death and rebirth of our art Is not a matter to shirk or whisper about. It Is a matter for the courageoua nature to close with. It is to be spoken about aloud and with truth.' We must not begin to be sensitive at this time of dsy. That must be left In the schoolroom. We must speak ef this awakening aa one speaks of the awakening of aome fierce thing which shall either be come a horror or a beauty. Tou have said the theater must be de stroyed. Tou are right I ssy that the Independence of the art must be recog nized and the poets swept out of the the ater. Am I right? It la they who poison the air; It Is they who make our art Im possible; they It Is who have driven the actors to this low level of unlntelllgenoe; they It Is who unconacloualy, under the moat eubtle guise of the patron and the friend, have reduced the theater to a mere placard, a reclame for themselves and for their works end we, their slavea, always manage unconsciously to destroy It. What a tragedy. Today without the pct It Is held that the theater cannot open It doora, ho who pos sesses an art Independent of the theater, the art of literature. Robbed of the poet, the actor Is unable to conceive the Idea ef a theater, for he leans on the poet, he draws his banal Inspiration, every breath of It, from the mechanism of the poet, and he makes his money through the folly of the poet. We have loat our freedom. This la shame our shame. Am I right? And I believe you will be the first to take the most daring step which leeds to our free dom, t Ara I right again? GORDON CRAIG. Tirecse, 130T. Y. W. 0. A. Building (Continued from Page Three.) only suitable space, might be converted Into dormitories, but they would provide for not more than fifty women at most, while these two floors as planned will help thousands. The rtst and class rooms, the gymnasium, the employment bureau, the reading room, tha audience room, the model laundry and the space devoted to the baths are each equally Important tn' the work of a city association eud be sides occupy space wholly unfitted for sleeping purposes. Experience in other cities has demonstrated that the boarding home la a distinct branch of work for women and cannot successfully be com bined with another. Certain conventionalities must ' be ob served In the lives cf women, aa their vio lation brings disrepute not only upon the transgressor, but upon those who stand sponsor for her as well. Few self respect ing women will subscribe or submit to the rigid rules nctssary to the regulation of a boarding home In the heart of a cUv that would insure it against criticism - e of .the strongest points against the downtown boarding home. Where dormitories are maintained by an organisation they must be self-supporting or supported by publlo or private subscription. To be self-supporting In a downtown building tbelr prlv lltnos ceuld be enjoyed only by women ef comfortable tncou.e, a clues t! at doea not ned this asaloth-tire from t!. mtocltul-jn. If luaimaJnod 'f-.-r .: ---n -f small tne-in,e. who cannot pay tj cover tl.e actual expense, this t i t v im.ie i.fi.:jr anJ comfort'. , a...- .. , .:, '. 1 in ct-,r v. L thst lh BiMnrnshne t ver? fwtlsfsrtnrr. fulng emsll In 4 Sr Is fcartns Qiialttt. mat It erWtrsMs to mnr- I hsv 4 mie fr mootha I ei rwommemS it t ell iTcm srt'ti W-lis hesrisa W. M HOYT, Mlih.is kn snd Rim St. 1 hlrc 8tolt glartrepsoi Co.: I sot m Inl thai I tuM mt tiaer i mf t uim Snav I waa 4rta-4 to try tha mrtmtHa A(t if ytvre f aWrusM, s I are si fort n4 worrr. I an hr irfetlr ana ess U raot my salina, earrr s rffnreraitlos lh my on ad kasr far- f.rllr .1 and at rhnrrh. W R I T1.ITY alar S. a. Mai- WslMftl An., CMrr. t'r , t M.ssi- Ojm ! I Bit Rise- strusient MT NAT I'RAI. HKARINQ HAS VxKTiPT!m.Y IMPKOVKD. To srs wslcome to a4d my name to rar lf of rararenra. 1 will ait 1 ms to ki ro. mhs. nancy rkittrman. u-aitr. is. Stolt BleMrovhoa Co. I for 14 rosrs I 4il at b-r s hamas volos. Wtts th Flour" h no 1 tni sll rualneao attain snd a-ar ?r-ftH-tly. LgwiS W. MAT. ea.ab.lar arut Lso4 Co.. lot) WosMnsws BL, Cblraso. Slots tlertrrle Co. t My ?!eToj maVos sne to hear reey thln. I shall reooBusMe tt. OsX). W. bttRKB care Bofoo Noseie Co.. TI Wltwak At . lVe. The El-rtrnahm 0 Is a trnoii rnrkM !epoe. enr by fisHe Bute, patents Nos. t.i toe !.. ! eosblos thooa who r ol. or pirtlsIlT est. to HKR DISTINCTLY end St tho urn ttmo KXKi TRlCAt.LY gXR ISF9 the Tllsl Jsrts of tho r 0 THAT T CO., 1(61 Farsata SI., Otnslj The Perfect Been a caao or qold isrii i a.. nnAM.ft .M.ata fell ing Co. Omaha H e adqtiartersL RUGO F. BILZ. 14th s-nd Deuates, Tel. Doug. U42, Co. Bluffs Keede.ue.rter. TTE E UITCHILU Omaha. 10l Wain Street, TaL to, Of experience ensbles us to know the 'treetern shoe trade. Our repatattoa has been made en hooorbullt shoes (hat . nave wen merit and given satisfaction, . KirkendaU's Eledtric Welt Shoes are et the head of the western shoe trade on their merits. Their popularity Is 4ueto completely satisfied purchasers. Combining sHyle, ease, elasticity, cons. fact end durability, they sre uaequaued by any manufaxAured. Special tanned sole leather is used. Made In lateet Sivln. a ail taarhers. uooars silk fitted. and containing tha beer obtainable ma terials. KirkendaU's Electric Welt Shoes 'nabie ma- Stand pre-eminently for quality and satisfaction. Insist on seeing them. If year dealer cannot supply you, writs us. We'll wbero yoai can get them. - j f. P. UMSHDIU. I e. nuu,iS, than the downtown section ef the city. It is a well known faot among experienced workers that women too frequently apply to auch Institutions as the Toung Wo men's Christian association for protection and support when they ought to and are quite capable of caring for themselves, and many times their character la not rjen that other women would car to be gueata with them In the same house. In spite ef this fact. If the association refused them shelter or help It would Inour crttlotsm, while if It teok them In It weuld not only occasion crltlolsm from outside. buB trouble within. Tho question Is also asked why a few rooms cannot be maintained for the tran sients In need of only temporary shelter. The answer Is that It would change the whole order of ' the administration of a building such as has been planned. Be sides. Omaha has not yet attained the proportions that make It possible or neoea sary to maintain a home for transients. Such women can be and are better taken care of by the association's present system of direction to homes or boarding houses or places of occupation, all of which have been thoroughly Investigated. Fam'llar with all these facts, the board of directors Of the association deemed It advisable In erecting Us building to take Into account the welfare of the greatest number and so Instead of planning for the comparative few It has planned a building to reach the 10.008 and more wage-earning women ef Omaha and many others besides. But while tbe building haa been provided for, the taak of those who have made It possible Is not yet complete. The building must be furnished and equipped and this will require at least t'S.OuO. Among the special things that must be provided la the equipment for the gymnasium end tha achool of domestic science, the two largest Items. Then, too, the pool must be fin ished up and the whole building provided with furniture. And then there Is a dream that, while the women de not expect to realise it Immediately, they are sure will tnatenallce before many years a pipe organ for the auditorium. THs auditorium promises to be en of the ctwei' sources of revenue for the building. Various musical and other ora-anuotKmn of the city have already conferred with the building corn ndltve whti a I. to n.oklng this audi torium r:l a k.r i it nnf-i In Omaha, au-4 If tr.e ci 4-'i i. con be itevtdd the value vt the '. wi.l te gieut!)' et.hau ,i. i. 1 -I
