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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1898)
THE COURIER 4 fXTZ&tflMitt 1HW &00DS GO . 1028-1029 O St. Iinooln, KTebr, A REPUTATION Is Not Established in a Day Like the One We Have Made Fcr Giving the Best Values For the Least Money. THE FANCY SILK DRBSS SALE I to ge a Gtreat Ient in Lincoln anfi no ne ghould $iss It - 25c KyjEJJ 3 Pyj ?"3 r fe(B(iSSig P C FANCY 25 Y K GOODS It certainly will be a great disadvan to anyone in need of novelty goods not to take in hand the opportunities we have to offer. The goods are all stylish, excellent in quality. We formerly sold these goods for 39c, 43c and 49 a yard. Think of the qualities celling for 25c. We Extend to All a Most Cordial Invitation and Feel Confident You Will be a Looser If You Do Not Take Advantage of Some of the BARGAINS. 50C P A FANCY C Y 50C n m A finer line of fancy dress goods than may be seen displayed here is not often found. All of these goods are from 36 to 48 inches wide and are either all wool or silk and wool mixed. Former prices 75c, 89c, 98c and $1.25. During this sale they will go at 50c. 50C 50C mm Hity? Kiiy Miiv cciv y Ay ,roxH. m.ssm ro - "jpjr r nr r 1 n tSKlS 3rE2!fi? VJSS Fitzgerald && r-.rnAc W Uiy JWJU3 j; Go i a $ ai2i za wa ss VvVV7SovY5yASrYiSV5yT -w&jSr mj A1W1 .A11 JMVl .AlXi K1J A17i lla i-7 MFh rflBi Kli AlWl AlFK K17K H1JK rC17 17X 1TK K17 ilf .vs "il '1 rvL'i r' ri rv '-xi ", r: '-. ?nm '.ci v iwvimi rvvi'i fv WAwryi mvv 'i vo vm rv ai pwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww IlllSIISysliiiiSI IV-Vm-il CfcYrivrsi IMiigliSli!MI iLpcatii Bowf ma at mv-wr- iv kv i " iv mi wai e-Ki-i-; Ws?' -- -- -.-- J-J -m.c jav -M..m-Jm.'a. ggg'p WW g& 1023-1029 O Street Lincoln, Nebn gotten, he draws her to him and tell) her that he, too, has known what it is to be a child in "this house of children's tears," she loves him just as blindly and nnquestioningly as does the minister's wife in the next act. From such a first act the uciniated might expect a great spiritual tragedy, a conflict between emotions and environ ment, between heart and creed. From auch beginning a second "Scarlet Let tor" might be made. But such is not the manner of G.Bernard Shaw. Hav ing been entirely serious throughout one whole act, he must have at least two in which to laugh at himself. In the second act Richard calls to see the minister. The minister is called out ad leaves Richard tete-a-tete with his wife. While they are partaking of a rather dismal supper, the quiet charm of the place and the woman, the general domestic atmosphere, softens Richard very perceptibly. He feels that sudden half-formulated de3ire to be something better than he is. The British soldiers break in and mistaking Richard for the rebel minister, arrest him to take him off ana hang him. From some insane caprice possible only to a Shaw creation, perhaps a little, too, from the higher feelings the last half hour have awak ened in him, Richard takes the minis ter's plate. The officer tells him to kits his hysterical wife good bye and he does it. Presumably it was not a ministerial kiss, for the parson's wife faints on the spot. Dear lady, she had never known the like of it before. The second act is not entirely frivol ous, that startling caress to the parson'B wife was worth an act, but in the third act Mr. Shaw leaps gaily into the do main of travesty and all his unbridled freakishnees breaks out. The parson's wife very naturally supposes that Rich ard has made bis heroic sacrifice for her sake, and ahe goes to the prison to tell him that she loves him and will go any place with him. He flees from her em brace, and tells her with brutal frank ness that he doesn't love her at all, and hasn't the remotest idea why he ever got himself into such a scrape, but since he is in it, he will try to bluff it out gracefully. After the rope is about his neck, the minister arrives with the colonial soldiers and saves him. Now will someone kindly tell me why Rich ard should want to die in the place of a man he scarcely knew, for a woman he did not love, or why this modest Puritan lady should wish to leave her estimable lord to flee to the ends of the earth with the "Devil s Disciple? " Or why anyone eUe in the play behaves as they do? The worst of it is that one always has a dark suspicion that this gaily incon sistent Mr. Shaw is not so mad after all; that his inanity is really the hardest kind of sense and that be only laughs at life because he finds it too sad and sordid and cheap for tears. He may find that we all air our fine theories and prate of honor and truth and courage, and all the while go on living our nasty, petty, selfish little lives, deceiving ourselves and the world with our tine phrases. He Bees through us so clearly that Mr. G. Bernard Shaw, when he wears the cap and bells wears them very knowingly, like Master Touchstone, and if he choses the society of an Audry, it is because he knows Rosalind only too well. It may be that in their play he lets his strong serious vein fritter out into airy nothingness because he believes that the most exalted life dramas usually end in a farce. He may mean to assert that men usually undertake the role of a hero through caprice, and then maintain it by sheer bluff, and his state ment that "a fool and a hero are much the same thing" may be the final word of his philosophy. Perhaps he is as sorry as anyone that he finds life thor oughly ridiculous, and all the so called sacred enthusiasms and exalted emo tions are names, retained for the con venience or lexicographers. I think one might almost say of Mr. Shaw that the only passion of his soul is scorn. However, all this is merely a conjec ture, for who may loose the bands of Orion or expand the bidden meaning of G. Bernard Sha-v.
