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makes thn supernatural experiences
through which he paBees seem not ex
travagant or impoeeiblo. No scone bae
ever been mnde more wierdly poetic
than that on the moonlit Catekills, with
its long, trying monologue fo gracefully
and naturally delivered. What a feel
ing of the hills and the forpst do you
bring into the hot, dusty atmosphere of
the playhouse, what a spirit of running
water and dew-drenched woods. Wo
forget that we are in a theater at all.
Wo seem to 6niff the clean air of the
mountains and feel again that elation
whicb sometimes seizes us upon the top
of the Catskillsor the Alleghenies when
the pines are white with frost, and yet
there are but the painted trees and wat
erfall, the pasteboard rocks which wo
see in the theater every night and which
move us not at all. All that is marvel
ous, eery, poetic, you yourself bring to
us, and you clothe those poor mimics
with all the freshness and wonder of
life; you carry the verdure of the woods
in your heart. At nome time during
those wanderings on the lower Missis
sippi. through the forests along the
lakes or on the western prairies, you
must have lain very near to nature,
watched lovingly her face and listened
for her secret whisperings, and all your
life you hare carried them with jou, as
the shell carries the whispers of the sea.
I maintain, sir, that, in all your im
personations, the pre-eminent charm is
not your art, but your humanity a rare
quality which life sometimes gives to
art. You and Mr. Richard Mansfield
represent two extremes of dramatic art.
There can be no question that Mr.
Man6tield'd is the more fertile and cre
ative genius, that his reach is wider, his
art more brilliant, more complex, richer
in Btartling surprisee. But he lacks the
human touch. His characters come to
us white hot from the brain, rather than
blood warm from the heart. It is not
you art lone, sir, not your easy and me
lodiouB elocution, your grace and ele
ganca of gesture, nor your wonderful
bits of stage business, nor the suggee
tiveness and wit of your by play which
have made us all your friends and lovers.
In your dramatic impersonations, in the
pageB of your autobiography, in some
of the pictures from your brush, we feel
that genial glow of personality, the re
flection of a noble and generous soul.
Only the soul, sir, can wholly satisfy
the soul, and we Saxons love to prove
the heart of a man and know that it is
beating sound and true under all the
creations of bis genius. We continually
demand this personal understanding,
even with authors. 80 it is that the
personal asideB which completely spoil
Thackaray for a Frenchman, are what
most endear him to his countrymen.
Yet though you have furnished us with
this certificate of your integrity upon
which we lay such stress, you have been
very little of a preacher and have kept a
Dart from all the ephemeral vexations of
the drama. You have never conceived it
to be your duty to make the stage a pul
pit or to Bet about denouncing the sinB
of the world, You have been content
to produce the beautiful, knowing well
that men roust desire virtue, because it
is fair and goodly to possess, or not at
all.
Would thnt wo could adequately thank
you, sir, for the pleasure which you and
your fellows have glvon us in our over
wrought, over practical world, where
we have over elaborated everything.
We have made whist so difficult that
few of ub can play it, wine so good that
few of us can afford to drink it, pootry
so flne that few of us havo wit enough
to read it. Wo make a scionco even of
recreation and kill all the joy of it. Out
the drama is still the art of the people,
not dominated by purely intellectual
passions, concerning itself rather with
the experiences of the many than the
tastes of the few. Bo gonial and gener
ous sd art that it is still belovtdofthe
children and the aged, a thing of laugh
ter and tears, still simple and human,
touched with our infirmities and ac
quainted with grief. Yours, sir, bus
been an art, helpful and wholesome, and
you have aroused the kinder nature of
meu. It iB the faehion now-a-days for
actors to give a serpent when we 88k for
meat and to furnish us with clever
studies of the brutality of men. reveal
ing hitherto unsuspected depths of de
pravity in our old stage frietds. But
you have read into tho part of a vaga
bond the feelings of a gentleman. You
have given us of tho living waters
which brings contentment and peace.
You havo not found virtue dull or in
sipid, nor folly altogether vicious.
You havo given us a message of hope
and cheer and bidden us all a hearty
Godspeed on this journey through the
dark which must shortly end for you.
And may it all return to jou; as the
flowers fall to enrich again the generous
lap of earth, so in the remaining years
may all the pleasure which your life and
genius have bestowed come back to you
an hundred fold, and your downward
way break out ablossom with the kindly
smiles and generous moisture which
you havo brought to tho faces and the
eyes of men. It jour years should be
too few to contain so much felicity, then
perchance something of our love may
follow you across the uncertain void
where man may bear neither riches nor
houors, and even death may not bo able
to quite unclasp our hands, so warmly
clasped upon your own. When you lay
aside the crown your talents won and
your life honors, worn blamelessly
through eo many years, fear no succes
sor. In our hearts, sir, you reign alwajp,
the Prince of Players, best loved, most
honored of them all.
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LKBS-
SWASTIKA.
What is Swastika? It is the latest
fad in writing paper. The Swastika is
an East Indian mystic figure or smbol
of good luck, well known to tho Bra
hamans nd Buddhists and frtquently
employed in the decorative carvings and
paintings upon tho temples of the eust.
The word is of Sanskrit origin and sig
nifies happinees, well-being, good luck.
The origin of this symbol iB wrapped in
mystery. No one knows bow, when or
where it originated. However, it has
positively been ascertained that the
symbol bad its birth in pre-bistoric
times. Ith one great point of interest
lies in the feet tb4t it is extremely old.
Its unquestionable significance as a
mark of happiness or well being makes
it doubly acceptable to one who is writ
ing to a friend desiring to convey in
every possible way that expression of
good will which nullifies distance and
draws tho world together in a foeling of
kinship.
This stationery can bo had at Rigg's
Pharmacy, Funko Opera House, corner
Twelfth and O.
NEWSPAPER ENGLISH.
The usual consultation of the judges
on the eve of a court sitting was bad
Lincoln correspondent, World-Herald,
Nov. 8.
Hayward is some better. World
Herald, headline, Nov. 17.
Andy Maloney with his face in some
unknown manner beat into an almost
unrecognizable mass. First page World
Herald, Nov. 17.
On such occasions the expense whb
stood by the Stato Committee, State
Journal, Nov. 28.
I did'nt get an encore tonight for
that song, but I did tho last time I sang
it.
That shows how tho public tarto i9
improving,
LOUISA h RICKETTS.
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CALENDAR OF NEBRASKA CLUBS.
December.
2, Pansy c, Holmes and Poc Tecum.seh
o J Woman's c, William and Mary
Anne Syracuse
o ) Review and Art c, Bottlcelll-Peru-
-' ( Kino York
( Fin dc Steele c, Bcccher. Brooks,
" 1 Parker Seward
( History and Art c, Art and Lit
2. erature during the reten of Chas,
f the Great. The feudal system. ..Seward
4, Woman's c. Child study department, Lincoln
4, Sorosls, Literature Stanton
4, Woman's c., Parliamentary Pnictlc, Omaha
. J Woman's c, Political and Social
' 1 Science Omaha
fi, Woman's c., Current Topics Omaha
5, Woman's c, German History Omaha
5, Woman's c. Ethics and Philosophy, Omaha
J, Woman's c, French Conversation.... Omaha
5, Sorosis, Scientific Fossil Expedition, Lincoln
r I History and Art c, Navigation Act
( Baxter, Bunyan Albion
ft, Century c, Sea Power of Holland. ...Lincoln
0, Woman's c., Oratory Omaha
0, Mary Barnes c, Colonization Fullerton
7, Woman's c, Art and Religion Lincoln
7, Woman's c, Art Omaha
7, Woman's c, Education Omaha
8, Hall in the Grove, Florence Lincoln
8, Self Culture c, Civil Eirypt St. Paul
Woman's c. Congress of Uni
8, ted States; Hawthorne:
( Longfellow Plattsmouth
8, Woman's c, Music Lincoln
9, XIX Century c, Tariff Seward
9, Fin d Steele c, Hisorians Seward
1 Hist.& Art c, AnCarlorinidan Em
9, perors. Women Among the
I Earth. Germans Seward
OFFICERS OF N. F. W. C, 1899 k 1900.
Prcs., Mrs. Anna L. Apperson, Tecumsch.
V. P., Mrs. Ida W. Blair, Wayne.
Cor. Sec, Mrs. Virginia D.Arnup, Tecumseh.
Rcc. See., Miss Mary Hill, York.
Treas., Mrs. H. F. Boane, Crete.
Librarian, Mrs. G. M. Latnbertson, Lincoln.
Auditor, Mrs. E. J. Hainer, Aurora.
The child study department met Sat
urday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Professor
Hart, of tho state university, gave a
highly instructive talk on the "Cultiva
tion of Emotion." The professor's talk
was followed by a general discussion,
and everybody present went away feel
ing that much useful information had
been gained.
Ihe enterprising club women of Den
ver are to have a woman's lunch club.
What are the characteristic features of
a woman's lunch club? Mysterious
hints of such a departure have been
floating through the club papers the
past month, and I admit that from very
ignorance this department has held its
peace on the question. But from a
dim, misty, intangible something has
emerged a really grand reality that is a
great credit to the never-give-up club
women of the beautiful city of the
plains. The strong desire of the club
women and business women of Denver
for a lunch club has materialized, with
the following officers in charge:
Ptesident, Mrs. Sarah S. Piatt; vice
president, Mrs. Edward Pisko; second
vice president, MUss Margaret Falloa;
recording secretary, Mrs. Cora Dudley
(Juiraud; corresponding secretary, Mies
Virginia Paden; treasurer, Mrs. William
H. Edmundson.
These officers constitute an executive
board, which has already adopted gov
erning laws and appointed committees
on finance, home, dining room and hos
pitality. The Denver women were in
cited to this step by the successful
establishment of similar clubs in Chi
cago. Chicago has three, which I think
are self-supporting. The object ia to
furnish palatable lunches of simple but
well cooked food at a price but little
above the cost of the food and the terv
ico to all members of the club. Women
who are non-merabars will be charged a
small sum about five cents in advance
of members. The place will be started
on a very simple basis at first. For in
stance there will bo no waiters. Mem
bers of the club will enter, present their
check at the serving counter and receive
what they call for from the hands of the
servers, carrying it themselves to the
table and afterwards removing their tray
of dishes. This plan has been followed
successfully in the Chicago clubs and
found to save a large item of expenEe.
The lunch room will aim ta provide
lunches cheaply enough so that many
girls who now take cold lunches from
home will ba able to lunch there instead.
It is not, however, in any degree a char
itable enterprise. It is true that money
must be raised to guarantee the rent,
which will necessarily be heavy on ac
count of a down town location beiog de
manded, and wages of manager and cook
for a few months before the restaurant
can be started.
The board of directors oi this club
consists of twenty-five well known wo
men, about equally divided between club
women and business women. Among
the latter are stenographers, bookkeep
ers, heads of departments in the large
stores, a lawyer and others.
Ihe Olio and Press clubs of Denver
two purely litbrary organizations of
Denver are eBpicially interested in this
enterprise, and demonstrated their in
tercet by securing a gwnerouB conces
sion from Manager Mc Court, of the
Broadway, on all tickets 6old by them
for Frederick Ward, wLo played "The
Lion's Mouth" last Wednetd.iy evenirg.
They received half of the proceeds of all
they sold. The general interest in their
enterprise was bo great that the lunch
club will net a nice 6um from this ven
ture. In a very short time seven of the
boxes had been sold, and tickets front
this committee were in great demand.
In this connection it will be of interest
to know that the Olio club in Chicago,
while aiming to serve luncheon at cost,
has in reality had of late small but
steady profits, averaging 875 a quarter,
over and above all expenses. This would
be a sum too small to support the pro
prietor of a restaurant, but when used
to purchase comforts like couches,
books, easy chairs and so on it 6oon pro
vides a most comfortable c'.ub room for
the use of the members. In Chicago
the enterprise started for the bsiieflt of
wage-earning women alone has proved
sufficiently attractive to draw patronage
from the loisuro women also, whose ad
ditional fees have added to the income
of the club. Mrs. E. B, Field, wife of
the general manager of the telephone
company of Denver, said recently, "My
daughter lunched regularly at the Olio
club while she was studying art in Chi
cago, and when I went there to visit her
I lunched there, too. Ten or twelve
cents would purchase all any woman
could possibly want for a lunch. The
food was simple, but it was deliriously
cooked, and I never enjoyed a meal in a
restaurant. The lunch clubs there are
throoged every noon. I believe the
plan is perfectly feasible and practical,
and I hope it will be established here."
The Cozy club of Tecumseh met on
November 15th with Mrs. Pollock. The
lesson, "The Holy Roman Empire," was
Jed by Mrs. Apperson. Mrs, Sullivan
read a very interesting paper, subject,
"Castles of the Rhine." which she illus
trated with views of all the importact
castles on the Rhine. The committte
o i university extension reported success
a' d the course of lectures will begin
about the first of December. Mrs. Ap
person resigned her place as president
of the club, owing to the predsuriof
duties of the office of state president.
Tho club reluctantly accepted her resig
nation and elected Mrs. Boutoo to fill
the vacancy.
Word comes from New York of a prop-,
er example set for women who wish lo Sr
take an active part in politics. Miss '
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