Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1883 — Stage Immorality, [ARTICLE]

Stage Immorality,

The people must have amusement, and if denied a healthy, innocent, home growth, they take what they can get from other sources. Mind you, I don’t mean to say that French plays performed in France are immoral. They are only such when presented to ns. This sounds strange, but it is true, all the same. Woes growing out of evils peculiar to a community make material for literature either in novels or the drama. Their exhibit nas a tendency to correct the ill. On this account we consider Lady Macbeth, a murderess, highly proper to look upon, while Lucrezia Borgia, an adulteress, is regarded with horror. And why? Murder is our crime, adultery that of France. —Down Piatt. The highest peak in Nevada is Mount Jefferson Daria, its attitude being 13,075 feet.