Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1913 — Experience Substitutes. [ARTICLE]

Experience Substitutes.

The brilliant Holbrook Blinn was defending the sociological play, “Th& Guilty Man,” wherewith the “Medical Review of Reviews” will follow up “Damaged Goods." “Plays of this kind,” he said, “teach girls and women what they ought to ' know. Experience teaches men. A man goes through a bitter experience; he comes out of it enlightened, and society, forgiving him, he leads thereafter a good, clean life. “But girls and women can’t profit by experience in this way, for society never forgives the experiences of girls and women —and hence the necessity for plays like ‘The Guilty Msn,* which might be called experience-substitutes. “For experience, veritable experience, is, alas, for a girl or a woman, a comb that comes into her possession after she has lost her hair."