Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 153, 2 May 1912 — Page 6

PAGE SIX. THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. THURSDAY, MAT 2, 1912.

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HUMAN PASSION IS IDEALIZED

Greatest Love Story in All Literature Symbolizes Natural Impulse and Contrasts Its Simplicity with the Artifices of Convention.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. Two celebrated exponents of dramatic art will, on Friday evening of thia week in Indianapolis, present one of the greatest love stories in all literature. "Wherever lovers exist is known the story of "Romeo and Juliet." "Love makes the world go round." Whatever may or may not be your personal attitude toward this singular manifestation of nature, you cannot but admit the truth of the foregoing aphorism. You see it everywhere. It is the leaven that leavens the whole lump. For without it life is reduced to its material elements. It is the veil that obscures reality. The luminous drapery that covers the skeleton. The rose-hued mist that envelops the bald outlines of nature's purposes. It Is the intoxication of existence. , The tang of individual relations. It makes the ugly beautiful. Glorifies the mediocre. Idealizes the commonplace. It is the subject of the greatest masjterpieces of literature, of painting, of sculpture. It Is the theme of all art. It lis the motif of all human composition. The thread upon which is spun the Jfabric of society. It is the second violin in the orchestra of life It Is the tetter's constant (undertone. Stop its play, give Its mel

ody surcease and you have left nothing but the wail of the first violins, the booming ovf the basses, the blare .ot the brasses, the uncanny sweetness of the wood winds.

"All the world loves a lover." In Shakespeare's play of "Romeo and Juliet" is symbolized the highest plane of physical and spiritual pas'ion. In this poetic drama you have the , essence of the flower of man's finest passion for woman, of her most exalt- ! ed love for him. Here was love in its simplest elements. Its most primal aspect. The man and woman, drawing each other like the magnet the steel, fulfilling the object for which they were supposedly created, and yet performing a mysterious spiritual function, at one with that of the universe. For this reason Romeo and Juliet are the pattern for all true lovers. To them all else was dross.

The. world well lost for love. The earth a cold and barren habitation without each other. And then steps in convention. Convention is the cord that strangles impulse, the weight that crushes nature, the gag that chokes spontaneous selection. Convention has done more, perhaps, to deflect humanity from its right to happiness and road toward physical and spiritual perfection than any other one agency. Convention is a man-made fear of man. It riddles society with fears, tremors, timorous make-shifts. It is a lying, sneaking, grand-standing sham. Through convention humanity has degenerated into a set of puppets pulled by the strings of artifice. Artificiality is Its woof and falsity its pattern. Here were Romeo and Juliet Two god-made lovers. Drifting together as naturally as the river to the sea. Nature intended them for some obscure purpose of her own who can say? The exaltation of their passion was its excuse for being. But convention served them a bad turn. Fate tricks nature. They are separated by the intracies of a conventional social system which they can no more escape than a fly the spider's net when it comes within the sphere of

the latter's operations

symbolized the fight of nature with, convention than in this great play. Other lovers have appealed to the imagination of the world. Abelard and Heloise poor, passion-ridden slaves to a false conception of the meaning of life. But none, perhaps, more intimately than that sad figure silhouetted so vividly in "The Love Letters of a Nun." Here was a supreme sacrifice to convention. Every natural impulse crushed and ground to powder between the millstones of duty and fear. The world is eaten up with the puritanic obesssion that natural impulse is wicked. That all that is beautiful and alluring is bad. That this life is one long flagellation. That humanity cannot survive unless scourged with the whipcord of duty. Society needs to relax. It has been too long strung up on tiptoe. And that it recognizes its own handicap is seen In its eagerness to idealize the relations of men and women. To throw the glamour of poetry over their union. To place in admired conspicuity those heroes and heroines of passion who die for love, who commit follies for its perpetuation and who symbolize in their absorption the highest conception of -perfect enjoyment yet evolved by humanity.

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TADS AND FASHIONS

NEW YORK, May 1. Although the dictators of fashion in Paris by no means agree upon the subject, there is reason to-believe that the coming season will bring a slightly greater width in the skirt line and with it a trifling change in the silhoutte. The various designers in Paris and elsewhere are still experimenting with the new idea and the models so far produced do not represent any definite conclusion. However, a change may be expected. It will not be startling, but clearly perceptible. The tailored costume is not likely to call for very much more material than was put into it last year and, though there is more room at the foot, this is usually accomplished in some manner that does not detract materially from the straight skirt line. In the popular one-piece simple frock of serge, linen and similar materials one finds the same state of things as to the skirt, but with the more sheer and supple materials, whether of cotton or silk, the designers are decidedly increasing the amount of material required for dress lengths, and the manufacturers of such fabrics are, undoubtedly very thankful for the change. Some of the leading French designers are experimenting with godet or ripple arrangements. ' widening the skirt very gradually and slightly toward the bottom instead of leaving the bottom line narrow, whatever the

fulness above. This, In the opinion of many, gives the most graceful and sensible of skirt lines and does not of necessity meany buffancy or wide spread at the skirt bottom. The triple and double scant tunic arrangement frequently seen in the new taffetas and in many other materials as well offer good opportunity for experiment with this ripple line and some of the designers have improved the opportunity, but very discreetly and unobtrusively, giving no flare to the broadening width. In a large number of cases the increased skirt fullness has to do chiefly with the upper part of the skirt and is held into comparative narrowness at the bottom, an effect unspeakably ugly if bungled, as many models have proved within the last year, but charmingly enough if skilfully handled in appropriate material and with proper weightings. There is nothing actually new in line among the tub frocks ot the simpler sort. The skirt has a trifle more fullness, but the skirt of the sheer summer frock always did have a little fullness, and the additional fulness in linens, and other thin materials is not over conspicuous, though it may be there in a godet seam or an inverted plait or a flounce scant yet shad to hint of rippling. One finds a good many of these flounces, if flounces they may be called, sometimes Joined to 'severely straight and plain upper skirts of linen or other firm material, and sometimes added below softly full upper sections whose fulness is eased into the waistband

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middle front or aids front, inset panels of lace, etc., but there are innumerable models, too, without thU fall length line of trimming, the bodies Joined to the skirt at the natural waist line by a waist band of the material or of inset lace or beading. Sleeves are usually short, with some kind of turned back cuff, although an occasional tub frock for. morning wear shows a long sleevo and waistband. Round neck, or square neck, finished Jast below the throat base or a slight V shaped cut with collar or fichu finish is customary.

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