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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7. 1914
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"The Treasuries of the Snow.'
Day and night, winter and summer, year in and year out, tiny particles are detaching themselves from the surface of the earth's waters to ride the sun's rays to the upper air. In those aerial pastures they wander about as changing currents of air chance to take them, so that all the reaches of the atmosphere over our heads are constantly filled with particles of watery vapor.
When these chance to gather about a tiny speck of matter and then to fall through a stratum of air of a temperature below 30 degrees, the moisture crystallizes and sails forward in the form of snow. Often these crystals are so line and so light that strong upward sweeps of wind carry them far into the sky and about for days or months but when they chance to grow into a sufficient heaviness they fall toward the earth's surface and whiten all its plains. Snow is not frozen rain, though it itself may change to rain if it happens to pass through a warm layer of atmosphere. It is because of this we may often see it snow against a high mountainside and at the same time rain in the valleys beneath. Geologists believe there was once a time when the vast stretches of the polar regions were covered with a salubrious clime and populated with luxuriant forms of life; but the planet is now of such a shape, and in such a position, and its dry
surface is of such a proportion to its water surface that these far lands have become the constant haunts of snow and glacial ice. Nothing is more beautiful or more wonderful or more complex than the snow. Under the magnifying glass its virgin crystals reveal themselves in forms of fairylike beauty. Some stand erect like columns of transparent marble. Others have slender corinthian stems capped with an umbel of delicate branching spikes. The majority lie flat and star like, always with six sides. These give us the most miraculous forms of the snow's beauty. Some appear like six fronds of fern tied at the center; some are like six swords uniting in one hilt; some appear as six rockets shooting from a central sheaf; some are like the most delicate lace work woven by hands daintier than human; some are of such a delicate and complex pattern worked out in a design of six
divisions that the eye cannot follow the labyrinth of curving tangled line; and all are characterized with such flutings, such wreaths, volutes, spirals, curves, angles, undulations, sinuations, twists, twirls, and convolutions as cannot be imagined by one whose eyes have never seen them. The Russian Czarina employed her master architects for months to build her a winter palace with windows, doors, ornamentel ceilings, arches, spires and walls of ice, but the genius of the snow creates countless millions of such palaces in a second of time. In each crystal are tiny passage ways of air, bifurcated avenues running in and out, arched ways, ornamented doors, steeples, domes and areas. All is as fragile as
the whiff of air and of such stuff as dreams are made. And yet when these combine in sufficient numbers trees break, railway trains are checked, roads are made impassible, the irregularities of the earth's surface are smoothed out into a plain, glaciers are built, and avalanches launched on the mountainsides. Singly but a breath, when united they are more terrible than an army. Some of us are made of heavy stuff; on us the miracles of the snow are lost; bpt others have poet's brains and it is they who are permitted to enter the "treasuries of the snow." In that world erected by unseen hands they see things of which the poets only can speak. What they see and how they can describe it, none has better revealed than Longfellow in the verses we learned as a child: Out of the bosom of the air. Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the, woodlands brown and bare, Over the. harvest-fields forsaken. Silent and soft and slow Descends the snow. Even as oor cloudy fancies take Sudden shape In some divine expression. Even as the troubled heart doth make In the white countenance confession. The troubled sky reveals The grief It feels. This is the poem of the air. Slowly in silent syllables recorded ; This is the secret of despair, Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded. Now whispered and revealed To wood and field.
all the while until finally it swallows its own devotees. Many trained observers of our present day society agree with the historian. They view with alarm the saturnalian orgies which become more and more frequent in our large cities and feel that these extravagances bode ill for us. Such excesses as those witnessed in the larger cities New Years night when thousands danced and drank till morning, grow by what they feed upon and draw an ever increasing circle of persons into their whirlpool. The psychologists hold that this is directly traceable to our custom of hiring others to do our playing for us and to our habits of constantly
keeping ourselves under the pressure of excitement. When the nervous system is submitted to intense stimulation and the organism has no opportunity of healthy response, the effect is dis
astrous. Gradually the pleasure loses its power
to please, the nerves grow stupefied, and more
intense pleasures still are sought. If we read too many exciting novels, see too many plays, listen too much to music, indulge too frequently in pleasures of the senses we find our nervous system growing wornout and dull. Then, to stimulate a flagging appetite, we de-
Imand more intense novels, spicier plays, livelier
music and more extravagant pleasures. The lust for these things grow by what it feeds upon and good turns to bad, and bad to ivorse. In this way, argue the psychologists, the bacchanalian orgies of our cities are accounted for. At the end of such an existence a man grows helplessly blase and finds himself bereft of the power to enjoy. He sinks into a base cynicism and despair. Life falls into ashes and the days come shrouded in perpetual fogs. All this may be avoided if a man takes. care that he doesn't imbibe more excitement than he can assimilate. Health means that activity equals sensation, that response in action must correspond to stimulation.
Esther Griffin White Argues Drama Existed Before Church
Dramatic critic believes that Rev. Truman Kenworthy did not obtain data from high class sources. Doubts If pastor in his whole life ever has seen a straight theatrical performance. Holds church has as many abuses as theatre.
Esther Griffin White, a dramatic and art Critic whose reviewH of plays and observations on paintings have attracted more than local attention, in the appended article comes to the defense of the theatre and takes exception to statements made in an attack on the drama in a sermon last Sunday by the Rev. Mr. Kenworthy. Editor Palladium: As a theatrical writer for the local papers for the past, six or eight years
will you permit me to comment upon the ridiculous, preposterous, false, silly and misleading statements about
Forgetting that Christ said "let him who is without sin throw the first stone." Makes Comparison. Mr. Kenworthy betrayed his unso-
phistication and lack of the remotest knowledge of the theatre when he attacked stock companies. Stock companies bear the same relation to the general theatric profession as the regular church service does to the class of religious vaudeville known as the revival. They afford harmless and diverting entertainment to many thoroughly moral married men and women who endure each other because they must and who seek amusement both at the theatre anil in the church. The writer holds no brief for Mr. Omar Murray, but it might be pointed out that Mr. Murray has done much for the town in the way of furnishing
Moths. At both performances yesterday the Murray theatre was well filled when the Francis Kayles' Players presented 'Ouida's" beautiful society drama "Moths." Large audiences has greeted this company on the first three performances of this popular play and no doubt the theatre will be well filled firing the balance of the week and the play is one of the best-of the season and each member of the company is seen to advantage, and the ladies of the company wear many handsome gowns. There will be another matinee tomorrow also one on Saturday for the ladies and children.
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In the first place Mr. Kenworthy is
entirely unqualified to make remarks about the theatre as it is in this city or any place else. It is to be doubted if the reverend gentleman ever has been in a theatre for a straight theatrical performance in his life And if he has, he must have haunted
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churches don't pay taxes, theatrical ( property does. Sure, the churches have ; stopped their services to let the revival have full sway. !
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Victoriano Huerta Most of the reports offering information concerning the Mexican dictatqr have been lopsided and partial. But the London Times, which may be supposed non-partisan in the matter, has recently published an account of the dictator written by one of its own correspondents. This has been pretty generally accepted by the press as a bona fide account of the man. Huerta is full Indian blood and very proud of his race. During: the administration of Presi
dent Juarez an army officer chanced on the young man in a mountain village and became attracted to him by his apparent courage and self reliance. Finding he could read and write, a very unusual attainment in an Indian of that benighted land, he made the youth his amanuensis. Later on the President entered him at the Chapultepec military school. As a regimental officer Huerta attracted the attention of Porfirio Diaz but that astute ruler refrained from placing complete confidence in him after discov
ering how streaked with typical Indian cunning and treachery he is. Madero also refused to trust him entirely. At
first he retired him on half pay only to place him later in command of an expedition against Zapata. Had this campaign not been suspended for political reasons, Colonel Huerta would have been successful. Twice more Madero recalled him to active service and twice more retired him, in each case on account of lack of faith in the man. Perhaps it was because of this that Huerta contracted that hatred of Madero which seemed to give some credence to the charge of murder made against him when the President was shot in the
streets of Mexico City. As a "strong man" Huerta has signally failed. With as little faith in others as they have been willing to repose in him he has made and unmade cabinets until the Mexicans have grown dizzy with watching his kaleidoscopic rule. That he "fixed" the elections of last fall is patent to all, and also self confessed, since he said to the Times reporter that no election would be possible for three years and that he then would be elected president himself.
Huerta is now sixty-nine, is a frequenter of
disreputable cafes, is lax in morals and "often
forgetful of the dignity of his office." He has lost the confidence of his own countrymen and the support of his army and his days are numbered. But when that fall comes for which we are "watchfully waiting" some other Huerta will take his place and give us a chance to do some more waiting.
since his remarks are evidently based
upon conceptions and conclusions drawn by an attendance upon the vanities. For they could not possibly be applied to the conduct of the legitimate theatre in Richmond or otherwise. Drama An Old Art. The great and noble art of the drama was practised long before the church was founded and it can no more be divorced from the life of hu
manity than the practice of religion. There are abuses in the modern theatre. But there are also abuses in the modern church. To judge an art or profession by one or two of its ignoble exponents is as unjust as to judge the church by the numerous sinners within its gates. At least it can be said of Mr. Nat Goodwin and Mr. De Wolf Hopper (who it is a safe bet Mr. Kenworthy has yet to see) that they were decent enough to marry and divorce their women. They didn't, as did the notorious young minister of Massachusetts, first seduce a member of their congregation and then poison her when he wanted another woman. Draws Parallel. This clergyman was translated to Paradise by the route of the electric c'.air. Still nobody thinks Mr. Kenworthy is going to seduce and poison some member of his congregation
just because the minister in Massachusetts did. The Rev. Mr. Ilinshaw, now languishing in the Indiana State penitentiary for murdering his wife with a pistol, is considerably worse, in the opinion of society at large, than a member of a profession who divorces his wife when he wants to get, rid of her at least the latter doesn't shoot her through the heart and pretend it's a burglar. It is true that the church in this city, whose pastor went wrong a fewyears ago. threw him out with a pair of tongs. To be sure. That is the way of the church. Kick 'em out when they fall by the wayside.
ery minister whose church supports the revival 'signed a hard and fast contract with the professional revivalist. The writer has a wide acquaintance among theatrical people of all classes, and finds them in no wise different from other people. And, be it said, much kinder, much more charitable, much more Christian than many exponents of Mr. Kenworthy's profession. And, in closing, may a long and inextinguishable laugh be registered on the proposed local board of theatrical censors? Truly, the good Mr. Kenworthy knows not how amusing he may be. The trouble with Mr. Kenworthy seems to be that, with Mr. Nat Goodwin and other "vile" persons, he evidently wants to shine in the limelight. Therefore he spends some days gumshoeing round town to rout out evil stories about the local theatrical people. Failing, he falls back on the Ions suffering Nat Goodwin who is the awful example that can always be utilized to dangle before a more or less horrified public. Yours verv truly, ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
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I MASONIC CALENDAR I , .
Wednesday. Jan. 7. 1914. Webb lodge No. 24, F. & A. M. Called meeting. Work in Fellow Craft degree. Friday Jan. 9, 1914. King Solomon Chapter, No. 4. II. A. M. Stated Convocation and installation of officers.
A. O. Xeal. state school inspector and president of the Indiana State Teachers' association, will be the speaker before the towns and township institute Saturday. Modem Social Problems" will be the topic of discussion for the teachers in the sectional meetings.
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Over-Stimulated Gugliemo Ferrerro, the eminent historian, was much impressed while in the United States at the extravagant manner in which we go into everything, especially our pleasures. He declared we were headed in the very same direction as was Rome when she went the rapids to destruction. In this day, as in that, pleasure grows into vice and vice grows more monstrous
DEFENSE OF CAPTAIN HOBSON. Pittsburg Post. How can a congressman who elects himself to a perpetual talkfest afford to spend more than seven days in eight months in his seat?
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POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS AUDITOR HOWARD BROOKS Candidal.- for Auditor of Wayne County subject to the Progressive primary election. February 9. CLERK. CLAUDE KEEVER Candidate for Clerk of Wayne County subject to tli" Progressive primary election, February 9. CHARLES POTTER Candidate for Clerk of Wayne County subject to the Progressive primary election. February 9. L. C. HARRISON Candidate f,,r Clerk of Wayne County subject to the Progressive primary election, February 9. TOWNSHIP ASSESSOR. JAMES HOWARTH Candidate for Township Assessor of Wayne Township subject to the Progressive :- mary election, February 9. TREASURER. ALBERT N. CHAMSESri an., date for Treasurer of Warn.- conn-1 subject to the Progressive priiur y election. February 9. SHERIFF. JACOB BAYER Cj-.sdid-.'e r Sheriff of Wayne count . ! ( the Progressive primary cl.--u ,ri. Fruarv I.
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