t- -t'ststssssssm y - -
UK Sige Indian, said Mark
Twain some years ago, "waa
an orlgtnal aborigine belong
lnc to an ancient and extinct
tribe that never existed."
One can imagine the h amor
ist's memory running back, aa he said
It, to poke furl among the old playbills
of Jialf a century since, when "Poor ho"
trod the boards with a freedom that a
few playgoers of today still recall.
Stripped of his' boasted realism, the
stage ravage pf our own day Is not so
new as he thinks he Is. To bsure,
he makes the old ftow-and-tomahawk
brave look silly and romantlo, but the
latter was dearly beloved In his day
and generations, and his name was le
gion. They were funny enough, those red
skins of the older theatre, who could
one and all traoa clear, fair lineage
to the pages of James Fenlmoore Cooper,
and Edwin Forrest -himself, when he
first played "Metamora, the Last of
wampanoags," the most tragic and pop
ular of romantic stage sachems, played
him in a mustache and goatee. The
later daguerreotypes, however, seem to
show that Forrest was at last brought
to realize the- propriety of giving his
chieftain at least a clean shave. But
with all Its romantic extravagance, Met
nmora was considered by some one of
the actor's greatest parts and that in
spite jf the fact that he disliked it,
and seemed to be singularly prpne to
run Into mishaps whenever he played it
Joseph Jefferson in his autobiogra
phy, described a characteristic contre
temps that befell the Irritable Forrest
one night toward the end of the piece.
Things had gone wrong throughout
the evening and Mr. Forrest was in
the last stage of exasperation. A fu
neral pile of burning fagots was brought
on at which soms paleface was to be
sacrificed. The two Indians In; charge
of this mysterlos-looking article, set U
down so unsteadily that a large sponge
saturated with flaming slcohol tumblid
off and rolled down the stage, leaving
a track pfflre in Its wakl. 'Put it
Unl'n forre"t. 'Put It out. Where-
Lh ,wo indin8 went down on
their knees and began to blow alter
nately in a see-aaw way, Bingelng each
other's eyebrows at every puff. The au
A FLOWER FOR A GRAVE
By Ella Wheeler W.l COX
(Ooprright, 108. hy W. R. Hesr.t.1
R
UMMAGING in an old library a
small volume drnnneH f, m.
.h-ie 7'umelarPPe1 from the
sneir. and on its cover shone one
word in golden letters:
INFELICIA.
Below it the name Menken.
The book was published b the Llp
plncofs In 1869.
Th frontispiece shows the head of a
handsome, boyish-looking woman In the
prime of youth.
Under ,the picture is the full n
"MP6'
Adah Issues Menken
Reading over the wild, walling, yet
5 , j wiin wnicn eacn page is
filled, I was really impressed with the
K" 1 1 w iiuiiinii mi? iuu iiuiiinii genius.
While unaccompanied bv hla-h idesls
or fixed principles, or strong faith,
i"n issacs jwennen was wonderfully
glfteS n many ways.
She possessed varied '
talents, and -
physical beauty of a peculiar and. un-
unuar type, logemer wiin great personal
magnetism.
She first flashed on the public eye in
a fensaMonH4 h-eatrloal feature, whsre
she played the role of Iaxeppa. attired
in fleshings and strapped to a horse.
Afterward she wrote her curious and
powerful little book of verse, filled with
strange cries- of her own wild, unhappy -
heart, and she, was at once recognized
by the literary .world of England and
given a royal reception for a time.
Charles Dickens and all his contempo-
iHiin,uuiiiBru uci, tiny il imn mid
that she was the moael for Swinburne's
well known' poem "Faustlne."
That Swinburne.-" then In the heydey.
of ardent youth, was one of her faith-
ful satellites for a brief hour, Is undis-
pvitod.---- -'- ,
. Here are some extracts from the 'little
boftk which Is all that remains of Adah .
Issacs Menken, today, to remind the
world that she lived: .
."Yes, yes, dear love. I am dead: dead
to you, dead to he world. qad forever,
"ir was. one'young night In May. .
'The stars were strangled, and the
moon was blind wivi the (lying clouds
of a 'blark despair. . -
"My stark and naked soul unfolded Its
wings to the dimness of death. A death
thtf left this dumb living body is Its
endless mark. . . ' -
-"But death lsft an old light In -my
eyes and old music for rhy tongue, to
oerelVe lb ;rawllni' worms that 'woala-jnade
' "But the purple wine I quaff sends
THE
flu -;'. w "Mil vv " -l UMt0-' I?-; t-
dience could not stand thjs comical pic
ture and began to break forth in laifghn
ter. 'Let the theatre burn," roared For
rest.
"At last one tall Indian, supposed to
be second In 'command, majestically
waved off the two who were blowing
and stamped his foot with force and dig
nity upon the flaming sponge, at which
a perfect fountain of burning alcohol
spouted up his limther legs, lie caught
fire, tried to put himself out, rubbing
and jumping about frantically, and at
lust danced off the srage In the most
comical agony. Forrest made a furfous
xit, the curtain was dropped, and the
-public In perfect good nature dlnpersed.
I mingled with the crowd as It went
forth," concludes Mr. Jefferson, "and I
never saw the faces of an audience at
the end of a five-act Comedy wreathed
In such smiles." .
But. as Laurence Hutton points out
In his 'Curiosities of the American
Btagc," "Metamora" was far from the
first of Its kind. Curiously enough the
first Indian plav In Arfle.rlca seems to
have been an operatic spectacle entitled
"Tammany," wriHon by Anne Kemhle,
a sister of John Kernble, and Mrs. Sd
dons. The piece 'was dedicated to and
produced under the auspices of the Tam
many society of New York at the John
Street theatre, toward the end of the
eighteenth century, but even Columbus
and 8t. Tammany In person, disporting
themselves among stiff canvas trees and
wigwams, that were the most rfftlistic
settings the American stage has at yet
seen, failed to make the -piece a success.
A long line of . "Pocahontases" led bv
"The .Indian Princess," tnailed behind
the footlights of the old days. The
subject was Immensely popular and the
best actors of the day cheerfully stained
their faces and arms, nut on battered
feather bonnets and . stalked about in
blankets, as stern Powhatans, while In
dian maidens 'In dainty buckskins saved
Innumerable sturdv John Smiths. Charv
lotte Cushman, who was at that time
given to playing male parts, appeared
many times -as Rolfa in Robert Pale
Owen's version of the popular theme.
The success of "Metamora," for which
Forrest is said to have paid the author,
John Auarustus Stone, $500, started a
war dance of Oroloosas. Outalassies,
Pawnee Chiefs, Hiawathas and Wlssa
hlokons. until at last a reaction 'set In
and toward the middle of the century
James Rees, himself a dramatist, au
no thrill of love and song along mv
veins; thy kisses are doubtless sweet.
tnat ro "t- " eternal passion Tor
me. bllt l feel nelther pleasure, passion
nor naln.
"SO' I am certainly dead; dead In this
velvet end lace, dead in these jewels of
light, dead in the music; dead in the
dance.
"Why did I die? Ob, love, I waited,
years and years agone.
"Once Uie blase of a far off edge of
,ove crept up over my horixon..
"But a mtdnltrht swooned down to
"And so I died; died alone in the
grasping the white throat of "many a
prayer.
"How did I die?
"No. man has wrenched the shroud
from hia stiffened rnma, tn mav v..
murdered me! No woman has died
witn enough of Christ in her soul 'to
tear the bandages from her srlaasv eves
and say, -ye crucified me!
"Kesurgam: Resurgam!,
"Where shall I lead my flocks today?
is mere no riorerj lor me beyond this
desertt Is there no time for me to Dray
I bare to you my white bosomr I dra
from It the dagger whose blacks is keen-
er than any ye can hold. V
"The hands I most loved whetted It
and struck with fatal precision, for. ha
knew where the heart layt -
"No one else pan ever know. .
"In the beginning God, the great
schoolmaster, wrote upon the white
leaves of our souls the text' of life In
mn nwn suiunrann.
--"Cpon all souls It was written alike
'."How soiled and stained with the
Wood of the Innocent some of the booka
are.
"Surely yft some will look fairer than
others.
"The weak and the struggling.
' "The desolate and ..oppressed.
"The defenders of women.
The mothers of new born children.
"The loving wives of cruel husbands.
, '-'On the souls of these his autograph-
will Ixr.handed up to the Judgment .seal
pure and unsotled!' v
'The whole cry of the' little boqlc is the
old cry "Too. Late., r
Because Adah IssaVs Menkert had
loved, unwisely,, been f deceived fllsan,
fllnled. 'had1 sinned and wandered from
trie bath of her eariv Ideals aha hliave,i
life held nothing but repetition of
these misfortunes for) her, and so she
that .belief eome truer-- -. T.
A spectre not within the door: . . "'.
OREGON SUNDAY, JOURNAL, PDRTLAHD. .5UND AY '
thor of "Charlotte Temple" and "Wash
ington at Valley Forge, wrote that the
Indian, drama "had of late become u
perfect nuisance." Mr, Hutton remarks
that "a full list of the 'Indian plays.
more or lens successful, Known in oilier
days and now quite forgotten, would be
one of the curiosities of American dra
matic literature."
To be a stage Indian in those days
required no study or exertion. All you
had to do was to stain your face, 4ut
on thb regulation togs, learn to make
a war whoop by patting your mouth
with your hand as you yelled, and peer
stealthily under your palm from around
trees and rocks. For the rest you talked
sublime, primitive sentiments, in extra
good and usually poetic English, and
stood about In tragic statuesque atti
tudes with your blanket falling grace
fully over one arm and your hand
hooked carelessly Into your belt near
your tomanawK. mis was trie accepted
noble savage of the early Indian drama.
Bad Indians crept abound with knives
ana extra streaKs or rea paint on tneir
noses, taiuing a gipnsnsn mac sounuea
aboriginally devlHh.
The Pocahontas idea liung on bravely.
You could always be sure some gentle,
fawn-like Indian maiden would be on
hand to stop all bullets, knives or toma
hawks aimed at the hero usually at
the expense of her life. And the cur
tain was fond of going down on her
aged chieftain' father, sitting in front of
a lonely wigwam and eyeing the land
scape with primitive North American
gloom.
4 Most of these theatrical redskins
carried bows and arrows, which often
made them ridiculous trouble. It is
on record that during a performance of
"Metamora" when a line of young
braves in Indian file crossed the stage
at a swift trot, the leader tripped on
his bow and the? others piled over him
like dominoes until two or three spilled
over the footlights into the orchestra
This kind of thing was what particu
larly enraged Mr. Forrest.
Alter a while, however, people found
a new entertainment in the frontier
drama, with ita .more realistic rough-and-tumble
hunters and backwoods
men. One doesn't have to be so very
old to remember "The Kentuckian" or
Frank Mayor's ,T)avy Crockett." But
even these romantic scouts were for
gotten, when Buffalo BUI. In the border
plays that preceded the wild west show.
A houseless shadow evermore,
An exile lingering her.". , ,
What a blessing to this unhappy and
gifted woman the "New Thought"
philosophy of today would have been;
the philosophy which recognizes no such
words as "Too Late" and which tells the
"wrecks on error's shore" that thev are
divine souls, and joints them to the
heights where they may And themselves
reborn.
Let us hope that this storm-tossed
mariner found, her harbor of peace when
she passed on; that she may yet come
baok to earth, wise with the wisdom
gained In suffering, to sing the greater
songs which were stored la her turbu
lent soul. ' 1 -
A little flower for your grae, sor
rowful sister poet.
"Resurgarm! Resurgam!"
Graft Jn European Papers.
English newspapers particularly have
the habit of associating everything
American with ','rafi" and of defending
not only Great Britain, but all Europe
WHY ALL THIS
THE politics-economical organization
of society must come to a new
and Just arrangement because
reason and the ideas of mankind
demand It. One single funda
mental principle must govern society,
and this principle must be either indi
vidualism, that Is. egotism, or the soli
darity, the cohesive fellowship of man
kind, that la altruism.
At tho present day neither fellow
ship nor egotism are ruling alone, but
C combination of both, which is as un
reasonable as It Is inconsistent. Pos
session la organised on a personal ba
sis and egotism reaches In the laws
governing inheritance the utmost limits
to which t can attain, by not only
seixlng y stealth and violence Every
thing It can lay hands on, but by
clinging to the plunder forever, and
excluding the rest of mankind from
ver shaclng in its benefits, ,
Tbe man of prperty will not allow
the man. without property , to caU that
principle to his aid to which the former
owes his wealth. Fortunes are- accu
mulated in the name of individualism,
but they, aro defended in'the name of
human solidarity. The rich man en
joys his disproportionate, share of life's
blessings of iwhlch he has , made him
self master by unblushing :egntism. but
when tl pbor Irian- tielps -himself to'
tbem with srtmej bfithe j-fch 'titan's ego-,
Usra nd selfishness he la. arrested. 4
4
lile appcara'm real
Cut real cowboys and real Indians Into
is piece. Audiences began to demand
the genuine, lfomewhat soiled, article,
and to laugh at the old heroic braves.
There border plays were, usually built
around a rousing night ittark by a
bund -f Indians on a jwidy of United
States troops. Buffalo Hill's real In
dians neva spoke a sylliilile beyond
their- native war whoop. When an In
dian character had to say something
the part was -played hy a white actor.
But these pieces conveyed a yelling,
dusty, up-to-date realism that made the
Metanioras look stiff and pictorial.
Then along came John Brougham
with one of the funniest burlesques
ever written in English. His "Orislnal
Aboriginal, Rrratie, Operatic. Semi
CivUised, and Demi-Savage Extrava
ganxa of Pocahontas" has-left echoes
of laughter and a trail of good stories
that reach down to the present day. Its
gcta vagant travesty glvej one an idea
nt Ahat tile older Indian drama must
haveVbeen like. The piece was pre
senteV.to; the first time at the Lyceom
theatre on Chrlstthas eve under the
management of the elder Waljack.
The whole thing is a fast and furious
fusillade of atrocious puns and conceits.
The scene is laid in Raleigh aveiiie,
Virginia, which thoroughfare Is noth
ing' more or less than an aimless path
through the primeval forest as one of
the characters remarks:
An avenue.
The strangest that I ever knew.
Mr. Mutton cites similar lines.
Captain John Smith sings, of the royal
Indian court:
"I visited his majesty's abode,
A portly savage, nlumn and nlgeon-toed.
Like Metarp.ora, both In feet and fea
ture, . ' ,8,... .
I never met-a-mor amusing creature."
Mr. Brougham played "Pow-Hat-an-I,
King of the TuscarOras, a Crochet y
Monarch; In fact a Semi-Brave," with a
dense hedge of feathers towering above
his brow and a club as thick as a lamp
post. H benignly thanks his people
ut the end of the opening song, to the
air of "Hoky-poky-wlnky-wum.f
"Well roared," Indeed, by Jolly Tusea
roras; Most Loyal corps, your king encores
your chorus. '
against similar imputations. The'Ital
lan Press association, however, seems to
have trouble of this kind on its hands,
Judging from the following cablegram
from Romt1:
"A special meeting of the Italian Press
association was held here to consider
charges brought by the Belgian journal
Patriote against an Italian journal and
a certain deputy, in which it was said
that they had accepted large bribes
from the Congo administration to deny
charges of cruelty to. natives.
"The Patriote so clearly indicated the
Tribuna as the Italian Journal con
cerned that the director of the news
paper. Senator Roux. was summoned to
appear before the press association. In
stead of doing so, he resigned from the
association, accompanying his resigna
tion with a flippant article In the Tri
buna. ,
"That paper is also charged with re
ceiving brines from government offi
cials to conceal scandals In the public
works. A searching Inquiry will be
made, and In the meantime the Tri
buna's position here is severely shaken."
TROUBLE?
In the form of usury and speculation
the unscrupulous furtherance of self
.interest is permissible, but it is strictly
forbidden when it takes the form of
robbery and theft. The same principal
applied in the former case Is a merit,
in the other a crime.
Human reason revolts at such Ideas.'
Jf egotism is to be preached, let It be
consistent and assert its right in all
cases. If It Is right for the rich man
to 'luxuriate in a life of leisure be
cause he has been able to get posses
sion of landed estates or to take ad
vantage pf the labor of others, then it
must also be conceded to be right for
tho poor man to strike him dead and
take possession of his property as the
spoils of victory, if he has the 1-our-
gm and strength to carry through
siich an undertaking. This Is logical.
It is true that logic would soon
bring society to destruction and our
civilisation to the dogs and men would
become like .beasts, of prey (.wandering
alone through the land and tearing
each other tu.filet-es. ' But alivone who
Is not pleased with this abstract ""aim
of our social development, egotism, has
no other aUernptlve - before him but
to accept the ; other sole principle
fellowship.
The motto will no longer be "Every
one for himself,'' but "One for all .and
all for each.'" ' Society will thenas.
sume the responsibility of supporting
and" eduostlng the youtlF ef theeountry
until : they ..can earn their own llr
llhood, of supporting those too old and
MORNING, NOVEMBER; 1,
wKciara the
jn the
'life and ai"an
Later he cried:
"Sergeant af1 arms, say, what alarms
- the crowd;
Loud noise annoys us; why is It al
lowed?" ' w
Some one Inquires of the monarch
whether in the word "lie" he uses the
vowel "(" or "y." To which he replies:
" Y, sir, or I, sir, search the vowels
through.
And find the one most consonant to
you."
Tli chieftain .apostrophizes to to
bacco: "Whilri other joys one sense alone can
measure.
This to all senses gives ecstatic pleas
ure, You fuel the radiance of the glowing
bowl.
Hear the soft murmurs of the kindling
coal,
Smell the gweet fragrance of the horve
dew, 7
Taste Its strong pungency the palate
through,
See the blue cloudlets circling toj the
dome,
Imprisoned skies up-floating to their
home -
I like a dudeen myself!"
The very mishaps of the piece seemed
to turn1 themselves Into lucky chances.
Mr. Jefferson used to love to tell a
famous tale of success snatched from
defeat in an Incident that happened
during the first weeks of the piece.
Miss HihIfoii, the original Pocahontas,
suddenly departed one night, bag and
baggage, without so much as a whisper
of notification. "No word of thin pro
ceeding reached the theatre until a few
minutes before the curtain was to rise
on the performance. Of course for some
minutes there was a deadlock. No one
could suggest the faintest remedy, and
Brougham was nonplused. At last he
went In front of the curtain and ex
plained the situation. He confessed ha
was at his wits' end a long distance
for him to travel and really did not
know what to do. unless the audience
felt disposed to accept the burlesque of'
Pocahontas with the gentle savage
omitted,. He said there was an old the
atgcsl anecdote setting forth that on
one occasion the character of Hamlet
bad been so wretchedly acted that on
Ths attention of, the British press Is
respectfully drawn to the above, and
we think It will be quite In order If
the London newspapers!, or a few of
them, at least, would refrain from
throwing stones until they have inves
tigated their own glass houses. Mu
nicipal grafters were recently convict
ed and sent to Jail in the West Ham
division of London, and It la not at
all Improbable that other departments,
if investigated, minht yield similar dis
closures. This claim of immaculate
purity of motive on the part of Eng
lish newspapers is .best described in the
Cockney slang term, "Piffle:"
Two Hundred Towns.
There are two hundred towns in Orest
BritRln with over :,000 inhabitants and
no newspaper. Many of them are a
good distance from a large town pos
sessing a newspaper. So do you won
der that the people over there are slow,
narrowmlnded and ambit lonless? Whers
would the Cnited States be if this coun
try had the, same dlsvantagesf
By Max NbrJau
feeble to support themselves, of com
ing to the aid of infirmity, without aU
lowing hunger and distress to exist ex
cept as the punishment of voluntary
idleness.
Great catastrophes are looming up
on the field of political economy, and
it will not be possible to Ignore them
much longer. As long as the masses
were religious they jrould be consoled
foe thnlr wretchedness on earth by
promises of unlimited Miss In the next
world, but .today they are becoming
more enlightened.
The poor count their numbers and
thqse of the rich, and realize rbat they
are constantly growing more numerous
and stronger than the latter. They ex
amine tha sources of wealth and find
that speculating, plundering and inher
iting liavn no more rational justifica
tion than robbery and theft, and yet
the latter are prosecuted by the laws.
The increasing disinheritance X the
'masse by their deprivation of land
and by the,' increasing accumulation of
property into the hands of a few -srill.
make the eoonomlo. wrongs more and
more Intolerable. - .
The moment that tho millions ac
quire, In addition to their hunger, a
knowledge 1 of tho remote causes te
which -it Is due, they will remove and
overthrow all obstacles which stand
between then and the right of satisfy
ing their appetite. Hunger is n of
Ihe.few elementary forces that neither
threats nor persuasion caa perma
pentlyscontrol. . .. "
1908
Role ot TALYWANA
iqu&w lUgn..
Indian )naver
Its next presentation that part had
been omitted by particular request.
"Now," said Brougham. "If 'Hamlet'
can be acted without the hero, why may
not 'Pocahontas' be played without the
heroine? You all know that 'Pocahon
tas' Is a much finer play than 'Ham
let'; If yon do not I do, for I wrote It
myself. Will you permit us to make
the experiment?"
The cries of "CertalnJ r-o on," were
so encouraging that Brougham retired
amid applause, and the curtain was
rung up. The burlesque proceeded ad
mirably until the music was played for
the entrance of the absent squaw. ' The
audience wondered what Brougham
could possibly do. He was acting the
father, Pow-Hat-An, and was on the
stake awaiting the approach of his
daughter. He Immediately addressed
the audience somewhat in the .following
words:
"Ladles and Gentlemen That la the
sweet strain which Is supposed to bring
Pocahontas on the stage. You are
aware that she Is at present In Balti
more, and the law of the land will not
permit a Christian, much less a savage,
to be in two places at once. You can
yourselves vouch for the alibi; but If
she were here she would say," and here
assuming the look and tones of the ab
sentee Brougham spoke her part first,
then assumed his own character and so
kept up the dialogue. The audience,
convulsed with laughter at the admir
able Imitation, acknowledged by their
applause that Brougham had outdone
himself through the wit .wltji which he
had mastered the difficulty.
Nowadays when the Indian finds his
way into plays in the guise of 'at
mosphere" no effort is spared to make
him as genuine as can be. Mitchell
Lewis spends 60 minutes on his make
up as Tabywana in "The Squaw Man."
Any one who has watched Mr. Lewis as
he carefully molds each high Indian
cheekbone from a big lump of brown
fiutty slapped firmly on the cheek, neat
y sculpturing his nose from, the sanis
material, delicately blending the edges
Into the flesh, and finally workingvthe
whole thing down to a rich brown tlnp.
will understand the modern search for
realistic detail. Tabywana's face is so
heavy an affair that It takes a palette
knife and to minutes' work to dispose
of him after the performance.
LOVELESS MARRIAGES ARE
IMMORAL-By Prof. Emll Reich :
IX society nowadays marriages are
net entered into on account of love,
hut to obtain rank and wealth.
Wealth and rank are thus main
tained, but their owners decay. This
is In obedience to the self-regulating
and. restricting tendencies of every liv
ing organism, hence of humanity at
large
The suppression of love, the enlarge
ment of egotism, which are the prevail
ing tendencies of upper strata of so
ciety, would lead to the speedy decay
of the race If they became universal.
The Impulse for self-preservation in
mankind thus leads to the inevitable de
cay at families founded on loveless
and selfish unions. The rapid decay of
aristocratic Mwses universally eon
ceded has hardly any othe cause thau
this.
In addition to marriages Of this kind
contracted by degenerates -there' are also
those entered into by sound normal be
ings, capable of love, who yet have mar
ried without love from a lack of under
standing, from heedlessness or from a
cowardly dread of the dangers of tho
struggle for existence In the midst of
a society organised and governed by
sheer egotism.
It is remarkable that such marriages,'
contracted In direct opposition to na?
ture and reason, are called marriages
of reason. .The sin they have thus com
mitted against that fundamental liiV.
sexual selection, is avenged upon them
sooner or later, and the later the more
severely.
The Impulse to love cannot be eradi
cated from, their hearts and is continu
ally seeking an- outlet through the un-
yielding walls of legal and social con-,
ventlnnallsm. with incessant and most
painful exertions. It may happen, that
such an individual never- meets one ,
with whom It has an affinity through
out its entire life career. In this ease
the marriage re mains undisturbed and
the relation's between man and wife
united from prndentlal motives formauy
correct. But their existence is unflnp
Ished and .unsatisfactory; they always
have the tormenting sensation, of a sor
rowful unrest and xpertatiou,; they are
always hoping for"-omethltte yet to
come that- will awaken ihien from the
stupor of i their empty Uvea. Their
whole being Is felt to be incomplete and .
thw Ions fr- the unsung portion, which
they never find, even la the most brll-
"But the result pays," says -Mr. Lew .
Is, "because this finished tietali is -actly
what audiences are sure to lookv
for these days. Why, when- I first v
tried this makeup, I even umd to draw
my eyes Into just the right slanting;
narrowness by pasting bits of gauxe
back of the temnles. I went further
and experimented .with false lips. IC f
waa extremelv uncomfortable, however.".
and I found the effect hardly paid for ;
the trouble. Nothing Is too piuch't
do for makeup, but there Is also nothing
in which you can so easily do too much.
"When I studied my Indian for The
Squaw Man,' I was given a bundle of
photographs from the Uintah reaerva-4
tion. J. picked out one that struck me
as practicable and copied -it pretty,'
closely. I recently received a letter.
from a man who said he had been for,
11' years interpreter to Chief Long :
Horn. He hud Just seen the piece and,
intimated-that he had been rather" un-:;
canntly struck by my resemblance to
one of Long Horn's old warriors named'
Spotted Tall, who, while" he lived, had.-
uecn my correepunaeni m particular
friend. Of course I was not surprised?
fii turning uwr me piciurv to nnu ine
name of Spotted Tall on my . BpecM
"I'he same principles come true when
Girl I Left Behind Me,' a picturesque,
gibberish that sounded like Indian tallc"
was more man enougn to meet ait re-,
quirements. Not so today. This ia the
first time an Indian character has-ever"
been put on the stage speaking his,
native language. I am not likely to
forget the endless hours I spent dig
ging Indian words out ot Baco Vnite,,'
mv Instructor, who is no mors com-
municative than the rest ot his race,
nor the time it took me to spell them- !
out phonetically and memorise them
afterward. You get many of your,
cherished notions of Indians upset
when you come to study them - first
hand. . -v , (. v '(
"1 believe the Indian on the stage la
more elTectlve when used with white"
people for purposes of contrast, but
even then you can't do hint up in the
easy, war-patnt-andf eather get-up or
the old days. There was a time when
Ristorl dared to play Lady Macbeth
in hoop-skirts, hut the public has
grown xo do less romamio ana aecia-.
edly more sensitive to genuine detail."
lfant gratifications of their vanity or -self-interest,
because love alone could.
Supply it. , . :
The lives of such persons as well ad'
of the degenerates miss the eonsecra-'
tlon of the ideal, but, more subjectively"
unhappy than the latter, they have a
continual consciousness of what is lack-.,
ing. They are not blind but seeing
men, deprived of light. .
This Is the case if destiny does Tint
bring them irvto contact with some be.
ing with whom they have an affinity.
But if they meet with one the cataalroV.
phe Is inevitable. - -
The conflict between the conjugal du
ties and the elementary striving for
union with the individual for whom
they feel an affinity is constant and
wearing; the substance, the love-rebels
against the forms of the married state In
which It is confined. Either the sub.
stance is crushed or ihe form Is do
stroyed. ,
A third solution Is also possible, snd
as it is the mcst ignobTe,' It is the most',
frequently employed tins sidea of the, -form
which are visible to all eyes re
main undisturbed, but in the' rear a"
narrow crack is made through .which--the
substance can find Its wy out, T -express
It more practically, the lovlnif
party In the- lovelens marriage etthee
dissolves the marriage by force or:'
struggles with and subdues his love by
tlu. sacrifice of his life's happlnoss, or
else deceives tils wife and break hlii
conjugal' vows in secret. - :
Common natures selxe at onc upon
this last means of escape but nalr--'
of ' true nobility have to tregi,-l
through and bear with the tragedy i.r
rebellion against the prejudlre of so
ciety anilJhe fatal contest between p
sion and duty with all their bltt-r i i
tensity.. , ' '
if society were foundI nm.n t -
law governing the specie. . surn l, .
less marriages would be - Jnripossii.Kt r, j
Such catastrophes inconcetvblihi.
', .Th loveless marriage is a ... i !y
moral relation- fraught with ti,,f i.
fatal resulls for thw future of j. .. i
It compels thtcMM who mlef it ),, r
themselves involved sooin-r or l.'V;
a conflict between forsworn V'iwi . ,,
inqsfructlbla love, ami give it.. , ,,
tw .alternatives vui,n- mm
ruin. Instead et Us Wit (i .
humanity to renew i' juuiit u
means of slow al i K
,' At' the JiremeTrt rsTiTf 1" , .
popumt itm i.f.tw 1 i.itcl
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