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ifEARST’fl SITNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA , SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1013.
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LEGISLATIOKTD Players ’ Club Stars Practice Ardent Wooing
‘Gag* Rule,Urged to Bar Consid
eration of Pet Measures of
New Congressmen.
TARIFF PROGRAM FOLLOWED
Underwood and Other Democratic
Leaders Want Nothing to Ham
per Monetary Reform,
WASHINGTON, May 31.—The
Democratic caucus Monday will be
urgrd to pass a “Rag” rule restrict
ing to currency reform the additional
legislation at the present session.
Fearing that the House Democrats
with the organisation of committees
may plunge Into con ski era ti on and
action on amall bills of merely local
Importance, Underwood and other
Houae leaders have determined to Im
pose the caucua rule. The resolution
to be presented will pledge the Dem
ocrats against reports by commit
tees other than the Banking and Cur
rency, Appropriations, Indian Affairs
and Rules Committee*.
May Pass Indian Bill.
It may be possible that some plan
will be devised whereby the Indian
appropriation bill, which failed at the
last session, may be passed without
being sent to the House committee,
in which event that committee will
be muzzled.
Underwood explains that he desires
to focus attention on the money leg
islation Just as he did on tariff leg
islation. Should the House commit
tees be permitted to take up the
multitude of wma.ll bills now before
them and go into general leg
islation, there would follow a weaken
ing of Interest in currency reform,
which is to be one of the features of
Democratic achievement.
Some Members Dissatisfied.
Some dissatisfaction with this pro
gram is being shown. New mem
bers are desirous of getting down
to work with their pet local meas
ures. and Underwood may have dif
ficulty in getting through his caucus
gag rule.
Republican Leader Mann to-day
announced his assignments of regular
Republicans to the House commit
tees and a caucus approved them.
There were no changes among the
ranking minority Republicans on the
major committees from the last ses
sion, except that where defeat car
ried off the ranking Republican ad
vancement was given the second mi
nority member. The Progressives
announced their committee assign
ments some days ago.
I N the top picture are shown Mrs. John M. Slaton and Miss Hildreth Burton-Smith, who take
two of the principal parts in the Wilde comedy. Below are shown Mrs. Henry Bernard Scott
and Hamilton Douglas, Jr.
Final Rehearsals Tell How Atlanta
Society People Overcome
Bashfulness.
SEABOARD ANNOUN
CES LOW RATE
BALTIMORE AND
RETURN.
> $20.85 from Atlanta, on sale
j June 5, 6, 7. Through trains dally,
? electric-lighted steel sleeping, ob-
J ©ervation and dining cars Com-
? plete service. City Ticket Office,
S 88 Peachtree.
If your name were Jack. Just plain,
bromidic, "foar-not-fair-maiden” Jack
or Algernon, high-brow, elegant Al
gernon—and if the lady of your heart
vowed she would wed only a man
named Ernest, what would you do?
It probably would be interesting to
think about the situation. It may oc
cur any time, you know. It is work
ed out by the Atlanta society folk
in the Players’ Club who will present
Oscar Wilde’s comedy, “The Import
ance of Being Earnest” at the Grand
Theater, June 3.
It is worked out well, too, so that
when the curtain falls the audience
will be expected to harbor the illusion
that the characters in the play wlW
live happy ever after. Witness the
final tableau.
Algernon Moncrlef, who is Lamar
Hill, decorously approaches Cecily
Cardew, played by Mrs. William
Owens. Jack Worthing draw's close
to Honorable Gwendolen Fairfax—the
parts respectively are played by
Marsh Adair and Miss Hildreth Bur
ton-Smith.
“At last,” says Algernon Moncrief—
Lamar Kill.
• At last.” says Cecily Cardew—Mrs.
Williams Owens.
“At last.’’ says Jack Worthing—
Marsh Adair.
“At last.” says the Honorable
Gwendolen—Miss Hildreth Burton-
Smith.
Which is as it should be in a per
fectly* satisfactory play, at the end.
President of Institute Announces
Abolition of Preparatory Acad
emy—Honors Awarded.
0. S.PEERESSES
Clergyman Says International
Marriages Have Elevated Ameri
can Womanhood Over World.
all European society, American wom
en are In positions of honor and re
sponsibility and at the heads of great
families.
“They have gone to these foreign
countries with American training,
principles and ideals and with few
exceptions, they have remained loyal
in their hearts to the country of their
birth. Their children have inherited
American blood and their education
has been modified by the custom* and
thought of this country. These worai
en have been one of the great silent
forces—all the more potent because
silent and often unconscious—In
changing and reshaping European
thought. It is written that ‘a little
leaven leaveneth the whole lump,’ and
this is one of God’s w r ays of bringing
the w'orld under the dominion of lib
erty and justice.”
Dr. F. H. Gaines, president of Agnes
Scott College, whose brilliant com
mencement came to a close last week,
announces that the session Just ended
was decidedly the most successful in
point of enrollment and college spirit
in the history of this famous institu
tion. He announces* the discontinu
ance of Agnes Scott Academy, which
has served for years as a prepara
tory department of Agnes Scott Col
lege, which leaves Agnes Scott Col
lege the only institution on the cam
pus. He congratulated the trustees
upon the splendid work performed by
the academy.
At the closing session Dr. Gaines
announced the honors, prizes and
scholarships, always a source of en
thusiastic interest.
There was no first honor awarded
this year, but second ho # nor was cap
tured by MIrr Janie McGaughey, of
Atlanta. This honor was based upon
her work during her entire course at
Agnes Scott College.
By vote of the faculty, the fellow
ship was awarded to Miss Emma Pope
Moss, of Georgia. The collegiate
scholarship, which carries with it the
tuition in college for next session, was
won by Miss Grace Goehegan, of Ala
bama; the piano scholarship to Miss
Mary Pope, of Tennessee. The voice
culture scholarship to Miss Almedia
Sadler, of Alabama, and the art schol
arship to Miss Hallie Smith, of North
Carolina. All of these scholarships
were awarded upon the basis of great
est improvement shown during the
course Just ended.
The English prize, showing the
greatest proficiency in English based
upon best essay prepared, was won
by Miss Emma Jones, of Georgia, who
also won the Aurora prize. The math
ematics medal was won by Miss An
nie Tait Jenkins, of Mississippi. Dr.
Gaines announces the reope ling of
Agnes Scott College on September 17,
and already the prospects are most
flattering for an unusually large at
tendance.
ANNISTON. May 31.—pr. Gardiner
C. Tucker, of Mobile, one of the lead
ing Episcopal clergymen of Alabama
and the South, offered a defense of in
ternational marriages and a propa
ganda against woman’s suffrage in
his baccalaureate address to the
young women graduates of Noble In
stitute, the Episcopal diocesan school |
of Alabama, located here.
He said:
"The American nation is the fore
most nation in the world to-day, and
in the American nation the American
woman is the dominating element;
not fully recognized as such as yet,
but Just as surely bound to be as the
stars are In their courses, for this is
an era of stupendous changes. Woman
is coming to her rightful place not
only in this country, but the whole
world over.
“Woman’s Sphere Alt«red.”
“If there were time, I could speak
of things that have recently happened
in Chiija, India, Japan. Persia and
Turkey, which show’ how’ tremend
ous has been the alteration of the po
sition of woman in those countries
of social darkness. For much of this
change in the world's consideration
of women, the American woman is
directly responsible.
"Did you ever consider this signifi
cant fact? For something over two
generations, there has been a stream
of the most influential class of Amer
ican women flowing into the leading
nations of Europe. They have been
marrying into the nobility, the gov
erning classes of England, France-
Germany, Russia, Italy, Spain and
Austria in numbers more than can
be counted.
It has been the fashion of our
newspapers to cavil at this and to say
that our women were selling them
selves for title and that the foreigners
were attracted only by the glitter
of American gold. That there is some
truth in this cannot be doubted, but
it Is not all truth.
Honest Love Frequent.
“There has been a great deal of
honest love and full appreciation of
manly and womanly qualities on both
sides. Some of these marriages have
turned out badly, but the great ma
jority of them have not. At every
European court in the best classes of
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Nervous Debility
Its Symptoms and the Errors in Methods of Treatment
By DR. WM. M. BAIRD
And lorgnetted Lady Bracknell, who
is none other than Mrs. John M. Sla
ton, looks superciliously upon the "at
last-lng” lovers.
"You soem to be displaying signs
of triviality,” she remarks.
The society players revealed the ex
cellent stage form of veterans at their
rehearsal last night. They walk and
talk as nonchalantly in the glare of
the footlights as on Peachtree Street.
Even the business—maybe embarras
sing at first—of a stage kiss or two
planted circumspectly and profession
ally upon a cheek does not nonplus
them. They proved themselves sea
soned actors, last night.
Everybody says something clever.
Oscar Wilde’s comedy is clever
throughout, and has that virtue of
light entertainment to commend it.
It was for this virtue that Mrs. Sla
ton praised it last night.
“It is clever and bright in almost
every line,” she said.
She spoke at a period in the third
act, when the lovers were all together
and pondering over the difficulty of
their names. Jack and Algernon
would rather bo Ernest, both of them,
because the girls they love prefer it
so. They entered.
That Miss Hildreth Burton-Smith
should play the Honorable Gwendolen
Fairfax is not surprising. The name
and the part seem to fit the stately
Miss Smith. And Mrs. William
Owens *s a petite and adorable Cecily
Cardew—just such a personality as
the name seems to demand.
Young Actors Debonair.
Marsh Adair and Lamar Hill both
were debonair young Englishmen.
Their parts require a varied person
ality. They are cynics, poets, lovers
embarrassed and self-assured by
turns, in the play, and have learned
by an apparent natural knack of his
trionics to adapt themselves easily
to the varied demands.
Gwendolen and Cecily had arms
about each other in this particular
scene.
"Your Christian names are still an
insuperable barrier,” they said, to
gether, to the men. “That is all.”
“Our Christian names." said Jack
and Algernon, "is that all? But we
are going to be christened this after
noon.”
Gwendolen—“How absurd to talk
of the equality of the sexes! When
o.uestlons of self-sacrifice are concern
ed. men are infinitely above us.”
But in spite of herself, Miss Smith
laughed, just a w'ee bit.
Came a stern voice from the dark
ened pit. It was that of W. A. Rog-
I ers who is directing the performance.
"Miss Smith, Miss Smilh." admon-
j ished the stem voice, aroused by the
I unprofessional chuckle.
Jack (agreeing with Gwendolen) —
“Yes. We are.”
Cecily—“They have moments of
physical courage of which we women
know absolutely nothing.”
The suspicion of a smile. The stern
voice agaiin. Then—
"Darling," said Gwendolen to Jack. |
“Darling,” »aid Algernon to Cecily.
Tlie . stern voice,
"Make that business a little more ;
natural," it urged. There was a pause j
and silence for a second or tw r o, while
the players did not look at each other.
Then tjbf play went on.
Most entertaining of all is the part
played by Mrs. Slaton as Lady Brack
nell, a veritable Mrs. Grundy of Eng
lish society.
“You are perfectly right, my dear, |
in making some slight alteration in ]
your age,” Lady Bracknell said in one
sceno last night. "Indeed, no woman |
should ever be quite accurate about !
her age. It looks so calculating.” And I;
again—
"Ah, nowadays age is no guarantee
of respectability of character.”
Mrs. Slaton said she enjoys the part.
No one of her friends or acquain
tances could ever Imagine Mrs. Sla- I
ton in real life giving utterance to
the things that, in the part of the
English dowager, she announces. The
change is unique, affording a real I
enjoyment to both the actor and the
audience.
Henry Taylor Real Butler.
Henry Taylor W’as a perfect Eng
lish butler at the rehearsal last night.
He plays the part of Lane, in the em
ploy or Algernon Moncrief.
Hamilton Douglas a Parson.
Personality was revealed in every
role. Two clever bits of character
acting revealed last night w’ere those
of Hamilton Douglas, Jr., as Rev.
Canon Chasuble, a monotonous and
sanctified clergyman, and Mrs. H. B.
Scott, as Miss Prism, a governess j
w ho plays across from the Reverend |
Chasuble. A bit of dialogue describes |
well the two characters.
Chasuble—“For the last hour and
a half Miss Prism has been waiting
for me in the vestry.”
Lady Bracknell—“Is this Miss
Prism a female of repellent aspect. I
remotely connected with education.” j
Chasuble.
Warren Rogers, for years a profes
sional director of plays, and the au
thor of many dramatizations of pop^-
| ular novels, said last night that the |
development and ability revealed by ;
the first cast of amateur actors with
which he has worked has been little
short of wonderful.
The sale of seats for the perform
ance, June 3, has been large, and the
capacity of the Grand will be taxed,
it is anticipated. The proceeds from
the sale of seatg will be devoted to
charity.
W HEN I began the practice of medicine, these
cases were entirely treated from the sympto-
C matic outlook rather
v than from any real
\ knowledge of the causes
?§!| that were underlying
| the peculiar symptoms
p from which they suf-
v ' 1 The consequence was
that men would consult
WMtgHBT' .. / tality, elderly men find-
> *><, / ing their vital powers
J h ' slackening perhaps, and
*'" J ' i A the doctor would sim
ply prescribe for them
from that point of view
without ever looking in-
t o the causes that
brought on the symp
toms from which they
suffered.
The laymen little ap
preciate the intricacies
of the nervous system,
the peculiarities of the
nerve elements them
selves and indeed it is only during the last ten years
that we have had a proper conception of these ele
ments, or the minute anatomy of the nervous sys
tem. A better knowledge of it has entirely revolu
tionized our ideas on the subject, and that during the
last couple decades.
When I pointed out some two or three years ago
in one of my Sunday talks the peculiar pain and dis
tress that occurred around the base of the brain, run
ning down the neck, due to trouble originating in the
prostate glands and its annexes, I was laughed at
by some doctors. One gentleman met me on the
street and said that my idea on the subject was all
nonsense, and yet in the last year I have noticed sev
eral articles in medical journals that point out the
truth of the idea that I then stated.
No one realizes excepting he who has been delving
in these subjects for years how much an irritated or
congested prostate gland, or a chronic seminal vesi
culitis due perhaps to some errors in earlier years
will keep up the distressing nervous symptoms.
So that he that understands his business to-day
DR. WM. M. BAIRD,
Brown-Randolph Building,
56 Marietta St., Atlanta, Ga.
will treat every one of these cases alike. One case
may need treatment for the prostate, another case
may need treatment for the kidneys or some other
trouble. The same way in women. In one case it
may be due to ovarian trouble, and in another some
other condition, each of which will need separate
and distinct treatment, for he who follows out a rou
tine treatment or attempts to treat each case alike
will certainly meet with failure.
The reader will remember that some time ago I
published a letter from a gentleman from Stone
Mountain who was very materially benefited by
treatment by me for bladder trouble, and a little
later a gentleman called on me, holding this write
up in his hands, saying that his symptoms were
identically the same, and he wanted the same treat
ment.
Now, when I came to go into his case carefully
and thoroughly, I found that he needed an entirely
different treatment, but while his symptoms were
practically the same, yet the causes and the under
lying pathological condition were entirely different.
So we get back again to the old subject of diagno
sis, which after all is the important thing.
A new edition of my work on Nerve and Brain ex
haustion will soon be out, and I will be pleased to
send it to any one who will request it.
Those who appreciate honest, conscientious ad
vice and counsel, the outcome of over 35 years hard
work and steady experience in practice, I will be
pleased to see them any time at my office or to hear
from them by letter, and if it is anything I can advise
through the mail, I will be glad to do so.
Office hours, from 9 to 6:30 daily.
Sundays and holidays, from 10 to 12.
Dr. Wm. M. Baird,
Brown-Randolph Bldg.,
56 Marietta St.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Please send me your booklet on Specific Blood Poison. Also
one on Health, and as soon as it comes from the press, your re
vised article on Brain and Nerve Exhaustion, and other articles
you may publish from time to time.
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