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t ifEARST’fl SITNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA , SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1013. [Stage Fright Comes Only in Love Scenes SCOTT COLLECT HAD GREATESTYEAR L GIRLS .t.#.;. j. •.;. +•+ +•+ +•<■ +•+ +•+ *!*••{• 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 White City Park Now Open Don’t Put Ice in The Drinking Water r ls . Worth a » JSndofG^ bright Typhoid kfrom. Drinking Safe Drinking'Water for Summer is always at hand in liberal quantity in the “Built- in’’ Porcelain-Lined Water Cooler of the Automatic Refrigerator Let the same ice that cools your food cool your drinking water. Investigate the AUTOMATIC. C. H. MASON 6-8 W. MITCHELL ST. 2 TRAINS DAILY Lv.7:12AM., 5:10PM. 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. Name P. O. Address P. O. Box or R. F. D. No State