entify the figures, I turned to a lady and
asked her where I might obtain a program. There was no
answer. I became embarrassed and a little angry when I saw I
was the subject of amusement for the crowd. I looked closer.
The lady was made of wax. Well, I don't remember how she
looked, but I do remember every line of the beauties of the
Venus of Milo, which I saw in the Louvre, and of
Michelangelo's Moses. I did not consider them figures or
real persons, yet they live with me.

The charge that the theater gives too much attention to vice was discussed
by Mr. Skinner. When used on the stage to heighten the dramatic effect,
the simulation of drunkenness, he said, is ethically right. "Mrs. Warren's
Profession," he declared flatly, was quite properly suppressed, since
there was no reason for it except the exhibition of vice. False and
namby-pamby melodrama, on the other hand, is fully as detrimental to
dramatic art.

He outlined the plot of a play in which a poor young man, after rescuing
the daughter of a multimillionaire by a feat of virtually impossible
agility and strength, is promptly provided for by the thankful parent, and
marries the girl.

The story, as he told it, was glaringly untrue to life--wherefore he
denounced it as immoral. It represented the extreme of romantic falsity,
just as "Mrs. Warren's Profession" represented the extreme of disgustingly
literal reality.

In art no extreme is acceptable--a lesson which the Greeks, with their
supreme intuition of artistic fitness, taught the world once and for all.

WOMAN HAS ALWAYS EARNED HER LIVING.

The New York "Sun" Disposes of the
Old Notion That She is the Mere
"Beneficiary of Man."

The Rev. John L. Scudder, of Jersey City, recently preached a sermon on
the subject, "Business Women--Do They Reduce the Number of Marriages, and
Do They Make Good Wives?" He said, among other things, that if the
business woman marries, she marries "as an equal and not as a dependent";
that, therefore, we must expect fewer marriages in proportion to the
population. But he added:

The business woman of to-day refuses to be a moon revolving
around a masculine earth--she will be a twin star or
nothing. I believe her industrial training will make her a
better wife, for she will know the value of a dollar and be
able to sympathize with her husband in his daily toil.

She will apply business methods to domestic ec