Show THE EDITORS EDITOR'S TABLE TALK i L c OF THI THINGS GRAVE VE AND GAY p u THE WOMEN'S FEDERATION I It It Is rather observable at the editors editor's I table of The that some fOme of ot our I esteemed contemporaries are Inclined to ask the question For what Is the Federation Federation Federation Fed Fed- ot of Women's Clubs and what Is IsIt isIt It t going to do at Los Angeles beyond having laving a good time electing reading papers on on art rt ass association as as- s civil service reform civics forestry education industrial problems literature libraries reciprocity and Vogner and wearing its best gowns gowns' We are Inclined to answer the question q by asking another which is is What t better etter do men do do wh when n they meet in n conventions of ot one sort or another elect officers smoke cigars drink cocktails cocktails cocktails cock cock- tails air their several individual vanities vanities vani vani- ties in speeches more or less tiresome and adopt resolutions or platforms cut and dried for them in advance by a afew afew afew few leaders with axes axes to grind anc and to whom they stand In the i relation elation of ot a jumping jack to the boy at th the pulling end of ot the string As a matter of ot cold boiled fact we think that the women's clubs and the federation of them theta have more thought and purpose e behind them than the majority of associations among the sterner sex They differ from the theold theold theold old gossipy tea and sewing circle parties parties parties par par- ties of our grandmothers grandmother quite quIt as much muchas as the Society ty of Psychical Research or the Society for the Advancement of Science differs from the the cross roads loads grocery debating club of our grand grand- fathers They are compose composed of ducat ducat- educated ed erudite earnest observant women most of of whom are wives and mothers fully fully aware of their duties and responsibilities in in inthe the world and of their their own latent but now lOW fast developing po power to exert an active and purifying in influence influence influence in- in fluence upon its affairs In short we venture to pi edict that before the current current current cur cur- rent generation shall pasS away leaders leaders lead lead- ers era of social movements and of political parties will ivill have to count with the Federation of Women's Women Clubs just as much as they now do with the great organized forces of the men We shall not be sorry to see the dawn of that day Human society minus the influence influence influence in in- fluence of good women would be what General Sherman aptly called war PRINCE AND PEASANT Be Beginning tonight and running for two nights and a Saturday matinee matin e The Prince and the Peasant a a. comic opera composed and written by and nd l I Maltese tese both of Salt Lake City will wih be presented at the Salt alt Lake Theatre A As the whole affair in lud- lud Ing the Ing the sol solo parts chorus and orchestration orchestration orchestration orches orches- will be rendered by home talent and and- andas as the work pork ork has been highly praised by competent musical critics we have no doubt that The Prince and the Peasant will ill be accorded a hearty and generous reception by our local so- so city As The Telegram has remarked before the social leaders of this city are always appreciative of home ef efforts efforts efforts ef- ef forts In the way of entertainment and the productions of our Salt Lake Opera company and the delightful Sunday night concerts of Professor ProCeSsor Held's Holds milItary military mil mu- band InvariablY are patronized with enthusiasm and liberality This is as it should be Salt Lake City is rich In musical lyric and dramatic talent and the same should be en encouraged en- en and and we are are happy to to toay say nay Is Isso so MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE IRE It may be said with truth that one of the richest dramatic treats of this I 01 or any other season is in store for the people of Salt Lake In the approachIng approach- approach Ing visit of Richard Mansfield who Is Isto isto isto to produce here the ch charming play of Monsieur Beaucaire already familiar no doubt to most of our readers re-aders in its book form Referring to its production in Indianapolis the tha Journal of that city says Mr Mr Mansfield Is well fitted by the part of Beaucaire the barber- barber prince gambler that created such a disturbance disturbance disturbance dis dis- dis- dis at Bath He imitates the French French- French English gUSh accent to a nicety and I he is especially clever in the assumption assumption tion of cool courteous audacity Beaucaire's Beau- Beau caires caire's ad ventures adventures jin In Mr Tai novel novelette tte are recast in the play The first act of the play Is net In the book beok but anticipates It It The scene is the pump room at Bath and nd Beau Nash Nash and the the other elegant loungers of the place are presented The Th second actIs act actIs actis Is In Beaucaire's apartment and the g game me of cards is played during which the Frenchman catches Winterset cheating and forces him to promise t that at he will Introduce him t to Bath so so- so clety The other three thre acts carry out the story as it Is familiar to its readers readers read read- ers era except that the ending has been changed Lady Mary Carlisles Carlisle's coach appears on the stage and Beaucaire has his fight with his enemies s. s There are twenty-six twenty characters In the play I GOOD JUDICIAL ADVICE We do not know when we have been more pleased to read a judicial opinion opinion opinion ion than we have one handed down by Judge Richard H H. Tuthill Tuthill of Chicago Chica Chica- go yesterday The case before him was one pf wife beating The evidence showed that the defendant who was a abass abass abass bass dr drummer in in an orchestra kept himself l in training when he was not beating his drum by beating his wife J R Reviewing the testimony Judge Tuthill said A Woman owes a duty to herself and her se sex to get a a. revolver and kill such a brute as this man ins man proved himself to be If she is afraid to do it her heT male relatives ought to do doIt doIt doit It for her Brave and honest judge That is th the way to talk The brutal woman beater is a beast too vile to live Uve He should be o outlawed and anybody permitted to fill him full of holes on sight |