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Show WARD WINTER WAILS. There must never be any 'more New Year's celebrations. The would be-sensational Ward Winter Reese has decreed that there are to be no cakes and ale distributed in the celebration of the dying year or any bubbles and laughter to welcome the new one. Business must be falling off, for Ward Winter not only pulled what he thought would be a sensation, sen-sation, but advertised in advance in three inches oi display in the Tribune that the evening address ad-dress would be on the amusement evil, and together to-gether with his deprecations of the new year's revel, showed convincingly how in his mind all of the little children are going to hell because somebody opened a candy raffle. Ward Winter was almost shocked beyond expression nothing could shock him too 'much for that because the moving picture houses are being run at a profit. He expressed the befief that such pools of Immorality Im-morality as moving picture shows which spread death should be wiped out, and gave utterance to many other sentiments which, though milder than usual for Ward Winter, are to be expected from him at any time. It Is a lot more uplifting to go to an instructive picture show on Sunday evening than to listen to Ward Winter, and perhaps per-haps that is the rub, for so much competition must be painful for a -gentleman who would like to hurl his i'mprecations at a large and seething mob. We missed Ward Winter, New Year's eve, looked for him everywhere, but he must have stayed home, and we are sorry, because he missed a lot of fun participated in by hundreds of people whom we could name and whom we know have as 'much charity in their hearts for the poor and the suffering as he has, and who do a thousand beautiful things during the year without preaching about it, and make as many small and large sacrifices as the average clergyman clergy-man who advertises his sensationalism. |