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Show The Theater a War Tonic. "Can you imagine the state the nerves of the country would be in but for the necessary mind recreation-provided recreation-provided by the theaters?" the London Lon-don Chronicle asks in calling attention atten-tion to the fact that the war has been prolonged for more than eighteen months and that the end is not yet in sight. "A weekly evening at one of the theaters," it goes on, "is a safeguard against nervous breakdown. It is a tonic more effective than doctor's-medicine. doctor's-medicine. All the senses are quickened, quick-ened, and instead of depression we-have we-have alertness; optimism instead of pessimism. Gladstone went to the theater the-ater for mind relief in a time of national na-tional strain; so'did Abraham Lincoln, and the late Lord Roberts advocated showing a cheerful countenance to the. world." .,...' |