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NORTH AEORS: BREEZE . 
-.GUEST NIGHT, MANCHESTER WOMAN: ‘Ss CLUB;) “BRILLIANT 
OCCASION. 
Rev. Allen A. Stockdale of Boston, Lecturer: pry Posner, Hae ‘Ada-" 
mowski Scholarship, Violinist, £24 oR 
fine entertainment 
therefore the an- 
nual ‘‘Guest Night’’ of the Manches- 
ter Woman’s Ciub, Wednesday ev- 
ening, fulfilled its mission in every 
respect. It was the most important 
event on the elub’s social calendar 
A very large and representative 
Guests and a 
are synonymous, 
gathering of townspeople convened — 
at the Town hall to partake of the 
club’s hospitality and to enjoy the~ 
delightful evening’s programme‘ of 
music, oratory and humor. 
The entertainers of the 
were Rey. Allen 
Boston, lecturer; Ben Posner of New 
Haven, violinist, and holder of the 
Adamowski violin scholarship at the 
N. E. Conservatory of Musie; Miss 
Annie L. Lane, Manchester, and G. 
Allyn Brown, Gloucester, pianists. 
Mrs. Emma G. Tenney was the pres- 
iding genius of the evening and Mrs. 
Larah Wheaton, hostess. 
The programme opened with a 
finely exeeuted piano duet, Haunted 
Forest’’, MacDowell, by Miss Lane 
and Mr. Brown. Mr. Posner follow- 
ed with a clever interpretation of 
Russian Airs by Wienawski. This 
selection served to admirably intro- 
duce bim as a young lad unusually 
gifted as a musician and a master 
of violin technique. 
Rev. Mr. Stockdale was next in- 
troduced. Both he and his subject 
created great enthusiasm and merri- 
ment. He enthralled his audience 
as he carried them through his grave 
and humorous moods. 
Ilis subject was ‘‘Shall the Corn- 
ers of the Mouth Turn Up» or 
Down?”’ Rev. Mr. Stoekdale has 
appartently become 
unconsciously a student of Delsarte. 
Ile has discovered his great merits 
as a delineator of character by the 
simple marking of the features or the 
expression of the face. He is an op- 
timist and a disciple of good cheer 
and humor. He certainly gave his 
hearers abundant proof of it in his 
clever and deeply impressive lecture. 
In part Rev. Mr. Stockdale stat- 
ed that there is an underlying phil- 
osophy of life and a literal meaning 
evening 
to the corners of the mouth when 
they turn up or down. People 
needed to day to take the ‘“‘silly 
cure’’, to keep the corners of the 
mouth turned up. 
Our passions and emotions change 
our faces and forms. Our expres- 
A. Stockdale of-: 
was next diagnosed. 
a habitual attitude to. convey the_ 
cousciously or * 
sions are subtle ways of oft peo- 
ple feel bad." Passion, fear, love, 
jealousy, and absolute resignation 
are all displayed by, a simple expres- 
sion. © Rev. Mr. Stockdale assumed 
these varied expressions and atti- 
tudes very easily and created great 
merriment by ‘his impersonations. 
The play of light and, shadow on 
the face really tells the story of the 
soul. ’ 
our attitude toward life. 
Invisible sculptors are turning the 
corners of our mouth up or down | 
- cultivated. 
such as’ the over strained nervous 
tension dubbed — ‘‘Americanitis.’ 
The victims of this disease find’ it 
hard to play and to take a day off. 
We really need to adopt the Eng-. 
o’clock tea custom as a 
The great.need of strong 
lish five 
respite. 
men today. .is_ to play, 
and fortune to accomplish all in 
their power. 
Blues were discussed by the-speak- 
er, who believed that the indulgence _ 
of them “changed nothing but your- 
self”? 
Worry was. nothing but death by 
strangulation. Its mission was to 
kill, to commit” the philosophically, . 
impossible, 
Overwork ..and wunderwork were 
two extremes of misery. Work is 
God’s. greatest blessing. To illus- 
trate worry Rev. Mr. Stockdale -re- 
cited Saw Walker Foss’ very humor- 
ous poem, ‘‘And He Worried About 
It. 99 ; 
The chronic fault- finding spirit 
. This becomes 
impression that it, is mark of super- 
iority to find out always. what is 
wrong. 
fool’s gold. 
find, real metal.’ 
the real spirit and the real soul, you 
will always tell what is right. There 
It takes an expert to 
is no living, with a chronic fault- 
finder. 
Imagination bie font miser-_ 
able hours. The world will help 
you always. if you want to be miser- 
able. To illustrate, this: Rev., Mr. 
Stockdale rendered Joe Lincoln’s 
poem relating to the blackbird and 
foe croaking frog. 
Love for children, as a,medium for 
keeping «the .corners#! ofthe .mouth.. 
turned.up..was.impressively treated, . 
If. you have. the intelligent and sym-.. 
Our, ‘minds and: souls" show 
‘physical being. 
to permit © 
these great architects of business — 
‘“Any fool can pick. up . 
When you have © 
pathetic love of a child you will nev- 
er grow hopelessly blue. If you 
don’t understand a child they will 
* be forever a nuisance. They invaria- 
bly turn the corners of the mouth up. ~ 
4 eventing they say or do is fresh 
and unconscious. They are mission- 
-ers-of sunshine, sometimes too late. 
Chum with your children. 
absolutely frank minds will delight 
Their 
you. They take away the cynicism 
of the wear and tear of life. Men 
need to hear this side of child life. 
Rev. Mr. Stockdale illustrated this 
point with the poem entitled ‘‘Ja- 
cob Straus’’. He also told several 
highly amusing anecdotes and say- 
ings of children showing their free- 
dom from conventionality.. 
The sense of humor ought to be 
It is a rescue from 
tragedy. Laughing is really a phys- 
ical exercise. It regenerates the 
Even the appeal 
the humor of euphony has, though 
~ ridiculous, creates good solid laugh- 
ter. Rev. Mr. Stockdale’s stunt 
with Esau Buek and his buek saw 
was adequate proof of this assertion. 
As a climax, Rev. Mr. Stockdale . 
took a serious view of the luxury of 
struggle, the cheerful struggling 
against impossibilities. It is not the 
arriving, but the traveling which — 
counts. The great things are done 
by the cheerful strugglers. The 
things worth while are the things: to 
do. It is an age of inspiration. Too 
many are looking for situations and _ 
not for jobs. All the literature of 
the day is born of struggle. Strug- 
gle controls the mind and _= soul. 
There is an appeal in the love of 
struggle. To illustrate struggle he 
gave a brilliant and dramatic clim- 
ax to his lecture by the rendition of 
the chariot race from the late Gen. 
Wallace’s Ben Hur, indicative of 
struggle. 
The versatality and genuine en- 
thusiasm of the speaker in handling 
his subject created a most favorable 
impression on his hearers. He was 
most heartily applauded at the 
close. 
Two other musical numbers of 
high artistic merit closed the even- 
ing’s entertainment,—Piano duet, 
Processional from Jensen’s Wed- 
ding March, Miss Lane, Mr. Brown; 
second air de ballet, Adamowski, 
Mr. Posner. Mr. Posner was oblig- 
ed to respond to an urgent encore 
and rendered Third Humoresque, 
by Dvorack. Mr. Brown shared the 
honors with Mr. Posner by his able 
accompanying. 
During the social period, refresh- 
ments of salads, rolls, ice cream, 
