Life — October 11, 1883 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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*LIFE- tional” activity. This talent for uttering maledictions, for really dancing with the madness of passion, is, 1 am sure, not easily equalled ; when they are not giving voice to their fury and despair, they are, probably, jamming the head of some magnificent femi- nine sinner against a bureau or a sofa. ‘* Fédora” is not unlike its predecessors. The woman herself is an illogical, morbid, un- fortunate creature, She loves one man, who is killed. She then falls in love with another man, who killed the first man, When she learns who her second lover is, she pounces upon him—meta- phorically. She draws him into her net with treacherous suavity. Her love—which has been found tobe a variable quantity—turns now to revenge. She does not reflect long enough to allow her lover to defend himself. She might reflect a little in real life, but not, of course, ina play by Sardou. She goes to work at once ener- getically, fills her house with spies and policemen, and makes ar- rangements to have her too confiding young man borne away se- cretly and expressed post-haste to Russia. She distributes in- formation enough, furthermore, to bring about the death of her lover's mother and brother. However, her stupidity—if one may call it so—is the beginning of Mr. Sardou’s great situation. The young man visits the house of Fédora. It is night. He is alone. ‘here are Russian spies in the next room. Fédora is about to deliver him to the police. Suddenly he begins to tell his story. He proves that he is not a murderer. He proves that he had killed her first lover in self-defense. He proves that this first lover had been a faithless wretch. Fédora is overcome. She must now save this man. But how? He insists upon returning to his home. She knows that if he goes he will be seized. She entreats him tostay. He says, in effect : “ Your honor, madame.” ‘Blank my honor,” says she—or that is what she means. He then falls upon her and kisses her thrice a second. In a volup- tuous dream they forget the policemen. The curtain falls con- veniently at this point. In the next and last act, the hero learns that Fédora had caused the death of his mother and brother. He bs her in his rage, and tries to knock her brains out. But her cad is passably hard, and she manages to escape and to take poison, Shedies. And so this little scene of horror ends. IXEN. RENDER: VNTO $CISSOR$ THOSE THIRGS WHICH ARE SCISSORS > SUDA T8 THE FERUNS I, 00 A SUMMER TRAGEDY. Moan— Spoon— Glove— Love— Kiss— Bliss— eee Fall— Call— ‘Cool— Fool— Letter— —Boston Bulletin. CaN the policeman who chases and catches a Chinese criminal be said to be the Asiatic collarer ?—London Lancet. A’crty clerk has just proved that Paris green on certain kinds of pie is entirely harmless. It is the pie which is generally fatal.—Health ‘Journal. ‘WHES the widow buries her first husband she becomes pensive, but after she gets the second she is usually expensive.— Yonkers Gazette. AN employé of the Lehigh valley railroad in Pennsylvania has six fingers and a thumb on each hand, Providence evidently intended that he should couple cars,—Burlington Free Press, NEW PUBLICATIONS. | HENRY HOLT & CO, HAVE READY: | Mrs. Alexander’s New Novel, “The Executor.” 16mo, Leisure Hour Series, $1; Leisure Moment Series, 35 cents. Symond’s Italian By-Ways,, By Joun AppiINGTON SyMmonps, author of “ Renaissance in Italy,” 12mo. $1.75. ‘* Perhaps we shail best praise Mr. Simonds's latest sketches by saying that we have never WALL PAPER. Homes, Offices, &c. QuaInT, RARE AND Curious PAPERS BY EMINENT DECORATIVE ARTISTS, viedridjshall Called «2 Yow Lrznto “A Treasure of Nature,” on account of Freetel lorides, Recommended asa mild a) for regular use by such medical authorit! (oe at es poner ‘iecance oe “Es fetaal =f rit ie Soe bk ey sierdifemraricese aioe Established 1853. ‘as Sir Huxny THOMPSON, hemor: H.B. KIRK & CO., 1158 BROADWAY, 69 FULTON ST. been so conscious of a keen desire to follow in a traveller's footsteps as while turning over the pleasant pages of ‘Italian By-ways.'"”"— Pall Mall Gazette. Mrs. Miller's In the Ketchen.| By Mrs. E. S. Mitrer, Square 8vo. $2.50. Being a new edition of this very popular and practical cook-book, Close Figures given on Large Contracts. Se If youintend to sell your house, paper it, as it will bring from $2000 to $3000 more after having been Papered. Samples and Book on Decorations mailed free. H. BARTHOLOMAE & CO., MAKERS AND IMPORTERS, 124 & 126 W. 33D ST., (near B’way,) N. Y. Old Crow Ryeand Mayfield. The Best in the World. Sour Mash Whiskies. RELIABLE WINES. comicbooks.com: