He H eroines in Shakespeare' s Plays Make Ardent Love, | and Would Be in Fashion Now with Their Leap Year Meth I Twenticth Century Girls May Study Their Methods Very Profitably During the Anni- versary of Shakespeare. " EARLY nll of Shakespeare's women pursue F the men, try to entrap them into proposing and, if they fall fn this, do the act them- selves. Even when brutally rebuffed they persist and in the end nsually carry the day. It matters not how feminine and shrinking a maifleh may seem to be, in this particular she is sctuniy bolder than the most hardened warrior. She pits on disguise or takes it off; ehe roughs it and suf- fers nny Ab-omfort, If only she may win her end and captyre the man upon whom she has set her heart Ehnkespeare defied the tradition that man is the pursuer and woman the pursusd as boldly in his gen eration ax Hernard Shaw has in his. Fe shows con- clusively that when a woman makes up her mind to got A Inan he may struggle and rebel, but his chances cf eacape are almost ntl I'his being leap rear. as well as the Shakespearian anniversary, maidens of to-day may take a few leaves out of the great dramatist"s plays to holster up their courage to the proposing point if their inclinations point that way, "In Shakespeare's plays," says Shaw, "the woman always tukes the intHativé. In his problem plays and : his popular plays alike the love interest is the in- : tN ' Dita, in Tueelft Night," terest of seelug the woman hunt the man down, She " i Sends Her i 2 Liola. may da it by-blandishment, like Rosalind, or by 2% . ans stratagem. like Mariana, but in every case the rela- : ; ¢ tion between the woman and the man is the same 1 she is the pursuer and contriver. he the pursued and disposed of. When she is baffled, like Ophelia, she goes ad and commits sulcide, and the man goes 3 J ni - straight from her funeral to a fencing match. No 4 Xa ws : a. j Julia Marlowe and E. H. Sothern as Beatrice and Benedick in "Much Ado About Nothing." doubt Nature with very young creatures may save : L eA » ? Piste by: White woman the trouble of scheming. Prospero knows 8 ; ; Or, rather, do I not in plainest truth that he hts only to throw Ferdinand and Miranda W Fi y » SIRE, 5 Tell you, 1 do not nor 1 cannot lave you?" together and they will mate like a pair of doves, and - se ; A 5 f Helena: tere ig no need for Perdita to capture Florizel as Pha, £ Te . . - 8 "And even for that 1 do love you the more. the lady ductor in 'All's Well That Ends Well'--an meri J Bl ' N I am your &paniel; and, Demetrius early Thsentte beroine--captures Bertram. Dut the A i No The more you beat me I will fawn on yon: ATE caves all ustrate the Shakespearian law." 4 = (8 kk ; . o : Use me bt as your spaniel, spurn p'e, gtrike me, in "All's Well That Ends Well" Helena, who had : ; ' 4 $511 A 3 i. Neglect me. lose me; ¢ leave. protested that she pot only affected constant sorrow J eS Z) | R Ya , 5 , . Unworthy as 1 am, to follow you. for the loks of her father but bad it, too, laments, as wil " : a d 3 P or A 4 Poi What worser place can 1 beg In your love ston as Bertram, the Count of Rousillon, has left the 5 . L (And yet a place of Ligh respect with me), maT "I think not on my father; : : y " we il 4 Pp Than to be used as you use your dog?" And these great tears grace Lis remembrance \ 3 J 4 Demetriug: nit more hb ke " "Tempt not too Mmyeh lose! per o tn gpinit, " > Ta b For 1 am sick when I do look on thee. Toad host' | shed Yr gins, . hat way lie ie? i i 9. is : Helena replied that she was sick when she Whoked 1 have forgotten him: "my imagination 2 ; ; : val) { not upon him, whereupon Demetrius observes with Carries-no favor in't but Bertram's, PL Re B J obvious truthfulness: 1am nndone: there is no living, none, 4 i BR . "You do impeach your modesty too much, f Bertram be away. 'Twere all ane : x be ! : 3 i To leave the city and commit yourself That 1 should love a bright particular star 1 a , <a 4 Into the hands of one that loves you not." And think to wed it, he is so above me: 4 \ . Te, He threatens to run away and leave her to the 0 Ms petght radian e and collateral lig it 7 . q o mercy of wild beasts, * us ko rted, not in his sphere hia p : s All' Helena will say in return for his plain pe ak- The ambition In my love thus plagues itself; . \ : er 5 4 ) {ng is that women cannot fight for love as men do, The hind that would be mated by the lion : . # ey i r : 3 but that she will follow him and make & heaven of Must die for love." 4 4 ; : hy % $ hell; to die upon his hand. Bhe Bax no jnténtion of dying, however, but lets 5 A z GA 4 | . When the spells that have turned lovers against her thoughts gloat over his attractions. ' i a i. p He i ; their true sweethearts have passed, seeming small "Twas pretty, thou; hi a plague, ; \ oy t : 5 i 3 and indistinguishable, like far off mountains turned To ane him every hour: to sit and draw 4 ' 3 7 Ir 4 . . ah into clouds, Demetrius still Jooks at things doubt is arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls, Py = ! Ara, 1 " 4 n ~ i } fully, not sure whether he is awake or azleep, but In obr Heart's tably:-heart too capable 2 le RR See SAR y LS A Helena announces with ® satisfaction, "Aud T have Of every frick aud line of hs sweet 1avor; 31a i v 15 Ew 4 kT - ; found my Demetrins!" But uéw he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy ) 2 dE 2h Ei . $i : a i 2 Even the gentle Ophelia pursues Hamict: chaying n with Parolles, a fol ni --m - higher rate than a command to parlst, aud this did tow: wr of HeFra: &6 that #46 can ease her Reart by A ¥ ' » . : , . talking about him pie idl am nake him mad for her, according to | ins' ¢pinion Fanny Dagenport as Cleopatra, ¥ "gs 4 : " ------------_---- x ' - y P Pp When the Queen says ofl sand him wel . @ io 3 The court's a learning place--and he is ona" Calling the nobies cf court before him. he Ut 1 f A I warrant, she is apter to do than to confess she does; Ophelia, 1 do v Pareles: --""IWhat one. I" faith?" 2 choose. She pass long the line until shé comes \ that is one of the points in which women still git the That your good beauties be the happr cause Helenn:-- "That I with wall. 'Tis pity'-- Bertram ER 3 le imal qaisnionees Of Hamlets ilges # y A : wromises Orlnnd ire hig as{ARNeRs Of Fill bring him to his w d Paroles: "Wat's pity? 1 dare not ea : you i aie She promises orl 10 th eure hisgiiiesi kness on Will bring bim to : +2 Helena Me and my se a lave + . - condition that he imagine her to he his love and woo Ophelia dutifully replies; M§ wish it.par oi ' i sr every day." She puts herself in Ham'st's and when be htt wishing well had not a body in't FORE. Fniding pow the Ber-peery du} Rue > 1 not! ! - . ; - r « : t} he wonle x TI yt urns from hi soiliogey ana wm > 4 Which might be felt; that we, the poorer horn King Leen. $a : y t . F | wat would net be cured, turns from h y v ' sed : , Ea tA : - ' 1 1s "I won nee wn 3 ould but ¥ is remembrances i Wie Hes avi Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes ghé's thy wife i dR y x? Iw vou, if you would h Y m \ : x od £ : « . an lis nd come every « my cete § 1 them to her, but sae urges Might with effects of them follow our friends, Bertram protests I~ oy , 1 ili me Rosalind and com y day to my cete, them to her, but 4 ' "AT . ' ' . . 3 a 3 § woo mes" "Afy honourd ord, vou know right well you did And show what we alone must think." ' wife, m £ 31) LT your h : : ¥ : : A 3 In the same play one of the subording racters And with them word $0 3 Wogt Lresth compor'd Afterward Helena muses thus for her own encour- ness, ks . 1 Mania ¢ 23k agement: .* In suelf at iness give me leave to nes rg 3 Uso pursues Lor swain, Ph » rustic, z I As made the things * Fiehy thelr peifaug ost, ' | eo [oy ith Ros wd. whe he takes fron > ' « se agning fol "thir remedies oft in ourselves do lie, The hely of wilie own dyes." $y 4 Ww a : he 1 os these Agni 5 King 1 : bs guise to be 2 youag man ich gifts wax poor Which we ascribe to Hea the fated skv ving EB ' ' . . "REowet thon not Bart ' : ny \ » not Ia we with me," \ "hen Hamiet tarow roof at Gives ug free scope; only doth backward pu A Rows im, 1 L hn. hown Phnt «hi x ¢ jh ot 4 { her, b "Bebe ¥ \ frsuit pil her the maid, wo has show 14] Our slow designs when we ourselves are du What s Wh : 2 P y kT Alia ry ¢ Stats x . » - . Bertram i ; : ; | i wall rev eal X COAL th v of f rain " % . T3431 BT oY woh Bh SOR rit 3 1 i$ ol HW mach" Clete Who ever strove . Qe. my good lor * ; Righ i i v Ww i indeed, tail How mach iepntra To show her merit, that did miss her love? But i : ; p KF : a The King's disease--ny project way deceive me, i 4 g 3 =n Wd B ) . © : i r i "" But my intents are fix'd and will not leave me." He goes oh th protest thet she | ar hve? . § > . Pe. Von thou? un Iw e her actions » ret | a beurn how {ar to La beiov'd, When Bertram's mother seeks to find out whoathor G8 ne # ? y Lr y 1 'th : ¥ N g ' SOX 1a Yolil e-jrate Hit Rosa re on be is out of her sight she denia her walting woman has presumed to fall in love with wn tl i says t \ oston nid y 3 % 4 : : 1 y 1 t ' When 8 ut Bes sigh ag ; ran ith Luss Ye vt % x 3 ' "{n p 4 mn ile coz. that the ds" "Nee when » is CR Bb hi, wh ba doe her son, Helena fences for a time, then confesses: - wealth on 1 J B i MRL in i h y i 3 e 2. . « JY | nt Bee where he 8, Win ih his At 12 ung "1 love your son ' her and will 1 ry t nder far amand of Know how i Potts deep a in love. But it * * * If yeu find hin, sul , a. he King he is Were catnat-hesuunded "4 » Say Ian dancing; if | Jeport My friends were poor, hut hovest; so's my love. the King he haweyer ! an Julia Marlowe as Portia in "The Merchant of Venice," RH gre a. : pa i : Le 1 : st ¢ SIC SO pears i Vv at Ss 3 bi! bo Be not _offehd®d, for it hurts not him After the ceremony he protests to His ma "Ah Photo Uy Sands & Brady! * iu tha jest sel, when fpfiea aL 1 A ends . - 1 fore the sole nries hia tosuli says to Wy "To y Ye ip . Charmis ays chidingly i-- That be ds lov'd &f me. 1 follow hit not though before the soem priest I have wake him believe what fhe states he will love fer Rosalind xa ; hry 1 lan hi x ot Hl 1 ii kd 1g on Lise {iy { yours." 'Id is he leap r - "Mads . p s if yom Qin [ve By By any token of presumptuous suit: not bed her He is going to send Lior dently for 1 am u hat the | 3 pdam mf pinks if 4 - pp aH a 4 oman gives, the mi acces 'ot do not hold the eth d fo enforce Nor wonid I have him till 1 do deserve him mother with token « ! { Rosalind, in "As You Like It, ok pont OF 1do, woman gives, the man apt J li 3 You don vid the aeth d Te Orce Yet never know how that desert should be Italian wars. He refuses her petition f : SHI and Ber "pride falls with her fo \ \uot! en fs irl fr man nih "wh & n The like fry id lyin ira : a ites » 1 ile 3 ter > Lal "11 ow ove ths uf la, in Twelrth 2 wi was 1 stra" Wihnt «ho i ao, @ary are? 1 know T'16ve In rain. sirive agninst hope; ' writes a note to bealelivered to Ler (ater, vag her "IH ask him what he would you call, si : i Tiel 3 a9 tleopatm : " a a 8 Yet, it thik captious and intenible sieve that he will never see again Sirs you live res 4 vertirowit more sot by the Duke, fipon whom hier own affections were Charmian in each thing give him war: cro 1 till pour in the waters of my love > The Lfuntess takes the part of her danghterin- than your enemies." placed, to woo the returtitnt Olivia, who, iu he Hm in oy ; 4 . : i 3 1 Fate in love with 1- she kes to pa comely : a ----Thot 14 ~1 lk {ool the : And lack not to lose still." law and bids his men tell him that bis sword can Her cousin Celia asks { possible, on such falls in love with what she to be a comel) Slcopatra: Thou teachest iad {fool--ihe way to she it § . . We i a honor the s lode sien i ' , 1d fall i \ liking outh : usa him." The Countess presses Helena to say whether she "COT Wik the honor that he loses, Helena is filled - a sudden, yon should fall into so sivouy a likiug with youth had not the inteht of going to Paris. whither Beriram with remorse to think that she has driven him from oid Sir Rowland's youngest son?" In "A Midsummer Night's Lire a Helena pny $ » hen the song necessity uf kes 1 or un nee Lis E : his home and exposed | to the dangers of war "Let me love bing" Rosdlind beseechies, "and do. Demetrius, who is trying te win hieronas trius services apart rofl Fer she IDRkes tosis «f had gone. Helena confesses that she had, takies wid Wing Nm with her prescriptions left by her father, a physician Disguising herself as a pilgrim. she departs, begging ¥ ove Lim Beeause I do." protests to Melenai-- S frac a Battle Antony penronehed THY to cure such maladies as fhe King suffered from. She that word may bg sent so that hema to : or she inguired eng rly of Ber cousin 5 % i '1 love thee Bat, there fort pur; ue me not. "0 whither est t 104d ns Ezy: 3 s he v & hie » Aat « hie ben thou saw'st him? hat sak Fhe 8 Lysander and fall berms' in game og finally wins the consent of the Countess to make her As a pligrim she comes to the town where Yer hus: ; \ hat did wh 1 inst bh sa Where is Lysah nd fa ie +B 1 convey my siame qut of tht band and his fellow <€oldiers were. Conniving with he? How look'd hes Wherein went he? ~What - » * * * - By looking back on what I have left on journey ard see what she can do at court. + of Rortram's. s} ales B a mk 16 RY Did he ask fo a" 1OIR FBT po one and follow me no more." 'Stroy'd iu dishenour. Having giined her audlenc ith Se Ki H a sweetheart of Bertram's, sile takes ber place at a mutkes be here? Did he ask for me? Where remains Hence get thee g > v " Ss *x e King, Helena midnight meeting with her husband. Later she makes Be? How puted he with thee, and when shalt thou Undaunted, Helena retorts: -- ae ot : y pérdiades Bim to try her cure, If she falls death fs, © EL EE ERE A, es ca | see DinFagain? AdSwer me In 006 word." Your diiw me. yout hard-lieurted adngmat; BEFp. thot Knew'st too well to"be hee portion; If she wiccesds the King promises : a Te BITTING Ll le p y g t h 3 My Beast was to thy rudder tied br the strings; fie ms NusDADd aby one she MAY choose outside the has boen a wife, unknofn to him, is a knowledzed by When. disguised as a boy, she js talking with Or- @ But yet you draw not ron, for my heart o'er my srs * ¢ him. Iando, she answers his wish that he could make her Is true us steel." . ' Thy tull supaemacy thon keew'st, and that royal blood. ¢ "Will you be mine, now that you are doubly won?" | helicve he loved by retorting:--*Me believe it? Yon Demetrius: Thy heck might frofls the bidding er tie pels ow eo The King 18 cured and mikes good his Promilse. Helena asks Bertrdii, aud be replivs that if she can may as soon make ber that you love believe it; which "Deo I entice you? do I speak you falc? Loman me A