The Moral Effects of the Drama.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 71, 22 August 1885, Page 3

The Moral Effects of the D rama.

: ... A Sydney contemporary tells tlio' following story:— On the suburban theatre train from Wellington, New Zeajaad, the other night a little party were talk* ing of pathetic scenps on the otage, and how thoy were variously affected by them. " For my part," said a dappei young man, •' I never saw anything on the stage that could moisten my eyt. I leave the crying to little, boj'R and women " " Oh, you do, do. yon ?" replied a bluff old gentlemfcn, a railway official ; '* every time I hear a young man talk as yon do I feel like telling a little incident that catne under my notice a week or two ago m Dunedin. A # pnrty of us went to nee "The Silver King." None of us had ever seen it. Ished a tear. or two quietly and unobserved, but rough old Captain AJcßae cried like a hoy. Ha was a regular martinet m his profession, stern and unrelenting. H,e .was an -old batcheinr, too, and as far as is known never had tender feelings to woman or kin. He had lived a life, solitary, and absolutely non sentimental. We were all surprised to 86^ emotion m such a man, but sflid nothing except young George-^ — , He laughed at the old captaia'a weainsss; 11 Can you witness such a i performance isMr George Leitcb gives ot "Old Jaikes "ie the cottage se^iie' with dry eyes ?" inquired the captain with all bis sternness of manner and speech. " Why, of course I can. I could laugh at it even as I laugh at you." "See here George-— —."iaidxCaptain Mcßae, with great earnestness, " you are cashier of a bank m . In that bank my company has many thousands of pounds deposit. Immediately on my return every shilling of our deposits shall he withdrawn. You may be. an honest man ; but I do not feel safe with our mon< y in an institution where one of the responsible officers is a person who talks as you do tp-nigF»t." . Upon his return to — -the captain did as he promiped . And luckily to. for m less than six days afterward that- bank. waR nearly ruiiifd by a heavy embezzlement by its oashier.