MOVING PICTURES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1913, Page 8

MOVING PICTURES.

(To tiie Editor “Stratford Post.”) Sir',—Many and varied are the pleasures to which we are accustomed in this present time, and, perhaps, we may place pictures in the first rank. It is a marvellous thing to see in one evening the glories and most magnificent scenery of the world; to watch with breathless interest the almost uubelieveable feats of insect life; to gaze in wonder on the mighty achievements of little man; to enter and feel the intense excitement of the great towns of the world, which—to many of us-—would be a closed book but for the picture privilege. These scenes are educative and a source of enjoyment, and are surely varied enough to give pleasure to all. Then, why drag us through scenes of debauchery and vice, such as were depicted in “His Life,” and “St. Cieorge and the Dragon”? Wo would gladly bury from the eyes of the young am! innocent, sights so impure. Why should modest maidens ho made to blush at the recollection of such things? 1 have boon hoping that an abler pen than mine would take up the subject, but feel it is not right to allow tho matter to go unnoticed, for I do not like to refuse my children the pleasure of the pictures. 1 have heard so much about “those horrid pictures” that I feel constrained to write, 1 am, etc., A MOTHER.