GREEN HANDS IN THE NURSERY

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 63, 19 March 1913, Page 4

GREEN HANDS IN THE NURSERY

Another Lewis Carroll has been discovered in America, and a new “Alice in Wonderland” has made her appearance. The authoress is a Miss Kleanor Cates, and her creation is called “The Poor Little Rich Girl.” It is ten years since Miss Gates wrote her story, and it was only dramatised a, few weeks ago. Miss Gates, who

spent six years on the plains cf Dakota herding cattle with her brothers, says, “You can explain the lesson of the drama hy observing that yon don’t put colts, but seasoned horses, into the care of an inexperienced groom. Then why turn green hands into the nursery ?” The play treats of Gwyeu-

clolyn, :i little girl, whoso father is engrossed in business, and whose mother is absorbed in society. P..id servants generally do her grave injustice. In order that one of the maids may have an evening off with the footman the child was given an overdose of a sleeping drangnt. In her delirium she encounters allegorical characters, such as the “King’s English,” in the uniform of a British Grenadier, who is murdered by Thomas, the footman, after the shedding of many ‘hV and a glorious riot of cockneyisms. Her former governess appears literally as “a two-faced thing,” a group of social friends of her parents as mechanical tittle-tat-tlers, her father chained to a moneymaking machine, which he is industriously feeding with dollars, and her mother gazing into a bonnet in which a society bee is buzzing.