Word: seamstresses
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...plot deals with the adventures of Tom Stewert, who for the sake of his friend, Dick Lockhart, plays the part of a long lost son. The developments are at all times obvious. Tom falls in love with a charming seamstress of good family, is besieged by a scheming adventuress, dashes heroically off on his horse to divert the officers of the law who are in pursuit of Dick, and returns to win his "heart o' th' heather...
...role of Janet Kirkaldy, Miss Gilda Leary is sweetly attractive as the seamstress. Miss Viola Gillette is a convincing Mistress Musgrove, and Mr. Barlowe Borland, as Geordic, plays the low comedy part of a Scottish simpleton in a highly laughable manner. The Christic Mucklebacket of Miss Eleanor Daniels, the Sir John Murray of Mr. Jack McGraw, and the Lady Murray of Miss Gilda Leary are all adequate characterizations. Walter Connolly is a competent Dick Lockhart and the minor parts are suitably cast...
...Seventy-third Psalm David considers and solves the perplexity which has been troublesome to not a few, in all ages. Virtue with crosses and misfortunes is not rare while vice is often prosperous and comfortable. Here a poor seamstress earns enough to sustain life only by constant and painful labor and there a careless cumberer of the ground is quite content in everything; here a charlatan thrives and there a well-equipped practitioner has scarcely a patient; here a demagogue makes a fortune out of the people's fears and hopes and there a patriot is unheeded...