New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 29, 1917, Page 4

Gorial “HIDDEN HAND” i I'm afrald‘I didn't succeed very well, ! ] would: m" one of the two big at Keeney's the- j ofle of those rare strong ¢iil bring tears to the 4 “Beloved Jim" is a f of @ noble charactér, and the entirely upon him and the he must naturflly arouse in jarts of the audlence. The Christ- Bpirit during the early part “of 5 » strongly emphasizelt and pughly In accord ‘with the gen~ of tha story. Priscilla ) ghitrming picture but also offers f'part tn & manner that speaks for her dramatic abilities. Harry oF as “Beloved Him™ must bo seen i appreciated. &3 1 lifford and Monrbe Salisbury Denire of the Moth,” a five- n ftm-y that is alive with fon, - ful of healtay 4 (4nd humor, and the 'q s developed and Bined listic style. Mon- isby u..:w hristopher Fay ing and every fo: Ruth Clifford finds the role Vorhis well adapted to her [pg personality and splendid ’ is nndor'ei by the other pry of the ca: , b ustially ¥ood vaudevills tho program. i soun News For ‘IDLE WIVES” AT FOX'S TOMORROW \ | Tomerrow will witness the opening at Fox's 0f the sensetional revela- 1 tion of . ‘Wives,” which will remain for thiwe dave, im order that wli Fox ay SUN—MON—TUES' A SENSATIONAL REVELATION OF : ' WOMAN-KIND' | amd in her déspalr appesls to the who @nticed her from home to o thely untos & Jegkl ome, but the bratal wanderer refuses.. Then follows the girl's desperate pleading ‘which iy 55 pitiful that it is & hard haart ipdeed thaj can withstand its pofgnant humain note. With sl the lure of Rer sox she first exercises her physical . attractions upoa the man she v while at the same time she at ipts to break down his de- termination to leave her. Falling in this she ofings passionagely td him wiih ‘nzfll welling from her eyes. Fk he tries to rid himself of her, . and to disemgage her arms from his neck. Oné can almest hear the con- vulsive ssbs of the girl as, with red- a‘puments and the administratlon of tain the last vestiges of the affection of the strest\yst who has brought bout her ruin. The Matter struggles desperately %o free himself from: the Ynecubus, a8 he knocks her down, and % LA then mskes the weak exouse that he woman and have 1% knowledge of the | has no money. By workiag upon the existence of any other. As he himeelf . poor girl's sympathles he diverts her once said of Harry Underwood, “H# | thoughts from her own sorrows and doesn't/ nedd any telescope to find the | pleads with her to do somrething to prettiest girl in his vicinity.” Help him. “What can I do?” Molly Katie's usually bright' face was ' asks immoeently, anxioug to help fhe shadowed when'I entered the kitchen. | man she loves, despite the barb; in My little maid has been very happy ' her own breast. Then by apecious since we moved into the house we had, Arguments and thea dmindstration of purchased on thé shores of the little. drugs, A2 inhuman wretch Lmposes, morbid thoughts that had come to|lake. For one thing, she and Jim his whl upon the helpless girl, and me as I pondered the meaning of | have two -cosey rooms to themselves dfl'lf her stil] further in the mire. Cousin Agatha’s news. ‘I didn’t wish | at the back of the second floor, where "l'hh: is only ome of the many threads, the ofy, 2 men - SEVEN GRIPPING ACTS! A Startling Incrimination of the Modern Woman. IT WILL MAKE | MILLIONS THINK AS THEY HAVE NEVER THOUGHT BEFORE «“ART THJU THE WOMAN?” NO INCREASE IN'PRICES! REVELATIONS OF A WIFE &y A?m GARRISON \ Why Madge Put Her Reluctance Aside Dicky came up the stalrs two stéps at a bound, calling *“‘Madge, Madge,” 2t the top of his voice. § I put up my hands awiftly and un- mercifully pinched my cheeks into some blance 0f golor, every vestige of which ‘had left my face, at. the him to guess that I suspected his| &t the old Brennah house they had o to make up_the fabric of telephoning to break his. mysterious | but one rather comfortiess one. Then most powerful moral lesson that engagement after carefully telling me | the new home, while even more se- ' has yet been put upon the scresn, and- that he,could not‘reach his friends | cluded from public view than the it is @estined to have a world-wide by ‘phone. A | 'Brennan property because of the high effest of s benefictal nature. There 1 ched my ‘door” as his knock | trees around it, is yet much nearer the Will be mo increase in prices for “Idle upon the panels, unlocked it | <enter of the village. Katie easily Wives.” threw. it open. % can walk to the shops, the post office “What is it, Dicky?"” I strove hard | and thé “movies”” somothing she | fhake tuy voive seund mataral, but | could not do at the Brennan house. SELECTIVE DRAFT STORY AT FOX'S g { | Byt there were traces of tears in for my husband looked at me keenly. | the eyes she turned upon me, and | “It's perfectly bully out,” He saidthere was an expression i’ her face ! to my rellet not commenting upon | L had never seen there before. It my appearance, as I was afrald he | Wasa solemn look, almost one of dpn- would. Of course its cold, but I do | secration. 2 . Georgs Walsh 1s now appearing at believe thée's a hint of epring in| She listened attentively tb thé in-, Fox's thester, is without s particle the alr at last.’ And its about time, |Structions I gave her concerning the {of doubt the greatest hit that that “The Pride of New York”, in which ‘Mary, protides mot only al top, Didn’t I hear you say something | Simple preparations for the entertain. |athietic young star has ever made. It ‘abgut having popped oysters tonight? | ‘Why don’t you take a walk with me | ‘down’ town there and get them? Can't be: too careful about them “So late In the season; you know.”, 3 "A Swift Decision, I¢ T hadn’t. been so ~ unhappy I ve found it hard work to re- ress & smile at this speech of my E and’s. | Dicky| fancies himself an expert judge 6f the freshness of ail msea food, when the real truth is that he is absolutely at the mercy of any ' unscrupulous dealer who sees his :weakness and flatters him accordingly. JFortunately for bur household, . the yster men, and the fish men at the -docks at Marvin are honest, reliable dealerd. But,I 4id not particularly care to gccompany Dicky upon a pur- chasing ‘expedition, for I knew by ex- perience that the men often engaged in furtive smijes at Dicky's boyish as- sumption of ‘deep-sea lore. Of course, -however, I let no hint fall of my reluctance to go. Instead I smiled up at him as brightly as I could. “I believe a walk is just what T need for the headache I've felt coming ! on for the last half hour,” I said.! and spoke oply the truth. “I'll have to speak Katle about tonight, | though, and get into my walking | suft. But I'll be ready in twenty minutes.” “Take all the time vou Dicky said\ generously. “I haven't half looked over the paper yet. I was| in such a hurry to get that note off | that T left everyhing, even my break- fast half eaten, How would vou ltke ! to get some steamed clams at that queer little dumap down at the harbor before we cd¥ie back? T know I'll be hungry by the time we get down | there.” ¥ ! | i 3 want,"” What Troal atie?’ “I think it woul idea,” I replied, but I had hard work to make my acquicscence ¢8rdial cnough to_escape Dicky's quick obser- { vation. His mention ¥ which he 1 80 _carofully expiained tho necessily for writing, was Irritat- inx beyond 1 to me in th light of the knowlicdge 1 had that had deliberately decelved me. - Ho | had written ng nots in his room and ! Cousin Agatha haditold me of soeing | him in a telephone booth at the drug’ store, following his declaration that he could'not reach his friends by ‘wire, As I went down to the kitchen to soo Katie, T scourged my tremulous self {nfo s semblance of calmness. No what this deception of Dicky's ! his face being almost covered with be a very good of the note ' met of the Durkees, but her usual for- | tells the story of the selective draft, mula, of ‘gnswer, “All' right, I feex,” |as it affocts & young stesple-jack, Jmw was mechanical, lacked the cheery | Keeley; played by Walsh, and an ef- note which generally gcéompanied it. | feminate fop, who goes to the ofi- And when I turned to leavt the [cers’ trajming camp merely because kitchen she made an involuntary ghs- | he has the idea that the government ture of sppeal that made me' stop | takes batter care of ‘th rs than with eager, questioning eyes. * {of the privates Incidemtally, Tim = = = shows him that thers are other ways PR ot Tiiing in the ranks besides train- mwm “m ing cawigs. Both Tin and the rich young idler are in ove with the same Itching Eczema on My Little Boy Writes: Mr. Jorgenson rl, and Tim’s chances certainly look “My little boy tvo‘yenn old was suf- hopeless until the olive drab uniform comes .élong to exercise its equaliz- fering with eczema for about a yesr, sore inflasirce on ), They get t cp, and some Bt battle-scenes are shown, with all the modern de- tails of trench Aghting, armored tanks, aeroplanes, ett. And the girl, by the aid of bandages Gieguises him- ntirse. Duritig & Gersnah raid on a French town, she is captured by a brutal young prince, and taken to a ‘|.chatesu behind the lines for his own amusement. Tim d:lcvvon h“b ab- i serice, &nd sets off alome @&nd are- m“?him ufi,fi‘m; handed t& rescue her. The manner many remedies but all [in which he does it is one of the most failed to help. The skin |exeititig mnd at the mame time the dzxflnmed.-fl slickest piecé of work that he ever the rash itched badly csus- |'accomplighed. Another thrilling scene ing him to scratch the |occurs when the Germans attack the \breaking out all the time, | Red Crose bhospital. Twm orders all . and he carty bis | the invalids to be concealed, and then, hands to his face to scratch while | by the ald of bandgas, diggyises him- asleep, waking him, The eruption also teelf and a' Palf-dosen - othér young caused digsmmegn. o huskied 28 among the wounded. , The ‘‘Somebody advised me t0 try Cuti- | Gérmans fefde their wey in, sull you cura Soap and Ointment so I a lomn judme their oonsternation &k:m of 'C“fiC“"‘ EOIP h.tnd a of | when they suddeniy see the supposed ntment, rou| from their béds of awayand before xhee first Stivpim. thin up Soar, is 408 v pain and lambast Q“r_ Teuton ane- ed) Otto V. Jorgenson, eruptions x of Wiillam 8. Hatt {8 also among those Present, in a gripping five-reel dra- ms, “Between Men”, 1h whicth i# to be among other things, ohe of the most realistic hand-to-hand fights that has ever beeh caught by the .camera. ", whick is the title mies right snd lert. H & Tbéatézg‘oeff» and Wom SIDE TALK How the World Compdrisons of the girls of the Present day with their forbears to the detriment of the former are so an- tiguated as to quite deserve Mrs. Mal- aprop’s famillfar adjective for com- parisons. £ b Consequently™I was delighted when a very keen minded woman, herseit of the last generation, presented.mé ‘| with an utterly contradictory point of view. ¢t Shé Thinks the Girl of Today Is & Better Housewife Than Her Mother. “3 thiak the girls of t4day,” she said, ‘“‘are much better trained . in housewifery thatl their mothers. When I was a girl domestic help was much cheaper/than it is now, everyone kept help, and mothers didn’t expect their daughters to go into the kitchen. ‘The grandmothers of this present generation had had plenty of exper- ience, too much, and they wanted to give their daughters freedom from |§£1ut as a father who hasn’t any, thle good times in his youth, wants his son to have them, and Sometimes overdoes it. 4 “I think our mothers really took pride in the things ftheir daughters couldn’t do. . Helplessness was the style then. It was a mark of gentil- ity.” ! ! ‘And you don’t think asked ‘someone. Having Ohfldfen and Keeping House Is the Today. “Indeed, I don’t. Miciency is the Style now. Look at the girls' who take up domestic science .courses. Being able to do those things has come back into style just as having children is the thing nowadays. 'And nursing them instead of putting them on the At s n?w?" Is Getting Better bottle. It's the thing to .be housewife. 'Why some of t.hn:o'?::d. mestic sclence schools are the smartest things in thd country.” “How do you change?” asked sam . Young People Don’t ‘Want to Live ‘With Their Families. The)lady looked' thoughttul. *“Well, % S I can give two suggestions,” she said , " is now 2 finally. “One is/that it's the spirit ' United States. ‘This-will by we of the age—efliciency. The clinging mews to thousands of psqpias vine woman has passed away. | The beensendingtoCanad woman who can do her part has come of these famous tablef into style. And the other reason is made from the juice. | the cost of help and .the unwilling- oOramges, fig. ness af young couples to live with 8o § their parents awhile, the way they it-a-ti used to. rmerly, when a girl of . United . the well to do class married young, she used to live with her parents for a few years if she couldn’t ‘w set up an establishment with at , one maid. ' Now the young people aren't willing to do that and as help iz so high that they can’t afford & ' maid (and keep up with all the other expensive tuhlo;l of the day) the o 4 women learn to keep house and keep house well' themselves. Think of the Iruit juices may be girls you know brought up in well to WAy that the natural m do families who marry and do their fruits, are own work." i 3 A Do you qn\l an interesting. point-of view? I do. Of course this woman belongs to the upper middle clags and what she says only applies to fthe ' middle class. But it is good to know that everl & small portion of our fems« “inine population has u?provtd. it for the jedi Joicss. "'—""“—“—)_‘—'_T—'—"'T_ “MARY’S ANKLE” AT PARSONS' TONIGHT “Mary'd Anpkle” will be played agein at Farsons’ theater, Hartford, this evening, closing the engagement. It is a lively tarce and is well played. / The names of many notable players, formerly associated in the presenta- tions of other big comedy successes, appear on the list announced to come to Hartford with ‘4 'Queens” next Monday night (New Year's K Eve), when H. H. Xrazee will offer his new- est farce hit at Parsons’ for an en- gagement cof three nights and two matinees. The matinees will be given Tuesday (New Yeur's Day) and Wed- nesday. In the cast will be found Florence Edney, Edna Baker,’,George Sidney, Edwin Nicander, A. H. Van Buren, Marrieta Craig, Marion Coakley, James Dyrenforth, jy QOngley, Ges- monda Wilnore, Florence Jahns and Violet Reed. Those Who remember—and who doés not?—Mary Ryan ith *“On Trial” and “The House of Glass” will be glad to welcome her at Parsons’ on January 3, 4 and 5, when she appears in the Cohan and Harris productian of ‘“The Teacher of Goshen Hollow.” Menu for Tomorrow Breakfast 2 Fruit Duchesse Potatoes Graham Rolls Coffes : ' Dinner Tomato Soup , X Roast Beef Brown Gravy Mashed Potatoes Peas Lettuce Mayonnaise Tapioca Custard Coftee Supper. Spliced Salmon Marshmallow Whip Coffes Tajloca Custard—Boil one quart milk in double boiler and add four tablespoontuls tapioca, which ‘should have been soaked in water. Cook un- til the taploca is transparent, adding pinch of salt. When tapioca is cooked, take mixt off the fire, add three eggs well iter. and ‘sugar to taste. Any flavoring may be used. Cool and serve. Msarshmallow ‘Whip—One pint whipped cream; slice one pound of mashmallows and fold into the cream with half.a pound’of English walnuts, chopped fine. Serve cold. FADS AND FASHIONS Black velvet hats are always large and flaring. ¥ 5 Scarf collars and ‘sashes ‘are new ideas for blouses. Tweed is even a greater favorite tha.n\ jersey cloth. éreen lined with gray makes a pretty street suit. : < Hats ot soft ‘are'iworn somber mtrest dresves. 4 gold. % : Witk “Reitaded | with tasssle ‘blouses. 3 “BIG BILL” HAR COMING TQ LYCEUM Y N “Big Bill" Hart, hero of numberless stirring, thrilling, smashing successes | is back n as big 8 ever ,And bet- ter than before, back in his favérite role as’a man of the boundless west, and he is the vehicle with which the Lyceum theater will commence sthe iew Sear T’:lei, sreatest - possible: - tie medium by which the Lyceum man- 5 % agement could give its patréns a :‘ll :?. ““h il e ki only B few & (ReEaEpaacaRaT) Ho e 5 New Year's treat is to be offered, and tal the amusement is sure to be greeted Get from with delight, Hart comes to the Pinmg‘ Lyceum Monday, Tuesday and Wed-. Pl i nesday in ‘“The Silent Man,” his most 85 cente recent production, ) p‘nt of RTo;norrow night seed Marjorie could ambeau, one of Broadway's most *rm Dlonsgl pular: wé:'nuu b e Mirror.” i :’ Miss ‘Rambeau’s risé from'an bbscure "’ gives place in a western cabin to an ex- joogems alted role in Broadway's life and the ' throat stage world is considerable/of a leap, but is one that hids been successfully adcomplished. She has been . won .over to the pictures for a few pic- tures, and “The Mirror’’ is one. Sun- day. night's program will be the most appropriate possible pre-new year list of attractions that can poesibly be ar- ranged. 'Several othér pictures in ad- dition to the feature will be shawn, { forming an' evening’s entertainment that cannot fail to please. a o e and Bt will have that startling story of Rus- sia, “Rasputin, The Black Monk." The picture has pleased audiences for two days thus far, and in order to sc- commodate the crowds that desire to view it,” & continuous performance will be given today It should be emphasized that ‘there has been no increase in prices for this feature, al- though one is merited. - Get in on the good pictures and visit the Lyceum. “BAB’S BURGLAR” COMES HERE AGAIN So many people were disappointed , in not seeing Marguerite Clark in “Bab’s Burglar” at! the Lyceum, be- cause it was shown during the rush of the holiday shopping time that Manager Glacken of the Lyceum de- cided he would return the picturs for an engagement on Sunday night. It is impossible for words to ade- quately describe the abundant inci- dents of humour which this picture contained. It is one of those clean pictures which show the doings and undoing of a girl entrusted with & thousand dollars, and cauges no end of chuckles | as the onlooker sees unfolded ' many incidents in which he himself has been the partioipant. X A That is what the public wants, a clean picture such that they can seé without a blush and laugh to their heart’s content. wy And who #0 winsome'as Mar- | guerite Clark? “Bloture her'in & stk hundred dollar automobite out riding, and alas, the many pit that await this bovice with's Bring your:mother and to see this riot of Merrin will forget the war, fo of the next mo: Then thery are on the same D m"w .z this picture is 5 o S i w! will contrast nicely with the other feature, “'B:b‘u Burgiar” ing’s entertainment. i S