The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 24, 1912, Page 3

ALCOTT’S “LITTLE WOMEN” DRAMATIZED AT LA H “Boy and girl, Aren't they bea if they were unfiedged angels, * Alcott inset.) BY GEORGIA BOWEN GOVIER Louiva May Alcott’s “Little Wom- en” has been dramatized. What girl of today--or yesterday ~hasa't idolized the Apotlo-like Laurie, the paragon of all irre- wistible traite,, who basn’t becn in spired by — AS BEEN the tndependeat, loyal, | ties?" said the proud papa, bea portance, Datey and “Dem!." The Alcott heirs, with New Eng | [land family pride and sentiment, | [long combatied dramatization of “Little Women” as a sacrilege. For |"Little Women” was the home life | sory of Mine Alcott herself, and her three sisters, Meg waa Anna | Alcott, Beth, Hlisabeth Alcott, | whose early doath ng “Kies them, Uncie Teddy,” sald wicked Jo,—(Picture of Miss THE STAR-—SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1912, T ( on the little red squirmers as world, and all of the little familiar noenes connegted with the early life of hin relatives fut this w: item to the pretty, wee Alice Brady, a slip of girl, who wae his and he old enough to be her father! The death of the other twin left big-bearted Jo, tom-boyish, lovable shadowed the |the dramatization of Miss Alcott aod wholesome? Where ts the girl life of the author, herself the hoy-| fen Jo. | book optional with the remaining |PRISONERS ARE SOLD TO CONTRACT SLAVERS to wien vitt in : ont. comple! in the powe: without foelings Leavitt's artic! Men without right oft m1, non, it Texas,” the current is | the overatis shop. ue of the American Magazine, “we)were nigned by still sell prisoners to outside Inter-| Russell, and the offense, in a ma The Man in the and frequent, so stretched that|tue victim wan pla im |his hands 4 until they down and the man ¢ for hours tied in thir was placed in an uy tied immovably, bis man body is every blow will yleld ite maxt in buman ing. ‘Th sone head iA covered by a sheet #o that he may not see bis § tormentors |Most men faint at the tenth ltwelfth blow and mereifully remain uncons: punishments originated inj Te | These reports | Leavitt Warden James | Kansas lowed to lie knot, Or he cht position, mouth plagged [open by a wedge hetween the teeth his face and mouth smeared with molasses and the windows opened to admit the flies and insects or Barnard of Oklabor ibutew a reform in penitentiary poms priaotiens ters. Ko | ‘The Kansas. authorities tried to prevent Mine Barnard from invest! ’ the condition of Oklahoma EC -weloch. ey locals for the aha pyerrn gory pt land Eighth wards I horre! « of} a Alkazan t says) a heavy coftin fn. whieh writes | ported 1s will hold @ meeting at cafeteria thin even © Seventh cases, was ‘Not doing * are put jority of uuaae y of men | tank,’ “These punishments were varied but the most com mm Was by the paddle. The pad 1s a plece of heavy sole leather, ped like a tenni« hs about two pounds Third rn he prinon | P a m the vitt Seattle Automobile School, 210 ie Broadway. eee, Amy was the artistically-| nephew, and he, remembering Jo Inclined May Aleott , jintereat in her “stage propert The famous twins, too, were real-|her love for the wonderful boota who hasnt been amased by the pretty, Innecent foibles and frip- Ss, peries of Amy, the indiscretions of Meg at her first peep tnto society; Wife characters, and one of them, John Alcott (who, at the request [that she got from “a friend who jknew a lady who knew an actor,” who hasn't wept copiously at the pathos that surrounds Beth--Little Tranquility? of bin aunt, assumed the family | considered it no sacrilege. ee — being “ Alcott boy)) Miss Jessie Bonstelle, a manager. , : messed the premiere perform: | actreas-producer, has been pursul And bere they all are, just over ance of “Little Women” in Ruffalo | the Alcott heirs for cight year the foqtiights from us—Meg, Jo,'a few weeks ago, with a view fo this production. To _ - ‘~ tometber with Mr. | He confesses to feeling a trifle her and to Marian de Forest, who and. Mra. March. "Aust March. jstrange, i in the audience dramatized “Lite Women b rooke, the delightful watching bis father propose to his | public owes this delightful fouract old professor and of paramount im-! mot bis own welcome Into the !drami OEE: ss turien dist en | rece | <a WASHINGTON, Feb, 29.—"Ther at the company’s! More uswally exceeds the wages of father, mother and children, cod the famity te then forced to borrow loan sharks to meet the Be Biber) for} family account ety. ct bes | ® report lesaed today by the depart- ment of commerce and iabor, follow- ing an investigation of conditions | prevattiog in the cotton milis of the -| Carolinas, Georgia, Texas and other! | DESERTS MADERO WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Gen. | | Pascual Orezso, man of President Francisco 1. Madero of Mexico during the latter's successful campaign to wrest the country from tur! | the contro! ef Porfirio Diaz, today is ie™! reported to have deserted to the rev- | chationary forces and to be march: ing on Juarez, at the head of 1,400 men. Word to thie effect was re-) ed at the wi it today thoee departmen patch from Col. Steever, com.) nnlene strictly Price. athe Wamhinewon Dut- “ % 2 a” 106 08% eo te | de a | -M“ r iw uu é ” 7 a Bs ve “Pmckea tevate—-Getsing Price Piente tan yen femained PPmAcTiCy: ov by t sound timothy. 15 ta corel CONVICTS BE | ==, THAN COTTON WORKERS| (en are frequent ER FED Senthere states. isoners at the federal tary im At nou, are better fed than tne cotton workers. ‘Their homes, it is charged, are in- vatficiently beated, sanitary condi- are bad, and epidemics of measies, malaria and typhoid fever ‘Their home life, ac cording to the report, is conducive fo pneumonia, and as a result tuber: ee prevails in handreds of fam SHE WANTED PEACE Oe {aiPbe Z | } ' Employment Agent leave your last place? Maid—The couple had only been’ arried month, and I evuldn't} j stand the lovemaking. } Agent—Well, here's a chance in / } Why did you a house where the couple have been married ten years vaid—That's | peace and quiet. ‘ALLEGED WIFE- SLAYER CAUGHT OAKLAND, Feb. 24.--A wan al leged to be Samuel Miller, a wife murderer of Memphis, Tenn., who lescaped from the Tennessee peni tentiary in 1903 and since then has been a fugitive from justice, is un rv arrest here today Tie deveription of the long hunt- od maa sent here by the Memphis authorities fs declared to tally ex: lactly with the man under arrest here. He will be held until an of ficer from Memphie arrives, and if identified as Miller he will be .re- turned to Tennessee. The prisoner etrenvously denies he is the man wanted too long. I like | Short H Attorney. General Wicke: Solicitor General Lehmann, oppos-| tog counsel for the ratlroads, argu. ments in the long and short haul casee in which 66 Spokane ship- pers have filed a demand for a $2,000,000 refund, were heard by the United States supreme court. ham and The Spokane firms demand the}! refund on freight charges collected by the railroads in two years above id have been collected if} t commerce court had not en- joined the commission decision tn |the lotermountain rate ca ALASKA DOG DI iv NOME, Alaska, Feb. 24.—The dog |team owned by Chas. Johnson to- day has broken all records in the | Solomon derby race over the snow from Nome to the Solomon river ‘and return, by winning the contest lin five hours, 47 minutes and 24 neconds The winner's purse of $1,000 was paid to Johnson today. The dog team owned by Mrs. C. E. Darlin of Oakland, Cal, last year's winne was second. ta, (he report says, are a ‘Bryan Is Due Here Soon William Jennings Bryan will ar- tive in Seattle a week from to- fav and will be heard In two odiet church, Fifth and Marton, livering one of his lectures. Seats for this ae yy placed on sale at the ¥. M.C. A, Monday, Instead of the session of 1 day club on March 3, yterian chuteh. hundred tickets to thin address will hear the addegas by Rev. David Rus sell, the “Moody of Soutt Africa,” jwho will speak Heathen.” WASHINGTO: |the construction of more rallroad: ia one of the chief in of Alaska jatement made to the sen Gov. necensities included the opening of coal lands, the regu lation of fisheries, new mining Jaws, better bank laws, the registra tion of marriages, birthe and deaths, compulsory education and a revision of the civil and criminal codes. 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