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HOW HE DID IT. FIRST CITIZEN—Now, how's Croker goin’ to purify N BRCOND CITIZHN—Why, he's done tt already! FIRST CITIZRN-—How's that? BBOOND CITIZNN—CGone to Burope. JOSEPH JEFFERSON. f encouraged American dramatic re. Bee, | take the bull by the a But there was a time many | Yeats ago when 1 made up my mind to Mee an American play, Tt waa the when the “Women's Rights’ move> Was firat beginning to be heart of, Wan playing on the Nowery side, and 1/3) » ) Was mighty anxious to cot on the Broad. 4 | Way aide. And at that time there were | fo Americans playing on Broadway this American author, who, by the wey Was an Engilehiman, brought me a play founded on tho women's rights den. 1 wan called Tho Htruggie for the Pants” We hired « minal hall and produced th Don't you read the polpers® Position ts partioularly trying to° | Jofofofofofofofetefotel “The Struggle for 4 Mat fallure, The audi Diased ue and finally demanded tte " money back, The treasurer, with pro Mabie eeob photic foresight, had Med with tho reeling manuseriy nayme Gelpts, And when (he manager of the author and myneit escaped through Hall came for bis rent le hud to take) back door LAURA JEAN LIBBEY, IPTG, 1908, by the Prem Pubiteing cm.) | pleletelolotobinielotolototoloivtetelabettel | HIB wanoral reader, glanving caro: | 4 Desay at the que ‘Is Jove tn aome forms & divease!” will mnie and sueh & theory to be utterly ab ‘Thore are healthy loves and diseased ‘The woman, atrong of will, wh oweet and womanly, does Jove to run away with her 3 hich hath its seat in wis f judicious,” reaches the highest of exaliod, perfect woman who ix weak of ever |" ghing hither and thither for some ject 10 wrap her affections around WAHNOL Come Into contact with one * Opposite sex without josing « N of her heart, and \9 given ¢ mi love, LAURA JEAN LiDBEY ‘eloieotleinetsblejeltetele wnwisely, fed on by that wi move hima m the scene of tempta infatuation, '* dangerously! tic ove a}! from ihe companions menta: T use those words] 0 beet him ly and gravely thevePaving. ¢ t fore that women who have this tem: | which he #he abatat fh know it They should One's own thouwht friends, | Pealize that it ls a danger or deat *, an ye m, | » and Nd wet ADOUL) ayant thinking on the forbidden subje with hereul rings ab: very r which ial the cause the making oe ned by It, body and soul wr era 4 n Mbout it ae would the drunkard) tompration and f read by| Bad the courage (0 begin that moa : 7 of battle » conquer one's own Women w 1 wall " the determined inebtiate will re-| a hanatak rt ha “4 - — _— | ‘ are guarded und wetened MOMMT CENTURY'S LEAP | it in a grave mixiake to 4 ViCANS, joe etn as at wh oat en meHE coming century w < yefour leap years, whe 6 he war th of a deadly, malignant fever, ahe Probably, how- set about curing it with might Pn ‘s pe mal while yet the strength to de this was here, ‘The disease women to ceurt | viet! of ORY’S DAILY CARTOON. Ghe American Drama, A A Che Dramatized Nowel. Mt Is Lowe a Disease? ‘e « Ghere Are Healthy Loves. A pretty bodice of ellk, with ronetie of black baby love is & thousand’ ribyen on tett sido to balanve chiffon Mimoe more deadly, for tt not omy cor rosette, + nou! warpe the grand & men ial), Van | Published by (ie Press Publishing Co Entered at the Post-Ottice at New York as Second-Class Mat THE RATIONAL ANIMAL Hareiet Hubbard } Beauty Ayer’s Hook: A | This may be justly tains in a simple and sensible form thie Lt is addresser ee to women, A BOOK snouT WeATE AND BEAUTY § | Rterecctetntte botnet + en greater profit by the men, of Pho three main prosuits fare riches, knowles ind refinement, the last form) of this of health and beauty his or her blundering and ignorant way seeks health very highly civilized nan or woman see fully But only the telligently ond Taking it ecess and most unsightly of the families With instinets bhinted, with reason developed only t inost unhealthy here it tenablies the liman animal how to abuse the app uveeed in reduging the “image of God” attained their full growth, They wear i they have bsurd garments, ‘They eat ridiculous posterous quantitios, ertereeotmeomes AtM at sixty they find themselves } avewn norman } wrecks, their eves sunken, their + or tae Jvrow an Anantara t dered, their hands and feet like gn Pereereeerentrmerorera? their tooth gone, their noses veine their logs and trunks shrinken or swollen, Man may or inay not be the rational animal, as he self, But he certainly can bear off the title of the unsig’ Two thousand years ago the outlook ‘The Gre and naturally had developed the passion for beauty for a sightly tate of Th of barbarism swept away the higher forms of eivilizat was very bright ks had reached a high » Jnearly a thousand years tho human animal wandered in ness howling, rending itself, devouring its felloy over to the barbaric eult kno Schopenhauer says: “Tt was a great day for fools deprecation was made a virtue,’ And so also it was for barbarism when personal beauty was made a sin. It was all right to build a beautiful house (0 wear fine raiment, But to bathe, to attend decent erly to the needs of the person, to admire beauty in othe it for ono’s self. of the Creator” beholder, Wo are gradually reeovering from this, nounced as a mortal sin is now denounced only as those were vanities, The most adiuira was the one that most offended every Leeremmemmeeee » indication of mental weakness, It a A [AN EMPROVENG {in woman because—woll, the wor ; POINT ov Hlayiha dred paiia it vinw, { good deal of sense and know their business e ANG. | F reronteantronenonoroneneeoe® nroity well and refine to neglect t is vot oo {take for their prosperity simply heeause the men are ignorantly ian ant foulow ike ™ | Jorisive, But only in the most advanced centres of civ keenly scrupulous cleannoss, care in dress and a desire to bo as vmatined novel is not # hen vin eH it ie a mistake jo suppose] harmony with the beauty of nature as lis limitations artieil Way men can be Ind nantile , ish nos fae ee regarded as signs of qualities other than foppishness in hae nat relied to some extent ¢ A man may come sinelling of whiskey and toba in his puffy cheoks and distended middle the ovidald of the irama come to tw thy bo! Intereat of tony, {finger nails in a painful condition and his elothing § bh about being “too by no dowbt hoameared, and he will still be regarded asa « And his “fake” cleanness and neatness "tthe human family foolishness’ as personal will and admired But let him eome v other eyiderice of un attempt at respect for personal SS S@S€/ ble man with « lamentable weakness of personal vanity, There are a great many silly men and women who of their timo in trying to adorn thomselves, But is this of their mental weakness or is it fecenteartetepetctemneoen @ : , { porrisinviss { development of a redeeming trait site pure and U1 SAND ROLLY, alavaata ‘ 4 and: pour (Baltnations Sil tele lia character that would otherwise be Se epeteaeeoeee} ody when that love becomes hit UY corrupte the by and he same vetn tomptiblet LAURA JBAN LIBBEY 7 A ; and displays a sense of color and proportion, and n silly ass who JLLETE BODIC slouches about, sloven and slattern, repulsive as well as ridiculous, which is preferable ? And why should it he esteemed as a virtue in am \that his brain is not developed in respoet of that se | respect whieh leads one to be clean and neat and to ay colors or unsightliness of any kind in his person just avoid it in his houset Mrs. Ayer'’s book is for the men as well as for There is no one who would not rise from reading it wise way man and no woman can be too he good looking, And there is nc in no “yo viNTUR I ww IGNORANCH OF ANY KIND. of health and good looks any more than there is virtue form of ignorance. ANOTHER CRITICISM. | FEL Ue Waser Bo you fall ’ Not altogether, | don't belleve there |was any serpent, although Eve may! | have he thought so. It was prob n't belfeve the story of the | pretty side-whinkersY Yer,” “Well, he got up and te the other night when the f. ably only an apple worm which her fear | wanted to tall to {he plain people." Ht We magnified.’ eeente uy om 108 INSPIRATION OF GARB. “AND PITY 'TIS, TES TRUM |, chiffon bordered Agecolieie nt Wk ero) al ‘not Wan uv IS ALSO THE UNSIGHTLY ANIMAL. called an a rtant at lication, | fourths of it could be read and applied with The third comes last, and just pursuit to make its appearance is the pursuit Of course every savage wishes for and in} by and large, the human race is undoubtedly the of creation. | % |pure instinet would keep under restraint, men and women usually | to a sad caricature before What a vanity, yor bearing or with hia teeth unsightly and his face “in and his Akrglod and | !'™ your de, by George, T know br.’ ha neoktie that matches his suit or some ho will be rogarded cithor as a brainless fool or an otherwise sensi As hotweon a silly ass who has to become more highly civilized, porereeeetoweeee ienorance of the eminently sane and wise laws "Bee that fellow over there with the | juncan is a golf enthusiast, ten't jo} ieckara withost Bi ff Mates Tt con- “But ‘thee civilization and beauty, ks them in- o the point etites which ‘vats vee WUBSDAX BV MAMAG, NOUEIEN 20, ‘Treative on tho Laws of Health and | fool in pre-| They violate the most obvious laws of health, pain-racked skins disor: | arled claws, ul or pitted, hoasts him- tly animal, human race civilization, it the floods ton and for the wilder and giving itself as the mortifleation of the flesh. when self a great day Tt was anand | ¥ and prop: | ra and seek blo “temple| sense of the} was de- | an} is tolerated men have a he arts that | ilization are | little out of | will permit | a malo, ob his glut member of sy for such} be believed | heties and spond most an evidence an extreme in a mental wholly con- an of brains nao of self. oid clashing as he would the women. er and in the No althy or too » virtue in in any other WwOLUDED, ft the audience orator gald he | When Cholly recetved « long tr, |They say that Washington never ted, NEW » YORK. By G. E. POWERS. ial GAY ror My ° Whe ve aULIMG ” ic Moon cinggrin y) A AT THE SOCIETY MINSTREL SHOW, THE FAIR ONB—I can't play “Mr, Bones,” go I'm “Mra Bones.” “Mra. Mesh would be more appropriate,” “At Boer minstrel shows they sing TM Trek Motn Téeber irae. for "” YOU--00—-00--00--00 “Mr, Tambo, didn't I see you last Tuewiny? Orwas-tt Threesday or ourw- ’ CHORUS day? ‘That's a joke.” or WILLIRBOYS: all-ike to me, Gee, but that was good! have to say It all over again.” ‘Good morning, Mr, Bones!’ How’e that for @ starter?” 5 “Lat's all sing “The Night We Lit the Gas with Papa's Breathe What ted you into amokedness, my Chorus rf mant “Wi mlaney otralghts, mum," —_— ali | CHOLLYS LRTTER, From his taflor, who called him hia dr, Ho axclatmed: "his ts patd, And although you have sald to STRANGR, A fact hard to explain; For history tetis ua all that he Went twice through @ campaign, DOMPSTIC AEVENOR, “Broome are higher,’ “Well, we'll n} we'll make ‘em Inst twice as jon, (Paint gurgles.) HARRIET HUBBARD AYER him whet explanation he has to make to you fn the matter, If he eannot make one—in w ene, at Least—he !9 un- ‘worthy of your interest, to say nothing of your affeotion. Regrets Hie Youthful Looks, Dear Mra, Ayer; 1 am @ young man of twenty-three, Have @ good Dusiness, but at present An Unhappy Girl, my? WH Dear Mim, Ayer) I love a young man, A few weeks ago 1 found ous by aocldent that he was 4 married man, though not living with his wife. Would it be right to apeak to him about this? It hurts me to think that T have bean going out with a mar. ried avan. If | forbid him the house he would spend his time in the ealoons, Is tainly. know, fight." iw your duty to speak with tin and aek an explanation, or else to abruptly broak off your relations with him, Tell him you know be i# married, and ask girl's parents object. My young }pearance {# positively the only objec- |tion, Now what shall [do? J, B. M $ you cannot marry anyway for a over the condition of things, | can Offer you thts consolation: One year of worry of this sort will add oe PULLING THR WIG 4 What her wish should be, He almost grew impationt $8 long considered she, BONE. years end appearance, Now, I 40 graces. HE was a long time with not od O worry, On the cons ig correct? thinking trary, 1 ry a native member of tho! “Don't Worry Onder,’ but your objec: | ton t# really auch an absurd one thet there doesn't seem to be any other! remedy for your malady, Por she had many wishes, Napoloon? And he had only one, « him but 4 moment ‘0 get his wishing dono, A Laggard ta Love, Dear Mre. Ayer: I tave a friend that T have know most of my life, Refora he married 1] map as | waa a widow, and he wanted to marry | joke? |me, but raw that I did not care for him, #0 sald nothing about tt to me but told me after he married another. Binee his wife's death, wix years ago, i But, by ond by they pulled it And Fortune was bis friend Me was a happy mortil, For he had the longest en, A question But she was not unlucky, For when the reotoning came It somehow dawned upon thom ‘That they hod wished the mmo, —Phitadelphia Inquirer, we havo written to each other wt lect | “VPA! ie pes fae week, and he comes to ae me other town. He has now See and he knows that he Who was itt to no understund- . abe bein wil “When I can think of the exact words TT epring @ good gay Tuset to work every evening at the club when I was on the farm up at Pompton. N, J,” “tT don't care if they pay me a quarter or @ half-dollar, ‘cwuse atl coins look Hear the people laugh, I'll “Ho, ho! Look at olf Clumsy, he thinks he's the whole’—— ttre, Answers Questions se oe ‘ee of Perplexed Lowers, ought I to dot Houth Norwalk, Conn, O, the man dosa not do right, oer I think {f you would ao vopt the attenttons of some other an you could bring thie hesitating lover to his “brighten as they take thelr If ho thinks there ts @ chance of another man’s getting you, he will be What ts the age of Iilian Russell? year, @nd as you are grieving 50 I is Correct, Toussaint L/Ouverture, What twas the name of the colored |man who froed the {sland of San Doe mogd and wae afterward captured by There Is Such a Place ta Vasnale In there reat! M.A. CLIMFOR. twelve yoko of oxen!” What day of th Preside: {| 4 faye that ex-Presidont Harrison's Vera! | father was President of the United B saya that be ¥ Mra, BB, wens, Blessing, you < could not marry. I will be able to| very apt to make his attentions audible, It Rot wrong to denele balay rn, | Marry In about one year, Tam ex-|—— * ee a pe | tremely young looking, and this causes | CANNOT undersign’ Naw 904 CAR mich sorrow, For several nha] {eeeeenen ee wanes 8 exmenae@ " : ci I have been keeping company with a| t ¥ , rant when Ma baa for Aye years begs | young 1a¥, and intend to merry her } QUERIES AND ANSWERS, , playing @ part 0 Ve T oan, We love each other, but tha] ¢ etme mer ee mare setetnmtens ‘ Forty, JAMES PHISTER, Mis Grandfather was 4 not, which JORSY sO,9 NY QUADROON, County. hoch a place on the ria it just @ what county (eit? verstraw, N, ¥, Vital lesson askeds joughed with T can't And out. STUDENT, Monda,