The evening world. Newspaper, February 10, 1903, Page 11

J. K. HACKETT. =WORLD'S ‘Letters written by lovesick girls to matinee idols are not all mere figments of the press agents’ imagination, nor do they exist only in the joke department of various news- papers. Theepistolary heart- throbs sent by adoring girls to good-looking actors are very real and are without number. ‘whe following are genuine let- ters of the sort. Each sounds a@ distinct and separate note of adoration. Each, however, jie in the strain of unasked love for aman who, in most cases, ia merely bored by be- coming its recipient. tHe Wasn't Commonplace. Dear Sir: Please do not think me a willy girl for writing this, but you are so different from the commonplace young jmen I meet. You are so grand and no- !Rle when you are forced by duty to marry the beautiful hefress you do not love instead of the young governess be- cause by so doing you will save your {father from ruin. But why that ailly thing who plays the governess should misunderstand your noble and disinter- ested spirit I cannot seo. None of the young men I know ever y the beautiful things you do. I feel sure you would not say "Bweets to the s@weet" every time you gave a girl a ‘box of candy, like a young man of my acquaintance has been doing for three years. I know you do not say “A rose between two thorns, Miss Mamie,” every time you sit down on a sofa with @ girl wv THE “Pokerit Pages, duipart blood in their veins, Moet of these have money. A strange thing about the progress of the disease of pokeritis is that | when there ts another young man on the other side of her. I send you the photograph of yours 1 like, best, Please inscribe it with some sentiment and your autograph and re- turn to address given. Admiringly youre, From the Girl in the Fourth Row. My Hero: I am the girl jn the ¢ourth row that the horrid men insulted be- cause he said he couldn't see anything on the stage on account of my bat, and ‘wanted me to take it off. Don't you re- member? They had to take him out, and he bit the usher, who is a perfect gentleman, and tore his dress coat. You looked #o annoyed because it stopped the play just where you baffled the vil- lain by puffing cigarette smoke in his face and exasperated him with your q, FRBRU ARY 10, i903, EDR an prernceenotrnmerp manent: com En One Adored Him Because He Was “Different,” One Because He Was “Pale and Money— Proud,” One Because He Was Generous with Others’ snow rather than to accept ald from her. You look so pale and proud whe you wrap your fur overcoat around you and le down in the anow to die, but are gavel by the little flower girl who sees your diamond ring gleaming in tho moonlight, and who carries you up to her arret at the top of the tenement house and then goes out to steal food for you, because, as she says, she has nothing to give you to eat but her basket of romes, and they would not be nourishing enough, I go to covery matinee, and it seams #0 real to me that I am often tempted iy bring a club sandwich In for you. to save you from going without food for ee | three days, like you do in the play. Fiver thine. THE GIRL IN THE FOURTH ROW. A Cruel Story Doubted, Sweet Mr, B— Why do you not answer my notes? Tt cannot be true, tihe cruel rumor T have. heard, that you cannot read or write For you do read, and #0 beautifully, too, the letters that compromise the Duchess And, besides, you take the card the butior brings you at every performance. and, after looking at ft, say “Richard Knatchbu!!! He in London? Show him In, Parker!"’ How could you know {t was your evil genius, unless you could read? 1 will not belleve It. I was so disappointed not to hear from you that I cried myself to sleep, And to-day I refused to stop when a rude Italian waved a dirty red flag in my face and said the blast was about to 60 off, My llfe was already blasted. Any- way. ft was a horrid shade of red. Please relieve my anxiety and write. BROOKLYN BELLE Gages of Affection Give Here. My Dear Mr, —: have been eo happy since I met you. Do not say another word about the contretempts of your valet forgetting to put your purse in your pocket, As you say, it was fortunate that I had with me more than enough to pay for the deautiful dinner you gave to me at Bherry's, and the cab fare, too, You must not pamper me with euch lavieh expenditures. How Mike you to want to replace the cluster ring, just because {t ts a valuable one. I ehall never forget your rougish look when you took it from my finger and eaid: “I shall take this for a keepsake." And now you write me that some one bes taken and pawned it, but that you shall prize the ticket, because It ip too much to ask me for another ring. Tt ia not! And now I remember that mocking smile, because you knew he sas powerless to harm the friend whom you hed gaved from the consequences of hie rash act in committing forgery, by drugging the detective end taking the compromising papers yourself. ‘How debonnaire you looked as you re- garded him with a sneering smile and said the most outting things to him, while he could only gasp and say “Curse fim!" It was my most becoming hat, and, anyway, {t musses @ girl's hair to take off her hat and out it on again where there isn’t a mtrror, Tt ts dreadtul to permit {neonsiderate people, like that boor was, into a thestre among refined people. No gentiemap ‘would have made the rude remarks he did about my hat, let alone his coarse vulgarity of saying “I'd love to slap that Ligsie boy on the wrist, real hor- rid!’ when you refused to marry the rich girl untih you had more money than she, and went out penniless in the w MAN & HIGHER w UP. you @aid it would be a shame to take the ring, Secause my friends might mise ft from my finger, but that my pearl neoklace would be a trinket you could treasure as a precious memento. I can Tealize how sorry you felt that you did not take the necktace. No, I will not wend it by a messenger boy, I will meet you and give it to you myself. Ah, my dear, 1 am afratd you are too high aoe you are too open-minded end Devotedly, IMA RICHGIRL, A Devotion that Will Not Doubt. My Own: I sce by the papers that you are free. How could @ woman be so Dase as to claim i court that you had Kicked her. and @o into sordid details conceming money and non-support. I note that you ecorned to dignity such preposterous allegations by denying them. What an awakening, cruel and heart-rending, 1t must have been to you to find yourself tied to @ woman who OF THE TERRIFYING INCREASE “POKERITIS"” MALADY. THE oa FEHL on the blink to-day,” said the Cigar-Store Man. Sat up all night playing poker.” “Once upon a tim replied the Man Higher Up, “I used to do the same thing myself. It's a bad habit to get grafted on and a hard habit to shake. Let a man get pokeritis and his name is Dudley Down-and-Out, The disease is spreading at that. I figure out that every Saturday night in New York there are about 10,000 poker parties, ranging from the hum- ble penny ante, ten-cént limit af- fair, in the parlor of. the flat, to the high-rolling bluff proposition in a swell apartment where they play as a cat's ‘back until every! ie broke but one man, and he's the man that gets all the cush, is a disease of insidious growth and great melignity. It jolly among women and men who have a drop of sporting |stopped in to win out expenses. He There are few people who have no sporting blood, the deeper a man cats into his bank roll the more complications the dis- | ease assumes, whether they win or not. There are some people who play poker and don't care They are generally winners. The most of those who get pokeritis play because they think they can win. A otrange streak ebout the disease is that Just about the thme a victim has concluded that! he 1s 4 pale pink ass and is willing to quit he sits in a game and makes a winning, I have known aclte mathematical calculators to make welrd mis- takes ip figuring about thelr poker losses, “They lose and lose and lose hundreds and then happen to sit in a game) May be they win a hundred. wher the cards come their way, When they) cash in all memory of previous lopses is immediately out in the thought cre- miatory. | have known men wha lost steadily for months, then cleaned ee upa small winning and said after the game was over: “*Well, it don't owe me anything.’ “In itself I don’t think there {s any- thing particularly sinful about poker, People who are constituted that way have to have some method of venting their gambling epirit, and poker gives’ them a chance. The only trouble is that after pokeritis gets a good hold and the microbes get unionized there 4 danger of overplaying. “I knew a little clgar-store game up on the wesf side that broke up the Afelong friendship of two men, This game moved along every Sunday af- ternoon, The two friends got together week after week, and as long as the game remained small there was noth- ing doing in the way of sorenges, But one night one of the men, his rent jand believed everything he told her. More Were Dazzled by the Footlights. AUBREY BOUCICAULT, could not comprehend the nobility of your churact s shown in your 4 Mneation of sclf-sacrifice and true mane hood in vour grand interpretation of Harold Marcourt. a knightly sauire of dames tn or Honor,” the play that so strongly ail tralia of er which vou I can well understand that a nature fo sensitive and retined should shrink from the pirblicity of a divorce e Although, it in true, that vou © been compelled to sunder galling ties of this kind upon five previous occasions, But to my mind this but further bears me out in my esttmation of your character. Yours is pne of those poetle, novie souls that. despite disappointments that would dishearten another, still impels you to seek your affinity. Je St unwomanly for me to believe that T am thet affinity and kindred soul you have sought heretofore In vain? Let me comfort vou. Speak! Eternally yours, Here Is a Miss Misunderstood, My Darling: TIA I met you, till I saw your manly form, till I heard your clear and gentle voloe, my Ufe was ¢mpty and vold. Mine has been a sad, un- happy life. My parents have never understood me. At Vassar I was solitary and alone. No one understood me. And now that am to make my debut in society they expect me to emile and be happy be- Ouse they lavish upon me gowns and Jewelry. My father even dared to reprove me yesterday because he thought my thanka were but perfunctory whth he bought ™e an automobile. They speak of tak- ing me to Europe, and they deem that I should smile. Ah, that would take ™@e from you! It would be months be- fore I could eee you again. I am so unhappy! My maid is selfish and does nothing to cheer me. She cries because she mys her mother ts very ‘ll, never thinking that her red eyes and sobs depress me. My mother scolds me because I am not happy. She does not understand me. Nobody understands me but you, my King} mney, are all setfish and Inconsiderate, am expected to be grateful because a buy me things. Jf I do not glow with animation they grow silent and constrained. My mother refused to allow me to go to the matinee to-day to see you, be- cause she declared 1 looked pale and she made me go out horseback riding with the groom. The groom annoys me. He grins with gross animat-like contentment. Why @hould a groom be permitted to smile t “Rees e land gas bill and grocery bill and meat bill and milk bill all being due, went broke, and at the close of the game his friend cashed in the whole check-rack, “It happened that the loser was married to a peri from Passaic that he got mashed on because she was so good, She was his baby mine for fair The night after the poker game, when he went home, he said that he had lost all his money to his friend playing Poker, and she got the scandal works in order. After she had made her jfplel around the neighborhood you would think that the man who won the {money was a short-card manipulator who would steal meat from a dog. the next meeting of the poker session At the two friends went to the floor to jgether and tried to eat each other's ears off.’ | losses. does fancy egibroid ery." “Im there any way pokeritis can be cured?” asked the Cigar-Store Man “Not for bachelors,” replied the Man Higher Up. be cured by teaching their wives how to play and “Married men may anding good for their The arene woman plays poker about as well as the average man ‘ A CEREAL Toor, ° IN NO DANGER. | Paya ertyahitd all the fools are ‘t want to be alive. Bie i | OLD PROVERB APPLIE. “So You don't think there te @ oa! emer a) ghd a ae Ke sea eas ros teat Ties we TY ee WILLIAM Lindt oaLdabelib when his tr nly plonsnre the mo in this grim, sordid wo you tn g your yo characters you F ot in my » mally dentod er thought T should rating clase Jast Wed: Iwo and be bor ended girls, who lve only for @fily things, Ah, my love, Tam so nh: ! The world je Knows how TI suffer In si lence. They are talking now of taking me to Lakewood for a few days. It will be use- lesa for me to resist, 1 will be compellod to go. How unkind everybody i» to me! How I hate them when they smirk around me and tell me I should be happy. Only the working classes are happy, and those of selfish soul. Nobody under- stands me. T look back over the anguish of spirit I have endured #0 uncomplainingly for the dull, crue! eighteen yeare of my wad life, and wonder If I shall ever bo happy. If you knew the eruel routine of my life you would pity me. I am awakened by my My mot matt 9 A, M, ant éreased » takes me shopping In her brougham, and expects me to exhult over Haves, silks and other stupid things JRhe buys for m In the afternoon, If there tn no matinee (my one happiness ts to see vou we Ko calling upon smug, overfed who do not understand me At ss for dinner and the death, But they «hall nover know what I suffer, T dare not let them guess that 1 adore you, They would not understand me, ‘There would be scenes My brother, whom a college course has made more of @ ruffan than ever, if h were possible, spoke of you the other day when I ned to mention your name with enthusiasm. 1 could net repeat his coarse terms. 1 know that you would seek him out and chastise him He only thinks of hla brute strength and his prowess as the champion boxer and footbail player of hla class. He dove not understand me. But spare him if you meet him, for be is my brother. He told some cruel falsehood of a friend of his assaulting you brutally because you had insulted a chorus girl. CHAUNCEY OLCOTT. Your chivalry, exemplified a thousand times on the stage, was suilicient refu- tation to auch a canard. Ah, Iam eo unhappy, no one under- #tands me! My father only talks of how m' money he {# making that his children shall not suffer the hardships and de- priyaiion he knew, and which my mother shared with him the first they were married. I cannot help smile, Does ho never think that I suffer ships of repression beside which cal discomfort would be welcome? privation? Am I not deprived of yout! Ah, but no one understands met Mose) NIOBE CROBSUS, — FOR Frocks of Nght welght wool are in models show two of the latest designs and can be utilized for a varlety of fabrics. 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