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hl NY HEROINE. “Now Seams at Ste at Star Theatre , Foll of Startling Scenes, and - ~ ; pe er pretence et te IR HOW A WOMAN CARTOONIST VIEWS THE CHARACTERS IN THE WEEPY PLAY “THE CHILD WIFE.” i BOSOOE0SS 0605095009608 666500-0066HO0-00O9OSO HG OGHHIGT %4:00000090-0O00006OOOOE THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, APRN, 99, 1909. CHILDREN WILL BE GLAD, ANYWAY Controversy Between Educa- tional and Park Departments ment of Parks, made statement to-day. “Last year the Park Department gave Sinversone be swite cuinton, permission to the Board of Education to| Hook, Tompkins Square and probably use De Witt Clinton Park, and part of Hamilton Fish Park for playground purposes, De Witt Clinton Park was abandoned by the Board of Bducation about one week after the permit wae sranted, Hamilton Fish Park was used @s @ playground most of the summer, being Improvéd by the Department of Parks. No other small parks were used by the Board of Education. It has been the purpose of the Commissioner the following | tends to baw ghey well. kept, adien tin ounds in William en jul x! Na Fish, As Bewar Corlears in one or two other small parks. In ‘thomas Jefferson Park alono there will a over seven acres of playground prop- fy) out me, Lhe This park “this surimer. bye ete of the Park De- it te et and maintain these during the coming summer, rt not true that the Department of ike has ee examinations for teach- the slaveroy attend: ‘The attendants for on n the same manner as |the plafgrounds in the . | @ Hoarse-Voiced Papa Who _ Gries “Too Late!” THEN A WHOLE YEAR PASSES) : 0) ‘Fifth Avenue Villain Appears, and, ¢ i Hist, the Plot Thickens, While| ® Great Audience, Breathless, Lis-| ¢ tens to the Story of Some Lives, Tattle girls contemplating early mar- @houldn’t overlook ‘The Child- " They vhould scrape together pennies and romp off to the Star “The Shild-Wife” is an object lesson. teaches the moral that matrimony not child's play, thus contradicting @n Impression quite prevalent in certain f Poor little Nellie Golden found that ‘the matrimonial estate was no picnic She was sweet sixteen when @ left the palatial mansion of her wealthy father in New York and went Ante ‘the country for a brief vacation. How It All Happenca. ‘was growing, and dad thought a of air would do her good. eget] Nellio had become acclimated she fell in love with Dwight Perkins, the village inventor. Fifteen minutes Water they frolicked into the poorly > tered office of the local justice of peace GRAZED BY HER Poor Julia Levine, Told She Would Be Greater than Patti, Refused to Study, and Now Raves in Bellevue, ind told him to open the Pook at the place where it says “Will You have this—and so forth. Nellie said she would, and Dwight @ittoed. Just as the fateful words were FLATTERED BY DE RESZKE. OWN RARE WOE Won’t Prevent Maintainence of Playgrounds in Parks. |WILLCOX TELLS OF PLANS. Whatever the merits of the contro- versy between the Department of Parka and the Board of Education on the lat- ter’s contention that the for r by holding examinations for teachers and attendants at the playgrounds 4m tho parks has usurped the perogatives of the Board of Education and taken con- trol of the playgrounds and vacation schools in its own hands, the children are likely to benefit. Commissioner Wilcox, of the Depart- a at No. 150 Fast Sixtieth street, patd all her expenses and took tho’ greatest Pains with her. The girl consented to tudy the roles of Carmen and Mignon, but It'was with the greatest difficulty that she could be kept at her lessons. Always she had this burning desire to Cross-Newhaus chided er for her refusal to study better she retorted: Said She Neefed No Sta@y- “I can sing better than, Sembri bettw than fames.. I. don't need study, Why should I waste my time?” In disgust the teacher told the ¢ that she must leave the school. T was day before yesterday, Her 1 was that if she went back to her hum- ble home for a time she would be will- ing to come back at any price and s0 the world would gain a new really great volea. All 1t needed was tae technique hich comes only with stu: Withe. girl left the school hearttiroken. She stayed at her boarding-house brood- hen Mme. AL Spoken papa pranced in and hoarsely 4 ‘ “Too Inte!" ‘That wap the last seen of Nellie in @hbort dresses. 4 year passed before the @urtain went up again. Nellie wore a Jong skirt and a troubled look. In one @ormer of the room was a cradle. The @octor came jn, and with one quick Announced that baby's life hung # thread. ‘The child-wite's husband wasn't feel- ng very well, either. "You are, working too hard," said his Sympathetic help~mate, sighing and Dilnking a bunch of blinks. Can't Live om it) “Darling,” he murmured, “you are ®lue. I am willing to quit work and @pend my entire time making you happy. Come, give me a kiss.” Flattered by the great opera singers of New York until she belleved that she had but to step before an audience and lift her voice in song to be famous ‘the world over, poor Julla Levine has come down from the clouds to the cold, hard earth. She Is in the Insane ward at Bellevue raving of her lost oppor- tunities, of conspiracy against her, her young brain out of balance. She will recover soon, the doctors say, tunity to study which she recently re- fused because her head had n turn- ed. She was a pupil in the operatic school of Mme. Cross-Newhaus, No. 4% Fifth avenue, but she practically refused to study because she imagined her volee was 80 magnificent that she id not need to, and when Mme. Cross- Newhaus In despair told her that she must go back to her home in Louisville until she could learn the value of work and study, the. girl simply lost her fe can't Hye on kisses,” sald the | Bractival child-wife. “Have some cold . beans.” “Oh, hang oold beans!” impatiently @xclaimed the rising young husband, Jeaving the table and finging himself eut of the house, mind, the villain, frock coat, slik hat Spotied Pet of Family. all the other symptoms. Miss Levine ts twenty-three years a ¢ ‘He was rather a largo villain, but his fame was Small. And how small he Her father is a butcher in Louisville, Ky, His daughter from childhood a & most amazing voice and she was al- ways the spoiled pet of the fami year ago last fall her father and some of his friends got money enough to- gether to eend the girl to New York. She managed to get a hearing before Manager Grau and although she had never take a leseon in her life she ob- tained a place (n the chorus at $10 a week. On this she managed to live, She had no money to study and all she learned was in the hard practical school of the Metropolitan chorus, When the season closed a year ago she had no money and ehe got a ticket feliie,” he said, in poft, soothing tones, “this is no piace for you. Let me take you back to your proper sphere in the smart set.” | He was a Fifth avenue villain. * 8 6 Every time ‘the child-wife, with her Mttle one clasped to her breast, ap- ‘ob the scene, an invisible quartet something pathetic, i “How cold and dark the river ts!" re- ig marked the child-wife, as sho sauntered £ @own to the dock after her rich father io had shooed her from this door, Ne eee when the quartet was €, . Feating, Willie Jenkins came in and|to return to Louleville from a Jewish a gestgutt, and his little dog laughed to | charitavel organization. Before she went she sought Edouard De Reszke and sang for him. He was delighted with the magnificent soprano notes the girl uttered, “You will not be another Patti," he is said to have told her. “You will be a greater than Patt." He sent her with a letter. to Mme. un. Willie and his dog had all the comedy ES ero husband didn't catch Be swell. villain until the thing ‘sat re confronted him in a Tenderloin i “are you going?” demanded nawered the villa tagger a nonchalan Abe mrity teamed pe oblergert, Binal oried | cross-Newhaus, The teacher heart the Lt and I am going to send you|siris voice, She was thrilled with its Mt he didn't, ‘The poliee interterea,| 2" mg 8pl0F. = she need ing oyor her misfortune, Yesterday sho began to sing. She kept it up ail day. Last night she sat the “Holy City" ‘with guch power and #0 continu ously, stopping now and then to weep, hat ‘a policeman was called and #l was taken to Bellevue. The doctors say she has hysteria resulting from the eer: but thet she will soon be well agein. Will Take Girl Back, Mme. Cross-Neuhaus sald to-day that she would be gind to take the girl back fas eon As she will consent to do as she is told. “She has a wonderful voice,” con- tinued the teacher, ‘a voice that will be famous the world over if she will but study. I have goted as I have for the girl'a own sake, I am sure she will realize goon that ‘we all know better than she what Bigs for her and that she will come xtous to get the FORMER WHITE HOUSE WASHI riet Lane Johnston, who presided over the social affairs of the White House during her uncle's administration, the late Pres! of death at her residence in this oity. Phyaiclan: pected at ‘When bi attendance and the end is not unex~- MISTRESS IS DYING. Suit Dept. sing in pubdlic. Her egotism grew until iy it"Bocame What the elieniste call meg-|“'e Harriet Lane Johnston, Niece alomania. It was practically insanity, of President Buchanan, Seriously itl. 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