The evening world. Newspaper, May 7, 1903, Page 13

ART SCTE IIL TL RITE PUT WILD ANIMALS ONE HAS MET. THE “HARLEMFLATER.” ug ll Yi\ det by day. ————— Feld them aelvy ry, Gites 1g @ veritable zoo, full of weird animal the weirdest of these is the "Hi only to the upper regions of N Harlem, and found nowhere else in the Tn his wild state he is given to roaminy fate at night, making a great deal of nolse, standing on the corners or in front of theatres with others or hia. kind. How- ever, having been captured by some member of the fair sex, he soon becomes quite tractable and ti domesticated, after which he can be taught to care for the young, to do the marketing Saturday numerous packages and bundles to his den. ‘Tnese dens, consiructed snosily-of 6! tiny dark compartments about two by one above the othe: Many of them are ornam carving and fre-escapes. ed on the Here the Harlemfater lives doth winter and summer and However, it is thought by some that the spectes will soon dle out, as the young are Usually barred from these dees, Strange to say, other ani- ee suoh as the cat and dzg, are more welcome. seems to flourish in his captivity. because he must lve in such warkacn bor {@ peculiarly constfucted wi Stories from Famous Books. HE GOBLINS WHO STOLE THE SEXTON. pen of Pick- a fold thie story ehrough the real ytd Papers. a dhertlUroead the’ punch oo fas ouew falling aad’ tue, ibd “ Na an ol4 abbey town, down fn (his patt of the country, a long, .ong while ago—so long that the story must be @ true one, because our gteat grandfathers implicitly believed it— there officiated as sexton and grave- digger in the churchyard one Gubricl Grub, “& Itlle before twilight one Chriat- mas Eve Gabriel shouldered his spade, lighted his lantern and detook bimself towamd the old churchyard. As he went his way up the ancient street he saw the cheerful light of the blazing fires Gleam through the old casements and heard the loud leugh end the cheerful shouts of those who were assembled @round ther} he marked the bustling preparations for next day's cheer and melt the numerous savory odors con- sequent thereupon, as they steamed up from the kitchen windows in clouds. All this ‘wes gall and wormwood to the heart of Gabriel Grud; consequently ne was not & little indignant to hear a young urchin redring out some jolly gong about a Merry Christmas, Gabriel waited until the boy’came up and then dodged him Into @ corner and rapped him over the head with tis lantern five or alx times, to teach him to modulate his voice, And aa the boy hurriéd away with his hand to his head, singing quite @ different sort of tune, Gabriel Grub Chaskied very heartily to himself, and ‘entered the churchyaN, locking the gi behind him. “ ‘Ho! ho!’ mughed Gabriel Grub as heeat himself down ona flat tombstone, ‘which waa a favorite resting place of thi, and drew forth ‘his wicker bottle. ‘A coffin at Christmas! A Christmas box, Ho! tho! ho!’ “Ho! ho! ho!’ repeated a volce which sounded close behind him. “Seated on an upright tombstone, close to him, was a strange, unearthly figure, whom Gabriel felt at once was no being of this world, His long fantastic legs, whielt tight have reached the ground, were cocked up, and crossed after a quaint, fantastic fashion; Tms were bare, and his hands rested on kn “‘Gabriel Grub! Gabriel Grub!’ Screamed a wild chorus of voices that seemed to #21 the churchyard. Gabriel looked fearfully round—nothing was to! laughed, the sexton observed, One instant, a brilltant illumination within the windows of the church, as the whole building were sometimes reaching dreary heights. his atnewy | And ‘ariemflater,” native York City, called} which as: to reach his den. Beds, dressers, world. § around the streets is easly tamed and nights and to lug tone and brisit, ate twice in sige, bullt outside with stone smal quarters the ith joints and tinge, lighted up; it disappeared, the organ pealed forth a lively alr, and whole troops of goblins, the very counter- part of the first one, potired into the churchyard, and began playing at leap- frog with the tombstones. “The sexton's brain whirled round with the rapidity of the motion he benetd, and his legs reeled beneath him, as the spirits flew before his eyes; when the goblin king, suddenly darting toward him, laid his hand upon hls collar, and sank with him through the earth. “When Gabriel Grubb had had time to fetch his breath, which the rapidity of his descent had for the moment taken away, he found himself in what appeared to Up a@ large cavern, eur- rounded on all sides ‘by crowds of gob- lins, ugly and grim; in the centre of tioned his friend of the churchyard, and close Deside him stood Gabriel Grub ‘himself, without the power of motion. ‘And now,’ said the king, fantastt- cally poking the taper corner of his sugat-loat hat Into the sexton’s eye, and thereby occasioning him ‘the most ex- quistte pain: ‘And now show the man of misery and gloom a few of the pic- tures from our great storehouse!” “As the goblin said this a thick cloud which obseurod the remoter end of the) cavern rolled gradually and dis- closed, apparently at a great distance, a small and scantily furnished, but neat and clean apartment, A crowd of little children were gathered round a_ bright fire, clinging to their mother's gown and gamboling around her chair. “But a change came upon the view, almost imperceptibly. The scene was altered to @ small bedroom, where tho fairest arf@. Yoongest chila lay dying; the roses had fled from his cheek, and the light from his eye; and even ai thé sexton looked upon him with an in- terest he lad never felt or known be- fore, he died. His young brothers and sisters crowded round his Httle bed and 6elzed his tiny hand, #0 cold and heavy, but they shrunk back from its touch, for calm and tranquil as It was,f _ I sleeping in rest and peace as the 1{ aa- ' tttul ‘chtid seemed to be, they saw that he was dead, and they knew that he was an angel looking down upon and blessing them from a bright end happy heaven. “Again the light cloud passed across the picture, and again the subject old and helpless now, @nd the number of those about them was diminished more than half; but content and cheer- fulnese sat on every face and beamed in every eye as they crowded round the fireside and told and listéned tb old | Stomy of earlier and bygone days, Glowly and peacefully the father sank |’ 20 that he may fold himself up and thereby occupy @ very Mmited space indeed. He has also springs im ‘his knees, t him greatly in climbing the innumerable stairs His furniture, too, is somewhat similar. weshstands and wardrobes fold up into plano’, bookcases, writing desks and cabinets. seoms to have no sleeping-rooms at all, and by night he reems to have nothing élse. Many Harlemflaters spend the @ay among the haunts of other animads further downtown in search of prey, returning in a great body or “push,” as {t is called, in the evening. In these pushes, especially in is eal to extibit very save pushing, crowding, growling, #1 striking the others with his ¢orepaws. very different from those of most other animals, deing hooked in order that he may hang on to the straps in street cars. While theso cars slowly creep along up to Harlem it 1s Gis habit to find out and eriticige the doings of other animals by means of the evening papers. He has also the button-pur#aing hat, always to ring before he can get Into his own den. Some- times he rings another animal's bell, purposely or by mi take, but he does not mind, for he nas learned to get indoor: and out of sight before ho is caught. the room, an elevated eeat, was sta-} and looked with awe on his infant (7 a! By day he ny weather, the Harlemfater gerous tendencies, ing and sometimes even ‘These forepaws are veing obliged into the grave, and, soon after, the sharer of all his cares and troubl followed him.to a placo of rest. The few who yet urvived them knelt by their tomb and watored the green turf which covered it with their tears; then re86 and tumed away, sadly and mOtirnfully, ‘but not with bitter orles of despairing lamentations, for they knew that they should ono day meet again; and once mote they mixed) with the busy world, and thetr content and cheerfulness were restored. Tho cloud settled upon the ploture and con- céaléd it from the sexton's view. “What do you think of that?’ sald | the gotlin, turning his large face to- | ward Gabriel Grub, “Gabriel munmured out something about its belng very pretty, and looked | somewhat ashamed na the goblin bent his flery eyes upon him. “'You a miserable man!’ said the goblin, in a tone of excessive contempt. ‘You!’ He appeared disposed to add more, but indignation choked his ut- terance, #o he lifted up one of his very pliatie: legs, and flourishing it above his head a little, to insure his aim, ad- ministered a good sound kick to Ga- briel Grub; immediately after which all the goblins in walting crowded round the wretched sexton and kicked Wim without mercy, according to the estatiished and invatiable custom of courtiers upon earth, who kick whom royalty kicks, and hug whom royalty bugs. “The day had broken when Gabriel Grub awoke and found himself lying at shi deacocaeiad ART ee ‘THE w EVENING . WORLD'S, 2 HOME »# MAGAZINE » ™ MAY 7, 1008, DO ACTRESSES MAKE GOOD WIVES? |THE AMERICAN GIRL AS HER BY HARRIET HUBBARD AYER. MAN ‘fs bound to judge women chiefly by the particular woman he knows best, or perhaps I should say worst. Certainly in the opinion of Mr. Frederic Davidson, Sunday-school superintendent and denouncer of the actress-wife, it was from Ris stand- point a case of worst. But because the beet of men and most accompliened of Sunday-echoo! superintendents has made a failure of marriage with an | laotresa it by no means follows that all married women on the stage are leither unhappy themedlves or render their husbands so, The stage ie a hard taskmaster and the mair who falls in love with an} ‘actress, If he be endowed with intelligence and worldly wisdom, will ar- | range his domestic plans for happiness so they will not confilct with his! wife's professional duties or hef artistic ambitions. A woman engnged in any business or calling by which she Is earning | money must give her time and services and must be free from harassing fe SS jimiportuntties or jealous complaints and nagging from her hupband if she | possesses one, or takes one unto herself. without taking into consideration the important claims of that most ar-| duous and absorbing profession and without the capacity of effacing him- self when it becomes necessary is preo:dained to trouble. some elements that won't mix. I had an old colored cook oneé who was a philosopher in her way and} taught us all many lessons in untangling life's problema, “Some pussons,” she used to no disputing that fact. married misery off the stage. of the broken unions of men and women in private life. has been ao featured that it gets on one's nerves. It 1s certainly a very much overworked term. married. They don’t talk much about temperament. artistic temperament,” judged by ordinary standards.” tie Infelicities to his wife’ her. expectant morta] like myself. Flatbush recluse, matrimonial venture, is to be restored by way of a divorce court. I feel sorry for Mrs. Davidson myself. tending husband, and who found she couldn't. superintendent. him as a human target for a little turn at dish-hurling. ‘house, tistic temperi It would be well occasionally to call a spade a spade. temperament as a fine-sounding term has served as a cloak for all sorts of mean selfishness and self-indulgence. Usually it is advanced by the sup- ‘posed possessor. I don’t exactly know what Mr. Davidson meant by ascribing his domes- artistic temperament. I doubt if he does. But any one of average worldly experience will readily comprehend that Mrs. Davidson, late of the Bostonian Opera company, might have found jeomething lacking in the environment of a Flatbush Sunday-school superin- tendent’s wife, no matter what sort of a temperament she carries about hale No one should be surprised that Mr. Davidson failed. A wiser man—I will not say a more charming or fascinating man, hav- ing never had the privilege of seeing Mr. Davidson—could scarcely have expected a less direful result than the failure which attended Mr. Davidson's 1 think of her trying to be gay, living the life of the meek and lowly Flabuehtan—I think of the little ac- | tress who believed she could be a happy wife of a Sunday-#thool-suporin- ENGLISH SISTER SEES HER. The man who marries an actress | Thete are “ts like butter 'n’ soft sugar—de moh you mixes em de beautifuller is de sause; while cders is like vinegar and ‘milk, dey won mix—you kin stir yoh amh off or boat yoh spoon till de} handlo turns backward—dey won mix, dey {s boun' in de finally to repa- rate. Yoh want to mek shuh dat yoh greedient gwine to mix foh you tries to jine em together.” So it {s with marriage, ond so it fs in Mr. Davidson's case. But why blame the actress until we know something of the other “greedient?” There are a good many unhappy marriages among the players—there We nearly always hear of the marital rows of the professional world. But, goodness knows, we cannot Doast of a shortage in the records of The difference is only in the fact that we do not hear of one-hundredth The artistic temperament as @ reason and explanation for many things Tt is nowadays too often thrown in as an explanation or an excuse for every puzaling situation. I know real artists who are charming, devoted wives and most happlly I know women who excuse their selfishness, their utter lack of consid- eration, thelr extravagance of language, their every immoderation, by hurl- Ing this sort of thing at whoever may be present, “You see I have the or, “Of course, with my temperament, I cannot be The artistic | something lacking in the environment of a Flatbush clergyman’'s wife, no matter what sort of a temperament she carries about with her. Flatbush does not appeal to the imagination of even a staid and un- | The wildest, maddest, most romantic portion of Flatbush cannot we other than a bit dull in contrast to the glare of the footlights. Mr. Davidson must have felt that he had rather a large contract on hi ands when he undertook to make of Miss Lawrence, accustomed to the! excitement of the operatic stage and to the glamour of the footlights, the | life of travel and the luxuries of hotels, a happy and contented wife of a But why blame the overworked “artistic temperament?” Why ‘not have the courage the occasion demands and cast the blame on Flatbugh—or—4e it not just remotely possible that Mr. Davidson, even w:th , the halo of the Sunday-school and the perfume of the chureh and the gener- | ally sanctified atmosphere with which instinctively one surrounds him, may ‘have been a little to blame for the matrimonial chaos out of which Onder | ) Of course she should not have thrown the china at the Sunday-school The fact that he was her husband gave her no especial rights to regard It was wrong cf Mrs. Davidson to throw dishes and naughty of her to chase him about the T cannot possibly feel that she was justified in her behavior, but if ever I were to be driven to throw a dish at a man, or chase a Sunday-school )superintendent around a house I believe it would be in circumstances ai r to those which called forth this rude exemplification of Mrs, Davidson's Cull length’ on the flat gravestone In the churchyard, with the wicker bottle ly- ing empty by his side, and his coat, spade, and lentern, all well whitened hy the last night's froet, scattered on the ground, fie stone on which he had first seen the goblin seated stood bolt upright before him, and the grave at. which he had worked the night before was not far off. At first he began to doubt the reality of his adventures, but the acute pain in his shoulders when he attempted to rise assured him that the Kicking of the goblins was certainly not ideal. “He was staggered again by observing no traces of footsteps in the snow on which the goblins had frog with the gravestone: ily accounted for th When he remembered that belng spiri they would leaye no. ible Impression changed. The father end mother were | li behind them. So, Gabriel Grub got on is feet as well as he could, for the pa} in his and brushing the frost o ‘this coat it on and turned his face yt the town. was an altered man and ne cou tnot Gear the thought of return: ing to a place where repentance wont | be scoffed at and his reformation ona [He hesitated for a few imo- then turned away, to wan: aoe Wnsce,pe mgt | The accompanying photograph from the Buffalo Express was taken during the Tecent measles epitiemic in that olty. It represents two Itttle ‘sufferers’ wae, je nis bread | the Joy of having themselves and thelr home brovyht 20 forgot to pose a6 pathetic invalids. THE AMERICAN G vL i ls adopts a fascinating mii {all men are her admirer: na dictatorial manner, through her none, Has ing knowledge Phystenl cultwre ts her pp. topte. In constantly tniing stock of herself and her pointn. Helleven in throwing out her chest and looking on the bright side of life, Like other women, sense of the humorous. trange Hmitations in the HBSE are the conclusions of a writer who uses the mya- terlous X as signature and who publishes “Notes on Amberican Women’ in London Wlack and White. The tention of ail who see her.” Here are some of the writer's, critical notes “The American woman unquestionably considers herself a queen, and as in this world people are for the most part taken at their own valuation, ehe i# possiily well advised In doing 80, “American girls whom I have met on being Introduved to strangers adopt tmmediately a deliberately fascinating man- ner and plunge into personal reminiscences and self-revela- tions with so simple an art and so Ingenious a dellef In the admiring sympathy of their audience that the audience, in spite of itself, falls into the expected attitude of appreciation. “American girls assume, almost invariably, that all the men that they krow or meet their admirers, and insensitly thin seems to bscome more or less the case. While an Eng- lish girl assumes for an indefinite period in the acquaintance that the men that she meets are mere casual strangers, and hides a really <nodest diMdent feeling as regards her own charma under & mask of reserve ana shyness, the American Cleopatra, who by her fascinatl beauty charmed #0 many of let hor time, was short and stout, any of the women of the middle | Ages were also large, Among them a: stew older. wit of her “pudg: George had a beautiful men most wicked woman in the world; | usually lace. Laura, whom Petratch made famous in his poems; Marguerite of Angouleme, Queen of Navarre, and Marie de | mother of Spain's Medic!, wife of the French king, Henry | 30) pounds a few IV. she was Queen Elizabeth and hor sister, Mary ‘Tudor, were both tall and stout. So) was the creat Russian Empress, Cath- erine. Both the Empress Josephine and her predecessor on the Frengh throne, overcome severe course of ‘ust |writer's atudy of the type appears to have been limHted to a4 Chicago git) who is studying for the operatic slage in Munled, gir! who believes in “cultivating 9 inant personaitty: jand micceeda “through her mannerlems in arresting the at- SOME FAMOUS STOUT WOMEN. | and, Marie Antoinette, became stout as they! Mme. time, Lucrezia Borgia, sometimes called the tively stout, and George Eliot was un- All the women of the Bourbon blood have a tendency to fatness. then very graceful. Marguerite, dowager of Italy, tried to ner stoutness, but vinegar drinking had to give up the girl steps in, and, with an aly assumption of the all-son- quering man:er which ts natural to her, she wing, spparently Without an effort, a certain amount of allegiance. For this rort of thing English girls are apt to be Jealous Amerleans, A fit of this natute I treat with’ donsoling words. ’ 1 #Oy, ‘you wouldn't care to Ye Miss Penelope R. Browne, sitting Uicre and holding ferth in that dictatorial r through her nose, even though It Iw @ pretty omef naciousness of American women in these daya 1s notices Seldom have I mot one~and [ have met a good many—who hus not been ready to analyze the type ‘American to throw all the light of which she ts capable iological workings, Sometimes it is a clear and but often 1 fs more than a little misty. may ‘aling hehe To mo thin self-consclousness is rathor repellent, “The practicaittly of the American girl is admirable and her knowledge of the world astonishing, I think it may be sald thal most American girls of elghteen could inform most Englieh women of thirty on the workings of the under- currents and submerged forces in life, and with complete [Rin-frold aud A sort of cynical philosophy they will: tint | with topics ieft very often untouched even in thought by (pe English lady “Yet we must in justice admire the pial ncopohannteas of “American women, It ts well to call a spade a spade and to tot tho alr into unneoestarily mysterious comers, va) Bat sa ean “There is a sort of biatancy, however, In che way many Americans speak of their girls and their education that sometimes grates on British reserve of feeling, We English lke our girls to be tall and healthy and well developed, but we still have the grace to appear to allot to physical training @ secQidary Importance to mental and moral training. | The Americans seem to be unbdlushing materialists in their In- stincts, ‘Physical culture’ is thelr passion and constant topic. “A good deportment is for them a eort of asset more than an unconscious grace in life. 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