The evening world. Newspaper, January 19, 1907, Page 11

< The Evening Worlds. Daily Magazine, ~ Saturday, ee ee ue es ee BLANCHE WAL : DOOD GOO KOKO) _ By Charles Darnton. QOH oc : 4 ‘6 “and study out a character. | ite to Blt before the flre"—she was eltting there as she ead it— ‘There was no ‘trace of “Houston Street’ Boll” “about Miss Blaiche Walahas sho gazed into the open grate, Outside man 394 : phavelliig 760" tho-suow, but "The Straight Rona” -ran_through—a—bed “of | coals. Miss Walsh was wrapped In thought and a Japanese kimono, — “A character comes to’ me jastantly or not at all,’S she murmured to a Uve. comll thit had{juet tumbled Into the frst rew, "You carne read a character into yourself?” Another coal tumbled forward in time for the answer: “No; a character must grip me at once. It must be strong enough to take firm hold of me. J must feel st. I cannot cultivate {ts acquaintance. JF cannot acquire 4 taste for a part, particularly {ft happens to be a ~e revat part: t-hate sweets; forever-cat-them:—Perhaph-that ts why T * nate thesweets of the stage, Nothing could induce me to play the rele of Miss Thompson in ‘The Stratght Road." It would be utterly useless for me to attempt a namby-pamby role, I prefer the d{tter:to the awoet.” the hitter ale of ‘Houston Street Moll'?" i “Yeu; if you care to put it that way. If ts infinitely better, I think, than the sugar-coated role of the heroine in.the so-called soclety play, 1 “could not bring myself.!n sympathy with & role of that kind’ I must have character.” fe ; 2 ' “feyen a character i{ke Moll's2'" ; ‘Evenia character lke Moll'a.she repeated with a smile. ‘She may not seem to haye much character’at first, when, as you sald, she comes on-fightin#, swearing drunk-— But, with-all-her-boozing, there-ts-good tn her, In ono senso, at least, she is‘moral, and she isin an Interesting type.” Do you think ‘you could find many ‘moral’ Molls on the east side?” ot many, no. Two, perhaps, but not twelve," eee 'There-was a glance from the corner of her eye and a smile from the torner-of-her-motth. = as —“StrFiteh's-Mottmas-besimusunt, but-she-ts by nomins tmpossible,"' Taye you ever found a girl lke her?” = \__“I'yq never looked for one. No, I didn't go down on the east siden search of her, and I can't say I ever saw just such a etrl during the elxhteen_momths that I lived in the Tombs when my father was ws ~ there, -There-was-no occasion for my-golng tothe -east-alde—————— _ — “Not even for an east side dialect?” ss . “Why should anyone go to the east side for a dialect? What New rker doesn't know his east side dialect? Doesn't he hear it every- 07. Don't you-hear {t on Broadway? Don't you hear it everywhere? the dialect came tome as a matter of course—-I.didn't-have-to-go-tn } h of it. There's plenty of d!alect lying around loose,” 2 “And plenty,of drunken Molls?" - “Yes, New York has {ts drunken women, moro’s the pity! And worse * still, New York laughs at them. Audiences at the Astor have been criti- ‘elzed for laughing at that drunken sceno in the first act. For my part, I should be sorry if they didn’t laugh. I should feel there was something wrong with the way I play the part, for I know that a New York crowd. —fuvariably laughs at a drunken woman J sould not, you would-not, but Mepend upon it, nine-tenths of the crowd would laugh—that’s the plain, heartless truth. The sight of a drunken woman fills me with pity, but to the Mmbjority-of people the spectacle, for some reason or other, is amusing. Let mo tell you of a case: I was going to my costumer’s fist off Union ~“Bquare—in Enst Sixteenth street, 1 think {t was—one Sunday morning, ~wheh "I" canie upon” a group of young girls shouting with laughtorat a poor, wretched. irunken old woman who was sitting on the lower steps of —n house,The moro the miserable creature cursed tho _girls;the-greater ‘wan _thelr_morriment. And where, do you supposg, those girls were go- ing? To high mass! I guessed as muob from the beads that they carried. T advised them to go to mass, then got tho woman on her feet, gave her a pat on the back, and walked with her for a few blocks. She swore at me, Just as she had sworn at the girls, but when I left her sho had quieted down-and-was-willing-to-go-home.—t could never fect anywiing but tho) __ deepest pity for a drunken woman.” ZnS NATE E : Y°OVINCENTS The Girl Who Proposes. © day passes that does not dring mo a letter from SH Has Turme @ VLE TO SIT BEFORE THE FIRE AND STUDY OUT A CHARACTER” UQusTon from head to foot, Bill fsn’t exactly a tender lover, But’ {t's all for Moll’s | that very often the answer 1s—hypocrisy £ This-ts-the resuit-of-her-evi-environment— Otherwise ele -ts-able Sho-te-an-eust-side-girl-and-therotoretwisa’.": “Why should drink be the curse of an east side_play erhaps it is that the east side play We hear whispers of drinking in "How-do-you-feel-about-playing-a-drunken-woman?"* “I have no. foeling about tt. l-bave nover-seen a-drunken—woman-an |. to-take care-of- herself, the stage, so I have no-way of-knowing-how such a character would {s more frank than the society play ‘goclety’ now and then, but only whispers. And {t would never do, of course, to put those whispers {nto a play. Oh, dear, no! understood. When drink gets the best of the poor they aro carted off to the acoholic ward of Bellevue, or sent to the, Island. Ned o kanitarium and treated for gout or It's only another illustration of the oW many drunken women have you played?’ “Only—one—beaties—Moli—the—girl-Maslova in was Divorcons,’ of course, but in that 1 was merely tipsy. a worse type than Moll, because when she fell she went to the depths. Moll begins and stops with her drinking. once she found herself on tho downward path. with a girl who has lost an honorable position In life. cortain-to be greater, Moll's one vite Is drinking, mixed with a little pro- | power of moncy. ‘The poor-are handted wit less-delteacy;"* Rip Van Winkle. © © = peep at the gray-bearded ‘Resurrection.’ Maslova was That is perfectly Maslova stopped jat nothing, Tho rich are re- That 1s usually,.the case|moved to a beautiful place cal The fall 1s almost |some equally fashionable disease. By Washington Irving. end inquired: ‘Where's Nicholas Ved- company broke up and retur (By Permission of George Munro's Sons,) fe) denportant which, frightened -at his looks, begar “Hush, Rip! erfed she, “hus the old inan wontt hur eo ofthe child, th ot her voico al “for a lttle while: FADVICE*LOVERS | There wee a allence when an-old, man replied, in a thin piping yolce! “Nicholas Vedder? why, ho 1s dead nnd gone OF PRECEDING Rip Van Winkle, she mother, the tone Black and Blue & For the Good © ¥ Soo of & 8 BZ. “Houston Street - Soe Moll.” © 25 g. “And Moll with none at all?’ 5 “Judge for yourself,” said Miss Walsh, pulling up the -sleeves_of her Idmono and revealing arms that wero black-and-blue in a dozen places, “‘T can't decide whether to eu¢ My. Dalton for damages-or to tke out an aeci= dent policy, “But my arms aren'ta. marker to-my knees, I'm bruise good in the end, #0 I.don't mind.* ‘Why don't-you-do-a good job and break an arm-or a leg?’ I sald to Mr. Dalton. the-other night after he bad fi-- {shed Athrowjng moe about. But I was more than satisied at one perform= ance,-wher his-ftrgers sipped as he-was choking me umd Ttound my wind Se shut off. I was obliged to swallow three or four times before T copld go: on with my nes. Thayo to swallow a greit many things:as Moll. Real iam has {ts penalties.” * 5 i Denso ve “And {ts.pictures,”.T added, thinking of that, Madonna and the Child. “But why should that be quéstioned? demandad Miss Walsh, “Ato you a Roman Catholle? Well, if’ you were you would know that’a girl ike Moll wit: 'gets-religion;’ as_the saying’ goes, would be sure to have a pleture of the Virgla In her room. To my mind there {s nothing Irreverent, ;nothing theatric, in that effect, provided the electriclan doesn’t make a | mess of the scene. I realize that a great many people, ospectally the clergy, — ;- do not like to seo the stage touch upon religion. Why. thls prejudice-extate————— I have never been ablo to understand, Why shouldn't a sermon be preached. from the stago, as well as trom tho pulplt?Could anything, for Instance, be moro.{nspiring, more uplifting, more filled with the sacred-spirit, than tthe performances at-Oberamniergau?—Ht Rene + san—a_pertormance of ‘Quo Vadis’ in-which-the-character—of Christ was introduced. Thig wag— | dono-a short distance from the Vatican—In the yery seat of the -Chureh—— yet theré was no protest. And why should there_be protest when the in- tent-of a representation {s-simply and Honestly religious? It eens tO fie | HEALTH AND BEAUTY. By Margaret Hubbard Ayor . th, ib Profuse Perspiration. Nalrfftakingtentel ns Uiaveer aa eee A=Try_thla M pre scription | {9 Scalp Is thoroughly saturated with | tor protiny the soap-mixture,—Give the lead a perspiration, e¢spe- sally of the feet: Glycerine, 2 nerchlorid of—fron.{o°8 SS ounces; essence of| Nail Powder. ~~ dergamot, 20. drops, to the feet shampoo with this mixture and rin several times. If you follow these dl: rections correctly the result will be suce cessful, F, M.—Hero is n good powder for polshing Halli: Taloim. powder, -Tounce; pulverized pumice atone, 4 Jotton...onand} Of Carmine anda. few ropa. ofall at ose, perfume if art ofterward dust] through-alik bolting elite ee t over with a powder mado aa a lows: Bumt aliun § grame; sails Wants-a Deep-Voice— acid, 21-2 grams; starch, 15 grams; vio- FFLICTED.—You had better ta a course of lessons from a first- let talcum powder, S grams. Balicylic acld soap, which may be procured of olaas Weloautlonistiiwhorteili@teapn $ any druggist, ahoult to ned in bathing | you how to use your voles properly the feet, — + And how to give chest tones instead of ‘5 i head tones, These Vocal chords may Chilb?ains. pe develoved by exercises, and tho BAL esbeesl id) __| most surprising reaulta obtetnodtt-the— ht exerciwes are given, Camphory-diam\-beta—| Delicate Skins phthol, 10° grains; cocaine, & THY this lotion for det 1 4 M sea : 7 = H If, B—Here 1s_q cure tor chil- . vias lachy! Lt GaAs Roracle acid, } dram er bathing -the “part in: hot-water; - anim—ot_oopalha te painted ver the distilled “witch hazel, 3_ ounces} wer Water, 2 ounces. Ul two or three tines @ day, AE ag--a- wash, A Safe Remedy. ~ “|Freckles on Arms. for parasites: Get a cake of failed the,/woman with obstinate «dichloride of mereury soap (tne efreckles may with benefit try the {mported 1 the Best), and cut tt into] formula I here give and which has auc- halves and shave-ese-half fnto fine bits, |ceeded-tn/a very obdurate caso under! Dissolve tt in by my_ca Oxide of sinc, 1-2 dram; pub- B<'The following ts n good cure Pet te eyerything else has 2 ounces. Mix thoroughly,-add-ti-grates—————— pater ithe comes ProRnae Iini. “Apparently young "women who tardly know What the phraso Sdea=ofSwoman'n Woman" means are carrying out the ro SATS OTT TOTO __Thelr conduct 1s blameworthy not so much because ft t9 forvard-as because ftw ata am uliecearary. ‘A woman-knows-whether or not aman loves herowithout-arking him. If he Savor a woman than at—hin-profeasion:—Dut-if- whe loves Nim, and” he ty not “giready intorested-in-auathar womsh-ghe ain penoraliy- manage-to-mako hin love hor, - without. resorting .t4-the sandiagging..metiod of proposing to hteas That 1s verude, ‘Itis your business to make him love you by letting hin sce that you are $nterested In hix conversation and lfo, by encouraging him tn his hopos and_ambi- ‘tions, by makiby fie best In him respond to the best Ip you” gO SIS Pete Erste eo ae ered OVE WIN marry on $15 a week and comfortably, If wa_are both se people? ~ EVELYN B. ou have no expensive tastes Hoe {s also growing cold to me. Is _ froper-for me to apologize to them all You have nothing to apologize for = = Your family have behaved lke brutes rt not waste money on “keeping UP/ They should be doubly affectionate 1 raccoon”: minfortune, and thelr conduct show im ; Family Has Grown Cold, _; {N° 0 not worth worrying about. ecsinety: . | | Initials on the Trousseau, "AM forty-five years old and I hAve| Dear netty: se \arge family, I owbed a home on| 77 1° Btaten Island, and everything went Pts tell_me how I am to Inl- ‘well for about three years, I havo five gixteru and one brother in New York, pect to. bear? Weel pares farmers POP oti riinadtcls sist ‘Phat 1s the rulo In tho matter. pot worry te Sotmucn about my sv.|44@ Brought Her Candy. tions for tho com! ne Haps and; Mishaps’ prize, %—L. B, Van Bickle, 470 Strect, Brooklyn, N. Y. * ether prizes of $1 each—Mrs, Grabe, caro of Mrs. C. A, Weed, Gavoretraw, N. Y,; R, J, Clark, 204 West One Hundred and Forty-olghth street, ow Xork City; H. Mf, Moffitt, Garner- and County, Ny _ : ia erles, “Do-| he was the only one to think of moe, i ™. C. stone ip the churchyard that used to ut him, but that's rotten and it to-dectara her choles -preathied by mtranger carrying A kek. him to a glen where he On trom the Ween he he finds the nel , | —HOh— he went—off_te—thearmy_tn_the.) beginning of the war; some say he was killed at the storming of Stony Point: others pay. ho .was..drowned inthe he font—of-anthony's— Nowa T don’ know, he never came back + y nd never has been 1 Qoean't love her-he_won't- marry_her-unless she has money ani-he would rather} ep OS patiiout him: ”p Thed-away—by—the indians nobody can tet —t waa then but re hte atti Wut ong -auextion -more= ti but he put Jt with a/ faltering Whether he shat rislug— generation, —_—_—_— tee nppearance of Rip, with his long. grizzled beard, bis rusty fowllng- pince,-pis.-undouth army of women and oil gathored at his nevis, Lattention «the tavern. Se Re crn ee ts “[ Head ta foots vith: orator bustled up him partly aside. aide he voted." Ri stupidity, Another sbort tle fellow pulled him by raising on tiptoe, inquired In “whether he was Federal or Demo- erat! Rip waa equally at loss to comprehend — the knowing, self-Important 0! In-a sharp cocked hat, made hig way putting them to the t }a man can do nothing with he took his place on drena_and the, ‘Van Bummel. tho_school- | volca: aren that had {= died but a short Umi rast "He-went off io the wars, too: Was -sincey «lig Hoke. ao Mloed-va ta New ng polltictans. They greasy epriosity, : fo him and, draw!sé | qautred on when. ptared in vacant 8 it —busy Ub the arm and, these sad changes friendsand- finding himselfthus alone ihe world, Every anawer puzzled | jy tim, too, by-treating of such enormous — know poor lapses of time, and of matters which | understand—war, Winkie? ss until an old woman. | ¢ from among the crowd, put her hand to her brow and. gress, Stony Point! He had no courage | under It in his face for a mo to ask after Anymore friends, Lerted out In despair, “Does nobody hore + know Rip Van Winkle?” } Tip va 1 stood amazed, he could not tottering out “Sura enough! 1t Winkle, ttt t again, old neighbor. 1d gentleman, hadogot WA neck of matrimony, "Oh, to bo sure! Rip Van Winkle yonder, leaning agalnst two or three. whole tiyenty aa one night [when they he Rip looked, and beheld a precise coun- | tun, terpart of himself aa ho went upxthe mountaln; apparently as laxy, and cer- Tho poor follow was | confounded, He doubt-| ed hia own Identity, and whether ho| was himsolf or another man, midst of his bewilderment the man in} the cocked hat demanded who he was| and what was hii namet “God knows!" éxclaimed he, at) his | ‘I'm not myself, I'm some-| body else; that's mo yonder—no, that's | kot Into my ‘shoes. | was myself last night, but I fell asleep | on the mountain, and they" through the crowd, right ond left with his el passed, and planting _ himself Van Winkle, the other ‘resting on eyes and sharp hat penotrating, as it Into hia yery soul, demarided in tere tone, “what brought him to n on his shoulder The neighbors stared fing the tynton Whenever her n and put thelr gues in thelr important man in the when the alarm was ov ed Mw Shotulde which mixnt cane, his keen me had returned for an express nation to hie hin deliverance, stranger that arriy tal my trousseau? Shall I use} an my maiden namo or the one I ex-| tho clection with a gu and a mob at his heels, and whether MWe al} agreed together until hand luck) "1),. tne initials of your maiden name.| he meant to breed a riot’ in the vil- Y time he told So aes rguiel tho oarlloat_accounia af. the Peter was the most ancient Inhubltant the village, and well verse: tho wonderful events and traditl the neighborhood at once, and corroborated his the most. satisfactory any (at AC wan FXing! gentlemen, what dismayed, Dear Dettys s” ocr] mani a native of the place, and a loyal of the King, God bless him!" Here a general shout burst from the ‘A Tory! a Tory! A spy! universally & to this day the fcamic” Prize Winners AM a young girl, nineteen: years old. | subject ‘ny 9 y A young man give me ao box of “Comic’’ Prize inners | candy “when I had met him threo Hm’ following prizes) have been| times, Do you think he loves me? I|q refuxke! Hustle him! Away with i “warded this wek for sugges-|love bim very much. Of all my friends | jim!" © changed | handed dow It was with great dimculty that the always. been yelf-lmportant man in the cocked hat restored order; and having assumed « strange beln or who I am!" byptanders began now to look at ity of brow, demanded} each other, nod, wink significantly and agaln’of the unknown culprit what he|tap their Angers against thelr fore came there for, and for whom he wi Tho poor, man humbly what's my name, crew of” the elgg, permitted to revixit the scensx of his en- ine and keep a guardian eye upon ver and the great city oalied by tenfold auster! ‘an a whisper, about securing the gun, sured him that ho’ mednt no harm,] tho old fellow from doing mieohlef; at are : in search of | the very avggestion of which the self- {| The young man must lke you, but'al somo of his nelghbors, who ured to|{mportant’man with the cocked hat. and keeping “Tlain Tales Rudyard-Kipling's wreatestcotico- Gon of short storiox, will appear geen them In thelr old’ Dutch dresses SI the Neow o. that ho himself had the: but merely came orev ing At TIne=p! o mountain; and [Toatda, 1-4 dram: dextrin, 134 drajgs; glycerine, 1 1-2 dramas. Spread Pe TEA the iat Upon, te freckles at night be- une: Brat et the. baie ara oa atatan ath ll bos with < Waitin Wailer, ? dered May Manton’s Daily Fashions, the, year, and in these dn ys-or earn ly heated houses tha low. necked sort aro but it fs 3 for cashm 1 and albatross, at! also for wanh able materials, 1 “tnade in) what known as jump: ¢ and js nwithou! on over the hi tod about the 9: to keep {t In place. It iy absolut and camfo yy looss ble and other= din per- 2, y of ma: terlal Gi for the medium stzo is rd 27, 2% yards 2 jyards 41 jo Acith 5% nsertion and inches: Dressing Sacque In Jumper Style—Pattern No. 5499%yards of Jace ed. atid beading. —_ : seh 1s cut In three sizes, smally medium and-large, corresponds 36 and # Inches bust measurv, Call or send by mail to THE EVENING WORLD MAY MAN- West ‘Twenty-third street. New box of candy ts Ho proof of love “Walt bot tay until his;attentions become more peed bab fa ie ; nounced.and do not be too forward, “ip tired ‘with some precipitation, At this eritioal moment a fresh, comely woman through the throng to got. thejin The Frentng World, beginning summer —afternogn, thay? Name them,” r dalle, lke distant pealaigiouday. The bent, mont intercat-; Ben aka am tane! stave etmnt the ium hort stories even written.