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= | : The Evening World Daily Ma DODOQOOOSGINS gazine, Saturday, October 5, OW. F1O70S AND HTS WAILOChS By Charles Darnton, Square “Are you laughing ‘With you,-Mr. Fields! and laughing its head off oe ite bela hi..! HERE'S only one retry rien Lew Fields asks a* the Herald at me or with me?” You've taken Broadway out of the withoutjthinking of its collar button ; it {s shrieking and howling just as jt used to shriek and howl in the days when Weber and Fields had it “going.” _And ail this in an English musical comedy! you exclaim. Well, yes ‘poser’s side, you see. How about that screamingly. sizz: gad=n0,-tor“The- ‘Girt Behind the Counter’ ts, English “only on -ber_com- then @o out and order something else.” All But the tough-looking walter show |” faint signs of interest. There ts some- thing —in—the-attituds or The Terrinte | Tenderioiner to suggest that he may nd on the head walter at any mo- ent, and so, after taking a—quick lance at the hard-looking specimen, the good nature out FLEW FIELDS Gives BROAD i -Vot-hin.—AguIn He attempts to face the] tough proposition, only to slip around behind ‘him and fall upon a halt-por- _ he says, shaking the lttle the Anger-bow! ing soda- fountain scene, and, better @till, that hilariously awkward squad of waiters that Fields drills into your funny-bone? Well, again, neith from Chicago, the ather from Kansas er came from London. One came City. Fields picked up the ideas in those towns a few years ago and had been saving them for the time,sthe! place and the girl. Re had been waiting for. froma Chicago Fountai “I wot the scda-fountain idea in = ‘Cufengo drua store,” he told me, “It pwes tm a equere that wae a tranafer peat of streetcar passengers, and it wea always full of funny people. ‘Whenever I felt a little bit ‘down’ I't wtop tm and pull myself up with a lass of coca-cola. One day the per- $ectly charming clerk—he was « lovely (ellow—emilled at me and said: “Mr. Wielés. you always drink ococe- eols, don't yout! “J almost choked. Then I sat up eke potioed something. “If ever I Ket —¢he—chanoe,'—I-sald—_to_mrse!f, ‘I’ ! ~—tng- lonely-over-my- soup, when I jooked sing to_bmva..a soda fountain of my. “own on the stage. ‘Ama where did you find the wait- “grat! I wequired. “ts Kaness City.’ “he revited. “You oar find things there, you_know. I found the walters th a hot only the ortetrals were black—all coons. It was fom a piece of luck. I had to be at =: one Pipe, Oe E got into the dinine-room a few min utes after 6. before any of the other ruerte were atthe. tables.I_was-teel- up-end-eaw a sight-that filled ane with yey. ‘Where, at the tar end of the as the head -walrer-ariiling the funniest bunch of Coons I'd ever seen. ‘After that [-was-tn the dining-room “keep my face straight as I watched thowe walters trying to get on to their — fob) It was immense, and when I left ©; “The Girl Behind the Counter gays- him—the chance. Kaneas City I knew those walters by heart The watters that Fields Mnes up on the staxe of the Herald Square would Ted a cheao table d'hote of its sting, The first has side-whiskers, but even ‘at that his face isn't insulting enough. ‘The fat one with the baby smile im- Personates the head walter, who with withering scorn remarks: ‘You look lke you was lad to see people come Into the place’? Then ne proceeds to Iay down the “|"walteriaw, That Talk to the Waiters. "The irat—thing @ French walter maet learn. he hegina, ta to-tonk-sed Aleo he musi must he go to a oustomere table for; thought -|tencminutes after he comes in, er hejambitious landlady that he weeps-in When you go toja department store and dries his tears loses his-union card. | tan In one of ‘them and drowa your- self.” He next turns to a long, etringy wpecimen who looks. like something from the animal kingdom that has strayed into trousers. When this freak | la disposed of FY apc ee ori eee sovbondon escerieemeey atmpleten or not. When Sehnift lures hia wife to = seat righ! warts in agal over the asain, ee _- Misa Dresser: never once relaxed from his belligerent attitude. “Now I'm going to get itt’ Fields talls himeelf, and he braces himeelf for the jolt. He is expecting the worst, when The Terrible Tenderlotner, Ike-a perfect lady, mildly inquires: “Say, mister, where fre you going to place mef’ Mercy! What a Shock ! Oh, Gertrude! That's enough! Fielda takes the gentle creature by the slack ot his fallen estate and runs him out of the place, Fielda's trouble: he gets on the stage, chased on by an~ irate begin’ the moment in fact, he is abby." © -Henry--Schniff.e-soidier-of-mistortune,-L took Insulting. Never Me W~ sd" overcoine df having mairied his pecially | the table, dust. the crumbs off in: the! with a pair of corseta”anda—atoditing Customers lap, then walt till he Asks “that he absent-mindedly takes from the you betore you give him a orogramme. | counter. When he sdoes ask you, look at him a [12 you pitied dim and then put 4 glass! over. lady of the store,‘comes-tn—be-— Of Ice wuter in front of him and walk | tween man | notine- 1t.and. fhe “gete—huffy__and. Jingles with his knife onthe glass—co out in tne—kitchen,~ where you can't Hear I By ant by he wilcomplain tothe nead—walter,—and-he—will-come: “Ouc frome-tife,” “he oontenves to the} ughter and murder in the But—he- cheers up-«* bit when he} turns floorwalker and-gets-a-took ata n_ customer named the torey the freak, “take one pa ee as he catohe: woud look betore the toy department,’ Vernon Cas who plays this part ‘and iater figures aa the long-lesged, Spaghetti-like waiter, !s an unusual jeomedian who almost deserves to be put in the theatrical hall of fam who squares off ‘a knockout jn one round, ersseshoericatere) iabiesk et ast [but they're no funeral; and whe clever Connie Edise falls down the ‘Stile to add to Bchniff's troubles and jexpenses,-she- lookalike « e_with-piumes_firing.— Gonnie, the Cockney. | ‘I rather like that crushed raspberry cloak with the poisoned lamb’ | for something that’ will put her on her feet, but when Schniff turns on the ‘soda she gets moreisthings that almost takes her off her jen she starts in by Ing questions, Schniff asks: ‘Do you want soda water or conver- sation T* _She wants what she wante—and she gete pet ‘Then she gets a oalisaya jag )-Anallyloadet tnt. Faust at Low Tide. You're_so_tired hy SS marshmallow, songs aver the plece, “What {s the orem rn “I haven't had It desisned yet," gur ®i-- Mra, Sohniff. “But Henry's father was @ sausage-maker in Germany, and I was thinking of having @ dog ram- pant_on.a_frytag-pan, with « border_of When Sohnift Gear at the, Reece his trite-erteet ake You've got a hall ecrooa’ aoul, that's what you have, and you'd be. there yet ff hadn‘t took pity-on you and_married you. I married you be- cause I felt sorry for you.'t ‘Well, remarks the gloomy Schnif,, Tyo started in endleis chain. Now verypody 18 sorry for me,“ Wish dear —Witlongnby wraa_here, STIt_yow' ike.” answers that human seers Mt as ‘20a Miag Matsa in her best cockney. ‘By golly!" exclaims Schnift, J found hie pr picked ‘out what he want write tt down on a piece FIVE DOL OLLARS fc for the est line, THRER. —DOELARS for forthe -next—best,-T WO-DO1 LARS for the third best. "THE: GI F the girl wh i every person wh Ther Youu ate seen something funny in every misfortune . ‘Wnd seldony reatizes that ter cynicat_tongue-t r__ble for much sorrow.It js only through careleasness_and— thoughtleasness RI WHO RIDICULES. 0 makes fun of everybody could realize ry_jnuch. dingumtort and pain-she-causes.she-would|-as you-have-done-everyilts reftain from—her-pet-pastimeof_ridiculliig}to_win her loves -Perbapa it-you Dre: T Som@pn clue pateerenes in seaprect|A Bashful Lover, Dear ‘Betty; “AM deeply in love with a young man—trom the country, Hea | _o ho crosses her path. In the buoyancy of Texponsl that any girl could enjoy poking fun at} EVERY DAY until further announcen.ent THE EVENING WORLD will Give three prizes of %, #3 and bd for th “tmericks."" capris tor-thtw~ Sittnrertetett note primed pith be-ewertit: See: Det E ShaES Vague Ol es y jo three best last lines for uncompleted Bore a huge roll.pf bills in his vest, But the wad_-wwas so tight ‘That bring tt VWHght, postaiee ee ‘Write-the, line to complete this [BDITOR, Bvening Werld, P, O. Bo: it te not-necemsafy to use this coupo! may @o so If you desire ™ contest is open to all without erie ef in ending in your answer, but yo ohar lesa Torti charity will con ings of others. reip, and {f you do not wish to be subject to stinging sarcasm guard your own 2S DEK CONTR TNE WORT WHT AS MEN WS smooth the hardshina of others, and kindness in a woman ts more to be desired. If you have heretofore taken pleasure in ridiculing others, turn over.a new leaf and ox gentleness and sympathy as @ substitute for gress ea oart tf than a clever, sharp tongue. atingin oriticlam, “An Indifferent Girl, Dear Betty: twenty-eght years old and deeply in love with a girl who fs ten years older than I am. I went to_theatrea two or three times a week with—her.propoeed-to-her_and-she al= ways tella me that it ls too poon. I mortals XA @ttl With the trie spirit of] done instead of ridiculing the shortcom- Remember that an you sow you shall am afraid she doesn't love me, aa she always talks against my friends tome, and that makes me_angry, I am |_aalesman- -and—could—give—her—2--home: and support her in first class style. I asked her to let wp know by yestor- day Sf she .would: marry me and if tie word waa not yea I-aid not want to have anything to do with her, Shall —] Der Bauyr [objects because he jaan Italian. He} 1 call her up er write asking te {07 thought to young men, Your mother her number? I do not think the qirl cares Sten sou you could: tend to be Interested in she wil think she is rather old for you An Angry Girl, sheds her sott beauty and a couple of| =| from an adjacent counter and has thent he is, he's got the laugh on me.” Schniff ia the long-suffering, down- trodden husband until, disguised as Noorwalker, he takes temporary charge Of the woda fountain. Here ts where the house explodes with Li ba ‘two haughty snowsiris seat them- Scitsa_at the counter and orfer choco- jate.—“After~ asking what—oolot—tisy- want, Schniff gets a stand of neckties pick out the color. Then he takes the ie and _runa_slong. matches it with @ syrup. +furning-on-the-Goda- fun But wait! Wait tl he.turns én the [sode. It ts a high .pressure fountain, lana it lets go with aitoroe that almost blows the beautecws snowgtris over the Tootiignts. —1t's-a-simple thing,-byt, the | fi + lcugh without asking why, and without caring whether any one takes you for «| probably objects to the young, mati. ie reasons other than his nationality. - Js best for you tovadhere-to her re aioks Dear. Betty: | OF OTF = yOunsy lady to get very asery with her gentleman friend for hia‘ non-ap- pearance on a very atormy night, WiwEheGr~ A. dri ts very uhreseonable to ex- Pect'm man on a stormy night. She Loves an Italian. AM seventeen and care for a young man very much, and he cares for me. My mother, who le a German, peoms ‘to be very nico and seoma to care @ great deal for me. Am I too young to go with young men? very bashful, and although he cone peomes restful) Miss Lotta Faust, plays'a French girl with-an Eng- Ten. aocent, makes up in daintiness what she locea in voice and Wwears.a th. low-tide _back, are in vogue Such=a—waist-ae this—one ts much in demand In the illus. | te trinemed ‘tlk banding and\eom- bined- with chemisette of lace, but all ma- terials that are soft Bad thin” enous to: bes tucked succesefully : propriate, the — many slike and silk and wool fabrics end jno—the-—pretty--silk aS: Scobiimue ntsc 50 v well ikea. The design is not confined to striped materials, as toa be tnate—trom plain or’ figured ones quite as well, Crepe de Chine’ and chiffon taffeta eutt it ndmtr-. ably woll and would be charming. with trimming of he ., me Pew tone as hints abour marrying, he has not pro-] posed. Should I approach the subject or let him do it? heen ET By You faut wait for the man to pro- g 1 Horoscope for To-Day. Those whose birthdete this_{s will be tompted during the twelveriouth” to ‘go will do best tn | born to-da) if Na "temain tn ems business; but he shou! BY portimit neh out for himself. Tix ea larly to make him steady and patient. | | ANXIOUS. You are yery young to sive #0 much The -girl born to-day must be guarded carefully againet ssirable and uniit | sana Ee | fy training should aim particu: | combined tucked and plain portions and te out out at the neck #0 stinntett=ea er with ‘or. without chembsette, Material required ‘tor the medium sise ts 4 CPR SS TP RRS IT colored lights. Which ‘color o you preter” amy y Are they eel fame priceh” suppose 00. “Then well” take is \ scunit “Iv'e_more. Gevnlaee , Costas Dresser pate pee err «ben ane, the TT nat OppOSIS baw ty. M1 don't Yee eh he comes “bat shea tet Fancy Blouse Watet—Pattern Ne. 677k or 3 yards 44 inches wide, 6-8 yard of all-over lace and 6 $-4 yards of bandiug.” Pattern No. 5,771 is cut in sizas for # 32, 34, 36, £8 and #0 inch bust measure, ete A porteatty: Bate Op 7 Patteras York. Send ten cents in coln or stamps for each pattern erdered, IMPORTANT—Wnite your name and address plainly, aad ab “The Round Up” Hero, at His Wedding, Is Halted by. Spectre of the Past The Kound Up. (A: Romance foaned on the great play of “he same le name.) : By John Murray. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING @HAPTENS. peace Payson, owner of the Umsy K, ranch $m Arizona, la about 16 (and Echo,, in, an’ old ee sneaked: ° ee At tne “Reautitul daughter of 31 eae aaa ow wing fpraare ae {othe wedding, “As the Ceremony ie, About ay terercr atte Core ir! in ih fall of people, “He feara thé phocks on ‘sche eta Ble) unheralded appearance and ‘plans to. Jaok before venturing into her presence, CHAPTER xX, (Conticued,) Back from the Dead. iCK had ridden frat ‘to Sweet- water ranch, but found the place deserted. The party, mused he, accounted for the cowboys’ absence While be was planning a way to at- tract the attention of some one in the house and get Payson to the garien without letting Echo know of hia press ence, Sage Brush Charley, who had inte ae x chovs cota nai, belly. espied the stranger through the win- | Gow, natintored out on the porch to im- veatixate, Every visitor to the territory neoded looking over, especially after thé trouble with Buck MoKee, ance. Sage Brush ves Youd thet there ie ie Youre I should be no hitch at the Saisie ot sirt* greeted Lane ploas- I'm looking for Jack Payson. That 30?” answered Saxe Brush, “Who may you bet “T'm a friend of his.’ The foreman could see no danger trom this weak, sickly looking man, ‘Then walk right {n,” he invited; ‘he's inside," Sage Brush wea about to re-enter the house when Dick halted him with the request, “I want to see him out here—privately," | ‘What's the name?” asked Sage | Brush, hin suspicions returning. reasons) for aasking.’’ “Tell him an old friend from . Mex- “I've ~Bage Brush. did not like the actions of the stranger and his secrecy. He was there to fight his boss's battles: if he had ie It was not in tract, Buy tw FUR Oey. mys name's Sage b Charley, The cried, with a” snow at AN ranch boss for Pay~ fe mettle any old claim the con- | ag A part road into the | eatin Jack I'm actin’ as substitute fer him ‘this: evenin’.” Dick smiled at the outbreak. It was auch a pleasant, kindly look that Gage Brush was disarmed completely. “TN tell him," he sald over. his shoulder, Dick mused over the, changes that had occurred. Two years’ abscnce from « growing country Foca new faces, new ranches and the wiping out of old land- marks with the advance of population and> the invasion of ‘the railroad. He worlered {f Jack would know him with his beard. He knew, his mirror told. jhim that, his ap; ppeerance had changed | greatly and that he looked twenty years Older than on the day he left the old | home ranch, His trend of thought was Interrupted {hy the entrance of Jack onthe porch fram the house, “My name's Payson," he began hur- ined ons ttng: A hasty glance backward Into the hallway, as the ceremony wan} apout to begin. "You wanted ‘to seo i Jack," erlea Dick. holding out his nd eagerly. “Jack, old man. don't You xnow, me?" he continued, faitering- seoing no algn of recognition In his Rgndt a eye, Payson a ped, shocked and startled, ae Genre fore him was @ stranger in the velce—the voice was that | he wanted to sce of Dick Lane, the last man in the world at that moment. Frightened, almost betraying himself, he glanced at the half-open door, If Dick entered he knew Echo would be fost to him. She might love him truly, Her love for Dick might havo passed away, but he knew that Echo would never forgive him for the deception that he had practised upon her. Echo would never forget the Ilo he had acted tow- or, Grasping his friend's hand weakly, he faltered: “Dick! Dick Lane!" Jnck realized he must not Some way or somehow Dick must Kept out of/the house until after the marriage. Then he must take the con- nequences. Dick sw: his healtation, It was not what he had expected. Bit something dreadful might have hap: ned while ho was away, there had been so Many changes. “Why, what's tho matter?" he asked anxiously. “You got my letter? You! knew I wan coming?" | "Yes, yes, 1 know,” lamely anssared | ‘ack. ‘expected "you noxt week. yu know they sajd™— They lot me out of “the hoxplt earlier’ than I expected,” explained | Dick, "The Apaches neayly finished | me. ‘The Hurales came up just In time, | When I come around I didn't know my ¢wa name, They sent me to quickly, be huahua after a while. I went from one a roll of bills from hia ot. “It's bi ‘ soapital to another, from. one town to! three thousand dollare—here “ff 1s, all slowly ‘te Another, glwaya Wandering onwards, | in one bundle’* ward the gate whl in Moate the rying dimly, vaguely, to get back north| “Not now. Let that walt," sald Jack, garden, a part of avery and to Echo, 1: was all a dream. a| pushing the money anide, yonas IU was secur omationss ite nightmare, all a0 strange, Ever somé-| “It's waited long enough,” orled Dick,; house by a sttaxsty hedge hing pressing down pon me. Always} docgedly, “You put the mortgu, echo had spent many hours trying romana Jo, somewhere to go, but} on your ranoh to let me have the mon-| lo keep jn shape. : ncver able to“iell where or how. Then] ey, and it must be about due now," o interested were t c) n that chmé a"Brench surgeon. He lifted the} “Yes, it whl ue, but Jot it walt." ‘ bone pressing on my brain and all came Whats the use? Tim all right now, | Mec | back to me {ikea bad dream. ‘Tho frst|I brought the cash with me on pur: | ing to thelr talk and covering Jack thing that I did was to write you-| pose. { wanted to sauare it with you] son, when he was following Dick with a letter for Echo, Where is she?’ | on sight." is hand on bls revalver. : bs “In there,” said Jack faintly, Dick presaed the money into Jack’s|’ Jack followed him Up, partly draw. Dick oagetiy started towurd. the house, /hand, closing hy fngera over the roll | tnx hla \eun. It would be #0 easy te but Jack halted him, saying? "No, youlot pills. With & sigh of relief, as If} shoot “hin, No. one recognise mustn't go in now, “‘There'n a party. /a disagreeablo task was completed, ho| him. Tits friends Would. believe i You see, she hasn' mn woll, doesn’t | quesptoned: “Bud's stil with you {tf he told them the man dre. txpect you tornight. (The shock might ”Jabk repited In @ monoayllable, “Yen {on iim and he “had to shoot him fw. be too much, for her,’ “ET didn't write to him," cheerfully | Self de “you're right" aoqgulesced Dick, | resumed Dick, “I didn't want the Kid nd, be felt, would. never ou tell her when you get a chai to know, He Js #0 -excitable, hej him if she knew Dick was ‘alive. Fite His Jack, I've made quite a hit of money | wou have blabbed it riehtcour’ Tay; return moant only misery for hoth, 4 out ‘of my Blabea holdings. [ came! he glad to ace the boy wealn, Tt have | Jack tained his kun to fre, when: his | North that way, °T can pay back my been father, and, mother to Hk atace | better nature and judgment returned at to you no the old) folke a }to hire Be Ror tt eniacdank nervously, The y efyin te" hi’ to | lok walkeg on gnilpels , unoams Would tila tarure never ond? Hare ‘9. Jack [selon of bow close ha had been) to was hin triend, Whom he Had betrayed, "Lm coming.” he you | death with: his friend co his murs (come back. In the yery hour of hisitn a few minutes, five] deren. = marriage to the woman who had | something to tell’ you, X can't fell you “wT can't do ft! T can't 40 tt! promised first to marry him. Now Ne | uo Jack, half aloud, as he shoved hi Dep otering. him “money, whieh. hel co In, then," answered Dick.) ‘11 volver back Into ‘the holster and turme@siz nended so badly. wait yonder in the garden, Don't!to enter the house, “Bure, now," \coatinued Diek. pulling keep me.waiting any longer you (To "We Continwed.)