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Charles Darnton. ELOOME to our city of grecting. “Thank you kindly, str,” she By cried I, by why sald. “Bu Picion chilled her near-Bernhardt eyes, “have you been true to me?” return,’ I swore. "But, how about the nights?” she persisted, doubtingly, “They have been lighted by no! other wtar,” I declared. eal “I'll take, your word for {t,” she’; said, softening. “But, you pee,”. she! explained, ‘‘I didn't know how .I} stood with you. I didn’t know but that “Nazimova had you In ier! passionate clutches by this tim Of course it was all “Chorus Lady” talk, and now Miss: Rose Stahl Weughed down the little curtain-ralser with a look that safd “No more! Bonsenso!”’ She pumped me into a chalr with her hearty handshake’ and! and a gleam of sus- have counted the days ¢1ll your | fs A oer s lad7;"' thot hiscother na: és, and that he {a the {mma ic man who goes to-fir ooking as thouxn he had: tus of m wedding cake? nights. stopped may be alot of alan | there's none {n his wantrobe. To re-. qume ae c “I picked up @ fine bunch of feathers @reed~a happy “Oh, gee: *You are giad to be back?" I {nquired, “Giad!” she exclaimed. “I must tell you about tha: T was going to €eil the audience all about it on Monday night, but I didn’t get a chance. ‘You see, I had been making a speech nearly every night of the six months i was away, and so when I found myself homeward bound T decided I must write a little speech for New York. I went to bed in Buffalo, but I couldn't sleep, and I was still awake at Albany, working on my opeech. I got tt finished just as. we pulled out of Albany, and it was so good that I cried ever it. “It must have been good,” I remarked. “It was great!” declared the modest author. “Would you lke to hear{ I assured her that I went to first nights just-to-hear the speeches, | | told ism. I anid tO Si:nente." Weed I pause here to explain that feninie’’ ts the inventor of “The There tn his head. but ~—~ere_needed —Horrizan_eonifoy_bu “Well,then,—itsten;—she-satd;—assumtng—a first-ntgnr, ne 7 @xpression. “‘We're glad-—so-glad!—to get back.’ $ast think! I wrote it between Buffalo and Albany.” “But what happened to it when you got here?” Oy Isn't {t a gem? And| I Was selzed with the! —feartat thought that perhaps sie had swallowed It K Canned Speech. ‘No, I had tt all right.” she assure! -@e. “But I couldn't get rid of it. Ther: fwere no wild cries of ‘Speech! Speech!’ |X guess all the ushers couldn't havo Been in the house that night.” Even che foreign artist who had been feying his subject furttvely laughed at | ting tc keep the ph toemphers from making me took Ike a compromise be- tween Bernhanit and Elia; Terry.” “I could tell better with your make- up off." suggested the never-satisfied Harmony. al ‘ “t you please wash your face gentleman?” I pleaded. “Tl go back on the road first!" she @o stry of the speech that was declared, Brahled. (Ambulances supplied free of “How did you happen to return eo (Cy i suddenly?! I asked. “Hard times didn't you back. did they | Tetorted*The Chorus Lady, ‘it | NAS a telecram from Mr. Harris, tn. | £98wered: “WI come without a re- | autsition.’ “Had you grown tired of the road?" “fm afrald of’ you," confeased Miss | bring @tahl, turning to the sweet-and. gentle!) “No, @acmony. on the road. They were bully to me) “They didn't know whar to think of sald. “Rut do you think tt will go tn everywhere. The manager of the ite plece in some of the towns,” an-) New York I answered, ‘with heatre in Lexington, Ky., telegraphed | swered Mias Stahl ‘In a great many the ald of a handbooks it man- Mr, Harris; ‘She can be the mayor of | pices they had an {dea it was a musi-/axed to worry alone for forty weeks! exington.”: I'ch rather fond of that. | cal comedy. and my prize press notce;In’New York.’ ‘Really? said he. “Real And Chorus Lady.' They were eape: the original company, {ng them a ‘Number Tw The the people everywhere I!ked ‘The | of the tly | winsome star was lovely {n her songs grateful to Mr. Harris gor sending out instead of slv- man with the bankroll who sends vou out in xood shape ought to be heard ‘of occasionally, and I'd like to put in a food Thatiksgiving word for Mr. Har KNOW. THE HOME-AND-MOTHER CHORUS GIRL? that The tour was one read ly | | and dances.’ Can you seo me doing a wong and dancer ‘Fou don’t care what you eay, do) J11, yput You're almom as reckless as the |. Tell berced. sald me another funny story.” I ““1'd like to.” | who took me to mee a Sunday night rom ‘4 ,??| performance of ‘Tho Graad Mogul! t | Laughs F -, The Road |New Orleans. We ‘sat in a box, and jough I was well behind the cur- darling old fellaw the girls back. fi the emb. In al I young going made the stage, a chorus haired | of that wart. I implored her to lot he turned t me and whis- 59 on for publication. ‘Patricia on Parade,’’ began, “Well,” on tho road girl as we know her here in New York. They thin afraid More Jushing Arrasse nd de am ° ladies are winking at me, you think you oould make them atop: girls girl, mi she 1 old ger t looks a bit Improper*-t- “T'i] tell you about the dear old editer couldn't resist that appeal, and ao by through a the nice oll gentleman saw the rest of tha performance without blushing, firls are alwnys recognizing me from I suppose they regard mo as } i, Surprised “The JRoad” With Her Home-and-Mothe thing for mn to come back He co ener ne, Saturday “Novem ber 30, : 1907. oe \DOBSGREQTE DOHUHDOHDSGPORKESLESTI’ AD CHORUS LADY 4 interviewers © Stahl! “'T do bexuile the thing I seeming otherwise.’ ‘! T Bhakespenre siioved from her easily and mualeally. ar as I ant by. “noth~ ing if not critical.” I fantied her as Desdemona, with Bert | Willams: as Othello anti Joe Coyne as Ingo—there would be a cast to-mnka you ste stare! Bot we chucked Shakespeare and re- turned to “the poad.‘ i Chorus Girl ‘tmosphere “Out there, youcknow.” explained Miss: Stahl; “they never hear of any. we one-failing by the wayside In this areat 9” city frithout working In a little chorus irl atmosphere.” Perhaps ‘it was th! Slew fot the chorus girl that; caused, ‘Tho! Chorus Lady’ to eo even better: om the road than it.does.in New York Ti eave the road a new view of se i chorus girl: THe Chorus Lady’ came. aN a sutprine, Patricia seemed too! gund to be true. ‘la she really = typical chorus gir!? >>the news asked me. The love editors, particularly, were Interested’ in her——Sweet:—_pretty—Bouthern—sirie ——— would como to find out all aboyt her, for thelr papers—charming creatures with soft accents who kept me ael- ing myself, ‘How can I let ‘em «0 j back to their offices and’ perhaps eet | printer's Ink on thelr dainty fingers?” | *pi the dressing tere fore with your missionary work? quired. “Well, It didn’t help it any,’ laughed, Miss Sewhl. “I don't know what got second act, but wher-' t ab: d about that jover we went everybody In the frontiog, Tithe house—box office treastners, door men and ail the other employeee— ropped everyting to get in for that? \” Iecene, The tage hands cut so many. holes in the ‘box set’ that we had to get a new one when wo came back to | New York. One paper down South sald: ‘For an {dea of whit the recond act ss like see the burlesque show at the Bitou.! ** winks and smiles came to the top of his collar. eman turnet fear Mika that several Don't ‘a onviniced bit of pantomime I undersiand, and tho Chorus Jonary, or someting { the good work desperately, “out don't know the chorus ee . and all that sort of thing. but this, of cotrse, ts under our Masonic buttons. ‘They don't know the chorus girl who atrlyes and works! they don't know her in her home and with her mother, They don't know the girl who wears cheap clothes and does all she can to help the family along. All that they have seen is Pa- tricla on parade. They think of her as omething in tights, with only a spear to gulde‘her.. They picture her as a | pampered pet. who lives on lobster; never ax a hard-working girl who ents home-made bread. ‘They look upon the chorus girl as the airy, fairy embrold- [ery of musical comedy, and they meet her in herds, never in her home with her mother. There are, of course, show nothing, nor would {t be wiles to learn.” “Won't you please be:serious just A moment longer?" begged the troubled artist, lamenting the laughter that fn- Inked the ‘“show-xirls.” “T am always serious, protested Miss girls of whom, please God, we know|, “But the chorus girl won the bards in spite of the second act?” is itewashiad_Done-Heret = “Yes, people liked her and beHeved in T | her, and several told me they were sled | to discover a good chorua girl, though | trey usually intimated that they thought T whitewashed her a bit, I assured them. | there were any number of good chorus j Birla, and the newspaper men backed. me up by bringing thelr wives to seo me and saying as soon as we had been ia- troduced: “There, didn't I tell your But I shouldn't call any one ‘good’ whe keeps one commandment and plays Loo} batt with the rest.” “Wil you carry thet gospel to Eng land when you take ‘The Chorus Lady’ there In April?” " “TM tell you what I told en Engttst~ woman who came to eee me the ether. ‘day. I said to her: ‘We haven't amy — ancestora in Amertca, but we all have @ past.’ Yes?’ od TOO NEW. Tourist—These. old ruins date from Roman times, ech? Well, I can't see anything about it In my Baedeker. Gulde—Perhaps !t's an old edition, afin —Meggendorfer Blaetter, tore than you can eay about Hamisayaukosntinen jtains, with the 4 ind. And before I/old gentleman who wrote that notice. | ‘Ps = t—bur never mind. I want you to| Why She Came Back. ~ | forget it tot me say a word for Mfl-|He wasn't there at all, bu: T suppose) ® {Font eeat, some of tho girls tn the elses tere) shag oled prcewes “No. it isn’t . | Wnukee. I went there in a refrigerator he fet he had to make good with the ComMPany recognized me and begs You look Uke Sarah Bornhacdt.” re.) 00 yh aan {mat Ifyou must/ car shivering with fear, But I took|jocal manager. The editor of a paper) Wing acd smiling. My wht @arked the artist, with a French ac: | 117M setefeni i. see ou acain. | off my earmuffs won I heard oalls|in New Orleans banded mo and:her | escort began to get uncomfortable, and Soot at won The Chorus Lady-away well, r never mtart anvtbing at T) ete en on the opening night, and | rood laugh. He came back after the Presently eames r : walking down to the footltehta TI sal ee | pered: ‘Unless I am very much Joan't Anish. ” Very ae Rare formance to say that had en: z . But I wis 1 looked | well, then, eee? Verv | ‘They told me you were cold, but I love Perea tt tmmensely. And then came) taken, my dear Miss Btal!, th young Uke myself, It's an awful wish, I'know, ie ae ae Pa ee é Itha lauats, “We 'can readily appreciate| iady on this end {3 winking at me.’ Du! really I have a dread anotien ties re-| “What did they think of “The Chorus the play hero in New Orleans because | you must be mistaken,” I said scsi sae estat kn an would Lady" in the one-nigts: - . 2 2 ane 1! i aa aan — bias nth : stands? we use familar with racine terms, he Then I bese; winking and amiling at, FOR et ee CERES rere re ee RE RE RE Ms otot g “THE NEW MAYOR,” & A Story Based On tbroken «cull, and then Bennett will have himself to thank. Maybe when t By i {the police have hammered a ittle sense Into folks’ head, a Albert Payson Terbune. | nightaticks the Ricuiisliwiiisbepinu te Sects [understand just what sort of a man PCopyrighted, 1907, by George H. Broad-|Alwyn ,Bgnnett 1s. Remember now, hurat.) |Gibbe, and you, too, young Wainwright, | there's any sign of a row bring Miss Watnwright back here at once,"* GYNOPSIS OF. PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Iwyn Dennett, a rich young man whom forrigan. the political peas ass ipade “AN right,” agreed Perry, a little rue- ler named Wainwright are interested. ym toves Dallas Wainwrizht. who, with ber Perry, 1s the financiers want. 1 her fortune ie in Borough socks. Alwyn. secretly. making Perry sell short. makes the lose incurred on them by his tt Gibbs, an accomplice of Wainwried fight. “Let's go tn there now. I've never been to an Aldermen's meeting before; but I ran up against a car atrike riot once, #0 I guess I'm onto most of | multor for Datiask hand. Alderman [the subtie rules of clegance that gov- Political caemy of Hortean'® at) ern much showa. Come on, peopls, if lean plans to pave the bit over Atysnie! you're coming." weto, (io this fourteen Aldermanic, veto: ear iniealin etnorentrea ce guborna A fourteenth named rtp : sGrainwrignt ana Gin mised iy, poieaine ind against Alwyn, and in pique Srreatene: peated Horrigan, WIth rare approdation, jas; the ante-room door aosad behind {Dallas and: ber two escorts. ‘So she's to marry Gibbs, 1s she? I'm sorry for them both, why? to. Gibbe. Horrigan proute. that Aiwyis Bennett ceasea and oee'e private Len the day the bill aring trouble with voters who wea herself ‘to. -publian. ——stlenh te thustuk Haertah bakers ap a} Becaee It won't take her a year to; : fnd_out thal he's _a_yeliow cur Ang “THE PSSLSS SALAS IABFASLALIAAS SE ee eee 5 W pale her see Gibbs was a heroic mar- sr said Walnwright, with quiet ste- niflcance, “and that Bennett was''— : Oh, I seo!" chuckled Horrigan, Stil), there might be something made out of Bennett's love for her even yet."" care? When they've forgotten all about won't ||} dare. not!— i What do you mean?" tho Dill. you'll still have the dough, You'll do tk I sa stormed Hor. “I'm not quite sure. I'll have to think | Won't you? Folks ask ‘How'd be | rigan. “You can’t y h on me at this} {t over." get It?) All they'll care to know Is} stage, of the kame. Those Sturtevant | “Roberts haa. come," exciatmed win.| Has he wot It? ‘Trust Company notes: of yours were ins entering from the corridor: “he's | “TRAt tan't alll’? Roberta plundered ieee to you and’ asking for you. § i on, scarcely heeding the Interruption, | 4+ ” here?" you Shall I bring him in| mennatt's next atep was to organize| 6 Dace Not! "Yes," replied Horrigan. “By the| committee of voters’ wives, and they} ‘‘And I won't take them!" declared | way,” ho added to Wainwright am Wille | oame.t® 460 ay wife this morning whon | Roberta slamming two sling of paper) | Jama departed, “Til have to ask you, tof eens, tad, told er they'd heard I]down \pon the table. ‘TMere! Take | clear out form few minutea eect | Was KOINK to sell _mynelt and vote for! ehem pack." : | fo ace Hovnieieione Mee eee es dishonest bill, My | {What do T want of, them? arguéd | 2 us: | thinks I'm the squares {Horrigan, crafilly, ‘*fhoy belong tc sie that’ decide the whole fgnty_ CHAPTER XV. The Battle of Wills. tow TLUTAMS entered with Roberts in The: latter™wore a heg- I was a dirty thief and «rafter and: for that they'd kick me out of the ward." | despi “Well, welll’? rumbled caus: sh trying to calm a) Whi soothingly, as tho fractious drunkard do you} on sarth. Oh, you needn't”! trust means everything to m M told the women J youldn’t stoop to any | deed that wasn't honest, and they an- swered: ‘Our husbands—hdetteve Roberta Isa crook, “If tie is really honest he'll vote against that bill as he did before." Then, on’ mv way home hind Be: ron it." contradicted Roberts airing flash of courage. ‘It was be-| 0 ov do Lowen't keen io. 1 keep you to your asked a_votce be- promis them. nnett, rae n_unabserved by Ban, ing up, ‘Drop them! Drop them, I aay, RE eel “Why should I?’ asked Bennett, calmly, hig quick eye tnking tn the na- alert the making with a/ gotten notes on the table. “Nothing of nt] ture of the slips of pa rain grasped in transaction they he added, in he shaking Ald ve been y t ne for the Cheekmated. His qutetly con forced from Roberts a frightened "Yeu," “before Horgan “could” “Inter= ay veneers ‘ ‘I thought so. Be quiet. Horrigan he comm joa, ax the tn oa Er SeqUsd-of-police. Paling ant Perry come 16 Stee hata teers tme nn tar Pectin} wks Horrian why the police are there. CHAPTER XI (Continued) when she down she'll either kick him out | or lead him around on a chain, Now the fellow a girl of that eort ought to have married ts Bennett. He's an ob- stinate fool, but he's a man. I thought Vv. +4 i ‘Bennett's made my lif: hell. I'mlonce for com! o ye vate of- Love. and Politics. you aal once tie waa stuck on her." |, Gord evening, Alderman.” gata Hot-|no rook. I'm honest; sndiicce) 7 a ponee fon coming into your. private Of:! Just before you cante In, I could/ have cy 1 | ” 1. ely a rere oi As Ce yh 8) i yo k ouldn’ v = 46 O check any trouble.tho gaitery| ‘tle was. He ailll ts. eben pe fins “Sure you're honest!'! Horrigan ex-| mean by coming Into mine BaP iatUAela Spas aconldn. te ha ve/ Dre may make," anmwered Horri-| “Ana. ahe took Gibbs instead?’ cried | oo ° on ouitam tif’ anwwered Rob-|claimed, aa though “to avsross child,|. “Yours?” queried Alwyn; “I had an Vn, me, oven If I voted against they kan, “This man Bennett's| Horrigan, a world of incredulity tn hia| vy) Wndoratee al ne CEs i “Honest as the day. That's why you're) {dea it was the city’s. The time (a past ayer Reet nt ned Bi 33 airred the people up with a lot of hin |Fough voice. "Women are a queer lot!| cq qarntersiand, here's a full meeting; voting for our Dill, Because the| when the words ‘Horrigan’ afd ‘clty* grintvase Nidgeaaneaict d. Sree Gnarehistic reform tdeam till they're | Why'd sho shake Dennett. $¢ tt’ &laouth to be hore hersaies pele from the! crooked clauses haye beep cit out of| meant the same thing, Well, Roberts, cand tn fe eae Mh aes Teraxy, — Born he's Hable to gots talr question?" missing?" € 0 only ane He andl ite presant form {t's a bene-| how are soing to vote? I want to all along you were honest at heart. Seana - litveoulan tirotihericesme ne t to the city,” bolleve you honest, and-—why;"Wwhat's Horrigan wanted to bribe you and you Versatility on "Tage, That's ail; Wilamay roy | That Han't why I promised to vote! all is eyes falling on tho.for-/ wouldn't be bribed. Now I) want you “ needn't wujt. Roberta and T wane a Sener a —|to go Into the Council room and vote, Mttle talk before he goen | G ’ ae your mantood tells you to." n. Now, > Rent ert a ot (ts NC etty Incent 5 69 mubarts comsoriea Vet atl trem Ane ; Re mn > e i) bling, obeyed, not venturing a second ‘ Miss ——, the versatile and charmin From ‘London Punch. pleth chango of left the room: ¢* your? to ask me, told ine if I voted for tt they'd knew ani _irouhied —took aI his F = “Mi Noon, I met my ttle boy, He FA ena A es visibly deep-| wae crying. I aeked him what the pees at he had not/ matter was, He suid some boya had corridor as he passed ‘Into Private room, Bf (3 ane janner, nat! as Williams the matter with "IT oant*— ” "Can't what? Spoak out, man! Don't stand thers and mumble at me, Temptation! “I ean't vote for the Rorough Fran- chige bill." ie hoy?" roared ‘Horrtwan, ‘Why not? . “Rornuno—beca une’? faltered Rob- ent. Ph } a rush of hysterical Amotlon tlint blotted out. hie fewr, he orted; : “Haye you betrd what that man Pen- | nett haw do Ho organtzed a yoters? Mice In iny ward and-wont them at my own housd, what to do about that bull. Irred up by Bennett eas a crovk an onal robbery, 1 Thay tht on The abou y ‘ed Phelan's appearance In the told bim I was a grafter. I tell you," | his yotcs ‘rising almost to a acream, Heaac A Suffictent- Salary. Dear Betty: AM elghteen and am keopink com- pany with a girl one year my you aider wentor--I—fon't ‘think I could lova a anothur girl ae T love this one, and (oor), would Hice-tovRet married to her pretty y soon. My snlary ia $80 per month, that aufficlent? J. A, AgIR. T think you ean marry on your sala ff you are hoth yery much In love, To Knot Her Better, ° Deur Betty: ROUT a year ago | ory | i mot a young) co lady whom I ike very much. I} may t have excorted her home on several | aod joceasions, and @ at he ke out [giving no reagons. shall 1 pak a ont dine Horrigan in fury. w ww .Advice to Lovers. Ask the young lady 1s| How to @ excited men, omise?* he asked again, ou cniled me down AD.L. | if she objects to does not on and try again? personally or tf herself well DUB eequalnted you to go out with you. Ask to and when you become better ac- nted ask her aga: Win Her. not treat mn nice at al fond of her, How can I wir nl YT nue to pay her attention and 4h ve you in Ume. If this doean'r mplish the desired result perhaps could arouse er jealousy by de-| yourself for a time to somo other | 5 wrath me. anthy alo do is \ ‘ne Ran, yout wan’ mM ph “You'll Horrigan roo! Bennett, “, SOURKt to speak through “This {a between Roberts and Now, then'— "I returned the “note: ed Roberts, In panic. look at Horrigan, Now, my friend," ‘sald Bennett pleas- a he © together, “what are you going to. it seems to nie your Kame it? t those ce! mh his ns wiv with ¢ don't even k ‘nu. ca Re a futfle, i then. But just Ko] the documents which Alwyn was pick- don't belong to Horrigan, Borough bi MAN OF THE HOUR.” : 3 WiLL rt tty ri ate al tata alot tat eat ar arate acar ot Solar old oft aor of oka ok okat iat ua teketer ote 4 Hortl- b for shout furlous avon as his Vl the meaning In which they fg- belong te you?” ‘ou, anyway," {f you dare read them. Roberts, a kinder volce, turning to} rman, “These were to orite, weren't they, for pelling tone and glance his choking to him!" plead- Honestly, T did! and the Boss wero anted Horrl- peech with an red mist not yo to you! tampon of ve and J‘ 2 hey | tind there { nim. ‘They Sturtevant send them Ive had 1 one is 0 brig! 0 that it gives palremay aftinct,« white jm ater tal required | folds. Woatst pattern BSL7 and mkirt GEORGE H Succ He hflinohingly into the mad- dened ttle eyes of Uio Boss, and #0 for a moment they stood—Patrician an: Prololariat—In the world-old struggle 0f"| the two for supremacy. Horrigan’s face was scarlet, distorted, murderous; Bennett's pale, cold, deadly in tts repose, SEA AOE OF EN OEY EE OEE ESE EON NN EEE OE OL OL AAAS ALA AAAAS SSS AAA IAA AAI ID . BROADHURST’S % essful Play. te Oe 98.96 98 8 98 8 IE OE OF OE SE ob OF EE OF SE Ot IE SE tS And thon waged the battle of wills; doth men standing motionless, tense, vibrant with dynamite force, wly, little by little, Horrigan’s eyes dropped. He moved awkwardly to one site from his position in front of the door, And Bennett, without so mueh Aas ® backward look, passed out. (To Be Continued.) LAID. taffetan are extensive- ly used for | young girls’ dresses The coloring of t iP tha banding of vei vet ribbon makes a happy trimming. The douse js full hetow tho yoke, and — is made without ning, while’ the peven gored skirt {a 1aid) in we ysuccession of backward turn- ing plaite and ts trimmed with bias folds of the allk. 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