The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1907, Page 8

P world Daily Magazine, Saturday, December 14, 1907. ~~ Sport! : |PREGLOCLORSOOSS CESELORBE® is i \@ Uy pes y Qe | By MAURICE KETTEN. '® The Story of the Operas ¢ K. By Albert Payson Terhune. & al fel Bl LR : 2 2 R) (3) | ‘ NO, S--WAGNER’S “L011 “Yyy LSA and her young brother Godfrey were th Z Y ‘Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Noa. 63 to 3 ace Park Row, New York. ‘PULETEER, Pres... 1 East 2 Servet. J, ANGUS AMAW, Bee-Treee, 201 Weet 11710 Street Entered ‘at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, p Canada For Enginnd and the Con- ene arid Tor the. Spyies tinen: and. All Countries | United States, One YeBr.ssovessonere S615 | | Portal Union, 33.00 ‘One yearn. wee 30 | One month.,..,...ec006. 604 One month, NO. 16,916. COMMON SENSE. “ S is usual. the ordinary law-abiding, | peaceable,. industrious citizens of New York are the sufferers in the’ Sunday law matter. That is what commonly happens. to the average| GRIN,"' ehildren of the Duke of Bra- Mai, Fridetick vou ‘Te ramund, ell unde! ne dant. During Godfrey's minority his kin managed affairs of state, Frederick was betrothed to Misa, bul the spell of Ortrud, a sorceress. Orirud a boy to a swan and causing him to vanish She 1 Blas murder Godfrey, ‘Frederick, In horror, repudia 2 trud, Spurred on by his ambitious wife he denounced Ulsa as J iurderes* asd claimed for himself the ruiérahip of Brabant. King Henry of Germany, arriving at, Antwerp. fouhd 1b ‘roar. Erecting a judgment seat onthe bank of the River on Frederick to make bia formal charge and cn’ Elsa -tocassw tamiund repeated tiie accusation, and offered to upi i 1. in -mortal combat Li ngainat any champion Elsa might select. The King turned to Hise ama asked whom named #4: her champion. The girl, dazed and crusied by her un- merited danger, faltered bit the tldingscieat fn her dreams sue had acen a gitioumly beautiful kofght, who had vowed to rescue Her. Ax she spoke 2 shout of amazement rose from the river bank. Down the stream [na little boat drawn by a wnite awan ralled a knight in silver armor. Tending,” he declared inset Elsa's champion. ani begged her should he'cvercome her pcouser'in: battle to bestow on him her band. The Swan Knigtt accompanied this proposal with a Tien thar the girl suould never ok to learn h na Elsa rapturousty consented, both to the proposul and the condition. The tieratda meantime were busy preparing a place fr the combat. Tho Swan nt and Frederick entered the liste Thet: swords crossed. “Almost a: once derick was struck, to earth. The Swan iy spared his life. Tranded aa trattors and ontiaws the defeatcd man and Ortrud slunk away. leaving’ the Brabant nobles busy with plnne for next day's wedding of El the Swan Knight festivities. of welcome for the mysterious hero. * * ° Tate that night Ortrud sought out Elsa, and by hypocritical tears won the young girl's pity and promise of protection, Ortrud proceeded artfully to tnatil fy Elsa's mind a lvely curiosity as to the Swan Knight's {dentity, and » suse plefn that if she remained ienoraat of hls name he migh! some-tay-be taken from her by the same mysterious magic that brought him Yo. her ald. On the following morning as the bridal party was on {ts way to churer Orteud and Frederic threw themactves in Elsa’s way and publicly denounced the Swan Knight as a sorcerer and tmpostor, calling on him to declare nis true When it is a quy the average, citiz tax-exempt bonAs or employ an attorney to lock after his’ assess- ‘ments. When the Sunday Liquor Jaw is enforced it is the beer gar- dens and concert halls which the average citizen frequents that are closed tight, although disorderly resorts and dives may sell liquor behind closed ‘doors. When the ordinance against street obstructions is enforced the © Bille shopkeeper or the struggling peddler is the first to be yanked to the station-house. ey © Now. that the Sunday Jaw is handled with that spasmodic activity tion of taxes not. borrow * i % 4 i < . name. The Knight ecoraed to reply But which the police sometimes display in the performance of their duties iia stamvies fa clanneiwaetal ranked ane : zs eee 4 ers. Accordingly ax roun aa th “0 together in thé Fi the average citizen again is the one ho suf on AMUmefaeht palace apartments ret apart for thein Klxa broke fn on the Swan Katght’s ardent 4 Such laws as these are enforced in New York in pendulum fashion. , love words by voicing her fear lest he be taken from her. | e \ fed me who you aret* ale it There is either an extreme. of zeal in-their enforcement or an extreme lnegiigence in their non-enforcement. The history of this spasm of police activity should be recalled. The vaudeville shows were running on Sunday nighis as on week Gays. ‘K test suit was made and a referee was appointed, who decided that pyramids’ of elephants or trick dogs and the like were circus per- formances, and that such exhibitions were forbidden. j When the referee’s report came before Justice O'Gorman for con- firmation ‘or rejection the Justice decided” that vaudeville, also, was a “violation of the Penal Code, and that any theatrical or operatic perform- | Elsa,” groaned tie Swan Knight, heartbroken, “what: have you done? four happiness {s gone forever!” _ Before he could explain the cause of hts grief Frederick enil four of hia fol ; lowers buret {nto the room, bent on assassinating the bridesroom and thus { avenging Von Telramund’s disgrace. With one blow of his sword the Knight Inid Frederfck dead at his fort. * * ¢ The King ant hie nodies on the river bank nat watting the Swan Knight's coming. Elan, surrounded by her handmalds, stood nearby. The body vat Frederick was brought In and the tale of his death told. At last the Swaa Kaieht arriy Addressing the King he sald that since his name must be ree] | vealed he conld no longer remain ‘n Brabant, but must leave both the country % { and his bride. He vent on to tell vf-tle home, the wonder-clty af Monralvat, tn whose temple rested the Holy Grail (a sacred cup of heavenly origin). Al ody of kniglits, supernaturally protected, guarded the Grail, They went forth {nto the world ‘at times to redresn'wrongs, but if on such expeditions they made known thetr fdentity they must at once return to Monsalvar. “My father, Parsifal, ia their King,” he ended. ‘I am his Kaighe— | Lohengrin!” f cit | Searse had Lohengrin finiahed speaking, when the swan, drawing the bot In which he Fad come to Brabant. appeared tesfde the bank. Lohengrin took « {gold ohain from the awan's neck, The bird vanished. In its place stood young | Godfrey. Elna's los brother. Lohengrin leaped into tha boat: A white dove descendcd from the aktes, caught up the golden chain and flew on, tho boat ‘following, 8'amazement the crowd watched the mystic hero depart, until a tur in.the river hid him from thelr view, Then Elsa. with a cry of despair, sans a Hfeless in her brother's arms. ‘ “The Chorus Girl” and Her Gay Friends Carefully Size Up Christmas Graft “Warry Trimmers, the topline tightwad, tries to duck on the ttp proposition, and he chinks because he made a rubber pocket for his overcoat out of an'old * C her temper for notning, and even !f any of her husbands, be it whem: it may at the time, came in and beat her, she'd put cold-water compreas on any purple : By Roy L. McCardell. _ = _| breemnt she might receive on the eye, and say, with a rorulsh smnils, ‘I never! Rotewa ecapessans brings soup from somewhere that ho has a look in. But has Usher i ‘ a i IN’ the men iveauy” sald the Chorus Girl ‘‘Juat| 90), TU6h & man to romp. ‘ | “And Harry ‘Trimmers had the impudence to bring his uncle over with him the Carnegie Hall Sunday night concerts or of social dancing or of music 66 A when It xota close to Christmas they do every) career Be, excuse lentes part to play eet rene: p ames De pranereaeel omer oleuioient eventunale icecuversira ich) hecaisathelcnivtensnde’ and singing other than operas was not before Justice O'Gorman. -* thing in the world they can thick of to ple« fuses) MAYS ANT Nt Cortanacanees were pate t comes everybody's Bot) he as much as moat people on account of having lost an.arm during the Span; . i nah war by putting his arm across the atrect-car ‘racks. But them was the days fend end trusting. hearts “ ‘But Mamma De Branscombe bids us beware, and she T can’t see how any of our gentlemen friends can duck thelr social obllxe’ | berore the Metropolitan Street Rallway went into the hands of a receiver, and that the suerry Yuletide is the closed seuson for quar-| tons, because we certainly have standing room aly at the flat on Sunday | 1, jose an arm that-a-way was c good business proposition, no far as a jady that’s at all akilly 1p the ways of the| nights, now that the theatres is closed and there's no place else ty go. | s-Tat-one-wing relaSye made Dopey McKnight so mad by telling him that Rear tatieeeencerned® us “There's true Southern hospitality at the flat on Sunday nights now.!,. ou\a pinay better dusts than Dopey could that Dopey threatened to make am “Make ‘em come across, my dears,’ saya ahe. ‘Don't! Mamma De Branscombe says everybody 1s welcome, and she tells them to come. i COCs pages atENiatclants then tana heres \" ‘et them get nway with the plea that one of thé now gold | right up and dine with us any time they fing It convenient. All she asks Is that AITO NORM OO) CU or aay pene in our fiat between two non-prer ten-meg pleces {n't sultoble Christmas trinket, because they bring somthing to eat and drink wich then and tip Violet, the colored) 400 F UN To dea Dopey to play the plano we Just told Harry Trimmers jikwontt-atacle eS rean n't stack ts because no-| mald, For, with a houseful of company'and se much bottle beer to open, Violet | {00° 2° SN se we was ao sorry they had to runoff like that. . body's got more than one at a time.’ =i gets pore hands and peeved Coe unless they see the gypsy with her and “Gently but firmly Mamma De Branscombe inaleta that what makes har@ “But, be that as it may, Mamma De Branscotnbe says, cross her-palm with allver. | times is talking about them, and ehe begs Loule Zinshelmer and Able Woggler How Is “th ctf, Why sien says, woen ph “Every: time Violet threatens to leave untens she gota pald Manwna De Brane-|) 00 1 st start to discuss fires and faflures, not to €alk]shop. Was married and Christmas time ~ame along she wouldn't allow herself to lose combe has to invite more company who don't forget to remember the maid. S ‘Relke, the Strix Breaker, has gone to Goldfeld, but he blew Puss Monte. “ * “ —— = Set xg Vgomery before he went for a carncul coat and a solitaire engagement ring, which, COGLIDIEGDOSGEOES DODGOOODOGOGODIVOGOSIHSOOIQOSISASIOCO} of course, she can’t wear on the engagement finger tll she gets her divorce. oF 5 “Poor Puss cried away four complexipns the day he left. Bhe @ikint Bike -The Newlyweds » Their Baby ¥ George McManus) fete or eee err eee ge SS : z 9) ‘ Thereupon the Police Department had a rabid fit. It closed up everything. It shut down upon wedding dances and social festivities. It Prohibited Sunday singing ahd music. - It might as well have put a padlock on church organs and arrested the church choirs. ‘ : The Penal Code no more prohibits Sunday singing in Carnegie Hall than in a cathedral: “It no more makes it illezal for an orchestra to play ina room where people are not eating than in a hotel or restaurant where ! they are eating. Yet the hotel orchestras and restaurants were not in- »terfered with. Everybody with common sense “knows the difference between “per- ) formances of the stage’ and a piat- ‘form lecture. or an’ exhibition of } pictures or a symphony concert. The police should use common sense, with which there is no neces- / sity that they should wholly part ; either when orders are issued from No. 300 Mulberry street or behind a desk’ in a station-house: } Enforce the law sensibly. Leave » the concerls, orchestras, choirs, wedding dances, lectures and the like alone. 0 : If Sunday is to be a day of unusual police activity let the surplus energy be worked off on the evasions of the liquor statutes by the low ~Raines law hotels and dives. “t Letters trom the People. The Hridge Crush, temper, If the teacher in iwhome class Fo the Editor of Tae Evening World there are many bad boys was fined a Recontly-1 saw a suggestion about | day's pay like the police of New York Haniting the numbers of people in the | on “slight offenses’ the Board of Edu cars at the bridge. 1f #uci a rule were | cation would eovnomize and ymeantin to be enforced the women would never | solye the truancy question, there th get home. Moi in a hurry would|belng no need of truant sehoola aid J Joatle the women so that they would) oMcers. Why should there not be o ave no chance to board the cur. !|Greater New York Parents’ Associa- would like to hear other readers on|tion and get the pull those principals NOW WELL this subject. C..T. Re |haye? Reform the teachers, the priu- SOON BE The Inner Wheels. cipal, the superintendent and-the m <a higher Up and the truancy, queation dived. Until we have the pull, pot ica) or otherwise the number of tru- ants wit) Increase. The children’ ure yanished at home as well as in mh f I had been hounded lke President Roesevelt’s Offices: | when I was a buy I would have been To the Hilitor of The by World @ truant too. A GR What offices did ident Roosevelt] +» > One More Pedestri hold from the thine he was Police Com- 0 York City until he became Vice-President? E.G. C. Assistant. Secretary of the Navy, " Colonel of Rough Riders and Governor| wy. readers? ot New York, DOCOHODIOEGQOSOOIDOGODOGEOS loigoccodoo ‘O.0C0000C 000000000000 Mike, the Strike-Breaker, never looked good to him. his deportment being that.’ of hick on a holiday; bu: that he would. say one thing, and that wae that Mile, the Strike-Breaker, was sure the bottle king, although he had to be coached Se from the side lines constantly. as he was just as likaito oall for any brand eg. NOW witt, You You'nE SURE —— > he was for George's; and George sald he has seen cases where, unless he prow | KINDLY, HAND ME “you HAVE. % i teated. Mike would let the walter Brine Americancwine, and Mike wouldnt knew = a the difference elther in price or label. ; Se Sel SAN | S | “I gure do hope that all our holiday amiability to a jot of male persons : not go unrewarded, Kid; because we certainly have pushed out our manep freely buying presents for thent. at 4. “Way, we haven't done # thing but spend our time and money im the een-esud{ ‘Bay, Dopey MoKhight eays that all the trouble up et the Mippedreme that they need @ good piane-p! ooo -Mark Twain -on Painters. | ARK TWAIN al a dinner recently given in this city talked about theutrmaad Ab M bles of housekeeping. Referring to the painting season he sald: 3 ‘It you aro a housekeeper I don't need to tell you that when a has taken up the partor carpet, removed the furniture from the leaned two ladders ogainat the hall mantel anc stacked a halfdos cana of faint on the sideboard, {t means he ls now ready to palmt the euteile shutters and the back fence,” 7 © 2 ie I. ee LL children love wom warm,- woolly cats. ‘They can be bugged and caressed, and even slept on-without harm. Tois one-ts made with x jointed legs and head. : ; ; Ls ‘Aw Ulustrated, white fur plush makes her cont but a really at tractive pussy can be made from almost every pretty material that {# woolly, and gray, black and & | yarkety of colors ere * quite realistic. For the |”: viittie children suoh | simple’ tabrica ma con: ‘ton flannel will make tan entirely satisfactory toy. ‘Dhe quantity of aterial required is &8 To the -Faltor of The Evening World When an automobile rounds 4 curve At full speed which wheels leave thd ground, the ones.jualde near the curb, | yor the ones outside? Coomy i | T the Mattor eet and to New i others, yard Truancy. A * yard Ce: ind z nother “Brain Twister.” inches wide To the Editor of “the Eyening World: Teo the © ne pri ipattecn’ ‘ne. Cn ae Bome time-ngo 1 read about.a meeting | If it takes six’ months of to diacusn truancy. No one can con-|counter-dentals and admissions to get vines a parent that™a chfiti's character | one fleet started for the Pacinc, how ‘land brain change with every tlass, ‘If |long would tt take to get it back again the teacher {x @ crank the pupil ta aleo,|in case it were found that it was | "ea MK she teacher is patient. “kind ang.J peeled on this site of the world? } gentle the wchotar i= ‘kewlse. Remem-! Would ov dren Uve ton Ma. tardy teacher makes a Ment enjoy soiviig this pretty hen eS TENT The ag beam to twister, waskinaron. =| i For Further 4d.e iurss of ‘Lhe Now.y.. da, Tarde waby,'’ s0c on.day World C. mie 260d m {is out in one size only, Call or wend by mall THE BVENING WORLD MAY Mew to } FON FASHION BUREAU. No. 1 West Twenty-third strest, ernie } york seed ten cents in culm or stampe fer each pattern ordesal, IMPOKTANT—Write your same and adgrese pistaty, ant Pe.