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i iy! Pn ‘ xs < * “@ What should I do to encourage Pit ALR, 7 Don —— +p It-only goes to show how they “meanings,” until Int ating In its most do St al] over a For brain-! « very simple an {nto life. Jt s epirlis are,up at pight—but, oh, wha Via Nazimova came to her Ik hands pr nothing this was flashed ed to her burning hedd ad gone right. Everyth returned with her hat. Ait Last, the fas! “Tie Rasped @ marvel of millinery with long. yibbons trating from its wide, nie ing brim, “That is more pletu breathed again breathed oxy for bothering her when So many other things to bo sha protested. rest to get away fr ahe wrong, bi Vain happler with every- sith BY 1 T would omawher thing wrong he: everyting rent ‘But 1 might have eo! were not at work,” 1 “For two years 1 haye not had a mo- : ment’s rest. ha 1 work, work, worl Ghe' efbowed the wonts Into the table ang thrust her face into her hands. “I must work,” she went dn quickly, “I remember what you said about me in “Phe Master Builder," You sald I might lose my kingdom. But I will TY lose 111" “eho cried, passionately. “I will work, work to keep ft. And how I have worked since I caine here! Vo bave done more work in two years than many of your actresses do in ten. Not only have I worked at one play stew over ax she tied on 4 hack _ The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday, PPSPESLS SHPSSLSEDLESCHLOP BPE BED § PHB TBF EGLO GPHHHPED D B D WH <i | IMME, Dec e mber 21, DH That Good ®omen Do Not Make Go By Charles Darnton. PAN you imagine anyone rushing {nto an “interview” fi es work, how they fan 2 | | hard st sla itnations,” they go temporarily 1 erciless form sit in a de: at 11 in the torning and watch & handful of unbappy wretches on the} pare, gloomy stage, ctriving and straining to turn cold, typewritten words! : ant when the lights and. the! nd ple ta difte ence in the morning! 1g (rom rehearsal In a gown that clung! smoke. She fairly flared inte a room at the Mjou Theatre, her Nothing—| erything was wron have to be changed! hing would All » guye me-a quick, impulrive handshake, such as Hilda Wa The Master Builder, and then stopped short ir horror at what she saw in anotlfer cérner. “What!” she exclaimed, “*An artist!” {a She clapped hgr ands to her fiying halr and flew to the door, {50 (My hat!’ 'she cried. “I musi have my hat!" _ A manngerial gentleman, who had been brooding over events, leaped from his chaly and get caught In the door., The feminine whirlwind swept! past him. “Her hat!” he mumbled, fy hat!” ‘The storm wax raging in the lobby. A chnbby, pink- faced man tumbled from his stool In the box-office. An ominous silence followed. Then there was a swish and an “Ah!” and the distressed Russian vr another, but I have worked at a ange language. Always when I was ik in one play I was ret her and siways, always study- sh. There was—no rest for . and there is no rest for mo public seems to demand of T give it something new= ways something new! It will not let me tert in a single role through a fon. And J do not want to rest. I should die if I rested," To talk with Nazimeva in to marvel @¢ hor enthusiasm and wonder whet she ever. has momenta of ment. jahe Has the ‘‘Blues.”’ , Ah the the disenchant- ometimes Iam down, n, down with the ‘blues.’ Her head dropped and the shrug of her shouldere ended in a little shud- der, “Always,'-she sald, trying to brush aside the mood, ere is the fear of being forgotten. You forget very, quick- ne reat Activesen?” you ask an American, and he answers ‘Oh, yes'—but he can- not recall the name of « single one, That tells the ste You do not re- me A ou belleve It very dimecuit, then, ! tty Vincent : Courtship and Marria ge A Widow's Plight. Dear Betty: AM a young widow, twen Piercyrerae nine, and ~seply in love w yo sevon years. my juntor, We have teen keeping company for the past elght months but He bas ne He Ix very kind to mo, : er said he loves me, Do you think he does, and do you nk Lam too old for him? ANXIOUS, Stamford, The young man evidently Conn. kes you. Otherwise he would not te elht ‘mionths’ time on He probably wirhes to be sure of his affecsions be- fore committing Bimself. The Btrerence In your ages is not so great that it woa}d cause unhappiness, Is He Stingy? Doar Petty: 9 AM eighteen and am acquainted with 4 young min four years my senior. He calls on me every week and brings candy, Vast seison he tok me to, several daimes and early this sum- Mee to several outings, bit since then he has not.taken me anywhere. excopt for a walk. I know he has no other lady friends, and his manners and ‘morals seom to be perfect, He has neyér discussed ‘his finances with mo, but I know he works every day, ‘and he never: complained of belng “short. My girl trfends josh me about not be- ting taken out to the theatre, & by him, and say Ne ix a “tight wad, : D, E. ¥f the young man brings you candy every week, perhapa that in all he can afford, even though he does not com- plain of being short.’ If you like him, I would not heed the remarks of other girs, as he sooms to be entirely worthy, Unser the Mistletoe. Dear Betty: HAT is the proper thing to d When I sea some mistletoe hang- Ing from a chandeller? Should I bring my lady friend under it or walt Until she Kota under It to klsa-her? Is there anything I ought to say whon doing 90? . COUNTRY. You must.wait until the girl stands beneath the mistletoe before kissing her, You can't kiss and talk at tho fame time successfully, eo if you -pre- fer the kins-leave out the words, He Doesn’t Propose, Deer Betty: i AM a young Indy nineteen years old end am deeply in love with a younr @ man three years my nentor, 1 wih Wo marry him, but he has never pro- (¢ appear too anxious for his love Be cordiat and kind, but the lovemak: fag mast come from him. He will rete, tm time learn to love yo u Must be patient until he pro- don't. rush things, as' you iain by doing so, i = man | ERR RRC ROR RCRCIC I ICICI 3 % s |The Adventurer Lloyd Osbourne. ‘Copyright, 1007, by D. Appleton & Co.) ; YNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Lewis Kirkpatrick (nicknamed *Kirk'*) *Ia-a plucky yc Atmerican, who, stranded In London, va a mysterious en: erprise that prouises wealth. The expedi- in under the leadership of four people: Westbrook, a famous \nventor: Dr, Von Zolwitz, a German actentist; Mrt.“Hitch- y wealthy old lady, and fussy martinet. There are ‘also. nearly” 200 enmaxed on The party €o to a remote apot on the banks elicidad."* ‘There Dutide, a mighty." anip, the erected upon "wheels, ‘and thus farable’ of malting on Jang Kirk fails in Tove with “Westbrook'n. lovely. daughter, Vera, who has come from Enxland, “under Reesor, to Join her fathers Kirk, on hin arrival at “Felicia, toda the. camp ready pitched and. the” lip nearly come seedy Pitched caployeds as; helper sto Crawe Baws’ the. ohiet, eagineer, From fle tant tates Kirk. earns. that. the ion Ie probably A treamure hunt, end that Jack- son, for reasons of hie own, fs secretly try- Ing’ to make Mra, Hitchcock abandon it. CHAPTER XV. |. In Love. ~ She drew near the Fortuna again A Kirk's amazement was even greatcr than before The au- dacity of such a ‘conception struck him! dumb. Her towering masts, her gigantic wheels, her lofty superstruct- ure at once daunted and fascinated him. ‘The bokineas of the idea and the boldness of {ts acodmplishment took his breath awny. She seemed to have grown Digger, longer, more colossa! in the interval Gf his absence, Hr mind had unconsclounly dwarfed her in. recollection, unable to retain the vastness of her bulk, | The enormour fatvric, looming high above him, stirred him as {t might nome runaway country boy at the first sight of a deep-water mip. Ho had something of the same mirprise, the same awe, the same do- lighted bewilderment. But ho was given no time’ to fully satisty these nensatlonsy He fotowed hia party. aboard, and hastened to re- port himself to Mr, Crawaliaw, who at once ‘set him to work. Vera gain. About 3 o'clock the notse on tue lower deck ceassd, and the ship became strangely quiet, Kirk wondered what had }appened, and was on the point of inquiring of his companions when he emerging, from the companion. Ho knew. in a moment whore !t was, and his heart gave-a leap. Mixx Westbrook ap- Pearl on the arm of an oldigh, dintin- ulshed-looking man, whose ‘pale face and thin, frail figure betrayed conald- erable: physical weakness. Ho had a shawl pinned about his shoulders and walked with the painful deliberation of an invalid, He rested gt the head ef A rest?} how they strig- ine, and then— late theatro er] re where @ cAmD| sight of the newcomers, was electrified to # a pink paraxo ” | "8 IT MY FAULT THAT THE MERELY INTERESTING To ME?” i é for an actress to achieve succe: larity in this countr: ccess is one thing and popular. ity ano she replied. “Duse wae successful in this country, but: not pop- ular, Why was that?’ and I argued her ewn case to prove the popularity of forelgn actresses here. She smiled, but was discreetly s!- dent. “Perhaps,” she ventured after a mo- ment, “it was Tbaen who was popular.” HHarmeny “Perhaps,” I suggested, “It was Nazi- to see Naxtmova without being able to mova who made Ibsen popular.’* ‘neo’ Ibsen at all.’ A smile flashed from the corners of ‘And yet I owe everything to Ibsen, her dark eyes as vhe answered, “That | overytiing.”, che repeated earnestly. 1s not for me to may.” “And nothing to personality?’ “But,” I persisted, “people have gone| “Why eay ‘personality?’ she de- the companion, holding to the coaming of the hatch as though to steady him- self With the pair was a third per- son, A woman about sixty. She was of medium height, somewhat stous, with a dark, sallow, vivacious face, all Puckered up with smiles, There wus something mannish in the cut of her Costume, and the bright feather run through her felt hat added a note of elderly, akittistness. She had a tough, robust, weatherbeaten look that con- trasted-with the old man's evident lan- Kuor nd the girl's delicate and flower- Mke beauty, and her incessant smiling, wiggling and grimacing affected Kirk somewhat unpleasantly. “This ls My Daughter!" There was a genecal atir at the Work slack. ened, and every one straightened up as though for Inmpection, .None of the men had ween Miss Westbrook before, and there were subdued murmurs of admir- ation, and much covert curiosity as they gazed at her. Crawshaw oame forward, cap in hand, and was,intro- duced, blushing under the orduii lke @ self-conscious boy. The mwatohed him enylously, and craned thelr necks to laten an the old xentle- man sald: ‘Crawshaw, this is my daughter—Vera, “Mr. Crawshaw, my right-hand. man. The! old lady tlt- tered genially, and made some jeering’ that were inaudible. Craw- shaw led them to the winct, and forth- with ‘plunged into a technical discus- EFERRING to last Thursday’ R Netter of the children's editor, an- | nouncement {is mado that the boys of The Evening World's Art Club 60 far have come out ahead in the number of offorts sent based unon The ness of composition, and in the letters ceompanying these contributions they show an ambition and desire to tmprove fm this art. work beyond my expecta- tons, . N t Tuesday The Evening, World others | Evening World's art cut-outs. But I must confean fhat the ~irls were | quite even with ‘the boys In clever- | sion with his superior, Poulteney Hitchcock—for it was she hereelf—Iistened with .a poll-parrot ex- Pression and a mischievous gleam in her .cragy eyes. | Recognition! Vera, demure and silent, seemed un- aware of the attention she excited, She held to her father's arm and looked about shyly, her face lixhting as she beheld Kirk. He had been walting for that xlance of, recoognition, dering how he ought to receive It, He was-inprepared for her coming over to him and extending her hand. He took it m little sheepishly, very conscious of thelr altered positions and of the a tonishment of his companions. He wa. embarrassed at thus being aingled out before them, and found some diffculty |in answering her greeting In the same gay and cordial tone But she had hanily more than sald his name when Mr. Westbrook caught it, and turning away from Crawshaw, he also came over to Kink. “I am yery glad to meet you,” he sald, a Ilttle constrainedly. “I feel under a {great obligation to you Mr. Kirk- V patrick, Very much in your debt,’ #ir— Yery much in your debt. If you could make it convenient I should be happy to have you call on us this evening Atter elght—? Very good, very good— 1 shall look forward’to tt.” Then Mia. Hitchcock bustled up. ‘80 you are Mr. Kirkpatrick, hee-hee! and won-| DOO tot ot tt tata at att at ot of at of at ot of at of AASAAASAASALAAAISISSSABALSSASIRADAS ; & Pink Parasol and a Pretty Girl on Board the Mysterious Land-Ship Send a Thrill Through the Soldiers of Fortune on th SAAAAAASASAABISAIAASAAALSARSASBAALAAADDSSBALISABIABIASISALSSASISLARAANAIASAAAIAAESAABRASD while “Mrs. I'm the mother of the ship, you know, Nir R = 5 ec mad woman. ~ He ttiidly \expressed hmae}f on the sudject, but only got laughed at, i At eight o'clock, drewsed and shaved, Kirk atarted off to make his call. Ho found Mr. Westbrook and Vera in thelr altting-room tent, the latter reading an English ‘newspaper aloud to her futher, Kirk was greeted cordially, although a @nd you are the new baby, hee-hee! Over a hundred of them—iike the old lady that lived in a shoe! What do you think of sailing ocver the land? But we'll do it in spite of the croakers! If only every man will do his duty, -he heo! And we'll go home rich and live happily ever afterward. Live in Paris, you know. No place like Paris. Don’t] little formalty, and was asked’ to ait | you like Paria best—I do? Tres gui,| down. .He felt nervous under the old | tres gal—always something for every | MAn's penetrating gaze, and his heart sank at the rather stereotyped ‘expres- sion of thanks that he waxy condemned to Msten to for the second time, that day, Every word eeemed to widen the soctal diatance, He replied as best he could, and grew eoutely unhappy. There was no real warmth in the old jian's manner, Rut be was an honest old mna, and paid his debts, He wrote out Kirk a poctal check. The latter had | Sho rattled on in this queer. soatter~ | , melancholy feeling that he ought to brain sort of way. never watting for | Docket {t and mo home, Vera wus very an anmwer, and incessantly nodding | 7008 Jos anene. though her epee often |and grinning like a marionette. Kirk | SoUes tirk’w In a linwering glance A [did not know: wnat to make of her. | Conversation wae with dimoulty kept }and he was «reatly relleved when the | alive, |party passed on and mounted the ry K& Social Check. bridge. Vera smiled to him In fare- well, and her face expressed something of his own perplexity and surprise. | Vera had never seemed eo beautiful to him aa she did that night. Never, so remote, so utterly beyond those pre- The old Indy seemed hardly better than half-witted, and s waa’ disturbing to posterous hopes he had cherivhed #0 @viitily in his heart of hearts “6he think of her being the mainapring of was dressed in a kimono, dark blue in the enterprise. It took on a more ominous aspect, too, and he could not color, and richly embroidered with gold, which was open at the neok, displaying minute of the day! And how they'll) Honize ua! We'll be Invited everywhere to tell about It. Afterward I'm going to | get Mr. Crawshaw to make me a model of the Fortunia—hee-hee—in miniature, you know—and put It in a special room all by steelf!" |‘* Mother of the Ship.”’ [but marvel at the acquiescence af hia companions in trusting thelr fate to a In the Evening World’s Art Club Boys Do Best Work | i ,By Harry Cohen, No. New York’ City, pretty indeed. and represents a yery appy looking home, “Your drawing 1s very ‘good, T think an anpropriate title would be “Baby's Birthday,’ 1491 Broadway, will give a very dashing cut-out for the BE, W. A. C. or The Evenine World's young artists, upon which I would like Arline H, May, No. 478 Bast Seventh Vetreet, Brooklya N. ¥.-—-You have com= nosed d most comfortable little kitchen scene, and ‘The Day Before. Chriat- | mas‘ is a very appropriate title just now. to wea If tho girls of thin club or Doys. will be in the majority, Come now, girls, work bard to beat the boys this week. Here are the names of some of the members who haye done excollent Walter Voas, No. 4 city. David Mendoza, second street, city. Jullus Gral!, N; Long Island City, Harman street 0, 236 Bast Elghty- 885 Jackson avenue, Your pleture ts very | work: | : street, Brooklyn. * — BE Gortrude Fitzpatrick, No, Cambridge place, Brooklyn. ¥ HG Fe kh ° By Genovieve Smith, No, 41 Turre}l/ street, Patéhogue, L. 1+ Picture ts most | fascinating and beautifully done. You i A xreat dea) of talent, tot 1 NAZIMOVA Finds From Experience "|her finger. “Ie T remained on the atage | “| inet urious Craft | the blouse, 33-4 yards yming; for the skirt, od Play S. | soe ded. ‘What has ‘personality to do Camille and Magdas when I was with it? Does not the play always young’ come first in importance?’ , “Wh Looking for ‘fersonality.’ “Suppose we take the theatre alver- tleementa for an anawar,” I suggested. opening @ newspaper that lay on the Xou were young7? y she answered. ‘Do not sme, 1 ef you. For I am no | Young. Sometimes {t seems I am one hundréd years old, 1 no longer care for a it © things that interested me in my Sle. jyowth. tt Je ax thoush the earlier part Fore tne ool naE ee aa eta jot my life had been wiped ont, I have The te ool 0 big | 108t. He taste for emotional roles just thoi tise Lofipla ya; stood iby: Wi, PUTsbIs Fass reaver toa lethe Maclean aay I Lyn fi . Ow & he le i. *U-mm,."" she murmured! “But I-want 7?¥ eat te Mitte things—oht what do ¥ ll tiem?—that are sour and bit- lo see ‘“Narimova’ a We ferret»1 out the name of 1 ¥ Lko the roles that ere bitter Its owner had nothing to say, “Person- | ~ 64), ality’ was printed all over the: “nas,” | “But not The Lady of ‘Three Weeks? eet h, please let us hot speak of “Three just as it looms kirge in the theatre. ead beee seme persisted . Mme. Nnzimova,| Weeks!’ ahe bexied, “1, told Mra. “there may be a reason for thia'’—as of | Oly ia se cr Kitsem, No, I er course there (s—“If we are to fudgo by | Benaed playing it. Let us talk of the advertisements it may be that the | mething else ae public ts more famitar, say, with the| “Of the woman In your new play? I name of Ethel Barrymore than it js |/7USseted. “Is she an American?’ with ‘Fler Sister.’ ‘She is anytliing and everything, I cannot believe that | Bier ‘personality’ rules the stage 1¢ 1'| "44 Mine. Nasimova, with mystery | her dark. eyes. thought I ware merely a. tpersonalt! shouli croas myself off like this" ‘She ds of no country?’ . 2 I should not bother about plays; 2 Hi whoulki merely let the audionce see wne| ® Spanish Woman Next, line of my neck, so"—ralsing her chin— | Spain, {f wa may say eo,” ahe “and walk back and forth before the “™"Werel urder her breath. “She ta @ footlights to show off my clothes. 1| “oman who has learned the lesson of could play anything without giving it a //f at sixteen, ani gone out inte the thought” | World and become « brilliant actress, “Even @ sweetly sentimental haco-| Tat Is why the play (& called ‘The 4 : jComet.’ She comes tack to her old \She raised her hands and her eyes in |Home and Inspires the eon of the man jahe had loved at sixteen to go out tata Leayen forbid!" phe exclaimed. “phe | the world with her. There ls no love ‘Other day m man asked me; ‘Madam, | between them—only a strange comrade- why do you not let us ses you in the| SMip—anst I hope this relationship will - role of a purely good woman? I should | Not be misunderatood. W’th the woman be glad to play <a ‘purely good woman’ !t Js never sex, it is always mentality. if I could find a good play with that ! Wonder whether men wi understand fort of Woman as it# principal charac- | (iis. Men never seem to understand But I have found from axperience|™me. I get disagreeable letters from {them; and only -leasané ones from women. ‘The other tay a man ‘wrote me a long letter to tell me that Hilde She leaned across the tablo with a Should not wear a short skirt He grieved, helpless expression. jadded that he had arrived at this con- (fusion, aftec carefully reading Iteen. I Good Women—ad Plays. |annwored: ‘Rea been. again.’ Why ‘Ihave read hundreds of plays with Should he bother about the ekwt? die ood women in them, but the plays |#hould know that Hikie ts a purely were—no grod! ‘The ‘ancal woman’ {s|T™ental girl I have been accuse! of not interesting on the stage. There are|*iving her ‘wiles.’ It ts always men no ponsibiities in her. Could you en-|*ho say Cees things. Men do not Uke dure a whole play about Ophelia? And |. . Move Interest’ 1s not enough te satiety| It was my ture te protest. i me. It ie the mental wothan who in- Yad ny ip reek ft ice terests me @he must eppeal to me|™membér you sald of ‘Comlesse Co- tece. quette’ that men mixht forget the play, Ghe tapped her brow and pushed back |but they proukl remember Nastmova. I the black har, Gteagreed with you then and I disagres “And you care nothing for emotional | With you now. i am eure that men Ao role?’ 1 asked, not lke me, But I I!e American men ‘No; they no longer interest me, |for their respectful attitude’ toward ac- Iwas food of playing Zasae and | (esses. —In—Russia an actress ls a: Core i ae 2nd | iadly off'in thin respect as the old-time ctrous rider, This le true, at least, of the provinces. There the theatre js lik: a man’s club, Every night men come in one long precession to force their at- éentions upon an actress, It is unbear- adie, To keep then out I was obligei to let the door of my dressing room. ‘There they calli me “The Nun’ Here they sey I have ‘wiles’ abd ask me to play ‘good women.'” And she laughed and ren back to protest. ter. that good. women do not make good plays. And so it 1s my faait that really good womon are not interesting to me?” 4 ALABAMA HLALAAADAABALAAAS to pertection her round, white throat, | 7° poner) and the classic modeling of her mouth ¥ e " aod chin. It tormented Kirk to look at Jake and ‘the Apples. ber, and yet he could not keep his eyes ‘T was during ‘an arithmetic olass fn away. Ele cught to have concentrated | @ country esahool thet Jake Bosss every facuky in making himself agree- was called upon to solve problem. able to her ¢ather, but inatead he sat the toncher it there lke @ olod, with a funereal ex- | [' pression that not only wrote him down an ‘aes, Dut @ boor, It was the Water- Joo of all his day. dreams. He went down in his own estimation. Gmarting with defeat, he would gladly have gone away to bide his diminished head ter- ever, (To Be Continued.) May Manton’s Daily Fashions. this ‘terncon gewes. In the illustration the material ts yolle and the trimming velvet, with simple ‘applique onthe akirt, while : the chemisette and ‘ deep cuffs are of : cream-colored allover ~ Jace, There are many materials thin enough and Bot enough te e tucked and piaited with success, and messaline eatin, crepe de Chine, crepe me- teorn and the like are eminently attractive tor the more elad- orate gowns, while for the stmpler ones the lightwelght cash- meres and challies are empecialty to be commended. The quantity of ma- terlal required for the medtum atze 13, for tL, 3 1-2 yards 77 or 18-8 yards # inches wide, with 1 yard of allover lace, 7-8 yard o¢--yebvet for! trim- M1 6-8 yards M, 9 1-2 yards % or 6 1-4 fs fine na a title. | i a | \ j W. E. Gross, No. 422 South Firth ave- \) nue, Mount’ Vernon, Elbert J, -Mulllgan, No, @8 Fast One vt Hundred and Thirty-ninth streny, city, | Harry Cohen, No. 1491 Broadway, city. Richard Brinsley. | avenue, west of Avi Efneat Kutesky, ntreet, Brooklyn. 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