The evening world. Newspaper, January 18, 1908, Page 9

By Charles Darnton. IZ audience had gone home to bed. The house was aa empty a8 & drum, and the gray voice of the tired Mttle woman on the dimly- Ughted stage stole up the aisles like a vagrant whisper: t specch, like many of my own, calls for simplicity and distinction, You and I must strive for those two qualities. They Bre not contradictory. Real distinction comes of simplicity, and unaffected simplicity always brings distinction,” The words were swallowed up in silence. Then came: “Of course, you cannot suggest that idea unless you feel it. Just wait; ft will take hold of you. Good night!” And Miss Maude Adams, with that quaint little nod of the head that fs all hets, smiled cheerfly to the actor whom ehe had been “rehearsing” with an industry and perseverance that did not take the clock into account. ‘Women speak of her as “lovely,” “charming” and “sweet.” They talk of her “personality” endearingly, but it is only within recent years that a real measure has been given to the flexible, versatile art which this “per- eonalfzy” hadcreated. Ap a matter of fact the success won by Maude Adams on the stags 1s the result of sheer hard work. Hers 1s the sort of genius (although she ehrinks from the word) which has been defined as an “infinite capacity fon taking pains.” Always at Work. If an outsider were to go dehind the wcenes of any, perto: ce in ch . Miss Adams appears he would find her, between acts, not er dressing-room, | Dut on the stage, directing the eetting | of the sce: ing careful ana |‘ttping from her dinner, to other membors of the | OM her coat and hat, east upon a point of tmportance In the | SPpoint them.” i mext act. As long ago as |) July, on "What are you going to do?" asked the eve of her performance of “L'Aig- | the friend. igatnent che kGresio ih aatralots thon: “Oh, I'll Just walk to the comer and vers! y of California—an event of eum-| back. It will take only = minute, end ley importance to crowd out of her| then the girls “Will go home instead of heal all other plans—she was busily at| standing there shivering in the cold, work, designing the costumes she now | poor dears."* ‘wears in ‘“The Je ‘The second act And out she went through a lane of costume particularly—one that suggests yittle admirers. saying “Good evening ner wan welting. A friend who had Just come in trom the street mentioned that fifty or more young girls were gathered about the stage door walting | to see her come out. “Well, then," remarked Miss Adams, and putting “IT mustn't dis- the cap and and left. ‘ney were all there retaining she returned a few moments later, epirt of a ty was “Good ntghf*' as the France—is virgin saint of the stage-door girls went back to her co! urs of work. oa nt her little frter ‘And good luck with your new play!” added one. . “Thank you! said Miss Adams, throwing a smile over her shoulder. one PUCK, Litfle cit ner and five more ent drawings. The scenes such a produ invariably the pr of many months of quiet experimenting by Miss Adams, @lways guided by frequent consultation with Charles Frohman. coming right on!" sang | nager at a rehearsal Miss Adams!" answered out the stage this week. “Oh, ts she?" came the merry query from the body of the houses. “I don't dee sar brig! know wheter she’ {s or not.” who ts z on eleven,” And Miss Adams scrambied out of @ and who hwas one of the wolves in row of chairs in the rear of the ho! Petor Pan," 1s Miss Adams's insep- from which point ad been studying | arable companton, Whore Miss Adams} the effect of the If goes she goes, and where Miss Adam: Besides all this. she has a patient ear|iives she Mves—think of that, kiddie: and a hel: mind for the questions | Miss “found Augusta in Buf. and difficulties which are cons ¥/falo a year or 80 ago, and she has kept brought to her by, the varic the ohild with her ever since. The high ments of each of her prod spirits of “adopted” girl find re-| An casy ver 1 flection fn her, Pause a moment in - Out of character, even at a mid- the musical director w night rehearsal, Miss Adams evidenced with the business m the same spirit of gayety and quaint pany a polnt that has suddenly arisen delight in fun which she dieplays in and must be as suddenly settled, Their Virgin Satat. “The Jesters.” One rehearsal was die turbed by a notse at the back of the stage, Miss Adams {9 never too bn “Stop that pounding!” called Charles kind. ‘This was strikingly {lui ‘rohan from an orchestra ohair. Gin evening last week, when, The “pounding continued. nearsing for five she “Stop It, I say!" repeated Mr. Froh- Into her dressing room, where her din- man. Health and Beauty. By Margaret Hubbard Ayer. BABY ON THE SHELF. T last the problem of airing the baby has been solved. A A young mother who has two babies, no nurse and often no »k, for New York cooks seem averse to the soclety of ldren, can at least atr r three-months- old Infant without the bother of monotonously rolling h his carriage up and down the block. of steps and get- carrying him up and down thyee fig ting out his carriage, while Robin toddied after at the risk of dashing his brains out on the marble landings. The Ingenuity of mothers knows no limitations, however, air on a shelf, which sounds » but may be fully explained, a shelf about two fect brond from the and St the deceiving Stephen's mother has h sunniest window In her apartne elf is fenced In carefully with a high wall of strong wire ne! ps in a eradie basket affair something lke the one in whic! ysed when was discovered lurking in fbullrushes. Precisely at the hero of this tale is tucked into his cradle where he elther peacefully sleeps or blinks ughtful manner, as If he were dreem!ng of things fr his philosophy which t? st of the world has still to learn, ‘Barring rain and snow, Stephen spends most of his days out of doors, and the expertment has worked well. Ho ts a fine Hittle “Of course, he 1s only three months’ old and can’t Jump or crawl out,” sia | “his mother. ‘And the shelf ts very st ure and the netting too high to the top, If by some miracle he should sit wp. I should never for him to reach to the top, heed tatapenine tee and hotsted onto his ac into space in a strange ng and se m1 th The n thou think of putting him on the fire-eseape. ° In the ladder makes me shudder. T got the s wire netting that cau be Dought, and the shelf was put up by a rellab n so that T now he Is ‘And the trouble It saves me, w ‘ot to mention his always pertectly safe. being well and happy. provocation.”” Jes into smiles on the slightest We rarely erles, and dimy Robin, the older boy, has learned to uso his sturdy little | legs and accompantes his mother to market or to call on hor friends. Put the question of airing Stephen Involved HINTS FOR THE HOME: | Make Child’s Legs Neat. SE aS SAR ESI pesitond NV the bottom of the child's onder- drawers eow. a piece of cotton tane Ghree-fourths © Inch wide and Gye or atx inches long, according v ‘zo of the child's foot, Sew ono end on the inside seam of drawers and sediment To Remove Sediment. to leave O remove the disfiguring arthenware pitch- which hard water is a Jers and other vessels in daily use put a w spon china and the other end directly opposite and it /into the vessel a 1 sized pun of will fit comfortably In tho hollow of tha | Salt and a cup of vinagar aud et atand foot This will. prevent ugly ‘“‘bumps'?|for half a day, Wash well with warm in the stockings. [water and a good soap. Keep a Toad. | To Clean Tufted Couch. sae nent eens VERY one knows how hard tt ts to Naor daa gr ney sie” SPAT | keen a tufted couch clean, The houses are xo popular tt me Fe ee ete gee ena lite many families mov ” ; Hen I OAAY SSNS he ing to another, and some ¢ be bothered with croton bugs, commonly known but neously called by the name of cockroach a broom handle will rneath on the Itt atton. This A round atic gently more | (is und tle tin that holds the % r » The most raise ORE: button om top, Jrush with a efiectivg and economical means ef sit whisk hrcom, SPORES MISS MAVUDE ADAMS at Rehearsal Works for “Simplicity and Distinction 2 w Splendid Work Done by The Evening FOPDOE ®ESHBO 3 @EDOL® DB: DADGDGD BBO BOR 2OSOO0E8 aoonsossaeg GEKLSSES “It can't be stopped, wir,” came the answer. “Why not?’ demanded Mfr. Frohman “Because it's the eteam-pipes,” ex- | plained Miss Adams: “and we're not |plumbers, you know, she added, laughingly. To hear her, the other night, deliver an actor's speech, not with a “Do it this way,” but with a “How oes |thts strike you?" was to be divided be- |tween wonder and admiration at the easy skill with which she bettered the man's emphasis colored his #peech, although all the while he felt that he wan doing the work quite by himself. It was an interevting fllustration of Maude Avams’s method of creating a part Hers is just the opposite of the usual stage practice and the usual stage eloaution. In “coaching’’ a member of her company, the point always with her was not to deliver a speech with pretty rhetorical decoration, out to speak it as | one feols it. | ‘The stage hands at the theatre will | tell you that all hours en working hours with (Maude Adams, The ourtain may indeed “ring down," the lights be extinguished, but that docs not neces- ‘been dead for a long time.” ‘This te her invariable reproot. Why she eays ‘the’ 1s a mystery which has never been solved. Well-bred speech and eloquence charac of a new produc- . even on th sarily mean the end of the day fe her unvarving good humor.) of diction’come first with her, ‘To the home for her, #o long as there re even her good humor vanishes | actor, whom she was hetping. out of his another point to be gained. Thero 8.2 when anyone saya “Hollo! to her. | ™ayent dimeculties she salt: i ine siorehouse of energy yet to be drawn Ne she que: dublously. ‘He's simplest.” from for the help of others or for her- self. Livery rehearsal of “The Jesters” con- ducted by Mr, Frohman was aitende! |and particlpated in by Miss Adams— not @ usual practice with actresses of her prominence. She leaves nothing to “the Inspira- tion of the first night.” With a man's ——_-_——- Rifles and Arithmetics. By Day Allen Wiley. F strictly military schools there are 175 throughout the land. Nearly every nin has at least one, New York has thirty-two, New Jersey eleven, North Carolina seven, Texas nine, Wis- ‘fornia nine and Illinois five. These States are quoted Bt ennsylya four, str energy for thoroughness and a woman's merely t yw how widely distributed are the centres of soldier-mak- nimbleness in attaining ft, works ing, writes D. \ in the Outing Magazine for February. And the means ‘and works, contrives and schemes until | are within reach of reputable school that can muster a corps of 150 or 200 ghe carries out her Ideas, once they are | poys, Under these conditlons the Federal Government will furnish field plecos determined upon. But {t 1s work | and caissons for the battery and arm the corps with saber and rifle. It ts only ve 4 with a fine sense of fn. l necessary for the school authorities to give bond to return the equipment In gocd condition, ‘Pius with weapons of actual warfnre the routine of the regular Getting the Hook. army may be faithfully followed. Ten thousand young men coming from these Institutions ev year mean an addition of a hundred thousand men in @ decade to the class of American citizens available for the country’s protection, + A Good Rockefeller Story. ILLIAM G. ROCKEFBLLER 1s the President of the National Beagle Club W ig an authority on dogs no less than on finance. Disouasing the training of dogs at a recent club meeting, Mr. Rockofeller aald: ‘Yes, training fs an art. The simplest appearing of canine performances is, preperly, understood, a diMenit thing, It looks easy, but it fs hard; and thus'—Mr, Rockes feller smiled—"thus {t {9 like the man at the photographer's. This man, sitting for ils portrait, { tmpatiently to the artist: ‘Well, have I got now the pleas= ant expression you desire?’ ‘Yes, thank you,’ sald the photographer. “That vil | do nicely.’ “Then hurry up,’ growled the man, ‘It hurts my face.’ Maude Adams's ambition at exch per formance of “Peter Pan’? was to beat the pirate, Hook, of course ut, detter | still, as he scampered away up the | stairs of the pirate ship, to catoh his | flapping coat-talla, It was a poor night | {f Hook's coat-tal!ls escaped ‘her. In her fencing bout with Mr, von Seyffertitz at rehearsal, Mias Adams | was ag jubflant asa boy with his first Watertury ?vatch. when sie finally forced him into a Ught corner and made things warn for him “Goods!” erted the admiring von Soy- ftertitz, and Miss Adams dropped her i OOOO World Axt Club. wt ot Soar DIOOIHADSAAAIOOIOAHAANSTSIOGVOOS COU] QDHOOCGPDOOGOODSDGOOQOOOD ” 5 Sch 1» Si 4 My Dear Members of The Evening World's, Brooklyn. H. Treeland, No, 1680 Amsterdam aye- Flatbush, Brooklyn. pant ueetae Romer ye wee Art Club: | Alice Bascomb, No. 499 nue. City. Benjamin Gelbfish, No, 874 Allon ur Ses ie 9 A wes ° Hume AM actually bewlldered to determing | ourth street. Ct TE. Whitnay, No. 1862 Seventy-second street, New York City. i ¢ ud and mv eltenialteet Non om | which deserves the greatest praise | J. D. Ke 5: uy street, Brooklyn. Katherine A. Bergwig, No, 207 Colum- no eens Sr ore 0 St. 1 in Club, the boys and girls of) Oltve Bonner, } past Thirty-| Jules S. Oliver, Canal street, Wood- bus avenue, Now York City. en| S «and Brooklyn or the out-! pyalient Brooklyn Reman Wey 1 August Warkentin, No. 139 Park ave- ester Melster, No, 126 Dawa | embers of the Club. resa Benedek, 673 One| Sherman Murphy, No. 654 Fiftieth nue. City. GeGey BICHES {p and the | }rondred and Thirty-eighth street, New| street, Brooklyn, eorge Hoxt, No. 423 East Seventy- Aang Holmes, No. 168 Lee avenuns,) beauty and cleverness of the pictures In sition, drawing, grouping and of the Iittle subject show In- er enthusiasm and marked tm- provement among the member: The work aeat in, made upon The Evening World's art cut-outs of Jan, 7 and Jan. 15, 1s especially beaut!fnl I am mech pleased to see so many brothers and sisters joining 3 re fining and instructive wo Tac) say that 1 will now he op wr ing In your pralse to make room for hororable mention of tha names of those who s in deserving and excellent work. Here are a few of them: Peter Lipp, No. 1 Melrose street, | York City. Mao Berg, No. 14 Erasmus atreet, A 1 “A friend in ne a friend hares ts an appropriate ttle | for your beautifully done picture, No. 137 Stuyvesant | second atreet, City. Gertrude Tierney, No, 827 East Thirty- third street, City. Mathias Miller, street, Brooklyn, ‘moresa W. Nodohm, Flushing, L. 1. Johanna Schmidt, No, 24 Joralemon Arthur Caray, No. 9 First evenus; | New York City. William Butler, No, 831 Ninth evenma ; No, 189A Stocitton ‘your composition rtaining. It is well streot, Brooklyn. Milas from ‘Town Alfred Crain, No. 122 West Seventy-| eighth street, City. | | Ledgerd Avery, No. 818 St. Nicholas Jeveruayouy: | Friedman, No. 12% | Josephine Rieker, No. 28 Woodbine] wot One Hundred and Sixteenth street, | street, Brooklyn. | Bobby helm, No. 007 Bank stroet. Florenco Benson, No. 151) Garfeld) voc cey | Place, Brooklyn. x | Theresa Henedek, No, 618 Fast One Florence Zlegier, No. 45 West Porty-) iunared and Thirty-cishth street, City. Allee Smith, No. 187 Stuyvesant seventh atreat, New York City, een ant 10 East Ninety: ue, Brooklyn. “The Young Samare "18 an excellent title, and your pio Some Women Like Work WhoDon’t Really Haveto Dolt cvrrederick Ar Ot ertia nau “me work whe does in her capacity of walcl OF uch Of Guise Hermine of Reus: 0 turn out excel has ex, wuaker on various occasions, ry PRLHERMINE oF Bavaria makes a her! m ises and fu: Margarethe, Mart om the London Sketeh, 5 | ture 1a as well done as your brother'® Rthel Straus, No. 101 West One Hun- Gred and Thirty-weventh street, New | York City, | Gertrude EB, Long. | Sylvester B. Silverberg, No, 813 Fifty. t street, Brooklyn. Fisie Hammer, No, 366 Miller ave, | ! Brooklyn. 3 és Harry Gibney, No. 215 East Eighty M aaa Oe. sixth street, New York Clty. yur cot post fe Alta le Roberts, No. 430 Forty- resting. first street, Krooklyn. == John Plummer, No. 206 North Elghth st Brooklyn, lle, a 10 Con Cabinet street, ‘0. 72 Barrow street, | or, No. 44 Carmine street, | 203 Pacttle avenue. | : “Donough deal of 4 on a are which ha and Astrid | Robert Faskel, No. 823 Cypress avenuo, nue, ¢ You show considerable Bronx, , io your Grewing. O )