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The Evenin ‘The Traveling Salesman Gets a Large Order of Laughs, QD now the “Grummer” drama! Of course, there was A tm the days when @ patr of pink suspenders waa “thrown in” with every mult of clothes, but times have changed eince then, and “1ne Balesman,” at the Liberty Theatre last night, was nothing like that, Mr. Jamey fn his second growth am author, displayed an ey using line of goods, and ! wudience gave "The Traveling Salesmen” @ large o. Jer of laughs, \A Dy no means small factor in the laughing success that the plece scored was | @ fmt actor in an oven fatter part, Mr, Frank J. McIntyre, who last season per- formed amiable service as the overweight cadet in “Classmates,” principally, it @ay de remembered, by saving the au- Glenoe from asking “What time ts (t?” @9 the last act of that play dragged its Otherwise weary length. Mr, McIntyre did even more last night he helped “The Traveling Salesman” | to carry weight, But for him the play @ight have gone up like a hot airship, ‘and never “landed.” He was the bal- Jast as well as the anchor of hope to which the audjence clung with an abid- "tng glee throughout the evening, When ; you saw him you understood why Mr, Thomas Ross no longer plays the part Mr, Ross 4s thin, Mr, McIntyre is thiok. | Answer — “The Traveling Salesman etock-in-trade 1s avoirdupols and slang. Sometimes slang in the mouth of a man $s all oyster and no pearl. That {s the danger Mr. Forbes ran In try! his "Chorus Lady” tricks on ‘The Trav- eling Salesman,” But Mr. McIntyre has a mouth for slang. He eats it, as one to the slanger born; he gives it the ving flavor of Innocence, Hear him @s he mourns the curse of his trater- ality: at'e the way it ia with us and the soubrettes! When we are on the level who belleves us?” Pi the poor ‘drummer more !n laughter than in sorrow! For he wears rR his slang on his sleewe, while his face tp “Bob Blake, carries a side line of comlo despair, Prank J. Mcintyre ag Bob Blake. Except when he was filled with a Yuletide sadness, Mr, Medntyre was a neavy moight Joy. It was only for a moment that the author atrrendered to sentimental weakness to wean his “hero” from slang. And when {t comes to providing slang, Mr. Forbes {a entitled to take George Ado by the hand and call lm brother, for he makes {t as human agit is funny. For example, there's a second commercial wandorer, who, when ne strikes a one-horse town on a two-horse night, feele the lure of the ekirt, and | defense (es though any were neelel!): “I wasn't brought up to be lonesome.” Pt youre: amor the savant (Of ane COPYRIGHT BY PACH BROW 90m ent’s sister and hears a strong resem- All this, of course, 1s getting away from the etory. But no matter—for tne |MOFe “Mist Roosavelt’ ro the smart set) © to the Chief Executive himself story doesn't matter. It ls hardly worth the telling, and Mr, Forbes, efter the |WOUld Perhaps, have been lesa notable She was—and s—one of the prettiest of was given in honor at a FNcreiiieane rate Pry first mecting between the “drummer” and the feminine combination of ticket- |‘PA" Now. For at that time there were the Hodnavel per ce eiuens Lanne COSI OP SELES NGPA TURIGE g wedding the ? ‘1 ; @ full helt dozen fair owners of that Kuest not on diploma at Thompson. Nroom, in / seller and telegraph operator at tha RATeln thedon poe dao Seca Way AMUMAn TSE riers 2 tie: holla 7 siding window in the railway station, | We ROOT OAL TON OL Ine NEW Hay HEME AT UHG INGE: OIRGR Pear cneeeaiol rate EAS tells It with more desperation than in.| oP social world's inner circle ie Bt) SoG, 484 ib t tor place aie Hug, with Christmas, greens ane des terest. Th the dot-and-dash repartee of| For example, alx Miss Roosevelts, on) “irneted considerable Interest 4 few thine ene ae ot me own that love-at-tint-alght window, with] the evening of Dec. 9, 1902, attended a SP" AGO by ielning her cousin eddy sath Pro ON eC Oto toa her mother she Inherited, at Beth Elliott warming and freezing the! certain dance at Shorry's, ‘Dhe occasion) gi" 4. ee ee fa a Wes SEEGER ener one, more than §1,(00,000 lib drummer's sudden affection by | Was the debut of ono of tho sextet, Miss tig yirie, ano ie an 4 ote Salar AL ne See C a Miss Dorothy Roosevelt, daughter of turns, there {s more cleverness than the, Christine Kean Roosevelt, ‘The other iy 41 Srey ae tee Kee PSCACHE 2 LaENRHA NORD ORMRES rsevelts early Mtr, and Mrs, Hilborne Roosevelt, was could knock out of al Ave girls of the Roosevelt clan were het “iiss alive ‘Rosavvelt, as every one|lorsewoman, and. was’ feild ie) abe Panadol ieee atthe trunk. It gives Miss | Cousins. ‘They were Miss Alice Roose- jiows was muci, ea eed Ave Aednes lie the -Aleadoute Church of the Incarnation on Oct. 6 | Gertrude Coghlan her beat chance, and| Velt, elder daughter of tha President; ing thw next two or three east atler|imects, Shp’ led (ani activa outdoor| APS reer ene Bees she takes tt beautifully, except that her| Miss Lorraine Rosevelt, Miss Dorothy that Eherey.s Winnensiaanieaie endl slater) (ten ate thal tamilyuematel Gee atendowilcrsie, Gey eem bacemece mul ce mnentte | accent 1s a bit too well bred for her) Roosevelt, Miss Pansy Roosevelt and married Congressman Nicholaa Long-|Croft. It was therefore a surprise to care "she iva ene aed aera Job | Misa Helen Roosevelt [ worth, Despite har change of name and most of her friends when, tn 183, at tha seq had eonsutoratie talent, i After that Miss Coghlan becomes the| It 1s of more than common interest to residence, ele is, even yet, seldom for age of ered “e"sevare ners [toe ence ahd ee alee mores > Nietim of misplaced sentiment on the fotiow the history of these six society any ‘reat length of time hidden from Vous breakdown and had to come for (eur, tetrem. | She was also an en: ‘ part of the author. Like a misguided| huds of 102, ‘The hostess of that occa | the pudllc eye treatment to a New York sanitarium. |, tog petitioned the Supreme Court to sister of “The Chorus Lady,” Beth must} ston (daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emlen Milas Lorraina Roosevelt (daughter of | Miss Helen Roowavelt, daughter of Mr. have afias Dorothy's allowance from , have her “emotional” moment when siie| Roosevelt) soon afterward enjoyed what Mr. and Mrs, J. West Roosevelt) did and Mrs, James Roosevelt, was m her father's estate) raised trom $1,600 imagines that the good ‘‘drummer,"| was practically another debut, in Wash- not make her formal debut until 1903, on June 18, 104, to Theodore Douglas ,. gyn @ veup and declared’ the: sum'| instead of the bad, bad villains, la trying to trick her out of @ piece of land upon which owes taxes, Miss Cogh- lan's attempt to draw tears out of ber poor little rock pile al a howling wilderness. No iid make a lot out of Beth's for It ts tilled to no dramatle third little lot purpose by Mr. “drummer's act of getting the m’s- leading villain drunk at a poker game, Gertrude Coghlan as Beth Elliott. 4, order to learn his scheme, Justified by his subsequent excuse, “I figit a crook with crook's Weapons.” Whiskey tn a tip smells the same! Mr. Forbes is In much better buainess with his “nero” when he has him auy to the “property” villain: “Make a noise like a noop and roll away." The poker game itself is as true to Mfe as flve men can make tt, but the fun of the country hotel room to which Beth goes to see the ‘drumme Ine of women's wear fs marked them and asks: “len’t this rather co If the small-potato use for it, A Forbes mpromlsing ? a garrulous lady of more than eminently proper age is some e: bu in an adjoming room all the tine, Miss Sarah MeVicker nade this gocd but too-talkative friend amusing, and Mr. Artle,"" etill waiting to be Cohanized, out of renl estate, But you may be able to forget Forbes's lines and the fulness of Mr, Meintyre 8 CHARLES DARNIUN. MelIntyre'@ troubles with great succes @ ‘Traveling Arthur Shaw shared Like the late lamen Salesman’s" troubles ¢ them in the “of Mr. larded humor Mr Betty Vincent’s Advice on Courtship end Marriage DOOD OOGQOGAGOCOSGOOOOLUAL was over between us. Please advise |me what to do, as I love him doarly? LM The young man is unworthy of you To resort to s was unmanly. through his fiancee for a man to do. seems rather a long time to try you The Borrowing Test, Dear Retty: HAVE been engaged to a young man for two years, About six months ago, through my efforts, he bor- rowed $200 from a relative of mine The other day when he called he said he didn't know when he could pay it back, I told him I didn't think he ever would pay It. With that he took the money out of his pocket and sald he ‘only borrowed It to try me, and that no girl that did not believe or trust in him could ever be his wife. In spite of all I could say, he sald everything ch a means to try you Borrowing the last money 's thing duced the subject, I think he has no cause for complaint. I am afraid y will be very wretched with such a man {f you do win him back again, but if you feel unhappy without him Heed advise you to try to forget Women in Russia. im, though, F it ie true that national al adages give on insight. into | Beatty and the Beast, the ideas of a people,” says || Dear Betty Anal werlninadicaliacivormane iat AM twenty and considered pretty. Bessy a vivanee: position Ih? Rue: For the last eight months I have Mee ous Se hele Gla: gkWe TURE been keeping company with a young ‘Love your wife as much as your ||™AM of the same age. He has no bad t 5 habits, {s a gentleman, but Is very j mule,’ and another tells the good (homely. My friends say they are sur- man ‘Shake your wite as you would || a frult tree.’ That woman ts not |) considered frail Is ahown by the prised that a girl !/ke me picks out such a fellow. I like’him as I would any adage, ‘You may safely beat your |jhim up, but he sald that he loved me wife with a broom handle, for she | better than his own folke and he could in not made of porcelain,’ Beating | never live without me, What should I do—have everybody speaking about It, or give him up? A much nicer appear- Ing fellow has asked me for my com- pany. PERPLEXED, If the man's mental and moral make- up !s good I see no reason why you should give him up. His lack of physi- cal attractions should not bar him from |Your affections, and if you really Ii: him I advise you to ignore the remarks must be considered a wholesome pastime, to judge from the saying, ‘It your wife deserves a beating in the morning remind her of her faults by giving her another at noon.’ In Justification of this Kind of atten- tlon Russian says: "The more the a man beats his wife the better dis meals will be. write and apologize for doubting him. | ‘Traveling | g World Daily Magazine, looking up the little blond? milliner tn his little red book, remarks iby way or host made the) % Nor Is the | Be@e@OOOOODODOOO. ‘A New York Story of the play hinged on this question there mignt pe | vin If you sald nothing about tt for six|that she wished to speak to him. He months, and then only when he intro-| followed her fr y jteenth birthday Hing, as It does, the pertod of childhood from that doubtless moaths by Miss Roosevelt's debut DODODIGS QOPOECWOGESS He The 6 Roosevelt Girls j¢22ewenes’. Ethel Roosevelt’s 17th Birthday, Yesterday, Provokes Curiosity as to What Became of the Young Women of This Notable Sextet. POOL MAME IOOE at a Debutantes’ 6 Years A go WIRS BLONGWoRPC Corvaranr inom, HM PIBROR. BOs W ROOSEVELT \ ge | Rosivaos. EP BSTERDAY Miss Ethel Roosevelt, younger of the President's daughters, celebrated her seven- This milestone, divi two (DOROTHY a Resnveut be womanhood, will before many young followed Nuss ETHEL RaoSEVELT. | Mr. Robinson ts of tt Prest- son 0 § 1 Robinson at Hyde Park on the Hudson. aie for a debutante's expenses, ington, at one of the large state dinners, | Early in January of that year @ din- SO 00000000000) DOTDOODOIGEDHODOGDDGHOTOGHIDDOSDPOGOODGOOAGS No" he answered, flushing. Certaln- lie went to her house He could not for ly this was a stratght-from-the-shoulder | the life of him imagine what a young young lady. | woman living {n such a house could “Mr. Brainard’s appearrmce,” she con-| want of him. He wondered what she tinued, “indicates that there is some] was like. truth in his remark that his blood was) What he saw drawn, He is much emaciated. This) aw monster must be found ard puntshed had turned everything over to the bank. If {t was Wigwer who took the money Mrs, Brainard should and must be pro- | tected.” By Seward W. Hopkins | vammerton nodded end shot a ly ‘Author of “Nightstick and Nozzle.” |®8n¢® at the calm face of his com- | panton, | “Do they learn these thines at almost took his breath nd in her house gown, looked regal, yet there was no effort at Bar- | Jain's vyhoddy “iine” when he “discoveny’ SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHARTER AH nara ty he asked, himself, If you need help outside the depertment, display, e dressed simply, but in ssie W yi tiy New York girl " \ Den {tp | Bessie Winthrop, @ prety New York | “shall not limit the expenses and ret it : good taste, Her handsome face, her ‘treet, Is kidnapped, by | the reward sheil stand, I want you to! “If I find I need help the department | stately figure, ner carringe, made her Inan about town, BUIY | earn the reward.” {will furnish that.’ di the queen Hammerton smiled, Now, another thing, Who was the!) What she saw impressed her greatls Yi “T will do the best I can to earn fireman who saved Bessie from the} young man, tall, with broad, square ja c f ina GEN reward, But T will not accept tt per- flames Kahauldararmattaln ite ane aniiaers ie Peter enna Peter Winger, thief, and |sonaily, Reward or no reward, I shall| “His name was Gattney—Lawrence | scarred by his many battles with the ‘as Willough rh financier, In the do my best. It {s my duty.” Gaffney, of Engine Company 34." flames, and a cl A ve |latter guise esstully wooed Bessie; | oH A vot Ae . “And where (s th located?" } if nd a clear Diue eye and ruddy then impoverished and kiiled her fathe low will you accept it if not pers: andewnere: ls Mat located | complexion, Now, a ig Tr. the kidnap ally?” ‘At No. 440 \ rty-tiird etreet.”” oe bas art | Are You Married?” “T want to meet him and thank him.” |A Girl's Gratitude, |For onuct ‘ y Gaffney the next morning was sir) “You are Mr. Lawrence Gaffuey, who [Bratnare le ek i I ‘ “You mey contribute what vhu p prised to find a dainty letter for tm | saved Bessie Winthrop, I believe?” she past a negro servant. He c ont 3| to the police pe nm find or the wid- In the mail, In it nd an inv | said, for, and at. that moment sees the bodyless | '0 1 8. Den MI head of Bessle Winthrop on a glass Nope OFS and orphans’ fund tion to call on Miss Te ¢ 1 | “My name Is Gaffney," he answere ad seema alive. Brainar ove Fava tl nrarel Tong a Sante eae PEM i teed re his aenses |" AT® You marr z Wonderingly, when he was off duty |"We do sometimes save young ladies, in eo ————— | More often old ones.” n't quibble, WAS my dearest n friend. Though fortune has again a | jless brave and deserves the thanks of | [every friend she had, I wish I knew CHAPTER XIV PPIs seven - gored | low I could thank you substantially in A aR » a | skirt is always @ Way that would not wound your feel- Fird That lead. ea ee ara | ined ILLY BRAINARD, as he saw his| 2 = che if you mean reward, Miss Le Grand, father collapse, collapsed himself. uttractive one, and) 1 could accept none. I merely did my The doctor made e sign, and] this model has the ad-/ duty. As for reward, the department A six months’ loan|Marcia Le Grand gave Hammerton a} vantage of including "#8 done that. I am now assistant signal, Nelther spoke, but he knew | the very latest fea | foreman of my company | neha ae hae Marcia looked at this stalwart young the room. | ss OF the season. | man with curtosity shining in her eyes. Hammerton followed the young lady | It Is aid In two plaits Ike you?” she asked, ,| to the street. It was no clinging young t ea vam, whieh “some are better," He saw to deal with { ever I am in No. 34 will be on woman he had that “Drive slowly, and through ne said to her chauffeur. provide just suffiaient S$ tor grace, and me. sed eltaer! fre She was so coo! about It | to talk.” i | at the } ¢ the front | that t think of a reply. “Now” sald Miss Le Grand, when | 4 Perth it being lunch time, you las were seated side by side, “I am| e 3 is é ied be ill and lunch with my aunt glad you were with poor Pessle when us oF invisiity at the WU! that dresdfyl affair had taken place back as liked. It ty! ctdn’t ask him, Marcia Le Grand }and I am lad you" ware he one Ball @lapted to linen, to\ was not in habit of asking anybody rescued Billy. U don't a Pr aateeeten serge, to mohair, to to do anything. And Gaffney, tike all able with those old grisly policemen. | all skirting and to ait the rest, obeyed, other fellow, and I have tried to give) ‘They don't give a xirl credit for kno ing anything.”” siting materials. ext day Hammerton recetved a visitor, Tuesday, Augus t 1 1908. WODOSOHODODOOQDOMN OOOO OOOCDO! The Sporty Girl Her D:s¢custing Manners By Lilian Bell, OT long ago, ‘They all sald they didn't care for It, N I received a t made them apy and dull; that note from a it was fattening and distasteful gen- young won who) erally they did it “to look sporty.’” knows friends of (ood heavens! Who ts to blame for mine, asking me a girl's wish to look sporty In public? to lunch with her| Hav that come to be an ideal for our at a certain small yeung women? hotel, Although [| ‘The sporty gitl, as I see her among did not know her, my acquaintance, is an object of #ugh thee were reasons iiisgust to me personally that I @an why T felt obliged hardly concelye of any one with brains to accept, and [, deliberately wishing to appear so, and found If, upon! spec ally one whose Mnclinations are arrival, confronted naturally refined with flve unknown What sort of person forms public young women dn opinion for the girl who wishes to look Ftead of one | “sporty?” It is a curious thing, this matter of | fo men want sporty women for wives becoming acquainted with strangers. and the mothers of thelr children? You have to fee your way. Would fathers be pleased to opme ‘The first thing that happened was | across their cloar-eyed girls on a hotel ‘when my young hostess said, “What | yeranda sipping a whiskey-and-soda and shall we have to drink?’ Thon, know: | smoking a cligavette? Would mothers | be more comforiable if they knew their Ing the taste of her friends, she rap- idly ran over a Ust of five different | daughters drank Ifke their sons? sorts of cocktalls, and then came my I know one girl whose habits revelt turn, every one who knows her. Her pare have no control over her what It wae a hard thing to do, but when | ents On a Hotel Veranda. har way T try “TL won't not to have soover, and she Is losing her looks just about as fast as she is tosing the re- spect of the refined and sensPole. But she says she doesn’t care, Sho prefers to affront her mother's guests by smoking her cigarettes all through dinner and her cocktails in public, un- things come my them I ng, if you ple Instantly there was a pause. I had cast a damper and 1 knew it, but Thad o it, ‘Then my hostess spoke up. “Then I won't, either, I really don't want the stuff. We none of us do." “Then why drink {t?" I said, “Oh, just to look sporty, I often or- anytht dozens of men made love to her, no ond der it and just let it stand—don’t touch | ever asked her to marry him except |one, and he backed out when she said “Why don't you drink?" asked an-| "Yea!" other. | Wouldn't you think that was a suf. “Reenuse [don't want to look sporty | fciently large-sized straw to show whieh way the wind blew—at least to a girl Jor be thought sporty, and to be called sporty 1 would consider an tnsult,” [with brains? | repited. | ‘The trouble fs that the sporty girt i Is looked at each other. ‘Then | gen y has no brains, or she wouldn't want to seem sporty, Especially when she urally. COLEODOOGEOOOOOOOOOOOGS 9 the order for drinks for six unattended | women in a public restaurant was coun- termanded Isn't 80, nate The Bangle Boys Plenty of Men Now Wearing Bracelets builds. At tennis and all games there !# a delightful and manly display of them. After all, why should it not be manly to wear bracelets? The greatest fight COOOOOOS 0) | | By Margaret H. Ayer. Te men who outdoor riohn wear bangles no longer try © conceal them. | ¢rs, the Goths and Vandals, were im- One emperor and|mensely proud of the gold bands one king have set| Wound around thelr arms, and wore more bracelets than any chorus girl of It didn’t interfere with the:r fighting or make them effeminate; {t was merely the fashion of the time, Perhaps this is the fashion which Emperor William ig trying to revive, and which his uncle Edward has ace cepted so quickly, for the Emperor has two or three bracelets and the King has at least one, and both of thelr Majesties wear them on all oocastons, though happily the Emperor only wears one at a time, The sight of a man with three brace- 8 on, even though he were king and emperor, would be a little too much for suffering populists to bear, —_- There's No Expense, the example, and what crowned heads | can do with im: pualty the average American man feels he can copy without setting himself up to ridi- cule. A few years ago the men who wore ngles or bracelets hid them up their , and even among intimate frinnds were rather painfully conscious of the adornment. ‘his year they revel in displaying bracelets which are |tha envy of the fatrer sex, and they are wearlng them with perfect disregard | the old-fashioned notions of pro-| ety. to-da } br! t beac! ing | Gare ‘ At the beaches {t !s no unusual thing | KNOW a girl, a peach, I ween, to see a man in a bathing sult with an I Who deftly runs a big machine, armlet or bracelet of precious metal TMs true, L sald, with little wit, lor jade just above the elbow or dang-| ‘ro run a car no girl was fit. ling over his wrist, and tha Jewellers) That 1 haye changed my mind !s plain, are getting ready for an Increased de-) Lilke to ride with nervy Jane. For she can motor as she will— Her fond papa pays every mand for thesa trinkets and making| Ril —Cleveland Plain Dealer, them in large sizes to fit men of all WATER AND WINE PUZZLE “The police are doing thelr best, M! | The) quantity. of mas Da SERRE IAT TRER | | Le Gita rte tere eee tare torial required tor the pretty girl when sie had found him at of what [lly and his father say about edium size ds 9 a4 quar a ie Peay un ; he had Bessie’s head?” is 2) on t7, 6 1siommoulty Wa keeping) beck, the: tears, e ' : t whica, from evidence, had alrcady been | “T don't know what to think, The yards 44 or 82 laches (ryan ort on | doctor's iden that It might have been aj ce Avi etal Saeed vax one stood pat until Mr, Brainard| : a Ib Cacia) said he saw it twice and the second | Pattern No. 6060 tek Hi : were a tima It was weeping.” ' is cut in sizes for a , hrop n ent A Strange Command. n is i “Still, considerable of what he said Seven-Gored Skirt—Pattern No. 6060. bas hes us s - - ; ve # been corrobora his father, If - rane | ne orig id en ee ie hale te Ba eeeD RPA SHAR Dea ARR Pe gar Call or send by mail toTHE EVENING WORLD MAY MAN- ‘ | swith water a ® SN at tmoke aRAS Tile Staal e TON FASHION BUREAU, No. 18 Bast Twenty-third street, New Sh CeACS ratte Fist Weranuinadbe ape Thorne or Wigger, is guilty. then the) % Ovtain York. Sead i0 cents in coin of stamps for each pattern erdered, And the story that It was my water he poured from the wine vwaln halt full mone)! he has In bank or whesever he These IMPORTANT— Write your name and address plaialy, sod ale} | an away with Bes | One demijohn now contains one-!i water and four-fi W and the aaa ly} Patterns, 3 ways specify wanted, And then she burst Into teara, jother four-fifths water and one-fifth wine, so who can tell what quantity of of your friends and keep bis company. | nq should be held up. Mrs. Brainard poasesses has been @ wulred dishor (To Be Continued.) water he firat poured into the wine?

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