The evening world. Newspaper, September 8, 1908, Page 13

. The Evening Worla HE NEW PLAX] Lillian Russell's “ Wildfire’ a Red-Hot Hit. BY. CHARLES DARNTON. HEY'RE off! Nothing can stop Miss Lilllan Russell and ber fast. racing play, “Wildfire,” at the Liber long ran ty ag sure I as Miss Russell's grip on everlasting youth and beauty, To turn still another turf term to good account, Miss Russell last night) Made the bigges! “Killing” of her career. She was in her very best form, and with ttle Will Archie taking second money asa stable boy, and Frank Sheridan | a close third, tn the role of a trainer, “Wildfire” scored a red-hot hit. When a highly rouged motor car brought Miss Russell on the scene sno | was a picture no critic could paint, In| her cheeks was Infant pink, in ‘her hatr baby blue, while over her more than ordinarily imposing facade fell white lace that recked not of dusty roads, All| this you saw, and more, Her bright| eyes gave you @ atraight tip that you were “In right.” You felt that ‘"Whd-| fire” couldn't lose. Another Lady Gay Spanker had come to town. ‘London Assurance” had to clear the track for New York assur- ance [t took Misa Russell only « moment show you what the deaute- ous young widew, Mrs. Barrington, was driving at. But a emile we e explanation tha had been left to her. “Left to me!” she exclaimed, “to me, who hardly knows the difference between @ aetarting post and the judges’ stand!” Mise Russell tried to keep her face etraight, but ft kicked over the traces, Joe Weber nearly fell out of an upper box, and the! audience generally was threatened with | apoplexy, George at Hobart wrote better than they or Knew better than they wrote, when ‘ted Miss F eN off wit ty Theatre, A ocent ml re, Barrington, Was excellent 3S OOTHOOE, RUllaniiiceclis seats Barringer hee salt 10010000. 000.00.0,00,0,0.0,0,0000,0,00000000000000000000000000D00000000000000000010000.0000000 00 © . play that rang with the beat of hoofs, and ‘hat was 4 ’ Gives d H the turf, It went like @ race tf { t A a Everybody went wild about Wild Be y inc n Raviez a our mn Russell every time Wildfire was YOOLOD 200090 ID9LLOO y fon an winary race. 'S! dody! erlad La in the chest. A villainous bookmaker, her power In the ‘strong’ scene It wae | Nke this: He had made “advances” to Gay Russell, as she | Dear Betty: too, fe ‘AM twenty-two aud earning $8 4 week and have about $00 In the Have been going with a | the widow and been repulsed, But all bank the tlme her horses were entered In his | young lady of twenty for three years. name. His name was Duffy. No on | We would ke to get married. Do you Dald any attention to him until he t @ Jockey to ride Wildfre according to two, ag we are both used to having his orders. If he waved a handkerchtet evorything we want? ANXIOUS. from the training quarters the boy Your salary Je not sufficient to support was to win: if he was to lose. The two people who are used to having Uettle stable boy overhean the plot, and everything they want. As both you and bro lly broke the n 16 | the girl are too young to marry I ad- widow, | vise you to wait a few years until your Coyly % | financial standing warrants matrimony. maker's und taking he: \A Fickle Young Man. » but neither his head nor j : Dear Betty his arm qui: er measure, Before he had he: fs ombrace sie had her ifponuubedsciatre men Re LTA heel hand in eket and was waving lis keeping company with « young handker was the only hand- man adout the same age as m: kerchief in the p The nex thing self, He seemed to care for me, as he he got was a shove that showed hir called at my house quite frequently. just where he stood with the mighty When he was leaving on his vacation, widow some time ago, ie promised to write, ‘but I never received any letters from him while away and have not seen or A race for the widow's hand betwee two honest admirers was decided last act lover of horses, played eand from him since he returned to by Thurston Hall in maniy fasnio he city, As I have « aeal ring belong: finally won but Syd Boo ing to this young man I want to know whose role ran to automobiles, von a fet Cae Gr dial 1B Go Cikaifl 8 har found. ot . until I hear from din? F. B.C. eiraightforwarl conduct tn the matter Meer ue miiulley ower beisrelire: A silly English youth described as SECEING Ee IDE ple eel neck or, tyre ten cents’ worth of God help us,’ and Frank Sheridan as Matt Donovan. | = & “reformer” of the Hughes school, were obviously manufactured characters, | but most of the others were lifelike and interesting. Will Arcale made the Honey for the Skin, amiusing Httle stable boy one of the biggest characters in the play, and Frank Bheridan aoted the rough trainer with racy humor and a true sonse of loyalty. [ Se ete, ape re she would not go far wrong In In fa eridan’s good-natured Donovan will stand comparison with his experimenting with honey. It ts membered old sea dog in ‘Paid in Full." | Miss Russell excelled all her past performances of ‘stratght parts. Her {TP much better I * animation and charm seenred as new as her beautiful frocks. She acted so well y 3 ieee oe oe uF that you only remembered she hadn't sung when you xot home. If she hadi f° ! pals ‘ ? Tt is y yt 5 siepped upon tne & fo rat tf las ene it is sticky and not always pleas we vwon H&P ant to use, but the reeult ie most gratifying. It {s dought in tie comb, then strained and heated, It becom thin and fe easy to rub into the akin, It may remain on @s long as one wishes, To take it off use @ soft cloth dipped In a little warm water, to which has been added tincture of benzoin, walk.” to He Was No Ordinary Kicker, R. BLANK entered a well known restaur M fried oggs. When the order was ser lying in the middle of one of the eggs. But Mr. Blar and calling the eald: i ered two nda dead fly | e was vexed to ) ordinary mortal, and ying Into a rage the restaurant, he turned to the walter and blandly “You have forgotten something. Where !s my other fly?” nstead of Daily Magazine, Clarence the Cop MEBBY!)LL RUN think my salary sufficient to support, By C. W. Kahiles ae " ; {LL SAVE. YOU, ) HA! ASTRAY DOG! neal ME GooD (> FUtt 0) HYDRAPHOBY, eee, MAN! } HIM IN, WHAT DO YEZ MEAN BY \=)=ER-ER) INTERFERIN WITH OLD 1 THOUGHT IT WAS A Mor! PROMOTED FOR RISKIN' ME you hear nothing from the yo an, me to go y place, but to stay home.;much, but I am bashful and do not return {t. It may he that he wrote you [ have been true and faithful, and still) know whether she loves me in return and the letter went astray, and he In he picks at for not Do you wld her ege make any difference? the mean time thinks you have failed think he loves me as he says? Is $15 per week too Ite to get married | to answer his letters. However, tt looks A, Y. BR, | on? “B. B.! Jas if the young ma: fe fickle a the young has an Intensely Jeal- Tell the young lady In simple language 1 do not|that you love her and wish to make less you! her your wife. She will he more favor. y '8 ably Impressed by sincerity than fine words. Even though she loves you you had become Interested elsewhere A Jealous Disposition, Dear Betty; y i d trust you. Next time you quarrel ) take with a | THAVE heen keeping company wait. for hin the fist atep to-| cannot expoct her to tell you so until | | young man for two years, and love Witd & recon itiation, and then tell yin | You have proclatmed your love to her. him dearly, He says he loves me, will be forced to give hin up. Two people who are economical and too, but whenever [ go out to vi my Birl friends he gets so cross and te me it { gentlemen friends I go to see. Then I don't see him for two or three | Y oan live on $15 a week, though will not have an easy time. It . jthe Matrimony on $15 Per. x Dear Bett would be a sensible thing for the girl AM tn love with a girl two years my to keep her position for a while after senlor, who 1s the typewriter In OU | gis {9 married go that her salary might office, I am the timekeeper at $15 | be saved for any emergency or added per week. Kindly tell me how to tell! sxpenae which your salary would not her of my effection, a I love her very | warrant. By T. S. Allen days, and wouldn’t then unless I took [te first steps toward a reconciliation. When we make up aye 't is jealousy on his part and says he doesn’t want A Dull Day for Crime # = + September §&, oneshg elec ea The Mauve Curtain “ and Late Breakfast Likewise the Lady Authors Who Exploit Them in | urple Fiction, ~ FS > Ke | A few drifted from this and degan By Kate Masterson. to bu vit the sea, By ana by OT long ago the very ocean was commonplace. N a shrewd. Byerything was so much better done Bnglish in the magazines, The brine was 00 woman wrote @ full of zest It almost gave you mal de book that In thls) mer in a Morris chair, And St wae country recelved the same with the country. The mew such lurid adver of real cows or the cackle of actual tisement of {18 80° hens were but crude discordant calle, described Immor-| while in books these sounds were pas ality that it be-| sionate symbols of rejoleing ot walle came the sensa- of torpor tion of the Iiteraty ang the wolves, bears, blaons and seavon, it W85! smalter fry took on personality, They spoken of In whis- had their fouds, their loves, hates, mat ‘TEMASTERS®©N: pers, and thoré!riagen and divorces, It waa the call of who had not read the something or other which makes hooks that sell. We can still recollect how we hailed the fresh breath of the forest with its hero in high boots after the maniacal period of the historteal {t felt a certain curlosity, hoping that | leurs aocldental tide would dring It within their ken, But when it did come in there was nothing but a realization | of its mere commonness and cheap men-| novel, Everything seemed written 4i- | tal nastiness, rectly for the Village [élot, until « But tt was a “seller,” and immediate- | violent reaction brought the soclety ly another industrious woman author! story with ft cigarettes, Its motors, began singing to the same tune of late bridge games and whiskey and soda for breakfasts and mauve curtains, those! breakfast two frightfully vicious adjuncts to Ilfe Is Jt a wonder then that after these under the rose—In novels, And again various schools of fiction the mauve- New York was chosen successfully as curtained wickedness of the lady across the market. And now there Is a per- the sea made a noise like a success? fect school of lady authors trying to After all, there Ing distinctly concoct perfectly devilish fiction in the|amusing {n the idea of staid, and in is som hope that It may arouse Comstocklan most cases fnt, lite adies ploking ! jup thelr pens in their efforts to be There are no more writers, [t seems;| naughty In a salable way. And this, only {inttators, and the Instant a sala- too, In their sere and distinctly yellow te book appears, no matter how silly leaf! Fle! Fie! may be there is @ rush to emulate Of course our present time in book- ‘ite counter vogue, There were those|dom and In the magazines will alwaye awfu! dialect stgries and then the las rank ag an hysterical one bor tales, with derricks and mines and, But it toa Honea tha stave Jsteam drills, honest sweat, red flannel Curtain sohool will not endure and that shirts and dinner pails, This was the {WvYAmee Fei eats tnabecate naking ples strong school! VERY variation model ts being met with enthusi- asm just now, The akirt and the blouse portions are joinet at the sides by means of a belt, but the panels at the front and the back give the long, un. broken, characteris the lines, In this case = foulard ie trimmed with plain silk and with a lit- cle chemisette of embroidered batiete, but ponges, ail the silks that are a much worn this eum mer, iimen, eotton and «Mk and cotton mixtures, cotto.: voile and the like are Just as appro priate, so that the gown Teally can be utilized for a great many occasions and in @ great many fabrios, The quantity of material required for the medium size is 10 3-4 yarde % or 7 yards 44 In wide, 6-8 yard 1 tn ahes wide for the eheminette, 1-2 yard 7 inches wide fev the yoke and cuffs Pattern No, 0067 fa cut in sizes for « KID—Gee, but dat's funny, Rebecca—not a single swell gent killed hie wife's affinity yesterday! He etn a Princess Gown.—Pattern No. 6057. se How Call or send by mail to THE EVENING WORLD MAY MAN- to TON FASHION BURBAU, No. 132 Hast,T'wenty-third street, New obtain $ York. Send 10 cents in cotm or stamps for each pattern ordered. These IMPORTANT—Write your name and address plalaly, sod ab Patterns. ways specify size wanted. 16 A ‘Revelation of New York Society (Cepyriaht. 1907, by Robert W. Chambers) ter matures, This was his estimate ofjout of them.” a Gerald. “Hence his Christian [ sup- SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INSTALMENTS. eee pose,” sald the girl; ‘but why euoh a Capt. Philty Selwyn, whose wite Allxe Bad} ‘The next morning, riding in the park story, Capt. Selwyn? I believe I stuck oon New Yorke ty wate nfsthne? and with Eileen, tie found a chance to|to my saddler’ Feorria ian, Mr. ond Mra, Auatia Gerard: | speak cordially of her brother. | “With both hands,” he sak cordially, Your chidren, Selwyn hae lett the| ‘I've meant to look up Gorald,” he |atwi alert to plague her. For she roll, and Army. ow conesiors returning to the om-| 8ald, as though the neglect were his|was adorable when teased—oapecially Gf Neerrard) @& Companys operators in) own fault, “but avery time something |in the beginning of thelr acquaintance, BT the neglect ol earannt {happens to switch me on to another before she had found out that {t was Gepiays toward (ne cwinily. track."’ a habit of his—and her bright confu- : 3 “I'm afraid that I do a great deal of sion always delighted him into further CHAPTER II. the switching,” she ald; ‘don't I? But | mischiet, (Continued) you've been so nice to me and to the “But I wasn't a bit weerted,” Re con- children that'— tinued; “you had him so firmly around A Dream End Miss Erroll's horse was behaving |the neck, Besides, what horse or man “ OT since that first time when he Dadly, and for a few moments she be-|could resist such a pleading pair of N came to do the cly!l by you?” jeante too thoroughly occupied with her arms around the neck?” ‘0; but don't" — jmount to finish her senten: | "What you saw,’ she sed, flushing ‘Yes, I will,” repeated his brother-| ‘The belted groom galloped up, pre-|tp, “Is exactly the way T shall dp any in-law; “and I'm golng to have a thor-| pared for emergencies, and he and Bel- pleading with the two animal you | ough explanation with him and learn wyn sat their saddles watching a | mention.” | what he's up to, He's got to be decent pretty battle for mastery between a| ‘Spur and curb and thrash us? Oh, to his sister; he ought to report tu me peautifuy horse determined to be bad] my!" occasionally, that's all there is to it, and a very determined young gitl who! “Not if you're bridle-wise, Capt. He has entirely too much liberty with had decided he was going to be good. 7 she returned sweetly. ‘And 13 bachelor quarters and his junior Once or twice the excitement of{you know you always are, And some- whipper-snapper clud, and his house sollettude sent the color flying {nto|times’—she crossed her crop and parties and his cruises on Neevgard'’s Selwyn's temples; the bridle-path was|looked around at him reflectively— boat!" narrow and stiff with freesing sand, “sometimes, do you know, I am al- He got up, casting his cigar fromjand the trees were too near for such most afraid that you are so very, very | him, and moved about bulkily, mutter- Mvely manoeuvres; but Miss Erroll! good, that perhaps you are becoming | {ng of matters to he regulated, and|had made vp her mind~and Selwyn almost goody-good.” firmly, too. But Selwyn, looking out already had a humorous {dea that this, “What!” he exclaimed indignantly ot the window across the park, knew Was no light matter. ‘Tha horse fo but his only answer wos her head perfectly, well that young Erroll, now It serious enough, too, and suddenly /thrown back and a ripple of enchant: | of age. w a small portion of his concluded to be good And the pretty ing laughter. handsome income at his mercy, was scene ended so abruptly that Selwyn! Later she remarked It's Just as | pest the regulating stage and beyond laughed aloud as he rejoined her Nina says, after all, isn't It?’ | the authority of Austin. There was .o “There was a man—'Boots’ Lansing- | ‘What does he asked, harm in hin): he was stinply a jovous,|In Bannard’s command, One night on jcurfously; “what? | pleasure-loving cub, chock full of ens|Samar the men rushed us, and ‘That Gerald tsn't reaily ery | @rgetic instincts, good and bad, right|Lansing got Into the six-foot major's wicked, but he likes to have us think | and wrong, out of which, formed from boots by mistake—seven-leaguers, you so Tts a aten of extreme self-con- | fm't (&" eho added inno- the ects which become habits, charac-'know—and his horse bucked him clean setousness, ’ pea | er BD994OH99OF9OO $0409} 9O99S-596099000OGF 0S G9 49000090 HHOHHOOHO DOS -- THE YOUNGER SET -- S9OPPPOOL9OOGOOSHOHHSS® cently, ‘when a man is afraid that a) ‘Not from choice,” he said, under) Troubled, uncomfortably intent on woman thinks he js very, very good?” | his breath. Her quick ear heard, and evading every thought or train of ideas “That, he aald, ‘is the limi, going to ride by mryselt.”” Her pieagure tn Gelwyn's society had gradually become such genuine pleas- ure, her confidence in his kindness so unaffectedly sinoere, that, insensibly, she had fallen into something of his! manner of badinage—especially since she realised how much amusement he found in her own smiling confusion when unexpectelly assailed Also, to ber surprise, she found that he could be plagued very easily, though she ald not quite dare to at first, In view of | bis tmpressive years and experience. | But once goaded to it, she was as- I'm | she turned, semi-serious, questioning | evoked, she put her mount to @ gallop. dim with raised eyebrows. But thought kept pace with her. “Nothing; I was just muttering. T've| She was, of course, aware of the « @ villainous habit of muttering mushy! uation regarding Selwyn's domestic a: nothings’ —— } fairs; she could not very well have "You did say something! | beer kept long !n ignorance of the! “No; only ghoulish gabble: the mere facts; ao Nina hnd told her carefully, | murky mouthings of @ meagre mind.’ leaving in the young girl's mind only “You did. It's rude not to repeat it} @ bewildered sympathy for man and when I ask you.” wife whom a dreadful and incompre- “I didn't mean to be mide.” henstble catastrophe had overtaken; “Then repeat what you sald to your- | c an {mpression of something new elf.” and fearsome which she had hitherto “Do you wish me to?” he asked, rais-| been unaware of In the world, and ing Sis eyes so gravely that the sinile Which was to be added to her emall faded from lip and voloe when she an- but, unhappily, growing lst of sad and tonished to find how suddenly It seem- swered: "I beg your pardon, Capt. Sel- Incredible things, od to readjust thelr persona! relations| wyn. I aid not know you were seri The finality of the affair, according | years and experience falling from his, ous.” to Nina, was what had seemed to her shoulders like @ cloak which had oon-, “Oh, I'm not,” he returned lightly, the most distressing-as though those “T'm never serious. No man who s0- joquizes can be taken seriously, Don't you know, Miss Erroll, that the crown Ing absuniity of all tragedy 1s the so- two were already @ead people. She was unable to understand {t Could no! mer of hope remain that, In that ‘some day’’ of all young mind: cealed a man very nearly her own age years and expelence adding themselves to her, and at least an to her stature to redress the balanos between tnoh them. Moquy ‘Al myatery might dissolve? Could It had amused him immensely Her smile became delightfully uncer- there be no living “happily ever after’) Tealized the subtle change; It, tain; she did not quite understand him the wake of such a storm? She had! pleased him, too, because no man of| —though her instinct warned her that, managed to hope for that, and helleve thirty-five cares to be treated en grand-| for a second, so! ng had men t | pere by a girl of nineteen, even if elie their unde ling Then, In some way, the nows of} has not yet worn the polish from her, Riding forward with him through Allxe's marriage to Ruthven fitered pair of high-heeled s' crisp sunshine of mid-December, ough the family silence. he had n he sald, “how Ht-| word ‘tragedy’ still ug in her gone straight to Nina, horrified, unbe-| fF and age command ears, her thoughts reverted natural Meving. A! when the long, tender, in these days.’ to the only tragedy besides her own} intimate Interview was over, another| “T do respect you,” she insisted, “es-! which had ever come very near to her appy truth, very gently revealed, pecially your infirmity of purpose, You! —his ow: was added to the growing lis! already sald you were going to ride by your- C neant that? Did peo-) learned by this young girl self. But, do you kr L don't be-| ple mer such things after they had! Then Selwyn came. She had already Neve you are of a particularly solitary happened? Did they not rathey con- leamed something of the world’s cus Ateposition; are you? cea! them, hide them deeper and deep-; toma and mar He laughed at first, then suddenty his| er with the ald of time and the kindly | she had lea face fell. ~eare for a burtal past ali recollection? and she was ODOPOOOOG0GOOO.80 9699959 1906096004 3OOHOOOHODDODODOO OO OHPOSOOOHORHOOHOG aHoee By Robert W. Chambers, Author of ‘The Firing Line” and ‘A Fighting Chance.” too—4o understand how happily {gnor-) usually proved it by going early te amt of many matters she had been, had |his own quarters, where dawn some | better be, and had best remain. pe |enes surprised him asleep tn hie ohals, | she bardored no malsane destre to/white and worn, all the youth im te know more than was neocessa’y, and | hollow face extinct, hie wife's plctum every innocent Instinct to preserve her ee tace downward on the floor. f tgnorance intact as long as the world | But he always ploked i up again | permitted. jwhen he awoke, and carefully dusted As for the man riding there at her it, ton, even when half atupefied with side, his probtem was simple enough as sleep, he summed {t up: to face the world, ¢ . . . . . however ft might chance to spin; that Returning from thelr gallop, Mise amall, ridiculous, baphazard world rat- Erroll had very little to say. Selwyn, tling Ike a rickety roulette ball among too, was silent and absent-minded, The the numbered nights and days where gir] glanced furtively at hint trom time he had no longer any vital stake at/to time, not at all enlightened. Maa, hasard—no longer any chance to win naturally, was her en unknowa or lose, ‘quantity, In fact she had no reason ‘This wae an unstable stata of mind, to suspect him of being anything more particularly as he haa not yet de- Intricate than the platitudinous dance stroyed the photograph wi'ch he kept or dinner partner in black and white, He had or any frock-ovated entity in the after locked In his despatch box not returned {t, either; !t was too late "90m, or any flanneliod Individual af by several months to do that, but he the neta or on the links or cantertng ras still fool enough to consider the about the veranda of club, cadno, oF in evident anxiety to be om» j {dea at moments—sometimes after a cottage, | nursery romp with the children, or af- siderate and agrevable } ter a good-night kiss from Drina on Thies ono, however, appeared to have ] landing, or when #om* fndivitual pecultarities; he differed the domesite- from his brother Caucasians, wae {ty arou 1 1 should all resemble one another @@ to the Ityy any norma For one thing he was as w nat ‘ {logloal noods—apparently Auatln ean 0 , 4 whe the noticed them § troiK or not, For another, be permitted nto) A bin t vig and unrem own exclusion as je 38 ling bY 9 i A rhe pleaded the embers in the !ibrary ‘ ned unquestioning, sald to t t ‘ x ttle In the diserep ‘. {a done for r w xporlences bad 1 Ke a « first pee selt Is 5 bis expense This was sufficiently morbid, and Le To be ied.) \atiestts ] | |