The evening world. Newspaper, October 8, 1908, Page 19

~~ “The American Idea”’ Is Madtime, Not Ragtime. BY CHARLES DARNTON. r tells you to go somewitere for a rest, don't go te the New e. Go to the nearest ex on where the forelgn element ng the very foundation of Manhattan and itsten to the still, mall voice of the dynamite bl Stroll beside the river ti! you come to a place here they're and then ‘Inger tn the sweet silence of the ateam e Stock Exchar | Mee ut ie New YX It was afternoon, and the first Inkling of “The American Idea" had died Way on the bass drum when a tan who works for his living in an orchestra hair issued forth, us it were, to case his soul with the blessed calm of Broad- jay. Me was already scenting the air, laden with the perfume of automobiles, chorus ladies and other luxuries, when @ youth wearing the mask of despair turned a handspring and landed in hip path.” He was a henchman of the bold clan of Cohan & Harris, Fora moment he stood speechless, and then he gasped: “Why are you here at a MATINEE? Why? the puzzled toller of atrieal grind. “Why not?” “Why eked the youth, tearing bis Why, the act aren't awake You ought to see ‘em at night, When they really get goin, Hieaven forbid! The afternoon galt of the Cohan & Harris athletes, acrobats and svng-putters is fast enough to put nary head in a whirl “The nertcan Idea" (Mr, Cohan's) ts slammed at you, banged at you, clange@ Amsterdam Theatre and have you value your rest, go near at y Legs In tights run races with legs in trousers, and everybody wins— hooray! Mr. Cohan believes that every song should have its hooray. If the song doesn’t hit you, the hooray will © American Idea" ts madtime, not ragtime. There are some jig-a-jlg num- bers, to be sure, but most of them run to madtime before they are through. ‘The American ldea” fs musical com- edy without @ speed limit. From start to finish it goes like mad—that's the idea Trixie Friganza as Mrs. Waxtapper. ree that Mr. Cohan has laid out for hts ganza. This may bo due to the far rixie performer settles down comfortably as ves the word, and, much to your relief, she st s events she ts like an island of rest. She ts soothias, f burlesque is upon her. The music stnks Into a ve is a@ band of mourning for the husband she his He speak. “Do you remember, dearest, the night dark listening to the crickets?” “Ah, ne hom he night you didn't Little Trixie (guess her weight) does Qhis with all the heart and soul of bur feaque. But she overdoes other things. Botably the song tn which e yearns to be called pet names. When it comes to yearn Little Trixie carries too Much weight for her own good. She @verflows into self-consciousness, and You are sad. Now, Robert L. Dalley, for example, gets the better of Trixte there by going in for fun instead of @oing in to be funny. He carries on his funny business without a sien, and You are very glad to trade with him. George Beban, on the other hand, be- eves in advertising—himself, He 1s rritatingly ent ing. He blows his Own horn as though he had been taking fessons on it a and he plays typical sta, Hon. an to distrac- Thus you see one of the awful re- @ults of Mr. Cohan’s trip to Paris. The lot loses its head there and wanders About aimlessly. “The American Idea fgn't nearly co good as “The Yankee Prince.” Its best feature 1s “American Ragtime,” with star-spangled girls and Fed-white-and-biue boys setting off their Woices and tleir feet in wild celebration Of this glorious institution. And when uu are through cheering “American Robert L. Dailey as Hustleford. Ragtime’ you may r the American flag that is flashed on the curtain the saome is down, Let the eagle scream on the stage and it will do Bkewise But he the box-office. For further particulars see George M. Cohan, is not t> bo seen in "The American Ic Although his dancing 1s missed, two ciever giris, jiosie Green and Gertle Vanderbilt, are a credit to ils (raining ta the “Gendarmes’ Dance.” Carrie Bowman and Lola Merril] are Amert- fea hell with -stricken volces, and Stella Hammerstein ts the proud cent that sounds as though {t had been picked up at s Man and The Mysteriou. Girl wander through the thres » seen them before? ses AA Revelation of Nétw York Soctety “we'd better wind up our affairs and make arrangements for an auction- Wopyright, 1907, by Robert W. Chambers.) @YNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INSTA LMEN eer.” Wyn, of an old New i ; CaR a lened ‘trom te army. boca ‘All right; wind up and be damnea' ‘Alixe, divorced bim to marry Jack | sald Mottly; “there'll be at least suf- | ficient self-respect left in the treasury to go round," Which was all very fine, and Mottly meant st at the time; but, outside of the asset of self-respect, there was too One evening much money invested in the lands, Sabuud’ tears of ths | plant and buildings, in the streany Jakes, hatcheries and forests of the Siowitha, ‘The enormously wealthy sel dom stand long upon dignity tf that dignity is going to be very expansive, Only fhe poor can afford disestrous self-respect. into allowingsGiera:d the Ruthven hoa. Bel Partner, Neerwards plane a a ane. 1 60 questionable that Selwyi) me fr et, firm. Neerward uses Gerald fc to, ice himself into society. Ae 1p : to propose him fey ounce, club whose Yai Necrgard has acquired — Bo the chances were that Neergara A } would become a member—which was CHAPTER Val why he had acquired the tract—and the price he woull have to pay was not only in taxes upon the acreage, byt, secretly, @ sold sum in addition to litte Mr. Ruthven, whom he was bind- ing to him by every tle he could pay for, Neergard did not regret the expenes. He had long since discounted the cost; nd he also continued to lose money neg enough that Kile man, Neergard | at the card table to those who could do olds us up oa< Do 1 undersians | itm the most good. has he her she impudence to do It] wey somewhere in the back of hie gain with ur connivance? Are YOU) young, squat, busy head he had an joing to let him sandbags us into elect | ining that some day he would even him? Is that the sort of hold-up! mutters with some people, Meanwhile jou stand for? Well, then, - tell YOU) ne wes patient, good humored, amusing Mb mever vote for him. 1'd rather se] when given @ chance, and, as the few lakes and streams Of Ours Ar) | peapie he knew found out, inventive rather the last phessan'| and resourceful in suggesting new d and the last covey leave for the | methods of time-killing to any wealthy ner end of the isiand then buy of fashionable victim ef @ vacent Dutehman mind. ip im the Siowithat’ And as the feculty has been Tua! case" voterteh Ruthven, the see! bap te the. jane Semple Os tie Errands and Letters. RAYMORE was incensed at the proposal; Harmon, Orchil and Fane were disgustedly non-com- tal, but Phoenix Mottly was perbaps angriest man on Long Island, “In the name of decency, Jack,” he id, “what are you dreaming of? Is nthe market ts throwing a fit 09990-900$4-0000009000000: The Evening World Daily Magazine, Thursday, O00 DOO QQ0O R00 000 | GEE! THAT | SOAPS. STRONG ! DON®) DOOOOOOAN DODOOS OOOH’ By ol * yweds-:- Their Baby =: Georce McManus: WHERE THE DEUCE 1S THAT tower ?'1 PUT \T RianT HERE! gee! my EYES ARE FULL OF j{/ SOAP | ae ow LOOK OUT! YOD NEARLY STEPPED ON SNOOKUMS! WHAT'S THE Home Hints hor Busy Housewives. Scrub the Plant. ON'T be afraid to scrub the plants | brought in for the winter. With @ brush, water. soap and an infu- alon of tobacco every leat and stem should be scrubbed to remove Insects. The bathroom spray 1s excellent to use in rinsing. which should be thorough. A frequent drenching and occasional meals of flower food will make up to the plants for the loss of outdoor life and they will repay with vigorous grewth and bloom during the winter montns, Pickled Oysters. T= 100 oysters, drain off the liquor and strain, season with walt and pepper. When it bolls drop in the oysters, let them scald, but not boll, Now remove the oysters, add one pint of pure vinegar, one teaspoonful of mace, two dozen cloves, two dezen Pepper corns, two dozen spice. When all fe cold pour over the oysters, This is for immediate use. If to keep, add an- ether pint of vinegar and let the oysters doll. White Grape Salad. 0°: pound of white grapes, 2 eggs, 2 dered sugar, % teaspoon salt, pinch of mustard. Stew and skin the grapes, halve them and remove the seeds, Then set on fee. Beat the eggs very light |and add slowly the wine. Cook in double boller til thick, stirring con jstantly. Remove from fire and add wowdered sugar, salt and mustard. Set fmmediatelv in a cool place. Serve the grapes on lettuce leaves, with the dresi ing added at the las: moment, cups of wine, 1 dessertspoon pow.| “Ruff” \e | By Margaret Rohe. | | endeavors to cultivate and naturalize there the india rubber as “dicho; 8 gutta” are provinr Hete Is a New Rubber Tree. RR enseave received {rom the Black Sea coast and the Caucasus affirm t f Beauty Hints. on Love m2 by edurgaret: Hubbard Aye Nose Gets Red. Wa: D. is is probably due Rar to a po culation, and if you Around her dainty little throat practise deep iabreathinc nm: and’ Each maid now wears a ruff, physical culture éXercises every day ‘And when her wooer secks a kiss faithfully, you will overcome it. It | y also be ca #ed by tight-lacing ht shoes or couar, or indeed any | stricture which would prevent the blo: from circulating freely, But I doubt it | this 1s your case, since you say your nose only gets red when you go out of a warm house in cold weather. Every morning after your bath, while still tn your nightdress, stand with your t against the wall or a door and breathe through your nostrils with the mouth | Ughtly closed, until the lungs can hold | no more, Hetain the breath whi counting six, and exhale — slowly through the nostrils. Repeat until you ™ He can't get near enough, And when to squeeze her supple waist Now yearns the ardent lover, It's moved up to her shoulder blades, He sadly will discover. Dan Cupid sorely Is perplexed, Dame Fashion has him guessing 1 His tactics all are futile now, The way the girls are dressings have been practising about five min- utes. Be sure and have the window open while taking the exercises, Also fas soon as you strike cold air, in leav- | or street ing a heated house or stor car, begin breathing deeply, always through the nose, ‘This will in the circulation and prevent: th from settling in one spot. Eyelids Wrinkied. D. ¥.—You must have used stren © your eyelashes to curl up. Only the gentlest of treatment should ever be used in connection with the eyes, and massaging the lds should be done with the Up of the index finger, moving tt —— lightly inward, over the eye, then under- neath and back again at the starting point. Bathe eyes and lids with this Water, once or twice a day tree known pistil vinegur, 1 ounce; distilled eminently successf mines if October §&8, With just a touch of ad The auto laden alr grows pure, An Make truck Are nur- de Wors the Help! I They are driving more than three feet from the wagu acks En-core on the And who are the Di-cy-cle cops? Wi De are ity vers a day By Martin Green. Shake the Subway. H, these are days when any man, Bound work to urban rife And take another grip on life By walking out, whene’er he can. by his vel his sluggish veins run He should not walk tn dying woods, Where falling leaves oppress the ground And chilling winds, with mournful sound, Tell that the fall has come around— On Broadway he can get the goods, No mountain scenery appet Ho has his valleys here at hom His canyons, flanked by tower and dom yon of an azure sky lines seem to meet; all too fleet ke, shades thd street nbre dye. ath bl dies away; ws off the bay, ts along the way colors ‘seem demure. garish than passing fair, ife of men; and thirsty, then k back ag. anywhere, long summer of eventful soon degin— sball ser at e's holiday. The Manhattan Primer. ck driver. near him. He ts crim-t-nal In New If there are no truck drivers in sight o arrest they dis-cuss with each oth-er the com-par. mer-lts of -Ing au-to-mo-biles. Do they know much about au-to-mo- biles? Pos-si-bly not, but they know all a-bout who owns them, and wheth-er ney are tght-wads or not. Why do they ar-rest so man-y truck n that. ‘They are vio-lat-ing | Ver Reg-u-la-ilops. Be-cause ev-er-y ar-rest swells their 1 bat-ting av-er-age and truck drive P are easy to catch, 1s the Bi-cy-cle Squad an ex-pensive Jux-u-ry? It ts all @ mat-ter of math-e-matics. |rne Bi-cy-cle Squad costs the city | $314,000 @ year for sal-a-ries a-lone, to say noth-ing of the cost of bi-cy-cles and mo-tor cy-cles and re-pairs to ‘af-f1e Squad and bi- are aor-rest-ing seventy-five truck drivers com-mit-ting such high crimes and‘? n curb and they are run-ning| ons on the Sac-red street car | Help! Help! a pick-ed body of men. ks them? same. Com-mis-sion-er Bugh-er. cecal tn from the| Then It costs the city a-bout $325.00 = j year to ar-rest 76 truck drivers a day? -lon cop That ts the cor-rect an-swer, Al-s cles and mo-tor cy-| on and wear leath-er leg-|# 2+ ind have a Pull What be-comes of the truck drivers? Do they ride up down the streets] The Mag-ts-trates dis-charge them pro-tect-ing the cit-l-zens? first, and—some-times—thelr boss-es uis- 1,400 are 1 a from. Ul: up the streets go-ing| charge them lat-er. nd down the atreets| Would a bdl-cy-cle cop con- Healt part of his du-ty to ar-rest a rit urg-lar? Not un-less the burg-lar was work- fo they do when they are|ing more than three feet from the curb : still? orin the car tracks. {Ten Thousand Disenchantments, the entrance of Mr, Neergard appeared to be only a matter of time and oppor- tunity, and his ultimate welcome a: the naked altar a conclusion foregone In the Interim, however, he suffered Gerald end little Ruthven te pilot him: he remained cheerfully oblivious to the ubs and Indifference accorded him by Mrs, Ruthven, Mrs, Fane and others of their entourage whom he encour tered over the card tables or at can! suppers. And all the while he was at- tending to his business with an energy and activity that ought to have shamed Gerald, and aid, at times, particularly when he arrived at the office utterly unfit for the work before him, But Neergard continued astonishingly tolerant and kind, lending him money, advancing him what he required, taking up or renewing notes for him, until the boy, heavily im debt, plunged more heavily still in sheer desperation, only to flounder the deeper at every stru, gle to extricate | imself. ‘Alixe Ruthven suspected something of this, but it was useless as well as perilous in other wa: with Gerald, for the boy had come to @ point where even his devotion to her could not stop him. He must go on, He did not say #0 to Alixe; he merely laughed, assuring her that he was all right; that he knew how much he could afford to lose, and that he would stop when hie Mmit wea in sight, Alas, he had passed bis limit long since; and a: ready i was so far behigd him that he @ared not look back~dared no longer even look forward. Meanwhile the Ruthvens were liviog almost lavishly, end keeping four more borees; but Bileen Ereoll’s bank bal- 2999990 9490980996500 90- for her to argue! and Gerald had not only ively loward Selwyn, but had quarrelled so violently with Austin that the la ter, thoroughly incensed and disgusted, threatened to forbid him the house he Uttle fool!” he said to Selwyn, “oame here last night, stinking of wine, and attempted to lay dewn the law to me—tried to dragoon me into a compromise with him over the invest- ments I have made for him. Phil, he shall not control one cent until the trust conditions are fulfilled, though it was left to my discretion, too. And 1 told him so flatty; I told him he wasn’t fit to be trusted with the coupons of a re- pudlated South American bond” — | “Hold on, Austin, That isn't the way to tackle > boy like that!" “Isn't it? Well, why not? expect me to dicker with him but, Austin, you've always been je brusque with him. Don’t you acted offens Do you | “No, I don't. It's discipline he ne: and he'll get it good and plenty every |time he comes here.” jhere. That's the worst of It. For bis sister's sake I think we ouglt to try to put up with’— | "Put up) Put up! I've been doing nothing else since he came of age, He turned out @ foo! of a puppy, | tell you; he's idle, lazy, dissipated, conceited, insufferable pudent, In, aad not une truthful ffections are sen tred he is always generous; where the | should be centred he is merely tho |tess, not deliberately selfish’ —— "Bee here, Phil, how much goo? your mollycoddling done himt as You I—I'm afraid he may cease coming! timaey w rd, and he was a°-| The game there is , tue ho I-if matters aid as they “I know; but J tood, He p do"—he — flushed Vd Ko ably had some vague idea of loyalty to|straigit to Ruthven and find out a man who: be had known longer than | whet this business could be he knew me was all; thar was what I fea ft can't be, How are done=I w you op a man from pliyt iit Wane's rather a imself, f you or I or any of our It doesn’t; 1m family were on any kind of terms wit boy, Just as sorry for him, Just asthe Kuthvens, they might exclude Ger eady to step in when ance comes, ald to obl We are not, however as it surely w only vun- and, anyway, if Gerald means to make ning a bit wilder t Usual colt;|/a gambler and a souse of himself at it takes longer to and bridie| twenty-one he'll do it, But it's pret vim! — jrough on us’? medody'll rope him preity rougniy | ‘It's roug Austin; and tts before you run him down,” raid Gerald. roughest We © held A ape sisi, OF agar. We & shale n he takes, and we can't hetp tt; but I'm ) see Nina a trying 10 belleye he'll tire out in thine think up some way !and come back to us for his salt’ And ut of nd-if Gerald nes to Austin, we've simply » believe in| you again—try another uy him, you know=-on Ellcen’s account, it, You know, old fellow at, Austin grew angriey and redder ween ours you and ‘Elleen's account? Do you inéan her es t mper and i { ad: bank account? It's easy chough to be the Ss iry reversing (be cou. eve in him if y spect his sist ination with Gerald bank acco. Believe in him? Oh | But Austin only growled from th certainly 1 do; 1 believe he's pup! septns uded a . enough to come sneaking to his sist 1 Selwyn rr wonde to pay for all the fooleries he's er hat in the world sid in 4 gaged in. °° % And I've positive juris forbidden her to draw another ¢ wit his order b r “It's that little bangled — whely ‘ be qu Ruthven,” said Selwyn between F j ¢ " teeth, “I warned Gerald most sole seless to go t Hesid Jot that man, but’—~ He shrugged | ne bad every jnclinat 2 avoid he |ht» shoulders and glauced arned his lesson [at the Mnen-covered furniture an yen could he go? Througn ence had BOW Gwindled to three Ogures; Warned Lim to be cautious ip his ta- Heore Afies @ moment be looked up: | waem souls o rach Gerald? Tasmage The rooms, Selwya's card in bis hand end Many-Eyed Insects. By Dr. E. A. Ayers. ce singl sof some insects without a lens. as in the I wing the house-fly we need @ lens. The big visible ee are composed of thousands of unit cone-shaped a eye e k Ik vusly in I my they 1 ch, of more or less spherical ed pavement bent to con- hexagonal, or pris- Ine. Each glisten- working eye Thetr number in fifty such eyelets {n each In the ant, One pet kitchen fly hae 00, while more than the mosquito, offset sporting chance Ass set in square, rper's Ma By Robert W. Chambers, Author of ‘‘Vhe Firing Line’ and “A Fighting Chance.” 94090949993 0O99 9900! d had al-ydistrust written on every feature. And at Selwyn's first frank and friendly no terins| Words he reddened to the temples and iid he go to| checked him, Rosamund Fane? At{ ‘l won't listen,” he sald. ‘They—Aus © made a wry face. Any | tin and—and everybody have been put~ im she would wilfully {tng you up to this until 4.. tired of at How on] !t. Do they think I'm a baby? Do they the b ap know enough to take If? Are they trying to om sini lous? I tell you they'd My friends are my pat settles | friend of Selwyn; indeed cm were indifferent to| ,Ot% 1 know perfectly well that you dislike Neergard. 1 don't, and thars arvuee tue difference.” ad promised Efleen to 49] “I'm not speaking of Mr. Neergard, J, What merit lay in per I'm only trying to te u sy oblig What cour this man Kuthyea reuily is do- quired 1 promise | ing t t for} What do I care what he !s doing?" ea 1 he] cried Gerald angrily. “And, anyway f n't likely I'd come to you to find ¢ | anything about Mra. suthven's w | husband!" tr 1) Selwyn rose, very whity and still at & moment Be drew & quiet of self a aude axed and he Sen * If you ever aa e to me; and if : { coms, and SUM need me, Bead I'l do what I can—always 6 you better than you know youre . Good-by a7 He turned to the door; and Gerald a AyVORADT) uret out: “Why can't you let my js alone? 1 iked you before you descended to the visitors feene this sort of thing!” (fo Be Continued)