The evening world. Newspaper, January 28, 1909, Page 17

} 1 \ t) } ue | | “Stubborn Cinderella,”’ With Barrymore Support, Wears a Chicago Slipper. BY CHARLES DARNTON | THINK I'm a Iitle bit nutty,” remarks Mr, “Jack” Barrymore at the Broadway Theatre, Happy thought! It explains hig atting in A Stubborn Cinderella Barrymore brains have become a stage religion with us. We have treasured them through many first nights. We have , belleved in them. We have taken them home with us and told the neighbors about them, But now we take It all back. Reiuctantly, though firmly, we change our mind, “A Stubborn Cinderella’ shows us the error of our way of thinking, In the musical nonsense at the Broad- way Theatre Mr, Barrymore only goes to show that his brains are in his feet. He runs up and down stairs with su- perhuman Intelligence. He dances with lowbrowed agility. And then he keeps us guessing. Does his college-bred “Mac” represent the epileptic or the idloti¢ school of acting? To find a charitable answer we must say he {3 miscast. That !s always an easy thing to say, But even musical comedy cannot explain the obvious shortcomings of Mr. Barrymore, In “The Dictator” he kept his face straight and ours crooked, In ‘A Stubborn Cin- he reverses the old order of Mis “facial expression” tells the joke before It comes into its own, You can see it coming. Mr. Barrymore goes to great pains to work {t out before- h He seems to t ‘ John Barrymore as Mac. Mr. Barrymore ts evidently disposed to authors are “Hough & Adams" Long life to th no mistaking the fact that “A Stubborn Mt has all the footmarks of a lake-front “success.” It harks back to the tu: Joseph E. Howard-and the selfsame Mr. Howard harks back to all the musical comedy tunes ever heard since rag and moontime disputed the centre of ¢! stage. Mr. Barrymore doesn't consume much of Mr. Howard's time—rag othe: He shows very good judgment respect. His singing voice doe: trude itself. It breaks out oce Mke musical measles, but !t soon reco ers itself. Miss Salle Fisher makes most of the songs her business. She sings them with outstretched arms. She used to sing with outstretched volce, But that glad, sweet hour !s past. Now she singa tn gestures, She !s conscious of her high note and her low brow. She acts with wer eyebrows. But otherwise she {s a simple Cinderella, When she meets jac’ on the college campus she asks" lave you any children?” And when he tells her that he is not married she inquires, “How many children are you wolng to have?” She Is hopelessly nalve. Only @ census taker could appreciate her sense of humor, In a “mountain wilderness” this stup!d Cinderella gets out of a Pullman car and dreams the old, old story beside a campfir Whereupon stately dancers @ authors at thelr word. The firm—in Chicago! There ts Cinderelia” wears a Chicago slipper, for | Sallle Fishe: as Lady Leslie. appear and you try to forget the mountain scenery and the unromantic Pullman, But you can't forget Prince Barrymore. Poor John! i Some Curious Facts | [SOON Aslatic star tree. It is cnormously tall, growing to a helght of from sixty to elghty feet, whe from the ground up to a distance of about forty feet the trunk Is perfectly bare. From that potnt there spring a number of tangled Iimbs, which shoot out clusters of long, pointed leaves, and It s these, grouped together, | that emit at night a clear, phosphorescent light. This gives the tree a spectral | appearance, and it Is very deceiving to travellers, who frequently mistake the glow | for an illuminated window of a house. The light Is not brilliant, but 1s of sufficient | strength to allow of a newspaper belug read by {t, It does not flicker, bet glows Bteadily from sunset to daybreak. | Eagles have been noticed flying at a height of 6,000 feet, and storks and buz- | zards at 2,000 feet, A lark will rise to the same height, and so will crows, As a, rule, however, birds do not fly at a greater height than 1,000 feet. Babylon was probably the first city to attain a population of 1,000,000. The area of the city was 225 square miles. \ Trades unions are no new invention, Accurate records cf thelr existence in Roman times have been dug up in Pompell, The greatest mystery of medical science 4s the exact use of the thyrold gland, which is the seat of the disease known us goitre. ‘There are five capital offenses under British law—murder, high tre. arson in the port of London and attempts to destroy public arsenal A MONG freaks of nature in trees there stands conspicuous one known as the on, piracy, |Panhandle Pete « a 1 smiths writes that wives are just as much entitled to night keys as their husbands, They are, they are! But {¢ that contention were to stick, how long would it be before they'd have to choose between nivht keys and hus- bands? Respectfully submitted to mari- tal mathematicians. Usually the woman who makes a fuss and glares around at the man with the cigar in a vaudeville theatre where men are permitted to smoke 1s the one who splashes herself with some kind of tollet water dope that exudes an effluvia lke the aftermath of @ Congoese bar- becue, Alwi CLARENCE L CULLEN the woman of whom wives Vhy, I'd trust her with my hus- band anywhere,” has a face on her like that of an Androscoggin weasel and the conformation of a deep-sea drum-fish, Women who put private detectives on their iusbands’ trails always find | out loads and toads of startling things, because it's in the nature of fellows who'd be private detectives to need the money. One of the grandest Iittle ways to start something at home 1s to observe | unto your spouse that that fluffy-haired woman In the third floor back flat cer- | tainly has the tiniest foot you ever saw. (Sample of ensuing conversation: “And where, sir, did you become so—er— CRAWL IN DERE AND TAKE A , NE of the O mitieent “Man is a} Wart" lady pen- Yess VLE vator, in the elevator, my dear!") Why, I wouldn't give a durn for a wife that didn’t enjoy a little whizz with |me," observes Mister Lunklid. A few years later, when she's sopping up the j cologne and things, he goes about be- | heredity,” and tells fol&s that she got the habit straight from her old tank of ‘a dad. | moaning what he calls her “alcoholic | wt we By George McManus 9 AH! I'VE 407 IY OPEN ALL ff Meditations of a Married Man & \ tiie | | Once we knew a woman who plumed he-self upon the exquisite ness of her sensibilities, and who went so far even as to call the trees | “our brothers and sisters of the for- est.” But the last time we sato her was at a bull fight in Chihuahua, i Mexico, and her eyes were glistening on Courtshi oe In Love Too Late. Dear Betty YOUNG man of whom I thought ‘| quite a good deal is engaged to be inarried. I did not know how | much I really loved “him until lately, and now I know he still thinks some- times of me. TI treated him badly, for he did love me, and I have since | regretted I have something on my mind I would Ike to tell him. Do you think if I ‘phoned and asked him to call he would do so, or do you think | he would only laugh about me to his intended wife? This is causing me much anxiety. Please advise me. M. K, I do not believe the young man will laugh over your confidences to him with his flancee. As you have been | good friends with him he will undoubt- Tho King of Spain Is the only monarch who does not sign his name to docu-| where did you happen to notice the|edlv grant your request to call, but If ments and edicts. His signaturo ts simply "Yo, el Rey''—''I, the King.” lcreature's foot so keenly?" "Oh, in the you love him and he does not return (Copyright. 1908, by Harper & Bros.) _ i the heels of a healthy herd, he hired DIN} CHAPTERS SYNOPSIS OF PF men to run them and to deal. By night , Burrell, stationed at Flambeau, 9 drontier trading pos love, with Flambeau was a mining camp, Necia, @ beautiful as Late in the evening the boat swung unter of John Gale. an? es un Sits, Gale's India; ang out Into the river and disclosed a Necia become enkaxe oe strange scene of transformation to the! junk French partner. sc A Ma miner, discovers, a tic Milstealearenatalntoelel sei heuree ee | ecia and Burrell stak rt aale., Po ed with canvas sheit- | the tent lights 1 like a nest of | p grass. A long, | ocd Wishes rose from | ner, then sho sighed her way the point above bearing forth the message that 4 new camp had been isgraced If he marries Fir, This nakes her miserable (nu FSsmes'a: ‘boom towi on news of 20 mrike, CHAPTER IX. | | born, (Continued. The Awakening. CHAPTER | TARK wasted no time. With money, Meade Burrell Finds a he secured a dozen men who} p, ; af, i. S sacs willing to work for hire, { Path im the Moonlight. | had come nat last, and was a hero, for the story of his loug there are always thove who prefer t surety of ten coined dollars to the haj of a hundred, He swooped down wi these helpers on his pile of morcin-{lll-luck was common gossip now, and @iso that had lain beneath tarpau-{ MM Pratsed him for his courage. He had never been praised for anything be- {fore and was uncertain just how to take It. | “Say, are these people kiddin’ me?” he inquired, confidentially, of Poleon. Wy? Wrat you mean?” “Well, there's a feller makin’ a speech about me down by the landing.” “W'at he say? “It ain't nothin’ to fight over. He says I'm another Dan'l Boon, leadin’ the march of empire westward.” “Dat's nicé, for sure.” “Certainly sounds good, but ts {it on the level?” “Wal, I guess so,” admitted Poleon. The prospector swelled with indigna- ling on the river bank since the he and Runnion tanded, and by in afternoon 4 great tent had been stretched over a framework of peeled poles bullt on the lot where he and Necia had stood eartier In the day, Before dark his saloon was running To be sure, there was no floor, and his polished fixtures luoked strangely new and incongruous, but the town at large hed assumed « sitotlar alr of Incom- Pleteness and crude immaturity, and lit- tle wonder, for it had grown threefold fm half a day. Stark sw!’ :7 unpacked his gambling !mp'ements, keen to Soeat | every edvantage, and out of the hand : ¢ Viet @ ‘reckoning, on the contrary, he had tavariably flown | In the Froz me long ago?” The scanty ounce or two of gold from his claim lay tn the scales at the post, where ev newcomer might examine it, and, realizing that he was a never- ending s0 of information, they ed on hilin for dis tips, bribing him with newspapers worth a dollar each, or with cigars, which he wrapped up carefully and placed !# his mackinaw till every pocket of the rusty garment bulged so that he could not sit without [losing them. They dwelt upon his est word, and stood him up beside the bar where they filled him with proofs of friendliness until he shed tears fro>, jhis one good eye. He had formed a habit of parsimony born of his years of poverty, and was so widely known as @ tight man by the hundreds who had lent to him that his creditors never at any time hoped for a And Hever offered one {uto @ rage when dunned, and exhibited such resentment as to discourage the practice, Now, however, the surly ..u mor of the man began to mellow, and in gradual stages ie unloosened, the process belng attended by a dispiopor- tlonate growth of the trader's cash re- celpts, Cautiously, at first, he let out his wit, which was logy from long disu: and as heavy on its feet as the Jumping Frog of Calaveras, but when they laughed at its labored leaps and sallies his confidence grew. With the regular- ity of a clock he planted cigars and or- dered “a little more. hard stuff," while his roving eye rejoiced in lachrymose Profusion, its overburden losing itself im the tangle of his careless beard, My- Love and Go id Hunting en Klondike | trailed by a troop of tenderfeet, til! the | women marked him, whereupon he fled back to the post and hugged the bar, for he was a bashful man. When Stark's | Hew place opened it offered him another |retreat of which’he avatied himself tor j some time. But late in @ evening he reappeared at Old Man Gale's store, walking @ bit unstead and as he mounted the flight of logs to the dou: he stepped once too often, “What's become of (hat fourth step he demanded, sharply, of Poleon, “Dere ae 4s," said the Frenchman, "Vm d—d if itl, You moved it since I was here.” “Lil have ‘Im put ba j other, | “Say. Jain't 17" | “I don’ know, 1 ain r “Well, it Is; and now that r | i'm goin’ to change my ways comple No more ex 2 mine * laughed the It's a grand thing to be rich, ted Doret, lve been a but t.-night I turn on the busted miners need apply “Ba gosh! You're fonny feller,” laughed Poleon, who had lent the one- eyed man much money in the past and, like others, regarded him not merely ag @ bad risk, but as a total loss. “Mebee you tink you've been a spen't’rif’ all dese year.” “T've certainly blowed a lot of money om my friends,” Lee acknowledged, “and p and Marriage ncn |the affection I advise you not to eee |him again, It is best to forget him as soon as possible, and you cannot do this !f you continue to see each A Surprise Party. Dear B INDLY advise me which Is proper, in giving a surprise party, to ask the guests to bring the refresh- ments or to furnish them yourself. Gh 33 It is customary at a surprise party for the guests to bring the refresh- ments, as the person persons to whom the party Is given are supposed to know nothing about the affair, and | consequently to be unprepared to enter- tain guests. But as you seem to have been told about the surprise party you must supply the refreshments, as you can hardly invite friends to a party and ask them to bring food. HULLY GEE } T THOUGHT PITTSBURG | WAS IN with delight over the cheap and iasty feats of tawdry “bravery.” Yes, Clarinda, bath slippers are * Necessary article of wear. But why Permit your husband to see you wear- ing ‘em? Ie ft that you don’t know by this time what finical brutes husbands are? And, if you really desire to re- tain your husband's affections, throw away your flannelette house jacket | Ali human husbands hate flannelette house jackets, Write us again some | time, It isn’t funny to inquire when your wife threatens to go home to maw, "Is |that a threat or @ promise?” Be ‘nice. Offer to help her to pack. They appre- clate these little helpfulnesses, | 0, Henry says that men who ar: kind to dogs and horses are cruel to women, and O. Henry has got far less | true things than that out of his sys tem. What Every Woman (Thinks She) Knows: That “you can always figure {on a man‘s being :. good man when Iit- |tle children take naturally to him.” One of the most accomplished murdar- ers we ever knew had an Irresistible way with children, | Ever notice how, deavoring to make a perfectly proper and harmless hit with your wife's ‘women dinner guests she Just will show ‘em that picture of you taken at the ags of five, with those miserable little Gothle point-lace. things—er—well, with those highly-starched things showing so glaringly and offensively white and taking up all the lower room of the | @ By Rex Beach, @ Author of 1ODOCOEEEPLEOEESEOEDOOOOOOSEIETOONE HOU: The yful of pale-faced Jackals who follow at: tion. “Then, why didn't you fellers tell Jand-by he wandered through the town, ; they're welcome to what they've got #0 far, but I'm goin’ to chop all them prodigal habits and put on the tin vest. Vi run the solderin’ tron up my seams 40 ey cant get to me without @ can- i'm airtight for life, 1 am.” in his pockets and = un- ift cigar, then felt for a n)tossed one on the bar, He wrapped @ match. Pek and each “I guess dose new frien’ of yours { mak’ you purty full, M’sieu Ves Nothin’ of the sort. | dose of Indigestion.” “Dat's ‘orrible disease! Dere's plaintee riche man dle on dat seeknesse, better lie down.” Doret took the hero of the day fumbled I've got by the arm and led him to the rear of the |) he bedded siore, W he had ar when Lee ca ess, makt ce a suip tacking tow “What wlnd of jour “Dat's just plain wieat flour.” Not on your Ife, aid the miner, , ast powders, W A Kew bUCKIN I'm plu ko He jad a sourse door, “Wrere you goin’? as! “I'm goin’ to get some stomach troubl scended into the darkness boldly, and stepped off with confidence-this time |too soon. Polson h m floundering | about, his Indign rr sed irascl- bly, albeit with a note of triumph. You put It baek } "Whe'd I tell you? \wotle t was asuleey, Then walstling reached for it twice, missing It) You} Spoilers | picturet jd!’ oly, If somewhat out of tune, he steered for the new saloon to get something for hig “stomach trouble. At Stark's 9 found a large crowd of the new men who welcomed him heart. lly, plying ith countless ques- and harking to his maudlin taies © this new nity which to alm was old, He had fulowed the muddy {rom Crater Lake to the Delta, search: ars and creek beds in toreador’s | when you're en- | The. Evening World Daily Magazine, Thursday, January 28, 1909 | Vi. By Martin Green. A City Funeral, L OME one 1s dead in the Amsterdefam, S A hive of apartments just off from Broadway— A place with a front all of stucco and sham— Some ono !s dead there; the funeral's to-day. IL Coaches and hearse are on hand in the street, In polished and spotless funereal gloom; While crowds send up echoes of hurrying feet ‘to where they're preparing @ corpse for the tomb, m1, Curtous children, with toys in thelr hands, Are clustered in groups near the door, where the crape In simple, precise, sable clusters and bands Gives sign thet @ 1! has made final -scape, aot Iv. Out from the door bustles one whose attire Proclaims him the master of this *omory show; A word to his men carrles out his dest:e; The hearse to thy curb bacas up roise ens and slow. v. Comes the the coffin, ashrowted \.t The handles agiint tn the light of the sun; And over the scene a momentary hush Prevails <.l1 the work of transferring Is done. Some w!> are mourners and some .ho are not Climb into the coaches with bustle and haste; The horses move off 1a a rhythmic trot Away to graveyard—there's no time to Ic Some one was dead ot the Amsterdefam; ‘The funeral's just turning into Broadway ‘The crape has been torn from the ctucco and sham; The ciildren are back at thelr prattle and pla: Some Shipwreck Thoughts are tempted to inquire what would have happened to Jack Binns, the W wireless operator, had ho shown any disposition to desert his post of duty when the Republic was sinking, Would not Capt, Sealby bave handed him a wallop on tue ‘aw? We wot in the affirmative, OME of \hose rescued from the Republic yammered mightily becauss the S transfer to the Florida was not made tn upholstered steam launches and there were no steam-heated rooms witi baths or rot gardens on the latter And yet these same kickers ride in the Subway every day. eee The Boy Hero, or Words to That Effect. (Within a few days, tortured public, the popular song writers will commit something like this—maybe worse.) T™ ships had met in awful crash and one was going down; vessel. It seemed as If that all or board was surely going to drown; But Binns, the boy operator, perched in bis room so high, Stood at his post and to those folks (ese words did loudly cry: CHORUS. Don’t be scared, for I am he Please don't go away irom here. I will bring heip, for cantot you see ‘Th messages I'm 50) They show 1 know what I'm about, Now Hsten while 1 wound the CQD, ‘he hovrs wore on most wearily, but Binns was on the job, And now and then some passenger would give @ tearful sr>; At last & boat came into view—It wa, tha Hlorlday- And Binns he Ut a cigarette ar. these words he did say; i CHORUS. My “Cycle of Readings.” By Count Tolstoy. ~~~ Translated by Herman Bernstein. ~~~ ‘Copyriabied by the ee ior au ooo eeeee te New (Copyrighted by Herman Bernstela) The Italicized paragraphs are Count Tolstoy's original comments on the subject. Divine Law. N order to diacaver the law to which he ts subjected and which gives him freedom a man should rise out of the life of the flesh to that of the spirit. E that sent me is true, and I speak to the world those H things which I have heard of him. TMey underatood not that he spake to them of (ue Father, Then Jesus sald unto them: When ye have lifted up the Son of man then shall ye know that | am he, and that I do nothing of myself, but as my father hath taught me 1 speak these things.—St, John, vill HRIST was a true prophet. He saw the mystery of the soul. He saw the majesty of man, He was true to that which lives within you and me He saw God incarnated in man, And !n a state of grand ecstasy } » said, I am divine; God acts through me, through me He speaks. If you would see this look at yourself when you think and feel even as i think and feel now. Having learned the commanding law which lives in the hearts of the people, He did not make this law subordinate to any other law. He declared this law to be God himaeif.—Emerson, life, Thoreau, | [ 1s necessary to live the brief term of this life according to the law of eterna! S quest, tll he knew ea d tributary, tor he had been 2 hardy vand that used to vei fort, from Juneau on the spring snows, ‘disappearing into the uncharied valley of the Yukon, to return when the | clogged and grew sluggish and, Gale, he had LUved these many ars uhead ui the law, Wuere eacu Wa ig Own Court Of appeais and | re erie Was unknown Hie had telped to bulid camps lke ty aud Circle, he kuew by very h xed eye, and we | may not. wear tk’eblefs in our cuts, bu in't no. widder: and orphans uv washin’, an walk away from his house, and fnd 1 there when he n can y a month vias back (To Be Continued \ HE soul of man is by nature like a Christian, Christianity ts always accepted by people as something forgotten, suddenly recalled, Christianity uplifts a man to a height from which a joyous world, subordinated to the rational'law, ts revealed before him. The sensation exp ced by a man who discovers the truth of Christianity is like that which would be experienced by a man imprisoned in a dark sti fling tower taken to the highest open platform of the tower, whence he could see the beautiful world which he had not seen before, : OE Bee HE consctousness of being subjected to the law of man enslaves; tho consciousness of being subjected to divine law liberates. > j Stanzas + with Smiles in Them. on 4 E learned or te terms a drove, n man's form ethereal; H Knew what they meant by “forty- And yet, n they can't be made love.” Without “watst’’ of matertal, But then a new election came ~Kansas City Times. And Mr, Taft got in the game. = ahs ey’ e doth seek < were the eves—as black as jet aa) “putt” and ry maid I 8 tate dow late n (D. lerald BORAT roses are ac £ e rprised es to the sa: ng who quite prefer h peaches fat. & undisguised. Strange vegetation, you'll agree, —Boston Courter, Is the observer apt to see UO Upon @ hat. ONCE more the Capito! will shed —Washington (D. C.) Herald. Ite glorious brigh o'er the land; Cy If there's no message to be read BMALL 4! the walsts ‘There's sure to be a speech on hand. displayed Washington (D. C.) Star,