The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1909, Page 15

Carlotta Earnestly True in Heart-Reaching Flay. Nillson BY CHARLES DARNTON. J through three unhappy acts at the M {true acti |erouble wort) wink. Miss lo lilson is earnestly tr TF may seem ike borrowing trouble to follow "This Woman and This Man" axine sMlott Theatre, but If you admire} dow play tat isn't afrald to tell the truth you wii find thé! ue in Avery Hopwood's heart-reaching ; play, She is an artist who loos and acts like a woman, not ke an actress. |Bhe goes about the stage as If it were a house, When sue rs up the clothes ‘of the little boy she has put to bed she does tt wisn am. ud. There are {no tricks In her tra Nor are there y tricks in Mr. | Hopwood's p Veoyle with full stom: | achs and ¢ heads wont Mike it. They | Carlotta Nilison as Thekla Muller, Jon the agony Without further gunnin \@ood, straight stage story. |by carrying his story forwara six or everyday grounds, Thekla earns your re |her boy. She {s teaching school In an Jatudying to bo a baseball player, The play drifts along naturally and leney think before they At first get used to them, and LR: Country air seems to come !n through "Thekla has made for herself and her boy, It has been a hard fight for her, but the youngster, as acted by little |Zohn Tansy, makes it seem more than {worth while. This tiny actor, who seems i be perfectly at home on the stage, 1s growing delight. ‘When the father finds his way to the house and sees the boy he wants him. @ Uttle chap Is sufficient excuse for fate parental affection, Thekla comes jownatairs and finds them together—a tuation that recalls Jim and the “Kid” t “Salvation Nell.” ‘Then she sends the boy out to play and einks Into @ chalr jes far away from the man she compelled to marry her as she can get. They talk lof everything and nothing at long range unt Norrie declares he will take the hud away with him. Then Thekla leven another stand, She will fight as Jong as her strength lasts to keep her Boy. In the last act Norris explains to his |father that he succeeded In bringing the hile away with him only after two piers nights and days thet had worn ut the mother, This act !s unique fora ursery scene in which toys play an using part. ‘This play-house {s {n odd contrast to he serious business that follows after hekla, whose presence {8 not fully ex- He gets away It} 4 will complain that it isn’t amusing, Isn't. It doesn't go cut of the house for its language, and except for the some- | What melodramatic turn of the first act, | when Thekla takes @ pistol to convince | the young man of the house In which she! {s employed as go 4 that the wages of sin ts marriage re js nothing to make you glance upward in anticipation of the curtain, Even here Miss Nillson makes you be- Neve in Thekla and in the sanity of the play, for she keeps the pistol well in her! lap and sits at « conservative distance from Norris Townsend as she walts for | the minister she has summoned, Sulcide has lost its charm. This woman tells) this man that they will not go out of the room alive except as man and wife, And the curtain lets it go at that. The worst !s over. You are glad that Thekla is through with her mourntul talk about “bearing cnild." There has) been too much of It. It has got on your nerves, and for once you are almost will- | ing to forgive the stage pistol. You, cheerfully grant the playwright his treasured “scen and hope for better things. Mr. Hopwood, while he refuses to grow cheerful over his subject, doesn’t pile g for thrills ho goes along and tells a from the old-fashioned "problem play" | even years and putting !t on practical, spect by earning & living for herself and, up-State village and the youngster {s easily, The actors do not hurry things. | the pauses seem strange, but you soon ct that in real fe people are not in the habit of what did you think of your taener feeding on “cues,” And you are again reminded that George Foster Platt is a |r stago director of both common and artistic sense. the door and windows of the little home | Were speaking In praise of a sermon _The evens World Daily Magazin eC, Wednesday. February 24, 1909. Teey aN case MR MONK | WANT YOU To ESCORT Miss] PERKINS , THE SUFFRAGCETTE, Ta MY RECEPTION / yes MAAM, I THINK WOMEN SHOULD VOTE! BY ALL MEANS, Views on Father's Sermon. ‘D* THOMAS A. HOYT, the Phila- Gelphia pastor, entertained Presi- d | other eminent men at dinner. The gues dent Patton, of Princeton, the minister had preached. Dr, Hoyt's young son w and President Patton jon?" jess it was very good,” sald ane Jad, by there were three mighty pisces where he could have nopped." |The Million Dollar Kid wv ws ByR.W.Ta | | NIX' LET LOOIE TAKE THE SUFFRAGE TTE! OW! WHO 19 THAT PEACH WITH Looe! YO" Coat MISTAH MONK! een WLOROOOOUDILOOGOOOOIAOY’S. wap tur ust TAKE IN THAT RECEPTION AND SEE LOOIE =DRAG AROUND with A FRUMP OF, 0 iby Helen Rowland. | SUPPOSE,” remarked the Widow, daintily blowing a| put of sinoke from | 4 gilt-tipped cigars | ette, with the ine consequential abandon of the perfect amateur, ‘that you think i's very dread+ ful" The Bachetor Blanced cautiously | around to make sure that no one Was coming and drew the hangings of the cozy corner a little | closer, “I think it very—unattractive,” he ro- | piled, with cold disapproval, sighed the Widow, “you Vanderbilt and those club women for doing It.” “Pardon me,’ corrected the Bachelor, “I admired the frank WAY in which they did It, Besides I am not going to marry Mrs, Vanderbilt nor’— “I didn't know you were going to marry ME!" exclaimed the Widow in mock surprise, “Didn't you?” The Bachelor looked astonished, “Then 1 must have neg: lected to tell you'’—— “Besides,” broke in the Widow has- Uly, “cigarette smoking isn't really wicked or sinful—or even vulgar,” 4," retorted the Hache: i bitter nevely eilly, snd mannish a outre, and unhealthy, and shockia: and foolish.” "Oh!" uxclalmed the Widow with a aigh of delight. “How rascinating!" OAD MR.MONK, MISS PERKINS | THE SUFFRAGETTE, FROM LONDON! Two Goo SALAD—Use small UNGARIAN H one small onion minced, ons ple Dutch herring, four sardines and min with shreds of onion and ‘a spri all and garnish with sliced hard- S ane warm; slice very thin with a sharp knife, and to a pint of potatoes add PINACH SALAD—Uro young, tender spinach leaves put tn a d Salads. potatoes, Soll and peel tue while Kled beet, ore fresh cucumber aliced, a ced cold boiled ham. Mix all together and serve on lettuce Icaves with French dressing. ig of mint. Pour French dre: boiled eggs and litt!e radishes, “I've always wanted to do something shocking and foolish,” returned the Widow cheerfully, “and pow that I've found out what to do—you aren't goine to scare me Into being good, by saying Boo!’ and she drew another pum) which ended Ane coughin= spell ‘The Bachelor Marted, “By saying—what Such Is Life, ANY are called, but few get up. M Revenge is sweet to the sour. To keep friends, treat -them | Kindly; to KUL them, treat them often. | The end of one’s ambition becomes | merely the means to a greater effort. | Money Is @ real tragedy! Give tt and you make panpers; lend It and you ere- ate enemies; hoard It and you imperil your aoul.—Peter Pry Sbeviln in Lippin« cott's Magdzine, By J. K. Bryans The Perfect Amateur, “That {t's unbecoming,” explained the Widow, “or that {t will make my nose red, or spoil my figure, or ruin my repu- tation, That's a little way you men have of frightening us oft your pre- | serves and retaining all the nice, enjoy- | ble, comfy things for yoursely: Her eputation is the White Woman's Bur- en! Every time we try to do anything | nteresting or exciting or up to date you THE WIDOW She Learns the One Objection to Women's G Smoning~rand Quits! | desperately, DDODOOSDIOSS: DODHOHOMN complexion, and ts little white reputas tlon, and {ts little white soul! Poof!" and she blew a ring of smoke right ta the Bachelor's face. “A woman's soul,” Bachelor virtuousiy, announced the “Is ke a white sheet of paper. Black marks on It show"— “Oh, dear me!" scoffed’ the Widow. "If our souls are as uninteresting as blank sheets of paper, it's about time we were marking them up a@ bit. Be- sides, you might as well say that pute ting perfume on our petticoats, or using tooth powder, or curling our front hale Is bad form, because some women do It, as to say that clearette smoking’’—— "Oh, well,” "broke ju the Bachelor imoke a pipe If you like, Bo a perfect gentlentan—if you think {t's pretty!" Nae “Putting perfume on our petticoats.” "T don't think {t's pretty,” replied the Widow. “But,” she added, leaning back. with a sigh, “being ‘nice and feminine’ {s SO stupid! I don't wonder that you men find the girls who smoke cigarettes and give studio teas and say ‘damn It!" so much more interesting.” “Do we?" inquired the Bachelor, dry- ly, “Yet we generally marry the ‘nice’ girls.” “How good of you! How gratifying!" exclaimed the Widow. "And yet,” she continued, thoughtfully studying the tip of her cigarette, “I never knew a girl so ‘nice’ that most any man would not coax her to smoke a cigarette, or to kiss him, or to do something ‘not nice,’ did you The yachelor reddened and moved un- easily In his corner, “Oh, well,” he answered helplessly, “that's Just to—to see If she won't re fuse, and we admire the girl who does refuse" — “And never call on her agatn,' Anishea the Widow with a sniff, “while you Im- mediately take the girl who doesn't re- fuse out to dinner, Hut that | .'t the question! The question is, how do cigarettes affect a:womun—jiuw do they injure her? They don't make her silly, like cocktalis, nor make ner hideous, Hike rouge, nor thake her old, nor make her wicked, nor’ — “No,” erled che Bachelor desperately, “but they do something ten times worse than, that!” | “Worse! The Widow nearly dropped Jher cigarette. “They fin in her hal ‘And make her UNKISSABLE!" The Widow tung down her cigarette and crunched her small heet upon it, she exclaimed with a sigh of content, “Is enough!” “Boo!” cried the Bachelor triumphant. ly as he rose and lit his pipe-with the j vave us away by crying, ‘Naughty! | naughty!’ It will spoll ite little white virtuous air of & man who has saved an erring soul, [| 5 | Wenn RR AR RARE The Beginning of Some Things. > lained, has undressed the kiddie and put | | im to bed. She does not believe her Milton Silla as Norrie Townsend. | jusband's sudden protestations of love until he agrees to give back the ohild lo her and clear out, ls willingness to make this sacrifice gives her faith in ies He !s fond of the ohild, but he has grown even more fond af her, he de- | ares, And so she goes to his arms, Mr, Milton Sills saves Norris from seeming utterly despicable matniy by Fran strength coupled with discreet acting, After all, young men will be— —ee<_=~=<R€<~_~_—<_—<!———mDaaEPEPeeeeeaeaaeaeeaeaeaeEeE=E=>S=>=S=>S>$~SX=Ee=e—e=—e—e—e—e—eE—eEeEeEeeOO INVELOPES were first used In 1839. Telescopes were invented in 1590, ‘The first steel pen was made In 1890, Watches were first constructed in 176. The first fron steamship was built in 1830 The first lucifer match was made In 182% Gold was discoveted tn California tn 1843. Coaches were first used In England in 1669, Modern needles first came into use tn 1545. Kerosene was first used for Ilghting purposes in 1826. The first newspaper was published in England tn 1538, The first newspaper advertisement appeared in 1652. Cotton spinning was performed by hand-wheels until 1776, oung, And governesses should be careful. ‘They're forever getting into trouble n the stage, Mr, Frank Currier, as the father who cares more for his son's future than fhe doas for Thekla's, plays his part smoothly, Miss Eva Vincent te a sympa- thetic housekeeper, and Mr, Howard Kyle as the chairman of the village school rd who realizes his Importance, but at the same time recognizes Thekla's ‘ “Look here, boy! 1 don’t see you in Sunday-school any more, Don't “Mister, Ko 1 seu) in your barn?” orth, helps to dry the tears that Miss Nillson starts. She has @ company that| YOU Want to go to Heaven?” hould make her weep with joy. S00003000G0000000000000% Moorman, 16, by Augustus Thoman) o DODODHHDIDIODALHIOOCDHIDODODD “Ten't it @ pity—terrible pity! Helen “Aw, not yotl"” “Well, you'll have ter ask the dog. He sleeps there himself, and may object!” COODHOHODHDBOHDOHODOOOOQHODODOOOQOOAMDODADOGOGOOOOOOAOASDOOOAGDODDNE D HOH F: Augustus Thomas’s Great Play, “The Witching Hour,” MODI DO OOONONVOOCO0000000000000D00000000000000000000004 Uke,” Jo answered; “holdin' the wire, |to like me enough, her happiness would LOT OD DOD EDO DOGO COD0000POP UO 00OUODOUUOU0 Ud Turned by the Playwright Into a Great Serial Story 8 (OOOD000N00000000G00000000000000G0. “Do you know any sure politician: Tho first knives were used in Engla The first wheeled carriages were us was no weakness or wavoring In the nd In 1559, ed in France in 1559, HE skirt that ts made with straight lower edges is always in de- — mused, slowly, ouh.”* be with me, wouldn't it?” that doesn't stand by his friends?" man who faced him. Brookfield had Th Wit hi H “A terrible pity,” Mrs. Campbell] “I don't know any Judge De Brennus.”| ‘She might think so. “But I don't know any sure politiolan|eaid the thing that he had promised mand for, washable (s] G ng OUT | echoea. “Ways you don't know him, suh; but) “Well?” that I'd tell my niece to marry.” nimaelf a hundred times he would never COOHATS fsD NO 2) | Further confidences between them got to leave town in the mornin’, Yd be mistaken; t would be| “I'll bet you a thousand dollars I'm| say, the thing that, even now reluct- can be made from By were prevented by the entrance of the|and he'd be very much obliged f you'd old chap,” |the next prosecuting attorney/for this antly auld to protect his niece, It would flouncing, bordered mae men from the dining-room. see him to-night.” “You mean there's anything againat elt; never, he felt, de necesasry to repeat. Augustus Thomas. “Where's the young lady—Jack’s| “Did you tell him we were dark to-| my reputation?” T'll take half of that if you can place| Tie situation was—in Hardmuth's par- terial or from plain niece?” inquired Denning, night? "No; I mean character pure and gim- It,’ Brookfield anawered, readily adopt- ce Veritavie showdown, One material trimmed. It | freee cour “In the billiard room I belleve,” Helen | “He don’t want no game, It's about @| ple-I mean the moral side of you {ng Hardmuth's point of view. “I'll bet one more answer, anu takes long and slender 18 OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. | answered, Picture—a picture you've got. | “Well, for richness this beats any-/even money you're any thing In poilties blows or a vringin, at tease Jock Hrock‘lold, Louiavile, y.. eamn:| “Bhall we Join them?” Jack sald to| "A Picture? thing I've struck, Jack Brookfleld talk- | that you go after for the next ten yeura; | criminal and his 1 2h one hes) eee isin vee lel bon vel Hy Helen, yeh walita yorSoRiatit |!ng to me about my mora! fre!” but I'll give odda that the tlme will | Helen entered the room. row, It ore, Viola: hie, foriner, ames “Td Mice tt." "Tell the gentleman I'll be up for half} “You asked for it,” come—when you're ‘way up there, full swt gentleman that called after sup: is made In three seo» rank Hardmuth, f. oeal faiviet, Harqe| ‘The party moved to the door with the | #® hour. "You I did, and now I'm going to aak |of honor and reputation und pride, and per’— tions, the two lower to, Nol and ja snubbed. | exception of Hardmuth, who bit the end| J° disappeared. for the showdown, What do you mean|—somebody will drop to you, Frank;| “Mr. Denning?" Jack prompted, hae) bane ean of a fresh cigar and sald: “Bo you proposed to Viola?’ said! by it then-gflosii!"—Brooktleld turned hie| “Yes, He seems to take pleasure in ee ene y ok!—Jjust @ minut CHAPTER YV. Brookfield, taking up the conference at the point of interruption, "Yes; how do you feel about that?’ “Well, Frank, on any ordinary propo- “You're the torney of the city of Loulsyille, The people don't get from you just what you promised, not by a jugful.” Hetant prosecuting at-| hand, graphically dramatiaing the flop of a Janded fikh on a duck—"you for the down-and-outs.”" "Rot!" nnoying C "Yos; | know that sfde of Denning.” Brookfield turned toward the dining- room and called Hilln When he en- flounces that are join ed one to then the other, both to the skirt, f oy ‘ It can be either tucked ‘ ‘A Duet of Word sition woe rp necs with me-you know] “1m the nt prosecuting attor-| “It’s the same in every game in the| tered Jack asked lim to go into the Sc 1 ords. that, + : ney, remember—I promised to asalat in| world—tha crook either gets too gay or | Dililard-room and look after Denning, or gathered over ROOKFIELD was not altogether dee an t iti | prosecution, not to Institute tt.” too slow, or both, and the ‘come| Helen wavered in her impulse to fol- hips B unprepared for the interview Fee sieae “I expect technioal defense, old man, | on sees him make the p I've been |low Eliinger to (he billlard-room, and The quantity of mae ht Herdmuth demanded of him,| “There's pnother man tn tue sunning, | but this was to be a showdown,” | pall-bearer for three of the slickest men | finally yleided to Jack as Le Indicated a Penultederarnine though uncertain as to the extent of its | Pd I think she likes him.” have it I auk for particulars.”’| that ever shuffled a deck In Kentuoky— | chatr, ize is 218 (aclosure, “You mean young Whipple?” one, You play here tn my just a litte tov “He doean't seem muoh fet & gentie- founcing 4, Left together, Hardmuth began what | "I think he's your biggest opposi-| house, and you know Agalnat the| they've always got {t when it was hard-/man~this Mr, Denning,” 8 4, yards CHAPTER IV. Promised to be a serious colloquy by the eat ae trend calvartealy nat yetlve vere to support," ast rau famlly." ay “He Gast expected wri Ineavs wide, oe i ae Cont!: ; nonchalant confession: jutsyou,” peralates jardmuth—"can support the law whenever it's in ‘Bo that will my Anish, w t @ one of your—ellen! of plain matertal (Continued) “Took advantage of your hospitality, |! count on you In the showdown?" voked, Indict me anc I'll plead guilty,” rank!” Jack's temper was plainly ine of my clients.” 63-4 yards 92 or 4 yards A Proposal. old man, to-night.” If Viola doesn't care enough for you, | “You make me say it, do you, Wrank?| rising; he paused In an evident effort ay meets him here?” 4 inches wide. ” “Advantage?” queried Brookfield. Frank, to accept you In spite of any- | Your duty !s at least to keep secret the| to control it, When he spoke again ‘Yoo—has met him here,” Pattern 6252 is ES," Alico answered frmly,| «proposed to her?” thing of everything, I shouldn't try to|information of your office; contrary to| Hardmuth noticed that there was more| ‘I didn't thipk you'd do that, Jack, it in slzes for a 2% M i ‘this supper to-night p rt "9 y , i 4 q tr rr ata night WAS! Brookfleld’s face took on that insctuta- | influence her in your favor,"* that duty, you've betrayed the seoreta| menace !n his manner, “Some day the wie ag ry 49S and 9 inch walet jack's I for you; the box At Hie jook with which he w Hardmuth turned to Brookfield, per-|of your oMce to warn me and other | truth will come out as to who mur- Hdral Sectional Skirt—Pattern No. 6252. measure, : Bote (or you, “ to regard his hand just af ing! “But you wouldn't try to In-|men of this chy whon thelr game was| dered a Ciovernor-elect of thie State.” | ho gamble with your boy, He A | sWhy, he didn't even alt with us. draw, The slight pause was broken by | fuence her against me?” in danger from the police," there any doubt about that? Jnek said Magntly a a wure thin IK consnenarenaar® Sasa ‘Also for you. Jack Brabkfeld 18 &| the entrance of the young darky, “She's about the closest thing to me,| “You throw that up to met” |. 1 don't want my niace mixed up in| M411 ORO dOltET a . sntle over | | How Call of gend by mail to THE EVENING WORLD MAY MAN. lore notable character tn Loutsyille to-| A gentleman called you on the teie- hat niece of mine.” “Thtdw nothing-you asked for It." d tt to ENE E TS EIT aS ee aha caN a UL lay than he was twenty-(wo years ago. | phone, sul.” “] stand by my friends.” | “qynat do you mean by that?” | “Perhaps it would agem more humor-| } Obtain } York. Send 10 cents in coln of stamps for wach pattern order \ Hie company would have made you th ‘Who?’ Brookfleld consulted his ore protect het bappiness to the limit | “Exactly,” Brooktield responded, “and| Hardmuth was now facing the gam. | oUF 10 You Lt held As a bin We, ‘These IMPORTANT—Write your name ard address plainly, and ale # t of unpleasant comment. ‘That's | watch, of my ability,” you've taken an oath to saad by thé| bier, livid and trembling, his eyes nar-| of course,” Patterns, ¢ Ways specify size wanted. " "gh CAT “Judge, De Brepausename sounds! “Mut tf eho ilikes ma ov ehewld come | people rowed to Uitle aleaming slits, There (To Be Continued.)