The evening world. Newspaper, August 18, 1911, Page 11

THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES Ql tts off gride and ecrupios of honor, an oR and tilious polite besa, ww thiak) its ward- robe, Buch clothes were gurely never made within Afty years. The major was tall, but whenever he made that wonderful, archaic genuflexion he called a bow, & corners of bie frock coat swept the or. . yerds back} One of the te “Father Hubba: boarders christened “ and it certainty was h in the waist and full in the skirt the major, with all his queer his immense area of plaited, shirt bosom, and the ilttle yk string tle with the bow always slipping on one side, both was smiled at and liked in Bre. hgh ae og select jecdotes and Reminiscences of the Alabama Army, Bench and Bar.” Major Talbot was of the old, fouth, The present day had little terest or excellence in his eyes. His ming lived in that pertog before the civil war, when the Talbots owned thousands of acres of fine cotton land end the slaves to till them: when the famity mansion was the scene of prince- Jy hospitality, and drew its guests trom the aristocracy of the South. ut of that period he had brought old tn- started upo! —the traditions and bistory of his be- loved Southland. During his talks he would quote freely and Reminiscen- very careful not to let him eee their designs, for in epite i) ae are MRS. SOLOMON Being the Confessions of the Seven Hundredth Wife. Lransiated By Helen Rowland, Copyright, 1011, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). Bowe my Daughter, there dwelt a damecl upon 1 Saying the banks of the Hudson, Ana she was filied with WIGH IDEALS, and the worship of the TRUTH. Now, upon a day, she journeyed unto the photog rapher's, and admonished him, saying: “I want @ characteristic picture, which shaft be ezactly LIKE me. Do not flatter me, For I believe that LINES denote character.” And the photographer hearkened unto her and did her bidding. But, when the PROOFS were shown unto her, ehe cried out: “WHAT! Is this a caricature or a LIBEL? There must be something the matter with thy LENS; for I surely do not look like THAT!” Then straightway the photographer became wise, and answered her, ecying: Y “Nay, madam! Peradventure the LIGHT was wrong. But tf thou wilt ot again"—. And he made another picture of her and gave it to the retoucher, saying: “Do thy work well with the angles, and fill in the curves. Yea, make @ BEAUT!” And behold, when the maiden saw it, she wae rejoiced, and praised him mightily, saying: “THAT ta a perfect Kkene: And, again, she went unto the shoe merchant, and conaulted with him, “I want a COMFORTABLE shoe.” Amd he brought her a 4-B. But the damsel was horrified, and let her wrath fall upon him, em claiming: “Why, I NEVER wore more than a &-A, in all my life!” Then the merchant departed and.erased the NUMBER from off the @hoe, and returned and offered it to her, saying: “Here ie thy right size.” And she was satisfied, and TOOK tt. Likewise, the maiden sought the hairdresser, and advised with him, eaying: “Make me a SIMPLE coiffure, for I despise artifctality.” And the perruquier took her at her word and wound her locks Madonna wise. Then she WAS wroth, And thereupon the perruquier brought forth twenty-three puffs, ond o 840 ewitch, and pinned them upon her head at various angles. And the damsel floated in her loveliness, orying: “NOW, I look like MYSELF!" Now, in the evening, the matden's betrothed came unto her dwelling. ‘And she addressed him, remarking: “Tell me ALWAYS the truth, my Beloved; for there need be NO die- wimulation between US. How do I LOOK?" RELE. ROWLAND And her Beloved was sorely confused. For he knew that NO man can) De Doth truthful and POLITE at the same time. Yet he obeyed her meekly, | enewering: “My Darling, thou lookest, as always, FAIR-TO-MIDDLING well. Yea, thou wouldet pase in a crowd.” But the maiden arose, and there was wrath and warning in her eye, Then a great LIGHT broke upon the youth, and he hastened to ory out: “Nay, Beauteous One! I was only joshing thee. Thou KNOWEST that show art the fairest and loveliest, and most perfectly adorabls creature thet weareth puffs and petticoats.” And she fell upon his neck, crying: Oh, Jack! Then, WHY, oh, my Beloved, will men continue always to LIE unto a woman, in this wise? For they are ALL monsters of deceit! Selah! WELL ALF, Im aT The Eno OF MY ResouRces! | DonT KHOW WHICH WAY TO ‘TORH , AND AFTER THAT DisGRACEFUL Scéne: IW THE MANAGERS OFFICE , | PRESUME OUR VAUDEVILLE BuoBLe HAS BURST. CAN YoU SUGGEST Any Tung 2) of bie sixty-eight years, he could make the boldest of them ancomfortad! der the steady regard of his piercing Gray eyes. Miss Lydia was a plump, Iittle ol maid of thirty-five, with smoothly drawn, tightly twisted hair that made her look titi older, Old fashioned, but ante-bellum glory her ae it did from to pay. The major regarded board bills and wash bills ag contemptible nuisances, t coming in so persistently and 90 often. Why, the major wanted to know, sould they not be fled and Ri fi paid for? Miss Lydia would calmly 60 with sewing and say: ‘We'll pay as we go as long as the money lasts, and then perhaps they'll have to lump it.” Most of Mra Vardeman’s boarders were away during the day, being mearly all department clerks and business mes; Dut there was one of them who about the house @ great deal from morning to night. This was a young man named Henry Hopkins Hargraves every one in the house addressed him by his full name—who was engaged st one of the popular vaudeville theatres. Vaudeville has risen to such a re- @pectadle plane in the last few yeara, and Mr. Hargraves was such @ modest and well-mannered person, that Mrs Vardeman could find no objection to en- rolling him upon her list of boarders. At the theatre Hargraves was known @s an all-round dialect comedian, hav- tng @ large repertoire of German, Irish, Swede and black-face specialties. But Mr. Hargraves was ambitious, and often spoke of his great desire to suc- ceed in legitimate comedy. @ strong fancy for Major Talbot. When- ever that gentleman would begin his Gouthern reminiscences, or repeat some of the livel! the anecdotes, Har- graves could always be found, the most attentive among his listeners. For a time the major elination to discourage t! the “play actor,” as he pri bim; but soon the young mi able manner and indubitabl tion of the old gentleman’ Pletely won him over. Tt was not long before the two were Mke old chums. The major set apart each afternoon to read to him the man. juscript of his book. During the anec- |@otes Hargraves never failed to laugh 1 AM MR. STAYGO . THe VAUDEVILLE ManaceR. OrFeR AST ‘This young man appeared to concelve | M: YtouR STUNT IM MY OFFICE sYESTERDAY, I'm eure YouLL be BIG CARDS. OOOOS DOD9SS1 x PL, 4° Qt exactly the right ‘Was moved to declaré to Miss Lydia one day that young Har; essed remarkable percept! gratifying respect for the old regime. And when it came to talking of those old days—if Major Talbot liked to talk, int. The major| for Afty miles around; Like almost all old people who talk of the past, the Major loved to linger over deigiis. In describing the splen- 41d, ainfost royal days of the old plant-| t! ers he would hesitate until ne nad called the name of the negro who held subjects that held both or the exact date of certain minor penings, or the number of bales of cotton raised in such a year; but Hargraves never grow impatient or lost interest. over, the Major would On the contrary, he would advance! bowl, fruit and a big bunch of fresh questions on @ variety of subjects con-| green mint. nected with the life of that time, and| " urred to me. he failed to extract ready replies,| begin—he w. always The fox hunts, the possum suppers, the hoe downs and jubilees in the negro quarters, the banquets in tho tion house hall, when invitatlo you, Mr. Hargraves, to Gee Jimmy! Thats MoRE?N You used © MPKe DAivin’ MR WoPPER's COM, AIHT 17} = Rememeer, aim {ve COME % INCREASE MY % You. AFTER SEEING You Do Now, come DINE WITH Me 9 AND WE'LL TALK BUSINESS. : 8 ot t ce WIRD: dig 1 ihe DODHDHOHOHOHHOHHDONGL BEST feuds with the neighboring gent sums on Mobile Bay; the quaint . | Mets, improvident habits and loyal vir- tues of the old slaves—oll these were Hargraves absorbed for hours at a night when the young coming upstairs to his urn at the theatre was door of his study and beckon ar him. Going in, Hargraves would flnd 8 little table set with a decanter, sugar " the Major would How EEK 00% WITH A $0090 Bonus FOR AOVAHCED OH SALARY eee A ithago 0 ¢ the occasional ; the the Major and appear J ceremonious— he—at your place of oc- cupation—suffictently arduous to enable the poct might wel ppreciate what mind when PoP i? 4 NICETY HE @STIMATeD THE INGREDIENTS. SMATTER The Evening World Daily Magazine, Friday, August 18, 1911. 4o¢ 0. HENRY’S | TD WITH WHAT EXQUISITE MoTHER ‘FoR GooDNess SAKE KEEP pis IN THE HOUSE SAWHILE, | CAWHILE ee A OODHDHEDHDOSGPODHHHGHGDGHOHGHTDHHODHTS OHH TDHHOHWOI|SGON|.OIIWD".OIHTIOSSHODOOOS % 9OOQHDEG:DOOHAGQODONHDHISOOHVOOHDOONN POCO OOO OOO COCO, ODE 000% ‘ sweet restorer’—one of our Southern) “T must attend to this at once, Ladia,” Sulepa.* he said. “Kindly get me my umbrella Tt was a fascination to Hargrav ane I will go downtown immediately. wateh him make ft. He took ri The Congressman from our district, among artists when he began, and | Gen, Fulghum, assured me some Gaye never varied the process. With what} ago that he would use his influence to delicacy he brulsed the mint; with what) get my book published at an early exquisite nicety he eatimated the ingre- | date. I will go to his hotel at esee and | dienta: with what solicitous care he| see what arrangement has been ws capped the compound with the scarlet; With a sad little emtle Mise Lydia |fruit glowing aguinst the dark green | watched him button his “Father Hub fringe! bard’ and depart, pausing at the door, te And then ti» svspitality and grace! as he always did, to bow profoundly. with which he offered it, after selected | ‘That evening, at dark, he returned. It oat straws had been plunged into Ite) geamed that Congressman Fulgham had | tinkting the | seen the publisher who had the majors toAftar About four months in Washing: | manuscript for reading. on, Miss Lydia discovered one morn- had said that if the an- ing that nthe’, Mere almost without ectolsa. ee wele retully proned money. e edotes. and Reml- | 40 x "t order to elim- nincencen" was completed, but pub: | Gown about one half, ia re inate the sectional and clase prejudice with which the book was dyed from end to end, he might consider its pub |Mshers had not jumped at the collected | |Kems of Alabama sense and wit. The ele of @ small house which they | tation, | still owned tn Mobile was two months in arrears, Their board money for the | Tae major was in a white bg month would be due in three days. Misa | pert ee ean tel Aa called her father to a consuita- | oo he was in Mise Lyd er “We must have money,’ Lydia, with tle wrinkle above her nose. “Give me the two dollars and { will telegraph to Uncle Ralph for some to-night” th a surprised look. “It Is quite annoying to be called , on so frequently for theso petty sums, | Really, I"— The major searched his pockets. He found only a two-dollar bill, which he returned to his vest poc (To Ro Continued.) Blind Cupid and Far-Seeing Woman Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co (The New York World), ing creature with all h folbles—beautful dreams. ND now before the court {8 &/ It ts a woman's heritage, this trusting young woman who, as the Poets! tove eame, and (we can talk from now would put it, loved “not wisely until doomsday) when Love comes fn, but too well.” She) Prudence ts put in the background. her feven! thousis Cupid ia dtiad, a contagious disease, BEveu h he be with you every minute, fancies and By Sophie Irene Loeb. A in one man and/tt found he wasn't) thor tho one. need not be LIKEWISE affilcted. Trust ves can be kept open with all the thing. jatural belle tn the human. sary, There ARG! For pparent that, though we ere real humans in the; continuously confronted with the Lore world. And, con-|lel that lure men to the rocks of aie trary to the eyntc,|aster, the Cleopatras that draw the there ARE mento|Antonys, the Helens that cause wara— be trusted. It ts| yet In the up-to-minute times there not such @ bad|#talks abroad to balance equally the world after all. I1|record of these daughters of Eve the {s good. to ayer man who whispers “sweet nothings” im fn the creatures that people the . [her ear—which have the tendency w And he who has no belief in those about | lind her eyes. him ts usually the garrulous grouch or| So that love often produces NEAR- the hardened old bachelor who puffs SIGHTEDNESS, THERE ts Ui Pipe some ly Saturday WISE love, When it blinds t! reflects on “the might-have-beens” the years. So that, sooner or tater, love is the NECESSARY rudiment. It ts the ruler of the universe. In fact, love Is the lubricant that makes the wheels of the world go round. But, occasionatty, too much of it} makes those wheels go too fast—un- naturally go. And in the werds of Billy Baxter, “Thei @ bit of rough SOPHIE IRENE LOEB of it ts that It never laste. ‘It has not the lasting QUALITIES, And though she may be néar-eeneed at the time when he tells her that she a alt, afd may cure herseif with « little FORETHOUGHT. For in truth maay @ near-sighted girl is very far-seeing. And if this girl had but cultivated « bit of LOOKING AHEAD she would not now be paying the p. It in WISE to love WE! well to love UNWISBLY. Hdered BEFORE tho payment is DE-) Of course, as in the case of th MANDED. So thut all that seems lovely |!t does no go0d to lock the can in the course of twenty-four hours | the horse Is atolen. So, after the heart basta alas Png Oe beslione ts gone, locking is diMeutt. And the woman tn the case awakens| Man will ALWAYS woo woman, He some blue Monday with the cry of “Why | Will always make her think she t the a Chie only woman in the world. She will al- Now the eynto will say: “You pay for | Ways TRUST him—world without end. happens that where tl to pay” the price ts That is, It s not con- everything! That be true. But! But she herself can make all well end there Is ANOTITER side. And that, if/Well. How? By a little CLEAR viston you do not buy or borrow, you have no|!n the direction of the love game: man in the case, he the right to love? Does he up to the fulness of love? A payment to make. So that th.s young! The woman who BORROWED trouble ts! ! paying perhaps now with an exorbitant interest that she had not reckoned with, |his INTENTIONS as beautiful as Bi Tv an there {# no GREAT. | ATT IONS? being loved. No matter t2| Thus she would early SAVE the later fhe be the sturdy -ak or the clinging | payment vine. And, mark you, even tn this suf-| AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION frage state of things we have the cling- WORTH A POUND OF CONPESSIO! Interesting Facts From Everywhere e pe = organic of diseaso by the promiscuous inter- change of drinking glasses, A census of London paupers, made by the Poor Law Commission, indicates that the number has been underesti- mated, and it amounts to @ for every 1,000 inhabitants. HE current year marks the cen- , of whom Ost~ “the greatest in- nineteenth chemist century’ since Berzzellus.” of In addition to tts card index schome, Ruckingham Palace runs a press clip- ping bureau on as blg and thorough @ scale as the professional agencies. The longest tt hat an geroplane could fly without landing tn 198 was little over two hours, which was doubled in 1%9 and again doubled in 1910, mak- ing It possible to fy over eight hours continuously, The ginsses used tn Hungarian cafes will be numbered tn tho near future as @ means of preventing the spread ILL BBO. A CONTRACT &312.000. 3 4 —_ | anual No, WE WONT AT in A COM s < TAYAALHA! Me & JIMMY was BoYs HGen You KNOW! AHD Jimmy DRove A Cow ALL ONE SUMMER TO GIT Money TO BUY Him A SLED — HANA! HA! AND | Took IT Away Fro Him & CoasTeo Down To THE RaiRoad TRACKS & Teo IT % & Train & SET ON dim Th THE. TRAM, Pu Mino? SAY! z ouoeeee ¢ v 4 * LLEO ONT- Ves ALF, | REmemPeR— You eer ‘1 Dos Yes! THem WAS THE HAPP ON GREAT.