The evening world. Newspaper, November 10, 1911, Page 27

Fhe Evenia World Daily Magazine, Seatless Sam, the Subway Gink #% “‘Learned Ladies’”’ of Moliere \ Surprisingly Modern BY CHARLES DARNTON. OMET@MES it is the ancient thing that seems most modern. “The Learned Ladies," as “Les, Temmes Savantes” {s called by the translator, Curtis Hidden Page, who may have wished to give an added touch of satire to the title, emerged last night at the Lyric Theatre from a retlroment of many years without betssying a sign of the sere and yellow and quite in the spirit of the times. If Moliore were alive to-day he would find at his elbow exactly the same | material out of which to bulld a play. Supposedly learned ladies would un- ; doubtedly walk right up to him and deliver the goods he needed in his business They would unload half-baked ideas at the door of his workshop and walk off fereno and satisfied in the light of their higher Intelligence. He might choose between the “advanced young woman swelling with the pride of her “develop- ment” and the talkative dame distended with information on every subject from pickigs to politics, Poetry, of course, Is more “elevated,” as Moliere apparently realized when he paid his respects to the ladies of his day. ~~ Tuere ! Fix “BAD BILL” FER BREAKIN ON ME vat HE SEES That all classical French comedy should be in verse, however, is an idea} that Mr. Page evidently does not hold to tenaciously. At any rate the Drama} Players at the Lyric seemed to drop into prose at their own sweet will, The | play was one to put the'actors on thelr mettle, for not since Richard Mansfleld’s | Production of “The Misanthrope” has a Moliere comedy been seen on our stage. | And it is a pleasure to state that the company came off very well, if not with flying colors, The delicate French touch is not one to be acquired overnight, | and the voice of the prompter suggested that Donald Robertson's bold band of | actors was trying It on the dog before giving Chicago a chance to “eat it up." At the same time it may be weil to reflect that what is comedy to one may be culturine to another. To my untutored mind the astonishing thing about this anctent comedy as it @awdled along last night was its extraordinary freshness, It seemed very “pat.” ‘The literary highbrow, the worshipping females (a better wora would spoll the meaning) and the domestic home-ruler all fitted Into the scheme of to-day per- fectly. The struggle of that fat and worthy citizen Chrisale to assert his authority against his more aggressive wife in the choice of a husband for thelr younger ‘daughter Henriette had a certain homelike sound that {s heard to-day even tn our best-regulated families. But with a true sense of sport Motlere trumps this everyday card when he uses the pedantic rhymester Trissotin as rival against the unselfish Clitandre, favored by Henriette and fatuously championed by her father. ; ‘The best taste of the comedy was given first by Mr. Robertson, as the hon- estly material father who lays down the law about women ana women's duties in good, old-fashioned style, and then by Edward Emery when, as the affected poet, he read his sonnet amid the admiring exclamations and impromptu inter- pretations of the terridly learned ladies, But the sigh that Mr. Emery drew at the beginning of a later act must have come from his quaking heart, for he was fearfully uncertain in his lines, Mr. Robertson, who was so hopelessly unconvincing as Dr. Wangel on Monday night, redeemed himself by showing true sense both of character and humor ‘Ag the wife Miss Charlotte Granville was more successful in reaitzing the terma- gant than the blue-stocking side of the character. Miss Rene Kelly, though a trifle too sharp, even bleakly English, as Henrietté, acted with youthful frank- ness, and the charm that amlable folk usually see in that sort of thing. At all events she deserved a better lover than Fred Eric, who bawlea and shouted as though he were in a bollershop instead of a drawing-room. By way of a gentle hint, the stage manager might place a muzzle on Mr. Eric's “make-up” table. Miss Effe Shannon played the older daughter Armide without the slightest touch of individuality, and Herbert Kelcey was evidently content to ne just a good brother. Miss Eugenie Woodward was legitimately amusing as a sentimental spinster. ‘The play revealed a little world of manner agog with small doings. And now! that {t {a over the Drama Players may rest in peace. Something tells me that theatregoers in vulgar numbers will not rush rudely in to disturd them, STOPPED. Visitor—Last time I was here your Board of Trade was booming the town, Didn't they keep tt up? Uncle Bben—Nope! We called them off pretty quick. First thing we knew there was a lot of people coming Into town that we didn't know at all!"— Puck. SELF-IMPORTANCE, “What's the trouble with that prima donna?” asked the manager. "She used to be very pleasant and considerate. “Yes,” replied the stage manager, “hut she has gotten so she belleves all the press agent writes about her."—We ington Star, iitcaantansnaconen “What Is out of you?" he au toward her with the with a certain masculine tmpsrious (Copyright, 1911, by the H. K, Fly Co.) stioned, wor He bent He spoke Joseph Holbrool year in after © ga} Yor ee of father: His father's former partner, Mr armor of r she to whose daughter, he young man Ie Ot gled ageinst y confi Seems interference, agsistant A nt she stammered, Rages tie ae neneg Pr bts TOPAES Fetienn wenkly nothing that really mat- miserably unhanny, to the stockroom, wit ooke ters. urged, Insistently ness sounded In “Tél me," Joseph strain inom his’ round tale tm fhe Mi A persuasive tend Bis Hite utterance: !t bro work and learns she is discour | barrier of reserve faltering volce, confused, distressed CHAPTER IV. glad to confide In this man whose sym- (Continue!) ply, “ At our buyer has re- 4-good of you to speak | sig “m next in order here. to me In con/dence this| know the business from the ground up; wp ae a T've had plenty of experience in the par- voice * tleular work of this department as as- before, “And you are! sistant. So I put In my application. I to" “too, I'm” afrajd. thought T ought to have the pl the ou that I appreciate your, manager thinks otherwise. ‘That's all. 4 Bees dere ie h—very, much. Ine Only it seems a ttle hard, after fifteen years, to be told’ that you must stop right here for the rest of your life, that @ otranger,”” Maggie declared, Her I!ps, there's no chance for any further ad-| were tremulous; the dimple had long’ yancer vanished. There was just a hint of mist, “Fifteen year! vedling the deeps of the warm gray ey julated tn amazement. “Why, fifteen Her words came with little breaks we-| years azo you must have been the tween. “I'm—not myself—at all. It'a| merast child," There was ‘nfinite com. taken the heart out of me, I guess, Oh, | passion in his utterance. I @on't ean that." The sympathy in| “Yes, I started in ay a kid, and T've Joseph's face as she fought against her; been on the job every working day yan touched her to a feminine weakness] since.” wi re. “It's foolish of me to talk so much to the young man ejac- almost beyond her will to con-| “Irifteen years!" Joseph re ‘Please—goodby,” she repeated.| wonder that was half aws uy. me know if you get the job, |ing to imagine the meaning of that term « however, Ww: reluctant to|of servitude, How much of brain and ‘fis Giamios! as yet. ody had this woman given to swell the “t It that has taken the heart; fortune which he had lavished in care. OME WOMEN AR S SOME A BUT who the Al or 18 NOY a herein fact as to whethe 1 REWON ‘THAT LL wart mua * THIS HERE BARREL AN’ UREXON {Li JEST GIT IN Bad Bill, the Western Wildcat Conyriaht, 1011 PIR Face way FER HIM, ut’s SHORE AROUND WERE SOMEWHERE BORN LADIF: CHIEVE A LADYSHIP NONE EVER HAVE IT THRUST UPON ‘THEM. ove side on the other of the Pond where more fre quently “the sins of the fath s dren” and milady becomes one because her at- great > did not earn a title, there Is a standard that often makes her lady “in name the “melting pot did is ORE or te 18 er grandfat! BE at accessory lady. are visitea on the chil- | grandfather did “ar , ( Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publimiog Co, (The New Yorh Worl) vember i310, 1924 By ) OH, You WELCOME. Clare Victor Dwi — ins by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), HOH! Beware our FER We en? waar WAT BUNT OF A suEQIER | VOOR LET No LTTLe fu Fie or we | Saw Tus BARREL FIRST BLL | THROWUP yea HANDS H You KNow How He Sidesteppea Shorty, the Sherift GIT A WiccLe ON “THERE JUG S AWRICHT ! MOVE. BLONG If — Hey you! wines te, SHERIEE 2 COME ON - WAR is Het? —— core (NO SABE! HAVE known over magazines containing fllustra- tions of the ideat home, rooms fur: nished in good taste, de, and teen ith a algh put the maggaine anide, saying: “On, yes, that's all well enough it you live in the ntry—but what an t do my in fat? In, the first place, LIVE In your apart- ment. Don't buy things that you can't use every minute of the time If you wish to, If you have a large house or an extensive apartment you can afford to keep one room for “company use WHERE THE Intimate Chats With Women By Macame Legrande. Copyright, 1011, by The Brea Publishing Op, (The New York World), Little Thinga That Make Home Pretty. t realize that growing plants help a Ipt in giving a place that comfy, homy look, The one loud complaint ts “L can't seem to make plante grow Ja my Qpartment somehow, I don't knew whether it's because I haven't any eam or what!” a Weil, it's principally “or what!" @f course there are some plants that you can't make grow. There are some Plants that nurserymen after years and years of experimenting can't make grow, . . . . * ee. UT there are aéso some plants B that any one can make grow if she takes care of them conselen- tlously, For instance, the Boston fern, It's hardy, it grows prettily, and if yeu keep it well showered and well wates#d there's no reason on earth why ‘ft shouldn't thrive, They cost anyw from a quarter to a Molar and a» hale. Don't misunderstand mé and thing, f and fill it with gilt, spiderwe! and other perishable things, But most of us haven't large houses or extensive apartments, Most of us live In #ix or seven-room flats and wo NEED all the room—eo every corner must be livable, scarfs, eee B toric-a-brac that itters up house, Put your superfluous f In the store-room—dton't be af your place oking bare, Most of us have ¢ ir homes fairly choked with furs niture. Now for the pictures! Don't crawd your walls with a multitude of smal! frames—4t's a good way to cover the wallpaper, but it's not artistic, The “little picture’ idea is all well enough for the college boy's den or the room oe 8 @ WIN by doing away with all the doilies and tacky china the What Docs the Word “Lady” Mean? :: Copyriait, 1011 She makes or mars that attribute, quite HERSELF; for here everybody meets on the SAME happy hunting ground and the little woman who, of necessity, “cleans the window scrubs the’ floor and polishes up the jhandle of the big front door,” may ac- |quire the term with an equal jastice as any of our lords, or sisters or cousins " aunts. or, Jou are what you ARE; not what you THINK you are! Ah, there ts the line of demarcation—as the wise , “To see ourselves as OTHERS ‘Thus truly, “actions words!” And some actions are cannons in disguise, as far ax proving her ladyship Is concerned. The fact is, It is not 40 much what sh does, but in reality more what SH | DOES NOY do that tells what she rep- resents. And many a quiet Iittle woman who even seeks to hide her light under speak louder the precision of her instructions and by The Press Publishing Oo, Te “1 Want to Mate My Way Withour Leing Hampered by a Masculine Expense Account” (The New York World). bushel is the Lady inthe case more often than her assertive sist and Dears out the trulsm, ‘The shallow murmur but the deep are dumb,” Then, there are tho sisters who bring out thelr lady manners. on OCCA. | SIONS; and are only LADY-LIK r, that ts one thing | that the practice of manners only does make perfect. For the perfect product |needs no practice—and there's many a slip ‘twixt the NATURAL and ARTI- ICTAL. So that the real lady Is the everyday ‘one, meeting tho sveryday conditions as one. | A lady 18 one who gives to her indin- creet sister the warm hand-clasp rather than the “cold «shoulder,”’ A lady 's one who when th “gentlemen” in the car weaker sister her seat. A lady is one who puts herself in tie jshoes of the absent one that 4s mise | consequently F @ are no wives tho from entire responsiveni to the humor Joss prodigality, with r a thought] the delicately dogmatic manner in which | in the girl's description of her nates for the tollers when: Was sprung. | they were spoken, Her rebuke followed |The earnestness of his manner aa. he Winning personality of this par-lon the instant, “And, for heaven's sake, | put ther question wobered her at one among the horde forced Bim ean that laugh. check {t some-jonce, and her answer was given with ation such as he could never | waere."’ | serious intensity: ie ae maved, be gold logis direc Al By Jove, you are frightfully inter-| “If you were t this vacancy here, lad eenenincoe ee os [entink, you know.” Josepl cried, in an [was his inquiry, “what would you do?" nad complaine thurst of enthustasn Wh nt ? Maggie curtly Interrupted his train of | Ov sm i hat wouldn't I do? Why, I'd just ais sarh y ant arenahad his tr 4 Frightfully interesting Maggie re-| turn things upside down, and the whole ce cee ALeROY: | peated, dejectedly: and she shook her /establishment ought to follow sult for some aubtie; inexplicable rencon, une Bead In despair, ‘Bay, don't you spring | We're overstocked, for one thing. "We Still felt hersel? carlously, well diesosed &2¥ Of that London stuft on Hargen. | sell old goods—that's the result, of toward him. She made a compromise If you do, it's all off. Take my tip." | course, And we don't advertise ax we between her antagonistic emotions by A Mew curtosity seized the recently |ousht to. The real trouple is we're changing the subject definitely, white created knight of industry, Before he| behind the times—way pehind, We're offering him the best advice of which thought as to the propriety of the ques- | Using old, mildewed methods, and that's was capable l'd Uke to help you any way I can. Now, you must cut out that cane; It isn't usiness-like And the hat!" She recarded the latest thing in fuzziness with a pout of disdain, “That's an awful thing to go round looking for work in, * © © And that reminds me: Have you had any experience?” Not a bit, “Well, don't warned, Agal self daintily. and socks att as the Mstener tinued with a that fascinated now, you musi It's just the other side of the counter-that's all must praise thi Joseph replied, hu: tell anybody so, n the dimple revealed it- But you've bought tles Imes, haven't you?” Then, y nodded assent, she con- demure alr of sagacity d the young man, “Well, t sell them. Understand? matter of being on the You nstead of knocks bly, Maggie e RoOds, {ng them, Drop in here every now and then, and I'll that may help some. fast enough!” give you a few pointers You'll need them Joseph laughed aloud at tion he had put it: “You don’t like this Mr. Hargen, do yo I suppose he's all right. trouble {4 that he’s surrounded with 'y chorus, They make him b Neve that everything th. he thinks or does ts the greatest ever. Interested though he was tn the aub- fect, Joseph abandoned it as co trary to propriety. He created a diversion by idly asking the girl her name, gxie Pepper,” was the prompt ‘and don't you say {t's a hot name; I've heard that too many thou- nd times, When I first came here hey called me Green Pepper. The day after I sassed Mr. IHargen {t was Red Pepper, and that's stuck.” The Iimpia es were sparkling with merriment. A quick, dominant Idea prevented the proprietor of Holbrooke and | Good gracio iw "m not madly infatuated with him," |!'ve got an Maggie conceded, with a candor that | Would wo astonished herself beyond measure, “But | !¢ 4 corker, what's ruining Holbrooke Hat's ought to have and more use, lif Kayety {dea for an escalator that I round the store-{: would You know how tired the ‘The |fat women get chasing the different departments. Well, you see, 1'd—but what's the use? "Go on: treated. ase do go on," Joseph en- enthusiasm of girl warmed his heart, Here, ut last, was ng shown the way tn which the ition to which he had himself ght be achieved. The absorbed in terest on his Was so convincing that air Unued tho nar of f Ojects “I'd sell off all these goods at auction Vd give ‘em away, If ne to get rid of them, Then Vd te-stock—get the very latest and rom Par a bunch of the handsomese ever girls to show ‘om off, And I'd advertise Uke a-like @ circus or @ mining fraud, rent have By Sophie Irene Loeb of a young gir! who f# particularly de- voted to the artist who happens to be the rage for the moment. For the tiving room of your home se- lect @ few pictures, sdimply framed, In any of the shops you can buy Inexpen+ sive copies of famous paintings, If you can't afford to buy three or four at once, buy one and leave the other spaces blank until you have the money for more oe e . HE vogue of the long lace curtain T that simply ate the dirt from the floor and kept It In its folds all the stead nes just A lady i# one who will give her hus- d's stenographer the benefit of the bt. lady is one who keeps her vol no matter how heated the dis- do A low, cussion, A lady Is the wast her ehildre: A lady is one who remembers that her mother-In-law ts a MOTHER as well. e who does not oriticise neighbor brings up her winter through is past, In its have the filmy curtain that to the window ledge. we A lady 18 one who loves her own sex] x4 one has an excuse for not having as well as the other fresh, dainty window covering there A lady is one who does not give or-| gaye; because the pretty madras, both ders because she may plain and stamped, that ts being used A lady is one who is not afraid to} can be purchased from ten cents # smile at her maid and give her a word| yard up. of approval. Shun the illustra cushion top as A lady Ja one who never “stoops tol you would the plague. It 1 passe, conaue but even in ite heyday it was In bad And above all: taste. Plain colored velours, burlap A LADY IS ONH WHO LEAVE nd pongees in two tones are very ate THE IMPROSSION WITHOUT tractive—and Inexpensive, ING TO MAKE A great many women don't seem to In se “i Why, a# our announcements are now, only, of a sudden, she felt that, after all they’ just a joke, The girls tn ne [life Was a joyous thing. up-to-date houses all us the hd — Curtosity It's awful Ly - a _ awful!" CHAPTER V. ‘T wish to have a long talk with you," | gggramm@N irruption of business into the Joseph wail gravely. “What time do you stock-room kept Maggie Pep ) to luncheon, We might 0 fully occupied t M short the invitation, with i@itiine’ whe Hadad bpcor out Abe as 1 , tunity to look at the card lef th ao ned him, curtly | tor ner by the strange gen meg j T eat my tuneh right here. And tet! yag ap d ber intereat, e tell you something: Cut out that] gn, howey wiille ‘her w et. ‘They all try It, but itl attention outwardly was given to ders lorstand concerning styles ani prices and. de Joseph, however, re 4 the matter| liveries, her mind was engaged In vagite ) important to be dismissed thus| speculations ec the tdentity vailerly, {th We'll cut out the luncheon racket, tt| v you Insist. all the same, I Ae paths talle with you again about these things | of 1 i When may I see you?" | with relief when, there came a Por some usive reason, the qu Jluli from the gate and she was mastery of,his + ‘Hed the girl,| free to plok up ty 1 Lid been swayed her to compla!sanc Es ng face down on the ¢ er OUI REA ane’ hors any time,"| A# sho read the name there, Magkio's she promised. And, on, that remindy|¢y¢s dilated, her lips puckered to w me,’ she continued, with new vivacity,| hate. In the frat moment of under- “What's your name? standin, He, bole emotion | was of Murehigon, who had just em oe Figld in her onibt ‘om the elevator, came dodderingly to-| pode vr eet ey: ward the d Joseph hastily took altho unt, Shilaesn . sistant-buyer's demic, and, with a wottly f concerning the myaterious calier, spoken word of parting turned away. ad been In the throes of in ed the legro earn more of him, and she morr with a sm > dazall ed eagerly whet her friend | susceptibe ancient fate ked.| took up the card, No time passed, was @ throb of ajand M aid nothing more than sit new and strange and wonderfully sweet, | gazing with widgned eyes, Hattle passed She made no guess as to tts meaning; from astonishment to indignation. She mean that you should make a conser, vatory of your living room! Have @ few plants and take good care of them: they make a place #o pretty. ‘Try to make your home attractive tn an unpretentious way. You'll enjéy doing It, your husband will appreciate it and people will love to come to ase you. The average New York woman seem: rd her home nowadays as « convenient place to eat and sleep. whéh she “has no place else to go. je of home ts almost an unknown tty. — See what you can do to make yelir apartment a real LIVING place, jt Won't cost @ fortune, 7 oe , mbition, * T © have enriched his Ife by ete sweet hour; By one glad hope to have o’er- wilt hie gray; ’ Chased buat one darkening shadew from his day; To his long winter given one eingte flow: tt And, bride-like, to have brought nip but the dower Of one brief moment's bliss whieh would not stay, But, even as he\ clasped it, fled away, And left behind not c'en a memoryp power; ; To know that once, through me, he drained delight; a That once, because of me, his earth was Heaven; And in the compass of one day & night, 3 By gift of mine was infinite rapture wiven— bods O crowned reward! O rich dndemaityt Paying life, death and all eternity! Ellery Channing, in “Dhh Fs —Grace Woman. a ee A BAD HABIT. You have @ right to change your Founded on the Rose Stahl 3: Play ot the Same Name :; mind, of course, but don't fall into the habit.—Atchison Globe Nee ne felt that .er Inquivitivenees wae being cheated of Its just dees. Without nea; tation, she challenged the situation: | ‘Say, for the love of Mike.” ahe Get manded, bearing down on the desk, “what'a got you, Magy rf Tre rude Interrogation aroused tile girl Jmeher trance bewilderment. Slowly sife lifted her eves, in. whieh the color had darkened from excitement; the puckered lips relaxed to if smile. Her words came in ® gus ~ Joseph Hobrogke! Now, what @e nk of thi ) Hajirooke! Matte ejaculated lier jaw dropped, her eyes nd, she ‘stood nsfixed. with t st overpowering emotion @f heg after a halt nt exe minute, ah amation, it equate, but she could Come Pirase worthy of the cates! t “For the love of Mike!” ” Maggie's Lips quivered a tittle She moved nervously, apprehensively, » She brought out the vital question with ditfeulty, 4 “Did I-did Tsay anyching—muebe Hattie?” ne distres friend threw up hands in a gest supreme di Did she Say anything?” she offed, rolling her eves toward the ceiling oh, heavings! Did sie #1y anything Bhe broughs save back with an effort, and regarded ber questioner with infinite reproac Magnie frowned bleckiy, endeavoring’ to re the extent of her culpability, A lively shame for her unaccustomed garrulity swept over hee, (To Be Continued.) * BASE Sheree