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"Pres @tateal wares, might reasonably hesitate Bor the life of me—and I had little for “Preserving Mr. Panmure" at the Gertrude Elliott =s Josepha . Quarendon. hear what had happened when the go nation. While Mr. Pincro begged to & bitter satire and stodgy comedy. at times, but as the talk went on @ #on why the play should eve nd. Th except for a priggish little girl who tal open’ book. This impossible child, the acted go seriously by ‘Mona Hungerford that.4¢,eeemed arcrime to send her to bed early in the evening, Only @ confirmed optimist could pass @ pleasant evening with the people who remained to keep up the general row. The on were enough to get on ar ded: jerves with their endless cli ter, While the men were little bette: than oads, Even the best of them, the Right Hon. Reginald Stulkeley, M. P., and his secretary, Talbot Woodhouse, “poasted” the dinner they had just eaten in the house where they were guests, and raked their fri coals, They’ were good en the foolish governess to dr before thelr fire when enough to come in out of the r Woodhouse cut @ sorry firure as a hero she when he announced that it was he who had kissed Josepha, only to have his face elapped by the prize ass of the collection, However, he was so amiable that he didn’t etop at gettin stuck fn a vase in drawing lots for the governess, though, like us, he must have known what would happer As this obliging young man ¢ ander Scott-Gatty walked off with the Do you think I ought tv give him up ‘* Mr. Panmure” a Pinero Pickle. &6Y CHARLES DARN MAVEN preserve us from “Preserving Mr. Panmure!" H @ay be the cold storage house of European productions, there are some | Plays that even Charles Frohman, freighted as he 1s with foreign the- | erving TON. While America to bring hore, left at the end!—t could see n> excuse Lyceum Theatre last night. that It was only to the dis A. bril author sets his own 1, and he © up to 't whether he serlously or lightly, But n tell! There was very | play on the stare to sug- me on tl» programme. a light mood turned out to wy indeed, short story ceedingly siliy, a sin stretched through four mure Kissed the govern man in ths house ion when the horrified yo ed the fact that her sen ling a dreadful secret ruined she ater rum: 0 one Tong question Happily ed to serve as wit: wr had the good taste ad off-ata nero play little in th Rest the n Pinero 4 long and ex hin tea wer had have as an asant scpne t possibly have been any- iny about ft, for Panmure was! ® an awful duffe fat, midd and dald, that It was verness rushed tn burning with-Indig- the comedy became an ture of h d shaped the dialogue cleverly ‘ ned to be no partioular cha were unint ked lke « woman hom life creature of Pin was Wm. McVay as St. John Panmure, J.P. [will nave to suffer the consequences, {ertena ‘appeared to be pusaled, Tac Bvening World Daily Magazine, Doccowe Im tHe SAME OLD LADY- Leap Year Holdups # ” Ain te Ld ue Bae Tt seemed very strange to Bobbie that Bessie should prefer to sit in lefence- leas! the rear seat instead of right out front with him as she always had. But he did not dream of the clever scheme that the roguish little girt had up ete BY GoLLYS MA. You Berran} WATCH OUT FOR ME THE CHICICEN CARRY Me OFF hu Wednesday HADN'T NOTICED IAN EXTRAORDINARY her sleeve. [rim and Cupid commanded to let out a couple of natches and drive hard) to the litth an orphan, and if tt her to have a ch Of course, I « occasionally, say to chaperon he raul once in a's He stopped wondering, though, when she pulled two guns on hurch on top of the hill. What could he do but obey? PAOAOSEDOSOEEEEEEAAEAAEAEAAAAEOOES OAOEEEEEEE HOO ESES The Jarrs Are Sponsors For a New Mary Anderson * while, night Clara ma would resp and to the theatr But i aloof from stage nd everybody so by The Press U is Rack, we'll Begin to Go Ahead! ri ” the / | Adding Machine! pied odpabeta raat Weis ieee as aaa! oie eaaeaaa | {“Cheer Up, Cuthbert!” What’s the Use of Being Blue? POO FOSHSOSIG SS PID VIDIO DOV DISET VVHGTTSISOOVIOOOY seven the old stage door keeper would herself take off his hat as she pasted, while hd others a teay would trickle down his grim old her, and face as he thought of his own daughter, Phe tears trickle down y f when " for eating t » young Mr Slavinsky, interrupting Mra, Jarr's quot r yatr t ence | There Is a Lot of Luck Lett. honors of the performance. Miss G Mona Hungerford as Myrtle. w New York World) i trude Eliott, who walked about tn red - Has | By Clarence L. Cullen. Clarence L. Cullen. slippers after she had taken off her wet stockit emed far from happy! gg PUT TE think T could go on the A {a the role of the governess, She looked very pretty at all times was stage without having to. sing | ef Uttle charm in her p mance. William MeVay succeeded 4 y dance,” sald young Mra, < sis. tis. Tho ire I ng Co, (The New York World! Panmure a despicale object. Miss Isabel Irvine Mudridge-Smith, “I remem pera E ive Go) ; De abA fae one of the irate ladies, but Miss Teresa M father tel ubout Mary 4 Cc Teun Wares than ‘th " am i¥ the O -mond and Miss Eliza) san behaved very s Suters ust The pickle that Mr. Panm was dn eve ere she appeared not Ukely to be popular, It leaves a sou everybody, even the ehureh pec wer preys non Uibely Mary Andorso Hate and refined ee Bett Vincent s Wm alway gd atu 49 ps iar od aid M Hlavinsky, 1 . ‘ Advice to Lovers}: Be ae areola Thing Oneal! you Fora hoy A Fropos:d Eiozemen!. 2 leve there won't be MAN ho sign 1 "A. I ‘ < t but Vaudeville an Don't Run Awan s v A " ‘J ‘ nm fom more years OE SAnee Pull Up if you Stop Take a t 1 yom Ari \ « man prow ut itl im Jove with a girl toot r ‘ You can club fo parents wieh her to ma oe f rio \ . ae else for mon rw q bap « Do you J Mrs, Mu the \ “Solemn Asi 5 is ge and be im: w t t a 4norks DAT 1 0, while 4 F f lk ie \ Don't do it, 1 » i at ‘ ndies that npaiwelre Gi + Sanried last two your siater he ig no-fa y hotels P ’ Clink are both o 4 4 y 1 are of age, a ; on ‘ta HOM ‘ ‘ aac aboveboard fart ee ; 4 pee ; that py i iy Chin Falsehoocs, ! j 1 pa i Hien : : “3. 3." write yd AV i Tae ! ui mplaniian to 8 girl, but at : “ee : : 3 left in Xaurants or in taxt i ‘ Pr Itod told me several untrucas, 1 1 a AG He | OF Sare Lat FED Ras Ay eee elt ; Br fo Rel } 1 should cont el } u) J . bi te they aloe 5 anion a On the © » you would ' ; . bd "4 foollah Af you did \ in < 1 Ha Tho Dulieal- Wa ae , ee t I N Fe 5 Seyi “AL MA" writes La tt 1 t ralite ¢ I know that he i x L rlastingly Dissecting t Pa When son Preternaturall over @ wear I have been deeply in te to another gisl ) hard to ellahie.” rt Zig tells u at he's Gut our with @ young man Who returns iny What shall I do k 3 j te ware it ts all very fusing, Wh n * ha aaa TT MMM Ea oy Pan fection. But friends say | am too you You brovght it on yourself, and you|satd Mrs, Jarr, who noted her! cule more than whe Journal er mind that temptations of the te r and hauteur | be wuffictent to maintain the pro- if ah erve t think T would need a chaper vid Mra, Mudridge-mith coldly i are Ke nowhere,” spoke Jarr, w i been an at ' Whether Mrs! Mudrida or dances or hax a st care on the socal aide ve career, are, | take tt, f detail that can be at 1 to later What ts the first thing has to do if she takes up stage A Mr. sid y Slavineky ed the glazier'n won on.” wald Mr, Jarr von that the first im goes fr he bow the matter wae gat. 4 for the present, February 28, 1912 By C. M. Payne a , SMATTER, PoP? - a eo ‘ alt E--SMITH” Biggest Cowboy Story Since “The Virginian” By Caroline Lockhart OOOO OOOO NOOO TTOOOOT 66 (Copymml, 1911, by Fe 1. Lippincott Company.) Pressed her hand tightly egatoet SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING, CHAPTERS . Smitty a weatern oy at who alway ne into the house, Prairie Flower," fers ty Nimwelf as 'Me—siniths’' ran Her face relaxed lke that of @ ena tis run as a sort of frontier hotel. Itt) when dt stiles through ite tear, Amd S ajuaw'a, ball-breer «| Smith, in the hour when the first real ran init}. other guests at . " i love of his life was at ite zenith, “ Mis heart Was so full of it that Hp Well nigh bursting, walked back to the house with the squaw clinging tightly to his fingers CHAPTER vil. The Bug-Hunter Elucidates. * a un » Instinct which mage | 4 recognize Susie as his « him that Smith Ralston even » though, verily, pres’ upon to talk with most ordinary the » would have been dull of compre- 8 ranch to Rilted Aue 4 Me Mase’ cries | henston indeed. While no reason ¢ Deared to be nec wld ranch, ov remaining aj wiry at the MacDons hinted at hunting casually expressed a hope that he might be able to pick up a bunch of good pontes at a reasonable figure—which explanation was entirely satisfactory to all save Smith. The lat- ter frequently voiced the opinion no CHAPTER VII. (Continued,) “Wings” Sheriff. ITH @ whriek which was wom- a Deputy Cupid acish in tte shrillness Gmith| Ratston lingered solely toy y upsetting the lamp in his| which th liners agreed was log violence. Unmixed horror tcal, since they, too, along with the ma- was written on his face. jority of unmarried males for fifty The xitl heraelf shrank back at] Miles round, cherished a similar ambixs what she bad done; then, holding out] ton. or several rattles for Inspection, she said:| If furtive-eyed and reatiess passers-by | “Looks like you don't care for} @frived after dark, slept in the hay nea: punta. thotr unsaddled horses, and departed al eae dawn, arwuredly no person at th only 1 the unspeakable | Donald ranch was rude enougn t it use. Her eyes] feasons for their haste. i he remembered | Its howpltality was as boundless, a you little” use Kuess 16 meant mn, and, t Dora in time. HQ said instead, with «| free, as the range itself; and if @light laugh of confusion: leaving any guest had happened to ex Snakes scare me, and rat-traps| Press gratitude for food and shelter, It oe {9 doubtful 1¢ any tnoMent could, tave surprised Susio und her , unless, mayhap, tt might have bev offer of payment for the samen Ralston told himself that, eince he coukl remain without comment, the ranch was much better situated for his purpose than Col. Totman's home; the really convincing point in ite fa up he refused to recog: | nize as influencing him tn the least, (hat he was nearer Dora by ot he r had not yet returned to Mia face When a knock came upon the door In response stranger step! of shoulder strength in to Susie's call, a tall ed ingide-a stranger wile and with a kind of grim we face, MW brightness of the hy and thelr f returned Su gaze as wteady ax his own, # fell upon Dora and lingered th. © Justity hie gus- Ralston beleved that his wank t hand, evening which was typteal of pictons, lay ch ‘One and the soft lanrp yes luminous, Light burntefing her brown hatr made | Cters, Ralston sat on the edge of tls the moment on 7 smith aaw | DUNK, rolling an occasional cigarette. the frank admiration in nger'y) and is g with huge enjoymene te teak \ the conversation 4 Kroup around the which MeArthup hobby enthusi- the character of i Hers, and lilt his theort Karding th san Bid He ad-)shoct-tron stoy Was the central fgure Un ite forgot May T stop here to-night?” dressed Dora had tly characteristic gravity of manner and express Mstingulahing definiteness of Weat n Yhough the quality of hia voloe, its 1 Interchange of mi ation, bespoke the man of pulse and | life between An ‘and Awe di etucation, the accent wae unmistakably the early Pletstoccne period, befor of the West | Mecteetse a: 1, Old Mau Rullson, Tubbs others tn t same language tn 1 he would have argued moot ques with colleagues engaged in Loa 3 o's & unk-shouse."* who answered. His unuttered turned upon It was Sinttht | and | wnt t still rankled; him with insulting ep Suste , re in," anserted McArthur, swith You'd Wetter Ket out to 1" La a ip aselseedy Serco nthe boss here® The stranger |fytt. wan ot Hone folk eee put the que@ion to Smith with cool poe todon to North America and fh liteness iene é ere te PR A te A | Ed, whose cheeks ‘were Sumte leaned toward him, and her 1 his hot hand upon his fore ish face was distorted with c ae 4 | plaintively ag de, she ked “Arthur ¥ ‘Not yet, Mr. Smith!” In "a headache from » Involuntarily Dora and the stranger | see what you're taltein’ 2 exchanged glances in the awkward ail th ponds end ound here a-hatchin’ Out qBillpye * u ld him for a minute, nwo WIAD Cons then asked ny this inanswerabie Mea Tubbs in ho etepped into the} “Let me now TL can make see iu n he suid thought look up at his ap- | fu 1 canne tier than to give d until his cheek |sou Herbert 8 s definition, Spen- {efines evolution, as vearly as I ean nember his exact words, as an Intes {gration of matter and concomita, disste pation of motion, dur nh the mate later passes from a the matter, t is unde Prairie Flower ny fee Her os to a sulicy > me, white man ¢ and thelstle woma under the blanket Smith reaohe tse Ed fell off his chair im @) \"Wwhy. don't you marry @e white mock faint and crashed to the floor, | ee (1g Be Continued.) and waa ad OO 1G exchanged sianoes in peaked seal ving a-tall,” dee My eve her einbarraa than for | tn eon eusploleualyt e Jany other reason, Ralston aud quietly, |OF you Joshin q nye do as thiy—gentle Tie 1 * sald Tubbs oe here w Ont I or A section boss up her but neither Smt (talked words Like them, He belley J , i i ing from tuds and Mzards— that Yes, he did—on many believers HORN 4 € tlon,”* ved jet f x ; 3 ‘ ' the word. ‘That's q tole hen, In the tomenotens q ) F out @ clincher, Tubbp 1 ok here, Doo, If that's 5 t