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ne a ’ it VAUDEVILLE WW OPERA'S HOME. AT BIGGEST SHOW Headliners of All Broadway: and Novel Five Acts for the Newsies’ Benetit. 7 Vaudeville of oo high an omer that tt| Newer could we made to May If salaries ted to come out of the box-office wil! replace Wagner and Verdi in the Metro- Politan Opera-House to-norrew night. when footlight stars will perform for the benefit of the Newsboys’ Home (lub. The thousands of dollars that will be raised will he used in transforming the old New York Historical Society Ballding, Second avenue and Wleventh Mtreet, into nm club and home for the ‘There wit! he @ dormitory, «| 1m, a awlmening pool, baths aud . ateered to make the orate in many a year Nordica will «ing some of her wonderfu! *bngs, and Albert Spalding, the noted violinist, wit play, From the comic Opera singe and the legitimate and Veuderilie theatres, David Warfield, Joe Weber and Lew Fields, George Arliss, Charles Hawtrey, Mitinn Ruseoll, Blanche Ring, Al Jolson, Diga Petrova, Clifton Crawford and Ino win do “stunts.” George M 4 will pull wome original Ame: ag «tut, while Gus Edwards and his newaboy chorus will sing some new There will be musical numbders “The Rose Maid," “The Quaker “The Wall Street Girt,” and “The Top of the Werk,” rendered by the Prdacipals Other headtincrs are offering fervices no fast that it will be noxt to lqnposaible to make up a programme, for ynew ucts wore offered every hour to- ‘aay. Speaking of programmes, it may te remarked that olght of the handsom- eat show cirls In town will ‘dispense them in the lovby, and the management Promises a new sensation that proper Ghango will be returned, an innovation charity benefite, ‘The “thriller” of .he big’ programme ‘Will be the work of a picked team from New York Fire Department, under direction of Fire Commiasioner yh Johnson, as stage manager. The y uniformed firemen who will “act” be under active command of Bat- thelr ies mela. ese. FEB BVENtNV Wun, \Co rsetless Figure Frankly Revealed Is the Demand of the Latest Negligee Seneca the steel bare of the Mercantile Daepoait Company to save President during the Bquitable fire, will init Hi i wit show how rendered to rescued fire-) fect There wil) be exhibi- the life ine gum, down which firemen will slide, cereal firemen will leap from tlevation into @ net held on the eit st » Ugees it in a specially constructed cor- @t, designed to give the effect of no And it ts made of auch Jal that its wearer may ait and recline in the informal poses that best bring out the classic beauty of ber draperies, Of course classic lines of real distinc- tion may be achieved only with the ‘Most expensive fabrics, and @ modern boudoir gown of chiffon, lace and satin ts apt to be a costly item of the ward- robe. Some of the Paris models mount up to hundreds of francs, and a hundred and Atty American dollars is really trifling sum to pay for » Paris nogligee ™ to be seen at any smart country house party, Even @ week-end party demands at least two elaborate boudoir gowns, for wear at midnight “gossip feats” and for bridge and boudior- visiting in the morning hours before luncheon. SIMPLE LITTLE WRAPPERS ARE NOWHERE AT ALL. A simple little bedroom wrapper of ‘tucked lawn and ribbons would be ab- ,|folutely nowhere at all in company with pink and blue charmeuse and chif- fon boudoir gowns with winding sie erles and long trains; or—say, broidered cream not affair Teinnge’ 0 on the skirt with festoons of nauve silk roses, and eked out above by a real jace coat trimmed with silver fringe, And Naturally, these elaborate concoctions are accompanied by ravishing petticoats afroth with lace flounces, high-heeled eatin slippers with embroidered stock. (ngs to matoh, and fetching oculffure caps of lace and ribbon, Jum now the glove elk negliges te the Paris ocrase, ‘The glove wllk boudoir gown dose not exactly “fit like a glove," ‘out It certainly cling Mke a glove, Nothing in tho way of boudoir wear Gives wish clinging, claswical lines as this new negiigee, which ds so soft and Gimpey, off tho gure, that its wearer might easily draw it through her brace- let, The fabric is of the weave of which the long embroidered gloves are fash- foned and these gowns are made on Samplest lines, the shimmering, clinging (iaterial falling aiout the limbs in ex- \uiaitely graceful folds and the flesh ‘AT STAIRWAY OF EAST SIDE CHURGH » Bho body of o nan with a tong, sharp ‘Apite in bis right hend and three stad the rectory and the Chureh of St. Brigid at Avenue B and Second street. Indica- ‘Meas point to the police aveumption that | Puree, containing @ five-cent piece and a ‘bruee, man wee about Aéty-five years five feet seven inches tall eyes, His worn but well cared for A ‘was of gray and a diack cardigan | fagket was worm under his coat, The fefere hat was bought at Babcock's tere, No, 18 Qarket street, Newark, arm with gold cord to form one sleeve. BATURVAT, Q CANARY YELLOW Shon TRI . WITH Blac ce CHANTILLY every line jof the figure ts revealed ber neath the thin hi of worsted and metal are in cry of rose, greet 5 mray, bro: vn and silver, and ti with the straight, narrow lines, gives an Eayptian suggestion to the nogligee. Every fashiorable wardrobe this summcr will include at least one canary yellow negligee, for this tint is ex. tremely smart just now, and most of. ‘The other shoulder and arm are votled| the aristocratic boudotr gowns of pale with thin tissue, printed with Japan designs in gold and cerise, and draped crepe di the right shoul bust With anot! dull gold ornament. The figure wathed in folds of the thin silk and fs entirely uncorseted—or, 1f @ corset must be worn, it is a mere Birdie, reaching scarcely e@bove the waiatline. Another French negiiee which 1s frankly revealing in its lines Is @ novel and interesting affair designed—as ite ‘aris sponsor affirms—"for occasional dinner wear en fame, or for the pur- Poses of a bathrobe.” This astonish: ing garment ts made of the thinnest Possible Oriental allk, in flesh colo: but beneath it is a Uning of China sik In dull Oriental blue, so that the gown Is really modest in effect. It lips over the head, buttoning on the shoulders, and 1 exactly as Wide! gark’'s shell, as ite wearer's hips—no more. course, worm without corsets, and UP AND DOWN PICTURE LANE By Henry Tyrrell. HE waning art season has suf- | fered unwonted eclipse from thi pall of sadness thrown o7 the community by the Titanic, disas- ter, Attendance upon the great lux- urious sales, which in their way are mi-social events, has languished and Prices fetched have shown an alarm- ingly downward tendency, Loan ex- hibitions have been postponed or off on account of the withdrawal of wealthy picture owners whose plana have undergone necessarily sudden change on acoount of family affliction, Even the Dickens centenary exhibi- ton of old masters, for the beneft of the international fund in process of creation for the great novelist's family, has fallen short of expectations in tl amount of money realized, and, equally in the widespread notice and appreciation which such en un. mbiage in New York of rare privately owned abroad should which t# White-Allom galleries, No. ty-seoond a to el shortly. While the lamp holds’ out burn it {» worth while to met to it, if only for the sake of the superb Van) Dycks, Romney's exquisite drawing of | Lady Hamilton in the altogether, the Boucher portrait of Mme at the new 19 those oc- casioned tet of arma and shoulders gleaming ave, pioturee long Mnes and the graceful flow of drapery, but the Mus.rstion can give no idea. of the lustrom softness of ihe whito fabric Or the beauty of the flesh tints show h at arm and shoulder, ‘This nogligee 19 not embroidered like the all Gloves, but ts trimmed with almost nun- Uke simplichy, with narrow, roal Val. ronette of white rid 18 negiiges of tho ainuos {s & silpron model crepe de Chine in American ne color, Its rich shade alone would 1 it a vividly consptcuo nent in aw roomful of women clad in pastel tones, if the gorgeus gown, with te hes of ald at tho top, were wy by & splendidly dark beauty, the oft. Ty may be imagined. negilges alipe on over the heat “Tatormatien is, for Locating Wiissing Pervows gO Ss la be clous “Bos” yefore you in his habit s he Lived. CULPTURE has the call on Pic- ture Lane at the present moment, First of all, there ts the over- Chine, crossing from| dark-eyed women iw caught under the/ black lace In strong contrast; uff, canary or the bright mari- low that is becoming only to have touches of or heavy worsted lace in dold, coarse patterns forma an equally effective contrast with the yellow fabric. Illustrated i a teagowan of canary yellow chiffon, trimmed with black Chantilly, Intended for informal coun- try house wear at tea hour, or for bou- doir wear at formal house parties. The chiffon te draped over satin meteor of the same color, and the arrangement of the lace gives the fashionable ‘“wind- ing” effect. The deep bertha drapery over the shoulders is caught below the gold [bust with a yellow and black velvet chrysanthemum, and another chry: themum catches lace and chiffon bye below the knee. In the hair poised two high carved combs of and across the head, in It ds, of| front of the combs, is a fetching litte cap of lace. ings, at the galleries of the Bertin Pho- tographic Company, No, 306 Madison avenue, Victor D. Brenner's bronras, marbles and medallions make an imposing array at the rooms of Arthur H. Hahlo & ¥ in the Windsor Arcade, No, Fitth avenue. But if you haven't etme | PI to get up there, you may at any mo- ment look upon Mir. Brenner's most Widely known design by simply taking from eee Docket or borrowing a Lin- erry Clews Jr. pute a tot of plas- tte life into tis one (but many sided) man show at Gimpel & Wildenstein’ No. 6% Fifth avenue. He can paint jsomewhat like Whistler, and the can eculp—well, his works in this tine re- mind you of Rodin, they are so differ- ent. But there is no denying that Henry hae prodigious cleverness, He has orig- inal tricks, even of imitating. We do not recall ever having seen anything precisely lke he “version” of Prof. Wallace Wood, guished Wut unhappy gentieman ts modelial a4 @ microbe—with » human, or almost human, head that suddenly dwindles off to the body of @ tadpole. There ix something eubtly Darwinian about this treatment which not every jone can @rasp. But when {i comes to “The Kise,” ah! there's no ambiguity about thai about lusclousnes ing eyes are tinged with blu if there was only the color! would tingle and glow bg togad tropical warmth of that unkissed ki out in full Springtime exuberauce, at the usual places and some others, The Water Color Society's exhibition surely ought to be taken in, while it laste. By the way, the Evans Prise there has been awanied to Chile Has- sam, for his quaint ilttle “Minuet. Montross's, No. 610 Fifth avenue, pute up a notable assemblage of pictures in ofl, water-color anad pastel by American artists, including the dead masters shadowing genius of the t Rodin, whose bronge bas-rellef, “La Hrance," the Champlain Memorial at Crown at, bas Just been brought over by jomt distinguised delegation of neh Milities that ever came here n. ‘The Rodin exhibition, nov a n free to the public ut the M politan Museum of Art, awakens with eavte tart to the | that NOW pommenses the fest ection of the works «of todin that exists, outside of “sown syudiog in Marly Mahonri some Winsome bronsex together mrss pene re ros | Young has been exposing} with | paintings by few drawings an@ waier-colors, just danier at Mresausrs, | Fifth avenue, Delng laced together down the right to show. that shere are no hard feel: near TiveRty-aiREh, Chane set stihl SRR tartan Inneas and Martin, and auch live ones {an enfield, Gart chers, /M Murphy, ‘Tryon and in | Rovert @ Snedevor | Fortyewixth str Fexiiuitton of et palatin box aketch, he Momtiton Wer kaltery, No. 107 Weat \. announces Its annual inet paint is just lke a ly different, Ricketts gallertes, Morvy-aixth atreet, are to n the alluring landecapes of De t af the embroidery, together H in which that distin- bi PF COURSE, there are plenty of | Paintings to be seen, bourgeoning |” and in this crowded season of the year {t would not be diMoult to find a ait- uation as a matd or companion. So long As she could earn a little honestly, she was not afraid. 1e Was desperately resolved. Such a dinner! member it; and longer how little either of them ate of it! She knew ew [Shou about theme things to appre: fe3 ole Ps are uecemp, CHAPTER XIX. (Continued) Fortune Decide q HEY were leaning agains the starboard rail, watching the slowly converging lghts of the harbor. Fortune had bor- rowed a cloak from her stew- ardess and George wore the muflt of the first oMicer. Tho captain had offered his, but George had declined. He would have been lost in its ample folds. “LE can not understand why they made No effort to find you," he mused. doesn't seem quite human. “Don't you understand? It ts quit simple, My mother believes that Horace and I ran away together, If not that, 1 ran away myself, as I ¢ day threat: ened todo, In either case, she maw noth- ing could be done tn trying to And where I had gone. exactly what did happen, Dovitleas she has sent on my things to Mentone, which, of course, I shall never see ngnin, No, no! I can not go back thers, I have known the misery of suspense long enough.” She low her head to the rail. Ho came quite near to her, His arms went out toward her, only to drop down, He must walt. It very hard. But nothing prevented his putting forth a hers reagsuringly, and Fortune. It am not crying," came in muffled “T am only sad, and tired, tired,” ‘Everything will come out all right in the end,” he encouraged. “Of course you are tired. What woman wouldn't be, having gone through what you have? jet’s ait in the steamer-chairs gi the bugle blows for ainner. I'm a bit the chairs, and no ‘The lights twinkica, but fainter and faint i at last only the pale Une between the sky and the nea remained. She turned her head and Jooked sharply at him. He was sound weep. “Poor boy!" shé ‘murmured woftly. “How careworn!” There was something grotesque in the mask of desert tan and shaven sxin, How patient he had been througu it all, and how kind and gentle to her! She remembered mow of secing him that night in Cairo, and of remarking | how young end fresh be seemed in comparison to the men she knew and had met. And she must leave him, to #0 into the worki and fight her own battles. If God had out given to her a brother like this! But brother he never could be, no, hot even in the pleasant sense of She did not want pity. * those things for hi Pity suggested that she was weak helpless, whereas both patient and strong. * ° * What did she want? She glanced up and dowa the deck. It was totally deserted save for them. ‘nen, beauty of a thousand over and down and brushed his hand with her lips, And George slept on. Only the blare of the bugle brought him back to mun- dane affairs, He hy Py 4 and he announced the fact wi ‘They | would dine well that slat bt captain placed Fortune at hs right and George at his left and broached @ bottle of fine ola Johannéeberger. And the three of them had coffee in the amoke-room. If the other passengers had any curiosity, they did not manifest it openly. Upon @nding thet they had no real need of maying < over In Naples, the cap- tain urged that take the return voyage with him times, with never failing love and in- terest. They called across the bay in the right clearness of the morning. “You are going back with me," Gi @nnounced in a tone which inferred that nothing more was to be sald upon the aubject, But, for all tds confidence, | there was @ great and heavy fear upon ‘he asked for mail at the “Have I ever given call me by that name? 'No,’ “Then T give you that ow. “What do you frighten @ man like that! for?” he cried. “What I was going to permission | “at| Perhaps she knows \ ‘ou permission to! f clate {t. Tt must h penny. She amiled, Jested; and always upriat tears. The dining-room was filled; women in beautiful evening gowns and men in sober binck, But the two young people were oblivious. Their fellow-diners, is | however, bent more than one glance in their direction, Ii-fitting clothes, to be sure, but It wae observed that they ate coat a pretty laughed, she vattle to dam the ol to the manner born. The girl was beau- titul in @ melancholy way, young man was well-bred and of feature, though oddly burn Coffee, George produced the cable. Tt wan still sealed. “You read it frat, it across the table. Her hands shook as she eipped the sealed flap and opencd the message. She read, Her ey and the jeasant he eald, passing been brave #0 tong: be brave a little longer." “I did not know that there lived such wood and Kindly men. Oh, thank him, thank him a thousand for mo, Read tt. al saw her tears “Bring her home, and God bless MORTIMER. I knew it!" he cried exultantly. "He and my father were the finest two me: in the world. ‘The sky is all clear now. it?” sadly. “Oh, I do not wish to pain you, but it is charity; and I am too proud. He could not believe “You refuse? "Yes, But when things grow dark and the day turns bitter I shall always Temember those words. I oan see no other way. I must fight {t out alone. Love makes a man dumb or eloquent George saw all his treasured) fading swiftly, eloquence be-} battle of love he paused for breath a! slowly. The diners were leaving in twor and Servants wi there was a tread of ctrviniy feat. They noted it not. “Well, one more ple And hi asido his self-imposed restriction: you come for my sake? Because I am lonely and want you? Will you come for my sake This time her head did not move. “Pity and the coffee-cups rattled. “No not pity. Because you Were lone cause you had no one to turn to, I could not in honor tell you. But now T do. Fortune, ‘will you coms for my sake, use I fove you and want you and always?” shall come. CHAPTER XX. March Hares. FORGE, in that masterful way which was not wholly ac quired, but which had been latency till the episode jour- ney—George paid for the di ner, called the head-waiter and thanked him for the attention given it, and laid a generous tip upon the cove: From the dining-room the two young people, outwardly calm but inwardly filled with the Great Tumult, went to the manager's bureau and arranged for Fortune's room, This settled, Fortune Went down to the cavernous entrance to bid George good night. They were both difident and shy, now that the great problem was solved. George was puazied as to what to do in bidding her | wood-night, and Fortune wondered tf he It is Here is the timer, I'm not going to open it ny after dinner to-night. We'll go up to| the Bertolint to dine, You'll stay there for the night, while I put up at the Briatol, which is only a little ways up the Corao, I'm not going to ask you & question till coffee, Then we'll thrash he subject till there isn't a grain She made no protest, Secretly she wan pleased to’ be bullied like this, It proved that among all thease swarming Peoples there was one interested in her welfare, Hut she knew in her heart what she “os going to when the Proper time She did not spol! hin dinner, She was also | Ville. rote new mesgotinte 4p color, section of modern etchings by | Branewyn, Fitton, Haig and others, There are some perfectly corking oll Brangwyn and le #l- es a ae Promise to pay him back. If she failed to pay it, It would be be- cause she was dead. For she could not survive a comparison between herself, “her mother. Here in Naples she a ‘fing something, a» oggortunion ecta Long would she te-| 11, Ana ie no lenber cared lg hands gripped the linen) ‘It you haven’ Pines se eo oceans TERT OOS SIE: would Kien her right here, before | these horrid cab-drivera: shall call for you at nine,’ he sald. We've @ot to do some shopping.” A tinkle of laughter. “Thes y-made suite are vest: | ning to look Ike the deuce,’ 1 don't remember, the clerk will,” slyly. “TIL recently I be- Hieve I never thought of anything. I must be off. It's too cold down here for He offered his hand nervousl: hers freely, Ie looked the marvellous eyes for a moment. Then he turned the palm upward and kiseed | it, lightly and loverly; and she drew it rons his face, over h em, till it left in departing @ caress upon his forehead. He stood up, breathing quickly, out not more so than she -A little tableau, Then he jammed his battered fedora bagel hia head and strode up the Corso. 4 not turn. Had he done #0, he have gone back and taken her in| his arms. Next morning he notified the captain to retain thelr cabina, After that they DProceeded to storm the shops. They! were like March hares; irresponsible children, both of them. What did pro- priety matter? What meaning had cir- cumspection? They two were all alon the rest of the world didn't count. It never had counted to either of them. Mrs. Grundy would prudent- ted it. * she sa last, Leela | the bundles upon t ri “Now, it ts your turn.’ Tou Nave forgotten a warm wieamer- cloak," he reminded her, This oversight wan easily remedied; | (. M. and then George sought the tailor shops for ready made clothes. He had more difculty than Fortune; ready made; suits were not the easiest things to find tn Naples. By noon, however, he had acquired a Scotch woollen for day wear i a fairly decent dinner auit, along wich other necessities, “Well, I say!’ he murmured, struck by a revealing thought, lave you forgotten anything?” jo, On the contrary, I've just re- membered somethini I've got all I need or want in my steamer trunk; and | N ut this minute I never once thought of it.” How they laughed! Indeed, so high were their spirits that they would have laughed at any inconsequent thing. They tunched at the Gambrinus, and George mysteriously bought up eH the pennies from the hunchback tobacco vender. Later, as they bowled along the sea front, George created a small riot by filnging pennies to small boys nd whining beggars. At five they weat joard ship, which was to leave at indown, some hours ahead of sched- Juled time, The captain himself wel comed them as they climbed the swa ing ladde ‘There were @ hundred first-class pas- sengers for the final voyage. The two, however, still sat at the right and left | of the captain; but the table was filled, and they maintained @ guarded prattle. ‘One night, when the aoa lay calm and the air was caresei Fortune had gone forward and were leaning over the stardoard rail whore It meets and joins the forward beam rail ‘They were watching for the occasional flicker of phosphorescence. Their shoul- | ders touched, and George's hand lay pro- yor *T love you bet- ter than all the world “Are you sure ‘@ure? Can you doubt tt?" interrupted him quickly, “In| ail this time you have mover eaked me lif T love you. Why haven't you?” “7 have Leen afraid. “Do ‘you love me?” his heart missing a deat. (To Be Continued.) _— Mme. Rosa Welf’s Concert. An interesting concert under the aus- pices of Mme. Rosa Wulff of the Academy of Musical Art was given last evening in the baliroom of the Hotei | Mate: htonable audience, Joseph Kelly, operatic baritone, was the principal soloist. 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