The evening world. Newspaper, May 30, 1912, Page 9

The Evening World Daily Mag azi & («afietean) CHICHENS LAY B66S, DONT THey PoP CHiCHENS ° You Have IT RIGHT So FAR Sy ‘Old Fairy Tales “asst (1n New Clothes. HANSEL By James Alden, AND id GRETEL. ‘ RS ‘Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), NCE Upon « Time there Wa, Mama predicted. There was no class @ brother and a sister whoee| to Bill. He just cun this grocery stom names were Algernon end/and did @ real estate ousiness and Imogene. These names Were! owned the only undertaking esteblish- mowed down by the nelgh-| ment in thet village and managed to dors to Hansel and Gretel. Get along in vulgar trade. Their mother was a widow when they! He caiied on Algernon and Imogene were still quite young. Just the same, and for a moment Ma- ‘At every ohildron's concert and|ma was frightened for she thought he church festival and Christmas they| ned come to collect a few months’ had to recite poetry. grocery bill. Naturally their dear Ma-ma was ab-| But he had not. His lodge was gotting eolutely positive that by the time Al+| up an en'ertainment and he wanted Al- fernon was eighteen he would have| gernon and Imogene to help them out. Booth, Barrett, Forrest, Irving and even| ‘They promised to do thetr best. Ma- Chauncy Olcott beaten to a Whisper! me agreed because she was chiefly wor- when it came to the Histrionte Art.| req about that grocery bill. Qa-ma always pronounced Histrionl®) “Aigeenon and Imogene were not tools Art whh capital letters. by any means. They had been on the And as for Imogene—mercy, Bareh| roaq too long and away trom Ma-ma Fernharct was @ mere amateur Com-| too long to remain in that class, not- Pared with her, while the late Mme. | withstanding their early training. Amd Janauschek couldn't begin to rectte) 9, they got up @ funny sketch. They Lady Macbeth's lines anywhere noar| nated to demean themsclves with such lke the manner in which Imogene té-|q thing, but there was that two months’ cited them, and every one agreed tO) grocery bill. that. Algernon fixed @ harmonica in a long By the time they were twenty Ma-ma| German pipe so he could blow on the stem and finger the bowl and play tt. Imogene got out some souvenir wooden shoes for them, and arranged an ac- cordion in her picture hat so she could Temove the hat and play it. They then rehearsed eome Dutch dialect songs and went to the lodge entertainment ‘Prepared to help amuse tho simple coun- try folk. There were songs and dances, mono- logues and farces at this entertainment, but when Algernon played “Wacht am Rhein" on the long tobacco pipe and Imogene removed her hat and made music come out of it they proved a scream, Thydr funny dialogue got the house and thelr wooden ghoes all helped. When the entertainment “was over | OR WASHING POWDER Om Compressed YeAsT OR WARM: CLOCKS OR = “WIELL. IF CHICKENS' OuT OF THE E665 DONT THEY, PoP’ AND APTER THAT GET HATCHED ne, thursday, May 30, 1912 COME FROM EGG5, WHERE DID THE aehy-) BY By Dwiss was worried for fear she would have a Gisagreeable time of it trying to pre- vent the great theatrical managers and producers from coming to blows to sottle which should secure her wonder- {ul children, Algernon and Imogene. By the time they were twenty-five Ma-ma was not so much worried about preventing the great producers from fighting over which was to secure Al- gornon and Imogene as she was wor- ried dver whether they could hold their £20 a week jobs with a celebrated rep- ertoire company presenting all the standard tragediys and melodramas along the tank town circuits. They had other troubles, Although they knew they were conelderably bet ter than .any lving actor and aciress at the Shakespeare stuff, they were oblefly worried over the fact that tt looked though they were not even going to land that across-the-continent one-night-stand job at $0 per. They were quite right in their wor- ries, This particular season they did not even land that job, and they were disconsolate indeod. “Tt was a cheesy old company, any- way,” remarked Imogene with the ac- cent and diction that marked the skilled actorine. “But they pald real money," replied Algernon, Whereupon both of them @ighed and wrote more letters to more company managers, Then plain Bill Hawkins called on them, Plain Bill Hawkins was of com: mon clay and so uncouth and freckled and unrefined in his ontidhood days that ‘Ma-ma never allowed Algernon and Imogene to play with him, And it was just as Ma-ma predicted. He never amounted to anything. He] gotten all about “I am Dying, Egypt, Rose-Time. “ ° Jacked culture, his inetincts for refine-| Dying," and “Ye Call Me Chief,” but T a b lol d mT al es ment were nil, Poor Bill just sort of|they point with pride to “Hangel and By Cora M. W. Greenleaf. grew up almost any old way, and just | Gretel" and say, ‘“Them's the smartest | ¥T'S rose-time! to the Joyous (0) F Oo i D N Ez W Y O R K now he earned a living running an or-| youngsters ever brought up in this I notes Ginary grocery store, Jt was just as| town!" Of liquid muste on the summer alr, | ,¥% J every one in the village was talking of what wondgrfw actors Algernon and Imogene were. The show was repeated two more nights. There was no reply from the companies they sought to play with and ao they entered into the tun. Then they had @ great tea. They woulkt go into vaudeville, bill them- selves as Haneel and Gretel, and do that ebsurd Dutch act. They 4 this, hit at the first tryout, and to- eir success should be a lesson to all of the true worth of training for leading Shakespearian roles. They are collecting $2,500) each week and are bilyd as “Hansel and Gretel, the funniest knock-about Dutch come- @ians on the stage.” Ma-ma lives in a nice big house back in the village, and even forgets to sigh when the checks come back to her each week by mail, “And every one in the village has for- “Talking of cooks, my wife can make corned heef look like turkey!” “That's nothing. From myriads of tiny, feathered throats | © In bush and tree, o'erhead and every- My wife can make a $100 bill look like 30 cents,” | y Copyright, 1912, by The Mess Publishing Co, (The ° aa ts terms, the Popular Science Notes. where, xn. The Bell of the Ter: Hour Day. |! .ern% We LATE 1s used almost exclusively|diMculty experienced tn extracting the |1t's rose-time! Gee the shade of tender econ om for roofing purposes in southern| meat, poe aah, seniney 4 a Ireland, according to Consul — That robes the earth in ralment good i ee pa id his services George E. Chamberlin of Cork, It ts| Codeine, a very largely used narcotic, ’ 1 sewla street, between verre sia by the ton (2,240 pounds), the|!# more than twice {ts normal value, e-time, and a wealth of life un-| sia. of nane Fifth streets, on the come, price ranging from $26.75 @ ton for owing to the scarcity of opium. Car- feen ‘The mecha moment 0 { York, aid ni “Do you think raw oysters are healthy? “Well, | never heard of one of them being sent to the hospital!” Irish slate to $29.20 for Welsh slate.| bolic acid continues to advance in pri Awakens into being joyously. Four times a day, at 7 o'clock, at 12/4 " With a four-inch lap one ton of the! and it is not at all unlikely that the cos! at 1 o'clock and at 6, a man carrying @/ time. They inw! heavy grade will cover about three|of household disinfectants may be tn-| sweet wandering zephyrs, soft as angel !8dder crossed the street to the shed /uimost pron tn hundred and fifty square feet, and of| creased, The most noteworthy of the MeCeTN fram which the tower arose. Placing the| their bell, Vor the the light about four hundred square] few articles which have declined in| Caress my troubled brow, and smooth | !dder against the shed, pbed to} ringer ca 5 feet. Coquoito nuts (little cocoanuts) are value 1g glycerine, which, after a long period of high value, n of coming down In price, chows signs my halr; Each gentle touch obedience co:nmands |? And banishes a world*of weary care. | the roof and rang the | na of a lever like ap It was, #0 to speak, the by handle. | n of the nd {n abundance in Mexico, but the Seer « | Tenedfour Day which was rung thus) et amount gathered {s taken by the A TELLING EXAMPLE, Because it's rose-tinie—joytime of the} ¥Pn the oll Mechanics’ Beil Jocal soap factories, the managers of) ‘How wel) you are looking!” year | ‘Phe ship-butlding mechanics of t sand is which are constantly complaining that] “Yes. I am a vegetarian.” Blest carnival ef Joy and love and) city had obtained @ reduction of ¢ aloon they can not procure sufficient raw ma-| “That settles it, I shad never cat mirth, third In the wor wy W tor. |} 4 : terial from this neighborhood for their/meat again, How long have you been|The “day in June’ so rare is here—aye|merly extending from funrise to su ‘ on Indepe needs, This condition is due to the lack jone here!— fet, had in the summer season cove Iwhed @ mars of interest on the part of the natives, begin to-morrow,'"'=Blegondorfer| With rose gemmed diadem, to crown|a stretch of flteen hours In celebra- | “Mourth of J 0 n Baetter. on of their victory, as well as to point, Ly @ feature o@ the sand to some extent, no doubt, to the the earth, ’ ute ng is a viola ; | treawd like one Hedgeville Editor By John L. Hobble Merl) deck HENDERSON ror | teh ft the family, DG nanos tie FIRST EGG COME FROM 2” By C. M. Payne. RUN ALONG AND TO TALM To THE GenTLe MAK By Barton W. Currie Based on-the Saccessfol Farce of the Same Title (Copyright, SYNOPSIS OF wy Ml, K. Fy Oo) hurries hom: She and rage are disci jen Goes not inake known his identity to her, | Bhe adds that she and the supposed to take away with them the most veluable been i ting him, Tut ‘of whom she kaows ‘so little, useing the He ve Amportor (nown' as Officer 066) CHAPTER XXII. Patrol. a RAVERS GLADWIN went | ‘vounding down the steps of his own pretentious marble ancy that would have caused \ Sergt. McGinnis to turn mental beck [tandeprings had he happened to be go- dng by on te rounds. But, fortunately, shortly before Michael Phelan had been summoned by Batoato, For three hours at least OMcer 066 would be supreme on bin baat. never entered young Gladwin'e mind it | did suddenly occur to him ae he strolled Jauntily along that he had neglected to ask Phelan to define the circumscribed happen to butt into another patrolman? Certain exposure and all bis plans would ul! ‘Then there was the danger of n& recognized by some of his neigh- In a twinkling, A disguise! “Here goer," he said aloud. *T'll jump a taxi and eee if I can hunt up @ hair store!" A Millionaire Policeman on dwelling with an airy buoy- McGinnis had passed on his round While the McGinnis contingency had limits of bis post. What tf he should bors and friends. Ah! dt came to him The time was 7 P. M., with the inky darkness of night Dlanketing the city # far as inky darkness can blanket @ metropolis, ‘The thoroughfare on which the young man stood was a long ane of dazal wherefore the nocturnal shadows of fered no concealment. Ho cast his eyes up and down the avenue in search of @ tramp motor-hack cruising in search of a fare, He had only @ moment or two to Wait before one of the bright yellow variety came racketing along. Ge atuck up his hand and waved his baton at the driver, ‘There was @ crunching of ‘brakes and the taxt hove to and warped into the curb. ‘The chauffeur had the mtenance of @ pirate, but his grin Say, me frie man, In an effort Phelan's brogue, you know the way to a halr store A what? the chauffeur shot back, while his grin went inaide, “A hair store] want @ bit of a dts- guise fer my features—whiskers, false hatr or the like." “Did ye stop me to kid me? snarled chauffeur. “Ye don't need to think cause you got on a bull's uniform ye can hurl the harpoon into me. Or if It's a drink ye're wantin’ reach in under the seat an’ there's a flawk, If ye meant hair oll why didn’t ye eay it?” hanks, but ‘tle no drink I'm af- *wald the young man, “Tle a to a hair an’ he @ tine | @pot fer yer trou was the way at in get~ vinced the thar he no real al with, His grin came vd up behind at either * he broke out, “If its dis Ineide an’ I'l Flynn's on ry-colored taxt # town at a forty iring which Patrolman iMariae himself eab's cushions. ride and there t a long b lett when the cab a une to a crashing stop. 1 ing man was on the point of ” g the door when a voice stopped hin Kape Insta an’ pull the blinds down. sppers on every sit ye want In Y aw Are they 4 the chaut- | with @ motor of {ts own : CEDING CHAPTERS, ‘Travers Gladwin, an eccentrlo young New York mill secretly vert the threatened robbery of bis treasures, sende ‘and ere a feeeye,, ravers, then realiaen a, cles. eet he warua her, agatast for a gel iceman, Patrolman Phels i responds, ‘Travers borrows Whelaa's uniform and goes out to seek the robbe ‘The millionaire cop #at back huxu- Hlously and inhaled a deep breath, "Gad!" he exclaimed to hiknaelf, ‘Tr really begtnning to lve. Nothing bry thritie for four hours and more an: larger ones coming.” 4 Presently the chauffeur returne opened the door a few inches ar! shoved in a emall package. “Yo'll have to paste ‘em on in ti dark,” he said. “Or ye can light match. Ye'll find a wee mirror in tt ‘bundle, Now -where'l 1 drive yes?’ ‘Back to mo fixed post,” sald Glar win, “only take it easy while I put r face on straight.” “If yo don't git ft on straighter ni: your brogue,” chuckled the chauffev “It'll not decave @ bind man.” In another instant the return journey was under way at reduced speed. Travers Gladwin first tnied on t? wig. It was three sizes too largo he had to diecard it, Next he some trouble in deciding which was th mustache and which the eyebrows. H had burned his fingers pretty badly be fore he made the selection and likewls¢ he had singed one of the eyebrows. But he managed to plaster them all on before the cab atopped and after one Glance tn the little mirror he ‘was cot- fident the disguise would answer. ‘When he etepped out of the text, et almost the very epot where he had doarded tt, ne felt that a big weight had deen lifted from his shoulders. “How do you lke me?” he eaked the chauffeur, gayly. ‘Te it an improve- ment?” ‘4 wouldn't say yis nor no to thet,” #ald the chauffeur, “but it's a disguise, an’ that's what ye were wantin’, Thim eyebrows te grand.” “Thanks,” laughed Officer hundred dollar Dill the chauffeur, tucking away the bill, “on'y take @ tip from a wise gink an’ keep deep in the shadders. An’ whin ye pinch your trad t let him holler too loud.” ‘The yellow taxi was gone with @ leaving Gladwin to wonder atthe ingly shrewd guess of its pilot. “When I pinch me frind,” he amare mured. "Twas just what Z eal ¢o Phelan. Why" He was gazing after the taxicab-when from the opposite direction there eud- denly rolled into view a vast tourtn; car with @ fam'iar figure at the wheel and alongside the familiar figure @ very as barely robing along, white its two occupants were talking earnest. dy, their heads as close together as was pomstble undér the circumstances, “Johnny Parkinson, as I's alive!" uttered Travers Gladwin, “Me old col- lego chump, and as por usual—making love. Yls, me grinning chauffeur frind, here we make a pinch an’ test eyebrows. Officer, do Out he stepped tnto the roadway and raleed his nightatlok "The big car came to a sudden t r ants stared angrily se of che Interruption. arrest yea in the name o' the law, Patrolman Gladwin, scowling 0° y that one of the eyebrows was “What's that?’ snorted the young aristocrat “You're me prts'ner,” sald Gladwin, “T arrest eed Jaws—racin' for breaking the “You must be Joking, Johnny Parkinson, not ve ly, for he had a bad record far speed wasn't » that some earlier of. Was not Involved, ‘m not J * replied Gladwin, walking to the door of the tonneau and opening it, ye'll oblige me by ariv- in’ to the pol "He got In and lel back coztly in the cushions. y Parkinson let in the clutehi od northward. This was the strangest “pinch” of his experience and he didn't Know just what to make of tt, After he had go turned sald “Which station shall T drive to?—I'm sure there must be some mistake." , responded © a few blocks he on his captor-passenger and “There's no mistake,” Gladwin, fatrly side at the look of his friend. tlons, “As tor police sta- take your pick. T ain't pamtdeus Drive round block a couple @ an’ make up your mind,” (To Bg Continued) yt lay