The evening world. Newspaper, August 13, 1912, Page 13

\ Ne “lust Like John’ Just Like Lots of Other Farces. Must BE A |GAME OF Some THE TRAIL LEADS To THE PAs TURE KIND. THIN IT TLL Fotrow AN’ SEE WHAT w Pl BY CHARLES DARNTON. know what It {s to wait for a breeze, crow that cruised into Forty-eighth of a breeze. you are an amateur yachtsman—and who isn’t at this time of year?—you . More than one member of the tanned street last night no doubt felt the need One happily sprang up with the curtain, but it became rather fitful afier the first act, and in fact died down completely at times. It is only natural to speak of the weather and the play {n the same breath. ‘The house itself, Manager Brady's Fort as coffee ice cream, This new theatre entered upon their modest careers in John" unless, perhaps, they wished to save it Florine Arnold as Mrs. Cornelia Dawley. they eapect you to believe that a wife 4 when he put disguises this se Just 1 ms going pretty far. e himself, and for that matter But there is no apparent reason why his wife the ordinary in establishing his identity. wouldn't deceive his most distant relative, much let heart. In writing a play, the matter of disguise !s always an awkward one, but in this instance the authors really go out of their way to call attention to the improbability of their story. John, as of anarchists, is even less convincing than the generous law of farce allow: But he ts sufficiently ridiculous to” pro to his mysterious powers of attract! that a sh beauty, breathing lov and anarchy, hangs around the hotet and helps to keep things lively. The best part of this half-sister to “The Red Widow” {s that, while she wouldn't harm a fly, she Is ready at any moment to throw a bomb into a@ life-sized Count. With Mrs, Dawley she goes hand-in- hand in making the play something more than cut-and-dried farce. Bright lines flash out fn almost daz ziing contrast to the general structure of the plece, but the breeginess of the first act 1s missed lat while the only two situations that count for an. thing are worked to death, One of these is a choking scene reminiscent of Weber and Fields, the other a succession of arm clocks that are confused with « As the hour grows late ft looks as though nothing could stop those clocks, The last act, too, is very aw! wardly padded with incongruous sent!- ment on the part of a pair of young lovers who talk over the plans of @ house in an impromptu sort of scene that recalls “The Right to Be Happy. It is curlous how even a few weeks’ absence from the theatre serves to em- phasize the artificiality of actors’ meth- on, seemed just like lots of farces we have seen. George Broadhurst and Mark Swan to call their little play n glasses and musses up his hair. John, of course, is supposed to look | y-elghth Street Theatre, looked as cool seemed just like other theatres that Thirty-ninth street, while “Just Like There was no need for frankly farctca from coming under the possible head of burlesque. Some of the actors were not 80 careful, for they repeatedly dropped into burlesque with as much NUFFIN Litt THAT To ME, AGAin, T'LUg No 'T CANT BE BASEBALL IT ISNT THE Exact ARRANGEM aie oF ade A Now WHAT THA Tan Sue Would Suecest A SCHEME LIKE THAT? CRITTER AWAY iw A ute Tee: You GET A TAN ON NE THIS,MY Boy, You CAN MAKE 'EM AiL JEALOUS OF zest as though it had been the ocean painted on the back-drop. That ocean was at least seasonable, To leave a seaside hotel miles behind and then find one just over the foot- Ughts is an agreeable surprise when your collar is slowly but surely melting away, And Messrs. Broadhurst and Swan have brought with them out of thelr experience one character without which no summer hotel is complete—the inqu'sitive, spying old busybody who can't rest in her rocking-chair until she has found out all about you. They have exaggerated this familiar if not beloved type, and Miss Florine -Arnold has taken her cue from the authors with too much readiness, but In spite of this the char- acter of Mrs. Cornelia Dawley remains the most lifelike and amusing in the, farce, Even in the warmth of midsummer, sympathy, “Just Like John’ can't be called a rattling good farce, anything up their sleeve, For one thing 8 unable to recognize her own husband In this day of automobile he carries his own strawberry mark. hould look for anything out of John's slightly changed appearance the wife of his capricious a secret service agent trailing a band voke laughter, and moreover it is due / Walter Jones as John Endicott. ‘ode, Everything that was done last night was done very obviously, yet there was a great deal of laughter and a fa Arnold made the fat and fearful sca grotesque by her overacting, there was ir amount of good fun, Although Miss ndal-monger of the hotel porch a bit something undentably human about her Miss Helen Robertson also had her amusing moments as the Spanish devotes of bombs, Walter Jones, who has gro wn to sound strangely like Thomas A. Wise, played John in his usual free-and-easy fashion and won most of his “Waughs” legitimately friend, though a bit too solid as the yo While.the new play may remain in t! Like John” 1s not likely to become a catch-phrasi Wallace Worsely was fairly natural as the obliging pung lover, he new theatre for several weeks, “Just Picked Up From Consul Albert Halstead reports $4,- 240,189 as the value of shipments from the Birmingham district of England to the United States last year, @ decrease from 1910 of $30, According to Cosmos, the mean height at which shooting stars first be- come visible is éighty-one mil: The mean height of their disappearance ts about fifty-eight miles, ‘The mean jengtn of their visible path is about forty-five miles, Fastest trains in the world are to be fouhd tn England and France. In Eng- land ghere are eight regular daily 4 tetn ‘with speeds from 65.1 to 5! ena Here and There. miles an hour, whose stop to stop runs are from 72 to 1188-8 miles in length. ‘The French roads run four datly trains over @ distance of 77 3-4 to 77 1-2 miles at speeds of from $6.2 to 61,8 miles an hour. A recent report from Finland that eight times as many men have can- cer of the lip as women, Cancer of the stomach 48 about as common in women as in men, The cancer commission was appointed by the Finnish Medical $9- clety and made a study of the cancers Jin the hands of %3 phyalclans. It | pointed out that cancers are less co mon in the upper class than In th a8 ‘Unland. shows law: a The unpar- | donable sin in farce, as in poker, is to! give away your hand, and yet the au-| ~~ thors make little or no attempt to keep! Cheer Up, Cuthbert! By Clarence L. Cullen Copyright, 1912, (The T by The Press Publishing Oo, jew York World), MAT “Touching” Habit is a Good Deal More Easily Developed than Discarded! No Reg'lar Fel- ler evér Lost any Welght from a ‘Trimming by the “They Sayers!” Often the Fellow who never hat Felt any Compas- sion is the Firat to Ask for It! Even in this Age of Motor Boats the Zig who Paddles is Own Canoe makes a Strong Bid for the Dough! Donk The body" Man 4s generally Coupled in the Betting with some other Hundred-to- One Shot! Never Mind Estimating the Damage until you've Extinguished the Blaze! ‘Too Many of us Want to Tackle the Marathon before we've Mastered the Middle Distanc ‘There's a Pretty Big Line of Demarca- tlon between Independence of Spirit and Impertinence of Manner, but Some of us Never Seem to Jerry Up to that Fact! Competence never Experiences any Consternation! There Must be Some Reason why So Many of Us Just Rattle Around in our Jovs—and the Bos’ generally !s Jody to the Reason! Moping over Mistakes makes a Lot of Mental Murk! We wouldn't Put in Half so much Elbow-Grease at the Job if we didn't the Corner who can Do It a Hull Lot Better than we Oan! ‘The Habit of Standing by our Friends places no Inhibitton upon our Standing by Ourselves! There ara no Taxes or Assersments on | Just-Be-Kind Shares—and they're Divi- |dend-Payers from the Jump! Never Mind the Criticism until he Gets out of the Mess—and Meantime hand hidthe Mitt! Know there's a Duck right Around | AINT THAT A DANDY Corr I Gor? IF You WANT A SWELL VACATION — | TMS OUGHT TO PRODUCE THAT HEALTHY An Adventure (Copyright, 1912, by Outing Publishing Co.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALMENTS. “Mesico” Lenehan # a half-breed er baw we yg ye stock and of Dis fellows because he te deemed a coward. He im im the presence reaiiae ‘the Tear ‘that’ gripe es. it “Hetson ine Manager ofthe Rast Rand at Bicked. Mexico out fudeon, the manager of baa recent! ico, dared not jesemt . 48 the comand lies in a thicket "Mid Pleasures 3% x0 And By Sophie Irene Loeb. Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, E WHO FISHPS FOR A BIG H CATCH MUST HAVE ELUSIVE BAIT! So a Pennsylvania man paving 49 much trouble aolv- ing the servant question inserted the following ad- vertisement In hig focal newspaper: “Wanted — Wom- an cook for moun tain home. Good wages; room with private bath; pri- vate dining-room, No laundry work or milking to do; use of back porch and halt acre of lawn. Lots of flowers to look at ff one after- noon each week, Saventeen-mble auto “ I-Don't-Ask-No-Odds-O!ff'n-No-| ride once a week.” At the same time, Mrs, Genet, who was*for six years J. Plerpont Morgan's cook and who has conducted four hotels successfully, saya: “The great trouble in the help line 13 that there is too much management and too much EXACTED, which makes far too much DRUDGERY, “First of all, 7 to have PLEA8- ING QUARTERS for the help. Their own place of eating must be ATTRAC: TIVE as also any other part of the house which is particularly their own, To make their surroundings pleasant 1s ‘one of the fnost Important items toward making them EFFICIENT, “If they have effictency and have faults, keep the efficiency and BEAR the faults, It is a give-and-take propo. sition ana @ matter of making life liv- able rather than lively.”* This coming trom a cook—who now engages many workers, having had the experience of being both the employes and employer, seems to carry with it some reason of welght. whether the aforesaid Pennayl- van will carry out his promises to the letter remainag for the lucky appll- The Secret of TT ‘Jumping bean,” which ts al- Ways mure to excite the wonder of those who have not before seen this specimen of the vegetable kingdom, is the product of a small bush whic! #rows in the northern part of Mexico Within each blossom are two “fertile” seeds, and @ third, which ta tho home of a small, exceed! active worm, whose performances are responsible for the queer conduct of the bean, When this worm emerges from its prison it becomes a beautifully colored moth. ‘The seeds of the jumping beam toss®m - GOTO THE SEA SAORE: AND GIVE THE SUNSHINE A CHANCE — GET THAT RICH BROWN COLOR OF HEALTH Betty Vincent’s Kitchens (The New York World) cant to discover; for therein Iles one of the reasons of success or failure in the matter of help--the ¢hing of LIVING UP to promises. “The Outing Girl.” M dear young men, this 1s Many a sorvant has been engaged with of outings ail kinds of alluring privileges and hope you do not found them more alluring in the PROM- tee! compelled to spend on “the’ I8F than the PRACTICE. As Mrs, Genet saya, “The need of pleasant surroundings in the servants’ quarters {s not a matter of deing ‘nice’ to the servant, but a NEC- sirt an amount of money out of all Proportiog te your income, ESSITY to KEEP the servant, Nobody detests For the worker will hesitate indeed Miggardiiness more Defore leaving pleasing, comfortable than 1, But the quarters, even though the labor involved average young be ARDUOUS, man to-day Is much more tnelined to be @ spendthrift than a mi And I do not believe it ts altogether the average girl's fault, Frequently she would be just as much d with simpler treats and leas excursions, But she hesitates about waving #0, for fear that she will seem ungrateful and unappreciative and a fuss! Hestdes she seldom knows Physical comfort goes a long way toward satisfying the MENTAL state and where there a peace of MIND there ire to work. le the above man may perhaps go to extremes !n the tem of “'a seventeen- milo auto ride a week,” he at last ts taking @ atride tn the right direction for getting into his home the help he wants and the belp wanting to get into his home. ‘The old idea was that 1t was a hort ble mistake to make a “lady” of the aer- vant (and the process of “making a lady" ig not the duty of the employer), yet the commonly accepted afd notion that giving @ servant privileges and mforts would make her the so-called to spend for amusement. gives her an {mpreasion of comparative »pulence, which ts not borne out by the facts You can have a better time tf you sometimes forget that It's your highest duty to be a “good spender, Dead Love. He frequently aay" {sa fallacy, as has been proven, and has been the servants’ war cry R." writes: "I have been paying for centuries. ntion to @ girl for almost two ‘The progressive employer realizes that |v'ears, and although wo are not en- he gots efficiency only by creating the | &aeed Wo soon expect to be, But I find atmosphere of effictency. Thus, when|that T simply do not love her as T makes things pleasing, interesting | thought T did a year ag I have 4 happy he calls forth tidiness, re-|tried to tell har this, but she threatens ape and comfort-giving acts, | We|to Kill herself tf 1 leave her. Yet, ovant learn by DOING, and by LIVING that|! to marry her?" No, It's a hard situation, but you would do her more harm in the end by marrying her without affection than by ‘leaving her now, Get St over with as soon as posstble. which we do, Of course there is the everlasting un- Appreciative being, But the AVERAGE. worker welcomes the pleasure of happy surroundings and the realization that he or she js being CONSIDERKD—which all in all must make for giving value] “D. B." writes: “A young man was for value received, calling on me and he heard my father ——<| make some slighting remark to an- “ ” other member of the family, The young the “Jumps. man thought he was emg inmulted and in the month of May. moth deposits one egg on the pollen of the Hower, As the flower develope tt Then the female! he went away, and ha since, What shall I do? not returned You may write a note of explanation, if you Ike, but why didn't you explain at the time? forma @ triangular shaped shell on two toa, with @ convex shape on the other. Within this the chrysaite develops into a grayish brown worm about one-tenth of] “A. If" writes: “T care for @ certain an inch In diameter and about one-half| young man, and have been told by Ai an tnch in length, This worm lives in-| friends that he cares for me. But when we meet we just bow, and never have any special conversation What shall I do to t better acquainted?" You must wait for him to take the | ovat stem ile ite cell for @ period of six months, or until the middie of November, Then, imatie conditions being favorable, it bores'a hole through the end of its shell and fies away as a moth, just how much money a man can afford | the railroad tracks, be won: oF" couraae CHAPTER 111. (Continued.) The Fear. q HAT had been two months afo. And now Mexico lay on his back In the mesquite thicket, this head pillowed on his and- dle, his gaze on the Gia hills, Misfortune had followed him gtimly. It had pursued him from the T Down ranch to Silver City, where he had lowt his last dollar at faro; tt had clung persistently to htm from Silver City eastward through the Mimbr ‘Mountains, where he had been refused employment in the mines; it had borne heavily upon him at San Lorengo, and, Jater, at Donna Ana, where he had been forced to part with hin pony for enough money to keep him from w ng. After he had left Donna Ana it had kept pace with him until he had reached Mesilla, where he again lost hie lant dollar at taro. Ho had described a complete circle in attempting to elude it, and he had fatied. He had become ‘onvinced that prosperity lay only wit!» Hudson, and so, Ike a whipped dog, he Was xolng back to the T Down to whine himself into favor. For perhaps an hour he lay, meditat ing tn the shadows of the distant hit while the sun swam slowly in the va rch; while a gray film-—the forerunner of the dusk—began to settle down over [the land; while the great dome of the blue sky pyled for the coming of the stars. ‘Then, when the hills lighted with the colors of the sinking sun, when the flaming streaks died down into orange and gold, Mexico rose, swung this saddle over his shoulder and took up the trail | toward the T Down. Vor five years had Mexico worked for Hudson of the T Down. Tt had been » long time for any puncher to work for one manager, and Mexico had begun to |delieve that he was destined to work for Hudson alway He really iked Hudson—liked him as well as his Mex!- can blood would permit—with a fawn- ing, tdolatrous affection that would have Permitted him to kies the hand that had smitten him, had the manager allowed | But there was that other blood—the Lenehan blood—that surged occasionally through his veins; the blood that kin- died his eye and stiftened his muscles and made him, at times, almont brave, ‘That was the blood that had roused him many Umes to the point where he could feel the desire for manly, courageot revenge; when he could have whipped a dozen Hudsone—had it not been for the Fear, Hudson was a small man physically— Mexico was many times his superior— and yet there was something about Hud- son's Manner, in the unflinching, sinister klance of hin that held Mexico in fawning subjugation, ‘The Fear had ruined him; it had sent bim from the T Down-disgraced, It had sent him away from with his velns nearly burst and mortifeation; ft had caused him toms uneasily at night in his blank knashing his teeth Impotently; it w. the Fear that was sending him back the T Down—back to beg Hudson sive him another chance. Another chance! Ah, how his cher crimsoned as he thought of that * As he stumbled through a draw and upon @ ragged plage of plain that paralleled the two glistening lines of steel Marking the right of way of the Southern Pacific Railway he rehearsed the incident in his mind. It had been auch a ridiculous thing, now that it was over, He had been one of a wn then that had gone on an expe- nb against catfle thieves, The party J} caught one of the thieves in the n hills, Just northwest o¢ Silver and had gone on with, the search the ranca ng with rage o 4 vat arty of T ity for the remainder of the band, leaving Mexico to guard the captive, The thiot had not been bound, but had been dis- armed; for the men of Mexico's party had reasoned that Mexico, wearing @ gun, would be than @ mateh ft the captive y had not time to delay hot considered the Fear. When they had returned with the other rustlers Mextco’s man had de- parted, and Mexico himself, cursing incoherently, #at at the base of a tree, bound with his own rope. He told the story with trembling lips and stream- ing eyes—the shameful atory of the trust he had betrayed. | Directly after the party had dis- appeared the rustier had engaged him in conversation, dilating with mucn earnestness upon the flerceness of a | Mexican Jaguar, roported to be lurking |in the vicinity. The rustlor knew Mex- lico and with diabolical art had worked {upon imagination of bis. victim, descr! the animal's herote vzepar- But they ha Triangle Cupid By Charles Alden Seltzer (Author of ‘The Two-Gun Man’’) Romance o f the Big tions and dwelling eloquently upon its predilection for human flesh. Then at the psychological moment he had sharply warned Mexico that the animal was behind him. Mexico d turned, his fear overcoming his caution, and upon that instant the rustler had plucked his weapon frem its holster. ‘The game was an old one; many of the men were in favor of awerding Mexico the rustler’s place at the rope’s end, but calmer counsel prevailed and Mexico was led back to the T Down to be publicly kicked out by Hi ood That was all. Now he stumbled under the weight of the heavy saddle as he reached the Fatirosd track ag owen mechanically” along ov 4 For a mile of more he travelled, while the darkening shadows grew and the pale disk of the moon swam th the clear bite arcly overhead, lighting up Da wi glistening upon the two rales that danpenred. iseseem one i fo darkness of the proaching. He came into the lighter shadows of the hills presently, into @ cut where the side walle rose above him many feet. ‘ Entering this cut, he was abeently, his mind on his di bre heard a ‘guditen! sown: ble, @ clatter, a boulder, weighing many hun- dreds of pounds, dropped with a crash upon the track In front of him, roiled over upon Its flat glide, poised gracefully, and then settled down directly between the rails, Mexico dodged involuntarily and then stood still, paralysed into inaction, the Fear gripping his heart and bringing the damp sweat to his forehead. A little time elapsed before he went forward and placed his hands upon the boulder ~sbrinkingly, aa though it were « living thing that might arise to rend bim. He laughed presently to think of the scare it had given him, wiping the damp sweat from his brow and laythg the saddle down beside the track. For & long time he stood beside the rouge. trembling. Around him had settle@@a new silence; a silence full of vagueness, f strang portent, af premonitory whis- perini At first Mexico heard it faintly, ae though it were in some dream and he could not catch {ts significance. He stood beside the boulder, his arma upon it-reating while he strained hie ears for a repetition of the sound. Pres- ently it came egain—the fi tong- drawn plaint of @ docomotive whistle, Mexico smiled reminiscently; mibny times while at the T Down hed he heard it, and, riding line in the twilight or going on the night watch in the basin, had watched the glaring hea wht swing into view around Devil's Curve; had seen the glimmering lights in the windows of the coaches, had heard the dull roar, the shrill hoot of the whistle; had halted his pony to listen while the roar died away among the distant foothila, and aflence had come again. It was the express—west dound Mexico leaned upon the boulder, mee chantcally computing distances. The first warning whistle had come from the long level behind Devil's Curve. Had he been in the basin at that mo- tment he Would have halted his pony to wateh for the headlight. An instant later he would have seen it and would have been wondering at the desperate urage of men who found it in their hearts to drive this rushin, monster through the dark the dangers of the night Devil's Curve waa miles away trem the point where he stood beside the boulder, Yet not so many miles after all, Ten, he estim roughly. Hi had heard Hudson say that after Te ing Devil's Curve the train travelte nearly a mile @ minute, for the trac was straight and level, At that rate it was due at the cut In ten minutes at mos ‘Ten minut Why, he could hear the rail singing now; he could hear the distant roar and rumble, He thrilled suddenly at the thought of that great mass of living tron and steel hurling itwelf toward him out of the nigh At him? not at him—for he would scurry up the steep side of the eut and But the boulde: He shrank away from it, staggering with the horror of the thought that had Durst upon him with crushing sudden- ness. The boulder! It would wreck the traint God! What havoc! He could it now; it Was like @ revelation, H set his eves to the scene that w flashing through his mind But he could not act—the Fear had sripped him, He shuddered and cringed away from the boulder, leaning againat the steep wall of the cut, Years before he had seen a train piled up at the det tom of a steep declivity on Devil's Curve. Faces of the injured stil stared et him out of the mass of wreckag groans of agony stil! aseatled his ears, He knew what tnaction meant, yet the Fear was upon him the Fear that made nis es hovck bogetier, heart swell to the bursting point, made ‘his breath cough In Als throat—made his Kroat body & masa @f yiteously shad- dering fies, without strength, witheas power of vement. Z (Te Be Cantinned) 1° am. wee” Thee a Se