The evening world. Newspaper, September 10, 1912, Page 17

Phat as eS ET en) nn nS NS Ce ee ee er < ‘the Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, Fs Matter, Pop?” He LISSEN- You SCARE EVERYTHIN AWAY WITH YouR JABBERING! IF YOU ASK ANOTHER QUESTION ILL WHaLe You UNDERSTAND P Dry uP Now NoT ANOTHER WORD! OR THE LAST Tima 1 WARN You! You'tt Get THAT WHALING Nar? The ‘Mind the Paint’ Girl’ of No Importance. : BY CHARLES DARNTON. OING to see “The ‘Mind the Paint’ Girl” at the Lyceum Theatre last night seemed a good deal Hke going to a party at which champagne grows so stale and unprofitable as to make the morning after seem a depressingly -brown hue. an At Is the atmosphere rather than the plot of this Pincro play that thickens. two acts, in fact, there da nothing but atmosphere. All that is established in » Yais «coming waste of time ts that Ldly Parradel fe an extremely popular Murical comedy lady. Needleas to say she hi Twe and rather mixed follow- » tng, and all for @ song, “Mirid the Paint,” with which she has warbled her way Out of obscurity at the Pandora Theatre. The admirers of this epoHed darling ing her gifts on her birthday and then give her a “party” in the foyer of @ theatre after the night performance. A soldier, Capt. Nicholas Geyer, has en up his regiment to be her bodyguard, and young Lora Farncombe, who proved his rare courage by sitting through twenty-three performances of Piece In which she appears, dances attendance upon her at the birthday jebration. ) Up to this point the play resembles musical comedy, especially when the Cap- In puts on false whiskers and acts as a walter in order to keep @ jealous eye pLily. That Pinero should redort to this absurdly simple device ts the most sur- ing thing about the play. It Is not an easy matter to associate England's moat dramatist with false whiskers. Happily, however, this matter goes no er. After long delay the plot is finally opened with a latchkey that Lily Hows the Captain to carry in his capacity as her faithful escort from the theatre y at night. A more inno- SACRE! ‘fou HAVE INSULT 2E GENTLEMAN “TOU HAVE WINK 2E EVE AND MAKE ’ 2E FACE STARE! , 1 DEMAND 26 | SATISFACTION, By Jove ISNT He A PIPPIN! * SomB Rooster! MADEMOISELLE, 1 AM 2e BARONESS FRUMP-FRUMP. 1 REPRESENT COUNTESS SHOO-SHOO WHO WAS (INSULT = WHAT WEAPoNS? % o! - AH BUT NO! WAIT! WHAT EBE2 THIS? BET 1S FoRGOT BY SOMEONE! NO 1 SHALL HAVE 2 PINK FOULARD DONE WIZ 26 = WHAT ‘You Sat? = IRISH POINT- EET Witte BE HEAVENLY! . AH! THE SCoUNDREL Comés! OF A SUREDNESS 2E INSULT WIPED ouT MUST BE BY Zé LIFES BlLooo! AND 1 THINK AY GREEN ERS TRORMEDY ere» cent latchkey was never made. Having given ptain @ night off, Lily allows the adorin, lordiing to see her home with otber friends and then grants him an opportunity to ask her to be his wife. At this unearthly hour—4 im the morning—the play really begins. In an effort to make him understand that in marrying her he woult be doing a very foolish ~ lowly origin and the uphill road travelled in the dora, Then the Captain lets himself in with the latohkey and starts a row that Lily finishes by turning on him. At- ter ahe has opened his eyes to the highly hon- rable situation, he alts srocmnens weignel September 10, 1912 a (Coveriaht, 1006, by the Prank A, Munsey Oo) SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CDAPTERS. bes nda, bor and the it, leaving sinks ‘the box be CHAPTER V. (Continued,) What Happened in the Hut. (i ey HE precious stones for which he had played a denperate game were in his pocket now, and there was no man to dispute possession of | them with him. But he |muat turn them into money—end where was he going to do that? Come, he muat think these matters over care- fully. He.proceeded to think as he walked slowly forward. Ere very long the police would know that two men had been murdered that night in Plymouth, and they would want to know all about the matter, Was it possible that they would connect him with the tha of Josephe and the Hindu? He wanted to think, but it sertoualy. ‘o begin with, one politaman at any rate knew that t lying around Joseph the brase-bound box The police would find Josepha dead, and they would also find the box gon would Naturally the: think that he, Lindsay, had him for the box. But also.they would find Lal Dass murdered. | Would they connect the two things? If they did Lindsay saw some alight But If they put rdered chance for himself. | other person unknown and concentrated | thelr attention on finding the man who 4 the -hound tox from Joseph keoping—what then? down and tells the ‘wain. heard he was 111 and wrote @ note of jove with @ young man, but he ts not| ‘The mere notion was appalling, The story of his life, Lily The Bashful Swain condolence, but have had no answer|earning much money and 1 know he sweat broke out on Lindsay's forehead, is 80 moved at learning’ Sina distressing weakness in elther ®) ay yet, What shall I do? Was it/cabnot give me as sood a home as my|and he glanced over his shoulder as father supplies. better marry him? what she has made of it that she promises to marry the poor, useless | chap @nd save Lord proper for me to write.” Perfectly proper, and you have only to wait till he is well enough to an- swer you by letter or In person, ASHFUL Not only ts the bashful person very uncomfortable, but he or she usually contrives to make others {ll et e Diffidence ts frequently contagious, endure cheerfully w change Ir tage alren an admirer for @ motor car, while another “shakes down” ‘& German for her vacation expenses, th Ms business, Our only concern is the ® whole, and the truth ie that it has little to commend it aside from the je in which Lily tells of her struggles and her triumphs, Mise Billie Burke failed to make the most of har one real opportunity by not “A, Z." writes: “I am deeply in lov with a girl of a different nationalit; Would our marriage be a happy one?” It might be, though there is always a risk in such casea, “F. P." writes: “I am accepting at- tentions from a young man, but when- ever we return home from any affair he wants to kiss me. Bhall I permit this, as Tam very fond of him?’ “Le. Q." writes: be taken by a gentleman accompanying | “What position should F young ladies?" future money, yourself. “A. L." writes: "TI often eee a certain | young man, whom 1 dike very much, He should walk on the outside, next the atreet, Tt {wn't considered good form to let ing it simply. The sincerity ao necessary here was missing, Her burst of | A. S." writes: “A certain young man eee san os Yea OWage eG ore mieneea seen (Be Rieee fon tne: 9: eae Bre was much more convincing, While she coquetted with her role from be- Paying me attention, but when we] “B. D." writes: “1 am acquainted] tg him, | No, he should ask your permission to Ing to end, she gang and danced prettily when “Mind the Paint” was de-| were out the other evening he dei! with a young man whom I like very —- call, Or, if your mother knows him, 4 by the assembled company. In a role eo well suited to her, however, |ately started a flirtation with anc much and who I koow Mkes me, I) “R, 1.” writen: “I am very much in she may Invite him for you. geht easily be expected to act more naturally, Miss Lydia Rache! mado ¢ 16} olled mother by far the best and truest character in the play, She acemed i the World like the mother of our old friend “Mr, Hopkingon."’ In short, | was @ joy, Morton Selten fluffed about rather amusingly as @ sort of male ron, William Raymond played young Lord Farncombe with his heart in mouth, As the jealous Captain, H. Herbert made @ great deal more noise was necessary, He was the queerest type of all in the play of types, icked Up From Here and There. Ko colintry is better off than Switzer- reported that both governments are now in the matter of water power, and| collecting data regarding these fishing grounds, 5 how proposed to ¢ he state railways and to supply nergy needed from the numerous ir powers vot yet developed, Al- most of the funicular railways py electricity, “The average porch,” rays an out: door contémporary, “in undergoing a complete transformath It 18 bee | coming a living room by day and times ping chamber by night, an open air apartment of comfort and beatity. With screens, curtains, com- fortuble chairs and settees, and sult- able decorations and growing flower: the porch may be destined to beco the most @tractive part of the Amer- ican summer home, + Imparted Valor. A A NEW arrival strolled into the, Colored liquid spread along the floor. lobby of popular Muskogee ho-| Bi satel a few evenings ago and walked shar unsteadily to the desk to register, Bye the Kanses City Star, Turning to annexation of Chosen (Korea) by has made the Tumen-Ula River oundary between Russia and Japan. the fishing rights in the waters of Hh river wore not covered by tha P tuaeo-Jupanese convention of 1907, it Is mop It up a tiny mouse der the cigar counter ly at the liquor, Then mounting th edge of @ curpidor, the mouse exclaimed: Applicant—Say, t that was looking business, do you? ———— boss, you don’t want a good tive man in your “Well, Doc, how are you making out with that nev patent cold cure the porter to his room, there was| “Where ts that of youre? @Fash and bite of glass and an amber. or me last night?" Boss—No, sir. i'm an undertaker, airl “Oh. I'm fliling my cousherel” i* ' } ~ Only if you love him well enough to} {9 YOU) tiew over, or was You must decide for| ing after him. Do you think 1 had| though he expected to see the arm of | the law stretched out to arrest him. ‘There was but one thing to be done he must go right away until the thing noised abroad. | Of course It {s all only a form of self-consclousness, n mafner of living. not Pomreen rs tne the bashful mifterer analyzew hin own mood he wit aurely |Andifference ae | And. he solat pe iy roads Ba Gare not / thoughtless members of the English aristocracy. But before Lly has hes find that he has ‘een thinking all the time about himgelt.| | “W. m." writes: For a tong time 1! Shall He Marry? tiation Kings on after a few hours of broken rest, the Captain brings young Farn- “Lam so awkward—I am go why—I don't know what to| Was so studiously cold and indifferent | >. He knew. the ley of the lahdi pretty be back to the house and cheerfully gives him a clear field, My's misgivings do with my hands—my feet look so big—I know I shall trip| to @ certain man that he became to-| "S. RK.” writes: “I am @ young man well, he would jartmoor and Bmet by the remark from her mother: “Think wot @ lot o° good you're all over the mat when fo out—I am sure t are all laugh-| tally discouraged and stopped seeing | Of twen! hrs id very much in love, hide himaelf tt ® day or two and to the artatocracy!” ng at me.” T the thoughts that dominate the dif-| me. Now I have found out that I love, But er iaave Win sorbioe me te gradually w acrone grungy nwlan al ry mi dent person's br him, but I know of no way to bring! TY un am Y, on pein o' “ aad ionneas Adhd lene seat: foenace pair Ai peeled ‘The only way to cure yourself Js to stop thinking about} about a meeting. What shall I do? | !#ng all the property left in trust tor | sure juice ‘and plodded steadily on- » fe of no importance except in tho way of light enterteinment trac peeved yourself and your possible defects and mistakes, Try it] If you were really rude to him in tho/ me. What shall I dot I have @ 00d) Vaid through the dark night. Now and derable novelty, While members of, the theatrical profession and their fol-| -. eer ae nA ; het a past you might write @ note of apol- ay business and could afford | thon his fingers sought the bag in which re may arnue about the truth oF unreailiy of the plolure that the author Different Nationalities, (#\),,{2.s10t 4” inauit to me nae) T's @ question of which you want|"Oedicmmie” pee ged ta. iteten, ; ero chooses ve one most—the immediate marriage or the! fancying that he heard footsteps hurry- Bit by bit the town and ite outworke dropped away behind him, and he came into the open country. |The night wind blew cheerfully against his cheek and refreshed him, and his mind, untt! then clouded over by gloomy thoughts, began to take a brighter view of matters, Lindsay went forward along the high- | road while the warm night almost im- | pervepttbly faded into the first faint flush of an early summer morning, He walked for the most part with his head | bent, but aw the first shaft of light came ntealing over the tops of the great Tore he looked up and saw that daylight was coming baok to the world. Already he had walked some distance —Tor Grove and Widey Court and Knackers Knowle lay behind him, and as the Ifght Increased he saw in front of him the wayside inn which stands at the four cross roads between Tamerton | Follott and Ply: dge. Tt was still much to early tor anybody to be atin ring at the {nn, but Lindsay dare not pans it, lest he should by any ohance be aren and wondered at right, follow- * down to right morning: by the time he had hidden himself in ite luxurtant foliage, and all around him the birds were breaking out into @ | chorus of wild, unrestrained song, He tt down on thought his position over, leaped to his feet and wood, His vharp eyes had caught sight of some recently felled timber with fresh ehippings about it, and concluded that ere long wood-cutters would appear on the scene and begin thetr day's toll. He had no mind to be discovered there and so hurried away. Presently Lindsay came to the rat!- way line which runs from Mareh Mills through Bickleigh Vale toward Yelver- ton, Ho stood against the railings and looked across at the great Baugh Wood, and it etruck him that the thickness of a fallen tree and Suddenly he t farther into the trees there would afford kim better 4 a @cemed somehow no easy thing to think that re was & mystery ' down the murder of the Hindu to some @ ——@ WELL DING THA DING DING WHY DIDNT YA Tee, 1848 Protection. So he croseed the bey waded through the river beyond and” ‘lunged into the depths of the wood. a ‘The morning dew was lying heavily on everything, and ere long he and sodden with it. He ft, and wae soon in the almont touched each othersq Tho alr grew hot, atifling; Lindsay's brow stfeamed with sweat, and began to pant with the exertion of ton. 4 ing forward through that desert kreen to which no breath of windd seemed to penetrate. Something seemed to drive him for- Ward through the wood without rest orm stoppage. He woul gladly have eat down and rested hia lintba, which were, now beginning to fee! fatigued after hi» long tramp, but whenever he thought ofo7 doing so a feeling of fear urged him on- ward. bl Now and then he fancied that he heard voloes; then the crackling of a twig caused his heart.to bound wit! 9 wild fear that pursuers were on his track. His cyes naturally turned righ: and left, seeking for sight of dange and he himself to feel like a hunted thing, though he told himsell over and over again that the fear war all magination and not real. But stil” he went onward, Ho suddenly paused on finding him-% aelf on the edge of the wood and hear-ity ing voices outsite, Advancing cau- tlousty, he looked out from the Ine!ip (ringe of trees and eaw that he was near Bickieigh briige and that @ounded counted six-of them, tt twelve houre since he bat, tented f He was getting faint and hungry, and appetite sharpened ith every moment. into Ba Prior, and bought cheese big dri that t both and hun % bottle of ale, and carried this supply ‘ay with him, All that morning Lindsay tolled en— up Saugh Moor, over the shoulder of | The sun Passed on, Once or twice he paused to take o drink from his bottie-the ale was re and bars but without ft he would have nm dead beat, he ead: to himself. At noon he came upon @ half-rutned hut, standing In the middle of « patch of desolate moorlands on the north of Green Hill, Moe entered tt and leoked about him, Tt was cool and shady, ani there waa sufficient beacken and storod within it to make a seft couch. Lindsay auddeniy that he was tired out and must rest. He coulge not Ko @ yard further until he med rested. He flung himeelf down en the dried bracken, an@ in @ moment was feat asieep. CHAPTER VI. The Man Hunt, INDSAY wes dead beat, Lit Drutal and unemotional ae he was, the events of the: =m Preceding day and night hed Wrought on his feelings, and the tong tramp through the woode and over the tore had completely exhausted him phystoally. q He slept on and on, and the atternoon wore away toward evening, and the sun cast strange shadows on the ridges and torm, but Lindsay saw nothing of it, He lay stretched out on the bracken, sleeping the sleep of physical exhaustion. While it was still broad daylight, and the sun was still above the tops of the trees, a fig across the | aring altogether ping up in In another pla: afar off looked like a blot of gray « moving across the golden brow of the hillsides, ~ Sometimes it moved at « rapid pace+that was when the ground was level; sometimes it came forward Painfully and slowly—that was when ( the ground was rough and broken. Had Lindsay been awake and watch. © ful, he would have perceived that an of the figure drew nearer to the hut an/ the side of Green Hilt dt resaived itselt ~~ into that of a mera, rd man was running Ike @ hunted iq and every now amd then his head ,, turned over his shoulder. ‘The noise of his panting breat! with @ slight breeze aw he made effort at the foot of the slope. Lindsay might have even, too, the man was & convict, wearing ugly prison dress, with its stampings the broad arrow making it stil) i Fal ugly. But Lindsay slept; he heard ag@) saw nothing. Ste. Be Ceatiqned) ih came