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a “S’Matter, Pop?’ “June Madness” Is Quite a Incurable. BY CHARLES DARNTON. UNE M viewed in sane September, may do very well as a ‘t do at all as a play. “The modern piay” r that Winthrop Ames produced at the Fulton cs back twenty years and finds its way to the yurs of ta afraid it wo We practi alk We m pared t {f the hard-working d gone on a va brieht June day when soe was twenty. In @ restaurant she had seen uiden holding hands, and this, toge touch of 5 perhaps, made her feel she was mis So she a few sultabte clothes together and headed straight hetel. There she siniled upon a good-looking stranger, streaked 1 with the dust of the tennts court, and he promptly decided to prlong his stay ne to pass that they were to each other for ten days. parted with no regrets, mories, For he was novel!st and she a “strong” womar yugh, as we knew e times she was * | | | *| fy | At was still str work une, thi ul of @ dark-hair nother teen was living proof of thos days at that su though he: father, oddly enough, wash't aware of her existence. Jung's mother had worked herself into a good job as a railway magnate's private secre ary only t Ite the suspicion of the mag- nate's w tons of this Kood woman been growing fo: 1 eat t, and when she called in Mre rnborough and a nounced that wished to letter we were prepared for We had watched that old before, and now, vainly hoping for the v we, saw w coming. It was at wa too late to cry “Stop! to the author. | Hedwig Reicher as Mrs.Thornborough |e had ko: ete BAe and was} That tewe to a detective bureau sett matters for the moment. But Mrs. Thornberoush t ike a tad 1 ver Ledt short te the bite A little thing Uke that, however, the ayed chee 1 Rover Pleldin Dy fe w years he was Ww he cultivated the summer tel n T a a the not ell Into the hands of tho ratlwa t lang! K ne Hollis, who was forward to wvarry T suthor, Katherine behaved véry badly, She made a very ¢ call ake a mess of it, Not s with this, she went told wad Ked about Mrs, Thornborough. & Fielding that he was y one of several lovers. Mrs srndorous as willing to let {t go at that for the sake of June, wh 1 just bevo 1 to the railway magnate’s son. But Fiekiing cuessel the tr antl Katherine contesse r "Then, Fieldin on his rye Mr memora! toat all tra 1% love teomen The f could nous time 10Ve act, put wn T immediate d, of course, tac In, r making proved #o unreal that it never won the slightest sympathy for dts characters. The hero! 1 ke a pate copy o' Suderma le the bloodless “hero had nothing to say for himself tha characters never to thelr own Is My an belnss—the moved about and cram ng hun Were simply roved about end crammed A, Hylton Allen aa RH) Hollle ur, Poctininena peseh jogical views or Renee Kelly as June Thornborough. the author. ‘Che result was @ play with a thesis that falled to become vital in the course of three a Miss Hedwig Reicher, handicapped by ai that sounded deciledty for- etgn to the ted with ¢ lon, real felling, as Mra. ‘Thorn verough. Even her beauty fost unt!! the last act. Charles Waldron ce do nothing more than walk through the thankless part of Fielding, Edward Emery made the rallway magnate a Wkable old fellow, and this in spite of tr fact that he talked most of the time with a cisar in his mouth, Miss Rene Kelly played June prettily, and A, Hylton in showing his love for her and he confounded airship, behaved iike a spoiled child. Miss Adelaide Nowak be- rerine, and Miss Helen Tracy made no attempt to bide her suspicions once she started in to make life mis ble for the hero ne. “June Madness” ix quite incurable, Tt really should have been treated tn one of those magazines given up to the popular study of "sex," came almost melodramatic as and Mortgages, a Chicago publication, Information A New “Credit” Idea. has much published on i} Copretght, 1912, ty the Prose Pubtiohing Co, "7° ee CATCH tim, sOh, You Ophelia! #& OW Mama’ Loony AT The PURTY ATcven whet ‘THe DRuc Sore man Guy me! Yuu Wanc 7 Ww we Window — Does BEAT ALL Wiwar PURTY Pitcnens Thet CAN Ger Oot: cr WE'VE GOTTA September 26, 1912 ‘To +4im FROM TeLuN +1 “PAW The Diamond By J. S. Fletcher w The Bren, bubtting (The New York World, ~) BY By Dwigy wy. wren A PcToRE Tuat wouuD Cos? Booy (0 OR Can REmemscr. Uke Copgrigh, 1900, by the Freak A, Muasay Os, NOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, three salon pemieti eee mm of 8 all right, er,” man. “The lady should have haé the trunk labelled via Kingetown instead ‘They’ rien Tater cls it repartee a down een yen Se i jenpeeets oat io the: come on ie jor’ meee lt ons P boat at 6 o'clock. You'll tind them at i "ai tanked am North Wall, ma'am, about 9 o'eteel t y ; thie evening.” Bg he Y “pam te “Tf T might efiven” oad Mr. b mcaye to Hou Africa with ofetoles tree- toying with a pale ef gol: Suing hearty erme siaswes, “iL weggest that your lime {ovdenth best modem, would be to: drive Me Varan Pieces around to Nerth Wall—put up at the London and Northwestern Hotel, as admiradle and extremely well oom- ducted howse, for the night, and cate’ the @ o'clock train im the mornin: from the edjacent station for Kingy bridge, where you would have an hou for breakfast before joining the 9¢ of the Great Southern and Western for ‘Lamerick.” Mise Driscoll thought af this very good advice and said so. A little Inte: 4 and the twe “clergymen” were ai hotel. At five minutes te nine Miss Driscoll CHAPTER XIv. The Irish Day Mail. T half-past e&ght o'glook on the folowing morning two olergy- men of highly respectable ap- pearance got out of @ four- wiveled cab at the entrance of the London and Northwest- ern Railway station at Leeds and en- ed the services of @ porter, who upon a truck the kage Wilah descendes from the root ot e cab and proved by ite very ampeot the gentitty of tt owners, The younger clergyman, who was at- tired in a neat, well-ftting Norfolk sult of that eminently clerical stuff known to the trade and the general public Oxford mixture, was @ pleasant-faded, Mmild-and-young-curate sort of person, whone provailing aspect was typical of a rather weak amiability, The older iit You Out oF Tuat Tue! taken auch an to the station to find trunks, As the sound of her foots died away siowly down the thickly car- peted corridor Mr. Claye's head pro- truded from the door of the next reom —defore Miss Driscoll’s skirts had ewished downgthe first Might of stairs Mr. Claye was at her door. He tduche! the handle—the, door yielded uy Mr. Claye stepped inside. Within «a few minutes every @oor screw had been loosened to such an ex tent that a gentle, continuous push front ‘as @ fovin!, kindly-looking, middle aged man, ted in a carsfully’ net Outside would have forced them out and cal lounge ault, who bore the unmie- Cheer Up, Cuthbert! By Clarence L. Cul.en. sald the elder. “She's In the next compartment ‘Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World), but one, n bag and all.” E world has Sped Pretty Far for Tossel Ones—and he rely or Never MAN signing himself F, D. Wj. lorever er the fellow who tnvented| “Wha your notion, Dick? asked that Loving-Our Enemies Stuff, Does! A writes to the Evening World ns +Work. As @ matter of course, he eaves| Young Mr, Baxendale, Dut there's Nothing to Debar us eons follows: | up for that vacation, and then spends p Mr. Claye puffed at his rar for « from Pouring Coals| Whenever we hear a Braggadoclo Boob the use AH hit cash and HIMSEELE tn the few |r Tinutes before he repited. ml of Fire on their| Boasting about his Patience we Won- ion? I'm days he calis “THE time of the year.” |patd. “It youd orieee ian hme he oR omen of pe gly Hoe 8 \ Heads! der what his Probably Browbeaten 1! just back fromone| Then he c home and says “IT 18) Ise as often as I have sou'd tenet teen face might be supposed to come in eam A tle Wife would have to say about That! and I can't keep A WRONG SYSTEM." He never stopa| there are one or two chances for wis ft. » That '*Taking-the- my grouch to my-| Kolm on the theory tnt the world| Pickings for men who know thetr work.” That night, tater, Mise Driscoll ope Bull-by-the-Horns"| It's Strange how Long “They will go | Thing {8 Purely /on Calling a Man “His Own Worst Eno- Pickwicktan — for; my" before “They'll Tell HIM tha: even the Matador | Stuff! doesn't Pull any — such @ Dub Play| The Fellow who Bemoans that his as That! “Fortunes are At a Low Ebb" 1s Bunk- — ing Himaolf—because he would Gain a Some of the|Petter Hearing if he would Out With Most Depressing |1t #4 "ay he's BROK Private Statistics in our P 10%] aor the Moment we've Forgotten the| to make ire Those which Indicate Infallibly ow Invariably we've Got the Bum End of It when we've Lost our Name of that Good Gun who wrote that | ized man “We Pass This Way but Once” Thing—| work elgh but we Sure Would Like to have bis|to keep fr Chance for a Harp Temper! | she use —_— | bond slay -_ Better to Listen to “The ky Road | o¢ freedom. | Odd how Clever at that Touch Thing to Dublin” than to Trudge It—and) |, work in m so Many of the Members of the Don't|Trudging It CAN be Avgjded! Ee avi tin eb Worry Club are! — nt len l We Hate to A It, but when the ea Our Idea of Bum Sport ts Triumphing Othe er pulls the Cancellation over an Old Enemy who's Down and, Clause on us It's a Slan we Haven't, 48t the Done! | Tried! | readers’ h aan | pens No dou The Reason Why the “I Gotta Hand! Too Many of us Adhere to the Nut) many @ It to Myself Nuteance Unspoois that| Notion that it's Imponsivie to Take Ad-| Maker's 1 Stuff 49 that Nobody Else Conscten-| vantage of an Opportunity without Put-|if he wou “ously Can “Hand Him: ting a Rank One Across on Some Other| "I can't Vellert Some of us give it the Highfalutin The Post Vacation Grouch plod on as before, ppeared Mr. Claye put the screwdriver tate his pocket again and turned to the bed. The coveriet and sheets were folded down; upon the pillow was epened out Mise Driscoll's nightgown. He produced « smail vial from am When the train moved oyt of the eta- tion, the two clergymen, who were for nate enough to have the compartment ail to themsetves, took: other and Inughed. ee “All right #0 far, my son,’ By Sop'ie drene Loeb. self. 1 don't kick; OWES him something. Also he never mene Papa ice Chee r te ir, Claye and at being broke, | tops to turn the question around Does! nis partnar. wae trreproachabl: res peat peat ot then with painfully sun-| he owe anything to the world? Misa Driscoll found herself descend. @ wild consciousness that something tad burned and, Ob, I say, folks, come out of Itt Ing the gangway in the company of bappened. bruised, Hut Tktck| This Is a great big world and the nya-| the two clergymen, who were wedged She stared about her at the Vinge | because one tem ts all right. Tut there are systema!" with her among « crowd of strug- 700m, at the trunks, a¢ her clothes, rue: grown man, made| WITHIN the system—individual ays- wine eae ngers. | The younger, who eettenly gested aa. end o . ‘Sor 'y in advance of hi @ elute! ently al things: . in his Maker's) tems ‘Come of these are wrong, OF. | some attempt to shield her from tee waieh ghe haé fasteneh sound hee WHEE mage, must toll| father, not in tune with the ome big h; the elder, who was her std polite observation as to the ere she got into bed the night befere, There was nothing but her unfettere®, a there, Uke @ galley slave | SYstem, a fortune for another, Civile] The making of one’s own system— fs the only animal that must) therein les the grouch or the grin, tor ten hours a day in order| Thus, tf the writer I have quoted had om starving to deuth, What's| the “loafer” system, which he bag not, A man never reulizea what a| le would have @ worse “grouch” than eho ty till he gets two weeks |ever, Many of us long for @ perpetual I'm no loafer, I'm willing! Vacation, such as the one of the year Jeration, And in another forward to. But if this were used to the work that the majority would be bored tly, h. after all ince oocasioned by so much Mise Driecoll thought they were both vary nice men and ef very the diamonds were gone! good mannera, earch of the room revealed save a bit of paper with figures Complaint to the management elicited nothing. A tally of the guests showed the ekier “clergyman” had left at 7 and the younger was still Mr, Ninian Baxendale, sleeping like a top in hfs room, became conscious, af. ter @ considerable amount of mental @ what chance offere replied Mr, Claye, de- to Ms plate “Now we are not voting himself that we're on the hunt going to be set back by @ few paltry f for obstacles, my son ay. But it is @ wrose # i “nothing in permanent ans TE We 40 any- etrort, that some one was knoc! saine, I belleve, Aud 1 ask| Dut change.” Therefore a CHANGE in| aningrg ae tne rotate © UY for the joudly at hie door, He got up at last honest opinions.” By system I9 Kod and to be reckonod |” Tt was at this juncture that again feline Vary heavy and dased. bt this Ie the sentiment of| with often, So tt may come to pass| fortune throw Miss Driscoll inte the her Gre iathuies bard tasting Be “grown man, made in his| that the writer has ea eontinued on his} hands of the’ consptrato gemalnges Bel jaye mean’ to take nage.” Many a so-called man, | ONE system that he deplores it, saying: | When Mr. Cayo and his companion Kingsbridge iid tell tho truth, would eay,| “In another month I'll be eo used | WAM On deck they found the Lainater ger dnwctcg® gist twine Sowestains keep my grotch to myseit,"|'o the work that I'll plod on aa before, | amine steadily away westward o He wore @ signet ring on the little | a8 smooth @ sea ag the moat squeamish Name of “Destiny” when as a Mat- ter of Fact it’a mere Divvlement! ince we set Only One Crack at this ndane Sphere, {t's UP to us to Go In for Some of the Prizes! Even Bravado Beats Back-Watering. The Zigs who Really Connect never Search for “Soft Snaps!"* Better to Hit a Pallen Pal with a Meat Axe than to Throw Up to him his 3 sure bet sir, are simple ston,” said Miss Driscoll, “I'll ARIOL tems of rural this subject. The Agricultural De-| Murky Past! : pe. same 4 ‘Mise Driscoll, inside a lock-up within ten operative credits are {nm ¢X-| partment at Washington ts compiling | = ool t nese may be had in} trunks fwhich were mil sit down - : tensive use in Europe. The| data on Europe's expe ‘ eae h is some period of the dally routine that! 1, Is for Dublin, T myself oung Mr. Baxendale collapsed tnto general plan underlying most of them] operative credit. ass |: ee seg Know in the D pthe of vs would lighten. the lid way, and give |saw them put tn the van at Leeday the nearest chair, and Misa Driscoll rang Iw the organization of co-operative #0-| gathered by United States Consuls in| Whether we're Fit for Fast Company) A kerime Of Vacation that would keep one |*4W them at Man 1 saw them 3 mimODNS the WHOM cleties in communities, which are af-] Europe. or just Bush-Leaguers? fan bead . attainment \#t Chester. As s 1 got on board 7“ ce step this Ailated with larger associations, _—————— | palin “ ater nt. The chip of gre os Melvhead © comme: ia the a t as much as you Ike, mg through which the small farmer mé ip Ste | when we Resin to Believe that Fate eed! ER wiih Ge kangway to look for them, Thy a i ok Bs, re obtain a loan, large or small, on rea Airship tamps. jhas got us Framed the Booby Hatch bas & iacing ai (el cetae Dhue ote, ee n good may tt do you. estate security or otherwise, at a low RMAN stamp ov were d¢-| opens Automatically to Gather us In! | thi she. derasiinn ems |Ghetae SkCa ha nae naka nin ou please,” she added as the n rate of interest and without paying an ghted a fow so to be} pails A : ea ti er r mee Bi keress came into the coffeesroom and exorbitant commission, Small loans ole to add to thelr treasures the| We can't Break Atcay from Habit URE ts a motor car modelled to reduce air resistance povha Of Nore 450) Ble wo and : cettainis wot on stared widovexed at the supposed cus Hl “4 " r Nite een “4 et . > k in t ner, It hee “| ar What wa to kno ue downcast attitude and paine may be obtained on personal security, | first airship stamps. Letters provided! py wercly Cussin’ Him Out! | persistence” too. It ls a fs auto Just r t ; tar ss ant at n guaranteed by the association, the lat-| with them can be threwn Into any letter iy v ck i} looks at first glance ke a motor torpedo (saya London Fket from by the eat ©: mighty-rich | © reg an Neg stias bank ine dens Ee wp (Ase a Raid amie ate reais i ter of course exercising discretion | box, to be conveyed by the Postluftschift| ‘The Only Man tn thé Alcoholic Ward Which the accompanying picture {8 reprodice!), but are supposed go an? poor ulike oN AND wo! Mat porter Was walting with a wear- iyself and you, If you please, cam hai haged on its knowledge of the honeaiy | Schwaben «i the Rhine to Frank{urt|who has @ Keal Kight to Kick is the combat the air pressure that has hitherto proved euch @ drawhack to the atten FOR: ALL VAC ON AND NO/ijy patient face to have his say in @ little conversation?’ ™ end ability of the berrower, Bonds) or Darmstadt, i 1. Male Nurse in Charg of the Poor Rums ment of bigh speed, - ae WORK 00 Sand JACK & DULL, BOY. | inn mestan teamned to bbee ia, de a ‘ corm ere Auto Modelled After a Fish. Bt ara ¥ nH dally.” of that han ise Drisco! even before or after a vacation, He Is) dally. |sea-oor could deaire, with the clits of wneeT, of that hand, and Mise Driscoll » al ® very fact that ho considera tt| Holyhead already receding in the table exactly opposite the door, saw tt, otding” proves that he hag set for} tance and the Skerries to the northward ana felt a sudden ilumination, Sur- him fac groove from which he if''ng humped and craggy backs out of prised out of bereelf she uttered two Mackin WESEtiAn tins what seemed to be an tilimitable ocean, Words: | p a Mr. Claye suddenly saw an oppor- ™%: ‘ The solution of the whole sttuation, ow * Ninian Baxendal Gawewes ie ig oaer es verte | tunity: With @ muttered “Stay where «You are under some mistake, ma- n lies tn carrying the SPIRIT 4 are” to his companion, he threw “he said tn his best curate votce. | OF VACATION tnto the everyday—yes,| away his clear, stepped up to Miss ’ name is Somerville.” p | right along with the plodding. Make| Driscoll and raised his soft clerical ar!” she hissed rather than | 1 stem that you have some time | "&t with grent politene “And you fool! Look <t your in some difficulty, signet ring.”* he sail in his most cultured The unfortunate young man glanced smile and slumber,” just as tn accents. “If #0, pray command me, I round him as a rat glances round the many diverstons, pleasures, |am an old and expertenced traveller.” cage in whieh It is trapped. His eyes right in our inidst (and time} Miss Driscoll turned to him with a wandered to the door. f wo but sey gratitude “It you dare to take one step without