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The Evening 4 ERES TeE ICE CREAM MAN AT THE FRONT Door You HAVE BEEN GOOD ToDAY,So IF You Ge A Didn,) wilt HAve THe MAN Fite I(T FOR You “The Woman Haters” Pleasantly Tuneful but Stupid. ETIMPS musical cumedy ts unintentionally comic, As every one knows, t loves women, from the fairest to the fattest. Upon them it davishes gad song and gladder rags, counting nelther the high note nor the high aga It can't help loving women, since tts very existence depends upon them. oS''Knd yet at the Astor Theatre last night there was @ comic opera that dared to be Known as “The Woman Haters.” The humor of it lay in the idea, not tn the book. There was a club composed of woman haters who held a meeting in fin fret act and ae was on'v to be expected, gave up the ghost in the last. By r this time these women haters had be- come such deadly bores that it was a Joy, even @ savage delight, to see that no guilty man escaped, This Ingenuous idea, taken bodily from the German, | plodded along stolidly to the bitter end. | jeorge V, Hobart’s attempt to make it sprightly by means of his “American ook and lyrics” was not crowned with chat success which finds expression tn uncontrollable laughter. “The Woman Haters” proved hopelessly = stupid, hough pleasantly tuneful. Tt was always a relief to turn a tired ear to Edmund ‘sier’s music. The score had real charm. But all this so- alled Viennese music is so much alike ind we have had so much of It that I'm afraid the day of Its popularity here ts irawing to a close. Isn't it about time | for something from an American com- Poser—not a song tinker but a mu- sicianly workman—just for a change? | { honestly believe that a genuinely eal comedy, or whateve: all It, would be hailed as a novelty, & trifle monotonmms. Pretty as it ts, there seemed to be nothing new in Mater the Orsi act lam nicht, The rest of the performance dragged fea! Witz, a pylka and then another walta suggested an old-fashioned danc Mepime,, The diffeulty with euch music is to find people who can dance It. when the poor chorus people try thetr feet at this sort of thing {t ts really 1 to. watah them. Last night they were relevated to a narrow passage ut the back of the stage that added to the oriure of thelr movements. Only the VWUeged “principals” were allowed » freedam of the Moor, and except for “Joseph Santiey thelr dancing was Rot ealculated to carry an audience off feet. ‘Walter Lawrence sang 0 well that . Ble dancing didn't matter, Within a ‘\¥ery short time Mr. Lawrence has do- f splopes @ remarkably good voice. In } ning “It Wns dtarle” he won his v apdience compietely by making this jRumber the musical gem of the per- formance. To add to his vocal gifts, cts withthe good nature that char- Astérizes his stxter, Miss Georgie Law- rence, who looks at department store if@ with @ practical eye while thin the Law” takes its exciting course. She fray 'well be proud of her big broth torhe has now established hiinsef as the Best all-round hero on the comic opera stag {Mites Sallie Fisher followed her usual bent of giving ler volce too much rein, 14 ghe would only hold tt tn a bit, how happy she might be in reading her pre: nestle It's a pity that che doesn't Dolly Gastios as Tilly, taMé better care of her voice. She can sing lke a dark, but, w tablets upon foarins £0 hith that enly the roof s fmmdnce youth doesn't seem to realize its own no bnly charming, but graceful, By overacting with her eyes, however, she certainly does not enhance her charm. f- «i Mpung Mr. Sinttey danced with his customary Mims: Dolly Castles a fast pace, Miss Castles both danced and sang industr‘ousty. ‘Wihi'e her work had Its weak points, {t was physically strong. Mrs. Stuart Trobsan appeared as a coy Ltte thing of some 200 pounds, while Snitz Edwards qualified ag the smallest woman hater ever placed upon exhtbition. By singerity Lesile Kenyon sa ogyyeuel. But when will my witless ty’ a Jriends ve ately, she & her, In this charming | jared! 1th hs/ if two pers J the usuat English siily asa from seeming as ely the d Jit was ‘cal comedy rid itself of tis tiresome, worn and) not m Betty Vincent’s “Advice to Lovers | Is then | merely comm }do it, and a cause of ine | The common 1a farry for five years, Do you think 1] Young man has been paying me atten- .d Te you were at fault, why not write aj with a happy marriage of apology? ‘Tho difference 18 bound to make your union something of ris! be hapry jall {s well, But, “G. B." write have known a *\,podng man for some time, but he made a) * . orld —A Disaster mn tessie’s Visits to Slumberland | ** (The New Tore Works). By El Sch | ‘canor oc at | Pe S h Copyright, 1912, by Tue Pree Pubiishing Co, ‘SIE'S Mamma always read her @ story before she went to bed. She American operetta, comic opera, mus! used to read any story Bessie wished her to; and Bessie seemed to ty choose eT prefer fairy stories because they always gave her pretty dreams be breaks through They played hide-and-seck among the fowera, sang tiny Uttle songa and read the account while Ryrmanty falls into the Potomec—and they ad were very happy. 4 farmer sauntered doten the road to call in hie cow. cam, Miswsaippt Evident! Hts way led him past where Beas “Hallo, little girt" he said to her, ng Ji But he took no notice of her fairy playmates. They were too small for' nae, ae he imagines? 1, was like his the engine house which had been Jia ie Could warn hum he had stepped upom the ats Rowers in which they were playing and passed on hie fairies qnd the pretty flowers were pity of them, Besste woke up after that, feeling very so Then she noticed @ few more fairies and sat down to play with them | upon a flower and vowing nei ane risner as Marie Witon, While Mr. Bysler’s music ts good (tith the help of the Dream Man, of course). enough to be Its own excuse, it be- Bessie went to sleep and before long dreamed #hat ahe was walking “And. before Bi funy, @0ng @ country road, with flowers blooming on both sides of it. pro- slooping to pluck them when she heard a tiny vice call her. It came from the heart of a big red poppy and proved to be the voice of one of her fairy a it-venuming Hrewn's fort lay cloge upon the " ony, The rimestt on fmoualy for. toad tracks, with dwelling muse he 4 Ht get strength of hupe rack®.and taverna straggling up the in dreadful pain and B rry for ever having stefpcd wiaiy and in vain diers, and decided to go o@t and make ver to do it again, | Epoch Makers IN MEDICINE By }. A. Hosth, M. D. Coprright, .#12. oy Lue é’rees Publishing Os, (The New York World), ALBERTUS HALLER, Physician and Statesman. ‘Who knew, indeed, What a tangled MONG the great men of the elgh- teenth century, the name of Al- Haller stands out Observing the Little Niceties of Existence By sophi- s:ehe Loeb, Copyright, 1¥14, by The trees s'uusuing Co, (The New York World). T wer YOUR HUSBAND AS YOU how 19 tt possible for them to stop?’ 1s a question strange as tt may seem to our fair critic, THE, they do stop, never to start again. FOR THERE IS WOULD A PROSPECTIVE HU‘ BAND AND YOU WILL HAV COMPATABILI THING SO DEAD and distinction, He Just fancy brush-| ! Was a true genius the beauty of close companton- ing your teeth m not be lost sight of, tt loses! auty 1f no regard ts elven in the here direction of modesty, taste and dscre- In a word, an EVERLASTING regard and respect for the feelings of a Such matters, though , {8 one of the things ¢ atmosphere wholesome and attrac-! and keeps the fire of interest allve. {ke too much breed eatiety almost and with it unrest and dis-| sketn of lives ft was, anyway! One au sestony and physlalogy, but also in thing was certain—he may have deen ne mut I'don't see what ee: Stang. He made perilous journeys ati giant he wan not fizhting tn Virginia. ing to hire to travel on. the risk of his life up the Alps te col-| and yet his heart wan there all the time, cart of a broken-4own wage the lect somo rare plant or flower to be| Meanwhile, Gertrude’s ectsion to ‘ ‘even for [leave Tichmord and go home to the to wet Wh aab v was put Into execution with pate for you to travel t mili- PT eee linen eda dee and | Sparactertatlo Impulse, Tt wos a bad tary escort, and that I ne ae: aah Bie A gig had him that ils) ime for such a Journey, That madeno thority te furnish. If you ‘were ear at hand, @ notura! love ant Haller was by | se otaut hee amare. Cea @ great capacity a tiferee 08: 9 pon it. prisoners, now, He fett sure that pu it did lead to some very complcated through our lines | he had served his God, his country and | and roundabout arrangements for the the cate of scence, we | able to do anything ¢ his own physical condition and watched the slow process of his dissolution. One| ny way of Baltimore and Harper's Roffelet was present, Merry, For the last-named barrier, @ Haller touching his own pulse said to| Federal pase would bo requiped. thig to what Rev. Ann tion, no means disturbed, gate to the for work continued | last: moment of his life. As "If a man and al day while Dr, added a great deal |that was unknown before him to every ITS FLAVOR | branch of science of which he became SONED WITH THE SALT ing-power, For Miss Fisher is! ginning, how 4s {t possible for them :o op? IT heard some one say the ot) And with these words he ex-| "hit this would be comparatively ‘Atness and skill and set band or wife see you brush your teeth. now Giscoveries, not Only in, Albertus Haller was bern at Berns, | Gortrud Switzerland, Oct, 18 WF a0 could road Grose und Ite an 7 Pa pradesh Tine he complied a dictionary of | vith the Maecutive Geparimanty Bt icnlveuttes suet ° catth eure eel ‘ {as a young boy, wrote poetry Maller was sent at an early age to ;the University of Tubin: teft Germany and went to | of Leyden in Holland, to most famous physicion tn Europe day, Dr, Boerhave. But I simply cannot super-daintiness. Surely, | ns care for each other, etails of daily ife will b Je matter for disgust. At the age of | panion~a mysterious S Deep Water Doings. “Ja dict matter of tecth before ANY one a matter “super-daintiness?" ness of things not to 1@ of us no doubt take The one great HIesue with the delegate. patability, If si MUCH knowledge of of marriage that reputation grew | 1784 he was appointed professor of analy ay F burg, Gertrude sald to Berne and physician t {public hospital of the city. professor surgery at the gen, Germany. for seventeen “sy Me most e are off and on our wa en te a ergryprenen tee 1 t » other, a8 she saturated a handker- motesty and GOOD A*Long Engugement. Why didn't you wait for his expiana- | me a 0 1." writes: “Tam astxteen and] Yon? |r s not with very much in love with a young man al | TASTE, ts the one of”eighteen but we have decided not to] “I. G." writes: ‘1 am eighteen and a/the marriage which h. It ts a strain foo youns for suoh @ long engage-| ‘ion for nearly a year, Would {t be|it cannot long survive. n human nature; } anatomy, botany and | This position RESPECT of pers ‘8 a dominant chord, of his actent! Albertus Haller was the 1 numerous honors both at hé Berne elected him to Its Soveretgn Counct! tifle bp Europe vied with each| "Yes, honey child. ‘That's what we Richmond”—across the room agatn— other to do him honor. Fellow of the Royal So and member of the Acade Parts. For his services of Goettingen King George II, m him a baron < conferred upon Polar Star for merit. Haller dled Dee: en the one to} All the sclen-! thy mr’ Proper for me to go with him on a| The happy marriages of history are | Tes, but the situation {s tIkely to right | business trip?” [those in which th itvel*, Not unless you are properly chager- |sonalities was al in * — oned. "or {t 19 the one thing that {s upper- oe) Hi." writes: "I have quarretled — |most BEF he 94% & Man whom I like very much, “GC.” writes: “I am a man of\a general thing, has ch: anf'l know my own stubbornness was|thirty-ilve, and very much in love with} whom he or she accords to Blame. What shall Ido? I can't for-]a girl of twenty-yne, Do you think th: | respect. getehtm."” difference in pur ages would interfer | If this can be retained AFTERWARD, : T am sorry to say,! Mary forgets to brush her halr as she} but you may | was wont when she knew he Was com- ing to call, and she will perchan He was mad to the Univer yA. eneagement with me which he did! > merece |imany other untidy Mttle tralts that he not keep. 1 wrote and told him that if} ON TOUR, had not Kepown about i» She. courtinn {fg over failed mo again everything | ‘The Acter—What is tho poetry of mo. period. On the other hand, he may m dur sprivate NDOT captain, and the captain s Into the last in fof 13,613 volumes. would be off. I have not heard from| tion? personal habits that grate to distrac- Pe iff since, Was I right in saying what| The Poet—The kind that's always go- Hon. And there you are! ¢ g ata tng trom editor to editor,-Woman's ‘Then, the question that “if a man and 2 tnink you were @ ittle hasty, Home Compagion. i woman love each other in the beginning = Sucker—Blees those little ones that throw nursing botti: jake, ied 0 enema nen eee aes oa et een eee ahs ahha, enandoah A Civil War Romance of Sheridan’s Ride By Henry Tyrrell (Founded on Bronson Howaré's Great Play) Shenandoah’s Daughter. é ‘ AM going back home,” #914 piace to . ee tiene Gertrude Ellingham, with qe bageage determination. “I long t© duly preyared, and ne edatacla see the Valley ence mere up to prevent the girls from and [can do jugt as the westward-bound train on t much good at Belle Bosquet as T can timore ‘and Ohio road at noo! outlook tn Richmord, with MeCtellan’: army almont within gunel the contrary, that in itself would have kept her tn the threatened Confederate capital had not stronger ties of botn duty and sentiment Grawh her home- wi it. Kerehival Weat of the Union Army of Southw Misvourl, as in reached thelr destination, - Valley aroun in the little ~ top. fancy that he could hear Gertrude of the lo bridge wuch words a9 these er Potomac, where the old arsenal cred mi at hilly streets dehind. Jon fala Serpaire-tar Neve Ips SAM OCT. Nene hata’ sonata tee halo of glory at of al! whea lavighed lor of hotel” full of drunken su One soveretyn “olace be had that-he inquiries of anyone who might seom ‘was wearing the vine art Ashting loy- Sober ee vo soon 66 ae ally for the Old Wag in @ campaimn ‘hey bee ah og Pas s ‘ ficlently remote frem the Valley of ‘ham on sare alegal uncer Viratnta. After alt, Fate had heen kind (ainty wae prompuy — they to him, he thought, ae he recalled bis a et out of Harpere Ferry farewell words with Bob Bilingham, at Charleston—was {t ages ago, or a tittle more than a year beck? ‘All right, Bob—T only, hope we never meet in battle, that's all.” bese ‘And then they both saddened, as they added: r “Who knows?" ympiiahment of tne trip. Her Confederate War OMes frtend for reasons essentially thelr own, |creed that If she went at all it must be And so, un- | ae he studied be procured at Baltimore, And to get ““no you mean that we eught to go e to Maltimore, by er, of course It WAS peck to Balthmore?’ asked Belle Boyd, necessary to run the Federal blockade. energetically. no longer Yy, under t agreed upon, by which | ‘ow, | know routes intimately, and WhO tow the line to stay, but they must be ry of | seemed to be rather closely in touch wel) vouched for. Tam only explaining |Michmond for one who confidently gy, | promised to arrange tha little matter of Federal passes at Baltimore, n tfe lacerl phis young person—she seemed not Gen. Fisher. My orderly will ¢ University ! over tw troduced somewh: A od ao ‘ne soon ae I bear from him." dy under the | vaguely as Mrs, Smith, She was w cWe will go back and walt.” said drenved, fairly good looking and & Gertrude's companion, determtmedty. FS He graduated tn 1707 bright tall , partioularty hee th fi They notice Cy J groupe and then studied for some time at Ox- |) f-confide: was perhaps a trifle tnronging the tavern © dosen gra: 1 Iso at Par c wit then this wold not coated Confederates who had been oap- he feturned to bis native cll come or two uprotected females tured the day before. One of these, 1 in Dixte In war n the first stage of the Journey and! overland, ax they stopped overnight hy slelan. vidently an officer, paced restiessly up iy and and dow reem, while the guard kept an eye on him, Hoe closely ty er at the two girts as he paonge thins, nd Mra Smith, T have told you what Gertrude was wondering tf she had wot little there ts, of Interest about my- geen that face somewhere before, when self and my plans. tT do so wish You suagenty, without stopping or turning would tell me something of your own witneat Seva saean erie tn h In i adventures, don't mind, my Gear, now that laughed re you going South? es,” answered Belle Boyd, like @ ‘ chief with eau de cologne and washed h. , ber face with ft ‘By the way Ci Ry turn, he mottered real name ts Belle Royd.” ? "O " t Another affirmative. Cgoanese., Mracious: Melle Boyd of cee mensage to General Johnston, at my ? hat you saw Capt. Thornton here, c! isoner.” tout; “ape Thornton! ‘Then, it wee he- Edward Thornton, Gertrude’ Charles- ton acquaintance of @ year ago last what shall you go? she whispered are on, now “Buteif they after We crom# the lines, they woul arrest and detain us, would they nol Wt reckon they will of Sw get ue. Of course, I won't he ely 4 Bells Bove ¢ toyd. and you won't be Miss Elling- Belle . ‘sina fa from now on" “That will depend on what thep are com \ clviltan met "Miss Page and Mra. going to do with us here, was the noa- he German ith at the Zd@ht street wharf to ehalant reply, ‘tim Baltimore. He took them to a Federal bis superior officer, Gen,