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) YA THNOOT OUT Pt MY QuetL?’ AN TAKE A LOOK, ‘You COME Him JUMPED ‘But DONT YA Tova ancoer IN DARE ARE TO ERE agg) i ape IN _ cAGe “The Lady Kicks Goal. BY CHARLES DARNTON. A FTER a lady of the chorus had accidéntally kicked her slipper over the footlights at the Globe Theatre last night, “The Lady of Ipper’’ we cask, ot into the «ame by kicking goal ike « sure-fire footbell player buts east so far as fun went, kic! vi wt east oo far ed every other musical Blece along Broadway Montgomery and Stone and Elsie Jants had every reason to hug themeely fn the three-star ourtain speech they made after Victor Herbert had given fils Irish accent an outing that suggested a breezy day in Celtic Park. While he Waa at it Mr. Herbert might have done the graceful thing a bit more gracefully by saying « word for the clever book by Anne Caldwell and Lawrence McCarty | and the capital lyrics by James O'Dea. When & Prince of Bagdad is told, “On What one wife costa New Yorkers, you could keep a hundred corkers”” te, de admitted that an original potnt of view deserves recognition. Lyrk ft must ica that ng” well aren't written every day. Nor are lbrettists who can half-sole and heel the old story of “Cinderella” to be found on every corner. As for Mr. Herbert, he expressed himself throughout the evening in the happiest music he has ever written. It was liv dy and young and gay—its freshness made the Viennese treacle we've been getting In large doses seem old and stale, There was Irish wit in the score, as well as in the book, and the result was a smashing big hit. The Globe will have @ hard time holding all the men and women who will want to see Mont. gomery and Stone and Elsie Janis at their best and the kiddies who are sure to be all eyes when they watch those white ponies that gallop off to the ball with Cinderella. In fact, “The Lady of the Slippi sets a very fast pace for the Christmas plays that are now in preparation, to that production found so many op- portunities to distingulsh themselves as | were afforded last night. Fred Stone no Fred A. Stone as Gpooke. doubt realized he had no occasion for saying “I just wanted to see whether I could come back” when he blew in through a window as a gentle reminder of his old scarecrow self. There was just enough straw in his make-up to make a funny man of him. "Dave" Mont- | Gomery grew out of a pumpkin-head with equal ease, Other disguises helped the fun alcng, with the inimitable Stone giving new twists and turns to his antics. Again and again he proved that as @ grotesque comedian he is supreme. Ther no other word for it. | With Queenie Vassar he made a joke of the Viennese waltz that has found | ftw way to staircases, but this humor went to greatest lengths when he danced | from a divan to a chair, then to a table, and finally took a high dive through a| portrait by, one of the new masters. The power of drink also drew him to a| Hi-1-1-1! Not since “The Wizard of Oz" have the comedians whose fame dates back to break her of this hadit, but Man thought he'd try. This particular night he came to that he forgot to close the door after spiteful little Jack Frost came in and Household Copyright, 1012, by The Pree Pubusiing Co, (The New York World), Bessie’s Visits to Slumberland { By Stephen L. Coies ee et vine wit YA DET she war unsuccessful. So the Dream blowing mouthfuls of Bessie's bedside and Bessie dreamed him, It was a very cold night, and hung icicles all over her béd and on BESSIE’S BAD Tuesday! Octobe WELL T DONT KNOW WHAT A QUELL 15 BuT It GeT 'T our By Eleanor Schorer| PA i and she fancied there were a lot of little Jack Frosts hopping about her and e cold air at her and pelting her with enowbalia. She was too cold:to sleep. And when she awoke she saw that her door was really open. ‘Thén: she remembered that she had left it open herself. But that was the very last time she ever cid tt, ELEANOR SCHORER, Electrics The Cameta-Eye Boss A New Scheme to Mahe Employees Hustle. | | Copyright | 1912. by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York World), UT in Chicago and clewhere they ;the dictation the boss had given her rf 29. 4912 DING THA DING DING AnDAS MaMhce Rie. AND HIS " HOME To His MAT ; A Civil War Romance of Sheridan's Ride By Henry Tyrrell (Founded on Bronson Howard's Great Play.) (Copyright, 1912, by @; P, Putoam’s Sons.) tha enemy hesitated to shaot at, de- claring that if not a Southern Trey iuekaner i Comat tener) valler he rode and fought. like exe. A vattle ts impending io 1804, for . fraseeslon of the Bheusnioad Y pale Custer now at a tearing gallop flew up’ woanden ih te Sheridan, threw both arma around Sheet eA at ‘oa army abd him and kissed him on the cheek in gn {ride hinetian fguthern “Ns “Gen Hater irrepressible burat of boyish enthu | Hetle Bosquet, “His aon Frank has tried to atone wae off again like tho wind. for a former in by enliating jm the Fesleral army It was not yet noon—Sheridan had Sn ee ect ane tae Races for Come Up at 10.30—and now the whole erie second wile, young and @tream of men on Winclester turnpike who ts tring fo tere ber be 4 was flowing southward instead of the Mal eta Ronen, a other way, full of fight again, Another tine to Mee. Hiateeiil tenge hour sped by—two hours—and stolen fram Frenk etil! Sheridan was busy reforming and we ing the whole tw b Havent pteture pede "Weat’ fioda se, bien ig. rearranging his lines, pa nl pockets it. Thornton wounds front of his infantry in review, until re talle ate, ine hands of atiafled that their shattered morale Arete was sufficiently restored to be relied and 0 #1. Te battle on once more for aggressive work, The | faen. Wert tat ‘preala enemy's fire had noticeably slackoned. away to rally Wie regiment Nearing of but this Was a sign to be acted upon Ils army's defeat, aalions thom \iocbamler 89 with extreme caution, until Its signil- {rowan orders to stem the tide of retreat, cance could be definitely ascertained, epee Gen, Sheridan was still obses ea with Xs the {dea that Early's’ aggressivensss CHAPTER XX. bebe be ae Tautis doa . orcements, and tha y At the Eleventh Hour. atreet had Joined him after all. Rag) NDING a courter back with When, toward the middie of the after. a hurried onter that the troops noon, the Confederates made a bold (og o- though unsuccessful wally against Gos ‘. oe ators he vate at) Havertits division andthe rent of the af ‘a he Sixth Corps commanded by Gen, Buck- that all fugitives should b® thorn, the suspense became unendura- halted and sent back to the front again, ble, Buckthorn recelved a note from he now gave Renal his head. The wal- the commanding General conveying en lant Morgan colt needed no spur. But order which he promptly transmitted to |the Pike was wo cluttered up with Gen, Haveritl, as the latter occupled the wagons, and convoys of wounded eer ae jena rate is tance ene could e moat effectively made: “Sen soldiers, and groupe squatting around Toy ive cavalry after that expose@ fonce-rail fires cooking coffee as a [owells cavalry after Ya batitute for the breakfast of which tery at the edge of the woods, with subs! abject of bringing in as many prison Early's surprise had deprived them that Qs possible.” long detours through the flelds at one — co), Lowell has just fallen. Will side or the other had to be made. send his command under new leader, to ewtown, about halfyway be- be chosen at once.” i Cedar Cresk, Ten, A’ cavalry officer with haggard face Sheridan found numerous comp: of and bloodshot eyes, bareheaded, jacket- uninjured and upscared men, with their lesa, his shirt open at the throat, rested oMfcers, who neéded only a word, or the fn a fleld to the east of Middletawn Iniere sight of “Little Phil.” thelr magical after a hurried inspection of his troop- ommander, to turn about with ers ers to the left of the Gnion line. Tae and march thaek toward the enemy. colonel of a New York regiment rode Among the first he recognized was an up, proffered a flask, and said: Officer trom his wn State, Ohio—Major — “Col. Weat, have a drink with me,he- William McKinley of Gen, Crook's ataff. fore you go in again. You seem to need here is the Nineteenth Corp it, and I expect at this rate you'll. anked Sheridan either in Hades or tn glory before 4 “Ont ht, General—in the woods other hour passes." ’ sénne # the reply, as the young Contrary to his reputation, hablt and inating engineer ts also working on the | O are devising a new way of get-|to transcribe.) ting the tong-sought “last oun: The office boy is, at that momen, never to tire, nor to be at a loss for something new to do, When he went up and down with the curtain his strange performance created no sur prise, Tc was Stone—and that ex-° plained it! But Fred Stone was by no means the whole of this big show. Miss Janis stood out in a ight that was all her own. She was a match for her new ‘er girl on her feet seomed a bit self- fected, probably now within a few/ldea may soon travel eastward fo New |fend in human form who dared to fal-| i rrival on the field, montha, light will be produced at about| York, Here Ws the-plan: sity « photograph in such a way ax tof A Cotte of mile: on, in'the #essed by @ demon, he swung out his The camera replaces the slave whip. {make him appear to be smoking @ #ur-| pear of Gan. Getty’s ‘division near re and, turning to his men with Pussycat-footed photographers, mask- |reptitious cigarette, between munches of | Middletown, a whole bunch of regi- “nal ery of “Now for the ohi . ing thelr cameras in’ “bags or under|a “borrowed” apple from the stenogra-| mental flake seemed to rise up out of It the cavalry fn « brilliant sortle kround, These proved to be the “°'0#S the fencelens meadows and at t! of the main body of Cro line of straxgly woods where the, ad- troops, which had no€ retreated at all pe rebel battery’ ati! belched forth Aw for the picture representing the| but reformed after the surprise of asa “slug.” Then, as if suddenly pos- them to attract the attention of the petty thief. So many complaints were voiced, not | only by users of electric light in public halle and theatres, but especially by hotel proprietors, that a clever inventor turned his efforts toward a way to stop of the electric and the gas rankelare up to, the thefte, @ Western electrical engineer an-| Next day, what happens? A lamp socket provided with a lock| nounces that the electric cooking device! Willie Watchelocle cauntere in and jassletant purchasing agent-in the act of one morsitg aoe er PACT | petuvaitor aries ota hataneiag such tm- hae just been placed on the market, and| is the height of perfection and Is an !m-| seats himself at his desk, yawns and|#queezing the fulr private secretary's In one of the brigade commande 4 pers came one-fiftieth the cost of that obtained from tungaten lamps at the present time. Electrical Cooking Tests. coats, prowl carelessly around a store |pher's lunch basket In the cloak room— A FTER extended comparative tests! or an office. No one guesses what they |at @ moment when he was supposed to | colo be hot-footing it to the post-office. dancing partners. here back with flying colors, several that she is! If 5! conscious as Cinderella, she made it quite clear that she wasn't taking the character seriously. To her old and ever-remarkable imitations of stage per- formers she added one of Frank Tinney she d and then displayed her amaz- ing talent In this direction by singing a “duet from “The Merry Countess” in which she brought out Maurice Farkoa in one breath and that droll \) ( ‘ i | ! (\} H the makers claim that the lock !# un- pickale. After the lamp ts wed into the socket the key Is inserted and turned as in an ordinary lock, The lamp cannot be removed without the use of the key. Combined Iron and Stove. T HE latest thing in electric irons for travellers comes in a suede bag with @ silk draw string and re- long has been regarded as a perfect ap-! sits aghast, the fact that alr must be admitted to; Ther from the electric. ing in the electric oven insures an abso-; hour when lutely finished product. Thé Provement over the gas range, which| prepares to open his ledger. the yawn frozen on his Pilance. He made an especial point of|'O"-shaped mouth. « just in front of him, ts pinned the gas-range oven, while & is excluded! a photograph, And the photogtaph t @ stony, It pictures him at hia desk. He also asserts that baking or roast-|The clock above him registers 10.30, an the hustle should be hot- t of|test. He is depicted lying back In his operation ts in favor of the electric range chair, cigarette tn mouth, eyes half shut. | Customers clamor unheard for attention, when properly used. It possesses the His next-desk nelehbor hand as she passes hin desk on her way to the president's oMfce, absolutely no comment is made on that-—by any- body. There's nothing to say about It. In the store, at the same hour, two salerxiris are weeping indignant tears at aight of @ neat “#goup picture” pore traying, them as chatting together tn pleasant absorption, while five indignant punch bow! that brought out new steps. To laugh at this sort of thing 18 much | 4 Lo Lam; Ay easier than trying to describe it. A Lock for Ladd neon vacuum tube lamp and he has ex- | officer sprang upon his horse, by lee} binge oer Mae slowea e acaae ye : veness of the new ‘ y loud cheer, dashed away to # ld allowed a simply defies description. He seems Fiessenes sien Ree Neer Pressed the opinion that when it is per-| of work" out of emplgyecst And the/sbhrilly threatening to sue far ioe: tun! f ) inspiring news of the ohieftain'a Man's drink, known in trooper, parlance then! Another pretty olerk, after one glance, Sheridan recognized another inch tured guns, and a score‘of prisoners— Ohloan whom he knew, This was aret herald of the turning tide of vie- Col. Rutherford B. Hayes, Ba Ls now thelr wild leader was .. The meeting, In quick suecession, of 30... Mpeg ee head. No one had McKinley and Hayes under such mo- poem him fall. Whoever knew what mentous circumstances naturally im- happened to the individual, forgot 4 it in the Jubilant excitement o1 prsaaes the General as of encouraging general rewult nchieved tee ‘ Yet how: little could he oF "the Medera) line wae pow,iaul Ab; they, guean that within the apan of @ re.eutablished. At 4 o'clock Bheridey single generation both ‘of these prom ordered the grand charge, which one ° ining young Ohio sotdiers, Aghting begun shoulder to shoulaer with countle: undeb his personal direction by i , as ) % the Nineteenth Corps, on th ¢ English comedian, A, W. Baacomb, tn ( vembles in its optside appearance a large! distinct advantage of being the only! sputtering wrathfully urna ‘her gaze coldly from w Ikeness|'sthers of equal or more promine, were take: hon the right, and br ‘ n up b Anayher. Te Wes nothing: Cop her te Rus { i Dair of opera glasses, The contents of| range that can be installed in a kitchen | pretty snabshot of ‘himself and the of herself “fussing her hair anddrad-| to become Presidents of the United along the ae tee the cavaley Anna Held, Eddie Foy and jeorge AN: the bag are, however, surprising in thetr| without requiring flue connection shipping clerk matching nickels behind bing @ handful of chocolates from @/ States of America! on the flanks charat the ne Cohan into a single verse. Then, too, there was the 8) elike Elsie Janis as Cinderetia, variety and compactness. First, there is a nickel-plated tron A Cheap Breakfast | hour, the shelter of an open door at the same|box in an angle of the counter par- tition, while the womah she 1s supponed Far other and more immediately time Then ¢ ee pressing concerns occupted them on the onfederate batteriga ed up and the roar of artillery and o 7 ) e i - or 1 le of Cedar Creek, Lydia Lopoukowa, that bitthesome little Russian dancer who seems the em. tte ange | PT haw been demonstrated that where! ‘The stenographer is In tears, Just be-| to be waiting on Is forced to do all the| this day of the batt litting crash of exploding aheUa podiment of a smile, She tripped out in a ballet that had no need to be called weishing utile lave shan (eee! peuAte, ] electric cooking devices are used a cause a photo pinned on the wall above. waiting. Colonel “or wan It already General? mingled with the flerce roll of the Tus: “Youth,” for she was the spirit of youth on tiptoe. The fluffy creatures who en there is a pr hs breakfast consisting of five cups of he+ machine shows her scribbling Indus-| There 1s another interesting picture | ay mo! ‘etry. danced with her—and danced uncommonly well—added to the charm of this wpectal feature, Early in the evening Vernon Castle danced cleverly with girls who joined in a French quadrille, There was no end in the variety of girls ‘and costumes, and all reflected the good taste that 1s typical of a Charles Dilling- ham production, ‘Although the last act was a bit “patchy,” “The Lady of the Slipper" didn't betray the slightest slgn of being run down at the hapl, The youthful spirit of the performance never flagged. It was all like Montgomery and Stone's first song-and-dance, “Them Was the Childhood Days.” And here's your chance to renew them! Betty Vincent's Advice to Lovers that I should marry a certain young man in a year, But though I love him, he often breaks his promises to me The Leap-Year Proposal. “J, R.” writes: ‘When a lady makes which the fron fite upside down so that! {t may be used as a stove. Both the iron and the stand fit inside a nickel-plated cooking vessel the exact shape of the fron and provided with a cover, The bottom of the vessel extends downward at the edge so that when It Is placed on the tron it will not slip off. In the square end of the {ron is a hole into which @ pair of curling trons may be in- serted to be heated, The usual length of flexible cord and plug comes with the outfit, Everything packs away neatly Inside the cooking vessel, which in turn goes Into the suede bag. Artificial Daylight. OMEN especially wil be inter: W to know that the illuminating engineers of the world are de- voting much attention to the develop- ment of an artificial Nght that shall be coffee, six dolled, scrambled or poachéd trioue! exes and ten slices of toast may be pre- in And so faithful is the Ikeness y deta!l that it shows she has pared at @ cost for current of only three just written the words cents, (which, stramyely enoug! Silhouette Sayings {s no part of upstairs of the head bookkeéper passing the clock on his way out to lunch; and companion Ukeness of his furtive eturn to work—two and @ half hours later. The clock tells the simple story These are only a few of the i of unmounted prints thet ge stuck on walls or desks all over store, office and collar, No word is attached to them, No flicker of the boss's eyelashes ex presses his knowledge that the victims oxint. { He has sald nothing, He has admta- istered nelther call-down nor fine, He has simply seen fit to decorate the walls of his‘own place of business with @ number of very harmless photos. What redresh is there? None at all Cameras don't ile. And no accusation has been made. There ts no comeback But—. Next day, and for many long days nitely the oft-repeated inquiry for the Col. Robert Ellingham, " Sixth and the Nineteenth Corps. ern ranks, wandered ea i haf bs “Here are two divisions of the Sixth pening at Belle Bosquet. In the fore. Corps intact, General—and on thelr naon he had swept with his men paat right are Haveriit's and Evroy'’s di- the old place, facing northward, and vintons of the Nineteenth, Gen. Crook seeing everything in Maght ahead, cap- |is on the extreme loft with Merritt's turing prisoners, and re-capturing thelr Joavalry, All that they want ja to own, men who had fallen into Federal | know that you're here.” hands, tnclnding the elusive Edwatd nd all I want, by ——-!* cried Thornton, Now the Confederates were idan, "“I8 to Ket Uhose men up that Passing the same point again, hurrying went to the rear, We'll whip those nd still more hurried in the opposite | rebel rascals back and sleep in our old “irection, driven trom the field they loampa to-night? thought they had won, In the worst He now came full upon the newly fut of which poor Bob had ever been forming Vederal line of battle, It was ® part. as if an electrical thrill had been shot |, “Ty the great horn spoon!” said Gen. through t entire army, from the mo- Buckthorn to Gen, Haverill, “we're go- ment of Sheridan's arrival on the fleld, 1" to have ax mwych trouble tn hold- |Cheer after cheer rang out, to be taken ‘"® our men back from charging the jup front and rear and far around, be- SReMY, now, an we did to etop ther the real cause was known Had retreat this morning, reinforcements come? Yea! Little g,tt had been the intention of Gen, |Pull'was scorching down the Pike, ang Sheridan to hold back his left: after he was a host in himself, Sure enough, &* canny. pat ese finodeed, antag aa = ot | as near as {# possible an exact counter- there Was his energetic, small figure on ‘ Nia ae prepa ADO fhe Dt) and does not always treat me respect-| part of daylight. j thereafter, the store and oMce force are ire big horse, his eyes Hashing and his oro Pa ee ernest. x Ss phat Dea! whould never ne made | tor’ waet Shall & dant! What the inventors are striving for ts Soe eee ican ain aniriaia na | face slowing as he galloped along bat giraaburg and Fisher's Hull. But, evém Such @ proposi | If you do not feel that you can] iight that will replace daylight for upon thelr werk like zoo antrials om!in hand, just to show himself to thé 2 in the first pace, The dea of it ts trust and respect him you should not merely an archaic joke, make him your husband, “R, ©." writes: “There 1s a young man whom I see very often and whom] “s, E" writes: “I am engaged to a| I like very much. Please tell me how] young map and we expect to be mar- may I make his acquaintance,” ried soon. Both he and I want a quiet! ‘There is nothing you can do except| wedding, but my people want me to color-matehing purpowes, The nearest proach we have to what is wanted is the mercury vapor lamp, whose green- {sh light ts familiar to most of us. Among the newest {iluminants 1s the neon vacuum tube lamp, which Is being developed in France and possesses a to wait till he is Introduced to you, | ‘makg @ splurge.’ What shall I do? It'f your own wedding and I advise! C, B.” writes: ‘Wt is understood you to heve the sort you want great deal of theoretical interest, but Optimist—Why are you sour on Von Billion? which is far from the stage of com- @ercal perfection, An American ilu- tele gre et teens, things. Pessimist-—That's just It, | was one of them. a He's done a lot of good # lraw meat ¥. rush madly from one {aut another, There is & mass of efficiency displayed that I# unrivaled tn the history of business, For the price of a few snapahog films |the boss has xecured an amount of |work that no one else, could have eved without the ‘exp doubling the force Mean, isn't tt? Dirt mean! But it's young efficient. Look out tor it, as the veteran Buckthorn had whim- ° fe A sically remarked, the troops were so It's all right!" he shouted, "W bent upon avenging: their reverses of ting them, and we'll lick them y the morning that the was no re- The General rode on with his staff straining them, and the whole line and escort, and in a minute more th pressed on irresistibly until the old w a distant confused mass of dust camps on Cedar Creek had been ree and flying hoofs, Suddenly from the gained, together with enough prisgn+ westward came another rolling cloud, ers, guns, wagons and battleflags to jwith a thunderbolt in its midst-the turn previous mortification Into Plage yellow-halred, boyish Custer, the ous joy vod make matter. for. a some. t general in the whole Union jng despaten to send to Washingtom army, # Cashing cavalry leader whom (To Be Continued.d Li troops. h

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