The evening world. Newspaper, March 12, 1913, Page 19

YA OUGHT To See WHAT THIS LITTLE | | FELLAH CAN DO! “Liberty Hall” Revived to Make an Anniversary. BY CHARLES DOARNTON. IK most of us, Charles Frohman ts only human, and {t te doubtless be- L @ause he shares this common falling that he last night ewept and dusted poe Han” in honor <* the pride of his heart, the Empire Theatre. @wenty years ago—but why hark back and therefore be compelled to make ne that are dangerous? It is much easter to say that “Liberty Hall" Seeina to make an anniversary. At the age of twenty the Empire ts still @@ young and handsome as though It had been bullt yesterday, As for R. C. Carton’s play, which {s really written in the plaster of the walls that have had eare for one triumph after another aime the Empire's firet season, even Mr. Frohman himself would perhaps amitingly confess that now seams al- Most as old as “Caste.” It is a senti- Mental pinay reproduced for sentimental reasons. So why shouldn't we be in- Gigent? London stitl loves its Blooms- bury fairy tale, and the truth is that we baven’t quite outgrown it. If the fatry prince chooses to oall himself a commercial traveller and live on the “weoond floor back” that’s his businens, ami if the penniless lady to whose estates he has fallen heir permite him to breathe the same bofled<diinner air with her, why worry about the rent? “Laberty Hail” never could be con- sidered an epoch«making piny, hence ite characters have no traditions worth talking ebout at this time The fact that Henry Miler, twenty years ago, Played Mr. Owen, or that Viola Allen wave her youth to the role af Blanche Chitworth, 18 of no consequence, To bring the record up to date, it ts only fair to say that last night Lennox Martha Hedman as Blanche. John Mason as Mr. Owen, seller who, in spite of competition that was driving him to the wall, wouldn't 'y a word against Mudie's, won the place of honor in ‘“‘Léberty Hall.” The gen- tle charm of his portrayal gave the play its only appeal. John Mason wasn't at all sure of himee!f as Owen. For one thing, his paternal attitude toward the part robbed {t of all possibility of romance. He assumed a ftwe@f to unfit her for the rele of Blanche, but she might at least have hair accoming to the fash- Rather than find fault with her, however, I am inclined to her, for she seemed always to de saying, ‘I'm doing the Jultan Simannes supplied the misa- note by playing the lover devoting himself to erekety attractive, Wilffed Draycott, as the unbearatty successful Briginshaw: Wigney Percyval, as the very solicitous Lennox Pawle as William Todman. soltcitor; Skiney Herfbert, the wring Pawle, as the simple, kindly old book| A SHOW’! Stlow PoP wHAT “ou CAN Do! 7 ARE YOU COMING TO j.2etaeat YES ,00C;1'M IN BAD SHAPE TO-DAY! VE BEEN OUT SKATING ALL MORNING - The Evening World Daily Magazine. Wednesday. March 12, “S’Matter, Pop?” ‘CL CALL AROUND TO SEE YOU THIS AF.TER- NOON SKATING: ON CRUTCHES !!! WHAT NEXT ! ation" tard at The Wings of the Morning (are, (Copyright, 1918, by B, J, Clode,) SYNOPSIS OF PRECE! rie Deane (daughter of Sir Artiur Deane, « 4 returning to England fom @eainship, te Sinlar, At Fouar anh tein Lont Ventnor, fely on @ nearby i t Mr. Gickaon, and Miss Emily Dodd in her old role of Mise Hickson, succeeded | me in qtving the play ite necessary English atmosphere. Miss Ada Dwyer worked { much too hard es the servant whose word was law with the old bookseller, And this Drings us back to Mr. Pawie, who may honestly be acclaimed both the hope and pride of “Liberty Hall.” Betty Vincent's Advice to Lovers he Long Engagement. | BELIEVE that the long engagement should be avoided whenever possible, Two persons ought not to become engaged unless they are very sure indeed of their affection for each other. They should become really well acquainted before! exchanging a promise a marry, They should become| famillar with each other's mental tastes, and they should| find out if they enjoy the same pleasures. Only after a really close friendship of considerable duration should the engagement be announced, But when the two are definitely certain that they care, the sooner they marry the better, This 1s, of course, on the assumption that they are old enough for marriage, that each 1@ at least over twenty-one, Life is too short to delay happiness unnecessatily. “Tam very much Iny marry him, “N, E." writes: love with a girl, although we are not “©, F." writes: “The girl I love is engaged, 1 should like to make her casional presents, Would tt be suitablesnice to me when we meet, but s for me to give her Jewelry, if not too|#@eme to like @ lot of others equally expensive?” well, How can I make her care for ‘No, you mustn't give her anything of me ath of ait that sort, but flowers, candy, books or apparently a fair field and no fa- Aaa ee cilamergerlaie ceMeenbh vor, and the only advice is to go in and “B. L." writes: "Dwo young men are porate devoted to me, and I don't know whicn| “C, HE." writes: “I have pald attention to choose, They are of equally good|to a girl for two years, and given her character, and occupy about the sams|many valuable presenty, Now she is position in life, How shall J find out| corresponding with another young man, which one I love?" and has exchanged photographs with fay he. co men and valuable mineral at {ts vit Unless you know instinctively that] him, What shall I do?" you cave for one more than for the! You have no right to @rotest unless other, you do not love.either enough to the girl te engaged to you, Which [he sailor offers to Ina aa her Th knew how the anhydrate sa heavier than the eurroundine alr, wet- tled like water in that terrible hollow. He, too, had striven to wrest the treas- ure from the stone by into the elif. and had gone away, after crudely own dead—for the hard; witness the empty cartrid searched the island. Some of them, ignovantly inquisitive, descended into hollow, They remained there (G INSTALMENTS, They alone of all ‘and crew surri Ne. but, an returns Seat roll men inom © quarry Aut dP anelefont ob CHAPTER V. (Continue) Iria to the Rescue. T last hie superior tntellizence asserted Itself, came clearer, power of analysis, He b to criticiae, reflect, and this is the theory he evolved— Some one, long ago, had Mscovered tn the voleante rock. Mining operations were in full blas' when the extinct volcano took its r venge upon ‘the human ants gnawing i@ and smothered them by a deadly outpouring of carbont gas, the bottled-up poison of the ages A horde of pigs, running wild over the island—placed there, no doubt, by Cnt His brain be- recovered its Ariving a tunnel He had partly succeeded perhaps to obtain registering his ge on the 1!4 of a tin cannister in, probably fe of another man, convinced, caused himself to be set the words to his past ashore on this desolate spot, with a (ho Worle tO dramatioally, into the hands who, curious but un- white man fo en ee skeleton ta & and death, experience: otherwise. me few inadequate stores. Possibly he had arranged to be taken off within a fixed time. “y But a #ampan, with Dyak 7 pirates, came first, intrepid ex. !P plore: bones rested near the well whilst his head had gone to decorate ! the hut of some fierce The murderers, after The others, explained What hotter ramble of discovery, catastrophe? was a man who relieved his strong He surcharged fuage—a habit of recent acquisition, indulged in tt now and felt better. He rushed back through the trees until he industriously kneading the sago pith in one of those ful dish-oovers, . led her wondering with caught most He called to keep away nese fighere—had met the same fate te! whilst ‘Intent on dreadful orgy. Then there came a Puropean, who thing—nasty—in "Yes, other you were |t not !mperative.” “Are you keeping other secrets from “Oh, quite a number." He managed to conjure up a smile and the ruse was effect ere in praphs stint ‘ay 1 come, too?” been ert Jenks bulked Her nerves were not . There was a catch in Of course I w What @ horrid island this ‘t might be a paradis She bit her lips to suppre’ but, being the Eve in this garden, she being continued— “How did you find out? superstitious barbarians, fled for thetr lives, embarking #o hasti- ly that they took from the cave neivner tools nor oll, though they would great ly prize these articles. Such waa the tragic a compound of fact and fanoy. perplexitios save mean? web he spun, It one, Was there Tea’ nis yet another fearsome riddle awaiting anf breais tn twor'going down with wolution? Reward ares Iria and lanle And then his thoughts flew to Iris, ‘ie stewart fe. Happen what might, was ture was seldom absent from hie brain. Robert Jeno! Suppose, ege-hunting, bled arrose this Valley of Death! could he hope to keep it hidden from her? Was not the ghastly knowledge than the horror of a chance hrough the wood and the shock nay, indeed, the risk of a her bright pic- she had stum- How tan- to the track, and pointed out the fatal quarry, but in such w not look "You that she could he sald. ill of carbonic acid gas, to unconselousn ces It gives no warning to the in- It is rather pleasant than Promise me you will never come near thia place again. Now, thinking her tears, Is there any- of antmals, not vill not be rev and told ama ane demandd He flung aside the temptation to an- swer her in kind, merely assenting, with an explanation of his design When the lainp was in order he held {: close to the wall and conducted @ wys- tematle survey. The geoloxical fault which favored the construction of the tunnel seemed to diverge t) the left a the further end. “face! rock exiifbited the im. labor. Thi by main force when th slo strata ceased to be helpful, His knowledge was limited on the subject, yet Jenks believed that the ma- terlal here was a hard limestone rather than the external basalt. Searching each Inch with the feeble light, he paused once, with an ex ation “What im it? cried Iris “I cannot be certain,” he satd, doubt fully, “Would you mind holding the lamp while T use a crowbar?” In the «tone was visthie a thin vain, dluish white in color, He managed to sized lump containing a well-defined specimen of the foreign metal, ‘They hurried into the open air and ex- amined the fragment with curious eyon, ‘The sailor picked it with his knife, and the substance in the vein came off in laminated layers, small, brittle scales, “Ie tt ailver?" Iris was almost ex- etted. “I do not think 90, I am no expert, ‘out T have a vague {dead have seen" — He wrinkled his brows and pressed away the furrows with his hands, that Physical habit of his when perplexed "I have it." he cried = “It t# antt- mony.” 8 Deane pursed her lips tn disdain ny! What was an much fuss for not! tis used in alloys « he explained, “To us It is useless, He threw the plece of tuously among the Dushes, But, being thorough in all that he undertook, } retumed to the cave and again con ducted an inquisition, ‘The silver-hued veln became more stronsly marked at the point where it disappeared down- ward Into @ collection of ru} and 1. ‘That was all ki men give their to.!, thelr lives, for would ar. Be that as ttn he had a more pressing work 2 cave atill held a secret it must remain there. Iris had gone back to her sago-knead- ing. Necessity had made the lady a bread-maid, n hundred years of philolory ctroumstance,”” mused Jenks. prided by Max Muller would have revelled 5 dent! the axe, he walked to the The tide was low and t { the vividly gr teeth Much deb: in water like jagged from the steamer was dry. It was ‘¢ man to reach the yet the saber hesinmnd, with ¢ Place. Hero the bed of the rea ! By Louis Fracy| almost im reeptible qualms. rat trap," uickened his pace. first acts to rock unacknowledged doubts vanished. HM vitht find stores of priceless utilit ston inspired him, Jumpin in two min rn Ite could now see the true expianat of its growth In a ae 5 upward in a small saad ca silted round the base of a li rock, so Gifferent in color and tion from the coral reef, engineering contrivan ks to mountain tops, managed t deliver to this trolated refuge a suff of water to the roots, firmly lodged tn the waves, Between the sailor and the tree inter. vened a amall atretch of shillow water. Landward = this submerged though the water In the cove was twen: ty fathome tn depth, tte crystal clenr- ness was remarkable. The bottom, coms posed of marvellously white sand ant broken coral, rendered other objects con epicvous, He could eee plenty of fish but not a aincle shark, while on the|color ani shape were Just tho same, | bacco With her now he muttered : Of Evening World Children Ie AAAAARARARAAARAAAEOOREOIRRA AAA OO RA AIR ARR OEA Nature, whose || erably ean force vurish the cos, were well protected from maddie shelved ateeply tnto the lagoon, Ale AINT 1 WONDERFUL “PoPrHe CAN NEARLY STAND ON #15 HEAD — BET YA A Went | TAN Do Fr WHEN IM Teo TH? YEAR TH OLD pee Marriage Customs in E (Many Countries No. 4--Among By Madison C. Peters the Persians. 10 by The Crow Pubiiting Co. (The New York Evening World), is the one great interest In the Ife of a Persian girl, although tter ts arranged by her parents and she has a Hutely no choice. Persians have a saying, “To do things quickly ts of Satan, a “use God works e#lowly Th .» haste ts allowed only im three thing “To marry your daughter, to bury your dead and to set food for « guest.” Terstan girls are very often married to thetr cousins In order to er the family pr Intact vd in such «© s the bride will not have sp@ken |to hho since childhood, except in the family circle, and she ts not allowed to visit at hia hous z are not eupposed to seo each other at all until the formal betroth.! Mulla, and then the girl's face is so powdered and painted—even before t her eyes being painted—that {t is impossible to see what she really looks like, She must go through the ceremony in absolute sitenc A wedding among the simart setters may last five days and nights, or Joven a week, during which the ladies, arrayed In thetr most elaborate dresses and all their jewels, #ip sherbets and syrupy tea, smoke cigarettes and gossip. | Meanwhile the poor little bride, of whom no notice te taken, atts apart in allonce, with head bent ani her chadar or cloak drawn over her face. Her | eyebrows ere widened with indigo, over which ta @ line of gold leaf, and tiny | flowers are painted with indigo om her cheekbones, chin and throat, The guests present her with Jewels, sugar loaves ornamented with gold leaf, or bir sugar candy bowls, In the midst of the singing and dancing the ery rained: “Hehold, the bridegroom comes! And every one, bride, ladies, mustetan mell {nto an inner room screened by curtains, through which they peep to see the bridegroom and his friends, who come there to eat sweetmeats, Thi bridegroom alts tn wtate in a chair while slaves bring him presents from t) bride and serve him and his friends with refreshments and water pipes. This ceremonious visit lasts about half an hour and after his departure the women rush back to the room, nu the last day of the wedding the bride, whe fas had no part in the festivities, Is taken by hor nearest relatives to @ private bath where her face and eyebrows are freshly rouged and painted, after which she ts taken to the guest room, where all the women #ise and hold @ copy of the Koran ove: her hend for luck and alvo a mirror to “double the length of her life.” | ler dowry, which has been placed on wooden trays, fe carried by porters |to her new home and xhe is then ready to follow. After ktawing the hearthstone of her old home, carrying bread, salt and « | plece of gold for luck, she ts lifted, closely vetied, onto @ large donkey. Ac companied by two #luves on sinall donkeys and « crowd of friends she pro- ceeds to the house where her humhand vaites her. Another saying of the Versians ts, “Tha God of women te a man. There fore, all women must obey men." And this they certainly put into practica Women are considered infertor beings, born to submit to their rule Andy husband has the right to forbid a wife to visit her own parents, Therefore, the bride generally pasyos from the paternal yoke te the much heavier one of the husband and mother-in-law combined, dancers and servants rush pe!’ BRIGHT SAYINGS ' The Bvening World will give $10 weekly in cash prise@for Bright Say- ‘tinge by Children, here will be a fret prive of $5 seem to the Editor the cle five #1 prizes awardeé for such t of those enbmitted, wide of tne vare, keep to 100 words or less (pref- and ad(ress BRIGHT SAYINGS BDITOR, BVBEING WORD, BOX 1,354, maw YORE CITY. The Sayings must be original ft . competition will be announced | ) . { Copynith’, 1918 hy The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Rvening World), _| A little white kitten with blue eyes come home” WILLIAM NIPMEIBR. belonging to little Harry's aunt and{ No. 9 Webster place Brooklyn, N. ¥ Ke the pet of the whole family was ner koat or atolen. After three|c. 7? Wem? S@o my brother-a-lax came to see my g-°*imother, whe 1s weoke futile search @ boy brought @| very old, With him he had his five- white Kitten to the house and recatved | yourold daughter, ‘an, On seeing a reward. After his 4 re it wae my grandmotner taking enuff ghe opted Aigcovered that although the “Ooh! Look at grandma chewing to- Inner slope of the reet was Dlainly | hig ont had one bie and a yellow aye FRANCIS J, PASTOR, vimibh jest fo part of ¢ Y om pi t - ie we 4a troy N forepart — me Instead of doth being blue ‘Tse mem-| N® $ Thompson New York City. treo, relatively to hfe present stand. | bers of the family were in doubt cholar did not know he point. He had wondered why no bosts| whether {t could posstbly be the same Now he gaw the rea-| fon, Three of them were etill fastened | « to the davite and carried down with the | were cam ashore hull. Soaward the water was not so clear. The w name, and was also pus tled when askod to give her father's At last hy er said, “Now thin When your mother speaks | her, at does she call hiv or not; when Harry exclaimed: hen tha other cat comes back then + will know for aure whether thie ¢s At one or moti SIGRID M. WLDERSTROM, . foam, and A re esa : Aso came the answe rine ssw gently in} Market St, Perth Amboy, N. J. r LLIB W. COLE, Pal , qi flermon & NY. : Paim-tree Roek~antictpating : Brooklyn, some thirty fect and wade up vy who Was very trout The ttle girl was attting on the floor a waist, | his fat: er, Tho father thought and with @ pale of eal: # fashioning Tle made the passage with ease Piched agaty was @ long, narrow case jumped, and marked ok triangles and th ne British Govern Jo Siniar carried « ns and ammunition fro to Singapore, Pr te hat a practically inexhaustible store of cartridges should be huried a lagoon to the tsland Leo-Mevfords compar He 1 (his stor heat of tea, seantin fe For we rest, frega ents of timber in t the bole of tie tree) him to his uncle's farm, So the he Neptune from. the | only cure for the boy would by colle from paper, Soon the sunbeams ping to where she was sitting ing day the boy was sent to the farm But tn three weekw h: and being asked why he loft 2h . “sun, you sald: “Well, papa, the first y| here.’ Her mother told there they killed a sheep und we ate tt annoyed her that ted INI. W. F.R the newt week they killed a ply and we ate that; and yesterday the hired man and so Tf thought @ ucea t ed with puWerlzed coral and ! rockery. { A little further on the 4 to the lag 1 f -water en- od betwee: them rested sania in such amall ways do tea vy vavisible dice with death. \ those two lines he would, within a fow fleet ds, drag himself back adding @ touch , v1 to the ruin of (td Be Continued) PSone <td