The evening world. Newspaper, March 25, 1913, Page 19

Francis Wilson Gives a Seance for a Play. BY CHARLES DARNTON. F all the ingenuous psychic revelations made to playgoers since David Belasco hit upon the return of Peter as a preparation for the strange case of Becky, “The Spiritualist,” produced at the Forty-eighth Street Theatre Inst night, is certainly the most childish. “The Spiritualist” is a case of Wilson—wnd that’s not all, for the property man plays almost as lively a part as the Wilson arms and legs. Francis Wilson fe the author as well as the star of this spook company, and if T ‘eo he I'd feel afraid that the spooks would get me for the sins committed in thelr name. As a play ‘The Gpiritualist” defles common sense, ordinary intelligence and all the laws of playwriting. In only one act—the second—is there to be ound the slight- est excuse for laughter. As an un- Willing “medium” Mr, Wilson, after Boing to bed, kicks off the covers when the ‘spirits’ disturb his rest. At other times his shoos walk off and tables use their legs to take a stroll through the air. Even the walls of the room show & disposition to take exercise. Mr. Wilson made the most of this silly sort of fun by bobbing up in alarm and tling down in fear. But he might easily have put his vlay into @ vaudeville sketch. He really gave us @ seance for a play. To bolster up the extremely “wobbly” comedy structure there's a dark and deadly sub-plot dealing with the baby of the attractive widow that the serio- comic hero dotes upon. The villain te & doctor intent upon killing off the infant for the benefit of an English uncle, But the “epirits” enable the “medium” to save the che-lld and win the mothor. That's all there ts to “The Spiritualist." To keep the play going the servants in st work overtime saying things of no Interest to the audience. What those servants said and what they didn't do would make a serial story for the Housewives’ Journ After kissing everybody and everything in sight Mr. Wilson gave ‘himself up to the “spirits” with all the soul he had left, and by his familiar clowning he managed to be amusing for the dest part of the only act worth talking about. John Blair succeeded in disguising himself with whiskers, but that motherly ttege soul, Mra, Harriet Otis Dellenbough, was ruthlessly exposed as a foolish old lady. s Edna Bruns gave the widow nothing more than highly-colored weeds, Sho has evidently not learned through sorrow how to act. As for Man- ager John Cort he obviously has more to learn about plays than experience h: taught him. Francis Wilson as Stephen Atwell, ‘Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers eaetaomatoed Gayeties. OW that Lent Is over many of you will desire a final N round of good times before the coming of warm Weather and {ts own recreations, Please let me urge all of you who are workers, both girls and young men, eo to arrange your pleasures that you will get the proper amount of sleep. After a winter of hard work you should do everything Possible to put yourselves in the proper condition to with- stand the hot days that are surely coming. No young Person can Work all day and dance half the night without drawing too severely on reserve energy. Why not resolve to “take in” a dance once a week instead of three or four tim And why not make Saturday your dance night, when you gan catch up with your sleep next day? You will have a better time in the long run if you exercise a certain moderation in your pleasure, ore : ” " “Little Things. Metsypeniey ee “a. C." writes: “There is a young mam who says he thinks the world ot| A Rival. me, but he continually displeases me in “FE.” writes: “I was to become en. Uttle things. For instance, I want bin! gagea to a girt next month, toc y fa to part his hair and he wears It pom-| sno has been going out wite padour; I Uke black shoes best and ho young man the evenings 1 im aaetnee Instets on wearing tun ones. If hel hor Ghe wave hermete not sce really loved me ‘wouldn't UY, Al ionsie ana weiiteaeat vainigns please mi think she did right ih and I think T should I think he might be more considerate, | give her up. Don't yout" but aren't you rather exacting? Yes, but not because she accepted the other man’s attentions, but because she concealed them, Who Speaks First? “J. F." writes: ‘“Dwo years ago I quarrelled with the girl to whom I was paying attention, Each of us insulted the other, Now if we make up which ehould speak first?" Since you admit there was some blame on your site you'd better go to young lady and apologise, “H, PY writes: “When a young lady {a going away and wishes to cor- respond with her flance, should she ask him to write to her or should she write first?” ‘The natural thing | to write first, ap- prising him of her safe arrival, Post-Lenten “A. R.” writes: “A young man has pald me attentions for two years, and during the last few months I have kissed him good-night when he went home after culling on me. He does not seem to think any the less of me for It Jan't it all right?” A girl ts really not supposed to kiss ‘any young man except her flance, “HN.” writes: “I have called on @ young lady regularly for some time, but recently introduced a friend of mine to her. He has been going to see her ever rince, and I've recelved a letter ask ing me not to call any more, How shall Twin the young lady bac! I'm gorry but I can’t suggest any way wince she go distinctly desires to avoid you. the aie “P, G." writes Indy to. marry | "I have asked a young | she stops using rouge. me on condition that Am I within my it proper for pan's @ “D. G." writes: "Is young lady to take a xe @ When the IS THIS RANTER'S SCHOOL OF ORATORY? (S THIS THE DEAF- MUTES' HOME? ‘TWANT TO SEND A MAN WHO 1S DEAF Ano DUMS CAN YOU SUPPLY AN ELOCUTIONIST FOR A PARTY TONIGHT? | want SOMEONE REFINED. Not QUGHT TO BE ASHAMED ie OF ih ad The Wings of the Morning {ussii"%,,| By Louis Tracy (Copyright, 1003, by B, J, Clode,) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALMENTS. Robert th given to him, were it not for the lucky detail its component parts. With @ cer: bullet whioh removed two fingers and he managed to say calmly. I was thinking of a fa- offer iy Vorite passa part of third from the right hand of of the Urdu compound verb, but, about jen tbe vii fou ru dpa if Iris, ot course, was quite innocent the Dyak chief. Not even a healthy fourth lesson, ai oke out into rom the array be Goart Martial ue siarte tacator this time, savage can afford to. treat such @ exclamations of extravagant Joy. Fogand in disgrace ahivjiig age steward stoari ‘Oh, do tell me, Was it from ‘Enoch wound lightly, and ten days elapsed ‘What on earth is the matter now the liner Binder. there be seed and te y Arden’ before the maimed robber was able to demanded her surprised mentor, Don't you m she exclaimed, de- Mwhtedly, “Of course you don't! People who know @ lot about a thing often He « a sigh of relief “No. Any- thing but that,” he answered, ‘What then?" \ move the injured limb without a curse. Meanwhile, each night Jenks slept less soundly; each day became mor down, rected. ‘Deane, t t MD oer Ventnor fare suitor t tiesher haan the wt BS) tain awe [ris surveyed the Intricactes Why Is a $10, By Clarence Copyriaht, WASHINGTON woman of the wo-termed soctal-elect is havin the world dragged for a mate for her $10,000 lap dog. ‘The $10,000 is not an imaginative fig- ure, It is the value in dollars placed upon the present Incumbent by ex- perts at such ap- Praising. If a mate for her lap dog be found the Wash- ington woman will pay $10,000 spot cash for it, The mate must not welgh more than three pounds-$3,33.53 Per pound. A newspaper picture has-been printed of the lap dog for which a companion is so desired; that the globe is to be scoured for it. | ‘The animal does not resemble a dog! at all. It looks something between a dragon eyed goldfish, a muskrat afflicted by the mange and the green moray at the Aquarium, It is an Itallan dog, and it {19 proclatmed that its ancestry has been “traced” back to the era of the early | | Caesars. This probably accounts for the dog's lagk of canine pulchritude. | It may have been observed that even j1n the human species there is something \atrikingly incompatible, not to say in- superadle, between length of pedigree And good looks. A remular dog—a dog that looks and acta like a dog; a dog worth, say, about | $2.25—wtill holds a well defined place in creation. Such a dog usually has acutenass, im- agination, loyalty, social charm. Often this sort of a Kenuine doxgy dog pon- \nensen all of these qualities in combina- tion, 1919, by ‘The Pre Publishing Co, 000 Lap Dog? L. Cullen, (The New York Bvening World), I¢ the time were ripe for the extinotion of the dog of this type he would be de- funct. For Nature knows her business. But the time is not yet ripe. The average decently trained dog of mid- dling pedigree, or of no pedigree at all, makes good for his hoard and keep, te only through making us ashamed of gr own foibles by hia sagactous and yet In- dulgent way of sizing us up out of the tall of his shrewd eye. But the intelligence of the lap dew never by any chance equals that of the starfish. Of real canine joyalty he has none, His affection tn diluted and fraud- ulent. Then why'is a lap dog? Not a 610,000 lap dog particularly, but ANY kind of @ lap dor. Ten thousand dollars is a considerable sum of money. There are some very pleasant places in California, Italy, Tripoll and so on where a human being can live very agreeably on the income of $10,000. As a matter of fact, the in- come of $10,000 at 6 per cent. and a goed deal smaller per cent. supports tens of thousands of families RIGHT YERE IN NEW YORK. Many an innocent man is going te prison to-day who would not be woing there if,ne had about one-tenth er even one-twentieth of $30,000 wherewith to engage a trustworthy laayer to\get Justice for him. Many a dugi- ness, doomed to fall today of to-mor- row, could be shored up and saved per- manently from failure with the ald ef some of the $10,000 that the Washington woman is going to pay for a mate for her lap dog. A bed in a hospltal—for vik women, #y—could be endowed for $10,000, Why is a lap dog at $10,000, or at any other price, when a real dog can be had for © cents or for nothing at all, and when the world is filled chock-a-dloek with struwaling and suffering human beings? A Sacred Secret. 1K inepector In an Knglish school was quan I tioning the emall toys, 0 you take your warm overcoat off?” was the ready reponse, | Dau the bear take his warm overcoat oft | fin” | ‘Why nott” | There was a perplexed allence. ‘Then @ little ‘cam God alone, National Monthly, | obvious points. 1 have din- ‘nates ©" “Maud, caraworn, He began to realize why the miss Its obvious points, for ie ia & In are, . ‘Oh, ‘Maud.’ It is very beautiful, but island had not been visited already by covered how to write Kiplinges a A Political Boss. ialae thes, Gedo a myelerions Ohare I could never imagine why tie ‘poet the vessel which would certainly be you have to do ix to tell your story in YOUNG lady reporter on @ country paper! SEP aiggroce, She bel Rave such a sail ending to an ldylilc deputed to earch for them—sie wan Urdu, translate it literally Into Bags A ‘tos egal ouh to lolervigw leeding eitianne ea, and there you love story.” examining the great coast-line of China s ie hig, at in ke vere touchert at the island, ae to thelr galitica, y too often end that,way. Mores and Stam: Qulte Ho. tet eee Reig ics | ‘May T ae the gentleman of the thous ptior his rifle at the band, eratter. over, ‘Enoch Arden’ {s not what you It was his habit to mark the progress 274 the secret Is asked of @ large woman who opened the door fete “al ot mame rile can hit upon the Mile ing the Me mer fie one Suber erent ting.” of time on the Y Made mundial ore Calective. F) Peg ge Pay Selvaway froo the Want “Tr prevents Ane "No, It 1s sad. 1 often thought he which sufficiently served thelr requires tnle wdlective.” No, you con't’ answered the wemse, do. Pris toe ines a aie Rats fener, had the ‘Sonata Pathetique’ in his mind ments aw a clock, Iris happened tot dont know anything about. the | caively | Fae re Golde He writen a fetter to Tra, tell: When he wrote it, But the note Is watch him ohipping the forty-fourth srittonte udjective, but um sure MYOUL| "But 1 want ¢0 mow what party he belongs fag her cd the treasure, making her an equal part. mournful all through. There Js no notch on the edge of the horisontal Kipitne lichen ties aii. Ber in ft, and conlewing his tove for het. B® Dromise of happiness as in ‘Maud. block of wood, This ended t her brows tnt) ridiculous which, f or "Bring argument. She Knitted effort to master the complexities of tead of simply a compels one to say finkshes the letter, He tears iris asks, “What “Then it {8 my turn to ask questions: Why did you hit upon that poem among so many?” “Because it contains an exact deacrip- tion of our position here. it Twere sou writ: “Have wo really been forty-four days hére? she inquired, after counting the marks with growing astonishmen “I belleve the reckoning 1s ace thse lial CHAPTER IX. (Continued,) Don't you re- he said. ‘The Sirdar was lost on the go and ‘Take-come.” / member how the poor fellow 1th of March, and I make this the Ist One problem defied sohution—that of | The Secret of the Cave. “Sale often in the seawand-aueing g of May.’ providing raiment for Trix. ‘The united) “ B information about the ,., Ajsiumreckel sailor, waiting for & “May Day! wkill of the watlor and herself would not! of @ means of mine, On second thought® with poetic eye, for he goer y— Yes Shall we drive to Hurlingham {rtuce unraveled cordage to supply the! that although this afternoon?" when they are out walk a, It is rather unsophisticated, unless|Tzhts to make this request? he path Is slipper: I think so. But you should be equally bg —_- ready to give up any personal habit 4. G." writes: “will you please teil| Which may do disagreca'o to the young me whai the fifteenth wedding anni- lady, ‘ ‘Well, sternly. take a good look at me," dhe sid, tbe party he belongs to." a | Synthetic Meat. | JN connection with the protdem of the increas. log cost of living, the Matin announces the Judge. discovery by @ Nelgian ectentist named Effront, ynufactitring artificial meat, an‘ | perhaps one hae to be very wit was un- = y 0 need of thread. It was either too w ungry to rat it, the product is cheap, and re however, 1 sw ee fre oe “Looked at in that way, It seems to or too knotty, and meanwhile the girl's! sembles in @ remarkable lege the real article, | “Oh, was that all?” Ee Wate uae ty be 4 tremendous time, thoueh Ti teed. CTuthea Hing ts ®oces. Jenks (tie ingredients are sald to be the residue of 1 ‘The blaze upon his island overhead: in some respects, It feures in my mind teed the fihera of trees, the sinew Of! ous substances of little value, such as malt waste “Practically al he blace upon tse waters to the iewt Ike many y That 14 Wien TAM. ‘hintemand Garhans, afer supermentel apaee of is Mods dscctilion “Then some part was impracticable?” heu be great wars that gloved the thinking. Otherw WHED DIY; IDM Govnringe KARKA’ weaker fe lent have coe He glanced sharply at her, but #he ag jefliwe?vetiowing ocean, and. again day fly ike hours. succeeded detected on the horizon he must have was merely talking at random, The eceriet shafts uf sunrige-—btit, bo sal “It must be convenient to have such “ur modern drevs stuffs, weakened noticed the turned up ends of @ pair of TAVell, you ses,” be eapleined. iene | Ess neither them Kaew ia: une An elastic avale,” by aniline dyes and stiffened with Chi- trousers beneath the hem of her ta can do'so Httle without the requisite ling she had recited was more singularly "Moat useful. T strive to apply the px Mulline dyes and slimencd wlth bk billet b plant. This sort of ore requires a crush- applicable to their case than that which quick rate when you are grumpy Be er Gere Bt Oe Seen Pervert HEM Ne cs ites thin ile hse fna-mili, a smelting furnace, perhaps DIK they paid heel to, “The great starw thit Tris placed her arms akimsho, planted [VReArah | Tt muss lw ritemuerne RANE tk li eat te reeves tanks filed with cyanide of potassium." lobed themselves in Heaven,” were her feet widely apart, and surveyed (ne indy Raaunanly on boul the Cerin his moi ete ae “And, of course, although you can do shining clear and bright in the vaat arch Jenks with an expression that might Jog sags given by Tris to her ecanty wtrange ol did not offer to accom wonders, you cannot provide all those above. Resplendent amidst the throng ulmont be termed {mpudent, They were hard usage siven b» Tele to her wanly straw, Rer to acc things, ean you rows the Plolates, tho mythological great friends, these two, now. The & ae never oonismalaieg by Me him wher ve his bre ‘Tonks deemed this query to be unan- seven hatled by the Greeks ax an augury Incipient stage of love-makiny had been Manchester or Hradtord lomus teat aa in Et Raaine of safe navigation. And the Dyaks dro pf entirely, ae ludicrously unsuited ‘ wre me ‘1 me nm an hour, and w ee ; cir environment As the days passed the posit on hin face were deeper than be They were busy again until night one of the few remaining savage to their envirot as ing oe TeRieeee tenten teas fell, Sitting down for a Ittle while be- of the world—share the superstition of When ths urgent necessity: for conting eame Irene, tt wten Testes ieee bitte Ft tet fore retiring to rest, they Mscussed, for the people who fashioned all the arts Yous Tabor ne longer spurred them to Plate collanes during some Colttcal mo- ? rm" ho said ourtl the hundredth time, the probabilities of and most of the sciences exertion during every moment of day- ment, and) the two often alently Aor. response to her questioning look speedy succor, ‘This led them to the "The Pleindes form the Dyake tutelary ight, they taokled the box of hooky veyed the lange number of merely Male Ani that was all, though #he nerved toplc of available supplies, and the genius, Some among a Moo lthirsty and And read, jot volumes which appealed farmenta in thelr Poswason, Of Mites heraels to walk stewdily peat him on hws sailor told Iris the dispositions he had vengeful horde were even then pointing «9 them in common, but quaint tomes Dee eu a gees cou Tei Way to the we This was made. to the clust stirs that promised in the use of which Jenks was tutor there was no diicully whatever tre Hy Ing to & positive young won “Did you bury the box of books?’ she quick voyage to the Isle where thelr and Iris the scholar BAG Jong hear Maarlng shave nortlans 6 Iris «tend th eed. Kinsmen had been struck down by a It became a fixed principle with the the doctors unt stood rigidly: tefore hin 4, but not In the cave, They are white man w sued a maid. Nevers pir! that she was very ignorant, and % i apes ocula AFAINEL ah ‘eaid, “'I'vo done It at the foot of the cinchona over there. theless, Grecian romance and Dyak lore she insisted that the sailor shoud teach A net a Ai eh anral ta itad blankly Why? Do you want any?" alike mate the influence of the her. For instance, among the books he eroas Rubloan, Jenks had climbed, ; ity long, and t “T have a Bible in my room, but there Plelades to the sea. Other stars are had found a treative on ast m ke Usual, to the erty ee eens y awkward, but they're. bette: was a Tennyson among the others needed to foster enterprise ashore, wielded ht fo both to iden Meck with the exciting news that he than. -than poor old dress unsup which I glanced at 1n spare moments.” ce tify) & consieiistion und Yearn all sorta tought he could not he certain, but porte Tho sailor thanked the darkness that CHAPTER X. of wonderful things concerning it, Bur © Were Indications inspir.nig: hep She blushed furiously, to the r concealed the deep bronze of face und to work even the simplest provlem re- fulness—that toward the west of the complete hewllderment, but whe bray ly neck caused by this chance remark, He Reality vs, Romance, “ iived a knowledge ora, and Eris ter ott eend he could discern the pers vered and stretched out an unwill ely rec od the manne vhte rs i Had never Kone in 9° smoke of n steamer Ing {90 Te ey nw a NIGHT afte ve etaiades the stock Ut nateboo re Though he hd eyes for a faint cloud "Oh! TE see! growled, and he too Ups after the episode of the letter. Was swung higher in the Arma coding their experte ie oes Of vapor at least fifty miles distant reddene a it possible that he had unknowingly ment, day after day the sailor (0.4 with symbole slowing how x plus he saw nothing of @ remarka ie change 1 pit, can 1 she demanded, uttered them aloud aid Iris was now perfected b's defenses and walled 5 nus 3,000,000, effected nearer home, Oucwardly, Iria piteously is not unlike a riding- wlyly poking fun at him? He glowed anxiously scanned the ocean ” Aga vari Jenks introduced a study wus attired in ber Wouted manner, but habit, ts tt with embarrassment. for sign of friendly smoke or hostile of Hindustani, His method was to if ter companion'’s mind wei not Then his ready wit helped him, “Me le odd that you should mention sail, This respite would not have teen | Write w ahort vemtenve and explain in wholly monopolized by the bluish hase “Am excellent compromiag,” he cried. The Day’s Good Stories from the tremery, from which ere obthine! the necessary albuminolla, Sniphune ackd amd chelt are added, and after various operations of @iltee- tion and evaporation by the vacuum proces, @ Paste te produced with a very prononneed taste of taret, and three times as nourtshing.—Loeden Standart, He Knew Better. T was a bitter cold day, the snow was Gap and the sklewalks feos hand. A colored man, bundled tt) in a mothenten chinghille Mood shivering agairat « building, @ying roid the freeing blasts, * s Just then another darky, dred in hie threadbare clothes, and with no overcoat, came cat of nearby barber shon ant started wp he street, whistling ohoerily, tamed and ‘The latter took ome withering at the pmaserby and yelled Joo , iggah, you can whistle as loud es Jeu please, but you can't make me believe tt alert cold !"—Pittburgh Chronicle. Teleresh, A Plentiful Portion. looking for Chremes presente to Wincor the large deparumemt stores @ young carefully tospected a beautiful out +h that was shaped something like « plat- ter, It was one of (hose special conceite made to serve ice-cream in brick fomn, "What la ts?’ the young women asked he salenan, “That's an “Girwchon e cream dish," said the salem, criel the mies, "Il wonder wae would want to cat that much feo cream et ene time!" \ process of evolution, in figet. Now, do you know, Miss Deane, that would never have occurred to me. And during the remainder of the @ay he did not once look at her feet. In- teed, he had far wvore serious matters to distract his thoughts, for Irts, fevers ishly auxtous to be busy, suddenty eum- would be a good thing to use a rifle If @ Might me quarters beorme necessary, re vf the Lee-Metfont ls #0 ight that any worn oan manipul Apon with effect, provided ah were hot called upon to fire from a atanding 1 ow case the welght ta use bad aiming. Though it ame rather Jate in the day, Jenks the idea. He accustomed her n the firet instance to the use of blank cartriiges, Than, when fatrly proficient in holding and sigitini—« child can learn how to refit the cltp apd eject eee) empty she osbe fred ten) -qumnda of service ane nunition. ‘The taryzt wae 4 white ol: » same distance think there are nen to face, ami they have good reason to fear ene @ ne (To Be Continued.)