The evening world. Newspaper, April 1, 1913, Page 17

“S’Matter The Evensia ‘ Pop?” Or Ween, wen Now, Ho-0-0:0 Youve Gor em ‘ PoP You tave To Nr da kali WILK Ya PLEASE Run AFTER THEM 7 Come HERE THATS ALL ¢ World Daily Magazine, Tu “Ann Boyd” Will Not Be Talked About. BY CHARLES DARNTON. OLLAR drama came to Broadway last night, and tn the course of @ cur- tain speech Miss Lucille LaVerne mentioned nearly every manager ex- cept Corse Payton who had not produced i and almost every author but Shakespeare who had not written it. Too much cannot be said for Miss LaVerne, who, with the strength of her convictions, pushed “Ann Boyd” into Wallack’s, where Manager Charles Burn- ham's bright and hopeful amile only added to the pangs of the evening. Sert- ourly, my heart ached for Miss LaVerne when she spoke of the play she had tried t» make of Will N. Harben's novel. She might just as well have tried to turn Noah's ark into a roof garden, If every play has its moral, the moral of thi¥ one seems to be that an actress with @ leaning toward a fountain pen cannot be too careful about the novels she reads. Speaking offhand, “East Lynne" may be suggested as the age limit. Yes, sympathetic reader, there was a little, Neping child In the first act and she sai her prayers at the knees of Miss Nance O'Neill, who, of all the God-given actresses in this world of evil acting, needs the guidance that only @ Bel n give her. She is first and last an actress of feeling, even though {t 1s too strong for her at times, and sho has a face and a voice that make the siag> her legitimate, if not always victorious, battle-ground, But last night she was mcrely raw material wasted in a bad cause. In all common: sense there was no reason why Ann should be renounced by her trusband and robbed of her child simply befause an old lover renewed his unwei.ome attentions in the first act. And in spite of the fact that Wil- son Melrose acted very well as the husband, he did not turn up again until the lact act. Tt was an athletic sort of play that took a Jump of fifteen years and Janded in the washtub, where Ann lent @ helping hand, only to hear the t so far as she was concerned. Jane Hemingway was out with the ser- pent's tongue simply because Ann had walked off with Boyd, The astonishing thing was that nothing was said when | Ann adopted an editorial writer and put him on the front porch of her affece tions, #0 to say, We could only sit back and conclude that she loved him as a stepson, For his part in the strange performance, he foved the white-mus- lined daughter of Ann's serpent-tongued enemy Jane, and Ann saved the fair Virginia from the wicked son of & Southern gentleman by looking through the transom when the innocent young woman dropped tn to get money enough | y to let her death-fearing mother —the Hance /Nallliag! AnD Reyes self-same Jane—indulge in an expens! ‘operation. I have never seen a leading actress in @ more ridiculous position. “There is no time for such distinctions,” the son of his father hastened to say when Virginia raised an objection between the reception hall and the bed- room, And there we were! If Virginia's mother hadn't needed an operation this embarrassing situation would not have presented itself; and, for that matter, if Vireinia’s mother hadn't set her heart on an operation there woukin't have been any play, Happily, the operation was performed between acts. Jane came back full of health and gossip. Meanwhile Ann had saved | the local bank es well as Virginia. I didn’t know quite what to make of her until she announced herself in the last act as “a plain business woman.” When Jane realixl what had been going on in her daughter's behalf she bowed her head and said: “It's prayer meeting night, and I'm going there to pray.” Mise LaVerne, who, a8 Jane, looked too old to figure as a possible rival of Mins O'Neill, gave way to her emotions extravagantly in her final scene. In @ forgetful moment Mr. Melrose came back without the little girl he had taken from the first act. We could only reflect that a girl may be here to-day and gone to-morrow. For consolation we had to take the curle worn by Miss Grayce Scott an Virginia, As for Richard Gordon, who played the wicked young may, he should have been the noble youth. But mistakes will happen, The greatest mistako of all is that the play is hopelessly old-fashioned, In} apite of all the gossip at Wallack’s, “Ann Boyd" will not be talked about. B:sbersta FF STFTe Pew Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lov ers On Short Acquaintance. IRLS, do not permit undue familiarities of manner ( from the young men of your acquaintance, ‘The girl who allows a young man to call her by her first name the second or third time he meets her lacks A proper sense of dignity. Either wilfulness or mere thoughtlessness may be responsible for this lack, but the result of it 1s bound to be deplorable. And there are other masculine famillarities even more offensive than the too quick adoption of the Christian name, No girl should allow a young man with whom she has only a casual acquaintance to address her in terms of endearment or to kiss her or put his arm around her. + Not every girl who permits these things Is bad, of course, But, whether she realizes it or not, he cheapens herself every time she endures unjustifiable famillarity. She is throwing away the privileges which ehe should hoard jeal- ously for the real lover, € Three Suitors _/ « R." writes: “Will you kindly tell fiw if it is proper for one girl to go out with three young men?” Certainly, if she is not engaged, ade Fa agra am older?” Wait till you're older. A Birthday Gift. “M, K." writes: “What woul be a suitable birthday gift for a young man and whom I have known two years, who has sent me @ number of presents?" u might tion to his’ favorite magasine, BS 8 GE S¥ek FE “Pp. D." writes am very ‘7h in love with my employer's son, although he shows only @ friendly Interest In) | ¥ re, It Is hard to be in the same o!f if with him, and yet I do not lke to givel ,, < _ ; 2p my good position, What do youad-| “E. 7." writes: “I have been vive me to do?” responding for four months with a Ty you cannot control your feelings! young man whom I Wave never met, ‘ou had better look for another job. |bui whom my sister knows, He saw |my picture and wrote to me fret. Is it cor- NO WONDER: (T ISNT RUNNING | TO TURN ON THE WATER | TET bit [A ‘hag (Copyright, 1903, by E. J. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INS. Bers i veka 0 walwor for Co . vivors are Ai 1 ther 13 = th the girl to « neat ban landed ‘tatny of the Sirdar he inakea for Ine he finds & mrt thas w he ie attacked by’ tund. of heatsunting Tyaks who have touched at. the island, — Al atrather empties hia rifle at the band, Exploring the cate, Anstruther finds a vein of slmoxe pure gold, te writes @ letter to Irie, telling ber of the ‘treasure, making her an equal partner in it, abd, confesses hit love for her. "She approaches he finishes the letter, He teare it to fragments, Tie ta putting on the eult of one ‘eft allots, a0" that ‘the "Drake “tins oet ty “Anstruther go. oft fle ant i) fo gt fe aod ‘climb to ledge of sock ire prey “and providioned for Wye iepes. ed death the Glan”. hey *aconet tear land. ‘J ne occupants and open fneftertive fire duri the hes Maas is Cae, Ne Haat, Sa ele CHAPTER Xil. (Continued,) A Truce. JT was not until Jenks had torn the tarpaulin from off their stores, and he was wildly striving with both hands to ‘oop up some precious drops collected in the #mall hollows of the ledge, that he realized the full magni- tude of the disaa:er which had befallen em, During the first rapid exchange of fire, before the enemy vacated the cliff, several bullets had plerced the tar- Paulin, By a stroke of exceeding bad fortune two of them had struck each of the water barrels and started the staves, The contents quietly ebbed away beneath the broad sheet, and towing inwards by Teagon of the sharp slope of the ledge, percolated through the fault. Iris and he, notwithstending their frenzied ef- forts, were not able to save more than @ pint of gritty discolored flutd, The . infinitely more valuavle to them than all the diamonds of De Beers, was now ooming through the natural channel cut by centuries of aterm, dripping upon the headless skeleton in the cave, soak- ing down to the very heart of their dunted treasure, Jenks was so paralsyed iby thiv catas- e that Irs became alarmed. As “MM. F." writes: “Iam seventeen and | proper for me to continue writing to ‘n love with a girl who ts much older! him? ss @an myself. Financially I am in a You were silly to begin, but since y: gaitiag to marry. Do you advise tm- did so you may as well go on, if your nedigte marriage or shatl I weak till I sister can vouch for the man, ELIE LILLIE LS IME L SL I I OE e E T TENS BE MO AE IT i he did mot gramp ite awful signifi- cance. That he, her hero, go, brave, #0 confident in the face of many dangers, should betray such sense of irredeem- able loes, érightened her much (hem the inetient iteelt,-- | |The Wings of the Morning {uwsvar'Stow . Her lps whitened. Her words became incoherent. “Tell me,” bear anything but silence. Tell me, 1 implore you. Te it 4 ? The sight of her dist sobered him. He ground his teeth together as a man does who submits to a painful oper- ation and resolves not to flinch beneath the knife. “It 1a very had,” he sald; “not quite the end, but near It” “The end," she bravely answered, “Is death! We are living and uninjured. You must fight on, If the Lord wills it we shall not die.” He looked in her blue eyes and saw there the light of ‘Heaven. “God bless you, dear girl,” he mur- mured brokenly. “You woutd cheer any She whispered. “I oan Ms man through the Valley of the Shadow, were he Christian or Faint-heart."* glance did not droop before his. In such moments heart speaks to heart without concealment. “We still have a little water," she cried, “Fortunately we are not thirsty. You have not forgotten our supply of champagne and brandy?” There was a species of mad humor fn the suggestion, Oh for another mir- acle that should change the wine into water! ¢ He could only fall in with her un flective mood and leave the dreadful truth to Its own evil time. In their Iittle nook the power of the sun had not yet made itself felt. By ordinary computation it was about 9 o'clock. Long before noon they would be griil- int. Throughout the next few hours they must su torture of Dives with one meagre pint of water to share between them. Of cours * spirit must be shunned lise « To touch elther under such conditions would be courting t, apoplexy and death, And next da: He tightened his jaws before he an- swered: “We will console ourselves with @ bottle of ch ne for dinner. M while, I hear our friends shouting to those left on this side of the Island, T must take an active Interest in the conversation.” He grasped a rifle and lay down on the ledge, already gratefwily warm There was a good deal of sustained ting woing on. Jenks thought he the chief's volee, Kiving se who had come from rs’ Cove and were now stand- ing on the beach near the quarry “1 wonder if he is hungry, thought. “If so, T will interfere the commisxariat.”" Irs peeped forth at him, “Mr. Jenks!" "Yes," without turning his head, He spew it was ag ordinary question. he with RE a A NE ena bis nmoe Sa TTT ny m1 Still Another ‘May I come to “What! expose yourself on the ledge!” “Yes, even that. I am so tired of situng here alone.” “Well, there is no danger at present. But they might chance to see you, and you remember what I—~' “Yon, I remember quite well. If that is all—" There was a rustle of gar- ments, “I am very mannish in ap- pearance. If you promise not to look at me I will join you." “I promise.” Irie stepped forth, She was flushed a little, and, to cover her confui be, she picked up @ LeesMetfor ‘Now there are two quns," she eaid, aa she. stood near him. He could see through the tall af his eye that a slight but elegantly propor- foned young gentleman of the # faring profession had suddenly appeared from nowhere. He was glad she had taken this course, It might better the position were the Dyaka to see her thus. “The moment I tell you must fall flat," he warned her. “No cere- mony about it. Just flop!" “J don't know anything better cal- culated to make one flop than a bullet,” she laughed. Not yet did the tragedy ct the broken kegs appeal to her. “Yes, but it achieves Its purpose in two ways. I want you to adopt the pre- cautlonary method," “Trust me for that. Good #rac ‘The sailor's rifle went off with an un- expected bang that froze the exelama- tion on her Ips. Three Dyaks were at- tempting to run the gauntlet to. thelr beleaguered comrades, They carried « Jar and two wicker baskets, He with the jar fell and broke it. ‘The others doubled back like hares, and the first man dragged himself efter them, Jenks di¢ not fire again. Iris watghed the wounded wretch crawling along the ground, Her eyes grew molst, and she paled somewhat. When he Vanished she looked into the valley and at the opposing ledge; three you, men lay dead within twenty yards of her, Two othere dangled from the rocks. It took her some time to control her quavering utterance sufficiently to say “TL hope I may not have to use @ wun. I know it cannot be helped, but if I were to kill a human being I do not think | would ever rest again. oT have indeed murdered sleep to-day,” was the unfeeling reply ‘No, no' A man must be made of sterner stuff, We have a right to de- fend ourselves, If need be 1 will exer- cise that ght, Still, it is horrid 8 horrid the could not smile. It would In that ea the sallor's grim jerially affect his By Louis Tracy 1913 sday. April 1, | GUESS IT MUST BE STUFFED ORe NOP upon a time there was @ young woman. @he came of hum- ble parents, They were good old industrious peop out had accum lated no fortune. In fact, the rear- ing of the family usually flattened ‘out the weekly pay envelope, so that Much jeft in the way of finery for the family—and es- pecially for Lily, irl. In the or. dinary course of events the time game when Lily was called upon to Contribute her purt to the family ex- chequer in the products of her head, hand and heart. In other words, she had to get nome thing to do, So she found a position in an office, keeping files and counting fg- ures. ‘ he thought her tet was very poor tn- deed. She looked about at the flying limousines with their richly clad oecu- pants, and regretfully noted the matinee throngs and longingly HNVIED them their fe of leisure, So it came to pans that as Lily was 00d to look upon opportunity came to her by which she might become one of those whe had envied. It came in the form of an old man. He had money and more money—the self-same money that buys beautiful dresses and opera boxes and journeys abread. These he ofteged unto her. Now, as e@foresatd, IAly, being good to look upon, had her little heart throbs within her immediate cirole, And ONE cx) | Yu BG BOOB ) MT ‘GET AWAY FROM \N FRONT OF (T abot. Yet her gentle protest pleased him. She could not at the same tit be callous to human suff Iris, But he Frank and Fred, aged siz and four respectively, were discussing a little sis- ter who had store the latter wan born, and Fred said, ‘When I go to heaven I'll go right up to her and say, ‘Hello! thin in Freddy.'" “Why,” said Frank, “ahe won't know you, because when she was, you wasn't.” M. F, STORTZ, 81 Covert Street, Brooklyn, XY. when @ brief disturbance took place he inquired. “Yeu, 1 was surprined hot the ledge ! “You notice it more obliged to remain here. After a pause “I think T understand now why you were #0 upmet by the loss of our water supply. Before the day ends we will be in great straits, enduring agontes from thirst.” “Let ux not moet the devil hulf way,” he rejoined. Ho preferred the unfair retort to a confession which could only fomter dl “But, ple: We have always had trouble inducing David, age four and a half years, to at. He was given a plate of tomato soup, and his mother asked him if he Uked it. He replied, "No, I don't Hke it"-and then was asked why he wee eating it, and he replied, “/ ain't looking for any trouble.” GUS GOLDSTEIN, T am thirsty no He moved uneasily. He was only too conscious of t npish weakness, com- mon to all mankind, which creates a/ desire out of sheer inability to satisty | it. Already his own throat w parched. The ex ment of the early) strugale "was in itself enough to en- | wender an acute thirst. He thought it ‘dest to meet their absolute needs as far an possible, “Bring the tin cup," he said. “Let us take half our store and use the re- Last qummor Curing @ very warm mainder when we eat. Try to avold _ While trying to teach my little niece German I explained that “nein” means ‘no.” After pondering a few minutes she looked up at me and sald: ‘Auntio, if nine meana no, what does sta mean?” L. M. HOMAN, No, 261 Kingston avenue, Brooklyn, Fables of Everyday Folks. By Sophie irene Loeb. “MAY AND DECEMBER. ' there was not : BRIGHT SAYINGS Of Evening World Children (The Now York Rrening World). there was near her own ago—but then that Is ANOTHER atory, ‘To make @ long fable short, thie young woman married the old man. For it |e 4n everyday occurrence that youth bar- ters beauty for ok age at the behest of Mammon. And everything material that she had craved came to her: the lovely gowns, the matinees, the Itmousines and the Journeys, But always with her was the opportunity—the ol@ man. he could not escape, for he was part and parcel of it all, and thus thie, tee, became routine—very much as the files and figures which ahe had learned to dexpine. Years went by and the hot thood of youth in her veins that longed to be un and doing and Mving dared not assert \tself, for it was marching to the Tune of the Tired, The young eyes had to look through the spectacles of age, for it was all a part of the price. Many, many times ahe thought of that Other One, and how life would have gone with one whose years nearer ched here, and who would accord- ingly note the hour-giase at the GAM time. Regret came often, Even the files ant figures would now have been WEL- COMPD with thelr accompanying op- portunity of freedom and tove, Lily had drooped long before freedom came to her again. And she wished she had it all to do over, She would look with compassion new on any young woman who had the ep- portunity of LOVE, and would say wate her thie moral: “IN THE MATTER OF MARRIAGE MAY FLOWERS CAN NO MOAB BLOOM IN DWCEMBHR THAN DE- an @NOWS8 CAN LAST IN May.” Coppright, 1013, be The [ves Pablishing Co, (The New York Brening World). 7 opel! I asked my little miece felt. Ghe replied: “I em vo worm the teare are running down my OHARLES W. GITTLEMAN, No, 1684 Gates avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. About two months ago my little bey, Edmund, aged seven, was cutting pict- ures from @ magazine Showing ene picture he aske “Mamma doesn't this man look ike Wilson? I didn't know ‘hat Wilson the bey meant and I sald, “Who ts Wilson?’ Very indignantly he replied, “Don’t you know who Wilson taf Why he & the man that’s going to be Taft” MRS. O. M. WINKLER, 603 West 167th etrest. ‘Two little girls aged eeven and Sour Were discussing what they would do when they were grownups, One said “I'm going to do just Ike mamma did, awered: ay @ widow.” MRS, E. HARTING, No. Grant avenue, Richmond Hi, L. 1 breathing through your mouth, ‘Nhe hot alr quickly affects the palate and causes an artificial dryness, We cannot yet be in real need of water. It is largely im- he declared with unnecessary vehemence. “At least drink your share to please me,” she murmured, west, this being the arc of their pert- phey assigned to her, Looking at @ sunlit pace from cover agination.” ou wished to) humbug he and looking at the Iria needed no xecond bidding. She Kfumbled “If you will the firat #Weitering in the direct rays of @ trapi- carefully measured ont half a pint ef balf f will take the second.” un are kindred operations strangely the unsavory fluid--the dregs of the | And they settled it that way, Tn ‘se in achievement, Iris could not casks and the scourings of the led few mouthfuls of tepid water gav@ Teconelie the physical sensiiveness of them new Hfe, One sense can deceive the others. A man developing ail the symptoms of hydrophobla has beon red by the assurance that the dog h bit him was not mad. So these not yet aflame with drought, ban- 4 the arid phantom for a little while. Nevertheless, by high noon they were suffering again. The time passed very slowly. The sun rose to the genith and filled earth and air with his ardor, It “— drink first,” sho cried, No, no," he interrupted impatiently. “Give it to me." pretended to be surprised. e & mere matter of politeness” — b “I am sorry, but I must insist." She wave t mteadily he sald, gruffly hurry. The Dyaks may rush at any moment.” him the cup over his placed it to bis ips and “Twas in make anot 4 ou have taken none at al me at the sea did not 4 up and the 3 wither on the tr The silence, naense athiy inactivity of all things, be- Jenks, be reasonable! You need Anialerabia more than I, 1 d-don't want to ~live ¢ irl bravely tried to contine jor wewlthout- you. thoughts to the task of the hou His hands shook somewhat well there was no call shooting just then, ‘IT assure you | tees ais 1 required,” It was for accurate She ‘displayed alert Patentuine an Instant readiness to Warn her com panion of the allghtest movement among the treas o&@ by the rocks to the north- ‘ 1 the hour with the careless hardihood of the preceding days, Her eyes ached somewhat, for she had tilted her sou'- rw to the back of her head tn the effort to cool her throbbing temples. She put up her right hand to shade the too vivid reftecion of the «llatening sea, and was astounded to find that in a fow minutes the back of her hand was morched. A faint sound of distant shouting disturbed her painful reverte. “How te Mt," she asked, ‘that we fee the heat so much to-day? I have hard- ly noticed it before.” For two good reasons—fored td hess and radiation from thia confoun ed rock Moreover, this te the bottest day we have experienced on the falan! There is not a breath of ads, and the hot weather has just commenced." “Don't you think,” she huskily. hat our position here # quite hope- (To Be Continued.)