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} f tes UNCLE SI, IF YA T PLANT PIG LIKE, COPN AND TATOES, Seer You Age THEM BY CHARLES DARNTON, 46 ing,”" eaid the old servitor in tue fourth act of “The @amtly Cup- bo at the Playhouse last night, only pausing to explain, “It's all too Jow—not what I'm accustomed to." ‘While no one but a gently reared servant, perhaps, would care to go @0 that, there's no denying that Owen Da Play, in its deaperate al to be “‘startling.« grew a trifle fiashy and extremely wild, spenk- ing recklessly us it were, after decidedly: promising firet act that took up @n interesting subject. It appeared the eocial pace had made of her home nothing but a place where her husband Could eat and sleep, and her daughter told her #0 in a few simple, straight- @orward words that rang #0 true as to command respect. To add to t! Miss Alice Brady, who hae n with such aincerity and understanding she won instant attention for her- and the play, But there was no holding the home or the play together who had begun to see ‘overheard hi drinking, weal at his father wi youth!) hurl the ch ‘You are keeping a chorus Litue revelations of that eort are not, of course, conducive to domestic peace, and when Charles Nelson was compelled to admit that his boy was not a liar | Mrs, Nelson decided to leave her hue- band to the tender mercies of the chorus swirl. But instead he went to live by himself in the Alpine Apartments, where some very tall talking went on in the reception room, Jven the elevator m: and the telephone girl aired their v! on e Tt was quite the chattiest little recep- tion room that an apartmcht house has ever disclosed, Here {t wan, if you please, that Nelson broke with the chorus girl in Irene Fenwick Kitty May. Franklyn Ardell as Dick Le Roy. parting; here it that she called his wife a fool at her first meeting with that lady, and here it was again, after she had dried her eyes and picked up a few twenty-dollar ‘Dilla, that she walked off with some exceedingly easy money in the form of her very recent patron's son Kenneth, About this time it began to look as though the play: should have been called *The Chorus Girl's Revenge." In fact Kitty had thr@ftened to “get” the un- heppy Mr. Nelson. Yet when Kenneth, who now took only one cocktall before * Mreakfast and was thinking of going to work, asked her to marry him she ‘wouldn't do it. Then his father came in and the truth came out. This was fnelodramatic enough to suit almost “anybody but the author, yet the un- Pleasant scene didn't end there. The Bey struck his father and then fell ‘The father took feeling it He whimpering at his fect. §t quietly, even gratefully, might bring them together again. ‘wag really very nice about it. By way of relief a vaudeville “up the piano in Kennet! song that was to lure Kitty re 4 toy < art. Her love for it proved Btrongey than her love for Kenneth when }.8 moncy Was gone, and so she skippd, out with her “partner” in the ‘eketch that was to give Albany @ treat four times a day. To make Kenneth feet worse, the old cab driver who had been hanging around confessed he was ‘Kitty's dad and also reviewed his child's womantic career until the pained youth fmplored him to atop. It took Kenneth's nother a long time to prevent him from Killing himself, She struggled with him ‘until his father arrived and then fell Back 1: > chair that lost its balance and gave S88 Olive Harper Thorne, who played the part, a very bad fall Willlam Morris Misa Thorne managed her role verr s Charles Nelson. Well, but she almost made the last scene Forrest Winnant as Kenneth Nelson, jculous by pl ng it in a slit skirt ae ite tations of times Miss Irene Fenwick just missed making the chorus girl a real Otherwise her work was very | Good indeed, Will Morris played the neglected husband who went wrong with praiseworthy 6 aint, ant Porress Winnant suggested the weak youth in everyth! call and did. But beet of all was Frenklyn Ardell aa the ) finally walked off with Kitty, He was the American and racy character that led Zags, back to the mvele play its only eping with the violent trend of the play for the rafter all ite one chance of popularity les a" contains a Ittle of everything, but hardly enough of anything to ely ue except in the box-office, It will no doubt appeal to seneation seekers, but not to families generally, for to put it may | the Netnon family 's * ther uniqve Betty Vince After Vacation. vaudeville per counterpart of that ri Ardell gave thi quite in embittered youth to kill himsels, tn ite thrills, "The Family © Advice to Lovers | proper care of yourselves. No young man or woman who Works six days in He somner 18) the week should go to dances six com’ ng f@ 8) pings, It seema to me that once or ond an “twice a weeie 1 quite enough to spend | ef yee BPS) ovenings away from home and @n early | to bee Hedtime, ‘The best aitd most refresh: svother year Of tonic for workers is the natural one ef; hard work, Theft) | | past season has | unusually tiiniatl i and tf you! °. Go° writes: “Tam very much tn dyacations love with @ girl who is a friend of one to be of my friends, He has told: me that Tj pretty must give her up or give him up. Which good shape {shall 1 do?” Try to keep yours| This is @ case in which you must de selves in good con-felde whether the man's or the woman's ‘@uon ducing the coming year by toblng' Cleudehip means saad so xem, that an extravagant wife going | |] WHAT THEOICKENS, ‘thing from babies to racer | ALL RIGHT, Boy, BRING IT HY THE HUeRY? = va DU Tee DAHLIA?” (S THE maTTERY With THAT GUY? hore Dow'r miss “Nothing!” replied Dr. Willoughby. it the nergeant was not satiated With a hasty “ me!" to Joan he marched over to “Keep your eye on them, ‘clerer. thief, ‘lever thief, my ordered. them fri euliate the Mell" Jones 8 ane Jo, whom he enuged. thing, Listen to every word they say. a Wedding Chine res Then, turning to Willoughby, Cluney Mee nial and ofan, he went on: “I think you follows had better spread out. Come on! nity frum Split out! Get apart evading aes acitenee The threy arose, as biden, and white Oman oughby stroiied around Pcae het ie frie poowan ane, Wileugeh and Mra. Carr the house nd the girls, Cluney attempted to ai!p qtietly out of the door by which he might gain the street. That vigilant oMcer, Clancey, was on the watoh, however, and it was Clan- cey's hand that clapped itselé on James Cluney's shoulder with @ sharp "'N You heard what the ‘sarg eee we etoek’ certitratce "foun, comes to. redeers the cere fo in whic Nave been placed James Cluney dd not reply, but he re- signed himself to the Inevitable and walked around to stand by the side of the girl whom he had expected to oe his wife by thts time, but who seemed tur- ther away from him now than ever, Judging by unitkellhood of any wed- ding on this da: Mra, Carr had been talking to her husband, and now Mr. Carr, with a look of determination on his countenance, came forward and eaid, in a resoluate Pals’ wo take something from Mr, Crrr's pack CHAPTER XXIV (Continued. The Power of the Eye. EANWHILE the three men on the sofa had plunged into a whispered conversation, and eblivious of all that was @o- tone: ing on around them, Mr. Sergeant! Mr. Sergeant'* “Let's tell him the atocks are in the », no! J'll not listen,” replied that safe,” whispered Dr, Willoughby ¢o autocrat. his companions. “What'a the good of that?” asked Cluney. “t “What I want to say," persisted Mr, our house.” heed, and Mr. whoulde: replied the doctor, “I Clunsy's astonished very much off the key “Now! whispered Mrs. Carr “Don't tell them that,” interposed to her dau And Madge on Doogan, hurriedly. “Or you'll have to re tried to get her hand into h father’s pocket. Clancey moved forward from the ing about?" shew ner! a and ecroam the room, where Joan had been trying to hold him in converse about nothing in particular—eithough, eing & Very pretty girl, ehe had no Mculty in keeping the sergeant with tern as he was in the execution of duty, th onl: | Soranet landishmente of the gentler sex 70 asthe ishmente 1 gentler sex yd concerned, “Yeo, that might do. and Dr. two “Cut out that whistling’ ea the command. d Mr. Care stopped at mit The whispering continued, “Yee, mother.” , Willougiby cautioned hie com: ‘‘Tell them we ere hungry.” Pantone not to ane mother, Mr Serg a Seant's question was aloud. “We haven't a louder, more thr dite since breakfast, Please may we are yeu ave gomojhing te ve o sil ot ( WaTeH Ma AN’ YOu Wik LEARN Joan had been very gracious to thi sergeant as they stood chatting ut t other end of the room, and he w disposed to do anything he could to plea nawered at than he used to hard, mies, if Go ahead and ald Mrs. Carr, with a pleased ““Come, William!" t} Bure! mek. William Carr moved with alacrity, and the minister was not at all slow in walk- ing toward the dining-room. James Cluney, Dr. Willoughby snd Doogan alno stirred {n that direction. “Thanks, Sergeant,” eaid Clancy, effu- alvely. But the sermeant wae not to be cajoied. He immediately pushed Cluney, Doogan and Dr, Willoughby back towam the aying, gruffiy: “No! Get back 1 want you three fellows to stay over thero. ‘he rest of them are all right, O'Malley, They're huner: “Hungry, be it?’ with @ aneer. ‘Well, for the last ten Minutes every last one of them has Doen trying to get something out of that old man's pocket.”’ “How dare yout” Carr, ready to ery. “Oh! So that's the game, ts tt?" bel- lowed the sergeant. ‘Trying to stp something over on me?” He strode toward Cluney, Dr. Will- vughby and Doogan, who wore standing li a row in front of the sofa, Aa he reached them all three dropped npon the sofa, and he turned to round tp the others. If he had been angry before he vas actually (boiling now demanded Mra. CHAPTER XXV. Who Hid the Chocolate Pot? EFORE he could get to Wil- Man Carr, who had hidden behind his wife, Mr, Carer coughed apprenenstvaly, Stop that coughing!” siapped the sergeant “But roat tickles,” Mr. Carr, “Don't let it tke, Roop quiet!” In @ matter-of-fact wa. apologized mintater to ge there, too, hut told Wil- liam Carr t etand near the table, a i'ttie @pert ¢rem the others, He would have no mere tampering with Mr, ca ig wocteata by ony ene If Be could was © for a few moment sergeant gaced at his yeetves Pt) leroe matiataction, apd Wome rejoined O'Malley, 7 Was, UNCLE IT HAINT NECESSARY |! S11 Ya Coun Dd TOLET eM GET YA with the new warrant he was to bring from Headquarters. joan!” whispered Mre. Carr, turn- trumpet toward her young- mouth, est daughter's rgeant will let you make "What for? whispered Joan, “To distract his attention. our father has something in his pooket. Joan nodded, and tripped over to the eergeant. She took hold of his sleeve, and, as he turned abruptiy, emiled up at him ao winningly that he a to @o anything she asked chocolate?" | “We're half ot rved| Bhe patted wteally we are.” the sleeve with « caressing gen Spat few men could restst—certain! this Th He looked down her with « emile was no question that Joan Carr ‘wana remarkbly pretty girl, and it was not in the nature of the “Look out for things h charge of the young fady. “Yea, air The sergeant gallantly offered hie arm to Joan, who took it with « amile, and while I take the twe went out on thelr way to the £ dining romn, Dr. Willoughby was tn- dignant at seeing the sergeant thus taking possession of Joan, It must be renembered that the doctor had a mar- dered how long Mr. Jamison would be|- My Hunt for a Wife 4 Nets York Bachelor's ‘’ Quest of the Golden Gui.’” By Victor J. Wilson, Geppnge, 1918, by Too Prem Publisning Co, (The New Lore Bvenang Wertd), —-THE GIRL WITH A HENPBCKED FATHER. mmm AINT heart ni won fair maid” was my firm belief when 3 be E60 GBR can to court Pamela 1., an auburn-haired slip of © gist of twenty hardly reaching ae high as my shoulder. She was an only child of a mother who looked as young as ‘A aster, and an adoring father absorbed in business ané very much henpecked, I met Pamela at the seashore, and we spent June and July there in infantile ufoconcern. During August I invited Pamela and her mother to tour the Adiren- dack Mountains by automobile, and we made @ happy trie, When “Daééy”* Joined us for a week-end now and then our trio became @ quartet. 1 Hked the “old ecout," and he seemed well enough inclined toward me, 1 found one wa- forgivable fault in hie make-up—namely, that he allowed the weaker sex te rule him, No matter what the issue might be Pamela and her mother always carried | off the paim, Pamela seemed epatied for a husband who by force of his own nature would be maater of the roont. After many struggles I succeeded in convincing her that T would not be a henpecked husband and that, in fact, 1 was to be master. One can talk before marriage, but there te no foreseeing how the tables may be turned afterward. It te futile to calculate without taking into consideration the moods of @ woman. “Mamma” suspected for a long time that the Uttle ged of love had been tn- fluencing us and she was almost as happy e@ we two lovers when her little daughter told her we Intended to be married. Our engagement had been about two months old. I had not spoken of my Jove to my future father-in-law and had entirely overlooked the formality ef asking his Dieesing, to say nothing of secking hie consent. It seemed very ua- One late afternoon in the autumn I went up my flancee and her parents. Maving en hour before tn the woods near by. Pam was more pensive wolicitous oveg the unwonted quiet, 3 inquired replied, ‘Well, Vic, to be candid with you, I te hebeclagg than what the think We all know ‘Daddy’ apelle me more than he a lega for aM hig lentency. He ts very much offended apoken to him about our engagement.” 1 argued with her that I di@ not ese when he already knew all about it from seemed to think 1 was very much tn the 1 were left alone over our cigare I suddenly Nearvea ou harrassment the full foree of my remarks, “You have heard that and T are going to be married, and 1 suppose f ought to ask your it won't make any difference to us If you don't give it.” I never in my iif aaw any one get eo angry ae “Daddy.” @oting father and@ henpecked husband he wae transformed to @ ed and respected. roung man, after such a speech @s that I would not let you marr daughter she broke her heart over you. I have been an indulgent father, but I think in this matter my word will be law. You were speaking to the father of an only child, and I hardly think I care te trust what I prise more than eny- thing else in the world to a man with your ideas.” Amything further I could say was of vail to meve the eld man in Rte Gestation, and as Pamela was too eoft-hearted to hurt one whe Rad lived Out to please her she refused to marry me without her gathers consent. And es che L, 4 ry ed my punishment, dut I still blame “Daddy” Ger deceiving me ty and unexpectediy asserting himself. Just Summer Suggestions (Tes Semimer Sesacytions ——] Copyright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brenig World). FROZEN THINGS. syrup into the whites of four eggs, gre LIVER WENDEL s010008| viously beaten to a froth, Beat twe wrote: cuptuls of cream and 244 clowly; “2 elweys thought cold victuals nics; My choice would be vanilla ice” But of course vanilla becomes tiresome after a while Bo does chocolate or any other one flaver. Thén, again, there are many people whe will say: “Ob, don't Ike Just plain ico cream. 1 like |things chopped up tn it, or eomething | Desides the eternal vanilla, chocolate and strawberry.” To these people the following recipes will be welcome: Maraechino Partait-Mak whipped cream add one-quarter cupftul ef powdered sugar; disselve half teaspoonful ef gelatine in epe- eighth of s cupful of cold water, 44, Roll one dosen dry macareema, our @ teaspoonful of vanilla ever them and put with the other ingredients. jar] When frosen serve banked with waged Beat the cream. three-quarters of @ cupful and one-half cupful of water. o' the wis enough about it." sergeant dashed inw the library, nolding up @ sheaf of legal-!coking pe- pere Inelowed by @ wide rubber band, while Joan Carr, almost as excited as ie sergeant, came running in after m. ‘What te it? asked Mr. Carr, “Phe ant?” No, no. ‘The certifioates, I knew Fa find them!" boasted the sergeant, He placed the bundle of papers tn William Carr's hands, and the eld gentionan slowly fumbied at them tn the endeavor to see what they were 1 you Oy Malley saw that Dr. Willoughby and Cluney were whispering on the @ote, and slipped behind them in the effort to overhear what ¢! ing. Mre, Carr took advant momentary inattention to make another attempt to get her hand into her husband's pecket. Rut without euc- for O'Malley looked at her again defore she could reach whafever it wan she wanted. Caney, the third policeman, decided that he would like a drink of water, riage license in hie pocket, wich he @nd he opened tie door leading to the +The securities!” orled Cluney, ‘Then, hoped to employ tn Por r kitchen part ef the house and stepped eeite to Dr. Willongnby: * ‘0 this, vand of Mise Joan Aer out of eight, w 1 thought you put them fatee in oe ‘ Jack Doogan, continuously on the oy & om watch for some means of eacape, picked 4 the doster. fo Dr. Willoughby was rushing UP hie hat, and no one w Doogan, who when O'Malley: interposed guarding the di front Sauntered toward it, apparently with whispered Doogan, out thinking what he wee doing, Hut 1 at the ger. Clancey of the sharp black certificates by, atrug@ing with until he Was Upped backward upon the hi the bonds," exclaimed Mr sofa. { inetant, nconsclously ¢er- 2, officer!” interpesed James i and,” retorted jalley, jon't hi hat man going with ghouted the docter, Li abrupt! fate ® frown as he turned anf saw Mre, Carr's hand tn her husband's pooket. Malley, lke hte 5000s insly'cusieus to knew what it was thai inted Chasey, “what de you wantte geant, and ‘T Just wanted to sea whether the Internatio: ” hed brought to the house as @ wedding Present for his bride-to-be, “They were in the chocolate-pet,” plained Jean, with a pussied erpected to fing e erashed Dooga: etretied back trike $0 Ubrary, with Clamesy at his heel ‘L wonder what all that racket fe in “Who'd Li the diutga roun," observed Cluney to thing there’ Willewsses, as wey om Fe Be Continue) TS: i