The evening world. Newspaper, September 2, 1913, Page 15

The Evening W or cid Dai COUSIN. TINKY. SAYS SHE Y ARE HUNDREDS OF YEAS OLD, AND- —~ OH DEARIE, SEF THE Queer OLD John Drew Disappointing “Mach Ado.” in BY CHARLES DARNTON. MEAT gome things come too late in Mfe was regrettably apparent at the Mmpire Theatre jast night when John Drew was given his long-hoped-for opportunity to act Benedick in “Much Ado About Nothing.” Sorry es I am te aay It, the time hag evidently gone when Mr, Drew, in, epite of his fine Feceré 9s @. comedian, should play one of Shakespeare's merry gentlemen. i F Hy H &g oe ly Magazine, “AND SHE Woucd HARDY LET ME tlAve ttem iw MY HANDS LONG ENQUG Tuesd ‘to SHow THEM They are coming back, almost all of them—speeding from all four corners of the globe to adorn our city once more with their bright eyes and flashing white teeth (the more white for their brown-tinged faces), eun-tanned, apple-checked and maybe a wee bit freckle-noced. But every light-hearted and brimming with pretty, bubblinb stories of romances, One’s leather suit case bulges with remembrance trinkets, her ribbons are and Henry Gtephenson as Leonato read grew a bit stodgy at times and Mr, Stephen. last act. The Dogberry of Herbert Druce was by Doubleday, Page & Co.) ‘VALKED the streets of the sCity of Insolence, thirsting for the sight of a stranger face. Wor the City is & desert of familar types as thick and alike as the grains in sand- storm; and you grow to hate them as you do @ friend who Is always by You, oF one of your own kin. id my desire was granted, for I saw, near a corner of Broadway and Twenty- ninth street, @ little flaxen-haired man -» €“Her Own Money.” ARK, EB. SWAN evidently wrote the play we saw at the Comedy Theatre M yesterday afternoon in the firm belief that the world and his ‘wife are forever at odds over money. Maybe he is right; perhaps this ve . ith a tace like @ scaly-bark hickory- unhappy atate of affairs does exist. In any event “Her O tainly | ™ * ; ab reduces matrimony jollars and ‘cents. Not only do.two matrieg couples Pa iogirt ‘Smntgeneously. proclaimed ving Just across the “court” from each other in an uptown fi the req! tesue in their unhappy lives, but a girl who. “shies”. at ngagement ving Uke a financial agent to the youth who je willing to work for ‘her. "Whe author uses all his characters to make his point. Not since Hugene Wal- ter Wrote’ “Paid in Full” has there been @ play so completely given to that domeatié economy which robs housekeeping of ite quiet and restful charm. It's all Very practical, no doubt, but it is just the sort of thing that great many people go to the theatre to get away from. At the aame time it may appeal to womea betause of its aim to put the wife on an independent financial. footing. In hig particular case the wife fecls it humill tor money. Although he has neglected to repay $500 she hag lent him (“loaned”) is the word always used in the play) she hasn't done so badly, for she has man- aged W Bave $2,000 out of the household allowance. When he needs this amount to save himself in a real estate transaction, she feels he will be more likely not to lose it if he belleves the money has been advanced by a neighbor, Harvey accordingly. The writing of checks involved in the tri and ghe r n awful row that leads | esatebroker, to demand an explanation from his wife, This 1s 20 far-fetched that you feel you could step across the footlights and eettie the matter in a moment. It is the weak point in the play. Then Alden leaves his wife instead of taking her out and celebrating their good for- tune, as any man would do in the circumstances, His only exouse for zoing| money itaelf a can-opener, a ecrew-driver, button-hook, @ nail-file, a shoe-horn, ‘| watch-guard, @ potato peeler and ornament to any gentleman's key rin And then a stall-fed cop shoved him: self through the congregation of cus- tomers. The vender, plainly used to ving his seasons of trade thus bruptly curtatled, closed his eatchel an¢ slipped like a weasel through the opposite segment of the circle, The crowd scurried almtessly away like ante from a disturbed cru aud- enly becoming obliv and Its Inhabitants, stood still, his bulk and putting his club through an Intricate drill of twirls, I hurried after Kansas Bill Powers, and caught him by an arm. ‘Without hin looking at me or slowing e, T found a five-dollar bill crum- ly into my hand, wouldn't have thought, Konsas Bill," T sald, “that you'd hold an old friend that cheap.” & w @ has humiliated him before the Beechers—as If they mattered! a Then he turned his head and the *e obvious that th | hickory-nut cracked {nto a wide smile. the wife's moaning “He ts gone!” has apologised, so abdjectly| “Give back the money," sald he, and éonfeseed herself in the wrong, when she has most certainly been im the| I'll have the cop after you for T thought you was the ‘T want to talk to you, Bill, “When did you leave Okighoma ts Reddy McGill now? * Wh pretense right, that she loses your sympathy. re himself an ungrateful ass, All this led to a chicken farm where Mra, Alden seemed very much better Aw for the husband, he simply preves OM » year » We had heard her say she longed for a home tn the country—| selling those impossible contraptions on ene “here she was happy with her chickens! In order that we might see them| the stree! How did your Bix, Horn zt wept them in the front yard. Happily, we were spared the eight of q| £0'4 mine pan out? How aid you get reconcilistion when the husband came back She went out through the gate|%, M&ily #unrurned? What will you to meet him, leaving us with the chickens, anawered Kansas Sill ‘| The vulgar, wrangling Beechers turned out to be the best chara: “Putting up windmils As tho greedy, nagging wife, always hard up and making no in Arizona. opin money to bay Mise Beverly Sitgreaves gave a performance that It was eteeteras with. Salted. Been down in Throwing to the winds t t distinction which ordinarily marks her work, che} te, topics Beer.” ; Dinyed thie terror to husbands with a delightful sense of character, ‘Hor! ,.W',forematpered In & nronitious piace Clare Beecher te nothing short of # reul creation. As the husband who was! gark plumage played the raven to per: forever telling her to “Shut up!” George Hassell was quite as good in his own, fection, Reminiscence newts mumt be He couldn't have been better, After ridding herself of certain affecta. had before I could steer Hill into his Miss Julia Dean made Mrs, Alden fairly human, though her emotion! epic meod. cond act made the character seem decidedly extravagant "Yes", wala he, “IT mind the time pect, Sydney Booth, thanks to his good taste, made Alden Timo rope broke on that cow's the calf was chasing you. appear t any rate, and the youthful to Were played Very well oy ee ene tne ean eevee torment ees Glendinning end Mise Louise Grasgler, : a, Teague treplen.” cold L“'are a brona were ; ‘ t \ ; * fine, The Sto Who Could Find No ritory. What part of Cancer of Capri- bentyl you been honoring with & tte” “Down along China or Peru—or may- be the ~Argentine Confederacy,” said Kansas Bill, “Anyway, ‘twas among & Teal race of people, off-coiored ‘but’ pro- Sreanive. I was there three months.” “No doubt are glad to be back mong the truly great race,” I surmised. ™: "Eepecialy among New Yorkors, the most progressive and independent citl- sens of any country in the world," £ continued, with the fatulty of the pro- vinclal who has eaten the Broadway lotus, “Do you want te start en argument?” asked Si Y = UCan there be onet* Loney. ‘Has an Irishman humor, de you think? asked he “T have an hour or two to epare,” said I, ooking at the cafe clock, “Not that the Americans agen’? @ reat commercial nation,” conceded Bill. “But the fault lald with the people who wrote lies for fiction.” ee was this Irishman'’s name?” 1 was that last beer cold enough?” ata he, Mid there tm talk of further out. renks ainong the Ru: f° breaks anong the Russian peasants," 1 “IIs name was Barney O'Connor,” said Bil Thus, becaure of our anctent preactence of each other's trail of thought, we travelled ambiguously to the paint where Kansas Bill's story began: “1 met O'Connor in a boarding house on the wont side. He Invited me to hig hallroom to have @ drink, und came like a dog and a cat that ha been rained together. There he nat, handsome man, with hi against one wall and his back aga the other, 1ooking over a map. On thi bed and sticking three feet out of It wa, a beautiful gold sword, with tasee! & and rhinestones tn the tanalenees “What's this? says I (for by that time we were well acquainted). ‘The annual parade in vilification of the ex. snakes of Ireland? And What's the line of march? Up Broadway to Forty. wecond; hence @ast to MoCarty's caf, w t down on the washstand, O'Connor, ‘and Meten, And cast versiona on the sword ‘Tw fathe old Munster. And tits map, Bowers, x no diagram of @ holiday pros ession, If ye look again ye'll see that it's the continent known as Soutn America, comprising fourteen green, hive, red, and yellow countries, all crys ing out from (img to time to be liberated from the yoke 6f the oppressor. ""h pow,’ enya t to O'Copnon, By Eleanor Schorer strung @he, queen of them all, fascinated # score of Bobs, But the real “victor” brings back ONE trinket: a brilliantly studded gold hoop encircling her slim third finger. ONE HEART has tured, and ONH BOB, of an Em 7m idea ie @ literary one The ten-cont Magazine stole it from ‘Ridpath's Hi tory of the World from the Sandstone Period to the Equator.’ You'll And it in every one of ‘em. 1 story of @ soldier of fortune, generally named O'Keefe, who gots to be dictator while the Spanish-American ‘populace crtes “‘Caspetto!” and Ttalian jetions, I misdoubt if it's ever been 1 You're not thinking of try- ing that, are you, Barney? T asks, “ ‘Bowers,’ aays hi ou're & man of education and couray “ ‘How can I deny it? saya I. ‘Bau cation, runs in my family; and I hay ecquired courage by @ hard struge! Mi bs \ Sl O'Connore,’ cays he, ‘are a warlike race. T! fe me fathers a@word; and here ie the map, A life of inaction ig not for ma The O'Con- nore were born to rule. “Tis @ ruler of men I must be.’ “ ‘Barney,’ I aay to him, ‘why don't you get on the force and settle down to a quiet life of carnage and corrup- tion instead of roaming Bff to forgign parte?, In what better way can “you indulge your desire to subdue and, maltreat the oppressed?’ he | “‘Look dgain at the map, ays he, ‘at the country I have the point of knife of. ‘Tis that one T have select to ald and overthrow with me father'e n* gaya T. ‘Tt'a the green one; and that doen credit to your patriotis; and it's the smallest one; and that di credit to your Judgment “"Do you accuse me of cowardice? eaye Barney, turning pink. “No man,’ saya I, ‘who attacks and confiseates & country single-handed could be called @ coward. The worst you can be charged with is plagiarism or imitation, If Anthony Hope and Roonevalt let you wet away with tty nobody eine wil! have any right to klok, “"1'm not Joking,’ nays O'Connor, ‘And ive got $1,000 cash to werk the schema with. I've taken a liking to you, Do you want {t or not? “a'm not working,’ I told him, "hut how {# tt to be? Do T eat durng the fomeptation of the Insurrection, or am I only to be Secretary of War after the country 1" conquered? Is It to be & pay envelope or only a portfollot “1 pay all expenses,’ saya O'Connor, ‘1 want @ man I can trust. If we sue coed you mgy pick out any app: you want im the gift of the go OAM right, then, saya I. *You can wet_me @ bunch of draying contracts and then @ quick-ac slenment to A seat on the Supreme Court bench so 1 won't ne in ine for the Brendency. The kind of cannon they chasten their ‘Tae Bresigante wits io thas country huts Mee ay. September > and her sleeves decorated with hearts of all varieties, been not merely fascinated ‘but cap- ELEANOR SCHORER. male, Yau cap consider me on the pay> “Two weeks afterward O'Connor ang me took @ steamer for the emall, doomed country. We were three weeks on the trip O'Connor sald he had hie lane all figured out in advance; but ing the commanding general, it eons borted avith his dignity to keop the de talla concealed fram his army and eab- inet, commonly known as William T, jowers, Three dollars a day was the rice’ for which I Joined the cause of berating an undiscovered country from the dts that threatened or sustained it. Every Saturday night on. the steam 1 atood in line at. parade rest, and O'Connor, handed ovey, the Fi. “The town we Jai ita, Bo -h -hey told ‘Not for saya T. ‘It'll be little olf Hilldale or Tompkinavilie or Cherry Tree Cor- ners when I speak of it. It's a clear case where Spelling Reform ought butt fn and disenvowel it.’ But the town looked fine from the bay when sailed in, It was whi with green ruching, and 1 the akirt when the the sand, It looked far ultra as tl konkomam in th pa wenger department of the Long Islant Raliroad, “Wi ° cigar atumps, i ‘Hooligan Alley! esye 1 reehrie- tening ft. “~Dwill be our headquarters,’ says @'Connor. ‘My nando Pacheco, “Lt seema sthal ters, and every day or two round to headqui t up in the back room hour with O'Connor end I noticed that whep the world; but when they came out they would be folding up @ ten or twenty-dollar bill and cursing the Gov+ ernment horribly. "One evening after .we had bean in Guaya~tn this town of Smellv'lie-by-the- Bea-about a month, and me and O'Conr nor wate sitting outside the door help- oid tempus fugit with rum and feo and limes, I save to him: 4 ® patriot that don't hat he's patronizing, for tion=-what {9 your scheme for Guniugeuns Ue eeuae? ed ot was named, te ff De zou i ! ! | | Men of Initiative Modem Americans Whe Have Led the March of Pragrese By Julius Chambers Coppright, 1013, by The i've Mubiiebing Co, (The New York Kreming World. COL. WILLIAM C. GORGAS, Re-Conqueror of the Trapice. ; OR three centuries the tropice were-desdiy ta. the while mate . Plague spots of ti world, where all forme of fever@ abounded and deat Despite the declas | so immunised, thousands from yellow fever annually is the West indies = —__ and ports of the Spanish Main, Warburg's diacovery was the more remasyevle enput the germ won by saving instend of by Hie achievement is in contrat to those of imperial commanders whe Mies umphed by the destruetian of human existence, In Cube and at Panam the white ma@ can mathtatn his Houten aie” perfor 1a tropica as in the temperate zones, He saya; be cent in the temperate sone: This will usher in @ new ecenoialo ere in the world’s history, fancinating prediction by « actentifie man worthy of oredencel It" 4 dream; it la @ probability. : ' Not always does aman who has first gleam of an idea work out tt; fulnass. When the prablem of aleansing Havana presented itself imme: following the expulsion of the ‘unsanitary SPaliiards, Col. Gorgad was with the undertaking: Br. Carlos, Finley, @ Jong-ghile practitioner acquainted him. with @ theory that yellow fever was transmitted frém one human creature to another by the mosquitd, It was only @ theory, Apparently” spectal effort had beam made to establish tte truth. It seemed contrary to belief; but Gorgas set, about herolo teste, in which three brave young, . American phyetclans sacrificed their lives ive the mystery of solance, =~ ‘The Io: It was assumed that the bite of an"infected insect might result in a mild f of the fever immunity; but that theory proved sadly’ |. f the mosquito from persons toy" charged * y by a female omyta mosquito whidh has bitten @ yellow fever patient within three days after he has contracted the disease, Mych insects have aa incubation period of not leas than twelve days before the biteewill inoculate non-immune person, who in turn will develop the disease within siz days, ‘This was the great discovery made by Gorges and his brave essistants, The crusade then in, Every pond, marsh and stream near Havana was flooded with a coating of crude petroleum, ¢garbolic acid and resin, Tals treatment destroyed the mosquito larvae Another British-Indig oMcer, Major Honala Rona, expressed the bel! that malaria Was carried from one person to another by the bite of Oph: moaquito, Therefore, Gorgas extended the war to the well as to the ategomyla; the life historion of these two forms of the tn were worked out, They were bred and etudied, Soon it wae proved con- clustvely that they do not originate the germs either of yellow fever or, malaria, They carry both after biting the effected human beings, The ategomyta insects are natives of India and the Philippines; the yellow fever. nism never hag been taken Into those countries, Henee mopeuitags are, to health or life thei “ canal failure at Panama, Col. Gorges was sant to t: & census of the moggutta. His weapons were cleanliness, coal oll, quinine, and, quite as important as all , edacation of the natives. His main battery was petroleum * ‘and quinine, He began in May, 1! 4 in sixteen months haé conquered. ‘ of yellow fever occurred in Decemb: ‘tives of the Canal Sone ewaltowed 75,000 twor quinine, ry monquito-breeding place within nty miles was deluged with crude off, All the fifty varieties of tees had to go, The sick rate was reduced to 17 per 1,000. The Isthmus ef Panama health resort. Gorgas had 3,000 men trained im sanitation, organised lke an army. \ Ol! was provided for the mosquitoes—t for the invading army. z ‘The elimination of yellow fo from Cuba and the Panama Canal Bone te. an achievement perhaps exceeding in value to human life all acientifie cone este aince the intrgduction of vaccinaton for smallpox, 000 gallona per year—and quiniee OCoaner; Dut we'll have the country ta’ eur hands inside of @ month.’ = “In the evenings we walked aboot (mn the piaaa and Metened te the baat playing and. mingled with the populace. ” tend to plunge it into bloodshed, er 4 th to buy ite votes peacefully, @nd honorably at the pola? “ Rowers,’ says he, ‘ye're @ fine ttle man and f intend to make great use @ after the conflict, Rut ye do not itand atatecraft. Already by now We have @ network of strategy clutch: ing with Invisible fingers at the throat of the tyrant Calderas, We have agents auch as the Mayor rides in at th ; at work in every town in the ublic. veiling of the new pooshouse at Mill. ‘The Liberty party ts bound to win. On edgewile, Ala. Round and round the, Our secret Nate we have the nameg of desiccated fountain in the middle of the. enough sympathizers to qrush the ed- plasa they drove, and lifted thetr high _ ministration forces at @ single blow.” alik hats to their frienda The cam- “'a straw vote,’ eaid I, ‘only shows mon people walked around tn barefoot. which way the hot alr blows.’ ed bunches, puffing stogies ww ? “Who hag accomplished this? gees Pitteburgh millionaire wouldn't have on O'Connor, ‘I have I have directed chewed for @ dry emoke on Ladies’ everything. The time was ripe when at hia club. And the grandest. figure we came, 80 my ag informed me, (9 the whole turnout wes Barney The people are Cet inder burens O'C Bix foot twe he stood tn hie of t and levies, 0 will be thelr Fifth avenue clothes, with his eagie natural leader when they rise? Could and his Diack mustache that © it be any one but mesaif? “Twas only yesterday that Zaldas, eure represente- tive in the providence of Duragnas, telle me thet the people, tn aeoret, siready call me “El Library Door,” whioh ts the Snanish manney of saying The Lidere- to at ite distressing and obnoxious urea. There were thirteen vehicies longing to the upper classes, rockaways and old-style et him and every man feared him or twice eames a4 Bice ond t ry janier age that appened than hig winning ou in his game; I began to feel like a Hidalgo ‘Was Faldas that marcon-colored old Astec with @ paper collar on and un- leached Gomestic shoes? | asked. “He was,' says O'Connor. “'T aaw him tucking @ yellow-back tn- to his vest pocket as me out,’ says ‘It may be,’ says I, ‘that they call Dut they treat you Goor of a bank, But again to eolld bottom and let my imug- ination gloat, ae usual, upon the twen- , ty-one American dollars due me ons Saturday night ” Continued.) of those precious lives was due to process aimilar to crue tom Cuba, J a