The evening world. Newspaper, September 24, 1913, Page 17

* aay eee ae « BY ‘‘S’Matter, Po y YA Wu GET It, BY CHARLES DARNTON. Tose ee merely proved it has no sense of humor by shutting {ts door 1; the face of “Deborah,” which came to us as “The Smouldering Flame" last night and caused the audience at the Forty-eighth Street Thentre to laugh in the wrong places. No wonder! Here wae @ phyetological drama, {f you please, 20 morbid as to be ridiculous, It became go through the unskilful treatment of a deep sub- \. Ject—the right to motherhood—by Willinm Legrand Howland, an author known j\,to that managerial discoverer, F. Ray Comstock, if not to the world at large. In "The Smouldering Flame” Mr, Comstock may have scented another sensa- but even the hope that Toronto out must have died when the lights went out and the laugh went up at the end of the second act last night. The first act did nothing but establish the fact that “Tillie Thomas yearned to have a child of her own. The two rheumatic old spinsters with whom she lived made it quite apparent that all her natural tnstincta had been repressed. Then, too, there was cold New England. The combination was discouraging to Tillie, whose nerves Kot the better of her when the old country doctor totd her that she had only a few years left in which to realize her longing, She was thirty-three. This little deta!l was far more Interesting than the dreary wastes of talk that made us quite as miserable as Tillie. She didn't grow at All enthusiastic over the doctor's sug- gestion that she might find @ husband in the neighbvorho but ehe did brighten up @ bit when the death of a distant relative brought her to New York. Here she shared her cous foys and special brand of perfame and Marie Day as Hannah McGrane. eked: reat deal better, But sh: of her yearning to feel little mi about t : d to marry 1 yuth Africa, H Maud Sinclair Mary McCrane. aetia tas To break the monotony the man who was et Forag cousin dropped tn to say he was going to 4&6 human beings refreshingly normal and they gave the play its one hum weene, When Edith found she couldn't go away: with IL y she proved he it ® young woman of rather surprising inftlative by telling him to come back to the house as soon as the lights went out, Then the strangest thing of ail hap- pened, Tillie, who had Istened to the discussion of her cousin's significant plan, \ymddenty grew wid-eyed with an idea of ner own, She was 80 moved that Dart of her hair came down, Then she turned out the lights and left us to our awn conciusions, If you think that Balzac and others gave treated this sort of plot humor- ously, you have till to hear from Will- fam Legrand Howland, In the third act Ty was called to ingland home as @ and when the cogntry noted spe doctor spoke of her visit to New York she father of her child: chap alist, bright lrtle romping around the house—re- We may have met.” Byven Harry seemd to find diflculty in keeping ws face straight when the andience Yetrayed its sense of humor, It was not until Tillie told him as @ doctor Gat remorse at having separated two davors by intercepting letters was prey- vg on her mind that they recognized ah ott A stormy acene was #im- ply so much waste of time, and then of eourse the child served #8 @ means of ringing about as happy an ending @ strange circumstances would pi ait. What a play! Fernanda Fiiscu was painfully monot- Fernanda Eliscu as Matilda Thomas. pnous as Tillle and always miles away from New Fngland lotta Nillson who once played the role, must have given it up in des bore up manfully as Harry, and Ethel Gray Terry wae attractive and actea well as the New York girl who suggested the lighting arrangement that went wrong. Miss Maude Knowlton rattled off rather amusingly the sort of small talk con: mon to “society ladies on the stage. Maud Sinclair and Marle Day made the spinstors convinaing types, and Forrest Robinson was a fairly good country doctor, Little Norris Millingtog wan as bright and pretty a child as Tillle could have longed for. But {t didn’t make us any happier. BETTY VINCENT’S ADVICE TO LOVERS OW can a man hould merely be encouraged to study A HAa-HA ( | YA, THOUGHT oo - ~ SER ee iis 79 on BYZ gy Be p?*? w ke w Rew is 2S Do YA PEMEMBAH How YA GWABBED THEAPPLE I SHooW tore THE TREE? 5 ——— “4 GONNA DIDNT ‘oom 4 ‘ ) ONCE BEFORE. ab Mee tts QLOCK AND SHE NAILED ME AT UT. BuT 1 SIMPLY GOTTA SAVE UP FOR THE Bie sertes! WELL - WHERE Bo You THINK You RE wey —-(M Just STEPPING CUT ON ALITTLE ERRAND, Just STEPPING irlg had again reached a point when would have welcomed death, ‘The future held for him nothing but a life of discomfort and misery and constant mental anguish, superindaced by the condition of awful fear under { which he must drag out hiy existence in this strange and terrible lind, Waldo had not the sligiitest concep- { tlon as to whether he was n some dor an unknown island, ‘That al wave had somewhere in the Sc all that he knew; but long alnce he th fiven up hope that succor would reap! Dim in time to prevent him. perlshing niserably tar from hia home and hit poor mother, The Cave G & 8yNo (opyright, 1918, by Brank A, Munsy Co.) he 18 OF PRE HDING CHAPTERS ing prod. tle wp. Wo Vive la pa ile ina ‘tivergide grove, “Wallo Tear the care gie's Tangpinge, and fh nat bie ne watte ti er "and slay, “Tho” thont ber pe t alwa) teara of self-pity to. his eves, an | CHAPTER IV, some unaccountable reason Waldo } (Continued.) shrunk from the thought of exhibiting ’ , tla unmanly weakness before the git! Death's Doorway. All day long he racked hin brain for valid ys the realization of her owe Some execu wheret he might ing sentiment toward the man persuade his companion to lead awakened it tmparted to her slsaw bers th nt he Village At which had Oe q hit wt them for the ten da Ahad been enth Wanting before. thelr escape from the cave Untit then thelr companionship, in ras the girl was conecrned, had | could but uth a er that of one youth toward an the count Watao ; but now that she fo constant h for pass ing veaseln, hi happy ax} toring at his sligntest cared h came aWare of @& paradoxi nuise to avoid hin possible for h For the first time tn her life, too, He Wwantes the sho realized her nakedness, and was Panlonshin; he was more afraid when ashamed, Possibly this was due to tie Was al Of course, he realized fact that Waldo appeared so soltcitous tat she no fit companion for ® In endeavoring to coerce hia raga into ian of his mental attainments; but the impossible feat of entirely cov then she was a human } and her | hia body, society much hetter th eat all \w they neared their Journey's end While hope had still lingered that he win the af+|and devise the most perfect means of | Waldo became more and more pere Matt lve to e and return to his fections of the| displaying his great love, "None but 1 d Hoston, he had often wonder sirt he loves? he brave deserve the fair.” ring the last night visions whether he would dire tell his nother Other things being Mintfoot and orth fhaunte a hia Heonventional aequalntant equal, tt seems tO uy a writes: “I love a young man,| beasts ru 4 him in all the Of course, dt would be out of the que me that the man|out ne is out of town and I have no ty wavagery— Hon for him to go at all into det who te most devoted | way of communicating with him. Do/ 4 no in their He would not, for example dare to 4 fa he man mine | you think I should walt to eee If tie ill} WeFODE A MARCHIRHOM GE: HOR FONMR. 69 (BIN ast, eve begets [come Dack and pay mo attentiont | t CH a eenaneripe acting Sa eg true | meet other men, but there ts none like Aah yee ne Baers eal one If 9 gin ts| Mm A Re another item wiileh troubled W fancy trea her you really care for him you will| Korth analare He new Mat the ork heart. will almoat | N8VeF Be satisied with any one e Uyal you will Uo to them tonnoreow 2” of such Information Miah ate his aurely be touched by seers Flatioot and Kortiet But the ginal 1 thew " wy me the quite sincere and intelligent adora-| "C. G."" writes: “When a young man) 1 and nid hie tte 1D whatave tion of the young man who desires to/telephones to @ Young laly and she is) + th hh tel it tite roske her his wife, And If there arejout, should she call him up as soon os syn would naetitiae several young men with the same wish, |she comes in? In the case to which [ view im, mot vera Neult) t the most loyal and the bravest knight am referring the young man did not By ep) — Te ai ttt Besomes the accepted suitor. leave a mesraxe. ” ' een with teen Be & number of competitors should Roves @ahearten @ geung war, He ond girl knew each oie, _ 9 + Tt all depends on how well the mas oy 2 comim death than in the thought capacity of chaperon; that fixed it _uice iteet, dee Petter of Louk bo Grado Abie oulat Waldo mind was | more at eune. Late in do Plateau {nto * narrow, dered tre of the level plain valley's tous A tree-t ‘ough th that formed the nd rose pre LET THiITH BE A LETTHON To YA, L DONT GWA FINGS WHat Dont BELONG TO YA? > a ON = (Le dust GRIET CUT | SoRT OF, UNCONCERNED AND SHE'LL. NEVER NONNCE tT UNDER —""7 Ro PS erie the afternoon & na.row trail that led N peauulful valle river cliftn, Br they meandered floor, trailed off in either direction as far ne the eye could reach, hore live my p aad the girl, volnting toward the distant barrier, 10 Rr 1 inwardly Let us rest here," he sald, “until to- ow. that we may cone to vor home rested and refresied.” “On! 1 the 6 reach nefore sourcely th 1 shall hav how y y Vlatfoot and mayve Isorth als one of t others will trl “Tn th o your ¥ that we for them. and if th them, The that does not se fout Kill son “Nor a th little ar chil ta, Hd Abalilen * rat the pri me Way’ m to as fel ough 1 think that after t your “to take vou Into the ce of your f might the ndship,** * ventured the that without ki all hate t ; but w 0 ls Rear angry Iren just fer neth to at ty Din tong t alwaya nen the they come flentina? eof your Korth are 1, "1 hate 5 1 were ng and since th those who on pasnes men one anon of that, for ry de not this de onisats have to vorul ant ia te is the breaking of inen's ame ADS 1888 Wile Dia bare Lands An dus daria acrome t He dare and fw th silence 1Ost enna! lea hey: ought of the and of belng bef the ¢ neither a mish mo’ Oveups than he ther wide te h they quickly alley of entering the vitinge and meeting @ horrible end at the hands brites who awaited pel Va vem way toward @ ford. n you come all will be dif ©) had entered the valley now, they continued of trees which grew beside the river, crossed Waldo searching for some avenue of escape, By Edgar Rice Burroughs Author of * TARZAN OF 1HE APES"’ had him there 1 to demonatrate that he w fighter nor a hero ould endure, A with these harrowing apacu- Waldo and Nadara f the forest, ¢ a a ee The Evining “World Daily Ms: fazine, Wednesday. ‘September 24, ent and on toward the All the way |v deen not enter that awful village ble men, and he wa ere to admitting was afraid, one. . ve died to have “Of course, you da not have to use native, but he pre efor other fawera Howe je manner of hin ful, but it ts @ heavier scent ve 10 the whence t . 1913 By C. M. Payne LISSEN- Never MIND THe FeLLAH THAT Got it WATEH OuT FOR THE NEKT ONE “Every Beauty Doctor. By Andre Dupont. “H AVE you any violets in this room?” asked the Average Girl. “Full many a flower ta born to blush unsee: quoted the Woman mysteriously. “f mean that my hair js delicately scented with violets and ao is my frock, “Why, T thought you didn't Uke Ly ia fumes, Don't you remember that woman other night? She smeiled like the toilet noap counter at a department store, and to use so much scent.” jo It in, There la nothing more val- reninds me unpleasantly of the reason historians give for its invention. you know, during the middle itation waa unknown and bath- also a wicked waste of time, and finally things got so bad that perfumes were had long been in use to cover up the smell of dirt. And at this time the which had the reputation of being the most malodorous place In Europe, in- ‘Caprright, 1018, ty The Pree lubimiing ‘The Ne York Kvening World), once in a while I get a whiff of thelr faint, delicious odor.” “What do you mean? Where are they?" This is the very latest » uty atunt.” who sat benid at the theatre the you sald {t was awfully common and il- gar than to reek of perfume. It always that bo disngreeable?* Ing wae thought to be unhealthy and imported from the Orient, where they apothecaries of the city of Cologne. vented a special sweet essence that took 5 PERFOMING HAIR: y the name of the town” | wad yet, In xpite of your sentiments, arden.” “That'a Just It. While a reek of strong perfume i offensive to all re- fined persons, a very delicate odor of clean flowers, xo faint and elusive that vou can ecarcely tell where it comes from, is very charming and gives a de- | Ughtful individuality to any woman. “Mow do you do tt?" ‘ y morning when T do my halr TL pour a the brush and brush tt well into the hair. ‘This gives a very faint amell of the real flower and doesn't hurt the hatr in the least; In fact, in gives it rather a gloss. And then T wear a violet bow instead of a sachet bag at the top of my corsets. Piatt aomething new, What te Itt" “It {9 a «mall bow of satin ribbon with the loops pi layers of cotton, between which is a layer of the best Florentine orris, Tt te usually made of either pale pink, blue, lavender or white satin. Aad the orig, which should be frequently renewed, has such a freah, clean, violet emell.” Do you put perfume on your hand- kerchiet?” “Yen; but 1 do not use the old-fash- foned method of pouring atrong scent upon it directly before using. ‘Thin gives an overpowering whiff of perfume every time the handkerchief ts taken out of one's handbag that Is unpleasant to many people, Men enpectally hate it Just a8 soon as my handkerchiefs come from the laundry T put a tiny drop of t ewsence on each one and lgy tt away between (wo flat sachets filed with orrlg root. Then when I want to use them the odor is so delicate that It cannot fall to be agreeable to every I find you smelling lke a flower y drops of violet water en ded with two thir “t, fo YOU must be espectally careful not to use much, The same is true of Ilac and lily-of-the-valley and ost of the perfumes with fancy names. | anest |and most refined of all sweet rcente THe VOLET Hut whatever you use, remember that Gow {t isn't @ heavy odor you want, but a faint whiff from the flower-bed, as if old-fashioned gard you'd Just been wandering tn an COND wee Che towering CHAR F1NIS | mm eeen eee steeply from the valley's bed, three hu dred y such clay as that he looked upon, It brief weeks that he had been under Mong 6 and at thetr feet wax revolting to that she had the girl's tuteage, for he plunged im- Waldo & host of half-naked sprung from those mediately Into the water, setting out up. men, women and children moving about half-brutes, as flerca, stream upon the gravelly bottom where In the consum on of th various such as t hie saw before he would leave 1o spoor to be tracked duties, Involuntarily he halted. her, It wade hin down by the eagle eyes of these primi- The Kirk come to hin side. ‘Together t 1, looked aut upon the scene, the like He supposed that the gis] would search of which Waldo Emerson never before Nadar i him, but he felt po cor punction had seen, in iden ne to hhn having deserted her so scurvily, Of It was am though he had been wud “pet scheme for escaping COUTN® he had no s'spicion of her real denly snatehed back through at Woot and Kor 0 ts toward himwit would have ives tow long-dend past and dropped ‘gust whieh be fie Shocked him ty have imagined that a ' the prehistoric life of Fr Hee ey tim ta 0W-born peron much as she had become progenitors ! : infatuated with him, Mes Yefora their Cary aut MIN design | ae would have been @mbarrasaing and ng, flowing hate Are son hot coming with mer" 46% unfortunate, but, of course, quite In 4 tn stor ried tas ne mains. uuiinek “since Waldo Emerson Smi Naked children played erm. it ee Tepe Waldo, alta Jones could never form an alliance be perilously close to the precipitous lin (Wish yout go fest, Wer neath him, As for the girl herself, he edze, We to ge toget ion they TIKIT MAT 00 might as readily have tonsidered the Hairy men rquatted, gortllatie, ves When they to attack me possibility of marrying @ cow, so fai flat atone > which The girl hi » fur of this, but she y such thoughts of her had he 1, shite t felt th Was Vers thoamgatfal of the reraped with toan fer her wef ‘1 on be stumbled through the aller bits of st " moshe al metines It was above lwaghter und no song roa . , Waldo had learned & do saw one of the Aw h, Thandar " had made him. partis ade nother myn but largely by the fear that ad rinise bis Thar tir was a name of he uo him, © fter Waldo had rm on he commenced to ane to 4 st f ‘ but his fear now woe QUE MAN, char she otmiht call ho M th *y prostratiog Ghing ae won Amith-Jonew. “I aha na few 4 before, With Py Vv ‘ td replied: it ts ‘ of the fact, Waldo CHAPTER V, ' neminered, a yan a trite tess timid, though earl D ) ant ae Mt) far from hontike. Awakening. Me tonight he slept in the crotch of \ Vowoar Tie selected a sma!! one, which, inet way tows s comfortable, was safer from , . " Boa ola than a larger tran seed in Thies also had er in hore rection. When he came to arned from Nadan (; teen It did not seen credible that Wis gave iminediate evidence of tie ‘suid Peauiitu xouns cisature could be of be bad taken im weodarats duting the NO al onemaR