The evening world. Newspaper, January 8, 1914, Page 19

= \ Fealize that twisting words Is a schoolboy trick, he might find his way out of the a Mecting link between the two In que . The Seat . THis Coo ‘T3e STILL, T KNow You Have No yeeTH UT You CAN Go ng vO Collier Forever, ‘Water on the Side’ BY CHARLES DARNTON. HEN you step up to the bar (pardon me, the box-office) at the Hudson W Theatre, you may be sure of one thing, and that in that “A Little Water on the Side" will be good for you, not so much In the way of an “aside” to. bartender as a friendly nod to Willie, alias William, Collier. “A Little Water on the Side” cnay pass as a description of either the south oF north shore of Long Island, but granting this much to womanly ushers who Pi.88 among us with paper cups full to overflowing we must raise our glass to that perennial toast, Collier forever! There wax a time in the present season when “Who's Who? made Collier Yook Ilke the Inst page of a vers! blue book, but thanks to him and } is pen-mate, Grant Stewart, the best light comedian On our stage can afford a smile or two now. All doubt of this was removed | by Wiille on and off the yacht at yesterday afternoon's performance. And | any actor may tell you those days, a matinee performance {8 not only) a test of popularity but of strength. Tur my part, I was almost ashamed to look Coiller | in the face because of the feeling that he had been sadly negiected on his opening night. “A Thousand Years Ago" had robbed him of the “notices that served. Mistakes will happen in the rush of theatrical events, but thay may: be corrected. That's why I am scribbling my apologies for being a day late for “A Little Water on the Side.” The plot of the plece is nothing mot than & strip of shore-front, with a! country store left in the hands of at prodigal son who resembles the hero in “Who's Who" only because he Is one of thage ack-to-the-home-town boys. He offers a choice of portage stamps, mixes cheese with orackers in his generosity, and finally wins the daughter of his dead father’ enemy by proposing marria) sre is holding the very aby of the village in her arms. simple way, Long Island has its wi- As for plots—well, take Pays, for example. While Collier addresses the more or lees limited multitude from @ soap- box. Apparently, he will never over- come the habit of making “spe He also drinks his usual number of cocktallx on the pleasure boat he Is Pleased to cal! a battieship— nich cir- make the wittlest remark Most of .he humor is so that it might be part of a new tn the | o Willlam Collier as James Abbott, Dane Pet hE SRE WA GeC nn fa that “A Little Water on the Side" is a big laughing suc The important fact ie that this is the best and happiest performance Collier has given since “The Dictator.” By playing upon words he still indulges his old weakrexs, but he “piays down" as he has naver done before, thereby eaving himaelf from any other suspicion of the obvious. If he, like his friend George Cohan, would » openers primary class of humor. However, you may count on his giving you any number @@ good laughs, skilled comedian that he {# and “Kidder” that he always will be. if you are laboring desperately under a New Year's resolution don't, | warn you, look upon Charles Dow Clark when his nose in red. Aw the guiding lamp- ght of the village intemperance society he is a luminous delight. Another simple Joy) is to be found in the flirtatious Mamie of Mise Dorothy Unger. who Sings as whe gets In her deadly work. There should le more of her and lens of the inevitable Willlam Collier jr.. w ain plays the fi Juvghile grafter. Oddly enouzi, Grant Stewart, who he: the “goat.” He puts everything in the way of Mr. Collier, who ir & Litto Water on the sid A matter of cuurse-if not habit Betty ‘lar gamo of a Vincent’s Advice to Lovers Lovers’ Quarrels. swer to that question should decide! your attitude, F two persons —— I Raptttalac te "RD" writer: "A young mat whom {1 have known only two weeks rame to see me Christman day. Ww had some mistletoe hanging over foor and he Coreihly drew me un nt nd kissed on the Ips. Don't you think that I have cause for anger?” engagement — per- lod it seems to me that they should think very seriously Indeed before bringing] T think that the young man waa pre-e their clashing 3 ‘ 4umptuous on so short an acquaintanc emperainents sato| aptuous on ¥o short an acquaintance. | the closer union of ae — marriage W. J writes: "In it nevessury Jshake |} | vouns lad go to nds with the If ever there Tam court to be smooth # ing between & man and a wowan ine) time whould be when they have firs: {anil her far discovered that they cae for ids Wines ee a: : other, A discov ke that ts no] TE le not necossary, hut It might be wonderful and inspiring that for a time | “omatic, ft must banish ail gordid disputes and ° 5 Aisiusionmentg — Tf it doe ine | His Choice. Le present when | hances are that ic is not a real dise| “H, M. writes: "1 ve two girt covery at all, that not love om Jn answer to my questions one Met scecdeint aitraction te the 95 them says that she loves me, the tat ahe dosen't know, Who ton, An alter H Unless you already love one or the doesn't always oy a success Of mal joins vo etter give up both . riage. tet T door if marria ever in y infalr attem successful between two S affootion have proved that they ¢ | oe without quarvelling vefore the | va Loam very much ‘in| mony. | bur at eat al) my 1 for the sup my “At. "write Ponnid sister, any Danenn with # vous mar the aint « ted ng me atientions H ¢ Race and love, Witt kinew that he haw ane) new other awerthca IKal HENCUWO iMtlvoits ‘eiesinimaneeas ith other girl iy ashe ie the rigt sort and if she values Ie the sours ether girl, or just a friend? The en- spend money that you can't afford. perial at 9 A, M. ‘The owner gives CUPID, manager of the stage of Ite, is net partial to tragedies or, ( comedies, to farces or fai. y-plays, but stages them all, every romance, Those great truths which are stranger than fiction come W arid Daily Maribine “All the World's a Stage” By Eleanor Schorer ight, 1014, by The Prem Publishing Co, (Tie New York Evening World.) villains, It {% (he story of a rich Duke who loves and weds @ poor peasant mald.| apple die cowards, adventurers and lovers, playing each his part. These plays | ‘are réal life. Cupid is not only manager, but prompter and author of . Thursday, January we Ww URRIED TBUSINASS OF LOOKING FOR Tee 8. 1914 SmATTER (and Cupid Is Stage Manager) woman to the Commuter's Wife, body who cannot take much exercise) from for good nature, | suppose that's the By C; M. Paytte Make the Kitchen . Your Drug Store By Andre Dupont. Coosright, 1916 by The Pree Pliching Co, (The New York Brewing World). 3—GOOD-NATURED PEOPLE EAT APPLES. OW you: keep yourself so good-natured I “You know the old saying, ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away.’ T have found that it not only keepe him away, but it keeps the whole So0d-natured as well. So we always have a And I eat one and sometimes two or three a day. throughout the winter. Agpies are extremely good for the digestion, ag their malic acid becomes 3 within the body Into alkaline carbonates which neutralise injurious aeldg i. ward off indigestion, gout of rheumatiom. They are also, so my doctor saya am excellent article of diet for people of sedentary habit, who suffer (as does every= torpid fiver, And as good Aigestiony jah full on the dining room reason I don't worry. about ‘But I feel aa if 1 had swallowed @ lump of ead whenever I eat an objected the Clubwoman, “Then try them cooked. You must remember what is ene man's sometimes another polson. If raw apples do not agvese every day for @ month and if your skin ‘eo not rer, your fleah firmer and your color better. If you are a little too stout almost anything else, T have a friend whe lost twenty-five pounds in elx weeks, and fet detter and stronger than ehe had for years, by taking for breakfast @ cup of ‘black coffee without mitt or sugar, a — je whatever she fancied except potato Sieenesrepmniatin St cemcemem | forbidden luxury, candy: because she had from his pen, and the little truth in the pteture fs one of the strangest.| off the f Call tt one of Cupid's fairy pisys. Simplicity ts entranced by Riches, and A Riches finds the kindling of his iife'’s love in the candid, artless gaze of Simplicity. For the ciimax the hero di | Diamond Cut Diamond 3& |Aitew York Komance of Laughs. Thrils and Treasure | NG CHAPTERS, n the rea to Limp the following ment hy About twenty fe me. eave 1 walked and raid, “Did t hurt you vary much?” In a pretended aympathet: Bald he “tipped his hat and limped on the way he was going, I Walked past roy house to the end of the block. An I turned north, 1 saw Mr. Man ambting along in my direction, T stepped jnto a floriet’s and bought a pinater Netates, “That ecenings wuen fresh bunch of hyacinths ui the heaize with “Hilly River, Hy the tine T had them pad for Mr an’ sea) ‘Nut nothing has been taken, Man had reacne! the store and was Hanscnids are aii ln their hy looking {n the window pretending not ina ar gee mo totaal nawe, to see me. “Did I hurt you very much?" I asked CHAPTER V. He touched his hut noked aiinoyed, (Comtinued,) 4 a ‘ and Mra. Jimmson Again. at One Hundred and Forty-fitth PULLED the special delivery 13 Mr n had to do @ 1 Htule sprinting himself on his poor jame ei rectt Of the envelope toon “Thad vanliied Into toy ahop we and waa buying # doll for my niece Madame was seen by (WO whe: he dincovered me—and pretended Witnesses to carry away the he didn't ee mc. He walked on whoad, package containing the jewels referred but T caught up with him, to. If madame desires to return them “Did [ hurt you very much?” T asked to thelr ownor, telephone Hotel Im- “No=not very.’ He was beginning to astonished now ay and turned south on There | went inte a #t me thie one opportunity to rectify her misiawe Without furtier trouble or 4 publicity. Failure to comply with wat to telephone will prove ma- rear raya we ree et « intention’ and necessitate active jn. | motioned him to walt, but he pres measures for the recovery of the JeW> tended mot to wer. fle ites atk os, tance uhead wien it came out, He “Oh, you don't say!” 1 ansered. glanced back and saw me, then auick- T wander what next! Well, wince you Sia nip pace, fut tran atter him and didn't find the diamonds TH get a ieee bunch of hyacinth to put them in.” AEE YE wou very: badle?! Fi eileeds And mer forth on that errand, rt vou Very Daa TF aaeet A man sat in the lower hall as I nn vor me narrowly 'm afraid you're ming ed out of the elevator, His back ourself too ‘ the llaht of the front doo Ph) y i melt n ve Ki accident.” H T thin’ (ie devil Mnmelf must have wot Seteent: | Te bh w, beginning to was followin nto me then, for witiout looking at ae id the glqnee i gave " eaid I quietiy. “I'm not giving y ra ee eee ae RMT mynelé the least concern r your Btepped-on toe-i'm simply using it an og your pardon! Did Ml exeune to get & good look hoe Various Kahts he replied ewulee you may warded that ss ® stroke 6 his fave. without about tt, and pearly 1 got the look at him I wanted and bowled Mr, Man over. Before he had went out decided what to say, or what to do to ur friendship sie won't want vou tol“, walked half a dlogk and turned allay my avepicion of him, I bolted eharply in my wacks. Mr, Mam Was across he street diagonally, ducked be RRP RAD RPA PRP PPP PPP DPD DDD RADAR LAPD y ears, one of whiten hid oug enougl wet li drug of dashed tato ephoue book wad : ia Jeanly closed. 1 sahed Up dirs. Delano “You sald a friend 414." It happened in a figeh, so silently, “Wall=1 didn't feel I couid explain at that hed my back been turned, had tf CHAPTER VI. Were circumstances con- been watching the deecent of the car, sh ‘oolutely.”" particularly in the direction of the bench w: nected with it" s large red apple. For lunch she had more toast, a dish of apple sauce, rather tart, and one soft boiled egg. At dinner she had = chop or a litt ef |), almom any kind of meat except pork, a green salad and an apple ; fhe never touched soup, potatoes or sweets, and never drank any water aati at least half an hour after eatin, After she had regained normal weight ee extra pounds thus acquired by going for a tow days one! “1 was reading the other day in @ French Review,” eald thé n article By @ Paris physician who claimed that people who ate a good many’ imam apples or drank cider were immune from typhoid fever, ae the typhoid cards his crowao to prove his love. can live but @ very short time in apple Juice.” : PY. rime to "Now f really must know this—did where the detective had been altting— I asked mysn!t. “What next? e, Where £ at bring (hose articles in yourself?” logked then at me—aud the door nolae- RS even indulging oceagionally 4 lecened th could al = hie gala Aw! ent the ome T ahold have be wiser. A Prisoner, “At the time we crossed together? The man whe opened the door was Shw @nxious to go HAD considerable aiMculty in this, ast trip? Monsieur de Ravenol. that—and I didn't biage her, getting Mra, Delario, and I telt “Yes. Can't you how things have The rattling elevator recalled me bad anxious to be alone and thin! very detecti about been worked? If I th T shouldn't have atlowed"——- s ative, opened the door for me to get In. fad How much did George know? The car for: alld up. My suspicions seemed confirmed, for the moment she . recognized my voice she said, “I can't talic in w tragic datermined and U felt her in the act . Fear fat? 1 eaced with as much concern IT cout. “The Freneh @nother thing 1 want tleman—foreigner—1 dont know If h French or what! “Vil tell you tater.” “Well, now, | don’ rightly know his «,, ‘o-now, How did they get through confessed George. “He tolp “Why can't you Sou watehed? Le - me-—-but I don’ git it straight, av he eay overheard?” "TL can’t tell you." T better caii nit Mr. Jones oo | be sure “But 1 must know—It ve to me." mean.” of thosy slippera we vought in “When @!d he take the flat “Well, now I don ri do anewer yes and po, lon't—-t ha n how?" it, Please answer we're both in the 1 hed, too—followed 1 ‘That was al!. 1 couldn't get another Uve, This t* the firs: chance I've had word, She'd rung off. Just as I was to get vou and T don't Know how soon trying to get her back, I saw Mr. De- he dom’ want «0 buy no more here e able to you again, Ie your tective Man into the drug store, He than he can help. aw ome in the booth, Then he quickly "The xentieman ta very rich, George. ipped away again, I hung up and I hope he tipped you well, i uid Torun the blockade”? stopped out; but I looked back an [ George wae instantly enthusiast! “No! ‘Chie was fairly shouted at me. opencd the street door—Mr. Detective “He done that! He gimme ten dollars, “In there any y 1 could those Man was just widing into the booth to George pred with 4 scared lool em hack to you to-day?" find out what number I'd called! that I affected not to notice. whatever now, No-notun- 1 went quietly home feet : tion," ined forward one step at le by i je wae about to ring off and Detario had admitted her smuggling: newdn't be #o ahy! I guess I can ave me with that and shouted at her: which 1 dint consider any of my af- see through a stone with @ hole In it! Here—hold on! I don't know what to fatr—and she had confirmed my guapl- Ho asked you a lot of questions about do~-you'll have to advise me clons that De Ravenol was trying to me and you don't want me to know It, “But T can't! You must do as you rob her You told hm everything you knew"— think best—you understand it.” A utreet piano was jangling away in "Well, that's right,” George broke in “I don't! That's just the trouble. front of the house as if in the despairing sheepishly. “He did ask me some ques Listen, There are some things 1 hope thet the wet weather outside would tions, but honest to guainess I ain't to know atout, You keep on anawer- often t rin of th guf- tell him anything bad—TI ell him I don't ing yea and no~that tan't Kolng to fictently to rain a few pennies; the reely know much about you. a anything away at your end, and I'm in rainy-day floor covering lay along the What I tell him, honest to goodness. je store and | don't think anything hall; | had on my rubbere—for these “He really paid you for telling him get out from this end, © © © You pangoi my trip through the hall to tm went out or came in, 1 at yor ne yruterday?” the elevator was noise! ft “I aaw pou The elevator car was up, and as T But George was suspicious and on heard it coming down I did not ring. guard at once, He threw open the car hat T waa standing with my back to tha door without answering. out It you work him right.” I aMemed. “Oh, Ans ts th i mo! mu by You knew T war accumed® Ana Obviously the fi Soon done—but in brericading my: could not get | had the use of the sane fire lum> walter sha! the hall stalre—h in T I followed my intul- My senses as George, smiling und talk- only relief ag I saw the aS led skimpy weeds, her faded and | said goodby to her Vitle’ realiai "Who js the gentleman living in the human rend a toca hoe nd monsleur's machinations, and’ when she closed herself out, ehe n—@ prison diamonds, and «nce they'd b oa in the hyacinths Iw, to tempt fate by changing the pl a matter of to git it ght and he know who I tee wae fresh bunch in wat jonds among the stems the old bunch away, © in. Remember, th actually breaking the door hinges—a moat unilxely thing for leur to attomnt So with « on of catch ia od for anviner ian, George, Ricans, wire fastened, the Gatch wp | calculations, Fortunately, | keep a kit of toate the house—I'm not o1 women who can't driv ind my next act to chaln-bolt that had been mt door and put It on the hi lie kitchen door, Then 1 cha ‘# on this and the tathroom Thac'a th hall side, From the fi nsieur could enter only thee@ Tooma, and with thelr foors and one chain-bo'ted—an him, ave to break them off their at me that way, ‘The bathroom window didn't gi ich concern. The sash was the last painting and T cou! i 1 do everything” slatt, facing the door of the rear flat~ 1 unlocked my door as quickly ae T i: happened that way—I {stood at inowt three feet away from cauid—I didn't mean to let George tying it, myself: the that door, T attached any importance to mendesh ¢ you accused, too? Without the slightest sound of foot- I knew enough. The man was @ "You." steps from the hell of the flat, thet door tow ‘enant in the eame Reuse, ie the “You denied everything?” pened—e man's face looked out—looked Gat directly under mine, and George and a meme gO ce Ja : welt so that moma » er 1 counted out I could eanily wire up the cath and make it Impossible for any ope open the door from the shaft side aa