The evening world. Newspaper, January 9, 1914, Page 23

—_—-- eg € WMiorld ~ The Evening “S’Matter, Pop?” w i wet, DON'T - ’ See WHAT we : CAN Do ABouT IT.¢ IF SHE GAYS NO, THATS THE END oF IT AS NEAR ( AS ] CAN FiGuRE q Suh Waker “Kitty MacKay” a Scotch Plaid of Humor. . BY CHARLES DARNTON. ‘8 Scotch bonnet in your ancestry, 0 much the better for you at the Comedy Theatre, for there you will Gnd “Kitty MacKay” @ Gooteh plait of humor. , Last night 1 found mywelf more or less in the midst of a apecial audience, te Nese the managerial term that elevated me to an upper box. Looking down from my unacqustomed perch I couk! only conclude that thie audience rose above the @vegene, for it had both Intelligence and @ senee of humor. Far be it from SS me to, expect wp much every night, for audiences are not only an unknowa G@ueatity, but—well, quality is everything! , ‘Phere could be no doubt that last night's gathering fully appreciated “Kitten and the acting that made the play @ genuine comedy treat. My one hope 1s that future audi¢nces may ese as much In Catherine Chisholm Cushing's y,.a9,we gow last night. But I can't help having ‘ay doubta Audiences pothing Jf not unreliable, “Kitty; MacKay” ie unmistakabty @ half-sister of Bunty, who used to pull etrings. Very wall—why not? Whether the author is Scotch or Yankes, Ire, Cushing proves ® Ber eccond play that she hae a sense of humor eo keen noreover ao adapts that I take off my hat to May Irwin for having taket “Widow, by: Proxy" at @at readii We live to learn, of course, that humor ten't a vegetable growt® @ven though the thistle may be cultivated on Riverside Drive. Though I've not had the pleas ure of meeting Mra. Cushing there, 1 can’t help aesociating her with a cer- Daliy averting’ Friday. January 9. 914 women of the United: States are printed in The Bvening World on Mondays, Wednesdays ond Fridays. Many of the dtehea described have won national renown. Mrs. Perry Belmont. (Be Ofictal Hostess.) Dinner. | GUBQN Melon, “Potage Tortue a C \ Amontitiado, Bar @ la Parti- ‘Agneay Petite Pola, Pommes de Terre Becassinea Roties sur Can- Nouvelles, apes, SaladeAtalienne, Mousse de Jam- bon a 1 Aleacienne, Awperges Seo Hol- Ms jane, fo. Mre. John P. Barton, (Homemaker and Clubwoman.) Sunday Muffins. WoO cups of thin cream or teh mitk, three caps flour—measure after sifting; one tablespoon but- » Melted; one teaspoon each ealt and Biscuit Giece aux Fraises, The favorite recipes of famonsieugar, two tenapoons baking powder, Ce i two egss. Beat eggs well without separating. Aft four, sugar, salt and baking pow- dor together; add to ess, with cream. Add melted butter last. Lat stand fifteen minutes‘before baking. Bake in quick oven in well greased 5 Mrs. George B. ‘Ci (Wife of United States Rehator . Boiled Salmon. ..; NE and @ half pound plecei of O salmon, put in double boiler wood alice of Butter; with aalt and pepper, « Intle mace, thyme, sage, celery and on! ver tightly @nd let steam an hour and « half without uncovering, Then add one and @ half glasses ite wine with @ little Jemon juice. Steam twen ty minutes longer ang serve, Boulligh may be used instead of wine if pre Correa. tain author residing on the embank- ment in London—a very good fellow named Shaw—who, in an idle moment, once told me he was going to write a new Bible as soon as he could get around to it. Mrs, Cushing has got head of Shaw, at any rate, by rewrit- ing certain texts, or at the least dis- cussing those Biblical sayings that have come down through the ager One of the most enlightening and also enlivening Suntiay echoo! lessons ever set forth is to be found in the talk be- tween Kitty MacKay and May Duncan, Here you have the bes of the pla; Ae for the plot it's so small and so| Gm — - old-fashioned that you could put it in A CERTAIN man had a son, and his neighbor likewise had a daughter, ore mere, Vente: The Sore and the eon said unto the daughter: “Come, let us go to the Great of it is that it goes back into the melodramatic past eo far that for ©/ White Way, that we may revel with the gay ones.” And they went. Now, it came to pass that when the son had made for himself a record for fast living and had spent a half millfon dollars he returned to his old home, and moment you hate to believe Kitty the daughter of the man whose edn h ra her a corel necklace. And all the the daughter returned, broken in spirit and penitent, even the door of hep father’s house was closed against her—for she was 8 wom: his friends received him with open arms and the ladies gave pink tanga tean| ot the new muff in his honor, and his father gave him another half million. ne tor of a winter’ dons, ‘The fur coats and Afgh neck closing of coats in neral have somewhat eliminated the) scarf, but the muff continues a necessity. The woman’ of fashion has @ muff for every costume. She probably hag one all fur muff, then she has one or more combining the sult or wrap with fur bandings, For e ir she has a pretty conceit in pale velvet, ohiffon and light fur, ‘The deft neediewoman can readily make several up-to-date muffs with odds and she may have on hand. Vel- vet, plush, metallic cloth and im’ fact all fabrice the woman of taste will have no aim- culty in adjusting @ pretty covering. ‘Muffs are very large this season, a fe nnn, Foss mote are @ feature of the favorite being | effect, @ut in the fancy ghapes Eton jacket will be the of the fashionable woman, time he standa there, as big as {ife, in the uniform of an Engliah officer. sony Mcintyre as Kitty MacKay. rney mix those bables up, as Buttercup to say, and then they unmix them—end there you are! Piet 's the eaving grace of Scotch humor that makes “Kitty MacKay” enter- ng. For one act the play gete to London, where it hae nothing to gain. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. them “hurry up," and then, taking them a to find tho key gone from chaive sto pop out on him til) he was fat back in Drumtoohty tt regains ite value as @ play of character and of | ,,7M hervine (a m eT tot umes, in connection with what he'd acen of the the lock as I had been to find it there. ready to pop in on me! Kitty, of course, is first and last, and her only fault is that she talke Cities ‘never Wye bate, and” ala De. bas ,Pobbery, read, “My life ds In dan- Apparently 1 was trea to fake, thm 1 don't know that anything gave me . Ya wh: fer Mag, who say no more than is necessary and | 9% © clairmavom, ‘West return to New ger. ‘on o'clock train for Philadelphia a stronger apprectation of the man I Se ahah Se ait eee — Neale eh heb Skies pris t fork me of lario's slippers is And would monsieur see it if the let- that the fake telegram from by brother was deuling with than this attention to ter fell into his hands? ‘That was my had request fre t 3 he'd madi Up kit etl ly Seep te gh gel ose Mec Posed leget verbo Me se fol inte. tls Bandar ¥ had requested me tol was free to put detall; ho'd lo sure not to mix his ni the diamonds in my stocking and step keys; he made sure that I should get Molly Mell in attractive, but you can’t help feeling she hae been a re cae arene I made three copies, I directed one out into—the Great Unknown! Only—I no chance even to tdentify him ti he olied by the footlights. Though her name doesn't suggest it, Miss Carrie | watched, she + Uy, enemiton who would sen! to Dilly at his office. T incloned one in wasn't such a foo! as to do It! 1 could was ready, itoyle is Scotch through-and-through as the able-bodied Mrs. MoNab, while | the ate spinster he jewels, in @ letter to Philadelphia to my brother and did, however, give George my let- ters to mall, In this manner of living-afrald to:go out and being unable to communivate even with the grocer—two days wore away; to be exact, trom Tuesday night a And now he waa ready. Feeetan, haat lentes turned—the door handle turned. A vane! strip of Uught ahowed over hia head and Place, slowly widened, The chain-bolt slid and alld’ almowt nolselessly alons, te socket, ‘Then tt stopped. Tha key it Stallard balances himself ao evenly between hypocrisy and the water that you feel he must be Scotch to the back-bone. As the hero of battles nfought Eugene O'Brien wears his uniform well, but it is only! fitting he | the fed how to the old school father and Englishman so admirably embodied in Stephenson. the finds that the S#king him to mail ft there, I dropped hae gw teu reared to the third careleswly into the manu- sie ee tnemOk, Claire's father, leclares acript of a short atory, sent to a maxa- wher re ‘That eveniny ine, hoping the editor would think it an . uy the theatre with Ail cold : ae hee Tat ae aioe, accident and kindly mall tt for me. Ne per diam nda ‘The solemn face 1 showed in exchange for hin ivory amile. I held a letter in my hand—one that had come by the morn- ing's mall, for he hadn't gone eo far from the path of virtue in monaleur’s service that he dared to withhold my incoming mail, though he was able— for a cennideration—to forget letters 1 gave him to put in the box. “George, I neem to have lost a check in the mail," said I soberly, “f want you to bring the postman up on his next trip so T can see mbout it.” I rushed to my study and this is the lotter T dashed off to Billy: : Tt was half past ten and I was tagged to Friday morni And they weré en- ‘ 0 Dear Hilly: That affair is now life has Leet ta y morning, And they wer T think he hadn't noticed It at Mrat— ) ¥. ‘Altogether, it is a very good cast assembled in @ very good cause, and if the Place, $50) out. ‘My laat chance had come. “Would jivened by some interesting éxperlences, he had turned the gam low and as he “Md ‘death. Come at once—but tell no- cer, William Elliott, ehede nothing but boyish blushes on his first attempt o, drawer bas nt George mall the letters? I got @ quar- On the second night I was awakened by stood cut off the Heht. When the body till you've seen me. Bring two ‘a the inater’ hyd rot Ivers, Don't bother with the ‘something out of the ordinary, he hes no reason ¢8 hide his face. I don't on That ne ter out for him—{ waa afraid to give the sound of a latch-key working at my suddenly stopped he moved aside Fey wires are cut end I'm a for a mom™t he will grow rich out of “Kitty MacKay,” but he will at | Dsmcdes erery ent ance to her Met, him more and make him think the let- front door, I tiptoed into the hall and hit, T maw SoveenaRe ny asees are Cat aed. Bess ters were important and not the sort of jistened, 1 can't say 1 was frightened. the litter of the brans chain. Meaaw | + Rave the satisfaction of feeling he has put a 00d drop of Bcotch into 5 p, be av ee . Sen teeu at shinee ey CHAPTER VI. une he mailed for me almost every ‘rhe chain-bolt was on and the only way it too. ‘Then darkness again and 1 “Tilly—-this a the biggest story—and wines nich (Continued, ni Jt could ‘be got off wan by firat mhutting than saw hia fingers ne (eateries) I dragged one weary foot after the the door tight—which meant It could not gh tne crack and feel the chain. k % A Prisoner. other along the hall—I hated to let be worked back with a wire, [ had Next came the whole hand and tell you f HAD a couple of rolls of pic- the letters out of my hands now that ween to that when the locksmith put further Hm upatatea, “16 he refuses to bring : , hem ready, “Weill, he's got to jc on, elthe S04 UDP, a r a B e tty V incen t 8 ture Wire and T tacked thi® go te" anid T firmly, and took. holds othing came of this attempt to ft a 8 to be that way, your coming Up—or if he calla on the e ee crows the sash—not acros# of the door knob and the Yale, latch. to my new lock, and [ got com t $ Pestle phe: wre t Vv e t L the frame—because I didn't 1 turned and pulled; turned the other tof the thought that It proved mon- f bis aro and thrust ft . Its on Amaterdam—- 1 Cc oO 0) Vv e r s want to find myself Wired in way round and«pulled again, 1 was a pape ux much through the crack and felt along the ocks up, Hut don't do thie b while he was wired out. The wiremade locked in from the outside and the key slot tu the in the end. his wan till you've tried every other poraible & considerable network, almost impor- Was in the lock! T was hard and fast ms to mail my 0 give him ono with the cure I believe he can do #0 in @ com-| sible to get through without @ pair of *,Priaoner In my own fat! ré- hatr-brush—but [ didn't, Truth t ove at First Sight. paretively short time, wire nippers, and I doubted very much ,T® Immediate effect on me of this ve, T 1 ausolutely was too T’® pertect non- eee if he'd be carrying such things in his “i#cover’ te hard to describe. My head to be lysed with exe! eense for &| «J, 6." writes: “T have deen paying | Pocket: and when I had nailed down the *Wam ahd the room went round, and nto leaving th own up. It ts everything was all mixed ,) and - man to imagine | attention to @ girl for two years, Re-| ean" a" have sakd. in the bathroom, I ie t night: monsieur felt secure in my retreat. Ihave » Yale lock on the front ¢ kept repeating: ed the new “Fire! If there's a fire himeelt willy in| cently I made en engagement with her to-night I'll be burned like call out Billy Hivers was, of course, my logical dy erat ine ti edb working at it ie) Nove with a ein| which I failed to keep. But when I| resource. He had seen the fat’ the (4D! EL Meet ue Micant mere and t cee hte 1 was wham he has only | tried to explain my reasons @he would | night before—he could start all the pro- @ known it at ail If pared ax he? 1 did notitue—said noth once OF | not listen to me and now she will have| tective machinery in the city for me, CHAPTER VII. Hy dropped hig bane Ing wearcely breathed. the W twice, @nd t0|nothing to do with me Do you thi With this resolution, I went to the tele- keys on tled flour, THOT no was there. And to this whom he has not| she ds just?” phone. It was “\dead'’—ny ‘connection Locked In, Unkling awoke ine T knew on the n° Know If 1 could have bettered. the alte even spoken, Qo, Bhe should hear your explana-| fiat morsicur had aut peices MER a while It occurred to me We wan and fay perrontly uation by doing anything but what did Love is some-| tion, The full magnitude of my calamity that 1 coukg stand at my front Trl ania vere tite te the thing more than furst upon me and I sat down on the door and yell till I had brought 6 Wasted ver je thne on th ‘an attraction to.a| he Fraternity Pin. nearest chair with a flop. I must write, eomnehody from one of the ad- He'wenton Si hin job, Shalt, Tt Cook niin mot more than two Pretty face It is i 8" writes: “What dose it signity Suhel oouida’s «0 aut $0 mail e lorter Joining flats to see what was t out of bel ere Hy the bolt ont at the end of the slot when a @an gives a gtr friend only George to depend on for ¢) ‘ ‘ould 4 the bureau-df f saw his © ul a thy and friendship can only | Should he expect some gitt in return| $77! Would he Keep my lelter ent Bur wan tuere any handle to that one good whack’ I tlptoed through fram the inaide, ite withdrew hin ai oped after numerous meetings | for Sis ows?” carry it straight to moneleur! And it Key? | Mightu't it be one of thoaa “lock the hall ari placed mone Wank Ot Te crime was a dead pauae in which } a A Man 1s supposed never to allow any nat knew I was calling help, KU4rd keys” that you put tn after the r where he co! seemed to be considering what to hversations. a hie fraterntt; Seer Meaten the fngi @00F has been locked and that hay to ‘he got it open, , ; next he closed the door ar wear ternity pin un-| wouldn't that precipitate the na uniogkad’ ties a key of ite stood thus possibly five minutes, Me Aes may have an edaiiring memory ‘hee ‘him. | catastrophe? 4 itself? with a { locked me in a {did not hear hin ‘Peeutiiul woman whom he hae Cyd Sree BATT. | nt hour {n composing @ min- A? ‘There seemed nothing for it but hie work Hehted by the hall gan Je, only, When the dour closed on for hie other jewelry, it’s extremely | 1 spent an hour pO ait tll daylight and hope that tal darknews, while keys xlld Into Was silent. He probably crept ‘n'@ single occasion, just as taate for him to five or lend it to|@ive to Billy that would tell him a» rast ll daylight af he Mee ikea aniline Was allent, Ife prouably b & concert or @ picture with ‘Ror should a girl exchange with | §7e8¢ deal and monsiour nothing—if it it kes il .’ on inte Raita RPS @AOAE y i ad wre } o " r ” honestly 4 believe fell into tis hands—and this ts what ‘ay ou ident, ver, a ) 1 with my nes “But 1 jeatly do not emoept, aguin, when there is an out of {I in connection with George aa im: & large vuneh 9 sound ."tove at firet sight is & posible| sagagement, In that case she (s per-| Dear Billy: I'm ready to sell you tial I got my tat Inedng of the ‘The wixth k Ne Yale York Beet astany akeenca ane Se 20s im wens Bor eororsty. Bim | cha) Bory 2 promnians.. It le ney Heany Wittas Tha een keyerand 1 heard lm (aking i ef the jed,.as an abnofmal obsession, Mf ahe has one. poleagpetl Been aes eee oa dwin'les io @ pies. four or ring and dropping the bunch into his rhureday night. Friday che person wip émagines ep waste tl elephoning—the telephone is '4 been locked In to eave one pocket. He put the key once more Im found me pre desperate @ by it should consider that his} “A”. 2." writen: “When « tedy and out of —but attend to it personally, watcher, . the lock and tried It ag: eure, person | could poaitively trust to mail letter for me popt the postmai, i rang for George and it was a ig temporarily affilcted and exert leman gre Deng introduced should is will power to cure himself. Amd Gentleman offer to shake bande?’ » druadyesss. This is an ambulance call." T went ‘to bed—there was notiing else It was not pil then that the Tt all hinged on the words “ambu- to do. lower look one he kept me prisoner dance enth” and i Bilty wouks vead 1 was aearly as mush astoaished in with. He'd never once given me the Lage | 4 into my head— way of rene it by ¢he roo! of the flat-house next «oor, “Tf the elevator ahould happen to be up when you get to the house, pull your hat over your eyes and march straight past the detective up the stairs as if you belonged in the house, When you get to my door—don't forget which it In-it. Wo-ring three two's so I'l know It's you “Drop everything and — come—only t drop (he revolvers—mine was that night, And Billy—you'd bet- Ave a sealed envelope with some elling where you are and that if sou don't telephone in—say—three hours, ie 8 to came to the house with police, Mut keep this secret and heaven’ wake hurry and if you 3 very can thing four ree sardines, Only hurry 1 addres#ed thie to Billy at his of. «, found & ten-cent plece for special and hadn't more than Juat got dy when George apryly brought up the postman. | wan obliged to spin some sort of a sible yarn to save ap yhen [handed the post ith the dime and besged hin for me 1 knew | was saved, never yet attempted t # those diamonds Acting on a sudden idea, the turquolac-studded slippers from be- sido my bed, T knew now how the dia- monda had been smugsted into Ne York, 1 ran my hand into one te see ’ e s main a ie | Diamond Cut Diamond 38 [A New York Romance of Laughs, Thrils ani Treasure| Yi By Jane Bunker what space there was for the small bex in which Mrs, Delarie had the diamonds and my kn along eome glue So that wag how she did it! the box to the inaide of the with a little hand mirror the slipper and the electric t able to make out the ebfong oul the box and the box fitted the outfines that is, it fitted at end, for At one was almost no give at ‘t looked an if the box partly stuck, But, as I now recalled, the been ‘so Ughtly stuck paper of the bottom that was in her nee course--the one that had had monds and that I put tl rE Hi ij E race carried off. Bo she must have box first into one and then into t! “Micanwhile, Claire had dee jean, re mn enoopiag around Mrs, Delario’s stateroom on the ‘hip Ull she dound out where the dia- monds were—that was what her father sent her over for, But she was not to steal the dk mie hersef—the riskt ti f wet the stones, And why Qedn’t mothe? met her, unless to create confusion for Mre, Delario and me t! would make it possible for him to ti the trick? Why had be come over by 4 faster steamer, except to be ready for it? Iv'a precisely what he did. I saw it then dimly; I learned it all later. He ame over ahead of us, passed himael off fn disguise and with forged cre- dentials as an Italian Government se cret service agent tracing an old mae- ter that had been recently len “a one of the Italian museums and thet was known to be coming to America-- smuggled, of course—in charge cl @ certain woman, ‘To carry out this pose he had al- ae up to mand to search her n—one turn of iis uld have walked of them. Inetend of that—one twist of hand and I had “one of those slipper he didn't know which and he didm@t A dare to speak for fear I'd recognise bi ‘And thus his whole plot fell to the ground—also all my interesting