The evening world. Newspaper, April 21, 1914, Page 20

~ Ouporight, 1914, (Tee AGAIN WE MUST ASK: . WHOSE DINNER IS THIS?” ‘T'S this I hear, you gonna give us a beef- steak supper a8 & OUF-/said in front of Ri prise party, hey?” asked Gus,’ as be came out of FLooRY, Tact Your FRIEND AXEL 1 WANT To cee Him! "ve GoT A Comedy FILM HE CAN "STAR IN -- Tere Him HE'D GETTER RECONSIDER HIS RESIGNATION OF YESTERDAY! by The Pres Publishing Co.) the side door to watch for Stein, the, Mew York Evening Wortd,) iceman. m Why should . dinner?” Mr. Jarr, who had been hurrying by Gus's place for the last few day®,| how hurt he was that Mr. Jagr had finned sheepishly and then lied} joined the reform elemen' e | ‘a! a beefsteak dinner for for the boas, ad eve for, the pose | told them to Mr, Jar very thing I sald,’ replied ‘I told Slavinsky, when he | jowing the Frankenstein of the anni- afferty and Muller | versary beefsteak dinner to die from that Chon W. Rangle had told him,| inattention, the office boy told him pak My Ed. Jarr have a beef-| the boxs wanted to see him. a BeHIntT MA AND +e SAY- WHY DONT Y# Hit te witeH A WEY Axe - Tus 1s Fiocey! Come OveR To THE STUDIO RIGHT AWAY ~~ THe Boss SAYS Hele “STAR” You IN ABI Comaoy Film! - Bwicie 2” April 21,1914 A PEETH OF BwicKk “AND- AND- AND- MAKE HIM PAY You A Gand WAD FOR. THIS -2 HE SAYS touRE THE onuy actom WHO CAN PLAY THIS PARTICULAR PART ! AT THAT. UNCLE BILL IS 2 in TOWN AND 13 STOPPING | 6 of you saying that.” Well, #0 long, I've got to hurry,” id Mr, Jarr. been in any hurry com- ing around to see the bunch,” re: torted Gus suspic iy. By gollies! | think you're pasging us up for them reform elements. They won't do you no good, You get pinched for any- thing and see if them reform ele- ments 1 come to the front to ball you out Gus, who his pride, stepped back into his cafe, resolved his erstwhile customer should not see Gus confided his gloomy meh, the bartender, wh feur, who, in due course, conveyed them to his employer. So later on, when Mr. Jarr ‘was al- “What in thig I hear, Mr. Jarr?” “Why, of course,” cried Mr. Jarr.| asked the boss with frigid formality. ther, why not? them being in the ice box weeks, don't im. that m totally opposed to. mphaticaliy and completely! “i I know?” replied Gua, “So it ain't’ boss resumed. YLL BETCHA! «& foe tt, Mr. Jarr groaned to himself. Here was the beefsteak dinner again, that unlucky event that on only being suggested bad already had him at ‘ar with home, friends and fellow workers, “Well, you see, sir, being here ten ) I thought"-—— * n an efficiently conducted estab- Mshment such as this,” Interrupted ne boss, “there should be no think- ing.” Mr. Jarr was going to say there wasn't much, but didn't, “No, no," the boss went on. “Bince we had the admirable Dinkston in this establishment as office engineer I thought it was understood that system, rt jocial af- a rr sald he hadn't suggested the idea of the beefsteak supper originally, but the others bad gotten interested and had insisted on it, “sentimentality is a poor asset!" thundered the bor “What we want in business ts efficiency. First, last and all the time, efficiency! “Look at me!" the boss went on,} “In this business forty years and never made a fri nd I'm proud Did you e popular employer always fails? people think that success arouses see? -——~ GEE! 1 CALLED WER UP AND SHE FELL-For fT! envy and makes enemies, Mr, Jarr. But that is a wrong analysis. On the contrary, envy makes enemies and ENEMIES make an successful. It ts seldom our enéfnies ruin us, but it is generally our friends who do so. So the first anxiom of commercial supremacy is to ‘hate your neighbor as yourself and paddle your own canoe!*" “But a little beefsteak su where men have worked together for so Jong,” murmu Mr. Jarr, uy nnot permit it!” replied the bors. “And I wish to say to you that had I known of It earlier I would have promptly interdicted the whole thing at Its Inception. A beefsteak FOR wr “But I've been here ten years,” sal der, ‘and the boys thought — “You should have consulted me first," interrupted the boss. “You should net have presumed on your length of employment here to start such a thing! However and he lowered his voice, “If you ARE giy- ing ME a beefsteak dinner because & whooper, and I'll split the expense fifty! Hush, not a word!” And Mr. Jarr staggered out, stun-| M4 Many! ned, wondering why ho wat always. ai old Uncle Tnbad. yrds Ny ap Uli, ( dinner from office associates! Pooh! | . you've beep here ten years, let it be| factory is, and told me that instead \-—on the strict q. t., mind you—fitty-| ne: job under Jepson to-day he'd|son come in and he says: OM Yes, fur PAY You were! “You are THE ONLY ACTOR IN THE BUSINESS WHO CAN PLAY THIS TITLE ROLE =--- (Ts CALLED | "THE Face By TELUNG ME LIES? UNCLE BILL) HAS BEEN HERE ALL EVENING! belong to the National Guard, a {which are apt t® be called to t ;froat any minute, and if they are his duty to his country must come | first. What happens to Mexico I don't care much, for we don’t sell no soap there. Maybe if we could civilize Tram) ; the Mexicans and teach ‘am the bene- ; fits of soap it would open up a new Coverite Now Tork Evening market, but anyway T'd bate to neo leaps Charlie go down there and come PA HAS A “WAR PAGE” home with his bead shot off. ° ‘Then right on top of his telephone FOR HIS DIARY.) yu 'cuiied up and sald: “Have you heard about Persival Von der Loon?" HERE'S so many things happened all in a bunch to- day that I dunno whioh She called me up to know ought to be writ down first,| | he'd been bore, she’ p afraid hes) . heen kidnapped or sandbagged. ; ail I'm afraid T can't get) nosn't been home or to any of his ‘em all in on the page marked off for| cjubs and none of his friends has this day. ca een him. And if that’s not the rea- Firat off Charlie Higgins got me|son, then it's because he's despond- on the long distance phone clear from| ent over the way he was treated by Dobbinsville, which 1s up-State where; you when he called on you to ask for we used to live and where my soap| Clarice’s hand.’ | 1 sald “Rae only I sald it to} of comin’ to New York to take his! myself, and then \a little later Jep- ha@e to hold off until this “war with) "Have you heard about four friend "thing Is settled one way or| young Percival Van der Loon?” . seein’ ab he's first leften-|° “I sald yes and told him what Ma in the Dobbinsville Buffs, which had said about ME bein’ the reason IN-FIVE MINUTES ASHES GONNA NR LIONS NR BEARS OR TIGERS: NOTHIN’ ‘UD scare Me. CT and Jepson it's the Mexican ci “What d@you mean?” [ says, “Why,"'he says, “didn't you hear about it? Percival belongs to @ swell National Guard regiment—one of the officers in fact—an@ they were all in the armory the other night when orders eame for/the regiment to get ready for a possible call to the frent. Percival turned pale and excused himself to get a drink of water and didn't come back.” “Humph!” 1 nays, which exprémsed more of what was In my mind than if I'd tried to say what I Then, when I got home, 1 eet eae other piece of news. Clarice, whe t very patriofic, had seen Jack Theru- ton, her new mash, at a taydeng- #onk, and had asked him tf he wae goin’ to volunteer if the call came, “Who, me?" he says, “not if Tae them first!” - “Are you AFRAID?” she says. “And then some!" he says, ‘There are pleasanter ways of dyin’ than drinkin’ out of @ poisoned grell. For inatance, I could die tangoin’ with you, and die happy!" Then him and her had tt het | heavy and she up and says she won' even speak to him no more, Right now, it looks to me, ie Charlie Higgins can come out of dark and bask in the eunshine, I¢ there's anyth! romantic young will Worship war hero! ls Smartiy expresses the in collar styles. 2for aM Mieece