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true 'to life;, heart, and the lipes keep the. house in continual laughter, . Strange to say, much of the fun concerns the Bible yet without of fense. KittyJtfacKay and her chum, Mag Dunqan, arejliscussing scriptur al guidance in human affairs, "Do ye mind'," asks Kitty," "where it says in yer gudebook,. 'Unto him that smit eth thee bn;lihe"'?orie cheek offer also the other?' r "It does na,s'ay that in my Bible," replies the belligerent Mag. "I cut it ootr ' , Following the year-and-a-Kalf. xun! of "Withinlfhe Law" at tHe-.ptinge theater, A. H. Woods Qffjra-ihZ-that playhouse another mfodralma;, this time with (the scenes laid 'filiRussia. Tfc n called "The ?llow Ticket," and the p.Mthor is jslichael Morton. The title refers to a kind of ticket given by the police to women of the under world in Russian cities. A young girl of good character is forced by cir cumstances to accept' one of these, tickets, getting into perils . which cause her to kill the chief of the se cret police and to seek succor at the hands of a brave American news paper correspondent. A remarkably fine cast includes. Florence Reed as the heroine, John- Barrymore as the journalist, John Mason as the police chief, and Em mett Corrigan, Julian IEstrange and Macey Harlam in other important roles. OUR CITIES AREjLEARNING; BUT DON'T YOU THINK VERY, VERY SLOWLY? The folks in New. 'York city test year paid for gas, electricity and local I; i travel an .average of $3.0anie'ce. They naid this to private monopoly, which j took a fatlojl of profit. H It was "fair and away the biggest tax they paid. The city cleaned the streets at' cost. The city toted the garbage at cost. The city did all the disagreeable public service; in which there wasn'fa big profit. But the ser : vices in which there was a big profit were farmed out to a few, who thus be came privileged and had a money stake in squeezing out of the people all j they could squeeze. That was. the condition in the largest American city at the beginning of the 14th year of the twentieth century." With few excepions, it was the condition in. all oiiq-qities. We had only begun to learn that if we could, by co-operation, do the dirty work, in which there is expense without profit, we might easily do the easy work in which the profit is large, and tilrp that profit into the general . account. ' ' It seems odd that we should have bee ns6 long in making that simple rJisnnvfirv. . fcl Do you imagine that by the beginning of the twenty-first century of Christian civilization there will remain in free-schooled America a city so I dense as to keep f qr ftself all the leanwhiel allowing a few to monopolize I the fat? ' . . . WANTS SOFT SHIP . Rinks What about that' $10 you owe me? Winks You must wait till my soft ship comes home. Binks What do you mean? Winks Why," they've all been "hard-ships, so far! . DON'T YOU SEE? Jinks Why don't you use your wondrous hair-restorer yourselfJJf . it is so good? . Barber Ah, sare"! You not under stand. Look at my assistant; I rep? resent "before use," and he is ze "after use." . "..