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THE YALE EXPOSITOR FRIDAY, JAN. 1, 1909. LUCKY STARS IN THE AMUSEMENT WORLD ARE SHOWERED WITH Many Owe Their Present High Prices to Amer ica Tommy Burns' $30,000 and American Pugilists in Paris Who Does the Least to Get the Most? EJANE had quit her theater In time to fled Sam MacVea knock out Ben Taylor at the Paris Hippo drome. "What does he get for that?" she asked, as the Her culean American negro struck an attitude of Inso lent and utter triumph beside his pros trated adversary, while 9,000 Parisians, paying from $10 to $1, except In the highest gallery, cheered themselves hoarse. "What! $3,000 to do nothing, to risk nothing, suffer nothing?" Rejane exclaimed, scandalized. "That man gave him bo fight, no hurt; when he got tired of showing off, he felled him THE PRICE OF IS iJ ' KrSfw'a cry ' ' It -A siHfcv One Thousand Francs a Minute Is What Pattl Received for Singing Three Melodies That Lasted Five Minutes. Mme. Melba, for Singing Ten Times, Received 80,000 Francs. For One Rendition Chalispine Demands 10.CCO Francs. Mme. Rejane and Mme. Granier, 2,000 Francs. like an ox! Do you know, that Amer ican is better paid than we?" "Don't criticise," said Sardou, later it was a short time before his death. "You are all spoiled favorites of for tune at this moment." Then he told her this tale of the gayest and most beautiful young actress of the second empire Hortense Schneider: The Rejane of her day had quit the Palais Royal In a quarrel at rehearsal. She was packing her trunks for Bordeaux when Offenbach came, offering her the title role of "La Belle Helene," just completed for the Varieties. Seated on her trunk, Hortense heard with delight the airs that were to transform her to a veritable queen of cpera-bouffe; but her mind was made up, and she fled Paris. Demand Now Seems Modest. At Dordeaux she got a telegram from Offenbach: "Name your own terms." And, almost as a joke, nhe wired an answer that Sardou kept among the financial curiosities of his theatrical collection: "As It's Christ map, I expect a present; I won't budge for less than $400 per month." "Poor thing! It's Christmas every day now!" laughed Rejane, as Sardou went on telling how the famous actors of his younger days earned iu a j?ar what Coquelln has received for two nights in America. Paulln Menler, the Immortal Choppart of "The Lyons Mail," at the height of his success toocbed $1,200 per year, and Frederick Lemaltre, who has his marble statue In the streets of Paris and who went on European tours, never received over $40 per night. "That's all very well," said Rejane, 'but who docs the least to get the nost to-day? I stick up for that awful ilugger. He's so heavy that no one tan hurt him. I am told he bas an fcppcrcut, a hook and a short-ami jab, Wn In the man, that can't be learned. Mext month he'll get $3,000 again to iboow his graces and knock a man lenselesa." GIFTS AND HONORS So the Parisian question rose Who does the least to get the most? Rejane and most Parisians know noothing of the $30,000 of our Tommy Burns In Australia, "win, lose or draw," but to earn it against dangerous Jack John son risked the very reputation that made life "Christmas the year round" for him. Earnings of Star Pugilists. Were star pugilists to really risk their reputation frequently they would fall into the category of Mepbisto, the first man to "loop the loop." He re celved $5,400 per month and became a great personage In all the capitals of Europe for risking to break his neck every night! No, the $1,000 that Burns picked up easily for knocking out Bill Squires last Grand Prix night was really better money, and It opened Tommy's eyes to A MINUTE. Paris possibilities. But here's the comic hitch: The Paris heavyweight job is held down already by a danger ous negro. Paris, waking up to pugil ism wonderfully, has golden places open for an absolutely first-class mid dleweight and any lightweight who can whip Kid Davis. Jimmy Brltt, who gets $3,500 In London for a fairly easy knockout like that of johnny Summers, can make and hold a splen did Paris place with little risk. Mac Vea's Paris price for doing nothing is $3,000, and. as he Is collecting it six or eight times a year, perhaps Rejane Is not so wrong about him. Because Caruso, look you, Is at the mercy of the first sore throat or simple catarrh. The keeping of that delicate voice In order Is a veritable drawback to a life "all Christmas." Caruso gets $2,500 every time he sings, and he sings 80 times a year. Hut, really, his easiest money is $5,000 yearly, Just for Binging 20 short songs Into a phonograph. He does it In five mornings, when he feels good say about $1,000 per hour! Money Easily Earned. Chaliapine, the great Russian dra matic tenor, gets $2,000 per night in Paris, Berlin and Vienna, the sole dif ference being that such night3 are few and far between. So Pattl. who has had $5,000 for a tingle night In the United States, received $3,000 once for singing three short songs in Paris at the Eden concertsay, $200 per min ute! Paul's minute! It remains the high water mark, but It dated after she had become Independent in America, her Paris price for a whole evening at the Italian opera having been regularly $000 and glad to get it! At this epoch In Paris Nilsson was getting $240 per night; Mme. Carvalho, the star of the Opera Comlque, $200; Capoul, the legendary tenor of the Grand Opera, $120, and Faure, the famous creator of Gounod's Mephistopheles, $100. It must not be forgotten. however. r I i in that inch settled Paris engagements carried valuable perquisites. When Faure sold bis paintings, for example, they produced a fortune, and all had been given to him by admiring art ists! Coquelln's house to-day Is a museum of precious objects mostly gratis "Half their charm." says Coquelln. They say Melba mourns the coming day when her great voice must go. Her life has been a fairy tale of gold and honors, and her last engagement was $16,000 for ten representations. Yet few can hope to hold the splendid voice as Pattl held hers; It goes crack! and suddenly the world famed operatic star goes out, not pales down! Who remembers Capoul? Recently he was glad to get the position of stage man ager at the Paris Grand Opera. Actors Have Advantage. Yet the "golden voice" of Sarah Bernhardt draws to-day as ever she, a long-experienced grandmother! Here is where the actors have their splen did advantage. Life for them, goes on "all Christmas" quite Indefinitely. Sarah Bernhardt Is as lucky, happy, feted and fete-giving at this hour as when she first discovered America with Grau, the Impresario. That first American trip of Sarah's lasted four months and put $120,000 Into her pockets. Grau gave her $1,000 per evening and paid all her ex penses, to a special railroad car; but it pained the great artiste to see a sim ple impresario making money; and thenceforth she organized her own for eign tours. Once she took Coquelln with her to play "L'Alglon" at $600 per representation. At the Galte and when he played "Cyrano" In Paris, his pay was only $300 per night. They say that her own pathetic voice so affects Sarah that the tears come naturally, when wanted. In "Camllle" she sheds 20 which is $50 per tear. Coquelln counts speeches that bring down the house; he calls them "words." In "Cyrano" there are 20 such $30 per "word!" And the tragedian, Mounet-Sully, who had $600 per night in America, $450 in London and Vienna, and draws $400 in Paris, where he is a high stock holder In the Theater Francals, counts by roars. In "Oedlpe Roi" he roars 20 times $30 per roar!. Have Retained Power Long. After Sarah, the two luckiest ac tresses in Paris are Jeanne Granier and Rejane. Both grandmothers (born respectively in 1852 and 1857), both continue playing the grande amour euse, love, passion, stars, flowers, little birds, to the delight of everyone who sees them. In her American tour organized by the VIcomte de Braga, Rejane had $400 per night and, acci dentally the honor of initiating vast reforms and a financial crisis! For it was the story of her dancing on a table after a dinner given by the vice-president of an insurance company that brought about the insurance investiga tions; but her grandchildren in Paris never know It. To arrive at her present happy posi tion as proprietor of her own Paris theater, Rejane first married her man ager, then divorced him. During the struggle with Porel for possession of her liberty and the Vaudeville, she played a rival engagement at the Vari eties that actually ate up all the re ceipts, but that was a detail; her chief solace was to tell the public nightly In lines altered for the purpose the woes of a lovely star whose husband manager desired part profits! Jeanne Granier, on the other hand, declares that business details would spoil all her pleasure. If anyone wants to take her on tour her price is $300 per representation. In Paris she takes $160 ier night with a minimum guar antee of 100 representations. Above all, however, she is a perfect example of a queen of opera bouffe, wise in her JOY OF THE 'COON HUNT. Good Occupation and Sport for Au tumn Evenings. "This is 'coon coon pie," said the gourmet. "It's not bad, If you like a rich, sweetish meat. "I went on a 'coon hunt some time ago at my uncle's In the country. Au tumn 'coon hunts are good sport "A crowd gathers, with dogs and axes, at the edge of a cornfield after dark. The dogs start a 'coon In the corn, and 'u all make after them, stumbling In the night. Then, when the 'coon is treed, you have either to cut down the tree or to climb It and shake the 'coon off his branch. " 'Coons won't fight till treed, but if they get a grip they won't let go. There are some horrible stories about 'coons fixed to young farm hands' faces. "A 'coon hunt always winds up with a big fire in the woods. The frosty stars scintillate through the bare bop-", chestnuts and corn and steaks of u d, stories are tokl and songs sung, and a demijohn of applejack passes from man to man. "Will you have another piece of pie? No? The meat is rich and sweet ie, ah?" generation. Who remembers that Jeanne Granier created "Olrofle-Qlro-fla" in 1874? Hortense Schneider was still singing; could she have dreamed that her young rival, after scarcely re peating her successes in the "Petit Due" and "Mam'zelle Gavroche," could have the strength of mind to switch off to high comedy before the fleeting voice forsook her? Jeanne Granler'a triumphs in high comedy proclaim her one of the luckiest artistes of the age Fortunate Paderewskl. I once heard Paderewski's manager, while playing poker at the Hotel Pow e.s in Paris, proclaim his own prlncl pal as the mos lucky or the happiest man. "He hs but to keep up his tech nique, and he enjoys it. He is the typical one-man entertainer; requires no support; needs no advertising oi accessories; has no expenses to eat Into profits, and there Is nothing to prevent Paderewskl from drawing his $2,000 per night as long as he wants to play. You sei? He has no contract to make with any manager. He Just sells tickets!" Kubellk, the violinist, who receives $600 every time he plays, depends upon an orchestra and takes his money from an impresario who shares the risks and profits. Apart from this, the one-man entertainer certainly has hl luck simplified for him. Even the champion pugilist must have a pug provided for him to knock out; but think of Fragson, who Just sits and sings at the piano for $4,000 per month! These music hall stars, surely, da very little to attain much. Yvette Gull bert, who can still get $160 per night at the Scala In Paris, receives $360 for singing a few songs in London, Berlin and New York. Mayol, the comic tenor, draws $60 per quarter of an hour in Paris and $3,600 per month on tour In French cities. Louise Balthy, grotesque comic lady, earns $3,200 pet month; Germalne Galllols, the beauty escaped from comic opera, $3,000, and Mealy, another like her, $2,000 all for short turns In the halls. They are the world's favorites. They show them selves a little quarter of an hour each night and all the year is Christmat for them! "Little Tlch" Envied. They have but one lurking danger loss of popularity; because If the soli tary entertainer profits tremendously by the independence of his position, he risks greatly by lack of support. Once I heard a great tragedian of London mourning that he was not Little Tich! "Little Tich is really Independent happy, yes, for life," he said. "The frightful little dwarf discovered that shoes half his body's length permitted him to make a comic bow that the world could not tire of! That comic bow could bring Little Tich $100 per night in London, Paris, New York anywhere! He has a cinch for life!" Who does the least to get the most? Probably Little Tich. If not, then Paderewskl. The great tenor and so prano voices go. The champion pugil ist will some day find his master and fall, plump, into obscurity. The comics of both theater and music hall, depend ing on vivacity and magnetism, lose drawing power with age. The queen of opera bouffe sees her charms fade. But there remain the grandmothers ol the Paris stage who own their thea ters. Sarah Bernhardt and Rejane have their popularity assured them by the forces that hold all Parisian soci ety together. Rejane was petty, therefore, to be Jealous even for a moment of the placid American Hercules who had nearly punched a hole through Ben Taylor. When he shall have vanished from the ring Rejane will still be play. Ing passion, love, flowers, stars and little birds in her own Paris theater. Sterling Helllg in the Washington Star. A HOOSIER'S HORRIBLE FATE. Final Explanation of Accident Thar Should Have Satisfied.- Paul Krauss, Jr., came down town the other morning with his hand in a bandage. "I never knew there were so many sympathetic people in the town," he said the day afterward. Within a distance of five blocks 20 people wanted to know how the young man had been" injured. To the flrsf five who asked he replied: , "Cut it on a piece cA glass." Finally this reply became monoton ous and Krauss changed the character of his reply. "I carelessly handled my knife," he explained to about ten others. In a moment of 'desperation he tried to dash Into his father's store. ' But he was not to escape. A sympa thetic woman hatlled him. "Why, you loek pale, Mr. Krauss," she said, "and you have been hurt How did It happen?" "I was run over by an automobile and killed." As Krauss fled the woman with a look of amazement on her face re marked: "Well, how singular." In dlanaoolis Star. Window Gardtoa M'eed uch Garc &od Attention. Water is the most essential element of plant food, and water and air are two things that every plant requires, yet there are no set rules that can be given when these things should be applied. Generally speaking, however, a plant should only be watered when It la dry, and should then be. watered sufficiently to wet it thoroughly. Some times It Is necessary to water plants two or three times a day In sunny weather, and again, in cloudy weather, once a week may be often enough. Plants should receive good air. It is well to open a window for a few mo ments every bright, sunny day, even In winter. Dust frequeatly clogs the pores. For this reason it is best to sprinkle the foliage plants by taking them to the kitchen sink or to the bathtub at least once or twice a week. If this is not practicable, dusting with a duster or washing coriaceous leaves with a sponge is advisable. Where the plants can be properly sprayed they ire not likely to be troubled very much with insects. In case a single plant Is covered with "green fly," place a pa per bag over it have some friend who smokes puff the cigar smoke into the bag. A few times will remedy the trouble. Scale Insects, if they once get hold, can only be removed by washing off with a stiff brush, or, if near a florist, have him give the hydrocyanic gas treatment. Pyrethrum or tobacco dust is also valuable, but is generally too objectionable to have in a living room. The best preventive is to always keep the plants in perfect health and rowing. The pots or window boxes should be turned frequently so as to have the plants develop symmetrically. After all, the secret of the greatest success with the window garden Is the innate love for flowers by the one who cares for them, worked out by coming n dally contact with the plants them selves and thus learning the individual needs of each plant The environments of no two window gardens are exactly alike and thus each one calls for different treatment. However, if you study plants and ful fill their wants, they will nearly al ways entirely fulfill your, wishes in cheering and beautlfuylng your school room or home. SOFT TONES IN COMBINATION. Feature That Is One of the Character istics of the Season. . Combination of softest tones is one of the season's characteristics. At a recent function a beautiful costume was of dark gray crepe de chine richly embroidered with a Japanese design and worn with a ruff of Alice blue and a gray hat trimmed with a blue feather. It was a really wonderful ar rangement, and the fair wearer was the cynosure of all eyes. Another beautiful dress was In the directolre style, of nattier blue, mar quisette made over a foundation of palest mauve. The hat was of blue, trimmed with a cloud of mauve chiffon and a blue fluff of marabout. A pretty black gown of crepe de chine was made with a deep gulmpe of gold lace, while the sleeves were also of the lace, with a short oversleeve of black. The crepe was draped round the figure and the oversklrt hung gracefully below the line of the knee. Piping the Brims. One of the new touches in millinery Is the tiny piping of color put at the ?dge of the brim of a black hat.. This '.a run In between the over and under sides and gives a mere line of color iround the face. The hatpins match .t. Uusually it is chosen to carry out iome color scheme in the costume. ew8imgj Bag GRANDMOTHER will appreciate a sewing bag as a gift perhaps more than anything else you can give her. This bag Is especially suited for a sewing bag, as it Is easily folded and can be carried In a small handbag when she goes visiting. One yard and quarter each cf plain pink taffeta and dresden silks are required. Poth silks are cut on the bias and divided Into three pieces, then sewed together alternately, thus, first pink, then dresden, then pink, and so on. The foundation of the bag is a circle of soft cardboard five Inches in circumference. This Is covered neatly with pink taffeta silk on both sides, for which quarter yard of pink taffeta silk is required. After base is covered, gather silk and sew onto base. This forms the bottom of bag. To make top, turn In silk about two Inches from the top and stitch down neatly. Then make another row of stltrhlng one-half Inch above this row. This forms a place through which the running string is run. One yard of narrow toft taffeta ribbon Is used for a running stxUc Gifts to Bridejrn&Ida fadt In Ntv and Pretty, P&sbioij. At a recent wedding the bride hit on a novel way of presenting the souvenirs to her bridesmaids, that added much to the interest of the occa sion. - After much looking she found in a Russian art store a number of fascinat ing old silver belt buckles, such as are worn by the peasants in Russia. The one drawback was that eight buckles alike were not to be pur chased. But the girl hit on the happy plan of making the bridesmaids draw for their own gifts. Each buckle was done up daintily In a box used for the wedding cake, with the monogram of the bride and groom on top. These were put in the center of a wedding bell, of white gar den chrysanthemums, and a white rib bon with a small heart, cut from sil ver paper, was attached to each pack age. The bell was a home-made affair, made from fine wire, with the flowers stuck in through the meshes. Each stem was wrapped in damp sphagnum moss to keep it fresh. The boxes were concealed in the top of the bell above the clapper. A wire ahelf was run across, with an opening on one side, through which the boxes were slipped. The shelf was hidden by being wound with greens. Each heart had a number on the wrong side, which was" repeated on the box to avoid mistakes. At the close of the wedding supper the bride rose and said: "I will now ask my bridesmaids to wish me good luck by ringing my marriage bell." Each girl was then directed to take hold of the first ribbon she could reach and pull the bell gently seven times. In order not to bring bell, boxes and all down on the table the pulling was very light. At the elope of the ringing, each girl was told to gently draw her ribbon to ward her, one at a time. This took the small boxes from the shelf without possibility of breakage. The boxes when opened were found to contain, In addition to an odd buckle, a small card, with the date of the wedding, the Initials of the bride and groom and a merry jingle appro priate to the occasion. The earring is still pronounced, largo pearls and semi-precious stones being freely worn. Jumpers are modified Into the dlreo tolre waistcoat of lace or linen worn (under coats. Corsets are high In the bust, small and round in the waist and very long from the waist down. - Blue comes first in fall colors, and the dark rich tone navy will be em ployed In many smart gowns. Tosca nets when embroidered in pastel colors are very rich for entire waists. The embroidery need not be very elaborate. The variation of the usual plerrot ruff Is one composed of white and gray maline from the collar of which spring minute tails of brown fur. Crystal bead work is found , upon very dressy evening frocks, but the style is not so well received as satin flower decorations. Persian bandings are used under slashed waist seams. Odd Necklaces. . Girls are now wearing necklaces made of rose quartz beads, onyx and cyrstal beads, of lapis lazuli beads, of cut coral, and of plain amber mixed with turquoise. IN fOOUE o THE LIVING WORD By REV. A. C. DIXON, D. D., Potior of tho Chicot o Ar. (Moody ) Church, Chicago.' 30 . "For the word of God Is quick (alive), and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and the joints and marrow, and la a dlscerner of the thoughts and in tents of the heart." The words of great men are treasures. W e read books to find out what they said. We look to the papers and magazines to learn the last ut terances of the great leaders of science, politics or religion. How much more im portant a word of God. Suppose it could be proven that God, who created the heaven and earth, had spoken just one sentence? It would be a diamond sentence. We would treasure It above all the wealth of earth, The Word of God. Yet that Is what we have. "For Ihe word of God.' The word written, the word spoken, the word lived. The word written as we have It in the Bible; the word spoken as we speak it and trans mlt to others; the word lived as we translate It into character and deed. The Living Word. "All Scripture la God-breathed." As God made man and breathed into him the breath of life and he became a liv ing soul, so he inspired men to write the Scriptures, breathing Into them the breath of his life, and so their words became his living words. So we ought to treat God's Book as a living thing. We ought to have the reverence for it that we have for life. We have more reverence even for vegetable life than for death. We cer tainly respect a living, growing flower more than an artificial thing. Where there is life It is elevated to a higher realm, and life makes all the differ ence between respect and disrespect, reverence and desecration. When this word gets Into our hearts and lives It becomes active; It shows life. No Christian Is respected who does not show life. He may have the constituent parts of the Christian In different receptacles under the glass case, and people can look at him with a curious, grewsorqe sort of Interest if he Is dead, but unless they see him move, and move along the line of God's life, they have HtHe respect for him or his claims. Some of us have smiled at the fool ish fellow who stood here on a Chi cago street, and, looking through the the window of the taxidermist's shop, saw an owl In the midst of the ani mals and birds he was stuffing for ex hibition, and began to criticise the jwl. The feathers were not arranged right, the head was not on right, tho body was not poised right, and when he got through his criticising the owl turned around and winked at him. The man walked off, feeling that he was a fool, and so he was. The mo ment that owl turned around and winked he was beyond that fellow's criticism, and everything he said up to that moment was true. If we have i stuffed sort of Christianity In the window for exhibition the world will pass by and criticise us and every thing about us, but when we show life, the life of God, we get beyond the scalpels of all the critics in the world. The Surgical Word. And yet there is a sense in which 'the word .of God" is surgical, "sharp r than a two-edged sword, piercing to the dividing asunder of soul and spir t and Joints and marrow." The word )f God Is not only living, but it is marp sharper than a two-edged iword. The business of the sword Is jo pierce, and it can pierce between soul and spirit, the joints and marrow, :ut right into the Innermost being, rhe soul here represents the natural nan; the spirit represents the spiritual nan. "It Is sown a natural body; it is alsed a spiritual body." "The natural nan dlscerneth not the things of the Spirit," exactly the same words, "the oul of man dlscerneth not the things )f the Spirit," and It takes the word )f God to discriminate between the lativ-al and spiritual It Is "the word f God" that tells you whether you ire living simply a natural life or a mlrltuat life. What Whisky Money Will Buy. The following card made into a blot :cr, signed by a dozen grocery firms )f Delaware, O., has proved very ef 'ectlve In the no-license campaign: 'Any one who drinks three glasses of whisky a day for one year and pays en cents a drink for it can have In ixchange at any of the firms whose lames appear on this card: Three bar- els of flour, 20 bushels of potatoes, 200 pounds granulated sugar, one bar rel crackers, one pound pepper, two rounds tea, 50 pounds salt, 20 pounds ice, 60 pounds butter, ten pounds rheese, 25 pounds coffee, ten pounds .andy, three dozen cans tomatoes, ten lozen pickles, ten dozen oranges, ten lozen bananas, two dozen cans corn. 18 boxes matches, one-half bushel nans. 100 cakes soap, 12 packages oiled oats for the same money and ;et $15.30 premium for making the nan so la his expenditures." u' -