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i WATERBUTLY EVENING DEMOCRAT, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1895. Ten I Little for cts. SOLD BY ALL DEALERS. Would I4V.9 to Uleet Him Again. A minister in a town close to Cincin lati was recently called on to perform i marriage ceremony in a neighboring tillage. IIo arrived at the sceno of tho narital festivities and found tho bride groom nattily attired in tho convention al black broadcloth and the bride in tho lsual white costume in which brides pre usually said to look "radiant." r Everything about tho house denoted hat they wero people of refinement and 1 ordinarily good circumstances. At ibe appointed bourthe minister tied tho not good and. hard, and was then in cited to the dining room, where au ap petizing luncheon had been spread. The lsual congratulations wero extended, in Ithich the minister joined most heartily, ind the man of the cloth prepared to Jake his departure. As ho was leaving, jhe groom handed him an envelope and ixpressed tho hopo that they would beet again soon. Thoughts of somo new looks and ether luxuries of which the binister had fondly dreamed flitted ibrough tho holy man's mind as the hmily nag slowly carried him back tome. Curiosity got the better of him bo lero he reached there, however, and he ioncludcd to open tho envelope to see iow generous the newly made groom iad been. He did bo, and found nothing ' Jut the following uoto : i My Dear Mb. : Owing to a run upon'mj nances, due to preparations for my marriage, shall bo compelled to owe you the amount of le wedding fee. for "a few days. Trusting you rill not be ni'ueh ut out, I remain respect er. The minister says that the young ban's hope that they might meet again pon is shared by him. Cincinnati En- The Photograph Fad. i The present fad is to have countless Vames large enough to hold one, two or, Imit, three pictures, and mado with jlass of er the openings. Kid of any deli late shade and color, leather and even akeskins are used. Sometimes there jre silver cornors ; sometimes they are paite plain. All silver, all gilt, gilt and uamel and rhinestono all are made hto the daintiest and most bewitching rrnaments which frame the photographs Jeautifnlly. When the velvet is used, it has some jrnaments in silver -or gilt, and some ery new frames of velvet have 'the test or coat of arms in silver just above b.e face. Frames modeled - after the antique hiniature frarnes: are also fashionable, phese are of gilt, sometimes merely the val band again with the empire rreatb. : Mosaic frames Jfor small .photographs jre also mudtflikecL Altogether there is large choice, and as all are well mado )nd have" tqeVgJass they are worth the poney asked fop" '"them-, "which is more han cotjldbe said of tho old fashioned ineswhich hadsuch a depressing way If coming apart. Detroit Free Press. ':VThere is more vof the natural J flavor of vTobacco in " B. L. than in any other brand j because B. L. is made only f from carefliliy selected 'Hisrh- grade Leaf. Co LAMENT OFAN ACTRESS Eva Vincent Deplores the Death of the Repertory Company. ITS MANE STRONG FEATURES. I ctors Then flad to Possess Versatility as Well as Ability Sneers at the Old Con dition Some Graduates From Small Rep ertory Organizations. I do not think that any ,oxio -rho has clcseJy followed tho trend 'of the public theatrical taste of this country can havo failed to notice that in many respects there has boon a distinctly retrograde movement during tho past dccltdo. It is easy enough now to Cld "one part" actors, but tho manager who attempts to get together a company which shall bo equally strong in comedy or Eoricms work is doomed to cer tain and emphatic disappointment. This is the causo tmd effect of the practical an nihilation cf tho stock system, and tho consequent demand for entertainraonts cf a light order. 1 do not wish to be under stood as saying that this . is an unmixed evil, for nowadays almost every member i f a theatrical organization is seicAtud with reference to his or her peculiar fitness for tho rolo, with tho inevitable result that a moro accurate performance is given. But there can bo no question of the fact that ilruus" and tho travel?"' tar system, now vogue, have had tboifect of developing . eva vikcext; , a raco of actors ho aro manifestly devoid of versatility. This is of course a condi tion of affairs vhich is greatly to ho re gretted. Some of the old plays which aro almost classics in fact, most' of them aro flippantly referred to by the present generation of players as "chestnuts" and "back numbers." , This may be smart, and perhaps even a, trifle funny, although I question its pos session of either attribute, but it is, to an actress who has seen and experienced the now sneered-at condition of a few years ago, decidedly sad. Hundreds of plays which the repertory companies wore in tho habit of presenting aro worthy to" live forever, and thoy will too. Ijong, after their present light headed detractors shall havo been forgotten tho objects of their ridicnlo will be delighting' generations as . yet unborn." It must not be supposed either that I am delving into ancient his tory. I am not, and, furthermore, I should bo mortally offended if any ono ehould bo tempted to intimato that I will bo a veteran in tho matter of years at the end cf another decade or two.. The travel ing stock company was flourishing in this country a half dozon years ago, and at just about that period began its decadence, which has since continued relentlessly and uninterruptedly. As an evidenco of what was expected and required of the members of a repertory company I might cito my own case. I was tho loading lady of ono of theso organiza tions whioh" visited a certain town not a very largo town either to play an engago '. ment of three weeks. Wo gave Wednesday ! and Saturday matinees, and the company returned for another week, having mado a great hit with tho theater going people of tho placo, from tho highest to tho lowest. Theso wero tho pieces wo presented in tho four weeks: "Camillc," "Lady of Lyons," " Two Orphans, " "Pygmalion and Gala tea," "Miss Multon,". "Lady Audloy's Secret," "Tho Honeymoon," "Leah, tho Forsaken," "Tho Irishman's Heart," "Colleen Bawn," "Arrah-Na-Pogue," "Vanity Fair," "Kathleen Mavournocn," "East Lynpe," "Tho Long Strike," "Un do Tom's Cabin," "Ireland as It Is," a play mado famous by tho celebrated Bar ney Williams; "The Bonnie Fishwife," ' Tho Masblo ' Heart, " Richard III, " "Othello," "Frou-Frou," "Joshua Whit comb," "A Serious Family," "Tho Hunchback of IsTotro Dame," "Our Boys," "Inshavoguo" and tho perennial and in evitable "Ten Nights In a Barroom." Just inspect that list carefully. It is much mora significant than appears "on tho surface. It is not so much tho largo number of plays as tho wido range of work which thoy demand that I wish to impros3 upon tho attention of tho reader. Think of having to play llttjo Topsy at ono per formance and an Important rolo in "Frou Frou" at tho next. That's what tests an actress' versatility and ability too. That ws the sort of training" that developed thorough actors, who wero sccaethingmoro than parrots, , able only, like a phonograph, to exudo a part after, it had been-talked into them, having boon rst thought'out and elaborated jby somobody with brains. Would it bo posslblo'to get together a com pany now that would, with 14 "people, giro tho plays . I havo just mentioned in such au acceptable manner as to warrant tho management' of tho theater in offering a guarantee for - a return engagement al most immediately? I think not, unless of rouxso, one wero willing to employ only actors With great reputations. " I eznect to havo somo fellow bob up with tap startling announcement that I am mistaken, arid that the repertory, com pany is not a thing of tho past by any means, and then ho will probably proceed to name several. Nevertheless I shall stick to my original statement. There are, it is tmo, a few companies which havo a reper tory of the old plays, which they present with raore or less ability, but theso peoplo carry very dubious actors and play the vury, cheap houses ordinarily, wherpas in tbo days of which I speak wo wero wel c;n;cd at !ihe best houses in tho places we .visaed, and wo visited tho largest cities in tho wast at that. But wo always had a fjr.od ccmpany.' It was expected, and woe totido . tho organization , which, imposed upon a com inanity with a lot of incom petettW, It was thereafter condemned to perpetual isolation, at least "so far as that town was concerned. Tho manager of tho repertory company was as Jealous of his reputation then as tho fcediarconcd director of multifarious thatricfli enterprises i& now. , It was not a caso of sentiment with him cither. It 4 ivas business. It was his bread and but ter. There were no flaring posters to de rive the public, and tho company had to act to succeed. Divorcees were not certain successes, and prizo fighters and bridga jumpers had not then been heard of in connection with theatricals. In ether ivorcls. tho stage had not yet been elevated by theso gentry to a point -where acting is not an essential of an actor. But it has somo at last. We no longer havo Booth, McCullcush and Barrett, but wo have Sullivan and Corbet t and Brodio and Spiko JJcnnessy and Kid ilcCoy, so who shall eay that tho American stage is not taking giant strides into the depths of degrada tion? But I am digressing, as it is woman's privilege to do. It may bo contended that tho old system did net have tho tendency to develop stars, from tho fact that no ono part was played sufficiently long to cnablo the "mummer" to get out of it as much ns would havo been the caso if ho had been doing no other. In a mcasuro this is true. Stars wero not so quickly mado then, but when they wero mado they staid. Nowa days a man is given apart in a now piece because it either happens to suit him par ticularly by accident or it was especially written for him. Ha makes a hit in it. Immediately Jefferson, tho cider " Sot-hern " and all tho rest of that puny tribo eink Into iusigHificanco beside the new geniu3 estimate of his own ability." His y friends' tell him ho is too good for that part. IIo does not find it difficult to convince him Bolf that thoy arc right, and it is decided that next season ho shall bo a star, with his name, which nobody outside of half a dozen largo cities has ever heard of, in let ters 4 feet high at tho very least. And ho decs have a season of starring. It varies in duration from two to ten weeks, or, at any rate, until tho "angel" gets tired of pouring his money into a vacuum. Then it ends. Tho short-whilo star has not had his opinion of his ability altered by his bril liant, if brief, 4-foot-letter experience. That was not what caused tho collapse No such caso is on record. No, indeed! It was cither tho parsimony of tho backer, who earned his title by backing out at tho precise timo when success was exactly two towns away, by actual calculation of tho star or elso it Was duo to tho general denso ignorance of tho people in general, who were too stupid to appreciate the new light which dazzled them with its bril liance. Tho retired luminary for awhile tells tho story of how ho startled tho few I towns ho visited to tho admiring actors ! out cf work and thirsty, until eventually ' even they t iro of it. Then comes tho period of tribulation, tho refusing of many op portunities to play excolleUt parts, and tho final accepting of something much worse, in "sheer desperation. In ono company ro ; ccntly. organized not many thousand miles from Hoboken there were no less than j four ox-stars, and there aro three in an j other company of no extraordinary prcten ! Bions now touring the country. All of this was possiblo under tho old system, I j know, but it was not probable, and it was ' also extremely infrequent, becauso an ac tor's shortcomings as well as his strong i points wero known, and it was thereforo a moro difficult matter to induce the invest ; mont of money. His general excellence in many roles, instead of his peculiar 'adaptability to ono, was the test of his worthiness for stellar honors. As to tho cause of tho decadence of tho traveling repertory company, I can only say that it is ono of thoso things which anybody may explain to his or her own sat isfaction without, any means of knowing whether or not that particular theory is the correct one. For my part, I attribute most of it to tho liberal use of scenery, which was of courso impossible under tho former system becauso of tho great num ber of pieces presented. Tho public, onco accustomed to tho claborato mounting of plays, is never willing to go back to real acting, and that alone. Wo all have within us the lovo of tinsel and glitter, and that explains why "The Rocky Mountain Roarer," handsomely staged, will go into a town and play to 500 where "The Stranger" would not draw $50. Lots of good actors havo graduated from theso little repertory organizations. Take tho case of our own company, when I was jointly starring for several seasons with my husband, Felix E. Vincent. Among the peoplo in our employ at that time wero Loio Fuller, Gus Heego, who used to play Pygmalion very well; the lato Mark Lynch, Clarence Holt, Allio Valencia, who married Rudolph Aronson, and many other persons now prominent in tho the atrical world whose names I do not caro to mention becauso of their aversion to refer ences to their humblo professional begin ning. This was only one company, and as there were dozens of tho samo sort in existence it may easily bo seen that if tho samo proportion wero maintained through out, the little "repertoirers" havo fur nished many of the strongest of present day stage favorites. . Tho abovo is not intended as an argu ment for a return to tho system in which there was so much of good and so little of bad. I realize that that is now impossible. It is only, after all, a sort of lament for tho departure of a condition which, from the actor's standpoint, was very noarly ideal. EvaVixcext. It Might Bo Worse. "It seems to me the cruelty of the Turks is just a" little exaggerated," he said as he looked up from his newspa per. "Great mackerel ! Have you read of the Armenian atrocities?"' asked the man who had tieen deep in a magazine story. "Of course. They are what I refer to. I admit they havo been horrible, but wo must remember that tho Turks haye'nbt been as fiendish as they might have been.',' "They haven't?" "Certainly not. Thoy haven't even attempted to operate a trolley line in Armenia yet. ' ' Chicago Post, Definitions. .. Jeanette This is what you might call a sardine sandwich. x Harold Oh, no I This is a tongue sandwich with the tongue on tho out side. Lifo. . , -v -v... SWING. I Ed DelJguta the Children and Is Easily and' Cheaply Made. j A nursery swing, like ono originally sketched for Tho Household, is a present to delight tho heart cf any child. It is made with tho woven seat of rope work, which is done after the method of kin dergarten rnats. s A good way is to arrango all the ropes which run ono way across the top of a box, and tack each end of each rcpo to the edgo of tho box rim, and weavo tho cross ropca m cind cut through tho fas- 1 'irrter9m TSft t. V T. V. V. V Zt V6 - t i A SWE7G FOE THE NUKSEP.T. tened ropes, tying all the various ends' of the various ropes with a knot to tho last rope it crosses, and fringing tho end. If desired, tho seat may bo mado on a frame, which will keep the outer edgo firmly in . placo. It is hung up by four ropes, ono at ecn corner, x wo rupes are tied across each side, back and front with bowknots and fringe. . In this way tho child in the swing will not fall out. The child can bo placed in tho swing and his feet put through under the ropo; crosspicce. Tho swing may bo hung in a doorway j and looped up, or taken down (unhook-j od) when not in uso. Only two hooks: will bo necessary, as the four ropes mayj bo hung on ono cross rope. It can, of course, be put up. in tho summer time out of doors, cn a tree, framework or a porch, but, according to the authority quoted, is more particularly designed for uso in tho nursery. Lemon Juice For Corns and Bunions. ' There must bo some efficacy in the following, for it is annually advised in various medical journals: A piece of lemon or stale bread moistened with lemon juice, bound on a corn, will cure it. Renew night and morning. Tho first application will produce soreness, but if treatment is persisted in for a reason able length of timo a cure will be ef fected. The discomfort caused by sore and tender feet may bo lessened, if not; entirely cured, by applying slices of lemons on the feet. To cure chilblains, take a piece of lemon, sprinkle fine salt over it and rub the feet well. Repeat if necessary. . - V -1 "A Fancy Bag1. There are bags and bags, and one of tho most unique is suggested in an il lustration in The Seasons. 1 This bag is mado of cigar strings. Twenty-four cigar strings about IS) inches long are tacked first at the ends on narrow sarce net ribbon of good quality, leaving small spaces between, so that a piece about 13 inches wide is made. This is j then stretched on a wooden board and fastened to the two foundation ribbons with drawing pins- and plaited together; ... , , BAG MAMS Or CIGAR STRINGS. with somewhat darker cigar strings. Narrow sarscenet ribbon secures also the( ends of the cross strings. The founda-; tion ribbons on the square piece of plait ing thu3 made are turned over to the left sida and a lining of red or black silk sewed Jn with fancy stitches (her ringbone or coral stitch) in contrasting silk. Three-quarters of an inch from the outer edge a run for strings to draw is sewed out. Black lace 8 inches wide outlined with red and yellow silk is sewed lastly at the outer run line to tho lining. Bow of ribbon catches the strings together. . , Mayonnaise Dressing. This recipe", according to as high au thority as Mrs. Rorer, never fails : Put the yolks of 2 eggs in a perfectly clean bowl or plate. Add a quarter of a tea spoonful of salt and add gradually, drop by drop, a gill of salad oil. Now add a few drops cf vinegar jmd continue add ing oil until you have the desired quan tity. Ad3 a grain of red pepper and al low in all a tablcspoonful of vinegar to each gill of oil. If you wish the dress ing light in color, a few drops of lemon, juico will give you the desired results. A HOOD'S PIMjS cure Edver Ills, Biliousness, Indigestion, Headache, pVyjsyfc laxative. All Ivugzi A NURSERY n -fSi':- k horn V ft M Tint' 6 ' j- -JyvV'-4i-'VixVi w M.idf tn IT Knew Uis Own Name. . ...... ... 4, 1 A witness in Judge Low's department j - of the police court carno near being sent ! to jail for contempt cf court fcr telling ; the truth. Tho witness was called and' ! Bworn. - ' '"- "What is your name?,r asked Prose cuting Attorney Madden.' ' "I. Dsnan," repeated the witness. 'What's that?" demanded the judge. "L Denau,' repeated tho witness. The judge and prosecuting attorney stared at each other in blank araaze- iment j "Look hero, sir," roared tho judge, I when he had recovered his breath. "You j will not be permitted to trifle with this court " "Well er I only know what I have 1 always been told was my name,' ex plained the embarrassed witness. "Of courso I can't swear to it, but if it is not my truo name, I'd like to know it, your honor." "That is all any man knows of his name,' declared the judge. "What have yon' been told was your name?" ' "I. D'enau, sir." " "You don't know? Mr. Clerk, enter up an order"- "I didn't say I didn't know," hastily explained the witness, "I said my name was I. Denau Ignatz Dcnau, sir," "Ob," said the judge. "Oh," echoed tho prosecuting attor ney. San Francisco Post Charm of Stevenson's Style. But the main fact which entitles it to be called a perfect style is its constancy in excellence and charm. It is always firm and complete in texture, and uni form in tho sense that, while it varies in spirit to suit the subject in hand, it does not vary in quality from line to line, from page to page, I think that Stevenson himself has really written perfect pages, and at all events his style delights us more as a whole than in any of its parts, striking or exquisite though many of theso may still appear when torn away from their context. If you like best to bo surprised by inde pendent epigrams, by unexpected bursts of eloquence, by sudden marvels of ex pressional felicity, turn to some other writer. Stevenson will not amazo you thus. But except very slightly pow and then in his earliest efforts he will never disappoint you or let you down. And this experience ought to soeni more amazing than any other could. To do things flawlessly from end to end is a rarer and more satisfying merit than to do portions of them magnificently well. To strike a beautiful key and always maintain it, even when treating of ugly or commonplace things, and yet to keep the thing and its expression in accord this is the noblest of literary triumphs. "Robert Louis Stevenson and His Writing," by Mrs. M. G. Van Rensse laer, in Century. ; A Word For the Elevator Boy. One of the elevator men in tho city hall, whoso contact with all sorts and conditions of men has developed in him a fondness for studying character, has often wondered just what word to apply to a malady which seems to afflict some of his passengers. "Many people get into tho elevator," he remarked tho other day, "and seem to imagine I ehould know just where they want to il '. get off. They never open their lips until I carry them beyond their destination, when they seem, to think I am" at fault for not being a mind reader. I spoke to Police Surgeon Andrews about it one day, and told him I thought there ought to bo some word coined to describe these people.' Ho advised mo to call them aphonians, and explained to me that aphonia was really a temporary loss of speech. So now I'm always on tho watch for aphonians." Philadelphia Recoid. I (Chardson gays It's Original. Thomas Q. Scabrooke seems to have hit upon tha biggest kind of a success in Leander Richardson's new comedy, "Baby Mine," which was given its first produc tion at the Grand Opera House, St. Ixmis. Tho New York Herald says the piece Is a reflection of "My Awful Dad." Mr. Rich ardson says in this connection: "There is a short scene in t the first act of 'Baby Mine' which I havo taken from 4 My Awful Dad," and the idea' of a son looking after the father, instead of vice versa, as is usu ally tho caso, I borrowed from tho old com edy. But the rest of tho pieco is original. " For frying, Cottoiene eret Hot enousfb. to smoke 1 it is, not enougb, tnrow gWhen at just the right Genuine has trado marks "Cottoiene" and 11 THE N. K. FAIRBAM: COMPANY, Chicago, C '1 V V 1 " miir tlt? t:m tvpH fis tli smo- I kers. The richest man in town wouldn't ask for anything better ; the poorest man in town wouldn't ask for anything cheaper. A 2 oz. package for 5 cents. Ask for it at any tobacco dealers. If j'ou prefer a slightly heavier smoke Try Sensation. CLEVELAND'S NEW CITY FLAG. Designed by Miss Suslo Xlepbnrn, In Com petition With Thirty Other Art Students. The city of Cleveland is approaching its one hundredth birthday, and in hon or of that occasion it has adopted a city flag and is preparing for a centerinial exposition to bo held in 1896, which it promises shall excel anything of the kind ever befcro attempted. The flag( was adopted by voto cf the city council on Oct. 21, and was first unfurled at' Atlanta on the occasion of the visit q; the Cleveland chamber of commerce to' ' the Cotton States exposition. , j The flag is G by 4 feet in size, and is, t mado of heavy silk with gold fringo; !and cord and tassel to match. It has: .three stripes of red, white and blue ex- tending perpendicularly. In the middlo! stripe of white is the American shield, with the word Cleveland across the cen ter. In the upper left hand corner stand the anvil, hammer and wheel, repre senting the manufacturing interests tof CLEVELAND CITY FLAG SIGNER. the city, and in the opposite corner aro the anchor, windlass and cars, repre senting the marine interests. In the lower half of tho shield i3 a wreath of: laurel inclosing tho figures 179S, the date of the founding of the city. Tho flag was designed by Miss Susie E. Hepburn, a fair resident of Colum bus, who is a graduate of tho Cleveland Art school and of a New York art school. She won the first prize of $50; offered by Tho Plain Dealer for the most! appropriate design in a competition! with 30 others. Mayor McKisson was chairman cf the committee that made' tho award, and expressed himself aa highly pleased with tho new standard! which symbolizes the municipality of! Cleveland. j El 00m era In Japan. The 'all ccnauermsr bicvele has in vaded Japan and is now a familiar sight in the land of th9 'rickshaw. The Euro peans take to it kindly, and the little brown men and women are equally en thusiastic. The government has equipped many of its postmen with roadsters, especially thoso w ho deliver mail in the suburbs or in the country districts. In each brigade a bicycle corps has boon formed who aro daily drilled in about the same style as similar organi zations in tho armies of Europe. The Japanese people themselves still regard the wheel as a great curiosity, but are beginning to both master and manufacture1 it. Somo of tha Japanese women, says an unkind writer, have adopted a queer bi cycle costume that is a combination of the bloomers with the native drors. It is neither Japanese nor European. Com bined with the upper part cf the kimono costumo the Japanese ladies clothe their nether limbs in what are neither knick erbockers, trousers, souavca nor bloom ers. The ludicrous effect i3 heightened by the girl having a national habit cf turn ing the toes in developed to its largest extent. A 11 that you see when she passes yon is a pair cf round and pretty heels wabbling in an uncertain manner and a little body coiled up that makes yon think of a gay little monkey on top of a rml(. San Francisco Examiner. AXD ITS D3- Blft 1 Qcart Hoar, 1 eeltspocaful salt, 1 6ltspoon ful ground nntiueg or ciunamon, & rounding tea epoonfals baking powder, together. Beat 2 eges; add lenp sugar, 1 enp milk, 2 teaspoonfnls melted Cottoiene. &tir theso in the Hoar, roll and cct into shape. Havo kettle full cf Cottoiene at jnst the right heat and fry the donghnuta in it for S minutes. . must be iot, but don't' let it I or it will burn. To find if j into it a single drop of water, p heat, the water will .pop. 1 fleer' t head in cotton-plant tereath on every tin. - Produce Exchange, N. Y., 224 State St, Bestoa. 3