Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 238, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1900 — Page 14

HEYS, .OF- STAGE PEOPLE

ATTTl A CTIOXS AT TIin; PARK AXD E3IPIRL: T11KATCHS THIS WCUK. Interesting: Gonalp of Thoie Who Sinke Their Living on tho Theatrical Hoard. Con T. Murphy's beautiful romantic Irish comedy drama, "The Game Keeper," will b presented at the Park Theater to-mor-rorr, Tuesday and Wednesday for the first time In Indianapolis. Tho title of the play teems a happy thought. sincc it prepares an audience for an atmosphere at once new, ttrange and fascinating. No country in the world possesses so much material from which dramatists may draw romantic interest as the Emeral isle, where the line between aristocrat and pauper is drawn with startling sharpness. Derry Doolan, the hero of the play, 13 impersonated by the clever singing and dancing comedian. Smith O'Brien, who starred seven seasons in V. II. Powers's "Ivy Leaf," also from the pen of Mr. Murphy. "The Game Keeper" is Interwoven with diverse and characteristic threads of human interest. Some of the stage pictures portray the life of tho Celtic aristoracy where high breeding and wealth entail the same keen rorrowa as are found In the homes of the poor. Quite a vein of comedy runs through the play humor both of scene and characterand many agreeable touches of rough and ready fun kept within reasonable bounds will be noted. Mr. O'Brien will be supported by a company of uniform excellence, according to the claim made by the managers Messrs. Rowland and Clifford. One of the striking stage settings is the view of the O'Neill Castle of Dublin county, Ireland, and another unique and hand?ome picture is that, of the historic Dublin Chapel. "The Game -Keeper" will be presented at both matinee and night performances until Thursday. "The Woman In Black." Thursday. Grattan Donnelly's political melodrama, The Woman In Black," is the Park's ofleMng for tho. latter half of . the present week, beginning with the matinee Thursday. The play is new in popular priced houses. Its story i3 described as a romantic one, with strong "heart interest," well told and cleverly constructed. It skirts the verge of politics, thus avoiding the danger of boring the people. Kach act culminates In a strong climax. The author has endeavored to portray certain phases of city life in a graphic manner, and to that end had reproduced several sensational scenes which will no doubt command more than ordinary attention. The scenery carried with the production is said to be very artistic, and the effects are claimed to be exceptionally fine. A prominent feature is the Juggling act of De Ilollis and Valora. Other specialties will be contributed by Joseph D. Clifton, V. M. Roe, Charles Mortimer, Dorothy Grey, Helene Bailey, June Agnott and Josephine Valora. As a special feature for Thursday night's performance a leased wire will be run into one of the boxes of the theater from which an operator will receive fresh news of the McCoy and Corbett fight the last to occur in New York State prior to the expiration of the famous Horton boxing law. Don Tons at tho Empire. Empire Theater patrons will no doubt turn out In large numbers to-morrow afternoon, the occasion of the opening of, the season at thl3 popular vaudeville house. The Bon Ton Burlcsauers will be the attraction, and they will be here the entire week, with dally matinees. On Thursday night there will be an additional attraction, as Manager Zimmerman has arranged to receive returns by wire from the Mc-Coy-Corbett fight. It is claimed for the Hon Tons that their show is arranged for laughing " purposes, being full of droll comedians, besides graceful dances, magnificent scenery and irresistible music, also tallets and maidens who are comely of face and figure. The performance is a fa tire entitled "A Jamboree." which fairly scintillates with humor and song, and is made doubly joyous by the introduction of an olio of novelties by such vaudeville ftars as Gladys Van, the red soubrette; tShayne and Worden, laugh creators; Barrett brothers, witty Irishmen; Viola Sheldon, termed the queen of song; Byron and Langdon, -travesty stars; Dave Nowiin, mimic, and Mile. Dazzla, who Is the principal figure in the latest dance creation. Since the close last spring the stage of the Empire has been remodeled and the house has been generally overhauled. Thratrlcal at Home It has been definitely decided to opn the Grand Opera House for the stock company season state fair week. Gladys Van, who comes to the Empire Theater this week with the Bon Ton BurIfsquers, was last year with "A Bag Time Reception" company, and the year before with the Bowery Burlesquers. The Sipe and Barton Dog, Poney ami Monkey Show, claimed to be the Hrgcst attraction of its kind touring" the, theaters of the country. i-s booked for the Park all ct next week with dally matinees. xxx Louis Gerard has arrived in the city to take the part of Einstein in Barclay Walker's opern, "The Minister Extraordinary," which will he put on at the Grand Opera Hcuse Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with matinee the latter dite. Sept. 7 and Th enst of the opera is now complete and rehearsals have progressed far enough to justify a statement that thr? X'iece will afCord fine entertainment for the public. , The Sinter at Lnrsf. Eleanor Franklin will be with Charles II. Clark? reduction of Victorien Sardou's Fedora" this season. Katherine Rober opens her repertory season at thp Grand Opera House, Wilmington, Del., to-morrow night. X X XXX Lillian FluFfU made her debut at Tony Pastor New York theater in 10. Mi?s Ilusseli Is evidently "not as young as she Used to be." xxx Flo Irwin, in her comedy, "Miss Kidder," this season will be supported by Walter Hawlry. John Ward. W. E. Butterficld and May Howard. XXX Rose Melville's rural play, "Sis Hopkins." has been revised by its authors, Carroll Fleming and Edward E. Rose, for her forthcoming tour. xxx Thomas Q. Seabrooke is reported to be rontf xnp'ating a starring tour this season In 'The Bounders." under the management of Samuel K. Kork. XXX Edith II inkle, a very pretty young society woman of Kansas City, win have a prominent role in Harry Corson Clarke's new play. "What Did Tompkins Do?" xxx A pleasing bit of vaudeville news Is that Stuart, the nauseating "Male Patti.' has returned to London. Mr. Stuart. It seemed, was a trife "strms" for New York theatergoers. XXX Madge Lessing has signed with Francis Wilson to replace Minnie Ashley in the new comic opera which is now to be called "The Monks of Malabar," instead of the hideous title "Booloo Bool Boom." xxx Judith Hathaway U the nam assumed by tn actress who is said to have considerable fame and who will be a member of Henry Jewett's supporting cast In "The Choir Invisible" this season. X A X Beatrice Moreland. a well-known vaudeTille etar, is back from a European tour,

with tT7o sketches bought in rv,ris and two secured in London, which she will present in vaudeville houses in this country. xxx Thomas M. Beynolds, formerly with the local stock company, is said to have successfully played Tom Bassett in "Hands Across the Sea," recently produced by the McCullum stock company rear Portland, M. XXX The permanent address of Miss Lavinla Shannon (Mrs. Giles Shine), leading woman of the local stock company for two seasons past, is the New Amsterdam Hotel. New York, where she invites offers of engagements. xx x Mabel Amber, former leading woman with Nat Goodwin, later with James K. Hackett in "Rupert of Hentzau," has signed t play a part in Joseph Haworth's new play, "Robert of Sicily," written by Grace Livingstone Furniss. xxx Miss Lucille La Verne was recently seen by several Indianapolis friends, who report the actress as In a very serious condition. Her recovery from the surgical operation which she underwent in a private sanitarium in New York is very slow. xxx Frank Daniels is reported to have paid J120 for a box at the Ruhlln-Fitzsimmons prise fight and besides to have placed ISO on a "straight tip" that Ruhlin would win. He now declares that he and all others who bet on such contests are "suckers." xxx Herbert Gresham, who was for a long time Augustln Daly's stage manager, has been engaged to attend to the staging of Joseph Arthur's new play, "Lost River," end Henry. E. Dlxey's starring piece, "Adventures of Francois," also to play a part in the latter production. XXX Eleanor Robson is to play Bonlta Canby in "Arizona" this season. She will also appear In the special production of Browning's poetic play "In a Balcony," which Mrs. Sarah Cowell Lo Moyne and Otis Skinner are to present fcr a short time at Wallack's, New York, in October. XXX Henry Guy Carleton, playwright, author cf "A Gilded Fool." "Butterflies," "The Lion's Mouth" and other successful plays, is also an inventor of no mean pretensions. Three office' doors In the large St. James building. New York, bear the sign "Carleton Electric Company," a concern of which the dramatist is the head and front. XXX "A Suit of Sable," a new play by Charlotte Thompson, a California playwright of some note, was given its first production on any stage by the Alcazar stock company of San Francisco Aug. 13. Florence Roberts (Mrs. Lewis Morrison), who was seen at English's Opera House last season in "Frederick the Great." took a leading part and made a pronounced hit. AMPHION CLUB'S PLANS.

Some Great Musical Artists Expected the ConilnR Season. The musical season threatens to open within a few weeks in a manner calculated to make the citizens of Indianapolis wonder if they are not living in a real metropolis, such as New York. Philadelphia or Chicago. "Wc are going to have some of the greatest musical artists to be found in this or other countries next season," said John .Wainwright, of the Amphlon Club. "We did pretty well by the people of this city last season and they reciprocated in a most gratifying manner. We mean to repay the confidence they so generously bestowed upon us by giving them the best there is to be had in a musical way. We have not completed our plans yet, but I can say this much, that wc will give three concerts next season which will be regular 'eye-openers.' New York may have more great artists than Indianapolis next season, but none of them will be more brilliant. The Amphion Club believes firmly in Indianapolis as a good music town and our experience last season justified our belief. We do not propose to spare either expense or labor to make our musical events the coming season the greatest ever held in the city. Our director. Prof. Ernestinoff, will begin active rehearsals the 12th of next month. Before that time we intend to give a 'prairie chicken supper' in order to get the 'boys' in good trim for the season's work. I do not know the plans of any other musical organization, but I have no doubt they will try to equal if rot surpass our efforts. Well, the more the merrier. I am for Indianapolis first, last and all the time and I think the best is none too good for her." Local Knights of Pythfa.3 Lodge No. 56 is about to institute a new order of proceedings by inaugurating a series of "social sessions" to be held at their lodge rooms at frequent intervals. The first of these meetings will likely occur early next month. For the purpose of grousing renewed interest in the lodge, a quartet composed of M. Morris Meek. W. E. Daggett, C. D. Green and Harry Ballard has been organized and will furnish sprightly musical programmes for the "social meetings." Jnntire to Mrs. Wilcox. R. M. Field, in Chicago post. An indignant Badger writes to us complaining of our inexcusable blunder In accrediting Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox to the commonwealth of Michigan, and demanding an apology and correction. We are vastly chagrined by this act of heedlessness and by the knowledge that our error has brought pain and annoyance to our good friends in Wisconsin. The Century Dictionary of Names most unjustly makes no mention of Ella, but Allibone's Dictionary of Authors and that grand repository of contemporaneous distinction. Who's Who in America, unite In the assertion that Ella was born at Johnstown Center, Wis., "about 1S4.V from which we may safely estimate that she has put in nearly fifty-six years of usefulness and poetic philanthropy. While earnestly endeavoring to atone for cur unintentional act of injustice, we may call attention to certain writings which have immortalized the lady and dispensed much happiness and beneficence, notably "PonmB of Pleasure," "Poems of Passion." "A Double Life." "Sweet Danger," "Perdita." "An Erring Woman's Love." And we think we may with propriety quote the opinlcn of the Nation as to Mrs. Wilcox's literary trend, an opinion expressed quite twenty years ago: "When Mis3 Wheeler writes simply and calmly, keeping on her own ground of life and experience, she is strong." We must dissent from this expression. It seems to us that calmness and simplicity are not Ella's strong points; that In point of fact she Is strongest when she gives free rein to her surging emotions and opens the floodgates of her impetuous nature. The two typical daughters of Wisconsin were Ella and Rose of Dutcher's Coollv. Rose came to Chicago and cooled off. while Ella went to Connecticut and continued to surge and boil, greatly to the stimulation of our national literature. We trust that these biographical facts will appease our friends, the Badgers, and vindicate us. As for the Wolverines, they need not feel distressed, for have they not still the incomparable Julia Moore, the sweet slnzc n Michigan? Here is also a reclr for some simple coughdrops: Boil two pounds of granulated sugar, one-half pint of water and one-quarter teaspoonful of cream of tartar to the foit crack degree. Keep the sides of the saucepan clear. Add a half pound of fine fresh butter and one-half ounce of ground ginger: let boil to the hard-crack degree, turn out on to a large platter when cool enough to turn up the edges, add twentv drops of good lemon extract and half an ounce of best ground tartaric acid; work the whole well together, pull It out and cut up into cushions with a pair of scissors. These may be bottled, dusted with a little powdered sugar to keep them from sticking. The Dec Hive. A steadily increasing business has caused L. E. Morrison & Co. to seek a more commodious building across the street to No. 21 West Washington street, where thev now occupy three extensive floors. The firm carries a large line of trunks and sample cases of their own manufacture, beside a complete line of rubber goods.

FOR FEMININE READERS

3IE!S AXD YV03IES TO FLEE FR05I BECAUSE THEY LACK TACT. Little Gift to Make the NearlyFledged College Girl Happy Hints of Coming: Fashions. "That woman! She Is a Doomsday book." Then, of course, says Dorothy Maddox, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, I was all curiosity to know what on earth a sobriquet like this could mean when bestowed upon a very genial, sprightly sister, a type which seemed to an outside observer hall-fellow-well-met with everybody. I could hardly attribute the criticism to Jealousy. The lady who emphatically saddled her friend with so weird a title was to my mind the handsomest specimen of womanhood In our neighborhood. "What, Dorothy, do I mean? Simply that nobody can escape that memory of hers. It can go sliding back to the dark ages. I knew her when we were children together. She Is everlastingly traveling back to scenes and events that make a female Methuselah of me. I haven't so much vanity, but it is enough to make anybody feel an ancient and honorable to have to stalk along over a quarter of a century to please her. I wouldn't mind if I didn't know I looked years and years younger than I really am. I just begin to get comfortable in my mind when along comes that memory, and promptly it is set In working order for my benefit. For instance, we were on the piazza of my cottage the other night when, just as I had begun to think life very agreeable, up chirped that woman with: " 'Delia, you arc a remarkable woman, one of the most remarkable I have ever known. You might marry a man of thirty and nobody would ever call you a "baby snatcher." How do you manage to keep so youthful?' "Now, wasn't that a pretty sort of a tirade to dish up for a couple of men I liked and three women laughing in their sleeves over my blushes. I am confident Mrs. Blank Is not spiteful. If I thought that I would not have her around. She positively thinks she is doing a politic thing to make remarks of this kind. What can one do? To resent her doddering blunders is to show at once that I am sensitive in the matter of age. She always takes an unfortunate time to search about in her mind for data. If there is a crowd around, then it is that she suddenly fastens her eye upon me, and. looking me over as if I were a prize pig, lets fly her unfortunate compliments. No doubt about it, she thinks she is complimentary. Well, perhaps it is spite work. I know one thing, I dread her as I would the seven years' itch." The "doomsday book" lady is only one of many. She and men as well are given to memorizing in such a style that they exasperate where they really intend to natter. I heard a man tell a woman the other evening before a whole roomful of people that she looked younger than she did fifteen years ago. The voice was strident. It reached to every niche of the apartment. There was a general lull in conversation and curious glances searched the poor, embarrassed face and figure of the tormented one for flaws. She felt it. Any one could see that she was overwhelmed with confusion. The man intended to be very nice. He really wanted to say something that would please. There surely wasn't a mean thought in his mind. Indeed, petty smallnesses such as women indulge in do not belong to men. Dear, blundering souls, they arc given to Faying the wrong thing at the wrong time. There is in the whole calendar of their shortcomings no one remark so wretchedly out of taste as that one which hints at the flight of time. I havs often warned my brothers against that common pitfall which men stumble into because of their intense desire to mako home woman they admire give them admiration in return. I would no more dare comment on the youthfulness of a woman than I would put my hand. in the jaw of a. lion. The moment I did so I should feel I had insulted her. because if she is youthful enough to be young looking there can be no need for surprise. If my admiration arose from astonishment at the cleverness of arts which could disguise the devastating,! ecords of time neither she nor I would care to open a discussion upon her adroitness. Say all the pleasant things you may wish to people. Do not have the bad taste to rub self-complacency against the grain. Sleeves nnd Wraps. New York Evening Tost. Rumor says that sleeves are to be a degree fuller, or, at least, the shoulder point is to be accentuated by a return to cqaulets, small caps, etc. This is agreeable news to many, for few women appear to advantage in sleeves devoid of any sort of trimming or fullness on the shoulders. The fashion of extending the yoke, so as to cover a portion of the upper arm, gives a cramped and often careless look to the waist. Transparent yokes and sleeves have been greatly used this season, but they are in bad taste for the street, and so worn, have in most instances looked vulgar. A thin "lining" of chiffon has frequently been laid beneath the transparent yoke and sleeve fabric, but this slight addition has not mitigated in any great degree the ballroom appearance of these diaphanous portions of the street waists made wholly of ret or lace. The autumn will bring a great many handsome full-length wraps, and a number of half-length, three-quarter, and jacket styles, reaching a few inches below the waist, and variously shaped and adjusted. Yet the long list will not, by any means, bo completed without an exceedingly fair show of models so familiar for seasons past, which do not any more than reach the waist-line, and often come short of it by several inches. These Eton or bolero styles, to many fashionable people, are still considered quite the smartest jackets that can be devised, and they have now reached a perfection of cut and fit even among the ready-made costumes that it would be difficult for the most fastidious to criticise. A large number of black French cheviot, English serge and Venetian cloth suits lined with black silk and trimmed with black braid and tailor buttons have the Eton jacket en suite, and this jacket has often long-pointed or slightly wider tablier fronts, making It a garment of service to wear with other gowns. Besides these black models will be no end of distinctive styles, which will be made to wear with any gown. In soft fawn cloth, made cn a pattern between an Eton and a military style, fastened at the throat, but with partly loose fronts, is one charming model that is finished with military braid, edged on either side with a very narrow gilt braid. It comes" just below the waist in the back, the sleeves and revers are small, and the whole effect is exceedingly trim and smart. But whatever length or style may prevail, each model in the autumn display will continue to show a close, taut effect below the waist-line, with no revival of box-plaits at the back, or a superfluity of fabric waved, godeted, or undulated about the hips. Gift for the College' Girl. Philadelphia Telegraph. The Slrl who is going away to college this year for the first time is beginning to get her things together. It is a very important event in a youngr grirl's life, at least it seems so to her at the time. She will find when the third and fourth year roll around that it is not half so momentous as she thought. But just now it occupies her to the exclusion of everything else. Of course, her relatives and friends are equally Interested. She sees to that. In fact, it would be impossible not to be interested, with such a bubbling, effervescent, electrical bit of youth around to keep them constantly stirred up. She talks of her, plans, of her studies, of her future career the latter with a sober, reflective light in her eye of her dresses, and of all the home things she means to take with her. And then, if vou have a youthful, sympathetic heart, you are sure to think of lotnething nice to ghe her. She will get pretty blue and homesick once In a while, and it will take a whole lot of such keepsakes to prevent her from packing her

trunk and silently stealing away to . the familiar hearthstone. Among the thins that will be welcome are photograph frames Innumerable. The amount of photos a college girl collects is legion. First and foremost, she takes with her tho pictures cf all the home folk. To these she adds the likenesses of the faculty, and If she have any favored among the teachers possibly two or three photos of these in different styles of portraiture. Then, of course, her college chums must have a place in her gallery, so that albums, photo cases, and all manner of pretty devices for holding these treasures will be welcome. Then the girl who goes to college for the first time wants pretty things to fix up her room. The walls are so bare and the corners so uncanny that she can hardly wait to unpack her trunks to begin making it look cozy and livable. Pictures, sofa cushions, books, bits of drapery, anything, in fact, In the decorative line will be welcome. Articles for the youthful student's desk aro likewise received most effusively, and many pretty trifles are to be found In this line, tt she be musical, another field is opened for the Intending gift maker to explore. Books of favorite authors are welcome, especially poetry, for this is the poetical age of maidens. It is a pretty fashion to give the young girl thus starting on a sojourn among strangers some simple little gift, and when she is far away from familiar sights and sounds, surrounded by a bevy of strangers, they bring a peculiar joy to the heart far above the gifts' Intrinsic value. She sees not the gift Itself, but the thought back of it and the dear home one that gave it, and for the moment a glimpse of home and its associations drowns out the immediate surroundings and is potent in keeping the youthful mind true and steadfast to home influences and teachings. The Color of Yonr Eyes. New York Commercial Advertiser. When eyes have dazzlingly blue "whites" an impulsive temperament is told; if they become less white sometimes, clouding with yellow, an attack of evil temper is coming on, and the individual is best avoided until her eyeballs return to their usual condition. Hazel eyes are the safest, especially those in which the brown predominates. Talent, wit, energy of disposition, originality of thought, sincerity, balanced tempers, self-control, common sense, unselfishness are generally possessed by the owners of such eyes. . Pale, cold looking, steady blue eyes denote chilly, stern, obstinate, often selfish natures and absence of warm feelings. Rare dark blue and deep gray eyes go with amiable, often noble, characters without any especial gifts of intellect or strength of will. Restless eyes denote a false, designing, self-ashamed disposition and malicious intention into the bargain if their shade is greenish. A brown-eyed woman whose eyes are restless has probably allowed her warm feelings to lead her into falseness of which she is repentant. Roving, unsteady pale blue eyes signify a character that is all for self and self's passionate attachments to things or creatures, not wholly bad nor genuinely good, very attractive, In all probability a pleasing and very demonstrative friend, but not entitled to one atom of reliance.

Hair Curling Triumph. Philadelphia Press. The funny man must give up another field prolific of many humorous paragraphs at woman's expense! Curl papers, crimping pins, kid rollers, and the like have long afforded him much material whereon to sharpen his wit, and1 he has even gone so f,ar as to consider them sufficient grounds for divorce. But they are now things of the past, for they have been ousted by a new device that does the work equally well and is decidedly pretty in the bargain. The new arrangement consists of a hollow tube, about three inches long, with a narrow silt its entire length. Through this tube a piece of ribbon is run with the ends left hanging. The hair is then wound tightly around the tube, the ribbon brought up through the slit, the ends tied In a pretty bow, the tube slipped out, and there you are. Another piece of ribbon Is inserted In the tube, and it is ready for the next lock. When the operation Is finished the face is surrounded by a bewitching row of little bows, which are vastly becoming and much more comfortable to sleep on than any of the aforetime means of acquiring wavy tresses. Now that such a method has been discovered, every one wonders that It was so long in coming. ., . . ',-.7 - : "Where Men Fail us Lovers. Woman's Home Companion. There are few girls who do not cherish the idea that they could manage the minor points of courting far better than the majority of men. In an engagement the feminine genius for detail comes out at its strongest. Perhaps the girl does not appreciate the man's lack in this regard during the weeks and days preceding the momentous hour when the great question is asked and answered. Possibly the flutter oi uncertainty, the glamour of expectancy, renders her oblivious to minor matters. But when the affair is settled, when the agreeable amble of engagement that prefigures the jog trot of matrimony is fairly under way, she has time to, observe trifles. It is at this point of the proceedings that one man in one thousand scores the success of his life. The other nine hundred and ninetynine put in their time, all unconsciously. In teaching their fiancees. to get the better of their Ideals; for an Ideal of this period of life is an essential part of every young woman's equipment. Charity "Work, for Women. Mrs. John Sherwood, in Harper's Bazar. Much wrong is done in the sacred name of charity in taking up a poor girl, giving her an undue idea of her talents, sending her to Paris to study singing, telling her she will be a great prima donna, and then deserting her if she fails. It is just then that she needs charity, and tho person who is able to give should investigate such cases. Sometimes a poor girl has a superior voice, and is able to excite envy. She Is hounded out of her place by some one who cannot sing as well as she does. Such a person lifted up to the highest hopes, dropped to the lowest rung o despair, is the person to help. She needs that twenty fairs be given for her. Do not let her starve. The forgotten artist who is so poor, so old. so hungry, it is her picture which should be raffled for. And. above all. have the charity of the heart for those who are attacked. There is more need of a little kind incredulity sometimes than for much money. Odds and Ends. Slight draperies have taken the place of plaitings on some of the few early autumn dress skirts sent over as models from both Paris and London. To remove the tops of fruit jars that cannot be started by hand slip a cloth in very hot water and apply to the outside of the cap; this will cause it to expand. Empty spools are nice to use to hang towels and clothing on. Drive nails through them, so the head will sink in the end of the spool. No danger of rust in using them. It is a mistake, according to a dermatologist, to leave cold cream, even of the best quality, on the face over night. To do so has a tendency to enlarge the pores and thereby coarsen the skin. A butler's trick for polishing fine glass is, according to an exchange, to dust it over with a bag in which is a little powdered indigo or other blue. Afterwards the glass is rubbed hard with a piece of chamois. According to a cooking teacher, one teaspoonful of English breakfast tea should be allowed to each half pint of water. Have the teapot hot. the water freshly boiled, but stopped for a second before pouring it over. Never let grounds stand for more than fifteen minutes. j There has risen a sudden fad for the wearing of bright grass-green tulle or grenadine veils. They are worn frequently as a rather conspicuous halo around the hat and are seldom pulled down over the face. The upper ends are fastened with a single pin, und the lower portion of the veil flutters in the breeze. Shirt waists of soft sheer veiling, cashmere, and wool barege will fill up the interval between the linen and cotton styles of the summer and the cloth and French flannel waists for cold-weather wear. These light-wool garments are of plain fabric or striped or dotted with white, red, black or blue, in reveral distinct shades. A few advance French models received show a revived leaning towards 1S30 styles, a continuation of strapped effects, the use of mural cr cluny insertion lace, on elegant tailor costumes of Venetian, satin-faced and kid-finished cloths; surplice and double-breasted effects on bodices, and a slight becoming addition of fullness in the guise of light draperies. Vandyked points, lapping ruffles, tc,, at the top of the dress sleeve.

THE VOICE OF THE PULPIT

"NOBLESSE OBLIGE: THE CHOICEST FLOWER OF FEUDALISM. By Rev. S. W. Sample. D. D Pator of the Independent Congregational Chnrcli, Jamestown, X. J "Now, we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves." Romans xv, 1. - The maxim "Noblesse oblige" (nobility Imposes obligations) was the choicest flower at that half-black and half-white social tree known as feudalism. Feudalism was the form which European society by slow degrees assumed after the disruption of the Roman empire. It came into existence eomewherc in the tenth century, lasted for several hundred years, beginning to grow weak near the close of the fourteenth century, and reached its most perfect and symmetric development in France and Germany, the matured system attaining its last stage of progress In the latter country under Conrad the Salic about 1037. Feudalism may be defined in a tentative way as that politico-social system which practically divided society (save the royal households and the few townspeople there were) into the two classes of lords or nobles and the estateholders or serfs. The legal fiction which served as the basis of feudalism was that all the land originally belonged to the King, and that, on certain conditions,. It was given over by the King to his vassals, the nobles, and again given over by them, on certain conditions, to their vassals, the serfs. Unless the conditions were fulfilled the 4ands and all rights and privileges going with their trusteeship were forfeited back to their original owners. The characteristic distinction of the serf was his obligation to remain on his lord's estate. On the other hand, the noble could not detatch the serf from the estate, nor dispose of the one without at the same time änd to the same person disposing of the other. There was involved in feudalism a mutual contract of fidelity and protection. Certain obligations of service were laid upon the serf, but corresponding obligations of protection were imposed upon the noble. If these obligations were violated the serf forfeited his "fief" (or possession) and his claim to protection, the noble forfeited his dominion and his claim to allegiance. FEUDALISM, GOOD AND BAD. Like all other institutions begotten and developed upon this planet, feudalism was neither wholly divine nor wholly daemonic. It had Its good features and Its bad features. In estimating its worth to the world the student of history should not compare it with present-day civilization, but with the state of affairs which it supplanted. It was doubtless "the dirty water which fetched the pump" of social and political progress. The political principles of trial by peers and of taxation only by consent of the taxpayer were fruits which dropped from this tree, and, as the cautious Hallam affirms, it was owing to this system that the very names of right and privilege were not swept away in . Europe as they had been in Asia by the desolating hand of unchecked tyranny. On the other hand, there is no denying that the feudal system was a species of slavery which came to ruin because it was no longer tolerable. Two antipodal tendencies found shelter inside this system the tendency toward unlimited tyranny of the strong over the weak and the tendency toward complete human solidarity. Two antagonistic theories found standing room and more or less encouragement here. One theory was that the nobility were born to be served and the vassals born to do their pleasure and bear their burdens; the other theory was that nobility creates obligation and calls to service that nobles ought not to live solely to please themselves, but to bear the infirmities of the weak. These two theories have been bequeathed to the present time, and are now arraying their hostile forces in deadly warfare upon the nightless battlefield of human life. Should the theory that nobility creates .special exemptions and privileges' prevail, human society will be engulfed in desolation darker than that of buried Babylon. Should the theory that nobility creates obligation prevail, this earth of ours will be well prepared for its millennial era. The nobility of feudalism meant rank; but the term has been broadened to include every talent, every opportunity and every advantage, whether of character cr of circumstance, which it is possible for an individual to enjoy. Accepting this broader sense of the word nobility, it is my earnest cpnvfctton and positive affirmation that the most needful gospel for today is the simple truth that "nobility involves obligation." We rack our brains and torture our hearts over the sins of the ignorant, the vicious and the criminal; but the weightiest obstacles to the coming of Christ's kingdom are not down there, but up in the higher strata of society. Could we somehow get the culture, the wealth and the goodness of the world to live for one year as they ought, we could see our way clet.r to the solution of our most perplexing problems concerning the so-called dangerous classes. The power of the bad is the sleep of the good. "Noblesse oblige." Superior advantages involve superior obligations. All true mem bers of the nobility mxist be masters of the art of noble living. Knowledge, happi ness and virtue have no moral right to Isolate themselves from the Ignorance, wretchedness and sin of the world, but are called by their greater endowments to the work of bearing the infirmities of their weaker or needier brothers. The strong should serve the weak, the rich serve the poor, the cultured serve the ignorant, the happy serve the wretched, the good serve the bad. WEAKNESS FINDS HELP. There is at least one corner of the world in which strength now bears the burdens and washes the feet of weakness. This corner is the home. "Paradise," said Ma homet, "is at the feet of mothers." There it Is the law that the strong should not be self-pleasers, but should bear the weaknesses of the weak. The new born babe is king and all the members of the household hasten to enroll themselves in its royal service. They do not give it everything it cries for; they do not let its blind instincts override their far-seeing reason; but they do bend down their knowledge and strength In the service of its ignorance and weakness. They sacrifice their pleas ures for its good ana nna their highest happiness in so doing. When people come fully to understand that the entire human race constitutes but one family, that which Is now the law of all true homes shall become the law of all human life, and all the strong shall become knights in a new chivalry t all the world's nobility shall brood helpfully, sacrificlngly and savingly over all the world's weak ones as the true mother broods over her helpless babe. There are two theories of wealth. One regards wealth as an opportunity for enlarged self-indulgence, for exemption from duties which others must perform, for shifting all heavy burdens upon somebody else's shoulders. The noble conception is that wealth Is a call to augmented worldservice and enlarged human helpfulness. There are also two theories in regard to mental culture. One theory makes culture nothing better than refined selfishness; only a more delicate method of selftitulation than getting drunk. The other regards culture as simply the equipment of the Individual for the better battling against injustice and the better service ot weakness. The culture which degenerates into coldness thereby brands upon its own forehead the scarlet letter which stands as the initial of counterfeit. Again, there are two theories of religious liberalism. One theory regards liberalism as meaning exemption from "vigor and rigor," from spiritual fervor and moral earnestness. The other regards true liberalem as the call to a broader faith, a nobler life and a Christlier love. It is not taking the easier way, but living the larger life. Its motto Is not "laisses faire." but "noblesse oblige." There are two theories of religion Itself. One regards the chief function of religion as the saving of one's own soul, whatever may become of-the world at Urge. The other regards the supreme mission of every truly religious life to bs the savins of

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2Friday night full telegraphic returns of j-yn ADVANCE White Buffalo's fiST Coming:, Aug. 27, Capt. WATER WONDERS. others from wrong-, from wretchedness, from woe. "Heaven's grate is shut to him who comes alone; Save thou a soul and it shall save thy own!" He Is nearest complete salvation, and he is noblest, who is most God-like; and God is the supreme servant of all. The best picture of.. Ood IS Christ washing the disciples feet.-. . Belong to such a nobility as that picture presents and there shall be yours to give, and to receive, a better cup of water than that wnich the wounded Sir Philip Sidney denied himself upon the battlefield of Zutphen in order to quench a dying soldier's thirst; even the cup of a Christly salvation, the very water of life itself. FIRST GAME OF BASEBALL. The Störy of the Genesis of the National Sport. Youth's Companion. Somewhere ahout 1S43 the first recorded match was played by a club just organized in New York city and called the Knickerbockers. "Baseball." or "base," or "rounders" had been played before by boys of all ages; but this club, formed doubtless because of the growing interest in the sport, is undoubtedly the first organization which really made the game a study and carried on regular practice and arranged regular matches. The game in New York was in many respects different from the one played In -Boston, 'but our present "old eat" is the basis of both. Boys had played "old cat" all over the country for forty years betöre the Knickerbockers ever thought of forming themselves into a club and making rules for the government of the sport. In New York there "were usually nine on a side;" but one good sportsman full of the joy of the game he must have been, too says that in Boston they usually played with six or eight men to a side. Then he goes on to say that "the 'pitching' or 'tossing' of a ball toward the batsman is never practiced (in New England) except by the most Juvenile players; and he who would occupy the post of honor as 'catcher must be able to catch expertly a swiftlydelivered ball or he will be admonished of his expertness by a request of some player to 'butter his fingers.' " In New York at this time the ball had to be pitched and could not be thrown, and so the Bostonlans not only put the New Yorkers to contempt, but really anticipated the present rule on that point. And it seems also that the catcher stood at from three to ten paces behind tthe "striker," as the batsman was called.' although there are some daring examples on record of catchers wjio stood as near the striker as they, could without coming within the radius of the swinging bat, which was usually wielded with one hand. This bat, by the way, was interesting in itself. It was most likely to be the stout handle of a rake or of a pitchfork cut to a length of from three to three and onehalf feet. The ball with which the Boston men played was from five and one-half to six ounces in weight and two and one-half to three and one-quarter Inches in diameter. It was made of yarn tightly wound round a lump of cork or India rubber and covered with smooth calfskin in quarters (as we quarter an orange), "the seams closed snugly and not raised, lest they blister the hands of the catcher and thrower." So far the games seem to have been more or less similar in New York and Boston, the two centers of the sport, and of course It should be borne In mind that the elements of the game, such as the striking, running of bases and so on. were in all places the same. But the Knickerbockers were the pioneers In the development of the game, and to them belongs the particular honor of the beginnings of system. Soon other clubs were formed and the number gradually grew. Just before the civil war there were perhaps two or three good clubs in Brooklyn, New York. Boston and a few other cities. The war, of course, brougnt the game to a stop, but after 1SC5 baseball started with renewed vigor and became so important and so popular that in the iirst acknowledged professional teams were organized and the National Baseball Association formed. And then began the really great American game. Sonc The night mas throbbing with rapture Its pulses ran full with lire. AnJ th tea for th moon above hr Sobbed her desire : Th pulpe In your hnt was stronger - Than the puis of the yearning sea But the heart of my heart kent beatinc. "It must not be." 4 ' The roses trembled with perfume ; That thrilled us with sweet unrest, . And a storm of passionate longing: Ached in my breast; A dove for some dear lost pulsion Mourned tenderly on the hillBut the heart f my hart kept beatln. "Hu?h! hush! Be stuT." 5' Each heard In the speech of the othr The throb of a troubled heart. For we knew that the hour was comlns When we must part: The soul in your e'es was drawing My soul, as the moon draws the setBut the heart cf my heart kept beatin. "It roust not be." O love, the yea have been lonely. And empty of all delight. Since we two parted forever That moonlit night! Eut still when rev soul Is achinr For the eyes and the lips of thee Tb heart ot my heart keeps heatm. "It mut not be." f Ella Hlgginson. in Home Comranion. According to Scrlptnre. Judge. ' Sunday-school Teacher Now. Johnny may tell us what the good book says about fishing on ßundajv Johnny Walton (somewhat uncertainly) The better the day. the better the deed.

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