Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 325, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1903 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, HOYEMBER 21, 1903.

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: Great Special Sale Stvlish Winter Coats j Best values that you'll be able to ftnd in this vicinity are here; belt because of their newness and stylishness, as well as best In price. These items we picked out at random for you to judge by. Children's and misses' Long vat?, made of zibellne, with full capes, box or plaited backs, puff sleeves, ages 6 to 14 years, choice of brown, preen, red, castor or blue, Saturday at $5, $5.98 to $10 Misses' Coat, in long and medium lengths, with the latest military cape effect, with brass or gunmetal buttons, choice of tan, castor, brown, red and black, gsiSg $12.50 Women's kersey or xibeline Coats, with military capes, halffltted backs, trimmed with fancy buttons. 32-inch length. Sdid. .value". .for. .$10.00 Women's fine kersey. Scoth mixture and zibeline Coats, with or without capes, choice of halffitted or box backs, satin lined, choice at $25.00. Cl (U 122.50. $18.50 Iö,uu Second Floor. A MILLINERY SATURDAY Saturday we will place on sale a new line of our popular trimmed lists that have been such a success this season; all the choicest effects in two lots, at, each 98c, $2.48 Genuine Beaver Hats, usually sold at $2.75, Saturday Äf special qU.-SD Imported Birds and Ostrich Tips, priced formerly to $2.50, as a special, Saturday, ASmn each. Second Floor. ole Agents Butterick Patterns. o if you pay morm than wo charge for repairing your Watch you pay too much. Main Springs SOc Cleaning SOo Crystals lOo Fletcher M. Noe, Jeweler. lOS Morth Illinois St. Accordion Dress Plaitings SUN BURST AND KNIFE ACCORDION PLAITING CO. Mrs. M. C. Page Room 8 Odd shows' Hide., Peno. A Wash. St Tel. Main 'i47 THE THEATERS. To-Day's Schedule. ENGLISH'S 'The County Chairman," 2:15 and 8:15 p. m. GRAND High-class vaudeville, 2:15 and 8:15 p. in. PARK "Hearts of Oak." 2 and 8 p. m. EMPI RE Burlesque. 2 and 8 p. m. I NiLE Vaudeville, 3 and 8 p. m. George Ade'a Clever Comedy. In "The County Chairman," presented before an Indianapolis audience for the first time last night at English's, George Aue aims higher than he has in the past, and his success in his undertaking strengthens the opinion that the promise of a characteristic American drama lies in such light pieces as he and Augustus Thomas and George H. Broadhurst are capable of writing, rather than In the pretentiously serious plays, in which still more pretentiously serious prospectors persistently seek it. "The County Chairman" impresses one as being a very meritorious piece of theatrical writing. The workmanship is, for the most part, skillful and neat; the lines are, as is to be expected of George Ade, unusually clever; so far as the story Itself is concerned, it borrows as little as possible from the ancient heaps of material for plays of its class, while the characters, situations and humor have a genuine and Individualised American flavor that is toiind tu appeal to the average American theater-goer. A large audience enjoyed the new play last night and it is safe to say that there Will be heavy attendance at tne performance this afternoon and the Anal performance this evening, for Ade and his works are much admired in Indianapolis, and there is a prevailing desire among- local playgoers to see this latest and most ambitious effort of the Indiana humurist. XXX In giving this piece to the American stage. Mr. Ade is to be especially congratulated us the author of a rural comedy that Is entirely free from the familiar farmyard accessories and other overworked "properties" and " business" of the usual bucolic drama. It cannot truthfully be said that his plot is an entirely new one, nor can it be said that the story he has to tell is absorbingly interesting. The value of the play lies in Its faithful presentation of mldwestern types, whose typical language and mannerisms become decidedly amusing when Interpreted by capable players. Mr. Ade has drawn his characters with remarkable fidelity, and, if the dramatic element is sometimes lacking in his p-'ay. there is surely no lack of entertaining dialogue. The play is nothing if not simple and straightforward. The story opens on the day of a political convention in the town of Antioch. the scene of the first act bting the open space adjoining the general merchandise store of one Vance Jimmtson. In a iieaiby town the delegates are ehoosii.t; a candidate for prow i uting attorney, to run against Elias Kigsby, a prominent citisen ho is not very popular. The good denizens of Antioch put In their spare time talking over the prevailing topus of the day until Jim Hackler. the county chairman, makes his appearance with the rnws that the convention, through shrewd management on his part, has nominated his young law partner. Tilford Wheeler. Everybody present is pleased save the young man himselt. for n hei ler has only a shoi t time before asked the daughter of the opposing candidate to become his wife. He agrees to accept the nomination, but declares he cannot make an open right. The second act occurs In the courthouse grove of Antioch. The feminine inhabitants of the town decorate the speakers' stand with bunting and flags for the 0pSjB lng of the campaign, and after a while the candidates and voters of both parties arrive Qsl the scene, together with the "marching club, the town's much-admired drum corps, the school girls "who i paw sent the States in the procession, and all the other participants in the campaign. This Is the great scene of the play and is productive of no tnd of gocd fun. Judge Ktghy proceeds to challenge young Wheeler to a debate, but the latter refuses to berome invoiced In a heated argument with the father of the girl he loves. Rut when the Judge makes some remarks reflecting upon Wheeler's character the young candidate warms up. and. jumping upon .i convenient stump, lie deals out a scathing rebuke that bring abut a frve tight und breaks his engagement with his sw heart. X X The third act takes place in the county chairman's law office Just before the election. Jim Hackler. In looking about for "campaign material'' of the usual sort, has found our that Rlgby has em be axled some money that belongs to an orphaned girl, and. of course, he starts forth to .spread the story In an interview between Hacktor and Rlgby It develops that Rlgby s wife once a sweetheart of Hackler a. Dur

ing the civil war. while the two rivals were at the front, the unscrupulous Rigby had Intercepted some love letters meant for the other man. and. going home on a furlough, had succeeded tn winning the woman. The county chairman has always hated him for this contemptible action. But lust when he is going to give the story of the embezzlement to the editor of the newspaper Mrs. R'gby pleads with him to spare her the Fhame of It all and Hackler agrees to hold his tongue on her account. The last act is net so Mrong as the preceding three acts. It takes place in the town hall on election night and shows how young Wheeler is elected by a small majority and how he also wins back the girl Of his heart, while the father of his sweetheert is forced to take a back seat. "The County Chairman ' may not be a great play. but. as stated before. Ade fhows In it such undeniable ability for theatrical writing that there la hardly room for doubt that he will yet produce a drama that will place him In the foremost rank of American playwrights. I I I The company has been MTf carefully selected and It would be difficult, indeed, to rind players better suited to the parts. Maclyn Arbuckle at last has a role that suits him perfectly and as Jim Hackler, the county chairman, he is wholly successful. Mr. Arbuckle Is an actor who has been "miscast" time and again by managers who failed to recognize his strong points. Last season he was seen in Indianapolis In the support of the Irish comedian, Andrew Mack, and though he played his character in the old Irish comedy drama as well as it could have been played, one could not help but feel that he was cut out for better things. His opportunity has come in this new Ade play and he has been quick to grasp it. His impersonation of the shrewd country lawyer and practiced politician is one of the best pieces of character acting seen in this city in many a day. Earle Browne is good as Tillford Wheeler, though a little too heavy at times, and Charles Eisher does excellent work in the Intensely disagreeable part of Elias Rigby. Willis P. Sweatnam scores one of the most

pronounced hits of the play in a delightfully humorous portraiture of the negro, Sassafras Livingston, who, like the colored fellow that Frank L. Stanton once wrote about, manages to "lazy along through life in de way dat de Lawd meant fo' niggahs to do." There is no better impersonator of negro character on the stage than Sweatnam and his acting in this piece is perfect. Ed Chapman is seen to much better advantage as a "store-box orator" than he was when he supported Ezra Kendall last season in "The Vinegar Buyer," while W. J. Gross is capital as Uncle Eck. an old settler, who Insists upon talking of the pioneer times. The remaining male roles of Importance are well taken by George Ricketts, Harry Holman, Fred Bock, E. R. Phillips and Fred Santley, the latter a young bo, who shows much ability. A charming performance is given by Dallas Tyler in the part of Lucy, the sweetheart of the young candidate. Miss Tyler is pretty and graceful, with a voice of much sweetness, and everything she has to do is done well. Anna Buckley, as the orphan. "Chick" Elzev. furnishes some in imitable comedy scenes, and Rose Baudet, an excellent actress at all times, is good in the part of the commanding Mrs. Bris- ( oo. Grace Fisher is seen as a simpering milliner, who makes it a point to. become acquainted with all the "traveling gentlemen," and her work is among the several excellent character bits in the play. Christine Blessing does creditable acting in the small part of Mrs. Rigby. In fact, of the many speaking parts in the piece, not one of them is poorly interpreted. Scenlcally the piay is very attractive and the stage management is admirable from beginning to end. "The County Chairman" is, on the whole, such an enjoyable entertainment that it should be seen by all lovers of good, clean amusement. George Ade himself will arrive in Indianapolis to-day from French L.ick Springs, where he has been taking a short vacation, and will be present at the performance to-night to "look it over" before the production is taken to New York. The play will have its initial presentation in the metropolis next Tuesday evening at Wallack's Theater, and if it proves the success there that it was in Chicago, and that it was in Indianapolis last night, it will have a long New York run. Here's to its prosperity! Theatrical Motes. One of the most important characters in "Hearts of Oak," which closes its engagement at the Park with two performances to-day, is a genuine baby, about six months old. The one now in the cast was engaged on the word of its mother that "it never cried a bit." But yesterday afternoon the youngster nearly broke up the performance by crying at a critical point in the play. When the curtain went down the women of the company rushed to the Infant to see what was the matter. One said it might be a pin that was causing the trouble and another thought that perhaps the baby had missed its noonday meal. The baby continued to exercise its lungs until Leonard Clarke, who plays the part of Owen Garroway. took an old-fashioged watch from his pocket and said It was time for the next act to begin. At sight of the watch the baby "eased up." and then the truth of the matter dawned upon the mind of the actor. Of late he has been giving the baby the watch to play with while it is on the stage, but on this occasion Mr. Clarke had forgotten all about it. When the baby got hold of the watch it began to bill and coo at once and the performance had no further interruption. Clarke says that he never realized before what a valuable old time-piece he owns. KMX The Grand's bill next week will be made up of the following acts: Clayton White, Marie Stuart and Pauline Taylor, in the farcical comedietta, "Paris;" the Four Nightons, celebrated European acrobats; the two Dillon Brothers, considered the best of all parody singers: Sailor and Barbaretto. In a comical sketch called "The Man and the Pink Pa jama Girl;" Harry M Parker with his troupe of trained dogs; Mazuz and Mazette. comedy acrobats and gymnasts; Humbert)-, a juggler from Europe, in a new and novel exhibition; Charles Merritt and May Rozella, in a singing sketch called "A Put-up Job," and the blograph with a brand-new assortment of moving pictures. Hyde's Comedians will give their last two performances at the Grand to-day. The show has proved a most entertaining one and has drawn large audiences. xxx The sale of seats for the Mabel McKinley Vaudeville Company, which comes to English's next Monday and Tuesday nights, is now in progress at English's. It is understood that, besides Miss McKinley, there will be seven high-class acts in the entertainment. English's will have four attractions in all for Thanksgiving week. After the vaudeville show Lewis Morrison comes for Wednesday afternoon and evening performances in "Faust." He will be followed by Rose Coughlan. who will give a Thanksgiving matinee and evening performance of the society play, ' The Greatest Thing in the World." Mary Mannerlng. one of the most beautiful and talented young actresses on the American stage, will be the final attraction of the week, coming for three performances, opening Friday night, of Clyde Fitch's play, "The Stubbornness of Geraldlne. ' xxx The greater portion of the plays now being presented on the New York stage are the works of English authors, while other productions, written by Americans, have a distinct English flavor. America continues to bow down to everything English in a theatrical way, while in England they will have nothing to do with American theatrical attractions. It Is only the American vaudeville performers who can succeed in London. George Fuller Golden, the monologist. is about the only really popular American entertainer on the other side of the ocean at the present tim . xxx Hart P. Danks, a musical composer of national repute and formerly a noted singer, was found dead yesterday in his boarding house in Philadelphia. He was seventynine years old. and vsas the composer uf manv old-time popular songs. Including "Don't b Angry with Me. Darling. " and Silver Threads Among the Gold." He also wrote much church music and was at various times connected as director or basso soloist with prominent churches In New York. Brooklyn. Chicago and Cleveland. xxx Roy Fairchlld. a member of Ezra Kendall's company, seen at English's Thursday night, is not much of an actor, but snms that he is something of a i!a - wrlght. He has just written a little vaudeville sketch called Jimmy's Experiment. " which promises to prove successful. The one-act play is being act ad in Chicago, by Vulerb Bergere. the bright little com dl ii!ie sen here at the I rand last season in 'Billy's First Love."

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL NEWS

Miss 8ara Mayo will return to-day from a week s visit with friends In Chicago. Miss Adele Wallick left yesterday to spend a month with friends in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Harold O. Smith have taken possession of their apartment in the Colonial. Miss Marie Evans, who was the guest of Miss Voss, returned yesterday to her home in Noblesville. The Fhilomathean Club met yesterday afternoon with Mrs. C. B. King on North Pennsylvania street. Miss C hanute. of Chicago, is the guest of Mrs. N. L Williams and Mrs. C. N. Bushnell at the Victoria. Miss Eunice Hunter has returned to her home in Terre Haute after a short visit with her sister, Mrs. Drum. Mrs. Charles E. Ford, of Chicago, arrived yesterday to spend a few days with her sister. Mrs. Frank Newcom. Mrs. Alexander Drysdale, who spent a fortnight with Mrs. Newton Todd, has returned to ner home in Louisville. Mrs. Helen Bullock, of Elmira, N. Y.. is spending a few days with Mrs. William T. Brown, en route to California for the winter. Mr. Louis Eward. of Qreensburg. wiil come to attend the German Ladies' Aid Soci. ty charity ball w xt Wdnesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wilmington will give a winter picnic this evening In honor of their guest, Mrs. W. L. King, of Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. King and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dickhut will go to Cold Spring Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving with relatives. Miss Estelle Butterworth, of Laporte, Ind., is visiting her cousin, Miss Bessie Holman, at Mrs. D. M. Elliott s, 2231 Talbot t avenue. Miss Dorothy Jungclaus, who has been with friends in Tarrytown, N. Y.. since returning from a two years' visit abroad, has returned home. Mr. Rollin T. Veitch. of Reading. Pa., has arrived to Join Mrs. Veitch, who is spending a month with her sister, Mrs. Cassius Hadley. Mrs. Von Starkloff. who Is the guest of her sister. Mrs. Louis Hollweg, will return the latter part of next week to her home in St- Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Dill and children, of Richmond, will arrive next week to spend a fortnight with Mrs. Dill's parents, Judge and Mrs. Lewis C. Walker. Mrs. James Townley, who was the guest of Mrs. A. D. Thomas for a few days, left yesterday for a visit in Terre Haute before returning to her home in Kansas City. Mrs. John M. Gaston has returned from a visit of several months abroad. Her daughter. Miss Gaston, who accompanied her, will remain in Paris through the winter. Mr. Earl and Mr. Joseph Minor, Mr. Reginald Hughes, Mr. Charles Rauh. Mr. Owen Finney and Mr. Rudy will return next week from Purdue to spend their vacation at home. Mrs. W. D. Cooper entertained a family party at luncheon yesterday to celebrate her birthday anniversary. Special guests were her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Chambers, of Danville. Mrs. George Bailey entertained Informally at luncheon at the Columbia Club yesterday for Mrs. John Browne aad Mrs. Thomas Browne, of Columbus. O., who are visiting Mrs. W. E. Maxwell. Mrs. Edward Nell and Miss Martha Henderson entertained thirty friends at euchre yesterday afternoon. Among the guests were Mrs. Everett, of Biiffalo, and Mrs. Adams, of Chicago, visiting the Misses Minor. Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Smith, of North Meridian street, entertained their neighborhood club Thursday evening, the guests including Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Deprez. Mr. and Mrs. Saylor and Mrs. Bert Swain, of Shelbyville. Miss Electra Chase, of Wabash, is spending a few days with Mrs. A. J. Clark and Mrs. Frank Wells. Miss Chase had charge of an enjoyable entertainment, a Tom Thumb wedding, which was given last night by the small children of the Central Christian Sunday-school. Miss Elizabeth Defrees entertained a few friends with an informal thimble party yesterday afternoon in honor of Miss Lily Wilson, of New Rochelle, N. Y., who Is visiting Miss Florence Jones, and Miss Cecelia Lopez, of Charleston, S. C, the guest of Miss Margaret McCulloch. The first section of the Woman's Society of the Maennerchor gave a large card -party yesterday afternoon, for which the hostess was Mrs. Paul H. Krauss and the assistants Mrs. Otto Busching. Mrs. Rudolph Mueller, Mrs. Edward Hawkins, Miss Freda Mlnter and Miss Mary Schopp. Mrs. John H. TalDott was the hostess for an enjoyable company yesterday afternoon in honor of Miss Alice Somerville. The rooms were decorated prettily with yellow chrysanthemums. During the afternoon Mrs. Charles P. Doney read a paper on "The Privilege of Genius," and Mrs. Wallace Beardslee Tlbbetts sang. Miss Harriet M. Fitch, of Spades, Ind., formerly of this city, whose engagement and that of Mr. Henry Washburn Eeding, of Cleveland, has been announced, will arrive next week to be with Miss Lillian Mitchell at 1810 Talbot avenue until after the wedding, which will occur at noon Tuesday, Dec. 8, In the Tabernacle Church. The Magazine Club will meet next Saturday at the Bertha Ballard home. The programme will include current events by Miss Carrie Fisher; "Thanksgiving day," by Mrs. A. D. Lane; 'The Capitol," by A. J. Clark; "The Chief Executive and His Public Career," Mrs. N. T. Perlne; "Cabinet Members and Their Duties," Mrs. C. W. Stockbarger. Mrs. Fred John Denny entertained a number of friends at bounce euchre yesterday afternoon at her home on Broadway. Yellow chrysanthemums formed the decorations of the parlors and the diamondshaped score cards were tied with yellow and green ribbons. Assisting Mrs. Denny were Mrs. Charles Stone. Mrs. Dalmar Lincoln and Miss Lillian Denny. The Herron Art Club of the John Herron Art Institute held its first meeting Thursday evening at the studio of the institute and elected the following officers: Miss Cora Hewitt, president; Mr. Kurt Vonnegut, vice president; Miss Maude Cooper, secretary, and Miss Annette -Ostrauder, treasurer. The club will study the lives and the pictures of the old masters during the winter. Mrs. Morris Macdonald Townley entertained a number of friends at a buffet luncheon yesterday, asking her guests to meet Mrs. A. L. Drum, who recently came to Indianapolis for residence. Chrysanthemums were used to decorate the reception room and for the dining room there were clusters of pink roses. The guests included Miss Alice Day, of Milwaukee, with Miss Myla Coburn. Mrs. Irvin Swan Brown, of Worcester, Mass., who Is the guest of Mrs. A. A. Barnes, was the guest of honor at a high tea given yesterday afternoon by Miss Lilllen Reese. The small tables had red tapers In crystal candlesticks for the center and crystal bowls of red bonbons and the guest favors of Meteor roses added to the decoration Piuk roses were used in the north drawing room. Assisting Miss Reese in entertaining her guests was her mother, Mrs. Reese. The Woodruff Place Club gave the first of its usual series of entertainments last night at the clubhouse. During the winter alternate card parties and dances are given fortnightly by the club and this year s series was opened by a card party. The clubhouse was prettily decorated and there were a number of visitors present with the dub members. The hostesses for the evening were Mrs. Alexauder C. Ayres. Mrs. William H. Armstrong. Mrs. A. P. Allen. Mrs. George Brown and Mrs. George U. Bingham. Mrs. George S. Row was the hostess for a delightful tea yesterday afternoon at her home in Morton Place. The rooms were adorneil with clusters of chrysanthemums, pink for the parlor, white for the library and yellow and white for the dining room. In the latter room a basket of the flowers was the center piece for the table and tapers in artistic holders were set in a straight row across the plate shelf. A screen of palms hid the musicians who played during the .receiving hours. Mrs. Emma Hamilton, of Shelbyville, Mrs. Row's mother, received with her, and the group of friends assisting included Mrs. Frederick A. Kleinst hmidt. Mrs. Thomas A Swain. Mrs. W. W. Thorn ton. Mrs. Iuis Burckhardt, Mrs. William A. Applegate. Mrs. George W. Stout. Mrs. Lafayette Page and Miss Julia W.i.k. Among the callers were Mrs. John D. Pugh and Mrs. Joseph Hamilton, of Shelbyville. Mr. Charles Holman-Black gave a brilliant entertainment recently at his home in Paris to celebrate the fete of 8t- Charles Borromeo. The large studio and other rooms were decorated with a profusion of

flowers and palms and there were many callers during the reception hours from 4 to 6. Among the guests were Mr. William Arlo Brown, of New York, the singer and pianist; Mrs. Brown, who Is well known in Indianapolis; Mr. and Mrs. Frank King Clark, Mrs. Spear, Mr. and Mrs. Whistler. Mrs. Walker. Miss Vivian Munroe. Colonel Theodore Ayranet Brown. United States navy; Dr. and Mrs. Palmer, Mme. Emma Nevada. Mrs. Dodge, Mis? Bullet, Miss Nancy Clay of Kentucky. Mr. Hugh Dougall. Mr. Theodore Tilton. Miss Feller, Mrs. McCreery, l Abbe de la Fresnaye. Miss Stanley, Comtesse de Coetlogon, Mrs. Main N. A. Scheerer, M. Henri Toraille. Mrs. Sara Kershey Eddy, Comte and Comtesse Rodellec du Perzic. The reception was followed by a dinner and the table was decorated with holly and chrysanthemums. The guests at the dinner were Mrs. Cowden of New York, the pianist; Leon Delafosse, Mme. Delafosse, Mrs. Sara Walker Black, M. and Mme. Lara, and M. Hardy The. GADDIS CORN WELL. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH. Ind., Nov. 20.-A romance which began two years ago in the Philippines had its culmination here to-day, when George F. Gaddis and Miss Julia E. Cornwell Tvere married at the residence of Theodore Small, of West Main street. Miss Cornwell went to the Island to teach school, and there met Mr. Gaddis, who was In the government service. When Miss Cornwell returned to the United States it was with an understanding that they should wed. Toward the end of summer Mr. Gaddis resigned and came back, and the marriage, which was- performed by the Rev. Dr. Little, of the Presbyterian Church in the presence of a few friends, followed.

Revolt of an Old Worthy. Family pride is one thing, it has been decided, and personal pride is another. When these two formidable motives come into collision the latter generally wins the victory. "We have to laugh at mother once in a while," said a tall, slim, devoted daughter, "and once in a while, too, mother has to laugh at herself. She has a great deal of family pride, mother has, and is always more than ready to Join in with any one who praises the Littlejohns. In mother's eye the Littlejohns and everybody, far or near, connected with the Littlejohns, are distinctively 'all right.' I read the other day in the newspaper about a Timothy Littlejohn being arrested for stealing, in some other town, and mother even defended him; said maybe he was old, sick and poor, that he must have had some good reason for it, for the Littlejohns could do no wrong. "In th,e last few years mother has had almost unlimited correspondence with Littlejohns all over the country, comparing notes and records, and getting at the ancestral history of the family. Sister Alice and I don't care a whit about illustrious ancestry; It only makes us indignant and resentful that such notable ancestors did not bequeath us sufficient wit or talent to do something illustrious ourselves, so we don't encourage mother very heartily in all this Littlejohn investigation and parade. "An out-west Littlejohn, however, wrote mother a letter the other day which has temporarily blockaded her Littlejohn researches, for a time at least. The out-west gentleman, it seems, another Timothy Littlejohn, is writing a book on the remarkable tribe of Littlejohns and he wrote to mother for her family history and her photograph. He said, in substance, that he had collected a number of portraits of old worthies of the Littlejohn name and j that he needed many more. Mother's pic ture, he said, would be gladly received, for every portrait of the old worthies of the family would enhance the volume. 'Now,' he continued, 'I will give you a list of those old worthies whose, pictures I have already secured. If you can send me your photograph and give me the address of any other old worthy of the Littlejohn family I shall appreciate it.' "That letter ended mother's connection with the out-west Littlejohn," the tall girl said, laughing. "Mother says she hopes she Is 'worthy, but that she won't permit any man that she never laid eyes on to call her 'old;' no, not even a man by the Illustrious name of Littlejohn." Menus for Two Days. Suggestions furnished by Table Talk to, housekeepers of moderate means: Breakfast. Fruit. Oatmeal Sugar and Cream Liver and Bacon Creamed Potatoes Graham Gems Coffee Lunch. Cold Salmon Loaf Mayonnaise Dutch Apple Cake Lemon Sauce Tea Dinner. Cauliflower Soup. Broiled Steak Mashed Potatoes Beets Creamed Parsnips Watercress French Dressing Wafers Cheese Fruit Tapioca Coffee Breakfast. Fruit. Ralston Breakfast Food Sugar and Cream Saratoga Potatoes Baked Eggs Milk Toast Coffee Dinner. Tomato Soup Roast Loin of Pork Apple Sauce Mashed Potatoes Creamed Turnips Celery Mayonnaise Wafers Cheese Ice Cream Coffee Supper. Creamed Oysters (In the Chafing Dish) Tomato Jelly Salad Cake Coffee flub Sandwiches. Philadelphia Telegraph. One who asks how to make a club sandwich and prefaces her request by saying that she has no idea of what a club sandwich is like, must be told that it is very dissimilar to any other sandwich. Instead of a "bite" to check one's hunger until a full mean can be eaten, it is a meal In itself. First the bread Is toasted carefuly, for this part of the preparation cannot be slighted. Then comes the complex filling wherein much variety of taste is allowable. Lay one slice of trimmed and toasted bread on a plate, on this a crisp lettuce leaf dipped in cream or mayonnaise dressing, then a slice of white chicken meat, a shaving of cold boiled tongue, and two or three slices of bacon cooked crisp, sprinkle with chopped hard-boiled egg, lay on another dressed lettuce leaf, and last another slice of toast Another combination is chicken and boiled ham. with chopped olives on the chicken ami chopped boiled egg on the ham. Everything must be of good quality and put together daintily, else the club sandwich is a mussy rnair. suggestive of remnants of left-overs. Then there is opportunity for novel seasonings. If made correctly It Is sure to please, and if suitable combinations are on hand it is a good dish lor an emergency. A club sandwich costs 25 cents at any lunch counter or restaurant where the ordinary sandwich is but 10 cents. If cold game enters Into its makeup it may cost even as much as 50 cents, but if well built up it is worth that sum. Reward of Politeness. Philadelphia Record. Yes. it oays to be polite." said the garrulous girl. "I say this advisedly, and I'll tell you why. Some time ago I was coming out In a Walnut-street car. and had a seat in the corner next to the rear platform. At Thirteenth-street an old man, who seemed to be pretty well crippled up. climbed laboriously aboard, accompanied by a young

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j I Sunday-School Lesson and THE SIXDAY-SCHOOL LESSON. Pro v erb , 1) xxill. 20, 21, 20-35 The Cane of Strong Drink. Israel's poet-king and prodigy of wisdom sets himself to the task of painting the drunkard's portrait. It Is a faithful likeness, and horrll because faithful. The royal artist persists in his undertaking, though his canvas grows lurtd and frightful under each neewtf strike ef the pencil. His picture has proved a veritable danger signal, flashing its warning color upon successive generations for thres thousand years. Its red light has proved a powerful deterrent to multitudes. Nowhere in literature is the woe, the folly and the fate of the drunkard so powerfully depicted. That such a picture could have been painted thirty centuries ago sufficiently proves the antiquity of the vice. Drunkenness is no modern sin or mere accident of our present civilisation. It is as old as Noah, and older. Intoxicating liquors undoubtedly inflamed the race before the flood, and led on to that nam' s depravity which had to be drowned out in that awful Judgment. And each succeeding generation has suffered the crushing weight of this dreadful woe; each has been burned, bitten and poisoned by this vice; from each has burst the sorrowful and despairing interjections. "O!" "Alas'" Old as It is, Solomon's picture is the very similitude of the drunkard of to-day. Three thousand years have not sufficed to change the causes or effects of Intemperance. Study the successive strokes of this masterful delineation. Those who tarry at wine by the increase of the subtle and powerful appetite are compelled to seek stronger potations (mixed wine.) The gradation from light wine to red wine, and the highly alcoholized wine, with t3 eyes or beads, is Inevitable. Then follow the facial signs of inebriety (redness of eyes); next quarrelsomeness, causejess wounds, and the inflaming of sexual passion. Finally, incipient dementia, which makes the drunkard oblivious to personal danger and to Indignities visited upon him by hooting mob or officer of lawa dementia tn which, however, the appetite persistently asserts Itself, the worm dieth not, the fire is not quenched. All Is forgotten, all is lost; but among the debris of mind, heart and manhood the conqueror stalks, "And careth naught for the awful ruin he hath wrought." This is no pleasing fancy sketch of genius, nor happy aeathetlcal study; but it deserves the close, respectful attention of every one who loves himself and his neighbor. No Christian can push this picture nonchalantly aside unless his Bible permits him to say, "I am not my brother's keeper." No truly philanthropic spirit. Christian or not. can turn with Indifferent coolness from this inspired canvas. It pictures the all-embracing "woe." making its piteous appeal to every one who professes to love his species. And If neither Christianity nor philanthropy are sufficient to bring this Nation to the point of dealing with this evil in some practical manner, self-interest, self-defense will. The traffic In ardent spirits produces a deteriorated manhood, insanity, pauperism, crime and death. A catalogue of most undesirable products! THE TEACHER'S LANTERN. The wisdom of Solomon was an Inexhaustible fountain. It gushed out in many channels. It is believed that Aristotle reproduced his philosophy. Aesop his fable. He wrote a thousand and five songs; or. as some render it. flvs thousand. He is the eldest naturalist. As a botanist he named, classified, described the flora of Palestine, if not of a wider territory. As a zoologist he did the same for the fauna. But the inspired wisdom of Solomon finds its most admirable expression in the Book of Yr 'verbs. Dean Stanley says It is the "sanrtlflcation of common sense," and again it Is "the philosophy of practical life." Dr. Guthrie accounts for the high character of Scotchmen by their early acquaintance with Proverbs, the practical sagacity and wisdom of Solomon. There is also a spiritual as well as a utilitarian side to this book of kingly authorship. Wordsworth excialms: "The Proverbs of Solomon come from above; they also look upward!" Another well says: "While other parts o. Scripture show us the glory of our high calling, this may instruct in all minuteness of detail how to walk worthy of it." A nickel copy of the Book of Proverbs ought to go Into the pocket of erery boy and young I man in Christendom. These aphorisms are flashlights. They show the wisdom of goodness.

The guide, subscribers. Women Mrs. Emma Bruner Nugent OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, LICENSED 306 E. North St, Indianapolis, Ind. Diseases of Women sou Children a Hpeclalty. Old 'Phone Bed 8?JR Indiana Dental College Now open for Fall and Winter with a full corps of demonstrators. The fees are to cover the cost only. Corner Delaware and Ohio Sts 1 It Christian Endeavor Work m the folly of sin. These sententious precepts might be memorised in our homes and Sunday schools with the best practical results. Solomon did the very thing he admonished others not to do. He told the truth. He gave his soul for an apple of Sodom. Out of the pit in which he feil comes ringing his despairing "vanity of vanities!" Whether Solomon was finally lost or saved is a question about wkech there can be no end of "doting." There is not sufficient data in the Scriptures to determine. In the curious fresco in the Campo Santo at Pisa he is represented as rising from his grave and standing In pitiful confusion, as if doubting on which side of ths Judgment throrte to stand. The question why a man of such Impure character should be permitted to contribute to ths Holy Scriptures is troublesome. Arnot answers it best: "It is certain that, in the main, ths vessels which the Spirit used were sanctified vessels. But the diversity In all Its extent Is like all the other ways of God. If all ths writers of the Bible had been perfect in holiness, it is certain that it would not have served all the purposes which it now serves among men. It would have been God-like, indeed, but it would not have reached down to the low estate of man. Here is a marvel! not a line of Solomons writings tends to palliate Solomon's sins. The glaring Imperfections of the man's life have been used to set off the luster of that righteousness which the Spirit has spoken by his lips." CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. What Are Yoi Thsmkfml FortPsalm xxxlll, 1-22. "We must dare to be happy." says Am lei. "and dare to confess It." It would not seem to require much daring, and a man might think it easy enough to be happy if he only had ths chance, forgetting that he always has the chance and seldom is happy and grateful. Spurg eon was not pessimistic when he uttered the warning: "The air is heavy with the hum of murmurln?. and the roads are dusty with complaints and lamentations." Cast about among your acquaintances and test the matter. Are the-e not shsmefully few whose faces always shine with thanksgiving? And are not those f w. very likely, the ones that m to have the least for which to be thankful? Joseph Parker bids us "never go to God for new blessings before we hsve given Him a receipt for the old ones." We may at least rsoosj n.se them, and the recognition is sure to render us grateful. But, on the contrary, most llvso are one big sponge, one hungry petition, always greedily asking, and never stopping to repay. There is a perennial and oft disregarded motive f r thanksgiving In the evils we ml. A man said, "I had a wonderful mercy to-day, for my horse stumbled on the edge of a fearful precipice, but recovered himself, and we did not go over." Said his friend. "I had a still mors wonderful mercy, for my horse did not stumblo at all." Don't wait for recovery from blladosas to teach you the blessing of sight or for temporary deafness to make you grateful for yosjs ears, or for some terrible Dir. ess to Inspire la you thanksgiving for your sister. More than that, as Faber says, "We ought to thank God dally for the sins we have not committed." God has placed around us a thousand restraining Influences. Look upoa ths drunkard and say, "But for God's grace, that object were I." There is still one more class of negativ blessings that we are little likely to recognise. Oliver Huckel writes: I thank Thee. Lord, for mine unanswered prayers. Unanswered save Thy quiet kindly "Nay." How our praers blunder' Who. oa reviewing hie petitions, has not ehuddered at some of them, and blessed God for His refusal ? Why should it be so hard to thank Him for the refusal at the time? Now. if w can find so many negative reasons for thanksgiving, of course it Is err i that we can find a host of pltive ones indeed, a thoughtful man Is often oppressed by the very number and magnitude ef Hi blessings. How can he ever be other than a bank rupt in praise? What can he ever render to ths Lrd fr.r all His benefits? Indeed, here, as everywhere else, our dependence must be on our Savior He alone can provide us with an sdequate thanksgiving, and wa must constantly offer to Htm this prayer of Whlttlers: Thou that hast given so much to ms. Civ,- our thing more, a grateful heart; Not thankful when It pleaseth me. As if Thy blessings had spare days; But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy ptatse. AMOS R. WtLLi

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