Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 135, 11 April 1912 — Page 9

THE RICH3IOND PAIXADIU3I AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, ArRIL 11, 1912.

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MOTHER'S DAY TO BE OBSERVED HERE On May 10th School Children To Honor, Those Who Bore Them.

The 'local school board has received the annual proclamation urging the observance of Mother's day in the public schools o fthis city, which has been Issued by Charles A. Greathouse, state superintendent of public instruction. Superintendent Greathouse sets May 10 as the date for Mother's day. Last year practically every school in the state observed Mother's day.which was held, according to the fixed rule on the Friday preceding the second Sunday In May. Teachers are kindly urged to dedicate at least a part of that day towards appropriately observing Mother's day. In Supt. Greathouse's proclamation he says "Children should be filled with an appreciation of the noble self-sacrificing lives spent in their interests. Few children receive an education without great self denial on the part of mothers and a little time spent one day of the school year in bringing to their attention such devotion is none too much. Make the day a parents' day and let it be known throughout your district that you are doing homage to the mthers who are so unselfishly devoting their lives to the rearing and culture of economic men and women. "Kindly ask the co-operation of local papers in urging the observance of this day" Supt. Greathouse suggested in connection with the proclamation that appropriate exercises be held in each school building in the city and county on that day. , CARD OF THANKS. We wish to. thank our friends, neighbors and employes of the Wayne Works, for their kindness and sympathy shown us during the illness and death of our .husband and father. Signed: Mrs. Joseph It. Graham, Dave, John, George Graham, Mrs. Will Hart, Mrs. Harry Davis, Mrs. Lantz Newland. A Painful Mistake. Bitter experience is a wonderful " teacher. No doubt: the young lady of whom London Ideas tells had often been told that she ought to wcac glasses, but had neglected or refused to dp so. There was a most determined look "in her eye. however, as she marched Into the optician's shop. T want a pair of glasses immediately," she said. "good, strong ones. I won't be without them for another day!" "Good, strong ones?" "Yea, please. I was out in the country yesterday, and 1 made a very i painful blunder, which I have no wish to repeat." "Indeed! Mistook an entire stranger for an old friend, perhaps V" "No, nothing of the sort. I mistook a bumblebee for a blackberry." Railways and Steel. . Railways use over 2.000.000 tons of steel a year, which is almost half the world's product. Rids Skin of All Hairs, Try It, Free Wonderful New Preparation, Unlike "Anything Ever Known Before. "These Hairs Will Be Gone in 3 Minutes!" "Hairs Gone Forever!' I want every man and woman who wants to get rid of superfluous hair, any where on the body, to see the extraordinary results of my new Elec-tro-la, the most remarkable preparation. You have never used anything like it before, and you will never use anything else when once you've tried it. Unlike other preparations, Elec-tro-la absolutely and forever destroys the life of the hair-roots. Moreover, Elec-tro-la is safe, absolutely. No reddening of the skin. No Irritation. In three minutes all superfluous hairs are gone. The skin, no matter how tender, is left refreshed, soft and beautiful. Heavy growths and light growths vanish. Any woman can now free her arms, neck, face and bust of all downy or heavy hairs and her beauty enhanced a hundred-fold. I am going to prove it to you, and send you a liberal trial package of this new Elec-tro-la, If you will simply send me your name and address on the coupon below, with a 2-cent stamp to help pay cost of mailing. The full-size package, of Elec-tro-la is $1.00. I will send you the $1.00 package now, if you prefer, on receipt of price, and refund, your .money if you are not satisfied. FREE TREATMENT 8968 Fill in your name and address on dotted lines below and send it to me, Anna Burton, 5314 S. State St., Chicago, enclosing a two-cent stamp to help cover mailing, and I will send you at once a free trial package of the remarkable Elec-tro-la.

COLLEGE MADE PLAYS DON'T PAY

Too Much Revision for the Producer. Schools Turn Out Mediocrities Who People in Parlors.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. Nowadays everybody is trained. People specialize. Colleges and universities are turning out the perfectly trained human animal in droves. Much space has been given in the newspapers of late t6 the advantage of taking a course in play-writing under a certain famous Harvard professor. A girl student from Harvard's feminine annex, Radcliffe has been played up in the headlines and the editorial columns for her prowess in receiving a prize for a play over all sorts and degrees of contestants. Her picture has been in the papers. People point to her and say "Oh, look who's here. Why don't you do it too." But the nearest she has got to the footlights is in a try out by a stock company In Bostont with what result this deponent knoweth not, since papers from that metropolis have not since been seen. "She Knows Better Now" is also the product of a Radcliffe prize winner, one Agnes L. Crimmlns. The writer asked May Irwin how practicable these college made plays were for presentation. "No good," said Miss Irwin in effect. Miss Irwin further stated that the entire play was made over, the only part of the original left being the disrobing scene in the custom-house phase of the comedy. Admirable as is the theory of the drama or of the theatre perhaps it should be put its practice is on a basis of bald, hard, insistent fact. Very few college professors have any practical knowledge of the theater either before or behind the footlights. "Playwritlng is not a literary perlormance," said Opie Read to the writer once'. "Its a thing of mechanics." Some college play writers have "made good" but in spite of, not because of, their academic training. Among them Edward Sheldon, author of "Salvation Nell," "The Nigger," and one or two other recent popular successes. Sheldon would have succeeded without his university training. Because he has the genius of the play-wright. On the other hand there js George Brackett Seitz, the unhappy originator of "The King's Game," James K. HackI ett's last season's failure. Seitz tried to do the impossible satirize generically on the stage. It read well enough. But acted badly. Like Miss Irwin says colleges can't make playwrights any more than schools of dramatic art can turn out actors and actresses. The latter are a good deal like the music schools play upon the vanity, ambition and credulity of aspirants for the platform and the stage, for their own financial emolument, and turn loose on the public a lot of egotistic mediocrities who are for a time a pitiful spectacle and then melt into the offing and disappear, or dodder round on the fringes as "readers" at Sunda school entertainments and Y. W. C. A. jamborees. The average "reader" Is a fearsome being. His industry is tremendous and his memory unbelievable. "The reader" is an avenue for those theatrical ambitions entertained by every other person on the block. Women who yearn for the dazzle of the footlights and the intoxication of applause find an outlet in these mongrel performances at women's club meets and other chaste retreats for the cultured. One of the funniest pictures ever put into Punch by DuMaurier was that which discovered a man making rapid tracks for the door at a social affair when a "reader" was announced with text to the effect that Brown "That's not a thing to make a party go off!" Jones "By Jove! Its the sort of thing to make this party go off!" The gentleman's state of mind is appreciated by many another. Especially those unhappy beings on newspapers who are farmed out to attend church entertainments, chautauquas, Sunday school celebrations, women's conventions and other resorts where the reader flourishes and the unsophisticated applaud. The writer remembers to have been fairly flabbergasted by the amazing prowess of one of these gentry who gave the play of Ben-Hur in its entirety here a few years ago. At Intervals between, acts he retired behind a screen and refreshed the inner man with the contents- of a pitcher. Presumably of an entirely harmless variety since the pitcher reposed upon a table within the purlieus of our celebrated chautauqua grounds. But should the receptacle have contained liquid of a stimulating and revivifying character certainly the most abstemious conld not have quarreled with the imbiber." " ' " ' ' A man who could dramatize for this was his own dramatization and present the novel of Ben-Hur in a portion of one afternoon. without any human support, other than promises from the auditing committee, or scenic

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accessories, is to be looked upon with awe and admiration. It is a prodigious feat. The writer was interested in studying the chautauqua physiognomy while sitting out sessions of this admirable institution. A discovery was made. That the profile of the chautauqua "entertainer" is concave. The theatrical profile is convex. Fit these profiles together and they would dovetail without a hitch. Whether or net philosophical deductions may be made from this idle observation cf facial conformation is immaterial. It remains that if coniDosite. nhoto- 1 graphs of the two differing professions I were made, the result would possibly be "as above." A course in elocution is really a good thing. That is for the discipline in placing the voice and its insistence in distinct enunciation and proper emphasis. Everyone should have such instruction. But just as everyone should learn the principles of arithmetic and to write and read and spell. Not to "elocute." Is there any more terrible being than the graduate from a course in elocution who is foisted upon his defenceless friends? What are not the horrors of parlor seances where these darkly perform I to polite audiences squirming on their chairs and edging toward the door. You know how it goes. Everybody is talking and pretending to have a nice time although wishing, on the side, that they'd stayed at home and gone to bed or else spent the time I with heels eleyated perusing that form ! of literature served up in the local pa per. Suddenly the hostess claps her hands. Everybody looks around suddenly. She says sweetly that Marjorie has consented to "read." That we all know Marjorie (we do! we do!) and how talented she is. How the stage is robbed of a bright and shining light because of her determination to stay away from the brilliance of the footlights. That Marjorie has had flattering offers from Charles Frohman and Belasco but has refused them all and is content to live the simple life and devote herself to making her friends happy. (Pause punctuated with a feeble Rip-p-p-p-p! Out Gome Thousands of Dress Shields! Hereafter, Madame, Yon Are Going to Feel More "Comfy" Under the Arms. Girls, get a 25c box of PKUSPI-NO right away at the drug store, and trot one of the surprises of your life. It weans the age of dress shields Is gone. No More Rained Gowns, No More Dress Shields, If You Use FEKSPI-NO. PERSPI-NO keeps the arm-pits just as fresh and dry as any other part of the body You can wear any weight of clothing, be In hot stuffy rooms, in a warm theatre or dance-hall and never over-perspire In the arm-pits. The colors in a colored gown will never run. The cloth will never fade get stiff from per--spiration and then rot and tear and ruin your gown, at the arm-pits. Nevermore! No more rolling up of dress shields like ropes under the arms. PERSPI-NO is a delightful powder, absolutely safe for everybody, and never harms any fabric. It's a wonder. Try it once, and be convinced. You apply it with a pad, which Is packed with every box. Satisfaction or money back. PE US PI-NO la for sale at yonr druggist's at 25c a box.or sent direct, on receipt of price, by the Perspo Co., 2715 Lincoln Ave., Chicago. For sale and recommended in Richmond, Ind., by A. G. Luken Co. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS The Foster Construction Co., have opened a factory for the manufacture of Cement Blocks, Copings, Porch Columns, Caps Sills, etc., at The Old Mill WorkB. They have a complete outfit of modern, machinery and are using nothing but washed and graded materials in all their work. If you are a contractor it-will pay -yon to use the best materials obtainable. If you are going to build it will pay you to insist that your contractor use the Foster Construction Co."s products. Would be pleased to have cail at Factory and. inspect their Products or call phones: Res. 2529 or Factory 3406.

Sure Way to Remove Freckles and Eruptions

(From Fashion Record) Some women have skin of such texture they occasionally are annoyed by the sudden appearance of freckles, slight eruptions or fine lines. At such times if one will procure an ounce of common mercolized wax, apply this before retiring, like cold cream, she can easily overcome the trouble. When the wax is washed off next morning, flaky skin particles come with it. The entire cuticle is removed in this way in about a week, with all its defects. No bleach could so completely remove everv freckle or blemish. The new surface is smooth, clear fresh looking. No pain or Inconvenience accompanies this simple treatment. In case of wrinkles which sink beneath the outer skin, a solution of saxolite, 1 oz., dissolved in Pint witch hazel, makes an effective face bath. r clap or two accompanied by ghastly grins.) "Therefore I now have the pleasure," etc., etc. Marjorie who has baen standing in the doorway trying to pretend she is just a common person like anybody else now pirouttes into an oasis this side of the piano, strikes a pose, looks owlish and suddenly emits a noise that is reminiscent of nothing more than allev fence caterwaulings on summer nights. Marjorie is rpciting "The Charge of the Light Brigade." "Lovely!" 'Beautiful!" "How Well you read!" "Wasn't it splendid!" "I never knew she " "We'll lose you soon " "Ydu shouldn't waste yourself on " "Give us something more!" "Kitty Cheatara's skinned a block" "Why don't you go on the stage?" "Better than anything I ever heard at the Murray " Silence. Hostess announces Marjorie will read a child poem. Marjorie looks demure. Picks up a corner of her sash and twists it, wig f i M3 n GOOD DAYS

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gles, and then begins to emit babytalk. (Sub-rosa observations behind bands.) "She was twenty-nine last August "Suffering Moses; howmuch more of this" "Isn't she a perfect Jdiot!" "Crazy to get married' "Of ill the fools " "Isn't this a bore " "Wish I had stayed home " "Won't catch me here again " "Old enough to know better " "I'm going to vote for the recall " "Her upper teeth are false " "They are, too look at her now look " "Well before I'd make an object of myself " "Lets go get something to eat" Marjorie coos her finale. Terrific applause.

"So sweet of you, dear ' "You're I simply splendid " "I could listen all ; night!" "Surely not going to stop!" ; "You have pronounced talent " I "You're specially good in these child ; things " "How do you do it " "Thank you personally " "I'm so glad : I came" It is ever thus. In Grim Meed. Bismarck once attended a gathering of prominent men at the house of a wnceinr. nobleman. Throughout the i conversation he was particularly sarcastle, cutting friends and opponents i unsparingly. When he rose to take his leave and walked downstairs me host called a pet dog that was frisking about and led him to one side. "Are you afraid the dog will bite me':" nslied Bismarck. "Oh, 110," replied the host. "I'm afraid you'll bite the dog." The chancellor was in such a grim mood that he took this as a compliment and went away smiling'. The world's demand for moving pictures now calls for the use of nearly 55,000 miles of films a year. MOTHER GRAY'S SWEET POWDERS FOR CHILDREN, A OertainRslief for FeTerlshaeae Constipation, Heaotrht, Hromarh Trsaslea, Teelhiaar i 1 Dlaardrra, nd Destroy ' ' ? . Worms. Tby Brf all up t'olss -rnae mar. 1034 hour. At all Drunuta, Sbeta. Don't accept Sample milled FREE. Addisaa, any substitute. A. S. OLMSTED, La Ry. M.Y. T sr.

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Wemen te Help Elect Next President. In six states of the Union the hand that rocks the cradle will do its share as thehand that writes the ballot in the coming national election. It has been variously estimated that from a million to a million and a half women will bve a voice in the choosing of the next president of the United States.

fpWT Cleveland t more or less excited at a report that high school boys and girls have a habit of patronizing rathskellers and getting drunk. The Effects

m THAT INFANTS are peculiarly susceptible to opium and its various preparations, all of which are narcotic, is well known. Even in the Smaller doses, if continued, these opiates cause changes in the functions and growth of the cells which are likely to become permanent, cauaiVC imbecility, mental perversion, a craving for alcohol or narcotics in later life. Nervous diseases, such as intractable nervous dyspepsia and lack of staying powers are a result of dosing with opiates or narcotics to keep children quiet m their infancy. The rule among physicians is that children should nevr receive opiates in the smallest doses for more than a day at a time, and only then if unavoidable. . The administration of Anodynes, Drops, Cordials, Soothing; Syrups and other narcotics to children by any but a physician cannot be too strongly decried, and the druggist should not be . party to it. Children who are ill need the attention of a physician, and it is nothing less than a crime to dose them willfully with narcotics.

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