Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 293, 26 October 1916 — Page 11

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, OCT. 26, 1916

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Helen and Warren; Their Married Life By MRS. MABEL HERBERT URNER Originator of "Their Married Life." "Author of "The Journal of a Neglected Wife," "The Woman Alone," Etc.

Stumbling over a coll of rope, Helen found herself In the dim-vaulted region behind the stage. The place was chaotic with luting scenery, piles of lumber and jumbled furniture. Overhead hung a confusion of drops in a network of ropes and wires. A group of acrobats, their bulging muscles in flesh tights, were swiftly adjusting the glittering steel and red velvet trappings of their set. With hesitating timid'ty, Helen approached a hurrying stage hand. "Could you tell me where IH find Miss Wilson's dressing room?" "Right up th'em stairs. Anybody up there'll tell you." A steep, ladder-like flight led to a low-ceilinged balcony, roughly partitioned into dressing rooms. Several of the doors were open, the occupants in various stages of their makeups. "Miss Wilson? The girl with the Floyd sketch?" a woman In a Spanish costume paused in the lacing of her black velvet bodice. "She's in eight Scanning the doors with their crudely painted pumbers, Helen knocked at number eight. "Oh, I'm glad you've come early," was Laura's Joyous greeting. "I'll have time to show you around before our act. Where's Warren?',' "Out front he wouldn't come back. Oh, do you have to 6hare your dressing room?" for two trunks crowded the floor space and two lay-outs of powder and rouge strewed the makeup shelf. "Yes, this is supposed to be a double room. Spacious, isn't it Those are Miss Floyd's things on that side. She'll be here in a minute." "What is she like? Tell me about her." Helen glanced at the soiled, tawdry stage gowns that hung on Miss Floyd's side. "I'm very grateful to her," evasively, "for offering me this part. I hadn't had a day's work in the pictures for over a month." The door opened and a blondish woman past thirty breezed In. "Gee, it's cold out! Oh, how d'you do?" carelessly, as Laura Introduced her. Then briskly, "Did you see that dub about that curtain?" "Yes, it'll be all right tonight That was a new stage hand. Well, this always was a bum house," lighting a cigarette. "The last time I played here their fool electrician queered my act." Having swiftly shed her street clothes, over her pink silk tights she now clasped a long corset with extra side lacings to confine the plumpness of her hips. i "First time you've ever been back?" giving Helen an appraising glance in the mirror. "Well, this hou3e Is a dirty hole. - They're not ail so bad as this. D'you mind handing me those slippers?" Helen gave her the soiled pink slippers" from the jumbled trunk tray. "Shall we go down now?" Laura finished her make-up with a dab of rouge paste In the corner of each eye. "You can see some of the turns from the wings." As they went down, a faint applause rippled from the audience, and a team of Irish comedians come tumbling off. Scurrying stage hands cleared their set; a castle drop was lowered; the orchestra struck up a lively air, and the Spanish dancer waltzed on. For a few minutes they watched her from the wings, but Helen was much more interested in the preparations for the next act A long narnow canvas was being securely stretched and braced. "That's a trampelina," explained Laura. "That's the one who does the turn," as a grotesque clown tested the canvas by bouncing upon it. Farther back was the paraphernalia of still another set "The Musical Moores" was the gilt lettering on a blue plush banner. "Would you like to see the prop room?" asked Laura. "It's back here." In the crowded storeroom was a bewildering clutter of "props'every thing from a plaster bust to fake bottles of champagne. Dummy telephones, andirons, kitchen, utensils, dishes, a bucket of coal, faded silk lamp shades, artificial plants even a bird cage with a stuffed canary. Everything was covered with dust and more or less battered. Curled up on a pile of rugs was a big gray cat, which resented Helen's caress with an impatient twitching of a , notched ear. , "Our act's the next after this I must go up now and finish dressing. Wouldn't you like to stay here and look around?" Left alone, Helen forgot her selfconsciousness in the absorbing interets of the place. She was examining a cardboard strip painted to represent a row of books when a grayhaired man In a plum-colored dress suit came in. "Pardon me, miss," with a strongly foreign accent, "did you see any iodine around here?" He was holering his ! hand in a soiled handkerchief. With a quick sympathy that overcome her diffidence, Helen scanned some bottles on a crowded shelf. "Iodine" read a brown-stained label. "Oh. let me help you," impulsively, as with the cork he clumsily touched : up a raw abrasion on his palm. Discarding the cork as too harsh, Helen brushed on the iodine with a j twisted corner of her handkerchief. "It's from that hand plate! Did you j see our turn? Well, I hold up my: partner on a spinning ladder but the padding slipped." "And you held such a weight with ; it cut into your hand?" "That's nothing, miss. Most of us have to stand worse than that Last! week, when I was playing in Albany, a juggler went on with a sprained arm a swelling as.blg as your list" "Oh, it must be hard.' murmured Helen, tritely. "There's so much the audience doesn't appreciate." ,"Come out here I'll show you something." Dodging some shifting ccenery, he led Helen to the wings. Two men in white flannels with red-banded straw

hats were doing a violent acrobatic dance. Down to the floor with 6plit legs, curveting leaps, loose-Jointed contortions, the Russian crouch all in accelerated time. "Watch that thin lanky chap he ought to be in the hospital right now. He's got the 'con' last stages and he knows it" The dance ended In a mad whirl of cartwheel legs. There was only the faintest applause not even enough for them to take a curtain. "Oh, he worked so hard why don't they applaud?" whispered Helen fiercely as, ignorant of stage rules, she clapped from the wings. "Look at him now! That whirlwind finish is what takes it out of him." Leaning against the wings, the pant; ing dancer was holding his side in a racking cough, his pallor showing gastly through the rouge. "And he does that, twice a day?" breathed Helen. "Three times! This is a small-time house." Here Laura ran up and drew Helen into the next wing with a hurried: "You can see better from here. This Is our act right after the intermission." The stage hands were shoving into place the gilt furniture of a drawingroom set On a centered table were placed a telephone, a vase of paper flowers, some letters, books and photographs. Miss Floyd, seating herself at the table, straightened the props, hid the unattached cord of the dummy telephone, and took down the receiver. "Let 'er go," called the stage manager, and the curtain rolled up, with Miss Floyd talking fast and excitedly over the 'phone. It was a jealous wife sketch. Laura who had the small part of the maid, stood in the wings beside Helen, tensely waiting for her cues. When the curtain fell there was a mild applause enough for Miss Floyd to take one call alone, and one with her "company" a stagy, dudish youth, who played the husband, and Laura. As it was Saturday night, and the entire bill was changed Sunday, there was a general scurry of packing up. "We have to get our trunks to the station tonight," explained Laura. "Tomorrow we open in Troy. The week after we're booked in Scranton that's as far as I know." With the feeling of leaving a strangely foreign world, Helen kissed Laura good-by and made her way around to the front of the house. Warren was waiting for her in the lobby, scowling at next week's billboard as he buttoned up his overcoat. Oh, I wish you'd gone back with me," slipping her hand through his arm. "There's so much you don't see from the front." "Huh, saw all I wanted to! That's what I call one putik show!" "Don't, dear; it's so easy to criticise. They try so hard it's all so much harder than it looks." "Hard? How about the audience Who have to sit through a lot of second-rate slap stick turns? Seems to me I've heard you do some pretty tall kicking myself." "But I never knew how hard they worked or how much a little applause means to them." "Well, when I applaud an act it's got to be a darned good one. I go to a show to be entertained not to pass out encouragement to a lot of bum actors." Helen felt helpless to assail this attitude. It was the attitude of most audiences, and in a way it was just. And yet when she thought of that emaciated, dancer holding his side after his frenzied exertions it seemed pitilessly hard. As they hurried on under the signs of the now emptying theatres, Helen's silence was charged with a bitter rebellion the baffled, futile rebellion with which she always beat against the inexorable cruelties of life.

! AMUSEMENTS AT LOCAL HOUSES MURRETTE. Wonderful scenic effects, clear photography, a gripping plot unusual in theme, and an all-star cast led by Tom Santschi, and including In his support such stars as Mary Charleson, Victoria Forde, and George Fawcett, are details that contribute In making "The Country That God Forgot" one of the superior film dramas of the year. Marshall Neilan wrote and directed this Selig Red Seal play which convincingly shows the strong love of a man for a woman and how retribution stretches forth a hand and seizes the man who temporarily wrecked the happiness of a home. Soul-stirring climaxes mark this production in five thrilling reels which, will be presented Welcome News For Dunon Sufferers If you are suffering from an obnoxious Bunion no matter how large or painful it may be come here and get a full box of the celebrated Bunion Comfort Plasters try one or two plasters, as per direction, and if you do not get almost instant relief and feel perfectly satisfied, bring back the remainder and get jyour full money back. You need not pay one cent if "Bunion Comfort" does not prove entirely satisfactory. Why continue to go about with swollen, misshapen feet? Why say that Bunions can t be cured, when here is a guaranteed remedy easily applied no cutting no pads or plates but a wonderfully medicated plaster that works like magic and rives instant relief. Over 72,000 cases cured last year over 15 years of continuous success not an experiment, but an established remedy. . It's worth ten times its weight in gold and you can have it on guaranteed trial today. R18 Conkey Drug Co., 9th and Main Sts.

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That she shot her husband after suffering much brutality at his hands, In order to save herself, will be the" defense of Mrs. Margaret Beutinger on trial in the Essex County Court, Newark, N. J., today. It is expected that several of her five children will be called by the defense to testify as to the treatment Mrs. Beutinger received from her husband. Mrs. Beutinger has not seen any of her children In several weeks, permission to meet them in the Warden's office having been taken away from her. On the night of the tragedy Mrs. Beutinger says her husband struck her several times. On the day before, she asserts, he also attacked her, following a quarrel over a doll belonging to one of the children. Mrs. Beutinger had a revolver under her pillow. When her husband entered her room again to attack her, Mrs. Beutinger says, she seized the pistol and shot him, fearing that he was about to kill her. .Beutinger was killed almost instantly.

tonight and tomorrow at the Murrette theatre. MURRAY Charles Olcott, who specializes in his vocal efforts, will be a member of tho bill opening at the Murray tonight. His travesty on grand opera is reputed to be rather ludicrous. He appeared recently at the Chicago Majestic and consensus of opinion as manifested by the men of the press seems to be that he is an entertainer par excellence. Copeland and Payton present "The Dining Car Girls," in a big act full of pretty girls and lots of good, clean comedy. Three other big acts, one reel of motion pictures, and the Murray Theatre Orchestra make up an etraordinary program. ARCADE Leo D. Maloney, who has appeared in many Mutual feature releases and whose work in "The Girl and the Game" serial won him praise from a host of critics, is one of the many prominent screen players in the support of Helen Holmes in. the. Mutual Star Production, "Judith of the Cumberlands," a five-act drama of the Kentucky hills, which comes to the Arcade theatre today. This picture is a film adaptation of the celebrated novel cf the same title by Alice MacGowan. CURED HIS RUPTURE I was "jadly ruptured while lifting a trunk several years ago. Doctors said my only hope of cure was an operation. Trusses did me no good. Finally I got hold of something that quickly and completely cured me. Years have passed and the rupture has never returned, although I am doing hard work as a carpenter. There was no operation, no lost time, no trouble. I have nothing to sell, but will give full information about how you may find a complete cure without operation, if you write to me, Eugene M. Pullen, Carpenter, 1030 Marcellus Avenue, Manasquan, N. J. Better cut out this notice and show it to any others who are ruptured you may save a life or at least stop the misery of rupture and the worry and danger of an operation. Adv. YomanThinks seriously over the question of motnernood it used to mean such agony and sacrifice, that one could easily overlook the pleasure and honor of children In the homebut "Mother's Friend" has changed th views of thousands of women from that of distress to a pleasant anticlnation of the happiness of bein a mother. By external application "Mother's Friend" assists nature in the wonderful transformation of the physical stem in ease and comfort. Get "Mother's Friend" at any diugist. Cu'"I:e"5.e'r . interesting ooolc on Motherhood will be mailed free to aii expectant mothers.. Address iuo srnaneia Kemiiator t. i4 umr Hide., Atlanta, ua. v 1 NARCISSUS BULBS To Bloom in Water or Soil 25c per Dozen J Lemon's Flower Shop

FOUNTAIN CITY

FOUNTAIN CITY, Ind, Oct. 26. An indoor picnic was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Thomas in honor of Mr. and Mrs. E. Y. Barnes, Yardley, Pennsylvania. Those present, were Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Thomas and daughter Virginia, Mrs. George Barnes, Richmond, Mr. and Mrs. James Elberson, Bryant, Melvin Coggeshall and daughters, Ocie and Emma, Mr. and Mrs. Alva Study and daughters Gladys and Louise It is reported that the insurance papers, stolen from the Boren Lumber company, were found Saturday by some boys not far from there. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Powers and daughter Mildred, returned Monday to their Ijome in Los Angeles, Cal., after an extended visit. Visits Relatives. Gifford Hunt and family, Connersville, spent the week-end with relatives here.. . .Charles Hunt and family visited the former's parents in Whitewater Sunday.. .. .Atwobd Pitts and wife and daughters Vera and Ruth, spent Sunday with William Pitts, the former's father, south of Richmond. . Make Extended Visit. ) Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Hatfield made an extended visit with relatives in New Castle, Ind., and New Lisbon, O:, returning Saturday Mrs. Martin Davis returned from a two-weeks stay LADIES' HOUSE DRESS 1791 This model makes an ideal work or porch dress. It may me finished with long or short sleeve. The band trimming may be omitted. Percale, lawn, batiste, gingham, seersucker, chambrey, challie and crepe could be used for this model. The pattern is cut in 6 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust measure. It requires 5 yards of 44-inch material for a 36-inch size. The skirt measures about 3 yards at its lower edge. - A pattern of this illustration mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents in silver or stamps. Namo Address City ....5...v....v....U...v.... Slae ;.: 4 Address Pattern Department, Palla-

in Indianapolis Miss Mildred Davis entertained at supper, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hiatt, Modoc, and Earl Clark, Sunday Mrs. Russell Hiatt and son spent last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lin Reece.

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Notice to fe CdDisiiiws

For the convenience of our Gas Customers we will put in operation on November 1st, 1916, anew system of reading meters and making bills for .gas used, which will do away with the congested condition in the office usually prevailing on the 8th, 9th and 10th of each month. Instead of the periodical meter reading of about one week from the 20th to 26th of the month we will have Continuous Meter Reading beginning the first of the month and ending about the 25th of the month. The City will be divided into 20 districts and the bills for each district will become due and payable on different dates, thus distributing the payment of gas bills over the entire month. At the top of the meter statement left you by the meter reader you will see your last discount date and discounts will not be allowed unless bills are paid on or before the date indicated on meter statement ' ' After November. 10th, 1916 the office will not be open on any night Richmond Light, Heat & Power Company

LUTHERAN CHURCHES UNITE IN SERVICES

In remembrance of the Sixteenth century Reformation, the First, Seoond and St Paul's Lutheran churches will hold a union service at the First English Lutheran church. Rev. O. G. A. Tressler, a teacher In the Hamma d'vinlty school, Springfield, Ohio, and Rev. J. L. Neve, also of the Hamma divinity school, will deliver addresses on some feature of the Reformation. Separate service will be held In the three churchfs Sunday morning. Rev. O. G. A. -Tressler will speak on "The History of the Reformation," at the Second English Lutheran church; Rev. J. L. Neve will preach in German on the "Reformation in the Six teenth Century," and Rev. P. W. i Rohlflng will preach in English on "Some Fundamentals of the Reformation," at St. Paul's church; and the Rev. Frank Dressel will conduct the services at the. First Lutheran church. REID CHURCH PLANS COMMUNION SERVICE In preparation for communion service at 10:30 o'clock Sunday morning, services will be held at the Reid Memorial church at 7:30 o'clock Thursday and Friday nights. ' Rev. John P. Aiken, pastor of the Presbyterian church, Rushville, will deliver an address Thursday night, and Rev. J. J. Rae, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of this city, will speak Friday. DIVORCE SUITS FILED Suits for divorce filed in the circuit court late yesterday were: Harry A. Frankel versiis Emma C. Frankel, and Mabel J. Pirkey versus Samuel W. Pirkey. ORRINE SAVED HIM FROM DRINK That Orrine really does bring quick relief to those being tortured by the liquor habit, is the testimony of many mothers, wives and daughters.' This scientific preparation promptly kills all desire for whiskey, beer and other intoxicants. It can be given In the home secretly without loss of time from work. No sanitarium expense. We are so sure that Orrine will benefit that we say to you, if, after a trial you fail to get any benefit from its use, your money will be refunded. Costs only $1.00 a box. Ask us for free booklet telling all about Orrine. A. G. LUKIN & C, 630 Main. Adv.

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A. R. MEET8 WITH SOCIETY HERE A real slaughter in the Indiana waa present today at the state conference In First Presbyterian, church. Her father was a ' member of the continental army and a veteran of the battle of Brandywlne. Mrs. Lydia Simmons, SO years old, of Portland, Is the "real" daughter. Her father moved to Portland when he was 100 years old and died there at the age of 106. None So Good as Chamberlain "I consider Chamberlain's Cough Remedy the best medicine on the market for colds and coughs." Mrs. D. H. McDowell, Fort Wayne, Ind. Obtainable everywhere. Adv. DRINK MORE WATER IF KIDNEYS BOTHER Eat Less Meat and Take Salts Backache or Bladder Trouble. for , Urlo acid in meat excites the kidneys, they become overworked; get sluggish, ache, and feel like lumps of lead. The urine becomes cloudy; the bladder is irritated, and you may be obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night. When the kidneys clog you must help them flush off the body's urinous waste or youll be a real sick person shortly. At first you feel a dull misery in the kidney region, you suffer from backache, sick headache, dizziness, stomach gets sour, tongue coated and you feel rheumatic twinges when the weather li bad. Eat less meat, drink lots of water; also get from any pharmacist four ounces of Jad Salts; take a tablespoonfull In a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous sale3 Is made from the acid of grapes andlemon juice, combined with litbia, and has been-used for generations to clean clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal activity, also to neutralize the acids in urine, so it no longer is a source of Irritation, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is inexpensive, cannot injure; makes a delightful effervescent lithla-water drink which everyone should take now and then to keep the kidneys clean and active. Druggists here say they sell lots of Jad Salts to folks who believe in overcoming kidney trouble while it is only trouble. Palladium Want Ads. Pay.

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