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A PLAUSIBLE THEORY.
A Guess at the Origin of the Teri
s'Green Room"

A Guess at the Origin of the Term
"Green Room"
When ! was a lad in the painting
room of the old Princess theater, A. d.
1916. remarks G. A. S. in the London
Sunday Times, whenever tragedy was
performed there used to be laid down
on the stage huge carpet of green
baiZe Often and often have | asked
the stage carpenters, the property men
and even the mighty prompter himself
he was Mr.. Emden. the father of the
extant Mr.. Walter Emden, the we'll
known theatrical architect-what was
the meaning of this theatrical board of
green cloth. But | could never obtain
satisfactory explanation of the mys-
terry.
Nor, although long years afterwara
was enabled to solve the riddle,
can l remember now whether it was
James Robinson blanche or E. L.
Blanchard who enlightened my igno-
rance. The meaning of the green cloth
was simply this: In the English tragic
drama the heroes and heroines are
mournfully addicted to dying in sight
Of the audience.
Now, in the latter part of the eight
zenith century, and during the first fifty
years of the present one, the nobility
and gentry were in the generous habit
Of presenting their cast-off drawing
room and birthniGht dresses, often
made of the richest silk, satins and
brocades, prOfusely embroidered with
gold and silver, 10 the most conspicu-
Gus among the players, and the drama
fist artists, when it was their business
to give up the ghost in presence Of the
audience, very sensibly objected to hav-
ing their fne clothes spoiled by coming
in contact with the not always clean
boards of the stage. So il occurred TO
some thoughtful manager 70 lay down
green cloth on which kings and
queens could expire with due dignity,
but without soiling their gay apparel
l have a theory-only a theory-that
the "greenroom" at a playhouse de
rived its name from the tragedy, green
cloth being kept there in case of need,
and that the green coat or footman,
super" was so called because II was
part OF his duty 70 lay down and take
up the green cloth
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-21
he TOOK THE HINT.
A Borrowed Engagement Ring Brought
Tardy Lover to Time

n borrowed engagement ksng brought
Tardy Lover to Time
The particular frame of mind in which
/ Tom Gilderbent found himself that
evening was not an enviable one.
He was revolving a recent discov ery
in his head. and his thoughts were
somewhat disconnected and altogether
uncomfortable
81 don't realize the thing at all" he
unused, and as for guessing-who the
lucky devil is that put it there just
couldn't hazard even a suspicion.
The fact remains that she wore
an engagement ring last night, and for
The first time. l could swear TO that
much
Don't I know both those pretty lit
tie hands of hers almost a well as my
own? Haven't l often thought how
pretty that slim third finger on her left
hand would look in an engagement
ring-of my own giving?
Yes, and I've waited so Internally
long that now-well. I'd like 10 know
who the fellow is, that's all
And she was just as sweet 70 nae as
ever last night. ! can't understand it
at all. l suppose I was as rude as a
bcor. but the shock was really little
sudden.
And couldn't say anything. with
the rooms full of people, and no privacy
anywhere.
"0h, what wretched luck! can see
the sparkle of those Internal diamonds
now
And 70 think that some other fellow
put it on her finger. | never even sus-
pected that there was any one else in
the running with me. just like my
COMPOUNDED impudence.
I've got half mind TO go up to-
night and see who the fellow is She
that this some one else is the favorite
horse, but l think I'll go. even if it's
only TO quiz her. Quiz her, We gods
while my heart is breaking?
Eyes, l will AS well do it now as
later"
He got up, took his hat and coat and
went out
r
Maud Cheviot was standing in her
friends boudoir
1T worked" she said to her hostess,
beautifully. There is your ring and
thank you SO much. l shall always, in
some sort, owe you much OF my happi-
ness, you know.
at is pretty ring. hope that your
fance may never object to my tempo
rary use Of it Tom proposed twenty
four hours after he saw il oE my finger
Its always the way with men.
When they think they have lost you
they find they wanted you all the time.
And now, you see, I've got a real
engagement ring of my own on-not
yonrs, dear. But-we're to be married
in three months. You must come to the
wedding.
Tom has very much to thank you
for-for your ring He shall know
about that-some day Chicago Dis
patch
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ZEa9le
SUCCESS KNOWS NO SEX.
Women OF Brains and Nerve Who
Make Big Money.
Hhsy Are 90 sAs Heads eff vxrfous Trades
and Prefessions-H0w Thoy Started
snd what They Are Now
AutehIoSraPhiczl.
kcorYnJeRT. NR ]

A great many people labor under the
iSelrsion that woman does not carry a
business head upon her shoulders; that
sat best she is bad schemer, worse
executor, and only capable of routine
work They heve an impression, also,
that very general prejudice against
woman IN business prevents her devel-
lopment even N oongenial lines. These
people viii learn something from this
ARTICLE, because there are women with
ideas who are perfectly capable Of car
-rying them out, and a clever woman is
in just as nuchdr1nand as a brainy man.
success knows no sex; originality and
force of idsas count always,
Women in New York are doing some
thing besides being journalists, doc
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MUSIC AND DRAMA.

Herr Won Suppe. the well-llnown com
poser, is dangerously Ill in Vienna
Ignacio Martinetti has taken the
place in the cast of ''Hoss and Hoss'
previously filed by Charles Reed.
Minna X. Gale, who lately became
Mrs. Haynes, will hereafter print he.
name in the bills as Minna Gale Haynes.
Emperor Francis Joseph. OF Austria.
viii confer the honor OF the gold media
Of Litteris ct Artibus upon Pietro Mas,
cagni.
Mrs. Bernard-Becre has a six months
contract with Charles Wyndham to
jointly star with him in lS9S, beginning
in September.
Sol Smith Russell's engagement in
Chicago win be played at the Grand
opera house. beginning January / and
continuing three weeks
a Flag Of Truce" Is the name Of vii
liam Haworth's new play. II is in
tenSely dramatic and wiu be staged
neXt month by Walter :. Sanford
Some Industrious lover OF frzres-or
Saakespeare-hasc calculated that King
Lear contains ), 40 lines. of which only
l.S4o are used in the present London IT,
ceam version.
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11ABT T. SEYMOUR grease, and they
have presumed to organize stock COM
panies Tor producing, buying and sell
ing, quite as if they were to the bust
ness born.
President OF the Mary T. Seymour
Publishing Company, Miss Seymour is
the founder, editor and publisher of the
business Womaa's journal and the head
of stock company composed entirely
of women. They intend to make
enough money out ofatheir venture to
own an entire block to be occupied ex-
elusively by women of the different
professions, and to their president is
due much of their enthusiasm in this
direction. Miss Seymour is an enter
prising woman, just in her prime, vi
Ssoious aud sensible, and very much in
terested in the development of her sex.
II was bent on being scribbler,"
said she, and began making rhymes
when l was thirteen. The first money
j ever earned was for poem sent to
Jennie June, and I tell you that SIS
looked very big to me- l had to go to
teaching finally, but it didn't agree
with nae and was an invalid for year
after It, While was in bed began to
write for the papers again. and studied
stenogrsphy as an aid to journalism.
When / got about ] went to work for
the only woman stonographer then in
New York for nothing a month and the
experience. l did an office boys work,
even to sweeping out and running err
rands, but ] learned business routine
that is OF vital Importance to a woman.
j wouldn't work on Sunday, though,
and that stood IN the way of my being
taken into partnership. Then set up
as stenographer for myself, but / was
so nervous over the work that l tainted
dead away at The first reference case
took BY and by when I was accus-
toned to 1t got SO much work had to
sit up half the night TO finish it and
once l worked twenty-six hours at
stretch to finish o case [ had promised
Mt a certain hour. As my business grew
] became interested In helping other
women, and all told l suppose | have
taught at least Eve hundred stenog-
raphers. l had six copying offices at
one time in the different big Office
buildings, but l gave them up TO take
hold of the Journal
81 bolieve in business women. They
are more faithful than men; don't take
advantage of business secrets to steal
tips and speculate on their employers
interests, and of the hundred and one
embezzlers who have violated conf
dence and the Ten Commandments not
one has been a woman, though there
are hundreds of them in New York
handling other peoples money And l
want to say one thing with extra en-
phasis; that is, that any woman who
knows what she wants to do and how
she is going TO do It can find or make
place for herself just as successfully as
If she were a man"
Mrs. +. l.. Fernandez is the only
woman in New York who is the man
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Spike Hennessey, the genuine burglar
who has figured in melodrama for
several years, may be less eager to ex-
plot his record now that he has mar
ried California clergyman's daughter.
Advices from Bayreuth state that the
Wagner theater will remain closed dur
ing next summer to reopen the season
of 1894 with the Ring Of the Niebe-
lungen'' and ''Parsifal"
1t was not until 1870 that Augustin
DAILY introduced into New York what is
now called the "box scene" that is an
inclosed room, with ceiling, doors and
windows, giving it natural appear
ance.
THE Girl I Left Behind Me" is the
title of the new play by David Belasco
and Franklyn Fyles, which is TO be pro-
duced for the first time at the opening
of Charles Frohmans new Empire thea
ter, New York.
Fred Leslie, the well-known popular
actor, died at London recently of ty-
phoid fever. Fred Leslie was known
throughout the world as a singing COM
in that particular line on the stage.
Franz Ebert, the Liliputian, is prob
ably the only person who ever realized
on the stage the ideal of Shakespeare's
Puck. If he could learn to speak
Shakespeare's English, perfect repre-
sentation of "a Midsummer Nights
Dream" would be possible.
Sir Arthur Sullivan, according to a
London account, went one night, after
watching for hours at the dying bedside
of his brother, into an adjoining room
in which there was an organ. Upon
seating himself before it he found the
words to which he has given the noble
setting: THE Lost Chord" the music of
which he finished before he arose from
the seat
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up by telling me what tough times he
had at first
81 was glad in those days to do the
cheapest work, filing choruses, ballots
and spectaculars, but now l am in it
with the best of them and to stay.
own my own home and have taken care
of my family all these years, and you
may be sure that / am one Of those who
believe that a woman can make a 60 Of
anything If she's mind to-"
Miss Elizabeth Marbury is in some
thing the same line of work, though she
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-21
= Sensational race.

One of the most sensational races Of
the season was the Babv-Wax match
at Fleetwood park. II took five heats
TO settle the question OF speed and en-
dEtrance between these two Peidings
The chestnut Baby, after losing the
first two heats, showed his Pat-hsn
wind and captured the next three. 10
was one of the best two-nile heat races
OF the season The time was 4.53. $50
l:54L<, $3.50, 4:5f}I. Haby's whining
heats were won on exactly the same
stride, d most peculiar thing. consider
ing the distance.
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MRS SOPHIA BRUESLICH. fallen IN pleas
ant places.
II began as a typewriter for the
president of the company ten years
ago" she replied to the regulation
question. My husband died and had
to do something. l made up my mind
that l would not always be a type
writer, ana l kept my eyes open and
my hands always ready to do anything
anybody else left undone. Within a
few years l had acquired. knowledge
enough of the business to be elected
secretary and treasurer of the com
pany, with the bank book and check
book in my possession, and since that
ame have added to those duties that
of business manager, having full
charge of the advertising and financial
departments, and it is my turn now to
employ stenographers.
II have to superintend the govern
ment work connected with the collec-
ton of gold and silver statistics for the
census, which is done in this office. and
to do this / had to make a study of en-
gineering and mines, attending the
course of lectures of the Institute Of
Mining Engineers and even going down
into the mines for personal observa-
ton. ! believe a woman can fill any
position save a political one--I am op-
posed to woman suffrage-ss well as a
man if she will give her work the first
consideration"
Mrs. Helene Schroeder has had
harder time of it. Her father was
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No wonder she DER
looks pale and tired. She hasn't a
relative in this country, and her own
shoulders don't seem broad enough for
the whole of the burden she has as
Sumed. She is making a go of it,
though, and by and by she will be able
to take it easy.
There are lot of other women in
New York in business for themselves
Mrs. E. N. Alderman, little, round
faced woman, with big, dark eyes and a
frank manner, runs steam cleaning es-
Enlistment for carpets, etc. Mrs.
Drummer enjoys the distinction of being
the only woman chemist with business
of her own. Miss Kelly has kept mp
the blacksmith shop her father left her
and does all the work for the big
stables of the wealthy horse fanciers.
And she has painted the long shop
white inside and ont. so that there Is
nothing dirty or smoky about it
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course-and 1 nave reason TO believe
that the Irish-Alnerican combination Of
business ability, cdded TO woman's in
stinct, is as good one as can be found
for metropolitan use"
Mrs. E. S. Parsons went to work from
necessity and not from choice, but she
doesn't repret the turn her life he's
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an in America
in her line of
work. She was
the daughter of
a wealthy man
w h o in h i s
palny days en-
couraged b e r
artistic tastes
by giving her
six years abroad
IN t b G b e S t
studios, where
S he wo X e d
hard for sheer
I-af.4 XNl4-
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ager OF a theatre
cal agency, and
she has about
the prettiest Of
fees in the bust
N esS If you
w a n t to s e e
splendid repre-
sentatives of the
ia u 10 a IL ia c e
I b ere is the
place 10 go. Her
walls are pa
pered with pic
lures OF d In d.
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taken. As a girl
she had Mt a
care in the
world, a n d
when she mar
ried a wealthy
merchant she
supposed that q
future of luxuri-
Gus ease was
assured. Z n
fortunately, her
husbands close
a t ( e n t i o a
to b u S j n 9 S 8
broup b { on
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deals with plays
instead of peo-
pie. Instead of
placing a heavy
villain where he
can do the most
d a m q ge and a
C o n e l Y SOU
brette w h ere a
trim figure and a
saucy ton g u e
viii be most sp-
pre- lated, Miss
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Company, is the
hardest work
ing woman in
New York. She
IS small and
sli G h t, wi t h
brown eyes and
animated face,
and in spite of
a recent eight
months illness
from overwork
considers that
her lines have
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-21

c o pc rp ! d tie
maker, engrav-
er and printer,
and her huS-
band made and
filed salt bags
for table use.
Both father and
husband died,
and she has
carried on the
two businesses
besides keeping
up a home for
herself and two
little ones at
the same time.
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b IL II in 6 on
Broadway is a
brilliant testi-
monial to one
wOman'S knowl-
edge of di a
mondS-for that
is the corner
stone Of her sue
cess.
Women are
pro er bially
fond of the
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tors, dentists and
handlers of sup
plies peculiar to
their sex; they
have gone into
the coun ting-
room and gotten
down on their
elbows to the
big Iedgers; they
have gone into
'manufac { cries
and known the
touch and smell
o f m a c h i n e
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FOOTLiGHT FORTUNES.

salaries That Have Isecu Paid to Eauass'
Actors aas StE gers
The Chicago TINES has been reckon
ing mp the incomes derived from ''tbe
actors calling" which al things cen,
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Consent,

Consent.
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Wsg.1 ys0 say y-s or Eoy-'
"Seither," she said. ard hug s-T bad
hos eoaId khs treat .oVs SCI
TS-n ven dss't lore re. C. yos deErF'
lie GSis>e ~. pretty MSS,
she EAOeE her seaA Arr I'D EAen asxa.
Ara gave 70 strE : kikk
TbeB. ssyssEF- vssn yes nsash~T saiA
Frsy ~ ne xhat Pc Rr zH7'"
She E~iss Ny Gear. 10 rfismt -
AzG s0sRes Eiyes esnseHt
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Never Speaks 90 Her.
jake never speak 70 that girl
Fslse-Indeed, Who = sbe7
That's what I'd ike 10 know my.
elL"-JurY.
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S957. 1896
Correct c. A. WALEEB Cashr
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-09-14

DEMOCRACY makes special promises to
none, but will accord equal justice to all.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-09-14
THE REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING.

In the local columns of THE News
this morning may be found full and
correct report of the negro mass meet
ing held in Dawson on Saturday.
We ask the Third party men who may
read this report to consider whether the
cause of good government would be
advanced by admitting these people to a
place of influence in the party RESPONSE
BILE for the conduct public affairs. The
place of influence may not be public
office. We mean that if these men in
charge of the Republican machine put
Third party candidates in Office in Geor-
gia, their wishes must be considered in
the administration of those offices.
OF even more importance is the frank
avowal made by these colored Republi-
cans of the reasons why the negroes will
be urged to support the Third party
candidates. 1t is to destroy the Demo
cratic party so that these negroes may
become officeholders and sit on juries.
Theydo not become Third party men in
voting for the candidates of that party,
but will remain Republicans, voting in
the interest of the Republican party in
voting ohe Third party ticket. The
Democratic party destroyed, they will
still be Republicans, and their party,
with no opponent able to meet it, will
enter into control
What that control means is negro rule.
win white men help them in this
plan to destroy the Democratic party?
We hope not.
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and mitigating these evils. The consti-
tuition would permit the selection of a
commission, to be vested in the supreme
court, if that method would give the
best guaranty Of impartiality. This
com nittee should be charged with the
duty of inquiring into the whole subject
of the law of elections as related to the
choice of officers of the national govern
ment, with the view of securing to every
elector the free ana unmolested exercise
of suffrage and as near an approach to
equality of value in each ballot cast as is
allowable. The demand that limitations
of the suffrage shall be found in the law
and only there, is just demand
and no just man should resent or
resist it. y | shall again
urge upon Congress that provision be
made for the appointment of a non-parti-
IAN commission 10 consider the subject
of appointments and elections in their
relation to the choice of Federal Off
GERS"
That is all very fine talk about a com
mission of patriotic, wise and impair
tial men," but ould the bill be-
come law Harrison would put ON the
commission political hacks, politicians
whom he had promised places to vote
aud work for him, and in many instances
negroes would be put in. And suppose
the power was vested in the supreme
court, what is that but a Republican
body?
No, IMr. Harrison, that very force bill
matter is going to snow you and your
party under SO deep that you will never
scratch out.
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WHAT We NEED.

This is intended for our own people.
We need a cotton factory. If not alarge
one, then small one 1t can be built il
the people of Dawson Will take this adj
vice.
Find lout the size of a factory, in 9th
er words the capacity; then its cost in
full, all ready to run-and for that mat
ter the first months cost of running
should be included-and then go among
our business men and get subscriptions
to the Stock payable in monthly install
ments between now and next summer
Then make contract with some good
company to put up first-class cotton
factory, guaranteed to work all right
from the start
In this way we can build cotton fac
tory easily, and we all know that it
would pay good dividend
If such men as j. b. Perry, j. w.
Wooten, J. r. Mercer, A. j. Carver, w.
C. Paschal, H. Rogers, R. l.. Melton, j.
w. F. Lowrey, 0. B. Stevens, A, j. Bald
win, S. r. Christie, W. r. Baldwin, Da-
Wis & Dozier, Arthur Cnttenden &
Whitehead j. M. Griggs, w. A McLaih
j. A. Fulton, w. G. Dillon, w. B. Cheat
ham, and many others, will go into such
an enterprise It's success win be assured.
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CANDIDATE HAND will be Ben Rus
sells meat in November.