The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-30


disguise il neosssaryf Answer this u
you can. A wcIl-known resident OF TINS
city decided recently TO dispense wisn ns
moustache. aud he did So Prsviousto
his action he had commanding presence
and listin Ruished look and while he had
no fac al ornament but slight growth en-
the lin. vet this was what gave him that
appearances. However, he had 1t cut on,
then his troubles began. His wife mis-
took him for. sewing machine agent and
called upon the cook to assist her In put
ting him from the premises. His chill
dren ran shrieking from him on the street
and burly police officer started
to put him under arrest on a suspicion OF
kidnapping. No one knew him at the
Office and even the cigar man shut down
on him when be tried to get week on
''tick." OF course he finally made his
identity known, but then that only
made q bad matter worse. All his
friends united in jeering at him and one
with a theatrical ipc.inatis n amused
himself aud others by quoting choice ex-
tracts from Shakespeare Whenever he
APP ,ared. Inde ID as this man told him
ne looked like ''low-down," cheap actor
aud now regrctting his rash act the beard
less man is using every means to bring
back the growth. Meantime. he slips
around through back streets aud crosses
over TO the other side wnen friends
approach. HIS wife, it Is stated. has gone
to her motLer's pending the time the
moustache returns.
In going about the city find that
Elmwood has received fair SHARE Of the
attention OF the city fat iers, aud the res
idents see n O bc well pie sed with what
they have received. Now j saw some
thing last Sunday afternoon about
o'clock that did not look just right for y ,
refined part OF The city as Eimwood Is
1t was the earring OF Young woman,
who, perhaps. was Is years old, in a
rattletrap Of police wagon and an
uncove red ore at that. She was guarded
by two ed officers and was crying as
if her heart would brsak. She, hal been
arrested for stealing and rs one OF the
fficcrs said it was not the first time.
Well, to NY mind that makes no
differenc. IL she bad stolen every day
for the past ten years. Let us have Gov
cred wagons for the use Of the police,
especially for the wo men. for no man or
woman can be pleased with such sight
as the one saw last SUNDAY.
! !
1t il with good deal OF satisfaction
thst / looked upon wrecks { the past
sumner, and when 1 say wrecks l mean
these abominable wide -brimmed straw
hats, tiat have been worn this sulnmer
by doc ors, banker. repor ers, deck
hands and ,rmers-and by the ladies
as we'll. Thtn again l have seen these
same hats after bsv ng been worn In a
storm, and a more wretched sort of head
gear pev saw, and i presume the
readers Of The News have noticed them,
aud with the Looking Class had "a silent
pity for the wearer
I . !
Mr.. Charles II. Zuber, who represents S
George Thatcher and his Operate Ex-
travaganza company s press agent. is in
the city. Mr. Zuier is reside zee Of
Cincinnati and u very courteous ana
well-pos,et gent eman. G'crse Thatcher
needs no introduction TO the tn atre-go-
ing pubic. for Thatcher. the minstrel, is
familiar name. But it is no longer as
Thatcher, the minstrel, but as That cher.
tn operatic star, that he appeals to
the public. As John j. McNally, the
drama ic cri ic ana playwright, recently
said of Ii m, ia his new departure
he will become as great or greater
| favorite as he was as a minstrel" T"
Thatcher for several years has noticed a
decline in the demand for mi istr,lsy and
mis- Tuxedo" was tn. first step toward
its abandon rent. This year he has bold y
launched himself iuto tue SEA o. comic
opera in africa" aud everywhere HIS
matte an instanl aneous hit. Africa" is
a 81 &c acular comic opera of the ex r,va-
ganza type and is he bess thing O.. It's kind
ever offered lie will soon lie in this city
aud there isn't any doubt but that he
Will capture all hearts.