The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-29
LIvE roPIos ABoUr IoRS.

Just n Song at Twilight" she Kept IL up for
two yerses, and II ~asn't 80 very badly done,
but at the end there was hardly a hand clap
Of applause.
FROST said one Of the old New Workers., per-
haps for want Of anything better 10 say.
Nevertheless" answered the ether, that
woman has got the glimmerlng Of an idea that
might be made very profitable by some music
hall manager Ia this town, for one season, at
least. TIT trouble with her song is that II
was mover a great favorite. aud what populari-
ty IL did have was too recent. But let some
manager get a good singer t. dc, the real ia,
In bct he'd make u hit. 1t would be better 4
he mad a quartet OF men. There IL no such
popular music as the singing OF, men. Let
such a quartet. come here and do tho. old
songs and you'd give mp your dollars to hear
thep res. sp Of t ba S s5ys up ,,J nine ,ts;t ana s.s :" would Sn 1o all
Blu! tho Singers must be good ones, with well.
which are extremely popular, In spite of the
fun that's made OF them. There's Annie Leu-
with the res, Of themS doing &c '1 sSs ae Ssis sHnI.
ment,, 7 would 90 sure. And there's sally in
Our Alley, Why, there's a man pp at tho
and he meyer gets away without doing that
song. He has a high, sweet tenor voice. and
wouldn't go miles in the rain to hear him re-
peat It.. 'Marsa's In the Cold. Cold Ground Is
e RStRfasn H4 Ma tGsTe ses sh %sS old !ae IIEiss G %s'
all those endeaFing young charms There
that used to 20 around the country giving con-
certs. I've heard them several times. and the
time they, made the biggest hit was when a big
part OF their programme was made up of the
old songs. II hasn't been done in a summer sea-
son In New York that | can remember, and I'd
like to SEE it tried. 1t would get my money
sure"
This lie the hardest season OF the year for
mo- said a young down own business man
sN--N --l. -
OF my work comes now, but also because that
part OF II always involves the drinking of large
quantities of rum Of varied sorts. Before tie
summer is out ! will have to referee the wran-
glings OF a dozen different sets Of business rivals.
all trying to get together In u compromise In
which each shall Get the best OF all the others.
I've been doing 1t for several years. and ] know
what II means. Rum is the great modifying
agent, and the steady application Of 1t, inter-
nally. Is the sure method Of obtaining success.
But when one man stacks up against a dozen or
more It's trying, TO say the least. And, then
when the compromise is reached there's always
q blowout at some summer hotel near the city
that lasts a day or two. and is a bright scarlet
from start to finish. There's only one way in
s MmiG aom a " out St the II k end OF eye tie WIZ" year 'S With sa ms
every man can drink Just about SO much rum
his limit he's going to the demnition bow vows.
Ihe aifacuity Is in finding your limit. and
blthlDk u IL. i KNOW what my uNtTdst ually
consumption is when I'm drinking. I've got
IT down tine from long and close observation.
And An Il. ! know r. OS; too too; w what at my ny, limit a9 is; ! hayS
year / have reached it. BY that time. too, I
have always smashed through my hardest work,
fouE, months, Not a drop do l drink after that
s s9a1, the GsS average rsals ana asyi keep tpO me 'O sliv @OA In . ne,
first eight months : drink what l please, but IL
is my invariabie rule, never viola ed, never
q ala N rtn N I'M MT nf y n
No matter what happens. | go through the NOR
ing rum!ess. After that I'm ready for what
comes. It's q great theory, but 1t works."
The announcement of the perfecting by
Nikola Tesla of his vacuum tube system of
electric lighting has been received with so
many expressions of satisfaction. and there
has been so much said Of the benefit TO be
derived from this great advance In science.
that II makes more emphatic and interesting
the contrasting objection of a young Long
Island woman who was protesting vigorously
any general introduction of the new light
for private, use. She's a handsome young
the deslrability and the difficulties of APP
peaTiRs always " at the Is hest adyAntaEe; >,
he he kind R R@tSre In OF us e VIVA What et esn We t Dc When on
aifi e. Get x .ais n snsn ~ aayitf !hIsh' In IN o nse' ow Ii
on them, so that the little wrinkles and the
%ssd d R5SSs. Il 0h no!hi ssip viii fTe sv SHADED get a~ %nS
from this new light. and You might. as well
in a room lighted in this way. ! don't care
how practical they are. they shall never como
into my house"
The news Of Nine. Nordica's marriage to
Zoltan Doehme In Indianapolis proved moro
of a surprise than marriages usually do when
they have been so long expected and so freely
as this one. The particular element
Of interest III Nine. Nordica's case arose from
the fact that little longer than u month ago
the singer was reported to have told her friends
not only that her engagement with Doehme was
broken of, but that she was heartily glad OF Il.
so quietly were the preparations for her
arranged that nobody even heard of
Herr Declines presence In this country until
the wedding was over. 1t appears certain,
however. that he must have waited until the
over TO claim his bride, and with the imposing
NJ Willy schultz, brother-in-law OF the DE
Nordica- Doehme's cdf6-au-ldt poodles. safely
in Europe, doubtless the bridegroom,
or. The pr!Da donna's friends are wandering
now what will become OF those poodles. NJ.
occupation viii be gone II, he returns
and no necessity Of lis sOlemnly making the
announcement OF his brother-in-law'S approach
,barge Of one who has more right to supervise
Their health and plsasaTe: .on.,,o.,o
enough to present the poodlss to NJ. Schultz
he sailed. That would have been a
reward for his two, years OF devotion
10 them. Now that one OF the American sing
ers who talked much Of her engagement Is
really married, there may be some reasonable
,xpectatlon OF hearing definite. news about
The long-eXpected marriage OF Miss Sibyl San
and Antonio Terry. When Miss San
arrived in this country after an absence
II eight years she told the reporters that she
hoped to make II success at the opera, hut that
really the important object Of her visit was
her marriage TO Mr.. Terry. which, It was then
would take place soon in New York.
nothing has since been heard OF II. Miss
Is resting now at Lake Como, a
probably romantic enough TO revive
OF her engagement. Another be-
trothed singer, Jean dc ResZke. is said To have
thrown the entire opera season at Covent
Garden temporarily out OF Joint by slipping
IN a cake of SOAP In his bathtub and spralning
leg.
Fregoll, the mimic, has teen devoting his
lime assiduously during his stay here To acquir-
.ng u knowledge OF English, with the object
II crownlnR his professional career with N tour