The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-27
THE Low COMEDIAN.
BY GEO. II. SIMS,
Author of "TnIes of To-day"

by every child in the United Kingdom;
Cults Metropolitan mixture was pro-
nounced by youthful connoisseurs to be
"facile princeps' in the mixture" mar
ket. They didn't say it was "facile prin-
seps,'' but that is what they meant. Cults
almond hardbake was a dream Cults
raspberry rock was something TO dwell in
the memory long after the dental troubles
of middle-age had made lOllipops fo--
hidden luxury and box of Cuts choco-
late creams had been. on one celebrated
occasion, presented by Royal English
Princess to her young German husband as
something the equal of which could not be
made in Germany"
1t is no wonder that Mr. Timothy Cuts
vas proud as well as a prosperous man.
He was proud to think, that during a
long and honorable career he never once
deviated from the glorious motto of his
house, Warranted make of the Purest
Sugar" and he was proud to think that
at the age of 50 he had made name which
was honored in every English nursery, ana
accepted as a guarantee of purity and eX-
cellence by every English parent.
Not only had Mr., Cuts made a name,
but he had made a fortune-a very con-
siderable fortune, indeed. There is an ex-
cellent margin of profits on lollipops-and
lollipops we have always with US. They
don't go out of fashion--the taste for them
endures and will endure as long as chill
dren have palates and parents have pence.
The fashion In sweets changes occasional
- 4- harf ia rfF.all mr.
of the sweet that Is altered, the ingredi-
ents remain very much the same.
Mr. Cults had no anXietes about his
business. The manufacture of sweets Is
a national industry, ana foreign compe-
tition has not very much affected il eX-
cept In it's higher branches. But in spite
OF his prosperity and great renown, MI.
Cuts had trouble. His eldest son. Tim
othy Cults, DR., positively declined TO en-
ter his fathers business or to have any
thing 10 do with bulls-eyes.
To a certain extent 1t was Mr.. Cuts
own fault Instead of bringing the boy
up in a business-like way, he had given
him a first-class education, and allowed
him TO go to oxford with liberal allow
ance.
Young Cuts didn't do anything great
at oxford. He got through his allow
ance with punctuality and dispatch, and
made some good friends, but failed to dis
tinguish himself from a university point
of view. In one way only did he reap
fame at oxford. and that was al an anna
teur actor.
He appeared once or twice with consld-
cradle success in comic parts, and the
"acting undergraduates said that he had
the making of a good low comedian in
him.
His father and mother saw him act
once. His mother declared that he was "a
genius. Her boy reminded her of Rob
son. But his father, who had no taste
for theatricals. only shrugged his shoul-
ders, and pertinently asked what manner
of use Glowing was likely to be to a
wholesale sweet stuff manufacturer.
Old Cutts--I only cali him old to dis
tinguish him from young Cutts-had had a
vague idea that his son would take de-
gree at Oxford: that he would leave the
university with a letter or two after his
name, which would be a guarantee to the
work. of the scientific principles upon
which the business would be carried on.
He thought if his boy passed big
exam. in chemistry, or something Of that
sort, he would be able TO confound all
future trade rivals The British public
would as a matter of course feel much
safer in purchasing sweets manufactured
under the immediate eyes of a young
man who had been distinguished for his
cleverness and scientific attachments at
Oxford than in buying the goods of firm
who had only commercial instincts to
guide it,
Young Cults, however, left the Univer-
sity without exhibiting the slightest APP
titude for chemistry or science of any
kind, and his disappointed father at once
invited him TO come down to the Borough
and be initiated into the mysteries of
cocoa nut cream, cough candy. almond
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politan Mixture.
Mr.. Cults Junior sulkily consented to
"try what it was like" He told his
father frankly that he didn't relish the
idea; but a University training was not
calculated to impress a fellow with a
taste. for acidulated drops and sugar
sticks, and that if ne might be allowed
to express his own views on the subject
of his future career. he would venture to
suggest that he should be allowed to adopt
the stage as a profession.
THE what. sir?" yelled the father, al
most doubling the evidence of his own
ears.
THE stage sir" replied Cults, Junior.
'Its a very honorable profession. Ladies
of high rank, officers in the army, and
university men are going on the stage
every day. Why shouldn't II"
Mr.. Cults, senior dropped into a chair
and mopped his brow with his pocket
handkerchief.
You don't mean to say Timothy" he
gasped. that you seriously mean that
you want to be play-actor"
Yes, / do father the great ambition
of my life is to be a low comedian"
The prosperous sweet stuff manufacture
er groaned. His son a low comedian
The heir TO all that vast establishment
In the BorO. the future proprietor of
Cults cocoanut cream a low comedian.
He groaned 10 himself in almost heart
broken misery for a moment or two. then
suddenly he sprang from his chair and
shook his fist angrily a his recreant Off
spring.
How dare you. sir" he yelled. How
dare you insult the family by such a pro-
position. Do you think / sent you TO Hox-
ford (the N was the result Of excite
menD and paid all that money for your
education that you might be mounte-
bank SRA grinning buffoon. sir no sir.
Youth go into my business tomorrow or
you'll go where you ike. Everything sir.
I've got in the world will be yours some
day If you stick to the sweets. Renounce
'em. sir, and l renounce you. spurn EN-.
an ! spurn you. Yes, sir, / mean il.
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