New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-05
4 CARELESS, CRUEL LIE.
THE SIMPLE LITTLE BALLET GIRL AT
TEMPTS A JOKE
CIT ,-srs DANGEROUS WIT WITH Az uN
ppArTfsrD HAND AND NEARLY CAUSES
rrnrn1-s rROI,BI.E.

SERIOUS TROUBLE.
THE eoeros 10 be as good a time rs any 10 say
TIA, there are occasions when the pracuca JOKE -
o,.. % place. The question whether II IS ever J."
,lace ~ not necessary 30 ne discussed al p'9'''-
-, ,,, ~ nractical jokers is long and iusiIious
ora and now and then the practical joke mas mo
NEGATIVE merit Of being harmless nat was "''
,ho case with the one which yesterday turned Out
49,, ,,,,,e 81 badly az it might but badly enough
. - certain theatre IN town there was ballet.
and I'm # ODDLY enough. there was pre'F KIT
-rbera vas also n young man VINO h'ionE'n I" d
family which has been for number al years ""'
- ,ha hast known IN the country. II has been
,,.r,. ,ro,ninontlv INFO public many times and
-, 49,. 1ra,.s Tho last time that This happened
q, ,,.as through the generous and sef Sa'ri1c'nS
-,,op ~ a sister ~ the Young man In question -
.,r,e ~ death and suffering and horror IN TINA
.,., This Young man. n sppears Fam" ot'en 10
49,, .haotra sat IN a FRONT seat. and was much a.
,rac+ad nv the pretty girl m The oallet 40 SID
seou4nrlv made her acquaintance. ana 'or = VINO
49,. ,,,o-e epparently IN terms ~ friendship 70"
,,nnropriety being a. time insnuated
,t,er tir7e the pretty Eirl whose home vas N
r-reland was called back there by ne sickness ~
w. b,otber and on reaching there she sem letter
80 s,o.h.r NJ the eirls in the ballet - 'NN nor ~
o~r,val This eir handed the letter 10
o.n.r N read - the assembled ballet VOW
.,..e rss nresert 2 dresser who was an oldNr
woman than most n the baNef girls - s"'h
,h,re CON he credited The girl Who was reaolhs
,A le,,or conceived would he vast' 7n' -
' 49,. ~ ,n,- alder p,oraan u-ho had been
,,.r ,r.ereste6 IN the affair Of The Young nan
80 .bo dancer thinking that ~ would ~ : none
thing for her N he ma rrted 10 mar ~ '8S
So +hie reaaor ~ the letter raa0 out an "i'''''
imaginary paragraph IN when me "'.'e'
reser,ed as saving thai her adr'rer nan n-en 90
l, ~ chin Ind that thev had been rarr7e7 ~
.te .,rtaiu The dresser Nas f"0fi''H - W ~ ..
Intended that she should h". -1f n'''ia-' '
several other people ana he stag n,anasel ss -
word 10 the neVfpap'' ''
w wouldn't hsye Pq' Up 1o r joEG wa s'g sons 10
o., an in his va, Oh. ~ course not Nn' me
Ia, VINO didn'i luo" y Va l"c,''' 1,,g ~ m
t iittia trotnar III soarg woman thought MAJ
ne old woman Ho.d o S''l He riches, families
a., he world a profound secret and "Vfn y ~lr
,,+ Lrqs tu over q big theatre ana neV'r ON ""
5iro.llV idiofc even for tho addlepate ~ an "FcI
axe n.le not occur ~ n.r that when voune man
nd b.en Fl bif indisrroot and no harm mao b,'n
done the less SAID a6op NAM me f 9ey and ren9 3
,f .,,n the sirl who her friend would ne
deeply Erie r sh be endless trouble and distress
C,or9 M. story could be corrected and engfSs
rstanding after that These things ala not
tslned her brain IN 'ompal son "i," ''' '"''
II vas tle newspaper men vino are supposed 10 ne
alytvs making ali the trouble IN their power VINO
vheo thcy arrived. did what they c"ulH 10 mar
NJ damage as small possible II may como 49,
rrnriar 70 the corps Dc ballet. but 1t IS fact
that Inc reporters Of well conduc,'a PAPER "neH
en'e usually try. before printing IT, 10 get II con-
armed hy the persons most '"n'crhssl, lhti.-
. ,he dret hing thar the reporters did war 10
tna,,i,e whether the young man IN This story was
of home or abroad II Vas qu'hN io9n1 ma, NJ
"a ae AZ home and that ~ once s"''ed IN" "h"ie
lie .a.o-a,. tb., tt. .,..,eor ,on-
80 u,i,h tho theatre who first Informed tho
ms,crs Of Inc case did ~. knowing mat II WIS
~ IA advertise the theatre " ihlr was uh"
49,, man WIS Of course. number ~ degrees worse
,her a practical Joker but th"r" is no way ~
ro,,no II and II was declared al the theatre lhsl
Itart thst when he first told the story ne believed
a. mi I'm the best way that the matter can De
a., Tho nractical Joke all but scored another OF l'r
pStoo,s .icforons-those triumphs which are 50
co. - achieve by any selfish or careless person
and are so hard 10 undo