The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-05
YOUNG MEN
They Learned a Valuable Les
SON on Monday.
Invited Membe Of Grimes Gel
lar Door Co. to supper.
CHAPERON REPLIED.
She Was Sufficiently Explicit
to Startle Them.
Trials Of a Stage Struck Young
Woman.


Woman.
Two we'll known Topeka young men.
who pride themselves somewhat on be-
ing "mashers, went 10 the matinee
performance of Grimes Cellar Door
at the Crawford theater Monday after
noon. They were bent on fun. if any
was in sight. and along toward the end
of the performance one remarked TO the
other.
What's the matter with taking a
couple of these show girls out for sup
per tOnight?''
I'm with you said the other.
Just about that time one of the pref
test young ladies OF the company, at
tired in a very becoming evening gown,
made her appearance and started 10
sing Because l Love You So"
Say, she's peach" said the first
young man.
I rather like the girl who has the
part of the marble statue" said his
companion"
Let's send back a note and ask them
If they'll go out to supper" suggested
the first
IN go YOU" said the second.
And so it happened that few min
Utes after the fall OF the curtain, Miss
Helen Hargreaves, the young lady OF
the becoming evening gown was inter
disposal by knock on her dressing
room door, and thrusting out a remark
ably well formed arm she received the
following note from a cOlOred man:
Because 1 Love You So.
We would like TO have yourself and
your statue friend 90 out TO supper to-
night We are TWO young men who
admired you both this afternoon and
would like TO become better acquainted
BILLY AND BERT"
The two young men were meanwhile
waiting impatiently at the rear of the
theater. 1t was not long until the coll
ored man returned. He handed them
this reply:
The young lady contemptuously ig-
MRS. FRANCES PHELPS.
Her Chaperon-'
It took but moment to read it. Then
said the first young man:
We'll, III be ."
And so viii T." said the second.
They left the theater very crest
fallen. In all their experience as
Washers they had never encountered
a stage girl with a chaperon.
But the signature on the note the
young men received was the real ar
ticle. Miss Helen Hargreaves carries
a chaperOn with her because papa and
mamma back in kankakee. Illinois.
would not think of letting their IS
year-Old daughter go on the stage
without one Her name is Mrs Frances
Phelps, and she is an old friend of
Miss Hargreaves' mother.
The performance of Grimes Cellar
Door in this city Monday afternoon
was the second time Miss Hargreaves
faced the fOotlights as a member of a
theatrical company The first time
was in LeaVenWOrth the night before.
Last year she was a member of a small
concert company that visited several
OF the smaller Illinois towns. and this
experience gave her a longing for the
stage When she told her parents of
her intention to become an actress they
informed her she could not stir one foot
out of her kankakee home unless she
took a chaper0n with her. But nothing
daunted, the pretty young miss went to
Chicago and not only secured a place
for herself but for her chaperon as
well.
You see 7 agreed to take a smaller
salary If they would take Mrs Phelps -
she explained last night, and they
agreed to take her along very readily
I really don't know what I would do if
I was out here all alone, because stage
life isn't exactly just what thought it
would be- I've been out less than a
week. and I must say that the novelty
has worn off already. I know I want to
be an actress, but dear me don't
know whether I ever will become &C
customed to the life.
And I've had such dreadful exper-
fences already" she continued opening
pair of large and innocent looking
blue eyes to their widest possible limit
Now just think OF those hOrrfd bows
sending me that note this afternoon
III
I'm on the stage I would accept their
acquaintance" and here the blue ewes
sacrificed some Of their innocence to
flashes of Indignation. And over in
LeavenwOrth last night had two
young men SPEAK to me, and I had
never even seen them before. I lust
think it's dreadful to have such things
happen Mamma said I would run
across some things I wouldn't like and
I'm finding out that she was right"
Miss Hargreaves sighed, tapped the
stage hOOr with small foot, and sigh
ed again Presently she said:
I'm even having trouble with nv
clothes packed almost all my wear
ing apparel in my hotel trunk and put
scarcely anything in my dressing trI1n X
and then after the hotel trunk had been
shipped away 1 found that 1 was sun
posed to keep all my necessary clothes
for a week in my dressing trunk Of
course I supposed I would have nv
hotel trunk every day just the same as
the other one. but instead I won't have
it for week And here I am without
any clean clothes. and such awfllII- h0r
weather. too Why, do YOU know thar
I've worn one shirt waist three DAYS
already and | viii just have to make it
do until Sunday"
The young lady sighed again. "Oh
dear me" she exclaimed 4 wonder
II III ever really make an actress
MISS HargreaFes is pretty and has a
pleasing soprano voice This is her
second year out Of school, and when at
nome she is popular in Kanka kee So
ciety- She asDireS to be an emotion \ 7
actress but finds farce comedy rather
a check on her aspirations
Another feature of the Joke on the
two young men is the fact that the
statue girl mentioned in the note ~
Miss Hargreaves is Mrs lanes p
Mackie, wife of the Comedian she i
no longer a girl. as the young men sup
posed and has been on the stage for
many years She felt very well pleased
over the compliment paid to her make
Up BY her admirer when shown the note
/ BY Miss Hargreayes' chaperon-
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