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nOvations which they have introduced.
C'ne scrap book. perhaps, exceis all
others in originality. A woman who is
now middle aged, began in girlhood to
amuse herself by planning houses and
saving everything bearing on the SUBJ
ject that she could find. To this day,
when life looks gray she busies .ler-
self i'll planning her ideal home, intro
oucing into it innovations suggested by
her ScrapbGok Or by her own fertile
mind. She has, indeed, come to be an
authority on modern residence archi-
lecture, and many are the homes among
her friends that owe their beauty, con-
venience and sanitation to her sugges-
tons.
Another woman makes a speciality Of
portraits Of actors and musicians, and
another of authors and painters. One,
an invalid, saves pictures of castles,
cathedrals and landscapes, culled from
magazines and tourist books sent to her
by friends. Besides the pictures she has
stores of famous speeches, everyday
facts, and bits Of sentiment in poetry
and prose
A series of scrap books kept patiently
up to date by a Brooklyn woman con-
tains a record of important events, ac-
counts of prominent people and deScrip-
trated by cuts from periodicals of va
rious kinds and all pertaining to this
city. One Of the unique ideas in these
books is the record of the Spanish
American WdT III CdL lOOIl, pISSSL FOO III
a huge tome by a literary woman.
An "All the Year" scrap book, origin
ated by a young girl, has been initiated
by a number Of her friends. These scrap
books are of the largest dimensions, and
are divided into sections which are vari-
ously headed Rainy Days 'Sunshiny
Days" Windy Days. ''Gray Days"
BLEAK Days" etc. In each department
are pasted clippings and pictures, the
latter often being photographs adapted
to the subject.
Nature scrap books. containing every
thing of interest on nature subjects, are
the latest departures. Pressed flowers,
ferns, leaves, photographs and original
drawings are used in them.
Said a veritable scrap book flend' the
other day: 'It is not so much the saw
ing of clippings or pictures for future
use or enjoyment that recommends the
habit as the fact that the act of cut
ting and filing impresses the thing upon
ones mind, making it ones very own.
Once I have cut out a picture of any
thing, with its little story, have gained
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JAMES NELL AND COMPANY.
Repertoire of Fine Plays at the
Grand This Week

Repertoire of Fine Plays at the
Grand This Week.
James Neill and company will be seen
at the Grand this week in repertoi e.
During the many years that Mr. Neil1
and his organization have been visiting
this city, never once has he permitted
an unWhOlesome or unsavory play TO be
permitted in his repertoire, unless one
may, call "a Partisan Romance such.
No Saphos have ever besmirched the
Neill stage, and if he continues his pres
ent policy, none ever will He mas gained
a reputation, and a most enviable one,
for the presentation of clean, fine plays
! IN most deserving and conscientious
manner, and had he the desire, it would
be inconsistent for him to switch at this
late date.
Doubtless Mr.. NeiI would prefer to
have his name associated in the fame of
the theater with higher types oE the
drama to having it identified with the
somewhat inferior and peTisha bIe pToduc-
uonS that he has been so long identified
with and so successful in presenting, but
as his work is in the line of the perfect
ing of fine and tried plays that arc
wholesome and deserving, his service to
The stage has been beneficial to it and
the calling into existence of several other
capable stock companies that are also
striving to present the most acceptable
of modern society successes.
Plays like 'An American Citizen" and
others in the Neill repertoire need net
blush for any of the more modern, like
'Sapho' or ''Wine, Woman and Song
The plays that Mr.. Neill will offer to
his old patrons in this city during the
coming engagement are:
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day evenings and at the Wednesday mat
inee, IAN American Citizen" by Made
line Lucette Ryley. ''An American Citi-
ZEN was made famous by Nat Goodwin.
1t is in four acts, with the scenes laid in
New York, Nice, Italy, and London.
Thursday and Friday evenings, "a Pa
rlsian Romance" will he given by special
arrangement with Richard Mansfield It
was this play that gained for Mr. Neill
and his organization an immediate and
lasting success in San Francisco Mr.
Neill is the only American actor who has
been daring enough to follow the great
Mansfield in the role of Baron ChevriaI.
AT the Saturday matinee and evening
performances Bronson Heward's society
drama, 'Aristocracy," will be the p!av.
1t will be remembered as treating in the
main with the theme of American heir
esses marrying foreign nobility.
AT the close of the Twin CITY ENGAGE
ment the Neiu company will begin a
ten weeks engagement at the new Teck
theater, in Buffalo, after which it will
play four weeks in Cincinnati, and then
twelve weeks in San Francisco
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SCRAP BOOKS
That Are the Sources of Both Pleas
ure and Profit.

IHat Are the Sources of Roth Pleas
ure and Profit.
New Ycrk Tribune.
photographs taken by the giver, and
cuts, clippings and typeWritten quota
tlonS suited to the state OF the recipient.
are among the newest things for Christi.
mas presents. One intended for the
mother of a family of little ones con-
talns 1hymeS and jingles, pictures and
stcrles Another, for a teacher, is de-
Xcted tc nature subjects For a young
tneater-goers, pictures and stores of
actors and actresses have been gathered
and attractiVely mounted in n half
Russia volume. The clipping file which
threatened TO replace the old-fashioned
scrap oook, failed as a substitute and
Is now used for purely practical pur-
Scrap book making is one of the fads
with which a ccrterie or women be-
OF Mary Lyon, in the early days OF Mt.
Holyoke, is responsible for the inno-
cent pastime, which is not without its
permanent advantages. Long before
Photographers were even known pictures
were common. A school girl who is now
a grandmother began to save the few
illustrations Of notables, historic land
marks and works of art that came in
her way, and has continued the habit
zealously. The pictures, beginning as
they did fifty years ago, and continuing
through the present era of generously
illustrated tourist books and Sata-
IGSueS, magazines and newspapers,
furnish an interesting history of illus
tretive art. Her children, grandchildren
and friends have adapted the idea to
their own tastes, and many are the in
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CHOICE OF FN DRANlS|
WIDE RANGE IS OFFERED TO THE
THEATER GoERS OF ST.
PAUL THIS WEEK
SOCIETY DRAMA POPULAR
There VIII Be Little of the Mel
OGramatic in the Programmes
at the Local Play
Houses.

At the metropolitan opera house, COM
mencing tonight and continuing until
Wednesday night with bargain
Wednesday matinee, Tim Murphy, sup
ported by an excellent company, Will pres
ent an elaborate production of "a Bache-
lor's Romance"
Tim Murphy has never had a more
agreeable vehicle than "BSchelor's Ro-
nance" 1t is a pretty play and Mr.. Muir
ply is said to be at his best in the
character OF David Holmes, the book
ish'' hero.
Miss Morton has written a part which
exactly suits the quaint comedian who
is himself perfectly delighted with the
piece. 1t gives his talent an opportunity
to shine with greater brilliancy than ever
before. In "A Bachelors Romance Miss
Morton has demonstrated that she is a
woman who knows human nature and
understands life. Every one of her char
acters are such as one might expect to
meet any day. The lines of the play are
we'll written, and in no place has Miss
Morton viola ted the canons of good taste.
The acting of the play is rapid, and the
interest is sustained until the very last
moment. 1t is seldom that the subordin-
ate characters in play are so faithfully
and conscientiously drawn.
Mr.. Murphy's success in the part has
been phenomenal. His conception Of the
ASetNlliS SlIeiL dc lSI ID 6liIAIGI
he has never seen Mr.. Russell In the
part. The is originality in his treat
ment, and probably every person in the
audience will have a different reason for
making the assertion. No one can mis-
take Mr.. MuTphy's presence on the stage.
Mr.. Murphy is under contract with Mr..
Fred Berger, who was for many years,
and still remains, Sol Smith Russelrs
manager. The 'latter has retired tenn
pOrarily from the stage. Mr.. Berger has
surrounded his star with well known peo-
pie
Mr. Murphy is lean and dry with
same time has no observable manner
isms. He never strains for effect, and is
able to elicit an abundance of laughter
and tears. He takes his place among the
- stars of the first magnitude, while yet a
young man, though not without record
of successful experience behind him.
Tim Murphy began his career under
Chas. Hoyt, for whom he created some
of the most successful characterizations
of the Hoyt repertoire, eliminating in his
original realization of Maverick Brander.
Leaving Hoyt six years ago, he began
starring, and his advance has been quiet,
- ---e--e-S f7flSII Uts IS giving 20 JlIC
role of Sylvia charm and grace, which is
commented upon Very favorably "Her
Sylvia has never been excelIed," writes
Montgomery Phister in the Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune ''and it must be re-
memheTed that several bright young
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CITY SPORTS AT THE STAR,
Phil sheridan's Big Company at
That Popular Theater.

Phil sheridan's Big Company at
That Popular Theater.
The mere announcement that Phi! Sher-
1dan's Big City Sports show will be at
the Star theater on Monday night Dec
H. ought to fill that popular amusement
center every afternoon and evening The
Dill is said to be one of the strongest
that Manager Singer has secured This
season And it is also said to be crowd =
ed with bright things of all kinds So
lected with particular reference ro +na
1act that up-to-date entertainment is tbe
only sort people are willing to tolerate
nowadays
The merits of the organization are so
well known that it is hardly nacessa Nv
10 go into lot of praise about them
Ihe City Sports are warm favorites
Wherever they have become acouainfad
amusement lovers flock to theaters where
they appear. The City Sports will never
go down in history as an educator. II
has been put together for amusement
purposes, the principal ingredients of
which are droll comedians, graceful
dancers, magnificent scenery, Irresistible
music, Oriental vestments, strange in
form and warm in color, baIlets. march
es and visions Of art, and, first. last and
all the time, some splendid specimens of
beautiful Womanhood from home and
abroad.
Two very amusing comedies are given.
From Broadway to Pekin'' and "a Hot
Night in New York, F" which sparkle with
mirth and laughter 80
In the opening burlesque will be seen
the latest Partisan sensation. Mile Fan-
chetti, the barefooted dancer, and in The
closing one there will be a basketba1I
contest by female members Of the COM
pany.
In the olio will be found the nick Of
the vaudeville, such as the three Josse-
Inns, Mark and Kitty Hart Cr;ssia
Sheridan, Brandon and Clare, Craig and
Ardel, Kitty Miley and Sheridan and
Healy.
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COMING ATTRACTIONS

The Rogers Bros. are underlined for an
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one so constantly hear music whistled on
the streets. EVERY family that can af-
ford it owns piano." he says, and
ed man or women, all seem to go in for
music of some sort, either as singers,
Whlstlers or performers of some sort Of
music is not of the best, but of the sort
that makes the trained musician grieve.
Yet the musical spirit exists everywhere.
no matter how remote or small the set
United States. 1t means a true musical
education in the coming generations
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ropolitan opera house next Thursday
evening. This work has achieved a just
ly deserved success throughout the coun-
try, and the playgoing public does not
seem to tire of its simple and honey
scenes. Shore Acres does not cater to
depraved appetite. 1t is the converse of
all that is vicious. It is a revelation OF
OF deluge of passion plays Mr.. Herne
has reared an image of virtue Shore
Acres" is lesson in morality and G
clear, we'll defined, beautiful lesson. Nc
audience can fail to treasure the memory
Of those life pictures portrayed i'll "'Shore