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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-18
TRIALS OF A YOUNG ACTRESS ), > By

lnS man few across my path, and as a
second rushed after him with knife nm
nTl6d FOR deadly blow. his foot caught
IN mine. He pitched forward. the knife
SINS TO ms victim arm, instead of
MS BACK. as he had intended: and with
cries of Murderi" +Policet" ringing in
ny ears. / ran as if I were a murderessl
AReSe things are in themselves a high
prise to pay for being an actress.
had friend-an elderly relative Of
one OF our greatest actors, who, for in
dependence sake taught music. One
night she had played at a concert and
was returning home Tail and slight
and heavily yelled, she walked alone.
Inen suddenly appeared a well looking
young son of Beliai-undoubtedly a gen
/ tlemans by daylight. He tipped his hat
and tWirled his mOustache-she turned
away her head. He cleared his throat
she seemed quite deaf. He spoke; he
/ called her 'girlie." She walked faster.
Sc did he. He protested she should
cot walk alone. She stopped. 'Will you
/ please allow me to walk home in
/ peace."
/ But no. that was just what ne would
not d0-and suddenly she answered:
! very well, then, / accept your escort
though under protest"
/ Surprised he walked at her side. The
/ way was iOng-the silence grew painful
/ be VenUured to suggest supper, as they
I passed a restaurant-she gently de-
clined. At last she ed directly be-
/ meath a gas lamp, and --Om her face,
] with sorrow, followed eyes and tenn
/ pies, where every one of her seventy
/ six years had been stamped in cruel
! line and crease and wrinkle, she lifted
/ up the veil and raised her sad old eyes
/ TeprOaChfully TO his. He staggered
] back-turned returned white-stam-
mered-tOOk of his hat-attempted 70
apologize-then turned and fed.
And what, 1 asked, did you say to
him %
'Say-say?" she repeated. Justice
need not be cTuel-why add anything
TO the sight of thisi" And she drew
q finger down her withered cheek.
It was said with laughing bitterness.
for she had been very fair and well
/ guarded, too, in the distant past, while
! them could but catch her tired hands
and kiss them in a burst of pity that
I this elderly gentlewOman might not
( walk in peace through the city streets,
/ because fate had left her without a pro-
/ tectOr
/ Appeal to a policeman; think some
one says. OF course, if he is about
but recall that famous old recipe Of
Mrs. Glass: First catch your hare
and then But believe me, they rare
~ appear together, your tormentOr Of
women and your pOIiceman-unless, in
deed, the former is stupidity in liquor
And wha1 good if he is arrested? Shame
viii prevent your appearing against
him. Silence and speed are generally
the best defensive weapons of the
frightened, lonely girl.
Once through fright, fatigue and
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BY Clara Morris

shows a touch of the ludicrous now
and then.
I recall one snowy. Saturday night.
when 1 had played a fve-act play
twice, with but a sandwich for my din
ner, the weather tOrbidding my going
home after the matinee. So. being
without change to ride, hungry and un-
utterably weary, I started, bag in hand
TO walk up Sixth avenue. On the east
side stood a club house, whose peculiar
feature was a wine hung veranda across
its entire front from which an unusual
ly long flight of steps led to the side
walk
Quite UnmOlested I had walked from
the stage door almost to this building.
when suddenly, as if he had sprung
from the very earth, a man was at my
elbow, addressing me. The fact that
his words, in a foreign tongue We're not
understood, did not in the slightest
degree lessen the terror his evil face in
spired. I shrank away from him and
he caught at my wrist. 1t was too
much. / gave cry and started on a
run, when, tall and broad a man ap-
peared at the foot of the club house
steps just ahead of me. Ashamed TO
be seen running, I halted, dropping into
q walk again.
Then, with that exaggerated straight
ening OF back and stiffening of knee
adopted by one who tries to walk a floor
preached me. He was very big, he was
silvery gray. and his dignity was por-
tentuOus. At every step he struck the
pavement a ringing blow with a splen-
did Malacca cane. Old-fashioned and
gOld-headed, it looked enough like its
owner to have been his twin brother.
He lifted his high silk hat and with
somewhat fiOTid Indignation, inquired:
My c-child, was that infamous cur
a-annoying you just nOw2 A-ah!" ne
broke off, hOurishing his cane over his
head, there you slink-I wish I had
hold of you" and ] heard the running
footsteps of No. /. as he darted across
and down the avenue.
And the policeI" sarcasticaIly re-
sumed the big man, who waVeTed IN
steadily. now and then. How useful
are the p-police2 How many do you
see at this moment, pray? And, by the
way, m'child, what In the 0eVtls name
brings you on the street alone at this
hour. Ell? tell me that2" and he as
sumed a most judicial attitude and
manner.
replied: Il am going home from
/ my work, sir"
Your w-what?" he grOwled.
My work, sir at the theatei"
Good Lord" he groaned, and t-that
/ or. win reptile couldn't let you pass
/ You poor. little sOUlt"
/ thought he was going to weep over
me Next moment he turned his collar
up with a violence that nearly upset
Z him. and exclaimed. "D-dOnt you be
a-fraid-II see you safely home. Go
/ by yourself, Not much, you WON'T III
/ t-take you to your mother-say, you've
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By Dorothy Dix

smile. She knows better than to try IL.
IA man should never neglect
the little attentions after marriage
that he showed his wife when he was
counting her.
EXCEPTION.-Of course, If a mar
Tied man devoted the same amount of
time TO spOOning around and holding
his Wife's hands and writing forty
seven page letters during business
hours, telling her it had been two hours
since he saw her and would be three
before he could see her again, that he
did in the counting days, he would land
in the bankruptcy court.
Besides most women have sense
enough to realizes that sentiment is
only the froth on the beer of life. The
real sustaining part is all below, and
because a man invests his money IN
baby foods instead of violets and
candy is no sign that his love has
grown cold.
8.-A wife should always be ex-
quisitely dressed and keep herself
young and beautiful in order to re-
tain her fascination for her husband.
EXCEPTION.-Of course. when the
cook goes out of the door love flies out
Of the window, unless a woman knows
how to get a good dinner and keep her
household machinery running. No man
was ever sentimental on an empty
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She will also head off much argu-
ment and consequent disoord if she will
only do the thing she means to do first
and then consult her husband about it
6fterward.
EXCEPTION 2.-Men should like
wise remember that the things a wo-
man doesn't worry about are the
things she doesn't know. wife can
so to bed at o'clock and drop calmly
TO sleep if she thinks that her husband
is tOiling over his ledger, while the
mere suspicion that he is sitting in a
friendly game produces insomnia, with
lecture complications.
Neither does a woman reveal the
business affairs and the professional
secrets that her husband has not told
her. Saw wood and say nothing is as
valuable a motto in domestic life as it
is in politics.
"A wife should keep her hus-
band from wandering from his own
freside by providing at home the
attractions he seeks abroad.
EXCEPTIONAL course, this de-
ponds 10 a certain extent on the mans
tastes. In a small and modest dOmes-
tic establishment it is not always en-
tireIy convenient to furnish bottles and
birds and chorus girls. or even first
class games Of roulette in order to en-
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got a mother-yes? That's right
every girls worth anything's got a
mother! I'll take you 10 her-sureI
Receive maternal thanks-and all that
-eh? Oh, say boys. say! look here.
he shouted holding out the big cane in
'front.' of me to prevent nay passing, ne
called 10 him two other MIN, who slow
~ and with almost supethumaE eau
ton, descended the snowy steps.
say, I-judge-c-cOme here
and help me p-prOtect this unfortunate
child
The judge at that moment sat down
heavily and unintentiOnally on the bot
tom step and the colonel remarked
pleasantly, though a tTihe vaguely:
That's the time he hit itt' while the
fallen man asked calmly from his
snowy seat; "P-prOteCt What-frOm
w-whO?"
This poor child from raging beasts
and Infamous s-scouudrels, judge
replied my bOmbastic friend.
W-We're gentlemen, m-dear, and.
say, say! set the judge up, colonel, and
start him-and w'well all see her safe
homel Lifts a damn s-shame, a lady
can walk IN S-Safety, without body Of
able-bOdied cit-citizeus to protect her.
C-cOme along now, child. and he
grasped my arm and pushed me gently
forward.
The colonel tipped his hat over one
eye-gave a military salute and wa
Vered back and forth. The judge NUT
tered something about "h-honest w0-
mana against city of New 4-yOrk.
and something land c-COsts.' and both
fell to the rear. and thus escorted by
all these intoxicated OLD gallauJs. [
made my mortified way up the avenue.
They wobbled and slid and stammered
and he who held my arm I distinctly
remember, recited Byron to me ami
told me many times that the judge was
a perfect gentleman-and so was mis-
wife,
This startling statement was deliv-
cred just as we reached Thirty-second
street. Like an eel 1 slipped from his
grasp, and Whirling about I said as
rapidly as I could speak, I'm almost
home now. I can see the light from
here-and I can't take you any further
out Of your wayl Thank you, very
muchl" and I darted down the darker
street
Looking back from my own stOOp. 7
saw the three kindly old sinners, MAX
ing salutatiOns at the corner. Ny
bombastic friend and the judge had
their hats Off-waving them, and the
colonel saluted with such rigid prCprl-
ETY. that it seems d pity he was facing
the wrong way.
Iaugh-Oh, yes I laugh a the MEM
Ory. until I think how silvery were
those three, wine muddled. old heads,
and then ] feel the pity-Oh the pity
of 1t. Vraiment dams cette profession,
les ennuis balancent au mOins les plals-
irsI CLARA MORRIS.
Copyright. 1901, s. s. Mcclure Coz
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Are Women Weaker Than Men? : By M

even colds, every night pour into their
little insides dinners of mixed rich
courses, one OF which would make me
unable to work and look cheerful Cor Q
couple of days. And all the tina they
smile, I don't say naturally and cneer-
fully, but they do smile.
No doubt at the end of the season
they go to Vichy or Carlsbad for a
thorough repair, or in some high health
resort where pure and braclng air and
a decent mode Of living viii bring a
little COloring back on their cheeks.
Women weaker than menl The fdeai
Woman is the toughest bit Of work
creation has produced.
Among the lower classes, what an
English general servant maid can do is
amazing! In Lancashire girls are min
e-S.
Among the lower middle classes, what
barmaids, standing on their feet
from in the morning till midnight. and
shop girls doing the same for twelve
hours, can go through in the way Of
work is TO me simply astounding.
And If you want TO realize what the
delicate women Of the upper classes can
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-18
By Max O'ReH

mire the thoughtful wisdom Of Provi-
dence ia arming these English caTniv-
ora, I viii not say with tUsks OF de-
tense. but with those tusks Of attack
that betray their nationality in every
part OF she world
We can understand now why English
women over 40 have shruuken gums, we
can understand why their poor teeth
very sensibIy protest against their SUI
perhuman task. and slant outward, so
as TO get a little help from the gums in
this gigantic work of masJiCatiOn; we
understand at last now il is that the
eyes OF so many occupants Of the arts
tocratic carriages seem 10 be starting
from their sockets, that their staring
lobster eyes look so sulky and stupid.
It IS a facial panic; every feature
seems to be running away. They are
the faces Of digesting boas in coma
tOse state, the faces of graceful gestures
Of recognition from one carriage to an
other.
The carriage procession in Rotten
Row looks like a wax figure exposition
out for an airing.
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stomach or noticed what q woman had
on when he was hungry. Cleopatra
first fed Anthony. Then she fascinated
him.
"a husband should always ac-
commodate his wife cheerfuIIv when
she wants to 60 out in society or to
places Of amusement in the evening.
EHCEPTION.-When a man is on the
business or professional rack every
day, with every nerve stretched to the
breaking point TO force him to trot
around half the night 10 insiDid pink
teas and ill-ventilated brushes. is moth
ing short of martyrdOm, and such
man should put himself under the pro-
lection of the society for the prevention
Of cruelty to dumb brutes.
1O.-A woman should be a home
angel, with all her interest center
ing IN her husband and children.
EXCEPTION.-And yet it is home
angels who are generally mated to
husbands who are fly birdsl
These are. Of course. only a few Of
the many simple axiOms and their ex-
ceptiOns governing domestic life. but
enough has been said to show how
very easy it is to be happy, though
married. when you know the rules gov
erning the game.
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In well appointed country houses, be
fore the ladies leave their bed rooms,
dainty little services of tea and bread
and butter are carried to them. Some,
however, prefer brandy and soda. For
titled by these refreshments, they come
down at 10 and have breakfast Four
hot dishes, every sort Of cold meats tuat
might fifty furnish forth a feast. fruits,
cakes, coffee tea, claret, constitute a
satisfactory breakfast, often prolonged
till within two hours and half Of
luncheon.
The important institution of luncheon
begins at ?. Again, the table is spread
with many varieties of flesh and fowl,
hot and cold proofs of the cooks billty,
plain Duddings for those who study
their health. creations in cream for
those who have not yet devoted them
selves to that never-failing source OF
interest.
Coffee is often served after lunch,
which is usually over soon after 3 The
ladies gather round the tea about .,
generally showing much appreciation
of any little surprises in the way OF
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How TO Be Happy, Though Married

able the husband to pass a pleasant
evening.
Nor is it invariably advisable for the
wife to set UP a bar in her drawing
room. replace the bric-a-Drac with spit
tOOns and substitute a beer cooler for
the piano because her husband does not
feel at home anywhere but in a saloon.
3.-Husban is should encourage and
cheer their wives by taking an in
terest in domestic affairs.
EXCEPTION.-Of course, the one
thing that aggravates a woman above
everything else on earth is a man who
pOlzes his nose into her housekeeping,
and any husband who criticises his
wife's cooking does so at his peril.
The three things a woman never
forgives are any suggestion about how
she should raise her children, manage
her servants or keep down the grocery
bill
Wise is the man who eats what is
set before him and asks no questions
and who never attempts TO balance his
wife's account.
A wife should study and i'm
prove her mind and keep up with the
times, so that she may be a COM
paniOn for her husband
EXCEPTION-Of course, women
are apt to know too much nowadays.
It doesn't entertain the man who has
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mullins or tea cakes. provided by a
thoughtful hostess.
When the gentlemen return from
shooting, some viii probably join the
ladies. perhaps a few may like little
champagne, but tea and talk Tempt the
majority.
Dinner is served at s or half-past, and
two hours more are spent at table. After
dinner coffee is brought into the dining
room. while the gentlemen smoke. The
ladies enjoy their coffee and post
prandiaI cigarette in the drawing ROOM
LIQUORS and tea are offered in the
evening. and, later on. light supper,
cIaret. whisky. brandy. effervescing
waters and lemon are brought to them
70 help them support existence till 1 or
. O'Clock in the morning, when they go
to bed, after a little money has changed
hands at poker or loo.
Such is the ordinary time table of
the English aristocracy at house par
ties. Quite a chOker, this ordinary, isn't
ts2
Now this prodigious voracity accounts
for many things.
But first. it is impossible not TO ad-
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ner grocery in order to find an audi
ence before whom he can pose as an
oracle.
5.-A man should make a fair di-
vide of the family finances and give
his wife half Of all he earns.
EXCEPTION.-Of course. this does
not refer to those cases in which she
gets ninety-nine and nine-tenths per
cent Of all the profits. That is the
usual American average. Otherwise
there would not be so many beautifully
dressed women luXuriatng around at
the summer resorts and in Europe,
while their husbands toll in town like
work horses in a treadmill.
Three Saratoga trunks full of
CONNECTIONS" for the wife and a pair
of reversible cuffs for the husband are
about the accepted ratio OF the divide
of family finances in this country.
6.-The wife should always meet
her husband when he returns home
with a glad, sweet smile.
EXCEPTION.-Of course, that de-
ponds on when and how he comes
home. If more wives met their hus-
bands with a bTOOmstiCk or rolling
pin about a. m. instead Of with a
watery smile we should have some
temperance reform work that would
work. No woman comes rolling in
at that hour looking for a glad, sweet
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By Marie COreM

And I repeat that we should be care
full not TO repel Sovereign Man by
our so-calIed advancement We
should on the contrary, show him an
increased charm Of manner. a greater
kindness. a greater helDfulness-fOr
every man is our naturally born ad-
rnirer and worshiper and it rests en-
tirely with ourselves to ker i'm so.
Ladies and gentlemen. I "-- 20 more
to say except "a thank d son for
the somewhat doubling - inner in
which he proposed -. exc n Won
an"-and also r. tnaEE our hosts OF
the Whitefriars for the cOfdlality with
which they responded to that rather
hesitatingly handled toast I thank
Or Watson and the Whitefriars club
on my own behalf and on behalf Of my
sex here present for their amiability
toward us. However much We women
may be hailed from our thrones tOmor-
row in the conflict Of this WOrk-a-day
world. ii is pleasant to remember that
we have been so graclously acknowl-
ed ged the queens Of tonight
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should feel UNIT for work or even for
the enjoyment of life for two or three
days. and If I spent third night in
the same way I know I should look and
behave like a ghost in search Of & grave
20 take rest in.
I know women who, FOR twO or three
months attend two or three a homes a
day. a lunch party, a dinner party, be
sides a theatre or a ball They hardly
seem to suffer from It.
If sit in a draughJ for a couple o.
minutes I am bound to catch a fearful
cold in my head, which I have the
greatest difficulty in preventing from
going on my chest; but women, decOl-
Iete. some a great deal too nuca, others
a great deal more. viii night after night
spend hours and hours II THAI stare, N
draughts. in the open air even, and,
while undergoing these trials ana or
deals that would Kill the strongest rail-
way porter. viii. in the morning, look
pink and rosy.
And these often fragile women w2o
thus expose themselves and DO not catch
pleurisy. congestion of the lungs, rheu-
matism, sciatica. Iumbago, chiiis, not
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is a case of six Of one and half q, dozen
Of the other
And as regards our love OF dress,
we really have to thank Sovereign
Man for it. He does not ike to see
US. dressed in his fashiOn-he complains
and strongly disapprOVes If any one Of
his family should attempt to put on
clothes in the least like his.
Therefore, we have to dress more
prettily to please him, and we do it..
We generally succeed in pleasing him,
too. So let US always please him, and
try by what We call our advance
ment" not to Tepel him, but rather to
doubly attract and fascinate him.
We do not want 10 be his rivals or
CON batants; we seek to be his friends
and helpers. am sure that is what
ali the best women wish.
They don't want to be lonely. indie
pendent creatures. roaming about the
world without q man 70 say kind
word for them. They want to be the
frierds, the companions of men, and
help them in every good cause
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know. the sincerest form of hatterY
but 10 fatter man so much as TO try
10 make ourselves in any way Ike hlm
Is carrying the compliment somewhat
too far.
We women can be useful workers IN
the world without sacrificing our chief
rthright-womanliu
1t is not by copying mans dress, his
sports. or his customs. that we SHAH
keep and hold our best influence over
him. His cOstume-if the gentlemen
viii permit me 10 sly s0-iS really not
worth initiating. His sports and his
customs are of his nature-not of ours
No woman ever gains anything by
asserting that she is as Sood as a man
She ought TO be SO much better that
any assertion of the kind is totally IN
necessary.
It IS generally understood and consid-
cred that man objects TO that particu-
lar movement which is called the *ad-
VanCement of woman"
IF he does so object. the objection is
perfectly reasonable ard natural For
long centuries of tradition and history