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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26
Mr.. Whiteside's Return.

Walker Whiteside and his company gave
two performances of Robert of Sicily"
yesterday at English's. 1t was their sec
ond visit 20 the city this season. and their
audiences were small. The play had been
clarified in regard to the substitution of
the angel for King Robert on the throne
o: Sicily. In the first act, after Robert
demanded that Heaven answer if he were
not supremely king. and darkness fell on
the city, an angel appeared in the cathedral
window and intoned a full explanation of
the higher powers scheme for humbling
Robert The angel on the throne would
rule justly said the messenger. and Rob-
ert must go among his people as a beggar
until he learned who had made him king.
Certainly, no room for misunderstanding
was left, either here or in other intricate
passages in the play.
Mr.. Whiteside again acted with special
impressiveness in the public garden scene,
where Robert, supposed TO be a mad vaga-
bond startled the assembled court-folk by
his puppet show, which paralleled their,
his enemies, affairs. A new setting for
the third act showed to better advantage
Roberts attempt TO stab the supernatural
king. The company, too, had furthered
its intimacy with the play since its previ-
visit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26
After-Christmas Thought.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
sThe use of a Christmas note book" ad-
vises a woman, will prevent many of the
holiday misfits that are always awkward
and sometimes extremely embarrassing
Each year, in mine, goes a list of all the
presents / give and receive, and the names
accompanying every gift. The children
have their ages tabulated against the gift
sent so that, as the years go on, l may
not offend the boy preparing for college
with bag of marbles or the girl thinking
OF her first long gown with a doll. Our
friends children have trick of springing
UP with remarkable suddenness, and these
humiliating experiences are very common.
But chiefly does the Christmas note book
prevent repetition of gifts. Holiday in
spiratiOns seem to move in a cycle of their
own; once entered they reproduce impress
sions with sometimes most unfortunate ac-
curacy. To one friend to whom l gave
reading-glass three years ago, l have twice
since been on the point of sending another
saved each time by my Christmas memory
book. Fans for two young cousins seem
to be my first Christmas thought each year
from the time, two years ago, that l be-
slowed them on these relatives, and
In my own rather large family 1 should
make many blunders except for the sure
guide of date. name, and article duly in
scribed. EVerybody nowadays has so much
to think about that needless details should
be spared them, and while note book mem
cries are rather despised, they are much
better at Christmas than untimely or resur-
rected remembranceS."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26
The Girls Photograph.
New York Evening Sun.

New York Evening Sun.
Apropos photographs, there has been
lately a cCmmendable reaction against the
old-time practice of a girls sowing her
pictures broadcast around the country. In
our mothers time there really seemed to
be limit to the thing. The mereSt ac-
quaintance was sufficient excuse for giving
a man or a woman your photograph.
Years afterward visitors to other cities
would come home and say, Guess where
l saw your picture, Mrs. Blank?" Mrs.
Blank, recollecting her hundreds of pic
lures all over the country, would knit her
brow and say, Il can't imagine; you'll
have to tell me-" And at the others saying
John Dash,' Mrs. Blank would knit her
browS again and say, John Dash? Why,
/ don't ever remember ever knowing any
body of that name. Ooh, yes l do, too.
Gray hair, you say? Dear me. 1t
used to be coal-black. Which picture of
mine did he show you? He has dozens"
And this, it must be remembered, was be-
fore the days of the amateur photog-
rapher. The pictures of girl man then
had were those she gave him Cor let him
steaD voluntarily But with the coming
of the chaperon and the Punishment of
buggy-riding the indiscriminate prOmiscu-
Gus giving of photographs disappeared. 1t
was thought too familiar, too undignified
a thing. But most of all-for upon such
things do the ethics of fashion depend-it
was thought to SAVIOR too much of the GUS
toms of a bygone age and generation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26
RAYNER'S SARCASM.


New York Mail and Express.
Isidor Rayner, who acted as counsel for
Rear Admiral Schley in the recent investi-
cation at Washington. d. c.. is said to be
the terror of witnesses. Here is a sample
OF his whitening scOrn in discussing the tes-
timOny of Lieutenant Bristol:
The court will hardly be seriously i'm
pressed with his testimony. Lieutenant
Bristol. with great respect for his unbound
ed wisdom, is the most precocious witness
L ever encountered. Every other witness.
ircuding admrals and captains went down
beneath his pOnderOus blows. His vision
was "A divine inspiration Sextants and
stadimeters. compass bearings government
nIea surments and photographic plans were
all dim and obscure in comparison with the
miraculous power of his unaided vision.
which lit up and Illuminated the entire
harbOrs of CienfuegOs and Santiago with
the unerring precision of the morning sun
beam. Government experts. with mathe-
NAUTICAL accuracy, had measured the height
of MORO Castle and Socapa battery but
down they went a hundred feet when they
encountered Bristols miraculous eye
Not only this but when he measured
an American and Spanish ship with his
naked eye. and the actual range at which
the Spanish ship struck was only
fourteen hundred yards. his own range
never varied nor yielded an inch. but
stood there as demonstrative evidence that
with a range OF fourteen hundred yards
you can actually strike a ship that is three
thousand yards away.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26
DIVORCE IN TURKEY.
Nothing Could BE Easier-Recent Hard
and Humorous Cases.
London Telegraph.

London 1SieSIdph.
Divorce is very easy in Turkey. and does
not require a judge and jury to settle mat
tiers. All that is necessary is for the in
jured party TO say, 81 divorce YOU" three
times and the deed is done. The husband
and all is over. Two cases have recently
occurred which rather amusing. A
certain Turkish gentleman is a keen anna
teur gardener, and his garden contains at
all seasons a brilliant show Of flowers. to
which he devotes most of his time, rather
to the disgust of his wife, who is never
allowed to cut them. Last month his
their glory, when a tremendous downpour
of rain came on. This threatened to de-
stroy the magnificent blooms, many of
suits attained in England. Seeing the
danger the gentleman called all his serv-
ants and set to work to carry the pots into
the house, and arrange them up both sides
of the staircase. When they had finished
the lady suddenly appeared and fell into
a violent rage, declaring that her husband
thought more of his flowers than he did of
her, and that he insulted her by bringing
earth into the house. In vain he explained
that in all the best European houses flow
in pots were the proper thing. Nothing
would appease her; she said he was de-
filing her house by bringing dirt in. and
she would divorce him. She sent for her
sister to come and be a witness of the
divorce. and setting to work with her wom-
en- bundled all the flowers out again.
When the sister arrived, however, matters
were settled up, and the divorce did not
take place.
ON another occasion the same lady sent
her small son down TO breakfast in pink
shirt and a green tie. The father was
shocked at this barbarous combination and
made a remark to the English gOVerneSs.
who sent the child back to change his tie
But down came the lady of the house in
a furious rage, saying she knew how to
dress the child; that a pink shirt and green
tie was the best of taste, and she would
not remain to be insulted by giving pref
erence to the opinions of an English girl.
Again she threatened to divorce him. but
again it fell through. the husband could
not find the G600 he would have had to pay
her until her wrath had cooled down.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26

pers. That identified her. She Joined all
sorts of organizations and now, with the
aid of her secretary, she issues interviews
with herself on music. art, woman's rights.
charity or whatever topic happens TO be of
public interest.
There are a dozen other women with
the same itch for newspaper notoriety
who employ social secretaries. 1t is
the "secretarys" duty TO see that when
ever her employer entertains, list or
her guests and a description of her gown
reaches the newspaper offices. More than
nine-tenths of the society news" is not
only volunteered in this manner, but all
sorts of wires are pulled TO get ii pub
llshed. The other One-tenth refers TO the
exclusive society OF this city. that is COM
monty called the ''4O0''-and the newspapers
find il hard to obtain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26
RAILROAD RULES.
When You Must "LOOk and Listen"
Before Crossing Steam Railway.


Utica Daily Press.
The rule requiring a traveller on a pub
lie highway before crossing steam rail-
road TO look and listen is held by the Court
of Appeals. in the case of Apolonia Fejow-
ski. administrators. against the Della
ware and Hudson Canal Company, not 10
apply when the situation was such that If
the traveller looked and listened he would
not have discovered the danger.
The plaintiffs intestate was killed while
crossing the tracks OF The defendant ar
Edison avenue in the city of Schenectady.
The accident happened at $50 in the even
Ing OF Oct; IL. $50. The deceased was
seated on the seat OF q two-hOrse market
wagon. driving. When about fifteen feet
from the railroad tracks he stopped to al
low a freight train 10 pass The night was
cloudy and dark. with neither moon nor
stars visible There was no hagman at
the crossing nor light near il. The freight
train made loud noise, and after II had
reached point about one hundred feet
past the crossing. the deceased said. Get
mp. the team started. and he was thus
driving across the track he was struck by
an engine following a short distance be-
hind the train and instantly killed. There
was evidence tending TO show that the
decedent either looked or listened. and il
did not appear whether he was familiar
eyeSight and hearing were good. was walk
Ing on the sidewalk. He also stopped and
waited for the freight train 10 pass As
the decedent started TO drive over the
track the witness walked alongside and
as he testified. listened and looked as ne
went upon the track. but neither saw nor
heard the approaching engine until the
crash came. He was where he could have
seen the engine II - was visible. and could
have heard IL II IL was audible above the
roar OF the train.
on the trial a jury gave the plaintiff a
verdict. which was affirmed by the Third
Appellate Division. The Court Of Appeals.
while holding that the railroad company
in backing the engine In the way IL did
behind the freight train, cannot be said 10
have exercised reasonable care. orders a
reversal because or an error IN the charge
OF the trial justice. Judge Nann for the
court Of last resort. says that In the alb
sence OF any evidence that the deceased
either looked or listened before going upon
the track. the jury should not have been
permitted 20 assume that ne did SO from
the circumstances OF the accident. and a
charge that they might so infer and per
hitting them 10 find a verdict upon that
theory Is reversible error.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26
Notes of the Stage.

Miss Eleanor Robson may go 10 London
in the spring to be the principal actress in
the dramatization of Mrs. Humphrey
Wards Eleanor"
Seats will be sold at Englshs this morn
ing for the performances of Hamlet and
"Richelieu" by Creston Clarke and his
company next Monday and Tuesday nights
Xxx
The Park Theaters change OF bill to-day
will bring Sunset Mines" a melodrama
with scenes in the West and New York
city The Empire also will have a new
entertainment provided by the Dewey
Burlesquers.
Xxx
Seats are on sale at the Park Theater
for Harry Ellsworth Feichts lecture on
'Oberammergau and Its Passion Play
next Sunday afternoon and evening The
lecture Will be illustrated by stereopticon
views and an orchestra will play signif-
cant music.
n. c. Goodwin and Maxine Elliott are in
the south of France. They will sail for
New York Jan. T. and few days afterward
Esmond's when We Were Twenty-one, -
and Madeline Lucette Ryley's AN Ameri-
can Citizen" Later in the season they will
produce a new comedy by an English play
wright
Adelaide Thurston and her company will
present Sweet Glover" a play new to
this city, at Englishs tonight. The rest
o. the week at this theater will be occupied
by the Rose Cecilia Shay Company. which
will sing Carmen" tomorrow night Ell
TroVatore" SATURDAY afternoon and
Martha Saturday night. All the operas
will be sung i'm English, The members OF
Miss Shay's company are not we'll known
here, but several of them have been promi-
nent i'm stock-Opera companies in larger
cities and i'm other musical enterprises of
the more ambitious sort. The chorus is
large and the operas will be presented in
an important style. according TO the as
surance of the management
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26
Purple Sarcasm.
Chicago Evening Post.

Mrs Patrick Campbell and other foreign
ers who are so fortunate as tc be anchored
here for the Christmas holidays will have
the pleasure OF seeing Chicago at its love
feast They will see 100000 proud and
black with mud and slOsh. tramping over
sidewalks that apparently are never swept
riding in street-cars that In filth and dis
comfort would be a credit to any hog train
and surrendering themselves TO similar lux
uries of metropolitan life. They would
marvel. observing all these refinements of
civilization. that persons OF wealth are so
fatuOus as TO leave Chicago for residence
in other cities. and they would join i'm the
general cutlery OF Indignation and condem-
nation against those who intimate that
they prefer the other conditions elsewhere
We who live here know that our local
conditions are a necessity that IL Is i'm
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26
His First Pajamas.
New York Pre-

New York Press.
Pater Familias had been granting and
grooming for weeks with the old enemy
rheumatism. His son, the doctor. sent him
a suit OF wooden pajamas Of vivid blue and
pink. with the Injunction delivered by his
Pennsylvania Dutch wife) Ito put them on
and not take them of. The old gentle
man was unusually quiet all day. and after
ransacking his dictionaries and cyclOpedias
remarked: well. / never heard OF the
things before" The next morning in the
breakfast room IL was noticed by an oh
servant member OF the household that
pater was rather bumpy and fat Finally
above the waistband OF his trousers crept
roll of blue and pink Goodness. papt
You haven't got on those pajamasr' eN-
claimed the daughter OF the family Yes
yes. / have" he shouted testify "The doc
tor told me 20 put them and not take
them of " And he has them on yet. whila
the family is In state Of gigglement
The doctor. who lives several hundred
miles away. received this telegram from
the daughter:
Come home at once and help US GET
those pa famaS of naDa.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26
Holiday Egg-NOg.
New York Post.

New York Post.
Beat to a cream in a punch bowl the
yolks Of eighteen perfectly fresh eggs and
eighteen tablespoonful of sugar, adding
teaspoonful of cold water for every table,
spoonful of sugar, as this dissolves the
sugar Crate in. medium-siZed nutmeg,
then add nine wine glasses full of brandy
and nine wine glasses full of Santa Cruz
rum, or whisky If preferred. Stir the
liquor we'll through the mixture of sugar
and eggs, then stir in gradually double the
quantity OF rich milk that there is of
liquor. If the milk is not rich enough make
il half cream. Last of all beat the whites
of the eggs to a stiff froth. Serve the
beverage in little glass cups and ornament
the top with the beaten whites of the eggs.
Stand the punch bowl in a larger dish,
filled with Clipped ice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26
The "SociaI Secretary

New York Commercial.
One of the most persistent visitors TO
Park Row newspaper offices is a young
woman who styles herself society secre-
tary" TO a woman whose social status
is doubtful. but whose name appears in the
newspapers in season and out much more
frequently than does Mrs. Astors. Her
secretary" is merely her press agent. No
actor is more greedy OF newspaper notices
than is this woman and every reference
To her is clipped, dated and pasted in a
scrap book.
She Is a clever woman who came TO
New York as the bride of a man OF no
social distinction. Her plan of cam
paign has been skillful- She began with
charity giving time and money TO an
organization governed by women whom
she could meet I'm no other way. Within
a year her name was printed in the list
with theirs when the doings OF their or
gani2ations were reported in the newsna-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26

chants cannot sweep or clean their side
walks and that street-cars must have an
inch of dirt and mud flooring To conform
10 general appearances. We know also that
there is no way of regulating the smoke
nuisance and we are so proud of our city
that we would not. If we could be clean.
These delightful conditions are not TO be
attributed TO any individual influence; they
are the result of one enthusiastic, grand
concerted nIIhlic action.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26
III. v. Esmond's ''The Wilderness"

The Empire Theater Stock Company,
after tour of the country which did not.
of course. include Indianapolis. has re-
turned TO its home in New York and begun
a series of performances of Henry V. Es-
mond's play. The Wilderness" The COM
pany's leading man this season is Charles
Richman, its leading woman Margaret
Anglin. Both are slightly known here.
Mr.. Richman came with Annie Russell
when she presented Miss Hobbs in this
city, and Miss Anglin played ROxane TO
Richard Mansfield'S Cyrano here. Law
renee DOrsay, who was recently Miss Rus
sells kingly, calm father in "A Royal
Family" also is in the Empire company
now.
THE Wilderness means society" life in
London. Mabel Vaughn was in love with
Jack kennerly. but married Sir Henry
MilanOr because the latter could give her
wealth and high position. She wrote a
letter to Kennery describing the success of
her purpose, and the letter fell into her
husbands hands But Kennerly was not a
manly man. and Mabel discovered this. She
also learned to appreciate the worth of her
husbands generous, courageous nature,
and he came to understand that though
at first his wife had been fortune hunter
fraud was but the veneer of her honest
personality.
From the reviews in the New York news
papers of Monday nights performance it
would seem that Mr.. Esmond has written
with high intelligence. One of his plays.
when We Were Twenty-one," has been
seen in this city, and in 1T is exhibited his
exceptional ability at literary observation
of the affairs of the prosperous class of
English people. This is far as the mod
ern drama in the English language has
progressed under the leadership of Mr.
Pinero. The condition indicates that in
the years to come the same truthful treat
ment will be extended to other and more
vital phases of various social degree. 1t is
lanfentable that playgoers of indianapolis
are not sufficiently sophisticated thea trio
ally to make it profitable for Charles and
Daniel Frohman TO send their best COM
panies here. Both the Lyceum and the
Empire companies visited this city few
years ago in "Trelawney of the Wells
and Lord and Lady Algy," but the ex-
pertinent proved that time spent here could
be much more proftably used in other
cities and 1T has not been tried again.
Both Mr.. Richman and Miss Anglin are
highly complimented by the New York
critics for their acting in Mr.. Esmond S
new play. In the main climax the Sun
says. Miss Anglin earned fine a tri-
umph as any has reached on our stage in
many a season. Not since Clara Norris
broke suddenly into New York fame has
there been quite such an achievement in
pathos and with power-in a whirlwind of
emotion that made little noise or commo-
tion-that, nevertheless, swept a f1rst-night
audience away from its habitual stoicism "
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26

Owing 10 our small expense we can save
you at least 10 per cent. Not the largest
store. but the very best quality of Dia-
monds and Jewelry. Our guarantee is gilt
edge. Now is the time 10 make your holi-
day selection. J. p. mutually. Is Monu-
ment place
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26
NEWS OF THE THEATERS
WALKER wHITEsIDE SEEN AGAIN
IN "ROBERT OF SICILY"
III. v. EsmOnd's ''The Wilderness" Pro-
duced i'm New York by Empire
Theater stock Company.
At the Theaters To-day.

ENiLISH'S - Adelaide Thurston, IN
Sweet Clover" SIS D. m.
GRAND-Vaudeville, Els and Sis p. m.
PARK" Sunset Mines" and p. m.
EMPIRE-Dewey Burlesquers, and 8
ID
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26
Tnft's Future L. safe.
Hartford Courant

Hartford Courant.
The esteemed contemporaries who have
been trying 10 arrange "A future for Judc.
Taft might well turn their attention
10 other matters. Judge Taft's future viii
arrange itself. The country knows an ex-
ceptionally capable, useful public servant
when IL sees him. Pre- ident Roosevelt
isn't in the least likely 10 let Judge Taft's
talents rust in idleness. The supply OF thar
sort OF man 10 meyer equal 70 the demxnd
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26
Cause and Effect.
Boston Globe

Boston Globe.
The other day the Western railroads an
nounced that they would turn the frozen
face toward would-be deadheads after Jan
and now Chile has called out 100 men TO
guard the passes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26
Beaux and Bellies Had Tree.

The Beaux and Bellies Octet, in the vaude-
Vile bill at the Grand this week. celebrated
Christmas with tree and a Santa Claus
at the Imperial Hotel yesterday. Mr..
Monroe. manager of the octet. was the
Santa Claus. The bellies" are four young
women and the 'beaux" four young men,
but they exchanged presents under the
tree as il they were with the children of
their families at home. instead of enduring
the discomforts of 1.-The road" as hard
working singers and dancers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26

Miss Eleanor Robson may go TO London
in the spring to be the principal actress in
the dramatization of Mrs. Humphrey
Wards Eleanor"