The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-30
YuNG'S RESTAURANT NIT ByD.. Flemlg V 26M Court Street
 THE PLACE FOR THE Choicest the Markets Afford

My brain worked fast:I approached tne young woman, a typical variety hall sing
 Perhaps I can assist you. am Pro fesor Stevens of Boston. If 1t does not
 require too much work, I will make an ! orchestration. | "The girl almost hugged me in her de- light, for rehearsal hour was at hand. | :" oh, that will be lovely she cried. | The song is dead easy. How quiGK can can | you do 1t? I'll give you $3 If youil nave | 1t ready for the rehearsal.
 l q glanced through the song with eyes that saw not stole some sheets or plank music paper from a nearby music stand | and asked for twenty minutes in private.
 Then I shotNinto a chophouse and scat | tered notes over that paper-helter-skel- ter any old way, and on any old line
 or space. ., .,o about orchestration than does our hosto | ess' Japanese spaniel. But l got the $S per agreement and escaping the profuse thanks of the singer, slipped back into the street.
 ."There would be no rehearsals for me. l Three dollars in the hand was worth two irrespective variety engagements, ana pe- | sides, did not think it would be nealtny | for me when the leader or the orchesli tried that music. ~ "A little later I passed around to the | front of the house, passed the scrup Wo- men and secreted myself in the darkest corner of the auditorium. VIII never again hear such discord as when the or l chestra started in upon that singer s turn and the memory of the profanity wnlcn l rent the air when the leader realized the | true state of affairs is unparalleled in my personal history.
 | Later, when good fortune came my | way, I sent the young woman her S ana l explained my desperate need at the tune; She's on Broadway now Tn a musical l comedy. I dined with her the other night and we made merry over the day when she had money and l mad none' | The tale of woe was taken up by an l actor whose name apears III large tyPe | on the playbills. | '.I. too. was once stranded in San Fran l cisco. and had to choose between clean | linen and a square meal. The latter | had not dared to take for more hours 1 than I care to mention here, because l
 was down to just 70 cents ana was ac'u-
 ally afraid to spend It. o,,.s | But I also realized that my soiled
 linen advertised my dire straits 10 any my scales tipped in the direction or clean clean | shirt. But how was l to get it, collar
 and a pair of cuffs, for 75 cents? l "Wearily l walked the streets, ana a a. | last found a shirt in vivid red polka dots | the size of a silver quarter whlch was go go | cheap that l was enabled to invest m | collar and cuffs. I can not tell you or | the joy of laying aside my collar, whlcn | had been turned twice already ana my
 shirt which looked as if 1t belonged to | Weary Willie. s-,...,
 "Then supperless, but clean, l drifted | into a group of newspaper men, Wno'
 with characteristic open -nanoeohess III | yited me to have a lunch Wnn them. | Among them was a serious minded chap
 who had written play, but could secure | no hearing for it. ' | 'I offered to read It, ana, as an actor ten | give him a few friendly tips. From that l instant he took me unto his bosom, so
 to speak. Half of what he had was mine, l including his hall bedroom, for Whlcn l | was most grateful. | the play proved good, and, by olnt or hard work we secured an angel and l got together company most or tnena them | caught like myself on the coast anu
 Sarhe angel never got back his money. but the playwright received his royal | ties and some local fame, while ana my fellow-players stayed on starvation until, one by one, we found berths In | good companies that were going back to New York.
 The woman on the right of the host
 asked for the fioor-and got It, Of course | II know a woman now prosperous who once turned her thoughts to suicide and was saved by the infectious comedy of dear little actress long since gone to her | last reward. ,, pers In a Western State. and, full of ambition and really capable, she made her way to Denver. But instead or securing a place on a daily paper she round her- self each day nearer the penniless con dition.
 At last she got down to g.. Moody, almost distraught in a whimsical mo- ment she rushed off to the theatre, spend ing 75 cents for rear balcony seat; Patti Rosa was the attraction ana JoIly Joe
 Cawthorn was her support.
 ''The woman who had felt that she must go to the theatre and forget or throw herself into Cherry Creek, laugh ed until she cried, and went homo with A sense of good cheer and determination that was not to be depressed by an empty stomach.
 ''The next morning she bought good breakfast and went to an office known as the Helping Hand, where strange wo- men could secure employment, presum- ably on their personal word ana honor. The only thing offered was post of housekeeper. and the woman or pen ana pencil jumped at 1t.
 'Fortunately her prospective employer was a semi-invalid, and was as ready to jump at help as the woman was at work. She began her duties that same afternoon. and here was where the Amer ican woman's adaptability shown forth.
 ''She had not done homework for years. but she studied her cookbook Into the small hours of the night, devised menus sunerintended the cooking, catered to the whIms of the semt-invalid, kept a com fortable corner for the head of the house when he came home tired, and by her tact hid the fact that housekeeping was not
 her long suit.
 Ut was the husband who first sus- pected that she was a bit out of her sphere. The wife was too wrapped up in herself to notice anything, One day the the hOnSHl AannF fn tell him the truth about herself, and she did frankly.
 Now. l hold that that man deserves the title of one of natures nobeman, because when he vas being looked after, as he admitted he never had been for years. and when his home was running smoothly. he deliberately sacrificed all this to recommend the woman he thoughe