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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-18

Special Correspondence OF The Sunday Republic.
New York. May 16.-Why is 1t that a
| theatrical audience is often at variance with
| the professional critic in passing judgment
upon the modern play? Why is 1t that the
| production which the people acclaim, the
play which they patronize to overlooking
doors and from pit to gallery. why is it
that such a drama generally merits a hot
roast from the critics On technical
grounds? Why. again. on the other hand.
does the technically perfect play, the play
which meets every requirement of the
dramatist's art, fall fiat on the public-a
theatrical soporifc, a dead failure finan-
cially?
Such was the gist Of an inquiry put to
Miss Martha Morton. whose last two plays,
Her Lord and Master" and The Diplo-
mat are notable instances in which the
public and the critics have failed to agree.
to the vanquishment OF the critics 1t might
as well be mentioned.
The most successful woman playwright in
America, gowned in a morning negligee of
pale pink crepe. smiled unutterable satisfac-
ton when these queries were propounded to
her. She sat in the library of her handsome
home, in West Ninetieth street, in a high
backed carved chair of black oak. the same
chair In which she sat while writing "A
Bachelors Romance" for Sol Smith Russell
and "a Fool of Fortune for Mr.. Crane.
"Why?" repeated Miss Morton. still smil-
Ing that smile of unutterable satisfaction.
"Oh, those things are easily explained.
There is no mystery whatever as to why the
critics and the public are rarely ever in
harmony.
Comedy, especially farce comedy, is made
up of negative qualities. l suppose it is
much easier to write than legitimate
drama" l suggested.
Strange to say. no." said Miss Morton
mo sort of play writing is so difficult as the
vaudeville and farce comedy. While tlogi-
cal and inconsistent themselves. they rep
sistency. There is in their very inconsist-
ency a most delicate and finely adjusted
consistency.
Il can illustrate my meaning az to the
ludicrouslv perfect drama in no better way
than to point to that example of the ludi-
crously perfect in literature. Alice In Won
derland.' 1t is a battling marvel of incon-
sistency-inconsistency intricate and mutt
piled to inflnity-yet it was written by one
of the great mathematicians in England. a
man who had browsed all his life among
abstruse philosophical problems. Thu whole
Englsh-speaking world which went mad
over the delightful nonsense marveled that
it should have been written by such a
man. They forgot that only a man as
thoroughly versed as was Lewis Carroll In
logic and In the laws of cause and effect
could have thus distorted that logic and
set those laws at SKIES and sevens.
TT Is precisely the same with the vaude-
Vile and the farce comedy. An author who
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-18
Paragraph Philosophy.

When a man is q crank nearly everybody
turns rundown.
Human nature is not as selfish as some
believe it is, for mans love for his fellow
man frequently prevents the foreclosure Of
a mortgage.
Some say that the right way to break the
Beef Trust is to stop eating beef. The prom
er way is to stop the makers of the trust
from eating any.
One rosebud while you live is worth q
bouquet on your grave.
what the English language needs Is q
common personal pronoun for he and she
and I suggest shin"
A newspaper editorial says: Cecil Rhodes
left $72,00o,OO and a funeral procession nve
miles long" And he had as much fun ous
of one as out of the other.
If every woman could nave what she
wishes In the way of dress the churches
would have to- double their seating capacity.
1t doesn't take a groceryman with grit
IN his craw to put sand in his sugar.
Frailty. thy name Is dude. encased Ia 9
shirt waist.
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Them Is another reason: Forty-eight
hours Of country life make two young
people better acquainted than would be
possible in forty-eight weeks in town. If
smitten. they are smitten at once.
Now 1t was all very we'll for a poet TO
announce that his love was perfect from
the first. that it did not grow as meaner
things mature.
Perhaps il did not.
But if the affection Of the lady was as
prompt as his own YOU may be sure he
was sick of II in no time.
Men do not like that sort of thing. To
them the great incentive to rnatrimony is
not the instant reciprocity Of the party of
the second part: 1t IS the difficulty in get
ting the girl.
Love laughs at loCksmiths. and very nat
urally. In their handicraft are the essen
tials Of its growth. And when to locksmiths
You add dangers. disinheritauce the neces-
sity for defiance ard deeds of daring. why.
the chap Is either going TO get that girl or
die in the attempt.
The more walls there are to be scaled. the
more tests he is put to. the longer the
fortress holds out. just SO much the better
does he love her.
And if the young person only knows how
to inject suspense into hope, uncertainty
into promise. If she can make the poor
devil take To drink and keep up the agony
long enough. then he is crazy about her
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Summer Maid Allures
But Does Not Detain.

For that her opportunities are ample the
result b. ing that in no time at all the men
with whom she is brought in contact feel
toward her as they feel toward their sister
al home.
That feeling is beautifully platonic. but
as an incentive 10 matrimony it is not
worth q cent.
There is the fault Of the summer girl. She
aIlures. but she does not detain. To us. per-
sonally. that fault is highly captivating. In
it resides the charm which the young per-
son oNhales. Her companionship is like that
of a princess in fairyland.
You know it to he fascinat-
ing. but you know. too. that 1t will not
last. And knowing that you will be thank
full. for you viii be aware that the briefest
firtations are always the best.
1t is in the dispensing of these enchant-
ments that the summer girls excel.
DO you dance?' said a woman encour-
agingly to y. p. Willis.
No, I do not he answered. but II
You like. I will Just sit here with you and
put my arm around your waist"
N. p. Willis was an epicure. He enjoyed
the fun of ltfe and avoided the bother. In
the radiance of this years model. epicurism
may be properly practiced. There is much
fun to be had with no bother whatever.
For her more sedate sisters and less
epicurean brothers. whom you shall see
wholly absorbed IN the marvel of that enig-
ma which is love. there is fun. too. no
doubt. yet complicated by abundant bother
as well.
And thankless 1t would be to suggest to
them that the general run of marriages
consist in three months of alteration. three
months OF reflection. thirty years Of tolera-
ton. with the children to begin 1t all over
once more.
1t would not alone be thankless: it would
he cynical: yet. even SO. 1t was not we who
invented human nature, or. for that matter.
the summer girl of 1907.
EDGAR SALTUS.
Copyright. 1902. by A. Prescott.
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digiously healthful-in which the summer
girl of 1862 shines as no girl ever shone be
fore. She is radiant.
But in her evolution there is a menace.
Radiant now. the hour must come when
she will be perfect. May that hour delay.
When 1t arrives we will hate her for hay
ing no faults.
Faults are quite endearing. The summer
girl has a few. We will reach them in a
moment. A transition will help.
A man lives as long as he desires and a
woman as long as she is desirable. The de-
STABILITY of the latter is in direct pr"ooT-
ton to the mystery with which she is able
to envelope herself.
The amount of mystery which surrounds
the summer girl it would take a micro
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and will remain so for the rest Of his
wretched career.
Every novel-reader knows that: knows,
too. that It is not fiction. either. and yet
such Is the general stupidity that parents
think 1t an aftront to their daughter to In
terfere one jot more than the law allows.
and instead CT conniving at rope ladders
and the rest of the outfit for facilitating
Opponents. they suffer the summer girl to
do everything which encourages brotherly
regard.
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Miss EMMA {. cLERc.

1t held meetings monthly. but since April,
1880. it has held weekly meetings. Since its
organization it has held its meetings at the
Mel cantile Club, the Y. NJ. c. A., Odd Fell
lows building, Bowman's Hall, Barnes's
Business College. Holland building, and now
at No. 316 North Eighth street, where It
meets each Saturday at 2 p. m. for the
study OF the lesson n work In general
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NJ. Park. Mrs. Robert Ranken. Mrs. A NJ.
Campbell and Mrs. W. G.. Nourse. Social
Mrs. ]. W. Ashwood. chairman: Mrs.
Kleishbaum, Miss E. Ella Miss NJ. Mark
ley and Miss n. Boyd. Music-Mrs. Robert
Rankin, chairman: Mrs. W. ]. Brasfield.
Miss J.. Pezold. Miss E. Clerc. Miss q. E
Ellis and Miss NJ. Crucknell. Lookout-Mrs.
]. w. Ashwood. chairman; Mrs. 0oodale.
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President
MRS. LUCY K. wAHEN

The officers Of the union are: Mrs. L K.
Walker. president; Mrs. Robert Ranken,
vice president; Mrs. ]. W. Overland. second
vice president: Miss Mary Wilson, record
ing secretary; Mrs. j. W. Ashwood, cores
ponding secretary; Miss e. C. Clerc. treas
urer and Miss Ethel Ellis. librarian.
The COMMITTEES of the union are: Instruc-
hon-Mrs. 8. p. Marsten. chairman; Mrs
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WRITTEN FOR HI SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
The ST. Louis Primary Sunday School
Union has long been regarded as an i'm
portant factor in the Sunday school inter-
ests Of the city, and never more so than at
present. 1t was organized in the autumn of
1881. and 60 Is arranging to celebrate its
a1nssnth anniversary next fall. At the nrst
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Mrs. Davis and Mis-, N. Boyd. VISITING
Mrs ]. H. Guyett. chairman: Miss NJ. A.
Andrews Mrs c. Il. Cheney Mrs. NJ. c.
He'll. Mrs. Strebeck. Miss L. Gambler. Miss
Ella Gourean and Miss NJ. Wilson
It is the purpose of the Sunday-School
Union to send a delegation to Denver to the
International Convention. which meets there
next June.
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NATALIE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

NATALIE CONSTANTrNOV1TCH. 7
witch family for the first time with the
leading reigning houses in Europe. Mdlle.
Natalie Constantinovitch will have for Sis
ters-in-law the present Queen Of Italy and
two Russian Grand Duchesses, besides a
Princess of Battenberg.
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WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPUBLIC.
Here is a young person worth looking ut.
You may think you have seen something
similar before. She has, indeed, a resem-
blsnce, recognizable still, to her sister of a
tw~elvemonth ago.
But her resemblance. to her sister of the
year preceding is vague. With the girl Of
'ss she has not even a'family likeness. With
the fair young thing of earlier seasons sine
has nothing in common whatever.
There is a reason for all things. There i,
one Tor this. Were n magazine writer dis
tributing IT he would lead you a chae,
through tortuous paragraphs and only ladle
1t out at the end.
Sentimentality is a fever generated by the
spontaneous combustion which certain fac
tors induce. They are gone. So. too las
that fever. The 1892 model is iuocula;cd
against it.
Anteriorly the summer girl was a creature
oil lace and loneliness, whose haunt was tn
veranda and who looked best in the Ugh
of the moon.
exercise, q trifte bilious. il was surround
inss, influences. but particularly social n
straipts which made her a being. conven-
tionai in public, and in private sentimental
as a guitar.
Young People Saw Each
Other Through a Prism. .
The programme was unhealthy. II was
worse-it was unnatural. From where YOU
sit you can see her-innocence in her eyes.
e novel IN her lap. q love letter in her
pocket, ccgitatiR8 in what manner she may
pass a few Hurreptitious moments hand In
hand with the best beloved.
All this was conducive to matrimCny. per-
haps. but it led out OF it to divorce. Young
people saw each other through a prism.
The girl was localized and the man ideal.
Both lived in the atmosphere OF a ballad.
That atmosphere first, the bike" and then
thea links, and latterly the automobile, have
deodortzed. These things have eliminated
sentimentality. They have eliminated con-
ventionality as well.
Young people who go careering over the
country or chasing over ten-acre lots have
absolutely no use for either. The factors
of form become evangelical in simplicity.
With only fields and hedges to note what Is
occurring. the surreptitions evaporate.
There is freedom there and freedom is a
thing with which neither conventionality
nor the have ever agreed. They
ara gone and good radiance.
Woman Lives as Long |
as She Is Desirable.
In their place has come a camaraderie- /
informal. unaffected, matter of fact. pro-
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scope to detect. In the process of bathing,
Eoling and careering around with the youth
of her fancy there is about as much of 1t
left as would enjoy a large and ample play
ground on the head of a pin.
In lieu of mystery there is a young per
son. radiant indeed, but perhaps rather
freckled. with whom a man may fraterlize
If inclination prompt, but for whom never
would lie cut his throat or feel like cutting
any one elSe's.
When a man does not feel that way he
has no feeling at all.
Country Life Makes Young
People Better Acquainted.
Hence it is that in the heart of man the
summer girl is a transient guest.
New-York tribune., 1902-10-07
WALL STREET AND EXCHANGES.

FOREIGN TRADING.-Foreign houses dealt in
5000 shares. evenly divided. The irreguIarty Of
the London market was attributable moe 20 the
limited character Of the trading than 10 any posi-
tive tendency. and there a disposition TO wait
for a lead from New-York There was probably
little New-York realizing OF pool stocks OF which
Reading was possibly one. The general market
was rather featurelsss. but consols showed a small
gain at s3i=- Money was in some demand in the
various European centres and Paris exchange on
London was easier.
STOCK LOAN QUOTATIONS.-Loa quotations
were; AmaIgamated Copper Anaconda, American
Ice. Atchison common and preferred Brooklyn
Rapid Transit. Baltimore and Ohio common Chi
caso terminal. Colorado and Southern. Delaware
aHd Hudson. EFie common and first and second
preferred. Louisville and Nashville Manhattan
Missouri Pacific. New-York Central. Northwestern
metropolitan Street Railway. Peoples Gas Read
Ing hrst preferred. Republic steel common and
preferred Rock Island ST. Paul. Southern Rail-
way preferred Southern Pacific, Sugar Tennessee
Coa! and Iron. Union Pacific common and pre-
ItFFed. United States Steel common and pre-
IeiItd' United States Leather preferred. Wabash
preferred and Western Union. per cent
HEAVY SOUTHERN PIC IRON OUTPUT
Iaree furnaces will D. ready FOR operation between
N''e-.l"eF and January Is. 1903. and others are
m preparation 10 be- started. The production OF p-
IRON in the State is larger now than for some time
@4- VIII o. increased. Of course. when the other
furnaces come in Ey the end OF October all the
% "'- nave A4ltd oiu contracts which were
made al prices prevailing during the first OF the
year. which were from s, 10 50 below the present
quotation Contracts taken later In the year which
are now In progress os being filled will be at SS 50
80 d ton I-on is now being sold FOR delivery in
the second quarter of 1873 az Sl9 and 80 a ton.
ATCHISONS : PLANS-The Atchison Topeka
and Santa Fe Railway Company has adopted
plans for the constitution OF more than three hun
dred miles OF new line in Oklahoma. The work
VIII b, commenced soon and details concerning the
"orA Will be given out shortly. IL is estimated
that these projects win require expenditure ap-
pToNimdting S3.500OJ0
MISSOURI PAClFIC.-Ciross earnings OF the
Missouri Pacific for tho last week in September
showed "a gain OF S27.0.o over the same week wear
aso. making a gain sor the month ot Sls9e"
New-York tribune., 1902-10-07
OUTSIDE SECURITIES,

Transactions in the outside securities market
were restricted &c a few OF the more important
Issues such as Northern Securities. Rock Island.
United States Realty and Virginia Iron. Coal and
Coke stocks The market IN the edIlE t'eu'ns was
zsrar,u,, steady hut toward midday there was
consid erabie selling pressure and prices weak
ened In consequence. Northern Securities on deal
ings of about 5000 shares sold down "a per cent
1i0lk 1G715 United states Realty lost nearly
per cent on sales OF 800 shares from S3s TO G..
The preferred declined about the sales
OF 5e0 shares from 76 to 7is. Rock Island issues
declined over per cent from the opening quota
tions In both common and preferred The com
mon sold TO the extent OF 1000 shares from SsA 10
New-York tribune., 1902-10-07
~T.=ss l-l6.
Bankers posted rates Wcro.

DOMESTIC EXCHANGE.-Ne Orleans - Com
rner-fal s, y discount. bank par san Francisco
sight PC. telegraph. ~. Boston-ioc discount.
Charleston Buying lilo discount, selling, lilo pre-
rniun, Chicsgo-lOc discount Cincunati-fetween
banks soc discount; over the counter. 5or premium.
Sayannah-Ruy iag. 75c discount per 81 90. selling.
75c premium.
Rank CLEARINGS. .- NeU-York - Exchanges.
sls6 4l7.sSl: balances. s6.s07.s7s Chicago - TX
changes SO aS6 31s: balances. E667I5f Bos on-Fx-
changes SIS S217 $50. balances. NiSSSo Baltimore
Exchanges Sc "a s25 balances, SJfS6 Philadelphia
Exchanges. sl5 10 262; balances S2.I75.Sao.
FOREIGN MONEY MARkET.-Call money IN
LONDON. 2q2is per cent. open market discount rate
per cent Berlin discount rate. - per for
three months bills and per cent for short bills
Berlin exchange on London. % marks 4s15 pfennigs.
Paris oiscount rate. =. per cent. Paris exchange
on London % francs y centiues.
FOREIGN SECURITIES.-BritIsh consols for
money ss Tor the account SSia Spanish Is IN Lon
dor S7s.: French rentes 100 francs. "a centimes.
THE SILVER MARKET-Bsr silver. SOS; Mex
lean silver dollars. 4oisc. Par silver IN London
closed a - SLED.
GOLD PREAIIUN.-In Madrid S3.ss; Lisbon. a65e.
Buenos Ayres. leSlo. Rome. Ia
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS.-Custorns receipts
reported from Washington. SS57oa3 internal reve-
nue. receipts. SSS 6S; miscellaneous receipts N27 ST.
total receipts for the day. sl.soS.602 expenditures
aes0Oo0 Receipts for the month date sl002I SIS.
expenditures $3.50 90; OF receipts s. 7U SIS
Receipts for the year date. Sl5s5l37J3: eXpendi-
lures, NsSls76s excess Of receipts Sl07ll7z7. Ma
uonal bank notes received for redemption E4S5 4sl.
sUB-ThEASURY.-The Sub-Tressury was debtor
10 the Clearing House $50 20l.
New-York tribune., 1902-10-07
B. AND o,s PHYSICAL IMPROVEMENTS.
Regarding the new stock that has been offered to
he stockholders OF the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
-oad Company. The London Statist' says

Regarding the new stock that has been offered to
the stockholders OF the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company. The London Statist" says
That stockholders will readily subscribe for the
new stock cannot be doubted The corpora tlon is
fast becoming OF the strongest IN the Jnlted
States. and the capital will not only turther
strengthen its position and add greatly 20 It's net
profit but IL viii probably prove remunerauye IN
Vestmeut 10 the stockholders. The report OF the
company for the fiscal year ended June 80 mas not
Yet been issued, but II is likely 10 show mat the
profits for the last year for dividends upon the
preferred and common stocks has been nearly SO
ts0U0, a sufficient 10 pay the per cent dlvi-
Gend upon the $60.0,OO00 preferred STOCK ana no
less than 10 per cent upon the $160og or the com
mon stock which has ranked for dlVldehd IN the
last year In other words; the pront Ior the iaSt
year has probably been sufficient 10 proNlde dVl-
deud a the rate of per cent per ahnuIn on the
S25 0COO Geo common stock which VIII IN the ruture
rank for dividends. but the new issue OF STOCK
should enable the company on the one hand 10 IN
crease its gross earnings. and on the other hahd
to reduce its expenses and its charges
The expenditure OF this money VIII, indeeu enable
the company to work with much greater economy
in the future than the past since the Baltlmore
and Ohio was so lately Teorganzed by Speyer q Co
and capital and profits have been available Tor i'm
proveuents the line has been virtually reconsIruct
ed The alteration in the hnanclai ana physlcaI
condition OF the road since 1895 Is In tact one OF
the most Interesting chapters IN the history OF
American railroads
New-York tribune., 1902-10-07

81 and the preferred to the xtent or -" shres' lo
s7r. 20 60 The a. were dealt in for 100000 from
ssas 10 s7Tk Virginia Coal and Coke sold 20 the
extent Of 700 shares from s7la TO So1s. while the
certificates were dealt in for about $4,000 from
H. 20 IS Standard Oil lost points on sales OF
50 shares from GO TO 65S. New-fork IrahsporA-
tfon sold ar IN. Writing Paper sold from S2s TO
ga: about 500 shares changed hands. New-Orleans
Railway sold al 15%a San Francisco issues were
a shade hrrner the common on purchases OF 90
shares sold up to 22@l, the preferred sold at us
United States Silver Corporation Is sold at looas.
The Copper shares were a shade lower Greene
Consolidated on sales OF about 100 shares. sold
down from Is TO 251z Montreal and Boston on
sales of 500 shares sold down 10 2&s- The market
closed weak al the lowest
New-York tribune., 1902-10-07
THE DAYS OPERATIONS N BONDS
quotations follow iia'

hAll-NoAD boADs-Market weak. Total sales
amounted IN par value 10 s. So 500 srs,Ds, :, =, -
on SATURDAY The heaviest dealings were in ~
Atchison general IS. Central or Georgia seoons tr
comes Chicago, Burlington and Quincy ss r..
seheiai g. Green Bay and Western debenture Bs
heaolns general is Southern Paciac ss -r
and Pacnc nrst SIS Union Paoisc oo,,,.,.,,- - p
Aha wabash deoeuture Bs Colorado T-,.l -
inon convertible - and Consolidated Tobsc,o -
were also active 'aeCo -
New-York tribune., 1902-10-07
MONEY AND EXCHANGE.

MONEY MARKET-Nonev on call opened A.
per cent. highest . per cent; lowest, per cent;
last loan. per cent; close, S010 per cent; ruling
rate, le per cent. Time money was quoted ar per
cent for an dates. Commercial paper quoted
"a per cent for sixty 20 ninety days, per cent
for choice four and six months single names. and
above for others.
FOREIGN ENCHANGE-Market strong. with
rates &C above Saturdays level for sterling There
vf- an active demand for remittance. Actual clos
IN ratae follow.
New-York tribune., 1902-10-07
HEAVY GAINS II EARNINGS

Railroad gross earnings received yesterday show
or tho last week In September and the month
he following gains over tho same periods a year
New-York tribune., 1902-10-07
SECURITIES VALUES LOWER.
FURTHER POOL LIQUIDATION AND BEAR PRESSURE CAUSI
MANY SUBSTANTIAL LOSSES
tations were
STOCKS

Closing prices yesterday OF the principal active
securities and net changes from Saturdays quo
New-York tribune., 1902-10-07
AMERICAN SECURITIES ABROAD


LONDON Oct o. p. m.-The marke, for Ar,.-,
can securities vas generally lower PIN, --san-
New-York tribune., 1902-10-07
INACTIVE STOCKS.

STREET RAILWAY COMPANIES
FURNISHED by William E Nichols Co.. No Is waIi-sty
NETWORK.
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INACTIVE STOCKS
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