The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-08

of 'Rebecca at the Well" she said.
but that wouldn't do
Yes, I'm sure it would" cried the
host Please let US hear it and judge
1T is very brief" said the star of
Nancy Brown" doubtfully.
so much the better" cried the man
ager.- Everybody hates these long.
WOODY pieces. Please let's hear It"
Thus urgently pressed. Miss Cahin
cleared her throat, assumed a gloomiIy
tragic expression, and reeited this sad
tribute to the memory of Rebecca:
Into the drinking water well
That the plumber built her.
| Awkward Aunt Rebecca fell.
We must buy dlterl
Senator and Mrs. Chauncey NJ Depew
and a party Of guests went to see The
Earl of Pawtucket' at the Manhattan
theater this week They were late in
arriving, and the scene. which is laid in
I the breakfast room of the Waldorf-As-
toria, was half over Just as the party
took their seats one of the actors who
represented a United States senator, and
was discussing the subject OF matri-
mOny said: Why shouldn't I marry
Harriet? I am Is years younger than
! Chauncey Depew." Every eye in the
house was turned to the box where the
Depew party was located, but, beyond
a bland smile, the bridegroom senator
was apparently unconscious of the au-
/ thorS fling. The management, however,
were much upset by the incident, and q
serious discussion was held in the lobby
4 as to the ACCESSIBILITY of rendering the
scheme had to be abandoned, as no one
could be found to undertake the task.
There IS a manger for a music pub
/ fishing house in New York who does not
believe in letting the good things slip
through his fingers, and who has thor
ough confidence besides IN his ability to
tell the good things before they start to
= a 1rtr
poser of some fame rushed into the Of
fee of the manager. I have made a
musical arrangement of Edgar Allan
Poe's 'AnnabeIle Lee" he declared, en-
Its immense" said the manager,
after running it over on the piano
twice, its innmensei Tell Poe to come
in tomorrow and III give you both con-
tracts"
Grace George, SO they say. was recent
ly travelling with her husband and man
ager, w. A Brady, through a small
enter local drug store Cor chemists
shop it is called in Englandl. The
proprietor pressed upon Mrs Georges
attention a large box of scented face
powder, which he said was made after
a recipe of his own Miss George po-
lite1y refused the powder.
But persisted the man, at viii Inn
part an aristocratic pallor to your face
don't want to look pale"
"Oh,''- was the reply. tAll people in
society look pale
Then" laughed the actress. please
count me outside the pale of society,"
In the Lambs club the other evening
1t happened that Henry NJ Blossom, au-
thor Of Checkers" George AIDE OF
Fables in Slang" and Sultan of Sulu'
fame, and George V. Hobart. the libret-
fist and humorist. all foregathered in
the reading room.
Are we all here7" asked AIDE.
NO" sorrowfully responded Blossom
Poor Bill Koutz is dead. Otherwise we
should have had the only four men who
have devoted themselves to slang as
literature"
w. Townsend, who just then Joined the
group.
you don't come in at ALL" said
Blossom. "Chimmie Faddsn does not
talk slang. You Will find everything he
ever said in the dictionary"
And Townsend does not know whether
he was stung or complimented.