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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-11

WIDOWS on the other. But there was
no indecent dregs at the bottom OF the
cencoction. any more than there was
delicate froth at the top; and, worse
still, the ingredients between were not
Of any particular flavor: So the respect
able but not fashionab BILE audience
wouldn't swallow it. ana Miss Mayhem
will try something else.
The most ingenious Of Miss May
hew's new jokes were played with the
spot light. which, aimed rom the gal
ssIy with the accuracy of sharp
shooter, hit her face during the most
active of her gambols as surely as
when she stood still. But when she
sang ballad that had range of two
octaves, the bright spot went up above
her head with the high notes and down
below her feet for the low ones. Again.
when she whistled to an imaginary
dog and called him SPOT" the light
danced around her in responsive ca
pers. And finally, when she aimed
go0-goo song at a man in an upper
box, the Illumination went from her TO
him and disclosed a bald old fellow in
a state of intense admiration OF
course. the butt of the Joke had been
placed there for the purpose: yet I
grinned at It, But most of the audi
ence saw more fun in some OF the old
things that are never, never omitted
from a show OF the Naughty Nightin-
gales or the Cuckoo Couuettes-such.
for instance. as one fellow telling
story TO another with a slap in the
face at the point OF humor; that other
fellow getting even by repeating the
4
blow at the climax: and then the
fourth fellow, in q similar attempt. get
ting keeled heels over head himself in
stead Of his intended victim 4 con-.
genial audience viii NJ more fail TO
laugh at, that familiar trick than a
Shakespearean audience viii dare with
hold applause from even the worst pos
sible delivery of Mercutio's Queen Nab
speech o. Jacques on the seven ages.
Israel Zahgwill. author of good books
that make poor plays, asserted for
publication that the vaudeville stage IS
better than the legitimate stage for ex-
perimeuts in literary drama Gang
viii strikingly resembles the late Ben
jamin D'Israeli as 10 the outside Ct
his head, especially the face at the
front, and he seems 10 know that there
is similarity as TO the intellectual
contents. Anyway, he is a champion
Of monumental art. SO l won't think
that he, when he made the remark. was
Influenced by the fact that he was in a
vaudeville theatre where play of his
own was about 10 be acted. Nor viii 1
suggest that the title, six Persons"
was not quite square in a business way
because. it promised six characters
when there were only two. What is
the use of being querulousg even
though Zangwill's play was billed as
a "satirical comedietta." 1t was quite
as literary as anything he has ever
written: and it was based on our own
Autocrat CT the Breakfact Tables
epigram: In every conversation, be-
tween two persons six persons are en-
gaged-as each is, as each thinks he
is and as each thinks the other thinks
he is.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-11

= HE nenu for This dinner Is 50 planned
as to make 1t feasible fo- use in al
most any section of tho, United
States BY doing some of the prepara-
tory work on the preceding da~ a hostess
who has no maid. or oniy III incompe-
tent one need not absent herself for any
length of time from her dinner guests
IF meat and salad, desert ana coffee are
served together, il can be reduced 70 Tour
courses; the fish. course can. be omitted
without detraCting from the general ef-
feet.
Split Pea Soup with Groutons
Fried Fish Sauce Thrtarc
Steamed Fish and Rice Oyster Sauce
Creamed onions.
Lettuce French Dressing
Waters Cheese
Bavarian Cream in Boxes.
Cof.cs
As this dinner is planned tor five or
six persons. one good sized fowl ana about
two pounds and a half OF fish VIII be suf-
ficent. Any kind of fresh or salt water
fish which can be sliced or fliletcd may
be used; If small it should not be bony.
Pick over. wash and soak pint or
split peas. Next day drain them cover
With three quarts OF fresh cold water.
and simmer slowly for four hours: a
ham or beef bone, if on hand. VIII add
flavor. and when half done small car
rot. thinly sliced, and half an onion. cut
fine. should be added Press through a
sieve. season with salt pepper and a
pinch Of thyme. and return 20 the fire.
When boiling stir in tablespoonful OF
flour rubbed 10 4 paste with cold water.
Boil for five minutes longer. It can then
be set aside to reheat at dinner time.
Cut four slices OF stale bread. ir1 ed from
crust. in small dice. spread on pan and
place in a moderate oven until pale
brown Before dinner they cal DE slight
~ heated on the warming shelf.
The fowl Is 20 be snged and cleaned
as for roasting. Remove the tip joint
or each wing and tne neck; add heart
and liver cover with pint of cold water
and simmer for an hour or more. this
gives 4 broth for the sauce. Wash and
boil a scant cupful of rice In tour quarts
of slightly sailed water; keep at a sallop-
ing boil: il viii be tender i'm from twelve
TO fifteen minutes. Drain IT, add a table
spoonful Of but ter cut in bits. salt and
pepper to taste stuff the fowl with this.
but do not pack IT in the cavity. Truss
or tie as for roasting- Sprinkle with salt
and pepper. roll in cheese cloth and steam
Until tender. The advantage in this
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-11

Detroit Free Prcss.)
Van My wife has taken fancy Of
her allowance ard having the
hills sent 10 ny office. / wish l knew
how 70 break her OF it,
Dc Q.-DO as [ did. buy a lot of things
for yourself and have them sent G.. y. ID.
when she's at nome and YOU 70 out tiy
the time she's paid the bits a few times
she'll be willing 10 slap and call IL even.
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ten years ago-had il adapted with
comedy intent. IL an original, re-
scurceful American humorist had done
The rewriting thoroughly the result
would be, / am sure, a very valuable
play for Goodwin. The enriched cow
puncher leases the country home of an
Impoverished old English family and
insists that the widow and her niece
shall remain as his guests, mis- purpose
being to get at the ufiece for courtship.
Preposterous? OF course But YOU
know what a knack Goodwin has at
making absurdities seem plausible. The
girl Of his choice-or it is better to call
nerya woman, as. with a shrewd avoid
ance of matching the middle-age actor
with an actress under the legal age of
consent, full maturity is given to the
heroine in the performance as well as
IN the manuscripts betrothed already
10 nobleman who is white outside and
( black inside, and the job undertaken
/ by the American is 10 turn this bad
Briton inside out, so that his fiancee
may see his contents. That he does
II Is a matter of no doubt from the
start.
Ii is easy 10 say that Goodwin. with
Ills iLOltl anu experience, lietU never
put himself in. any play that isn't pref
~ nearly what he wants. But the
truth is different. To begin with. the
character for him can be nothing but
type of American which foreign au-
thors can't create. That restricts him
to native dramatists, and the best of
them-tnose whose output finds a ready
sale-l1now him TO be hard to please,
and prone to do Whimsical things with
even satisfactory pieces. Augustus
Thomas fell out with him over In Mis-
sCuri." So did Clyde Fitch over The
Cowboy and the Lady" However. all
You who have Goodwin plots in your
heads, he is a mark worth while for
you to aim at.
New plays come and go at the low
price theatres without getting the at
tentiOn which. for one reason or an
other, they sometimes deserve went
70 the northeast corner of the city to
see Flo Flo" and found il interesting
because it was midway in grade be-
tween the musical comedies of the~best
houses and the vaudeville burlesques
of the worst houses, with distinct char
acteristics of both, yet lacking the pos
tive qualities of either Like the two
dollar shows of Broadway, it had rows
OF girls singing chOruses. danciDe,
pantomimically. wearing changes OF
fanciful costumes and peopIing pic
turesque scenes. Like the half-dollar
shows of the Bowery. it had an Irish
man, a Hebrew, an EngIishman.
Yankee and a negro, the only absentee
from the familiar set of caricatures
being the German.
The connecting link between Rowery
and Broadway in Flo Flo" was Stella
Mayhem a May Irwin for coon singing
and Fay Templeton for mimicry. as
fat as either and as fine as neither. but
doing their kinds of work in roughly
efeetual ways. Miss Mayhem thus
| stood for broadly wholesome humor on
the one hand and for the portly leader
of such female companies as the mid
! night Maids and the Morning Glory
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-11
lTit-Bits.l

Village Postmaster-We ought to
have another clerk here.
Inspector-More than she can do. eh?
Village PoStmasteT-Y-s why, some
times she don't get through reading all
the post cards before 1910 clock al night.
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it-they don't want It and wouldn't ac-
cept. it from Shapespeare. But Gang
will hasn't changed his mind about
the value of his play. although thinks
differently as to the vaudeville stage
being the right place 10 offer it. lie
mas taken SIX Persons TO a dramatic
theatre. where It is used as a preface
TO THE Climbers" before fashionable
audiences with no better result
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-11

The Progressive Stage Society has
undertaken to uphft. pot audiences.
but the drama. Ii put its Jackscrews
under the stage last Sunday afternoon
and gave a turn CT the lever win
The Miner and the Soldier" lola
Dorian, the writer of tits eievatins
piece. was as tumultuous as Zangwill-
was motionless. Her play REDEEMED q
half hour with gore enough for a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-11

ity with Sudermann in all his phases.
you need not regard brief account of
Fires Of ST. John" as an insult To
your intelligence. The day before ST.
Johns Night is two days before a
wedding in a rural Prrssian family.
An ingenious, peculant, silly girl is
TO be bound to her cousin. a free
thinking, anarchistic fellow who chafes
under the despotism OF the German
home-a theme that Sudermann harps
upon. In the household Is a calamity
child. d Gypsy, who has been brought
UP by the brides father as his own off,
spring. The warning natures of these
persons, amplifed by minor types.
brings about the catastrophe unaided
by external occurrence. The problem
Of Independent ideals bowed by do
nestle conventionality is similar TO
"Magda," but the instances and the
climax are alike that in moral effect
only. The foster daughter loves the
cOngenially anarchistic COUSIN. but IS
held TO silence by respect for her one
reverential feeling-for her wandering
mother. The old nag, drunk and plead
ing to her daughter for money TO buy
more drink lies and steals. and the
girls last rock of hope erumbles under
her feet.
1t is St Johns night, the wedding
eve, when the fires on the hill light
the dark sky and symbolic lawless
love. as their dead enbers foretoken the
black wastes OF the afterwards All
have retired save the two wild spirits,
who are one in revolt and in passion
Across a table. in a room unlighted. bur
for single candle shining on their
faces, this man and this woman dis
cuss their duty 10 Iheir home. 10 Jhe
old father and to the bride Of the NOR
row. They see it clearly that life
means TO them bitterness. sacrifice. the
death of ideals. But on st. Johns
night, in the glow OF the fires on the
hill. the primeval nature of the lovers
is dominant. They are each others
then, al least. The last act is the mar
riage morn, and amidst the detail OF
preparation and departure for the
church the SHINING two discuss what
TO do. The idea of their own union is
dismissed as ignoble, because it would
entail the wreckage Of their, mutual
home, and so is the easy refuge of sui
eide. The debt 10 duty is realized and
faced. The man goes to the church
TO be welded 70 an unloved wife, and
the woman he loves remains behind
with her hopeless love Of him.
Nat Goodwin has not vet taken on
so many years and pounds that they
disqualify him for one Of those auda-
cious, Americans whose hard business
cheek can blush softly with love This
! time he places the familiar fellow in a
play that fails so surely with Broad
way audiences, anyway, that less
agreeable actor would have to discard
it at once. But. while The Usurper"
AS whole is rejected. Goodwin as its
hero is accepted. II is fair to assume
that the play as /. y. Morris wrote il
was a melodrama outright and une-
quivocal. for MIR. Morris compositions
have been in that line. and that Good
win-seeing i role for himself in the
former cowboy. now a Croesus. who
crosses the Atlantic in quest Of the
girl tourist whom he fell in love with
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Although a thorough knowledge Of
modern literature demands a familiar
The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-04-28
An "At Home" at Lees
vile.


An at home party given by DIR. and
Mrs. Efird Of Leesville in homer OF
the young ladies' who had called on
her since her short stay in Leesville.
No young l:dy was invited that mad
not called Mrs. Efird is a charming
hostess and the r with his genial
ways, wit and humor, helps her in a
way that leGds a char N and success to
all her efforts. Mrs. Efird has rare
accomplishments, the way size goes at
things shows that she mas ability to
carry out anything that she migt nm
dertake. The evening was delightful.
ly spent. The principal game test of
the live senses. Something new and
very amusing consuming 1 to 8 prizes
awarded to the couple guessing things
under that head "feeling," number
Of things thrown iu Gag, each one
feeling in and guessing what they feel
and so on through all the senses. Mr.
Swearingen and Miss Able won first
prize, Miss Madison and Mr. K,nard
second and Miss McCartha and Mr..
Etheredge bore away the BOBBY. Sew
en- otter amusing things took pla. e.
1900 O'Clock found US so we'll entertain
ed thar we had forgotten to look at the
time. Refreshments were served in
dining hall, beautifully decorated with
ferns and palms. Cakes and ices were
served in abundance. The delicious
refreshments proved Mrs. Efrd's kIt.h-
en- accomplishments, Remarks were
often ade during the evening of how
well she entertained. This is the
second entertainment Mrs. Efird has
been connected with since her short
stay in Leesrilie, marked with success
Those invited were; Misses Hattie Lee
Haynes, Lille Haynes, essie Major.
Mary Derrick, Nettie McCartba, Ida
Bell Crouch, Carrie Mitchell, Pearl
Spann, Wakefield Mad son, Ella Lou
Able, Mary Mack, Maud Mack, Lila
Hook, Hattie Gro cloth, Mes RS. .-ic-
Cracsen, Pierce Etheredge, C. l..
Jones. Ed West, Jonas McCar,ila. r
L ktnard, Wilbur Mitcn ell, oTjilian
Bodie, +. Rawi, Drs Quattlebaum and
zimmerman. We truly hope that DIR
and Mrs Ehrd will let us come again
rear soon. tts A friend.
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DIR. ". P. TlMMERM AN.

Offers his professional service to
the people Of Batesburg ava vicinity.
Office over the National Bank. and
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PHrsIcIAS AND SURGEON.
New-York tribune., 1904-09-18
A COAL STRIKE CASE.
BinghamtOn Lawyer Seeks 10 Recover $780,
600 from President Mitchell

WiIkesbarre Penn. Sept. 17.-Nicholls. Fahey and
Dettrey district presidents of the United Mine
Workers. came here to-day to meet President
Mitchell A conference will be held between the
na tonaI president and the district presidents rea
tive to suit Binghamton. n. Y. in which A
n Wales an attorney of that city seeks to re-
coyer $500 900 from President Mitchell and the
United Mine Workers for settling the miners strike
James DUFFY and James Mitchell. a committee
rsnresenting the striking textile workers Of Fall
ISiyyer MaEE are here TO have an interview with
PRESIDENT Mitchell in an effort to secure aid from
me anthracite miners for the textile workers.
R,nabamton N. Y. Sept lit was announced
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United Mine Workers OF America would not be in
this cjtv on Monday for the opening of the Wales
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Erie ara President TTueseale OF the Delaware
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COUNTERFEIT MONEY IN ALABAMA.
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ENGLAND COPYING AFTER ANNAPOLIS

Captain ". r. ErcwnSou- superintendent OF thu
United States Naval Academy. returned yesterday
from two months visit TO Europe where he was
sent to investigate and report on the naval acads
mics maintained by the European nations
Until after / have mace ny Official report Z
cannot say much about ny trip" said Capsaia
B-owns0u. when -e landed from the Iucan.a- "Csia
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New-York tribune., 1904-09-18

A KALEIDOSCOPE ARRAY or BARGAINS
each Sunday Iitte Ads. Of the People,, In ths
columns.
New-York tribune., 1904-09-18

EaZ OEuE& Half RIVE
we'll: theJ apDesiEiGg eni0sabfe SunifsY din
ners the restaurants mentioned ths Little Ada
Ss che PsUgls"
New-York tribune., 1904-09-18
REWARD EARNED BY ROOSEVELT.

II there were no other questions involved IN this
campaign President Roosevelt should be elected
for his strenuous lnsistence on tho policy have
been there pursuing is based broad and ag-
gressive ArneriCanism and wise and enlightened
craftsmanship that adding 20 the honor and good
name % the American people. But In everything
else he has done ne has represented and advanced
faithfully our best interests His most admirable
and comprehensive letter Of acceptance Is a Just
and al-suf7cient exposition of his record rnd his
policies, All know he is capable. patriotic and alb
soiutely without fear except only that he may not
do his whole duty His administration commenced
under the most trying circumstances. but II has
been full Of honor s repete with achieve
ments. He mas we'll earned the reward OF "A second
term. and the American people will dlscredit them
selves II they do not give II 20 him.
New-York tribune., 1904-09-18
SAILED

September l6tbe tsist ana y1o Poutiac rEo,n evn.t
FOR New s -teFT ~ tne Whppe. tse MacDonogsa. the
WorsIen the ftopSas fIan. from Ela9-o1
RoaGs for Crished; tSs 1iassachusetta, frona Ns,s
London for MsnsFasha Bizhl ~
New-York tribune., 1904-09-18

COLONEL ATGINNESS RETIRES.-COloaeI John
r McCsinness. the ranking officer OF his grade in
the ordnance department was placed on the retired
list to-day Because of his services in the Civil
War he will be advanced TO the grade OF brigadie-
general. retired.