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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29
A Cruel Annual Joke.
From the Boston Transcript.


Every year a cruel joke is perpetrated at
the Coincide Franchise. Paris This thea
ter, being state subventioned. is compelled
by law to give a hearing to those foolish
enough to believe they have a chance of
being engaged there. The house Is empty;
NJ. Claretie sits in one of the stalls a few
societaires wander about in the sem-dark-
ness. The candidate on the stage cannot
help feeling oppressed by these lugubrous
surroundings. If he speaks out loud he
raises kind of grotesque echo in the emp
ty house. while If he drops his voice his
Wkrds lose their effect. Everything is
against him, and yet there are few who
still fondly believe they have chance
to join the house and present themselves
at the annual competition. But the hear
Ing, or rather the farce, is finished. M
Claretie politely thanks the candidates and
tells them that they will hear from him in
week. Then they each receive a letter
with the famous seal of the Coincide Fran
caise and the equally famous date of it's
foundation, 1850. The contents of the mes
sage seldom vary: I'VE much obliged
to you, but-"and the candidates need not
read the rest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29
Accent on the operate Stage.
From the Saturday Reyle,

No Englishman with daughters could do
n rasher thing than permit them to take
lessons from eminent professors with a
view of going on the stage. The opera
stage in England scarcely exists. At Co
vent Garden woman who can speak good
English can only get in by force of social
influence: and abroad foreigner has very
great difficulty because she cannot speak or
sing with a perfect accent. The foreign
lady or gentleman comes across here and
on occasion will venture to sing in English,
and their mistakes bring nothing more than
a smile to the faces Of the audience But
let M English singer go to France or Ger
many, and something totally different hap
pens.
In 1897 Tamagno sang at Monte Carlo be-
fore an audience which was mainly French.
He miSpronounced a word and a peal o.
derisive laughter covered even his stentor-
ian notes. In Brussels l heard an Ameri-
can tenor laughed at because some of his
vowels were not quite pure--BrHsse45 >,
where their French is the most yiIlainous
patois ! have ever heard. In Germany L
have heard both French and English artists
laughed at because their accent was not
absolutely correct.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29
No More Papier Mache Stage Food

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
"Papier mache food won't be seen on the
stage this season. Everything chickens,
chops. outlets. loaves-will be real
The speaker a manufacturer of stage
properties, busted a casque and resumed, a
little sadly:
Il have had to do away with my papier
mache food department, discharging two
men and an apprentice. For even the 10,
20 and 30-cent shows won't carry fake
Viands now. They say that as far back as
Paint Rock, Merna and Lodi the people in
sist that actors eat real food on the stage.
1T looks better, l suppose. At the same
time this new-fangled realism is playing
the deuce with the stage property business
1t is putting good men out of work.
And consider its expense. / know of one
comedy, with a banquet scene in the second
act, where a bottle of real champagne and
a real lobster salad are used every night
This comedy has been played LOCO times in
the last three years. There is expense for
yOu-an expense of 81, 900 for food alone.
Well, one papier mache champagne bottle
and one PAPER mache salad-worth about
S2-would have saved all that money
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29
Barn Storming in England.

Prom The New York Press
An actor who had been making a profess
slohai visit to Great Britain was telling at
the Players Club some OF his experiences
on the road In that country He spoke of
the theaters In the provinces, called The
Royal, The Princess. His Majesty's and
titles of that sort, with the whole first
floor given over to the pit, single dressing
room divided only by a canvas screen. No
Hrc no steam no electric light. water in a
rain barrel for washing, no furniture In the
dressing rooms
Why. our country opera houses and
academies of music are palaces compared
TO them. We were in the Black Country
about Wolverhampton. and asked the man
ager for chair for my dressing room
tAeari mon alive. doant thee sit on thy
boxes was his answer. In one town we
mad a rehearsal for some new members of
the company and called the orchestra for
thtft were music cues. Only the leader re-
Sponded. He assured us il would be all
right that night. and he couldn't stay. as he
was working in the mill. But that night ii
wasn't right the four members OF the
band, as they called it there. failed with
their cues. played inappropriate music and
raised the deuce generally
Il left my dressing room as soon as the
curtain was down and called them in no
mild terms The leader looked at his fell
lows and they gaZed nj him and me I'm sur
prise. when the bass fiddle spoke up. Well
you be a rare un. you be. Doant thee know
We pay ihee thy brass? So. indeed they
did. the four workmen. who were also
musicians OF sort had leased the theater,
furnished the band. swept. and cleaned the
house. took the money at the door and oh
served with judicial and critical acumen
the plays No more complaints from me
about one-nisht stands in Gods country.
! have been on tour in England
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29

the FIRST race a Latonia and made killing
j. is estimated that members of the com.
pany took down il the neiShborhood OF
SIC 70 of the boollies' money when WOOD
lands came i'm first Helen Hale, the Jenny
Wren of the company, got as good at .
- I on "A bet Of $3.50. and Harry Bulger' tne
leading comedian had big bet down az
{ to ; All the members of the company
b.. on Woodlands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29
His Indignant Protest.

From the Chicago Tribune.
The college freshmen. who had doubled
himself up on a seat in a smoking car,
was sound asleep when the train ran off
the track.
He was thrown across the back of the
seat ahead and half a dozen men were
piled top of him.
"Oh, I say, fellows!" he mumbled an
grily, "let up. When you've hazed a chap
once. good and proper. that's enough! Cut
It out!'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29

"HERE IS one place in Washington
ANYHOW where ii is no crime to make
n counterfeit II Is the government
workshop at the corner of 10th street
and MARYLAND avenue, back of the Ma
tional Museum building. where most OF the
model work for the big show place Is zone.
Here the sole work is the production OF
counterfeits. It may be a stone ak datihe
back to the glacial drift or blanket lhdlah
from the west or the model of sailor 10
stand In the deck of a model Warshlp'
Whatver it is. from a ripe peach 10 uia-
mond ring, it Is turned out accoroihs "
order. Usually. when the model Is maze ol
plaster it is possible to tell 1t from the
original by the weight, but sometimes even
this difference is lacking and one would
need to cut into a specimen to tell whether
it was made of bone or plaster
The master of the dusty. obscure shop
where this curious work is done Is H. "
Hendlpy, the young son of the famous Ola
wizard Jack Hendley, who was for years
the museums model maker, and VINO IN
his day was considered the leader of ms
queer craft in the United States, if not In
the world
Young Hendley did not intend to follow
In his fathers footsteps. but after some
years as a druggist and potential CONNER
cial man. he concluded that there were
more people who could compound pre-
scriptions than who could make models.
So about five years ago he went back 10
the museum where his father had made his
reputation and took up the work that had
been familiar TO him since childhood.
1t is said by the museum officials that the
young man IS, if anything, better than his
father In his peculiar line OF work Ger
tain II Is that he has photographers eye for
color He can see a spot of red or green
in a clay image that is solid brown to the
unframed observer and, more than that ne
seems to have the faculty of carrying col
ors and markings in his head as some ~peo-
pie carry figures or poetry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29
SUCCESSOR TO THE WIZARD
"Jack" Hendleys Young Son Follows His Fathss Craft
at the National Museum.
at the National Museum.

Things in the painting and molding line. He
reverences Mr.. Holmes, director OF the bu-
reau of ethnology. as the master artist of
archaeology in the world as indeed he
probably is. Whatever there is good in his
work Hendiey lays to his contact with Mr..
Holmes. Those who know Mr.. Holmes and
his ability will not be much surprised at
this loyalty the part of his craftsman,
but 1t is the sort of sentiment one does not
OFTEN find in these days of hustling and
srasping for personal prestige. In all prob
ability Mr.. Holmes would be the first to ad-
nit that Hendley could execute many
works which Mr.. Holmes might conceive
but could not turn out
AS has been said, the model shop Is a
dusty little place. and everything around it
is covered with plaster. Consequently, the
most of the work does not receive its fin
ishing touches till 1t is ready to go out.
The final polish on piece of imitation jade,
or the bottle-black surface of an obsidar
spear head, will not be given till the piece is
ready to go into the protection of an air
tight cabinet. But there is enough in sight
in the shop to show how the work is done
and how rare specimens are duplicated
many times, though none but the initiated
could tell which was real and which coun-
terfeit
x x
a good many of the valuable specimens
of the museum are also sent to the shop to
he treated, but not to be copied. They are
rrt through a poisoning process to kill the
insects that would otherwise destroy them.
So the artist has to be a toXicologist i'll ad-
dition to everything else
Just now Mr.. Hendley is on a new piece
of work that has never before been accom-
plished. There were some stone imple-
ments of a religious sort down in Mexico
that the National Museum wanted, but
could neither buy nor borrow. The stones
We're about a yard long and five or six
inches broad. very intricately carved and
of a good deal OF archaeological signifi-
canoe. The museum finally got some pho
tographs of them, back and front views,
profileS and cornerwise, and measurements
in various directions. With this data as a
basis. Mr.. Hendley is copying the stones in
plaster carving, measuring, building up
and cutting down. The stone surface is
about perfect, and one might think from
the looks of the work that 1t was east
and not a carving. The work is almost
completed. with the exception of the paint
ing. 1t is the first time in the history Of
the museum that such piece of work has
been done. but it promises to be very sue
cessful and simply adds another number to
the museums long string of triumphs in
initiative work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-29

The first verse of the fifty-first psalm is
called the Neck Verse; for the reason
that in former times man condemned to
death sometimes had chance to save his
life by proving that h. could read. and
this verse was used as q test
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-03
Sunshine In North Carolina.

Sunshiners in North Carolina, South
Carolina and Virginia have their hands
full caring for the children of the numer-
Gus poor families-the shiftless whites
SO generally called. Sunshiners are de-
termined, If possible, that the next gen.
Grafton shall be better educated and bet
ter trained to work than their parents
and great effort is being made by Sun
sinners turnout these states to send the
children to school. Clothing is given to
all who need it and books and supplies
purchased. In Raleigh, N. c., band of
young people are educating a boy and girl
by paying the mother what the children
would earn if they work instead of going
to school. In no place in the United
States is the crime Of child-labor so prev
alent as in these southern states, and
the majority of children help support the
family when they are little more than
babes. The Raleigh branch intends to
add child every year to its list At
Ranger another branch Is busy working
among the children, providing them with
clothing, and, better yet, endeavoring to
| awaken the parents to the children's need
of an education.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-03
Ocean Grove Sunshine.

One of the most f1ourishing branches
OF the Sunshine society is that of Ocean
Grove, Which has membership of 200
This membership is not wholly local, for
tnere are names Of persons from all
parts of the country and two of the mem
bers are carrying on Sunshine work in
India. A recent report gave some idea
of different lines Of Sunshine work this
branch is doing. One member learning
that the nurses of the lepers were so short
OF bandages that they were obliged to
cleanse them and use them over and
over sent sufficient money to provide
oandages for long time. Another has
each winter provided mittens, scarfs and
face masks for the life-saving men, in
that way preventing much suffering. She
herself is a constant sufferer, an invalid,
confined to her chair.
another member has been busy all win
ter sending comforting letters and Iitera-
ture to the sick and afflicted, and in that
way cheering many lonely one. A
teacher of one Of the public schools is
teaching the boys and girls of the tene-
ment districts how to be kind and
helpful.
Another found chapel In needy COM
munity had been closed for lack of in
terest of the mother church. Thro the
efforts of this Sunshiner, the chapel Is
now open, pastor engaged and regular
services are held. New members have
been added and there is now a prospect
OF its becoming an active and self-sup-
porting church.
In reformatory for girls in Brooklyn
one member has started Sunshine that
has been the means of changing the
whole moral atmosphere of the home and
creating such spirit of helpfulness and
unselhshness that the girls have now be-
come interested in other institutions
eheerfully making garments for the nurs
cry, comfort bags for the sailors and in
many ways endeavoring to brighten other
lives.
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-03

wv PAoAoooo'' o4ioAlS iAA o01 o111S
back again, rumi> The PORES
mated aloud and aably the character Of Admiral Togo
This time Dayrymple did not doze it is hard to doze
with energetic dstorng ones features con-
scientious He listened instead professor who with
decacy that marvellous shaded his discussion thru
the worlds history down to the Of the head
The professor ended with casty Of Dayryples
hair, and let him view his image again.
''Hair cut?'' suggested thesprofessor.
Dayrymple carefully inspected the mpromptu maniac
that the glass mirrored sighed eyes he admitted
The professor smiled family arrayed Dayrympe in
spotless linen smoking jacket turned wrong side front
Just then the clock struck eleven
At half past the professor deep expose Of the
of badness the Of the country At quarter
to twelve he his fingers rritangy over Dayrympes
scalp and reached sadly for comb and brush Scap fever
sad thing, he murmured, n few years. Perhaps
cocaine shampoo feel itching of the scalp
Dayrymple did, and said nervousy His elder brother
was nearly bald, and it might in the family.
The professors sadness vanished He appeared to be
almost glad to do Dalyrympe this favor Of sham
poo He spoke opmstcay Of greatness of our coun
try and He showed tnge sorrow only as the
operation into the afternoon Gin their business
and WORRIES however, many best men neg
lect their bodies Now if young wishes to keep his
har thoro singing month is absolutely
About here Dalyrymples memory fails He took the
SINCE and shower and treatment the neck muscles
he thinks and landscape gardening his eyebrows And
1t not until towards the conclusion of special earfo
that he caught strain Of profess
sors CHEEKY monologu Just apghter passed by the
window his evening rounds the professor finished ard
stood off for moment deep thought Then he smiled
cheeriy perhaps you would like shave sir? said the
professor.
Dalyrymple rubbed tentative hand over cheek and chin
Dalyrympes beard grows fast But he paid his $12S5
and went home to dinner and Mrs. Dalyrymple-
colts for October.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-03
Curios and Oddities

: 'Tis passing stranqsl'

THREE chaueurs sat in their bathing suits onshe Cape
May beach, They had each lost race, and now they
explaining their defeat another No one it
seems, had failed thru any fault Of his own
chauffeur, after while Of gloomy silence said, he
sifted the sand thru his fingers:
'Why is it that beach is firm enough for motor cars
while another is so soft child hardly walk on t9
The sand IN your hand answers that question: the
second chauffeur replied. See how fine it sq
The sand indeed, fine DUST as fine as talcum
powder. E
"The finer sand is, the closely it will pack and,
by consequence the rmer surface it will oe' went on
the second chauffeur 'Ths sand here makes roadbed
many feet in deph-a roadbed you couldn't pack more
closely If you rolled it hundred years with hundred-ton
roller.
Study the sand at Long Branch Asbury Park It is
preter than this 1t made Of separate grains that you
can readily distinguish Each is perfect cube white or
black red-a beautiful cear-colored shape that it is
pleasure to look at Each about fifty times bigger than the
Cape May grains Hence the sand of Asbury Long
Branch won pack down, won't make a firm roadbed
There is only place in the country where the sand
is finer than at Cape May and that place Ormond Fla
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-03
A Tow Mission.

The Sunshine society would like to es-
tablish toy mission similar to the one
at Pittsburg, which has been so success
full.
The Pittsburg mission was established
in 1884 and during its existence it has dis
tr1buted new and secondhand toys to
69,S25 poor children at Christmas time.
There Is hardly a child in the good homes
of Minneapolis who cannot spare at least
one of its toys to make some poor child
happy. The Sunshine society wishes to
remember all the several hundred chill
dren this Christmas and to do so will
need the help Of the fortunate children
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-03
A PROGRESSIVE BIRD.

the points Of the barbedwre fence little dead birds
~ were impaled; an odd, cruel thing to see
whoever did this, shouted the city man. deserves-'
But even as he spoke goodsized shrike past him.
with something small and dark in its strong
shrke paused at the barbedwre fence and lowering over
IT, suddenly thrust out its burden of the barbs
burden dead Bird and the shrkes vigorous thrust
spltted securely the fence The wire spike planted
deep and firm in it's small, soft breast
"There is your criminal'' said the farmer ''He is
shr1ke butcher Bird and he has modern mind No Chi
eagoan is reader to adopt ideas than he. ~'
1.-The shr1ke since time began, has killed small birds and
mpaed them till ho wanted them for dinner but he used
to impale them thorns.
No sooner tho did the barbedwre fence appear than
deserving the thorn trees the hke began the spikes Of
wire to hang his kills Thus he showed readiness to-
adopt ideas which they who automobile or
the motorboat might we'll initiate. Nowadays all shrkes
use barbed fences for their larders He would be
very old fashioned and antquated bird indeed who should
stick to arder hooks Of thorn'' '..s.=. .
The farmer laughed. Another shrike flew up and i'm
paed little bird. moment later third shrke came and
withdrew a bird. ....
'Wonderful'' said the city man. "Wonderful and
cruel'' IS
"And progressive added the farmer.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-03
Good Work In Kansas.

= The Sunshiners Of Jetmore, Kan, are
to provide rest room for farmers wives
and children when they come to town.
The branch sent in a request to the coun-
ty commissioners to grant site in the
courthouse yard for building a rest room
II possible. This, request was granted.
and now the Sunshiners are preparing to
erect the building
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-03
What the Market Affords

NEW almonds, 20 cents pound.
/ Y Ounces, rs cents peck.
Crabapples, 40 peck
Apples, 40 ITO so cents peck.
Lemons, 80 and 40 cents dozen. ,.7
.5a Mushrooms 60 cents pound
Fancy New York cheese 20 cents a pound
Round steak, 1912 cents pound
Sirlon steak 16 to l9 cents pound
An excellent dish which may be made from two pounds
of round steak chopped beef cannelon Blend lohtv
with the meat the grated rind Of half lemon one table,
spoon OF chopped parsley egg lightly beaten table,
spoon OF melted BUTTER teaspoon of salt and liberal
dash OF pepper Shape the meat in ROLL wrap in but
tered paper poe it in rack in the dripping haste
frequently with cup of hot water which four table,
spoons of butter have been melted When baked unwrap
and serve on platter pouring around the tomato
or mushroom beef loaf made almost the same
way except that to the meat added cup of bread
crumbs and four tablespoons of is baked SLOWLY
in long, cakepan for three hours. Beef loaf
best when cut in thin slices and served cold.
Scotch coops ought be better known on this side of
the Atlantic Into spider put two tablespoons of flour
and three tablespoons Of butter with few slices of onion
TO brown lightly then add and half Of and
beat Till 1t IS OF the consistency of thin Put in one
pound OF chopped round steak and cook slowly for ten min
utes This may be transformed into slightly dish by serv-
ing it in shallow bowl with rangles Of on top and
garnsh of hardboied eggs In the old country where
dish OF coops has frequently to large hungry
FAMILY the good cook sometimes adds Just before the sauce
pan taken from the fire. cup Of boiled rice which adds
to the excellence of the dish well its abundance
For steak casserole put turnp cut
into strips tablespoon Of chopped celery and four small
into the bottom of Cut two bounds of
round steak into threeinch squares and scar them brown
in hot spider Lay the thu casserole over the
vegetables with seasoning Of salt, pepper and chopped
parsley then pint Of boiling Stock put the lid on
the casserole and set it in hot for an hour BRING
the meat to the table in the casserole This is dish one
often finds at French table o where meat tender and
delicious masquerade anything piece Of tough beef
steak covered baking dish may used in place of the
casserole and the vegetables NAV he nrned into
serving platter or left in the baking dish in the French
fashion.
INVITES VALET-Wh were you quarrelng with that
IVY little Jap about?
Rosen's Vaet-Ddn' you hear him He called our be-
loved emperor czardine.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-03
A Sunshine Park.

The Sunshine society of Magnolia,
Miss. has rented an island from the town
and is turning it into a park. The MEM
bers have also made arrangements for
free weekly concerts. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-03
Live In the Present.

Wouldst thou be happy liver, -.
Let the past be past forever.
Fret not, when prigs and pedants bore you;
Enjoy the good that's set before you:
But chiefly hate no man; the rest
Leave thou to God, who knows what's best.
.--.- -.s Goethe,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-03
Industry and lazlness

Industry is cheap. 1t is laziness that
costs. 1t has cost many a bright man a
bright career