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not unusual TO see extra girls whose gowns
cost them from $50 TO $500 each but those
are the fortunate ones. There are many
acting as extras who have occupied high
places in the profession and have played
leading roles, but being out OF an engage
ment must accept any place
The leading lady thus forced to take an
extra part is not the only example Of crushed
hopes found among the extra girls. The
dramatic student often ia another.
After spending from $500 to $500 of her own
or her parents hard earned savings and
months Of valuable time in a school Of
acting she may find she has no chance what
ever Of getting on the stage. Forced to do
something for a living she generally lands
In the ranks Of the extras at 50 a week II she
lands at all The stage is overcrowded
there are hundreds Of applicants for the
smallest vacancy, and many tramp from
one theatrical Office TO another before they
obtain even the part Of an extra girl
At the same time. examples Of highest
hopes gratihed are supplied by the extra
girls. Thus a dramatic school aspirant,
who had an extra part in a fashionable play
one evening met at a well known restau-
rant the next day an acquaintance made at
the theater, and in a burst Of confidence
revealed the fact that she had been a cham
bermaid at that same hotel only a year
before.
1t Ia well not 10 snub an extra girl; she
may be genius in disguise. Clara Morris,
Ada Rehan and other stars Of to-day began
In this humble way. Lessons in technique
are all very well, but they do not secure
an engagement, as many know TO their
sorrow.
In seeking an extra part. just as for
more important part, you apply to the
managers, who send you TO the agents
whose business IL is to furnish extra persons
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they wanted more II must be paid for out
OF their own pockets
Ny fat oustomers7 Wen, there are not
many who keep within a certain sum every
week, and with few exceptions they are
not as close buyers as the rich--they don't
count noses as carefully, that IL.
One week the bill Of certain OF my Cat
customers for meats, poultry, vegetables
VIII be nearly double what Il IL the next
week and not so much because Of added
quantity as OF quality.
Az one time women who paid by the
week or the month used 20 have a pass
book in which every purchase was jotted
down as Il was made but since the custom
Of ordering by telephone has become so
general the pass book has dropped out OF
fashion. They depend now on my bill
which Is sent just 80 often, and we are saved
the trouble Of posting up the books.
i notice though that whenever there
u any dispute over a bill the husband is
generally sent around TO straighten things
out, although he really knows very little
about the transactions of his wife with
this firm suppose that " because women,
even the smartest Of them, hats 10 bother
with figures, and maybe IL Is because some
Of them don't have time 10 do the straighten
ing out.
There "a one customer / serve who Is a
well known clubwoman. see her name
In the papers all the time. And yet she
told me one day
II win send you a check just as soon
as my husband has a chance to 20 over the
bl. he IL out Of town for lew dAyB'
And In answer TO a remark OF mine she
added, oh, no, never bother 10 add up
my housekeeping accounts ! always did
hate arithmetic
MANY women who live In tenement
houses and bring a basket along 20 carry
their purchases home in are better buyers
and sharper at doing sums than the Fat
jewellers, even though they may not have
had % much schooling. IL Is these women
who insist upon getting the best Of the
cheaper outa, and they have Il down fine
which cuts VIII 60 furthest when cooked.
Another thing; they always pay cash,
and lAodng ready money 90 without meat,
imagine
me TSasoa 20 mar \mlliss who's IN
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[ MISS ANGELICA GERRY

or forty coaches at the meet. To be a mem
Der and 10 make public manifestation Of
the fact by driving a coach at the meet
Is a milestone on the road 10 society dis
tinction that many now outside would fain
point to with pride. The membership Is
limited 10 100. While all are coaching
men at their country places, only a small
proportion Of the members have been
active in the parades. With the Influx Of
the younger set there may be a change.
There was an informal drive in 1875, with
COL Jay A. Thondike Rice. Delaney Kane
and w. P. Douglas as participants and in
the same year the Coaching Club sprang
into life. the charter members, besides the
four named, having been Frederic Bronson.
James Gordon Bennett, Leonard W. Jerome,
S. Nicholson Kane and Thomas Newbold.
They we're not such sticklers a. 10 the lines
between the park and road coaches in those
days as they are now.
In the first regular parade in 1915, &C
cording to published accounts. Col. Kane
drove the coach he put on the road TO Pei
ham in the same year as the Tally-Ho.
Road teams. that is horses Of hashy mark
inRs. have not been unknown in very recent
years, but the coaches at least since 1895,
have been true park drags. Nothing that
Savors Of the road or Of the exercising trap
has been in evidence since that year.
None but members may drive a coach
to the meet. but on one occasion this rule
was violated In order not to disappoint W.
Seward Webbs guests. This was In 1894,
when at the last moment F. Egerton Webb
took the drivers seat on an emergency call.
In 1901 William Woodward drove Ogden
Mills's green and white coach and on other
occasions q member has fooled the drag
and team Of another member. but this Il not
usual
Col. jay has most remarkable record
a. a whip at the meets. As president Of tho
Coaching Club he has led the line at twenty
two Of the twenty-five parades.
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TRIBuLATIoNS OF THE EXTRA GIRL
She On Stage, Much HeMy
~ Paupa MllionAIs'S Daughter

OF all caIlines connected with the stage
few cder greater tribulations, trials and
hArdahips than that Of the extra girl. gen.
orally known as q Supernumerary.
In the profession, and at the stage door,
abe h called an EXTRA, because che is in
reality an extra She 10 not a member Of
the company, for when II leaves town or
puts on another play she must seek another
place Nor is she recognized az a member
Of the profession, for she neither profits
byits courtesies In the way ofoomplimentary
tickets to other shows nor thTives by the
aid Of It's societies that offer help 10 real
play folk
There are few In an audience who give a
thought TO the extra girl, the walking dummy
with thinking part, or 10 her share in the
success Of a play. Nevertheless she Is an
interesting consideration.
She may be a pauper, a great star In en-
bFyo, the victim Of a dramatic school, or
q millonaire's daughter struggling to get
on the stage. Frequently extra girls are
illiterate, but that Ia rather the exception
than the rule.
Extra girls are almost as important an
element Of the play as the principals. They
supply the atmosphere Of the play. They
form the background for the star and are
selected accordingly.
II the star Ia a dazzling brunette, blondes
are chosen; IL her hair is straw color and her
eyes an azure blue extras With raven locks
and swarthy skins act a. a foil. II the star
has ambitions as beauty. homely extras
are selected, OF II she chances 10 be a siren
who tips the scales at some $50 pounds,
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Mon Dieul' said NJ. Orlenoh stage man
aver Of the st. Petersburg Dramatic Com
pany, 10 a sun reporter. DO you Americans
really live so quietly and with such constant
unchanging decorum as the acting OF your
Broadway players would indicator
Il have been going about in your various
theaters, and could not help being struck
with the mechanical style Of American
acting. You have great artists, know
but do they ever let themselves go? Ihave
been to many playhouses, and doubt II.
AN the acting seems so fixed and set
so much in a groove. Always the same
always the same, one time like another
90 studied and never a glimpse Of natural
ness And yet l suppose Americans like
il, else they wouldn't have it.
But couldn't help rejecting how far
after all. your actors must be from real life
In their PLAYING. You cannot tell me that,
lust because your national tongue Is English.
your people here never feel passion OF great
anger. or great uncomfortable sorrow or
remorse.
Surely you cannot always repress your
emotions in everyday life TO suit parlor
etiouette. Some time or other q man or
woman must go beyond that.
whether il is your stage tradition or
not I don't know, but II strikes me Amer-
can actors are terribly economical Of their
nervous energy. People in real life are not.
unless they are valetudinarians. What
long. calm lives your actors must have!
1T il not 80 with US. Ours In called the
realistic school Of aotiaE. II might even
be called the nervous school
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Society. which 6ocks into town for the
Horse Show, is mustered out after the
aeaSon's gaieties by the spring meet Of
the Coaching Club. Now the women, too,
have q coach meet, which aooentuAtes the
note Of departure. SO It happens that In It's
coming and its fitting society moves to
hoofbeats.
The first Saturday In May Is the time
hononed occasion for the Coaching Club
parade. The women appear on the box
seat At an earlier day and at the mems
meet also, In most cases, as guests.
Win the motor ever supplant the coach
~ the swell conveyance, the .ohug-chug
Of the engine supplant the thud Of hoofs
10 time the flow and ebb Of fashions tide2
The motor has not affected the taste
for Coaching remarks Col. William Jay,
who az president Of the Coaching Club Is
naturally on the negative side. There
we're moro coaches at the meet last year
than ever before, which bears out my
opinion. That nearly every whip has now
q motor car does not alter the case.
There Ii still no better preparation for
coaching. whether on park or road, than
q aojouru In England 90 study how It Is
done. This is only natural, for we have
no traditions, no sentiment Of the road
bare, and very little worth copying save
from the amateurs who have learned under
expert hands In England.
Il think on this matter a. did a decade
ago, but would not disparage In any way
tho present interest In coaching among
our younger mon We have a superb ool-
lSotion Of drag, teams and drivers here
n town, . quick harvest from the few
years Of the Coaching Clubs missionary
work
Yet. while eighteen whips were in line
last year and after the meet drove up to
the races At Morris Park, there were hilly
fifty teams In the enclosure and the conclu-
sion was obvious that but for the rigid
linss governing admission to the Coaching
Club, there might easily have been thirty
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come Il from 81 500 10 q, 900 continually
And themselves with a balance on the wrong
side Of the ledger is that the vie and mother
has so little system in apPoruontng the
funds at her command, said a teacher Of
domestic economy. The average girl
who marries a clerk or an arti san starts
in 20 keep house IN a haphazard sort OF
fashion with only the haziest sort Of idea
how much she ought 10 spend on rent, her
table, clothes, incidentals, &c, with the
result that by the time the family includes
a couple Of children the table expenses are
far In excess Of what they ought to be.
Il don't believe there Is one woman In
fifty who makes a study Of how 10 feed
her family with nutritious food for a given
sum per week, that sum being proper pro-
portion and no more OF the family income
That sort Of planning means arithmetic,
and many women don't care about Wol king
over anything 30 prosaic.
1T is a lot easier TO buy provisions accord
ing 20 ind idual preference, trusting 10
luck OF her husbands ingenuity TO balance
things by cutting down in some, other
direction. The main causes Of the struggle
many families 20 through to keep out OF
debt are first, that the average woman will
not give any time 10 keeping a strict account
Of the money she spends, and then that the
American woman In particular runs 10 ex-
travagance In providing for her table.
According 70 food scientists there are
Eve ways by which the average housef
keeper living on a small income actually
throws money away when providing for her
table. Ther re: y buying need bssly costly
material containing little nutriment; by
waste OF throwing away much which u not
eaten; by failure 10 select according TO
season; by poor cooking and by a lack Of
knowledge Of what good food is and what
II costa,
"A person can eat all the nourishing food
he needs for from Is 10 20 cents q day, but
he must eliminate sweets, entT6cs, tea
cents his bul Of fare may include these
things, and Il viii probably be no more
nourishing.
But bow many housekeepers take the
trouble 10 70 into these hguresf
Here 4 an ideai division Of family In
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The proprietor OF a big uptown market,
who in his day has dealt With many classes
OF customers, says that the telephone is a
positive boon TO his business.
"We can attend TO ten customers over
the phone. he said, @in the time we spend
in taking the orders of three persons who
come 20 market, and there Is, on the whole,
more profit 20 us in selling that way, be
cause II we have not the identical cut
ordered at, say 20 cents a pound, we can
send along a % cent cut and the customer
will seldom or never send Il back; whereas,
II the same person came here 70 place the
order sNe might decide on q cheaper cut.
In sending the higher priced meat our
idea Is not 10 gouge the buyer OF make the
best bargain we can for ourselves, but TO
take the chances on giving satisfa ction
and TO send poorer cut than the ne
ordered would, as a general thing, bring
wrath upon my head.
1T is my experience that with few
exceptions the richer the customer the more
closely she buys, and that IL Is the people
living on small incomes who are the least
systematic and most eXtravagant-eI-
trayagant proportionately, mean.
For instance, the other day one Of my
wealthiest customers refused TO take some
strawberries recommended over the
phone because the price was too high.
In day or two probably they will be
cheaper, said she and that ended Il.
i bad no trouble, however, In selling the
berries 70 persons living in the cheap fats
around here.
i remember chen ] was working for a
boss who dealt chiefly with people Of wealth
we were comm nded by mnny customers
never to deliver goods to servant or en-
ployee Of theirs without a signed order
from the mistress, and that rule is strictly
adhered 20 now In the homes Of many New
York millionaire. both in regard TO the
kitchen and the upstairs orders, which in
such families are quite different. In such
cases, II ! should send nine pounds Of beef
and the order called for eight and one-hah
only.
i remember We had one customer whose
standing order for the kitchen was four
pounds Of meat . dRy-no more, no leas.
The meat might be varied 10 suit the SER
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L1aIs
But don't you try to keep household
expenses within q certain sum-
How can Il You see do all my ordering
by telephone now, II saves me the trouble
OF going out Of morning-and 30 / don't
always know just how much provisions will
foot up until the bills come in.
When the butcher suggested spring lamb
the other day ordereda roast never dream
ing the price would be 50 outrsg eous and
why asparagus should be 40 dear when It Is
the season for asparagus, I'm sure can't
tell.
AT any rate, when showed my husband
last months bills he got red in the face
and said he would have to give up the idea
Of getting a new spring suit, and he needs
one badly, too. But l don't see what
can do.
Cut down on the billsi That's what my
husband suggested and l told him that unless
we were properly fed he might have 10 pay
doctors bills instead Of tho butcher.
We'll, / suppose spring lamb and aspara-
gus are not absolutely necessary 70 keep one
well but then II Is natural, you know, 10
buy the things which are in season."
Incidentally, il Ia learned that provision
dealers are gmilingly oomplacent over
tie custom OF ordering by telephone,
whereas the man living ON 81 500 a year OF
les IL beginning 20 regard il with distrust.
Even low priced apartment houses are
fitted up now with telephones, and what is
easier when one il In a hurry than 10 do
ones marketing over the wire, especially
when, as one housekeeper remarked, q Q
praotis 90 does not make goods cost any
morei
This housekeeper did admit however,
that when she was not 10 the shop TO stipu-
late for two pounds Of beef or ten pounds
Of mutton, az the case might be, and see
Il weighed, the chances we're that
when the order was sent around there
would oe two and one half OF ten
the seller sending the quantity drst rtt
o. the scales, cad 20 fu1 price. q ootusa.
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To Make Small Income Go Further housekeeping

industrial enterprise outside Of the bons
with no business rules at all 10 live lIo 10
With few exceptions she doesn't care about
living up 10 rules.
She may understand bow many dollars
the family exchequer contains, but how 10
apportion those dollars to get the beat
returns Il not seriously conddered by her.
With her housekeeping Is an incident
In her life, not lie chief business.
Not long ago. when lecturing before the
New York Society Of Ethical Culture, a
professor from the Boston Institute Of
Technology remarked that until women
abandoned shpsbod methods Of house.
keeping in favor Of the advanced plans
employed by the widsawake man In his
business any income Of moderate size
was bound TO fall short Of what was e1-
pected Of IL in New York. The lecturer
went on to explain ne a result OF her obser-
vations that the best examples Of how the
family table expenses may be kept within
proper bounds were supplied in cases In
which the man Of the house had put his
mind 10 the problem. She added that in
her opinion 1t would be 70 the ADVANTAGE
Of the health and happiness Of the world
II this part Of housekeeping were for a time
done by man.
MAN would systematic it, said the
lecturer, as he has systematlzed other
industries which once were household
occupat ons'
The other day a woman living Uptown
announced in the course Of conversation
that after May her rent would be raised
10 SIS. She had been paying $50.
And with provisions 90 high. I'm sure
don't know how We are 10 manage, she
concluded with q sigh.
'Are provisions higher than usuali' a
friend who boards asked. ...-..
Yes, indeed. Ny last months grocery
bin was couple Of dollars more than usual.
and the butchers account went ahoad Of
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| 10 the coach tops. and, from 1901 onward. .
luncheon was a feature after the arrival Al
Morris Park.
II was for long the custom for the whips
and their guests to dine together at the
Brunswick on the night OF the meet The
gatherings were charming reunions and
the pride OF the chef was TO rise triumphant
10 the sporting possibilities Of the occasion.
One year the centerpiece wss a repro'
duction Of the clubhouse and hill at Jeroms
Park, and at other dinners the artists re.
produced for this adornment, in flowers
and frosted work, the yellow and red coach
Of Col. Jay, or else Frederic Bronson's
red and blue drag, according to which had
been the leader.
In 1894 the drive after the foEmal review
was to Jerome Park. and the year before
II was to the grounds Of the III fated open
air horse show, now Manhattan Field, for
the intercollegiate athletic meet.
The last OF the formal dinners was a
stag gathering Of the members after the
drive Of 1890. a belated celebration Of Col,
Jays twentieth anniversary as president
Of the Coaching Club. It was served al
the Waldorf Astoria, amid decorations Of
dogwood and apple blossoms, fragrant
Of May, and the souvenirs were the clubs
monogram in interviewer silver stirrups
This May the luncheon to preoede the drive
will again be resumed and the start will b
from the Metropolitan Club.
This years meet will be the third In
formal way Of the Ladies Four.in-hand
Club, although there have been others Cd
the quiet The meet last year was at East
Seventy-second street and Fifth avenue
and the drive and review in Central Park,
in the oval at 1Oeth street.
Those who drove last year were MIRA
Thomas Hastings, the president; Miss
AngeLol Gerry, Mrs. Eloise Kenochan.
Ms. W. Gcadby Loew, Miss Kate Cary
Miss Eleanor Jay Miss Louise Gullivep
Miss Helen Barney and Mis- Adelaide Ran.
dolph.
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MRS. THOMAS HASTINGS. 9

The women 60 as far as they like IN dress
limited only by the fashion Of the moment.
The parade this year is to be in the after
noon, as the races may not be the destinA-
ton after the meet, as in the case Of the first
parade in 1870. Then the line formed along
Madison Square opposite the Union League
Club, now the Manhattan Club, and swinging
through Twenty-si1th street into Fifth
avenue at the Brunswick corner, the route
was northward to Central Park.
Circling through the West Drive to the
Circle for the review, the drive was to Stet-
son's-where now is Stetsons?-and back
by way Of the crowded East Drive to Fifth
avenue and then clear to Washington Square
and back to Madison Square for the dis
missal.
Those we're the days when the women
wo Q graYs and de'iolte colo 8 and the most
fimsy and gossamer materials, with little
bonnets for the matrons and gay hats for
the young girls, and sat like flower girls as
they received the salutes from the windows
on Fifth avenue with their skirts over
flowing with roses. So runs the chat Of
the old guard who remember Fifth avenue
sans shops.
The parade, whether the start has been
at the Brunswick OF within Central Park,
or along the Fifth avenue wall Of Central
Park. opposite the Metropolitan Club, the
favorite meet Of late years and for many
reasons the best that can be chosen, has al
ways been a great show place for spring
fashions by the women.
This year, as the fashions circle, promises
to be time Of high pulled and funy sleeves.
a. i =, NO0n ~ IT, d.
Cleveland was a participant in the parade.
She was the guest Of Perry Belmont and
wore a mauve dress and a little bonnet
Of flowers.
The meet was again at Madison Square,
but the drive was over at the Brunswick
on the home trip, After the change to
uptown it was the fashion to have luncheon
at the Metropolitan Club before mounting
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horses, hveries, outfittings, harnesses, and,
last but not least, the habiliments suitable
for the meet TO be purchased, TO conhne
thoughts Of the outlay to the one occasion
OF the spring parade.
As TO the attire Of the whips, the rules Of
the Coaching Club prescribe a bottle green
coat with brass buttons, a uniform waist
coat and trousers OF any color. and at the
dinners a green dresscoat with the same
button. In road coaching some Of the
eccentricities Of the old time professional
coachmen-the drab colcred boxcoat with
huge pearl buttons &c.-are permissible
but the code Of the clubs is more strict on
the formal drives.