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The Washington times., 1906-01-28
Caustic Comment.

When Adrea enters at the end OF her
leading string the gallery yields 10 the
usual little burst of applause at the star.
hastily whispers SHE'S blind. shes
blind" and instantly slppTesse5 itself to
listen again. The Fat butcher behind.
who has seen much drama, mutters cold
ly, She'll get her sight before the end
OF the second act" The packing clerk
feels for another peanut and says moth
ing.
When the JhundeThJlI falls. and every
body on the stage Topples over and lies
stunned. the gallery for an instant suf-
fers a horrible loss Of dignity. Some
thing in the way ule fool doubled up
strikes one of the girls in the front row
as immensely funny, and she gives g lit
tie shrek of laughter, which Of course
starts of the other five, and in an in
slant half q dozen rows of people are
chortIing into their handkerchiefs. The
rest of the gallery. furious at having its
feelings and intelligence so outrageously
nisrepresented. hisses vigorously. and
tie packing clerk Iemarks audibly:
''LobsteTs, Think this is a burlesqus
house. don't they2'
4 second later, hsweveT. the crowd has
forgotten its anger and is gasping
eagerly.
she sees. She SEES"
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ought to Have Bernhardt.

They ought to have had Bernhardt at
this theater. that's what they ought.
Ia have come 10 see her every night
here. But who wants TO spend a dollaF
In one OF them new little twO-dollsR
plush boxes up town Oh. I've been 70
EN-. but l don't like EN-. I know this
place. and 1 feel at home here. Let EN-
bring their big people here, and I'll see
en-. But II they don't l shan't see
en-. rms Leslie Carter shows she s got
sense. ny, years ago this Academy OF
MUSIC was good enough for RistOri, An
derson. ana"
But just then the lights 90. down
again. and again the gallery rustle5
ana scui1ies and bushes itself into
tense and silent expectancy. The next
act passes In hushed suspense, broken
only by an impatient Inutter from the
DuIcher 10 the effect tnaJ he wishes
this thing was played a little more
in the daylight" A"
Later. when Adrea appears in a blaze
OF jeweied crown and girdle, the gallery
rises nobly to the occasion. and a man
Of a practical cast OF mind who hasn't Z
spoken before remarits confidently:
Those stones are worth S35. 90. s e
has somebody waiting 70 take EN- OF
ana lock EN- up IN an iron box the mo-
ment she goes of the stage" which no
body In the least believes
That hair is almost exactly your
color, Julia" one OF the girls whispers
loudly TO d friend three seats away.
You could bring yours 10 just that
shade easy" and Julia smiles pleas
ant assent
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vt Is said that there are only two
floating churches In the world. one
IS at Genoa, italy. and the other
IN New York.
New York's original floating church
was Quilt with Fulton reTryboat as
its foundation II was mOored In the
East River. where the present edif1ce IS
today. and, like IL, was a simple Gothic
structure 1t lasted until lS5l. when
age and consequent decay OF its tim
bers caused II TO sink.
Tied fast to a bulkhcad Iy stout ca
bles which strain and creak as the tide
Gibbs and flows. with tiny ripples break
ing musicaIIy against its sides when the
weather is calm and with occasional re-
mlnders, gentle and otherwise, in the
way of bumps when TougneT conditions
prevail; the newer church IS as Ike the
old one as il was possible 10 make IL.
The approach TO it gives one the inn
preston OF stepping into the center
OF an etching. The cables vr the pig
bridges, the spaTs and masts of craft
at the neighboring piers. the raint haze
as If a master artist had smudged his
picture with a careless finger tip seem
more like a picture than bits Of scenery
about the city.
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AMONG ANIMALS

The fowl resented every approach OF
The eat to her offspring with true ban
tam spirit, and the real mother was
compelled 10 look on from q safe place
at the sight of the fowl spreading her
wings over the nesting kittens just as
though they were her own chicks. The
kittens could only approach their moth
er to obtain the necessary nourishment
when the bantam had been foGcibly re
moved.
Pigeons eggs are often Matched by
hen chickens; but II is not a common
occurrence for pigeons to hatch out a
brood of chickens. Such a case occurred
near Tunbridgs Wells last August,
where a pair OF pigeons Matched three
pairs of chicks.
The most interesting example OF fos-
ter parentage III which a bird was con-
cerned occurred many years ago in
Scandinavia. and is Il case which has
been more than once cited as an in
stance of animal gratitude.
A peasant found q wild swan frozen
fast in a lake. He Iok the bird home,
revived 1t and made il a domestic pet.
One very wild night his wife died The
h1sband, in despair for his baby's life
reYneE! oered the pet swan, which was
IN the habit of repOsing before the
kitchen fire. Taking the tiny child DOWN
stairs. he placed il beside the swan,
which. seeming to understand what was
required, spread its wings over the
baby and kept il alive and warm for
many hours.
No instance has come to notice recent
ly of a dog fostering a rat; but such
strange attachments have happened
and the writer has seen two tame rats
feeding cheek to jowl with a fox terrier
He has also seen q wire-haired terrier
feeding from the same dish as a tame
fox, which the dog had brought home
as p cub and nursed.
Sometimes remarkable friendships
spring up between normally antagonis-
tic animals which are due not TO an un-
satisfied maternal desire, but seemingly
TO nothing more than sudden turn
Of fancy. For instance a hare found its
way from the fields into a garden at
DorknS during the last summer In the
/ garden was terrier which immediat tely
made a chum of the wandering hare.
The two remained on friendly terms.
and even ate their meals together. the
hare becoming as much a domestic pet
as the dog.
/ Some have been reclaimed and beer
known to receive friendly visits from
/ their formerly savage Compan MONS. Zool-
! ogtsts have "a record of a typical case
/ in which two soldiers 5f a king of Oudf
/ captured two wolves and a Wolf-chil6
which came down to drink on the banl
Of the Goomtie riYeE-
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THREE EHOURS WITH
THE GALLERY GODS

THE gallery. the blessed. oid-fash-
ioned. warm-hearted. peanut gal
lery, has somehow never moved
uptown with the rest OF the thea
trical procession into the smart play
houses that flash their 5eweled signs
nightly alon6 Broadway and Forty-sec-
ond street. These newer theaters,
strictly Spreading have no galleries, but
only upper balconies" where a lot If
faint-hearted. decarous prrsons who
must sit in inexpensive places follow
the stage spectacle With pretty much
she same demurely bias enthusiasm
that marks the first ten rows OF the
orchestra. The upper balo my appiauds
but always with the orchestra: the up
per balcony frowns. bus afways with the
orchestra; and in most upper balconies
the appearance Of a shrlll-voiced small
10y with basket OF candy would cause
a shudder Of well-mz@-ereG horror.
But somewhere. not twenty blocks
away. one can still find. it appears. a
real old gallery that laughs and cries
and nudges its neighbOrs with a Did-you
see-that-now? all the while comfortably
munching whatever IL chooses TO buy
or bring. and so accustomed 10 leading
lhe applause that 1t claps or Kisses as
If the orchestra didn't exist
IL you don't believe T., core down
one of these nights To the Acad smy OF
Music, on Fourteenth street, and SEE
"Adrea" from the popcorn point oi
view. Instead Of pattering down TO your
comfortable and droWsy orchestra chail
under the footlights. go up into the top
most gallery. where one IS on friendly
terms with the big crystal chandelier
and whence the stage looks a. if on,
viewed it through the wrong end OF
( the opera glass. Find q seat in thai
cheerful, chattering crowd-you won't
1 find any reserved for you. but neither
Will you be disturbed f. you take ans
one that happens TO te vacant-anC
/ then keep your eyes q *. ears open.
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and his landing here the captain and
our correspondent became great friends.
Our correspondent wouldn't hear a word
against hie captain. repudiated all his
letters and trotted of after his One-time
tyraut like a pet dog.
We had 70 let the case drop. In fact.
there probably was DO ease al adjust
a case of feverish Imagination induced
by the mOncfony OF the sea This abb
normal imag..atiOn shows itself In many
ways
Then there is the boarding house evil
Just as prevalent today as il has ever
been. although greater care Is taken &c
disguise its processes. Many Of thes.
places are reguElT robbers rOosts. main
tanned entirely for the purpose Of separ-
ating the sailor from his wages.
There is one man. Wen. that old
fellow Is the suavest 1iliest beS'
dressed. sliCkest customer YOU could Ind
tn days journey. tie his made "a for
tune out of these men. fattened on theiI
work and weakness
He has his tOuts IN plenty. and Il
would be a clever man that could escape
them once they have spotted him. As
a general thing. sailors don't make much
Of a struggle. They yield 20 the call of
the flesh and go along the line Of least
resistance.
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Reveals a Weakness.

In the next act the gallery reveals q
weakness which IL shares with many an
orchestra. In moments Of narrowing in
tensity a little thing may break the
solemnest spell. The raging Adrea afs
ter holding the top Of the house breath
less during her fury over the captive
KasO has just stabbed him and thrown
herself upon the PROSTATE body. AT the
very worst possible instant little girl
IN the middle OF the third row sneezes.
IL is a very small sueeZe and plainly is
as much of a surprise to the child her
self as TO any one else. but II COM
pletely relaXes the taut nerves OF the
gallery. and the orchestra below is as
tonlshed and panied 20 near the cur
tain fall amid an Unmistakable burst OF
laughter from the usually infallibIe up
per regions. But the crowd takes only
a moment TO recover Itself, and as US
uai its shouungs and braves and hand
clappings and catcalls take the lead IN
dragging stars. authors, and anybody
else that comes 10 mind before the cur
tain.
Somebody in a back row noisily folds
up a newspaper He IS sternly missed
and bushed. That man down front with
the frequent cough viii hardly last
longer than one act Under the pointed
and but half-subdued sarCa SINS OF his
neighbors as TO the sanity of people who
come TO the theater with a bark like
that he VIII probably melt away at the
hTst opportunity
During the first part OF the act, while
the AdreatlC youths and maidens are
ululating of and the high priests are eX-
planning things on the stage, breathless
silence in the gallery. broken only by
those eternal smOthered little cracklings
Of peanut shells. The crowd knows the
value OF getting the run Of things early,
and not until the action IS fairly started
does il permit itself relaxation or COM
ment. but as soon as il catches the drift
Of the plot its feelings get TO be too
much for IT,
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The Sophisticated Grocery Man.

An EXCEPT the sophisticated grocery
man. who smiles knowingly and says:
Yes, but youII see her blind again
before alrs done.
As the curtain falls. amid a storm OF
applause, the pacing clerk turns TO his
companion with certain relief:
Say, this IS gong TO be all right.
WHAT
In the midst of he halidclappings and
curtain calls thai follow you discover
for the first time what the stolid boy
with the folded mndS is really for. Ii
is he who p-OdICes those delrious
whistles that always come TO the top
OF any big wave OF applause Without
unclasping his nands or moving
muscle OF his fact he emits shTill after
shriIl at just the right instant
! After all, Whai distinguishes these
good gallery folls from their fellow
auditors down beow is not that their
I feelings and judgments are fundamen-
infinitely more reIdy genially and i'm
partially 10 admit these feelings 10
themselves, and b anybody else that
will listen. They laugh at much the
same things. and hey cry at muca the
same things that move their brethren
in the orchestra aid boxes, but the diff
ference IS here: When the floor smiles
the gallery laughs, when the orchestral
eve is dimmed the gallery is damp with
tears, and remariing chokily TO It's
neighbors:
Amt it dreadfuR''
The general verdct seems TO be that
Adrea is the right stuff" but the
querulous little buchers wife is not
quite satisfied
Whatever use is they in that epi-
/ iogue?" she laments. IF she goes blind
again what do I wait 10 know IL fOr?'
4 think it's been perfectly lovely"
says the packing clerk 5 friend. as she
pushes the last hatnin nto the blue
hat. and the packing cierK seems to be
entirely, if inarticulately. content.
/ The experienced firstnighter has
/ stepped airily downstairs, listening with
amused interest TO the comments of his
! neighbors in the crowd. Not until ne
reaches the sidewalk and ights d cigar
/ does he deliver his verde
1T ain't a bad play" he 'emarks care
lessly after the first puff, with his eye
on the glass doorway oppolite. Its got
poetry in it,
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In a Little World of His Own.

The sailor lives In a little world of
his own. bounded only hy the sides OF
the vessel. and what goes on outside OF
that il unknown to him and has little
interest. In This tiny place details, in
sinifcantvas they are, assume tTemen-
dOus proportions
Sailors are not only yarn splnners,
but there never was a woman with so
great curiosity or with such an inordtn-
ate love of gossip. They watch each other
as cat does 4 mouse; they are full OF
scandal concerning their superior Of
hCers. and the letters they write are
funny enough-whole scTeeds about some
fool thing that you wouldn't think .
ErOwn-up man would notice.
''One OF these types Is famiiiariy
known on board IS the ship lawyer. He
is the greatest old gossip of all, always
setting people by the ears Ond trytnE 10
stir up fusses. He preIenGs 10 ki4ow
everything and really does know 900
much for his own good. II $ directly
attributable to him that so much bad
blood exists between the captain and
the crew."
one of the apple-cheeked apprentices
breaks in to say:
ION one of the ships where / was II
was a favorite saying in the foc'sle;
What's captain, anyway? What does
e do? All e does il to take a ship from
China TO New York and then he has tC
get somebody TO take -e- .n.'
That explains the ordinary seaman'S
conception of his superior officers role
in life. He has no idea what RESPONSE
bility means. He thinks all a captain
has TO do is to give of-ers and smoke.
Asked as TO the legend that a sailor
has Il wife at every port, there are three
negative shakes of the head.
He has not money enough" is eex'
planned His wages are so Fidieulo dsly
small that he cannot afford that luxury
The carpenters and sailma kers are gen
orally the only married men in the crew
They are older. have saved a little, per
haps. and have larger wages, The young
sailor. after. short term Of sweetheart
ing. becomes enamored of the rowing
life and give up all idea OF a home.''
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THE subject of foster-parentage
among the lower animals is al
ways interesting and rarely does
season pass without furnishing
some new instances of the high develop
ment OF the maternal instinct among the
members of the humber animal orders.
The last year has been prolific OF eX>
amDles. some of which have been par
ticularly curious by reason OF the wide
diversity between the fOster-parent and
the adopted child or children.
Early in the last summer a female
collie at Thornton. Marshes. near Pick
ering. England. gave birth to litter of
pups. all of which died. few days
afterward the collie brought home in its
mouth a very young rabbit and settled
down to mother it.
No more quaint animal picture could
be imagined than that Of a rabbit sit
ting on the back of sleeping dog.
which under ordinary circumstances
would hunt the furry tribe with the
greatest zest. yet to It's adopted child
Il showed the utmost care and fond
ness.
But perhaps an even more extraordi
nary case. in which. also. a rabbit was
the adopted child. occurred in the spring
at Garstang in Lancashire. where the
foster parent was a female ferret.
A lad who kept a pair of ferrets found
a nest of four young rabbits. which he
took home and gave 10 his pets. The
male ferret soon killed three OF the rab-
bits; the fourth was taken in hand oy
the female. which. instead of giving il
the deadly nip in the neck. nestled up
to the shrinking little form. and the
pair subsequently became fast friends.
On one occasion the rabbit escaped into
the fields. only TO return TO Its foster
mother after two days absence.
Birds figure in many striking cases OF
foster-parentage A few months ago
at the house Of a Gravesend poultry
fancier there might have been seen a
very pretty spectacle of tiny chicks
being mothered by a cat. The little
birds were in the habit of nesting in
under the soft fur of their foster-mOthes
just as though she were a hen. and,
though they would spend hours clam
bering over the cats body, she never
once lost her patience with them.
AT midsummer case occurred at
Penzance where the position was re-
versed, the foster-mother being a ban
tam hen. whose eggs had heen taken
away and the children litter of three
kittens. which were borh IN the lott
| where the bantam roostec
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Sail Without a Cent.

after a day or So they wake up PEN
niless, sick. with no memory OF what
has happened 20 them. or where their
money Is gone. As likely as not they
are told that the keeper OF the boarding
house tried TO save # for them and they
wouldn't listen TO his entreaties
After he has got through with them
they fall into the hands of the union
which ships them after exacting about
half a years pay for the work. and they
sail without cent. hardly a rag 20 their
back and IN debt They threaten re-
venge and promise to set even when
they return. but they never do.
IT'S the same story over again when
they return. A few plausible words. a
bottle OF whisky over the side an invita-
tion 10 a spree, and of they so to repeat
the same experience.
we keep n sailors clearinghouse
and have a list OF others which we try
TO fn blacklistinS the disreputable ones
Naturally this does not make Us over
popular. and in addition 10 the disfaVor
OF boarding house - epers We have to
contend with the lion, because We side
with the non-Jnion sailor.
We try TO get PAGES for the Seamen
without commission, saving them the
money paid 20 the middlemen- The traps
that are laid for undoinS by these two
contending elements the robbers .roosts
and the unions. would furnish material
for a series of Conan Doyle stories.
Don't think the crimp is back num-
ber. Not at all. Modern life has not
zone away with him any more than it
has with the sailor himself.
He uses modern methods and the
I drug is easier TO handle and takes less
tine than making n man drunk by the
old method. Knockout drops render a
man insensible in q short time, and
when he comes TO he is out on the ocean
shipped for a seven or eight months
trip, and doesn't know how he got there.
He is lucky If he has not signed away
his years pay as well.
There IS an amusing side to the story
Y hen the other becomes too mOnoto-
nous.
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speculates on the Play.

Meanwhile the gallery turns and in
spects itself. puts it's feet upon the seats
in front. exchanges banter in various di-
rections. shifts about comfortably on its
none too soft seats. and speculates upon
probable delights TO come.
The butcher. who has returned. need
less to say without the glass of water
Is fmpatientIy explaining the story OF
the first act 10 his wife. who seems 10
be of timid inaudibIe -oice. and some
what slow mental movement
Yer see. Adry is blind. so of course
she can't Queen 1t, and her devil Of q
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lean flag.
The Dutch make good sailors, so do
the Danes. Swedes, and the Northern
nations in general Italians are timid-
The Portuguese make the best seamen
from the south.
THE compelling force that sends an
American sailor TO sea today is not
the hope Of a career. the captaincy Of
a vessel. the making OF a fortune by
some circumstance OF vOyaging that
used to control often f. is a desire in
the young 10 wear a uniform. 10 see the
world. 10 run away from responsible
ties.
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Arrives Xsrlp

The gallery arriv 5 e.irlT. The polite
ly ignored fact that at these rarihed
heights OF democracy seat coupons are
quite useless and unknown brings the
gallery patrons up the long Sights of
stairs as early as ever the business Of
dinner VIII permit. II you come as soon
as the doors are opened you get the
much-sought places in the front row.
where you csn dig your chin comfort
ably into the plush rail and peer over
into the slowly filling orchestra chairs
far below.
Now. hov yer, these seats are occu-
pied by half a dozen girls In shirt waists
who have probably been standing all day
behind Val Gus counters In department
stores. With their noses over the ran
they are enjoying that delightful relax
alton known IS getting ideas from The
gowns. wraps, coinucs, and JeWelry
that are slowly filling the chairs down
below. Their COnverS OOn, as one catch
es Occa sional scraps OF il, is full OF
Marcel waves. French toques. and love
~ furs.
Just behind you sits a stolld, round
faced man who looks like a butcher,
with a tinii little wife who talks 10
him IN whispers, which he answers with
a hOarse, and not always patient. bass.
Beside YOU are pale young man, prob
ably packing clerk, and his friend,
who wears pig red rose in blue fell
hat. and looks thoroughly awake and in,
terested. A little way I'm front sits q
boy OF sixteen with his hands folded
over his stomach, who never moves.
never rms rs head. but gazes with
Open-nC uthed wonder at the stage,
whether the curtin be up or down \
few seats away Is n dark. thin man,
whose manner Instantly betrays the
knowing gallery frst-nighter- He has a
friend with him. a small mild creature
brought along for inteTlOcutOTy pUT-
poses, and he takes care that his re-
marks 20 his companion shall be heard
as far as possible in all directions.
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sister has cut her out with sayso who
used TO know Adry somewheres else.
and between EN- they pairned off the
fool on her until that crack or thunder
opened her eyes. and that's all there Is
10 II so far Huh2 On, sOmewheres ia
Greece. How should / know how IL
comes cut 90
1t is a pity she cannot be five or sig
seats to the left down the row. where
one is vaguely conscious Of an Insurer
able. Person who has seen the play be-
fore. persistently trying to tell his un-
willing and protesting neighbors how
IL all ends.
The packing clerk and his friend have
relapsed into inaudible intimacies that
concern no one but themselves.
Meanwhile the AIl-Wise man IN front
is holding forth on the Academy OF
Music as the true home of dramatic art
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I'VE are all getting on in life. We have
all but short time 10 live. Let us be-
fore We die make the conditions brighter
for our children We don't want 10 live
in the same conditions as our children.
England Is called a free country. But
She is not free have but a few more
years TO live, but when / am dead and
buried the movement Will still be alive
and viii ever live Ny last words TO
yoH are; Remember your responsibility
and sow the seeds of freedom for your
children"" i-E
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Spellbinder.

Countess Of Warwick is undoubtedly the
most picturesque figure IN the great gem
eraI election for parliament now in pro-
gress. The countess is a Socialist. She
is making. speeches twice a day for the
Socialist candidates for the house of
commons
Standing in a potato cart she delivered
a fiery speech TO the longshoremen OF
West Ham, London. after they had