Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-21

| Lillian Russell, after a course of study at the convent of the Sacred Heart in Chicago, was one of num- Der of amateurs who made local presentation of Time Tries All. With in two weeks she was installed as a member of the chorus of E. E. Rice's production of H. M. s. Pinafore.
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 l The critic on a big western paper | in summing up an attraction that | played at the theater the night be- fore, finished his article with the fol- | lowing: ''The author is dead, I be- lieve, but the evil that men do often lives after them" as Bill says, ''and sometimes get dramatized for the stage" Sung!
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 After a somewhat severe reproof from her mother, dainty Miss Vir- ginia Earle's little niece, who is somewhat sensitive, thought dehgent- ly for a minute and said, "Auntie, isn't there any way child can get a divorce from it's parents?" Rather cute for a little mite, for, to quote Miss Earle's latest song success, "She Hasn't Done Her Hair Up Yet" :II:
 Lulu Glaser went to New York from Pittsburg with the firm convic- tion that she could make a success on the stage. Securing place in the chorus of The Lion Tanner at the 1 Broadway theater, she displayed suf- ficent ability to gain an understudy role and before the close of the New York engagement had succeeded the prima donna of the company in Angeline, the leading part in the piece.
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 The Riverton. Wyo., Republican gives the following hints to new papas." never blow cigar smoke down a child's throat until after it is two months old. Never step on the baby's face when walking in the dark, as you may lose your balance and fall. In walking the floor at night with child never jam it's face against a red hot stove. It is consider ed unlucky. While giving the baby a bath care should be taken not to keep it's head under water more than twen- ty-tive minutes at stretch. Before giving dish water to child, boil it. That is, boil the water The child will have bOils of its own before it is grown.
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 Gene Schwartz, the composer of every successful Irish song since "Bedelia," including the much talk ed of Irish Gibson Girl" and Miss Killarney" tells of two little Irish men visiting the New York Historical society, who evinced much interest in an Egyptian mummy which had a card at its feet bearing the inscrip- tion: B. c. 7S0. "Phwats that mane?" asked one of the Hibernians. For a moment his companion looked nonplussed. Then a great light sud denly struck him. "Shure that's the number of the car that run over him." And the two friends walked away loud in their denunciation of the carelessness of New York motor men.
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 SuWce It 10 say that lle tOWHSHlp which shall be nameless is in Colo rado; the time of the occurrence about twenty years ago, and the story y-teller"-or shall we say the narrator-is Press Eldridge, the fa- nous black face comedian, who orig mated the popular ditty, All I Want Is Girl" It appears that a bad man had committed suicide in a sa- loon, and at the inquest the coroner had instructed the jury to find a verdict of felo-de-se. Well. chaps, said the foreman of the jury, when they had retired to consider their verdict, '' it appears to me that this ere chap shot 'imself with a gun after shooting another chap with q gun, but Dr Jones, the coroner, who we all know and 'ighly respect, C says that this ere chap fell into the sea. Well, it is not for the like of us to argue the point with the doe tor. for e knows more about it than we do. So, propose we find a yer dict of found drowned, ,, And they did.