Evening star., 1907-11-09

nothing" she told ne So she dacid, 4
| that she would get bUsy-start something
| Looking around her neat little apartment
| with this idea of starting some hing in
| mind she got her notion. She had observed.
| in looking for furnished apartment IN
| New York, what miserable affairs they
| usually were She decided that she would
| go into the business, at once. of renting
| furnished apartments to folks. She had
Il few hundreds of dollars. She rented
| three apartments. unfurnshed for SO
! month apiece. Then sh' furnished them
| neatly. tastefully. attraciive,y- "N-
| pensively. hut just nice Y: with every
! thing clean and new and pleasant I"
! look upon Sh didn't have "A particle Of
/ trouble in Immediately renting these three
/ apartments furnished. for $50 a month.
| Then, as the money came in. she grad
| ualiy rented more unfurniShed apartments
! and furnished them. She didn't let her
! husband know anything about this little
| business venture of hers-she wanted TO
see whether she could make 1t stick 'r
not without any masculine suggestions
| Or assistance.
How She Made Good.
! Wei, the fact that she made It stick"
rs shown by the fact that today She is
| drawing down the income from le3 apart
ments which she furnished herself She
| has got the business down 50 pat that
It now comes easy to her Some Of the
| apartments she has furnished rent for as
| high as $3.50 a month. Her net income
! now averages about S2.ooo month ard
| she will increase her number OF furnished
| apartments up to 200 when she viii
stop-that number being. she says,
a bout all she cares 70 keep an eye on.
| Her little idea has already made her a
wealthy woman. There's no chance Tor
her to lose and she will be very rich In
the course of a few years People WHO
want furnished flats clamor to get ths
energetic little woman to hx EN- mp lot
them. and she never has any wa 2ancies-
Through 1t all she has remained an ex-
caedfncly feminine and pleasant little
house woman, who knows. for example
how to make p lemon merinsue PIE ',ih'
would pull Jova right down from le
peak of Mount Olympus out OF pure oe-
sire. a.,
Go west? There's all kinds of a field
over here in myriads of directions fnr
folks who've got good. practlcanle thlhh-
ing brains WA,
Apropos of business women. Hettv
Green lank shabby. scanned OF race sour
of expression. shamhling OF gait was
pretty busy around the tinanclai olstfic,
during the wabbly times for banks ana
things fortnight OF 50 ago. AiWaVs
a holder o. enormous sums OF ready casn
the astute Hetty flourished exceedinsY
when call money rose. as IL dla lor ,hl
or four days, to as high as l'' per NJ
place as a lender of huge sums or caSn
at critical market junctures on g1it-eoseh
paper" and some persons hot WIN "
exaeeerate told me that Hettys cleanup
on the general tightness of the com mar
ket will be something like ten millions
Rut she still lives in that squalld nttl'
$50 20 per month fiat over yonder IN ~
boken. and docs her own work no"
good the. gods are TO those WIN
can understand!
IIare &c nabu,lm and provender for the
superstitious: The first death at that
mightiest of all hotels, the new Piaza.
was that of an eccentric mlinohaiiF,
had what is called thu Thirteen bus
He was a member of Thirteen CLUBS IN
Vulnerable. He liked to tackle the Big
gest business affairs on FRIDAY; the I,ln
He rayeled In dinners In Which tthr'eh
nersons sat at meat. He wore sucKpins
in his scarfs with the sinister "13 done
In levels When the Plaza opened TOT
guests he moved there. the nahas
ment had purposely omitted SUITE Ii.
hut the eccentric millionaire insisted that
s,;te ~ should he fixed up for him. II
was done. He took possession or MS
suite Immediately developed malady
which the medical men couldn't oiashose
and died out of hand
IT was the thirteen business, OF course.
That. at any rate is what "they' are all
saving. and hadn't they ought to know
Something on Dramatics.
Four unspeakably horrible theatrical
failures this past week-and others
very soon to follow. it is hint
cd bv wise ones who have seen
the dress rehearsals. That "Sappho
and Phaon" "poetic TRACEY" by Percy
Mackeye. produced by Harr son tiske.
vas the direst sad of the lot. 1t was
superbly investitured, too-all except the
,ncessant beating of the Aegean sea
o1 hnWPVpr
fstic initiated sOrely against ones proper
hearing and understanding of the sap
phics Not that it would have been worm
while to hear and understand them-prob-
ably they were never meant 10 mean ny ny
thing. The picture was beautiful, but the
"poetic tragedy" was the most ineffabie
gibberish 1t was depressing to see so
competent a woman as Bertha hanch n
volved in so hopeless theatrical ran. M
down If "The Eternal Feminine that
sure-enough poetic and beautiful Greek
play which Margaret Angiin could not
give away" to theatergoers few years
ago failed there certainly was no chance
for the Mackeye piece. which was inhu-
namely tiresome.
George Ade's "Artie'' achieved a thump-
ing fzzle. Everybody seemed to want to
see it go but the elements and funda-
mentals were lacking. "Artie' was
fresh. dreary whiffet on the stag"-a moo
dy-naddy of the smart Alec species The
critics are telling AIDE that he'd better
dramatfze any one of his F IpleS In
Slang" and get back to first principles.
Miss Pocahontas'' fell down here with
frightful d. S. thud. The audiences ran
shrieking into the street after the first act.
THE Step-Sister'' drove rugged men and
hearty women to mingled wrath and tears.
The big thing of the town is The Merry
Widow" a really enchanting operetta
by Viennese composer. full of lifting
music-a sort of return TO Offenbach and
Millocker and the elder Strauss.
Speaking generally. the Broadway the
aters arr cluttered up with some of tn"
most tresome. stupid. pfiiing shows
that ever were sprung upon pOpulacs
eager TO be amused. and the wonder is
not great that the resentful managers are
gnawing their fngernals and making
spiteful remarks about the dunderheaded-
ness of the bored and sparse audiences.
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.