The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-08
FREE TICKETS TO
mrs. W|GGS' FOR
STAR READERS
A Box at the Newark Theatre
Given for the Most OPP
timistic Aphorism.
TWO HUNDRED OTHER
SEATS ALSO OFFERED
Messages of Good Cheer Coming
in Fast in THE EVENING
STARS Contest.

"A good beginning makes a bad
ending" is a proverb oft quoted, but
THE EVENING STARS contest for
the best optimistic aphorism is one
place where it doesn't apply. For a
good beginning has already been made
in the contest, in the submitting of a
large number of answers, and the in
terest SO generally and keenly dis
played is sure Indication Of q good
ending as well.
THE EVENING STAR is Offering
two hundred II eight seats at the
Newark Theatre for the best cheer-up
messages that its readers can offer.
THE STAR believes in optimism and
wants its readers to help spread it by
sending in the maxim that has stood
their best friend in times of peace and
times of stress. To the sender of the
best will be given a box for the next
Monday evening performance of Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch at the
Newark. Those who send in the next
one hundred best will be presented
with W orchestra seats each for the
same performance. A committee Sc
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make the awards and mail the lucky
winners their orders for tickets on Sat
urday evening. The contest closes Sat
urday afternoon at 5 o'clock, and an
swers should be in as early as possible.
Mrs. Wigs, the motherly heroine of
the play, fills it's atmosphere with the
~quaintness and wisdom of her homely
philosophy. Her odd sayings are bound
to be helpful to all who hear them, and
THE EVENING STAR readers who
enter this contest may help to enrich
her stock. For, if any of the aphorisms
submitted are deemed good enough
they are more than likely to find their
way into the play. Any familiar prov
erb or an original saying of an opti-
mistic nature, long or short, will be
considered for the prizes. Employees
of THE EVENING STAR are, of
course, excluded from entering the
competition.
Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage Patch"
has several characters, besides the
lovable Mrs. Wigs, that brighten
things up by their personality and
their sayings. Even Mrs. Eichorn and
Mrs. Schultz, herewith pictured, have
their uses In spreading good cheer and
provoking laughter. Mrs. Eichorn, the
neighborhood ,cross-patch, is built like
a t%oothpick, and Mrs. Schultz, the
n~eighborhood censor, Is constructed like
a bale of hay. Both the amusing roles
are played by young women, neither
of whom has to do much "making-up''
for the part. Miss Gladys hurry, the
tall and emaciated Mrs. Eichorn, Is "a
years old, just 6 feet in height and
weighs but lis pounds. Miss Anna
Field, on the other hand, who plays
Mrs. Schultz, is % years old. five feet
in height and weighs 245 pounds. She
says she doesn't use IN ounce of pad
ding in making up" for the part.
Though in the play the young women
are more or less cross and quarrelsome
they are of the sunniest dispositions
imaginable off the stage and are peace
makers among the children of the Cab
bage Patch.
Don't worry rbout tomorrow until
today's work is done" is one mans
contribution of the many received to-
day. Another opines h a There's
never anything so bad but what 1t
might be worse" "Greet every one
with a hearty hello; it costs nothing
and puts the other party in good
advises another.