The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-03-29
THg WORLD NOF AL1aAa8TAGE.
An Error o. ShAkeSpeare'S Pointed Out
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An Error Of ShakoSpoare'S Pointed Out
tfn. ~ . Square JAwed woman.
The children Of the stage may bS, the
little angels they arO represented In print
70 b. but I want 10 be. shown naid the
man With the Florida coat Of tan. sHere's
one reason why. -
T. During the bathing hour st Palm bach
one forenoon last month a number Of
lAdiea, most Of them the .motherI Of
children, we're seated In. reclining Chairs
on the beach. Watching the bathas, when Q
fresh youngster Of. 8 or. 10, hashly but
e4pensively logged out, turned IN, and
started to have fun With them. Thay we're
all sitting faoin : the sea. Of course. and II
struck this sooner kid that 1t would be
heaps Of IArES Ter him TO sneak up behind
thsir chairs and ysnk Of the loose wisps Of
their back hair.
Maybe be didht kndw those loose wispS
81 bach hair on women are called 'scolding
locke bat there Were heaps of things
no didn't know, that Was plain. So be
atartcd 10 20 0joy himself, slinkng up
bbhihh Ne women. one after the other,
poHing th6tR hbads back BY grabbing hold
# than looss back hair and then darting
"a h'ha merry LITTLE laughing way.
the annoyed women turned around In
their chairs and elared At the impudent
Gfh. hut their Elar6s had NO, eject upon
him. He would Amply wait dntil they'd
quoted down and forgotten about him
and then he'd creep up Ahdtake a grab at
smother woman's back hair
sFlnaIly he picked e loser, as every
body must who sticks around with one
game too long. He made a grab at the
back hair Of a square jawcd woman with
iron trimmed spsctacles, who had a large
grown family Of her own In bathing out In
front Of her, and the square iawei wopan
was waiting for him,
"He didn't get within a foot OF catching
hold OF her hair before she had him H. grip
in which she showed she'd had'plvnty Of
practice when she was raising youngsters
herself away back yonder. 80
- Now, she said, 10 THE sduirming tyke
az be tried 10 break loose from her, What
kind Of a monkey are. you, anyhow, Iand
why can't you behave' instead OF making
suoh,a nuisance o fyourselfS .rrF
The spoiled kid tried his best; to strike
and kick her, but she had him in an iron
gripeud he couldn't get his hands or,fe9ttntO
action. Then the snoozer, finding that he
could not break loose, struck an absufdly
theatrical attitude end Wiped at hers'
" You let 90 Of mel You don / know
who | anil ] am and he squeaksd the
name Of a we'll known kid OF the stage, and
I play leadsl You let 60 OF mel ""T
The s~peotaclsd woman with che A1dare
jaw gaSed at tbs kid for a mopent r-iv.
oh, you're al actor, and you play
leads-whAtever that is-do your sheRsid,
and then she began to place him over her
world. Then, my son, you need To- be
taught for about two minutes at least
that all the world Is not q stage, In spite Of
what Mister Shakespeare had TO say Qp1hRt
subject. don't play leads, my fresh little
friend, but l imagine I haven't forgotten
how TO play the Kind Of q tattoo Cat you
need more than any boy Of your age That
ever / saw r.tgHft
sAnd dsspite his frantic struggles and
w~ailings she clapped him across her ample
knees and proceeded, with her business
like right hand working like a fail u, teach
that too previous youngster or Ce stage
more shout the necessity of good manners
than he'll ever know until he's grown up.
II is about 100 10 1 that he had never felt
the weight OF a Furnishing hand in all his
and spoiled young life.
, The other women in the chairs, looked
on approyingly, and the men who bad
watched the Performance from the begin
ming olapped their hands.
The kid slouched OF, blubbehng and
knuckling his eyes and all Of the freshness
FOR the time being taken out Of him. When
The woman with the square jaw Get Aim
IN his feet with a jolt that must have 5arred
hs milk teeth and turned him loose, ~
a few minutes later the stage, young
wild eyed aud utterly unreasonable
came haring and frothihk down
the beach, but the square jawsd- u6man
lad left for the golf links. It's rathar a
good thing. / imagine, that she had gone
o the golf links, for she looked as II, had
{ come 10 that, she wouldn't have best
Ated 10 spank the mother just as she had
the brat ~