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happened to take q fancy to.
II Geraldine had daughter, the woman
with money would like very much to do
something for that daughter. but. un-
fortunately. she is tied hand and foot.
She may know any number of young
men who are considered good catches, ;"
but If she introduced them to the girl
she must therefore announce her indorse-
ment of the girls mother. II she wants
to put the girl IN way OF making a
comfortable living, she must do 1t in an
underhand way. so to speak. for a
wealthy woman can be charitable only
to the very poor, and that only in an
impersonal way.
She would like TO do a great deal for
the Smiths. but to quote her own words.
she can't afford It, 1t would probably
cost her her social position II she did
If she has any skeleton In her family
closet she is kept very busy keeping that
closet under lock and key. for she has lots
Of enemies who are on the alert at all
times for anything Of that sort. ready to
ruin her In society at moments notice.
A woman with just an ordinary share OF
this worlds goods does not have SO many
enemies. SO X the skeleton does come to
light it will be only at the cost Of small
scandal and a nine days wonder. and
with the exception of a few wounds she
will go about her accustomed duties and
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scrutable reason. they tolerated me. 1
don't know why they did. i never can
understand why they did.
But I wanted to tell you about a lit
tie incident that helped some toward salt
ing me down-at least. for while.
THE company was travelling from
Globe to Lordsburg, Ariz. II you ever
mediate travelling from Globe to Lords
burg. Ariz., think iteover-and then don't.
It's a .sixty-mi1e stretch on spur. rail-
road. the whole distance through cactus
desert. The one train Is Scheduled to do
twelve miles an hour. but it never does
it. Usually they have to toss chains
around the locomotive boiler to keep the
plates from starting. Two or three
pounds pressure on the boiler of that
locomotive calls for chains. Often
eighteen or twenty pounds of steam are
generated in the boiler. but it all literally
wastes itself on the desert air-hissing
disquietingly through the large rents
cracks, crannies and crevices in the
boiler. If you make the sixty miles be-
tween Globe and Lordsburg in eight
hours, you ought to breathe an orison OF
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house hunter. Nonsense! The advertise
ment says five'
We'll said the boy. you can believe
me or you can believe the advertisement;
but / amt tryin' to make no sale.
X X 4 X X
Is Washington somnambulistic? The
pink cravat. hird-year-university-tu
up trousers youth. who decorates the
countrys summer resorts with Washing
ton, as his residence and his father the
honorable Mr.. SO and So would have 1t
so. according to his tales Of midnight
revels-horribly, beastly fast and every
thing is deliciously quiet. you know, too" :"
Such stories also may be heard from
temporary winter residents hailing from
down east or across the Susquehanna.
Here's the testimony of one. however.
who. in many respects, might speak with
authority. Some weeks ago q police re-
porter of well-known New York news
paper was in the city covering a murder
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other class Of society. would be stigma
tized as the limit Of bad taste
If she can afford 1t. she buys her daugh-
ter foreign nobleman. In this way she
kills two birds with one stone. for she
not only does well by her daughter. but
she also strengthens her own position. A
woman who has a duke for a son-in-law
is very important parsonage. and one
whom no one can afford to treat with
anything but the greatest respect and
consideration.
In this matter of marrying of her
daughters the struggle for supremacy
is just as severe and unrelenting as 1t is
in anything else. II Mrs. Van PUNK Sc
cures five millions for her daughter. she
must retallate by securing ten for hers.
II Mrs. Stuyvesant-Chew marries her
daughter to a duke. she must marry
hers to prince. She just has to go one
better or her enemies would say she
couldn't AFFORD a son-in-law OF such a
high rank. And everybody knows. the
higher their rank, the more expensive
they are.
The woman with money has a pretty
hard life to lead. and to lead it with
success. she must not only possess the
endurance of the day laborer. but also
the brains and the diplomatic power of
the statesman. She must be on the 60
both day and night, for IL she should Of
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"HE venerable and learned justice,
John NJ Harlan. during a game of
- golf at Chevy Chase. explained the
int1icacies of evidence to a young man.
Justice Harlan illustrated welb the case
of conflicting evidence-how. when the
statements of two witnesses are opposed.
the more probable statement is to be ac-
cepted. *s7t.' r. -
Usually. in conflicting evidence" he
said, "one statement is far more probable
than the other. SO that We can decide
easily which to believe.
1T is like tine boy and the house
hunter.
"A house hunter. getting off train at
a suburban station. said to a boy:
My lad, 1 am looking for MIR. Smith
sons new block of semi-detached cot
tages. How far are they from here?
About a twenty minutes walk, the
boy replied.
: Twenty minutes?' exclaimed the
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r OTIS of people have declared that
they would rather have SO much
- money that they would be obliged
to lie awake at night devisins means of
spending it than have so little that they
would have to be kept awake devising the
means of making the little cover a great
deal of ground. But If they were given
their wish at any time. they would pray
most depoutIy that 1t be taken away
again ~t
4 humorist has said that a. wealthy
woman misses a great deal in life, because
she can never enjoy the pleasure of buy
ing something for, a dollar down and
dollar a week. AS matter of fact she
has so many duties and obligations that
she misses great deal more than that.
Many of these duties. il is true. are CHI
merical and sef-imposed. but. neverthe-
less, they cause her a great deal of trou-
BILE.
II she has money, she naturally wants
to get into sbciety. Now it is just as
difficult for a>nouveau richie to break into
society as It is for an alien gentleman to
enter the snltans harem, and not half as
easy as tits fo- burglar to break into a
bank. The latter has ali his tools pre-
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4 COMEDIAN of distinction told it
~ on himself at "A club.
= = There may have been fresher
youngsters than / when 1 first became
trouper," he said. "but that's TO be
doubted OF course, youth must be served
even fresh youth But it causes me to
blush-at least, on the soles of my feet
when ! reflect now upon what a rattle
Drained, chinny customer I was. when.
cub around twenty. 1 broke into the pro-
fession.
But I had my lessons,
My first company was fy-by- might.
nearly comic outfit. that tried to exc out
a precarious existence around the south
west. / was second comedian with that
crowd-dancer. juggler. almost acrobat,
approximate singer. everything in the ma
ture of human filler All of the other
people of the company. men and women,
were older than l. But. for some in
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smiling and wanted his piece OF Confed.
crate scrap paper back again.
Its a keepsake" he said This ~
the fourth time I've passed the thing OF
today, and II Just shows how crazy the
people are just now for any old thing
that doesn't look like cashiers check.
X r
1t Is the idea OF Sam DeNedrey. onerof
Washington's stanchest labor leaders.
that the proposed temple OF labor to be
erected here should be a memorial affair.
He says 1t should be dedicated to the
late Milford Spohn. who was known as
the father of the Washington Central
Labor Union" He said Spohn could al
ways be depended upon In an emergency:
that his Judgment was clear and conserva
tive. and that he always stood ready to
perform any service for organized labor.
The proposed building should be chris
tened The Spohn Temple of Labor. and In
II should be a statue Of Spohn-the finest
that can be produced by the sculptor's
art
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up OF my stories.
so. some het up. began to dole out a
few wallops for Arizona and the south
west In general l panned the hotel ac
commodations Of Arizona in such a
screechingly funny way-ye, eh-that my
fellow -troupers and trouperesses. just
nachully had to hang on to their sides.
Il spoke Of the railway facilities OF
Arizona and the southwest in the cutest
toasty way you ever heard in all your
bawn days, and the general gist Of my
funniness was this: Why was Arizona
at all, and why was the southwest?
~ felt that perhaps those Arizonaites
with the Alkali Ike makeup standing on
the edge Of the crowd might not like this,
and there were moments. while ran on
in which had just little zephryish feel
ing of fear that maybe / was hitting it up
a leetle too hard. and that perhaps I'd
better sort Of do a subsiding number. But
the applause of my stage mates served
to efYace these little passing fears. and
SO kept right on. handing out those wal
lops for Arizona and the southwest.
'At length 1 pulled up breathless.
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raised the gun, and, as he did So his eye
caught sight of quart whisky bottle. by
some chance standing upright-it had been
tossed from a train window-about thirty
feet away on the desert.
without taking aim at all. but just
popping as II for general results. he shot
the neck of that whisky bottle as clean a.
II he'd had Calling gun to do II with.
Then. taking another shot, he bored a.
hole smack-dab through the center OF the
bottle. Then he handed the gun back to
the other man. and the bunch OF Arizona
folk, without a word or even grin.' or
the exchange of winks. clomped back on
board the train.
They'd been kidding me. but l. didn't
know 1t. Away up forward there was a
box car. In which lot Of Moqui Indians
were riding. Me for that. I was still
palsied with fear and l went up forward
to the Moauis' car and rode with them all
the way to Lordshurg.
For a long time after that I spoke in
such a low tone Of voice that people
standing only three feet away from me
had to say. Louder! Louder""
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ber OF Congress to have a law passed
making grounding day" legal holiday.
X X
a man came up to a clerk in one OF
the hotels OF this city several days ago
and appeared to be in a great hurry.
Say" he said breathlessly. give me
four fives for this. will your
He confidently showed forth piece of
paper currency that looked like one OF
Uncle Sans bona fde twenty-dollar bills.
and laughed innocently at joke travel
ing man was springing on an unsophisti-
Gated gentleman near by, while the clerk
counted out the change.
He seized the four fives and stepped
quickly into the crowd in the lobby. There
he quietly observed the actions of the
clerk. who was taking precautions too
late and was giving the purported twenty
dollar bill a careful examination.
Before the clerk had time to call the
police the stranger came up to the desk
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The simple truth is that the young
woman has a brain OF remarkable power.
She has a mans directness in going
square to the point. and no apparent fem
inine evasiveness whatever. When some
thing sprang up that she didn't care to
talk about she didn't beat about the bush
and try the oblique method. She said.
simply, not harshly. that that was a mat
ter upon which she didn't care to dwell.
and that settled it. Nobody in the room
would have taken the chance upon press
ing her after she said that.
Now. Evelyn Thaw couldn't have de-
veloped all OF this intellect within the
space Of a year or So In fact, persons of
my acquaintance who have known her
since her earliest girihood say that she
always did possess a remarkable head.
Gradually. as the story unfolds. one be-
gins to understand how and why she
possessed 80 keen a fascination for 50 in
tellectual a man as Stanford White. That
it could not have been her beauty alone
that caused a man OF Whites caliber to
spend years in her youthful train has been
more than suspected for long time, even
by those not acquainted with the fact that
Evelyn Thaw Is a woman OF rare mentai
endowments.
word as to how she looks now COM
pared with how she looked last year
There is all the difference on earth.
Last year she looked like consumptive.
or at least a sadly overdrawn little girl
with a face that denoted fading pretti-
ness. Now she Is a woman of simply
dazzling beauty, with a finely contoured
wholly Greek face as fresh In color as a
spring rose, a pair OF antelope eyes that
would have. made -men OF the ancient
world once more '-scale Iium's towering
walls" and a 1.-THE, supple. well-nour-
ished. graceful figure that Is In singular
contrast to the wrath Of body which
was hers last year.
A strangely interesting. strangely beau
tiful, wholly bathing and yet holding
woman, this Evelyn Thaw. Studying her
at close range, one wonders how. even In
the stress of circumstance and under the
allurement Of the millions. she could ever
have countenanced such rough-hewn In
dividual as Harry Thaw. One wonders.
too. II she will .countenance him again to
the extent Of being wife to him II he goes
free.
There are knowing ones who say not.
In the Bread Line.
There are 10000 men out Of work in
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per. and everything goes along like
Sunday school class for about two weeks
until the embryo reformer either leaves
the building or forgets about his inspira-
ton. and then business becomes brisk.
That there is Gaping and that 1t goes
on unknown to the Judges sitting in the
two branches Of the court there can be
little doubt. One Of the most fagrant
cases occurred some time ago. when q
prisoner was capped for case of as
sault: His wife appeared in court with
$5.O2. all the money the pair possessed.
The S was given to an attorney. and the
case was tried, a simple case Of assault,
which resulted in fine of $. An effort
was made to have the attorney pay the
fine. and his fee would be given him In
installments. Such an arrangement was
impossible. however. from the viewpoint
Of the counselor.
well. then. give me dime for some
tobacco and my wife a quarter to get to
her home In Maryland. Won't you do
that for me?'' asked the prisoner as he
was led into the pen preparatory to fif-
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manner of life just as she did before
Everything that the rich woman does Is
watched and commented upon. People
know exactly when she gets UP and what
she has for breakfast. as we'll as what
she does all day. including the hour at
which she retires at night The life she
leads is not a natural one. but is trim
med and dressed up for other peoples In
spection.
She is compelled to watch her neighbors
as closely as they watch her. 1t is case
OF the survival Of the fittest. and IL she
were to relax her vigilance for one mo-
ment. the other side having been proven
the f1ttest, would be the one to survive.
II Mrs. Stuyvesant-Chew gives dinner
running into the hundreds. or even into
the thousands. she must do 1t too. II Mrs.
Van Renssaeler-Fish has a countess to
visit her. she must retaliate by producing
a countess. II Mrs. DePuyster buys an
original Rembrandt. she must endeavor to
get one too. or people will say that she
couldn't afford It.
It is constant struggle for supremacy.
and nobody is allowed A minutes rest be-
tween rounds. They are obliged to keep
at it until they fall. completely overcome
by exhaustion.
Suppose that the woman is young and
unmarried. In that case her position is
much harder. because society expects her
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ground, however, only listened gravely to
me. and never a laugh laughed they
Nothing even remotely resembling a
laugh. When I'd reach the scream part
of my story. and my friendly associate
troupers would wrinkle their maps and
pretend. to chortle, over my callow humor
why. these cowboy-looking persons all
Of them. however. In store clothes of the
sort that cowboys use occasionally to
travel in, just gazed at me in a melan-
choly sort of way, and pulled their long.
straggly mustaches, and then looked at
each other gravely. and. perchance. shook
their heads in a mystified sort OF way: but
never, at any stage Of 1t. any sound out
OF any Of them that even vaguely resem-
bled e Photographic imitation Of near
laugh.
This nettled me. felt as If they were
hazing me- II l could evoke chuckles
from calloused stage folks who knew me,
1 argued to myself. boyishly. why. it was
thump in the teeth. nothing else. for
these cowboy rubes, standing on the out
skirts OF the bunch on the sand. to refuse
to stake me to at least grin at the wind
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many theatrical persons are making a
living in New York this season. There
are just three shows" in town that are
'knockouts." and. say, five more that are
doing fairly well. The rest are grubbtng
for expenses. Likewise, they're besieg-
Ing the booking offices trying to get
out t-of-town dates. The Broadway actor
and actress persons who Just WON'T
leave Broadway under any circumstances
are packing their little carpet-sacks and
hiking off to where the dollars are in
such numbers that there are hardly
enough lower berths on the sleepers to
hold them.
On the Grand Circuit.
Oscar Hammerstein's threat to New
York, in that open letter while back,
that if his opera house wasn't better sup
ported he'd take his company around the
big circuit. was thoroughly meant. Ham
merstein is just the individual to stand
pat on a proposition like this. There
really is no estimating what this man has
done for grand opera in New York. When
he started the rival shop the Metropolitan
Opera House had fallen into a most dis-
mai rut The old, old operas. with rarely
a new presentation, were being given
over and over again, and, owing to Con-
reds illness, even the old operas were
being done inadequately and badly. When
Hammerstein came along with his rival
opera house the Metropolitan house was
compelled to chirk up and do some reor-
ganizing, and all Of this. Of course, re-
bounded to the advantage of the New
York oDera-goers.
Still, it would appear as if, particularly
in hard times. there isn't room even in
so vast city as New York for two grand
opera companies. both performing every
night. Shrewd managers say that Ham,
merstein would win were he to give up
the New York field and take as fine an
operadc outfit as he has now on tour
among the major cities this side OF the
Rockies. There has been a vast growth
In these cities since the years when Alb
bey and Grau and others failed at the
attempt to carry high-grade touring
grand opera companies, and 1t Is prob
able that In this amplified era enough SUBJ
scriptions could be obtained in advance
by an impresario OF Hammerstein's en-
ergy and brains to more than carry his
touring project through to financial sue
cess.
asked Hammerstein II he would count
Washington in on his grand circuit II he
decided to give up the New York field.
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particular thanks.
well. the train stopped twenty times
on our journey from Globe to Lordsburg,
and the final stop-made because the loco
motive had to detach itself. and creep
forward ten or fifteen miles to get some
more Water-was protracted one.
SO we all left the train to stretch our
legs In the sand.
Fresh little me was the .self-consti-
tuted center of the sand-stretching party.
took the spotlight at once, doing flip
flaps over the cactus things, rolling
around on one ear. and showing of gem
erally-while the rest of the company,
good-natured poor wretches. looked indul-
gent and permitted me to go on.
when Id got through nearly acrobat
ting. I began to talk. AS they had moth
ing on earth better to do. the folks of the
company, and some other passengers.
gathered around and listened unto me.
II was the storytelling kid. and. as I
loved It. / told many stories. The rest of
the troupers not only listened. but even
gave me a hand now and then. Two or
three Alkali Ikes standing In the back
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fen1 anybody by not attending a recep-
tion or bali she would be made to feel
her mistake later. She would be omitted
from a later list OF invitations, and she
would find that some old story. which she
had thought deeply buried for resurrec-
tion. was quietly and mysteriously going
the rounds OF her set.
The woman with money must have
nerves OF iron. and II she has feelings
capable OF being hurt she must hide
the unfortunate fact as carefully as she
can. She must allow herself the luxury
Of an emotion as rarely as she can, for
self-control is one Of the prime requisites
of success.
The woman who has no money 10
blessed IL she only knew It, She can
lead any mode Of life that happens to
strike her fancy. and she can have any
body for friend that she happens to like
Moreover. when she falls in love she can
marry with no ugly doubt OF her love. and
when her daughters grow up and fall in
love she can let them follow the dictates
of their hearts with a clear conscience.
The great difference between her and
the woman with money Is that, while
the latter Is bound hand and foot. she is
a perfectly free woman. People may say
that you cant get along without money.
and they may be right. but 1t is equally
true that too much money Is a curse.
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of New York as the most enicient In
That's as far as he got The taciturn
Murphy broke in right there with some
observations that no driver OF six-mule
Arizona army post would dare to utter
for fear of lightning out of clear sky,
and the reportorial person hurriedly
vamped.
The nub OF this thing is that. on the
previous night. probably the same bunch
Of burglars had robbed the house right
next door to Murphy's. on the left. get
ting away with $1,000 or 5000 worth OF
loot there. The additional nub is that
lust two nights after shredding Murphy's
dining room OF its coat-of-arms'd plate,
probably he same bunch of burglars went
through house four doors to the right
of the Murphy abode. cleaning UP there
also in splendid shape.
That burglary at Murphy's certainly
epitomized the matter tersely and wit
tily. New York has got the best police
force that is in New York at the present
time
As Clarence Sees Her.
A few evenings ago Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw gave audience to a number of
newspaper people. chiefly women writer's.
at the bijou apartment which she has es-
tablished for herself lately. and ! was
present upon that occasion. The thing
that mainly struck me about this woman
for she Is full-blown woman now and
no longer the pallid che-ild so much
harped about last year-was her intellect.
She is absolutely brilliant, and employ
that word with full appreciation Of how
sorely 1t is overworked. Absolutely bril-
liant is Evelyn Thaw. With her reserve
thrown of she can and does talk as one
hears few women talk In an age when
conversation Is looked upon as a means
| for fogies to fritter away time. There Is
no straining after cleverness. no emo
tionality. no preening over telling points;
nothing in fact. that Is stilted or strained
| at ALL The woman simply knows how to
converse, that Is all. as some women
knew how a hundred and two years ago.
| Though she speaks rapidly when reply
| ing to a question that interests her. she
is dainty In the picking Of words and her
vocabulary is astonshingly large. This
was nm interview which was not to be
| quoted but every word that she said
| could have been printed without change.
| and all of it would have looked as well in
type as 1t sounded.