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Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-04
THE GIRL QUESTION"
COMES TO THE MASON

lH HE Askin- Singer company, which
sent to this city 1.-THE Time, the
Place and the Girl" one of the
biggest musical comedy successes which
has played here in some time, an
nounces "The Girl Question for a
| weeks engagement, commencing to-
morrow night, with matinee Saturday
This play, like the other, is by Will
Hough and Frank Adams, while the
music was composed by Joseph e. How
ard.
A big crowd of pretty girls, who can
both sing and dance, songs which not
only captivate one when heard from
the stage, but which are equally pleas
ing when whistled or sung at home,
dancing numbers full of grace and
ginger, and a cast of competent players
| together with a plot of much interest
and unceasing action constitute "The
Girl Question"
A Chicago Restaurant
The first act is laid in a restaurant in
Chicago where Con Ryan, the head
waiter, played by Paul Nicholson, is in
| love with the cashier, Elsie Davis.
played by Marguerite de Won. Ryan is
a big. rough, good hearted fellow,
whose every slangy speech is laugh
and whose humor is all the more appre-
ciated because of its truth and natural
ness. The head waitress is in love with
him and, as he says, she is the best pal
| fellow ever had. 10 Foster Is her
name, and the part is played by Henri
ette Tedro.
Into the restaurant comes Nina Col
Inns as Jessie Sears, now the wife of a
magnate, T. p. G. Sears, who never
spoke to his wife the first three weeks
after they were married because he
didn't want to interrupt her Sears
only nandS q mall h1na1x Of or fr oh
tain control of a big railway, but this
stock is held by Baron Won Tesmer, a
young German, who has come to
kAmerica to find it's rightful owner, a
Fgirl named Foster
In the second act, where the scene Is
Chicago roof garden, Sears buys a
| mortgage on Ryans restaurant, and
his son. a fast young college boy, mar
ries the cashier at a party given by
| Ryan for the express purpose of pro-
posing to her himself. Sears fore
closes the mortgage and throws Ryan
into the street. The baron then dis
covers that the head waitress is the
gihl he has come to America to find,
and delivers to her the railway stock
The Plot Unsnarls
The third act is laid in Mr. Sears
office. 10 Foster sells Sears her stock
on condition that he rehabilitate the
three years, rent free. She then makes
Con" acknowledge that he was only
fascinated by Elsie for moment, and
that he has really and truly been in
love with her all the time, and all ends
happily.
OF course, throughout the develop
ment of the plot there are introduced
songs and dances by the principals.
pretty show girls in stunning gowns,
ViVacious little broilers who dance as
though they were wound up by ma
chinery, and do not know what it is
to become tired, and all the other
amusing features which go to make up
snappy musical comedy.
Among the songs are ooh Gee Be
Sweet to Me Kid" Waltz with Me
Till I'm Dreamy" when Eyes Like
Yours Look Into Eyes Like Nine"
I'D Like to Have You Call Me Honey"
"There Is No Place Like Home" "The
Old Buck and Wing" and Il Hate to
Work on Monday
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-04
Paul Nicholson of The Girl
'?', q Sensible Comedian

midable looking bottle-another cold
cure. Nicholson accepted it as though
he felt certain all his troubles would
end following the Initial dose. and Miss
de Won took he- departure.
WELL" l resumed. IF you won't
listen politely to my politics, perhaps
you will talk about the matinee girl.
l believe that is the proper thing for
matinee idols" / got no further.
Not Matinee Idol
I'm not matinee idol" he declared
with considerable warmth. 1 don't
want to be matinee idol. I wouldn't
be one II I could. I've no delusions
about the matter. There's no money In
the theatrical business for a man who
is engaged merely because he is or can
be made into a so-caited matinee idol.
The salary Is all right for q few years,
but 1t doesn't last. Each week deducts
just so much from his earning capacity.
Each added pound of flesh costs dol
lars. I claim to be a comedian. With
the comedian time AMI avoirdupois are
| not Immediately important factors in
his success Consider the possible ten
ure of Joseph Jeffersons stage career
had Mr.. Jefferson been merely a matt
nee idol"
"All that is true" I acquiesed but
on the other hand look at Chauncey
OACOIl' LllS pIlOlOBrdpH lOudy ID q
cherished possession of half the matt
nee girls the country over and their
number is legion"
"You have given me hard one" he
agreed. "Olcott is the exception that
proves the rule, but even Olcott is
nearing his end. He is no longer the
attraction he once was, while his COM
edian contemporaries, men like w. H.
Crane for instance, are at the very
height of their earning power upon the
stage.
my opinion on this subject is firmly
fixed" continued Mr.. Nicholson "and
believe 1t is based on good business
sense. have no aspirations to be-
come matinee idol or, what is per-
haps a more respectful and respect
able term, a leading man.
"The leading man who can play only
leading mans roles is not an actor.
Occasionally have been asked to play
these parts and once or twice the offers
have been very tempting, but l have
always refused them and I never have
been sorry afterwards. Once you be-
come known to managers as associated
with a certain line of parts 1t is diff
cult to get anything else to do.
MANY a young actor at the very
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-04

ory of newspaper men is often treacher-
Gus and 1t is very disagreeable, you
know, to be misquoted."
"You did remember that, didn't you?"
he answered. But | didn't mean it
that way
However, here is Paul Nicholson on
"The Slang Question"-if you care to
look 1t over.
The Slang Question
"The modern world could no more
get along without it's slang than 1t
could keep going at its present pace
without the telephone or the fast ocean
steamship. Slang is just as essentially
a part of everyday life as eating.
"If you want to deliver message
quickly and save time and footsteps,
you use the telephone. If you want to
set across the ocean the fastest way
you board a fast liner.
Just so If you want to save time in
conversation and tell a thing in the
shortest possible way, conveying an
idea concisely, exactly, prettlly and at
the same time forcibly and In a man
ner that will be generally understood,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-04

you use slang. Sometimes you use 1t
unconsciously.
Everybody uses slang. hear some
OF our teachers, our ministers, our
learned professors and writer's, our So
ciety women of precise speech and ex-
act manners take exception to that
statement. There is hardly man you
meet that will not feel a little bit
muffed if you tell him he is addicted
to slang. But everybody has his slang,
and If you carefully note his conversa-
tion for a while. keeping in mind the
trade, profession or avocation which
most occupies his attention, you will
discover in very short time that he
uses words and phrases not to be found
in Websters unabridged.
1.-THE truth of the matter is the
world is not now and never was able
to get along without slang. Our staid
old grandmothers used it and their
grandmothers before them. Rob them
of everything but their slang, says
Hugo of the French peasantry.
Shakespeare abounds in slang of
his day, and most of tl-s writers of the
Elizabethan period in English litera-
ture, the golden era of our language,
used weird and hybrid phrases. The
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-04

appeared in the prize ring but as he
appears upon the stage. Corbett is
man of marked personality. He has
curiously little voice for so big chap
and a queer. embarrassed manner OF
talking to an audience which Nichol-
son reproduces with absolute fidelity
He is able to do this because he and
Corbett are neighbors during the sum-
mer vacation season and see much of
each other Thus Nicholson has haf
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-04

known upon the stage under her own
name. She played II support of many
prominent stars, one of her last en-
gagements being wisa T. Fl. Sothern,
in Lord ChumIey." 1t was his ex-
perience of stage life gained while his
mother was a member cf Mr.. Sothern's
company th.t induced young Nicholson
to choose thu stage as profession.
For five successive seasons he played
on broadway, New York, In Frohman
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

men have declared that their experience has taught them to beware of apph- cants from the classical colleges and even from the high schools of today.
 True, great business success is not everything. Money making Is not all. But we must bear in mind that the main business in life Is to make a living. And he whose learning, tastes and wants are cultivated far beyond his capacity to earn is predoomed to certain misery.
 It has often been said that little in- tellect is required to make money. The bee and the ant are the best business men in the world, for they adhere strict ly to system and persistency.
 On the other hand, learning calls for riches. Beautiful home, books, pictures, travel-an thess are required to meet cultivated tastes, and they call for mon ey.
 The acutest misery in the world is not among those whose possessions and out, look are narrowed down to naught by lifelong poverty, but among those who see enticing things they cannot reach. dream sweet dreams they cannot realize, and to whom the world is wide and beautiful and their prison cell small and dark.
 .Ths world owes every man nv- ing" The state owes every citizen an education in the fundamentals that will enable him to get on in life. But when the state, instead of fitting him for this, by false aducation units him for 1t, it does him grevious wrong.
 Higher learning and cultivation of the children are not by any means to be condemned. They are an essential to the happiness and usefulness of the individual as they are to the progress and development of the race. But they must be the superstructure, not the foundation
 The first things that make the nation are not tho learned scholar, the famous artist the magic musician, but the prac- tical farmer, the skilled artisan, the sue cessful merchant. The nations true greatness-the peoples real pride-are not in its libraries, its halls of art, it's temples of music, but in it's farms, Its factories and it's marts.
 Our sweetest national song is the rythmic hum of industry.
 Our highest glory is in the happy homes of prosperous people.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26
EDUCATION WITH PATIENCE

Even a public school superintendent can be brought. with time and patience, to realize some of the practical pur- poses of public schools.
 At large meeting of school super intendents of New England a declara- tion of beliefs and principles has been formulated in which occurs this state mmt:
 We believe that in our complex school system special effort should be made to teach the fundamentals. While the vital quality of education should not be neglected in favor of mechanical rou- tine, yet the business world has right to demand that our schools give thor ough training in essentials, and our schools should not fail to satisfy the de- mand.'
 This Is a confession that there has been justice in the complaint of business men that the schools have not been fur nishing graduates able to write, spell, ci- pher and dea lefficisntly with the de mands of public life.
 The haighfaulting fads and fancies, SO highly favored by so many SO called cd ucators, have united many an other. wise sensible youth for practical ser vices.
 The young man entering upon active life, who can correctly write in half q dozen languages, but not in English, who knows all the movements of the sun, moon and stars, but nothing of the movements of commerce, who can rattle off the whole history of the world but is ignorant of the most important cur rout events, who can analyze the art of the great masters but is baffed by a bookkeeper's trial sheet-this young man is very heavily handicapped in the race of practical life.
 Some eminently successful business
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26
A DAY OF THANKSGIVING

In this season of general rejoicing over the return of prosperity it is but just and proper that we should unite in cordial expression og gratitude to God for the many blessings We enjoy.
 This feeling of gratitude is not new. It has found expression in various forms and ceremonies dating back as far as tho very dawn of history. Among the Jews in their earlier history this thanks giving assumed distinctively religious form, and modern nations have retained a custom which does honor to our hu- manity.
 In reviewing our own history as a nation we have great cause for grati- tude. From a small and feeble begin ming We have grown to be great and powerful. With almost unlimited re sources and vast power We stand today a living example of Gods blessing.
 We are told that "God saw every thing that He had made, and behold it was very good" This implies that the Creator was not only pleased with His work, but that He also felt distinctly thankful for the result.
 Thanksgiving wouldd be but one sided affair if God complacently re- ceived our gratitude without manifest ing thankful spirit in receiving that expression at our hands. This very reas- enable suggestion makes the present sea son singularly suggestive. If We are permitted to enjoy the privilege of par. ticipating in joint act of thankfulness with our Creator, We should realize what 1t means Co US and hasten to con, tribute our part in grateful and rever, ent spirit.
 Ingratitude is hateful to God and man alike. History certainly proves this if it has proved anything.
 In our churches and in our homes to day we should unite with our Father in thanksgiving in a rsverent and un selfish spirit, so that he may still b< able to say
 "And behold it was very good.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26
SAYINGS OF MRS. SOLOMON.
(Being the Confessions of the Seuen Humdreth "
TRANSLATED BY MAUD MARIE

 daughter Filtration; behold there feminine thing called the love which mancureth its nails fruits its abors and doeth its hair in curly dweeth the office and devureh the husband therein, while his wife Is abroad bargain hunt husband his speech becometh
  in his mouth it sitteth opposite him. wife he calh but his friends he caleth 'Daing
  it-only
  o the of insubodnaton
  '.The did Verify very caught the sticky a bird in the snare!''  that thou ddt give could coffee breakfast locks ppers Yea he small boy that ssealeh matches and howleh when they burn his fingers
  Unto him curly straight thing of clay bachelor
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26
Tickling and light coughs can be sure.

Tickling and light coughs can be sure ly and quickly Ioosened with prescrip- tion Druggists are dispensing every. where as Dr. Shoop's Cough Remedy. And it Is so very, very different than common cough medicines. No Opium, no Chloroform, absolutely nothing harsh or unsafe. The tender leaves of a harm less, lung healing mountainous shrub, gives the curative properties to Dr. Shoop's Cough Remedy. Those leaves have the power to calm the most dis dressing Cough and to soothe and heal the most sensitive bronchial membrane. Mothers should, for safety sake alone, always demand pr. Shoop's. It can with perfect freedom be given to even the youngest babes. Test it yourselfl and see. Sold by Palace Pharmacy.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

The tariff is far and away the prob lem of deepest interest to our citizens; the trust question is its siamess twin. Wise regulation of the former means solution of the latter; because the tariff begets the trusts and still nourishes them.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

Mary Garden says her new 'salome" costume is "a dream" Now, perhaps you understand the passage in "Romeo and Juliet that reads: 1T talk of dreams begot of nothing but vain fantasy, which is as thin of substance as the air.''
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

A clergyman writes; "Preventics, those little Candy Cold Cure Tablets are working wonders in my parish" Pre- ventics surely will cheek cold, or the Grippe, in a very few hours. And Pre- ventics are so safe and harmless. No Quinine, nothing harsh nor sickening. Fine for feverish. restless children. Box fo 48 at 25c. Sold by Palace Pharmacy.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

"why shouldn't I fix the price of coal?' asks President Baer, of the Reading road. Evidently still stdong of faith in his divine commission at the mines.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

1T told you so," says Frank Hitch cock. And he did; We have to admit it, in spite of the uncomfortable feeling the statement is calculated to arouse as a rule.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

Anna Gould has decided to get rid of de Sagan. Will the next gentleman step forward?' says the Birmingham News. Rather a compliment to do sa- gan, isn't it, to speak of the forthcom- ing party as the "next gentleman?"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

That Texas man who swore never to shave until MT. Bryan was elected president has just bethought himself that he never said hs wouldn't trim 'em, and is measurably happy. anyway.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

As we understand large section of the democratic press, 1t doesn't want MT Bryan to be the party standard bearer in 1812-not that it loves Bryan less, but that it loves pie more.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

We have no doubt, nevertheless, that Emperor Williams mental reservations would make particularly torrid news paper copy.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

''Now, then, let's all go to work again and make eatables cheaper and have prosperity" advises the Portland oregonian. Bully! Er-where shall we begin7
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

Now that MT. William Randolph Hearst has been received in intimate and close communion at the White House. we shall probably see some opin- ions of him hastily, and even strenuous ly, revised
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

Nevertheless, your "Uncle John D." probably consoles himself with the thought that he has kept them all pretty busy burning the midnight oil here of late.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

"The Prince de sagan is an improper person." says Count Boni de Castellane. "Ths violet is sweet but all too mod est noweT," remarked the rose one day.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

"Molasses is not whisky, ".says the Providence Journal. Maybe 1t isn't in Rhode Island, but 1t is quite apt to be in Georgia and Alabama, we imagine.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

If Albert T. Parrish had becn born a suffragetts or tariff reformer, the ar gument never would cease during his lifetime, anyway.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

THE CITIZENS BANK OF GLOBE DOES A GENERAL BANKING BUSI- NESS AND SOLICITS YOUR ACi COUNTS. F. SULLENBERGER, PRES.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

The noun "frazzle,'' with its accom- panying verb, ito frazzle,,' will now take it's place in the dictionary.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

Special sale genuine Oregon City Mills Wool Blankets at s2.50 s3 and s3.50. These sell regularly at $5 and s6. McNeil s Furniture store.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

Of all sad words Emperor Bill e'er heard the saddest arc these: twenty. three; mum's' the word!"
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

One county in Grand old Texas cast 424 votes for Taft and none for Bryan. How now, old Houston Post7
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

Even a war lord admits at times that discretion is the better part of valor, as has been philosophically observed.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

Green hats for greenbacks. That is logical, perhaps.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26
JAMES W. HoGUE, Vice President and Cashier.
J WATT H0GUE,
 President
HOUSES FOR RENT

 agents
  in city Globe around city keeps growing prices property growing Making s a making taking Estate better and it mighty your wn a city Globe level lot 5ox1oo alley; $500 balance $25 per month, 4ox1l2h, We balance  selling
 
 Home Investment Company JIM ROGUE, RENT HoGuE
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

FOR SALE-Private sale of piano, books and furniture-A fine Everett parlor grand piano, in oak, as good as new, superb tone, price moderate; also few fine pieces of furniture also some choice reference books on literature, history, fiction, etc, valu- able for club and private libraries. Call and examine at Ct. Jshn's rec tory.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

FOR SALE-Good saddle horse and saddle. Apply 36l Cedar street after 5 p. m.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

FOR SALE-Runabout buggy; cheap. Inquire Hargrave at Sultan Bros.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

FOR SALE-Gents' furnishing house doing good business. Address A. B.. C., Silver Belt,
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

FOR SALE--Few thoroughbred PlyIn- outh Rock cockercls from prize win ners, perfectly marked and from strain of fine breeders. For informa. tion write P. B. Walker, Box 62. Teviston, Ariz.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26

FOR sALE-Underwood typewriter No. 5, used only two months. Address Box ll23, Postofice.
Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-26
LOST AND FOUND.

POUNDING keys on chain. Owner
 can recover by paying for ad.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-11-13
Now Adulteratinq Bran?

The federal pure food inspectors are
,a1teT some Kansas millers whom
they claim are selling adulterated
bran, The following bulletin was is
sued Saturday by the chief chemist of
the agricultural experiment station;
Some millers who make corn meal
dispose of the corn bran, separated
in that process, by mixing it with
wheat bran. This practice is not
legitimate, and if followed the mix
ture must be designated as wheat
bran and corn bran" and be register
ed and labeled as described above.
Millers can adopt and maintain a
high standard for their bran, and
put out product in which they can
take pride, only by keeping out all
authorizations. These byprQducts of
questionable character can be dispos-
ed of without loss by making a mix
ed feed with which they may he in
corporated, which must of course be
registered with the director of the
experiment station annually and car
ry the proper label and guaranty. Pur
chasers will then know what they
are getting, and Kansas bran will be
Of uniformly high grade. ."
Attention may also be drawn to the
fact that the rulings above stated
are in harmony with the policy Of
the federal authorities in respect to
mill products entering interstate
commerce.
Consumers of bran and other con-
centrated feeding stuffs are invited
to bring to the attention of the
chemist of the experiment station
any evident disregard for the proyis-
ions of the feeding stuffs law"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-11-13
The Church Attire, They Sang.

The Church Attire, They Sang.
The congregation was seated in
St. Paul's Episcopal church In Kan
sas City, Kas., Sunday morning, the
vested choir was at the door ready
to enter and Miss Laura Taylor, the
organist, had Just begun to play whe
smell of smoke became noticeable.
The congregation thought the fumes
came from defective furnace.
But the Rev. L. G. Morony, rec
tor of the church, knew better. Leav-
ing the long line of vested choir
boys standing in their place he hur-
RED to the room under the pipe or
gan where an electric motor oper-
ates the instrument. Flames and
smoke met the minister when he
opened the door. Closing the door
he CROPPED about in the smoke until
he found the electric switch and
cut off the current. He then hurried
back to the choir and called aside
w. G. Holt, senior warden. When
Mr.. Holt came out, the Rev. Mr.. Mo.
rony whispered a few words to him.
Then aloud he said to the choir
boys; -
"The motor Is brokenand I'll have
to ask one of you to pump the organ.
So while the professional hymn wa
being sung, Mr.. Holt and janitor ex
tinguished the fire with buckets OF
water. g
81 was afraid to alarm anyone by
telling the cause ofthe trouble"
said ME Mpropy "I knew It Gould
not spread Faf after the electric cur
rent was shut Oh, hpt I vas aglit-
tie nervous until / saw Mr., Holt
come i'm and take his seat"
None in the congregation knew
that the church had been ON fire un-
til after the service.-Kansas City
Times.
Rev. Morony was formerly located
in this city.