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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-29
Comparison of Back Fields.

Idaho claims a fast back field, ard
the writer believes they have one of
the best in the country. Trick plays
and fast end runs should then be their
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-29
Why Utah Would Win.

There are two reasons why the writer
believes Utah would have won on a dry
field. One is it has a better smashing
backfield and a far stronger line. These
two elements Will win a game any time
barring a fluke. Some may disagree
on the line argument. but the fact re-
mains that Idaho broke through but
once and blocked a kick, while Utah ON
dozen different occasions snlothered
Small with the ball in his hands. and
both teams practically kicked the same
number of times. Utah did not try
Idaho's line over u dozen times on
bucks, but never once in these attempts
did an Idaho man break through and
stop the play. while on one Occa sion
Convili smashed through for ten-yard
gain.
On the other hand. because Idaho's
goal was not in danger and she could
afford to take chances on line smashes.
the play was frequently tried On not
single occasion was a substantial gain
made in this manner. while frequently
Utah broke through and stopped the
play back of the line This is concIu-
sive that Utah has a better line
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-29
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-29
The Cause Of FumbIing.

Idaho did less fumbling. but by tao
Ties that alone would have lost them
game under proper conditions. Instead
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thai sane thing OCCURRED when Lorna
DOOne2 enjoyed a brief popularity, Her
part ~ EsAer H. -Ihe Children Of the
Ghetto secmed to have been Writen With
some idea Of her limited size, and IN VARIOUS
other plays In which she has taken part,
The Price Of Peace," @You Never Can
Tell" 6c,. the same condition - having
a part written with a petite woman In mind
and then finding the woman has been the
experience.
Once Miss Taliaferro admits that she
came a crOppet. II whs when she was
billed TO play Nance Clden 10 THE Bishops
Carriage Nance was a tough girl out
and out, bred In the bone and out In the
flesh, and TO save her life the smalleet
star admitted that she could not look
tough enough. Her small, delicate features
get all puckered UP whsn she tTies TO show
how she worked 10 look tough and simply
couldn't,
"You can see for yourself abe says,
putting It up TO the interviewer, who Ia
forced 10 admit that certainly there never
was a less tough looking specimen billed
for such q part. u used to beg my friends
when they came 10 see IL TO wait until after
the first act, for / was tougher there than
Afterward. or was supposed 10 be. II
they didn't see me then | thought they
might be able to stand IL. Oh, but | was
bad! Bit not had in the way | should
have been 70 make a success; Just dramatic
school ofacting bad, you know
Miss Taliaferro has a gentle little vocabu.
larry which juRt suits her. When she talks
along and gets interested in her subject
such words as sweet, nice. dear. love and
amiable come az naturally TO her phrasinR
as strenuous, ~sutragette or solar pleXus
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10 those NJ moro heroic mould.
But q not deceived by this, for under
the placid exterior Of an unrufled counte-
nance and the harmony Of a kindly vocahu-
larry she has mighty thoughts and stern
purposes,
vt is perfectly absurd, isn't It, she COOS,
"'hat any one should think that all the suf-
fering and the tragedies and h~eartrsnding
experiences come 10 the large women, the
tail, statuesque kind
L believe We all get ours share OF the de-
velopment which comes with suffering, no
matter what VI physical stature may he.
Oftentirhes men and women are kinder and
more gentle and thoughtful for the little
woman, but fate isn't Fate makes no such
distinction, and 30 on the stage. which after
all depicts the workings OF circumstance,
destiny, what you will, It may happen that
avery small woman may carry q tragic part
through successfully If she is only sure OF
herself and has the simple, sincere way Of
looking al Her work.
The moment that she becomes self-con-
scious, believes that she il In any way handi-
capped nv her lack of inches or waist meas
IRE, that moment she fails to be convincing
andto get, TO use the stock expression, over
the footlights. Maude Adams 10 my mind
was Just as successful in TAiglon' as Bern
hardt was, but consider the difference in
their appearance.
"You naturally think Of Bernhardt as you
do Of Olga Nethersole, for example, as com
ing on the stage with great sweeping ges-
lures, throwing her arms out from the
shoulders in long expansive curves, bic,
tremendous in the expression Of herself.
II Maude Adams did that she would DO
absurd; the limited range Of her gestures,
the quiet stage manner, the delicate re-
straint. are fully as effective, aud her per-
sonal following is proof Of that"
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SMOKED PIPE FOR 100 YEARS,
Negro Woman Of Kansas Who Says That
She Is n Years Old.
From lhe konsas an Star.

At the foot Of lafayette avenue, Kansas
City, Kan. lives a negro woman who says she
Is I?S years old and thst she can prove il.
Mrs. Nancy Gordon is her name. She was
born near Alexandria. Va, about 1852. She
was the slave Of Matthias Boone, n wealthy
cotton planter Of that vicinity, who was an
officer in the Continental Army.
4 was sold the first time, Mrs. Gordon
said Yesterday, TO satisfy a Shcrins war
rant. My masters daughter Ellen was
married to a Young planter. William Gilliss.
and I was given 10 them as q dowry. MY new
master vas r spendthritt. That i why | was
sold at a sheriff = sale to John Gordon Of
Vicksburg, Miss. a cotton owe was put
10 work weaving cotton cloth. was married
soon after | went To Master Gordon = home.
We had nine children, but all except two are
dead"
Mrs. Gordon lived with the Gordon family
until after the civil war, Then she moved 10
a little truck patch In Warren county. Miss.
She, with her son, moved TO Kansas City.
Kan, fourteen years ago. She ia wrinkled
and rheumatic but still retains all her facul-
Ties. She il an ardent Methodist and ex-
pounds lts doctrines to all who will listen.
Mrs. Gordon while telling the story OF
her life drew from her apron pocket q clay
pipe, filled IL with tobacco, and lighting II
with a piece OF paper which she had touched
|. 10 a live coal in her fire said: We'll. boy,
I've told You enough. Go way and let mi
smoke. I've smoked a pipe for more than
hundred years, and cant stopit.
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Maude Adams is only one Of the contem-
porary actresses whose work the smallest
star speaks Of admiringly. Although she
has no intimate frienc.s IN the profession.
keeping her stage and domestic life now,
as she has always dode. far apart, she is a
mine OF information IN regard to methods
and manners To her all theatrical women
are brave, and men fair. Not all, either,
for she says frankly that she can't endure
big men.
They re so babyish, you know ' she says
from tire 81 perior height Of her 8 feet some
and her ninety-siX pounds. Absolutely
babyish. They've got TO be hattered. and
they throw away their money like geese,
and they have all sorts Of kittenish ideas.
/ can't endure small men, either, she con-
fesses, men with little bones in their wrists
and queer little stEutty ways Of walking,
and high silk hats 20 make people think
they're taller than they really are" =
. For no apparent reason al this point OF
the interview rs. Thompson begins tosppQk
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things. fairly revealing IN matted milk, and
imbibing stout when she is troubled with
insomnia
Il don't want to get fat" she AYERS, "but
certainly a few more pounds would not
hurt me-" The tiny bones Of hands, arms
and ankles seem absolutely 10 preclude
the possibility Of her ever succeeding in
ousting the fat lady Of Mr.. Huber's museum
from her we'll established position.
1T does seem hard, doesn't it," she asks,
when so many people really want TO get
thin that others are just as anxious to add
a few inches TO their stature and a few
pounds to their weight?'
The difficulties Of being the smallest
star are not 80 many, it is learned, as might
be fancied. The fact that one has TO take
her tiny frame into account in writing
plays is only a legend Of the press agent,
for even the popular Polly was not written
primarily with her in view.
During the ten years that Miss Taliaferro
was under contract Yith Liebler Bros. it
frequently happened That there was no play
suitable for her aud at such times she simply
waited and drew her salary. In contra
distinction 10 this, many a time a play
has been written in which il was unquestion-
ably necessary that the leading, second or
other important role should be played by a
small woman.
This happened, for instance, when 'The
Land Of Hearts Desire was used as a cur
tain raiser In the tour Of Mrs. lie Moyne.
Otis Skinner and Miss Eliston, who played
"On a Balcony in the principal cities a few
years ago. The ELF part in that fantasy
naturally suggested the little Taliaferro girl.
as she was popularity known, and she played
IN II successfully. Lately when she was
whiting at Mr.. Yeats's home with her
friend Lady Gregory Of National Irish
Theatre fame he expressed his pleasure al
her performance and her physical suita-
biity.
When 'Pippa Passes" was put on for some
special matinees Henry Miller selected her
for the part Of the little peasant gin, and
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THE SMALLEST STAR OR ALL
SCR WHtT1 IS MERE SIZEp ASKS
MABEL TALItFERRO.

PlAVI DOn't Have TO lie Written TO ut Her
Even n She weighs Only ID Pounds
Her stage Career Began &C 2ls7 a
TAX With POLY Of tue Circus"
Mabel Tsliaferro, who Is playing in
sPolly Of the Circus at the Liberty Theatre,
IL the smallest star on the stage. She looks
especially petite % she greets THB Sun
reporter a. the door Of her apartment, for
she is,holding an elephant in her arms.
II il not a real elephant, perhaps IL may
he we'll 10 stete, but one Of china, a recently
ACQUIRED mascot " her husband, Of Luna
Park fame, who has adopted the elephant
for bis crest.
The panels Of the library are Of elephant
hide, the piano seat Ia set on the same
pachydsrm's four feet, there is an enormous
elephsut heed on the we'll, and various
hits Of bric.a-brso are done in that special
--4dsi. Mrs. Frod Thompson, AZ she ia
known In private hfe, looks especially well
against ths background elephantine, and
N II had been selected es contrast 10 could
not fulfil ia mission more successfully,
Pollyi is only a Bit over five feet in height
and weighs at present ninety-siK pounds,
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which she says Ia very normal, Only once
In her life has she gone over the 100 pound
mark, snd then she tarried but a moment
just to show what she could do. t
As soon as people get well enough &C.
quainted with her, so she says, they hum
and haW and then out with some, question
as TO just What the secret of her tiny waist
and hips really is. One inquirer insisted
upon knowing, as girl to girl if the story
that she wore long iron braces was a fact,
and II so how they were fastened.
Meantime Mrs. Thompson goes on feed
ing, eating all sorts of sweets and starchy
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The boys are hard worked because they
ike the average American boy. They ali
60 TO the regular public schools, sit beside
their Caucasian fellow pupils, read, write,
spell and cipher in English, Then 10 sddi-
ton they attend their native Chinese school
and are kept busy until sP. NJ in ravelling
out their complicated language. For close
application 10 study the young Asiatics are
far ahead Of their American brothers.
The school is supported by contributions
from thr we'll 10 do merchants Of Chinatown.
About SIS a month is allowed the teacher,
a Chinese scholar from Hongkong.
At 4 P. NJ. the Chinese lads assemble in
their classroom with their kits, books and
writing materials. Each has hall a dozen
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them 10 read his list Of written characters
and sees that they have been correctly
written and that the character IL also under.
stood.
To write Chinese a boy is required TO
memorize 1900 signs. knowledge Of at
least 400 is necessary to read books under
standingly. To memorize 1000 characters
is a hard task; to master 1000 10 considered
drudgery, and to know the whole 1000 10
almost impossible TO any M except life
long students. The number Of characters
in uSe in Chinese 81 the present day 10 said
TO be about 1000, and there are 1000 or
$1,000 more obsolete words which are found
in the Chinese encyclopedias,
In Chinese the written signs do not
usually represent the sounds Of the words.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-03-29
HARDEST WORKERS ATSCHOOL
DOUBLE TASKS FOR CHINESE
BOYS IN THIS CITY.

They Go to the American Public schools
like other Lads and Afterward Tackle
the Difficulties Of Chinese at q school
Of Their ONn-SeSsion Begins AZ 4 p. VI.
The haiGrst worked scnooiboys in New
York are the American born Chinese lads
who attend the Chinese Reform School in
Mott street. The sight Of tn EN- at work
is also about as odd a scene as you will
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find in any New York school.
This Chinese school is on the fourth floor
Of one Of the largest buildings in Chinatown.
The pupils are the small but aristOcratio get
Of children belonging TO the families Of the
leading Chinese residents. The latter are
almost all Of them members Of the Reform
school for instruction In their own language
TO prevent them from losing touch with
Chinese affairs.
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or more writing brushes foot long and ink
pads. In their books the boys trace and
writs with their broad ink brushes the Chi.
nese characters and signs. Some are expert
and dash OF the ideographs with remark
able ease and speed,
During a recess lasting from $50 10 $50 the
boys living pear by 90 10 their homes for
supper, while those living az q distance eat
In the Chinese restaurant below. Starting
again at $50 their teaohG requires eaoh Of
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Furthermore. the pronunciation differs IN
different parts OF China. A Chinese read
ing aloud q public notice or proclamation
can hardly be understood by his hearers n
they do not see the accompanying ohArao-
ten. II must be read by the eye 70 be sure
o. the meaning. To acquire q good work
ing knowledge OF Chinese requires . study
nature Of the tasks Of the Chinese School.
boys may be judged.
Evening star., 1908-12-05

greater part of their time voyaging up
and down and over and across the seas in
steamers and sailing vessels. Many OF
these are perennial Pacific voyagers.
One of the best known of all the con-
tinuous performance voyagers of the Pa
cific was a DR.. Banterman, who died in
Yokohama a few years ago after nineteen
years of unbroken riding all Of the
steamers of the Pacific merchant fleet. II
you want to see any officer of any of the
Pacific liners touch his cap and look
thoughtful when you board one Of those
steamers, all you've got to do is to men
tion the name of DR.. Banterman.
Dr.. Banterman was from Arkansas, OF
all the states in the Union. Perhaps that
was the answer. The waters In and about
Arkansas are not very good to look at.
They're mostly turbid, roily and weird
looking Imaginative folks born and
reared in states like Arkansas often con-
ceive a hankering for the sea long before
they've ever clappd an eye on salt water.
DIR. Banterman, who was born and reared
in Arkansas, was one of these. He often
told at messroom jinks how he had de-
clared unto himself when a mere boy
down in Arkansas that if ever things
came his way he sure meant to see a lot
OF the sea.
Things didn't break his way till he
Evening star., 1908-12-05

"'All right said the winner then. Now
here's a get-it-back chance. There arc
eight ladies here and there'll be some
piano music presently. This is my first
visit in the music room, and yours. too.
l believe. So l don't know which of the
ladies plays, and neither do you. I'll
lay you 8 to 1 that you can't pick out
the lady who'll first get TO the piano
stool and hand us a few chords"
Il told him to hunch the price 10 about
l. to ] and I'd be there Then / picked
out a pretty girl who was talking ami
matedly about music and who looked as il
she could pick up a piano and just run
away with it when it came to flirting with
the ivories.
I'D hardly bet my twenty bucks before
a fat. middle-aged woman, at the far
end of the group, waddled over to the
piano stool and did stunts on the keys
that made me lonesome for home it was
such glorious stuff. l lose again. The
girl / had bet on sang some a while later.
but she had to get the fat woman In
play her accompa niments. for she herself
couldn't play a note. Fine for me. I
sure was a great jonahdoo on that boat.
Great games, these long steamer rides
with the gang. But not for me any more
l didn't feel a bit envious when | read
about what ripping cut-uppy time those
automobile ducks had on their chartered
steamer on the way to and from Sa-
Vannah,'
Evening star., 1908-12-05

in more wys than one. He insisted. IN
the first place, on paying the top price
for the best accommodations on all or
the steamers from first to last, though
many Of the steamship agents had IN
timated to him that they'd be willing 10
give him cut-rate on his lifetime busl-
ness.
Secondly, he practiced his profession
Of medicine on the steamers without pay,
and as he was an experienced medical
man he was often a mighty handy per-
son to have about when unusual things
happened For example, Dr. Banterman
was on board that hard tucker, the Bel
gic, when Asiatic cholera broke out
among the 1000 Chinese coolies the
steamer was carrying to the Hawaiian
sugar plantations, and the young fellow
who was acting as the ships surgeon
was stampeded from the start. DR.. Ban
terman had run into a lot of cholera In
his sea rambling and he know what to
do. He abated the panic. kept the cpl
demic tween decks, and fixed up things
generally, so that none of the cabin pas
sengers was infected with the plague.
He was on board that other hoodoo
of the Pacific, the Rio de Janeiro. when
that steamer ramming into vicious ty-
phoon in the Yellow sea. fourteen of the
hands of the engineers gang suffered
broken legs or arms or other injuries.
and he lent a hand toward fixing all of
Evening star., 1908-12-05
7SS

him before the end of the cruise. He was
always riding tho kiddies to Banbury
Cross and playing I-spy with them all over
the ship. He could do things for seasick
grown-ups that no regular doctors of the
steamers could do. He could beat any
man fore or aft dancing with the girls
when they had their little cabin parties.
and at the stag affairs he could do a most
conyulsing sailors hornpipe. He could
mix strange but glorious drinks. He was
the inventor OF that noble liquid OLA pod
rida, the Shanghai Surcease of Sorrow,
as he called it-that would cause sordid
and phlegmatic men to toss their heads
back, after imbibing one or two of them.
listen to the brides for who'e. and then
throw all their money into the sea be-
cause they hated money.
Finally, he was a splendid player on an
ancient guitar. Anybody who ever heard
DR.. Banterman-tilted back in his chair,
with his fine white head resting against a
bulkhead-singing Kanaka love ditty to
the appealing music of his guitar accom-
paniment is not likely ever to forget it.
The fine old chap made many friends
among the Japanese. and when he went TO
the hospital in Yokohama few years ago
he did not lack the solicitous care and at
tention of his Japanese friends up to the
hour of his death. He left considerable
part of his fortune 10 various seamenS
beneY YolenceS.
Evening star., 1908-12-05

isn't any slow-poke himself, II went
ashore. dug up my hotel and went to bed
for seventy-two hours. l needed the slum-
ber
Leaving aside how those steamer-rid-
ing racing people never went to bed dur
ing the whole trip. most of them, the bet
ting games that they kept a-going from
pier TO pier New York to New Orleans,
initiated against my getting any sleep.
| knew a lot of the gang. BUT in the bet
ting business I was Patsie No. 1 from end
10 end. | got in bad on the first book that
was made before the steamer left the
New York pier. Twas a crafty chalker
that made that book. He wrote the names
of seventeen of the bunch, including my
self on his pad and then paid prices on
our being seasick. He cleaned up big.
He knew something about the seaslck
business that the others didn't. The small,
weak unhealthy, shriveled looking chaps
in the party he held at low prices. He
gave the big odds against the large, rug
ged husky looking chaps. because he
knew that the hearty, healthy fellows are
always the first to go down with seasick-
ness Most of us bit on the long odds
laid against the fellows who looked as II
nothing could make them seasick except
a quart or two of prussic acid. They
were all blasting the eyes OF the man VINO
suggested the steamer trip before the boat
headed down the Jersey coast, while the
Evening star., 1908-12-05
,aint swabber spat refectively at

'.The paint swabber spat refectively at
the sea.
4" This is me foist run wit EN- he re-
Piled in plain Boweryesy, an tn last. If
l know meself Tell wit this sludgln
along in two fathom o. salt water. I'm a
deep-sea guy, an tn windJammers fr
mine after this
"'Where dye hail from, pal?' my man
asked the sailor.
.Th' little OF town up tn beat, Were
youse fellies comes from. replied the
swabber and that was ay-bout all. L
settled again. but I've got a sneaking sort
of an idea that that too, was kind of
frame and that the man l made the bet
with had probably got stung on it him
self before 1 drilled along. and so he got
hunk on the game with me.
We'll. l got to be kind of a joke on
that niX-win thing, and one night when
we were playing poker and about to
knock off for half an hour for breath of
air. one of the chaps in the game said
to me:
How about the ladies sitting around
in the music room-odd or even? Take
whichever you like for twenty bones You
might as we'll gimme gimme now-you
can't cop, whichever you take.
THAT cockSure way of his riled me,
and | made it odd for the twenty bucks.
We Strolled into the music room, and
there were just eight ladies sitting around
the piano. Stung some more.