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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-01-09

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"The Vanderbilt Cup" Sunday

The offering at the Rhode next Sum
day will be "The Vanderbilt Cup"
the much talked of automobile must
cal comedy, which ran for eight
months at the Broadway theatre, New
York, and for three months in Chi
cago at the Colonial. 1t is said to be
put on in all its entirety, including
Barney Oldfe1d's famous racing cars,
which come on for a hotly contested
race. Many catchy songs and novel
dancessare promised. Seats now on
sale
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-01-09
BENEFIT DANCE

Don't forget that Co. A. Yeoman of
America drill team will guarantee you
good time if you attend their benefit
dance at Castle Hall Thursday even
ing, Jan. 9. Admission, Is cents 4
person. Good music. 10
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7 OUR
7 COUNTRY
4 CORRESPONDENCE.
sOMERs

On Saturday evening Somers Camp
M. w. A. 828 held their installation
of the new officers and rendered a
free oyster supper to the members
and their families. A large company
gathered and enjoyed very pleasant
evening.
Edward Leet, of Milwaukee, visited
his mother over New Years.
Harold Balm, of Racine, visited in
this burg during the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs James E. Spencer
spent New Years day with Mr.. and
Mrs. L. L. Owen at Burlington.
Mr.. and Mrs. August Bohm returned
home Friday from visit with friends
at Green Bay and other northern
points.
Miss Gladys Gould, who has been
i'll with tonsilitis, is convalesing.
Fred Donsing spent Monday in
Milwaukee.
Miss Belle Booth has returned to
Chicago to resume her duties in the
public schools after spending the
holiday vacation with Misses Harriet
and Anne Spence.
Mrs. Charles Henning, of Racine,
visited her mother, Mrs. Leet, over
Sunday.
Jacob p. schaeffer was in Kenosha
Monday.
A family gathering was held at the
home of Capt. an6 Mrs. Breckenfelt
New Years day.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Miller and
children spent New Years day with
friends in Racine.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Q. Hitler, of Ra.
cine, spent New Years with Mrs.
Hitler.
George Cent? spent Monday in Ke.
nosha.
Miss Hattie Donsing visited with
friends in Milwaukee during the past
week.
Miss Belle Booth visited with Mrs.
Charles Henning in Racine Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Ozanne spent
Sunday with friends in Racine.
The little son of Albert J. Bishop
has been very i'll with bronchitis. AT
this writing he is improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Bishop have
returned to Milwaukee after the hol-
iday vacation.
Mr., and Mrs. James A. Spence went
to Milwaukee Saturday where Mr..
Spence, who is in poor health, will
take treatment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Longmore, Of
Kenosha, spent New Years vita
friends in the village.
Mrs. James H. Bullamore who has
been very i'll with la grippe is con-
valesing.
Mr.. aud Mrs. E. D. Briggs and son
Delbert Briggs, of Milwaukee, we're
guests at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. L.
]. Strong, over Sunday.
Arthur Bohm's horse ran away one
evening last week completely wreck
ing the buggy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Lauer, of Ke-
nosha, spent New Years day with
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Bishop.
The schools in the neighborhood re-
opened Monday morning after the
holiday vacation.
On Saturday evening of this week,
Jan. II, Mr.. Rex, popular reader
and impersonator, of Chicago, will
give an entertainment at the Presby-
terrain church. Everybody is cordially
invited.
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ENTERTAIN GRAND OFFICERS

Kenosha Chapter of Fraternal Brother
hood Host to Grand Vice President
The Kenosha Chapter of the Fra
ternal Brotherhood held a special
meeting at the Knights of Columbus
hall on Saturday evening at which
Mrs. E. r. Neidig, of Los Angeles,
CAL, was the guest of honor. Mem
bers of the order from Racine and
Milwaukee were also IN attendance a.
the meeting. After the work had
been carried out Mrs. Neidig made al
address in which she told of the WORK
that is being done by the order in diff
ferent parts of the country. After
the address and speeches by Others
present refreshments were served.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-01-09
A TEACHERS MEETING
Will BE Held at Silverlake Saturday.
January 8. 1908

Will Be Held at Silverlake Saturday.
January 8. 1908
PROGRAM
civil Government-Legis1ative De-
acknowledgement Bohm.
Geography Middle Form - Lille
Darby.
Physiology-Digestion and Assimil-
alton OF Food-Laura Lotus.
Agriculture-Plant Growth-A1ice
Button.
Opening Exercises-Grace Barn
stable.
Busy Work-Character and Value
Olive Hope.
Work begins promptly at 9 O'Clock
a. m. Let Us have full attendance.
Visitors are cordially invited to at
tend. ]. J. KERwIN,
Co. Supt. Schools.
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Lisetta B. Boettcher is visiting
friends and relatives in Darien, Wis.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-01-09

S. S. Simmons, who has been i'll at
his home on Prairie avenue for the
past two weeks, is improving.
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THE WOMAN INTERPRETED.
She Wasn't Going to Let Any Flirtatior
Go On I'm Her Presence.

Il saw an odd case Of interference with
other folks business the other day in the
subway said young man. "A very
pretty and young girl got in local train
on the upper West Side. A couple OF
stations further on, in came young man
who sat where he could see the girl.
"She was good to look at. too. He
caught her eye and apparently held her
attention. Maybe II wasn't just the
right thing for her to do, but after time
abe moved her head and obviously tried
to smother a smile. ..-.
"The young chap wasn't bit backward
and before the train got much further
along he was sitting In the cross seat
with the girl and chatting.
There was a middle aged woman in
the car who apparently had watched the
whole affair just as had. The car was
practically empty and the others in it
were reading newspapers and hadn't
paid attention 70 what was going on,
First thing knew the woman changed
from one Of the lengthwise seats and took
her place in the very cross seat where the
two we're sitting. They didn't notice her
until she leaned over and said something
to the girl I could just imagine from her
looks that she was asking: DO you know
this young manT
-The girl flushed up, looked three times
as pretty and the woman kept on talking
and looking stern.
"The upshot Of it was that the young
fellow got out at the next station, appsr-
emily to hide his embarrassment, and the
girl stayed where she was.
After she'd broken up the little
and back to where she was before. II
made me a little sore and felt like asking
her what business it was Of hers. But
then again 1t wasn't my business either,
80 didn't"
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Proctor. H. T. Warren. A. NJ. Hart~.l,
w. D. Manice. g. v. Hickox. D. ]. CIV
H. D. Gibbons. M. c. Hannah, P. Robsrts
L. NJ. Wooley. 7. Riggs. +. B. Rives, A, a
Tener. G. E. Dimock, Jr.. and L. Have
meyer.
Franklin johnson makes a very decidaA
distinction between the so-oalled amateur
productions and college dramatics, for
the latter have really serious end In viev
The Yale dramatic organization from The
beginning determined TO revive and pro.
duce good plays that had not received
their due need at the hands of profes-
sionals.
He refers to some of the lauehab,s AZ.
periences incidentally of this line Of
work. The difficulty of keeping the love
scenes to a level which will not provoke
the laughter of the undergrads Is task In
itself. The slightest exaggeration will
spoil the most tender scene when the audi.
enoe knows that the blonde beauty IN
Powered robe and Louis Quipss slippers
made record In the gym for high jump
ing. In order to preserve the values all
the love scenes have to be ruthlessly cut
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granted permission for New York per-
formance. which was given at the Car
negie Lyoeum. The New York perform
ances have since then Q906) become
fixed institution and have afforded greater
opportunity for financial gain and drs-
matio and social prestige.
In 1908 the most sumptuous production
ever attempted marked the return OF the
historical drama. Henry w. was given,
Over eighty students formed the armies,
and the success was so great that the
underlying ambition of the students to
have a theatre Of their own was openly
broached. 1t was decided that anything
on the credit side Of the account should
thereafter be devoted TO that purpose,
and at present the sum has reached gen.
efous proportions. it is proudly an
nounced by the treasurer.
The plays that followed Henry w.
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Parry. He's a master of that, all right
Nothing escapes him. just to show you.
Once lot of us we're acting as supes
and we had some horses hoofs given us
to pound on the floor to represent the driv-
ing away of the Inspector in his droshy
in Gogol's great play 'Rezivor.'
I'VE couldn't suit Short at all and finally
he put it up to us in such a way that he
simply inspired us You don't do it. as
| if you felt like horses, he said, and you'll
never be great actors unless you can feel
your part-feel like horses in a word
We did after that and the pounding of
those Russian horse hoofs made memora-
BILE hit
That's Short all over. Just keys
you up"
He's great teacher, admits the silent
Hopkins. He goes to Bryn Mawr.'
You learn that their coach's tuition has
resulted in placing many of the Yale
players in the dramatic profession. dis
proving the belief that success on the
amateur stage is poor equipment for the
vocation of actor. Immediately after
the New York performance last year
Thomas Achelis got an offer of leading
part in The Thief" from Daniel Frohman.
Franklin johnson has preferred the rosy
path of the stage managers role. Last
year Willard B. Howe, whoswas president
Of the association in 1901, played in
-Brewster's Millions" Grant Mitchell
1905, is to play this winter with Maxine
Elliott in her new play and theatre. and
everybody at Yale knows that IL Erastus
Corning. who is now practising medicine
in Albany. would practise the legitimate
profession instead there would be no more
idle question as to why we have no great
actors now that Booth. McCull ough and
Mansfield have passed away.
In the eight years Of its existence the
Yale University Dramatic Association has
preserved a very high standard Of dra-
matte art. 1t was founded by Harry d.
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nerves after while as it did on her guests
That green was too insstent, but it was
not possible in the middle Of the season
TO do the room all over.
1t was then that the decorator placed
four pots of growing ivy about the walls.
Each was trained on heart shaped screen
turned upside down. In the corners
were four dwarf bay trees
The effect had just the tone of subdued
green that the hostess and the decorator
had previously struggled for in vain.
The paler green formed beautiful back
ground for the trees and the ivy drew
out the pale green of the walls
Four pointed arbor vitae trees, trimmed
so that their triangular shaped sides
were fiat. removed the garishness from
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what qualifications are necessary to make
man eligible for the part of II feminine
star doesn't hesitateeblt says
2 .sJust feast your eyes on Hartwell for
a little while and you won't have to ask
again
A. NJ Hartwell of course blushes furi-
o,sly, but gets hold Of himself quick as
q. wink and takes a highly philanthropic
and educational stand in the matter.
Jt's all very well to guy" he says
with "a reproachful glance Parryward.
sbnt after few dress rehearsals. when
a fellows had to wear girls shoes, he
never sees one of the other sex get on a
street car that he don't jump up and offer
his seat. believe if men had to go about
In w6thens togs once in a while there
wouldn't be any more talk about the
growing lack of chivalry in this direc-
hon Men haven't understood, that's
all. the awful problem the girls are up
aKainst, My. but the corsets hurt!"
i1tt Charles Roberts Hopkins, a graduate.
who is now playing with John Drew in
AJack Straw tells OF one rehearsal when
be was a member of the association at
which he helped to give the leading lady
spirits OF ammonia 10 quiet her. In spite
Of all they could do she would go around
the dressing room holding her ribs and
shfiehinS! Il can't wear 'em! Take 'em
psi. shall die! know I'll die!'
En-" Of course referred to the cor
ests In fact, once started on this highly
Interesting topic it is pretty hard to drag
the students away TO talk Of more serious
''issues You'd think II your eyes were
blinded, il was a woman's club.
Tell your corset story. Hartwell,
Sidney Rogers Cook. who acts as intro
ducer of Yale talent to the public. sug-
gests at this point
: Hart twell bushes again and throws a
rlapoe toward his audience that would
do credit TO Annie Russell when she
glances galleryward and the old ladies
In the orchestra seats in Henrietta gowns
and tiny linen collars, hand embroidered,
wbisre.' "How refined she Isl"
You see it was this way" he says,
sd. been to a rehearsal Of the Dramatic
Association and was hurrying home with
my tro pairs of corsets that I'd taken to
zee uhich I could wear with the least
difhculty was hugging one Of them 80
tight under my coat that didn't notice
tihie other had fallen out of my pocket.
right In front of three seniors and the
dining hall
sS -Of course you couldn't realize the
feeling a freshman would have under
such circumstances when one Of the
TROY lis at him. Hi. there you've dropped
your oorsets! Come back and pick 'em
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LANDSCAPE ART INDOORS
NOW 4 FART OF
sf.4- BECORiTIIE SCHEMES.

Box, Bay. ArbOr Vita and Ivy Used TO
Tone Down or Emphasize the Color
Plan OF Rooms and HaIis-Day OF
Landscape gardening in city houses is
no loaRer confined 10 the facade. stoop
and vestibule 1t has entered the houses
md modern decorators rely on the as
sistsnee of growing green plants as well
as on the colors on the walls or in the
shsRgings The clusters OF living leaves
are often the dots on the is in the deco
rative scheme of the room.
That they are different from the green
Hery formerly used is apparent at glance.
The day of the sheltering palm Is past
and the rubber plant, in spite of its i'm
munity from steam heat and lack of air,
sic no longer seen even in that part of
Flatbush that is in the know.
Plants for decoration indoors have fol-
! lowed the fashion Of those formerly used
only In the open Closely cropped box,
bay and arbor vita are the varieties that
appeal TO the taste Of the up TO date
decorator He no longer considers the
Possibility Of placing graceful young
msntel even If crimson tapestry forms
background of complementary color
for the plant. His bosom would swell
with pride, however. were he TO place
adwsrf laurel in "a way that gave the neces-
sary accent to the picture
In a certain great hallway in certain
great house on the Hudson River the
central points are marked by four stand
ard bay trees that catch the eye and give
the aspect character it would other
wise never possess This hallway which
serves as n species Of gigantic living room,
is not restful in line or color
1t contains many pieces of furniture
and they are Of varied colors and sizes
This lack Of dominating scheme is less
noticeable because the four round balls
of dark green bay form decorative points
that set tsa eye Mt rest, at least more at
rest than it. would otherwise be.
This is the purpose Of tho dwarf bay
trees. the box and the srbor vita that
come now in Triangular, oval and natural
shapes. In yellow room with no darn
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Wescott, 'OI. The students made their
first bow to the public in 1900, with Chau-
GERS -Pardoner's Tale" as curtain raiser.
which was followed by the miracle play
"The Second Shepherds Play" presented
originally by the trade guilds Of old Eng
land and which had been produced only
once before in 500 years.
The next time came THE Fair Maid
of the West" by Thomas Haywood, which
marks the second era of the drama, the
So called Elizabethan. The motley stage,
with it's overflow into the pit. Of the six
teenth century was faithfully reproduced.
and students in Elizabethan dress took
the part Of spectators.
Following this. in 1902, came THE
Critic" by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. and
High Life Below Stairs" by the Rev.
James Townley. master OF the Merchants
Tailors School. London. 1t was first
produced in 1859 and was for long time
attributed to David Garrick.
Naturally club which started to repre-
sent the standard history Of the stage
could not 20 far without saluting Oliver
Goldsmith. and 4The Good Natured Man
was next produced. This cast was picked
with more than usual care. as it required
but twelve leading parts and there were
hundreds OF. applicants In consequence
1t evoked applause and appreciation
enough to have turned older il not wiser
heads The sturdy Yale figures were half
backed into gorgeous costumes. the
scenery was elaborate and convincing,
and a brilliant social patronage began to
make itself felt
The comedy OF Goldsmith's was sue
ceeded by one representa- tive of later
modes and manners. New Men and Old
Acres,' produced first at the old Hay
market in London. 1869.
The historical cycle lacking one play
to make it complete. aThe Magistrate" Of
Arthur Pinero was selected. Financial
straits having to be crossed. the faculty
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embraces toned down and effervescing
sentiment blotted out completely. and
even so the sweethearts always walk with
trepidation. .s.
The zeal and ambition of the students
are shown by the fact that in many Of
the public performances there has been
no prompter. One Of the boys explained
his absence tersely by remarking. You
can't have stage fright and forget your
lines when you have no prompter.'
The students who have taken page parts
and have overcome the handicap OF
punches Of muscles in the calves OF their
legs. who have learned not to pick up their
skirts in front when they run and have
remembered not to wear high heeled
slippers over dark brown socks. who can
keep the barytone notes in allegiance.
sit without crossing the knees, and meet
embarrassing moments without, an at
tempt to cover their handsin their pockets
deserve general mention rather than
special.
The mob work is always done so well
that it can hardly be called. amateur.
and is easily led up to by campus rushes.
In fact this special phase was once done
50 well during the performance of Mans
fields Henry w. where the Yale boys
acted as supes that Mansfield had to get
out Of the way hastily to avoid being
knocked down by the crowd.
So it is pretty safe to accept the Yale
Dramatic Associations promise that the
New York performances on January
and S. afternoon and evening, at the Wal
dorf-Astoria. are bound to be a success.
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plants for the sake OF added color was
the work OF a decorator who finished a
hallway in white and black and a small
addition OF lavender. 1t was not until
he had put small arbor vita trees in the
hall that the color scheme had it's just
value. Only the fact that the hall was
food Of sunlight all day excused such
funereal color scheme. which was
relieved by the growing green.
"The demand for the green's in various
geometrical forms ovals and similar
designs" one OF the florists on Fifth
avenue told SUN reporter. yesterday.
scame from their SUCCESS IN beautifying
the fronts Of houses. Decorators saw
how well they looked there and determined
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to try the aesthetic effect OF transfer to
the interior Of the houses.
"The time was especially we'll suited
to the introduction OF the new style. as
palms and rubber plants had gone
wholly out of fashion
THE dwarf plants had already besn
grown for the window decorations, which
are this year composed almost entirely
of box. The regular design is a row
OF low plants with two at each end rising
somewhat higher than the others. This
is varied in some cases by having two
box plants in the middle Of the row as
we'll as at the ends.
These same plants have been adopted
now for indoor use and in addition to
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Waterbury. The New York presenta-
tions take place on January 1 and and
come the home dates.
The double bill The Critics" and
sThe Fire Eaters" will introduce an inn
posing array Of talent and experience.
That the students speak of their un-
doubted success is due, they explain,
not to egotism hut to the knowledge
of past patronage and approval. added
to the fact that Frank Lea Short, who
has coached them for several years and
is most chary of praise has expressed
himself as delighted with the finish Of
their work
But it is really the mention of Mr.. Shorts
name, not the itinerary. that thrusts the
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the box we have bay and arbor vita as
we'll as the ivy standards. We make
them in the design required by the deco
rator. In very few cases are fancy pots
used. We usually paint ordinary pots
the required color and do the same with
the basins in which they sit.
"While these new greens are bardief
than palms or ferns. they are not equal
to the rubber plants Of other days. Some
times we rent tho plants. guaranteeing TO
keep them in good condition. In any
case we keep them under our care that
they may not lose their freshness.-
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tones beyond the furniture coverings and
the rugs on the floor stand two massive
pots painted in the prevailing tone Of the
room and containing ivy trained to grow
in triangular shape, The dark green
leaves fanking the open fireplace. which
is never used but contains logs that no.
body thinks OF lighting, give point and
contrast to the light colored room.
A hallway in house done throughout
in a shade OF rather cold gray welcomes
the traveller that enters by the invitation
TO rest under bower of ivy growing from
pot over a circular frame OF lattice
work, and two trim box plants stand at the
ends OF this indoor garden seat For the
Same color scheme upstairs the gray walls
and the white woodwork are relieved by
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green arbor vit'e plants that stand in pots
on the landings
A Pompeiian room Of too varied colors
was found to need some sort OF toning
down. The decorator had so few hang
ings in the room that they could not be
relied on to do that for the overcolored
apartment. Four standards of bay how
ever. accomplished the purpose and the
green fitted in we'll with the red and
yellow color scheme.
A dining room on Madison avenue
was painted through the combined freak
ishnees Of the woman who owned the
house and the decorator in pale shade
Of green finished with gold. Proud
as she was Of it In the beginning the green
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upl had to go. but held my hand in
front of my face, made q wild grab. seized
che awful things and fed.
Il never dared look one of those men in
he faOe l didn't have the nerve to ex =
plain how happened to have the corsets
and I don't suppose they ever knew,
Probably they thought wore oorsets
all the time, A senior will think anything
Of freshman.
But when | went to dress rehearsal
again put mine on in the place girls do.
didn't carry 'em in my pocket.
Every minute IL gets harder to drag
these leading members of the University
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a dining room done in Delft blue. white
and yellow. As the ceilings had painted
rafters of the same color il was found
that toning down was necessary, The
foliage did it.
Railways large enough to have room
for the tubs are now deliberately painted
in oolors that are suitable for the box
or bay. One example OF this kind of
decoration Ia a hall panelled in white and
oarpeted In red. The wooden mantel
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Pinero's "The Amazons. Wiide's "Ths
Importance of Being Earnest. Gogol's
"Rezivor," have added materially to the
dramatic prestige Of the association and
to the bank account.
The officers at present are NJ. o. Parry,
president; r. C. NJ. Peirce president;
T. l.. Riggs. secretary; r. Mallory. DR.,
manager, and c. p. Franchot, assistant
manager.
The students in the casts to be presented
here include as leading actors and act
resses NJ. o. Parry. H. Obernauer. r. M,
Byrnes. A. c. Kirk, T. L. Bates. E. o..