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powers in the affairs of the little. made
bulgaria principality, subject to the
control of Turkey.
But Turkey has never dared press its
rights very heavily.
The able and patriotic ruler of Bull
saria. Prince Ferdinand, made valua-
bic friendships, whose existence served
ever TO keep the sultan reasonably con-
siderate. and save only that he was called
prince" instead of king" Ferdinand
occupied the position of a fully empow-
cred monarch.
He yearned for more than that and
steadily pushed his powers. until he ac-
quired the right to have a diplomatic
representative to every power.
Turkey was naturally included. and at
Constantinople Bulgaria made it ever
point TO maintain one of its ablest
statesmen.
Turkey perhaps thinking it wise to en-
courage the friendship of Bulgaria. well
coined this representative. and until re-
Gently he was guest at all official
dinners. together with other members OF
the diplomatic corps, in Turkey.
On the 18th of last September the
sultan celebrated his birthday. great
dinner to the diplomatic corps was the
climax of the celebration.
The representative of Bulgaria waited
for his invitation and he continued to
wait In fact it never did arrive. nor
was any excuse given why he should not
have been hidden.
Just as soon as NJ. Gueshoff became
convinced that the slight had been inten-
munication with his government. and
Bulgaria promptly asked an explanation
OF the incident
The reply is the brand that has started
the entire flame.
Turkey replied that as Bulgaria was a
vassai state of Turkey 1t could not
naturally expect to have it's representa-
tive present at gathering of the ma
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Hui! DRIYEL! MOON5111NE! ROr!'

why, he'll pick it right up with his whis-
tied obligato and run away with it, and
there isn't single. solitary thing on
earth that you can do about it; and 1t S
pretty mean and miserable and carking
and cankering situation, that's all we've
got to say about it.
Then there's the Titterer. You've sat
somewhere near her at the theater. II
you haven't. then you will. later. This is
said not with any idea of indulging in
grisly prophecy. but the theater Titterer
is somebody that everybody has to en-
dure sooner or later. if anybody hasnt
already: and until you have endured her
off you haven't already you'll never
know the meaning of sure-enoush Prone
thean wrath.
We say her advisedly. because the
Titterer at the theater always is of that
Sex. She has sense of humor, as 1t
were. that is Acknowledgement. 1t
wouldn't be right to come smack-dab out
and say that she would litter or maybe
already has Uttered at her grandmother s
funeral: but that's the sort of an impress
sion she conveys anyhow.
Enter the Titterer.
At the theater the Titterer waits until
something dreadfully solemn and i'm
pressive and slow-musicky and sad and
out-in-the-snow-like and irremediable and
gloomy takes place on the stage. Then
she filters.
The hapless maiden, poor gyurl, is be-
ing turned from her fathers door lin or
ful-looking stage weather, too because
she tells him that she still believes in ner
lovers in-no-cence of cribbing The pa
pers," and the orchestra, with muted
strings and things. tries TREMENDOUSLY and
tremolishly to make the most of the af-
fecting situation. and everybody in the
;e nlx-
and wondering what the gyurt going TO
do for a place to sleep with that wild
wind blowing on the moors, little one
when the Titterer filters.
Jock Dalton. the happy-go-lucky young
hero has just been sentenced to ninety
nine years at Dartmoor on his unjust con-
viction of having tossed his wealthy old
uncle over a cliff (and We know that
Jock is innocent. for didn't We see the
yillyun do the uncle-tossing with our own
eyes?) and everybody feels something ter
rible and onery about it, for all hands
know what frightful prison Dartmoor
is. and it's shame TO think of Jock S
nice wavy hair being clipped close to
his head by prison barber, and he s
bidding his old friends at the village inn
long good-by while even the spick-and-
spanly uniformed prison keeper is moved
to tears. just as natural as anything, and.
caloused we are in these things, We
feel kind o supy and lumpy in the
vicinage of the collarband. and-anh
then the Titterer. sitting right behind us,
filters; filters right out loud. just like
that: filters shamelessly brazenly, glee-
fully, ghoulfuily, scandalously.
Or. the repentent adventures. or viii
lyuness. who looks to be all of twenty
two years of age, is weeping convulsively.
in the last act, over her misspent career.
and blaming it all on the scapegrace Lord
Montmorency de Gink there being no
body else handy to blame it all or any
part of ii UPON. and she is just saying:
My Gawd! if the wairld could but know
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ECACSE one man failed to get
an invitation TO dinner Europe
is trembling on the brink of
war whose consequences none
can foretell.
The treaty of Berlin. which has been
the instrument Of Europe's peace for
three decades. is now openly defied Bull
garia has declared its complete indie
pendence of Turkey. and will fight To es-
tablish II. Austria has announced its in
tentton TO take two valuable provinces
that have heretofore been attached TO the
throne of the sultan.
Half a dozen powers are grumbling at
the prospect that their rights will not be
Safeguarded in tn. struggle that impends.
and IN case the powers do not reach an
agreement. the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Turkey
and the possible absorption OF other minor
kingdoms are logical expectation.
And all this because one man failed
10 get an invitation TO dinner.
Other wars have been kindled by sight
prete1ts. II took only the famous Ems
telegram 10 send Germany and France
at each others throats. Napoleon fought
many a nation merely from the desire TO
feed his vanity. But the present spark
in the finder box of Europe the dinner
invitation that Nj. Gueshoff did not get
will probably go down in history as the
slightest factor that ever caused a his
making confagration.
There is no possible excuse for at
tributing the present difficulty to other
causes. for the record of state papers
ascribes responsibility 10 the dinner in
cident alone. The official deliverance on
part of the foreign minister of Bulgaria
specifically names the dinner incident as
being the grievance of his people.
II will be recalled that according TO
the treaty of Berlin. that remarkable
paper designed to preserve the delicate
balance of Europe and prevent constant
pickering over the rights Of the great
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triment in that: that the theater nui-
sance is unf1agable, uncrushable. rhinoce-
ros-hlded, and strangely vicious in retort.
and SO you suffer in silence. even if the
suppressed rage of your silence rattles
around in your midriff until you feel that
apoplexy or paralysis or conniptive de-
mentia Is lowering right around the cor
ner. waiting to grab you ;
If the nuisance who has seen the play
before happens to be a chapess, the un-
sibilant, not to say nerve-shattering, whis-
per in which she forecasts the future of
the stage characters runs somewhat this
way:
Don't you think he's just too lovely.
Myrtle? But wait till you see him in
the last act. when he comes back from
a place they call Beloochistan or some
thing like that. and his hair is all white
sllver-like. you know-at the sides, and
gracious. but he's distangy looking! You
know the piece doesn't come out the way
you think now it's going to come out at
all. OF course. he gets her-the snippy
thing, i should think she'd be glad to
have him in the first place. wouldn't
you? But mercy sakes. the trouble
he does have. for you see when he was
mere boy he was. oh. frightfully diss-
pated. you know-sh-sh-sh! don't breathe
word of it. Myrtle. but l think some
dissipated men are just erand-and she
fnds it out. and she's afraid in the sec
ond act that he hasn't settled down yet,
and her father is an old growly thing.
anyhow, and refuses to allow her to so
much as see him, and has her watched
every minute. and even when his valet
brings her a note. why, what does her
old scheesicks of father do but inter-
cept 1t, and then there's four years be-
tween the second act and the third, and
he finds when he comes back-land alive
but his hair does look cute when he
comes back-why. he finds out all about
the intercepted note, and her not getting
that note, you see, was the cause of his
going away, and, dear me sakes, If he'd
only"
Oh. we'll. you know the rest. If the
word rest may properly be used in such
hideous connection. You're not going to
wriggle around and bestow any baleful
glares upon her, Or If she's sitting In
front Of you. you're not going to lean for
ward and implore her. In the mama of
madam. defer her conversational prog
nosticationS until curtain fall. anyhow,
for you know all about the respect which
is due the sex. we hope, and, any way.
what would be the imaginable use? And
so you just sit there in your seat and
also in fume, and you vow and yum
and swear unto yourself that you'll never
attend the theater again as long as you
live and breathe. and gradually you find
yourself generating a sort of sympathy
and fellow feeling for train wreckers and
stage robbers and involuntary murderers
and the like, and when you leave the
theater after an evening like that you
are In humor to hate peace. and OH
it's terrible. tur'ble. the tempestuosity
that can be aroused in the tortured
human torso under the malign prodding
OF Just one of these typical nuisances of
the theater.
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doesn't accept or admit or acknowledge
anything.
That's why he or she huns the score,
YOU know.
Right pretty some of this music in
the first act says the score hummer
deprecatingly, but wait till the second
act or maybe it's the third. That's when
they sing the .Miserere' som Of EN-
call it the Misery by the way. Ever
hear the 'Miserere?' Oh. it's a lovely
Thing. Goes this way, 'Tum. tum ia ia
ia ia, tum. tum.' Perhaps you've heard
it somewhere. It's been sung and played
d lot. you know"
That's only by way of preliminary.
so to speak. When the "Miserere'' does
arrive-"Oh, now they're getting to that
wheezes the Person Who HUNS the
Score in your neighborhood. They're
right near 1t now-the 'Miserere,' you
know. Goes this way: 'Tum. tum, ia ia
ia ia, tum, tum'-fine. amt it?'
Oh. there isn't the least doubt in the
world that after you've sat for couple
or three hours or so behind or in front
or alongside of the Person Who HUNS
the Score. be the same male or female,
you've got the misery. all right enough
de misuhy in yo' haid'' the oldfash-
Toned darkey nanny expresses 1t.
Man Who Whistles Airs.
Yes. and then there's the gay dog of
blade and clip and cut-up who has pre-
viously seen the comic opera or the ex-
travaganZa or musical melange or what
not, and who consequently feels impelled
by every dictate of helpfulness and hui
maneness TO keep the singers and the or
chestra bucked up 10 their work by
whisting the more catchy airs as they
bob up in the, score. The score-whistler
is little more rare than the SORGHUM
mer. but you must have sat near him
a few times. at that He doesn't whistle
the catchy airs in a loud. shrill. ear
piercing. fog-siren manner, of course. Not
at all. You wish he would whistle 'em
in that way, SO that he'd be arrested and
forcibly dragged from the theater. But
he doesn't. He just picks up the catchy
air as soon as ii breaks out in a sort
of maddening. demoniacal, narrowly
ing, pianiSsimo manner of WhiStling. 1t
isn't much the noise he makes as his
devifiSh way of keeping ii up. and then,
again. you can't help but resent his in
fernal puffy-wuffiness over the fact,
which he insists upon making obvious
TO you, that he has seen the piece before
IL doesn't make particle of difference
to you if hes seen it nine thousand times
before, but the trouble is that you can't
tell him so without standing an odds-on
chance of becoming involved IN wran-
gle with nllI' anu your inward rage over
his persistent whstling is such that your
powers of repartee have all gone a-scam-
pering. so that, in case of a wrangle you
feel that you couldn't be half SO fero-
ciously insulting toward him as you'd
like to be.
So you just sit there and burn. as it
were. over the slow fire of his maddening-
ly muted whistling and you dread the
approach of the next s0-called catchy
air for you know as we'll as you know
that you're alive that the very instant the
next catchy or maybe-catchy air pops,
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not to be blamed if. in adverting to him,
or her. this morning your voice thickens
with wrath and you flack your arms ad-
monitively at the ambient air.
Mayhap the nuisance was one of those
chaps Tor chapesses) who'd seen the play
before. If a chap, he took occasion
during the untangling of the stage story
in the first act. to beat the players to IT,
so to speak. by uncolins the following
raucous buzz for the enlightenment of the
victim accompanying him:
"Oh. it turns out altogether different
from what you're thinking now. Resu-
lar surprise party. the last act is Fact
is there's couple of surprises in the next
act. Y'see. this Murgatroyd de Villiers,
the hero. doesn't go to Australia at all
after his dad turns him out for falling In
love with the chorus girl. He only says
in this act that he's going to hike to
Australia. but he changes his mind about
that in the second act and decides to go
after the coin right in this country, and he
gets in right in the market huh! pretty
soft the way these ducks get in right in
the market in these shows. and he sticks
around without letting his folks or the
girl know where he is, for he wants to
see what's going to come off, and then
he bulges in again just at the minute
when this chorus girl he's crazy over
finds out that she's heiress to four mil
lion bones left her by an old crouch Of
an uncle UP in British Columbia. and
then the show girl Tottie discovers for
herself that really her name is Ethel
reda de Mountenoy-Agincourt-
or something just as fossy as that. and
that she's descended from some not OLD
card that fought in the crusades. and OF
course. the folks of this young hero guy
are tickled to death to find out that the
girl has a pedigree that's got their hand
made genealogical tree backed off the
boards; and so the girl blows the stage
and the hero and she get together In the
last act, and then
Impervious to Eye-Javelins.
Oh. you can squirm around in your seat
and glare at him all you want to. but 1t
won't make any difference. Your glares
don't bother him. He's impervious to all
the eye-javelins that you may dart at
him. He has seen the show previously,
and he. means that you and everybody
else in his vicinage shall know that he
has. that's all. OF course you're bound
10 hate him with a caring, vitriolic
hatred. but he won't mind that even if
he finds it out. Hasn't he paid his money
for his seat as we'll as you have? Well
them He can open his mouth without
being called down by you. can't he? That
would be the squelching view he'd ex-
press II you were to be foolish enough
To tap him ever so lightly on the knee
and request him to desst. But you
know better than To tap any typical
theater nuisance lightly or otherwise on
the knee and request him. or her. to be-
have so that you can find out what's hap
penins on the stage Long ago you as
certained for yourself that there's no nu
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Man Who HUNS the Score.

Maybe however. 1t was an opera or
a uear-opera (Which means what's called
an Extravaganza or musical com
edy' or something), that you attended
last night. If it was a sure-enough
opera. then that leftover rage which
still typhoons within you this morning
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IoUR GLARE5 Don't
bOTHER HIM

ONE Who Has Seen the
~ Play Before and Insists
on Informing You About It
The Lady Who Is Similarly
Afflicted and the Nerve Shat
tering, Unsibilant Whisper in
Which She Foretells the Flu
ture of Things-Then There's
the Man Who HUNS the
Score So You'll Know He's
Heard 1t Somewhere Before
The Persistent Whistler
Who Destroys Your Powers
of Repartee-She Who Tit
tiers and Filters Through the
Whole Play THE Shorter
Who Shorts at What He
Calls Sentimental Flubdub.
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By Clarence L. Cullen.

IGHT behind you. or perhaps 1t
was right in front of you, or
maybe right alongside of you.
sat the nuisance at the theater
last night. and certainly YOU'RE
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Boys and Girls Of All
California, Here Is
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ing for You to Read

when the lion came TO make trouble
for the elephant the mouse would sit
on the elephants back and warn him
when the lion was slipping up from
behind for you know an elephant is SC
broad that il Is hard for him TO see
what is going on at his caboose end
One day Flop Ear. the elephant. came
home very much eIated and told the
mouse. whose name was Cheese 1t. that
he had made a wager which. would
win him his dinner for a-whoie- winter
What sort of a waser:"". asked
Cheese 1t.
"A foolish giraffe, who doesn't know
how strong l am. bet me a stack Of
hay that 1 can't pull up .the- banyan
tree down by the river by the roots.
and tomorrow all the animals are com
ing to see me do it and III win that
hay stack so easily that everybody will
laugh"
How can you pun up the banyan
tree by the roots?" asked little Cheese
It.
Dead easy Answered Flop Ear. ''Iu
just take hold of it with my trunk
and pull and pull and keep pulling.
without ever letting up for second.
and by and BY the tree viii pop
out of the. ground. I'm going to bed
now for I've got a toothache- 1 have
been eating peaches today and 1 have
got a peach seed in cavity OF one OF
my nloIars"
Next morning the big elephant had q
swollen jaw and he felt pretty bad.
but he knew all the animals would be
waiting down by the banyan tree. so
the mouse patted him TO give him
courage and. they went through the
jungle to the tree. When all was
ready Flop Ear wrapped his trunk
around the waist of the tree and began
to pull He pulled hard. then he let
go and began to cry. The giraffe
laughed and shouted. He can't do It.
He can't do IL. He owes me a stack
of hay." -.
what's the matterg whispered
Cheese IT to big Flop Ear
That confOunded peach seed in my
TOOTH mOaned the elephant Il can't
pull while it's in there
Xu4Ch- CA4Cu OACCSC L. 1dAc NE
in your trunk Flop Ear obeyed
What now?" he inquired. why use
my tail for a toorhpick.'y answered
Cheese It. The elephant did so. out
came the peach seed and in another
minute Flop Ear had yanked up the
banyan tree by the roots.
well done. Well donert shouted the
giraffe i lose, but give the haystaek
TO the mouse. He has proved that the
.Ff
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Once in a dense forest in Noman's
Land there lived two warm friends an
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Once in a dense forest in Noman's
Land there lived two warm friends, an
elephant and mouse The elephant
used to hide the mouse in his trunk
when the wildcats came around. and
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