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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
By "TODY" HAMILTON.

Copyright 1905, by r. F. Hamiton)
go EFORE I became identified with
the great American circus.
served long apprenticeship in
the art of telling the public all
about it, My earliest important
effort was with the New York Aquarium
no, the present municipal one but a pri-
7ate venture situated on what is now
Herald Square.
This aquarium failed to pay. An aqua
,ium pure and simple has never paid ex-
penses the great majority of the public
caring little for fish except at table.
Everything which could increase the pub
DC interest was done. We added animals.
\ stage was put in and regular theatrical
performances given.
A century plant in full bloom. the cost
81 which was $50, turned in over $500
Say for while. Then a rare fish from
Japan called "kinkiyo was imported at
great trouble and expense. 1t had to have
fresh water changed twice daily until il
got here. All in all, it cost us over 5000.
.hat kinkiyo And. to our knowledge, it
,ever brought in $40.
\ giant squid. or devil fish"
more successful card. We secured a
grand specimen from the Banks of New
foundland. which Prof. VerriIl OF Yale
measured officially and found to stretch
39lz feet from the tip of its tentacles to
:he end of its tail. This fish, which was
preserved in alcohol in a fiat tank, cost
800. and brought in nearly the same
amount a day for a year. 1t was after
carj rented - the W. G. Coup circus at
H2-J a week for season OF forty weeks
But in spite of all. gate receipts were
ON: and few months before We wound
~ the business the stock of fish began
o run low. too. People began to remark
Il. and the thought troubled me until
real idea jumped into my mind. 1 pre-
pared highly sensational story OF an I'M
known crank poisoning the waters of the
aquarium and destroying the rare fish by
wholesale. II appeared in all the after
noon papers under scare heads
y DIR. t,lank-he Is yet alive. and in
memory OF his kindness to me I will not
disclose his name-furnished me with an
analysis of a pint OF water from one of
these tanks. which contained enough poi
son to kill a man. This kept the public
interested for a week.
During this receptive mood OF the pub
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ped sewing rom, where the chorus girl
can catch uo With sewing and attend TO
those little details of domestic economy
so essential vhel the pocket is not filled
to bursting.
An Emancipation.
The opening Of one of these clubs in
any city has irstatly been hailed with
JOY by a large percentage of those who
make their living tpfore the footlights.
but who have not vetat rained to the emf
nence where they cal command salaries
to get the comforts at he figures imposed
by the big hotels.
There are good ana hid in all callings.
and 1t is safe to say'ths the percentage
of bad is not much g-eaer in the ranks
of the chorus girls than il. any other line
that might be picked out,
Therefore the homesick cprus girl who
is held to the boards becaus of ambition
TO go higher or perhaps TO kep herself or
other dependents from starNton seizes
with eagerness the chance tc get TO
small sum a part of the hapiness she
lost when the stage won her froa home.
1T is a delightful relief"
1T is emancipation"
oh. how happy | am here. l wish
we'd never leave this city"
This is sample of the kind o COM
ments that greeted the first week life in
the Cushman. and is destined 10 l. re-
peated all over the country.
Comforts and Costs.
Not bnly does the chorus girls hone
cater to the comfort o. those who actuav
live there, but in la-ge measure it hels
all who ask. Besides the sewing room
there is a system by which for a trifiiag
sum the singer can have all her laundry
work done: there is a piano. which sh,
can use for diversion or study; the parlor:
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IHE. CUSHr1AN CLUB HOUSE F
CHORUS GIRLS. PHILADE1PH lA
Written for The Star.

Written for The Star.
* 70 LONGER need the chorus girl.
N l. who would be honest. make her
NJ fight against the world I'M
! aided.
The church. prominent MEM
hers of her own calling and philanthro-
pistS have taken up her cause. Clubs
AMI homes. where she can have some of
the comforts impossible to life on the
road in the past, are being inaugurated.
and a determined effor. Is being made to
enancipate her from the dubious board
ing houses where in the past necessity
compelled her to make her home.
The bullet from the pistol of Harry
Thaw that Osent Stanford White to his
grave undoubtedly had much to do with
thu sudden movement toward reform.
In d general way the public knew that
the short-skirted. lownecked dancing
and singing feminine beauty show was
made up of girls who were poorly paid,
and that for all the comforts of life pos
sibIe to- the salaries of the stars they
mus. find the money elsewhere than in
their stage work.
But how completely the young stage
girl was the pawn of the wealthy and
Inscriptions was never driven home till
the exposures of the Thaw trial sent
their shocking lesson nome.
Then many of those worthy men and
women who had held in contempt the girl
who made her living in the beauty show
began to see that there might be another
ASPECT TO the affair, that it was placing
terrible temptation in the way OF the
young and needless to leave them exposed
TO the schemes Of the constituencies.
1t came to be recognized that the chorus !
girl existing on perhaps $50 a week., and
being prevented by the high hotel rates
from going TO stopping places BETTING her
sen was in reality an object Of pity. and
that before she could attain TO better |
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once believed to be completely antagonis-
'ic to each other.
Moreover. there is also constant effort
10 inspire the profession to the produc-
t on of a higher grade of plays.
But temporarily the task of providing
suitable homes for the chorus girl and
the minor actress of moderate or humble
means is the first in Importance.
The method Of raising the needed means
has in every case-Boston. Philadelphia
Chicago and New York. where homes are
either completed or are N the process
been the same. First subscriptions are
asked from the charitabiy inclined. and
actors and actresses. prOverbial1y noted
for the willingness to oblige in any good
cause. have glauiy appeared at benefits.
Then when the total reached 4 large
enough sum to warrant progress a house
of suitable size was either rented or pur-
chased. fitted out with regard to the COM
fort of those who were to live there. and
then announced to be open for the re-
ception Of actresses Of moderate means
A Cheerful Home.
The newly inaugurated Cushman Home
in Philadelphia gives an excellent idea Of
the scope of the movement.
1t is situated in an excellent part of the
town, not many blocks removed from the
favored regions of society. 1t is a three
story building. ample and roomy.
Everywhere the keynote is one of cheer
fitness The colors are bright. the floors
are stained and covered with attractive
rugs.
A large reception and living room fill up
fully half of the ground floor. There are
mission chairs, piano. paintings and
photographs of noted actresses. who have
aided in the founding of the home. On
the floor above is the pantry. in which
visitors may prepare late breakfasts or
after midnight suppers.
There will be no restrictions on TINS
latter feature. providing the party be
| properly composed. for 1t Is recognized
that after work is the playtime for the
actress as we'll as everybody else: On the
| third floor are the bedrooms. dainty and
inviting a world different from the mis-
cradle attics which the girls have here
tofore been able to obtain for the modest
means at their disposal.
A short flight of steps takes one from the
| department of the sleeping rooms to big,
comfortable, well-lighted and finely equip
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Church Alliance. which. besides members
of the dramatic profession. includes di-
vines and church workers of all denomi-
nations-Epscopal. Roman Catholic. Pres
byterian. Lutheran, Baptist. Reformed
and Jewish.
Distinguished members OF the dramatic
professions are enrolled, and have given
liberal financial help to the work, those
making donations including Julia Mar
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lowe. Mrs. Fiske. George NJ. Conan, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Mantell, Digby Bell.
Francis Wilson. Adele Richie Robert
mann Heink. Maud Adams. etc.
Primarily the church alliance was or
ganized to hold religious services for
actors and actresses, to visit and minis
ter to them when i'll. and to bring about
d closer bond between church and stage,
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things she needed to be shifted to more
refining environment.
With this practical idea evolved, the
men and women in charge of the move
ment at once set out to find club homes.
SO to speak for their charges of the
stage.
A Church League.
Back of the project stands the Actors
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My success with the Arion ball got me
the press agency for the French ball. At
the time the Franco-Prussian war had not
been SO long ended that bitterness between
the Germans and French on this side had
ceased. A good deal Of diplomacy was
necessary for one man to serve a Ger
man and French master successfully at
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counted them to see whether the num-
Der of bottles charged to me was correct.
When 1 had accumulated quite num-
Der 1 strung them and threw the string o.
corks over the gas bracket. whence they
fell. in graceful festoons. nearly to the
floor.
They excited SO much comment that
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One evening there was a dispute about
the number of bottles of champagne that
had been opened. I told the waiter there
after when wine was opened there by me
to give me the cork. l threw these corks
into drawer, and at the end Of the week
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the same time, but I managed to do it.
And l continued the work 'of both balls
up to 1S97-in the case of the Arion So
ciety for nineteen years and for the Cercle
Francois de Harmonic for twelve years.
l also became press agent for the once
famous Roster & Balls. and invented the
cork room,'' that attained national fame
Blue-grass blade., 1908-11-01
BLUE GRASS BLADE
10

ton panic ensues money flies cover factories close
down. industry is ide the wheels of to
hum, prices fall currency shrinks, suffering follows, and
it upon such conditions these that each party hopes
ride into power and political authority Political per-
jury creeps along in the wake of calamity and the tri
umvirate is complete.
Is there candidate for the Office of President be-
fore the people who does not claim to be of extremely
religious tendencies Is there candidate among them
who would dare question the truth of orthodox beliefs
and the right of Christian believers special legsla
ton in the interest of their faith DO not the leading
candidates strive appear before the electorate devout
believers in Christianity and all that such belief i'm
plies Are not the columns of the public press reeking
with of the religious beliefs and aspirations of
this that candidates DO they not all profess ale
glance the orthodox Christian faith in some form
another2
Assuming these claims be true, and have
right to they not then what sad commentary
it upon the supposedly moral influences of religion
in which they profess believe. The people, gener
ally speaking, know that all such pretensions vain,
and glorious, sefservng and made in the hope and
expectation of political gain In spite of religion and
gious pretensions personal political ambition blunt the
moral False preenses govern many of the
ments they undertake in public, and god who, believing
ly knows all things is thrust aside in the mad political
vortex, forgotten, ignored, neglected and scorned.
And have politics, panics and perjury.
Would that every Freehinker in the land had
age to make his true opinions known and felt The
slant political panderng senseless superstition would
become thing of the past Political honesty
obtain in America until the godbeef idea is rooted
out Panics would no longer be manufactured po-
tical expedens and perjury would disappear. Presi-
Dental elections could then be held without such disas
rous objects upon the industries and of the
nation.
Politics, panics perjury
This is the stock in trade of political campaigns, the
tools Of godfearing politicians struggling for Offices they
do not deserve
Our best and safest remedy lies in the incucation of
Freethought principles broadcast DER the land Free
thought is based wholly truth and fact, and these
incapable of injury to moral and political worth
Freethought alone, is the bedrock upon which
tional liberties be made and a permanent
Blue-grass blade., 1908-11-01
MEN ARE WHAT THEY THINK.


Thought leads action, and action make habits,
habits constitute conduct
How essential then that thoughts be free
melled and uninhuenced by false beliefs sordid
perstitions
If we think wrong thoughts actions habits and
conduct must likewise be wrong but if think good
thoughts we tend strongly toward Improvement
As Thinks is he, is both timely and truth
full saying for in the end what actually think
and thought determine what and what
to be.
Free thought is true thought 1t must be unnfuenced
by any personal desire 1t strive against seeking
forward personal ambition and look only for results
independent of what those results Freethought is
the highest and best thought of which the human mind
is capable and by rigid application of all that it inn
plies it must lead to vastly superior results.
Godthought is slave thought and slave thoughts lead
o fear thoughts. Fear thoughts are held in mental
chains by gross sensual and sordd superstition Such
thoughts cannot be free, no matter how much may be
claimed for them
Every improved thought improvement in the
resultant conduct If the improvement in conduct does
approach the full Of the improved thought,
there will be some improvement and that is distinct
gain To bring about permanent perpetual improve
ment the individual must acquire good mental habits and
the objective sought will be made manifest There
is in striking at mere physical effects while
leave the mental causes to become intensified.
Superstition based upon assumptive beliefs in gods,
DEVILS physical heavens and hells peoplng the air and
sky with personalities of good and evil against which a
struggling humanity contend and strive in vain, pre-
vents correct proper free thinking because of the
slant fear-clOud with which such mind, believing Is
enveoped Beliefs necessarily fix themselves in the
mind and become mental habits, shaping and molding
conduct in accordance Herewith The belief in the exis
of personal god possessing the power and nclina
ton to impose fearful punishment upon sentient beings
for declining to accept believe in him. must, of
cessy induce similar tendencies in the mind and
of those who indulge in such belief and from this
able to understand much of the cruelty and torture
pcrpetrated by godbeievers upon the unbeevers The
mind of the believer narrowed and dwarfed by his
less superstition, unable to perceive the slightest
wrong in what he did. They believed themselves god
like by assuming follow god-like propensties
And they godike the that they believed
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A lady cashier with a face like a meat
pie and a figure like a soup joint
reads about how the new Countess
Gladys Vanderbilt SZcheny arrived at
her husbands ancestral estates and
found a peaceful brood of mild-eyed
Hungarian cows established in the front
parlor of the baronial castle, and she
lays down the paper, and she looks in
the glass and says, Thank goodness,
no foreign nObleman shall ever snare
her. And Wilibert told me that all
wealth should be divided.
but one day / saw in the papers
where casual great-uncle had died
and left him nine hundred millions or
some such pleasing amount. For weeks
| sat around waiting for him to bring
me my snare in a bundle. But he didn't
come 1t was about a month after that
that l met him. He stopped his tour
ing car to speak to me. He was dress
ed uD like all the NEEDED aces in the
world. He carried his pocket handker-
chief W his cuff, and when he wanted
TO say that he laughed. he said that he
guffawed. Yes. it was as bad as that.
and that's as bad as they ever get, and
still live. He spoke very severely of
Roosevelt He said this party Roose-
welt was stirring up discomfort among
the lower orders and unsettling vested
rights. He invited me to go riding with
him. He said he was going to hang
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-26
The Hotel Clerk on Socialism
BY IRWIN S. COBB.

ITS been a great month for the
Down-Trod. taking it all around said
the Hotel Clerk
You'll have to show me-" said the
House Detective Nobody amt been
around handin' me any asparagus tips
or uncut emeralds. From where l sit,
IT looks like the customary relations
between Labor and Capital is still bein'
preserved-capital keepin all the cap
ital, and labor dOin' the bulk of the la
borin'"
Don't be a pessimist, Larry" ad-
vised the Hotel Clerk
Just wot is a pessimist?" asked the
House Detective.
"A Dessimist," said the Hotel Clerk,
lis parry that can't enjoy his cock
tail as it's going down for thinking of
how it'll taste if it should happen to
come up. After while he's apt to
slough off his last two syllables and
get TO be plain pest.
Il was saying when you interrupted
that it's been great month for the
Down-TrOd. And so it has. Just look
around. Discovering that meat-eating
had bad effect on the wage earners,
because ii made them full-blooded and
cOcky, and gave them skin diseases and
independent feelings around election
time, the packing house philanthropists
thOughtfully lacked the price up until
now the Pomeranian pOodles of the rich
have been driven to eating second
grade porter-houses, and the children of
the working classes are depending on
tallOw candles and fond memories for
their animal fats.
THAT was the beginning. Next the
Duchess of Mathematician duchess
and mine, Larry. as the papers have
said, although she don't know she's
ours, and is not advertising the fact
if she does-'twas her who gave things
an uplift by coming away from her din
ner ere the seventh course had been
served, and hurrying into her simplest
tiara and coming over to that gath
ering place of the proletariat, the Wal
dOrf-Astoria, and telling breathless
audience how her heart beat in accord
with the movement to provide free
Fairgrounds in the congested quarters,
and would beat a good deal harder,
only the diamond stomacher she was
wearing fit Her Grace so snug. Where
upon. there was loud applause. and a
simple collation. was served at nine dol
lare a plate, but at that, you weren't
allowed TO take the plate away with
you. Then they balanced the books
and found there was something like
-ninety-five left over after paying
the expenses, and so the recording sec
rotary was instructed to take the mon
ey and buy helpful literature for the
poor with it. / presume the starving
man who hadn't had anything to eat
for a couple of weeks got Mrs. Rob-
rer's Hundred Ways to Cook an Egg, q"
and the family that had just emerged
in a singed state from a tenement house
fire was made haDDV bV q neat cOUV
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ing the barber, and began to preach the
doctrine that all the property of the
well-to-dos ought ito be chopped up
among the nothing-tO-dos.
''As / was telling you, Wilibert was
no intellectual prodigy. He was one
of those mustard sariiles. When he
tried to think hard yer, could see his
gills lift up and down. He was tall
and pale yellow, with greenish shades,
like a spFig of Michigan celery. He
carried himself well. but he had a light
load. To teach him his letters I'll bet
his parents had TO feed him on educa-
tor crackers and alphabet consomme.
But he used to come in to see me with
his limp collar, and his head like a
brush arbOr. and tell me it wouldn't
be long until they began cutting up all
wealth into equal slices, the same as
pie in a quick lunch.
'sYou know how it is, Larry. The
stout party who can't lean over to
pick up his overshoes without rubbing
all the skin off his stomach against the
floor always says that no matter what
fashion may demand, he'll never let any
blamed tailor put corsets on him. Fond
Father looks at little Master Ethelbert.
aged 6. who's got a nine-inch chest, a
bulged-out forehead. and convex lenses
to his eyeglasses, and announces that
no boy of his shall ever grow up to be
brutal fullback on the Yale team.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-26
Horrors of Fat Girls
Coming Out

Coming out is the first great event of
a girls life. She thinks and dreams about
it from the hour she understands what
it means 1t is to be her first triumphaI
social hour. Then how terrible must be
the anticipations of the over-fat young
maiden who realizes her proportions are
far from conforming to the standard of
fascination set by the more shapely girls
with whom she is about to compete.
Hence. ensues desperate efforts by means
of rigid dieting, curtailment of fudge and
chocolate delights, strenuous exercising
at the risk of developing a square-set
and angular outline of figure, to take
off the excess of matronly fat. Or else
the distracted debutante flies for Succor
to the patent and secret advertised
remedies.
The result only too frequently is that
the so-called remedies and starvation diet
ruin her stomach, while the exercise
makes her coarse and bOyish, and may
be accompanied by serious physical dan
ger. far better plan, one which other
fat folks, by the way, whether male or
female, old young. may adopt with
equal benefit, is TO go TO the druggist
get these three simple remedies, VIZ.
Y OF. Marmola, y OF. Fluid Extract Cas-
cara Aromatic, and 81 OF. Syrup Simplex;
mix them together and take one tea
spoonful after meals and al bedtime.
With the aid of this harmless receipt
one pleases. quickly and safely 1t works
naturally. does not cause wrinkles and
reduces the body symmetrically. Further
more. IL depends on neither exercising
nor diet to help it do the work and
IL will not distress the stomach. On the
contrary. it is beneficial to the system
cleansing the blood and clearing the COM
plexiop. Finally it saves a girls money
for any druggist will fill this recelpt
for small sum.
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Tonic and Appetizer.

W. II. Parsons is ex-State Senator
and ex-Special Judge of the Supreme
Court of Texas, also Brigadier General
I'm Confederate army. In a recent let
ter from 925 II street, n. W., Washing
ton, D. c., this prominent gentleman
says:
Upon the recommendation of per-
sonal friends and many strong testi-
mOnials of the efficacy of Peruna in the
treatment of the numerous symptoms
of the grip, with which l have been
affected for four months past, 1 have
been induced to undergo a treatment
of this justly celebrated formula.
81 feel decided change for the bet
ter after using it only one week. 1t is
especially good i'll toning up the stom-
ach. and has a decided effect upon my
appetite / therefore feel much en-
couraged that l am on the road to COM
plete restoration.