The evening world., 1908-02-03


traction and the heart is despair,hs
underneath. The very effort OF forcing
smile cheers one up.
Smiles Of Various Kinds.
My philosophy" added Miss Bates.
includes all kinds of smiles. "A man
may smile and smile and be villain" "
she quoted.
Then your book won't interfere with
The villains privilege In that respsct?"
inquired.
BY Jove, no.'' said Miss Bates
Then she blushed and laughed and
swiftly deprecated the Olymr.an oath.
Really. you must excuse me. I have
such swearing part, you know. Why
can't I remember TO be lady?"
Please don't diseoncert me to that
extent" l interrupted. About the
villainr'
The poor vnlain?" she commiser-
ated. he has such hard time-par-
ticularly IL melodrama. Saturday
night my villain-the Sherih-was
most numerically Kissed right here In
the Academy. When l have finished
!nculcating my religion of smiles IN
tend to organize Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Villains
And is the religion OF smiles, wheh
published. to have any APOLOGIES 20
Mrs. Eddy? Are you Chr's'iah
Scientist?" asked.
NO." replied the Apostle OF Cheer
tuiness, II am not. I wish / were
know that Mrs. Eddy teaches uoc-
trine OF cheerfulness, and l accept tha'
fully. l wish l had faith to believe
more. You know" she confded'
"Christian Science reaches people tha'
no other religion penetrates.
"Actors Are Such Children
isn't 1t a wonderful thing to meet
for instance, a battered Old ciuoih an
who goes around saying to h'mseli
Nothing can harm me. am ch'lu
os Godm when he is really
Miss Bates hes!tated
"a son of Belial" I supplemented.
Precisely" she concurred' 1ou
r,ow" she added. II hope to commend
,ha religion of smiles particularly TO
NV own profession. Actors are such
cbuaren They enter the profession al
n,neteen or twenty and they never seem
- cot any older They don't grow at
all-ayCpDt,
They won't learn the phiiosophy Oh
ch.erfulness-the religion OF sm'les'
"Rut Is continual cheerfulness con-
s,s,ent with the possession OF tenhpera-
ment?" / asked.
..rr.mneramentr' Blanche Bates
,u.a her derision. Temperament
oauera every sin from bad temper 10
,,,roorallty! l have bad temper she
| INN ..d 81 have the kind of temper
.pn. .on throws chairs But l don't throw
them. ! smile instead
,.,,,a hy the way, some managers
.,,rht profit by study of my re!isloA'
No. is Blank, for instance SAe
,,,.ntioned q name that makes sho"
,,,,,,'s hear beat faster under It's sun
burst "Ho rules by terror. lie $ an
ahoolute brute Then there are others
n,ho realize the childlike quality OF the
tor or actress and know enough to
coax them in the way they should GO
Not a Belasco Doctrine.
.who woo them and coo them,"
,o,ed from the Belasco philosophy.
MISS Bates laughed so long Mt the
ouo,ation that she seemed almost as II
.,a we're getting the religion OF smiles
for the first time
.Did YOU learn this doctrine OF cheer
r,lness from Belasco?" 1 inquired.
mo. indeed" she said. Il learned i
long before l ever met Mr.. Belasco-
when / was acting in stock compan,
at s25 a week Each profession has {
different school Of cheerfulness. o
course. Now. In yours?' she inquired
"Oh, In mine? It's getting soclet,
uews-if YOU have to do 1t. There ar,
girls who stand outside In the snow I,
describe the costumes worn at societ,
functions. Take the Vanderbilt weddlnl