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5, but 1t Is not a large

this general class. but it Is not a large
class after all.
Of course, it makes fine, yellow story
to tell about the crooks who use the mails
for fraudulent purposes and all that sort
Of thing. There is nothing particularly
wonderful about such a thing, after all.
If any person has the price of two-cent
stamp and wishes to convey a piece of
Information to another, why shouldn't he
use the mails?
Fraudulent use of the mails is fought
vigorously by the legal department of the
Post Office Department, but most of the
cases deal with persons who send letters
through the mails to regular addresses
and not to the general delivery. What
brings them within the pale of the law is
that the schemes they advertise or in
which they collect money are fraudulent
In themselves. They are not only for
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suffer half dozen disappointments be-
fore that letter comes-if 1t ever does.
The greatest trouble of the general de-
livery clerk comes from the stupidity of
the callers at the window.
Its a funny thing said one of the
clerks whose words pass out joy or woe
to thousand persons from the general
delivery window at the Washington post
Office every day. but half the people
who come to this window appear to have
little or no sense while most Of the other
half think We have all sorts of time on
our hands to talk to them, or rather to
listen to what they have to say.
you would notice that nine callers out Of
every ten ask us. after we have told them
there is no letter for them, if we won't
look again and be sure. They have seen
us go to the box marked with the initial
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have lost all interest in elevating things.
I'm surprised at you. honest 1 am.


Nov let me tell you about a strange
~ novelty that I've uncovered down
here, namely, a theater the management
of which will not stand for the boosting,
pufferino business unless the shows given
at the theater are worthy Of being boost
ed. 1t knocked me clean off the bench
to find that there was a theater like that
anywhere on the continent of North
America. But it's here and right on the
Boardwalk. I know it's here, because
I've seen how the thing works out.
Atlantic City rapidly is becoming the
producing town for new productions
it is displacing Washington in that re-
spect. 1t has become the leading try-it-
on-the-dog town of the eastern circuit.
The new shows are given. most of
them, at a perfectly beautiful little the
ater-not so little, either-on the Board
walk. called the Apollo Theater. II is
absolutely one of the most superbly fitted
and finished theaters I've ever seen any
where. But it isn't the beauty of the
theater that concerns us here. It's the
dead-Square way the theater is run, and
the novelty of the system whereby 1t is
run.
There are a great many people here
nearly all the time who take in all of
the new shows right along from week to
week-if the shows are recommended by
the management. They don't go on the
first night. They wait for the second or
third night-most of the shows perform
here for only three nights. And they
only go on the second or third night when
they are tipped off by the management
of the theater that the show is worth
seeing. Otherwise they keep their money
in their pockets. The man who owns and
runs the theater is a rich individual,
and square one, and he feels that it's
his particular duty and business, as he
has a pain right to feel, to let his pa
irons know in advance whether a new
show, or an old one for that matter, Is
worth seeing or not.
Last week a new playlet called THE
Fortune Hunter by Winchell Smith, the
playwright of ''Brewster's Millions was
produced for the first time at this theater.
Tommy Ross, the actor. who used to
play in Checkers" was the star of the
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Or course there are the old. old stories
of how the crooks use the general neii'-
cry office; how the pretty girl comes 10
the window, bushes and asks Tor let
ter or how the poor. lorn lady In ueep
mourning goes away crying When toiu
there is nothing for her, and thousand
and one other stories.
AS a matter of fact, the large percent
age of those who visit a general delivery
window at any city post office they are
all alike and there IS little about the
WASHINGTON Office that is different from
that of any other city of the same size)
go there for legitimate purposes. vi
course. some persons have to conceal
their correspondence to an extent that
makes them fearful of having 1t de-
livered to their regular addresses.
The most common class of general de-
livery patrons are the travellers, persons
of small means. who generally do not
know when they start for a certain city
just where they will stop when they get
there.
They are generally patrons Of small
hotels and boarding or lodging houses,
where they fear that the best OF care
will not be taken of their mail.
Then there are the trained nurses, who
are always changing their addresses:
travelling statesmen, who sometimes are
uncertain as to how long they will re-
main in a city and also as to the hotel
in which they will stop, and many others
of that large floating population of every
city.
Naturally there are many who use the
general delivery for what might be called
illegitimate purposes. Thieves and other
crooks who wish to keep in touch with
each other without meeting; unfortunates
who do not wish their families to know
exactly where they live. and more or less
respectable persons who carry on cor
respondence they wish to keep secret from
the other occupants of their homes form
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goes out when we put the expensive rec
ords in the machine, but poor pa never
had much of chance to pick up a mu-
steal education when he was a boy, you
know. He loves to hear a boy play on
the mouth organ. though-poor papa.
"Oh, my. we came near forgetting the
one best bet OF ALL mean the one great
piece that we're always getting 'em to
play on the band piers-the sextet from
.Loosh1a,' you know. Some people call
that "Loo-chee-yuh," don't they? But
they're only putting on airs, of course.
They're trying to make folks believe that
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they know all about Italian and so on.
Well, "Looshia'' is good enough for me
to pronounce it. / mean. And isn't II the
grand piece. though-that sextet, l mean?
You know. when the band plays it, why,
the six trombone players all step up in
front of the platform and stand up. and,
mercyonnus. how they do just blow and
blow and blow into their instruments.
though! You know how it goes, of
course-ta ia ia, tum-TUM ia ta-oh.
that piece just works me up terribly. and
makes me feel SO perfectly useless in
the world, deed it does! 1 always feel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-28
Queer, But Expressive.

A Danish girl who has recently come to
this country to take a course in trained
nursing was complaining to friend the
other morning of having oversight her
self. And no reason why such thing
should befall me- for / had-What do you
call it in English? / know. a sleep watch
all set"
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when hear it as if I'd just like to go out
and do something fine and grand. instead
of Just mooching around all the time
reading novels and eating chocolate can
seXtet from "Looshia" right away, right
after this piece. We must-why, are
you going? Dear me, and I wanted to
hear "Locshia' SO badly. oh, well, l
can come and listen to it some time when
you don't feel like coming, and you
won't be sitting here and grinning all
the time-'deed 1 don't know what to
make of you sometimes! You appear to
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u u IL - - - az NAAAAAo
like possessing a
discriminative. II
catholic, taste In
matters musical.
We possess 1t
here.
That we possess
1t Is shown by the
character of IRE
quest" pieces that
we're necessarily
imploring the pier
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much stage money changes hands by fair
means or foul during the performance.
1t will probably figure up somewhere in
the national debt altitude.
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AT the general delivery window disap-
pointment is the emotion that is most
frequently displayed, for at least five out
of six persons who call for letters re-
ceive the information that there is none
for them. Several mails come in every
day, and if one is anxiously awaiting
letter he is apt to call and ask for it
half a dozen times between the hour of
arising and going to bed each day. until
the letter finally appears. It Is but nat
ural, then. that the average man or
woman who is looking for letter should
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more money than he knows what to do
with"
Thereupon the two young things begin
to buck dance with some alacrity and the
orchestra plays the 'vamp' of what ap-
pears to be a song. It's all about
''And-he's got money doom, BOOM,
You bet he has,
And he's-my-honey (boom, BOOM.
And when he spends it on-a-me
You all will agree
and so forth. intertected with various
"breaks" where the sanded floor gives out
a shutting sound. as the feet of the dear
young things execute moves which set an
appreciative gallery off into whoops and
howls.
You see, it was all about money The
two young things just live to separate
somebody from his stage money. A
hard guy-leading comedian-comes to the
front and holds stage millionaire up in
the presence of the chorus and the light
comedians and extracts a roll of green
paper as big as the ordinary cabbage of
commerce. 1t is said to be $4,000. but it
looks like ten million. And there's lots
of stage business over that money. The
millionaire is seen again several times,
and he always has a roll-several rolls
which he gets rid of every few minutes
Gosh! What an income that man has.
When he sits down with damsel on
either side of him to buy unlimited cold
tea champagne on the program he not
only refuses to take change for the thou
sand dollar bills which he throws at the
walters, but Flossie and Frizzie go
through his pockets between drinks and
get enough money to endow an actors
home All of which tickles the audience
immensely. The stage, in its powerful
way. is rapidly educating the public to
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ATLANTIC CITY, March %. 1909.
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The little busy bee is a sort of first
cousin to the stage by that sort of reason
ing.
So the chorus chortles. and sways first
one way and then the other and goes off
to right and to left hopping single footed
ly and f1rtatiously sticking one foot back
at the audience-and at you-who are
smoking that big cigar. Then enter two
young things in the laciest of gowns, and
with the reddest of parasols, and they be-
gin TO talk just as any two real ladieo
might talk:
Say. Grace. who's that swell ] saw
Cor seen-makes no difference) you with
Tn other day."
..Oh. why that's Cholly Van Rockapile.
He's ME steady now, and say, he's got
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whose calling brings him into close touch
with humanity soon grows accustomed to
these evidences of emotion.
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lithographs begin to sing something that
NOBODY In the world understands.
Wen, research has shown that the cho-
rus is generally singing something about
honey and money" The busy bee
that gathers the saccharne from the
flowers and deftlv turns 1t into something
that even DIR. Wiley cannot find fault with
never suspected that of all the heroes of
fable. hction. finance and frivolity he
would be the king. But is It not the
truth? The bee is responsible for more
stage business-just look now. There's
that old, old comedy remark about be-
ing stung. isn't there? Then there's the
I,UO,OOO songs about being sweet as
honey, and they all rhyme somewhere
with money-either saying MY honey is
all the money" or We'll soon have the
money then I'll marry my honey" or LAS
long as | have my honey I don't care
FOR money And. to get back to stage
money. ii is a fact that If the stage had
to cut out the money business there would
be gap so big that the whole Atlantic
ocean could get in.
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HE patrons OF mo
general delivery!
Their name is le-
gion. Sometimes
they leave the
window with a
smile. More ire
quently they leave
it in tears. Usual
ly it is the case OF
the remittance that
did not come. Some
times 1t is worse
than that
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zEllaGHI
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MI OST Common Glass
lvl of General Delivery
Patrons Are People of Small
Means-The Giddy Girl and
Her Love Letters-Fraudu-
lent Use of the Mails Reduced
to the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ment Is the Emotion Most
Frequently Displayed at the
Window-The General Deliv-
cry Helps the Police to Trace
Travelling Criminals.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-26
The Wall of Miss Sixteen.

Ny Dear Miss Door:
l am a girl Of Is. and have never kept
company. All OF the other girls Of my age
have young men callers. My mother SAYS I
cannot have them for another year or two.
Don't you think this is mean, especially
as | am very tall and wear nv dresses
quite long. Please tell me what you think
UNHAPPY.
Being tall and wearing long dresses
will not make you 'grown-up.' You'll
lave TO grow up" inside before you
will be old enough TO think of enter
tanning young men. If I were you I
would believe in my mother absolutely,
and do as she told me. having all the
girlish good times possible, for as long
a time as l could. Then a year or WI
later I'd know how to Judge young
men as they were, and not through the
romantic yes OF silly sixteen. Let the
other girls have their beaux, and think
how very, very much they are missing.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-26
Household Duties Are Made Tn.
necessarily Hard-Don't
Oyerdo Things.

self what is the very opposite of your
mode of life n take that for your va
cation. 1t will be just what you need.
The other day I spent a week end
at the home of some very charming
people who are decidedly intellectual.
There on the table was every kind Of
new thought, and intellectual magazine
printed. There was nothing frivolous,
so l just had to take what there was
or sit with my hands crossed. There
/ was, up against it. I lay fiat on my
back in the sunshine, and I read first
n magazine and then ten or twelve.
l devoured them as a child devours
candy when its system needs sugar.
When l finally ~arose-and, let me tell
you, | lever felt SO rested, so invig-
orated-I could feel a tickling sensa-
ton in my brain when long closed
thought cells had opened out and ex-
banded. l felt all a-thrill and a~-tingle,
because I had given myself the dandi-
est kind of a mental vacation-just.t the
opposite of what my much abused
brain was getting all the time.
Go you and do likewise. Q
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-26
Center Sex Has Yet to Learn
How to Take a
5 Vacation.
HE average woma doesn't
knou how IN uorL

1T HE average woman doesn't
know how to work. She
doesn't know how to rest.
She doesn't know how to take a va
cation
This remarkable statement was made
by a man recently. II is very true, says
a woman journalist of the Philadelphia
Press.
Woman's work is never done because
she is a born potterer. Women who ac-
complish things have to overcome this
weakness for detail first, and I'll war
rant you that every now and then they
have a relapse and feel heredity tug
ginga at their skirts. Notice how a man
works. During several hours he resem-
bles a huge dynamo. If any person In
terrupts or gets in the way, woe to that
persons head! And, then, all of a sud
dent, like calm after the storm, comes
complete rest. He lounges; he smokes
a cigar; he exchanges jokes with the
office boy. You would size him up for
the LATEST. man on earth, n you
would make a big mistake, for he is
only storing up strength for the next
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-26
ABOUT WRITING PAPER.

Gray is undoubtedly the correct color
for all note paper, the shade varying
to suit individual taste.
In quality il may be either very
heavy OF extremely thin; there seems
to be no medium.
Both rough n smooth finish are
seen, and envelopes. as a rule, have
pointed flaps. Rarely are square ones
used at present,
Persons who do not like gray will find
various shades of blue from which to
choose, but great discretion must be
exercised in selecting from this color.
A decided pale blue is not good form,
a tint just off white is effective. and a
deep cadet is always good form. Any
other examples should be avoided.
Correspondence cards have come into
vogue again. Those oblong in shape
are to be preferred to square ones.
These come in the same shades as
note paper.
When the monogram is used il Is
placed now not at the middle of the
top, but at the upper left corner of the
paper. This is 50. ever when 10 adj
dress Is stamped.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-26
WHEN YOU 60 A.cAMPING

1t is better TO have several small
sleeping tents than one large one
Where cots are used for sleeping. a
Txs tent is large enough for two per-
sons
Select a place TO pitch which is level
and we'll drained when you start to
occupy.
A brown waterproof cloth spread on
the fioor will make the quarters more
comfortable.
The camper should use folding chairs,
folding tables. and cooking utensils
that will go inside one another.
The cheapest and best camp stove Is
a kerosene vapor burning one, which
comes in various burners.
Kerosene can be found any place and
is a clean and inexpensive substitute
for wood.
Specially made tins and bags should
be taken to protect the food from
dampness and insects.
Folding bath tubs are Indispensable
where river or lake are far distant
from the camp.
The suburban camper takes care &c
pitch near some farmhouse from which
he can buy fresh supplies.
For cool days and nights a small
round pot stove or tent heater will be
found valuable.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-26

Women Born Potterers, Says Writer.
Tells Them to Notice How Men Work

squirt. He has relaxed tension abso-
lutely, and that makes him a first class
machine for all of his days.
But is a woman wise enough to do
this and slip off the belt, fguratively
speaking. and give her mental machin-
cry a chance to cool off? Not she! She
keeps her overtaxed organism at full
tension the whole blessed time. and she
putters, she fumbles and uses up whole
days doing simple stunts she could put
through in one single effort II she knew
how to manag herself.
A woman takes her work home with
her. She does it over and over in her
mind. She eats with 1t, she sleeps with
it. and she grows narrow and Grabbed
and stupid over it.
And the man all this time is grow
ing brighter and stronger, physically
and mentally.
Then take the subject of vacation.
What does a vacation mean? A
dress parade? Sitting around and be-
ing bored to death? No. my friends;
we undergo that sort of thing all the
year round. 1t means a complete
change. II you live In the city, 1t
means the country: if you live In the
country, 1t means the city; if your life
is narrow n dull, it means sight
seeing; if you are lonely, 1t means
meeting interesting people. Ask your
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-26
How to Care for the Teeth

TT would surprise many women who consider themselves hygfenic IN the car
/ of heir teeth to know tha they were not Cleaning the e'h i"ee 'mes
i dav is OF little avail if it is lot done correctly. Brushing may pc ac'uai
harmful if too rough or in such a dhedion rs to push The gums pack IRON the
teeth. -
Clean the teeth vice a day, preferably after each meal Never hesNNa j"
before going to bed. az when he mouth is quiet n there is no 10Y o. sahVa
dental decay is most active.
Keep our toothbrush hygienic. Let it hang where it vii get Jul ana al"
wash IL maionan in a good disnfeetant Throw way at sign OF NoseheN
Ibrirles One of these lodging in thu throat MAJ give serious oup
Brush the teeth gently with a rotary motion, so the orstes Whi peneua'e
this way.
Never neglect to brush the edge Of the teeth, also on he surface
when not using a rotarym motion, brush downward on the pp teetna an p
ward or the lower. 80.
II vour teeth are at all irregular, used dental floss or a qWl tootnpick a
metal nick is D to injure the teeh and guns an the Woode ones lay
spunter Remember that threetourths of the trouble with teeth commences
between the teeth.
When tartar has formed on the teeth close to the gums " It removed o.
a dentist 1t is the forerunner OF, decay This should be lone twice a year oy
rostp ersons sometimes otener, where it form rapidly from over-acidityin tn
system.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-26
NEWS FOR SHOPPERS

Those who do not like to take well.
bound books away on their vacations
will find all of the popular novels
bound in paper at Hahne & Co.'S.
An attractive raf1a parasol. seen al
the w. V. Snyder Company's, was
made on a sixteen-rib frame and had
a long handle of natural wood.
Pineapple shippers, cucumber slicers
and all other rather odd but decidedly
useful kitchen utensils will be found
at L. Bamberger & Co.'S.
Sailor blouses for young girls are
shown at the David Straus store, made
of white linen. with collars trimmed
with blue or red braid and emblems.
A dainty lunch cloth of fine linen,
showing just a little drawn work a.
the corners. may be purchased for 1
small sum at l.. S. Plaut & Co.'S.
Long, stiff quilts. the kind that look
so smart on a tailored hat. have been
marked down in price at Lissnerss.
Cameo collar pins are offered at the
David Straus store in a variety OF
pretty designs.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-26
She Likes to Tease.
Dear Margerr nnnn.

Dear Margery Doom:
| am in love with a girl who says she
loves me, but she has a funny way OF
showing it. The other night We went to
a party and she just devoted herself to
another young man. When 1 spoke 10 her
she laughed and then became angry. re-
frsing TO speak to me. The next day ste
wrote me a note. saying she vas only
fooling and asking me to call. When I
called she never even mentioned the mat
ter. Please tell me what TO do. as I hate
TO have her think she can treat me as
she likes. WORRIED
/ think she is fond of teasing you.
Pretend that you do not notice. When
she sees that lier pranks have no effect
she'll probably cease playing them. In
innate casually that if she prefers the
society Of others you are quite willing
TO give her up, and pay attention to
other girls.
The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-26
FOR A PALMER c0IFFURE

Whether or not the Americans VIII
accent the severely plain couture now
fashionable in Paris is difficult TO tell,
but every day one sees less puffs. less
pompadour and less waves.
The Brittany fashion of doing up the
hair has become a fixed thing ABROAD
instead of a fad. and women are mailing
It with glee, because it will save them
the trouble of curling h hair during
the warm months.
1t does not require more of ones own
hair than does the ~coiffures of the last
w wears. Braids are needed. They
may be real or bought. O 1.-Two of