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Evening journal., 1909-05-25

teams of the city. Juniors OF the age
Of 10 years are requested TO send the
name Of their team and the names Of
the captains and managers 20 John c.
Collision, No. 1i63 West street.
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Juniors to Have Leaaue.

John c. Collision. formerly manager
Of the keystone baseball club. and
Manager Crosgrove of the Parksldc
baseball team. are organizing a junior
Baseball League among the junior
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Hrandywine Juniors. Want to Play,

The Brandywine Juniors are MAX
ing an effort TO get game for sqtur-
day ANY junior team in tho city de-
string a game for the day should ad-
dress John Brainard. No. los Race
street
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National League.

Cincinnati. 3: Philadelphia. 1.
Chicago, 4; Brooklyn, ~ innings.)
Pittsburg, 6: Boston, ..
ST. Louis. 3; New York. -
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Tri-State

Williamsport. 6; Harrisburg. ..
Lancaster. s; Reading, 3.
Johnstown. ?; Altoona. 1.
Trenton, G; York, 4.
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Atlantic League.

Shsmokin. Z. Easton. 6.
Reading. 4: Elizabeth, ..
Pottsville. s; Wilmington, 4.
Allentown. 10, Mt. Carmel, S
Evening journal., 1909-05-25
BASEBALL STANDINGS
AND RESULTS,
GAMES FOR 10. DAY.
American League,

GAMES FOR TO-DAY.
American Leaaue,
Athletics at Cleveland.
Washington at Detroit.
New York at Chicago.
Boston at ST. Louis.
National League,
Cincinnati at Philadelphia.
Chicago at Brooklyn.
Pittsburg at Boston.
St. Louis at Newark.
Tri State.
Harrisburg al Williamsnort
Altoona at Johnstown.
Lancaster at Reading.
York at Trenton.
Atlantic League.
Allentown at Shamokin
Pottsviue at Elizabeth.
Reading az wilmington.
Easton at Mt. Carmel.
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RESULTS or YESTERDAY.
American LEAGUE

American League.
Cleveland, s; Athletics. .
Detroit, 10; Washington. 1.
Chicago. 2; New York. /.
st. Louis Boston, rain.
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Wantnd.

A case Of bad roof that James NJ
Bryans Pure Iron oxide Roof Paint
viii not beneft'
Evening journal., 1909-05-25

a perfect circulation OF abso-
lutely dry, cold air. All moist
IRE. odors and impurities are un-
known in this refrigerator. Has
solid oak case, six walls. Re
movable shelves, Porcelain
tank, Brass hinges and faucet.
For this week only.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-12
LAND"

running away and her mamma did not
know it, and then things which fol-
lowed in what seemed perfectly nat
ural sequence for a bedtime story
TT seems that there must be many
Miss Soberfaces in the country, for l
have heard on all sides of the use OF
Little Maude" as a bedtime story.
Many persons who heard Mr.. Loomis
when he was on a lecture tour with
Jerome X. Jerome will remember haV-
ing heard this delightful bit of foolery:
The author has added to his original
story of 1.-The Mother of Little Maude
and Little Maude" story about LIT
tie Maude and the shipwreck, ana
also one about Little Maude and the
fire. All these are illustrated with re-
marlxable drawings by the author, and
the entire book, which is not at all a
fat book, will prove amusing out OF
all proportion to its size.
Little Maude and Her Mamma. BY
Charles Battell Loomis. New YORK.
Doubleday, Page & Co.
A story of football and rowing, with
it's scenes laid in an eastern school FOR
bows, is THE School Four The book
aims to show the practical and teen
picaI side of athletics. 1t presents en-
couraging conceptions of life, and ought
to suggest to all its readers the best
WaV to face those SchoOl proplehls
which come into the life of every boy
The author extends considerable cred
il for the technical work in the book to
John Richardson jr., captain OF the
undefeated Harvard crew of 1908. for
expert counsel, for the freedom or the
Harvard coaching launch and also Tor
much personal inspiration.
Albertus II. Dudley, the author whose
Phillips Exeter series has already been
widely read, will continue his present
series with a book treating of the city
high school and of the country boarding
school.
The School Four. BY A. T. Dudley.
BOSTON, Lothrop, Lee, Shepard com
Pany.
Charming word pictures of the life
and doings OF such humble creatures aS
the grasshopper, the house fly, tho
earth worm, etc, are found in "WonS
derful Little Lives" told in the same
graceful style that made the success of
''Wilderness Babies" In that book the
life of the young of such common ami
mails as the squirrel, fox and mole was
described This new book is a sympa-
thetic story of the work and play of the
smaller denizens of field and forest
Wonderful Little Lives. By Julia
Augusta Schwartz, Boston: Little,
Brown & Co.
The object of the practical Piano In
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-12
MYSTICAL MISTLET0E
OF BONNIE OLD ENGLAND

/" HESE sombre disciples of Taranis
and Camulus were chanting their
II hymn to the dawn in low monot--
onous wailings as the king led on the
advance through and out of the forest
to the smooth summit of a little gorse-
sprinkled hill, beside the "soft-flow-
ing Avon"-and, there suddenly paus-
ing. struck his gigantic spear into the
soil which he had chosen for the plant
ing of the corner stone of warwick.
1t was beneath the spreading branches
of an oak the only tree left standing
on the hill, and the Druids gave a
shout of rapturous joy. With them
the high oak was held sacred as the
stern and lonely monarch of the trees,
speaking to them of their gods; and II
pleased them to note the pious fore
sight of the king. Instantly the arch
priest, old Dallan, hurried forward.
searching the pale green boughs with
keen eyes, while his fellows pressed
about him in silence. and the chief
tains encircled the tree. Then sud
denly without warning, and as though
he never had come before, the sun
shot up above the vast unbroken for
ests to eastward and kissed the bud
ding oak upon the hilltop, so that
there ran "a little noiseless noise
among the leaVeS as lHey lIelhDlSu
at the touch of his rays On the in
stant the eager-eyed arch Druid,
thrusting both clenched hands straight
upward in highly wrought religious
excitement, uttered a tense prolonged
shrek which fairly curdled Caradoc's
blood:
"Oo-yee! The Mistletoe An-Heal!"
Oo-yee!"
AS the sunrise lit up the big tree,
the searching eyes of Dallan the Druid
had discerned a branch of the mysti-
cal mistletoe growing close against its
huge trunk, little whiting that the
shrewd king had found it there be-
fore him, and had carefully chosen
his hour To these fanatical reli-
gionists, the combination of omens
was so impressive that not a man of
them but shivered to his marrow with
she rapture of superstitious awe-the
LAk, the dawn, the mistletoe in the
sixth day of the moon, the king and
his corner stone!-and the cry that
shrilled from their throats as they
stood with uplifted clenched hands
behind Dallan, their leader. frightened
many a squirrel from his feast of ten
der twigs among the tree tops.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-12
AIR VOYAGlNG

The healthfulness of the upper re-
gions of the air, whether visited by
aeroplane or balloon, must be included
in any description of this new expert
ence. We readily undertake a jour-
ney of hundreds of miles by train, boat
or automobile to reach higher alti-
tude where we may breathe cooler
and purer air. The airship rises to the
altitude of the mountain top in few
minutes. Looking we'll into the future,
Rudyard Kipling has described the
hospital airships with their decks
crowded with tuberculosis patients
gaining new life from the upper air
lanes.
The experience of Mr.. A. Leo Stevens
during many flights issa case in point
"As one ascends rapidly, especially on
a damp, depressing day." said MIR.
Stevens, "the relief to ones lungs is
soon noticeable. The air becomes more
rarihed with every breath I have felt
something of the same sensation in
ascending a high mountain. / have
started several times on flights suffer"
ing from a severe cold when l have
noticed that my head has cleared after
a few hours spent in the high alti-
tudes. Incidentally one never takes
cold on a balloon trip. / have been
wet through by passing storms and ar
most frozen, but l never return to
earth with a cold. There are no mi
crobes in the upper air lines. From
"How 1t Feels to Fly" by F. A. Col
Inns, in the American Review of Re-
views for November.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-12

A PRETTY and poetic series of fairy
II tales is overheard in Fairyland,S :
IA by Madge A. Bingham. Mother
Nature, cheerful old brown fairy, tells
why poppies make people sleepy, why
there is a star in every apple, why the
first toadstool was made, why the ivy Is
always green, and gives many other
pieces of information, in none of which
there is a modcum Of truth. But who
expects or wants truth in fairy tale?
The volume is illustrated in colors and
will please many small children when
read aloud by mother or some other
obliging grown up.
Overheard in Fairyland. BY Madge
A. Bingham, with pictures by Ruth
Sypherd Clements. Boston; Little,
Brown & Co.
The stories of indian folklore. some
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-12

of which appeared first in Good House
keeping, have been published in book
form. The many tales, each with its
well pointed moral, Ire delightful to
readers both old and young. The at
mosphere of forest life and the per-
sonification of the beasts of field and
forest give an unusual flavor to the
stories, making them well above the
average book of the sort. The creation
myths are treated in a simple manner.
and their symbolism which in the
original tales is decidedly complicated
becomes more effective here from alb
breviation.
Many of these stories bear strong
resem blance to other fairy tales, and
the young readers will undoubtedly
find this very feature an added charm,
as it will offer an opportunity of COM
parison and of finding similar incl
dents in the fairy tales of other ma
tions.
Wigwam Evenings. BY Charles A.
Eastman and Elaine Goodale Eastman;
illustrations by Edwin Willard Deming.
Boston; Little, Brown & Co.
Ellis Parker Butler has always
seemed to me to personify a modern
model for DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes
man "who never dared to write as
funny as he could" or words to that
effect. After writing pigs Is Pigs"
he left the people of an entire conti-
nent laughing. Few of his later works
have had so consistently humorous a
strain.
In a recent work called 1.-THE Thin
Santa Claus" however, he bids fair
to surpass his previous effort. The
story concerns Mrs. Gratz, who was
never in a hurry. What is the use
of being in a hurry when you own a
good little house and have money in
the bank and are a widow"
1t also deals most insistently with
some chickens which did not come
home to roost, or at least were not
allowed to stay there when they did
come. The wonderful present which
Santa Claus left for Mrs. Gratz, her
calm acceptance of the fact and her
stolid insistence that Santa Claus had
paid her visit, all lead up to situa-
tions which, if not quite so convuls-
ingly funny as the glimpse of Mike
Flannery shoveling guinea pigs into
bushel baskets, at least closely fol-
low it.
May Wilson Preston has contrib
uted some effective Illustrations which
add materially to the humor Of the
book.
The Thin Santa Claus. By Ellis
Parker Butler. New York: Double
day, Page & Co.
In a delightful "Author's note"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-12

structor is to provide an instruction
book progressive and diversified in de-
sign, interesting and attractive, in or
der to cover the needs of all classes.
The material should be drawn from
the best sources of piano literature and
carefully graded from the first steps
to a high degree of advancement. This
method is therefore in a manner cal
culated to meet the needs Of practical
work in teaching.
In the Most Popular Piano Instructor
careful consideration has been given
to the exercises and studies, which are
progressive. Pieces of the most varied
character, technical and musical in
structiVe and recreative, dance
rhythms, song and operate melodies
follow each other in varied, yet meth
odiCal succession.
The Most Popular Piano Instructor.
Compiled by Paoli Calico. New York:
Kinds, Noble & Eldridge.
If there is such thing as the dead
line" in stage life, Andre Castaigne has
selected his characters from this por-
tion of the underworld There is some
thing fascinating about the volume
that holds the eye until the last page of
the tale is reached. The title is plural,
yet the story winds and clings itself
about the life of one "Biil-topper, a
young Rill, LILY Nll4ID Dill topper
is understood as the later day head
liner of a vaudeville bill, the main
attraction or the drawing card for the
audience. The tale opens with the tri-
ais and tribulations of an apprentice
girl who is being taught the art of
trick bicycle riding. Her father is the
tutor and the strap is often resOrted
to as a means of teaching. The bill
topper in company with her parents
and the omnipresent bike tours the
world from Calcutta to ALASKA and
Pekng to New York But dissatisfied
with the life, she runs away from her
parents and is married to an timer
ant Snowman, Trampy Wheel-Pad. This
life proves to be worse than the for
mer, the wife being forced aeain to take
up her stage riding to support her nus
band, who is a favorite among all
women of the paint and powder clan
Jimmie, an electrician, falls in love
with the bll-topper, much to the dis
may of Trampy, and invents loop
the gap" contrivanCe. becoming also
bill-topper. With series of hits in the
various music halls throughout the
world, Jimmie delves further into the
scientific and produces an "aerObike"
a vehicle for the bill-topper at the OPEN
ing of a new theater. the Astorium, in
Paris. In the scramble for position on
the new theater's program Jimmie, the
inventor, allows Lily to ride the aero
bike AS a fitting climax Lily discoy-
ers that Trampy, her husband, was
married to Ave Marie. a Mexican con-
tortionist, before his conquest with her.
Thus Lily's marriage is void and m
mie figures as an important character
in later wedding.
The book is well Illustrated by' the
author. the dry point etchings bling
especially good.
The Bill-Toppers. BY Andre Cas-
taigne. illustrated by the author In
dianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill company.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-12
NeW Books for Junior Readers
BY FLORENCE BosARD LAWRENCE

Charles Battell Loomis tells how he
came to write the story of Little
Maude.
"If one has a daughter of the right
age" he says, "it is easy to tell bed
time stories, and so one evening when
Miss Soberface called me upstairs to
tell her about a story 1 went into
the bedroom and trusted to luck to
bring me a story in time for me to
give it utterance.
"That is really the best way. II
you prepare a story beforehand it may
not suit your Miss Soberface, and then
you have had your trouble for moth
ing. But if you leave it to chance
and just start, something is sure to
happen
"And so 1t was that evening. |
started little Maude on her ride after
the two four-legged horses, and the
first thing ! knew the horses were
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-12

me! must | own up? 1 don't always do
things well.
But / do like to think that when
the day is dark and dreary" behind
those clouds the sun is shining just as
bright as ever, and that when there
is a rift in the clouds we may see how
bright and beautiful it Is.
1t Is like our lives; some are so dark
and dreary always that one forgets
there is anything but sorrow, and yet
if one only would realize it, there are
lots of blessings. Our lives are well
described by the.poet who says:
BE still. sad heart And cease repinlng;
Behind the clouds Is the sun still shining
Thy fate is the common fate Of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
ANNA NJ. PELREN
1901 East Thirty third street. Vernon
Avenue school, grade AT.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-12
JUNIORS APPRECIATE
THE HERALD PRIZES

Dear Aunt Laurie:
| am so happy over my new PEN
/ think it just lovely 1t is just what
| have wanted so long.
Every boy and girl should have one
Thank you, dear Aunt Laurie.
for it. Your loving niece >,
ANNA M. PELREN.
1901 East Thirty third street. Vernon
avenue school, grade Al
Dear Aunt Laurie
| want to thank you for the book,
"The Road to o." which | received for
three honorable mentions. You were
not at the office. but the editor of
The Herald gave it to me.
| am going to bring 1t down so you
can write your name in it, Aunt Laurie.
have read half of 1t and like it so
much. Your loving niece.
JESSIE CLAUDINO.
Dear Aunt Laurie:
Please excuse me for not thanking
you for your kindness In awarding me.
first prize in the Writer'S Contest some
weeks ago. / now will write a letter
anyway, and tell you we have moved
and are just settled here at Azusa
With love. MARGUERITE CASE.
AzuZa.
Dear Aunt Laurie:
| have been toe. busy with my lessons
to write sooner, but | wish to thank
you so much for the prize I received
in the letter contest and for the beau
tifu high school pennant which I won
in the rhyming contest. 1t makes such
n nice beginning for a collection OF
pennants.
I enjoy the Herald Junior very much
indeed, and am glad to hear that we
are going. to have pennant. | think
blue and tan or green and gold would
HELEN HOWELL.
Los Angeles high school.
Dear Aunt Laurie:
Thank you so much for the prize you
awarded me. 1t was so unexpected that
| could hardly believe my eyes when
1 saw my letter in the paper.
am sure this will be a spur to
future efforts. Thanking you again
and wishing you every success pos
sible, l remain ever your loving friend,
HALESIA HOFFMEJSTER.
Polytechnic high school, tenth grace.
eS5 East Fifty-first street.
Dear Aunt Laurie:
am sending another picture to your
contest from which l have taken the
topic, "The Letter to Santa Claus"
was very much pleased with the
prize that l won, -
VERDA BRIDGFORD.
Vermont Avenue school, BS grade.
1916 West Twenty-seventh street.
Dear Aunt Laurie:
For the Stars and Stripes" the book
I received for three honorable men
tions, is very interesting, and l thank
you very much for it,
! enjoy reading anything pertaining
to the Civil War, as my grandfather
tonight in that war, =
Thanking you again, l remain as
ever, your affectionate niece,
LORETTA e. FRY.
ST. Joseph's school. Age IL years.
1886 Croker street.
The Washington herald., 1909-07-18

Il was known that the Prince Michael
Cantacuzene Speransky was a member OF
one Of the Oldest and most distinguished
Russian families He was worth a con
siderable fortune. while his bride was.
comparatively. a poor girl. a circum-
stance that made the match more prom
ising than most OF its kind But many
shrugged their shoulders and would not
have been surprised 70 hear OF the prln-
cess returning home. brOken-hearted CT
divorced
The princess did come hSme-in ls0s-
but for visit. she had with her Count
Michael Speransky. a bright-eyeG little
boy with the face and features OF his
t-grandfather. The famous civil war
general, 3 boy who seems destined 10 be-
come, when he grows up, a power n the
land Of the Cza-. The young mother was
rediantly happy.
After going 10 Russia. the princess had
ADAPTED herself % the ways of her hus-
The Washington herald., 1909-07-18

was not wanted. to seek his fortune in
America.
But II Johns is Harley" demanded the
boss. who, in the name OF all that's
good. are you2"
II, oh. I'm the gamekeeper's son, at
Harleywold. II was this way, you see,
sir, his lordship was that unhappy at
the big house that he spent every mo-
ment ne could al the cottage and that
was many. SIT. for his tutor was IA love
with the hOusekeeper's daughter. and he
let his 'iordship do much as he pleased.
sir. Then the late lord married again.
sir, a play lady. sir, and she was a play
lady for sure, for there wasn't anything
real about her. and after she came. AR.
Johns WAS more unhappy than ever. and
so he decided % run away. and I just
naturally came along 20 take care Of
him. We've been in the States for five
years. sir. coming fall and we both
ike il. sir. Il viii be sad news Tor his
iordship that Re has come into the title
for he has often said he hoped he would
never see nome again sir. bur II you'll
excuse me, III so and break the news
TO his lordship. sir
There is much more 90 the story, but
ii is already spun out 20 undue length.
ana lnefe Is enough OF u Transcribed TO
illustrate the point that suggested g..
blood viii tell. And il VIII teu ever and
always. but IN this particular instance.
il was the gamekeepcrs son who had
the blood. and be could not have been
finer man. as the sequel Of the story viii
show, II he had been the son OF q hum
dred earls. SO. since blood win ten.
what is the use Of b0asting OF a.? Sup
pose some ancestor Of yours aid land IN
England with William the ConqUeror,
or suppose did enrich himself by heing
a freebooter. or by pilfe-ing from the
poor monks. or the rich monks. rather.
for there was no poverty among them
when their fat condition In medieval
England tempted thieves and made hon
est men into thieves, does that make
you any more a man? But enough,
''Brag is a poor dog"
The Washington herald., 1909-07-18
HONORS AND THE STAGE.
knighthoOd for Actors and Play
wrights In England.


wrights in England.
The honor Of knighthood bestowed by
King Edward upon Beerbohm Tree does
not cause the thrill that followed the
knishting OF Henry Irving. Tor these dig
mites nowadays are less novel. even
amcnS the profession OF the theater Sir
Charles Wyndham and Sir John Hare are
other living examples OF this Kings
courJ-sy. and the theater is doing very
well En- the distribution. says the Dra-
matte Mirror.
And il might have been expected that
Arthur Wing Pinero would come 10 1his
dignity. for II any OF the English dram
austs Of his period deserve il. he de-
serves it The knighting Of Arthur Conan
Doyle. who IS far less directly OF the
tEeater. came not from his work as a
writer Of fiction. some or which has found
the stage. but from bis activity as a
Political journalist az the time OF the
Beer war one other dramatist deserving
OF the honor missed IL. ". S. Gilbert.
perhaps. should have enjoyed this dis
tinction with his gifted coIlaborato-, Ar
work possibly. in some measure opposed
his elevation 10 knighthood. although Sui
livan's music fitted the ubrettist's ideas.
Gilbert was a satirist. and he ridieuIed
not only the pOmp and authority OF roy-
atty, but all that concerned il. al least
by suggestion. Sir Augustus Harris came
10 the honor, TOO. through his activities
as a manager.
As noted. the theater is doing very well
In this age OF royal honors. and some OF
those now associated with Il IN England
that wait for ike distraction NAV vet be
favored None OF those thus honored-
either dramstists or actors-wiI probably
do any better work because Of their
knighting. yet their selection honors the
theater, and should crafty all concerned
in il.
Sir Beerbohm Tree has Just finished his
Shakespeare festival al His Maiestys s
Theater- London Sir Beerbohm has been
oerated betimes by certain London critics
Tor the sumptuouS character Of his shake
sFearean productions, on the theory that
such pomp and Circumstance as he affects
therein has Overshadowed the acting OF
the plays. Sir BeerbOhm has replied TO
this, in the course OF an interview. by de-
claring that drama must aluravs be COL
ored, and that Shakespeare must be col
Ored above all other drama.
TO be adequate" ne says with his
critics In his minds eye. rs 10 De IN
Shakespearean.
And he describes those who object TO
MS method-contrasting them with his
Idea as 10 the lines and tints Of drama
as 'ep!cures in gray"
And whatever Sir BeerbOhm may lack
as an actor-if he lacks anything IN that
vccation-even his critics must admit than
ne shows prOdigiOus enterprise in his
productions. His Shakespeare festival IN
elGded eight plays-''lrhe Merry Wives OF
Windsor" Twelfth Night" Julius Cae-
sar, Hamlet" The Merchant OF Ven
ice, Richard III" Macbeth - and An
tony and Cleopatra" - all represented
within fortnight