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Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-13

tug at your heart strings, which
proves that the tragedy of royalty in
some subtle way is still the tragedy of
duty and youth and the days that
might have been.
Crash and bang form the piece de
resistance of the Los Angeles Vaude-
vile bill this week, with music and
dare deviltry serving as toothsome
salads. The courses are well distrib-
uted, and the aftertaste pleasant.
The three Roehrs loop the loop on
bicycles in a horizontal circle about
wicker basket globe, three at once,
then two and last singly Then one,
who chooses to defy the law of gravi-
tation beyond peradvanture teps for
ward and as the music stops dead
takes the whlrl with the globe in mo-
ton, making the ultimate circuit with
the structure in a straight perpendlcu-
lar above, below and around him. /. is
dizzy business, well done.
Mitchell and Cain impers0nate a
Frenchman of the strapping Norman
breed and a squat Irishman Of good
intentions not entirely hep to the Gallic
spirit. The characterization are clean
cut, especially that of the Frenchman,
whose name as uttered, sounds very
like a threat. A weak conclusion is
the only fault observable in the act.
which aims at grotesque frolic, and HIS
the bulls eye.
Crash! Bang! Whiz! So might rhe
three brothers La Maze be crisply de-
scribed. The chalk faced one Is Ut
terly unbalanced, at least physically
He reveals to us how beautiful a1d in
spring a thing it is to fail into the
orchestra pit and then make US sful
kindling wood out of ugly kitchen
chairs. Now and then the three broth
ers vary the program with a trihe in
the way of bona fide acrobatics, but
that is merely by the way, as somc
great philosopher has said. Their
serious purpose is to crack their hon
est skulls, and one fancies il must
be a grief to them when they miracu-
lcusly fail.
Vera de Bassini, a California girl OF
italian parentage, sings prettily and
blends the melody of her voice with
that of the violin. She makes a pleas
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tragedy is the tragedy Of the Greek
dramatists, inevitable and fairly faced,
and it has that note of finallty Whlch
attests it's truth and its certainty.
Miss Magrane as the peasant sweet
heart at last has a role which exactly
fits her abilities and her temperament.
She fills it gracefully and with a plent-
tude of natural insight and charm
The finished impersonation of Mr.. APP
plebee as the old professor deserves
note, as does the Immaculate and pain
fully fastidious valet of Mr.. Camp. Mr..
Giblyn gave a good account of hlmSelr
as the Wallets humble but covertly con-
temptuous confidant, and Mr.. vivian
as usual, played heartily and tellingiy
in the role of a student chum of the
prince Mr.. Ruggles was the most
truly German figure on the stage, and
almost the only player to utter his lines
with an accurate German accent. When
he said Heidelberg" he spoke as a
German speaks. 1t would pay several
other members of the company to imi-
tate the perfection of his utterance.
Miss Lewis created another type, diff
ferentiating it with her usual skill from
the many others of the same age and
general qualities which she has lately
essayed. Mr.. Scott was capital as the
old waiter, stopping just short of the
border line of burlesque in the fourth
act.
A noticeable flaw in the first act was
the work of several players in the mi
nor roles. A halting speech argues
prettv plainly a lack of familiarity
with the lines. When these lines are
but few repeated flounderlng among
them is the less excusable. In the
later acts, however. the student cho-
rus and the palace attaches were fine
ly embodied, the songs being sung
with spirit and poetic virility, and the
concluding scene of farewell between
the prince and his old comrades being
executed with rare feeling and emo
tional appeal.
The staging is competent, preserving
the German atmosphere ana spirit in
many minute details, even to the mot
tos in good old schoolroom script on
the walls of Karls sitting room in the
inn.
It is a good production, and it will
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ing appearance on the stage, and with
out any great amount of musical -eni-
permanent affords excellent entertain
ment.
Tom Bateman sings a few English
music hall ditties and does turn
in an emotional song, assisted by pam
tonime. He is versatile and makes q
simple act count by the honest sha-
pIicity of his method.
The curtain raiser is comedy
sketch by Edward Weitzel, entitled
"Dutton's Claim" in which Emily ana
Jessie Dodd, William Balfour and ia *
Yount appear The plot is bald ana
constructed in the fashion of uncon-
vincing melodrama. The acting is not
extraordinary, but 1t Is 6etter tnan ~. Nc
sketch. that of Emily Dodd and Mr..
Balfour showing abilities that might
be better placed.
The motion picture is of French
origin, and worth seeing.
Miss Iona Nelson, now playing IN
"a Knight for a Day" at the MaJestlc
theater, is a Los Angeles girl, haVlns
lived in this city for more than M
taen years with her aunt, Mrs. o. T.
Melvin, of S46 East Twenty-first street.
She left here four years ago to go
on the stage and since then has been
with Mrs. Temples Telegram on
the road. with Max Figman in Ihe
Man on the Box joining Mr. Flgman
lust after his Los Angeles engagements
with the Tannhauser stock company IN
Milwaukee and with the Baker stock
company in Portland "A Knight FOR
a Day" is her first experience in musl-
cal comedy and in it she made SUNDAY
night her stage debut in her nome CITY.
Miss Nelson was born in Texas Wnere
her father now operates big rancn'
about five miles out of Brownwood.
She is an expert horsewoman and an
unusually clever tennis player having
participated with credit in several OF
the Portland tournaments. she is d
graduate from st. Mary's Convent
school in this city.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-13
GEORGE WEBB ENTERS
MUSICAL COMPANY
GRAND LEADING MAN TO PLAY
IN BAY CITY
"oH to the North Pole" Amusing
Travesty on the Cook-Peary
Feud, Is Staged at
Fischer's

George Webb. whose work as leading
man of the Grand opera house stock
company has built up for him loyal
clientele of admirers has severed MS
connection with that company to take
the leads in a new musical comedy
company in San Francisco managed by
Nat Magner, the manager for Kolb
and Dill. Mr.. Webb left Los Angeles
last night after the performance OF
what Women Will Do" at the Grand
to assume his new position.
In the cast of "A Gentleman from
Mississippi" which will come to the
Mason next Monday night, are James
Lackaye, Osborne Searle, Hal de For
rest, Fletcher Harvey, ]. p. Winter,
Fred Adams, A. S. Sparks. II. Bratton
Kennedy, Virginia Pearson, Olive
Harper, Minnette Barrett and Ade-
laide Wise.
"Off to the North Pole is the time
ly title of the show that is holding
forth at Fischer's this week. Charles
Alphin, the author, has utilized the
many opportunities for comedy which
Messrs. Peary and Cook have suggest
ed. Mr. Peary is seen in stage guise
in all his commanding glory, upon the
deck of the Roosevelt, guiding Messrs.
Erlanger and Brady. accompanied by
Lillian Russell, Eva Tansuay ana
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-13
ceIebrate Discovery Day

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12.-Discov-
erv day, made a legal holiday by the
state legislature to commemorate the
discovery of America by Columbus,
was observed for the first time today.
Courts. banks and schools were closed,
but no extensive celebration took place.
Formal exercises to mark the occa-
sion were held in the Garrick theater
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-13
columhus Day Observed

CHICAGO, Oct 12.-The Chicago
hoard. of trade and public offices and
schools were closed today in honor OF
the four hundred and seventeenth
anniversary of the discovery of Amer
lea. The day was declared legal hol-
iday by the last state legislature to
be known as Columbus day.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-13

I,,a as easy to secure a bargain in a used
.utomobile through want advertising. It
used to be-and still is-to SECURE horse
and carriage.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-13

Irs az easv 10 secure a bargain in a used
automobile through want advertising. as It
used to be-and still is-to secure horse
and carriage.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-13

SO in to so in wide % to 81 yards long. Nun
from in each grade These grades NOW RA
$1OO, through eight other prices Up to $3.50.
RED AND GREEN NOTTINGHAM CURTt
$500 and $325
ARABIAN CABLE NET LACE CURTAINS
to $500.
FILET AND TAMBOURNE SWISS CURTI
$1.5O, $500 and $2.75.
IMPORTED FANCY MADRAS CURTAINS
ent prices, $325 to $500.
BED SETS in IRISH POINT, BOBBINETT, WIZ
to $15.75.
HAMMOCKS-Fou distinct weaves ofs the very |;
a SHARP REDUCTION, from $500 to $5.25.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-07-28
ing Her Rightfu1 Place

ing over the heads of 400 9th
ers in order to reach the place
of honor. A girl also headed
the list of 500 candidates in
the sophomore examination in
the same university. while two
girls were fifth and seventh
on the list. respectively, in the
high school examination, for
which over a thousand candi-
dates appeared.
The most typical work for
the emancipation of the Hindu
woman is being carried on at
Poona, a leading town in the
Bombay Presidency. Here
Professor D. X. Kharve con-
ducts his famous Hindu Wild
ow's Home, and also his Ma
hila Vidyalaya. These two
institutions are loosening the
shackles from the unfortunate
women of the land and show
ing them how to obtain the
maximum of happiness from
life by usefully serving So
ciety. The aim of the Widows
Home is to educate Hindu
widows along broad, national
lines. The young women are
taught to help themselves in
all domestic matters, with
view to being useful members
of an Indian home after leav-
ing the school. The principles
of the Hindu religion are
taught and all religious OBJ
servances are scrupulously
kept. Love of finery and lux.
ury is discouraged. Some of
the widows are taught nurs-
ing, weaving, tailoring, and
other trades and industries
that will make them self-sup
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Slowly But Surely She is Gaini
By Saint Nil al Singh


IN balmy spring day it fascinates the eye to
, watch the foggy murkylookng horizon
slowly become ridiscent with the dawn OF
day The dawn of the Oriental womanhood
is no less charming The entire Asian horizon to-
day is roseate with the grandeur of this new being
the emancipated woman-that spells salvation
and progress to the entire Orient.
The Oriental woman who for centuries, has fig
ured the slave. or, at best the playthng Of
the opposite SEX is now coming to be regarded
by the Asian as 1.-The mother of the nation,
on whose intelligence, education and native genius
hangs the destiny of the people. With this changed
attitude has the emancipation of woman
from the harem and zenana (seclusion); and the
abolition of the old regulations of enforced widow
hood, early marriage and polygamy. Henceforth
the Oriental woman is to be treated with respect
and galantry, given her rights human being,
and educated to credtably discharge the re-
sponsibilities of her position
1t is sefnterest that actuates the Asian
to curb his instinct to be the ruler of all he
veys." and given the chance to evolve.
Contact with the Occidental has impressed him
with the fact that, in consigning the woman TO
slavery, ignorance and superstition he is weaken
ing the nation. He is fast coming to realize that
he must give the equitable satus-an
opportunity for development, otherwise dire fate
awaits the Asian peoples. This awakening is re-
sponsible for the great activity with which the
Oriental has taken up the work of emancipating
woman.
OF all Oriental countries Hindostan has given
the most Ubiquitous treatment to its women. The
has abored under serious sexinequality.
She has been married early. and in many cases
she has been obliged to live in poygamy. Man
has compelled her to remain widow while he
has prohibited polyandry, refused to put up with
enforced widowerhood and enjoyed plurality OF
wives. In many Hindu families the treatment OF
the widow has been far from humane and consd-
crate The East Indian woman, rule, has had
a domestic existence.
India leads the Orient
TODAY, India beats all other Oriental countries
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porting if it is necessary for them to their
own living.
A Hindu School for Girls.
G SUPPLEMENTARY to the Widows Home is
started by Professor kharve with view
to stemming the tide of widows by laying
the at the foot of early marriage. The
Vidyalaya is probably the first boarding school for
Hindu girls established in Southern India-if not
in all India The school is intended for the edu-
cation of girls of the middle class and humber
walks of life, and thus only $3.50 to $500 month
is charged for board. lodging and tuition; and in
a girls guardian cannot afford this
small sum, charge whatever is made The
Vidyalaya at present serves merely as hostel, ami
the girls attend the local day school, receive their
education along with the boys-a feature that is
absolutely in India and significant of the
olution that is taking place in the country. The
basic principle OF the Vidyalaya is to maintain AMI
educate unmarried girls admitted distinct
promise from their guardians that they will not be
removed from the institution until they 30
years of age Thus the marriage OF the girls IN
the Vidyalaya must be postponed OF necessity. I'M
til they 20 years old. The emancipation
of woman is very recent innovation in India, and
is, therefore, in its extreme infant stage Only
out of 1000 women in India are literate.
Today there are 4O000,000 women shut up in
anas, 2500O,0O0 widows. and of this number, 5000
in Bengal alone under 1 year of age. More
over, the facilities for the education of girls
of the poorest nature since fully ourfths of the
villages of Hindostan without school house.
The problem of woman-uplift in India is a knotty
one: but as the native conscience has awakened
to the necessity of it, there is doubt whatever
that decade or two Will see marvellous develop
ments
AS it is. the timid shy Hindu girl is taking to
school-going In the united provinces of Agra and
Oudh the number of girl scholars signiti-
cant increase of 80 per cent during the year. Five
years ago there were, in the Madras Presidency,
.432 girls at school and now there are 164,7O6,
being an increase of &c per cent during the qun-
quennium. On the Goth of March, 1907 there were
121195 girls and women in public educational in
situations in the Bengal Presidency, being one in
every 80 girls of schoogoing age against one
in every IS at the close of the last quinquennium
Most probably India caught the spark of We.
mans uplift from Japan A systematic propa-
ganda to modernize woman in the Mikados EN-
pire started close upon half century ago. In
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situations are dsintegrating and crumbng TO
dust The old order is changing, yielding place to
new conditions. Old idols are being broken and
new ideals installed in their stead. The seclusion
of the purdah--the confinement OF women within
the four walls of the home, otherwise known as
the zenana or harem-is fast coming to be consid
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naruly a city or Town OF any
size in the Indian peninsula
which is without such organic
ations, and all of them signifi-
cantly point to the fact that
the Hindu women are slowly
becoming used to banding to-
gether to advance their cause,
and have learned the effective
ness of organization and mu-
tual aida development hith-
erto unknown in the history OF
Hindostan.
Hindu women awake.
WHILE she was confined in
+" seclusion and hearty in
termingling OF the sexes was
interdicted, the woman OF India
spent her time between house
hold duties and superstitious
religious practices. She be-
guiled her mind with stories
regarding the gods and god
desses. Today the Hindu wo-
man is thinking less of the
world to come and more of
the present. She is beginning
to grasp the idea that she
must set herself to the task OF
tightening her household druid
gerry. cultivate her mind scien-
titically and devote all her
time and energy to the inn
provement of herself, her i'm
mediate relations. and her
neighbors. Hindu girls are
taking, with avidity, to educa-
ton modelled on the western
plan. with a few necessary
changes, and schools and col
igned for the education and up
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cred an old-fashioned and cruel Gus
tom. The sexes are not being kept
apart as rigidly as they were twenty
or even ten years ago. The veil is
rapidly falling into disuse and men
and women alike are beginning to
look upon it as relic of barbarism
Woman is commencing to move
about with more freedom, and grad
ually it is coming to pass that she
is being looked upon as an adult
invested with sane faculties, insteal
of being considered half-witted
child, born to drudge or to amuse
man.
Men urge emancipation.
r HE very men who. a generation
ago built special apartments
wherein the women Of the house
hold were conf ed. are today
strongly recommending the liberia
ton of the women: and the present
generation is gradually becoming
imbued with the conviction that
chastity dwells outside harem just
as much as inside it. The argu-
ments which two or three decades
ago were universally urged in order
to keep the women behind the pur.
dab and in perpetual illiteracy have
today lost their potency, and the
conservatives of yesterday have
joined the ranks of the enthusiasts
of today who are working for the
emancipation of the Indian woman.
The change is so rapid and revolu-
tionary in character that it forceful-
ly impresses the mind of a traveller
in India today.
AS the Indian woman is coming il
the outside world, she is learning
lacks and is filled with the desire
self to the transformed conditions
ing to feel that she is destined to
part in the rejuvenescence of Hin
eager to qualify herself to help adv
of her country. All over the land [
organizing clubs, associations and
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.leges specially designed for the education and up
lift of girls are constantly being built. Indian
leges, and many have graduated from the leading
universities OF India during recent years a girl
headed the list of candidates for the B. A. exam
nation at the Allahabad University in 1907, climb
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letters of woman. The larg-
er cities have become vital
centres for the propaganda
for the uplift of the female
sex, and even the provinces
are eagerly initiating reforms
that ten or even five years
ago would have been consid-
cred revolutionary. Both the
man and the woman are
learning the utility of work
ing in double harness, which
they find is impossible so
long as the olden time en-
cumbrances and prejudices
that formed essential parts
of the old system still exist.
Naturally, the wife is assum-
ing something like her nor
NAL status, and the nation IS
endeavoring to provide edu-
cational facilities which will
enable the women of India
to develop into useful citi-
zens. Modern notions re-
garding woman's sphere OF
work and status are convuls-
ing Indian society New
ideals are being formed, new
platforms enunciated. The
careful training OF woman is
coming to be looked upon as
the most vital problem OF
the day, and the nation is
vigorously and systematical-
ly setting to work to do its
duty by the fair sex.
Under the impulse of this
aggressive reform move
ment, the old, traditional in
situations are disintegrating
dust. The old order is chan,
new conditions. Old idols {
new ideals installed in their
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- N balmy spring day it fascnates the eye to
} watch the foggy, murky-looking horizon
irid wi Of
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Wilmington

FOR sAI.E-A FEW OF THE BEST THINGS
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JUST LOOK AT THESE!
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Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15

A FIRsr-CLAss 1O-ACRB ORANGE GROVE.
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take up to $4,000 in irst-class Los Angeles
property.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. COMPANY,
$3.50 Security bldg.
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Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15

FOR sALE-ALFALFA RANCH or 40
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cement pipe. 100 feet surface pipe, mower
and rake Price $3.50 per acre No agents.
For terms write to s. HARRIS, Chino CAT
8-15-1
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THE CITY
INGLEWOOD
THAT GROWS

$50 ACRES OF ALFALFA LAND, NEAR
Pomona, at $3.50 per acre. Water is king
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WAYBRIGHT-B BUTLER COMPANY,
$3.50 Security bldg.
F5H7 Bdwy. 2462
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look this up block from car.
FOR SALE-4 lots 45x135. on Morningside
court near Vine between Sunset and Will
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each; water and gas.
lots on Sunset blvd, near Vine, b0xl4o;
beautifully located, clean side street; at
$500 each and one at $14OO cash; cheapest
property on Sunset; water and gas.
houses on beautiful Carlton way; just
finished; modern in every respect; prices ana
terms right
SIS 900 Invested in a centrally located build
ing of stores and rooms will pay you 10 per
cent. G. G. HALL Real estate
Cor. Prospect and Cahuenga, Hollywood.
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Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15

FOR SALE OR TRADE-GOOD AGRICUL-
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cheap for cash. or will trade for other prop
erty If worth the money. Write us what
you have. RANKIN & LANIER, Uvalde,
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Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15
Pianos

FOR sALE-UPRIGHT PIANO IN FINE con-
dition: only 500 for immediate sale Call for
Inspection n3 W. FIFTH ST. A-il-a
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-15

FOR sALE-NICE HONF. COLORADO
Springs: rooms, up to ate also Broom
house. lots, on corner 'se in; cheap for
cash or will exchange fot Los Angeles prop
erty For full particulars address owner.
A. A. JOHNSON, SOC S. Sierra Madre st..
Colorado Springs, Colo. Sci