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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23

DR.. William A. Bell, a prominent
Yonkers physician, fell dead of heart
of former Aid. Dudley It. Valentine,
which he had just entered to attend
Charles Valentine, child, critically ILL.,.
When the doctor reached the patient S
room he suddenly clasped his hand to
his chest, hastily threw open window
and fell back upon the bed. Three doc
tors endeavored in vain to revive him.
DR. Bell was SO years old, and one of
the best known physicians in Westches-
ter county, New York.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23

my DEAR Judge makes the Gale,
say, with a smile, to the little Cir
who occupied the study while hel
father, an eminent literary man, was
at dinner, 81 suppose you assist your
father by entertaining the bores?"
yes, sir" said the little girl, grave
ly. please be seated"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23

The football death list for 1909 con-
tains thirty names and can not be COM
pleted for some time, for there are in
ured players who may not recover. The
number of injured was 225. Peace
hath her horrors not less renowned than
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23

of his unholy, unseish Joy? Once man becomes
husband has ne nothing to bear and forbear? Has the
compound word "henpecked" crept uselessly into our
language? Has no mans individuality" been sapped
or overwhelmed by overpowering personality In pet
tcoats? Though 1t be true that wife has wages"
is a husband allowed to husband his? Though a wife
may be "a slave to her husband has the converse
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23
Caught.

Gracie-Oh, Mr. Nocoyne, how lovely
of you to bring me these beautiful roses!
How sweet they are. and how fresh!
do believe there is little dew on them
yet"
Nocoyne-W- well, yes there is, but
I'll pay it tomorrow-Punch.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23
Every Reason.

''Why does your new baby cry so
much?'
"Say, if all your teeth were out, your
hair off, and your legs so weak that you
couldn't stand ON them. l rather fancy
you'd feel like crying yourself. Lip
pincott's.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23
WHO GAINS MOST BY MARRIAGE?
By Harold Owen.

AS to the comparative tribulations of the
married state, does the man who marries
give no hostages to fortune beyond those pro-
vided by his collaboration? Is 1t for his own
selfish creature comforts that he bolts his
breakfast, rushes for the morning train and
stews in the city-all to earn an income of
which he personally spends only fifth or a
1.-THE? Are dressmakers' bills merely part
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23

A tunic coat effect is the novel feature
of this costume.
At first glance it looks extreme, but on
closer study it is only slight variation of
the lines we have grown familiar with.
Soutache is used for trimming, along with
four fancy Jet buttons.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23

"Maude is continually giggling. She
seems to have an ever-present sense of
humor."
mot at all. What she has is simply
an ever-present consciousness of dim.
pies" Boston Transcript.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23

The Yale athletic organizations profit
of $4,000 on football is large enough to
explain the tenacity with which univer-
sity athletes cling to sport on the grid
iron. 1t reveals also the popularity Of
the game, which has been criticised SO
severely that it could not survive were it
not for the fact that it is a money get
ter. The football experts generally earn
the major portion of the money which
sustains university athletics, and for this
reason the rules will be revised wherever
revision will eliminate dangers in a way
that cannot initiate against the game
as winner of gate receipts.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23

More than 10000 school children
of Chicago are forced by reason Of
inadequate seating accommodations to
cut their attendance to half day ses-
sion.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23

ulation of Palestine who possessed Of six fingers.
1t is reported that he was slain in battle
Among the notions of the middle ages which are
almost forgotten was belief that the faculty Of pro-
phetic dreams a sixth sense, which outwardly
indicated by the possession Of six fingers toes
No one except searching critic may have discovered
that Pope Sxtus w, who is represented Raphaels
Sistine Madonna is possessed of six fingers Raphael
was too great painter not to be able to render this
feature so nconspicuous to make it difficult for
casual observer to discover the sixth finger the
Popes hand yet it is plainly visible to everyone
who takes the trouble to look for 1t. ~
The same true of st. Joseph, who according
reports the New Testament receives his instructions
in dreams He accordingly is a typical example of
person who in all his walks of life is guided by divine
commands rendered to him through dreams. He there
fore is represented with six toes
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23

The more we need advice the less
likely we are to appreciate the kind
we get.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23

The result of the referendum in New
York state on the question of joining Ca
yuga and Seneca lakes with the barge
canal system at an additional expense of
100000 is favorable to the project.
The state at large voted against the
proposition, but New York city turned
TIE scale, and the addition to the canal
system will be made. The state is
therefore. pledged to an expenditure of
$107, 100000 for canal enlargement and
repair-a very large sum of money, but
the export trade of New York city is
concerned. 1t is absolutely necessary
that the canal system be brought up to
date, else Montreal will export all the
grain of the Northwest.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23

The discovery that chemistry can con-
vert sage brush into valuable products
is in line with the progress of the age.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23

Japan's mine disaster, involving two
hundred and thirty coal workers, twenty
Of whom have already been taken out
dead, follows closely enough upon the
calamity at Cherry, Illinois, to strength
en- the conviction that peril is insep-
arabic from underground operations in
shafts and drifts through coal veins.
Since the Cherry disaster there has been
loud demand for the institution of pre-
cautionary measures, and such measures
will be compelled at any expense, when
there is a consensus of opinion on the
subject. Ventilation ought to be estab-
lished by electrical power wherever fans
can be made to induce currents to draw
in air and force out gas, and there
should be extra shafts driven from the
surface with view to their use in
emergencies during which the borrowers
among the coal are unable to reach the
other avenues of escape.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23
Dies Near His Patient.

restoration of the colossal gem" Lon
don Express.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23
THE WASHBURN TIMES.
WASHBURN, WIS.
WASHBURN PRINTING CO., Publishers

And now, it appears, Chicago univer
sity professors are fighting about the
moon.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23

The achievement of the North pole
has not put an end to Arctic exploration;
on the contrary, it has given it a carto-
graphical turn that will rebound to the
advantage of geographers. Prof. Donald
Mcmillan, of Worcester Academy, Maine,
states that next July he will start for the
north with the object of exploring and
charting Crockett's Land, the country
seen to the west of the points from which
Cook and Peary started on their dashes
across the frozen polar sea. There is a
long stretch of uncharted coast westward
from Cape Thomas Hubbard, and ex-
plorers will not rest until this work is
done. There will also be effort to ex-
plore the vast area Of the Arctic sea
known as the Beaufort sea, which has
never been crossed by exploring ships or
by sledgers.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23
A Little Cold.

He caught little cold
That was all.
So the neighbors sadly said,
AS they gathered round his bed,
When they heard that he was dead
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23

Never worry about troubles to-day
that you can put off till tomorrow.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23

EXPOSURE TO COLD
and wet is the first step to Pneumonia Take Perry
Davis Painkiller and the danger is averted. Un-
equaed for colds throat quinsy 25c 5c and Soc
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23
SUPERSTITION IN EARLY ART.
By DR.. Paul CaruS.

Psychologists are familiar with the fact
that six fingers are sometimes actually found
on one hand and that the popularity seems
to be hereditary in certain families, but such
instances are malformations and have not
justified the theory that they are indications
of superiority of any kind We have even
an instance in the Bible, where a case is
mentioned of giant among the Gentle pop-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23
TRUTHFUL ADVERTISING
THE BASIS OF SUCCESS.

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Remedy and Tonic is
Understood.
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world have been made known to
the public. This means new era
in the advertising of popular FAM
lily medicines-Peruna leads.
Peruna contains among other
things, golden seal, powerful in its
effect upon the mucous MEM
branes. Cedron seed. a rare
medicine and unsurpassed tonic.
Cubehs, valuable in nasal catarrh
and affections of the kidneys and
bladder. Stone root, valuable for
the nerves, mucous membranes
as well as in dropsy and indie
gestion.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23

Advertise in this paper, and make your
wants known to your home people.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23

all connection with love Justice My heart sickens
as my minds eye the world where every living
thing lives in peril; and where the peril turns
to disaster that this tower of Sloan falls with
out distinction upon young and old, just and unjust
valuable worthless lives. Or so we say when the
tower falls upon ourselves those whom love
as love ourselves.
Now and then something happens in the world to rid
us of Of these dangerous towers, these Indifferent
agents of death misery and breathe freely
For example, malaria and yellow fever are growing
daily less terrible and whole countries which that
tower always shook and often fell freeing them
selves from a death that slew ndiscriminatngly,
lovingly unjustly At least this is what say of it
when it smites them in some tender place.
There not many of if there any, who would
be foolish to mark out the boundary beyond which
and management of things will not be able to
pass, and skill and prudence will not be able to
avoid catastrophe. Some of believe that we
may come to use our world skillfuly enough to ward
off all disease and bodily pain, that life will last
much longer than it does and death come, for by
far the greater number, in the way Of old age
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23
eT0WERS OF SLOAN LESS IN NUMBER"
By William Scott Palmer.

Providence and prudence said Sweden
borg, "act as one" 1 see earthquakes and
volcanoes, wrecked ships, innocent men suf-
fering while the guilty prosper. see micro
scopic parasites Staying their thousands and
mosquitoes more dangerous than quick-fring
guns. Disease, pain, misery, and the incl
dence Of death, working by a grim law which
is morally an Indifferent chance. seem out of
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-12-23

Nearly every citizen of town be
lkeves that he made It,"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-29

ager wants to money his cast. He may be
spending it recklessly the scenery and costumes
but when it to the company, he will save
The Stage Manager has to secure amicable wise
settlement of this problem
Then comes the matter of the scenery. Ii the
tracts for this have already been given Out-and
very often they have before the Stage Manager is
gagged he has to see that the painters and
carpenters making the scenery that II will be
practicable for the requirements of the book. IL IS
likely not at first makers have habit OF
going ahead without paying much attention 10 the
necessary doors, gateways. and similar entrances.
The Stage Manager has sent out his call for ChO-
rus. and the applicants begin TO arrive. OF course
the requisites in a chorus girl voice appearance,
and ability TO dance at least to learn. Easy TO
obtain: If you Stage Manager. YOU would
know better 1t is practically impossible 10 find all
three of these good points combined in indi-
vdual. When the miracle does occur. the person
blessed ceases to be chorus girl. But finally the
chorus forty eight girls and sixteen mems Sc
eCted and the cast has been chosen and everything
in readiness for rehearsaS.
So far there has been actual warfare The
musical director Is teaching the chorus their music,
and the Stage Manager Is studying the book little
more carefully. Unknown to the author. he has by
this time settled changes that absolutely
must be made. and Is preparing 20 have them made.
If the author refuses make them, the Stage Man
ageT must ask the manager to have SOMEBODY else
do
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-29
The Kickers Subdued

I IKE flock of sheep following the bell vethe- the
~ company stampeie-but not 10 resign No 20
work. There is a rustng of the pages OF the parts.
and IN hve minutes things are moving smoothly as
though the company had been rehearsing a week
The Stage Manager. with the book in hand IS here
there, everywhere showing the actors where they
supposed To enter and leave the stage placing
chairs 10 mark doors houses and trees leading the
soubrette across the stage by her arm 10 meet the
tenor; III fact acting the entire piece for them BY
noon he has taken them through the first act TWO or
three times and they have obtained srnatterinq of
what II IS all about BY this time II has occurred 10
some OF them that there possibilities in their roles
Others have made up their minds that their parts are
hopeless. At any rate the impossible has been ac
complished The thing has begun
BY the end of another day two members of the
company have quit and Others show that they are
entirely incompetent 10 play the parts thew have
been cast for. The Stage Manager duty il is to get
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-29
At the First Rehearsal

NOV comes the first real tug of war. The prin-
~ cipals are brought together for their first re-
OF course the Star-have seen their parts or know
anything about them. except in a most general way.
Now they come TO the theater
The Stage Manager is sitting at a little table in the
center OF the bare stage, near the footlghts His
face Is furrowed with frownS. He knows what Is
coming The company draw up chairs in a semi
circle about his table He knows most Of them. and
they speak the time Of day cordially. The Stage
Manager introduces the author and composer who
properly proud. and then hands out the parts
What, eXclaIms the soubrette. dlSdainiully
looking ~ the typewriter script given 70 her.
What Only SO long
81 beg Your pardon Miss Flash " saws the Stage
Manager quietly. This means. q" Well If YOU don
like II. YOU know what YOU can do
The soubrette hounces into her chair. voicing her
protest against such insult 10 her position the
profession 10 the tenor who sits 10y her side and
equally outraged by the part he has received.
Let read the book now, ladies and gentlemen,
SAYS the Stage Manager.
And II Is done There Is silence throughout the
hurried reading The company does not seem en-
thusiastlc about the piece. The author Is whiting
The composer smiles screnelv. Wait TIL thev hear
his music, he thinks. Then the reading Is finished
and-aiter that the deuge'
The company. from star down 10 the humble pos
SCISSOR OF two-line speech cluster round the Stage
Manager.
this.
There isn't a laugh in my part"
Only ten sides p! Two scenes, and neither Of
'em any gooi''
II the music isn't any better
Where the manager, Ii he thinks III play
part like this
Say, old man. on the level, am l expected TO be
funny with such stuff this,
Bangi Bang IL IS the Stage Manager shifting
the table with his INST 10 order. The hubbub
ceases
Ladies and gentlemen. now that YOU have all de
Cided that YOU don't wish TO rav the parts assigned
10 YOU suppose YOU all return them me 90 10
the managers office, and resign. Otherwise we
shall now begin rehearsng. Opening chorus over
Enter So and So"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-29
Handling the Author and Composer

A Ii this time the musical director has been teach
"A ing the chorus the music. Now the Stage Man
ger has take them at least part OF the day TO teach
them the business" of the numbers Here he I'M
nediatelv finds more trouble 1t has been growing
more and more evident daily that some OF the num-
bers Will not 90 This a hard thing 10 determine IN
advance of production but a frIghtfully bad song
can be spotted without question
The author and composer are told, gently and
apologeticallv that such and such number hash
a chance of success and of course they take IT I'M
pleasantly Finally however. they promise 10 write
a new one This means that the Stage Manager must
look around for an interpOlated number; for, no
matter how accomplished author and composer
are il is seldom that they will be able TO suit
Der of the company with song. once they have
given him one he does not like. No write they
NAV the Stage Manager in all probability must look
outsider for the right song. More trouble for
him.
As 10 the rearrangeInent OF the songs it Is per
fectlv plain that they go they now laid
out The Ponies are needed in certain numbers for
which they cannot make changes Of costume in the
time allotted by the distribution of scenes.
Again the author and composer argued with
BY this time they up the air the saving
has II. More trouble for the Stage Manager. He
must settle this. Either the pair must be brought
around their consent obtained 10 have some one
else make the necessary changes.
About this time. too the costumes are being cut
into shape They are being fitted 20 the girls of the
chorus Just this period IS reached II becomes
absolutely necessary discharge three four girls
This that unless others exactly of their size
can be obtained new costumes must be made. The
manager does not like this. He and the Stage Man
ager have argument. The Stage Manager threat
quit if he Is interfered with and the manager
being a wise man. decides 10 leave him alone
And SO II goes. People resign. discharged re-
main absent for week. forget 20 learn things do
everything wrong IN every possible way. And what
goes wrong II IS the Stage Managers province
10 Straiphteu II out
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-29
The Man Who Does liz All

TOWARD the end of the rehearsals il becomes nee
essdry for all concerned 70 work night and dav
The Stage Manager eats IL the theater. He talks
COrrectS. ScodS. hlanes until e can scarcely vhs-
per. He dances with the awkward ones irving u,
teach them the simplest steps. until he can hardly
move one foot after the other He acts every rart-
he sings every song He changes the book chops out
whole pages al time. writes that the author
forgets IN fact, he Is and does everything. He
must be chorus singer ShowgIr star Soubrete scene
painter, oostuner, musician everything from tor 10
bottom OF the entire works.
BY this time argument has place in his system
There no time for argument What he re-S ,,,,s-
he the result Of demands hurriedlv gwen quickly
obeyed. He Is a martinez. And then as the mo
Tnent arrives for the contamination of all this work
the dress rehearsal the tide changes All see that he
Is bringing ORDER out OF chaos They begin 10 arrre-
clate what the Stage Manager has done. They tell
MN what great man he Is But he brushes them
all away.
The dress rehearsal Is an alI-nieht affair @rvo-s
who has ever been present such an occasion knows
what II Is like And after Is over and the r,,,,-
mas gone home Tor little sleep, the Stage Manager
i sun ABOUT, masking more changes. the inevitable
veNeIlth hour changes. to be ready for a shcrr
last rehearsal prior 10 the opening performance
,. !heh the opening! Let Us hope 1t Is successful
II II IS there are cries OF "Author Author" and
the men who wrote the book and music-oripinaIl,--
20" 20 me audience and receive their cheers The
stage Manager Why doesn't he come out He
Wouidn look well. in his unShaver fac, with H.
ewes and unkempt hair Besides he is too busy ba
on the stage TRYING 20 get twenty ncoInpeten scene
illlterS 20 put up whole scene two minutes when
thtN nave never set ewes on il before
And when II Is all over. he goes home 10 bed 50
t'v' ne cannot sleep. He must however. for To-
of itself, ~ '"NS t'Ie
10 goes the merry life of the man who realizes
musical coinetteS- The picture | have sketched j.
not many Will bear witness. whit over,Iralvn
In TACT words cannot adequately describe the four
9r hVe weeks OF rehearsal through which every Surb
,iIihatle production must 90 before II Is ready fr
nc PuoHT- II ne management of So complicated am
affair IS truly believe one of the most dificrIr
; 'h1' d man can devise for himself | have par
e'PdtSSI III many OF them, have watched MANY a
$50 ih'iSeT wear himself 70 a frazze trvinq; rO
lip 'hings INTO success. and each time. when +
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-29
Only a Few of Them

HAVE had TO take of my hat TO only few men
on such occasions, at that For there are only
few in the country to-day who successfully carry
a musical comedy through its various stages OF in
CubatOn and launch il, completely Matched on its
career as a fedgling. To put il broadly / should saw
that there are fifteen who can, possibly stage
musical comedy thoroughly in every detail There
are not more than ten who certainly do it, When
YOU stop 70 consider that there are from fifty 10
seventv-hve musical comedies produced in New
York and Chicago every season YOU can easily fq-
lre out the amount Of work each one of these ten
must do.
The Stage Manager supply is. indeed. so limited
that now and then a musical comedy star conceive
the brilliant idea that they all OverwOrked and
that if he wishes 70 have his piece well put on the
stage he must do IL himself. When this happens
there is sure TO be something worth seeing.
Three four Years ago of the best known
stars undertook TO do without the services OF Stage
Manager 1t was a hilarious occasion for those not
too seriously concerned IN the matter but for whose
Intimately connected with II there no 10Y per
ceptible BY the end of the first week the star had
taught the entire company 20 act Ike him. had tried
70 rewrite the book three four times had dis
charged the musical director and of the chorus
and was so nervous that he could scarcely tell which
act he rehearsing In attending 20 the details Of
stage management he would forget his lines and
in picking up his lines would forget the stage man
agernent.
Vt the end Of the second week ne gave it w and
called a real Stage Manager who discharged most
of the remainder of the company took the star into
the property room and talked seriously 70 him put
the book back into somewhere near the condition Il
had originally been. and brought the piece a sue
Cessful opening a fortnight. If the star had CON
tinued Stage Manager. / doubt If the Dlay would
have been produced