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short or draw 1t out long,
But is the moon ever strenuous 2"
Certainly it is; any girl of 10 years
old knows that. What do you call it
when she brings on earthquakes? Mrs.
Bowser, I thought to get little help
from you, but I find that you know
nothing about odes or astronomy. I'll
now change that first verse all over.
Don't get mad because I know more'n
you do. Nature intended every hus-
band to know the most
Ten minutes later he had invented
and was reading the following:
From north to south, oh, happy
moon,
Speed on, thou scintilating orb,
And pause not in your dirigible
flight"
Mrs. Bowser choked and gasped and
strangled, but finally controlled her
emotions and said:
aren't you wrong about the way
the moon moves around the earth?
mot at all-not at all. I am max
ing no mistakes about the moon"
II thought it moved from east to
west
'I can't help what you thought.
How do you like the word scintilating
in there?''
''I know that the moon shines, but
1 did not know that it scintilated."
.
new You see 1 have worked in the
dirigible. I might have used some
other word, but l wanted this ode to
be I'D to date I will now tackle the
third verse. 1t beats all how you can
reel off an ode when you once get the
swing of it. Judging by the two
verses already completed. what do you
think of it?"
IT wouldn't hand it in to the Moon
beam club if were you?
Ho
manded Mr.. Bowser, as he rose up and
flushed red and white.
"It is hardly an ODE
'aThen what is it?"
TT dunno!"
She hadn't meant to say so, but the
words slipped out and the damage
was done Mr.. Bowser jumped foot
high and came down on his heels
What was worse, he came down 70
find her smiling in spite of herselr
He glared at her for long two MIN
utes and then pocketed the papers
and walked down the hall and out
doors. Four or five minutes later ne
found himself in front of the shop OF
his family butcher, and ne enlereo
and read the verses to him. Wnen ne
had finished he looked up expectantly
and the butcher put his mouth down
close to the others ear and whis-
pered:
s'Don't. Mr.. Bowser."
Don't what?"
"Don't get in the way of 1t. 1t car
lead only to the bughouse!
Mrs. Bowser had been In ped tWe
hours when she had been awakened
by a voice at the gate singing:
ooh. happy moon, roll on. roll on,
Oh, keep a-roll-a-rolling! .
And she went down and let MT
Rowser in and helped him up stairs
and never said a mean word to MIN
downright. 1909. by the Associated
Literary Press.)
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gram created a sensation. It takes
the audience from the fighting top of
battleship in action and into the 12-
inch turret to the glories of sunset and
moonlight on land and sea, from the
wild grandeur of the Gorge Du Var,
France, to the majestic scenery of the
Rockies in winter. 1t combines the
grave with the gay-and at the same
time takes the travellers to more
strange lands in a fraction of the
time that the fleetest airship can.
"a Stubborn Cinderella" is the at
traction booked at the Grand Wednes-
day, November IT. The Denver Times
says of the production:
There was large house at the
Broadway last night. The parquet
was completely filed and although
many, usually there Monday evenings,
were conspicuous by their absence,
still the general attendance was about
the same.
GA Stubborn Cinderella proved to
be quite a charming entertainment
full of dash, with very little dare. and
gay with the beauty of harmonious
coloring.
you say, after sitting through "A
Stubborn Cinderella that it is "a good
Show and, being quite free from any
suggestiveness or shameful posing,
the purist or the worldly hasn't that
hand-dog feeling that sometimes fol-
lows the falling of the curtain on the
undressed drama
''This musical comedy tells a rather
pretty story and has that somewhat
unusual quality, legitimate drama
tic basis.
Lady Leslie, a young Scotch peer
ess, comes from her northern home
to New York to unveil statue in the
campus of Columbia university-then
on to the Pacific coast-there to meet
a noble duke whom she has never
seen. Lady Leslie has been brought
UP in the strictest seclusion. She is a
modern Galatea and when she reaches
New York a modern Pygmalion in the
personality of a dashing young col
legian teaches her a thing or two, and
of course they fall in love, and the
noble duke in the last act is cast
adrift.
eft is this idea, borrowed from Gill
bert's delicious play, that forms the
present story.
'"The scenes of it's three acts are
laid, first in the college campus, New
York; second, in an Arizona mountain
wilderness, where the train carrying
the party going to meet the dock is
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THEATRICAL NOTES.

Brown of Harvard the delightful,
modern, romantic comedy of college
life in four acts, by Rida Johnson
Young, has proven the most popular
college play of the season: 1t was
originally played by Harry woodruff
and his magnetic personality made
Tom Brown a most lovable character
and now almost household word. So
great has been the success of Brown
of Harvard, that Sanger and Jordan
are having the play published.
Oscar Hammerstein is building a
theater for summer use on the top of
the Manhattan Opera house, New
York. When completed it will have
a seating capacity OF 4'ooo ana VIII
be used for summer opera and other
musical purposes
Harry Corson Clarke, who has
made a substantial hit as the Count
in 1.-THE Girl and the Wizard" with
Sam Bernard at the Casino. New
York, is not a stranger to character
parts, as during his stock company
engagements at Denver. Salt Lake,
San Francisco. Seattle Los Angeles,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-13

Never, Mrs. Bowser. We haven't
got started yet, and here you are,
treating me as child not out of his
alphabet. In a careless way I may
say that the sun has set, but in an ode
like this have got to be careful We
will leave it sit because sit is right.
Anything more?"
"You speak of the moons innocent
face. The term is correct enough,
though I never saw it used thus be-
fore Wouldn't smiling face or
beaming face be better?'
mo, ma'am, it wouldn't. This has
got to be an original ode. I use the
word innocent in an original way"
"But does the moon. whisper. We
say that the zephyr softly whispers or
sighs and that the breeze means and
the gale howls or screams, but that the
moon whispers is a new one to me-.
Good! Good!' he exclaimed. Il
wanted to be original, and I am. I've
fore Now, how can we finish out that
verse? Let's see? Let's see? Hold
on-I've got a thought. I'll write a
second verse before fixing the other
up"
Mr.. Bowser got out pencil and pa
per and set to. 1t came easy and In
ten minutes he had dashed off:
.Thou strenuous moon, roll on thy
way,
And make the world as light as day
We can gaze on thee without asl-
tation
Because of thy help to vegetation
"There-how do you like that?" he
asked after having read 1t.
"Please don't get angry" replied
Mrs. Bowser, but I must criticise II
a bit. In the first place. you have
changed from an ode to something
else You have also changed the
meter. An ode. my dear
"Stop right there! I was writing
odes when you were playing with rag
dolls Don't attempt to tell me what
an ode is. An ode is any style or kino
of poetry you want to write. 1t car
be in long meter or short meter; !,
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BowsER,s ODE.
He Writes One ON the Moon, but May
Never Use 1t.

upon the return from the dinner
table to the sitting room, Mr.. Bowser
sat and smoked and thought. instead
OF reading the evening paper. as is his
naDlt. MRS. Bowser noticed 1t after
a while and inquired:
dear?"
well. yes, I am" he slowly replied.
II sat here wishing you were like
some wives I know off,
How am I different?"
wei, they are always ready to
take hold and give their husband a
helping hand"
Have I ever refused to do so by
you?"
"You begin all right, but it ends in
your trying to convince me that I'm
an idiot. AS I said. 1 wish you were
different
II will try to be. What help can
be to you tonight?'
There is new club started in
town. 1t is composed mostly of as
tronomers. It is called the Moon
beam club. and they have done me
the honor of electing me a member
You know I have always been deeply
interested in the heavenly bodies. and
the moon in particular"
Mrs. Bowser didn't know any such
thing. Indeed. she knew to the con-
trary. 1t wasn't twice year that Mr..
Bowser spoke of the moon, and she
Ildu OIlCc H0dTQ MIN Call d liCi6hoOA
a fool for saying that Mars was In
habited She wasn't going to start
riot. however, and so she replied:
cit is an honor for you to be elect
ed to such a club. When do you make
your first appearance there?"
Tomorrow night, if can get
through with It. You see, every mem
Der has to contribute an ode to the
moon, and 1 haven't even started mine
yet. 1t must be at least fifty lines
long. I've been trying all the after
noon to get something started, but
don't seem to catch on"
"And you want me to help your?
eff you will. Here's as far as I've
got"
And he took a paper from his peck
| ct and read:
| "Oh, silvery moon, I love to gaze
Upon thy innocent face;
1 love to see thee rise and sit,
| I love thy whispers and
docs the moon set or sit?" asked
Mrs. Bowser as she took the paper
when you sit down do you set or
sit % queried Mr.. Bowser In reply, be-
| ing ready to bristle up at once"
well, We'll leave 1t Sit
do you say 1t should be set?"
"You speak of sunset, don't you
| You say the sun has set?"
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D AT THE 1p +
The ATRF,S|
COMING ATTRACTIONS.
At the Grand.

AT the Grand.
Lyman Howes Moving Pictures to-
night.
Stubborn Cinderella, Wednesday, No
vember IT.
Dustan Farnham, Saturday, Nov. 20.
The House of a Thousand Candles,
Thanksgiving.
Sheehan Grand Opera Co., Saturday.
Nov. 9th.
In the list of the excellent attractions
today none stands higher than that Of
Lyman H. Howe's Travel Festival at
the Grand today and tonight. Though
1t has been before the American public
for over Is years, it is only within the
past three years that it came into its
own as is proven by the great crowds
that daily attended it for the past few
months in the finest theaters of the
biggest cities. It's popularity is attest
ed everywhere. In Philadelphia, at thu
Garrtck theater, it was presented $50
times. In Ford's opera house. Balti-
more, 216 times. In the Nixon, Pitts
burg, PIG times. In Keith's Hippo
drome, Cleveland, 144 times. In the
Lyric, Cincinnati, 12O times. In the
Garrick, st. Louis, 10S times. In the
Shubert, Kansas City. weeks. In
the Royal Alexandra, Toronto, 5
weeks and everywhere the new pro-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-13
His Answer.

Once upon a time a child who was
asked upon an examinat ton paper to de-
fine mountain range. replied, "a large
sized cook stove.' The same method of
reasoning seems to go with older
growth. A recent examination paper at
the Sheffield Scientific school at Yale
contained the question: What is the
office of the gastric juice?" And the
answer on the paper said, THE stom-
ach'-CIeveland Leader.
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At the Novelty.

Next week the Novelty Will offer
Of their patrons. Surazel & Razell,
billing themselves as 1.-THE Man, the
Piano and the Girl" This act has
been featured in all the larger cities
throughout the East Rose & Green
in a comedy sketch entitled Ihe
ing Chris Lane in songs and stories.
Govt Trio. canine equipoise. Wolf &
ZadeIla is another exceptionally strong
act entitled eat Hotel Healthy Miss
Hazel Kaiser and the Novelscope will
comDlete the bill.
Evening star., 1909-04-24
TARIFF.
General and Historical.

Annals of the American Academy. May. 1907:
v 20 PIP 43e"'s. This number contains l5
Trade
Annals Of the American Academy. Sept. Ieos.
" ~ PIP. 2''-E:a \ series Of articles based
,.n,t Brilsmsn mar. r. l. The New Tariff Idea At
apart garter T M Tnrn r. revision and the Nation.
Nc.sssities. North American Review. March.
Garvin. L. +. g. Labor and tac Tariff. North
American me Review. 1905 iss. pp 4ss !ss
es @Es Review of fgssss, 1's snT and Poll
,msrcsn msrc kcvsv Future raS sf the Tariff North
Srhmciler O. Mercantile r; System and 1t,
Historical Significance. IIc,Sch5i5.
Shaw. /. y. Tariff Question. In his Current
S,anw"od r american @ Tariff Gontrcysrsics ,s
Ell. 5. i0os HIt.T1o.
L. $, Manufactures Bureau; Tariffs of Foreign
u. $. Congress Customs Tariffs, senate aud
House Reports. lsss. 1870. 1894. 1897 Vita
References to Laws of 1886. 1881 and 1ssa
.wsshburn. A, H.. rerplexities Of Tariff Re.
vision. North American Review. Feb, 1909.
For Protection.
Mckinley. W. The Tariff 1890. HUM:Is
Gnnton. G. Taxation and Revenue; the Pro-
Pattcn. 5. \. Economic Basis of Protection.
Rice D. H. Protective Philosophy. 1890
Hv-R3G
Thompson r. +. Protection to Home In
dustrics. 1856. HvTe11p.
Tariff Reform and Free Trade.
Rastahe, c: +. Theory of International Trade.
1897. HK -B29S.
Bastiat. F. scphisms OF Protection. 1883.
Nv B2as.
Boien. G. L. Plain Facts 10 the Trusts and
the Tariff 1902. Hit Bsis5.
Bridgman. Il. l.. Passing OF the Tariff. 1909.
HIS;- B163p.
Carnegie. A. Ny Experience With and Views
Upon, the TnriT. Century. 1908. V. q. pp. 1885,
20J
Shcarman. T. q. Taxation and Revenue: the
Free Trade View. In Man and the State, 1sa2.
PIP. l93-22S. H-M3l6.
Artistic Crafts.
Bankart c. r. The Art OF the Plasterer; an
Account of the Decorative Development OF the
Craft 1909. WFO- B22J. Reference.
Furnival. W. J. Lesdless Decorative Tiles.
Faiencc and Mosaic 1904. WkT-FpSa.
Good Housekeeping. Manual OF Home Handi-
craft 1905. WSG.Jg:;.
Meyer. +. $. Handbook of the Art Of Smith
ing. 1896. WY-M516.
Schmler and Mueller. Ornamental Glass. 1895.
WS-SchS,o.
T661
whall. G. W. Stained Glass Work. 1905.
WPJ-W55os
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pothesis he has worked out story of
excitement and romance which has few
equals in recent fiction for insistent
demand upon the readers attention.
THE BOB'S CAVE BOYS. A Sequel to
The Boys Of Bob's HILL" By
Charles Pierce Burton With illus
trations by Victor Perard New
York: Henry Holt and Co.
The same band OF adventure-loving
boys who made Bob Hill famous continue
their fun in Bob's cave. Tom Chaplin
still retains his leadership. though away
at school, and the present proceedings
are recorded by John Alexander Smith.
alias Pedro, secretary There is an ex-
vades the cave and who Is smoked out
by the band, and other wonderful hap
penings in the way of initia tions. and
secret meetings. with signs and invisi-
BILE ink, and of snow battles and BIRTH
day party, and of a cruise in an airship.
and a bear hunt, and finally the home
coming of Capt. Tom. and, by way of
climax. Christmas with plenty of fun.
1t is book full Of wholesome jollity
with an undercurrent of boyish honor and
kindliness that makes it well worth read
ing.
PERU; Its Story, People and Religion.
BY Geraldine Guinness. illustrated
by DIR. H. Grattan Guinness New
York: Fleming H. Revell Company.
This book. profusely illustrated with
maps and diagrams, en-
bodies in Its four hundred and more
pages the writer's idea of Peru, from
the viewpoint Of "a young lady of
family many of whose members have
done noble service in the missionary
cause"
Peru. with its intermingling of legend
and history; it's evidences of a civiliZa-
tion antedating the snn-worshiping Inca:
it's conquest by Spain; the modern lite
Evening star., 1909-04-24

thought. This work represents an i'm
menSe amount of research which has
carried the author far into the litera-
ture of all the peoples of the world. He
develops his subject both racially and
geogra phically. dcvotinC chapters to
each section of the world and each group
OF people. starting his work with an
appropriate chapter wine in my
thology. In addition to telling all the
drinks of the various peoples of the
earth. Mr.. Emerson touches also upon
the foods and gives number of inter-
eSting extracts from authoritative works
descriptive of the crude customs OF the
aboriginal and barbaric peoples. The
close relation of various beverages with
ceremonials renders it imperative that an
exhaustive work of this description should
treat more or less fully of the formal OBJ
servances and tribal customs of the primi-
tive peoples, and in this respect these vol
umes are of important value.
THE GIRL AND THE BILL. BY Ban
mister Merwfn. Illustrations by Har-
rson Fisher and the kinneys. New
York: Dodd. Mead & Co. Washing
ton. Brentanos.
IT is stated by the publishers Of this
brisk story of modern adventure that
the author devised the plot while a
member Of magazine staff and turned
it over to writer for development but
without results. and that he has now.
being free of editorial limita tions. taken
il back for personal treatment with the
result of this story. Mr.. Merwin has
conceived an exceptionally clever situ-
alton in the theft OF important docu-
ments of state bea fling upon interna-
tional relations and the efforts of the rep
resentatives of two foreign powers to
obtain possession of them by fair
means or foul. 1t will not do to ques-
tion the probability of the tale with
reference to the political aspect of the
case. The author is privileged to state
his case as he does, and on that hy-
Evening star., 1909-04-24


an uncommonly important acquisition ana
to which an interesting story is attached.
The picture was found by Mr.. Fischer
in small shop in seaport town of
England. Recognizing directly it's value,
he bought 1T and took it with him to
France BY the authorities of the Louvre
it was examined with great interest and
care and unanimously declared to be the
work OF none other than Duccio, who
was one OF Cimabue's contemporaries and
the real founder of the Siennese school
One day however, after Mr.. Fischer had
returned to this country and placed the
painting on exhibition here his galleries
were visited by Mr.. Bernard Berenson
without doubt the greatest living author
ity on Italian art, who, observing this
particular work, exclaimed with delight:
What wonderful Lorenzo Monaco"
In a few minutes Mrs. Berenson came in,
and making d snort tour of inspection,
remarked to her husband Did you OBJ
serve that splendid Monaco?' Here was
distinctly a case where the doctors dis
agreed. and at Mr.. Berenson's suggestion
it was determined TO submit a photograph
of the picture to a Swedish critic who had
made a special study of Monaco's work
and was at that time publishing mono
graph upon it.
The decision upheld Mr. Berensons
opinion. and the painting was pronounced
not only unquestionably a Monaco. but
one of his very best, and on page 36 of
the volume written by Mr.. Oswald. Siren
the following reference to it is made:
This picture. owned by Mr.. v. Ii.
Fischer of Washington, is the same type
as the Berlin madonna. though the style
is somewhat easier and freer. The. draw
ing is less set. the folds of the drapery
are more flowing. the movement OF the
figures is not as stiff. Unity and rhythm
are remarked i'm the group of figures,
bringing into the composition a new ideal
of beauty. The Madonna is in a sitting
position. as in the centerpiece of the ST.
emma triptych. one foot under her and
the other turned upward. Instead of
clouds she is seated upon a pillow. The
infant Christ stretches out his hand and
lays hold on the drapery, which is thrown
over her head. SO that the arm follows
the graceful line of her shoulder. The
whole group is splendidly harmonious.
though the small kneeling angels on
either side. strictly speaking, do not add
to the effectiveness of line. They are
however. very characteristic and COM
monty to be found introduced after this
same fashion in Monaco's paintings. IL
is unquestionabiy work of his middle
period, and most probably was painted in
l4Oa"
So much for the picture. The painter
was Camadolese monk of the Convent
of the Angel at Florence and lived be-
tween the years 1870 and 1926. He was
probably instructed by Agnoio Gaddi.
though his style Is not unlike that of Fra
Angelica, who was painting in Florence
about the same time. This was a long
time ago when the art of painting was al
most I'm it's infancy and had not entirely
gotten out of its Byzantine straitjack-
ct. There is something very primitive in
the manner of expression and yet, withal.
something sincere that in spite of the
grotesqueness one finds the work appeal
Evening star., 1909-04-24

Stanton Davis kirkham. author of
The Philosophy of Self-Help," etc
New York: q. p. Putnams Sons.
Washington: Woodward & Lothrop
The author spent three years in Mex
leo. wandering over the country from the
northern border to the isthmus and from
ocean to ocean, and draws. from his MEM
ory and his note books the materials of
this entertaining volume. His purpose
is to give concept of Mexico from the
point of view of the tourist. but he de-
parts from the well beaten trails and of
ferS much that Is new. He not ONLY de-
scribes the country i'm its physical ap-
pearance and its social aspects but he
treats instructively of the political con-
ditions. He has found significant changes
in Mexico. propitious signs of progress
Yet he fears that the growth of labor
troubles threatens serious difficulty for
the government and the people. He en-
ters strong protest against the enter
prise OF the American advertiser who
mas not hesitated to mutilate the scenery
of the ancient land The volume is pro-
fusely and handsomely illustrated from
photographs.
BEVERAGES. PAST AND PREsENT:
an Historical Sketch of their Pro-
duction, together with Study Of
the Customs Connected with their
Use. By Edward r. Emerson. author
OF Inc story OF the Vine. etc In
two volumes. New York: G. p Put
nam'S Sons.
The author of these instructive and
entertaining volumes calls attention in
his initial chapter to the strange fact
that in all of the great fields of history,
criticism. biography. essays. fiction and
poetry there is to be found only here
and there mention of what man uses
for food and drink Yet readers of his
tory are often keenIy interested In
such details as in the political trend of