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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-22
THE BIG-LEAGUE RACES
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Yesterdays Results.
Chicago 8. Cincinnati
Pittsburg =, 81. Louis
New York 3. Boston =
Phillies !. Brooklyn Q,
Toduy's Games.
Boston at Philadelphia.
Brooklyn at New York.
Cincinnati at Chicago.
st. Louis at Pittsburg.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-22

Fans Give Q'Conuor II Loving Cup.
81. LOUIS Mo. April 2l.--Although
little chilly Il was bright and clear
he re today for the opening OF the Am
erican League season by the Chicago
White SoN and the Browns. Manager
Jack O'Connor. of the Browns, ~
native or ST Louis and before the game
was presented with n loving cup. A
good opening day crowd was on hand.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-22
SPORTING NEWS GATHERED FOR THE DEfROf

We've just the Clothes you
want the way you want EN-, and
at the price you want to pay
Slightly ready-to-wear SUITS
Sis. $3.50, $50, more and less.
Rain Coats and Spring Over
coats $40 to $40.
Suits and Spring Overcoats to
order SEQ, $22. so, SIS to $40.
Worsted Trousers to order s.
the pair and up to SO.
Mems Furnishings - every
thing.
Hats-Mallorys, So and So.
Stetson's, $3.50 and s.. Spring
Caps, soc up.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-22

GOV. Harmon has vetoed the Dill al
lowing local option i'm Ohio for sunday
ball.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-22
Ar AaIEDUCT

Apprentice allowance claim
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15

the near east, and she was scheouled 10
be zone, with her cheerful throng of pas
sengers, nearly three months. IT Is not
often that one sees a happier crowd on
board an ocean steamer. The great ma
jority Of them, Of course, were somewhat
Travelled people; but the purser told me
that there were at least hundred men
and women on board who had never seen
the ocean In all their lives. These were
folk mostly from the middle west who,
having prospered in business or agricul-
ture or what not, had awaited themselves
Of this chance to make sort of COM
,prehensive, panoramic tour of countries
they had been hearing about and longing
10 see all of their lives.
The passengers of whom there We're
nearly a thousand, were about evenly
divided between elderly people and quite
young folks of both sexes. Already there
were symptoms that the pairing off
process among the younger set would be
in progress before the steamer had been
many days thours, perhaps) at sea. The
purser aforesaid. who has made many of
these winter cruises. informed me that
the winter cruise is always a fine thing
for the marrying business. On one cruise
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15
GOTHAM GOSSIP OF THE PAST WEEK

London. Paris and Berlin combined, new
ertheless has just three times as many
theaters as all Of those great capitals put
together. That seems to be about the
most sufficient reason yet advanced for
the poor business being done by the New
York theaters. And the building of new
theaters is going right on.
Mr.. Hayman said a lot of interesting
things in his speech at that dinner
With other observations, he mentioned
the fact that in spite of all of the tempt
ing prizes which have been held out to
aspiring playwrights during the last few
years, in spite of the amazing sums of
money which the very few successful
playwrights are able to make with their
plays that score hits, the supply of even
reasonably good, productive plays re-
mains almost ridiculously inadequate. Mr..
Hayman has been one of a reading COM
mittee in play-writing competition
which one of the big New York dailies
has been carrying on for nearly a year.
Very large prizes were offered by this
paper for acceptable scenarios for plays.
in addition. of course, to the regular
royalties which would be
paid to the winners of the contest If their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15
A TALE OF THE SKATELESS LAD.

wonderful thing how a Teller can (could.
j mean) cancel forthwith his preJudlces
against a Teller who owned a pair or
skates.
So, seeing the Other Boy as he passed
by our house with his nice. new, shiny
pair of skates slung by the strap over his
shoulder. why, L went a-skatfng with
him.
That is, he went a-skating. and l just
joined him, sort O..
The dope. from my angle, was this:
Of course the Other Boy couldn't skate
right along all day. Therefore, there
his skates on, SO that could skate
some while he was resting up.
H4
sounded the Other Boy as to this pre-
figuring as we trudged in the direction OF
the crick.
He was very. very non-committal.
He'd see, said he. Maybe. He didn't
know. Finally under the prodding or a
somewhat keen juvenile diplomacy Qf one
does say 50 ones self as shouldn'D the
Other Boy promised. in kind OF a way,
to let me put on his skates for while,
after he'd got tired skating.
This was along toward 10 O'Clock or
Saturday morning, when there was no
school, When we reached the crick we
found it already covered with gay, glad
some skaters. It was a cold. cold day.
with leaden sky, and snow in the air.
but they were gay and gladstone because
they had skates and were skating.
Yep. 1 helped the Other Boy on with his
skates. He was kind OF a plug Of boy,
anyhow. and not up to much: and the
skates were of q new club pattern. and
don't believe he'd have been able to get
'em on una ssistd.
Well, off he skated, joining the merry
throng, while I stood on the frozen clods
bordering the crick, stomping up and
down to keep warm. watching the blithe
scene. and waiting for the Other Boy to
get tired.
Whatever else the Other Boy might
have been. he sure was tireless: that must
he handed to him, even after this long
lapse of years.
Eleven o'clock came. and he was still
skating unweariedly up and down and
across the crick. 1t was, as | have said
very, very cold; the clods bordering the
crick were very hard; the sky became
more leaden all the time: life began to
look pretty black to the undersigned.
stomping there close to the ice to keep
warm.
Along with little bunch of rank out
sders who, like myself. didn't own skates.
/ tried the sliding game. at the edge OF
the crick. for the purpose of keeping
warm. But the skaters wouldn't stand
for that. The sliders were in the way
We were chased. ''G'wan of o that.
the skaters bawied at US, and, as the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15

pare terrapin a la Maryland better than
the man who invented the dish
He doesn't mind so much the reflection
on his age as he does the opportunities
OF the managers Of the ieadinS ho"n
OF Washington. who seem 10 nave -
tered into conspiracy TO inaucs Mr
Mann to resign his superintendent.
which he has held for-for-well. for =
great many years, and become tho cher
par excellence OF Washington. u. {.
T is apparent. from the expansive smile
that has been worn by Representa-
tive Jamse A. Tawney OF Minnesota.
chairman OF the House appropriations
committee. ever since his return from his
home town of winona. that while Thco-
dore Roosevelt may still be. a. som"
folks claim. the biggest man in Mime
sofa. Mr.. Tawney has grown some In
stature of late. This is good news To-
folks here in Washington. who know Mr..
Tawney as the hardest worker In the
House of Representatives.
Maybe if he wins out next fall he II he
so tickled with himself and everything
else that he'll be nice TO the District of
Columbia and let us have q dollar or
two more than usual. II he'll promise
this, let's all move out to his district
and stay there long enough to get vote.
u REPRESENTATIVE NORRIS of Ne
N braska became peeved the other
day and gave to a newspaperman the
correspondence that had passed between
him and President Taft concerning the
attitude OF the administration toward the
insurgents. About half an hour later.
after talking with some OF his insurgent
friends, he became obsessed with the
idea that he was a lost man IL ever
those letters got into print. and spent
the rest OF the day chasing the elusive
newspaperman. He almost cried with Joy
when he found they hadn't been pub
lished or wired, and had them tightly
buttoned up in his inside pocket again.
IRVING e. NORWOOD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15

idea But il you feel that you can't live
without EN-. that YOU positively require
the tonic OF their presence. why can't
YOU fix il some way SOS l won't have
to meet 'em?
Il don't mean to be unsociable. under
stand I'm naturally sociable man.
as YOU know But like to associate with
people who know something. who can
stake me to 10 or Is cents worth of in
telligent conversation, and l sure can't
stand for the kind of pinheads that
you've got such a perfect genius for
gathering around you.
IT'S all right, of course, for you to
have friends-all you want OF EN-. But
why don't YOU make some friends who
can teach YOU something instead of this
lot of skirted molusks who wouldn't rec
ognZe idea IL 1t ran over them in
the middle of sunlit road? Why, say,
look a-here. dye know I've sat here for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15

though. l might have known that you'd
speak in that way about bright women.
You're envious of them. that's all. Now.
that's just one of the ninety octillion i'm
mense differences between men and
women.
"A man possessing just the average
amount Of intelligence himself has a con-
Stunning admiration for fellow who Is
brainy and brilliant-who knows, that Is,
a heap more than himself. Admires him,
looks up to him, plugs for him. Is glad
to be In his company, and all that sort or
thing. But q woman who's just average,
very average, in the matter OF intelligence
has an instructive dislike for any member
of her sex who is unusually clever. Hates
and despises her. Knocks her whenever
she gets a chance. Don't want her
around. Just pure jealousy, that's all !
suppose with you the situation Is that
dropping in here who knew something
for fear might admire 'em. eh? Is that
IT? Well, you're blamed right. l would
admire 'em! I'd admire 'em whole lot!
If ever I happened to catch woman
around here who seemed to know the diff
ference between the dog star and ton o
coal. why, I'd drop dead. that's just
about what d happen to me, and SO you
wouldn't have any occasion to feel nerv-
Gus, IL that's what's bothering you.
There's no use in talking. Of course. Like
seeks like. You pick out the kind OF
buzz-buzzers that you have a natural
fondneSS for, and they suit you right
down to the ground. and that's ALL
+
Queer part Of the gag is that when
these fluff-lids go a-visiting-when they
come here. for example-they seem to feel
as II they're not giving the moneys
worth if they don't keep their tongues
wagging from the minute they breeze
through the hall door until youre hid
ding 'em goodbye thirty or forty times
as the elevator is carrying 'em down.
Just CAB. CAB, CAB. with nary a let-up
from fagfall until finish. until even the
fox terrier pup, after standing it as long
as he can, gives a sort of weary, hope
less yawn and then beats 1t out to the
kitchen and hides behind the gas range
or somewhere till they've gone.
II wonder why you couldn't get some
checkers or dominoes or tiddledywinks or
stuff like that and have 'em plav games
and keep still for minute or so when
they come here? But nix. nix. They not
only want to talk all the time, but they
name of that red-headed woman who
comes here and who never by the re-
hottest chance stops gassng from the
time she presses the elevator button
downstairs until, about six hours later.
she's two blocks down the street on her
way to the car? The woman, l mean
who never listens to a word anybody else
says. but who just yaps and yaps along
like leaky cylinder-head, until a man
who has to stick around and listen to her
feels like kicking holes in the pianola
jumping out of the window? How's that?
She's naturally nervous. Ell? Oh. that's
larynx. Well. is that any good reason
why she should fall in here four or five
times week and try to give everybody
else the lid-buzz: What's this I'm run
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15
French Sport.
(HARLES NJ. SCHWAB was talking
~ about sport.

(HARLES M. SCHWAB was talking
~ about sport
THE French he said, with a laugh.
ARE the great sportsmen. LIE sport
that is their alteration.
''Pll never forget how I watched one
whole afternoon, from the Casino terrace
of Monte Carlo, a couple of Frenchmen
in a boat shooting sea gulls. The blue
Mediterranean was dotted with the beau
tiful white dead birds. They were. of
course. no use to anybody.
Il know a man who Joined a great
crowd about sewer grating in the Rue
st. Honore. in Paris.
IAN excited Frenchman was fishing
through the grating. He lowered a
strong hook baited with meat. and every
three or four minutes he brought up.
squealing and wriggling, a fat rat. Soon
he had thirty or forty rats lying at his
feet.
THE crowd was beside itself with the
excellence of this sport.
Splendid" it shouted at each fresh
catch. .Superbe.' 'Magnifcaue.'
Then the gendarmes came and ar
rested the rat fisher. The crowd writhed
with indignation. 1t followed the pris-
oner to the gendarmerie. 1t roared:
"A bias la tyrannie! Vive lie sport
lbre. Down with tyranny. Hurrah for
untrammelled SPORT
my friend said there came near being
a revolution"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15

built like vestibule train running on q
narrow-gauge railroad Anyhow, I'd kind
o. like to have this plant to myself once
in a while. In fact, 1 wish you could
contrive somehow to have this gang of
woman chinners on your staff come here
when I'm not around at all. That is. If
you feel that you've simply got to have
'em come here at all. OF course, can't
see why you want to have anything to do
with such bunch OF noisy cacklers who
sit around for four hours at stretch
making creaky. irritating sounds out OF
their faces without ever expressing an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15

&c festivities occurred in the House
last week shortly after the report of
Representative Hardwick's resolution
calling upon the Secretary OF the
Treasury to explain how much time
and money had been spent by revenue
cutters in searching for John Jacob AS
tors yacht, the Nouramahl, several
weeks ago. when that vessel was reported
wrecked in the big West Indian hurri
cane. Although Mr.. Hardwick disclaimed
any such Idea, all the republican men,
bers, who talked about the resolution, in
sisted 1T was intended to reflect upon the
revenue cutter service. and that it init
mated that the service has been active
for searching for Mr.. Aston because he
was a rich man, and that had a poor
sailor or two been lost, the service
wouldn't have moved a vessel ten feet to
the rescue.
After various members had called at
tention to the fact that Mr.. Aston had
equipped battery at his own expense
for service in the Philippines, and that at
the outbreak of the Spanish-American
war he had offered this same vessel. the
Nouramahl, as a free gift to the govern
mcnt, the House, by practically a unani-
nous vote, passed the resolution in order
that the service might have chance to
clear itself.
1t is apparent that Mr.. Hardwicks coli
leagues had not forgotten the time that
he formed a combination with Represent
atve Prince OF Illinois. republican. and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15

TO the orient which he made three years
ago he said that there were forty
nounced engagements at the finish out OF
a total passenger list OF eight hundred
which certainly shows that Dan Cupid is
just as keen on the job at sea as on
land. if not just little bit more SO.
The marriages thus arranged, the
purser philosophical. generally are
mighty good. equitable ones; for. he
expressed it, the sea is a great place for
folks to find out whether they are tenn
peramentally suited TO each other, and
as to the merely materialistic end of IL
both parties to such d matrimonial ar
rangement are generally III the way of
being eventually rather we'll provided for
by their folks; for only people of pretty
Substantial means undertake these winter
cruises.
On board this steamer. which I visited
on the point of her departure recently.
heard a great jabbering from main to
mzzen in all of the continental Ian
guages. All of the good folk, Americans
in a preponderating majority, had, il
seemed. been studying French and Ger
man and Spanish and Italian-a few OF
them even Arabic : in anticipation OF
their travels; and here they were. trying
their linguistic accomplishments upon
each other with the very distinct and I'M
nistakable AmericaneSe accent. or course
they understood each other quite we'll,
those who had studied the same lam
guage: but that. naturally, was because
they were Americans.
"Wait'll they try to spring their Amer
lean, French and German and things
he natives" the purser said to me with
a grin.
THE double jointed word. weekend"
is a comparatively new one in the
United States language. 1t is. of course,
an English importation. and over there II
still means as il meant originally, an
cver-Sunday visit at an out-of-town house
entertaining guests.
The meaning of the phrase has been
changed In this country. however. Here
IL means, not 10 join house party, but
lust TO skate out of town for the week
end. over Sunday: to jump away from
the place where one works for living
for a bit of a change. Now il is very
easy to remember when folks. men and
women, only did this over-Sunday trip
ping during the mild weather of spring
and the hot weather of summer Now
however. the weekend jump-away from
town has become all-year round
feature of life i'm big American cities but
most particularly in New York
Folks nowadays are getting down to the
il ever so short. is proposition of i'm
mense hygienc value. Those who are in
a position TO make the jump on Friday
afternoon To he gone until Monday morn
1ng. do it. and do it By the thousands. or
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15

even the tens of thousands, in New York
all the year around: and then there Is the
away from New York on Saturday after
noon, even right now when it Is approach
Ing midwinter. to be gone until their bust
ness or profession summons them back
on Monday.
1 know scores upon scores Of couples,
young and middle-aged, people. too, many
of them, in only moderate circumstances,
who have got into the habit OF leaving
the business and the fiat and all behind
them at the end Of the week and going
away somewhere or other over Sunday:
and they wouldn't give up the habit for
anything imaginable. They don't, of
course, take lengthy weekend trips. Some
of them drop down to Atlantic City for
else: others go to Lakewood for the piney
fragrance of the atmosphere: others run
away to little places they know about
down On Long Island where they can
tramp through the snow if the weather
happens to be wintry: and still others
hustle to farms where they are known
through summer visitations and enjoy
the rural kind of a week end. All of
the ferries and trains are packed Friday
and Saturday afternoons with these eager
week-enders, and 1t is the hardest sort
of job to get q parlor car chair on
any old kind of a train out of New York
those afternoons. 1t is a fine little prac-
tce, this all-the-year-round week-ending,
and it makes for happier and cheerier
and healthier men and women: and the
home doesn't seem so monotonous, nor
the mans downtown job SO onerous. when
the game of urban life begins all over
again on the Monday morning
A T the dinner of the Theatrical Man
ayers Association the other evening
Oscar Hammerstein briefly but succintly
characterized the business being done at
his opera house as rotten Mr.. Ham
merstein could afford to be frank In the
matter, for not only is what he stated
known generally to be the fact, but it is
also known that the support being given
by the public to the other and rival opera
house this year is still worse than that
at the Manhattan
ALT Hayman. speaking for the managers
of the legitimate theaters. said, in es-
sence, the same thing about the business
being done this winter at those houses
He went further, however. and gave a
very plausible version of the main rea-
son why SO many of the New York play
houses, instead OF making anything. real
ly are losing money. He called atten-
ton to the fact that New York, which
has about one-third the population of
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eral days ago. There are some mighty
good stories told on him, too. and one or
them has to do with the time he was
chairman of the democratic congressional
committee, four years ago.
1t was election night and returns were
coming In. Mr.. Griggs couldn't see any
thing except democratic victories from
one end OF the country to the other. He
was enthusiastic and optimistic, and he
pretty nearly denied the existence OF the
republican party. claiming an enormous
the House that day. The next morning
1t came out that the democrats had not
been anywhere, and that the republicans
had won out all over the country.
How is this. JIM" friend inquired.
Last night you had the republicans beat
into a FRAGILE and yet it turns out this
morning that the republicans won a big
victory
"Ah, yes said Mr.. Grlggs. shaking his
head. mournfully: hut last night / had
bottle by the neck and a rainbow by
the tail. and everything looked grand and
glorious to me. This morning I've got
cold towel around my brow and consid-
cradle facts in my possession"
MEMBERS OF the House of Represent
AVA atives are wondering what on earth
the Speaker Of that body will do when
Asher Kinds, the pariamentarian, who
is a candidate to succeed Representative
Allen Of Maine in the House. is elected.
as 1t seems pretty certain he will be.
Mr.. Kinds IS considered by men who
ought to know what they are talking
about to know more about parliamentary
rules and practice and precedents and
all that sort OF thing than any six men.
alive or dead. When he comes into the
House as a member of that body 1t will
be necessary to replace him at the Speak
his place with satisfaction to everybody
concerned has not yet appeared on the
horizon.
OF course, conditions are better now in
that regard than they were up to a year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-15
Married Mems Troubles.
From Tit

From T1t-B1ts.
1t was married mems night at the re-
vival meeting.
Let all you husbands who have trou-
bies on your minds stand up shouted
the emotional preacher at the height Of
his spasm.
Instantly every man in the church rose
10 his feet except one
''Ah." exclaimed the preacher peering
out AT this lone sitter, who occupied
chair near the door and apart from the
others. You are one in a Million
1T amt that" piped back this one,
helpeSsly. the rest of the congrega-
ton turned to gaze suspiosously at him.
Il can't get up, I'm paralyzed."
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yonder in the dim -dimming years. me
Other Boy had a pair of skates. The
undersigned didn't possess any skates.
Well, on the first day. the fine old wide
crystal-clear crick froze over solid Eyes,
Mr.. Proofreader-crick, not creeb-on
the first day the crick froze over good
and solid, the Other Boy. as perfect
matter of course, went a-skating.
Now, I didn't like this Other Boy par