The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-25
THE EVENING STORY
Heroic Measures.
(By Lawrence Alfred Clay.)

Same subject-same argument
same failure to agree. Same silence
for ten long minutes. Then:
adele, it is the most foolish thing
| ever heard off,
you have said that BEFORE"
And shall keep on saying So"
but it will do no good If father
consents
HE never will"
II am sure he will
Miss Adele Sargent, daughter Of the
| lumber baron. who had been wild
over for three or four years, was en-
gagged to Mr.. Horace Willets, her
fathers secretary. 1t was with her
| fathers consent. There was no dis
putting that Miss Adele was a daugh-
ter to be proud of and that young
Willets was a model young man. The
course of true love and of all the
brooks and rivers in the country was
running smoothly when the blow fell
without an instants warning.
Mr.. Willets had escorted Miss Adele
to the theater. The play was emotion
moved. The curtain had just gone
down on the second act when the
young lady turned and announced:
81 shall have play written and go
on the stage"
Mr.. willets smiled indulgently-in-
diligently and a little fatherly for
| young man of twenty-three.
Nothing further was said until he
called the next evening. He had for
gotten the circumstance, but 1t was
| brought back to his memory with
jar. Five minutes after he had entered
the parlor Miss Adele was saying:
'I want you to find time to go with
me to some playwright to see about
play. 1t must be an emotional play.
| It must be one to affect the audience
to tears and make the world better"
''Why-why, you can't mean it!' he
gasped.
10 Tof doesn't want
us to marry for a couple of years, and
1 am going to put in those two years
on the stage"
But shall not consent
Then must go without it.
But your father will never con-
sent
II hope to argue him into it"
And for a long month, whenever
gain. The lover had at first taken
it as fad that might be dropped
any hour, but the young lady became
more firm in her determination. She
admitted that she loved him, and she
admitted that she would be sorry to
see the engagement broken, but he
must view things from another stand
point AS she was now, she was only
the daughter of q lumber baron-a man
VITO had made three OF four million dol
lars by dealing in Michigan pine.
Had her picture appeared IN the
daily papers? Had she been interview
ed on any subject. When her auto
burst a tire in Central park and a
policeman asked for her name didn,t
he also have to ask her how to spei
it? She was a nonentity. She Wouldn't
lest until she could be somebody AS
an actress she would be mentioned In
the papers every day
Mr. Willets could escort her TO ana
from the theater. He could arrange
her interviews. He could have a box
when she played. He could lead the
applause He could boast at the Gu
that he was engaged to her. He could
= hen she reached the climax of her
emotional part he could lead the audi
cnce in shedding tears.
when the lover had argued to the
ouarreling point he stopped arguing,
Few young men have the sense to 90
that He had a little talk with her
father. Airy man who has mace three
r1illion dollars out of pine boards Is d
wise man. Mr.. Sargent was wise. Inc
daughter had been dropping mysterious
hints nreparatory to an interview, and
he was catching on,
my boy he said to Horace, ar
gument seldom convinces anybody. Ac-
ton is the thing" -,
corsent to let Adele go on the STAGE
ct shall not argue with her anoul
If. She will ask for an interview in
a day or two. Keep mum until after
that.
keep mum. How did I cut half
nv lumber from government land ex-
cept by keeping mum
The interview took place. Miss
Adele at first declared that she
wanted to be an actress that she might
move the world to tears, but later on
confessed that desire to see her
name in the papers had something to
do with it.
You know, papa. you are a dear
old thing" she argued, lust a dear
old thing and worth lot of money,
but you are never mentioned in the
papers The public doesn't know you.
The public has never heard Of me.
We are nobodies. If only could go
you'd be noticed in the papers and
feel happy over it? I see. Well, 1T
isn't bad idea. The papers should
have noticed a good looking girl like
you. Well try to bring it about"
And 1 am to see about having a
play written?"
Very soon. Just as soon as my
present rush is over. Run away now,
and continue to be good"
A day or two later the lumber baron
said to his secretary:
Horace, can you swim ?"
Il used to be good at 1t, but I'm a
little out of practice now"
Get in practice at once"
Yes, sir"
do you know any newspaper
men7"
about a dozen. You know the
press used to be anxious to find out
where the other half of your pine was
cut
"Give the men boxes of cigars as
fast as you run across them, and say
that cases of champagne may follow"
Yes, SIR
"And if you know where Adele got
her last photos go and order hundred
send to me personally. And argue
with her no more"
A week later the lumber baron's
steam yacht started for Albany with
just little family party aboard. Beau
tifu1 day. Beautiful Hudson. Happy
occasion Business and pleasure COM
bined. Sing Sing prison had just been