Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22

and he says what S the matter with your going
down 20 the public library while we're here in
town and taking rubber through the files of
the big daily newspapers for back in ~ and
73 and along there. He thinks it's a cinch
you can get lot of good ideas from reading
the advertisements of those days and maybe
the fashion articles and all that, and they
might have some pictures too. You'd be
more likely to find the pictures, he says, in the
magazines. What was this ladies magazine
that was the whole thing in those days?'
I've heard my mother talk about Cooley S
Ladys Book suggested Miss Wardrop, s1nil-
ing.
That's the very one!' said the manager
enthusiastically. You might take a look
through that too. if you get time. I'd do it
myself he added but you know how much
good that would be. | wouldn't get an idea il,
a week about womens clothes. where you
Il suppose So admitted the actress
thoughtfully.
Now will you do that for me?" asked Kill
foyle anxiously. I'm depend you abso,
lutely for the costumes. | might get one OF
these artists to get up costume plates in colors
YOU just about know how things have been
breaking for me this season. You can save me
a lot of money. Mile.
"A right said Miss Wardrop. 1T may
be fun to take peer. into the lite of former
generation. Just think Thirty five years ago
can see what plays were here. and who
played in them. and what the critics of that
long ago day thought of them. and all that
I'm getting quite enthusiastic about my dip
into the past.
That's good laughed the manager; but
don't get so enthusiastic about those things
that YOU forget to keep eye open for the
costumes. Write down what they look like,
will you, a costurner can get EN- up! So
long. II see you tonight.
A y hour later Miss Wardrop was in a quiet
corner of the reading room in the public
library, the desk at each side of her piled
high with musty bound volumes of the news
papers whose contents had been of such alb
sorbing interest thirty-fve years before. Page
after page she turned. skimming the news
items and wadng through the advertisements
and social notes in search of first hand inor1na-
ton concerning bonnetS and froCks, gloves and
gewgaws. that would settle Manager Kill
foyle'S worries. There was woman s
page" in the newspapers of the 70's, and he1
task was long and difficult one; but from the
great of printed matter in volume after
volume the actress cleaned much that OF
value regarding the dress in which the women
sparkled in the decade following the war.
She about to close one bound volume OF
papers. when a paragraph on the first page of a
certain issue attracted her attention. She
looked again. and then eagerly read it through
For several minutes she stared at the wall
with a frown wrinkling her pretty brows, and
then she carefully copied the article, setting
down the date and name of the newspaper
with a satisfied smile The attentive clerk
who had been bringing her the bound volumes
of newspapers for more than an hour sur
prsed into semblance of speed when she
hastily rose thanked him profusely, and has
| tened out of the gloomy old room, tucking he1
notes away carefully in her handbag.
Patsy Romano encountered her she
| stepped from the elevator in the hotel "Oh
Millie.' she pouted. Il was SO disappointed
| when found you had gone to the library
wanted to go with you'll just dying to
poke over those old newspapers and maya
zines, and l should have followed you if
knew where it was. Did you get anything
worth while?'
Miss Wardrop smiled mysteriously and sur
prsed Miss Romano by chucking her under
the chin. I'm not sure yet, chicken she
said; but think so.
Then she laughed gaily and hurried into he1
room.
WILLIAM H. CORNELL, pompous and
important, as a millionaire has right to
be, was waiting for Miss Wardrop when she
returned to the hotel after the performance
that night His card was brought to her by