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New-York tribune., 1911-02-26
A DESPERATE LOVE CHARM.

The idea was that of a madman, but
Hilyard was in no condition to reason
clearly. Temaki got out his pointed
bones and set TO work. He commenced
by scoring Hilyard's face with broad
green bands which, descending from tho
forehead, lost themselves in whirlpoois
of concentric circles on both cheeks. tn
fall away finally down the neck in tas-
sells. Hilyards breast he marked with n
, chess board, and spreading mango tree
with two plethoric hogs guzzling the fall
len fruit was elected to adorn his back.
One leg was done from memory OF ths
noted one Of Queen Vaekehu, whtch
Ten,aki had once seen, and the other
from one Of the artists fathers, that
grizzled old cannibal obligingly consent
ing to act as model through several long
afternoons. The arms were decorated
with twining vanilla vines, and the hands
with crawling sand crabs. Various and
sundry portions OF anatomy which re-
NAMED uncovered when this much was
done, were packed close with shoals
focks and droves OF conventionalized
sharks and dolphins, seagulls ana frlgate
birds, bulls, boars and goats.
| Two venerable hags assisted at the
operation and sang "himines" TO drown
Hilyards groans At the end OF week
the subject was in high fever. They
put him 10 bed, wri pped IN patchwork
quilt, and tied cool congresses OF "tr'
leaves on his forehead. When he was
able to be on his feet again Hilyard was
a fearsome sight. The clumsy fshbone
needles had left swellings around tho
scored lines of his forehead. his face was
the color Of freshly cut shark meat, and
the green circles on his cheeks stood out
like mould on leather. Even the hopeful
Temaki was appalled, at the sight OF the
apparition which confronted him.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-26

deep. unnatural and forcedly nearly
tones:
How are you, old man? I'm glad to
see you"
I laughed. I'VE seen it so often on the
stage.
"If he did it that way on the street
they'd arrest him, you know. but be-
cause he's on the stage he feels that lie
must act" Mr.. Collier dropped pack
into his seat again.
What so often amazes me at re-
hearsaIs." he continued, lis how actors
work to do things the hard way. no"
carefully they avoid the simple, easy
way. If they want TO go from sofa AT
one side of the room to table at the
other. do they ever by any possibility re-
member that a straight line is the
shortest distance between two points
Never! They have to swing clear around
the stage in a graceful circle In order 10
reach the table-something they WouIu
never have thought Of doing In actual
life"
.Tn other words. one reason the medi-
ocre actor is mediocre is because
Because he doesn't think hnisheu
AIR Collier II remember an lllus'ra-
tion Of that, though the actor WASH
mediocre: he was very good He wore a
business suit in the second act OF play
At the end of the act his wife coniesses
IN him that she has been unfaithiui' ne
is stunned, horrifed. The curtain iaiis
as he eropes his way off the stage Inc
third act is supposed to take place a re"
mi,utes later. on the opening night ne
ann.ared in the third act in Prince
Albert lust think! Fifteen minutes
previously his wife breaks his heart oy
telling him she has been untrue 10 MN
ca he goes straight upstairs and changes
his clothes" al
ITO celebrate, possibly l SAID mp
PANTY.
"Au ne thought was that 1t was an
other act. and a chance to make
change Of costume. He hadn't thousht
about the story OF the play al an oi
New-York tribune., 1911-02-26

How long must man be resident OF
tho great American metropolis before he
NAV call himself New Yorker?
1t is related by members of his own pc
cuI,ar set that kid" Mccoy once appeared
before a Judge in application for an all
night license for his Broadway cafe
my patrons are New Workers" he said'
in pleading.
"Why," replied the judge, In amazemeht'
81 thought all the New Workers were dead
mot dead" said Mccoy "They still come
out ~ night"
The point, though pertinent, is impertl-
nent. Walk Broadway any hour of the day
or night broadway proper never sleeps)
and you will meet up" as Uncle Silas OF
succasunna SAYS, with oodles of New York
ers They are New Workers They kno"
they are. You know they are. But the
question remains: How long must resi-
dence have been established here to enti-
tie one TO the appellation?
Is there any specific rule, like the one
prevalent IN Reno, where one goes with
hone expectant and whence one departs
with hope fulfilled? A certain stay In Keno
entities one to be called native OF the
town. But how long must one remain IN
New York before he is a native?
A stately Judge was asked for informa-
ton. and replied thuswise. in legal vernac-
ular:
For voting purposes. one year in the
state: six months in the county"
Then" said the questioner, "a man who
comes here from Erie. n. Y, is New
Yorker within six months
The Judge nodded.
"And a man from Erie, Penn, is not a
New Yorker until he has been here year?''
The Judge gave a judicial cough. Your
brief is presented accurately, cogenty and
concisely," he answered.
There is. however a manner 10 the New
Yorker unmistakable to the character stu
dent The New Yorker possesses an indl-
viduality not to he noted in the residents
OF Pugwash, Podunk or Punxsatawney. He
walks the maze Of men and threads the
vortex Of vehicles unconsciously. He never
pauses. Always he Is going forward-pe-
destrially. vehicularly and financially. In
his outward life he does not step to the
side. Not necessarily does he crowd mol
necessarily does he hog the pathway
But he recognizes his right OF way anf
insists upon il. This confidence hetokens
the New Yorker TO the discriminating eye
When is IL acquired?
Go to the Grand Central Station and
watch at the doors when a train has pulled
in Pick out two men; nearly any tw'
men. One pauses. Plainly he is frightened
| by the whirlpool in which he finds himself
| He draws himself within himself. de /!
New-York tribune., 1911-02-26
What Is a New Yorker? There's No Answer

Workers" he would add, with jolly twin-
kle in his dreamy eyes, "are so boresome.
The head waiter OF a Broadway lobster
nalace was appealed TO, for surely IL any
one is an authority on humanity head
waiter Is. He put the answer in the form
Of a suitable proof.
See those two fellows over at that Ia
ble?" he asked.
The inquisitor saw" a couple OF New
Workers.
"Well. go over TO 'em. Tell 'em you
want 10 know how long they've been in
town. They're New Yorkers, all right. IL
ever there was such a thing as New
Yorker. They won't mind you asking"
They were New Workers. They were the
proper brand They had all the earmarks.
They were genuine, first edition, copy
righted. patented. dyed-in- the-wool, blown
in-the-bottle, authors signature on the
fyleaf, Simon pure New Workers. So the
investigating interrogation approached
them.
81 beg your pardon" he said. but would
you mind telling me how long you have
been In New York?"
Not in the least" replied one
"Well, will your
with pleasure. / came in from 81. Louis
ten days ago"
And l." said the other, have been here
Just a week tonight. From Saginaw.
Amt this a great town? What are you
drinking"
The investigator wasn't there 20 drink
but the initiation showed the proper man
nerism and strengthened the character
reading The man in front OF him was the
/ kind OF man he had been passing every
morning for ten or twelve years, who al
ways said 10 a companion, Want a
paperT'
! He backed away. greatly mystihed at tho
metempsychosis so suddenly brought about,
| for in Saginaw-without wishing TO injure
the feelings OF the good people OF that
or any other city-the folk don't act just
like this young man acted. He returned
TO the head waiter and told him what he
had learned
TRY again." advised the functionary.
ASK that young-man-afraid-of of himself
over there when he drifted in
II the New Workers" We're OF so recent
a residence then this man. thought the in
yestigstor, had jast come from the train.
who, me?" he said, in answer TO the
question, i've been in New York four
years. Why?"
"Oh. nothing"
And still the question is unanswered. It's
all very interesting. but when one consci-
entiously seeks information it's very per-
picking. In comparison the really foo
questions become simple arithmetic And
the queer phase of the whole thing is tnal
the question cannot be answered anywhere
BY any one.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-26
YOUNG LADY WHO LEANED ON Ho' e'e"A- VT"

crept from out of the cloud Of whirlins
drapery and threw a flower in his face
II was a token OF tiny import and has
been tossed to many a person OF less
dignity than a trading captain since tnat
time. but it brought a crimson flood 10
the boys cheek and the pound OF MS
heart throbs brought home for the nrst
time the hollowness of his breast. be
scuIIed his way back on board and tried
to sleep.
Next morning as the Tikehau nosed
her way out through the oily passage
the shore wind brought something De-
sides the breath of blown cassi pollen to
H,Ivard's nostrils. There was a spiral
of smoke between distant branches. ana
the skipper's gaze fingered where long,
prav roof thatch nestled in its copse OF
breadfruit. Was that really brown arm
waving above that patch of scarlet IN the
clearing? The girls image had grated
itself on Hilyard's heart, and not tne
noetrv of a thousand tropical dawns
could blot it out.
II was near the close Of the year wner
he saw her again. He had worked marc
at the island lingo in the meantime ano
was now able to pass few compliments
in addition to Offering her sweets and al
lowing her to swindle him shamefuliy a.
trade. But Mariamma could not abide
white man ran the gossip Of the beach
only because Hilyard kept her in choco'
lates and amused her was he tolerated, L
was said.
In Taio-haie the company's business
was broadening Another vessel wa:
started and the Tikehau, together WITT
her skipper, was relegated to coastlns
around Nukahiva. To Hilyard thl'
meant separation from his goddess. III
lid not hesitate; he quit the compan!
for good and took the next schooner 10
| Huapu.
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where white labor being scarce ana III
demand. he got employment from the
French trading firm. Competition theh
as now. was anything but keen, and IL
a short time Hilyard rose from rous'a-
bout TO the command Of the Tikehau' a
small schooner employed in the inter-
island trade.
Those were golden days for the roman
tic. half formed youth. for he had De-
come a genuine South Sea trader Stand
ing erect on the poop he drank In Ideas
Of liberty with the copra smell from the
hatches. and the shock of the combers
ON the brine-stained sides OF the Tike-
han were the cymbal clashes of nature
rejoicing in him. The first trips were
short ones. The hnttresses OF NukahiVa
had barely time 10 melt In The warm
rain before the long line of Tuapu shook
itself free from it's girdle OF mist and
revealed itself to the seer in all the glory
of fathomless palm -gullies and hylng
cloud-tatters Then came the sleepy
noon. with the drowsy chatter OF tic
women beneath the bellying awnings, and
New-York tribune., 1911-02-26
William Collier on Being Natural Upon the Stage

whether the circumstances would justify
a further exhibition of his wardrobe.
Then there is another phase. whereby
the vanity OF the actor as well as his
thoughtlessness comes out. Have you
never encountered-on the stage-the
perfectly clean cowboy or miner who
comes from a day spent in the saddle or
in the mines without a speck OF dust or
dirt about him, with his hair hecomingly
brushed and his hat at just the right
devil-may-care angle? | knew an actor
once who couldn't act il his hair got
mussed or his hat pushed back or for
ward half an inch. He was nice
manly chap too, but he just had to be
beautiful
| laughed.
Another thing" Mr.. Collier contin-
ned. that bothers some actors is time.
They are afraid TO take time TO do
things Now, you can take all the time
vou please on the stage when an audi
ence is laughing Laughing is con-
tagious. and once an audience gets start
ed in hearty laughter. you can humor
il as much as you please. 1t is the
small, dead house that you must play
quickly to- You must give the SEM
blance Of speed and spontaneity 50 that
those who are laughing won't stop to
apalyze their mrth and say that isn't
so funny after all "
"Being a comedian seems to require
quite a good deal of general and specific
knowledge" | hazarded, respectfully. Il
feel that have learned great deal and
| have enjoyed myself very much"
81 love talking shop" Mr.. Collier re-
nlied Its all know. in fact
But il isn't altogether shop that Mr..
Collier knows. 1t is human nature, art,
technique. and philosophy. Maybe 1t is
simpIer TO call 1t shop"
said all that to Mr.. Collier, and
knowing | couldn't remain as highbrow
as that for another consecutive SEN
tence | said goodby and hurried away.
GEORGIA EARLE.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-26
SPURNED BY MARIAMMA.

Mariamma was not glad to see him;
he came poor and postionless and the
cabinful of prints was thing OF the
past Mariamma's heart, like that OF
many another properly brought up young
lady. went hand and hand with her IN
terests. With true island candor she
called him a pig of foreigner and told
him his white face made her sick. In the
incipient stages of his love Hilyard would
have been fioored by these words; now
nassion had cast out pride and every hot
word of abuse only served to lend lustre
to the binding halo of alteration wlth
which he had crowned her.
Then came Temaki, Mariamma
Younger brother, a copper colored youth
of eighteen, himself pictured from head
70 heel like a Sunday comic supplement-
and offered mediation. Hilyard mao
bribed him freely with sticks or TOBACCO
and he felt kindly disposed toward the
New-York tribune., 1911-02-26
TATTOoED BY A CANNON.

Now il chanced that across the breech
Of our little cannon was engraved the
name "Lurline." picked out in ornamen-
tal scrolleries. and beneath it, in rich
-epouse the figure of a puffy dolphin in
tbe act Of gulping down a buxom mer-
maid. Such Of the bass relief as had
come in contact with the fair Marquee
sienne's shoulder left its mark, which
striking design was no sooner seen by
the tribal tattooist than he needs must
perpetuate what he feared, no doubt, was
but an ephemeral impression.
So fshbone needles and black gum
we're hastily brought into play. and sew
eral days later. when the inflammation
had subsidized sufficiently to allow her to
be about the proud and grateful young
beauty brought the picture off for us to
see. Line" We read in wabbly letters,
and beneath. foundering desperately
across shoulder blade, stub-tailed
mermaid could be discerned in the act OF
disappearing into the impressionistic but
unmista kable head of a dolphin. A half
dozen OF the now distinguished young
PERSONS girl friends accompanied her,
and every one Of the envious minXes per-
sisted in embracing. leaning against and
sitting upon that now cool but still orna-
mental signal gun breech in anxious
endeavors TO get patterns of their own
10 take back TO the village tattooist
The cunningest picture work ever exc
cuted upon the anatomy of any Marquee
san, living or dead. pales TO insignifi-
csnce when compared TO the amazing
hieroglyphic record depicted upon the
skin Of a living Marqueso- American,
John Huyard. Readers of Stevenson may
recall the tattooed man, who was the first
resident of Taio-haie 10 discover the ap-
pearance of the strange schooner in the
Introductory chapter of the "Wreckers.' -
A bit of the history Of that strange char
acter is also hinted at. l believe, but Il
is all wrong according to the present day
gossip Of the beach" Of Taio-haie. For
the real story I am indebted TO an Eng
hsh friend who spent a good part of his
leisure during a three months visit to
Nukahiva in looking it up.
From Hilyard himself-now man Of
about sixty, with his grotesquely figured
1ody fully clothed and as much as possi-
be Of his face obscured with a bushy
beard-absolutely nothing is TO be
learned. and I was considered to have
oone remarkably well in holding him
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Continued from first page

people who could work up a comedy
scene almost TO the climax, and when
they reached the point-Zing! instead
Of a laugh. nothing doing but duiI
sickening thud"' Mr.. Golfers pahto-
mime was expressive.
Haven't -" l echoed with feeling.
Indeed, have.'
We'll. that is because the actor mas
exhausted his rudimentary sense Oh
humor in working up 10 the point anu
when he reaches 10 ne has no reserve.
lie can't hold the idea forcefully enough
for il 10 reach the audience
Hasn't technique anything to do with
So"
oh. Of course. technique is half the
battle. but / don't believe any amount
Of technique VIII save the man "hose
Ierceptive faculties aren't keen enough
10 seize the possibilities Of a scene
You've got TO be able TO see the run III
& situation or a line yourself before you
can get II across TO an audience.
Il enjoyed IN BE Hanged If l DO
i
the first act. where you were alone on
the stage for so long amused me most.
All the things you did were so perfectly
natural mean, they seemed when you
did them to be the natural things man
would do who had dined not wisely but
100 well the previous night"
Do you know that one Of the hard
est things to get the average actor TO
10 is to be natural" Mr.. Collier COM
Mented If he met a man he knew on
tee street. he'd go up &c him and say
Perfectly simply, Hello, how are you!
"iad 10 see you But on the stage does
Ae 90 It that way? No, indeed"
Ihe comedian rose and strode across
'he room TO Walter Collier, extend
ing MS right arm stffly and bringing
h's right hand in contact with his broth
81 Ia a sudden resoundng smack. With
LIS easengaged left he slapped Mir. Wal
i Eenialiy on the back, exclaiming IN
New-York tribune., 1911-02-26

heviIdered. befuddled. At length he steps
out. He yields his privilege to "newsles
and his prerogative TO bootblacks. ne
pauses at the corner to permit the uaihc
70 mass Rv no means is this man New
Yorker.
The other? You have watched his golng'
his minging with the mob, While waiting
for the first to overcome his daze and mas
ter his tmidity. He passed through the
door and let his feet land squarely on the
sidewalk. He turned his face directly TO
the avenue Of stately mansions. shoulders
back. he pushed forward. No attention
did he pay to ''newsies'' and bootblacks;
, no attention when the corner was reached
TO the whirr of wagon wheels which does
not stop until backness mantles the root
of the world. Dexterously he found the
opening between back OF travelling tonneau
and nose of nag. and as dexterously dis
covered the horizontal spiral space to the
opposite curb. He maintained confidence.
He owns the earth. He is New Yorker;
which fact you. the observant student
knew when first you beheld him.
You might say TO yourself: Hes COM
mercial traveller or a young bank clerk
lust back from a trip or visit. The other
/
from small town or a farm
And you may be right-you may be, hut
not necessarily are. as another experience
to be cited will exempllfy
New York is a city of five million SOULS
say, two million men, Most of these men
well, a million at least-are New Workers
But were they born here? AS the judge
told kid" Mccoy, Il thought all the New
Workers were deadr' They belong To the
myths, with the dinosaurs, the mammoths,
the good cid days, the spirit of brotherly
love and the knickerbockers. True, statls-
tics reveal births each day. There's
future sucker being born every minute.
But Time is a wonder worker. The same
element which turns nature from green 10
gold and back to green in successive sea-
sons take these native born and puts them
| In other parts of the globe. eventually to
return and transform themselves into New
Workers by the peculiar process we are
probing.
In Hindustan. Afghanistan, China, Bra
zil, Cape Town. Cairo. Russia, England
everywhere he wanders the American tour
ist encounters the man who cries, II was
| born In New York; But in New York who
! ever heard OF such a thing?
Some one. name forgotten but words
| nailed down, has said: In New York one
meets men of all cities in the world except
New York"
o. Henry, who was a Southerner through
whose veins ran the blood Of the American
metropolis. said he liked New York City
because 1t was the one place where he wa!
unable to find d New Yorker. And New
New-York tribune., 1911-02-26
SAMPLES OF MARoUEsAN TATTo DING.

Then one day at Huapu Mariamna 'ne
,birIv Christianized daughter OF sun
more thinly Christianized cannioai chlel
came aboard. Hilyard descended 10 the
cabin an hour later. walking on air. Inc
girls lustrous black eyes had done WHAT
she wanted of them-she drove a mon
strous bargain with the enraptured
trader. But Hilyard was satisned' he
determined that if the head in Taio-
hale objected he would waive financial
considerations and make up the diner
ence out Of his own salary.
That night there was hula on shore'
As Hilvard sat cross legged on mat and
tried to smoke his pipe to the beat OF the
pulsating bodies of the dancers, some one
New-York tribune., 1911-02-26

,,orouesans of a generation ago
n zero the most completely and ar
.,c.icaIlv tattooed people In the
and the practice OF tattooing
Psc'nN Ps,od on among them 10 GER
Is Cav. -, to-day. The really fine pieces
'a'n .,S 50 however. such as the famous
Of . ,er of the late Queen Vaekehu OF
rish' 10 are confined entirely to the
N"N"n N.,a and what with wrinkles, defor-
ven en- and the wear and tear of time,
nius .s have lost most of their original
'hsse nss Of color and outline. None OF
sn"' - seneration appears to have the
tne - a 70 endure the exquisite pain
iOlu, or, 10 having whole limb picked
in y. ~ lacework of geometric design or
ou' saoe g. haired and circled like coarse
SPIDERS web oil no,v
y v,ost Of the young men are satisfied
CIV, ~.J broad band of solid black not un-
w." Wv" bighwayman's mask, which reaches
''"N tho face from ear to ear, giving
go ,ns,r never overly mild-looking coun-
..oncss an expression Of amazing feroc-
THAT the art and certain pride
o.,sd with il are not yet lost to the
,,.rorasans. however, was amusingly
-, bv an incident which occurred
,..,,v nv visit to the bay Of Taio-haie.
Tho dav after we anchored in the port
., entry. in testing some newly opened
hills we fired ten or a dozen shots in
81, succession from the yachts brass
signal cannon. At the first report bevy
- varouesan damsels who had come off
- sell sandalwood and porpoise tooth
rscklaces stampeded to their canoes and
,o,ld not be induced TO return until all
oot,vitv in the firing line had ceased.
Then they all clambered gleefully
.board. and one of them so far forgot
h.-ssIf as 10 sit down on the deck and
lean languidly back with her plump
sboplder against the sizzling hot breech
- the signal gun. That was the last
,.rouid movement she made for some
,ir,a With the scream Of a frightened
wildcat. she cleared the low rail as
though thrown by catapult, swan half
hundred feet under water, and went
,une;ng straight off for the shore as soon
as she came 10 the surface.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-26
HILYARD AN OUTCAST.

II was some time before Hilyard dared
show himself TO Mariamma. When ne
did so the punishment Of his foolishness
came i'm a flood tide of agony Marian
ma was indifferently scornful before;
now she was Mortified. Coming out of q
fit of Mysteries, she spat contemporary
AT the cringing wretch and called her
father to throw him from the house.
Hilyard was foored completely For
months he led the life OF an outcast.
sleeping in rainy hollows and feeding on
fallen cocoanuts and any other refuse
that fell in his way. He finally drifted
70 Taio-haie. where he obtained WORK
on one of the new plantations, and
where. so It is said. his appearance
brought him a need Of favor among the
ladies hardly to have been expected con-
sidering his poor start with Mariamma.
OF late wears he has avoided white peo-
nle so persistently that he apparently
sneaks English with considerable effort.
AS have stated it was considered quite
unusual that should have induced MN
to enter into conversation at all, but
even on this occasion he took Immediate
flight at my first allusion 10 his early
davs in the islands and the suggestion
of photograph.
LEWIS r. FREEMAN.