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The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10
AFTER NlGHTFALL IN LONDON
The Lid Is On, but There Are Ways to Lift It-Pubiic Balls, Popu-
 tar Functions.

Some Americans who don't like the early closing law in London are for tunate enough perhaps to get taken to one of the better theatrical clubs, where they don't have theatrical clubs. early as do the restaurants and the ho- te. ;, but more perhaps make the ac' quaintance of little club in a street near PiccadiIly Circus. where the mem bership is made up of men and wom- en who are supposed to be vaudeville artists
 There are lots of people who go there who are not vaudeville artists For instance. a visitor who was taken there one night last summer found him. self seated next to a wealthy young Ger man, who is a steel manufacturer. and across the table was another Ger man. who was only theatrical by asso citation You can enjoy a short term membership if you want. and if you enjoy drinking beer in stuffy room
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10

An amusing story Is told in the duction in Budapest by Prof Mar Reinhardt of the tragedy King Oedi- pus"
 At the most thrilling point of the play. when the king is discovered sit ting alone In the plague stricken city, dog suddenly began barking furious ly at the back of the stage It was an animal trainers Great Dane. which was bowling at the moon from shed adjoining the back of the theater
 Reinhardt fumed and ragged at this interruption at the critical moment. sent messages to the stage manager and finally went himself to stop the row. There was much running to and fro. but the barking didn't stop until sceneshifter had bright no- tion. He got large plate of scraps and fed the dog slowly until the caf- tain went down.
 The next day the papers printed en. thusiastic accounts of the really bril- liant bit of stage management the fearsome bowling of the ownerless dogs in the deserted city! Reinhardt put down his paper with a whimsical smile and sent for the stage manager.
 Give the sceneshifter an extra tip," he said, but tell him to make that confounded dog howl like mad to- night" n
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10

Eessee, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina North Carolina. Vir. ginia West Virginia. Maryland. Penn. kyivania. Rhode Island and Maine
 On October l2 last California joined the states granting equal suffrage to women the vote on that occasion be ing t190S6 for and 117408 against the measure or majority of 1878 for equal suffrage, with some minor towns to hear from California had rejected the proposition in 1896. Oregon and several of the other western states have several times. rejected the amendment. and Massachusetts in 1895 voted on the question and refused equal suffrage. the vote in this state ali that time being: Yes, l09.204: No. 187 $40. or 7S,636 majority against equal suffrage Since then the aues. tion has not been brought 10 the ref erendum in this commonwealth
 In the western states the question has come before the voters quite reg ularly. for according to some of the opponents of the equal suffrage in thar section of the country. "a yes vote settles the matter and no vote sim. ply means the question comes up again in couple of years
 Kentucky Pointed the Way
 Kentucky was the first state in this country to give women the right to vote In 1898 that state gave the school suffrage to widows with chil. dren of school age, and in 1861 Kansas gave the school suffrage to all women Year by year from then on the move
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ment for woman's suffrage gained strength throughout the country. but 1t was always granted in modified form as the right to vote on school matters. local tax questions. municipal suffrage, etc In 1869 Wyoming gave the full suffrage to women, being the first state in the country to do so.
 School suffrage was granted to the women of New Hampshire in 1878. by Massachusetts in 1879, by Connecticut in 1893 and Vermont in 1880 In addi- tion to the six states in this country which have given the full suffrage to women. there are many countries which have given a modified form of suffrage to women and full suffrage has been granted the women by the Isle Of Man, New Zealand, South Aus tralia. West Australia and in 1902 full suffrage was granted the women of Federated Australia and New South Wales
 In Utah the reports show that 75 per cent of the women voted in Bear River, 95 per cent voted in Garden City, 95 per cent voted in Grouse Creek. 90 per cent voted in Keysville, 90 per cent voted in Logan and 90 per cent voted in Nephi
 In Kansas the reports from these same sources show that so per cent voted as Eskridge and 80 per cent voted at Miltonvale
 Seem to Prlze Vote.
 In Wyoming the reports state that the women voted as strongly in pro- portion to registration as did the males. If not to a larger extent In Denver. Colo. in the election of 1909, no less than 30.000 women voted and only about 500 of that number were classified as vicious women In other words. in that Denver election 43 per cent of the vote was cast by women and only 40 per cent of the vote was cast by males
 Both houses of the National Parlia ment of Federated Australia for the session of l909-10 passed a resolution saying that after 66 years of womans suffrage in varying parts of the coun. try and nine years as a common wealth. the reform has Justified the hopes of its supporters
 Relative to the percentage of wom. en voting in the states where they have that right. the woman's suf. frage organizations point out that men do not exercise their right to vote as they should, and that, therefore. the question as to women doing so is not very material
 They point out that in the presiden- tial election of 1904. the vote cast was only 13961 ,560 while 21.000000 men were eligible to vote Then again, they say that in the city election in Phila- delphia. in 1903, the Reform party re- ports that 49 per cent of the men fail
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10
Monument to M. Munkacsy

Michael Munkacsy. the great Hun. garian painter. died in 1900. and i'm
 mediately after his death the Society of Fine Arts of Budapest started a movement for raising a memorial In the course of eleven years the fund has continued to grow until it now amounts to 10000 kronen; but al though two competitions have been held the models submitted have not been satisfactory to the committee
 and the project still remains to be carried out Instead of proceeding with 1t at once, the society decided to have a monument erected over the place in the Kerepes cemetery. where the mortal remains of the painter were inferred; and this subsidiary plan has been carried to completion
 The monument was designed by Ed
 ward Telcs It is Eewn out of sand. stone of pale bluff tone. The obelisk stands about 20 feet high and at it's base stands female figure upholding a wreath This figure is about double
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10

RK V NSHINGTON.-Almo 1000. NAY 900 women will be eligible WA to vote for their choice for
 president of the United
 States in 1912 Those wom en are to be found in the six western states which have already granted equal suffrage. the number of women in each state who are eligible to vote being about as follows: California 500,000; Colorado 100000; Idaho, AS. GOO: Utah. 65.000; Washington. 12O, 600, and Wyoming. 35.000. or a total of BPS, 1000.
 Those figures are not exact, but constitute the best possible estimate until such time as the census bureau gets out it's figures showing the andy sis of the population by states It is possible that before the election in 1912 more states may give the women a chance to vote for the presidential candidates. as the equal suffrage cam. paigners have such states as Nevada. Oregon, Kansas and Wisconsin marked as trembling in the balance on the suffrage question.
 There are in the United States to. day just 19 states which have no form of suffrage for women, although some cities in them have. Those states are Nevada, Texas, Missouri. Arkansas, Mississippi, Indiana. Kentucky, Ten
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10
How the Two Great Men, Estranqed for Several Years, Became Friends Again Through the
 Efforts of Elkins.

l recently told in this column the story of the manner in which General Grant and James G Blaine met at the Long Branch railway station at the time of the funeral of President Gar held, rode in the same carriage to the house of national mourning, were seated almost side by side at the fu- neral and yet absolutely ignored the presence each of the other There was not the slightest sigh of recognition or even the most formal or cold court esy exchanged between them
 Yet less than two years later these two distinguished Republicans were brought together and spent an hour or more in resuming the cordial relations which had existed between them when James G. Blaine was speaker of the house of representatives and Ulysses Grant was president of the United States. am sure that the story of this reconciliation and the manner in which 1t was brought about have never been publicly told: .n fact, very few of the intimate friends of either Grant or Blaine knew, until after Grants death. in 1885. that cordial relations had been re-established.
 stephen B Elkins of West Virginia, who recently died while a member of the United States Senate, was one of the very few prominent Republicans who maintained close personal inti macy with both Grant and Blaine during the period of their personal es- arrangement Mir Elkins used some times to say to his friends that noth- ing was source of greater sorrow to him than the fact that these two warm friends of his had become absolutely alienated
 Some time in the latter part of the year 1882, or it may have been early In 1883, MT Elkins became persuaded that both Grant and Blaine would be glad If way could be found by which they could be brought into pleasant relations once more. Mir Elkins said to member of General Garfieid's offi- cial family:
 T am sure that General Grant would rejoice If he could make it up with Blaine. and l am certain that
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10
Grant and Blaine ReconciIed

Blaine has grieved greatly over the misunderstanding which has interrupt ed the friendship long maintained with Grant am going to bring those two men together, although l don't know exactly how to do it"
 A few days later MT Elkins said that he had given the matter much thought and he was satisfied that the only way to bring about tie reconcilia- ton was to cause Blaine and Grant to meet as though by pure chance 1t was evident to Elkins' confdant that Elkins was planning already what would appear to be an accidental. un- expected meeting between Grant and Blaine A day or two later Mir FL kins appeared before his contidant again. and he was as radiant as a child
 'I am the happiest man in Wash ington." he cried ''I left Grant and Blame yesterday afternoon sitting side by side. engaged in the most kindly and familiar conversation You know. Grant came to Washington a
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10
ophir Farm. Ben Holidays Magnifi- cent Country Estate, Got It's San euine Builder Into All Kinds
 of Legal Trouble.

In the midwinter of 1881. spent a part of an evening with Ben Holiday in the library of his home on K street. Washington Though once he had been wealthy, MT. Holiday was at that time In financial reverses. and 1t seemed to me that he was also something of an invalid could not realize. as sat chatting with him. that he had been at one time the most famous of Ameri can expressmen. that he had organ ized, and in sensational manner. the Holiday Pony express. by which mails and passengers were first carried over land from the Missouri valley to the Pacific slope before the building of the Pacific railroad; and that he had also organized and put in operation the greatest fleet of coastwise steamers that then sailed, or has sailed since probably. along the Pacific coast from Alaska to southern California
 MT Holiday had taken up a tenn porary residence in Washington for the purpose of securing a congression- al appropriation In payment of very iehi eS Nieaiiho "hiSi hC hdb for service for the federal government to maintain postal line between the Missouri valley and the Pacific coast l asked Mir Holiday if the delays he was meeting with in securing acknowl, edgment Of his claims had affected his health; or if he were recovering from a temporary illness
 There came into my hosts eyes a momentary flash of the power and de termination which were characteris- tic of Ben Holiday when he estab lished his overland mail and passenger stage service, the very line that had so many encounters with the Indians and the buffalo herds
 No" he said, you have to wait a long time sometimes. If you are going to get claim paid by the government The government of the United States is the worst debtor and the harshest creditor in the world Of course, the government pays it's fixed obligations, like interest upon bonds: but 1t is a master hand at staying of just debts I knew that and was prepared for it. and can wait a good while yet. There
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10
That Ended 1t.

Because he was too soft hearted to ask his poverty stricken landlady to buy new rugs for his room, the altru- istic young man bought several small rugs and spread them over the floor Immediately after the next sweeping day she presented a bill for the weeks expenditures. Items, room rent breakfasts. laundry and beating rugs 25 cents.
 Hello" said the altruistic young man, what does this mean?"
 Just what it says" she returned If folks must cover their floor with extra rugs they'l have to pay for beat ing 'em, that's all. l can't afford to do it for nothing"
 And from that moment altruism lost a disciple
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10
Fechter Made Ills Blond, Tree Beard ed and Fat and Mansfield Dressed the Melancholy Dane in
 Red Velvet.

How should the character of Ham let be portrayed upon the stage? That is question that has been more or less bothersome one ever since Shake speare's day
 The traditional Hamlet is a dark haired. dark-skinneG. black-robed tel low. iean of body and smooth of jowl and chin Yet there have been sev- eral instances of striking stage varia- tions from this presentation
 Recently told the story of how Charles Fechter who won great reputation as an actor. first in France, then in England and finally in this country. where he came in 1870. was led to portray Hamlet as blond through the hearty support and ap proval of his good friend. Charles Dickens Fechter's argument was that the Danes have always been light
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10

lived in London and others who had been fellow passengers. and as every other piece played was two-step the occasion seemed almost homelike
 One hears more about the Coyent Garden balls than of any other public function in London These take place with considerable frequency through. out the autumn and winter and are as. sembiing places for the gay youth of London and such similarly disposed visitors as may be there One is sup posed to go masked. and prizes are of. fered for handsome costumes The 'gayety' is apt to appeal to the aver, age American visitor as funereal.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10
Southern Enuilsh,

It takes the southern brother to give the language it's most excruciating twists
 Cleveland man was riding on a Washington street car some time ago. and when the car was within a few blocks of its suburban terminal, two lank and shabby fellows came aboard.
 The conductor promptly took their nickels and a few moments later when the car stopped he called, End of line-all out"
 The lank and shabby fellows pro- tested The conductor shook his head Passengers had to pay their fare, no matter where they got on. Nothing could be done about it.
 The two aggrieved passengers were silent for a moment. Then one of them caught the conductor by the sleeve
 Why, us hain't rid nowheres!" he wailed.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10
Like HomjcIoaI Mania

"A man who has once murdered the Gneen's English always feels as il he d gt the body under the sota It's like ht nictdal mania; the poor wretch mty be cured. but he lives in terror O. an attack returning He knows It doesn't matter what be is or what he does; he may live like a saint of write like an areh-angei: but one auet omitted from his conversation vii
 wreck him at the lasL"-May Sinclair
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10
Hamlet Traditions Violated

haired, fair-skinned people, therefore. Hamlet was of that type; and Dickens agreed thoroughly with Fechter, whose blond Hamlet created great furor both in this country and in England. where Fechter first played the part in the sixties
 While Fechter's is the most note worthy blond Hamlet in the history of the American stage. perhaps Beer bohm Trees takes second place in that respect. Tree. when he came to study the part. accepted Fechter's conception of the physical appearance of Hamlet as the correct one. and ac- corded Fechter high praise for ven turing to portray Hamlet as a blond against all stage traditions But" said MT Tree. at the time of his visit to this country about twenty years ago. 'I went somewhat further In my presentation of Hamlet than Fechter did While carefully studying the play. I discovered that Shakespeare depicts Hamlet as having worn a beard. and beard I therefore added to my makeup
 But, MT Tree. where does Shake speare give Hamlet beard?" one of his auditors asked
 '1 refer you to these lines in the second scene of the second act of the play, where Hamlet is speaking" said MT Tree:
 "'A Am a coward? Who calls me a
 villain?
 Breaks my pate across? Plucks of
 my beard
 And blows it in my face?
 T also felt that I was justified in following Shakespeare's delineation by making up Hamlet as a fat man" continued Mir Tree. "Fechter did not have to do that for he was very cor. pulent at the time he began to play Hamlet. Perhaps you recall the line spoken by the queen of Hamlet in the second scene of act five:
 He's fat and scant of breath.
 Beerbohm Tree, however, in play ing Hamlet wore the conventional black costume But not so Richard Mansfield, who thereby made one of the most striking departures from the conventional Hamlet in the history of the English-sp eaking stage Mir Will liam T Tait who Is a high authority on dramatic presentations in this country. in speaking to me of Mans fields Hamlet said:
 'I think. after all. that the most daring and abso 'utely unique portrayal of the personal characteris tics of Ham. let was that which the late Richard Mansfield ventured to make. Mansfield was familiar with the his- tory of Denmark and with the GUS toms of the Danish people He was Denmark He was 8 very high au- thority upon Danish history And 1t was In accordance with the historical fact that he dressed his Hamlet in red velvet
 Of course, it caused a great deal of criticism. to which Mansfield simply replied that he had been faithful to history. since red velvet was the coor and material with which the royal family of Denmark up to the sixteenth century garbed themselves when in mourning However, a Hamlet dressed in red velvet. true though it may have been historically, did not seem to American audiences so appropriate for Hamlet as the dark velvet cos tune usually worn: and 1 am sure that Mansfield. who was a stickler tor historical accuracy. was greatly disap pointed thereby, though outwardly he may have shown characteristic disdatn for the pub ic's opinion
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The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10
He Wanted to Go Home.


 A man who takes his vacation in northern Michigan every summer brought back to Cleveland the other day says the Plain Dealer. a man. servant who had never been In a city before The sights and scenes along Euclid avenue impressed him peculiar. ly, Recently he went to his employer and said
 MT Ebegardt. guess I'll have to go back home"
 Why. Jim. haven't we treated you well here?"
 'Yep-treatment' all right But I'm scared about my health" Are you sick. Jim?'
 Nope But I seen four funeral. goin' past this bouse today and guess Cleveland aint healthy towni'
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the last two years. I think from VOLT description of internal catarrh that I must have had that also. l suffered very severely.
 Nothing ever relieved me like Pe-
 ''With the exception of some deaf. ness am feeling perfectly cured. I am forty-six years old.
 "l feel that words are inadequate to express my praise for Peruna."
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10

Colorado gave equal suffrage in claim responsibility for securing the passage of laws forbidding the insur ance of children under ten years old. establishing a state home for depen dent children, with two of the i've members of it's trustees to be women. statute requiring three out of the six county visitors to be women; estab- fishing a state industrial home for girls. three of the five trustees to be women; statute making women equal guardians of their children; statute raising the age of protection for girls to IS years; requiring one woman on the board of the State Insane asylum; establishing parental or truant schools. providing for the care of the feeble minded; providing For tree preserva- tion; requiring public school teachers to teach humanity to animals; making the Humane society state bureau of child and animal protection: establish ment of juvenile courts; compulsory education; establishing state travelling
 
 against the employment of child labor Tn mines; providing accident and for eign life insurance companies that have to be sued be made to pay the costs; restricting. hours of labor for children, and for women; free em- ployment bureaus; making 1t misde- meanor to neglect to support aged or infirm parents; abolishing system binding out girls of the Industrial school; and in Denver other beneficial legislation has been secured by them,
 Work of Women in Idaho.
 Idaho gave equal suffrage in 1896. Since then women claim to have been instrumental in securing these laws. Making gambling illegal; raising the age of protection for girls to IS years establishment of libraries and reading rooms; requiring 3 per cent of the school funds to be expended for school libraries, the books to be chos- en by the State Board of Education; establishing the State Library com. mission: providing for department or uOIHSSlic SCleHce III the State unl- versity; providing for a course of do- mestic science in the Academy of Idaho; establishment of the industrial reform school; pure food act; statute giving married women the same right to dispose of her property as men
 Utah gave full suffrage to women in 1896 Since then the women claim these laws as a result of their efforts: Requiring that women teachers be paid the same salaries as male teach CTS; raising the age of protection of girls to IS years; establishing free public libraries in cities and towns; requiring in all educational institu- tions supported by public funds in- struction in physiology and hygiene;
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10
Of No Interest to Inventor.

To a friend Edison once confessed T haven't used a telephone for ten years, and l would go out of my way any day to miss an incandescent light"
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10
COLDS BREED
 GA ARRH
Her Terrible Experience Shows How Peruna Should Be in Every
 Home to Prevent Colds.

Mrs. c. s. Sa g e r s e r, 1911 Wood land Ave-, K a n s a s c i t y, Mo-, writes:
 q feel it a duty to you and to others that may be af- ficted like myself, to speak f O T Peruna.
 My trou- b l e fl r S t came after la g ri p p e e i g h t or nine years ago, a gath ering in my head a n d neuralgia I s u if e r e d most all the t i m e. My nose, e a r S and e y e s were badly n Gnatal e.
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10

the size of life. The Budapest core spondent of the International Studio comments the "dignitied simplicity of this work
The Green Forest tribune., 1911-11-10
WOMEN TO VOTE IN
 1912
Equal Suffrage May Be Factor in Presidea-
 tial Election

Matter Which Chairmen Of Ma tional Committees Will Be Called Upon to Consider Some of the Laws for Which Women Are Responsible, At- tribIted Directly to Their Vote and Influence.