The Washington herald., 1911-06-11

ing collations; that garden where the
straw hat and the gin rickey, silk stock
ings and tall tumblers, crown the hot
summer nights with halo Of pleasure
held by members Of the Forty-second
Street Cross Country Club to surpass
the joys OF the best summer resorts in
the world ,-... z.
their summer m town may NOT pe cnezr-
ed OF a glimpse of farm life, the astute
managers Of the Victoria nave turned
part Of the vast auditorium into sure
enough, really. truly farm-said to De an
exact reproduction Of Mrs. o. H. P. Bel
nnont's suffrazette farm at Hampstead,
Long Island. Perhaps it Is. Most OF
those who see II hope 50. anyway, Tor,
the help" on this little country place IL
decidedly charming as to face ana ng-
ure, and gay as to demeanor Each
| ''farmette" is attired in g nice new pair
of bright blue overalls, which are most
becoming tthe bill does not state that
| the Belmont suffragettes wear END: each
has bis-bee pardon-her sleeves rolled
up as far as they will conveniently CO.
| and each attends strictly TO her duties,
! when not lavishing winning smiles upon
| the spectators.
| lust at the top of the steps leading to
.'The old farm" is the farmhouse, with
| two pretty little suffragettes in the front
yard gardening. They are the engineers
4
| eight by ten feet, and they bend their
| pretty noses TO the task of training cab
/ bages on treIlises and other light work
with an avidity that bespeaks long prac-
tice Next to this Is the dairy, where
| rnIIknlaid, the only woman on the farm
| who wears skirts, is busy milking. while
two other dairymaids keep cream sepa'
rator and churp in operation. Adjoining
the barn there Is small yard whose gate
l a
oyeraIled suffragette operates pair o.
electric clippers with an abandon tha
would do credit to q "German-AmerfeaI
U. r. Next tonsorial torture factory OF
Eighth avenue.
A rustic bridge crosses a fair-size'
,uond where several truant suffragettes
overails rolled high, splash about in al
effort to corral enough fish for dinner
Here stands little Eva, a tiny creatur
who scarce tips the scale at 2O5, bus.
with hammer and forge shoeing a pa
tient horse. while a policewoman, trun
cheon in hand, firmly. yet politely, re
quests you to move along.
The next exhibit is a real man. He
ensconced In the "Suftragettes' Home.
at the far end Of the footpath. He ais
wears meek and lowly expression an
| Is very busy with washboard and tut
while his wife picks winners from tn
: and smokes cigarettes with all the free
dom OF untramineled womanhood.
: There are about twenty-five suffrs
: gettes on the roof. all 50 shapely, er
Q trancing, ana busy withai, that man
weary worker was heard to murnr
Z words to the effect that If the Belmot
establishment were run on the. san
: lines. minus the stage management, {,
= male policeman, ct al, nothing cou
y possibly keep him from patronizing Il
: Long island Railroad as far as HEM
e stead. Those in charge Of the roof d
? cline to srate whether o. not farm col
ditions at the Belmont enterprise rise
e the STANDARD set at the Victoria
y The rest Of the bill was good, as
, usually Is at Hammerstein's but,
y though the singers sang, the dance
= danced, and the comedians perpetrat
e their funniest wheezes, nll paled TO !
le significance before the wonders OF Hai
y merstein's latest novelty.
e aJusend.n
= "Jugead.p translated from the origin
In German by Herman Bernstein. Is bel
ne tried on suffering New York at the
to fou. The original written by Max H
T. ba. must have been admirably suited
O. Teutonie taste. but Il has somehow Il
Y. that neeiIble quantity, interest" In
- y. trip across the Atlantic. This is nothl
i ssS new IN transatlantic productions
e salt sea air OF old mother ocean see
:. to take the starch OF hriiiianey out
- almost every play brought over. In "a
- So often has transportation been unsi
,lf lcessfuiiy tried during the past sea-
"a that one wonders at the hardihood
ne Julius Hopp. he Of two oth1r unfortun
- play grating experiments. in attsm
Il. ing the present production.
The Biiou production y German e.