The evening world., 1911-10-24
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BY CHARLES DARNTON.
I'd, S'Matter. Pop? 81 M b. G. u: PANE
CHARLES

- NE had to be up in arithmetic &c sde tho plot of the piay at webers
last night. I put in q large part of The time adding nd ubtractns and
- 70 o wns Averys stood: Owed on furniture. S6; paid collector with $1,000
nh N'ppe her. along with 5000 more. by distinguished Hnancter' with corn
urcn hair; got $Ao in change: matched tainted money with 800 hat thought
fM young Enghshman happened to remember he owed her husband; picked Up
~ carelessy lying OF the table; got obmEing young Enslshman to give her a
u0o HI for her $500 plus $S pus sS; then sent he whole $4,000 bck to corn
starched gentleman. See?
The hardup heroine who figured SC readily In Mrs Avery" had been run.
nas behind in her accounts. that "A an Morally. she was as rood as gold
10 y Te me lid waverf for a when Ivan Barzas, the Austrian
eAancer with tho Russian name. urged Ter to 70 with him nd way empires
~ swsy empires when Tho An ever move a bill collector ust b. q temptation
At only n strong woman can resist And Mrs. Avery wasn't veal he wa
Just . tribe dizzy. She wavered- al yes!-but she did no fall.
o may well ask why the upright young wife took $4,000 in he FRS place
Let m sy 1t once hat this val quite IN keeping with the domestic character
~ III said she was-probably because those IN III house hadn't been paid
for. though she didn't so into sordid details Tho pont is thar her middtea aged
edmher. having drawn her ut on thu subject. promptly handed her.. with his
ceuphments a book entitled Oriental Rugs
Now you might not see anything in such a book. But when Mrs Avery
opened It. after the gvr had taken his dsnfned departure She say in II $4,000
II turned out to be a very valuable ook af~ all IN doesn't pick u p a book
Of that sorte every day. Circulating libraries. for instance couldn't AFFORD TO
have 1t drawn upon unless they we're prepared for a rush It ws the only
"pook of thu play" I've ever seen hat eme worth thirty cents
No wonder Their that Mrs Avery huge. It's contents to her grateful bosom!
HNe vas a way out of her debts And then. too. her anxious husband needed
noney to bring ut his electrical invention. But d. YOU suppose 10 touched a
penny of U? Not he! There werent n pennies And those notes went bck to
the man who had sntt them justa $ I told o uint the beginning.
Tho hopeful hnanclcr didn't know how he MAS coming u until he returned
Then her husband walked in and I'VE vent o a deer and bitter "oh"' lie
eaaked about he matter and his invention and Thomas A. Edison and mis- youth
fd other things dear 10 him INT Barzas had heard nough. 1t ws evidently
- distinguished fnanei@s" dignity that ave him from being kicked out
THIS. at least seemed the only explanation. Thent he husband announced tina.
Mr.. Edison had given him $4,000 job, and all wa well. MI. Edison figured as
HI absent hero Of he play got a lot of free advertising.
The amaeursh little play was written by Howard EstabrooK and Gretchen
nMe. who acted the leading parts I'm not going to W. how they acted them,
hr In a frankly boyish speech at the enc of the second act Mr. Esabrook
PRODUCER Of the play. This ingenious speech marked the most natural and
interesting moment OF the whole amudnsy artificial venns
we're goo N whose morals weren't altogether bad. lie was always ready with
an answe when Mrs. Avery asked "why 10 yu sy hiatt" In this IA the
like pauses that made ons wonder whether tn stage manager val enjoying .
good nights rest.