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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21
The Evening Star S Weekly Review Of Books
Mrs. Jacques FutreDe, in The Secretary of Frivolous Affair.""
Ventures into The Domain Of Detective Stories.

to the manager 1--WE take An average
case) the sole and exclusive right tf
produce the play, say, in the United
States and Canada, in accordance with
the terms of the contract. The play
wright agrees to write the play. It IL
sometimes desirable to have the man
ayers agree to produce the play on OF
before a certain date or to have their
rights forfeited. Usually, upon the
signing of the contract, advance royal
ties are paid, say, one thousand dol
lars, or more or less. These are an ad-
vance Upon royalties which vary &C.
cording to the reputation of the dram
atist or novelist, or both. There IL,
however, very little variation in such
royalties. They run usually as fol-
lows:
Five per cent. on the first $4,000 gross
weekly receipts. 7M per cent. On all
gross weekly receipts in excess Of So
and up to $40. 900, and say 10 per cent.
on all over that. They are not based
IN profits; they are based on the
amount of money that is taken in
from the sale of tickets. A successful
New York production In a large
eiioaIlo Hiay w d Dusilees u eAo'oVo "a
10000; in a small theatre a business
OF $4,000 to $10,0 900 a week.. It Is said
that Henry Irving at times would take
In $780, 900 a week.
Since royalties are not based on
profits, but on the gross receipts, 1T
will be seen that they are quite an
item to be considered. If, however, the
play should earn $4,000 a week. the
royalty then would be $3.50 per week.
This probably would be divided be-
tween the novelist and the playwright
equally.
There are, of course, variations to the
arrangement. Sometimes a playwright
is paid outright; sometimes the novelist
is paid a very small proportion of the
royalties.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21

Chancery is a slow-moving piece of
legal machinery. The city's fight to
abolish the deadly crossing in question
was begun more than a year ago.
Nothing very seriou has happened at
the crossing since then. but there were
lots of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES"
If it will not be until next January
that more testimony is heard, how long
will 1t be before the matter is finally
decided?
In the meantime we may have an
other such horror as hat on Clifton
avenue. February 8, 1903, when a Lack
awanna train dashed into a trolley car
full of High School pupils.
Let the defendant companies get to-
gether and abolish the crossing without
waiting for the slow-moving courts.
7. T.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21
] UNCLE FEB AND THE WEATHER.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

81 Hoskins SEE the reason most men
spend their spare time behind a glass
Is becuz their wives spend all of theirs
in front of one.
Jed Harrow lows he don't under
stand much about this here ressiproSity
stuff, but he's for war with Canada
every time.
Some city Teller told Happy Hepple-
white she he'd a pretty nose and now
she is getting cross-eyed from lookin'
at 1t.
Sim Burrows SEE the moon may af-
feet the tides, but tibet in his time he
has seen 1t affect a good many tibet
were united.
Bill Fry hez quit trading eggs for
sugar at tn store and hez started In
on his wife's jewelry.
Ed Harms broke up his daughters
with the letter-carrier when
he discovered he was a Democrat.
Bud Billings seq he's goin' TO Maine
this fall and hunt some Of them blind
| tigers he's heard so much about.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21
lUsTAINEr
MEN,
(6UWoW

Rabbi Lyons, of Brooklyn, was
speaking before the Arlington Club of
East Orange.
posed to be dry" he said, land II
you nave found my talk dry it is be-
cause / am a minister.
But" continued the speaker, "al-
though l knew I was dry l did not
know Just how dry / really was until
| visited a small upstate town re-
Gently.
81 wal to speak before a woman's
club, and on my way to the clubhouse
from the station I saw my picture on
a box in front Of a store. On the
side Of the box were the words Extra
Dry You see, they had my measure
even before I arrived. 1 felt, how
ever, that it would lave been better
if the champagne that that box had
contained had been inside of me rather
than my being outside Of it."
Meyer Zulick, who was appointed by
Grover Cleveland territorial governor
of Arizona, is living at Avon-by-the-
Sea. Mr.. Zulick was a noted spell
binder in New Jersey prior to ten years
Ago.. In one campaign he toured the
State along with Eckert p. Budd, of
Mt. Holly. At Elizabeth Mr.. Budd,
contrary to custom, came on to speak
before Zulick. The spirit of mischief
possessed him and he delivered Zulick's
speech, which he had come to know
by heart by hearing it delivered several
times. He told all Zulick's good stories
| When Zulick came to the oratorical bat
he simply remarked that h houi
was late and that he did not intend tc
take up the time that should properly
belong to the home talent, and he
didn't.
The methods of the three local vice
chancellors in trying cases are wholly
dissimilar. Vice-Chancellor Emery, the
dean Of the trio, Is nervous, somewhat
erratic and plunges into causes with 9
dash. Vice-Chancellor Stevens, next In
line in point of seniority, has a habi
of leaning his head heavily upon hif
left hand, like a man in deep study
! and often stands in that attitude while
listening intently to the testimony Of
the witnesses or the arguments OF thu
lawyers. Vice-Chancellor Howell, or
the other hand, remains perfectly
passive upon the bench, selling will
perfect equanimity and apparent htti'
mental effort the salient points of thu
most complicated cases presented tt
him.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21
SOCIAL NOTES
OF Newark and the Suburbs

MT. and Mrs. Lemuel Hastings Ar
mold, jr., who were married Wednes-
day al the Seabright home Of the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
c. Fargo, will sail for Europe next
week.
Mr.. Jerome Taylor and family, OF
Broad street, this city, will return
shortly from their summer home al
Chatham.
Mrs. Robert Campbell, of Parker
street, this city, is entertaining her sis
ter, Miss Edwards, of Peru, Ind.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Campbell Clark, OF
Broad street, this city, are expected
home shortly from their summer home
at Elberon. Miss Estelle Campbell
Clark is at school at Pennington, Conn.
Rev. DR.. Frederick w. Lewis, of this
city, has returned from Atlantic City,
where he attended the Presbyterian
synod.
-
Mr.. n Mrs. James Sayre Higbie, OF
Broad street, this city. have as their
guests Mr.. and Mrs. Aubrey Lee
Brooks, of Greensboro, N. C.
3
MI. Lathrop Anderson and his sister,
Miss Sophronia Anderson, will enter
tain the Forest Hill Literary Society
tonight at their home. 612 Mt. Prospect
avenue, this city. DR.. Henry H. Rusby
of this city, will speak on THE Inf1u-
ence of Diaz on the Development OF
Mexico" DR.. Rusby had made several
trips to Mexico, and is able to speak
with authority of the situation there.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21
OUR ABOMINABLY DIRTY STREETS.

eTA HE citizen needs only the evidence of his own eyes to know
that Newark's streets are neglected and dirty. He doesn't
have to make inquiry or to travel far to learn that fact. The
Board of Works is responsible for the dirty streets, and it is there
fore not surprising that members of the responsible majority in the
board make denial and try to show that, in point of fact Newark
is really a model of cleanliness. From the date when the Board of
Works was created to the present time there has been no improve
ment in street cleaning. Methods employed in other cities that
have clean streets have not been introduced. The complacent salts
faction with this ancient and wretched system of street cleaning
expressed by commissioners shows that no betterment can be looked
for unless there is a radical change. Either the cleaning should be
given over to a separate board or it should be contracted out to
be done according to business principles and in a business way by
business men.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21
Why WHIT for Court.

To the Editor u tho Evening Star:
l understand that there will be
nothing doing in the Court of Chan
Gerry until January of next year in the
legal neht over the abolition OF the
frightful grade crossing in Frelinghuy-
sen aYenue. The Lehigh Valley, the
"Pennsy,' the Putl'c Service railway,
and last, but not least, tho people Of
The city, as represented ~ its law de-
pa.tment, are interested in the out
COME of uiat fgLt
Eve1yoe'y tAa II 10 80
nature Of a. business Quo Io~rt Vi
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21
HOUSEKEEPING AND CITIZENSHIP.

STa HAT no woman should be licensed to marry unless she is
qualified to keep house is a pretty radical idea. In these
days of boarding and hotel life there are many couples who
do not expect nor want to go to housekeeping, and they are entitled
to exercise that free choice. But such is the suggestion made by
Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers, wife of the dean of the Yale Law School
in an address to the Connecticut Federation of Womens Clubs. At
any rate. Mrs. Rogers is right on the main proposition that un.
wholesome home life is responsible for many ills that ahhct the
community and that good housekeeping is closely bound up will,
good ciAAzeaship. And the plass 10 teach domestic economy is in
~, 49, aAheaia.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Albert o. Headley, of
this city, have returned to their Lin
coin Park home, after spending the
summer at their cottage in Elberon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert w. Palmer, OF
81 Clinton street south, East Orange,
entertained informally last night the
members of the bridal party who will
be in attendance at the wedding OF
their daughter, Miss Ethel Palmer, who
is to be married on Tuesday to Mr..
Charles Milne, of New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Bingham, of SO
Walnut street north, East Orange, are
visiting their son, Mr.. Edward H.
Bingham, Of Hinsdale. III,
A subscription bridge for the benefit
OF the scholarship fund of the East Or
ange' High School. will be held at the
Woman's Club House, hat place, on
Monday afternoon, November 8, unde4
the auspices of the East Orange High
School Alumni Association. Miss
Marion Hunter. of Sc Carnegie ven
East Orange, is in charge of the tickets.
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Mrs. Orlando S. Mecabe and Miss
Elizabeth Mecabe, of Jersey City. are
spending the autumn at Sparta.
:
Mr.. n Mrs. Calvin H.. Deer, ut
Eleventh street. his city, are expected
home today from a trip to Buffalo and
Niagara Falls.
=
Mr.. and Mrs. William Prettyman, of
Watson avenue, this city, are enter
tanning Miss Anna Carmen, of VIII
mington, Del.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21
Praise for Education Board.

To the Editor OF the Evening Star;
Our Board of Education deserves
credit for assuming more and more
each year the functions implied in the
word education. The time has passed
when ii meant bringing the child
through the eight grades of common
school.
The feature which ! to empha-
size at this time is the course of free
public lectures now beginning, which
brings the advantages of education tc
adults, as well as children. The effori
is well spent, and Newark is rightly
/ regarded as a model by the othel
municipalities of the State.
PROGRESSIVE.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21
Hardly Becoming.

To the Editor Of the Evening star:
After reading about the hazardous
Journey taken by President Taft up
Mt. Rainer. it seems highly out of place
for a President of these United states
to thus put his life in jeopardy, and
another astonishing thing about it is
that the people of Tacoma should feel
so little responsibility in their care OF
the chief executive of the nation.
We were not surprised when our for
mer President rode in submarines or
flying machines, but p%erilous journeys
do not seem to hecome Mr.. Taft.
J. A. ID.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21
Significant.

Significant.
To the Editor of the Evening Star:
The recent arrest of a number of
Cinnamon in this city or a charge of
selling opium in large quantities, once
more calls attention to the fact that the
headquarters of the Chinese race in
every city requires the closest kind OF
surveillance by the police officials.
There seems to be a TRANCE fasclna-
ton about the Chinese quarters for
young girls, particularly of the unedu-
Gated class, n once in the grasp OF
the Celestials, escape for them is almost
impossible.
OF course, there are good Cinnamon,
but you do not usually find them doing
business in small buildings with heavy
cloth screens al the windows.
OBSERVER.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21
DROWNED LIKE RATS IN A NINE.

cm1 HE deaths of twelve miners engaged in sinking a shaft in a
mine at Upper Hibernia call for a rigid investigation. The
mine is owned by the Wharton Steel Company and the dis.
aster was caused by a blast of rocks on a higher level, which let
q food of water into the mine, drowning the miners like so many
rats. Under what kind of supervision was this done? Who
aathorized the fatal blast? Did the company have a competent
engineer in charge? The twelve dead men and their bereaved
families, left helpless charges upon the public, appeal powerfully
fsr. an investigation to fix the responsibility.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21
THEQUEsTIoN

THE UESTION
$ e S whether
Mrs. May Futrelle
is the wife of Mr..
Jacques Futrelle
or whether he is
her husband. Just
now, in e of
1.-THE Secretary of
FIR $ At
fairs" written by
Mrs. Futrelle and
pu Bills h e d by
B o b b s Merrill
Company, Indian
apolis, Ind., 1t Is
safe to say he Is
Mrs. Futrelie's
husband.
In writing this
story, Mrs. Flu
trelle has
tured into her
husbands domain,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21

1t has been discovered tina hay fever
can be cured by spending a part of
each day in the cooling room of a brew
cry. Milwaukee will now grab the
medal for being the healthiest city in
the country.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21

John D. Rockefeller says he admires
that disputed hymn, "The Beautiful
Isle" Only he probably spells 1t
"Oisle,'
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21

The women of st. Paul, Mimi, are
going to hold a one-hour prayer serv-
ice for the city officials. 1t speaks we'll
for st. Paul If the city officers can he
cured In one hour.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21

PRSST0N

The STAR extends the privilege
of these columns to the public ana
not more than one hundred words
treating of topics of the hour.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21
OUR
Que S DRAWER

QE57H0N-- HAS AN
lNDlv iDUAL ORGANlS M
The RoMsR To MODIFY
ITSELF PHYSICALLY TO
neET A GANGS or EN-
WRcNMENT TO WHICH IT
Is NOT ~ADAPTEps If So
TO WHAT ExTENTs
NYSfxER IF THE BRICKS
ARE LAID WITH HEADERS
EXPOSED EVERY FOURTH
COURSE, the RESULT
WILL Be A~EToGETHER
HARMONIOUS FROM The
STANDR POINT OF GENERAL
APPEAR sNcE- ADVISE
Use or TINTED MORTAR.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21
TODAY IN HISTORY.

October q, 1861, just fifty years ago,
Uncle Sans army fought two battles.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21

cat mountain, near London, Ky. This
was a Federal victory, if on a small
scale.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21

Decentralization of Novels (~Continued).
In such cases the parties usually
enter into a contract in writing. by
which the author of the novel assigns
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21

Mr.. Jerome Taylor and family. Of
Broad street, this city, will return
shortly from their summer home at
Chatham.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Albert o. Headley, of
this city, have returned to their Lin
coin ark home, after spending the
summer at their cottage in Elberon.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-21

Mrs. Robert Campbell, of Parker
street, this city, is entertaining her sis
ter, Miss Edwards, of Peru, Ind.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-01

money. It Is the sharing of love with
an individual. chosen to enjoy spe-
cial distinction. It's obligations and
it's duties grow out Its very nearness
and dearness. and constitute a re-
sponsibility that is lifelong and con
tinuGus.
Love of CrIticisn.
There Is a perversity about human
nature that resents the training which
1t really desires. The average worker
does not care to be criticized. Are you
like this. girls and women who read
these words? Do you resent having
the way shown? Are you so sure of
yourselves that you consider your crit
les unjust when they offer suggestions
regarding methods OF work? know
so many people who have failed be-
cause of this trait of self sufliciency
that dread 10 see it in those who arc
just starting out In the business world,
remember the REMARKS of delight
full professor Of English who had
charge of n class of writer's, of which
was n member. One of the members
of sthe class had resented a sharp crit
icism OF his work. and the professor
said, smiling: what are you here for?
TO be -patted on tho hack or TO learu?'
1t Is pleasant to have our work
praised. and unjust criticism Is enough
to dampcn tho enthusiasm OF any hon
est worker, hut just censure is good
for the soul" To take 1t In the right
spirit, to seize every chance OF Inn
provement which comes our way, Is tho
surest means. OF finding ones way to
the top OF tho ladder OF ones ambition.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-01
Her Dearest Friend and Dearest Foe

Nearly all young women have an
especial friend to whom they vow
unending loyalty, in whom they pro-
TESS to have unlimited faith. from
whom they expect the fuiGlment of
their Ideals as To truth. honor. un-
sel1shness and fidelity
Then on some fine day comes an
experience that doesn't fit in with pre-
conceived ideas. Failure in essential
respects causes deep and sorrowful
disappointment as to the structure Of
friendship that seemed so fair and
so secure. and yet has crumbled at u
breath into ruins.
young woman to whom such a
catonal experience may feel her world
slipping from beneath her feet for n
time. But IL she Is a normal, healthy
minded individual she VIII recover her
Doise. confront her emotional ca ia
clSsm and, by patient investigation,
find out what caused IT,
as soon as she dcvotes serious
thought to the matter she is conscious
that feeling of security and of care.
less case on her part has caused her
to consider friendship, which Is always
In the making and never wholly made.
as a finished and established institu-
ton. she finds herself in the state OF
tho creditor who has mistaken II
promlssory note for money paid and
In hand.
The young woman passes In review
before her mental vision the qualities
and requirements that go into the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-01
Good Health Resolutions

Doctor Jean Williams, following out
the New Year idea. has drawn up some
good health resolutions in the Wo-
Women, young and old. rich and poor.
might read these resolutions with
profit. These are they:
Resolution Nc, IL will try to be-
come more Intelligent concerning my
body. looking with greater respect
upon my physical resources and trying
to .ealize more fully that upon them
the force and success of my life largely
depend.
Resolution No. 81 will arrange it
possible. to supply sufficient pure air
to combat every source of disease that
might attack me, to improve my chance
for long life and TO increase my eff
cheney
Resolution No. 81 will be kinder
to my digestive organs. avoiding all
excess and not asking them to strug-
gle with food for which they have re-
peatedly shown antagonism.
Resolution No. I'll vii! treat my
brain and nervous system with greater
consideration. and ffty-six hours OF
each week shall he devoted to sleep.
Resolution No. 81 will try to do
in eight hours as much lard work ns
/ should do In one dag.
Resolution No. 6--I will devote at
least two OF the twenty four hours to
such exercise as find most beneficial
Resolution No. I'll will give my
moral support to every effort, public
or private. in behalf of the betterment
of health conditions, so becoming n
small factor in the great movement for
moral and physical uplift."
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-01
Every-Day TnbIc Manners.

Table manners in their simplest
form are so taken for granted by well-EG
bred people that nj the first Impulse
II seems almost Unnecessary to give
instructions concerning details OF he.8
havior. But the offenscs against con-
vention we all see at times prove that
every one does not know exactly what
constitutes good conduct at meals
rs 1t needful at this stage of CIV
ilization to say that one should not eatsi
with his. knife? It ought to be. b,its
am afraid 1t is not. Those Of us who
are accustomed to eating only in ours
own homes or at tho tables OF our
friends are prone to think that none
but barharians eat with their knives!8
y little foreign travel is likely 20 cure
us OF that notion. Not only foreign
ers whom wa meet at hotels or I'M
pensions shock our sensiblities by such
oiienses. but our own countrymen Of
ten show us examples OF their skill tn@
sword swallowing exploits. Ss
he, in no circumstances Is eating
with the knife anything but a crime
against good manners. The knife is4
TO cut with. the fork to be used inE
eating 5s'fissS
Good Manners are Made Up OF Petty
Sacrifices 91t8s
This was dictum OF Emerson's ana
II Is we'll illustrated in table mannerssi
Perhaps nowhere else do we see more
examples of personal convenience being
submitted to consideration for the sens.
sihiiities OF others II is certainiys5
/ easier and more convenient to eat @s
chop or chicken wing by taking tfieg
bone in the hand and biting tho meat
from il than 1t is TO cut the meat cares
fully In pieces Of q suitable size and1I
carry these to the mouth on the fork.
In like manner 1t is simpler matters
ia lay your bread on the table,
'slather' the butter on Ii with Your
knife and then take mouthfuls from
the whole slice than 1t Is to LEAK or
| and butter a bit OF It at a tImersA. YOU
want IL.
Quiet eating might. 1t would seeles
| be taken for granted. Yet 1 know; aS
family OF charming girls who all estz
nolsily. apparently never thinking Or
never having been taught that one ots
the first essentials OF table manners5is
to keep the lips closed While chewinE.tss