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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-03-16

New York police reports give an
average OF 100 girls ruined daily by
the moving picture shows
Some people say. What will We
do n we can't play cards and 70 TO
the theater, Why. you empty-headed
NUTS. you can ind plenty of pleasures
hat are clean and wholesome 10 oc-
cupy your leisure.
What Anna Held Gays.
Anna Held. who has made fortune
on the stage. said In an interview on
September IL. The condition OF the
theater business 10 such that / would
not advise any young woman to 10 on
the stage. IL 10 dangerous behind the
footlishts. Every girl that goes on
the stage to-day is absolutely at he
mercy Of the owners of the theaters.'
These are usually owned by million
aires who have access to the stage ana
rehearsals. and the girls fall a victim
to he powers these men have over
them. This is proven by the fact that
these men invariably back a musical
show or something that has a lot OF
girls In IL. and you see them be-
! a drama with a male star.
TT is the immoral picture shows
that our youth and drag them
down. These pictures are usually
some play on the unfaithful wife or
some mockery on the sanctity OF the
home hat has its effect on the minds
OF the tender youth. There are sOO.-
100000 people attend the picture
shows daily. and what good do they
do
A Sweeping Reform.
After the Iroquois theater fire in
Chicago there was a reform all over
the country. The theaters in Chicago
were not opened for two months and
there was a great wall hat II the
theaters were closed there would be
excessive drinking and people would
go insane for want OF amusement. At
the end OF the two months the Chicago
Record-Herald in an editorial stated:
Happily such things as were predict.
ed failed to come to pass. The people
round other amusements to while
away their spare time and the closing
OF the theaters was only noticed by
those directly interested
1T is the spectacular that attracts
Take the legs away from a spectacu-
lar show and 1t would fail. Edwip
Booth would not allow his family "a
go to see a theatrical performance
until after he had witnessed the pro.
duction or cad the manuscript. Yet
you say. oh, the theatre has great
power. Yes. but Il
Is a Power for Evil.
Della Fox made $3.50 a week: Eva
Tanguay. the vaudeville performer
gets $500 a week: Maude Adams
n Of the finest women on the Amer
can stage. earns $200. 900 a year: Da,
vid Warheld earned $500. 900 with Tho
Music Master and with this play he
made a million for himself and for his
manager. David Belasco. Sarah Bern
hart made a seven-months tour OF
this country. and after paying all bills
took away s345.OOO. have no doubt
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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-03-16

they earned II. and ! am glad they got
II. but nobody ever called them graft
ers. You get Madame Melba over
here for a concert and II will cost you
$4,000. and YOU pay Caruso $4,000 for
singing three songs. I have no doubt
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dollar. Some say. 'Ar. Sunday. what
do you DO with your money None
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YOU life
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The Daily Chit Chat
By RUTH CAMERON

TUE very sweetest lady ] knoV. that dear. unseihsh saint in fact on
Il Sh9se pnyes place my best hopes % hesvsn-I don't suppose ned
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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-03-16

been out OF the stable for some time,
and we're feeling good. They got the
bit IN their teeth and ran away. As
they rounded q orner the trap upset
and the woman wa thrown out. The
streets were icy. and she slid head
first against the curbstone and war
rendered unconscious. She was car.
ried home and several physicians
called. When b regained conscious
nees she cried for her babies. Then
she prayed to God TO save her life.
and said h would give up dancing
and attend the services. Her life was
saved and she was converted. Some
OF YOU have TO be knocked down or
wait until the undertaken Is about
ready TO come before you seek re-
ligion.
Liberties In Dancing.
Women. you allow men to take lib
critics with you in the ball room that
you would not permit elsewhere. As
you SOW. so shall you reap Doesn't
the swaying OF bodies around corners
in the ball room bring bodies OF the
dancers so close that IL cannot be toll.
Grated?
You business a let a man come
into your home and assume the same
position with your wife as he would
in the ball loom, and you walk in. IL
would be-bangi bang, and you could
not find a jury of married men I'm
America that would convict you OF his
murder.
You dance? No. But your wife Is
crazy about II. and you go AMI sit and
watch some other fellow whirl her
around the, floor. This man was her
former lover. ana he hugs and kisses
her. ! want 20 see the color OF some
bucks hair that a hug and kiss my
wife. ] want to see that
Lobster That Hugs Ny wife
all owe the ball room. When II
comes to that hugging business I will
m~onopolize It myself. II is no harm
to keep your daughter away from the
ball room. but IL might meal very
thing for her good.
81 read the other day hat sitting
out a waltz was to be more common
than dancing. Then a couple will sit
on a divan with their arms entwined
n all they have to do is TO sit to
music. II is nonsense TO Jig ten
miles n sweat down n collar Just 20
get a couple OF hugs. A man has got
tcontinusd OF Fourteenth Pags.)
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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-03-16

They all announced that they will
stick with "Biif" In the crusade
against the Turf EXCHANGE.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-01

Herbert Kaufman in Woman's world TOT
 September.
 great corporation recently sent its star representative to close an important deal. Possessed of unique facilities and indorsed by a successful career, every advantage lay with this company. The man chosen to represent them was compe- tent, resourceful, familiar with all the tn- tricate details of his line, possessed of a pleasing personality and the power of conviction. His habits were orderly, he neither drank nor gambled and could be relied upon in any emergency, but tooth- ache undoubtedly lost his principals a profit of $5O,000.
 The tooth began to bother him the day of his departure-it became ulcerated on the train, and he spent an entire night without sleep and in nerve racklng ag- ony.
 Arrived at his destination, he was utter ly unfit for work and in a dulled, distract ed frame of mind, attempted to transact business. He could not concentrate his attention upon his duties, his selling talk was rambling and lis tless, he lacked force and magnetism and made such a poor case for himself that a competitor, who under normal conditions would have been dis tinotly his inferior, succeeded in closing the contract
 Year by year we are learning how essen. ton is physical perfection, not only to personal welfare, but to trade and the professions as we'll
 The physician who doesn't guard his own health cannot bear up under the de- mands of heavy practice-the surgeon who is not in the pink of condition lacks readiness and steadiness in crucial opera tions-the employe at the mercy of bad teeth no matter what his skill, knowl- edge and capability, cannot be relied upon the lawyer who shows no discretion in his selection of food is fair prey to the irritation of indigestion during his most important trials.
 The hour is not far distant when em- blowers in estimating mans fitness for responsibility will take sharp account or his body as well as his brains.
 Flawed timbers are not safe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-01
MT. Taft and Nicaragua

President Taft has decided to keep the army proper out of Nicaragua. He could send troops to half a dozen weddings, sometimes called states, but he refrains. He really entertains should be invaded without a declara- tion of war by Congress.
 The Monroe doctrine calls, it is claimed, for an invasion first, and a declaration of war later on. This is the Roosevelt way of doing up weak governments. The Nicaraguan insur- gents are, however, to be left to fight their own battles, and the hope is ex- pressed that all movements intended for political effect have been post poned until after the election.
 The Tenth infantry will not be dis patched from Panama to Nicaragua, and affairs in Mexico are quieting down, and Cuba has suppressed her rebellion, and altogether peace reigns in the pocket republics to the south of us. The use of a few marines suf- fices, and no formal invasion is to take place. MT. Taft is not ready to in dorse the Rooseveltian plan which led to the taking of Panama and the let ting of Congress talk afterward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-01

save one. August was a great cotton growing month and September is starting out with favorable weather conditions.
 If we have a late frost the Ala bama crop may go over the 400, ,000- bale mark. But the chances are that Mr. Harding's figures, which will be found in the First National bank s regular monthly review, published in today's Age-Herald are right. Such a crop, at anything like reasonable prices, means a vast addition to Ala bama's wealth. Many farmers can afford to hold their cotton and those who do hold until December will get better prices than prevail today. The cotton sold in large quantities during the fall will be for the purpose of raising money to meet pressing de- mands. Humanly speaking, the man who holds his cotton until the forced sales have been made, will get a splendid profit.
 The corn crop, as well as the cot ton, has turned out we'll. The year 1912 will be remembered as a banner year in the agricultural life of Ala barna.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-01
Trade and Politics

H. J. Porter, who recently returned from a trip east, speaks enthusiastically of business and of Woodrow Wilson s chances of election.
 .'I was in New York in July and laid in a. large stock for the Porter Clothing company, but business has been remark ably brisk this summeH and 1t promises to be even more active during the fall and winter, so l concluded l would have to go back and make large supplemental purchases" said MT. Porter "A period Of prosperity has begun, and there IS every indication that 1t will continue for some time to come Never have we had such large August business.
 "On my second trip to New York l found everybody talking enthusiastically. The big merchants are looking forward to contin- ued prosperity, and l was gratified at another thing-the business interests seemed to be highly satisfied with Wood- row Wilson. Everybody l met in New York seemed to think that Wilson would be the next President; that he would be elected by "a large majority, and nearly everyone whether he was democrat or re publican, seemed to feel that Wilson would make a model President
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-01
.HoRsE SENSE" AND TESTIMONY

From the New York World.
 Joseph G. Robin during his confne- ment in the Tombs awaiting sentence is reported to have made fortune in Wall street.
 Whether the fortune in question amounts to the $1,000.000 credited to him or to one-tenth of that sum, the fact of interest Is that it has been made by the man whom a bakers doz- en of alienists, to save him from the penalty of financial crookedness, pro- nounced insane and irresponsible a year and a half ago. The verdict of the jury declaring Robin sane, its indorsement by Judge Swann as morse sense,' the clamor of medical association that their profession had been ''insulted'' and the references of Robins counsel to the rag-tag' jury and half baked judge" are fresh in memory
 The common sense verdict has been fully Justified by the result, as in fact it was by Robins subsequent confess sion The case has served the good use of showing that a man sane enough to acquire a private fortune by bank wrecking is sane enough to deserve punishment for his violation of the law, and also that a jury of laymen is com petent to pass on prisoners mental condition where expert alienists dis agree.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-01
FACING TWO LIONS

Stewart Edward White, writing on lion hunting in the September Ameh- can Magazine, relates personal exper- fence he had with two lions that came onto him unexpectedly during a recent years hunt in Africa He goes on to say;
 'They were about 30 yards away; and sat there on their launches, side by side, staring at me with expressionles yellow eyes. I stared back. The Springfield IS a good little gun, and three times before I had been forced to shoot lions with 1t, but my real lion gun with which had done best work was the 405 Winchester. The Springfield is too light for such game. Also there were two lions, very close. Also I was quite alone.
 "As the game stood it hardly looked like my move; so I held still and waited Presently one yawned; they looked at each other, turned quite leisurely, and began to move away at a walk.
 "This was a different matter. If I had fired while the two were facing me, should probably have had them both to deal with But now that their tails were turned toward me, I should very likely have to do with only the one; at the crack of the rife the other would run the way he was headed. So I took a careful bead at the lioness and let drive.
 My aim was to cripple the pelvic bone; but unfortunately just as I fired, the beast wriggled lithely sidewise to pass around a tuft of grass, so the bullet in- ficted merely slight flesh wound on the rump. She whirled like a flash, and as she raiser her head high to locate me, I had time to wish that the Springfield hit trlfe harder blow. Also l had time to throw another cartridge in the barrel
 "The moment she saw me she dropped her head and charged She was thor oughly angry and came very fast. l had just enough time to steady the gold bead on her chest and to pull trigger.
 At the shot, to my great irelief, she turned bottom up, and l saw her tall for an instant above the grass-an almost sure indication of a bad hit. She thrashed around and made a tremendous hullabaloo of snarls and growls backed out slowly. my rife ready. It was no place for me, for the grass was over knee high
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-01
September and Schools

The summer is ended and the schools will soon be scenes of stir. The astronomical summer has three weeks yet to run, and as we had a late summer we will probably have a good deal of high temperature in this first of the autumnal months. But the summer is gone according to the work-a-day world and every depart ment of business will become notably brisker.
 It has been a pleasant summer in this valley. There have been several hot spells" but they have been of short duration. The Birmingham nights that were delightfully."- cool have far outnumbered the hot nights, and the busy people who had to remain here through July and August, kept as cool as many of those who went to fashionable resorts.
 . But what we know as autumn is here. The schools and the institutions of higher learning will be crowded At the colleges, the University of Ala bama and the Alabama Polytechnic institute the student bodies will be larger perhaps than ever before. These institutions have improved their facilities greatly and excellent results may be expected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-01
ARISTOPHANES AND OTHERS

uous argument, to a commonly accepted fact, MT. Nickerson's assertion of the value of comedy is unsuitable as a con opinion between dictionaries as to it's being true. And it is unnecessary to as- sert that songs as a vehicle for comedy are effective and unexceptionable
 Musical comedy is objectionable only when it fails to pleasantly satirize the weaknesses and manners of society and the ludicrous incidents of life, and is, tc intelligent persons. stupid, or when 1t Is vicious. Whether or not the Conan type of musical comedy is stupid Is a matter of opinion. It is certainly not vicious, and it shares that negative vir- tue with a good deal of musical comedy that hardly rises to the dignity of the dictionary definition of comedy at the discovery of which Mir. Nlckerson arrives by the way of Greece. There are, unde- niably, some musical comedies that ad- mirably fulfill the definition and add greatly to the joy of the lives of persons who have both brains and taste Gilbert and Sullivan did not write all of them There are also some that are good deal more unclean than the baldest of the problem plays" just as humorous dis cussion of subjects entirely suited to se- rious discussion at clinic would be highly indelicate in drawing room.
 Doubtless President Lowell could look with entire complacency upon college ei aduates buying tickets to "Pinafore" ssnolfv Warden fRa hos In TovIopd '"The Mikado.' 'The Girl and the Kaiser and numerous others that could be mentioned, although he might find in MT, Conan more of cheap sentimentality than satire, and in some others who could be mentioned more pornography than comedy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-01
Vermont Nearly Ready to Vote


 Tuesday next the first real vote .e campaign will be cast in Yer nt. and on Wednesday morning ,tory will be told. The ordinary ,lican plurality has long been This is normal as things have vince the war. Deacon Hemp
 n that state, and he thinks the
 ID there are tired of million
 Cdidates for governor. The even or eight have been million
 and MT. Fletcher, the Taft rec this year, is multi-million- Ind he defeated in the conven- ,n a more popular man.
 The bull moose vote on Tuesday is 'essedly an unknown quantity. The /, moose speakers and managers se plenty of money, and MT. Hemp m says no one seems to know where !. comes from. The new party, he avs. is, however, always fin funds, v nd the state is full of bull moose ora
 But so it is of other sorts. On esday morning the first vote of fnpaign will be presented in full, ha reader can then judge for him. what the situation is in the hide "a state of the Union which is not convinced that the civil war is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-01

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 IN response to President Lowell ol
 Harvard, who. he says, publicly la \ mented the fact that "even college graduates" go to witness musical com e6ies. Hoffman Nickerson has word to say for light musical entertainment in the september number of the Forum
 Of course, there is a good deal to say {. hobalf of comic opera or musical com edy, no matter how light and frothy II may be. And part of what MT. Kicker son saws is well enough. But there IS nlso much to be said upon Prof. Loweh eide. and there Is really no reason why Mir Niekerson and tho president of Har- yard should disagree.
 MT. Nickerson calls attention to the fact that Mathew Arnold puts Aristo- nhanes on a level with Finder, Aeschy- lus and Sophocies as a poetic interpreter of Periclean Athens. and much aeoVe Eurlpides. And, lest the inveterate con sumer of musical comedy rise to inquire what all of this has to do with the sub feet. he says that Aristophanes plays were. bevond a shadow of a doubt. Of the same genre as 'The Dollar Princess and "Girlies.'
 Continues Mir. Nickerson:
 .Aristophanes was true to his pre1u- dtces. of course : He was jailed for his scandalously libelous treatment of c,eon. the miniature Roosevelt of his day. in The Babylonians. His Iysis- trata' and 'Ecclesiazusae are notorious skits upon contemporary suffragettes. Anyone with a rag of classical cul- t,,re hacked up by a few remnants Of common sense. will recognize Aristo- thames as the titanic ancestor of George Conan. Undeniably Aristophanes gives us A certain criticism of life. The same may be said of modern musi- cal comedy
 And after a gool deal of talk MT. Nick erson arrives at statement which, ap- ps rently. he believes will be startling to r.any of his readers.
 He says:
 Comedy, then, is. at its lowest rating as important as serious drama l And he proceeds to ask whether there | can be any well-grounded objection. upon | the part of Puritan ir Highbrow, tc songs. There can be none, he replies Who will quarrel with his answer? | But MT. Nickerson is neither inform ing nor convincing, even if what he says all of it, including the reference, to MT Conan, which will be worth something to that rising young man in the way of rubliicty-is granted to be true. That comedy is as important as serious drama, and that 1t gives us a certain criticism of life, Is. not a nugget of vir- gin truth turned up by MT. Nickerson's pick, as he seems to imagine. It is merely a fact that has been well knowr since before the time of Thespis. Nobody of intelligence has ever denied 1t. 1 Here is definition of comedy from @ reputable dictionary which does not post as exploiting new and daring theories: "A dramatic representation of ligh and amusing nature, in which are satir ized pleasantly the weaknesses and man rers of society and the ludicrous incl dents of life.'
 1t Is unneceysary to lead up, by stisn