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the typewriter-for there are few Lit
erary artistic hear all this and slmu!
taneously to smell the clay OF the model
ers and the paint of the painters, ant
catch the trip of the feet of the dancer
is to realize that the muses. are being pur
sued with an energy that makes an earl!
capture extremely probable.
There is no dearth of entertainment at
the club, for there are any number OF
young artists who will make music Tor
the others whenever they are called on to
do so.
BY far the greater number Of students
belong to music, painting or drawing
and sculpture. The. majority Is divided
about half and half between the two
great branches. Then there are actresst s.
to-be studying at the dramatic schools.
and some girls who write and some who
dance. They have to 6sion n TO the
quirement. They cannot be teachers or
students in the colleges And they must
be young.
there is no use In applying Ior room a.
the Studio Club, at least not In the sea-
son; not that anybody has prejudice
against that perfectly respectable age.
but thirty Is supposed to be able to IND
its way about in a strange city with less
unpleasantness than twenty. The ma
jority of girls are twenty-one or twenty
two; the youngest Is fifteen.
OF course, you may belong to the club
at any age 1t has 300 members,
in addition to those in residence, who
pay 81 a year and have the privilege OF
using some Of the rooms and OF coming
to the various club entertainments. AS
many as can be accommodated may take
their meals here In addition. it is hoped
that the club will have some day q list of
houses where Iandladies have not harden
ed to all ideals except that of saving the
gas. and may be willing to take in stu
dents and even to recognize the fact that
they have attractions that compare ia
vorably with those Of the drummer.
Some day the club is going to be a
wonderful center; It has quite made UP
It's mind to 1t. and has made fair start.
1t Is to be q sort Of radiating point
eor many ideas. and 1t hopes to bring
there to meet the girls big men and
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particularly cheering fate. 10 IL dou du-
ventures like this:
The girl rings the door bell of a home
that advertises rooms TO rent. The land
lady has vacant very comfortable room
at q moderate price, and the girl begins
to feel that life may sometimes smile
even on q stranger In a strange land.
Then the landlady asks her what her
wouid-be guest does for living.
Il am studying music"
The woman stiffens.
Sorry. but l don't let rooms to must
cal students We can't stand the noise"
And subsequent she will explain. II
you press her. that anyway she doesn't
care for girls as dodgers. and especially
not for students. She prefers men who
are out all day, so she can save the
steam heat. and who are also out most
of the evening, SO that she can save on
gas They are a better paying propo-
sition, and besides they aren't so fussy
about the sweeping.
~
There are in New York some 1900 of
these students, divided between the vari-
GUS arts, running mostly 10 music and
drawing and painting. Their problems
are so many that one wonders sometimes
how their young backs bear them so
bravely. but within a week or two help
has come. That promises to be the be-
ginning Of a great deal more
The s udio Club an organization for
girls who have come to New York to
study one of the arts. has opened a club
nome at - East I'D street where sew
enty girls can be made comfortable and
happy at from $50 to SO a week while,
they follow the road that is going to
lead, some day. to Parnassus. II is to be
, seif-supporting proposition, outs de of
re 'nitia' cost.
The club. which is affiliated with the
"uag Womens Christian Association. is
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@HINA is gradually being penetrated
by the great iron horse" Yet even
today, when attempts are made to
open up a new territory In the country
with new railroad. the men at the
head of the movement often meet with
hostility at the hands Of the natives.
So great was the distrust OF the old
Chinese government for the first railway
that was built in their country that. after
it had been In operation a very short
time they tore 1t up. and. fearing that
the very materials might be the means
of bringing down Ill luck upon them, had
the whole thing--rails. sleepers and roll
ing stockIoaded on junks and carried
to the island Of Formosa. This was done
under pretense of giving the Formosans
the benefit "of the enlightenment OF the
west" as an edict put 1t. but there was
never a serious attempt to install 1t
properly. and the rusting and rotting ma
terials lay there until the japanese pick
ed them over IN 1885 and used what they
could to constructs q real railroad.
~
Since then. in many instances, whole
villages have been temporarily deserted
on the approach Of the first locomotive.
and more remarkable still, hundreds OF
coolies who had been working for months
on the preliminary grading have fed In
dismay at the appearance of the fore
running construction train.
When the Shanghai Marking railway
tunnel was cut through the wall OF the
latter city. which SO long withstood the
attacks of the government troops upon
the TAPPING rebels. the action SO vfo-
lently stirred up the people Of Marking
and environs that for many months q
guard Of soldiers was kept on hand to
protect the workmen- Tho latter we're
all coolies brought from another prov
ince. 1t having proved to be impossible
to get Nankingese, under any induce
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was ready to retire to a Monastery and
wear a Gunny-Sack Smoking Jacket
and live on Spinach.
The Vanities Of the Night-World had
got on his Nerves at last Instead of
sitting Feet away from an Imported
Orchestra at AM. and haunting his
poor old Alimentary System with Sea
Food. he began to prefer to take To-
in the Alfalfa.
About Noon the next Day he would
come up for Air. and in order to kill
the rest OF the Day he would have to
hunt up a Game Of Auction Bridge
with three or four other equity old
Mavericks.
When the Cartons begin to burn low
in the suffering Arc Lights along the
Boulevard of Pleasure and the Night
Wind cuts like Chisel and the Reveler
finds his bright crimson Brannigan
slowly dissolving itself into a Head
ache. there is but one thing for Wise
Ike to do. and that is to Chop on the
Festivities and beat it to a Rest Cure.
That is just what the well-fxed
Bachelor decided to do.
He resolved to Marry and, get away
from the Bright Lights and lie down
somewhere in a quilted Dressing Gown
and a pair Of Soft Slippers and devote
the remainder of his Life to a grand
cleanup of the Works Of Arnold Ben
nett.
He selected a well-seasoned Senorita
who was still young enough to show to
your Men Friends but old enough to
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mentS, to engage in the mutilation OF
their honored wall. Even now that eX-
perience has been considered warning
and no further wall piercing has been
done.
Several times coolies have taken to the
hills on the coming of the first locomotive
and have been induced only with diff1cuitS
to return and get acquainted with the
quiescent monster. Approaching IT by
ones and twos, in fear and trembling
they have gradually regained their cour-
age and ul imately allowed themselves 10
stand on the throbbing demon Itself
On one such occasion the Chinese engi-
neer-a seasoned veteran from another
road and something of a joker-released
the full pressure of his pent-up steam
through the whistle. at the same time al
lowing the cylinders to blow on not
clouds Of kissing vapor. The effect upon
the only half-a ssured coolies was beyond
description. Several dozen sprang kelter-
SHELTER into the nearby canal. and the
only one who didn't take to his heels was
a man who attempted high dive from
the top of he cab and broke his neck.
~ over half OF the gang never returned
to work, it Is not surprising TO learn that
the engineer lost his job for the joke.
X
A few months after that section Of the
road was opened familiarity began to
breed contempt. and coolies were often
seen taking their MONDAY siesta upon
the track. 1t had quickly dawned on
the natives that an eighty-pound steel
rail was almost identical in height and
hardness with the regulation Chinese
wooden pillow. Forthwith few OF the
sharpest hunks Of broken stone ballast
were brushed from half dozen Of the
expensive Australian hardwood sleepers,
and once more the westerners had an il
lustration Of the adaptability of the re-
celestial.
A running fire of peremptory orders
from the general managers Office in
Shanghai was finally successful in put
ting an end to what was rapidly becom-
Ing q regular practice on the part of
section hands all along the line. In the
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that he no longer wished to sit at the
high at Monte Carlo and watched the
Durbar at Delhi and taken Tea on the
Terrace at Shepherds in Cairo and
rickshawed through Japan and ridden
the surf In Honolulu. while his Name
was a Household Word among the Bar
maids Of the Ice Palace in London,
otherwise known as the Savoy.
Occasionally he would return to his
provincial Home to raise tho Rents on
the shop-Keepers and give out an In
terview criticising the New School Of
Politicians for trifiing with Vested In
terests and seeking to disturb Existing
Conditions.
Any time his Rake-Or was reduced
from $40 Minute to $9.9S he would let
out a Howl like a Prairie Wolf and
call upon Mortimer, his Man, for SYM
PATTY.
After Twenty Years Of getting up at
Twilight to throw aside the Pyjamas
and take a Tub and ease himself into
the Costume made famous by John
Drew. the Routine Of buying Golden
Pheasants and Special Cuvee Vintages
for almost-Ladies. preserved by Ben
zoate OF Soda and other Chemical
began to lose its Sharp
Zest.
In other Words. he was All In.
He was Track Sore and Blase and
sore as a Crab and full Of Ongway. He
had played the whole String and found
there was nothing to it. and now he
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S. in her possession and no prospect or
any more. She found work. 1t must be
added, and stayed her time, and studied
and won her spurs.
The club has been in existence In one
form or another for five years. and two
years ago found itself able to Ia &c a
house and accommodate some twenty
girls, but II Is only two weeks since 1t
became the proud possessor OF homo
that would really begin to DO something
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: SIZES s2qR&F59fA BLESBSkANGGS% $751; :
The New Fable Of the Ganoping Pilgrim Who
Tried to SIT Down by the Way
side--When He Married

would crawl into the Presence of the
Grandson of the mighty Muskrat
Hunter and dump before him a Wagon
load Of Paper Money which had been
snatched away from the struggling
Shop-Keepers, who. in turn. had
wheedled 1t from the People who paid a
Nickel apiece for Sunday Papers 50 as
to look at the Pictures OF the Decora-
lions in the Supper Room at the AS
sembly Ball graced by the Presence Of
tho aforesaid Bachelor whose Grand
father had lifted the original Catfish
out Of the Chicago River
Then the Representative Of the Old
Family would take a Garden Rake and
pattern all this hateful Currency into
a neat Mound. after which a milk-fed
Secretary would iron it out and disin-
feet it and sprinkle it with Lilac Water
and tie it into artistic Packets, using
Old Gold Ribbon.
After that, 1t was Hard Lines for the
Bachelor. because he had to sit by q
Window at the Club and dope out some
new Way OF getting all that Coin back
into Circulation
X x
AS q result OF these Herculean Eff
forts to vaporize his Income. he found
himself at the age of 40 afi1icted with
Social Gastritis. He had gorged him
self with the Pleasures Of this World
until the sight Of a Menu Card gave
him the Willies and the mere mention
Of Musical Comedy would cause him
TO break down and Cry like a Child.
He had crossed the Atlantic SO often
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GREAT RAIL WAY INVASION OF CHINA.

ease III non-employes, however, il has
been impossible to exercise much author
ity. and not even the fact that severs:
coolies. sleeping on curves that gave lit
tie opportunity for warning. have beer
beheaded has served to dampen the en-
thusiasm of such villagers as chance to
become aweary for sleeping on tho
sleepers." Twos and threes of them con-
tinue to be painlessly guiIlotined from
time TO time. But life Is held lightly Il,
China, and the encouraging thing abou,
the practice is that II is popularizing the
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"NIx ON THE ACROBATICs, OR
every day in the Year. I'm going to
pillow an S-foot Furrow across Europe
and Dine forevermore at Swell Joints
where famous Show Girls pass so close
to your Table that you can almost reach
out and Touch them. I'm going to
Travel IL months every Year and do
all the Stunts known to the most i'm
beetle Globe-Trotters"
A few Weeks after that, Haggard
Man with tattered Coat-Tails was seen
going over the old familiar Jumps.
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of the rls and to keep the expenses
within a reasonable limit
X X
great deal has been said and written
about the girls who go to Paris to study
but we have been slow to realize that
New York has rapidly been taking its
place with the capitals Of Europe as an
art center, and that even in their own
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land g rls may have dreary time when
they come to seek their fortunes Rooms
over saloons are not pleasant for any
body, least of all a girl, but saloons
don't mind noise and many girls have
had to take their violins and their books
of do-re-mi exercises to places like that.
in sheer despair of finding better.
When the club has found houses for
the students it cannot accommodate,
when it has founded sort of interpro-
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EW PROBLEMS OF GIRLS WHO STUDY ART IN NEW YORK

run not for poor girls or for rich girls,
but just for g rls. Some OF the members
come from wealthy homes and turn to
the club. because 1t offers them compan-
ionship and shelter W thout unreasonable
res r ,ctions: some of them have but little
money saved when tn reach New York
and find the moderate prices of the CLUB
an attraction. Al are young women in
dead earnest. There Is not a d1lietante
among the seventy.
That the club was needed Is sufficiently
shown by the fact that it could have
been filed just about four times over.
vious when one sees the charming bed
rooms and the reception rooms and hears
the wise and liberal scheme on which II
is to be run.
The board of directors is made up. very
properly. of young matrons and girls who
have been interested in the welfare of art
students. It's members are Mrs stephen
Baker. president: NJ IS Dorothy Perkins.
wee president; Miss May H. Tory. house
treasurer; Mrs. Schuy er Scheffelin, Sec
rotary; Mrs. Raymond r. Fosdick. treas
urer; Mrs. 3. W. Freeman, Mrs. ]. w.
Auch. Moss, Mrs. J. r. Macarthur. Mrs.
p. II. jennings. Mrs. William S. Payson,
Miss Eleanor Bovee. Miss Elizabeth W.
Dodge and Miss Helen Looms. The Sec
rotary and resident house mother is
Miss Evelyn Newman.
The dea is TO make the place as far
as possible like a college hail for stu
dents They are supervised but not re-
stricted in any way that should offend
the artistic temperament. Above all they
have a sympathetic environment n which
that temperament may expand and Ju-
diciously be turned in the right d.rec-
tons
All New Workers are thoroughly aware
OF the greatness of their city and the ex-
Gel ence of the men al fare its museums
and schools and theaters provide. but
few quite grasp, perhaps, just what 1t
means to ambit Gus young people all over
the country. To talk about the girls In
the Studio Club is something or a revela-
ton.
Those of us who live here all the year
around care less sometimes for our ar
tistic blessings, but the girl in the little
western town, or the girl in the far south,
who has cherished her dream OF doing
something looks to the city as a sort
OF Iarad Sc If she can only get to New
York she can see things and hear things
and find the teachers who will give her
the right idea. and then go back and con-
quer, and maybe be famous some day
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women with something to say worth
hearing, something perhaps that the gir.s
might never have heard in their home
towns. Great artists, musicians. writer's
have already talked to them. and from
now on they will talk regularly at the
Sunday yespers and the Monday recep
tons.
The vespers have nothing oppressively
religious about them. The girls meet and
some one talks to them on some big sub
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toward solving the problem of the girl
student. 1t hasn't. therefore, any stories
to tell of struggling genius knocking in
picturesque poverty at the door and event
ually going out to fame and fortune.
There hasn't been time for that.
But the girls mean bus ness, all of the m.
To sit in the club and hear them sing
scales and run the supple fingers up AMI
down the piano and scrape away at the
yiolins, strum away at the harp and click
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anyway. she will justify the pride and
confidence of family and friends.
So the brave little army starts out
Sometimes there are large checks that go
with them, enough to nay s. for an in
finitesimal space of time with great
man; oftener there is just about enough
to get them here. and the promise of all
that can be spared at home to follow.
Occasionally there Is no promise at all of
any help. Once a child came with only
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a thousand miles
from home. Injured
perhaps to any,
thing b Ut I h Q
friendly - la
of a small town
possibly, not to say
probably. with lit
tie money, almost
of a certainty
homesick-all this
does not make a
fate To IL add adj
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Disqualified.

From the Kansas City Star.
Senator Jesse Helm of Ellsworth county
was summoned on jury to try a man
charged with stealing a load of wheat.
Asked If there was any reason why he
could not sit a juror he sad there
was. What is the reason?" asked the
judge Il saw the man steal the wheat"
explained I'm. The next moment Helm
had been subpoenaed in the case and his
testimony convicted the defendant.
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CERTAIN amuent
3 a C h e ! or hap
pened to be the
only Grandson of
a rugged Early
Settler who wore
a Coon-Skin Cap
and Drank Corn
Juice out Of a
jug. Away back
in the Days when
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The Monday receptions are an extern
sion of the regu ar everyday afternoon
tea From to 5 every day the girls
make merry over this ceremony and in
vite their friends, but Monday there lis
something more elaborate, If elaborate
is a word that may be applied to this
simple establishment. Mr.. Heinrich
Meyer or Miss Kitty Cheatham sings or
kate Douglas Wiggin reads.
Everything about the place is homelike
and inexpensive. 1t looks, as one enters,
SO lovely that ii takes a minute or two
before one reai.zes that The furniture
and decorations are by no means costly.
Upstairs a long room is q meeting place
for tn. residents aid the outside men-
Lers. IN the rear is a smaller sitting
room exclusively Tor residents.
Far up on top of the nve stories is
roof gd:den VITA tennis court and room
for basket bah and a place to swing
haMn.ocAs, and lnueed sv.ry essential for
thoroughly 5000 time. Also. It may be
noted. the deserving who are over thirty
years old may come 10 the club in sum-
mer, for tina. Is 49, season when most
of the girls VII nave gone home or
stepped out into the big world.
In summer, it must be understood, New
York Is the goal of teachers and such
folk who come here to perfect their
speciality and to get new ideas. They, too,
need board at reasonable prices and with
the club filed with them there will
probably be Little Of the summer deficit
which Is the hobgoblin of so many insti-
tutions. For, Of course. the ideal Of such
an organization Is to have it self-support-
Ing and as democratic as possible. There
Is self-government among the students
and the place Is run with just as few
restrictions as are necessary to take care
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Smoke House, this Pioneer had been
soaked In a Trade and found himself
loaded up with a Swamp Subdivision
in the Edge Of Town
two miles beyond the Swamp and
Grandson was submerged beneath so
much Cnearned Increment that he be-
gan to speak with what sounded to
him like an English Accent and his
Shirts were ordered from Paris
On the 1st OF every Month the Agents
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HEATING THE CARPET
IN COLD WEATHER

THERE will be no need of having colo
feet when a recent invention. ortgt-
mating in Germany. is fully developed
BY means Of electricity II is proposed T.
make the carpet, the Persian rug or tn,
tigers pelt as warm in cold weather a.
In summer. The experiment is now be.
ing tried of wiring the floor covering &C
as to heat the carpet or rug. and do away
with cold foors. A patent has beer,
taken out for running wires through tn.
carpet in parallel lines in such a wa.
that an ordinary lighting current car,
be run through the wires. The conductor
becomes warm and heats the carpet. Th..
heat in large carpets can be coutrolIeu
as desired. and the carpet will reunafY
warm for two or three hours after Nh.
current Is turned of. small foot r,,v
can be heated and taken for comfnr,
during carriage ride.
The wiring of carpets for this purpose IL
new, but patents have been issued hefor.
for passing wires or wire gauze through,
compartments I'm table covers. carpers
and other coverings for lighting purposes.
Long Shot.
'Sportleigh is to be married today nc
high noon'
That's an appropriate hour"
How so?'
He's taking Il to chance"
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Moral: Those who Marry to Escape
something usually find Something Else
Copyright 1912. by George Ade)
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pecial Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK. January ). 1872
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ject. Mr. Henry Van Dyke and other
famous writer's and speakers have given
their services. Then there is a short
prayer, perhaps one written by some
famous man. perhaps a collect from the
Episcopal Church. and then the meeting
closes.
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every Poor Man had Bacon in the
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