The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-08
STORY OF A CERTAIN MAN
 WHO REFUSED. TO BE ARTISTIC
His High Brow Wife Still Higher Browed Sister Made Him Tired and He Sought Amusement His Own Hook Delving Into His Pockets They Found Programmes of 'sTen Twenty and Thirty Centers'' That Showed
 His Real Taste
BY DOLLY DALRYMPLE

trude Hoffman wiggle through her salom' I Dance
 Even with the married uplift" inhuenc'
 he couldn't quite quit dreaming of th' happy old days when he used to watcl
 Lew Dockstader with fascinated eye Call the Hoops' to him, and sit on tn, front row and fiirt with the fossy 'Choru'
 Girls"
 He still secretly adored the Posters oi
 the "Burlesque Girls" and High Kick
 CTS" and Pony Ballets'' that he saw or
 the Bill Boards on the way down towr In the morning, and he dearly loved
 sMeler Drammer" where there was lots
 of shooting and real live villain.
 Shakespeare he regarded as classic l to be kept on the top shelf of the dusty library.
 This was his taste BEFORE he mar ried.
 1 Now
 A change helps everybody, especially
 the Hotel Man, and in due course of
 time his High Brow Wife and his still l Higher Browed Sister, who lived with | them, because HE couldn't help himself decided to take a trip. He sat alone the evening they left
 and while meditating it occurred to
 him that HE might also be helped by | a change.
 He wired to his wife next morning NOT to hurry home; to stay until she
 KNEW she was better.
 The Subtle Undertow of Happiness
 in the message awakened her wifely
 suspicious, and she left on the NEXT | train to surprise him. 1 He was not at home when she arr i-a- T
 sister they started on a still hunt for him.
 They crawled. Into a taxi and went to
 his Club to ask if he was there, and receiving an answer in the negative, 1 they went to his office thinking per | haps he was there quietly and calmly reading some improving book or maybe
 a Scientific Essay. | But he was NOT there. l His wife knew there were no Sym phony Concerts or Lyceum Lectures go- ing on, or Oratories or Art Exhibits for | him to attend-the things that she en-
 couraged him to patronize. He was NOT at any of the places she EXPECTED to find him. and the Taxi sped on.
 Finally she and her Grabbed Old Maid Sister started home It was the witehing hour of night, and as they passed along the Great White
 Way they chanced to glance at a bril- liantly lighted Theatre-one of the 10, 20 and 80 centers" and saw N the throng pushing its way out into the street her Beloved Husband. Hers-coming from this cheap place. where Dora Thorne" had been played at popular prices. They waited for him. They called to him-such a surprise and bade him jump in the Taxi and come home with them, which he obed- iently did, like a little lamb led to the slaughter. and when they got him in- side the house they began a search of His pockets and found them full of pro- grammes of cheap theatres. where he'd seen Nellie. the Beautiful Cloak l Model" Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl" Edna. the Pretty Typewriter, 1" | and others of that class. Husband" is still undergoing Discip- line.
 This little. FABLETTE teaches that the Higher you try to Lift Man who has no Artistic Tastes. the further he ! is liable to Fall.