Evening star., 1914-01-04

ambitious to succeed, I think there is {
chance for her. Producers are looking
for young women of intelligence. Inc
stage needs them as much as do the other
professions.
A GIRLS LESSON IN ECONOMY
Miss Leila Shaw. the actress. claims
to economize.
She has a rule which is said to apply
to every wage-earning man or woman.
At least 20 per cent of the yearly IN
come, she thinks, should be deposited In
the bank, and ~ per cent more should
be held as a reserve fund, leaving W per
cent for the necessities of life, for luxu-
ries and holidays.
Men do not know the value Of money
after they begin to earn $25 week, "
says Miss Shaw. They save little, II
anything. Single men with good yearly
incomes pay lite attention to the
value received proposition. put go right
ahead spending without regard to what
they get for their money.
Married men," she says. ARE better in
that respect because they have to be.
II every man would try to make his
simplest personal transaction strictly
business deal and In every way conduct
his personal affairs in the same manner
in which he handles his business great
saving would be effected.
every time woman buys anything
she aims to get the greatest value for
her money, and she generally succeeds
PLAYS AS WELL AS WORKS.-Chris-
tie Macdonald is credited with having
sung in thirty operas In the twelve years
Of her experience and Of having made a
personal success in every role intrusted
to her The little prima donna has a
recipe for success. 1T is unwavering per-
sistence in real work.
She has another rule as we'll, for she
frankly says the singer must play as
well as work. And for months each year
Miss Macdonald plays as hard as she
has worked during the arduous operatic
season. She is the owner of picturesque
Eastwood Island, among the Thousand
Islands, sails a small sloop with much
zest and considerable skill. and even acts
as pilot Of her seventy -eight-foot power
boat. She Is said to be the only woman
who holds a pilots license to operate
in the waters of New York harbor and
the Hudson river.
The fact that she was born of Scotch
parentage in the little town of Pictou.
Nova Scotia, is not the sole reason that
| Miss Macdonald plays an excellent game
Of golf. She plays as she does all other
things, with care and earnestness.
ACTORS PORTRAY FAMOUS PAINT
lNd-Cue OIL tne Stflk1nS scenic features
Of the western drama "One Woman's
Life" which is to be presented here this
week. is a remarkable reproduction in
life of famous painting.
A wife Is seen with her head buried
in her arms resting upon a table. The
husband, standing beside her, offers silent
sympathy. In the foreground Is a bed
with child lowering between life and
death. An anxious doctor is looking
gravely at his patient, awaiting the hour
of me crisis. The whole scene which
is intense in the extreme. is said to be
almost an exact reproduction of Sir
Luke Fields famous painting known as
The Crisis, or, the Doctor" the origi-
nal of which is now hanging In the Tate
Art Gallery in London. England. The
picture has long been acknowledged the
masterpiece OF intense moments.
WALTER WILSON ON WIFELY AL
| OWANCES.-Walter Wilson, who had
| memorable stock experiences in Wash
| ington. is a good story teller when he is
| in the mood. Here Is one:
"A friend of mine once told me that his
| wife awoke daily with the hyphenated
greeting, Good morning, dear; shut-the-
any-money?" In the tail end of this ma
| tutinal monoIogue there lies discussable
question.
! why should wife have a regular al
lowance?
! ITO insist on q fixed income for the
| wife from the pocket Of her husband is to
rub the bloom off the evanescent beauty
of the marital relation.
! when ] was out west last year l spent