The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-11
Ole Miss, de reason dat Wimmen Folks minds is Cleaner dan Mems is bekaze dey Changes hit oftener. YasSum!

but on account of the B ss raincoat. He
 must have had friend who was in the
 business and who let him have it at cost,
 else why select such an awful looking one
 or better still, why didn't he take 1t off
 after he scaled the perfectly good lad
 der?
 Another thing that nearly destroyed me
 was the idea of letting little thing like
 the removal of the ladder cut off Rich
 ards only means of escape because he
 was only on the second floor and if
 you've ever seen Cyril Keightly (Richard)
 you know that his legs are long enough
 for him to have stepped from the Brooklyn
 bridge to the deck of a Boston boat; but
 then you know stage management is
 different from business" management,
 and once you're trapped on the stage
 you're trapped until the efficiency engi-
 neer feels that it is time for you to be
 turned loose.
 Senator Calkins of course arrives at the
 psychological moment the demon house.
 keeper has arranged thaD, and for the first time the audience feels that it is
 really getting it's moneys worth.
 Senator Calkins in his speeches in the
 United States Senate on the tariff or the
 Raines law couldn't have done anything
 more eloquent than the way he bawled out his poor little recreant wife. He called her every name in the diction- ary and out of it; he clustered and he stormed, and he raved and he swore, and then turning on Richard he tried to make him believe that in seeking Lily's love the $3.9S raincoat was the only bad bargain he had made, although I will say this for the senator, he was too polite, even though he was terribly peeved to mention the raincoat.. And so Richard goes for the second time out into the night but this time he was not alone; and incideI- t. ally I want to say he was very much of
 a man was Richard he liked Lily-nay. loved her-and after the senator's outburst he quietly suggested to the lady that she get a wrap of some kind and come with him. q will say this for Richard too, he didn't try to palm off the raincoat on her and that scored something for him) l As the curtain falls and Richard and | Lily depart, and the thunder and the | lightning 1bar and rumble, and the | audience shouts and applauds the l splendid acting and the tense situa- | ton. you note the terrible glance that the demon housekeeper gives the sen ator; the -Now-ii ve- got-y oti- tii- the hip" kind of ganco-the glance of sat isfaction like a fluffy blonde stenog- apher gives her employer when she has convinced him that her way of spelling Heterogeneous is better than his way-because he hasn't any. You know the kind of glance l mean; that horrid, gloating, vicious glance that just stops the blood from circulating
 and makes you wish you were dead and buried.
 And now a curious thing happens; would you believe it, but through the remaining three acts of "The Song of Songs" you never once see the demon housekeeper again.
 All sorts of things happen; scenes of folly, of merriment, of anxiety-but never a shadow of Anna Merkle; yet you sit there gripping the sides of your perfectly good orchestra chair and won