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chasm." shouts Stcnddr. Selling In
0nt 10 hold him hack. Cut the rope.
Better one die than three"
At that In0uy pushes him away in
quick contempt.
Save yourself" he says hotly.
There follows a struggle between
h0uU and Hdddd. Finally the man
proves himself the stronger. He is
pulling Hadda to safety against her
will. He has almost lifted her to the
plateau when her strong white hand
holding a knife appears owe the edge.
The rope Is cut. She falls. And the
play ends with the two men. tragic
figures. gazing spellbound into the
abyss.
The production Of this play secured
uGstinted recognition for Gudmundur
kamban, and Georg Drandes. the
Danish critic, made the young
dramatist his protege.
kamban's second play. which was
also accepted by the Royal Theatre Of
Copenhagen and was produced IA few
days after ne left for this country, has
been described by Scandinavian critics
as an epic of modern Iceland. 1t Is
entitled THE Royal China"
"The China he explained, 10 "a
stirring athletic contest found to-day
only in Iceland. When q king visits
the island a royal China Is held In his
honor at T~hingvalla, the ancient seat
Of government, where Erie the Red
and Left Ericsson beheld similar con
tests over a thousand years ago: a
sort OF wrestling match In which the
contestants are O allowed to use
their hands, but must throw their OPP
ponent by the dexterity Of the legs and
body. 1t il as beautiful as a wild leap
ing Dance
The pot Of The Royal Glima." con-
structed around the last great Ice
landic festival in 1907, when Frederic
VIII. OF Denmark visited the island.
is a story Of the political Antiques a
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WHITE PLAINS'S NAME
SPENT the week end recently
with a friend in White Plains
said "A dnyn-oWu civ man

tII SPENT the week end recently
with n friend in White Plains"
said a downtown city man.
and do you know he thinks West
chester county was transplanted from
the Garden of Eden before the apples
got ripe enough Ia eat. I never was
IN White Plains before, though 7 had
heard OF it somewhere, and ! was ask
ing all sorts of questions about it.
Incidentally I asked him how the
town got its name, and quite irrcie-
vanity, AZ ! thought, he asked me If !
had ever heard Of the ~Gnaphaliuln
polycephalum. | V had of course
and right off asked him what kind Of
an animal il was and did II roam Tn"
woods of Westminster and was it car
nivorous or declduous and had col.
Roosevelt eve hunted it, and why the
dickens didn't they have II specimen or
so In the zoo and a few mor questions
like that all in IA string, and he just
looked at ma and laughed.
when he had laughed until / he
came huffy about 1t, he told me that
the Gnaphalium pOlycephalum was the
botanical name for the white balsam
hici sirws, Or once grew, in great
abundance in that section and from
which White Plains took it's name
But, say, why didn't they name the
town GnaphaliOpolis or Polycephalum-
Vile or something like that with n
classic tang TO 1t? White Plains Is
no fashionable name for "A town. Any
how, In Wcstchester county. 10 NJ
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LAKEWOOD.

LANrw"op. y. j., bee, 4.-\ Isiory
here have amused themselves this week.
with walking, horseback riding. r'e>Irg
golf and shooting. Every one seemed
wifling to suspend the social a,tNii,
that was so strenuous over the Thanks
giving holidays. There haV. been sr,-
eral informal dances ana teas al tl.
Country CLUB, but not until this eve
mlhs WAS any larg" event scheduled.
weather conditions have been ,pudurN,.
OF vigorous outdoor exercise. As Ina
mercury dropped To the freezing
point for the first time this season early
Iuesday morning. Tho bright sunshine
tempered the cold durinI, the day, and
since then 1t has been ideal,
The first meeting of tho Alliance
Frnnctise will be at Miss Walknr's
school, Hamilton House, next Thursday
afternoon, December .. Louis Delammrt,
VIII deliver a lecture. his subject being
tio0."
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down in most cases from medieval
days and made on a base OF the Oldest
and finest OF brandies subtly favored
with aromatic herbs. All have an
alcoholic temperature which Jumps so
far above Is degrees hat the poor
Frenchman serving his country finds
them automatically cut on as FOUNDERS
off to his dinner menu.
The fifth class comprises the wins
aromatises," wines into whose compo-
sition enter other constituents: In a
word, those doctored with drugs. in
some cases benign, In others quite the
reverse. But here the cafe fire.
%uuenter's most cherished traditions and
taste are directly attacked, as the list
affected comprises the majority OF his
favorite d; 'petizers, the "apertifs,"
, taken before meals. Here also the
cafe is hardest hit. as they are also
f, the source from which IL draws its
largest revenues.
; The expulsion OF absinthe early in
the war produced bitter recriminations
from its advocates. who claimed that
among the legion Of aperitifs were
many red. yellow. pink. brown and
VNVi pun ptVs tiSUty oOnlrlk uIIIlh
OF curious connection which were
quite as insidiously baneful. Gen.
Gallieni, the present dictator OF the
destinies of the Paris cafe. evidently
thought the same. for practically the
entire long list Of the 8 t o I o'clock
pet solace Of the Frenchman's after
Don are banished from the repertoire
Of cafe drinks so far as the military
members OF the clientele are involved
The cafe proprietors had perforce
to acquiese and turn their cheek to
the blow being administered by the
military authorities in sullen silence
But when the civil government now
prepares to plant a second blow on the
other cheek they not only refuse &c
turn it. but prepare to fight as. they
could not do against the military rul.
ing.
1t was the Commission Of Fiscal Re.
form of Alcohol and It's Traffic, re.
Gently appointed by an act which orig
mated in the Chamber OF Deputies it.
self and intended To promulgate g
new liquor law. that thoroughly
aroused the already frightened cafe
tiers The proposed law calls fol
a Government monopoly for the nan
farture and sale OF alcohol in all II,
forms. The introduction OF a blanke
tan of 500 francs a hectoitra tsome'
thing like 800 for twenty-five gal
Ions Of proof spirit) was to do away
! with the present system of taxation
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a glass of hot milk in which ~ dis
solved a lump of sugar.
AT 8 o'clock for the French business
man the days work is done. He -
now at leisure to sip his before dinner
'aperitif' in the %congenial atmosphere
of the cafes attractive sidewalk
terrace, where his table and
chair correspond to a seat IN
the dress circle of "A theatre
from which to enjoy the passing show
afforded by the Kaleidoscope move
ment OF tho boulevards. Winter or
summer. rain or shine. u Frcnchman
will sit yer his one drink until a :
o'clock dinner. or he may go inside TO
read tn. W wspapers and Illustrated
journals that every cafe of u I'M
portance sub-cr!bes To for the free use
of its clients. or he may indulge In Il
game of billiards on the peculiarly de-
signed French billiard table in one OF
It's back rn ms.
After DIR er. with its i~nvariablc uc-
compartment of a bottle each of red
a d We wine. the FrenChman gets
back ~ his cafe for the inevitable
"tasse &C. cafe noir." followed by n
Giminu;ivc glass OF lqueur While
consuming these at long intervals he
will make up "A hand among his friends
To play some mild game of cards. such
as picquct or boston. rare for money
and never for drinks. each man pay
ing for lis own drink. About 10
o'clock he orders a "tisane" as "A night
cap. some one Of the numerous hot
infusions of medicinal herbs that tho
French delight in drinking IL quiet
their nerves and that the cafe supplies
stepped like tea in a pot.
So while the F~renchman's cafe day
shows up the average f'renchman as
n one drink at a time man and while
a good portion of his drinks are not
alcoholic. still II; cafe day is a con-
,inuous performance hat washes away
fully half of his business day. as the
Government Is beginning to find out.
The first means the Government Is
taking TO reform the cafe day j. To- cur
tail the number of cafes ~pr' al 50
lavishly and conveniently in the daily
path of the cafe habitue. Legitimate
u for closing up delinquent cs-
adjustments that transgress the new
rulings OF the drink law are being
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comes back the wall from ESQ, 1000
cafe proprietors and wine dealers in
the army Indignantly asking IL their
country wants to beggar hem in their
absence while fighting its battles.
Now Gle real secret hidden behind
all this turmoil about the alcohol
crisis in France is not the curtailment
Of alcoholic drinks, but the curtail-
ment of the Frenchman's cafe day"
The new liquor law is in reality the
first crusade in France for business
efficiency. intended for the protection
Of the working day. which the French
mans cafe habit is eating into in an
astonishing and startling manner.
The French cafe is the peoples
club, where the only fee is the price
of n modest drink, which entities one
to its privileges for an indefinite time.
nor is 1t a mems club only: the
French family makes use Of its club
privileges. One Of the loudest pro-
tests against Gen. Gallieni's new rul-
ing was that the military element
when out walking with their families
would not be able to rest their chill
dren at "A cafe II they happened to be-
come tired out Of the stated hours.
Here is the F~renchman's cafe day,
which the Government hopes to limit.
II begins early. AZ breakfast IL
always "A casua. affair the Frenchman.
cven WHOM at home and always when
travelling about. goes to a cafe for his
glass of black coffee. his substitute for
the meal. Being an early riser this
is hetweei , and 5 o'clock. Then To
business.
II 81 friend drops IN about 10 O'Clock
or so he takes him Ia the cafe 10 be
entertained over another black cof-
fee. a glass of white win or even a
ogUac After which he gives his
business a preoccupied attention until
1880. when he goes to his cafe for
an ''apeiitir' before luncheon. He
takes q bottle of wine with his lunch
con. perhaps splits half Il bottle Of
bordeaux or burgundy to top OF with,
and at | o'clock is again seated at the
cafe table for a cup Of black coffee ac-
or some Of the we'll known brands OF
cauN-de-Vlr.
He meets his Cronies here at the
same hour, for a cafes clientele is
always faithful. N which time they re-
lax oVcr n game of backgammon or
d,minoes or Billiards until . o'clock
when he reluctantly takes up the
threads IF work. II he has q business
deal on in the afternoon It is to the
cafe that he brings his party to put II
] through by the aid Of. it may Ice, only
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Stringent Measures of Gen. Gallieni
to Curb Soldiers-- Drinking Works
Great Hardship

alcohol. But a single ~infractlon OF
this ruling, one drink served put Of
hours or one drink of a single degree
Of alcohol more than the prescribed
regime, and the cafe is put in CON
signe" FOR q month. This means that
the military and military workers are
debarred from the cafe during the
period prescribed. a second offence
puts the I'D of the "~consigne' down
hard fop three months. while for a
third ofence the cafe is likely to 10
closed for all time.
At this time when all men of France
between IS and I6 are serving In the
army establishment and almost all
other males are militarized in some
way this boycott of a cafe by its sol
der clientele means practically an
empty cash till.
In consequence of the new drink law
all Paris lives with its eyes glued to
watches. The once tranquil. soothing
hour of the cafe has become an alb
breviated period Of nervous jumps for
the clientele. while the farcons are be-
coming crosseyed trying to keep both
the clock and the customer in the
SstTlt line DI NISlOn DtslutS DTohtH
hearted over having to spurn enor-
mou tips for surreptitiously served
drinks.
Furthermore this m~ilitariled cafe
clientele must sit inside the cafe As
much Il of sight as possible during
the day and is only allowed outside on
| the attractive sidewalk terraces in the
evening. SO with both clientele and
profits restricted and the streets
plunged into inky darkness as "A pre-
caution against aircraft raids the gay,
brilliant cafes Of the Paris boulevards
are suffering n blight that threatens to
strike in deep.
lis the new law strictly enforced.
We asked the sad proprietor of the
cafe in 'consigne."
Ma fol. oui," he sighed. The safe
guarding of the law Is left TO the Paris
| policeman. \ brace of them patrol
the front Of every big cafe, and the
traps we nave To guard against i'm At
tempting to make us serve drinks out
OF hours,
1T is now the rule for man ONE
! To- come to a cafe who came be-
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fore; officers, generals even, come with
their wives and daughters. The off,
GERS order the prohibited liqueur for
the ladies and they themselves gulp it
down on the sly. The garcons r
bribed, but the favorite ruse and the
most difficult to detect is the soldier
who takes off his uniform coat and cap
and leaves them around the corner and
puts on a civilian coat and hat which
he borrows from some nearby con-
cierge. The soldier hastily undressing
or dressing is a common sight in most
cafe noighborhoods."
What are the prohibited drinks?"
we asked curiously. Whereupon the
rotund proprietor got really excited.
Mon Dieu. imagine the trouble it
has given MS to find OUT" he cried.
There is no official list of prohibited
drinks issued: on the cafe proprietor
rests all the responsibility of determin-
ing what drinks contain the permitted
degree OF alcohol. We are obliged now
To possess the expert knowledge of the
wine growers themselves. of chemists.
distillers."
The Paris index expurgatorius as
liill htllil'u mus ~
10 obliterat!on the French cafes long
list of famous and varied drinks and
chromatic system of beverages. The
prohibited drinks are divided into five
classes. First. natural wines contain
Ing more than the permitted Is per
cent. of alcohol: second. the wins de
liqueur." that il wines brought up 10y
the addition of a moderately high de-
gree of alcohol into the class of near
Liquors, producing the numerous
popular and supposedly harmless APP
petizerS and soothers taken before
and between meals. such as muscat
malaga. port, banyuis and dozens OF
others.
In the third class are the 'eauN-1e-
VIE Here are Topped off completely
the Frcnchman's famous after dinner
digcstives, without one Of which Il
dinner is not to him a dinner. Of many
marques from the great brandy dis
tillcries of the Cognac region. Ths
mares" q burgundy. the 'calvados,'
or cider brandy Of Normandy and the
sweet caramelled ~"Armagnacs" ere
aInong the examples with so high 9
percentage of alcohol that no strategy
could possibly save them from beR.
struck off the list Of army nourish.
mcut,
In the fourth category the lIQueurs
were attacked. Liqueurs are essen
italy "A French product, made usually
! according t. a secret formula, handed
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under which even the contents of a
private cellar must be registered with
and controlled by the Government,
while a person may not even move a
barrel Of wine from one side of the
street to another, or make "a present
to a neighbor Of half IA dozen bottles
Of wine without a signed and sealed
order from the Government. Also for
the first time in France the distance
was to be regulated as to the proxim-
ity of a cafe to any educational insti-
tuition, religious edifice, cemetery or
military barracks.
But the syndicate OF cafe proprietors
known AZ the Union des Limonadiers
Jet Res%taurateurs Sees in all this but
al attempt to suppress that national
institution. the cafe itself. The mem
bers called to their aid the three SYM
dicates representing the wine. spirit
and cafe interests. Moreover, they
threatened to call a strike and close
every cafe and wine shop in the Paris
district II their protestations were not
needed and the presidents OF their
respective unions were not represented
on the Government commission.
NJ. Griard. president Of the National
Federation of the Retail Liquor Trade.
Hotel Propr1etore n Restaurant
Keepers, the most influential OF the
unions. rushed to the defence of the
cafe. He warned the Parliamentarians
that he represented one Of the most
powerful corporations in France, one
which paid into the national Treasury
the larges, as well as the highest
rated taxes. and that the new law
II put into operation would bcggar
1000. 900 people in France dependent
| upon the business in It's various phases.
| that II would bring on an agricultural
crisis. as fully one-third of the agri-
cultural area of France * devoted
to wine growing. Also that French
vineyards come fourth in importance
in the list OF the national industries,
producing a yearly output of the value
| Of 1900. 600 francs.
Our French cafe shall never he
come n white l%acquered tea room
where one swallows soft boiled eggs
and plain water cries NJ Griard,
The charm Of Paris is the gayety
and brillance of its boulevards de-
cafes with their sparkling terraces
where all the world comes 10 enjoy
itself. Consequently the cafe is as
necessary to the fame of Paris as are
its fine buildings and historic monu
ments."
! Meanwhile from the fighting front
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u, BLANCHE McMANUS.

[" HAT famous French national in
stitution the a + faces the
danger Of becoming n war
victim.
Just the other evening We wen into
one OF the most popular cafe restau-
rants of one of the livcliest Of the
Partisan boulevards at an hour when
the quadruple rows of tables on its
sidewalk terrace Is well AS those Of
its spacious rooms were usually g II
Clrcled 10y a cloud of he horizon blue
uniforms Of the military. This night
a. was deserted except for a scattered
dozen of more or less "embusqued"
civilians. The walters stood about, tip
lessly Idle. The moral atmosphere had
fallen to The zero Of gloom.
Any one been killed." we a~nxiously
inquired of n melancholy g~arcon-the
usual war time question.
Not yet, but n cafe is in con-
eigne.' he whispered sepulchrally
into our ear. For "A cafe to be put
in "consigne' corresponds to having
an army's first line trenches tenn
porarily occupied by the enemy and
involves a financial defeat of prime
uliGnItuue.
at will NEAR a loss to us Of 90 900
francs Turing the period Of the con-
signe,'" coniided to us the cashier at
her raised desk, blinking away a tear
from her eye. Her We'll coiffed head
had lost It's marcel wave. her very
diamond earrings seemed lustreless.
1t was Gen. Gallieni. the Military
Governor Of Paris, who hung this
sword OF Damocles, the 'consigne.'
over the heads of the cafe propnletors
when he launched his proclamation
prohibiting all the military of what
ever grade as well as all workers
in munitions, all persons woriiing
in any capacity for the army, from
entering n cafe or a cafe restaurant
"a place where food and drink are Sold
throughout Paris and its suburbs *
cept between the hours of = and S
A. NJ. IL \. NJ. and = =. NJ. and
end . in the evening.
Furthermore no drinks may lie
served to militarized clients which
contain more than - per cent. oi
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ICELANDIC DRAMATIST HERE

remarkable and so indicative of lee
landlc landscape that Mr., kamban
had to design the scenery himself
when the play was produced in Co
pcnhagen. The scene takes place on
A plateau in the mountains, ar old
trusting place of Hddda and ingult.
Wishing to assure him that the wound
he has given her is healed, that he
may love her sister with a light heart,
she has asked him 10 meet her there
for the last time.
The two stand looking over the edge
uf the rock. \ string of pearls drops
from her hair into the abyss. At once
H1UU promises to get them for her
and goes for his brother, StcHdar, IA
skilled mountain climber. The two
men descend into the cleft and make
Il truitlcss search for the pearls.
When they come mp empty handed
Uddd says she wishes to try. They
protest, but she Is lnsistent, and tying
the rope around her waist asks IN
0HJ 10 pay it out as she descends.
lie acquiesccs and takes the rope.
She tells him she will feel safer if he
will tie 1t around his waist. 4 flash
Of suspicion crosses his face, but a
glance into her fine candid eyes re-
assures him.
Hdddd ~descends, the two men watch
ing from above. At length her voice
Is heard from far he.ow announcing
that she has found the pearls and
InVuU braces himself for the pull up.
The ascent is onlivened by a cheerful
hantering scene between the two
brothers and the invisible Hnddd. As
she ncafs the surface Of the plateau
the rope gives "A sudden ominous
strain.
"She Is braclng herself against the
| rNrkt She Nania To mil Won Anio iha
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ing his first play, "Hddda Idddd'
After three gears, when 1t had been
published in Iceland, he went To
Copenhagen to attend the university
Having learned Danish a
very different from his native tongue,
he Translated his dr'rna ana offered
1t TO the Royal "i Copeh-
hagen, Ii was accepted ana produced
in l9l2 n since men mas peeh plaSou
in NIFTY theatres me H0"h-
dinavian countries. -.
The play constructed hrouno we
passions n spiritual traNal OF t''
heroine, Hdddd fdHdd, IL a lcNtIalIoh
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rhc Evangeline will alternate sa.liugs
with tho quebec steamship Company $
swift ocean greyhound the Ecrmuditu.
which latter tcamer holds The record of
80 hours and 20 minutes for the Irr-
muda route record made on the o,-
cts'on of President Woodrow Wilson'S
visit To Bermuda. After the completion
of the ~lermudian's Christmas trim from
New York on Wednesday. nrcemhcr -.
returning on December 81. si.Iiues
thereafter Will be on a weekly schedule
each Wednesday from New York. beg IL
ming January :, for the remainder of ,ae
winter tourist season. The I.yunr,Nre
VIII begin the Bcrmudt service al mid
night, Friday, December ~ returning
Sunday. January ., in order To Give
TOURISTS an opportunity Ia leave New
York after the closing nf school ami 90
return again in time for school oI bust
ness.
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A YOUNG playwright has come
"A out of Iceland to present the
life and traditions of that
melancholy fog STEPPED island
OF Scysers and volcanoes, of nocturna.
winters and diurnal and to
carry forWaId the glorieS of the Scan
dinavian dramatlsts BjornscA, Strind-
berg ana Ibsen.
Gudmundur Eamban arrived in New
York recently for the purpose of pub
lish!ng his works in English. After
two Of his plays had been produced
throughout the Scandinavian countries
ne was invited by German publishers
and managers of literary theatres to
carry his work into Germany, The
war broke out and the German
theatres were given over entirely to
tho production of national and pa
triotic dramas. America seemed to
offer the mex best opportunity for
publishing and producing his plays.
lie has little TO say about the Amer
Jean theatre.
Il W. found the eighth wonder of
che world" was his brief statement.
sew York has no great literary
theatre"
The Icelandcrs with their cold and
almost impresnable reserve" he said
N describing his Countrymen, 'are
more like the N~orweg!ans than any
other Scandi navian group but IN their
emotions. nil the suave and more
C'CiaI Swed-S. aud unlike iic Danes,
who are serene and ever ph,egmatic,
probably because they live ia IA fiat
country and "a temperate climate, they
"fe q people OF deep and terrific pas
slons."
Mr. was born in l~teykjavik.
the capital Of Iceland. wenty-scyen
years ago, and when IS he began writ,
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NEW STEAMSHIP TO BERMUDA.

the Quebec steamship Company OF 3.
Broadway, New York, has chartered
tho fast twin screw steamship Eyauge-
line for the bermuda winter tourist SER
vice. The addition of his steamer 10
The bermuda route will give the Quebec
steamship Company unusual facilities
for handling the rapidly increasing tour
list trade to the charming Bermuda
IolAnda.