Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-05-11
TOO MUCH WARNING
II Parents Had Not Preached
Harry Might Not Have
Done 1t.
ey DONALD ALLEN.

had married an actress and thereb
broken his mothers heart and cause
his father to hang his head in shame
The ACTRESS" was a chorus girl on
GALAXY of fourteen dollars per week
and she spent her money for choco
lates and left her poor husband L
bear all the expenses of the fiat OF
his ten. When he could no longer d.
so, having been disowned by his
father. the wife ran away with
butcher who wouldn't give even his
best customer a chunk of cat meat.
Mr.. Frayne didn't take on so very
much about this affair, 1t being his
busy day, but when he read the same
sort of affair again three months later
with the addition that the ruined hus
band had hung himself to a bedpost
he turned to his wife.
And we've got a son growing up,
he said
Yes. and he's now twelve years
old" was sighed.
do you think had better speak to
him about it?"
81 would. You cannot begin with
boy too early"
And so young Harry Frayne was
called into the library and told these
two cases, and learned that they were
only two out of hundreds of like ones,
and then the question was put to. him
with all parental sternness.
Young man, would you marry an
actress?"
But | never saw one, papa" was
the puzzled answer.
That makes no difference-would
your"
Il guess not"
"If you ever do, sir, l shall disowp
you"
"Then l won't"
No one in the Frayne household,
unless 1t was the cook, who would
have married an actor right off and
taken her chances of being chopped
up with an axe the next week, ever
attended a theater II therefore hap
pened that when young Harry had
reached the age of twenty-one and
was starting for Chicago to enter a
railroad Office, his father did not think
it necessary to post him on any more
tragedies of the theatrical profession;
81 shouldn't hang around the vestf-
bule Of theater II were you,' he
said by way of advice.
mo, sir" I'D
Because an actress in front Of the
house is Just as dangerous as one on
the stage"
"Even If you don't speak to herr"
Even So"
"Miss Barrymore dangerous?"
T have said that they are all dan
gerous." $500 ssssst, zs..sasssis<s
But why are they, father?"
BE careful, sir, or l shall think
you are taking an interest. I will
answer this one question for you. 1t
is because they eat late suppers and
receive bouquets from brokers. II
you do not care to read evenings,
there is the Y. NJ. c. A"
A wooden-headed man would be
prepared for the natural sequence. !
rhe evening of the young mans ar
'ival was spent in his room. The |
text one found him at theater. He
uttered with fear and trembling He |
vas rather surprised that at least
tx actresses were not on hand to
Welcome him. Such as were in the |
LAY on the stage acted with just as
much propriety. and he quickly OBJ
erved that they we're far better look
ng than the girls in the audience.
why, there are rich people here
nd nice people!" said young Frayne
0 himself as he looked the house
,ver. 81 wonder what father and
iother are so down on actresses
Dr."
And for the next year. except when
Is father visited Chicago, 1t was
ways two nights a week at the
leater and sometimes three. and then
he young man had an actress pointed
ut TO him on the street or In a
but he thought them more
sserved than any other class. 1t was
lonths before he happened to be in
-oduced to one, and then by accident
nd not by her stage name. They had
few minutes talk and though her
ice and voice seemed familiar, IL was
hen he saw her on the stage again
lat he fully identified her
Young Frayne had good society
acking. and the more he talked with
eople of social standing about the
trical people the more he wondered
t the opinions held by his parents.
was at a gathering of distinction
nat he again met Miss Bell, and they
At together long enough TO become
ute well acquainted.
1t was then that the young man
earned from her own lips that he
ad made the acquaintance of an
ctress and no chill ran over him, nor
III he find himself gasDing for breath |