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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06
BY VIRGINIA TERHUNE



Copyright, 1914, by Star Company
TT was the enforced association with
Della and her friends that at last
decided Fanny Hedden to seek an
other situation.
Not only die she feel that she was
taking part IN a system that was not
right when she silently allowed Delia's
companions to partake Of her employ
er's edibles, but she found her very
soul recoiling from the speeches and
jests that passed among the cooks in
Inmates as amusing conversation.
it was not that the girls and men
who came to see Della were not de-
cent and respectable in their way, but
their way was not the way to which
the more refined girl was accustomed,
that was all. In the class in which
she had been born and trained a nice
woman was supposed to resent any
liberty Of touch from any man who
was not relative or the man she eX-
pected to marry. Yet the girls with
whom she was now thrown laughed
when their men friends tried to kiss
them or made some affectionate re-
mark.
sure, we're as respectable as you,
for all your stand-offishness" Della
exclaimed once when Fanny ex-
pressed surprise that the cook had let
a man put his arm around her. That
fellow knew I'd just as soon kill him
IL he got fresh with me. What's the
matter with you anyway, that you're
always so suspicious
Fanny wondered herself what was
tife matter with her. She could not
realize that she was the same girl who
had once been Nellie Bensons chum.
She felt as il she were an alien every
where now. She certainly would not
be accepted by Nellie and her friends,
she told herself; yet she was as sure
ly out of her element in her present
surroundings.
One evening Miss Irwin called down
the speaking tube that led into the
kitchen and asked Fanny if she would
come up to her room for some letters
that were TO be mailed.
Finds a Little Sympathy.
Isn't there anything / can do for
yCu, ma'am," Fanny asked. (She had
discontinued the use Of the Madam"
10 which Della had Objected.) I've
washed and put away all my dishes, so
I'm at liberty now"
u thought" Miss Irwin said, looking
at her curiously. that you girls had
company downstairs. Didn't 1 hear
people laughing and talking when L
called down the speaking tube just
nOw2'
Yes, ma'am." Fanny replied-"that
IS, at least-Delia has some friends
down there-but I don't care about
going back to them If i can be Of any
service to you here"
Miss Irwin smiled mo child" she
said. There's nothing 1 want done.
Go back TO the young people--unless
you would rather not
All right, ma am" Fanny said. But
i don't care so much about company"
Il see, said Miss Irwin. yes, 1
see"
She told herself that this girl was
out of tune with the group gathered
in the kitchen. Had Fanny known
that Miss Irwin appreciated this she
would have been somewhat comfOrted.
AS il was, she reentered the kitchen,
not daring to absent herself without
an adequate excuse CHANGING at the
letters she held, a happy thought oc-
CURED to her.
I'm going out, Della she said hur-
ricdly, picking up a shawl and throw
ing il around her. There's something
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

ent on her no matter how great ana
strong he is to the balance of the
world.
Last. we have the old woman, who
has mothered so many babies that the
crooks of her arms form cradle of
themselves, holding to her Withered
breast her grandchild. her face lit up
by that radiance of softness and gen
tleness that makes the hOmeliest wOm-
an beautiful when she looks at a baby.
This great maternal passion is the
most wonderful thing in nature. It is
not only what gives women the
strength and courage to hand on the
torch OF life from generation to gem
GRAFTON without counting the cost to
themselves in suffering and death, but
it is what gives them the patience
and the love to bear with the infirmi
ties and the weaknesses of humanity.
II it were not for this glory Of
mother love through which a woman
sees her own children TRANSPORTED
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

"HE artist has drawn for YOU on
this page tender and suggestive
- picture showing how, from the
cradle to the grave. motherhood is the
one great passion Of women
We have first the little girl herself
a mere baby, cudd1ing her doll through
sheer instinct Of maternity, just as you
have watched your own little girl do
ing with her Christmas dollie-nature
preparing her for the little ones that
long years hence she is to sing and
Groom over.
Next is the woman to whom her hus-
band. larger than she is, older than
she is. perhaps twice as wise as she
is. is still her biggest baby to be pet
ted and fused over. and spoiled
and scolded, always her baby depend
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

could leave her little babe alone to
the cruel mercies of the world.
In her own soul she may despise
the weakness of the man who cannot
resist temptation. She may be filled
with contempt for him who is so cow
ardly he lacks the grit and courage to
stand up and fight his own battle Of
life. She may blush with shame for
him who clings to a WOman's skirts.
but stronger than any of these is the
instinct of nature to mother him just
because he is weak and clinging and
dependent.
And it is q good thing for the strong
man as wei as the weak man that
this is true of women, because the
mother in them enables them to for
give to men many a fault and stumble
that the wife would never forgive the
husband, and that men never forgive
to women.
Those of us who believe in suffrage
for women believe that the most valu-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

babies would die like flies. 1t is only
a mother who can hang with tireless
devotion over the cradle of a sickly,
frettin- infant. grotesquely ugly, with
its too big head hanging from wob-
bly, neck, and see in it something for
which il is worth while to sacrifice
every comfort and pleasure. Yet such
children as these-children that any
hireling would let die-have grown up
to be the very flower of manhood and
womanhood, thanks to the mothers
who saved them at their own expense.
1t is this passion of motherhood that
enables a woman to see beauty in her
scrawny and frail baby and literally
mother it back into health that also
enables her to be blind to the moral
deformities of her child, and to behold
virtues in it where others see only
vices 1t is the knowledge that mother
still believes in him, that mother has
kept the lamp burning in the window
for him, that has lighted the way to
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

reform for many a prOdigal. 1t is
motherhood, with its ineXhausuble love
and its comforting arms that never
fail. that has kept the world from de-
spair. and made men believe that there
must be a God since He made mothers
It is the motherhood of women that
explains the strange phenomena we 50
often see in domestic life of a great
soulcd woman sacrificing herself to
weak and worthless man. It is often
contemptuously said that the less wor-
thy of love u man is the more some
woman seems to care for him, and that
no wives are so devoted and so faithful
as those of drunkards.
The reason of this is that the weak
ling man appeals to the eternal mother
in the woman Her love passes from
that Of the wife to that of the mother.
The man ceases to be her husband. her
mate. and becomes her child, her help
less, dependent baby. and she could no
more turn her back upon him than she
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

able gift that women viii bring to the
service of their country, when they
are permitted to serve it, is this pas
sion of motherhood We believe that
we need mothers in politics. and that
the whole human race is crying to be
mothered. We believe that when wOm-
en- have a vote there viii be no more
child labor: that the life of a baby
will be thought to be as valuable as
that of a pig, and that millions viii
not be spent for the conservation Of
the lives of animals and nothing for
those Of children
Blessed be mother love, the one love
that never fails and never wearles;
the love that clings the closer to US
the more others, turn away from us
and the more we need it.
The poorest of us. having that, IS
rich indeed. and the richest, lacking It,
is poorer than the pauper babe above
whose cradle some womau's face bends
lit with the divine fire of motherhood
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

pin-tucked and others of the plain
material trimmed with washable cord
or braid and little soft crochet but
tons and with 2 dainty collar which
stands high in the back, but does not
keep the front of the neck from being
free and open to the air.
Overblouse and cOatee effects are
very popular and will no doubt be
used. especially for the very dressy
waists
The chiffon or chiffon cloth blouse
of putty. sand or biscuit colOrs arc
very smart and very practical this
winter. They are made with high
collars and usually button straight up
the front with small silk cOlOred but
tons The waist of crepe de Chine is
also very good, especially where made
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

with large rcvers which fan graceful
ly i'm the front.
In an iuustrtion show a new blouse
collarless with the neck cut i'm the
new Callot square which is most be-
coming and far less trying than the
urual square or Dutch neck. The mod
ell is developed i'm craquele net and un-
trimmed. except for a cord outlining
the neck. The skirt worn with tho
waist is an excellent one for the
separate skirt. as il is made with a
yoke and front in one and pleats Mt
the side, causing the skirt to flare i'm
the up-to-datc manner at the sides.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06
War Does Not Affect the Fashions of Par
Separate High COlar-Sand
Putty Colored

FEW York, February st is said
M that Berlin has been much the
same during the war as at other
times, excepting for the war spirit,
and the grief at the bulletin boards.
1t has been the kaiser's wish that
things should be as unaffected as pos
sibIe, and. as he is well beloved, as
we'll as feared. the people especially
the women, have shown their grief but
little.
In Paris the fear Of invasion was
great. and Immediately things were
closed-no lights were allowed, the
cafes could not be open, the theaters
were shut down, and a curfew told peO-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

The ordinary cost OF a Want Ad in
The FL Paso Herald is % cents It
reaches an average Of about $4,000
readers each issue.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

Crepe dc Chine md Lace Combined in
n Gown with Waist in BOlerO Effect
pie that their lights must be out 1t
was natural that this should affect
business, but now things have changed
and are taking on a much more nor
NAL outlook
The dressmaking houses which have
kept open are doing business, with the
United states at least, and Rodier, the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

How some auto drivers time them
.slves so as T. be on a railroad crossin'
Jest when a train is goin' T. use it will
alIus remain a mystery. Some fellers
seem Z wear tn same weight underwear
III year around Jest fer tn nOtoriety.
Evening star., 1915-12-05
Three-Artist Concert Friday.

A rare opportunity to hear three
artists of distinctive merit on single
program will be presented to music
lovers of Washington at the hfth con-
cert of T. Arthur Smiths Zen star
Series" to be given at the New Ma
tional Theater Friday afternoon.
Wassily Besekirsky, Russian VIOLIN
ist: Nine. MatJa Neissen-Stone, con-
tralto operate singer. and Carl Fried
berg, the German pianist, are the
artists Nine. NeisSen-Stone, who mad
success with the Metropolitan Grand
Opera Company, and Mr.. Frfedberg
have been heard in this city before
and have many admirers here. This
will be the first appearance, however,
of Mr.. Besekirsky in Washington.
Besekirsky was born in Moscow and
nineteen he was concert master of the
royal orchestra in st. Petersburg, and
he has appeared with practically all
the big orchestras in Europe.
The program follows:
Sonata, op. 81 (quasi una fantasia)
Beethoven, Carl Friedberg: "Erlkonig.
T. Schubert THE Soldiers Wife,
(sung in Russian), Rachmaninoff
L,heure d dazur ds l. Holmes Rsns. assr5 Mat5a
bande," sulzer, WassiIy Besekrssy;
(oeuvre posthume,; scherzo B minor.
Chopin, Carl Friedberg; Love in the
Wind" McFayden; Turn Ye to Me, .
old Scotch melody: '.Tis Spring" Har-
riet Ware, Malta Niessen-S Stone; Melo-
die, n Nichlafeff; Dance, Rachman-
inoff. Wassily Besekirsky; rhapsody No.
9, E fiat major, List, Carl Friedberg.
Evening star., 1915-12-05
BEIMSCO

A Belasco premier. presenting David
Warfield, the distinguished American
actor, in a new play written by David
Belasco himself, Van Der Decken,"
legendary tale of the sea, is the inter
ssting announcement OF the Belasco
Theater for the current week. 1t is a
rare and triple attraction. for Mr.
Belasco stands without question at the
head of the American producers The
new play is announced as his own
work, and the splendid success of Mr..
Warfe1d in everything he has yet un-
dertaken mas made him one of the
greatest OF stage attractions.
IVAN der Decken" is n legendary play
Of the sea, based upon the familiar
story of The Flying Dutchman," al
though, in conformity with his invari-
able custom, Mr.. Belasco has withheld
detailed information az to the story
and the manner in which IL is treated
Nevertheless, Belasco production is a
guarantee of dramatic strength and
Interest, fiawiess and impressive stage
pictures and all that makes for thea
trical excellence, both in play and per-
formance
The supporting company and the en-
Usual Beiasco taste, and discrimina-
tion, and to provide novelty in the
staging of wan Der Decken."
The first performance of the play will
be given Tuesday evening, and there
will be but one matinee during the
week, that on Saturday afternoon.
Evening star., 1915-12-05
POLLS

For the first time in their four years
in Washington, the Poll Players will
brave the exactions of classic drama
this week in Shakespeare's great his
torical play, Julius Caesar"
The production of Julius Caesar" has
been made possible through the ability
Of General Manager Thatcher to secure
the services for this one week of r. d.
MacLean, the famous American ira
gedian. who will be seen in his notable
impersonation of Brutus. Mr.. Mac
Lean toured the United States two sea-
sons ago as co-star with William
Faversham in the Faversham revival
of the play, and as Brutus was re-
ceived throughout the country with
great enthusiasm.
a. II Van Buren, will make his debut
'' e@ic H"a ma in the role OF Marc
Antony, which has it's most effective
.tI3s ia the famous forum scene,
and the delivery of the oration over
the body of the dead Caesar. Mark
Kent will say farewell to Washington
in the role of Caius Cassius, the arch
conspirator against Caesar, played by
Frank keenan, in the Faversham re-
vival The principal feminine role in
Julius Caesar is Portia, Brutus' wife,
and to this Miss Florence Rittenhouse
is assigned. In addition to the numer-
Evening star., 1915-12-05
COSMOS

A startling attraction, The Eques-
trian Lion" in an exhibition with
woman, horse and a dog, will be the
headline feature at the Cosmos Thea
ter this week. The singular thing of
it all is they are said to make a "happy
family" in an interesting offering.
other features the first half of the
week will include Kingsbury, Munson
and company, in a comedietta of bril-
liant lines, "The Devil in Possession"
which has its funny side; Mabel Wayne,
in an original costume song novelty,
Five Feet of Comic Opera; Keefe,
Langdon and Wheeler, a trio of good
singers, with new songs and an anus
ing way of singing them, Ward and
McHugh, in the novel laughmsker, THE
Man from Macy's,'' and the Silverton
sisters, on the overhead wire, with the
Hearst Selig news pictures heading the
added attractions, and The Chalice of
Courage" a photo-emotional drama, by
Cyrus Townsend Brady, featuring Myr-
tie Gonzales, which will be shown daily
at 1915, 4:45 and pm, without extra
charge.
The attra ctions for the last half of
the week, beginning at the Thursday
matinees, will be Selma Waters, with
the Wilson Franklin company in the
funniest of farces, Eve and a Man;
the three Manning girls, in an offering
of songs and comedy; Armo and Stick
ney. in comic juggling act, and Allie
Leslie Hassan, an eccentric comedienne
rejecting in songs and monOlogue as
well as action the girl from the coun
try, with the Pathe weekly heading the
added attractions, and The Blindness
of Virtue" featuring Edna Mayo, at
1915, 4:45 and 6 pm. daily except Sat
urday, when the 8 pm. showing will
be omitted.
Evening star., 1915-12-05
Philadelphia Orchestra December IA.

The Philadelphia Orchestra, which
will appear at the New National De-
cember IA, has among its greatest as
sets Leopold Stokowski, one of the
most talented conductors in the United
States and one of the most promising
of the younger musicians of the world.
The story of his life is fascinating and
unique.
Born of a Polish father and an Irish
mother in London, Leopold Stokowski
was one of the youngest men to receive
a doctors degree from oxford. After
studying violin and organ and holding
important organ positions in London,
he organized his own symphony or
chestra He met an influential New
Yorker. who persuaded him to relin-
quish his orchestra and accept the po-
stion of organist and choirmaster of
Stokowsk made St. Bartholomew
muscial center as far as church music
went in New York From this position
he went to Europe as a freelance, de-
termined to attract attention by con-
Quoting, and SO sacrificed the savings
of years by engaging the great orches-
tras of Europe. He made a sensational
success
1t happened that at this time some
people interested in the Cincinnati Or
chestra, which was just reorganizing.
heard a concert at which Mr.. Stokow-
ski conducted. cabled to America that
they had found the right man, and
Stokowski was Immediately engaged
After some years in Cincinnati he be-
came conductor of the Philadelphia
Orchestra.
Evening star., 1915-12-05
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Boston Grand Opera.

The engagement of the Boston Grand
Opera Company, combined with the
Pavlowa Ballet Russo. has been def
nitely settled upon, and Washington
music lovers will have an opportunity
to hear and see the combined COM
panies December is, II and Is.
Until the advent of Anna Pavlowa
five years ago, choreographic art, as
this country knew it, consisted of per-
functory advertisements, introduced
during performances of certain operas,
and miscalled "ballets."
Now-in the season of 1915-16-
America stands on the threshold of
another disclosure in the advance of
the kindred arts of the lyric stage APP
pealing simultaneously to eyes and
ears, presented by the Boston Grand
Opera Company in conjuction with the
Paylowa Ballet Russo.
For the first time in history, the Unit
ed States. Canada and Central America
are to have adequate presentations of
two art forms of novel character:
'Mimo mo-choreographic" and 'mimo dra-
matte grand operas.
These works are neither exclusively
grand operas Gas We know them), nor
yet exclusively Russian ballets Gas
Mile. Pavlowa has introduced them).
They are combination of the two, put
together in a symmetrical whole, fus-
ing instrumental and vocal music,
dancing, drama and painting.
With the opera company and Anna
Pavlowa, Managing Director Rabinoff
is blazing a new pathway in the pres
entation of an art the people should
acclaim. In addition, negotiations now
guarantee the services of other princi-
pals of great distinction; the admira BILE
chorus and orchestra of the Boston
Grand Opera Company. Maestro Ro-
berto Moranzoni; first conductor of the
Boston Opera Company, Emil Kuper;
the first conductor of the imperial
opera, Petrograd. Agide Jaccha, and
Adolph Schmid. first conductor at Co
vent Garden, with stage director Prof
Ryszard Ordynski. the associate of
Prof Max Reinhardt, and regarded as
one of the greatest living stage direc-
tors.
America has had several grand opera
companies of superlative quality which
have undertaken long and short tours.
but it has never experienced perform
ances by such an organization that has
appeared in conjunction with a ballet
company comparable in quality and
numerical size to the Pavlowa Ballet
Russo.
The principals, the musical conduc-
tors, the stage and technical directors.
the orchestra and chorus and the set
tings and costumes of the combined or
are to be of the highest
possible efficiency, beauty and COM
pleteness-in short, the Boston Grand
Opera Company made more efficient
than ever, and the Pavlowa Ballet
Russo.
Besides the productions on which
those masters of scenic art-Bakst,
Urban and Sime-are now engaged, Mr.
Rabinoff has secured from the Boston
Opera House it's entire physical prop !
erty, consisting of forty-seven grand
Evening star., 1915-12-05

was past twenty, seeing all of the best
actors of the day-and many of the
worst. as well.
warfeld's chance to win professional
usher at the Bush Street Theater. 1t
was there that Frank White. sometimes,
an actor, became interested in him. He
had heard young Warfeld tell stories
the theater, and he thought Warfield
had talent
You should go on the stage" he told
Warfield, who answered:
Il know it, but how?"
"I'n get you a chance" promised
White. And he did give Warfield his
first chance 1t was in repertory
company at s13 week. His first part
was that of Moses, in THE Ticket-of-
Leave Man" and Warfield had four
days in which to memorlze the part-a
heavy"
Speaking of this recently. Mr.. War
Il knew nothing of stage business.
young life. We Were to leave Sunday
night for Napa, Cal. for our opening
week Sunday afternoon my courage
oozed out of me and I hurried to Mr..
fair assumption of disappointment.
My mother won't let me CO. an
nounced. drearily AS a matter of fact,
mother knew nothing of the affair
w mite was not TO De 1oOled lie
looked me over with scorn he did not
try 10 conceal, and said: What's the
matter with you-is you're just plumb
scared"
"I am l confessed
"'Then buck UP. you young rooster.
and don't go backing down at the last
instant. when I'm giving you the op
portunity of your life. Youll thank
me for this later on.
THAT was enough; I went. That was
nv beginning"
Shortly afterward Mr.. Warfield tried
his hand in the variety in San Fran
cisco, and was rudely rejected. So he
came east. and finally landed Job in
New York in vaudeville. and the self
same act that had failed fiat in San
Francisco went wild in New York
Never since then has Mr.. Warfield been
out of work He went to the Casino
under George w. Lederer, and later
with Weber & Fields at their famous
old stand" in Broadway. 1t was there
that Mr.. Belasco first began to con-
|, slider Mr.. Warfield seriously. and it was
from there that Mr. Belasco took Mr.
Warield to appear in The Auctioneer."
, Then followed Mr.. Warheld's sensa-
tional. artistic and greatest financial
success in the history of the theater
in THE Music Master followed by his
appearance In "A Grand Army Man."
| and then in Mr. Belasco's last drama
until now, THE Return of Peter Grimm"
Evening star., 1915-12-05

to the Gayety Theater this week, with
the usual matinee tomorrow afternoon,
in a musical farce in two acts and five
scenes, entitled Hotel de Gink." 1t is
filled with merriment, in which the
drollery of the comedians is alternated
with song numbers by a chorus of
twenty-five pretty girls. Eighteen of
the latest metropolitan hits will be in
troduced, besides new dances and en-
sembles. The company of forty people
includes Edith ST. Clair. leading wom
an; Elsie Meadows, soubrette; Bob
Ferns, in black face; Frank Gibson,
Adele Raney, the United Trio and Savo.
The entertainment covers the expert
ences Of Hilton and Allen in a hotel
for "hoboes," and permits the interpo-
lation of vaudeville specialties. A COM
plete wardrobe. with elaborate scenery
and electrical effects. is promised.