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Evening star., 1915-06-20

our tights after every performance, an
gave up havin' new hats, so we could have
a home on Long Island! Now all is
DER!
CHARLIE FoGARTY: Start fresh Kid.
It's so lonesome after you split.
THE PROPERTY MAN: Sure, they must
stick together. Usfellers could tell you
what fine guy Sam is, little one. Make
up wit him.
PANsY XYLopHoNE: My advice is for
her to merely forget him and rehearse
new turn. You needn't sneer at me, Miss
Beresford; and may be metallic, but l
was the musical sensation of Jones flar-
lem last week, and we were moved from
second position to closing at Olean, hold
ing the audience by essheer force of
our personality, and Henry had ii terrific
cold.
THE SLAvEY: How would you regard
some toast?
-LoRENA LArFERTY: lmogen, ] thank
YOU, but can't. Oh, when think how
wore two-bit Isle stockin's to save!-an'
for what?
THE LANDLADY: I've saw the child
buyin' three-dollar silk for Sam, too.
LoRENA LArFERrY: He needed 'em for
a front, cause the agents don notice per-
formers unless they look like money.
THE LANDLADY: Vaudeville warps the
male viewpoint, d olln', an you made Il
god out him, which they can't stand too
much pettin'. Don't | know?
CHARLIE FoGARTY: You're wrong
there, Mis- De Shine; for us men are just
lookin' for a few kind words. No sensible
gink wants to stick around wild bunch
when he can he king in his own little
Evening star., 1915-06-20

PANsY XYLoPHoNE: or course, as you
play his house next week!
The LANDLADY: Girls, are you cont
Imogen, aid Lorena upstairs.
She's cryn' sumpin fierce, poor lamb!
SAM LAFFERTY: Hon, cant | square it
some way? I'll swear she was nothin
to me!
(The door-beN rings, and the curtains
more from sudden dratD.
A VOICE: Sam an Loreny still at
"A supper, Imogen? Tell Loreny it's
Pop.
LoRENA LAFFERTY: Papa! Oh, papa.
let me get by!
ANOTHER VOICE: Mercy, I'm nervous!
But then the children both saw me: they
were starin' at the box the whole of their
turn today Still-stepmothers, Edward!
I'm scared!
The SLAvEY:l Her fathers married
Madum Zaza, the bareback rider!
MADAME ZAzA: Samuel and Lorcna,
will YOU kiss your new momma? And
YOU got the suectca act! Did you hear
me when | leaned out of the box and
clapped?
LoRENA LAFFERTY: It's -the-hlue -
lady! Oh, Sammy!
CHARLIE FoGARTY: Gee! | feel like
weepin' myself!
The LANDLADY: All kinly folla tho
bridal pair to the first floor rehearsal room,
where coffee an such will be served with
best wishes for long life; though pers nally
| gotta lay down, for the scenes we get
start me palpitatin'. lmogen, don't
hre,the when nassin my door an don't
you call me unless a headliner wants.board!
Evening star., 1915-06-20

informn' me blue made me look sallow,
an after you was at the peephole SAID
pale blue was nice, wasn't it, an you made
a dreamy face an said swell?
SAM LAFFERTY: | agreed cause l
thought you was jumpy again, deary.
You're always askin' questions, an II l
don't reply careful, you'll ask the same
thing right over.
THE LANDLADY: Imogen, pass them
cakes more rapid. My stars, on seven
week pastry cant be gave nd lib, which
the thinkin' mind oughta realize it!
THE PROPERTY MAN: ct EN- absent
minded; for | was refiectin
MRs BKAcKETT: And at this end we
can't get anything.
The LANpLADY: Lorena, try just one
cake, dollin'?
LoRENA LAFFERTY: I'm tremblin' too
much to hold it, an he-he Dickens
set is his, an I'll take the big suitcase
while he takes the trunk, an papa gave
me the electric toaster-- I'm goln' to-
night, an he better look out if he meets
my father! I.
CHARLIE FOGARTY (the German comic):
These partings are awful. remember how
| felt. | had to cancel half a week, was
that broke up. | hate to see it. What
was YOU telln' us about seein things when
you don't, Pansy?
PANsY XYLopHoNE: 1t would have
been a hypnogagic illusion If there was no
woman in blue in the box, you see.
CHARLIE FoGARTY: | got you. Lor-
cna, IA medium would show you 1T was
YOUR sublimal self seen that blonde. You
thought she was; but nay! Now why not
be friends?
BIRpAL1NE BEREsFoRD: Don't you do
it: You'll draw as much salary as single.
I'm headlinn' on the big time, an If
had a partner he'd keep me back.
PANsY XYLopnoNE: 1t was grabbing
most of Bonnie Murpht's material did it
for you, Birdy. My! it seems like yester-
, dav when we were passing in the sleeper,
and saw you riding in IA wagon show,
r headed for Red Bud, Iowa, where you
1 played in Il tent.
BlRDALINE BEREsFoRD: An last year
t | had the London time; although you
? gave parties to Eddie Banks of the Syndl-
e cate Bookin' Office, an you're still doin
three shows day, amt you?
q MILE. MARIGNY: She had to get or
). her knees to agents, and take oath not tt
II veil about her spot on the bill or she
+ wouldn't been booked at all.
g PANsY NiLopHoNE: | scorn you both
Also if the Xylophoncs would descend t'
$ hiring press work done thcy'd got London
5 but our notices are real. and Henry can
[, hand you what the Duluth Bazoo said
@ that my cornct work was compelling il
II its artistic appeal!
HENRY XYLorHoNE: ] must left
1, in my other suit.
BlRDALINE BEREsFoRD: Appeal! lie
is playin' is absolutely metallic an forcec
y THE LANDLADY: Girls, cease immejut
10 It's lust one argument after another, al
lookit poor Lorcna sobbin'! My grie
o! what devils men is!
w LoRENA LAfFERrY: washed an dye
Evening star., 1915-06-20

Joint. lnever stayed out.
Mrs. BRAcKETT: Life
is an appalling thing!
Pass the jell-this cake is
so dry.
THE LANDLADY: Beefin'
as always, | note, Gertie;
which why don't you go
elsewhere instead of hav-
in my best room at a cut
rate?
Mr.. BRAcKETT: She's
only kiddin' :.she's the best
hearted girl alive. Did
you hear Pedro the Jug
gler was cut ten minutes
when he opened in Flat
bush? The White Rats
may take it up. OF course
he's IL hick act, at that.
THE PROPERTY MAN:
They ought to be cut.
PANsY NYLopHoNE:
Performers can buy mate
rial, and then waste it, |
presume? Although if peo-
pie refuse to buy Mr..
Johnson's brand of cold
cream and grease paint, he
: has no use for them; and
to his face | say it clogs,
while Henry was positively
a sick man from the lily
! of the valley scent in it,
MILE. MARIGNY: His
cream is grand!
Evening star., 1915-06-20

Maison De Shine, West SD street,
New York.
IL THE LANDLADY: Make out you
don't notice the Laffertys are settln apart
Imogen. They've split again, alack!
The SLAvEY: Putattas, Mis- Lafferty?
They're fresh billed.
LoRENA LAFFERTY (of the Laffertys'
Society Iron-Jaw act: On. don't care
,phut have, Imogen! | wish was dead!
SAM LArFERTY: If she used any boss
sense, she'd be all right; but that's the
way in the show business guys always
bein' accused.
PANsY XYLoPHoNE (Of the Musical
Xylophoncs): think table arguments are
terribly bad taste. People should rcmem-
ber where they are.
HENRY XYLopHoNE: Dried pear pie
again. | thought this was accake night.
The SLAvEY: But we got tloatn island
for next Sunday. Stewcd corn or peas!
LORENA LAFFERTY: NO tea, lmogen:
I'm trcmblin too much to hold the cup.
And Papa's act is playin' Brooklyn this
week, an he was comm over to catch our
new turn--now | gotta tell him my hus-
band is false.
THE LANDLADY: Well, never knowed
real relief till me an De Shine ended,
Lorena, an the truth is professionals are
better unwed The life's too tryin'.
SAM LArFERTY: If she wouldn't go
askin' every dame on the same bill for
advice, we'd be like two happy kids |
give my word don't know who the party
in the stage box was, an my reward was
insults! Pass them spuds.
BIRDALlNE BEREsFoRD thc Southern
SongbirdD: If you mean me, | seen the
lady from the pccphole, and when your act
was on she never took her eyes from you.
The LANDLADY: They don't do it it
they amt encouraged; but never mind,
dcary. You done your duty to him, an
if YOU must part, simply forget it.
The PROPERTY MAN: Aw, leave en-
alone, cant you? Sans one of the most
forbearn' performers ever played our
Showshop. I've saw him shiftin' his own
scenery, an tippin' the boys just the same
SAM LAFFERTY: Listen, girly. Eat
sumpn', or you'll be faintin' in the big
trick tonight Can't we go up to the
room an discuss this thing quiet?
LoRENA LArFERrY: No! An people
Laffcrty; though here an now tell yol
that m through WOfklll Wlln you III Una
turn. When blonde parties in blue in stag
boxes enter my life quit!
SAM LAFFERTY: Listen! | say she
complete stranger to me. She wa
leanin' out, admirin' a clever dumb act
that's all. Did ever answer mash not
yet? Why don't you be honest? lo
know | never. 1t was you only.
BIRDALINE BEREsFoRD: Don't give II
dear They're all alike.
The PROPERTY MAN: Wal, my idear
that women got too many lady pals city
editin' their business. They'd make II
if they was left in peace.
LoRrNA LArrERTY: No, Imogen, NJ
I'm too tererish for tea. Will you den
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Device for Setting Pins.

the pins With little rack like the
one shown in the illustration. the in
terest in the game may be increased
considerably. 1t not only helps in set
ting the pins rapidly, but insures a
good setting with the proper spacing
between the pins. II is very simple
to make, as it consists of triangular
piece of wood with ten holes bored
into it at the proper places, the dimen-
sions of which win be governed by the
size of the pins, and three supports.
The pins are dropped in the holes and
the rack lifted from them.
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sEssIE's LESSON.

Bessie Carol was a good little girl
most of the time. but she had every
reason to be. for her father and moth
er gave her everything she could wish
for. and as she was never really bad
they seldom had to cross her
But her mother discovered that
when she could not do just as she
wished she looked very sober and
sulked.
Her mother. of course, loved her
very dearly, and she wanted everyone
to love her little girl. SO she made up
her mind that when the opportunity
presented itself she would teach Bes-
sic a lesson that she would under
stand and bring before her, il posi-
BILE. the fact that to have her own
way was not always best for her hap
piness.
Bessie had very pretty dresses and
hats, and one day in the early spring
she wanted to wear new hat and car
ry new parasol which had been sent
home the day before
Il am sure 1t will rain before you re-
turn from Sunday school, her mother
said; you had better wear your other
hat and wait until the weather is more
settled. 1t is early and you will have
plenty of times to wear the new one"
Bessie began to cry: Il want to
wear my new hat" she said. and
carry my parasol. do not believe it
will rain at all today"
Stop crying said the mother, and
listen to me- do not think it best you
should wear the new hat, but you can
do as you like. and whatever happens
you must take the consequences"
Bessie put on her new hat and took
the parasol, and she was ali smiles
when she went out of the door At the
gate she met her father you better
not wear that pretty hat" he said Il
think it will rain, ard an umbrella
will be of more use than that little
parasol."
Mother said l might" said Bessie.
No, dear said her mother who was
standing on the steps, Il said you
could do as you wished, but / advised
you not to wear them today; you are
doing so because you wish to have
your own way"
Bessie went to Sunday school feel
ing sure that her mother was mis-
taken about the rain, put when sne
came out il was pouring. She waited
until the shower was over and then
ran for aome, but she had only gone a
short distance when the rain came
down again, and before she could
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Il shall nave to have . new para
sol" said Bessie: that one is covered
with red marks"
You will have to go without one
this summer" her mother replied.
Bessie began to cry.
GO to your room" said her mother.
until you can stop crying ana think
about what / told you Sunday"
After a while she came out
II should have listened to you and
not worn the hat or carried the para
sol am sorry / am SO willful." she
said.
i hope you will remember this. her
mother told her, for as you grow
older you viii learn that no one has
their own way in this world. and it Is
easier for you to learn that now than
when you are a woman"
The hat caused Bessie many uncom
Portable hours. but she wore 1t bravely
through the season without complain
ing.
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sill almost to the peak, making ons
continuous opening, so that the ice
can be put in at any level. as the
houseSs being flied
A handy way to lift the cakes OF ice
is with hayfork toggle and pair
OF heavy ice tongs, A single rope il
attached to the tongs and passed over
the hosting pulley in the track car
riage at the top and run through a sin
gle sheave at the bottom. so that
horse can quickly lift cake of ice
to any height necessary.
The CAKES OF ice are built into
solid mass in the center OF the house.
usually by breaking joints the same as
in brickwork. leaving space of IL
inches all around the outside. II is
much better to pack the ice in the
coolest weather, to use hose or
throw pals of water over each layer
to freeze the cakes of ice together
into solid body as near as possible.
Sawdust enough is needed to pack all
around the ice and for layer 10
inches or two feet deep over the top.
Where sawdust cannot be obtained.
clear straw or hay that has been run
through the cutting box will answer
the purpose, and II carefully handled
will keep the ice In very satisfac-
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-12-09
BY WILLIAM a. RApFoRp.

This Is the time of year to build an
icehouse. A happy, goodhearted
neighbor admitted in his comical way
that he had always wanted an ice.
house--in summer--but there was no
ice at that time to fill II. In winter
It was cold enough without 1t.
Every farm should have an ice
house, and every farm should have o
dairy house. There is economy In
combining the two. The illustrations
show the perspective and floor plan OF
a combination farm icehouse and
dairy, large enough to handle the milk
from a good-sized herd OF mixers.
The icehouse is large enough to hold q
cube of ice 16 feet in diameter. TO
keep well there should be considerable
bulk OF ice together in one block.
In this design the dairy wing is
built to the south, which helps to
protect the south side of the icehouse
from the hot summer sun. Also. a
dairy room needs considerable sun
shine. so it works right both ways.
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AMUSING GAME OF MEMORY
Players Sitting in Circle Pay Forfeits
for Mistakes and Also When
Caught Laughing.

This is game of memory, in which
you pay forfeits for mistakes and also
for laughing.
The players sit in circle, explains
the Philadelphia Record. One begins
by saying, solemnly. "One old OK open
ing oysters" Everybody repeats this
in turn. Then she begins again, "One
old OK opening oysters; two tired tur-
ties trotting to Trenton" This goes
round the circle The next repetition
is, "One old OK opening oysters; two
tired turtles trotting to Trenton;
three tame tigers taking tea This
is repeated by each one, always begin
ming at "One old OK adding a new
ALTERATION each time. Some exam
pies are given, but it is more fun to
make them up as you go along.
-Four fat friars fishing fer frogs
Five fairies fighting furious fire.
flies"
six soldiers shooting snipe."
Seven salmon sailing southwark"
Eight elegant engineers eating
eggs"
Nine nimble noblemen niobling
nuts"
Ten tall tinkers tentatively toll
ing"
Eleven earnest emigrants eating
early elephants"
Twelve terrible tablebearers tell
ing truths
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1915-12-09

The Waimangu geyser near Rotorua,
in New Zealand, the largest geyser on
the island, which in it's period OF erup-
ton threw huge columns of water,
black mud, rocks and stones to a
height of fifteen hundred feet and
more, but which for the past eleven
years has remained quiet, has again
become active. 1t recently blew out
new crater, 80 yards long by rs yards
wide, and about 20 feet deep. In that
first explosion, during which it hurled
mud and stones more than a thousand
feet into the air, it formed twenty mud
boilers" that threw mud thirty feet
high, and opened seven broad steam
holes, from which steam escaped un-
der great pressure Some OF the SAND
and mud that it sent up was. it is said.
carried as far as Lake Rotomahana.
three and a half miles away. AT last
accounts Jets OF steam were issuing
from the many assures in the crater
wall. Youths Companion.
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tBy FRANK G. MENKE.)

tBy FRANK G. MENKE)
New York.-The country person who
bought gold brick didn't feel half
as badly after he discovered his error
as Jawn McGraw does these days
whenever he thinks about that "PoP'
Perritt deal.
Jawn got gold brick in pol
which is bad enough. But the worst
part of it, from the McGrawian view
point, is that Jawn spent hundreds Of
dollars and many anxious hours in try
ing to keep "Reb" Cakes, the mana
ger of the Pittsburgh Feds, from out
bidding Jawn for the gold brick.
This Is the yarn.
Perritt used to pitch for the Saint
Looie team and Jawn decided that
he'd do a heap better in Giant uni
form. SO at the end of the 1914 sea-
son Jawn entered into negotiations
with Miller Huggins, the David
Harum" OF baseball. and Miller lived
up to his nickname by letting Jawn
have Pol" for a considerable bit of
booty.
Well. springtime came in due course,
but POL" didn't come to the Giants
Instead, POL" began flirting outra-
geously with the Feds. Cakes wanted
him. He asked POL" how much Jawn
wanted to pay him and POL" told
him.
"Ill boost that total $1,000 per sea-
son." said Cakes.
"Oh, very well-I'm yourn," quoth
pol"
'sPol' left his home for the purpose
OF reporting to the Pittsburgh Feds
In the meantime, Jawn McGraw be-
gan to wonder why pol didn't put
in an appearance at the Giants camp.
In the nick of time, as the dime novels
put it, Jawn learned that POL" had
been quite untrue to him-that he had
been lured away by Federal coin.
Go thou and head him off, wired
Jawn to Dick Kinsella, the Giant ivory
hunter, who was then in Mississippi.
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reach a place of safety she was
drenched.
While she was standing in door
way waiting for the rain to cease a
red drop fell on her dress. "Oh! dear, ;
thought Bessie, Il ran SO fast that my
nose is bleeding" but when another
drop fell, and it was not from her
nose, she looked at the rim of her hat
and found it was the color from the
little red roses. Then she looked at
her parasol 1t was wet and there
were red spots on it where it had
rubbed against the roses as she held
it over her head in the rain. Her
feet were wet and she looked like a
little kitten who had been dipped into
pail of water
Il cannot get any wetter," she said
at last; Il will run as fast as can for
home" Her mother took off the wet
clothes and gave her hot bath, but
she did not mention the spoiled ar
ticIes. and Bessie thought they were
forgotten.
The next day when she came from
school her mother was ripping the
trimming from her has. Then she told
Bessie to take it to Jane and ask her
to press it. Bessie did as she was
told and brought it back, but when
her mother began trimming the hat
with the pressed ribbon she asked:
Are you going to give It to the cooks
little girl?"
NO answered her mother, this is
the only hat you have"
But, mother, you do not expect me
to wear that hat" exclaimed Bessie:
1t is stained and the ribbon looks
faded"
Il have fixed it as well as could =
said her mother. You will have to
wear r. unit, it II time for white
bat.
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stances costs the farmer nothing, so
that he does not figure 1t as a real
loss II the meltage is considerable.
On the other hand, IL 1t keeps extra
well and he has surplus, there Is
always sale for 1t in August and Sep
TENDER.
It is better to clear the icehouse out
before the cold nights come on, to
give 1t a chance to dry out before be-
ing refilled. When considerable ice.
is left over, 1t is a temptation to put
new ice on top OF the old, but this Is
mistake. The icehouse should be
cleaned out clear down to the bottom
every year. This gives an opportunity
to examine the drainage and to start
right with the next filing. The man
agement of an icehouse is as simple
as rolling off a log. but there are a
few littln things to remember. When
you roll off log you don't want to
strike yulr nose. When you fill an
icehouse you want to do II In such a
way thai most OF the ice viii stay in
the house until you are ready to take
1t out
The dairy In this plan is intended
for a farm where the milk is sold
either in cans or bottles. There is
room for milk cooler and small
bother suitable for a dairy of 40 cows.
The dairy floor space is 10 feet 6
inches by Is feet, which gives room
enough for cream separator, bottling
machine. sink to wash utensils. and
few storage shelves.
The same space may be used differ
emily when the milk is separated and
the skim milk fed warm to young
stock, and the cream shipped away for
sale, or wEvn the cream is made into
butter at nume.
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TY COBB RAPs FOOTBALL


IF football was daily attrac-
tion it would last about week"
said Ty Cobb, the American
league star, after witnessing a
game between Georgia Tech and
North Carolina.
Its brutality, If nothing else,
would kill it. Saturday afternoon
there were several boys hurt
and put out Of the game. This
might attract for day, but 1t
would not appeal to America
long. And the spectators had
only a vague idea of what was
happening. 1t was not the easy
game to follow like baseball"
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Il want Perrits. I need him. Out.
bid the Feds"
Kinsella Jumped the first RATHER
after he had learned the Perritt route,
and headed off pol somewhere in
Georgia.
Greetings, fair one, greetings" muir.
INJURED Dick "C'mon in and have some
sarsaparilla or something"
1t was warm day and POL" con.
scented.
Where va goin?" asked Dick
casuallilxe after the refreshments had
been served
ooh, me? I'm goin' to the Pittsburgh
Feds camp. I'm gonna play with them
this season." responded Pol"
mo, you amt" asserted Dick
You're gonna play with the Giants"
Il amt not" remarked POL" II
was figgerin' on dom that while ago,
but changed my mind. ! gotta right
to change my mind when the other Eel.
lows offer me more money"
How much did they offer your"
queried Dick.
POL" told him.
"Well, I'll beat that" said Dick And
right then and there Dick is reported
to have quoted POL salary of $4,000
per year under three-year contract.
Perritt became Giant at reported
salary OF $4,000 year, and this is
what he did in 1915 to earn It: He
worked 35 games and won but ~. He
was knocked out of the box so often
that every time he entered 1t the bet.
ting was to ] that he wouldn't last
through the game. He pitched brand
of baseball so weird that it became a
joke around the circuit.
That's enough to make Jawn sor.
rowful, but the sadness increases
when he recalls that he must keep
POL" for two years longer--and pay
him $4,000 for each Of these years.
And, in the meantime
"Reb' Cakes is patting himself on
his left shoulder blade.
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The foundation OF both the icehouse
and dairy is of concrete made into one
solid wall extending all the way
around. Above the wall both houses
are built of wood, using studding,
matched boards and drop siding. Next
to the studding is one thickness of
building paper, then matched ceiling
boards are blind-nailed on the inside
and drop-siding is used for the out
side boarding, leaving a hollow dead
air space between. 1t is mistake to
pack this space with sawdust, be-
cause the sawdust rots down at the
bottom and settles in spots, leaving
holes.
To preserve the ice from melting,
the first attention should be given to
drainage 1t is absolutely necessary
that the water should get away from
the bottom. II ice stands in water 1t
melts away rapidly.
The section drawing shows the man
ner in which the house is constructed
In regard to drainage. The space