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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

Today we see young girls going tc
Keith's alone, or with other young
girls.
And If they are chaperoned. il is
not by the old maid aunt as in other
days. but by a young fellow.
Surely Keith put the chap in chap
eron.
And there's another condition which
Keith brought about
Formerly when things were going
hard with Horatius Hamphat and he
had to go into the two-a day OF
starve. the theatergoing public said
it was all over with Horatius-and his
popularity wsned!
In other words. vaudeville was a
solar plexus to his legitimate career.
He could never come back,
But Keith audiences were gradually
Transforming themselves.
There was no smoking, splitting on
the floors, or feet up on the railing.
You must conduct yourself in my
theaters as you should in your own
psrlor." said Keith.
And they did.
Keith audiences were cultured. re-
fined and educated--they demanded
elevated acts"
Soon you saw these names on
Keith's bills: Goodwin, Hilliard, Dixey,
Hackett Rernhardt, Barrymore, Miller,
Scheff--and even Horatius Hsmphat,
for now Horatius could take flyer"
at the end of his regular season and
do no harm to his rep.
Back In the nineties the public
would shake its head doubtfully wheE
a fallen star" appeared at Keith's.
ITO think that he has sunken to
this" was the soliloQuy.
But now it's step forward in a
career to be able to play at keitn's.
/ expect to see Holbrook Blinn. John
Drew, Maude Adams, E. H. Sothern.
Julia Marlowe and others doing
United Time" regularly each season
and getting their share of that half
million dollar payroll which Mr.. Keith
looked squarely in the eye each week
for so many years.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01
By PHILIP GOODMAN.
KEITH.
Copyright, lal6.)

Copyright. lol6l
On the fifth of July, in the year
1885. at ten O'Clock in the morning.
in the city of Boston, Benjamin Frank
lin Keith invented the Continuous
Performance.
Keith started this life with the
heaviest name in American History
on his shoulders.
And he bore il we'll!
He possessed the same keen. uncom-
mon sense as the man his mother
named him after-and had deal more
humanity than Franklin, the First
Also, Keith was an Artist, which st.
Benjamin was not.
He was the FIRST citizen" of Vaude-
Villa, that Elysium which stretches
from the Atlantic to the Pacific; and
there are not three other names in
the annals of the American Stage that
have had as beneficent an influence on
the American Theater as Benjamin
Franklin Keith.
/ can remember the time (and so can
YOU'D when children. especially girls,
were not permitted to go to theaters
except with their parents or grown
up escort.
The variety house particularly was
an unsafe" place.
But Keith changed all this.
From the first day he opened the
doors of the old Gaiety Musee in Bos-
ton, he never tolerated an 'unsav-
DRY act" to be affiliated with his
name.
And the part / like about Keith is
that he never attempted to make cap
ital of decency-he didn't advertise it
he just adhered to the principle
quietly, and soon the country was
hocking to his doors.
Keith was the man who made the
ater-Roing a habit.
And later, when the grown-ups saw
so much innocent fun in a Keith
show, it was but = step to sending the
children around in the afternoons.
Keith purified tho variety show: he
did more-he .institutionalized" 1t!
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

port which custom had vouchsafed and
assigned masters of slaves,-a sort of in
voluntary servitude by judicial process
ana under the forms of contract
They did not stop TO consider the
pressing necessity or the extraordi-
nary circumstances which justified
such legislation.
There were many theories held
among them as to the legal powers
and remaining rights of the southern
states, but their purpose of mastery
In the readjustment of southern af-
lalrs was not materially affected by
their differing theories.
They in effect regarded the southern
states as conquered provinces, and
looked upon emancipation as the main
fruit of conquest To make that eman-
cipation good was only to secure the
conquest itself.
The negro had got a veritable apo
theosis in the minds Of northern men
by the processes of the war. Those
who had sent their sons to the field
of battle to die in order that he might
be free could but regard him as the
innocent victim of circumstances, a
creature who needed only liberty to
make him a man; could but regard
any further attempt on the part of his
one-time masters to restrain him as
mere vindictive defiance.
They did not look into the facts;
they let their sentiment and their
sense of power dictate their thought
and purpose.
Neither was II any part of the case,
so far as they and their leaders in
Congress were concerned, that the re-
strictive legislation which they so Bit
terly resented had been practically
without effect
aside by the action of the Freedmen's
Bureau
Monday; A Military Bureau
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

Where the negroes mustered in largest
numbers, as in South Carolina. where
they outnumbered the whites, restric-
tion was, of course, pushed farthest and
the most thorough-going legal tutelage
for the freedmen attempted.
Where their numbers were more man
ageable. where conditions were more IA
vorable, their freedom Of movement and
of occupation was less interfered with.
There was nothing unprecedented in
| such legislation. even where 1t went
farthest
The greater part of II was paralleled
by statutes of labor and vagrancy still
to be found on the statute books of sew
eral of the northern States.
But it was impossible it should stand
In the same light. The labor and va
grancy laws of Maine. Rhode Island. and
Connecticut, which they most resem-
bled. were uttered against few tramps
and beggars, here and there a runaway
servant or apprentice, an occasional
breach of duties regularly contracted for;
while these new laws of the South were
uttered against an entire race, but just
now emancipated.
Whatever their Justification. 1t was in
evitable that they should shock the SEN
timent of the North and make new and
bitter enemies for the South in Congress.
1t was no ordinary time of action,
when matters could be Judged coolly
and on their merits,
For the leaders of Congress it was un-
palatable enough that the southern
States should have Legislatures at ALL
upon a plan made and executed without
conference with them; that those legis-
latures should thus undo the work of
emancipation seemed a thing intolerable.
And the new legislation seemed to them
nothing less than that.
1t seemed to them merely an effort to
substitute compulsory contracts of serv-
ice and fixed rates of wages for the old
err rights of control and duties of sup
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01
By
O. O. Mcintyre
Monday; A Military Bureau

mystery was deepened by the fact that
no huddled and bruised form could be
found in or around the car.
with uncanny intuition the policeman
ran to the nearest saloon to telephone
but despite the Investigations of a squad
covered
The secret was late that day given
TO an eNpectant world through a press
agent Tor a movie firm who declared
that despite all efforts to keep the mat
ter silent, it must be confessed that
the damaged car belonged to one of their
favorite actresses who could be seen
at a certain theater twice daily"
1t is not known who helped the lady
and her press agent to upset the car
Three dashing beauties, their deCollete
emphasized with gems of purest raw
serene, were ratified down to police head
quarters at a. M. the other day In the
town hack. known officially as the patrol
con
1t was charged that they had lifted
a. from William Green, an oil man OF
Houston. Texas. They were riding up
Broadway in the taxi when Green in
his best Houston. Texas. voice poked
his head out the window and yelled
"Hel-lup."
The noise work up policeman on the
corner and he came over and carted the
fair charmers and the Texan to the lieu-
tenant. The money could not be found
and the girls were taken to cells Be
fore they departed. however. they said
few things about Mr.. Green which
would make good reading for the Hous-
ton papers.
jerome NJ. Rose, who carries the title
OF song writer on his cards to prove
he is one, has started from New York
to walk to the coast. He walked as far
as Newark and then came back 20 New
York to sleep all night and returned the
next day to continue
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01
NAVAL ORDERS.
MovEMLNrs oF VESSELS

-
Cssssr. arrived FInctHl Mach y Cb.S,e- .,r.4
ior New nOrk. March .. DEmcsn. .-rir-o Solomon,
Island March @ E@Eis sailed for GuIntInsu,r
March j. Glacier. Sr7iTed TopolOhsrr-p, March .
''Tlo1, sailed fur Pot 80 Prince March ~ Pitfs
hursh. AIMED sGn Deg. Marcb %. Pot,us~
arrived Aimirxnts Bsy. March y: st.ndish SsiI-1
for Norfolk March ~ Tuun-~--e siIsd for b,Nt,
hlanca, March =; Wheeling arrived Pu,-o
Mexico, March %
NOTES
The Washington has bee0 detached from dun,
witt the cruiser squsdrun Atlantic FLEET md
assigned 70 duty with the Atlantic Rezrrre F1r.f
The Isrker. nov a. Guantanamo B4y has b.en
ordered 70 proceed to the Norfolk yard
The Winston, at Guantanamo Raw has 49,,
ordered 70 rocced 70 the New Yurk ysrd
SPECIAL nutlce-Auentiou /. csTed 70 Tive rof,-.
Ia 'he Movements = Nes-e' list ~ January 4
changing the mail address Of the Hannibal from
In care Of the poStmastsT. New York Ct1" n
In care Of the postmaster. Nev Orleans l. A
letter has been received frsn tho Commanding -
hce- q the HsnuIlsl stating that mail Is beirs
r 'e1Ved addressed via New Yo-k which delsv, m,
receiDts several weeks Or nor,
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

Senator Underwood declared in the Senate tina,
the du Pont Powder Company and its agents are
endeavoring to defeat his bill providing for the
establishment OF government plant for the col
lection of nitrogen from the air; and no doubt
If Mr.. Underwood will look far enough he will
discover that those who are striving for the pas
sage Of his bill are more than match for the
powder company.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01
illumination Of shin..

The naval medical oricers have been
giving their attention recently to the
need OF Improvement In the illumination
on shipbosrd. II has been urged by
Meoicsu Director J. ID. Gstevood, L. s.
~ ana by Surg. T. ". Richards. L. 5.
-, mat the problem OF good lighting.
uhposSioie Of solution by random obser-
Nations, warrants the Investisst,on bv q
specially selected board which should
nave every facility and a free hand 70
cohouct experiments on some ship in re-
serve. With modern lamps there is gen
erslly power enough available 10 furnish
an ADEQUATE amount OF light. with al
loNance for loss by proper shading. The
sSsoem IN use-direct hshting-is the only
one generally practicable at present
with this system care In securing proner
distribution and diffusion OF Hsht Is mar
ucularly important On shipbosro this
matter lie urgent.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

More possibilities of our public school system
are disclosed by Prof. Ward, the community forum
man. Through it, he says, we shall produce tie
American art, the true folk art, folk music, folk
drama, folk dance, the pageantry of this worlds
melting pot, which can never be attained until
we learn to know each other and like each other
as folks9" OF course If we hadn't been sturdy
race we Hever could have managed to get along
all this time without that "pageantry of the
worlds melting pot"
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01
The Need of Aeroplanes.

Perhaps 1t would be advantage to have an
aeroPane station, or even factory, near the
expedition to last great while, but our expert
cnces during the past five and half years would
suggest maintaining aviators as scouts or patrols
along our Southern border in order to observe
movements IN our direction and give the cavalry
detachments time to get where they are needed
before the raiders get away-Philadelphia Record.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

Inactivity and lack Of exercise will never re-
suit in Villas undoing so long the typewriters
and telegraph instruments keep going. Thursday
was rather a dull day for the bandit though he
did capture garrison and put w persons to
death, besides being severely wounded and chokcd
almost to death himself.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

The Pennsylvania railroad has changed the
name of the car in which travellers are fed from,
dining car to restaurant car. giving the reason
that breakfast and luncheon as we'll as dinner is
served therein And come to think of it, the car
never dimes, either; also, how about giving the
walters another name?
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

Increases in the prices OF various supplies for
the government ranging from 10 to 1000 per cent,
astounding the members Of the committee on
proposals. Increases in the price of supplies for
the household have been driving the government
clerks frantic for years, but Uncle Sam has never
thought OF that.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

4 pacihst who interrupted Gen. Leonard
Woods address on preparedness in New Yorb
elected from the hall. The experience should
teach him that the first requirement of the role
of pacihst is quiet respectfulness under all cir
cumstances
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

That bad little man from Egypt" after putting
= idea OF murder into his New York friends
f-7s'pd must-also be given credit for suggesting
~ cunning tricks for getting him out of the
hole, though possibly those were the prisoners
rsrn ideas
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

A fellow accused by his wife OF taking Co
cainc cocktail" before breakfast retorts that he
was so worn out by his wife waking Nm up in
the middle Of the night to talk abou. setting a
divorce that he was obliged to resort to drugs
Still it is not apparent why he took the drugs
himself
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

TO James ". Nye in the Senate Chamber
in Washington it would reach him. The
letter OVERLOOKING with gratitude did
reach him, and ] know well enough that
II fully repaid him for his Kindness
ICopyusht, 1915, b, F J. EDWARDS All right re-
rrsErrnf
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

A New York nan, suing for divorce, complains
that his wife bought nifty pairs OF silk stockings
and thrty-hve pairs of shoes at ono time An
optimist would simply congratulate himself on
having been saved the price of fifteen pairs of
shoes.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

Cupid having laid siege to the White House
early in the administration seems to have laid
Mars low and captured almost the entire garrison
with his honeyed darts
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01
APRIL FOOLS

'Tisn't harmful as a rule
To appear an April Fool,
For the April Fool at best
Is jolly sort of jest
Sort of merry make-believe
Calculated to deceive,
And beneath a foolish guise
Hide a spirit truly wise.
Copyright, 1857
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

The Senate easily mustered full team tc
ergage in the sport of kicking Standard Oil
AZ and but no opponents showed up. The pros
peet of 5o-cert gasoline makes even politica
aFtes kin
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

Representative Sherwood has discovered that
HCcL Rooscvelt's guscharo little devil was
e1lalogued no years ago. Still it will hardly be
15stended that really discovered until Col
osevelt had seen it.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

And while the spring poets sing let them re-
aenber that it compels the hapess bowlegged
to discard the friendly disguise that has
slded him from unsympathetic eyes all winter
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

At least the name of the League to Enforce
Peace, which meets here next month, has mill
tant sound.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

/ house 80 You bet She prevented me
from mortgaginG ours to buy an auton1o-
bile. Boston Transcript.
Jones is in the hospital very myc,
run dow Nervous prostrstion or
automobile? Baltimore American.
Jiggs-I slept like a log last night.
Mrs. Yes. and ] heard you saving
,it-Bunalo Express.
The Peaccmaker-And wot II e did say
you'd got cad like a lump OF wood
,Asn't Wood gone Up in value since the
: wsr?-PassinG Show.
The old-fsshioned idea Was thai
wife should be helpmste." And the
new that husband is a dancing part
ner."-Louisville Courier-Journsl
Why did you call him an enemy or
liberty asked the man about town.
Wait until you see him attack free
lunch and yoU'n know" replied the man
with the white spron.-Bunslo Express.
CsWker-'Tve had another addition to
my family since ] saw you last" Cum
so-"You don't say, Boy or girl?'' Caw-
''Son-in-lsw. "-Puck
Hub with newspsperlI see that tho
French have gained two hundred metres
from the enemy
Wife-Two hundred metres, r suppose
the Germans made another OF their gas
attscks.-Boston Transcript.
Sentry ito McDougsI. returning from
wedding festivitiesl-Pass, friend, slrs
we'll
McDougal-Thsnk We. lsddie. But We
dinna ken the guild wife or We Wouldns'
be so sure.-London Opinion.
1T was while travelling in Switz-
erland that I proposed 10 Miss Smith
on the verge of = mountain gorge"
Horrors, Suppose she had thrown
you over."-Baltimore American.
For the protection OF his cottage. q
suburbante bought a big watch dog Of a
German dog fsncier. About a week later
the house was entered by burglars who
pillaged the place while the big Dog slept
The suburbanite hied himself TO the dog
fancier and told him about IL.
"Vel. vat you need now" said the Ger
man. lis a leedle dog to wake Up der big
dog. Boston Transcript.
I've got to give him credit for on.
thing. he's original anyhow" What
makes you think soT" He doesn't
claim that he forgets money that he
borrows" Mo-" NO. He gives a
new twist TO the old gag. loaned
him five some months ago. and the
other day he stopped me and said:
by the way, I've forgotten whether
or not ever paid you back that hv.
borrowed from you"-Detroit Free
Press.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

So serious was recent invasion of
Uruguay by locusts that an agricul-
tural and live stock census of that
country was postponed for three
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01
A Big Undertaking.

Col. Roosevelt insists that VIC must make
disordery nations behave" The dickens of II IS.
Colonel. that there's such an internal LOT of 'em
aust at present-New York Sun. -
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01
The Heralds Army and Navy Department
Latest and Most Complete News of Service and Personnel Published
In Washington

aviation section OF the signal Corps, are
not as serious as they appeared al the
time OF the accident While Col Reber
was very badly bruised the X-rsy e1-
animation did not show any broken
bones and as far as lie known he suffer
ed no SERIOUS internal injury.
Among the ofiicers who reported At
the War Department yesterday were Col.
Eugene y. Dsdd, retired. Mai VIM. n.
Brookes. retired; Mai Peter Murray
TWenty-fourth Infantry: Capt X Miller.
{. A c; and Lieut.. John c. II. Lee
Coast Engineers
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

The Pcaccmsker-And wot II e did sa
you'd got cad like a lump OF wood
,Asn't Wood gone up in value since the
Wsr?-PassinG Show
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

Jiggs-l slept like d log last might
Mrs. Yes. and ] heard you saving
it-BunaIo Express
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

The old-fsshioned idea MAS thai a
wife should be a helpmste" And the
new that husband is a dancing part
ner."-Louisville Courier-Journal
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01
A Line o Cheer Each Day o the Year
By JOHN KENDRIcK BANGS.

First printing Of original poem written daily
for The Washington Herald
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01
Morning Smiles.

Does your wife know how 10 keen
house You bet, She prevented me
from mort "a EinC ours to buy an aUtomo-
bile. Boston Transcript
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

Jones is in the hospital very much
run dow n Nervous prostrstion ol
automobile? Baltimore American.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

Why did you call him an enemy or
liberty asked the man about town.
Wait until you see him attack free
lunch and yoU'n know" replied the man
with the white apron.-Bufslo Express
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

CaWker-"Tve had another addition TO
my family since ! saw you last" Cum
so-"iou don't say, Boy or girl?" Caw-
ker-'S on-n-lsw. '-PuCk
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

Hub with newspaper see that tho
French have gained two hundred metres
from the enemy.
Wife-TwO hundred metres, 7 suppose
the Germans made another Of their gas
attscks.-Boston Transcript
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

Sentry ito McDoUgsl returning from
wedding festivitiesl-Psss, friend, slIs
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

srses dsy
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

1T was while travelling in SWitI-
erland that I proposed TO Miss Smith
! on the verge of = mountain gorge q"
( Horrors, Suppose she had thrown
you over."-Baltimore American.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01

McDougal-Thsnk We. lsddie. But We
dinna ken the guild wife or We Wouldns'
be so sure.-London opinion.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-01
THE DRIFT OF NORTHERN SENTIMENT.

Published by special arronqepenf o President through
The Mcclure Nesgsbape, Syndicate
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-11-09
Previous Records Broken.

All previous attendance records at
the Northern Normal and Industrial
School have been broken this school
year. Just about a month after the
beginning of the current school year
Clarence Schuette of Hecla, the Tooth
student, enrolled. The same day sew
eral more students registered for
work and the enrolment is now well
above the 700 mark and the short
course students are just enrolling this
week. Last school year it was not
until January 18th, after the second
quarter had opened, that the Tooth
student enrolled. A total of 745 stu
dents enrolled last year. Before this
school year ends the enrolment, it is
thought. will be near the 900 mark.
The big school auditorium is now
filled with regular students every
morning at the chapel period and
seating accommodations for the under
graduates are being sought in the
gallery.