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one OF them knows what It means. Sue
cessful plays in plenty prove construc-
ton Is unnecessary. IL Is not even
necessary for n play to have a begin
ming. The only thing necessary Is for
II TO have an end Some plays should
begin with the end.
While you're at work on your play
keep one eye on the audience. II may
be the only time you'll ever be able to.
II II Ii to be fashionable play. re-
member il can be succeed only Ii you
do nothing TO interfere with fashion
able digostions. II you are not posted
on the various stages Of digestion,
consult n physician. Then you can
write first act that Will not offend
the primary stages OF digestion. a sec
end act that will be just vigorous
enough to overcome the sleeping ten
denotes present In the secondary d.
gestive stage. and third act that VIII
arouse torpid llvers to an appetite for
the aftcr-theater supper.
Never begin your play until, at least
half OF the first act is finished The
really worthwhile half OF your audi
ence doesn't arrive until, this much Of
the play In over. Also finish the play
at least five minutes before the final
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03

curtain. Tho same half that comes
thirty minutes late leaves instantly
when they suspect the final five min
utes are at hand. Therefore, in the
very midst OF that last complication
which by every known rule should go
on for at least another five minutes
have the manly hero suddenly crush
the obdurate heroine to his heuving
chest. smother her In his embrace and
blot out her circumstances with loud
violent kisses. Have the curtain ropes
audience can expect-nnd. behold. YOUR
audience will bc caught seated at .he
end OF the May
Above all eIse--let twenty four hours
elapse after the first performance be-
foro YOU look nj n newspaper and two
months before you pick up a maya
zine.
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BY LAURETTE TAYLOR.

7 APPROACH the task OF educating
the public on the subject OF play
writing with a due sense of the
solemn Importance OF the thing.
Anything SO UNIVERSAL as playwriting
Is not to be treated lightly. Too many
homes. too many hearts are involved.
Follow me, then, I beg or you, In no
lightsome spirit.
The only thing, In the world that IL
easier to do than write q play is not
to write a play-but no one L ever
met seems to have thought of that.
Every chauffeur have ever had.
every cook. every hair dresser-ali
have written plays. In acute stages
of the disease the manuscript 10 car
ried on ones person.
There are two ways OF becoming
playwright. One is to borrow a friends
automobile and be photographed In it
for publication. II you have the right
caption put under the picture-for ex-
ample, Mr.. Madison Mudd. the emf
Nent playwright In his 12o-horsepowcr
Fordacq. finds motoring the greatest
rest cure after arduous iabors on his
newest play"-you become q play
wright automatically!
The other way Is to write a play. II
takes longer: but otherwise is not much
more difficult.
II YOU really must write a play. the
first thing to do Is take an idea. have
heard II denied that this Is necessary.
Perhaps II isn't. II some plays have
seen ARE plays-I admit an idea is
not necessary. However generally
speaking. II Ia as well to have an idea.
Get II wherever you can. One OF the
best sources Of ideas Is conversation.
No matter with whom you talk-it Is
bound to be a playwright. And Il may
be a playwright who has an idea-or
who has taken some ones else idea.
The next important step In to decide
what kind of playwright you wish TO
be. There are two kinds. There Is the
truly great playwright and the truly
solvent playwright. One writes for
deadheads: the other for the money. II
you want to be hailed as THE genius of
the age write n play that nobody will
pay money to see. The theater is the
one place In the world where complete
failure is the surest sign Of greatness.
As for the idea-there are only two In
modern drama. Algernon either marrles
Gertrude or he doesn't. II he does. the
only question for you to decide Is the
number OF acts you will put them
through first. II Algernon does not
marry Gertrude you will acquire a repu-
tation OF being ultra-modern.
If you are only a beginner there is one
dead sure way for you to achieve sue
cess with your first effort-especially II
the play Is not presented. All you have
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03
Only Three
Grains Of
Corn, Mother
A Sequel to: She Failed AS
a Breadwinner Because No
One Had the Dough. A
Sister Story to: Gravity
Dispelled, or How Things
Went Up and Never Came
Down.
AM only a poor. beautiful, Illogical
woman.

Y AM only a poor. beautiful, Illogical
woman.
And haven't one bit OF sense In
my "'ltty bitty fluffy head"
leave the management OF the world
10 the men in the main. and can't
argue-'cause I'm 20 illogical!
Oh! That's so silly!
Bread is going up. at least that's what
John tells me. And he's so maa-afad.
Just like that.
Oh! That's SO silly!
That's my phrase now. oh! That's so
silly"
Amt II tunnln'?
John, he gets mad at me cause
WILL keep In the latest style and wear
a Widows veil and say:
''Oh! That's so silly!'
I named this "only three grains or
corn, mother" because it's all about
the rise In the price of bread.
Amt II tunnin'?
Oh! That's so silly!
John tried to explain all about the rise
in the price of bread and shoes and
gasolene, and everything else. and he
says what call his pet and got mad
when I said-"Oh, That's so silly!'
Cause his pct phrase when he thinks
that he can't make me see even IL he
does explain, and when Re can't explain
TO save hio soul-his phrase is-"Eyery-.
thing MUST 20 up. It's bound to.
THE CONDUCTOR.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03

She Has Even Devised Ways
and Means of Cheating
That Captious Person, the
Late Coming, Early De
parting Playgoer - Miss
Taylor Also Tells How to
Acquire Fame Without. a
Struggle.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03
Chocolate Doughnuts.

Beat TWO eggs until thick and creamy,
then beat In one cup sugar. one table,
spoon. melted butter. one level teaspoon
cinnamon. one tablespoon melted un-
add one cup sweet milk. three cups PAS
try flour .sifted with two teaspoons bak-
ing powder. Roll out one-fourth inch
thick on Toured board, cut and drop
into smoking hot lard to fry until
golden brown. Drain. then roll in pow
dered sugar. The dought should be
mixed as soft as possible to be easily
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these two to the others. kindly
advise us what to do.
TWO ANXIOUS CIUMS.
40. I do not think that jeal-
ousy Is a sign OF true friend
ship. any more than measles
or mumps would be. Jealousy is a
sort OF disease. II IN an outgrowth
of selishness usually. Unless you
and your chum are engaged to be
married to these young men. I do
not think they have the right to
monopolize your time. However, if
you like them better than their
friends. ! think there Is little ques-
ton OF what you should do.
Dear Chaperon: Will you kind
ly inform me through the col
un1ns of The Times the correct
thing for a young man to do on
being introduced to a young lady?
Also whether II Is right for
man to introduce friend to q
girl over the telephone.
wy HEN n young man IL intro
w duced to young lady the
" customary thing to do is
to raise his nat and bow slight
~. acknowledging tho introduce
you do. Miss Smith," or Charmed to
know you. Miss Smith" are sum-
cient I should think a telephone In
PRODUCTION would be unsatisfactory.
Dear Chaperon Recently was
with some girl friends and one
asked II she might carry my hat.
and while she had II she removed
the little bow from the inside
band and told me that / must
find out for myself why she did
It. Please tell me what she did
this for. ANXIOUS.
INDEED. Anxious, II I were a
mind reader L should gladly try
to tell you why the young
Unfortunately for you, am not.
However, l have known girls to
make collections of these little bows
to put In their rooms as souvenirs.
1t Is the scalp collecting idea. l
Imagine.
Dear Chaperon About a year
ago ! met a girl from u country
town who was visiting here She
wrote to me, and We correspond
ed regularly until recently. when
she wrote me a letter l did not
like and did not answer It. She
tended to write any more and my
reason for stopping. Shall I an
sWer this letter? i don't want 10
offend her by telling her that
do not want to write any more.
DON'T KNOW.
TT seems to me that you have got
, to hurt the feelings OF the young
lady In one way or another, so
you might as we'll be frank about II
and write and tell her that you did
not like the contents OF her letter and
why. That would probably be all that
was necessary. In this day and age
girls are not very apt 10 pursue men
with unwanted attentions.
The Chaperon will answer questions OF in
crest to readers OF The Times. They SHOULD
be ADDRESSED 10 =, ns S.,,rss inc,oss o stsSn
Addressed envelope.
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The Chaperon

Dear Chaperon--We are two
girl friends and have been GO
Ing with two boys for the last
two years. They are both very
jealous OF two OF their best
friends. with whom we go around
frequently. and for this reason
they have not acted the SAME
toward us.
Do you think jealousy Is a sign
of true friendship? As we prefer
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03
This viii Remove
Hair or Fuzzy Crowths
(Toilet Tips)

CToilet Tips) ..'
A safe. certain method for Kidding the
skin OF ugly. hairy growths IL as fol-
lows: Mix a paste with some powdered
delatone and water. apply to hairy sur
face about minutes. then rub on wash
the skin and the hairs are gone. This 10
entirely harmless and seldom requires
repeating. but to avoid disappointment
It Is advisable to see that you get gem
uine delatone.-Advt
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03
Potato Nut Fried, Cakes.

Take Ave medium potatoes mashed
hot Add one tablespoon butter, one
teaspoon salt. two cups sugar three
efEs, one cut chopped walnut meats
enough -four to roll out. This makes
about sixty fried cakes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03
RECIPES
Orange Tapioca.

Soak one and half, cups, pearl tapio-
ca over night Tor at least two hours
put on the stove with about two cups
sugar; let cook until transparent. then
take on stove. Squeeze Juice out OF
about four oranges and mix with tapiooa
while hot.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03
Rice Pudding.

Wash cupful OF rice. boil till soft, then
drain and wash; add three eggs, half
cup OF butter. half cup of sugar. half
third cup milk. Beat well, your into
well buttered pan and bake slowly In
moderately heated oven.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03

J. P.-what causes a cramp?
There are many different kinds Of
cramps. However, II IL usually due to
to overfatigue or strain of some muscle.
II may appear in any part of the body.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03
Higher Criticism.

A fashion note says that the new
hats have next to nothing on them.
At least they have nothing on q lot
OF the women who will wear them
philadelphia Inquirer. -.... .. .
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03
Seen In the
Markets

n IG Bermuda onions are in the
n market again. suggesting all
sorts of palatable dishes 10
the lover of this mammoth veg
stable. They cost 8 cents each.
Very. very small baskets of lima
beans, containing all of half a pint.
show how meager the supply has
become and how feeble the at
tempt to meet the demand. The
price is 10 cents.
Lemons have dropped to 20
cents a dozen, even 10 cents at
some of the stands.
wizened little sweet potatoes
are 10 cents q quarter OF a peck.
Possibly they should be eaten to
be appreciated.
cantaioupes of small size are
cents each.
Elephants are three for 10 cents,
This is about the cheapest price
at which they will sell.
Tokay grapes are moderately
priced at 10 cents a pound.
Though oranges are still small
and OF indifferent flavor, the
prices remain high, ranging from
u to so cents.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03

Laurette Taylor Gives Some Pertinent
Advice to Those Who Would Write Plays

Out of Her Wisdom AS the
Wifeof aSuccessful Dram
atist She Has, Com
pounded a Series of Direc-
tons that Everyone
Should Follow If He Tor
Perchance She) Desires to
Succeed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03
What They Say
About Us

At the hint. the women took alarm,
even the most advanced" of them, for
II is only too apparent that, disarmed of
its femininity, femtnism itself has no
place or part I'm the scheme OF things
The result was inevitable. A rapturous
revival of the old. old cult of
women and beauty Of women" was de-
manded by the circumstances and the
times, and naturally the women have
taken up the cause with a dithyrambic
glee that leaves little or nothing TO the
magination,
We are inclined TO resent Mr.. Arnold
Benefits apologetic interference almost
as an impertinence, The cult OF woman
and woman's beauty Is its own iustifica-
ton. although since II Ii willed by women
II needs none. The only privilege of
mere man in the premises Is to play the
part OF Paris. not that OF Peeping Tom
70 give frank alteration and offer in
eense In gratitude for being allowed to
live and keep his eyesight,-New York
Sun.
A contemporary announces that
grandmother has come back" But the
office boy will put her away again as
soon asaa circus comes to town.-Sa-
vannah News.
Many a chap who has trouble in
keeping his hands off his fiancee's hair
later finds 1t even more troublesome to
Keep his wires hands out OF his oWn.-
Macon News.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03
Answers to Health
Questions

J. J. w.-whst can be done for dysen-
terry?
Be careful OF the diet and avoid laxa-
tive foods. Take a Bulgarian tablet
after each meal. Try n diet OF milk.
tea. toast and water. Take six char
coal tablets after meals.
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no complete the picture draw n
straight line from the dot marked 4
through the alphabet.)
Copyright. 1915, by John n. wheeler. Inc. f,
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face. ] notice bread should be avoid.
ed. What can be substituted for this7
All green vegetables. fresh fruits,
stewed fruits, lean meats, cereals, milk
and plenty Of distilled water may be
taken. Bran bread or gluten bread
may be eaten.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03

II. f. Tell me what foods a person
should eat who has an eruption on his
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03

r. HI am troubled with pink spots
all over my legs and they become raw.
! am using carbolated witch hazel on
the parts.
You might just as we'll use 30 much
water. Dust the places with boric acid
and alternate with the following:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03

Elephants are three for 10 cents.
This is about the cheapest price
at which they will sell,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03

Cantaloupes of small size are s
cents each
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03

Tokay grapes are moderately
priced at 10 cents a pound.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-10-03

Lemons have dropped to 20
cents a dozen, even Is cents at
some OF the stands.
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The Chaperon will answer questions OF In
terest TO readers OF The Times. They should
he ADDRESSED 10 her, care OF this office n
a personal reply is desired. inciose a stamped,
dressed envelope.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-21
JUDGE FREDERICK FOSTER,
OF MADISON, IS DEAD
Widely Known Georgian Pass
eS Away at Hospital in
Baltimore :

Judge Frederick Colbert Foster, twice
elected as representative to the legisla
ture from Morgan county, former mayor
Of Madison former superior court judge
of the Ocmulgee circuit, Confederate
veteran, and identified with Georgia's
progress in many other ways is dead.
His death occurred Thursday morn
ing at the Johns Hopkins hospital in
Baltimore where he had been confined
some time. In feeble health for months
Judge Fosters death was not unex-
pected. His funeral will be held at his
home in Madison, where. since boyhood
he had lived, at time to be announc-
ed later.
If Judge Foster had lived until next
October Is, he would have BEEN 81
years old. But up to his last illness,
his age in no way, apparently, inter
fered with his activity or his mentality.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-21
JUDGE SPEER SEEKS TO
END SMITH HEARING
Unnecessarily PrOtraCted, "
Says JuriSt, but Introduction
of Evidence Continues
Especial Dispatch to The Journal)

Especial Dispatch to The Journal)
MACON, Ga, April 2O.-Judge Emory
Speer endeavored to bring the Smith
case to an end today by asking counsel
to cease the introduction of testimony
but counsel refused and the case pro-
ceeded. Judge Speer when court opened
this morning made the following state
ment:
THE court takes the liberty to init
mate to council the view that this hear
ing is unnecessarily protracted. True,
the large amount involved, the character
of the charges and the character Of
some of the parties makes it an inquiry
of great interest 1t should be reflected
however, that this is not a final hear
ing. The court sitting in chancery has
no power at this time to determine
which of the contending parties is en-
titled to the property right of in
heritance. That in case the court has
jurisdiction and thinks proper to pro-
coed can be adjudicated only after the
evidence is taken on oath, the right OF
examination and cross-examination of
THE inquiry here is: first, has the
court the Jurisdiction of the parties,
also jurisdiction in equity, also if it pos
sess such jurisdiction, is IT so fettered
by the doctrine of comfy between the
United States and the state courts as
will forbid affirmative action. If these
questions are determined afflrmativeIy
then the still additional inquiry at this
time is, ought the court by its own Of.
ficers to take care that the estate is
not subject to dissipation or waste. If
We reach that point, then the pertinent
and material inquiry will be, what has
been the conduct of the administrators?
Is their appointment void, and have they
endangered or does the proof indicate
they will likely endanger the integrity
of the estate.
CAS- to the equity of each of the con-
tending parties it seems to me as at
present advised the only essential ques-
tion on this preliminary hearing and for
the purpose just stated. Are one Or
each presenting sucn a bona fide claim
of right to the property as will entitle
one or all in case we go forward to ask
for a final decree.
"Since there has been much evidence
for each claimant is ii then essential
TO burden the record with additional
cumulative evidence? This it seems
to me should be answered in the
negative and that except as 10 matters
of genuine materiality which have not
been touched upon or pertinent evidence
in rebuttal on facts the case should
be promptly closed"
The Zadoc Smith counsels refused to
comply with the request of the judge
CIR the ground that they had not COM
pleteG their testimony in rebuttal and
they proceeded to introduce affida Wits
to show that James NJ Smith was a
son of Zadoc Smith.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-21
Pirate Arr9Ues
At Federal Pen,
Feels No RemOrse

Ernest Schiller, who, single-handed,
recently held up the captain ana crew
of ffty-six men of the British freighter
Matoppo. on the high seas, is Thursday
safely under the surveillance OF guards
at the federal penitentiary, where he
was brought from Wilmington, Del, late
Wednesday by United States deputy
marshals.
Schiller, who insists on keeping his
rnoustache of the kaiser-like trim in per-
feet curl, feels no remorse for his act.
a lifelong term on a charge of piracy
in the United States penitentiary with
something like 1900 other men who
have been placed there for arious Of
lenses against the United States laws,
does not make Schiller shudder.
on the other hand, according to the pi-
rates own statement, he feels that 1t
was his duty to hold up the freighter
AIatoppo to secure revenge against Eng
land from which country, he alleges,
he was exiled after being subjected to
ALLEGED cruelty. Schiller says he was
suspected of being an associate or a
man who was sentenced and shot for
signalling Zeppelins with calcium lights.
on arriving in Atlanta, Schiller ex-
pressed pleasure that he was being SEN
fenced in the United States instead of
being sent to England.
Schiller endeavored 10 explain that IL
he had wanted to. he could have forced
the captain and each member OF the
crew of the ship into the life boats, but
that if he had it would have meant GER
tain death to all
+ 81 didn't want to commit murder" he
said. Had done this the ship would
have been in my possession now. The
sea was so stormy that they couldn't
possibly have been able to have stayed
in the life boats"
Schiller is about twenty-six years old.
He appeared somewhat excited when a
large crowd of the curious greeted his
arrival at the Terminal.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-21
WOMAN's COUNCIL ADOPTS
SOCIAL SERVICE PROGRAM
DeaconeSSeS Appointed Scar
rift School Provided for
at Closing Session

The sixth annual session of the
woman's Missionary council Of the
Methodist Episcopal church, South.
which has been meeting for a week i'm
the First Methodist church OF Atlanta,
came to a close Thursday with the
adoption OF a social service program,
the reading OF appointments OF deacon
esses for another year, and the adoption
OF a plan for assuming financial sup
port OF the Scarritt Bible and Training
school
The social service program, prepared
by the social service committee of the
council. consists Of eleven items, as
follows:
First-Uniform vital statistics laws.
standardization Of child labor by
enactment of uniform laws.
Third-Active cooperation with all
movements to abolish illiteracy, IN
GLIDING compulsory education laws and
longer terms of public schools.
Fourth = Establishment Of Juvenile
courts and reformatories.
Fifth-Censorship of motion pictures.
Sixth-Enforcement of federal anti
narcotic laws. and enactment and en-
norcement Of laws against intoxicants
and cigarettes.
Establishment of state in
situations for feeble-minded persons and
enactment OF laws compelling commit
ment thereto.
Observation-Disclosures Of recognized
and segregated vice, and enactment OF
laws requiring reports to boards or
health OF venereal diseases.
Ninth-Prison reform and abolish
nent Of convict lease and convict labor.
Tenth9Cultivation of racial sym
pathy.
Eleventh-Close cooperation with
Southern Sociological congress ana
other agencies to secure these results.
The council adopted the report OF a
speciaI committee providing a plan Tor
assuming financial support, by the
council. of the Scarritt Bible and Train
ing school Some months ago the
school lost it's entire productive en-
dowment and practically all its scholar
ships through embezZlement by the
treasurer. Under the plan adopted, the
council will pay the operating expenses
of the school and will establish a loan
fund for scholarships.
The conservation Wednesday night or
new deaconesses and new foreign mis-
sionaries. who have completed their
training and complied with all the re-
ouirements for admission to the work.
was the climax of the council and was
a most beautiful and impressive serv-
ice which was witnessed by an audi
ence that filled the church