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The Washington herald., 1919-08-08
Hundreds of Pounds of
Food Condemned Here

District food inspectors, during the
past week, condemned and caused
the denaturization Of hundreds OF
pounds of food. judged by them to be
unfit for human consumption
They visited one bakery. 43S COM
mission houses. twenty-four cunfec-
tioneries. thirteen dairies, nine deli
catesSens. twenty-eight drug stores,
forty-fve fish houses. twenty-eight
food factories. fifty-one grocery
stores. 633 huckster carts. 20 lunch
rooms. and forty markets: 900 milk
cans also were examined.
The Washington herald., 1919-08-08
New Persian Minister
Meets President Today

The new Persian minister. Mira
Abdul Ali khan-Sadis sh-es-Sultaneh
will be formally presented to Presi-
dent Wilson at the White House at
noon today. The representative OF
the Shah will be accompanied by
Assistant Secretary Of State Breckin-
ridge Long, who will make the off,
cial presentation
Following the presentation the party
will be driven to the Persian En-
bassv. 1873 Sixteenth street north
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sues for $50. 900 Injuries.

Edward Cole filed suit yesterday
in the District Supreme Court for
$4,000 damages against Thomas ].
Leonard for alleged personal in
juries.
Cole alleges that Leonard ran into
him with an automobile ou WASH
inston road. in Maryland. on De-
cember 2 last Attorneys Straus,
Wattenscheidt and Johnston appear
for the plaintiff.
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lceman Forfeits $40
In Short Weight Case

Raymond Griffin. driver OF an ice
wagon, forfeited $40 collateral in Police
Court yesterday, on two separate
charges Of giving short weight in ice
and using nontested scales. Col
lateral was set at so for each offense
Griffin was detected by Inspector
George Wright, OF the Weights and
Measures Ofice. The driver served
customers in lexington and vicinity.
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Catch Alleged Forger.

Adolph Friedman. alias j. Brenucr,
an Austrian with plenty OF baggage.
was arrested last night and held to
await the arrival of detectives from
Cleveland, Ohio. where Chief of Police
Frank Smith states he is wanted tor
forging check for 500 Detective
Barbee arrested the man at the Tn
ion Station.
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Bad Check "woman" Busy.

Two market men yesterday reported
that they had been the victims of
bad check operator. George P. Lang
ley and Louis Sherwood. both of the
Riggs Market, cashed a check each
for s. for an unknown woman, both
checks being returned and marked
NO funds" The police have a de-
Scription of the woman.
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Steal Liberty Bonds.

Thieves removed window screen
in the home of William McAlker. 7IJ
G street southeast. yesterday and
stole three $50 liberty bonds first
issue. and two $50 bonds OF the third
issue and 50 in money
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terrible cramps
every month so
l was unable to
do anything. l
had tried every
doctor in West
P a in S, also
every remedy I
could think of,
without relief.
One day when l
W a S suffering
greatly a friend
was at my house
and a,sl Uu-
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Purse Snatcher Gets S34G.

Albert Stephens, of Indian Head,
Md. stopping at 81 Pennsylvania ave
nue. northwest. reported that while
near Third and & streets southwest
yesterday. his pocketbook containing
$Si6 was snatched by a dark-skinned
colored man. Stephens gave the po-
licec Il description of the alleged rob-
ber
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Police News
Bitten by Own Dog.

Harry Kendig, IS years of age, of
PA Anacostia road, was bitten on the
thumb by his own dog yesterday
morning at his home. The dog was
afterward shot.
The Washington herald., 1919-08-08
Seeks Light on Colombia.

A resolution asking the Secretary
OF State for information concerning
recent alleged sction of. Colombia af-
fecting American oil interests there
was introduced today by Senator
Phelan, California.
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Steal Automobile Tire.

f. c. Graham, of the National Elec-
trio Supply Company, 1880 New York
avenue northwest, reported stolen
from his automobile yesterday an au-
tomobile tire valued at S7J.
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StenI Doctors sutomobIIe.

DR.. Willis w. Jones. OF Deanwood
u. G. reported the theft of an au-
tomobile, tube and Il rim. which he
claimed was stolen from his car at
FOrty-eighth street and Sheriff road
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Navy Yard News

The shops OF the new building at
the foot of Second street are pro-
viding precaution for employees against
high-tension wiring by painting con-
duits or piping red.
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Thieves Rob Hospital.

Thieves looted two lockers yester-
day at the Episcopal Eye. Ear and
Throat Hospital.
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Dick Sienstack. OF the breech mech
anism shop. has purchased an auto
mobile.
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Baby Coming To
Your Home ?

The Wonderful Event that Will
Hiring You Much GIadnesS.
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WOMAN SAVED
MUCH SUFFERING
By Taking Friends Advice
and Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.

West Plains, MOT was all run
down in health, had indigestion and
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is visiting relatives at Manchester,
n. H.
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Dick Sienstack. OF the breech mech
anism shop. has purchased an auto
mobile.
Miss Elva Ledoux. Of the tool shop.
is visiting relatives at Manchester,
n. H.
Paul Cox and Pat" Bailey. of the
torpedo tube shop. Joined Columbia
Lodge. No. If, International Associa-
tion of Machinists. Wednesday night.
Frank Smith. of the broadside mount
shop, has planned a weekend trip
10 his home. near Great Falls. for
the following men OF the same shop:
Harry HaEan Tom Bresnahaa. h.
Dutch Wiltberger. John Nalley and
Dan Henry. The party will leave
town for Smiths home tomorrow af-
terroon.
Earl Schwenk. Of the tool shop,
has moved back to his home in Ian
ham, Md.
Bernard Adler of the bTeech mech
anism shop. has returned to work.
after spending a weeks leave at At
lantic City.
At the recent meeting of the Atlas
Relief Association. the following
changes in the bylaws were made.
to take effect dating back to July
!. 1919: The initiation fee will, be
Sc. instead Of s.; dues will be 81 per
month. instead of 81; benefits will
be 81 per day. instead of s..
r. L. Baxter, H. Moss. ]. Brown,
L. Fra zier. C. Dierkolp. r. NJ. Car
nahan and J c. HUM, Of the mis-
cellaneous shop, spend Wednesday
evening at Annapolis on a fishing trip.
QuRrteTman Il. De Naney, of the
tool shop. has returned to work after
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vacation of two weeks at Atlantic
City.
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Bailey Barco, OF the -broadside mount
shop. received minor injuries to mis-
eve Wednesday when struck by a hot
chip.
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Paul Cox and Pat" Bailey. of the
torpedo tube shop, Joined Columbia
Lodge, No. If. International Associa-
tion of Machinists. Wednesday night.
The Washington herald., 1919-08-08

Bernard Adler. of the breech mech,
anism shop. has returned to work
after spending a weeks leave at At
lantic City.
The Washington herald., 1919-08-08

Earl Schwenk, Of the tool shop,
has moved back to his home IN Ian
ham, Md.
The Washington herald., 1919-08-08

George Baumgarden. years old,
son Of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Baum
garden, of BraddoCk. was struck by
4 southbOund train over the Washing
tOn-Firginia Railway last Tuesday
near Braddock, suffering a fractured
skull. He is being treated at the Alex
andria Hospital by Dr. 5. B. Moore.
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Quarierman Il De Vaney. Of the
tool shop has returned TO work after
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A PETTICoAT PARoDIsT.

T rs not every theatrical performer
who can claim the distinction OF
- having the backing OF the Church
in his designs upon the stage as the
chief means OF cultivating his soul.
Such a claim can be made by James
Watts. who is at present cavorting
through the Greenwich Village Fol-
lies" and amusing audiences with his
travesties OF female operate stars and
agonized Russian ballet dancers.
When James was a young lad in
Australia. where his father was an
architect, II was intended that the boy,
the youngest Of a family of four boys
and four girls. should follow his faith
er's profession and draw large houses
and large checks. But young Watts
from early childhood had nursed ambi-
lions of drawing another kind OF
houses behind the footlights-and pos
sibly even larger checks.
So after leaving the grammar school
at Melbourne fifteen years ago he
asked the consent OF his mother-his
father being dead--to carry the name
OF Watts as close to that Of Henry
Irving as he wished. His mother OPP
posed his ambition and the other mem
bers OF his family. In the time honored
way OF families. told him In the friend
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ting up more or less informal enter
London, and at these Watts gave carl
catures Of feminine performers, con-
sidering them, as he says, "a lot Of
rot" but being perfectly willing to
oblige. He happened to strike the no.
tice one night Of DR.. Palmer. Nine.
Nevada's husband, and the latter said
to him afterward in establishment:
For goodness sake, why do you
want to study seriously? Why don't
you go on the stage like that and
make some real money!"
Accordingly his antics were engaged
for the London Coliseum revue, Hello,
Ragtime," IN which Ethel Levey was
appearing, and Watts, who acknowl-
edges that his stage career in Austria
liza hadn't laid him liable to the jeal-
ousy of even a stock company SOU
brette, was almost stunned at the
warm reception that the public ac-
corded his first appearance as a decol-
lete young thing who couldn't con-
troll her legs.
He decided the act must be good.
He continued in it at London theatres,
and later in the same year went to
Berlin, where he gambolled at the
Winter Garden and had the doubtful
distinction Of appearing before the
Crown Prince when 1t was the gen.
eral assumption that Frederick Willie
was somebody. He says the white
Rabbit" frequented the theatre and
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be produced in New York in the fall
by William Harris, Jr:
I'm using for the purposes of drama
a personality of so wide and recent a
fame as that of Abraham Lincoln.
feel that one or two observations arc
due to my readers and critics.
First, my purpose is that not Of
the historian but of the dramatist. The
historical presentation of my hero has
been faithfully made in many vol
umes; notably in England, by Lord
Charnwood in a monograph that gives
mastery analysis of Lncoln's ca
reer and character, and is, It seems to
me, a model of what the historians
work should be. To this book I am
gratefully indebted for the material of
my play. But while / have, I hope,
done nothing to traverse history, L
have freely telescoped it's events and
imposed invention upon its movements
In such ways as 1 need to shape the
dramatic significance of my subject
secondly, my purpose is, again,
that of the dramatist, not that of the
political philosopher. The issue OF Sc
cession was a very intricate one, upon
which high and generous opinions NAV
be in conflict but that / may happen
to have or lack sympathy with Lin
coins policy and judgment in this
matter is nothing. My concern is with
tho profoundly dramatic interest of his
character and with the inspiring ex-
ample of a man who handled war
nobly and with imagination.
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THE STADIUM CONCERTS.

The fifth week of the symphony
orchestra concerts at the Lewiston
Stadium, 13Sth street and Amster-
dam avenue, beginning Monday night,
will include. selections new to the pro-
programmes arranged there by Arnold
Volpe, the conductor, with repetitions
from earlier weeks. Two guest con-
ductors are announced to conduct their
own compositions. Elliot Schenck on
Wednesday and James p. Dunn on
Friday night.
Monday, symphony night, Marie
Louise Wagner will be heard in the
soprano aria from Massenet's "Le
Cid" the orchestral selections includ-
ing the overture to Beethoven's Egg
mont" Goldmark's Rustic Wedding"
Glazounow's Suite, "L'Automne," De-
bussy's Nocturne ("Fetes'D and
"L'Apres Midi dun Faune."
Tuesday night Ruth Miller. soprano,
and Craig Campbell, tenor, will sing
the polonaise from ',Mignon" and the
tenor aria from Romeo and Juliet"
respectively. operate selections will
prevail for the orchestra as usual on
Tuesdays, including the overture to
Strauss 1.-THE Bat" the aida" fan
TASTE. Carmen" suite No. 2. two
preludes from 'Lohengrin" and
Delibes's ballet suite sylvia"
Wednesday nights miscellaneous
programme will introduce Schencks
Indian overture 1.-THE Arrow Maker"
conducted by himself, with Grieg,
Tschaikowsky, Liszt. Jarneheldt.
Dvorak and others represented, and
the Stadium Quartet, including Idelle
Patterson, Ernest Davis, Lillian Eu-
bank and Earle Tuckerman, as the
vocalists.
The second symphony night, Thurs
day. brings Victoria Boshko to the
fiano, with Grieg's Concerto in A minor.
and Ilya Schkolnik, violinist, in Saint
Saens's lie Deluge." with the Bach
Albert prelude. choral and fugue,
Haydn's Symphony No. 10, @. major.
and "L'Apprenti Sorcier," by Dukas.
Friday night Elias Breeslkin, violin
list. in the first movement of Tschai-
kowsky's Concerto, and U. s. Kerr,
ba!sso. in "Calumnia," from the"Barber
of Seville" and Composer Dunn will
conduct the first performance Of his
new intermezzo. Other orchestra
numbers are selected from the operas
of Weber, Verdi, Gounod, Wagner and
Rimslxy Korsakov.
Margaret Matzenauer is the soloist
for Saturday nights popular pro-
gramme, singing arias from lie
Prophetic" and Samson and Delilah."
The following Sunday night is to have
a miscellaneous programme, with
Nevada Van Der Veer and Reed Miller
as soloists.
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Jess willard felt after that fatal third
round in Toledo" said Lew Fields in
his dressing room at the Shubert Thea
tire the other night, "but II he felt
any worse than do right now.
Heaven help him." and the star OF
"a Lonely Romeo" rubbed his shout
ders and gave a loud "Oughl'
Mr., Fields had just come of tho
stage after the second act of the
musical play, and had turned half a
dozen handsprings, to the great delight
of the audience, which seldom sees
such things outside of motion pictures.
1t is getting on his nerves--he ad-
mits II.
81 sort of wished this thing on my
SELF" he said, land have apparently
created a Frankenstein that I cam
not escape. You see, on the opening
night of "A Lonely Romeo the second
act ends with a big dancing number,
in which participate such whirlwind
dancers as Jessics Brown, Willie Solar
and the st. Glars. The audience was
enthusiastic, and IL seemed to me to
be necessary to have the star do some
thing besides stand there and bow and
grin like Cheshire cat. By inspira-
tion--or Ill luck, whatever you may
want to call it-and carried away by
the enthusiasm OF the moment,
leaped from my position at the left of
the stage and turned a couple of
handsprings. I had not done any such
thing since I was a boy on the East
Side. The audience roared. I presume
at seeing a man of my age do such
boyish thing, so gave another series
of leaps, and, 10 and behold II was a
riot. Now, darn 1t all, I have to do
| 1t every performance. Once tried
to cut II out, and some man down front
hollered out: Come on, Lew: do that
handspring, and no stalling!' so we
had to raise the curtain, ana I had
to go through 1t. But my shoulders
ache all the time. don't believe in
| liniments, but do have a good mas
| sage after each performance. wish
/ could cut it out, for 1 am a trifie
over so and a grandfather but the
dear public apparently will not stand
for any renigging, so 1t looks as II I
would have to turn handsprings for
the balance of the run of the show"
| This Is the preface written by John
Drinkwater to his play abraham Lin
coin" for the English edition published
by Sidgwick & jackson. 1t will also
appear in the American edition to be
published by Houghton Miffiin Com
pany. The play, which has been run
ming in London since February, will
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that the present writer hesitated to
put into print only a few months ago
but now unhesitatingly uses, so rapidly
may one become demoralized, sings a
song called "The Beale Street Blues"
composed by w. c. Handy. Beale
street was in New Orleans. 1t has
disappeared so far as It stood for
the spirit of this song. The COM
munity is not considered any the
worse for the loss of the residents of
this thoroughfare. Indeed their dis
appearance was regarded as an ad-
vance in the efforts OF social re-
formers. The "blues" which had their
origin in this street in its palmy days,
however, are regarded as the most
typical Of this class of song.
Listeners have sometimes thought
that a blue must be founded on a
negro spiritual. 1t has the musical
character as well as the reflective ma
| ture Of some OF the negro hymns.
| Walter Kingsley says the missionaries
| did sing these hymns to the inhabi-
| tants of Beale and similar streets in
the South in their efforts to change the
| ways of life that maintained there.
Perhaps this was not accomplished so
often as the good men and women
hoped. But the hymn made its effect.
1t remained in the knowledge of the
| negroes who had heard 1t shot at their
| ears in the attempt to make them
I better.
So the 'blue' Is the song Of their
aspirations and desires, good or evil,
and It assumes the form and some-
times the tune of the hymn, since that
appears to Beale street the only spir-
| itual form OF expression that ever
came into it's knowledge. The blue
may be about an altogether unmen-
tionable aspiration. 1t may on the
other hand be expressive of a tenn
porary piety. Sometimes the words
| Of the missionaries and the desires Of
the singer become most anonymously
blended, as in Miss Gray's song As
the 'blue," which must inevitably be
| synoopated in tune and more or less
| affected by the rubato Of jazz, comes
to the public now, II mingies the voice
] Of the dweller In the depths of Beale
street with the hoarse calls of the
missionary to higher things. This is
Miss Gray's song. which Is published
| by the Pace & Handy Music Company:
have seen all the lights OF gay Broad
way.
On Market Street down to Frisco Bay.
I have strolled the Prado. have gam
bled on the Borse,
I have seen pretty browns, beautiful
| gowns. tailormade and hand me
downs.
I have seen honest men. pickpockets
skilled,
The place never closes until somebody
gets killed.
ia rather be here than any place I
know,
For its going to take q sergeant to
make me 30.
have been in jail with my face TO the
wall,
And d great big tall man is the cause
Of II all
The graveyard Is q nasty old place,
They lay you on your back and throw
dirt in your face.
| (Get over, dirty
Ashes TO ashes and dust to dust.
II my singing don't get you. my shimmy
must
(step on II, boys).
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his mother his first pay check, Just
to show her that this big money con-
tradicted her dire warning that stage
fame was cheap-and so were sala-
ries. Enrolling in the ]. c. William
son organization, he played throughout
Australia for three years. filling 1uv-
emile leads and other tenor roles in
'"The Runaway Girl" "Florodora,"
1.-THE Belle OF New York" and other
celebrated New York musical comedies
that are still fighting for survival in
exile.
His work in these operettas set his
ambition veering in another direction
he would liven up grand operas with
his voice. In fact, though no one
would guess 1t from his screams in
the Faust" burlesque scene in the
Greenwich Village Follies,' Watts
still cherishes the hope OF giving them
a surprise" in grand opera by showing
them that silken corsage may cover
a true manly voice.
To further his aim he studied oper-
attic roles in the musical conservatory
In Melbourne now conducted under the
auspices OF Nine. Melba, gave further
strict attention to his vocal chords In
Italy, and in 1913 arrived in London
to food the English market with his
notes. He took up courses in the
ballet school and in the operate train
ing establishment Of Emma Nevada,
the American diva, and though 1t
seems a far cry now, his attendance
at Mime. Nevada's school led straight
to his career of fiouncing about in
petticoats.
For Nine. Nevada was fond OF get
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years ago, but instead of appearing
in one of their productions he en-
tered vaudeville and romped around
the Keith and Orpheum circuits until
Murray Anderson, producer of the
Greenwich Village Follies" became
fascinated by his wobble. Mr.. Ander-
son decided that here was a man
simply crying for a part in one Of
his productions, and when Watts
strayed into New York recently on the
trail of a nice, cool place to spend a
summers vacation the manager over
came his objections to working with
humidity also on the Job and con-
WINGED the actor that the Greenwich
Village Theatre was the ideal spot
for his vacation.
mo, I have no intention of ever
playing serious roles or even straight
comedy parts" said Watts the other
night in the eagles eyrie on top of the
theatre that he uses for a dressing
room. whenever I see anything it's
the wildly hilarious side of It that
strikes me, and l couldn't get over 1t
sufficiently to play any other kind of
performance.
I'm burlesquing the Russian
dancers" he explained. I'm not really
caricaturing Anna Pavlowa and
Michail Mordkin, for they're fine
artists, and don't really see anything
funny in them myself. But I bur-
lesque the horde of freaks who fol-
lowed them in the Russian dance
craze and who thought they were
Pavlowa and Mordkin, their only mis-
take being that they couldn't see
themselves"
For all his Irish-Australian descent
and his rather marked English accent
Watts confesses that he likes America
and believes he'll stay here, except
perhaps for an occasional call on a
couple of brothers In Australia in
particular and the Antipodes in gen.
eral.
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THE WEEKS OFFERINGS.

Theatre: A. H. Woods will present
play Ralph E. Dya, entitled "A Voice
which takes prologue three and in which be
called "cinemaphonic" piece
Woods settled that The includes Olive Wyndham
William B. Mack William Boyd Florine Arnold Suther-
Monroe Arleen Hacket Richard
Wilson other masked
Shubert Theatre: Lee j. Shubet will produce musical
comedy "oh What Girl" which ha: had It. changed
without from "Oh Uncle" The lyrics
of Edgar Smith and Edward Clark and the music
suited joint between Charles Jules
Presburg. The show rural deacon devil
his The comprises Fay Harry
Kelly, Ash Ignacio Manett, Curtis,
Hazel Krke, Vera Grosset Nancy Fair, Elizabeth
MaBee Renee Adoree Lewis Sloden carefree
chorus.
Casino Fields brings "a
for outing from tho Shubert Theatre.
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spread the we'll known shipper over
his countenance, and the management
congratulated Watts that he was max
ing hit with His Highness-the hit
not being listed now among Watts's
assets.
Berlin audiences is found to be ap-
parently the last things created in the
way of good taste. Even at the Win
ter Garden, their high class house,
the patrons were open to suggestion,
so to speak. The manager, he says.
urged him to be as broad as he could
and the grateful public would reward
him. He escaped from Berlin and this
sort of kultur and went to Brussels,
escaping from there in the middle OF
July, 1914. just before this kultur
seemed likely to overwhelm him again.
After playing in England the long
arm OF the Shuberts grasped him.
They brought him to this country two
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lest spirit that he was crazy to go on
the stage. and they were surprised at a
Watts for developing such a streak OF
insanity. But as James persisted his
mother sent to the Episcopalian min
lister Of their parish for advice on how
to restore her sons reason.
LET him CO." was the reverend gen.
tleman's counsel. almost depriving Mrs,
Watts for the moment of her reason
He'll soon come back II he doesn't
like 1t, And IL he is fitted for 1t, he'll
b. Just as we'll off,"
Consequently by direct clerical in
junction we have to-day James Watts
an extravaganza in skirts. He took
the theatre under his wing and sent