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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24

A Delightful Serial Replete with Excit-
inc Incidents and Featuring
Picturesque Heroine.

as always, and for once, alone"
Wont you please think over
what I've said? That is. If /
really turn out to be a success"
81 shall think rather of how
you looked, child, the first day I
saw you. And so-farewellr'
She left him, trying not to
cry, and saying to herself: "The
mean, nasty, cheap. underhand
old thing
"A Different View.
But that night when they
called her before the curtain ten
times after the "Give-me-t1e-
childl' scene with the subsequent
groyeling and sobbing she thought
more kindly of him.
Nellie Michelin had worked
hard for success. She had had
ambition to begin with, much
beauty Of luxurious and statu-
esque kind, and a rich and
thrilling voice.
Inch by inch Mckay Hedden
had taught her how to handle
her beauty, note by note how to
use her voice. He had taught
her all the sudden yelps. snarls,
groans, grovellings and sobbings
which an American audience de-
mands Of its great emotional ac-
tors. And he had taught her to
secure terrific effects by chang
ing suddenly to the tones Of or
binary conversation.
When she had gone Mckay
Hedden went and stood in front
of the cheval glass and talked
to himself.
my boy" he said, that gold
mine win take care Of itself, but
are we never to live up to our
ideals? Are we never to give
the damned public anything
worth having? Act? She can't
act any more than fryingpan."
Mckay Hedden went on
musing: The play? Junk! Junk!
But the dear public viii pay
hand over first-hand over fist.
And / shall know that have
cheated them again-taken their
candy from them. Have no
conscience? CULVER with it! Oh
for a Terry or Duse in the
rough-sweet sixteen, with the
right face and the right tempera-
ment! If I can make silk purse
out of a sow's ear-what couldn't
I make out Of a silk purse?"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24

Then he went to the big table
and spoke into the telephone.
''Mr. Crawley there?
1 VIII see him.
He opened a drawer in the desk
and took out a manuscript in .
blue cover much crumpled and
soiled.
Mr.. crawley. a white-faeed
youth. furtive-eyed, one shoulder
higher than the other. slipped
noiselessly into the room.
mr.. CrawIey."
Yes. sir"
Il am ready to dictate"
Yes. sir"
To Paul Henley, Esq,
IS Pell St.. New York, n. 7.
Dear Mr.. Henley
I have read your play entitled
The Greater Love-" regret
to inform you that it does not
seem to me suitable for the stage.
II / may speak bluntly, It seems
to me IAN Wrong" should
advise you to destroy It. to for
get it. and to try something. If
you must write for the stage. in
a lighter vein. Believe me, this
is meant in all kindness.
I am sincerely yours
Bring me that to sign. And
here, take this manuscript. and
send it to Mr.. Henley with the
letter."
Eyes. sir"
"But before you send It. Mr..
Crawley-copy it"
A strange CLEAN came into Mr..
Crawley's furtive eyes.
Eyes, sir"
"And when you have copied it, :.
compare your copy with the
original. word for word, comma
for comma"
yes, sir-but thought you
e.,;,3 - v.1,s ,y.,-.1 haS4 -
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Thus do we temper justice with
mercy. And now run along, little
girl-There is much to do yet"
She bit her lower lip hard.
I'm being pressed for money
right and left"
He rose from his deep chair
and extended his right arm to
it's full length. He looked far
away over her head with a
prophetic expression in his eyes.
Tomorrow he said, you will
wake up famous. Those who are
now pressing you for money will
Verify, I have labored, but it was
not in vain"
when shall I see you again.
mot soon, Nellie. have set
the ball rolling. Not even /
could stop it now. Success is
sure. I shall go away to rest
to the sea somewhere. shall
walk in silence by the shores of
the loud resounding sea-lonely.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
A Brilliant Romance Dealing with
Stage Life, Illustrated by Charles
Dana Gibson.
Dana Gibson.

until he was close to the groveling
woman. Then he said: IF you
please. Nellie-once more. Try to
get 1t right this time.
Instantly the woman stopped
groveling and sobbing, rose to her
feet, Strengthened her coarse. night
gowflesque garment, walked to the
altar in businesslike way. turned
and, in a rich, deep, thrilling voice
cried: "Give me the child!'
The man writhed, as musi-
clan writhes at a false note, and
he cried: "Give me the child
Now, then! Once more!"
''Give me the childw cried the
woman.
The man literally flung his
hands through his hair, and he
began to moan and muttefs
Despair! Despair
Then he approached the wo-
man and stood just behind her
and little to one side. Els
voice became a caress.
Rewarded at Last.
Dearest. sweetest Nellie" ne
said. Only listen. and attend
for my poor sake-don't &C,
cent any word more than an
other-make the line qu pas
tel in gray-alnost converse
tional-slowly, quietly, without
accent. Now. Them
Slowly and quietly the woman
began: ''Give me the
And as she framed her mout'-
for the word to end the pastel IL
gray. the man stabbed her with
the pin-so that she delivered
the word child" with a sort of
agonized scream.
Genius! Genius!' said the
man. Nov. then. Once more"
A second time he stabbed her
with eminent success. But at the
third trial no stab was necessary.
The little lesson nelocution had
gone home.
"Oh, you BRUTE" she said,
you've made me bleedv'
bah" said the man. "I've
made you great"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24

Then he flung himself as
though exhausted into deep
chair and drummed upon its arm
with his long fingers.
Mr.. Hedden?''
Well, child?"
IF it's a success-couldn't you
owe such lot for costumes and
things?"-
He smiled upon her with
amused tolerance.
Yes, Nellie" he said. 81 could
notice the accent-alI things
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24

''Your what? My head, Nellie
you nearly worked my head off.
And now that ! have lifted the
murky clouds from her under
standing and let in ray of sun
light, she wants a raise
The woman's lip quivered.
Pressed for Cash.
Nellie" he said sweetly, "you
are the stupidest woman / ever
taught. But you are the most
beautiful woman I ever saw.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
INTERESTING
FACTS

In comparison with the strength
Of a fully grown man or woman
1t Is scarcely believabie that a new
born baby has greater Herculean
powers.
In one case an exceptionally
strong baby remained suspended
by his right hand for two minutes
and thirty-eight seconds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24

are possible to me. And / would
If I thought, there was such
quality in you as gratitude, But
you are hard, Nellle-hard as
the neither stone. No. It won't
hurt you, histrionically speaking,
to worry about your little bills.
And besides. dearest girl, / have
yet to break a contract, and ours.
I believe, has still three years to
run. For years you were a dead
loss to me, Nellie
II worked my head off,"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN
By GOuverneur Morris,
Famous Novelist and Internation-
ally Known rs One Of Our Pre-
lnier Writer'S Of Short Stories.
BY Beatrice Fairfax
nEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

nEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
am eighteen and consid-
cred beautiful. Although / have
many admirers I am not salts
fled, because I am very much
in love with a young man Of a
different religion. He proposed
and I refused him because Of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
The Early BOOkplates.

UooKPLATES were first used in Germany in the six
teenth century Albert Durer designed in 1924,
Cardinal Wolsey 1926 possessed some of the finest
English examples of quaint and charming designs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-24
READ THIS FIRST.

Mckay Hedden, a Broadway
manager, rehearses Nellie Niche
lin in new part. He scolds and
cajoles, trying to make a real
actress out Of her. Finally he
tells her she is the stupidest
woman he ever saw, as well as
the most beautiful. !. Having got
ten his play all ready he takes a
vacation and in small boat sails
about Buzzards Bay A storm
threatens and the skipper advises
him to head for shore.
By GOuverneur Morris,
Famous Novelist and Internation-
ally known rs One Of Our Pre-
lnier Writer'S Of Short Stories.
CHAPTER /.
1" HE room reseTnbled a chapel.
There was an organ built
into one WALL There was a
rose window, an altar. lilies. a
smell Of incense. The room did not
resemble a chapel. There was a
large rosewood table with a desk
telephone. There was chevaI-
glass. There was a divan. There
was. q suit of arInor. There was a
woman In a sort Of coarse night
gown. a rope around the waist,
who groveled, sobbing. in the mid
de of the floor. There was a smell
Of cigar smoke.
Up and down the room there
paced a man of forty; he dragged
his left foot lightly and kept comb
ing thicket Of unnaturaIly black
hair straight up with the long,
white fingers of his left hand he
appeared to be dashed into a sort
Of fury. He kept shouting: ''She
won't do, She won't do! She won't
dor
The woman on the floor contin-
ued to grovel and sob.
Suddenly the pacing man stood
still, still as q statue. He turned
up the bottom of his waistcoat and
found a pin. Holding this between
his thumb and finger, he advanced
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-14
A Human Pile DriUer

He went inside the shed and found that the boards III
the floor sank beneath his weight like And
here that human stood jumping and down.
while he mashed me into the mud like mole under pile
driver had showed that had head like nail
when Tcrawled that floor and let step
There is saying, You can keep good man down.
Fatty kept me down. and 50 must admit he wasa
better than d was. ssts
Every iron puddler has helper. Old have both
helper boy gotta place with old and 90 II
the age Of twelve part Of the Big Show whose
Torrance continuous whose eeaers have real ame to
contend with and whose snakecharmers risk their lives IN
handling great kissing twisting edhOt serpents Of angry
iron .
Half naked, sootsmeared fellows fight the furnace
faces lit with fire like sailors manning their guns
night fight when blazing fire ship is bearing down upon
them The sweat runs down their backs and and,
glistens in the changing lights.
Brilliant blues and rays Of green and bronze from
the coruscatng metal molten yet crystang Whiehot
frost within the furnace puddle. Flaming balls of wooy
pulled from DOORS flung tWo-wheeled
ing tray and rushed spuering and famboyant, to the
hungry mouth of machine e# 4ss F.s.ass
The molten Stag down from the OF this
squeezer and makes luminous rivulet the floor like
from the rubber rollers whena washerwoman wgs
out the saturated clothes.
Everywhere are hurrying men, Whirring flyWhees
ing levers of steam engines and the drumke Of the
rolling machines <#. s#.@f.a#
tsIfe in these mills terrible fe the reformers say
Men are ground down scrap and thrown out
mills and failed discover it. went In srpling and
grew into manhood with muscled big as bookkeep
The gases they say will destroy mans lungs but II
worked all day the mills and had wind enough left to oot
clarinet in the band. s. d s.lz.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-14

the town boys hate them But T liked them very well,
because they paid to shine their shoes every day.
Then the landlord Of the Sharon Hotel put his
payroll Behind the hotel coWpen, where the milk
for the guests drawn fresh from the The
had to- be driven to pasture IN the morning and back
night got dollar and quarter month for driving
the And had found paying job within thirty
days after landing III America. s@s
That less than four cents day for coWfeed pro-
duce two gallons Of milk about two cents gallon The
wages Of the girls who mlked them and my wages for
driving them amounted to three cents gallon. In other
words the cost Of labor getting the milk from the
than doubled the cost Of the milk This my first
lesson in political economy learned that labor
the chief item IN fixing the price Of anything
The less labor used IN producing milk the cheaper the
milk will be. The wages high III America
because America the land Of laborsavng machinery
Because the landlord had his COWS MIXED at the back
door of his hotel the milk still was
ried into his kitchen And the steel mills grouped
closely that single heat sometimes the steel from
the Bessemer hearth through all the nearby machines
energies finished product and is loaded the rail
road cars while it is still warm
was this saving Of labor and that made American
steel the cheapest steel in the world that's why
of steel and workers In America highest
In the world.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-14
His Hand Touches Iron.

When was eleven got regular job that paid me fifty
cents day Thereafter my life To be bound with the
industry Ny Job nail factory, picked the
iron spnters from among the good nails that had heads
them This taught that many married IA the making
Those that born with bad heads must not be used
building house Or the house will fall In the head Of
nail is its power to hold fast Men like nails have
holdast will ID their heads; others have not They
married IN the making They must be thrown aside and not
used III building the state or the state will fall
This is cynical age and imagine that hear sOn
body snicer when the fonness had for the Sun
day school don want any one to think laying
claim the record Of having always been good little boy
nor that everything did wise No confess did
and Ito use the slang Of the me often got the neck
Once bantered big fat boy 70 fight he chased me,
and ran and c1awled into place narrow knew he
was only six inches above the ground ct least
ten inches thick and thought was safe But he didn't
to crawl under the floor after me.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-14
Crying for Food

The loss Of baggage only the beginning ,of
0Ibles IN New York With the feather ticks also
The mother had got from selling the bedseads and
other furniture She had nothing with which buy food
and while walking the streets we smelt the de-
icious odor of food from the and became
whining and petulant This the first mother had
heard her children crying for bread when she had
to give them 81 Y.5ts
From Pittsburgh father had sent railroad tickets and
these tickets waiting for the railroad office
All would have to do would be to hold hunger in
check until We should reach Hubbard Ohio where kins
had established home
But while mother plotting her family the depot
two of the children got She had reached Castle Garden
with children and her household goods Now her goods
gone and only four Of the children remained Ny
sister ten and Twas eight were the oldest The
baby year DID, and the todder of three mother
had carried in her arms. ~ $500
But boys Walter and David four and years old
had got lost In the traffic Mother took the rest Of
hotel and locked in while she search
for the missing For two days amped the
visiting police stations and making inquiry everywhere
At night she would return to and report that she had
found trace of little Walter and David TO try pic
tre the misery of those is beyond only
say that the experience nstlled IN lasting terror
Finally mother found the boys for lost
children Brother David and red-cheeked had
appealed to the policeman who found them that he
made application to adopt the boy and about take
him to his home.
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The Promised Land

After finding the children mother stood on Broadway
and gazing at the fine buildings and the good clothes that
oil classes in America she felt her heart swell with
hope. And she said aloud: "This is the place for my
boys
Everyone had treated her with kindness A fellow
ecuntryman had lent her money pay the hotel BILL telling
her she could back after she had joined husband
And passed through the gateway of the New World
as thousands of other poor families had done.
When found myself head of the United States Depart
ment of Labor in President Harding's Cabinet one my
earliest duties to inspect the immigration stations
Boston and New York In spite of complaints they
being conducted the letter Of the law to correct the
situation it only necessary to add sympathy and under
standing to the enforcement of the law.
An American poet two lines told the whole
human courage: E
.f< 'tThe bravest the tenderest -
- The loving the daring
Tenderness and human sympathy to the alien passing
through Ellis Island does not that weak or
that the unfit alien welcome The enderer we treat the
immigrant who seeks hospitality the harder will we
smash him when he betrays That's what the bravest
are the tenderes He who is tenderest the
members of his household is brayet in beating back him
who would destroy that house.
For example, received hurryup call for more housing
at Ellis Island in the early days of my administration The
commissioner told he had five hundred more anarchists
than he had roofs to shelter.
Have these anarchists been duly convicted'' asked
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-14

AlGEs j DAVIS is admring his daughter, Jean AIlis
the Cabinet baby At the right Is Mrs Davis.
There other members Of the seCretarys house
hold, Jane Eizabeth and James j. j..
But there is ship sailing so SOON " he said "They
will have to have housing till ship sails =
Now this country has shortage Of houses and
plus Of ships. There aren't enough roofs house the
honest people, and there hundreds Of ships lying idle
Let the honest people have the houses and the anarchists
have the ships.
called up the Shipping Board borrowed ship put the
anarchists aboard and sent them back where they
On the other hand discovered family that had just
America and about to be deported because Of
technicaty The family consisted Of father and mother
and four children The order of deportation had been
made and the family had been put aboard ship about
sail learned that the children were healthy and right
minded;th mother Of honest working stock with faith
in God had been Of such family entering this port
forty Little did dream that would become
member of Presidents Cabinet with power wipe away
this Womans and turn her heart song
of JOY wrote the order of admission and the family
taken from the departing ship just before it sailed told
the mother that was once like the baby in her
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-14
Keeping Open House

Our little four-room company house in Sharon had it's
doors open to the wayfarer. There always
conner from Wales Whether blood relation or not
garded all Welshmen belonging odr clan Our house
was small but we crowded into the corners and made
for another. 80"
His food and bed free as long as he stayed. We
helped him find job and then he thanked hosp
tally and of house with blessings
1t was like the law of tobacco among Tobacco
always has been mathematical" in America and have
matches Your pipe your own but your tobacco and
matches belong to everybody. So with food and
shelter in the Welsh colony at Sharon.
Our home happy one, for we children fond
OF one another and all loved the father mother who
worked SO hard for We the first realize that
our nome was insecure upheld by single propour fathers
labor The breaking of his right arm might have broken up
our home We wanted acquire property mother
would De safe For we knew that God just God. He
did not ordan that class should labor and insecure
while another class owned property and was safe.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-14
Pioneers and Winners

When wish to sound out man L ask him il he has
been hungry. T. find he has never missed mdal
in his fe know his education has been neglected For
believe that experience is the foremost teacher have
learned something from every experience had
hold that Providence has been kind to with lot Of
rather tough. adventures . .@.8
Our hardshps entering America taught me sympathy
and filled with desire help others. have heard
aliens that America had treated them with hosp
tally and that this had made them bitter and now these
aliens would take revenge by tearing down America This
is lie that cannot fool Ny hardships did turn
struggles than The Pilgrim Fathers landed III the Winter
when there were no houses Half of them persisted from
hardship IN single year. Did they turn anarchists?
Hard shedding in America produced the man who said
With malice toward none; with charity for al.''
But people born of the Pioneer Breed and
of the Whining Breed. =. @s,z.<
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+ There Is Something in .
Man That Drives HiI1
Forward to Do the
Worlds Work
b. JaIles ]. DAVIS.

Secretary of Labor the Cabinet 81 presidents Hdrding
nEFORE my mother and father were married in Wales
my mother saved money, not for her tr0usseau but
for feather bed Houses cold and unheated, and
feather bed comfort at night It took long time
60 acquire these tickfs of dony goose feathers
The bed the foundation Of the household It is there
that the babies born There sleep restores the weary
toler that he may rise and toll And there at last
when work DONE old folks fall into sleep that
ends.
We travelled storage to Castle Garden Having passed
the immigrant tests found ourselves set the dock
free go where pleased. But baggage had dsap
peared Some had made off with our precious feather
beds
This was the first real tragedy Of nv mothers life All
the JOY Of setting foot in the land turned to dis
may The storedp pleasure with which she awaited the
greeting Of her husband dashed moment like sweet
water flung the ground When the anguish in
my mothers face was sobered to LIES responsibilities
The song had died out Of her heart, and must make it
sing again While she crying In distraction wrapped
my own fearful face her skirts and prayed to God
make strong could go to work at earning
money to replace the lost feather beds
10 wes early In April 1881 Before the month was out
had found job il the new country and was earning
money.
love for my mother and her grief the loss Of the
feather beds turned careless boy serious money
maker This led to the study Of economies and finance
mans destiny often made by trfles light feathers
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I'VE Passed Into the New World Thousands Of Poor families
8 My Love For My Mother
and Her Grief Turned =
Careless Boy Into = Ser
iOus Money Ma kerr

81 learned that the banker the hotel keeper and the
ton agent had al been poor boys myself They started
with nothing but their hands 10 labor with They had work
ed hard and saved Of their wages and this had given
them "a startss
The hotel keeper had been hack driver He slept in the
haymoW Of livery stable he had meet the train that
have his sleep broken st such He hated to- lose
the Sleep but he wanted the money AT the end cf four
years he had saved thousand dollars wanted buy
hotel but needed more money.
The banker knowing he slayer, lent him the cash
lie needed and he became property He longer
slept IN the haymow, but had of His and other
rooms rent to the light toned travelling men.
this learned that laborer become capitalists when
they saved their money. s@
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OK, Horse, Auto, Arplane, Span Of Life Barometers

mobile, while universal, was still
not vehicle for the common peo-
pie. But now the man who rides
on or behind a horse is a rarity,
while legs are becoming Increas-
ingly obsolete as a means of loco
motion.
THE human constitution de-
mands a certain degree of exer-
else which is best obtained by &C.
tivity in the ordinary round Of
existence. The man who walks TO
his office every morning has a
better chance to live to three
score and ten than. the man who
goes in his limousine or who takes
the subway or autobUs.
Few men who devote their
lives to the fascination OF speed
live long. recently investigated