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BY PAUL HARRISON

New York, May Flew theater-
goers, arriving well-fortified from
flavorful dinners, ever give a thought
to the distasteful stuff actors are
obliged to consume on the stage. For
even if the stage food happens to be
well prepared-which is seldom, be-
cause property men are not inclined
to worry about cuisine-it becomes
distasteful after a few hundred help
ings.
About the biggest eating -and-drink-
ing show on Broadway now is de-
sign for Living" and the cast Of it
seems to be getting little pale
around the gills. Every night and
matinee, for example, Alfred Lunt and
Noel Coward must simulate pleas
ant giddiness after consuming a quart
of water, colored with caramel, which
is supposed to be brandy. Then there
always has to be fresh rice pudding,
sent from Dinty Moore's around the
corner. Lunt doesn't like raisins, and
he had a pretty bad time OF it for
several days before Dinty's was per-
suaded to send plain buildings.
Coffee. fresh from the property
mans own percolator. is the only
thing that doesn't pail. After that.
though, the actors have to drink
sherry" which is more water colored
with more caramel. They smoke q
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CHAPTER THIRTY.SIX

Mrs. Manchester was delighted.
Madame Nahlman! Really"
Manchester gets . secondhand
kick out of everything we d."
Maxine said.
Maxine did not show much sur
prise at the news, but nothing sur
prised Maxine very much. She
made . great fuss about Lily LOUIS
good luck, and dragged all her
clothes out of the closet to help hez
pack, then remembered an engage
ment, and went off in the midst Of
it. Nobody really cared very much
what happened to you, here in New
York.
Not even Gwin. He was delighted
in q way, but in another way he
didn't seem to care. The same with
Madame Mailman. Offer you the
other bed in her de luxe stateroom
on the ship, promise to tutor you in
Paris, and then seem to forget al
about you.
Lily Lou flew to get her passport,
her visas, to buy the little extra
things one always needs, to draw
out the $3.50 stil left in the bank.
She was going to Europe with
Nita Mailman. She, Lily Lou Lam
sing from Woodlake. She hur-
RED with her packing, her last min
ute ironing. She wanted time to
write . long letter to May.
A little smile trembled at the cor
ner Of her mouth as she wrote. A
sly little smile Of triumph. i. May
knew q girl who had . friend who
worked on . newspaper. May would
tell her friend, and the friend would
tell her friend, and it would be in
the paper, probably with that pic
ture she had taken the year she
was eighteen. She had changed Z
lot since then, but Ken would re.
member her more like that, 20 II
was just Is well. -.
She couldn't help wanting Ken to
know. There wasn't any harm in
that. Not even Peggy Sage could
object to that to his reading
about her in . paper -.
She went to her bureau and took
out the four newspaper clipping.
she had hidden under her hand
kerchief1.
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lot Of cigarets, too, couple OF car.
tons week, but never yet have beer
supplied with their three favorite
brands on stage.
This same property man recalls that
his toughest problem was to find q
substitute for the many glasses OF
sodium bicarbonate that Lynn Fon-
tame was supposed to drink in the
comedy, Caprice" After few nights
of the real thing the actress, nea!
to tears, announced she simply
couldn't down another swallow. A
doctor finally was called in and saved
the play with sugar Of milk, which
looks like bicarbonate.
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LUNAR LUNCHING
! Another current dining table play
| Is Three -Cornered Moon," which has
F., coffee and milk in the first act,
string beans and coffee in the sec
ond act, and more coffee in the third.
The beans are canned and cold, and
the glasses of milk are real, but the
coffee is represented by plain water
in cups that have been painted black
inside. The director insisted on the
water, so that Cecilia Doftus, Ruth
Gordon and the rest would have to
handle the cups convincingly.
The first act of Another Lam
guage," which recently closed, was
full of synthetic potato salad con-
cocted by the property man from
slices of pared apples. A lot Of olives
also were supposed to be consumed,
but since these were real olives most
Of them were SWITCHED by the cast
before the curtain went up. They
dreaded having to eat olives before an
audience anyway. because the seeds
usually smothered their enunciation.
Every actor has nightmares about be-
ing caught with mouthful OF food
when his cue comes. He also lives
in terror of choking on something, or
getting the hiccoughs.
Speaking of theater fare, there's a
picnic dinner served backstage at the
Lyric after every matinee OF run,
Little Chillun." When Hall john
sons all-Negro drama was in rehear-
sal, many of the 174 Harlemites
couldn't afford restaurant meals, or
even subway fare to their homes. So
the producers had big pots of multi
gan cooked up, brought in heaps Of
sandwiches, and milk for the pick
aninnies, and fed them all right there.
Now that the singers and actors
faith in the play has been justified,
they could take separate taxis to Har-
lem If they wanted to. But the null
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Glitter

I work all day at q desk that has a
glass top. Lighting is natural day.
light, from a window at left Of desk.
Is this hard on the eyes? miss
v. W.
Answer-1t is always better to avoid
shiny or mirror surfaces or pure
white. Try to have the source OF
light behind the plane of your vision
as you sit at work.
Big Drink
Any harm in drinking one quart of
luke warm water to which two level
teaspoons Of salt has been added, each
morning? (Mrs. H. B. L.
AnSwer-It is an excessive quantity
Of fluid to take at one time. Better
omit the salt. The drinking of a pint
or less of water, hot, warm or cold, is
a healthful habit.
Cloves
I formed the habit Of eating cloves
when child. I quit a few years
ago, thinking it might be harmful.
Please let me have your opinion.
(Mrs. H. S. H.
Answer-1t is not a healthful habit.
You give insufficient data to war
rant an opinion. It is not very
dreadful habit in any case.
No Resistance
TO settle family argument please
answer these questions:
l. Is there such a thing as resis-
lance In the human body, that is, re-
sistance to diseases, particularly germ
diseases?
2. What is immunization?
3. Is there a difference between
them? (Mrs. w. P.)
Answer. No.
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The Clark Tragedy
minneapolis Tribune)

An appalling tragedy has written
the unhappiest ending possible to
the case OF Mrs. Clark. Probably no
one who was shocked by that tragedy
has failed to ponder the events which
led up to it, to attempt to fix re-
sponsibilities, or to see with perfect
clarity just how it might have been
averted. The snuffing out of four
lives has suddenly softened public
judgment in the case Where many
were certain that absolute justice
had been done to Mrs. Clark, there
is an unmistakable tendency now to
feel that mercy should have tenn
pered justice. This tendency is as
human as 1t is comprehensive. It
flows from the deep conviction that
strict insistence on the letter of
the law was not worth, to society,
the awful consequences of misery,
disgrace and finally destruction
which fel! to an entire family.
While it is impossible not to SYM
pathize in some degree with this
point OF view, the truth remains that
an Unconditional contemplation of the
facts leads to other conclusions. The
first conclusion is that justice, by
its very nature, cannot guess or prop
erly be concerned with the reactions
of the individual to its mandates. If
the reactions are abnormally severe
and If they ultimately lead to stark
tragedy, that is indeed to be regret
ted; but the duty of the courts is to
administer justice impersonally, and
not to anticipate the ultimate effects
Of their decisions on the human
mind. The second conclusion is that
a sentence may be no less just be-
cause of the individuals failure ia
be reconciled to it, and that system
Of jurisprudence which promised the
need for mercy simply on that failure
would be, in fact, no system at all
The third conclusion is the CLARK
tragedy was an entirely abnormal
consequence Of a case which ran its
entirely normal and judicial course
to the highest court In the land, and
that every guarantee of justice So
! ciety affords, as we'll as every op-
portunity for mercy, had thus been
provided.
We cannot share the belief, then
that this was a case of justice, like
some grim and unreasoning nemesis
! driving its victims to their doom. The
integrity of our jury system, after
all, was involved in the case. The
sentence imposed did not, under the
circumstances, seem unduly heavy
Yet tragedy has today altered, fol-
many, their conceptions of justice
A profound sense of sympathy and
disnay has raised the question as tt
| whether mercy, in which the strict
claims Of justice had no part, would
not have served better purpose
This conflict of reason and emotion
is by no means new, but it is one
which has been brought home, and
! with tremendous force, by the pitifu
and shocking denouement which has
closed the case of the government
against Mrs. Clark for the unhappy
part she played upon the Foshay
| Jury.
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Days Are Here Again" to "silver
Threads Among the Gold"

Days Are Here Again" to silver
Threads Among the Gold"
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Woman statistician shows that on
" one In 86 women drivers has an au.
to accident while one in 81 men driv-
ers call up the wrecking car. Doesn't
say how many of those accidents hap
pened to the men under instructions
from the back seat.
Arkansas town has or4anixed
the Mountain Home Anti Cuss-
ing Club. Don't know what kind
Of club 1t is, but we feel sure
IL isn't . golf club.
y
Poets should work $50 hours a
week, says Edwin Markham, Ths
idea being, We suppose, that whea
the rest Of us get the 30-hour week
someone will read the poetry.
French arrest many workers and
tourists near the border Notifications.
says news story. Well, Europe may
take hope. The spy industry seems
to be picking up, at least.
Copyright, 1888, NEA Service, Inc.)
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TOBACCO AND ANHEDONIA

Recently we gave composite analy-
sis of right mindedness and anhe-
donia in parallel columns, thus:
Right Mindedness AnhedOnia
Motion Emotion
Play Sport
Work Business
Diversion Thrill
Relaxation Boredom, ennui
Pleasure Vice
Contentment Restlessness
Happiness Despair
Revered old age Suicide
Now let us see where tobacco be-
longs. Fanatics will expect me to
put tobacco in the right hand column.
Many tobacco addicts will expect me
to put it in the left hand column.
But I'm going to play It both ways
with proper limitations. In the right
hand column I'll place tobacco ad-
diction or slavery. In the left I'll
place total abstinence and temper
ance in regard to tobacco. Paren-
thetically and just to show there IS
no bias, let me say that there Is no
possible doubt as to the proper place
for alcohol in this analysis of many
human lives. It belongs in the right
column exclusively.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES DO SOME
THING. No matter what-you may
fight or you may run away, you may
shingle the garage or spade the gar
den, but you DO SOMETHING.
Anhedonia-incapacity to enjoy life
you just sit still and try to appear
nonchalant. Or you smoke.
Sherlock Holmes reaching for his
syringe is a piteous figure, a mistake
of his creators. The young person
lighting a smoke to conceal something
is likewise piteous figure, mistake
of our educational system.
The smoker who feels impelled to
resort to tobacco in the midst Of a
days work or game or meal
merely drugs down the faint impulse
that still stirs In him to do some
thing. He just sits tight and waits
till the drug obtunds that instructive
| impulse. To that degree tobacco Is
his addiction. It dulls his conscious
ness of his own worthlessness, incom-
petence, ignorance, weakness, or In
ability to participate in whatever is
going on.
The temperate smoker responds to
the action impulse by DOING SOME
THING or other instead Of attempt
ing to pretend nonchalance or indif-
ference. Through action he blows off
steam. And he derives far greater
enjoyment from his quiet smoke az
ter the days work, play or activity is
over and the hour for relaxation has
come.
Youth is the period Of action, the
time to DO SOMETHING even If
only to bounce about like a playful
pup or a lively kitten. It is sadder
to see youth substituting the obtun-
dent effect of tobacco for the normal
reaction to the impulse to DO SOME
THING than 1t Is to see an old burned
out fool trying to drown his misery
in drink. Somehow 1t seems that the
youth has been robbed of his chance:
he has not received fair deal in his
education.
am more convinced than ever be-
fore that the young person who wants
to enjoy life will not use tobacco be-
fore he or she has attained full adult
development. and any one who does
use tobacco gets the greatest pleasure
and the least harm from it by tenn
perance In its use.
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2. The process of developing or
producing immunity.
Immunity is we'll recognized state,
which may be measured or tested
such as immunity to typhoid fever,
immunity to diphtheria, immunity to
smallpox.
Copyright, John F. Ollie Co..
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'6BeRSoF(oCE'
By HAZEL LIVINGSTON

I'll send for some breakfast for
you . cup Of coffee. some
brioche!"
Lily Lou was too shy. She said
she had had breakfast. Then she
sat and watched Madame Mailman
eat. It took . long while to gather
courage to %.y what she had coms
to say. hsoame Mailman didn't
understand at first. She sat
straight up in bed, her blue eyes
wide, her Iona. reddish hair drag.
ging her shoulders.
Lily Lou tried again.
This time there was no possible
misunderstanding. Madame Nahl.
man drained her coffee cup, put it
down on the tray and stared 1T Lily
Lou for = long minute. Then she
fell back on her pillow and
screamed with choking, gurgling
laughter.
She laughed until she cried, and
Lily Lou had difficulty in not cry
ing, too.
ooh" she choked, "if that isn't
the-the most"
When she Quoted = little, Lily
Lou rose to 60. She was pale, and
very calm.
II thought you'd feel that way"
she said. 1T was nice of you to
ask me to 90, Madame Mailman.
I'm only sorry that it wasn't pos
sible-"
Under the bright blue gaze Of the
hennaed prima donna she could
hardly continue. She spread her
hands, in . hopeless gesture.
"You have changed your mind.
you won't come with me?"
"Oh, no-I mean yes, of course
I'd 60, but how could I let You take
me, when-when-"
Madame Mailman went of into
another fit Of laughter. She seemed
to be considering some private,
priceless joke Of her own. "Lifei
So complicated. But never mind,
you can have all the babies you
want. Have twins!" Another gale
Of laughter. We sail tonight, just
the same, only you will be seasick,
my poor little girl. But never mind.
That is life"
II was married." Lily Lou cried
desperately. II married q boy who
was not quite twenty-one, and his
parents had it annulled. So left,
and came to New York"
"Ah, yes. To the big city"
mo, not on that account. His
father"
His father is backing you? He
has money!" The prima donna's
blue eyes had narrowed.
This was no time to hedge. Lily
Lou sensed that. "He is q wealthy
man." she said, land he gave ma
my train ticket east and five hun
dred dollars. l have $50 Of it left.
But l hope to send it all back to
him As soon Is am earning = it,
tie more. I don't know whether
you'd say thst was backing me or
|nqt-.f. is it,"
mo. But the child. They will
provide for it? You have a settle.
ment? Or will they take it,"
"No! Oh, no. They don't know
about it. I didn't tell them. I have
enough money! can manage. I'll
20 to some little place for q while
lin France-that is, if you'll take
me-and then to the American hos
|pital 1t Neuilly, and you won't be
Extraordinarily"
"But you can't do that. You
must w.ite-or wire immediately.
A marriage can't be annulled
when"
Madame Mailman thrust one fat
pink silk leg out Of bed. Lily Lou
had . vision Of her wiring the Sar-
gents, Of old Mr.. Sargent getting
the news, and Ken and Peggy clins-
ling together, covering away from
lit.
"No, I can't tell them now. It's
too late. He's engaged to be mar
ried again. Maybe he's married
for al I know"
Ito Be Continued)
Copyright By King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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SYNOPSIS

Lily Lou Lansing, young and
pretty telephone operator, gives up
her opportunity for an operate
career to marry wealthy Ken Sar.
gent. Ken's parents had hoped their
son would marry the socially promi.
nent Peggy Sage and threaten ia
have the marriage annulled. How
ever, the young couple 90 house.
keeping and are ideally happy. Then
Ken loses his position and. one night,
Lily Lou hears him sobbinE. Next
day, Ken's father calls and informs
Lily Lou her marriage has been
annulled. Feeling Ken no longer
cares, Lily Lou accepts q railroad
ticket and $500 from Mr.. Sargent
and goes to New York. She rents q
furnished room and through Maxine
Rochon, one of the boarders. secures
a position playing the piano for =
dancing teacher. Later, she and
Maxine 60 to live with the wealthy
Mrs. Paula Manchester, whose hob.
by is befriending young artists.
Word comes that Ken is engaged to
Peggy Sage and Lily Lou is de.
pressed. Shortly after, Lily Lou is
stunned with the realization she is
to become q mother. She longs for
Ken, thinking how proud he would
have been, but refrains from writ.
ing him. She loses her position but
Dwight Gwin, the noted vocal in
structor, employs her rs his accom-
PIANIST and promises to give her sig.
ing lessons. At times, Lily Lou is
happy visioning 4 successful career
but there are also hours of anguish
when she thinks of her baby and
feels 50 lonely without Ken. One day,
Nita Mailman, the popular opera
singer and Lily Louis idol. calls on
Gwin. After hearing Lily Lou sing,
she offers to take her to Europe.
Lily Lou is in seventh heaven.
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ligan custom is still maintained, e q
sort Of thanksgiving feast.
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A GOLDEN MELODY
Success stories: A party backstage
at the Casino Theater the other night
celebrated the fiftieth performance Of
George Whites Melody and proved
1t the fifteenth successive hit he has
produced since his first Scandals"
In 1919. :. Years ago q young play
wright named James Hagan was
spurned by producers and movie COM
panies when he offered them . play
called zone Sunday Afternoon" He
only asked $500, but one frank agent
told him it wouldn't bring q dime.
Recently he dug it out of trunk,
landed It with firm Of Peters and
Spiller, and saw it become an over
night hit on Broadway. The other
day film company forked over $685.
600 for the movie rights.
Copyright, 1888, NEA Service, 1nc.)
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The Sargent Steamship Line ane
the Sage Navigation company had
merged.
Kentfield Carey Sargent, Third
en- route for South America.
Kentield Carey Sargent, Third
general freight agent of the Sar.
gent Navigation Company, on board
the yacht Seaforth, to race next
summer in the Pacific coast IN.
Miss Peggy Alexander Sage
whose engagement to Kentfield
Sargent, Third.
Lily Lou rolled up the clippings
stuck them in . corner Of her trunk
Her conscience, the miserable
Woodlake conscience, began to tor.
ture her. How could she 70 ia
Europe, with Madame Mailman not
knowing that. in April. :.
She tried to remember Dwight
OWNS exact words. "None Of her
darn business! Don't you mention
it to her. Trump up some excuse
to see friends or something, and
slip of to the American hospital
at Neuilly. .Nita's broadminded.
Keep your mouth shut and don't
spring it until you have tol"
It had been the first thing she
thought of. II can't go!" she had
cried to Gwin two minutes after
he had assured her that Madame
Mailman was serious about taking
her.
She had let him convince her, Be.
cause she wanted to be convinced.
She couldn't give it up. Think Of
it the chance to get away from
New York, away from al the pry-
ing eyes It would be easy to
slip away later, plead i'll health
perhaps, 20 to that hospital in Neu.
lily. Mailman need never really
know. Shed have enough money
$3.50 left Of Ken's fathers money,
and over . hundred in currency,
saved from her salary from Gwin.
and = twenty dollar money order
her mother had sent her for her
birthday, and American money goes
80 far in Europe now. Besides,
Mailman said that she wouldn't
need money-none 1t all
Yes, and that was just it. How
could she let Mailman pay III her
expenses. and not tell her the
truth? She'd never take her if
she knew. Might ~ well give it
up right now.
But how could she back out Of it
now, with Maxine already counting
on bringing Frances over to take
her place? People always are 80
Disguised with you when you say
you're going somewhere, and then
you don't -.
Lily Lou walked up and down
the small green and white room,
stepping over little heaps Of shoes
and boxes and tissue paper on the
door. She put her old lace dress in
the trunk, and saw her mother
making It, holding the needle and
material too close to her tired
The Woodlake conscience tri-
umphed. She wasn't aShamed AZ
having = baby, she had been mar
ried, by . minister. But to cheat
Madame Mailman. No. she
couldn't do that.
She put on her hat and coat and
called . taxi, glerying in her courage
and extravagancs.
She drove up to the hotel in great
style, and sailed, head high. eyes
bright, to the desk.
Madame Mailman was out.
Back home. A sleepless night.
In the morning she went early to
the hotel. Madame Mailman was
resting.
"I1l watt" she said.
She sat alone in the lobby, sur
rounded by empty chairs, and .
general air Of waiting. A green
uniformed porter languidly busted
tables, Strengthened chairs. Two
bellhops drowsed on q bench.
At ten Madame Mailman m.
swered the telephone herself.
Lily Lou went up. Madame was
in bed, eating heartily Of ham and
legs.
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The wonderful content of minerals
that Is found in beer makes beer a
fit food for human consumpton.-Dr.
William I. Sirovich, New York city
congressman.
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I don't see how the country can
recover until we put our feet down
and stop spending on frozen projects.
Congressman Taber Of New York.
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The brewers alone could not alter
the drinking habits Of the nation
Col. Jacob Rupert, president U. s.
Brewers Association.
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We saw this spring a resurrection
of the German nation.-Dr. Hans
Luther, German ambassador to the
United States.
Not one acre in eight OF our orig
inal forests remains, and the per-
centage of this remnant devastated
each year Is greater than the year
before.-Lieut.-Co George p. Ahern
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Editorial Comment

Editorials printed below show the
trend Of thought by other editors.
They are published without regard
to whether they agree or disagree
with The Tribune's policies.
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FIRST IN U. S.

The New York City Chamber OF
Commerce was the first institution OF
its kind in the United States. It was
organized in 1853, and was incorpor
ated under royal charter from King
George III in Ito.
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Approximately 5000 cubic feet Of
helium, IS to SO per cent pure, is re-
CURED to support 200 pounds.