s Y. M C- JL Entertainment Co . Season of 1914-15 SEASON TICKETS SUOO Tuesday, December 8, NEAPOLITAN ORCH EST iGY Monday, January 11, MARGARET STAHL Tuesday, February 2, Dr L. B. WICKERSHAM Monday, February 22, Dr. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM Thursday, March 4, METROPOLITAN GRAND QUARTET HER PERSONALITY FASCINATES HEARERS i THE right to the title of the great est woman reader of plays on the Lyceum platform has been fairly won by Margaret Stahl ini a free field without favor. Her name carries with it the promise of an even ing of rare enjoyment, wherever the Lyceum is known. Her splendid per sonality fascinates her hearers, and the charm of an elemental woman hood that Is bigger than all art, and tetter than all acting, overwhelms them. Her art extends no less to the EVERY MEMBER A REAL ARTIST ks fl iif iwfffFjffT THE METROPOLITAN GRAND QUARTET. MARGARET STAHL. presentation of her work than in its selection, her repertoire being chosen with discriminating taste, plays which have a universal appeal, and whose lesson Is an uplifting one, being chos en. The number of return engage ments which she has won in recent years on some of the most discrim inating courses of the country is an indication that she is growing in fame and favor and her art is deepening and widening. Her appearance here in the future insures an artistic treat. ! MAKES DRY SGIENTIFL C T3l ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM. THE MAN who can make the dry ff.cts of science palatable, and who can so present these great vital truths, which are pregnant with hope for the coming generations, as to give them lodgment in the brains and hearts of the people is doing the world a mighty service. Such a ser vice is being rendered by Albert Ed ward Wiggam, whose lectures on scientific subjects are among the most noteworthy contributions of the American Lyceum to the well being of our people. He will give one o! them here this season. These lec tures are the culmination of ten years of earnest labor and intricate re ORCHESTRA FROM SUNNY ITALY MAKES 816 HIT IN LYCEUM oerring even. > - Susie's grandmother had been scold ing her. Susie felt indignant, but had been taught never to "answer back." However, she got even. Taking her kitten In her arms, she thus solilo quized: "Kitty, I wish one of us was dead this minute. Not you. kitty nor me, kitty, but one of us three in this room." —Exchange. Different. Seedy Chap (stopping pedestrian)— Pardon me, sir. but you look very much like a man I know. Pedestrian—lndeed! Well, you look like a man I don't wart to know. Cood u.iy!—Boston Transcript. TRUTH. Truth is so estimable a quality that is will not permit of any tam pering. Like a minor, to breathe upon it with cold falsehood only makes it reflect a dim image of its purity. An untruthful man is a man always to be feared. Woman's Weapons. A number of married men were re cently dining together at their club. The question was asked, "What trait in your wife do you consider the most expensive one?" The answers were as numerous as the men in the party. With one it was vanity, another re ligion or charity or love of dress. The last man to whom the question was put answered oracularly, "Her tears." Our First Sawmill. It is said that the first sawmill in the United States was at Jamestown, from which sawed boards were ex ported in June, 1007. A water power sawmill was in use in 1625 near the present site of Richmond. THE PATRIOT search. They embody the latest dls coveries of science in the great fields of heredity and eugenics. Mr. Wig gam is considered by biologists as tbe spokesman of the eugenic movement in this country, and his articles on the subject have been syndicated and given country-wide circulation. Wig gam was a great humorous lecturei before his researches had carried hiir. to the point where he felt qualike' to speak on the scientific subject with which hie later work has bee Identified, and his addresses an spicy and witty to a marked degree being intensely interesting, instruc tive and entertaining. THE NEAPOLITAN ORCHESTRA. Rather Too Light. The landlady who had not a reputa tion for overfeeding her boarders asked her solitary boarder as he looked dole fully at his supper, "Shall I light the gas?" The boarder gazed at the scanty meal and replied. "Well, no. it Isn't neces sary; the supper Is light enough!"— London Telegraph. Two Puzzles. Mrs. Bowns —How do you expect me to buy things for you to eat if you ! don't give me any money? Mr. Bowns —And how do you expect me to earn money f<r you if I don't get anything to eatV—New York Journal. He Wanted to Know. "Didn't you say," demanded the young man of the captain, "that this ship was equipped with all appliances for human safety?" "I did." "Then how does it happen that I now find myself engaged to a lady 1 ' did not know when the vessel left her pier?"— Judge. Well Answerea. Restaurant Patron (caustically)—l am glad to see your baby has shut up. madam. Mother—Yes, sir. You are the only thing that's pleased him since he saw the animals eat at the zoo.—Puck. Same as Being Away. Neighbor's Little Girl—When did you get back, Mrs. Browne? Did you have a nice time? Neighbor—Why, I haven't been away, my dear. "Haven't you, really? I'm sure 1 heard mother say you and Mr. Browne had been at Loggerheads for a week.' —National Monthly. PRINCE OP POPULAR LECTURERS NO POPULAR lecturer in America surpasses L. B. Wickersham in I his appeal to the average audi ence. Scholarly, yet never didactic; humorous, yet never clownish; uplift ing, yet never dry and uninteresting, his addresses take hold of the heart strings. His record of return dates has never been surpassed in the Ly ceum, 65 per cent of his engagements being in towns where he has appeared from one to four times, and his fund of material is practically inexhausti ble. The late Sam Jones, who knew a lecturer when he heard him, said: "Wnen committees ask me about a Russia's Fisheries. Russia ranks third among the fish and deep SOT food producing countries of the world. The total yield of fish is woll over $8,000,000 worth a year, but even this great supply is not equal to the needs of the population. GOOD HABITS. Good habits bring a personal freedom thai it is impossible to ob tain otherwise. The man who has the habit of doing anything that he ought to do with clocklike reg ularity is saved from a galling bondage of uncertainty, hesitation, energy wasting debate with him self, renewed day after day and growing more of a burden as life advances. Relics of the Pest. "I d il:e lo .see a one boss shay," re marked the city visitor. "Out of date." said his country host. "The nearest we can come to it now is a one cylinder car."—Pittsburgh Post. USE YOUR STRENGTH. In the assurance of strengih there is strength, and they are the weak est, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers. —Lord Bacon. Quite Enough. Penman —Lid you wade through that last book of mine? Wright—Yes. I did. "Were you much stuck on it?" "Only a dollar twenty-five."—Yonkers Statesman. Good Manager. "Is your son's wife a good man ager?" "Yes. She manages to make him jump whenever she gives him an or der, which is more than I ever was able to do."—Judge. 4 A Guide's Escape. First Guide—How was your life saved? Second Guide—He mistook a cow for me.—New York Sun. L. B. WICKERSHAM. lecture, I tell them if they want & man who will do everybody good— and do them good forever —get Wick ersham." Committees have been "get ting Wickersham," on the advice of the lamented Jones, for years, and none has ever yet been disappointed. He is a man of spotless character, lofty purpose and great natural en dowments; magnetic, brilliant, sym pathetic and humorous. His lectures are strikingly original, built around some fundamental truth, and gain added charm from his rich, musical voice and dramatic delivery. To hear Wickersham is to hear the Prince of Popular Lecturers. She—Aline's twin brother annoys her dreadfully. He—How? She—You see. everybody knows they are twins, and poor Aline can't pass for only twenty four because he tells people he's thir ty!— Exchange. AFFLICTIONS. Afflictions sent by Providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile. The same furnace that hardens clay liquefies gold, and in the strong manifestations of Divine pow er Pharaoh found his punishment, but David his pardon.—Colton. Hand-me-downs. "I have to wear father's old clothes. I don't suppose you girls have any troubles like those." "Yes, we do," said the girl. "I have to wear mother's old hulr."—Kansas City Journal. Some Loud Noises Cannot Be Heard. Experimenters in vibration have found that no sound, no matter how loud It may be, can be heard unless It lasts longer than one-fortieth of a sec ond. They have found that both the number of vibrations and the duration of sound Influence its audibility, prob ably the latter more than the former. This means that there are untold num bers of piercing sounds with infipltes lmal vibrations and short duration oc curring every moment about us. For tunately we are unable to hear them, else we should be driven crazy In a short time. The ear apparatus Is so constructed that It records only those sounds that last one-fortieth of a sec ond or over.—Chicago Tribune. Old English Slavss. Before the conquest and for a long time after at least two-thirds of the people of England were denuded of all the substantial attributes of freedom. The lords had VJJ absolute disposal of them. They might be attached to the soil or transferred by deed, sale or con veyance from one lord to another. They could not chance their place or hold property—in short, they were slaves under their obligation of per petual servitude, which the consent of the master alone could dissolve. The system was not fairly abolished until the reign of Charles 11., and so late as 1775 men were bought and sold in Scotland with the estates to which they were bound. Dog Spooks. The phantom dog specter was one of the hardest of old English supersti tions. Almost every county had Its black dog which haunted its lonely spots and was the dread of every na tive. Most of them were regarded as devils, but some were heid to be the spirits of human beings, transformed thus as a punishment Lady Howard, i a Devon notable of the days of James 1., for instance, was said to be com pelled to haunt Okehampton in the form of a dog as a punishment for her cruelty to her daughter. Pretty Weary. Weary (lying under apple tree)— Say. mister, kin I have one of dem apples? Farmer—Why. them apples won't be ripe for four months yit. Weary—Oh. dat's all right. I ain't in no hurry. 11l wait—Life. I Her Mean Brother.
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