———— ———— ors —— “ PENNY Y DREADFUL. ” HOW THE MELODRAMA OF LIT- ERATURE IS MADE. it Takes Mcre Plot Than Any Other Kind of a Production. -Some of the Methods. I ran against two girl friends of | mine last Saturday whom 1 haven't | seen for a long time; so we all turned | | into on Broadway to eat ices and have a ‘good talk)’ My two friends are literary—they have not exactly yet inscribed their names upon the roll of fame, but they are girls of great resource and have enough ambition to attempt any- thing, from fashion articles to blank 1} g 71 ABORATEURS, THE TWO COLL fore I was not sur the y announced, with of strawberry and yerse. Theref prised when their mouths full vanilla: “We! “What— ism? dreadful,’ ’ Magog. “Do y eynical ¢ still a ¢ ing to Europe.” «is of journal- Of In ‘thoroughly quired “Of Midge, ways sible question ble notice judge from th there wasn have the good lucl Kk to farm] the suppl shoul d we, omy : ted over my ready ‘On the ing better th ‘ Well average in answered “No ' My jcle a thi and regain the longing rs of 10. was properly in.” impassiones 1, when my pe I And you won a boy's book of stirring «¢ ven a psychological novel. No, got nD i Yi 1 idea altogethe r, friend. to guard yl Ve the wro : swered my “The great t is ori gina lity. That's convenient effort required.” “Pon’t to Midge, did it.” “You seem to ing perfectly your stuff?” “ ‘Our stuff,’ favorite dl again Ged Ta hin g st 9 be a Ly funny,” have done it by be- natural; but who reads as you call it is the reading matter of the old- young person of neglected educa- tion,’ said Magog with pride. “Her neglected education accounts for he taste,”” I remarked. “Do you want about our system?’ asked Midge, THE OLD YOUNG PERSON OF NEGLECTED ER pu ATION, Jottily, or do you want to keep on mally? “Oh, you have a system?’’ “Certainly we have. being, as I said, old-young persons of neglected education—and school realism. “ They have got used to a certain in and again. That's ters in * penny dreadfuls’ are always alike.” J icy dreadful,” sald Mi : ely, “ls a highly imaginative ~ story, dealing and wealth. You know what kind of a thing the good, old-fash- ioned melodrama is. Well, the ‘penny dreadful’ is the good, old- fashioned melodrama in the form of a story.” “Yes, that's the idea,’ said Ma- gog, who had meanwhile disposed of another ice, ‘‘ and the stage proper- ties of the good old- fashioned melo- drama are found in the ‘penny dreadful.’ You must have a ruined castle.” “And HA secret a blacksmith’s forge.” panel, of course—that goes without saying.’’ “+A horrible railway collision.’ “And you might as well write a ‘Penny Dreadful’ without a set of family jewels as go to a picnic with- out a corkscrew.” ‘“Then there's the gamekeeper’s cottage. ““And the portrait the particular portrait shudowy eyes that ene. : ‘And the gibbet in the light.” “Stop! stop! That’ “*Now tell me about the plot fashionable not to have isn’t it? That must simplify two wild roman- gfllery—with with the great haunt every hanging on a \ lentless moons ske le ton ‘cold re a 8 enough,’ 1 one Now, you ‘That's just where ‘Penny Dreadful’ isn’t fashion- Just get that out of your It isn’t as advanced as the or anything like as you're out. $1 noe, It's con- But steal ‘Shilling Shocker.’ virtuous and unreal. Why we have to and about one Mrs. Wood, takes to run Henry heaps of fifteen ‘Penny it Dreadful’ on.” “You seek,” said Midge, and we have of suspense “it comes to leave al a «tn a stute f i 1 By i enc number. $s an imi “The ' sai name 1 d Mag CHET id I. a yi ercirvian td arrangement } i nns ‘For | arrangemen Midge. hetwynd's A SCHOOLGIRL. READER, deleys, Glendinnings’’ ——— “Does the old-young person neglected education scorn and Joneses?” “She wouldn't waste her time on them." **On what lines your love scenes?’ “Our proposals are ideal propos- als—exactly the opposite of what real proposals are’' said Magog. “Now, I believe in what Oscar Wilde says, that when you come to think of it.it is the women who really propose. Now, I had a proposal the other day. I had flirted with the man and had been nice to him, but I had to help him out with his proposal before I could refuse him properly. A girl doesn’t want to refuse an undevel- oped proposal. Now, the man in the ‘Penny Dreadful’ has a perfectly phe- nomenal flow of impassioned lang- nage. and he proposes grammatically, enthusiastically and artistically. If he is the hero the girl merely has to reise her great pansy eyes to his, or if he is the viliain all she has to do is to spurn him; there's a good deal of Sphining done in the ‘Penny Dread- ful.’ ’ “Well,” said Midge, ‘you may be as scornful as you please, we know what there's a market for, don’t we, Magog?'’ ““Yes,”’ answered the big partner. “And it says a good deal for the ros mantic tastes of the reading public that there is still a decided demand for the ‘Penny Dreadful.” “A good deal for the neglected education, you mean,” I replied. And they said I was jealous. M. Ww. of jrowns do you conduct A swamr rabbit, killed near Pales. tine, Texas, the other day. had three horns on the head each two inches long. Two of the horns came up from the sides of the head. The other was in the middle. Warts all over the under jaw gave the creature nee, and the natives ve | think have Bb last got rid of the { A Little Girl's Find, *See, mamma, what I've got,” glee- fully said the t-year-old daughter of Mrs. Henry Hill, Johnston street, Germantown, yesterday, as she tossed a bundle of greenbacks, gold and silver coins, and pennies, valued at $400, into her mother's lap. “Where did you get all this?” was asked. “On a lot,” said the little girl, innocently. Mrs. Hill made inquiries and found that her daughter had been playing on a lot at Duval and Green streets, and had really found the money lying on the dumping-ground. How the money got there is a mystery to the police, but it was generally believed that the money was accidentally dropped in some ashes gathered from a distance and then thrown on the dumping ground. Philadelphia Press. A certain prominent and excellent lawyer of Chicago, but one of the quietest and most unobstrusive of men. steals around nolselessly, with his hands meekly clasped on his breast and a seraphic and perpetual smile. : told of the late Emery Storrs, of Chi quisite wit ofice and inquired for him, jnformed that he was out. . “Ob, no, he isn’t,” he replied: “1 know be is in.” “But I assure you, Mr. Storrs he is not in.” “Now,” responded Mr. Storrs, “I know better; he must te in, it is so still in there!” —— ry Rare Book. It is reported, notes the Critle, that a copy, in excellent condition, of Yoe's “Tamerlane” (1827), one of the rarest books in the ore has recent ly been discovered and is held at 81, 625. lt is sald to have been picked ur in a second-hand bookstore in Bos mained in the possession of chaser ever since it Is Not What We Say nt Ho u's # Sarsrpariil t evidences in atary tosiimo- the forsh snpure k 1} Hes: s Sarsa~" parille Be Sure ee to Go gn Hood’ s Plllg cure hal taal constips 1 i The difficulty which certain for elgners have in finding anything re- markable in what they see on this continent Is illustrated by a story of an Englishman's visit to Niagara, A | Canadian friend who was acting as | guide fell into ecstasies over the scene, “Now,” sald the Canadian, stand before Niagara itself.” “Niagara? aw— Niagara. But now-— | “you wonderful about 1t?” “What is there wonderfull it is Niagara!” “Ach! But, you know, it's only water coming dowp. 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