“I Was With Booth
“I was with Booth,” the stranger sald. |
Said the actor: “Say no more.
It is not often that I'm mislead.
1 have seen your face before”
“I was with Booth,” the stranger sald,
Said the actor: “So was I,
So sit you down to my humble spread, |
And a foaming mug I'll buy.”
“I was with Booth,” the stranger sald,
Said the actor: “What a shame
That the master lies in the graveyard
dead,
And we are unknown to fame.”
“I was with Booth,"
Said the actor: “Would that we
Could again the stage so proudly
tread
With artists such as he.”
the stranger sald. |
“I was with Booth,” the stranger said. |
Said the actor: “Ne’er shall 1
Forget those days through the years
long fled.
Drink up, for my throat is dry.”
“lI was with Booth,” the stranger said, !
“Do not interrupt me more.
"Twas Ballington [| was with, not Ned,
The Salvation Army Corps."
—Sam 8S. Stinson, in Punch.
Olive’s
Opportunity
BY
PRISCILLA LEONARD
cP QQ 0-90-2590 0-9
“I'd like
write about
lars a Week’
said Oli
well, Etta,
to the people who
‘How to Live on Ten Dol-
try to do it themselves”
hopelessly. “It's all very
to put down the in
a nice neat list, with ‘Board
and lodging, six dollars.” That read
beautifully up in Vermont, where half
the price would do if you helped round
the house. But down in New
York the littlest hall bedroom with
your board is dollars, and prices
going up time Just look at
how we were crowded in here two of
in a room only meant for
a half, and paying seven dollars
a half apiece for it.”
“And glad enough to get it at that”
said her roommate from Indiana. “My,
but didn’t I wear out a pair of shoes
looking for that fifty cents off! It
Janet Sanders hadn't you about
this .and you hadn't let me in on it, I'd
be climbing stairs still and ting
new sorts of disagreeable landladies
in each street—but all alike on the
prices. Father sends me fifty dollars
a month. He's an angel, and it's more
than he really can spare, and so I try
to cut down on it But forty-five is
my lowest record so far. If it wasn't
that an art student is expected to look
shabby, I'd be lost, and as it is, I really
am shabbier than the rules.”
“Nonsense! Lucky you!
“Fifty dollars a month is ri
is destitution. Janet
because she knew.
self, she w
phan-
see
ye
items
beginning
here
eight
all the
and
and
one
told
me
sald Olive
Forty
me out
her.
and
only she had ar
ten doll
nearer
ten
sent her
bo i¥
hasn't
wouldn
ed the ol
E2 back to
I'm
h to
art, and
ent
my
me, Etta
a winter
1 shail
corn with
hand, and the
els The higher
upon me-—a doll
my present pos:
makes me
‘Janet Sanders painte
sell, int she?’ said E
ghe made qute a good
for menu
pay for the :
But unless
0 d
Ww to 1
sit
how t
hat, ns
so0n De
0 witl !
fare,
sireet
ention car
on the
pencils in
ils
eld out for
er one
other
foul
nick
RICK
50 low in my mind.”
«d things to
tta. “I heard
deal on orders
cards and favors.”
‘Janet can do anything”
Olive, uncheered “She's
scholarship, and goes to Europe
this autumn. She a foreordained
success. Where five hundred girls are
trying to make both ends meet by
painting menu cards and favors, only
a Janet can get orders. I've been to
every store and every exchange in
New Cork, and nobody orders any.
thing of me. I haven't the touch for
painting dainty trifles-—I can see that
myself.”
“No, you get broad effects. and have
to work that way,” said Etta. “But
there must be an opening somewhere,
Olive.”
“Etta Laurence,” replied her room:
mate, “1 used to think the world was
like a seive—all openings. But for the
last six weeks it has been a high board
fence, I even tried the ‘want’ adver
tisements yesterday. I went to a piace
where they advertised for girls to ad-
dress wrappers, and to another where
they wanted a girl to amuse children.
At the wrapper place they wanted no |
one who could not work from seven in |
the morning to six In the evening. At
the other place the woman wanted to |
call me by my first name, and put a
cap and apron on me, and have me
eat with the colored housemald and
butler ,and my hours were from six
in the morning to five in the after.
noon. Besides, you ought to have
heard the children scream when we
went into the nursery to look at them!
If I must go hatless and shoeless, 1
must. But don’t ask me to answer
any more want advertisements.”
“There must be some kind of an
epportupidty waiting for us some.
al
returned
won the
off
a
is
where,” persisted Etta.
ways Is one, you know,
hard enough.”
“In Indiana and Vermont, yes,” sald
Olive, “Last summer I made cake and
ice-cream for the women in the village
who took in summer boarders. I had
all I could do. But imagine making
cake in this room,” looking round the
tiny, dingy little third-floor back,”
“and especially imagine, my dear Etta,’
ice-cream! I'd have to have
| hokep-pokey glasses, a handecart and |
New York seems to me a
If you'll only
opening big enough to
in, Etta, I'll take it
Jack Robinson.”
" said Etta,
was it? |
between |
for 1
a sign
It
“Thera al!
if we search!
me an
my finger
you can say
“1 passed a store to-day,
where
avenue,
Street and here,
that way. It had
wanted in the evenings.’
of candy and Ice-cream!
about f{ce-cream
Wait—iL was
Cellint's, |
Somewhere on the
walked up
‘Girl
a sort
think
me of it
""
sald Olive. “I'll go thera!
Don't you want a walk,
ur do
see whether I can get through.
The wind blew chill in their faces
as they walked down the avenue, The
ing, and the thought nerved Olive to
The candy and ice-
store, when they reached it,
still had the sign out,
Inside, half a dozen girls were wait.
ing to interview the sharp-faced pro-
prietor. Two of them was so pretty
and neat that Olive's heart sank, and
it was with
a discouraged voice tht she an.
But
asked was:
about mak-
rather
to her joy, the third thing
“Do you know anything
ing ice-cream?”
“Yes,” sald
gallons of it
boarders.”
“Do you know anything about pack.
ing it and serving fit sald the
proprietor, with evident interest
“Yes. I can do anything there is to
about ice-cream,” sald Olive, sure
of her ground
‘Where are you from?”
“Yermont."”
‘Humph! I'm from Maine,
you're the girl I'm looking for. These
city girls look well and that's all
there is to them. Can you come from |
seven to ten every night for a while,
to see how it works? Two and a half
a week is all 1 can give you, and |
you'll have to wash dishes some
times.”
“Very well”
shall I begin?”
“To-morrow night”
tor “Come at six, and
the ropes, and give you
The girls went home
“Etta, you're a
pay-day, 1 hereby
ice-cream and cake
Olive, as they
their room.
“You
thirty
jor the
Olive. 1 made
last summer
out?”
do
Guess
sald Olive “When |
sald the proprie.
I'h show you
your supper.”
triumphantly
first
jewel On
you to all the
you can eat!” cried
mounted the stairs to}
my
fnnvir
invite
have much
It's
Maine
left,
be
wont
id Etta
, Oilve
pay
going to
is going
from Ma
New Er
ine
gland
New
evenings
afterward she ¢ in and sat down
Etta's bed and beg r
‘What is atte: said Etta, |
reaching out and hugging ber up “You |
dear can |
feel how feverish you are.” i
“Oh. it's not a cold'™ eo Olive,
“It's—it's dreadful! Etta, the man
from Maine wants me to--—to—marry
him! He says I'm just the wife he
wants for the business. He's set his
heart on it. He's been following me
round all evening He came home
with me, and kept proposing all tha
way. Did you ever hear anything so
absurd? And he'll never give It up;
he's that kind I'm just like a good
investment he's determined to have
don't you He's made up his
mind, and there isn’t anything for me
to do but to leave. So I gave him
notice. He wouldn't take it, but |
shall stop, just the same, at the end of
the week
The girl from Indiana had forfathers
from Maine, B8he recognized the sit
uation. *“O dear!” she said, disconso.
lately. “That's the end of your oppor.
tunity.”
“It has become importunity In
stead,” sald Olive, and then began to
laugh. “O, bother! Why wasn't he a
woman from Maine, instead? Never
mind, Etta, I've made fifteen dollars,
ale
and 1 in to cry
the n
1
poor you've caught cold. |
81 obb
gee?
a"
morrow I'm going to buy a basket of
fruit to zend Janet when she goes off
ion the steamer. Don’t I wish 1 was
going to Paris, too!”
“Some day you will,” said Etta, with
conviction, for Olive's unusual talent
was one of her roommate's articles of
faith. “You're smart enough and
plucky enough for anything, and your
chance will come, see if it doesn't!"
It loeked rather far eway the next
day to Olive, but she diverted her
mind from her troubles by hunting up
| a splint basket of the quaintest shape
she could find In the stores, and paint.
oranges and green leaves, Her talent
lay, as Etta had said, in broad effects
eye for color; and the
plain, strong hand lent itself excel
lently to the scheme, Etta admired it
immensely, and the nexi evening, on
the way to business, Olive stopped at
arrange about haviog it
filled and sent on Saturday.
The little Italian looked at the bas.
hard as he showed her his
oranges, grapes and ruddy apples,
“Where do you get this basket, mees?”
he asked, “Eet is ver’ good, and ver'—
what you call, novelty.”
“1 did it myself,” said Olive.
glad you think it is pretty.”
The Italian considered her shrewdly
He had seen her working in the ice.
cream store next door. She must be
in need of money. He was in need
of a novelty for his rich customers.
“Eef you would be willing, mees, to
do another one for me, I will gif a dol
lar for eet. Eef | sell eet, 1 will take
another then. People buy often the
basket--they ask a new sort of basket
all the time. I try this sort. Eef they
like eet, eet is good for me-—and for
you, perhaps.”
Olive looked at him gratefully-
caught a business gleam in his
She had not worked under the
from Maine for nothing.
“I'l one or two for you,” she
said, slowly, “but if they sell well I'l]
have to have more than a dollar, be
cause the cost of the
pains has to come out of it.”
The Italian smiled genially.
they like eet, they will pay.
seventy-five cents more-
care. Bring eet to-morrow,
one, and we will see.”
Olive bought the
breakfast the next
with her in the
dent that it was even j
other enough,
Etta went down
Janet off, sh
brou gh i1t over the side
the card of a fashionable
one of Cellini's
it. Etta and and
together artistic
and financial possibilities
has for the Malue
remarked Etta, flippantly
have hopes for her suc
Janet, with a farewel
“I'm
~and
eye
map
do
“Eet
Feefty,
the first
basket
day, it
evening, confl
wrettier than the
when she
Saturday to
her second basket
of the boat, with
and fuss
custom
Janet
ap
and took
Sure
on
& Baw
best
ers, upon she
rejoiced over its
“Olive no eve
“1 foresee you will join me in Paris
Olive, the first-fruits of Een
ius.”
Next week the sign, “Girl wanted in
evenings,” was sadly bung uy
the man from Maine
jut Olive, with fingers, was
a round dozen of baskats
with a pleasing perspective of dozens
of dozens ahead. —You
TANGLE OF ITALIAN LAW,
on your
joyful
th's Companion
Innocent Man in Prison for Burglary
Without Hope—Man Who Con
fesses Free.
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Of rhit
ar}
Italis
been lately
which has
ng example je
jent methods of
has
been
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sent to on to serve
his
The unfortunate man protested his
innocence and he invoked an alibi
should have convinced even
most hard hearted judge. He fur
nished proof that he could not
gihly have committed the bur
the simple but convincing reason that
at the time he was serving a sentence
for a crime of a similar nature com
mitted in France.
He lodged an appeal! against the
Itallan sentence, but as five years had
passed since it had been pronounced
the Judges of Appeal ruled that ac.
cording to the law of criminal pro.
cedure they were not allowed to take
cognizaznece of new evidence bearing
on the case which had been closed
and that even If they were convinced
of his innocence the sentence could
not be quashed. Nor could the man
hope for a royal pardon, as he wae
not a first offender but notorious
Jalibird.
Meanwhile the real burglar, Glusep
pe Memaria, was arrested. He was
tried and pleaded guilty but invoked
the statute of limitations and was set
free at once, This anomaly impress
ed the Italian Bench and the caso
was sent before the High Court ot
Cassation. Very slikely the law of
procedure will opose a third hearing
of the case, but even If some way oul
of the law's intricacies is found An
tonlo Semaria will not regain his lib
‘erty ationce, as fully two years will
be required for the hearing of the
case,
A reform of the law is under study,
but it is not likely that Parllament
will sanction it before at least an
other two years. When Antonio Se
maria will be set free he will have
served the full term of imprisonment
nor can he hope for compensation or
damages, ans these are not permitted
by the law of procedure.
and
Cnee
pris
passed in absence
pos
1s or
glary for
a
RICE-STUFFED TOMATOES,
Cut the tops off the tomatoes and
#coop out the insides. Have some
steamed rice ready, put in a good:
sized plece of butter, season well with
paprika, pepper and salt and add suf
ficient finely chopped sweet green
peppers to give it a piquant taste Do
not be too sparing of the peppers for
they give a most delicious flavor to
both rice and tomatoes. After these
Ingredients are well blended fill the
tomato cavities, put dots of butter on
the top of each, put in a baking-pan
and bake for about half am hour,
These may be served with a thick to
mato sauce made from the pulp ex
tracted from the tomatoes. -—Ameri
can Home Monthly.
DUTCH PICKLE.
Slice one peck of green tomatoes
and six large onions, Mix in thorough-
ly one teacupful of salt and let stand
over night. In the morning drain, add
two quarts of water and one quart of
vinegar, and boil twenty minutes
Again drain, and throw away liquid
Then add three quarts of vinegar, two
pounds of sugar, two tablespoonfuls
each of cloves, cinnamon, ginger,
spice and mustard, and twelve green
peppers chopped fine, Boll for one to
two hours Add curry powder to
taste, and seal In jars —Mrs F. A
N., lowa, in the Woman's Home Com-
panion
all
in
OF CANNED
ROOMS
SERVING ‘SH
mushroom hat
be
substances,
cooking They
sauces, and
ina
served,
The small button
come to us in cans have
and, like all proteid
toughened by further
are used principally in
should be added to the
few minutes before it is
The mushrooms
or cut
{cut into quarters)
creamed fish, chicken,
a similar dish made with brown
Added to a brown
Spanish sauce the
over a broiled steak or a
of beef. In larger
be served in
BRUCE on toast
School Magazine
TO CAN
Small beet: are
ning Wash as for
leave an inch of stalk
vent bleeding Boil
water: peel as for the
in a ne
enough vinegar
You must
to quantity
gar add two
a teaspoonful
1
t
mm cooked
are
hot sauce
to be
be left
They are
ish of
added to a dish of
" hol ©
nay
into quarters also
oy#ters or or
to a
sauce
Ww hole
quantity they
brown
May
Or a4 cream
Cookin
a
Joston B
BEETS
the
present
atl top
slightly
table
’
best
in
Have
Aucepan
bes
ol
sighboring
to
ready
cover is
use your own as
To
tabi
of
judgmen
each quart of vine
espoonfuls
strained
il ar h
vinegar
while
and a teaspoonft
salt Bring the
Pack the beets
cans
cover with
and
boiling
the sauce pal
patch
ciently cooked
COOK ng Lay
chicken into
pieces like the
firet: do not
he pleces so they
quickly and when all are
draw the skillet back a
the hot fire, that the
may cook thoroughly inside. but keep
hot enough to continue cooking. Only
experience can tell you just when the
pleces are done, as it depends on the
of heat, and the thorough
through As fast as the
pleces are done, Jift onto a plate
to set back
the floured
the hot fat. the
thigh and (113
the skillet;
will brown
thi
tick
CR
crowd
on all
sides
seared,
from
little
flesh
very Lie
until all are done
If there is more fat left in the skillet
pour it off,
and if the fat has been allowed to
scorch at all, strain all the fat, put.
ting back only what is wanted into
About three tablespoon.
fula of the fat is enough for this
Have a cup of sweet milk boiling hot.
brown a tablespoonful of flour in the
fat, stirring to blend, and as soon as
the flour is a light straw-color, pour in
the hot milk, stirring, and add salt
and pepper to taste allow the mix
ture to just come to a boil, and pour
out into a boat or bowl, If the gravy
is allowed to boil, it will curdle; if
“Just right,” it will be like thick
cream, smooth and savory. Biscuit
and coffee should be served with fried
chicken. —The Commoner.
SOME USES FOR SODA.
Apply dampened soda when bitten
by any polsonous insect,
Keep flowers fresh by putting a
pinch of scda in the water,
A weak solution of soda will revive
the color in a dusty carpet,
Add a teaspoonful of soda to the
water in which you wash Sliver.
One large teaspoonful of salsoda
will bleach a kettieful of clothes.
Add a little soda to the water
when bolling out enamel saucepans,
and it will help to cleanse them.
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