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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
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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.