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Of course, the question of wardrobe was a most Important one still. I had done very well to (ar as peasant dresect ot various nationalities were concerned. 1 had even acquired a page's dress of my own, but 1 had no ball drest nothing but a plain, skimpy white muslin gown which 1 had outgrown, for I had gained surpris ingly In height In the passing year. And, lo' the report went about that Mr. Tcter Richlngs and his daughter Caroline were coming In a fortnight and they would surely do their play, "Fashion," In which everyone was In a dance. I was dis traught! I knew everyone would bring out her belt (or that attraction, (or you must know that actresses in a stock com pany grade tbetr costumes by the stars, and only bring out the very treasures of their wardrobe on state occasions. I was In great distress one of my' mates had a genuine silk dress, the other owned a bunch of artificial gold grapes horribly unbecoming stiff things but mercy! gold grapes! who cared whether they were be ing or not? Were they not gorgeous (a lady star had given them to her), and quite (It (or a ballroom? And 1 would have to drag about, heavy tooted. In a skimpy mus lin! Dut In the company there was a lady who had three charming little children. She was the singing soubrette (by name Mrs. James Dickson). One ot her babies became sick, and I sometimes did small bits ot (hopping or other errands (or her, thus per mitting her to go at once from rehearsal to her beloved babies. Entering her room (rom one of these errands I (ound her much vexed and excited over the destruction of one' of a set of fine new lace curtains. The nursemaid had carelessly set it on fire. Of course, Mrs, Dickson would have to buy two more to replace them, and now, with the odd one in her band, she started to wards her trunk, paused doubtfully and finally said to met "Could you use this curtain (or bome small window or some thing. Clara?" At her very first words a dazzling possi bility presented Itself to my mind. With burning cheeks, I answered, "Oh, yes, ma'am, 1 I can use It but not at a win dow I'm afraid." "All right: take It along then!" she cried "and do nhat you like with it. It's only been up two days and has not a mark on it " Tlir First Dlttrr Drop. I fairly flew from the house. I sang as I made my way uptown to buy several yards ot rose-pink paper-cambric and a halt garland of American-made artificial roses. Then I sped home, and behind locked doors measured and cut and snipped and regard less of possible accidents held about a gill of pins In my mouth, while I hummed over my work All my fears were gone, they had fled before the waving white curtain, which fortunately (or me was o( fine meshed net, carrying (or design unusually small garlands of roses and daisies. And when the great night came I ap peared as one of the ball guests In a pink underslip. with white lace overdress, whose low wclst was garlanded with wild roses. So. happy at heart and light of (oot, I danced with the rest, my pink and white ballooning about me In the courtesies with as much rustle and glow of color as though It had been silk. But alss! the Imitation was too good a one. The pretty little cheap gown I was so happy over attracted the attention of a woman whose whisper meant scandal, whose lifted brows was an innuendo, whose dropped lid was an accusation. Like a carrion bird she fed best upon corruption. Thank heaven! this cruel creature, hated by men. feared by the women, was not an actress, but through mistaken kindness she had been made wardrobe woman, where, as Mr. Ellsler declared, she spent her time in ripping up and destroying the reputation of his actors Instead of making and repair ing their wardrobes. That nothing was too small to catch her pale, cold eye Is proved by the fact that even a ballet girl's dress received her at tention. Next day, after the play "Fash ion" bad been done, this woman was saying: "That girl's mother had better be locking after her conduct, I think." "Why, what on earth has Clara done?" caked her listener. "Done!" she cried; "didn't you see her flaunting herself around the stage last night In silks and laces no honest girl could own? Where did the money come from that paid (or Buch finery?" A few days later a woman who boarded In the house honored by the mischief maker happened to meet Mrs. Dickson happily for me and said en passant: "Which one ot your ballet girls Is It who bas taken to dressing with so much wicked extravagance? I wonder Mrs. Ellsler ddn't notice It." Now, Mrs, Dickson was Scotch, generous and "unco" quick-tempered, and atter she had put the Inquiring (rlend right she visited her wrath upon the originator of the slander In person, and verily the Scotch burr was on her tongue nnd her "rs" rolled famously, while she explained the com ponent parts ot that extravagant cos tume a window curtain her gift and pa per cambric and artificial flowers to the cost of M.T5 "nnd you'll admit," she cried, "that errn the purse of a 'gude lass can stand sic a strain as that,' and what's more, you wicked woman! had the girl been worse dressed than the other you would have been the first to call atten tion to her as slovenly and careless!" This was the first drop of scandal ex- pressed, eapeclally for me, and I not only found Its taste bitter very bitter but learned that It had wonderful powers of expansion and that the odor It gives oft is rather pleasant In the nostrils of every one save Its object. One of the most unpleasant experiences In the life of a young actress is her fright ened lenely rush through the city streets at 1! o'clock at night, to reach her board ing house and claim sanctuary. I doubt l( even a Una and her lion could pass unmo lested through those streets, dotted with all night "(ree7and-eatys" where, by the way, nothing Is free but the poisonous air, and nothing la easy but the language. At al! events, fiotn my own varied and unpleasant experiences, and (rum the stories ot others, I had first drawn certain deductions, then I proceeded to establish certain rulei (or the guidance and direction of auy girl who B OWN'S Clear the rote. Mliltiiaiii Kellere KK N HA thethrotU wiiviiviiink TROCHES Care coughs and colds. Is boats ecly. Avoid imitations. was so unfortunate as to be forced to walk abroad unattended at night. These rules beeame known as "Clara s Code," and were highly approved, especially by those girls who "couian t think." as they declared. "but stood stock still, too frightened to move," when some wanderer ot the night unceremoniously addressed them. I can not rettember all those rules now, since (or these many years God hss granted me a protector, but (rom the tew that I can re call I am convinced that their principal ob ject was to gain plenty ot leeway (or the persecuted girl's escape. No. 3 sternly (orbade her ever, ever to pass between two advancing men at night, ot course, be It understood lett they might seize hold of her and so frighten her to death. She was advised never to permit her- self to take the Inside of the walk when meeting a stranger, who might thus crowd her against the houses and cut off her chances to run. Never to pass the opening to an alleyway without placing the entire width of the sidewalk between her and It, and always to keep her eyes on it as the passed. Never to let any man pass her from behind on the outside was to be In sisted upon Indeed she should take to the street Itteif first. She was not to answer a drunken man, no matter what might be the nature of his speech. She was not to scream If she could help It for (ear o( public humiliation, but It the worst came, and some hideous prowler of tbo night pasted from speech to actual attack, then shn was to forget her ladyhood, and re membering only the tenderness of the male skin, and her right of sel(-dc(eno, to kick like a colt till help came, or she was re leased. Other portions ot the "code" I have forgotten, but I do distinctly remem ber that It wound up with tho really Hoyle llke observation; "When In doubt take to the center of the street." Mankind at Midnight. We all know the magic power o( the moonlight, have seen it transmute the commonest ug'lness Into perfect beauty and change a world-worn woman Into the veriest lily maid, but how (ew know the dread power exerted over man by the street gaslight after midnight. The kindest old drake of the farm pond, the most pom pous gobbler of the buckwheat field be comes a vultute beneath the midnight street light. A man who would shoot for being called a blackguard between 7 o'clock in the morning and i: at night often be comes one after midnight. H is frequently said that "words break no bones," but let a young girl pass alone through the city streets a (ew nights and she will probably hear words that, drowning her In shamed blushes, will go (ar towards breaking her pride, if not her bones. Men seem to be creatures of very narrow margin, they so narrowly escape being gods, and they si. much more narrowly escape being wild beasts. Under the .sunlight man. made In the Image of God, lifts his head heaven ward and walks erect: under the street lamps of midnight he Is stealthyr he prowls, he It a visible destruction! You think I exaggerate In this matter? Do not: I speak from experience, and, what is more, at that time I had not yet learned what the New York streets could produce atter midnight. But on the night after the chair episode Frank Murdoch beard one of the girls say sno had used the Clara Code very success fully the night before, when two drunken men had reeled out of an alley, who would have collided with her had she not fol lowed the rule and kept the whole sidewalk between them. He stood at the door as 1 came down stairs, and as soon as I reached him he asked sharply: "Do you go home alone nights?" "Yes," I answered. "Good God!" he muttered. After a pause I looked up at blm and met his eyes, shining wet and blue through two tears. "Oh." I hastily added, "there's noth ing to be afraid ot!" "I wish I could agree with you," he an swered. "Tell me," he went on, "have you ever been annoyed by any one?" My eyes fell; I knew I was growing red. "Good God!" he said again. Then sud denly he ordered: "Give me that bag you'll not go through those streets alone while I'm here never mind the distance. I don't seo why you can't take my arm?" and thus 1 found myself for the first time escorted by a gentleman, and after ray hot embarrassment wore off a bit 1 held my head very high and languidly allowed my skirt to trail in the dutt, and said to my self "this is like a real grown-up surely tbey can't call me 'child' much longer now." The star playing with us Just then wan a tragedian, but he was a very little man, whose air of alertness, even of aggressive ness, had won for him the title of "Cocky" Roberts. He wore enormously high heels, he had thick cork soles on the outside and thick extra soles on the Inside ot all his boots and shoes. His wigs were sllgitly padded at their tops everything possible was done (or a gain in height, while all the time he was spluttering and swearing nt what he called this "cursed cult of legs." "Look at tbem.v he snorted, for he Old snort like a horse when he was angry as ho generally was, at the theater, at least; "look at 'em, Ellsler there's Muidcch, Proctor, Davenport all gone to legs, 4nnn 'em and calling themselves actors! You don't look for brains in a man's I?gs, do you? No! no! It's cranium that tells! Yes, blast 'em! let 'em come here and math cranlums with me. that they think It smart to call 'Cocky!' They're a lot of theatrical tongs all legs and no heads!" And yet this poor, fuming little man, with his exaggerated strut, w-ould have given anything short of his life, to have added even a (ew Inches to his anatomy, tho brevity of which was quite (orgotten by the public when he gave bis really brilliant fad pathetic performance of Belphegor ne of the earliest of the so-called "emotional" plays. I have a very kindly remembrance of that fretful little star because when they were discussing the cast ot a play, one of those tormenting parts turned up that arc of great Importance to the piece, but ot no Importance themselves. Capable ac tresses refuse to play tbem, and Incapable ones create baroc In tbem. This one bad already been refused, when Mr. Roberts suddenly exclaimed: "Who wbe It made those announcements last nlht? She spoke with beautiful distinctness let that young woman have the part she'll do it all right." Courtship lid (liter of Mnrrln.nr, Oh, dear Mr. Roberts! never "Cocky" to me! Oh, wise little judge! bow I did honor him for those precious words"let that young woman have the part." That "young woman!" I could have embraced him for very gratitude a part and the term "young woman!'1 And since, as my eld washerwoman used to say: "It never rains but It pours," while these two words were till making music In my ears, by some flash ot Intuition I realized that I was being courted by Frank. The discovery filled me with the utmost satisfaction. I gave no thought to him In a sentimental way, either then or ever, quite selfishly I thought only ot my own gain In dignity and Importance; tor I started out In lire with the old-fashioned Idea that a man honored a woman by his courtship, and I knew naught ot the lover who "loves and rides away." Yet, In a few days, the curious, cat-like Instinct ot the uncon scious coquette awakened In me, and I began very gently to try my claws. I wished very much to know If he were Jealous, as I bad been told that real lovers always were so, and naturally I did not wish mine to (all short ot any of the tlmc honcred attributes ot loverdom. There fore, I one morning selected for experi mental use a man whose volume of speech was a terror to all had he been put to the iword, be would have talked to the swordsman till the final blow cut his speeh. He was most unattractive, too. in appearance, being one of those actors who get shaved after reheatsal Instead of be fore It, thus gaining a nputatlon (or un tidiness tht facta may not always justify but he served my purpose all the better (or that. TpstlnK HI I.utc I deliberately placed myself at his side 1 was only a ballet girl, but I had two good ears, I was weelome. Conversation, or rather the monologue, burst (orth standing at the side ot the stage with rehearsal going on. he of csurse spoke low. I watched for Frank's arrival. He came I heard his cheery "Good morning, ladles' Good morning, gentlemen'" and then he started toward me, but I heard nothing saw nothing of him my upraised eyes, at wide at I could possibly make tbem, were fixed upon the face ot the talker. Yet, with a jump ot the heart, I knew the brightness had gone (rom Frank's (ace, the spring (rom his step. 1 smiled sweetly as I knew how I seemed to hang upon the words ot the untidy one and oh! It Frank could only have known what those words wete; how I was aisured that he, the speaker, had thai very mcrnlng, succeeded In stopping a leaky hole in his shoe by melting a piece of India rubber over and on tp It. and that not n drop ot water had penetrated wben he had walked through the rain puddles and right there, like music, there came to my listen ing ear. a word of four letters a forbiddsn word, but one full of consolation to the rtls trctsed male a word beginning with "'D," and for fear that you may think It was "Dear" why, I will be explicit, and say that It was "Damn!" and that It was from the anger-whitened Hps o( Frank who, during the morning, gave not only to me, but to all lookers-on, most convincing proof ot his jealousy, and that was but the beginning or my experiments. I did this to see It 1 would make him angry I did that to see If It would pleace him. Sometimes I scratched htm with my Investigating claws, then I was sorry, truly sorry, because I was grate ful always for his gentle goodness to me, and never meant to hurt him. But he rep resented the entire sex to me, and I was learning all I could, thinking, as I onc told him, that the knowledge might be art ful on the stage sometime, and wondered at the very fury my words provoked In him. We quarreled, sometimes, like spiteful children, as when I, startled Into laughter by hearing his voice break In a speech, un fortunately excused myself by saying; "It was Just like a young rooster, you know!" And he, white with anger, cried. "You're a solid mass of rudeness to laugh at a mis fortune; you have no breeding." Which brought from me the rejoinder-. "I know It, but you would have shown better breeding yourself had you not told me of lu'" And then he was on his knee In the en trance, begging forgiveness and saying "his cursed cracked voice made a madman ot him," as It really did, for ho often accused people of guying him It they did but clear their own throats. And so we went on until something In his manner his In creased efforts to find me atone at rehear sal, (or as I was boarding without a room mate in Cleveland I could not receive at home, and truly I think be would have kept silence forever rather than have urged me to break any conventional rule of propriety something gave me the Idea that Frank was going to be well explicit that that I was going to be proposed to according to established form. A TlirllllnR Moment. Now, though a proposal o( marriage Is a thing to look forward to with desire, to look back upon with pride. It Is also n thing to avoid wben It is in the rmmedlate future; and I so successfully evaded his efforts to find me alone at the theater or at some friend's bouse that he was forced at last to speak at night, while escorting me bome. I lodged In a quiet little street, opening out of the busiest, more noisy Kinsman street. In our front yard there llv?d a large, greedy old tree, which had planted Its foot firmly In the very mtddla of the path, thus forcing everj one to c'aasse nround It who wished to enter the house. Its newly donned summer greenery ex tended far over the gate, and as the moon shone full and fair the "set" was entirely appropriate. We reached the gate and 1 held out my hand for my bag that small catch-all of a bag that, in the hand of an actress, Is the outward and visible slgu ot her proteBslon but be let the bag slip to the walk and caught my hand In his. The street was deserted. Leaning against the gate, beneath the sheltering boughs of the oold tree, the midnight stillness all about us, he began to speak earnestly I made a frantic search through my mind for something to say presently, when my turn would come to speak. I rejected In' stantly the ancient wall of "suddenness," Frank's temper did not encourage an offer of sisterhood, and I was catching Joyously at the Idea of hiding behind the purely Im aginary opposition of my mother, when Frank's words, "then, too, dear heart! 1 could protect you and" were interrupted by a yowl so long, so piercing. It seemed to rise like a rocket of anguish into the summer sky. "Oh," I thought, "that's one-eared Jim from next door, and if our Slmmonds hears him and he'd have to be dead not to bear he will come out to fight him." I clinched my teeth: I dropped ray eyes, that Frank might not see the threatening laughter there. 1 noted how much whiter bis hand was tbau mine as tbey were clasped in the moonlight. The pause had been long, then very gently he started again- "Mlgnonne'" Distinctly I heard the t!iump of Sim mond's body dropping from tho porch roof. "Migconne! look up. you big-eyed child, and tell me that I may go to your mother with your promise!" Wow! wow! wow' spit! spit! wow! four balls of fire glowed for a moment beneath the tree, then two dark forms became one dark form that whirled and bonnded through space, emit ting awful sounds! The cats were too much for me. I threw back my head and laughed. My laugh was too much for Frank. His temper broke he flung ray hand away, crying out: "Laugh, you little idiot! you're worse than the ani mals, for they at least knew no better! Laugh till morning, If you like!" and then I'm sorry to say It but then he kicked my bag the precious lnslgna of my profession nnd rushed down the street, leaving me standing there, amid the debris ot the wrecked proposal. Next night, he frigidly presented himself to escort roe home, and wben I coldly de clined his company, he turned Bilently and left me. Truth to tell. I did not enjoy my walk alone through the market place in particular and I planned to unbend a little the next evening, and I was much piqued to find myselt without an excuse tor un bending, since, on the next evening, he did not offer his company. The third night there was a big lump In my throat, and the tears would have fallen, had they not been suddenly dried In ray eyes by the sight o? a familiar light gray suit slipping along close to the houees on the other side of the way. Petulant Irritable loyal-hearted boy, he had safe-guarded me both these night when I thought I was alone! My heart was warm with gratitude toward him, and when I reached my gate and passed inside, I called acrois the street; "Thank you, Frank, good night!" nnd he laughed and answered, "Good night, Mlgnonne!" And so It came about that Frank's woo ing, being of the strict and stately order, I gradually came to bu "Miss Morris' to others besides himself. I saw my advance In dignity, and If I did not love him I gave blm profound gratitude, and we were true friends his short and honorable life through. CLARA MORRIS, The figurative phrase, "A preen old age," is both picturesque and suggestive. It likens us to trees, which instead of being baro and leafless in age, arc still vigorous, and giving leafy shade and shelter. What a contrast between this helpful and beautiful old age and the old age that is like the withered tree with only here and there a leaf to show that life lingers in the trunk How cm this useful and attractive old age be attained ? The first essential is to keep the stomach in a condition of sound health. It is not the quantity of food we eat but what we digest and assimilate which nourishes the body. 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