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TITE OMAITA DAILY DEE: SUNDAY, JULY 31, lf0.
ABOUT PLAYS, PLAYERS ARD PLAYHOUSES
Th! will be the last week of the Munn
ot the Ferris Summer Stock company at the
Boyd theater, nnd after nrxt Saturday
night th theater will be turned over to
1he cleaner, who will furbish tt up for the
winter season, which opens on August 21.
The season of the Ferris company has been
a success In both financial and artlstlo
ense. The attendance has been uni
formly food, the w -ather favoring the en
gagement greatly, a but few nights have
been so warm as to make an evening apent
Indoors uncomfortable. The pieces played
have been of excellent quality and all have
been faithfully and well presented. It baa
now been thoroughly demonstrated that
cummer stock Is a good proposition In
Omaha, and Messrs. Ferrla and Burgess
promise thjt another season they will give
the- patrons of the summer show even bet
ter entertainment than they have during
the laat three m nths.
Member of the company are preparing
for their winter's work on th.e road. Mr.
and Mrs. Owen (Polly Davis) leave thle
evening for Wisconsin, whore they will be
gin rehearsing the play In which Mr. Owen
will appear at the head of hla own com
pany during the winter. Their season opens
at Applet cm on the 15th, so they will have
no vacation thli year. Mr. Owen will pre
sent Ave or six playa, ranging from melo
drama, to the classics, and for this reason
ha gotten together a supporting company
Of versatile people. He expects to be In
Omaha with hla company about the holi
days for a week's time. Miss Pavey will
rest for a week or two at the close of the
summer season and then go out at the head
of one of the Ferrte road companies under
the direction of George Winters. Other
members of the company bava plans for
the winter which will require their Imme
diate attention .and the rests that will be
taken by any will be short. None of the
recent stock companies have been more
popular in Omaha than the present, both
. as a whole and as Individuals, and the good
wishes of a host of friends will accompany
each member on departure from the city.
Miss Tavey, who has noxr played here
two full summer seasons and part of a
third, saya she looks forward with eager
ness to coming back here next summer. "I
really enjoy my work hi Omaha," she says.
"It Is very hard and exacting at times, but
I bavs so many good friends her thai I
really do not mind the hard work, for the
pleasure mora than offset It. Then I am
getting experience that Is going to be of
Immense valuo to me some time." Mr.
Owen speaks in a similar strain of his ex
perience locally and saya he hopes to be )
Omaha again next summer. His wife
echoe th wish, saying her summers In
Omaha have been a source of great delight
to her.
Herr Conreld and Irapressario Henry W.
Savage came to terms with the musicians,
and th men who perform the Instrumental
music for the grand oneraa will be paid
the union scale. In a fit of pique at hav
ing to give in to the men, Herr Conreld
announced that he would get even. If he
couldn't cut the wages he would cut the
number 6f men who drew wages and effect
a saving that wny. It Is not altogether
Improbable that by the time snow files
and the millionaires get ready to cough
up their $10 per for seat, th Ire of good
Herr Dlrektor Conreld will have cooled off
Sufficiently so that he will see his , way
clear to having as many men In the or
chestra as usual.
This condition is worthy of a little con
sideration, even at the present. Some
astern editorial writers have wasted Ink
'.urlng the week In hysterical outcries
gainst' reducing the musicians to the status
f skilled mechanics through giving to their
inlon recognition. The ugly fact la that
the musicians, however they ar termed,
artist or artisan, found themselves reduced
to the "necessity of adopting the same
methods for protection that wen' adopted
by the skilled mechanics, and formed them
selves into a union. Ability to play on a
musical Instrument Is a divine gift, but it
Is no more a gift than ability to handle
a Jack plan or to operate a lath. It may
b rarer, but In the final resolution It Is
merely the development of a human fac
ulty. Musicians vary tu skill. Just as ma
chinists, or carpenters, or any class of
craftsmen. The Hne of reasoning followed
by each side of the controversy Is as plain
as the way up Farnam street. Mr. Con
reld decided that he wanted his expense
for orchestra reduced; the musicians de
cided that they would not piny for less
money than they were getting. When Mr.
Conreld found out that he could not got
other musicians, he gave In to his old men.
The man who plays the double bass or
th clarinet, th piccolo or the oboe, the
flut or th comet, the violin or the 'cello,
has gotten past th fomnntto day when
h la willing to starve on the pittance
allowed him by the koppelmelster until the
time when his composition shall win him
wonderful sums of red-red-gold. He has
found that even bread and buttr costs
. money in this land of tho dollars, not to
speak of meat, and that a man who dies
In a garret with the light of his genius
burning white to the end is Just as dead
as tb man who doesn't know anything
about divine Inspiration, but who . eats
three times a day up to the last moment
of bis earthly existence. This may be
measuring art by dollars, but the musi
cian certainly has th long end of the ar
gument from a strictly utllltarlnn point of
view. Particularly will th force uf their
position appeal to th publlo when It is
Considered that Herr Conreld made his
production of "Parsifal'" th occasion of
doubling admission prices, alleging tb ex
pense of producing it. Expert observers
aay tb scenic, affects, on which so much
stress was laid, ar cheap in comparison
to those of sum of the extra vosmiru und
musical comedy productions. The New
York Bun editorially comments In this
train:
Other unions should watch carefully the
methods of tho Muflcal Mutuol Protective
union. Much mlph: thereby be leurneJ.
The origin. ard fx II of the attemoi to
coerce the llurr Dirckeor Conreld of the
Metropolitan opera house into y.ng
higher rate than he was wont to pay
have been surclncly sit forth in a state
ment made hy M. Xahan Franki, iht
member of the union whose duly It Is to
engage th players and to prevent the
mother should be a source of joy to all, but the suffering and
danger incident to the ordeal make itt anticipation one of misery.
Mother' Friend it the only remedy which relieve women of the great
pain and danger of maternity ; this hour which i 'Ircaded a woman's
severest trial it not only made' painless, but all the danger it avoided
by itt use. Those who uo this remedy are no longer despondent or
gloomy ; iicrvouine, nausea and other distressing conditions arc
overcome, the system it made ready for the coining event, and the
serious accidents to common to the critical
hour are obvutett by the use of Mother's PH rxOjf
Friend. "It is worth itt weight in gold," I ' i jj
cays many who have used it. ft.oo per If ki vULuwil V
bottle at drug stores. Hook containing
valuable information of interest to
be tent to any address free upon
Herr Dlrektor from approaching in petsjn
toe secret powers at tne "uld Immesienu."
It was sir. Conreld who started th
trouble uy contemplating a cut in tne rau
of pay. It was not i lie memvers uf tne
orcuextra who acuveiy resented this, it
u the bmon, which toca acin to pre
vent Imposition upon the orcnrstral ar
tists, 'lne union saita to ihe Herr Dlrektor:
"What: Wouiu you lower tne ealatlcs of
these men? Well, you 11. raise them; mat s
wnat you II do. See! " 1
The members or the orchestra did not
yearn to have their wsges lowered. They
did not deslie to have mem raWd. Ti. Cy
just wished t. have them left alone. Hut
that couid not be. In the market value of
gieat musical artists there M no such
thing as standing still. They must go up
or tney must go down arid out. The union
decided that In the future the orcnestra
players should get $10 a night for playing
wagner Urania and $12 tor "Parslfiil.
Note the pointed significance of the latter
figure. I'pon "Partial" the Herr Dlrektor
waxed great, famous and wealihy. He got
double prices from the eager public for
presenting It. Therefore let "Parsifal''
temper the pecuniary wind to the shorn
lambs. Let the Herr Dlrektor admit his
tnunlciana on the ground floor.
Thus proclaimed the union In the ma
jesty of Its wrath at the Injustice contem
plated by the Herr Dlrektor. But the mem
bers of the orchestra rose In their fidelity
to art and the manager and refused to be
parties to such a plan. They would con
tinue to play at th old prices. Let the
Herr Dlrektor simply stop nosing about
the musical centers of Kurope pricing or
chestras. Let him come home and all
would be forgiven. The Herr Dlrektor gfn
erously consented to be forgiven. He even
promlted to come home after he had en
gaged a few singers to assist the or
chestra through tile long Warmer dramas.
Meanwhile smiles are plentiful In the
offices of the manager. The dlrprtoral
sleeve has emptied Itself. Everything Is
once more serene. The old orchestra will
be re-engaged that Is. part of It will.
Opera will contlnuo to be given at the old
stand and at the old prices, and the Musical
Mutual Protective union can pat Itself on
the hack and plume Itself on another
splendid victory.
Co miliar Rventa.
For the cloning week of the summer i
season at the Boyd theater the Ferris
stock company will present two plays,
for which there has been much demand
locally. The first, beginning this evening, j
will be "The Creole," which has been asked
for many times during the summer. In
this romantic drama, with Its powerful
emotional scenes and strong Bituatlous,
Miss Pavey will appear a Cora, Miss Eva
Sargent, the new Ingenue, will be Nina.
Mi.ss Carmontelle will be Mrs. Weston, Mr.
Dowlan will be George Duhamel, Mr.
Brlckert, the new "heavy," will be Magll
ller. and Mr. Raymond will be Pontalne.
The second bill, which will be put on
Thursday evening, will be the evergreen,
"Uncle Tom's Cabin," with little Louise
Becker In the role of Eva. Miss Pavey
win play Eliza.- Mr. Dowlan will be
George, Mr. Brlckert will be Degree and
Mr. Megrath will be Uncle Tom. . Harry
Long will direct the staging of both
pieces.
Gossip from Stan-eland.
Alice Judson was engaged last week by
Henry W. Savage to sing the role of Lutio
Plummer In "Peggy from Paris."
Miss Eva Tanguay Is to star tn the new
musical comedy, entitled "The Sambo
Girl," by Harry B. Smith, music by Gus
tave Kerker.
William Gillette's new plav may be eilU-d
'Clarice." He may play only ten weeks in
this country next season in "The Admira
ble Crichton."
Maude Adams Is to have a new comedy,
which Israel Zangwlll will write, In three
months' time. Tho play will ' be one of
rural England, in Tour acts.
J. M. Barrie, the novelist. Is said to be
writing a play for Ellen Terry, who is re
ported to have been engaged by Charles
Frohman to star In this country.
May Irwin ia thinking seriously of re
turning to the stage next season. It is un
decided whether she will be seen In one of
her old successes or In a new play.
Ethyl Barrymore has been laid off by
her physician, and will not appear in pub'Jo
again for at least a fortnight. She la
suffering from a bad attack of tonsllltis.
William T. Francis has been engaged aa
general musical director for Charles Froh
man's productions. Mr. Francis will suc
ceed Maurice Levy and will have headquar
ters in the Empire theater building.
Florida Klngsley ha been engaged by
Henry W. Savage to play the role of
"Chick" Elzey. the orphan, In the western
"County Chairman" company. The part
In the eastern company is played bv Annie
Buckley.
George R. Cains, the father of Georgia
Cnlne, the prima donna of ) h Sho Gnu."
the George Ade-Gustnv Ltiders' comlo
opera, wlil play the role of Riley Cleaver
in the weatern "County Chairman" com
pany thla season.
Arrangements have just 'been completed
by which "The Runaways" will make a
tour of the Pacific coast the coming season.
Arthur Dunn, the dlinlnutlvo comedian. Is
the star of the organization, which num
bers seventy-five people.
J. H. Btoddart begins his last sesson In
'The Bonnie Brier Bush" on Labor day.
playing an engagement of about forty
weeks, which will include a trip to the
Pacillo coast. Ha continues undcritha man
agement of Klrke La Shelle.
Jarrrea K. Hackett Is one of the busiest
managers In New York. His latest an
nouncement Is that he will star Arthur
Byron in a new farcical comedy In Septem
ber at the Princess theater, entitled "Jack's
Little Surprise," by Louis Egan.
Walter Burridge has completed the
scenery for "The College Widow," (he fouf
act comedy without music, which Georges
Ade has written for Henry W. Savage. The
first perforinsnce will be at the Garden
theater. New York, September 5.
Tim Murphy Is to have two new plays
u n
will have an emergency piece. Th plays
are to be "Two Men and a Girl," by Fred
erick Paulding, and "The Spice ot Life,"
a four-act comedy, by A. S. Bishop
Jcanett Bageard, th graceful little Sldo
nle of "The Prince of PiUen" company,
who has been III In New Vork for insny
months, has entirely recovered and will
return to the stage this aeafon. She win
play the little French maid In "The Prince
of Pilsen" cumpany, which will tour tin
L ntted State.
Following Resurrection," which Blanche
Walsh will present the early part of the
coming season, she will appear in a new
play by Clyde Fitch. Her managers, Messis.
Wugenhals & Kemper, have also procured
for her ihe new play by Klchepln and
Henri Cain, which Madame Bernnarat Is to
produce in Paris in th near future.
Henry W. Savage's English Grand Opera
company will go to the Pacific coast dur
ing the coming season. This will be the
first transcontinental tour of this famous
organization. Festivals will be given In
sixty-live different cities. Frank C. Payne,
the advance representative of the com
pany, is now making a preliminary visit
to all uf these cities.
Mies Mnile Dressier has been engaged by
Joaeph Weber to be one at the principal
comediennes of the Weber A Klegfleld B.ock
company at Weber's munlc hall next
season. This practically completes the list
of principals, which Includes Miss Anna
Held, Mr. Weber, Aubrey Bouclcaull,
Hairy Morris and Miss Bonnie M.iulnn. It
ony remains now to complete the chorus.
Miss A11 Dovey has Invented a pre'ty
souvenir for "Woodland," In which ehs
plays the Dove. Mis Dovey is eklllej la
water colors and in a book she has pslnlel
all tho birds that are represented in
j u
Every mother fealt
great dread of the pain
and clanger attendant vpoh
the moat critical period
of her life. Becoming
all women, will
rill rr
1 O
application
li L
ft f t ' L
"Woodlsnd." Peslde the original she has
drawn the characters as tliey sre rep
rp!apC(rd on the stage and beneath she has
had the member . of the company write
their autographs.
Frederick Wnrrt declares thnt his forth
coming tour with Wagenhsls Kemper'
spectacular production of "Halamnibo," In
V.I. h h. will ha aanclflteri with Miss
Kathrvn Kidder, will tie his farewell to the
regular stage. This will not mean that ne
is to retire from public life, however, as he
Is to adopt the lecture platform with
Shakespeare snd the other great dramatic
classics as his theme.
The Bostonlans haven't proved such a
wonderful success since being reorganized
as a Joint stock enterprise.. The summer
season of the company at Manhattan
lieach, Long Island, proved a frost, and
Henry Clav Parnalee had to mke a spe
cial trip to New York to get money to
take the stranded company back to civili
sation. It may b cited in passing that all
Mr. Barnnbee hss Invested In th enter
prise is his talent.
Wilson Barrett, the well known English
romantic actor, playwright and novelist,
died very sudden v at his home In Lon
don, after a brief Illness. He was bookel
for sn American tour during the coming
reason, under the direction of Charles
Frohman, and was to have played In
Omaha. Mr Hnrrett will be best remem
bered by his '"Sign of the Cross" although
he has written several other plays, and
a number of readable novels, among
them "Daughters of Babylon." '
Raymond Hitchcock and "The Yankee
Consul" company will give but on P"-
formance enroute from New York to Chi
cago, where an engagemetit begins In that
cltv August 8. A special performance will
be given in Auburn, N. Y.. August S. Mr.
Hitchcock will give this one In Auburn, as
If Is his not I vp town. An lnvitntlon was
sent to Mr. Hitchcock from the officials of
tho town and this is said to be the flHt In
stance on record where a municipal gov
ernment has Invited an actor to give a spe
cial performance.
The following stars appear under Charles
Frohman's management: Ellen Terry,
Julia Marlowe. Maude Adams, Mrs. Pat
rick Campbell, Annie Russell, Ethel Barry
more, Ellallne Terrlse, Mrs. Gilbert, Mrs.
Kloodgood, Marie Tempest. Virginia
Harned, Fay Davis. Irene Vanbrough,
Edna Mav, John Drew, E. H. Bothern,
William Gillette. John Hare, Francis Wil
son, William Crane. William Faversham.
Henrv Mllier, Weedon Grosxmltri, William
Collier, Sam Bernard, Seymour Hicks and
JJlarry Irving.
One of the sad phases of the show busi
ness was given a most forcible Illustra
tion In fhloiiirn Init wimlr when A musical
comedy company that Is preparing toVo
on the road next season advertised for
chorus glrla. Over 1,K) glrla 'Ined up at
the stage door at the time mentioned In
toe advertisement, nnd the stage director
was literally overrun when he came. The
girls told pitiful tales, and begged for
employment. Some 250 of the lot will be
hired for the Chicago production and the
others will have to return to waiting on
tables and siml!ar occupations.
' Some of the minstrel companies and their
managers thnt will go on the road this
season are: Al G. Fields', Al G. Fields
manager; Powers & Busby's, Al Busbyj
Haverlv's, W. E. Nankevllle; HI Henry's,
HI Henry; Ous Dun's rising minstrels. Gus
Lun; Lew Dockstader's, James H. Decker;
New Orleans minstrels, A. O. Allen; orig
inal Nashville students, Rusco & Holland;
Richard A Prlndle's Georgia minstrels,
Rusco & Holland; Rusco Hollnnd'a big
min-trcl festival. Rusco & Hollaed; Ted
Faust's. Doc Waddell; Vogel & Doming.
John W. Vogel; William H. West s, S. W.
Rlcaby. Evidentlv minstrelsy Is not dead
yet.
NEW YORK'S NATIONAL FEASTS
Komrh. dy Is Celebrating? Over Something-
Nearly Every Weelt la
the Year.
No other city In the world celebrates so
many national festivals and with such
energy and hurrah as doe t New York.
These affairs, great and amall, come pretty
thick from the Fourth of July until nearly
tho end of September, and there ar other
In winter and spring.
Ten days alter the wlldness of th Fourth
of July the French national fete la cele
brated. It is hardly so gay as It once was,
probably because the custom of summering
out of town has grown upon the French
colony as upon other parts of th popula
tion. But It Is gay enough.
Faithful Swiss, of whom there ar many
In the city speaking French, German or
Italian, and sometimes all three, celebrate
In proper fashion on August 1 the birth of
the league between the three little German
mountain cantons which more than 600
years ago became the germ of th present
Swiss confederation.
Ther already Is announced for August
18 an Auetro-Hungarlan festival In honor
of the Emperor Fruncls Joseph, who on
that day will be 74. Popular as th em
peror Is in Austria, his birthday does not
greatly stir Hungarian patriotism, how
ever. The Hungarians prefer to celebrate
on March 15 the beginning of the revolution
of 1848, at first so promising for Hungarian
independence. On that day even the hum
blest Hungarian restaurants are crowded
with thirsty patriots and, If on no other
day, provide for the entertainment of their
guests aft qrchestra to play national airs.
Wilhelmlna of Holland, who will be 21
years old on August 21, has a few faithful
Dutchmen In town to celenrate her birth
day and drink hnapp l i honor of her and
the fatherland. The annual dinner of the
Holland society Is the most notable Dutch
celebration cf thla city, and the Dutch of
long American descent somewhat over
shadow the newcomers; but there are a
few thousand Dutchmen in town not yet
thoroughly weaned from the mother coun
try, and to these the sovereign's birthday
Is an occasion of reviving patriotism.
The nolsest and most widely celebrated
national festival after our own come In
the very er.d of summer, on September 20,
when the Italians celebrate the entrance ot
Victor Emmanuel' troops into Roma in
1S70. Year by year tho day Is mar elabo
rately celebrated, In spite of the fact that
It Is a festival unblessed of the church, and
this year is likely to see the greatest
demonstration In honor of united Italy that
haa yet been given. ,
German resident from some of the
smaller states of the empire find excuse for
local festivals of one kind cr another In
midsummer, hut the only anniversaries that
bring Germans of all the states are mid
winter affairs, the celebration that com
memorates the announcement at Versailles
on January 18, 1871, of the fact that Wil
liam I of Prussia was to be the head of a
new German empire, and the celebration
nine d.iya later of the present emperor's
birthday.
Resident Britons, after having for nearly
two generations celebrated the sovereign's
birthday In May. now hold an autumn
celebration In honor of Edward VII. This
occasion is celebrated by the Canadians of
Kew York, though their own most Interest
ing anniversary, that of the creation of the
Dominion federation. ' falls properly on
Julyl.
Spring festivals are those of the Spaniards
In honor of the young Alfonso, on May 17.
and the next day, which the few loyal
Rnsslnns here keep In honor of the ciar.
New York Sun.
A Record Dreaker.
Three fellow travelers In the smoking
room of a fust train were discussing the
syin?d i tralru.
"I was on a train once," said th first
man. "thnt beat everything I ever rode
In for speed. Why, It went so fast that
the tlegraph poles at the aide of the track
looked like an Immense fine toothed comb."
"That' nothing." said the second traveler;
"I remember riding in an expresa on, the
and that went at such a gait that
the telegraph poles looked Ilka a solid
boird fence."
The third ,man made an exclamation of
Impatience.
"Ah, you fellows don't know what high
speed on a rullroad is. Why, I traveled
wt from Chicago last month in a train
that went at such a pace that when t
pasted some alternate fields of corn and
beans that looked like succutash." Har
per' Weekly.
Always in the Lead With the Best Attractions
SSM0
The Terrifying, Death-Defying Act LEAPING THE GAP" By
OSCAR AFIII SIRI RORin
Divers of
p
a
Accommodations for a Multitude Water
Becker's Ladies'
orchestra.
PROFs
COATING AND FISHING Best and Most Thoroughly Equipped PICNIC GROUNDS IN THE WEST.
Thermometer at Courtland Beach is 10 degrees lower than in town today. The Omaha Lodge of Eagle? will
hold its Annual Picnic here August 18th. All manner of Amuaenunt for the little ones. Holler Coaster, Carousel,
Bowling. Shooting Gallery, Swings, Etc.
CHARITY'S HELPFUL , IIAND
Freshening Glimpses of Sea and Country for
Tired Mothers and Children.
GRACIOUS FRESH AIR PHILANTHROPY
Extent of the Work In New York, Bos
ton, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chl
mao ana Other Large Cen
ters of PoBnlatloat.
(Copyright, 1904. by K. B. Warner.).
The rich American cities lead the world
In philanthropy," declared a prominent
number of the London Charity Organiza
tion society, who visited the United States
recently. "I came over here to see how
charity organization work compared with
our efforts In England, and I was im
pressed by the fact that every pos.-lble
need of the poor seems to have been fore
seen and provided for.
"There are societies for everything. No
where else has specialization been carried
to such a fine point. There is even a so
ciety conducted for the single jurpose of
supplying free lpgal advice to Chinamen
who need It and another for writing cheery
letters to chronio Invalids.
"But in no respect are the American
cities farther ahead of the rest of the
world than In what are known, an 'fresh air
charltiea' for the women and children of
the tenements in summer time. Londpn
and other cities have heir fresh-air char
ities, too, but they are of comparatively re.
cent origin and cannot compare in num
ber, extent and "arlety with those of
America's great center of population."
The credit so freely given by thla Eng.
lien visitor is as Just as It is generous. Of
al. the multitude of charities which appeal
for funds to the American public none are
more liberally and cheerfully supported
than those which aim to give the poor a
taste of the pleasures enjoyed all summer
by the rich at seashores and mountain re
sorts. This Is nature). The men and women
who flee at the first opportunity from the
weltering, broiling elty would be hard
hearted. Indeed, If they did not spare a
thought and n check for the women and
children In the tenements, to whom a
breath of fresh, cool nir often means not
merely comfort, but life Itself.
Extent of the Work.
In Oreater New York alone there are no
feweV than eighty fresh-elr charities,
worhlng alonp various lines and providing
for the needs of different aectlons of the
people. In other cities there are as many,
and sometimes even more, In proportion to
population.
In Baltimore the Children's Fresh Air
society does an excellent work by running
seml-mllltary camps for boye In the sum
mer time. This Is a favorite Idea In Eng
lish cities, especially London. Similar
rsmps are conducted by the Toung Men's
Christian association In several parts of
the I'nitefl 8tates. '
In Washington, which Is "nearer to na
ture's heart" than most big American
cities, and whera fresh air charities are
consequently less necessary than they are
elsewhere, thsy usually take the form of
free rides on trolley car out to ths mead
ows and woods. This Is a cheap kind of
freh-alr work which might be copied more
extenalvely than It Is.
Chicago, as befits Its slxe. and Impor
tance, goer In heartily for hot-weather
phllanthronv. Summer outings were given
to nearly 13.000 poor people tn that city last
yer.
In Boston the special feature of fresh
air charity is "country week" for poor
children. Earty In spring formers anl ,
other people living In the country send In
heir names and addressee to the Freh
Air bureau, saying that they will take two,
five, ten nr twenty children, as the case
may be. for "country week." Frequently
one generous person will accommodate as
msny as thirty or forty. Bemetlmes ro
rharg Is mnde, sometimes a small sum
Is asked for to cover the bare cost of honrd
or rart of the cost. In response to esch
nnVf the bureau sends an agent to see that
the pince Is suited to the accommodation
of chlldrei. The eost of ths transporta
tion of the youngsters Is paid by the bu
resn. ,
A Day Off for Tenement TVwellera.
These are some ef the special features
of the work in different cities, but. speak
ing generall". the various societies which
try tc give the tenement dwellere a breath
of fresh sir pride themselves upon the
wide scope of their efforts. This Is well
Illustrated by one society, which asks eaeh
of Its supporters how his subscription shall
be spent.
"Shall It be for
"Borne wan mother with four or five
chlldrenT
"8oni teething baby and Its 'little
mother' of ten?
"Some anaemic, shop girl earning 13 a
week?
"Snins aged woman still fighting bravely
fo- self-support?
"Some woman or girl recovering from
prolrneted Illness or serious operation?
"Some child with tubercular bona or
glands whom nur sesslde tent camp might
cure?
"Twrnty thousand bablts and children
and mothers who cannot see the ocean
but for our hay excursions and whose only
fresh sir outings are In the irowd'J
s'.itrti,?"
Even a day'a excursion to the beaoh a
Re-engaged (or one more week. Ha been
Cbampion High and Fire
the World.
DON'T THIS WEATHER
F7 A
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I'iURPHY In a Daringv Balloon Ascension aud I Nordin's
Parachute Jump.
"avorlte fresh-nlr charity is a great thing
Tor the multitudes pncki-d so closely to
gether In the slums, for whom life holds so
little variety r pleasure. For the tired
mothers and the children whose only play
ground Is the street, what could be more
delightful than the day of freedom on the
sand, the fine, refreshing bath In the sea,
the generous luncheon served around by
kindly hosts and the absence of toil and re
sponsibility? But if mother and the children manage to
got a week or a fortnight's holiday at the
country or the seaside, at one of the
numerous "homes" established for fresh
air charity, then, indeed, they are in luck.
They arrive pale, w'eary, wornout, weary,
111 nourished, but they soon regain tone,
and they go back to their homes In fit
shnpe to endure the rest of the summer
heat and even the hardships of the coming
winter. The oraclng air, good food and rest
often cure Ihem of ailments which have
puzzled the doctors at the hospltula and
dispensaries in town.
Joys of the Children.
Any nurse at one of these homes can tell
you scores of stories about the children
tender, nathetlc, funny and quaint.
There was a small patient at a seaside
home last summer who fell down one day,
nearly biting her tongue through. She came
fobbing to :he dispensary with a request to
"tie a rag around it, please, and put on
some vaseline."
Another little girl, whose wounded finger
had been healed, brought the nurse a penny,
eaylng:
"I haven't got any more, but I want you
to have this."
Bhe was told that there was no payment
required, but she. insisted:
"I want to give it to you. Please take It,
nurae, and let me feel good Inside."
Precious little rascals they are, too, some
times. The nurses and matrons who have
to manage them find that their Jobs are
not sinecures.
Generosity and a readiness to help others,
however, are virtues commonly cultivated
In the slums, and the children soon acquire
them, along with a lot of less desirable
things, In their street education. Every
body who eornfs Into close touch with
fresh-air charities becomes familiar with
this common generosity of tho poor. At a
seaside home last year the boys, nearly all
of whom were under 12, got up two ball
teams representing Yale and Princeton.
Princeton won most of the games, but the
Yale captain showed his generous spirit by
chopping, wood for several days, at a penny
a bag, until ha had earned enough money
to buy the captain of the other side a
Princeton pin.
Tired Mothers Helped.
Borne of the momers who come down to
the seaside and country homes, weak, tired,
IH-nourtshed, overworked, are so "lumbered
up with children," as one of them said, that
It is difficult to Imagine how they get their
housework done and keep their homes to
gether. Yet many of them have to earn a
living for the family a well.
Take, for example, the "Triplet" family,
so nicknamed by the ntiraee of a seaside
home because the mother had born triplets.
One died, and now, as she explained, "they
was twins." She arrived at the seaside
home by trolley car with six children, four
of whom were unable to walk. Tim, who Is
T, carried l-year-old Jim: Eddie, who Is 8,
tarried the baby, whose long clothes trailed
on the floorj and the mother had a "twin"
under each arm.
The family had a glorious fortnight rol
licking on the sands and bathing in the
surf. The nurses at the home wouldn't let
the poor, tired woman do a thing for her
babies; they told her to Just He down un
der the trees and look at the sea, or read
a novelette, while they fed them and
washed them and clothed them and looked
after them. It was the first real rest the
woman bad had for years, and In the dno-
tor s Judgment came Just In time to save
her from a serious Illness. So It ia with
thousands eif other women Ilka her.
But on the last afternoon of the holiday
Mrs. "Triplet" had to take up her burdens
again, figurative and material. The family
were found upon the porch, making ready
tor the home Journey.
"Eddie," Mrs. "Triplet" waa ''saying,
"you'll have to take the baby" and she
laid a bundle of trailing sklrta In his out
stretched arms. "Tim ran carry Jim and
I'll take the twins."
Eddie looked helplessly about and then
wailed, "Can't you give me one that will
walk? I want one that'll walk."
"How can IT' askod this poor mother.
"There ain't one of 'em that'll stand this
crowd." She thought a moment. "I'll tell
you what I'll do. I'll give you Jim. lie
can stand on his feet, and Tim can take
Ellen ahe can stand, too. Then you can
set them down and rest between times.
I'll take the baby and Nora."
Just then three of the nurses offered
to nelp the family to the trolley car, and
Tim and Eddie cut capers In their delight
at this unexpected relief.
"But what will you do when you get
home?" one of the nursea asked. "You
told us you lived on the sixth floor."
"Sure, that's all right," said Mrs. "Trip
GAL. TWO Charity boong
let." -I'll Just set the kids down In the
street and call the neighbors to help carry
'em upstairs." "
Is It any wonder that, under such cir
cumstances as these, there is urgent need
for the fresh air charities? They have so
many merits that they ought to appeal to
philanthropists of every taste. - There are
homes and excursions for boys alone, for
girls, for working women, for consump
tives, for babies, for all sorts and condl-.
Uons of people who need a breath of fretilt
of all Kinds No Act too
Fare From
thu Crowning Sensation for two weeks
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air and a glimpse of the green crass and
the white-capped waves. But perhaps the
best charity of all these good charities
ia to give mother, tired out by her brood
of chicks, always tugging; at her skirt,
a real rest, free from worry as well as
from work.
Ai for the children, what fresh air char
ities mean to them can best be understood
by the actual words of a little city boy
at a country home:
"I like It because It's so nice and free,
an' there's so muph room, an' there ain't
no windows to break, an' you can play on
the grass, an' no cop shouts at you an'
it's so beautiful cool."
PHOTOGRAPHY MINUS LENSES
Good Pictures, with Softaesa of Tone,
Star Be Taken wltfc Pinhole
Camera.
The taking of a photograph, and a good
one, too, with a camera without a lense,
may seem to many , utterly Incredulous,
writes N. K. Brlggs In the scientific
American. Nevertheless, It is done, and
thla Innovation In photography has be
come an Interesting feature with many lov
ers of the photographic art.
A piece of tinfoil, through which was
pierced a fine needle hole, to serve the
purpose of a lense In admitting light to
the sensitive plate, was secured to the
front piece of the camera, In place of a
lense, and the exposure made In the reg
ular manner. Pictures thus made are now
popularly known as pinhole photographs.
The pictures, however, were not wholly
satisfactory, owing to the difficulty of get
ting a perfectly round and smooth hole
through the soft, flexible metal, for In
this lay the main principle of success. But
this has led to the bringing out of a new
Invention called ihe "radloscope," which
consists of a very thin piece of hammered
brass plate, through which Is bored an ac
curately round and smooth hole, and so
mounted that It can be quickly adjusted
to any camera, or any light-tight box that
fancy may dictate. There Is a lack ot
that extreme aharpness produced by a
regular photographic lense; but, aa has
been wisely said, this Is more than com
pensated for by a softness of tone equaled
only by the brush of an artist.
The Interest msnlfested In ttils new ob
jective Is due to the fact that It Is of uni
versal focus the rays focusing In the stop;
the perspective Is true, no part of the pic
ture being out of foucus, while the In
terior snd architectural photographs are
rectilinear, that Is. without distortion of
any kind, for the rays of light fall di
rectly upon the plate without Interference
of any kind.
Nor Is the work of the pinhole objective
confined to any1 one subject, for with It
most pleading portraits can be mad. And
It Is said that work requiring the shurpext
definition, such ss copies, reproductions of
documents, etc., can be often better done
by the pinhole objective than It can with
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a fine lense. The reaaon la obvious. A
lense focuses often sharper than the eye,
giving a staring, unnatural effect to the
resulting print.
Another singular feature In connection
with the pinhole objective Is that any stze
camera may be used. For Instance, It will
tke a picture upon a plate three Inches
long or twenty Inches long. Thtrefore, It
will be seen that all one haa to do Is to
arrange his camera for a small or large
plate, and with the latter Interesting pan
oramic views could be secured. There la
no doubt that a very cheap and satisfactory
folding camera in which to use any of
the present series of roll films, could be
made for special panoramso work.
Of course. It should be understood that
owing to the small amount of light ad
mitted through a pinhole objective, the
time of exposure will naturally be longer
than with a lense; and while t la possible
to over expose, there Is less liability than
with a lense.
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