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"F THERE la anything about
intnr that la hateful It Is tho
atorm door proportion. ArchU
l i":! Ucta aay that atorm aoora wers
mil J Invented after profanity had been
jrr;iir won ienevira. Due i( i nmauiiiiviv
to auppoa tho man who put the flrat cuaa
word on the market had a hunch that It
would be mighty appropriate when the
world cot around to atorm doora. Nobody
ever went through a atorm door without
feeling he had been Insulted.
Borne ,of them arrangement are built ao
that a man going out often Beta an op
portunlty to vent hla apleen on a man com
ing in, by ama-hing the door savagely In
the face, forehead and frame of hla brother.
The absence of a glaea in the door greatly
promotes thla manner of getting even with
the general condition. In Omaha one of
the moat finlahed examples of the apeclea
may be found at the city hall. Here every
autumn after the Ak-Snr-Bcn parades they
box in the entrance arch with a black
wood and glass wail. Two small dcore
admit persona. Usually tne la kept nailed
down, leaving the. other In operation. This
aolltary door opens outward upon a flight
of atone atepa and if a person be dextrous
he xan throw the man trying to get In
down tho-e ttepa. No one haa been able to
find anything beautiful or estbetlo about
the arrangement, but it la alleged to keep
a certain amount of cold air out of the
city hall corridors. Incidentally the atorm
door entrance la about half way down the
entire flight of atepa. The idea of putting
It on a level with the all the year round
entrance apparently never came to anyone.
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FRONT DOOR OF THE BEE BUIUSINCk ,
' THE CTTT HAtlS WINTER PORTA!.
The flrat atorm door, built conalated aim- few of theae may be atlll seen In uae In nothing to the artiatlc aense. and the revolving doora. originated the use either permanent the year round or at
But it la not worth while to damn the city Bl of double or single doora In front of Omaha. A vestibule is formed, but the A prominent Omaha architect, obaervlng of -very email doora for the outer aide or leaat uoeiannatiy connructeu. "I"
the main door under -ft ahed or. coop. A acbeme la ratner awKwara ana contriDutea tne aeiecia
administration for the atate ' of affairs at
the city hall. Other local illustrations may
be found without much trouble, that are
equally aatlafaotory. Archlteota have been
tewing and fretting about the problem
(or ever ao long. They have succeeded in
making aome improvement, but they admit
that perfection la yet a long waya off.
Hardly anyone needs to be told that the
(unction of a atorm door la to keep the
cold air out At the aame time it might
be supposed that a fair percentage of op
portunity be allowed the people to get in.
But that la not the caae at all. People
run second In thla ataggerlng perplexity
to builder and designers. ,In many Omaha
office and atore buildings It requires almost'
as much exertion to force open the atorm
door barricades aa to ahovel a ton of coal..
Bometlmea there are aa many aa three
heavy doora to pull open before one gets
safely inside.
Incidentally, there haa been legislation
on the subject. The lawa aay that the
doora of the main exits shall awing out
Thla la with the Idea of permitting rapid
egress In case of fire. But there the leg
islature stopped. It didn't go Into the
bowels of the matter and protect the rights
of the people aa It ahould. It left alto
gether too much option with the landlord.
Hence one may stand outside of a big
office building and keep himself warm as
best he can until a whole elevator-full of
'passengers haa been discarded through the
narrow openings. Then he may go In if
be haa strength remaining to drag open
the massive creations of metal, wood and
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in the old-style atorm doors the veatlbule, making the whole affair are two and one-half feet wide by aix
Seven Mimis in New York Ambitious to Charm
IHERB IS uaually one opera dear very plain, and ahe haa no excuse to In
to the heart of the prima donna phraaea.
every season. It used tobe the Mme. Melba has even gone ao far aa
IM ' -oI heroine of Gounod a "Komeo et , to maxe u a conaiuon oi.au nor u-
GATEWAT TO THE COTTRT HWSSL
feet high and admit only one person at a
time. They are arranged In tlera, with
posta between and the Inner veotlbule doors
wing outward, or In the same direction.
Good examples can' be found In the Union
station and at the Boston atore. The
doors do not have an exceptionally ele
gant appearance, but they are extremely
serviceable. Being light they are opened
easily, and If a person loads up with
.bundles In the atore he can easily push
them open. Radiators are used to heat the
air In the veatlbule to high temperature,
because the heat la constantly exhauated
by the frequent opening of the doora. In
the new Hoagland building the atorm doors
and vestibules are'arVfenged on this plan,
with a decided Improvement In the doors
proper. ,
The most difficult building from which to
exclude the cold air Is a department atore.
In eastern cities three seta of double doora
are used in place of two, forming two
vestibules. Where radiation Is not used
air Is blown Into the vestibules by fans,
creating a plenum so that when the doors
are opened air rushes out Instead of In.
The esence of the successful atorm
door, according to Architect John Latenser,
la that It be amalt and narrow, only suf
ficiently large to admit one person, so that
no more cold air may come In with hint
than Is absolutely necessary. The ordinary
double door, he contenda, haa no more
capacity than a single door.
" Additional problems are met with In de
signing atorm doors for use in school
houses. The door most be small and light
with hardware low enough for a a mall
child to graap . It, and a, window low
enough for the youngster to be seen from
within and assisted If he baa trouble. Moat
of the Omaha grade achoU are equipped
in this way.
But after all haa been said, a torn) doora
remain an abomination in their present
status. A great opportunity . waJta for
aome one to make bis name famous by the
origination 'of an entirely new plan for
letting people lh and out of a' large and
for the sake of singing Mlml'a platntlva; It. waa necessary for the public to become low collar. , , ,
. 1 . jk . i uiu TTfei-rav unr the nart of Ml ml In
the role of Mlml, because tne oueia are so' auuuiuiucu ivf in. . - - ,-, much used bulldine? eaallv and convenlentlw
aulted to her voice. She 1. nowaday, the. .Bessie Abott and Geraldlne Farrar are Monte Carlo, but never In Berlin, where ylyvmM!'
. . on vrii. Rh. berd the two Americana who have aung the part the opera la not In the repertoire. Bessie na wwnout cnuiing me interior.
. . .. . ..-i..... , , . t r. hrnail Roth ira ahnwn mur ni the drea Abott. who waa COacnea in me roio or ,
Juliette" that they all wantea to tracts mat sne snau maae ner ocuuv m xne.i-uccini opera iu iui, - - - - . , makes her
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represent. Whether they were young or this role whenever she appears In a new sing the role and then brought tne worn i "" . y "Z . i. irihia. aniT she selected Mlmla ahown here belong to English aDeak.
old. fat or thin, tall or abort, they a. ghed opera hpu.e. She waa the flrat M.m, out tn Boston. Singularly enough. the, nounced jTJTStJS " TOST wo" aI?
"J.??:' "Uln. ' 'thd t?..r Pr0att0e tM Pe ' P" JT: T7::::t .cT ri "l, . Mme. wnc, at th. Metropoliun. English women, honor, are e.y.
u,...,,!..,.. v...-,..,. " - her .wan.liw. neck ..na.l tn vie. hv i...- Pauline Donalda ang Miml soon arter lt may be observed that none of
m . - . . . Rha wu siiMiiAn a r tn. iviarrnnniiTan in th ronprinirn at inn iueiruvuuian. ' r - -
Borne of them learned the part at a very
mature age, one prima donna, after ahe
bad triumphed aa Brunnhllde and Isolde,
spent 6,000 In costumes for the part of
Juliette In the hope that M. Orau would let
her appear aa the girlish daughter of the
Capulets. That wise Impresario, however,
persuaded her that the publlo Interest In
the opera had been satisfied and that lt
would be best to let lt drop from the reper
toire for a season. Bo narrow was New
York's escape from a 200-pound Juliette.
Suddenly the enthusiasm of these operatlo
women to appear aa Juliette came to an
end. .The number of Jullettea diminished
until It was with difficulty that one could
be found.
One prima donna had forgotten to have
her Juliette costumes packed up when ahe
She waa succeeded at the Metropolitan was In the repertoire at the Metropollta
by Mme. Sembrlch, who appeared In the
role first five years ago. Mme Sembrich
la going to give the, opera In Berlin anl
Vienna. She haa never sung the role in
the European citiea heretofore and will
cajni hara. Annthftr fm,nii that miidn ma
glass or hla arma contain-not too many,onger ,ulted t0 her volce. Another caIIed
the attention of the Impresario to the fact
bundles.
Another storm door Idea Is that pertain
ing to the automatic check. Thla la a
pneumatic device that haa three opjecta
In view. Flrat, to foroe the door to after
It haa been thrown open; second, to check
the progresa of tha door Just before It
touches tha Jam ao that no fingers may
be nipped in the closing; third, to make
It harder for the publlo to pull the doors
open, for the power necessary to close the
door Is generated by the person who opena
the door, and in that act. In aome eases
the pneumatlo business is replaced by
that Juliette no longer figured In the list of
roles ahe waa required to. alng. Thua
the overplentlful aupply of Jullettea Vt tha
Metropolitan faded away. '
What caused tha loaa of Interest tn a part
that waa once ao alluring? Why did the
women grow weary of thla role? Jean de
Resske ceased to alng In the opera. Is that
fact Ilea the explanation of the and of
Juliette aa. a popular heroine.
Adellna Pattl used to alng Juliette with
her husband, Nloollnl, and Italo Campanlnl
springs, but It Is the same old weary bunco hlul tn P1 ot Romeo In hla repertoire
game on the publlo it wlnda up the springs, when he waa admired In New York aa
No mention haa yet been made of the re- Enrico Caruso Is today. But that did not
volvlng atorm door a turnstile-ltHe appa- aln popularity for the opera. It became a
ratus that strikes terror to the heart on managerial tradition that "Romeo et Jull-
first ' trial, but grows pleasant aa pro- ette" could never be made popular In New
flclency and familiarity Increase. When
the revolving storm door waa Invented and
placed on the market about ten, years ago
It waa hailed with whoops of Joy. Every,
body thought the old problem had been
' solved at last. Here "waa an arrangement
that abaolutely prevented cold air from
getting Into the building. That point Is
York.
When Jean de Resske came and appeared
as Romeo the tradition waa amashed and
the opera auddenly became one of the most
popular In the repertoire. The woman who
sang in It with M. de Reeake waa aura of
appearing before a crowded house, she
would share In the triumph of the evening
stiu aomitiea. neconaiy, it wouid respond and was certain of the applause of the
to me puotio to a angnt pressure hardly audience.
more than a forward stride, and the aame
modua operandi waa good going In
or coming out The turnstile with parti
tions reaching 'to the top was confined in
a round or octagonal box. rubber strips
making It practically air tight So at
tractive did the whole. thing appear that
the sole manufacturer aaked aa much aa
700 or tO per door. The east made a
Jump at It even with these prices. Later
When the Polish tenor abandoned the
opera for the Wagner role, r removed to
Europe to rest tor a season no effort could
galvanise the work Into publlo favor. As
oneaof tha great attractions of the aeaaon
"Romeo et Juliette" haa disappeared with
M. de Resske.
M. 8alfa waa able to do more than any
other singer. The opera languished In spite
of the offices of MM. Alvarea. RnunaslUr
the chargee have aagged and now run from and Naval. M. Boubeyran met with ship- act when they are putelda the Barree
to KOC. wreck In the work. d'Enfers. Mile. Trentlnl. the little ao-
But the publlo waa doomed to a partial Mr. Orau never had leas than halt a doaen pra-no of the Hammersteln company. Is
disappointment It waa found very speedily Jullettea In hlf company. The part of the ' ahown la the costume negessary tor
that dogs. amaU ty and rurallsta had to heroine haa been sung during the last ten the snowy landscape of the scene, but
be educated to use the revolving doora. year by Mmea. Sembrlch, Eamea. Melba, ahe la less afraid of the cold than the
Frequently a female rube got tangled up Seville. Susanna Adama, Marie Engle. Alno two more famoua sopranos, as she Is wlTl-
In the whirligig and her skirts were torn. Ackte. Bessie Abott Camilla Seygard and Ing to go out in the atormy night with
her hat amashed and her bundlea crushed Blbyl Banderaon. Thla list excludes few' her drese cut very , low.
and pulverised. Every once In a whUe a recent aopranog outside the Wagnerian
dog got caught on the edge of a pro- class.
pellsr and auced neatly In two. Bmail Now It U Miml In La Boheme" that the
urchin had a habit of leaving their feet women of the operatic world all want to
and hands strewn about where they had alng. They bave no such exouse aa the co-
no buatneaa to be and getting bruised and operation of a popular tenor for thla desire,
pinched. Ia course of time It waa de- because they are all willing to sing Mlml
termlned that where a large and un- with any tenor. The role must be svmDa-
aophleUcated traffic waa prevalent at- thetto to them and eult the voloe. aa there waya trying in every particular to any
tendanta were needful to direct the opera- ia no other apparent explanation for their but the loveliest and youngest facca. Thoj
tlons of the revolving doora They are Infatuation. facta are not Important. The singers are
atlll In great favor la hotels and many other There lain opportunity for attractive all willing te rua the risk of lopklr.g like
plaoea ' aioetununefr The flnnn of Mlml must be Taste Aurore from the Bu de Preveace)
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do It . with an Itaaan company nuxi
spring, as she has refused to learn tiie
text In German.
Her liking for singing the part Is due
In a measure to the beauty of the text. .
llllca is a true poet and all his Italian
texts taken from other stories are lit
erary to an unusual degree for operatic
librettos.
Both Mme. Melba and Mme. Sembrich
are shown in the costume of the fourth
Mme. Melba says she la la love with'
dulge In the' popular operatic efubelllsh-
ntent of a tiara. During the flrat and
second acta she Is In the dark moat of the
time, and she Is dying all through the last
act.
She Is compelled to wear a most unbe
coming coiffure; the style of 1J39 is al-
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she made her operatlo debut In Nice, and ladles would think of singing the role In
haa appeared In the opera there severer English, aa such a thing would be below her
times. She Is a Canadian, a native of artistic dignity. Mlsa Abott and Miss Do
Montreal. Thua lt happena that four of the nalda both alng the role In French aa well
- as Italian. Susanne Adama la another
American who used occasionally to alng the
part with the Grau company.
There la no other part today that ao much
Interests the lyrio prima donnaa aa Mlml
and there are enough of them between the
two opera houses to give a series of "Bo
hemia" cycles and not require the aame so
prano to appear twice. The work Is soon
to be heard at the Manhattan In spite of
the attempt to atop Mr. Hammersteln by
Injunction. Mmea. Melba. and Donalda will
embody the heroine of Murger, llllca and
Puccini In the Manhattan performances,
while Mmea Bembrlrh, Farrar and Abott
are at the Metropolitan.
The Man with the Beard
"I've got nothing against the barbers,'
said a bearded man, "but let me tell you!
how much money I've made for my self by
letting my beard grow.
"When I was eliavlng I used to have to
' get ahaved every day, which coat me a
quarter; IS cents for the work and 10 cente
for the barber, $1.75 a week, 191 a year.
And then every two weeks I got my hair
cut, which coat me In course of the year
13 10 more, because every time I got a com
bination hair cut and ahave I paid out 10
cents; the price of the work waa 40, but
I gave the barber 30. Twenty centa may
teem an extravagant tip, but It waa a
double Job, and aa I figured it If the barber
ought to get any tip at all he ought to get
for a double Job a double tip.
; "So my barber bill amounted to 1100.10 a
year.
"Then I thought I'd let 'era sprout and I
did; and I haven't had 'em shaved oft alaoa.
' . Rvory two weeks I drop In at the barber's
, and get 'em trimmed, and my hair cut at
the ssme time, a double Job again count
ing the beard trimming same as"k shave
for which I pay 40 for the shop and for
the barber, 60 cents, or making now a total
of 115.60 a year, instead of (100.10 I had
paid In when I got shaved dally, hair cut
bt-weekly. '
"When I first started the whlakere Z got
me a nloe strong soap box and out a little
slot in ths top If It: and every morplng
since I hive dropped into the box the guar er
that I bad formerly paid daily for my
ahave, except that every two week a when I
got my hair cut and my beard trimmed I
omitted the quarter for two successive daya,
and put In only 15 centa on the third, keep
ing oat thla 90 oenta for the present Job of
hair cut and beard trim; thai is, tha
equivalent of the former hair out and share.
"It la ten years now elooe I beg&a.tha
Vandyke, and on the laat rainy Bun day,
which happened to be the tenth anniversary
" of the starting of the aame, I got out tha
aoap box, broke It open and counted tha
contents therof, finding thein to amount to
the not altogether negligible aura of
which I had saved in ten years by letting
my beard grow Instead of Shaving.
"I did think I'd buy house and' lot with
this money, but I don't know now but what
I'll buy instead a nice aeoond-hand automo
bile and get out on the road and 1st tha
wind blow through the wMakara that
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