TIIE OMAIIA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER" 24, 1907.
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Rosebud Goes to the Play
ADT M'OOWAN Is, one of thes-
here women who likes m lark,
who likes to make a cocktail
for me nr Sir Crawford and
he never get over the wonder
that slio can mix thorn who
likes to do good and not have anyone know
of it, but who geti flfc-htlnK mail over to
much as a suggestion at to her dressing
or her dresses.
(Rosebud was talking about the ways of
women, a subject In which he takes an
Interest that shows signs of becoming
steadily leas lmperaonal, and, aa ufurI
whan that tnplo la up, found hla Illustration
in his sprightly ward. Lady McOowan.)
Sir Crawford Says to ma one day: "Betty
boxed her maid's ears today for mislmn
fllirig on of her frocks, so she Is-buttoning
up her own shoes now. Really, Rose
bud," ha aays to me, "I got anxious abuut
what that charming wife of mine did with
all her old duds, for she buys enough to
dress a court.
"When I found out how she disposed of
the garments she lays aside I founl out
smother reason for considering her the
finest old Dutch on earth."
I could have told Sir Crawford all about
It, for Miss Jane told me. They, Miss
Jane and Betty, hunt up nice women who
cart't afford to dress ss well as they Should,
to be treated as they ahould, and they find
ways of getting Betty's clothes Into their
hands without hurting theJr fenllngs.
But you'd think, to know the way I-ady
Crawford goes on about her die.vacs, that
shs'd rather part with a finger than an
old apron. I mind me of a happening that
will show you what 1 mean.
About a ynar ago, or a little less, for It
was soon after the San Francisco disaster,
Blr Crawford comes over here and says
ba d take breakfast.
"Betty won't be fit to streak to all day,"
ha says, "because one of the trunks w ? t
away from Ian Franolsco turns out not u
be tilled with the new cowns she got thrj,
but with a lot of cheap trash that lo'.'Ts
Jolly well Ilk we Were going to plvo
charades."
Crawford, you'll understand, has a bis
fruit orohard In California. Betty wont
out with him for the blossom season and
they wera In Ban Francisco when the dis
aster came. Betty madn him stop over
while the shopped, for she'd found u stnr
there that Imported tho kind of thing aha
likes to wear.
A little showy, I'd say: Just a bit gay,
but they suit her.
These were all parked in on big trunk,
and when ths eartliquako turned tlvtm out
of tho Palaco hotel not fire or quali or
falling walls could budgo my l.fl'Jy Mc
Oowan till She suw that trunk put on a
carriage Crawford hired for fcV) to send to
soma friend who -lived out on the hills.
Tou know tho stories of those duys. The
world does. I need tell you only tins that
friend's house took fir. Betty's trunk with
other things was hustled out onto a vacant
lot.
Other people were lugging their goods
there, too. The next day Sir Crawford
paid 1100 for a trunk, got his ltiggnge over
the bay and they came home. But one
trunk was wrong.
A month after that Betty, Miss Jane, Blr
Crawford and I went to see a new show
piece at a Broadway theater. I had a box.
Noul the middle of the first act In
1 woman and throws eveiy one else
Xge Into the shads with an even
. that made every woman In the
diencs sit up sharp.
Betty gives a gasp and, as I'm a single
man, begins climbing over the box rail for
the stage. Miss Jans pulled her back,
"For God's sake, Betty!"' whispered her
husband, thinking his goad wife hud gone
dotty. ;"Wht Is It?"
"That creature has on my gown!" gasps
Betty.
W all sat silent a moment, wondering
What had gone wrong with her mind.
Sir Crawfoid spoke first, trying to Jolly
her, you oould see, but he was well fright
ened. "Of course, my dear," says he, "that's
one of my favorite tricks. Herrmann
taught It to me, I bury a blooming gown
out by . tho Oolden Gate, make a pass
Presto! It turns up on Broadway nicely
fitted to a new soubrette."
"Tou are talking nonsense. Crawford,"
she says. "That's my gown."
Well, In the next act the new soubrette
nearly knocks the audience's eyes out by
flashing on In what women call an after
Boon house gown that looked like a picture.
Betty turned to us with a moan.
"This is ho joke," shs says. "That hussy
has my Ban Francisco wardrobe. The
gown, the slippers, the stockings are mine.
Call the police!" '
Crawford was getting to nervous he
eoudnt sit still; Miss Jane was white with
fright, and I was trying to think If ever I'd
seen Betty's father out of his head. I had.
But Betty only took one glass of wine at
dinner before the show.-
"Next Is a street scene," shs muttered.
"If shs has that frock on. I'll go to her
dressing room and scratch her eyes out."
"I think we'd better go home, Betty,"
ays Miss Jane, who. you'll remember, was
Bettys teacher in the old days.
"Jolly food Idea," says Crawford. "Get
oms fresh air; get a bits to sat; we'll all
feel better."
"Oo, If you like," says Betty. I'll wait
to see If ths braien thing wears that frock
If this beastly act ever ends."
Lady McGowan is one of the kind of
woman who have their own way In this
world. It's some so with men. but more
so with woman, that those who assert
their wm will with what you may call
emphasis have their will. It helps in ths
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So Stomach Ills and Ilequlrea
Neither Dieting Nor Exercise
Too much fat Is both uncomfortable and
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to put up with Its inconvenience rather
than punish themselves with the tiresome
xarelslng usually prescribed, or endan
ger their heath by taking the so-called
"cures" snd patent fat "reducers."
This self-sacrifice of comfort and health
. to overabundant fat is entirely unneces
sary, however, as Mrs. Luella Bigger tells
us there is a home receipt that Is far
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any drug store, mix them together at home
and take one traspoonful after each meal
and at bedtime.
Mrs. Bigger, as Is well known, is a fam
ous beauty expert, and whatever she rec
ommends Is sure to be found smluently
satisfactory. Jldxs,
case of a woman If she's pretty. There's
none prettier than my ward.
We waited.
Well, sir, the women In that audience
couldn't help 1U When tht soubrette
walked on In the next act they fairly
blistered their gloves applauding.
It was the frork. I'm only a man and
can tell you nothing about it. But ths
little soubrette was heartened by the ap
plause and mala good. The p. ay was a
success.
"Send for the police this Instant or I'll
scream!" says Bitty, her eyes blazing as
she law the woman. "Frock, hat, gloves,
boots, parasol the only ones Imported
oh! this Is horrible!"
I slipped out to the manager. He was
busy with a swarm of sptculators who
had seen the hit and were buying up the
house for tho next week. I knew him
well.
"Bend word to Miss Pachlt I'd like to
have tier join a party of ladies and gen
tlemen at supper," I said.
The answer came back: "Must decline.
Horry, haven't a rag to wear."
I sent a note to her myself, saying that
the supper would be In a private house;
that It was personally important that she
Should attend; that she need not fear tiie
least embarrassment.
The answer came back: "I fear I un
derstand. I can explain. I 'vlll. come."
1 left Sir Crawford's carriage at the
stag: door. I told his footman who to
bring. He's a wise man.
At home Betty stormed, but promised
that she would say nothing until the ac
tress had had a chance to explain.
"There's a story and she can explain,"
I said, "or she would not come."
We wero sitting around the supper table,
waiting, when that footman announced:
"Airs. Stone, Miss Stone."
A woman poorly yen. shabbily dressed
entered, leading a little girl by the hand.
The woman was pale, trembling, half
frightened, half defiant; the. child wa
pule and something Wse.
"1 suppose you sent for me," began the
wonin, "to explain "
Betty Jumped to her feet and fairly
thundered,
"That child looks hungry! Are you
hungry?"
The little girl's eyes Were fixed on a big
dish of handsome fruit, some Sir Craw
ford had expressed on from hie place out
there.
"Yes, ma'am, please, I am," replied the
child before the mother could husJl It
with her hand at It mouth.
The little one wa ubout the age of
Butty's oldest.
You should have seen Betty, then!
H--r father and I once owned and ran a
faro game In Arizona. No man ever lost
a cent there who didn't have an equal
chance with the bank, barring the per
centage on splits. That's the profits of
honest faro dealers.
But there was a gang of pikers there
who were bad losers. They wore grouchy.
They annoyed us and the gam by their
back talk. When he could eland It no
longer Betty's father Jumped into the
gang and I had to follow him. It was
whirlwind work, but we had no more back
talk there.
iiitty reminded me of that then. Half
the servants In the house were waiting
on that younster in half a minute, with
Betty mothering and "poor dealing" her.
When ths rest of us got at our supper
the woman began her story. ,
"I was playing In a light opera at tho
Tlvoll," she said, "earning a good salary
and easily supporting my child and my
husband. I had saved some money to
corns on here to New York, for a manager
who had seen my work Intimated that ha
could use me.
"When the earthquake came I caught up
my baby and ran Into ths street. My hus-band-I
never saw him again or the money
I had saved.
"I packed into a new big trunk I'd Just
bought to travel with my stage wardrobe,
and some of the stage hands ths next day
carried It out to a vacant lot on the hills,
where we slept that night.
"A woman I knew when before I was
married found me and took us and my
trunk to a house of some friends. I said
I thought I could get work here and they
got the money for our fares.
"I rented a cheap room here, for I had
only a few dollars left, and went at once
to the manager who had seen my work
and asked for an engagement.
"He said at once he had Just the part
for me. Then he looked at tho poor dress
I had on this one arid asked how I was
off for costumes.
"I said I thought I could make one or
two of my dresses do with a little renew
ing and asked him for an advance.
"He laughed and said it was hard enough
on him to have to costume the chorus
and the extra girls; principals must dress
themselves.
"I went to my room disheartened, for I
knew that what would hardly do for a
reproduction at tho Tlvoll would not do
at all for a new production on Broadway.
"I opened the trunk then for the first
time, more to get some fresh things for
baby than In any hope for myself and
saw such a wardrobe as I had oniy
dreamed of.
"There were plenty of things In the trunk
to show who It belonged to, and there was
all the more reason I should want to re
turn the beautiful things to the owner, for
the friends who got the money to help me
In Ban Francisco told me It was donated
"to help some poor woman, by Lady Mc
Gowan. "But how could I find herT Who was
she? WhersT Besides. I knew that with
that wardrobe I could accept the engage
ment, and and my baby was hungry.
"First I wrote to my San Francisco
friends to tell Lady McOowan, wherever
she might be, that t would pay for the
wardrotie; then I wrote to the manager,
accepting the part. And I will pay, for
they told me the show Is a success, and"
The woman stopped when Betty went
over to her and. putting her arm around
her heck, turned her head so that she
could see In the next room what I'd seen
from the first.
Hetty's little girl had waked up, heard
the talk, crept downstairs with a doll In
her arms, found another little girl her own
age there, and the two kiddles were pur
ring snd crooning over the doll as motherly
as ever you please.
Betty kept the mother and daughter with
her for a co-iple of weeks, while the actress
was getting settled a bit In her work. But
she did a kinder thing than that; shs let
the woman pay for the wardrobe, so much
a week, as businesslike as you please.
"I didn't want Betty to let ths, woman
pay her." says Blr Crawford, "but damme
If I know women,' he says.
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Quaint Features of Life
Dlda'l I.Iks Ills Oki Bsmedr.
"Oie way to restore confidence Is to pay
your little bills." said ths stout man. "It
encourages "our grocer snd your butcher
and puts money Into circulation."
Ths little man edged forward.
"Hy the way," he said to ths stout man,
"there's that small account of ours. I
wonder If you can't let me have"
but the stout man had waved hla hand
to an Imaginary acquaintance and thea
hurried round ths corner. Cleveland Plain-dealer.
Dances at the Age of 110.
R. OELRJVS theory that all men
Dl reach the height of their power
I at 40 years received a severs
ciua.-K in iew lorn .uy wuwu
Rabbi Barnett Wolnisky danced
with the agility of a boy In cele
bration of his great-grandddaughter's mar
riage and his 110th blrthhay.
In reality ths rabbi was 110 years old on
July a, but he postponed ths selebratlon of
his birthday until his great-granddaughter.
Miss Eta Wolnisky, was married to Burnett
Greenberg at his home, 18 Forsyth street.
In ths presence of children, grandchildren
and great-grandchildren, Rubbl Wolnisky
danced a famous Russian dance In celebra
tion of the double event.
Rabl Wolnltky was aa free and easy In
his motion as If bs had not passed ths cen
tury mark by ten years, and after he had
danced for twenty minutes he displayed not
ths slightest sign of fatigue.
Was- Jlsnasy Dlaa't Sit Daws,
Ths woman who had shopped uutll ths
closing gong had sounded stood at the
transfer station and awaited the suburban
trolley In Bt. Louis.
"What." shs wearily asked herself, "does
It profit a woman If shs does gain ths elu
sive bargain and loses every trace of phy
sical freshness T"
Presently ths car cams along. It had ths
usual (rings of humanity strung along ths
running-board, and the woman resignedly
prepared to stand between the seats, when
a grimy youth arose and tendered her his
place. Protesting faintly, she sank into it
guiltily, and registered a vow never to shop
overtime again.
In due time several seats wers vacated,
and the woman looked hopefully toward
her knight.
"Jtmm." a friend of bis wss saying,
"there's room inside now. Why don't you
sit down?"
"Aw, what's the use? No sooner I'll get
me legs stretched when another tired old
hen will get on and I'll havs to bop up!"
Bis; Bear lings GlrU.
When the bear season opened last week,
a party of young women at Teddybars, O.,
organized a bear hunt In ths wilds of Cen
ter county. Their object was to get a few
bearskin rugs for their homes. They did
not get the rugs, but two of the girls wers
hugged almost to death, which they said
amply repaid them for ths trip.
None of them had any previous experi
ence In bunting, and they had heard that
bears wers aa plentiful as rabbits and quits
as gentle, so they looked forward to a per
fectly lovely time.
Armed with Flobert rifles, the girls
plunged Into a big swamp, and after floun
dering around for several, hours got lost. It
was lals In ths evening when they found a
road out of ths wilderness, and it was at
this time that a large black animal cams
Inmberlng out of a clump of laurel.
"It's a dog!" exclaimed one of the girls.
"Yes; It's a trained dog," remarked an
other. "See how he stands up on his hind
legs."
The dog gave a roar, and approaching ons
of the party, gave her a hearty squeeze.
She yelled snd he tackled another. "Oo
away, you nasty brute." she cried, while
her companions boxed the animals ears.
Amazed at this new form of atack, ths
bear released his grip and fled.
Catfish Dronsi Negro.
"While a negro fisherman at Gulfport,
Miss., was rolling a cigarette he tied his
lins about his neck. The next moment a
great catfish swallowed ths bait For sev
eral minutes a battle royal waged, then the
catfish sprang high Into ths atr, leaped
away and pulled the unfortunate man after
him. Ths onlookers wers terrified to ses ths
fish start straight fur ths sea, with ths
body of the negro in tow. A boat was put
out after him, but the crafty fish left ths
surface, so tha search proved fruitless. Ths
negro surely waa drowned.
Flak from Car Wladnws.
Passengers on Southern Pac'flo overland
trains are having rars sport trolling from
ths car windows for fish In ths Saltan Sea,
and good catches havs been made. About
midway cn tha sea an arroyo sxtends
back Into the mountains. Ths track crosnes
this on a trestle.
Ths water Is fifteen to twenty-firs feet
deep, and It has become a custom of tho
dining car porter to throw overboard ths
scrsps from ths table there. Thousands
of fish of all sizes lie In wait for ths train
and can bs easily seen.
A few days ago an irrepressible fisher
man prepared his hook and Una, and as
ths train slowly thundered over tha long
trestle, swung It far out over ths water.
This ths fish ntsstook for their customary
meal, and a voracious carp, three feet
long, seized the bait and was drawn aboard
ths Pullman. With this beginning ths sport
has grown to such an extent that the
passing trains are now supplied with fish
for ths dining cars.
Tragedies In m Family.
News of ths death of Michael Hubbard
at West Point, Ky., under ths wheels of an
Illinois Central train, has reached his
friends at Paducah. Ha was enrouto to at
tend ths funeral of his mother at Paducah.
His demlss ends a family conspicuous for
traglo deaths.
Eddls Hubbard was drowned four years
ago while crossing a foot brldgs over a
creek. Closely following came ths desth
of "Red" Hubbard, another brother, under
ths wheels of a St. Louis switch engine.
Mrs. Jane Hubbard, ths mother, died of In
juries sustained In a fall two weeks bo
fore. Ceatlpoao la tho Gaaao.
Captain Thomsen of ths steamer Bradford,
which plica between New Tork and ths
West Indies, carrying cargoes of bananas
and sea yarns, brought his charge alongside
pier 1, North river, last week, and before
breaking out the hatches to unload tho fruit
gave his scheduled yarns to the reporters.
Mrs. Thomsen, the skipper's wife; Chief
Engineer Tanner and a passenger, Vivian
Msllad of Port Antonio, engaged In a gains
of pinochle In the saloon. Chief Engineer
Tanner had Just made a big meld when a
centipede dropped on the table. The play
ers scattered. Captain Thomsen killed ths
intruder with a stick, and when the playt rs
resumed their scats It was found that the
centipede had shuffled the cards so that
Mrs. Thomsen had eight aces.
"I win," she said, snd her assertion was
not disputed.
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