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TITE OMAHA SUNDAY IJKE: .NOVEMBER 7. 1W9.
WELLSPR1NGS OF TF1E DRAMA
Some Things You Want to Know
The Troubles of Spain
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Where do all the plays come from? la
perhaps aa Interesting a question aa. Why
do they come? It I, at all events, a Rood
I deal more easily answered. Where they
, all go to ia not no aimply determined.
: and. Indeed, It doesn't matter much what
' becomea of moat of them. One thing la
; fairly certain; all the playa that amount
i to anything come aooner or later to
America, not to mention a great many
! that amount to less than nothing. Soma
of them are greeted with an enthusiasm
that doea not diminish until they have
visited every nook and corner of what
1a usually deacrlbed aa "our fair land"
all the way. In fact, from the moat expen
elve and pretentloua theatera of Broadway
to the "ten, twenf and thlrf " play
houses of the clrctitt.
Othera are met at the pier by the battle
axe brigade and apeedly put out of their
mlaery, while atill othera are allowed to
die lingering, but still early deatha, on
the theory, perhaps, that sudden demise
la too good for them.
Not eC our playa, of course, are lmml
, grants, but a large number of them are,
and of these a great majority come, Ilka
our language, from England, like our
faahlona, come from Parla, and a few are
"made In Germany," Little of the Italian
output haa reached ua since Americana
got to underatand what D'Annunaio really
means. Now and then something sneaks
In from Russia or Spain. The Scandi
navian Importatlona ceaaed, of courae,
with the paaatng of the viking ot the
drama, Ibsen.
Imported Playa.
Nine out of every ten of the Imported
playa get to America through the handa
of Just one man, Charles Frohman. The
English and French fielda are his especial
care, and he goes over them annually
with a fine-tooth comb and a mlcroaoope.
Mr. Frohman haa been called the Napol-
eon of the drama, and there's rumor that
he doesn't mind it a bit. And, perhaps,
if one could forget Waterloo, the charac
terisation would seem more apt. But
there isn't the slightest danger of Mr.
Frohman ever meeting his Waterloo. Na
poleon knew perfectly well before ever
he entered that Justly popular battle that
be was taking chances.
But Mr. Frohman doean't believe in tak
ing chances. He lets tha other fellows do
that. At leaat 90 per cent of 'the plays
that Mr. Frohman produces in America
have been already produced by somebody
else, either In Paris or London, and liked a
good deal there by persona In the habit of
spending money In theatera. Mr. Froh
man's formula la: "What England or
France have liked, America will Ilka, too,"
and experience has shown that It Is en
the whole a fairly workable formula. Oc
casionally It faila. It failed In . the case
of J. M. Barrle's gastrio comedy, "Little
Mary." London liked that Immensely.
America bogged' to differ. "It was too
subtle for you," sajd London. "We don't
like plays about our stomachs," retorted
America.
Few, indeed, are the French or English
dramatlsta of conaequence upon the Amer
ican rights of whose playa Mr. Frohman
baa not a practtcal option, even before the")
. plays are written. J. M. Barrle, Henry
Arthur Jones, Sir Arthur Wing Plnero,
Captain Robert Marshall, H. V. Esmond,
R. C. Carton, Sir Conan Doyle, W. Somer
set Maugham, George Bernard Shaw and
many others are virtually under contract
to him. And the beauty of it, from the
manager's point of view. Is that If their
plays fall In London it Isn't necessary to
bring them to America at all. This Is
highly desirable, but It's a trifle inconsis
tent with the Napoleonle legend.
Restricted Home Market.
Occasionally Mr. Frohman doea produce
a. play by an American dramatist, but It Is
a rare exception when that dramatist Is
not a man of proved ability, such a play
wright as Augustus Thomas, who would
like to be a politician, or. the late Clyde
Fitch, who didn't care to be. It Is said
that Mr. Frohman has safes and safes
crammed to bursting with plays bought of
American authors which will in all prob
ability never be produce'!. One native
dramatist boasts that hV has received $H,000
In "advance royalties," or other payments,
on plays of his that Mr. Frohman will
never produce. However that may be. It
la safe to say that If any play of Engllsit
f lYench origin gets into this country
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Tire spirit of Intolerance Is the chief
lauee of the troubles of Spain. Francisco
Ferrer wan Intolerant when. In advocating
the modern school, he declared that "all
rellgtonn are based on Ignorance and Im-
posture and aim at exploitation and op-
piesslon." The clerical party in Spain was
Intoleiant when It hounded Ferrer t a
felon's death, de.nl pte even the plea of the
Vatican. Today la the 126th anniversary
of the last public burning of a heretic
under the Srjanlsh Inaulsitlon. And yet
Spain still flnda itself In deeper politico-
religious disorder than any other nation
In Christendom. From the day when the
Moors and the Christians were sworn
enemies each of the other, hating with that
sincere hstred which Is satisfied with noth-
tng less than the absolute extermination
of the object of Its hate; from the day
when the Cross and the Crescent" were the
emblems of a war to the death there have
been few eras of peace In the Iberian
peninsula. Unfortunately the fanatlo In-
tolerance of the Moorinh Mohammedan so
Impressed Itself upon the Spanish Chris-
tlan that it never haa been eradicated.
There have been a few reigns In which
some liberality has been displayed, but
these but serve to emphasize the long
story of Intolerant oppression of Independ-
ent thought. From the time when Aver-
roes, me pnuuaopnm-, wan "niiBirau iu uu
noma m uoor di inn ino.iiuc, iun
every true Mussulman who came '..sre to
pray for his conversion was to spit In his
face, there has been little regard for the
conscience of others. Averroea, Infidel
that ha was, bore his affliction with the ,
spirit of a martyr, saying, as they spat in
his face: "Let me die the death of a
philosopher." Francisco Ferrer with his jenti therefore, that the clerical and anti
last breath, shouted: "Long live the mod- Cercai controversy in politics is not so
ern school." much the result of a movement against
Through all the centuries of woe In the church as it Is an internal warfare
Spain the chief authors of cruelty have within the church.
been men who may. not be charged with Prof. Ferrer, as the champion of the
evil Intention. Under the Inquisition many
of the Inquisitors were actuated by ths
most conscientious and sincere motives.
In their eyes heresy was the most henlous
of crimes. It combined all the elements of
crime crime against self, the dooming of
an immortal soul; crime against the state,
the propagation of a doctrine that would
undermine it; crime against God, the mis
leading of His people. It Is related that
many humble and charitable men, officers
of the Inquisition, performed with tears
coursing down their cheeks, acts of cruelty
which demons Incarnate could not have
surpassed.. It la only a century and a
quarter ago that actual phyalcal cruelty
was abandoned in the Spanish effort to
regulate the consciences of men. Since that
time the effort has been confined, to polit
ical activity, o closely allied have been
church and atate that they are nearly one;
and no religious movement may be made
but that it affects the state, and no polit
ical move but that It . affects the church.
Thus on one side of every question haa
been arrayed the clerical Influence, abso
lutely Intolerant; and on the other side,
through any medium other than Mr.
Frohman it 'is because that manager de
cided that for some reason he does not
want that particular play.
Play brokers have much to do with the
foreign field, of courae, especially Mlaa
Elisabeth Marbury, certainly a living ref
utation In these high finance days of tha
theory that women cannot be successful
In large business fields. But ths brokers
are friends of Mr. Frohman. He makes
It worth their while. And this, too, is
Napoleonic
Tha Frenchmen, It Is true, give the im
porting managers a lot of trouble. They
have an Idea in the Galllo capital that
there is only one really humorous figure
In the world the figure of the betrayed,
duped, deceived husband, and only one
legitimate subject of comedy sex. Plays
on these themea coin tens of thousands
there. But will America stand for themT
That Is the point. It Is usually concluded
that America will not. So a tranalator la
sent for and told to "adapt" ' the piece
for the American stage. He picks the
thing up gingerly with a pair of tongs,
sprinkles chloride of lime on the
remains. As a rule, what la left
Is no rose, however Inoffensive Its odor.
It is sdapted for the American stage, but
not to it.
Jada-inar the Aaserlcaa Oataat.
There remains the American output
plays written by native dramatlsta. Be
yond queatlon In thla field the pre-eminent
managerial poattlon la held by George
C. Tyler, a man little known to the great
theater-going public because his person-
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the antl-clerlcal element, equally1 inloler-
ant, more violent and absolutely reckless.
For the last generation this struggle has
centered In tha queatlon of public educa-
tlon. Fifty years ago three-fourths of the
people of Spain were totally Illiterate. In
1057 an elaborate system of compulsory prl-
mary education was ordained. Thla sys-
tern never haa reached the perfection of
Ua program. The public schools of Spain
now have 1,700.000 pupils, approximately 10
per cent of the total Domilatlon. The nubile
schools of the United Statea have 17,000.000
pupils, or JO per cent of the total popula-
tlon. In the United Statea there are also
several million pupils In the parochial
achools of the Roman Catholic church and
approximately 1.000.000 In other
private
achools. In Spain attendance upon
ill
private schools Is 3M.O0O. The city of New
York expends upon Its public school ays-
tem annually, three tlmea aa much money
M j8 spent upon education In the entire
kingdom of Spain.
Th, pubnc gcnooi system of Spain Is, of
course under the Influence of the Catholic
ohurch. According to the American point
of view the schools should be nonsectarlan,
but even in this country it Is Insisted that
tha public schools have some religious ser-
vice, such as the reading of selections
from the Bible. In Spain the people are
almost unirormiy vainoiica. ana it is nat-
urai mat tne scnoois anouia renect tnat
faith
The latest religious census showed
ony 8i0M Protestants, 402 Jews, 9,645 Ra
tionallsta, 610 of all other rellglona, and
13,175 whose religion was not stated. That
Is, there were only about 30,000 people out
of a population of nearly 30,000,000 who
were not professed Catholics. It Is evl-
modern school, gained the friendship and
sympathy of progressive thinkers in all
parts of the world for his able and untiring
efforts to Introduce the modern sciences
into Spain. Spain Is the only country in
Christendom Into which modern science
has been unable to penetrate. Prof. Fer
rer's books ware the means of starting an
agitation In favor ot modern education.
This was opposed by the conservative por-
tlon ot the population and by the extreme
clerical party. It waa pointed out that In
those lands where modern science reigns,
religion is on the wane. This was suf-
flclent. In Itself, to Invite the opposition of
the clergy.
Finding the church arrayed against him,
Prof. Ferrer permitted his Spanish spirit
of Intolerance to get the better of him. In
one of his, books he declares that religious
education Inculcates falsehood and teaches
foolishness. He declared that the Gospels
relate only to the life of the so-called Jesus
Christ, and that It was truly a misfortune
that such Ideals should exlat for the pur
pose of deceiving the people. He was, per
haps, the first critic of Christianity to
allty is veiled behind the firm name of
Llebler & Co. Aa a matter of fact. Mr.
Llebler's share in ths huge theatrical en
terprises conducted In his name consists
largely In signing checks for expenditures
for which Mr. Tyler has contracted. Only
recently an old and wise theatrical man
waa asked who. In his opinion, waa the
best American Judge of the possibilities
of an unaoted dramatic manuscript. With
out hesitation he named Mr. Tyler. Now,
this is no slight praise, for If there la a
perilous undertaking of an Intellectual
nature It la prophecy In the field of
playa. Compared to . It, next week's
weather is a simple thing to foretell. Even
the whims of an operatic prima donna are
eaalcr to forecast than the future of an un
acted dramatic manuscript, even though
Oscar Hammersteln may not think so.
Perhaps the one quality that above all
others makes Mr. Tyler the excellent Judge
that he Is, Is the quality of Imagination
the ability to visualise a character or a
scene, to see what the actor will look like,
how he will be dressed, how his vole will
sound, to assemble Intellectually all the
various elements of a dramatic entity until
there Is preconstructed the total Impres
sion that will be made upon an audience
by the completed work of dramatist, scene
painter, actor and stage manager combined.
In the last theatrical season ' Mr. Tyler
supervised the production of something
Ilka twenty-five new plays, 90 per cent of
which were by American authora. The
percentage of auoceas waa very high. . It
was net. however. Invariable. Failure was
the Initial portion of "Cameo Ktrby,"
though success was ultimately dragged out
of the defeat. The chief character, than of
an old-time Mississippi river , steamboat
gambler, was first impersonated by Nat
Goodwin. Disaster, prompt and unmis
takable, greeted the first performance of
the play. In this case Mr. Tyler had failed
in vlauallalng one of the elements of the
completed whole. Mr. Goodwin's person
ality was not adapted to the part. Mr.
Tyler quickly recognised the fact, another
actor was engaged for the character, the
play was altered In some particulars, and
Its subsequent Chicago production was
highly successful.
Plays for tha Kara.
Even when one knows little of the
myriad difficulties and subtle obstacles of
the theatrical manager's buslneaa, the an
nual task that confronts a man like Mr.
Tyler appears huge. The more one knows
about It, the larger looms the task. The
development of the star system, be it for
good or for evil, has forced upon him the
acquisition of a number of stars, or prin
cipal players. These, from whoae succesa
ful exploitation moat of hla proflta arise,
must be provided every year or, at best,
every two years, with new plays which
must not only be well made but whose
chief characters must also be well adapted
to the personal characteristlca and pecu
liarity which conatltute the professional
equlpmenta 6f ths stars In question. The
perplexed manager may not say to any
member of his constellation: "You've
worked hard for aeveral years and you've
made money. Go take a rest and give
me one." If he does, the atar doea not go
take a reat. He goea to some other man
ager, and hla former employer is thus de
prived of the prefltable personality upon
the. development and advertising of which
he hsa expended years of labor and all hia
brains. No. the stars must have playa.
How do they get them?
Once in a blue moon the manager'a play
reader finds a real play among the maaa of
rubbish that comes unsolicited from un
known and unskilled writers. But If the
manager depended upon thla source ot sup
ply moat of hla actors would be Idle moat of
the time. And there Is little use looking to
the foreign field unless you are Mr. Froh
man. And if you are Mr. Tyler, there
are Miss Viola Allen. Miss Eleanor Robson.
Wilton Lackeys and the rest of your stars
-all to be fitted, and promptly, with at
tractive and becoming theatrical garments.
There a nothing for It but continual hust
ling. Eternal .Vigilance, everlasting
watch for playa or Idraa that can be
deny the quality of merit to the ethics of
the lowly Nazarene.
Few of Ferrer's followers go so far aa. he
In ths denunciation of religion. The vast
majority of hla sympathizers and of the
liberal party, which Ferrer's death brought
to power in' Spain, are Catholic Christians
who are convinced that the best Interests
of both church and state would be served
by a complete separation and by the
elimination of the cleiical influence In
D,IUc"
lcs.
It is difficult for Americans to under
stand the lesues Involved. Perhaps the
greatest governmental reform In the his
tory of the world was instituted when
Thomas Jefferaon persuaded the legislature
of the 'colony of Virginia to adopt me
statute for religious freedom. It waa tha
first law guaranteeing to every man the
right to think for himself, and It was a
decree of absolute divorce of the church
from the atate. When the United Statea
came Into existence the Virginia notion
prevailed and this great republic Is the
only nation in Chrlatendom in which Hiere
Is no relation whatever between church
and - atate, and yet no nation la more
amenable to religious Influences,
jf tne present crisis In Spain shall end
,n ,ne geparatlon of church and state, and
BhaU Drng. aDout the solution of the rell
e-loiis nroblem. SDaln will be free from
reglou, controversy for the first time In
elghteen centuries. The introduction of
Christianity Into Spain lighted the fires of
martyrdom at the beginning of the second
century after Christ. Chrlatlana were
burned at the stake for refusing to worship
the Roman gods. Under Constantlne.
Christianity became the state religion, but
it was not long until the great conflict be
tween the Trinitarians and the Arlani
agitated all Christendom. More brood was
shed over the subtle questions raised by
halr-splltting Christian theologians than
had been spilled by the pagan persecutors
of the early Christians.
Then came the Invasion of the Moham
medans and the struggle which for seven
centuries racked the Spanish people.
Finally the Christians triumphed, the
Moors were driven from Spain, and the
crescent of Islam forever banlahed from
western Europe. , The same religious seal
which destroyed the power of the Moors
also drove the Jews from Spain, lighted
the fires of the Spanish Inquisition, sent
Columbus on his voyage of mlaslonary dis-
covery, and established negro slavery In
America.
The intolerance
born of religious con
tentions, Spain carried Into Its political
administration. The result Is that I.- once
world-wide empire has vanished, and the
mother country Itaelf Is In the throes ol
what seems a hopeless struggle. Spain
preaenta the spectacle of a nation being
strangled to death.
Tomorrow i "Ths Housing- of Congress,"
by Treasrlo J. Staskin.
made Into plays Is the only price of suc
cess like Mr. Tyler's.
Of course, the active .pand of native play
wrights are willing to give a deserving
manager all the help In their power at a
price. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, or
her agent, we will say, approaches Mr,
Tyler and remarks: "I've got a plajf that
will suit Miss Robson." Mr. Tyler, Is,' will
ing to be shown. He hears all about the
plot of "The Dawn of a Tomorrow." It
Interests him. He calls for the manuscript.
He likes It even' more after reading It.
It will suit Miss Robson. But will she
think so? Well, In this case she did. and
the play vlll be good for at least two
seasons.
Provldlaa- Theatrical Fits.
But there's Miss Allen what's to be
done for her now? Somebody tells Mr.
Tyler somebody whose business It Is to do
so that F. Marlon Crawford's new novel,
'The White Slater," haa great dramatic
posslbiiaies. and that Miss Allen, who
made so much money In "The Christian,"
another dramatisation, could enact the
leading feminine character. Mr. Tyler
reads the book and llkea It. But there's
a troublesome mala character that looms
too large for, a play Intended for a fem
inine star. All right, tell the dramatlser
to tone it down. He docs so, Miss Allen Is
allowed to dominate the play, and Mr.
Tyler haa another success.
Turn we now to Lee Shubert, head of the
blggeat theatrical firm that combines the
management of a large chain of theaters
with play production on a big scale. Mme.
Naztmova, the talented Russian, she whom
James Hunoker describes aa " tigress n
the leash Of Art," Is a 8hubert star. She
has. had no new play In two years, with
the result that she was not seen on Broad
way laat aeaaon at all. (Doea eh. like It?
Don't be foolish!) She must have a new
play. Where's It coming from? Well, Mr.
Shubert appeals to Eugene Walters. Haa
Mr. Walters In mind any play that would
fit the tigress in the leash of Art? Or, If
he hasn't, will he give his mind to the
subject and see what happena? He will.
He does. And a new play for Naztmova
Is now announced for the present season.
Mr. Walter knows the Russian's methods.
He knows how to suit his croft to hers.
He understands his trade and he has
signed the contract. Good! Mr. Shubert
breathes a sigh of relief. Thank heaven
Nazlmova la provided for! Who's next?
Mlts Mary Mannerlng? All right, send for
the playwright who has suited her
before. Send for a syndicate of play
wrights. This beautiful actress tried
alx new plays last season before
firdlng one that aulted. Consider the
total of hope and fear, anxiety and worry
and disappointment and labor represented
by thla statement and then ask yourself.
If you like, whether the atage aeema an
attractive career for a woman.
Aetar ail Manasjer.
There are on the American atage a few
successful stars who have the courage, the
artistic Intelligence and the business capac
ity to manage their on careers. To these
few come large pecuniary rewards. They,
of course, aelect their. own playa. Among
the most conspicuous In this class, per
il ftps. K. H. Sothern and Miss Maxlno
Elliott may be named. Mlsa Elliott la aa
good a business woman as Miss Marbury.
She Is probably a better business woman
that ahe Is an actress. But between her
acting and her business ability she haa
made a good deal of money. . In each of
two aeasona alnce ahe became her own
manager her proflta have exceeded (70,000,
and has never had a losing season.
The case of Mr. Sothern, aa a ell as
that of Henry Miller, another actor In the
aame category, seems to Indicate that If
mure stsrs hsd the choosinc of their
(own plays it might not a be bad thing,
either for tne public of for the atars. Mr.
Sothern makes large proflta each year,
certainly far above the 160.000 mark, more
than double that sum In certain properous
yean, and morover he stand, since the
death ot Mansfield, at the head of his
profession In this country. Mr. Miller's
accession to the position of actor-manager
baa been sufficiently Justified by bis pro
duction of "The Servant in the House"
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and "The Great Divide." two of the bent
plays that Americans have paid fortunes
to aee In the last quarter of a century,
while his production of Percy Maokaye's
"Mater" was a brilliant failure.
loarees af Playa.
Rome plays come a long way before they
reach the public. It was an American
actor of English training-. Walter Hamp
den, who brought "The Servant in the
House" to Mr. Miller, while Mr. Moody,
author of "The Great Divide," had long
been known aa perhapa the best of con
temporary native poets. The Journey of
these playa waa short. But "Via Wire
less," which, though far from a good
play, yet ran all laat season and will run
all of thla, traveled a much longer route
before It reached the footlights. An elec
trician evolved the central ldta. A maga
sine writer made It Into a short story
and then transposed It Into a one-act play,
which he sent to Frederic Thompson. That
manager bought the akeUh for the aake ot
the Idea and then hired two play-makers
to expand It Into a four-act thriller.
"The Chorus Lady" is a fair example of
another fairly prolific source ot playa. In
its first incarnation It waa a highly suc
cessful sketch played In vaudeville by
Mlaa Rose Htshl. A keen-eyed manager
observed that Miss Stahl possessed a pic
turesque and pungent personality. A facile
playamlth beat the twenty-minute sketch
out so thin that It became a play running
two houra and a half, and the thing haa
returned over 1100.000 profits In each of the
last four years and Is still going merrily.
In short, there Is little that escapes tha
playwright or th. manager. They get
playa from novels, magazine articles, es
says on the national debt, newspaper para
graphs, electric light signs, patent break
fast food "ads," pictures by popular artists
("The Education of Mr. Mpp" and 'Ths
Newlyweds"); poems by folks like Klpilng
("A Fool There Wss"); politics ('The Man
of the Hour"); mining ("The Heir to the
iHoorah"); dcntlatry ("You N.ver Can
Tall"); aurg.ry ("Zlra"), and ehaea. ("Miss
Uk of Holland"). Th.y even g.t playa
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Fine Fur Sots $19.59 to $300.00
GREATEST
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est Magazlnos
H&.LF..
AND LESS
The Twentieth! Century. Farmer $1.00
The Cosmopolitan. 1.50
Regular price for both for one year . . $2.50
The Twentieth Century Farmer
McClure'a
Regular price for both for one
The Twentieth Century Farmer.
woman's nome companion
Regular price for both for one
The Twentieth Century Farmer
Woman's Home Companion
McClure'a
Regular price for all for one
This offer is good until Dec
at once to
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY FARMER
OMAHA NED.
out of Harvard university. Witness Mrs.
Flske's production of "Salvation Nell", by
Edward Sheldon, the young Harvard play
wright. They would dramatise "The Con
gressional Record" If there was a sugges
tion In It." Anything or anybody that cornea
along is eligible. Take care you don't do
anything noticeable. Somebody will write
a play about yon probably Booth Tark
Ington and Harry Leon Wilson. American
Magaslne.
BUILDS BETTER THAN PLANNED
Far-Rearhlna Effect of Pare
Movement la the tatted
Statea.
Food
It would appear that Uncle Fam made
a bigger splash than he anticipated when
he tossed hi pure food pebble Into the
world's commercial pond. In the effort to
protect his own people againat unfit foods
he has forced upon a good many other
people an unwonted consideration of the
desirability of taking a bath and scrub
bing their floors. It Is even reported that
they are Introducing fresh air Into date
packeriea In Fes and compelling the fig
handlera of Smyrna to wash their hands
from time to time.
There Isn't obviously much gain In clean
ing up the South Omaha and Chicago
packing houses If we are to let foreign
trade dump on our ahorea the output of
filthy, diseas.-lnfecied, unsanitary, can
neries and packing establishments which
provide us with food products. So the au
thorities have bestirred themselves to com
pel the rest of the world to clean np'lf It
proposes to sell ua Ita gooda and the
Turkish empire la threatened with a
thorough cleansing.
Italy, Spain, Oreeo. Morocco, Asia Minor
and Major, all sell us a vast amount of
stuff which w. have been habited un
questionably to Introduce Into our syst.ma
without consideration of th. unnamable
and unenumerated varieties of bacilli they
might contain. We have excited ourselves
about sanitation la Philadelphia, but over
that will interest every wo-
distinctive styles. We herewith
Capes
$29.75, $35 np
to $75
$69.50
$12.50, $15 to
$20.00
Year
Published At
FLi
Our Price
ONLY
$1.25
Our Price
ONLY
$1.60
$1.00
1.50
year. .82.50
.....$1.00 Qp Pfjcg
j..uu
, ONLY
$1.60
Cur Price
ONLY
$2.40
year. .$2.50
. $1.00
1.50
1.50
year. . . .$d.00 J
31, 1909.
Send your order
looked ' Its poFslhllttles In Palermo. Now
the food law admlnlutrators are getting
lines on the levant, . trying to find out
whether the foodstuffs from the esst are
proper for our use, and, by dint of barring
or threatening to bar the output of un
clean places they are forcing a great
house cleaning upon the more or lesa will
ing followers of Mahomet.
It may Involve exceeding Inconvenience
to the leisurely folk of the east, and It
may shock some of their notions of pro
priety to take baths, let In the fresh air,
wash their hands occasionally while at
work, and, In general, to clean up; but
In the end they will find It ia not Injurious.
They will have less of epidemics and will
live longer for the effort. Of course, they
will praise Allah for It and never realize
that it Isn't a new demonstration of His
regard for them; but, In fact. It will be
an Incident to the fact that Uncle Sam Is
tiylnit to protect his people against filth
and the tianKer of dlsense. Baltimore
News.
Bolldlasr Permits.
Mrs. E. C. Hill, Forty-first snd Ssratoga
frame dwelling. 12.000; v. Undeihilli
W14 Marry, frame dwelling. I'J.uOO; (;. v.
Underbill. 3Xlii Marcy, frunin dwelling, $,600
Hans li. Nlemeu. Wl (South Klfty-f.rsi
street, frame dwelling. 1,2M; Mrs. A s
Laursnce, 11J6 South Thirty-third, $2 (ft)
You Have Pessibiliiies For a
Good Figure Undsr Your Fat
From 10 years onwarfc people grow fat
ter. Ho many do so It seems the natural
thing. Instead of that, getting fat la a bad
sign. From that moment one's tissues are
going to get gradually weaker.
It Is easy to correct the trouble, however.
One teaspoonfui after meals and at bed
time of tha following pleasant mixture:
' oz. Msrmols. oi fluid extract '
rara aromatic and IH oz. Peppermint
Water will put back Into your stomach
that youthful energy which prevented von
getting fat beforeSO. Th. old figure I'llll
there under your fat. remember. l, It
out with this harmless reo.lpt. It will take
off 12 to M ounces a day without aay b.lu
from aaercts or diet.
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