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Attractions In Omaha.
"The Old Homestrnd" lit the Ursndels.
"Mill Wife's Father" at the Boyd.
"MrFadden's Flats' at the Krug.
Vaudeville at the Orpheum.
Burlesque at the Uayety.
"I bf Old Hoamtrml" at ki Brindrla.
Po Ions aa there are hoys to leave the
old home and go out Into the world to fight
their own way In life; no long aa parents'
hearts yearn for the ahsent one; io long
ns men minds run hack to hoyhood days,
no matter where they are spent In short,
xo long aa human nature remains the same.
Just that long "The Old Homestead" will
retain a hold on the popular heart. It is
A simple, direct tale of simple and direct
Uvea. It has no complications, no mys
teries no complex problems. Its sweet sim
plicity Is Its strong point, and the tender
Sentiment of Its story comes so close to
everybody that It never falls to score Its
point. I'ncle Joshua Whltcomb may be a
little behind the times In some ways, but
the rugged honesty and sympathetic kindli
ness of his nature are the qualities that
keep the world from turning all sour, and
Ills merriment Is good for the blues. So
it Is with the other characters In the play;
any one of them might be taken from life.
Tho crltlo might apend his time making
fun of the dramatic texture of the play,
but when he got through he would have
Ms labor for his pains, for "The Old Home
stead" has withstood the teat of time, and
bids fair to go on for generations yet.
Edward L. Snader Is playing the role
enman Thompson made famous, and U
playing It well. Ills sense of proportion Is
well adjusted, and he gets his effects with
out undue effort. Something of his kindly
humor gets across the footlights, and the
audience is ready to smile or be serious
with him at all times. The twinkle in his
eyo Is Irresistible, while the tremor of his
Hp and the quiver of his eyelid Is just as
effective. His comedy methods are so
good that he may easily be listed as among
the really good actors of the day.
The company supporting Mr. Snader la
good all the way. It would be difficult to
say which of the several contributions to
the comedy was most enjoyed, but the
audience at the Hrandets last night, whore
the play was given, for the first perform
ance or a week s engagement, stayed to
h A verv Anil ttnri pnlitvad thm nlnulnir
quadrille as much as It had any of the
preceding events.
surretltlous marriage to one of the merry
merry. Mother and father had planned a
different alliance. Ach Ilimmel, yes! The
medium of reconciliation You've guessed
It. It Is ninkelnplel tho third. He will
talk, one guesses, a cross between George
V. Hobart slang and broken Oerman
F.ngllsh. The skit Is competently acted by
Bernard A. Relnold, Kutherine leBarry.
Thomas O. f'arroll, Mabel Van Buren and
llennet Southard.
Tho other particularly bright spot of the
bill is the hot and heavy fisticuffs be
tween two midgets. Tho concluding
knockout Is unquestionably pre-arranged,
but the preceding rounds seem even to the
most skeptlcnl to be fought In dead earnest.
Think of two tiny featherweights, as pet.
chipper and bumptious an two bantam
roosters and you have ft fair working Idea
of the Roosow Midgets.
A big popular success Is secured by
Waterbury Hros. and Tenney, versatile
musicians, and Miss Mlgonette Kokln, a
character sinner and dancer. Is also received
with enthusiasm, quite deserved. Miss
Kokln Is able to Impersonate a Parisian
chanteuse without employing a nasal
whine and this Is unusual enough to war
rant comment. Other acts are Walter
Graham, manlkln-lmpersonator, and Malet
tl's Simian Circus, a monkey act of elab
orate setting.
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A great many laughs that spring natu
rally and wholesomely from the situation
re the greeting that an audience gives
to W. II. Crane's corpedy of too much
father-in-law. The people In the story
are familiar types, their woes are common
woes and the humor is the more pleasing
for being homely. To seme people doubt
less It seems homelike.
Miss Lang and the others who are en
listed In the production have an excellent
chance to be amusing and they make the
most of It. Miss Lang Is charming and
Mr. Lynch has the same quality In a mas
culine way. Mr. Bliss la a bibulous and
pertinent old servitor whose antics are
very funny. Mr. MoCabe carries the part !
of the father and with consistent and pig
headed selfishness makes himself and
everybody else miserable. He Insists upon,
elng head of his son's household aa well
Ta his own, getting out of the difficulty
In the end by pretending that It was all a
masterpiece of deception.
Mr. Klrkland la a cadaverous poor rela
tion, and Mr. Evans aa his son gives an
excellent presentation of the near poetic
frenzy, looking as much as possible like
Bliss Carman. Mlsa Du Bota manages ably
a more serious part and Miss Valentine Is
s. delightful little miss with ft real temper.
For laughter and excellent satire "His
'Wife's Father" la ft marked and well-deserved
success.
Vaudeville at the Orphenm.
"Dinkulipiel's Christmas" . comes to
Omaha at ft timely season and the Christ
mas tree which is revealed Just before the
curtain la doubtless responsible for a
measure of the generous applause bestowed
The sketch and the actors thereof would
do well enough as far as that foes without
this adventitious aid of seasonablllty.
"Dtnkelsplel" Is of the fertile and fecund
brain of Oeorge V. Hobart and those who
re madly enamoured of "John Henry"
will find one character In "Pinkelsplel's
Christmas," who has a veritable "John
Henry" line of slung. "I took to my
O'Bulllvan's" says this youth "and beat
it to the steam wagon," which being in
terpreted Is to say he walked In a hurry
to a railroad train. This Is Drhkelsptel,
Jr., talking. Der Herr Vater Is of the
Germans German and the two have some
difficulty in talking together.
The story of the piece turns on son's
"McFndden's Flats" at the Kraft-.
Buster Brown and Happy Hooligan, In
all their eomlo supp'ement reality, have
both held the boards at the Krug this
season, and have both delighted large
houses, but neither of the two caricature
personalities scored the success that the
"Yellow Kids" scored last night. George,
cause of all the trouble, and Alex, the
other cause, clad In their yellow pinafores
made merry to the best of their ability,
and succeeded. Always in mischief, for
ever plannlug some mephltlo deviltry and
forever putting the object of their solici
tude in some ridiculous plight, while they
assume for themselves an attitude of inno
cence which would make a chofr-boy look
wicked, the "Yellow Kids" monopolize the
stage. Nor does the audience object In the
least to the monopoly, although the sup
porting company Is an able one.
Joe J, Sullivan, as Timothy McFadden.
gave ft laughable Imitation of an Irish
politician on a campaign. The Dutch also
came In for their share of caricature In the
role of Jacob Baumgartner, assumed by
Harry 'Barton. As ft matter of course
Baumgartner la running against McFa'dden,
and as Is always true on the stage, the
Hibernian wins In the fight with his Teu
tonic cousin., Both characters are well
presented.
Barlesqae at the Caret y.
Tired shoppers of Christmas week may
rest and have ft good laugh at the Gayety
this week If they go to see Leon Krrol
lead the Jersey Lilies through their various
mlrth-provoklng stunts. For to go is to
laugh no matter what the mood. No re
cent visiting comedian has had the Sunday
night crowds with his as did Mr. Errol
yesterday, whether playing the Dutch mil
lionaire's part or the part of the intoxi
cated Dutchman. It was all the same he
had 'em going.
James E. Cooper was ft close second In
the point of Interest and his "Gus Grouch"
who hates himself was a part to which he
seemed well suited. As most people who
hate themselves, he could see no good In
the world and growled at everyone and
everything.
"A Complicated Affair" Is the title of
the one-act musical comedy used to open
the show and to present the extra large
company, consisting of a chbrus of twenty
girls, eight men and a dozen principals. It
Is one of the largest troupea at the Gayety
this year, and besides being strong in
comedians, It has a chorus that can sing
and dance and wear pretty clothes and
Changs them often. '
The Millar Musical Four plays well on
several Instruments and Alf. P. James,
Kate Prior and Robert Algler presented the
same sketch In the olio that took bo well
last year, "The Strike." '
Leon Errol and Stella Shattelain mada
the two hits of the show In their two duets
In the first and second acts, the "Kiss
Duet" and "Bear Cat Rag." t Both are
exceptionally good dancers and were kept
at It by the applauding crowds.
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Monday I went to the opening view of a
large collection of oil paintings day before
yesterday with Aunt Harriet and Aunt
Georgette. Amy promised to come, but
failed to appear, and I didn't dare lose my
relatives In consequence. It's simply
dreaful to have to hang on to people in a
huge crowd. Tom said he'd meet me there
a little later and we were going to Bneak
out and walk home together. I arranged
It rather neatly after we arrived.
The aunts provided themselves with a
catalogue and started In systematically
on the pictures. I don't like to do sys
tematic things In large public places, so I
would wander around, but manage-to be
at the next door they would have to pass
through at about the time they would
have finished a room. I did miss them at
one doorway when I was talking to Jack
Wright, but I managed to find them by
great exertion. We finally by slow stages
reached the big back room where they had
some music.
I love mualo, and no matter how bored
I am the sound of even a very bad hand
organ makes me feel cheerful Immediately,
and as this was much better than that, I
rather tiresome, I though I would try a
hand at Mollle's young friend. For, In
spite of his artistic tendency to me ft most
unattractive trait In a man he looked
Chereh Grta Fends from 'ew York.
PIERRE, 8. D.. Dec. 19.-(Speclal.)-Gov-ernor
Vessey and Rev. Thlbedeau have re
turned from New York, where they have
secured aid for the building fund of the
Methodist Episcopal church in this city.
They secured a gift of $1,750 from Andrew
Carnegie to apply on their 13,500 pipe
organ and about $15,000 additional contribu
tions in cash which with other funds se
cured leaves only about $18,000 to raise to
pay off the entire debt of $75,000 on the
church.
.Expert Says Universities
Are Not on Business Basis
NEW TORK, Dec. 1 -Morris Llewellyn
Cooke, reporting to the Carnegie founda
tion, after detailed Investigation etaerti
that most American universities are con
ducted on unbusinesslike lines and that
there Is waste in research work. He made
a detailed study of conditions at Harvard,
Columbia, Wisconsin, Princeton, Williams,
the I'niverslty of Toronto, Haverford and
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His findings are published In a bulletin
made public today. Columbia lie says,
however, Is a general exception to the rule
and he commends It for excellent adminis
tration. Mr. Cooke says:
"There are very few, If any of the
broader principles of management which
obtain generally in the Industrial and com
mercial world which are not more or less
applicable to the college field, and so far
as discovered no one of them is now gen
erally observed."
The point which is taken up Is what he
rails the lack of Intensiveness. He points
out that a matter which may be of Im
portance to one department may actually
interfere with the efficiency of another.
Six-Year-Old Mail Robber
Is Caught with the Goods
1o 9 .
"WHAT ATMOSPHERIC EFFECT!"
felt very gay and would have given any
thing to dance. It was such a perfect
floor, too. Mollis was there with a peculiar
looking youth that I knew right away had
a dreamy, artistic temperament. I can
always tell.
As Tom hadn't appeared, and Jack was
SAVEW
I
ROCHESTER. Pa., Dec. W.-A 6-year-old
mail robber was caught in the postofflce
at Monaca tonight with hU ftrms full of
mail he had taken from two bo zee. A
puliceman stood and watched the child
empty two boxes acd recognised Marty
akrush. the child of his friend. Marttn
ftlcCukh. The youngster was taken te bis
fiii her.
An InveeUaaUun til be made tomvrrow
te ftscertalft if tee two Oraoe wituae naexl
was "rifled" hae suffered any loss.
Whether the boy manipulated the com
bination locks on the boxes or whether
they were left open by someone is not
known.
In a waste basket In the postofflce was
found scraps of several doaen letters that
had been addressed to the two firms.
These remnants will be examined to learn
If there were any checks. Complaints of
lost mall have been made at the posluffice
for several wfce
"I hear your little boy is deter
mined to be an artist"
"Yea. But I'm going to l?avi
him U my money w be won't
Urvcl"
"I SHOULDN'T WONDKU IF I WAS OUT
WHEN HIS COMES."
rather thoroughbred and had nice, big,
well shaped hands. I lost Jack easily, by
Just not taking any more notice of him,
and as he doesn't like Mollis very much
he sort of faded away after ft time.
It's quite an art getting rid of ft man
quickly without offending him. He went
on talking and I didn't answer him at all.
I was so wrapt up In a picture of a woman
who had green skin on her arms and
purple skin on the rest of her, except
where it was a deep yellow. Jack re
peated all that he had been saying, which
was about a visit he sad paid, and I said.
"What atmospheric effect!" Finally I
didn't even make a reply like that. He
got offended then and said he was going
home.
I said after I was sure he was well
started. "Won't you call me up and come
In and have tea with me soon? You know
those pictures'."
Then I dived through the crowd after I
had seen the offended look leave his face
and joined Mollle. The young man's name
w as Pea body and he was so nice and sim
ple and said he was going to meet me, as
he had heard about me from Mrs. Turner.
He said he supposed these pictures lnr
terested me very much.
I said "Why?" I said It very softly
and looked at him very wistfully and he
looked sort of puxzled. He said, "Mrs,
Turner told me you sketched In fact"
I said, "Isn't Mollle sweet? But I don't
know anything about art. I am afraid you
do. Have you ft studio? Mollle talked
good deal at this point, saying that he
had and how clever he was, and that he
was going to paint her portrait and lots of
things like that. She added that as I was
so talented In that direction we ought to
have a great many things In common.
She said, " Make her ambitious. Mr. Pea
body, persuade her to study!" I smiled
and said, "Yes, do."
Mollle said Mr. Peabody had gone to
Paris and lived In a garret , In the Latin
quarter on 25 cents a week instead of going
around In society with his mothers and
sinters and his brother, who cared for
nothing but racing. I couldn't help think
ing I would like to meet the brother,
said, "Did you really live on 25 cents
week, Mr. Peabody? How wonderful of
you!"
And I do think it was perfectly fine,
only I knew I never could get along with
a young man who could do that sort of
thing, and I was very glad to see Tom
Just them. Imagine Tom, the angel, doing
art In a garret! Mr. Peabody asked if he
couldn't come to see me very soon and
said, "Yes, Indeed; very, very soon."
The Hosa of the Establishment looked
up from the letter he was reading with
an expression in which astonishment and
apprehension were strangely mingled.
"Uncle William Is coming to spend two
weeks with us!" he announced to his wife
who had delayed pouring his first cup of
coffee till he divulged the contents of the
morning mall.
"Uncle William!" she repeated hesitantly.
"You don't mean the rich old bachelor
uncle from up state that I've never seen?"
"Yes." said Ross, "the one who sent us
the plated napkin rings for a wedding'
present."
"Oh, well," protested the lady, he meant
well."
"It Is needless to say that It was she
who had called the Hoss' attention to the
spurious character of the gift In the first
place and who had dwelt scornfully upon
Uncle William's parsimony ever since
Immediately her vivid Immaglnatlon be
gan to play upon the possibilities of Uncle
William's visit, and, as usual, the nature
of her thoughts was betrayed In her next
remark:
How much money did you say he had?" '
'I didn't say," smilingly replied the
Boss. "About $200,000, If you want to know.
But don't begin to spend any of It yet.
He's as husky a 60-year-old as you ever
saw and never had any use for me, anyhow.''
"But maybe he will like me!" the lady
explained coquettlshly.
And the Moss, with some Inner reflec
tions upon the sublime egotism of women,
let It go at that.
Perhaps his thoughts might not have re
mained unuttered if at that moment Woof
Woof, the collie, had not followed Mary
and a plate of blsults up the basement
stairs and begun his customary pilgrimage
from the Boss' chair to that of his wife
and bock again.
For Woof-Woof had a very sweet tooth
a complete set of sweet teeth In fact and
could not be In the same room with ft sugar
bowl without developing the whine and
the persistency of a professional beggar.
By the Boss' stern decree one lump of
sugar was the collie s allowance, experi
ence had taught his owner that more was
extremely bad for his digestion.
Though seemingly preoccupied with his
paper ha watcnea his wire as sue Drone
the one allotted lump Into small bits "to
make It seem bigger" and fed them to
Woof-Woof who wagged an ecstatic tall.
But even the most minutely divided lump
must come to an end some time and the
Boss perceived that, secure in his apparent
absorption In the morning news, his wife
had dipped three times into the sugar
bowl.
See here!" he exclaimed suddenly, "do
you want to kill that dog! Don l you
know that sugar makes him sick? Didn't
you promise me solemnly that you would
not feed him more than one lump?"
No," said his wife, "I didn't. I said not
more than one piece of candy. That's dlf
ferent he Just adores candy."
"Humph!" said the Boss. "I'm glad you
don't. That's the one senlble thing about
you. But remember now Woof-Woof gets,
no more sugar or candy today; I mean It!
By the way, we might have fried pork
and johnny cake with maple syrup for
dinner. It's Uncle William's favorite dish.
All day the Boss' wife planned craftily
the subjugation of Uncle William. From
the attic of their suburban home she dug
out an old-faahloned feather bed and In
ABSOLVE!
4 -t$S2
He never does a stroke of work
from morning till night!" ;
'tioi hc'i on r4g;bt duty
"WHY?"
But I shouldn't be surprised if I was ou
when he comes. His hands, in spite of
being so well shaped, were rather dirty,
Sort of uninterestingly dirty, too.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
1 1 t kTtr ufvir StTNTiNOr
tisVNir lairyir :
FRANTIC WIUOOM8
stalled It In the guest room. That was her
one best shot. She had not graduated
from the school of b'gosh fiction for noth
ing. At 1 o'clock a high, complacent, north
ern New York voice proclaimed the ad
vent of the visitor. And then a small,
compact, bewhiskered ninn of W or so
thrust Into the extended hand of his wel
coming hostess a square white box con
taining five pounds of assorted chocolates,
gumdrops and all-day suckers.
The Hons glowered an Woof-Woof ap
proached and. scenting the candy, wagged
a frantic welcome to his new relation.
Uncle William naturally mistook the
dog's Interest for an Introduction and an
Intelligent appreciation of his own merits.
And during the meal time which followed
he fed fried pork to himself and the most
complacent kind of up-state bonbons to
the delighted Woof-Woof.
Seems like I feel more at home here
every minute, announced the bachelor
urcle. "Even the dog acts as If he had
known me always."
The Boss' wife rejoiced that for once,
despite consequences and common sense.
her angel collie was getting all the candy
he could eat.
The Boss, divided between anxiety for
Woof-Woof and what seemed now tho
almost certain inheritance of Uncle Will
iam's money, preserved an ominous and
elorjucnt silence.
His wlfo felt It and so, too, did Woof
Woof, for, with the perversity of his kind.
the collie adored the Boss, who occasion
ally noticed him, and had only a tolerant
and condescending liking for the Boss'
wife, who, as she often said, "loved him to
death."
Woof-Woof's love of candy overcame his
psjehic sense of the Bobb' disapproval. He
fawned upon Uncle William; he licked his
boots, and finally, when Uncle William
was conducted to his bedroom, lay down
outside his door. t,
That was all Uncle William ever knew
about it, but In tho morning the Boss ob
served to his quailing spouse:
"The next time I have to sit up all night
with a sick collie because you insist upon
feeding him. five pounds of candy, I'll sell
the dog!"
"Why don't you sell him to your Undo
William he is very fond of Woof-Woof?"
asked the lady. .
(Copyright. 1910, by the N. Y. Herald Co.)
htmiiftttft tnar. ifovftrns Knrmn ( n s
Formal calls and formal notes may seem they have been Invited to, either by en-
unimportant, but they are not, because as
a woman writes and makes vlBtts Is her
Interest In events social rated, and also her
knowledge of what la required by polite
society.
When woman has been Invited to ft
wedding, even If it be only to the church,
a. call within ft month upon the woman in
whose name the Invitation Is Issued is Im
perative. A married woman, when making
ft wedding call, leaves two of her husband's
cards, one for the man of the house as well
as for the hostess.
No matter how slight the acquaintance
between the two families may be, this visit
is required. If xthe bride's parents do not
wish to continue the acquaintance It Is not
Incumbent upon the bride's mother to re
turn the call. Such a situation may exist
when the guest and her husband are
friends of the bridegroom, and not of the
bride and her family.
While writing of wedldng calls It is
worth stating that those persons Invited to
the ceremony or the reception, or both, do
not call afterward upon the bride unless
graved cards or by word of mouth.
A call Is supposed to be made upon a
family after any Important social event.
Incidentally, visiting cards should be left
immediately after a death, although it Is
not expected that those In bereavement
will receive calls. But to omit leaving or
sending cards is to appear indifferent, If
not rude. The same is true after a birth.
Persons who live at a distance and cannot
call are expected either to mall cards or to
write notes. The latter unquestionably
shows ft more friendly feeling, for cards
may be merely an obligatory recognition,
while ft note demonstrates interest.
A woman who may be visiting In ft city
where she is entertained by her hostess
friends and leaves beforo she can pay calls
upon the latter should write them notes
of thanks for their hospitality. It Is not
uncommon for ft woman visiting to bs
given ft dinner or a luncheon a day or two
before she goes away. And either of these
calls for a note written Immediately after
her return home.
R08ANNA BCHUYLEK.
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Gentle Cynic
J
If ignorance were really bliss the world
would be much happier.
Adam at least couldn't lay claim to
being a self-made man.
The road to success Is embellished
mighty few sign posts.
with
It's all right to have things In apple pie
order, but some of us don't like apple pie.
It is also well to bear In mind that all
things wait for those who go after them.
It Is Just as well to be lenient with the
faults of those who are bigger than we are.
It's all right to learn to say no, but It
has made many an old maid.
Soma fellows are actually too lazy even
to brag about hew they used to work.
r Let's maiu a resolution lor tbi
new year, eh f
AU right; let rcsolvg not ta
make any."
No man is such a good Samaritan as to
lend ft helping hand In ft poker game.
When a woman says to her husband
"You may talk as you like," she doesn't
really mean It.
Love laughs at locksmiths, but the
butcher, the baker, and candlestick maker
arouse no mirth.
The most popular girls are those who
can make ft young fellow think everything
he says Is funny.
Many ft callow youth thinks ha is fast
when It la really only ft flight of bis Imagination.
r
Nuts to Crack ,
J
It isn't every
both ends meet.
inventor who can make
Clothes don't make the man, but many
a skinny little runt wishes they did.
He Is a pretty good sort of a man who
has accomplished half the things he In
tended to do.
The Itrat Ileuefuctor.
Armfd with canly and toys, the philan- ,
throplc old gentleman mounted the rickety
stairs of a dingy tenement and, with ft
chuckle, knocked at tho door of a little
cripple whose pathetic letter he had only
the day before read In a newspaper. Once
inside and his mission and gifts disclosed,
the destitute family had cause for re
joicing. But it was the crippled boy in a low
bed In the corner that claimed the good
man's attention, and as this youth glee
fully grabbed up each bright gewgaw and
useful gift his benefactor chuckled again.
"How do you like your presents?" he
finally inquired.
"Oh, they're bully," exclaimed the elated
cripple.
"And whom do you thank for all these
nice thlngk?" next asked he. standing with
legs apart and swaying with satisfaction.
"The man what owns the newspaper, o
course," was the unexpected1 reply Judge,
Pride.
The hen now chants her supm-clllous glee.
The porker stands on proudly ponderous
legs.
It makes them grin With pleasure wbea
they sea
What's happened to the price of ham and
eggs. T. I- M
