THE COURIER ii i &' V, STAGES HER OWN PLAY Grit and determination are plain ly evidenced in the face of Miss Genevieve G. Haines, whose photo graph appears above. That her acts do not belie her appearance is evidenced by the fact that Miss Haines, unable to And a manager ready to stage her play "Hearts Aflame," in the manner she de sires, has leased a big New York theatre, hired her own company and will run her own production. The play is said to be an exceed ingly clever piece of work. 71 Wheelman's Wail" Meanness is inborn in some people. Especially is it in drivers. Pedestrians might not notice it so much. Wheel men do. Especially do those who take occasion to ride on tne asphalt streets on hot days. It is because the drivers insist on taking that dry strip in the center of the street. There is always such a strip. When the street sprinklers on a breezy day, or most any day for that matter, travel up and down the streets, they purposely leave In the center u narrow stretch of dry pavement. This is done for the benefit of the wheel men. To go on either side of 'it means to ride through water. It would not be so bad on brick pavement but on the asphalt It drains slowly and is whipped up in the rear of a rapidly moving wheel In a continuous stream that besmears both the rider's clothes and his machine. All he asks is to have this strip In peace. It is generally wide enough for two of his kind to pass. When a buggy or wagon or dray or van gets astride it, there is nothing left for the wheel rider to do but get out of the way or be mixed and mangled and jumbied with the remains of his bicycler Every bit of this the drivers seem to realize. No law compels them to keep oft the dry course. Therefore they don't do It. The bicycle man is not at all likely to jam off one of-his wheels In retaliation, so he sticks to his course. He sticks to it if he is on it and gets on it if he not already there. Here is a wheelman a little late who wants to make up a few minutes. He is not violating anybody's code in throwing on a little steam. Down the strip he goes. Malice, however, ap proaches not very far ahead of him. Embodied in the llesh, bones and the old clothes of a driver it looms up only too suddenly right ahead. Doubtless the vision is Jogging along in an old truck wagon of some pattern. At any rate. the .man gets.no good in. keeping to the center. What good can he ac complish In appropriating a couple of feet of dry track when his wagon wheels, one at least, must glide through the water on one side? None at all. Water doesn't hurt the wagon anyway. Sometimes he will pretend not p see you. Again he will met your mutely the man will express himself audibly "It Is queer," says a New York cler nppeallng eyes with a glitter of amuse- to her in the emphatic way he some- gyman. "whnt a liking young students p ment. At any rate you hardly have times does. Both on the watered pave- have for long words and Tatln quotn the time to slow up when out Into the ments and on the roads she Is much tlons, and whac a dread possesses them wet you slide, the wheel whipping n Inclined to brace her head high and of appearing conventional. I once knew ile1 dirty stream up your coat tails. ride recklessly on, regardless of the promising candidate who was given Maybe somebody will attempt to de- little room the wheelman needs or charge of a funeral In the absence of fend the drivers on the ground that would care to occupy. Certain" It is the pnstor of the church. He knew it they really possess a sense of humor that she would be shocked extremely was customary for the minister to nn and that this Is simply their style of should she hear the words that are nounce after the sermon that those gaiety. You can't make a bicycle rider sometimes emitted by the man on the who wished should step up to view the believe It. In fact it Is hardly safe to bike after she has passed outside the remains, but he thought this was too mention such a defense to this creat- bounds of henrlng. hackneyed a phrase and he said In ure. Helpless as he Is to defend him- No reason on earth exists why stead: "The congregation will Tiow self awheel, he is generally capable of wheelmen should not be permitted to pass around the bier." Kansas City doing some damage when not mounted. have the dry strip without molestn- Star. "Sit 4 -v And If anything will provoke him to It tlon. And there Is no excuse on the w i .. It Is the malicious selfishness of some earth, above the earth or in the re- "Colonel." she asked, addressing the of these drivers. gions under It why people should not en'''"1 Kentucklan. "have you read Female charioteers are sometimes know that a man with a bicycle has about the water cure In the Phlllp- just as blameworthy as their brother as much right on the roads In pa'ss- P'ny8?" t. , ,., ... . .... . . . I have, my deah young lady." he re autocrats of the road. It Is difficult to Ing as any man with his larger ve- pUvil wUh imoHt overpowering emo- guess what inspires them. What would hide, be It buggy or wagon. If there tlon, "and I am nble to realize at last It be gallant to guess? Or Is. a female were any question about it at all It lnat wan 1 what one of your Nohthern driver of that class entitled to a' gal- should be settled with the answer that genehals said It was." Chicago Uec- lant guess? Perhaps she doesn't know f .J drlv?" the p,ke on"-HeraW- ,v . " . . , , " should be the man with the wagon "iv- ? v the first principles of road politeness. or buggy who should be ashamed ot . The Actress Harold: "Dear Miss Perhaps she thinks that If the man himself for taking up so much room. Angellne, let me whisper to you the is at all chivalrous he will concede her But tne wheelman breathes no absurd 'old old story!' Angellne: "Aw, come all tho room .she wint, without" oues- reluest- All he wants is the dry strip ofT! If you want me to listen to that, all the room she wants without ques on the pavement and enouKn room you.u have to dramatize it and spend tion or suspicion of bad words under elsewhere to spare him the need of about fifty thousand on a stage set breath. At lease she is not afraid that running out onto the ruts nnd ridges. ting." Judge. P 'S? S? V&'t?', d0KV 4Bte.,l J L NCOLN'8 PROGRESS VE STORE ESw .v -.r?v -Cv ."v. T"N. .s. y. y. t - 9 9 wP Kl mMpz HtMUi0 K'rtti Fancy Parasols at Half Price... 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