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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-05-13, Page 3Art of Animal Acting Told by AIL LateIL the entreat hen beell lerge faotor in Sinet the earlleet dogs of eivilization the amusement of inankind. From the UMW]. arena to the modern circus is a big jump, but 'hardly more so thau the litrided recently made ttrward a real un- derstanding of the life and. habits of the lower epeciee aft they Team about their native wiltle. Soraewliet Ili line with the study of animal nature is the impereonation of the beast as made by Man, first in a erude sort of way merely tor the amuse- ment of kie fellow mare but in these inter daye in a more eserioue num= with a somewhat higher objece in view - In the following article Alfred Latell, oire of the beet known of the aunnal im- personators of the atage, tells of kis ear- experienees and. of whet. it really /wens to try awl leterintnrough, an lin- peesonetion of the dornestee and. wild oeasts just how they live, move and whet their peculiar characterieties are. In fent, Mr, Well believes thet just bode a method of study may In the fu- ture lead to valuable resulte to the sci- entist, in more ways thou one, "About eeven yeers ago," says Mr. Latell, "I read an advertisement by Gus Hill, who wanted a man to portray the part of a mookey in Ws productioa of Gulliverei Travels. had never before attempted, anything of this sort, al- though lead been upon the stage as it legitimate actor for some time. I ap- plied for the position, and upon securing it weut up to Central Park, and. for days and days remained in the monkey houses there, studying the entice and peculiarities of the cousinly progenitors of mankind. I found it a most interest- ing study from tho (damn but when I came to pnt on a monkey costume and. go through the name movements it was quite another matter. Climbing upon trees and alighting upon the ground ne- cessitated many a bad fall. The pecu- liar cries of the ape and. his signals to his feelow monks necessitate .a develop - !tient of the art of ventriloquisin, which is true of all animal impersonations. I remember, spev.kiug of tumbles, of an amusing incident that happened to me at one time when I was working for • Kiralfy. I was climbing upon. a bamboo cane in the garb or fur of a monkey. Mr. Kiralfy was standing di- rectly beneath me, and .suddenly the bamboo eane broke and I fell about nine feet, lauding on top of my manager, as much to his surprise as to me. The moet difficult thing about a portrayal' of the monkey is the long leaps ono is obliged to make, 'because the monkey as a rule moves so rapidly when he owl gets under way. . "After the eeason 'with Gulliver's Travels I joined 'The Devil's Auction' milder the management of Charles Yale, playiog a mischievous eat. Next I was evith Ned Wayburn's 'Kitty Town,' eplaying Toodles, in vaudeville. Then eame John O. Fischer and Lee Shubert's 'Babes in the Woods,' when I played an English collie dog. Joe Hart's 'Polly Pickle's Pets' atom next, with the role ot Push, the St. Bernard dog. I then play- ed in Charles Currie'a production of *Jack and the Beanstalk' in England. The past season I played for nine con- secutive weeks gt the Coliseum in Lon- don, being seen la animal parts exelu- eively." • "The parrot WaS one of my first bird impersonations, and I found it one of the moat difficult of all; becauee of its crouching posture and the consequent tendency to fall over while wallcing. There axe nine strings which have to be operated in working the head, bill and. wino, and the work is laborious in ,every sense of the word. At one time when I was playing at the Hollis Street Theatre, in Boston, in the'clearaoter of a partot, I made a run toward. the foot- lights and, lositig my balance, fell into th.e orchestra mt, tho feathers flying about in profusion. It Was naturally laughable to the audience, -but hardly so to me or the poor musician upon whom I landed. At this same theatre, upon an- other occasion when I was playing the part of a St. Beroard in "Babes hi the Woode' I was advised that there was eome mall for me, and accordingly went out to the stage entrance by the call - board to get what letters there were there. John 0. Fischer was with the at the time. I had my aog eostume on, and a real St. Bernard who belonged to the stage doorman, seeing me approach upon my hind feet,' made a rush for me, and if it had not been for his master and Mr. Fischer I would. in all likelihood have been 'eaten alive.' As it was, I was quite badly mauled and bitten. "Regarding a comparison between ann mats as fax as imitations of them are concerned, I think that I can safely say that the dog is the most difficult of all. To play the part of a dog and not to buffoon him, one is obliged to make a close study of his every action. The d og is so close to mankind that he is Icritina more intimately then any other of the -domestic beasts, Frith the excel). tion poesibly of the horse. When I be- gan making study of the canine I went down to my farm at Asbury Park, N. Jr. as I do every summer, and, put- ting on my dog costume, I went out with my own dogs and folloived them around. 1 watched their every step and move- ment, their run, walk, sitting postures, noted their growls, their barks, their eniditight howls, their sneezes, how they oaught flies, their whines, the wag of their tails, their peatures when standing in repose I try to let nothing eseape me Frequeutly the real dog forgets that I am his master and I have fre- ouatitly had some narrow eaca.pee from a ;good "dog licking" The lege of a dog Are jointed in the clod opposite vela- tioft to tb.oes of mankind, and this inakee it extremely difficult no imitate Itim. I am now working upon au invention which will be perfected. this eutnmer which will enable me to nutke a joint to my hind lege whieb will he almoet iden- tient with those of the dog, In working with a; live dog I have always found it necessary to first muzzle the animal, and this has saved me from many a bite. "Speaking of the monkey, the best way to study him lei to eeenre a wile aril - mal, one fresh front the juundes Winsro wae born; ellen his ehatter mere P.14 !Altair -a itint he is more 114 nature in- tended. him to be teen when he has spent yeers in captivity or been born in a cep, 'Xlie tail of the monkey euetume is 1114till upon a wire whiele ail' coil up whee worked bv a string. Tito monkey I have alwaye imitated. ',le the whittedgen South African baboon. e "The eat le a difficult animal to inn pereonetm though not so much so as the dog, beeauee of the foot of its elower movemente.. have gone out et oight with iny eat wit on and have sat for hours wangling the smaller back ynrd pe(s)ts as they stalked, along the. feneee or sat watehing the moon rise e'er sonle neighborbig building. I endeavor to imi- tate all of the eat sounds. from the purr to the midnight howl, the slow and. stately walk and the digoified. pose as she sits liening her ehops. I endeavor to imitate her affectionate way of rubbing against owe, and oleo to imitate the lv.zy she laps up her milk front n bowl, I do this with the aid of a tube wbieb. paeses from my own. mouth through the mask - face and by making the Sn1110 11444 MO- tiOn4 ea the mil eat does it looks from the frent nee if I were really lepping up the milk, My cat costumes are BO e•made that by the aid of a string I can raise -the fur ma my back just like a. real cat does wben angry. I use heavy pads beneath my chin to support the heavy, head, and this is true with all of tlee animals I imitate. Thick pude beneath my leande win me in walking, and pads upon my hips stssist in the effeetp 4The liou is very heavy and le there- fore physically hard to impersonute, His walk is easy, however, as he moves very slowly and crouches along before making his spring upon his prey. The leap is hard to stequire and takes muok practice. "The other animals in my repertoire inelud.e the billy -goat and the bear; and the birde include the rooster and the ostrich, have neventeen different ani- mal costumes, which, taken as a whole, have east considerable money. When I landed in New York froth lengleave, four weeks ago' 1 had aonehlorable difficulty in convincing the custome offieer that therashould uot auy duty charged me forbringing them in, and the matter de. layed my appearances in New York con- siderably. In fact, I was prevented from giving an animal impersonation act at the recent Vaudeville Comedy, OM bene- fit. "In =eluding, I would adviee any actor or actor to think a long time be fore he undereakes the portrayal of the lower animals, It is hard -end almost thankless work, outeide of the salary. There is no applaose for brilliant lines rendered, and unlese the impersonator is conscientious in his week he will soon find that he had °eased to be of value -to his manager or to the public. First study the .animals you are to portray, then have yeur eostume made as nearly like the real animal as it is possible to - make them, and then rehearse in your eostume, with the animals you are im- personating in the vicinity. Don't give up at the start, Keep at it, and if you tire rapidly at first you will find that your limbs will soon aecnatom them- selves to the awkward positions they are obliged to assnme. •But above ale take your work seriously and don't go tibout it as if you were meeely playing the clown in a circus, Then your work will be recognized and you will semi be ao- quirhig tho salary that will buy leouses and lots and pings." THE HIS OF CHILDHOOD _HOW TO CURE THEM In thousands of homes throughout Canada BabY's Own Tablets is the only medicine used when the children are ailing., aud the mother who keeps this medicine on hand my feel as safe as though there was a doctor constantly in the home. Baby's OMI Tablets cure all stomach and- bowel troubles, break up colds, deseroy worms, and make teething easy. Guar- anteed free from opiates end poisonous drugs. Mrs. Geo. Wilson, Wiltionee, N. B. says: "I began using Baby's • Own Ta'blets about. five years ago, and since then have used no other mediqine „for my children, They neeer fail to bring relief, and I would advise all mothers to try them." Sold by medicine dealees or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Menicine Con Brockville, Ont. • EASY TO PROST GLASS. . -- French Chemist Does the Work by Using Glue. - Prenoli chemist has diseoyeted a very simple and easy way to frost glass, say The Practical Druggist. The method is to cover a tumbler or bottle or otner glass object with a thin, smooth and thoroughly laid on covering of glue. Eithet very good cabinet- maker's glue' -or fish glue will serve perfectly. The only care that must be taken is tn see that there are no air bubbles in the ghee after it has been applied, and that the coating is uniform and of even thickness ovet the einem article. , „ Glue thus applied to glass sticks to it very tightry, Then it begins to con- tract as 4t Now, its tight hold on the glass prevents the layers et gine front eontraoting without puleug at the glass and thus little by little, the glue slit's and split's tint% fragments from the surface ef the glade. If certain salts are added to the glue the effect is still nioto beautiful, 1 e - cause then the splitting of the Imo fragments is done in such a manner that the result forms a perfect root - Mance to a finked window pane. A. glass tumbler or flask so treated he- eolnee a beautiful ornantott to the room or the glass cabinet. * atisteerat is pexson who thinks more of hie anceetors than he eoes, of hie poeterity. Tit BEST WOODEN PAIL Can't Help But Lose Its Hoops and Fall to Pieces. You Want Some. thing Better Don't You? Theo Ask for Pails and.Tubs Made of EDDY'S FIBREWARE rub- One a Solid, ilardened„ tasting Maas E 'moo ma/ohne, without II Hoottor Seam Just as Good as 6U 0 1 01 100 MR. GNAGG UNDERSTANDS WHAT IS MEANT WHEN ASKED TO VISIT THE TAILOR'S, Feminine Arithmetic by Which the Wife la Entitled t) Foot' Speing Suite When the* Husband gets Two—Beeides, What Use Has 4 Slave,for Fine Raiment? Mr, Guano, being egietel by etre. dinarg.when Mende ta order a COU, ph; orspriug suits for himself, pouncee upon the opportemity unfoldthe fel- limb% eheerful geperalizations; Oh, that's it, is it? You wont me to stake myself to some togs, do you Well, I'd like to Qonneet with the real tieswer to that, lefuet be a stinger in it somewhere. Sounds Leo good. to be on the level. It's about 20 to 1 tlien.thereer boroet bidnen inntlial: suggestion. if 1 eould only giving it. • net's see. You are sittini there handing me the high and noble look and asking me -when l'm going- to get ley Bertilion teken for two finite of clothes. Now I could dope out the meaning ,of that if you'd enter mention ow Buie. Thated metn of' course that you. yourself Ikea an eye on a couple •of sults for yourself. leo hop to that numb of course:- I haven't been dubbing around in double hernees all the; time without finding out that eviten you yourself have it in mind to gouge me for a whole lot, wity, your procedure in- variably is to begin by seggesting that I myself get a little bit.. It gene me winging, I eonfees, when you talk about my getting two salts for myself. Am to understand from teat Oa you've got en eye on four *suits for yourself? Pour suits for you is kind o' squeez; ing, the mourners a little, isn't lb? Of eouree I wouldeet mind getting you four or eight or sixteen or thirty-two suits if I owned a couple more railroads be- sides the road you think I already owe, but when you pull it oneme in so umay words time you ve marked for your own four suits that you must and. 'Will lave or there won't be a dime's worth of peace around. here, why— Hoy's thee? You didn't say anytiting about getting four suite or any suits .at all for yourself? 011,,you don't bane to pin nee down as to words, you know. I'm not saying that you ekated right to the centre and, emitted a piercing elneek for four suits of clothes for yourself, but that's the only poseible eleductIon when you moochout into the suggesting lino and ask me when I'm going to get two suits of clothes for myself. juat reckon, sort o', thab I won't fall for that subtle Iine of suggesting this time, you know. 'Twee pretty deep and all like that on your part; end Pm not withholding credit from you for the science you are learning how to puteinto your syeternatic exploitation of me; but I guess deeliue to be the Patsy this time, jab fee once, if ooly to see how it feels. 'What makes yon think thab you've got to have four spring suits for your- self at one fell swoop, anyhow? I know, of eotirse, speaking in a .gezeral that it must be tereibly herd on you to reflect that tho Duchess of Marlborough probably has foe*. epring suite every year of her life, while sometimes you only have as many as tIn•ee, but then you know all of us have to eodure these grisly reflections. Pre got to give in to you, though; it's One great little aystem. Every time, for exterriple, that you suggest to me that I go get 'haircut for myself, why, on the same day you nudge downtown .and blow $3.85 or some suck matter to have your hair treated, as you eall it. I get a haircut for thirty-five eents, with fifteen cents to ehe barber, which makes four bits, but your little seance with the hair troatist sets you—which of couese means me—back about eight •-times four bits, which is kind 0' -crowd- ing the average when you stop ta think It over, Same way about a lob of other things. For examples-n*11%n you tell ine that my hat is getting to be sovt of on the tobog end kindly suggest that I go get anoth- er why, a day or so later you're right there -with the little bee fehot stings me for about $3$ for a new Ild fog youteelf. Inge it all now. nly bonnet flings nie beck, at the outside, five men, whereas, yours eats up forty or fifty of the same, thus maintaining the average. When you fix the glassy stare on one of my neckties and suggest that you'd better get me a few mere 'as my stock of 'em is runniog down -you go out end lay down all of.e.3 forlifteen or twenty neetkies for me that look like the Ora.V- atry worn tit an east side wedding,, and then you dome right back at me for an Irish croeheglace waist that puts a $25 dent in me: ' Getting back, though, to those tivo suite of clothes that you so unselfishly suggested' that have made for myself" --there armlet goieg to be any two suits. There isn't going to be any suit. I'm going to dub along with the duds that I've got, That's the ouly way I've got of beat- ing your system. - Anyhow, I don't want any clothes. I may need them, As a matter of fact / do imet theme for I look so much like a bum when I'go oub afraid of. being .atelested for vagrancy, A relived* wny I'm not going to get tiny elothes for myself this, year is that they'd be no of to use tie me. Where do I go, anylfew, that have to. lave clothes? I don't have to dross up like a broken ,atnt to •ga to. the office, and that's aboht all there is to my life—the office. Ali the time that I'm not atethe office have to poke axone& tide plant; and. rd be a fine gink, wouldfdt I, 1.6 get IV11010 jet of clothes to Piet wear Around hero! e The Whole truth of the plotter is that I'm dished Med done for. The game's all over for ine, I need' bave a ehance to get out anywhere without liaving ten or fifteen gallows of the weeps pulled on rile, I never have ZOO Yett're always telling me that T ought to go out three or four eveniugs e, week and mix more' with Men; ond you're perfectly willing 'that I should do so? . 011 know all then, Stuff,' Sure, Pegs been'hearing that for a wittier). years ot ao; lint just leC me try Met going out gag onee or twice and then stand. by to tee the rough. 'mese aronnd lege! I'm tied, ehained, liondered, bobbled, botmd, bucked. and gagged, that's all there is to it; And Init just the little 'Sunieche Lime knowe it. Olen that's an old, obi nog 'with yeti NVOlilliii. Yen make tt mockery of a man when it cornet to thie liberty thing. When yen know Ora you've got Itim Served op BO that he tali% MOVe titutl- ele Without tekieg elianee on a, doillefo tie teplosion, why, you eardouically in- fonn hits ethat Iteei •foolisli oot to 'trot mit right often ofoPevertinge tor a geed time, Why, eity, 'look inherel it's been 10 CORNs OURED • 2414 OURS , Yen.= painlessly remove atie nen. rime, mull, soft or weeding, ty applying patneen, corn .8xtractor. HOW burns, le;S,%.ris no S1.111. einem at ao ems Itiliatizzlivrt !wallas, essinpOlvd only et healing Willie mitt halms, Ott v yea ri In use, . Cue guaranteed. Sold ity all drueelste On loonies.* lietusu substitute& AlliPS PAINLESS 7. CORN EXTRACTOR • long shiee trotted. any Wm! ef a lit • tie harmless liown tiiWn t of a 'Slight that poeitively wouldiet know how to i'elteve yet rid of my leash for env night; even. 'Wouldn't butte' weere tt, go- Weeldn't know where to find hely- wag, wouldn't. kilow hose to hviiitrp dtd. Bud 'eln. If Chey Fa W me mitring hi they'd elf think I Was 0 ghost and beat it awae front tlit ee or tall a tom tied have me arrested .:for being a Milli sir boni, thing. I'd behave like a nanuiteur his first performance if 1 happened tit light ih 3 Pal:tY Of lieolele 4"\‘'n. town era a night lomple used to be chummy with baek in the coeene period. SO WIzat.'S tile use of my Weill; any el o lie s, halt 2 You wouldn't wa I. me to put 'em ()molter came home here mot welk up aud down in front of the glass, grinning at wolf, would pm? Of ealt1lie if I could' by any remote ammo get you to see the retteonableuess awl the ,common sense of gentling a month or two out olt'iltigoe171 (situircikn.alotullge warm weigher and let hack heve about nly Itusiness it would be different, T'a ueed a trait or Lwo of clothes then, beettuee mice la a witile I'd be able to pop into a show, of e iiight or drop around. mid see one of the fellows, or something like then and I'd warit to kink deeent. No, there's no retailed earth my ever being able to get you to see that. It's perfectly. US610se for me to panet out to you thet the beet minds of this perlocl are overwhelmingly of the opinion that married. couples shouie bp away from midi other for at leeet two months of ehe year in order that each may have a chauce to sort of think things over and take a new grip on matters end. be ell the Move impreeiative of the othee's so- ciety whem the reunion occurs. How's •thete 'We tried that once la the summer of 1900 and Id -wired yeu to come lionTo 'before you'd been away two weeks, and when you got home you found. ley stomeoh all.out of kilter and you had to sit. down and nurse me for lleTarlilaSiden itm;otnotaisi?up to ine that little bit of •norsing you did for me once. back. at the beginning of the century. Hurl it up to foe, I'm used to that hurl up thiug. You don't happen to recall, though, de you, that I was suffering from pto- inaine poisoning on that•occaesion? Howhi that? The dodos" told ycni that my stom- ach harbeen knocked out from drink- ing too many different kinds of—, Oh, well, shucks what's the -use? The next thingl you'll'be pulling oo me will be that I had - the delirhun.htremens ani:::.that I was fled to a bed in Bellevue when you came hustliug back that; sepa- 1 don't remember sending you any telegram to come back, either, You said that you had a telegram from me ask- ing yeti to aome brick, but that's what they all say. You never showed me, any such a telegram, and you were there with some kind of a yarn that you'd deetroyed the telegram, bet that sounded pretty pellucid, for a woman keeps a telegrams es long as site Ryes, Mid if I sent you any such a.fool wire as that, why, ininust have been while I was in what they call the subeonscious state. Now, look a -here! Seeing that .you're taking- that casting up and cantankerous tone about it, why, I just guess ru change my mind about that clothes bus- iness. Guess I'll *tee get myself a cou- ple of snits of the fittest little .togs that con be built in this man's town if not three or forte suits, and I'll try tile game of -going around dressed up like a vaude- ville knockabout man, thatdi what I'll do. get out of litre once in a while iu the evening too, or know the .ereason why, might RS" well be hung for a sh.eep as for a Iamb, 'and when you start in to teleene that I had. the do no's not so long.ago and that ib took ten or gin teen aleoholie experts to save my lite, why, it's to *me to' garb something, and Pm going to start ft, that's all! Oregin of elhe Great St. Bernard Hospice. In an article dealing with the reaeue dogs of St. •Ileroard, a writer in the Wide World Magazine sttites that the famous Hospice was founde4 in the year: 962 by Barnard de Menthon, a neighe boring nobleman, for theebenefit of pil- grime journeyeng lloine. For many years after it was erected it was contiutially being attacked by bands of robbers who infested the mountains, In those days the. brave monks were compelled at times to barricade the doors of their eeroitg- hold and iwait until the Weather drove the beeiegers aW1154., before they dared venture forth, Once it was deatroyed by fire, while. it was here that 'Napo - loon was entertained when he took his army over the Alps into Italy the spring of 1800. One hundred and eighty of his soldiers held the pate for a year. Tourists visiting the . hospice 'from Weetern Europe naturally ascend the pm on the Swiss side, The, last yin' loge eine passes is Bourg St. Pierre; and at the inn here the landlord will point with pride -to the tiny table and cloth -covered arm -chair which were -used by the great soldier as lie sat et breakfast early .ort the morning before he set out on that memorable journey across the Alps. Hie Amy limbered thirty thousand men, and for miles they had literally to fight theit way, foot by - fooe, waist -deep in snow. Napoleon converted the. hospice into barracks, and the great room where travellers are now sheltered -ewes turned into a Inge hospital ward, Blobbe—My wife is 'cleaning house; I actoally hate to go home; 'everything is at Idles Ana SeVet15. SlobbS—It's good thing yettem silporstitinus; six- es end sevons, you .know, make tido- teems. GIRLS' IDEAL OE "THE HUSBAND," HUNDRED YOUNG WOMEN'S COM- POSITE MODEL MANLY. Many Weite to Pestor—Cloe Ins-pired to Rhyme and Another Says Spouse Most Buy Her Two Nets a Year. (Chleafto Mi ire e 00 t leak, grit lc prPli y. vireelotte and Wee). well to tiO. vain husbands that is, if they teu the rigla omen The reepenon of therm piling. wunien, deeeribing Tien- ideol mem were read. last reight at the Ilelstead Street tostittitional Church by Rev. 1?. Vann glum, pastor of Wei esmgreguljnit, 0101 iiiiiliemor111,rLIt: of a xermon on "The Model A majority of .the yi,ling women miter,: surprised. both tlie ;teethe and titelieni e by ending pesitively that they wanted their Ituebende to be the real "hese." a Imo sl:,0141reil. it Was not necessary t lint he be Itatideeme, wealthy, AS611 tell,. or tie ewell dreeeer." But it was Menotti in every caee thet he be a maw wbo wag capable of real hive, The word "lisve." WaS Limit tenured in moat of the let ters. The feminine ealidisidtes for matriuion- lel loners also were Nominally .egeeed diet theie future "better halvee" nehst be "good hearted, kind and affection - Aloe' Bueneees or profeegional men were not preferred by meet elf the young wo- men., but "elean. honest owe 'Who make clean money" were desired. PASTOR ASKS NINE QUESTIONS. -Dr. Vaughan seeured the opinions of the yoong woman by eenning out a letter in wheel he expraseed lds deeire to get the opinlou of thoughtful. women, on the subject. and then propounded the follow- ing queetions regarding the model lois- band : thel, 11-110oweeetrit ,want him to be the head of 2, Do you Want WM to always follow your bidding? 3. Do you want him to give hie time to sueeeed in business or to his home? 4, Do you care whether he levee you or do non merely want e home? • 5. Do you. prefer a basitiesS Or a 1111). 'ff.SSiOnal 'man 1 0. Must he wealthy? 7. Must he be handsome': • 8. Must he bee a swell dresser? 9. Must be be educated or talented? ONE INSPIRED TO POETRY. One young women WaS so enthusiastic over the "ideal Imenamin that she de- scribed the num she wanted to marry in the following rhyme; He may be the head of the family, If that place he chooses th hold, But if he follows in,y bidding Pm afraid he win soon grow oln. He need not be so wealthy, But poverty I could uot stand— In fact led prefer him healthy More than all the wealth of the land. He need not be so handsome, Nor to overdress need. he, But if he sbonld be. good looking, There would. be no objectioa from me. Now, as to hiseducation, A point meet important in life, To meet my anticipation He weds this if 1 am his wife. mtST BE "WEee NOT "L" One young eveman wrote regaxding the question whether the 'model brieband" should be educated or talented. "He must be educated enough to make honeat living and be interested enough in the affairs of his country to make a good. citizen. and c.ompete with 'men. in the middle class, Some day I hope to fall be love with a manly' man, who will love me and treat me its his equal, riod be a. chum as well as a. 1.11.1.11band, Some men forget 'they have a. 'better half; tied ;meek ef' cl,"me,"ininee instead of course rue' and 'we.'" Another. matrimonial aspirant declared her husband must not aeoesearily be wealthy. '"But," she eontinued , "he must be elite to buy me a $25 hat twiee every temente And he need ea be a swell dresser, but he nmst be extremely man" One girl said she wanted her husband to love her all the time, and that it was necesetiry for him to be te Methodist in religion, prohibitionist in politics, mid inteneely interested in missionary work. She also wanted him to be agreeable, unselfish and thoughtful of detail, The paetor, hi his sernien, described the model hueband as a man who Aid not drink, smoke, eliew, swear or stay out late ofolights. He aka said that no girl should marry a man who had "eown wild oate," Neel Sunday night be will pretteh on the subject of °The Model Wife." TO ITAVE.INNING. Pollowing the. sermon lasb oight Dr. Vaughan. called a meethig of the men in the congregation and distribtited blanke with the following questione •, • THE IDEAL WIP.E. • 1. Must. she be pretty? 2. Must she be a goodeook and segopd housekeeper t ' 3. Moat she be vivaeiotts or quiet? 4. Must she be ,stylish 2 5, Must she be a society or a borne girl? 6. Must she be a college graduete? 7. Must she lie talented • 8, Do you Prefer a "new woman" or the old fanioned kind? 9. Must she have a good disposition?. 10, May she be elubwoman, reformer or interested in polities? 11, Do yon want a clinging ivy or a sturdy oak? Dr. Vatightm will ow in. -his sermon next Sunday night the answers he re- eeivas to the Above miestions, ' AT THE OPERA. "Ont of eight in thet gown, inn; she?" olyz,erved a gentleman lit the ban Cony, preening te etre. Koltay, who eecopied a front seat in one of the.loWer tier of boxes. 'Out of sight? Well, bunny. It strikes me it 14 the other way alma," teeponere his companion dryly. Which goes to Omer the elaaticity of the American lengitege, which says Olie tiling and,means another. It also shows upiot errand thought% We mutt respectfully but firmly (iodine going in- to Any further detainee -From the May Bohemian. ---ennememeen Aseietant—T &inn ettink the Wie ten politer will do, City heti tor Os I he emitter with him? Aeeletaet be lea written lin that story of the (emelt- tion &twit at Itoyanieueing and never mentioned that the rentleenned 4(10 homey brenkfast tend what it congieted from WOITItt1114 ailments are inVited to write to the UallieS addresses bere given, for positiVe proof that Lydia 14, Pinkham'a Vegetable Compatmd does cure female ills, P'ainful Periods, Goshen, Al 0.0eldrs.W. T.Dal tou, Routs No.8. Chicago, 111,..mre. Win. Tully„4,ea Ogdou Av. Paw Paw, hilsii...61rs. Smina Diaper. Flushing, Micke4Mrs. Burt Loyd, it, 2'. D. Co 110N:11111 itt ;guru! risosStraAs .1.881.11 no, ir'.1 1,113 oor ,130; t Cleveland, Ohio =Miss Lizzie Steiger, 6010 Weeriely4evlIAJZaPiten,Ltil MaggioftztelcE,F.D.1. Dye is u rg,Tenn.evAl re. Luo BALI, Va.vvAirs, Mayine Windle. rel ill el 111.191 r. ildrisi.:04(1,1 malfirkk Baltlinoro, illd..oldra. W. S. Ford, 1926 Lane - Dyer, lade.,Mrs:Win. Cherloh, It..F.D. No. 1. Roguwryll,eASlaCssre.e4'.Mrs, Francis Merl:16,12 Field ClarSktaaeln, No...Miss A una Wallace. toevitte, Ohlo,,Mrs. Idiehael, Day too, Ohlo.., Mrs. lds Hale, Box 26, Na- tional Military Rome. Lohanon, Pe,e6irs. Barry L. Itittle, 239 Leh- man, Street. .013Yektreosi tTrienb.42isilnrnclue jung13020.heatytut Vinetn' nes, 1(4ndY,ii.ellarils. TSyr13.1111).11rauld, 608 N. Tenth Street, GardLuer, Maine..63irs, S. A. Williams, R. F. D. No. 14 ; Box Philadelphia, Paoellre. Ohite, Booll, 2407 N. !Ballet Street, Platteburg,Miss...5iissYeriuMilkeisEt.F,D.1, Female Weaknese. Willilnantic, Conn...Mrs. Acts Donovan, Box 209. Woodside, Idaho...Mrs. Bacial Johnson. Rookland, Maine...Mrs, Will Foung, Col. mit Ma, A venue. Scottrille, Allch.eeltra.J,0.Johnson,R.F.D. 3. Dayton, Ohloo.Mrs. Smith, 431 Elm St. Erie, Pa.veALrs. J, P. Endlich, R. F. D. No. 7. Beaver Falls, Pa...Mrs. W. P. Boyd, 2100 Seventh Avenue. Fairchance,Pa.ealrs. T. A. Dunliatu,Box, 152. roil Hunter, 'Pa.c,,Mrs. MaryJane Shatto. East Earl, Pil,...)Trs, A.ugustus Lyon, R.F.D, Yleana, Wm. la.yee,0301:61.. BlvointinvaatWielle:ton. Oronogo, MO Ara Knight. CaratdiesnirN001...allirs. Tillie Waters, 451 Libor. Joseph, Oregon...Mrs. AM. linirinau. Philadelphia, Pa. — Mrs. John Johnston, Mo Siegel Street. Christiana, Tenn,..11Trs. Mary Wood, B.F. D. No.3. Pecos, Texas,..31rs, Ids Young Eggleston,- Araniteville Vt.e.hirs. Chas Barclay B.F.D These women are only a few of thousands "Of living witnesses of the power of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. to cure female . diseases. Nor one of these women ever received compensation in any .forin. for the use of their names in this advertisement —but are will- ing that we should refer to them because of the good. they may clo other suffering. women' to prove that Lydia E.. pinkhain's Vegetable Compound is a reliable and honest medicine, and that the statements made in our advertisements regarding its merit are the truth and. notlling but the truth. • %tinier Removed. Alvous Spurting, it Lanz - don Street,. , Lindley, Integer rs. MaY Fen Kinney., listas.s.03frs. Stella (Alford legman, tenni e,neeetts. Barber. cernwanylue, N,y liousitton, oll4halfaetvisswAY Milwawisee, Hanna bete, SU 1 It Orramit. Chnlig0 Of Ore,. ' South .Bend, nal.,Itts. Fred Certia, 1014. 5, Lafayette Street. Noah, Reutucky..sfirris. Lizzie Selland. Brookfield, Dio,v.hlrs. Sarah, Lousigziont, 24)/ 5, Market St, Paterson, Mrs, Wm. Somerville, 105 Ham burgh. A Sainte. Philadelphia, PK, Mrs, IC. 51, Garrett, '11.07 NOrtk Garnet Street. ICewaskum, Carl Dahlke. Maternity Troubles. Worcester Atass. Mrs. Dosylva 0.44, 11? Suutiniato Street. Indlauapo is, ind,=Mrs..3.... F. Anderson, 1207 /5, Pratt Street, Big Sou, Pao.lirs. Its:Poplar. -Atwater Statism, 0...Mrs-Antos Muelhaupt Cincianati, B. IL Maddoelos, 2135 OilberG Avenue. llogadore, Le6 111auges, 'Box 131. Dewittville, N,Y,,,s5irs, A, A. Giles, Johnstown, N,Y.s-Mrs..ifomer Searnim, E. Main Street, Burtonview, Peter Langeubahn. Avoid Operations, Hampstead, 1.11(1,11fre, Jos, Dandy. A.dritin, it.s=Lena neary, Route No, 3. Indianspolle, Ind,vellessis "P, Piper, 20 South A.ddLeon Street. Sant Lee,3523 Fourth St. South West Harbor, 111aineosis Mrs Lillian Hobblus, mt. Desert Light Station. Detroit, Melt, ss, Mrs. Frieda Itoseaau, 544 MeldrUnt Avenue, German, Organic Dleplaimmente. Muter, Mary Bali, Ligonier, indossi1trs.iBliaa. Wood, lt,F.D.NO. 4. MalbourneaTOWIti Mrs. Clara Watermann, . No.1, Sardstern6; ICyosm'afre...,Tosepli Lewiston, Mikine.gra. dIens.y Cloutier, 156 Oxford Street. Minneapolis, MInniseMrs. John G. Moldem, 2115 Second Street, N, Siounroek, Ham, IL P, D. NO. 1; Box 2," Marlton, NJ...Alm Geo, Jordy, ltoute No.3, Box 40, Chester, Ark.miiltrs. Ella Wood. Calla, Oa...Mrs. T. A. Cribb, Pendleton, lnd.-Mrs. May Atarshall,R.E. 44, Cambridge, Neb.s.Mrs. Nellie Moslander. "BIBLICAL LESSONS." A. tyrant smiled on hie princees; A tyrant spoke to his own: "Cities of etreneth surrender to sae, And nations build my thrtine; My glory tor my kingdom Aud I gild my gods of stone That are greater than Israel's," Said the tyrant to his own. A nation bowed to false ddole; A prophet spoke to his own; "Israel shall feel a tyrant's wrath To tnel•t her hearts of stone; The -rod of his anger shell cease, AIti the lauds of tyrant groan ; Per I speak the truth of my Godlit Said' the prophet to his own. The Lord inspired Ills true prophet; 'rile prophet spoke to lila awn; "Lol desolate thy cities; ' shall be • Thy fair land white v,,ith bones; Jerusalem. shall be a heap, And ber den of dragoice moan; And water of tan they shal driak:" Said the prophet to his own. An angel stood In a tempi.); Au angel spoke to the aged; "Joy and gladness shall come auto thee Good tidings my message; Thy wife ehan be blessed -with 4 eon At a irtily heritage; Thou shalt call thy noble son, John ;" Said the angel to the aged. * An angel came to a virgiu; A.n augel spoke- to Mary; 14heolui, ttbhaet t‘earrta•sfatev6er6ditb htibgehely; - by God, Pear not, for thou favor hest found; Shalt bring forth a SIM, Most high; And His kingdom shall know no end;" Said the angel to Mary. Wise meu to Jerusalem mune; • Three wise men spoke to a king; "Where Is the King.. the King of the laws, nie Star la the heavens swings? We come,. yea, to worship the King; Prom the east presents we bring, , The King ot the Jews. that 1.3 born Said these wise mea to a Waist The wilderness yield.; a prophet; The prophet spoke of the Lord; "Prepare the way, repent and be saved, Be baptized for the Lord; After ine, there Com eth, He That is Mightier than I; Who'll baptize with the Holy Ghost:" Said the prophet ot the Lord. The word was with the begizining; Our Savior sphke to his "Light of the world, King of' kings am I, Salvation I •bring alone; MY' glen, shall crown Calvary, And the righteous seo My throne; "My ICingd.oin on earth shall prosper;" Said our Savior to His own. An apostle spoke to the Savior, "Israel. wilt thou rebuild?', Animerell the Lard, "tor you it To itnow thy Pather's will; Yu shall receive.-yrower, Ye receive the Moly Most; Ye shall be 'witness unto me: Yea, save to the uttermost. ...1yes gazed steadfastly to heaven, They Watelzed the world's Shepherd go; Spoke %tato them. two men robed in White, "Why stand ye gazing so?. 'Men. of Galilee, He has gone To los Father's heavenly throne; ale Shall dOrtle L15 IIe '07011:t from time, Come again to claim NIA OlYtt." * • A ehoot shall wine out of a etollq The branch in justice shall speak Trust not hie eyes or ears to reprove', But, righteousness shall seek; rie shall Israel gather home, When the llou rests in Peace, When a little oldie shall lead them, And false juilath's eliVY eettae. 4 - • W, M. J. Floatint Island in the Androscoggiti. Oro of the peculiar relies of the high Water on the Androscoggin came ashore Ott the Lewiston bank of the river !doom the fade Friday. It wee a regular floating 'eland which tame drittittg down and into shallow weler. lt *tittia one of quite reepectable (size tied oit it were treese several of them described as being six. or eight inches in (Balloter. They Were probably _part of an overhanging batik which the 'water undermined and \Oen they broke loose were liela together by the inter- reots,e•-Nennelme journal. ..-• ts not The Rowel, of a Tune, "After the siege of the Pekin Lega- tions, a dozen Russian soldiers, bent oo loot Ana eutrege, raided the hOuse in which one of my. band -boys lived with les young Mother and beautifni Meter," said Sir Itobeft Van el a din. tier at the Authore Mb, Loudon, eThe boy .ereltehed hie violin and Nara the Ittoodat Nattered Anthent, and the loot- eret stood to ntlention. They they left the house without molesting any one," e - D I ET FOR_D el OWS I N ESS: Atticks lef Sleepiness—Often Result of Owl ish H ab its. Sleepiness is a normal and healthy condition when it occurs at the usual bedtime aud when not extreme and. oveepowering, but it is not always aseo- ciated with sleep. Some persons ia per- fect health. and. excellent sleepers hard- ly know the meaning of drowsinees; they are active mentally and physically until they are in bed; then sleep comes at once, and. when. it leaves them in the morning they eee again' in full mental avakeness. Thera are less fortunate persons who .never have complete and satisfactory night's east who are yet almost con - gauntly drowsy; they are alwaye nod- ding, but when the head touches -the pillow sleep recedes aed the night is a emeeesaion of drowsy lapses to sleep with the instant venire. of senanconeen 0115neas, genekal, with the exception noted at the beginning of this article, (trowel- ness is abnormal and indicates some- thing wrong eitker in the body of the sufferer or Wires habits. Those who. habitually cut off their hours of sleep, the "night owls" and the bunters of the midnight oil, pee- for their bed habit by attacks of sleepiness in the after- noon and early evening; later, unfortu- nately, after the influence of digestion wears off the drowsiness disappears and then, relieved of its burden, the person' "sits up ta all hours" again, thinking in that wav to make up forethe hours lost by the "drowsiness. If he would aban- aon his habit, go to bed bedtimes and get the seven or eight Miura of con- tinuous sleep that ite needs Ilia daertime and eveuing drowsiness would disap- pear, he could do more end better work end find life much. nfore enjoya.ble. A Slight drowsiness le often 'noticed after a heeety meal because ttetive di- gestion draws a greater volume of blood to the stomaele so that the brain is relatively . poorly supplied. In some southern couutries.,this tendeney is fav- ored and the siesta after the n000n meal is a 'national custom. With Its the sifter diluter oup of Heck coffee oft. en drives away tee Intpulee To Sleep— whether foe good or ill may be left to the physiologists lee determine. • Sometimes eve hear of attacks of sleepiness oecurring stuldeely at certain periods of the day or at irregular Inter - vale, These are altogether abnormal, and in stteh .cases there is always some poison at work in the nervous centres —usuallly sellonamfactured poison whieh because it is niede in to& great quantity or because eonstipation kid.- ney diseasee prevents its 'rapid elimina- tion accumulates lo the svetem. At essential la the treatment of such eases is dieting. efeat should be given up for a time at least, and the only beverage tamable weter or milk.— Youth's Companioo. Tobacco ill Kentucky Mountains. Not only will the greatest crop of to. baceo in history be grown in (gravel and northern Kentucky, width bas hereto - tore comprised, the burley belt el the State, but from reports whieh have reached here the mournidu comities of eastern Kentucky, ethnulated. by tha high prices which the organization of the Burley -Society has yecently eeeured, Will thist aeason Mize up the growth of the weed and the creek bottoms of the enountaine Will be dotted with little patches of burley tobacco, A resideut of this eity who recently returned from trip through Clay and Owsley Coun- ties states that many farmers in that -section have planted tobacco beds and are getting ready to plaid their rielt bottom. lands told newly 'cleared hillsides In tobacco. Ire see% that the erop from thie new territory will this year form ire ine.ottsiderable quontity. There will be no (timer front niglit riders in that vi- einity, and the planter* .expeet to shie their Matueed erops of toluteeo to Mr - lot doWn the (leek% aild riven by rafts end serail boats to Frankfort or Louie vine for melee -Lexington Correspoted. (nee Louisville Courier -Journal, 'PRAYER. Most merciful God„ our Heavenly Father, who didst soma Thy Son, Christ Xesus, to be .the iviour of the world,. we bless Thee that we have heard the gospel of Thy graea, end we recognize- the eommission Thou hest given us to send it to. others. Wo aeknowledge and confess that by 'our unfaithfulness and the consistency of our lives wo -aye toe often hindered rather than' promoted the advancement of Christ's kingdom. Ile _merciful to us and forgive our edn, and leave Lis not destitute of Thy manifold gifts, not yet of graeo ta use them to Thy honor and glory. Let Thy word 1)0 proclaimed every- where and „lot all men see Thy sal- vation; through Jesus Ohrist one Lord. Amen. THE DLESSING 0E' SICKNESS. A Christian man of intense business enterprise and activity. was laid aside by sickness., He., \Ito never would intermit his labors was compelled to .corne to dead halt. Ris restless. limbs were .stretobed motionless on the bed. Ho was so weak that -he' cordd searcely utter a word. Speak - to a friend qf the contrast between his condition no1v and. when he had been driving his immense business, he said: "Now I am growing. I have been. running my soul thin by my ac- tivity. Now 4 am growing in tho knowledge of myself and of some things which most intimately- concern me." Messed, then, is sickness, or sorrow, or any experience that compels us to stop; that takes the work out of our hands for a little season that eMpties our hearts of their thousand eares, and turns them toward Clod, ta be teught of Him. THE BEAT., GOSPEL. The peculiar plan. by which the love of Clod has provided salvation for sinners, is the atoning death of Christ on the cross. Our Lord Sara tO Nicodemus, "As Moses lifted up so must the San of Man he lifted up, that whosoever belleveth in Hint should not perish, but haVe eternal turifee.,,serpent in the wilderness, oven By being "lifted up," .our Lord meant nothing loss than His own death upon the cross. That death, Ha would _have •us know, was appointed hy Clod to be "the life of the world."' (john vi. 61.) It was ordained from all eternity to be the great propitiae tion •and. satisfaction for man's sin. It was the payment, by en Almighty Substitute and Representative, oi man's. enormous debt to God. When Christ died upon the cross, our many sins -were laid upon Him. He ,was enade "sin" for us. He was made "a curse" for' us. (2 Cor. v. 21; Gal. Hi. 13.) By His death He purchneed pardon and complete redemption for sinners. The brazen serpent, lifted up in the camp of Israel, brought health tind cure within the reach of all who were bitten by serpents. Christ -crucified, in elike manner„ brought eternal life within reach of lost mankind. Christ has been lifted up one the cross, and man looking to Him by faith may be savede Tho truth before US iS the very foundation -stone of the Christian re- ligion. elitists' death is the Chels- tion's life. Christ's croes is 1110 Christian's title, to heaven. Christ, "lifteehtip" 01141 put to shame on. Cal- vary is the ladder by which ehris- times "enter into the holiest," and are at length landed in glory. It is true that WO are sinnerst—but Christ hae suffered for us. It is true that we deserve death;—but Christ has died for tes. It is true that we are guilty debtors; --,but Christ has paid out debts with His own blood. This is the real gospel.: This is the good news! On this let us len.n while we live. To this let us cling tvhen we (lie. Christ has been "lifted up" on the crose, and has thrown open the gates of heaven to all believers.— Ryle. - THE nom. (By. P,ankero Guarding the entrance fo the Mediter- eancan, and almost within cannon ehot • ee.frien, stands it mighty upheaved 'natural faegneies; ORO of the 11105t inn pregnable fortresses in the whole world; though of limited extent, yet is one of the most valued appemagee of the Brilieh Crowe, as eommatiding the ehort route to indie, to Auetralasia. and to other of the numerous-territoriee of that mightiest Empire the world has ever seen—Greater Britain. Poreed upwarde by Kuno- treMend011,1 nhturel ttgeney, the • Reek of Gibraltar rears its lofty maned head like emme gigantic lion erOliChing defiantly for rin •onelaught. Ands. on cloor inepection, it is indeed a formideble defence ageing:. any foe. Brietling with • iiintimerable Minn, itoneyennibed nith galleriee pierced with embrasitres, from eater. of which a powerful gun projeets, with masked batteries invisible to tbe enemy, but armed with gigantic cannon of the latest typee galleries eut in the rock in all directions; vast storehouses capable of storing soffieient food to guilititt a ppearrrisionrilpfoosi;ibaklofnogr saiengye; inite otmaulldnwaet.; that proud flag which hms so long braved the battle and the breeze. And the slopes of that Reek are ia parts extremely beautiful. -Public and private gordens, adorned with palm trees and flowering trees and. shrulie, which in that genial. clime grow in wile luxuriance; while higher up the Rock brilliant wild flowere carpet it with parterres of manybued bloom; the for- ests, yet higher, 'being the abode of a number of large monkeys of the baboon type, said, in tinies o.f dearth of their natural food, to deseend from their /wit- ness and even savagely to attack un- wary wayfarere. irk the tonne itself is a inotleyeerowdei assemblage of nmey tuttionaliteese tor - barred. Moors from the. oppeeite coast of Morocco, Spanish peasante end ()there in their pietureemin costunie—though the graeeful mantilla le giving place to the Parieiau hat, and the sombrero to the ungeareful, inelegant, but extremely popular And universally wore eapeepere haps• the Most inartistic headgear •over worn by 'civilized .man—with, ithgeoes of mime, shadesof cola; many &melt sol- diers ill -Varied lillifOrtrii; polienneri irt the fa mina r lini form ; Europeene of many natiorialitiee; sailors on leave from the fleet of :jemmied; lying hi lb, barber; mut many othere. And to mm0 the contemplation nf titet eta tely Rook n reminder that the Men of Ages i<1 the ',menet defollee bath to. tittle and for POrtity. For the Saviotte ot the wined, who. by !lie 411f foring4 and Itee redeemed ue --for 4 Mil aalt9 Ilre tog:n(11211i nnt %it .1.;1311)10111; lt‘‘;11),- -ei s ready I'm receive oll wire will eltne unto for teemed life in the land ef gleee,