At the Christmas Matinee ID you ever see the face of a child when it isabsolutely happy? It is a wondeiful thing to make a child happy. If an Edison Phonograph had no other mis- sion than to entertain the children it should be found in every home where there is even one child. But the Edison Phono- graph-is not merely a children's plaything, though it is the best playfellow a child can have. A child plays with its other Playin bt the Edison Phonograph plays with the child. 'That same Phonograph appeals toall the children; large and small ; to grown-ups as well as to children; to guests as well as to-the family. That is why every mother ; every mistress of a home and every hostess needs FESR ® The Edison Phonograph niow has the new Amberol Records, which play twice as long as the old ones, which play longer and better than any other records made. Every mother who reads this should decide today that Christmas will bring at least one joyful .entertainer into her house--an Edison Phono- graph. Act on that good resolution at once. Go to an Edison dealer today)and hear the Edison, select your 'style, pick out a supply of Records, and make this Christ- mas a Phonograph Christmas. FREE. Go to your dealer dr.write to us today and get these books: Tae CATALOGUE oF EpisoN PHONOGRAPHS as well as ComrrLETE Rrcorp CATALOGUE, SUPPLEMENTAL CATALOGUE and the Pmoxo- GraM; which tell about all the Records, old and new. We Dedire Good, Live Dealers to sell Edison Phonographs in every town where we are not now well represented. Dealers having established stores should write at once to National Phonograph Company, 1€0 Lakeside Avenue, Orange, N.J., U.S.A, e connoisseurs, and all ye goode people fond of ye delicious flavour, do make use of RE PE) ' vu 3 [I 5 y Ounces lighter than any other made--and stronger [rs just possible you h#ve noticed that The Argument the skate you were wearing last iGURE it out this way! season was d very antiquated proposi- Every clide of a skate tion; that it might be'made lighter and jus as strong. takes you forward Some- tiring over four feet while i : o the other skate Is lifted The " Automobile " Skate {ullils and held 'above the ice. th's idea. It's as far ahead of the present day skate ap an automobile is ahead of the old-tipe buggy. Suppose a person goes ten "miles around a which distance Is rink-- easily covered -by mest anyone skating to musié--he has . covered 52,800 feet and Lighter by many ounces than any iifted cither one skate or other made--and stronger. the 13,200 times. -------- We say that. the "Auto- mobile" Ckate Is, at the lowest fijure, six ounces lighter other it has an aluminum alioy top -the metals just mixed to point where they combine to' make a material as strong as steel and five times as Figuring that out, light. The "Automobile" Skate has We find that he has actu. also a thin blade of nickel steel ally lifted 4,088 pounds the toughest, strongest temperod less than ho would 'were metal on the market, he using any other skates. than any otHer made. If your dealer doesn't handle them writs : us--we will forward catalogue. CANADA CYGLE AND MOTCR CO., LTD, TORONTO ANGROVE BROS., AGENTS, x A THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, S ATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1008. (DOGS IN STAGELMND "THE DEVIL'S MATE" A NEW PLAY. -- Margaret Anglin Scored a Great | Success in Australia--Roselle Knott, Canada's Own Actress | Will Again Resume the Stage. - There arc twenty horses 'used in | Klaw & Erlanger's production of "The | Round Up." 2 | "The Girl Question" is to be pro- | pounded to Washington audiences in the | near future. Miss Eugenia Thais Lawton sas been engaged by Henry Mutier as chief sup- port in "The Great Lavide." Joseph Hart and his wife, Carrie De Mar, have left for Europe to prepare for tours in England and Germany. As "Viola" in "Twelfth Night" Miss Margaret Anglin is credited with having added another great success to her reper® toire, This week in Buffalo Mary Manner ing presented for the first time on any stage "A House of Cards," by Ivy Ash- ton Roet. id . Cards have been received in New York from abroad, announcing the mar- riage of Lena Ashwell to' Dr. Henry J. F. Simson. London's next Hamlet is to be Ma- theson Lang, who will play the Dane carly: in May, with Miss Hutin Britton as Ophelia. Charles Frohman last Wednesday cabled the rights to Henri Bernstein's new play, "Israel" for all the English- speaking countries. . . The Shuberts have purchased the pro- duéing rights to a new drama entitled "The Sensationalist," a satirical play, by Charles Shipman. : Grace George's tour will end on De- cember sth in Trenton, and then she will go to New York to rehearse her néw play, "Give and Take.V Seymour Hicks has turned Willie Collier's success, "The Dictator" into a musical comedy and wili soon present it at hie London theatre. i Grace Van Studdiford has taken her | "Golden Butterfly" company on a tour | through New England until some big | city time can be secured. | third birthday last Thursday by re- | hearsing her part in a new play. This | is her sixty-fourth year on the stage. i Julia Marlowe is to have the part of | a peasant girl in her new play by Mary Johnston. It is said that the character has a similarity to the role of Jeannc d"Arec. The tour of James K. Hackett, which was interrupted for some time has been resumed, the plays to be presented, in- cluding "The Prisoner of Zenda," and | "The Crisis." "Arsene, Lupin," a French play built | on "Raffles" lines will: be produced in | New York next January. Hero and | lieroine are both thieves but they finally | reform each other. | Henry Kolker, who has been leading | man with Miss Anglin in Australia, will | remain there for another six months, | starring in many of the late Richard | Mansfield's plays. { If Anna Held's shows set the fashion | in choruses it would seem that the day | of the large showgirl is past. Medium | sized beauties have the call in the new | Ziegfeld production, [ Eva Tanguay, who collapsed * from | overwork some time ago, is now back | in" vaudeville just" as whirlwindy and energetic ab ever. She has abandoned her "Salome" dance, however. John Drew, his daughter, Louise Drew; his niece, Ethel Barrymore, anc Georgie Drew Mendum are all playing in New York; cach in a different pla So it is quite a family reunion. Delightful Fritzi Scheff comes to New York from Chicago" with Victor Her: | bert's new opera, "The Prima Donna." | The - piano score is not likely to be as popular as that of Mlle. Modiste. "The Call of the North" is consider- ed by Boston one of Robert Edeson's best plays, which goes to show that | New York's verdict means nothing to | popular stars when they go travelling. | E. H. Sothern has begun a tour of | the south. He will go to New Orleans and thence west to San Francisco, re turning to New York in the spring for | his annual engagement at- the Lyrig | Theatre. It is more than probable that Nance O'Neil and James O'Neil will be seen in an elaborate production of "Mac- | beth." Miss O'Neil has been wanting | to appear in the great tragedy for some time. "The Devil's Mate," a playlet in which | the devil and his victim plays a game | of chess for the victim's life on an alluminated chessboard, is to be pro- duced soon at-the Lincoln Square Thea- | tre, New York. During the engagement of Francis | Wilson in Chicago he will offer at Powers' Theatre a naval company called "The Flag Lieutenant," which was stamped as a great piece of property | when offered in London by Cyril Maude. Henrietta Crosman will start a rousd | of ten weeks in vaudeville in New York Christmas week, after which it is ex | pectesl that she will once more take up | legitimate work. Miss Crosman"s sketch will be "The Bargain Counter." Miss Margaret Anglin, who will end her Australian tour .shortly, has de- | sinitely desided to rest-until-next. Sep- | tember, when she will again appear in | New York. Egypt has been chosen by her for a holiday of several weeks. "Samson" will be produced in Lon- don, Feb. 2nd, with Mr: Bourchier and Violet Vanbrugh in the leading parts Last Monday Miss Maxime Elliott | was seen in a new play, "The Chaperon," | by Marion Fairfax. The opening took | place m Boston. A Oscar Hammerstein has secured the exclusive American rights for Richard Strauss' new opera "Elektra." It is] beng rehearsed in Berlin and the com- | poser is said to have done as distinctive work as in "Salome." William A. Brady and J. C. William son have 'closed contracts by which Robert Mantell and a company of Am- crican acters will go to Australia next seasgn 4a a repertoire of classical plays. | The farrangements include a short sea- | son in Honolulu en route. Roselle Knott, the popular Canadian actress, is emerging from her temporary retirpment,; rand will soon go on tour if a sujtable play can be found. The time | in the best cities is at her disposal, and | her tour will be in the hands" oi her | husband, Ernest Shipman. tt Avhald Daly, who ends his engagement | | | | | | in v@udeville this week, is to play the leading part in a new play by C. M.'S Annie Yeamans celebrated her seventy- | | afternoon costumes. | So bravely bright | torturing | greater distress | rible disease. - | Milling Co., St. | writes : | victim | frigitiul risk, had failed. FROM BLOOMING ALE BROS. Of mink strips, set closely tog graceful coat with matching rug wrap, on loose pelisse:lines, is sp The wide sle with elaborate frocks. They are | cream lace. The rug muff is lined ------------------------ AR A A SAAS. McLellan. It is to be ealled "The Pick- pockets," and it._portrays 'somewhat to the life, it is said, certain well-known leaders of: present-day finance. William Archer, the English dgamatic ¢ritic and. writer, has been engaged as the literary representative in England 16f the New Theatre, New York. As English representative of the. New Thea- tre, Mr. Archer will see all of the im- portant productions in' England and will send his opinions to the directors. He [ will" also. receive' manuscripts. offered for, production' and' make negotiations in England for works. The Bedtime Kiss. | Baltimore Sun. he bedtime kiss is: the sweetest Kiss, So soft the love-lips cling, So far away are the dreams of day, So faint are the songs we sing ; So tender the clasp of the little arms: % Sa trusting the eyes of sleep ; So clpse, so close, to the heart of one Does, the bedtime baby creep ! The 'bedtime bliss is the sweetest bliss, So weaty the hands and feet ; | So drowsy-drow are the eyes of blue And the mouth of the rose so sweel ; So faithful the fold of the little hands, So pléading the good-night sigh ; 80 fair, so fond, when the fairy wand Leads on to the By-o-by. 'The bedtime love is the sweetest. love, ' S80 cuddled and cute and fair, The Httle queen of the nighty-gown, The girl of thé golden hair; in kis robe of night The lad of the venture-heart O babes af the bedtime, unto me How dear, how dear, thou art! How He Cured Piles, Suffered For Twenty Years and Cannot Imagine Any Greater Distress--Entirely Cured By Dr. A. W.Chase's Ointment Piles or hemorrhoids are among the most common as well as the most #lmente that afflict hu- manity. The keen distress caused by | the itching, especially when the body gets warm, is almost beyond the pow- | ers of description. Mr. J. S. 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This has been proven in' thousands of cases. in many of which even surgical operations, with their expense, painfulness Df. Chase's Ointment, a box, at all deal: érs, or Edmanson, Bdtes (o., Toron- to > night | and lie for héurs suffering the keen-| | est agony, Shaw | and| came to gee 1 ether iW rich striped| effect,' this muff is made. The shape of the ecially well suited for wear over eves are another advantage for use made of frilled brown chiffon over with cream satin brocade. MARKS A STAGE In the Production of Ships. London, Dec. 5.--The launch of the Collingwood - at Devonport is intérest- ing bedause this ship marks a stage in the production of the Dreadnought type of battleship. The Collingwood, although she has taken the water, will not become effective before 180, and in that year the first of. the German Dréadnoughts should also go itito. the lina of battle. It mag be cstimated, | therefore, that Great Britain will have | at least nine Dreadnoughts in' her service before any other European power ha one. In fact, outsidg Ger- many no other European power has yet put a Dreadnought 'in hand. | It is" one of the strange .phenemena in the development of waz shipbuild- ing that the coming of the Pread- nought should. as it were, have-upset so many calculations. At a stroke, as one may say, all "{hé time honored rules of the game ware swept away and the powers had to make a fresh start or drop-out of the running alto- gether. It would be a mistake to argue that what may be ¢alled pre-Dreadnought ships are not same time it is assuredly the fact that they do not eount unless coupled {with Dreadnoughts. On the other | hand, the now tvpe of armoured jcraiser, the Invincibles, must "clearly { be counted in the-battleship' line, and {are what the official German siate- {ment calls them, "cruising battle- The new conditions have about a re-atrangement of | the nations in 'order of naval prece- dence, and it ise both interesting: and opportune to prepare a new classifiea- tion in terms of Dreadnoughte. Battle Very Tiny Screws. The smallest 'screws in the world are those made in watch factories. They are cut from steel wire by a machine, but as the chips fall from the knives it { lgoks as if the operator was simply cut- | tig up the wire for his own diversion. One thing is certain, no screws can be seen, and yet a screw is made by every third operation. The fourth" jewel | wheel screw is next to invisible to. the {baked eye, resembling a speck of dust. With a glass, however, it can be made out quite distinctly. "It has 260 threads to an, inch. _ These little screws are | four one-thousandths of an inch in size, {It has been estimated that an ordinary { thimble would hold a hundred thousand | of them, Along The Way. | Denver Times. » ' The reason a girl won't let a. man put on her rubbers for her is because' | she's going to let him. A woman wants to dictate the way her husband. parts his hair even when he hasn't any to part. The only thing that makes a man feel more 'nervous than rumors of bank fail- ures is to have the Christmas season draw near | When a man can afford to by a thing he wants you can tell it's because he has Ino family to want what he can't afford Ie have them buy, but they do it. iS Practical Humility. Paris Figaro. Gruignoli, the son, of « fisherman, a priest in a rich abbey in Florence, had {a net spread every day om the'table of i his apartment to put him, as he said, {+ mind of his origin. The abbot dy- {ing, this dissembled huniility procured { Gruignoli tobe his successor, and the {net was used Vo more. A friend who him), the day afterwards, on entering his apyrtment, said: "Where is the net!" "There is no further oc- | casion for the net," replied Gruignoli, Aré as stylish and perfect in AE And work &. ; manship as the best merchant tailor can x A r can turn out. We don't hesitate to put our re. putation back of the claim that material, fit and workmanship of our Overcoats is better, and the prices we sell them for are lower than your experience can recall, ye ve. got some good Overcoats as low as $5 a $6, but we can show you thie good lines of durable Coats, well made, latest styles, at. $9.50, 8.50 and 7.50 Our lines of Fine, High Grade Overcoats at $11.50, 13.50, 15.00, 11.50 and 18.00 are frum three to five dollars better value than you will see elsewhere. » Before you purchase an Overcoat see ours. We leave it to your better judgment. 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