Daily British Whig (1850), 23 Dec 1911, p. 9

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- ig : : | PAGES 9 TO 12, 7 .. YEAR 78-NO 209. It has character, uni- form, purity, and an un- us eliciousness to its flavor. WEALTH COMES TO HUMBLE PORTERS IN CLUBS, One Possesses Automobile and Others Retire to Live in Comfort on In. come Saved From Tips. - London, Dec. 28. Every hotel and club servant in London is turning cov- étous eyes upon the post of hall por ter at the Public Schools Club in Al bemarle street, as it has just come to light through a case in the law courts that the individual who has the dis tinction of supervising the loading and unloading of the baggage of the mem- bers of this exclusive elub keeps an automobile, a luxury which some of the members cannot afford: n The evidemce in the case ilfastrated the possibility of amassing wealth in a humble calling, Head porters and head waiters in London are unani- mous in asserting that they find it dif fieult to make both ends meet, but per- haps they mistrust the wily tax eol- lector and suspect the newspaper re- porters of being socret agents of the chancellor of the exchequer, as the fact remains that many eases of fortunes amassed from the generous tips of hotel visitors ave known in Bngland. The head porter at the old Hotel Continental, in Regent street, which was once a favorite after-theatre re- sort, is now living the life of a retired gentleman in Putney and drawing a Glee income from property in Fulham, We have heard, too, of the head por: ter at the Royal Hotel Danpieli, at Venice, who is credited with refusing 40,000 francs a year for his job. Busi ness was so brisk that this august per- {Ronage once bought himself a gorgeous livery, Tiberally studded with real gold buttons. At a university in Switzerland the son of the head porter is one of the professors, When Karl William Hein- vichs, head waiter at the Eibing, in Berlin, retired, in 1909, the event was tonsidered of European importance and the news was flashed over the wires SOME FAMED WAITERS| "OLD ENGLISH GEMS. - Worn as Slap 'at American's Flash v ing Germs. fashioned jewelry is now beng worn by sogiety women, including the ug. wide gold bracelets = and long, drop ear-rings of the early Victorian jer od, | Everywhere you go you vec cameos and cheap but attractive Sectch jewellery---cairngorms, andes and ;amethysta--has come into ite own again. Asked for a reason for this vival, a Regent street jeweller clares that it is "by way, of agninsi the ostention af worn by American women." Whatever the reason may be, it is known that England's two queens Mary and Alexandra, are responsible for the revival of this old-fashioned jewellery craze. Queen Alexandra of- ter wedrs moss agate brooches and cameos, and Queen Mary has many pieces of Seateh jewellery which she eights in wearing, except on siate occasions. o "Take our advice," say the Kogent street dealers, "and don't let your wife or daughter sell the old brooches and earrings that came to them nd legacies. Seon stich possessions will be a mark of distinction and will be worn in preference to the tiash- ing gems exploited by trans-Atlantic visitors." Rather nawsty, that! ree der Jrotast diamonds rd London, Dec. 23.--All sorts of old- KINGSTON ONTARIO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1911. DOINGS IN STAGELAND| aw NOTES ON PLAYS, PLAYERS AND PLAYHOUSES, Charles Hawtrey Has a Fairy Drama --Robert Mantell is Suffering From a Neryous Breakdown, A new Irish play is to be produced called "'Rollicking Shannon." Charles Hawtrey bas a fairy drama entitled 'Where the Rainbow Ends. - Adeline Genee is coming to this country, to appear in "The Enchant- ress" in Chicago. John E. Kellerd is to make an ex- temsive road tour in "The Merchant oi Venice" and "Hamlet." Rose Stahl is going to appear this season in London as "Maggie Pepper,' in the play of thet name. ! William Butler Yeats is completing a three-act drama in verse for Mrs. Pat- rick Campbell. "The Murderer" is the title of 'the new play by Edward H. Sheldon, auth- thor of "Salvation Nell," which the Messrs, Shubert announce as one of their ®oming productions of the sea- son, Miss "Fay - Templeton and De Wolf Hopper are: getting ready for a re vival of "Patience," the opera bouffe which Gilbert and Sullivan gimed at the aesthetic faddism of the mid "80's, when Oscar Wilde was at the height of his. glory. . The great actor, Paul Orlenefi, with whom Mme. Nazimova first acted in America, will make another American tour this season, presenting Ibsen's "Brand," "Ghosts," and 'The Master Builder," De Musset's '"'Lorenzacio,"' and Mereshkowski's censored drama, "Paul 1." Ee Tyrone Power will launch a revival of Charles Rann Kennedy's noble dra ma, 'The Servant in the House," next January, resuming the role he created, that of "Bob," "a gentleman of ne cessary occupation," otherwise the Drainman. 'The past of Manson will be enacted hy Wilirid Rogery. Mr. Power will open his season in Halifax, -------- ---- GIRL JILTED HIM. Death Reveals Romance of Chicago . Newsboy. Ghieago, wes. 22. -0ld age and re lentless saving brought George Bon- nett, the veteran newsboy, wealth for lack of whigh'the one romance of his life expirad'thirty-five years ago. His death in a cheap lodging returns his savings of $20,000 10 the town he ab- jured when his love failed and to re latives with whom ke bad long ago 'ceased to correspond. ', M. Lovett, of Wooster, (thio, a half-brother, is the only surviving member of Ponnett's family so far discovered. His appearance oun the scene yesterday, will probably deprive the Newshoys' Home of the Federal Mining Reduction company, his inten- tion of leaving his fortune to the home. No will has been found, Bonnett was about seventy years old. For a quarter oi a century be had been the owner of an office build- ing paper route which brought him =a fine income. He lived in a sparsely furnished room in the Harrison hotel, paying a rent "of $3 a month, and eating at cherry lunch counters. Fach year he added to his pile of gilt edged securities in the safety de posit vaults of the Masonic Temple, Death brought the explanation. Thirty-five years ago Bopnett was a hard working Ohio farmer hoy, He labored on the "home place" near Plimpton, Ohio, saved (as much money as he could, and got ready to marry the daughter of a neighboring farmer. This is the story t8ld by the half brother and by Mr. Austin, with whom Bonnett had held talks. FL The marriage never came, The girl's father looked on Bonnett and decided that his daughter could do better financially. A tentative engagement was-broken, and Bonnett left Plimpton the next day. His wanderings took him into the western gold fields. For! two years he kept up a correspondence with the girl. Tt was known to the family that he was trying to get rich, but they never found out whether he succeeded. Then the girl married some one 'else, and Bonnett was heard of no many confidential} pt NY remedy that benefits digestion strengtliens the nerves, The nerve centers require nutrition. If the digestion 1s impaired, the nerve centers become anemic, and indigestion i is the result. ACTRESSES RAISES PE-RU-NA. MISS JULIA MARLOWE. DOOOOC0000 00000000 © SECONB PART A ---------------- 1 hi i D000 V000O00V00O0000 . "Iimproved under the treatment, bal as soon as I stopped taking the medls cine, I got bad again. "I wok the medicine for two years, then I got sick again and gave up ail hopes of getting cured. 1 sl "Isaw a testimonial of a map whose Peruna Is not a nervine nor al case was similar to mine being cured by stimulant. It benefits the nerves by § | Peruna, so I thought I would give it a benefiting digestion. N.S. . Robert Mantell closed his tour in Shakespearean repertoire last week in of all the capitals, Waiters have been the confidants of ORDER FROM more, : = He arrived in Chicago about 1875 RIGNEY and HICKEY, 156 and 138 Princess St. ay BREWER BY DOMINION BREWERY CO. Ltd cL 1 Tevent 'tiwenty. on. my "f have been treatod by doctors for five | for shad case of eczems , di. their best, but failed " doctor had advised me 1 "craze," as it has been called. DEAR MADAM-I can in- form you we are making big re. duotions in 'all bur Ladies' Gar- ments during the month of De- cember. Hope you will call and ¢eabinet ministers, the advisers of ris- ing genius, the comforters of famous men dogged by misfortune. There was Collins, the great waiter of the upper smoking-room of the House of vommons, who died recently, regretted by every member of the house. Col lins was supposed to know more of what was happening than anybody in palitien. Everybody confided in him. Members used to discuss their future lines of policy with him, and Mr. Lioyd-George used to say that when: ever he wanted to know what the house was going to do. about any.par- ticular mtter he asked Collins. Then, there was Gustave, who used to fulfill a similar function to the lit- evary and artistic set at the old Cafe Griensteidi, in Vieuna. All the rising geniuses of the capital used to discuss their plans for their new books and plays with him, and in times of stress borrowed money from him. In Vienna, too, the hall porter at the imperial was a national figure and a personal friend of the mperor of Austria. His breast was covered with decorations, and when he died, after thirty years' service in the door- way, he left $300,000 to his family. There have been several cases where persons sending for the pro- printoe of their hotel have discovered him in the head waiter or the hall porter; and we know that the ambi tion of sl the waiters who swarm in- to England is ultimately to own a reitauvant of their own. There is ove notable little redtaurant in Soho whose proprietor worked here a gemeration ago as an assistant waiter, but he is now mayor of his native town in Italy. In Vienna, again, 'the volows of an- other head waiter are among the most prominent on the raging field, and the head "boots" of a famous hotel in the Trossachs . is said 'to have amassed $85,000 in five years. ROLLER SKATING AID TO MARRIAGE. QE Many Matrimonial Affairs Are Laid at Its Door. London, Dec. 23.--One hears mueh about the wane of the roller skating It cer tainly is not, as a society pastime. The Sunday Skating Club never was better attended, never had so many members as it has now. i Sunday the fine rink at Hol land Park is crowded, and Lord Cri¢h- ton, heir to the Earl of ¥rne, who is ED. GILMORE, Leading comedian in "The Cow and the Moon, at the Grand, Christmas, matinee and night, and Tuesday, matinee and night. . THE WHIG'S JUMBLE. A Lot of Nes of Interest to Every- body. Great sale of Irish linen handker- ehiéls, hand embroidered. Dutton's, Charles Dilzer, was crushed to death by a huge cave-in, at Ithaca, N.Y., on Wednesday. Men ! Call and inspeet our boots, Special comfort boots, lowést prices. Dutton's, Man or boy is certain to be pleased with & pair of Dwyer's cutprice gloves or mitts. Zero linings, Norman Page was arrested at St. Catharines, on Thursday, charged with forgery, fraud and horsestealing, Latest improved pocket flash lights. They make useful Christmas presents. Halliday Electric Co. A surprise in values in the sweater coats at The. and $1.25 each, which Dwyer, the out-price clothier, is sell- ing. "Fhe weather has been so warm in the southern. parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan; that the farmers are still threshing there. fear 3 silk mufflers, great value; tion's $1.25. x all, that Dwyer hes the - Admitted by biggest and best assortment of men's 50¢. neckwear in Canada. Not a shape or 'ealor Sinitied. ' Geowge Lindsay, twelve years of age, sole heir to the millions of the late W. Il. Lindsay, of Philadelphia, has been Yethoved from the temple of the: "sua worshi %" at Chitago, where he was placed by his mother, who , is known. among the cult ax "Vehdah." Men's extra heavy wool sox, 2 pairs 5c; men's underwear, 50c. Dutton's. class sweets, irom Gibson's. Heintzman, Willis - and Eh Taree by De 3. Basen: Tepresan . J. Dawson, phrep oe v street. Lieut -Col. the Hon. William Law- ated from his wile, a daughter of the Inte General: Sit F. Marshall, pendin a divorce. Lord Hamilton, of Dalal], is thé corespondent. ay Tile Dwyer nn > y conls, is a speci to be had at any Dwyer's. : Christmas : > 10¢e. Dutton's In Paris, France, on Thursday, in ' of the p messenger ir was held wu and" he oo containing by aut by th citizens. 10e.; "Hurrah For music light, on one of the most ¢ city, a four to hand $60,000, Rim dead, seized. the satchel obiles. Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Mantell is sufier- ing from a nervous breakdown, follow- ing the recen, death of his wife, Marie Booth Russell. Winchell Smith has purchased the dramatic rights tg "Queen," the very successful 'first novel of Henry Sydney Harrison, paying, it is reported, $1, 00 for the dramatie rights. He will east it in play form, probably for a spring production. George C. Tyler is quoted as of the opinjod that "The Next Religion" is far and away the best work yet done for the theatre by Zangwill,-net. . ex- cepting even 'Children of the Ghetto,' on which Tyler lost $55,000, aud is glad to this day to boast thai he pro- duced the play. Henry Kolker has been engaged for the leading role of "The Greyhound," the * new melodrama by Paul Arm- strong and Wilson Mizner. Three of the four acts of the piece occur on an Atlantic steamship, and there are three scenes in one of the acts. "The Grey- hound" will be produced in five weeks. George Bernard Shaw has at last consented to allow one of his plays to be done in the London music halls. This is the last word in the wag of legitimate concessions to vaudeville. It is probable that "How He Lied to Her Husband' will be the play. Oscar Hammerstein has been grant- ed a lord chamberlain's license for the production of Massenet's opera, "Herodiade," in its uncensored form in London, When it was produced at Covent Garded in 1904 was mercilessly blue pencilled by. the ceu- sor, and as a consequence there was much speculation as to the outcome when My. Hammerstein applied for a license to" produce ft agen, fn Alfred Sutro's new play, ""The Perplexed Husband," the husband's perplexity is caused by his wife's in- fatuation with the sufirage cause, which a charlatan %s proclainkng to credulous victims. The perplexed hus- band, acting under the advice of =a married sister, makes a pretence of conversion to women's enfranchise- ment and infroduces into the house an impressionable ally, who excites the wile's suspicion and. jealousy. Williom II of Germany has turned his back oh the drama, announcing that in future no dramatic production will be financed by a Hohenzollern. He goes beyond this and declares that no member . of the imperial family shall hereafter be officially associated with the stage. This attitude, in the opinion of the Westminster Gazette, London, is based on the fact that the emperor believes fhe drama will be "a serious enemy to sociely and the state," especially as the 'erman trama is the most keenly intellectual in Europe, and opens its doors "to any real thinker anxious to employ it as an effective vehj for the dis- temination of his ideas." The same wri ter 'thinks the kaiser is foolish in his declarations, and, that he ought to capture the theatre, i ix ventions--municipal, royal l.s pevial--within the empire. rn Notes From Selby. Selby, Dec. 23.--A few from here at- tended =the entertainment at Mount (Hib with a little money. He put it intd real estaté¢gsold the real estate at a profit, antl finally bought from Mr. Mustin the mining stock which was found in the deposit box. In the meantime he worked up g valuable newspaper route and took up his resi- dence at the Harrison "flop." lowing letter, written thirty = years ago, and found among his belongings, testifies to his relations at that time with his family : "Mother feels bad about your writings She was talking about the other evening and cried. She thinks you don't care for her any more. She is growing old and failing fast. If vou do not write to her seon it will be too late.~Mrs. C. M. Lov- not you estate will be" handled by the administrator. Unless other arise, the bulk of it will go to Luvett, the half- public claimants probably ) rother, DIPLOMAT ANGERED AT YPIDGIN ENGLISH." : nok ---- London Post Office Clerk Indnlges in Costly Joke With Chinese Em- bassy Official. Londen, Dec. 23.--~When Sidney 1a ton was postmaster-general of hng- land he found it necessary t) issue | stnict instructions to the women oun- | ter clerks to exercise politeness. inithe course of their daily toil: Mr. Mux- ton s- successor, Herbert Samuel, way deen. it expedient to issue similar ad- morition to the male element uniter an episode which has been broughs i» his notice. : A high official from the Chittse embassy in London 'enterad & Tus, West Fond post office a few days ag and asked 'for a penny stamp. The clerk, with a somewhat distoriad ses of humor, and forgetful of the fact that all Chinese' do not spesk what is generally called "pigeon Faug- lish," handed over the stamp, i vith the remark, "Stickee, lickee, stam- pee." The Chinese diplomat prompts ly informed Mr. Samuel of 'the in: cident and the clerk is now rumin ating on the folly of being so n- necessarily facetious. - .How abolit buying apn electric toaster, iron or flashlight as a « hristmas t for one of your friends. The H., W. Newman Electric Co. have a fine assortment. Ministers of every denomination in Coeur d"Alene, Idaho, have assured the mayor and council of their support of a plan to establish a municipal sa-. loon in that city, jjnstead of issuing individual licenses. a . The big flannelette night shirt at: 50c., men's and boys', as shown by Dwyet, is the best in our experience. The Academy of Sports of France, has awarded a gold medal to Admiral The fol- ! | Poruna freee the stomach of eatarrhal | eongestions and normal digestion is the | result, 2 ' In other words, Peruna goes to the! bottom of the whole difficulty, when | She disagreeable symptoms disappear. | Mrs. J.C. Jamison, 61 Marchant street, | Watsonvilie, Cal, writes: i "I was troubled with my stomach for | #ix years. I tried many kinde of medi- | eine, also was treated by three doctors. | "They sald that I had nervous dys-| pepein. FT waspaton a laid dies for bree mouths, A ------ trial, \ "1 procured a bottle at once and eom- menced taking it. I have taken several bottles and am entirely cured, "I have gained In strength and feel like a different person. | be- live Peruana is all that is claimed for i." Nervines, such as cosl tar prepares tions, are doing a great deal of harm, Sigep medicines and headache powders are all alikes~heart depressants, and should not be used, The nerves would bo all right, if the digestion were goed, Peruna corrects the digestion. | | Bales Negotiated | Fire Insurance | | fe | "Phone 286. SHORT | LIST YOUR PROPERTIES NOW For Sale or to Rent. Rents Collected Conveyancing and Real Estate E. Blake Thompson, OVER NORTHERN CROWN BANK. MARKET SQUARR, KINGSTON, ONT. 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