| Plays | Players And "Playhouses EE ae ai ested reinning Anne sto ripping money" P, the edge of the table as if that could keep her temper where it belonged. "That depends," replied Adam. Anne looked down at him. It séem- ed to her tht she had to look a Otis Skinner has signed a new con- | ly effective Froh- | Brides", tract for five years with Mr man, to become operative next fea- gon, when he will star in a new play Woman" ig the title of a play of the Yukon which William A Brady is to produce within the month | It was tried out 'in Boston last year in stock, under the title of "Jim's Marriage." "Jim's Frederic Edward McKay's produc- tion of E. Cronin Wilson's play, "The Tricky Mrs. Trevor," will be staged by Bertram Harrison. Ernest Glendenning has been en gaged for "A Modern Eve," which is to open in Boston. He will have the role originally played by Joseph Santley. . Joseph Brooks is evidently one of thdge who believe that the time is ripe for the re-appearance of the old time melodrama At any rate it is said that he will attempt to put new life into "Taken From Life" and "The Soudan." Harry Corson Clarke and his wife, Margaret Dale Owen, are to make a tour of the Panama canal zone. With a company of five they will appear in a series of ghort plays. Two revivals of famous plays of the long ago are prompted in New York very shortly, One is "Trilby,"" in which Wilton Lackaye, Burr Mec- Intosh and Leo Ditrichstein, who ap- peared in the original production, will again be seep. Lawrence D'Orsay, whose work as a heavy dragoon comedian was at one time so popular, is to try vaude- ville shortly. "The Rented Earl," in which he was starred, did not last a week, and Salisbury Field, the co- author of "Twin Beds," the comedy with the longest run to its credit of the New York season, will make a sketch for the big Englishman. After the fallure of Mme. Nazimo- va in "That Sort", the Russian aec- tress followed the lead of many oth- er stars and went into vaudeville. It | food for cannons, i mova appeared as an interpreter of | says the critics, and it is now 4 | great way down. Adam was a small entitled "War| delicate looking man: His hair was which CaBderns the revolt] 10 on top of his head and he had . little wandering wrinkles abou: his of a mother against the thought of 'eyes, His gray suit was very neat, bringing sons into the world to be;yet worn. The silver scarab pin in Not since Nazi-| his red tie was a gift,of har own mak ing He was ust where he always Isben has she done such fine work;| had been, although at that moment gaid | he looked different to Anne. I was that Marion Craig Wentworth, who|as if his fine, clever, lovable astral wrote "War Brides," may undertake| body had risen and left his solid, the task of elaborating it into a/|earthly, selfish, natural body 'sitting three-act play. = | there in. the chair. After two years : of normally happy married life An- ne suddenly discovered that here Natural Law," has just been pro-| were some things about Adam which nounced too strong for the public | she did not like. fhe discovery taste. It was written by a western | thocked and excited her. She was newspaper man, and given a perfor-| ery angry, hurt, and, above all, mance about year ago by a stock | Bed Ib 10 LORIONAL, POSURE company. Then a manager got e man w : : : 3 hold of it, and his Prod nag hd | and she had pO Mmeney 10 pay upon it in Boston. The play. concerned an| Adam must give her the money. artist who was painting the portrait "Adam, she said, 3 a lone of of a marathonér. His manly beau- finality, ¥ou will pave lo give m ty won her young heart, but he ran" "j;. : "Ra 3 ality away and left her. Moral, never fall y JE, lone lad the same quality, in love with a marathoner. There} oo i it away Ona was also a doctor whe wished to mar- RI no BOIDE 19 i aay on a ry her, in spite of the che-ild. But in| 004 the end the marathoner ran back, They eyed each other, both highly with many nurels won b hie TY [Stored and equally obdurate. It dia ning en wedding ells. t! not occur to either of them that they was the story so much as the| were having their first quarrel. Noth- frank dialogue that proved too much| ing occurred to them save the fact for the great American centfe of cul-| that neither intended to give in to ture. the other. Possibly at that moment, had'Anne been the bigger and stron- There was a story went the rounds| ger, she would have snatched Adam's of tho theatres some years ago, | pocket-book away from him, so far though never published so far as the| was she reduced to the primitive wo- writer knows, that "Officer 666' | man. Adam no less had become the was originally intended to be a crook | Primitive man. play, and that George M. Cohan ad- In the distance a whistle cut the vised the dramatist that the subject | till, cold, morning air--a protract- would be better treated as a farce.| ©d note that drew out louder and Color was given to the tale by the louder, The train was coming into fact that Mr. McHugh has only at-| the station four blocks away. tempted to write serious.plays since Adam sprang up and ran into the his first success, but sa far has had hall. He snatched his coat and hat no results. The, following statement | 3nd ran, slipping over the shining by George M. Cohan in his autobiog- re coveted whl, He Bad not left raphy in the Green Book, would a te ; seem to show how the tale originated Anne dropped into a chair and He says: 'In' its 'original form tried to gather her anger-scattered 'Officer 666' was not treated as a Huis. She wis ors determined a . ' farce. It was almost a melodrama, | sition had stimulated her seire' Tor Bul Duithet that nor a farce, nor both,| jt She began to wonder where she cHugh literally ripped the manu-| econld borrow the money. #eript to. pieces, changing it here, She decided, after a ow moments, there and gverywhere, until 'the play, L# playlet In Boston, a drama entitled "The not appears that she feund a particular- Ane to go across and talk things over as produced never would have been | vo with Mrs. Ashley. recognized as the original." For the first time in her married | | Wild Destiny | x i It was one of those mornings when | everything goes wrong from the first | moment of waking. They had over-| slept and upon entering the kitchen! Anne found that the fire was out. | Fires always go out when 'one is| pressed for time. The kitchen was as shivery as might be. Anne pat- life Anne left her home in disorder to run to a neighbor's in the morn- ing. She found Mrs. Ashley linger- ing in admiration over a new library table. "It only said. "Now I must have a bookrack and a library lamp. Oh, my dear, I'm per- fectly wild over this buying on the instalment plan." "I've. ordered a buffet," Anne be- gan, ."and that's why I'm over here so early. I want to tell you my woes," She laughed quiveringly. not suit Année at all It had begun not to suit her at the moment she had seen Mrs. Ashley's lovely new buffet, with leaded glass doors and an expense of dazzling varnish that' one could see one's face in. And it had suited her each day less. The old sideboard spoiled the effect of her bright, new dining room, She had decided to have a buffet and had once tenderly broached the subject to Adam. But Adam had speedily been seized with an attack of econo my. The old sideboard had been came yesterday," she an nth. = the Path ' if " pr! 3 . neighbors who had come running in went to answer it. Aune heard her ery. "Oh, thank God!" Then Anne herself had the receiver to her ear. Over the wire jarred a familiar voi "Tell Anne I'm all right," it said, "missed the first section--took last. So did Moffett and Ashley." It was Adam's voice. Two hours later there were three reunited couples in as many houses. Anne sat on Adam's lap with her arms about his neck "You see, if 1 hadn't stopped to quarrel with you I'd have made the first section." Adam explained. "I don't know whether Ashley and Mof- fett quarreled with their wives, but they were late, too. We all pulled out together." Some one was pounding at the door. Anne ran to the window. "It's the man with the buffet!" she gasped There was just an instant's pause, "Say, we want that buffet to ré- mind us-- lest we forget!" Adam said. His voice was solemn. "There's my purse, honey. And now I'H run out and help him bring it in." | EASTER MORN | By 14 Alexandria H Campbell (Mrs. Campbéli-Smith, BE, D.Sc.AJ The glory of an kKasler morning Many hundred years ago, Its brilliancy is still adorning The whole world in its glow Love vanquished death and Christ is King, "God is l.ove"--in His Son-- The spirit-hallowed clay may sing The victory is won! Above the thunder roar of battle Rivers of running gore, The blood of nations slain like cattle Mingles forever more; In that mingling brotherhood is born-- Man's resurrection morn! Love's reign, which maketh strife to cease, Creation bind in peace. COMMENTS BY ZACCHEUS Who Sees Desolation Now But Free- dom's Return Near at Hand. A--Age of chivalry not yet gone. IB--Barbarians being taught it by (--{Anadians at the fronv, D--Dacian daring defied. }--Earth desolate for a time, yet over yniverse | F--Freedom shall again shed benigrant rags. G+--Gallant men laying down their lives for this cause. H--Homor eternal to them. i I-- Impenetrable are the designs of Providence. JeeJudge of all knows hest. K--Kingdoms rise and fall as the nations remember or forget God. I~let the foolish and presumptu- ous pause ! M--Men's pride and sgall be put an end to, her prevarication | GYPSUM WALL PLASTER? EL i, WANS After Shopping. PERFECTION / OCOA After any fatiguing trip in the chilly outdoors, a cup of COWAN'S COCOA is wonderfully refreshing and stimu- lating---and it wards off colds. 279 Lind ME AA AAA A A A AAA A EN NNN PAA The Key To Success Many a man owes his start in life to the purchase of an endow This has proved the beginning of many a fortune, a good thing going at once by purchasing a policy in the Mutual BUILDERS !! Have You Tried policy. It Baves Time Life of Canada; Rates on request, ment Start "Of course, Adam doesn't approve: And the buffet's due today. I haven't GEN #0 Brock St J 610; Ren, SSL \-- Nothing corrupt can last inde- finitely. O--One act of consideration tered wildly to and fro in her Juli- | good enough for his mother; it was, ets, while Adam slivered her some | therefore, good enough for his wife. ERAL AGENT, Kingston. Office Phone, Harry Sharp, Special P. WALSH, Barrack Street. S ROUGHTON Phone GIO or 561. Mght wood into kindling. It was | Certainly imevitable, of course, that the hat- | chet should slip and cut a slice off his thumb. The fire making had to | be delayed until the thumb was doc- tored, All this time the hour hand of the clock, was travelling merrily on, and Adam must be at the station to take the first section of the com- muters' train at 8. . "No cakes this morning," said. "There's not time." This was ill news to Adam. He looked on gloomily while Anne sift- Anne ed breakfast food out of a package | ingly urged a little more independen- into thelr two dishes, self their eggs | ce on the part of women who had and coffee to boiling, and prepared for a struggle with toast. It was when she was hurrying back und forth that Anne caught her toe in the edge of the rug of the dining room and fearly threw her- self. The dishes she was carrying flew from her hand, went half way acrogs the room, brought up against the old sideboard, and promptly dis- integrated. "Let tho pieces lie," Adam said, "Come! [I must catch that first sec- tion of the suburban." But Anne's glance had been for cibly directed to the sideboard. She had come near to forgetting this very day the new buffet the had or- dered was to arrive and she must pay the first installment! Adam knew nothing of this plan. The sideboard had been his mother's and, though it was distinctly old fashioned and rather battered, it suit ed him very well. However, it did GAS, HEARTBURN, INDIGESTION OR A ~ SICK STOMACH Time it ! Pape's Diapepsin will di- gest anything you eat overcome a sour, gassy or out-of-order ch surely within" i | she had bought her buffet on the in- | account of all outgoings and incom- reckoned up last. week that | deal re than | may as well call it off. I'll not con- ever it was good enough for She stopped. The door. bell ringing violently. Mrs. Ashley went to answer it. A woman fairly fell in upon her. It was MYs. Moffett, who lived next door. Her face was white. For a moment she could not speak. She could only cling to Mrs. Ashley and gasp. They Mrs. Ashley drew her into the room where Anne was. "What's the matter?" she askec over and over. Little Mrs. Moffett looked at Anne and her tongue loosened. "The first section ---suburban--- wrecked!' she said, and went down in a faint upon the floor, The whole story was learned pres- about the awful news that had come back over the wires, of how the first section had been run into by a fast freight that had taken the wrong track, killing and maiming a dozen people. Mrs. Ashley's husband and Mrs. Moffett's husband went to town on the first section. Adam went, to- And Anne had parted in anger with Adam. She could not realize more than that. Mrs. Moffett went into hysteri ce. Mrs. Ashley followed her. Anne sat with her face in her hands. a bundle of silent, abject agony. One thought pounded unceasingly in her numbed brain: "You didn't kiss him good-by!" Presently' they would all think of something they could do But just at first they 'could only rea- lize and wait. Suddenly the telephone hell call- him. Anne had let the matter rest un- til one day Mrs. Ashley confided that was stallment plan. "So much a month, ! you see. They bring it and set it up for you. And, really ,you never know how you pay for it. I buy all my things that way." Anne had said sadly, that Addm always made her pay for what she got; if she couldn't pay she must go without. Mrs: Ashley had laugh- economical husbands." "If you ever want things it's now when_ you're young and can enjoy them." That was true, and the very next week Anne's particular friend, who had been her bridesmaid, was com- ing to visit her, She wanted the buffet; it seemed she must have it, The idea of Alice's finding them with that old sideboard, which she doubt- less would recognize at a glance. No, the sideboard must go before Alice arrived, ' «- Anne made a bargain with her washerwoman to take the old side- hoard and "work it out." The money thus saved could he paid on the buf- fet, and in the meantime she would have to ask Adam for the. first in- stallment.. But how to do it?' She must be very clever, and this morn ing, with so many untoward happen- ings ruffling Adam's temper, seem- ed a very poor time for cleverness. However, when she had Adam! ed and some one of the half dozen soated at his breakfast, she sat down opposite, crumbled her toast, sweet. ened her coffee twice and began, planissimo. 'Adam, dear, I'm afraid I shall have to ask you for some mo- | SMILE, BE HAPPY ! hey. this mare. "Whatfer?" hel TAKE CASCARETS asked. : It was essentially the husband's and the man's question. But when he saw Anne's quick flush he retract- ed, put his hand in his pocket, pulled out a silver dollar and 'sent it spin- ning toward her across the table. "That much, honey?" "Oh a great deal mare, Adam. I need $5." : knit. Being: Cheer Up! Wemove the winter's poison from your liver and bowels. ---- . injoy life! © Don't stay Dbilious, J sick, headachy and constipated. Adam's brow slow the active partner in\the firm he re-! he right to handle his earn: ings as he choose. He kept a = i ings. His country training showed | there. Anne, alas, had had no country training. Money was only of consequence as it supplied one's needs. What folly to "salt it down" when there was something new wanted or to be had each day! She looked now at; Adam and Adam with hat knitted brow of his, looked at er. : : "My: dear! I thought -when we there were no other demands to be met until next pay day. Five dol- lars is a fifth of my week's salary." Anne bit her lip. But she tried io he Salm, : ay if it is? Haven't . or a right to it?" » a : Adam also tried fo be calm. "As| Spend 10 cents--feel grand! To- my wife you have the right to « grear hight take Cascarets to liven your one-fifth of my iu- liver and clean your bowels. Stop come. As your h I have the 'headaches, bilious spells, sour- right to see that you spend ic ju- Dess. gases, tongue bad diciously." Anne's eyes blazed. "If breath, sal youlve ALY SEROME going about a --Take Cascarets an new sideboard." he © gst, gentlest "inside cleansing". you experienced. "I and gives up-h may turn pain to pleasures P--Power is faint minus love. Q---Quiescence the nurse of thought. R--Receipt of happiness--duty done. S--Sinking heart a reassuring word oft will hin. T--The escaping qeam smiles clouds away. | U--Unto come. V--~Vain to try and escape. W--Wise to submit to Divine will. X--Xpiation sure to : Y--Y¥deld immortality. --ZACCHERS, us here below trouble must The Call Of Easter. Little seeds unfold, Tender leaves expand, Little buds give birth, Fed by Nature's hand From the bud, the Hower, Forth her petals bring; For she heard the calling Of Eastertide and spring. By the brook and by the hill, In the budding wood, Peeps a wondering flower At the skys blue hood. There's the cry of Easter In this new birth of i "Tis the Saviour calling, Bidding Nature sing. Tn our hearts are plantud, Just such little seeds, Often crushed and trampled By the growth of weeds. Hear the ory of Easter! Heed the Saviour's call ! Uproot offending weeds, /" 'Tho' they be bus snmil. - . ~Frances Rhoades, : 93 William Si. b---Agesd twelve years. Sins Of Commission. Toronto Telegram. , Did the Ottawa drug clerk do less for his commission of $9,000 on sur- gical supplies than the middlemen who distributed shoe contracts and claimed a commission' of fifty cents on each pair of shoes accepted by the Militia Department? | That-Ottawa drug clerk cannot claim that he saved the country money. The drug clerk cannot-shel- ter himself behind the pretence that $10,000 or $20,000 is a scant reward for the skill and industry of the specialists who buys $100,000 worth, or $200,000 worth, of supplied at the request of the Militia of Militia. 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