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Show N hoiucir hiucrrily. Tl.o.e the eompHny wh.) recrire with Mr. bpoouer, unto. they were In the Anal scene. are not hi costume. And the Idee In till of the clever woman who lo truor at home" here la 10 errcniuute tLe nthea kindly hospitality of her owa than to rob tbe function of glamour. Nothing U left to remind tbe petrun of the drama Inter-red with vaudeville that hai likeIt la a different atinta-phcrly gnue before. a human place, aad the g iteale paa brforr tbiwe who receive Sir- -. SaoLi-r.nd her two daughters, lending lady aad rnp'dly and with elieni admira-tliu- i. A few arc able to exprcaaa lllt.cof their real feeling In gasps and eiithu-lastl- c i Jaculatluu. Tali!. nrc I wl:land punch atitl ciikia are dtopctiard tv uik While the women who were of the audleuri are partaking Mrs. Hpouner pne aerosk to talk writ It th. the stage cud stui.il one or Ihut as they preparr lo leave by tho stage doer. Many wuiuou ehat ullh her life of tlio of lliluga-t.i- e almu; all so1-flic play, ami they ilicnter, the offer tiouiestic sperieuers. recipes, f ItUW SHGPPINO H MACE A HIA5UDE? pi c. fSSSSff ;c.. r eoul-retr- &i - ; with small cftliel ion- -, very nl.-e-h aa gniiis lionerw Ives biihiliia'ly dn whether they Burt en the Alps nr In The him of tin piece, who was perliuia the vs .mi lit In teliiiii at the siiiiii- - line, nr a rernrmed Kaitililer, r a fervid Inver, eh.-w- a g of his liiioilseiui- - fai-- e ahnve the tuaiils ami niairotia. Aud tltnagh ba hits lei'll sunk I il In clonm and Is deep dyed mot art'itli-lnl!)'- ) he can .t 111 sutlle a wonderWhat it i.ri playful smile. fully liifiH-iliiiieninlliaik such a suiiie must cause these credulous women! Itut if tbe audience la not sophisticated Impressive mar-rnlienuugh to criticise the mqulfealalluus In eouncctlou with the gsrli. probably every woman roulil ciii.C.ele m WISE AMD T1MEJY HINTS EY COOL MINOS AS TO THE MANAGEMENT OF THE FEVEDED, 4 ISmUGOUNQ SHOPPING CB0W05 To Git HOME esilmste the cost of the rotluutei fu si Christmas the eauic door, that la a condition wo cannot prevent. We have marked cilt and entrances, but if me women will not nee them ee they aheuld he ncd what ran wa do about III We eauuvt rlk loving citatum-er- e la buying Ei If the time there li toil presents. At th pleasure thaa drudgery la tb dally expedl-lldown tow daring the fortnight th boUdifi. By December everybody is lurk, la town eager to got through with tho iruoi'i purcfaiMf quickly possible. aad In tho ihopo aud on the itrocti and aro II elaoaca nh olhowo and Joetl Jostled by each other. Tbe people ourg feverish haite. They threagb the itreeta la keep neither to the right nor the left, hut In and aa can crowd beat they through get i whichever way teems to them effective. Woaiea attempt to ruth la the aaaie door are struggling to through which crowd they climb onto rara before thorn Ki out;have chance to get off; at ela evated atatloao, where there are atilra to go up and others to come down, you will ee men aad women endeavoring to pari rach ether at the greateat luceuveulence to am ! g on a neb gronuda. 'i'bc worn liy iltelr sister and huelcssea. real artistic lieanty of the toilet of tha Kpiauier family might well be less appre- ciated thin their A to the design. tho story of their taiulug but that to lechulcal idialritcuon. Individual and artistic, mnklug Is most enter auuibrr alory, fortbeac POLICE ACKNOWLEDGE DEFEAT; Inspector Blchard Wniib. of IheScwTork who ha charge of the dlatrlct In which are found the moot crowded ahopplbg streets. tlilokr that in bin realm at Irart wumeu have the police form badly 4 beaten. la "t Don't suppose there .la any crowd thla country ao difficult to hnudlr ak Wectlon admitted Ihr Inspector,rrudrda are enay In comparlaoa. ' Thty are good natpred and yielding, but I fas'f'qult make It out myrelf why shopper are to i bent on having their' dlffefdiitr Tflc)' own way. and Ac average women geca eking utterly oblivious of her fellow creatnree. I'erhnpt the rearon for thla Ilea In the fact that pedeatrlana hare complete possession of sidewalks, onr only chance for Interference being when a crowd gathera aad blocks the way. Of cunrte It would make It caaier to get abbot If there could be tome inch rale at la enforced in tbe eirect keep to tbe right bnt wo have no authority to put thla into effect." "There la an unwritten rule, though, lent Police lteparluirnt. v.-- - , shop-per- ttammlvea. Altogether the abopper'a life la a trying era Juat bow. - The rwreteet tempered wtaaia la the world flnda 'her nervea gritty uaitrang, her face aaaumtng hard and a becoming liner from the atruggle to hold her own against battling theuaaada and her belief la the pollteueaa and conrldera-tto- a of her owa aex falla ao far below par that it la a wonder If a reatoratlou can ever he effected. By the time the holldaya are over the feminine chopper dadarea the world at leant her Immediate lection of It to be rwanulng with a rude end 111 bred lot of people. Thia eoncluaton la reached after one or twp at- - At: r, tir'JI tei-n- 'Mb jfes? AiTf jKsJg jS8S5rjFtsl TYPICAL JOSTLING m . wwm Mi .nifc i 4 6TKEBT CROWD ?- '3- POLICE THE SHOPS. "One mean of ninklnr shopping more agreeable He with the sbupk, epr.reders-- t of thcC'lil Mrs. Ihirc Lynn, . Ion of Wemru's Cbilei. "Tnat Is. lo hmr tho manngrrs detail to l pollee duly men or women fur out aud moving ke,p the erowd thinned -In eertala directions and paths. CARS Is almost During the holiday season It Impossible to get In and out of shop doors, Bhop girls must est. naturally, and they and at this point particularly persons art onglit to hare s reaonhly long lunch hour, needed to keep the erowi In band. I would Inlint why should the proprlrtor consider suggest a system of policing the shop. stores, It possible to get along Just it this time with cluding even the outer vicinity of the with these employes, who wonid have the a greatly redneed forte? officers of "This has lung hern a grievance with ms authority to commandto Jnst as tbestreets and and I wish something could he don to crowded the police force do matters. It Isn't possllde fur old at crossings. tbe early hoars ot tbs "Another way to make tbe erussde for women to shopIf In It must hr done daring tha morning, and eomfort a success, snd to my mind the only cerbusiest part of the day, why do not the shopone, to to have all womhn agree npoa aid ns all they can Instead of addtain mien to oburve and then have them keepers ing to onr trials?" tick by tbem. "It would be an extremely difficult task. I admits to secure tbelr nasalmons SHOPKEEPERS VIEW. but tbe eomfort revolting from It' would We don't like lo nuke rn'ea for onr cuscertainly well repay them, mT1ip beat dndp ot iitonplUuIng iblR tomers." said th - ffi Hunger of s large departtoto keep agltntlnr tbe subject through ment store, even If our doing so would renwomen are brought der It easier for the the newopspera ofuntil shopper lo gst about. what they can do If they Woman dlsllhe being hampered by rules, to a reallaatloa a mind to. we prefer to hate Item feel si home to snd pave ' to make their nr store, to feci that they may go shout as Shoppers trolly onglitIn the season and .they will. Christmas purchases early are o but gifts long The difficulties during Cbrlilmas shopthe crowd, Jlvcn and taken at this aearan there will be ping llmro arc. after all. very small. On Wit onr most crowded days w bandit upward the nantl crowd rushing to buy at the of 9W.UC0 rostomera snd egperlenee no mlante. ourselves, and believe that our suffer very few discomforts. patron LACK OF ACCOMMODATIONS. "Of course, bargain counters attract great our discrowds, hut It wonid bo Impossible for ns "Bhopkeepera are to blame for the "At comforts." said a society shopper. hslf-pts- t tu stipulate who and kow many the pur busiest boors of the day. between cht.ert shall he. To bs quite frank, I think off for clerks let the store the X 11 and luncheon without provlulng snlwtltutes. and the w omen wonid go wherever they wanted to mako their In tbe store, aad would crowd each ether Just women who have come down to time are compelled purchases la a limited as much, rules c; no rules. unconaa counter for a around etsnd to "a to the masses surging la and out of scionable time in order to tako their turn. it tAl t pei-ln- tcaXjING m AND OUT THRDGtf to hold her own at acme bargain Strong Indeed muit nhe be mentally phyaically la order to even make the aud aacecaa Itaelf ocean hardly worth nv Ioa of temper aad the phyalcal dlcsom-- t undergone, when the battle royal maat fed agaia at the door, on the itreeta in the crowded ears, tt far front being coaaldcred a pleasure, canaimii shopping cornea nearer being horrible agony, and If one solemn vow aide tbat neat year's gifts will lie totght In the summer, it would be perfectly 5" to say that this vow will be echoed by Me. . -- ffieuand. at. whatever the drawbacks 'there may to shopping, baying things- to one of , greateat pleasures and ao why Isn't there some way to atako a little more eehifortahle for her than It t preteat f Crowds vast ones have been 4 are being .handled uccesafMly every r. Why couldn't the name methods, or Ilka JJA he applied to the shoppers' thorough- - !' - reen-a-ai- rnde-ues- ' say afternoon through the 'hopping district 'Convinces tho observer hat tome organized movement to nrcetaary or-- ft to bring about comfort, and If each every woom would So her best to facill-tonttela a little while we might see the same mliltary-lih- e discipline that mark nr crowded streets and crossings. Vety few hare paid math attention to tho cot.il:ii.,n of affairs existing among (bop-Be- f. but It Is aerloaa and vital enough to looked upon aa a question for tbe gen-WIn' crest of the public. Sow that tbe "V x la foil swing and there prom-he- s la the sbopp.iig ttn overcongeailon before, II seems both i.ils-orlwhile to Investigate tha of eoamtlng a seething, s.rug- ng crowd Into a well ordered.'-'goo0Tlnf prneeoalon. Resides, the opens up Other peiM!ir!ft equally Throe of prolonging life. Increns- ssppiness end peace of intud. to say ', "P'wlng the perronsl sppciiinee of on to tit tw . aqn h s ?' B ': vwh.'nlty. noih-a!L- s STREET Giving an At Home Be- hind the Stage Drop Curtain. If any one iloubts that tha theater ran he anything but artldetal and Irreverent be should drop in on any Tuesday malluea nf a well known New York stock company. Melodrama, comedy, society plays dll th Tuestoys, siagc throughout tbe wock, baton after the curtain falls, the haMtnec taka own. of tbelr In a comedy part picturesque When half the audience has moved slow ly out of i lie others wait, watching a flight rongh liourd steps reaching to the stare from the crchestra. Oruups of matinee girl of hardly metropolitan distinction are there, young mothers who havesmnggled In a small child, elderly women, neatly drnaed. bourgeolaes a.i. schoolgirls, but almost never a man! Every nuw seems acquainted, Is no surprise, bnt a friendly awe. aa tho stage manager. In a derby hat. gives tho signal to ascend, as iota as the detached railings ire put Into place. Tbe guests mm-pass up singly and slide, through a small npeulng at tbe side of the stage, for the usual ruFtninI of raising tha curtain at inch receptions got observed. If lea picturesque, the aiaga becomes th more Interesting, for the scene ha beta removed and tbe bare nagt. taa bald boards, brick walla, gaping Inga and tb machinery of the theatrical heaven arc exposed with and-ther- t frivoions matters of dalnllneat and ehlffomi are regard and womanly. If a reflective person would not be conclude that the stage and tbe horns maw be one and the same h must be prejudices Indeed. It to bard to say where th inn pressiu. He, but tbere to n homelike and 'personal atmosphere. Many a difficulty la soothed hy the genial and neighborly conn ael of Mrs. Kpoener. The practical woman who has mastered rlrrnmstancea to vlaibin s la her simple and friendly face. Her solidity contrasts peculiarly with tho Idea of the meretricious theatrical. It proves that kindness and sweet net, generosity and comradeship, an to bo foand Inch of tha curtain, In splta of Inevitable falsity. hour-geol- Made with Chestnuts. Creme de llarron. ffhell a quart of largo chestnuts and boll for ten minntos. Then blanch or remove the Inner akin by rubbing them la a coarse towel. Return to the aanco-pswith sufficient water to cover, and cook till lender enough to press through a sieve. Drain, matt aud rah through a sieve; aeesow with hotter, eelt pepper end whatever sea- n soning to st hind: then return to the eanee-paand heat with a little thick cream or hlto stork that has been thickened with n little whlla flour. Add only enough to maka the mass of rheatnuis sufficiently thick to form a mound on tha serving platter. All around tbe mound broiled chops that are brow ted perfectly ahoald be plaoed, standing up and resting against the monad. Oarntoh with parsley or carted celery and serve at n, once. o . A there? That glvel the nfin The outside of the sidewalk in maybe he. In', shoved out theft Ity the crowds Jammed In front of tbe - -chop Window." . "1 should-mthat etiquette would solve the difficulty lq the best way If womea and men eould'be bnAigBr to ece how easy It to to give way and nnc gentleness Instead of ronghacss. It mnet be admitted tbat. there to n grqat display of this latter quality among The middle ctos'a ot the city. Tbe foreign element seems lo looc no opportunity to take advantage of the freedom onr country . and city allows It, nod you know the old them tu Inca and they want well. you. might sty. In this Instance, the whole two or three seats in a car. roles "Shop Keepers might uiske certain tkluk.-thtsnd restrictions.' but prolisbiy they would Interfere with their trade, Rstker than lose sales they will pot nV with the traditional bargain banter's discomfort which creates so uinrli ' around .her. Tbe matter. however, lies and if entirely In the bauds of the ladles, and effecthey would adopt some simple crowd tive method of passing through aud life congestion could be eneily relieved mods much pleasanter nod smoother for ns ad.' tbelr part, "It Is net Innate rudeness on but women though frequently It looks eo, little things are apt to he carelets about whlrh affect tbelr fellow creatures. For of woman eneellent a ecen Instance. Ive stand lucial position come out of a shop aud earh while her Hiking with friend at theShe carriage blocked the way.or dvr held a rerep-t'oother ladies there, causing four to fun and fame borsnse they were kepr yet J"st ns soon as she drove walling, and who was most vehement it Way her foTowr-rla her disapproval, went tbronyb-egfctisame scene, forget Hug tbe inconvenienceah ahe hid Just experienced. Buch thfnss these could enslly be avoided and lawonderful the way rswulif wonid be aecompMshed the Street and of ntuklha piRiffewthtotlsK snd iiifnrtnblo more In tfie rnres vastly rssy than It to now. of the son year the triet I luring this For du ilsj , s given Up to the from December 1 to January 1. hawkers and arc permitted to put up tbelr stands on the street, provided they get permission to. do so from the shopkeepers, and Ibis Is another feature to pedcslrisus. However. It to the Christmas time, ths season of good cheer, and all of us ought to be as consldcrats of onr fellow pedestrians tad shoppers as we mu. AT AToUiSY g. u . r g-- Siefa 5&-ojT- GacTTpoaner y |