Show e moa mcd rn n 01 Bl B r au ot of Ot EI 1 and Che Cb man In Charge By 6 George org Jide d t Stood Mood in his i Place of surrounded by Capsules Hot Perfumes and nd Fluid Ex Extracts B Bags water vir ts A Man n came caine in and said he tracts d to tn look at t the Directory Then i asked If Murphy urphy was wa spelled with b 11 r f He looked at the Hair Brushes fin suI d a few barS bani of the Tiger T ep Lily Lly nl w W it t out ot anI Boy entered and aDd wanted to v Sarsaparilla Bottles t no t empty trade of Licorice Root Tile Deal t f for it a i t Mere though because the Bottles had a atm f fU tm blown bl wn in th the Glass v oman came in and s d said she was wasT fT fr a Friend She had the T nn Glass Gla of f Plain I s bring he her a She he said she could not drink s 4 ii la da Vater ater because the Gas got t up herther her Woman came in for a aHam ther r She he did dd d d not have ha e any uny Change vt Ham h n her but hut was Wa going to come Orne in and v it I iWi hm the Two Cents some Home time that is 15 if he waa tV wa Small enough to tore re I it The who came in wa wu a Man ith hardly any flY Chin He wanted ted aFIe a sample ampIe of or Liver Pills pm and an FIe Frd telling the Date of or the th Battle MUI f N u Orleans Orl ans when the Sun rises rbell ld t t to and ald why the Chicken crossed ero sed 1 I IR f V r 01 him III there came a Man who ill in a Hurry LuTy and wanted to use the Hv He was vexed when hen he learn PH no Skinner Skinner r did not at t that fd i 1 Number He asked the W n 11 wt 1 why it was The Druggist Dru t and would see Se to it Ith tit jl ho he II was as sorry 11 i hf h Man came in again v iI 11 two little Girls Gina came caine on a R aI altin helped themselves to Picture I un awl and rhy left I t the Door open opell and a av ain al irl Id j t 1 v in ir o C emails stepped shopped in to ask if il l in the a Lithograph 1 J Mini lil Itil hang hing went back into The Druggist Vi Id d c I I I U I I II I lne I i ithe the Laboratory and got goot a large stone I Pestle He was Just ready to beat the Life out of the Cash ash Register when an n I Elderly Gentleman came in with ith a Prescription S The Druggist stayed the Blow and Vf j quite quit a bit This is where I catch even on the Day ay he said It I was no Mirage He had bad to and he did Moral Dont Blame the Druggist f GEORGE ADE The Modern Fable Pable of the lively Girl Who Carried on Something Scan Scandalous Scandalous dalous A Girl who wore a big Rat under her Pompadour and preferred a short Walking Skirt even if Men did turn turnaround turnaround turnaround around and look had bad a kind of an all un uneasy uneasy uneasy easy Wish to be real Devilish She told everyone that she hear any anything anything anYthing thing ormal formal and she believed in hav hay having havIng ing lug a 11 Jolly Time even though it caused Talk When she had hd a Flirtation under way she worked Overtime at it She made it Hum while e it H lasted She had the Telephone Habit and the Messenger Boys knew where she lived without looking in the Book She loved to go out in the Afternoon and meet some Fellow without letting her People know anything about it She would walk the He Young Man up and down some Side Street and taunt him with being a Trifler and try to draw him out and make him Propose so that she could give him the row and mark I another Notch on Oft the Handle of her Scalping Knife Kniff She had hail many Notches and apparently wanted anted sv to es ca establish i a new Record A good many Young Men of the kind that can get getaway getaway getaway away in the afternoon did Propose to I her just to Humor her ber She always said she was Sorry that they ther had mistaken her Friendly Interest for the real I genuine old Love and she hoped they I would 50 go away somewhere and try to Forget Most of them took her Advice and Travelers Commercial They The were ere II had bad been Men packing up to move moe to the Next Town even before she spoke to toem tot them hem t em I These Intrigues and Clandestine CJ Meetings in Department Stores and Make Believe Romances conducted with almost as much Secrecy as a Business Mens Meus Carnival led the Girl to believe that she was Reckless and anda a m teeny bit Wicked She hoped so anyway For FoX iCAr that others would not know how she was wits Cutting Up she told several hundreds of her ances that a Girl could have hare a good time and at the t e same time be a Lady and that very few d her but those who did believe beU ve eVery eVerything thing they Heard She said she was a natural Bohemian and to prove it she used to serve Rye Bread Sandwiches every Wednesday night and tell her large Staff of Gentlemen Friends to smoke all over the House Once she cut loose so far that she drank about a Teaspoonful of Artil Artillery Artillery lery Punch and took a Pull at a Cig Cigarette arette ette when no one was looking locking The same Night she he put on a Mans rans Over Overcoat Overcoat coat and Hat and did a few Buck and nd Wing steps just to show that she was as full of the Old Nick There Is no use usein usein usein in trying to conceal con 1 the Fact Fat that she was a saucy Rascal RaseL Ra l She thought she sh was duplicating Car Oar mens Career and d getting lato to a Class with the Fibrous Heroine of the Eng lish Problem Play Pla who ho is sighing for more Commandments to Break lak After the Fast Girl had taken the Hurdles of three Seasons and cut out a Gait Gak that made mad the t other Girls declare that they neer saw the Like she married a Men Mn who had invented an Air ir Brake ed t i d now lives near nePt the Works She is a Member of the Mar Married ried ned Peoples Duplicate Whist Club and teaches the Infant Intent Class at the Guild School on Sunday It is a great Satisfaction to her hr to think that she has a Past and it would be a Shame to tell ten her any dir dif different dI ferent Moral Never suspect the ithe Girl who says she is Bad The Modern Modem Fable Pable of How Bow a Cracking Good Scene For Por the Hero Was Badly Rehearsed Once upon a an absent minded Leading Man who was making the Hit of his Life with a Costume Play and Slaughtering the Matinee TidBIts every Wednesday and Saturday wan wandered wandered wandered dered out of the Stage Door and began to Act in the Street the same as he did behind the Footlights As he walked ed along the crowded Thoroughfare and held the Mirror up to Nature a good many of these slouchy chy Pedestrians who are always blocking blacking a Sunny Promenade saw s w him with his bis Eyes rolled upward and his Shoulders thrown back and they said he ought ough t to be taken In before he was Violent j i As the Leading Man approached ap the Corner he came upon a Coarse Char Character acter auter and a Woman who were having I an aJ ar Argument while waiting for a Q aGreen aGreen Green Car She had Toasted him for dragging her away from the Remnant Sale before she had laid in enough Tat Taffetas Taffetas fetus to last her all Winter W and he told her she was Wag the Prize Prise and anda II a to go anywhere with No matter what they said they had bad hada badi i a Right to say it bt it for they were Mar Married Married ried nod But mit the Leading Man still under the Delusion that he was On the thc Boards heard the Villain give her this Lacing L and nd It offered a Chance for a Strong Scene Beauty in Distress was always his Cue to spread the lower salaried People and hog the Center of or orthe th the Stage Stag and Talk about Himself So L i I S The leading Wan Man he made a Quick Entrance It would have helped some if he could have had hada a little Chills Chilli and aId Fever Music to bring him on He told the Man to Stand Back Instead of saying Curses on the luck luc and nd looking at his Feet the I Coarse Coars Character te who had hM h been CR a ing lag the Woman merely merey iss S f Wife and nd asked Whee your rr AH As for the Persecuted Won Woman W in m S stead of seizing him by the telling him that fe tIe had bad a Ki 5 and 52 tf seemed to 1 be a she ahe told him to Mind his own and not get Everybody Every dy to Lo J When the Leading Man Mid d aa d M hi he h interfered by the Right that every Xan M an n has t to Protect a Woman Won when ebe is j In Trouble he expected expect a Hand H but It tt came not although he made macle th wn l Wait WaitA 31 1 S A Crowd gathered to find flad 11 w what was the Rumpus and a Man M was Wall selling Belling Turkish h Candy from a Board strapped in front of him said saki sat t if the Fresh Guy had tried co td O Cut In when the Gul Gui was Out Ou with Somebody Else EJae then the Other Party would Id be justified in Handing him One This View of the Matter was heartily hert y In Indorsed Indorsed although such a Sentiment never be tolerated on the Stave Stage A Policeman Policemen broke through to Investigate In Investigate ve and the Woman mid ld the Stranger had been Annoying her feer and ad harley Charley and ami seemed to t be e the tea eat t bK bL Dippy She said she think he be bemeant meant any ny iH Harm rm but was wa Just Queer She said d they ought to let his Fri know She was a Good Oo Hearted sen sensible sible Woman S The Leading Man Xan would have lauded in the Detention Hospital soon if the Manager of the Company had bad sot not j happened along He explained to tile the S Policeman that it was only a utile little Realism that the Actor had been working work working ingoff ing off i Moral Dont be Realistic except on Ok S the Stage Copyrighted jiM 1900 by Robert 11 Russell |