| Show I ll j fc I LHU ANS N filE I h I v 1 III I i II I IconHliSPOXDE TCPCRIGLNL1 I 11 I I I > i Mow York Jan IThe ambitious I tired of the narrowness l I young women who are rl > I j I rowness nt home life and who yearn to I n I I I come to this big city to seek their t fortunes ° 1 r I I tunes oreferably on the stage should I I hi Ii I have soon what the writer saw in the i > r oilice of a lending tlieaLriinl manager I j ° I last week fl II j I A disheveled shabby hopelesslook I I i inS woman who was old as to disappointment I f i I II I disap-pointment and hardships and poverty I > I though comparatively young as to j l i years appeared at the railing that separated Jt 1 i I sep-arated I visitors I 1 unwelcome from visitors f I I admitted and cast dull spiritless eyes I a r nt the desk whClc the manager sat deep j in conversation with his newest star I Ii I II I I The inn tinker did not see her but an I i alert young representative oC his stepped to the railing t r i Good morning Nothing today Per I haps there will be later Good mornInG morn-InG Ing1The The woman walked slowly away dragging her feet as though they were an added weight of which slit would like to rid herself Her shoulders dejectedly I de-jectedly bent and her lifelesslooking face revealed her utter lack of hope and a resignation whose pathos brought I tears to the eyes of a woman whoa who-a tchcII her its an old ease said the manager She has been coming here every day I since Ive been here between three and four years And she always talks like that answers her own questions She never waits for a word 1 from me a1 I though of course Ive nothing to say Shes always just like that Good morning Nothing today Perhaps there will he later Good morning Every time I read of the suicide of a strange woman I read the description to see if It is this one But I can do I nothing for her You see yourself she I has no looks nor ginger left Why didnt she slay at homo and marry I some honest fellow and be happy I r n It In answer to the many letters that come to me from Utah girls who want to come to New Yorlc and go upon the I stage 1 1 make this general answer I There Is not a theatrical manager In I the world who permits J himself the privilege priv-ilege of honest speech who doer i not advice against the stage as a profession profes-sion Given success upon it and the rewards arc great Pecuniarily the I successful actress is better compensated compen-sated than the successful woman In any other profession Hut the chances are a hundredfold against success Reality will not win it The magnetism that makes a girl a social favorite will probably not reach beyond the footlights foot-lights Cleverness Is no guarantee of success for J have In mind two of the brainiest women I know l In an acquaintance ac-quaintance that happens to include many hundreds of American and l European Euro-pean women who would starve did they depend upon their rare theatrical engagements and one of the dullest women I know ft mere human parrot earns a large salary by singing and dancing In a musical comedy Try to realize my dear correspondents correspond-ents that the narrowness oC the home life IK often a blessedness and that the homeless woman In a great II hurrying heartless city though the world may account her l ureemincntly I successful Is In her heart one of the wretched ones of earth > Iln old advice but never too old to he good Slurry n good man and 1 hid I the true joy of lIfe without Which the most successful woman in the vorld is a failure the peaceful narrowness of I n hapny home I a It Mrs Sue Dean Is visiting her daughter daugh-ter Miss Julia Dean Mr Morton Dean is also here from Lakewood N T on a short business tilp Mrs T C Bailey and daughter Miss Edna Bailey are at No JGo West Fif tyseventh street for the winter Miss Bailey is here for the study of vocal and Instrumental music u o Mrs Sutherland wife of Congressman Congress-man George Sutherland and their daughter Miss Edith Sutherland came over from Washington recently and were guests at the Victoria hotel for a few days q Mrs Isabel W Pitts was in the city two days last week having come In from Ronkonkoma L L to see her son Master Will PIUs off for Concord where he has resumed his studies at St Pauls after a three weeks vacation spent on the Adams farm with his mother Miss Maude Adams and Mrs Julia Adams u M rt Mrs Annie A Adams IH playing at Philadelphia with the Imprudence company 1 this week They will be in the Quaker City for two weeks t G Mr II A Jacobs Is renewing ac uualnlances with former Salt Lakers now resident 01 visiting in New York M That contingent of Utalms who have i I I always 1 stopped at the Hotel Gerard when in New Yorlc will spare themselves I them-selves Some Inconvenience If they will remember that there Is no longer a I Hotel Gerard that It has been rechrls tencd the Winsonlao r o j Miss Alice Goodwin Is one of the brightest of the lirst = year students at Miss ScovIIIcs school for young ladles e a Miss Jennie Hawley has received some flattering offers for vaudeville and concert work from managers who r Bard her us a second Jessie Bartlett Davis y Mrs 11 C Easton declares that she will go to the Georgia Cayvan benefit this afternoon If she has to stand the four hours of the programme This Is Indicative of Mrs IDastons wellknown loyalty and determination She way a friend of Miss Cayvans of many years standing and often entertained the actress act-ress on her visits do Salt Lake City s I Miss 1 I Clara Morris In private life 1 Mrs Fred 1 Marriott has declined a benefit ben-efit and l is busy dramatizing her novel A Pasteboard Crown for presentation presenta-tion this season a decision that meets the hearty uppitmil of her thouaands of thtatergolng friends It is i uhaiw terlstic of this spirited woman who though her home Is threatened with an I early foreclosure of a mortgage refuses I re-fuses what Is after all a charity and will not descend to that form of men dicity known as the benefit or testimonial tes-timonial There Is a literary man in this city who accepts a yearly testimonial and I yet regards himself as a manly and deservedly de-servedly popular fellow ADA PATTERSON |
