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Show HUSCULAR Ilnliiiil BESTS A 'JOHNNIE No OQcer Needed When Mashers. Apprcich In the Presence of La Alalia's -Mother. . i i - Little dancer whoaemother Dieted a V Johnnie." Stag entrance Johnnies, who are' in the habit of pressing their attentions upon show (firlsv who happen to appeal to their silly imaginations should leara a lesson from the experience that befell one of their number last night near the Lyric theater. . Surprised by the young woman's muscular mother he was soundly trounced and advised to go home to his little trundle bed. La Adalia is a pretty little sixteen-year-old girl who appears in a sensational sensa-tional character change dance at the Lyric. .In one of the boxes every night a certain young man immaculately dressed has sat during her act and he has always led the applause. He has never waited to see the entire show. A large bouauet found its way to the little lit-tle dancer's dressing-room with his name attached. Last night about 10:20 o'clock the dancer made ready to o to her hotel. Her mother travels with her and assists as-sists in the character changes. She is a muscular woman weighing about 170 I pounas, ana tne success and well being ! of her daughter is her ehiefest concern. 4 ' Mamma, I am going out to buy some fruit," said the daughter last night after af-ter the performance. "Ill walk slow and you ean catch up with me." A short distance from the theater the Johnnie accosted her. His name is known, but will not be used as it is thought the young man received sufficient suffi-cient punishment. "Good evening, little one," said the masher. "I don't know you," returned the demure Adalia. "Well, let's get acquainted," responded re-sponded tho other. "I am not such a bad sort of a fellow." Adalia 's mother had hurried after her daughter, and witnessed the masher's advances. Those who saw the affair saw that the angry mother followed a left hand swing to the jaw with a clever upper cut to the point of the fellow's law that sent him sprawling to the sidewalk. When he regained his feet he received a stiff right to the eye that made him wince. |