Show WHAT HAT TilE ThE ONn I One On of the tho entertainers at the Orpheum last I week was vac a n comedian whose turn turn consisted largely of telling his young young woman companion what the rubes of the countr country hall had done in the past The woman was as tho foil foll against which his witty rt lIler raillery was wa aimed but beyond her as was Intended waited ailed the general attention of oC the tha people a AShe She laughed at tho the memory nemory of tho the rubes who mado made spectacles of oC themselves es in Broadway And the man asked her if It any nm President of or the United ed States ever came caine from Crom Broadway The an answer Is Js ElI significant That most attractive of places for the trivial and the swift Is not a good gooel breeding ground for tor men of solid ability It n Is js one of or the excrescences excrescence t attaching to the general activity of or tho the nation and andIs andI I Is dependent on the thu solidity and reliability with w which tho the business of oC the tho nation is carried forward It adds nothing to the tho national we wealth nor to the national be betterment And nd yet et it could not exist for tor fora tora a it da day jf It the men who are arc there thero ridiculed laid down I hell It is the tho butterfly of life and owes Its continued existence to the solid merit of or the world Broadway roada Is lighted as aa the tho actor reminded his companion 1 by lamps devised b by a rube rubo who would have been lau laughed at all tho way from tho the Battery to Central Park Parl The Tho Brooklyn bridge is the creation creation creation crea crea- tion of ot a n man who didn't know tenth one-tenth of the pleasure resorts on Broadway Tho The mone money is LCJ in tho the hands of or rubes who came from the countr country as a n avery vel very general rule The Tho railroads are managed b by practical railroad men Tho The papers ImpelS aro are made maele b by country boys who know kno better than try tl to rival rl the flashlight wits of or tho the cafes A And nd the population of oC Broadway or Broadway of like places In every cry city largo large or small small changes changes constantly Life there is brief Pleasure Is fleeting It Is 18 only th the stead steady worker who persists it is only tho calm and arid reasonable Joys jOs that linger Gilded Glided fools tools ma may lau laugh h at tho the rube But ho he lives to go 0 back and listen to tho the story of their passing of oC their swift succession b by others Ho has l kept ept the even tenor of his way and has ac ac- ac cumulated The They laughed laughed ann and vanished |