THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1908. 7:30 Tonight 1 First Performance! ; AtTheHv'l' Biiou Dream 5 6S4 COMMERCIAL STREET . BETWEEN FIFTEENTH SIXTEENTH Moving Pictures and Illustrated Songs 4 1" PERFORMANCES LASTING ONE HOUR, ; FUN AND AMUSEMENt FOR ALL Admission 10c Children 5 c PROGRAM CHANGES MONDAY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY 7EET0 .-J The Old Reliable 'VC CHICAGO Ti 1;.. Jii V.J PAINLESS ' K!..-tf V ''"1 DENTISTS Cor. Commercial and .Eleventh fits. Astoria, orjl PhonaSSOl Headquarters PORTLAND, ORE. Are equipped to do all kinds of Dental work at very lowest prices. Nervous people and those aiEicted with heart weakness may have no fear of the dental chair. 22 K. crown.. ........... ....11X9 Bridge work, per tooth.. .....IN Gold fillings .. $1X9 p Silver fillings.. 50c to $1X0 Best rubber plate............ $8 00 Aluminum-line plate $10 to $15.00 These offices are modern through out We are able to do all work absolutely painless. Our success is due to uniform high grade work by gentlemanly operators having 10 to 15 years- experience. Vegetable Vapor, patented and used only by us for painless extraction of teeth, 50c A binding guarantee given with all work for 10 years. Exami nation and consultation FREE. Lady in attendance. Eighteen of fices in the United States. Cor. Commercial and Eleventh Sts., v- over Danziger store. More than two-thirds of your life you wear shoes. Did you ever think of that? The Dr. A? Reed Cushion Shoe Was built to give your feet comfort two-thirds of your life; the rest you sleep. The W. L. Douglas Shoe Hat a world-wide reputation. Wear onr and be up to date. S. A lGllftRE , 543 BOND STREET. ( Opposite Fisher Bros. Bitst kinds of logging shoes, han. ma Je, always on hand. ASTORIA DANCING SCHOOL Exchange street, opposite Skating Rink. Open every dav and evening. Pupils can enter any grade from beginning to advanced classes. Our weekly social dance, every Wednes day evening, has become very popu lar. Admission, gentlemen, 50c; ladies i.. j "t( ':"'! VJP- ' '! W f J , e DVVSER JOINS CLUB He Becomes a Member of the . Beethoven and:Warble$; r 1 ASKED TO SING IN QUARTET. Hat a Talk With Wifty About the MatUr She Advittt Him to Consult a Doctor For Four of Straining His Volco Trios Koy of O. tCopyrleht. 190S, by T. C. McClure.J After dinner the of tier evening Mr. Bowser sat down to lils newspaper and cigar, but after five luluutes lie began to hitch around miettslly, and at length, when Mrs. Bowser was watch ing him, Ue said: 1 ..i . 'j ; . ; 5 "If you were only a different sort of woman, I'd like to talk with you for a few minutes." . - "Well, I'll try and be different,'' she replied. . J'What is It that you wish to speak about?" ..." -' . - "You know I Joined the Beethoven club two weeks ago?" , "Was It the Beethoven clubr "Of course It was. I told you at the time." """ - "Yes, I think you did. Has anything happened to the club since you Joined Itr ...v. .A,v,,VM - i ' flthas haiPfiUHL.that they want me AND HE GKOWI.KO .4X1) KOABXD AND THCXHEKKO. in the Big Four qimrtet to sing bass, and that's what I wanted to talk with you about this evening." Mrs. Bowser looked up and turned pale. The cat wis Jucf purring him self to sleep, and he suddenly opened his eyes and rose up and turned around three times. If there Is cue thing Mr. Bowser can't do it Is to slug. He can't even make a stab at it Ue can't read notes, and his "time" is like the hoof j beats of a drove of. cattle running I around a barnyard. Mrs. Bowser In- j stantly realized that if lie had been in-j vtted to make one of a quartet it was a ! put up job and that she had a work of j diplomacy on band to rescue him from humiliation. I But you will ilwline tin honor?" j she queried as she saw him regarding! her suspiciously ' "Why should I? 1 joined the club i-.- . because It is a Iufinj; club, and I : grants and roars and growls emanat want the practice." j tog from your house, and I mean that "But you are subject to hoarseness, and if I were you I shouldn't want to i iraln my throat." "There'll be no straining. Any doc- J tor will tell you that staging strength- j ens the throat The trouble has been! that , I haven't sun enou&U. They ! want my bass, as 1 said, but I've been i wondering if I hadn't better lng bar!-' tone altogether. .That's what I wanted I to talk to you about Howevr, if you are busy watching that yafler eyed old cat we can let the talking xo. What ails the miserable reptile anyway?" The cat was having what ltoked like a fit She .stood up and hn nped her back, and then she lay lown and rolled over and over and coughed and sput tered and kicked. "I gave her a fish head about two ; hours ago, atxl perhaps sire got a bone ' -in her throat" explained Ttirs. Bowser, I but blushing with guilt as one said so. I think If you decide to juin the quar tet you had belter stick to Uss. I am afraid of your throat, hoftever, and I hope you will consult the doctor first. You might lose your voice by straining j ft "And I might Btreiigrhen it 100 per l cent, just give me tne cnords or "ine Old Kentucky Homo' on the piano, will you? I want to noe If my voice Is In good trim." Tries Key of Q. "M've got a lame wrist tonight. dear, aud I don't think I can remember the chords either." "Well, try once. I believe It goes In the key of G." Mrs. Bowser turned to the piano, and with a chill clutching at Iht heart shr played the chords of -.f -!ni Brov.nV Body." Mr. Bowser cIcmjvI his throat and began to sing almul li.'s Old Ken tucky home Just ih : as? if the bonis fitted if. It wasn't, vyitat .Caniso would call warbling. Tin i u!sc stai'toil in a low growl at his s'to.' tops an:.' gradually worked nj It l:c:-i:;!r the roar of a lion m'kin for Ills P"?,- Then It dropped to the il.'ep nr.i'ile fl' bull looking at u twnip o:i f.i tr rail of a fence and finally died a way ',i the distance like the sounds of a pasa lng flood. "Well, what do you think of It?" ask ed the singer as he paused to lay in h fresh stock of growls and roars. "I I wish you wouldn't," answered Mrs. Bowser as she turned from the Instrument' "What! Whnfs'that you wtahr, V , "J wish you wouldn't become one ot the Big Four; I'd much rather you'd be one of the Little Five." "But , what in thunder does this mean? Are you finding fault with my singing?" "No-o-o. but It scorns to be such an effort on your part Mr. Bowser,,, I was reading ouly tho other day of a man who burst open while sluglng." .'" "Burst be hanged! Nothing of tho kind ever happened. Let me repeat those two last lines. And he growled and roared and thun dered to the air of "Buffalo Girls" as much as any other, and at the finish the cat took a run for the hall, and those on the back yard fences set up a wall In unison. More than that, some hoodlums passing the house stopped, and one of them was heard to yell out; "They's got an old bull in the house, and tho bull Is mad about, ltr "Well?" queried Mr. Bowser. f Won't you, please say you'll give It upf pleaded Mrs. Bowser. e 'Give it up! Woman, what means all this nonsense? Yqu talk about the danger of straining my voice and about a man bursting up, and, all, that, and then ask me not to become one of the Big Four. What sort of a game are you trying to play?" "No game, dear, but you see" "I see nothing, but I want a plain answer to a plain question, la toy voice all right?' - - "Yes-for talking." "But for singing?" "I wouldn't try to sing If I were you not at present You you don't seem to carry the tune, and your time is way off. You see you haven't done much singing since we were married." . 1 don't seem to carry the tune! My time is way off!" he echoed as he stood back and folded his arms and assum ed a pose. "I have a voice for talk ing, but not for singing, and you ad vise me not to try any more! This to me to Samuel Bowser!" , "But don't get vexed, dear." Too Much For Him. 'This to me to me, who was sing ing in public when you were a child grubbing for strawberries in the grass! By the seven one-horned bulls of Ba shan, Mrs. Bowser, this Is too much too much!" . "But you said you wanted a plain answer to a plain question. I don't think you can sing, but perhaps there are others who will think you can. It's not against you, you know. There are thousands and : thousands of people who can't sing a note." "This to me to me!" mused Mr. Bowser as he walked slowly down the hall with long, dramatic strides. "Axe you going out, dear?" "To me to me!" And he clapped on his hat, got into his overcoat and was gone. He didn't know Just where he was going to, and when ha reached the cor ner he stopped and loaned up against the fence. He was leaning and think- lug when a policeman came along and halted to nay: m "Oh, here you are. Your name Is Bowser? Have you got a grizzly bear chained up In your house?" hat nonsense, sir! w hat do you mean by such a question?" was the re- ply- I mean luat the neighbors on each side of you are now down at the sta- tn complaining of the groans and they have got to be stopped or you'll find yourself in the eooior hefore tnorn- tos- Take my advice and go home and turn that bear outdoors." ut air. uowser unm t. instead he took a walk about that cot ered .seven niiIc3 acJ a:i ur a:ul a half, and n-J the time he was thinking ho he could Ket even wltn Mrs. Bowser for liocp- ln Ulrn oul 01 tIie lilS our. M QUAD. Astoria Theater, Sunday, March 28. . i -Ti: ,, II-- ?i ! ;"t V: t'-f , j ! i '' ,' "hi i r- 1 ''.' , ' : , - . - r ! 4 - , I t ? ' ' j i t , , . 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