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THE; OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND, SUNDAY - MORNING, AUGUST 18, 1807. j - . . ... ' " r i . J -V ' II I ill a4j I i 1. .11- . . II 11 U ' l , iir.'.Ji,!.a V wwvv siseasa tlV , , -. M t - I 1? ' ' - A - 'fit II' 1 ' f I "Trf,, j? J , pi' I II MT,! ' J, V&Z. I NU ill br newspaper erlb in Detroit thm . I I v.r... v , t i if -V ,f III Ts r w 1 -t' luiftt AdmlraM animal m iMeoaanr to y-U- H ... ,l I him- .:vV- ... -Vi-s " )yy J W1 w fITH only two wka of hoMday, theatrical circles are rejoicing la the proepecti of an earlr opening. Tb rummer aeaaon , ' Is practically at an end, - and ' ft Is a mere matter of choice which of the local houses 'Will . bt fortunate nouih to secure your patronage. ' Sir. Baker, of tha Third street house. which bears his name, offers a stock attraction which, ha says, has never been equalled in this city. He cites In support of his contention a list of plays and. a list of actors , which are . Indeed Worthy of notice. ': in the list of actors there are several who have achieved mora than local reputations and a few whose names are used in black letters in the show publications of the country. . Mr. Cohen of tha Marquam is in the east arranging for attraotiona . Ha has announced a period of comlo opera be ginning September 2 and continuing for tix: weeks, but for the remainder of the seaaorf there is no definite informa tion. However, he assures his clientele Of the verr beat attraction in tha mar ket and those who have been fortunate enougn to patronize the Morrison street bouse may be assured of something irono intir wmn Manager Allen or the Allen company wnicn nas maae so zavoraoie an un rresslon at the Lyric is preparing to via - bowii 10 i-oriiana ana will leave with his company the first week of September. . He is dated for a perlol at Baa J one. California, and will take most an tne old members ot his com' any with him. . .-, -. Other - theatrical attractions during the summer are almost as they were at the beginning of the season. The Heillg has been dark, but Mr. Fangle an nounced yesterday that the house is neing tnorouraiy renovated and ear peted. It will open September with Mr. Ezra . Kendall in "Swell Elegant Jones." a new ? play written especially On the oast side Walter C. Faraham opened a new venture In the Grand tjnlon theatre, at the corner of Grand avenue and East Pine street Mr. Farn ham Is making a bid for public favor on the east side, confident that the people in that resldenoe district 1 will yield' ample support to a playhouse majniainea mora - ne starts with a . small company, but announces that It win oa increasea. . I MONOLOGUES Est Kendall at HeDig Thursday. Tha greatest riches that can befall a man is the ability to make others hap- joy" baa said a philosopher. Accepting Kbit, ' Esra Kendall, who ts coming to ' tha Hellg theatre. Fourteenth and Wash' ,' ington streets, next , Thursday, Friday '. aad Sattuday nights, August 12, 23 and 24, to "Swell Elegant Jones," under tha management of the Harry Askin com pany, .makes John p. Rockefeller look cheap, 'for ; certainly It has been no other man's happy mission to make more people laugn man jar. nenaaii. - ' It has been but few who have had that creative humor to stand alone be fore an audience and provide the most satisfying and enjoyable entertainment Mr. Kendall as a monologlst has won a - high place In the measure of men who have given the world a laugh. His has been a consistent record, and now he comes in what should prove an ideal ' Vehicle a comedy, crisp, bright and -.full of keen wit written around a mono ' logua Speeches in certain plays have - made a success, but In "Swell Elegant Jones" there is a continual fire of those lines, which in other productions might be abstracted as the particular bright - saying. ':,' Mr. Kendall has proved most gracious In' his new play, for the audiences In practically every city have demanded , by repeated curtain calls that he give : at icast a part of a monologue. Ha has - renpcmaea ana me result nas teen most evident reluctance to allow him to wlth- draw.' ...- When "Swell Elegant Jones" was writ ten by the atithorof the previous suc cess, rrhe Vinegar Buyer.", the main point was to provide Mr. Kendall With the best' obtainable vehicle for, his pe- cullar qualities as a fun-maker. The nu iwn n quaint, conerent and altogether charming - comedy woven bout a character, that brings Mr. Ken dall to bla best , : There is a rural and fetching "at mosphere' about "Swell Elegant Jones" that tlnds direct appeal and tha staging has been? carefully observed to render the best effects. A competent cast sur rounds Mr. Kendall, the characters for t he moat part being of that sort which has made "human tntsrest" plays so successful. . A special matinee will be given Sat urday, seat sais opens next Tuesday, August 20, at box offioe at the theatre. Cyril Scott in The Prince Chap.1 Some of the New Tork critics think the tlUe of "The Prince Chap" doesn't aptly describe tha - fascinating Quality of Edward Peple's comedy. They think that the title ts prosaic It is by repu tation a play that appeals to every class of playgoer. Tha gallery boy Is as much interested ss the hypercritical stu dent or ins a ram a. ine story is or fered as a decided novelty and is said to favor a auspense in its situations that holds one without the noise of melodrama In "The Prince Chap" we have a stsr who has won popularity in nearly every style of up-to-date en tertainment Most playgoers will . re- memoer uyru bcoh in tne Augustm Daly musical comedies of "The Run away Girl" order. Then again in "Flor adora." His visit at tha Heillg theatre veptemoer , e, s ana i as ma star or "The Prince Chan" will show him In quits a different style of performance; me worn ne siariea out to ao wnue ne was under the management of the Frohmans, and whioh be accomplishes, we unqersiana, who marxea success. Georgia Minstrejs Comlnf to Helllf . September 1, t, and "the famous " , .,. , , j over, they will be kept and will be a tlon at the Hlig theatra JThis it i the gtrong feature of the already strong bill, ESIri' li fac6T.Knlt,.on particularly ss they will change all -nf'Sfin" country.; Popular prices Their songi and introduce some of the " "" ... I latest eastern hlta. Mr. .anil liri J. " " '' ' '' Murray Smith have an enjoyable little Second in Command- at Marquam. hViU 7-WpffS" S This week, commencing tomorrow an htertalnlna; monologue, Joe Thpmp- evening, the, Stockwell-MacQregor com- twentieth century motion pictures wUl pany at uie Marquam will present "The I conclude the performance. Three per- Second In Command." This is the play liormances daily, at i:ig, T:tt and :io. in which John Drew starred for several seasons and It is generally known that "The Second in Command" is one of the best plays the famous American . 4 ' Mi I V . ' b " ' x J " , M I i - , : I W . . 'A - 7 ' . :.-: .:.'. v.k . .:. ;; :-:-vvv Mist Marlon Warde, Stage Director Grand Union Stock Company. actor ever had in his repertolra Tha play was written by an Englishman and the scenes and characters are exclusive ly English. British military life forms sn important part and tha theme la unusual. The central character. "Kit" la vmDathy-comDelllnr nhan. whoa hiun. aering maces mm lovable. He has a neart as large as jilmaeir and ill-luck proportionately large. Whatever this man unaeruuees na makes a raiiura nf Although a competent officer, the war aeparunem considers him a Joke. When the colonel of his reoiment In nmmnttui and. by the natural law, "Klf' should j ttraction at the Star. The Tie That Binds" will be the at traction at the Star theatre this week, starting tomorrow : evening. Matinees will be held Tuesday, Thursday. Sat urday and Sunday. - "The Tie That Binds" has never been seen hers in stock nor at popular prloas. Hal Raid, j a dramatist who is in a class of his own. wrote "The Tie That Blnda" His success with "Human Hearts," "At the Old Cross Roads," and a dosen other melodramas, is suf ficient guarantee that "The Tie That Binds" will Drove Interesting Like all of Hal Reid's dramas, this one has a complicated plot and heart interest is be nrotnntAd in hesyt nf n he is passed over by his best -frianiJ I distributed throughout tha various acta ana is maae, sun, second in command, with a liberal hand. E.ven yojpan'he loves with all the! Tha hero has married a Spanish wo- DuciiKt.ii vi nia great neari, ana wnose I man wnom, ne Deiieves, died in an in hand he Wina lOVea his friend, sn thlMunt .nvlum ITtiriar thai tmnmaalnn even in love he is seoond in the race, he marries a second time, to an Ameri- " y1 " uui ui ouuin jvxnca ana i can gin, tne neroine. xney nave a iuo rsmracni ureDares to ma ta ris-ht I nhiii him ha tha Boera Everv man In tH iwimn,nj h. imn nn . xjl jii... iT. '?. r" WS?1 Prepare- the Spanish woman is not dead and hs !!on .c"nPan! .TThis scene In succeeds in restorln her to reason. me uuarters ' is one or tna mnai r.,i. i nn.i. .i.. . . AT,.. i,i lZL.it ,'"!aa- wire. This results in a separation be ?kan i tit i2tI!!aln athome' tween the hero and heroine. Tho vU- " """" :i"T "Vi,""1r.. ? U1r llan clans to marry wife No. X and roken hearted, he alts on the tr, nt in war oixicv unin. 10 get ria or him. he Is sent to the front to Join his reg iment In the very first enaasement ha is wounded snd sent home, without a secure her money, but the heroine falls in love with a crippled artist, to rid himself of this rival, the vlllian assas sinates tne artist. As the vlllian is nresslne his ohnor alnrla nnnortunitT tn dl.Mnn.f.h " noruinn ins nero aair r """ returns, alter a long absence, in time ' TS WT' JZ Serer of the artist. Xt the same time attractions offered during the engage- Mv. Td .f,Sn2 th7 hTPH..K ment of this popular organisation. It Ljv,9 i3AnnThf,,lbV,-tti??P5 ts a pla of Sigh order and the com- h!rwi hSiSina ni- pa.ny Ts capable of alvlng it a first class tln h"llnL,"J BeXJlJ ntemretauon ana nroauction mer ".."""' """: " whioh there are a number of unusually fine parts. la ract every name on te program will be Important, for It la up to each of them to carry the ahow. The production will be one of tha most elaborate that the Lyric has ever at tempted and the gowns Of tha ladles win Je .unusually flna Verna Felton will of course be seen in the principal role. Forrest Seabury, that clever young comedian, who so closely resembles Wil lie Collier, will hsve a rood part while Ralph Belmont Mrs. Clara Allen and others whom the publlo is so fond of will maintain their high reputations. 'i ns cnance to see rne two unmans will soon be gone snd if you want to wltnsss a perfect performance of the old favorite you should not delsy. "Hie Little Joke," at Grand Union. A new theatrical venture hss been presented to the Portland people during the week when the Grand Union Stock company, managed by Walter C Farn ham, opened a week's engagement with His Little Joke," at the Grand Union theatre In the Burkhard building at East Burnslde street and Grand avenue. The first night came on Friday in spite of ths reputed superstition of stage roix and was a successful one. The three-act comedy by Sydney Grundy was well met by a large au dience and will be reproduced each night the present week up to Wednesday night, when ths bill will be changed. Commencing Wednesday night "Caste," a comedy in three acta will be pre sented. It Is announced by the management that the next week's bill will be strengthened by the addition of a num ber of old-time actors and that from that time on the East Side playhouse will be able to present attractions to the people of that side of the river on a par with any presented at the older houses. w Fine Music at Oaks. 1 An svent of interest to the maslo lovlng publio is Chlaffarelll and his band's appearance at The Oaks this afternoon and evening in a program of grand ope ratio and classical music. j This organisation Is heralded aa one of the foremost touring concert bands in ths country, while Chlaffarelll enjoye both a national and international repu tation as a conductor and composer, and during his engagement will be heard in many or nis original compositions. Among these a new march entitled 'The wwnsvt UOVlti-sv.wu VW V11V V YDa UUyiUeVi sort of which It bears name. A fact of which the Rose City may well feel proud Is that no city in the United' States of the population Of Port land can boast of as high a class of musical attractions as is iurnisnea rree in any resorts in uie country. .V captain. Zabelle, The cast will include Flora Helen Hale. Susie Forrester Cawthorn, Harry West and Harry Lane. The book of 'The Alaskan" is written by Joseph Blethen and the muslo by Harry Olrard, who will also have the baritone part In the production. The scene Is laid in the gold country in Alaska, ahlftlnsr from a sold mining camp in ths first act to a home in Nome in the second. Nome Is pictured In the gayetles of the new year. Local color will be supplied by real Alaskan "huskies." driven hv an Alaskan mall carrier. The prima donna rolO will be sung by Agnes Cam Brown. 'Utners in the cast will be Edward Martindale, Teddy Webb, Anne Adair and Harold Vizard. Eskimo girls will form part of the chorus. . The Ham Tree" was in its beginning a simple sketch showing two types of negroes, one of whom styled himself a "chambermaid for horses.'" As a sketch the act has long been on the road, but from time to time bits of song and dia logue have been added to it until now it is a musical comedy, with full cast of characters and a large chorus. Most of the additions are the work of George V. Hobart - William Jerome and Jean 8ch warts are credited with the music, songs and dancea Richard McFarland, who handled the half million dollars, more or less, that came in at the box office window In the cities visited by Henry W. savage's "Madam Butterfly" company last year, has gone to Philadelphia to manage two theatres the Lyrlo and the Adelpha for the Shuberts, An Important engagement for 'The Merry Widow" is Estelle Bloom field for the role of Natalie, wife of the Mar sovlan Embassador Popoff. Miss Bloom field was ona of five prima donnaa who sang "Madam Butterfly" last season. She is a New Tork'rlrl and has Just re turned from abroad, where she saw 'Ths Merry widow" both m Germany ana England. "The Prlnoe of Pllsen" Is now packing ths Studebaker theatre for the fifth en gagement since its first record-breaking run of 10 wetks in Chicago. This scream of all American musical come dies has been fitted out with new scenery, new costumes and 40 new giria in the chorus, and will start on Its Pa cific ooast tour next month prepared to eclipse its former smashing trip of two years ago. rogress and material prosperity could e seen In every woods and pasture. A stranger on horseback, riding along a country road, saw a lot of hogs acting In a strange way. These hogs would run here - and there, first to one tree and then to another, In the greatest excitement Tbey would run themselves against these trees and squeal and, squeal as though possessed, as were those hogs in Palestine that ran down to the sea. The stranger could not un derstand this at all.- Never had he seen such porcine manifestations. Riding on . a little farther, he came to a farmer in the road, 'Are them your hogs? asked the trsveler, 'What on airth'a the mat ter with 'emr Wall.." said the farmer. In a whisper, Til tell ye. 'Long last fall I lost my voice and oouldn't poc-ee to 'em, to come to feed; so I took a stick and pounded on a tree. This spring the woods is full of woodpeckers, ' aneV when they tap on the trees, d n the olrds, the hogs think they're goln' to bs fed.' " During a high-browed discussion at the Players' club In New Tork the other day a friend asked Raymond Hitchcock to define the difference be tween a tragedian and a comedian, to which the "Tankee- Tonrlst" star re plied: "Well, I hate to talk about my self, but I have corns to believe that a comedian, is simply an actor with blonde hair, whils a tragedian Is a brunette who thinks he is sn actor." "How about the brunette comedians and the blonde tragedians?" "They're nature fakers." ' Oh, listen! Miss Peggy Ballou, the Sretty Chicago girl who plays ths "Dixie lrl" In Ths Prince of Pilsen!' and does an original creole dance In the "Song of the Cities" number, is writing a series of articles filled with wholesome advice to young schoolgirls ambitious for ths stsga Her first 'Installment 4s on "How I Became a Chorus Girl," in which she tells how ahs hypnotised Henry W. Savage and caused him to select her from a bunoh of 200 appli cants for the coveted position. Miss Ballou believes ths secret of success on the stage may be told in three words. "Manage your manager." SPOTLIGHT FLASHES Welg-hbors Got roolea. ' ' "I was literally coughing myself to "i lb, and had become too weak to leave , . .. y' i..fi ; and nelghbore predicted that j wcMikl never leave it alive; but they irrt lodici, for manse oe io uoa, x fry. it i i.ir tui t 1 tn try lr. King's New piscov- : just rour one auuar oatties iv. cure the .cough and-re-r.ood sound health," writes -iHier- of Grovertown, 'i ' Klny of eoohrd i-jiler f throat and v pp 1 Cross Piiar-' . J 'U'e free, I 3 reason to believe that the Marauam will play to soma of the largest audiences of the summer when "The Second in Command" is on the boards. There will bo the usual bargain matinee Wednes day and tne regular matinee baturaav. 8eats for all performances are now on saie at tne dox oince oi tne Marquam. Features at the Grand. After reading the advertisement of the forthcoming show ats the Grand theatre, which opens with the Monday matinee, the large . number of , people who have attended the leading vaude ville theatres In the east, stop to ask themselves the Question, "How can Sul livan & Considine give the bills they do for the price of admission asked?" for a large majority of the eastern acts that appear only in tho big 1.60 and 42 vau deville houses there are brought to tha , ooast and shown for a much smaller sum. Miss Alice Mortlock & Co., the headliner of the new bill, has one of the most entertaining sketches ever shown here, entitled "How the Flxs Fixed It," which will prove a scream from start to finish. t - The special added feature is the fa mous Fremont Zouaves, one of the larg est acts on ' the stage; it consists of 17 -young men. lead by Captain K. D. Cloud,, who five a marvelous exhibi tion ofthrillUig military tactics. They sre PerfecUyTdrHled and show - some wonderful figures, pyramids snd wall scatmev Owing to the enormous suc cess made by the Columbia comedy four this week and the many requests re-! calved by tie management to bold them I to their marriage. This afternoon snd evening the stock company will appear for the last times In A anmil'a P.u.n m ' tk, , k .. 1 1 J western drama wnicn nas held the boards all week. This nlav is so non- alar that the attendance nas been at the record-breaking ltn New Stock Company at the Star. Opening Sunday, August 15, the R. EL French stock company will, make Its first Portland appearance at the Star theatre., Mr. French, better known to the majority of Portland playgoers as "Dick." will be the director and mana- f er and he promises some stock shows hat Portland people have never seen the like for the prices of admission charred, which will be tha same aa at present in the Star theatre, namely 10, 29 ana su cents ror evening perrorm ances and 10 and SO cents for the matinees. i 'Tha Girl From Albany." ' An event worth while in the history of theatrical for this summer? will be the presentation by the , Allen stock company of The Girl From Albany," at the Lyrlo commencing Monday night for the first time wast of Chicago, Dur ing the past few ' months this merry farce has been immensely popular in the large eastern cities,' but up to tals time-no1 1 pacific reoast managers-has been able -to secure the rights to pro 4u.ee. lt,'wt-i i ' 1 ...... v.j' . . It is a 1 rollicking, .iaroe-eomedy la , , Mile. Alia Naslmovawill open her sea son at the Bijou theatre, New Tork, with Ibsen's The Master Builder" in stead Of TComtesse Coquette." She says that the character of Hilda Wan gel Is the one she most admires. Walter Hampden, an American actor, who has been playing in England for the past eight years, will be her leading man. The Italian grand opera season which the Shuberts will offer at the Garrlck theatre .this year has been postponed from September until a later date owing to the numerous dramatic attractions that will occupy the beginning of the season. The Messrs. Shubert will man age this company throughout the sea son. It Is reported that Mrs. Patrick Camp bell will play only one-night stands dur ing her 20 weeks' tour in this country. This is an unusual arrangement for a star of Mrs. Campbell's popularity. "The Man's the Thing," a playlet by Cecil De Mills, was given its first pro duction at Keith's theatre, Philadelphia, last week, with Carlyle Moore and Cath erine Countiss in the principal parts. After an absence from the musical comedy stage of two seasons. Edward E. Rice returns once more to his own, this time with a new Spanish musical comedy, "Lollta." by Richard F. Carroll and Fred J. kusiis. which he will pre sent for ths first time on any stage at Tounar'a . Pier theatre. Atlantic Citv. Monday, August 10. Rice has engaged what looks like an excellent cast for k. maw .,AM,..M lt.Afi.Ji.. ryt.u M -en. Carroll, Louis Wesley, Wiulam Bonelli, Vernon Stiles, Harry Van, Philip Han- iio, jxuvu oviibuu, ' imiiv juyncn, -Liuuan Swain, Leonora Gnito. Marlon Singer, Aggie Vars, Mabel Croft, and a big beauty chorus. Atlantio City wilt be the scene of Rice's activity for a week, after which "Lollta" is to be transferred to Broadway .i ... Raymond Hitchcock - will have the leading role in "A ..Yankee Tourist," which is written by " Richard Harding Davis, Wallace Irwin and Alfred G. Ro byn. The point of the .farce hangs around the travels of a wealthy New Yorker and the warlike adventures he falls into. ' Incidents are supplied by the Graeco-Turklsh war and the reslred heroine by i the - Red Cross . corps of nurses. s-A war correspondent . .helps with- passports whenever they nr neces sary, and carries on a secondary plot of his own. Others in the personnel of the gtory. axe a fat widow and an Irish MIXED REWARDS HKff HflE Youn& Italian Author Sav agely Attacked for Expos ing Eoman Society. WINS FIENDSHIP OF GREAT F0GAZZAR0 Ugo Morichlnl Looks Like George Eliot and Believes In Taking His Type of Characters From Real Life. (Journal Special Berries.) Florence, Aug. 13. That SIgnor Fog azxaro Is a great author is well known. That he is also an uncommonly .kind- hearted and generous man is shown by his treatment of the new Italian writer. young Ugo Lodovlco Morichlnl, who gives promise of proving his most ser ious rival. Morichlnl's novel, "Semi Su Pietre," which appeared In April, caused a great sensation because of its ac curate portraiture of a certain set In Roman society called The Blacks." Ths author belongs to the political religious club of Blacks known as the nirnin Han Pietro" and the members at once demanded his expulsion, and re- nnlrait tha nreaMent to hold a meeting of accusation. When Morichlnl appeared he found hlmseir surrounded Dy tne members, each of whom held In his hand a copy of "Semi Su Pietre," his finger, or a book-mark, indicating tne page, which he particularly resented, rna AARiarad the oDlnions heretical: an- other denounced the author for pictur ing his mother; a third had recognised a too faithful picture of himself. Thick and fast rained down the accusations anil fiercer o-rew tha anacr. The author volunteered to resign xrom the club., but declined to retract , his opinions. Hs was Just depsrtlng when a young man who had entirely mis-read a certain sentence, sprang on young Morichlnl and dealt him a violent blow on the bead. . . Praised fox Book.. The following day the affair, of course, was notlcsd in the papers, and, as quickly as the mall could bring it, came a letter to Morichlnl from Fogas saro assuring him that.be had written a book of great promise and one which should have brought him a better re ward than a whack on the head. Fog assaro added that he -would see Mori chlnl later In Roma - - Early in July he appeared and to his surprise, ' found that . the author of "Semi Su Pietre." a - book of deep thought and erudition, is a youth of 21, Witn a race mucn ut vteorso jsaiot, who confessed that at 14 he began to think upon and discuss philosophical subjects. "Semi Su Pietre1 was writ ten when he was 20 and published, as he says, "on the day I became- a man." . Fogaszaro praised 'Semi Su . Pietre" and assured Morichlnl that while the theme was similar o his own in 'I1 Santo," as It was written before the pub lication of that famous volume, there oould be no question of its entire orig inality. Fogassaro anent some time In talk with his .mw rival and even dis cussed literary affairs of his own with him. "Semi Su Pietre". is now in Its second edition' and," curiously enough, while written, by a "Black." hss had some "of - Us nest" notices ,from liberal papers. . "'.,, .v v.. . The young author defends It on the ground that literary- work, to be of any , lasting value, must depict life as it la Th defect of modern Italian literature, he says, is that its characters are crea tions of the Imagination and lack the xiesn and Diood vitality or reality. io whack hs received on the head would go to show that be haa succeeded in copying nature well enough, at an: rata, to be reoosnlxed. One of the chie characters in the book, Don Fabrislo, a priest who endeavors to sow ths seed which gives the book its name, Is the portrait of a certain ecclesiastic in Rome, of visionary Ideaa. who endeav ored, as described In the book, to re form the church through a group of young men. For a time he had consid erable Influence, but being offered an official position for tho purpose of silencing him, he accepted the bribe and vanished from the ranks of the re formers. Flaas STrw volume. Fogassaro has In mind a new volume, one which Is to avoid all oolsmlcs. In conseouence. It will bs entirely differ ent in theme from "ll santo. Countess Fanny Zamplnl-Salasar Is ona of ths few Italian authors per sonally known in America She haa made two visits to the United States. In 1893 she attended the International coha-ress at Chlcsao. Later, she lec tured upon such subjects aa "Woman In Modern Italy." Ths Religious Question in Italy," "Atiandoneo unuaren in lisiy, "Unlverslty Life In Italy." etc, In Cin cinnati, New York and Indianapolis. Her latest book is The Life and Work of Robert Browning and Elisa beth Browning." for which SIgnor Fog aszaro has written a preface snd Car men Sylva added an, inscription in French. The latter reads: "One must take all the sufferings of one's life, make a hxmn Of it and Offer It to God. Men will understand It later." Xaxrlags XTo Impediment. Countess Salasar says she wrote the book, after lecturing much In Italy on tne Brownings, -to prove mat mar riage is no impediment to intellectual activity for a woman." In his preface. Fogaszaro, who is a personal friend of Countess Salasar, says: "I had, many years ago, the good fortune to hear from the Hps of the authoress the very noble lectures upon the Brownings which she gave in some of the -cities of Italy. An old admirer Of , Robert and Elisabeth Browning. I congratulated Fanny Zamplnl-Salasar upon her very generous pronosal to re mind the Italians of their duty towards these noble minds. I told her that few modern poets, to my mind, can ds read with ma much intellectual pleasure, to- ? ether with so mucn neip to tne spirit, f ths work of Robert and Elizabeth Browning surprise us by the vigorous originality or tneir xnougnts. tney aiao show us the rare arid salutary specta cle of two souls as great In moral char acter as in poetic fantasy. Tha aiithnraaa herself is a most in terestlng and cultured woman who lec- . j I 1 . wnta. n m partment or tne university cr noma At nna lima aha was editor Of the "Ital ian Review." Her home is In Rome on the Via Flaminla and from her win dows may be seen the gardens of the Borghese Palace and the hills beyond the city. She is at horns on Sunday af ternoons, where She ana ner two oeau tlfiil rimiffhtara receive the artists, mu slclans, editors and writers' who come to pay their respects and salute the hand of the author of "Cavalierl Mod- ernL" Tnouan ner literary lite- nas wtanAvA over 20 vears. and her hand' some face Is framed by hair touched with white, . countess pamiar rises at E in the moraine and works until " 12, resuming labors later In the day for three or four, hours. , . ir America Her Ideal. Tha- naiiaa ,of . woman has exercised her thoughts and energies and she says when she is asked "if she liked Amer-w-o. "Whv. there 1 found realised and in operation all the things which I, In my Italian land, had thought ; out and dreamed were nw.! . , Her , studio, a large room lined with books, Is divided Into three ? sections. One . is called "a merle", and there floats tha Stars and Stripesw On the shelves sre Ameri can books and the photographs of tha many American friends. Longfellow, Mrs. Isabella jeecner iiooner, eusan b., An thony and other selebritles whom she met on her visits. In her Italian Sec tion are autographed pictures of Ma- tkttJ- C9m m II, .... ary light of the day. Her English sec tion contains English books and plo tures of equally famous writers, men and women and reformers, for she haa met most of the famous folk .of her day. Countess Salasar is now completing a book on "Margherlta of Savoy, First Queen of Italy, Her Life and Times." It Is to be a short history of ths inde pendence of Italy, through which, to quote the author, "is to run, like a frolden thread, an account of the very nteresting life of this most remark able women from her birth to present times." - Her book Is to be profusely illustrated. In addition to this volume Countess Salasar Is at work simultane ously upon a new novel, a dramatlo pro duction and a fourth voluma FIRST GLOVE WEARERS Gauntlet of Ancient Hnntei Saint Who Wore Gloves. Mrs. Arthur Bell in Collecting. Not only on account of the intrinsic beauty of many specimens that have Kbeen preserved, but also because of the symbolism connected with them, gloves will ever have a speolal Interest for the etudent of the past. That they were worn at a very early period there is no doubt, though exactly when they first came into use it is Im possible to say, for there are no actual references to them In early Greek or Roman MSS.. The first mention of gloves is In the Odyssey. In which It la stated that Laertes. . tha father of Ulysses, wore them on his hunting ex- if petitions to protect bis bands rrom thei thorns, and in his Cyropaedla Xenopjvy' l reproaches the Persians for theiaJMf- II feminacy in covering their haar il Both in tne east and west the glove. i I when once adopted, soon oecame or im portance as the recognised symbol of the transfer of property, the seller of land giving the purchaser a glove as a token of nossesslon. for which reason it is generally supposed that In the much-quoted passags of Ruth lv:7. "to confirm all things a man pluckod off his Bhoe and gave it to his neighbor," , tha word shoe should have been translated glove. in Christian iconography a glove was very early associated with, certain saints, notably with St. Front, who 1 said, to have left hie glove behind him after attending the funeral of St. Mar tha, the sister of Lazarus, and with St Cesarlus, bishop of Aries, who Is cred- ' Ited with having sent his glove full of air to a district in his diocese suffering from a protracted calm. A glove worn on the left hand by s saint Is a token of noble birth, probably because the falcon was carried on the left wrist, and ' as early as the third century A. D. gloves were given by the emperor to bishops on their investiture. . St Ambrose of Milan, who died in 898, la represented in a paintinar. now in the i sacristy of the cathedral of Alx-Ia-Cha- pene, wearing gloves, on the back or which a star is embroidered. Gloves' are among the emblems of St Amadeus of Savoy, whose sister is supposed to have given him a glove she had received from the Blessed Virgin, and the atory goes -that St. David of Sweden, when , his sight was falling him from old age, hung his cloves on a annbeam. taking ' it for a cord. I It is well known, the throwing down? of a glove was in feudal, times a ch4U . lenge to single combat and the picking , up of that glove turned to account by Browning in his beautiful noem. "The Glove," lh which he makes the heroine dash down her glove at the feet of tho Hon, only to have It flung back in her ' face by her lover. - . 'Kniahts used to wear a lady's si ova1 In their helmets as a token that they would defend her cause against aCScom- era and to this day a soeclal snilMfl- gloves from a man to a woman. ThevJfca1 custom of taking off 'the rie-ht hariii ?s glove before shaking hands with a lady -Is probably a survival -of the da va of chivalry, aa la also the presentation of a pair of whtte gloves to a, Judge When' there are no cases to, be tried at an as- , size, as well ss to the giving of black, gloves to mourners at a funeral.-. ,