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iday, February 27, 1914
PAGE SEVEN
THE ASHEVILLE GAZETTE -NEWS
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OOMTNG ATTRXCTIONS, S
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FRIDAY, MARCH .
"The Smart Bet" In "The t
Wrong Mr. President." H
SATURDAY, MARCH 7, K
Matinee and Night, r
Cohan and Harris "Stop Thief" it
Company. It
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Smart Set in "The Wrong Mr.
President."
Ince more it la our pleasure to
onlcle the advent of that peer of all
bred aggregations of modern fun-
irors. slnswrs and dancers. The
Ret" comoanv. This noted or-
piation, presenting the latest and
hal best of all up-to-date musical
hedies. "The Wrong Mr. President."
i ho the next attraction at the Aud
i-turn on next Friday night. At
i head of the production, of course,
he Samuel Tutt Whitney, who
thl enarasrement will make his
Cut as a full fledged author, Mr.
Whitney, whoso talents us a star of
wide magnitude need little" Introduc
tion to local the'ater-gocrs, wrote the
piece with melodies supplied by
T. U Cornell. Apparently the combi
nation has proved an unusual triumph
If flattering press accounts arc any cri
terion. The vehicle was written and
concocted for tho purpose of creating
mirth and let ua add that it has. hit
the mark of public apnrovul. If a
large advance sale proes anyvtnlng,
the offering is sure to make a hit
and be one of the gayeties of the sea
son. As Mr. Whitney says himself:
"I have the best part of my career.
ieii ii i wrote it myself, and my
mends may depend that I will do mv
best to amuse them as I have in the
past. burely this is a most en en
couraging introduction, coming as it
does, from a star of such acknowledg
ed reputation, coming as it does, from
a star of such acknowledged reputa
tlon and efficiency. Tickets at Swep
son's Wednesday morning
Another Cohan and Harris Succes
"Stop Thief."
Carlyle Moore, the author of "Stop
Thief," the play being talked about by
an America, Has. in presenting hij
dramatic surprise, apparently shat
tered all the tradition of tho aiant,
and the public seems to glory in his
work. This. In view nf the fact that
his farce has been written in true
dramatic form into which he has1
woven many terse melodramatic mo
menta of the most thrilling nature," and
iccompllsh' d all of this so skillfully '
that the result is a source of keen
enjoyment.
in "Stop Thief,'' Carlyle Moore has
made his characters m tho lighting
like rapidity of the play's actlour- The
wealth if incident, cuinic, tragic, pa
thetic and melodramatic is scattered
through the three acts with' lavish
prodigality. .
One of the many ehanms of Mr,
Moore's work Is the fact that ho I
always does the illogical thing. That i
is to say. Just as the audience has de- :
cided that a certain course, of action is i
bound to follow, he ingeniously makes '
use of one wholly different and much ;
more effective. And it is all done so ;
quickly and so plausibly that the won- :
der is how il was all brought about.
"Stop Thief" comes here with the
endorsement of New York, they hav
ing accepted it as a play out of the
ordinary and accorded it a run of
nearly one year, it will be revealed
to us by a company of excellence and
the fact that It Is another Cohan and
1-Harris success gives assurance that
tho scenic setting wHl be in keeping
with the thoroughness as to detail.
The engagement of "Stop Thief" bc
gnis at the Auditorium, matinee and
night Saturday, March 7. The night
prices will be from 50 cents to $1.50.
The ticket sales will open on next
Tuesday at Allison's.
Fvcrywonuui."
Hy Mayer, widely known as a car
toonist and illustrator for magazines,
drew the designs from which were
made tho costumes for "Everywo
mao," the dramatic spectacle which
Henry W Savage will ofTer Tiere
shortly. The signature, "Hy Hayer,"
is internationally popular, his work
for Fliegendc Slaetter, Figaro llluetre.
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The Curb-Bit of a Torrent
Down at Panama vc own a jungle. Through it runs an untamed, emo
tional river. Sometimes it loafs along at a depth of feet.
On busy days it shoots down from the hills a million gallons of water
between the ticks of a clock.
Some countrymen of yours have tamed that wild river.
They have slipped a gigantic bridle into its mouth. Men call that bridle
il'Gatun Dam."
Imagine a solid wall higher than a church steeple, as thick at its base as
10 city blocks, a mile and a half long, and sloping so gradually to its crest
that it looks like an eternal hill.
Through that man-made hill runs a spillway for the surplus waters and a
passage-way for the gliding ships, That passage-way they call "Ciatun
Locks.'
Guarding that passage-w.ay stand the main lock gales, shown in this picture. Do
you know that the steel lock gates at Panama weigh 1,200 tons apiece, and yet arc so deli
cately hung that they open and close at the touch of an electric button?
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iy Frederic J. Haskin
Autfcor of "The American Government
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You will find out about the IB canal projects,
the 18 flat failures and the one big success
under "Old Glory."
Yon will learn how we exterminated yellow
fever via the mosquito.
Why it will cost 85,000 to $10,000 to pass an
average ship through the Canal.
How a 375 million dollar- job was finished
ahead of time and without a dollar's worth of
graft.
There is our tremendous story and here is
your opportunity to get the book which teUs
that story, k
Details of our offer to distribute
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at cost price, will be found with
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JL 4. Index by a .Staff Member of the
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Fiva Daily Calls to Pi syer.
At Biinrlse the light sleepers are i
awakened by tho lotis;, mellow cry of
the muezzin from bis tower:
God Is greaU
I testify that thera Is no God but Qoil!
I testify that Mohammed is the prophet
ot God:
Come to prayer!
Come to salvation!
Prayer Is better than s!eep!
God is most great!
There is no God but God!
As one bears five times each day
from tbe minarets of the mosques of
i Cairo this summons to prayer, as one
I bebolds tiie faJthful reverently bowing
their bodies in tnelr shor or In tbe
I public highways, one readily perceives
; that In Cairo be Is near tbo heart of
! tbe Moslem world. These prayers oc-
! eur at sunrise, midday, 3:30 In the aft
. arnoon, at sunset and an hour and a
! half after sunset Tbo faithful must
: attend tbclr prayers with bows uiid
prostrations to show perfect devotion.
Clayton Cooper's . "Tbe Man of
Egypt"
Molaaaea For Shoes.
Shipping Louisiana r. (.''asses Into
New England by the tmgshead and
sending the same hogshead back south
again with shoes were Incidents of the
shoe trade of Avon years ago. it was
back In 1840, when the present town
of Avon was East Stonghton, that two
brothers were In company manufac
turing shoes and as a side line ran a
grocery and general store In a i-pot
where now stands the postofnee build
ing. One of the brothers went south
nd located In New Orleans In the
grocery business, leaving his brother
hero to manufacture shoes and boots,
according to E. Dexter Llttlelleld. Tho
brother who was In tho South would
ship h hogshead of mohtsses to bis
brother !u Avon and as soon as tho
bogsbend was empty it would be clean
all Slav races, and Ibis is noUccnble
throughout, nil the l'olii-li province,
They do more than their full shave of
the family work. SomclinioH one will
spo more women In tho Holds than men.
More Ardent Than the Men !n 8n(1 tawtajw of rotor i-
, thou visible Ulu, green, yellow, sold
Their Love For Their Country.
TOIL AGES PEASANT GIRLS.
Hard and Bough Laboring Work
Makes Them Appear Old and Hag
gard Before They Reach Thirty.
Charma of the Women of the Upper
Claases.
Woman occupies a position of un
usual prominence in Poland. Some
place her as superior to man in nearly
every way. In tho various conspiracies
and in the revolutions against Ilussiu
' Polish women have hail an important
part. Many have given up all their
worldly goods in the cause of their
country, while others, have fought, on
the tield of battle anil lost their lives in
the same cause. Still others have gone
into exile Without a murmur. They
are capable of any sacrifice for patriot
ism, anil they prove yieir sincerity by
i their actions. The woman are still the
most zealous patriots, and it is due to
i thorn more than the other sex that
; patriotic feeling is still so Intense.
Thus writes Nevln O. Winter in his
I "Poland of Today and Yesterday."
The Polish women, he yomiinios,
nave always been noted for their beau
i y and the perfect shape of their bands
! and feet. They take part in all the so
I clal affairs, BQd.H0 festival Is complete
I without their presence. They are ex
tremely good linguists, nnd nearly all
speak two or three languages. In War
, saw I met one young woman of nlne
I teen of twenty summers, Jtul out of
school, who spoke Russian, Herman.
Trench and English almost as fluently
as her native Polish. This is not sn
uncommon accomplishment.
Tbe women do not enjoy the social
ed and would lie tilled with boots for ! t "f American girls, as the
i the southern trade. This practice was
I kept up for years, and in this way a
good trade was built up for Avon loot
wear. Host on (ilobe.
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8avd by Artificial Breathing.
Dr. 8. P. Derioujlnaky. a Russian
' surgeon, reports the case of a peasant
of twenty-one who, following nn ongi-
i na of probably diphtheritic origin, was
stricken with paralysis. After two
'Weeks of total porn lysis some move
ments of tbe arms appeared, but a
few days later respiratory trouble be
gan. Tbe breathing rose to forty to
the minute and became superficial.
I with momentary stops. It was necea
snry to resort to artificial respiration.
i With tbe assistance of pupils in the in-
i flnnerv achool tbls was kept up day
and night from Pcb. S to Feb. 'JO. On
the latter day the patient began breath-
Tag uatnrally. hut difficulty In awallow
lug arose in 'out the same time. On
i Feb. 29 it became necessary to begiu
artificial respiration again. This was
maintained until March I, when nat
ural breathing returned, and in pa
! Ueot recovered.
Phone iOl for our wants.
chaperon Is still a necessity to protect
the good name of a girl. They are
uev. i- left unprotected. Marriages arc
made in much the same manner as in
I ra nee. and the contracting parties
frciiiiently know little nlioul each other
I before they are Joined for better or
worse.
"The will of my honored parents has
; ever lieen a sacred law to me." says
i tbe Polish girl, with resignation. When
a messenger came with a proot,al of I
j marriage If a goose was served with 1
' dark gravy at dinner or a pumpkin
I was put In the carriage irs be was leav j
lug this meant that m liter was msI
tively ref'ised. "lie was tri-.il.sl to a
goose fricassee" was an expression
frequently beard in the elilcu days.
The Polish women of tbe upper class
es are undoubtedly charming and pos
sessed of the races) f true womanli
ness. Perllli' " N the possession nf
tliaoe wotnc'iiy iptslllies nad the ab
sence of r n:..s jline elements
wherein lies their real charm, A p
ell or brush Is certainly a better me
dium that) a pen to portray such at
i racllt a l' pes of womanlm,,,!.
The Hit of the iensaut woman, how
ever, is especially hard, ss It Is with
and silver are mingled in various com
binations. T,he,v pin up the ovcrskirt,
which leaves a bright petticoat exposed
to view .
Woniun is valued chiefly for Hie
work she can do. and she is expecled
to bear' a large family of children as
well. For a man to say that his wife
does more work than a horse or two
horses is considered the acme of
praise, it is no wonder that a girl
naturally attractive soon grows old
and haggard. Hard work, with little
pleasure, the care of a numerous fam
ily and no regard for personal attrac
tion must inevitably leave their mark
before many years; hence it is that
many of these Polish women look hag
gard and old even before they have
passed the third decade of life..
There are. Indeed, few bright spots
in a Polish peasant girl's life after
marriage. In their youth some of the
girls are very attractive, and they
look quite charming In their pictur
esque national costumes that are still
common in (ialicia. They generally
go barefooted In summer, for boots
cost money. Sometimes they will
carry their boots when going to church
and only put. them on just before en
tering the sanctuary.
"Do women work on the railroads as
section bands'.'" I asked n fellow pas
senger on the railway its t ialicia. I
had soon groups of women along the
track with pick and shovel in hand,
but could scare, hclic that they
did the bard work ot ihat occupation.
"Yes, and they do the work Im Iut
than the men." be replied.
At Cracow 1 have seen them carry
Inf mortar for the masons and plaster
ers when new buildings are beitur
erected. They were spading the flow
er bods In the parks and were doing
the work as well as the masculine
ovc.-seor co'ild have done it. They
bang paper or paint a bouse. It did
not make any difference whether there
won- three or n doMO women Sk . lrfar'
I together, there wns always one man
who did nothing but act us overseer.
Along the roads they may be sim
I currying heavy bundles or pushing
1 loaded whisMharrow-c Everywhere)
1 they may be observed doing work that
, involves considerable physical strength.
Holltude can be delightful only
Innocent -I.eawr.ynKkl.
to t'j
PROCRASTINATION.
When the Spartans seized upon
Thebes they placed Archias over
ihe garrison. Pelopidas and eleven
others handed together to put Ar
chias to the sword. A letter con
taining (till details of th- plot was
given lo the Spartan poiemerch at
the banquet table, but Archias
ihruvt ihc letter under his cushion,
laying, "Business tomorrow." But
long ere ihst sua arose he was
numbered with the dead.