j PAGE jf THE P1NEHURST OUTLOOK Jf H S fjoiiielrsrgLiliDD Published Every Saturday Morning, During the Season, November to May, at Plnehurst, Moore County, North Carolina. (Founded by JAmes W. Tufts) Herbert JL. JllUon, ... Editor Tbe Outlook Publishing-Co., - Pnb'i One Dollar Annually, Five Cents a Copy. Foreign Subscriptions Twenty -Ave Cents Additional. The Editor is always glad to consider contri butions of descriptive articles, short stories, narratives and verse. Good photographs are especially desired. Editorial Rooms over the General Store. In telephoning ask Central for Mr. Jillson's ollice. Advertising rate folder and circulation state ment on request. Make all remittances payable to The Outlook Publishing Company. Entered as second class matter at the Office at Pinehurst, North Carolina. Post Saturday, February O, I'JO?. The Funniest Valentines by the fun. nlest People. There was a young fellew named Allen Tyne Who proposed to the lovely Miss Ballantyne; When the lady said "Yes," He said "Well I guess! Miss Ballantyne's Allen Tyne's Valentine!" Carolyn Wells. "I'll send her a present," said he, "On the 14th of Februaree!" And but, no; it is best To leave out the rest, For that valentine came C. O. D.! Walter Pulitzer. A Scotchman whose name was Isbister Had a maiden giraffe he called "Sister"; When she said "Oh, be mine, Be my sweet Valentine!" He just shinned up her long neck and kissed her. Ellis Parker Butler. "Dear Lady, I cannot," he said, "Make valentines out of my head, 1 So I've licked and stamped good On my rival, who could; He's mail, and I send him, though dead!" Jiurges Johnson. Oh, you would I fondly purloin, That our hands and our hearts we might join; Oh, maiden of grace, Whose most beautiful face Smiles so tender and sweet on the coin. It. K. Munkittrick. Said a Celt to his colleen so fine, "Begorry, I'm your Valentine." But she said, "You're a liar "You're Dvwer McGuire, "D'ye think, me dear sir, that I'm blln'?" Charles Jiattell Loomis. There once was a lovable Saint, Who answered each amorous plaint; And I thought, till today, When your smile came my way, The old fellow was dead but he ain't! Gelett Burgess. A hip-po-po-la-mus named Amos Was loved by a chorus girl famous; All the other girls sighed As they looked on. and cried, "Please tame us a hip-po-po-fa-mus." Tom Masson. JL Defeated Project. De lazy man, he say he bet His comfort he is gwine to guard. An' den, nex' t'hing he lan's in debt An' hab to work mos' scan'lous hard. THE WORLD OF BOOKS a IN m 8 yMONG the elaborate of MtlfaWJy tne mw DOoks is "Fa" ihous Actor Families of America1' (T. Y. Crowell Co.) Mr. Montrose J. Moses has traced the family trees of the Booths, the Jeffersous, the Sotherns, the Boucicaults, the Ilack etts, the Drews and the Barrymores, the Wallucks, the Davenports, the Hollands, and the Powers, and in so doing he has given us what is almost a biographical dictionary of the stage in the nineteenth century. It is a icurious fact that actors like to marry in their own calling, and that their children like to "carry on the business at the old stand,'' a fact which has no parallel in biographical history of any other art. Is it because histrionic talent is more likely to be directly trans mitted from sire to son than pictorial or poetic talent? Is it because acting seems to be easier than the other arts, although it is at least as difficult? Is it because the stage door stands invitingly open to those whose parents are in the habit of passing through it? In dealing with the Booths as a family Mr. Moses had been anticipated by Mrs. Clarke in the slight volume she prepared for Laurence Hutton's "American Actor Series," as he had been preceded in deal ing with the Jefiersons by Mr. Winter. But he has the field to himself when he sets before us the Sothern family, the Boucicaults, and the Wallacks. The elder Sothern put forth "Birds of a Feather,' and his life has been outlined by a British biographer. Lester VVallack talked his "Memories" to Laurence Hutton, who put them into printable form, but no one before Mr. Moses had undertaken to deal with the two histrionic families as they deserved. The material is abundant, and for the most part it has here been judi ciously used. The perspective of praise is not always preserved, and the reader might' infer that the living had often proved themselves equal to the dead ; but the book is welcome, and it will be useful. In addition to the genealogical tables it contains a variety of portraits. And there s also a valuable bibliography, likely to be of service to every student of the American stage. The list of Dion Bouci- cault's magazine articles suggests that it would be worth while to collect these into a little book by themselves, filling out the autobiographic sketch. The list of Boucicault's plays is incomplete and confused, and in the account of his career there is no proper distinction between his numberless adaptations from the French, mere pot-boilers, most of them, and the more or less original plays in which he was himself and not the ghost of some foreigner. These moie or less original plays fall into two groups, each of which would reward investigation. The first contains "London Assurance," "Old Heads and Young Hearts," and his other attempts to keep alive the methods of old comedy. The second consists of his Irish plays, of which "Arrah-na-Pogue" is per haps the best, and into which he put the best of himself. A. llachelor's Cupboard. "A Bachelor's Cupboard," containing "crumbs culled from the cupboards from the great unwedded," by A. Lyman Phil lips, (John V. Luce & Co.), will be a welcome visitor in the homes of those un fortunates who are suffering the pangs of single blessedness. The author at the outset paints a picture of the life of the bachelor, which is most beautiful in its coloring and faultless in its drawing, but it is to be feared that it is only an at tempt to cover up the death's head under neath. But for those who willingly or unwillingly are condemned to such a life, the little book offers suggestions for making their lot tolerable, which are not to be despised. The volume appeals to no one class of bachelors, for the dishes he is taught to concoct are of all kinds and suited to all depths of purse. The fifteen dollar a week bachelor is told how to make a really attractive cupboard from a tall shoebox and to furnish it with the neces sities suited for his position in life, while for the wealthy bachelor whose home is not a hall bedroom but a studio, the other necessities and luxuries are fully cata logued. When it comes to recipes, we go from Boston baked beans to deviled duck, and from the plain Swiss cheese sandwich to fromage a la florian Robert. Evidently the bachelor is not eligible for the white ribbon, for three chapters are devoted to a dissertation on drinks ; what to pay for wines and how to choose them, and cor rect wines for all occasions, from the christening up to the wedding, and back again to the wake. Wbite Fang-. No one can read Jack London's stories of the Wild without feeling intense in terest in his animal heroes, and White Fang (The Macmillan Company), with illustrations by Charles Livingstone Bull, is no exception. While those who have read "The Call of The Wild" may feel that they have faced about and are fol lowing the dog hero of that weird tale back to civilization, there can be no doubt of the pleasure with which that path is followed. The wild wolf nature of White Fang, in whom the strain of the domesticated dog seems almost lost, is first cowed by the severest treatment, by which he learns submission to the Gods above him, in which character he views man. The story of how he is driven by brutality to develop the wildest traits of his wolf na ture and finally becomes the worshipful slave of a love master, is told as only London can tell it. The illustrator has caught the true spirit of the story, and his pictures bring us into closest sympathy with the grim reality of life in the frozen north. Terrible Fxaiunle. Knicker Is he a victim of alcohol ? Bocker Yes, his wife has the chafing dish habit. 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