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Will Open the Lyceum Course of Bt Airy With Two Effective One-Act Plays Mr. Airy, Md. As the first of the series of enter tainments to be giver during we coming winter as announced in The Evening Post several days ago the committee has arranged to have Mr. Robert Downing give a dramatic re cital on Thursday, October 17, in the audeitorium of the Masonic Temple. Mr. Downing will be assisted £ n a. 4A. company in giving one one [ace plays. The first is“Napoleon’s First Love,” a play which is accurs re ly costumed and provided with appro priate stage setting, and “The Ans ‘wer,” a keen little play which pro duces a laugh every minute. The members of the company are e Mrs. Horace Clark, Sirs. Robert Downing, Mr. Richard P. Ross and Mr. Harry L. Hagan. Prof Weaver and Prof. Brandenburg have charge of the arrangement of the entertainment and it is hoped that sufficient interest , will be manifested in the first attrac tion to encourage the commutee to push the work for a successful enter tainment course. The Mixses Willis Entertains Club, New Market, Md —The card club of New Market were the guests of Misses Elizabeth and Francis Wills last night for the ret meeting of the fall. Mr. Lin Wood won the first men’s prize, and Miss Lois Brown won the first lady's prize. There was an exception ally large attendance, many coming (om Libertytowns, Mr. Airy and [jams iWEle, New London Girt Weds. New London, Md—Miss Annie S. Smith, daughter of Mr. William HL Smith, of New London, and Mr. Home Gwinn, of Martinsburg, W. Va., were mmarried Thursday evening at 9 o'clock for the M. EL parsonage by the Rev. E 4, Lamar. The bridesmaid was Miss Barbara E. Smith, sister of the bride, and Mr. Edward Thomas was the best man. The couple will leave on a trip to Martinsburg. Upon their return tthey will be at the bride’s home. A’ Misfit, A sittseeing visitor recently went aboard 2 uamp steamer in San Fran cisco charter, 5 the Argonaut. Not ing that the deck hards were Chinese, she approached one of them and said: “You no speak English? The China man looked bored and answered noth ing. The woman continued: “Me go Your country soon. Me learn speak Chinese, teach litte Chinese boy and girl You savvy, “missionary?” The Chinaman looked at her a minute and answered: “Madam, if you are not more successful in mastering our lan guase than you appear to have been oh your own, I fear that your at tempt to enlighten our race will prove anything but satisfactory. Good after noon.” The Chinaman sought the other side of the ship and the woman fought oblivion. She had been ad dressing 2 Yale graduate who was working his passage back to China. Poverty in New York. Only twin families In every one hundred of the 1,573 which have been in the care of the Association for Im proving the Condition of the Poor this summer, were brought to pov erty through intemperance. The re port for 1909 showed that intemper ance, imprisonment, desertion, “shift lessness and inefficiency,” all told, ac counted for not 12 per cent. of those brought to want. Sixty-five per cent. was due to sickness and unemploy ment. This summer the two causes account for 68 per cent, of the pov erty, and 43 per cent, or nearly half, wee due to sickness—New York World.
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Frederick Evening Post
Frederick, Maryland, US
Sat, Oct 05, 1912
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