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+Project Gutenberg's Dr. Hardhack's Prescription, by Katharine McDowell Rice
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+Title: Dr. Hardhack's Prescription
+       A Play for Children in Four Acts
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+_Dr. Hardhack's Prescription_
+
+_A Play for Children
+in Four Acts ..._
+
+BY
+
+_K. McDOWELL RICE_
+
+
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+                                            KATHARINE McDOWELL RICE,
+                                      AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER OF PLAYS,
+                                                  WORTHINGTON, MASS.
+
+
+_BY KATHARINE MCDOWELL RICE, WORTHINGTON, MASS._
+
+DR. HARDHACK'S PRESCRIPTION
+
+A PLAY FOR CHILDREN IN FOUR SHORT ACTS
+
+A Dramatization of the story, "Little Pussy Willow," by Harriet Beecher
+Stowe
+
+    GRANDMA PROUDIE
+    MAMMA PROUDIE
+    EMILY PROUDIE
+    AUNT FLIGHTY
+    AUNT HIGHTY-TIGHTY
+    PUSSY WILLOW
+    MARY, the maid
+    DR. HARDHACK
+
+PERMISSION TO ACT MUST BE OBTAINED OF THE AUTHOR
+
+
+     "A delightful little play, 'Dr. Hardhack's Prescription,' was given
+     by the Junior Endeavor Society at Lyceum Hall, Worthington, Tuesday
+     afternoon and evening. The audience was composed largely of
+     children at the matinee, who were highly entertained, but no more
+     so than the grown-ups in the evening. Dr. Hardhack was played by a
+     lad of ten, who did an excellent piece of work. The other parts
+     were all finely acted by children not much older. The play was
+     directed by the author and made an entertainment long to be
+     remembered and one too that netted a nice little sum for the
+     Juniors' work."--_Hampshire Gazette._
+
+     "One of the most charming little plays for children I ever have
+     seen."--_Mrs. G. J. Thomas, Chattanooga, Tenn._
+
+     "We used 'Dr. Hardhack's Prescription' for the Nature Study number
+     in our annual program. It was given by the youngest pupils and was
+     a delight to our audience. The play is complete in itself and
+     perfectly charming, nevertheless I ventured to add an epilog.
+     Knowing the story of 'Little Pussy Willow,' I adapted the gifts of
+     the fairies ending with: 'Good night, dearie.' We wish to thank the
+     author for all her helpful suggestions and for such a sweet
+     play."--_Caroline Reed Thompson, Head of Department of Expression,
+     Arizona School of Music, Phenix, Ariz._
+
+     "A dear little play and we greatly enjoyed working it up. Our
+     audience was very enthusiastic and we are being urged to
+     repeat."--_Miss A. H. Young, Wilton, N. H._
+
+     "We gave 'Dr. Hardhack's Prescription' as a Thanksgiving
+     entertainment by our younger pupils, and everyone was charmed with
+     it."--_Emma Willard School, Troy, N. Y._
+
+=Price 25 cents=
+
+
+ALL ENDORSEMENTS UNSOLICITED    ALL USED BY PERMISSION
+
+
+
+
+DR. HARDHACK'S PRESCRIPTION
+
+
+A Play for Children
+
+IN FOUR ACTS
+
+
+BY
+K. McDOWELL RICE
+
+Author of "Mrs. Tubbs's Telegram," "Good King Wenceslas,"
+"Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day," etc., etc.
+
+
+PUBLISHED BY
+K. McDOWELL RICE
+Worthington, Mass.
+
+
+Copyright 1908
+by
+K. McDowell Rice
+ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+
+Price 25 cents
+Order of K. McDowell Rice
+Worthington, Mass.
+
+Printed by Gazette Printing Co.
+Northampton, Mass.
+
+
+
+
+In bringing out the play, DR. HARDHACK'S PRESCRIPTION, the author wishes
+to acknowledge the kindness of Houghton, Mifflin Company of Boston,
+which allows her to publish it. This Company holds the copyright of
+"Little Pussy Willow" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, on which the play is
+founded. The author of the play has taken much of the conversation
+verbatim from the book, as will be seen by reference to "Little Pussy
+Willow," which charming story it is hoped may become better known to the
+public of to-day through this dramatization. The publishers Houghton,
+Mifflin Co., will send the book to any address by mail post-paid for
+$1.25.
+
+
+
+
+DRAMATIS PERSONAE
+
+
+    GRANDMA PROUDIE.
+    MAMMA PROUDIE.
+    EMILY PROUDIE.
+    AUNT FLIGHTY.
+    AUNT HIGHTY-TIGHTY.
+    PUSSY WILLOW.
+    MARY, the maid.
+    DR. HARDHACK.
+
+
+This is a Royalty Play and terms must be made with the author for its
+use.
+
+Permission to act or make any use of this play must be obtained of K.
+McDowell Rice, Worthington, Massachusetts.
+
+
+
+
+DR. HARDHACK'S PRESCRIPTION.
+
+
+_DR. HARDHACK makes a professional visit to the _Proudie_ mansion, New
+York City. In the sitting-room are gathered GRANDMA PROUDIE (L), MAMMA
+PROUDIE (C), AUNT FLIGHTY (R)._
+
+MAMMA PROUDIE. I greatly fear our dear Emily will never be restored to
+health.
+
+AUNT FLIGHTY. Oh, don't say that. I've known people to look terribly
+white and a great deal thinner than Emily, and not die of it.
+
+GRANDMA PROUDIE. [_To MAMMA P._] I thought you were going to send for
+Dr. Hardhack.
+
+MAMMA P. I have sent for him. [_Sighs, rises and comes forward, taking
+chair_] [_R_] But what can he do? Someway it doesn't seem as if he could
+help. He's such a small man.
+
+GRANDMA P. Size doesn't matter if one has brains. It's brains that
+count, my dear. Napoleon was small, but he will live forever. And look
+at Alexander Pope. [_Waves hand_]
+
+AUNT F. [_Runs to window_] What! Where is he? Whom did you say to look
+at?
+
+GRANDMA P. [_Witheringly_] Alexander Pope, who has been dead one hundred
+and fifty years.
+
+AUNT F. [_Simpering_] Oh, I thought you said to look at somebody going
+by.
+
+GRANDMA P. I said "Look at Alexander Pope," by which I meant "Consider
+Alexander Pope"--a small man, not ever growing to be much larger than a
+child. But what a poet! Brains, my dear, brains. In my day it was brains
+that decided a person's value. Sometimes I think they have gone out of
+fashion.
+
+MAMMA P. But they will come in again, mother. All the old fashions come
+round in about so many years, they say.
+
+GRANDMA P. [_Who has returned to her knitting_] Perhaps the time has
+come then for brains, for every one speaks so highly of Dr. Hardhack.
+
+_Enter MAID_
+
+MARY. Dr. Hardhack, madam.
+
+MAMMA P. You may bring him in, Mary. [_Maid turns to go, but finds DR.
+HARDHACK at her heels_]
+
+MAMMA and GRANDMA P. [_Gasp_] Oh, Dr. Hardhack!
+
+AUNT F. Oh, oh! We did not know you really had come!
+
+DR. HARDHACK. Good morning, ladies. Couldn't stop to be formally
+announced. [_Puts his hat absently in AUNT F's sewing-basket. Basket
+falls and all the things go tumbling out. DR. H. does not notice_]
+
+AUNT F. [_Simpers_] Oh, oh! [_MAID comes forward and assists AUNT F. in
+picking up things_]
+
+DR. H. [_Looks about circle_] Which is my patient, please?
+
+MAMMA P. It is my daughter Emily. I will send for her. [_To MAID_] Mary,
+will you ask Miss Emily to come? [_Exit MAID_] Oh, Dr. Hardhack, before
+she comes I must say a word to you. [_DR. H. takes chair_] We would be
+willing to found a water-cure, to hire a doctor on purpose, to try
+homeopathy or hydropathy or allopathy or any other pathy that ever was
+heard of if our dear elegant Emily could only be restored. It is her
+sensitive nature that wears upon her. She was never made for this world.
+She has an exquisiteness of perception that makes her feel even the
+creases in a rose leaf.
+
+DR. H. Stuff and folderol, my dear madam! [_ALL start. AUNT F. gasps and
+simpers_]
+
+MAMMA P. You are the nineteenth physician that has been called in to
+dear Emily.
+
+DR. H. Well, I hope that I may cut out number twenty! [_Enter EMILY very
+pale and listless_] Oh, here comes the young lady herself. [_Bows to
+EMILY, which greeting E. very languidly returns_] Humph! Let me look at
+her. [_Puts up his glasses and looks through them_] [_E. stands
+supporting herself by table as though very weak_] Humph! A fashionable
+potato sprout! Grown in a cellar! Not a drop of red blood in her veins!
+
+GRANDMA P. [_Aside to MAMMA P._] What odd ways he has, to be sure. But
+then they say that's the way he talks to everybody.
+
+DR. H. My dear madam, you have tried to make a girl out of sugar and
+almond paste, and now you are distressed that she has not red blood in
+her veins and that her lungs gasp and flutter as she goes up-stairs.
+Turn her out to grass, my dear madam, turn her out to grass!
+
+AUNT F. [_With hands over ears_] Oh, oh!
+
+DR. H. Yes, I mean what I say. Send her to old Mother Nature to nurse.
+
+MAMMA P. [_Exultantly_] I have said all along, Doctor, that I thought we
+ought to have a trained nurse for Emily.
+
+DR. H. Trained fiddlesticks! [_ALL start_] Send her somewhere to a good
+honest farmhouse in the hills, and let her run barefoot in the morning
+dew, drink new milk from the cow--
+
+MAMMA P. [_Interrupts_] Oh, Doctor, not new milk! Not unsterilized milk!
+[_AUNT F. holds up hands in horror_]
+
+DR. H. I mean what I say, madam. Let her drink new milk from the cow,
+romp in a good wide barn, learn to hunt hens' eggs, a few things like
+this, and I warrant me you'll see another pair of cheeks in a year. Take
+off all whalebones and strings around her lungs. Give her a chance,
+madam, give her a chance!
+
+MAMMA P. But what medicine shall she take, Doctor?
+
+DR. H. [_Roars his disapproval_] Medicine? No medicine. Medicine won't
+do her any good. You may make an apothecary's shop of her stomach--
+
+AUNT F. Oh, oh!
+
+DR. H. [_Turns toward AUNT F._] Yes, _stomach_,--make an apothecary's
+shop of her stomach, and matters will be only the worse. Why, there
+isn't enough iron in her blood to make a needle. [_Points to needle in
+AUNT F'S hand_]
+
+AUNT F. [_Simpers_] Oh, oh!
+
+MAMMA P. Iron in her blood! I never heard the like!
+
+DR. H. Yes, iron, red particles, globules or whatever you please to call
+them. Her blood is all water and lymph, and that is the reason that her
+cheeks and lips look so like a cambric handkerchief, why she pants and
+puffs if she goes up-stairs. [_Motions to E. to come forward, puts head
+to examine heart_] Her heart is all right if there were only blood to
+work it in, but it sucks and wheezes like a dry pump for want of vital
+fluid. [_Emphatically_] She must have more blood, madam, and Nature must
+make it for her.
+
+GRANDMA P. We were thinking of going to Newport, Doctor.
+
+DR. H. [_Derisively_] Yes, to Newport! To a ball every night and a
+flurry of dressing and flirtation every morning! No such thing! Send her
+to an unfashionable old farmhouse where there was never a more exciting
+party than a quilting frolic heard of. Let her learn the difference
+between huckleberries and blackberries, learn where checkerberries grow
+thickest and dig up sweet flag root with her own hands as country
+children do. It would do her good to plant a few hills of potatoes--
+
+AUNT F. _Our_ Emily! Potatoes! Oh, dreadful, dreadful!
+
+DR. H. Yes, potatoes. Plant a few hills of potatoes and hoe them herself
+as I once heard of a royal princess doing, because [_With emphasis_]
+_queens_ can afford to be sensible in the bringing up of _their_
+daughters!
+
+MAMMA P. What you say is all very new, Dr. Hardhack. Indeed, we had
+never thought of such a thing as sending Emily into the _real_ country.
+But I will talk it over with Mr. Proudie, and see what he thinks of it.
+
+DR. H. Well, ladies, I must be going. Good-morning to you all. [_Takes
+up hat and medicine case and makes exit in haste_]
+
+MAMMA P. What strange ways he has!
+
+AUNT F. But then you know he's all the fashion.
+
+MAMMA P. People talk of his being small. I never once thought of it.
+
+GRANDMA P. Brains, my dear, brains, or in other words;--good common
+sense.
+
+
+CURTAIN.
+
+
+
+
+ACT II.
+
+_DR. HARDHACK ready to give his last directions. MAMMA PROUDIE, AUNT
+FLIGHTY, AUNT HIGHTY-TIGHTY, EMILY and DR. HARDHACK are all seated; E.
+reclining languidly in easy chair._
+
+
+MAMMA P. Well, Doctor, we have decided to let Emily go and stay in the
+country as you have directed. I have arranged everything and found a
+pleasant place for her with a companion of her own age who is called
+Pussy Willow.
+
+DR. H. H'm. Pussy Willow. Well, that begins to sound right. Wouldn't
+have found any girl named Pussy Willow at Newport, I'll warrant you.
+
+AUNT HIGHTY-TIGHTY. Do, pray, dear Dr. Hardhack, tell us just how she
+must be dressed for that cold mountain region.
+
+AUNT F. It makes me shiver to think of it.
+
+AUNT H.-T. Must she have high-necked, long-sleeved flannels?
+
+AUNT F. I will go right down and buy her half-a-dozen at once. [_Starts
+to go, but is waved back by DR. H., and resumes seat_]
+
+DR. H. Not so fast. Let's see about this young lady. [_Endeavors to
+introduce his forefinger under the belt of E'S dress. Belt snaps. DR. H.
+draws out his finger with a jerk_] I thought so. I supposed that there
+wasn't much breathing allowed behind there.
+
+MAMMA P. Oh, I do assure you, Doctor, Emily never dresses tightly.
+
+EMILY. No, indeed! I despise tight lacing. I never wear my clothes any
+more than just comfortable.
+
+DR. H. Never saw a woman that did! The courage and constancy of the
+female sex in bearing inconveniences is so great, however, that that
+will be no test at all. Give me that thing. [_Motions for E.'S belt_]
+[_E. hands him same_] You wouldn't catch a man saying he felt
+comfortable under such circumstances. [_Holds up the tiny circle_] But
+only persuade a girl that she looks stylish and pretty with her waist
+drawn in, and you may lace her up till the very life leaves her, and
+with her dying breath she will tell you she is nothing more than
+"comfortable". So, my young lady, you don't catch me in that way! You
+must leave off belts and tight waists of all sorts for six months at
+least, and wear only loose sacques so that your lungs may have some
+chance to play and fill with the vital air that I am going to send you
+to breathe up in the hills.
+
+E. But, Doctor, I don't believe I could hold myself up. [_Droops as
+without any strength_] When I sit up in a loose dress I feel so weak I
+hardly know what to do. I need the support of something stiff around me.
+
+DR. H. That is because all those nice, strong muscles around your waist
+[_Slapping his sides and holding himself very erect with his hands on
+his ribs_] which Nature gave you to hold you up, have been bound down
+and bandaged and flattened [_Emphasizes the words by each time striking
+his right fist in palm of left hand_] until they have no strength in
+them.
+
+E. Do you suppose, Doctor, if I should dress as you tell me for six
+months, that I would get my health again?
+
+DR. H. It would go a long way towards it. You fashionable girls are not
+good for much, to be sure, but if a doctor gets a chance to save one of
+you in the way of business, he can't help wishing to do it. So I just
+give you your choice.
+
+E. Of course I would like to be well, and in the country up there nobody
+will see me, so it's no matter how I look.
+
+MAMMA P. [_Comes forward and puts arm about E._] To be sure it's no
+matter. [_Kisses her_] Only get your health, my dear, and then we'll
+see.
+
+
+CURTAIN.
+
+
+
+
+ACT III.
+
+_MAMMA PROUDIE, fearing EMILY is exerting herself too much up in the
+country, calls in DR. HARDHACK to have him send her some word of
+caution. In room are GRANDMA P. [Knitting] MAMMA P., AUNT FLIGHTY and
+DR. H._
+
+
+MAMMA P. I wish you would caution Emily, Doctor. I'm sure she's
+over-exerting herself, for she has sent home seven pats of butter of her
+own churning!
+
+DR. H. Never fear, my dear madam. It's only that there is more iron
+getting into her blood, that's all. Let her alone, or tell her to do it
+more yet!
+
+MAMMA P. But, Doctor, may not the thing be carried too far?
+
+DR. H. For gentility, you mean? Don't you remember Marie Antoinette made
+butter and King Louis was a miller at Marly?
+
+AUNT F. But just read the Doctor from Emily's last letter.
+
+MAMMA P. Yes, just hear what she has written, Doctor. [_Finds letter and
+reads_] "You have no idea how different life looks to me now that I live
+a little for somebody besides myself. Why have I been so foolish as to
+suppose I was happy in living such a lazy, useless life as I have
+lived?" [_Looks at DR. H. as she folds letter and shakes head_]
+
+DR. H. Iron in her blood, my dear madam, iron in her blood! [_Pounds
+table_] She'll come home a strong, bouncing girl.
+
+AUNT F. Oh, shocking!
+
+DR. H. [_Turns to AUNT F._] Yes, _bouncing_! Why shouldn't she bounce? I
+shall give you back a live niece in the fall instead of a half dead one,
+and you [_Turns to MAMMA P._] a live daughter, madam, and I expect you
+will all scream and stop your ears and run under beds because you never
+saw a live girl before.
+
+MAMMA P. But, Doctor, I can't see as we shall ever get her home again. I
+keep writing and writing, and still she says she isn't ready. There is
+always something ahead.
+
+DR. H. Let her alone, madam, let her alone. Give Nature a good chance.
+You will all undo all the good she's getting as soon as you get her
+home. I insist upon it [_Pounds table_] that she shall keep away from
+you all as long as she likes.
+
+_Exit DR. HARDHACK._
+
+MAMMA P. [_To GRANDMA P._] Did you ever see such a queer old dear as Dr.
+Hardhack? He does say the oddest things! Isn't he _so_ original?
+
+GRANDMA P. I haven't heard such good sense talked by any doctor in a
+long time.
+
+AUNT F. And then you know, he's all the fashion now.
+
+
+CURTAIN.
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV.
+
+_Six months later than when EMILY went away. She has returned home,
+bringing her friend, PUSSY WILLOW. In the room are gathered GRANDMA P.,
+MAMMA P., the two aunts, also EMILY and PUSSY and DR. HARDHACK._
+
+
+MAMMA P. Well, now, Dr. Hardhack, doesn't our Emily look beautiful?
+
+AUNT F. So healthy!
+
+AUNT H.-T. Such a splendid color!
+
+DR. H. Pretty fair, pretty fair. A good summer's work, that. [_Looks at
+E. much pleased_]
+
+AUNT F. And now, Doctor, we want you to tell us just what she may do,
+just how much.
+
+AUNT H.-T. Of course you know now she's got into a city, she can't dress
+exactly as she did up in the country.
+
+DR. H. I see, I see.
+
+AUNT F. There isn't a thing of all her clothes she can wear. Having been
+all summer in those loose sacques, she's sort o' _spread out_. [_Motions
+with her hands_]
+
+DR. H. Well, my advice is that you begin gradually screwing her up. Get
+something with plenty of whalebones ready and a good tough lacer. But
+don't begin too hard, just tighten a little every day, and by and by she
+will get back to where her clothes will fit her exactly.
+
+AUNT F. [_Clapping her hands_] That's just what I said we would have to
+do.
+
+MAMMA P. But, Doctor, won't that injure her health?
+
+DR. H. Of course it will, but I fancy she will stand it for one winter.
+It won't quite kill her, and that is all we doctors want.
+
+EMILY. [_Comes forward_] Well, I have something to say on this point. I
+wouldn't lose my health again for anything that can be named.
+
+DR. H. Oh, pooh, pooh! [_Waves his hand incredulously at E._] When
+patients are first up from a sickness, how prudent they mean to be!
+
+AUNT H.-T. But seriously, Doctor, you must tell us how much it will be
+well to have Emily do.
+
+AUNT F. One doesn't want to give up the world entirely, and yet one
+doesn't want to lose one's health.
+
+DR. H. I appreciate the case fully. [_Walks up and down considering_]
+Let her begin with the opera twice a week and one dance kept up till
+daylight. In a week she will feel stronger than ever she did and declare
+nothing hurts her, then she can take two dances, then three, and so on.
+
+EMILY. But, Doctor, I'm not going to dances at all. I know now what life
+is, and what health is worth, and I'm not going to waste it in that way.
+
+DR. H. Oh, it's all very well to talk! I knew a rich girl once right in
+this city of New York who _would_ go round visiting the poor and sitting
+up with sick people, and there was no end to the remarks made about her.
+No, you mustn't breathe bad air, nor over-exert yourself unless you do
+so from a purely selfish motive. Then, it's all right and proper. [_To
+PUSSY_] Oh, you needn't sit over there, looking mischievous, miss! What
+do you know of life? You will soon learn to be ashamed of your rosy
+cheeks, and think it's pretty to have bad health. I'll bet a copper
+[_Slaps his knee_] that by spring, if we manage right, we can send you
+back as white and withered as Miss Emily was.
+
+E. Now, Dr. Hardhack, you dreadful man! You must stop this talk. I
+brought Pussy down here on purpose to help me live better than I have
+lived. It's so interesting now in New York that Pussy is here with me. I
+never knew what wonderful things there were here. Pussy taught me to
+know the birds this summer at her home, and now we have been this
+morning to see a most wonderful collection at the museum.
+
+MAMMA P. [_Anxiously_] Is it wise, Doctor, for them to go and look at
+those stuffed birds? To be sure the birds are under glass, but I'm so
+afraid they will breathe poison.
+
+DR. H. Not nearly as much as they would breathe if they went to a
+crowded theatre, madam.
+
+E. It makes me shudder to think of all the hours I've spent at the
+theatre. As I think of it now, the rooms were so hot and overcrowded I
+wonder I ever lived through it. Since I've been away, I have learned to
+love everything that is connected with out-door life. Pussy has taught
+me. So now we have arranged that Pussy shall spend the winter with me.
+She is to take singing and music lessons and have all the advantages of
+the city, and I shall go to her for the summer. Of course, we shall take
+a peep or two at New York sights, but we are not going into the gay
+world, Doctor, really, we're not!
+
+DR. H. Ta, ta, ta! Don't tell me. [_Shakes finger warningly_] I shall
+hear of you yet. You'll see!
+
+_Exit DR. H._
+
+PUSSY. What a droll man he is! But I think he's just as nice as he can
+be. I hope he will come again while I'm here. I like to hear him talk.
+
+AUNT F. It's his way to always run on in this strange style about
+everything.
+
+AUNT H.-T. For my part, I never half know what he means.
+
+E. It is plain what he means. You must do exactly contrary to what he
+tells you, as I shall. So, Auntie, don't trouble yourself to alter my
+things unless it be to let them out, for I'm going to keep all the
+breathing room I've got whether I have what's called "a pretty waist" or
+not. I'd rather have color in my cheeks and a cheerful heart than the
+smallest waist that was ever squeezed together.
+
+AUNT H.-T. Such a pity, one couldn't have both.
+
+AUNT F. Your cousin Jane was in here last week with her new Bismarck
+silk, and it fits her so beautifully! Somebody said she looked as if
+she'd been melted and poured into it. There wasn't a crease or wrinkle.
+It did look lovely!
+
+E. Well, Auntie dear, I must try some other way of looking lovely. May
+be, if I'm cheerful and happy and always in good spirits and have a
+fresh, bright face as Pussy always has, [_Puts her arm affectionately
+about P._] it may make up for my not looking as if I had been melted and
+poured into my clothes.
+
+GRANDMA P. [_Delightedly as she comes forward and joins others who are
+now all standing_] This is just the way I thought things would turn out
+if we followed Dr. Hardhack's Prescription.
+
+
+CURTAIN.
+
+
+
+
+_BY KATHARINE MCDOWELL RICE, WORTHINGTON, MASS._
+
+CHARLEY'S COUNTRY COUSIN
+
+A COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS
+
+    MRS. CHARLES COURTNEY CARLETON
+    MISS MARGARET MOFFAT
+    BRIDGET
+    MR. CHARLES COURTNEY CARLETON
+
+Time--The present. Place--Home of Mr. and Mrs. Carleton.
+
+Cast may be enlarged by having the "At Home" take place on the stage.
+This gives opportunity for individual talent in musical and other lines.
+
+PERMISSION TO ACT MUST BE OBTAINED OF THE AUTHOR
+
+
+     "One of the most interesting occurrences of the season at
+     Worthington, Mass., was the initial presentation last week of
+     'Charley's Country Cousin,' the author's latest comedy. The play
+     was enthusiastically received. There were some charming scenes
+     between 'Charley' and his 'Country Cousin,' especially that over
+     the telephone, and some very natural and spicy dialogue between Mr.
+     and Mrs. Carleton over the arrangements for an afternoon 'At Home.'
+     Bridget's various surprises and deductions kept the audience
+     constantly laughing whenever she appeared."--_Hampshire Gazette._
+
+     "'Charley's Country Cousin' was a great success here and we did not
+     consider it at all hard to give. We had two persons for Topsy and
+     counterpart and each did a monologue in the place where she was
+     supposed to be rehearsing. Topsy also did a colored song very well.
+     All who heard the play said it was the best we had had of the short
+     ones and remarkably well suited to any entertainment given under
+     the auspices of the church."--_Miss Elisabeth G. Day, Colchester,
+     Conn._
+
+     "The Geneva Club of the Y. W. C. A. gave 'Charley's Country Cousin'
+     with great success. The play proved very entertaining indeed, and
+     the Club was most pleased with the result."--_Miss Daisy D. Brown,
+     Detroit, Mich._
+
+     "We gave the play 'Charley's Country Cousin' as a D. A. R.
+     entertainment. Many thought it one of the best that had ever been
+     given in the town."--_Miss Clara Davis, Framingham, Mass._
+
+     "It is with genuine pleasure and satisfaction that I enclose the
+     royalty and report our great success with 'Charley's Country
+     Cousin,' given at our High School Midwinter Reunion. It was most
+     enthusiastically received. I was increasingly impressed with its
+     dignity and charm, sparkling humor and cleverly wrought out
+     situations. Nothing but the highest praise was accorded it."--_Anna
+     L. Smith, Bellevue, Ohio._
+
+=Recommended by Drama League of America, Chicago, in two of its annual
+bulletins. By Ladies' Home Journal in articles entitled, "Entertainments
+for Teachers," and "Best Plays for Amateurs."=
+
+Price 25 cents
+
+
+ALL ENDORSEMENTS UNSOLICITED    ALL USED BY PERMISSION
+
+
+
+
+CHARLEY'S COUNTRY COUSIN
+
+A COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+    MRS. CHARLES COURTNEY CARLETON
+    MISS MARGARET MOFFAT
+    BRIDGET
+    MR. CHARLES COURTNEY CARLETON
+
+Time--The present. Place--Home of Mr. and Mrs. Carleton.
+
+
+     "One of the most interesting occurrences of the season at
+     Worthington, Mass., was the initial presentation last week of
+     'Charley's Country Cousin,' the author's latest comedy. The play
+     was enthusiastically received. There were some charming scenes
+     between 'Charley' and his 'Country Cousin,' especially that over
+     the telephone, and some very natural and spicy dialogue between Mr.
+     and Mrs. Carleton over the arrangements for an afternoon 'At Home.'
+     Bridget's various deductions and surprises kept the audience
+     constantly laughing whenever she appeared."--_Hampshire Gazette._
+
+     "Miss Rice has in the comedy, 'Charley's Country Cousin,' added
+     another to her list of delightful plays. The author is not only
+     very well known in this city socially, but also as a writer of
+     clever and original comedies, her 'Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day,' which
+     was presented several times last season, meeting with the greatest
+     favor. This latest play met a most appreciative audience at every
+     production. There were enthusiastic calls for the author both
+     evenings."--_Albany Argus._
+
+     "'Charley's Country Cousin' was a great success here and we did not
+     consider it at all hard to give. We had two persons for Topsy and
+     counterpart and each did a monologue in the place where she was
+     supposed to be rehearsing. Topsy also did a colored song very well.
+     All who heard the play said it was the best we had had of the short
+     ones and remarkably well suited to any entertainment given under
+     the auspices of the church."--_Miss Elisabeth G. Day, Colchester,
+     Conn._
+
+     "In view of other amateur plays which I have seen, there is not
+     anything that so perfectly meets the need as your plays. In the
+     matter of adaptibility to amateur talent, in action, in humor (at
+     once emphatic and fresh and clean) and in simple natural literary
+     style your writings cannot be excelled."--_Rev. W. H. Garth, St.
+     Michael's Rectory, Naugatuck, Conn._
+
+Price 25 cents.
+
+
+
+
+GOOD KING WENCESLAS
+
+A CHRISTMAS PLAY FOR CHILDREN IN TWO ACTS
+
+
+This play was written to meet a request of church workers for a
+Christmas entertainment of dramatic character to be given within one
+hour and with no change of scene. The author, therefore, has arranged
+Act I to be read aloud to an audience with no acting, which reading
+shall be followed by the rise of curtain and the presentation of the two
+scenes of Act II. The dramatic parts for the play, as thus arranged, are
+those only that are found in Act II, and are given below. All may be
+readily taken by children.
+
+    DAME GOODY (Hedwig)
+    GRETCHEN
+    VIOLET   }
+    ALFRED   }    Children of Mrs. Collingwood
+    BERNICE  }
+    KENNETH  }
+
+    PAULINE  }
+    LOUISE   }
+    ESTHER   }
+    OLIVE    }
+    DOROTHY  }    Friends of the Collingwood children
+    LAURENCE }
+    RALPH    }
+    DAVID    }
+
+Other children may be added, if desired, or the above number lessened.
+(See notes.)
+
+
+     "We had a most successful Christmas entertainment. The applause was
+     so loud we feared the children would forget to finish their
+     parts."--_Miss Alice F. Danforth, Springfield, Mass._
+
+     "A great success for a Christmas entertainment, there is so much
+     life and color in it, so much song and emotion. It is well and
+     carefully done with both the proportion of moderation and the charm
+     of deep sentiment."--_David S. Muzzey, Ph.D., Yonkers, N. Y._
+
+     "It is difficult to find words to express my admiration for the
+     play 'Good King Wenceslas.' I believe it will be far-reaching in
+     its influence."--_Miss N. H. Cottrell, Albany, N. Y._
+
+     "It is splendid."--_Rev. Wm. H. Garth, St. Michael's Rectory,
+     Naugatuck, Conn._
+
+Price 25 cents.
+
+
+GOOD KING WENCESLAS
+
+(See foregoing page.)
+
+
+This play may be given more elaborately by the representing on the stage
+of Act I. This arrangement will call for the addition of the following
+characters:
+
+    HELEN ARMSTRONG, a girl of 15, afterward Mrs. Collingwood
+    FOUR SCHOOL GIRLS
+    EDWIN, a footman
+    MAN, a thief
+    WOMAN, a thief
+    BOY
+    TRAIN ANNOUNCER
+    GATEMAN, who inspects tickets
+
+Other R. R. officials, passengers, etc., etc.
+
+Scene laid at New York R. R. Station
+
+
+     "Simple and picturesque, bright and pathetic in turn."--_Rt. Rev.
+     Alexander H. Vinton, D. D., Bishop, Springfield, Mass._
+
+     "It breathes the Christmas spirit and has a true dramatic interest
+     that holds one to the end."--_Miss Eleanor Meneely, Albany, N. Y._
+
+     "I have greatly enjoyed 'Good King Wenceslas.' The introduction of
+     the carols is a beautiful feature of the play. Your work along
+     these lines is a work that has long been needed."--_Rev. Fredk. J.
+     Sawers, Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal, Canada._
+
+     "The play is splendid and the first act is great. I hope we can
+     give 'Good King Wenceslas,' for your plays are so 'playable,' it is
+     a joy to work over them."--_Miss Marion H. Sterns, Instructor in
+     Elocution and Physical Culture, Staten Island Academy, Staten
+     Island, N. Y._
+
+Price 25 cents.
+
+
+
+
+MRS. TUBBS'S TELEGRAM
+
+A COMEDY IN ONE ACT
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+    MRS. TUBBS
+    ROWENA               }
+    AMELIA               }
+    TOMMY                }  Children of Mrs. Tubbs
+    TEDDY                }
+      and                }
+    OTHER LITTLE TUBBS   }
+    MRS. RAVEN      }
+    MRS. DONNELL    }      Neighbors of Mrs. Tubbs
+    MISS SIMPKINS   }
+      and others    }
+      As few or many neighbors as desired
+    TELEGRAPH MESSENGER
+
+Place--Kitchen of Mrs. Tubbs at Cinder Corner. If given as an out-door
+play, action takes place on Mrs. Tubbs's back piazza.
+
+Time in representation 45 minutes to 1 hour.
+
+Given by all ages with equal success as following endorsements will
+show. The parts of "Teddy" and "Tommy" may be taken by girls dressed as
+boys or names may be changed to those of girls.
+
+
+     "A little comedy designed to supply a real demand--that of a
+     wholesome, amusing play to be used in school or home
+     theatricals."--_The Outlook._
+
+     "We heartily commend the capital little play, 'Mrs. Tubbs's
+     Telegram,' as a very natural and amusing comedietta, which is quite
+     within the acting capacities of every-day boys and
+     girls."--_Editorial Notes St. Nicholas._
+
+     "Our club presented your very clever little play, 'Mrs. Tubbs's
+     Telegram,' last evening before an audience of 400 persons who were
+     most enthusiastic."--_Mrs. Richard Farmer Wood, Concord, Mass._
+
+     "The best chapter play ever given at Vassar to my knowledge."--_An
+     Instructor for many years at the college. Quoted by Mabel H.
+     Baldwin, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y._
+
+     "The play was just what we wanted and proved the greatest kind of a
+     success."--_Charlotte W. Passmore, Morris House, Smith College,
+     Northampton, Mass._
+
+     "The little chapel was filled and 'Mrs. Tubbs' was greatly enjoyed.
+     It was a genuine satisfaction to give such a pure, clean little
+     play with life and fun from beginning to end."--_Miss Georgiana
+     Clinton, South Norwalk, Conn._
+
+     "Everyone spoke of it as a very bright little play and just the
+     thing for a church. We got along nicely without a curtain."--_Mrs.
+     F. S. Field, Shattuckville, Mass._
+
+     "We gave the comedy to a very large audience in the town hall, who
+     received it with the wildest enthusiasm."--_Principal High School,
+     Windsor, Conn._
+
+     "Given five times for five different charities by Y. W. C. A. of
+     Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Our last audience was larger and if possible
+     even more enthusiastic than our first."--_Miss Emma Mott, General
+     Secretary Y. W. C. A._
+
+     "A crowded house and everyone highly entertained. It is just the
+     thing for home entertainments where children are to take
+     part."--_Miss Lillian Fischer, Fulton, Missouri._
+
+     "Just the right sort of play for boys and girls to give."--_Mrs. F.
+     W. Davis, Cumberland, Maine._
+
+Price, 25 cents.
+
+
+
+
+MRS. BAGG'S BARGAIN DAY
+
+A COMEDY IN TWO ACTS
+
+
+Dramatis Personae
+
+    MRS. BAGG
+    MADELAINE BAGG
+    BENNY BAGG
+    YOUNGER BAGGS
+    MRS. TAGG
+    MRS. RAGG
+    MRS. FAGG
+    MRS. LAGG
+    MRS. PETTIT
+    MRS. SHORT
+    MRS. GRAND
+    MR. BAGG
+    MR. TALKHARD
+
+Cash boys, clerks, shoppers, maid, workmen, etc., etc.
+
+Act. I.--Interior of a department store.
+
+Act II.--Mrs. Bagg's home.
+
+Time in representation 1 to 1-1/2 hours, as preferred.
+
+
+     "The charming little comedy 'Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day,' was given
+     most successfully last night before the Fortnightly Club of this
+     place, and all were in hearty appreciation of its delightful merit.
+     The play was in the hands of gifted amateurs, so the humor and
+     pertinence of the text were in no way impaired."--_Eleanor Havens
+     Grant, Jamestown, N. Y._
+
+     "Given by Unity Dramatic Club, Springfield, Mass. The chapel was
+     packed full of people and so many turned away that the performance
+     will be again presented. A remarkably bright little
+     play."--_Springfield Republican._
+
+     Given by Alumnæ of Albany Academy for Girls, benefit of Endowment
+     Fund, $250 realized. Later repeated by same amateurs for various
+     charities, seven performances in all being given. "A tremendous
+     success from start to finish. Large and enthusiastic audiences at
+     every representation."--_Albany Argus._
+
+     "I am delighted with 'Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day' and know it will
+     meet with success wherever presented."--_Miss Adele Ripont,
+     Instructor in Elocution and Physical Culture, Central High School,
+     Buffalo, N. Y._
+
+     "'Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day' was by far the greatest hit of anything
+     ever tried here. We found the parts very easy to take."--_Miss
+     Edith Irwin, President Y. W. C. A., Iberia Academy, Iberia,
+     Missouri._
+
+     "The young people are carried away with 'Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day,'
+     and want to commence work right away."--_Miss Lois B. Warner,
+     Salisbury, Conn._
+
+     "Given by the young people of St. Paul's Church, Poughkeepsie, N.
+     Y. Not a dull line in it."--_Rev. Francis Whitcome, Rector._
+
+     "We presented 'Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day' last Friday night at the
+     schoolhouse to a very appreciative audience. We were so well
+     pleased that we shall probably want to give another of your plays
+     in the autumn."--_Harry McCulloch, Class President, Freeport High
+     School, Freeport, Ill._
+
+     "The play succeeded excellently. We received considerable applause
+     and what we most wanted, lots of laughter."--_Kennebunk Festival
+     Chorus, Kennebunk, Maine._
+
+Price 25 cents.
+
+
+
+
+GOOD AS GOLD
+
+(Second Edition with Notes)
+
+A COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS
+
+The title, "Their Rich Relative," may be substituted if preferred.
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+    MRS. ROGERS
+    MARIE      }
+    HESTER     }
+    DOROTHY    }                  daughters of Mrs. Rogers
+    THEODORA   }
+    MRS. LAURA VOSE                  sister of Mrs. Rogers
+    MISS LUCINDA PHELPS      distant cousin of Mrs. Rogers
+    ROSA                                          the maid
+    JANET      }
+    ISABEL     }                       little school girls
+    BAGGAGE-MAN
+    MUSICIANS
+
+As many male characters as desired may be introduced in Act II as
+travelers, newsboys, ticket agent, boot black, etc., etc. (See notes).
+
+Play may be given by female characters only if preferred. A stewardess
+may be substituted for the baggage-man or baggage-man eliminated. (See
+notes).
+
+Time--The present. Place--New England village.
+
+Time in representation, longer form 2 hours; shorter form 1-1/2 hours.
+
+Given with equal success by girls' schools and women's clubs.
+
+
+     "Original and clever with interest sustained to the very
+     end."--_Rt. Rev. Wm. Croswell Doane, D. D., LL. D., Bishop, Albany,
+     N. Y._
+
+     "The best play I have yet seen for girls."--_Miss Tebbetts,
+     Principal of St. Margaret's School, San Mateo, California._
+
+     "Every one pronounced it one of the prettiest plays ever
+     seen."--_Miss Josephine M. Taft, Greenville, N. H._
+
+     "Thank you for a play which is so bright and charming and so full
+     of good wholesome fun."--_Miss Susan E. Borthwick, Portsmouth, N.
+     H._
+
+     "Enclosed find our program of 'Gentlemen's Night,' which passed off
+     very pleasantly. All evidently appreciated the comical situations
+     in 'Good as Gold,' and the ladies certainly made the most of them.
+     The gentlemen seemed greatly to enjoy the play, and we were all
+     agreed that it was a bright, clean comedy, very suitable for
+     occasions like ours."--_Amherst Woman's Club, Amherst, Mass._
+
+     "We presented the play, 'Good as Gold,' at our summer residence
+     before an audience of a hundred and fifty people. The tickets were
+     sold at seventy-five cents apiece and the proceeds given to a local
+     charity. The parts were taken by ten girls from twelve to fourteen
+     years of age and they did themselves, as well as those who had
+     instructed them, great credit. Many pronounced it the best piece of
+     amateur acting they ever had seen. The play, itself, was highly
+     commended by all as being extremely refined, free from all foolish
+     ideas, bright and interesting from beginning to end."--_Mrs. Eugene
+     N. Foss, Cohasset, Mass._
+
+Price 25 cents.
+
+
+
+
+A SUCCESSFUL STRATAGEM
+
+A COMEDY IN ONE ACT
+
+
+Dramatis Personæ
+
+    COLONEL WENTWORTH       Retired army officer
+    COLONEL ASHMORE         In active service
+    CAROLINE WENTWORTH      An only daughter, aged 18
+    NORA                    A maid
+
+Time 1 hour
+
+
+     "A charming, brilliant little comedy."--_Charles Eliot Norton._
+
+     "Bright and entertaining, compact and manageable, lending itself to
+     the conditions of almost any home in our land."--_Mrs. L. F.
+     Selfridge, Foot's Cray, Kent, London, England._
+
+     "If you happen to need a little play that may be easily acted by
+     amateurs in a home evening, send to K. McDowell Rice, Worthington,
+     Mass., and procure her list of original plays. They are clever and
+     droll, and the stage properties and setting come within the means
+     of a little company of high school girls, or of a charitable
+     association or guild. They have not one objectionable feature and
+     have many good ones."--_Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster, in Sunshine
+     Bulletin._
+
+     "I have seen your booklet containing the comedy, 'A Successful
+     Stratagem,' which I find wonderfully clever, and as I am thinking
+     of giving a little dramatic entertainment in my home for the
+     Woman's Club, I think this play will be most entertaining."--_Mrs.
+     Myron Dickson, Martinsville, Indiana._
+
+     "The choicest comedy in your collection."--_Miss Isadelle C. Couch,
+     Instructor of Vocal Training, Mt. Holyoke College, Mass._
+
+     "Any Sunshiner seeking a clean, bright play for college, school or
+     home theatricals, will not do better than to try 'Good as Gold' and
+     'A Successful Stratagem.'"--_Mary D. Beattie in Sunshine Bulletin._
+
+     "I need always some bit of humor in my programs, and it is
+     difficult to find pure light humor that is not plebeian. Your plays
+     are most excellent in this very particular, that they are entirely
+     above coarseness."--_Miss M. M. Davis, Instructor in Expression and
+     Oratory, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan._
+
+     "Your plays are most attractive. The best thing of the kind I have
+     seen. You have my permission, most heartily granted, to use my
+     endorsement, as it is such a pleasure to find plays that are fresh,
+     interesting and 'playable,' after looking over quantities of the
+     silly, inane trash that is published to-day."--_E. B. Merrill,
+     Walla Walla, Washington._
+
+     "I regard your comedies as admirably adapted to school and church
+     entertainments and hope to use another at some future date."--_Rev.
+     C. F. Porter, Corinth, N. Y._
+
+     "I am delighted with 'A Successful Stratagem,' and with all your
+     plays."--_Mrs. Salome Cutler Fairchild, Vice-Director Library
+     School, Albany, N. Y._
+
+     "A Successful Stratagem" has been given by Smith College students
+     at Morris House and Belmont House, Northampton, Mass.; also by the
+     pupils of Miss Liggett's Home and Day School, Detroit, Mich., and
+     by many others.
+
+Price 25 cents.
+
+
+
+
+UNCLE JOE'S JEWEL
+
+A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS
+
+COMEDY GIVEN AT WORTHINGTON.
+
+Initial Performance of Miss Rice's "Uncle Joe's Jewel" a Success.
+
+
+The initial performance of a three-act comedy at Worthington, "Uncle
+Joe's Jewel," the latest play of Miss Katharine McDowell Rice, took
+place Friday. The parts were all excellently taken as follows:
+
+    Molly Armstrong                   Mrs. O. B. Ireland
+    Grace Horton                      The author
+    Nora, the janitor's daughter      Miss Rachel Ely
+    Mr. Winthrop ("Uncle Joe")        W. G. Rice, Jr.
+    Jack Wetherbee                    Raymond Buck
+    Karl Pfeffer                      Donald Stevens
+    Postman                           Raymond Laird
+
+    Stage Manager--Miss Susan Rice.
+
+The audience was a most appreciative one, the play being received with
+constant laughter and applause. Among those from out of town who came
+especially for the play were Mr. and Mrs. Goddard of New York, Mrs. and
+Miss Gardner and Mr. Henry Carter of Albany, Mr. and Mrs. Mellor of
+Philadelphia, Mrs. William Bryant of Montclair, N. J., Mrs. Lyman James
+of Williamsburg, Mrs. Harry Williams and Mrs. H. R. Hinckley of
+Northampton, Mrs. and Miss Merritt and Mr. Merritt of Brooklyn, Mrs.
+Gillette of Hudson, Prof. Wellington of Amherst, and Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs
+of Huntington. Word was received from Senator and Mrs. Crane that they
+had hoped to be present, but were unavoidably detained. There were also
+large parties from Middlefield, South Worthington, Littleville and
+Chesterfield. Between Acts I and II some charming novelties from Paris
+were sold by Mrs. W. G. Rice for benefit of new scenery and curtains,
+about $25 being realized. Between Acts II and III Mrs. Rice delighted
+the audience with some French songs, accompanied by Miss Julia Rogers of
+Springfield. After the play the audience went largely out of doors to
+enjoy the charming afternoon. Here Miss Rice received many
+congratulations on the success of the play; $35 was received at the
+door, to which was added $17 from friends present, making a total of $52
+for the library.
+
+The play was repeated in the evening for the benefit of the woman's
+benevolent society and parish work; $36 was taken at the door, to which
+was added the money received from sale of candy and refreshments, making
+a total of about $60 for this benefit.--_Springfield Republican._
+
+
+
+
+_BY KATHARINE MCDOWELL RICE, WORTHINGTON, MASS._
+
+UNCLE JOE'S JEWEL
+
+A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS
+
+
+    MOLLY ARMSTRONG
+    GRACE HORTON
+    NORA, the janitor's daughter
+    MR. WINTHROP ("Uncle Joe")
+    JACK WETHERBEE
+    KARL PFEFFER
+    POSTMAN
+
+Place: Apartment of Misses Horton and Armstrong
+
+PERMISSION TO ACT MUST BE OBTAINED OF THE AUTHOR
+
+
+     "I am delighted to express my appreciation of 'Uncle Joe's Jewel,'
+     given by our Woman's Guild of St. Peter's Church. It is a very
+     bright, clever little comedy."--_Mrs. H. A. Field, Springfield,
+     Mass._
+
+     "We and our audience greatly enjoyed your charming 'Uncle Joe's
+     Jewel.' Every one was most enthusiastic. I think you will be
+     interested to know that I never had so little trouble in drilling
+     girls for a play, which was to me psychological evidence that it
+     was so true to girl nature that they did it all naturally and
+     spontaneously. Our play was such a success that at request we
+     repeated it before the Mothers' Club of Christ Church, who were
+     highly entertained, appreciating all the points to the full. Give
+     us more plays as clever and wholesome as 'Uncle Joe's
+     Jewel.'"--_Clara L. Bostwick, Miss Porter's School, "The Elms,"
+     Springfield, Mass._
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+DR. HARDHACK'S PRESCRIPTION
+
+A PLAY FOR CHILDREN
+IN
+FOUR SHORT ACTS
+
+
+DRAMATIS PERSONAE
+
+    GRANDMA PROUDIE
+    MAMMA PROUDIE
+    EMILY PROUDIE
+    AUNT FLIGHTY
+    AUNT HIGHTY-TIGHTY
+    PUSSY WILLOW
+    MARY, the maid
+    DR. HARDHACK
+
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+NEW WAX WORKS
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+Title: Dr. Hardhack's Prescription
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+<h1><i>Dr. Hardhack's Prescription</i></h1>
+
+<h3><i>A Play for Children<br />
+in Four Acts ...</i></h3>
+
+<h2><small>BY</small><br />
+<br />
+<i>K. McDOWELL RICE</i></h2>
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+<p class="sans smcap u"><b>By KATHARINE McDOWELL RICE, WORTHINGTON, MASS.</b></p>
+
+<h2>DR. HARDHACK&#8217;S PRESCRIPTION</h2>
+
+<h3>A PLAY FOR CHILDREN</h3>
+
+<p class="center">IN FOUR SHORT ACTS</p>
+
+<p class="center">A Dramatization of the story, "Little Pussy Willow,"<br />
+by Harriet Beecher Stowe</p>
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+
+<table class="personae" summary="Dramatis Personae of Dr. Hardhack's Prescription">
+  <tr>
+    <td>GRANDMA PROUDIE</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>MAMMA PROUDIE</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>EMILY PROUDIE</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>AUNT FLIGHTY</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>AUNT HIGHTY-TIGHTY</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>PUSSY WILLOW</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>MARY, the maid</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>DR. HARDHACK</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="sans center">PERMISSION TO ACT MUST BE OBTAINED OF THE AUTHOR</p>
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>"A delightful little play, 'Dr. Hardhack's Prescription,' was given by the
+Junior Endeavor Society at Lyceum Hall, Worthington, Tuesday afternoon
+and evening. The audience was composed largely of children at the matinee,
+who were highly entertained, but no more so than the grown-ups in the
+evening. Dr. Hardhack was played by a lad of ten, who did an excellent
+piece of work. The other parts were all finely acted by children not much
+older. The play was directed by the author and made an entertainment
+long to be remembered and one too that netted a nice little sum for the Juniors'
+work."&mdash;<i>Hampshire Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<p>"One of the most charming little plays for children I ever have
+seen."&mdash;<i>Mrs. G. J. Thomas, Chattanooga, Tenn.</i></p>
+
+<p>"We used 'Dr. Hardhack's Prescription' for the Nature Study number in
+our annual program. It was given by the youngest pupils and was a delight
+to our audience. The play is complete in itself and perfectly charming, nevertheless
+I ventured to add an epilog. Knowing the story of 'Little Pussy
+Willow,' I adapted the gifts of the fairies ending with: 'Good night, dearie.'
+We wish to thank the author for all her helpful suggestions and for such a
+sweet play."&mdash;<i>Caroline Reed Thompson, Head of Department of Expression,
+Arizona School of Music, Phenix, Ariz.</i></p>
+
+<p>"A dear little play and we greatly enjoyed working it up. Our audience
+was very enthusiastic and we are being urged to repeat."&mdash;<i>Miss A. H. Young, Wilton, N. H.</i></p>
+
+<p>"We gave 'Dr. Hardhack's Prescription' as a Thanksgiving entertainment
+by our younger pupils, and everyone was charmed with it."&mdash;<i>Emma Willard School, Troy, N. Y.</i></p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="center"><b>Price 25 cents</b></p>
+
+<p class="inset bt smaller">ALL ENDORSEMENTS UNSOLICITED
+<span class="float-r">ALL USED BY PERMISSION</span></p>
+
+<hr class="wide" />
+<h2>DR. HARDHACK&#8217;S PRESCRIPTION</h2>
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<h4>A Play for Children<br />
+<br />
+IN FOUR ACTS<br />
+<br />
+BY<br />
+K. McDOWELL RICE</h4>
+
+<p class="center">Author of "Mrs. Tubbs's Telegram," "Good King Wenceslas,"<br />
+"Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day," etc., etc.</p>
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<p class="center"><small>PUBLISHED BY</small><br />
+K. McDOWELL RICE<br />
+Worthington, Mass.</p>
+
+<p class="center smaller">Copyright 1908<br />
+by<br />
+K. McDowell Rice<br />
+ALL RIGHTS RESERVED</p>
+
+<p class="center">Price 25 cents<br />
+Order of K. McDowell Rice<br />
+Worthington, Mass.<br />
+<br />
+Printed by Gazette Printing Co.<br />
+Northampton, Mass.</p>
+
+<p>In bringing out the play, <span class="smcap">Dr. Hardhack's Prescription</span>, the
+author wishes to acknowledge the kindness of Houghton, Mifflin
+Company of Boston, which allows her to publish it. This Company
+holds the copyright of "Little Pussy Willow" by Harriet
+Beecher Stowe, on which the play is founded. The author of
+the play has taken much of the conversation verbatim from the
+book, as will be seen by reference to "Little Pussy Willow,"
+which charming story it is hoped may become better known to
+the public of to-day through this dramatization. The publishers
+Houghton, Mifflin Co., will send the book to any address by mail
+post-paid for $1.25.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="wide" />
+<h3>DRAMATIS PERSONAE</h3>
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<table class="personae" summary="Dramatis Personae of Dr. Hardhack's Prescription">
+  <tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Grandma Proudie.</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Mamma Proudie.</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Emily Proudie.</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Aunt Flighty.</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Aunt Highty-tighty.</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Pussy Willow.</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Mary</span>, the maid.</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Dr. Hardhack.</span></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<p class="center">This is a Royalty Play and terms must be made with the
+author for its use.</p>
+
+<hr class="wide" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span>
+Permission to act or make any use of this play must be
+obtained of K. McDowell Rice, Worthington, Massachusetts.</p>
+
+<h2>DR. HARDHACK&#8217;S PRESCRIPTION.</h2>
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+
+<p><i><span class="smcap">Dr. Hardhack</span> makes a professional visit to the </i>Proudie<i> mansion,
+New York City. In the sitting-room are gathered <span class="smcap">Grandma
+Proudie</span> (L), <span class="smcap">Mamma Proudie</span> (C), <span class="smcap">Aunt Flighty</span> (R).</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma Proudie.</span> I greatly fear our dear Emily will never be
+restored to health.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt Flighty.</span> Oh, don't say that. I've known people to
+look terribly white and a great deal thinner than Emily, and not
+die of it.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Grandma Proudie.</span> [<i>To <span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span></i>] I thought you were
+going to send for Dr. Hardhack.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> I have sent for him. [<i>Sighs, rises and comes forward,
+taking chair</i>] [<i>R</i>] But what can he do? Someway it
+doesn't seem as if he could help. He's such a small man.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">GRANDMA P.</span> Size doesn't matter if one has brains. It's
+brains that count, my dear. Napoleon was small, but he will
+live forever. And look at Alexander Pope. [<i>Waves hand</i>]</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> [<i>Runs to window</i>] What! Where is he? Whom
+did you say to look at?</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Grandma P.</span> [<i>Witheringly</i>] Alexander Pope, who has been
+dead one hundred and fifty years.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> [<i>Simpering</i>] Oh, I thought you said to look at
+somebody going by.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Grandma P.</span> I said "Look at Alexander Pope," by which I
+meant "Consider Alexander Pope"&mdash;a small man, not ever
+growing to be much larger than a child. But what a poet!
+Brains, my dear, brains. In my day it was brains that decided a
+person's value. Sometimes I think they have gone out of fashion.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> But they will come in again, mother. All the old
+fashions come round in about so many years, they say.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span>
+<span class="smcap">Grandma P.</span> [<i>Who has returned to her knitting</i>] Perhaps
+the time has come then for brains, for every one speaks so highly
+of Dr. Hardhack.</p>
+
+<p><i>Enter <span class="smcap">Maid</span></i></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mary.</span> Dr. Hardhack, madam.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> You may bring him in, Mary. [<i>Maid turns to go,
+but finds <span class="smcap">Dr. Hardhack</span> at her heels</i>]</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma</span> and <span class="smcap">Grandma P.</span> [<i>Gasp</i>] Oh, Dr. Hardhack!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> Oh, oh! We did not know you really had come!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. Hardhack.</span> Good morning, ladies. Couldn't stop to be
+formally announced. [<i>Puts his hat absently in <span class="smcap">Aunt F</span>'s sewing-basket.
+Basket falls and all the things go tumbling out. <span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span>
+does not notice</i>]</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> [<i>Simpers</i>] Oh, oh!
+[<i><span class="smcap">Maid</span> comes forward and assists
+<span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> in picking up things</i>]</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> [<i>Looks about circle</i>] Which is my patient, please?</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> It is my daughter Emily. I will send for her.
+[<i>To <span class="smcap">Maid</span></i>] Mary, will you ask Miss Emily to come? [<i>Exit
+<span class="smcap">Maid</span></i>] Oh, Dr. Hardhack, before she comes I must say a word
+to you. [<i><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> takes chair</i>] We would be willing to found a
+water-cure, to hire a doctor on purpose, to try homeopathy or
+hydropathy or allopathy or any other pathy that ever was heard
+of if our dear elegant Emily could only be restored. It is her
+sensitive nature that wears upon her. She was never made for
+this world. She has an exquisiteness of perception that makes
+her feel even the creases in a rose leaf.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> Stuff and folderol, my dear madam! [<i><span class="smcap">All</span> start.
+<span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> gasps and simpers</i>]</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> You are the nineteenth physician that has been
+called in to dear Emily.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> Well, I hope that I may cut out number twenty!
+[<i>Enter <span class="smcap">Emily</span> very pale and listless</i>] Oh, here comes the young
+lady herself. [<i>Bows to <span class="smcap">Emily</span>, which greeting <span class="smcap">E.</span> very languidly
+returns</i>] Humph! Let me look at her. [<i>Puts up his glasses
+and looks through them</i>] [<i><span class="smcap">E.</span> stands supporting herself by table
+as though very weak</i>] Humph! A fashionable potato sprout!
+Grown in a cellar! Not a drop of red blood in her veins!</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span>
+<span class="smcap">Grandma P.</span> [<i>Aside to <span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span></i>]
+What odd ways he has,
+to be sure. But then they say that's the way he talks to everybody.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> My dear madam, you have tried to make a girl out
+of sugar and almond paste, and now you are distressed that she
+has not red blood in her veins and that her lungs gasp and flutter
+as she goes up-stairs. Turn her out to grass, my dear madam,
+turn her out to grass!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> [<i>With hands over ears</i>] Oh, oh!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> Yes, I mean what I say. Send her to old Mother
+Nature to nurse.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> [<i>Exultantly</i>] I have said all along, Doctor, that I
+thought we ought to have a trained nurse for Emily.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> Trained fiddlesticks! [<i><span class="smcap">All</span> start</i>]
+Send her somewhere
+to a good honest farmhouse in the hills, and let her run
+barefoot in the morning dew, drink new milk from the cow&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> [<i>Interrupts</i>] Oh, Doctor, not new milk! Not
+unsterilized milk! [<i><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> holds up hands in horror</i>]</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> I mean what I say, madam. Let her drink new
+milk from the cow, romp in a good wide barn, learn to hunt
+hens' eggs, a few things like this, and I warrant me you'll see
+another pair of cheeks in a year. Take off all whalebones and
+strings around her lungs. Give her a chance, madam, give her
+a chance!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> But what medicine shall she take, Doctor?</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> [<i>Roars his disapproval</i>] Medicine? No medicine.
+Medicine won't do her any good. You may make an apothecary's
+shop of her stomach&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> Oh, oh!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> [<i>Turns toward <span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span></i>]
+Yes, <i>stomach</i>,&mdash;make an
+apothecary's shop of her stomach, and matters will be only the
+worse. Why, there isn't enough iron in her blood to make a
+needle. [<i>Points to needle in <span class="smcap">Aunt F's</span> hand</i>]</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> [<i>Simpers</i>] Oh, oh!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> Iron in her blood! I never heard the like!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> Yes, iron, red particles, globules or whatever you
+please to call them. Her blood is all water and lymph, and that
+is the reason that her cheeks and lips look so like a cambric
+handkerchief, why she pants and puffs if she goes up-stairs.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span>
+[<i>Motions to <span class="smcap">E.</span> to come forward, puts head to examine heart</i>]
+Her heart is all right if there were only blood to work it in, but
+it sucks and wheezes like a dry pump for want of vital fluid.
+[<i>Emphatically</i>] She must have more blood, madam, and Nature
+must make it for her.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Grandma P.</span> We were thinking of going to Newport, Doctor.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> [<i>Derisively</i>] Yes, to Newport! To a ball every
+night and a flurry of dressing and flirtation every morning!
+No such thing! Send her to an unfashionable old farmhouse
+where there was never a more exciting party than a quilting
+frolic heard of. Let her learn the difference between huckleberries
+and blackberries, learn where checkerberries grow thickest
+and dig up sweet flag root with her own hands as country
+children do. It would do her good to plant a few hills of
+potatoes&mdash;</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> <i>Our</i> Emily! Potatoes! Oh, dreadful, dreadful!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> Yes, potatoes. Plant a few hills of potatoes and hoe
+them herself as I once heard of a royal princess doing, because
+[<i>With emphasis</i>] <i>queens</i> can afford to be sensible in the bringing
+up of <i>their</i> daughters!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> What you say is all very new, Dr. Hardhack.
+Indeed, we had never thought of such a thing as sending Emily
+into the <i>real</i> country. But I will talk it over with Mr. Proudie,
+and see what he thinks of it.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> Well, ladies, I must be going. Good-morning to you
+all. [<i>Takes up hat and medicine case and makes exit in haste</i>]</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> What strange ways he has!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> But then you know he's all the fashion.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> People talk of his being small. I never once
+thought of it.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Grandma P.</span> Brains, my dear, brains, or in other words;&mdash;good
+common sense.</p>
+
+<p class="center">CURTAIN.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p>
+<h2>ACT II.</h2>
+
+<p><i><span class="smcap">Dr. Hardhack</span> ready to give his last directions. <span class="smcap">Mamma
+Proudie</span>, <span class="smcap">Aunt Flighty</span>, <span class="smcap">Aunt Highty-Tighty</span>, <span class="smcap">Emily</span> and
+<span class="smcap">Dr. Hardhack</span> are all seated; <span class="smcap">E.</span> reclining languidly in easy
+chair.</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> Well, Doctor, we have decided to let Emily go
+and stay in the country as you have directed. I have arranged
+everything and found a pleasant place for her with a companion
+of her own age who is called Pussy Willow.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> H'm. Pussy Willow. Well, that begins to sound
+right. Wouldn't have found any girl named Pussy Willow at
+Newport, I'll warrant you.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt Highty-Tighty.</span> Do, pray, dear Dr. Hardhack, tell us
+just how she must be dressed for that cold mountain region.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> It makes me shiver to think of it.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt H.-T.</span> Must she have high-necked, long-sleeved flannels?</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> I will go right down and buy her half-a-dozen at
+once. [<i>Starts to go, but is waved back by <span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span>, and resumes
+seat</i>]</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> Not so fast. Let's see about this young lady. [<i>Endeavors
+to introduce his forefinger under the belt of <span class="smcap">E's</span> dress.
+Belt snaps. <span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> draws out his finger with a jerk</i>] I thought
+so. I supposed that there wasn't much breathing allowed behind
+there.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> Oh, I do assure you, Doctor, Emily never dresses
+tightly.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Emily.</span> No, indeed! I despise tight lacing. I never wear my
+clothes any more than just comfortable.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> Never saw a woman that did! The courage and constancy
+of the female sex in bearing inconveniences is so great,
+however, that that will be no test at all. Give me that thing.
+[<i>Motions for <span class="smcap">E.'s</span> belt</i>] [<i><span class="smcap">E.</span> hands him same</i>] You wouldn't
+catch a man saying he felt comfortable under such circumstances.
+[<i>Holds up the tiny circle</i>] But only persuade a girl
+that she looks stylish and pretty with her waist drawn in, and
+you may lace her up till the very life leaves her, and with her
+dying breath she will tell you she is nothing more than "comfortable".
+So, my young lady, you don't catch me in that way!
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span>
+You must leave off belts and tight waists of all sorts for six
+months at least, and wear only loose sacques so that your lungs
+may have some chance to play and fill with the vital air that I
+am going to send you to breathe up in the hills.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">E.</span> But, Doctor, I don't believe I could hold myself up. [<i>Droops
+as without any strength</i>] When I sit up in a loose dress I feel so
+weak I hardly know what to do. I need the support of something
+stiff around me.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> That is because all those nice, strong muscles around
+your waist [<i>Slapping his sides and holding himself very erect
+with his hands on his ribs</i>] which Nature gave you to hold you
+up, have been bound down and bandaged and flattened [<i>Emphasizes
+the words by each time striking his right fist in palm of left
+hand</i>] until they have no strength in them.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">E.</span> Do you suppose, Doctor, if I should dress as you tell me
+for six months, that I would get my health again?</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> It would go a long way towards it. You fashionable
+girls are not good for much, to be sure, but if a doctor gets a
+chance to save one of you in the way of business, he can't help
+wishing to do it. So I just give you your choice.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">E.</span> Of course I would like to be well, and in the country up
+there nobody will see me, so it's no matter how I look.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> [<i>Comes forward and puts arm about <span class="smcap">E.</span></i>] To be
+sure it's no matter. [<i>Kisses her</i>] Only get your health, my
+dear, and then we'll see.</p>
+
+<p class="center">CURTAIN.</p>
+
+<h2>ACT III.</h2>
+
+<p><i><span class="smcap">Mamma Proudie</span>, fearing <span class="smcap">Emily</span> is exerting herself too much up
+in the country, calls in <span class="smcap">Dr. Hardhack</span> to have him send her
+some word of caution. In room are <span class="smcap">Grandma P.</span> [Knitting]
+<span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span>, <span class="smcap">Aunt Flighty</span> and <span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span></i></p>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> I wish you would caution Emily, Doctor. I'm
+sure she's over-exerting herself, for she has sent home seven pats
+of butter of her own churning!</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span>
+<span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> Never fear, my dear madam. It's only that there is
+more iron getting into her blood, that's all. Let her alone, or
+tell her to do it more yet!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> But, Doctor, may not the thing be carried too far?</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> For gentility, you mean? Don't you remember Marie
+Antoinette made butter and King Louis was a miller at Marly?</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> But just read the Doctor from Emily's last letter.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> Yes, just hear what she has written, Doctor.
+[<i>Finds letter and reads</i>] "You have no idea how different life
+looks to me now that I live a little for somebody besides myself.
+Why have I been so foolish as to suppose I was happy in living
+such a lazy, useless life as I have lived?" [<i>Looks at <span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> as
+she folds letter and shakes head</i>]</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> Iron in her blood, my dear madam, iron in her
+blood! [<i>Pounds table</i>] She'll come home a strong, bouncing girl.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> Oh, shocking!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> [<i>Turns to <span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span></i>] Yes, <i>bouncing</i>! Why shouldn't
+she bounce? I shall give you back a live niece in the fall instead
+of a half dead one, and you [<i>Turns to <span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span></i>] a live daughter,
+madam, and I expect you will all scream and stop your ears
+and run under beds because you never saw a live girl before.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> But, Doctor, I can't see as we shall ever get her
+home again. I keep writing and writing, and still she says she
+isn't ready. There is always something ahead.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> Let her alone, madam, let her alone. Give Nature a
+good chance. You will all undo all the good she's getting as
+soon as you get her home. I insist upon it [<i>Pounds table</i>] that
+she shall keep away from you all as long as she likes.</p>
+
+<p><i>Exit <span class="smcap">Dr. Hardhack.</span></i></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> [<i>To <span class="smcap">Grandma P.</span></i>] Did you ever see such a queer
+old dear as Dr. Hardhack? He does say the oddest things!
+Isn't he <i>so</i> original?</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Grandma P.</span> I haven't heard such good sense talked by any
+doctor in a long time.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> And then you know, he's all the fashion now.</p>
+
+<p class="center">CURTAIN.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p>
+<h2>ACT IV.</h2>
+
+<p><i>Six months later than when <span class="smcap">Emily</span> went away. She has returned
+home, bringing her friend, <span class="smcap">Pussy Willow</span>. In the room are
+gathered <span class="smcap">Grandma P.</span>, <span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span>, the two aunts, also <span class="smcap">Emily</span>
+and <span class="smcap">Pussy</span> and <span class="smcap">Dr. Hardhack</span>.</i></p>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> Well, now, Dr. Hardhack, doesn't our Emily look
+beautiful?</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> So healthy!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt H.-T.</span> Such a splendid color!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> Pretty fair, pretty fair. A good summer's work, that.
+[<i>Looks at <span class="smcap">E.</span> much pleased</i>]</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> And now, Doctor, we want you to tell us just what
+she may do, just how much.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt H.-T.</span> Of course you know now she's got into a city,
+she can't dress exactly as she did up in the country.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> I see, I see.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> There isn't a thing of all her clothes she can wear.
+Having been all summer in those loose sacques, she's sort o'
+<i>spread out</i>. [<i>Motions with her hands</i>]</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> Well, my advice is that you begin gradually screwing
+her up. Get something with plenty of whalebones ready and a
+good tough lacer. But don't begin too hard, just tighten a little
+every day, and by and by she will get back to where her
+clothes will fit her exactly.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> [<i>Clapping her hands</i>] That's just what I said we
+would have to do.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> But, Doctor, won't that injure her health?</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> Of course it will, but I fancy she will stand it for one
+winter. It won't quite kill her, and that is all we doctors want.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Emily.</span> [<i>Comes forward</i>] Well, I have something to say on
+this point. I wouldn't lose my health again for anything that
+can be named.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> Oh, pooh, pooh! [<i>Waves his hand incredulously at
+<span class="smcap">E.</span></i>] When patients are first up from a sickness, how prudent
+they mean to be!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt H.-T.</span> But seriously, Doctor, you must tell us how
+much it will be well to have Emily do.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span>
+<span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> One doesn't want to give up the world entirely, and
+yet one doesn't want to lose one's health.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> I appreciate the case fully. [<i>Walks up and down
+considering</i>] Let her begin with the opera twice a week and one
+dance kept up till daylight. In a week she will feel stronger
+than ever she did and declare nothing hurts her, then she can
+take two dances, then three, and so on.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Emily.</span> But, Doctor, I'm not going to dances at all. I know
+now what life is, and what health is worth, and I'm not going
+to waste it in that way.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> Oh, it's all very well to talk! I knew a rich girl once
+right in this city of New York who <i>would</i> go round visiting the
+poor and sitting up with sick people, and there was no end to the
+remarks made about her. No, you mustn't breathe bad air, nor
+over-exert yourself unless you do so from a purely selfish motive.
+Then, it's all right and proper. [<i>To <span class="smcap">Pussy</span></i>] Oh, you needn't
+sit over there, looking mischievous, miss! What do you know
+of life? You will soon learn to be ashamed of your rosy cheeks,
+and think it's pretty to have bad health. I'll bet a copper
+[<i>Slaps his knee</i>] that by spring, if we manage right, we can
+send you back as white and withered as Miss Emily was.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">E.</span> Now, Dr. Hardhack, you dreadful man! You must stop
+this talk. I brought Pussy down here on purpose to help me
+live better than I have lived. It's so interesting now in New
+York that Pussy is here with me. I never knew what wonderful
+things there were here. Pussy taught me to know the birds this
+summer at her home, and now we have been this morning to see
+a most wonderful collection at the museum.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mamma P.</span> [<i>Anxiously</i>] Is it wise, Doctor, for them to go
+and look at those stuffed birds? To be sure the birds are under
+glass, but I'm so afraid they will breathe poison.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> Not nearly as much as they would breathe if they
+went to a crowded theatre, madam.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">E.</span> It makes me shudder to think of all the hours I've spent
+at the theatre. As I think of it now, the rooms were so hot and
+overcrowded I wonder I ever lived through it. Since I've been
+away, I have learned to love everything that is connected with
+out-door life. Pussy has taught me. So now we have arranged
+that Pussy shall spend the winter with me. She is to take
+sing<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span>ing
+and music lessons and have all the advantages of the city,
+and I shall go to her for the summer. Of course, we shall take a
+peep or two at New York sights, but we are not going into the
+gay world, Doctor, really, we're not!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span> Ta, ta, ta! Don't tell me. [<i>Shakes finger warningly</i>]
+I shall hear of you yet. You'll see!</p>
+
+<p><i>Exit <span class="smcap">Dr. H.</span></i></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Pussy.</span> What a droll man he is! But I think he's just as nice
+as he can be. I hope he will come again while I'm here. I like
+to hear him talk.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> It's his way to always run on in this strange style
+about everything.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt H.-T.</span> For my part, I never half know what he means.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">E.</span> It is plain what he means. You must do exactly contrary
+to what he tells you, as I shall. So, Auntie, don't trouble yourself
+to alter my things unless it be to let them out, for I'm going
+to keep all the breathing room I've got whether I have what's
+called "a pretty waist" or not. I'd rather have color in my
+cheeks and a cheerful heart than the smallest waist that was
+ever squeezed together.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt H.-T.</span> Such a pity, one couldn't have both.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Aunt F.</span> Your cousin Jane was in here last week with her
+new Bismarck silk, and it fits her so beautifully! Somebody
+said she looked as if she'd been melted and poured into it. There
+wasn't a crease or wrinkle. It did look lovely!</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">E.</span> Well, Auntie dear, I must try some other way of looking
+lovely. May be, if I'm cheerful and happy and always in good
+spirits and have a fresh, bright face as Pussy always has, [<i>Puts
+her arm affectionately about <span class="smcap">P.</span></i>] it may make up for my not
+looking as if I had been melted and poured into my clothes.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Grandma P.</span> [<i>Delightedly as she comes forward and joins
+others who are now all standing</i>] This is just the way I thought
+things would turn out if we followed Dr. Hardhack's Prescription.</p>
+
+<p class="center">CURTAIN.</p>
+
+<hr class="wide" />
+<p class="sans smcap u"><b>By KATHARINE McDOWELL RICE, WORTHINGTON, MASS.</b></p>
+
+<h2>CHARLEY&#8217;S COUNTRY COUSIN</h2>
+
+<h3>A COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS</h3>
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<table class="personae" summary="Dramatis Personae of Charley's Country Cousin">
+  <tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Mrs. Charles Courtney Carleton</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Miss Margaret Moffat</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Bridget</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Mr. Charles Courtney Carleton</span></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="center">Time&mdash;The present. Place&mdash;Home of Mr. and Mrs. Carleton.</p>
+
+<p>Cast may be enlarged by having the "At Home" take place on the stage.
+This gives opportunity for individual talent in musical and other lines.</p>
+
+<p class="sans center">PERMISSION TO ACT MUST BE OBTAINED OF THE AUTHOR</p>
+
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>"One of the most interesting occurrences of the season at Worthington,
+Mass., was the initial presentation last week of 'Charley's Country Cousin,'
+the author's latest comedy. The play was enthusiastically received. There
+were some charming scenes between 'Charley' and his 'Country Cousin,'
+especially that over the telephone, and some very natural and spicy dialogue
+between Mr. and Mrs. Carleton over the arrangements for an afternoon 'At
+Home.' Bridget's various surprises and deductions kept the audience constantly
+laughing whenever she appeared."&mdash;<i>Hampshire Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<p>"'Charley's Country Cousin' was a great success here and we did not
+consider it at all hard to give. We had two persons for Topsy and counterpart
+and each did a monologue in the place where she was supposed to be
+rehearsing. Topsy also did a colored song very well. All who heard the
+play said it was the best we had had of the short ones and remarkably well
+suited to any entertainment given under the auspices of the church."&mdash;<i>Miss
+Elisabeth G. Day, Colchester, Conn.</i></p>
+
+<p>"The Geneva Club of the Y. W. C. A. gave 'Charley's Country Cousin'
+with great success. The play proved very entertaining indeed, and the Club
+was most pleased with the result."&mdash;<i>Miss Daisy D. Brown, Detroit, Mich.</i></p>
+
+<p>"We gave the play 'Charley's Country Cousin' as a D. A. R. entertainment.
+Many thought it one of the best that had ever been given in the
+town."&mdash;<i>Miss Clara Davis, Framingham, Mass.</i></p>
+
+<p>"It is with genuine pleasure and satisfaction that I enclose the royalty and
+report our great success with 'Charley's Country Cousin,' given at our High
+School Midwinter Reunion. It was most enthusiastically received. I was
+increasingly impressed with its dignity and charm, sparkling humor and
+cleverly wrought out situations. Nothing but the highest praise was accorded
+it."&mdash;<i>Anna L. Smith, Bellevue, Ohio.</i></p>
+</div>
+
+<p><b>Recommended by Drama League of America, Chicago, in two of
+its annual bulletins. By Ladies' Home Journal in articles entitled,
+"Entertainments for Teachers," and "Best Plays for Amateurs."</b></p>
+
+<p class="center"><b>Price 25 cents</b></p>
+
+<p class="inset bt smaller">ALL ENDORSEMENTS UNSOLICITED
+<span class="float-r">ALL USED BY PERMISSION</span></p>
+
+<hr class="wide" />
+<h2>CHARLEY&#8217;S COUNTRY COUSIN</h2>
+
+<h3>A COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS</h3>
+
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<p class="center"><b>Dramatis Personæ</b></p>
+
+<table class="personae" summary="Dramatis Personae of Charley's Country Cousin">
+  <tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Mrs. Charles Courtney Carleton</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Miss Margaret Moffat</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Bridget</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Mr. Charles Courtney Carleton</span></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="center">Time&mdash;The present. Place&mdash;Home of Mr. and Mrs. Carleton.</p>
+
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>"One of the most interesting occurrences of the season at Worthington,
+Mass., was the initial presentation last week of 'Charley's Country Cousin,'
+the author's latest comedy. The play was enthusiastically received. There
+were some charming scenes between 'Charley' and his 'Country Cousin,'
+especially that over the telephone, and some very natural and spicy dialogue
+between Mr. and Mrs. Carleton over the arrangements for an afternoon 'At
+Home.' Bridget's various deductions and surprises kept the audience constantly
+laughing whenever she appeared."&mdash;<i>Hampshire Gazette.</i></p>
+
+<p>"Miss Rice has in the comedy, 'Charley's Country Cousin,' added another
+to her list of delightful plays. The author is not only very well known in
+this city socially, but also as a writer of clever and original comedies, her
+'Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day,' which was presented several times last season,
+meeting with the greatest favor. This latest play met a most appreciative
+audience at every production. There were enthusiastic calls for the author
+both evenings."&mdash;<i>Albany Argus.</i></p>
+
+<p>"'Charley's Country Cousin' was a great success here and we did not
+consider it at all hard to give. We had two persons for Topsy and counterpart
+and each did a monologue in the place where she was supposed to be
+rehearsing. Topsy also did a colored song very well. All who heard the
+play said it was the best we had had of the short ones and remarkably well
+suited to any entertainment given under the auspices of the church."&mdash;<i>Miss
+Elisabeth G. Day, Colchester, Conn.</i></p>
+
+<p>"In view of other amateur plays which I have seen, there is not anything
+that so perfectly meets the need as your plays. In the matter of adaptibility
+to amateur talent, in action, in humor (at once emphatic and fresh and
+clean) and in simple natural literary style your writings cannot be excelled."&mdash;<i>Rev.
+W. H. Garth, St. Michael's Rectory, Naugatuck, Conn.</i></p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="center"><b>Price 25 cents.</b></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="wide" />
+<h2>GOOD KING WENCESLAS</h2>
+
+<p class="center">A CHRISTMAS PLAY FOR CHILDREN IN TWO ACTS</p>
+
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<p>This play was written to meet a request of church workers for a Christmas
+entertainment of dramatic character to be given within one hour and with
+no change of scene. The author, therefore, has arranged Act I to be read
+aloud to an audience with no acting, which reading shall be followed by the
+rise of curtain and the presentation of the two scenes of Act II. The dramatic
+parts for the play, as thus arranged, are those only that are found in
+Act II, and are given below. All may be readily taken by children.</p>
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<table class="personae" summary="Dramatis Personae of Good King Wenceslas">
+  <tr>
+    <td colspan="4"><span class="smcap">Dame Goody</span> (Hedwig)</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td colspan="4"><span class="smcap">Gretchen</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td rowspan="2"><span class="smcap">Violet</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">Alfred</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">Bernice</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">Kenneth</span></td>
+    <td rowspan="2" class="bt br bb">&nbsp;</td>
+	<td class="bb">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="ta-r" rowspan="2">Children of Mrs. Collingwood</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>&nbsp;</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td rowspan="2"><span class="smcap">Pauline</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">Louise</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">Esther</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">Olive</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">Dorothy</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">Laurence</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">Ralph</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">David</span></td>
+    <td rowspan="2" class="bt br bb">&nbsp;</td>
+	<td class="bb">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="ta-r" rowspan="2">Friends of the Collingwood children</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>&nbsp;</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>Other children may be added, if desired, or the above number lessened.
+(See notes.)</p>
+
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>"We had a most successful Christmas entertainment. The applause was
+so loud we feared the children would forget to finish their parts."&mdash;<i>Miss
+Alice F. Danforth, Springfield, Mass.</i></p>
+
+<p>"A great success for a Christmas entertainment, there is so much life and
+color in it, so much song and emotion. It is well and carefully done with
+both the proportion of moderation and the charm of deep sentiment."&mdash;<i>David
+S. Muzzey, Ph.D., Yonkers, N. Y.</i></p>
+
+<p>"It is difficult to find words to express my admiration for the play 'Good
+King Wenceslas.' I believe it will be far-reaching in its influence."&mdash;<i>Miss
+N. H. Cottrell, Albany, N. Y.</i></p>
+
+<p>"It is splendid."&mdash;<i>Rev. Wm. H. Garth, St. Michael's Rectory, Naugatuck,
+Conn.</i></p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<p>This play may be given more elaborately by the representing
+on the stage of Act I. This arrangement will call for the addition
+of the following characters:</p>
+
+<table class="personae" summary="Additional Dramatis Personae of Good King Wenceslas">
+  <tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Helen Armstrong</span>, a girl of 15, afterward Mrs. Collingwood</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Four School Girls</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Edwin</span>, a footman</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Man</span>, a thief</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Woman</span>, a thief</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Boy</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Train Announcer</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Gateman</span>, who inspects tickets</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="center">Other R. R. officials, passengers, etc., etc.</p>
+
+<p class="center">Scene laid at New York R. R. Station</p>
+
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>"Simple and picturesque, bright and pathetic in turn."&mdash;<i>Rt.
+Rev. Alexander H. Vinton, D. D., Bishop, Springfield, Mass.</i></p>
+
+<p>"It breathes the Christmas spirit and has a true dramatic
+interest that holds one to the end."&mdash;<i>Miss Eleanor Meneely,
+Albany, N. Y.</i></p>
+
+<p>"I have greatly enjoyed 'Good King Wenceslas.' The introduction
+of the carols is a beautiful feature of the play. Your
+work along these lines is a work that has long been needed."&mdash;<i>Rev.
+Fredk. J. Sawers, Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal,
+Canada.</i></p>
+
+<p>"The play is splendid and the first act is great. I hope we
+can give 'Good King Wenceslas,' for your plays are so 'playable,'
+it is a joy to work over them."&mdash;<i>Miss Marion H. Sterns,
+Instructor in Elocution and Physical Culture, Staten Island
+Academy, Staten Island, N. Y.</i></p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="center"><b>Price 25 cents.</b></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="wide" />
+<h2>MRS. TUBBS&#8217;S TELEGRAM</h2>
+
+<p>A COMEDY IN ONE ACT</p>
+
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<p class="center"><b>Dramatis Personæ</b></p>
+
+<table class="personae" summary="Dramatis Personae of Mrs. Tubbs's Telegram">
+  <tr>
+    <td colspan="4"><span class="smcap">Mrs. Tubbs</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td rowspan="2"><span class="smcap">Rowena</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">Amelia</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">Tommy</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">Teddy</span><br />
+      and<br />
+      <span class="smcap">Other Little Tubbs</span></td>
+    <td rowspan="2" class="bt br bb">&nbsp;</td>
+	<td class="bb">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="ta-r" rowspan="2">Children of Mrs. Tubbs</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>&nbsp;</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td rowspan="2"><span class="smcap">Mrs. Raven</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">Mrs. Donnell</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">Miss Simpkins</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">and others</span></td>
+    <td rowspan="2" class="bt br bb">&nbsp;</td>
+	<td class="bb">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="ta-r" rowspan="2">Neighbors of Mrs. Tubbs</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>&nbsp;</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td colspan="4">As few or many neighbors as desired</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td colspan="4"><span class="smcap">Telegraph Messenger</span></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="center">Place&mdash;Kitchen of Mrs. Tubbs at Cinder Corner. If given as an out-door
+play, action takes place on Mrs. Tubbs's back piazza.</p>
+
+<p class="center">Time in representation 45 minutes to 1 hour.</p>
+
+<p>Given by all ages with equal success as following endorsements will show.
+The parts of "Teddy" and "Tommy" may be taken by girls dressed as boys
+or names may be changed to those of girls.</p>
+
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>"A little comedy designed to supply a real demand&mdash;that of a wholesome,
+amusing play to be used in school or home theatricals."&mdash;<i>The Outlook.</i></p>
+
+<p>"We heartily commend the capital little play, 'Mrs. Tubbs's Telegram,'
+as a very natural and amusing comedietta, which is quite within the acting
+capacities of every-day boys and girls."&mdash;<i>Editorial Notes St. Nicholas.</i></p>
+
+<p>"Our club presented your very clever little play, 'Mrs. Tubbs's Telegram,'
+last evening before an audience of 400 persons who were most enthusiastic."&mdash;<i>Mrs.
+Richard Farmer Wood, Concord, Mass.</i></p>
+
+<p>"The best chapter play ever given at Vassar to my knowledge."&mdash;<i>An
+Instructor for many years at the college. Quoted by Mabel H. Baldwin,
+Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.</i></p>
+
+<p>"The play was just what we wanted and proved the greatest kind of a
+success."&mdash;<i>Charlotte W. Passmore, Morris House, Smith College, Northampton,
+Mass.</i></p>
+
+<p>"The little chapel was filled and 'Mrs. Tubbs' was greatly enjoyed. It
+was a genuine satisfaction to give such a pure, clean little play with life and
+fun from beginning to end."&mdash;<i>Miss Georgiana Clinton, South Norwalk, Conn.</i></p>
+
+<p>"Everyone spoke of it as a very bright little play and just the thing for a
+church. We got along nicely without a curtain."&mdash;<i>Mrs. F. S. Field, Shattuckville,
+Mass.</i></p>
+
+<p>"We gave the comedy to a very large audience in the town hall, who received
+it with the wildest enthusiasm."&mdash;<i>Principal High School, Windsor,
+Conn.</i></p>
+
+<p>"Given five times for five different charities by Y. W. C. A. of Poughkeepsie,
+N. Y. Our last audience was larger and if possible even more
+enthusiastic than our first."&mdash;<i>Miss Emma Mott, General Secretary Y. W. C. A.</i></p>
+
+<p>"A crowded house and everyone highly entertained. It is just the thing
+for home entertainments where children are to take part."&mdash;<i>Miss Lillian
+Fischer, Fulton, Missouri.</i></p>
+
+<p>"Just the right sort of play for boys and girls to give."&mdash;<i>Mrs. F. W. Davis,
+Cumberland, Maine.</i></p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="center"><b>Price, 25 cents.</b></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="wide" />
+<h2>MRS. BAGG&#8217;S BARGAIN DAY</h2>
+
+<p class="center">A COMEDY IN TWO ACTS</p>
+
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<p class="center"><b>Dramatis Personae</b></p>
+
+<table class="personae" summary="Dramatis Personae of Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day">
+  <tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Mrs. Bagg</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Madelaine Bagg</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Benny Bagg</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Younger Baggs</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Mrs. Tagg</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Mrs. Ragg</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Mrs. Fagg</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Mrs. Lagg</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Mrs. Pettit</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Mrs. Short</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Mrs. Grand</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Mr. Bagg</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Mr. Talkhard</span></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="center">Cash boys, clerks, shoppers, maid, workmen, etc., etc.</p>
+
+<p class="center">Act. I.&mdash;Interior of a department store.</p>
+
+<p class="center">Act II.&mdash;Mrs. Bagg's home.</p>
+
+<p class="center">Time in representation 1 to 1&frac12; hours, as preferred.</p>
+
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>"The charming little comedy 'Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day,' was given most
+successfully last night before the Fortnightly Club of this place, and all were
+in hearty appreciation of its delightful merit. The play was in the hands
+of gifted amateurs, so the humor and pertinence of the text were in no way
+impaired."&mdash;<i>Eleanor Havens Grant, Jamestown, N. Y.</i></p>
+
+<p>"Given by Unity Dramatic Club, Springfield, Mass. The chapel was
+packed full of people and so many turned away that the performance will be
+again presented. A remarkably bright little play."&mdash;<i>Springfield Republican.</i></p>
+
+<p>Given by Alumnæ of Albany Academy for Girls, benefit of Endowment
+Fund, $250 realized. Later repeated by same amateurs for various charities,
+seven performances in all being given. "A tremendous success from start
+to finish. Large and enthusiastic audiences at every representation."&mdash;<i>Albany
+Argus.</i></p>
+
+<p>"I am delighted with 'Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day' and know it will meet
+with success wherever presented."&mdash;<i>Miss Adele Ripont, Instructor in Elocution
+and Physical Culture, Central High School, Buffalo, N. Y.</i></p>
+
+<p>"'Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day' was by far the greatest hit of anything ever
+tried here. We found the parts very easy to take."&mdash;<i>Miss Edith Irwin, President
+Y. W. C. A., Iberia Academy, Iberia, Missouri.</i></p>
+
+<p>"The young people are carried away with 'Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day,' and
+want to commence work right away."&mdash;<i>Miss Lois B. Warner, Salisbury,
+Conn.</i></p>
+
+<p>"Given by the young people of St. Paul's Church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
+Not a dull line in it."&mdash;<i>Rev. Francis Whitcome, Rector.</i></p>
+
+<p>"We presented 'Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day' last Friday night at the schoolhouse
+to a very appreciative audience. We were so well pleased that we
+shall probably want to give another of your plays in the autumn."&mdash;<i>Harry
+McCulloch, Class President, Freeport High School, Freeport, Ill.</i></p>
+
+<p>"The play succeeded excellently. We received considerable applause and
+what we most wanted, lots of laughter."&mdash;<i>Kennebunk Festival Chorus, Kennebunk,
+Maine.</i></p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="center"><b>Price 25 cents.</b></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="wide" />
+<h2>GOOD AS GOLD</h2>
+
+<p class="center">(Second Edition with Notes)</p>
+
+<p class="center">A COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS</p>
+
+<p class="center">The title, "Their Rich Relative," may be substituted if preferred.</p>
+
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<p class="center"><b>Dramatis Personæ</b></p>
+
+<table class="personae" summary="Dramatis Personae of Good as Gold">
+  <tr>
+    <td colspan="4"><span class="smcap">Mrs. Rogers</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td rowspan="2"><span class="smcap">Marie</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">Hester</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">Dorothy</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">Theodora</span></td>
+    <td rowspan="2" class="bt br bb">&nbsp;</td>
+	<td class="bb">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="ta-r" rowspan="2">daughters of Mrs. Rogers</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>&nbsp;</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td colspan="3"><span class="smcap">Mrs. Laura Vose</span></td>
+    <td class="ta-r">sister of Mrs. Rogers</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td colspan="3"><span class="smcap">Miss Lucinda Phelps</span></td>
+    <td class="ta-r">distant cousin of Mrs. Rogers</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td colspan="3"><span class="smcap">Rosa</span></td>
+    <td class="ta-r">the maid</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td rowspan="2"><span class="smcap">Janet</span><br />
+      <span class="smcap">Isabel</span></td>
+    <td rowspan="2" class="bt br bb">&nbsp;</td>
+	<td class="bb">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="ta-r" rowspan="2">little school girls</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>&nbsp;</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td colspan="4"><span class="smcap">Baggage-man</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td colspan="4"><span class="smcap">Musicians</span></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>As many male characters as desired may be introduced in Act II as travelers,
+newsboys, ticket agent, boot black, etc., etc. (See notes).</p>
+
+<p>Play may be given by female characters only if preferred. A stewardess
+may be substituted for the baggage-man or baggage-man eliminated. (See
+notes).</p>
+
+<p class="center">Time&mdash;The present. Place&mdash;New England village.</p>
+
+<p class="center">Time in representation, longer form 2 hours; shorter form 1&frac12; hours.</p>
+
+<p class="center">Given with equal success by girls' schools and women's clubs.</p>
+
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>"Original and clever with interest sustained to the very end."&mdash;<i>Rt. Rev.
+Wm. Croswell Doane, D. D., LL. D., Bishop, Albany, N. Y.</i></p>
+
+<p>"The best play I have yet seen for girls."&mdash;<i>Miss Tebbetts, Principal of St.
+Margaret's School, San Mateo, California.</i></p>
+
+<p>"Every one pronounced it one of the prettiest plays ever seen."&mdash;<i>Miss
+Josephine M. Taft, Greenville, N. H.</i></p>
+
+<p>"Thank you for a play which is so bright and charming and so full of good
+wholesome fun."&mdash;<i>Miss Susan E. Borthwick, Portsmouth, N. H.</i></p>
+
+<p>"Enclosed find our program of 'Gentlemen's Night,' which passed off very
+pleasantly. All evidently appreciated the comical situations in 'Good as
+Gold,' and the ladies certainly made the most of them. The gentlemen
+seemed greatly to enjoy the play, and we were all agreed that it was a
+bright, clean comedy, very suitable for occasions like ours."&mdash;<i>Amherst
+Woman's Club, Amherst, Mass.</i></p>
+
+<p>"We presented the play, 'Good as Gold,' at our summer residence before
+an audience of a hundred and fifty people. The tickets were sold at seventy-five
+cents apiece and the proceeds given to a local charity. The parts were
+taken by ten girls from twelve to fourteen years of age and they did themselves,
+as well as those who had instructed them, great credit. Many pronounced
+it the best piece of amateur acting they ever had seen. The play,
+itself, was highly commended by all as being extremely refined, free from
+all foolish ideas, bright and interesting from beginning to end."&mdash;<i>Mrs.
+Eugene N. Foss, Cohasset, Mass.</i></p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="center"><b>Price 25 cents.</b></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="wide" />
+<h2>A SUCCESSFUL STRATAGEM</h2>
+
+<p class="center">A COMEDY IN ONE ACT</p>
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+
+<h4>Dramatis Personæ</h4>
+
+<table class="personae" summary="Dramatis Personae of A Successful Stratagem">
+  <tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Colonel Wentworth</span></td><td class="ta-r">Retired army officer</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Colonel Ashmore</span></td><td class="ta-r">In active service</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Caroline Wentworth</span></td><td class="ta-r">An only daughter, aged 18</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Nora</span></td><td class="ta-r">A maid</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="center">Time 1 hour</p>
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>"A charming, brilliant little comedy."&mdash;<i>Charles Eliot Norton.</i></p>
+
+<p>"Bright and entertaining, compact and manageable, lending itself to the
+conditions of almost any home in our land."&mdash;<i>Mrs. L. F. Selfridge, Foot's
+Cray, Kent, London, England.</i></p>
+
+<p>"If you happen to need a little play that may be easily acted by amateurs
+in a home evening, send to K. McDowell Rice, Worthington, Mass., and
+procure her list of original plays. They are clever and droll, and the stage
+properties and setting come within the means of a little company of high
+school girls, or of a charitable association or guild. They have not one objectionable
+feature and have many good ones."&mdash;<i>Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster,
+in Sunshine Bulletin.</i></p>
+
+<p>"I have seen your booklet containing the comedy, 'A Successful Stratagem,'
+which I find wonderfully clever, and as I am thinking of giving a
+little dramatic entertainment in my home for the Woman's Club, I think
+this play will be most entertaining."&mdash;<i>Mrs. Myron Dickson, Martinsville,
+Indiana.</i></p>
+
+<p>"The choicest comedy in your collection."&mdash;<i>Miss Isadelle C. Couch, Instructor
+of Vocal Training, Mt. Holyoke College, Mass.</i></p>
+
+<p>"Any Sunshiner seeking a clean, bright play for college, school or home
+theatricals, will not do better than to try 'Good as Gold' and 'A Successful
+Stratagem.'"&mdash;<i>Mary D. Beattie in Sunshine Bulletin.</i></p>
+
+<p>"I need always some bit of humor in my programs, and it is difficult to
+find pure light humor that is not plebeian. Your plays are most excellent
+in this very particular, that they are entirely above coarseness."&mdash;<i>Miss M.
+M. Davis, Instructor in Expression and Oratory, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale,
+Michigan.</i></p>
+
+<p>"Your plays are most attractive. The best thing of the kind I have seen.
+You have my permission, most heartily granted, to use my endorsement, as
+it is such a pleasure to find plays that are fresh, interesting and 'playable,'
+after looking over quantities of the silly, inane trash that is published to-day."&mdash;<i>E.
+B. Merrill, Walla Walla, Washington.</i></p>
+
+<p>"I regard your comedies as admirably adapted to school and church entertainments
+and hope to use another at some future date."&mdash;<i>Rev. C. F.
+Porter, Corinth, N. Y.</i></p>
+
+<p>"I am delighted with 'A Successful Stratagem,' and with all your plays."&mdash;<i>Mrs.
+Salome Cutler Fairchild, Vice-Director Library School, Albany, N. Y.</i></p>
+
+<p>"A Successful Stratagem" has been given by Smith College students at
+Morris House and Belmont House, Northampton, Mass.; also by the pupils of
+Miss Liggett's Home and Day School, Detroit, Mich., and by many others.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="center"><b>Price 25 cents.</b></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="wide" />
+<h2>UNCLE JOE&#8217;S JEWEL</h2>
+
+<p class="center">A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS</p>
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+<h3>COMEDY GIVEN AT WORTHINGTON.</h3>
+
+<p class="center">Initial Performance of Miss Rice's "Uncle Joe's
+Jewel" a Success.</p>
+
+
+<p>The initial performance of a three-act comedy at
+Worthington, "Uncle Joe's Jewel," the latest play
+of Miss Katharine McDowell Rice, took place Friday.
+The parts were all excellently taken as follows:</p>
+
+<table class="personae" summary="Dramatis Personae of Uncle Joe's Jewel">
+  <tr>
+    <td>Molly Armstrong</td><td class="ta-r">Mrs. O. B. Ireland</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>Grace Horton</td><td class="ta-r">The author</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>Nora, the janitor's daughter</td><td class="ta-r">Miss Rachel Ely</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>Mr. Winthrop ("Uncle Joe")</td><td class="ta-r">W. G. Rice, Jr.</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>Jack Wetherbee</td><td class="ta-r">Raymond Buck</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>Karl Pfeffer</td><td class="ta-r">Donald Stevens</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td>Postman</td><td class="ta-r">Raymond Laird</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td class="center" colspan="2">Stage Manager&mdash;Miss Susan Rice.</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>The audience was a most appreciative one, the play
+being received with constant laughter and applause.
+Among those from out of town who came especially
+for the play were Mr. and Mrs. Goddard of New
+York, Mrs. and Miss Gardner and Mr. Henry Carter
+of Albany, Mr. and Mrs. Mellor of Philadelphia, Mrs.
+William Bryant of Montclair, N. J., Mrs. Lyman
+James of Williamsburg, Mrs. Harry Williams and
+Mrs. H. R. Hinckley of Northampton, Mrs. and Miss
+Merritt and Mr. Merritt of Brooklyn, Mrs. Gillette
+of Hudson, Prof. Wellington of Amherst, and Dr.
+and Mrs. Gibbs of Huntington. Word was received
+from Senator and Mrs. Crane that they had hoped to
+be present, but were unavoidably detained. There
+were also large parties from Middlefield, South
+Worthington, Littleville and Chesterfield. Between
+Acts I and II some charming novelties from Paris
+were sold by Mrs. W. G. Rice for benefit of new
+scenery and curtains, about $25 being realized. Between
+Acts II and III Mrs. Rice delighted the audience
+with some French songs, accompanied by Miss
+Julia Rogers of Springfield. After the play the
+audience went largely out of doors to enjoy the
+charming afternoon. Here Miss Rice received many
+congratulations on the success of the play; $35 was
+received at the door, to which was added $17 from
+friends present, making a total of $52 for the library.</p>
+
+<p>The play was repeated in the evening for the benefit
+of the woman's benevolent society and parish
+work; $36 was taken at the door, to which was added
+the money received from sale of candy and refreshments,
+making a total of about $60 for this benefit.&mdash;<i>Springfield
+Republican.</i></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="wide" />
+<p class="sans smcap u"><b>By KATHARINE McDOWELL RICE, WORTHINGTON, MASS.</b></p>
+
+<h2>UNCLE JOE&#8217;S JEWEL</h2>
+
+<p class="center">A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS</p>
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+
+<table class="personae" summary="Dramatis Personae of Uncle Joe's Jewel">
+  <tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Molly Armstrong</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Grace Horton</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Nora</span>, the janitor's daughter</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Mr. Winthrop</span> ("Uncle Joe")</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Jack Wetherbee</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Karl Pfeffer</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Postman</span></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="center">Place: Apartment of Misses Horton and Armstrong</p>
+
+<p class="sans center">PERMISSION TO ACT MUST BE OBTAINED OF THE AUTHOR</p>
+
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>"I am delighted to express my appreciation of 'Uncle Joe's Jewel,' given
+by our Woman's Guild of St. Peter's Church. It is a very bright, clever little
+comedy."&mdash;<i>Mrs. H. A. Field, Springfield, Mass.</i></p>
+
+<p>"We and our audience greatly enjoyed your charming 'Uncle Joe's Jewel.'
+Every one was most enthusiastic. I think you will be interested to know
+that I never had so little trouble in drilling girls for a play, which was to me
+psychological evidence that it was so true to girl nature that they did it all
+naturally and spontaneously. Our play was such a success that at request
+we repeated it before the Mothers' Club of Christ Church, who were highly
+entertained, appreciating all the points to the full. Give us more plays as
+clever and wholesome as 'Uncle Joe's Jewel.'"&mdash;<i>Clara L. Bostwick, Miss
+Porter's School, "The Elms," Springfield, Mass.</i></p>
+
+<p>"We gave 'Uncle Joe's Jewel' as a church entertainment and believe you
+would have been proud of your work. Every word you write is to the point
+and the actors brought it all out so well."&mdash;<i>M. K. Royal, Plymouth, Mass.</i></p>
+
+<p>"We have chosen 'Uncle Joe's Jewel' as our Freshman Play."&mdash;<i>All Around Club, Jackson College.</i></p>
+
+<p>"We gave 'Uncle Joe's Jewel' as our Class Play, and had such success
+that we believe it will inaugurate the giving of a play each year as a part of
+Senior Prom."&mdash;<i>New Bedford, Mass., High School.</i></p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="center"><b>Price 25 cents</b></p>
+
+<p class="inset bt smaller">ALL ENDORSEMENTS UNSOLICITED
+<span class="float-r">ALL USED BY PERMISSION</span></p>
+
+<hr class="wide" />
+<h2>DR. HARDHACK&#8217;S PRESCRIPTION</h2>
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+
+<h3>A PLAY FOR CHILDREN</h3>
+<h4>&mdash; IN &mdash;</h4>
+<h4>FOUR SHORT ACTS</h4>
+
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+
+<p class="center">DRAMATIS PERSONAE</p>
+
+<table class="personae" summary="Dramatis Personae of Dr. Hardhack's Prescription">
+  <tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Grandma Proudie</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Mamma Proudie</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Emily Proudie</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Aunt Flighty</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Aunt Highty-Tighty</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Pussy Willow</span></td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Mary</span>, the maid</td>
+  </tr><tr>
+    <td><span class="smcap">Dr. Hardhack</span></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="center"><b>Price 25 cents.</b></p>
+
+
+
+<hr class="wide" />
+<h2>GOLFER GOOP&#8217;S GAUNTLET</h2>
+
+<h3>FOR CHILDREN</h3>
+
+<p class="center">Entertainment to be given with<br />
+<b>PUNCH AND JUDY PUPPETS</b></p>
+
+<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Manuscript Loaned</span></p>
+
+<hr class="narrow" />
+
+<p class="center">AN ENTERTAINMENT OF<br /><b>NEW WAX WORKS</b></p>
+
+<p class="center">With Up-to-Date Figures and Original Speeches</p>
+
+<p class="center">A modern adaptation of the old and well-known Mrs. Jarley's Wax Works</p>
+
+<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Manuscript Loaned</span></p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
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+Project Gutenberg's Dr. Hardhack's Prescription, by Katharine McDowell Rice
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+Title: Dr. Hardhack's Prescription
+       A Play for Children in Four Acts
+
+Author: Katharine McDowell Rice
+
+Release Date: May 22, 2011 [EBook #36195]
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+_Dr. Hardhack's Prescription_
+
+_A Play for Children
+in Four Acts ..._
+
+BY
+
+_K. McDOWELL RICE_
+
+
+"=Dr. Hardhack's Prescription.=" Typewritten suggestions for amateurs
+will be loaned on receipt of above price (six cents).
+
+
+Terms for the plays are as follows:--When used to make money for any
+object, the royalty is one-tenth of whatever the play brings in (sale of
+tickets, entrance money, gifts at door, etc.), before any expenses are
+deducted.
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+(each representation) is from $5.00 up according to length of play and
+character of your entertainment.
+
+Should you decide to produce any of the plays, kindly notify me at once,
+that no conflicting permissions may be issued. Send name of church,
+hall, school or private house where play will be given, also approximate
+date of performance. If play is later postponed or abandoned, please
+send such information promptly, that all may be properly entered on
+permission books.
+
+                                            KATHARINE McDOWELL RICE,
+                                      AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER OF PLAYS,
+                                                  WORTHINGTON, MASS.
+
+
+_BY KATHARINE MCDOWELL RICE, WORTHINGTON, MASS._
+
+DR. HARDHACK'S PRESCRIPTION
+
+A PLAY FOR CHILDREN IN FOUR SHORT ACTS
+
+A Dramatization of the story, "Little Pussy Willow," by Harriet Beecher
+Stowe
+
+    GRANDMA PROUDIE
+    MAMMA PROUDIE
+    EMILY PROUDIE
+    AUNT FLIGHTY
+    AUNT HIGHTY-TIGHTY
+    PUSSY WILLOW
+    MARY, the maid
+    DR. HARDHACK
+
+PERMISSION TO ACT MUST BE OBTAINED OF THE AUTHOR
+
+
+     "A delightful little play, 'Dr. Hardhack's Prescription,' was given
+     by the Junior Endeavor Society at Lyceum Hall, Worthington, Tuesday
+     afternoon and evening. The audience was composed largely of
+     children at the matinee, who were highly entertained, but no more
+     so than the grown-ups in the evening. Dr. Hardhack was played by a
+     lad of ten, who did an excellent piece of work. The other parts
+     were all finely acted by children not much older. The play was
+     directed by the author and made an entertainment long to be
+     remembered and one too that netted a nice little sum for the
+     Juniors' work."--_Hampshire Gazette._
+
+     "One of the most charming little plays for children I ever have
+     seen."--_Mrs. G. J. Thomas, Chattanooga, Tenn._
+
+     "We used 'Dr. Hardhack's Prescription' for the Nature Study number
+     in our annual program. It was given by the youngest pupils and was
+     a delight to our audience. The play is complete in itself and
+     perfectly charming, nevertheless I ventured to add an epilog.
+     Knowing the story of 'Little Pussy Willow,' I adapted the gifts of
+     the fairies ending with: 'Good night, dearie.' We wish to thank the
+     author for all her helpful suggestions and for such a sweet
+     play."--_Caroline Reed Thompson, Head of Department of Expression,
+     Arizona School of Music, Phenix, Ariz._
+
+     "A dear little play and we greatly enjoyed working it up. Our
+     audience was very enthusiastic and we are being urged to
+     repeat."--_Miss A. H. Young, Wilton, N. H._
+
+     "We gave 'Dr. Hardhack's Prescription' as a Thanksgiving
+     entertainment by our younger pupils, and everyone was charmed with
+     it."--_Emma Willard School, Troy, N. Y._
+
+=Price 25 cents=
+
+
+ALL ENDORSEMENTS UNSOLICITED    ALL USED BY PERMISSION
+
+
+
+
+DR. HARDHACK'S PRESCRIPTION
+
+
+A Play for Children
+
+IN FOUR ACTS
+
+
+BY
+K. McDOWELL RICE
+
+Author of "Mrs. Tubbs's Telegram," "Good King Wenceslas,"
+"Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day," etc., etc.
+
+
+PUBLISHED BY
+K. McDOWELL RICE
+Worthington, Mass.
+
+
+Copyright 1908
+by
+K. McDowell Rice
+ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
+
+
+Price 25 cents
+Order of K. McDowell Rice
+Worthington, Mass.
+
+Printed by Gazette Printing Co.
+Northampton, Mass.
+
+
+
+
+In bringing out the play, DR. HARDHACK'S PRESCRIPTION, the author wishes
+to acknowledge the kindness of Houghton, Mifflin Company of Boston,
+which allows her to publish it. This Company holds the copyright of
+"Little Pussy Willow" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, on which the play is
+founded. The author of the play has taken much of the conversation
+verbatim from the book, as will be seen by reference to "Little Pussy
+Willow," which charming story it is hoped may become better known to the
+public of to-day through this dramatization. The publishers Houghton,
+Mifflin Co., will send the book to any address by mail post-paid for
+$1.25.
+
+
+
+
+DRAMATIS PERSONAE
+
+
+    GRANDMA PROUDIE.
+    MAMMA PROUDIE.
+    EMILY PROUDIE.
+    AUNT FLIGHTY.
+    AUNT HIGHTY-TIGHTY.
+    PUSSY WILLOW.
+    MARY, the maid.
+    DR. HARDHACK.
+
+
+This is a Royalty Play and terms must be made with the author for its
+use.
+
+Permission to act or make any use of this play must be obtained of K.
+McDowell Rice, Worthington, Massachusetts.
+
+
+
+
+DR. HARDHACK'S PRESCRIPTION.
+
+
+_DR. HARDHACK makes a professional visit to the _Proudie_ mansion, New
+York City. In the sitting-room are gathered GRANDMA PROUDIE (L), MAMMA
+PROUDIE (C), AUNT FLIGHTY (R)._
+
+MAMMA PROUDIE. I greatly fear our dear Emily will never be restored to
+health.
+
+AUNT FLIGHTY. Oh, don't say that. I've known people to look terribly
+white and a great deal thinner than Emily, and not die of it.
+
+GRANDMA PROUDIE. [_To MAMMA P._] I thought you were going to send for
+Dr. Hardhack.
+
+MAMMA P. I have sent for him. [_Sighs, rises and comes forward, taking
+chair_] [_R_] But what can he do? Someway it doesn't seem as if he could
+help. He's such a small man.
+
+GRANDMA P. Size doesn't matter if one has brains. It's brains that
+count, my dear. Napoleon was small, but he will live forever. And look
+at Alexander Pope. [_Waves hand_]
+
+AUNT F. [_Runs to window_] What! Where is he? Whom did you say to look
+at?
+
+GRANDMA P. [_Witheringly_] Alexander Pope, who has been dead one hundred
+and fifty years.
+
+AUNT F. [_Simpering_] Oh, I thought you said to look at somebody going
+by.
+
+GRANDMA P. I said "Look at Alexander Pope," by which I meant "Consider
+Alexander Pope"--a small man, not ever growing to be much larger than a
+child. But what a poet! Brains, my dear, brains. In my day it was brains
+that decided a person's value. Sometimes I think they have gone out of
+fashion.
+
+MAMMA P. But they will come in again, mother. All the old fashions come
+round in about so many years, they say.
+
+GRANDMA P. [_Who has returned to her knitting_] Perhaps the time has
+come then for brains, for every one speaks so highly of Dr. Hardhack.
+
+_Enter MAID_
+
+MARY. Dr. Hardhack, madam.
+
+MAMMA P. You may bring him in, Mary. [_Maid turns to go, but finds DR.
+HARDHACK at her heels_]
+
+MAMMA and GRANDMA P. [_Gasp_] Oh, Dr. Hardhack!
+
+AUNT F. Oh, oh! We did not know you really had come!
+
+DR. HARDHACK. Good morning, ladies. Couldn't stop to be formally
+announced. [_Puts his hat absently in AUNT F's sewing-basket. Basket
+falls and all the things go tumbling out. DR. H. does not notice_]
+
+AUNT F. [_Simpers_] Oh, oh! [_MAID comes forward and assists AUNT F. in
+picking up things_]
+
+DR. H. [_Looks about circle_] Which is my patient, please?
+
+MAMMA P. It is my daughter Emily. I will send for her. [_To MAID_] Mary,
+will you ask Miss Emily to come? [_Exit MAID_] Oh, Dr. Hardhack, before
+she comes I must say a word to you. [_DR. H. takes chair_] We would be
+willing to found a water-cure, to hire a doctor on purpose, to try
+homeopathy or hydropathy or allopathy or any other pathy that ever was
+heard of if our dear elegant Emily could only be restored. It is her
+sensitive nature that wears upon her. She was never made for this world.
+She has an exquisiteness of perception that makes her feel even the
+creases in a rose leaf.
+
+DR. H. Stuff and folderol, my dear madam! [_ALL start. AUNT F. gasps and
+simpers_]
+
+MAMMA P. You are the nineteenth physician that has been called in to
+dear Emily.
+
+DR. H. Well, I hope that I may cut out number twenty! [_Enter EMILY very
+pale and listless_] Oh, here comes the young lady herself. [_Bows to
+EMILY, which greeting E. very languidly returns_] Humph! Let me look at
+her. [_Puts up his glasses and looks through them_] [_E. stands
+supporting herself by table as though very weak_] Humph! A fashionable
+potato sprout! Grown in a cellar! Not a drop of red blood in her veins!
+
+GRANDMA P. [_Aside to MAMMA P._] What odd ways he has, to be sure. But
+then they say that's the way he talks to everybody.
+
+DR. H. My dear madam, you have tried to make a girl out of sugar and
+almond paste, and now you are distressed that she has not red blood in
+her veins and that her lungs gasp and flutter as she goes up-stairs.
+Turn her out to grass, my dear madam, turn her out to grass!
+
+AUNT F. [_With hands over ears_] Oh, oh!
+
+DR. H. Yes, I mean what I say. Send her to old Mother Nature to nurse.
+
+MAMMA P. [_Exultantly_] I have said all along, Doctor, that I thought we
+ought to have a trained nurse for Emily.
+
+DR. H. Trained fiddlesticks! [_ALL start_] Send her somewhere to a good
+honest farmhouse in the hills, and let her run barefoot in the morning
+dew, drink new milk from the cow--
+
+MAMMA P. [_Interrupts_] Oh, Doctor, not new milk! Not unsterilized milk!
+[_AUNT F. holds up hands in horror_]
+
+DR. H. I mean what I say, madam. Let her drink new milk from the cow,
+romp in a good wide barn, learn to hunt hens' eggs, a few things like
+this, and I warrant me you'll see another pair of cheeks in a year. Take
+off all whalebones and strings around her lungs. Give her a chance,
+madam, give her a chance!
+
+MAMMA P. But what medicine shall she take, Doctor?
+
+DR. H. [_Roars his disapproval_] Medicine? No medicine. Medicine won't
+do her any good. You may make an apothecary's shop of her stomach--
+
+AUNT F. Oh, oh!
+
+DR. H. [_Turns toward AUNT F._] Yes, _stomach_,--make an apothecary's
+shop of her stomach, and matters will be only the worse. Why, there
+isn't enough iron in her blood to make a needle. [_Points to needle in
+AUNT F'S hand_]
+
+AUNT F. [_Simpers_] Oh, oh!
+
+MAMMA P. Iron in her blood! I never heard the like!
+
+DR. H. Yes, iron, red particles, globules or whatever you please to call
+them. Her blood is all water and lymph, and that is the reason that her
+cheeks and lips look so like a cambric handkerchief, why she pants and
+puffs if she goes up-stairs. [_Motions to E. to come forward, puts head
+to examine heart_] Her heart is all right if there were only blood to
+work it in, but it sucks and wheezes like a dry pump for want of vital
+fluid. [_Emphatically_] She must have more blood, madam, and Nature must
+make it for her.
+
+GRANDMA P. We were thinking of going to Newport, Doctor.
+
+DR. H. [_Derisively_] Yes, to Newport! To a ball every night and a
+flurry of dressing and flirtation every morning! No such thing! Send her
+to an unfashionable old farmhouse where there was never a more exciting
+party than a quilting frolic heard of. Let her learn the difference
+between huckleberries and blackberries, learn where checkerberries grow
+thickest and dig up sweet flag root with her own hands as country
+children do. It would do her good to plant a few hills of potatoes--
+
+AUNT F. _Our_ Emily! Potatoes! Oh, dreadful, dreadful!
+
+DR. H. Yes, potatoes. Plant a few hills of potatoes and hoe them herself
+as I once heard of a royal princess doing, because [_With emphasis_]
+_queens_ can afford to be sensible in the bringing up of _their_
+daughters!
+
+MAMMA P. What you say is all very new, Dr. Hardhack. Indeed, we had
+never thought of such a thing as sending Emily into the _real_ country.
+But I will talk it over with Mr. Proudie, and see what he thinks of it.
+
+DR. H. Well, ladies, I must be going. Good-morning to you all. [_Takes
+up hat and medicine case and makes exit in haste_]
+
+MAMMA P. What strange ways he has!
+
+AUNT F. But then you know he's all the fashion.
+
+MAMMA P. People talk of his being small. I never once thought of it.
+
+GRANDMA P. Brains, my dear, brains, or in other words;--good common
+sense.
+
+
+CURTAIN.
+
+
+
+
+ACT II.
+
+_DR. HARDHACK ready to give his last directions. MAMMA PROUDIE, AUNT
+FLIGHTY, AUNT HIGHTY-TIGHTY, EMILY and DR. HARDHACK are all seated; E.
+reclining languidly in easy chair._
+
+
+MAMMA P. Well, Doctor, we have decided to let Emily go and stay in the
+country as you have directed. I have arranged everything and found a
+pleasant place for her with a companion of her own age who is called
+Pussy Willow.
+
+DR. H. H'm. Pussy Willow. Well, that begins to sound right. Wouldn't
+have found any girl named Pussy Willow at Newport, I'll warrant you.
+
+AUNT HIGHTY-TIGHTY. Do, pray, dear Dr. Hardhack, tell us just how she
+must be dressed for that cold mountain region.
+
+AUNT F. It makes me shiver to think of it.
+
+AUNT H.-T. Must she have high-necked, long-sleeved flannels?
+
+AUNT F. I will go right down and buy her half-a-dozen at once. [_Starts
+to go, but is waved back by DR. H., and resumes seat_]
+
+DR. H. Not so fast. Let's see about this young lady. [_Endeavors to
+introduce his forefinger under the belt of E'S dress. Belt snaps. DR. H.
+draws out his finger with a jerk_] I thought so. I supposed that there
+wasn't much breathing allowed behind there.
+
+MAMMA P. Oh, I do assure you, Doctor, Emily never dresses tightly.
+
+EMILY. No, indeed! I despise tight lacing. I never wear my clothes any
+more than just comfortable.
+
+DR. H. Never saw a woman that did! The courage and constancy of the
+female sex in bearing inconveniences is so great, however, that that
+will be no test at all. Give me that thing. [_Motions for E.'S belt_]
+[_E. hands him same_] You wouldn't catch a man saying he felt
+comfortable under such circumstances. [_Holds up the tiny circle_] But
+only persuade a girl that she looks stylish and pretty with her waist
+drawn in, and you may lace her up till the very life leaves her, and
+with her dying breath she will tell you she is nothing more than
+"comfortable". So, my young lady, you don't catch me in that way! You
+must leave off belts and tight waists of all sorts for six months at
+least, and wear only loose sacques so that your lungs may have some
+chance to play and fill with the vital air that I am going to send you
+to breathe up in the hills.
+
+E. But, Doctor, I don't believe I could hold myself up. [_Droops as
+without any strength_] When I sit up in a loose dress I feel so weak I
+hardly know what to do. I need the support of something stiff around me.
+
+DR. H. That is because all those nice, strong muscles around your waist
+[_Slapping his sides and holding himself very erect with his hands on
+his ribs_] which Nature gave you to hold you up, have been bound down
+and bandaged and flattened [_Emphasizes the words by each time striking
+his right fist in palm of left hand_] until they have no strength in
+them.
+
+E. Do you suppose, Doctor, if I should dress as you tell me for six
+months, that I would get my health again?
+
+DR. H. It would go a long way towards it. You fashionable girls are not
+good for much, to be sure, but if a doctor gets a chance to save one of
+you in the way of business, he can't help wishing to do it. So I just
+give you your choice.
+
+E. Of course I would like to be well, and in the country up there nobody
+will see me, so it's no matter how I look.
+
+MAMMA P. [_Comes forward and puts arm about E._] To be sure it's no
+matter. [_Kisses her_] Only get your health, my dear, and then we'll
+see.
+
+
+CURTAIN.
+
+
+
+
+ACT III.
+
+_MAMMA PROUDIE, fearing EMILY is exerting herself too much up in the
+country, calls in DR. HARDHACK to have him send her some word of
+caution. In room are GRANDMA P. [Knitting] MAMMA P., AUNT FLIGHTY and
+DR. H._
+
+
+MAMMA P. I wish you would caution Emily, Doctor. I'm sure she's
+over-exerting herself, for she has sent home seven pats of butter of her
+own churning!
+
+DR. H. Never fear, my dear madam. It's only that there is more iron
+getting into her blood, that's all. Let her alone, or tell her to do it
+more yet!
+
+MAMMA P. But, Doctor, may not the thing be carried too far?
+
+DR. H. For gentility, you mean? Don't you remember Marie Antoinette made
+butter and King Louis was a miller at Marly?
+
+AUNT F. But just read the Doctor from Emily's last letter.
+
+MAMMA P. Yes, just hear what she has written, Doctor. [_Finds letter and
+reads_] "You have no idea how different life looks to me now that I live
+a little for somebody besides myself. Why have I been so foolish as to
+suppose I was happy in living such a lazy, useless life as I have
+lived?" [_Looks at DR. H. as she folds letter and shakes head_]
+
+DR. H. Iron in her blood, my dear madam, iron in her blood! [_Pounds
+table_] She'll come home a strong, bouncing girl.
+
+AUNT F. Oh, shocking!
+
+DR. H. [_Turns to AUNT F._] Yes, _bouncing_! Why shouldn't she bounce? I
+shall give you back a live niece in the fall instead of a half dead one,
+and you [_Turns to MAMMA P._] a live daughter, madam, and I expect you
+will all scream and stop your ears and run under beds because you never
+saw a live girl before.
+
+MAMMA P. But, Doctor, I can't see as we shall ever get her home again. I
+keep writing and writing, and still she says she isn't ready. There is
+always something ahead.
+
+DR. H. Let her alone, madam, let her alone. Give Nature a good chance.
+You will all undo all the good she's getting as soon as you get her
+home. I insist upon it [_Pounds table_] that she shall keep away from
+you all as long as she likes.
+
+_Exit DR. HARDHACK._
+
+MAMMA P. [_To GRANDMA P._] Did you ever see such a queer old dear as Dr.
+Hardhack? He does say the oddest things! Isn't he _so_ original?
+
+GRANDMA P. I haven't heard such good sense talked by any doctor in a
+long time.
+
+AUNT F. And then you know, he's all the fashion now.
+
+
+CURTAIN.
+
+
+
+
+ACT IV.
+
+_Six months later than when EMILY went away. She has returned home,
+bringing her friend, PUSSY WILLOW. In the room are gathered GRANDMA P.,
+MAMMA P., the two aunts, also EMILY and PUSSY and DR. HARDHACK._
+
+
+MAMMA P. Well, now, Dr. Hardhack, doesn't our Emily look beautiful?
+
+AUNT F. So healthy!
+
+AUNT H.-T. Such a splendid color!
+
+DR. H. Pretty fair, pretty fair. A good summer's work, that. [_Looks at
+E. much pleased_]
+
+AUNT F. And now, Doctor, we want you to tell us just what she may do,
+just how much.
+
+AUNT H.-T. Of course you know now she's got into a city, she can't dress
+exactly as she did up in the country.
+
+DR. H. I see, I see.
+
+AUNT F. There isn't a thing of all her clothes she can wear. Having been
+all summer in those loose sacques, she's sort o' _spread out_. [_Motions
+with her hands_]
+
+DR. H. Well, my advice is that you begin gradually screwing her up. Get
+something with plenty of whalebones ready and a good tough lacer. But
+don't begin too hard, just tighten a little every day, and by and by she
+will get back to where her clothes will fit her exactly.
+
+AUNT F. [_Clapping her hands_] That's just what I said we would have to
+do.
+
+MAMMA P. But, Doctor, won't that injure her health?
+
+DR. H. Of course it will, but I fancy she will stand it for one winter.
+It won't quite kill her, and that is all we doctors want.
+
+EMILY. [_Comes forward_] Well, I have something to say on this point. I
+wouldn't lose my health again for anything that can be named.
+
+DR. H. Oh, pooh, pooh! [_Waves his hand incredulously at E._] When
+patients are first up from a sickness, how prudent they mean to be!
+
+AUNT H.-T. But seriously, Doctor, you must tell us how much it will be
+well to have Emily do.
+
+AUNT F. One doesn't want to give up the world entirely, and yet one
+doesn't want to lose one's health.
+
+DR. H. I appreciate the case fully. [_Walks up and down considering_]
+Let her begin with the opera twice a week and one dance kept up till
+daylight. In a week she will feel stronger than ever she did and declare
+nothing hurts her, then she can take two dances, then three, and so on.
+
+EMILY. But, Doctor, I'm not going to dances at all. I know now what life
+is, and what health is worth, and I'm not going to waste it in that way.
+
+DR. H. Oh, it's all very well to talk! I knew a rich girl once right in
+this city of New York who _would_ go round visiting the poor and sitting
+up with sick people, and there was no end to the remarks made about her.
+No, you mustn't breathe bad air, nor over-exert yourself unless you do
+so from a purely selfish motive. Then, it's all right and proper. [_To
+PUSSY_] Oh, you needn't sit over there, looking mischievous, miss! What
+do you know of life? You will soon learn to be ashamed of your rosy
+cheeks, and think it's pretty to have bad health. I'll bet a copper
+[_Slaps his knee_] that by spring, if we manage right, we can send you
+back as white and withered as Miss Emily was.
+
+E. Now, Dr. Hardhack, you dreadful man! You must stop this talk. I
+brought Pussy down here on purpose to help me live better than I have
+lived. It's so interesting now in New York that Pussy is here with me. I
+never knew what wonderful things there were here. Pussy taught me to
+know the birds this summer at her home, and now we have been this
+morning to see a most wonderful collection at the museum.
+
+MAMMA P. [_Anxiously_] Is it wise, Doctor, for them to go and look at
+those stuffed birds? To be sure the birds are under glass, but I'm so
+afraid they will breathe poison.
+
+DR. H. Not nearly as much as they would breathe if they went to a
+crowded theatre, madam.
+
+E. It makes me shudder to think of all the hours I've spent at the
+theatre. As I think of it now, the rooms were so hot and overcrowded I
+wonder I ever lived through it. Since I've been away, I have learned to
+love everything that is connected with out-door life. Pussy has taught
+me. So now we have arranged that Pussy shall spend the winter with me.
+She is to take singing and music lessons and have all the advantages of
+the city, and I shall go to her for the summer. Of course, we shall take
+a peep or two at New York sights, but we are not going into the gay
+world, Doctor, really, we're not!
+
+DR. H. Ta, ta, ta! Don't tell me. [_Shakes finger warningly_] I shall
+hear of you yet. You'll see!
+
+_Exit DR. H._
+
+PUSSY. What a droll man he is! But I think he's just as nice as he can
+be. I hope he will come again while I'm here. I like to hear him talk.
+
+AUNT F. It's his way to always run on in this strange style about
+everything.
+
+AUNT H.-T. For my part, I never half know what he means.
+
+E. It is plain what he means. You must do exactly contrary to what he
+tells you, as I shall. So, Auntie, don't trouble yourself to alter my
+things unless it be to let them out, for I'm going to keep all the
+breathing room I've got whether I have what's called "a pretty waist" or
+not. I'd rather have color in my cheeks and a cheerful heart than the
+smallest waist that was ever squeezed together.
+
+AUNT H.-T. Such a pity, one couldn't have both.
+
+AUNT F. Your cousin Jane was in here last week with her new Bismarck
+silk, and it fits her so beautifully! Somebody said she looked as if
+she'd been melted and poured into it. There wasn't a crease or wrinkle.
+It did look lovely!
+
+E. Well, Auntie dear, I must try some other way of looking lovely. May
+be, if I'm cheerful and happy and always in good spirits and have a
+fresh, bright face as Pussy always has, [_Puts her arm affectionately
+about P._] it may make up for my not looking as if I had been melted and
+poured into my clothes.
+
+GRANDMA P. [_Delightedly as she comes forward and joins others who are
+now all standing_] This is just the way I thought things would turn out
+if we followed Dr. Hardhack's Prescription.
+
+
+CURTAIN.
+
+
+
+
+_BY KATHARINE MCDOWELL RICE, WORTHINGTON, MASS._
+
+CHARLEY'S COUNTRY COUSIN
+
+A COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS
+
+    MRS. CHARLES COURTNEY CARLETON
+    MISS MARGARET MOFFAT
+    BRIDGET
+    MR. CHARLES COURTNEY CARLETON
+
+Time--The present. Place--Home of Mr. and Mrs. Carleton.
+
+Cast may be enlarged by having the "At Home" take place on the stage.
+This gives opportunity for individual talent in musical and other lines.
+
+PERMISSION TO ACT MUST BE OBTAINED OF THE AUTHOR
+
+
+     "One of the most interesting occurrences of the season at
+     Worthington, Mass., was the initial presentation last week of
+     'Charley's Country Cousin,' the author's latest comedy. The play
+     was enthusiastically received. There were some charming scenes
+     between 'Charley' and his 'Country Cousin,' especially that over
+     the telephone, and some very natural and spicy dialogue between Mr.
+     and Mrs. Carleton over the arrangements for an afternoon 'At Home.'
+     Bridget's various surprises and deductions kept the audience
+     constantly laughing whenever she appeared."--_Hampshire Gazette._
+
+     "'Charley's Country Cousin' was a great success here and we did not
+     consider it at all hard to give. We had two persons for Topsy and
+     counterpart and each did a monologue in the place where she was
+     supposed to be rehearsing. Topsy also did a colored song very well.
+     All who heard the play said it was the best we had had of the short
+     ones and remarkably well suited to any entertainment given under
+     the auspices of the church."--_Miss Elisabeth G. Day, Colchester,
+     Conn._
+
+     "The Geneva Club of the Y. W. C. A. gave 'Charley's Country Cousin'
+     with great success. The play proved very entertaining indeed, and
+     the Club was most pleased with the result."--_Miss Daisy D. Brown,
+     Detroit, Mich._
+
+     "We gave the play 'Charley's Country Cousin' as a D. A. R.
+     entertainment. Many thought it one of the best that had ever been
+     given in the town."--_Miss Clara Davis, Framingham, Mass._
+
+     "It is with genuine pleasure and satisfaction that I enclose the
+     royalty and report our great success with 'Charley's Country
+     Cousin,' given at our High School Midwinter Reunion. It was most
+     enthusiastically received. I was increasingly impressed with its
+     dignity and charm, sparkling humor and cleverly wrought out
+     situations. Nothing but the highest praise was accorded it."--_Anna
+     L. Smith, Bellevue, Ohio._
+
+=Recommended by Drama League of America, Chicago, in two of its annual
+bulletins. By Ladies' Home Journal in articles entitled, "Entertainments
+for Teachers," and "Best Plays for Amateurs."=
+
+Price 25 cents
+
+
+ALL ENDORSEMENTS UNSOLICITED    ALL USED BY PERMISSION
+
+
+
+
+CHARLEY'S COUNTRY COUSIN
+
+A COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS
+
+
+Dramatis Personae
+
+    MRS. CHARLES COURTNEY CARLETON
+    MISS MARGARET MOFFAT
+    BRIDGET
+    MR. CHARLES COURTNEY CARLETON
+
+Time--The present. Place--Home of Mr. and Mrs. Carleton.
+
+
+     "One of the most interesting occurrences of the season at
+     Worthington, Mass., was the initial presentation last week of
+     'Charley's Country Cousin,' the author's latest comedy. The play
+     was enthusiastically received. There were some charming scenes
+     between 'Charley' and his 'Country Cousin,' especially that over
+     the telephone, and some very natural and spicy dialogue between Mr.
+     and Mrs. Carleton over the arrangements for an afternoon 'At Home.'
+     Bridget's various deductions and surprises kept the audience
+     constantly laughing whenever she appeared."--_Hampshire Gazette._
+
+     "Miss Rice has in the comedy, 'Charley's Country Cousin,' added
+     another to her list of delightful plays. The author is not only
+     very well known in this city socially, but also as a writer of
+     clever and original comedies, her 'Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day,' which
+     was presented several times last season, meeting with the greatest
+     favor. This latest play met a most appreciative audience at every
+     production. There were enthusiastic calls for the author both
+     evenings."--_Albany Argus._
+
+     "'Charley's Country Cousin' was a great success here and we did not
+     consider it at all hard to give. We had two persons for Topsy and
+     counterpart and each did a monologue in the place where she was
+     supposed to be rehearsing. Topsy also did a colored song very well.
+     All who heard the play said it was the best we had had of the short
+     ones and remarkably well suited to any entertainment given under
+     the auspices of the church."--_Miss Elisabeth G. Day, Colchester,
+     Conn._
+
+     "In view of other amateur plays which I have seen, there is not
+     anything that so perfectly meets the need as your plays. In the
+     matter of adaptibility to amateur talent, in action, in humor (at
+     once emphatic and fresh and clean) and in simple natural literary
+     style your writings cannot be excelled."--_Rev. W. H. Garth, St.
+     Michael's Rectory, Naugatuck, Conn._
+
+Price 25 cents.
+
+
+
+
+GOOD KING WENCESLAS
+
+A CHRISTMAS PLAY FOR CHILDREN IN TWO ACTS
+
+
+This play was written to meet a request of church workers for a
+Christmas entertainment of dramatic character to be given within one
+hour and with no change of scene. The author, therefore, has arranged
+Act I to be read aloud to an audience with no acting, which reading
+shall be followed by the rise of curtain and the presentation of the two
+scenes of Act II. The dramatic parts for the play, as thus arranged, are
+those only that are found in Act II, and are given below. All may be
+readily taken by children.
+
+    DAME GOODY (Hedwig)
+    GRETCHEN
+    VIOLET   }
+    ALFRED   }    Children of Mrs. Collingwood
+    BERNICE  }
+    KENNETH  }
+
+    PAULINE  }
+    LOUISE   }
+    ESTHER   }
+    OLIVE    }
+    DOROTHY  }    Friends of the Collingwood children
+    LAURENCE }
+    RALPH    }
+    DAVID    }
+
+Other children may be added, if desired, or the above number lessened.
+(See notes.)
+
+
+     "We had a most successful Christmas entertainment. The applause was
+     so loud we feared the children would forget to finish their
+     parts."--_Miss Alice F. Danforth, Springfield, Mass._
+
+     "A great success for a Christmas entertainment, there is so much
+     life and color in it, so much song and emotion. It is well and
+     carefully done with both the proportion of moderation and the charm
+     of deep sentiment."--_David S. Muzzey, Ph.D., Yonkers, N. Y._
+
+     "It is difficult to find words to express my admiration for the
+     play 'Good King Wenceslas.' I believe it will be far-reaching in
+     its influence."--_Miss N. H. Cottrell, Albany, N. Y._
+
+     "It is splendid."--_Rev. Wm. H. Garth, St. Michael's Rectory,
+     Naugatuck, Conn._
+
+Price 25 cents.
+
+
+GOOD KING WENCESLAS
+
+(See foregoing page.)
+
+
+This play may be given more elaborately by the representing on the stage
+of Act I. This arrangement will call for the addition of the following
+characters:
+
+    HELEN ARMSTRONG, a girl of 15, afterward Mrs. Collingwood
+    FOUR SCHOOL GIRLS
+    EDWIN, a footman
+    MAN, a thief
+    WOMAN, a thief
+    BOY
+    TRAIN ANNOUNCER
+    GATEMAN, who inspects tickets
+
+Other R. R. officials, passengers, etc., etc.
+
+Scene laid at New York R. R. Station
+
+
+     "Simple and picturesque, bright and pathetic in turn."--_Rt. Rev.
+     Alexander H. Vinton, D. D., Bishop, Springfield, Mass._
+
+     "It breathes the Christmas spirit and has a true dramatic interest
+     that holds one to the end."--_Miss Eleanor Meneely, Albany, N. Y._
+
+     "I have greatly enjoyed 'Good King Wenceslas.' The introduction of
+     the carols is a beautiful feature of the play. Your work along
+     these lines is a work that has long been needed."--_Rev. Fredk. J.
+     Sawers, Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal, Canada._
+
+     "The play is splendid and the first act is great. I hope we can
+     give 'Good King Wenceslas,' for your plays are so 'playable,' it is
+     a joy to work over them."--_Miss Marion H. Sterns, Instructor in
+     Elocution and Physical Culture, Staten Island Academy, Staten
+     Island, N. Y._
+
+Price 25 cents.
+
+
+
+
+MRS. TUBBS'S TELEGRAM
+
+A COMEDY IN ONE ACT
+
+
+Dramatis Personae
+
+    MRS. TUBBS
+    ROWENA               }
+    AMELIA               }
+    TOMMY                }  Children of Mrs. Tubbs
+    TEDDY                }
+      and                }
+    OTHER LITTLE TUBBS   }
+    MRS. RAVEN      }
+    MRS. DONNELL    }      Neighbors of Mrs. Tubbs
+    MISS SIMPKINS   }
+      and others    }
+      As few or many neighbors as desired
+    TELEGRAPH MESSENGER
+
+Place--Kitchen of Mrs. Tubbs at Cinder Corner. If given as an out-door
+play, action takes place on Mrs. Tubbs's back piazza.
+
+Time in representation 45 minutes to 1 hour.
+
+Given by all ages with equal success as following endorsements will
+show. The parts of "Teddy" and "Tommy" may be taken by girls dressed as
+boys or names may be changed to those of girls.
+
+
+     "A little comedy designed to supply a real demand--that of a
+     wholesome, amusing play to be used in school or home
+     theatricals."--_The Outlook._
+
+     "We heartily commend the capital little play, 'Mrs. Tubbs's
+     Telegram,' as a very natural and amusing comedietta, which is quite
+     within the acting capacities of every-day boys and
+     girls."--_Editorial Notes St. Nicholas._
+
+     "Our club presented your very clever little play, 'Mrs. Tubbs's
+     Telegram,' last evening before an audience of 400 persons who were
+     most enthusiastic."--_Mrs. Richard Farmer Wood, Concord, Mass._
+
+     "The best chapter play ever given at Vassar to my knowledge."--_An
+     Instructor for many years at the college. Quoted by Mabel H.
+     Baldwin, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y._
+
+     "The play was just what we wanted and proved the greatest kind of a
+     success."--_Charlotte W. Passmore, Morris House, Smith College,
+     Northampton, Mass._
+
+     "The little chapel was filled and 'Mrs. Tubbs' was greatly enjoyed.
+     It was a genuine satisfaction to give such a pure, clean little
+     play with life and fun from beginning to end."--_Miss Georgiana
+     Clinton, South Norwalk, Conn._
+
+     "Everyone spoke of it as a very bright little play and just the
+     thing for a church. We got along nicely without a curtain."--_Mrs.
+     F. S. Field, Shattuckville, Mass._
+
+     "We gave the comedy to a very large audience in the town hall, who
+     received it with the wildest enthusiasm."--_Principal High School,
+     Windsor, Conn._
+
+     "Given five times for five different charities by Y. W. C. A. of
+     Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Our last audience was larger and if possible
+     even more enthusiastic than our first."--_Miss Emma Mott, General
+     Secretary Y. W. C. A._
+
+     "A crowded house and everyone highly entertained. It is just the
+     thing for home entertainments where children are to take
+     part."--_Miss Lillian Fischer, Fulton, Missouri._
+
+     "Just the right sort of play for boys and girls to give."--_Mrs. F.
+     W. Davis, Cumberland, Maine._
+
+Price, 25 cents.
+
+
+
+
+MRS. BAGG'S BARGAIN DAY
+
+A COMEDY IN TWO ACTS
+
+
+Dramatis Personae
+
+    MRS. BAGG
+    MADELAINE BAGG
+    BENNY BAGG
+    YOUNGER BAGGS
+    MRS. TAGG
+    MRS. RAGG
+    MRS. FAGG
+    MRS. LAGG
+    MRS. PETTIT
+    MRS. SHORT
+    MRS. GRAND
+    MR. BAGG
+    MR. TALKHARD
+
+Cash boys, clerks, shoppers, maid, workmen, etc., etc.
+
+Act. I.--Interior of a department store.
+
+Act II.--Mrs. Bagg's home.
+
+Time in representation 1 to 1-1/2 hours, as preferred.
+
+
+     "The charming little comedy 'Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day,' was given
+     most successfully last night before the Fortnightly Club of this
+     place, and all were in hearty appreciation of its delightful merit.
+     The play was in the hands of gifted amateurs, so the humor and
+     pertinence of the text were in no way impaired."--_Eleanor Havens
+     Grant, Jamestown, N. Y._
+
+     "Given by Unity Dramatic Club, Springfield, Mass. The chapel was
+     packed full of people and so many turned away that the performance
+     will be again presented. A remarkably bright little
+     play."--_Springfield Republican._
+
+     Given by Alumnae of Albany Academy for Girls, benefit of Endowment
+     Fund, $250 realized. Later repeated by same amateurs for various
+     charities, seven performances in all being given. "A tremendous
+     success from start to finish. Large and enthusiastic audiences at
+     every representation."--_Albany Argus._
+
+     "I am delighted with 'Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day' and know it will
+     meet with success wherever presented."--_Miss Adele Ripont,
+     Instructor in Elocution and Physical Culture, Central High School,
+     Buffalo, N. Y._
+
+     "'Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day' was by far the greatest hit of anything
+     ever tried here. We found the parts very easy to take."--_Miss
+     Edith Irwin, President Y. W. C. A., Iberia Academy, Iberia,
+     Missouri._
+
+     "The young people are carried away with 'Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day,'
+     and want to commence work right away."--_Miss Lois B. Warner,
+     Salisbury, Conn._
+
+     "Given by the young people of St. Paul's Church, Poughkeepsie, N.
+     Y. Not a dull line in it."--_Rev. Francis Whitcome, Rector._
+
+     "We presented 'Mrs. Bagg's Bargain Day' last Friday night at the
+     schoolhouse to a very appreciative audience. We were so well
+     pleased that we shall probably want to give another of your plays
+     in the autumn."--_Harry McCulloch, Class President, Freeport High
+     School, Freeport, Ill._
+
+     "The play succeeded excellently. We received considerable applause
+     and what we most wanted, lots of laughter."--_Kennebunk Festival
+     Chorus, Kennebunk, Maine._
+
+Price 25 cents.
+
+
+
+
+GOOD AS GOLD
+
+(Second Edition with Notes)
+
+A COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS
+
+The title, "Their Rich Relative," may be substituted if preferred.
+
+
+Dramatis Personae
+
+    MRS. ROGERS
+    MARIE      }
+    HESTER     }
+    DOROTHY    }                  daughters of Mrs. Rogers
+    THEODORA   }
+    MRS. LAURA VOSE                  sister of Mrs. Rogers
+    MISS LUCINDA PHELPS      distant cousin of Mrs. Rogers
+    ROSA                                          the maid
+    JANET      }
+    ISABEL     }                       little school girls
+    BAGGAGE-MAN
+    MUSICIANS
+
+As many male characters as desired may be introduced in Act II as
+travelers, newsboys, ticket agent, boot black, etc., etc. (See notes).
+
+Play may be given by female characters only if preferred. A stewardess
+may be substituted for the baggage-man or baggage-man eliminated. (See
+notes).
+
+Time--The present. Place--New England village.
+
+Time in representation, longer form 2 hours; shorter form 1-1/2 hours.
+
+Given with equal success by girls' schools and women's clubs.
+
+
+     "Original and clever with interest sustained to the very
+     end."--_Rt. Rev. Wm. Croswell Doane, D. D., LL. D., Bishop, Albany,
+     N. Y._
+
+     "The best play I have yet seen for girls."--_Miss Tebbetts,
+     Principal of St. Margaret's School, San Mateo, California._
+
+     "Every one pronounced it one of the prettiest plays ever
+     seen."--_Miss Josephine M. Taft, Greenville, N. H._
+
+     "Thank you for a play which is so bright and charming and so full
+     of good wholesome fun."--_Miss Susan E. Borthwick, Portsmouth, N.
+     H._
+
+     "Enclosed find our program of 'Gentlemen's Night,' which passed off
+     very pleasantly. All evidently appreciated the comical situations
+     in 'Good as Gold,' and the ladies certainly made the most of them.
+     The gentlemen seemed greatly to enjoy the play, and we were all
+     agreed that it was a bright, clean comedy, very suitable for
+     occasions like ours."--_Amherst Woman's Club, Amherst, Mass._
+
+     "We presented the play, 'Good as Gold,' at our summer residence
+     before an audience of a hundred and fifty people. The tickets were
+     sold at seventy-five cents apiece and the proceeds given to a local
+     charity. The parts were taken by ten girls from twelve to fourteen
+     years of age and they did themselves, as well as those who had
+     instructed them, great credit. Many pronounced it the best piece of
+     amateur acting they ever had seen. The play, itself, was highly
+     commended by all as being extremely refined, free from all foolish
+     ideas, bright and interesting from beginning to end."--_Mrs. Eugene
+     N. Foss, Cohasset, Mass._
+
+Price 25 cents.
+
+
+
+
+A SUCCESSFUL STRATAGEM
+
+A COMEDY IN ONE ACT
+
+
+Dramatis Personae
+
+    COLONEL WENTWORTH       Retired army officer
+    COLONEL ASHMORE         In active service
+    CAROLINE WENTWORTH      An only daughter, aged 18
+    NORA                    A maid
+
+Time 1 hour
+
+
+     "A charming, brilliant little comedy."--_Charles Eliot Norton._
+
+     "Bright and entertaining, compact and manageable, lending itself to
+     the conditions of almost any home in our land."--_Mrs. L. F.
+     Selfridge, Foot's Cray, Kent, London, England._
+
+     "If you happen to need a little play that may be easily acted by
+     amateurs in a home evening, send to K. McDowell Rice, Worthington,
+     Mass., and procure her list of original plays. They are clever and
+     droll, and the stage properties and setting come within the means
+     of a little company of high school girls, or of a charitable
+     association or guild. They have not one objectionable feature and
+     have many good ones."--_Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster, in Sunshine
+     Bulletin._
+
+     "I have seen your booklet containing the comedy, 'A Successful
+     Stratagem,' which I find wonderfully clever, and as I am thinking
+     of giving a little dramatic entertainment in my home for the
+     Woman's Club, I think this play will be most entertaining."--_Mrs.
+     Myron Dickson, Martinsville, Indiana._
+
+     "The choicest comedy in your collection."--_Miss Isadelle C. Couch,
+     Instructor of Vocal Training, Mt. Holyoke College, Mass._
+
+     "Any Sunshiner seeking a clean, bright play for college, school or
+     home theatricals, will not do better than to try 'Good as Gold' and
+     'A Successful Stratagem.'"--_Mary D. Beattie in Sunshine Bulletin._
+
+     "I need always some bit of humor in my programs, and it is
+     difficult to find pure light humor that is not plebeian. Your plays
+     are most excellent in this very particular, that they are entirely
+     above coarseness."--_Miss M. M. Davis, Instructor in Expression and
+     Oratory, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan._
+
+     "Your plays are most attractive. The best thing of the kind I have
+     seen. You have my permission, most heartily granted, to use my
+     endorsement, as it is such a pleasure to find plays that are fresh,
+     interesting and 'playable,' after looking over quantities of the
+     silly, inane trash that is published to-day."--_E. B. Merrill,
+     Walla Walla, Washington._
+
+     "I regard your comedies as admirably adapted to school and church
+     entertainments and hope to use another at some future date."--_Rev.
+     C. F. Porter, Corinth, N. Y._
+
+     "I am delighted with 'A Successful Stratagem,' and with all your
+     plays."--_Mrs. Salome Cutler Fairchild, Vice-Director Library
+     School, Albany, N. Y._
+
+     "A Successful Stratagem" has been given by Smith College students
+     at Morris House and Belmont House, Northampton, Mass.; also by the
+     pupils of Miss Liggett's Home and Day School, Detroit, Mich., and
+     by many others.
+
+Price 25 cents.
+
+
+
+
+UNCLE JOE'S JEWEL
+
+A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS
+
+COMEDY GIVEN AT WORTHINGTON.
+
+Initial Performance of Miss Rice's "Uncle Joe's Jewel" a Success.
+
+
+The initial performance of a three-act comedy at Worthington, "Uncle
+Joe's Jewel," the latest play of Miss Katharine McDowell Rice, took
+place Friday. The parts were all excellently taken as follows:
+
+    Molly Armstrong                   Mrs. O. B. Ireland
+    Grace Horton                      The author
+    Nora, the janitor's daughter      Miss Rachel Ely
+    Mr. Winthrop ("Uncle Joe")        W. G. Rice, Jr.
+    Jack Wetherbee                    Raymond Buck
+    Karl Pfeffer                      Donald Stevens
+    Postman                           Raymond Laird
+
+    Stage Manager--Miss Susan Rice.
+
+The audience was a most appreciative one, the play being received with
+constant laughter and applause. Among those from out of town who came
+especially for the play were Mr. and Mrs. Goddard of New York, Mrs. and
+Miss Gardner and Mr. Henry Carter of Albany, Mr. and Mrs. Mellor of
+Philadelphia, Mrs. William Bryant of Montclair, N. J., Mrs. Lyman James
+of Williamsburg, Mrs. Harry Williams and Mrs. H. R. Hinckley of
+Northampton, Mrs. and Miss Merritt and Mr. Merritt of Brooklyn, Mrs.
+Gillette of Hudson, Prof. Wellington of Amherst, and Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs
+of Huntington. Word was received from Senator and Mrs. Crane that they
+had hoped to be present, but were unavoidably detained. There were also
+large parties from Middlefield, South Worthington, Littleville and
+Chesterfield. Between Acts I and II some charming novelties from Paris
+were sold by Mrs. W. G. Rice for benefit of new scenery and curtains,
+about $25 being realized. Between Acts II and III Mrs. Rice delighted
+the audience with some French songs, accompanied by Miss Julia Rogers of
+Springfield. After the play the audience went largely out of doors to
+enjoy the charming afternoon. Here Miss Rice received many
+congratulations on the success of the play; $35 was received at the
+door, to which was added $17 from friends present, making a total of $52
+for the library.
+
+The play was repeated in the evening for the benefit of the woman's
+benevolent society and parish work; $36 was taken at the door, to which
+was added the money received from sale of candy and refreshments, making
+a total of about $60 for this benefit.--_Springfield Republican._
+
+
+
+
+_BY KATHARINE MCDOWELL RICE, WORTHINGTON, MASS._
+
+UNCLE JOE'S JEWEL
+
+A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS
+
+
+    MOLLY ARMSTRONG
+    GRACE HORTON
+    NORA, the janitor's daughter
+    MR. WINTHROP ("Uncle Joe")
+    JACK WETHERBEE
+    KARL PFEFFER
+    POSTMAN
+
+Place: Apartment of Misses Horton and Armstrong
+
+PERMISSION TO ACT MUST BE OBTAINED OF THE AUTHOR
+
+
+     "I am delighted to express my appreciation of 'Uncle Joe's Jewel,'
+     given by our Woman's Guild of St. Peter's Church. It is a very
+     bright, clever little comedy."--_Mrs. H. A. Field, Springfield,
+     Mass._
+
+     "We and our audience greatly enjoyed your charming 'Uncle Joe's
+     Jewel.' Every one was most enthusiastic. I think you will be
+     interested to know that I never had so little trouble in drilling
+     girls for a play, which was to me psychological evidence that it
+     was so true to girl nature that they did it all naturally and
+     spontaneously. Our play was such a success that at request we
+     repeated it before the Mothers' Club of Christ Church, who were
+     highly entertained, appreciating all the points to the full. Give
+     us more plays as clever and wholesome as 'Uncle Joe's
+     Jewel.'"--_Clara L. Bostwick, Miss Porter's School, "The Elms,"
+     Springfield, Mass._
+
+     "We gave 'Uncle Joe's Jewel' as a church entertainment and believe
+     you would have been proud of your work. Every word you write is to
+     the point and the actors brought it all out so well."--_M. K.
+     Royal, Plymouth, Mass._
+
+     "We have chosen 'Uncle Joe's Jewel' as our Freshman Play."--_All
+     Around Club, Jackson College._
+
+     "We gave 'Uncle Joe's Jewel' as our Class Play, and had such
+     success that we believe it will inaugurate the giving of a play
+     each year as a part of Senior Prom."--_New Bedford, Mass., High
+     School._
+
+Price 25 cents
+
+
+ALL ENDORSEMENTS UNSOLICITED    ALL USED BY PERMISSION
+
+
+
+
+DR. HARDHACK'S PRESCRIPTION
+
+A PLAY FOR CHILDREN
+IN
+FOUR SHORT ACTS
+
+
+DRAMATIS PERSONAE
+
+    GRANDMA PROUDIE
+    MAMMA PROUDIE
+    EMILY PROUDIE
+    AUNT FLIGHTY
+    AUNT HIGHTY-TIGHTY
+    PUSSY WILLOW
+    MARY, the maid
+    DR. HARDHACK
+
+Price 25 cents.
+
+
+
+
+GOLFER GOOP'S GAUNTLET
+
+FOR CHILDREN
+
+Entertainment to be given with
+PUNCH AND JUDY PUPPETS
+
+MANUSCRIPT LOANED
+
+
+AN ENTERTAINMENT OF
+
+NEW WAX WORKS
+
+With Up-to-Date Figures and Original Speeches
+
+A modern adaptation of the old and well-known Mrs. Jarley's Wax Works
+
+MANUSCRIPT LOANED
+
+
+
+
+
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