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* Hunting a Husband *
NO. 10— THE WIDOW’S FAVORITE SUITOR DEVELOPS TWO TRAITS
THAT TURN HER UTTERLY AGAINST HIM
SOAIE five minuted elapsed, while
Beatrice sat alone anti looked out
over the sheen of the Hudson
and watched theMprocession of river
craft gliding; by. Then Maynard re
turned without his importunate friend
and seated himself with a laughing
"ord of apology.
"Rossiter’s really a capital fellow,"'
he said/ half-deprecatlngiy. as, though
he had guessed her estimate of the
man. "A little uncouth, perhaps, but a
diamond in the rough."
"And. like most uncut gems, is not
taken by society at his true worth?”
asked the woman, smilingly, but with a
thin vein of spite in her tone. She no
ticed on Maynard's breath the acrid
aroma which she fancied she detected
earlier in the afternoon, stronger now
-the odor that her married life with
Tom Minor had made hateful to her.
She had guessed from Rossiter's man
ner what "the business matter" was
that had taken her escort from her. and
she was a little hurt and displeased at
his temporary desertion.
"Oh,” the man protested, laughing
again, “Rossiter has that rough, un
conventional manner which all West
erners affect, but underneath he is
pure gold, generous to a fault, and,
fortunately for him. wealthy to a dis
graceful degree. I’ve always been
mighty fond of 'Roaring Bill,’ as we
used to call him at college.
Then Maynard branched off Into a
lale of his friend's university esca
pades which made Beatrice laugh in
spite of herself. "He was always
climbing out of the frying pan to fall
into the fire,” he finished with a
chuckle. "And," sobering suddenly,
"he was very fond of my dear wife.
They had known each other all their
lives.”
The familiar skeleton seemed to
Beatrice to be on the verge of again
dominating the conversation, and. at
the risk of being considered unsympa
thetic. she directed her companion's
attention to the crimson globe, of the
sun. hanging In the city's smoke over
the distant Palisades. She had never
felt any particular interest in May
nard's deceased wife, and since this
afternoon's return to the place the dear
departed had loved so well had not
proved such an ordeal to the widower
that he hesitated to drink there with a
boisterous friend, she had little toler
ance with his pose of bereavement.
A Widower's Favorite Topic.
But a widower launched upon his
favorite theme is not so easily diverted
from it. After Beatrice's attempted in
terruption of his trend of thought he
looked out into the glowing west for
only a moment or two in silence.
"She loved the sunsets here." he said
at last, in a tone of dreamy sadness.
"We used to come up often in the
spring time and "help put the sun to
bed,’ as she used to say. I am very
lonely without her sometimes. Forgive
me for speaking of her so much, but
you are always so patient with me and
I fee!”—he stopped and smiled sadly.
There was no hope for It now, and
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the woman, with a weary spirit, once
more took the part she had played so
often.
"Dear friend." she said,’ smiling at
him with eyes slightly moist. "1 under
stand—J. too. have suffered," she added
with a little sigh. "Perhaps the good
that comes out of our suffering is that
we can comprehend and sympathize
with each other's sorrows."
The man looked at her with some
thing more than gratitude. She col
ored under his gaze and turned her
eyes toward the river, waiting for him
tn speak. When he did it brought her
back to earth and things earthly with
a shock. •
"Ah, here at last i« our tea!” he ex
claimed in his natural voice as the
waiter deftly arranged, teapot and ac
cessories on the table. "Are you sure
you want a hot drink on a day like
this?" he queried doubtfully as she
raised the ltd of the teapot and the
steam arose in a cloud.
“Yes, indeed!" she answered. “I
don't think 1 could exist without my
afternoon tea. I take it always.”
"Well, on second thought, it you don't
mind. I will take something cool." said
Maynard. "Driving was dusty work
and my throat feels like a newly mac
adamized road. Waiter! a Scotch high
ball!”
"Oh." Beatrice said, hesitatingly, as
the seltzer foamed into the tall glass of
ice. "do you really care for that?”
"As old Jake Van Winkle, out in Jer
sey, used to say. "It ain't the taste, it's
the sperrit what’s In it,”' h,e laughing!'
replied.
"But isn't it bad for you?” she asked
tentatively. "Don't you become depend
ent upon it?”
Let the Matter Drop,
"No more than you do upon your
tea," he answered teasingly.
She said no more about the matter,
and he turned the conversation to other
things. They sat long over the. table
ami Maynard ordered another high
ball before they left. Always a facile
talker, he was at his best today, amus
ing. witty and quick with retort. It
was almost dark outside when Beatrice
reluctantly said It was time she was at
home, and, arising, prepared for de
parture.
In a few minutes the pair were again
seated in the smart trap and rolling
rapidly eastward toward her home.
The air was a little chilly now, and
the high strung horse snorted eagerly,
evincing a de«fre to bolt, which forced
Maynard to keep a tight grasp on the
reins and brought a sharp word of
command from, him now and then.
Beatrice was chatting gaily when the
horse, frightened by a boy on roller
skates, who darted past his head, shied
violently. In a second Maynard had
pulled the whip from the socket and
cut him cruelly along the flank. The
horse leaped forward, but the merciless
grasp on the reins threw his head high,
and he could only plunge and shrink
under the rain of blows which the man.
now white with rage, showered upon
him.
The scene lasted for only a moment
or two. but it seemed hours to Helen,
as, with hands pressed against her
cheeks, she flinched at each angry hiss
and cut of the lash. She looked ap
pealingly at the man. but his face was
hard and set and his lips contorted into
a cruel smile. When the beating had
tired his arm he laughed a short, ugly
laugh.
"Now, behave yourself!” he ordered,
as he replaced the whip in the socket.
Helen was silent the remainder of
the way home. Maynard was gay and
did his unsuccessful best to make his
companion smile. But she was grave
and taciturn. All her life she had
loved horses. Her father had raised
them, and she had known them from
her babyhood. She remembered what
her father would have said to Maynard
had he, instead of she, been the wit
ness of the cruel scene. She found it
Impossible to talk as if nothing had
happened.
As Maynard helped her from the trap
she thanked him politely, but coldly,
for the drive and the pleasant after
noon. Then, before Maynard could
climb again Into the trap, she stepped
swiftly to the horse’s head, and lAld
her cheek against the velvety, quiver
ing nose.
When the widow reached her own
apartment and her own room she stood
still for a moment feeling faint and
weak. She recollected with a sick shud
der how once, when Tom Minor had
been drinking, he had beaten a dog he
owned.
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The Making of a Pretty Girl
The Cheirm of a Musical Voice
By MARGARET HUBBARD AYER
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r, people who care for good English well
'spoken and well enunciated.
t A XX Too Much Slang.
Sfl Ever' on, of us uses more slang than
I . ought to. am! voting girls espociallv
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8 THE GIRL WHO CONTINUALLY GIGGLES,
THE most beautiful girl I ever saw
was a young American girl of
German descent. Every artist
in town wanted to paint her, but they
and the rest of the community would
have been perfectly satisfied If she had
never spoken a word, for the minute
she opened her mouth her charm and
beauty vanished as if by magic. She
literally had the voice of a peacock.
If you have never heard a peacock
scream, or whatever you call that noise
it makes, take the first opportunity you
can to go to the zoo or to some garden
where there are peacocks and listen to
this beautiful blrrj making an unspeak
ably ugly noise. After- you hear the
peacock scream, you will know why
the dove, with its gentle and beautiful
voice, is the emblem of all that is sweet
and lovely, while the peacock is just an
ornamental monster.
The greatest charm a pretty girl can
have is a low and musical voice.
No matter how pretty you are. you
can’t . afford to neglect this especial
charm, and nd matter how homely you
are, you will never lack attraction if
you have an agreeable voice.
There Is no reason why every girl
should not cultivate a good speaking
voice, and there Is absolutely no excuse
for the ugly, nasal squeak perpetrated
by some of our girls and called speech.
Voice Is the Man.
"The voice is the man himself." said
a celebrated poet, and we are all judged
at once by our voices and our speech.
More and more attention is being paid
to voice culture in the public schools,
and every girl whose attention Is called
to the necessity of training herself to
speak well will find some one who can
Do You Know
That-
Mm on county. Alabama. is said to
have a largest area of land held by
negroes than any other county in the
South. In L20! 1 negroes owned 61.689
acres in Macon. Liberty county.
Georgia, the next largest in negro land
holdings, the area was 55 048. while In
Louisa county, Virgina, the third coun
ty in th!:- respect, the colored popula
tion owned 53.269, acres. In Macon
counly there Is no race problem the
rn-gro population, through the indus
trial education of Tuskegee, has be
come self-reliant. The county has
fifty-seven colored public sehols.
Berlin has established a normal
c our.-- on penmanship for teacher -of
common preparatory schools in older
to test a new system of chirograph}
which is designed to allow tire indi
viduality of the writer- to express it
self without detriment to legibility.
The new system adapts |ren. Ink and
paper to the individual necessities of
the writer. If the principle of the sys
tem is found to be pedagogically sound,
it will be introduced in the public
schools.
help her by example and instruction
The most common fault we have is
speaking with a nasal twang, or speak
ing through the nose, as it is called. It
is wrong to say that one talks through
the nose, when one makes this ugly
e ound. because as a matter of .fact, one
doesn't talk through the nose; one is
pinching the nose, so that the so-tjnd is
partly cut off from It. People speak
this way from a kind of habitual lazi
ness, and no one has to continue in this,
bad habit
One of the simplest exercises for cul
tivating a good voice Is to find out fir st
on what tones of the musical scale you
generally talk. Then take a very deep
breath and make the vowel sounds a. e,
1, o. u. on these tones of the speaking
voice. By taking a deep breath, and
floating the tone on the breath, you will
be forced to place your speaking tone
right. People who speak with a nasal
twang don’t breathe deeply, and don't
have a. good pressure of air, as a sori
of bellows under their speech. Take
some simple little poem that you know
and repeat It. breathing deeply before
each word: exaggerate the words
slightly, making them softer and lower
and rounder- in tone and quality, than
you habitually would do. You will find
in a short time that your voice will be
come more musical, lower and sweeter
in quality .
A great many girls have ugly voices
because they are really too lazy to open
their mouths when they talk, and to
annum l.’.te carefully with their lips.
Beautiful enunciation makes a good
shaped pair of lips, and to pronounce
words carefully and distinctly will Im
prove the shape of the mouth, besides
Advice to the
Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
LET YOUR HEART DECIDE.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I a/n IS and have been keeping c om
pany with a man one year my senior
We had a quarrel over some I t itle and
didn't see ea- h other- for two months I
met a very good friend of his with
whom I as-ccciatcd these two months
This made my friend very angry. so lie
came and apologized to me. 'He wants
t<; sec me agrtfn Now both of I hern
want rm yornpanv: whlth shall I take;
FL' >SSIE
'l ike the one you love the more. If
,vou don't know which that Is, this is
sure: You don't love either.
THAT WILL BE EASY.
Dear .Miss Fairfax:
A young man and I have been keep
ing company for about a y ear. He
ha- been greatly admired by- my moth
er We parted Sinti- then I have been
going out w ith difft-renl young men and
have seen a differf’nee. I would like to
regain Ids friendship, for I know Ire
has not been going out with any ont
els. A READER.
He still loves you. Yom mother ap
prove- and you realize that you love
him.
Surely under thes. favorable err-
t. employees he always took the girls who
s sopke nicely and who had pretty voices
- and gave them the best positions.
t “A girl with a pretty voice can charm
it the most irate customer and soothe the
t .angry shopper. But if you put a girl
e with an ugly voice behind the counter
“ no matter how good her disposition i-j
■r that voice is against her. A good voice
< Isa first-class business asset," said this
• man, and long before him the poet said:
s< "’Twas an excellent thing in a woman.”
I love the girl who giggles when she
. is young, and I must say the grout
t woman giggler- Is usually a bore, and
j the giggle loses its music when the girl
>' gels out of her teens. A charming
. laugh, enough hut not too much of it,
; is part of the attraction of the pretty
i girl. Rut I here are very few women
1 who laugh musically.
’ i remember listening to a class of
I girls learning to laugh. It was a terri
f ble ordeal Some of them cackled, some
I of them guffawed, only one or two suc
? ceederf in producing a laugh that war
r Joyous and musical.
' Listen to yourself laughing: keef
s your ear keen to your own defects, and
r find oul whether your laugh is musical
i or ugly. You can correct an ugly laugh
1 without making yourself affected and
• self-conscious.
Don't Inugh all the time, but when
you do laugh, laugh heartily and with
’ an open throat like a child. The child’s
i laughter is beautiful and perfect. It is
> only when we try to laugh at things
that aren't funny and when we becotnt
I self-conscious* that , our laughter lost
r the natural joyous quality which it had
■ when we were children, and anothe!
< charm vanishes
cumstances It will ho easy to win him.
Ask him to call Treat him as a good
friend, and if he lias any courage and
persistence ho will see for himself rhe
happiness w ithin Iris grasp.
Famous Dancer Gives
Complexion Secrets
I < Allien Moore In Beauty's Mirror.)
I I’ve learned the secret of Dolores'
, entrancing brnutv- -the wondrous charm
the has* dazzled the courts of Europt
and captivated vast audiences every
w here. The famous danvet abhor*
J rouge*: and cosmetic.- Yet despite
. Htronijosity of her lif< . sh»* ictains ilic
Incomparable complexion htsi d' scrih-
f cd as “indesi i ih.ihlo ’ An intimate
~ friend tells me the senoiita tegularlx
uses on lift- face what druggists know
icm nicrcolDcd wax Thi- I- applied at
night in t h<* manner • old < ream is used
and washed <»fT in the morning II
absorbs the dead paiticles of skin
which daily appear. and a Xii D. soft
c fresh, girlish complexion is always in
- evidence
i Dolores' s|<in i - not inam-d b\ a sin
i gle wrlnkh not the finest Urie
» She wards nff hy daily bathing
the fa* e in a solution made hy dissolv
Ing an ourpe of powdered saxollte in a
half-pint witch hazel. As yotn drug
■ stores keep these Ingredients as well
• h me reol I zed wax (one oun< * of thi'
is sufficient) no doubt your reader?
will welcome this Information.
“The Gates of Silence”
A STORY OF LOVE MYSTERY AND HATE. WITH A THRILLING POR
TRAYAL OF LIFE BEHIND PRISON BARS.
TODAY S IXSTALLMEXT.
Disagreeable Moments.
“Divil a bit of It. my dear.” said Bar
rington, lightly; "for yotir own little self
entirely, Mistress Barrington: and it s my
orllef that the Individual at the end of
the wire got something in the nature of
a shock when lie discovered that ’tw'a.M
to a ‘Mister’ lie d been speaking.’’
Once again there was that subtle In
flection in Barrington’s voice that told
her of the easily* awakened suspicion of
an inordinately Jealous man. Anthony,
who could not bear that she should so
much as buy a handkerchief without his
knowledge, was obviously nettled by dis
covering two transactions of which lie
was utterly ignorant. He never asked
her a question nor pried into a letter, yet
she knew that it was one of his most
sacred beliefs that the whole book of
her life la\ open before his eyes for him
tn read if he would And. but for that
one miserable episode of which Bett\ was
her sole confidante, it was true enough.
She gloried in the fact. She had taught
herself to believe her husband's credo
herself, telling herself that she Jiad locked
the door of the past and thrown away
the key. /
And now the door was creaking slowly
•*n its hinges, swinging open.-find all the
ugly, grisly specters were stealing out one
by one, 1n somber procession.
It was not bearable. Heaven could not
be so unjust! A sudden spirit of revolt
rose up in her. She.wopld not allow
the past to conquer she would hang to
that door again, lock it fast on its ugly
serfet. It must he possible. She would
fight for her psace. for her happiness,
for her good name, to tin* very last gasp
She turned back from the table and
looked up at him smiling
“Well. then, it must just he some, other
Mrs. Barrington. Tony boy." she said.
"For certain sure it Isn't for me. It's as
so much Greek to me and no less. Two
thousand guineas, indeed 1 don't even
think in such sums!"
She spoke with a • erlaln merry confi
dence. but her smile was not merry; Bar
rington saw that.
"I expect they got through to some
wrong number they're always ringing us
up in mistake,” she said, dismisslngly
"Well, tell me what sort of a flay you
have had in town. I just missed you aw
fully, and that's the truth. Oh. Tony
boy. I'lf be glad glad glad when we
can gel ourselves right, right away
She nestled against him for a moment,
finding an infinite comfort in his near
i ness. in the clasp of his arms, for he
had caught her to him with a sudden
fierce caress. She was not. ftp a rub .
demonstrative, this woman, but there was I
a passion in her words now that was as ,
fuel to the flame of his own.
"Why. then, for hattven's sake, let us ,
go." he said “What is there to keep)
us? Get Betty ready and come Frank
ly. I hate the place. Your father f yes.
yes. he is your father, dear, I know (hat
but I always find it incredibly hard to
believe. You can make an excuse for
Betty. Betty will be th'e gainer by a
change from this environment. I don t
know what It is. but. as I said yester
day. there is a deuced odd feeling In the
air. 1 am what novelists call ‘obsessed
by a feeling of fear' as though some
hateful calamity was impending. ' >h. of
course, it’s ones liver. 1 know that or
living so close to water. But, all the
same, i’ll be jolly glad to get away
Tomorrow' what's to prevent it" Tomor j
row night that s a bargain, eh?”
Edith’s Fear.
There was an almost disproportionate
eagerness in his tone. He turned her
face to his.
"That's a bargain, eh”' he repeated
"Oh. no. no! Not tomorrow, that IsnU
possible, Tony!” She stared at him with
wide, frightened eyes, her fingers inter- •
lacing nervously. “What do you mean j
why <U> you say such dreadful things 1 ■
Ycyt terrify me! What calamity could "
happen to us? < >h, you are cruel and ffus- ;
jdcious and morbid. It's selfish, horribly
selfish, of you to suggest tkjat 1 should |
leave dad just now.’’
She spoke as a woman suddenly be
side herself, flinging ajyav from him with i
a petulance that amazed him And she 1
was beside herself with fear. She knew
her husband well enough to realize that I
if he made up his mind to return to]
France tomorrow and to take her and
Betty with him', there was no power
that would pnevent him doing so. short I
of what he vailed battle, murder, or sud
den death.
“But my dear Edith, it was your own
suggest lon!’’ Barrington was honestly
bewildered. “I only want to please you
to get you cut of a morbid atmosphere.”
He would have taken her in his arms
again, hut she refused to he comforted.
She burst into a sudden tempest of tears
and ran out of the rom. hanging the door
She left a thoroughly taken-aback man
staring 4fter her
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“By jove! it’s time she was out of
this!" Barrington said to himself. “Poor
little girl; nerves worn t»< fiddle strings.
Edith, who never cries! '
He was indignant at the of her
tears, that gave the lie to a cherished be
lief in the superiority of his wife over
other women in the matter of moods and
weeping. Rut there was something more
than indignation in his mind. A certain
uneasiness that, if not suspicion, was
i josely allied to it. For he had come from
Prance he had been consccus of a fear
that something was troubling Edith
which she concealed from him througlw
shame or dread; nothing personal—but
some family matter, connected with Betty
•r her father Her unusual Insistence up
on returnig to England without him —her
'•bvious, not altogether pleased surprise
at his unexpected arrival Betty’s extraor
dinary seizure, not to mention Sir
George Lnrrtsden's behavior, that for the
last few <lays was only to be drubbed ec
oentric. The more be thought of It the
more convinced he was that Edith was
sharing with her family snmp trouble that,
she dreaded to share with him
“Poor little tender-hearted woman!”
His lips and eyes grew very tender. He
longed to seek her out now’ and tax her
with this trouble, vet a certain loving
reticence forbade an intrusion upon it.
Up must bide his time.
He took a couple of paces up and down
'he room, his mind still wrestling with
the problem, and was brought up sudden
ly by the low chair from which Edith
had risen on his entrance, by the sight of
a crumpl-d piece of ('aidboard lying be
side it.
The Card.
He bcm and picked it up. He was
actuated by two motives in doing so—
curiosity and the dislike of a tidy man
for the sight of torn paper lying on a
sitting room floor.
It was a visiting card that his fingers
straightened out. A card which bore, in
neat commercial copper plate, the name
"Mr .lames Bradford. ’ And in the corner
the further details. "Messrs Bradford &
Spiers, Solicitors, Lincolns Inn Fields.”
To Be Continued Tomorrow
NERVOUS
DESPONDENT
WOMEN
Find Relief in Lydia E. Pink*
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—Their Own Statements
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Platea, Pa. “When I wrote to you
- first I was troubled with female weak
i r——ness and backache,
jrHTfa. ' and was so nervous
that I would cry at
the least noise, it
$$ would startle me so.
w* <* y rF I began to take Ly
"; AL dia E. Pinkham’s
• ’ reme^'es ' an d 1 don’t
. have any more cry-
“ / Ik 'j j I ' sound and my ner
' f ' vousness is better.
— I will recommend
your medicines to all suffering women.”
Mrs. Mary Halstead, Platea, Pa.,
Box 98.
Here is the report of another genuine
case, which still further shows that Ly
dia E. Pinkham’s Vegstable Compound
may be relied upon.
Walcott, N. Dakota.— “I had inflam
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and my back ached all the time. 1 was
so blue that 1 felt like crying if any one
even spoke to me. I took Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and I
began to gain right away. I continued
its use and now I am a well woman.”
-Mrs. Amelia Dahl, Walcott, N.
Dakota.
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