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TheHwt Titanic Traoeay How Love '' z as Born Out I of the Greatest Shipwreck of Modern Times and Two T 'ho Faced Death Side by Side in an Open Boat Decide to Sail the Sea of Matrimony Together. IT ts refreshing to bp able to record something pleasant as an after math of the Titanic disaster. T’iie heroism displayed by so many of the victims. It is true, served in a measure to temper the universal grief which the tragedy occasioned, but. even that alleviating circumstance left much to be sup plied. Perhaps the necessary reliev ing touch may now be furnished In the shape of a remarkable romance to which the tragedy gave birth and which has just come to light. Karl H. Behr, the greet American tennis player, and M’.-% Helen M. Newsom, two of the passengers of the ill fated vessel that awful April night were thrown together in th» same open boat and drifted in th-, ice-laden sea for hours until they were picked up by tho rescue ship, uro to live out their lives together. Their engagement has just beer, an nounced and their marriage is to follow shortly. Perhaps these two favorites of fortune would have march'd any way. They laid been Intimate friends for a long time. Certain it 1-. however, that on the night of the tragedy they were friends and no more. They were not engaged. What the Principals Say. Whether their relations became changed that very night while, for greater warmth, they were locked tn each other's arms in the open boat In which they had escaped from the foundering vessel, with the shrieks of the drowning victims ringing in their ears and the "growl ers" pounding the sides of the frail lifeboat and threatening every min ute to send them to eternity, may never be known. People don t usually talk of such things. ■•\Ve weren't engaged before the faster.” is as far as Mr. Behr, who is a lawyer and cautious, will go. “We’ve been engaged since the dis aster,” is the ambiguous way in which Miss Newsom, who is a woman and tantalizing, puts It. It looked very much as if, through the delicacy which these two happy individuals naturally feel regarding this most interesting episode of their lives, the world might never know the details of what may have been 1 the most dramatic proposal of mar riage ever proffered. Through an intimate girl ft lend of the bride-to-be, however, the real story, it is believed, has nevertheless been obtained. Who the Heroine and the Hero Are. Miss Newsom is the daughter of Mrs. R. L- Beckwith, now of the Wendolyn, Riverside Drive, New York, but formerly of Columbus. O. She was a schoolmate and intimate friend of Mr. Behr’s sister at Briar cliff. Mr. and Mrs. Beckwith and Miss Newsom left for Europe last Fall for a six months’ trip. lheir holi day over, they shipped on the Titanic at Southampton for New York via Cherbourg, where Mr. Behr joined them, as had been arranged. Miss Newsom is a tall brunette jf the athletic type. She was a fair tennis player herself, and naturally :elt great admiration for her school mate’s famous brother, who in 1905 was ranked third in American nls an! ' : national team that went to Eng land. Mr. Behr graduated from Ya.e In 1905 and was regarded as one of the best all-round athletes that adversity has ever produced. With these few details as to the 'ramatls personae, the story ns told the heroine's friend may now be unfolded. When the Titan! • struck ‘be ice berg Mr. Behr was undressing in ills cabin on D deck. There is noth ing very romantic in that, but this is a true romane ■ and the truth must not be ; oppressed. At the som 1 of the impact Mr. dehr ran to the bow of the boat on die lower deck, where were the •taterooms of Miss Newsom and the Beckwiths. Miss Newsom was it; the passage way. "You had better arous- your parents, Helen,” declared Mr. Behr, quite calmly; "I think something has gone wrong. But don't get alarmed about it, it may not amount to anything." Miss Newsom aroused the Beck withs. Together the party made their way on deck. When they saw that the lifeboats were being low ered they decided to seek accommo dations. The first one they found was full. [ hey Embark in the Life-Boat. « When Mrs. Beckwith came to the second boat, and before she at tempted to get into it, she asked whether the men could go with her. “Certainly, madame,” replied Mr. Ismay. The little party were ap parently the last passengers on the top deck and they saw no reason to hesitate about seeking their safety in the boat awaiting them. Mr. and Mrs. Beckwith were seated in the bow of the lifeboat. Mr. Behr took charge of Miss New som and they were placed in the stern. 'The boat was shoved off and for seven hours thereafter It drifted around in the icy sea until picked up by the Carpatilia. During those seven hours the suf fering endured by th rescued was intense. It has already been fully the last despairing shrieks of the drowning, although the bitter cold occasioned much physical suffering among the survivors. Although there were several mem bers of the crew on board more hands were needed at the oars and Mr. Beh. was one of the first to vol unteer. A new place was found for Miss Newsom near the bow of the boat and Behr took a starboard our in about the centre of the boat. For hour after hour lie pulled, be ing relieved from time to time by other male passengers. Most of the passengers, unused to muscular work of any kind, made but inept sailors, and Behr was therefore made to bear the brunt of the work No one could help admiring the big fellow as he put nil the power lie could summon into his strokes Miss Newsom begged him from time to time to rest, fearing that he would overstrain himself, but he stuck to liis task until his strength gave out. and even then they had to drag him ft'om the oar. Hqw the Hero Proposed. Once or twice Miss Newsom her self lent a hand, and proved herself to be a good oarswoman. i tie main object of the crew was to keep the boat from pounding on the huge blocks of drift ice with which they were surrounded. After several hours of the most arduous work in the bitter cold passengers and crew sighted the Carpathia in the distance, and then for tlie first time they were able to take a much-needed rest. Making his way to the side of Miss Newsom, Mr. Behr sank down, thoroughly exhausted They were sitting in the bow and got the full benefit of the heavy seas in which the boat labored. Both were thor oughly soaked to the skin. "You don’t mind, Helen, do you?” Behr asked, ns he threw his arms around her shoulder. "I’m afraid if we ever get out of this you’ll get. your death of cold,” "You tire in greater danger than I, Karl," replied the girl, softly, "for you have been exercising violently and you are soaked through." They huddled together in the bow of the ' to get what warmth they could from contact. "Karl." whlsiK'red the girl, after a long silence, "we have been as near to death to-night as we shall ever be. Even now it is not sure that the vessel will stop to pick us Up. But, if we are saved, mother and father and 1 will never be able to repay you for what you have done for us.’’ "But I have done nothing. Helen." replied the big fellow. "But for you having thought of and s mummed us when the crash ; Uie. Karl. We should al. have been left on the boat. It is too horrible to think of! We owe our lives to you!” ixarl said noLiing for some time. I .. fi. the quiet which reigned in hut boatload of sorrow he bad plenty of time to think. • •• ■■■ ■ . ♦ -. ~■' "• .■ • ' - .■ i » ' i < • WK w ■ - JA in x Ear / Nn . n: , ■' y.m ' V W •£’<' <"■ ' Rd/ X>%A?Sk Nx ie-WB fir /T"" „ . ... „ N-? \ N ' AX'J Xj/ i-A v,< 6 <v- “Made in an open boat, with the shrieks of drowning victims ringing in their ears and the huge ‘growlers’ pounding the frail sides of the craft and threatening every moment to send its occupants to a watery grave, it was perhaps the most dramatic proposal of marriage ever proffered!” “If we are saved, Helen, as I am sure we shall be now,” he declared, slowly, a little later, "will you let me row by your side through life? To-night we have faced death together. By some kind Providence we have been saved where hundreds of others have perished. Perhaps it was ordained that we should be saved for each other. If we are saved, Helen, will you marry me?" The crunching of the ice against the frail sides of the boat, the moans of passengers overcome by thoughts of the vast catas trophe they had been through, and the shrieks of drowning passengers, which even at that time could still be heard in the dis tance, combined to make a confused roar in the ears of the anxious suitor as he bent his head toward the girl to hear her answer "Karl," she said at length, "I have known you a long while. I have known all along that you were big and strong and able good and worthy, all that a girl could ask in a husbar H I didn't know until this dreadful ■ —“"’L -• .' " m Sw-■ X,- " ■ MX „ y-Xsy ±.' ■ BI'NOSKWIWP ' —•—— .. .*4 The Open Bn., in Wich Mr. Behr .-. „ d Mi,. Ne„.„ m Escaped from the 111-fated Titanic. night that you were also a hero! I would sail by your side through eternity!” The compact was sealed then and there. b When the boat was finally picked up by the rescue ship the Beckwiths. Miss Newsom and Mr. Behr were reunited. The grief of the survivors on that iiome , ward trip was so intense, growing deper and 1 deeper as the full extent of the catastrophe , became more thoroughly appreciated, that > neither Mr. Behr nor his tlaneee felt equal I to the task of breaking the news of their happiness to the Beckwiths, and it was not 1 until the party reached New York that the secret was revealed. Even then it was con sidered seetnlv to keen the matter a strictly Five-Inch Lips, 6-Inch Heels—Wl More Barbarous? p— -4f MBi!O ■-•»Ws I 1 SSjtjp Ji! V X —HU n I I ’T' W< * j The Six-inch Heels of the “Civilized” Women of Europe and America Karl H. Beh', Lawyer and Tennir, Cham pion, Who Is Said to Have Won the Love of a Fellow Sur vivor of the I itanic Disaster While Still in the Lifeboat in Which They Es caped, and Above, Miss Helen M. New som, His Bride to-Be. private affair until tho horrors of the dis aster had somewhat abated. i'ur the past few months, however, the en gagement has been known to the intimate fliends of the family, who regard the match as a particularly appropriate one. A tew weeks ago the engagement was formally announced. lie might have been married utivwav.' says Mr. Behr. . "Mr. Bohr is a fine fellow I have known lorn a long whil . Perhaps our joint exp< r erne on the ill-fated Titanic expedited mat- -s. and yet we might have been marfied anxwaj. \Vi ;o can tell?” is the wa- Miss JI /f ODEkx woman looks with 1V 1 J lol, ' or on the artificial de formities which negro •omen inflict upon themselves for ’he sake of "fashion." Ono of ths Pictures here reproduced shows a '.vpical woman of the Sara tribe or Alrica whose lips have undergone unusual treatment to give them the desired enlarged size, which among these primitive people is consid ered a sign of beauty. Tito lips, as elongated, are at least five inches long! The effect is produced by piercing the lips in youth and gradually enlarging tho boles by inserting wooden discs, the size of which is increased as the lips get distended. Hut look at the other picture—a photograph just taken of the new up-to-date shoe worn by the "civif- ' 7 77 I I-—, Ff f . Wagfejjti. g/jSi’vi. / S -t. - r y .aZ M ■ i y■*?. - 'iW - ? y yy.,'. ...''yy *,5 >;■ f-T i - - - .. if u>; x-Xyy .— — • - IXX wr I x ' *■ i Good and Systems of Diet 3y F. CHRISTIAN HILLER, ■ ' ■ j Y the ritates. to the systems of diet than do we in England, yet yon have as a national disease, dyspepsia, and we o’.’ the British Empire ccarely know tin complaint even by name. You of America have pale, sometimes pasty, complexions ami we have clear rosy ones. What am I to infer from th’-? '1 .mt you do tint know how to eat wisely? Far from it. You do know it. but you do not obey the xoice of your own wisdom. You know, lor instance, that ice cream chills the digestive juices Yet, how you like your ice t rwtiu! And what quantities cf it you eat! We have ices now and then in England. They are not quite unknown to us. But we do not eat a quarter as many ices, or a fourth as much ice cream as you do. And sweets! You call them candy here! What leads of it you consume! Tha; is ver" ban for you. True, we nave our mm at tea and our marmalade at breakfast, but they are assimilated with the rest or our :o-■« io., have the pernicious habit of eating candy between meal . when without the counteiact ing effects of other foods, a mixed diet, they aie a poison to the digestive tract. We are at the b ginning of an era of st.; h great intelligence about health that it will soon be regarded ■. disgrace to be ill Tho ri ’.it uDd'H’Siuiidin ’ <’i tuud va.ii 's ■' *•’ nj.-.c.i •hat end for His:ai.;<- n-r\ on- ea’i chuosr -• . . ii’j «dv il h.■» knows his tiieiu*. n.'oo jlu. thes > facts. ■ tional diseas , mdigestion are ■• . ;■ < - - meats, cereals, citceue, black >e:-r— ■ a,,-; '■'ooX that bav, toe bnyo-ite effect ; e i.- erally accepted, though sorm ihystemns di sent from this conclusion, to be i'-.--. ■'< ; a» izeu" woman of fashion. The In.•. is of these shoes are no less than six inches in height, am! to walk in them tin.- wearer practically Has to b ar her full weight on the tips ot her toes. There i.- probanl;- more actual pain suffered by the wearer ot these shoes, ami certain!, n.u lasting harm dene, than is ever ex perienced by the African lady whose lips arc distended. As far as be.r.ity goes, individual tastes may differ. But it is -afe to say that in luo tropical clime of Africa the high heel shoe would be regarded w.tn as much abhorrence as the West ern woman feels lor the benighted heathen who distorts her face to gratify he; vanity in me manner shown in the picture - ra ' xiSi tewOu • i ikvs. x 7 >.■ x ■ • W*. -* sass Jf x < v ■ ■* sK f i fr'y...’ . ® . ? ■ X' a ® ' < <r> go W; ; ' y -.y , n/. f fe ■' ' j 7: '' x 7 1 potatoes, peas, beans, spinach, turnips, ca ■ base, onions, prunes, figs, apples peaches ami olives. Foods which are of average value in >n.- respect are nuts, crusts of cold bread. ■ a-;, wic t-baked bread, eggs, cold milk, ot ang j and lettuce. Onions are of special value to those per sons of heavy movements, lethargic tempera merits and muddy complexions, for they are, like lemons, a liver tome. I hose and apples clear the complexion because they first clear the blood driving out the excess of uric acid. Celery is a tonic food. upbuilding the nervous and sufferers from rheumatism. To make fresh, pure blood should b • the aim of every one. and this much eating of beets and carrots does Both are rich in iron which they transfer to the blood. I 5 dandelion, spinach and asparagu.i. Tomatoes are the foe of the person w. . rheumatism or gout, yet they act directly "’lit u eaten law, u, ,m the liver. Onions, cab bage, cauliflower turnips and water cress, because the;, contain much sulphur, are ex ■nt agents for ng t! hlnpd, and are of especial value at this season. Melons e.ro cooling to the blood and stimu the digestion Lettuce al ols th • nerves are prunes Whenever possible eat fruits without cane sugar a-.d avoid sugar s mu< h as yo : can for B te' I. to make the lazy liver lazier Lettucand celerv are an eng the simple cure.- flnsomnia.’ ' • mons are not onß > the ; ■■ on cf the liver but they are Pel ' • rheumatism, anti, like pmeti;■nir. reduct t‘*e fever in sore throats But t lemon is wasted I it it with sugar Ar: . stron; i taken dire ly into thi t '. Halt a large lemon or all of .i small one should ■<l ■ ■ '. ■ cold or hot iter 1 thus druni • ike th! el 3 j n drink morning an,] evening It cleanse th« s: >m:. h is ,-;cr.it ag i.o *in.- ie and rins l * « the month does the mouth r — '77““ I W-&Z’ UM--K-'T- f f- '''"'H ' V , »'</ i - <' 5 ■' -’7 1 ...... . _ —I The Five-inch Lips of the Sara Women of Africa.