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The Manicure &y WILLIAM I. AUR.fi r GOT proposed to yesterday, j said the Manicure Lady, “by a Rent that has nothing hut mon ey and is going to have a bungalow out in California. If it wasn't that he is so old and feeble-like I think I should havo snapped him up, George, because I have always thought 1 would like to live <in a bungalow in the summer, especially in California. The climate is so balmy there, I sup pose on account of there being ho many balm trees. But 1 don’t like to think of nursing a old gent during the last years of his life, especially ns he might Mvc to be 90. Father ha* the gout once in a “while, and that taught me long ago never to marry old age and sore feet.” “I never thought that you would • •are for a quiet life in a bungalow,’’ said the Head Barber. “You, with all your life, charm and dash. I never figured that anything short of the Smart Set speed would make any hit with you after you married. ’ A Kind of Feeling - . “I always said that, George," ad mitted the Manicure Lady, "but lately there has been a kind of feeHing in my heart that 1 am getting sick of the city and city life. The old geezer that T was just telling you about, the one i.hat proposed to me, took me out in his car, and we went along country roads all the afternoon. Gee, it seemed good and restful to hear song bird* instead of old clothes men, and to smell lilacs instead of the subway air. There had been some rain, and the sun was just commencing to shine as we drove along. Everything was growing except my affection for the old gent. He talked so much about money and all It could buy that 1 could almost imagine I was back in rhe city, so I looked away from him all I could and looked at the hills and meadows. “Do you know, George, I wish I could meet some rich young farmer, like you read about in the magazine stories—a man with serious blue eyes and the strength of a panther, the kind that speaks to his rough men in commanding tones, .but purrs like a kitten when he comes home at night io greet his dainty little wife." "Why don’t you try' to win a hus band like that?” asked the Head Bar ber. "If you could nail one with plen- ly of acres and a honest heart, it would be the real way for you to live. The wives of the neighbors could teach you how to keep up the house work on the farm, and you could teach rhem all the latest slang and scan dal. It would all be new for you and it would sure be new for them. Try it.” A Fine Chance. “A fine chance a girl has got to come in contact with a honest young rich farmer, toiling down here among barbers the way I do,” said the Man icure Lady. “There is a lot of eligi- bles comes in here to have their nails did, ain’t they? Fresh actors and boy- comics and press agents and ex-book makers. On the level, George, I haven’t saw a gent in this place for a year now that would even dare to propose marriage to me without being sure of a quick getaway'. No, the farmer boy that I would like to marry is far from me and from this life, and I guess I will never see him and he will never see me. Maybe he is some where dreaming of a girl like me now, and maybe sometimes when I am alone at night I dream of him. There comes that fresh ticket scalper now- all gab and no tips no time. Oh, dear! What’s the use of getting away from 'em?” Up-to-Date Jokes Reporter: “I’ve a good piece of news here this morning. I found a person who had been confined to one room his entire life." Editor: "Good! Send it up. Who is Reporter: “Why, a three-day-old baby down at our house.” * * # Brown (to Robinson, who is reading a telegram with a look of anguish on his face): "What’s the matter, old fel low? Somebody' dead?" Robinson (crushing telegram with both hands): "No; somebody alive! Twins!” * * * Had sum—What side do you generally rake when your wife gets into an ar gument with somebody else? Wiseacre—Outside. It's safer. * * 0 Guest—Why don’t you put at least two oysters in your stew? Walter—We tried it, sir, but they used to quarrel. > * * * Parson—Do you know where little boys go when they smoke? Bo\—Yes; up the alley. * • * He—Shall I bring you an ice while Miss Yell fort is singing? Pray take some. She (a rival of Miss Y.)—Thanks, no. If I took anything it would be chloroform. * • * She—And that scar. Major. Did you set it during an engagement. He (absently)—No; the first week of our honeymoon! Maxwell House Blend a coffee of such exhilarating and palate tickling fla vor that it makes you thankful for life and good liv ing. Sealed earn* at groeer* Ckeek-Neal Coffee Co. NnbviKe Btntoa JackMvrkle A Cloak for Evening Wear A Frenchy Model of Ulira Attractiveness ■ Husband’s Gifts If You Are a Wife You’ll Appreciate This A N ev» ning coat of pale pink brocaded satin. The top is made as a kimono, cut with the half sleeve, this being finished by high Ren aissance lace. The collar is of the new Medici shape, which will be. worn for the next season, made of cross-wired ^ace. At the back an ormanent of cord finished by T a t&spel completes this collar. The fullness, at the height of the knees, is caught up in a high flounce of lace, the'head of which is caught by a huge garland of big roses and foliage. Geek of the Forty Faces By T. W. HANSHAW. “U Copyright by Doubleday, Page & Co. TO-DAY’S INSTALLMENT. NDER such circumstances,” went on Miss Renfrew, “it was only natural that I should be horribly frightened, and only too willing to act upon the con stable’s suggestion that we at once look into the Round House and see if everything was right with my un cle.” “Why should the constable suggest that?” “Everybody in the neighborhood knows of the bitter ill feeling exist ing between the two men; so, of course, It was only natural.” "Hum-m-m! Yes! Just so. Did you act on Constable Gorham’s sug gestion then?” “Yes. I led the way in here and then up 'the covered passage to the laboratory and opened the door. My uncle was sitting exactly as he had been when I looked in before—his back to me and his face to the win dow—but although he did not turn, it was evident that he was annoyed by my disturbing him. for he growled angrily, ‘What the devil are you com ing in here and disturbing me lik'‘ this for. Jane? Get out and leave me alone!’ ” “Hum-m-m!” said Clock, drawing down his brows and pinching his chin. “Any mirrors in the Round House?” “Mirrors? No; certainly not, Mr, Headland. Why?” “I See What You Mean. “Nothing—only that I was wonder ing if,-as you say. he never turned and you never spoke, how in the world he knew that it ready was you, that’s all.*” “Oh. I see what you mean.” said Miss Renfrew, knotting up her brows. “It does seem a lit Me peculiar when one looks at it in that way. I never thought of it before. Neither can I explain It, Mr. Headland, any more than to say that I suppose he took it for granted! And, es it happened, he was light. Besides, as you will remember, I had intruded up-on him only a short time before.” “Quite so,” said Cleok. “That’s what makes it appear stranger than ever. Under the circumstances one migltf have expected him to say not ‘What are you coming in here for?’ but ‘What are you coming in for again.’ Still, of course, there’s no accounting for little lapses like that. Go on, please—what next?” “Why, of course, I immediately ex plained what Constable Gorham bad said, and why I had looked in. To which he replied. ‘The man’s an ass. I Get (flit!’ Upon which I closed the door and the constable and I went away at once.” “Constable there with you during I it all then?” “Yes, certainly—in the covered passage just behind me. He saw and heard it all; though, of course, nei ther of us entered the laboratory it- | self. There was really no necessity I when we knew that my uncle was safe and sound, von see.” "Quite so," agreed (Meek. “So you ! --h.ii the door and went away—and then what?” 1 “Constable Gorham went back t> his beat, and I flew as fast as I could to meet Mr. Drummond. It is only a short way to the old bridge at best, and by taking that short cut through the grounds I was there in less than ten minutes. And by 8:30 I was back here In a greater state of terror than before.” “And why? Were you so much alarmed that Mr. Drummond did not keep the appointment?” The Fleeing Man. “No. That did not worry me at all. He is often unable to keep his ap pointments with me. He is filling the post of private secretary to a large compand promotor, and his time is nut his own. What terrified me was that, after waiting a few minutes for him, 1 heard somebody running along the road, and a few moments later Sir Ralph Droger flew by me as if he were being pursued. Under ordinary circumstances I should have thought that lie was getting into training for the autumn sports (he is. you may know, very keen on athletics, and holus the County Club’s Cup for running and jumping), but when I remem bered what Constable Gorham had .'-aid and saw that Sir Ralph was running from the direction of this house, all my wits flew; I got into a sort of panic and almost collapsed with fright.” “And all because the man was com ing from the direction of this house?” To Be Continued To-morrow. Machine for Composers U T^V E! U, cl VERYTHING is done by ina- hinery nowadays,” has been common expression for a decade or more, and every year brings it nearer the truth. One of the latest inventions is a device for writing mu sic by machinery. A Swedish inventor'named Nystrom invented the apparatus, which may he used in connection with any key board. either piano or organ. It is operated by means of electricity, and when a piece of music is played in the ordinary way. this device, called a “melograph,” records the sounds on a chemically prepared ribbon, which has boon treated with a preparation of wax to allow the impressions for each tone. After the music has been played the ribbon may be removed and read, just as* one would rend shorthand notes or the telegraph code. And in reading it the proper notations may be made, when—presto—there is the music, ac tually “written by machinery.” One of the greatest values of this invention is to composers. A com poser may finally strike exactly what he wants and play it as though in spired. Under the old method he had either to memorize it by playing it over and over, and then writing it, or jot It down, note by note. With the I aid of this invention he may play his compo.-'ition, remove the ribbon, and there it is, ready to copy into lasting form. Another feature of this invon- j tion is that the ribbon may be placed l\ /I DOUGLASS drew out h6r l\/l sewing dubiously. She glancea at the delicate embroidery that Mrs. Swift was working and at the gauze for a waist on which Mrs. Horton was deftly sewing beads. Then she sighed deeply. “I'll have to explain to you,” she said, “why I’ve got this atrocious waist to finish. It’s a present!” All eyes turned to examine the work she held. It was rather heavy In texture and of a peculiar shade that was neither a yellow nor a tan, but bore a tint resembling dish towels. It was embroidered in brown silk, with stiff little vines of brown leaves running up the front like rail road tracks, and similar vines twin ing stiffly around the neck and cuffs. "1 could cry!" complained Mrs. Douglass. “You see. my husband came in all elated last night and announced that lie had a present for me. He is the most horribly sensi tive man you ever saw. so when he opened the package, 1 hough I almost screamed when l pictured myself in the dreadful thing, 1 had to rave over its alleged beauty to satisfy him. The worst of it is that he's so pleased he wants me to wear it to the theater to-morrow evening. So I've got to get it finished and wear it." A Warning. “Oh, you poor dear!" Little Mrs Jones' voice was filled with pity and sympathy. “You’ll be sorry. “I know how he got that dreadful waist." went on Mrs. Jones. “My husband years ago was taken in by the same kind of agent. He brought me hump what he thought a wonder ful hand-embroidered waist direct from Armenia! I hated to hurt his feelings, for it was when we were first married, but 1 lived to regret the false enthusiasm I displayed to gratify him. For what do you think? The very next day he came in all smiles and said that as luck would have it he had run across the same man while he was visiting some other man’s office, and he bought me three more waists! “Then I plainly told him what 1 really thought of the horrid things. Since that time I have tried to edu cate him up To some slight knowl edge of what’s stylish in women’s dress—and he’s all over his hurt feel ings. It had to be. I couldn’t have endured any more such presents." “That reminds me,” said Mrs. Swift, “of the time my husband went East when we were very young. I had a friend whose husband always brought her things when he went on trips, and I was jealous. So I told my husband that I expected him to bring me a present. He said he would. So 1 waited anxiously for his return, imagining all sorts pf lovely things. When he took out a big package from his suitcase I fairly trembled with eagerness to open It. What do you suppose! It was twen ty yards of purple wool goods, for a dress! Purple, of all colors! Why, purple in those days was regarded as a simply impossible color. I never asked him to bring me another pres ent. I preferred the money; then I could choose what 1 wanted.” He Was Crazy. “Mv husband was just as bad," re marked Mrs. Horton. “He was crazy to surprise people. If I ever men tioned a thing I wanted I was sure not to get it: at least, if I seemed to expect it. But one Christmas I was simply wild for a little French clock. I had looked at them m much and dreamed of them so often that it did not seem as if there could be any other kind in the world. I couldn’t help wishing out loud for one. Frank heard me. but he thought he’d sur prise me the other way this time by actually giving me what I wanted. “When Christmas morning came, there' at my place at breakfast was a big black walnut clock—the kind that you find in school rooms and kitch ens. My heart stopped beating for a second, and I could have cried for vexation! I had so wanted a little glat's and gold French thing for my dainty room! He didn’t remember what kind of clock I wanted, and he liked the solid clock, with a nice clear face and big hands, that made a good loud noise when it struck the hour.” A New Pet. “Did I ever tell you about the time my husband brought home a ferret, one of those dreadful little animals that bite and burrow in the ground?" asked Mrs. Tortman. “He bought the beast from a man who kept ferrets for hunting. Think of keeping a ferret In a little four-room fiat! There we had that smelly animal for four whole months before I got up courage enough to say that I didn’t love him too much to part with his company willingly! That ferret was a birth day present, you know!” Mrs* Douglass smiled woefully. “They're all dreadful,” she conceded, “hut you didn’t have to wear your clock or your ferret or your purple dress! My husband believes that I was sincere in my praise of this waist and I can’t tell him now that I hate the thing! And to the theater!” Mrs. Douglass dropped a tear on the waist, then glanced at the clock and hastened her stitches. in a specially constructed phiyer and played as ordinary music rolls- are put into a mechanical piano and played. Result: Dead Heat. TT was a fateful day for Pottleby, the * corn'plaster king. when, having made his pile, he decided to settle down and buy a. real estate In Bonnie Scotland with his money. But no one warned him, and he in time became one of the real, old-fash ioned lairds, and Immensely popular. So popular, indeed, that he was invitee! to act as judge of the pipers at the local sport- gathering. So be sat away in a small tent, while the pipers strutted and puffed at their windy instruments to and fro in front. Even' reel and horn-pipe in Scotland had squealed and droned its way to life, and now there was the silence of the grave. But no sign from the judge. One of the officials hurried off to get the verdict. “Who’s won?” came in a chorus of hoarse whispers, as b<* reappeared. "I dinna ken wha’s won,” he an swered; “but an© o’ ye’* kilt th’ pulr laird!” Foresight. “Mr. Grimes,” said the rector to the vestryman, "we had better take up the collection before the sermon this morn- inb!” “Indeed.” “Yes. I'm going to preach on econ omy.” Naturally. Muggins—Whatever became of that friend of yours who used to have money to burn? Bugging—He's sifting the ashes. A Style m Aigrettes Advice to the I .ovelort) Red Velva Molasses Candy Bring one quart of RED VELVA to a boil; add best butter, keep stirring until syrup hardens when dropped into cold water. Grease pans, poor candy on them to cool. When cool enough to handle, pull i candy from tips of A gSsjSgla fingers until it be- jfl gygfei comes a golden mH color. iiW udmW Just try Velva with this recipe and see how fine it is. You’ll get flavor at Its very best and quality at Its finest. There isn’t anything like Velva for waffles, griddle cakes or candy any where, by any name—there’s nothing made that is as good as in the red can for making candles and baking cakes It hns m6re then syrup flavor—it has Velva flavor, that makes telling about It Impossible You must tatte It to know what we mean. Will you? Ten cents up. In clean, sanitary cans. Velva In the green cans. too. at your gaocer'a. PENICK & FORD, L’td. New Orleans, La. Send for the booh of Velva ______________ Recipee. A’© charge. f :: “ I he Lane! of Make-Believe” :: &y BBATKIOE FAIRFAX YOU ARE TOO YOUNG. ■pj EAR MIPS FAIRFAX: I am a young man, eighteen years of age, and I am desperately in love with a girl 20 years of age. She has the most beautiful eyes and. hair, find ruby rod lips, and a stylo that can’t be beat. I don’t know whether she loves me or not; I haven’t asked her yet. I can’t get up enough courage to ask her. Tell mo how I must begin. I think she likes me, for one of my friends told me that she speaks well of me. JACOB. I will not tell you how to begin, for the reason that you are too young. The girl is eleven years your senior, ami when you arc old enough to love with reason you will look hack and laugh at lh< valim you are now placing on her good looks. ((T^KOPLE ask: ‘What’s in a I* name?’ remarked the bos’n to the other boarders, who had eaten everything In sight and vn ere still loath to leave the table, but there is an awful lot in a name “Once I knew a woman who named her son Roderick. The old man wuj at sea at the time, and when he got home and saw' what the old lady had i done he got six months’ hard loboit “He said to his wife: 'How in ! thunder are you going to make a i suilor out of a boy with a ribbon i counter name like that?’ “ ‘He ain’t going to be a sailor,’ an swered the old lady. Then the six months’ hard labor got after the old man from that point. It reached him ! the next morning at 10 o’clock. “It stood to reason that* a boy named Roderick couldn’t be a sailor. , That's why hl^ mother gave him th© name. It was more tonnage than th« law allowed. “Again the old man went to sea, and his wife, named the next son Kenneth Orlando. The old man got ! a year for that. It was a cinch that a boy named Kenneth Orlando could ' never be a sailor, either. “The old man never was quite hftn- self after that. He said he never heard of a sailor raising male mil liners before. He felt that the dis grace was terrible! Called Him Zob. “He stay< <l away from the sea t*J be on hand at tl e n< xt christening, and he named the boy Zob. We all thought he was goin’ it rather strong to give a kid such a name as that But he said he wanted to fix him so he could get a job on a sand scow, and that would sort of even up on the rest of the family that had gone in for millinery. “He hung around for another year or two waiting for a chance to name a boy Dub, so that he could get a job on a garbage boat, but luck was against him. “The old man would come home with a good supply of tobacco and he and Zob would sit tip and smoke and swear and chew like good fel lows*. But if Kenneth Orlando % as much ns looked at a pipe—whang! He heard from his ma. And Rod erick had to have clean hands all tha time. Those two boys did everlast ingly hate their lot. They had to go to school and sit up straight, and be nice all the time. “The other, Zob, sol around in over alls. and his dad would hand Zob hi* plug every' time he took a chew him self. The Outcome. “The result was bad,' said t » boi/n. “You wouldn’t believe it, but when their ma was sick with a fever those two clean boys ran away from home. One gpt a job on a collier, and the othe** on a hog schooner, so they could be dirty and tougli all the time.” “And what became of Zob?” “Oh, Zobbie? After the old man died Zobbie tootf to society and went around looking like a wedding usher. I think he got a situation as lace salesman.” “Oh. Dear No!” A girl, forced by her parents into a disagreeable match .with an old man, whom she detested, when the clergy man came t<> that part of the service where the bride is asked if she consents to take the bridegroom for her husband, said, with great simplicity: “Oh,, dear, no, sir! But you are the first person who has asked my opinion about the matter.” His Wife’s Aim. “The object of the average explorer seems to be* to acquire enough material for a lecture." "Yes; that is my wife’s aim when she explores my pockets.” Small black Tagal hat with a H 3LEN hurst into tho little stu dio, breathless from the clunb of dark stairs, and threw her arms about the neck of the tall fel low who was seated before the easel. “Greg, Greg!” she exclaimed. “What do you think? I’ve accepted a posi tion—and I’m going to begin to morrow!” Greg put down his brush and gently pulled her arms away. “A—a position, Helen,” hr stam mered. “What do you mean?” “If you think I’m going to sit still and do nothing when we need money, you’re mistaken,” she broke In. “I found a position as—as governess to a dear little girl. They’re to pay me a pound a week. That will do a lot of good, Greg, until those horrid art editors begin to appreciate your work.” Greg rose and held both her hands, with a suspicious moisture gathering in his gray eyes. “But, Helen,” he protested, "I can’t allow you to work, dear. I simply won’t listen, that’s all. We can get along somehow for the time.” She cuddled up within his embrace. "Now, do be considerate, Greg,” she argued. “The people are nice, and the little girl seems to like me very much. And it isn’t work at all. dear. Why, I’m only to take the girl out for walks. It’ll be fun." "I know, Helen,” he said, with some thing like a choke in his throat; "but it’s the principle of the thing. Th * idea of a big. strong man like mo sitting here and you out working”— Words of Praise. “There, there,” she Interrupted, clapping a hand to his mouth. “We've db'cussed that before. Any ordinary man can find work. That is on.-y You must remember you're a genius —that you’re striving for something worth gaining.” He laughed at her rambling, earn est argument. “I’m not so sure of being a genius,” he declared, kissing her. “No one appears to think so except you. However. I suppose you must have it your Way.” So the following morning, bubbling over with ©nthu. tr iasm. sh»* tripped off to her duties. Greg watched medi tatively' from the studio window, aft erward sitting do vn before the easel, working on the cover promised fot that day. Everything had been different since their arrival in London. In the prov inces, on the newspaper, he had mad* a good living, and hi - - work V - ■ I] thought of. Here ho had to fight < von for an interview, and his drawings were returned with ever increasing regularity. Luckily, he found some advertising pamphlets to Illustrate, and a few of the beet pictures sold to a second-class magazine that paid neither well nor promptly—but th* little helped. il. A dozen times, that long, lonesome day, Greg dropped his work and stared moodily out of the window. Helen’s work was not hard—but. after all, it was not right. Rather, a thousand times, had he remained in Lancashire, with his small but reg ular salary, than be here where no one cared—and where Helen had to work. In the evening she came back, kiss ed him eagerly, and fell to work pre paring supper. “You can’t imagine what a glori ous time we had, the little girl and 1, Greg,” she broke out. "Her name’s Margie. We took a long walk out In the park, and bad our buna and. huge tuft of black aigrettes disposed in the shape of a fan. Small brim is slightly rolled on the side. things on the grass. I don’t see where the day lias gone. Were you lonesome, dear old genius?” He laughed, rolled himself a cigar ette, while she brought a match and lighted it for him, afterward sitting on the arm of the chair. Supper over, he went to work again, while she leaned over the table and watched him—love, admiration and faith shin ing in the depths of her big eyes. Thus the day slipped by. Helen departed early. Work fell off more than ever. He sickened of the weary rounds. Day' in and day out he met with the same curt refusals. Ills work was gone—he knew it. But they' would never take the trouble to ex amine his sheets. Helen’s little wage helped matters along to no small ex tent. although it pained him to real ize it. As the days sped on into weeks, Helen sqemed to grow quieter thaw usual; her cheeks did not look as fresh, nor her ey« s as bright as tiny should. Greg noticed every little thing with something of a grip at his heart; but whenever he mentioned the fact she laughed and told him liis eyesight was growing very' bad. Near tbe Crisis. One day Greg tossed his drawing- board across the room, and stood very stfaiaht, \< - ry determined, before tin v. indow. T v <> • 1 eks had pas m d since he had sold his last drawing. Things were approaching a crisis. It could not go on for ever this way. An hour later, with a strangely thumping heart, he was out in the street. Helen should not be the only broa<fwinner. Genius was all right in its place, but it did not bring in a living. IT • remembered suddenly a sign that hung in a factory window a few streets away. Without slacken ing his speed, he turned down the street and went boldly into the office. A stout, red-faced man met him, and asked n few questions. Five minutes later Greg had donned a pair of overalls and was loading paper boxes Into a dray. In return for this he was to get 2T> shillings a week. He reached homo that night before Helen did, cleaned up a bit and awaited her coming. As her first foot step sounded on the stairs he threw open the door and took her in his arms. “What do you think. Helen?” he cried. “I’m really working at last. Fm on the staff of tho Tribune, and l know I’ll be all right. You needn’t work any more after to-night.” III. Two more weeks passed. Gregg manage.:! to get off from the factory before Helen arrived home. He tried each night to bring home some little irifle that would please her; a flower, a box of sweets or some cheering news. Over the supper table they would exchange the day's experi ences. One day at the factory busily pack ing his boxes into tho ever-empty dray a girl came running clown from the upper floor. “Got a handkerchief?” she inquired, aiflPlously. "One of the folders has cut her hand.” Greg straightened, pulled out a freshly ironed, blue-bordered one that Helen had given him that morning, anckgave It to the waiting girl. An hour later he had forgotten it. That night, as usual, he was first to arrive at the studio. A letter, pushed beneath the door, caught his eye. He picked it up. noting with a sudden tightening at his throat that it was from the Tribune Maga zine. It was in their hands he had entrusted a bundle of his best W’ork. Trembling, he tore it open and read the short letter: Good News. Mr. Greg Hamilton. Hareourt Studios: Dear Sir—Your drawings have; been found acceptable, and we should be glad to confer with you about regular work. Yours truly', II. H. HALL. Greg sank wearily to the couch, stunned with the sudden good news. Was it possible, after all, that he was to become a regular contributor to the magazine—the best magazine in the city? Helen need never learn about the factory now, and all the white lies would be forgotten. She could not come home soon enough now. Wouldn’t it be a glori ous surprise for her—this note? Sho must have been right, after all, in de claring he was a genius. There* were steps in the hall now It must be Helen. He came to his feet and rushed across to the door, throwing It wide open. Helen was outside. With a cry' he waved the letter badly before her. “Helen. Helen,” he blurted out. "Everything is all right. I'm to join the staff of the Tribune, and”- Something choked in his throat, and the very room appeared to reel for the moment. Helen was through the door now and in the yellow glare of the lights, and wrapped about her right hand was his blue-bordered handkerchief.