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♦ The Manicure Lady A Cloak for Evening Wear A Frcnchy Model of Ultra Attractiveness By WILLIAM F. KIRK j i T GOT proposed to yesterday,” |l said the Manicure Lady, “by a gent that has nothing: but mon ey and is going: to have a bungalow out in California. If it wuan’t that he is so old and feeble-like I think I should have snapped him up. George, because T have always thought l 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 so many balm trees. But I don't like to Ah ink of nursing a old gent during the last years of his life, especially as he might live to be 90. Father has the gout once in a while, and that taught me long ago never to marry old age and sore feet.” ”1 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 feeding in my heart that I am getting sick of the city and city life. The old geezer that I was just telling you about, the one that 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 birds instead of old clothes men, and to smell lilacs instead of the subway • ir. There had been some rain, and the sun was Just commencing to shine *s we drove along. Everything was growing except my affection for the eld gent. He talked so much about money and all ft could buy that 1 could almost imagine I was back in the city, so I looked away from him all I could and looked at the hills and meadows. "Do you know, George, I wish I eould meet some rich young farmer, like you read about in the magazine stories—a man wtith serious blue eyes and the strength of a panther, the kind that speaks to hla rough men In commanding tones, but purrs like a kitten when he comes home at night to 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 ry 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 <5 id, 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, $nd 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 ?” A N evening 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 lace. At the back an ormanent of cord finished by a tassel 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. .:. Cleek of the Forty Faces .:. By T. W. HANSHAW. Copyright by Doubleday, Page & Co. TO-DAY’S INSTALLMENT. ^ t j NDER such circumstances,” I J went on Miss Renfrew, "it was oply natural that I should he horribly frightened, and 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 Reporter: "I’ve a good piece of news here this morning. 1 found a person who had been confined to one room his entire life.” Editor: “Good! Send it up. Who is it?” 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! T wins!” * * • Hadsum—What side do you generally take when your wife gets into an ar gument with somebody else? Wiseacre—Outside. Tt’s safer I Guest—Why don’t you put at least two I •waters in your stew? . Walter--We tried it. sir, but they used I fb quarrel. * * * Parson—Do you know where litt I hoys go when they smoke" Boy—Yes: up the alley * * ♦ He—Shall I bring you an ice while Miss Yellfort is singing? Pray take some. • She (a rival of Miss Y.)—Thanks, k no. If I took anything it would be I cr^oroform. I She—And that scar, Major. Did you Fget it during an engagement. He (absently)—No; the first week of lour 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. 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 hitter J11 feeling exist ing between the two men: so, of course, it was only natural.” “Hum-m-m! Yes! Just so. Did you act oif* Constable Gorham's sug gestion then?” “Yes. 1 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 like this for. Jane? Get out and leave me alone!’ " "Hum-m-m!” said Cleek, draving down his browfe and pinching his chin “Any mirrors in the Round House?” “Mirrors? No; certainly not, Mr. Headland Why?” “I See What You Mean. “Nothing—only tha,t I was wonder ing if, as you say, he never turned and you never spoke, how in the world lie knew that it really was you. that’s all.” “Oh, I see what you mean.” said Miss Renfrew, knotting up her brows. “It does seem a little 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. as it happened, he was right. Besides, a? you will remember. I had intruded upon him only a short time before.” “Quite so," said Cleek* “That’s what makes it appear stranger than ever. Under the circumstances one might have expected him to say not What are you coining 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 had said, and why I h&d looked in. To which he replied, ‘The man’s an ass. Get out!’ Upon flhich I closed the door and the constable and I went away at once.” “Constable there with you during 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- ■ <e!f. There was really no necessity when we knew that my uncle was ' safe and sound, you see.” ■ Quite so." agreed Cleek. “So you j shut the door and went away—and • then what?” • “Constable Gorham went back to before.” “And why? Were you so much alarmed that Mr. Drummond did not keep tlje 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 company promotor, and his time is not his own. What terrified me was that, after waiting a few minutes for him, I heard somebody running along the road, and a few moments later Sir Ralph' Droger 'flew Dy me as if he were .being pursued. Under ordinary circumstances. I should have thought that he was getting into training for the autumn sports (he is, you may know, very keen on athletics, and ljol is the County Club’s Cup for running and jumping), hut when 1 remem bered what Constable Gorham had said 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 hou9c?” To Be Continued To-morrow. | Machine for Composers y'X VF>RYTHING is done by ma- chinery nowadays.” has been i 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 be 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 been 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 a« ono would read 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 wha: he wants and play it as though in spired. Under the old rpethod 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 aid of this invention he may play his composition, remove the ribbon, and there it is, ready to copy into lasting form. Another feature of this inven tion is that the ribbon may be placed in a specially constructed player and played as ordinary music rolls are put into a mechanical piano and played. Husband’s Gifts If You Are a Wifc. You’ll Appreciate This ■j% IT RS. DOUGLASS drew out her IV/1 sew ing dubiously. She glanced at the delicate embroidery that Mrs. Swift was working and at tiie gauze for a waist on which Mrs. Horton was deftly 'sewing heads. Then she sighed deeply. "HI have to explain to you,” she said, "why I’ve got this atrocious ! w’aist to finish. It’s* a present!” All eyes turned u> examine the work she held. It # was rather heavy in texture and of a peculiar shade that was neither a yellow nor a tan, hut bore a tint resembling dish towels. It was embroidered in brown silk with stiff little vines of brow’n leaves running tip tlie 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 he had a present for me. He is the most horribly sensi tive man you ever saw, so when he opened the package, though I almost screamed when I pictured myself In the dreadful thing. I 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. .Tones’ 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 home wjiat lie thought a wonder ful hand-embroidered W'aJst direct from Armenia! I hated to hurt hist feelings, for it was when we w’ere I first married, but I lived to regret the false enthusiasm T displayed to gratify him. For what do you think? The very next day lie 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 1 plainly told him what T i really thought of the horrid things. 1 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 he. 1 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 T was Jealous. So I told my husband that I expected him to bring me a present. He said he would. So I waited anxiously for his return, imagining all sorts of 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 j could choose what I wanted.” He Was Crazy. “Mv husband was just as had.'' re marked Mrs. Horton. "He was crazy ! to surprise people. If l ever men- I tioned a thing J wanted 1 was sure not to get it: . t least, if 1 seemed to expect it. But one Christmas 1 was simply wild for a little French clock. 1 had looked at them so much and dre'amed of them so often that it did not seem as"ff 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 heating for a second, and I could have cried for vexation! T had so wanted a little glans 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 i man who kept .ferrets fof hunting Think of keeping # a ferret in a little four-room flat! Th'ere 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, “but 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. Result: Dead Heat. I T 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 invited to act. as judgw of the pipers at the local sports gathering. So he sat away in a small tent, while the pipers strutted and puffed at their windy instruments to and fro In front. Every reel and horn-pipe In Scotland hiid squealed and droned its way to life, and now there was the silence of the grave. But no sign from the judge. One of tne officials hurried off, to get the verdict. “Who’s won?” came in a chorus of hoarse whispers, as he reappeared “I dinna ken wha's won " he an* sv « •< i; "but ane o’ ye’s kilt th’ pulr laird!" Foresight. "Mr. Grimes,” said the rector to the vestryman, "we had better take up the collection before the sermon this tnorn- inb!” "Indeed." "Yes. I'm going to preach on econ- Naturally. Muggins- Whatever became of that friend <>f yours who used to have money to bum? Buggins—He’s sifting the ashes. frccsiaBEE: Red Velva Molasses Candy Bring one quart of RED VELVA to a boil; add best butler, keep stirring until syrup hardens when dropped into cold water. Grease pans, pour candy on them to cool When cool enough to handle, pull i candy from tips of A fingers until it be comes a golden color. Just try Velva with this recipe and see how fine it Is. You’ll get flavor at Its very best and quality at Us 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 has more than ayrup flavor—It has Velva flavor, that makes telling about It Impossible You must taute It to know what we mean Will you? Ten cents up, In clean, sanitary cans. Velva In the green cars. too. at your grocer s PENICK & FORD. L td. New Orleans, La Send for the booh of Velva Recipes. No charge. A Style in Aigrettes Advice to the Lovelorn By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. YOU ARE TOO YOUNG. 1"\ BAR MISS FAIRFAX: ^ I am a young man, eighteen years of age, and 1 am desperately in love with a girl 29 years of age. She has the most beautiful eyes and hair, and ruby red lips, and a stjle that cun't be beat. I don’t know whether she loves me or not; l haven’t asked her yet. 1 can’t get. up enough courage to ask her. roll me 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, and when you are old enough to love with i reason* you will look back and laugh at I the value you are now placing on her I good looks. Much in a Name up' Small black Tagal hat with a huge tuft of black aigrettes disposed in the shape of a fan. Small brim is slightly rolled on the side. :: “The Land of Make-Believe” :: H SLEN burst into the little stu dio, breathless from the climb 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," he 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 nae a pound a week. That will do a lot of good. Greg, until those horrid art editors begin to appreciate your work.” Greg ro«e and held both her hands, with a suspicious moisture gathering in his gray eyes. “But, Helen,” he protested, "T can’t allow you to work, dear. I simply won v 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; “hut it’s the principle of the thing. The idea of a big, strong man like me sitting here and you out working”— Words of Praise. “There, there,” she interrupted, clapping a hand to his mouth. "We’ve diwcussed that before. Any ordinary man can find w’ork. That is easy You must remember you're a genius -that you’re striving for something worth gaining." He laughed at her rambling, earn e. w t 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 enthusiasm, she tripped off to her duties. Greg watched medi tatively from the studio window, aft erward sitting down before the easel, working on the cover promised fol 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 his work was well thought of. Here he had to fight.even 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 be?* pictures sold to a second-class magazine that paid neither well nor promptly—but the little helped. II. A dozen times, that long, lonesome ly. Greg dropped his work and aied moodily out of the window, elen’s work was not hard—but. 'ter all, it was not right. Rather, a lousand times, had he remained in ancashlre, with his small but reg- ar salary, than be here where no one ired—and where Helen had to ork. In the evening she came back, kiss- I him eagerly, and fell to work pre- n ing supper. “You can’t imagine what a glftri- js time we had, the little girl and Greg,” she broke out “Her name’s argie. We took a long walk out things on the grass. I don’t see where the day has 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 w’ent 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 lie met with the same curt refusals. His w’ork 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 seemed to grow quieter than usual; her cheeks did pot look as fresh, nor her eyes as bright as they should. Greg noticed every little thing with something of a grip at his heart; hut whenever he mentioned the fact she laughed and told him his eyesight was growing very bad. Near the Crisis. One day Greg tossed his drawing- board across the room, and stood very straight, very determined, i>'*r*»re the window. Two weeks had passed 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 breadwinner. Genius ‘was all right in its place, but it did not bring is a living. He remembered suddenly a sign that hung in a factory window a ! few streets away. Without slacken- j ing his speed, he turned down the I street and went boldly into the office. A stout, red-faced man met him, , and asked a few questions. # Five minutes later Greg had donned a pair i of overalls and was loading paper boxes into a dray. In return for thi he was to get 25 shillings a week. He reached home that night before j Helen did, cleaned up a hit and j aw’aited her coming. As her first foot- step sounded on the stairs he threw , open the door and took her in his j arms. “What do you think, Helen?” he cried. “I’m really working at last.! I'm on the staff of the Tribune, and ! I know I'll be all right. You needn’t work any more after to-night.” III. Two more weeks passed. Gregg: managed to get off from the factory before Helen arrived home. He tried , each night to bring home some little trifle that would please her; a flower, | a box of sw eets or some cheering j new’R. Over the supper table they would exchange the day’s experi ences. One day at the factory busily pack ing his boxes into the ever-empty dray a girl came running down from the upp r floor. “Got a handkerchief?” she inquired, anxiously. “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, and gave it to tlie 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 work. Trembling, he tore it open and read the short letter: Good News. Mr. Greg Hamilton, Harcourt Studios: Dear Sir—Your drawings have been found acceptable, and we should be glad to confer with you about regular work. Yours truly, H. 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? She must have been right, after all, in de claring he was a genius. There were steps in the hall now. Tt must be Helen. He came to his feet and rushed across to the door, throwing it wide open. Helen was outside. With a cry lie 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. EOPLE ask: ‘What’s in a name?’ remarked the bos’n to the other boarders, who had eaten everything in sight and were still loath to leave the table, “hut there i*» an awful lot in a name. “Once I knew a woman who named her son Roderick. The old man was at sea at the time, and when he got home and saw what the old lady had done he got six months’ hard labor. “He said to his wife: 'How in thunder are you going to make a sailor out of a boy with a ribbon counter name like that?’ " He ain’t going to be a sailor,’ an swered the old Jadv. Then the six months’ hard labor got after the old man from thRt 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 hi?' mother gave him the name. Tt was more tonnage than the 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 him self after that. He said he never heard of a sailor raising male mil liners before. He felt that the dis grace yas terrible! Called Him Zob. "Ho stayed away from tire tea te he on hand at the next christening, end lie 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, hut luck was against him. “The old man would com© homo with a good supply of tobacco and he and Zob would sit up and smoke and swear and chew like good fel low?.*. But if Kenneth Orlando as much as looked at a pipe—whang! He heard from his ma. And Rod erick had to have clean hatids all the 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, sat around in over alls, and his dad would hand Zob his plug every time lie took a chew him self. The Outcome. “The result was bad,” said the bo?’n. “You wouldn’t believe it. but when their ma was sick with a fever those two clean boys ran away from home. One got a job on a collier, and tiie othe** on a hog schooner, so they could he dirty and tough all the time.” “And what became of Zob?” “Oh, Zobbie? After the old man died Zobbie took 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 tntn a disagreeable match with an old man. whom she detested, when the clergy man came to that part of the serVlce 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 t.h» first person who has asked my opinion about the matter.” His Wife’s Aim. “The object of the average explorer seems to he to acquire enough material for a lecture.” “Yes; that is my wife’s aim when sh* explores my pockets."