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MAGAZINE O Gowns for the Stylish Girl “/k^“ By WILLIAM F. KIRK. P A & Ma & me went to a studio dinner the other nlte & It was so funny the way Pa got the worst "f It that 1 have tried to write about it. It isent the first time that Pa ever got ■ hown up but it was the worst that Ij rVf> r seen him git the worst of It. Thare way a gentleman -nalmed El- wood Black Junior that used to go to , Kool with Pa & he has a lot of munny I >'- f fine studio, so he asked Pa to bring he fambly to the tudio dinner. Pa, epb telling Ma all the way to Mister Black Junior’s place what a swell time . we was going to have. That is one of • he advantages of having good friends. I’a sed. Anybody can herd with mutts, • :t 1 number among my frends some of hc'gratest men in the U. S. , «>h, yes, 1 know, sed Ma. I have { Ed sum of them. You have brought uite a few of them up to the house in J • he past. You remember the mining nan that cuddent talk about anything < xcep quartz the brakeman that you brought hoam a other time that cuddent talk about anything except what a hard run he had on the O. & W., & the ball player you asked up here that said the library tahel was a kind of bush leeg table, <& a few of yure other grate friends? Newer mind about them, sed Ta; this genteJman. Mister Black Junior, is a perfeck gentelman & rolling in welth. Did you ever notis anything about a man that has Junior after his natm? said Pa. He is usually kind of yung. sed Ma; but outside of that I never notised muoh differens in them or any other men. But I suppoas we will have a good time, deer Pa Made Fun. The studio dinner was fine & every thing wud have been luvly if Pa hadent beegan to maik fun of the Japanese valet that works for Mister Black. He was a llttel bit of a fellow', not much bigger than I am, & he was very quiet eeven wen Pa beegan kidding him. Well, Admiral Toga, sed Pa, how are all the rest of the llttel slant-eyes? I was reading a editorial the other day that sed Japan was expecting a lot of rights from Unkel Sam. The very idee of Japan trying to tell this grate country w hare to git off. It is amusing, sed Pa. We wud sail In & thare wud be about one blow. Ma was kicking Pa under the tabel. She knew that Pa wasent doing right to talk that way to the servant & I knew it,'too, but I guess eevry time Ma kicked Pa he thought she was kicking him to say moar. Anyhow, he kept right on saving meen things to the llttel Japanees valet. The vary idee, he sed, of a race of senvants trying to fight a race of free men. The Japs are not a race of servants, deer, sed Ma. They are reemarkebel peepil. The only sewing thay ewer did was wen thay served Russia a mess of wallops that the Zarr hasent forgotten yet. I cud se that Ma was speeklng nice to maik the llttel Jap feel better, but the moar Ma sed the moar Pa kep talking about what a grate country this was & about the fitcing spirit of ’76 & how we showed our courage in the dark days of the Rebelyup. Pa talked jest as if he was a fiery fiter in the days •f ’76 & a general in the days of the Re- beiyun. Me & Ma know jest how Pa Is, but dident know him so well, & I guess both of them felt a llttel mad. One good Anglo Saxon like me. Pa sed. cud go into a room with twenty like you, he sed to the valet, & cum out. What wud you do in a room with me? he sed. What He Would Do. I wud break the honorable gentel- man’s neck, sed the Jap. Much dis tress I wud cause him with the ans- hun ju jitsu of the Samuray. After the dinner was oaver. Pa sed to the little Jap here, feel of this mitey arm. So the llttel Jap felt of Pa’s arm & Pa gaiv a awful howl & then fell on his back. He has broken my arm, sed Pa. The honorabel arm is pot broken, sed the valet, it is just that your arm par takes of much pain, soon it will dis appear, the pain. I guess if we had a war with the JaV>s Pa wuddent be much of a heero, but he wudent go anyway. Proof Positive. Fortune Teller: "You may, in time, lake a good income, but you will ever be rich.” Young Man: "Eh? Why not?” You are not saving. You are . asteful.” "My! my! I’m afraid that is true, ou have a wanderful gift. How did ou know I was wasteful?” "You have just wasted a dollar gef- ing your fortune told.” No Coffee Like It That rare, elusive, indescribable “some thing” about the fla vor of Maxwell House Blend Coffee has es tablished this brand as pre-eminent in cup quality. A ,k your grocer for it. Cheek-Neal CoHe* Co., Nashville, Ban,too. J«c'«,oaville. T \HE coat of this khaki tailor- made is cut long and is belted at the waist. The skirt opens a little at the front seam and is slightly draped. Large pockets and many rows of machine stitching trim the coat; the collar is of brown velvet. The THREE PRETTY GOWNS eveplng gown illustrated is car ried out in peach-colored char- meuse. The tunic and corsage are veiled in rich lace, which falls very simply and gracefully. The skirt is caught up in front with a bunch of silk roses in a vieux- blue shade. The third gown, which is for afternoon wear, is fashioned of light blue char- meuse, the skirt being draped over a foundation of similar ma terial. The bodice, which is fin ished with a row' of buttons on one side and buttonholes on the other, reveals a chemisette of lawn and lace. A collar of black net gives a charmingly • chic touch. Will Man Ever Cease To Be a Meat Eater? By GARRETT P. SERVISS. W HEN the earliest ancestors of man got down out of their trees and began to walk about the earth with upright spines and flattened feet, one of the first arts that they acquired was that of throwing stones. A monkey can hurl a cocoanut from a tree, txut he cannot hit anything. A limb that is half leg and half arm cannot be effectively employed for throwing. Accurate throwing is. one of the minor fine arts, and it could only be invented by a creature stand - iag on end, surely and yet delicately balanced upon a pair of agile legs, and provided with two arms amaz ingly cunning and perfect in their mechanism. If you will watch a base ball pitcher you will see that he needs BOTH his arms and BOTH his legs. As soon as the original ape-man, having descended permanently to the ground, found that he could be a marksman, he began to kill birds and small animals with stones. While he inhabited his trees he had been a "frugivorous” animal—that is, a fruit eater—like most of the apes and monkeys to-day. But w’hen he got among the "carnivorous,” or flesh-eating, animals of the world be low the branches, he'quickly learned to live, like them, by devouring the animals that he killed, and, because he was the only one that could throw —first stones, and then sharpened sticks, or javelins—he excelled all the others in the art of taking life. Thus man, starting as a vegeta rian, while he lived in tree tops, became a hunter and a meat-eater after he descended to the ground and began to walk upright. But he did not abandon his fruit-eating, and so he became an "omnivorous” animal, that is, an eater of both ani mal and vegetable food. I am not sure but that he may have been the first typical animal of this class, for while some of the, lower animals can be taught, or driven, to eat both kinds of food, yet as a whole, they confine themselves to one or the other. I am led to draw' this ideal pic ture of early man by a perusal of a most interesting article, in the May Good Housekeeping Maga zine. by Dr. Woods Hutchin son. in which he puts, in attractive form, some of the latest conclusions of medical and hygienic science con cerning the perpetually important question of what we ought to eat. In that article Dr. Hutchinson seems to explode many of the modem fads about eating. It is best to let him speak for himself on that sub ject, and so I shall not repeat what he says, only remarking that some of his statements will probably sur prise many of hjs readers, and open tjae ' eyes of tail, .Compare, for in- stange, h|s averments about rheuma tism with what tii*i / famiiy^d^ctcu ' has been telling us for a long time past. For my part I declare myself a be liever in the good effects of the om nivorousness of man. If he had re mained in his original trees, feeding on fruits and nuts, he would never have developed his brain until it put him at the head of the animal crea tion. When he got down and learned to throw he took the first step in a wonderful advance, and he took a second in the same direction when he began to eat the most digestible and nourishing of all foods, meat. In do ing that he did what every successful creature has always done—he took advantage of the work of others. Meat is ready-made food. It presents the "physical basis of life," proto plasm, or protein, in the most quick ly and surely assimilable form. How ever we may sentimentally shrink from animal food on account of the way in which we obtain it, we must acknowledge, I believe, that no ex clusively vegetarian race could have accomplished what man has done on the earth. But the whole story is not yet told. When man became a carnivorous ani mal he did not cease to be frugivor ous. On the contrary he used his growing intelligence to develop still further his ability to derive body- power and brain-powrer from vege table food. One of the most striking statements made by Dr. Hutchinson is. in substance, that meat eating stimulates both the appetite and the digestive pow r er for vegetable foods. Now, in view of that statement, look at what early man did. As he acquired more perfect control over his arms, which originally had served him merely for climbing, he learned to cultivate the soil. He invented cereals. He cultivated fruits, and pnactically created odr modern fruit trees. Aw r ay back in the Neolithic Age he grew barley and wheat, and raised peas, lentils, beans, strawber ries, raspberries and blackberries. Remains of all these have been found among the ancient Swiss lake-dwell ings. But he never abandoned his newly acquired habit of meat-eating. Some unconscious instinct may have informed him that to do so would be to throw away a large part of the advantage which he had derived from his descent out of the trees. He had come down into the world to be its master, and the inhabitants of that world, less cunning and less complete- lj r equipped than he was had to yield everything to his necessities, even their lives. This seems a hard rule—but is it not what we find everywhere in na ture? Cain was a tiller of the soil and Abel a keeper of sheep. When Cain brought his offering of the "fruits of the ground” and Abel his offerings of "the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof,” the Lord "had respect untq Abel and to his offerings, but unto Cain and his offering He had not respect.” • I r; 1 *•« HOMESICK [ BY HELEN WASHER. A LL day the wind has whispered tales about the old home range, And I, a lonely maverick, am crying for a change. Shall we pull up our picket pins, and coil the cantle rope. Then hit the trail and follow* it adowrn the western slope? This city life may be all right for those whose eyes are bli id, Or those who never see beyond the daily, dulling grind. But herding round a snubbing post from eight till half past five, Has never kept the outdoor heart of vagabonds alive. Here every man is for himself, the devil for them all ^ And few have pity for the weak who by the wayside fall. They’re branded with the city’s iron, In body, heart and soul; On every hand 1 see them strive, wdth money for their goal. But outwerd where the sun goes down is room for you and me, And there the men are what their God intended they should tie. This old corral is far too small for my six feet of brawn, Bo I shall take the Western trail before another dawn. And all I nsc of future years is that my feet may sirav • • Along some, sun-kissed range -anti! -the ’flnaf rAumliip <Jh>\ Character in Clothes Milady’s Coiffure “B irv ELINDA Is the dearest girl,” said the chatty woman. “She told me one day that she looked back with regret to the time when the purchase of a spring suit was merely a matter of saving and skimping, ami when she could buy, wear and be merry without a thought, of the scruples of to-morrow. But * now Belinda has to pay for being a conscientious, progressive and new movement working woman with all sorts of moral questionings. So the . purchase of her spring suit is an or- j deal beset with many darters. "First, as a .self-respecting girl she | must not squander too much on her! clothes, and the dres# she wants Is j always a little beyond her limit. Next, ! she is committed to the purchase of only such garments as have a safe j hygienic origin, and often the most becoming of the suits spread before her do not answer these require ments. "Of course, Belinda belongs to an art class, and she is bound to see that her garments reveal ‘good lines’ j and are not inharmonious, either in ; form or color. Nor must her suit be ■ out of tune with the other articles of her wardrobe that are to be worn, with It. She must see that the new gown is not on a higher plane than her j shoes, or below her hat In style and quality. "If her hat Is a kind of lady-of- leisure hat and her shoes of a work aday style, w'hy, they will harmonize neither with the suit nor with each other. Belinda likes to have the con sciousness that there is perfect unity among the different articles of her attire. Two Pegs Each. "Yes, Belinda has to ‘feel right’ in her clothes or else they might as well hang on their pegs forever. And even when they are hanging on their pegs—she always devotes two pegs to each garment—she likes to be con scious of a friendly, intimate feeling toward them; to believe, when she looks at them, that she is gazing at a part Of herself. "This looks as If Belinda was a very fussy person, w'hich she is not, being only very conscientious. Real ly, if you could see her in a costume that has passed muster, one that har monizes both with her eyes and her income, that reveals no insanitary stitches and has no germs lurking in the seams, that shows graceful lines and pleasing color—In short, a cos tume that is true to its wearer’s ideals —you w'ould see a pretty girl who in the best sense of the term and ac cording to her own conviction is truly well dressed. "Far be it from me,” went on the chatty woman, "to quarrel with Be linda for being conscientious. I only wish that more of my friends were like her. Still there are compensa tions when people express themselves freely in their clothes, particularly in their hats. “Not length of intimacy with your woman friend, nor any deliberate psy chological study of her nature, will reveal her .U* you as surely and as thorpughly a$ will one glimpse of her spring hat. She may hide herself from your naental analysis, she may trtdk you *by a hundred Intellectual and spiritual disguises, hut when she chooses her hat her hidden nature reveals itself, and she stands before you with all her qualities confessed. A Constant Surprise. “What a constant surprise these millinery revelations are! There is Emily, whom I thought the soul of sobriety and demureness; yet had she really possessed these qualities, would she have chosen for her spring hat a purple bowl decorated with yellow green feathers? And how can I reconcile the quiet modesty, the shrinking timidity of my friend. Phyl lis with the screaming audacity of a burnt orange bow- on a cherry-col ored turban? Then there is my ar tist friend. Miss Dower, whose water color sketches show delicate Quaker ish tints, yet in her hat she turns her back on such ideals and dares to ap pear in a perfect riot of reds and pur ples. “My neighbor, Mrs. Stem, is by her own confession superior to clrfthes and entertains a noble contempt for personal adornment. Still If she were really sincere in these sentiments, would she be seen in a red straw decorated with a cream-colored feather duster? Another neighbor, Miss Linsome, is too much occupied with putting things into her head to care about what goes on it, and yet who but herself is responsible for those huge loops of watermelon pink ribbon that grace her spring hat? "it's all a great mystery, and I am not sure whether these seemingly contradictory bits of headgear are expressions of hidden depths In the natures of my friends, or whether they are but a kind of millinery measles, a breaking out of some un important mental disease that has nothing to do with the real nature of the victim." Ai**-• W‘,'. >3 V Advice to the Lovelorn iv O X the left is shown a marcelled coiffure, parted at the left with a knot at the back hiding the ears. It carries an or nament of white beads and aigrettes. The one on the right is made up loosely and full, with bangs and a low knot. Cleek of the Forty Faces By T. W. HANSHAW. By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. HELP TO KEEP HIM GOOD. TVEAR MfeS FAIRFAX: I am a young girl, and am in iove with a lad about my own age. He is bashful and does not pay much attention to girls. He is liked by every ortr and re spected. We met several times, and every time we meet he seems to have his eyes turned in my di rection. 1 never have any words with him, ns* I was never Intro duced to him. But I think he 1 cares for me, or he would not | watch me so closely. Do you l think he cares for me, and what I do you think of him, for I think I he is a very good boy? MABEL. Bashfulness Is a good trait, | and greatly in his favor. You j are both so young that the best way to keep him good Is to keep him bash ful, and you can do that by making no efforts to get acquainted with him. Love is all the sweeter if given a chance to develop slowly. MOST DECIDEDLY NO. D ear miss Fairfax: I am a young girl seventeen years old deeply In love with a young man of eighteen years, whom my parents forbid me going with on account of his religion. Do you think it would be proper for me to meet him on the quiet, as I know that he likes me? P. B. As you value your security and happiness, do as your parents wish. The man does not love you in the right way. If he did, he would not seek to undermine your parents’ authority. The Terrible Test "Darling,” cried the young man, as he sank at the maiden’s feet. “I would do anything to prove my love for you!” "That's what every man says when he wants to win a girl,” answered the young lady harshly. "Can’t 1 move you?” panted the desperate Romeo. "Prove me! Put me to the test! Test me, I pray you!” “I wonder!” whispered the lady softly to herself, while a blush man tled her pale cheeks Then suddenly bending over the almost swooning youth who crouched at her feet, she exclaimed: "I will put you to the test!” "Ah!” The youth sprang to his feet, exultant, triumphant, and cried aloud to the maiden at his side: “Your test? Your test?” " ’Tis to marry some other girl,” murmured the sweet young thing, as she glided backward through the vel vet curtains into the ball room. In a Hurry. Magistrate—What is the charge against thU* old man? officer—Stealing some brimstone, vy>nr honor. He was caught in the act. magistrate (to prisoner)—My aged friend, couldn’t you have waited a few years longei^ ----- -•— - Copyright by Doubleday, Page & Co. TO-DAY’S INSTALLMENT. At any lime the interior of that huge, stone-walled^ steel-lined tube must have been unlovely and depress ing to all but the man who labored in it; but to-night, with that man sit ting dead in it, with his face to the open window, a lamp beside him and stiff hands resting on the pages of a book that lay open on the desk’s fiat top, it was doubly . c o; for. added to Its other unpleasant qualities, there was now a disagreeable odor and a curious, eye-smarting, throat-rough ening heaviness in the atmosphere w'hich was like to nothing so much as the fumes thrown off by burnt chem icals. Cleek gave one or two sniffs at the air as he entered, gin need at Mr. Norkom. then walked straightway to the desk and looked into the dead man’s face. Under the marks of the scratches and cuts upon It—marks which would seem to carry out the Idea of an animal’s attack—.the fea tures were distorted and discolored and the hair of beard and mustache was curiously crinkled and discolored Cleek stopped dead short, as he saw that face, and his swaggering, flip pant, cocksure air of a minute before dropped from him like a discarded mantle. Man Had Been Shot. "Hullo! This doesn’t rook quite so .promising for the animal thedry as it did!” he flung out sharply. "This man has been shot—shot with a shell filled with.his own soundless and an nihilating devil’s invention, lithamite —and bomb-throwing is a trick of beasts of a lower order than the ani mal tribe! Look here, Mr. Narkom —see! The lock of the desk has been broken. Shut the door there, Nip pers. Let nobody leave the room. There has been murder and robbery here; and the thing that climbed that tree was not an animal nor yet a bird. It was a cutthroat -and a thief!” Naturally enough, this statement pro dueed something in the nature of a panic—Miss Renfrew indeed appearing to be on the verge of fainting, and it is not at all unlikely that she would have slipped to the floor but /or the close proximity of Mrs. Armroyd. “That’s right, madame. Get a chair. Put her into it. She will need all her strength presently. I promise you. Wait a bit. Better have a doctor, I fancy, and an inquiry into thq whereabouts of Mr. Charles Drummond. Mr. Narkom cut out will you, and wire this message to that young man’s employer.” Pens and paper were on the dead man’s desk. He bent over, scratched off some hurried lines and passed them to the superintendent. "Sharp’s the word, please; we’ve got ugly business on hand and we must know about that Druqj mond chap without delay. Miss Ren frew has not been telling the truth to-night. Look at this man. Rigor mor tis pronounced. Feel him—muscles like Iron, flesh like Ice! She says that he spoke to her at a quarter to eight. I tell you that at a quarter to eight this man had been dead upward of an hour!’ "Good God!” exclaimed Mr. Narkom; but his cry was cut in%u by a wilder one from Miss Rrenfrew. Ran Out of the Grounds. “Oh, no!” she protested, starting up from her seat only to drop back Into It. strongthless, shaking, ghastly pale. “It could not be—It could not be. I have told the truth—nothing but the truth. He did speak to me at a quarter to eight—he did, he did! Constable Gor ham was there—he heard him; he will tell you the same.” “Yes, yes, I know you said so, but- will he? He looks a sturdy, straight going honest sort of chap who couldn’t be coaxed or bribed Into backing up a lie; so—send him in as you go out, Mr. Narkom; we’ll see what he has to say.” What he had to say when he came in a few moments later was what Miss Renfrew had declared—an exact corrob oration of her statement. He had seen a man whom he fancied was Sir Ralph Droger run out of the grounds and he had suggested to Miss Renfrew that they had better look into the Round House and see if all was right with STRENGTHEN THE NERVES T<ke Horiford * Acid Pho»phaU A -ip»»onfuT f*i a k1»w* of eohj water make* KODAKS "The Bolt Finishing r»nJ Enlarj Infl That Can Be Produced." I Eastman TUm* and ri ra- KflSfcoH«anB*i t ,U*e .»took amateur suppllt*. Quick mail sendee for out-of t m ouau i..ers. Send for Catalog «nd Price Lift. A. K. HAWK.ES CO. Mr. Nosworth. They had looked In as she had said; and Mr. Nosworth had called out and asked her what the devil she was coming In and disturbing him for. and it was a quarter to eight ex actly. “Sure about that are you?” questioned Cleek. “Yes, sir; sure as I’m telling you thfs minute.” "How do you fix the exact time?” “As we .come out of the covered passage Miss Renfrew looked at her wrist watch and says. Impatient like. ‘There. I’ve lost another two minutes and am that much later for nothin’. See! it’s a quarter to eight. Good night.’ Then she cuts off over the grounds and leaves me." “Jja! la!” exclaimed Mrs. Armroyd ap provingly. "There’s the brave heart, to come to mademoiselle’s rescue so great ly. But yes, I make you the cake of plums for that, mon cher. Monsieur of the Yard of Scotland, he can no more torture the poor stricken child after that—not he.” A Subterfuge. But Cleek appeared to be less easy to convince that she had hoped, for he pursued the subject still; questioning Gorham to needless length It seemed: trying his best to trip him up, to shake his statement, but always failing, and Indeed, going over the same ground to such length that one might have bought he was endeavoring to gain time, if he was, he certainly succeeded, for it was <i-uite fifteen minutes later when Mr. Narkom returimd to the Round House and he was at it still; and indeed only concluded to give it up as a bad job when the superintendent came. "Get it off all right, did you, Mr. Nar kom?” he asked, glancing around as he ht?nrd him enter. "Qulte^ all right, old chap. Right as rain—In every particular.” To Be Continued To-morrow. "Where have you been, Mary Ann?” "I've been to the Girls’ Improvement Class, ma’am.” was the maid’s reply. "Well, and what did the curate say to you? Did you tell him who your mistress was?” "Please, ma’am, he said I wasn’t to give notice, as I intended, but that I was to Ootisfder you as my burden— anti hear it/* + * * She—Harry, you said something last evening that made me feel so bail. He—What was it, dearest? She—You said 1 was one of the sweetest girls in all the world. He—And aren’t you, darling? She—You said “one of the sweet est.” Oh, Harry, to think I should have to share your love with an other. * * * "Hist!" whispered the villain, creeping stealthily away. “1 expected you would be,” re joined the stage manager, with curl ing lip. Mother's Temper. The small girl had been exasper ating all day, and at last her mother lost patience and administered cor poral punishment. The child had scarcely recovered from her sobs, when she locked up and said: "Mother, you must try and control that temper of yours.” First Aid to Injured. Pedestrian—Madam, a boy who I am told Is your son has just thrown a stone at me. causing a wound that is very painful. What are you going to do about it? Moaher—I don’t know'; have you tried arnica? FOOD FOR MUSCLES, BONES ™ FLESH Now’s the time to make sure that your children get all the food necessary to build up their muscles and bones and put on fiesn. Their physical fu ture depends largely on what they eat«oi£>. There’s more real nutrition in a 10c package of Faust Spaghetti than in 4 lbs. of beef—prove it by your doctor. iV is extremely rich in gluten, being made from Durum wheat, the cereal that ranks high in protein. Very easily digested is Faust Spaghetti. Savory, too — write for free recipe book and see how many differ ent ways this strength building food can be served. At all grocers,— 5c and 10c packages MAULL BROS. ST. LOUIS, JO.