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The Manicure
“1 Should Worry” ^ •*
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By NELL BRINKLEY
Copyright, 1013, by International New. Service.
By WILLIAM F. KIRK
(j |SEE In thn papers that the
I i : Wales got a call-
down from King George for In
dorsing a note and getting stung for
$”,f,00." raid the Head Barber.
■‘That's nothing," said the Manicure
Lady, "Lots of Princes has got stung
for indorsing notes, and they wasn t
all Princes of royal blood, either. I
seen that same piece In the paper,
but It was quite a while ago. Gee,
George, I'll bet he felt awful when
the King of England bawled him out.
A King's anger must be terrible to
behold. That's what the historical
novels tells, anyhow."
“I don't see how a King can be any
madder at his son for monkeying with
indorsed notes than any dad is with
his boy,” said the Head Barber. “A
man can only get about so mad with
out getting apoplexy. A King can't
call you down no harder than Poddy
the Pig. There is only so many words
in the English language, and a rough
neck can say them as loud and as
often as a King.”
No King Madder.
"Yes, there is a good deal in that,”
agreed the Manicure Lady. You re
member when I lost my purse last
week, George. I "as just as mad as
a human being could be when 1 seen
I had lost it. No Kmg could have
been madder. 1 could have bit the
bead off anybody that said I mis
placed it, until I tound it and knew I
had been careless. Oh. well, what is
money, anyhow 7 Why should the
King of England be sore at his son?
Tin kid’s grandfather was the same
sort of a sport. He was more than a
King, George, that Edward man. He
was a regular guy. He knew more
about the value of money than peo
ple thinks he did. He knew so much
about the value of money that he
knew it didn’t have no great value ai
ail. He had friends that was rich
and friends that was poor, and he
vfould .“tick to a friend that was poor
just as surely as lie would walk away
from a pest that was rich.
"Wilfred says that he would have
did the same as the young Prince ot
Wales did, only it wouldn't do the
poor kid no good to Indorse n $2,500
note. It makes on awful difference
whose name is on the back of a piece
of paper, George. It ain't the color of
the Ink or the penmanship or the pen
it was wrote with. But 1 didn’t have
the heart to tell Wilfred that he
would never be able to indorse a note,
and J guess he don’t care much for
what little money he ever made, ex
cept to be happy with it. He wrote a
poem yesterday and sent it to a mag
azine, and this is the copy of it:
“ */ (h> not cart for boundless wealth
(h anything it brings to tne,
Just so long an I hare nig good health
l nd every songbird sings to me.
'J he richest brewer in the land
Is only rich m gold and silver,
And I. icho hare friends on every
hand
Their love all gold I would not kill
for:
People Made Happier.
"Wilfred said that he knew 'silver'
and kill for’ was a hum rhyme, but
he explained to me that there wasn't
no real rhyme for ‘silver,’ and I sup
pose the magazine editor will let It g«.
at that. Anyhow, them sentiments
of his is about the same as mine, I
don't know how much money Edward
the Seventh had when he died, and I
don’t care, but there Is a lot of peo
ple in the world that was made hap
pier when he was here, and he will
be talked about as a regular man
just as long as he is talked about as a
good King. I am afraid Ills son ain’t
much like him, with all his court
doings and pomp, but I am glad tc
know his grandson Is a human being '
"Here, too,” said the Head Barber
*‘I wish somebody would indorse a
note for me. The landlord is bark
ing like a hound."
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Daysey Mayme
And Her Folks
By FRANCES L. GARSIDE.
T HE great need of every home, ac
cording to the princess in it, is
some means w hereby the earn
ing capacity of father could be dou
ble!.
Daysey Mayme Appleton Is a prin
cess, and, like all princesses, she lets
her subjects do the worrying. If
things cost more, then father should
earn more, and after carefully dust
ing a place’on the carpet where usr
mother could have her daily fit on
returning from market and finding-
further advances in prices, she felt
that she had done her full duty.
All her life she had had to curl ono
hair to make it do the work of two,
and the experience had made her an
economist.
She felt the other day that she
owed herself some great joy, and
realized that the securing of It must
not prove a drain on her pocket.
So she put on her split skirt with
out a curtain underneath, proving
that she applied economic principles
in the smallest detail of her attire,
and left the house.
Her destination wa* away down
town, and it was plain from the ox-
terior of tie little one-story building *
she entered that her errand was
neither for ribbons nor chocolates.
Passing into an anteroom, she was
detained for five minutes till an at
tendant gave word that she would
be received. Dark red curtains hung
between the doors connecting the
rooms, and at the sound of a silvery-
tinkling bell Daysey Mayme parted
the curtains and entered. .
Twenty minutes later she emerged, *
her cheeks pink with excitement, and
her eyes glowing with happiness
"There is nothing in this talk of
the high cost of everything!” she
said, exultingly, at dinner that night.
"I went downtown this afternoon
and bought three lovers, two hus
bands. five beautiful children, a Jour
ney across the water, another across
the land, two dark complected friends,
four rivals, one enemy, who will try
to injure me, but who will be van
quished, and a noble millionaire, who
will die soon and leave me his vast
estates—all for Ten Cents!”
She had her fortune told!
7CY beaux are many! Hack of the clutter of little bot-
ties and ivory things, vials of orange seen 1 from
Arabia and Poudrc de Riz from Paris, their pictures
stand, worshipping every time I look at my pretty eyes in the
glass. When I first stir under my silk-and-down coverlet I can
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hear the rustle of paper and I know that means my morning
consignment of love-letters, so I turn over, bury my nose in
the curve of my arm and dream a little longer! After my
chocolate I gather my letters, my candy, gold-labelled and
ribbon bound, my dowers in their tall and long boxes, and I rip
them ail open and revel. I solemnly absorb the praise in the mis
sives. I tuck away bits of nectar-filb d chocolates in my cheeks.
I put my face down k. the gloomy, dewy coolness of the fra
grant flower nests. And then I shake out my hair, yawn a bit
and smile, ‘I should WORRT !’
Snap- dt
Shots
By LILIAN LAUFERTY.
A MODERN LOVE SONG.
T O you. whoever you are.
Wherever you may be.
I send thin message—near or
far—
I'm the not-impossible she.
I wish you’d make an effort,
Oh. Mister Affinity,
And not just sit a-waiting
For the not-Impossible me.
I’m sure I’ve given you a chance.
Whoever you may be,
To realize this simple fnct.
I'm the wholly possible she.
"Who knows, and knows he knows,
is wise. Cleave thou to him,
And nevermore forsake him.
Who knows and knows not that he
knows—he sleeps;
Go thou to him and wake him.
"Who knoweth not and knows he
knoweth not is a child,
Go thou to him and teach him.
Who knows not and knows not that
he knoweth not is a fool
No light shall ever reach him."
• • •
Says Marcus Aurelius:
A man must stand erect and not
be held erect by circumstance.
"Everything is only for a day, with
that which remembers and that which
is remembered.
"The present is the only thing of
which a man can be deprived.
"Everything which is in any way
beautiful is beautiful in itself and
neither worse nor better is a thing
made by being praised.”
Oh. the world has its gloom, and 'tls
gloom to spare;
‘Twill make you weary and sad;
But there's plenty of gleam, as is
only fair.
To iiikho you cheary and a*iad.
Now the world may seem dark as the
shrouding night.
All elad in a pall of black.
But somew'here tls day—so Just w'alk
toward the light.
And the shadows will fall at your
back.
The happiest women—like the hap
piest nauors—have no history'.
^ —GEORGE ELIOT.
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
By ANNA KATHARINE J^REEN
One of the Greatest Mystery Stories Ever Written
(Copyright, 1913. by Anna Katharine
Green.)
TO-DAY’S INSTALLMENT.
"I see; I see; and you have failed also
to follow the trail of the doctor’s wan
derings*"
"He left none; the only man w’ho can
tell 'us anything ubout his movements
at that time persists in denying all
knowledge of them."
"Is there a Mr. Monroe, of Seventy-
second street?"
"Yes, and he did receive a prescrip
tion that night by the hand of Dr.
Moles worth’s colored driver. But it was
not as important a one as the doctor
would make out. He would not have
suffered If he had not received it till
the next day."
"Then you wish the inquest to be held
immediately?"
"Aa soon as your convenience will
permit.”
"Well, well, we will have the in-
quest.” Then, as Mr. Grvre rose to go,
j llow ubout that spot of paint, Gryce?
No clew in that, either?"
Mr. Gryce sat down again. "There
ought to be," he acknowledged. "There
is a mark on.the lining of the phaeton,
nut it ia very slight, while that on her
dress is very distinct, showing that the
paint came off from h*r dress upon the
phaeton. She had consequently been
leaning against a freshly painted sur
face somewhere, and as the paint was
of a pecuUar shade, l thought I should
be able to trace It. But" he shook his
head—"like all the rest it proved a blind
trail."
He was going for the second time
when the Coroner stopped him.
"Have you thought that If Dr Moles
worth’s story is true and he lifted the
dying girl from a stoop into his phae
ton he would naturally have a smudge
of paint on his sleeve?"
"Don’t humiliate me! It is there!"
| The Inquest.
The next day the Inquest was held,
and the proceedings were voluminously
published Witnesses from all quar
ters were examined and the matter was
relentlessly sifted But no more was
elicited from the various parties on
oath than they had been willing to vol
unteer at the solicitations of the detec
tive: nor. though the utmost discretion
was disp!a>ed in the examination of the
doctor, could hie testimony be shaken or
iu* assertion* disproved.
Some of his answers merit record
ing To the question as to when and
where he became engaged to Miss Far
ley. he replied, with great dignity, but
with no apparent reserve:
"Miss Farley never paid she would
marry me until the morning of the day
she died. Then I received a letter from
her saying that she would marry me
that day at the C Hotel. I had re
ceived manifestations of affection from
her before, but never any promise."
"You had professed attachment for
her, then, some time previous to this
event ?”
"I first offered myself to her beside
her mother's deathbed."
There was feeling in his voice and
there whs reserve, and the result upon
the tninds of those present was some
thing like awe. No one blamed the
Coroner for the respect with which he
next inquired whether the letter re
ceived from Miss Farley was still in Dr.
Molesworth’s possession.
"It is not." was the reply. "I inva
riably destroyed every line I received
from her. It is a custom of mine to
preserve no letters."
"Then you were but following out
your usual habit when you burned the
note which Miss Farley left behind her
at th* hotel?"
"If I may say so, yes."
"You have no objection to telling us
what the note contained.”
"None whatever if I could. But It was
a string of unmeaning phrdses of which
only one sentence was clear.”
"And that was?"
“ ‘I want my friends about me; It
Isn’t respectable.’ Yet she wrp the one
who proposed the marriage," volun
teered the doctor, "and at the inter
view we had in the afternoon no de
mur was made by her. either as re
garded the wedding itself or the man
ner In which I proposed to have it con
ducted."
"Will you give us the details of that
interview?"
"As nearly as I can. sir. It was such
a one as you would expect from a deli
cate-minded woman who had taken a
very important step and was not quite
sure how it would be received by her
lover. At first she seemed only anx
ious to It am how 1 felt ubout the mat
ter. and when l could not truthful*)
say she had chosen a very auspicious
time for ctir nuptials sjie burst into
tears and then become ** feverish and
incoherent I saw she was not well, and
at once began to comfort her. She
thereupon grew calmer and listened
with attention while I told her of the
arrangements which had suggested
themselves to me, not making, as 1
have said, any objection to them either
then or at any time before I left.”
"And what was the manner of your
parting?"
"It was affectionate on my part, but
I am free to say there was some con
straint on hers. With all my efforts to
the contrary I had wounded her suscep
tibilities, sharpened as they were by in
cipient illness, and she was too much
of a woman not to show it. But I never
expected more than a little unpleasant
ness and was as much shocked as any
body when 1 returned and found her
gone."
"One more question in this connection,
Dr. Molesworth. The clerk testifies that
the hour you set for your wedding w'as
nine, yet you came back with the cler
gyman as early as a quarter after eight.
How was that?
"I was anxious, sir. The more I
thought of it the more 1 was convinced
that Miss Farley was on the point of a
serious illness. 1 went early on her ac
count.
All Satisfactory.
This was all very satisfactory, too sat
isfactory for Mr. Gryce. Telegraphing
by a gesture to the Coroner that he
had a suggestion to make, he sent him
a line or two written on the back of a
reporters notebook, which upon reading
the Coroner remarked to the witness:
"You were alone with Miss Farley in
room 153 of the C Hotel when this
Interview occurred of which you speak
"Most certainly, sir."
"A room containing an alcove shut off
by curtains?"
"I believe there were curtains there,
but I did not look to see what they
shut ofT."
"How then do you know that you
tw’o were alone?"
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It was but a lightning's flash, that
look of irrepressible shock and dismay
which crossed Dr. Molesworth’s face at
this Intimation. But the Coroner saw
it as Mr. Gryce had seen It on a former
Important occasion, and he felt as the
detective had felt then, that It out
weighed all the witness' words and his
most plausible explanations.
"I took it for granted we were,’’ he
w r as saying the next moment in his most
even tones. "If you have a witness to
the contrary, let her be produced; she
may assist me in remembering Just what
did pass between Miss Farley and my
self."
It was a bold stroke and it succeeded.
They had no witness and he soon saw
it, and the color which had slightly
left his lips came back and his bear
ing became almost disdainful.
The Coroner, who w r as still following
Mr. Gryce’s suggestions, regarded him
with unabated respect.
"You say her," he smiled. "Why not
him?"
"Because no man would stoop to lis
ten."
"Dr. Molesworth, during your ac
quaintance with Miss Farley have you
ever had reason to suppose she was re
ceiving addresses from smy other gen
tleman than yourself?"
It was an unexpected attack and the
doctor paused a moment before reply
ing. Then he answered distinctly:
"No."
This closed the proceedings of the
lay and Dr. Molesworth’s testimony.
Clear, precise, and plausible had been all
his replies, and had it not been for a
nameless something, hard to describe, he
would have gained credit from the offi
cers foho conducted his examination, as
well as from the public who listened
to It.
How Fame Comes
Scribbler—It took me nearly ten
years to learn that I couldn’t write
poetry.
Friend—Gave it up then, did you?
you ?”
Scribbler—Oh, no. By that time I
had a reputation.
The Last Hope.
Scene: Far out at sea; stateroom
on board a huge transatlantic liner
which is being tossed about like a
cork In a tremendous sea.
The Bootlace King, a famous Yan
kee multi-millionaire (clinging des
perately to the sides of his bunk):
“Steward! Steward!"
"Yes. sir."
"I underhand this ship has water
tight compartments?”
"Yes. sir."
‘‘Then tell the captain I must have
one immediately. I don’t care what It
costs!”
Observant.
The teacher had been telling tha
class about the rhinoceros family.
“Now. name some things.” said she,
"that are very dangerous to get near
to, and that have horns.”
"Motor cars!" replied little Jennie.
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