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One Woman’s Story . By VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE WATER Science Egypt a Hundred Centuries Ago Brought to Light at Tarkhan. CHAPTER XIX. \ S Mary Danforth rode up home* in the elevated on the April afternoon just two years after her first meeting with Gordon Craig, she found the sad thoughts that had been with her so long slipping away. She was sure that her lover was thinking of her and that on this an niversary she would receive happy new s of him. She almost believed .n premonitions, and she remembered, with a slight shudder, how once a premonition she had had about h*r father had been the forerunner of his death not long after. Why might not one also have a pennonitlon of joyous happenings? As she left the train at Eighty-first street a voice said close to her, "Why, Mary Danforth! How do you do?” Turning with a start, she found her- self face to face with a former school mate of whom she had seen nothing for two years. "Which way are you going?” ankei the girl after greetings had been ex changed. "I go westward," replied Mary briefly. Working Downtown. "Oh. too bad, for I go to Central Park West. We are living in the same old place, you know, where you used to come to see us. You never come now.” "No," acknowledged Mary. "T have little time. i am working down town." “Well, T want to talk to you a bit." said Elizabeth Preston, who hud al ways liked Mary when the Danforths were prosperous. “Suppose you walk with me toward my home, or let me walk with you toward yours. Which shall It be?" "I will go with you,” replied Mary quickly. She felt a reluctance of which she was ashamed—to have this patronizing acquaintance of former days see the house in which she now lived. "It must be fine to be working for one’s self," said Miss Preston as the two girls sauntered along Eighty-first street toward Central Park. "Of course. I have no excuse for doing that kind of thing, for my father has plenty of money, and 1 am the only daughter left at home But some times I get a little tired of ease and luxury and long to be independent.” Mary tried to smile. "‘He jests at scars who never felt a wound,’, ” she quoted. "Perhaps If you had to work, you would find what terms Independ ence to you now' something like slavery.” She regretted the words as soon as she had spoken them, for her companion turned upon her a look of pity. “Oh, do you have to work as hard as that?" she exclaimed. "I sup posed that you only went into bus*, ness after your father died so that you would not he entirely dependent upon your mother. Surely your father left her comfortably provided for, did he not?" “You Needn’t Pity Me." For a moment Mary did not answer. She wondered if Eliza beth I’reston was really ignorant of conditions, or if she was pretending not to know' how matters stood. In either case, to tell her the truth was the best thing. But it was with an effort that the weary girl spoke. “My father left all he had to my mother. But he was unfortunate in business Jtiot before he he died. You are right in thinking I would not be dependent upon my mother But she has not th»- means to sup port us both even if I were willing to have her do so." "Oh," cooed Miss Preston, "you poor child! I am so sorry for you!” "Thank you, but you need not pity me at all," retorted Mary testily "1 am not an object of pity. I have a position which I shall keep as long as I wish, which will not be long now." Her temper was getting the better of her discretion. but Elizabeth Preston’s patronage was unbearable to her. She determined to say no more, hut her companion’s next speech swept away her barriers of re serve. "It was very fine of you to take that brave tone about it, Mary.” the rich girl remarked, "hut your trouble has told on you. You are looking ten years older than when you left school. I wonder if my father might not be able to get you an easier sit uation than you have now'.” "I shall not hold any position much longer," said Mary, voice hard and eyes glittering. "I expect soon to change my entire mode of life.’’ The other girl eyed her shrewdly. "I suspect,” she said in a tone that was meant to he playful, “that you are going to get married, my dear.” Mary shrugged her shoulders. “Perhaps!" she said nonchalantly. "Here we are at Eighth avenue, and I must turn back home. Good-bye!” As she retraced her steps, Indig nation gave place to Joyous anticipa tion. How strangely happy she was this evening! She remembered that Fletcher was going to call, and s sudden sense of distaste at the pros pect of seeing him at this time seized her. She wotild not let him come. Stepping into a hotel on the corner of Eighty-first street, she called up Pearsons’ office. When she had left the office Fletcher had been there with her employer, and the two had been smoking so comfortably that he might possibly be there still She was not mistaken, and when Pearson an swered the telephone she asked for Mr. Fletcher. As briefly as possible she suggested to her would-be caller that she would prefer seeing him on some other evening. He submitted regretfully, hut meekly, and she con gratulated herself upon the reprieve. Like a Phophecy. As the girl walked along Eighty- fourth street to her home, the glow In the western sky seemed to her excited Imagination like a symbol or prophecy of happiness ahead of her. Surely there would he a letter await ing her! After all what did Elizabeth Preston’s chatter matter when one’s heart was so full of peace? Even th* sordid block on which she lived seemed less dingy and dirty than usual at this sunset hour. She pushed her way through the groups of janitors’ and tenants’ children playing on the front steps of the house in which she lived, and, hurrying into the vestibule, peered Into the letter box bearing her name Yes, there was the envelope with Graig’s handwriting on it. She knew it would be here! With eager fingers she unlocked the letter box and drew forth her treasure. She could not wait until she got upstairs. The sight of the handwriting was like a draught of water to a thirsty soul. Tearing open the envelope, she pulled out the single sheet and read It by the dim light from the hall chande lier. c By GARRETT P. SERVISS. lived ALABASTER TABLE OF FIRST DYNASTY AT GERZEH. IVILIZED peopl ten thousand yt long ago that the hlch, from the days of Egypt rs ago—soj North Star, j the Phoeni- < Ian navigata young, until < ships at sea, from the poh when commerce was r time, ha.s guided is then many degrees >f the heavens, while f * another and a brighter star glittered not far from the north point of the celestial sphere! The excavations recently made by Professor Petrie, of the British School of Archaeology, have established this fact, which must appear very astor ishlng to those who still retain the old belief that the world Itself is only about 6,000 years old! But such Investigations as those of Professor Petrie carry the same over whelming convict ton to the reasoning mind as that which has caused all in telligent persons to accept the con clusions of geology concerning the millions upon millions of years that the earth has bet n inhabited bv Little Bobbie’s Pa , By WILLIAM F KIRK. P A took Ma & me oaver to a lake yesterday ware thare is a lot of city boarders. Ma had a frond oaver than- that used to call on uh wen we lived in the city & Ma wanted to see her. The naim of Mas frend was Missus Mace. Her husband is a bizness man in the city & every Sommer he sends his» wife up to that lake so he can have a few weeks rest, & a good »im* with the other men. How do you like it up here. 1 asked Mbtsus Mace. Oh, I think it is dredfully poky, sed Missus Mace. Thare is so few men around. Look at them old cats sel ling on the veranda A- talking about peepul. she sed I bet every one of them has ripped all of us up the back berfoar now . If my husband cud af ford it. I wild go to sum place ware thare is moar clans. They all look pritty good to me sed Pa. Who an those two peachei setting on the end of the verandy? They are two young married wim- men, sed Missus Mace, & the way thay have been flirting at the lit tel hops we have here is sumthing ter- ribul. Last nite thay went out in a party of young peepul & thare hus bands wasent along. The party dident git back till neerly mldnlte. Well, sed Pa, what of it? I .‘tuppost thare husbands sent them up here u enjoy themselfs with the young pee pul. I wud deerly luv to have been in that party myself, sed Pa. I doant think you missed much. & thay are all the time talking about what deers thare husbands 1?*. too, s* d Missus* Mace. Wen 1 hear a young married woman talking so much about her good husband in the city, I always think thnv are putting on a .lot. & last nite one of them kissed her husband’s letter about twenty times wen she got it at the postofflee. What If she did? sed Pa. I think that wa.M vary sweet of her. You see Pa sed to Missus Mace, she is yung & deevoted to her husband & he 1« dee- voted to her I suppose if they was middle aged, like you & frejld wife here, thay wud kiss the money order lusted of the letter. That Is the kind of letters you wlmmen like. Pa sed. the kind that wen you open them numthing blue pops out. Nothing of the kind, sed Ma and Missus M ice at onst. We are always glad to git letters from our husbands wether thare is munny in the letters or not. Well, sed Pa. you cud talk all day about those two young matrons & you euddent maik me beleeve thare was a rong thing about eether one of them. Why. sed Pa, that brunet one has a face like a angel. I shud like to meet them. Pa sed. Not so fast, sed Ma. Doant git so enthused all oi a sudden. My frend Missus Mace lias been here longer than we have and she ought to kno.i If the yung ladies she menshuns are fll company for ua 1 like to pick my own cumpany, sed Pa. & eeven if I thought 1 was git- ting slmpel minded enuff to have sumhody pick my cumpany, l wouldn’t choose a old knocker llk«- yure friend Missus Mace to pick my frend# for me. You are not a gentleman, sed Misses Mace. 1 know it, sed Pa, I am a plain old rough-neck wich was all his life so buoy trying to see good In every body that he didnt have time to lern to ho yure kind of a gentleman. I beleeve 1 will get sumbody to inter- duce me to them two yung matrons. How about it, wife? sed Pa. How about meeting the summer girls? All rite, sed Ma, sum other sum mer Up-to-the-Minute Jokes She was hurriedly adjusting her veil, and had but a few moments in which to catch her car. "Oh, dear," she murmured. "1 can’t find a pin anywhere. I wonder where all the pins go to. anyway?” "That’s a difficult question to an swer," replied her practical husband, who was standing by. "because they are always pointed in one direction and headed in another.” • • • A Yorkshireman suffering from toothache went ic a dentist to have the aching tooth out. The dentist pulled out the offending tooth, and was then asked to pull out the dou ble tooth next to it "But that is a sound tooth," said the dentist. "The pain is only sym pathetic " "Yank it out. doctor. Hang such ^sympathy," rep • <* Tyke. • • • solicitor called upon a profes- Two American farmers met a day or two after a cyclone had swept over their farms. “She shook things up pretty bad out at my place," said one, stroking his whiskers, meditatively. "By the way. Hiram.” he added, "that new barn o’ yourn get hurt at all?" "Wa .” craw led the other, "1 dunno. 1 haln’t found it yet!” « * • The Major—And there we stood. Miss Ethel, in the heart of the jun gle, that huge panther and I, barely ten paces apart, each staring at the face of the other. Ethe < >h, major, how dreadful for you both! • • * "Look here. Boxer, did you call me a common ass?" "N . Fopson. 1 said you were an uncommon ass.” "Aw. that’s different. I cawn’t stand having anybody call me com mon, y'know.” MB x p*> >v mm smgvrt A TOMB OPENED AT TARKHAN. •*** . m y %: h "'**■4- rr 1 • t. i ft's ANIMAL FIGURES AT MEMPHIS. -AT great variety of animals, some of whose descendants, but little changed in their forms, are co-dwellers with us to-day upon *hl> ancient planet. The nature of the excavations made by Professor Petrie in Egypt may be clearly seen in the photographs which are here reproduced. Works of Art. There you see the beautifully’ carved tables of stone and of alabaster, the animal figures, the sphinxes, the spec imens of pottery, and the granite sar cophagi, or coffins, which that won derful, prehistoric people made for themselves. There, too, you skeletons of the which they honore monies hardly lo* those which were kings, queens and 1 see some of the "sacred" animals ! with burial cere- * elaborate than devoted to their rulers. Professor trie and his assistants have un covered r.ot less than 800 ancient graves, none of which are less than abort 6,000 years old. All of them tell the same story, viz: that so long ago as that men had al ready learned many of the arts which we often think arc peculiar to times included within the limits of written I history. Tluy could not merely build] strong and beautiful structures of! masonry and carve statues and shape | vases that excite th architects and artists knew the use of thi ' metals, and formed exquisite orna- j nu nts of gold and silver. These things must set one to think- ! ing, for we know that arts and set- j enecs are long in being developed, re- j quiring thousands of years, and that no civilization can grow up except is the result of ltiany centuries of slow advance. How far back, then, shouii we have to go in order to find the real beginnings of Egypt? Ten thousand years must be but a step in that long march of human progress! The poles of the heavens may have swung more than once completely round their great 26.000-year orbit since th** land of the Nile began to bloom with cultivation, and its human inhabitants started on their upward course. Nothing can hr more interest ng than these delving** into the past his tory of the globe since man came upon It. and the farther that unwrit ten. but still not unrecorded, history I stretches back the more the wonder | grows, for every new discovery plung- j ing deeper into the ages shows that | we are yet far from the starting point. Do Y ou Know-- Rather Late. Too Lazy. J T r* Advice to the Lovelorn THE FOOL Ey WILLIAM F. KIRK. There are 20,000 different kinds of butterflies At Holbeach (Lines) Parish Church, in order to get rid of a swarm of bats, sulphur was burned, and then the bell ropes were whirled round and round. In this way thirty-three bats were killed one evening. It has been calculated that nearly 300,000,000 feet, or over 55,000 mil* s. of film are used up yearly to satisfy the world’s demand for moving pic tures. Half the men condemned to death are executed. In the case of women, only one out of ten suffers the death penalty. By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. ARE YOU SURE? Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young lady 17 years of age and come in contact with a young man two years my senior. I know this man loves me, and his love is reciprocated. When we meet, we always act indiffer ently. Now, in w hat w'ay can we get together to keep company, as I know our parents would not object, and our friends are aware of the facts? ANTONETTE. It takes something more than the approval of parents and the knowl edge of mutual friends that they do approve to make a young man love a girl. I want you to have love; It is my fondest hope for you; but I don't be lieve this man loves you. You say he always acts indifferently tow’ard you. ’ If he loved you, he wouldn’t do that, and you would not have to look for a way to win him. APPEAL TO THE POLICE. Dear Miss Fairfax: I kept company with a young man for three years and expected to be married in the spring. My parents objected to him. He was very jealous and never took me out or gave me anything. Last summer I became acquainted with a man eight years my senior. He takes me out and says he loves me. My folks like him and I love him very dearly. He wants to marry me. My first lover threat ens me when he hears I am go ing to get married. He writes letters and when I don’t answer he hangs around my house. PERPLEXED. A jealous man like that is a dan gerous person to know. You mas: marry the second man. for he is ihe one you love, and you must put an , nd to all obnoxious attentions from the first man. If your father can nit help you, appeal to the authorities. NOT SURPRISING. Dear Miss Fairfax: 1 am a young girl of seventeen. About three months ago I met a young man of eighteen. We met by flirtation. W'hen we had been acquainted about a month he pro fessed his love for me, but since then he has been going w'ith other girls and is very cool to me. L. M. Lightly won, lightly held. An ac quaintance that begins in flirtation usually terminates in the girl’s sor row. The man is convinced she will comfort herself w’ith the next man who flirts with her, and holds her love lightly. Won’t you please be a little more reserved next time? TREAT HIM THE SAME. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 20, and have been keep ing company for about eight months. We had an argument and separated. Now for about tw'o months we have been ret onciled, hut he seems rather distant. What would you advise me to do? GWENDOLYN. Evidently his w'rath is still smol dering, which indicates a sullen, re sentful disposition. Don’t worry, my dear, if you lose him. It will prove a gain in the end. H F did not know who font us here To work and rest and die; lie did not trusl the aged seer Who wisely owied the sky. Out peered the stars through the heavens hors; The Jvol did not know why. lie coutd not tell why any man Should wish his brother ill; lie sate a starving caravan Tottering up a hill. Hr could not sec why this should be When others ate their fill. He could not understand the scheme Men call their marriage rite. He knew a maid that loved and strayed; He knew her soul was white. The Church, her sisters, all the good— They crushed her in their might. All these and many other things He could not comprehend. To wise men here it seemed so clear They would have shown their friend; But he was just a fool, they said. And would be to the end. Good Manners in the Home Clever Hostess. play A man traveling in the country met a middle-aged farmer who said his fa ther, 00 years old, was still on the farm where he was born. "Ninety years old, eh?” “Yes. father is close to 90.” "Is his health good?" “ ’Tain’t much now. He’s been com plain 11’ for a few months back.” "What’s the matter with him?” "I dunno; sometimes I think farm in’ don’t agree w ith him.” "Nodles is the laziest man I know. He has an invention fixed so that by merely pulling a wire in bed he can light the fire; but that doesn’t seem to improve matters." "Why not?” "He’s too lazy to pull the wire.” A German band happened to under the windows of a house in a fashionable neighborhood the other afternoon, w’hen Mrs. B. was "at home.” They were a fair specimen of their kind—blaring and noisy, yet correct in their time and altogether in movement from long practice. The butler started out to drive them away, for they interrupted the music with in, but Mrs. B. ordered him to invite them in. A happy thought struck her. "Ladies and gentlemen,” she said five minutes later, "a party of our friends have consented to give an im itation of a street band. I now have the pleasure of introducing them.” Then the six members of the organ ization filed awkw'ardly into place and played a piece. The audience delight edly declared that the mimicry was perfect, especially the make-up of the players, who were recalled half a dozen times. "Would you take them for anything hut genuine street stragglers?” was asked of a belle. “Indeed, yes,’’ she confidently re plied; "they’re clever in their mim icry. but one can always tell gentle men, no matter how disguised. I’m dying to find out who they are.” By MRS. FRANK LEARNED. Author of “The Etiquette of New York To*day." P ARENTS are conscious of the im portance of teaching their chil dren good manners, but very often they forget that children arc- quick to detect inconsistencies. If the parents fail to observe the courtesies they are trying to teach there will b. difficulty in instructing children. If parents are careful to thank chil dren for any little attention, if they ask a favor of them always in cour teous terms, if they reply pleasantly tc their questions and never indulge in the rudeness of answering in mon osyllables or paying no attention to questions, then the children will learn to be careful in their own manners. Children imitate their parents in word and deed and are susceptible to the Influence of their looks, voices and manners. Feel Resentment. The resentment children sometimes feel in being required to observe for mulas is because they find these things disregarded by older persons in the family. Parents, therefore, have to discipline themselves before they can train their children. This may sometimes require the courage to ac knowledge a mistake, for it is as im portant to say "I was mistaken,” or "1 beg your pardon,” as to say "Thank you.” Conscientious parents know tha there can be no training in haphaz ard methods, or by laying down max ims and precepts, and that it is not by claiming to be infallible that they cat. hope to influence their children, hut by showing that they are striving toward high standards of conduct. If the home atmosphere is that of peace it is sure to promote contentment. If there is the everyday' graciousness of speech and action the influence can not fail to foster kindness and con siderateness. There will not be the mere superficial politeness, but the true graeiousness of life, a grace which is deep and enduring. Home, in its true sense, Is the training ground for life. The years at home ar< most important because habits are being formed which will influence the entire future. It is there that we learn to fill our place in re lation to others; there that we learn respect for authority and obedience to law and order. It is in the home that we learn in childhood the neces sity of self-control, the importance of 1 ruthf ulness, dutifulness, unselfish ness, sympathies and courtesy. We learn to make concessions, to give up insisting on having our own way, and we learn to look at things from the point of view of other people. High Ideals. Boys and girls who are taught high ideals of conduct in the home will no T fail to exercise kindness and cour tesy tow ard their companions. / r. they grow to manhood and woman hood they will feel bound to show their best home training in their in tercourse with the world, out of re spect to themselves and the dear fam ily life. The home life may be but a memory, distant in the years, but the influence will never be lost. With the Boy. Willie—May I go and play now, ma? Mother—What? With those rag ged trousers! 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