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The Manicure
Lady
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By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
U t SEEN a Item from Washington
I the pther day,” said the Mani-
cure Lady, “that tells how the
wife of Vice President Marshall Is a
baseball fan. I wonder who got that In
the paper for her.”
“Why?” asked the Head Barber.
"Why?” echoed the Manicure Lady
“Gee, George, you can be thicker some
mornings than a Russian serf, or what
ever it is they call jaspers over In Rus
sia. Why, don’t you know that the
wife of a Vice President, or the Vice
President himself, or any of his folks
is supposed to be dead ones so far as
newspapers Is concerned. When I read
that item I noticed the heading in the
paper, find It said: ’Mrs. Marshall a
Baseball Fan.’ I says to myself ‘Mar
shall, Marshall, where have I heard that
name before?’ Honest to goodness,
George, If I had asked you quick, wou d
you have been able to tell me the name
of the Vice President?”
They Have to Wait.
“I don’t think 1 would,” admitted the
Head Barber.
“Of course you wouldn’t,” said the
Manicure I-ady, "and neither would
three other people out of four. Ycu
see. George, the Vice President of a
great nation is like the vice president of
anything else. They have to wait till
the main squeeze croaks before they go
to the tailor for a new wardrobe.
Everybody hopes they are well and
happy, but nobody sees their.name in
the paper and wouldn’t know who it
was if they did see it In print.
”*A treasurer is some guy, George,
whether he is the treasurer of the
country or the treasurer of a dry goods
firm. There is something kind of solid
sounding about a treasurer, and his
name looks cute on a check. You may
not think him as great as a president,
but you always see something beauti
ful about his rugged features on pay
day. And a secretary is a kind of im
portant gink, too. He has to read the
minutes of the last meeting and attend
to the correspondence. A secretary may
not be so much In a firm, but he can
make more noise dictating to the ste
nographer than the president makes.”
“You seem to know a who e lot about
the business world for a simple girl that
never had to work nowhere except in
this shop," said the Head Barber.
"I ain’t as learned as a barber,” said
the Manicure Lady icily, “but I read
more. When I pick up a paper I start
in at the front page and skip the rac
ing dope. It’s just the opposite with
you, George. And if you know anything
at all, you know I am speaking true
lines when I say that a vice president
is like the letters ’gh’ In ’straight.’ A
vice president that gets his name in the
papers to any extent must be some
press agent.”
A Laks Near Rome.
”Oh, I don’t know,” said the Head
Barber. “Teddy Roosevelt got his
name In the papers a lot when he was
Vice President and after he was out of
It altogether.”
"Yes, but Teddy is different,” said !
the Manicure Lr.dy r . "I often wonder
wl at he w ould have did if he had been !
Emperor of Rome wnen there wasn’t no
newspapers at all. I’ll bet he would!
' ave Jumped in the Tiber.”
"What was the Tiber?” asked the
\ ad Barber.
"Didn't I tel’ you all you knew was
acetrack depe?” exclaimed the Mani
cure Lady. "You poor simp, the Tiber
was a lake Just outside of Rome.”
Do You Know-—
Doubtless the most unique spot
in Europe ia the little village of
Altenberg, on whose border three
countries meet. It is ruled by no
monarch, has no soldiers, no police,
and no taxes Its Inhabitants speak
a curious jargon of French and
German eomb'ned. and spend their
days in cultivating the land or work
ing in the valuable calamine mine of
which the village boasts.
• • •
Tomatoes growing In a piano case,
which has been turned into a tiny
greenhouse by an ingenious plotholder,
are being cultivated at the Church
Army’s "City Gardens” on waste build
ing sites in Stilllngton street, West
minster. A cabbage weighing 7?i
pounds has been cut on some waste
ground devoted to free plots for married
workmen.
• • •
The average depth of sand in the
deserts of Africa is from 30 to 40
feet.
• • •
There is 28 pounds of blood in the
body of an average grown-up person
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By ANNA HELD BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
One of the Greatest Mystery Stories
Ever Written
By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN.
(Copyright, 1913. by Anna Katharine
Green.)
TO-DAY’S INSTALLMENT
came to know your wife better you
might have wondered at certain defects
in her, but you would by that time have
become so accustomed to them that you
would have passed them off as many
people are passing off her eccentricities
to-day by the simple phrase, ‘Genevieve
is changed: she is not what she used to
be,’ adding, possibly. In your own mind,
‘It is not the tirst time a woman has
dropped her music after marriage.’ ”
"True, true; and I will acknowledge
now that I can hardly remember the
Genevieve Gretorex I courted, for this
dazzling, fresh creature who has taken
her place. Deceitfully, I own, but with
no wicked impulse to make that deceit
an entirely unpardonable one.”
Somewhat astonished, Mr. Gryce drew
hack. “You seem relieved,” he remark
ed. “by this discovery which we have
made.”
‘‘I am. How can I help it when It
gives me a wife uncontaminated by a
mad, if innocent passion for another
man.”
“But a—a ”
“Dressmaker you would soy. I know,
but also Genevieve's sister and her su
perior in Intellect, beauty and 1 dare
to hope, worth.” he interjected the doc
tor. "For though she entered into this
fraud without seeming compunction, she
has since given signs of honest repent-
, ance for the wrong she has done, and
| with It shown such affection for the
! man she has deceived that I am sure she
needs nothing but a sl*w of considerate
and who from his services seems to
have understood the situation, showed
the determination and forethought wo
would expect from a man desirous of
concealing a murder His whole action
shows that he thought Mildred Farley
had committed a crime, and If he
thought so ”
"We do not know what he thought;
we can never take his thoughts into
account; he is dead, and we have no
record of Ids beliefs,” asserted Dr. Cam
eron boldly. But the blow had told, he
knew—-who so well—that Moles worth
was afraid to communicate to him the
truth as to the identity of his wife,
and what could this fear argue but a
belief in the guilt which this discovery
would make apparent.
"We will not argue the question any
further. Dr. Cameron,” the detective
now declared. “While there were
doubts as to my duty, I was wlllin*
"I was convinced before. I have nev
er had more than a passing doubt from
the moment this possibility was sug
gested to me. There were too many
facts in the past to confirm it, petty
facts, ignored at the time, but showing
themselves now in their true light as
the way marks of a great and skilfully
carried out deception. Her ignorance,
hidden under sphinxlike smiles which
made it look like wisdom or at the
wors indifference, her caprtlce about
names which she vowed she never re
membered; her professed short-sighted
ness; her silence when conversation was
expected; her talkativeness when si
lence would have been more appro
priate; the wit with which she parried
attacks; the glance and the smile which
filled all gaps and disarmed all criti
cism. Then the attitude she took to
ward Mr. and Mrs. Gretorex, leading to
those rather formal relations which
were her only safeguard; her refusal
to visit much except where a crowd
was expected, and a word and a look
were all that was required of her, and
finally the excuses she always found
when I pressed her to sing or play, or
write, or talk on anything but general
subjects It Is all clear now, and while |
I wonder at her tact, 1 also wonder I
never felt a suspicion of truth, even ,
when I found her so much more bril- I
llant, gifted and beautiful than I had I
anticipated or had a right to anticipate i
from what I knew of Genevieve Greto- !
rex.”
“I do not think it strange. Your j
courtship had not been long enough and
you will excuse me if I say, intimate i
This is the first article of Miss Ileld's series, and
in it she instructs girls how to stand, and hold
themselves.
This article teas icritten in Paris and sent here
by the famous French beauty subsequent to her
arrival in New York within the next few days for
a tour of the States.
In this article Miss Held tells how she saved
herself from possible lung ailments by learning
how to always pose herself to the best possible
bodily advantage.—EDITOR.
at once and forever settled. Looking at
Mr. Gryce and seeing how sober ha
had become, he took his resolve.
“I have an experiment to try,” said
he. “You have made your test, and
satisfied us all that Mrs. Cameron’s
maiden name was Mildred Farley. I
w’ould like the same opportunity of
proving to you that though she took
her sister’s place and identity she did
not take her life. Will you come up
stairs again. Mr. Gryce?”
But the detective hesitated.
*T know what you contemplate,” he
affirmed, ‘‘and would advise you to
pause. It Is a risky thing you are going
to do. Besides, the lady Is not neces
sarily your wife ”
“What?”
“No court in the country would hold
you to a marriage forced upon you by
such fraud."
The doctor flushed, looking away, and
for a moment was silent. Then he de
clared, firmly:
“She is my wife; I accept her as such,
however my experiment ends. I should
have no right to make it, did I not ex
pect to share the consequences of it with
her.”
Mr. Gryce took off his hat. Was It In
deference, or because he hiCQ determined
to stay? Both, perhaps.
‘‘Then you are resolved, knowing that
in doing this you make a witness of
me?”
‘‘Yes, for I be’leve in her innocence,
and must have it established before the
world.” And he led Mr. Gryce back
into his wife's room, saying, ”1 will not
keep you waiting long. The effects of
the drug I administered to her must
have nearly passed away.”
The scene to which they thus re
turned was not that of a few minutes
ago. The poor and sordid furniture had
been removed and the rich and stately
belongings of the room restored. The
form of Mrs. Olney had been replaced
by that of the nurse, and nowhere was
there to be seen the least token of that
strange and remarkable transformation
tin half-wakened
woman into a belief that she was a girl
again. Even the rings bad been re
stored to her hands, and on the tab e
near by ticked the watch which her
husband ►ad given her In those happy
days in Washington. As for herself, she
lay quiet, though her eyelids fluttered
faintly, and now and then her limbs
moved as if she were in grief or pain.
atlon with your wife.
Dr. Cameron uttered an ejaculation.
“And do you mean to say that you still
retain the suspicions you entertained of
her when you thought her the maddened
and desperate daughter of Mr. Greto
rex?”
The defective sighed; he was evidently
weary of the tormenter's part he had
to play so long.
*T should have thought,” he observed
gently, “that you would have perceived
without my aid that the suspicions al
ready attached to your wife by the po
lice would be heightened rather than
diminished by the discovery that it was
Genevieve Gretorex’s substitute who
survived to marry you instead of Gene
vieve herself.”
“I had not looked at it so. I felt so
sure this was her great secret that I
never questioned if she possessed an
other."
"I wish that we were not obliged to.
Rut when we think of the circum
stances and consider the temptation she
was under, we dare not let the matter
slide without a legal investigation. For
if Miss Gretorex had sufficient deter
mination to undertale the re-establish
ment of herself as Mr Gretorex’s
daughter and your bride, she certainly
had enough to carry that undertaking
through if she had not been stopped in
some forcible way by Mildred. She did
not carry it through. What, then, are
we to think? That she threw away
her life to please a sister’s whim, or
that that sister found some way of
inducing the death which left her In
the enviable position she had assumed?”
There could be but one answer.
‘‘The poison was Genevieve’s. It was
In a casket in Genevieve’s drawer. Is
it credible that Mildred should knew
this, or knowing It be able to use it
upon Genevieve without that person
perceiving what was being given her to
drink?”
“It Is the weak point. In opposition
to it we offer but one suggestion. Moles-
worth, who was the fiist on the scene,
knowledge of her. Then a bride is never
quite what h girl is, and any caprice
she might show in her present capacity
could so easily be attributed to the
change which matrimony invariably
brings. I do not wonder at all that you
were deceived; I am only annoyed that
I was.”
“But you had never seen Miss Gre
torex.”
‘‘1 know, but a detective never ex
cuses himself. I felt an incongruity
somewhere, but I was not particular
enough In asking its true meaning. I,
who knew there were two of them, and
also knew how much they looked alike.’’
“Well, I can not see that this Is
It would have taken a most
strange.
penetrating gen us to detect what es- ;
caped the eye of husband and parents.” j
Mr. Gryce lokoed as if he felt himself
possessed of such a genius, but he sim
ply observed:
"It was all planned with consummate j
Judgment, and 1 should like to know to
which brain the cred : t of the scheme is
due. Had the expectations of Genevieve
been realized, had she found an accom
plice in Dr. Molesworth and had been
married to him as she hoped. I do not
think your honeymoon would have been
Only when you
interrupted by a doubt.
Meaning and Expression.
The Ideal Position.
The corner picture gives you a side
view of this standing figure. This
position s the next s.ep in advance j
I am relaxing a bit as the coat is .
doffed, and my weight is slipping
slowly to one foot in anticipation of j
sinking with gentle relaxation into a i
chair.
me, Mademoiselle. ‘‘Make
Never jerk—never be j
Study the “Lazy grace” of i
W’hlch I .
illustrate for you here. |
am 4
By ANNA HELD.
(Heading “Anna Held’s All Star Variete
Jubilee,” Under Management of
John Cort.)
T walked with an elastic spring as
children naturally do.
Result 7
I am my best and most vital self
again.
Youth can carry off a certain
amount of awkwardness simply by
freshness and briskness—but that
may mean a middle age without grace
and an old age of antique uncouth-
ness.
Divide Your Weight.
When a woman has lost the fresh
ness of youth there are Just three
things that will make her socially
tolerable—grace, cleverness and kind
ness.
And the greatest of these Is grace.
I have told you “Why” at some
length—-now let me follow up my
preaching with an account of my
practice.
I will tell you “How.”
I am Illustrating what I mean by
three of my new photographs.
In the one at the r.ght I show you
just what my ideal is of a natural
standing poslth n.
Balance your weight «o lightly on
the balls of your feet that you could
easily rock back and forward if you
chose.
But If you will not choose. You
must cultivate perfect repose when
you are in repose!
Divide your weight equally between
vour feet, so that the flowing lines
of your figure will be equal, unbroken
and graceful as is any flowing line.
Carry your shoulders down, straight
and even, neither sunk forward nor
strained back.
As your shoulders are down, so
keep your chest high. Thus every vt
tal organ has its fir chance of room
to breathe for Itself—and air to
breathe too. Carry your head lightly
and high.
Feel in every muscle a willingness
to spring into action.
Be conscious of Vitality like that of
in athlete ready to start into mo
tion.
And vet for your womanlv grace
be as light as a flower, the lightest
breeze may set a-swaying.
Difficult ?
Perhaps—if your idea of standing
has been to relax in.o meaningless
shape.
But when you have mastered ‘his
first position all that follows will be
l biuipncily i jse.f, ;
Copyright, 1913, International News
Service.
H OW do you stand, Madame or
Mademoiselle?
How do you walk?
How do you enter a room?
Probably you have never given
much thought to the matter; and yet
to be able to stand well, to move well,
to enter or leave a room gracefully is
the whole social sto« k in trade .of
women who get on astonishingly well
in society.
If you stand well, if it is a pleasure
to see vou move, these two graces will
not onlv give you an air of breeding
that will help you win \our way anv-
where, but they will make you pictur-
sque, attractive and a notable figure
herever you go.
Thin is quite true, as you must con-
•«s if you give the .matter anv
ought, and yet how do you stand,
'adame—how does each woman of
Mear
haste sloyly
abrupt.
slow, contained movement
have tried to
In the picture at the left I
trying to illustrate for you the mean
ing and expression that may be put
into a simple standing position. The
arms are clasped loosely In front.
There is no awkward relaxation here
—but attention. Talk to a standing
woman and see how ungracefully she
relaxes and how- she shifts uneasily
fr^m foot to foot. But In light poise
and simple focusing of attention I
find It possible to give’heed to a con
versation without loosing all mus
cular control of my body in the in
terests of my mind.
From any of these standing posi
tions—as must always be the case
when you stand correctly—it is pos
sible to start forward easily into a
light, graceful walk.
A Position of Relaxation.
^ Now’s the time to make sure that
^ your children get all the food necessary
JJ to build up their muscles and bones and
_ put on flesh. Their physical future depends
Jjr largely on what they eat now.
There’s more real nutrition in a 10c package of
Faust Macaroni Ilian in 4 lbs. of beef— prove it by
your doctor.
our day and generation stand, walk,
move?
You sit gracefully and easily, yoj
look very charming—then you rise,
and sink your weight jn one hip In a
way that makes your figure a dls-
tored caricature.
You walk—and your stride is the
mos hideois motion womankind ever
evolved.
A few years ago you did the golf-
Ilnku stride which was too long for
vn onitrmv md which «-lowed with
painful plainness how foolish you were
*• rv o Imitate the motluns of men.
You put down your feet as if you
were trying to imitate the old mira
cles whereby the saints left the im
print of their footsteps in solid rock.
And the s anding position, the wai.<
of to-day. is only lesn paiuful to de
scribe than to see.
A Painful Sight.
Women follow' the unpleasant out
lines of the Botticelli figure—chest
sunken, shoulders b^nt and bact
rounded; while the healthy upheld
chest and "straight front” have given
way to the awkward outline of sag-
gin g and unconfined abdomen.
You do not like it, do you?
You are not going to be a slave t<
an ugly fashion that must noon die.
and that will hurt your health as well
as your natural beauty of figure?
We must all grow older, and what is
.juaint at 20 will be ugly at 40. To
keep young to keep the slender out -
lines of glrli.a'i grace—and, above a 1 i,
to keep well and strong with the su
preme charm of womanhood, you
must begin to-day, Mademoiselle, and
learn to stand.
Once I felt attacked by the danger
ous bugaboo of chest trouble—I wa<
anaem c—my friends felt that mv
dower of youth and vitality was being
attacked.
And I went to Nature for my cure
I practiced standing v ith upheld
chest, with expanded lungs.
I stood l ghtly poised on the balls of
my feet.
Answered.
Upon the occasion of his first visit to
a parishioner an Atlanta clergyman
tried hard to make friends with his
host’s 8-year-old.
“How old are you, my son?” asked
the clergyman, benignly.
“Eight," was the lacon'c response.
“Ah, quite a little man,” came pa
tronizingly from the minister. "And
what are you going to be?” be added,
after a slight pause.
"I am going to be 9,” said the child,
with conviction.
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Placing Him.
She turned upon him imperiously and
‘•wept him from head to foot with one
disda'nful g’arce.
"What have you to say for yourself?’
The dude cowered before her. abashed
and then passed thiough the door with
out a word.
She shook her bend sadly.
“Once more is the old sayirg verified
It goes without saying’”
She gently closed the dcro bel Irid him
MAULLBROS.
St. Louis, Mo.