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T he M amcure
Lady
By WILLIAM F. KIRK
l £ T SEEN a item from Washington
I the other day,” saia the Mani-
-* cure Lady, “that tells how the
wife of Vice President Marshall is a
baseball fan. 1 wonder who got that in
the paper f # or her.”
"Why?” asked the Head Barber.
"Why?” echoed the Manicure Lady
"Gee, George, you can be thicker some
morning 1 than a Russian serf, or what
ever it is they call jasper* 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, and 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 j
you have been able to tell me the name
of the Vice President?”
They Have to Wait.
"I don’t think I W’ould,” admitted the
Head Barber
"Of course you wouldn't,” said the
Manicure Lady, ‘‘and neither would
three other people out of four. You
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 firtn, 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, ‘‘bjt 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 Lake Near Rome.
“Oh, I don’t know,” said the Head
Barber. “Teddy Roosevelt got his
name in the papers a lot when le was
Vice President and after he was out of
it altogether.”
"Yes, but Teddy is different," said
the Manicure I^adv. “I often wonder
what he would have did if he had been
Emperor of Rome when there wasn’t no
newspapers at all. I’ll bet he would
have jumped in the Tiber.”
"What was the Tiber?” asked the
Head Barber.
“Didn’t I tel’ you all you knew was
racetrack 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 is 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 comb'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 Stillington street, West
minster. A cabbage weighing 7* 4
pounds has been cut on some w'aste
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 av'erage grown-up person.
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“My Own Beauty Secrets” •* By ANNA HELD p BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
One of the Greatest Mystery Stories
Ever Written
By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN.
^Copyright, 1913, by Anna Katharlnt
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 an 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 first time a woman has 1
dropped her muaic 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, hut with
no wicked impulse to make that deceit
an entirely unpardonable one.”
Somewhat astonished, Mr. Gryce drew
back. "You seem relieved,” be 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 say. I know,
but cHso Genevieve’s sister and her su
perior in intellect, beauty and I 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 1 am sure she
needs nothing but a si* w of considerate
feeling on my part to develop into a
woman I can not only love but respect.”
Mr. Gryce came forward again.”
“You make my duty very hard,” said
he.
“Your duty?”
“You seem to think the whole mat
ter is settled by this discovery of Mrs.
j Cameron’s real identity, and that you
have nothing before you but I recondli-
ition 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 detective sighed; he was evidently
weary of the tormenter’s part he had
to play so long.
“I 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.
But 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
1 if Miss Gretorex had mifTirient deter
mination to undertake the re-establish-
i ment of herself as Mr. Gretorex »
daughter and your bride, she certainly
had enough to carry that undertaking
and who from his services seems to
have understood the situation, showed
the determination and forethought we
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;
Ve can never take his thoughts into
account; he is dead, and we have no
tecord of his beliefs,” asserted Dr. Cam
eron boldly. But the blow had told, he
knew—who so well—that Molesworth
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 willing,
and more than willing to talk, but now
that I see my way clear, I have no de
sire to say anything more, and would
advise you as a friend to say nothing
more either."
This was a new tone for the detective
to take and it struck Dr. Cameron for
cibly. He saw that whateevr his own
convictions might be, whatever the
truth even, she held, in the eyes of the
police at least, the position of a pos
sible criminal and must ever hold it.
now that her only witness had per
ished, unless by some decisive action
of his. the terrible question could be
"I was convinced before. I have nev- ,
er had more than a passing doubt from |
the moment this possibility was sug- |
g-Hted 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 caprtice about
names which she vowed she never re
membered; her professed short-sightwi
nes.;; her silence when conversation was 1
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 dlaarmed 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, I also wonder I
never felt a suspicion of truth, even
when 1 found her so much more bril
liant, gifted and beautiful than I had
anticipated or had a right to anticipate
from what I knew of Genevieve Greto
rex."
"I do not think it strange. Your
courtship had not been long enough and ;
intimate I
This if* the first article of Mias Held's series, and
in it she instructs girls lime to stand, and hold
themselves.
This article teas written in Paris and sent here
hji the famous French beaut]/ subsequent to her
arrival in New York within the next few dags for
a tour of the States.
In this article Miss Held tells how she saved
herself' from possible lung ailments bg learning
how to always pose herself to the best possible
bod it g advantage.—EDITOR.
you will excuse me if I say,
enough, for you to feel confident in your
knowledge of her. Then a bride is never
quite what Ti girl is, and any caprice
she might show in her present capacity
could 30 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.”
"I 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 genius to detect what es
caped the eye of husband and parents.”
Mr. Gryce lokoSd as if he felt himself
possessed of such a genius, but he sim
ply observed:
"It was all planned with consummate
Judgment, and 1 should like to know to
which brain the credit 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
Interrupted by a doubt. Only when you
Meaning and Expression.
The Ideal Position.
The center picture gives you a side
view of this standing figure. This
position is the next s.ep in advance.
I am relaxing a bit as the coat is
doffed, and my weight is slipping
slowly to one foot in anticipation of
sinking with gentle relaxation into a
chair.
Mear me, . Mademoiselle. “Make J
haste sloyly.” Never Jerk—never be ;
abrupt. Study the “Lazy grace” of
slow, contained movement which I I
have tried t£> illustrate for you here. .
In the picture at the left I am
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 |
from foot to foot. Hut in light poise
and simple focusing of attention I
find it possible to give heed to a con- |
Vernation 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 he the rase
when you stand correctly—it is pos-
forward easily into a .
By ANNA HELD.
(Heading “Anna Held’s All Star Variete
Jubilee,” Under Management of
John Cort.)
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 ain illustrating what I mean by
three of my new photographs.
In the one at the light I Rhow you
Just what my Ideal is of a natural
standing position.
Balance your weigh! so 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
your feet, so that the flowing lines
of your figure will be equal, unbroken
and graceful as is any flowing line.
Carry your ghoulders down, straight
and even, neither sunk forward nor
strained back.
As your shoulders are down, so
keep your chest high. Thus every vi
tal organ has its f ilr 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
an athlete ready to start into mo-
tioft.
And vet for your womanly grace
he as light as a flower, the lightest
breeze may set a-swaying.
Difficult ?
Perhaps—if your idea of standing
has been to relax into meaningless
shape.
But when you have mastered this
first position all that follows will be
simplicity iu>e.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 stock in trade of
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^ Now’s the time to make sure that
your children get all the food necessary
to build up their muscles and bones and
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largely on what they eat now.
There’s more real nutrition in a 10c package of
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your doctor.
A Position of Relaxation
our day ai.»i gr i.ci.i lion stand, walk,
move?
You sit gracefully and ea.s'ly, yo.i
look very charming—then you rise,
and sink your weight on one hip in a
way that makes your figure a dis
torted caricature.
You walk—and your stride Is the
mos. hideous motion womankind ever
evolved.
A few years ago you did the golf-
links stride, which was too long for
voor nnatrmv and which c owed with
painful plainness how foolish you were
i<> try io imitate the motions of men.
You put down your feet as if you
sible to start
light, graceful walk.
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 laconic response.
“Ah, quite a little man.” came pa
tronizingly from the minister. "And
what are you going to be?” he added,
after a slight pause
“I am going to be 9,” said,'the child,
with conviction.
Women follow the unpleasant out
lines of the Botticelli figure—chest
sunken, shoulders bent and back
rounded; while the healthy upheld
chest and “straight front” have given
way to the awkward outline of sag
ering and unconfined abdomen.
You do not like it, do you?
You are not going to be a slave to
an ugly fashion that must mo on die,
and that will hurt your health as well
as your natural beauty of figure?
We must all grow older, and what is
quaint at 20 will be ugly at 40. To
keep young to keep the slender out -
lines of girlish grace—and. above ali,
{ to keep well and’strong with the su
preme charm -*f womanhood, you
must b’gin to-day, Mademoiselle, and
learn to stand.
Once I felt attacked by the danger
ous bugaboo of chest trouble—I was
anae friends felt that my
Jtower > r v vjth and vitality was being
attacked.
And I went to Nature for my euro
I. practiced standing with upheld
chest, with expanded lungs.
I s od lightly poised on the bulls of
my feet.
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Ramose mingles with the food and
ftuses it to be assimilated 90 that
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^nd a healthy body.
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Placing Him.
She turned upon hijn imperiously and
swept him from head to foot with one
disdainful glance.
"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 head sadly.
“Once more Is the old saying verified,
It goes without saying ’ ”
She gently closed the doro behind him
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