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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. No Coffee Like It That rare, elusive, indescribable “some thing” about the fla vor of Maxwell House Liend CoIIee has es tablished this brand as pre-eminent in cup quality. A ah your grocer for it. Cheek-Neal Coffee Co., Nashville, Houstoe, Jacksonville. “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? 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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. Samose Makes Thin People Fat, or Jacobs' Pharmacy Will Re turn Money. Tn Samose are combined flesh - giving food elements that 5>oon oroduce a steady and noticeable vain in fle«h. Taken after meals. 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