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- From th* play by George Scar
borough now heln* presented at th«
Thirt\ ninth 8tr»*ot Theater, New \ork.
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International News Service.)
TO-DAY’S INSTALLMENT.
"As District Attorney I take your
word. Captain Holbrook,” said Gordon
Graham at last, and he little guessed
how he was -ervlng his daughter at
that particular moment.
“Thank you," said the man cm parole,
quietly.
"Come. Chief,” said Graham.
"Both knobs, gentlemen,” said Hol
brook. as they tried the d»x>r. “It’s a
spring look, remember That's It.
Good-night "
He stoivi quite still on his hearth
stone for a moment, listening to make
sure of retreating footsteps.
"The Lord be praised!” ejaculated
Father' Shannon piously
“Yes. praise Him. by ail means—but
not too loudly—those walnut doors may
have ears.”
Holbrook listened for a final second
and then opened the door that led to
his own rooms.
“Aline my dear.” he called
"Safe?” called the girl, in exquisite
tellef
‘“Yes I’m on parole.”
"You both look very serious—what
was it?” asked the girl, in surprise
Alines Oath.
When a woman finds that the enemy
has been forced to retreat she thinks
the victory has been won. It is men
who are trained In battle-—and who
know' that retreat mav mask an am
buscade a sortie and that first honors
do not decide the conflict.
"It is serious you don’t know how
serious,” said the Captain, In a tone
to match his words then seeing the
mask of fear draw over the girl’s
brightened face, he determined to bring
a moment of relief again "Surely It
is serious why, nayther of us dares to
drink a drop of the whisky!” he
laughed
The girl smiled wanly.
Now listen, Aline, my dear SWEAR
T< * ME THAT YOC WIRE REFUSE
T‘• TALiK OF ANYTHING THAT’S
HAPPENED TO-NIGHT UNLESS I
AM WITH YOU."
"To whom mustn’t 1 talk?"
"To any one—even to Father Shan
non ”
When the man who love# her gives
a woman his first command, and she
obeys, she answers him as well as If
site cried aloud, "1 love you For
when an Independent human soul takes
orders from another and there Is no re
lationship of fem of master to man
then the great ruling power that im
pels obedience Is la»ve
Aline raised her eyes to the face of
the man to whom she bad given her
heart, hut to whom she could not give
he rself.
“I promise.’’
"But take your oath 'So help you
God!’ ”
‘ You doubt her truth?” asked the
Father, gravely.
"No. rather, hut I want her to he
able to say that she Is under a vow of
silence.”
Aline’s eyes had not left her captain's
face. There was a thrill of underlying
1oy In being directed by him In her
hour of great peril.
‘“I swear I swear!” she said, in a
tone that was a sacred promise
“And now good-night.’ The man’s
voice deepened to the tone of life's ten-
derest music- an unselfish. protecting
love "Remember, that I love you.
Good-night, father, and remember that
you are taking with you the dearest
thing in all the world to me.”
The Police Return.
"Good-night, my lad.”
"Good-night, and God bless you for a
true friend Good-night, my lady.
Holbrook's hand was on the spring
lock a moment more and he would
have lifted It to open the door for
his honored guests—but there waa the
thundering knock of authority on the
panels.
“Hello,’’ called the Captain. The fa
ther led the terrified girl back to the
door behind which she had once before
hidden.
“Captain,” called the voice of Chief
Dempster. The, enemy had made a
sortie.
"Come In,” cried l^rry easily, wait
Ing for Father Shannon to regain his
position. "Oh, wait a minute excuse
me- I’m always forgettin' that spring
lock.”
He opened the door. Chief Dempster
and Robert Graham re-entered his
oral. Their faces were cold and
atern.
"Did ye forget something?” queried
dauntless Larry, with an assumption of
ease he was far from feeling.
"There is a taxi waiting below.’ said
Dempster, sternly and accusingly, to
Father Shannon.
"Yes.”
"For you. the chauffeur says.'
"Yea but you’re welconu to it. A
smile brushed across the Captain * face
what an apt pupil In the art of
finesse was his friend the priest!
"You came in it, James, the man told
me so ” This was man t" man -and
Father Shannon was only ".lames’ to
the chief now.
”J did.”
"I’ll phone for another—sit down, all
of you,” said the Captain, as if suddenly
reminded of his duties as a host
Chief Dempster chose to ignore this.
"The man says, with a woman.
"The chauffeur says that?" The fa
ther would do his best for the lad and
lass he loved but the church could not
take upon itself the black siri of an out
right lie-and the father felt helpless in
the net now.
"Yes—the chauffeur says that!
Holbrook had crossed over to his great |
Russian chair - he was leaning .forward
across its back, now quite relaxed per
fectly at ease or, so be must look t<»
any observer but in the second when
the other man had been observing Fa
ther Shannon and not Captain Hol
brook. a sly, thoughtful expression had
crossed his face that was now »<> bland
and childlike in its engaging honesty.
There were still a few cards left In his
pack he would play them one at a time
for his queen.
"What’s the v. v* of further deception.
Mr. Graham!” exclaimed Holbrook In a
tone of determination to confess a mat
ter and get it over with.
The three men turned to him with as
tonishment In various terms writ large
on their faces What would he tell?
How far was he prepared to go?
"Well?” queried Graham, impatiently.
“That hem about my engagement to
your daughter was inserted by the so
ciety editress a ’lady,’ as you’ve just
said, chief she says ’twas Flagg lhe
dead man ’round the corner that told
her my call on the man relates! to
that —”
All the kisses that all the vagabonds
of all the ages have put on the "War
ney stone" lifted Captain Holbrook’s
lips in a smile of engaging candor and
in h simple little tone of emphasis he
told the truth as best calculated to de
ceive.
"1 won’t say that any lady came here
with Father Shannon and I won’t say
she didn’t. But I do sav that If that
lady WAS with film she left before you
c#me. and that she’s sorry enough for
her part in the matter."
To Be Continued To-morrow.
For the woman who
finds fur beyond her means,
we suggest the use of os
trich combined with velvet
—or of the ever-useful and
warm marabou.
The gown shown on the
left is of blue satin with
belt and surplice fold* of
brown velvet.
Vanila brown velvet forms
the centre of the scarf—
and the ostrich or marabou
should be of the same tone.
On the muff are three
hands of the velvet—and
four of the feather trim
ming.
Bows of satin in rosette
form finish the outer bands
of the velvet—and long
ends of the ostrich fall from
them.
This will be found a very
useful way to utilize old
t cy f
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
sHAT word ’wise’ is a funny
word, ain’t it, Georgs?’ said
the Manicure Lady. "There
was two gents in here this morning
to have their nails did, and both of
them was wise, only tn different
ways The first gent that came in
was a middle-aged fellow from a
small town. He told me frank
enough that he didn't have the habit
of getting manicured, and he said the
only reason he came in was because
he had three or four hangnails and
had heard somewhere that a mani
cure could fix hangnail* fine. He was
awful nice and gentlemanly to me,
and told me that he liked It In the
small town better than in the city
He said that he was a merchant in
the small town and was doing s<
well that he wouldn't care to move
into a city where everything waa new
and strange. He wasn’t dressed very
swell, aa far as style goes, and he
didn't have no flip talk, but I could
see that he had lots of brains, and 1
knew he was a man."
"I noticed him when he went ost,'
• aid the Head Barber "He dldn'i
give you no tip. though ”
"1 didn't a ant no tip from him,"
declared the Manicure l^ady. "Lot
the fresh guys tip me. as long
they have the habit. He probably
never lived where folks give tips, or
he would have tipped me as ltbwnol
as anybody. And now I want to tel
you about the other kind of a wise
guy that was In.
"This young fellow tells me before
he is in the chair a minute that he
Is a wise fish. He thought he was so
deep that he was all the time saying,
‘Do you follow me?’ 1 couldn’t have
lost htm In h1a cheap chatter if 1
had been ten times as stupid a* I am
which I ain t. Yes. he says he is a
wise fish, or a wise owl, I forgot
which he said, but anyhow wise all
the way. ‘If there is anything that
anybody ever put over on me, he
says, ‘I want somebody to walk up
and tell me. I am good and hep to
everything, he say#
"Just when the nice middle-aged
fellow was going out this young wart
comes m The middle aged man asked
| the young fellow w’hich way to go tc
find a set of scales, and the young
XtLow says. Way awn i you go uowr
to the Aquarium and ask a flshT
ThAt made me kind of tired, so I
tells the middle-aged gent where
there la a big hardware store, and
after he had went I gave young
sporty s swift call for getting fresh
with his elders 1 talked to hint
until I had desAusted all my elesrwnre
and It didn't do no good He Just
kept grinning that wise grin of his
at me and winking his right eye. He
sure did give that wink a merry
game "They’ve got to get up earl)
in the a. m when they put one ovet
on me, Ambrose the live one,’ he says
to me. 'Maybe I might have let one
go over my head once, but if 1 eve
did I must have been when 1 Just got
up and was rubbing my eyes,' he says.
He pulled three of the latest stag*
jokes, gave me a imitation of himself
Imitating George Cohan, and pulled
a lot of flush con vernation, all during
the time I was hurrying madly to
get his nails did and get him out of
the shop.
"That Is the Kind of wise guys that
our big city is getting choked up
with, George. When they know
enough slang to keep everybody
guessing about what they ar# talking
about they think they are deep. They
ain't any deeper than a saucer, and
nobody ever got drowned in a saucer
If >o« ever want to get in dutch with
me, George. Just come around some
morning and tell me that you are *
wise fish."
T HIS evening gown of Copenhagen blue velvet on the right de
pends for Its effectiveness upon line and color. And the two
combine In the shading draperies of the rich material.
The blouse fastens beneath the arm and is held by straps of beads
that cross under and above the shoulder and finish in ornaments that
fall straight in front.
Pink and red roses mark the line of the draped belt in front, and
a smaller bouquet holds the skirt where it crosses above the left foot.
The skirt ends in a long, und train, and at the waist there is a
folded tunic of the velvet.
The sleeves are of flesh -olorod tulle.—OLIVETTE
He Was Careful.
Little Tommy was bringing In the
new kittens to show the visitor. He
brought the first two into the room,
carrying them painstakingly by the
tatls, while they howled and spit with
vigor.
"Oh. Tommy!” exclaimed ths visi
tor, "you mustn't hurt the poor little
things.
"No. madam, 1 won't," Tommy re
plied. "I’m carrying them by the
sterns "
A Boon Indeed.
"At last," exclaimed the long-haired
‘inventor. ”1 have evolved the g ate*»t
practical blessing of the age!”
*Oh, tell tne. Theophilus. tell me
what it is.” begged his wife.
"A collar button with a little phono
graph inside that will call out when
it rolls into a dark corner under the
4ies»er Here 1 am; Hsrs 1 ami’’*
U THAT. Mother Dour, is a di-
! vor re?
It is that form >'( marital
separation. Precious One. that a gen
era tion ago was* a disgrace and now
is a habit.
Why, Mother, do you always scold
the child for currying its pie from the
table?
You have so much to learn, >P
Daughter. The child that carries Us
pie from tin table so as not to miss
anything going on in the games out
side. will sonic day be a man and eat
on the run In order not to miss his
share of business life. And. believe
me. my dear, what he fnight miss
when be is older is not much more
important than what he might mis3
as a child.
Is there anything in the world.
Mother, that could take the conceit
out of a nun?
Marriage is one remedy. Child. An
other effectual way would be to lei
hint look Back into a room two min
utes after he made a call. Every
woman in' t yawning.
What is Clarity. .Mother?
It is that noble trait. My Child, that
attributes the tailure of a bachelor to
the lack of a wife to act as an incen
tive to success and the failure of a
married man to the domestic burden
lie carries.
What. Mother, is meant by Soulful
Yearnings?
It is that quality which, in one’s
self. Little One signifies a poetic
temperament, and which in others
denotes biliousness.
What is meant by the Blue Pencil?
It is that. My Child, which every
one needs, but that only those unfor
tunate beings who work on a news
paper receives.
What. Mother, would you regard as
the most important qualification in
the wife of a politician? A knowl
edge of statesmanship?
1 regard as a more important qual-
| ifleation. Child, the ability to cook
well enough to be prepared to keep
| boarders for a living.
Mhy. Mother, does the wnmap spend I
! ^ » mych time looking for things at I
: the grocer’s which are the quickest'
to cook?
She wishes t.> save time. Little One.
i in o:\ior that later in the day she may
[lava uiore of it to waste.
O CT. 81.—The spirit of Hallow
e’en took posseeslon of my
pretty nurse and of me at ex
actly the same hour last evening,
and after we had seen Richards pilot
ing Manette safely off to bed, we put
on coat and cloak and hats and
started out. It was 10 o’clock when
we left the house, and it is now 2
in the morning, and I am so wide
awake there is no use going to bed.
She wore a scarlet coat, and Dy
“she” I mean my pretty oompanion,
and I did not know until to-night
what it means to be a woman and for
one brief evening kick all the con
ventions off at one’a heels. This
sounds mixed—scarlet coat and the
conventions, but I claim that the
color of the coat was to blame No
woman oan wear bright scarlet and
feel entirely sedate in her soul.
We have been to all the dance halls
and all the cabarets; we did an im
promptu song and dance ourselves at
one restaurant, and fled before the
tumult of applause. I caught a taxi
cab and we rode for an hour after
that to get baok our breaths. I
know now what I can do for a living
when my business goes to smash—
buy a hand organ of an Italian, as I
did to-night and get my pretty nurse
to do a dance In front of it, and then
pass around the hat. There were
three or four hundred dollars in her
hat when we fled, leaving the hand
organ behind us, which a very peni
tent young woman will carry to-mor
row to some charity. The money, I
mean, not the hand organ.
She will be penitent. I know her
sex so well. We did nothing very
wrong beyond the injury to our di
gestions, but a good woman likes to
exaggerate her sins, and my nurse
will go around for a week looking as
If she had murdered some one. It
must be very inconvenient to be a
woman.
THE COAT TO BLAME.
But the scarlet coat was entirely
to blame. I have felt like anything
but a Methodist prayer meeting every
time 1 have seen her put it on, and
If she will persist in wearing it there
Is no telling what will happen. When
she wears those golden brown* and
delicate grays Richards selected for
her her eyes take on the expression
of a saint, and every hair on her head
seeks its place and stays in It
But that scarlet coat puts a devil
try in her eyes that isn’t at all sooth
ing, and there comes a flush in her
cheeks to match It, and her hair flies
around her face in little wayward
curls that make a man long to push
each curl back in place. It is all
right for a girl the age of Manette
to wear a scarlet coat, but I shall re
buke the nurse for appearing in such
a defiant color. The sight of her isn’t
good for me.
November 8.—It is Just as I pre
dicted. I have laughed many times
over the memory of Halloween, but
the nurse never smiles.
“It is all right for a man to forget
himself, and laugh about it after
ward," she exclaimed this morning,
"but being a woman Is different.
Whenever I think that I—I, who was
brought up so strictly—got up on the
platform in that dance hall, and
danced the tango, and sang—why, I
am overcome with shame. You ought
to be ashamed of yourself for getting
me into it!”
"It wasn’t me,” T retorted. "It was
the scarlet coat you were wearing."
I saw her later in the day start to
put it on when getting ready for a
walk and then look at it dubiously.
Then she ran upstairs and came
down wearing all black!
We were sitting in the library this
evening, and I had Manette on my
lap, telling her a story, when Tomp
kins called me to the telephone.
ONE SIDE.
If you had ears. Diary, you would
have heard only one side of the talk,
so what is the use of telling you
more?
"Hello!"
“Yes, this is Max."
“Oh,” a little coldly. "It is you. is
it? Yes, I’m better, thank you.”
"No; no bad effects from the day I
spent down town."
“How is my companion, you say?”
(Frost in my voice.) "She is not
here."
"I can’t tell you where she is now.
libeller, .h. i, on her way „ Ea
ml'redV" y Pretty - Ulad «
"I can't give her your mesa...
though no doubt it would pie.,, ,*?
to have won the admiration ot a m. «
a« discriminating aa yeuraoli.
• ee, I haven't her adfire,,. and 1 „, v 2
expect to see her again."
“Yes, It is too bad. Good-by."
Then I returned to the library t.
find Richards looking somewhat my*
tilled T he pretty nurs, waa ted m
time in expressing herself
"Yeu were talking about me”
eaid and you were talking to th.
gentleman who took us to lunrb r!
day w<* spent down town." ^
u ;:, WeU ” on the defensive. -What oJ
“Nothing; only I wanted yon
know that I know." **
Then she went back to the book
and I saw that Richards was
to suppress a laugh. I presun,,?!
determination not to let that shallow*
pated man see the nurse again
confirm Richards tn her euspldoj
that a romance is budding under ?.2
eyes, but I don't care. '
I am too tick a man to be annoys
by any man's admiration 0 f ?!
pretty nurse. It Isn't Jealousy at ,,fi
I hope I am too big a man to f J
such a sentiment as that It |, .J 1
the girl's sake I feel that way Tk!
man Is wealthy and a spender aid
if he came out here and paid h !
any attention It would m.an la.
hours and dinners at midnight and
all those things that are not at a!
good for a girl. As long aa eh, I, !
member of my household I f M i !
moral obligation regarding her wel
fare. I should feel Just the earn,
It were the cook or one of the maid?
NEVER BE HAPPY.
I know the man Is not married,
but you see. in a way, that make,
worse. He might hope to marry
her, and she would never be hspey
with HIM!
I will have a plain talk with
In the morning and tell her ,he will
have to look a little less faeclnatlnf
when she goes out with me or other
wise I will leave her at homo. I can'i
have every man I know ctlllnj me
up and eaylrtg, “Hello, Max, vho
the queen you had out last nighif
Are you going to introduce me, or
do you intend to keep her ell f„
yourself?"
It Isn't the right way to teat
sick mar
Do You Know-
Up-to-Date Jokes
Some probable investors were being
shown over a building estate in the
country-
“Come this way, gentlemen," the
agent said. "On the rising ground you
can see how the land lies."
"Or the land agent.” quietly re
marked one of the party.
* * *
Mother-What do you think you will
make out of my daughter’s talent?
Professor (absent-mindedly)—About
810 a lesson if the piano holds out.
T HERE was a man here this aft
ernoon selling a fine book, sed
Mh. I toald him to cum back
tonite when you were here, so you
cud see It. Missus Jenkins bought
one & nil the other nabors. The naim
of the book is Beekun Lites of Llt-
eratur.
1 hoap he dosent cum back, sed Pa,
I am sick & tired of these book agents
with thare chop whiskers & thare
nerve. I have a noshun to give him
the gate beefoar he gits a chanst to
show the book at all.
Jest then the book agent cairn. He
was a tall, fat man with rosy cheeks
& a nice fur overcoat. He looked like
a man in a show wlch I seen onst. Git
Rich Quick Somebody. Moast of the
book agents wich cums to our house
looks as if they was jest working at
it long enuff to git sumthing to eet &
then git a better job, but this man
looked vary prosper-us.
He dident wait for Pa to ask him
to set down, he suit down in the big-
best chare & started in.
My good man. he sed to Pa, you
have within yure grasp a wunderful
opportunity to delve into the ded
master minds of the ded past. Thay
are all in yure reech/to borrow from
or disagree with, these wunderful
minds. You can chat with Shake-
speer, Milton, Byron, Dickens, Thack-
ery—a thousand noabel men. You
will be enchanted to lead nltely the
peris of buty and wisdom that are
contained in this marvelus volume,
Beekun Lites of Llteratur. It is buti-
fully bound, as you can see. in mocca
& Java binding with a page marked
in the upper rite hand of every leef.
The book opens eesily, & is printed
in English, maiking it eesy for you to
reed it. This marvelus volume I am
offering on this trip only for the
ridiculusly low figger of fifteen dol
lars. Beekun Lites of Llteratur, the
moast compre-hensiv work of that
title wich is in the market to-day.
Fifteen dollars buys it—the works of
the masters.
Has it got the records of the flters
in it? sed Pa.
Thare is a grate descripshun of the
battle of Waterloo in it, the
agent. & aliushuns to Caesar & other
I gra*e flters, yer, sir.
Has it got Packey McFarland’s rec
ord? sed Pa. & Battling Nelson’s ca-
I reer?
I do not understand, sed the agent.
Has it got Tv Cobb’s batting aver
age for 1913° sed Pa, & how many
bases be stole? I bet it ha sent. 1 bet
it hasent eeven got the life of Kid
Broad in it.
T am afrade not. sed the agent. He
was looking at Pa kind of funny.
Then I doant want it, sed Pa. Any
book that doant have the records of
the grate prize flters and ball players
in it is no Beekun Lite for me.
I suppoased that I was calling upon
a gentleman of intelligence and ree-
finement, sed the agent. I see I was
mistaken & I will bid you goodnite.
Goodnite, sed Pa. After the agent
was gone Pa beegan to laff. That ifi
the way to git rid of them, he sed. I
bet I know moar about the reel
Beekun Lites of Literatur than that
mutt, but I wuddent let him know it.
Husband, sed Ma, sumtimes you
seem reelv brite.
The largest estate in the Unifii
Kingdom is that belonging to tie
Duke of Sutherland, which extend o
739,200 acres.
The female brain commrcM td d#
<line in weight after the age of tlfrty,
the male not till ten years later.
The Moors of Arabia and Spain tat
the first to display colored globe| n
chemists’ windows.
John Gum, of New York. is cond
ing the will of liis aunt, i
Ewin, who died in April last, lea wig
$100,000 to rescue cats in all partslof
j
house cats and those in the Islands
Madeira. In the latter place stray ri
are so scarce that each, under the tv|,
would receive about $1,000.
An Unexpected Gift.
He was a shy young man, but in
his heart there raged a consuming
passion for the fair Florence. On his
way home from the city he managed
to screw' his courage up sufficiently
to enter a jeweler’s .shop and pur
chase a small gift for the lady of his
heart.
This, he hoped, would pave the way
to the popping of the great kuestion.
That night he called at her house
and found her alone. Producing a
small, square box from his pocket, he
said, nervously:
“I have ventured to bring you a
small present. Miss Finn, but I am
afraid that perhaps it will not fit your
finger. Will you try it on?”
”Oh, dear,” said the girl, blushing
most becomingly, “this is quite un
expected! Why, I never dreamed that
you really cared enough ”
Poor fool! Instead of grasping the
opportunity in both hands, he opened
the box and produced a thimble! Then
the thermometer dropped about ten
degrees.
Her Brother’s Voice.
Little Faith was possessed of a
most friendly disposition, but had not
yet reached the age where she could
understand the silence that may wrap
itself around a wordless intimacy. In
fact, she demanded speech, frequent
and loving.
One night her brother was study
ing most assiduously his arithmetic
lesson, and, after calling to him sev
eral times without receiving an an
swer. she appealed to her father.
"George is busy.” said father.
"I know,” replied Faith: "but h€
might at least have said, ‘Shut up.’ ”
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dition. Debility, poor circula
tion show in headaches, lan
guor, nervousness and worry.
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ensure such good health and!
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