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A Thrilling Story of Modem Life
Hunting a Husband
By ANN LISLE
A World Within a World
Kepphlishpd In Sppcia 1 Arrangement \vi
Bv N ELL BRIN k LE Y
HABPUfi’S BAZAR, the Oldest ami (Treat est Woman's
Magazine
The “Right-0” Stories
Philanthropy and Some of Its Advantages, as the
Stenographer Sees It.
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shouldn't have ventured to <ome
here." Raid Compton Rlake. simply.
*‘T might have known that, I wasn't
questioning >our motive. 1 just nat
iirally had to stand up for Bonnie
She* obliged to always choose the
best of what sh«- find* In her path in
life Reginald Burke wan the most
refined and cleverest man she'd ever
« omc at toss H ' good manners and
breeding attracted Ronnie That *
why she wanted to he friendly with
him That’s why she managed to
* irrb so far in six months. The only
way my little sister could have a
place in the world was to tarn it. I
fhini ihe worst vour snobbish friends
out id say of her is that she's a snob,
too l>.< sou >e»- that, Mr Compton-
Blake'”'
"Yes. Y1i«s Mortimer. I see it exact
ly And propably some little chival
rous feeling toward a girl who looked
Hke my own plater- something in the
way Mis Carter and Miaa Torrance
flared up to defend you made me
think I'd better come here and tell
you that the Rurkos are ready to
make a most infernal din about the
fact that Reginald has chucked his
real estate for a little flyer in danc
ing "
do?” asked Judith,
all those girls who
limousines and have
rs and Fifth avenue
lives think it will he
o make my little 20-
give up her chance at
What are all the pe
‘‘What can I
wistfully. "Do
have ridden in
maids and hut I
cldthea all their
easy for me t«
year-old sister
those things?
pi*- who gossip about Ronnie going to
give her if she does resign her $300-a-
vveek job” Wouldn't they gossip about
any girl from a not tier 1 world who came
along and made friends with a man In
their set” Wouldn’t they think any
girl who got so far in such a short
time was fit prey for their destroy
ing shrugs and insinuations? I'm sor-
r\ that Ronnie's dancing partner Is a
man from your set, but what did he
earn in the real estate office. Mr.
Compton - Blake* 7"
"Oh. commissions and a hit of a
salary. I suppose. His father allowed
him $3,000 a year and made him a
present of a stray automobile or pow
er boat now and then and housed him.
1 suppose Reggie might have cleared
up $1,500 a year of his own.”
"And he and Ronnie are signing a
contrail to dance at $300 a week. His
interest in this studio will probably
bring him at least $50 more. In two
months at this work Reginald Burke
will more than make as much as you
say a vear of real estate brought him.
Has the friendship of any girl in your
set been as valuable to him as that.
.Mr Compton-Blake? How dare they
«ritiolee Bonnie? Facts surely are for
her, and I think even appearances are.
"Then you won't do a thing to in
fluence your sister to give up her
plans?" asked young Compton-Blake
rising and broking down at Judy with
an expression she could not quite
fathom
"No I’ll tell her exactly how dan-
gerou it is for an unknown girl who
has < ome up from poverty to have as
a partner a well known man who has
hern m the habit ««f grafting a living
from his father. I think the best
thing that ever happened to Reginald
Burke was meeting Bonnie. I’ll ad
mire her all the more if she sticks 10^
him Rut I’ll apply the surgeon’:-'
knife bv telling her Now are you sat
isfied ?"
"I believe you hate me." said Mi
Compton-Blake, in a rather startled
tone of voice*. "I came here with a
righteous sort of feeling that I was
going to do you a good turn l»v show
ing y ou the error of your sister's ways
You make me feel as if I had been a
very smug Pharisee. Somehow I feel
like a gossiping old tommy cat my
self.'
"Perhaps we've done each other a
good turn." returned Judy, smiling
with a friendliness-she was surprised
to find herself feeling. "In the begin
ning I was ready to apologize for my
sister, and now l see how much more
there is to explain away in the atti
tude of people who insist on seeing
evil in h meet work. The only thing I
am sorry about is that Mr. Burke's
people should feel belittled by the way
he has chosen to make a living.’*
"Oh. I'm going to do a little more
butting in to-day. I’m going up and
extend to the Burkes some of the
clearness of vision you've given me,
Miss Mortimer"
"Then you aren’t angry because
your mission has failed? You don t
despise me for my attitude or think
I'm an > nemy to society?” asked Judy,
with an eagerness she could hardly
u nderstand.
"Despise you? 1 think you're tine
Could we be friends?" asked Jimmie
Compton-Blake. holding out his hand.
"I think we could if people
wouldn’t misunderstand,” said Judy.
She smiled a Utile wistfully, and
wondered if Miss Torrance would go
right on appruYlng of her. even if she
know her fiance had offered Judith
Mortimer bis friendship.
"Rut we are friends,” said the man.
quietly. “Here’s my hand on it Will
you take it?”
And Judith held out her hand
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M USS TORRANCE,” "Miss
M a rgaret Compton - Blake.”
read Ronnibelle Mortimco
from the cards Lucy the maid, had
just presented on her little silver tray
“Judy, whatever can they want?”
"Shall I go see?" asked Judy.
"We’ll both go.” replied Ronnie.
"Each one sent two curds."
Jimmie Compton-Blake had not
idled away the thirty-two years «*f
his life. He had already made for
himself a place in the legal profes
sion almost as distinguished as t lie
one Fate had given him by permit
ting him to be born Into tlie Comb-
ton-Blake family. lie was spoken
of as the coming man among the
younger lawyers and the older men
professed the greatest admiration for
the scholarly way he could draw a
brief and the brilliant way he could
plead a case
The fortune and position birth had
given him he accepted as a matter of
course, of his remarkable good looks
and his charm of manner he topk no
particular thought. Success in his
profession and making by his indi
vidual efforts and abilities a place in
the world of men were the things on
w hiuh he centered his mind and atten
tion.
When Judith Mortimer argued her
sister’s case with logic and feeling
and arraigned society for its narrow
minded. scandal-mongering attitude,
she woke the admiration and kindly
partisanship of the inan who knew*
very well himself how to plead a
case. James Compton-Blake had not
won his nickname in scorn or deri
sion. He was Jimmie to every one
because he had the simple lovable
ness of the wholesome big boy the
name Jimmie suggests.
WHIa Torrance was very proud of
her fiance and was glad enough to be
friendly toward people whose cause
he espoused. Margaret Compton-
Blake adored her big brother. Neither
girl imagined how cleverly he had
sponsored the project they thought
they* had very cleverly thought up.
Jimmie had given the girls an idea.
They were to work it out to-day.
At the end of half an hour’s nego
tiation it was arranged that Mrs. Lee
Carter should chaperon a dancing
class of six girls, who would meet on
Monday. Wednesday and Friday at
three, and learn under the tuition of
the Misses Hoyt-Mortimer and their
assistants, to perform some intricate
and charming steps for figures to be
given at the Charity Fete in the
Spring.
After their guests had gone Ron-
I nie whirled on Judy in great amuse-
j ment.
t Honor bright, now Judy, aren't I a
j hit better looking than Margaret
I t ’ompton - Blake?"
"Not n bit. Ronnie, but ever so much
better—bred!" laughed Judy, "hut 1
| can’t begin to tell vou. little s:ster
jhow pleased I am that the women of
j society are beginning to come to us.
1 too. it makes me feel so much more
1 secure in my position "
To Be Continued.
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By DOROTHY DIX.
EE." said the Stenographs
wistfully, "but I’d like to be
one of these great philan
thropists, like Mr. Rockefeller or Mr.
Carnegie, or Mrs. Sage, or be able to
donate a few millions to relieve the
sufferings of humaVr
"Well,” responded the Bookkeeper,
"when you commence handing efut your
endowments. I’d like to call your at
tention to a poor but worthy youth not
a million miles away from you. I would
not even object to being named after
you. if you have to put your brand on
all your benefactions, as our modest
and shrinking friend. And}', does ''
"Oh, I wouldn't give colleges and li
braries." said the Stenographer, mus
ingly. "that kind of thing has been
done to death. What's the use of any
more colleges when you can't get peo
ple through the high schools? What’s
the use of any more libraries when you
ran buy more to read for a penny than
you ever have time to wade through?
"Don't forget our impecunious high
brows." retorted the Bookkeeper.
"No,” continued the Stenographer,
without noticing him. "if I were a phi
lanthropist. I would do good along
original lines, and reform abuses that
need reforming, and bring joy to un
expected waste places."
"Might 1 inquire what you'd do, I^ady
Bopntiful—nit?" inquired the Book
keeper.
"Well, to begin with." replied the
.Stenographer, ‘Td hire a pugilist to
follow* inconspicuously behind me, and
every time a subway guard slammed
a door in my face and then stood grin
ning for a minute, at my discomfiture
before the train stafted. or when one
yelled at me in an insulting tone to
step lively there, or a platform guard
put his hand In the middle of my hack
and shoved me around, or a street car
conductor carried me a block beyond
my corner because he was busy talking
to somebody, and didn't notice my sig
nal. and then made a rude reply to my
protest, why. I'd summon my faithful
henchman and have the offending party
given a thrashing that would put po-
liteness into him to the longest day* he
lived.
"It's perfectly safe now for am of
these ruffians to he as rude as he like*
to any woman because she can t help
herself, but if he never knew when a
strong armed man was following, along
to avenge her, just think how nice,
and kind, and courteous he would be."
"Right-O.” commented the Bookkeep
er. "and what else would you do if
you were a real philanthropist?”
I’d organize a band of heroic vol
unteers of the handsomest and most
fascinating men I could find, and I’d
make them pick out the ugliest and
most unattractive middle-aged women
they met and try to flirt with them. *
responded the Stenographer. "Just
think how lonesome these pood old
dears must he to have every man just
pass them by as If they were so many
bales of dry goods, and how delighted
and shocked they would be if some, man
would pay attention to them.”
"Why. they'd go home feeling twenty
years younger, and they'd simply gloat
over telling that they were so attractive
that it wasn’t safe for them to go out
on the street alone. That,’ added the
Stenographer, with a meaning glance
at the Bookkeeper, "but 1 lack the al
truistic spirt. But what else would you
If you had the coin anjj could turn
benefactor?”
"Oh. lots of things.” replied the Ste
nographer. "I'd hire somebody to blow
up most of the public monuments In
New York in the interests of art. and
I'd get somebody to put tunes in th«
operas, and I'd get Mr. Maxim to in
vent a silencer for the phonograph
next door, and I'd make it a penal
offense for anybody to take vocal les
sons until a competent committee had
passed on their voices, and 1 d —
"Sh-s-sh, here comes the Boss.' said
the Bookkeeper, "and if you don’t get
busy you will he needing the services of
a philanthropist yourself.”
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About Valuable Stamps
Odd Happenings I hat Made Them Worth Money.
Sidelights on the Famous
Interesting Little Stories About the Great.
r HE collector of postage stamps is
always on the lookout for what
are known as “freaks." and pos
sibly no greater find in the way
of freaks has ever been discovered than
what is known as the "death-mask”
Serbian stamp.
Going back to the period of the
horrible assassination of the royal fam
ily of that country, it will be recol
lected that the engraver of the stamp
showing the head of the new monarch
King Peter so manipulated the lines
of the drawing that, by holding the
stamp upside down, the face took the
representation of the death mask of the
murdered king. There are some who
say that this was an accident, but
almost every stamp collector who pus
sesses h copy of this stamp feels con
vinced that it was no mere slip, hut a
well thought out design.
Stamps which a few months ago wen
of very little value will loom large
in the future, owing to the alterations
in the map of Europe, and. indeed, of
the world, brought about by the present
war Among some curiosities alread*
being collected and treasured may be
mentioned a number of Red Cross post
age staitips issued from the .French
postoffices in Morocco, from which cer
tain letters and figures have been omit
ted. England has not gone in for any
thing- of the nature of an official war
stamp, but it is interesting to note tne
issue of what are known as “occupa
tion stamps” in the German colony of
Togoland.
No postage stamps of any description
were found in Lome after it had been
evacuated by the Germans, who had
destroyed or hidden all stocks of them.
There were, however, discovered in a
box sunk in a dry well in another vil
lage a great number of stamps, and
these were over-printed. some with
French and some with English wording
for provisional use. Only a limited
number, however, were treated in this
way. and the demand for them from
stamp dealers all over the worm h
already risen considerably.
PenmarK, although not yet in the war
zone, has prepared a special war post
card and supplied it to her naval and
military forces who have been mobilized
It is the ordinary five-ore postcard
which has been overprinted with the
initials, in black lettering. "S. B."
which signifies "osldiers’ post card. - '
and one copy of It is handed out freely
weekly to each soldier anil sailor
It is said that one of the most val
uable stamps in the future will be that
of Samoa, which was printed over hy
the New Zealand postage authorities in
respect to the local surcharge. One
single sheet containing 100 stamps has a
peculiar trror. and. as only forty of
such stamps are available, already the
price for them has reached $100 each.
Our Fastest Travellers
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H \V many stenographers have
ever stopped tt hink of the
distance their fingers travel in
a day , a week, or a year? Their fingers
are the most amazing travelers in
creation and capable of goipg enor
mous distances without the fatigue that
would afflict the feet ami legs in per
forming a stmilai journey In ordi
nary handwriting the hand may travel,
according to an expert. 10,000 miles
In a year and not indicate impairment
Reckoning oil the basis of these fig
ures. it is estimated that the fingers of
the average skillful stenographer must
travel at least ten times as far. which
means that the dexterous manipulator
of the keyboard of the typewriter does
a Anger journey of 100.000 miles a year
This question of how far the Angers
travel in the case of typists has
aroused not a little interest among
scientists who have also made investi
gations as to the distance ttie fingers
of an expert pianist travel in the same
time, working as contiuousiy and at as
high a speed.
It is reported that Sit James Paget
some years ago made a calculation of
the expenditure of brain and muscle
required fur a performance on the piano
Hi asked a famous pianist to play one
of the swiftest pieces of music known
to her a presto by Mendelssohn The
time it occupied taken anil th«
number of notes counted. She played
5.995 notes in four minutes and three
seconds, rather more than 24 notes pet
second.
"Certainly," said Sir Janies. w*hen
reporting on the experiment, "there
were no fewer than seventy two dis
tinct variations in the currents of nerve
force transmitted from the brain to
the muscles in each second, and each
of these variations was determined by
a distinct effort of the will.
There were at least four conscious
sensations for each of the twenty-fo*»r
notes in each second That is to say
there w ere ninety-six transmissions of
force from the hands to nerve fibres
along their course to the brain in each
of th*- same seconds.
Good Name.
A N Irishman, working at s >m iron-
i~\ works in the North of England
met a m ue of his as he hurried to the
j works one morning, w ho accosted him
thus:
"Say. Rat. would you believe it *
When I got home last night there the*
: were 1 w .ns. I was simple paralyzed.
} We've named one of them Ann Eliza.
I but we re up a tree for a name for the
other
j "Ye'd better iall her Paralyser,”
i suggested Faddy.
S PURGEON, the famous preacher,
was once asked the following
curious question: "Would a mkn
go to heaven who learned .to play the
cornet on Sunday?"
His reply was thoroughly character
istic. Said he: "I don't see why he
should not: but" after a pause—”1
doubt whether the man next door
would!"
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William Jennings Bryan has so often
failed to become President of the
United States that he once likened
himself to a certain man who wished
to be present at a dance.
"L.shall soon." he said, ‘be in the
position of the man. somewhat the
worse for wear, who came to a dance
at Texas. The floor manager saw him
and told him to get out. He came
back. Then the floor manager pushed
him out He came back. Finally the
floor manager kicked him out.
"At the bottom of the stairs he con
sidered tlie matter. ‘1 know what it
means.' he muttered. ‘They can't fool
me! Those people in there don't want
me to attend that dance.’ ”
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That wonderful actor, the late
Charles Warner, once figured in an ex
traordinary' unrehearsed incident He
was playing at the time in London in
a play called "Stormbeaten." a feud
which forms the basis of a very dra
matic story being caused hy the villain
shooting the hero's favorite dog "This
dog. ' says J. H Barnes, who played
the villain and who tells the story in
his hook, "was a magnificent St. Ber
nard. which the managers bought for
the play, and handed over to War
ner to keep so that he might be quite
accustomed to his voice and presence.
Warner and Carlo became inseparable.
"On the night in question l had
duly shot Carlo, in the first act. and
one of the Gatti brothers had taken
him away and brought him back into
the refreshment room In front of the
theater. By that time we were playing
the last act, and years had supposed
to elapse when, some door being open.
Carlo heard Warner's voice on the
stag#*.
"He gave an enormous yelp, rushed
J down the stairs, through the orches
tra stalls, cleared the orchestra with
a hound, and shaking his tail with glee
lay down at Warner's feet on the
stage His artistic resuscitation at
that juncture completely killed the
end of the play, but as an individual
effort he made a great success, and se
cured the best applause of the
evening "
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A friend <»f Nat Goodwin’s w-a* stay-
J ing with the actor at his home in Cal -
• ifufnia, in the hope of obtaining relief
from chronic dyspepsia. One day he
was taking a walk along the beach
with his host.
"I have derived relief from drinking
a glass of salt water from the tide, "
said the invalid solemnly. "Do you
think I might take a second?”
Goodwin reflected deeply. "Well,” he
replied, with equal seriousness, “I don't
think a second would be missed.”
Doomed.
“Casey sterns to be doing well
where he is.”
"He'll not last long in it.”
"Why not? He seems to give
satisfaction.”
"He'll not last a month. 1 s»aid
so when he got the job two years
ago and 1 say so now.”
S LOWLY, but none the less surely,
woman is proving herself the equal,
both here and abroad, of man in
various occupations. This is evident
from the fact that women clerks are
now being largely employed in banks,
while some time ago one was started
in England staffed exclusively by wom
en. Again, in Stock Exchange offices,
insurance offices and commercial houses,
more fomen are be*ng employed every
day.
A novel profession for women, the
utility of which is being recognized
more and more every day by large
business houses, is that which is known
as the “welfare w'orker,” who looks
after the physical and moral w'elfare
of women and girls in large businesses.
Welfare workers are women whose tact,
resourcefulness and organizing ability
make them specially valuable in dealing
with a large staff of women and girls.
A university course of economics, a
year's training at a settlement and a
few- months’ business training are all
the desirable preliminaries.
Among the more advanced posts which
English women are admirably filling to
day. particularly in the scientific world,
might be mentioned the appointments
which have been given to.two women
in the National Museum of Science and
Art, one in the Zoolog} Division and
the other In the Botanical Division.
These women are employed as assist
ants.
But distinguished positions gained by
women are legion Miss Marie ✓opes.
D. Sc., is the only established lecturer
on palaebotany; Miss Muriel Robert-
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son is assistant to the professor of
protozoology at London University;
Miss Alice Wernes holds the post o<
professor of African languages at King's
College: Miss M. A. Ozaphika, who holds
n traveling fellowship of Somerville
College, has gone to Siberia under tho
auspices of the Oxford School of An
thropology to study the native tribe#
of the YenescI Valley, while Miss Ger
trude Lowthian Bell's studies of ancient
inscriptions and architecture in Syria
have won tributes from learned socie
ties.
Referring to curious occupations chos
en by women it is to be noted that there
is at least one woman slaughterer, font
women bricklayers and three grooms
w'hile the only woman authorized to fly
the recruiting officer's ribbons is Mrs.
J. G. Patterson. Pixboro, Horley, Sur
rey.
In America there »s a woman Sena
tor in Colorado and hundreds of women
* fill important posts all over the land,
w'hile in the New York City government
a woman heads the Department of Cor
rections.
Persistent.
A REPORTER who had been com-
missioned to interview an Amer
ican millionaire on a certain question
was repeatedly refused admission to
his house.
At last he went to a Senator who
was a personal friend of the million
aire, and asked him to help him.
Armed with the Senator’s card, he re
turned to the millionaire's house. This
time he was admitted.
"Young man,” said the millionaire,
"do you know that sixteen reporters
have called upon me to-day about this
very question and that 1 have refused
to see them all?”
”T ought to know it. sir.” replied
the visitor, "for I'm the whole six-
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