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} ——_—___- + tine. fes i ' _Da Capri. f “Two thousand a year is not a great income,” said Lady Jane, ironically, | “Still, it rescues dear Noel from abso- lute want. It was so nice of his god- mother—always a most unassuming person, too; indeed, I mistook her for the dressmaker on one occasion when she came to call,and I am afraid she slipped off my visiting list quite a year ago.” “That is a pity, since the whole fam- fly are inclined to canonize her now!” said Signa dryly. “However, she does Bot seem to have borne malice, as sbe has promoted Noel to the position of an eligible.” “Hardly eligible, my dear! Two thousand goes such a very little way unless one lives in Bayswater or the country. Poor Noel!” “Oh, I did not mean among us!” said Signa, with a laughing sneer anda @lance out of the window at the re- spectable Sloane street trees, decorous- ly dusty though just in bud. “But possibly some young person in the middle classes may take pity on him Row, even though it means Bays- water!” Lady Jane glanced rather uneasily at Signa’s straight young back, which was all that presented itself to her to help out Signa’s meaning. And Lady Jane was often ata loss to know whether Signa was in earnest or iron- fecal. She was beginning to think, with despair, that when her youngest daughter talked sense—the sense of Sloane street and the duchess, it meant revolt, and would end in Signa doing some dreaded and unconvention- al thing, such as wanting to take up @ profession or refusing a really sound offer, for instance. Sometimes—since his godmother had behaved in such a really laudable manner—she thought with a sigh, that even two thousand a year and Bayswater would be better than an awful scandal, of which she lived in terror. If Signa must marry @ poor man, better Noel, who was, somehow, so satisfactory to all the family, than one of those younger sons with whom the girl ‘delighted to sesecessecene THE SCANDAL OF SIGNA. warm men and women into laughing, applauding human beings, not above joining in that last swinging chorus of the others, and one could seeeta seemed no more a drawing room in Pont street, but the cotton-fields of Louisiana. Lady Bloomfield’s own high cackle rose high above the voices of the others and one could see the men drawing breath to demand an encore, even as she rose, fiushed-with the excitement of het success, from the piano, and she heard, all across the room the mana- ger ask who she was. Two minutes later, someone brought him over and introduced him, and they stood by the instrument, talking quickly and earn- estly—so deep in conversation, indeed, that Signa would not be interrupted to sing again. It was only when she looked past his broad back that she caught sight of Verney,nonchalant, eyeglass in eye, evidently not at all upset by her reckless interpretation of the notorious negro melody. “Yes, of course I will!” said Signa to the manager, “I should like it.” and she nodded to Verney over his shoulder. Her smile was brilliant. Half London was in the stalls of the Bacchante on the great benetit night, and the boxes were taken by select parties who thought the auditorium a little public for the light of their presence. I was tickled to see the duchess levelling her glasses at Poppy le Marchant when that young lady danced the conger-eeldance in aid of the charity, and admired the toler- ance of her attitude. Lady Jane was in the box, too, and Sir Wilfred and sister, the one who married into the state; but Signa herself was not pres- ent, and, when I went round to pay my respects to her grace, I learned that she had pleaded a headache and stayed at home. The cause,I thought, was not far to seek, as Signa would have persisted that she had lumbago if it would have saved her accom- panying a party of which the,duchess made one. Batsburg had tacitly promised the “SHALL I COME TOO, SIGNA.” frighten her chaperons. Lady Jane is a dear, good soul, but she is accustomed to be ‘unwise in her management of Signa. She allowed her new approval of Noel to be read in the growing maternity of her manner. Hitherto she had been cousinly in her treatment of him—she was not his aunt or that might have been her atti- tude—and when things looked very black in the matrimonial market she comforted herself aloud with his ad- vantages. Signa hated the obvious. Her temper had been decidely uncet- tain since Captain Verney had come into what she henceforth styled his “Bayswater income,” and she sallied forth this very afternoon in a mood that was ripe for mischief. She found it at Lady Bloomfields afternoon crush where the Bohemian element was mingling with the severe- ly social, and everybody was discuss- ing the great “Benefit night” at the Bacchante Theatre of Varieties in aid ofthe War Fund. The Baccliante is music hall, and that ~g-very~superior— lent a zest to the way in which every- one was buying tickets—in aid of the ebarity! There was a fat man in a long frock- coat standing in the centre of the group of the smartest women present when Signa arrived. He was Bats- burg. the proprietor of the Bacchante and the originator of the benefit, but Signa hardly glanced at him. There was no doubt that she was in a very bad mood indeed, and her eyes, roam- ing about for some evil deed to prove ‘this, did not alight upon Batsburg, as the special means arranged by the Powers of Darkness to help her. It was not with any thought of the fat man and his glossy curls in her mind that she sat down at the piano and volunteered a song. There had been music going on all of that after- noon; but Signa’s performance was entirely different, and everyone listen- ed, and indeed, crowded in from the other rooms to hear. She has a Bingularly clear voice, strong ye to fill a concert-room, and trained by He never thought that his excellent training would go to help to give Lady Bloomfield’s Pg ond such as that perform- yar there! Clear the road were @ noisy audience when suddenly trans them from well-dressed luke- ae sf house a sensation that night, and we were all a little eager; it had not been announced on the boards, but had floated round society through the pri- vate channels, and we kept asking each other who was this new star of Batsburg? The programme was as good as could be, but the performers were old acquaintances; and while we stormed the stage with applause sjof *} consequences which j Bracebridge of the Guards, who was sitting between Noel Verney and Mrs. Chiltren Hundreds, almost sprang up- right in his seat. “By jove!” he said. “Its Signa!” The house did not recognize her all at once and the boxes apparently not the duchess and near future could not restrain the men. They laughed at every wicked whole hall were one confused, imper- ious demand, and though they did not . call her by name, it was obvious that sone ‘gp i caged 1 gdh I wondered | ges his what she would do, and almost held] swallow now and then. But in camp he drinks freely. A quart immediate- figure returned for a brief moment, | jy on rising, more after breakfast; and | but only just in sight at the wings. | several quarts during the evening. Of There was a growing terror in Signa’s | course it is largely habit. He has not | eyes—an expression most alien t0/ studied | Signa was recognized. my breath when the small them. Either the passing of the ex- citement, or the realization of her own daring, or else that clamoring audience, was terrifying her. She bowed hastily and pattered off, in spite of the cries to her to sing again. I feared the demand was too strong, and that they would force her to come back, and I_ turned to look round for Verney. But he had dis- appeared, and he was not in the duchess box, though I looked there with fear and trembling. Her grace was still sitting, calm and_ smiling, at the front of the box; there was something ominous in her tacit refu- sal to recognize what everyone knew. Lady Jane’s face was like a mask; I thought Lady Leamington was cry- ing, but I could not see her plainly. The next turn fell flat, though there was a gallant effort to applaud and carry it through. But so many of the men had vanished that it looked as if a wind had swept the stalls bare, It was fatally easy to get be- hind, They were waiting for Signa. I sat out two turns; then I followed Vern Ile had, as I stspected, left his place before Signa had made her bow, and was, waiting for her be- hind. By the time I got round, the wings seemed to be full of men, chat- tering in excited voices, and at @ little distance stood Verney, cool and languid, talking to Batsburg. I heard the manager say, sulkily, “At the side-door-yes, there is a way round,” and I went then and there in the di- rection indicated because I wanted to see the end of the comedy. There was a brogham = waiting there; I stood unnoticed on the pavement un- till they came out—indeed’ it was I who opened the carriage-door, Signa had changed her clothes rapidly, and slipped away from her dressing-room while the men were still awaiting her in the wings. But she was crying bitterly, and it so much surprised me that I felt the whole scene a little unreal, Verney put her into the carriage, hesitated, and stood with one foot on the step. “Shall I come, too, Signa?” he said. Her voice came out of the dark- ness, muftled. “I am frightened, Noel!” “At last?” he said, quietly. 1 am not.” “I thought it would be fun to scan- dalize you!” “Do you mean that I was the cause this time?” “How dare you have two thousand “Well, 4 year?", said Signa irreyantly, Nei- ther of them noticed me. “So you thought you would fling your independence of my opinion at me once for all, and see if I could be seared away, eh?” “Something like that.” “Well, you cannot. Nothing could. Iam going to take the onus of the affair on myself from this time forth however, and tackle the family.” “Will you stand by me, Noel?” Sig- na must really have had a fright to say that! “There shall be no occasion. They | shall not dare to refer to it. Union is strength—it is you and 1 together now.” ‘ Ife jumped into the carriage, and I closed the door and told the coach- man “Home,” because by that time they were past thinking of anything but themselves. Lady Jane confessed afterwards that the engagement was the greatest relief she had ever known. She had feared that it would never come off, because it appears that, owing to her blundering and eXecellent intentions, she had caused a breach between them which Signa would not give Verney a chance to heal. Batsburg was an angel—a fat angel—in the disguise of a frock coat and his Benefit was the medicine that killed or cured. The amusing part of it Is that the Practice Said to Acconnt for Japs’ | Hardihood. The Nichi-Nichi, a prominent Jap- anese_ paper, in commenting on the re mar! at all, But even the awful presence | dicr in the field attributes not’a small the appalling | Gegree of his endurance and immunity loomed in the | from disease to his habit of drinking about a gallon of water every day of his life. point in_the song and when he Wa8|py an attache of the Japanese treaty off the stage they yelled to have Lim | commission who studied medicine at back again. It sounded as if the/ Harvard and practiced at home. DRINK GALLONS OF WATER. | able health of the Japanese sol- The statement was verified “The Japanese soldier is not per- He merely wets his lips, rin- mouth, and takes a small the system's requirements | | A TYPICAL JAP SOLDIER. from the physician's standpoint. All he knows about it is that he is thirsty and drinks to satisfy that thirst.” Americans Use Too Little. “Your people,” he went on, “neglect their needs as a rule, in respect to both water and air. They do not drink enough and do not he enough. 1 would not say they a inclean; it is only that they are less particular in their cleanliness, It is a difference in the point of view. The Japanese think a daily bath the very least at- tention to the body. Many bathe sev- al times a day simple sponging, cleansing the pores and giving the soul a chance to breathe. And the ir bath is equally a habit, My peo- in the close te cannot at frst live Amerienn houses. They » the reedom and perfeet ventillation of heir bamboo cot ‘ss Drinking and vathing are national traits. We be fieve that Cleanliness of the internal lissues is as necessary to health and comfort as Cleanliness of the — sk The waste materials of the body are often poisonous, Their vetention ts the cause of m sleepless nights, headaches rheumatic pains fits of indi- geston, Water in abundance, inside and out, is necessary to every human being.” Wash Inside And Out, The Nichi-Nichi discourses further on the subject, stating in a naive way the benefit of free indulgence in na- ture's drink: “Health is a gift of the gods, and the way to health lies through the do- main of cleanliness. As we wash our linen so should we wash our bodies inside and out. Water is the sweetener life. In its free use you shall be as sweet and pure as a mountain brook; as strong as the lion of the sea; as broad as the wind-swept rice fields. You shall hold your head in the stars and your life shall be as peaceful as a summer day.” concen The largest pin factory in the world is not as has been stated. in the United ates but in Birmingham. Eng. where are 370000.000 are manu- jfactured every working day. All the other pin factories in England turn Out about 19°000'000, Seunnnnnnneeeee came after each item, all felt that Batsburg | Duchess has ignored the whole affair, owed us a new sensation yet. It came |and as she has declined to acknowl- How fo Become Disease Proof, between numbers 9 and 10—an “extra |edge what everyone knows—that Sig-|. It has already been suggested that turn” which was merely slipped upon|na was the sensation of the great|the appendix should be removed from | the notice board. The band struck] War-Fund Benefit—she will have to|eVery infant as a routine measure. But up @ new air, a catchy thing that no|go to the wedding, on which occasion | this is clearly insufficient, says the one had heard, and yet, I believe, we | Signa will make her bow and retire | British Medical Journal. The surgery all tried to hum it and then into the}from her war with right and proper | of the future must include far more entre of the wide strip of stage left | behavior—for the present. vare in front of the back-cloth a little ragged London gamin came swinging his impudent dirty face turned to the audience with the sang froid of his in- imitable breed. He stobdd still a min- ute, and then cooly looking us over, he Some of the noblemen of Europe owe began to shy personalities at our | their present positions and stations ot comments that made the victim shout | }ouor to the presence of mind and fore- claim him a success. thought of their ancestors during ex- —_—_—_—_—— Quick Wit a Strong Factor. than this. The tonsils and turbinate bones of the nose must be cut out, be- cause they may harbor germs. What Arbuthnot Lane calls the “human cess- pool” (that is the large intestine), must be removed along with a consider- able part of the upper portion of the alimentary canal, because it won't be needed when we begin to live on M. Berthelot’s tabloids and pills. The There was no doubt about his | emely critical moments. A hiceough, for inatanee, is the: cktise of the Kein too readily decaying teeth will be reality—he was a - 4 Ie toveght Cleelaht enter TaattnaD ley’ princely rack tm Austels. It | Stor gicey mane’ ete tee ree 0! e streets, beome that during th iast of proof store variety inserted. The failing without a dab of painton him that a - rd e m of some /human eye will be anticipated by could be discerned, and supremely bee pt i, lon ot ee the Em-| spectacles in early youth. Deficient jaunty ant F insolent. Probably, he “he F — gre at the misfor-| moral sense and degeneracy will be —_ ee the, bors, zm sold bogus ate Sek pata mie sige as to} treated by ventilation of the brain and ga s ie le doors of the berg Pes ly herself, but her court, | removal of the offending areas. , or, for a few stray coppers, sang | Steat embarrassment. In the midst of] ‘Thus protected against the perils of versions of the songs to be heard in-| her bewilderment young Count Kinsky | civilization, the man in the coming - rend Heber! dh Se meg him up kite belt “er with a most] centuries will be able in his journey cr oe mh a e au- brand y seme ee intense mortifica- | through life to defy the countless ene- ce Per] Seon Mince —_ private a i umiliation, asked her pardon | mies that seek to rob him of health— ae pops i ae he personal | for his breach of good manners. The | sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans urchin had been coached by someone| only good grace, but gratitude, and be. |v who did know. 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