Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 20, 1917, Page 7

| Love's Bankrupt * Kil J PP WP UP UUW ORORERORGA! By Alvah Jordan Garth CPE PEPE PUP OUD ‘Copyright, 1916, by W. G. Chapman.) “I am very sorry,” said Mary Ben- son, and tears stood In her eyes. Then she placed both her hands on those of the desponding Lionel Dore and looked up at him frankly. “But I am glad that you have told me,” she murmured softly and her face showed sympathy, kindly interest and a slight token of regret. “You have honored me and I shall never forget you. But you must forget, you must remain the true, good man you are and do your duty.” She was gone. The man sat star- ing after her, a world of emotion to his strong, Ingenyous face. “She loves me!" he whispered fer- vently to himself, “It Is enough. Yes, 1 will meet the ordeal and It will not be so hard, knowing that this tender soul Is In harmony with my own.” It was a strange case. Lionel Dore, young, pliant, impressionable, had fancied he bad found his Ideal in Lucia Tresham, She was the petted child of rich parents, light, frivolous, vain. She was frail and delicate, with a fervor of genuine affection in the subject of her heart's choice. Insensibly Dore had been led into avowing his regard for Lucia. It was to find that she wished to be little more than a petted doll. She was ex- acting, moody, capricious. Then Mary Benson, her precise reverse, had flashed over Dore’s pathway. She was Lucla’s closest friend and had come to be a companion of Lucia until aft- er the wedding. Lionel was troubled, shocked and then appalled to find that all of the love of his strong nature was given to Mary Benson. He .had fought against the convic- tion, he had triad to be loyal to Lucia. Then had come a moment when he and Mary were alone. In a wild tor- rent of words he had poured forth the emotion that was fast consuming him. It had net been a proposal. It was © confession, the wretched avowal of a thoroughly unhappy man. And now, despite his misery, strange, subtle peace stole over Dore. a “Then She ts Critically Hi!" Itis soul was relieved. The woman he really loved knew of his affection. Her very words told him that he was loved in return. But she was high souled, she had appealed to all that was noble in his nature to stand leal und honorable. by bis sacred duty and awalt the final decree of destiny. With fixed resolution Dore made up his mind that he would be all he had promised to Lucta, So the wedding took place and Mary was there, and smiled amid her ten- der sorrow, and Dore went through the ordeal smiling, too, and the child- ish Lueln bubbled over with her ef- fervescent spirits, the truth. Mary left the Tresham home imme diately after the wedding. She and Tere met only once and then tn the Presence of others, where with due forinality they bade ove another good- by. never suspecting Dere took up his cross. Lucia . insisted on a protracted tour of travel covering wide distances. He yielded 'o her slightest whim, weary and sad hearted as he realized how little there was tn her outside of being a willful. spolled child, Then they drew closer to one an- other, the mismated pair, for a fittle one came to the household and the s secret chords of Dore’s being were => stirred to a new source of Interest and love. It war afterthat when a revelation came thet made him: still more devoted to Luéia.. The doctor had told her father that her frail con- stitution was broken, that Insidious disease was wasting her vitals; that she would not Ilve through the year. It came to pass, her gradual fading away,.and Dore was a widower. Then old Mr. Tresham removed to the far South and Dore was alone in the world with a.helpless little Infant on his hands. Little Lois became the one object in Hfe upon whom he now centered iis love and care. For a time be was fearful that the child might. Inherit the constitutional weakness of her mother, and his constant anxiety ex acted unusual and unnecessary med- ical care tn behalf of the baby. As two years passed by, however, and the child grew stronger and happier day by day, Dore began to direct all of his plans to be content to spend his life for the care and happiness of this dear companion; On account of the little one he re moved from the city to a pretty suburb, where fresh air and green fields would give to the child a free dom and health not available in the crowded city. He rented a little wood- land cottage and hired a motherly old woman as housekeeper and nurse for Lois. His professional duties as an architect held him to the city; but every week-end wus spent ip the com- pany of Lois. In all of the years Dore had not heard of Miss Benson. He thought of her often, however, and wondered how fhte had treated her. Of course an attractive woman like her would have married long since. He valued the memory that placed her high to his estimation, but felt that so far as any mutual interest was concerned, his hopes and affection were like an oft-remembered story in the old-time entombed. Dore was absent at a distant city on & most Important business mis- sion, when a telegram reached bim signed by his housekeeper announcing that littie Lois was Ill, but in good hands and that his immediate return was not imperative. Dore wired back to advise him daily of the child’s con- dition. The reports were so vague, simply containing an assurance that Lois was well cared for, that he traced a certain mystery about the same which troubled him. He hur- ried through with his work and start- ed for bome. He was met at the denot by the doctor, The Jatter after some circum- locution explained the situation to him. “Your wish to see your little child {s natural, Mr. Dore,” he said, “but that Is Impossible for the present.” “Then she is critically Ul!" ex- claimed Dore anxiously. “I think not, but she Is quaran- tined.” “A contagious disease?” “Yes. Your housekeeper deserted her In a fright at the first. Fortun- ately, I found a most expert young nurse. Her patience and skill have done wonders {n bringing the little one to a stage of convalescence. For- tunately, too, the nurse escaped con- tagion. By next Monday I hope itt will be possible for you to see Lois.” It was a period of. anxious waiting for Dore. He was filled with grate- ful joy when he was told that the house had been fumigated and he might clasp his darling in his arms at last. Lols came running towards him as he stood™in the open doorway. She babbled forth her childish delight. She told of “dear aunty,” and how kind she had been to her, and she left him to run to a lady advancing from another room—Mary Benson. The little one clinging to her, Mary stood smilingly extending a welcoming hand to the amazed Dore. He bowed his head to hide the grateful tears that filled his eyes. “Always the same kind, gentle, faithful to the last! You must have sought Lois out.” “And if I did?" questioned Mary softly, “do you not deserve all that tribute, after your noble adherence to duty?" He could not let her go, and she did not wish it. Their love for the little one cemented the bond of affection, and a new life of serenity and happl- ness came to Lionel Dore and those he loved. Good Night. “How ts that efliclency expert mak- ing out over in the place where you work?” “He got the gate the very first day. he was there.” ~ “What was the matter? Was he In- competent?” “No, he was too darned competent. He discovered that the boss was wasting half our time telling us things that we knew better than he did.”— New York World. The Sorrow of It. “It's too bad,” observed the man who seemed to be thinking aloud. “What's too bad?" queried the party who had overheard the observation. “That our neighbors always know when we, have fried onlons for sup- per, but never get next when we have oysters and champagne on tap,” ex- plained the noisy thinker. Babel. “Everybody at the party was talk- ing at once!" “They were quite right,” comment- ed Miss Cayenne. “Everybody might as well talk. ‘There was absolutely no fear of interrupting anything worth listening to.”"—Washington Evening Star. Conflicting Impressions. 4] suppose you are having a lot of fun with your new motor car?” “Sometimes I think I am,” replied Mr. Chuggins, “and sometimes I think It Is having a lot of fun with me.” She Got There. “My mother-in-law must catch that train, driver, so hurry up.” “You can count on me, sir. J shall dfive as If she were my own."—Bos- ton Transcript, _ Qverdoing the Right Thing. “Some folks,” said Uncle Eben, “is so full o° kind-heartedness an* holiday charity dat dey gits cross an’ ulmost runs over one another buyin’ presents to make people happy.” THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE Shoplifting Business Is Declining in New York EW YORK—The shoplifting business, like many other industries which formerly flourished hereabouts, but Which failed to find favor in the eyes of the authorities, Is in a bad way indeed, and It begins to look as if in the distant future the shoplifter will be about as rare a specimen in and about this city as the great auk and the man- ufacturers of wooden nutmegs. There are two most excellent rea- sons for this pleasing change. One of these is that the system of policing the larger stores of the city has been reduced almost to a science, and the other is that laws which went into ef- fect a few months ago made it pos- not sible for the courts to inflict very severe sentences. The detective de- partment of the average large store today is the height of efficiency, ts di- rected by persons of skill and experience, and works so quietly and in such an unobtrusive manner that few customers, though they may be aware that the store police system exists, ever suspect, among the many persons they meet, the ones who are constantly on the watch to prevent thefts. A detective who has had years of experience in detecting crime In the larger stores of this city had this to say on the shoplifting evil: “The old-time professional shoplifters, who used to steal thousands of dollars’ worth of goods In the course of a year, are disappearing rapidly, and soon we shall have only the amateur pilferers to contend with. One of the principal reasons for the present situation is the recent changes in the law, In the old days, shoplifters, even though arrested many times for the same offense, usually escaped with a 380 days’ sentence. But it is different now. If a person is arrested for this crime, and it is the prisoner’s first offense, he or she may be released under a suspended sentence or fined from $25 to $1,000. If a person is arresied for shoplifting and has been before the courts before and found guilty of a crime, under the new law he or she must be sent to the penitentiary on an indeterminate sentence, which may run three years,” School of Opportunity an Innovation in Denver ENVER, COLO.—“If you don’t see what you want, ask for it,” is the prin- ciple on which the new Denver School of Opportunity is founded. From the use being made of it, Denverites seem to have met in it a real home of opportunity, It has an elastic sched- ule of hours which will conform to the time that the seeker after knowledge and efficiency can devote to the oppor- tunity it affords, whether that be day or night. The teachers declare it is re-educational in the best sense of the word and if young or old have missed | the master stroke of life’s pursuit it will give either a new trade or ambi- tion and with that, new hope. Even if a person has a new system of education to test out, the oppor- tunity school gives the chance to place that invention before the world. Be- tween 500 and 600 day students of both séxes and all ages, rich and poor, are working in the classes between nine and five.. The student roll, day and night, now numbers more than 1,500, The inventor of a new system of shorthand Is teaching a class of 25 the merits of his economical chirography, It is an opportunity given to a Denver invention. Side by side the classes of the old system, 250 strong, and of the new are at work. A one-armed boy walked from the hospital to the school and took up the study of typewriting and stenography. Hope had not had time to get sick, much less to die. An auto repair shop Is about to be built in the basement of one of the school buildings, Women of Gotham Now Hang Their Hats on Dummies EW YORK.—If you are a woman you don't keep your hats in a flower- decorated box under the bed any more, nor on the hatrack in the hall, nor If you're a pampered pet of for- hung on the bust of Schiller in the parlor. ‘une, with ten hats or so to a season, you order ten headrests painted after your own image, and stand them up vith the hats atop, on a shelf wherever there Is room enough to accommodate thein. Pupae, they call the hatrests, which are really glorified dummies. And even if you-think the sight of t tow of heads on your closet shelf woukl remind you unpleasantly of Gluebeard, you can't escape seeing them, for they are becoming quite the smart and necessary bit of window fit- ting in little hat shops where chapeaux are priced from $20 up. “I don't claim any credit for having invented them,” Miss Frances Simpson Stevenson, said to be the only girl in America who is making the headpieces, explained when found at her studio. “They were not unknown to New York. One or two shops here import them from France, I got the idea from seeing some myself in a shop in Paris and started to make them several months after I returned.” 2 The hatrests, four or five of them, stood in front of her on a shelf in the studio. They are made of papier-mache, are a little less than the size of a human head and are painted in ofl. The features and hair are all painted on the head forms. They are very posterlike in effect and exceedingly piquant and interesting. The idea of having them painted, often in the likeness of the owner, came originally from sailors In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They would carve and paint up ship's heads, or round balls, to be hung from the top of gangways and naine them after people. “Sometimes, where a number of them are ordered, a character in history or a famous actress is chosen as a model, ns well as one in the Mkeness of the wearer of the hats,"\Miss Stevens concluded. Bees Work for Women of Philadelphia’s Suburbs HILADELPHIA.—Give women credit for putting the bees in the suburbs, Scores of women in the outlying sections of the city are becoming apiarists and the bees are earning pin money for them. Many of the woman beekeepers are wives of Philadelphia business men who live in the suburbs. The aplary takes the place of the garden as a money-making diversion, Others are wives of farmers for whom beekéeping is becoming more important as a side line. Women usually make a success of keeping bees, experts say, because they give more diligent attention ,to details. You can't turn a swarm of bees loose on a farm or suburban es- tate and expect them to return profits without care and attention. All the suburbanite's wife has to do to become an expert beekeeper Is to conquer her fear of the bees’ “stingers,” establish several hives in a corner of the backyard, make sure there are buckwheat or clover fields, or plenty of wild flowers within reach, and watch that the bees ‘. tch disease. Oe poaeaat in the Philadelphia district will share $100,000 obtained from the business during 1916; The average hive will produce about 300 pounds of honey, which sells at about ten cents a pound wholesale. This means an In- to a hive, Aina the pea lheyer es keeps from ten to thirty hives of bees will have from $300 to $900 a year for “pin money.” The secret of success in halrdress- Ing Hes in the accomplishment of graceful lines, no matter by what means, more than in any other particu- lar, The artist in colffures must study the head and face of his patron and with the resources he has at hand make the contour of the head graceful from every angle of view. A beauti- fully shaped head may loc its best with the hair wrapped about it as closely as possible, so as not to tnter- fere with Its contour. Often the hairdresser succeeds best by placing the hair high, but sometimes this arrangement will not do at all, and he must build the hair out on the crown or mass it at the nape of the neck. Nearly always waves and curls add a charm, but there are exceptions even to this rule. A coiffure whose inspiration hag been handed down through centuries is built on classic lines, as shown in the accompanying picture, The hair is waved for it and brought over the forehead and out on the cheek in ac- cordance with the vogue of the hour. A small knot at the back Is surround- ed by short curls, and a sparkling pin emphasizes them, A narrow headband of ribbon Is a requisite of this lovely It might be i. satin or velvet In y color, or a narrow band of gold or silver, plain or jeweled, This is one of the coiffures which vie with others at the opera this season, where honors not For hairdressers afte searching the past for ideas and turn- Ing out coiffures In many modes. are ensy, Many Styles in Furs The choice in fur sets for this season includes neckpieces and muffs in fa- millar styles, and many new patterns. In neckpieces especially the designs are odd and novel, including scarfs and capes and fancy collars, The capes are »quare and extend across the back, with tie ends at the ‘front, as a rule, although there are short, full capes that cover the shoulders, Fancy col- lars have been developed in the short- haired furs and lined with crepe or chiffon, Muffs are medium or small, and are usually either flat or melon shaped, But when they are made to match the fancier neckpleces they are brought in- to harmony by rufiles or drapings of fur. For the smaller neckpieces and muffs that are made up in odd styles, hudson seal, ermine, mole, squirrel, and other smooth furs are chosen, However attractive these novelties, they are not in the running, so far as popularity is concerned, with scarfs and muffs of fox and other long-haired furs, These are very smart in short, broad neckpieces, with barrel-shaped muffs to match. The searfs fasten rlose about the neck and protect the throat and much of the face, Nothing {a better liked than a single pelt of the fox, lined with crepe and provided with fastenings that allow it to be worn el- ther high about the neck or draped about the shoulders, ple styles with a view to long service, Scarfs of medium width and length and plain muffs never suffer by com- parison with more fanciful designs. A handsome fox set Is shown in the ple- ture having a flat scarf finished with a hend and tail and a muff with a scarf. like drapery. The memory of woman runueth not back to a season when this model would not have been as guod style as it is today. EEA Large Collars Useful, Large collars make the bodice so negligible a quantity that they are useful things for furbishing up an old frock or for trimming a bodice other+ wise plain and unattractive, There are also certain bib collars that are as voluminous and as kind to a shabby bodice as the cape, and are as a rule rather more becoming than the latter because they do not give the primly severe, long shoulder line. A pretty mode! in this class has a choker collar of black velvet ribbon knotted at the back, Around the top of this stock run two narrow plaited frills of fine cream net. The wide, lvory-toned. washable sat- in colinrs are still nuch in evidence and are cut in various shapes and Wine ‘urs sr.ould be selected in stiu-; sizes.