Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1921, Page 60

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. JUNE 19, 1921—PART 4. oy 7 1t's all right, this stuff—not | like an old friend who knew, and know-| “I'm sure vou must have wanted|rage and locked herself in. The Garage of Enchantment yet! speaking to me. You needn't think 1 care a damn. But if it's getting 80 you won't even let me talk business With you, then what's thé use o' my trying to do all this for yo! She address for the following week—but always ‘General Dellvery’ in a new city.” For instance, she was in Minne- apolis last week, and St. Paul the week before, and Kansas City before that. This week she's in Milwaukee." your letter back,” she murmured, and gave it to him. She slipped out and joined Miss Wombast at the outer desk. 1t ‘was all o f twenty minutes be- 1Ing, forgave much. Miss Wombast, at the desk, greeted her with an embrace. “My dear, go right back into the office and hang up your things!" o The aiy there was, musty ,but she dared nof raise a shade. She turned on the desk light, looked with allen eyes.at h old piles of “wor unaware of the cold. . . Then the knock came, and ndeed ! He was raising his voice. Ml Prowa dsmorel % He w. =. = “Ye: ' i S| S y obeyed. She|fore he came out, and, bowing stiffiy, she had to let him in.'He was standing F from the New York Tomes of Sunday Joathed/ Blin. o Sho. knew How 0. aohs lingered, pursing _her" lips, smiling [left the building, Ly the dexk looking gravels down at ! A Tale of Life and Love—The Prim Little ot o prend out e, mowapaper | lava' “weck Tor (he "uct” that sl {hio Ny Sheea 1251 °F €010 MO |10, G o M e s ‘imracd 1o holOwa, - . e - 3 atic sheet. appene tw, r Prow the besom of b et b > 't accept this letter~ Thit S the bz o Al -the t. m of her dress shelning—to go about with Miss Wom- an't accey h | Library Assistant—The Masked Dancer— 1Dy e mercshance e ran'a | Wl o 8 origlnal” acreemint, Larew s rumpied 10ter. which the [ bast. gutline e pilea of Teturned[she cought wnd aimly usgcced, M S Bi Man | Sour ‘eye on thati® Z wwhat is it? 2 apread out on the desk and read [books away, making out the postcard |is yours. Again 1 ofer it fo you” = . un s Biggest o e o wibud las foliomes vhat 18 i onalre's here—sitting in|slowly through, notlces of overde charges, switching | The room danced about her—ct - | fanhattan Opera House, 34th street | the third—" _Then, suddeniy holding it aloft, she |off lights and focking up. Her im- |Stove, the bookcases, the old ta king = between 7th and Sth avenues. Second | “Mr. Gentle, if you—-" lrted jonie fpor. ohun upan her toe Piifss wasto Selay nad Snger, but ke 0 St hernele saying: G 3 ’ oM. Gentle, A irled gayly, exuberantly, and then [walked brightly home. She heard herse ing: o i triumphal month—Mme. Loupovit My dear, you got to listen! Td|on Qipping and spinning ‘across the g “I'm too confused to talk. Tt's all By Samuel Merwin. like to know who you think you are, original complete Russian balle! While you're about it, why Wel { | et room. cried the dignified Mr. Jen-|anyway! nge—I've been through so much/ he heard him saying: st N\ ! o : Kine, nearly forgetting his perfect sub-|don't you walk out front there and| At an extraordinary little gasp from| A-T the foot of the front steps, how- i h h everything urban composure. “Well ins, sresident, ; Here's this|ihe docrway she came down flat on have been throus! e Illustrated by C. D. Batchelor. [ Y ¥ou Ret it don't you?" George C. Chluc:ilgolI::llll'o:\:l‘;'l"(i(l'\'a looked him | her feet. Mr. Jenkins stood there. His cver; she wlopped ShoRt. One oflQut.in that sworld X Nostiyoy. By | was saving. excitedly, - ~Loupova's been |up. I tell you! ,He follows you to|fast was gray. the parlor shades had not been drawn | now 1 find you here.” right there in New York! -Henrietta's|Indianapolis and” Columbus and Ak kno?ghn:-:;fi:' Miss Brown felt her|quite down. A caller ®at within. She "l‘:u;n :.::-mn_u‘y;‘;n;md e vt 7 been 1,500 miles away from her, shoot- ron and Detroit and Clevetand and 3 d close und peeped. There h ¥ 0 > g ver— HE public library board of Sun-| Loupova appeared in Chicago. Miss)you wish 1 will give you a letter.” | ing all'over the place!” Butrate. and CAlbany _and Doston| He stepped into the room. and so Uptogd: CIORE A0S acoe re heliled. How—how could they PYeizy bury held its meetings in tre E;g:’" ofor wecks planned an after-| “Oh, no," she cried U8 detter |6 b most surprising,” mused Mr. Jen- | and— nearly }I'-"firs;o’:' himself as to push the|Wwas—Mr. Jenkins, lonm:: strangely | he anrl]nhe;l::’l‘hl:l;u’;l;n‘:: le Ditdee 3 4 ] off. a lof L ot VEry: TAuCh. 10 a 3 { L wi ehind him. ce, visiting with the Batties. f Words across 3 a letier. thank you very much. 1ts|kins. “Just what did you wish me to| “I will not listen! e s savadl s o | ETEXey Vinlting withy the that yawned between them. office that opened off the rear During the dancing. sitting alone |all arranged. do about it, Mr. Battie? “You gotta! You're going to hear| L A atti Eotta u're going tarily by iaton Jvas saved momen-| Her pulse fluttered. For a moment | | ! hispered brightin Then her heart w Siae) y in a front i Wi g9 - of the bookstacks. Heére were seat of the gallery, her| To her sister, that evening, she| “Well—you see. here are vou and I, what I've done about it. h Falling: f B A A assembled, on a certain evening in it Joared (o the heavens as the explained: the ‘only_men who've had any. interesi | Frightened, she stared through the|blessed spirit of mischief on Miss she clung to the porch railing; then | wonderfuily, that it knew a way. autumn, the gentlemen and ladies of T atae, e dinuer foated abouy m going away tomorrow.” in her.. You were, in a way, her em-|mask. rown . she walked softly around to the ga. (Capsright, 1910 . the R a . e so nting and | “Going—away? ployer. There's no telling——" “Ile's mad; We had a that body. Mr. Overton of the bxnkl:nr'n):lulul scencry. to the atmosphere | “IUS all right. my dear. You'll have| Mr. Jenkins brought a firm hand | talk tod N0 1 "Rell” you hos a real T thone. his bale was white ,,m,,,!!m-_“:‘dexnxlmn, dewitching art. her | George at home again soon. T have|down on the arm of his chair. swell vou're too wonderful b o . s e i e aira, wWil. | Snbed nature ‘opened and reond- |4 Eowt position, Wor'a” while until || “The wimple thing s to- ko rignt up | for this vaude ille game. Asked if O e ent S ln er rlnt ureau y G agzer child. She | George ack to work, seny waukee #nd v v o V ' llIIl liam B. Snow, a well-preserved elder-|lost her sclf-consciousness in an illu- | some money cvery week.” es, that's the thing B e e obtaing o for . Iy lady, with views regarding psoper reading for the young, sat beside young Mr. David MacLouden, whose financial gift reached always toward funds for the new building. Miss Wombast, librarian for thirty years. being ill at this time, her place at the secretary’s desk was occupied by her assistant, Miss Henrietta Brown. Mr. Elberforce Jenkins presided. a tall. quiet man of perhaps forty-five who had inherited considerable wealth and made 2 great deal more—a man of dignity and standing, a widower, and a backer of the Chicago opera. Mr. Jenkins disposed of the busi- ness of the meeting. and the members of the board set out for their various home: Left alone. Miss Brown deftly tid- ied up the desk. then moved about with quick, birdiike steps. replacing books and switching off the lights. During her residence in Sunbury she had come to be accepted as useful on committees, but no one ever saw her at _a dance or walking with a man. She might have been under or over thirty, but must have looked an old maid at twenty. She never talked—never exhibited emotion. She tripped briskly along Simpson strest_to the rented house that she spoke of as “home.” Here lived her married sister, Mrs. George C. Bat- tie, younger than Miss Brown. faded and tired from the demands of three oung children and unending house- ] Overhead two of the children were crying vigorously. What's the matter with them?” asked Miss Brown. * k k¥ HE R sister sighed. “George always says that if I don't let them cry 1according to whicky all impressions can be readily sorted. Purkenje pro- posed nine, Mr. Galton, three. As the outcome of much experimenting four- fold classification has been adopted. which meets all requircments while greatly reducing the number of gra- (Continued from Fifth Page.) as an authority on finger prints. has many interesting stories to tell of his experiences in the work. One of the most striking cases that has come be- fore officials of the identity section is that of a soldier known to officials datlonal These four types are as the “champion deserter and re-(arches, loops. whorls and composites enlister.” This man enlisted and de-| In arches the ridges run from one erted twenty-nine times before finally | 8ide of the finger or thumb to the dentified and interned, other, making no hackward turn. In “It is a matter of histors loops some of the ridgds make a re-enlistment of deserter: d turn but without twist. In jumpers and other undesirable char-|whorls some of the ridges make a acters in the Army became a very|turn through at least one complete serious embarrassment to the govern-circuit. Under compogites are includ- ment during the later years of the|ed patterns in which combinations of civil war and were quite troublesome [the arch, loop and whorl are found cen in the world war,” sald Mr.|in the same prini, also impressions 2 Stimulited by thé large boun- i which might be ed to present ties which had been offcred by towns! features requiring definition as being and counties or the large price paid|loops in respect to the majority of by individuals for substitutes, amount- | their ridges and whorls in respect to ing sometimes to hundreds or even|a few ridges at the center or side thousands of dollars, men would en-| By an elaboration of these primary {list_and deserf, then re-enlist and|ciassifications finger prints can he so egain desert, repeating the process|classificd and card-indexed that when again and again. a finger-print record is presented 1o everal schemes were tried in the|the inspectors of even so large a col 1 war to do away with this prac-|lection as that of the War Depart . but had to be abandoned. At oneiment the search is narrowed to fif- time each soldier was marked with|teen or twenty cards. Thus. instead nitrate of silver, 8o that he would belof having to go through the entire discovered if he attempted 1o re-en-{5.000,000 records in order to find out list. At another time he was marked|if the “ragged stranger's”’ finger by vaccinating him on_the left lex.!prints were on file. the War. Depa-t- four inches below the knee, but the|ment inspectors had merely to look lime lost on aceount of lameness:nt the specimen presented, decide cauged by the vaccination made the|what subclassification it belonged to. brocess unsatisfactory. After the civil|and look through some fifteen or war ended the custom of repeating|twenty cards filed under that {Continued, and the re-enlistment of { classification deserters and dishonorably discharged | The finger-print system of identifi- men became so frequent as 1o causel.itjo i now in use in the police de real embarrassment to the Army offi-{ partments of practically all impor- i, b ’ tant cities of the world. It is o | “In 1888 the War Department inves-iin yge in the 1°. S. Navy Department tigated the Bertillon system of {den-|ang the Marine Corps. so that the fication as 4 means of cOping With:{'nited States Eovernment has re the re-enlistment evil. This system. | msor” not only every man who however, was found too bulky andjcctl Pr Ao N 4y 1 ormils i burdensome for the purpose. Aftér of the ed States that the bounty | backw ¥ Un, sub- records such as that which is repre. sented by the various bureaus of the R nment can scarcely be overes- timated, The ph graphing of fin- ger prints left by riminals on arti- cles, such as plated goods, window panes, drinking glasses, painted wood. bottles, cash boxe comparatively simple. the ridge of the finger bulbs are the numerous mouths of the ducts whic conduct to the ‘ace the perspira- tion from the sweat glands, which lie true =kin: and through e there ix a continuous flow. al- though generaliy impe reeptible the naked ey conseque this moistur in contact with a cold, surface the pattern of the ridges 1eft more or less distinctly on the ar- ticle touched. Finger prints on light painted wood- work are casily photographed, as the finger marks appear in a more or dark color on the light background It has been found beneficial to distrib- ute u litt & powder” over the finger marks nd then brush o gently with a camel-hair brush. th bringing out the print more clearly | Once a good photograph of the finger [ prints left behind by a burgiar, in |opening . safe, for cxumple, is se- | Cured. it i a simple matter to send th photographs to the War Depart- ment bureau If the man who left them is amonsg the 5000000 whos: | finger prints are on file. the War Tre- partment will within a few minutes | know his name and military record Tnere are, of course, many other ol ‘tions of finger prints, such as those the various penitentiuries. police | departments _and immigration bu- | reaus. with which the marks could he mpared, though this would, of coursc. | take time. | “The advisability of forming a een- records burcau in which ail the collections now being made throughout the country could be cn solidited one place has beer in it out. well never have any dis- ved regy cipiing here. <. - Whit are JOL B0 108 {due consideration an outline figure Or | juring the past decade. but also of | sironzly impressed upon all the offi- —~ to do™" rd system of identification was de-|(h. men who appearcd before —the [vials who huve made a study of identi: {vised and put into operation in 18831, ious draft boards throughout the tion. It is deemed inevituble that “Going out to the study.” “I wish you'd stay and talk to me. Maybe you think it doesn't get on my nerves too—with George staying in town evenings. and all the wor- What do you do out there, alone. Sometimes we don't know you at all. “You know I can't work in here. “But if it's work, why don't we see_results from it once in a while? And what kind of work needs a talk- ing machine playing fox-trots? Have you supposed, all these years. we couldn’t hear it—and wonder a little? Seems to me that you're “You'd better go to bed, Mary | sion that enveloped her and illumi- | WHEN THE SLIM LITTLE MASKED DANCER BOUNDED ON THE STAGE, MR, JENKINS EXPERIENC COLLD NOT RE: "B This outline system consisted of the | figure of a man—front and back—on P which were recerded all scars, marks, moles. etc., and all the dimensions of | the individual. | durinz the war. * % * HE enormous value of a compre: hensive collection of finger-print countr; bureau shall be establish thouzh it would probably require s al lezislation and a sul- Etantial appropriation by Congress (Coprright. 1921, by The Washington Star.: wuch a some day. * * ¥ ¥ «THE system was continued with | ! good results until 1306, when| the finger-print system was adopted in| its stead. The finger-print system isl| superior to any other so far devised,!| inithat it is quick, compact and per-j| mifs of no error. The other system allowed errors of location of marks| and errors of measurements, but the | A THRILL, THE LIKE OF WHICH lll-:l ENXISTENCE. By Ring \ MBER IN A SWIFT GLANCE BACK OV How to Pick a Husban - V. Lardner. Broad- | finger-print system, as far as can be | ut what on earth, Henrlettal| “Then if you can take tomorrow off.| show next year—play Misa Brown quietly. ~The music helps | #ion that env ihep and TamnL : [y imen ! me with my work. d xhe went out | nated all that was real in her curi- | You mean— should be giad to drive yo there. house. He cd'at itt We've | discov is v ble. I ; . i me with my work " And she went out | DALty fual fite, - She- found hersel | o1 decided mot to consult with vou, g foideive o uo way house. He jumped at it} We've|digoovered. in absolutely infallible. 0 the Editor. The main reason | Minded golfer and looses track of yard. going, like one in a dream. up 4 lit- | You've had enough en your mind."| s ot to meet you, So I told him: “During the flood at Galveston, Tex., why so muny marriages winds | oun)C HITOKes Once A N vided the Miss Brown had made over the|tered alley and knocking at a stage But where are you going?*- N his account to his wife of the scene entle {in.1915, the body of an unknown sol- o 3 Sop AHUAL B Snes il e .k"'.w‘:h lu;h_:n ,:1 _\‘,‘ .:" i e smal] garage at the rear into u simple | door. i - Tray 2 ki, thi dinpreasive NS0 ‘Ghl 6wer ] Just you go it ea I'midier was found among the debrisy e hbep | i TiNe TopiuRt 3T che wante 37 den. with desk and chair; bookcases, sreamily persistent, asking and B 3 l“h"“'"“v Senue. G . only br him up to yowr'suite | .. peq ashore. The authorities, not the 2 contestants not haveing i h-:r:'”ffl; D:H‘-‘;“;"e_;:::‘“; an old-fashioned round stove, a closet | Waiting and asking = again. Miss counitry.. It’s all g averue George C. found him-|for a call at cleven o'cloek tomorrow | i8S ISE AR, o, cut off two of the | nothing in commen and ought not to |20 PYY AEPaEle ax he is libel to take and an inexpensive rug that was tack- | Brown found herself at lensth in the ¢ the job® Lelf making more of an impression on:morning " Ten i e CToom | Knewing what 1o 0 and sent them| ever have been married in the 1st place [off one. 1f she asks him how many e Raer e mer presence of two men—men who ‘et e !n:» tired little woman than for a number { if ¥ou ; g T mgton, The <kin of the twol il Cotiin of if they had knew cach |other gals he ever loved and he says ewitened on the drop-light. A soft| tipped back. and neglected to remove U Teeems tol 0F Years preceding. pulbith @ breuthless cxclamation she |Ggers’ had ‘on_arrival, become, 60| oiner beiter and found out the other’s | i S e ey xS or & She Tadiance shone on the desk, with its | their cigars when they spoke That u're ehink | teng Miss Henrielta Brown was regis-!to her dressing room. The rest o Tt AT the wkin was transforred | faults and etc. before matters had went | ({8 LR i e aTnon neat pilex of papers and ,‘e‘g.,e.h..;i:,etymwere“:ude seemed wonderfully nve o be auiet, Do vou think | tered at n of the princinal heteie”of | (he ovening was a fever, the niht |ind carefuily glued to two picces | A ey it Holedy ausstion|” 4 - dlscounts books. She moved about, drawing t to matter. e e oughi L € 23 s R At the gzeneral d % worse than slecpless horror. d formed into the shape of fingers( . = " S Dooks. e o e v and put 5 | | She heard her own voice insisting [ myseif? I uppreciate the compliment.” ; window in the central post office no i She refused to sce_them. but knew | S g o I vore made. “After an|this statement whether they had per little coal on the fire. She sank into) on, an SPROLLAY [0 "?m&mh" L O e Y it Wel e onid be had 0 come. - She wore a tail. | SnRauciive comparison with those of |sonal cxperience themselfs or seen it in [DONT marrs the man that takes 8 the d chair. drew toward her one | 8Kill. hey had to consent. er- |1t where yo ! Ave at it comes down to” said Mr.ored stre and put on the hat ers reported missi .« and the only thing is what can A S at takes 9 e e O amers and fnkered it | wise she would have had to insist |even fo have an address It'seems to| Jonking s they sut aver a laie luncheon, | With the I i1 Manging about | tnae time. it was discovered that the ;’:‘:{u A o asaea onlc on a par 4 hole and then tells the But her eyes lifted to the cheap | further. It was Destiny. It was s Son T wolla et to stay down theie in the post oftice Whoever he was. | impressions were identical with those e 3t caddy he will get him fired if he don’t talking machine that stood on a small | what life had been really about i of sou T would be trav- |awhile and watch e o e s e o e fad enlisted at Jeffer-| has & hard time finding out what the | 90 0 P {able Tbetween the bookcases: then fthese years. . . . At half-past ¢ course Tl Swend 'you ad- | George €. who had no fur coar, had | masked Was not o seelson barracks, Mo.. in 1913. B er party is like a8 nobody is really Uit talking 1o the other kids. This straved to the door—she Seemed to they would sce her; here on the dim lime to time.’ + want| It the cold during the long ride up, and | Heprietta Brown. DA Y eoldier's uniform was(inemself dureing courtships and it ain't | bird is Alibi Ike and never done noth- be listening. A flush crept high on her | wonderful stage! s fishy to me, if you want|{was now sneezinz. Mr. Jenkins sent| They did come—promptly. The|found asphyxiated by gas in New| o iye noir has been man and wife a | ing in Lis life that was his own fault. Thin cheeks, The mervous cyes burn-| ~She caught the five-forty out (o him home on 4n afterncon train: and|maid announced them. with a re-|york. There were no letters or papers; 5 ot e oG i kade h ed with an inner fire. She spread-out | Sunbury, threw her dancing costume | on't. w himself 8tood near the Benerar deiiveny | spectrully shrewd glanc o hody, but the police made finger! few wks. that the both of them dis- cuts himself shaveing its be- a few papers. Iooked intently at them; | into # handbag. and caught the six- | (EUISRO—Iethis—=womant window until T o'clock. “lts Nr. Gentle and that—gentle- | prints and sent them to Washingtonlcovers they are liveing with a perfectjcause his wife use to be a Presby- then she replaced them on the pile | thirty back to town, i iy Brown swallowed down.a 1UmP | he was hungry azain, and his feet hurt, | man.” P e headquarters. When the record| ((=icoryind not so perfect at that. w |teria. 1f they's part of the paper and pushed that back in its place. o i he waite a e at. e decided to stay overnight s . e . o P s Rente i ity section:Stra 2 . e D e (e i e it the men amjbs—it's Mme. Loupuva.” she said. bruarideqito stoy. overnight anilicon | o8 8t oA e e e Lot :h‘;";;,,',‘;'1‘.,‘3““"3.'(';,,{1-'“;'},’“ ection & was diffcrent before prohibition [ missing its because his wife has got sereen in the corner. Five minutes | aig not come: the dorman merci- |47 turned white. had dinner and dnteary i | ey e i A T imutes to discov-| times because in them days a engaged !rcd hair. If he spills gravy on 1 4 ad din z nto a’ vaudeville | Shondency Lreathless, mis- |quired less than five min E me vs spills gravy on his later she stepped out. attired in a!fully let her inside then; and still theater. jerable, she moved weakly info the|er that they were those of a man wWho| oyple could go out on a party together | cuff its on acet. of the Mrs. being light shirt =waist and gymnasium | ghe waited. ery dig I¥ &) “Those few who hs en 1 i parlor. had enlisted at Fort Slocum, N. Y., ir born in Oh: his bird' o iromers. her feet bare. And now it | SPgwalted dowy cormer she:Very dignified person—a great artist” | yony 9 had known Eiberforce | PATIOR 1 smey | Bt entisteg a {Born 1w Ouin’ Thi bietamite sl X : & y ve years earli 3 ¥ the window. v | Ocf , 1917, - ven get blame = v as cvident that this little Woman | watched Loupova as that greatest of * ¥ % % B pars earlier found ! (urned. M. Gentle moved: forward | Hundreds of other cases could bel[pioe ey e thore when The "moved slowly, rather. lazily, | dancers exercised backosiiel ;’;"c"FnE woeks later George . Battie | {1Enified feure he had become. ' Hack [ with his olliest amile. The otfier man clted 1o show the absolute aeon e || *7e% % P 3 3 o cighteen-nineties, as a thin ed. expectantly. vas Mr. Jen- s - J e 3 about the rug. flexing her muscles— drawing her thin arms sinuously up over her head and lowering them. rising on tiptoe and swinging first one leg and then the other in a smooth, wide arc. She stood. next. ; & With feet a little apart, lifted her | herself before them. It was ar- arms and bent Very slowly backward | ranged then. grudgingly. that she until her hands touched the floor, then | should dance after the performance. ran lightly on hands and feet in a|She was given a dressing-room circle as wide as the rug. where at once she prepared herself, Next Miss Brown turned a hand-|and then, in an agony of desire for she spring. as neatly and lightly as the | knew not what, waited. i most expert acrobat: then another;| A languid young man sat at a| then a rapid series. She laid a sheet | piano. He couldn't play the “Marche, | rolling waves of applause that greet- ed the Russian beyond the wings. Later the two men were there; still smoking cigars; and without a self-conscious thought she presented called up Mr. Elberforce Jenkins at h jnue discuss an exceedingly important mat- ter. Gey afte uit {elbows and back. of i n. aployed by the War Department. N s a modification of the famous Henry system, consists of an impres- sion of all ten fingers made on a; form which is prepared for that pur- pose. As trees, bushes and plants are classified accerding to their various stamens and pistols, xo grouped by and “tents. r an “arch” or a on your finger he identifying is enlarg- tell by a kins. suave youth, with (it was felt, more | ®15 iring a brief moment Miss Brown money to spend than was d for hi; he had on numerous occasions °;|i1vnm‘|§r‘;' Fed, nehune slicaity for freain «d the transplated New England. | Then. without a sound. she fled into ers who mainly composed the il | the bedroom and bolted, the dour. population of Sunbury. Twenty minutes later the maid came When the “augmented orchestra” |in from the hail, through the other broke into the weirdly delightful open- | 400r. With a-note. arche xuliniauure.--{n ,Hf: J;;T:m.:;"'"‘ there, nd a sli I . e T taner® )" "But she meglected. to_explain about in the slightest of cogtumes, a bewitcl ! the five-dollar bill that was crumpled ingly grotesque little figure, softly and|in her left hand. S beautifully lighted and set out against| Her fingers trembling, Miss Brown s home on Lower Chestnut ave and asked if he might come to orge C. was, thin and subdued r many weeks in hospital. His was worn to a smooth luster on He was the sort nsignificant figure you see occa- ally on early and late suburban writing may have a “tent “whorl” or a “1oop and not know it until inspector looks at it with h glasses, then he can ON'T marry the man that after he has went in the rough and lose his ball and hunts for it 6 minutes, and then he says, “T guess I better ldrcn another ball,” but he don't make lno move iz arop another vall and keeps on hunting for the old ball and if he misses a shot he asks every- Ibody, “What did I do that time?” ana when he finely gets on the green he of note paper on the rug. stood on | Miniature. Impatient to begin. sheltrains and promptly forget. 2 ] 9 N s ad & straightforw: ™~ ing 9 v ","';‘m‘;";‘;l;";;c‘;:“"!d somcrsault. | cried play anything—a waltz— | wiy's about my sister-in-law, Miss Sr’r’.“fr?fii?éi"lx“.fe;?;,'fl':;% et vne Tike marriage. u;::fmmo;‘::r:nfir?r'.’g’r'r'anfif classification system, ;;;hc(hc:‘ your :skfll z:e ;:qd) hn: ma:y shots he =1y ne paper. e!a fox trot! 3 % < s ic e ! p o s na finger print is one o e mor as las is guy don’t know how to amused " herself next DT e | @ foX trot! \th fright, she ventured | Henrietta Brown,” exclaimed this | orr sy ne ould not ,,'f;"‘,fi{,".,',’:',,“':‘!(f’r‘ané’nf.f:‘:fim‘:m'n‘:gré.hlind:::i"ein’::: 056000 prints which the War De- 3 cere and if he says we will ance Steps of an intricate pattern and | on a few tentative steps; then, hard- | person, seated in Mr. Jenkifis' spa- | ence. st hbors in Sunbury would know | Partment has one file ready for in- 80 in town some night next wk. and ee a show they's no need for the wife rhythm. vhat was doing, she She now started the talking ma- re of what she ly aw danced. ciou: M. stant use. . The first finger print record was re- cived in the adjutant general’s office on until his will should be read. And he The little person was at once e: didn’t so much as know her name! ing room and lighting oné of 3 quisitely graceful. amazingly act s i Jenking' cigars. e. 1o begin worrying about what to wear as she ain’t going nowheres. chine playing Tchaikowsky's “March ) 3 e T oy JWwethe xS h, indeed? ~ No trouble, T trust;quaint. He thought of sprites and| The effect on Miss Brown was that | Seived 18 W0 %0 % ng"the first man to The steps were in @ sense her own— | "They talked excitedly afterward. :“plrlrlr;uru}nll Jenkins, exhibiting ‘a | elves and hamadryads, of wet oak of, utter panic. e { November 10, 1106, 480 tnethod was_a Pt & composite of bits sho T.ad v polite interest. caves glistening under a slanti en Mr. Gentle was back, stormin ! , i P its she had seen done, The fatter man patted her | Uil ome “to you because we | November sun. "% | in past the maid. i man who wWa® eI e 4 3 1307, a "T marry the man that shoots and steps remembered from childhood. i There were occasional crudenesses in | shoulder. The languid pianist ad- the transitions from step to Step and | dressed her as “My dear!” The slen- posture to posture. but her quick in-| der woman in the coat of real Rus- telligence and amazingly alert activ- | gian sables. who had applauded, ity covered these. actually converted | proved to be Loupova herself. them into character and color ... . As| ' “But just what is it you want¥ her breath came mére quickly and her | gsked the less fat man. “I can't very bright cheeks and sparkling eyes told | yell take you into my compan of the happiness she found in this|" Miss Brown was silent. For the need advice. self George C. felt that he should get to the did t s v sister-in So_you think you can insult him like that, en! Insult. him, me, every body! After all I've done for you! God knows—" She sat white and still. “Well,” he cried, “what you got to say for yoursel “Nothing." It “Mr. he's a true artist.” Jenkins re- flected. “—probably a Russian, or perhaps a Hungarian. Certainly no American or British person ever danced like that. In the abandon of that strange artistry spoke out. the free spirit of a finely daring soul” And so little Miss Henrietta Brown was driven from his mind. M with worr: ife is beside her- was identified six days later as a man Who had been rejected at Jefferson barracks, Mo. on November 8. 1906, on account of an imperfection of vision. One _ of gained by the ease Wi point quickly. For Mr. Jenkins look slightly surprised. aw gave up her work last month, Mr. Jen- the greatest advantages the finger print system is th which the applicant for identify himself, after AN ENGAG HAS A HARD TIME FINDING OUT WHAT THE OTHER PARTY IS LIKE, he library < hardly more than Gentle, I'm going es, I remember. She spoke to me. (&) D out of turn and acts like they wasn't nobody else on the golf course and after he has missed cne putt he putts again whex it ain't his putt and says, “Ull get out of your way,” when he ain’t in nobody's w: perfect physical frecdom, her thin s © |1 oftered her a letter, but—" Mr. Jenkins had nt t pension can i nobods e ook o i degres o1t beanin | first time this evening she Was Uf- | “girct, then let me ask you—did she | during that next e e e Posing his discharge, or for any rea This guy is what they call self cen- o "Whatever, and prove himself the tered - and he ‘will probably make comfortably aware of her unconven- tional costume. “How about this?' It was the fat- ter man speaking. He was, it trans- pired, a Mr. Gently. “I can get you Vaudeville bookings in a minute. T'11 pay you well—what do you say to two hundred and a half?" “Two hundred and a half “Two-fifty a week. And your rail- road fares and hotel rooms. And a maid, if you want one. What's your .. .. She danced a Strauss waltz, then one of the fox-trots her sister had complained of—a grotesque. made up of bounding jerky steps and light- ning spins and pirouettes. * * k% HEN for a time, wrapped in an old robe, Miss Brown sat moodily before the stove. Even her sister had 555 tell do?* nerv dark, too—her sister and brother.” D you what she was planning to|ofiice, but it had abruptly become necessary to adapt the routine of his life to a new and great emotional experience. Accordingly he ran back to Chicago during the day to put his business house in order, and re- |turned to spend the evening ag: at that vaudeville house. - After the performance, on the sec- ond evening of his great experience Mr. Jenkins stood timidly, self-con man he claims to be. In former times it required months to establish one's identity by getting wiinesses who perhaps were scattered all over the| ountry. s * k k% ~TEE finger print records of the War Department have many times proved of assistance to the police in ut good Gawd!" *What will you take to release me?” “Don't talk crazy; I can't release you. How can 17 We're all booked up. And we've got a fortune in sight ioney—real hard money! ou could release me if I were ill.” and after a few rds. the gent generally always begin acting natural and his flancee could judge him for what he really was and on the other hand the man could tell what d of a gal she was by the way she acced when he acted that wa But this ain't on criterion no more because with one sip of the stuff you get now days a man that might be a 1 believe che spoke of some in- ing traveling. eorge C. spoke with ous emphasis. She left us in the Indeed!” e—she even misled us." . Yyou astonish me!’ on't 1, though! We—my wife and I want the contract back. I'll pay you $500 for it.” moncy and be a good provider and be stuck on his wife because she is his, but not so stuck on her that he won't raise he—I]l if she trumps his trick. These birds is daungerous and fools lots of peoplc because they are polite when i don’t mean nothing, but I have studied them both as golfers and private citizens both and they ain't a forgotten how prettily she had danced —c 3 $ i as a little girl, but poverty had come, | "AMe™" " ' [{‘ yg‘n:m;'c:xr':fe‘lre gfi:“fl:fi:fil’“fi";‘ sciously. like a bewildered oy, With = In the'end the amazed Mr. Gentle had | apprehending and identifying crim- model husband is libel to act like a 5 k e .| "On, T couldn't tell you that! I—I| € ¥ou s L Mr. e collar turned up and hat pulled dow. | o accept her offer. 5 have also Broved val-|inodel Bum and ‘vice versa OF 10 the | heor o i SHL belices tn thelr and work. The sensitiveness of a thin, . in an alley doorway, and gazed out inals, but they have also pro girlic gets a taste of the stuff herself heart that they's 23 100 many letters don't know that I could appear in M| * Kk * iss Brown has always been solof a shinilg dream at a slim little uable in freeing innocent persons who | §CT0 B B T G ke off by her i ihe alphabet. shy child had hardened into a for- | public. I couldn't let people see me——"| 4 jot ™ gnq ! ¥ Paaing selfconselousnass Sne cauld | Miss Brown was now in utter confu- [ Julet and conscientious.” observed|person. who wore an impenetrable | ~LEORGE C. and his wife sat b; i tantia) evidence: had] fa k gentleman somewhat hurriedly. | veil and d int closed motor y the | through circumstantial incee on the grounds that he wants * % k% never become reconciled to that wild as she—disappeared? e A e T s e estrandly G table that still bore the Inwashed | become involved in criminal cases.|a Wife not a calliope. 5. sion. “But what's it all about then” What did you come here for?” “Perhaps—if 1 could wear a mask, or something of that sort—I couldn’t let them see my face. And if I could get away—" Doubtless they thought her crazy.| strain in her breast. It was bitterly real. Live with it she must. At times it terrified her. Of recent years she had taken to arranging afternoons off and slipping into Chicago to see dancing. She slip ped furtively into vaudeville houses. Some days, he reflested, as she stared grimiy at the redly glowing square: of mica in the stove door, they would find her out. During this autumn the Batties fell on troubled ways. George C.. caught . fn the general. financial confusion that followed the war, gave out. Fi- «mally they carried him to a cot in the public ward of the Sunbury Hos- pi His wife struggled against a riging wave of ‘debt. Henrietta dipped she must run off, hide. scream. On Saturday evening Mr. Jenkins looked in at the public library. Miss Brown, who had planned grimly to for a word with him. r%e been "wondering how to tell| you this, Mr. Jenkins——" she began. “Nothing unpleasant has happened, I trust,” said he with the composure enjo has natu And She weakly asked herself if she were, | nereiwi B N nlie wore hot-Bh felt that| oo orcnincashespent h herstud 'H. re she is now e call at his home on Sunday, asked|planation was that she was going.as| secretary Loupova.” “She would make an excellent sec- retary,” mused Mr. Jenkins. dinner dishes. * X Xk x Henrietta stood in the doorway, pale but otherwise natural, wearing her last vinter's topcoat and turban. I put my bag down in.the hall up- stalrs,” Henrletta was saying. “I'll un- pack as soon as I.get back from the library. They'll hardly have my trunk here before morning.” E “Have you had anything to eat? asked George C. sternly. “1 picked up a bite of supper in the Chicago station.” ‘But what are we to think? than that!" Shortly after a trunk murder mystery %o light in Detroit last year.| ! came 10 HERt cordn were received | |/ELL friends in a later article 1 will A ashington of a man wiio was sus- try and show how even now a man pected of having Lilled a woman and can get a general idear of the kind of hippel beribody ine trunk from De- |4 gal that he bettet leave her alone, but O led answered the description, even |28 for a gal learning the truth about a P a broken nose, of & man whom the |man, I don’t know of no way to advice police had every reason to believe had | them unlest he is a golf player. If he fs Sommitted the crime. It was known | 5 AN Sl fomt"the probable murderer had sery- | they's no reason in the world why you can't read him like a book and a gal od in the Army and the War Depart- ment was asked to decide Whether!nhag got only hersgff to blame that mar- rys a golfer and wishs she hadn't of. the man held by the police was the It don’t make no differents if you play one toward whom all evidence point- with him or just follow him once around night. x Xk %k X N a December evening in . the { city of Washington the Masked Dancer bounded off the stage and stood panting, behind draperies. With her dainty head poised slightly to one side, she listened to the roar of the applause from the -great audi- ence. Through the mask her nearly black eyes snapped With excite- ment. Hey little hands were tightly clenched. It was, she felt, the great moment of her life, for out there sat George C. was beginning to y the situation. You see there always been a side of Henrietta's re that we couldn’'t quite get at. there was something queer about .in, mind you, with a talk- ave you any knowledge as to I'm getting at that. to the Russian dancer, “Steady, od as guilty. ‘Within a few minutes {dentity experts were able 4o prove cried 'T"E man that makes the ideal hus- band is the man that can play I golt or leave it alone and it don't make no differents if he plays good or rotten, he ix always sunnv and bright and if its going to make him late for dinner to play 2 more holes, why he quits on the 16th. He shoots when its his turn and when he misses a shot he just smiles and asks the caddy about his home life and when he looses a ball he drops another ball without I, yes or no and he knows &ll the wile how unimaginative, accurate in small mat- “It's the only thing she could do, with her training. Well, she's been ver: od about it in one_way. My— my own affairs have had something of a setback—through a serious ill- ness—and—this is rather personal— she has sent money to her sister conclusively that the man about to be sentenced for murder was not the person sought. 5 That some system of classification must be employed if an enormous col- lection of finger prints, such as that of the War Department is to be of practical value, is perfectly obviou Without such a system, inspectors the dignified President of the United States, applauding happily. Time and again she returned to sink on her heel in a curtsy that was in itself a little feat in delicate acrobatic bal- ancing. . She turned her shoulders to the waiting maid, who drew a wrap the course, you can find out all they is | to know about him by applying the fol- lowing rules which 1 have compiled them together after yrs. of study of dif- terent types who 1 have played with and not only watched them on the golf course but in the misery of their own into her slender savings account to help with milkman and grocer, and then took to selling her small lib- erty bonpds, one by one, at a loss. With an intensity that seemed at times to be rising into a fever of the nerves, Miss Brown sought relief in her secret outlet. She developed new many shots he has had and can even say 10 and 11 without chokeing. These is the kind of men for the gals to go alter and the only trouble is that they's only 2 of them in exist- ents and one of them is what some people calls a_writer and he lives here in Great Neck and has ull ready that had apparently never been ruf- fled, looking down at her with an im- personally gracious sort of kindnese. “Oh, no, Mr. Jenkins! And now that Miss Wombast 18 better, it—you see, it has become necessary for me to earn more money. And an unexpected chance has come to me, some inter- Mrs. George' C. think?" 3 “It isn't that we don't appreciate all you've done,” put in George C. “The ‘money—but—-" “Suppose you_just. try. keeping still?” With which brisk remark little Miss “What—are—we—to steps and transitions. Looking for | esting traveling. I'm afraid I—" |every week—so- much money, ind 3 y eed, | about her. Then she f her th :J;ve;:g_rfle-;ryhm:nkm an ob-| “Im sure we shall miss you very|that it's been rather SiMeult fof us | blocked by the stout ;'e'::on ¢"pr. | Brown stepped out and sharply closed | would have to go through the whole | Rome. got plenty of wife and aqmrlenfi-und Sewre edensr of the Bookstack, she|mmch. Miss Brown. He spoke with| to—well_hm'm!" George C.. com-|Gentle, and the dglighted sparkle left the front door. 5,000,000 records before they could be * ok % the other is a man tnat lives in ¢ € elf and was nearly caught | a courtly precision. “Bat'if you feel “Let me lay this be- | her eyes. - "As she left the discordant household | eertain they did not have the finger 1. ton and muy be elEible A ing him but just now h })renl‘ed his lips. hat you will better yourself my mak- | fore you.” He drew a folded page of ing the change, of ‘course we would|a newspaper.from a breast.pocket. not wish to stand in your light. If very week she has written us ‘her 4 behind, her spirits quietly and unac- countably rose. The library building secemed to smile comfortably- at her prints of any given individual. 1In- numerablc trfals have heen made with a view to fixing standaids or types, said he. she answeFed. “Not “Just a minute, dea “Please let me hy “No, I won't,” he’ retorted. pirouetting, by two high-school boys. This frightened her. Late in Octover the incomparable for a divorce. RING W. LARDNER. ON'T put a man down as a bad Great Neek, June 1% prospect because he is & absent- i l | ! ! !