Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1921, Page 14

FEATU RE PAGE DRAPERY AND THE LONG LINES. . BY ANNE RITTENHOUSE. There are comforting things in the clothes of the season. No woman need despair. It is true that a cer- tain contour has been established.; The woman with a waist line accen- tuated is out of the picture. The ac- .cent of the silhouette is on the hips. What a woman will do with unduly | J MOLYNEUX FROCK OF BLACK JAPANESE REPE __ WITH A | DRAPED SKIRT AND BLACK: VELVET ROSE AT THE WAIST. | THE TRAIN CAN BE LOOPED UP, FORMING A PANEL. i large hips is not in the province of the reporter, and it might be added that few designers have taken this defect into consideration. There may | be another great season for those who write books on how to grow thin, and the French are sure that if JL Carpentier would open a school for reduction exerc he could make Personal He . cided English ito make | 1oops up when it By WILLIAM BRADY, M. D Noted Physic:an and Author atzre money than he did in Jersey y. As soon as the new silhouette waa | established, and, it may be whispered. as soon as the new social set taok a position in France, a school for exer- cising was started in Deauville with instant success. This may need a word of explanation, and here it is. The average woman one sees in Paris with jewels and good clothes has an immense figure, She is all curves, in- cluding her hands, and the women of the high world who once held posi- tion in France refer to the new women and_the new set as being fat on war profits. An Interesting chap- ter on the social history of France should be written concerning this bit- ter cleavage between what is and what was. The deslgners are canny. They know full well that their fortune lies in suiting the thick and the thin. This they have done. There are young gowns, but mark this well and take it to heart, for it brings a light into the darkness of perplexity; there are gowns for the middle-aged woman who has gained flesh. They do not all emanate from the house of Worth, to which stately women have looked ‘for dignified gowns during the last half dozen years: they come from scveral houses, the heads of which have seen ihe handwriting on the wall. Molyneux, whose house has a de- influence, has shown himself a master hand at creating the type of gown which the English woman of position has made famous. He ignores any attempt at extreme youthfulness. He attempts no artifice the public think that a woman of forty is a girl of twenty. With a strong brush stroke he ar- ranges the silhouette with dignit He gives such gowns to young ma- trons as well as to the woman with white hair. He does not consider black the only color for such gowns. He uses the red of the lobster. the Yaint gray with ‘a mauve undertone; he uses black with a printed flower in the same color; he sees the worth of bro- cade. and he insists that the fabric should be supple. He puts an accent on the hips in these frocks, but he omits the oriental zirdle which he gives to young women. The sketch shows what he has done with printed black Japanese crepe, which has a slightly rough surface with more character than the smooth Chinese crepe. The drapery of the skirt is on the bias, which is always an admir- able line for women whose figures are inclined to be heavy, and the soft folds that fall from one Hip begin their career in a large black velvet pansy with a vellow center. The bias line is continued on the bodice, back and front, and the sleeves fit the arm and reach over the upper part of the hand. They go by the popular name of serpent sleeves, The slight tral which is a part of the back drapery is not needed. There is no diminution in the poj larity for the train. It may swing out from each side, or take on the Slender wrigsling qualities of an eel at the back, but the French always arrange it so that it can be snapped up. In truth, half the houses in Paris divert themselves with changing a gown so that it ¢an serve several occasions. alth Service (Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease dlagnosis or treatment. Laetters should be n be. 3 Address Dr. William Brady, in care of The Sta Cancer of the Tongue. According to Dr. Joseph C. Blood- good of Baltimore, the exciting cause of cancer of the tongue in & series of 260 cases was prolonged irritation by (a) tobacco and the repeated burns from smoking, (b) continuous irritation or slight wounds produced by dirty, rough teeth or by improper- Iy made or fitted plates. Dr. Blood- good declares that in carefully taken histories of cases of cancer of the ongue there is scarcely a record of o dividual who has not received Ample warning in the form of some definite local lesion of the tongue \hich has been present for months, | And usually vears. before the develop- ment of the cancer. The importance of knowing that such conditions lead to cancer of the | tongue lies in the interesting fact. that the only effective treatment for cancer. operation, gives a permanent cure if applied in the early stage in over 60 per cent of the cases; where- as if applied only after the cancer has reached an advanced stage, less than 50 per cent of cures are obtained. This is much the same story as in cancer in other situations—procrasti- nation is fatal. The postponment of radical surgical treatment, operative removal of the degenerated structure Zeven for a week longer than is ab- solutely necessary amounts to flirting with death. ! Good dentistry must be given due credit as a defintie preventive of can- cer of the tongue. It is true economy, after ail, to have the best dentist, not the cheapest. But the deplorable habit of keeping broken or carious teeth or stumps or defective dentures in the mouth merely because they seem to | cause no serious present trouble, is obviously a dangerous habit. It is a Strange thing that so many people | who pretend to,be clean, self respect- ing citizens frequently harbor these conditions in their mouths rather | than seek good dental services—and these people wonder why they de-| velop so-czlled “rheumatism,” “stom- ach trouble,” and all kinds of sys- temic results of their septic mouth | conditions. The most common warning of tongue cancer, Dr. Bloodgood finds. is the condition known as leukoplakia, | single or multiple white patches or diffuse white patches on the tongue or elsewhere in the mouth. When | such patches are present, the use of tobacco must be stopped at once and never resumed. The teeth must be put in the most hygienic possible state by the dentist and kept so by Cill Le answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped. self i be brict and written in ink. OWIDg to the large number of letters rec eved lre, " No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. ‘inclosed. dressed envelope ed, only frequent visits to the dentist. It may take four years for the leukoplakia to _disappear. The second most common warning is an irritated spot adjoining ragged, dirty teeth. The same treatment is required. Dr. Bloodgood holds that local treatment of leukopiakia or of the irritated spot opposite ragged teeth by X-ray, radium or caustics of any kind is unwise. The cause should be removed first—the defective teeth, the irritation of tobacco. Then, if the condition does not improve stead- ily, thorough surgical excision includ- ing a good margin of healthy tissue, is the treatment which has proved most effective. QUESTIONS AND ANSWER! Well Off, But Doesn’t Know It. I have been married five years, and am_ twenty-six vears old, sPxty-one inches tall, and find to my consterna- tion that I am gaining weight much too rapidly. 1 now weight 1263 pounds and have always heretofore weighed 115 to 118. Would the Karell system be advisable for me to keep my weight down? Iam a great walk- i i ~ % BY ELSIE ROBINSON. All my friends are having nervous breakdowns. Just simply all in—you know the feelings. Can’t seem to get hold of themselves—work all day and get nothing dome. “Ought to go on a vacation,” you say. But that's just it—they've just been on their vaca- tions and that's why they're going to pleces now. Surely you never heard of any one coming back rested from a vacation! coming back starts the collapse, and B the time you really land back in COMING HOME TROM VAGATION ® the apartment, and at the desk, you're ready for the doctor. “Back to the same old grind!” you moan, and straightway take a liver pill. This whole vacation business is a mighty silly affair. No, I'm not object- ing to refreshment and recreation. But why shouldn’t we recreate all the year around instead of for a miserable two weeks? Why shouldn't we re- fresh ourselves all the time? We could if we'd only decide to. Do you really work much less on a vacation er, but have not kept up to my usual |than you do at your regular job? daily stunt this past summer. perhaps that is why my weight has increased so. (Mrs. S. E.) Answer — The average or ideal Nope, you usually work more. Do you live more comfortable? Far from it Do you eat more and better things? No—less and worse. Do you see much \F A WIFE CALLED UP AND SAID 1T WAS CLEANING DAY AND NOT D A BITE To EAT INTHE - HOUSE AND ToLD HER HUSBAND HE’D © GUILTY AWD EXPECTING A FIERCE BAWLING OLT —ro Why, the very thought orl {until Green Forest and the Green Meadows forget that great storm. Never will the little folk of the Old Orchard for- get it. Nature had done her best to show how great is her strensth. Some of the little feathered folk were nearly drowned by were so beaten by the wind that they BETTER GET PINNER AT THE CLVB— N ) & Striped Chipmunk Is Mourned BY THI)RN‘I‘(iN ‘W. BURGESS. Why wait the pleasant things to say | Until another’s gone away? —Striped Chipmunk. Never will the little people of the It seemed as if Old Mother the great rain. Some were bruised and sore all over. Peter Rabbit, over in the dear Old Briar Patch, had sought shelter in an | ©0ld house of Grandfather Chuck’s in the very middle of the Old Briar Patch, and there he and little Mrs. Peter had minded the storm not at all Peter discovered that his feet Then they found that were wet. !water was running down the long hall into that old house underground. It was raining so hard that the earth couldn’t soak it up fast enough, and so water was standing on the surface and some of this was running down around their feet. It made them nerivous and uncomfortable. Never had such a thing happened be- fore. “It must be a terrible storm,” said Peter. Little Mrs. Peter nestled close to him. 'm so glad you are here, I‘eter,” she whispered. “If you were off somewhere I would be worried to death.” Just as soon as the storm was over Peter was out, eager to see or hear what had happened during the storm. The first thing he discovered was that much_of Farmer Brown's corn had that is more instructive or delight- weight of women aged twenty-six,|ful? Well, to tell the truth, you could sixty-one inches tall, is 120 pounds, | see pretty nearly as much on week stripped. The average weight of a woman's clothing is six and a half pounds. The best figure preserver yet invented is two miles of oxygen three times a day, on the hoof. The Edisonian Myth. I am a young man and want to get ahead as rapidly as possible. Thomas A. Edison is said to sleep only four hours a day, and Benjamin Franklin never slept more than six or seven. 1 find I am unable to get along on less than eight hours' sleep, but I don't want to waste any fime in desuetude, and I should like to know whether I could break myself into sleeping seven hours or less and still keep my health. (B. H.) Answer—No. vour age, but if you are under twen- ty-one you need not less than nine hours' sleep daily. Possibly Edison worries along with only four or five hours’ sleep in bed but he takes many a nap at his office, and 1 warrant you he slept his good eight or nine hours when he was a young lad. As for Ben Franklin—you must clearly distinguish Young Ben from Old Ben. Elderly persons require but little sleep—have less repair of tissues to make. Young persons require much sleep. A Fine-Grained Skin. Do you know the proper use of astringents? I am inclined to think that few women know the promer time to use them on the complexion. Most women, finding that cold cream is generally useful, are apt to overdo that cosmetic. The skin is inclined to be oily in the summer, therefore very little cold cream is required except in special cases of wind and sunburn. About this time of the year I seem to notice an unusual number of coarse-grained, | oily complexions, and 1 wonder whether the owners of them have not been using too much cold cream and not enough astringents. ©One of the most invigorating as- tringents is salt water. It is an ex- cetlent thing to keep a jar of salt on the bathroom shelf and add a little to the water in which you wash your face. One of the best things about this astringent is that it costs practi- cally nothing at all. Another excel- lent astringent, which costs prac cally nothing, is tincture of benzoin. A few drops of this added to the cold Tinse water produces a milky fluid which “draws up” the skin and makes i. white and fine grained. If you wish you may keep a bottle of tinc- ture of benzoin diluted with water and simply rub it into the skin after you have washed. These are the two simplest astrin- gents. Ice is always excellent to use, but sometimes hard to procure. If you use this as an astringent rub it over the skin for five or ten minutes after you have thoroughly washéd the face. Plain witch hazel is soothing, cooling and an excellent astringent to be rubbed on the skin after washing. H. G. S—You are fifteen pounds overweight Reader.—You should massage the face every night with a good cream and use very little water until youp skin has recovered from this dry- ness. Remove the surplus cream and close the pores with a small piece of ice rubbed over the face and throat. Peroxide of hydrogen will remove mnk vellow ring from your friend's nec —_— The long, full, circular coat flares from neck to hem and is belted across the front. A heavily braided frock of black charmeuse has wide loose sleeves and cascade draperiex. A cape of red velvet and gold bro- cade has a collar and deep band of contrasting fur. ends at home if you'd just hustle around and look for it. No, you hard- 1y do or get a thing that you couldn't do or get any other time. Only, you've decided that one set of things is a job and a curse and the other set of things is a vacation and a blessing. So you come home all covered wlt.h Sunburn and rebellion and, i there's any money left, you have a nervous breakdown. But why not decide that every day is an adventure which will never come again and try to squeeze all the juice out of it while the squeezing is good? For if you can turn two weeks ot dust, mosquitoes, bumpy beds and burned weenies into heaven by merely thinking it is, what a whale of a lot you ought to be able to do with a You do not mention | whole year of clean collars, bath’ tubs, fresh salads and reg-lar folks! Things You'll Like to Make. _filet Boudoir(ap I know you will want to make this adorable little filet boudoir cap. Cro- chet a straight filet band six inches wide and long enough to fit around your head. .Then crochet another band two and a half inches wide and long enough to fit over the crown of your head and under your chin. Edge the bands with a narrow filet or valenciennes lace. Join the wide band to the narrow one, as shown. Have the narrow one looge at one end, over the right _ear. Close with snap fas- teners. Finish your exquisite filet boudoir cap with a large velvet or satin flower. FLORA. (Copyright, 1821.) —_— A basque bodice of black and white allover embroidery is worn with a skirt of black cloth. A sports dress of hair-line striped serge has a hem and side sections of v hite French serge. CASTORIA For Infants and Children - InUse For Over 30 Years Z. tin sight of the Smiling Pool. been beaten down flat. “My, my, my!" exclaimed Peter. “My, my, my, that is too bad!" Then the way being clear, he ran over to the Smiling Pool. Peter's eyes opened very wide when he came ! It was doing its best to smile, but it was too muddy to make that smile a success. And the Smiling Pool had grown! My, how it had grown! It was filled to the very top of its banks. No big, green lily-pads for Grandfather Frog to sit on were to be seen. They were under water. The Laughing Brook was roaring instead of laughing: roaring as it did in early spring when the snow melted. No one to talk to was to be seen, s0 Peter turned and headed for the Old Orchagd. He could hear excited voices_over there and he just had to know what had happened there. He found all the feathered folk very much excited. On the ground were many branches from the apple trees. Bully the English Sparrow and Mrs. Bully had lost their home. It had been in a hollow, dead branch which had been snapped off and now lay on the ground split wide open. “It Is & wonder we are allve,” cried Bully for the hundredth time. “We were in there when it happened. And when we got out we were nearly drowned.” = “It is a pity they were not quite drowned,” muttered Jenny Wren to. Mr. Wren. You know no one loves Bully and Mrs. Bully. But the worst damage was to_ the B Nadine Face Powder You will like its soft texture, exquisite tint and It adheres throughout the day. Con- stant - applications not AND YF HE FORGOT AlLL ABOUT \T UNTIL ME WKS AT HIS OWN DOOR AND ITWAS Too LATE To GET ATRAIN AND THEN IF HIS WISE. WELCOMED HIM HOME AS I¥ HE HAD A RIGHT THERE AND SET OUT A PICK-UP SUPPER OF CANNED BEANS, COLD CORN BREAD AND _MILK ,TUST WHAT HE LIKED —— WOULD WT HE BE lig Peter, wall thought {Copyright, 1921, by Herbert Johmson. BACK To Town— GosHwwiz! 'SHE'LL TAKE 0 SCOLDING A-TALL — SIMPLY pIPPY maple tree-beside the old stone wall, the one which had been struck by htning. Everybody, including went to look at that and at the hole the lightning had made in the ground just beneath it and into which some of the stones of the old had fallen. Suddenly Peter of Striped Chipmunk. = He ¢ that Striped Chiprunk’s home Le:n right near ther as any one seen Striped Chip- “IT MUST BE A TERRIBLE STORM,” SAID PETER. munk?’ he asked anxiously. No one had. Everybodv bocame very grave at once. “His home was right down there,” said Pete: “Then 1 am afraid we will never see him again,” said Welcome Robin, and his voice was very sad. “Poor little Striped Chipmunk! e must have been killed by the light- ning. How we will miss him,” ndJded Tommy Tit the Chickadee. “Everybody loved hiw, alded Jenny “Wren. “Poor Strioed Chip- munk!” (Copyright, 1921, by T. W. Burgess.) Wedding Invitations. Concerning wedding invitations, ti «1Ways numerous queries, but the best thing you can do in that matter is to go to a thoroughly re- liable engraver and ask his expert aid. The size and grade of the sheets invitations change for the engraved from year to year, and these differ- ences are best understood by the men who are engaged in the business of providing them. ‘In_settling many other questions the best thing to do is to observe the customs that prevailed at the weddings of your friends and other ‘What would be a smart and formal wedding in one people in your circle. section of the country might seem ex- tremely affected in another. And. after all, no one wants to adopt a new mode till it has at least been softened by local usage. To make oneself con- spicuous in the cause of a new fash- ion is always ridiculous. Rice Cakes. Mix two cups or cold boiled rice with the beaten yolks of two eggs and a little salt and sugar, if liked. Half fill buttered muffin tins and bake until brown. Serve hot with cream. Upon the mattress and box-spring depends the , night's sleep. Elastic long fibre-makes Conscience Brand mat- tresses far‘more com- fortable and enduring . than the ordinary mat- tress. Three varieties— cotton felt, kapoc, hair —one for every purse. With the well-known Conscience Brand box spring, the ideal com- bination for sleep. Conscience Brand (Continued from Yesterday’s Star.) The latter glanced at him in sur- prise, but obeyed without comment, his eyes wandering to the others as they took their places. Dennis Rior- dan marched to the chair at his other side, next to that of Cfitter, while Terhune in turn seated himself on Cutter’s left and Inspector Druet on McCarty’s right, leaving the only va- cant, chair between himself and the criminologist. Waverly looked about him, shrugged and, pulling out the chair, dropped into it. As he did so his face twitched for an instant and his hand went again to his heart. “Ten-dollar limit, gentlemen.” Cut- ter raised his eyes. “Is that agree- able?” Dennis shot an agonized glance at McCarty, but met with an answering one which made him quail and add a hurried assent to those of the rest. The game began. It went slowly al first, O'Rourke taking the first jack. pot on three queens, with two of which he had onened. McCarty eyed Waverly curiously as the latter fumbled clumsily with the cards in dealing; the fat man was breathing heavily and his voice had seemed thicker than on their first meeting. Had he fortified himself for the evening by an overindulgent in- cursion into his private stock, or was he laboring still under the agitation of which O'Rourke had spoken? As he laid down the pack to take up his hand the door behind him opened once more and a high-pitched ripple of laughter came to their ears with a_little hysterical note running | through it. ; ‘That stupid Gregory tried to keep me out, Nickie—Oh!” Mrs. Baillie Kip, in an evening gown which displayed her full-blown form to perfection, paused in seeming confusion on the threshold. “Mrs. Kip!” Cutter left his place as the others rose and advanced quickly toward her. “This is an unexpected pleasure; I—we—you—see—!" ‘Tell him to let her stay!” McCarty whispered in a hasty aside tc O'Rourke, and passing Cutter bowed before her. “Good evening, Mrs. Kip. not forgotten me?” “Mr. McCarty.” She laid an fey hand in his for a moment. “I had_no idea that you were a friend of Mr. Cutter's, nor that I was intruding upon a stag affair. 1 underdtood that Mrs. Waverly would be here this evening and I fancied that some of the other ladies were comin; “Won't you stay, any ¥ 7 Cutter drew away from O'Rourke and flashed a strange glance at McCarty, who re- turned it with an almost imperceptible nod. “This is quite an impromptu af- fair or we should have telephoned to you and Mrs. O'Rourke and the rest, but it really doesn’t matter. Choose one of us to chaperone you, and join us, do.” “We-ell” Mrs: Kip flushed and dropped her eves. “I wouldn't think of intruding in the game, but if you are quite sure I shall not be in the way, I might be persuaded to look on for a little while. I know it i horribly unconventional, but 1 was bored to tears at home She came slowly forward and Cut- ter presented Terhune, the inspector and Denis Riordan in turn. McCarty observed that after greeting the criminologist her eyes passed swiftly to those of the inspector as though { seeming not to see the man who stood {between, and she turned with un- You've who was gaping at her in fatuou: admiration. O'Rourke, at a gesture from Mc- i mistakable relief to bow to Dennis, WOMAN’S PAGE threw down his cards. 11 open it.” Cutter pushed three chips into the center of the table. “Anybody with me?” “T will—er—trail” lowed suit. ‘Same here.’ stertorous breath. “Nothing stirring.” Inspector Druet inquished his hand and sat back. “Raise you five, Mr. Cutter,” M Carty remarked. “I know when I've had enough.” O'E.lou!ke dropped his cards upon the table. “Little action at last. eh?’ Cutter smiled and shoved ten chips forward, “Right back at you, Mr. McCarty!" “I will drop,” said Terhune. “Thq sychology of success in cards as in things- “I'm staying right with—you— both,” Waverly breathed rapidly. “Only we—three—in it?” McCarty nodded. “How many cards?” he asked. Before Cutter couM reply Waverly's head fell forward again and his great body seemed to slump in his chair. He had thrown one card aside and the pudgy hand holding the remaining four dropped inertly on the table. “Not any, thanks; I'll play these.” i Cutter spoke with cold annoyance and his eyes turned once more 'z Whver- ly. who, he was now convinced, had been indulging too copiously in stim- ulants, just as the latter crumpled forward in his chair and his head, with the flabby, twisted face turned sidewise toward the inspector and Mc- Carty and rested upon the table. For an instant they all sat spell- bound and McCarty darted a swift, keen glance at the strangely relaxed form awd the unclouded surface of the mirror-lined tray which those gross, half-parted lips all but touched. No breath issued from them! Mec- Carty held his own as the startling fact surged through his consciousness, and watched the surface of the tray with straining eyes. It remained un- dimmed, and there was not the slightest fl“rh of that bulky mound of imert esh. = Great God in Heaven! A reverential awe went up with that silent ery from McCarty’s heart and a pean of thankfulness and swift-rising exulta- tion. That which but a moment be- had been 2 man was now but a thing, an inanimate substance, In- capable forevermore of betrayal, for out of his body with the passing of life had gone the secret which would always have imperiled McCarty’s plan. It had not been accident, not the nor- mal result of his own evil passions 2nd dissipation which had stilled the heart in that gross body, but the hand of God Himself that had been laid upon it. and miraculously the way lay clear before McCarty to a solution of which he had not even dreamed. Alive. Waverly had been a menace. but dead he was priceless! The others did not yet realize the situation and McCarty gathered his forces for the greatest coup of his career. “One card, Mr. Waverly!” he cried. and at the ringing quality of his tone an electrified start ran around the table. “There is your card, your lucky card. but you lose with it now! It is stained with the blood of the man you killed! T arrest yoa. in the name of the law. for the murder of Eugene Crevelin As he thundered the accusation to dead ears. to clay, he had slipped quickly from the bottom of the deck the nine of diamonds which, torn and blood-stained. he had found beneath the strip of tapestry on the table be~ side the body of Creveling, and now he flung it down before that which had been Douglas Waverly. A moment of silence followed his denunciation and then a stifled shriek from Mrs. Kip broke the hideous ten- sion and O'Rourke leaped to his feet “Waverly!” he cried. “For God's sake, Waverl: 0 that was the game, the real game!” Cutter kicked his chair aside. “Doug. do you hear this maniac? Sit up and answer him, or by heaven “Wai ‘Terhune had bent forward Terhune fol- Waverly drew a re on a bluft and proudly displayed his opening pair of ace: “Gad, I'm thirsty!” Waverly ran a fat finger around his collar as though | p, it were choking him. “Tell Gregory | al to get some water, will you, old man?” The man-servant was at his elbow in an instant with a slender crystal carafe and glass upon a mirror-lined tray, and the inspector made room for it between them as he picked up the cards to deal. Waverly drank deep and cleared his throat, but his voice seemed thicker than ever as he ad- dressed a remark to their host. McCarty looked down at the cards in_Inspector Druet's hand: “Odd design. aren’t they?" Cutter had followed his gaze from across the table. “They were made especially for me in Austria some years ago, and I laid in a good supply. 1 must have a hundred or more fresh packs identi- cal to them lying around the house.” “I've never seen any just like them.” McCarty studied the grotesque pattern picked out in green and purple and gold upon the backs of those he held in his hand, and then raised his eves to Cutter's. “They wmust have cost a lot of moiey?” 've forgotten. I believe I paid around twenty-five dollars a pack for them,” the other responded absently. “You couldn’t get them now at any price, of course.” “Think of that now!” marveled Mc- Carty. “T lost a hundred and sixty- five dollars one night on a trip from Kansas City to Milwaukee and the deck 1 played with only cost fifty cents.” “If you're opening. Mac, word!” Dennis admonished, ened by his recent coup. holding up the game.” Waverly’s chair creaked. Mrs. Kip dropped her gloves and retrieved them quickly before'O'Rourke could stoap for them. and even Cutter stirred in his seat. The tensity which for a! moment had lightened descended again with almost tangible force and the hand was played out in a strained silence. broken only by the monocyl- labic utterances of the bettors. Waverly won with a full house. but his only comment was a grunt. The mottled flush had deepened on his face and a pulse throbbed perceptibly in his temple. It was McCarty's deal, and as he picked up the cards Dennis drew a deep. convulsive breath. as one about to plunge into cold water. and_started a lengthy post mortem about his last hand, which strangely enough seemed suddénly to interest Terhune and the inspector also. They promptly took issue with him. and as the discussion waxed one of McCarty's hands stole in a lightning movement to his pocket asd back to the deck of cards which he held just at the edge of the table. He proffered them to Inspector Diruet, who cut gravely, and as he started to deal the argument died down as swiftly as it had arisen Mrs. Kip stiffened suddenly and Ter- hune. glancing across at her. followed her gaze to the man at his side. Wav- srlv’s head had fallen forward on his thick neck and his chin lay In folds over his collar. Your cards. Mr. Waverly."- hune touched his arm. “Pardon,” Waverly mumbled. jerk- ing his head back. “Confoundedly hot in here! Cutter, old man, you needn't be afraid of a ray of light or a breath of air. now we have the majesty of the law on our side He grinned lopsidedly up at Inspec- tor ‘Druet as McCarty picked up his say the bold- ou're | Ter- carty, had drawn a chair up-behind his own and to the right of that of the fireman, and he patted it invit- ingly. “Come and give me luck, Mrs. Kip,” he begged. “I won the first pot, but that was because you were alread: almost here, I am convinced of it Mrs. Kip smiled in acquiescence and made a laughing rejoinder, but she seated herself with obvious reluc- tance, for she was directly across the table from Waverly and could no longer attempt to avoid the gaze he bent upon her. It was a curious mingling of warning and questioning, and before it her color ebbed, but she held her head high. The rest seated themselves and the game resumed. All passed until Den- nis was reached, when that individual suddenly became galvanized into life and opened for three dollars. Cutter stayed, and Inspector Druet and O'Rourke, but the rest dropped and McCarty sat back in his chair, study- ing the faces about the table. * O'Rourke seemed intent upon his cards, Mrs. Kip was looking down at her tightly locked fingers, Dennis was preoccupied and Cutter inscruta- ble; Terhune, too, leaned back with a detached, slightly bored air. Wav- erly chewed sullenly upon his un- lighted cigar and Inspector Druet moved_ restlessly in his chair, while over all of them a nameless suspense brooded, a tensity as of relentless bands tightening about them. It was slightly leavened when Den- ith naive glee raked.in the pot contains problem grains are firs are formed into mineral saltsand sliced A Great Food Discovery From Rameses I to the present time the whole wheat grain has been the most perfect food given to man. It elements needed for building and sus- taining the perfect human body. The whole wheat grain digestible in the human stomach. That problem was solved by the man who invented. Shredded Wheat In making Shredded Wheat Biscuit the whole wheat defective grains are used), then boiled in steam. The softened grains are then drawn into filmy, porous shreds, which atahigh temperature. This process breaks down the starch cells in the center of the wheat so the digestive fluids can get at them. The bran, which is needed to stimulate “bb Delicious for any meal with milk or cream, hand and scrutinized it. He held the seven, eight. nine and ten of clubs and the eight of hearts. “Who opens?” l Tm by.” O'Rourke regarded his hand critically and Dennis reluctantly —_— FRESH Tea—to be good—must be fresh is alwaE‘fresh and possesses that unique flavour of ‘goodness’ that has justly made it famous. even as Inspector Druet placed his hands upon the shoulders of that inert figure, and together they raised it once more to an erect position. (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) in proper proportion all the has been how to make the t thoroughly cleaned (no small, broken or biscuits (or little loaves) and baked in coal ovens vitamines (so necessary to normal growth) and the wel exercise,” are retained. bananas, raisins, prunes or other fruits.