Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1925, Page 8

8 FEA TURES. “ Treating Gaudy BY LYDIA LE HANGINGS CAN BE TRA LITTLE OR NO E> Draperies are matters of great im- portance to the home decorator, and re two seasons of the year, Spring and Fall, when they loom high in schemes for rooms. In the Spring the heavy draperies that have pleased during the colder weather fail to ap. peal. Something more delicate and summery is wanted, but in the aver- age household the cost of getting new hangings is a barrier. If only there were @ way to replace the Winter draperies without requiring too large an outlay the homemaker would wel come it. And so today let me tell of delightful and ch®ap w S ing the windows that will give them just the longed-for difference. Cretonnes are favorite Spring dr peries. They are bright and tive, seeming to bring a bit cheer of the sunshine and the De sure, these hangings, when they hand-blocked and have real art- istry, are not exactly low-priced. There are ways, however, of treating zaudy, cheaper cretonnes which may e pleasing in pattern but not in tones so that they become mellow in hues and lend themselves to special color schemes for rooms. Here is one solu tion to the problem of renewing your draperies: Get inexpensive cretonn and tone them to suit your needs. Toning Old Hangings. Or it may be that some of your pres- ent hangings are cretonnes, and you have become tired of them before they have worn out. This idea of toning them affords the possibility of making them appear different without any outlay. So whether you have to buy the material or already own it, a way refurbishing vour draperies and giving a new appearance to windows lies within your power. In the first instance, the outlay need be nothing more than the cost of cheap fabrics, and in the second, even that cost is eliminates Types of Cretonnes. When purchasing new cretonne for this scheme of redecorating, one point is essential. The design must be suited to the room. There are two distinct types of cretonnes. One is for the main rooms of a house and the patterns are formal. Generally they are larger and the coloring is richer and more pronounced than for the second type, which is for cham- | r irs rooms of a home. are apt to be dainty, with white or very light bac grounds and delicate designs. Whether they are expensive or in- expensive, these two types exist in printed or hand-blocked cretonnes or linens. Make your selections of the cretonnes with these points of view | always in mind, regardless of the color schemes. You can alt the latter. Soften Colors. Having decided upon the style of the material, the first step in transform ing them from the crudity of cheap coloved cretonnes to the beauty of toned and treated shades is a thorough washing. Let soap and water and strong sunlight take away all the gaudiness of color that these elements car Do not be surprised if the | fabric is limp and without the firm- | of texture that it had at first. It is possible to give it a resizing | when the toning is rizht. Sometimes | all that is needed to make the color soft and attractive is to treat them as describe so, mix a little boiled | starch with final rinsing water, ary the ¢ dampen it down and it remain until it s evenly moist in every part. Then iron it on the wrong Be sure to have the edges strajght and even when you press the cretonne and iron it until it is dry, as you would tuble dama: It will hold "its shape and keep newly-sized texture if laundered this way is 1f th etonne its in T If the cretonne treating to make it definite color ming Process. requires further fit in with certain schemes (and it is likely 10), it possible to further tone the material This will require some ex perimenting with dye washes to in sure the perfection of a sle cheme, | it the experimenting is easy as well as interestin Let ns suppose that you wish the cretonne to have mul berry to harmonize with the fur nishings of room Mix a solution « mulberry dye, fully prepared | 1ecordin to directivns for whatever dye yvou choose to use Have a kettle « wash-boiler of hot water, large ngh to hold the entire length of eretonne to be toned. To this add some of the mixed dye gradually. Put . sample of the cretonne in this so- ution when vyou think you have it| shi. After the sample has been in | ongz en h thoroughly to absorb the | take it out and dr it before whether the toning is correct The tone will be lighter when dry | than when wet If it is not right, | make it stronger or lighter, as needed, idding more water or more of the olut If it is not the desired tone Tittl red or a little blue may be vequired und a fresh sampling of ‘the tone be needed. Do not mmerse the | eretonne until you get the tone right a judgin, Various Effects. Toning the cretonne will change all he colors somewhat, but the colors vill be shaded in scale, so that they il be harmonious. Bluing will give =iy tune that softens some colors, BARON THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, 'APRIL 18, 1925. WOMAN’S PAGE. < Dra pery Fabrics What Tomorrow Means to You WALKER. FORMED TO LOOK LIKE NEW ONES WITH XPENSE IF PROPERLY TR ATED AND TONED. or it may shade the tones to an at- tractive bluish hue. Yellow will bring out beige and tan tones in other cre- tonne colorings. A mild solution of black will give a very charming gray tone to colors. In fact, ‘“graying” colors is very effective. Know the effect desired, experiment with sam- ples, and results are sure to prove pleasing. | though it BY MARY BLAKE. Aries. Tomorrow's planetary aspects are fairly propitious, and the day should be well spent, as Sunday perform- ances and recroations are bound to be productive under such conditions of A great deal of contentment and hap- piness. In the evening there is a Slight change in conditions, Which does not augur so well for peace of mind s during the early part of the day. The vibrations are sluggish and the signs denote that quiet and peace of mind should be established 50 as to avold all disagreement and all argu- ment. It would be well under these conditions to occupy yourself with quiet reading and not to mix too freely with the friends that usually are to be found around you. A child born tomorrow will go through its period of infaney with little or no sickness, and should at- tain physical maturity under the same conditions. Tts disposition will be af- fectionate and loving. Its character will be founded on good principles, and there need be no fear entertained to the course this child will adopt under any conditigns or elrcum- stances. it will be honest, straight- srward, but not very studlous, will, with its degree of in- tellectuality, be able to assimilate enough learning to get by. ‘This child Will not be fitted for any work of a sodentary character, but -will shine more prominently in some occupi- tion of an outdoor character. It wiil have an inherent love of nature and everything in connection therewith. 1f tomorrow is your birthday anni- versary, your material instincts a restricted, and, although you are in- tellectual ‘and shrewd, you are more fond of music and travel than you are of work that is incidental to bus ness or to a commercial career. You are also a very great lover of nature, and like to spend as much time as possible out of doors and in the coun- try. 1f vou are engaged in indoor work, you full well realize that you are a square peg in a round hole, and you should seek some other outlet for vour activities. You are meticulously careful, not only of your possessions, but also of your talents, and you cer- tainly know how to make the best of them. Yours is a character that in- vites friendship and inspires loyalty. Hence Jou enjoy many intimate and close ciations with others. Your home life is very ideal, and your fam- ily circle is made bright and happy by your presence. Well known persons born on this date are John Uri Lloyd, chemist and author: Leo Rassieur, lawyer and sol- dier; Wayne McVeagh, lawyer and politician, and Mary L. Booth, author, for 22 years editor of Harper's Bazaar. The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1925.) dla JN WRE (Copyright, 1925.) Across. What some people can't say. Negative adverb, Kind of two-masted vessel. Prosperity or the like. Article. Necessary jazz instrument. Proceeding in regular order. Pronoun. A railroad receipt (abbr.). Ornamental frames of fireplaces. Kind of dagger. Travel by automobile. Title of courtesy (abbr. me of 2 month (abbr.). Neat and compact. Stray person. Treizht and (abbr.) Initials of World War society. Abolish. Exclamation. An inert gas. Post-graduate degrec. Initials of & group of islands. A_dike of piles in the water. passenger carriers Answer to Yesterday's Puzzie. 1’” R'ONT[E[R[I[E t FA?_O—TME Large covered trucks. Unfavorable. Prepare skins by bleaching. Attendant spirit. Feminine suffix. Manuscript (abbr.). Down. Deadens. Semi-precious stone. Part remaining. Title of famous statue. Boy's name (abbr. Hero of a medieval romance. Style of a garment. Initials used with a monarch’'s name. Older (abbr.). Purpose. Cost, freight (abbr.). Jewel. Decompost Provide with weapons Consuming liquid. Lubricate. A human being. Trifling talk. Joker, Trimming for a garment. Companies of fish. Caustic alkaline solution. Inclosure (abbr.). Merganser: Twenty-third letter of Greek al- phabet. Man's name. Pallid. Located in. A Southern State (abbr.). Point of the compass. and insurance 37, 49, 42, 43. 44. 46. 48. 4[lo[-lolo|r|O[4[o|<|O Titles of nobility of the Armenian race date back to more than 3,000 vears before our era. After proceeding through the courts for 300 years, a law suit involving a large tract of forest land in Bohemia has just reached a final settlement. HiGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY ET DAWN, APRIL 19,1775, WHEN THE REDCO. REACHED LEXINGTON, THEY FOUND THEIR WAY SARRED BY A LINE OF PROVINCIAL MILITIA, DRAWN LP ONTHE COMMON UNDER CAPTAIN PARKER . RIDINGTO THE FRONT OF H1S MEN,MAJOR ATCAIRY , | T4E BRITISH COMMANDER,CALLEDT THE AMERICANS, | | | DI1SPERSE | YE REBELS, DISPERSE | D generation is going wrong. constantly reminded that without bothering anybolly. natural to a healthy, growing child. foster-mother. It is pitiful to think how many bo; eat and sleep. to places of amusement. nice, thick, soundproof doors, behind dance, and run the talking n fun, and make all the noise they them and their guests up to ridicule. a girl and boy to destruction. has to pay for it. poor. stand this eternal grumbling. Answer: My thing, but no wi: with a nagging m: ard ha n. As you say, He just likes to grumble, fallen into sense of humor. good meal and say: biscuits or cannon balls?" large placard on ever: “‘potatoes,” on another i beef AR DORQTHY DIX: slender, pretty girl. Now like fat women. They bore him, ahd nugging me about eating too much. alway to him than myself. be stout? Please tell Answer: to be deserted. Wh tive as a lady love. to a flapper figure again. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. One Mother Says: Our combined blackboard and table saves money, floor space and trouble, and it serves as a constant source of delight to the children. My husband made a low wooden table out of dry- goods boxes and I covered the top with blackboard cloth. This covering furnishes a convenient writing and drawing surface and is easily washed. In the Summer the table is moved to the porch, where it is not damaged by rain or sun. For best results the blackboard cloth should be backed by a smooth layer of cardboard. (Copsright, 1925.) g Finest Sponges Grow Deep. The finest sponges come from deep water, the cholcest being taken from a depth of 120 to 130 feet, at least. The industry, centered in the United States at Key West and Tarpon Springs, Fla., brings about a million dollars of new wealth to Florida yearly. The Greeks are counted among the best spouge fishermen. | DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX “Flatitis,” or Lack of Homes, Is the Malady That Ails Young People Today—How to Deal With a Crabbed Husband. EAR MISS DIX: The older folks are always saying that the younger I am only a girl of 16, but I want to say that if we are, the main reason is modern flats. a house because it Is more trouble to keep a house than it is a flat, and we young people have no room In which we can entertain our company without chasing the family into the dining room or the kitchen we mustn’t phonograph after 10, S0 we g0 out on the street, where we can have a good time Don't you think I am right? Answer: Truly, out of the mouths of babes and sucklings cometh wisdom, and 1 marvel that a girl of 16 should have been able tc diagnose so accurately what ails the young people of {oday. they are brought up in litle two-by-four bandboxes, instead of in homes. At least, it is because they were born in little apartments, where there was no room to turn around without getting under their mother’s feet; still less was there room in which to play or indulge in any of the activities And o mother, 1o save her own reason and nerves, sent them out on the streets to play and the street isn't a good Only too often she makes hoodlums of her children. find their amusements on the street: who make their acquaintances on the street, and form their friendships there; whose ideals are formed on the street whose real homes are on the street rather than in the cubicles in which they And it is tragic when you think of girls who pick up acquaintances on the street and who meet the boys on the street cornes It isn't strange if they so often g0 wrong. I believe with you,"J. E. I., that the best among the young would be to build some good, old-fashioned parlors, with hine, and listen to the radio, and have all the wanted ey W disturbing their elders, and that papa and mamma were not listening in. For nothing throws a wet blanket over a lot of boys and girls as does the presence of an older person, apparently an improving book, but really eavesdropping. foolish age and want to talk foolishne: can’t do it in the presence of their elders. makes them tongue-tied, knowing that father or mother is going to hold The lack of a room in which young persons may make merry sends many Also it is the first aid to spinsterhood in a household in which there are daughters. Many a man falls to propose because he never finds the environment in which to pop the question. EAR DOROTHY DIX: What can I do with a crabbed husband? He wants the best to eat, and is mad if it is not on the table, but he grumbles if he When 1 economize he berates me because the dinner is If 1 have a good dinner, he blames me for being extravagant. T don’t mind how hard I work or what I have to do without, but T can’t What can I do? dear lady, a million other wives want to know vet arisen who has doped out any plan for dealing say, you can't please one, no matter what you do, because the chief fun he gets out of life is finding fault. and you would destroy the highest enjoyment he has if you deprived him of the sacred joy of nagging. finder doesn't realize that he is finding fault. and it springs out of his vanity, which makes him believe that he can do everything better than anybody else, and his morbid love of bossing, that makes him try to control your every actfon and thought. The only way to deal with a nagger is just to shut nagging and to make up your mind that, as you you will do your own way and think as little as possible about his strictures I know one woman who cured a nagging husband through his having a He was one of the men who would sit down to a perfectly Do you call this dish-water soup?” So one day On one nd so on. The man roared, and never again found fault with the cooking. ‘When my husband and I were married T was a I have become stout. I am made miserable by We have a happy home now, but s dreading that he will pay attention to women who are more attractive me how As it seems to be a case of losing flesh or losing your husbar I should think that you would decide that it would be better to diet than men ecan't love by the pound I am sure I don’t know, for I think a nice plump lady, who is a good armful, is far more attractive and better looking than the living skeletons that ar in 2 woman with a lean and hungry look that makes her particularly attra Fat women are jollier and easier to get along with than the anaemic, nervous ones, but men don't think so, and so, my poor suffering sister, there is nothing for you but to cut out the fats and the sweets and reduce down (Capsright. | ing its imprisoning buds Mothers and fathers won't live in We don't Iike to be make so much noise, nor run the J.E. H. It's flatitls. Tt is because and girls grow up on the street, who . with whom they go ¢ to start a reformation which young people could sing, and to, certaln that they weren't engaged in reading the newspaper, or It is just that they are at the and giggle, and skylark, and they Also, they are self-conscious, which DOROTHY DIX. .. A ROOSTER-PECKED WIFE the same In reality, the fault- It is just a habit that he has ur ears to the t please him anyway “What are these, when he went into dinner he found a was printed “soup,” on another DOROTHY DIX. Y hand does mot | his constant 1 am My hus I can hold his love and ANXIOUS WIFE, vet the vogue now. I don’t see anything DOROTHY DIX. 1925.) SPRINGTIME BY D. €. PEATTIE. Dogwood. Dogwood is in bloom! The pride of our Washington Spring is just burst- turning the world to a white glory. Every public park in our city has its share of dog- wood, but none so much as Rock Creek Park, where this lovely flower- ing tree is seen at its best, in a natu- ral setting, often leaning gracefully over the sparkling waters of the creek. There is not a showier tree in the country than dogwood. Over hill and { dale it trails its virginal beauty, put- ting the charm of cherry and apple completely to rout. We generally speak of the dog- wood’s four white petals. Strictly, however, they are not petals, but bracts, or white and petaloid leaves. which inclose a colony of tiny green- ish flowers that constitute the “cen- ter” of what is ordinarily called the flower, but is in reality a community of flowers, & ntists rate this type of flower as high in the scale of evo- lution. In its simple beauty dogwood is as high as any flower in the world. The Wild Flower Preservation So- ciety here will repeat this year the ef- forts which in the past have been made for the saving of the dogwood. Last year a campaign of public sentiment in favor of leaving the dogwood for others to enoy was manyfold more successful than all the legislation in the world. The policies of the Center Market administration were effective in discouraging the sale of dogwood in the city's chief flower market, and this year as good results are expected. Patriotism rests on public sentiment. And wild flower preservation is a sort of patriotism, a respect and love for the beauties of our native land. The same feelings of pride which would restrain Italians from chipping off pleces of Milan Cathedral until it lan N | under the henhouse into the yard a [ITTLE STORIES .fiBElS;TH%E' New Home Discovered. Suspicion is in_haste to act And almost alwaya lacking tact. T5id “Mother Nature. Jimmy Skunk kept away from Farmer Brown's henhouse, and Mrs. Jimmy, whose new home was under that very henhouse, wus wise enough not to leave it unfil after dark and to be back in it before daylights So the fact that she was living there was not known in Farmer Brown's house for some time. Then one day Farmer Brown happened, just happened, to go around back of the henhouse and at once he saw the sand in front of the entrance to Mrs. kunk's home. “Hello!” he exclaimed. “That looks to me like a freshly dug hole, and it FARMER ouT HOLE 110 BROW. BOY WENT AND LOOKED AT THE UNDER THE HEN looks, too, as if some one is using it right along. Tt is too big for a Rat and hardly big enough for a Chuck. Ho! there is a footprint! A Skunk's, as surely as 1 live! And there is a black hair. A Skunk is living under that henhouse, and that won't do at o, sir; that won't do at all. That is living to close to the chick- ens for thelr good. We'll have to get rid of that scampy So when he went back to the house te told what he had discovered. “How do vou propose to get rid of that Skunk asked Farmer Brown's Boy. “I'm going to leave: that to you son,” replied Farmer Brown. “I sug- gest that you set a box trap and carry that Wood Pussy a long way off be- fore you let it go. 1 suppose it is use- less to suggest that you kil it.” Farmer Brown's boy smiled. “Quite useless,” said he. And he knew that, despite’ the things his father some. times said, he felt the same wa “But why not leave that Skunk alone so long as it behaves and doesn’t get in mischief?” “All right. Suit yourself. Those are ur chickens ouf there, and if you want to feed Skunks with them that is your business. If they were my shickens I should feel a whole lot easier about them If I knew that that Skunk was a mile or two away,” re plied Farmer Brown, “I haven't missed a chicken so far, excepting those the Rats from the barn got.” said Farmer Brown’s boy. “There is no way into the henvard where the chickens are, anyway. “Perhaps not, now, but it will be as easy for that Skunk to dig out from s it inder the henhouse in the first . place replied Farmer wn “Better get that big box trap ready son. and set it Farmer Brown's boy went out and looked at the hole under the hen- house, and while he stood there look- ing at it Mrs. Skunk poked her head out. She looked hard and long at Farmer Brown's boy, and he looked long and hard at her. Then she came he expected to sce Farmer n's boy move off in a hurry. He move at all. He stood quite Mrs. Skunk stamped with her front feet armer Brown's boy merely smiled. She stamped again. Still Farmer Brown's boy Mrs. Skunk calmly turned her back and disappeared in her hole under the henhouse. “I believe, Mrs. Jimmy, and that o be friends.” sald Farmer Brown boy with a chuckle. “T don’t believe vou'll touch those chickens. I'm sure you won't if I bring vou some table scraps now and then. And this is what I am going to do. It will be tinie enough to set the trap when vou get into mischief. 1 wonder where Jimmy Skunk i But this, of course. didn't tell him. (Copyright, 1625, by T. W. Burgess.) ¥ was to dig didn't still old_lady. that you are we are going Mrs. Jimmy ‘Parking With Peggy’ “It used to be rare to find a_girl who cared nothing for clothes. Now you see her on every magazine cover.” prevent Americans from breaking and uprooting our floral treasures until we are left with nothing but an as- was demolished must be invoked to Concord and Lexington. “STAND YOUR GROUND! DON'T FIRE UNLESS FIRED UPON ~ BUT IF THEY MEAN 70 HAVE A WAR, LEY IT BEG'N HERE "~ CAPTPARKER . i ;/ 1 um THE "MINUTZ MEN" FALEDTO RETIRE, THE REDCOATS FIRED A VOLLEY INTD THE MIDST OF THEM — SEVEN PATRIOTS FELL., THEN CAPTAIN PARK ER ORDERED HIS MEN To GIVE WAY, FIRING A RAGGED ANSWERING VO LEY AS THEY LEFTTHE FIELD -THE BRITISH MARCHED ON To Can- (CORD WHERE. THEY DESTROVED SOME MUNITIONS « “ u Y THID TIME THE MINUTE MEN HAD GATHERED THE COUNTRYSIDE LIKE A SWARM OF ANGRY BEES. - 400 PROVINGIALS MET THE REDCOATS AT ONCORD BRIDGE AND HERE WAS FIRED THE SHoT| [HEARD AROUND THE WORLD' THE BRITISH REGULARS WERE Ri ANDBEGAN A HASTY RETREAT Boston, YA pagiry LAY ARl semblage of introduced weeds. BY J ING FORCE REACHED NEARLY 300 MEN . EPULSED didn’t move. | HE RETREATING REDCOATS SOFFERED HEAY| | LoSBES.— EVERY FENCE-POST, ROCK AND TREE SHELTERED ACOLONIAL MARKSMAN AND MANY A PRITISH SOLDIER FELL ON THE ROAD; THE FLEE— MONDAY —— THE SIEGE OF A Thrilling Novel of International Intrigue (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) i The professor, with a motion of the hand, directed Karl and Fritz to bring me to the alcove. This they did, half dragging, half carrying me, for the cord round my legs was too tight for me to move. They bound me securely to one of the fron hinges of a shut- tered window situated only few feet behind the couch. As they were tying me up, the servant returned| with a salver, bearing an old-fashioned white silk neckerchief of the kind used by elderly gentlemen to wrap round their necks beneath an over- He handed this to Fritz, who twisted its ample folds securely about my mouth, effectively preventing any attempt to speak again. | Now,” said the professor, and | taking up from the little table at the foot of the couch a hypodermic needle and some cotton wool, he approached Beatrice, who throughout had not moved, but who, I had noted with thankfulness, was$ breathing naturally | and regularly, as though asleep. She was wearing, 1 saw, her night gown and a silk dressing gown. 1 re- membered then that she had been taken from her room by the hospital nurse and the doctor. She must al ready have gone to bed when I teie phoned to her from the secretariat Her hair was lying in two long plaits on each side of her cheeks, and her feet and lower part of her body were covered with a quilt. But what kind of sleep was this which had held her fast through the noise and violence of my struggle with her captors? She lay as in a trance, immobile and curiously aloof from the group that surrounded her. It seemed as though she were not actually there in presence; that she was sleeping re- mote from the figures which moved about her; that for the moment she was as far beyond their malice as she had been heyond the urgent call which I had addressed to her. This impres- sion lent an added horror to the de liberate approach of the professor toward the couch. It seemed as though he were about to summon her from the distant tranquillity fn which she lay In order to impose upon her | his own evil and alien purpose. I was aware, in my impression of the scene, |of something that transcended the | horror of a mere physical approach. I felt as though he were about to touch the mind and being of the girl I loved, and I felt it as more than a merely physical indignity 1 watched him, helpless and fasci nated, every fiber crying out against this infamy, as he bent over the couch, drew back the sleeve on her left arm | and, inserting the hypodermic needle few inches above the elbow, pressed | bome the plunger. He stepped back watching her quietly. After a few moments she opened her eyes and stretched herself quite naturally, as though she was just waking from an | ordinary sleep. Her eyes wandered round the room for a moment. and her face assumed a puzzled expres sion. Where on earth am she be- gan, in English, and looked bewild- eredly first at Schreckermann and then at the professor. “You are quite safe, my dear Miss | Harvel,”” said the professor in perfect | | English, “quite safe, and there is nn | cause for alarm. Please look at me | for a moment.” | He took up a position at the foot of | the couch, gazing down at her quietly, | { but with a penetrating and persistent | | stare. 1 would have given worlds to | bave been able to warn her on no ac- | count to meet those persuasive eves. But I could not move even a muscle in her defense, and after a moment she ajsed her eves and fixed them on his ace. | There was complete silence in the | | reom for the space of a minute, and | |all T could hear was the thudding of the blood in my ears. Then Beatrice | gave a little sigh, her head fell back on the pillow, and her eyes closed, her | | small hands ‘clenching and unclench- | ing once or twice. | The professor moved swiftly to her | side, and, bending over, made a few | passes up and down her face. Then he stepped back and began to speak. “Who are you?" he said, still English. Beatrice at once answered him in an impersonal and perfectly expression- less tone, as though she were invol untarily repeating a message. | I am Beatrice Ilarve! | “Where do you live “At Les Pervenches, Boulevard des ! Tranchees, Geneva,” she replied. “What is your work?” continued the | professor “I am secretary to M. Lavelle of the League of Nations,” went on Beatrice, still in the same monotonous voice. “Did Mr. Thomas Preston call to sce M. Lavelle vesterday?” “Yes." “At what time hortly after 6 o'clock. “\Yere you present when they met?” “Did Mr. Preston mention a certain document to M. Lavelle?" “They talked of it.” “Who had given it to M. Lavelle?” “I gave it to him myself.” “How did you obtain it?” r. Preston gave it to me.” What did M. Lavelle do with the document?” “He deciphered it The professor paused. and I noted the strained attention with which the others were listening. “Did he decipher went on the professor. in | it complete] here did he put it?" n a registry dossier.’ “What is thai is a file in which papers are | there many such in the secre- tariat?" “Thousands."” “What did he do with the dossier?” “He gave it to me to take to the registr; “And you did so?” “Yes."” “What is the registry?” ‘A place where the dossiers are kept when not in use.” . CARROLL MANSFIELD BOSTON WITH A LOSS oF BosTON — (Copyrij | tawking, |z | they did and so w | s0 of corse 1 {in a THE SEVEN SLEEPERS By FRANCIS BEEDING 1925, by Little, Brows & Co | The professor passed his tongue once across his lips. Are the dossiers numbered? Yes.” “What was the number of t sier?" he continued. Fritz bent forward, drawing in breath sharply: the professor made gesture for nee **4/90347/81 replied Beatrice, in the same toneless Vol “Repeat that number, please,” said the pr and as did so he wrote it down on a plece of paper. “Did M. Lavelle show you his soh tion of the cipher? Yes. ssOT, she “Can remember “Will you repeat it Here Beatrice, whe been =peak r tonishi. into rma I knew she was almost enti quainted with the language “Wir, dic Siebenschlafer you please had hith to my n, thot ng in ish uber the professor will do. what 1 have asked wake, do you unde embe 1ing vou when Fou hav was in the documne “Yes “Try to repeat ifs “T cannot, T “It is now 1 understand” The professe tory, and the laxed their att tion. T do not like to write any fi my impressions of t But I would ask 4 these lines real Beatrice, and to imagine what it was for me to see her will subducd to the purposes of a man who carricd with him so positive and penetralin suggestion of evil that since meetir him I have ceased to believe wickedness is not merely the of good, as the modern sentimer have persuaded themnse but reality as objective : tangible as the devil who g bone upon the caves of Notre Dam The professor ed himself to know what ¥ g in nd, and tc presume that the tor inflicted upon me, whict sible anc unsuspected e was greater tha cou have achieved b means. He was, ind of turning to nfe, when th ment was concludgd. in order t its effect, and I was steelin to endure the he invariably expressed h there was, to my joy, a mer ruptior It came from Josef. the 1r ant who suddenly entered and informed him that Adolf Baumer had arrived and was asking to be admitted “Bring him here immediately the professor He arrar ilt about the sleeping F pared to give his at arrival I found it in my hear sorry for little Adolf. ances had been the and person: was obl his ac Adolf, white a de At as: de: tten srther ateful scene o may read at 1 loved abse ssi ne out my the poir exy 15 in whic f, whe smooth peri u said d ice and corous pr new verse of br ed any favor. he sight of th wed an expression ence and ter “At last, Herr find you again.” His expression pre Professor thankful, he indeed, ex to however, v, belied hi: may 1 ask at doing with tle friend “And you have beer Sit down, my Mt take . have been rather anxious or T b half, and I propose to give you m undivided attention He indicated a chair rather collapsed. upon i out a large and dirty red handkerct wiped his brow. He was a deplorable spectacle. a two-day growth of stut on his chin, his face ked w sweat and grime and and Last nite after suppir ma was d a cross werd puzzel partly and partly out loud, and all of a sud din she stopped, saying, Theres no use Willyum, 10 herself vou cant trust a woman. Who sed T ever did, I meen wy cant ? pop sed Well Il jest give vou an ix that occurred this affernoon can judge for yourself, ma s ng that little shoe shop up th avenue and I glanced in the window half by chance and half because 1 need a new pair of shoes, gnd low and behold there they were Who? Enybody I know? pop sed Shoes, the very shoes I had been looking ' for for weeks, with short vamps and 2 straps, ma sed. Well, well, maybe they've bin there for veers, pop sed. Dont be redickuliss, ma sed. Well enyway I went rite in the store and low and behold who was in there but that painfully thin Mrs. Jessip asking for the very same identical shoes that as after, and of corse naturally they only had that one pair in the hole store and low and behold it was the ver size we both wanted Did you strike the ferst blo it self defents? pop sed, and ma sed Well, 1 thawt Id drop through the floor. and the werst of it was the mur brawt her the shoes to tr naturally I told her they ic terrible on her, and as a4 matter « uld eny shoes or sutch feet, and then I put them « and she sed she had never seen a more unbecoming pair of shoes her life had to take her advice if 1 ixpected her to take mine, and we both left the store and T dont bleeve it was 15 minnits later that I hurried back to get the shoes and low and be. hold they werent there because had run back and got them as T was out of site, and thats wy I ay you cant trust s woman Good-by, pop sed And he got behind page ample . you Tw or was ferst ed simply faae sh the sporting Timbales of Salmon. Line some. very small molds with aspic jelly. When set, decorate the molds ~ with fancy shapes of chill skins, pour a spoonful of aspic over this, and then mix a little cream with the aspic. and coat the molds mpletely with the aspic cream When set, fill them with smoked sal mon finely shredded and mixed with mayonnalse dressing, and leave them cold place to sel. Turn out onto a dish and garnish with chervil or tiny red radishes, the skin of which should be cut into stripes with « sharp knife to form petals