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Kemors.| LAURA JEAN LIBBEY. -91).. _aapalnieahrpelnna Friendships We Have to Buy. Black Patches as Aids to Beauty. ot Hew Tort an Greuns-Chnse Mail Metter, | iy, ige: :p00, vy ine Prem Pudlisuing compan), New York} selves when we learn that they eare for us only for HARRIET HUBBARD AYER|The Day’s Love Story. ; ; eR: aquerade pround, one heart-shaped and one diamond-shaped.’ Put — w what they can wheedie from us. EAR MRS. ATER: | am going to 4 ma rat ol pre None are so blind that their eyes will not open tw nd am to wear a seventeenth century costume | the round one at the corer of the mouth just above MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1900. Fall the investments we ‘can make, surely the) 008 NTS Al OM waire sooner oF later and a wig. The costumer says 1 mu the upper itp on the left side, the heart-shaped one A FATEFUL NEMESIS. Ha a z bs ygpa agg we bu ; poorest, the Friendship based entirely on seif ends in desertion | *vera! pleces of black court plaster on my in the depression of the right cheek formed by laugh-! 4,9 T is easy enough to break off with a woman, Jacks ne feet cen vey ane se tq the moment the selish ends are accomplished or]! have & good skin and nothing to cover up I should | wereereeeereeeereeretseeeteseees | don't worry #0. Don't tell her a thing. Simply 40... os0eNO, 14,062 Fg enre bald Weloome us wit ee Blase tresitated lite to know why. PUZZLED MAUDE. — . disgust her with yourself, Siop sending her ir eyes search eagerly © what we have ino , Fe roa S Tok g i 7 hands for them forte bea | pame "Friend." ‘Disguise so near the truth doth seem to run, Because it was the faphion, Maude. Simply that | flowers and nicknacks; don't take her out so mueh, Meade Gls Wave a Galle ter ua i thank Wa Are “Tia doubtful whom to seek or whom to shun, and nothing more. | and when you do, praise up some other woman te showering benefits upon (hem have little claim upon| Nor know we whom to spare or wnom (o strike, ‘The iittile biack court piaster spot made its a ‘her; a girl hates that; and keep her guessing as te what you think of her. “LT have tried it and know. My old-time sweetheart, Franses Grayson, is now the wife of a far better mam than myself and the happy mother of a charming | boy.” | “LE believe I will try it, old man, But I am fond of the girl in a way, and if you hear of our marriage you can know I lost heart.” Ben Mallory and Jack Downs had known one am , other bul @ month, yet in that short time had devele j oped a firm friendship that only the confidence of | youth can Install. They were hoth strangers In the \ city and brother lawyers in the same firm, which \ jadded to their congentality. . Jack was an only child, adored by his parents, while PcdussieDien easements chant our regal Our friends and foes they seem so muah alike.” Pearance carly in (he seventeenth century and was el da’ deep in hearts tha T fy 1 - el accept as significan: of the wearer's claim to be For we feel dawn deep rts that the smile] ‘True friendship is a pearl of beauty which will never eA ct Aeutcetth. k ikee ef ihe: “UP ck tail day would have considered herself disgrace! if she appeared without one or more of these absurd litle bliin of black mucilaged silk tafetta stuck upon her cheek or chin 1 belleve the fashion originated by a court Jady's wearing one to cover a blemish, just as puted sireves and broad collars came into fashion that a hunchback of high degree might conceal hip Jeformity But the biack spots were noted beconing-—-rome poet declared that they gave the vye an extmosdinary allurement—and finally they were looked upon as the last and finishing touch that made a pretty woman irresistible. Every woman took to patches as ducks to water, and from little round apete dotted here aod there on the face, three being the fashionable prea they | helelteltelobtetetntete set er finally assumed all sorte of shapes, circies, stare, | preeeete silhouettes and various of4 figures. we see upon their lips ts forced and their apparent in- | set a price upon itself, and je never bartered or gold. ‘The beauty spots reached a cimax when a certain terest in us umed to cleverly further thelr own| In adversity the friend for whom we have pald| Duchess of Newcastle appeared at a Dall with & | o...5 5255s ppene-etut-tntntntntutntnntnontate ende. enough to own files for our grape like the down of the| beauty patch upon her brow that representel a coach | ing and the diamond-shaped one upon the right temple. The true friend is he who has no hope of reward, | thistle an@ four horses, driver and footman. You will see for yourself how very becoming they who seeks your company {or genial fellowsh wake;| When our pooketbooks are empty the friends who| | assume that the costumer does not want you to/are with your white wig. who Is loath to accept favors from you without amply | have been drawn to our aide only by a golden thread | attempt to vie with the Duchess, and <hat he will] In fact, your seventeenth century costume will be repaying you in some way for them. will quickly snap that thread asunder with ruthless | furnish you with three or four patches, one perhaps| very incomplete without the beauty spots. ‘The true friend appreciates you for your own true hands and impatient hearts. ee worth; your own personality; (he pleasure your #0 ‘The purchased friend is never the one to go to in Clety brine to him sorrow. For then he will know you not BOmBs FILLED sPrenp OF THe Beware of the so-called friend w Lean upon them, and you will find yourself leaning your pocketbook and enrich himself a vente | on’n broken reed WiTH CONFETTI. | ENGLISH TONcue. “fay, can I clean streets!” Buch so-called friends are well worth the loring; for} ‘The friendshly of those who care for ua only for cee | hey are friends to you only in name, not in heart what we are continually buying for them is not <HOBE who find amusement in confetti-throwing | RITING on the decline of the French language, Hotter utter lonelines# than to be surrounded by euch worth « regret: they are, in truth, real enemies tn may be glad to know that a confetti bomb has M. Jean Finot points out that at the end of the 6 4 sy If thore whom you visit are only pleased disguise to us. f last century French was the language spoken THE LIFE TOO STRENUOUS. to see You When you betne with sou some gift, your. Tei the obligations on both sides be fairly equal to| "een tevised. It lea cylinder of strong tiesue POPET | ihe greatest number of civilised people, whereas je profit to yourself ement friendship, |perforated round each end, the perforation continued | now it stands fourth. English is spoken by 116,000,000, “FPF X-CORPORATION CouNsEL WiLitaM H. |‘! | of You pa too m for the visit To test true friendship, ¢ no more than you re-|along the cylinder in the shape of a tongue. In the| Russian by $5,000,000, German by 8,000,000 and French | CLARK, whose sudden death has just) to say away would be far cheaper and worthier by. celve pend where the perforations cease, is a strong strip | by 58,000,000 shecked this community, was one of New | far aes of paper with a tasael, and when the “Bomb” is/ a EDIE a ge RES York's brightest lawyere and, to all ap- The people whose friendship we have to buy are |thrown the Jerk of the hand tears the cylinder, and the! NEW FOOTGKAR FOR HORSES, pearance, a physica) model among men, (dear at any price. ‘They are no bargain, ‘They are Jd, by perminsion of the F contents are discharged over the person for whom| Aluminum horseshoes are coming into favor in some He was big, hearty, deep-chested, strong | U"*tisfying, and ciue us to lose our respect for our ry Paper. they are intended. quarters. @n4 sound, 20 far as man could see, Yet he is, errr | Gand became of too much living—lead because he Seveinisiminisacwmes | wf 8 wt THE SAUCER BANG HAS BEGUN ITS REIGN. # & & | Baad the world of busy people that there aro nat: @ral laws, as well as corporation jaws, with dire Punishment for their violation, nobody need try 0 tell. The series is already a long one, and it Qrows fest. fy Tt fs im the nature of man to admire strength and it te very much in his disposition to abuse It. BP he is told that he is working too hard he laughs “Oh, pahaw! It is nothing. 1 could do more yet.” F Badshe next thing there ia another wreck in the — Gesitarium. If he is travelling a little fast and BeMebody remonstrates thore is the same laugh “Oh, there's plenty of time to stop. I shall be s > Beng while dead, you know.” And all too soon Bhat “long while” begins. * © 6 ‘The Rev. Dr. Parkhurst suffers at this moment Grom nerves unduly ‘trained. Actor E. A. Sothern Bas had to interrupt his season because of over- | Gaxed endurance. Lawyer Jerome Buck was taken P Ge Bt. Luke's Hospital the other day in a state of oi POOR LITTLE KITTY! Ben was one of a large family of two whose piace in hie home numerous half-brothers and sisters usurped. For his own people he cared Uitte and seldom spoke of them. Yet if Ben Mallory ever truly loved @ being on earth, he loved his sweet little half-aister, Kitty Kempster. She was now at college and had lately ceased to write to her big, handsome brother as often as was her wont. Jack's next letter said: “Ben, | am free. After all, Tam not happy. I wish I had been square with the Uttle girl. She let me diwn hard. Mother hes set her heart on my marrying an heiress in town, but of the two the little girl suits me best.” “That fellow is a fool," murmured Ben, ag he wm folie’ a small missive from home. “He loved that girl and didn't know jt.” = Ben smoothed out his home letter and read: “Dear Ben: Can't you come home? Kitty does net seem happy. The child never complains, but sme seeme to be slowly fading away. She always loved you, and you might cheer her up a bit. MOTHER,” ‘Two days later Ben eat in Kitty's cosy sitting-roem, ¥ with the bright firelight shining on her pale little face ; and reflecting the tears in her honest gray eyes. { Servous collapse from overwork. And so the lie} SM, |) @tate Express have to be laid off once a week to gees on and wil! go on. ‘| Why, even the cars that make up the Empire hay Gest. They get tired—those great, strong, wheele: (Genes of wood and fron. Can delleately organized! A GIRLS RPP ROT. THE NEW OLD WAVB THE SAUCER BANG. THE CALVE GIRL. A DEMURE Mise. Ben drew her down beside him on a divan. “Tell me all about it, little gir! @ wald, “There js not much to tell,” she whispered, nestling fan expect to endure more than those inanimat 9, er bang? If you haven't you | panying iMustrations, plicty ts the regu of most careful planning. I{which the Princess of Wales and the Durhess off wos in his strong, loving arme, as 4 tired child might . Mervilecs things that are put togetser by hamme: may as well take to the woods, The woman| ‘The saucer bang comen well down toward the| must be thick ensagh to show that it is a real bang| York have never left off. The pompadour has re-14, when weary with play. end bolt? who atti! (hair) pins her fashion to the pom-| eyebrows, It ts round and well defined and light | and yet thin enough mot to alarm the women opposed | duced its bulk at the sides also, but It still swelled «1 joveq him, Ben. Oh, I did love him so! He was o. 6.6 gd ie essiy left, Bhe is a back number. weight. The powers that eclssor are moderate In |to radical changes. out to show its loyalty to ie mode. * kind and true at first, and then he seemed to grow } lb human body th vet what the saucer bang looks like and bow ! | their first shinglings, but look out for the clippings | It must curl down ang show but a single layer.| By Easter the saucer bang make a comfort- moody sullen, and often cruel. I didn't undere Pha 9 fice ni EY sie caneanli MOET compares with other styles of wearing the front hair | of atx months from now. ‘The retreating waves of the modified pompadour lable pad for fair heads bowed in devotional angles} {1204 at Aret.” ua ef these 40 think the real a - OW MANY Fthat lingers with the sex shown {n the aecom-| The new departura is alry and simpie, but ite sim-| above ft carry the impression of the old thick bang, |over church pews. Ben shuddered as a strange feeling of borror crepe ¥ you ordinary reader of these into his heart. | F fs Ikely to have in the excellent trim which Ben's face had lest its gentle expression, with fom (al marin on sr aml FOR we ETIOUETTE | THE REDEMPTION OF msr Wounded Hearts. i? cultivated centro!, The rest of them he may ETIQUETTE | a pe ONO MAGNELIUS SPOGG in some new line, as in learning to | oaths” 404 how must calling cards be used? When ‘ calling where shall I leave my card? Al She Wea’t Accept Ring. I have told a girl very often that I loved her with Qwwch the bag or cide the wheel. Every fresh “MISS OF SIXTEEN.” AGNELIU® SPOGG had a fatal gift of fascina-| for @ fatally fascinating man to write. all my heart. She does not doubt me in the least, but Pitiable remorse crept into his dark Qebe, tn such 2 case, means a fresh muscle dis-| if the lady upon whom you vailed is pot at home ue Then, ink being at hand, he directed his Fiances's! wi not accept an engagement ring untl! she te twen- | UNMET Wevhiba to eo aidw: with thelteere voor cara with the sereimc Ih feanlousnis ie knew he had because the Girl told him so. |letter and the Rose-Leaf Girl's card e ty. Please Go te what I am to do. 1 love her very She was not the girl to whom he wan engaged. She | same time, leaving the latter at the floi dearty. ANXIOUS. Was bullt on the rose-leaf pian, and had Muffy hair! ing the former. 4 and baby-blite eyes and spoke with a lisp and clasped | ‘Three hours iater Magnellus's bosom friend rushed | | think you have forgotten part of what you Gnareiee houses at present when the hostess ts at home tb is ot customary to trained boxer jike Corbett, a skilled wrestier | mer’ ago api deg lites > th ere one Da card is 5 > Gis Roober, the college athletes of the football and eepses: mere: b iat Wave nop te Fe aracesel }her hands when he talked |Into Bpogg’s office squealing with joy. ogy eay in ae ae. 0 rt RJ Sooty ty, ear—ai! these have the splendid muscular de- |The present form is for the wervant to announes the The Other Girt—Magnelius's fances—was hopelessly | “She's accepted me, Magnetius:” he yelled. pie rie that you es: ‘marry for two years | plain, and couldn't say in seven years all the pretty! “Who?” asked Magnelius, with polite concern. caller ty romise ‘wait so lon; which other men wili go out of their et things the Rose-Leaf Girl could say—and look—in) “That Rose-Leat Girl you Introduced me to tast| And that the girl will not promise to se Teng 708 fe see on exhibition, Yet any handler of Nearets, seven seconds. Of course, they had become engaged | month. Some jay—she wouldn't tell me his naine—| Will have to abide by her decision tn the matter, Giants wil! fel! vou that the knowledge of How rage aE cay my rearats at not being able to! before the Rose-Leat Girl hove in sight | has been sending her all sorts of truck ever since I Cat Out by Friend. to avold overtraining |s one of the most im- | it"! * WMting: tite & reception AH Hence Magnelius spent sleepless nights racking his | met her, and she and T have had many a laugh over! ‘The girl I love was introduced to @ young man, a possessions of a trainer. To be at their Mr A HL Jones regrets exceedingly that absence | brain for an excuse to fracture his engagement, In|it, But she only played bim for tho sake of what he | friend of mine. Since then she makes fun of me when- yame if the lady of the house is at nome. i I i TO THE LETTERS , the athictes must be fe me from the dity previous engagement, will make} ihe Interim he secretly sent io the Row af Girl|sent, It was 1 she was in love with, She accepted |cver he calis ai her home. But when he leaves her EVENING WORLD, ( : mi Just “on edge,” and not! i: impossible for him to ept Mr and Mra, ——‘s|cartioads of flowers and candy and a jot other | me this aft@rnoon,” she makes believe to me that she loves me. Her 4 } there too long. kind invitation to attend 4| things which serve as separating machines to part a! At the same moment the Rose-Leat Girl was dis-! mother has asked me to marry her, but since that | COOCOCCCOOSOSOS>SOS>SSOSSSOOOOOSOOD 1 reeBption of t p= Ag with muscle, 0 with nerves, but to a greater!" Miss Mary Eliz. | $12-a-week-clerk from his money | gustedly reeding a letter which Mabni Spogs, 1n | young man calls at her house she doesn't apoak to me sesqsetions Wanted See.e Pann | No room for fooling with those little, “htt: 0% Tuerdas evening, Feb. 6, 1400, nh he would send his Fiancee @ Afteen-cent bunch | his confusion, had directed to her instead of to hie any more about marriage. Please give me advice. ‘To the Réttor of Tho Brening World: | 1 s about the proper form. Ot course you must of past worthy carnations as a salve to his conscience. | Mancee. } E.®. | 1 wish to entertain about fifteen couples, and would Messengers to the brain. You keep them | change names an’ dates, also the cause of your in- And whe, after kissing the wilted flowers, in an alto-| It Informed her that “all wae over, it had been| | 4o not think I should put much faith in the stories S em unadio ‘a efge” at your deadly peril, Rest them as you ability to accept the invitation, making them conform gether Sdlotie @heuld, Let Nature have time to soothe them as |‘? fact ew. Don't overpress them, and expect to re- | 7 — ‘love ty means of tonics and stimulants. tive) HERO WORSHIP DEFUNCT, end your muscles and nerves will be | servants. Step persistently nd unnecessary fashion, would tep- pleasant while It lasted; he should always remember |toi4 you by your rival. If you are in love with the ari try to win her. Don't forget the old adage, “Faint heart never won fair lady.” a WAR IN EARNEST fine ‘bounds and disaster is sure. ee Bapeteon story represents the little corpera! * he was never drunk but once. Of course Count the intoxication of success. —_ ee hasn't much time remaining. But {f he ft, be could make the rest of February a —_———___. { Of & tomato Trurt ts evidence the Ml Gre beginning to catch ela ae IU8, DEAR!" 6OBBED HIS FIANCE, THROWING HERSELF AIMLESSLY AT HIM. To the Bator of — g In reply to 4 : deriy upbraid Magnellus for spending so much money! her kindly; she must not think wo harshly of him; are fs not. a DAY n her. {he loved another,” &c., &e. card-playing tz WELL SPENT That always pleased Magnelius, It was part of his) “He wasn't such a fool as I taought,” commented; againat hie F. fatal fa n a foe aes se Nive tenn The Rose-Leat Girl's birthday came around: . . ° . ll cg Mad He Ané counting fini 3 | chanced also to be the Finncee’s birthday. Magnelius| “Magnetius, dear!’ sobbed his Fiancee, throwing whe secures a prime asa ry ’ » i | forgot that. He had other things to think of. He was|herself aimiessly et him ihe moment hie dejected, re- " y panning ® master stroke. morseful figure appeared at ber Harlem flat that “ , act, one word x the heart of him who heard; | - tment Kee, It was ax follows evening. “It was so lovely in you!” DLS Gitre & went To send the Hose-Leaf Girl a four-foot lox of | “Yeu-you aren't angry then You"— & Leckioss Ban, MAY count the day well #peni. | American Beauty roses, and to write et ree “Angry? Why, they are the beautifulest roses that the eiter of The Rvening World: ; i E 3 fult no tto his Plancee landing a knoe! thetr engagement even than the roses.” The day came around. Magnelius did some swift thinking. At the floriet's Magnetius inclosed his card with the] Then @ light broke In upon him. apd iife suddenly Tones. and on ft (being moved by the erratic and erotic | resumed ite charm at the olf stand. ‘i muse of poetry) wrote the following liner “And thie time when I thought you might he | salt pour teanty ehamed the roms Bowsh, setting tired of me and that you'd f ten all about You theweht the slime wae trite umtree y birthday, you were planning for it and mating up) “The Roers'l cop it now!” Dut oR! 1 eae cock rome for pleasure Quad the verse about me!” she murmured 5 “Wot's up?” out blow ever grew. And the poem wes a miliion times lovelier i i i i! ee I te i! Seeeeneneneendnentntnentmnmtnmnentnenmenenaeeeennnenened Irene, 1 can't allow you to lol Dido’: 1 tell you that the great} cccasion. although very ll, sat} upright on his horse for fifteen hours? Irene-Poer Witle chap!—Punch, Ra i itl: ly zi i a g 3 ‘ 7 i F i ¥ 7 Ee 7 i