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4 ae THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 19; 1900. THE WOMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE HER HUSBAND'S MOTHER. By baura Jean hibbey. 600 love for you by |aying his noble heart at your feet. Youthful jooks, such @@ you describe yours to be, are a gift direct from the hand of God, but He does THE DAY'S LOVE STORY. Of 825 will be awarded cach weeh for the ’ 1G Go Poems Pobiiching Company, 00 w PARK BOW, | (copyright. 1900, by the Press Pubitshing Company, New Tork World.) 0 ten Past-Clice ot Now York 20 Secend-Cinee Mal! AYS “Gertrude” in a lengthy letter: mcrae "L ghould kev to know your|@ not give them to you for the object of deceiving a| @ 4 opinion on the follot dear lady. 1 human being, as you purpose doing. ‘ best original shert love story. The prize-wisner will MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1900. Tm « blonde, with what pe a ‘baby face’ Do not build your hopes too strongty upon your | § be printed im Saturday's Evening World. All asm | oil . — I am thirty-three years old this month, but my youthful beauty. cepted stories will be paid for—$5 each. Stories You may indeed look many years younger than you | % are, but the years are there, and all that is mortal must fall sooner or later before grim Time's scythe. Days, weeks and years do not stand etill, but whirl us from golden youth to midsummer and then to life's autumn almost before we are aware. And as they go they steal almost imperceptibly the bloom from our cheeks, the brightness from our eyes | and plant Hnes upon the lovely faces and silver |G threads in the bonny tresses that were our pride, aye | % “We got to discussing ages the other evening, and and steal the elasticity from our steps no matter how I laughingly sald q Z | we fight againat it or how young our hearts still feel, * "You seem to be such a good judge, how old would 9| This ts the law of inexorable nature, you take me to be? | Women have married men younger than themselves, “Without a moment's hesitation he answered: and have claimed to have lived happily with them “ “Twenty-four. Still, I should counsel wemen to marry a man olde | @ “But before I could have time to make any remark | J than themselves if it be possible, even though it be | he said hastily: but @ year or a month. "I will take that back. You cannot be more than Shakespeare say twenty-two-or three at the very most. Am I right? “Lat etill the woman take “I do not know what induced me to anewer ‘Yes,’ An elder than herself; so wears she te him, unless it was through a spirit of mischief. Go eways she level in her husband's heart.” “He asked me to marry him that same evening, and I consented. exceed 700 words—500 words preferred. to Prize Love Story Editor, Evening World, 0. Box 2,854, New York City. cruellest enemy could not say that I look over three | @ and twenty, Women invariably disiike me on account lof my pretty face, but the men take ta me, “1 do not seem to attract the right kind of lovers, | @ however. They are generally young men of twenty- aree or twenty-four or thereabouts, “I have recently met a young in of twenty-seven | & who has become very much attached to me, and has Bia better position by far than any of the young men |X whom | have previously met, —— --- pres = “VOL. 40...... tessa eeeeseesNO, 14,080 By Alice G Gtecle, «ag Halsey Otrect, Brooklyn, N. ¥. (ACK MASTERS was in a dilemma Pretty Uttie Maude Galloway had proved her heart adaman- tine to his weekly calls and undisguised devotion, ‘to say nothing of the violets tn lace paper and Huy- 4 Mm jler’'s most exclusive bonbons which he sent to her fifteen days in the month, eo | He was too provd to brook a refusal, and to all ap* | pearances the wind blew in the wrong direction, Bo the poor fellow grew thin as his shadow, and lost THE WIFE MAY BE OLD ENOUGH TO LOOK @/tl! he appetite for oyster suppers and “lobster « le “1 do not propose to ever tel! him my real age, for XI S| It would be the crusidest torture LIKE HER 'SHAND'S MOTHER. ; what be doesn’t know will never bother him. There | COOOOOOCOCSOOCOOOOOSOSCOOOSOOCOO through the years to come. There DOOO000 poososocosoosod Koadhodg poss gl gerry s pelats vs nd is no one to ever tell him, for I have been brought up tion which I should like to call sights 1s 10 900 @ Woman |e ee ied ber weak saat pea bas nowt: by an aunt and uncle, who are now dead, and who vainly endeavoring to cox the freshness of youth to} oe ois asssesed idas—a Weve ot ‘ee ems SEE oy stay by her after she has arrived at that age when malta’ 6taibe 6nd on. ute dad moved around from place to place. “Ie ft not better after all to hi @ strong young | well as to the step you are about to take. Paes bave peace, care and love. ft ok into te of—ghoets: man working for me than an older man, when you| Let us look into the ‘er carefully, women with] Tel! the young man the truth forment of the woman who comes te @ realise. ‘didn't one ‘aia n, heart to heart, and what conelusion we/| then, if hie love te tion that she is growing te look more ifte her }ue- ve at after prudently weighing all the facts in | marriage, you can band's mother than his wife le worse than the ter- after long and earnest reflection. tures of the rack—a living death. come to look at tt? If I looked my age you know, !t would be a different matter. Please answer.” that such things as ghoste walked oe ee eo eo ow In answer to ¢! Place, my dear, I would counsel you] Remember, women age much faster t lar on moonlit nights out-of-doors, or even matter to advise @ the man who has shown his they do commence hee Te: ae as, See Pe om parler, and Of ianée a terious sounds in the prettiest manner possible. @) she never sought his aide in her fear, Ove aioe 7 FUN FOR EVERYBODY. THE WORLD'S LA GRIPPE CURE. Quinine Codeta.. Divide this quantity inte six powders and take ene every hour for four hours; after that take ome every twe or three Love is a rose Acenting the morning alr. Love for an hour, Love for a life abiding, ter it grows For hearts that long and Gare. Love {8 a dream beep That comes by night unbdidden; ‘This dese ta for an adult. Any drug. Love ts a vision AN EPICURE. ; a i gtot will put tt up fer you. Fading with the morn; pp sr Gatos Sar { SARCASM A LA JEHU., “Where are you going, my pretty maidt* Old Neptune to the mermaid sald. Bhe combed the seaweed from her hair And sald: “I'm off to Sir Kel'e lair; And when I rob him of his shirt I'l make myself a new eel skirt.” Id and practice’ ON WITH THE MUSIC! rekig e TION COUNSEL WHALEN has Beneath the rushes sééen, Tendered a decision to the effect that it is Murmuring derision, not @ criminal offense for a hotel or res- Laughing us to scorn, —Dr, E. W. Western. Baby's Wireless Telephone Pian. HE Rev, Case Davis, pastor of the Methodist Ppiscopal Church at Warren, In., has a daughter tauramt to furnish music while serving ee Vea a eae srakvios Eas privens| emery cesiag aon fight : en! — about saying her . One evening last week her mother wes detained fram ‘The Corporation Counsel has also decided that HOW TO PREACH. hsating her prayers at the usual hour, and litfle Lou- @ameing in @ public hall, whether an admission ' ' ise waited patiently some time. Finally patience ee fe charged or not, is not a criminal offense. | Bishop Fowler to Young Ministere, consed to be a virtue with her and she climbed upon a ‘This will permit the opening up of the most noto- | ;JOOOOOSoOSoSSD0NDNSCNNCNNSSNNSONOL beac ol ea down the recetver of the telephone, ‘Hello, Central; div me Heaven. I want to say my ‘Sieus resorts everywhere, and the payment and prayers.” | @ellestion of biackmal! may go on without inter- Fepticn. , exy Waalen! 4 ‘Tae Corporation Counsel in his decision sald > mothing edout the payment of moneys by criminals @@ police officials to be permitted to run dives of | @i Kinds. The point under discussion in New York at present is whether the police shall be al- OMficer—You appear to have a wooden leg. ? lowes to accept moneys from notorious dive- |% Royster—Yesh! B-been t-to a wooden wedding, oM- {Er corse hit in; and ‘adn't yer better let Polly ride on nodedeagog them in their nefarious business |9 Bf ther, ’ eye an) agra ng res aa violation of the laws. On this all-important | i te a tar a “ue . *. = | abject the Corporation Counsel ta dumb, Fi POOR LOOKOUT FOR HIM $ritien oor ole Thomas? Nun "ome’fee tien : ‘Blind Whalen! BOXING AND THE LAW. (BHOLD how small an editorial twist can pat the sense of things all wrong. Saya the Herald of this morning: A regular feature of the Chicago High Behool ts boxing mate! ‘Betas & siz-round “mil” with « ‘Wahler the supervision of one of the professor ew York is trying to repeal tho boxing law! : ‘The Horton law, which is the New York boxing Jud@ge—Have you anything to say, prisoner? i Prisoner—Only this, Your Honor, that if I'm con- vieted I should ike to be sent to jail as s00n as possl- ble, #0 as not to be late to dinner! “SEE, BEE, JACK! THERE BY THE WALL ACCOUNTED FOR, Officar—Where are you going? Royster—B-been to a wedding, offisher, + LN) 74 toe pe WAS nde. esr, 3008: whe’ asite,cotthin ake: GMELIN “Wot! take you an’ yer @ ‘ '@ them. And, as be reasoned thus, an ides came-te Rim,| (2 oe : EIN | i = ride? Ho, yus, most certingly. Why, halt 12 Bi Nt Jamrack, and tmin't this yere keb ther Noah's Hark?}i) Brad NS e. Maude Galloway pat in her ideal euburbam heme waiting for the evening caller, To-night {t waste Be S| Jack; he always came on Wednesdays. From the crown of her fluffy head to the tip ef her ridiculously small slipper wes in order. When she heard Jack's ring she went calmly over to the divaa, fling to herself as «i ead her skirts out in a y that prevented him daring to sit beside her. S| For an hour they talked commonplaces, and then, Jack, unusually light-hearted, begged her to go for a wi Pt] } stroll, Just down to tne open lots at the end of the pert Aichasledee roadway. She doted on evening walke—even Jack wes 4 white silk, cut out up to the ankle to display a bearable under the kind I'ght of the moon—eo they WILLING TO BE A SLAVE. fine applique of Duchess lace. The same may b* | sited forth, Jack tenderly arranging the fieecy scart had in black, the lace being of Brussels point. The| 04 ner shoulders. F ih accompanying slipper ts of black patent leather with! they reached and etood for & momen Bulga : a bended natin bow. This plain slipper costs $20, the! scatnst the Arce cere bn. ers For © memens ronettes bring chosen at & cents @ pair. cool and etifl. Involuntarily she drew closer to him. ‘The stocki:x in the centre comes either in Black OF! “Heels rather creepy, doesn't It?’ sald Jack een- white, It is of Ane silk with three rows of Val inser- lrentiously, tton let in up the ‘nstep and a slight embroidery be-| gne leaned her head on the stones and nodded. once, at it bring ther . ther blind kernary, ther white mice and ther goldfish hin their haquarium, cow pusale er'll wornt sumfin’ ter ply wif; and will Hi really wait ‘ere fer yer? Why, er course; what oh; HE begutiful stocking at the right is | Baw, bas deen allowed to die a brutal death by | COOBBBOBOCOBBDOOCONSONOCOOONNOCNS 5 ton tat tm up the Yertep nd a slight cmb (pen-enforcement. ; payin pper shaped a N the pulpit, preach on subjects that {t matters tongue has a | equact bead buckle of “gold. Ryeroxng 4 a ia sig rent the alr and caused her Repeal te to be imply a decent interment of | much whether men know about, Don't take some. At the left you see a das*tag stocking in black an@] “on, Jack,’ what is {t!' Her lips were tremulous, eo mangled remains. thing that comes in the last despatches of Satur. white silk. It te dot waite 4 sty Med % i day night and get up in the pulpit and cackle abou: ? “You're a darned young spendthrift, slr, and in topes with a pretty showing of | nbroidery at the join- “Ghosts!” nder breath, . w . 7 6. s' Bp aere™ > wreven: the tying ot: besing| TS. CT gacday, funy, haid-worktog man ant women {future 51) nave rou (e Enew you stand on your own r\ ing, A black diamond tn openwo. effect shows vac ‘*] She Narre ay coat hs ide for protection, and be to the boys in the public schools, A very | ,, . vant something elite on Sunday. The Gospel of Christ } legs! : cubes around the edge. Simteresting discussion of the matter, going on in |1s what (hey really yearn for, and they ought to ce put her arm in his. ‘The Bvening World, has shown much popular |!t from you. If we go to the pulpit qualified and lean Gas inet oie a) sere unearthly ¢han the @rst. . “This is what I've written, dea rtificial Oyster, mage tag ‘ fiver for that sort of instruction, competent, the people will come and hear. Do farm: “What time will you be hi “See, see, Jack; there by the wall!” and sure enough aa « er ther to discuss how to get cattle upfyoung wife as her husband sta: Imitation ts the sincerest f f fla 4 % i ‘The distinction between bo: and bru re ev eet loge’ draws rapidly to a close, and the poor al form o' tery, and thel, dark shaéow was silhouetted against the gray xing and bruising 18), the rack? In my youth they put something tn the { breakts Jon, released from the weary treadmill of society, with ¢/atest thing in Paris ts the “imitatud” oyster, As the ieee | wet ne. It may be said rather to placard 4 moral j rack, If you put something into the pulpit the peop ut aT MT * was the reply. : |rack. s {te hollow formalisms, its empty shibboleths, may {demand for the delicious bivalve is far in excess of ghost, aid," ered. en to point it | will put something into the pews, Don't trifle. C an iP. M., don’t yout" she asked. breathe a freer atmosphere." the aupply, Ingentous Partatan caterers have betnought | 23.2, Suowt, 8s T eal’ he mutt are not paid to play mumble-the- ithe heartless wretch, “I mean just} Virginia—Yes, Paul, that's splendid; and, oh, how I put his arm afeeea tae walet, the most netural aid; then picking up one of the loose, and faced the apparition, or woman, oh spirit of evil, Gepartr* tm sepulchral tones, filnging the missile ad h 1 "toatl , tos | neo?” THIS WEEK’S GREAT DAY. igh Mess — poy be appeal mies What I sai T. M. to-morrow; seo’ wish you were writing from our own experience! the e oan RED-LETTER week is this which has|sense methods to reach families, Perhaps we have opened upon New York. Its final day |{slled here more than in our preaching. Methodism will mark the begining of a most desir- must apply herself to the cities or go to the rear, able end—an end so long sought that dis- —— T=: vogue of the tuck couragement had come to be an habitual pemething: startin. attendant of the pursuit. BIRTHDAY LUCK from mere at ae | Om Saturday the first spade will enter ground) For March 19. bow on her dainty evening QOward the digging of the rapid transit tunnel. | —— slipper TUCKS NOW ON EVERYTHING, BAN€FUL SMART SOCIETY. By Arnold White in the London Chronicle. HE unit of strong nations fs the family, All | legislation, habits, ideals, policy or ambitions that Increase the welfare and multiply the num- face against hie shoulder, “Goma, fe gone, I have vanquished it," he eal us go home. Saturday The World's dream of “Fifteen F you were born on March 19 this te the ‘The shirt watst revels in ber of happy families are good for the nation. Things} Without a word she put her arms around bis neck. to Harlem” will begin definitely to shape mentinn a the day for yo8 that stunt, diminish or ridicule domestic life are bed] “Jack, yeu are eo—eo brave’ she murmured ong | It ts somewhat favorable, but avoid con- for the nation. This ie copybook commonplace, but |prokenly. Fealization. tentions. Your anniversary cannot be consid- orry affair. Then bedrock truth. Turkey ie what it is mainly be your protector through life?” he asked | the entire bodicg, And she whispered “yes.” programme of exercises for the occasion is ered favorable, and you will need to exercise But not the most claborate pageantry |} care in all your affatre. Financial difculttes, ‘ and some possible injury or accident, and 5 G@aett edd to the inherent impressiveness of the|} froupies trom inw and disputes, Be guarded event. A shining addition must hence- against all changes, for with observance and be moted among the great anniversaries of|} care much can be saved you—Copyrighted Yerk: by the Sphing Magazine, Boston. 24—Rapid Transit Day. for evening wear or other- wise, which is tucked, And very beautiful tt ts In some elaborate instances the entire dress ts tucked to below the knees, Then there's a mere tucked yoke; most dainty ttle finish In taffeta for a ill 4 1 —_— | “9 ittle bl . | AS TO FALLING APPLES. |THE VALUE OF THE LEMON. |} in iis, Mimbo ta tne ys : © family should be without lemons. Their uses are | yoke plus sleeves, though It \ sboaned NEWTON, who died » hundred almost too many for enumeration. The juice 1 is teal te ‘hay eapeaite seventy-three years ago to-morrow, Jemon tn hot water on awakening in the morning | f direction—crosswise that ts, achieved fame by oe apd why apples | is an excellent liver Coobigapbe and for stout women is|] The one pictured is of sop from trees. his inquiring mind | better than any anti- ine ever invented, mousseline, t _ Glycerine and lemon juice, half and half. on a bit of As we all know, the a we absorbent cotton, ts the best thing in the world where-| J world of lingerie rests on a “— with to molsten the lips and tongue of a fever-parched| $ foundation of tucks, A few J patient. ornament the plainer spec! t mens, while the aplendid | sorts are masses of tucks, ¥ | tucks dias, tucks straight, tucks in lattice effect, tucks without number. Whole petticoats and chemises are formed of z i Fy of im the sun. Two or three applica- may be necessary if the stain is of long standing, ‘but the remedy never fails, ree |