The evening world. Newspaper, July 23, 1902, Page 9

Se THE WURLD! WEDNESDAY EV ENING, JULY 2, 1903. street, their umbrellas tilted before the wind. The t giittered darkly, and small, tremulous rivers asphi ran along the gutters, T had been working on an article for a medical jour- and felt tired and a trifle downcast by the sod- den look of things in general. Throwing down my pen I went over to the mantel, Ut a cigarette and glowered at the fire. It was the shadowy hour—between dog and wolf, ae they say in France—when if a fellow h ‘on his mind it {s apt to bear down hard. my mind had “a worm {' the bud,” but it belonged to @ well-conditioned bacheler, who had a fairish out- look on the future. But one of those vague clouds that darken us all at times hung over my heart. Wopreight, 1902, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) HE corners of the room were growing murky as | I got up from my chair and drew the curtains Qpart. It was a gusty, raw November ay, with a dreary rain sluggishly dripping down “* THROUGH A WINDOW. « By CORNELIA AMELUNG I began to pace the rooni. At one of my turnings] aeiier. 1 paused at the window. There was a houso on the opposite rather fancifully like au old chateau. A lantern of gilded iron hanging over the entrance had just been It was a woman's Yowdoir decorated with artistic corner, bullt| effect in faintest amber and dull gold. A dressing- table tn the background was crowded with articles In gold and crystal, and fluffy, worantsn things lay lighted and, swaying in the wind, it threw the lines] scattered about, of the doorway Into high rellef and sent uncertain} The woman’ shadows through the fretwork of the arched window above. At the apex of the arch amirked a head of carved stone, and in the wavering light this head assumed various strange aspects. Through smoke rings of Exypitinn tobacco I 3 across the stone watched the queer changes pi face. In the distance the wind rose how! and then died oft vaguely moantng. mocked. Actually he began to fascinate me—he looked so devilishly wierd and jolly. Swear he winked at me, and I was thinking of re- turning the compliment from pure good felloweht)) when the sharp clip-clop of horecs’ hoofs on che asphalt diverted my attention : ‘A brougham wheeled smartly around the corner and drew up before the house opposite. A footman, the panes, Casual wayfarers struggled along the] whose sliver buttons sparkled in the ight from the carriage lamps, jumped" down, opened the door and permitted a woman to get out. . She was enveloped from head to foot in a stinning eadle cloak, and as she tumod at the threshold I saw that she was tall and willowy and distinctly beautiful; strangely pale. An Instant later she disappeared within and the brougham roiled away, While speculating on the identity of this siriking- looking lady I Ht a‘fresh cignietie. Having moved anything | into my apartment only the previous week, my nelgh- Not that/ bors were all an unknown quantity. A flare of gas euddenly shone from the upper win- ‘The shades had not been drawn and the charming unknown was revealed standing in the middle of the room under the full light of a chan- she was, however, dow across the way. appearance was singular. She stood absolutely quiet, a pair of long, white hands folded tyr's| across her breast. Heavy, blue-Mack halr shadowed her face, and eyes sombre as a mountain poo! looked out of it. Her gown, @ead-black, af billowy, crepe-like texture, clung down the curves of her figure, and tho fur cloak lay ina heap at her feet. with a long| With the opening of a door a maid appeared carry- ing a cup of tea. She placed dt on a table and lin- The satyr's leering, twisted jaws mouthed and] gered a moment, looking appreciatively at the figure ' THE STORY OF MARY M’GINNIS, SELF-MADE GENIUS, TOLD BY HERSELF. “1 am Mary McGiani New York, July —, 1902. Tam the greatest thing that ever hap- pened, I, Mary McGinnis, am going to lay my soul bare, for the woather 1s warm enough even for me, and I am calorically inclined. Tam sure of thts, for I am a freak, I can syour ike @ trooper, Tam a thict. I am a genius, Iam the McGinniss of all the gentuses, Tam a philosopher of my own schoo! and the Chicago University. 1 don't care whether school keeps or not, 6o that I am I and the devil adores me. I have gone into the deep subway, I am so morbid that my greatest hap- Piness is In being unhappy. I am quite, quite odd. I am different from any one I ever met, except Napoleon, Marie Bashkirt- seff and Lord Byron, I am ever 0 muoh brighter than al! three of them rolled into one, but that 4s not my fault. I was born that way. My mother, sisters and brothers all use tooth brushes and they are nothing to me. They ca: : understand me. They thik 1 am a@ terror on wheels, whereas | i merely a true McGinnis, HARRIET HUBBARD AYER REVEALS BEAUTY The Plaster Stick Depilatory. Dear Mra, Ayer: Kindly tell me of @ good face bleach; one that will whiten the akin, and some- thing to close the pores after using the face brush. Would you kindly tell me where to purchase a remedy of resin and Pitch for wuperfiuous hair? I refer to the plaster stick. Mias D, I give you @ formula for the face Bleach and directions for enlarged pores. ‘The plaster stick can be purchased. | think it will be very much more satis- factory than to atlempt to make It. Bend your ame and address If you wish ful ther particulars, ‘The plaster stick 1 in my opinion, the best depilatory ani the bost remedy for supertiuous huir on the face. FORMULA FOR FACE BLEACH—BI. ghloride of meroury in coarse powde: ten grains: led water, one pint, Agi- tate the two together until a complete solution t# obtained, ‘Then add one-halt ounce of glycerine. Apply mponge as often as ‘ot strong enough to bi face in average nea. it ened rong! ing from ne ut under the chandelier, as If wishing yet hesitating to Once I could} speak. But the dark head turned slowly and with an imperious hand-wave the girl was sent away. even h DEATH SCENE. “WITH A SWIFT, DRET SWOOP SHE FELL. HUDDLED ON THE FLOOR." aa sho w. Ry degrees the walk grew to almost a run; her lips fas if in ex and anclinched n Siriding to a cheval glass she gew the distorted face reflected therein. Mer movements were full of grace. I observed undulading glide with which sna wheeled from the #lasg and went to the windoy somewha Reross he va wile So my hands: shoulders and was net the nig when the wo { my attention. Springing fro: the divan she went to ng desk and, And now occurred the most extraoniinary exp In m¥ time 1 have seen paififul, nay, physicians do; ence of my life. t-breaking things—all seene I shortly witnessed put the capstone on them After the maid had departed the woman went over WITH NO APOLOGIES TO MARY MACLANE, OF BUTTE, MONTANA. “1 was born that way.” “But I have a splendid liver.” ‘They think they are McGinnises, too, then to help sell my book, for I, Mary but 1 am the only real one in the family. | McGinnis, am bthiret for fame and roy- T amuse myself by taking long walks] ¢itics, along the subway excayation. ugly that it 1s beautiful. I look at the streets all torn up and the piles of Bel- sian blocks and the great cranes and then Into the subway itself. That'a right. To me it is an empty, danged weart- ness, T rise in the mo¥ning, eat three meals Before breakfast, scrub the Wloor, write @ Uttle, yell for the devil and got to bed, Next day, T rise in the morning; eat threo menls before breakfast; scrub the Noor; write a little: yell for the devil, and go to bed, Again I rise in the morning; eat three meals before breakfast; acrub the floor; write a little; yell for the devil, apd go to bed, Soulful life that! But I have a splendid iver! July (again). Did I say I was Uke Napoleon, only more #0? He {s dead, but I am filled with the red, red blood of ambition and other ) and my skin js thin—too thin thi for a lonely, danged thing. I throw in these dangs every now and \me to cure enlarged pores, and the only Way I know of is by the use of the crubbing brush & pure hygiente soap. By this process the pores, which | have become enlarged by the clogged se- oretions, mre kept free and gradually they will contract and become normal n size. I know of thousands of cures ef- fected in this munner, Lotion for Olly Skin, Dear Mrs. Aye ‘The pores in my face are open enough 1 have a wooden heart. But my liver is fine. Tam a pathological wonder. Just exau.ine the naked soul of Mary McGinnis, poor, danged thing! Oh, kind deyil, help me to sell my book! July (some more). What should I do {f the earth were a cheese sandwich and the sky a broiled lobster? isn’t that original? Marie Bashkirtee never wrote any- thing Hke that. Oh, 1am a genius, but Iam alone and forlorn, ‘The devil fights shy’ of ma, I have wooed him tn vali T feu! 149 years old. But I am w 1 ehould smile! July (as before). As I remarked before, I wait tame I have achioved notoriety, but that ty ditterent. The devil besn't come yet, but I live {nh apes, Whee! won't We have a time then! July (encore). I think 1 seid I had a superb Mary |to put a pin point in them. Please let mo know if powder ta good for the face, a6 1 algo have an otly sikh UNHAPPY Try this lotion, A little good powder {s not harmful, It should ulways be Washed out of the pores at night Enlarged Poret-alt takes a long time |to oure enlarged pores, and the only |Way T know of ts by ‘the use of the |serubbing brush and a pure hyxieni ‘soap. By this process the pores, which THEY ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM. German silver {8 not silver, neithor Is it the invention of an inbabitant of the Fatherland, says Pearson's Weekly, It is un alloy of several metals, and hae been known in China for many h-indreds of years, Burgundy pitch ts not pitch, neither ts Burgundy its home any more than Prus- aia ts the home of Prussian blu Holland f# where Dutch clocks come from. Leghorn hate have no association with Lemhorn except as a port of shipment, Our Vice-OCongul states that these bats ere all platted up the Arno, at Signe, near Florence. Port wine is not always wine trom Oporto by any means, Strangor still, a great quantity of the Scotch whiskey sold tn London ts Irish, to use an Iri fem, Far more Ingh than Scotch whis- ey 18 sold in London. In the poorer districts the so-called Scotch whiskey contains two-thirds Irish, and oven the “gpecial” Beotch contalne one-third Irish, 4 Iria stew, on the other nef, ie not Trish, It fe an Bngiteh dist: Turkey “What should 1 do ff the earth were @ cheese sandwicht “My third toe on my unuaual size and gra: organs are the} What am I? I am a real, thing. grentest ever throbbing, ding-dang, 1 am also a geniu Jiear me chortle, Tam the Mc@Qtnnis. vermiform appendix is @ dream of love: left foot 1s of unusual size ; nd in its vigor. aglow when | t of my enterprising speak as we pass by. ‘That reminds man of steel, self heavily world was mashed flat The Steel Trust attracts If 1 keep on selling : American Steel ing my book should leave out the dangs and d be left? really superb frenzy of inpatle T hate tight bonnets. From “gentlemen, ng everythin t ls the world? What Ja the sky? Russell Sage? Td you ever love an ammonia lady? I coutd spend the reat of my!) ain't wayin’ and the devil, tastes are peculiar, fut that ts nuse Tam a genius, She used to teach me Hterature in the hat ta where I learned to my purity of style to the am- T learned ugation of dang from her very useful to mo in writ- (Por more dangs see appendix) July (iewise.) I have just seen Bil! Devery He reminds me of Byron h were ambitious. Devery impresses me as a beautiful he table and drank the tea In a fow swallows 4 ‘Then she beg © pace the r, clowly at first, very stumbling unheedingiy against the furniture ed. ted declaration; her hands clinched hantoally cuilaied wildly to staring Stil scrutinizing with proessiona’ ci what 1 this time stpposed to bs fre of a mad T drew back Into th my rovin »mignt notice me. rkness, the whiri id rain appeared to calm her, Weartly she passed her hand forehead, turned away and dropped down Chin In pain she ¢ rkly musing, atenmpiated the Moor » VIS A-Vis Was a lunatic. T shrugged about to draw the curtains loom and the pathos of yonder 1 made a movement that fixed a puiling out a drawer, ploked up long, stim and potnted. As well’as I could ser it resembled one of those deadly little stilettos the Itstlans kiow how to use @o eff j blade across her thumb she stepped out once more to the contre of the room. Under the briiiant gaslight her eyes were deep pits of ehadow, while she groped at her bosom and brought + a photograph Intently sa ate kise and then, as ehe eank slowly on her tore it tu ¢ vely. Sliding tho 1 at It, Klewed it once—a long, paa- * smallest shreds, flinging them Once more she folded her hands across her breast vowed her head and for a brief moment seemed to ‘These sinister devotions ended, ahe rose to her full helght again, ralsed one arm above her head, the] the regulation order recelved from the royal weapon flashing In her hand, strack down at her heart a ewift, deft swoop and fell huddled on the coll of black halr unloosening about her face, hands and feet were fee cold. Could £ have averted this catastrophe—this horror? Groping after my hat In the dark T stairs, tramping on the janitor’s cat, which Jn shrill protest, ea «3 T ran up the steps of the fatal house and pre the electric button. What incoherent si "2 made to the butler, who stared at me with wide eyeu” and fallen jaw, I do not know, but juat at this! point) there came a volce from the irease beyond tn 10m. pitched tones of sthang: ting timbre, and Witt a sight foreign accent, Mortimer, show the gentleman into the arm room." pned the door of tha green re a few nizhts later x of pers funed air surged out. Flowers were everywheres Standing aeninst a pillar of tig scarlet romes, int trailing black gown, her pallid, dark beauty ¥ivide with animation, Madame La Desires wa Hing congratulations from all the notable first Tho rolo so triumphantly enacted this eveningus had mado famous In Paris. } As T approached she dar from Ser great magnetic eyos, “Mala, menstour,” she said in thosd eweet, tones that set the heart vibrating so oddly, death scene—dld it go?" f “To a marvel, madame," I replied. bowing low, “The house couldn't have becn more carried 0 feet bad it seen, as I anw, the last private rehi Yes; that was it. Fro: my window T had seen actress, during a suddon effervescence of att genius—go through the climax of her part in ¢ solitude of hex boudoir, 4 This was my introduction to a very friendship. That, howe another tale, HUGE CIGARS FOR ROYAL’ Two crowned heads of Europe have thelr made expressly for them by the largest ff “ Havana. King Edward and Emperor William are: soveralgns to whom money is no object in i with a good smoke, says the Cigar and Journal The Engitsh King favors a long and fat cigar. actual length of his cigar Is eight and inches, and it is one and @ quarter inches in at the thickest part. The Kaiser prefers a rmaller cigar, one measuring alx and thret inches in length by thirteen-sixteenths of am Inolt | diameter. These clgars are not on sale to the general ‘They are made up !n lots of one thousand, ers of the Cuban factory, Nevertheless a few of prize Huyanas are kept on hand for sale to ay souvenirs, and in this way maay @ cont able on special occasions to enjoy # royal too overwhelming to be appreciated by this danged fool of a world. burning, He telis me he thirsts for fame and He never heard of lady and when I asked him 1f he did not long with an unutter- the devil, he sald: “Touchin’ on and appertainin’ to that, will write @ book. my ammonia longing for nothin’,”* What simple strength; what strong T told him T was a McGinnis and he sald that was better than being a Sheo- lle was very magnificently genuine, He reminded Dang Butte! earnest, wholly me of Butte July (sti) Julying.) —awenry. Will this ditter litte story of Unger for an hour and be forgotten? world give me in my outetretohed hand a tone eons, 60 ts my Ii magnificent, SECRETS. 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