The evening world. Newspaper, January 15, 1903, Page 13

==WORTDS Whispers and The potent per« ** Smiles, pressed bands, fame of human loves was all ” about ker. This story Pasteboard Cro Charles Scribner's Bons. CLARA MORRIS. Clara Plorris’s Dramatic Story of a Stage Kiss “The Kies” is a chapter from Miss Morris's successful novel “A; window trying to see who was outside, but the darkness was almost that temper that will astonish her—T guess he ts too easy. I wish he'd chuck beauty, wealth and fashion, ‘and {t is reprinted née by permission of the publishers, NF day at reheavenl, one threatening day, when gas was burning every- where, so dark it was, Manager Thrall told himself he could do no more for this creature who had grown so precious in his secret sight. Only one thing troubled his artistic sonse—Sybil’s Juliet was a trifle too frank, too boyishly honest In Ker love. The soft confusion, the flush- ing cheek and drooping eye that sweetly contradict the open plainness of her speech, were missing. He knew why It was 80, and when the artist in him ked if he would have it otherwise the man an- awered, “No, no!” Rehearsal being over, Sybil had sent old Margaret home fn the car- riage Thrall had hired for them and bad hersolf turned downtown a few blocks and then across to go to a little eee ProM BE == MA GAG of night, ant Sybil, catching her breath in gasps, said: | “I beg your pardon, Mr. Barney, I—I—havo just run in here for shelter. It's awful outside Don't you know me? I'm Miss""—— 5 She stopped in confusion. A tall man was stooping to peer out over Barney's shoulder. Those well-shaped, amazingly brilliant eyes were unmistakable. Then a voice of incredulity—of pleased incredulity—was saying: “Its not Miss Lawton, alone, and in this fearful storm, surely?” The door was pulled open and through the outstreaming light came Stewart Thrall, his, overcoat over one arm, a close furled umbrella in the hand, whose finger and thumb held also an unlighted cigar, telling plainly that he was just leaving; that had she been one single moment later she would have found only Barney in the theatre. One—one moment! But, oh, there are single moments full, replete and| pregnant with possibilities—moments that may bring forth results dire and strange. Sybil, shaken, breathless and embarrassed fn the dark, made uncon- sciously a mental, never-to-be-forgotten portrait of Stewart Thrali standing in that informing stream of light. Handsome, debonair, stately of height and graceful of bearing, and on his face that eager look that made it strangely young. He held his hand out. “Miss Lawton, Is it really you? cold!” The wind rattled windows, doors and signs so she could scarcely hear ‘his words, but the warm pressure of his clasping hand was comforting to Why, good Heaven! you are wet and shop where her stage shoes were to be tried on. i “T am afraid Mrs. Van Camp will be angry if I leave you, Miss Sybil, the wemiun had protested. ‘“Thero’s an awful storm coming up, too.’ “Nonsense,” said the girl—who even then had to hold her hat on with her. PA r-a] pene "Where is your carriage? What? I can’t hear you.” Something, probably a billboard, fell with a crash against the door, and her out of the company! Spiteful—bleached cat!’ Undoubtedly a very vulgar-minded boy was Barney. Inside the red baize doors Sybil was amazed to find almost perfect silence. ‘Tha auditorium being in tho very middle of the bulding was cut | off from outer sounds—evea the wild ehrick of the wind was greatly soft- ened, The darkness seemed at first complete, but the accustomed eve could see a faint grayness at the stage ond opposite to them. A row of open French boxes extended across the Lack of the lower circle. Thrall laid his hat in a chair in one of them as he passed and, still, leading Sybil, said in a cheerful, matter-of-fact course tone, Intended to quiet every poesible uneasiness of mind: “This way, Miss Lawton—don’t be afraid, there are no steps! The reg- ister is right in this corner, and there is at least enough heat on to dry) your damp ciothing. It would bo a pretty serious thing, my young lady, ; for you to catch cold at this late hour, There--you can feel a little hot air, can't you?” The bullding fairly trembled under the force of the gale, and Thrall with a tightening of his fingers on hers asked reproachfully “In God's name, child, what induced you to face a storm like this—tell me?” But in that warm, dark silence words would not come easily; she mur- mured something about “god-mamma’s needing Margaret's services,” paused —added a confused assurance that “her stage shocs had proved satisfac- tory,” and became mute, The empty auditorium was vast, the white linen hangings, draping boxes’ and dress circle were mysterious as the swaying mosses of a Southern swamp. A sense of {solation came upon her of distance from the world, She did not seem to think consecutively, but in broken,fragmentary, foolish bits, She wondered why Mr. Thrall was so silent——was it because—she Bree, , In the mingling odors of rice powder, orris, violet and fine the close, warm air, there was a sensuous suggestion of eyes and ¢ whispere and pressed hands, The potent perfume of human loves about her. she whispered and drew away from He pnt his foot out and closed the register, “I—I—must go now," she slowly addéd, when there came a steady, loud, @ sort of roar, and Thrall knew a very deluge of icy be descending upon the city to be heard so plainly here, “Go?” he queried gently, “Go? Why, child, you could not your feet a moment; the gale would dash you to the earth, Stay here } you are safe," : The silence closed about them again, yet she vaguely felt there 3 calm in it; it seemed only dormant, Then dimly {t came to her to ask Mr, Thrall to let her go to office to wait, when suddenly the building shook as a toy house mi done, and there came a deafening, Tumbling crash above their it seemed, though really it was a chimney falling upon the stage Sybil’s one wild scream of terror was smothered on Thrall’s breast. — “Don’t! don't!” he whispered, hoareely, holding her ‘trembling to his lips and covering it with kisses. “Don’t shiver so—'twas no you are safe, quite safe! Sybil! Princess! I'd shelter you in my and guard you with my life—always! If I might! iff might!”* His arms were about het, the heavy downpour of the rain the dulled roaring from a distant world. They were alone—utterly alone in the dimness warm and frag : ng her. She was all unstrung and weak from fright, Hi words real, half dreamet. " 2 the girl gave a violent start of terror. Suddenly Thrall turned—still holding her hand fast. He cast his coat, umbrella and cigar into the office, saying sharply to Barney: “I'm not here, to any one! you understand!” She raised her head—she put two impotent pair ; Dt little hands - “Please!” she gasped, “I am not frightened now, I~ ate tude was upon her, ; both hands, so high was the wind. “Go on, for god-mother needs you. I'll be home in no time, and I can't leave those shoes another day. Suppose they should be wrong tn some way? By-by!” and laughingly she faced the wondered If her dress was drying all aroufid evenly; if her boots would spoll from the heat, her mother had thought them expensive; and how many nerves and pulses did one girl carry about with her, and why need tearing wind. Barney looked up inquiringly. Their eyes met fully and Thrall repeated: On lcaving the shop she felt the rain begin to fall, and fairly flow along the streets. Two cars passed without heeding her signal. What should she du? Tho theatre? She had a right to seek shelter there surely, and away sho pushed. A vign came whirling through the alr; she screamed, and next moment dached, damp, chill, dishevelled, into the vestibule. At the bang of the great door young Barney, the ticket-#eller, pale under the box-office gaslight, raised his head and looked through the little they all quiver and beat at the same time? “Not to any one!” and closing the box-olfice door he felt for the baize ones leading to the auditorium—pushed one leaf open and entered, drawing Sybil| was still in ® wet and clammy glove. after him by the hand, As it closed he reached up and softly pushed the bolt. Outside in the office Barney stared stupidly, then began a double-shuffie, chuckling to himeselt: ‘Oh, wait till Manice gets on to this—but one of these days the Governor will stand up to her, and then che'll get a pointer on‘ A strange, evanescent perfume seemed to have been left out there She drew her hand gently from Thrall’s, but he took up the other that A door somewhere banged heavily—she shivered as at a blo head sank back upon his breast, i He bent over her. His face all passion, pale, his heavy, dro Silently, deftly unbuttoning and peeling it off, he softly chafed the little member, Sybil drew a long slow breath—what was it that troubled her? The darkness seemed to hide something—something secret and sweet. by THE bOVERS’ CORNER. First Aid to Wounded Hearts. Don't Encourage Falee Pride, Doar Mrs, Ayer “T am in love with a young gentleman whom 1 met in the country last sum- mer, About a week ago I received w letter, sta love, ond also that he would cai mo. As I am working put, 1 wou! er not have him call at the’ house, case, as we both love each othe: uuld be the most ad- visable 2 EB. i. Do not be ashamed to let your lover know that you ure an honest working- girl, If he is a true msn he will respect you for being too proud to conceal your real position, You would only make trouble aud perplexity for yourself it you attempt to deceive him about the sare wililng for you Y at the house, put on your prettiest clothes when the work of the day is over, and Ict your lover find you in the midst of your rightful surround Or Invite him to call on your “evening out.” He can then ac- company you to some place of amuse- ment or tule you for a trolley ride or @ pleasant moonlight walk. Remember, alw Gisgrace in hon A Flirt at Sixteen, Dear Mrs, Ayer: there ts no Tam a boy sixteen years of age and o with a girl who Is my own age. When I am with her alone she always treats me rightly, but when any boys from the schoo! come along she cuts me and filrts them. Do you think T AM 100 you: to explain her conduct? Tha d from doing @0 on account of BC, A schoolgir! fiirt is to develop into a not-to-be-ty woman. I think, however, that your young friend is mischievous and only intends to have what she calls a good time with the schoolboys, Do not take the matter weriously enough to ask for explana- tions. Make yourself so popular with her mates that each one will feel gr ified by your attentions. The fancy of a boy of sixteen ts usual- J¥ not of a desperate character Pat Yourself im His Place. Ayer gone with a certain young man for over a year, and. while there were understood to be no serious intentions, I have become very much arty of young fol each together, men, catching up to the other persons that ‘we lost the route, and missed the bout We were which they had taken for home, waited and waited, thinking they mawhere in sighi, and at lavi iting about two hours we took the next boat. you think T am in the wrong? No serious intentlo yt constant going out together de us Bo h attached to each other. He now fails on one of the other, young Indies. What would you do in ma: paved 7 GRIEVED. You should have kept up with the rest of the party instead of lingering behind with one young man. This coolness be- tween you and your friend would then have been avolded. Put yourself in the young man's place. Would you not have been indignant if he had loitered behind with another girl? If a girl values @ man's friendship she must not risk losing it by thought- less actions. Write the young man an explanatory letter, which will probably set things right. Elghty-eight Mile: ‘Dear Mrs. ayer: I am in love with a young man 19 yeara old and we have heen corre- sponding for over a year. He has been very prompt in answering my letters until about three weeks ago, I wrote and have recelyed no answer, I live 88 way from him and cannot find out. about ‘him unless I write to an- other girl friend of ‘his whom T know. Tam a girl of seventeen, . GB. Never think of doubting your young’ friend's loyalty because of three weeks' delay in @ letter. Any one of a hundred small happenings may have been the cause of the delay. Write to him again, inquiring if there has been any mistake about the sending of his usual letter, If you still do not hear from him, there will be no impropriety whatever in seek- ing an explanation of the matter through the girl friend whom you speak of, Tell etween Them. after | hostess that he will her you would like to know if he ts ill or in trouble. Bighty-eight miles is quite a long distance between two young hearts, Do not make the distance gréat- er by any roundabout way of reaching him when there is a misunderstanding, The Sentimental Schoolgirl. Dear Airs. Ayer: Tam a young girl and to High School. There is a young en in m1 clas that I like very much and. would like to have him come to my house some Sunday afternoon, Please tell mé¢ some proper way in which I could ask him to come to my house. Also please tell me how I can tell If he likes me. How can I fornes 4 boy I used to love but who didn't loye me? ANXIOUB ANNA. Arrange for a pleawant little pocial gathering at your home and ask several of your schoolmates to be present. In- vite this young man to be one of the party. It will be only polite for him to call on you #oon afterward, in return for your hospitality, Then it will rest with you to prove euch an entertatning frequently. You hai ten the boy you used to love’ and are interested in another, — HOW TO HAVE BEAUTIFUL HANDS. { GIVE THEM ATTENTION, } The woman with beautiful hands has observed severa! rules in their She has her gloves made to order if she can afforé tt, if #39 cannot do t' ghé takes care to buy cloves that @ Jarge rather than small for her. Bhe has jearned how to manicure her ‘own hands and doev tt regularly, If her honds haye become misshapen tight gloves she je and has the ihfough wearing to visits a skilful mast fault corrected. A few exercises will werk wonders ‘toward promoting grace in the Anger Une and wrist. Grand with the arms at right angles to the body, the hands with the palms down, Bend the hands from the wrist, firet ap far up as they will ge, then down. Repeat until the wrists become @ little tired, but never until they are | outward, etreined. Now close th band tightly untll irhes @ formidable fist, then throw out | and shar] spreading care, | finger joints and tend to increase the ciroulation. Tight sleeves are as injuries as tight Slovee. When you #6 & woman who is Wearing her sleeves eo tight thet they bind look at her hands. They wil be red and puffy with the veins awelled and the texture of the skin coarse and dark. Tho bands respond readily to emol- ents. If they are chappéd or the skin is broken rub in @ little camphor cream with the tins of the firgers very gently, Rub in the cream at night just before retiring. and put on afterward @ pair of While chamoly or ordinary kid gioves trom which the Anger tos have paen cut. Never wash t the always use an inferior ~~~. “ai DOORS IN CHINA, In China all fence gates tna swing in. In America most gat rine he hande in cold water; ii thoroughly ang Hs apf never wing wt. In China all doors that awing In open pag America doors oben Ine The pore ese pad MUSCLE-BUILDING FOR. BUSY NEW YORKERS. By James L. Frawley, Who Tau LESSON NO. 4. Dumb-Bell Exercise Will Develop } the Size of the Muscles. I do not forget for one moment that I am talking to business men and that it is a most dificult thing to beget in business men the habit of taking exer- cise. For that reason I have heretofore in- sisted on but three things—fresh alr, deep breathing and the contraction and relaxation of all the muscles, 1 am going to insist on these things once more, Why? Because I have som hope that you will really do the things I heave suggested and if you do I shall have acoomplished a great deal. These will not only keep you in good condi- tion, but they will improve your spirits #0 much that you will want to keep them up of your own accord. More than you will want to take up other exercises—and you should do so, So, a month from now, say, begin dumb-bell work. You need that to in- crease the ize of your muscles. Dumb- bell work is interesting, too, and you can do it without any trouble in your bedroom or your backyard. Please fol- low these rules, however: 1, To begin with, use bells that do not weigh more than two pounds, When you are stronger than Sandow and Bamson combined increase the weight to five pounds, 2. The best time to use your dumb- bells 1s for fifteen minutes before re- tiring at night and for fifteen, minutes after arising in the morning. 3. Be eure that the alr in your room js pure, You will get better results from your exercise if you carry on the work at an open window. It ts more than useless to exercise in the vitiated atmosphere of a room that has been slept dn @ll night or iived in all day, 4, Have your clothing loose or, better till, exercise in your underclothing only. Never wear @ belt of any kind— and, of course, never when you are ex- ercising, And, speaking of belts, Mr. Business Man, when the good old sum- mer time arrives this year and with it flannel trousers that usually call for ® belt, out the latter out of yours. That belt will interfere with that deep breathing of yours, Besides, it will play gad havoc with your digestion, and then you would have to begin this exercise al) over again. Wear @ belt loosely und your walst, if you wish to, for le,’ but let your suspenders do the real work, 6 After your fifteen minutes’ dumb- bell exercise you ought to be In a glow and you should be perspiring somewhat, ‘That 1s the proper time to take a cold or tepid water bath and after dt a brisk rub-down, To accomplish this all you) have to do I» to walk from your bed- room to your bathroom, a0 you may e¢e I am etill consulting your convenience, Here {is the first dumb-bell exercise. It will develop the mus of the wrist, neck, Stand upright, with shoulders well thrown back and feet forming a right angle, Let the belld ite on the ground, lel and close to the outside of each Then stoop down and grasp the bells, but without bending the knees. This will give you the attitude seen in tMustration 1, Then straighten the body forearm, upper arm, the shoulders ang ——— to the previous position, THREE EXERCISES WITH DUMB-BELLS, ght President Roosevelt to Box. | Now, you may find this a diMoult thing to do, ‘The chances are you will | find it imposstble to pick up the bells | without bending the knees. But peralst, | and in a short Ume, with a little prac tice, the muscies of the back and arm: | wil) easily accommodate themselves to your intention Keop at this exercise until you can do it eaelly a couple of hundred times, | that time you will have a stronger back and you will then be ready to take up real serious dumb-bell work, W, you Will ask, how does this de- of the wrist, forearm, » It develops ause when you are doing thi remember that you are to keep you muscles tense—that you to contract and relax them, as I have told you jn By | @ previous lesson LETTERS, QUERIES AND ANSWERS. A Girl Aske Aq To the Editor @f The Evening Worl I would ike advice from readers I am @ girl, wixteen years old, and | ; We have now a much better apprecta tlon of the universe about us than be- fore the study of this subject. We are not “overbrainy," but girls of ordinary like @ gentleman who does not lke | intellect, EDNA and MABAL, me, Jie thinks Iam 4 little girl. He Yonkers, N, X. fa not by any means wealthy, and he UA Uellorm' te \Geeres heeds some one to look after him, aa he lives all alone. A great many other tng World: girls lke him, Sball I try to reform before the word him, readers? L, a. ‘* uniform’ ? earteni) ‘The Study of Physics. oHSStE ML To the Editor of The Bveiing World: A Misleading Sign. In answer to the question of Mabel ay to echoolgiris’ opinion of the study of To the BAllor of Tie Bvening Wo, This morning many passengers at One Ferry” arrived that they might reach |M. A.," to the effect that he was for- the South Worry without change of cars, |ever being K00-Ko0-eyed, winked at, &c., On arriving at the quare eta |by the members of the fair sex, both tion at BW the ; were in-{young and old, owing to his being such formed that this tra > City |@ handsome young man, T would atate Mall, and were ordere No notioe |that this young man ts laboring under of change of desiina oi snnounced |@ delusion which has caused him what fo those boarding the train at the eey-|i" sometimes termed as 9 “eweiisd eral mations, Why does the manage-|head.” The only course left for him ment mark trains for one terminus and|to pursue tf» to abandon the idea that tand them at another? EB. T, 8 |the eyes of the aboveynentioned are forever being riveted on him, as it ie Block Is Not « Color. 4 ; ; To the Editor of The Evening World: only ale wmagination, @, J: Me Last Leap *, 1806; Neat, 1004, Ip bla color? physica, we would ilke to say that in} Hundred and Twenty-ffth street and ‘Third avenue and «tations below waited uattl @ ivein having @ plat paluced nly olga om the Gong Car marked “Boutdy pe oe JOBHPU M., Riverdale, N. ¥, Beoves the Male “Beauty.” To the Bitter of Tor Brening World: Replying to @ letier signed “Ge ‘Te the Editor of The Brewing World: When did we have leap year jas? When will we have another? SUBURBANITE. i a a gh Bat aby dhs betraying their girl-like length of lashes, “Sybil!” he breathed—her eyes, wide and startl t “Sybil!” he entreated, ‘‘eweetheart!” oh a Be and the house rocked His lips met hers in one long tender kiss fury of the gale! Amusements, METROPOLITAN OPBRA-NOUSE, GRAND OPERA im rs Under the Direction of AUR! 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