The evening world. Newspaper, November 12, 1903, Page 18

Pe aed, & o-4p re Ke ee aomipZz zm=z What’s Her Name? SYNOPSIS OF PRECHDING CHAPTERS. Van Nostrand, a wealthy ung lerick ynite, is, lovud by atx “eit from Mother Rebekah. tune teller) a love-phlitre hereby" 3” ang ele nine the six Is a girl i Sloat loutrand ‘cails to, conpult the ot uel & a” bracelet on which, at Bsontente” hisntrered. thravih his sentence. she tells Til ven the ielters, forming the tan he tn tn marry, Ne nan woman. sn “eho ite a ‘who has tusk culties “he tent. and a Twin her unit, ne xuence, bee ria braceiet In kiana. taliaman which wearer from well, Rebekah’ grandson, love ra Lovell, & mypey itl. who loves Van rand, Wie amide tae ae Jove’ charm) Lg waxen image of Roderick. Should thiy ie"er troyed., according to Ky pay lore, nal must die.) Rhaun tries nec: Sestully to mura & CHAPTER IV. "+ The Working of the Charm, T= Pouch mansion on Clinton ave- nue, Brooklyn, has for years been used for dances, receptions and kin- Yared gaiéties. Through {ts wide doors Ned aes WHAT'S HER NAME? ri have passed the fairest women, the most famous.men of Brooklyn. Its old wal have re-echoed to a generation of wa music. Here on a night about @ week after Roderick Van Nostrand's visit to Colef Lovell's camp were gathered a throng lof the more exclusive set from “Helghts"* and "Hjil,? who had come to the last big dance) of the season. The evening was warm, and from the wide-open windows floated’ thé ‘hum of menry voices in the Intervals betwean the music, In the .dressing-room a balf dozen women atill Ingered putting finishing touches to gown and hair. “These warm weather dances are bores," said one of the lolterers in a strident wolce that matched her severely mannish attire. ‘One meets the same old crowd and hears the same old tatk. ‘There is not a new face hero; not a face I haven't seen a hundred times,” I've never seen before, another end of the toom. ‘I'm’ away at'boarding-school most of the year, so I only know about half the people that come to these dances. But this face stays in my mind,” 5 “You're Ddeginriing early, Madeline,” laughed Kate Clark, ‘Who is hi “It isn't he, at all. It's Piled the schoolgirl, gushlogly. was leaving the dressing-room just as I came in. She id such a beautiful, noble, mysterious}sort of face. I want- ed to speak to ber but somehow I was afraid to. I wonder ahd she was?” “Perhaps.” hopefuly suggested an- other of the group." if you'll describe fomething else about sher beside her face, some of us may. be able to tell you who she i4. What did she wear?” “She wis dressed in ‘black, AM in black. Not’an ornament, flower or jewel. And yet she didn't geem to be {n mourn- ine “There are lots of giris who ‘wear black dresses to dances,” answered Kate Clark, snubbingly. “In spite of your rhapsodies, she Js probably some one we all know, and her face may nat be so ravishingly beautiful after all." “But it is, insisted the schoolgirl. “It is as beautiful in its own way, Aunt Kate, as the face of the man whose Picture you twisted that grass wand @round. If A tuady blush rose to Kate Clark's cheeks. Amid a general laugh she seized her too-talkative niece and piloted her tv the daliruom on the floor below. There Madéline es scanned the crowd in vain for face that had so fascinated her. Several women wore black ball Gresses, but she could not discover which, if any of them, was the mysterious stranger who had so at- tracted hei F Buddenly the schoolgirl grasped her aunt's arm “There!"' she whispered in excitement. “Who, your woman in black?? “No, the man whose picture hangs in your room. The picture you twiated the ‘gtavs wand about. He's coming toward Who ‘s he? I—"— Hush!" whispered Kate, fiercely; then “Good evening!" she hailed the new- comer tn her strident voice, “Beastly warm, isn't itt’ Roderick Van Nostrand paused beside them a moment, spoke a careless word or two of greeting. bowed in acknowledgment of his introduction ta Madeline and was passing on when the schoolgirl suddenly exclaimed, pointing to his wriat: “Why. how funny for a man to wear a bracelet! Such an old, tarnished ono, [Fee \ st y A Woman Stood Holding “GIRL IN © Six Gir FIRST PRIZE.... SECOND PRIZE “It's now or never," she murmured to herself, “The charm that old gypsy woman gave me, that wax seal with his features stamped in it. lies next my heart, where I placed it to-night, know- ing I should see him. ‘Wear it next your heart’ she bade me ‘till it melts. When the face disappears, his héart will be yours, If it be the will of the Three!’ It must surely melt in this warm room. If only his heart, too, will melt!" During this momentary interval Rod- erick Van Nostfand had recalled with a thrjll of mortification the schoolgiri # Something Toward Him. too, I only saw it for a second under your cuff when you raised your hand." “‘Madeline!"' whispered Kate Clark, re- Provingly. I think this {a our dance," said Rod- erick, stepping over to where Miriam Haynes-sat beside her mother. The tall “Gibson girl flushed slightly with pleasure and excitement as she rose. Bhe covered her confusion by taking nome little time to remove and adjust on the chair the light wrap she hed thrown over her shoulders, jo-S>cHusbands Are Troublesome, Especially at Nightfall. the above question: A prise of How to Keep Your Husband Home Nights, HE) EVENING WORLD offers the following prizes for the best answers to for a letter trom a wife who has successfully kopt her husband home nights for the longest number of years. the most couvincing letter telling How *o Keep Your Answer a Simple Question About Them and Win $25 in hes A consolation prize of $ to the woman failed to keep her husrand home nights, who has tried the. hardest and ‘| mins me A tittle, and maybe our pretty _By Harriet Hubbard Ayer # there be a woman who really has discovered what the architects call Ya practical. working plan'' for keep- husband home o’ nights, will she ly step forward and enlighten her guttering alsters, who, in the majority from all reports, have failed utterly to Momesticate the member of society ienown by the general term “ a manried ‘mant” Ye the woman whose husband vélun- tartty stays home nights possessed of some philtre or love powder which she igiyly mixes with his coffee or is ehe ‘simply endowed by the gods with the jeare attributes that glve nes a tinuous and unfailing chatn for the lian who has captured hor and whose keenest happiness Is to be near her; of ture fs she the masterful jady lwhe, accomiing to one of our corre- lspomients, kceps her husband home by hot when he st ay cher than “run -fashionod sow ee, eee ihe foundations of the rows a little about a few things. I 0 ‘the great question we are now a as wiv mothers and to dispose of ‘rather stag- me, Te there be one never failing rule sseounte to.all sorts amd conditions of Yasha ages will keep them home «wea nie pa Tehafinteyt at home, itiy on the Went of terms with but ever ‘thers vely long. at o geen men wanderers trom tbe a Letters must not 2¢ over i words in length and must be written on one h aldc of the paper only to receive attention. Address letters to ‘Ars,! Harriet . Hubbard Ayer, Evening World. I coesernnemeiemmenmnmenmemnentenmmenmenemenemessnese==se el most attractive households and the most adorable of wives. Likewise I have seen men astay-at- homes patient and long suffering in an environment so irritating and go uncom- fortable that @ dench tn @ pwhlio park on @ cold day would eeem a paradise by comparison, I am asked how to keep husbands home nights. I throw myselé upon the mercy of women wiser than myself, and pass the question on to the readers of The Even- ing World: HOW DO YOU KEEP YOUR HUS- BAND HOME NIGHTS? HOW WOULD YOU KEEP HIM HOME If YOU HAD ONE—I MEAN A HUSBAND? “Glad to Stay Home te Avoid Trouble.” Dear Mra, Ayer: KELP my husband home nights by making things so ively for him on the infrequent times when he stays: out that he js giad to fcoept the less Mvely enjoyment of staying in with me and “being good.” On two or three oe- casions in the first year of our marriod life he attempted to haye ‘a hot time in the olf town at night.” I gave tim such @ hot time in the new home each net day that I think I thoroughly nippel in the Dud @ll wish to seek Pleasure outside of heme, T oan te.. you why eo many wives fall to keep their husbands in et night, 1 is Gecause they are 80 submissively “meck-a-peeky" that they daren't lift up thetr votoes and protest against the nightly going out, Let them do as I do and tho conjugal fear will be a more! mutual sort of thing, Indmed I guess “he” will be as afraid of arousing ‘ner’ as bas Gy, oy Ae ene?” ing "hie." Woman te “Ober,” It Costs Doar Mra. Aver; PROMISED at my marriage to love, honor and obey my hysband, but my ’ promise was conditioned on the #ev- eral pledges on bis own part, yds Raat might,,and I advise all wives totry my” also in the marringe service. I am try- Ing to keep my wedding vows; I insist on Ike efforts at fulfilment from my husband, It costs us women something some- times to “‘obey."" Why should not the married men give up a bit of club de- Ughts and barroom conviviality to stay at home nights and “cherish” their Wives fnstead of eo often neglecting them? I think the ¢ruest answer to your ques- thon is this: A w! 11 succeed in keep. ing her husband home nights when she so remembers and regards her mar- riage contract as to make him aghamed to forget his part of ft. MARGARET VANDPRVENT. A Young le Tells Her Plan, Deny Mra, Ayer: Meet husband nover thinks of going out after dinnor unless 1 can 59 out with him. We Yo spend many pleagnnt evenings away from home, wt we spend minny more in our own pretty Uttle parlor. Pegs 1 brad Gest marcicd I began in hia way: Would invite two of m: husband's friends ‘> ‘Mnnor two ntehte in each week. fho two friends were different ones each wn, tll we had made the round of als circle of ncquain, tances. Of course, alwe diraer we musie or cards er gy conversation, 1 ve kept this up cul through our mar- foe, Uae Foo nave dy i vege rx amy. an Here's One Way to Ke Dear Mrs. Ayer: oa aie: ¥ husband's greatest desire tn lite is to have his children well ed- ucated. I have no trouble in keep- ing him home nights hecause just as scon as dinner is over we all @ather ‘around the sitting-room table and I en- courage the children to talk about their echool work and ehk their father to help them with thelr lessons, He gets] 80 interested in thig that he is actually sorry when Saturday night comes and the children have no lessons to study. ‘He never eeems to want to go out at rude comment on his bracelet. “If she saw it, any one else could, he grumbled, sotto voce. ‘And the first thing I know the society papers will have idiotic little paragraphs about my trying €© set a sissy fashion of men wearing bracelets. I’m a fool to have believed the rot that old witch told me. He covertiy unclasped the bracelet- charm from his wrist and thrust it care- lessly into his waistcoat pocket just as Miriam turned toward him. More than one pair of eyes turned nerewenonanenanenenene-8non Prizes. pian. I &now It succeeds in my case. Mra, WILLIAM MULLER. Candtaate for Consolation Pr! Dear Mrs. Ayer: | WANT your “consolation prizx” I am a young wife end I have tried ery feminine art I know to make my -tmusband enjoy his home as much as he does his club. I don't know any- thing else to do excopt to go back to Mother, Maybe, if I did that, he would hme would seam a more desirable Place to him if he could never again feel sure, of finding it warmed and lighted up and with me tn st, waiting to DID come home {don't know how to keeping a husband home nights, but PM bigre iP leery, I do know how it feels to BART-BROKHN YOUNG WIFE. — THE GAME OF SIGNAL MAGTER. Clear the middle of the room and place in @ row a number of chairs, threg les! the number of 9! Blindfold one of the pia: and se- lect another for eigna) magter. The Diindfoléed one stands avart trom the ehairs, holding a wand, The signal mag- ter takes bis place ono end of tthe row of chaira and the other players ar- Tange themselves in a chain behind him, holding each other’y coats or arésses. ‘Then the chain of players walk slowly ‘round the chairs, the blindfolded one waving his or her wand and singing: ‘The signal master will give @ call Take your chairs, then, one and After the players have thus marched Gravely around the chairs two or three times the blindfolded one suddenly gives a tap with the wand, and the signal master immediately calls out “Chairs!” A! now run toward the chairs, each trying to secure one, but three are left out, of course, two of which will be re- quired in the next game for algngl mas- ter and blindfold, the third being the first blindfold, who counts as out, Continue the game ir this way, re- moving @ chair for each repetition, until all the pl players are out, _Amusemente. LYRIC arace Van Studdiford rEATRER. q MADISON "ier Millward.aiic*stsy CASINO ARGH ERMINE, wi BIIOU. ¥>* COLLIBE a Sea em eT A Romance of For One Man. BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE. Find the Heroine'’s Name. 13 OTHER PRIZES, EACH. them to ® standstill, it was with real regret that Van Nostrand removed his arm from Miriam's slender waist. “What @ beautiful walts!" she sighed. “Have you the next dance free, by any chance?” he asked eagerly. Her next dance was taken, hut the look in his eyes led her:to say: “You, it ts free. Shan't we eit it out, How to Find the Heroine’s Name and Win One of the 15 Prizes. (HERE will be ten chapters in this story: In éach is a misspelied: not a blurred or broken word, but one plainty and clearly printed: a Is’ Love though? I am .a—a ifttle tired. The Intentionally misspelled. The aliment letters of these words, .,ts tory Is cooler, Shall 0 Seriatim spell the heroine's name. praethiies oe rs In the first chapter of the story was thin sentence: “The loted ohe's fea : tures trace.” “Lofed should have been “loved.” ‘The absent’ letter Roderick Van Nostrand vaguely re- membered that Kate Clark had prom- ised him the next dance, But he gave no thought to the rudeness of witich right letter for the correct word—was “v.” That. is the first Jetter oS» Girl‘Iny Biack’s name, The nine other letters will be found in, the, seme. 4 in the nine other chapters, Fill out the appended blank day by day ax you read the $100 In Prizes. atory | letters in the last column, following them downward, will spell thé name.” BS2VS/he was guilty in thus throwing her 1Q] over and of the offense that must b misspelled word, the corrected word and the letter found for each chante i g3 | fall. It did not seem to him to matter. |] be written In this blank, Don't send In ifank until it is compl<ge liek, Nothing seemed to matter except Mir- jam Haynes's dark eyes, her glossy black hair, her graceful, statuesque fig- ure and the volce that now seemed to the story finished. The story will end Thurwlay, Noy. 19. Replies will be received by until 12 M. Saturday, Nov. 2. TI admiringly—more than one pair of femi. nine eyes turned jealously—on the tall, HARDER: COURAGE tbe Yee SATS ED POE Sececeare eee oe. Misspelled Word. Corrected Word. THE TALISMAN RESTORED. 1 LOFED LOVED > 2 PP pada. BY Soa Reale 3 4 5 6 pS ES ak Se ee Tea (comm ne IT Ph LE * 7 8 5 : 10 Nate of Bender, 15.0 sccccssecssecscs coccgsciic Address. Send replies to “Girl in Black” 1354, New York City, the girl. “It was perfect; he answered, one ean dance as you can. And,” he be sags to take what Hs palm, from her -fingers, fell: bent) that tinkled as it fell... urned without a word left. Roderick looked at te chatm-bracalet lay in its unconsciously. he. clasped it about | wrist, As lft from his brain. He looked eritieaMy at Miriain Haynes. How, he wondered, could ha fancied for a moment that he ber? “Come,” he sald, rising. “shalt La back to the bail-room?” at what whé offered. “No added, “there is no one so beautiful. hex ked up quickly, nenazed at this of compliment. But there was a light in his blue eyes that proved how deeply in earnest he was. He leaned forward, speaking breathlessly. “Miss Haynes—Mirlam—I teem never to have knowa until to-night tow way through the throng of waltsers, No one, however, heard a slight~tink- ling sound, drowned by the ‘clash of music, as Mother Rebekah’a bracelet slipped from the shallow, pocket of Van Nostrand's white waistcoat and foll un+ heeded to the polished floor. As the rhythm and charm of the walt sank more and mote desply into Rod- erick’s senses he found’ himself bending looks of real admiration on: the stately in“n'dream he walked toward the con- |! servatory with Mirlam on his arm. +80 full was bis mind of Mirlam ynd her beauty that, though he passed clone by a certain window opening on a dark alleyway. he did not see the face of a man, bearded and dark, that had for the past half hour been glued to the slags, studying Van Nostrand’s every He stopped abruptly and glanced up, A shadow had fallen across them. A woman stood holding something to- paageet renin! jeu {sesture and making occasional quick poisson | frith fas arch Pose epaal See Talseg {Denell notes on a dirty pad. As Roder- bie he ceo aiatinguiah her a confidingly. Strange, he thought, that|!ck passed the window the man drew) iio. che was dressed wholly Jn black. he had known Miriam Haynes so long| back, only to reappear @ moment later) sroohanically he stretohed forth . hie and never before had realized what a|Under the open conservatory window) 0” . lovely girl she was. He could not know/ near which the two had just seated { that the waxen seal, next to her heart, | themselves, was slowly besinning to melt. And the] “I have studied his face and manner CASTORIA r eelet that was to nerve him as @| and actions,’ sald the eaves-dropper P ‘oct charm against all love philters weal to himself. “Now to study his voice. For Infants and oo Stennis lying unnoticed somewhore on the ball- room floor, On and on they danced. When the sudden ceasing of the music brought May [lanton’s Hints. Kimono for Negligee Wear. 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