The evening world. Newspaper, November 23, 1903, Page 13

E GIRL IN RED. poise CHAPTER I. pref. Love at First Sight, HIRTY-FOURTH STREET, Broad- way and Sixth avenue. Mid-afte noon on a bright fal! day, "IF there is a busier, more densely pop- or more perilous crossing {t must "S8'the crossing of the Styx. “Wikth avenue cars, Broadways cars, “Crosstown cars; cars running in 6 di- *réétions. ’e'@abs, autos and trucks converging at (HES vortex of mid-Manhattan's whirl- ido}. yam@® promenades that draw countless waGrdes of people into thoir radius of at- broad } streets, but both far too narrow to ace etemction. Broad pavements, Gommodate the muss of trafic, w Krom east, west, north and south pour { dmuthe flood of humanity—a flood that bys. flows. eddies, converges, clashes, gewirls and surges like a sentient Ni- aaaca. enAnd overhead, adding worse noise and confusion to this apotheosis of confu- a — Theatres and department stores oa dangers? + Small maryel that the harsh clang of an-ambulance bell now and then rises ‘|@bove the: heavier note of the trolley Old, infirm, or easily confused pedestrians have paid and will yet pay with thelr lives for their temerity. in wong! venturing into the Wibirlpool, ‘The seasoned New Yorker, who eol- dom turns his head at the passing of the' galloping embu- lance, and when nothing short of a explosion could confuse, winds his way placidly subway and mith an unconscious caution amid the maze. But woe to him if a moment of abeent-mindedness or bewilderment overtakes him during the journey. Rialto, shopping district, business cen- tre and crosstown facilities combine to torm thie Bedlam. A.young man in bis twonty-thind year, of about middie height, lightly yet pow- ‘erfully built, stood on the edge of the curb, waiting an opportunity to cross ing for an opening. Innumerable as half-back on Yale's ‘Varsity team he tind this looked for an opening tn the enemy’s line, To a veteran of many a hard-fought gridiron battle the hubbub before him had no terrors. But he did not care to risk the sotling of his {m- maouiate costume by hurried contact with the muddy thoroughfare. More- over, the was in no great baste. Anthur Gray had, sorely egeinst bis will. accompanted this mother on @ shop- ping. excursion, He bad followed her. with the pathetic, {idiotic patience man always feels at such times, from counter to counter of a half dozen stores, At the entrance of Flak's she had taken pity on him. “Il be in here nearly’en hour,” she had said, ‘Run across to your club, ‘you poor martyr, and get a smoke. ‘At the end of the time come back and ‘wait for’me here at the door." Bagorly he had availed himself of the} permission. It was good to be free from the bustle and hurry of the shops which confused bim so much more than did the mightier rush of Broadway; to be free from the fear of colliding with shoppers and cash gitls; to rid his ears of the awful iteration: ‘Cash—next counter, ‘Yes, full width—No, ma'am, !t was a special sale and we have none left at that price,” &c. peculiar to ‘“The Only Street; into a snarl, yebicle got face; to— A little cry, a flash of vivid red, an running too late to the rescue! of if pleted in last Thursday Evening’: ae ea FIRST PRIZE - o> SECOND PRIZE ........ S. DORFMAN, 1081 The name of the heroine of “The Girl in Black,” the romance com- World, was VIOLA BLAIR. THE PRIZE WINNERS: The winners of the fifteen prizes are: SADIE CHARD, 314 West 143d sireck, New York City. $10 Third avenue, New York City. THIRTEEN OTHER PRIZES, EACH ........ -...--. $5 He F. G, BOUTELLE, Neperan Park, N, Y. sion and noise, roars and thunders the Ts it a wonder that country folk, né- Wildered, frightened, caught in the re- aistless clutch of this human whirlpool, feturn home to tell fearful tales of its Arthur Gray's quick eye, tralnod by 3 years on the football eld, (wok In every detail at a glaunee, Mis glove and snakewood stick drappe: hie to the mavem and he though “bucking the centre, gongestcd Jumble of vehicles in from of him, This is what that hasty glance hud whown him: A decidedly pretty girl somewhat gerishly attired in a scarlet qwalking dress, had started to cross tie Atrect fram the opposite direction, ac companied by a shabbily-clad elderly man. A team of truck-horses wheeling into Eroadway from ‘Thirty-four:h Street, had become unmanageable and, despite their driver's blasphemous ef- forts, were bearing straight down upon her. She had crossed the eastern track eomewbat hurriedly to avoid a northbound troltey car, when she first aw the horses. Bhe stood stock stiM for an instant, panic written on her pretty brunette please—Here’s your change— It was good to atand on Broadway once more, to take deep breaths of the exhilarating atmosphere which seems to watch the crowds sweep by, to laugh when to note the fleeting procession of pretty faces that more than once glanced admiringly at his trim figure and handsome, boyish oath from a truck driver, a policeman face, scared beyond the possibility of NZ Arthur Gray, Bearing His Fair Burd the prompt action. And prompt action alone could save her. For, from tho apposite direction, directly in the path @ must take should she run forward, @ tonneau automodile was’ dashing. A rapidly toward the spot on which she was standing, It was’ a situation that ERS PEARCE RT TOTS ONT sguthbound trolley car was also moving | re ed enue wal ed ‘A bove-bed FIRST PRIZE... SECOND PRIZE might occur many times a day, and from which a quicker and more ob. servant brain could have extricated the A LEAP en, Had Landed on the Fender of Car. } girl in time, As it was, there was not a fraction of @ second to lose. Sizing up every point as he ran, | Arthur Gray dashed toward the Girl in Red. ‘The fender of the southbound car Find the Girl’s Age. 13 OTHER PRIZES, EACH........ Quest | From Shop to Shop of the Girl in Red. BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE, had been a doll and, unable to check his impetus, leaped forward with her, out of the path of the southbound car. FOR LIFE. "$100 in Prizes. -. BIO manded that ° his hat walk away could not tuk eyes ft He stood, sty suum, staring into her black eyes wits nafelgned sadmirations Sn ytalpte and student from boyhood. Arthur Gray had caged comparative! ittle for th y of women up to this! been in To W nothing of the sy Oked Into the be time therofure k | But now, as glowing yo! a upialsed to: his, strang through him dls hou a tumultuously. He did not stop to reason that this noyel sensation qnight metely be infat- nation ‘bred of romance, proximity and physical beauty, He felt it tp be love— true love—tove at first sight. “How splendid! How herole of you! panted the Girl in Red as soon as she could get her breath. “But for yoy I must have been killed, I''—— “Permit me Jd a timid little voice at Arthur's shoulder, "to express The car going north the spot for which ‘he jumped. danger. belated warning. car, For, Gray, bearing his fair burden, man’s arm to steady himself. safely on the sidewalk. | grazed him as he passed ia front of it. | "He picked up the girl as though she He knew the ethics of the case de- vas just reaching It was moving rapidly, the motorman not hav- “|ing taken In the full meaning of the A host of hearts stood still, and from a host of throats burst a ‘hoarse cry of ‘Then there was a gasp of incredulity and relief, and the motorman whirled his lever with ail his might to check the with absolute precision, Arthur had landed on the fender of the car and had grasped with his right band the motot- In a sec- ond the car came to @ stop, and Gray, stepping from his perilous position on the fender, deposited the Girl in Red to you my compll+ ments." Arthur turned to see the shabby-gen- tel little man who hdd been’ escorting the girl across the street. The man had a wizened face and a’ sort of pa* thetic, hopeless look in his big eyes. He clasped his thin fingers together ner- vously as he spoke. He had but 9, The tenth was a stump. “1am grateful to you, sir,” he con- dinued, “I never witnessed anything moré courageous and prilliant, I was— ah—unfortunately unable to keep pace with this young lady, so I was power- thanks ahd my legs to assist, All I could do was to see and admire”— “You oft sald @ newcomer, hurrying toward them, Laying a heavy hand on the little escort’s aoat collar, he shook him as a terrier shakes a rat: “You were sent to protest and take ‘BEATRICE FORNWALT, 137 Mt. Prespect avenue, Newark, N. J, MRS. KATIE ECKARD, 203 St. HERBERT WISE, 122 West 118th street, New York City. Ann's avenue, Bronx. LOUISE FAYNE, 406 West Forty-fourth street, New York City. MRS, CHARLES H. IGOU, 163 West 121st street, New York City. CLARE DILLON, 203 Hopkinson avenue, Brooklyn. MRS. ELLIOTT, 110 Sussex street, Jersey City. M, .L. KENNY, 55 Johnson stre: t, Brooklyn. ROBERT HASTIE, 41 Columbia place, Brooklyn, G. J. M'MAHON, 55 West 131st W. J. SHIELDS, Webster avenu ELLIS HIRSH, 209 East Fifty-seventh strect, New York City. : ~~ ¢ [oe 0 iy Harriet Hubbard Ayer, | ’ seems to be no abatement of Interest in this prize contest, The letters still come in by the hun- dreds. Bvidently the hanpy wives are ing to help the unhappy ones and ‘them the benefit of much wise 1 about ho husbands at ‘ bome nights. It isa tree martarietl, you know, where everybody is entitled to free ex- Sression of opinion. All of the }-tters Sy interesting to me. Thoy show con- jsively that hume-keoping husbands are in the majority; they toll plainly _ that “the new womay"’ has not lost all wifely ideas concerning duty and obe- dient love, @MNobody us “yet has “hit upon ‘any: re- emginel plan tor. keeping ip ot night. He ‘scams to.stay, a ee the above question: Husband Home Nignts. friled to keep her wsband -hom Lotters must not 90 over 1% side of the paper ouily to receive at Hibbard Ayer, Byening Wortd.”* ‘for the most. part without any overcion | or urging, All the more honor then to | the worthy wives who make the homo the very ‘pleasgntest” place thelr hus- | bands can find’ “ot evenings.” | Send along your exparidnces, handy of | otherwise, and Jet up have the views of jeverybody on thiy’ important question. ‘The contest cannot last very much longer}, bi Bgl two proud wives end on st digcontolate wife will be claiming ‘the prizes wo have promised. Be @ Patient Martyr and Hope, Depr Mrs, Ayer: { hard to make hysbands over. Bo | wise dn your cholce, me well ac- quainted before marriage, If you have made a mistake, set your wits to work to do some tactful counteracting. Be brave and try before you cry. Seek for some bond: of sympathy, Learn to cook, as servants do not always prepare his especial dishes to gult, ‘He may line ger at fly evening meal; & sitting-room Jooks cosy, he may linger on, Inform yourself on @ubjects he As interested ip. Don’t let him think you think you are his superior, Don't be caréless in dross or shoddy, You must retein hia respect, @nd remember that familiarity breeds peontempt, Don't, fret, ..1f.he goes. say drightly you bope he will return soon... aan tan do much, but bead How to Keep Your Husband Home Nights. T% EVPNING WORLD offers the following prizes for the best answers to street, New York City. je, New Rochelle, N. Y, “The Girl in Black’s” Name Was Viola Blair---The 15 Prize Winners. THE .MISSPELLED WORDS, The following table shows the misspelled words that were Intentionally placed in each chapter; the corrected words and the letters required to correct them, which letters, read downward, spell tae hergine’s name: A prize of $10 for @ Jetter fram n wife who has successfully kope ber husband home nishts for the-longest numbér of year, anne A prize of 619 for Use most convincing letter ng How to Keep Your A consolation prise of 45 to the woman who has tried the hardest and ‘his. ate length and must he written on: one Address letters to “ales. Harriet r= reason det them weary him. Have carly iy and tegular time for them to ratjre, Take somfort in being a patient martyr, You Tagy succeed, UNSELFISH WIR, Catskill, N.Y Keep Joly, Pinyfal and Young. Dear Mra, Ayer: CAN convince any marred woman that she cen win her Musband’s company nights if she be jolly ant playful, Keep Herself clean and young looking. have her house tidy and olean when he comes home, feol satisied when he wants to go to the theatre gpce a woek or s0, tell him about the children and thelr cunhing little ways and talk of the day, find somewhere to #0 yourself in the evening and leave ‘him with’ the children once dn a while. Always sympathise with him when ho tella you of his hard luck and troubles ef the dag. 1 am marred five yours and my husband has stayed in the house to the extent of which I have steted. Mra, A.M A Brave Wife's Pathelic Story. Dear Mrs. Ayer: AM twenty-four; have been married nine years; the ninth year the hap- plest so far. My husband drank and ‘I nine) sp that you may know I have had nentnenanenensnenertnents enanarenenereranenpuaraneg | HIM How Do You Keep Your Husband Home Nights? °<~| Answer This Simple Question and Win $25 in Prizes. ¢ change him, and when such ways failed to act “quickly I was about hopeless. Binge tien T have changed and seeming- ly am indifferent to all his errant ways, which has cauged him a lot of thought aud ome worry, where before he had iio regard for me at all. 1 am now try- ine the “low ’ciire,” but feel that it wilt de sure. 1 try tv look well and be chéertul (not too much fo) and T find that by summing it all up be 1s not the same as of old, and if he continues I Unk that in time te will pe almost I would desire. I give his age (thinty- Ro youtig man to deal with. Let me algo add that 1 know he Js worthy, PATIENCE, e the Golden Rule, it to yourself; show end act it, It's Just like religion; so many think It, but never live it in their dally life. The more you do for eaoh other with loving words and dees the more you will think of each other, Always be pleasant and have a loving word for your husband when he comes home from work, No matter how you fee! yourself, remember @ man gets discouraged very quickly, and {f you are always pleusant when he comes home he will soon forget his dally troubles and be glad to be at home, You will find that loving words and deeds will accomplish more than thing else; Always do unto each other as you would be done by, and live it, and I. think your husband will then pre. fer his own home. I Wave had seven years’ experience. ONE WHO KNoWws. If at Piest You Don't Suco Dear Mrs, Ayer: |’ you Jove your husband do not keep patorally did what always follows this rs My first years of married life We } very pitiful. I tried every way to fe IVE 4 man all the liberty to go out, Ifa wife does her duty, try to haye! @ pleasant disposition, leave trout aside, learn to understand him, study ae Ee Misspelled Word. Cort d Word. Letter, 1 Cotes loved v 2. rediculous ridiculous t 3, doctered doctored ° 4. hopefuly hopefully L 6. paralle, A . 6. dabbling 8 7 villainy, & 8. separate A 9, impedement impediment 1 10, interupted interrupted R EE arses reas! T could not keep my husband home evenings when I was first married, Tt Amusements. was my own mistake; was young and did not know how-to run a home. Now he sees I do all I can to make his home a happy one. Don't show a man that you care; every man js different. My husband does not care to g0 out alone any more ait in T cannot expect him to tho house. I hope to heve suce ip trying ners, Telephone Directory for the Winter months fe to press Mov. 26th, 9 secure Ils contracts mi eo made prior to that date, WEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY 18 Dey Street, ef ey Three Up-to-Date Studios are required to fill the demand for our Artistic Photographs Good work and low prices are the cause of it all, STUBS: | BROOKLYN, | 489 Fulton ste y 22 Moat 38 gaa ai NEW EMPIRE * THEA ay ibe ADAMS. THE eters MAU E ADAMS SISTER OF JOSE. [EATRE. Bway and 30th st 10, Mat HERALD 80, "sven EXTRA MATINEE rue TADAY, | /G0 WHERE THE THE CROWDS -60! GIRL 14 4 rst FRon | 5.000 | KAY’S, LAUGHS. | , 5AM BERNARD, REV YE titer wm Gillette in “THR ARMIRA TER |GARDEN gHeatre, 27th Mas UXTRA MATINEE THUMSD AN, jsuccrsss Has | THREE AT. DALY'S. TT | aETTER (LI LE | wHAN EVER, | MAIDS, N&w SONas—samr WAVoRITHS SAVOY } PRATER, sbroadway he CHARLOTTE wight , CRI ITERION THEATRE. Br roadway i Hees atts WHEATID, Gbth ats & ith os JE, Bs of B'way. ‘Thurs., aid Sat. Hive, aud Sat, Mat,, “coustiy’ Kate” and’ Cato Nov. 30, Ba. The Marriage of Kitty. way |B ath Bt, IPR Tae NerBOUN | BC. “AND 0c, Lex Aw OTE Bat hasta Mat. That Kell § w ie Da Beaton, s MAGAZINE 2 | How to Tell the Age POOR RIE TS STARR. TIE MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1903, of the Girl in Red. pelled out pumaers In the chapters of he Girl in Red.* In exch ebapter thie $, Swill appear. Phese vumbers will ng ey will be printed as numbers or figures only, Tha first chapter to-day arg ¢-3—p. One number te to ve selected from euch chapter as the story appears. Theh' |] fo find the Girl In Red's age add the numbers selected from the first four ehape ters, subtract the number in the fifth, add to the remainder the numbers in SIXtl, seventh and eighth chapters, subract the number In the ninth chaptorig add the number in ¢he tenth, muliply the number in the eloventh and divide | (his product by the number in the twelfth chapter. The quotient and re mainder will be the Girl In Red's age in years and months. ‘The’ number in to-day's qhapter is 8, Fill out this blank when the story is completed and send it to “Girl in Haditor Evening World, P. 0. Box 1364, New York City.” ‘The story will Ge Saturday, Deo. 5, but answers will be recelved. up noon Monday, Dee, 7. No, of The Right Chap. y Number. The Girl in Red’s Age. Sender's Name. thundered the man. ‘For BAT ade ater cane Eo int ven cared she might have been ee, He. wilt Neste you: led. You'll sweat foy this neglect,” 4 The pathetic submission wherewith | mi eS ae any. ta evengy) aie the little man bore the words and the compen ye ag shaking awoke Gray's pity, With a gre oT ant hh a quick twist of the fingers he tore loose ys patti polled the aseatiant's grip from the other's “2 am, 4 Symes, collar. He used no special gentle- Oi ness in doing this, end the saspreseor | xe sas Sea, posiden for bent for a moment almost double, nurs-| me," he ended ing a wrenched wrist. Then he tratghts| " ened himself and JooWed Gray in the Rt ow minded prcers a You shall pay for this," he sald,’ a or — care slawly, with a deadly sip far a more impréssive than hts SOI ie. ee ay ee ter, ‘You shall pay deatly.”” Speaking of it think “he ied Gray glanced the man over from bead | harm, Covat pn me 1 T cin be of-a0r to heels, He recognized him as a chance | "48 acquaintance at the club, recalled that wen © aii ttle dow he’ niiétiet ‘his name was Simor Ferjeon and that suddenly started in pursuit, P he was a millionaire bank prvelacat, too. et howe! past Hée was rumored to contain | <2 Oud haye cried, half a! ‘and some rather unsavory episqdes. tame, But cate rust TH “Tam very much at your service, Mr. and Ferioas >. Cin tue Giants Oeidlgs MD the hoig" wor world tn pear of jother .waiked away without a word. Gray had that eyoae ‘set in mo! i “Oh, sir!’ groaned the little man who at even’ ‘poniled death had been. the cause ‘of the Moe “T tyatery, Joy a rel ps am efratd you bave-eisked much in ine (To Be Continued.) be $1 SECURES ORIENTAL RUG., Call to-day and see.our splendid stock of ad ear ng cnc USL BAL Ye dere ec, eee ie ere SOM) a {TE BANS GENES sold to you on terms to suit your conven!- ‘5Bth Gt HNORESTER,” ont Civil war ence. Free booklet, “Oriental Rugs." Mate. Mon., Wed.. Thurs, pent The Oriental Importing Co., Tath SL{ Het oe Rh Direct Im; ot Oriental Pu; Ttly opening ND Tae ATR pss Fours Arenas, te" YS DASTOR'S IE aaah Kieran iat he HURTIC.& SBAMON'S fh Fee i ee s| BELASCO THEATRE 2xs; Breavotn ire ae aeritet Present Sine ad Hek/Men. wal HERE Fy Tai MMESTICN siete st By 8 a eee IN CAPT DIEPPE aar Sundey World Wants bring thelr own sut> cess. 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