The evening world. Newspaper, November 27, 1903, Page 15

BRR eR oad mm on E GIRL IN RED. — SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. arts reeves fram oath = beaut: Se RA feattife bose pie yer Sous = handks Suse Pentair Prt ‘ito 1050 hte whole fortune if he abate ees aah Fiat im is ‘about om i pad 9 four, sum pal .° ‘age. She t wer her age, by learning the goa Rad of a snote wetter ‘by the Girl in Red and forces Symes the signature, og CHAPTER V. ol, & Deadlock and a Peril, HE next tow weeks passed pleas- @ntly enough for Arthur Gray, ‘True to her promise, Kathleen had her fellow salesgirls, represent- the various big stores, to keep 4 jut for the Girl in Red's purchases, every day interest in the ab- sorbing question of how to keep @ peed home nights increases, Bowery mail brings more letters from teiives who bave solved or failed to solve Hhe most yexing problem that presents Ateett to the married woman. Some of the plans suggested by the competing ‘@r2 ingenious and all are tnter- batias, Meir frank vevelation of the different edients resorted to to keep the mas- ine hal? of the iousehold by his\own reside and others are pathetic in their Weppfeesion of failure. ‘be contest closes on Thursday, Dec. %and the names of the prize-winners pwill be announced in ‘Nhe Evening World ha Saturday, Dee, 6, 5 ihe Lora pia the Work for Her. ft The Evening World: TEREARS “some young. hourewfe ‘would iike to lnow the seoret , bow I have kept my husband {n night for twenty years. ‘The first two years of my married life was epent trying, but I found myself helpless. fhusband could not see the nici tidy home, nor the snow-white table- with a nice supper prepared for coe the baby in the high-chair. ere is what I did. I asked my God Im these simple words; “Dear God, will ou please keep my husband thome at 7 He ‘s away all day long.” The ee the work. Twenty years have T can truthfully state that my Peo never leaves home except when hho, goes to the, lodge to pay his dues. 1s that others will use my rem- aay ed that thelr husbands will stay at ome. ‘Mrs. JAMDS PETHRSON, Rowe Is B Home-Loving Journalist. the Battor of The Evening World: many yearw after our wedding— \ we were married in 1876—my hus- band was fortunate in busin came tonie at 6 in the evening and ed there. I always met him at door with a caress. And dressed In sown he admired. After dining, when , werelther played cards or went the theatre. My husband enjoyed so, for his pleagure, I fre- @ave dinners and social func- , Im after years he often told me ‘@y management of the housetiold “my never-varying pleasantness ve him the strong desire to get home there remain, I would fain keep at home nights now. But, alas! 4s @ newspaper man (he Jost his eee ago) and goes ¢o his of- 6 in the evening and returns ‘ in the aN at 3. But T stitt mer au coat a paeseeeeseoreorer ceceesosesooooose Dh, What Awful Husbands! They Won Many letters are humorous In, Scenting @ mystery of some sort and glad, moreover, to oblige so popular a fellow worker as Kathleen, the girls passed the word along and at each from Lacy's, Rigel & Hooper's, and other great emporiums in the shop- ping district made a point of meeting to compare notes on the ‘subject. A ribbon-counter girl from Armon & Dunstable's.was @ local heroine a week later when she rushed into the little restaurant where they bevy of amateur detectives ware lunching and exclaimed: “I've found hee! She came to my counter just as I was starting for lunch and bought six yards of double- face caniinal satin thibbon. I've made a note of the price. See!" ‘The fair informant was at once sur counded by an admiring, laughing, ques- tioning throng of colleagues; envious of her good luck #m scoring first in this detective game wherein they were all so deply interested. The following week it was a tri- umphant brunette from De Smythe’s who won the next point by announcing that the Girl in Red had bought of her that very morning for a certain sum a scarlet silk walst. ‘These purchases, together with the in- {tial one at Flack’s, made up the first 3 “of thé ‘quartet. Bagerly the three suma were added up, and ‘far more eagerly was awaited the fourth. For, it willbe remembered, the eum of the first these” purchases, divided by the cost -f, the fourth, was to give as quotient the Girl in Red's age. Each day when a new purghase bad been reported to him, Gray bad gone ‘thet bapa J (rain, frost, moonlight or weather) to the house “And to give him her hand tn reward, after the fashion of the knights of old?’ begged Arthur, “Who mows?’ ghe anewered,-enig- ‘matically, and through the dim light it seemed to him that ber eyes were less full than usual of coquetry end cow emotion that had momentarily mas- tered her. And when she spoke aguin the tenderness was gong trom her voice. “Do you know," she said, banteringly, ‘that you ere a very eccentric youth? Less, eccentric, perhaps than ignorant, Tf you knew more of the world you ifn ow the above question: A orize of $10 for a letter from Husband: Home Nights. failed to keep her husband home night Letters must not de bver 150 words Husband Editor, Bvening World, New Pare an enjoyate luncheon at 1 o'clock something he likes to eat—I haven't lived with him since 187 without know- ing the way ¢o his heart. We still play the ‘pasteboards,”” and for his’ pleas- ure I often play and sing the popular songs. I go every night to the front window of the apartment when hée leaves for tis task, and he and I throw kisses at each other. Is this not a rec- ord for twenty-eight years of married Ufe? Is it not a winner? A BSATI§FIED WOMAN, Grandma's Good Way. ‘To the Bditor of The Evening World: HIRTY-BIGHT years ago, we were married, both very young. My husband, not caring to forsake this companions, went out every night, uc was always home at 10 o'clock. After our @econd child was born I be- gan td think of keeping him home with out letting him uspect what { was up to. I bought him a@ fine smoking jacket for a Christmas present, and after bus!- ness was over asked bim to put it on and make himself comfortable, When the weather got very warm I made a large pitcher of iced tea every evening. To divert his mind [ asked him to play a game of dominoes and I tet him win, as Ceaw it pleased him. He got so used to finding himself comfortable at home that he forgot to think of golng out and did not go out nights unless we were pogeener Aine was thiny-two it asts. iesplneeatlaae GRANDMA. Seoret.of a Happy Home Reveal: To the Bditor of The EByonine World: URING our nine years of married life i») T have neyer failed to be at home when my husband réturned from ‘usiness.¢o welcome him with a kiss. I regret that we have ever to be separated. 1 tell him this, and how longingly I await hjs return, Frequently I wateh at the window to throw a kiss of weloome ast geo him nearing tioms. “We receive friends, return calla, “visit” places of amusement and worship together. I con- ined have some rele blitiean for How to Keep Your Husband Home Nights. T HE EVENING WORLD offers the following prizes for the best answers to husband home nights forthe longest number of years. A prize of $10 for the most conyinoing letter telling How to Keep Your A consolation prize 2f $5 to the woman who has tried the hardest and ide of the paper only to receive attention: would realize what an unusual, uncon- ventional unwise thing it is for me to Jet you come beneath my window after nightfall and to talk to you thus. I were seen"— <Tput who te there to see or hear?" he| Interrupted. “Besides, if 1 were caught} prowling around the grounds, you surely) don't suppose 1’ drag your name into| the business, do you? Besides, I love you, and why shouldn't I come to see! you? If {t were not that you've for- bidden me to find out the name of your family or to call on ‘you openly, should have gained a regular introduc: tion to you long ago, and asked your ta-| father for permission to marry you.” “You mere child!" laughed the Girl in Red, as soon ds she could stop vhis boy ish tirade. “That's the very thing that would have spoiled It all. If you had on me and known my name and family! you might have called once or twice and then forgotten my existence. But the mystery of the affair attracted you. I ‘wanted to keep up that mystery and even incite you to @ quest of some sort in omer to win me. Anything to hold your interest until real love should sup- plant the mere admiration that you at first mistook for love. I think," she fin- ished softly, “that that time fs at hand. You see, I am frank, even un- maidenty perheps, in desoribing my plan of . You asked me if I really cared for you. Surely pe should be| ‘answer. If I did not’— "ene ‘stopped suddenty. and, with a startled exclamation, withdrew from the ae ft fround secking & cause for each 8 pooten exit, Arthur Gray found hhimaelf looking into the muzzle of @ er. "you ‘are caught,” sald a cold voice and Arthur strained his eyes through the gloom to recognize the shadowy ‘of the man not 6 fest distant whose intonations seemed not unta- “Who are you? A hold-up?” asked Gray, calmly. “If so, you may as wall put up that gun, It won't scare me. If you should fire it the whole house would, $26 in Prizes for Those Who Can ‘Tell How to Keep Them at: cithe. a wife who has successfully kept her 8. in length and must be written on one ‘Address letters to: Wandering York City.” him during ‘the evening in the way of delicacies, etc. His wargrobe is always in perfect order and exquisitely neat, his meals on time and daintily served. I endeavor to save all possible for a “rainy day." I have no secrets. His interests are mine. Words of love and cheer are his from me. My happiness dwells within my husband and home. we irs, W. One Woman's Firm Conviction. To the Editor of The Evening World: AN I enter for the “Convincing Prise? I'm fully convinced that a Wife cannot keep’ her husband at homé unless he loves her and wishes to} stay. She may be charming, sad, gay. loving or sorrowful, which might have Some weight, but unless he wants to stay nothing on earth will, keep him home but love for her. MRS, B, , Regained Her Paradi: To the Wditor of The Evening World: have been married seven years, wes Ike a sojourn in Paradise. But husband chummed with the destroyer ot EXien in the shape of gambling club frienda and I waked ¢rom my dream to Mind life @ lonesome struggle. I, how- ever, kept up my part of the contract, re ab sweet as in'the days of yor my aching heart with a cheerfi smile and finally won him back to my . ( PERSEVDRING WIFE, *Pwenty-nine Years of Home Stay-j , ing. To the Editer of The Evening World: HAVE been married twenty-nine years and in that me my tusband has not! all been out to any amusement, unless that I have been with him, only to lodge ‘meetings, and then he always comes home, around 10 o'clock. I believe in to keep’ husband home at night is to make.the home as pleasant as possible, and not to be always nag@ing and bring- SOSESEStESESS: our first three years of married life| , LARA TPE NT RITE LLL ET ye TT I SNR TT TITRE (Re Mpaper ere + A kove-bed Quest From Shop to Shop of the Girl in Red. BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE. |Find the Girl's Age. eI RST PRIZE... SECOND PRIZE... 13 OTHER PRIZES, EACH... met me in the ordinary way and called). $IOO in Prizes. | AN UNEXPECTED MEETING. be alarmed before you could get away with one penny of my cash or with my watch. You must surely have sense enough to see that. A gun, so near cl ilization, isnly good against cowards, As he had beeh speaking Arthur hed steadily edged nearer and nearer by imperceptible stages to the man with the revolver. When he had reached what he judged to be the desired di- tance he ceased speaking and was on the point of running in on his opponent for a “tackle that should at once overthrow and disarm the latter. But the other man’s next words halted him “Mr, Arthur Gray,” observed the stranger, in the same level, ‘unmoved “Who are you? ithe house through ter'window? I must save her, I am too far away to grapple with you, So I run forward, firing as tones, ‘I'm not a hold up, If I were 1 should have chosen-a better place than ‘this for my work. .I am a member of a dear friend of the family that owns (hts hous, I em walking through the grounds when suddenly I “perosive, ct of trying to climb of the vines, belong to a room occupied by the young lady of the.house. I have reason think she is in that room, "What would ‘be her surprise—her fear—her. horror— on paroabrings, 4 burglar climbing into * he feels that ‘there is no place as pleas- Gina to Be Together fore Marriage. To the Editor of The Evening Worldt ‘DHINK the best way to keep a hus- band home at night Is to nave every- thing neat and tidy and not to be always complaining and tlnding fault. I am a happy wife four’ yoars and’ my |husand stays home every evening. I |think where the love is the same be- tween both after they are married tt was before that both can be just a contented spending thelr evenings at home together as they did while they were engaged. Mrs, MARGARET WILSON, He Only Goes Out Election Nights. To the Editor of The Evening World: {yma we were married my hus- band said to me: This ends my go- ing out nights, I made ‘no reply. We have ‘been married eighteen yeas. My husband never goes out a-night without me. Once a yeat he will go Out to see how election is coming out. Even then he will ask me to go with him, When he comes to did me good- by I always say to him: Have a good time and stay as late as you like. Be- fore 10 o'clock I hear the latohkey in the door, I will say to him: Why, home 30 soon. He will say: Yes, I thought I would come home to be with you. Never let a husband think you can't ve without him. We tiever have shall or shant in our home, A man is like a horse, the harder you pull on the reins the faster he waats to go. Give him jack rein and let him go easy, Then DOMESTIOATHD WIFE. Not to Be Taken Seriously. the Editor of The Evening World: I HERBWITH inclose recelpt ¢or First bag your game, then bring him home triumphantly. After seour- {ng als hind legs’ proceed to skin him for all he is worth, tking care mean- palaver sauce Flavor to tagte. Add one ez. so he Will got accustomed to the yolk (yoke). Place near fire to almper in the evening, Be careful not to stir and—there you are. Happy Woman's Record, To the Editor of The AM married sey I run. You fall dead at my fect as I reach the spot. Is all that clear?" | please, or FRIDAY EVENING: NOVEMBER 27, 1903. greed Gray, “and rathe 00. It kas only two flaws—f the lady who as you sny, {3 in the room above, must have heard the whole plan you've #0 kindly outlined to me In the second place, you've nothing to gun by murdering me. There, I must qanin disagree with | you," broke In the other man, with good natured ventempt. “The vounz |i an say nothing. If xhe does I may put a nev aspect, on the affatr y be formed to bring har name I leave you to judge how such story would afftct her reputation. | From what 1 know of her she will not min that ris, by saying anything of | what she has heard. As to your second jectlon-no, don't start forward, | T shall be obliged to shoot | to your second o to gain by your prematurely—as tion, I have much How to Tell the Age L 4 A hold-up?” asked Gray calmly.» death. The hand! of thé young lady 1A! question, among other things, and now''— Arthur Gray had been weighing his chances with lightning speed and pre- Around ‘Town. By Josephine Robb. No. 1I-The Man‘on.the Lift). 4 = F your tayorite elevator ‘Boy looks, at you vaguely and answers you automatically when you greet him in the morning with your customary preg- rant remarks regarding the weather, don't “think that he is sullen or unap- 'prechittve,,of your good nature—it js) simply for the 95 days of the| think, to fils tastes, When Wilked does night Mork "he craves a book. But you “must te caré- ful what Uterature yow offer this fas- tdious gentleman. He tas ‘a pretty taste for fine writing, has Wilkes. | “Thanks you, mie," “he says) wher You seleet a magazine siltablé/ as you “I don't caré for year he has the weathor hurled at hfm/ that class of literature. Rather sénsa- RICHARD morning, nooh and night on an aver- age of 100 times per minute. ven the weather can pall upon one under such cilroumstances. But perhaps you haven't a favorite elevator boy. ‘Perhaps you are vul- garly rich and Uve in a place where there are a dozen elevators, so seldom meet the same boy twice. Or, perhaps, you are fortunate enough to ve in your own house, and, conse- quently, need no elevators—in your own estimation. Of course, you are then to be envied. But the great’ New York population living in apartment-houses, studio build- ings and other tenements know the ele- vator boy well and depend upon him for many favors. ‘There is Wilkes, for instance. Wilkes may be a bit off color, but is none the less thoroughly white He looks perbags thirty—it is so hard to judge of men like Wilkes—but, is prob- ‘ably more, as be confesses to grand- children. ‘An athlete is Wilkes. Small, spare, wiry, the bicycle is his only love—so he Not content with shooting. up and down all day long, occasionally he wishes to make just as good speed on you will keep your husband at homer keeping a husband in evenings: while to freely sprinkle him with typ ,oF Jet boll over oF he may. excape, had any dliticul to sympathize with him end entourage ‘him tn all his troubles that may in bis’ way, that when te comus’ iio I ing. up all his Httle faults, Out rather) childre ris chert “st ‘ ties fnun's duty, | the level Prodigious runs he accom- 3 on its Sundays off, and his only et in the weather Is evinced on lay, when he weloomes all fote- tg, but says cynically, with a know- Wag of the head, “It ll 'rain=it’s my tional and—retrograding, do You not prognosticate, ma'am? I like something ‘that compels the exercise of the imag- snation,"" Then you meekly offer Wilkes the At- Jantic Monthly. John-with-the-anxious-fhee is another familiar type. John looks hungry, and probably dods ‘not belie his looks, for Presently You ‘hd out ‘that ‘he Write and tour Its once depending upon his wages. (Why always four? One of the mys- terles of poverty pathetic.) So, when John falls sick of pneumonia, to-provide a cap for him, sa maritans send ‘him. an opportune Christ mas gift, recelving In return this note grateful fad respekt Charlie and addicted ‘This you treasu’ Richard is a gentleman. fe by some ot his are well-shaped and well Kept and he looks clean, Richard i8 a man of ideas, which, how- ever, he does not air unless Invited to do so. His ‘modesty is refreshing, >You are not surprised when you hear that Richaml comes of good parentage, and when, after honorable apprentice- cts to pull the ntil his own machinery the runs down. Fandinand ts 4 Winen you offer Christmas te prectative. yet. he Rou it you could exe ie be wa et_and snofte: ima red necktle at though grace fally’ape aa kes Boa to be vit ‘blite! one, ve xitied at PMiartinique. of the Girl in Red«p — © begin with, the Girl In Red Is in her teens and there 1s no fraction ii wr age, She 18 so many Integer years and so many integer months, ou have that information to start with. thon, to find her. age: There will be twelve chapters in this story and in each chapter three of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 9 will be printed as numbers or figures—not spelled out. One of these numbers is t0" ba selected each @ay—you must pick one of the three yourself—and when the’ story 1s completed add the four selected numbers in the first four chapters, subtract the selected number in the fifth, add the numbers in the sixth, sev- enth and eighth chapters, subtract the number in the ninth, add the num! in the tenth, multiply by the number in the eleventh and divide by the num- ber In the twelfth. Tho quotient and remainder will be the Girl in Red’s ag@! in years and months. And remember she !s under twenty. Read the story carefufly and you may find therein something that will give you a clue to her age, The number in the first chapter was 3% Fill out this blank when the story is completed and send it to “Girl in Red, Fditor Evening World, P. 0. Box 131, New York City.” The story will end Gaturday, Dec. 5, but answers wil! be recelved up to noon Monday, Dec. 7. The Right J No. of Number. | Chap. The Girl in Red’s Age........++++++ Years. Sender’s: Name Address y cision, His brain, taught to qu'ck work| a swimmer who is battling for his iife, on the gridiron, ‘was responding nobly | For perhaps 9 eeconda he stood sa0- to the'sudden demand on ft. Heretofore | tionlesg, Then a desperate plan—a fi Gray hed always planned merely for{lorm hope, flashed across his mind ona himself. Now, however, the reputation | he put it into instant action. and happiness of the girl he; loved hung t's life pr death elther way” pas in’ the success of his planning; hung | muttered. “So here goes!" Ike a leaden weight about the neck of | - (To Be Continued) hes | _A Material Difference. “= dangerous with Castoria and its imitations. of Chas, H. Fletcher ever in your mind’s eye as the Mushroom, be at particular to remember the counterfette, substitutes and ‘just as Kood® kinad: as the Toadstools,. There may be @ resemblance in the -but: theta: Chas. 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