The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1903, Page 11

* rubbed ft well Inside and out with emery —-Mghts on the unrevealed depths of the feriinine heart. th queation bas all “Des een ing ae leeding up r ie z 5 XMAS GIFTS FOR $5. i , What Can be Had and How to Select Them. ' By Mme. Judice. ' ONCE read of » girl who made thirty- attest. Four of each king of there * three gifts at a total cost of Sf cents | boxes gave me prety gifts a dozen and en oN white duck skirt. The |of my friends, ack n h (eat tay Ect Na ore F* ‘A poor bed-ridden man I mAde a article, thé 92 cents being the cost of trimmings. Of course the girl first ripped the skirt apart and had it neatly laundered. Then she made\it into ali tris of little novelties, such @s you may de with articles you may have on hand. Take 2 look in the shop windows and nea for the newest-ideas in these nov- ties and the making ‘vill be casy. @rls is just what I did.’ I determined compete with the duck skirt girl on Christmas gift question, and suc- evaded in remembering fifty felends on less than %5. BEGAN by getting out my bags |0f Tibbon sewed on the top being used for a handle. and boxes of caps—of every descrip- 3 ' tlon—and as I looked over my ma- mane are ive theee gay college girl terials I planned something for each friends was my next problem. A half yard of gray elderdown was quite enough for a bolero jacket, and with six, large brass buttons cost me less than 50 cents. The edges were finiehed with a crocheted border of red woot an’ black oes Four large flowered handkerchiefs with. solid pink borders that éost 7 cents cach gave me material for one of the new and dainty kimonos or halr- combing protectors. I sewed them to- getter in a large square, leaving one seam open for the front and four inches open at each seam to make four points for a pretty and becoming finish around the néck. A shirt wafet box was another selec- 6g doing duty also as a pretty window A soap box from the grocer, with eB “prass hinges for 10 cents, gave me the foundation to work on; 6 cents’ worth of blue cambric lined it neatly; a yard apd a half of 12-cent cretonne with violets scattered over a cream ground made the covering and carried out the sohome of the recipient's room to per- fection. A layer “of cotton under the eretonne on the lid made a most co} fortable seat. box of “comfort powders, are witty little sayings written on white or blue paper and wrapped up like powders. These I placed in @ little flat DIN hox and tled with a bright ribbon and piece of holly. A unique and comfortable hot-water ax cover was made from red flannel, ornamented with a grinning face, out- lned in black and yellow wool ‘A tray cozy consisted of a cardboard box, minus the lid, covered with pretty wall paper on ¢he outside and lined with 5 cents’ worth of parafine paper, a strap first present was for a new baby mephew—three dainty sacques. These I mage from pieces of outing flannel left from, night-dresses. One had a cream , @round with pink stripes. I bound the * ¢dxes with narrow white ribbon, mak- img a feather stitch from one skein of pink silk to hold it in place. The seoond wean the bluc and white fiannelette, Bound with blue taffeta and feathe: atitohed in white. The third was pink andywhite check, bound with pink and itched with white. Two pieces of wibbon cut six inches long were sewed to the neck, The expense of this dainty Uttle gift was 12 cents, the cost of the ribbon. EXT on the list was a baby two N years old, I picked out twelve Dleces of material of different color, dempaped and pressed it to fresh- ness and cut them 10 inches square. ‘Then I collected the brightest plotures I could find in advertisements of dogs, ats and other antmals, with a fow fig- ures of children, Some I pasted in just @s they were; others I cut out before pasting. After each square of cloth was covered with pictures and partly dry, I placed it between newspapers and pressed smoothly. Then I tied the = together with a piece of pink T’ Plea’ scraps of white exlerdown joth. The seams were sewed as nar- Sows possible, A scallop around the Gages was crocheted with white wool. and small bows of Wiue ribbon orne- mented the wrist. ‘This cost me two cents for the yard of ribbon. ‘Some dolls for little folks I made from mall ecrans of chamols ekin and by buying two %-cent skins;I had enough for seven dolls 32 inches ‘The heads were made fram old white kid gloves, eut elrcular shape and gathered into o bull stuffed hard with cotton, The faces I painted. © tr T had expended $1.28 for rib- bon, chamois skin, angora ¢ur and poce for stuf ng, but I bad ten HEN I visited the grocer for the soap box I spied a tea box, the pretty matting cover of which gave me visions of waste paper, has- kets, fire screens and lamp shades. The matting wna one lange squaca piece, the corners having been turned neatly in and not cut off, as I feared. I bought @ wire lamp-shade for 15 cents and cut my matting in circular shape to fit. A bax of fancy beady bought in a toy store for 19 cents gave me a \béautiful fringe, while gold paint \laubed here and there with a stiff brush added to the effect. Beet handles sawed off in uniform HE next gift, fora caby g:cl, was & little pair of mittens made from lengths and held together with long braes screws, when painted Diack made @ splendid framework for the fire- screen. The scarlet poppies of wall- paper pasted on ood out against the matting with Its black border and made a most effective addition to my friend's library, A few small pleces of the matting gave me the matenial for two footstools, ‘A starch box for thelr foundations and 10 cents’ worth of large brass tacks were the only thing necessary for thelr deco- ration. med aires ené dlué cloth from. the akirts, when cut in strips and braided ‘with wide white tape, made a jolly pair @f reins for a seven-year-old lad, the aly expense being the bolt of white tape and three sleigh bells. ‘Two pretty stripe of fancy silk sug wested neckties for s twelve-year-old nephew. A yard of the tape made the interfining and two pretty string ties was the resalt. My young friend, “neither man nor Boy," came in for @ collar button. r coptacle made from a chalk box. I HIAD made forty-one gifts so far and had 91 cents left to vuy materials for the remaining nineron my list. ‘A piece of sheepskin from the hardwate| store, costing 75 cents, made two scis- sor cases, one bili folder and two needle| cases. These I sewed on the machine with red silk and scalloped the edges with the scissors. Scraps of satin and flannel gave me materials for lining, m the bits of sheepskin left I, made two pen-wipers in the shape of maple leaves, a cover for a prayer-dook and a watch fod, to which I hung a Chinese coin, I still had several pleces of cretonne, sheepskin, silks, ribbons, wools, paint &c., on hand whioh I could put to goo use at the last moment if I had over- looked any one. My bank account showed 16 cents to my credit. ‘This I used for white paper, red string and a few ep- velopes. I wrapped each little remem- brance wit @ plece of holly and my card of Christmas greeting. Paper, then cut out his three initials in heavy white paper, and laid it on the -top, and T spattered it thickly on the top and sides with ink and water. After removing the paper, the initials were ax clear and pronounced as if painted. rule idea was much @ succesg-that tt suggeste? making fancy béxes for loves, neckties, handkerchfefs, &c., and Using raisin boxes for the foundation, Tm addition to the initials I painted the names of the articles for which they Were intended, a touch of gilt paint on ‘tHe lettering giving a most artiatis THE BEST WAY TO POP THE QUESTION. EDITED BY MARGARET HUBBARD AYER. @16 FOr THE BEST LETTER|/$10 FOR THE BEST LETTER from a Woman‘on the Least Em-| from a Man Giving Directions How Way for a Girl to Pop} to Pop the Question Mest Con the Quéetion During Leap Year | vincingly S500 IN PRIZES. iy ss her ceg th) corer satenouTapher tn Mayon, jute tn 1S ernose cole helrese she ee at a a tec fore ca a thous ha BEAN ‘Sipher, that’ i nalirs Ges clue tits whereabouts mecomie ee sores athe einer “and are directed box cont ay {Sayton'n Crookeal businens deaiinas which she threatens to reveal unless Hyde will marry ler, weit silence Murte a as to discover knows, about t missing fortune, pulous henchman, The plot in #9 eres Mit the. Geremon: eet, believes it Is Clayton she has ma CHAPTER VIL. A Plot and a Surprise, © left Murlel gazing horror-stricken W into the grinning, malevolent face of the man she had unwittingly married. For a full minute the newly-wed and strangely-assorted couple continued to eye each other—the woman as though trying to escape from some nightmare, the man genuinely amused. “What does this masquerade mean?” she faltered at tength, in a dry, atrained Yolce, “What are you doing here? Where is Hyde Clayton, my husband? “I am your husband, my dear," coolly replied Ezra, “We are man and wife, you and I, as firmly as the church and the laws gf New York State oan bind us. Oh, it/was no mock marriage, I as- sure you. The clergyman {s young and gets rattied easily, but he's the real thing and the acted in verfectly good faith. Yeu may have been too much ‘absorbed to notice the jumble he made of the names or to observe that he called me vy my own name Instead of Clayton's, And as such he will record the marriage at the Bureau of Vital Btatistics. Stil the silent, wide-eyed gaze of in- credulous horror from Muriel. “You see," went ob Raynor, “Mr. Clayton knew of my desire to mary you and, being chuck full of benevolent kindness, he resolved to help me. We arranged the little farce of the burning papers. It will relleye you to know ne was not at all injured. When you ar- rived here he helped me bind up my face and threw a rug over me to mde the difference in our\figures. A dark- ened room, an unsuspicious parson and a too eager bride did the rest.” Murlel started to ther feet, stung to realization at last. Ezra shrank back a step, fearing a repetition of their for- mer scene of violence. But the shock to Murtel's brain and sensibilities had been too great She could scarce grasp the full extent of the hoax whose victim she had been. She felt a wild impulse to buret into hysterics, but her iron will and the nerves schooled by years of self-repres~ sion came to her rescue. ‘ $5 FOR THE BEST LETTER from Man or Woman on the Most Delicate Way of Refusing an Offe of Marriage ’ “Address Lettera in This Contest to “Margaret Hubbard Ayer, Evening World, New York City.” | propose, Dick?” asked Nellie, ‘Well it depends. If the girl is posit that the man will accept ber and sees that he is unable to do the proposing himself, by all means let her do it, But—ehe aust be without doubt, ag a man would hate to refuse a girl, even if be did not love her and might accept if he really did not dislike her and regret it afterward. “Wihy did you ask that question, are you thinking of giving some man a glimpse of heaven?" “Yes, if he gives me any encourage- cat.’ “Well, can't I help you in some way? You know that I am always ready to do anything you want me to." “What,” asked Nelile, would you do if girl proposed to yout” “It any girl but the one I: worship Gia 10 f would Geoline with thanks; if was to do mich @ thing I would her to understand that { was di ANY are the ways in which woman reveals het supéflor tact and adroitness, and-now \ere does this forth as in the winding and cir- toute by which she leads the lords of creation through the mazq of courtship to the question of matrimony. ‘This contest bide fair to throw side- The women who have timidly ré- f¥ained fiom giving to the world their Opinions on the engrossing subject of the question are coming val- fantly to the front, and the various ex- perlences te be imtereating to The ign who Jeele that he 1a 0 free it, Ungrejudiced and uniifluenced, thinks that he is Cesta tad for we “Swen it ocmes to chazaiag, time, mode of will find) and he thinks he is doing of his “Wold you marry me if I asked you to?! “You have not anewéred my question in words yet, Dick.'" 4 ‘“L should have thought that the os- ‘culatory evidence Would have been wut- hut as it seams not to have ‘Deen I will add the word YES. PRED G. FATCH. ‘A Very Stinple Plas; ‘hat you think two could get along very nieely on the same. If ehe agrees, then ask her how would gue lke to be one of the two. MICHAEL KENNY. Console While Rejecting: Dear Mise Ayer: ie refuse a proposal of marnw@ge without hurting the man’s feelings is a v@ry dificult task, My advice toagiriinslch a case would be to say to him that while she could never marry, ‘him, she apprectated the honor he did her very much, that she hoped not to! lose his valued friendship, and that she| truated he did not consider he had en- couriged him, as she really always thought of him as‘a*very dear fr and would continue fo to regard him, aug shat tn fat, ously of marr! i to consol je rellow, and wel make a firm friend out of a Solocts MARRIED WOMA “My dear Wir. Cohn: Yo@r note of yerterday’has been received. While thanking you sincerely for your flatter- ing estimate of me and the areat honor you have done me In aging me to be yout wife, candor compels me to say that as 4 do Not cnerlah for you the feelings a Wife ghould bear toward her husband £ must decline the honor you would confer upon me. I have the high- eet retpect for you, and f assure you this refusal costs tall For Pua an t oars era | Sol pis atk BLE oer 101 Prizes. in All. First Prize..........+.. Five Prizes, each. Seventy Prizes, each. Twenty-five Prizes, each... “Do you think for a moment," 1 will will gasped, “that fraud—that I least averted. not expose It and send you all to prison?” Ezra sighed with relief that the dread- ‘eak of fury was for the time at 3 {thls matter you 2 Capital consent to t need of work. tine, THE MAGIC PAPER. e )terics and flying Into rages lex’s jook at sensloly 1; two clever people wivh $2,000 a good position and a clue to a fortune that ewill make us rich past all reach if we remain pa separate netther of us can gain this forr Phen she leaned Shall we two form a secrst a'l!- zed Hilda's hands aterionily, by never and, ever #0 glad for yo ispered, — ecstatically. WY itt faite And so audden, ltoo!, How mum you both were about Jit Tt promise not to say a word.” For the rest of the afternoon Adele continued to cast wondering. delighted | glances across at her roommate, ae if | fhe Intter were some wondrous Bort, < scientific specimen hitherto undla- wy THE s EVENING ot WORLD'S HOME 1s MAGAZINE 2 The Girl in Blue. Bde Romance of Business-Girl Life in New York. ww By Albert Payson Terhune. | worked away at her typewriter, feraelf to awae from ume forging to time |from golden day dreams of the future At 5 o'clock Adele leaned across from de Phis is Krow- We're partners, incow Ad dded, asesuently. “i'm so happy ‘The other seifled an exc ler, lest the rest of the room sh lamation of Sarees nould al within, are. our we and cote Bruce went with Hilda to the jatter’s boarding-house when the day was over, and delightedly accepted her here riage ceremony, and whom you wege marrying. ot my name being mentioned twice dur- ing the service substantiates that. Muriel twice strove to interrupt, but, as he finished, she burst into passton- ate weeping. Eara expreasionlesp eyeu. masterful voice: @ fool myself: “There 1s no fraud," he ¢eplied. if there 4s, you cannot prove it, The only atom of evidence you had was the note by which Mr. Clayton Jured you And, in the cab, on the way up town, I took the liberty of abstracting and destroying that note no case against any one. man and the witnesses oan testify you came here of your own accord; that you willingly went through the mar- sat looking at her with sheer Weakness, her eabs grew fainter, he spoke again, this time ip @ calm, “Ligten to me, Muriel, I don't want to slight your many charms, but this mar- rife isn't exactly a love match on my part any more than on youre, For mar- Fylow you L got f,0W0 and « rasa, ot ain? only readon, helping € eunyeon Be On the tral of old Mferch'a fortune and he wanted me to head you off, you're a clever woman. Instead of baving bys- Figure efter figure, letter after letter, crept inte view. bath Hild. Gilchrist Shall we work with Clayton ‘ashe can help us, ad- of any info! and then, when the ime come, throw him over and eelae the fortun Shalt we, be sensible “Or, oly hola You hal ‘The clergy- her co} her, an the’ any thet you kn Dhe fact tank pay joke on ‘ever, When, through even if it fouctied pticnl, pay. 39 Now the 0! rin not exactly | Sebbed ‘Thro! Maret looked at him eteadily tor 2 motnent. ‘Then she grew from ‘of the cipher. together they stadied in cad helroglyphics. dody but Its prinetpals. 9s wan the ohgrin of 3iIde'and t. finding merely a sheet of blank “What “at the end of thelr quest, Of thelr mutual love far outbalinced the agrin at their lose. bans saw in aes snOCR De, ene: ot mere! evil, bel Mar had who m acter too well to belleve him capable mich gn act of oruelt: MENa, don't destroy It,” she orfed, as ae Cxasperation, was about to tear the Faer inte & dozen piece: It tms some meaning, hasn't, it wd iat placed it in, the Box. tOnaned {6 sacred to me, Keep t Teeny Jead to something.” t auxigua to oe hest she might Sheet and put it in his inner coat ocet, ther ropbed of all uw’ dull Invitation to enter the, cosy 1 ‘or a few minutes. chilly and @ gai ances Crees of light and warmth across. ated himself as near resvenaterin pen we he boarders ‘hight and the: “Don't let me forest before T go to Eive a this paper we found je strong pals agter a period of conwer: gation that “would have Interested 1 of drew forth the paper, carebecsiy ARs rote Incle have. meant. by teaving nothing’ but thet bit Of there ang then aiving us such « tangle muta?” mused the tee that jhe ‘must ‘have. tum oMoUs ida ho how: 40," retuotantly assented char-fJack, “But I' can't see what—hello!” mot |e broke: oft ‘with ‘B startled exclama- “Taok there nting exctredly at the paper ie had been ting knee in the Is had reat in full mn BAe OP ‘the “he Rte glance towerd It longer red avers my letters "The elrre T1bo! grey ‘The lovers gazed spe! uW as figure 1 gure, letter after detter ches and taking he gets le and form @ par- He sat b io the joy 8 loyal to his “Baye it. Anyihing he pa- impose, pose, Jack last. the lettering i= brought, out by thé heat!” y held the page closer to the fire (To Be Centinued.) returned to the office, routine, ‘long wivertioon Elida ve the Simple Cipher in This Story and Win Some ‘of the $500 for one Money. SIMPLE, easy cipher will be found in one of the twelve chapters of ‘The Girl in Blue.”” that cipher and write the solution Jn the blapk given below. The clphér {n question ts not the one given in the first instalment, but is longer and appears in a later chapter, cipher hints as to 9 solution will be sgattered. So it is necessary for the reader to follow the entire story. ‘There are nny ciphers in existence, but the one which competitors are here shown consists of the using of fg~ ures for letters. Four’ words will be given as a start in the key, and the other letters of the alphabet not found in By the exercise of a little thought and ingenuity the cipher may be readily translated. these words will follow. ‘The story will end on Saturday, Dec. 19, and answers will be recelved up to noon of Monday, Dec. 21. blank and send tt to “Girl in Blue Bdltor of Evening World, P, O. Box) 134, New York City. You are expected to solve In other chapters besides that which contains the Fill out this ths HE news that oerson# of good char- Home day before yésterd that S$5O [ acter wound, be permitted to take/iniyht I trotted at out ae, wae & 10 she with, me the old Jokes out of our inatitution | Fictds, where it created » furore. Panny 'm sorry,” remled fila, though her| created great excitement. A chorus of] Herring was in the audience and so was 1} be ve the lie to her words of Tc garaise has greeted the announcement eld Mr. Louls Harrison: the. 2 Fret, “yut Mr. Bruce, is going hi sfere and there the feeble voice of pes-| Delween theo veternns was tohentie with me. chin vs ie ‘guccienate on@ cried | simistic opposition has been raised, but|tv witness. PPTER ¥, DAILEY. days. a4 MONDAY EVENING, * _ DECEMBER 14, 1903, The- Old Jokes’ Home. By Prof. Josh M. A. Leng. Call at the Retreat for Rejuvenated Jets: (formerly the Old Jokes’ Home) and take your wife homea GooD EXCUSE In a pail, They are the oldest Jokes we have. ke it Is drowned in the generat acctaims of Joy 1 ow definitely agreed tbat the public stayed away trom the theatres becaune they knew all ¢he Jokes were confined to the Old Jokes’ Home. All the dear old jokes, fresher, bright- er and stronger, are working again, and once more the theatres are thronged with intedkyent ilaygoers, and now know when to laugh, because thoy know the old jokes are Jokes, WE ARE ADVERTISED BY OUR LOVING FRIENDS. Prof, Josh M. A. Long—Thank vou for the »xcellent care you took of the 70d old joke that haw beer working for me ‘er since the good old Haverly minstre? Prof. Josh M. A, Long: I am glad sey that the mother-in-law ant m4 Wife's Discult's jokes which were out of the Old Jokes! Home and put into “Winsome Winnie” are working like “Heroes, PAULA EDWARDES _ i Prof. Josh M. A. Long: Can I @a- change ready-made German. dial for a lot of good old jokes from your / sanitarium? Can I use the one abut Albany, ‘Dee, “th Prof. Josh M. A. Long: I want the Chicken That Croswed the Road, because “Do marvied men live longer?” turkeys are no dear this Chirstmas. R. SAGE. “No; it only scams longer!" I took this out of the Old Jokes’ Littie Stories of Our Streets. By Owen Kildare, the Bowery Kipling. No. Il.—At Cooper Square. S there a set of workera more uni-|the water supply cut off. Whatever | versally abhorred than the truck-[causé, the trough was dry end and doggie was thiraty. ‘Therefore this jittle story, good under| ‘ta jump to the large trough above any circumstances, fs especially geod. {was out of the question, Besides, there Her: and there in_che cis we have} wero those big. awful horses, and drinking troughs for hori They are; irg was left but to lick the few not as many aw they aboold be apd not] drops from the paxing. stones. camplete cnotmts, for only ‘w tee Nave| A roa had satehes the dos’s despale. a smaller trough at the base for dogs. | And just as the truck-driver bai The one on Cooper Square has thethts horses eway from the trough | trough for dogs. Ugted: the tthe outea: where, A Iittle fellow of the'tramp-dog bresd| way pres atte —turely they are a breed; took at thetr! Mme dread of human touch, etingan Sauna sameness and you will agree with me—| to ingn ber Isles amd cpa i Grivers? Hardly, who egemed to be a steady custombe at thia particular fount made iris way dl, rect tp the Desin. With Rima team of btg, bulky horees, pulling @ heavy truck, arrived there. pod ‘Teere was much rattling of tron fehed ttle fellows teens chains and plunging and decking of|’ And t ? not mentioning the roaring vs ik, drank greedily, S Ura ReS mo the Ercups say Rave one ea and "@it upa" of the ériver, Small wonder thé little yellow tramp track-driver sald Jumped onto his sn sol oo Qnee I saw turn was frightened and drew back shiver at the meaaly And now, isn't that tngly. passion of something? “Buc lime el But when the bay had settied down to the enjoyment of thelr refreshment Une of calling it anyraine?. what ie the It happened; that's enough, the dog made for tts trough—ard found it empty. Perhaps the pipe was out of order or GIFTS FOR LADIBS 5p Dy pe ee would ri be Amusements. PROCTOR Shana | gets thi 7a a in @ MONROE, ‘Winners Or shine. All artis tah Y 3 5 isi “1 BAMRLAY ST. 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