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i] | ) OA: wo THE o - $500 a The << Girl 2 in < Green & IN PRIZES o o One Hundred and One Prizes for Those with Trained Eyes Who Read This Story oe —d cA Wealthy New Yorker Falls in Love with a Po or Cigarette Girl. By Albert Payson Terhune. The girl under the win- Which? ‘The one dressed Ike No. The Girl in Green."* “I don't know her, She's a beauty, though. Care to meet her?” “Very much, She's the first woman here whose face has attracted me, She looks like a little queen among a crowd of peksants.” “Helio! That's h'x') praise for aman whom five successive crops of soctets debutantes have angled for in vain. It ‘would be the joke of the season if Cecil Clermont, aristocrat. millionaire and cotillon leader, should loso hts heart at this late day to 2 pretty cigarette girl!" “Wiiton, you bore ma. There's ne talk of losing my heart. I simply sea & pretty face and comment on it, That's all. When you cajoled me into coming to this Cigarette-Makers' Ball with you on the plea that I'd find prettier faces on the east side than on Fifth avenue Thad no idea that you were right. But I see you were. And the Girl in Green's 4s the fairest face here." “It's lucky for you that Ofjgs Vereker Isn't present’ to hear you say that. Bhe”— ‘We'll leave Miss Vereker out of the Question, please. There's a boundary en to the privileges of old friend- “Don't get sore, old man. I meant Mo offense. I only said what a hundred other people are saying. Your beauti- ful cousin, Miss Vereker, becomes an orphan. Your father is her guardian. Bhe comes to your home to live, What, more natural than"— “I think I sat ['d like to meet the Girl {n Green.” “Bo you did, I beg pardon,” Let's hunt up some member of the Reception Committee’ and get him to Introduce us, There's one of the committee now.” A tall, slender man, who would have been singularly handsome but for a certain sinister, almost ferocious ex- pression that marred his well-<ihiselled face was passing, bound apparently for the Immediate neighborhood of the Girl in Grecn, He looked ile a forelgner— a Spaniard or even & gypsy. At wight of the Girl in Green a ght had sprung into his sullen eyes and his j pace’ had quickened, “Excuse me," sald Wilton, laying a @etaining hand on his arm, ‘I see by your. badge that you are on the Recep- tion Committee. May I ask you to in- troduce us to one of the young ladies here?’ Th ever. proachuole evening dress, ‘A moment on Wilton’s frregular, seml- comic reatures and jhonest eyes; then dwelt longer and with growing disap. proval on Clermont’s close-cropped goldey curls, Greek face and well-knit form, “You're strangers here," he observed at last, @ faint foretgn accent in his grudging voice. “if we were mont, politely bling you for introductions.” “Well, you'll get none from me.” ‘fs it npt the duty of the eception Committre to make etrangers welcome and to sce that they get partners for the dance?" asked Clermont, puzzled by the other's marked incivility, “This ball," said the committeeman, ‘tg for the clgarette-makers and their friends, Any workingman or girl is wolcomed here. We slaves get few ploasures, and we give our hearts’ blood to eupport the rich in idleness. But our rare hours of recreation are our and aristocrats have no piace man’s sombre glance took in detail of the two visitors’ irre- rested only not.” answered Cler- “we should not be trou- own, here. “Very pat little oration.” eommented Wilton in mock ecstacy. “And now that you've sald it all so nicely won't you please ety ons point and tell fat it ds all about?” "Sy mean that you ditty ertstocets have no place here. The ladles at this tall don’t want, to meet, such as you. Get out!" “That fact @hould have been ex- plained before we paid #8 apiece for tickets." rejoined Clermont. ‘No one objectel to taking our money. No one but yourself has yet been unctyll fo us, So I'm reluctantly led to the bellof that !t {s only in one grum- bling Anarchist's opinion that we are in- truders. I'm afraid we must refuse vour very cordial Invitation to ‘get out,’ “How did they happen to put @ freak like that on their reception commit- tee, I wonder?” Wilton asked of Cler- mont, affecting wit!: cool insolence to ignore the presence of the committee- man. "This fellow ought to be wav- ing a red flax for Hey “Most” dnatead of wearing 2 badge At @ ball. My | First Prize.... Five Prizes, each... Seventy Prizes, each.. Twenty-five Prizes, each. a aeetteneeiniaanininened acne’ agaln “here is a pretty 1 made it myself. friend" he resumed, the dark-face} man. Uttle $5 gold piece, Now, it's all ir Guce\us to that stunni In Green over there; an: Wilton involuntarily will intro- pretty Girl rot shrank a step! ———— $$? Blo $5 Se) | His dark visage distorted with passion appens y|and the veins on his low forehead stand- ing out like whipcords, “intervened between the disputants, the stranger | uel seemed about to hurl himself on tho) Serene Hidalgoship this time?" | Jtwo visitors, when a Usht little laugh | lwas heard and a’ girl's slender, figure| turned his back and strode off through’ host,” to tread on his corns—or 4 rather on his feelings. Well, Mr. Man- Laredo, what angered your! Laredo, with a grunt of disgust ithe crowd, An Episode at the Cigarette Makers’ Ball. backward at change that flashod across the other's face. ‘With a curse the committeeman struck the gold plece from the outstretched hand; at clinked merrily pith hage Moor and ‘railed away. amt in of dancers, The newcomer had a@ tip-tilted nose, laughing eyes and the general meanor of the {deal soubrette. “Losty your temper again, Manuel? eo lafighed mockin n) gentlemen. 3 The Home Dressmaker 9 * BY MME. JUDICE = | wt Wf you wish advice concerning new gowns or the making-over of old ones, if you wish advice concern- ing home dressmaking, write to “Mme. Judice, Evening World, Pulit- zer Bullding, New York City,” and she will give it to you inthis colmins One A Plush Stole. Dear Mme. Judice: HAVE a black crush plush Eton jacket worn off at the sleeves and a little worn at the back. could I make © short stole of It? Would the material be sultable? If so, please give me instructions and a design. It has a flaring collar. c. ¢. U. Your material ts quite suitable for a stole and I would suggest a muff to correspond. You can buy patterns for Doth, with directions for making, Black chenille fringe on the ends of the stole fronts is quite a new idea. To Trim Tan-Colored Dress HAVE a dark tan dress of panne | cloth. I do not want to make the dress over, but to change the trim- ming. It has a plaited yoke in front of crepe de Chine; also collar of crepe de Chine and four rows of cream-colored ace an inch and a half wide down the skirt and two rows down the front of waist, two rows around the sleeves, a elt of blue panne velvet and bow of panne on the left side of the hes Substitute a self-toned fancy. wun, braia fpr the lace on the skirt and waist and rrakce & one-piece drop yoke of the braid, faggoted together with rope allk same ehade. A Handkerchief Shirt Waist Judice: OIAVE, three very large black silk | handkerchiefs or mufflers and one that {s white. I have also a quan- eg of samples of laces from three to inches in length. Some of them match, but not all. Can you give me dome idea how to use them in. making retty collarettes? Or 19 there any way yy could be made up into a waist or How is water-color L. @ large enough to use as two fronts @ back for a suirt walst? If so, and match the quallty for sleeves, the white one for cuffs, and | fancy Jabot in the front, lace pieces could be set on cream Brusscls net in a set pattern and made up Into @ fancy walst. Water color painting in lace is quite simple. Mix your desired | colors in separate bowls so as to be and have all corresponding pat- teins exact! shade Blace your lace on a table or voard over blotting paper and apniv the paint with @ tiff paint brush, rubbing well into the pattern, A. geometrical design or set flowered one, with one portion of the pattern’ tinted in one shade—say, old rose pink—and tho other in turquotse blue on a cream lace background is most artistic, par- tloularly if used as a trimming on a cream volle or crepe gown. Your sev- eral pleces treated this way and set on cream net will give you a chic, dainty waist, A Black Voile Skirt. Dear Mme. Judiee: LEASE agvieo me how to make skirts of black voile, Gomething to make me look elim, I am twenty- and try Use seven years old, 6 fect 7 inches tall, 27 Waist, large hips. Are eleven - gored skirts still in style? AMELIA H The very newest skirt conceit {s the twenty-one flare gored pattern, and la quite the proper design for figures de- siring more alender look. It has the, oof @ aerie. of small pinits ams), without the bulkin In volle #t would be etun- n sewm fs outlined in silk braid half inch wid 18 ning If binck nd plain edge. You are just the figure for this sicirt, M@leven-gored skirts are quite in vogue. Mandolin-Shaped Puff. Dear Mme. Judic OW can I make a mandolin-shaped puff? ad. Oblong pieces of material cut in sharp polnts on the ends and sewed smoothly together in seams running from point to point will give you the mandolin-shaped eleeve puff. It is best ee to coats or hea: chs materiale in changing an old-style sleo 5 it avolde Dulkinees of gathers ana plaice ‘and handkerchiefs gives the modish fulness just the same, ly. “Don't mind He's taken Ike that every now and then whenever any one “Nice sort of man to put on the Re- ception Committee!" commented the sirl, looking after him, “If he wasn't foreman at the factory he'd never be wearing a badge to-night. I hope he wasn't more offensive than usual?” “As I never had the joy of a heart THE BEST WAY TO POP THE QUESTION. Address all letters on this subject to Margaret Hubbard Ayer, Evening World. $19 FO.. THE BEST LETTER from a Woman on the Least Em- barrassing Way for a Girl to Pop the Question During Leap Year $10 FOR THE BEST LETTER from a Man Giving Directions How to Pop the Question Most Con-) vincingly $5 from Man or Woman on the Most Delicate Way of Refusing an Offer of Marriage O rly grateful to Bt. Bridget, ror it Is to her and to St, Patrick that you owe the privilege of “popping the question.” It seoms that in those far off times matrimony was quite as serious a ques- tion to the girls as it 1s to-day, and so {t happened that the maidons who were being brought up in St. Bridget's mon- astery greatly worried that good saint by lamenting the fact that they could not propose. So St. Bridget made up her mind to consult with St, Patrick on LEAP-YEAR maidens, be prop- the matter. She went to the patron saint and implored him to help her poor girls, and it was to St. Patrick's kind-heartedness that the girls owe the Privilege of popping the ou the longest of the years. When the matd tlen durin, Irohind first ution was #0 Mag that, nen hardly knew what to do. were often embar- rassed, as when, for instance, circum stances over which they had no control —siy a previous engagement—forced them to decline the young lady's very kind offer. So to ease her feelings 1t was decided by common consent on the part of the men that in such cases the damsel should be consoled by a silken gown and a kiss, ‘That girls still propose this contest proves conclusively, but where, ob, where, {s the dress and the kis: Did Him Hope and Pray, Dear Miss Ayer: AY you could not marry, as your tarted proposing the Innoy the mind isn't set that way at present, and time will tell if it pleases God that such should happen. Tell him how } FOR THE BEST LETTER BY MARGARET HUBBARD AYER unhappy both would be {f she married because he asked her and not because she wanted to. Tell him to live in hopo and pray for his wants, and then I should think he could understand and see the best side. Mrs. B, F, B. One Woman’s Opinion, Dear Miss Ayer: O my mind there 1s no such thing I as the “least embarrassing way for a girl to pop the question during leap year.” Any and all ways (even to hint) would be ombarrassing to any self-respecting girl. Consider her foelings were she to meet with a refusal! If a man wants anything very bad he usually gets ft, or at least makes a try for it, Man proposes and woman dis- poses, BILLIC. Seven Sweet, Small Words, Dear Sas Ayer: F a man would declare his tove for a | giri let him cay simply: “I love you, Will you be mine?’ Seven little words, The maa is bashful, indeed, who cannot say them, if only to blurt them out, What girl anxious over the a! lence of a lover needs to hear more? Why rack one’s brain in van for greater eloquence? Some men do not speak, fearing thelr love ie not recipro- cated, and they will be deughed at. Let all such remember that the right sort of girl never bughs at the honest love; | of any man, Ores at ue of your choice be shallow and Joes the sooner you find it out the better, | An Anagram, Dear Miss Ayer: ‘OR best letter from man or woman | on most delicate way of refusing | an offer I send the following: Now that you have again proposed, In these fow lines please find reposed The only answer, which is nclosed, 0. M. H, His Preot Doar Miss Ayer: [* my opinion, the best way for « | Qu young mun to pop the question would be to tell the girl he intends to make his future wife that she ds his precious queen and ask her whether she wouldn't bring heaven to earth for him by becoming his wife and darling, whom he could loye and cherish tn the gloom and happiness of lite while the future years roll by. G. K. A Very Broad Hint. Dear Mira Ayer: Y suggestion for ‘the least embar- M rassing way for @ girl to pop the question 1s the following: I¢ you love him above all men, and are as- sured by his attentions that he cares in the same way for you, on the even- ing that you expect him to call look your prettiest and have a treat for him that he'll enjoy. Get him in good humor by telling funny stortes, then, as the evening advances, talk about people |of what he can do When he's at his | ‘aristocrats’ | won't look at him, so he's taken a |vow to kill her if to heart talk with him before,” replied Wilton, “I can't say Just how offensive he ustially fs, But I should judge at a guess, that we had a pretty fair sample “How did it all start?” she asked. “Why, I asked him. we were strangers—to introduce us to a certain & ‘And he refused and called you and shouted about the wrongs of the workingman, I suppose. And I'll venture to tell who the girl was, too, Wasn't it Edith Fenton?’ “I don't know, I'm sure," said Wilton, “but 1t was a girl in green.” “That 1s Edith, She works tn our factory antl Manuel fs crazy about her. a Spaniard, you know, and talks She He’ all sorts of romantic nonsense, dare: at any other man. He swears he'll murder first man she shows any favor to."* “Rather Interesting prospect for her when she falls in love,’ commented | Wilton; “how does such @ crank hap- Pen to be foreman? “Oh, he's @ good worker in his way. But he's a disciple of Anarchy and his T'm half afraid to work with him, He'll go crazy one of these days. If you want to mect Edith Penton,” #he added, “I'll be glad to introduce you. She's expert cigarette-maker, much at your service.” “And J," replied Wilton, copying her sweeping bow and grandiloquent man- ner, “am Joseph Wilton, inex very “And your friend”— “Why, what's become of Clermont? He's loet in the shuffle somewhere. Never mind. I'll advertise for ‘him if doesn't show up. Meanwhtle'"’— “Why, look!" Interrupted May; “there he goes, heading straight for the Girl in Green, as you call her.” “Well, I like his nerve.” gasped Wil- ton. joes he intend to introduce him- self, I wonder? And, see. your fore- man with the clgar-box name is talk- ing to hei Cecil Clermont had, indeed, made his way through the crush toward the al cove where the Girl in Green was stand- ing. Manuel Laredo was at her aide, asking her for the next dance, and pressing fits request with an eager eamestness which not only seemed far greater than the occasion required, but whose vehe- menoce apparently frightened her. Cecil Clermont's quick glance took in every detail of the willowy ficure so head above the round, the big dark eyes behind which the soul of a Madonna looked forth. “Pardon me," he said ap he reached her side and noted her repulsion for the dark-faced man who was bending over ner. “Pardon me, but this man seems to be annoying you. 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