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we Ways of Poppi Margaret Hubbard Ayer, Her Father Knew Best. ‘Dear Mise Ayer KEPT steady company with a young \ lady for about a year. While walk- ing through Central Park we came +P a nice spot, such as lovers like, I be- an to make love to my sweetheart and made up my mind to ask her to be my Wife. Bhe told me she loved me, but ‘wouldn't marry till I told her of my Mroumstances. I told her )I earned $15 ber week, with a possibility of making bs. She replied: “I wouldn't marry you! fanless you earn twice that much.” I tried my best to dissuade her, but it ‘was no use. We left and started for bome, heartbroken. I called the follow- me night, and her folks were in. I bleaded with her to consider my offer, Ghe told her father and he said: “You will never get a more willing and loving Young man for a husband.” We are bow engaged. ». P. 3B. Nvsdowea’ Cuffs Don't Make Widows, Dear Miss Ayer. HILB in Europe last summer, be- W ing in mourning, like other American girls I wore white lawn -collars and cuffs with black gowns. In England these are worn only by widows, consequently I was mis- taken for one. While staying in a Bwies village. I mot an attractive young Pnglishman, of whom I saw a great deal, and who, on being pre- “sented, thought my name was preceded oy “Mrs.” instead of “Miss.” Seated We day on a bench facing the jung- tau, we talked of matrimony, as we ymehow often did, and I protested sainst further discussion of it, since Wa neither of us experienced it, “But avvhave!" he cried; and, then learn- g tot I wasn't a widow, he told me at he Mstrusted and disi!ked widows, Jt loved me nonetheless, tho’ the bet- 4, now he knew I wasn't one. Then @ walked homeward in the twilight, wbvious of the jungfrau's lovely even- sag blush, VALENTINA. Hotel Flanders. She Walked Home Alo Thear Miss Ayer: ‘T was one of those dark and drizzly | December nights that we read his lady friend to take her sleigh rid- ing. He took her out in tie country} about three miles, and as he started to come home he said to the irl “Gladys, will you be my partner and| Wife through all?” She Oh,! Not! T could not. It is Impossible." And he fd: “If you won't be my wite you ill havo to walk back to town.” And of Real Proposals. about, that a young man called on| ae ng the Question. alee EVENING WORLD offers A PRIZE OF $10 for the best etory of an actua! marriago proposal furnishc 4 for publication by the man who made it. A PRIZE OF $10 Is offered for a woman’s account of the most Inviting proposal of marriage that she has ac- tually received. A PRIZE OF §5 for the account of the most romantic situation under which a proposal of marriage wa really made, told by either party. Send letters, not over 150 words In fength and written on one side of the paper only, to Margaret Hubbard Ayer. Evening World. she atill refused him, and was com- pelled to walk to town through the snow and slush. p- 4 The Game of Hearts. Dear Mien Ayers ‘T was at a progressive euchre and ] the Inst game was to be plays: Nine games stood to my credit and the score registered 4 to 4, and only one more deal! The cards were dealt for the last time and the trump turned down. It was now my partners turn to make" It, I looked at my! cards— left bower of hearts, and ten spot. Oh, if he would only “make” ft ‘hearts’ I thought, and I looked at him intently, His gaze met mine and I heard him say, “IT make {t—hearts.""_ The bell sounded, the score was 4 to 6 in favor of us, and the game won! We then progressed further to the veranda, and there another game of hearts ensued, put this time both lost and both won. 1. B.D, Love Among Brigands, ir Miss Ayer: HEN visiting tho Balkans Castle I was attacked, with the five persons of my suite, by a band of brigands. We were taken, each sep- arately, and locked up in an old, ruined tower. The room in which I was thrown (without having been told a single word) had but @ small narrow window, too high for me to look out, To my great fear I found myself not alone. A remarkably handsome man, having a military bearing, leaned against the wall looking at me in surprise, “May 1 ask you who you are?” I sald. “A gentleman to serve you, !f he possibly can, madam. And may I ask how you happened here?’ I told him all about ft. “Well, then," he sald, “I may tell you that I am a German nobleman and officer, who, like you, has been taken by these scoundrels for a ransom from my family, who are wealthy. ,I sin- cerely hope,’ added he with a mis- chievous smile, “that our families will prefer us to their money.” After one week of severe trials and anxlotfes, during which the Germar nobleman | proved himself to be a true gentleman, a man knowing and appreciating the value of @ woman's honor, we became engaged, Our ransom having been paid | (to the amount of $20,000), we were | married tp New York three months later, cM. ——=—_—_ NOT ABOVE SUSPICION. Bornes—Met Townsend just now. ed to be glad to see me; offered me | Shedd—Can {t, then, be possible that there is a cigar on the market so bad that Townsend won't smoke {t?—Bos- |consist of her winter broadcloth suit, ton Transcript. Sweet F iny Permission of George Mu bal by George Munro's Bons.) Copyright, 1559, CHAPTER 1 Between Two Loves, 8 ey ip Sir Mark .Warrenno ask ‘ns this evening to marry him bg It was Archibald Blount who Yked the Question, and the tall, der, beautiful girl who flushed at the ‘words was his daughter Katherine | 4imore commonly Known by her nick-) thamo “Tita") Blount. Archibald was one of the mos ish nien fn England. off, master of a manor and father of selt- @ daviehter who adored him In spite of | his selfishners, his ore idea was to @et the girl married and off his hands. hers had been a time when Blount find hoped she and her covsin, Ident, Rlackwood Craven, might make at mateh. But since Sir Mark War- “tonne had come back to the nelghbor- "Sod and shownd euch a lonzing to lay} sate youth, his title and his fortune at Watherino’s wilful feet, Blount's ideas had soared. higher. Katherine had just met Warrenne at ‘the homo of her dearest friend, Mrs. ‘Harriet Charteris, better known ag “Jolly Hurry Charterls."* “Between Katherine and Blackwood here had gradually sprung up some- hing fwarmer than mere friendship. though no regular engagement ex- ted, each felt certain of the other's eart, and the words of betrothal ight mow be spokon at any day. ‘That very evening Warrepne had pro- osed to her and had refused to take » answer, begging her to wait till the lowing day. ‘lount had guessed that something of ‘sort had occurred, As soon as .a nne left the house he called his ».to his study und asked her the pst te rdth which this chapter be- @ ) .@ hesitated tm replying, Hi old bd 4 4 4p t! @ir Mark Warrenne propose for dor als evening, Katherine?’ b 3 v&,"sahe answered, raising her eyes \ wondering what was coming next. stand you—what did you say?" ‘Ye asked me to walt until to-morrow tire I gave him a decided answer,” ip girl replied, in a low, clear tono; ‘M %f course I sald I would; but when 2. ‘row does comes I shall certainly nro'a Sons.) | slen- | Cemfortably well | young | Is < True < Love. \% By < “The < | | “I do not love him,” Katherine d clared, decisively, knitting her brows and looking straight before her, ‘Nathorine," he began, very earnestly.) “1 had hoped there would never have) been any necessity for my telling youl what I am now about to disclose, but seeing that you are wilfully. and for no} carthly reason, about to throw away a chance that Prvidence alone could have! sent you just now, I think it only my duty to tell you the fact that unless! within three montlx “¥ get some help this house with all {t contains will ®e sold above my head, leaving you ena] me be: e of the earth, ‘Papa! Blount eioulatsal faintly, every particle of biocd receding from her face. The old. manor was as secure over dis head now as it had been at any time| for the last ten years, which certainly | I LPT EPP PLR PITT I I TIE IIT TE I eo _EVENING. a WORL Ds. 5 ase HOME w (Hints on the Selection of an Eas ™ Hat Te FPVHE topic uppermost tn the feni I nine world to-day ts the Easter gown and hat, Perhaps the hat should take precedence over the gown because many a clever woman will tuck @ new fancy vest into her winter tail- ored suit of black and trust to the hat to furnish the Easter note in her cos- tume, . Women who show the utmost dis- cretion and good taste in selecting the remainder of their wardrobe fall easy victims to the wiles of the millinery saleswoman, First they study the fashions in the illustrated press, on the stage and In the shops, and fall in love with some particular style of hat without reference to its euttability to thelr own features. Or they go to @ shop, all at sea regarding the mode of hat which will best sult their gowns for spring wear, thelr faces or thelr purses, and trust to the milliner’s judg- ment. The latter is probably a pretty girl with fluffy pompadour and good complexion, As a rule, saleswomen in millinery departments are selected for the posgession of these very attrac- tions, The bat ts enchanting—on the saleswoman, The shopper argues that if her own halr were dressed just a trifle differently, and she had a dab of powder on her nose, and looked a vit less tired—why, that hat would be Just as becoming to her, Then she wakes up—at home—to the realization that she has bought something which sults neither her spring costume nor her face, ‘The woman whose Easter gown will fréshened by a vest and sleeve ruffles of lace, should avold the hat that {s too Ss FStu ZEI1SeC Be the Pr Zoste tiny forget-me-nots, etc. If she wants flowers, there are a variety of toa built from flowers so adroitly made that they are almost tatlor-fashioned in effect. One recently noted, which would be effective with a tailored suit, had a crown of Cardinal satin-finished braid, almost gauze-like in texture. The point- ed brim was faced with dark, rich gera- nium leaves and the softly tinted Mar- tha Washington geranium blooms. The edges of the brim were finished with folds of velvet to match the braid, and fiat loops and ends of velvet ribbon in the same shade finished off the back. Hats bullt of roses or forget-me-nots are a bit too delicate to wear with tailor-made sults, but a successful com- bination of black and white is alway! safe, summery, such as the picture or shep- herdess shape in white Ince, dotted with THE LOVERS’ PARTING. “You alone could huve saved me,” he went on, heedless of her faint interenp- tion; “with the knowledge of your hus- baud's wealth, my creditors would have become less importunate, I should have gained time, and Sir Mark, I have no doubt, could? have givon me soir necessary assistance, But, if you can- not say ‘Yes’ to the truest gentleman | I know, of course, there Is little more to be sald. And perhaps'’—with a faint | melancholy smileN"It will not be for long. Death ts sometimes very meret- ful.”* “Oh, not that! not that " eried Kath- erine, stopping him suddenly in hin restless promenade, snd throwing un- selfish, tender arms round his neck, while feeling, woman-liks, now that he was cast so completely on her merey and in such deep trouble, how infinitely was not saying much for it, Archibald | dearor he was to her than he had ever Leiag quite unable to remember the timo when he had been free from debt; but the idea of this girl, for the sake of a mere whim, allowing fourteen thousand @ year to slip through her fingers, made his very blood run cold, been before="not while it Is in my power to~prevent {tf Oh, darling!” bursting into a passion of despairing tears, “I may not have been a good daughter to you till now, but only give me @ little time to think and 1 will atisfed » but A woman should never be with the front view of her new With black anger at his heart he paesed out, leaving her in a dead ‘ewoon, do the best 1 can for you. Good _nixht, my dear,” he returned, Pressing” hin lips to hers with more than his wonted fervor, as he felt hig cause was gained, Not so did the “poor Ittle girl." Ar- rived in her own bedroom, Katherine Blount locked the door, and without removing ornaments or any article of Gress, walked toward the window and leaned her beautiful, shapely head against the dew-cold glass. With the dawn came her determina- tion. Turr'ng slowly away from the open window, shrough which a latk's loud song of praise rushed with tumultuous music, she moved with stiffened limbs across the room, her poor heart torn and bleeding, ‘The next morning Sf Mark’ Warrenne went home rejoicing, the accepted lover of beautiful Katherine Blount, while his lady love fulfilled her daily duties with pallid face and clouded eyes and thoughts “all void of soul." Blackwood she had not seen all day, having excused herself from breakfast on the plea of @ nervous headache— Raper e SME ey ly Gt "Vere morte (le Errect 2 Feathers” Soften Tse FaoC@u should study {ts lines ca alde than the other. Let her select a hat needs shadows, and which sets forth her best points on the other elde. flares abruptly and decidedly. only a delicate complexion and a girlish face will look well under the all-white hat, All black !s more satisfactory, if plenty of white be worn below the face. Very few women can wear the reg tion pleture hat, particularly if it be not all excuse—but, coming suddenly into the old parlor some time before | dinner, she discovered Blackwood sit- ting there. “Blackwood, I want to tell you some- thing." Pi “What fs ttt" be asked, “T have prothised to marry Sir Mark Warrenne,” she answered shortly, try- ing wildly to appear unconscious, but ) failing wretchedly. | For @ full minute Blackwood Craven | went mad—as mad as the veriest luna- tlo that ever trod the floors of Bedlam. He strode forward, and selzed her small wrists with cruel vehemence, almost crushing the tender bones In his pas- sionate grasp. “Say that again!” he cried, flercely, threatening; while “Blackwood, Black- wood!" was all poor Katherine could gasp, with faint supplication, Present- ly, however, the paroxysm passed. leaving him sane, but despairing; he dropped her hands hurriedly; the fron ully from) hat droop in the front. both sides and from the back. Bver¥) the nose politely called retrousse, tilt woman has @ good profile and @ pooF| your hat a bit In the same direction. one, That ts, she ts prettier from OM@! and if you have decided that a hat is had entered nto his soul, and at. the first cold touch the madness fied. He turned to the window quietly. “Has It come to this at last?” be sald. Miss Blount sank into & chair, and for ‘a short time there was a dead silence in the room, during which they scarcely seemed to breathe. To Katherino the stillness was Intolerable; any open tor- ture would have been less ditter, At all hagards she felt sho must see his {ace again; s0, stealing over to his side. the placed.a thmid, trembling hand upoa his arm. “Blackwood, have some pit) whispored beseochingly, raising to {ace great lustrous, pleading eyes “pity! he, echoed cotemptuously, shaking off ber hand as though it sho ais scorched his flegh and moving bs kward ° a few steps. “Pity for what? Beoay you are Kolng to marry the richost m: in the county, anda baronet into | bargain, or because you have wisely thrown over the man who was imbecile; enough to imagine he possessed your} extremely salable affeciions—which? ay pity would bo rather wasted, T fun wore I to bestow it on you, #0 I will) reeve any I may have for Sir Mark} Warrenne, as I do not know of any of my acquaintances so much in need of {t as he is just now. Meanwhile I bex to offer you my warmest congratulations qn your success and approaching happ ness.” “Blackwood,” the girl began, aA moently, stung to the quick by, his insin- sti ter Hat. Ane SRP B 7 HD cure for consumption !# not the lymph of goats, nor the blood of bullocks, nor even high altl- tude, but high fashion. At least this ig the Inference to be drawa from & paper that was read before the Ameri- Statistical Association the other in which a distinguished physician ed that there had been a remark- Able falling off in the number of deaths from tuberculosis among women of late years, and this he attributed to the n+ fluence of fashion, ' Thus we have another Mlustration of j the adaptad! of woman and her power to be anything that {s stylish, oven If It ta to be alive. Of course cynics will say that wom- an having become tmmune to con- sumption !s mercly a matter of evolti- tion—that having, by virtue of tight lncing breathed with only tho top of the lung for generations, the time was bound to come when she could breathe without any lung at all—but this has nothing to do with the case, It 1s purely a matter of the moe, Tt ts no longer chic to have a hacking} courh and & hectic fush, and women} don't have them, fust as they don't affect chienons and hoops, The strange power that enables a Woman to apparently change her cone stitution and her physical peculjarities at will, as she the cut of her garments, ts something we cannot exr plain, but {t 1s idle to deny, All of us have witnessed {ts manifesta tions, The metamorphose of hatr. s¢ that ahe who was brunette one seuson 1s blonde the next, may be compre- hended, or even the sudden acquire- ment of a rosy complexion, for not loaded with feathers or flo apt to be theatrio tn {ts effect. And & hat which looks picturesque and effec- tive on the stage is absurd in the cold, calm Ight of the street. The woman who would wear a picture hat should have !t cut down a trifle to sult her features. A small woman may select such a hat, {f she has ft tilted to the angle which gives her helght. If ane has it made fint( tt will look like the um- brella hat worn by coolfe laborers in’ Chinese rice felds. On the other hand the woman with the large, moon-shaped face must eschew the small, piquant toque, The summer styles this year are liberal enough to Mt all faces, and the small toques are only for those with small features, The girl with the long nar- row face should avoid @ hat that Is built up. Let her select round, grace- ful curves and not severity of style If you have an aquiline nose, have your If ~ou have becoming to you when you are seated whioh shades that side of her face whlch | before the mirror, stand up and walk té a cheval mirror and see the differ- The lence. If the hat 1s out of proportion to average feminine face ts the prettier for| your figure or your carnage, abandon @ shadow skilfully cast. Only the very |it at once. For instance, the droopy, pretty and girlish face, the very regular! clinging type of girl should never wear features and the tyory complexion can|a taflored hat, It {s for the tailored girl, hold their own against the hat which|with her swing and gait and long, de- The} cided lines, And If you are getting just drooping hat {s infinitely safer, And|a bit passee, but don't want the only man In the world to discover the fact, avold the over-youthful hat. It will make your absurd. At such an age, style, Aignity and elegance are to bo cultivated in millinery as well as oar- riage. uations, but endeavoring eagerly, with tightly clinched hands, to speak with calmness, “will you Isten to me. | ar fush'" he interrupted her, sternly, with cold, cruel scorn, putting up his hand to prevent her speaking further, “you need not perjure yourself any more—tt ts unnecessary, I am ecarccly in a condition, you see, to believe the remainder of your protestations, You every girl is a rod as she is painted; but beyond this woman alone possesses the ability to work mir: and remo mountains of flesh and put them on as ‘tashton dictates. Still more wonderful, |ny, taking thought she hus been able to ndd to her stature so that the Jibson girl {8 no longer an artistic dream. She ts two vards of ossified fact. Bo far as w Dorothy Dix, The Most Famous Woman Humorist in Amer- ica, Writes for The Evening World. Fashion and the Tuberculosis Bacillus. | tainted. and died, having kept the faltly \letting her best friend know that sie MONDAY RVENING, » FEBRUARY 29, 1904. _ has always been governed by fashion, and not by climate or constitution. In our grandmother's day st was the thing for women to be pale and frail and aenemic, and every girl went about looking as if she needed @ good spring tonfe. Health was bourgeols. Nurses were smart. Swooning the correct kk. and, in consequence, women lan- Rulshed on so! and coughed, and with fashion to the grave. That style of constitution fm out a Present. It is the fashion to be healthy, Wo are wearing biceps, and big foet, 5 genera! robustness, A woman wid be as much mortified to be without real lungs as she would be without a string of real pearls, and she would no more think of even had nerves than she would that she was wearing her last year’s hat. As for fainting, once the proudert ao complishment of thelr sex, women have lost the physteal ability to do it uch is the power of fashfon to make women sickly or healthy. according to the style. Is it any wonder when the timid and s! ng tuberculosis bacillus found x sort of combination It was up agains’ The wild-eyed man grozery store counter. “Got any eggs?” he inquired. " sald the grocer. whispered the wild-eyed man, | ‘will you gel! me a dozen | of 'em for @ thousand shares of Steel common?"'—Chicagu Tribune. Amusements. . > NEW EMPIRE EeeraSn Micki Nei “Osa: Agee itt 8 ae Bat TH TIME TONIGHT. THE GIRL fiason@niTs; FROM KAY'S sate LAUGHS! with 8AM BERNARD. | inochi ‘Time Mareh THE OTHER GIRL March 14—Honvenire: HEATER! x Eve. 810. CRITERION SEATS steer wee Eka Kieanor Robson wanv ass 1018t me March 28—Sonve: Savoy ee ret eh B Te Bw aH ‘Saturday. GARRICK: | ANNIE RUSSELL LL | ic AND MEN Tan WAY ert "pulkerit NIGHT, | DALY'S © GLITTERING [Set monday mal euetns RED CROSS BENEFIT, GRAND. CENTRAL PALACE. have sald quite enough to last me my Ufetime, so I will not trouble you with my presence any longer. I leave with you what must be a pleasant reflection “the knowledge that you have utterly rulned my existence.” “Are you golng?” Katherine gasped. “Yor how long?” “Forever,” ho answered, briefly, turning toward the door as he spoke. “Blackwood, umackwood,’’ sho im- plored, ‘do nvt leave me like this! Say Something to me before you go!” He turned as he reached the thresh- old, to gaze his last upon the exquisite, agontaed face he loved so dearly, and the tender arms outheld in pitiful, mute supplication, But even then he did not relent. “Twill, he sald, with vehement bit- ternesa, "As it. you can take this as my remember the last words I said to you were these: ‘Leurse the day I ever saw you." ' So, with black anger at his heart, he assed out from the house that een his pleasant home from childhood. ® despairing, broken-hearted man, leav- ing the woman who was to him the dearest being on earth in a dead cold swoon, her soft brown halr sweeping the polished floor. (To Be Continued.) Messages Delivered | ACCURATELY, QUICKLY and at | THURSDAY EVENING. MARCH 3. Admission SOc. ¥ Sst: mA ‘e 0. a ; , Sf SBA MARI ADGLE'S. W SULLY, BL eraTA otlina't Be gh METROPOLIS" i Wok tied In The Pal ACADEMY OF MUSIC ¢ & Eugene Torpkine, Pps. & E.G.0ilmore & Eugene Tommie Shubert. n & Zimmerman Present “"VEEFERSON DE ANGELIS tie "TOREADOR. $1 Mare Wes & Sat CHINESE HO} ss 2 Fy 8.13 ¥ MOON. th St, VAUDEVILLE RESIS Shs CANDIDA & SVECIAL— Every moms ‘hat es Oberammergau ny ii 14TH STR BEI J hy uP ©. ATR ST TI The Vn! es) LAS dat AT M.Wit isin in the big hit, A SON OF RES ve S80. Mats. Wed & Sat. AMERICAN boc. LAST WEEK Quincy Adams Sawyer. 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