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i Sa Aaclisaies austiordedtia acted teed SERRE a 7 4 ~ . T haprenied on the 9.68 train, witihtn the balmy, By Roy L. McCardell Where evilst fiends most do congregate @nd potter, a ERTIB, fifteen) one of them grand dresses, and maybe | ‘That one man in @ wihvist quartet eat eolemn, tute and years of age and fair to look upon in her blue saflor dresses, turned into Grand street and stood before the window of a great department ‘store, By ber side, scrubbed till her face phone, and in all the glory of-her best oe wee Gress and her white shoes Patent ‘leather vamps, and clinging to Gertlc’s hand trustfully, (rotted ‘her Nttle sister Emma! An overcrown boy, who doubtless @hougte himself a man of mature years, came sheenishty up. “Just you walt till | see Gus!” “Hello, Gert! Whatcher doin'?’ he asked. A Melodrama of Heart-Throbs and Candy | Mr, Schaffer new it, go floiting with yer felle Gertie had no fellow, She was,at the | nge that relindulahes dolls, tut holds all mankind to scorn. } “You're too fresh, Gus Schaffer; go on and te'’me be.” | At this point Uttle mma, commenced | to whimper, Little mma consitered all storés to be Nheadquantere for candy. Gertie trad lifted her up to eee the grand | wax Jadies, but Mbtle Exnma's interest | in them soon ended. “Want choc'lit} want candy!" commenced to ery, “It you ory, Wmmie, I'l never take you out again!’ began Gertie. “Say,” sald the gallant Mr. Schaffer, ve got @ cent; I'll git her some candy!" “We have plenty of money to buy ell | the candy we want," said Gertie, This was not candor, strictly spealing, and sho “Come on, Gert.” he enid; “let'e get the kid a choc'lit stick, and I'll buy You some fce-cream soda.” | “Then I guess \you'll go braggin’ to everybody about it? ‘ventured the melting ecomer. “Crous me heart if won't!" pleaded the swain. ‘An hour later, back in front of the teeming house where Gertle lived, littie Emma came trovting up to the elder sis- ter, screaming a complaint against a boy that in running the buses in etreet ball had knocked her down. “Just you walt till I see Gus Solinffer, you Benny Goldstein,” shouted Gertic, “and I'll get him to give you @ lickin’! “Yah! Wiho sald he could do it?" re- turned the defiant Mr, Goldstein, “A gentleman friend mihat knows him Eve rybody Works for ses | Rut 1 will be avenged on tixom!’’ 8, 1905. he ifelt sad. ron, And ever and anon Then answered lim that sorrowful and sad commuter man, And thus, with punctuating sobs, be gruesome story nin: “'Tis true I was to wed to-day, and that's why I repine; Let me observe, in olngsic phrase, ‘No Wedding Bells for Mine! The parson and my blushing bride ¢’en now walt at the churoh; Ready to “Square It,” The morning had been long and the arithmetic lesson particularly severe, Little Tommy Traddles had lgboriously worked his way through a tantalising Commuter Ballads. By Albert Payson Terhune. ‘ No, 3—The Whist Martyr, 9 > * White téirs and moans and shrieks and groans implied, Hed writhe and twist and wail and grunt and) ululete | “How's ‘this? the kindly brakeman: you, old chapple? And am T wrong when Iinfer you're not iteally happy? And say! I (sought you said kat woek this was your wedding day! Then why art bound for town and work? And erhere’s your bride, I And I~alack the day!—and Ihave left titem in the lurch! You ree, when I had set the day to wed her I jore I quite forgot thy absrace would breale, A glare lit up his face; ¥ And with a hiss‘of “Knave, take that!! he—trumped bis partner's ace!» Ess he'd bent hits head againet the aaked, up our great whist four; ‘S ‘TiN sternly they ceminded is why I came— That they, if I deserted them, | needs forego thelr game. ‘And where is.the commuter who aw courage to resist F When told nie absence will brea wD ‘the moming game of whist?) Dreadful Thought, “G'wan about your bus! y ‘treated me ice cream Bohiafter!” replied” Gertle with, phe Seitey aaa Gertie. eo min wearin. arti maze of figures till his smal head esperity. “Chee, Gus Schaffer must be yer fel- -- plu: ached, and now stood before his mastet “FHuhf guess you want ‘one of them | ler!” sai Mr. Goldstein, “aT yp yy with the reault gf hls travail. | ‘@resses. Huh! guess you'd like to have’ But Gertie only tossed her head, yl ry il ' } l| ORT. Rue e fs) me ett Braet Tommy glanced at the clock, It want- int. Mad Muller. fentiomes : ed but a few: minutes to dinner time, Cited Case in Fomt, ay eu ers aie Mm sete i Ss f th B t Tok f th D says the Chicago Journal, addaughter sors. " rea Ba paneer maaaa on ewofez ew Best #2 Jokes w of # the w Day. So cca he sea. "now much O granddaughter some good 24-! 411 \ jrewn with yellow golden-rod, af 0 m & bs 7+ y. am I out?" 0 see tne ee care ton eNom, tts [She Wea the blossoms shining bright | wred—And what s Peroy Sapp doing, “Thank you" for @ kiss. —Cloveland I'l give you #10 T have hidden if Fou to, Rut now It you subsoribe to an| rout Tetult,/® Oyo cents short of the Lom ahs Ras a ager Ay jnese | And greeted them with keen delight, | now? Leader. will only leave my flute!” expensive publication people think you| ‘ ney ell very fine for vou to have these fans for making John over—if he needs 4," said the old Indy. “He may have wome ideas about reforming a few little habits of yours, my dear—but you don't want to go too far, either of you. and you want to be pretty careful what any. Wiavnen Twas a eirl somebody tdid we the etory of a young woman who made the young man she married promise her he would have nothing to Bo wih emoking. “Well, that was all Heht enough, Dut he'd never been an intemperate smoker, and he missed the little soothing he'd been accustomed to get from his pipe @nce in a while, and— ‘Tommy's hand sought the pocket which contained hfs most valuable possessions. Swiftly he separated two coins from a piece of string, dome marbles, a detunct Rencs pt 3 it ‘No use, young man," answered the The musical boarder awoke in the /purgiar, ‘The other boarders give me night to find a burglar In dls room. it) mes The burglar was making for the wine | {wicet es much to steal ¢t1"—Clevelan dow with a small blsck box under his es ee did It to keep something out of print.'— Jack—Sprinkling gasoline on the love Washington Star. letters to give the girl an impression And after that she'd cough and wheeze. tle. eaieo, Sho caught hay fever. Now che cries: | Nag) O° 8” scieaie a OS stain “That golden-rod I Just despise.” se 8 And when to raking hay she goes Mully—Cholty’s a fool! arm. “Do you take any Interest in rare| Booksciler—All right, sir. Here is a| ‘toe and a clay pipe. She wears a clotuespin on her nose. Dolly—What kind of a fool? “Oh, Mr. Burglar!” cried the mustcal | and beautiful books?’ ghost story that ds warranted to make| “Please, sir,? he sald, “if you “don’t Chicago Chronicle. Molly —The kind that would sny/ boarded, ‘please don't take my flute!| ‘No,’ answered Mr. Cumrox. ‘ft used |your blood run cold.—Chicago News. mind, I'll pay the aifference!:’ PAPA’S GIRL. - -. By F. G. Long. - ~ ~ She Enjoys a Dash on a Home-Made Auto. - WHAT ARE COME ON, TOOTS, tS Let's PLAY AUTO- OU DOING But dy and by she had to sneeze, ee Customer—I want a book that will do for hot weather reading, McBooth—Each: step brings us nearer home. nay Hackfleld—Aye, marry: forsooth, we be tramping on home “ties,"*) | ape paechenaner eras, { A Handsome. Apology. DONT STRIKE THE DARLING, SHE DIDNT MEAN ANY “But if ever she saw him looking at ® ehe'd comind him, ‘You promised me never to have anything to do with pipe sor smoking when we were mar- Pea “Then one day the kitchen stove acted Hike all possessed- filled theroom full of @moke. She said she thought the stove- pipe needed cleanlag; but he—he was Kiba of stubborn,°same as most. men ere at times—he just sat there and said: “I promises when we were mar. | Filed never to nything: to do with | wien or smokin id this comes under | Doth heads.” ! “And she had to go for the stove man elf, thouxh he was a real consider- a@te man, most ways, her husband was. litle boy's tongue ds too quick to please the pld lady. Then Ned apolo- gizes, after a fashion of t:!s-own, which his grandmother approves, sage. the Youth's Companion, HY “I got tired lugsing that mheelbarrow for grandmother when she qwas change ing her plants,” Ned said to hia mother, recounting the day's events at bedtime, vand 1 sald, ‘I wish where wasn't, an- pther speck of this hateful dirt in the world!’ But then afterward 1 > sized." cee Glad of that,” sald “his mother, "Did you tell her you pid sorry?!) “No, that's not the Kind grandmother Ukes beat,” said Ned. “I got another wheelbarrow full, and T Juat said, ‘Don't vee Just bear In mind that little clr fumsiance when you're making John ever,” “ { you want some more of this nice dirt): grandmother? and then we were al | | right again.” 2S. READERS OFTHE #0 UP-[0- ve as UEVENING WORLD. "S TTCHEN AND Betty's Balm for Lowers. = OST of the troubles that attend true lovers are due to outside interference, hh If dt were not for meddling friends and envious tongues the course of love would, be as amooth aaa newly waxed floor upon which the lovera could dance their way into matrimony, ry to make rat relative, attend the game chi A Lover’s Quarrel. bry ar Betty: she does, That bineteen sind am engasea. 1 ro- |ShteCaraanes Wo\2oU mem TH ee go selved @ diamond ring, Four weeks how pleased you are to have guc- 480 some friends told my flancte I Went out with another young man. ¥ tases aelSeNint 8 $2" Skirt and walst of contrasting materi- als are often Axe coedingly convenient for the little foik, and this very smart model enables them to be worn without the over-mature ef- fect which is apt to result from the reg- ulation whirt waist. Raden! 6 acquaintance of somo # Chics Po Not Marry a Drunkard HAVE by, f In this 4 ¢ the t you T ts een keening company with pagan at he ka bp sree I @ young man who" skirt 1s of checked ‘ _ ow 5 misled by gomsip: eet. but becomes “iigioaad L nia "ot wate “Won H my company. Would tt be ) ey plexed Youth, home Pe Maat” | | P A) Mike geben Nese \ | ery, but there are, of course, countless materials: which are appropriate for ye skirt, while the blouse can be of slightly beavier jawn if preferred. Again, the model is an excellent one for the dress of one material, and will be found onarming for the sahool days fr THE RUSUATE GIVES FEST VC of early fall if made Ue SVE, Puna (BREATHING FRESH —_| some sinlar ue a #4 43 welght 4 PP een amin PURRALR The auantity of material required for a girl of ten ts, for walet, 23-4 yards 21, 2.d-2 yards a2 or 16-8 yards 44 Inches wide; for the skirt, 8 84 yards 27, 2 6-8 7 yards £2 or @ 4 inohes wide, Fattera 5,110 i» cut fm sizes for girls of 6, 8, 10 and 18 years of age. 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