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(With Apologies to Col. M. By Roy L. McCardell. 11 intimatad last week, a famous international aMti- ance would suffer a more or evs abrupt diaruption, ‘The extravagances of the bedizened French noble- men startled Europe. And yet he was a cute little Count, ‘and when the Title Importing Trust brought him to this country and gave private views of him at Newport and ‘at their showrooms on Fifth avenue there was more than one daughter of many millions who exclaimed at aight of the pretty little pink chap: “Mamma, buy me that!” relatives In this country and rumors were rife that the ss . ered for “ ot Arson,” inevitable separation had even then taken place, I took Yy 5 «°) tual oF otherwise.” And) Bent ten pel occasion to speak to the Countess in regard to the state- y y Perel hen iden teiees Ge “mons that the Count was making in Paris, ‘These statements were to the ij y Yy S/ him for advertising purposes, and. he @ffect that his conduct had always been most chroumspect, that he had been Yi j jy | had left them to weep folcles of grief, @conomical to the ‘point of plain, old-fashioned stinginess, and that the : Y ‘Tha curtain eslser ras bolt = Fur) ‘wasteful member of the family was the Countess herself. hi J - Y 1, Z Z ; Se ‘The Countess, with that wavolr faire that 1s so characteristie-of her, ; side Ok Denghtar ot te, Sembee.” taado no direct reply, but with her most engaging smille hommed the old atr: < = S S S = by Walter B. Grogan—Mon- Dieu! ‘and : “by Boni LIES over the ocean, : : keygtnns My Pont LIHS over the seal” _ But st was significant, in the-light of recent events, that she did not sing ~~ thie concluding lines: rs cae “Oh, bring back my Boni to me!” On the other hand the unfolding of a tender romance in high life offsets %) this ‘Jangling of sweet bells out of tune.” i aliude, of course, to the very + sudden and widely known secret marriage of the fair and but recently de- += Roaved. widow of many millions with a’modern knight-errant. Pet ‘ ny 2 ‘My explauation of # “blind paragraph” in a society journal and its at- quick enongh to see the drift of things and who read a “blind paregraph” © with their eyes open. I fancy my rematks were fully understood by a certain i gh Rew notorious, bewhiskered and “coon-hunting” proprietor of en. unpleas- ui jo Sathy, adver! “society journal.” This bellowing old borrower from those eowe Millionaires, he might have unplessantly shown vp. in his columns, sais yi AA the good sense to relieve a famous old Fifth avenue club from the em- <4) } Darreasment of his presence at a recent dinner given to the President of vgee Princeton College. My readers will identify the club in question when I state ae that it takes its name from the bietoric Egyptian flower fabled as possessing > ! seporifio qualities. The Evening World Primer. By Rob Thompson. The Conductor. The Girl from Kansas. °. Why the Bread CameBack. BOY who had been working in @ baker shop for some time was just By Alice Rohe. \ t oT bave « new Browning Society in Myrtle Mar- Helen Grantiey ag Acacia Dean,| |] Ferdinand Gottechalk ae Wilfred) fj ~ _ Col. Mann did nor attend the dinner recently given by theLotos Ciub to wh the Hon, Woodrow L. Wilson. As a member of the club he waa invited, but ye») Slee Teasons of his own did not find it convenient to attend. ma , ‘ THE SAUNTERER, tin’s boarding-ohuse,” said the Girl frém Kensas. "Oh, I don’t mean e literary appreciation affair. Mercy, no! -I took dinner at the boarding-house - aight and met all the members of the What-I-Aspired-to-Be-and+ Nas-Not-Comforts-Me Society. Xes, that 18 therr motto. “The boarcing-house’ Brownmettes | never enthused over | “ae Mckee ited he nang be esky as Robert—in fact, I don't’ think many of them were: quite !aé- ight wine Eye wy Sone acd an ided whether Browning was a 8h0e polish or a patent tur- sf Pevaingihadl pricragts aan . iF oF Sea: the a auatre ites peli ey dressing, until Rose Gwendolyn Smith aris the det aety perry Par 4] ‘ starts the car util you are either On or gow4 after dinner one night and recited? Rabbi Hen Ezra psenvered. By Albert Payson Terhune, | | Oft, and AM the men Smoke on His back ides ony oak cade shone’ Fave petty bom ap toespales Wo anbetiaaosttela ee. ‘ plattorm, And every time he Takes “Ie didn't strike them exactly right wiitil Rose got to denrnareltettd pap ti 2a foute he places; and things pan out elusively. fare he Rings it Up on the Register, | ines?” othing Wrong, Then he Happened to turn tagcat. 6 Saapening soomumvely. ‘Come. now, let us Look at some of the ; to reruns aipkeadicto ha: \ one of the loaves over, tind found on, the and qvarm"’ ‘we find it.colé end. bliszardtul. . Curious Things oa the Other ‘Side of the : on idgnt wha cot, comftete nen under side of every loaf the tngcription: Me ’ b r ‘ pened 4, Inetle Van ‘Here llew the body of Mrs. ——. Bory to} | A.D, 1682 died a. D, 1740." Stuck on the Job, ts, He speaks soft- | ly mia Getta, Volee, and he ts careful not to Hur- ..... The Good Old- Reliable. z 04 i i bERE LSS ‘ . Left at the Post, eg “Aspirations undisguised run’ redgjent..° i ‘ ‘one.of them espired to be something or other, from Agste Jones, who rectiatened herself Zam Daudet: to Perey Vortingham.’ who writes poems but sells hardware. ‘ ‘ “If everybody's aspirations were fulftiled there wouldn't be any ‘room-and- board-seven-dollars-per-week-and-up’ boarding-houses. The trouble with Aggie JonesI mean Zaza Daudet—is that geome one told her she looked like Olga ‘Nethersole, “She tmmediately deci 24 to opme to New York and become a fiery Felncarnattes of Carmen and Sapho, ‘and al the other hectic ladies whom’ Agsie = id E ii a} z i 3 mays are so i “Aggte hag an awful way of towering her és‘ anil shooting side glances at you. She ‘faticles they are quite Nethesolesque and ifidicate rare temperament. 4 She got perfectly furious at Clarence Simms because he usked her \if she didn't ‘open her eyes because they were weak. Aggie says if she just got & chance at those roles she'd give New York something to talk ebout, I guess there’s no doubt about that. either. | "Yea, Adgte is President of the ‘What-I-Asptred-to-Be-and-Wes-Not-Comfort- Me’ Club. ‘ 4 * “Ien't it grand to appreciate Browning?” 8 it thy ® i iad a iy e2fF GY correo oy 68, aed Hira ctor ae pee ERIE LEY CML IE BIE | AGS gg ASRS ote FR A a ORR i ae Acacias name, when he gets an offer Seon eek Roo ie gE es Aie y g By HOUDINI, th ly halal . ] ‘ od i. ‘ r masts ae . pa instead of ge e582 g & Mioses’ ‘Tucked ‘Blouse—Pattern No. 6270, a Sie ig Sea's Foe ot qibe Hy