The evening world. Newspaper, December 25, 1906, Page 7

Roy L. McCardeli’s ‘The Jarr Family’s Daily Ja aa Well, y yeu fell filling with tears, ‘ myself Jast, and Christmas Day in a Quiet Home, SHOT ARSE APA, fix my doll! Withe puiled the string out that) nee hae «Pp made it say ‘Mamma!’ " cried {tte Emma, Me eee "Now, run away, that's a good child, and papn a 1 fix tt to-morroy grean-and-red neck felt uy siippers. At {isn to purchase for conteanpla thas. cruoity acd neglect t which were emboswed letters, A series,of leather loopa was labelled Je process -of dried glue diaintegration,’» In ‘the plpe rack were two wooden pl te 4, ve jyand there was a dingus for matches, a brass cigar cutter, ct Wot order, and a cute ttle tray that horezhe word “Cigarettes. | <Acroas the top of the amoking tablo, ecith brown-red paint, was that merry Bmoke!’ Prsoy ebout to commit a eachuca amid roundings, showed that Mra. Jarr had Tt was Christmas Day, and Mr, Jarr j ehildhood!—she kicked tn the head af “Bor goodness’ sake! shouted Mra. jl gust to spoll my Christman! |" yr. Jarr sprang to hia feet, \weromplly fell to the floor tn sections, Willis and Emma!" cried t's the matter? asked Mra. [never saw such children to quarre! j of the hguse fhalf their things, and the. “Papa wouldn't fix m: Emma hroke my dru: to o¢ erimaon with satin quilted cufts, fectly lovely with black braid—a garnjent in which Mr, at if may malo friend coull wee him he'd be disgraced his elbow called a “smoking to suing and $ On Mr, Jarr’s feot were Amitat was that weird & which no married woman can re- rf husband at the Yuletide, even be sha) separation on the grounds of } able,” tor Tha amoking table had etrange and wondoertul oxcres- cences on ft: ‘To these were tacked little brass strips, on “Pipe Rack.’ “A wonden jar, already in “- ‘the word “Tob2co." pes thickly encrusted with glossy varnish, motto, oper cigar fal Spanich An box, the Hd of which hore the picture of a beaut! a plethora of gflt and paper lace mur not falled to purcbese @ box of those Wincomparable Dulictosas 0 Ja Carmolitas, fold Flaewhere at $L10 Our Proa At ad got hin, The Httle girl had retired under the Christmas troe. iG ie hor brothers drum, at which he pulled E her hatr viscrously, and they both began to scream. Jarr from brushed against the smoking table, which Mr, Jerr, Jarr, said Mi, Jarr, who was wearing ® \,, of hideous aspect, u smoking jacket fon alligutor akin Romeo Durned deeply in the wood end inlaid “May All Our Troubles End In the next-room, “oan't you jcenake chose children benave? I don't know svhy you let them aot lke savages “\¢ you two don't Dehave + Banta Claus will come beck and take all the toys away! coming ‘nto the front room. “I| ht! They don't get {t from my aide that's certain! Hore it is Christmas morning, and they've broken fight so they've destroyed all my pleasure’ said Mr, Jarr soothingly. (Met? whimrered the little girl bellowed tha boy. acreamed the little girl, “Yoi_ are w and trimmed Just Def | Wriie: 1 Jarr ran to | Wi cle of furniture cle of furniture | |. 10 too," r the toom 1 he sald th | You've got a:nerve! shed If you n the red smoking: caye for my ht have got som th y walk t tht bug, pay and tho tt on snake. orse then it began Mx, Sarr. igh the transm n ing the children!’ exclaimed Mrs. Jarr, “Never mi V get you another.” g But Just ther the telephone rang, How aro wo allt. Ob, we are all happy! Merry Ch/tstm don't keep quiet," said Mrs. Jarr, Then table, pitta’ ala sath to Mr. Tarr, nethliig for myself, but T always t har eyes thanks I get!’ / “1 Up the parts of the smoking table and attempted asked the Ittle boy. me apart, a big spiral s| a, melas} ~\ nitter “Leave home on Christma. a a Some Angles on the Gladsome Day. the first Father of lla Country the ae the Ameri ear wkitt colored ¢ stocking celeb way the and you know plush family albums eake-baxketn “und plated v you are saved n fag and standing caah bonuses to thos you do hrough subscribing to the funds for all the oMclal penta downtowss, and panel ( G2. &2 The Evening’ World’s Popular Humorists £2 2 | the Interest co, and and In New Yo y have to hafd lance After you uc vers which already was out Here—oh, happy, bappy OW, CAN'T TREE PA! to No Christmas, How we envied her! Inve got that. programme, waz, after all, a. woman tn sUttle or no interest In sympathy for Mr, De Vrins. | “The Double Life’ was — imp of coal in the middle of a swamp. f€ime-on-earth sentiment that lett Rip Van Winkle and Enooh Arden. known Dutchman, di leaped into fame Actors, ‘West Virginfa on a hunt forfeoal. petra’) fem momenta with the doctor thay Mr. De Vries made the greatest Impress- He suggested & mind as vacant a3 the Bijou promises to become, { don. | dnartteulate, machantoal, a body {ng yold.” Here you watched bim with {remarkable actor of “A Case of Arnon,” } apparent that-the author had fafled to make out a case that would hold Interest. | Although Mr. De V; } nttle fo grip the att ,Storeopticon. It was a “Rinehart Robe: Last night hoe appeared as n man |\the prologue he left tomo and mother and ewoetheart In New York to go to Ho was Frank Van Buren, with an aocent [yehat certainly wasn't inherited from hix stage parents, bit when he was picked Sap wounded by @ doctor in the mountains he had forgotten his name and every- thing else. A robher’s Dullot hod loft his mind « blank. The play was styiel a “psychological Grama,” but the doctor's expertments | fith his sirango patient made {t pathological, and a later conflct between hard-| m Henri De ‘Cries Leads “The Double Life’ End. HE author," said Mr,.Henrl De Vries, coming forward in explanation at the Bijou (Theatre Inst night, “a in Pittsburg with her ehildren—| We could see her throurh the smoke, hanging Teddy! Lmears and bix sticks on the overwhelmingly repablion tree, happy in the work \rend the thought of giving her little ones everything—everything but her play. It was wrapped in a prologue and three acta that unfolded slowly, | end like socne Christmas gifts; reveated but little tn the end. | sean tho first to betray the fact that the author, who sounded Ike \. burg. But by this time there was The general feeling was one of Pit dead as a door nail. Tt wasn't atroctoualy bad—| fm fact, {t contained a good idea well done in spots—but 4t was as undramatic as . It never once caught fire. Memouldered for a couple af hours or #o, then went out with a flicker of serond-| a chief figure in a Sleepy Hollow between | While ‘A Case of Aryon’ didn't blaze with dramatic fire, #t showed Mr. Del ‘Vries ina vivid light ao a character actor. by hi tlon, when, twenty-two years later, Frank Van Buren \.had aged {nto “Joo” Hartmann, a pit boss of a West Virginta mine. {'Christinas Eve on both sides of the footlchts, |'mtner’s home the audience ay the mont eccentric snow that ever fell from a AM), ‘orm with a very bad caso of the ‘jerks.” Another dis Gen He came here last season an un-| masterly acting of seven char-| f two minds and two names. Mr. De Vries! man on the| { Yt merely ‘YOU AND YOUR WIFE COME TO. THE CHRISTMAS ARTY, AT OUR HOUSE | x TONIGHT? * NEWLY WED? TAKE You uP YES,COME ON! 5 WE'RE GOING TO. HAVE A FINE. SORRY, BOYS, BUT (Ve, AN ENGAGEMENT WITH THE FINEST WIFE AND BABY IN THE COUNTRY! CHRISTMAS WED LOVE To, BUT ITS OUR BABY'S FIRST CHRISTMAS, COULDN'T THIN: OF LEAVING is YOU CAN'T BLAME vs! (\{ NERY KIND OF [1 \XOU OLD FELLOW, BUT You KNow HOW 1T 1S WHEN MOU HAVE A NEW BABY. IN THE HOUSE. NO PLACE LIKE HOME The Newlyweds--Their Baby 2. SAY, NEWLY, COME UP TO THE HOUSE HELLO, OLD BOY, WHAT ARE ‘COU DOING CTOMGHT 2COME OVER TO THE CLUB! LARGE DOINGS! JUST THE MAN f SANTED TO SEE. NY USE THESE OPERA TICKETS TONIGHT, WONT YOU ACCEPT} THEN ASA ~LITTee CHRISTMAS PRESENT? CN XOU THINK * YOu'o beTTER! 40 POR THE HocToR Lovey 3! By George ; McManus. S| sTHANKS OLD CHAP, WIFE AND RABY AT HOME, YOU KNow* AWFULLY OBLIGED, BUT 1M Going TOMAVE THE | ga CEST CHRISTMAS | | OF MY LIFE. NEW Mae) PACY AT HOME! Oy eam SEED, In} SYNOPSIS OF Huger stan, Thoatted Capital and starving Labor save tt a soctolowical turn. Tt was in those! Mitellately acter the (wedding che dest: red Hagen, who saya he bas seen Georgian i Bee ber, dleaypearcuce, but that be knows 1o Waa | hothing of her prevane whereabouts, | Georelan | without @ brain, a san without @ past—a hulk-| Writes to Roger, berging Mita to truss acy! Cloan interest; Jere yottsaw again the hec twin wstars Amen, who fue tong be lay mov came (Ought Goad.” Anitmme the. letter AAys, Bat aa the play moved Olt Docame | NHR nwt etiies, ani canatgy [dete alone, Through his wife’ Ut beray never lost his grfp on the charucter, there was very | W4%™ Harper, Hower Jearne that Gort! | going, sce net east Seated ae, Ot Tt was [SCT otal, he “witnesses Serta of) and through a window of the Georgian “and - Harper, Jaton thal cy { | turbing Influence was young Willlam Rheritan, the son of the rich mine owner\” Teed by Anite’ Tie. was in love with the poor miner's daughter, and when ‘Joo" Hartmann | same home and found che girl in the young man’s arms he took him by the! Suddenly his hand relaxed, and he dropped | forward on the table, sinting and mumbling. Tho shock of anger worked a/ change {n his mind, and turned him into Frank Vad Buren again. He looked at trangers; he looked {nto a mirror, and herdly recog- It was only when tho doctor camé and exphained everything that | throat nnd atarted to throttle him, dts wife and daughter/as nized himeelf. the sordid situation dawned on him. | His sweetheart of tiventy-two yearn before had married his old rival, |. the rich mine owner, and it ts thelr son who loves his daughter. that Georgian has mide Intention of, throv! of the cataract bod ‘Jeaves Anitra, of they begin srenllty haa tumbled about his ears beovuse of a trick of the brad, and tor a | Tepmte ‘ser con }whort time hé }eourage that. makes all end. happily. $46 one of the owner» of the mine, and in a ‘porition to giv i } workmen what they've been asking and fighting for. As he vote in ogee \4al and Labor all in one—an ideal arrangement that proba { heart-af Mr. Cherles Kiein, who caught the {dea from niece of the Ustening Capital-and-! A ‘ed the daughter prettily, { vi +} certain Ine should be strn + so futlle and amorpho' Lt “Tte Dowdle Life’ the gropers on the thre: ‘mad the contrast strong. } mado the robbers 11 i ynelodraina thight have gained and “psy The Time-to Ring the Belles , By Margaret Rohe, n Wien Christmas te -the east old da: : ie way ay be Interesting as am: hold, but {t is hardly between the two, Hyer of it zo u io had wourtded him dlscove anes asa slave ora tool In the ignorance and de, stands bew!Idored and helpless in the wreck. |, tragedy of his botched life, together with his wife and daughter, chology T= Hin friend right,’" © “Of course," replied the tourist, steht. ly angered at the intimation of a pos alblo doubt, Jeng Ou can‘ read) tt. better 4¢ you turn |the oup upside down,” suggested tho |triend, according uiting d, he showed the tourist that the characters ar frregilet fgures) on. “The rapca}!’ exclaimed the outraged “he told mo that it was ah criptioa—whephe mold it. to zing, i inysterious more. than and, collector; Arabic in. melt! ‘He told. you nothing more than the oma. firet says shi Mod tien you answer “Marry me. truth, '" Labor playwright—Miss Sioy! 11 and Miss Sarah Truax acted tho dlatresaed ie j,with more or lesa distress. Mr. Harry Dodd, as the kind-h worth his fee, and nerhaps more, He gave a thoroughly . As for Mv, Do Vries, ft was just @ case/of doing the [arith a poor play. Ii gored « pity that this actor of sing {0 walh a new foothold ocbi4, pathological problem to dramatic, F lilg mental state, ani Se aee , and use him not have been the loser, CHARLES DARN'TON. Merely the Truth, Fecently-returned trayelle shwing a friend azome of tho eis res he had collected. .“Here'a a cup I got tn Morocco," he sald, eco it has an Arablo {nscription. tummed the cup our! round. Then he remarked eel one “Yes, "the inscription {3 Arabic. al! Waa tha reply, that our numerals aro Arabic,” ‘Then he accepts the aT BR XIV with a simpl d i Not only that, but ho discovers that he! CHANT EE. \ puts it, he ta Capt. bly @ppealod to the An orchestra seat. fatal room, he excellent performanca. dest that could be done unusual abiiity along a on our stags"in a play ting he dreaded |htm, he cou! | poor Georgian's ‘)flae, Hazen Ransom, os the can look about puntty.” Te tho author had O—hud, for example, & hofpiess existence, crossed at once you call, Anttra,” minute's careful tions, The ball “you fy; IE, by fame to Cnssell's Maga- the adtion to the were nothing engraved In rough, the motal. lay. “You forget (les hatTes Georgian Hazen, « beaut.tul beire with 'Anttra, to 6! Rep jataters: groom, Ame pai here! AM tNearsy Uwmtertall. jan, MIRE, Peo; ee eorgian baa. left vaaying death calla hers will, eee tas ‘4 and that a daylight NOW | wornan bi ‘been various other His house of | Rew paca te dot ane froth, of N the hall: above Mr the precedence. As they he could ascecthih If Miss walt tit 1 wifo Hazen would be carted doctor, waa| trusio#-— The door, brokeh in betyeet not have been pu ono but & minute, : NN ae the “lawyer atarted to fallow NM. be ‘coon veckontng from “your wife could never hay the leap ascribed to her by the woman fe New Lora auuuue ta with Jeaped trom th reveal Geore Jetter for Spat that in his care. OEE Yt pequeatha the bulls the distance Js at least five feet from the extreme end of this window-ledge. A woman accustomed to a life of nd- yonture or to the feata of a gymna- sium might do te, but not a lady of Mrs. Rensom's habits. I¢ your wifo mado her way from this room to the balcony outside her alster’a window, she did {t by means of the oommun! cating door. “But the door was found locked on this aide. There is the key in the look You are sure of thisT’ was the first one to call attention to It" “Then,” began the lawyer judictally, but stopped as he noted the peoullar eagerness of Ransom'‘s expression, and turned hig attention instead to the th- terfor of the room and the various ar- Ucles belonging to Mrs, Ransom which were to be seen tn It "The dress your Riansor ire ‘boy Ransom se) (wife wore when she aligned her will,” ‘SO1DR o Ing hor alster’ Ransom took rigared the motioned the lawyer to disturbed by thetr In- which had been the LwWo roons, could t pack very securely, incommoding her, He Almost a» door, ia asleep,” other drow near. “We this room: with {m- ‘hey both entered and the lawyer! romarke to the window. taken * he declared, after a scrutiny of the cond!- whispered | he remarked, pointing to the light green gown hanging on the inside of the door by which they had entered, Ransom stepped up to it, but did not touch ity Heiemyld seo her 4s! she looked {n this gown in her memorable passage through the hall the evening before, and, recalling hor expression, wondered if they yet understood the nature of her purpose and the determination which gave tt such extraordinary vigor, ‘Mr, Harper called his attention to two other articles of dress hanging in ans other part of the room, These were hor long (gray rain-codt and the hat and veil she had worp on the train, “She went out bare-headed and tn the plain serge dress in which she arrived,’ |remarked Mr, Harper, with a aide fglance at Ransom. "I wonder if the girl met on the highway was without hat and dressed {h black merge." “Ransom was allent. - “Anitra’a hat 1s below and here Is | Mrs, Ransom's, Sho who escaped from [the house last night went out pare- | headed," repeated tho lawyer, | Mr, Ransom, | the prot g of the other's eye, merely “You notlom’ my wife's dress very particularly, it seems, tt waa of verge, you say.” "Yes. I am learned in stuffs, I re~ marked tt when she got Into the coach, poasibly because I waa struck by | justrade of the’ alljoin-, A Christmas Retrospect. ONG, long ago—ah, me! how quick the venta do. Almost two thousand years have swiftly glided, | pines God bequeathed to earth that gentle soul, whose ‘This day commemorates with His Immortal Name, Since first the world began the blackest night Tins vanished at command of coming day, ‘And so ft was nen Jesus first naw lght avith wond'ring cyes within the manger where The cpalescent mists ‘appeared In eastern sky, ‘And then, us {¢ His birth were thus forotold, ‘Tha wun, in gorgeous splendor mounting high, | Dhtst through thls uhim'ripg gewa of red and gold, mmplicity and conventional — make. ¥ & ho And Inid Him tn tho} moving aside to avoid) Trore Fis no trimming on the bottom, | THE VANISHING BRIDE ° (Copyright, 1908, by Anna K. Green Rohifs.) {ng balcony ts not only in the way, but PRECEDING CHAPTERS. only atitching. Her sister's was jue do; like it. They had the look of being ready-made.” added, picking up @ morsel of the driver, calling on him to stop hotors | froma table get sicenat the wall “And hor sister Jumped out and hurt herself. | go this door was found fastened ‘on thin 'ghe ts deaf and very wild,” was all thal yidet® ho proceeded. laying his hand |, | Sopinnation ehe gave after Miss Haron | On ‘the broken lick ls, had leaped into the wot road and dart} ° "yt had to be burst open, you nee"* | eA from sight into what looked to me,| “And the window?’ | fh the darkness, Ikea tangled mass of | ‘vas up, Tho carpet, as you can tell | pushes, ‘Then she sald something about [by jook and feeling, te still wet with | her having had hard work to keop her | the soaking tt got 4 | Hon tht we wot this far; but that whe} Mr, Harper's air changed to one. of,| wan gure she would find her way to the |relyctant conviction 2 ii |Norely and that we mustn't bother our-| ‘The evidence seams conclusive of felves about 1, for sno torping (0, your wife having room And | Xnitrn and she had run this road too [the house in tho remarkabje manner | \inany times when they were childron, jstated by Miss Hazen, Yet —— that {s'all I have to tell of my Inter-| This "yet! s tint ho Wad not a | ooureo, with theag ladies prior to our | thoroushly |e ed jas the “Arst | }appearance at the hotel. I think {t| phrase would ‘| ati de added | right for me to clear the slate, Ransom. | nothing to It) only stood Hetening, ap Who knows what we may wish to write | parently to the fven breathing of the | J How perfect must have been that Christmas morn, ‘All things in nature surely were at dest; | The avorld its brightest glory tust have worn, | ‘Phat day on which the earth was Heaven blest. Tho story of His Iffe, Hin gentle love Of all mankind, is told tn ev'ry tonzue— Ho taught the wortd God'n lesson from above And pointed aut God's path to old and young. |, And when His earthly mission was fulfilled Ho died upon the cross that wre might lve; Abused, reviled and spat upon and Killed, Ho pleaded God the Father to forgive. ‘They took ‘Him from the cross, where He had dled, ark and silent tomb, And (Mother Barth received him, orucifed, ‘Ang held Him {n her ald, ungrateful womb, ‘But Anitra ynembens that her st eraiwe when ‘she camo in from the “No, she had no protection but her handkerchief about her he the afterward put over her head. the same train they did. have come up In the morning, tel stops ready to atep Int! I spoke to Mra. Ransom a word. ij der the driver’é Mra. Ransom, my natural hoaitation, 19 mo after phe hed ct about her regret at ie to such inconvenlence, Offer to make room for mi of the conch, enoven if the lady sho was end possibly OXOURO sideration for me. the point where the lane came aware of some dl mo, and when wo really got there, I upon It next MRM alieht shiver on Rangom's part was the sole answer he gave to this innuen+ 1 re- | anotn’ ped no rain-coat, her shoulders T presume alnce They must for when | tin: then, but only - had been put un- A ee ceat, and T paw that I bappy A.) vote! seon her sister eafo- and said something having subjected Dut did not In the body though there ‘was room other had been the quiot herself, Buti he was not thig was Mbw. Ransom’ her apparent lack of co} Before. wo teact outs fn, T bance behind ensconced Insid for first the coach door opening, th fiwite's voice, raised tn antreaty to | aaat4 r, the Chief Legatee By Anna Katherine Green. then th ther fro er, room, In the followed, woman dn distinctly hear blouse, black like her dr Ransom 4 xe + med fro th Ieaheee ore e eekethe one | 91,820 HAs confided noting more to you your return from the river bank?’ mu ‘ “You were on the samo train with my ugEested tho lawyer, wife and sister-in-law,” Ransom fon | lho. word came sharply, consider! sald. “Mid “you wit near theml Gon | Mr taneom'e tual man rs otne nes Rite Ru GET Rahs Xer showed surpring wut no resentment, bath {mg you. hls attention to tho -bak In T have no reason, fot Ge marge. Goth hud noted lying open on two snithal: regards reel on Nowarork! onl uNothing (saulvocstiinen es iilac: Clared, after & moment's care! only comment I should make call. the T arrived at the place they the|| only. cor Ferry, J: saw them standin onthe hb, {clea are would expect from one-of your. wife’ fondness for fino ap; bintmentas' a th bags you will find ar 04 could wish." er And polntert tof r Jeeta erie apolntert £0 jthe yattious obs {Thewe show that with care for her meeting with night. How did ah Ton! he appear al ardiy! aha was much too e Soariabinice Intentions whimetcal, edge inn little a mood to receive ft. full_of what shq interded to do. | sleeper on the other aide of ly hanging, door. by teleplone,” DLS Into the bag. antleipation both nettied thomaalves to nS eyes of ether Mashing hither 1 One small objoot to feomingly deserted ntery allence whlon breathing of the tha adjoining room could he | It soeined to affect Mr, in the tts remaining content, In rega {find here ty that all the art eas carefully chosen than you were colle in @ hurry ax) Feturnied the un. 1. after a shrinking gianc The ones ahe provided in on of her wedding are ut the Now York. In the trunks and Uoles a8 elegant es Here fie turned to thy upon it ahe arranged herselt you last Mita ti tat jn nh her mind. T thought her | and enteavored to | , but she was in no | Her mind was too Where she ate her supper,’ is loose- | Bo Continue | ih R's we: At Inet God All nature ‘The stone } Ah. met Wo scarcely Je Then tet this day {-~ | And act and taught, |The heavens wept amd ‘thunder wa: And Josus heard God's message 4 AngtuT ceased, age Theyheavena cleared, ‘tho Illes rafsed thelr ‘Tho inde sang dlithely tn thelf 9 And passton-howers glowed 1 med with’ gl fore the tomb was {ythe sun burst grandly over Caly'ry’s helxht, | j (And earth gave back w How fast the yeirs do'fy, and y romin to] live before "tis thd to Bp. \is:that In avord uh By Ida Bouton. ; Then darkness came apgoe:upon thew: ‘Tho earth waa wrapped in desolating &! i unfurled, His In camo and del d pastde Jesus who how sioww; nd though: bd as Josus oun lives, 8! Patiddelp' | | | and'noting how they take It) Yow are{ all too young to think of auch things. Has Been Away Two Weeks of friends. wait until I seo him again or send him The Evening World’s Daily Magazine, Tuesday, December 25, 1900, © hired help and row Uptown nad momory, A sat eurrent i the lower nson—with a4 In A str yhody to she to in oF expect ra iknow Pfu t ed airur mome fs cold-nosed an a 1) New York the ont to bay drinks for one of Anybody, caught carojing fn @ susnictoun manner. Maltese Crons of ¥ a recto It fa better fo urself in a ch hang up ydiir stockings on the Here in the metropélly It tm cx Ing to @ reataurant for dinner and walth privilege of walting two In rural hamlets, such rtexed 2 Pittsburg and and an Adam's apple ‘over which he has Old Banta, His {doa of dressing the part of angora immortelles and put on the ot off frecra: £ sok, which ts a mixture requiring thigid-oper antal-plece the grocers young man and the butcher . your erstwhile roll is reduced to a slack And J¢ toward the last your circulation you dare to bestow nome amall change y note with a portnitit of a kind-faced leftshand aide, he will probably tender ‘a COAL pcaop, aall provinctal place ike Cinolnnat! or Korw and ateal Cropt maton wer to be uw auncess, Only 1f you belon: ed to rally areied the ivy. i rectory nas “Christman Carola” unttl you get os become defect! hiow atin horn on\Christmas Eve i= > hang out at Motty-second street. 0 hile to be arrested for loltering rm by far to & e-ayed mad male aw hick and rida home mbout @ A. AL ahd with your. fi tH in ‘em. tomery to celebrate Christmas evening by go- ng three hours to get a table, with the hours more for @ Waiter to come after you do\get dt. £t. Louis, the Sunday School troe\ts alt | the vogue for to-night, A pallid young Bible clasw tenctar, with nervous red\eata no control, 1s cast for the role of Joly. 19 to Grape his map in ® funeral jrregth | fur overcont belonging to the président of the Firat National Bank, With a pillow tied across his tummy. He hes a thin, yolce, and when he tries to talc deep ab: © creditv.ole dmitation of a tenor and a Soinetim glucose gumdrops, and then there engusa fly enjoyed by all, emt notes like Gear old St. Nick he gives baritone practising ah anthem together. hin whiskers catch fire as he is passing out the cornucopias full of @ pleasant confingration which ts heart- THE FUNNY PART: Few of us realize that the beat thing through it. about the Christmas cslebration is lving who. remonrbere4, BETTY°VINCENTS © {ADVICE*LOVERS. The Christmas Heartpurning. VERY Christovaa brings {ts joys, but also its heart- burnings! ‘Inout gratitude for the presents we didn't expect la mingled a sense of dinappolntment. because of Moke We expected and didn’t get. The man who forgot loome larger than tho dozen men it ts hard for women to reconcile thomaelves to the neglect of Christmas some men, goneroux enough at other keanxons, unaccountably: show at the great season of gift giving, Christmas ls abused, undoubtedly, by theniselves for months in order to give women who pinch and save and starve Dresents. But it is more abused by the men, who, perhaps to show their independence, neglect it altogether. The only thing to do with the young amd didn't ts to treat him to,a stmilar man who should have remembered you exhiitior of forgetfulness on moms Oc-* casion when be particularly wants you to remember. That is, of counse, if you don't love. His Christmas Fresent. Dear Betty: 7 gontleman for apout six months, Would you advise me to give tdim wAything for Chirigtmas, and it ep, what would be moet epttable? I am not\sure whether he is going to give mp kny- thing of not. > FL R. You, Yoo might give him « new book or a year's subscription to some maga- zine he would Iike, High School Love Problems, i HAVE ‘been keeping company with a Dear Betty: Eo ace three young girla in high Wee and write to you. There are three young boys of the schoo? whom we times they care \for very much.” At seem attentive and at other times they tgnore ua, We would Iike very much tf you would tell us how we could find out how much they care, = ANXIOUS, to find out Is by ao- the attentions of other boya| The only way cepting Dear Bottr: wisp a young man two yeara ago, | | but never was intimately ao-| quainted with him untll @ couple of months ago, ‘Then he called twice each week and took me to the theatre T love him dearly and think my loye te returned. but the past two weeks he haa been away and I can In no way-account for his absence, as We parted the beat Would you advise me to Te you do, you will have to erin and bear {t, aa you do hin other +} shortcomings, T suppow : i : some little word, as I am heartbroken? VIRGINIA, It would be much better not to notlog the young man‘s absence. Men do not Uke to be pursued and are far more ept to return when they are ‘not bothered, He Has the Gam Habit. Dear Betty: JW can I rid my gentleman friend of the ‘gum-chewing” habit?. Ho has taken me to a number of amusement places, and whilo in the sara he nits alongside me with hia Jawa, constantly moying. I haye l- ways considerell it a yulgar habit (in public, and very embarrassing: toma, It 1s @ delicate subject to tall upon, but would like your afyice as to how to do it without offending him. i BRONX. Teli him that you would much prefer him not. to chew gum. in public. If you make the request sweetly I am aure he will grant tt. : | For an Invalid. Dear Betty: ULD it be proper for me to mend W toa young man who is ajck now for two months, and who has foeen on unfriendly ‘terms with me for, quite same time without any reason, a few words of sympathy On a souvenir card? If 50, would you advise me what 10 write, and would It be all right to eign {t thus: ‘Grom a Forrotten Friend?" oR Write him a note of sympathy If you like, but stan St with your real name, ‘The other sounds sentimental. 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The qu y of ma- terial required for tho medium alze (8 yea: fs 3 yards rds 44 or 11 tnohes + yan 9 No. 5536. ti of 4, 6 8 and 10 years of age, Har THE EVENING WORLD MAY MAN- J, No. 21 Weat Twenty-third street, Now Irvin S. Cobb's A «o New York Thro’ Funny Glasses {