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Any details, — Jarr-called to see you looking case and And bottle of lung me you couldn't eat ¢: 60 stren, ening, Ils nails are alwa: taken two doses 0! he ——HWWiN. ¥ou.g0 “cry etupld, and wi eonies Hght in on ime.” Mes, Jarr went to the door to greet “Ig she Wett they whispered. ‘as "She ap) "A," gaid Mrs. happen there days. “Take vif your Oh, we've Jus ran in for a minu whisper. “We. don't believe in lang calli “Won't you pleane von. in abd shut ing tone. Sora, Jatr exobanged a significant “Oh, “terribly podevish,’ she whispered, re Both= indies mmtdaq-as itt aay RIT sumed cheerfulnoss that was mast dep: Thoy were hardly seated. before tho Birs. Grimaha Mrs. Grim: y down the hand, o.dt ta, doart® ope, “and she's, not excuse 1 tssing you, Inz that I donit do st. ‘That's how Mrs, Kittlagly's sister” ASO was Ruffering with a tad-colt=at t 5. Kittingty’ ter kissed her and et ‘ ‘ M1 never forget hér funeral, “train, and that’a bad luck." “And how St rained! T remembce my first banband wut-he gota cold that turnod Into the grip, and jt settled on his chost and ho got Pneumonia, and he thought he'was «et “And $t ran into pneumonia?” sald tbh; —that-tt-adid,* of his head and raved. =—"You never are the eth “IVa just like having an At the wort “operation His s! peration.! perience, omitting nothing, from the mi #0 #vrReons, and how th had said only aplroeie of thein-vert “But a cold that turns to grip In so that Mrs. angle was bearing up brave! fn bed, Helen Rangle. You are. f theres no telling!" _Just then the telephone rang. SMirs__lere wasz_ever_coming hone <All the Indice aroao to go. fWon't you stay a7 MOh—we-ean't;— you up." And they how long Mr. Rangle would stay a wid Rangle—and she looked wa bad, too. deat," —they—ait I've brought y. “Ing the conyalescen: against Dr. Smerk, grip coming on"—— Here a ring av the bell Interrupted paid Mre., : she Uoes Ko to the door she leaves |t stand open and the draught’ rubbers and your wrap: “There's An nwetul draught chilling mo through ahd througt with the two'ladles at the threshold, | waa heard at tho, door, aw was a very bony female who always wore:black silk. mittens which ‘gave her di Gracious, Helen Rangle, how bad >: hut I've seen #0 much Infection brought about I think a law should be passed against It.” ed on’ a friend | sahil Mrs: Sope * _¥rong. On, the way to the Long Ysland cemetery the funeral was parted by @| Just such a day as to-day, so dismal! said Mrs. Jarr. ell, we have all got to die when our time come: sait-Mra- Grimshaw, “and-how-he- suffered. Ile -went-out leks wero awful to hear,’ even if youd: * all the ladles began to eagerly talk of personal ex- recoterizs-coutd—n' sh now, and if you haye a relapse—well, It was Mr. " neked Mra. Rangle In a tone that meant “Please go," choruced; couldn't walt fil they got outside before they began discussing oe World’s Daily Magazine, eee Feb ruary 25 RS, RANGLE had a very becoming Kimono on, and 80 , more pleased than otherwise when to seo her, “I've Just run over for a minute, dear, and I'm no glad so well after that horrid grip.’” Dr, ,Smerk says that ming ta the most remarkable a rome calyen-foot Jelly icine,” continued Mrs, Jarr, not heed- t's remark&, I know you always sald alves-foot jelly, but you should, as it ts and while T don't want to say a word because he ha» the loyellest ways and ys so nicely manicured, ‘still If you had f this lung medicine when you frst felt Rangle, wearily; “the girl Mrs. Sope and Mrs. Bopp. 1{ prepared for the worst, said Mrs! Jarr, strong, but you never can tell what will inn SrA Tae Wotng the honor uio,"" sald both newcomers in a ghastl 8 on peaple wie are sick.” : the door?” asked Mra. Rangie Yand that's-a bad sign. = hope was gone and Ned In with an aa- reseing. bell rang again and the shrill votce of | white talons, “You'll by ot mshaw, its the appearance ‘ou look!" sald Mra, G get consumption; she ca! east, sho thoughtit-was x bad-colt=ant 1¢ Was dead in three months,” h, “Everything went croaked Mes, Grim- always thought he'd live to see, ninety, ting ‘well—waa sitting up just like yo Mrs, Sope,anxious for all the harrow- recove: zaid Mra. Sone” diamany. ost KTuesorne: detafin to the sitll of the but for thelr nervous determination tho pyssibly-tnve occurred, said Mrs, Grimshaw, seeing “you shou treacheous,"" ly under these accounts, Jarr who wantel to know If we-oniydrepped-tn— to cheer jower in caso anything did happen Mra Mra.) i and a} Sn 80" a whine said Mrs. | Ae Foolish Life £2 €2 G2 “2 £2 ®Y HEC THAT'S: GREAT! 1D BE SATISFIED WITH A SMALL Part To BEGIN (WE RE! GRAND- BUT ILL TRY! YOuR “ON THE BANKS OF JHE WABASH GOOD DEAL IN My. CHD, AF _You_ a WENT To NEW YORK YOU COULD GET INTO CRAND OPERA! No vouBy oF iT! THERE! THERE! SORRY, BUT Your —vorce WON'T po! QUIRE A OPERA, voice! (By Permission of George Munro's Bons.) “It I can obtain: Heaven for a pice. why should you be envious Opium Smoker's Proverb HIS 1s no work of mine. | My triend-Gnbrat- Misquitta,the-halt-> caste, spoke ‘It all, between moon- fot and morning, alx weeks before he) “died; and I took it down-from his mouth as he answered my questions, » Tt lien between the Copperamith’s Gully and tha pipestem sellers’ quarter, withln | o-hundred yards, too, as the crow files, of the Morgue of Wazir Khan, 1 don't mind telling any one this much, but I ‘Gefy him to-ind the Gute, however welt ! You | MUgHC even KO Mrough the very gully tt} he may think he knows the City: stands In a hundred times and be none the wiior. We used to call the gully “the Gully of the Biack Smoke,” but ity native name ! altogether uuterent, of urs onk Detween the walls; and, at one point, Just-befdre you-reach the Gate, a bulged Hotse-tToNt “thaNeN peOpie “£6 “ATONE: KM eidewaya, = It Isn't really a gate though. Nisa house-Ola " Fung” Tehing had it~ frst five years ago. Calcutta, They soy that he murdered hin wife there When he was drink, That. w98_why he dropped. bazar rua. and fook to the black smoke instead. Later on he caine up nortir and opened the Gate as-a-houre where: you could get your amoke in peace and quiet. Mind you, It" was-a-respectable oplum: house, and not one of thone atifiln, awalterlng chahdoo-khanas.that-you can. find all over.the clty. No, the old man knew his bus{ness thoroughly, and ho was most clein for a Chinaman. He was @ one-eyed little chap, not much more than five feet “high, and both: his middle fingers were gone. All the same, ho Was the ‘atdlest man at rolling black pills -I--have—ever -s0en, Never scemed to be touched by the smoke, elther; and what he took day and night, night and day, was a caution. I've been ‘at It fiva years, and I can do my fair shane of the smoke with any one, ut I was a child to Fung Tching that eee fara + SPREE EERE EEE EE wei The Gate of aHundr ed SOrrows (PASS) that's trus_or—pot—Intt=I-frnaw shart He was a bootmaker in! the old man was way. All the same, keen on hia money, very keen; and that’s what I can't understand. I heard a, he saved a good deal Gefore. ho d but his nephew has got all that no: und the old man’s gona back to China to- be~burted. ‘He Kept the Mg upper room, where hin best customers gathered, as neat x» a new pin. In one corner used to stand Fung-Tehing’s Joss—almost as_ugly a¢ Fung-Tching—and there Were always sllcke burning under his nose, but yo! never amelt tem when the pipes were | going thick, Opposite the Joss was Fung-Tching'’s coffin, He had spent a sO) deal~Ot his savings on Cad Sand whenever a new man came to the Gate ho Wag always Introdweed to Jl. It was lacquered black, with réd’ and gold! writings on It ana Iya. hoard that [Pung-Tehing brought Hout all the way from China. I don't know whether I came first in the evening I used to epread my: mat Just at the foot of It, It was n qulet corner, you see, and a Bortoot breeze trom the RUN cathe In at the window now and then, Benldes Hie mats, there waw ho other furniture in the room—only the coffin, and the old | Jors all green and blue and purple with sae and polish, 5 Bung-Tching . never told. us—why he. catied the place "the Gate of the Hun: dred Gorrow: Gle was tho only Chinaman I know who. used bad sound- Ing fancy names. Most of then are {-owerrs—"As=-youll eas ino Calenita.) We uaed to find thas out fo- uurselvex. Nothing growa!“on you "o~ much, tt you're white, as the Black Snioke. A yellow man jg made diituient, Oplum doesn’t tal on him searzely, at ull; but white, and black suffer a good deal, Qt course, (here are soiie people -that the Smoke doesn't touch any more than tobacco would at first. “‘I'hoy just Wore & Dit, ay ono would fall naleep natural ly, and next morning thay are almost fit for work. Now, { was ono of that sort when I began, but L've heen at tt for five years pretty steadily, and It’ different now, Ther» was an_uld-aunt of mine, down Agra way, und rhe left HINTS FOR Apple Dessert. AKH a syrup of a pound of sugar, M twosthirds cup. water, threo or four tablespoontuls of-sherry; two rum, vantlld arid sttek cinnamon to 4avor; Cook whole apples (pired, cored and nteanjed) inSthis mixture until soft place in pudding dinh to serve; boll the | vyrup down unt. very thick, add “Whole Over the apples. Tomato Bouillon,’ of water, a slice of onion, a bay leaf, a ttle celery’ need and. boll rapidly. for.ten inlnutes. Press through eélander aa fillch of the Geeh ae weseibie, 44d the wall beaten sitan tate Ue one chh of tomatoes, add a pint | jal part of whipped cream and pour } of tWo egg, bring quickly to the boll- ing point, boll five minutes, strain through chéesectoth.. ‘The fleshy portion Lotthe tomato that remains in the cheenecloth may ba put aside for flavor- Ing sau Reheat the boulllon, add a cup of whipped cream and serve at once with atrips of toasted bread. rbicictieieleiieins See | Mea _Uttle _at—her—death—adout.alaty | Tupes a month secured. OOK potato” wii a suspicion Hash in Ramekins, onion’ and salt to season, Mas" { 6 ght, add pepper, but no or/am; Haye ready’ an equal quant! y tino minced: beef, add to the toss until well Incorpsrated; pat Into ramekin, drop dulokiy In te ovens+dor with butter and brown quickiy pven. Bs ved cylin ees qa ue. 01 ot} het poiato;” Sixty fen't —Ioan- recuitest--n-time—seoms hundreds and hund-ed of years azo— that I was getting oy threo hundred ® month and ol-k ngs. when]. was wotitide on a big Utuber coutract in Caldytta, (>! T didn't atiok to that work for long. The lack #moke does _not\_allow_of much other business, and even though Tam yery little affected by it, as men 0, I couldn't do a day's, work now to save my ilfe, After all,! sixty rupees taatatT want When old Fung-Tehing: wan allve ho used to-draw-the money for me, give me about halt of tt to-live on ( eat very hept-himecif—1-wns free of the -Gats At any! thne of the day and night. and ould smoke andaleep there when | ath £01 didn't ‘care 1 knew the old aan made a good) thing out of it; but thata no matter. Nothing matters mnzh- too me; cand, besdes,-the-money siways came fresh and fresh ‘each month, There wassten‘of ax met at the Gate whe piace was first opened. Me wat trie Rabioe trom “a Government Of\ce.. somewhere —in-~-Amirksl=~ tut thy got the eck and coulnd’t pay (no man who-has to-work-In-the daylight can do tho Black Siioke for any length of time straight on); a Chinaman that waa Pung-Tching's nephew; a bazar- woman that had got a lot of money gomeuowy “an” English " joafer—Mac- fomedody, 1 think, but I have: forgot- ten—that smoked “heaps, but ~ never scemed to! pay anything (they sald he hag. sa. ing-Tehing's Life at soma triad in MBO from Madras; a half-casto woman und a-couple-of-men—who-satd~ they hat some from the North. I think they must have byen Peraians or Afghans or romothing. ~ Phere are not more. than five of us Itving now, but we come when he was a A Few More Lemons at a as G2 &R Ppl yp IN THE BRONX: fe HELO Heenan’ Htue) and the rest hej} regular. I don't know what happened to the 7 Radoos; but the basarwomar: she died latter six months of tho Gate, and I think Fung-Tching took her bangles and nose-ring ‘for himself. But Itm not cer- tain. The Englishman, he drank ao well as smoked, and he dropped off, One of the Persians got tilled in a row at Alght by the big well_nedr the mosque ong time ago, and the police slut u; the well, because they sald it was full of foul alr. They found him dead at the bottom of It. So, you see, there Is only me, the Chinaman, the haif-caste wo- mah that we call’ the Memaahib, the other Eurasian, aud one of-the Persians, The Memsahib looks very old now, 1 think she Was a young woman when tho Gate-was opened;-bul we are all old_for tho matter of that. Hundreds and hun- dreds of years. old. It_is vary hard to keep count of time in the Gate, and be- sider, time dosen"t matter: tome I draw my. sixty rupeos fres! fresh every month. A very, ve while ago, when [used to be wotlng three hundred and fifty rupees, a month, and pickings, on a big timber-contract at Calcutta,‘ bad-awite:of sorta: But thas I who's dead’ now. People said idiled her by taking to the Black Smoke, Perhapal did, co. that Te doen't tater, —Bometines wien 1 first came to the Gate, 1 used to feel norty for tt; but that’s all oyer and done With ‘Tong €88, RHA Ts drew wy etary: rupees fresh nnd fresh every. month and yin quite happy, Not drunk happy, you know, but always quiet and soothed and oontented. Tow dia © tnice. it? ‘Ie began at Cal- cutta. I used to try it in my own house, just to see what it was fike, I but I think my never went very, fax; Wife must Have died“then. Anyway.” t here, and ot to know found myeelt ‘ung-Tehing, I don’t remember ‘right= ly how that came about, but he. told me of the Gate, and [ used to go ‘there, and somehow I nave iver Kot aWay from {t_since. Mind you, though, the Gate was. a-respectable place in Kung Tee's tines, Where you “could: be oo: forlable, and’ not at all the chando “Kianae Where Un Reus BO, Paar and aula ead het cromdaee Of courae, there were others besides Us ten and tho man; but we always hada mat apiece, “with a wadded woollen headpiece, ‘all covered with black and red dragons and. things— fust ike the comm In the corer, At the end of one's. third pips the dragons used to move about and fieht_ / woriens/, LO DONT TOUS har VE. DONORS AND THEN EXPLODES ae THINK ramen 3 SIMPLY WON'T OH, DOOU. LNATE 0 THE FARM S ‘SHOW JEM “PLSHAVE “FINALLY, IDED To GO INTO LIGHT OPERA— OF SovRsEt | LEADING MILLIE’S Gor To Go To NEW YORK AND WANT THE FORTEAGE\ ~ BUT (2188 RICHEY THERE ? f HER voice! NOTHIN’ Don't You AINT CoT SHOULD aue—ecURet PART! GEET NT DAT —— NOICE YouseE OUGHT TO BE oN OE STAGE! ad we a By. Rudyard Kipling a Ei tt many—and-many—9) place and-smoke quietly ina Nttis room lve watohed—'em, Right ‘through. 1 nod to reculate mY [ol my own en the beaat | Ment ike amoke that and now it takes itt Txin-ling would Jill me tt-t-went away Blackheade. —= doen pipes to make ‘em stir, Bosides.ho drawa my sixty rupees now—and they are™all torn and direy, lika tne | besides, itn no tach. Gnowe, aad ee mats, and old | uitc-Tehing Is dead. Hel grown to bo Very fond of the Gane Ate died “a couple of years ago, and BaY2/not much to look eee Mot wei ee me the pipe I al a coup. Before that. I think oo sem with m copper cup. a yery|of dying in the open now. I've beef Se iti aati Jade moulhprecejroma--tings” (iat people Would call Ie was a little thicker than @ walking: | strange enough; but nothing Js strange suck otem. “and smoked sweet, very |when you're on the Biacke Smoke, ex: awoet The bamboo scemed to suck) copt the Mack Smoke, And if lt’ Waa up the amoke. | Silver doesn't. and velit wouldn't matter, Fung-Toning used Rotitoxe {tout now and then. |to be very particular about his, peo Thata g-great deal “of trouble, Dut Aland “never got-In-any_Ono- Whod- & must have made a good thing out o! ie. but he always gave me clean mats you and pillows, and. the beat —#tuft 20uld get anywhere. When. he died tock up the ScTampla-at: te Pitts Posevsntotap Gul Pree pee tinge Wo old ones speak of it us tho “Eun-|o? course. Tho maphen da Sen Cemaen Sorrows," all. tha ume, ‘Tha! Whtts,-ar,for-matter-of thate a inixed ‘Nepiow docs things very shabbily, aud |guin into the olece Ho hes keep us I think the Memsahib must help’ him. The two let in all sorts of low people, niggers ada; “ain Uie Black isn't good aa tt used to be. I've found burnt bran ft my In. T'ike an_wvull have-died itl tq” ¢he- Gata, ——The—-Parcian—and-—the-t Poe hearers Pthat had happened in his tims, -Hoesdos, | Madras man’ are terribly whale now, ation ot thr Paaae a nover cleaned, and all thé| ‘hey've gota boy to light. thelr pipes plouse watot Mata are torn and cut at ihe sdges-| tor heme Laima ae that Meee aod ita -cottin is bne-Kone to Ching a Thomerliestistalicerss hemitoerriens ont] eee - fore him, she sald {t waa a waste o| mi tnd, if she kept a stick buratme| fond of usr, 1 taney. But he took her. Pary alone iiy tne tae meat ERG Tre fond at nek k Lany. difference. So now we've got tho sticks td Nike to die. Mike the bazar mixed with a lot of «lu WaATE-gn- hour st atinky, Lat along the snail ayiisalé. No id they and ome Lie reo! inbivess ond arat ane} th try tat sort of thing, The Jona docs: Uke it I can see that. Late at nigh: fometimes, he turns all sorts of queet colors—blue and « he used to do. wh waz. alive, -and he _rolls stamps hia feet like a dey T don’t know: why I d use now—a_ Ail Ver one, with queer beasts crawling UP and down the receiver bottle below the T used a dig lis nephow -Tsin-line. and he called It the Siioke pire ever and over thd..ok nanan. wo-ounceasof. A and red—Junt aa n ald Pung-Teliing 6 eyes and) t leave the wou leave It and out And I've or the old many: sake Hel trouble by” dying messy’ and such, the nephew ‘Isn't half so careful, ip" house, Never” tries Wke Fung-Tehing: did, Thats why {Gute ta getting a Uetle bit more kno three of course—me and the the other Burasian. We're tr 4 | pipeful—not for anything. L-betory= me smoke inside It, In case ho should want) outlive the Momeaahib. or Tatnding. | one that is distinct, em_on: tho way, Women. last longer than at the joyel end that The Joss doesn't eet so many sticks | Plack Smoke, and Twining has a deal |! 7 Ya fburnt under his noso is he used to;/ a¢ the old min'a blood tn him, though | sows the mi that’s a san of Mi-luck, na alre as} ho docs smoke cheap stuff. The bazar |coming and alto- Death, He's all brown, too, and no one! woman know when sha Was going two aatiatnctory everoattends to hini "That the Mom-jqays- before her time, and she died on Te yahtb's work, T know;, because, When|q clean mat. wit a nicely wadded lines, while it ‘Tsing “wied to burn Kut paper be-Plow, and tie ld man hot up her thos adapted to eo many {! just above. the Jom. He was always A oleany, Sool mak wth Rood mou between my 1; sixty fas tong-as he back, quiet an Tor them: eases. Then I shall comfortable and wati laxt big fight towether, and then Well, te doean't matter, Nothin, (ay THE EVENING FUOGE <3, LErION THE EE VENING TD By | R. W. Taylor " in. tho old man's tlme, but I. couldn't I've meen 0 many come in Been so many dic here on the mats that I should be afraid Is everywhere that he keeps a “firgt- to met men quietly and make them comfortable rea. ne wouldn't Rive us credit for Ong of these daya I hope I shall die Todort wink Tahal! ever | welcome... Hore Wien T:toal I'm golng 1 shail wale crabee amd hes cat drew ty rupess a month, fresh and treat, the black ang red dragons have thelr “mat= ters much to me—only Towieh Taln-ling tT put bran Inte the Black Smoke, by F. G. Long) pecuilartties ¢ nentinental and ot me that If she siped to mis ape A lot of men who have followed a ape man sake roast tt tho himself n 10 toll wor ake tein than your own self-interest, rtrentysont yeah In the butter and with an Ineome euMm- 17 His. Mother Objects. 4 © Betty: ate younR ‘clént am deeply In Jove -with a young lady about my own age, ond sho Idvea me. very much “tn return, but my “su! ts bitterly “oppoxdd thy my motheryy-xo°r don't know what to do, as I have ‘no deaire to disregard my mother's wishes. CHARLIE. You are twenty-one and entitled to choose for ‘yourself. Try to win your mother over, but {f this’ falls do not Kivo-Up the girl, Husband and Wie at Wee _| Dear Betty1 Kees ja-cauning-no- end- of dissatisfac~ tion and unhappiness en the part of a wife who conaldera herself unjustly treated. About a year ago elie was a widow with a-doy-of-nine-snd-married a salesman who was doing very nicely and had a little money, However, thinking his income was insufficient and preferring to give his,wife.a chance to Increase the Income Instead. of staying homa, he taught her the busiiess,’ with the-resnit- that -sbe-has—been “earning: about one-third as much as he. ~Al- though the jotnt income was, over $100 a month and he had_previously sayed. almost two hundred, everything .was spent for the home, clothes, &o., mainly on the wife and boy, Ail this was done together, with the knowledge snd con- sent of both; net only that, but th Hs tho face well with a complexion: ‘brush rand & pure soap, rinsing {t afterward tn eeverat waters and then apply the the we oy ACH fresh yart- matertala that {t be- cones BYunedTS again and again, In S| the otitustration —pon- feo, in one of the pretty, dull” biwe shades, ‘6 combined with chemisette o f cream-colored lace and-te trimmed with frilla of the material and. with mo apptique, But the simpler materials of |wool and even of cotton aa well a those of silk are ap- propriate, and the chemisette can be of lace or tn Ingerioe style, with the trim- ming almost any- thing that one may |? or, while again jithe box plaits can be left quite plain, [when tho walst be- }oomes-almout trans- doand is really He oh form jextremely simple. | The quantity of material required for tho medium size ix 4 yurds 21,3 yards 7 of all-avor 1 1165 yards if long s! Pattern ure. How to obtain «The Girl Who Gossips. 0,7 & man t 5 ‘ her ‘any more, §! ato} about my otherwise—that enjoyed all thin for a wile. the name to others about me. h (whitch I have quoted Hid a girl something funny or hard for her not to pars {t on. hen lkq to be amused, Ridicule is love's deadli next victim of your goss! And nothing so endears a gitl to than aa” Hel lan ae meekey 4 of the Rirt who: gortpe.—PHerefore, tf torre iiteher Felwon ak the gmelp habit. to ‘keep a home, comfortably. 1) By Margaret ‘Hubbard Ayer. , 0, 6,600 J4 cut tn sizes for a 2, Call or send by mall t THE EVENING WORLD MAY MAN. TON FASHION BUREAU, No, 11 Weat Tweaty-taird street New. York. ‘Send ten: cents in coin or stamps for each pattern ordered, IMPORTANT—Write your name and address plainly, and - BETTY °VINCENTS 9 told me asc eyoning, “I never call on | She used to amuse me by clever friends and by mimicking ‘tho callers and repeating confidences— ther had made her. en suddenty Jt @awned on. Sit and Kos. she waa no doubt doing So I rtopped calting, fut elf afralis, my examp! rd for word) fs\n xermon tn Itnatt. Interesting, or hax some lttle. ‘The temptation i great, Dut they hate abdye an {s quick to figure or mimicry st foe. And an d-sympathntic repository tor hte huabanil took a hand In every bit ot housework, ooking, &c. ©. He never sinved away evenings of.'any pratext ani took his wife wherever he went, lle considered his wife as an equal partner and chum, Of course, the ac- count was In his name—and there's the rub! She cidima that her-money,-a2—sha-enrnstt,-althougt—"<- when any monoy was drawn tt. was evenly divided, there being only a few doliars—in—the—bank—in~ ‘tha—hurbanta— name— not. worth mentioning the amount. In the woman right In accum Ing her husband of, tyrrany, coercton ~ anil such traits?’ FAIR PLAY. The wife may be unreasonable, Sut why not let her have her own account?” Itiwould not hurt you and would‘ecttle the Siftioutty, To Mahe Him Propose. Dear Betty: o % AM a working girl of, twenty-four’ - and for m year and a half have been keeping company with a young man, thirty-one. He Is tefined, educated above me in every. way and 1 know his parents object to his going with me, and goes With the nicest people. He & but he has put up with an awful lot and has been just as kin@ and good as a man_can be He-has much more kind ness, affection and sympathy than most men, and I love him dearly, but he” hever mentions our engagement or mar- riage, I think he could support a wife, and, any way, I would be willing to live fn a garret to start. Do you think it Is ‘because I have sat on hls ip an: Sd Tot him bus and kiss me, and shall I men- tion an’ engagement, for he ts going away tn March for { or six months, and somehow I am afrata I will lose him, and the thought drives.me almost insane? Lots of girls have told me how nice he {s, bot I know he goes with me_alone. A. AS tine, Saige ot niet — ; grams. Apply to spots, Leave on all night if Mt does hot trritate. Remove with hot water and @ dland soap. May Manton’s Daily Fashions. 4 Fancy Blouse—Pattern No. 5,600. yanis H Inches wide, with 5-§ yard eves are Unod. HM, %, 38 and 4 Inch bust meas