—_——. “Ie the pain ofi'the right olde, little boy?’ SYedra, on de right side, an’ de left side, ar In de prema -Hve-been-eatir’—green_apples.” i wo The Ideal Age for errege Man Should Be Thirty, Woman Twenty-five. By Helen Oldfield. INCE fakespeare spoke of fourteen, tacking ‘‘a_ fort- night apd odd Gaye"! es a ‘pretty age to mairy,” blushing fifteen, sweet sixteen, elgiyeen and nineteen have all bad their turn as the ideal age for heroines in song and story. S ~-Nowadays- physiologists tell_ua that for her own something like “Oh,..just_ter. -The the enn w aus ~Ktks “I don't know, Chimmle. “Would youse marry er feller, Maud, wot looked mer Why go yer, ask dat?” ‘make_conversatlon.” _ * - The Evening World Daily Magazine, “Let's tle die tin “Not on yer life; Frid ay can ter dat dog’s tall.” he might be one of them new dog police- ~Chimmte—All | aek of yer Is ter simply single til I'vo made mo malttion. ‘affections pretty, scotes of admire: and for the gotd of posterity mo woman should become a wife unt ee is twenty, that no man ovght to take a | wife yotil he Js twenty-Ave; the Of twenty-five for the woman, thirty for the man, being preferable In order to7 | ineure a healthy maturity. Common Isw in’ most Btates of the Union forbids girls to marry under the age of stxteen, popular prejudice raises the figure to eighteen, and women of thirty and over are the recognized belles in society in ell centres of wealth and cukure During the last halt wontury the age at which an unmarried woman in France may procialm her-} Frr@eig “une vieutle demoiselle’’ and go abroed unattended has advanced from that iSef twenty-fye to thirty. Whicli all goes to chow that the martag age Gigrogreesively rises with the progregs of cfvilimtion—a fect which undoubtedly BPmcans something. “us| There te said to be che hour in the life of a peach when it is at {te highest #5 @eqree_ct_pertection, and similarly tn the life of almost every woman there 1s @a@ longer or shorter period when she 1s at her fullest development of charm and Snicenntey: et her greater: capacity for making @ perfect helpmest for the jee Mean of her choice; an ideal wife and mother. fir, Sminont physicians agree that ¢o mos women this blossom ins comes at | p, Brom twenty-three to twenty-five, to some few a ltttle sooner, to many others Somewhat lator. 't may be fairly taken for granted that {f, with all her gotting, | @ woman $s ever going to €et wisdom and understending she will do eo by the| tne ae arrives at this period-of her life; at least, ste will probably have| Bained some knowledge of men and of the world, amd not sm ecaly be led nway, by a sinning manner and a flattering tongue. There are not many girls who Se Seesereeeate J eranny Ue true frenponel lites iat mmrriage until they are past enty-one, but at that age they usunlly have crossed the threshold of woman- fattood and are Atted for the duties and blessings of marcted life. Mort persone who think bout {t WwiM agree that the best. time for both and women to marry {sa when, having reached manhood and womanhood, | meet the one whom ther love. with all their heart and sou! and strength, who-reatproontes that affection. But twt both man and woman, especially woman, be sure that they are really and truly tn love’ before they take +; the momentous step which can never be retraced. Az George Meredith has eald: sWhat we chiefly want in the making of marriages ie more brain, more *@rain, O Lora! Bc lcad Baas F en iis they end the Mean. Thing. GOT the loveliest present,” de- Horoscope for To-Day. 5 clared the young lady with the oe <a] S enthualastic manner. ‘‘It_was 4. | one finest Christmas I ever knew.” By Ali Baba Boo. ‘And what," naka the lady of the toy’ Friday, Nov. 15, 1907. ’ | emiie, waa this paragon?’ Oe. © | x Christmas morning,” narrated the! ve HERE {a a warning against swift frst lady, according to the Omaha Bee,! i ] maohines. Beware-how you ap-| ‘I got out of bed at enrly dawn, ih and pattered downstairs in my dare) pronch engines-dr motors. Pete Peni elichaaahe es Gatd tr Those whore birthdate this In will be 0 | ‘lannoyed and perniexed {n many ways [.cpgaenas tres had been arranged. As | ~Men wi!l be In danger of making poor | ‘o be married the fret of the! investments, But tinose in employ will | ferepe ta ot men A ET slots ot be promoted. Women will hearan um} suppose I found in my stockings?” “A sel ve true tale that will grieve them un-| = "IT helleye my query covered cat Rik te Auly. ‘Let thom Investigate before-miy-| moints! ar’ t an: ran OF: this twelye- ‘A ton ooal.”* ‘ ath Se hacer y ai 2 Stung dy the evidence of plutocratio Georerna girl born to-day will have, a tor- | oarenymer the Jady, of) the: soy \amile “Which naturally brings up the ques- “Eunate youth and will marry well. fon of which Js heavier, a ton of coal Stinebey. born this day will do bette A_ton of feet.” "friends. Candy, tha time, and at Lovers’ Quarrels; Dear Betty: HAVE bed a quarrel over a trivial matter with a fellow whom I have known and toved for years. We oth wish to mmake up, Dut isn't it his place to speak first, aa he got angry first? B.C, R It you were in thé mvong in the quarrol write the man-a note saying you are sorry for the misunderstanding and ask him to cat] again. If he wer to biame {tt fa his place to make the ‘frst edvances. If you tore each other don't be footiah enough to quérre! over trivial affairs \ attractive, charming; — | An Indifferent Girl. THE EXTRAVAGANT GIRL. YOUNG girl asked me the otmer day why her fascinationn were not sumMcient to hola a man's Bhe is | for more tiinn a few weeks. yet, although she has rs, they are never the same men for any lenafh of time, To her the rearon was not appar- ent, Dut to me it was perfectly obvious: ply too extravagant for the pooket-books of her men -amusomente—she—expected all | _ She was sim- flowers,— every call sho planned for some fresh expenditure, ‘The young men simply purses. be taken out often, but a young man he is; not for what he can give. for material compensation. The girl too muoh gets Dear Betty: HAVE been going out twice a week with a young lady for the past eight months. I asked her to keep company with mo, but she refused, pay ing that she “couldn't etiok to one fe! low all the time.” It sne cared for me woul sho not be glad to go with mo She says that she loves me; but I don't belleve her. How oan I find out ff she really cares for mo? BROKEN HPART. The xirt ts very fickle and I would.not wrante Limerwith hecitienere yous Pay attention to some other girl, and per- haps If a) will then realize that she loves you. ‘Don’t Marry Him. Dear Betty: se AM seventeen and am deeply tn love with a young student, of whom my parents do not approve. They ha forbidden me to keep company with iim. He wants me to marry’ him and so with him to Washington, D. C., re he goex_next month. Shall 1 do I lave him dearty. P. 8, Don't marry the man. You are) en- tirely too young for matrimony and your parents have your best interests at ;heart. Adhere to their wishes, for they anve some good reason for their ob- thinks she is losing you she Sections. You will forget him in time aven though you now think you Jove him dearly! timual pleasures and gifts In order to win hia lady love. Be friends wits men, for nothing is nicer than a sincero frjendship between men and women, but don't bo continually looking : “11 trade compliments wid yer, Kitty? “I'm awfully sorry, Minnle, but | can’t. heard pnveedy say anything good sbout you” never %> ADVICE 7 LOVERS = couldn't stand -the strain upon their We all enjoy candy, flowers and the theatres, too, but don't you think one g004, true friendship worth all of these? Every girl Nkes to te popular-and to should not be expected to furnish con- Take a man for what loft In the race for popularity, for she (A Fickte Suttor. Dear Tatty: AM acquainted with a young man Who nsced me to go out with him eeve-al times, but 1 refused to go decaitre I didn't Ike the place. he wanted me to go to. Then I asked him up to the house, He came, My mother Invited him to oall again. Since then we have moved, but I gave him our new address and again asked him to oall. That's about six months ago. He never calied, I tmagine I ald my duty. Do you think I ought to repeat the invi- tation? A No, the young man evidently does not wish to call again, Don't waste-your ume on him, s No. 2 of New: Series for Mothers, Defective Eyesight. Greatest © percent- age of children ex- amined to be sut- ‘fering from doe- fclent Breathing capacity, After this children with defective eyesight, head the lst of sérious troubles, Byes ere often Irrevocasty injured dy school etudies, not only ae @ result uflictent-or badly placed Mght, but tn consequence simply of toe constant use of them at adhool and at home, Un- lesa we are to become a spectacied race} mothers must unite with teachers ia! preventing eye strain and improper use of the eyes early in fe > ‘The Uttle children of the rch suffer 3 much if not more in this respect than the children of the poor, The child of rich parents ts expected to be pre- cosious ‘and clever, and the way qhiléren are made to,study and to keop at It, concentrating their dittle minds on one study after another, makes one thankful chat-one-grew-up-in ani -sattier_and-leas. strenuous age — Precocity te not the “§ The Child Beautiful aoe CHIILDREN'S BEAUTY MARRED BY WEARING SPECTACLES. slightest indication of talent or gentus. ‘There {s really no need for a child to Fead before the age of alx, Then from three to}four hours dally t« enough etudy up to the axe of ten, Thero should bo no studios to prepare at home until that aga for the canfinement of school hours is all/and dften more than health and sight can stand. Here are sonie of the ways in which A child's sight ts injured at home: When baby sleeps constantly tn the preambuintor jn a strong eunlight without a vell, umbrella or shade of any kind, one need not expect it to have strong eyes later on. When the child's bed faces the light #o that {t wakes him up {n the morn- tap aie Dent we By Margaret Hubbard Ayer. When the desk or table at which a child studies ts too high and brings the bopk reating upon It too ctoae to the eyes, it produces near-rightedness aa a reeult, Whon the eyes are used in wsuffi- Clent light, headache and other gymp- toma announce affections of the eyes, and the eame result from facing too bright a light. Windows should be at the back of the room where the obild is studying on reading and the light come trom the left aide of tho desk. Tne first indication thet there is something the matter with a child's eyes is the continual frowning and wrinkling of the browa or squinting of the eyes, ‘The emet! model’ who posed for thia picture had never nad on a pair of glasses. But her mother had frequently complained that she waa spoiling her looks by frowning A pair of child's spectacles were pro: cured for the picturn and the minute they were placed upon Her little nove she smiled brightly and sald ahe could noo better and tusistod on wearing them uni{l she could be taken to the coullst and the corset glassce muttable| to-her alght purchasnd ‘for her. The obiid beautiful ts not. the child | that wea spectacles, but it 3 soften necessary to°woar.them for a! yoar or two In ehildhood, ao that the defect im yiston may be oorrected and the child ow into the woman beautiful, which ‘eirerell—the—eim—in view. 1 Mee “kruol for sickroom: Boll ergs till hard enough to grate; then boll good milk and thicken It WHh the grated ong, adding IIttle salt. Exoellent i patient In n> Old Brooms. ROOMS and scrubbing brushes that B have coen better days can be con- verted into exoellent mop stick: Sew off the broomcorn and use this for kindling; nail onto the fat end of the ecrubbing brush. I prefer-this to the-patented—ones—tor-you-are—opared- the labor of continually untastening and replacing the eubbing cloth when wringing out. i HINTS FOR THE HOME Economy Pie. EAT ono pint of milk to polling — point. well beaten and mixed with one H half cu; flour and three tablespoontuls of eooce- mut. Fh turn Into a baked plecrust and sortaie cocoanut on top. Ginger Snaps. NE cup. sugar, one cup syrup, ene (oll butter, two teaspoons soda dis. ‘solved into two tablespoogs het waler, ONS Teaapoon Meer ani = flour for a atiff dough. Roll thin and © deiiclous crisp maps will be the resull, 0 Add one ogg which has been ip of sugar, one tablespoontyl ef. lavor with lemon, and when thicic ing] ANDARIN sleeves’ M of the modified sortyare to bo extensively worn. Aa Mlustrated crepe de & Chine ts combined with gulmpe portions of chiffon in matahing color and yoke of lace end is_ trimmed owhn> velvet 15 and heavy Jace applique. Alms every indvor material 1a appropriate. The blouse ts made with « Uning emi this ning fs faced to form the yoke, while over it 1p arranged the full por- tions of the gulmpe. The over watat is made in two pheces, backs ‘and fronts being cut in one with the sleeves and (s latd in poaite over the shoulders, The quantity of ma+ terial required for’ the- medhum size. {s' 31-4 yards 1, 31-8 yards 77 or 11-8 yard «4 laches wide for the ove: Dlouse; 17-8 yards 7. 18-4 yards 3 or 7-4 yard 4 ihohea wide, with 1-2 yard of all- over Jmce, for the wuimpe; 41-2 yards of applique and ¢ yards of velvet ribbon for (seh ming. Pattern No. 5830 ts out in sizes for a XY, 44, 36 3% © and G-inon “bust. Fancy Blouse Walet—Pattern Ne 5at0. f . _ Callor send by mall to. THE EVENING WORLD MAY MAI, TON FASHION BUREAU. No. 1 Weet Twenty-third street, saw York, Sent ten cents in coin or stampa for each pattern erdesatl,, DCEORTANT = Writs veut) anmee/ and entcoss| pinteta: ams mis be "THE NEW MAYOR; A Story Based On A \poor: woman. needin’ a turkey_or a {amily wantin’ an outing, Just drop me! By f g lite, and I'l seo they get i¢) An’ they, needn't come from my ward Albert Payson | Terbune.| seihe2" : ‘That's bad politics, Aldorman|'* etat ‘laughed Bennett. “It's good humanity though. There's en (Copyrighted: “1%, by Gee by. feat H, Broad- two things I love to do: First to down the man who% me enemy, an’ second to Siva: good thes to folks who's stran- | Bera to fun. Good by, your Honor, I'N INOPSIS OF PR! “Alwyn ‘Bennett is tm: © Mass,” ine poittlcal nd ay Wal ad rea YI fo hun Gybe in agin, now I've found my way, 5 ether dala. He accents | adies," ; fo wirn the love of oc Walaert + lias, who bas rer "Alwyn," said Mra, Benhbett as the soled Dim with being an idler. | Dallas's) Alderman bowed himavlf out with many enaary. Wain’ | flouriahes. "I want to see Cynthia, Can ne eae mudecthe Moand Ob “Algerrnea | I @o into her office now, or is ehe too on arin bryatoa) Tagen 08 'oeay pai Bal bani nee antl sala owns The Ml comes tO] Daiias, and bring her with me. I know how anxious sha (s to aes you again.’ “I wonder what Phdlan, would OM) ofthat for ‘raw’ work!" thought Alwyn, as the old indy bustied Into the inner |room, leaving Dallas ard himaelf alone, | Perhaps Dallas too understood, for har pation balla on acy pum. the bill ty Iniaute they are talking Walawright Of, the i in i 4 Dalles ak rerio it manner was lossenssured than usual as 18g peosmpanied ty Git or trioa tS Ther ayes mot his: see enna into pa the. A and Te ao goed ieliece ron wie beges SoReal amin,” hp sald. “It peems years inatead tee CHAPTER V of montha since you went away.’ iF (Continued) “But haw-sblendidly you've filled the , > ta time! And what a magnificent fight In Troubled W aters. To ienda TA eda oo read ToL Roce: 'LL be on my way too’ an | Alwyn!" nounced Phelan, ‘breaking the 4 eA} “Really? I remember you once said ee Awkward pause that followed | wag a mere idler—a rich man's edn igh exit. “Ladies, I'm proud to |amd that you weren't at al) proud of met woiy It either Of you known me “THE — |Mght in my darkness ‘That 1s past. Wa must forget it. You are awake now."’ “Forget It? Not for worlds. I owe all my success to you, Dallas. It way your face that strengthened me when there seemed no hope. It was the mem- ory of your words that kept-me brave and made me resolve to win against all odds. You were my Inspiration, the At each step I thought ‘Dalas would be glad,’ or ‘Dal- las would not approve of this.’ And I te 1d my course saccordingty—to * Mee ‘* RK Lover's Plea. 2 No, nol murmured the girl, ‘It waa your own courage—your strength-—— “Not: mine, It wae your faith in me, Do you know, I think no man ever acoonipitshes anything” by himself, There's ulwaya a woman, I think, be- Ind every great achievement. The world at large does not see Mereceed not know of her existence—but #8 in the heart of the man who is AEE) the fight: He‘battles in her name os did the knights of old, And the triumph {a pera! Hot hia Whether his reward Is, the crown of loys or the crown of thorns, SHE 1s the Inspiration,” “Phen it I had a where in your suc- conn I'am very happy, Alwyn. For your fame a in every mouth“You are the; man of the hour; even/as you were In the olden duys on te football feld. Oh, I am proud of/you! Very, very proud, There {8 a glorious future be- “W { ‘That ull rests in your dear hands." erfed Alwyn, “Future or present, Dallas, tt's all tho samo; tf only you"— | * ‘Say, Bennett!" roared a deap yolce ‘a the door from the outer office wan banged open and Horrigan, red-faced end: souieroaburata: tiny cke nnderaiana ve>— I didn't know you had a Indy ‘calling on you,’ he roc ° Well, I have, retort furious ‘at the untimely intrusions TA: Aram should tave told you that at the “I don't stop to hear what fol! th Meat doors. I'l walt, outaite till you're Don't trouble to walt. Good. “You can bet I'll t iy! anarled “Horrigan. iPhones” aimee tin and I ‘have got to settle to-da: nderstand?, Til be outulde, “Dont Keep me waiting long!" “~ CHAPTER VI. The Mayor and the Boss. HAT a strange mani" ox: clajmod Dallas Walnwright Sa Avonddr, -aw the antcroom Soor slammed behind the Boss, ‘And }what utterly abominable manners! Who in he, Alwyn?” , ‘Horrigan,’ ‘Richard Horrigan, the—r" “The Boss, Yes. He has a pleasing way of stamping into thin office, un- asked, ax if he owned it and aa tf I were is clerk. But to-day's behavior Was tha worst. yet. It's got to atop!" ‘But don't do or say anything reck- ‘Premise Mens, Abwyal me HE how strong he Is!" “There's no danger of, hia letting me forget his pow sald. Dennett, with A bitter «mile, ‘'*He—" “But you'll be careful, won't you? Please do, For my eal And you mustn't keep him. waiting. I¢ theres i way out through Cynthia's office, we'll go by that, Good by, I'll explain! to your mother, No, you must let us 0. now, Office business must come fret, Won't you call this evening? I'll be home and alone.’ Deapite Bennett's remonstrances she yes firm; and it was in no pleasant tr of mind that the Mayor threw himaelf into a seat. when he was loft alone in the room. That the talk: with Dallas, which bad promised so much for him, should be thus rudely Inter rupted. That Horrigan flung open the door and atamped in. The Bosa’s anger bad by no means subsided, In the few moments of delay, but had, rather, grown until It’ vibrated in his every word anil wusture. He wasted no time In formall- thes, but came to the polpt with all the tender’ grace and tact of a pile-driver. “Look here, Bennett," he rumbled, menace underlying tone and look. ‘I'm told Phelan's deen here this afternoon. What did he want?" "To see me," answered Bennett calm- ly, the effort at self-control vistblo only {n the whitening of the knuckles that gripped the desk edge, “What did hie want to: see you aboutT’ ws (matter, eS igre n en eenen niche Reenter EKER KET EEEE EE errerKee reer et HER KE REE CETTE ENS H AAAI AAAHAAAL NADA AAAS AL AOL Pere rr AN OF- oof 06 oS 08 Oo Gf of of of UE UL OL OE SE UE URE LODE IRIE CCIE EEE EE EEN ERE a eee Oana eee Sn oy bat ea andueacunnunuesonnae you made a rattling good 99 “What business matter?’ “Mine.” ‘Yours, eh’ ancered Horrigan, ‘Well, young man, I want you to understand here and now, that no one can be chum- my with Jim Phelan and bo my man at the. same time, Got that through your head? The Bully. “Yes, assented Bennett, “I think I have. And, while we're mpoaking plain- ty, I want you to Understand, here and |now, that no one can bully me, elther |here or elsewhere,'and that I’mno man's man. Haye you rot that throuxh your bead? Horrigan stared in savage amaze- ment. He doubted if his ears had not played him! false, Bennett had alwayr treated the Bossa with untform cour | teay and Horrigan belonged to the toc! numerous cliss who do not understand | until!) too late the difference between) gentle breeding and weak cowardice. That a man should speak to him cour- teousiy and not Interlard his. talk with oaths, obscenity or roughn |, Boemed to Horrigan, as it does to many other boor, an evidence of timidity and| lack of virility, A Damascus tlade is a far more harmless looklig weapon than a bludgeon, yet it is capable when | the necessity arises, of fur deadl! work, It 1s only the man whose gentleness has not granite strength as its founda- tion who @eserves the newly-popular torm of “mollycoddle.” Had Horrigan's large experience wit! men been extended to embrace this fact hp would probably never’ have: picked out Alwyn Bennett, in the first place, a candidate for Mayor nor deemed the Younger man a fit tool for the organi mation’s crooked. work. ‘The Frenct nobles of the old regime, whose polish; of manner was the envy of the world, fought Like devils on occasion and went to death on the soaffold with a smile anda jest on thelr lips; while many @ brutal demagowue, in the same olroum- Slances, broke down and screamed for mercy. However, Horrigan chanced to organization than with that of France. Henoe, deoming Bennett's reply a mere sporadic flash of defiance from a proper- rebellion at a’ blow. K Bilugf Called.’ "Don't give me any Insolence!” ex. ‘on't atand for it and quietly continued tae the Bossa had not) I shall be very much oblixed future, “you will) knock at 33 It, tp door instead of bursting in on me Is my private off ‘Do you mean to’ “Dye explained as clearly as T can un- Not yours. don't you t you t supply nett,’ sald tho Boss, his byrn- ing rage steadied down to a white he more dangerous but less lhoopercn hYou and me are talking too mush and saying too little. a show-down. You’, re a Ni SreX er Dey ant just what 1 mean. derstand me I ca: intel 2 be more familiar with the history of the | deuce. they ala { nated?’ ly cowed spirit, ho resolved to crush tho} GEORGE. mM. BROADHURST'S- Successful Play. — you're ind of. iaterial we've got, and if you > the hat you oan rise t the “The right thing?!" echo; ‘What ung? thing by the men’ who put you You -are to-day,” t did, heard io bod who aid, ta ilke to know 7" She “You looted to pay, 1 mean you've got to do the = a ene <a Ee. But who ‘put me where 1, Dick Horrigan, of f YoU till I took Eye SS on the right nice of a ° the press, too, You're right thing there’ But tight thing. do you mean by fair, - didn't of tts scoted Horrigent wy Who had you did, But tt was the publie me, and I'm going to obey. ‘ tera, The voters,’ the voters for thelr trust by giving tra treet Rallwa) Inutae before him on his desk, hi bill atta; franchive do: tapping th i [intend to make sure Ite the: peoples. Mat Tt, te: not merety » Shank Horrigan t of his friends and heele n't nwear. was elect off Horrig We've got to come to you don't Ih ds matt ne it's your own months’ ago thet 1 should keep my: As for thia Rorough ollfteeee ule orougi, ike obey 1 ater this th