The evening world. Newspaper, December 12, 1907, Page 19

| The: Paradox .Mmdrft tnorea! eso) the almpler, 5 > Joined so that they The Evening World Daily Magazine, Thursday, December 12 1907. 4 . cee. BEBLDBPPSOFBDEDLDPPEDDHODS & Digcouracine Plight of the Young! -~American, Who Is Three Days Behind His Appointment, ’ Finds Himself Job He Sought. iThe Adventurer Eloyd Gshourae. © Abit, by D. (Copysi Appleton & Co.) EYNOPS!IS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. porate enter a Kite sewn the Deities by A wanx Somos to his. ae ing hia clothes to another man Who From the place.” Te °f oniy, recover about TS having been pont. In despatr of mak fag up the full aum be gee to Homer K teed, ies, ‘The fatter takes ar ‘ CHAPTE RV, (Continued) The secret. 66 ILATS all thin?’ he demanded, W with the glitter of tate In his eyes, “What do you mean by sticking your foot in “Inwant to see Mr. Ki ny doort* redge.? “I'm Mr. Kittredx: Kirk faltered. ‘The words he meant @orsay Uled on his tips. He Ww: ent, "You ought to bo ashamed of aetf!" cried the noveliut. “A big, sturdy man ike you begging! I won't give You a penny, and if you don't dear out I'l punch your head! Kirk did not budge. His white tace, bis evident Uistreas, the «listen of real | teArs in hiy oyos ali struck the no’ ist with a sudden contrftiin. “Oh, well, here's a shilling!” he cried, “Take It, and get! Kirk, in « broken voice, refused the cos. j “Mr. Kittred, e said, “It im true }Xum a beggar—but not that kind of a | beswar. Look here!" and mith thar he plumped his hand in his pocket ana Grew it out brimming with gold. ‘The sight staggered Homer Kittredge. His face changed to an extraordinary intevest. Still holding the shilling, he studied Kiri from top to toe, his amaze- ance with the shining sovereigns “Then what do you WantT’ he demand. Jed atest. B “Bight pounds,” sai Kirk “Bu my Gear fellow, why in heayen's name should I give you eight; pounds?” “It you'll fet me come to I'l. tell | you why," said Kirk “On, Mr, Kitt- redge, lease lot me come in!’ Tho great writer still stared at him. He peomai at a lous to know how to|.1 enswer. The master of smaginary ro- mances stood apellbound before the roel hing. “All right—come along,” he said. * won't oromise you eight pounds, but IM give you ten minutes of my "time. Mind the: stap, old ¢ellow!" Ana thus invited, Kirk followed | Homer Kittredge into the dark and un- ferviting passage. CHAPTER VI. A Literary Speculation. wes bed upsteire and ustered into an attractively furnishod ‘room A table was set for din- wer, ‘Hungry?’ inquired the novelist, “Yes"— “Well, then, a down. Seer™ 2 “Oh, Mr. Kittridge, F did not mean ion— “Hold yoor tongue,” eal the novelist, “Skip gretitade and all that end gst yourself one of thove mugs off @m mantelpiece,” Ap Kirk obeyed he heaswed a slice off tm roast and apolo- ised fow- offering tt ¢> btm on « bread- |: Dhen he returned: and, i line bargain, K -)old town than I ever found tn Africa, 4s he contrasted the | jlatter’s dishevalled and unkempt appear- @ privilege of a of hi door it resounded house like o sf is Mrenth. He and pint ati pale sdetacted in me, \ * ther police Was the door failing Too Late for the before their axes? Ought ha ‘to, fy to the garret, or boldly make a break for! jit by the way he came? What Kirk Saw. Hug his moment of panto passed, was in actight place,-and needed alt his At the end of His, story, carried to the novelint's. very: nd, Kirk reached over for a clgar, and watted for his coth- wits about h in and alert, he panion to speak. He’ hardly knew what) ran to the window, threw !t wide open, to expect, and Tila yncértaingy ws 5 down ints the street. relieved by Kittredge springing to What he saw was a postrnan descen: He} suet of letters in his hand! An un- t lo British postman, stMbling oward the next house on hig round of iveriest Kirk haat drew Sly cloned the window and wv the centre of the room. He was nshamed to think how tie had Leen fooled, how his imagination’ exaggerated those innope: | veritable nders. heaven what tricks ono’s nerves could play! It was tho eravelike stilinens of | tho house that tind ‘preyed upon him— | that and {ts mysteries, which he had} |sot himself eo unavallingly to ‘aolvé ‘Then all at once tt carne over him that [perhaps the postman find shot some ters through the slit of the door. ‘This natural,concomitant af his knock struck Kirk with the suddenness of a as veijtion, Of course, that was why he nocked—lime was why any post Pollce—hxea—go0d | BB DBDDDBOPPBODODSADHDDPHPBODD DPPPDPDPDPODPOPDDD PPBPOPBBHPBDHDPDPLOOPPPPEPBD € Kirk Makes Up the £100, and Goes to the Mysterious House to Find It Deserted He Climbs Through a Window and Explores the Empty Rooms for Some Clue é let- deliver man knocked —knocked— ters Kirk raced down thes: 0 the front do €limmering Hp had it that hung Yen, within § tely through bars in a second and carried tt to the nearest window. where, intercepting a | fenk of lght in the closely drawn blinds | he feveriahly made out the address J, H. Trosurtha, Bsa Tedworth St, Wie The Trail. In the comnér ofthe enyetope, printed red ink was JAPRRAY & TNA TCHR, House Agonta, Mi Marytobone Road, as The datective of fiction would have | inads no bones of tearing {t open with a yell of trium But Kirk, though he bad wandered very far from the fn life in which ho had been bornyand bred, had yet the repugnance of Al gentleman to prying into other peopfe'a coreexpomience. ‘Though he was on fre with curiosity, the promypt- had been all-in pain, J. H. Tre, ‘was of course Mr. Smith! Five: mini ee with the directory would discover hic J. HW. Tregurtha, Esq. [ address. Kirk Wa, now to windward Dear Sir—The 1s company informs! of the whole affair, and the rest wad us that there is a #mal] charge against! but’seamanship and clever handling. | you of 3s, 04 « lost no time in getting out of the ing your one rt returning a8 he, came by the $2 Tedworth tre roof of the shed. At ® chemist's shop, Jaffray & Thatcher, House Agents, 8 Murylebone Road, W. Nov. 6, 150— ings .of henor nmithbeld his iobing | for a charge Of one penny, he was pec- (ingers. He turned the letter over and that uaa and paler us to | mitted aa dope an which sated 2 oura, respectfully, multied up Ike a doy over in hia hand, aa much teased an| ar cepsocttatl ay | Pees caipetdettt et & fantished setter with a duck. But} ; He. | und incontinentiy divappeat. Yio. Fan the Remptation was irresistmle (it) Kirk hugged hinieolt at’ his good | with a trembling of eagetwens, Aer wasn See *< fortune. Here agatir was a rift in the| all, JL was ony a presumption thet the foro M. Sainohow the letter ‘chme| Hestiaid. plans of mice and. men, A Mat he sought lived in Wondon. “athe ° mon, et ! * jén the hardly know haw.’ Conootence | rrining gas bill, Incurred and: forgotten, | Mean type ot the acitely aeOten orm otested, Dut the decd was done never-/ aq stultified all those elaborate pr |The Hent name, the elke faltinty star mart: theless. cautions that had thus far succéeded | ing the eye aa though written dn fire twas a. curt: opletie, tn a, round, un-|in Keeping Kirk without a/olus, Burned | onicekurnae o: Hi Bolster, No, 1 [Chancery Lan 4 datinguished etd fhan papors, aliases, mysterioys tendczvour, (To. Ba ‘Continued. feet and atriding about the room, ex: ing thy ateps of No. 8. bearing @ bull claiming: “By Jove! “By Jovel!’> ex-. ~ oitedly undir tin breath. leaning eve Kirk, said be'd give a thourand po to change places with him. Kirk tim{d}y brought up the subject of ithe eight pounds, | “Eight pound: eeEey cried the novelist | stambiog About the room again, “He your boots I will, Only you must come | back and tel! me all about dt. Thats patrick. You owe {ma you know, You'll 6e a cur {f you |dof't. Thera are more stories in this and, by George, I chink you and I have wot a dig-one by the tall’ | | The money ta pocket Kirk hast- | ened Bratefully cway to getyit changed [into a hundred pound note. He had some diMoulty in managing this, but at jast—three days lute—arrived with note in his pocket at the house in worth sireet. ‘Phe house was closed and empty. \* Setback. ided came to him ¢o attank the premiaes from the rear. He ret teeod the dite aliey out on wh had inoked the day uf his frst appoint ent, Ho discovers. thout dim- Je wan an tle «ley jbrtek walls either side of him, no danger of detection eave from the rear [Windows of the adjccont houses. He seurctied them for a possible rpy, and then, reileved, considered the wall. It | wasn't much of a elgnt feot high or so—and thie on: tor tad (he glass that was supposed found a likely, ross, and With @ nimiensss: climbed over and Kir the Durgiar, |to set his: foot in, mullor’s Me SEE ‘e access to the kitchen. It mas locked, of coume, All the lower eindows were barred witli tron, But one on the flour above was unprotected and Kirk saw he could easily reach tt by getting on the roof of a lean-to shed th apparent) deen used te keep bicycles in, Bicycles and flower I pocs, to judge from a very cursory in- | spection of {ts interlor, A min later [he was standing on the roof examining | the window. Jt presented no difficulties | Save tho intangible ones of the British | Constituston and outraged law, Visions }of penal servitude caused Kirk to turn [hts head and carefully acan the nelgh- jboring houxes, Reassured, he knocked out’ an upper pane, undid the catch, raised (he sash, and slipped into the |allent house In Ghostly Company. Tt was dark and ghostly. The shrouded twilight was only just sufficient to per: mt him to-advance without groping. jThe boards creaked under him and the) 1 of awe, of Ganger, of unwarranted in. trusion that might at any moment bo summarily avenged from some dim re- jcess or black passageway. Ho walked) |wartiy, ready to spring back, ready to} Margaret Hubbard Ayer. clenoh his fists and defend himself, I¢ was hard to resist the Impression that | FAMOUS doctor wrote a long he was attacking, and others waicne| AL book on-how to br up chil- to defend, the citadel of mystery dren according to a aystem. The which he ;had so recklessly ect his foot. children were not to bo comforted when Through the profound glogm eves |they cried unless tt was the hour for acemed to watch him, and shadowy |petting. They were not to be given Ngurea rustled as they closed on the|food. unless they were hungry at the line of his retreat, hours prescribed by the aystem. They ETE be rocked or dandted or - IT, }to Indulge in any of the pleasures of Di; jearly infancy. They wero to sleep when A Postal Clue. y were biden to and avake after a | SN ot last search of the house jcertain number of houra with methodl- Wea over Kirk had to admit cal precision. that he was defeated. Tho room| Thousands of bables have ” been upstairs seamed tho only one that Smith brought up ier the system and have & Co, had ever tmhadited, if, indeed, thrived, and certainly thls om has the word inhabited coud he applied to emancipated the mother from much of the use they had put ft to. He decided the trouble that mccompanies the care to exahino {t again on the unlikely of a apotled child. I have known many contingency that he hed overlooked /bables brought up according to the aya- something. He coulin’t remember that | tem. ‘ Baby No. 1 was the frat child ef a to comke certntn. Bo he went op again, very intellectual and high-strune young fan, while for it is appropriate almost every eco of the bess costly heavy qecton flannels and the fike, The head end the legs are both attached by moans of discs and consequently are move in @ really de- Aightfally natural manner, {Tho quantity of material Pattern No, 6834 1s cut in one alze For a {Call or send by mail t THE BVENING WORLD MAY MAN- quirad {a 7-8 yard 37 or 1-2 woman, During daby's frst summer I had frequent occasions to vist them, and I think I never approached the houso without hearing the system baby’s plaintive howl ‘There he lay tn his baby carriage under the apple tree. cr¥ing himself blue in the face, accont- Ing to the system. While his mother jread Maeteriinck, according to here, we held the following ‘conversation: “Why don't you take that baby up jantt rock it, or something?” “Because it's net according to tem. Ho's all right." ‘Susiposing ho has a pin sticking in tim, ‘Mey often do," eynia baby hasn't Jall sewn on, e has to be out in tho air for two jhours, and he'll june have to stay, no jmittter what bappens. I'm not allowed Hto. touch him." Not long after that I went to visit the lmother of anothar system. baby—always the seme system, mind you: | "Where's the baby:?”” |, “Oh” replied the fond mamma..*'sho'a over the trangom, I thought she'd be |perfectly safe there and get all tho ltresh dir, Thin ta her time for got- ting the air and J don't feel like go- Ing Dut the third system baby is having the His clothes Bulldog—Pattorn No, 5834, yard 62 inches wide. only, tho saddeat timo of all, Ho t% the Bon FeSO BURESU Ne jul Prater fae street: New} | cightsnonth-old eon of » woman noted ore sabe Cenicootn cae exper es enan Piainy, ane. o> |ror hor strensth of character aud ho name and | nérace| ploiaty, was born in. Germany, whero be was ways mpecity size wanted, raised carefully according to the s: tom, He awoke to a systematic world ° i ' Pree i {| ORDERED EVERY THING FROM THE GROCER AND BuTcnER According to the system | oH, You DEAR SWEET GUESS Ip BETTER G)VE LOVEY THE Bit} THERE'S THE OUMBWAITER Sheth hehehehe PUOPSPPTHOPSH LS PHS HP SHSH HHH tt PLETE ELT HHS MOTTISSPSHSOSOLEODETOSOET The Newlyweds i Their Baby % By Geor ge McManus, You’RE ALWAYS So THOUGHTFUL OF US OH, Lovey! DOESN'T HE. > Loon SWEET? | muST LOOK OVER ORDER AND SEE THE PRECIOUS, \F EVERY” HAM THING 18 RIGHT | ut 6.30 and had breakfast. ‘Two hours later ho wus bathed, At 10 o'clock he took his airing and had lunch out of doors, where he remained during the! long afternoon nap until time for aup- per and bed, which occurred at 6.30, A SYS TEM Herr Baby never—vartet a moment from his prografime, When the cuckoo clock struck 630 he awoke and began his day without losing a minute. ‘Threo weoks ago he sailed for Ameri- ca, actompanied by bis admiring fam- My. “Now, as you remember, aftor the nccond day at sea all clocks are put forward one hour at midnight of each = forse: Bringing Up Children According to a System. Gaxanbacaussn ce wich clcarernea cs ae AER heh tie elnino fila) sya. pérfect 1 detail and proportion, but no bigger |Amurte The advance of tithe was| He Is now five hours behind time in PR atts Ce np Haare Aap spepesrae ets hd (Os eee congas chronicled on the bulletin every dayand| America and stil roing on hts Kuro-] 77 Ute Proscns 8 writer saya; |e LAIN tdh Nise SCGa produced: |s, jo every clock in the ship~excent that | pean schedule, In other words, -he be-| 1°" i a EAE A wCOr ent On OLa Ind aut ie aut He essential to the ine a umepieces in baby'a| ins his, day, at 1.80 tn the morning | Succesatul dwart-tree ‘rower is patie inite potience, Dacked by a fund eed West tnd. Arifty yenrs is named as the BA GOES a ae TIME. RAYE wr FS = head. He still awoke at 6.30, Dut !t waa! 680 German time, and insisted on his luncheon at 10 o'clock at Borlin, which Nally grew eariler in the morning, ue they neared the American shore, The passage Was accomplished with the greatest dis ort to the family owing to Traby’a tenacity of purpose and Indemttable wrt! Herr 4ho A Useful Gift. Dear Hetty: ‘AM engaged (o @ young lady whom I have known since childhood, We aro anxious to give each .other lGhristmas presents that will be useful Would it be proper ¢o give her a fur } mum? B.S. Yos, {t would be useful, and @ present sho would itke:if ghe hes no furs. An Anxious Parent, Lear Het: Bee, M Y only daughter,“hlmost olghteen, has received yery marked atte tion’ for about two months from a gentleman of twenty-nine. We do not ‘now of anything that would count ‘against him ax a posstble son-in-law, [but our daughter ts so young, Ie It | proper to have the man call and sit up | with tho girl, the parents to leave them | alone, or even Ko out? Is it proper and wire to encourage him? My objection to this love affair has caused a very { and { Betty Vincents #« & we « Advice to Lovers. | deplorable encounter with Wise excellent wife. Will you edy mo what course to mitsue? 'T. RH. } You snould casually remark to the man that you conslder your daughter too young for anything serious, “Where is no harm in_aftiowing your ohild to colvo Nix attentions, and {f he Is en- {rely worthy you should not object to hia calis, |To Change Her Religion. {Dear Betty: Ma young girl of nineteon engaged | to a man of thitty, His family 1 odject on the grumi of my being ja Catholic, Don't you think If he lovat Me he Would marry mo in spite of that, jer do you nk I td igive in to Ho only seen “my oth mn? tis people once in j about two or three years. CALF. "Phere ts not reason why you should |not be happy with tho mah even though there ls a difference in religion, As he [seen hix family so seldom they are not [Utkoly to cause much trouble. Don't leive in to him, for.i¢ he 1s sensible he Will see things yolir way, | Dwarf Trees of Japan. N the outskirts % . Japan, there is a fttle colony of nattva artists ple trees and many Rrowing dwarf trees-oaks, maples, beeches, ar of palm resignation unk: hit Just be- shortem perlod in which a rea and goes to eloep for the nix jo Gwart t good a may be ‘grown, fore noon, and nobody can make him n junderstand why he 1s -wronx, because,| Wille ® Ufotime ts not long enough to produce the highest exampies of the art \neconding to his aystom,, te ta etiti| DNArE trees are produced from seeds, or—in cases where this ls not practicadio~ je { from, carefully selected cuti!ngs. + Art Lesson for the Young Folks; * _ This One Will Develop Thoughtfulness —e To the younx readers of Tho Hventng World: You will observe that the art dlank | to-day fe changed from « cut-out to one to be filed in. You will percetve that this partial picture !s one upon which the young and o}d can put thelr artistic talent to teat. ‘ Hinta on completing the picture.This Dlank Is destgned to exerciao tho qual- {ties of kindness and thoughtfulness, which, by the way go hafid In hand. } it will afford also practice In the tm- | portant matter of ‘‘distant effect.” Suggestions: It was drawing toward |evening, but the sun's rays stil lin- gered, giving a soft glow to everything |tn naturé, ‘The cottace door onsned | and w pretty maiden apperred. Her axa foll upon an object so wan, feebln | and old that st iaade her wonder why there should Ve such distress when everything was fo beatitifl around her, With the help of thts brief description | finish up the aketch, Ctvae feeling and expression to your autect. Give plo- ture an appropriate title and cut ft out | of tho paper and mail {t to the Obi) dren's Editor, Evening World, New| York, N. Y., P. 0, Box 154 The creat number of answers recelved | and tho excellent work upon those cut- | outs are mont gratifying, for they show | that the young people are anxious to do | well, which {a also ahown by the second | batch of pictures sent in by the same | children, We here print the names of | clever young artista who have done de- | serving nrork upan these cut-outs: Valentine MuohFhous, No, 23 real lina, avenue, Richsnond Hill, New York. eet Brooklyn. Nathan Hess, No, 110 West Ono Hun- | LS CURT Reeser: é ‘ fun | Ldillan Muehthous, No. dred and Dhirteonth street, New York | song, Riomond FN, Another near Weatchester 76 Marion: Place, Seventy-fourth street, New York. | avenue, Bronx. 318 Magnolino | trurry Jaeger, No, ow York, Rockville Centre, Le]. City. Louls 8, Hansen, Toms River, N. J, Dora Beck, No. 37-Fast One Huns Rosle Fornetain, No. 272 Humboldt) Martin Heinnek, Bide a Weo Home, | dred and Thirty-fourth atreat, ofty, street, Brooklyn. yi | Noroton Heights, C Lioya Turney ‘all, No, 73 Temple street, Kthel May Housman, No, 2 DeKalb Richart Barry, One Hundred and | city. re