The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1907, Page 13

The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday, sThe Million-Dollar Kid 2 By R. W. Taylor @eeseeeoeaee , @Truths About Japan 3 By Henry George, dr. No. $-THE SPIRIT OF CHIVALRY. 3-4 ‘NE of the things that. most impress me duriag my ‘Vist to Japan waa the Ittte inctosuresin the beer | of the Sengakuj! Temple’ in Tokio, containing Kraves of the “Vorty-seven Rontasl” © ee The temple te in the scuttwesternwart of the capital city, & mile beyond fitba Park, where rest-the tombs of fivé’ Shogun, ‘The contrast between the greves: cf the dead Cacmars, with their great slabs of cranke, huge -pleces of bronze, oo:i« Usuous temples blasing with: gold, red and bleck jacquer and mineral staine, and the modesty of the sleeping places ‘of the forty-seven.men who typify the chlyairy of Japant J Ths tombe, temples ari xrounds,o* the Shogune are vast, - by " grang and. acrupulomely kept—and eherted; or nt least they’ impress “ene es being Gewested. While the burial tnctosure of the Ttonins, te- Gether with the Gengakusi.temple and thé museum near by comtaining’ relics, | Tnotnwe continually burns before the small Istticed mhrine of, Otstd, leader ef the flevoted Mttle band, and a multitude of Visiting carts attest the \'peteonal bomaxe of nmny nowaday visitors “For, «aya Ties!] Hall Chamber~ |iain, one Of, the grentest.authorities, and who has written « detightfut book om |*Things Japanese, the “enthusiastic admtration of « whole people during two centurion haw been the reward of the obedience” of the “Forty-shven. Ran! to “the ethical code of rhetr time and country.” B . Two centuries ago—to be exact, in Tit these Yorty-meyon men dettheratety: rave up their ves to revenging the death of thetr loti. Asano, who, provoked PLO GOOLDEPOOHW® A Pair of Pretty -. Star-Glint Eyes They Shine for Kirk in the Felicidad Camp, but There Is Fear Tha‘ He May Lose Their Owner pee df BESBVSH ALL. RIGHT, DEAR, MLLgGIne Him A _N\CKeEL! Od~ HOO! AIWF GONNA HAVE HO CARISMUS - NO J KiWars Te TRODBLE, CITTLE BOY i BRGSGSECSS : The Adventurer Lloyd Osbourne. (Copyright, 1007, by D. Appleton @ Co.) a, |Problem. He end I used to play tor} }houra in ‘the attic, fanning Httte land- | Ships ‘along the floor, end laughing like| |children. But now it's ali different. | | Ho's absolutely “absorbed in the idea. | | It dominates everything. You-can sce! ‘yoursel{ how i! he ts. T was shocked | } {at the change in him. This awful ci!- | mate 1s terrible. Yet he won't listen | to a word of reason. I've been plead- jing with him all day. I can't tell you what I've gone through—bow I've eeuapere tor riecwond cuarrens,| berseea and implored him to give ft But ) DON'T. WAMT: NOO FOLKS WAIT HES CRYING to | ware! BECAUSE) HE ¢ | | rors ‘s unshakable. He is going | 4 cemts Kirkpatrick (nloknamind a eelryes ene ee 2a. plucky 0, trae i sail in that ff tt tills him. | arre! owtth upon another noblem thin sn 5 ys er Outpedi.| That's where the inventor comes in, I| Seaveertae ee petite erm Se ee ape ; the portala of the Bhogun's palace at Yeddo (Tokio), waa ordored by the Gory open—sehile His jermmont to perform “hirakir(—sulalde by cutting the stomach tis Castle was forfeited, hia family declared extinct and the members of his clan disbanded. fi | Asnno‘s clanamen thereupon became “ronins,~ or rovers. Forty-seven of them gnthered together and swore they would give ¢beir lives#to the taking of, Kira's life in vengeante for their lord's death. They went about their revenge with wonderful patience. and humitity, ot smappone. pride, BUDE — VL FIX Yop Up! German. acl is “te wealthy old jady, too! He says that's his reward. | he would not forfeit {t for any- thing in the world. ‘That it would iook | © FO, [ethat ere ees eat « falls in| a coward to turn back now, as though fapabie: ef all afouaias ee comma, Le Sania xe | grading themasetves to manual purmdéte and even assuming: low hattts (o put VIR, who has eon Baeiend: bade) 20 ee own | Ktra's ‘vigilance te sleep. : oli her, he camo | eee | last, one snowy night {n Jacuary, 170—atmost two yenrs, after Asanow Sy kad the, alin nearly, com: | JK Girl’s Tears. | Geath—by concerted attack they broke into Kira'a mansion, killed his retainers and dragged forth the frightened Daimyo frem « woodahed, where hé bad . ya. trees an > reason of pix own, ta pccretly - Ing to. make Mra. Hitchoock abandon tt That night Kirk, oafis’on Vera. H. is peenent and Kirk is M1 at ward, CHAPTER XV. (Continued) In Love. ORTUNATELY there was a diver-| + pected It. The fap of the tent was unceremoniously lifted, and a bulky, arunre-miouldered Teutonic individual, with enormous whiskers jutting from hiy chin Uke tusks and a face contorted} With passion, put himedif half in and beckoned vigorously to Westbrook. ‘hy, come in, Zedtwitz,” sald the old-man cheerfully. , you come out," cried the Ger man, derkly. ‘It fs not @ matter for other ears, I have been again ineulted by that infamous Jagson. He ts blay- me—ho fa blaying with all of ing wi us! Every day he ttinks of some freah means to thward ua. Hunh! You know him—you know the peeg—you Meow what he {s after! But the time }iaa come to strige—to chegmete him— to end his interference and treachery. Gome; friend. Westbrook, and let us take gounsel together, you end I, for cles assuredly I will get my pinto] and a pullet through him." Filone Together. Von Zedtwitz looked quite capable of carrying out his threat. His eyes were smouldering, and his broad, rugged face was crimso> with anger. Standing there in the lamplight he preacnted a formidable figure, with his sturdy lexs rt and his open shirt displaying the ‘on his breast, A German of the species. of the Blamarckian cen- rrogant, brave and loyal—e energy, and an il! man to cross. stbrook hastened to him. There was a whispered colloquy, ‘The eit, small voice of common sense on one side--subsiding Teutonto thunders on the other, Then the two men passed | out into the night-and nothing tore swas heard of them save their retreating footsteps Vera rose and ran over to Kirk with outciretched hands, She had appreci- ated his mortification, his forlornness, his defection, It was an impulsive move- ment of sympathy, of girlish tender- ness, of sweet concern, for her poor lover. Kirk took her hands, and thelr} touch transported them into a seventh | hedyen. Ho drew her down beside hint onthe sofa. He bent over and kissed her warm, plump -arm, Kissed it and nuzzied tt against hia cheek in an ecstasy. "She tried to free heraclf, but he ching to her hands and kissed them passionately, only stopping when she threatened’ to go back to her former place. “In Disgrace!” : “No, you must be good," she sald, lowing and {rembling in an exquisite distress, ‘‘f didn't mean that at all— only f felt so sorry for you, and wanted you to forget. What « poor, allly stupid you are! Besides, I wanted to be pitied, too. J'm In disgrace!” “Disgrace?” “Pape ia furious with mel I've had an ewtul time. I've been crying all day! “My poor darling. “Hush, you musn't say that. You mustn't even think It to yeureelf, Don't you see how, terrible my eyes ere—all nwelled up and red? I was embarrassed every time y ed at me. I kept my head wide 1 could." “And your ederabie Uttle nose in the ainit added Kirk. ?{ thought st was —pride-Disdain, yo know. “Aristo- cratio"—— $ “Oh, but Msten—I want te ¢ell you— no, no, I'll shut them—I won't have you look. Please, I don't look it—you musth!" Kirk said she had exaggerated. That they.(were the prettiest, brightest, star- eyes + The Dilemma... | “Dive done a dreattul thing in com- ing.cut Pape’s at his wits’ ends, He| can't send me back, and he can't leave me tore, and he swears he won't take me along. I'm a iktle white elerhant— ‘and—and—I'm glad of tt. Oh, Mr, Kink- patrick, he is @o ill #o changod—that it breake my heart I am trying to . persuade rim fo throw it all up, end 60 home at once, But’he is #0 obstl- po wilful. In England he didn’t She broke off and began to cry, ron-| tne her handkerchief in a little ball| and dabbing her eyes with jt Kirk tried to aay something comforting. But the situation was too insoluble to be releved by vague endearments, how-| ever softly they might be uttered. | “It's Just this," she want on. “Pither | I go with hi sharing tho risks and | taking care of him, or we Ko home| together directly. I have told him that & millfon times, and I'm going to atick to 4t. ‘I don't care whether I'm a little white elephant or not. He's the only} father Ihave, and I think he owes !t to ‘me to take care of himself. Don’t you! think he does? Surely your only child 1s more {mportant than a ship? But it's terrible to argue with him when he ts wo fi] and broken, Yet I have t must. For his own eake I must. yas, nag tui I'm sick at sill I accomplish {a to ma: lutely furious, He has alwaya been| the kindest and dearest father @ girl) ever had. We have always been chums, | ‘This ts the first thme in my Iife’that ho! has ever eald a cross word to me." Conspiracy. “Can't you get the others to help! your’ | ‘The others! That's the worst of it. | They would be only too giad to got rid | of hiim—Capt. Jackson and Mrs. Hitch-| cock, that is. They are the most im- posible people. ‘The captain's only idea fs to marry the old lady and re- turn home—while on her part ahe is So fussy and dictatorial tha: there is @ constant clash between her and papa, The captain, for his own purposes, makes all the mischiet he oan, ana Uses her as a catspaw to drive papa frantia, She interferes in everything, and démande all sorts of impossibilitie in spite of the agreement that papa | was responsible-for the ship, and was to have @ free hand. But papa ie too whrewd tobe tricked, and he fights every inch of his ground, though tt tel!s on him horribly, and jangics his nerves all to pieces," ‘But there 1s Von Zedtwita’ Internal Strife. “The doctor! It's all papa can do to keop him tractable under the constant deviling he gets fron those two. He fan't any help at all. And he's the| most important man of all, you know, as he ts the originator of the expedition and holds the setret. If we lost him we | would not know where ¢o all to, And| that's whi Captain Jackson wants—to/| goad him and inwult him till he finally’ throwa it all up in disgust, Oh, {t's an | awful tangle, and if papa wasn't papa, I'd want him to atick right here and force it*throuxh, But beng my father, his health comes first. and I would/| willingly eee everything €0 to olece gladly peo it—just to cet him away. | But he can’t see it in that Meht. In| some ways I can hardly blame hint It} {s hard to bave got as far an this, and then sacrifice {t all—to let that tricky: Captain Jackson triumph—and leave it to fizzle out. I can see papa’s side of ft-only he can't see mine, It's much a pandloap, ian't 1t? I heve to admit thin, and this, and this—while he admits nothing. Oh, dear, oh, dear, I'm the most miserable person in the whole world" ‘God knows, I wish I could help you,” said ‘Kirk, *lt's All Righy! fhe looked at him, her eyes shining with toars, “I know you would," she exclaimed, with a gratituda he felt was undo- served. "You are a great-}onsolation to me. I haven't any one but you, You you can, understand." They drew apart as they heard Mr. Weatbrook’s atep outaide, He entered, looking very white and perturbed, and threw himself wearily Into a‘chalr, He answered Vera's questioning gliinco tn} w voice that he attempted (o fiake oasy And unconcerned. ‘it's all’ right-all right—my dear,” he said. ‘I smoothed him down. I made bim laugh at himeelf. He won't murder anybody to-night He Is. a) great, big, honest ont with all of a child's resentment of ery and jn- justice, But if thoy go on treating him Ike & dog somebody will end by got- ting | bitten. : { (To Be Continued.) ” And He Meant Ite 66) ts impossible,’ cried Mr. Nagget, finally, “for us to live togetr and not quarrel,” t,"” anapped’ Mra. Nagget, “it is! peasibie not to quarrel if neither of us |Home-Made Sausages. I {be as large around as a common half- Things’ for Women to Know. ‘Home Hints. Quick Fruit Cake. BAT 1 egg and 1 cuf of sugar, 1 cup molasses, %; cup hot coffee with a level teaspoon of soda dls- solved in it, add also a tablespoon of butter to the hot coffee; then thor- oughly Incorporate into the mixture % package of condensed mincemeat. Sur in 2 cups of flour, pour in deep buttered tin and bake slowly. HE meat should be chopped very fine. When feady for the, scason- ing put in just water enough to enable you to mix the Ingredients equal-| ly, Be careful not to use more than Jn required, To twelve and al) half pounds of meat put a gill of fine kalt, a heaping gill of powdered sngo, and halt! a gill of kround pepper, Tet the meas-+ ure be exact. Take strong cotton cloth, | of such a size that, when filled, It will pint mug. Sew up only a quarter of af yard, then Mill {t tight so far; then sew another quarter and fill {t, and so on until you reach the end, then the end} tle up. Dip the bag in strong alt and| water and dry {l before filling {t. Keep} in a cold, dry place. | Cranberry: Pie. - | WO cups cramberriea oyjt_{nj halves and\warhed well to take bil eecds. Put In stow pan with.1 oup sugar, 1 heaping tablespoon cornstarch, 1-2 cup water, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla; cook, a fow minutes, then bake wich two crusts, ¢ Swuag EIT VINCEN oy A Christmas Present, Dear Betty; OULD {t be proper for me to sive be married. Do you think this was a hint for me to propose? And do you think she loves me? i iW. ARCHIBALD. T think it was a hint for you to pro- & young man whom I love n Christmas present? I have not ees onion sapea acento: ween him for almost @ year, but re i a t maived vat ates Si him tast year. | Accept His Present, ML. Mt Dear Betty: Yes. ET a young ‘entleman about WOK whom jo" very A Hint to Propose, M Would it” be pees Rocept: ma Dear Betty: Shristmas present on such short ac AM twenty-one and am deeply in love with a young lady who is three years my senior, I have been keeping. com. y with her for tivo months, and thir other evening she faid that some of he friends asked her if we wero going t: - What the Rich Eat. By Upton Sinclair. OME one had worked ARM over the ordeling of thix lunch—to ‘secure the maximum of explosive effect. They called {t a ‘topsy-turvy” luncheon It began with dce-cream, mculsed in fancy abapes and then buried in white of ogy and baked brown, says Upton Sinclair, writing of a “society” luncheon in the American Magaziné® Then there was a “urtle soup, thick and green and H yi the horror Hast tenn) plum-pudding. Jt was served in a strange phenomenon of a platter, with six long silver legs, and tho walter set it in front oy Tobbie Walling and Mfted tho cover with a anecping gesture—and then removed It and served it himself. Montague had about made up his mind that this wus the end, and bean to fll up of bread and butter, quaintance?) He wishes to give me a purse. Cc. EB. Mu, You have known the young man a very short tlme, but I think there ts ) harm in your accepting his gift, ax cu say you love him very much. when there appeared cold asparagus, served in Indlyiduad silver holders rosem- | bling andirons, ‘Then—appetite now sufMclently whetted-there came quail, In piping hot little casseralcs, and then helf x grape-fruit cet in a block of ice and filled with wine; and then Mttle aqued ducklings, bursting ft, and an arit- choke, and then a cafe parfait; and then—as {{ to crown the audacity—huge thiok slices of roast beef! Montague had given up long ago—he could kecp no track of the deluge of food which poured forth. And between ail the courses phere were wines! of precious brands, tumbled helter-akelter—sherry and port, cham- pagne and claret and liqueur, The Wisdo Ze ‘OL course; SS Sree \ “It's exactly the same kind you feat ‘week an’ didn give me none,” m of the Young 2 ‘What sort of candy {s dat, Chimmie?’ ‘What are’you smiling about, litle girl?” “Oh, I was just t'lnking dat {t-would soon be had ) [SHIP IY TADRIAGE: ay eit we ot put | | | | | | | i | | | Beauty ~ Advice To Women By Miss Ayer. ’ Chitblains, A. B.—Ordinary kerosene oll rubbed Into the inflamed portion twice = day will usually allay the pedns, VUt you would be wise, to go to a good foot specialist or first-class chiropedtat and have your foot massaged and treat ed for this trouble. Chilblains are es- pecially common in New York, where the sudden charges of temperature de- stroy the vitallty and prevent a proper flow of blood through ‘that part of the | body. Chilblain is only another mime }for a sluggish circulation:.(n.the, part affected, and anything which stimulates, | the blood vessols and promotes the cir- culation will be of benefit. Dandruff, Ete. ¥.—Wash your hair in the following shampoo every ten days or two} sweeks: Yolk of 1 egw; 1 pint of yuinwater (warm); 1 ounce of rosemary | wpirits. ~ | Beat) the mixture thoroughly and use It warm, rubbing“ It well Into the| shin of the head. Ringo’ in several | waters, and apply this tonic every day, | massaging your scalp thoroughly until it glows and tingles | Broad Shoulders. ©. T—Physical culture exercises and rexular and systematic deep brenthing are the bost waya to Abroaden the shoulders, Join a gymna- | alum and take lessons or practise the exorcises in your own room. hs will be a Mat ifefton write, giad to send vou repeating your question and inolosing a stamped uddressed gnvelope, By T.S. Allen we Dany dazer7E, CIRCULATION! 16000 00¢e00 IS TF oN IAttle Girl—What’ll you charge me ter ali ne EN ii echt STG ena el dete | rately and unflinchingly, one of them being Oisht’s son, |1n a Little plot, separsted only by a low stone fence from the lord whom ls matrimonial ad in. de paper fer er “|itdden for enfety whilo hie soldiers were giving their Hives in: attempting ‘hist? datenee * ¥ Otsh!, the leader of the Ronins, with traditional ceremony bowed down requested Kira to perform kirakiri, atnoe {t was not for a mere gentiermn ts do viotence to the person of a nobleman. é But Kira was a coward and refused, whereupon they despatched him, car, rying bis head openty through the streets of the city—for It wus now morning” to a well near the Temple‘of Senzaku!, There they washed it, that It might bring no contamination te thelr lord, vo whom they-reverently offered it, ad- ! dressing the spirit of thetr master In terms which, whether brought down ibs erally or not, atir the blood of every Japanese to-day and pail for agesiiteld come. This done, the forty-seven men went to the temple calmly to await they knew would Inevitably come—a summons from the Government to XiraidH,. Itiid come, and they each accomingly performed the ceremony sepa- ® mere boy. x And when the last of them was dead, their bodfes were buried side by —7 bi had loyally served during his life and to whom, when he waa dead, they paldsthe extreme tribute of thatr Ives. wh Generations of mien have come and gone since then, and time has wrought | great changes in customs and manners, but the spirit of honor is as vital, as eout-atirring, in Japan tn this year 197 as when two centuries ago thone f seven detached liegemen knelt in the snow before tho gravestone of their 4 Jord and humbly offered his shade the ghastly proet of feeltyito whe) they Baa celved to be his wronged honor. : zi The difference now te merely one of viewpolnt. Instead of the feudal I: | ft is Japan, the nation, that calls for fealty. Feudaliem hes been supplanted hy | & democratic age, and Japan does not give her honor/into the Keeping merely-pt | the Samiurat—the cavaNers—but to all her people; to the man with the gun, as well as to the man with the sword; to the-humble rice planter who ts enlisted to serve in the ranks, to. tle obecure fisherman who is named ¢o/ serve in the fleet, ._ as fully as to the men serving in councils of state ‘ 5 it t# not the spirit of the Singo or fighting man that he dons with his uni form, but the essence of hoary Samurai honor thgt swells his bosom and steele, oth his heart, until fear of death te lost in the chought ofithe mobiltty of giving life in| the service of his country, “Paneticism of the barbarian,” we bear i called. an idea. But with the dea of fighting for Japan the question what kind of a living dces Japan afford hin. ‘hat question of how the common man Itves will be next considered in fate“. wortes. T The Way We “Uncle Joe” Big Men;* By Henry W. Lucy. © one who has Iived in the House of Cemmons mere then ‘thirty ‘i haa known and reverenced three of our greatest speakers, there wad | something furtively pleasing in bearing the epeaker of the eighth Congress of the United States invariably alinded to to wation as “Uncle Joe,” writes Henry W. Liicy, tn the Cornhit Magesine well-conditioned mind shrinks fron the thought of alineton to Mr, reccal Peel during the term of bis office as “Uncle Fred,” to Mr, Gulty Tin,” or ¢o the present Gooupant of the chair am “Uncle Jt.” alike In convereation and newspaper gossip, Mr, Cannon, member for was cver “Uncle Joe,” and no change in the friendly custom cause he had grawa to the dignity of the-#eakership, j LECKED me C terials are doing | extensivaly worn. Here is a frock tt shows dull green end mite and whieh js trimmed with green vetyet ridden and | anished with a chem- jsette of cream color ed jace, The blouse has the unusual mectt of closing at the front and the mkirt t« the pretty plaited one that {a so graceful and be- coming to giriiah fig- lures. Cashmere and henrietta could be utilized, however, if a plain color 1s pre- ferred, or the plaid taffetas, which are be- ing so much worn chia aeanon, would be gharming eo made, ‘The quantity of ma- terial required for the sixteen year aslze is, for the dlouse, 2 6-3 yards ©, 18-4 yards with 3-8 yard 18 inches wide for the, chem- {setto; for wire 71-2 yards o1Frd a4 yards 44 for clecked or plain matorial without wp and down, but where the material trust be cut one way, $-( yards 8 or B14 yanls 4 inches wide will be needed. Phe Blouse Patton No. 689 or Skirt Pnt- tora’ No. 6761 ara both The Fashlonable Check—Patterns Nos. 5859 and 5761. cut in sizes for gifis of fourtesn and sixtoon years of age, % Call or send by mail to THE EVENING WORLD MAY MAN- eo) TON FASHION BURBAU, No. 21 Wow Twenty-third street.New, obras nta In coin or stampa for exch pattern ordered nee, Write your name snd address plainly, and al- Lio) ways eine wanted, :