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AND ‘This Novelization of “The Chorus Lady” Was Made By John W. Harding. (Copyright, 1908, Waist SYNOPSIS OF PIt. EDING CHAPTERS. Dan Mallory, a Virginia horse trainer, 1s engaged to Patricia O'brien, a New York Chorus girl, whose father ts associated wi:n im in business, Times are bard, and Mal- takes as partner a rich New Yorker named Crawf. ford comes to in- ‘Thera he meets "Brien, Patricia's ifiah girl, who Nora has lost a one of Mallor: pect the Virg! and ts attracted by unger sister, longa to go on the stag S bet to “The Shrimp, Hanis’ boys, who seeks 13 bully. her fn 0 Ba ing, Another stableboy, known as ‘"T! Duke,'* 1s hopelessly in love with O'Brien takes a disiike to Crawford Jatter flirts with N: 5 bet. He but she decides to w tunes improve. CHAPTER VII. A Temptation. ATSY stood at the window long af- P ter Mallory had disappeared in the direction of the stables, giving tree fein to her thoughts, and they were not all precisely cheerful in character. had known that Mallory’s {i luck with the horses and the burning of the sta- dies been a serious setback, but Just how corious {t was she had nev realized, her anxiety hav! pelled by the cheery, opti she had received from I ents. | The stock farm project filled her with | doubt and misgiving. She to see how, !f he could not mak cess of a racing stable, w been his great ambition to own, would be able to a nis goal through the medium of the stoc: nd the change in the roseate plans thelr future, as th had #0 of cussed them, did comm Int d, it had filled her wi @ppointment. | as unable farm, Patsy, entering from the passage at this moment, witnessed the ki: Ghe had seen herself as a successful @ainer’s wife, attending the race meets el! over the country and basking !n her fhueband’s glory when the horses he fhad trained should carry his colors or the colors of thelr owners to victory fn the great events. And sie had had) @ay dreams tn which she had beheld certain of her high-flying associates of the boards dying of envy as they paid eourt to Mrs, Daniel Mallory at the «track. And, to cap her worries and perplex!- ties, here was the little sister she ‘dol- ‘tzed and for whom she had dreamed of assuming the role of fairy godmother | tagestruck and bent on going to New York. This was the very last thing sie ‘would have desired fot her. ‘I'm Awfully Sorry!” “Isn't it the plunkety-punkest?’ she wollloquized. “Looks like luck's givin’ me the double cross, and I'm gettin the lemon all around. Talk about pa- fience! It's enough to give even Job'q think tank a jolt.” She turned from the window to seck her mother, when Nora came into the room, The girl was shamefaced and embarrhsed. “J-I'm awfully sorry, Patsy,” she etammored. ‘I oughtn't ta-I didn’t mean—indeed""— Her contrition suMced in an instant to dispel any resentment at her treat: ment that may have rankled in Pats: mind, end her love welled up and went out in a burst of tenderness that ex- onerated her slater and made her feel ‘that somehow she herself had been to ‘blame. fe, too,” ghe said. to ait all over you, little one. me, won't you?" “And you'll take me with you to- mortow?" questioned Nora. brightening| up. ‘oeeyve'll see,” answered Patsy gravely. We'll have to talk about it all. an’ maybe then you won't want to g0./ {Wher mom?" | Nora told her that her mother was in “the spare room, and when her sister | “had gone out she set about putting the | Keitehen fn order. “Maybe I will want to go," she muj- tered, ‘and I am going, !f not to-mor- row, then some other time. I'm going to earn money like you, and’ I'm going} to wear dresses like you." — | There was a knock at the door, and “T didn't mean Forgive #he went to open it. Crawford, smil- ing, entered. “On, Mr. Crawford!" said tho girt,| gonfused. ve come th meet Patsy, TN call her.’ | ‘Hold on; don't be in a hurry about “I want to give Mit," he said genia you that money first “It Doesn't Seem Right.” He drew the roll of bills from bh pocket, peeled off one of the five dollars end handed {t to her «. "No, thank you, Mr geatd, drawing back. “You are «Bind, but I've been thinking over @nd it doesn’t seem right.” “Not Why, that's nonsense,” he in- | Crawford.” she very it, A ROMANCE OF NEW YORK ITS THEATRICAL LIFE. Chorus Lady. FOUNDED ON THE PLAY OF THE SAME NAME By James Forbes. ibe ODEO OOOS FOOOOOG sisted. “You had better take {t before anybody in and interrupts us n. I couldr't, really,” she protest- ed, firmly. “Has your sister helped you?” he In- quired. “No, I didn’t ask her—I didn’t dare,” she replied, “Weil, then, you still owe the money to—to—the—er—Shrimp She nodded affirmatively. Let me think.” he said. He pursed his lips and frowned, as though con- g his thoughts upon a matter hty moment. he ejaculated suddenly, his brow unwrinkling and his face lighting up with his cheery smile. “How about winning It back 2" she exclaimed wonder se you lay another su let me lay win, and I'd be Impossible! You couldn't lose, I'll eive you a sure thing. I'll put up §, and I think I can get four to one— I'm sure I can."" Why, I'd have §20!" erfed the girl tedly. “Are you sure I couldn't vex del! lose?’ A Trap. course—p| joved close to her, intending to money on her the t that as she couldn’ ght as well take It without waitin tor the supposed cace, but 1t occurred to nim tt the wager would be an excuse for him to renew confidential ations when he came again, 50 he a It's und fa} itive." press pre T will run of tood—it's a fo. down here again at the end week, and I'll bring a new, crt: lar bill with me.’ Oh, no; I never could change she objected. “Nobody must know I've fot s0 much money. Couldn't you give it to me In emaller Otllst’ ‘Certainly. You shall nave it any way you like,” he promised. Nora, her head turnal at the prospect | of possessing so much wealth, had for- gotten her determination to go to New| York with her sister the following day. | She suddenly recollected it. | “I forgot,” she said. “I mightn’t be re. Patsy may take me to New York o-morrow.” “To-morrow! | He almost started with surprise. He | had not tmagined that it could possibly soon, ell, 1t won't matter,” he sald, “if she does. Come to my office, Here's iny address, Perhaps it would be as well if you didn’t let anybody see the card, If you shouldn't come to” New | York, why I'll be here. “It's too bad for you to take all that trouble,” she declared gratefully. “I'd tako more trouble than that to | see you,” he murmured gently, bending | towand her, She looked straight at him, her cheeks suffused wtth blushes, “You're awful sweet about sald. The Kiss. A curlous burning look came into his eyes as her gaze met his. She ap- peared very pretty and tempting. Her Ups, full and ripe, were parted so that they afforded just @ glimpse of her white, even teeth, “So are you-awfully sweet.” Tho words came in tones so soft that | they were almost a whisper. He bent still lower to kiss her, and scarcely | conscious of what she was doing, she raised her lips to meet his. | Patsy, entering from the passage at | this. moment, witnessed the kiss and for 9 second stood petrified, incapable of movesnent. Then sho walked straight in, Nora quick as a flash backed away from Crawford and with a presence of mind that Patsy never would have cred- ited her with and which was another revelation, turned to her, saying ‘Oh, Patey, this 1s Mr. Crawford," “Delighted to meet you,” she said with biting trony as Crawford boved., ‘“fhis your first visit?"’ Crawford realized that ho had met an enemy, and an enemy that was not to be despised, Yes," he ans it” she ed, with easy de flane ny first visit, but not my last.” Patsy was as pale marble, Her nostrils Were contracted and her lips compressed ominously as looked him o ‘That so?” she returned. pack your trunk.”" a had “been badi rs sudtien adven' The order as “Nora, go frightened Went out hited o Seated herself on the edge of a air and, motioning Crawford to an- other, said telly “Won't you sit down? | (To Be Continued.) |The Groom Wants a Ring. The Million Dollar Kid NOW YOU FALL OFF THE DOCK AND I SAVE You! HERe's THE MONEY I UNDER StaND? / NESSAH , AN UNDAH STAND , SAH, ‘SPECIALLY ‘Bour SE MONEY ’ (aa The Evening World Daily Magazin 1908. You! emo WILL SAVE ara HE'P! I'S DONE FELL IN JEST LAK Yo! ToLe ME To, Boss! J You'RE ALL RIGHT Now ,OLD CHap! NEVAH GOIN’ TO FALL IN Vincent’s Advice on Courtship and Marriage. He Was Annoyed, Dear Betty: | HILE at business one day in Ari! | I met a young man who paid me | a creat deal of attention and I fell n love with him, other man with I am enxased to an- | whom I have been keeping company three years. The first | young man asked me to go to a show one afternoon and I went with him, but did not say anything to my fiance. Some of his friends saw us and told him and he told me to keep right on Your flance was evidently annoyed at | your going to the theatre with another man, apd justly you. are ar gaged i is not richt for vou to accept attentions. If you love the other young man more than your fiance it is. only that vou | fair to him as well as yourself should break the engagement. Dear Betty: i it necessary for the groom to give the maid of honor and best man a present? Also, when the groom wants to wear a wedding ring, who| presents it to him, the bride or groom himwelf? K. R. It Js not necessary for the groom to give the best man a present, though’ It ig customery. ‘The bride gives the maid of honor a present. If the groom wishes to wear a wedding ring, the bride should give it to him. The Humanfoozlums PPURTER yoy “ ARRY bought four sausages and Tommy seven. To pay for his part of | going with the first youne man. vo| HY the banquet Jim chipped in eleven you think he did the rient thine by doing so? Answer at once. E. M. P. | puzzling look to mathematictans, cents, ceeded to divide between the two so as to equalize financ Hey! LET Co! DON'T HOLD which but to these young boys, AGE PUZZLE Harry and Tom fresh from pro- It has a| least aspire to have one, practise abso- school, Friday, June 19, By R. W. Taylor 4uM! LET'S STROLL DowN ON THE DOCK, FOL Ks | You ARE so BRAVE Looie! —Th108 = ® ‘Health and '{By Margaret Hubbard Ayer, Good Cleansing Cream. HB formula given below may be used to cleanse the face. Apply it | on a soft piece of Iinen. Of course | you should not give up using soap and dried and cracked, or In cases of ec- zeman, where water Increases the Irri- tation. You ask how you may obtain an “alabaster” skin. Scaroely any woman has what might be termed a perfect skin. ut if you wish to at |lute cleanliness, be abstemtous in the {t was no more trouble to divide eleven between two than it was to put eleven) tnatter of greasy and rich foods, drink frankfurters equally into three. The problem 1s to show how eleven cents were divided equ’ ably between deal of water between meals ja great open afr exercise, Large and take Harry and Tom, which you can readily do when you have figured out the; pores, an oily skin, pimples, &o., are price of frankfurters. Not Eve’s Fault That Time. R ing down from the playroom. Jack and Ethel, voices uplifted. his mouth full and his eyes guilty. “Whatever !s the matter? asked mamma. ‘Bo-o-0!"" came from Bthel; ‘we were playing Garden of Eden, ‘But what is there to ery about?’ Then Jack, with furious finger pointing at Tom, ejaculated through his tears: "—From the Bohemian Magazine. “God's eat the apple: ee ee The Hogswine. The HOGSWINES are beasts from Gazee; They're common as common can be. In country In “pantie: or town, or gown, You will find one on:each family trea Bo-o-ol"" Imost invarlably due to a poor cireu- lation, aenemfa, indigestion and general Gebitity, and all the face creams ani |yeallng lotions tn the world will not FALISM rules the nursery, A certain Philadelphia matron, who had taken|help to give you a perfect complexion pains to inculcate Biblical stories as well as ethical truths in her three! children, heard, the other day, long drawn howls of rage and grief fiter- Up two filghts she hurried, to find on the floor Thomas, aged nine, eat perched upon the table, !f your health 1s poor. Kentucky Cold Cream—Rose water, 4 ounces; ol- mond oll, 4 ounces; spermacet!, 1 ounce; white wax, 1 ounce. Orange flower, Itlac, violet or elier flower water can be substituted for the rose water at pleasure, and the edition of one Gram of tinoture of benzoin or a halt-dram of salicylic acti will insure the cream from becoming rancid By Ethel Lloyd Patterson. coum The Borrowbum. The BORROWBUMS' main occupation Is politely termed With an “1 ‘smooth annexation.” 0. UL" lure And a “touch” that is sure They follow their chosen vocation. wre Senseo eenees eeeeetoapoobettectonn IL PSSP- 00-0 6090-00009 000901090005 009 000-0000000-04 Gertrude Barnum’s Talks With Girls. é <9) The White Duck. 3 were walking through the White Duck Factory W with a coat operator. In spite of summer neat and starohy steam, the girls’ gas trons fairly flew over white vests, coats or trousers, for the “pressers” were working fast and furtously. ia “What's the rush?” asked my fresu Edna, A middle-aged vest-presser was the only one who tools to look up. Work was siack all winter,” she explained. “Same weeks we didn't get two doliars. Got to make up in bisy season,” “What do you get for a vest?’ “Fifteen cents a dozen, five cents for four vests. the trouble is, the duck's so cheap and nasty {t'll come out brown under the fron, Pretty near every piece takes 4 different heat. It's flerce working on new goods.” @he studied her material anxiously, between strokes. i | “Lena, over at Spe@ & Wald’s, gets three cents a vest, and good, even material,” said my friend. } ),,,. Not for usi" was the hopeless reply. ‘The firm's offered two dollars bonus | this week for any one that beats their plece record. Plenty of the girls ain't on co that trick, and are half-killing themselves,” Edna gave a little whistle. In ans my z s % eels nswer to my puzzled expression the woman “You see, this week they'll set a pace for the lot of us to keep up the shee of the season; and other weeks there won't be no bonus."’ i A fortnight later, being in the same factory again at noon hour, 1 asked the middle-aged vest-presser how true her prophecy had proved, “It turned out just what I said," she replied. ‘The boss, he gave us the two dollars, like he promised, and then he said: “Now, giris,’ he says, ‘you've all showed what you can do when you try, And what you can do one week, you can do every week.’ Then he amiles very sweet, and says: ‘We want to see this same interest in your work right along. If you don't take the interest.’ he says, ‘we can get penty that will.’ A group of young girls had been gathering around us, and at this point one of them took up the story: “But she'd put us all up to snuff, and we was ready for him. We sald we'd jasked her to speak for us, one and all, an’ she'd tell him what we hed to say. | And then she began. She went to work and told him what they was getting up at Speer & Wald's and other places, and about our nasty cloth, an’ all | the rest of the things we wouldn't stand for. She was just as polite and amil- | ing as what he was; but say, whe did lulk straignt United States i | “It's a poor rule that won't work both ways,’ she says. ‘This firm,’ she stys, ‘showed last week what it can afford to pay, if we showed how fast we , could afford to work. And we expact,’ she says, ‘to get the same this week, and [every week that we're on these here rush orders.’ Well. ail us girls stood right by her on the proposition, and the answer 1s, we're getting the extra two | dollars regular as Saturday." ‘ 300d for youl" I said, turning to the proud heroine of the occasion.” he goes by a new name now," sald another admirer. “Ever since: that day we call her the ‘White Duck.’ eres um Ana zRTRUDE BARNUN Three Summer Drinks. CIDER CUP. NE quart of cider two bottles of soda water, one bottle of lemonade, O one heaping tablespoonful of granulated sugar, a sprig of mint and two inches of cucumber, Cut the cucumber into slices without peel- jing it. Place it in a pitcher with the sugar, cider and mint. Allow tt te stand, on ice tf possthle, for two hours. ‘Then add the lemonade and soda water and a few pieces of ice, removing the mint, STRAWBERRY PUNCH. THM one quart of ripe strawberries, crush them with half « pint of S raspberries and strain the Juice through @ sieve. Make a syrup with two cupfuls of sugar and one and a half cupfuls of water. Mix with the Juico and syrup a large glass of port wine and keep on ice for several 8. Serve in small glasses with Indy fingers. O pound of granulated sugar and six cupfuls of water. Stalk and plot over the currants, then mash them With a wooden spoon, adding es | | You do #0 one cuptul of water. Now put the fruit Into a preserving pen with the granulated sugar. Stir ft over the fire until {t begins to simmer, then rub {t through a sleve, Put the lump sugar into a saucepan with one and a halt cupfule of boiling water; let the sugar dissolve slowly, then boll 1t to @ syrup; pour this onto the fruit juice, adding one and a half pints hore water. Serve cold, CURRANT WATER. NE pound of itpe red currants, halt a pound of lump sugar, half @ The So-Called Frost Flowers. | HE phenomena called “frost flowers" was discussed before the Biologteal | ‘oclety in Washington recently by Dr. Walters. ‘The so-called flowgae are composed of tce that forms on frosty mornings In autumn and early winter on oertain plants. The peculiar thing to be explained {s that frost flowers do not form on ail plants, but on only about twenty-six species, as far as yet known. Among these are frostweed, dittany, marsh fleabanes and cultt- vated hellotrope, The phenomena ‘s apparently due to capillary movement ‘af water in the plant, but a wholly satisfactory explanation {s lacking, HILE @ smail boy was fishing one Sunday morning he accidentally lest his foothold and tumbled into the creek. ‘I didn’t come to fall in the river. I came to fish,” replied the boy pio iad ato The Smail Boy a Purist. W As an old man on the bank was helping him out he paid: “How did you come to fall in the river, my Ittle man?" May Manton’s Daily Fashions PFTUIS simple 'g Lsowaist ma. tall hire ‘ta ored style tucked after an a It ts made of natural colored pom gee, and Pongee te much in vogue foe Wwalsts of tn, while tt has ee many practical advane | tages, but the modet | 's &ppropriate for. all the seasonable watets. | Linen and ma. aras, both white anq | with Pes and «fig. | ures of color, (rare much used, and’ @ite season there ts a great fancy for maleing cross-barred dimittes, ‘atistes and the atte In tatlored styles ve quantity of:mm. il required forthe size Is 3 gg ‘ds 21 or % 3 gg ‘ards 22, or 2 yarde 4 inches e, with Fe yard any width ‘for the over portion aha collar, . Nattern No. 6010 fs cut in sizes fora SM, 36, 38, # angag 1) DUSt measures. Blouse or Shirt Walst—Pattern No. 6010. 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