The evening world. Newspaper, September 19, 1908, Page 9

COON * Helen of Troy, i The Original Affinity, : Discusses Soul-Matzs and Things : a, WITH : Helen Rowland, 2 your clothes unless they don't ft. It Paris had spent fal je time in polish {ng his armor or patd me half the at- ALLY," | “R exclalined Helen of Troy with a bored tention e paid his norses or half expression as she the compl 7 ushered me into) “Comptime I exclaimed with a her cute littleden glance of envy at Helen's well-pre at the Elysian served complexion and the fit of 1) Apartment: “ZL Directoire gawn, “L should think if can't see wheal he liad ever looked at vou" — there Is so unique ‘s it!" interrupted Helen caua- about ma in these | y. ‘“Only a man, my dear, knows days of @lopo- why he marries a woman for her ments and '- beauty and then takes his last look at avaewtase ovorces and soul: her at the altar.” mates and things! nd it's wonderful,” I rejoined, This continual publicity is getting ON "how he never dis my nerves’ —— married his affinity until his wite loses “Weren't vou the ‘original affinity?’ "| her temper or her waist line, "But," I T broke In hastily | added thoughtfully, “how did you man- “Somebody,” she deciared, ‘has (© b&\ age to keep Menelaus so interested?" the first to start any popular fad. But T auyposed I had lived down that old scandal long ayo,” and she sighed pen- sively. “It would never have gotten! eut,” she added, “If Menelaus had not gone around confiding iis troubles to all his friends and ting that Trojan) Wer scare the moment [ eloped with| Paris, In fact, !f he had merely re-/ mained quiet and watted a year or ao! “By keeping him guessing,” returned Relen prompuy. “tHe really needled a change as much as I did-—and 1 gave him the change. Thatis the only way to keep any husband Interested.” “But,” [protested anxiously, "you do believe in soul mates, don't you?— In peoplé who are really cut out for one another and’'— “I used to,’ Interrupted Helen longer I would have left thet Instpid|conically, "and also in Santa Claus and boy and come back to him by tie frst) wishing on the new moon and real love ship.” \and the street car advertisements, But ‘And he oo: Wd fus' nt a 6 is a dream, while hughands land wives are hard, cold, plain facts— “How did you manage to keep Menelaus so interested?” | asked “By keeping him guessing,” replied Helen, promptly. had gone to Paris for your vacation and an affinity 1s any person who hap- or your nerves or your fall clothes, pens along at the psychological mos But,” T continued wonderingly, “if yeu | ment." felt ke that what did you do It for?”) “At the-what “Oh, for a change.” explafned Helen,! “When the husband and wife are be- ralaing her eyebrows wearily, “and tol coming unbearably bored with one an- freak the monotony and--and just be-| other,” explained Helen; “when the do- cause, ‘That's what most people seek] mestic machinery needs olling and love affinities tor, it? But it doesn’t) needs a vacation. An affinity ts noth- bay,” s Hewith a An afline}ing but a change-and nine times out ity 1 affinity once you are| of tem it's a change for tne worse! married to hin “Helen! Helen!” called a voice from "And 9 soul mate I agreed sympa. the other end of the apartment theticaliy, “ceases to be a soul mate! “There's Menelaus,"" sighed the onee he becomes a helpmate.” uty, “1 wonder what he wants tittered Helen, “a man loses) now," of his spiritual charm when “What have you done with my safety looked at him through a halo| razor and the bay rum? roared the of shaving lather voice in answer. i ul a we n,” 1 sig! loses her Have vou looke in the bathroom, {ilusive fascination once you have got+) dear?” inquired Helen sweetly. “You brand of her perfume button her dresses up ten used to the ned to nat's a nice ace to leave th the voice petulant 1 lean towel nor a sponge d Helen, as sat acquie: pout there isn't a in sight an mate is factory a 1g a bundle from one! Helen rose hastily, regardless of her hand to t gives you only l and It give only a) “Must vou. go?" she inquired with temnx |that strained s mile that - “And all busbar are alike after a hon tears. 1 vou cat) , few yeis of matrimony,’ I declared bet seery ica: “Exactly.” agr Helen Dhey all e the pubdlio that Jose the curl in their front hair, but. 4 i i ) 1 than scorned.” 1 he ¢ ei tempers; e : retain tl in thelr tempers; they nuttin, shaking her hand sympathetical all lose their figures, but keep their ap= fy, Petites, and are fuser about thelr an affinity.’ added Helen talk in monosyllables, and quite diferent’ alk tt syllables, an and after taking,” I finished grow! the bills; and never notice jed down In the elevator. Daily { Oox LOSE DIRDIGL4DHOD I GOBNOOOGLG PIPSODDDOOODHD HOG |Diaat, Frederick Townsend Sfartin te | the party who some time ago obtained From Hi Glasses to Green Glasses. | his own consent.to become the leader BARGREBN:| of soclety. ie was what you might Soclety has, call one of the original old Smart Set- ; tlers of the Smart Set, He jumped into Ward Moallister's shoes and was {m- ODDO Ey Irvin S. Cobb been struck another jarring nay blow. be. Medlately lost from view in them. But tween the lower| be eventually climbed up the button | holes far enough to get his head over slope of the wish | ing top of the vamp, and from that bone and the COP) ve ne issued an ultimatum to he of the cormage. | atrect that, deoply thowsh it pained Tt has been & sim, tt had become his sacred duty to very, very hard a+6 pootety down until there'd only be year on s0cdetys’ enough of the true bellevers loft to snyway. First of) form about four twbles at brides "E- Cobb: all two or three of) | understand, however, that society the bright young high-browera of a! quickly rallied from this stroke. In fact socialistic or sour-greon turn of mind! the procession passed right on without lit In here only a few weeks ago, and! losing a step, although a few members with the ald of a couple of 70,000-word | did turn thelr heads long enough to eay novels just naturally jammed the day-| "Oh, you kd," or words to that effect Lights out of the Newport crowd. \tn the general direction of where Fred- Then right on the heels of thet, Fred-|erick Townsend was dashing back end erick Townsend Martin touched off @ forth, giving @ apirited imitation of @ Magazine, 30 DOLLAR RAISE FOR YOUR GooD STEADY WORK!) 4 DDOOG-DDOIHHOOS D $OOOCC* OO 3 DHIDHVOIY sandpiper on a oreek banc But a Along comes Mrs ne has defallen. who has done social herd of man runneth not to And Mrs, Astor says \n that society has been too frivolous, too Intent on seeking for mor novelty and sensation In short, Mrs, Astor {s there with the hammer on all these trained animal Teal catagtrop! Anto for th tho contrary an Interview Ginners and these butterfly suppers and | these banquets where a young girl is brought In wearing nothing but the crust of a large pie, and then tekes that off. Mrs, Astor goes 80 far as to say that all such social functions as monkey breakfasts and buffet lunoh- ona on horseback and meeting a lady at the fountain and walking in ft with her come under the head of bum stuff. In short, she would have soctety do something for the arts and aeclences, | She would turn our more expensive | grawing-rooms into salons, such as thay Get Wise 30 GLAD You DROPPED IN MR.SPENDLY, “9° -~ GREAT scorTr? WHAT DISCORD! IE-NOT BEING OVER AND, KNOWING YOU TO WEALTHY, YOU SHOULD CALL ON MISS MUCH- PLUNKS WITH MATRI- MONIAL INTENTION 5 id SHE SHOULD GING FOR YOU ~ A | Revelation of New York Society Copyright, 1907, by Robert W. Chambers) | that Gerald had tt. — and rubbed his large, membranous ears VIOUS INSTALMENTS. “Capt. Selwyn," he began, ‘I'm sat- , of an old New York | Isfled that it's a devilish good thing.” ed from the army because Then he sat down EYNOPSIS OF PRE Capt. Philip as re Solwy 4; bi | “Are you?" Alixe, divorced him to marry Jack | ie . en, “a cotillion. leader. Returning to| “Emphatically, I've mastered the de- York, Selwyn frequently meets the! tajis—virtually all of ‘om. Here's the loves Alixe still secretly R is luring young Gerald Erroll to gamble at his house, Selwyn begs Alize to prevent this, for the sake of Gerard's sistet. | ens. situation in a grain of wheat witha Club owns a thousand or so a the Slo- 3 Toa Tor Ane ee ard ot Selwyn'd fof onk scrub, pine scrub, sand und brother-in enn Garant ater Weeds, and controls four thousand more nner dance n finds i atill | —that is to say, the club pays t siting (up. 4 A, IOMk falls Grin ers’ rents and fixes their fen Ween loaing awards them odd jobs and priz The | dvice, ha f ard, Ruthven's house, his ex-cuardian, Gi CHAPTER IV. (Continued) Mid-Lent. ythe farm sustaining the biggest mu ber of hevies. club pays Uh {to maintain t and buckwheat patches and to act as wardens. In re- the farmers post their tour thou- exclusive benefit of for money so th » millet sand acres “or the ULIUS NEERGARD came up from the club, da that piain? Long Island, arriving at the office erfevtly about noon, The weather waa evit! “Very well, then. Now the siovitha Gently cold on Long Inland; he had the lis iargely composed of ver ‘complexion of a raw ham, but the thick, / among them Lradley fat hand, with its bitten which he offered Selwyn as he entered his office. ich men— Harmon, Jack Ruthven, George Fane, Sanxon Or the Hon. Deimour-Carnes—that erowa— was unpleasantly hot, and, on the thin) rich and stingy, ‘That's why they are nose which split the broad expanse of| contend with year agreement face, a bead or two of sweat usually, with the fa nstead ng the ned, winter and summer. 4,000 acres. Why put a lot rere “Where's Gerald?” he asked as an of- | money of Mi intlaiesee the fice boy relieved him of bis heavy box| can draw interem on it and. toss coat and drought his mail to him. {risigni traction of thal intenest as “T adv tp xo home,” ob-|@ sop to the fart Do you se Gerved Selwyn sly te Is not That's your millionaire meihod—and erfectly well what makes ‘em in the first pli card's mouse-like eyes, 8€0 He drew a large fancy hanvk close together, stole brightly In Selwyn's ya: direction, but they poked just 0 little past a man, seldom at iin . ? asked his pistol-pooket wiped Ue his Mint ve usually 1 don't think said working very carefully, ¥ “Lote of gripp® ‘round town,” ob-' options on every aore of wie four thou- wanved Neergard, eo though satisfied sand. Tiere is menay im it eliher way elwy aa - —~- SUFFERING TOM- CATS? WiLL SHE EVER auir? AND THEN SING SOME BE FOND OF MUSIC:- (MORE, UNTIL YOU COULD HARDLY STAND IT~ | Saturday, ‘The Ambitions of Sonny and Sue 2% By Alben Con dodeeeooooes = - ie _ ~” -—- =) wie ~” ~— A R = o fos) wa TE & — =} °” Ge — —_ = =. ‘Tl = — =} =< —Q> po) wa ~”A nR 5 DDO A ed PAO guillotine and held the rally that history records, first But Mzs. Astor should stop to think! at the suffering her plan would entail) spon a lot of people whose heads have trouble herato- they onught the She should pause to remem- hor Mat in this young country of ours das not yet become @n Institu- never given them any fore, except when dandrurt. puotat: tom, but fs «till only # nuisance, Tha Introduction of the second art of Geatry’s Doz and Pony Show at a atvea the think about, Nowport wedding breakfas( guests something to exercises thetr intellectual ments without etralning them. But suppose, ou the other hand, they had to sit there with nothing In front of tham but food and eaah other faces |and furn.sh their own sudjecta for con- was done fu vorsation and after that nish the conversation for the sub- teot TH wauld be more than awful. Mabel.) It would be absolutely pitiable, Mehit- able, HL RAPTUROUSS DIVINE? SUCH HARMony! Do PLAY SoME » - Ms eo GEY WISE v? September 19, \! michael 12 OOo y used to have In France tn the days} before the Revolutionists rigged up the | Hearst arrange- By C. H. Wellington! COAX.HER TO REPEAL 1908. OOOO! The Fail Fashions #& & fa 1) moa: Hor vat Tellows 2 & & Run to Stripes & How to Properly Furnish a Fat Man's Room. By Margaret H. Ayer, |! Moweves tics anotier story Af a inn TRIPES, h-| It ant n » the rest, by the fat fra- ers yean fa ternity this sea- ang wear son. plaid effects 1 en This was stated) with dashing 1 did with much empha- sis by Mr. Frank a tea t star McIntyre, who has, ‘ BEA © something mad methln | 6, ‘ iy \ of @ study of the | sartorial art !n den how 1 are waa connection with | Put Into just the cut of this waistcoat | adipose depo Why, that overcoat cost the tailor and I) si Bin Gacirstorin C8 G0 y/™9 hours of though Theatre, “Che. ‘ravelling Salesman’’| Th overcoat was hanging on an ups champion stage heavyweight tatked|"eht peg, It was of striped, very Nght with me about clothes, and, seeing that | Wel it material without a ning. It's his line of goods in the play, he dis-| Perhaps ye noticed,” sald Mn played a surprising Knowledge concarn- McIntyre, " I never button up my imei then! j overcoat or my coat, A man who's 1 star's dressing-room had been ar- fat doesn't want to go all the way 4 according to lls ideas of what's around himself with the same matertal, ve qt Actor Mcintyre's idea of the furniture decorations and perpendicu- lar stripes In clothing that a fat man should affect. | what for the fat man. ‘The walls show A long line of waistcoat showing makes ‘a striped paper, the chairs and dress-|you look slimmer than you are.” Ing table stand on perpendiciar spind-| Mr. McIntyro's waistcoat 19 an inept- ling “art nouveau” legs, and Mclntyre/ration for the fat man, It fits pem himself, all In stripes, adds to the gen-|fectly yet Goes not look tight, Tt has eral effect of lengthiness. @ sort of a atraight-front affect and ts | When I asked him if {t was true that cut out in a very lender V at the neot fat men were going to wear sheath| With this the comedian wears 4 long. suits for the fall, according to a report thin tle of dark silk with a very fing trom Chicago, he admitted that the strips running downward No polke | sheath coat had his sanction in so far |dots for the fat man, No wide expanse jas the perpendicular line at the side of shirts or walstcoats, Even his shivte |detracted from the bulk of the figure, |must be selected with care, None of | “Dhts fa the first time in my life that |Your half-moons and checker-board pate |Tive ever had to think about making |t® Stripes again! Alwaye stripest myself look thinner than I am," eaid| “One more question, Mr Mente, the Jovial Salesman, ‘When I was of-| Why this room thusly?” fered the part In Mr, Forbes's play it| «nl, ma the actor, becoming wagagy was stipulated thet I ahould lone at| raven’, Zou notoed that & perand! jleast thirty pounds, I Jost the thirty A Lod | k | surroundings? I'm sure the thin pounds in six weeks, living on a baked dian’s furniture and fetlngamnbet Aap bean a day and thoughts of the has them—are perpendloylar, My | runs entirely to stripes.” ture! I never way we work It; we get {ty coming and going Stowitha cannot get on without controlling these | \¢2" |acres—wily"'—and he snickered wo that ‘his nove curved into a thin, ruddy | and any “You,” sald Selwyn. “I'll think the | people find that they really | May T speak to my brother-in-law about Neergard turned in his tracks and! looked almost at hin “Do you think there's any chance of his financing the thin “T haven't the slightest idea of what |he might do. Especially’ he hesiti —'as you never have had any loans from his people~I understand”— “No,” sald Neergard; “T haven't.” beak="why, Captain, I could let them have the 1 yes—if they my have Selwyn frowned slig! But the point gard, “that the suppose we d.. Bh? Oh, ly. continued it borders the railroad on and where the land {s not is, Neer- Wavy It's as flat as a pancake, and’'— | YC ocVS MIMIC! aig CONG TCA ke rather out of the usual, I be- riddled with water. | paid a thousand BS dollars for six tests." "So thay say. But Long Island act | usvater!” upfated Selwyn wonder: [88° Needi’t beg favors now, That's all ingly: “whglfit's dry as a desert!” |O¥@F Captain Selwyn, Fane, Harmon & | fs water!oniy about forty |CO- know that; Mr, Gerard ought to use good judgment, go in and boldly First of all, !f the/ matter over and give you my opinton.| buy @ plece of property, wait until ft | without It? ment of good value, then take a legitt- mate profit and repeat the process, That, in outline, is what I understand, But, Austin, this furtive pouncing on a thing and clubbing other people's money out of them with dt—this slyly acquiring jand that is necessary to an unsus- pecting neighbor and then holding him ip-1 don't e. There's always soime- thing of this sort mrey cordial co-operation with Neergard—w my Ways something in the schemes which hints of—of squeezing -of something undergronn Like the water he's going to squeeze out of the wells?" feet ve average. Why, man, I can hit a well flowing three thousand eal- | Selwyn looked troubled. "Shalt I con P lons almost anywhere, It’s a gold mine, |sult Mr, Gerard?” he repeated. “T : I don't care what you do with the | should I!ke to if you have no objec G yee ae acreagesplit it up into lots and ad- | Neergard’s sinall, olose-set EY Pathe taka la hg vertis ub the Slowitha people} focused on a spat just beyond Selwyn's Pose: YOu ai ae Py ane into submisslon—it's all the same; it's | left ahoulder ‘ ; i BSid THHO ba -awlbad ena vaevE cg ep ing frankly oped. N there mains the title lds ae . ne aue Certal anid plain gearching and the damnable job of | Seated: ‘In strictest enough fe ov 1 financing !t--because we've got to move “Naturally,” ary! there cautiously, and softly at the |#nd turning to his | edd ‘ doors of the yy we'll be | the frat loiter ! f Pirie waking up som t relatives | Now tit hts he ; . , ye secret business associates of the yel- | Sard looked full at the back of t . ‘ nw crowd: and !f anybody bawls for {neck for @ long ininute, then went out || ihe ‘ ely we'll be tp in the alr next New (silently, | | | ‘ : Year's, and still hiking skywant , He stood up, gathe together the | That night Selwyn ste a ' matl matter which his secretary had al- | ter’s house before going Q F eady opened for his attention, “There's | rooms, and, finding Austin alone in the} “Yes-bu © sat plenty of time yet; thetr leases were Itbrary, laid the matter bef him exe} ft up tnto lots and do what ts fa’ vewed the firat of and raard bad p ing al uhey"l! run the @ear out. some- he added. ‘that I'm a sort}do yo® suppose the Slowitha people thing to think @bout, Will yew talk to/of en ass about business mothods. | would Mt bia? They've only a few Gerad, ox abel A” What 1 Wre-what I cnderstand, io te’ thowand acrea; they've got to control that land. What good ts -- THE YOUNGER SET -- their club Do you Imagine they'd let becomes more valuable, either through! a town grow wp on three sides of thelr shrewd and cautious, declined any per- Improvements or the natural enhance- worked aa hard In my’ “Second Act!” sang out the callbey, By Robert W. Chambers, Author of ‘‘The Firing Line” and ‘A Fighting Chance.” discussed ttle They for Neergard’s scheme! know you were telling her anything while longer; Austin, but she'd extract every detall in ten | seconds. T understand she adores precious game-preserve? And, besides, sonal part in the financing of the deal, | you, Phil, What have you done to {IN bet you that half of their streams /although he admitted the probability | and Inkes take rise on other people's of prospective profits, too, he remarked erty—and tl ne Dutch fox! t Neergard knows it~ t sort of—of business—that kind te ree fler the ‘Our Investments and ou Q different c i of coercion, does not @ppeal to me," | no - sald vyn, gravely | 4: you've probably Hit : Harmon are ies : “Phen you'd better go Into sometiing| i the club!" laughed Selwyn. the: nore os en vesides bualness In this town,” observed ‘yoy don't expect Neergard to go By thy Dare Austin, turning red. “Good Lord, man, | tnem?" s, P 1 me Where would my Loan and Trust Com- yatta night? pany be If we never foreclosed, never 4 1.P oy? T mean tt, wallowed @ good thing when we see . ' Howsls But you don't threaten people.” ithe! y en Austin t It people oF! sumsta But at being le é porat way and block fe fw and, # ; C4 rema! € ft 1 punish ane vl me 8 AW and order ann if A ig Oy t are law And we U As r = i ve f . i inde - tthe “Sta aed kk i 1 are dining v ‘ ern " 1 1 y oy y me! ‘ ‘ net and #96 vrder tt t's Just ‘ I've got ow-but I * to lest. n would be » an art | rocking a i } on You'd never (To He Cuz anal . 4