The evening world. Newspaper, September 24, 1908, Page 17

’Corrting a Woinan 5 Aad Fooling a Man. JOO COD, ® By Helen O.dfeld.’ ENIGRALLY tt is woman ag a hear n extreme injustice to condemn @ ees filrt because she allows q man J whom she does not Intend to marry to make her an fier of marriage. It is all very well to say that @ woman ought to kuow when a man ts In love with her and gently tu discourage his intentions and attentions. But how can any one not a prophet or the daughter of @ prophet be certaln about anything so élusive and deceiving as man? When o man tumbley head over heels into sure enough love with a wonian, and means busin and nothing but business, first, last, and all the time, his one idea ls to get married with as Ittle delay as possible, to set up the lares and penates on bis own domestic hearth; and there is no question of filrtation upon his part, He shows his Intentions, frankly and openly, for all the world to see, @arnestness of purpose ts entitled to honesty in return, such lovers as these precisely aro those who will not be discoureged ing their say out, and that, often, more than once, A man like this connot Le ieuded off from a proposal; nothing short of actual rudene right snubbing, will make him understand that the woman of his choice does not return his passion. Hoe aiways has heard that any unpre-empted woman niay In time be won, and ¢ means to keep everlastingly at it. When a man of this stamp has made up his mind to ask a woman to be his wife, !f he cannot find an opportunity to do so, he will make one, even if, as sometimes has hap- pened, hu {s obliged to say his say in the presence of @ third party, Besides this, in spite of all that is sald condemning the much courted woman as an unscrupulous flirt, whe, with most men, shows the wisdom of the serpent in lvtting tnem tell their love, and in * saying goes, rather than chilling them beforehand. As a rule, men prefer to Bf ea definite answer, and @ woman of tact can 80 refuse an offer as to make her rejected suitor her friend for life, while on the other hand, it muoh Je to be doubted if any man ever thoroughly forgives the woman who openly @botve him that his suit 1s unwelcome before he has pressed that sult. To Wy Cie least, she who does so plares herself in an equivocal pou! and he must be a gentleman to the core, and forbeartng at t! who does not give her more or less plainly to understand that she has sald No” before she was asked. However, there is one case in which no woman Is justified in permitting a roposal, unless really it 1s unlooked for: when she {s already engaged to @nother man, Then she should make a confidant of her admirer, and, without appearing conscious of anything special In his attentions, tell him that she will be gind to have him meet and know her flance, or something of the eort, | which will let him know that there 1s no hope for him, and so spare him the pain of a refusal.—Chicago Tribune. and the wo: in (he case has no-excuse for misunderstanding him, or doubting | Dia shicertty She mey take him or leave him, as she chooses, and straight dealing und honesty exact that she shall do either the one or the other, His Betty Vincent’s Advice on Courtship «4 Marriage @ nice home, and he is also, Her Parents Proposed, Vninie nie salary tn too amall tor th Dear Betty way We are used to living or not? He | AM a young man of twenty-one. met a young lady two years my whether to accept. Please tell what I junior about three months ago and had better do. A. B.S, Weat to her house quite often. Now her| You do not appear to love the young warents asked ine to become engaged | man very muoh, and in that case ought to her, but I didn’t give them any an-/not to marry him. Any reasonable ewer, because I wished to ask my par- 0 ents first. I have asked them, but they object, on account of her being poor. I love her dearly and I know that she loves me too. I am out of employment now, and my parents are in business. They intend to put me in business too, “put {f I travel with that girl then I'll have to work myseif up, J. B., Jr, If you are sure you love the girl, try to get something to do and work your way independently. But don't marry |» voar Dear Betty: AM a doy of sixteen and am engaged to @ girl of the same age. I am earning $10 a week and she $& Can we live on that sum? Also, what is the cost of & marriage lloense, and what dos a marriage cost, just a plain one? right away, Take @ year te think it | LOVESICK. over, You are far too young to think of marriage, Walt unttl you are at least Love on $2,000 a Year, twenty-one. Meantime study and Im- Dear Betty: | prove yourself and try to save up money, ao that when you do marry you will have something te start with. The oost of marriage to you at your age would be lifelong misery te you and the girl and engaged to a young man who is twenty-one, He gets $2,000 a year, and will probably make more in a little while Iam used to good olothes and | AM @ young girl eighteen years old The Evening World’s History Series in Book Form. FEW years ago The Evening World printed a series of articles by Albert Payson Terhune, entitled "The Fifty Greatest Events of History.” This series, like others by the same author in this paper, won such widespread popularity es to warrant the bellef that {t would score an equal euccess in book form, So it has just been published as @ book by Dodd, Mead & Co, under the title ef ‘The World's Great ents." Thé volume ts bound in attractive etyle and handsomely illustrated. "The World's Great Events" not only affords as intereating reading as any novel, but gives an entertaining, condensed, bird's-eye view of the world's foremost events (from earlest times down to the present Gay) which will prove of inestimatie value to the student of history, the school- boy and the general reader alike, A Revelation of Netw York Society (Copyright, 1907, vy Robert W. Chambers.) »in the new chair and striving to ad- just its stiff and narrow architecture to his own broad shoulders, Finally he got up and filled his pipe, intending to try GYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INSTALMENTS. of an old New York SI coed bie te mary dons |the chair once more under the mest ven. 8 jon leader. Returning to| favorable olroumetences, fon ork felwyn, frequeniiy meets the! Ag he lighted his pipe there came « hesitating knock at the door; he jerked his head sharply; the knock was re- | peated, Something—a faintest premonition— the vaguest stirring of foreboding com- mitted him to silence-and left him uthveng, * Alize vee him. Ruthven le luring young Gerald Erroll to his house, Selwyn begs Alixe to ake of Gerald’ y teal (proposed by er) goes to the a Gerard, where he (known, j as '*Boots") | dine with Eleoa and the Gerard children, | thers motionless, ‘The match burned Returning to his rooms, Selwyn learns that close to his fingers; he dropped it and Set his heel upon the sparks, Then he walked swiftly to the door, flung {t open full width—and stood stock still, And Mrs, Ruthven entered the room, partly closing the door behind, her sloved hand still resting on the knob. For a moment they confronted one another, he tall, rigid, astounded; she f@ woman has cailed eariler in the evening fe see im CHAPTER IV. (Conttjued.) Mid-Lent. A @ he emerged from the bedroom in his dressing-gown he heard the front door-bell below peal twloe, but paid no heed, his attentlon| P¢ supple, relaxing a trite being concentrated on the chair which|?: ‘closed door behind her, which Nina had sent tim, First he walked) ¥‘¢lded and closed with a low click. gingerly around it then he ventured| At the sound of the closing door he nearer to examine tt in detail, and pres-| found his voice; It did not resemble ently he tripd tt. | his own volce either to himself or to “Ot course,” ‘ho sighed—“bless her | hers but she anawered his bewildered heart!—It's a perfectly impossible question It squeaks, too.” But he was mistaken; | “I don't know why I came. Is It 90 the creak came from the ofd stairway | very dreadful? Have I offended you? q@utside his door, weighted with the * * * I did not suppo: that m tread of Mrs. Greeve, Tho tread and| cared about conventions, fhe oreaking ceased; there came a) “But—why on earth—did you come?” Knock, then heavy descending foet-| he repeated. “Are you [n troublef” steps on the aged stairway, every “I seem to be now,” she eald with a @eparate step protesting until the In-| tremulous laugh; “you are frightening @wbus had sunk once more Into the| me to death, Capt. Selwyn.” Gepths from which it had emerged. Still dazed, he found the first chair As this happened to be (he night for! at hand and dragged it toward her. Ble laundry, he merely called out, “AN | She hesitated at the offer; then T| has proposed to me, but I do not know | GEGDOCOCISS | | | young coupls could get along on $2,000 LOVEY, 1910.0.00.0,0000.00000000.000000000 0000000000000; The Newlyweds-: You'Re ALWAYS THINKING 10.0, By Joseph A. Flyns. 6s] HEARD if strange tale last night,” I remarked to Tess this morning at breakfast. “Tt year-old gir! the next block has just marr.e tourth Funny, tsn't itt’) “There’s noth- Ing funn’ about It," Tess replied, sizing up the gen- eral construction of a new colffire on a fair boarder opposite, “This merry world ‘8 made up of all kinds of peo ple. If some of us didn't have phony ideas there'd be no use living. Now, you might think this story you handed out jen't on the level, but It Is; he- cause Mrs. Starve-em was first on the Job around here with the sad news. Forget- THERE NOW! THERE'S A NICE NECKLACE AND | CHARM FOR SNOOKUMS ! AH !-AH| MUSTN'T POT IN MOUTH! Me- 100 TOOOU0! ,®uage, and No. 8 never wrestied with | anything stronger than Adam's ale in his whole lite. “No, 4 will get those gentle reminders | morning, noon and night, and so as he won't forget them she'll wake him up about 4 in the magping to tell him a few more. If he falls in luck and cashes {n he'll join the others on the wall in a trading stamp frame, for No. B's benefit. ‘You know, we women have funny memories, Some remember the day they were married, what kind of weather was handed out, what they Their Baby Georee McManus 2 fo OOOO 0000001000000 000000 COD DIp pono OOOO OOOO nO OO OOOOOdOUO000! imoamMEMAGEROG, ecerrreg ney 2 OOO OOK ad O00! By * A% IT'S BEAUTIFUL ! YOU'RE THE DEAREST HUSBAND IN THE 1 must GO AND GET BABY AND Loon AT (T AGAIN! IT WAS & BARGAIN ! TO LOVEY, COME quick! HELP | DOCTOR | HE'S SWALLOWED THE CHARM ! pocketbook two minutes before last year, as you know, all the cafes DOOODDOOO: Pipe Trances OF THE Press Agents DOOOOODDOODOOOIDOOAr By Clarence Cullen. Trance No. 10. Trance No. 1. In Whioh Miss Jivian Whackburn, cf the Benoing Pictures, Offers Her- self to Science, | Wherein Mise Frixte Bighandsa, Col- | oratura Hotantst, Discovers the Talking Money Plant. eyix again | jm are wel called upon | to chronicle a re markable scienti- fle achievement by A famous siage | figurante. Mise Frixie Bighandza (born O'Hool{han), who on account of her engaging plumpness Is HO, now, shall say that tno women of the stage are not capable of exhibiting the moat exalted forms of abne- gation and self-sacrifice? It 1s anounced upon the highest au- thority that Miss Jivian Whackburn, the statuesque young woman of the chorus who during her fourteen years lin the business has steadfastly refused ever to utter one word, much less a ine, fn connection with any of the many productions in which she has ap- known as the CLARENCE LCULEN Wadaling Vestal of Vaudeville, has @nnounced to the expectant world of sclence her discovery and development, after arduous and prolonged grafting experiments, of a plant which she has christened the Talking Money Plant. Miss Bighandza, who became keenly interested in plant life after having be- come acquainted with several wealthy stockholders of the famous Plant Sys- tem, in Florida, has, Ike Luther Bur- bank, her noted California colleague in grafting experimentations, addressed her actentific energies solely to the task | of developing the more useful spectes | of plants, Early In her investigations | Miss Bighandza, In order to put herself | thoroughly en rapport with her study, | and at the same time to deliver a stag gering blow at the Lobster Monopoly | and the Hot Bird ‘Trust, became a vegetarian, Always an open and firm believer in the dormant, unexpressed intelligence of the higher forms of vegetables, Miss Bighandza was from the beginning impressed with the potentiality of kale uh tuesque Young Woman. She had discovered years before, she ne (Statues 9 sald, that kale spoke a language of its own, and she determined to graft kale, that would converse In the most cred= that Misa peared—we have it up {ble author tones that.) Whackburn will soon contract, volume While sweet and stbillant, would at the tarily, that drea » of the Contl» same time be perfectly audible and jane of Aft y+ sleoping disease, Of For PODOODADHOOOOD translatable into any tongue. MISS jroventiy xiv placed in come ( | Bighandza's indefatigable labors In this TRA Ds. Koel the ree N t t h B d : H @ | direction were crowned with succes : eal OV taNROTE ots at the Boarding-House. : lg te ae 8 wis named the sleep- BOR) o Tr 1118 BTCOOOODANS iwvives who became : se of the thought they wore, how the church was) All the teachers sald I waa the fea son Miss: Whack crowded to the roof with disappointed! tlest gerry in the school; but that's! “the ¢ _ © the celebrated Johns, and what all the papers sald another etory. ; io atuaguthenate next morning, even if they can't re) “Talking about new meal tiokets, | : Ba eae member jus where they left their) When Mrs. Starve-em buried No, 2) :pon a white per- go country In “Take me for instance. | can re-|!n the neighborhood sent bunches of River, where member the first day I shook hands ‘We Mourn Our Loss,’ for many’s the) vonest_ and | with school, just ea if it was yester- pocketful of tin they separated hin ’ F \day. There I was in a little. white from every week, He'd never stay in| ul dress, with a bright red sash, and my the middle of the track while he was | ton , eurly, golden hair fell down |e@- alive, and he got mts from morning | rs | tow my waist; but I lost it two years, until night » very time he rambled home, over- come by the heat, as he said, Mra, [later when I ran into the measies -nd tell him what an angel No. 1 was. Half the the I didn’t blame poor No. 2 tor beating tt over the back fence and holding down George's brass rajl, for he got an awful deal here. avery week the old lady got some- body eise’s advice on how to get a divorce, but at the same time she made him fork over all the spare ces!) he had tn his pocket. Pneumonia met him last December and he drifted away, and it Starve-em would go right up in the alr “Blow Me! Blow Me!’ t i U | ane entire rear yard of her chatean D el ‘| him. looked @ moment at him, and sank into t Resting there, her pale cheek against her muff, she smiled at him, and every’ nerve in him quivered with pity. “World without end, amen,” she sald. “Let the judgment of man pass.” “The judgment of this man passes, very gently” he sald, looking down at) She laid her hand on the -chair, her, “What brings you here.” Mrs. Ruthven?” “Will you belleve met” | “Then—t ts almply the desire of the friendless for a friend. Nothing else—| nothing more eubdtle, nothing of effront- ery; n-nothing worse Do you be Meve mer" "I don't undarstand”— “Try to." “Do you mean that you have differed with! — “Him? She laughed. “Oh, no; 1) was taiking of real people, not of] myths. And real people are not veny| friendly to me, always—not that the: are disagreeable, you understand, only @ trifle overconial; timate friend kisses me a | frequently. By the way, sho hi succumbed to you, I hear” “Who do you meant?’ “Why, Rosamund.” He said something under his breath and looked at her impatiently too quite} “Didn't you know it?" sho asked, omiling. “Know what “That Rosamund {s quite craay about| you Good Lord! Do you suppose tha any of the monkey t are interes’ emained meurNm aeeres "nen pou! ene eaid, paseing batere be meer fin whem!" he said, dinguetod ! - THE YOUNGER SET - 9O$$-909-498-99-0005-06-09-4-0-0-0-0:5 The joke of Mt Is, the |r was only yesterday afternoon I heard, 4t Haverhurst js planted with a waving » ene Henrietta married thinks Mrs, Starve-em Ae sf gsrtat party emerald patch of the kind of kale fy ; t ‘ 7 1 thing. on your floor with auspicious halr that which she has named the Talking Money her Se! ny he was such a good thing the electric! |, ne ADSe , | “It must be great when she site fight in her heart went out when ne | Plant (scientifically known as nites fra 1 down at night and rakes up for onanede inl Currenclus), and Miss Big Whack 5 get-me-nots, I wonder if she calls, Well, ie might not have been so bad! serts that, when the wandering the Jal (ail | the others by their first names or by | aftor all,” I said sympathetically, mean- zephyriets from the Southland breathe When, therefore, \ Rifha 3 whlie endeavoring to penetrate the ‘ mumbers, Just try to dope out for | Beak. You knew, werail have oup|Upon this singularly astute kale, she! parts for the [a ei yournelf the game No. 4 Is up against taulte.”” ‘an hear, with the aid of a delicately sign herur!i + : ; ts If he trots along !!ke a white-haired Don't get me wrong,” she rejoined, adjusted ear Instrument which she r 4 under i 4 boy and.stiaks to the sidewalk he'li asthe Sng Dah car nea BULL IR aa contrived for the purpose, eact HE the! be first In war and last in peace; but hour late. “I'm not putting him on the every plant murz an-wise, ohilooin if he ever wanders away from the pan, ‘There are a whole lot around words, “Blow mi uth 1 Bible path she will be right on the ere just as ‘bad, if" not worse; und, vitation to which, it {8 needless to say, ys job with a dewy tale of how No, 1 What'a more. he always remembered 1/ Miss Bighandza firnily: declines to ylel, | models to (ist Hava icslied a Tekh Ral Now Bl never owned a mouth and brought me home 8) 5. tee pecuniary pruence has hecome |" ik 7 varnished the walls with blue lan-| She Made Him Fork Over. " almost a proverb, of The fun $D 99-49O09O4-9090960O090000H99O8 269-6-60-004--004-0.0.0.0.4« aoe Author of ‘dhe Firing i ine’ Fighting Chance." ‘Do I ever go near them or meet them| said, “to explain"— y after all? Was i only a tinted ghost) tho money; he was only a male ¢ : at all except by ecoident in the rou-| “You could have written.” that was blown Into my bungalow /for the set that harbored him, an tine of the machinery which sometimes! “I say !t was one reason; the other that night—only a twiet of shredded |—picked up by a big, hard-aved we sews us in tangent patches on this I have already given yow-because II marsh mist without substance, without}who had almost forgotten how What seal crasy-quilt called society?” PSU thet ye. mere etnies: betng, without eoult—to be blown away |Iaugh, until she found him furtiveiy) A como Nabe sake “But Rosamund,” she sald, laughini aS me ies er are into the shadows with the next and|muzziing her diamond-laden fingers $, {t-verha 4 abla. ‘Wg now cultivating Mrs, Gerard. pete fa lon't nad Fé et Phir Goncar, SIRdPAAA GERI To: GHA TEU WHAT TBRG. dlacevered IRR’ bo coda: it] ire’ Tyypet cf tt he demances: ae Hee yee ie T did not sleep a cross the waste places of the world?|up and beg and roll over ar a noi, s! (GRAL Have Geur hea ed? “Because,” she replied, still laughing, | (10 Ot tg 6» hecause 1 was’! thought I knew a sweet, Impulsive ler him follow her; and since then i maree LLG roll shee: periag Zaina ero quite happy. * © ¢ But now-I don’t comrade of flesh and blood; warm, had become Indispensable and ivi 289 youn ree ay Leauge rca know" —— quick, generous, Intelligent—and very, curled up on many a soft and slike Aen) [Sur om Te ea ineigataal ive ceed ed “Whether I am still friendly? very young—too young and bated ro ie beshy ene and fetched and. hot! you do {t often enough; but the fact 1s { am. So please explain about ( “perhaps, to endure the harness which catrled for many a pretty wonan wast, that the handsomest and smartest} “Are you sure?” raising her fark coupled her with a man who failed sla herself did not care to touch, ever 1 co thak woman in town {s forever dinning your eyes, “that you mean to be kind?" —— her--and failed himself with white-gloved fingers chance tot tale tree tarde pertectlone Into my. ears! — | "Yes, sure," he eald harshly. "Go hat she has made another—and per-/ What had she expected w “T know,” he sald, “that this sort of | on Fs ‘th oh haps more heartbreaking mistake, ts Married him? Only innocent | are stuff passes {n your set for wit. “You are a little rough with Me; iitter for me, too—because—because—I of the set he ornam| She flushed scarlet at his brutality, ie 8-almost Inrolent’—- e not yat forgotten. And even If [| for the horror of her d drew up a chalr, seated himself very “I=L have to pe Good God! Alixe, ceased to remember the sadness of it aplendors had she dre ; t Aeliverately, and spoke, his unlighted do you think this Is nothing to me?— must touch me, But I have not forgot- outside? What flashing pipe in his left hand: this wretched mess we have made of ten and because I have not, I say to signal had beckoned yer to A qhe girl 1 lett—the girl who left me- | life! Do you titnk my roughness and you, anchor! and hold fast, Whatever mute eyes had pgomiaal? Ath was a modest, clean-thinking, clean-|abruptness come trom anything but he does, whatevar yo! whatever smile invited? All skulls » tins! minded girl, who also had a brain to| pity?—pity for us both, T tell you. Do happens, steer straight cn to the an- but the world has yet to hear them, : F tse, and employed {t, Whatever con-| you think I can remain unmoved look- chorage. Do you understand me?" feugh \ ctuston that girl arrived at concerning | ing on the atrocious punishment you Her gloved hand, moving at random, pyntpp Wa 0 ‘and my most in-|the Importance of marriage vows 18 no | have inflicted on yourself?—tethered to encountered his and closed on ft con wyeg, Altxe aa longer my Susiness; but the moment |—to that!—for lifel—the poison of the rulsively ied REL sweet rns she confronts me again, offering friend- | contact showing in your altered voice! “Do understandt” he repeated. |. 2 ai my: deat, ; 5 : fe Jenip, then I may use a friend's privi- | and manner!—in the things you “Y.08, Phil Gerald. Can you Delfeve m | Dam glad.” ¢ palit lege, as 1 do. And so I tell you that/ at, in the things you live for-in t Head atill sinking, face covered with) “I kaow you did. Don't mind what 1 —for a we loosely fashionable badinage bores Me@. | twisted, misshap: dele thee your| (he slivery Gur, the trémote trom her ks Sad ax and And another matter—privilewed = PY | triengs set up on a heap of ni body sat her hand quivering on hie not now, You do beltere ma mea know{ friendship you acknowledge—torces me]. you to worship? Even It Heartesick, he forbore to ask for the| Cont you y a Wes You eu Gerice aoe Lith passed through the sea of mire, explanation; he knew Yea, I to, jacay we Ye point blank: Why Seen ee ciate [OS At loeet e filth from o sWaecwhateves the # k you. A T witt try to, “ered : am, would not da aoe ‘ to the a Ke? 0 was F : 6 and the r ce The color receded from her face and She ba . pallid face with * + ‘ ‘ * It te good to be { heaven whan we've falle her gloved fingers tightened on the| her muff and » again, is + & he eee Baar @ one eemese | oem ane Alias w De duubs Ob atk ned bhutaven need Ve pete aemmwane? 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