The evening world. Newspaper, September 26, 1908, Page 10

oe _— 0009000: 0:580966640004-669004440G000060065 The Store Mannthin ; Who “impersonates” at Grand Openings $004000-0-0608.900008 By Margaret Hubbard Ayer, oy oF tae This 1s a continu- ous show,’ mum- bled Bertha, the mannikin, as she changed her gown! for the fifteenth time yesterday a: ternoon, jimitated from her favorite actress. “This 1s a Robuspeere,”* "Dear me!" whispers the High School H te. at) rt |sirl, “Why, wasn't he a robber” “Do you think I'd look good In one of | them sheath gowns?” asks the lady who welghs two hundred and fifty and Oks as If she had money to spend. Though she had only murmured the question, the head of the departinent ts down upon her like a flash, For money is scarce, even at openings, Now the head of this department can make you buy anything she puts her he scene was| mind on, She has stu..ed the underly- the grand opening |!"S principle of “The, Witching Hour,” | of fall costumes | nd whenever she sees a customer buy- {ng cheap gown sho mentally says “You cannot buy that gown," and then |makes her take the most expensive thing on the floor, In dealing with clever saleswomen {t's | best to make friencs with them. This and millinery at one of the big stores, and the crowds of women who had) come to view the opening looked upon ft in the light of a fine vaudeville, free, of charge. The second floor of the shop was| given over entirely to the opening. Gorgeous dresses behind g! shone forth dazzlingly and one or two! tults and gowns on wooden mannikins @tood on raised platforms. At the end of the day the unprotected gowns are | Teady to be sold at reduced prices be- | cause of the handling and rubbing that | they have been subjected to during the day, despite placards begging the pub- Uc to keep thelr hands off. The wear and tear on the model frocks is one of | the largest items in the expense account of opening day. The salaries of the pretty models hired especially for the occasion is another one. Bertha was | only one of eight who had spent the entire day changing from low-necked ! sheath dresses to high-necked double breasted walking sults for the benefit of a critical public. Bertha 1s an intelligent girl. She has | to be to answer the questions fired at/ her, Besides that, she has the grace and elegance which are only found In| the buman mannikin, She can walk for | hours with the mincing gait that makes you feel that her feet hurt her and which js considered ‘‘de rigueur" in mod- eldom. She can hold her head as does Valeska Suratt in her photographs, with the chin tilted at an angle of # degrees, and,if her head aches no one knows about It. All day long her figure {a incased in a sheath corset that could give pointers to the Spanish Inquisition, But does Bertha pout? No, indeed. She Looks Sylphilice, the fat lady did not do. And now she| has in her happy home one sheath/ gown of strawberry liberty satin, trimmed with embroideries, picked out In green, and {s perfectly sure that she never looked as sylphlike in her life, The head of the department, having accomplished this, goes back to her sanctum sanctorum, which {s an enor- mous glass case brilliantly lighted with | electric bulbs and in which there are ‘ten pricelees gowns of exceeding lovell- ness, and one truly hideous costume of green and yellow. No one knows how | this happened to be bought, but proba- bly the original buyer was Indlsposed | on the day he acquired this French freak, “I am going to get ria of this dress, Bertha!” summons the Head. “Go put | Unis dress on and get the yellow hat | out of the main showcase in the milll- nery department, Put some rouge on | your cheeks cnd try and look as French |as you can, his dress hag got to go out of this store."” “What do you meant says Bertha,’ “Yes, anything, But make {t dashy.” In fifteen minutes Bertha comes back looking as much like Anna Held as a tall, red-headed girl,can, but imitat- ing her shoulder gestures and undulat- | ing walk perfectly and with the offend. Ing gown, “Oh, aln't she cute,’ choruses the audience, and there 18 a distinct clap- ping of hands as Bertha walks down the long alley between the rows of shoppers, and the dress is bought by @ quiet little woman from Boston. The head of the department, who managed this opening explained to me that Bertha was worth her weight in gold, “There's net another mannequin, as models are called in Paris, who has the truly artistic sense, Our new gowns | Anna Held?" “This is a Robuspeere.” Bertha has the model figure on which the $15 sults are manufactured, and she {s proud of the distinctlon, as who wouldn't be? Just now she !s parading in a neat little practical walking sult of pale blue, trimmed with old rose velvet. The coat, of course, ts Direc- toire, showing a little bit of walstcoat Getting arrested in Brooklyn is merely a temporary in- What we want to know now is, Will Matty’s arm hold out? When the pennant question Is settled © flelding percentage or Roose- yelt's stolen base record, What Slervingreca» wo yearn to know now Is, Wi Matty's am hold out? “Are you wise to the fact that the Natlonal and American League seasons are close to the wind- up; that most of the nunor leagues locked up thelr ball yards in the past six days? When you glanced around your car in the subway or on the "L" were the people eating up the political news in thtir newspapers or were they reading the sporting pages? When the pennant question Is settled and the Giants have elther won the word's champlonshiy or established themselves as the gieatert aggresa tion of mutes that ever put on a pillow and chased a fly the people will begin to wake up to minor matters. You will be meeting men then who still ask ‘Let's sce, W was it the Democrats nominated? Bryan? I thougiit they nom- inated him eight years ago—or was it twelve years ago? Oh, yes, Willlam Jennings Donlin—I mean Bryan—I thought I had heard that botore name . The lah a La World Daily Magazine, New York is its mass of noises = Bing | Saturday, After reading John D. Rocke feller’s autoblography we face life's problems with mixed feelings, Have you noticed that Nat B Goodwin has sued his wi for a divorce again? Bang | to pay allmony than to pay allenists, | peaking of allenists brings to mind the fact that the footbali season Is upon us, Long before the scholastic halls of our leading Institutions of learning were opened tor the forthcoming semester groups of large, strong young men gathered upon. the various campuses and indulged in light exer-| clses, such as kicking each other on the wishbones| or concentrating attention upon some particular youth, throwing him down and rubbing his beak In) the grass, The professors come and go unnoticed, the star students delve Into their books and the football squads delve Into the gravel. We hall the foothall season with joy because it will engage for the next two months tho exctusive attention of| thousands of young men who might otherwise tralning themselves to be mollycoddles. After reading the opening chapters of John D.| Rockefeller's autoblography we face the problems Nife with mixed feelings, Mr. Rockefeller, out his ripe experience, assures us that the young man Mf today has more chances of Ruccece 'y life tha he young man of his time had. That's what they September ° A Househola Holears And She Likes It So 4900019099000 ‘end of the earth; and when you get | there they show you @ waiting Ilst of by Gertrude Bartunt, SE teh E were walt- and pages." * +) ing with Mil-| he lady at the desk was awfully ly ina et kind,” sald Milly, “I never saw such & ty employment | kind person." bureau and over-| “Kind? You're easy!" Rachel flared heard the follow-up. “Why don't she take the trouble to tng conversation lift her desk telephone and find out whether there's any chance for @ girl retween two jadies “It's aimpl y| before sending proc sions of wormo: : dreadful how people here, there and everywhere to | | any unemployed Wear out their shoes for nothing? Kind! 6 HERE wasn't muon; “The anti-nolse crusaders are back in town fron! Nat Goodwin nas sued hi» wife for a divorce?’ | there are. One| She Ha wants to get rid of you the a doing this week out-| thelr summer vac sand are beating the tom | "T noticed,” replied the mar. whe was getting his| | can't entertain, pleasan' way and keep up her side of politics,” de-| toms and sounding the hewgags along the package, “that Nat Goodwin hac sued his wife for| “= even in & modest |records—so and so many ‘cases elped, vlared the laundry clerk. jold Inez. They want a rubber-tired, soft-pe divorce again. Mr, Goodwin Js consistent, If ne) way, without being | Talk about fakes! Didn't - tell you ‘Back up!” replied the maa| 22FK But who Wants @ folseless city can't get along with his wife he diverces her or le | incomtoriavie thinking how many peo- We'd never get anything from philan- who was gatting his package; “® Want New York to be Mke Northport, L. I, oF her get a divorce from him. This is the general rule lo don't know what to do.” thropy under the capitallst system?’ ‘Take it from me, Sweeny| Palisades, N. J.? in our best artistic and soclety circles, It Is much| “Well, if girls want work, why don't| “I don’t see that discouraging us helps fad all he could do to take! “One of the fascinations of New York Js its mas’ more refined and fae leas missy than the custom! better than the kind lady,” sald care of the politics this week,| Of Rolses, all olended into a restful If not har | prevailing among people of less imagination and leis: | Beatrice, “You make me tired, When Later on tt will be time) MOntous whole. if wo couldn't hear the hand-/ ure of seeking out thelr uncongenial partners and| we aek for bread you give us soclalism, enough to talk about Taft's) #WM wan and the old clothes man und the vege-| resenting them with the contents of a revolver. Our| Pretty thin diet, hot air is i batting average or Bryan's millionaires and actors arg learning that It 1s cheaper | “i bet we could make It go,” Réos suddenly spoke up. thot alr?” ‘You come along and I'll tell you at." f Belng obliged to part from the girls, ! heard no more at that time of Edna's But a fortnight later I hap- into the gmployment bureau nd noticed a new sign on one of e doors: “Houschold Helpers.” Eager ladies lined the walls on elther ide of the door, waiting their turns to enter, and, much to my surprise, my jend Edna seenied to be mistress of one 1 asked her. ember the day we were looky | ing cor 1008," she began. “You remem- er that ladg asking why girls don't g¢ into domestic service? Well, I've beem yout that, and now a few of g (0 put two and two to | thinaing “Let's Seo That Slip.’ jus are tr. But this Tatt—who is he? He must be out of some all say, | ' hat'a All bush league.’ ‘Phe more money an old man has accumulated ether so's to make five, tha a8 an “It has been shown in the past few nat the| table cart man and banana and the by hs own efforts the more insistent he ts that if|they Ko out to service? There's plei.ts “ius this way. Most wor ne ne experience of getting arrested in Brooklyn {s mere- ibrella mender and the line up n he had been sidetracked for about fifty years and) hat kind of work, juon't want to be eevee ly a temporary inconvenience to a person who| mighty lonesome, Never attend a m “J given a running start to-day he would wind up| ¥ adies sed on, evidently com | wouldn't mind being a ‘Housel We Knows the ropes, and there are more ropes in| noise agitators? Every few minutes you'll s ftronger at the finish. However, before Acoopting| foried by this BolUtinn Gf the prowielh |er. 1 ee ete eae ee ee toe a i ‘i | am ‘ peas ‘5 i6 | employed, and just then Milly 'yowre called by + Brooklyn than can find on a six-masted schoon-| of them look at his watch, tak > out of hia Mr, Rockefeller's conclusions as the orig, It}iof the unemployed, andl Ju tant a 1). trained nurse, and have your evenings er, Harry might have saved New York| pocket, uncork it, reclease a few dysye lots might be well to walt for a few remarks from the} returned fvom the desk with the ad- arg “Sundays’ {tee A lot of people County a whole lot of money if he had shot Stan-|and toss them Into his f They clair the|eminent Senator Joseph B. Foraker.” drecs of ‘ pie te ee RT As ACG ford White at Coney Island or Manhattan Beach] city noises make sica poople die, but 1 notice “U'd Ike to get some of Rockefellers money,” sald) t aa vat alip,”” sald Beatrice, | Pay to have gome one In now and then und been put in Raymond Street Jail. It would| keep on dying Out In be country, where ty are|the laundry clerk. ; | * Fi fic AAareae “Yep valle Vea Letty isn't , yn Magis t all” . elected to Congress,” advised the man who] reaching for the ad ps rking girl that can't sew pave Deen) ani gesy, acter tO. QAdTe Broo eek te | ie eee J.cxaes the same place they sent me, It's the iundry werk and take trate who does not read the pavers. “Have you noticed,’ asked the laundry clerk, “that| was getting bla package, 369-068 SdOOHDEOHD Y $99000004509-0990349090GOO04 | Chauffeur Charlie Calls on Myrtle and Gets Gay About Her Hair Puffs; “I Don ‘t Believe You Are Well, Heart of Gold,” Says Myrtle— —And Charlie isn't PVH H9OOH DOH Y $999O6.0H5OH.9G0OO0840OH COURTIN’ A New Series By Clarence L. Cullen | HAUFFEU R | C CHARLIE | slouched around the garage ir @ dazed sort of way, muttering to | himself and stop- ping occastonally to gaze !rquiringly into. the small plece of looking- glass tacked over ‘ the wash-up sink, CLARENCE L CULLEN “You're on the | wrong side of the road and your drive gear 1s warped,” cut in his observant garage mate. “Bet- ter take up the lost inotion and get that out of your cylinder before you run | into somebody. What for these mum- bles and things?” | ‘Well, I got a little new with her last “She sailed In and | ddGo4 oeoedd Grr turn into ashes at the feel of a comb. | th hin? She pretended not to notice !! and purred around, , gbut I could see from | | [her eyes that the’giass was dropping j of gold,’ she sald, like as if she realy meant It, after a@ little stalling. “ ¢Your color is dreadful, Charles,’ says she after a long close-range look at my piped all the puffs. Talking about Battling Nelson and ing saundic people, how long since you tidied up| “'Maybe it's tan,’ says I, your tresses, Sunlocks? Tam afraid tt fen't tam, Charles “phat rang the gong. for I'd hiked! says she, shaking her head and sort over to Myrt’s right after enitting work | of dabbing at her eyes with a wadded- without stopping to tame my cowllcks./up handkerchief. ‘And, now I notl “Oh, well,’ eays I, ‘you look Ike the | jt, your’ eyes are gort of glazed Queen of the Mardi Gras, anyhow,| tilmed over, too. Poor Uncie Myrtle, except for that new teenchy-| eyes were filmed just exactly the sa weenchy pimple on your chin. Sut | way, and yet nobody could that's all my fault for buying such rich! believe there was a thing the er foods when we go out.’ with him until he had to take to his ‘That's where { stepped on a feed] bed, and he never got up from it, the \wire, ver notice how a git! hates to | Poor good old dear,’ have you mention the pimple on tl guy in Bunk 8 va eee tog Al And if he tells you anything dreadfu about yourself over it, now, will you? Promise me you three or four chops and a couple oO stacks of flannel gx and things and a pint or so ot davs before he died of the gallop é Kept right 0 t c i at her eyes, Housenoid Heipers. Now I want you to promise me, Charles,’ she said, ‘that you'll go ses 7 four points at a clip, a doctor the ve first thing In the care of children and cook a little. Well, “T don't belleve you are woll, henrt/ Morning, for the sake of vour fols, Were getting these ladies and thee girls together, That's our new busin Mily and Beatrice are fixed how Rachel and I are going to make money on the scheme, besides.” you won't feel too badly "Say not so, my valentine,” T cut In| won't i ute et Marte care eetes (ngulred|| pillantnropy Is giving Rachel EOL at te Uetle et! Chaumeur Charlie's garaze mate, “gt ne ppOrtunlty after all?” T remarkeds back stuff on her part. ‘What seems ning. RAC MA to all me from where you sit?” “Not yet," was the reply, “I had room, don't ea “We're going to pay them back; Ra- che! looked embarrassed, “Kind ladies are all right,” sald Edna, akes-and a lot of TRBIEAITE (BKC GTODSE,ARGGE CEH THebaG OEE aces CHE Te teea ene E | lab id Chauffeur Charlie, “but by | Sort of an ollve-green-ashy- | coffee for breakfast thi ing collar that is open about two inches} who wear them well, And all I-have | night,’ sa! hauffeur Charlie, “but by ro chart, ‘Sort of an olive-green- coffee for breakfast this morni an malty vou) can't expect them to do ary ig eee ego a toltal Hertha: whom to imlrere| the time st -7as all over I was eo old | (nt ! Piped all the pufte nestling around | cold storage?’ alte yellow,’ she Went on, and she Tooked | at! T got through hitting up’ that e you than you do for youre ‘ x and sane can do it. We have sold quan- 1 raat ry the back top of her excelsior I had a ade while you walt,’ says, yellow, snack 1 felt too well and foolish to wo | erif. If You can't think of @ way (ymee ‘Are those collars going to be ‘In? | (ities of Billy Burke dresses, and, ‘het I could hear myself creak every clip quip all ready to pull, ho owasn't any quirk, for ‘ to any doctor. But you never can tell, on yourself, the chances are you'll get asked one of the audience, evidently an| Bertha can make herself up to look| time I breathed. Had to walt in the winice Kidnevs, thone, Myrtle.’ 3|shetd kept me waiting all right, Then|sorry for myself. ‘I really dislike to ed al 1 NG ah yale ' talttor I ! much like the Out-of-town dressmaker, like (a Mear-Ethel barrymore. A sue. parlor for her for about ten minutes I/ 1, ooking real chaMshly at her puts,|{ saw her lips sort of tighten, ‘Anyhow, alarm you. but Was there ever any | OPE thine. Asie. ss “hafited geeess aad teen ae tree anal tment: "Yoo," answered Bertha haughtily, In| costed eRe ope odel “in” the | knew ft was a halr-fixing number that|sarakes me hungry for a kidney saute| they've becn worked on a little,’ she! jaundice in your family? You look! me that because I notleed that little the ali prover aying than the half-nasal, half-yawning accents! gown." delayed her, «7d so when she sailed in| to look at 'em. Are they dry-picked or! went on. ‘They don't drop dead and|eyactly lke poor Uncle Fred looked plinple on her c ‘Charity begins at home, $OO9060069. $OO0908900940000 0000004 OLDEDISDHGA DEO DEEOLIOIOID PEMEGIOESIOTASDIDOOTIOIGIONITO HOODOO A Revelation of New York Society Y-es; thank you Yet, | should never | Hans. By Robert W. Chambers, Author of ‘'The Firing Line” and ‘4 hee Chance,” 1 only know that you have) ai usement Was furnished at her own (Copyright, 1007, by Robert W, Chambers,)| airily; “a girl should have something; that people should gossip whenever ajasain; she was tired of being goolj|beside her, covl, blond, and cynically | Y i : rae eagle mascullne to talk to on a morning like| man was trying to be nice to me’— whe had often meant to try the effect amused, continued the theme with ad ; ve heard of it at all If you had no! He Rte, Ward it ee the ay toc and a keen sense of the ridic- aear EG 2 ' “Pooh! It's always the men’s own |o’ a gentle shock . Miss Hrroll, and, miraable pretense of indifference: | told me." , humiliated me, and awak-/ulous had more than once saved her SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INSTALMENTS, | his. Failing that she should have i t gentle sho Miss Erroll, RC. . ‘ : : fs i Capt. Philip Selwyn, of an old New York| ‘OMe pleasant memories of indiscre- fault. Don't yo usuppose the martyr’s | besides, she wondered just how much It's a pity that Il-natured people are Roenee cole, rose one eer a Hane ae ite ne a clon, y skirts from a rumpling that her fermi, bas qsixned from tne army vecauss| tions past and others to come, D, V.;}fllence 1s noisier than a shriek of Pain |truth there aight be in the unpleas- | forever discussing them; nA TE ARS | ce Re SE Ue RERE Aus Be TOR De OU ee Cea ame eee uaa Y perhaps might have forgiven. Bie es Ae dtyareed ten “aturio to) ut least one little souventr to repent--| {Tm the house tops? I know—a little jantly persistent rumor of the girl's Me indignant, veoause I've always been @ friend, ts It not? F [once before—at the Minister's dan ainly a little beast" aha New York, delaya frequenty meeis the! oii 1 : about men,” added Rosamund, modest- | unannounced engagement to Selwyn. very fond of Alixe Ruthven, and Tam| "I didn’t know that one's friends sald not, perhap that you deliberat valy, “but I reaily do 14 vens. Alize eUll pecietly joves bim,| Smilingly, Oh, la! Oh, me! All these Weuchathineeabut a navl {t {e better| meant to; but you did it. And Itkg, tisdale) luring young Geiaid Ertott t0| wretched birds a-courting and I ina jal “and they invariably say to-them- | “It would be amusing, wouldn't {t?""| positive that sie does not correspond | such things; but perhaps is be! 4 vt yeu di And ak 1 forgive?” Geren titth Heine sabe cf aersta's einer, | Ing along on Dobbin, lacking even my| {cles after @ final rebuff: ‘Now, Hey [222 Asked with ulleleas frankness, With Capt. Selwyn. A girl fy her ra Hee Gna Pll ie ae et anv RS AppeeUSLene younm Mlle i v Ce Lae |be patient and brave and I'll bear with | « 4 i be cr > invite suspicion | Understand the necesstty of my ABM Rt end” —— rt ; Se thes wart at own Gilpin! Shall we gallop?” | be pa but, of course,“It 18 not true—thés re- tion would be crazy to He, on generosity al ever deen in vain; she brother: in-law, w Austin Gerard, L D noble dignity this cataclysm which has fi hoe yeaa th say she is|!"g-—-of my hearing—because It Is Vap- er voice became unsteady agaln-and £ if ct 4 ii of | port of their reconciliation, oy doing the things they say 4 ” t mouth ‘ i gave almust as easil, Ht Ree sunt, ‘his busineay parttery noes to the| qyyen meaged. th [Knocked the world galley-west for me | Whose reconciliation?” asked Miss doing"— ln BOW CoA re eee a fer Tiouth aurveds Dut: she) Vela) BRET eatheat woranl nawiin teal caRA EERE home of’) af nen at length they pulled up along, ana loosened the moon in its socket | peri I GOSR TI “Don't, Mrs, Fane, please, don't!””| “And that,” sald Rosamund deliber- head high and her eyes were as fear- | 7 ' Oey © ard i and 1 kno. the reservoir, Ellen's hair had rebelled ang spolled the symmetry of the sun! | uyny ange i ‘xd Elieen; ‘I-1 really can't|@tely, “ie why I told you." lersiy direct as a child's, Peer noe NAB ARSS. BAEC eto Bau Pater "that ‘evening Ailxe cally at Selwyn’| @8 Usual and one bright strand curled) 444 they go about being 0 conspie= hy, Alixe Ruthen and Capt, Sel-| stammered aerial pot” ‘then be-| "Told me? Oh—because he and Tare} “And now,” she said calmly, ‘you fovsive: she hes nes only) In orage, to and a stormy scone ensues, Some | like a circle of ruddy light across her| ously brave that any debutante can | "%™ Everybody ts discussing it, you listen, 1 simply will aot: el euch clone trienda ttt know where I stand and what I will “(Just matters in her own mind, ime afterfuid Eileen woes for, a InOraLAA | eles but Hogamund drew bridte ap let iy ct y |'wildered, hi and blindly confused as)" ‘ lose friends that I Not stand. Natural d id-| Mrs. Fane swung her horse and hola ride in the Park, accompanied only by her | cheek; bu sa id tell what hurts them.” y . i ahs ‘ 77 ed | ‘es—suich very close friends that I" stand, Natural deference to an oid-; 4 ane gs 0 groom. maculate as ever and coolly laspecte | wien was still laughing, but not Reconciled? I don't understand,” said Fhe was, the instinct to eetsng) fashed she laughe am informed that |&? Woman, the natural seif-distrust of {cut her right hand: her companion, quito at her ecse—the theme being too, Eileen, astonished. ‘hey can't be; UP—thougl trom Ww one. aout “| your Interests are soon to be identical." 4 girl In the presence of suciai exper-| “Is tt pax, Miss Erroll? I'm really CHAPTER V. “What gorgeous hair!" she sald, star-| personal to sult her. In fact, there|%OW can” — pes fending him she did not realize: “It 81" one git swung around, self-possessed, | lence—and under {ts protection as s named of myseit, Won't you fore 4 ay ing, “Li's worth w coronet, you Kuow=| Usually seemed to be too much per-| "But It would de amusing, wouldn't utterly untruet" she exctaimed hotly~| yy: dreadfully pate. had a right to suppose—prevented me?” (Continued.) if you ever desire one.” sonallty in. Rosamund's conversation—| {t? and she could very easily get rid of| “all that you at they say!—WhO-} Tr you believe that,” she sald, “it | ftom checking you when your conver ms," sald the young girl laying Afterglow. I don't,” said the gir! laughing ant) o°vercain artificial indifference to con. | 38k Ruthven—any woman could. $0 ever whatever (hey mean, Ul was evil oe you to shy what you ald, |éation becano diatasterul, You per- oii Rosariundls | Veey T was near Bighty-sixth street that a attempting to bring tho insurgent Sur! \ontion, which she, Ellen, did not feel it rey really mean to remarry) — cannot nd -I don't und ') Mrs, Fane," haps mudicok my ret acqules- often thought,” she girl, spiendidly mounted, saluted 4 nder discipline. Jany desire to disregard, For the ele- The girl stared, breathless, astounded, stand it, and I will not! Nor will he") it I did not believe it, chiar | SOnee’ aBne yan ere y, “that 1 could like you, and, waeeung, jomed her—a blond, | “1 dare vay you're right; coronets are! ments of reticence and of delicacy were DOlt upright In her sadile she acded with a scornful conviction | stammered Rosamund, several degrees sy) ne te Temain Bey dk you OU Ont Ren ee cool-skinned, tinted, “‘snovaiy | out of vogue among us now. It's th linme:ont In her: the training of a young), “Oh!” she protested, while the hot that disconcerted Rosamund; “for if you] reqaer than became her, and now con. °U® tems with you, if you y groomed itl, almost vo perfecti7 | tashion to marry our own good peopie| girl had formallzed them into rules. |P00d mantled throat and cheek, “it Is knew him as I do, Mrs. sane, youlvinced that it was true, “I nenever (y,orset Mat you have done »u blessed Innocent! You've seated, altioat too flawless and supple| By the way, you are continuing to But ence her debut she had witnessed Wickedly untrue. How gould such ver have spokea as youldreamed of offending you, Miss Zr- ‘> rags and tatters, and you th the persect simmetry of face wad) tonish the town, [ hear.” |rad heard so many violations of con-| thing be true, Mrs. Fane! It Isis so have. roll" — > What i said was Idle, figure. hat ¢o you mean, Mrs, Fane?” vention that oi she philosophically #enseless"— Mrs. Fane relished neither the nalve’ “Do you suppose I am too Ignorant * ed, gossiping nonsense. So “Upon my word,” she sald gayly,; “Why, fret it was Sudbury, then! accepted such, hen they came from _"/bat ts what I say,” nodded Rosa- ybuxe nor the n that her own! to take offense?” sald the girl y atom of It a8 soon ag you “you ate certalaly spring tncacnse,|Draymore, and now everybody says that) her elders, merely reserving her own Mund; “It's so perfectly senseless that acquaintance with Selwyn was 80 steadily. "I told you ve q iy dear, and let me prove that Miss kvroll—the living embodiment {| Boots’— j convictions in ers of personal taste {t's amusng—even If t ey have become ited, and least o did she relish the I did not derstand ¢ A t Not. it I . all this!’ She swung her riding-crop Boots!" repeated Miss Errol) blank and conduct. such amazingly good friends again, 1 implied intimacy between the r 1o8e for a d Ellen in a circle and luugned, snowing ner | !%: then laugied Aeiictously For a while, as they rode, Rosariund "ever beileved there was anything se- young girl and Captain Selwyr ealia ith a ir and Rosamund pertext teeth, “But where {9 that por, poor Boots! Did they say that) was characteristically amusing, sailin; Tiously sentimental tn the situation: Dear Miss Erroll,” she said blandly, earted laugh- faithtiil, allendane. cuvaleel.or Wir him? Oh, It really Is too dad,! bla over ihe shoals of scandal, and thelr renewed interest in each other «1 spoke as 1 did only to assure you tly on her ie cuore Hh fiak ale try Fane; tt ts ¢ Inly horridly tm-itheogh Elleen never suspected {t—wit- is quite the most frankly sensible way chat 1, algo, disregard such malicious ! t sin the noontide of her etal i i: . % i yy may tinon people stich INNes./¢ gay at her own expense, as well ay Out of Any awkwardness,” she added gossip"— k n at 1 » and repentante a i LN ibe A kat el tds 45 My only coneol t Boots won't at other's, Mtting airily from topic to cordially, If you disregard {t, Mrs. Fane, <3 ! t with Rosamund; SSO TAY | Rega sCre ane MERE care: and If he doesn't, why should 17" | tpi the wings of a self-assurance Miseradiy uncomfortable, utterly un- w’ « do you repeat It? than 1, yéu are. céstalniy 5 t, and remorse a quick se Do you mean Gerald’ asked "! Rosamund noddea. crossing her erop, [that becomes some women If they kn j@ to compreherd, tne girl rode on “Me ely to emphasise to you my dis-| besides, you are married. gruity s ame so to be qulcly reckoned wp geod, bid t elwyn? “At first, though I @id not care,” | ‘hen to stop. But presently the mis- in silence, her ears ringing with Rosa- belief in it, child,’ returned Rosamund. give it @ gentler name than Insolence her ald; for Rosamund very easily fell checked off, and cancelled, “Ob, her,” returned Rosamund | gontinued the gir. “d wes so ashamed | elieyou pervert’ tm her dubvied up, mund’s words And Rosamund, riding, Do you uadersiandt” ~~ \1 would be glad—for your sake, Mra 'g prey to the adsurd—even when tne! (To Be Continued.) ; \ : a ) 2 ca 1 908.” ane