The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1910, Page 11

Ever / IS THE SIMPLE SioRY THE HEART DEAREST. I | 0V, AND LOVING OU WILL MAKE ME A SSEUL, MAN, ONE WHO ABLE ‘TO GIVE You a— The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday, Dece Thus!” ‘ght, 1910, by The Press Publtehine Co, We - ey ‘ro Somiaenss mber 17. 1910. A a a a i ad anna The New York Woelt) Evenings With Eve} By Helen Rowland. Coprright, 1910, by The Hrews Wubiisuing Co, (The New York World), The Mere Man Chats With the ‘Popular’ Girl, @DN," said the Mere Man, as he held up his hands, with martyr-like obed!- ence, for the skein of pink yarn which the Popular Girl was about to unwind, “thet eomebody has nade « plea for a holiday story which contains no crabbed ol4 miser or hardened old bachelor who Is reformed | by the Christmas Spirit!" | “The ‘Christmas Spirit!" ejaculated the Popular Girl | soornfuty as was possitie through @ mouthful of p! “There isn't any euch thing, an ,But"— began the Mero Man wonderingty, glanced around at the tables and obairs Vite of rivpon and knickknacks of ev every state of non-completion, this room 4s full of exclaimed. “This room," returned the Popular Girl, waving her hand over the parti-colored conclomeration, “is full of inetru- ments of torture and signs of the Inquisition. It reminds me of the old Dutch prison at The Hague, where they keep aii the thumbsorews and stretchers and tongs with which they persecuted the early martyrs. What you eeo before on the altar of Custom and Vanity.” | ** protested the Mere Man. 1 Girl, “It's swfully ead to be iS ‘Christmas time It’s worse than being @ shopgirl. Half the world is qrucified in order that the other half may rejoice, now thnt most of the are not open at nights and most broad-minded people carry home their Bverybody pities the poor @hopgirl, but nobody pittes the poor Bobby,” she edded, looking up from the pink yarn, impressively, ove my Mother.” “Good Little girti* exclaimed the Mere Man, approvinsiy; Claaer* “Apa I hate Emeline Crosby!” “Of course you do, She's very pretty—I mean, very hateable.” “Yet 1 can't afford to give my Mother the Morocco handbag for which she is | yearning, because I've got to give Emeline Crosby a silk opera bag or a silver mesh puree which she doesn't want. I love my chum; yet wo can’t afford to} remember each other this Christmas, because we've both got to remember a lot of chance acquaintances who MAY remember us. I love—well, that is to please hold your hands straight, Bobby!" “Go on," urged the Mere Man eagerly, etraightening out his numbed fingers, from which the pink yarn was sagging Umply. ‘You love’-—- | “ALL my friends," finished the Popular Girl, recovering her equanimity, “yet | tn the end I'll have a house full of cheap funk that I don't want, for which I| shall have given away a lot of things I DO want—and positively need. That's the ‘Christmas Spirit!’ You wear yourself out and spend all your money buying something you like, and then give it away to somebody who doesn’t like it, in ex- change for something that you don’t tke.’ : “And then," chimed in the Mere Man, “the very person from whom you didn't | expect anything senda you something handsome" “And the next year you send HIM something handsome, and the unexpected gift comes from somebody else” “And when it's all over you find out that you've forgotten everybody you ought to have remembered, and have remembered everybody you wish you could forget"— “So that by the time the Blessed Day comes round, when you should rejoice 4 worship and be thankful, you are so fagged out and hysterical that the only ‘aang you worship is the turkey, and the only thing you rejoice in is a nap, and ie only thing for which you are thankful is thet {t's all over. “Amen!” finiahed the Mere Man devoutly, as the Popular Girl unwound the lust strand of worsted from his aching hands. ‘It's all a hypocritical farce," she continued, with @ sigh; nonsensical adness! If only we could confine our Christmas-giving to the children and the poormthat would be showing the TRUE Christmas epirit. For !t was to the little | Christ CHILD that the Wise Men brought thelr gifts, and Christmas is the Day of Little Children. But as for the POOR—wel!, you can't remember the poor, ecause you are @o busy remembering the rich, And that reminds me, Bobby-— are you poor?” “I've got @ gold watch and two shirts,” said the Mere Man, with dignity. “Then I'm not going to give you anything for Christmas,” said the Popular Girt decisively. | more!"* i as he “who said you | soe | i sighed the Mere Man, “And I hadn't been banking on @ pink ye only got | sire m tle te tn iis bedroom, Jean De |. { BET Thee Bari Quits SY “pe tostten! “The Hollow Needle” (Copyright, 1910, by Maurice Leblanc.) BYNOUSIS OF PRE: ne , | compromise his patient's safety! And | «y ROATENG CHAPTEES | | suddenty he 0 attention to an inn!| “Do you think so? Do you think so?” Notnenay France,‘ entesed by | YOU may be sure that he talked about | said M. Willeul F ane, and| that inn because he was told to. You} uink got"! erled the ing man ing | may be sure that the whole story which i le in ae: he dished up to us wes dictated to him b The Count de he thr: i i |The doctor has a wife, no light on what has! @ daughter. He is too fond of them to| name Arsene SePrmarie Vrs ine Ce The Hes a HEN AccounTs eat of terrible repiisuls. ‘The doctor has! N., that is to ny, the frat le and the first Saint-Veran and the ALL RIGHT PATCNES~ | BANK OPEN! \F THIS LaTe WORK KEEPS UR THE @oss HAS To GIVE ME 8.60 PER, Ort Quits Cheer Up, Cuthbert! What's the Use of Being Blue? There Is a Lot of Luck Left. By Clarence I. Cullen Copyright, 1810, ty The Pres Pubiishiag On (Fhe Now Tom Worle a can de a Good Scout without putting tn all your time at it! ‘The He-Gossip ts on his way to a deaf-and-dumbd Hades! Our Mea of Somebody on the Slag Stack ts the Masta donic Misfit who has hia nals gone over by a Manicure Maiden every day! Senor Qut Bono has Joined its pai Senor Manane in the Andalusian Ajmehouse! Whtist in @hat equaring-things humor, @on't forget to apologize to yourfelt! The followa who cal you @ Good Spender know better themselves! clamped tn the Back of the Bean b One Pled, scrawled out on Paper! | Oh, the days when we thought there wae “no way out,” back yonder in | the dimming time! 9 five ‘Hard luck Jes’ nachutly hetes a man that Hite Mirst! ‘The Habitual Handshaker usually euffere from Atrophy of the Giving Giangs! | Play the string out—the chap ahead of you may get over-confident and blow up! | — Fate dearly loves to ride on a ratt the chap who rails at Fate! | You want to take something for Slumpitie when the eame fish runs away with ‘ your batt twice in auccerston, Life would be a heap softer if our Rival wasn't forever plugging away en | the sob! The Blue Devils so hate a fetiow that walks five miles a day in the freeh |atr that they run away from Mm! | TAfe would de @ monotonous grind tf we tived always on the Sunny Side ef the Street! There may be ome Five Per Cent. Fare Banwke-hut we're trom Jopiinat Our tea of Bott Coin ts that which we keap in the kick when we deciie.de ae the poker game! | Of course we're alwave honing against the Rough Stuft--but, the eine we're going to atich anyhow! | ‘The Clam may lead the Clotstered Life, but ho never has to square himeett | for Bhooting off his Mouth! Another ARSENE LUPIN Story refused to way anything that might;another, You have only to open your y and nt of 1¢ the epot, find out naelt whut had become ticularly to exa and seo for } | of the ‘Koy | “And did he find ou farcinating auxtlary, Isidore Beautre- let, whose holidays ended that day, went off vy the Dieppe Road. He stepped from the train in Paris at 6 o'clock and, at 8 o'clock, retumed to the Lywer | Janson together with his schooltellows, | Ganimard, after a minute, but utterly of| useless exploration of the ruins of Ambrumesy, returned to Paris by the fast night train. ‘knew the hiding une that he becam condition of hi: ° the impulse committed the imp ‘Woe betide f, alarm, he lence to write that tiweat: On reaching his apart- ‘ sweee re searched in vain for) disobey people of whose formidable) letters of the name Lupin.” “What proof have the young lady, if she has killed the| ment in the Rue Pergolese, towud 4 "Because I'm very fond of you, Bobby. But if you send me anything-even « | Witithe Muagistsie aut] Dower hevhas seen proofs, And that ie| “Ah,” said Ganimard, ‘nothing “His accomplices have furnished the! governurs an express letter awaione Rig post-card—I'll hate you! wo reporiem, The Count| why he has assisted your efforts by| capes you! Upon my word, you're a} proof, On the very morning one of But his friends were able to take ‘The Mere Man hastily took a small memorandum book from hts pocket and death to the police, 18) gupplying the most preciae clues." | fine fellow, and old Ganimard lays] them disguised himself as « flyman and] pins away afterward?” “Monsieur I'Inupecteur Princtpal: ratched off something, simpy TEDCO TS tn Mare wummmonel to teetiy| "SO precise that the tna is nowhere | down his arms before you! ou here— nen? non Mave never loft] “Finding that 1 had @ little cme to 2° $e at the informal investigation. They desrite le) to be found.” | Beautrelet flushed with pleasure and recover the cap, which would] on, ruins, And wh could they have |®Pare at the end of the day, I have ord aarvatures of the mieit, One of the suppowd | "9.035 “Drocine that you tiave never! pressed ‘he hand which the chief In- to identity him." Ireved Mun te? At most, ® few hus. | ucceeded In collecting a few additio: "Sevemnew invite, ceased looking for {t, In the face of spector held out to him, ‘The three y well, but alvo and more par | and yar , for one doesn’t let a | a! particulars witch are sure to interes ~ 9 all probability, and that your eyes have| ~ ————_—_-— _ | " and then you would | YOU en t Ss been turned away from the o ' 7 fo No, I tell you, he Arsene Lupin has been living tn Par!» etty Vinc Bed aes ofthat ; ge ie in Sa0 ah Fe | rae tapi a poe tng Pa spot Which he haw not left, which he D 11 St ed him from the safest of Etienne de Vaudveix, It ts a nan e L rob a gait tor “aehetion apare| bas been unable to leave ever wince the Oo le ories It wa that they | which you will often come acrosa i Yody, Me makes the Count edit that Davai) moment when, wounded by Mlle, de < : ; % while the pend | the society nutes or the sporting oo | j}:Advice to OVETS fliers Eke “a aig ee yd By Daisy Miller ; roth ewtariney. ers | tn oat, hate or the. poring himself t like a beast to ite lair.” | ,f we ing? How. will he | traveller and ta a nt for lon, CHAPTER II. “Dut where, confound {t ail? In what ; cna Wea a whit tin oc ailve you need | during which i corner of Hades naling atrehiy at's ¥ ® you | an cin ers in ul « When She Is Older Than He. Contes) Me ET ta als sar to doa tm eater? « snow. no | ote ta els \ ANY young people write to me asking !f I consider tt © everything was cleared up. are no ruins A tew| ‘ n come airsiup t i Ho is there yustness of some kind, although mo- °. M edvisable for @ man to marry a girl much older The tragedy rove out of tho, Dts A few b: rt © are going « up our 6 ‘ ‘ vere. Lam| body {# able to say for certain what than he is, darkness and gradually ap-| That's wee eo" fons we fon ¥ No!’ | so do not f s ¥ Want to spe a I 1 ae if 1 | hie business ts. Now, I must say, on general principles, I consider such peared in {ts true light ee ae” apalited houted. "Yea, Doll, too, don’t you? Here | to ‘ ‘ “His present address 1s %, Rue Mar- @ marriage unwise, Not alone on the ground that a woman Mat Us go On! sald Ml Tewavie, cOke Poeg: wou ea I your 1 outstretched toward| beuf; and I will eall your attention to older than a man naturally loses her prettiness while he i¥| Piet after the count had withdrawn. wie. else that you will fad Arsene are D o the phone {he relies Grd cretion | ce tee ete Tie seer hens, ee / still young and well preserved. As a matter of fact, many | | "Uv my word” auld | Resulrelet, Lupin!" 108s ar P Pigg je Maar vy iia sd Bs a ice Nuno, aa \ and fifty years of ame, “But the runaway, the wounded man?" | Ds Pay igen Seager peek to the Faria | Whe 2% § do I wan ¢ into space, bovh| brumesy, there has been no news at \ But I do object on the grounds that ea people grow older) “As io ‘lit, Monsicur le Juse d'ln-- - ’ pe Doll? B RBeteen?, 2 opie, that's they quite naturally prefer different pursuits. ‘The woman of forty-five will scarcely care to spend her daye in frivol- ities that appealed to her at twenty. It 1s the mental aging of a woman older than he, that ‘ou FNceNT yo éman nas to 4 ¢ Of course, there are exceptions to al! rules. I would not care to say thas | tr n'*~ every man who marries a woman older than himself ts unhappy. But I think young poople should pause and welgh the matter carefully before taking such uction, you know a& much as I 4 have followed grass by the clotsters—you have’ “Yes, y IgNiore Beautrelet burst out laughén, “The inn! d which th name seemet hua tracks In the could really b is @ clue or two es regards that | Lupin, caught in a tr | immediate pro: Tho inn does not ext Ganimard ha: ‘Was !t possible that yet Invisible adversary, whom they had| I know, ut since then his’ been hunting in vain for #everal days, | friends have removed him and what I sny examining magistrate! | | dore said to him: ly ¢ syllables of the fam to prolong their sou anquished and | The Clown Doll turned around and suid to the Parts what I wa do not © Arsene Lupin? Arsene Pp, arrested, meant | motion, fortune, glory to "Oh, goodie!" 4 not moved a Mmb. Ist- them > bring the Bathing Doll * broke in the Clown ed by same faith In Beautrelet| alt of Etienne de Vaudretx. ; too, #f you and quivering with the ament convie-| “With very many thanks for tre ktnd- in my atock-|tion whith he had forced upon them. | ness which you have shown me, be- Yes, Arsene Lupin was there. In theory | eve me to be, course, nd tn fact, he was r of; ‘Monsieur i'Inspecteur Principal, them waa now abi | “Yours sincerely, And there was 9a: ISIDORE BEAUTR®, 2." And tragic in knowing that the fa se on on account tril the adventurer was lying in some dark |it cost me any great trouble to obtal Shelter, below the ground, helsfless, fe-| this formation. On the very morniny iy and SHAN Cav eadlon Rr arte Gat out ; shouted the Paris“ aid the Boy Doll. | veri and exhauated of the crime, while M, Filloul was pur police on the wrong scent, an Ingenious| ‘you agree with me, do you not, M 1 a9 ov (ushed to the phone, fol "1 want a new collar,” broke tn the| “And if he dies?’ asked M, Fiieut,|euing his examination before a ger T; sf Bri hi |her decision and taxe my ring beck ‘trick, too, for it seems to hi 8UC- | Inspector?” lowed by the other dolls. Toy Dog. lin a low Privileged persons, I had the fortunat+ wice ‘oren, again, However, I am beginning ta ceeded.” ft course T do!” “Helio, you dear olf Santa! How are| “Keep ¢ I can't hear a word,” add he ."" maid Beautrelet, “and|inepiration to ce at the ruuaway's YOUNG man who signs his letter | Wonder if she really cares for me and, “But Dr. Delattre declares"— | "You have not doubted either, for a| yout asked the Paris Dol! ‘am s0| the Boy Do! acvompiices are suro of Mt, then|cap before the a flyman came to A Mina 97.0) toritan can act this way?” “Ah, that's Just i:"" crim! Begutrelet | moment, have you, that he managed! gad tot ly cheery Voie ence “Tell him to bring Prof, Waddlepop |#ee %9 the safety of Mile. de Haint-jcbange ft, The haters name was RG “ | in @ tone of conviction. tis just be-| this business?” “9 < , eas i. Veran, Monsieur le Juge A'Instruction, | enough, as you may imagine, to enable “ET have been engazed to a| ‘Che young lady must have @ more or pevietion. jth a Busy? I know you What's xytown school # spanking ma- 0) young lady for some time, but twice |less fickle dleposition, and you would Cause Dv. | Dolaitre Why, Dr. ‘Delatire | rte fe ene. ae, talag Decca | that More toys ts year than ever| chine,” sald the Clown Doll, toy $i vengeanee wal ig pe Ge cs See ae oS 2 tha Thave pervunded het to resonaiar betore carrying "| Sette gtneticiag Ms ‘cdrantast” ie Gacther “as “ts"ete tea beam “Wes ge conan? MYPAL NE 0 eve ete eee ee oe me ° r ec! He another man as one taco te fvem ‘“Waete that? You are coming inan the receiver, @iadly have made further use of chie (To Be Continual.) —_— ower