The evening world. Newspaper, August 23, 1911, Page 13

" ~ « UN er snrapenteeperenene papery eae eonsstren sentences Oi 6 sibideaee hasten " P. " - - . eee: = amv oe a os em hs The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, August 23, 19113 ‘ OOOOH st ©. HENRY’S LAST AND BEST SHORT STORIE FO ODDO OD OOOO 000 OO O00 0000000000000 000000000000 0000000) ask OOHOTI WITCHES’ LOAVES (vor musnon: had left ten minutes before, The young man tried to draw him With @ bread knife Miss Martha made | away. @ deep alash fn each of the stale loavea,| “TI vill not go," he sald angrily, “else [inserted a generous quantity of butter,| 1 shall toM her.” and pressed the loaves tight again. Hoe made a bass drum of Miss Mar- When the customer turned once more | tha’s counter. he waa tying the paper around them. | "You haf shpotlt me," he cried, his When hae had gone, after an unusually | tue eyes biazing behind Ms spectactes, pleasant little chat, Miss Martha smiled | “‘T vill tell you. You vas von medding to herself, but not without # alight! #ome old cat!” fluttering of the heart Mina Martha leaned weakly againet | Had #he been too bold? Would he the shelves and laid one hand on bar offense? Hut surely not. There was no | blue-dotted atik waist. language of edibies, Butter no he said while she was wrapping up the bread. ‘ Py “Yes?” says Miss Martha, revelling In her own cunning. “I do so admire art” Romance of an Occasion ie etnies: é thus, 08 " nd pala ings " ane ‘mubstl- , tuted, ou think {t {s a good picture? When Cupid Used Bread |" iin einen not in good drawing. Der bairspectiv Instead of Arrows. On te Woe in GhOCa: Gowan Hid Manto {| tf a s ‘The young man took the other by the m | emblem of unmaldenty forwardness, | collar. Yes, he must be an artist. Mise Martha | For a long time that day her mind, “Come on,” ‘e eald; “you've sald [dwelt on the subject. She Imagined the | nau” acene when he should discover het He deagged the angry one out at the |Mttle deception. door to the sidewalk, and then came He would lay down his brushes and) back +P, . ; took the picture back to her room. Page & Co.) brown stain on his fingers. She was! “iiow gentic and kindly his eyes shone ster Sept. 12.) | sure then that he was an artiet @nd/ pening his spectacies! What a. broad very poor. far by in : am kept the! No doubt he lived In a garret, where Oe eee re Pee (Copy rich (Po be pubiis! brow he hy palette, There would stand his easel F Uitte” baker the corner ne painted. pictures and ate stale bread |fPectlve, st a Blance-and to live on with the picture he was painting {| na walt “whas the row % ° jo Up ht of f hich the perspective war beyond pry ‘sa three ; 4 bel |{n' Mise ‘Martha ah 4 things to eat! But genius often has to struggle be- So beyond | Riumberger. He's an tinkles when you open the) “ot iad aia fore it t# recognized. Hee ig prepare for his tuncheon of @tuehtaman. T work in the same officr. r Often when Miss Martha sat down to! What a thing It would be for art and De eee 4 He's been working hard) for three m and dry bread and water, He would slice | mg i « drawin. a plan for a new elty : |iall. Tt was a prize competititon. He ished. Would he think | anished inking the lines yesterday. You 4 that placed It there as he know. « draughteman alwaya makes his ate? Would he drawing In pencil first. When it's done et care ee ae | he rubs out the penctl Mhew with hai Somebody was | fuls of stale bread crus @ That's bet. Geet of noize, ter than India rubber. pia isis, nook | Per chops and light rolis and showed sveredit'uf two thousand doitars | ahe would sigh, and wien that the! and ghe possessed two false tecth and | entle-mannered artist might share her & eympathetic heart tasty meal instead of eating his dry ‘Two or throe times a week a customer | USt Me that draughty attle. iin baa now when he came he would came in in whom she began to take an Ga, War DpRTe Chee ‘ave been | chat for awhile across the showcase, He A middle-aged man, wearing| In order to test her theory a to his| Worgg” ‘© crave Mise Martha's cheerful Mian Martha, burried to the front. spectacles and a brown beard trimmed | occupation she brought fron her room| He kept on buying stale bread. Never Two men were there. One was a young todapcwell yee’ kaon, one day a painting that she had bought 2 e ! \ x . i ‘Ho spoke English with a strong Ger-|at a sale, and set {t against the shelves |& cake, never a ple, never one of her . INSERTED & man smoking a pipe-a man she had Thee’ aistces” Gereeeelt,,. leans perspective if genius were backed by $2,000 in bank, @ bakery and a sympa- thetic heart to— But these were day- dreams, Miss Martha. 1 fangled victously. ming in, making « CO ene bay rae GENBROVUS SUPPLY never geen before, ma'am : man accent. His clothes were worn and| behind the bread counter. Bhe th \ tha “ a Oe Meal berger’ plan fen't xo for anything darned in places, and ‘wrinkled and| It was a Venetian scene. A splendia| , y°ainenimnged, Hor keane meter ee OF BUTTER. ‘The other was her artis now except to cut up into railroad send- His face was very red, his hat wae © back of his head, his balr Was) “Miss Martha went into the back room FUMPIed. two fiate and shook |She took off her bluedotted site watee ociously at Miss Martha, At) and put « the old brown serge she used Martha. to wear i. yu f he shouted with ex- Then she poured the ¢ nee seed an mariouaee and then “Tausendon-| borax mixture out of the window fato hing Uke It In German. the ash can, baggy In other marble palazzo (so it said on the ple-| 244 ‘gomething gaol to cat te he wiches.” . ; he foregroundmer rather dotted silk waist behind the counter. In} usual, laid his nickel on the showcase,, The But he looked neat, and had very good | ture) stood tn t Bro meagre purchase, but her courage failed |the back room she cooked a mysterious | and called for his stale loaves. look, manners. forewater, at the act. | 4 t tl were gomfolas (with a compound of quince seeds and borax. While Miss Martha was reaching for | «pt He always bought two loaves of stale| For the rest there were @ She did not dare affront him. She|Kver so many people use {ft for the|them there was a great tooting and | tunity: bread. Fresh bread was five cents a/ the lady trailing her hand In the water), | snow the pride of artists. complexton, clanging, and a fire-engine came lum-| On the botom shelf behind the counter loaf. clouds, sky and chiaro scuro in plenty. a No artist could tall to aotien it. rtha took to wearing her blue-| One day the customer came in bering past. _|was a pound of fresh butter that the | “Dummion! aahe call for anything but stale bread.| Two days afterward the customer | ter or some “Cheer U Cuthbert!’’ @ By Clarence L. Cullen Once Miss Martha saw a red and’ came in, se Copyright, 1011, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York World), WAYS and 8 Committee can| Few of the Folks in the “Who's Who" ways gets a Disquieting Answer to his) A cunsisi of € Di | omer hurried to the door to! on t any one will, Suddenly in- Miss Martha setzod the oppor: | , Betty Vincent’s Advice iry Tales : Fairy On Courtship and Marriage For the Fair The Whimperingest Excuse for a Man to Offer is that he's “1'00 Kastly | Blaming it on| The Gold Brick Purveyor Likes to| Whenever we hear a Young Feller Led!" j Duok ever were Staves to Custom! — | Question! the Other Fellow | Light on a Wisenhelmer! lightly Talking about Jumping bis J om | patie we Somehow have a Vision of a Mills, ‘The Man who Talks in Tablotd never i By Helen Rowland is Retreating Um) Nothing in Life 1s Quite So Fasw as | Hotel! has to Pass the Hat! | The Secret of Popularity. 4 der Fire! 7 7 | | OME of us would Ike to good, A great many of ue to Convince ourselves that we're Doing — — % ‘ a EE All Ge Ga wae to rahe snshiig (iad: Hon Soe STOEL omen Sticking Around doesn't Mean Grow- | Eternity was Made for the Man who yh iets Fh tat A AE ae Copyright, 1911, by the Press Publishing Co, Hope never Hurts ing to the Spot! Defers the Das: to Quit! od abet oegs NCE upon a time there was a man named Smith, aan Gtee 1c) GRG Saxtls Wn Mabit valle fe Vos ae he Day: to Qui Ever so many letters come to me from girls and young O who regarded marriage as @ SERIOUS AF- Nudges the Thing|use of Bare Knuckles! If you're Satisfled with Hypodermtc| It's Poor Medicine to say that the men which run something lke this! "I am ft siely FAIR and not merely as an unfortunate acct Along! Infections of Happiness that's the Kind | Rest you Get Is the Worst of Itt and woll ad dnt always appear Os a ne can, Yet, I am not generally liked, although I do not Saas The Simpleton doesn't Know How to | you'll Get! ss dent. t a > h 1 ou Ma other | think I qm actively disliked, But what can I do to win His income was twenty dollars a week. His shoul-| MORE: CRAG oe ee See Seat] LGWAGA FIRKLY Gt WikaW Hoes [SRR Cee friendst’ ders came off with his coat, and he had an ominous a Fall Down the| No Problem was Ever Solved by ®| on the Sunny Side of Easy Street! mem | 2 Sometimes there ts @ moro persona! note tn the com. bald spot on top of his head. Main Thing 's to| Morning After Mind! NE ep " When you get so that you Can say to| Ke munication, After having recited ne beds: My Within A bo > fe was toohing for gu IDBAL Get off on the — That “Get-Next-To-Yourselt™ Mixture | yourself “It Serves you Good and r writer adds: “But a man (or a girl) whom I admire tre- Nevertheless, he was a MAN, and he was Uf The “What's the Difference?” Mar has Effected a Lot of Cures! Right” you're on the Road to Winvi 12 mendously does not seem to care for me at all, What can WOMAN. ~ —— a ——-———-_——— —— — ease Belty Vincenk I do to galn this person's affections?” “Mates” are supposed to MATCH ; but Smith's conception of his “mate” lt seems to me there are two main points to be observed by any one who wishes to inspire strong Itking or love. The first 1s: Bo yourself. The # is: Give yourself, ‘The wisest dramatist of our generation has written one of his greatest plays around the tragedy of exaggerated individuality, The hero, starting out wit the resolution to “bo himself,’ finds, at the end of a lifetime of failures, that he has really followed the most evil of suggestions: “Let every man to himse! be ENOUGH" And he 1s then told: ‘To be one's self Is to slay one's self.” was a maiden in the first flush of youth, entrancingly beautiful, with natur ally curly hair, a sylph-like figure, soulful eyes, an ardent nature, a brilliant wit, @ meek disposition, high ideale and principles, a knowledge of cooking, and a willingness to do the washing and ironing if necessary. Also, if she had a Uttle money of her own, it might HELP In his child-like enthustasm, Smith commenced his search. He took his Let George Do It! 2 By George McManus mvright, 1911, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York World). 1 JUST BOUGHT . - You must be a personality, @ definite, individual force, to be reckoned with, own time about making a selection, undaunted by the fact that his waist. A SWELL Ne CERTAINLY he You Rrow Onty in this way can you arouse interest in others. But that interest must be line and hie bald-spot were gradually increasing. ‘ Do YOU WANT TO OLD CHAP | ” NS Oey baa eataneennteed your generosity, your willingness to express you: bersealiy; hewerer) meicneceeaicy @ avers muncene 0) Re ceemenuence eli TARE A TRIP I know it's much easter to ask aympathy than to give tt. I know tt's the who appeared to comply with most of his requirements. They were all young, lovely, drilliant, amiable, could cook and could play the Black Hawk Waltz, and were fond of a sweet home life. According to Smith's calculations, he had only to select the cream of the lot and marry her. BUT——just at this moment he met a chorus girl. Bhe did not possess any of the stipulated qualifications of his IDEAL— but she was a LOOKER. Bhe wouldn't have known what to do with an ideal or a principle if she had had one—but she had “come hither” eves, and knew how to wee them. She didn't know a rolling-pin from a dust-brush—but she wore a lot of | expensive, fluffy hair, could order a supper printed in Italics, and knew how | to talk nonacnae in the second person singular. | : WITH ME ? simplest thing In the world to’ bulld for one's self a shell of self-sufficiency and craw! into ft, away from an unapprectative world. But we were talking about the way to gain friends—and lovers. They mean sacrifices and struggies, but they are worth while, The Informal Acquaintance. , The First Visit. A MAN who aigns himself “E. J." GIRL who signs herself “B. B A writes: writ “Is tt proper for girls to go “T have been engaged te a to an afternoon dance and there make] young lady for some months. A few : the acquaintance of strange young| days ago I asked hor to vist my ststers men? It seems to me too much Ike/ in their home, She said she didn't care flirting, of which I do not approve. to go. Do you think she cares about You are right in your disapproval, | me? No nice girl makes the acquaintance of} It te proper for your sisters and the any young man except after @ formal! other members of your family to pay NOT A And Smith promptly lost his head and fell desperately im love for the | introduction, the first call on your flancee, frat time in his life. Lifference in Age. brain you Jager tl not assume that = , ’ joes not care about you because The chorus girl, being a thrifty little person, dangled him gracefully MAN who signa himself “A, ¢,"| Wishes your family to make the @ret unti Re had spent all the money on her which he had saved to start house- | A writes advances, P ; WHO WILL “Lam eighteen years old and keeping with. ; aca pane te 0 : | RUN THE AND very much in love with a young lady of He Is Younger, ry . But when, at the end of that time, Smith decided that she was his soul- | GEORGE |twenty-three, We have seen a great MAN who signs himeelt “J. %,' mate and told her 80, much to his astonishment, she was coy. | OD! deal of each other for some time, and writes: feel sure that our affection will be Inat- jing. Should the difference in our have been paying attention to @ eft of | be an impediment to our marriage twenty-one for several months, £ am Certainly not. A year or two or three| very much in love with her, and I one way or the other doesn’t affect con-| think she Itkes me. Is the difference tn geniality after people are grown up, |our ages too great?’ You are so nearly of the same A Leap Year Proposal, that I should not think your frte GIRL who signe herself “D, F," | >rief seniority need weigh heavily upen ‘I am elghteen years ol@ and “What!" she cried, “ME marry a man and an income the size of a pea- nut, and give up my ‘CUR-E-E-R! You must be o victim of paranoia, my Son!” It took Smith all of two years to recover from the shock. Then, he de- cided to go back and bestuw himself upon one of the maidens he had 80 heartiessly deserted. | But alas, he found that all but three of them were either engaged or | married; and, one by one, the left-overs gently but firmly declined his kind | invitation to become his nur. cook, siren, valet, and understudy, for s| share in the name of Smith. | Whereupon, Smith bought a pince nez with @ long black ribbon guard, | and became a complete and confirmed cynic. MORAL: There are ahcays as good fish tn the sea as ever came out of, its but the bait is likely ta become stale if you wait too long, | ALSO: In the love-game, a man usually seeks an “ideal,” with an em. ? Sriiae either of you. “Tam thirty-nine and am very | 4 Devoted Lover. ‘much tn love with a man six years my ee . | Juntor, He works in my office, but I GIRL who signs herself “A, Ss" don't know whether he loves me or not. writes: As next year 1s leap year, would you “I am nineteen and in love with advise me to propose to him?” ® young man one year my junior, He | Assuredly not. The leap year pro-|saya that he cares for me more than wal 18 nothing but a silly Joke, No | for any other girl he ever knew. When girl with any self-respect could lend |we are together he could not be more | herself to wuch @ performance, If the |devoted. 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