The evening world. Newspaper, August 24, 1911, Page 13

The Evening w= _O. HENRY’S LAST AND BEST SHORT STORIES 0: Some of my ancestors were cavallers; but they got thick with some people on Nantucket Island, so" — “I mean, said the doc shade of red is too bi t. said 1. ‘it's instead of matches.’ ‘The doctor then pounded me severely | in the region of the chest. When he did that I don't know y minded me most of Napoleon or ting or Lord Nelson, Then he grave and mentioned a string of erie LET ME FEEL YOUR_ PULSE The Story of a “Man Who Hunted a “Cure” and Found Everything Else . that the | i | se of matching | nether he re Bat N ances that the flesh ts heir to—mostl in “itis.” Lime paid $15 on acco’ | or are it of them ome or any t T asked. f thought on with the matter justitied (Copyrighted by Doubleday, Page & Co. jnected with the apparatus on a stand | 1 eating @ certain amount of (To ve published in book form after § that looked like a thermometer. The | intere: i mercury jumped up and down without All of them," he answered cheerfully PART I. seeming to stop anywhere; but the doc t thelr progress may be arrested. | . jtor said It registered two hundred and! With care and proper coatinuous treat O I went to a doctor. jthirty-seven or one hundred and aixty-|ment you may live to be eighty-five or | “How long has it been stnce| five or some such number, ow," pd he, “you see what alco- I answered: “Oh, quite a while.” mi Now," said he, “I am going to show | ne you the effect of alcohol upon your culation.” I think tt was “circulatto and let's try the other arm." But, Then he grasped my hand. T thought T was doomed and he was saying good- he anid; it may have been vertis- |by. But all he wanted to do was to tne.” Ja a needie into the end of a finger He bared my left aim to the elbow, |@24 compare the red drop with a lot of Bave me a drink. He began to look | “ty— the haemoglobin test,” he ex More Ike Napoleon. 1 began to Ike! pia he color of your blood ix him better, wrong. Then he put a tizht compress on my | fingers, and squeezed a rubber bulb con- Vell,” sald TL. “Tt know tt should be e; but this is a country of anix-ups. Betty Vinceni’s Advice On Courtship and Marriage % Lev: and Correspondence, cat th n season Is not yet over,,and letters I have i from some of you suggest @ caution, you are off on good times do not neglect your . f at for many persons letter-writing Is a dimM- job. Some of us find it specially hard e to the people in whom we are most interested. esponden L know t and tire wr e can Indite « formal business letter witn only a reason- abie amount of str and strain, but when {it comes to writing to our best friends we are pen-tied. nd the friends are consequently hurt or angry at the eG all-enveloping silence. One can hardly blame them. It's Beliy Vine bad enough to stay at home and see your flancee go off for a ss pleasuring with other Interesting young people, But when she is apparentiy so forgetful of you that she doesn't send you a writte word, and en leaves your letters all unanswered, bitterness becomes ‘intensified. For, ord to the contrariety of the fates, the young man who faa Willing seribe is nearly always coupled with the girl who “hates to write,” and vice versa ke up your minds to avold such breaks in your friendship, In of attractive post-cards it 18 very easy to keep in touch with absent ng al two. Really, the letter to so t afraid of wr clove a J present no difficulties. May 1 for writing intimate letiers? Tt is Just this— try tc ‘ f you were face to face with your friend. Try to bollef that. y vo are aciuany together, Tell of your a h funny Httle ¢ nquire earnestly, not Just forma 1 health and happiness. Avold stiffness; strive for I perly conducted, must always bring two persons A Fain! Learted Love i¢ "HR. 3B." MAN who signs himself “HO.” lave met a young Iady and love with her, There- anxious to find am ver fore 1 much dingly oul Ww ” she returns my affection. How 1 accomplish this?” Vor your benefit and that of the other faint hearted suttors who write to me, 1 am tempted to quote an old English let his fate too much ert is small, lures not put it to the touch and win or Jose it all." your oft In other words, ask and find out. ie ; hie ¥ Odd Facts. Things Not... °° { eo are over twelve thousan H Generally Known }| eRe ae ae sy ae: Ancient Egyptians, Romans an ks were familiar with the use o By John L GREEN appte: is only Hobbie. ) do not cause sickne: imagination 8, which wei made of natural ha hurehyard of Plymtree, Devo tree whose age {9 calculated one thousand years, and which ts doub In the BF ple pa the 30 resis ess the oldest In the Tai a Pue nal Gicnls Ge @abitec cna Ga TARAS offer of the Poo W wae iT Wiles ves ate cs te England) Council to pay a reward f a dead sect, Jevery rat killed, 1,529 were accounted | during three mi Te only way to escape being | cised for your appearance is| An esti annual expend meth ecebat tures ucation in the Unite if: States compiled by Henry Turne HF man who loses the argument| Halley in 1908 is given as a total of $11 learns the most. 565,241, Kk of the doctor's bil. | you took any alcohol into | cs hol does to the blood pressure." sufficient, [am Cuenta any ead aa “It's marvello waid 1, t do you nent. I paid him Turning my head sidewise| think it a suffictent teat? ‘Have one on “The first thing renewed animat! tarlum w to do.” he said with ia to find a sani- will get a complete rest for awh nd rest your nery to get into a better condition, I myseit | Will go wih you and select @ suitable one." So he took me to a madhouse in the Catskills, It was bare frequented only by infrequent frequent- ers There wer outfits, cla wheels, w bass dran ipparatuses turning-lathes, carpent modelling ving frame! enlarged cr blacksmith — forge everything, seemingly, that cou! terest the paying junatic guests of a first rate sanitarium, portrait nd “The lady making mud ples in the corner,” whispered the physician in charge, “is no other than—Luiu Luling- ton, the authoress of the novel entitled ‘Why Love Loves." What she Is do- ing now is simply to rest her mind after performing that plece of work n the book, “Why ¢ by writing another one tn- T asked. u see, I wasn't as far gone as hought T was. ntleman pouring water through * continued the physician in Wall street broker broken the funne sald the think tt a look pretty strong,” Physician tn charge to me. “Tt the best mental relaxation for be throwing small boulder mountainside and then 1 up again. I was a hundred yards away before! sector overtook m the matter “Th are ing to m footpath-way 8 utter to y timulant Na were of a shade of peal shape. sort It where you will soo! is a au ts" waid 1, no aeroplanes handy rrily and h leon you need," nd companion 4 mermatd he slipped on his profe I myself,” Hotel Bonair off th sland and see he eald that “World Erte eter “that t ‘or te out the an that did not he decided, “is ‘ip. i-room fashionable who did n ea for dinne shoved into dining-room given only @ terrapin and table d’hote. The bay was as stamping ground for wealthy men, 7 sair anchored there the we I saw Mr. Morgan st ing k eating a cheese sandw and gazing long pad of tn ly at th nland {nth When I had been there one monogrammed night day T “JOHN, I WANT You To STOP IN AT _GIMLOOPERS SALE ANDO SLY ME A SRIRT- tM Too 1911 ked to me And bis socks umpagne ted my | pre | ap} sea THE Dee»>r., blanks at the clerk's < and began to wire to all my friends for get-away | money or and I yed one | Sane of 1 the golf inks and the lawn, was} and reat yachts: | immensely day | and got telegraph by The Prem Publiehing Co. onsultinge Now dination exercises Have y aa pain in the back of your | head?" he asked. 1 told him T had not, | plained, Shut your eyes," dered, “put se together ras you ¢ aya Was a go with my ad struck the door, which had ti only’ three feet very forty. He way had “how dd to town a thor h physician nT ne through some en left open and was doctor (The New York World). BARGAIN SAL OP Staats ¢ J (HeLlo Simpy! \t We WILL NOW AnmoTHeTi Se M1 LADY NICOTINE PREPARATORY To Hea PRESENTATION TO THE MOST ILLVSTRIOUS §=Prince me] SULPHURIA —. So To > SPA J TURN AROUND HeLLo ALF! oucn! \HHY) You SEE, ADMIRAL ToGo BRoucnT Me A Box OF JAPANESE SmMoKOKOs — THE MEW CIGAR— TO “Them Was the Ha WHat? Smoxin?? TurTur THOUGHT Mou DION'T Smone $ THE OLO CART? Ha! Ha! You /NERt Lon (hs The \SWEaRIN’ NE FALL OFF You musta'T RUBBER AT THE, POULTRY Wien Youre RIDING ON THE WAGON ~HAY EVER Ge Lo OFF ad The WHOLE Ox ~ AND THEN) RE 4 GEE ALF. ee opynght wa by Phe Ure ppy Days!” COULD KEEP A RESOLUTION > Oms Smokin’ (eeacca AND Then LITTLE shAime! How Yo CORN Silt V0 KETeH You (HALAS pet Rememe J USED ‘ou Mt, Nov SICK. \ISE0 To GIT! R, Pack To Keep & cuewin’ And MAKE START ALL QUER aan) . | Hatna! ) “eo SPIN N Q Shih Diz Now ) & isnt ar om fe GENTLEMAN | Those Fine “NOW ALF, Thar (ean ADMIRAL Ar | © KEEP Them!) ARO RecovecT The UND) LIKE ou Then ' ar A | Tobacco |\T—~ Ho! Ho! Ho! SM und jump back- ie bRthisd mB AEN, ore mn ts dite » whether this un- Atked him waa the head” Time COULDN'T STAND Mave You CHUNK OF SWALLOW BiG & SICK LAVGHED — "ey ans A To, Te } * he sald, the bathroom d the ¢ symptoms, 1 asked ack doctor; ~ Law ene Dew * Was open, He cloned tt uur nose with your right I mean my right forefinger,” I ex- he sald. He reopened and T took my fing: After I had formed the marvellous digito-nasal “I do not wish to deceive you am to [ really nave some- thing lke a pain in the back of my re, Nea He ignored the eymptom and exam- ined my heart carefully with @ lateat- popular-alr-penny-in-the-slot ear-trum- pet. 1 felt Ike @ ballad. “Now,” he sald, “gallop ike @ horee for about five minutes around the room.” I gave the best imitation I could of « disqualified Percheron being 16d out of Madison Square Garden. Then, without pping in penny, he it ed to my | chest again, “No gander said. ‘The consulting physician held up hts forefinger within three inches of my | nose. | “Look at my finger," Wh pommandes. | “Did you ever tr I began; but he went on with his tent st rapidly, “Now look across the bay. At my | finger. Across the At my fin At my finger, Across the bay. Across the bay. At my fing Acrons the | bay.” im our family, Doo,” I is for about three minutes, He explained that this was a teat of first at my finger and then across the bay. The doctors came out looking grave. More, they looked tombstones and Ten- Nnessee-papers-please-copy. They wrote out @ diet list to which I was to be re- stricted. It had everything that I had ever heard of to eat on it, vacept analls. And I never eat @ snail uniess it uver- takes me and bites me first. “You must follow this diet strictiv.” said the doctors. “I'd follow it @ mile sf I could get one- tenth of what's on ft.” I answered. | “Of next importance,” they went 4n, “4 outdoor alr and exerci And here 19 @ preacription that will be of great benefit to you." ‘Then all of us took something. They took thelr hats and I took my: depar- ture. I went to a druggist and showed nim the prescription. “It will be $2.87 for an ounce bottfe,” he said. “Will you give me a piece of your the action of the brain. It seemed easy wrapping cord?" said 1. to me. I never once mistook his finger for the bay, [ll bet that ¢f he had used) T made a hole tn'the presertption, ran the phrase unpre-| the cord through it, tied it around my spounlad: outl terally—| neck and tucked it inside, All of we in the direction of the horizon, under-|h@ve @ little superstition, and mi htatd, #0 k, with the adjacent flutd | FUAe to & confidence in amulets, jinlet,” ow, returning--or rather, | Of course there was nothing the mat- in a manner, withdrawing your atten.| ter with me, but I was very fll I |tion, bestow it upon my uprated digit’ | Couldn't work, sleep, eat or bowl. The only way I could get any sympathy was to go without shaving for four days, Even then somebody would say: “Old man, you look as Sardy as a Pine knot. Reen up for a jaunt in th Maine woods, eh?" UU bet. Ts | » that Henry James him. I" could ha passed the examination, After asking me if I had ever had a andunele with curvature of the spine oF & cousin with awevied ankles, the two doctors retired to the bathroom and sat on the edge of the bathtun for their con- sultation, 1 ate an apple and gazed (To Be Continued.) Retlections ofa BACHELOR GIRL By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1011, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York World.) [ OVE, and the world laughe with you; marry, and it laugha AT you. Love may be blind, but it usually manages to get ita eyes wide open in less than nine daye after mar- riage. REL, ROWLAND The first thing a Frenchman buye when he acquires money {2 an aero- plane; an Englishman, a shooting doz, and an American, a divorce, URer that a grouchy Ausdand never seeme to realise that love ten't ex- aclly @ woman's feeling for @ porowpine! * Nothing fille a woman with euch durning indignation es to have her husband bury himself in the dasedall news, and neglect to anewer her, in the midst of an ewotting quarrel, The older a man gete the more eapensive Ma firtations. It takes real urchids, champagne and dtar-onde to awaken a girl's enthuelaem for a bald head and double chia. O14 mastere seem to de getting more valuadle every day; but there are any number of women who would gladly part with the old “masters” they married at leas than cost or even eachange them for new ones. An ounce of matrimonial vacation ts worth a pound of Reno-vation. fn | Wisdom of the Ancients. (HORACE. W OW 1s It, then, that no one lives H content with his condition, whether reason gave it him or; ? chance threw it his wi °° © ory B because you are este majority of mankind portion to what you posse HILL foole shun one set of vices they fall upon the oppo- aite extreme. UT «@ erent ‘No sum ts enough, med in pro- Y love ts like unto this, for ft passes over an easy prey and Pursues what files from It. UT ft ts still delightful to take out of a great hoard, 6677 crowd hiss me, but Tap: | a plaud myself at home when I contemplate my* money In my treasure chest.” | 1US the richer man ts alwi Tommie to one who 1s hi OU shall be caressed at Rome only to be rich, till your youth be passed. it is that we rarely find @ FTPR his decease he shall be had in honor. who can say that he has happy, and, content with n retire from the world | | lived |hte past itte, | ke a satistied guest F length of time makes poems better, ] ax it does wine, I would fain know how many years will stamp # value pon my writngs. LORY 4rags in her dazaling car ( : the obscure as closely fettered as/ those of noble birth. i OMIETIMES the populace sees right E that is ignorant of a ship ts afraid to work a ship * * | Dut we unlearned and learned OR before Sirens’ time there existed many’ a woman who was the dis- promiscuously write poems. mal cause of war, =| wen You Ouep Taar WT) BucKET> Madam, WouLd 4 GE HIND Erioucn To EE ~ho- HO— ’