The evening world. Newspaper, October 16, 1911, Page 17

‘the Evenin pratt YOu Stine (ar Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World), ABOUT THE SIMPLE RULES OF ETIQUETTE. membered having met me or not, but I instinctively raised my hat and he bowed. Many persons looked at me as if [ had done something extraordinary. The extraordinary thing would have been not to raise my hat. To see, h ever, two young men ‘tipping’ their hats to one another te extremely funny. | oO gentleman would sit in @ @ub- way train or in @ surface car while women are standing. A man with any instincts of courtesy could not remain sitting. But all men have @ right to protest againat the conditions that de- prive them of the privilege of sitting. In Europe such conditions would not be tolerated. “Even if women have avrogated to themselves many of the privileges and ‘rights’ of men without giving up any of their own privileges in return a gen- tleman will treat women with the same respect and courtesy that he has always From George \Parr Raker. LOUD voice and an al gressive manner hurt @ Man more than any slight lapse from the rigid rules and regulations governing ood form. A man should not be over- yet he should be under con- Gl] the time, so that he may enter ato any sort of discussion without his voice or becoming discour- toward his opponent. Nothing Qéndicates more clearly the qualities of a than his capacity to hold himself in perfect repose of manner and voice under trying circumstance: favs George Barr Baker, editor of the De- .Aipeator. ty “There is no more perfect gentleman th the world than the real New Yorker, ut most Americans possess Manners emather than Manner, artificiality rather gthan naturalness. They conform to a general standard and not to an indi- shown them. Customs may have “dual standard. This !s most clearly chunged, but good form {e ever the WHY OON’T You cer @sbown in matters of dress. same. WR WIFE PICK. but 4 Suir “It is really good form for a man to adress in the way that most becomes pulm a8 an individual, yet in America epeple are impolite enough to criticise St Man who dresses to sult himself and Msregards, for example, the craze for acoat lke a great shawl, with holes in it for sleeves and ales of hay in “There are no rigid rules to govern table etiquette. A person trained right- ly in his youth will always ‘conduct himself properly. At the table one should be seen and not heard. It 1s bad form when giving a dinner to decorate the table with a formidable array of eating Implements, the use of which 1s “ioulders. The general run of clothes not perfectly obvious. To provide a ‘nh America look as if they were ali cut gvest with @ little Muted fork for the tyom one pattern. It {s god form to ices is pot good form. Eating imple- “have your clothes made to eit uu, ments should be as nearly uniform in ind it 1s very bad for: \\« to pay attention 9 any one's else clothes, “This copy-vook rule of “nave alao observed a: dinners A man {#008 to a dinner vod thinks that he must be entertaining, so he tries his size and appearance a should sugcest thi! us “A gentleman ‘+ always @ little more polite to his Inferiors than to his eau taking more than ordinary pains with people who are not as fortunate as possible and ondiet 1! ‘heat, tells stereotyped stories an’. in @ himeelf; and he is never rude to ser- word, ‘makes conversation.’ If there vant Me @ lull he thinks ‘cre is so>ething hove all things, yon should an- wrong. Such a 1 shows very bad swer noes promptty Espectally should ‘form. No gentleman attem Rertaining; h s to be ene le perfectly casual and you write a note of appreciation in re= turn for any favors that may have been tote the conversation take care of itself, extended sou. People have little use B “80, too, when I see two strancess for the man who neglects sueh cour- -mtroduced and one of them ervbs the tesies, and the man who neglects them other's hand and ays, ‘I'm perfectly will surely suffer for It. glad to meet you’ clause {s thrown In. "Of course, when two friends meet It 8 perfectly proper for ands, A gentleman would never take '@ hand when he has his glove on But, on the otifer hand, he would ever make the lady wait while he takes Shis glove off. i e)"A younger man should always raise nin hat when ation of a m strained, that comb.ne to make the gen- | battered shoes, tleman.”* “George,” she said to the man psoas belp. them to shake. “i knowledging the salutae ch older and more distin-| eilahed man. Most Americans have a mistaken fdea that such an act of cour-| cy is {culous. For instance, I met} Mr. Joseph Choate on a Fifth avenue] tage. 1 do not know whether he ree} 7 "HM. 101, by The Prem Bubttshing On <i ise Pullictalee aturer ot Mime, neuet. | ance of the police, I'll h Par . foined by Matatiion, who, telly thet 7 $°T dreamt of @ Paradise, green and | Tay are joinel by Mafaiion, who tells the® ols tion, What I told you $ Ml g heavenly Angel met her view!" | From red the magistrate had turned tion of reading In her features her feel- ings concerning this annoying prospect; but her face was so unmoved, so neutral in expression, so hermetically sealed ‘Love of my life, I dreamed far better— T dreamed of You , “Cleveland Plain Dealer. _ —_ selzed the bottle of other, G-0-o-d N-i-g-h-t Just AS A FRIEND- BiLt, YOURE. & SIGHT! “1 want sour ‘Show me the things that have been washed © no objec- in your own sat playing with the grape seeds left ¢ Happily, vroudly, © raised my in the fruit stand upon the tablecloth r) head~ I tried to maintain my composure, and| that had not yet been removed, and did as “Only an angel, dear? I said, |!00ked at Mine. Grenet with the inten-| not appear to comprehend at all. M, Marathon, with staring eyes, had Chartreuse’ and poured out two glasses one after an- delighted to meet you,’ or ‘I'm glad to “The eeal New Yorker has no supe qineet you,’ It makes me squirm; it's mor in matters of good form, but the 5 up from the wreck.” BUMP An appalling affectation of cor- majority of his countrymen have yet Re-ourcetui Woman, Be tcl Ret 00 ed ene, ROOT Oe wreckage And : y Y , HEY were cast away on @ desert island, es] she dat ft meditacively. ‘Then sive went to wilality, Thero {x altogether too much to acquire that ease of manner, that caping from the sinking ship with their lives| work. She picked ay a waste basket from the @haking of hands tn this country, any- Individuality of dress and deportment| “,. aud little else. eaptain’s cablo, encircled it with the rim of a aray; It ts not good form, and tt ts and that indescribable quailty of veng| proimornan~ sald the (geet li gy BL A Teall emuch worre when the Insincere ‘I'm restrained, yet not appearing to be re-|hair, Then she staed at ber frock aod ler| hammock netting over it and ga od cone side with @ bignacie lamp reflector and knotted rope, a bit ofl¢g A NEW h At mst t Carefully balancing this masterpiece the low- lowing my euggestivas of economy, SAY, Brat, WATCHA AwFur NOSE! ) CEL EBRAT! ered it over her head and let it rest on her ears, Then she smiled. "Thon let it be Sunda Plain Deater, he said, Cleveland Cause for Economy. y dear?’ ead Mr, Needall, you don't seem to be fol- pained vo you Wo & been deine, n't new hat Ure had Vd like to ng to your clube and music balls, and smoking your expensive clgare'—— “Ot course my dari Y dear, dear M anlow the a ence you, If you h If anybody has anytoing unpleasant ¢ Interested In, the better way 3 listened, do not go about to t ve or disprove the gostip you hav If you love people you must alse trust big enough to trust the: them what you have heard, planations, A Birthday Gift, Lobe ana Aad ce, fs not to li . the least you can 15 is giving them the young men, if you love a girl de not vice or gossip of your friends to influ- ave any misunderstanding with the girt 1 whom your affections are centred do noi allow a third person to interfere, Go directly to the girl herself and straighten ut your diflcultt O #\y about the yours woman you are her at all But if you y »quaintance trying your nature ts not Is to eo © them personally and + of making thelr own fn one affates ar coop us apart. Whe can I do? GIRL who stans her totter “ALR 1 You would best ignore your soveatied writes: “A young man has been] friends and go dire iy to the wtf you calling on re about on-e A week | love She is prova rly only waiting te for the past four montha ei S| heat yen tail way i: a! le to have a birt w it be proper for me to give him a birthday] WAon de os snirecuced, kite MAN wh + his letter “P, Te Tt will be entirety unnecesstry for you A writes to give the young man a birthday gift Is |. pooper for a young mar pon such short juaintance. » shake hinds h® young lady wher lotdi Loves Hr. eing in (9 her, oF shoul Memoirs of Cope stom Siaving Mow I called about 830 P.M, did morency de Havew Mr, Montmorency de Haven | Gall, sending in a card whtch a Refrais this ax sniffing. b old one?" And after all ing, witat have know? You've beew foterrupted in a ers, suppor tasked) st am one," he replied shortly, “I iff 4 the Dogwood Terrace Fur+ nace Directors Association, Lid. He wore a frock coat and a fussy did and carried a cane surmounted with a gold knob He wore kid gloves and blond spats and an oleaginous smile. “You have come just in tl I greeted him, with «malice aforethought, tart my furnace di- pose as an ex- | "for 1 want to rectly. I believe pert. “Speak plainly,” he said in en Pressionless voice. “You also have to deal with three honest people, my man.” He tapped his forehead with his fore- finger, and as {f under the glow of in- = = = | synor: ' ‘ . #piration {Invented this unexpected Sellar ey PRECEDING INSTALAENTS. against all emotion, that I experiences | sulsehoud: eThe Tourney of Drcams, | rt) tratties’ when i” hy feance GE @ haunting, painful constraint. OMS nates ib Me Panuth.” el fellow lodgers of his ave smal hotel on understood that sie would vatnly| yyy, 2 ; ry ¥ ar | the tie“ Martouel. Gr Ste Ot Nave exrnsaced le ardent ienguage Har th a sweeping gesture he motioned 6é ream, ot My mente and there finds “Sf. Grenet bang Gd Heboneid URL aded s 1| toward Mme, Grenet, stupefied by this Dreains, r Lifeless from a ring iy tue ceiling. nome odd exalted feelings in regard to me—that Il ir or ovised falsehood, and added with e Than yours ever were, you | impulie preveata ‘Katy ‘tram announcing is grue; should vainly, on my part, strive to 4k rol OPES Than! i | some ‘discovery ty the landlady, whom be meets in her the innocent woman she might | *@Mirably felgned sincerity: T@reamt last night in poetic metre— " aed et bekde hata his reat on be, that she must be, continually ov My daughter. Now equal that, 4” you truthfully | a of muniering Grevet bad whelmed by constant JIl fortune—never,| Then, with his forefinger pointed in ® can ee 3 PY | Gene ne gaat eu ero never would our thoughts beat the same|my direction, he continued, with an “ Meier weed: and by rhythm in ualgon! I understood that| equal power of imagination: bey ‘earfully, sadly, I bowed my |garrulous Magistrate named. between this woman and me would be| “My son-in-law.” ® head— perpetually an eternal misunderstandin, The keeper of the Blue Tavern “My dreams aro prose, I und that we should remain forever #ep-| shrugged his shoulders and retorted - fess,” I said: asin arated by a wali of deceptions! with @ sort of contempt: W'Wor I dreamed of you, and the rhythm | home a cew servant The “servant proves to | The crafty innkeeper ili concealed a) «tm not saying that you are not all la fester be Aime. “Grenet. Juinot™ becoming jealous of coarse grin and, after a pause, went on,| one family! And wi dette . “i Rady, Grave a revclver io tudden fit of mad- addressing M. Marathon: Oy Patina Ge Bolte ton ante denon han I could scan | pese!and fees ‘at him. rhe shot hills Mae, dulnot. we Tees ant to make the acquaint- mme or Polre, for once does alter anything. The question Is very simple. Automobile O-321-Y doesn't b long to you. That's all I know about it!" olden," him. Helgian frontier | Interest!" “Th " er at's rath houted M. She said, “where the flowers were ‘makes ‘hein | Under this obscure warning there Maan: tie ee knee = wondrous fair, y all night, an evident threat, and M. Marathon lost|“. fd the truth at the bls garage gil¥here the strength of the streams and = He, HES 1 Cernrias SNe lied the innkeeper piacidiy. the woods would embold CHAPTER VII. wha ays | suppose vou don't know to You may suppose that the great Vita W mhe devi to enter and scent the alr!” nem you ond firm wouldn't allow itself to be robbed ‘ aadly, I bowed my ye eeragy4 Don't worry,” Jered the tavern-| without resistance! It has telegraphed ee The tlue Vavern keeper, “You're not going to disturb! to ail the custom house stations that € J me. All the same you're lucky to bo |j}imousine O-321-Y, bought on trial by “I dreamt of a desert drear,” 1! g¢ O-MORROW morning!"burst | dealing with an honest man, you know.| a common rper, such as are en- sald, | out M, Marathon. “You, And I would rather tell you the whole! countered every day in our trade, had But ‘twas sweeter, far, than that Eden don't suppose that we are/thing at once, You won't cross the| not been returned to their establish- olden— going to spend the night | frontier with automobile O-321-¥. You} ments. And you'll be arrested at the vs ‘or you were there!” in your uncomfortable |@7@ caught, you understand? semi-circle as sure as fate.” bu | tavern!” uso y an Me thon, ae t's He scratched his ear and insinuated mineeurok T don't force you to do it!" replied! Magistrate, did underata fe une] “Ag surely ag that one and one make “ 1 spent that my spirit broke ite) 10 on with hypocritical mildnet j Sezstood that he ree Yost, eecih two—uniess TI come to your help!" 7 that was not free from jeering,| I, too, understood that I, Willlam]| without being invited ie had brought f, She sad, “end soared in the soundless | “phough you would be safer, in my| Eady, Was ruined in reputation and! q stool and familiarly k &@ seat be- r blue, opinion, than trying to crose the fron-) honor. tween Mme. Grenet and me. With EF urther, freer than flesh would let her, tler!"” ‘There was only Mme. Grenet, who| hows on the table and his chin in the palms of hi looking intently at M. Marathon, “Honest people can always come to an understanding! This depends on the price you are willing to pay “For what? What pric M. Marathon despairingly. “You certainly are not deep,” «# A HAS A TRae! WELL THEY WONT CATCH THs OLD BOY! J/LL Just Luse b LITTLE STRATEGY . et * There was A RAT WHAT WANTED To GET ‘The CHeese Ov OF A TRAP. ~— by The Pies 0 Copyright, 1911 SAY, OLD PAL, | KNOW WHERE THERE'S some CHEESE IN_ CHE OF Those OLD FASHIONED TRAPS Ano IF YOULL SUP IN AND GET IT Lu GINE You HALE SURE! I'LL Be AN TING ALE ! ee 4 So HE Askeo MR. CockRoAcH S GO INTo THe TRAP AN? Get (T FOR Wim—— A Great Faris:an Mystery Romance, Frinted for the First Time in English | dirty hands, he went on, | stammered | Van Gleders, with a contemptuous ex- very ele By Aibert EBoissiere, Author of ‘* The Man Without a ace.’ gant ma extremely gentle. of the per- orrespond very well with appeared to have attached me to her Pression, ‘This 1s probably your first manly in manner, the tym Job." wee.” fect aristocrat and with all due respect Then he added carelessly: \that doesn't , a “T have a little runabout here I mieht| your appearance. You needn't worry let you have for a low price—$3,000—to | The cust accommodate you.” “And—and—the other, the Vita limous- ine—auto Q-2: “Oh! of Bourse I shall take a big risk in keeping {t—to retmburse myself! It is only to accommodate you! It ts really worth forty thousand—but you didn't pay for it, did you? T shall have a lot of trouble in disguising it," he added hypocritically. M. Marathon waited to hear no more. He had hurriedly drawn from the in- ner pocket of his overcoat his bill-case stuffed with banknotes. ‘Taking out three blue ones, he said with a certain emphasis: “Give me your word that this bargain will remain secret?" The man shrugged his shoulders again, “Panton me," said he. “1 don't think exacting In asking you two hun- francs for the tire I have ,not replaced. M, Marathon paid out nearly ten Jouls, then hurriedly settled the bill for the dinner, whose price was enor mous, and table- into the almost elent veh: Of he blue cloth as He & tremor that he {ary min couldn't sit still, He was in fevert All my haste to breathe the outdoor al single on | We went out to the garage, beside which the dealer pointed out an old lrunabout, probably worth five hundred hall never get to | Antwerp in that!’ [ gald uneasily. | “In that, sir," replied van ers, co! “you could go to the ends had said, earth! My establishment {# an | than she honoramle:one: and noshing leaves nly. workshop without being guaranteed.” | core “An! If only we ourselves were!) Mathurin sighed M. Marathon traordin | The tavern keeper was Mehting us| seit the with his blg acetyline lantern, unhooked | madness. from the auto 0-221-¥ ble ac ‘Oh, certainly you are,” he answered, 1 the despatch I saw at the garage | serihes the swindler as @ tall, thin, even say preserver (The New Yurk World), WHEN HE comes OUT LL EAT Him) ing Co, AND THe CHREsE | BEs\bDEsS_ SMELLS AMO MR. CockRoncH WENT IN ALL RIGHT o evening bef you, M. Pomme!" My man, willing to be the prey of a kn I don't want to have my brains bought id M. bargain.” And, having seized the wheel, mechanically nd me, seated in the back of the an- cle: wen ta ern vanish i-house officers won't disturb evil state of mind of the blackest In- Marathon, But he sald to Mme. Grenet “Hold on well, you two.” amid a terrible rattling noise of ol tron. And in the darkness of the black roi a hed—like a night- CHAPTER VIII. The strange Guest. 411 commonplace hotel chamber looking out upon the Place de Meir, the br ass bed, the cur- tains of flowered cretonne, the wall peper with Its @ of blossoms, the pattern of my wool coverlet, the electric bulb at the ceiling, the bell at the head of my bed—I see all these detalls again with an extraordi- nory. utiae of mm anxieties oe oIt wi however, solely dictated by selfishness. My only care, since the evening before, when we were installed tn the Metropole position: Hotel at Antwerp, was to find some ins wenlous way of giving the slip to my two companions in sufte Ino longer realized that my fate was vound up with theirs, undeniable manner of enlightening the unfortunate young emed to belleve. , two evenings be- specially, in Parts, In the Rue dew in a herself nde en powardly enough, as Mme. Grenet 4, 1 had beon, obliged by ex. circumstan compiice of Thad profited by a re: M, Maratho! a feeling that suffocated that, to Fables of Ophelia; or, Wunst Upon a Time *% TAKE A \ Tht ut > Tr! 9 nced to make m. the Magistrate ry arka- ident, and gratitude toward our n, Was no longer me. I must sentiment, I no 8 BUT He WouLd NT Come out ! am | Now A\ GRATITUDE. FOR ~~ longer felt even for the charming Mme. Grenet the vague terror, mingled with an uncertain attraction, which unt now wide against my will, I was now tn the : gratitude, I was not even thinking of the in- nocence or guilt of Mme. Grenet, whose revelations, upon the whole, had dla jclosed nothing! The whole field of my ‘vision was restricted to the brass bi in which I had Iain since the evening before. My own safety wae the only thing of importance to me. On arriving the evening before at the hotel on the Place de Meir, M. Mara: thon had signed the name of M. Pomme And he seamed to hold so fast to his tn- ee discovery, which he regarded as wonderful, that he had added on the register the mention which had mato me smile at the blue tavern kept by the trickster, van Gleders: Accompanted , emove his h hy a | Who sicnw his letter “L. ¥." vietine 6 ‘twas engaged toa very| !t 18 not aor Pern, 4 1 young indy, but we} 48d 4 man to shake hands when tates broke our engagement. I astili jove| duced, but If the young lady pute ow wer and f " sure she still cares} her hand, tt ts, of course, hive for me, However, our friends interfere | Place to reapond to the courtes: wo ee a Commuter By Barton Wood Currie t 1011, ty The Pros Publishing Go, (The New York World) know the moods and tenses of ever, make of furnace from Alpha t Omega.” “Good,” I enthused, “Come righ down tn the cellar, I've got an ob pair of overalls you can put 01 “You will need them, not 1,” b handed back to m “I merely direc operations. I am ready.” And he set off briskly in the direc ton of the cellar door, He was stand ing In front of the furnace before caught up with him. “Hold on a minute,” I fumed, “D jou think I am going to pay yo real money for {nformation that an: fool can get out of a book?’ “Of course, you are,” he repKed easily, “and, moreover, you will hav to step sharp or pay double extra for my overtime. How I restrained myself from rain ing him with the shaker handle I hav never been able to puzzle out, Bu as my neighbor Sigismund Robb ex plained, he led a charmed iife. Hy had sown the seed of homicidal mani: broadcast, and yet he thrived like © tropical palm. Furthee he possesse the rare gift of a hypnotist. Whil my impulse to slay was still ragin, hot I found myself getting into m; overalls, “Step Ively now,” he next flung a me, with the accent of @ trained Sub way guard, “Get jvur paper and wood,” he spun on, “and filll the wate Jacket. When you have a bed of em bers throw in w light layer of coa Open your flue wide and the bottor draught below. While you are en gaged in these preliminaries I wii go up and have @ chat with Mrr Puddle." And he did, stepping to the head ¢ the stairs now and then to call dow order or ask me how I was pre gressing. Indeed, he didn't come dow into thé cellar again—more proof o his charmed life or his superhume by his daughter and son-in-law! Be- sides the fact that we had no reason to protest, Mie. Grenet appeared ox- tremely amused. She found means to whisper to me tn the elevator which was taking us to our ective rooms: 1c M. Stephenson, that M. Marathon is endowed with a mar- velloun power of divination. I did not answer the meaning which wan hidden behind these words. Mme. Grenet had a way pecullar to herself of beginning all her sentences with thone words, which returned to he: the principal melody tn @ musteal nfeas this—confe M. Stephenson!" And it was the tone of her remarks with @ double meaning that annoyed me far more than thelr direct one, Many times had I been on the point woman, many times had I used the ute mont effort not to ery out: "My name is Willlam Kady! T am an engineer constructor—at Malington! And I have a wife whom I se she tw my wife—whose n f@ Milton!"* But 1 always stopped on the verge of this avowal, so imprudent to an ¢ citable woman whom obstacles only ex- elted stil! more! To Le Continued ANT Ta “out Intuition, When at last T had @ rcaring f and five pounds pressure that set @ the radiators dancing from parlor t attic I groped round to find a mon key wrench and ascended from th infernal regions with pussy-footer stealth. But he was gone. My wid greeted me with: n't he splenidd? You would neve) have started the furnace, force, without blowing 1 would have rejoice: to blow th house to atoms If I coffd have blow: Montmorency de Have@ Gall with It But what was the us@ of words? ’ went silently raving tofbed and drift ed off into a rather pleasant night mare of battle, murder and sudde death, (To Be Continued.) —————. A CANDfo DECLARATION, “What sort of @ ticket does your suf tragetta club favor?’ Well,” replied young Mrs. Torkine “it we owned right up, I think most us would prefer matinee tickets,’ Washington Sta: By Clare Victor Dwiggins + i f i 4 .