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~ The Evening ‘World Daily Magazine, January 4. 1912 Thursday, LEAP YEAR LIZZIE. 3% (Ain’t She Bizzy?) 3% (2) 3% By Dwig DRive ME AROUND | SURE. AMD I'LL See IF IT, CLIMB IN! Suits ME oe | gems What 1912 May Bring Things Not Generally Known By John L Hobble Et a HE hetg.t of obscurity te to Re Wee WE'LL DE OUT iM © MONTHS, \_ tas NEs,You see, | HAVE To RUN AROUND SO MUCH COLLECTING THOSE OLO RENTS AND DEPOSITING MY MONEY THAT |) WEAR oT LOTS OF CARS. MY! iTR AWFUL To BE A PooR LITTLE UNMARRIED GIRL WHT LITIES! OW DEAR | | WREO A Litre: JCAR~ MY OTHERS ARE ALL Too BIG, ATATISTICIAN has published in the Chicago Tribune a set of flenres showing what the average chances may bring to Unele Sam's nephews this ‘ponaw! Ano | JUST Copyright, known as some other man's son: Here are @ few of his feud \ Bon? HM 1 ats, , 5 wat TH Oo! Td the man receiving more than G.18 & Week the prospects for @ raise fh 1912 ata not great, This sum és the Average wage, and more men receive ‘@ lower than @ larger amount ‘Women's average weekly pay {s be- tween % and Among children un- der 16, only 36 per cent. receive % a week. Most of the people dn the United States will live through the year 1912 A fiance at the Insurance actuaries’ table will show what the chances of evéry reader arg, according to his age eo | A LINE of thought Is merely a string s) A Of ideas hing out for ventilation. S OME people think they are practi ing religion by resting one Ge? each week. a woman who likes to think she Is as wicked as the aver- age man. VAMPIRE 1 iA N artful politician ts one who can give money to charity In such & 4 j way as to ktil two birds with one stone. Expectation sre Wi) Die tate tor i HOBE who marry on Doo. 2 will ct alae 3: notice that the days thereafter ia aa a 1. me @radually grow longer. -2 ™.9 sca i410 BING! MAN who Is stingy on ten dollars 848 AS A Comicat woul ) A week will be twice ag stingy on 40 Dranslarecca ey ‘twenty dollars a week. Your average chances for being mar- ried this year are 1 in 31. While the|ay 12 per cent. come from this cause. National avernge ts 821 marriages a| Accident Insurance companies figure E 1912, } year for each 10,000 of adult population, {that one person tn every eight will te- M (» ‘The Prom Publishing ca) pd I he I Ww a un M n the ratio changes in various sections. |ceive some ecchlental injury during Ts. conom (The New York World.) IW the Nor-h atlantic States {t ts only | 1912. ‘The year of 1911 was @ bad one for 80; in the South Atlantic, %0; in the |nooldent compantes and it ts said some 4 North Central, 312; In the South Cen-| of them lost money. ‘Tne automobile ts NOT NOT SETH The Best Cowboy Story in Ten Years tral, and dn the West, 73. The! btamed for this. Ten years ago the save TouR \ THAT'S Too ooo’ highest ratlo te in Oklahoma, with| automobile hazard was mot considered EXPENSIVE 5° MUSICAL Texas second and California lowest.|py accident companies. To-day tt Is By Charles Alden Seltzer The Californian has the least chance |the greatest hazard of marriage. The chance of failure in business 1s lf het ah ar Saaglbe ag oe Tm every 100,00 persons 1,127.4 dtelonly one in 1 Y QOS, | Copyright, |) by the Outing ishing | “name one who knows. y you yebrly from the twenty-three most dan-/ The chance of divorce ts one tn 12. Company.) ft ees Legh ror hengs Ay 4 poy H erous diveases, The chance of death| ‘The chance of being killed or maimed SYNorsis OF PHECKDING cHArrEns, | TRAE You were y 01 during 1912 is therefore not great for the| by railway accidents is only one in Forgupen le 6 cowbey ‘whose Wheat & % ‘AVerage individual. The chances of | 80.458. sad Waitt of capeying 8 soeel ai y, I didn't, ma’am,” he protested, death and injury from accident are in-| ‘The average loss by fire to each per- face paling. ¥ ermsing every year. Ten years ago} so. in this country will be $2.61, according to census figures, 9 per cent.) Your chances to travel in Europe this of all deaths were due to accident, to-'year are one in 191. Satton,"oanaen ¢ She stamped one ‘foot jevastating the. Tro] Yehement]: ‘ une i the ranch) Ferguson's eyes dropped. “I came mel here to see if Ben wae rustlin’ cattle, ma'am,” he confessed frankly. “But I wasn't tntendin’ to shoot him, Why, T've had lots of chances, an’ [ didn't do it. Ain't that prdof enough?” "mie returned, her voice thrilting with a sudden, bitter frony, “you didn’t shoot him. That is, you didn't shoot him while he was looking at you-when there w chance that he might have axe eu So aon rd you sent, No, you pat, NAT \ " te et La oot him then—you walted until Sekekt Ve | its euspictons pa tae eng bln, | his back waa turced. You—you coward!” by the belief that Mary Radford loves the “Pwo- |, Ferguson's lige whitened. ‘You're ONE Price « man. In revenge he tele Men Radford her| talkin’ extravagant, ma’am,” he eald ) ‘ara Leviatt, of the latter orcusm an 43: but Staffort Walls in love with. hee Stafford's range hos, and Hetwoen Leviaut THERE ! Wit ie bother, “that Feewison is danning to wit hiry.| coldly, Somethin’ te all ma * i mii up. Mas | ait “ive eine ra fi ee some one been shootin’ Bent he meets Hadfont, who ie sneered, pinning him i siiacrreae teh that a nsaet ers | CUS withering glance, “T expected, thei [abot from the: darknom behing hie. He Selle Mi y ed hay faved it," ahe returned. “That a , he Mutlew dtacorere @ ccerel Tl of stoten catile: |Goception, ne Out Your Polley ef BY CHARLES DARNTON. Spa age He leaned forward, his eyes wide with OW that Paris has closed the Morgue to tourists, what could be more en- CHAPTER XX. bot lp If whe had not deen laboring N Hvening than the Moulin Rouge? And the best of it is that we may (Contiaved,) might ave Beane that ht nemaeee whe continue to sow our wild oats without casting them upon the waters that wenul: ee was the steamboat people are making almost as expensive a» champagne, Love and a Rife. ne gout she was certain that it Modest. Suzanne” very generously puts the Moulin Rouge Within the reach wat . ev nee to convince him that/ now awak ‘4 ‘ened a flerce anger tn her ‘hen was he the men who occupied the] M ehotr’ auietly. ot" he questioned cabin were rustlers, Honest 1 ten did not find it necessary | Wie , to live in a basin In the hills where they|,,""Iist night.” she answereg scorntul Were shut In from aight of the open| (Of course that is a surprise to you ae country, Cattle thieves did not alw n hour after you left ofall. By going to the Liberty Theatre you may fee! that you are saving your- welf a trip to Paris, We really owe a great deal to Viennese operettas, for they are forever taking Maxim's, the Bal Tabarin and other resorts sacred to people who “go abroad” for the sole purpose of having something to talk about when they get back. There's nothing selfish about “Viennese operetta.” Instead of advertisng Vie asa baker might {t goes in for booming Paris, And sible for us to have eggs for breakfast. Tt is the home life of “Modest Su- zanne” that ts worth while, espectally he rode up to the ca so, little, by itttle, we team to love the mone nanan find 1t necessary ¢o do so—unleas they] tne ea oe tae bene? his horee at simple home Ife and read the market e e wero inen Ike these, who had no herds) shot twice-—-both times’ In a a Ps) rors vee worner wat oom! Betty Vincent Gives Advice on Courtship and Marriage) | 7. on evn sic ones le: She laughed—alinost ¢ g their ill-gotten beasts. He was con-|you knew enough nor to take cnseons vineed that these men were migratory| With him in spila of your : thieves, whoo ee a ated upon the herds}~!n spite of the reputation you have ne to mar: ‘oung man whom I lke Will be willing to walt. aarel of b *two-gun’ e hf in the first act, which ts furntshea with| He Must Zell You. ne iaeaa Bohs anee BOLE a? EE ie do aot seals ie In cei as a : i rhe MY epevtvtever pumnetadery: ie whaced etna ee his te the best of Jean Gilbert's pretty music.| «yg, K."" writes: “I am very much in nice man, Shall T marry him?" "AL 8 writes: “TE gave @ party I] Cotte, and then drove the entire tot to} titening, hie lips twitching, hi yo v4 Mins Sallle Fisher seizes upon this mus |iove with a man with whom 1 am on| Hogy to Win Love. Not {f you do not care for him. Do} honor of @ young lady at my house the] yoine favored friend who waa not averse] lenched that he might 1 ste joyously and flings tt out gladly. |terms of acquaintanceship, How can I] oe Ro writer: “I am in love with| Not let your parents over-persuade| other night, but devoted most of her! ty running the risk of detection i] ormposure. But in As Suzanne she holds a prize for mod-/ find out !f he wishes to marry me?” @ young man and I think he cares for] you. time to the other gentlemen preeent | tirougi, that risk he came Into possen. oy that was going on within him at esty, posatbly because she has married) You can only wait and see if he ake! m4 4 iittie. How shall I win his affec- a Do you think I ought to waste any t eadlly. earied: money.” © voice dulet ang esnsnmeed {9 Kees. Wp an old soldier With a stiff leg. With! you. tions “8. RW" writes: “Iam in love with a] more time on her?" hae ware. two TREC Rin: Reade acter she "lees f tt was admirable ) John I. Kearney, whose leg-work 19 pein, Be your natural, pleasant self in hin} irl, but cannot marry her for two! she wa certainly rude to yous and) reviatt and Tucson—tail, cangyclooking| With Nassionndespieate, (20% purali praiseworthy, Mise Fisher «ings “Model| “°C. E."" writes: “Weveral months a8| pteence, are. Would it be fair to tell her of luniess your affections are deeply in-| ty. part sisen watabed dau cee | eet As: < CORON Married Pair" in the. most cheerfulleort |Z. quarrelied witha young man who had ‘ieee ny love?" volved 1 ahould transfer them to where | jict¢ an hour, and then, conclinad thet}, “Lreckon T ain't the anak of way. This follows quite properly| been paying me attentions for some) QR.” writes parents wish Yes, and if she cares for you she | tiey will be better appreciated, Re wes) inating tere, by raanine Tam, ma’am,” he wala, Toobin stesany “Virtue Is Its Own Reward." time, Now I have just received an| ——- — en ee or eke Sith sis es cee Lb aig i uf v4 Everything goes smoothly and muste-|invitation from him to attend a party ally until the Moulin Rouge {s reached. |@t his home. Shall I go?" After tho various persons who are-eup-| If you want to make up your quarrel posed to be in bed dance out of the|!t seems to me this would be a good house on their merry way, the fun of| Way to do it. the thing {s lost. There is nothing quite ing th atealthily backed down the[*t her “But I'm admittin’ that mebse Milside to where his: pony stood, | You've got cause to think 9. When T m , and rode toward the river, [left Ben last night 1 shook hands with in the afternoon he entered Bear| hm, after fixin’ up the difference we'd urged his pony at « brisk pace|)@d. Why, ma'am,” he went on ear- acroas tt, and just before sundown drew | estly, “Ud just got through telitn’ him rein in front of the Radford cabin, He] ®bout you an’ me fggerin’ to get hooked Written and Il ustrated fe] Sandman Stories By Eleanor Schorer ae a os Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Ov, | dismounted and stepped to the edge of {UP An’ do you think I'd shoot hi E, Z." writes: “A young man was ‘ ‘The New York, Worl } ye i ; cod je ‘is sort. i ew York World), the porch, Neo! ef after that? Why, ut, put even George Marion seems to be powerless against the Moulin Rouge. Ag|90! for a month, and now he has re- The Vale of Tears. Mary Radford to the door, She came |to stop me while he was standin’ there, Meault the plece ie saddest when it in tring to be hilariously gay. newed the friendship. How shall I treat NCE there was a naughty Uttie| out upon the porch, and he saw that her| He'd never knowed what struck him 1 A seault tho plece ts saddest when it a trying to be hilariously gay. |) dite O boy who always cried when bx] {46 Was pale and her lips firmly set, [Um tellin’ you that I didn't know he 1b Se titre that /Modeet Muaanie: sriKee yeu reer Bitee Hae Uniess there was a good reason for Whee Dat han to bed dig | APRarently something had gone amiss] Was shot: that" — Fiich a lack of spontaneous fun that I's not aurprising to hur Mian Harriet Burt] Unieas, there waa good Tease te ee eae eee that nig | RiGH her and he halted, looking at her| She made a gesture of Impatience, *E Sai ave ely th ss Burt pu would cry so long and loud that queatiot y don't thi © y Inue lite foe an a pete STongalango Tap” and setting the [take sertously such changeable per- Uttle meer ne Ann could ace aeWhate age he asked me ine met Sears’ vie thate hele oh chorus a good example in dancing, but it '* quite apparent that this number, | #0”. ion nu Ought to know,” she returned |the porch. I @uppose you were so far 1 — quietly, w 4 luke “Peacnes," as been dragged in to oR. A." writes: “I am tn love with One night when the Sandman camel MTs eWay st Wat thine (Net you Simene keep things going. two girls, and at first they accepted my attentions, But now they seem to be Interested in other men, What shall 1 do” Decide which girl you really care for and give her your individual atten- tion, ‘Then perhaps you will make bet- ter progress, “TL aln't good at gueasin’ riddles he [hear them?" ned, arinning at her. He writhed again under the scorn tn very, very angry that he decided to vere in no riddle,” she returned, | her voice. But he spoke again, earnest- teaoh htt a lense still quietly. She came forward until|ly. “I did hear some shootin ‘The Sandman made the naughty doy| *2e 200d within two paces of him, her|“atter I'd gone on a ways. h eyes meeting hit squarely. ‘When you] reckoned it was Ben.” dress himself and ne with him to the | tert here Imat night did you meet Ben “whi do you suppose he would bh Vale of Tears," which was a dark, on the baal she continued steadily. shooting at at that time of the night hy tas is rear io Io started, reddening @ lttle. “Why, | she demanded. ieary gels ihe SAMAR MU | ea," he returned, wondering if Ren had | “why. 1 ying and #4) tod her what had been said at that nothing but tears. It really radned| jyeetin, was he tellin’ you al Jeaurence Wheat throws “Peaches” to the cnorus mm faltering tones, He dances cleverly, but to hear him sing te to feel as Patrick Henry felt upon & certain momentous occasion, Purely by accident yesterday afternoon he fig- ured in the funntest situation of the whole performance. As one of the heaviest actors in the company fell fainting upon his neck the curtain was along and heard hin crying he wan . ¥." Writes: “Is it proper for a girl to stay out of a kissing Kame at a don't remember that { was it |dotn’ a ‘heap of wondering at that time put It." Tabout it” he returned hesitatingly tears all the time, and soon the little es," whe returned eventy, “he has] Mebme I thought he was shootin’ at & supposed to come down. But ft didn’t party 4 was standing ip © river of them n telling ine about tt. ‘That should © hen, or a prairie dog—or somethin’ ‘ ‘Again and again ft “got stuck,” until | Perfectly proper if she doesn't care Pig eres sufficient ou. Lam sorry that U1 T've often took @ shot at somethin’ like a v th gave out to Jain It. ba mn ever met you. sh id know why. |that—when I've been alone that way.” Ee ee ee te ares ve tenre were rising higher and) Tf T were vou I whould not lose any | ie took a step toward her, his whole and there was nothing to do but dri | oR Met write called on a girl higher, when he realized that by his| time in getting away from here Aihe body alee’ ha fae aie. inia burden off the stage, | with a mutual friend on New Year's own erying he was making most of th Her volee was listless, even Mat, but | sarnestn Wh: q there's a Mr, Wheat, as a youth whose Day, meeting her then for the first eee a atonped. Now, what do| (here wae a grim note in it that told] big inistake gon et could mother doesn't know he ts out, looks time, She asked me to come again ea en po a iad that she was keeping ther om pom *ltalk to Ren I'm eure I could ex- find acts like a boy, but he's about How long shall 1 wai | you shined ‘roe leap ae b at and with olmouny. He laughed, 4 snking thas Plain ie wl ae eat ee , ? 01 h lower co he had made i sia ax French as Cedar Penis sonny 8 ag Heed Bes Wale loRaer WAR tA ' with the Two Diamond manager he had i Geard tha dete. Phees nee Forde is a decidedly heavy fa 5 | bi nothing to f “E reckon T ought toling to explaln—no she said coldly m h | on the Ag stopper rom out si ; alae ain’ ‘i he makes laborious work of the ®ay a Cts ec PnRa Call the erying stop 4 and from out| he peared,” he returned, “but 1 ain't [pata tmeaeciagas giaen goldy, time he Is supposed to be having at " ranearcre aera of the sky ‘the sunbeams cam And| An’ 1 don't consider that I'm losin’ any | guity recovered you Will have @ chance he Moulin Rouge, As the good wife me same (the S80: LnAt erred | hrough thedr beautiful raya the little| time.” [to explain to him=f you are. not va mother Miss. Kathryn Osterman Bok laaly Hee Gamery canen a oes | saw wonderful flowers and fair) Her lips curved sarcastivatly. "You | ateaia.* are at nome, but she dresace as whether he #ees 1 not, What sha Ad tie Ma afsaicies aur nia |e ee ing ithe that “Afraid?” he laughed grimly. “I ex- were ee : the 1 do” OA, Ah A she told him, her eves gittterin yeot, ma'am, that things look pretty though she were going out for th . | Show @ more active interest in the! # to vateh the bright rays and) guily, “You have a great de Rea gay ‘They always do when idane'ot Ger lite. Mheseven comes to Sreekfant: lp a) tiie. 9¢ mW: things he i Interested in. Perhaps he| ed and sang for joy until he was} in your ability to fool peo 5 Pee trial’ te geaue dante At this breakfast stage iletéry repbaie Iteelf with the nm Ving tO) chinks you haven't cared enough about he asle have inlw ated this t to the {feckon there ain't any use of tryin’ to eo the head waiter of the night before, §) iis affairs, | ha Sandman picked the iittle 1 know Fou have come t6 straighten it out Now=Vvou won't Haten, Miss Fisher, who gives the performance a real charm and keeps up her spirits! Then: tbe! nF : ea him] BMY, Diam T know what made ¥9U | hit tm tellin’ you this: Witen every ociaa aethtae prey : AW, K" writes: "I look about four boy up in his arms and carrie m1! come over here so mu Of course | tiing comes Out you'll see that 1 aide’ and her volce with eau ele a Soca as ain eae thane gr andy fea back to his own home and put Rim tn} am partly to blame, You have fooled | soot your brother,” | lem cammammeasce . that it ourts my popularity, What his little bed me a f Died AY ae Uf course not," sneered the girl, Some Interesting Facts. |énatt t aat" Seren Pent Fie ne mercer fie the You dit'not hoot ime Stafford did woods to be shot | take for 9 deer| .\fost airie do thelr best nat to look \e sunbewmna were playing about the| |! P ; i not hive you to do it. You didn’t cof The Chinese are the only peor oatwen it fa ao much easier and more con.| Old. ¥ think you are fortunat snd om, and through window my fave to fa bitten by @ rattler, so that you might the world who fish with an unbaltedy vaiione to pick a few mushrooms in 9) Am aire your youthful wae \s ruld see wonderful flowers and hes guson have a chance to worm yourself Into jy hook. The fish become impaled OM A} jearby fleld and die at hom indeq/ to Your advantage rather than the re: { the birds sing, He was happy—Ol, 1 brother's favor-and then pheot bin fine of these hooks drawn through the. by one's Porrowing relatives, peg | so HAPPY fouling be) You haven't been hanging around Hea t And now, dear » the naughty Fiat all summer, preteading te lool iv ss dau There were the close Re Ge WEeRE Tam In love brie Nttle boy ta naughty no longer, for now | Bet \ stray Two Diamond cattle. You haven't raed O apnroxinmcals: 1 young lady and she say# she Mae A at ne) @Raaat hl deen trying to make a fool of me'mey S ue ‘ jof 1910 approximately i of a Mighi "ha Maka to” Alsen ti cre, een trying “We dtten wonder,” says the Spring! yaiwave, as npared with 14,840! but she also likes another man EN ee eee eee ae some ey talkin’ be a1\2 | Her votes trembled and her Nps quive nion, “why any one should Pulls lex in 1909, It is estimated that tha She |# not engaged, How UT win ry (ha: maadinan ani take hla de Pe mee te oma ered suspiciously * No the trouble and expense ofljength of the Argentine railways in her love® ee Sn One, aha Paaliea (to Be Continued) +. going to the Adirondacks or the Maine 1911 will be 16,500 miles, Just,be as attentive and nice to her the V are again, DON'T YOU? “some one has talked,” she replied;