The evening world. Newspaper, July 5, 1912, Page 13

[Now TODAY No SiRBE! THAT WATER 1S LIWE ICE mn weet on tp iS be The Evening World Daily Magazine, Friday, July 5, S’Matter, Pop?”’ S H3,PER AINT We GONNA Go’ IN TSATHING ? | NOSIR, NO BATHING WERE, THERE ANo IE eet ennneceenarieneaneneenean aetna wen WE CAME Down HERE For PLeasure, NOT To Mare A COouRE OF FRAPPES Ov? oF ouRrsecves’ In OURS 1 WoULDNT THiIntT, OF COMING DOWN WITHOUT Gore" 1913 lL euPPose [Lu Have To TAHE You IN! The Man in the Brown Derby A Great Summer Story of New York By Wells Hastings (Copyright, 1911, uy Bobte- Merrill Co.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING OMAPTERS, Y HyaRwyDopy. LD FORK eays that Lawyer Rasp O ie entitled to considerable pos- ‘thumous fame, end he would like to wee him gat it as s00n as possible =1S GONE UP SO HIGH ONLY PLUTOCRATS CAN ‘AFFORD IT! THE ONLY WAY To BEAT THAT GAMe is To BOYCOTT THE BUTCHER! “WE Don't HAVE TO EAT MEAT, Do we!-I CAN GET ALONG Just AS WELL WITHOUT IT= IT'S AN _, OuTRAGE! IAY- THE v COST 0’ LIVING 'S SOMETHING AwruL. OST OF MEAT] wurs 1S JusT AS NOURISAIN? A After all, I was tired and nervous; even this sudden chance awoke my fears ewtin, 1 vauited the whitewashed rail The Hedgevitie ditor, The stroke of good luck that Roy jac Klleworth & young Nev Yorker, throws fence and started runn! ing across the Harsh hed lately seems to have made gy he"eem eran, Gaia pa ote pence dlundering through bite of bos, him @ business genius in bis own mind, a a ab tearing impationtly through briers, and ecu ce ment fore taege income he ONCe or twice almost falling on the de Bke Reynolds says that his wife by arses) uneven ground. made the v ida steps in @ rush the front door was open and I paused @ second, gasping in the hall wen, atreat “Nancy!” I called, and ats "dunt, fs lube. stood sickly afraid, m C5 jough my voice echoed hollowly fownd prowling near ough the house and I knew, ev gin ea Be feoeee eee staat ‘ours, m fo 1.2 ere I called, that I was all alone there, that tale him: h Goem't enjoy eating because {t forces her to keep her mouth shut eo much of the time. wth “Nancy!” ‘gi Perrin Kelly eays that it i» a duty that every man owes his wife to go home between drinks,’ Harry Cone ‘e go! to ¢ast for thirty ays 90 when he to the mountains ‘he can eat the country board, 4 Mrs, Derks says that her cook and her husband were both home simuita- neously one day last week. to her room, only to find tt empty, a1 arching the rest of abandonment of terror which has since made heartily ashamed. Empty room after empty vo mocked and menaced me. A bit om! 4 Nancy was gone, Tran 3 tng whe merry core othee, over, eania. Mason (he uaklng €or You here’ yesterday,” CHAPTER Vill. 1SE. FOR YOU—|—GENTLEMEN-A VEGETARIAN OINNER! ‘ You See THE COST OF MEAT IS So GOOD NIGHT! ||" ans (i ; he was looking for.” AR cur cooidens columns.” “Well,” Grawled the clerk, ‘he asked the outside, and my heart sank within | c for Mason Ellsworth as plain as paint. me as I undid the lock, for I knew es Gece Git Geabae | Wanted to know if 1 had heard elther now that Nancy was aurely gone, The y ‘Times-Star, that the two met. They sald: '.doewHow are you, olf man? yArthur-Got @ beastly cold, y’ know. 1alee—Mard luck, bah Jove. the cold without your monocle? Called on Henry at his hou that wretched dog of his persisted in wagging his \at?-and creating » draught Arthur—No. 1** “Ave ceroplance practical?” “No, and they never will be unt they take as much space as automobiles “What do you mean, eon?” “Why, I heard mamma tell Mr, Oatler shea keep gou guessing easy éc ‘OW much postage will thts take?” asked H the middie aged lady as she handed a Dackage marked ‘Mies Jean De Swell- ors, Atlantic City, N. J.” @o the elesk et the stamp window. The man weighed {t carefully, says Judge. “Any writin: “It'a only dathing suit.” “One cent,” snapped the man. x Been going out in nd Good Stories Rueful Spelling. IS tmekdent bappened ot , when & HIGH THAT I HAVE AND-RAISINS— Bh Sophie The Silence That Is Precious as Radium AND-FIGS = drene Loeb Vincent's ETE) clerk looked at me sharply. eald. odservation had been the quintessence of aly humor, “What did he look tke? I asked, “Well, I don't know as you'd say he looked like anything particular. He wae just @ tall man, with good clothes, and &@ nose perhaps a iittle longer than the law allows, The only thing I ceally did notice about him was his cap. I did like Nie cap. i was just Uke one I have on for the last two weeks. dody about here that I have deen some other Elisworth that of you or of a young lady named Nancy Bond, Gaid he was the agent of some photograph or other, and his firm had asked him to look you up.” He eyed me for a moment shrewdly. “I aid not take much stock in that agent Ddusiness, though,” step around and get it this ¢ t of my pan he said; © “somehow you can tejl an agent when © you see one.” “Mason Ellsworth, (Continued.) table, and I snatched it up, WARE Eyed PREPARED SOME how, it might help me find he: rope gi sep doe doesent debe all NUTS =AND-PRUNES- Gone! pen the Dack door and ran out of the house and through the or- chard, calling “Nancy, Nancy,” to the when once or twice in my ‘had to fight, I grew of a eut- collected and cold, and went methodical search of the house, It was barcly possible, | reflected, that she had made an excur- ation to one of the neighbors’ places, taking her helper with he: guide. Then, before making the rounds of the neighborhood, I determined to loo our own house over thoroughly; for unless indeed she had gone somewhere with Nancy, I could not account fo disappearance of the woman I had employed. T wae not to seek her long, however, for ag I re-entered the kitchen, I heard @ sound which I must have heard before. save for the extremity the drumming of fete on the inside of @ closet door. The door had been locked and bolted from woman, whom I had thought so secure 9 guardian, burst out upon me wrath- y. “What did you mean by that? she ed, her voice rising almost to a shrte’ that the way to treat any If tte @ joke, 1t'@ @ very poor “Exactly what happened?” I asked her, when I had calmed her indigna- j who was making up the rations, Naney Bond?’ Copgright, 1912, by The Pra Publishing Oo, (The New Yoru Werld), Bog soerweat Bobdby—O-oh! Mamma! Here's a Uttle green snake, bh Mamma—Keep away from it, dear, It may de just 28 dangerous 08 6)" We @owd Ube to dave come rhubarb,” be Pipe one.—Life, Lela eae! e ee aaaamaadl ~ HIS {s swimming season. In salt and fresh water alike there are thousands and thousands of bath- ers. Some can swim. Some cgn't. Some think they can and can't. And @ome think they / can't and can, These last two classes are the sort, largely, from which the accident cases are gleaned. The man that thinks be can and can’t, starts at once for the deep wat where he speedily (but aften too late), ands out hig mistake. The chap who thinks he ean, but who can't, gets accidentally into deep water, loses his nerve and sinks, The cramp claims other victims. Not really the cramps, but the fear that ft causes, Fear has drowned more men than did Noah's deluge. A cramp {8 almost never fatal if one keeps one'r head and remembers to stiffen out the cramped limb rigidly and to remain calm, until the pain has departed, Al- most always a swimmer can float while this process ts golng on. Where You Go for a Swim, i What You Don’t Know About Ants. j ing, here and | brown ants. teresting eff. their own for which they) A troublesome little [neg ert ee enter the ground | red ant which invader to lay ease foi colonies, ectally fond of sw: Seen Me FTEP a summer A novo the interstices of the brick , one Mey see in te morns there, a sand with a hole in its centre about as big around as a match and going in ‘ané@ out of this porta! hurrying lines of! ¥ 1’ will be well worth one's time to stopp down for a moment or two, for 2 community of ants te an ine study, failed to notice In tho e Perhay _falivand.die and-the females night's rain, [two weeks they become larvae, “Stu- dents of ant life say that a troop of nurses now cares for the larvae, feeds the infant ants, gives them a dally aun- bath and keeps them clean, These pur- sery ants are at first white, then grad- change to brown, but they are as yet only in embryo, When the time comes the workers tear off the envelope that has protected them. Each one ‘s set froe, the nurses feeding and caring for it, helping tt to walk ana never leaving it until it ts able to care for itself, In time the males and females rise into the little heap of femeles to return to the ant hill to lay exes for a new colony. and cylindrical. ed neutres oF ‘on colonies of small blagk ante emus and carry | a orcéa’ them (6 do all “the house- Keeping about their ant hills, species that It Sears rere ae a sae eaid. “You may have #," replied the corporal, who with pencil tring ‘and then put "Roo" Thoroughly exasper- cabbage,""w-London Tele. penne eres At the Polls. URING «@ city election in New York bunch of trains! repeater marched into feast aide polling place, Tat name?" inquired the election the lealer who was red-haired and nd had a black eye, ‘The voter glanced ip of paper in bis hand, Mendetheim, nid, your real name and you lmow ® qupicious challenger for a reform & deket, “TE te me name,” anid the repeater, “and I'm going to vote under tt—soe?”* From down the line came @ volce: “Don't let that guy bluff you, nly your name is Mendelheim!' Evening Poe yer se ere The Same Old Trouble. CHICAGO family which employe as its Duiler an old-fashioned negro was con atantly annoyed by the doorbell of the house getting out of order, On several occasions an electrician, who used some sore of white powder in hie work, Sad been called in to fix the bell, ‘One evening, when there were guests, one of theta complained of a sore throat, ‘The mistress of the house summoned the butler, ai “Bam, go to the drug store and got @ amall bottle of Dobell’s solution,” "Befo’ de Law genuine distress. agint’—The Fi j_ranviee SN Just Like Marriage. HE was a bright girl and her escort, whe tended, was delighted to find ed the thet was a! how quickly struggles and , then the out, and, finally, the difficulty they have tn ting home.” ‘And be eat end thought.—-Rostan Transcript, etl Almost. ‘T was 6 faithful Swede girl who, when the winter was coldest and the furnace was net Working right, was admonished by the mistress ‘an tron to bed with her to Beveresh. "Pry ude," oho sede "A had slmest worm by morning,” Aspoeaut, ‘uproar. For the thousandth time the. caui 1s traced back to the goss; germ. A minist 19 impelled to re- sign, his congrega- tion {8 up in arms, brought into the Mmelight of pubdlioc- ity — all through some wagging tongues that (like ‘Tennyson's brook) GO ON FOREVER. The clergyman's loyal wife attriutes {t to the green-eyed monster, saying: “Just Jealousy, that's all. There ts the whole thing.” And to this cause three- fourths of the trouble in the whole world may be attributed, ‘The cause being seemingly unjust, the pastor 9 asked to RECONSIDER his resignation, But whether there ts any FOUNDATION or not for the alarming structure that has been bullt, the fact does remain that the gossip germ «ei minates more rapidly and venomous) than any other life-sapping microbe known to man, For sometimes a WORD only ts needed to make a whole encyclopaedia, As a poet has wisely sald: "One venomed word ‘That struck its coward, poisoned blow, In craven whispers, hushed and low; And yet the wide world heard, ‘Twas but one whisper—one— ‘That muttered low for very shame The thing the sland'rers da: And yet its work wi Vertly the tongue {s mightier than the sword and JUST as destructive. And now In the above case mentioned, as the report goes: - “Moat of the folke tn the town ‘has developed and are reluctant to i the ORIGIN of the @onsip.” ‘There you are—gossip has no BACK- BONE. It does not come out OPENLY ‘but hides when the RESULT of its work comes home to it, Then why should you T and the pestor and all concernéd ‘allow this WEAKLING to come in and TOWN in New England is in an/sap our strength. For, world without end, THEY WILL "ALK, ANYWAY. And we are grad- king up to this fact, te Dasket, writing to CONFIRM or DENY. And the RESPONSIBLE party ts the! Only one that ts being «: Along these lines must talker, the thief of another’ be dealt with. And we ai to take that view, For 4t must come to mind that as tho Gossip talks you're wondering at his ein- ister MOTIVE for the talk. And know, too, that tt fs usually he or she who not read widely that oan afford to take the TIME to gossip, For “the gossip in a house etways decreases as the I!brary increases, It {9 always the big soul who, even though he knows of a thing that might cause trouble, WITHHOLDB the word, Ah, gurely there {s no greater elo- quence than this, For @ word, ike a bullet, can never te recalled. And of the two evils It were betrer to: CHOOSE THE LIK THAT saves RATHER THAN THE TRUTH THAT SEARS. n credence, everlasting character, beginning <cnidiianaen A Wayside Reverie. HTB past? Well, what of ths past, pes Poor outworn thing: can I mend tt, pray? Do tears avail for the misspent days? Will pining atratghten the crooked ways? Must yesterday's heart-break last for aye, And yesterday's mist hide the gun to- day? Nay, Ife te life. and the ferer’s tol Ie @ hopeful heart as the hours unroll, ‘Tho path ascends! Each winding rood Blooms at the touch of @ biithesome mood. I will hold that the best ts a bft be- yond And drink @ toast from the lity A toast in dew to the day tha Ana "a pond— done, eto the better day begun! RD WIGHTMAN in Success ‘The un-| nder note 1s consigned to tho, ‘Things must be put In} i |\What She Wears. owthaet really with us, I want to give @ bit of advice to the business girl readers of this column. ought cool and comfort- able as possible during your work- ing hours. But that does not mean you should §0 to your offices dressed as if you were going to garden partie! There has been hot discussion lately concerning the sugsestive costumes worn on the street by many young women of this city, Unfortunately, | some «iris who work are to be nurm- bered among the offenders, Wear collariess waists, by all means, when the thermometer goes up, But there ts a difference between @ modest “Duteh neck" and @ecollete. The first Is inconspicuous and comfortable, th |second—in ofMfces—ia unsuitable and vulgar, Tf you are a “nice” girl, don't try to look Like the other sort A Difficult Position. "KK, BE." writes: “I have become ac- quainted with a young man whom I lke very much, He has asked if he may come to see me, but my step mother won't let me receive callers. What am I to do?” It rather hard for you, but tf you an't induce your stepmother to change mind, tell the young man why you can't seo him, “L. F." writes: “I am very much in love with @ young man, and the only reason I Gon't marry him ts because he is so much taller than lL People always emite at ue when we are to- gether, What shall I do? Stop being so silly and self-conscious and be glad that there is no more eerious obstacle to your marriage Of course, you| > to be asi, No one but Naney’ med to me, know and yet this was phraim Bond. I hed I remem- ‘od the man in the brown derby hat, ve long miles and ey. “Thank you," I sald to the clerk, and walked out of the office ae quietly as I could. It was agony to keep my measured step through the almost empty streets | of the quiet, inquisitive little town, Once out of It, I started running and ran un- til T could run no more. Bo I went ng those five miles that had seemed short, running when I could, walking when I could run no more: fear grow- {ng !n my heart with every tortured, . No vehicle of any kind and I hated the physical Aisability and the rolling feids, | peacetul and « moke was curling lazily from the great central chimney and the gray expanse of shingled root ed irregularly with color, themselves in the oon. How fool- glow of the a Here, ish T had i if anywhere In the world, was security tteelf. I had tasted of ‘melodrama, to be sure, but, thank God, T had left it behind me in the city where anything may happen; here was only. peace and quiet and th poignant happiness of witimate tran- aulliity. T laughed a} the thoughts that had stirred me and made vp my mind that they should not trouble Nancy too. I wan hot and tired and and T to my dishevelment. 1 dusting my shoes with my hand. niet, when there came a rattle of and out, and J had only time to leap to the roadside, when @ horse and busy rounded the abrupt turn of the road and ed past me at a runaway gallop in the direction T had Junt come. I turned to look after ft: the bugsy top was up and lurching érunbenty, Yo the mad «alloping of horee. T had not h hout I should have thought the |and then, to my amaze far off 4he thin flick tip, as the buggy jcioud of duet eee her own free will, and “TI don't know what did happen,”* said. “I thought ft was you. Yoo young lady had gone upstairs for some time, and left me to put paper on the ves. While T wan in there some one slammed the door ehind me and locked it. It frightened me nearly out of my senses, and then I thought as perhaps you were one of the out-ups, and had’ done it othing at all” ghe all “T've been vied naneenet AY saw she had no information and Gee Mt h4 happened, blundered on, feeling that T was clumatly, “but T am afraid that I id shut the door. You see, I'm absent-minded. I don't remember b= ing it, but I suppose I must ti had @ closet at home very much this, and we had to keep continual: locking it to keep the cat out. I must have just shut the door and turned the key from force of habit, when I went through the kitehen; but I give you my word of honor, Mrs. Blake, that I didn’t see you.” the falsehood was, it struck |, “long about He was so absent-ninded go upstairs to change his shoes jo to bed right In tho middle of the Jaunched into a long series of her and absent-minded v5 very anxious to get her out of the house suspecting nothing, a feat which I finally accomplished by saying that Nancy was tired out and resting and that she wanted Mre. Blake to be home in time to cook her own supper, I mounted the stairs again to Nanay's Foom. ‘The late sun came levelly through the windows, lightin furthest corner. One chair lay ite side, lace win, dow curtaling were disarranged, ons ourtain cord had been ripped away @ force that had broken its old-tae?® fone hook. That wes all. But thats was enough. Nanoy had not goneen my heart I, Ja: ‘loud ta tae *! font room. i (le Be Continua wy