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HE 15 So Qu You Witt NOT REALIZE HE'D ALONG ATALL Missus SmiF WANTS T¢ KNOW IF ARCHIBALD CAN Go WITH U MY DEAR MRS. Smitd WELL BE DELIGHTED, HEY! You CANT STaP CROSS THE RIVER "s CAN? BB Done? WHoas The Honeymooners M7. : By James. Alden, Copgright, 1012, by The Press Puttishing Oo, (The New York World 3—THEIR EXCURSIONLESS EXCURSION. |O-O-H! Warren, look. It's ] just a perfectly LOVELY ‘@ay! “Uh-huh!” replied Wer- },ren from the depths of the ust Gwe iT A Ure ome (T wor is nen L WAS A Litre GIRL we sep T PULL TEETH INSTEAD Warren soothed her and they dropped), four. eggs inta.the bolling water, shells and all this time. Warren timed them, and said, “I suppose the coffee's done by this time? “Why, dariing, I hayen't started 1t.” And Helen rushed about, put a handful of ‘he whole coffee bean into the perco- lator and lighted the lamp.” “Is there any water in the percola- tor?" “Why no, T didn't"—— But tt was too late then. The intense heat had melted “Do you ‘know what day this is, dear | doy" agked Helen. “Gee, I gotter get up and go to work * I buppose,” groaned Warren. stupid, stupid, this ts SUNDAY! You forgotten 40 soon? This 1s the day we. were to have such a lovely time, darling, on the excursion.” tha Internal economy of the percolator, “gil right, my precious,” aad Warren,|the glass top cracked to smitheree nowt thoroughly, awake, “You must/and tho bottom sagged down, tipped th hustle Up somo breakfast and I'll bejalcohol lamp over and set fire to the & ready.” table cloth, Warren extinguished the blaze and burned his hands, merey! I'l bet the eggs are exclaimed Ie! j They were, Warren pried the esas out of the shells. They were boiled #0 hard they nearly crumbled into dry! powder. He also managed to bot! some! coffee in a tin cup. They sat down to| jthetr breakfast and Warren talked of the delights of hi eeping 0 rap. turously that Helen was happy once! more. “Now for your lunch—OUR unch!" exclaimed Helen, and she began elicing bread, “Ouch!” she exclaimed, “On-oh, I've cut my finny all off. I know I have!" * Warren, pale and speechless, rushed |to her elde, Sho had cut her finger| Te was thelr first Sunday at house-| With the real k But tt way only | MOSKINE uince (hele mmarHiages) micre| © SUERE out, ren put on adhesive} ster and bound !t up and, sliced tho bread for her. Then he started to open th nth nam Breakfa before, repeated Helen. i Then she started to sob, a can of tongue to make the sand- “What is it, darling? Are you i774 Wiches. f and Warren was frightened. Rip zing Thunderation! of all) “No—you—you big sweety! I was cry-|the fip-snorting dashed blanked plunk- ing “about you—you just ety -old"—— asking for|*ty ° Vigis btédktdst before fou kissed me, Mother| Melen, pale with fright, put her fin- was right when she said men only/Sers !n her ears and really lost the thewaht of their stomachs"— | ‘Phere, there, my little queente, never | mind, I'll help you get breakfast.” Ang:Warran kissed her, W.Will.you have your eggs?” ahe Good Stories ‘ Filing an Alibi. 3 N WHITE'R precautionary measure of chicken cpap with billed futile, for that very night {hie choice Leghorn’ disaispeated, lea only vistble evidence suspicions pu.nted bor, {:=¥iret she Ughted the chafing lamp. Then ehe put water in the “Then she broke four eggs into the cold water, put on the cover and PIQeeded to alice some bread and OUp buster and things. She had stocked Copyright, 1912, by TI T itself doesn't Destroy—but whom he led Warren filled the 4 with t “y “Oh, perfectly lovely, dearest. How) lon#4o: you want ‘your eggs boiled?" “Ok, about three minutes will do"— buy ssome frult on the “Fires minutes! Oh, goodness me, |down to, the doat,"” he said, “Ry Thegive been bolting ten minutes or #0,” way, Nttle wile, what time d and/"islen Ufted the cover of the| boat leave?” chafing dish. “I'm afraid we'll have to hurry, dar- “Why, where are they?" she asked |ling," sald Helen, “It leaves at 9 o'clock, dlankty. Why WaARren, it's half-past TEN this Warren“fooked into the boiling water. | very minute: “Haina, preciots. You forgot to put] Warren looked at the clock.’ “ tholliv in," he laughed. Vil be" — "NO T'dsdn't love, ot and cold bottle biaok stuf he called coffee, chicken evop renely! Wiather ‘the fur- vival of, the Fi test!) cis. Straight Doctrine of not, & Persopally-Cond o4 . Exemplifcation it. Worth way the tn Posibit Baill, A Clear Case. 664/00 claim that the wheel of the defendant's ca your stomach,” sald the | ney to the pianist oy watch the stand, “Yet here t# your apentace which you testify to having carried im pocket at the time, and the crystal cracked, How do you account for that? “Why,” sald the plaintiff, “the cor was going 0 fast there wasn't time for the oryetal to break, Alarper'a Weekly your o Self-Satisfaction ts a Symptom as well ie mother, @ W Lousenoid wae b: sation with one of the visiior to Balumore Ling @ deeultory conver. Girls ta the drawing For the One Night Visit. sary for so short a time, even to the shaving utensils, They are lined wit 4 thin canvas cloth, while the out elther soft leather or heavy canvas The bas for women is just as useful, Y fascinating little invitations to us just to use when we into the country for over- evening When, back in the Flown Tim room. | were @ Horse Bug, we used to Thi Were are your two Uttle alserst’’ the cals) we could Beat the Whole Card —bdut observed the little gist, with the/ the Bookles never Believed Us! we | ron night without bothering with tes on, writes: “I have been paying clothes, or If we are asked to a friend's |4!though much datntter In appearance. | #0: —_ our Medtoine attention to a «irl for some tine, The house: in the city for the evening, with|My lady's case 1# smaller, so that {t| ty Our Idea of a Reg'lar Feller ia one Pld a wp neni | WHOM ae {9 to he an exeursion which she cann ‘ thesadditional-fnvitation that we might looks hardly more than a large flat] who, instead of Boisterously Com: | ae J ngeduice of Belf-| strona, and aye objects to my going CREAR Coe over TERE vandbag, and, being mado of such eoft pa ig ( sigs”) Ercus' without her. %% this fair?” ' Ali-delightful-untll it comes time to! leather, tt can be folded ar rolled to fit Aether faa dred. joratulating the Winner, Easee. @/ ' that 1 can't maueh | Pthink of what we shall carry with us, A quiche! appears ridicutous, as well as belng ‘a-nuisance; yet a handbag isn't to hold the noves "Why don't they m thing.just for such an occasion?” ts the invariable cry, And that {s just what they have done, . ‘The indefinite “they” have made just the requisite thing, And tha.ehops, or almost atl’ of them, are canrying tt. ere are two cases on the market No -té he usef for the overnight trip. 4s for men and one {s for’ women, into any position, if the necessity arises. |'These cases are lined tn all shades of ‘silk, some very lovely in thetr soft tans and violets, others more useful in the darker color Insido there ts room for all necessities, even to the place for the tube of cold cream, without whidh the modern wom- an, careful of her complexion, would |not dream of stirring, On one aide 49 the holder for the night gown and on tho other the places for all the tollet articles, so that’ when the night gown Je removed that flap can be he ter grab the gecse and let t folded back and under, and the case will |guid'gn ‘he oost of living was hart os bigs tine occupy Bt @ small space in your friend's | a it is now.” guest room, but with everything right to| “,comsmenend your hand, Word of .Sumpathy and Cheer into) (saat, SpE the Bar of the Loser! | How Rome Was Saved. ‘ —— * “ OW are you on ancient history? inguireg | Tf any of our Fights had bean to a H the Wood street amas, Finish, as at the Time we Fatuously | tet aot, dectared the sage of Smitb-| Supposed them to be, we'd be Lead! ‘Ask me anything you want to J | was trying to recall the facts about those feese that cacklod and thus saved Rote,” reummber the episode, ‘The Jig ie Never Up for the Man who | shes his Jinx! You see, Rome was bi aaa | @ very rich city tm azcient deys, filled with gold and precious stones, Some imvaders had gather, | bo hopes of getting big loot, “1 se@.!2 ‘There isn't a Man in the World who, t have to Play Second Fiddle to GOME-body, “But when they hoard the gemse cackting, they Remorse alone dogsn't Pay the Ransom! y You generally Can Tell by the Gliny J when cloned, oblong cases. The otie tor is louger’and # trie wider than ‘Ht wilt hold all that f9 neves+ made oif with the geese and thus Rome = was eared.” Pimtaburgh Woot, out! Hamer! LEGCO Thal String! it Begins to Be: our Clas: eelf must Appratsed! the Hard-Luck Stories than | the Happy Days! pererrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnenannnnnnnnnnnnnnamnnnnnnnnnnnnnmnnnnnnne ls “Cheer Up, Cuthbert!” — What’s the Use of Being Blue? There Is a Lot of Luck Left. By Clarence L, Cullen. Publiahing Co, (Phe New York World), up only the day previous, Mie arora 1 to It Does! your Well-Meant Adv! Betteen’ minutes passed. Warren had , — @rewed and haved, sna then he went espa PL hak id BE i The Way to Re-| Even !f you the De Mabey) are ‘ec’ petting elcas, Bs Sh ta ah Bonen, from. @ Sack-Down | Purees fg worth Pisnting For! = are ‘you" long, pre-, j-an alii, Hamt” Dow ° ghting Fo dove? te aske most lurid part of Warren's remarks. ls fo Bob Up Be a. Over-Confidence is All Right The Rolling Stone may we to If you Insist on Inviting Diwa on, One of ‘The Man who Publicly Pratses Too Many of us Prefer We Always Know THEIR NATURAL ELEMENT. Wife—How imprudent you arét Yot've only Just Matshed your dinné® and now ‘ou propose to bathe, BMusband~Taat's all right, my 4 pothing but Meh.—Pele Mele, Man's Eye whether he's Going to et Carelessness! Gather Moss, but Then Again it Often Gets Out of the Way of the Roller! Take a Chance by Going out of ‘ackle Temptation that we Know !s Too Strong for us! these Days We're Going Try to Discover some Kind of Fun that won't have any Flare-Back! Stand tor vetng Publicly) to Tecount |* to Recall that Business | Bad for our Rival whon he ‘Threaten to Build a Fire Under Us! LeTs TAtre THis Quiet KID BACH To 413 MA. IF HED Vincent's Too Young. 'M. RY writes very much fn love with «a who wants me to elope with (Copymaht, 1011, by Bobbe-Merrill Co.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, ot Wien Unis tr Yea later ee marriage ther dan @ hi 2 the: wesneet toon) CHAPTER IX. (Continved.) Pursuit. TURNDD at the.gate to look back at the house, How still and quiet and waiting It looked, 1 felt aa Adam anust have fe before me and paradise behind, But after all an empty paradixe ts not paradine at all, and I turned my back jFesolutety upon tt, and aet forth upon my indefinite Journey. Ky great good fortune T found my. Yenrest neighbor Justabout tp atart into Wn with @ wagon load of farm stuff, Ho Tsdked me over curiously enough, HL consented to give me a seat beside m, when 7 told him who T was ard where I llyed. He considered tt a good “Tam seventeen and oung man him be Apportunity, T think, to satisty a curt jority, which had evidently for some tive been p T fear, h ved a poor #0 busy wiipethe greatest effort waa T able. to answer his constant questioning at all; und. even with all the will In the world, Vory little information that f my power to five, Mie tn- fon, when T dented how much had been paid for knowtn [the farm, would have amused mo at any other time; as tt was, I made the Jame excuse that I was only the tenant of the real purchager; [ cared not at all that he did not belleve me. As We drew into Doylestown a new thought and fear possesaed me. If by that one chance In @ hundred Nancy should return to the house, would she not be frightened and perplexed to find me gone? Naturalty @he would ‘guess that I had gone tn search of her, but sho had no means of Knowing wi would retnrn. So as my netghbor drew up before the freight office I borrowed ‘e! cause my people object to our marring is : i an evil offen pen and wrote: They say Iam too young, What shall 1 bare gong to Jook for you and T think eleton, | I do?” ell a UA Ne vor, A let or ts these , by All means, Your peonte are | jit st the, Gloria atel will teae me MABON. This T arated in a tading envelope untit M." writes: ‘Tow can T secure}and gave it to my Jou jan introduction to a young lady who “Would you be ao aind, netehtor,” works opposite my place of business?" | T # “aa to push this under my \ tra bey RO} some young man In th jos young lady, furnish the dntroduction, rR." write dered pretty. celve the @ I make my But I do n ention due me, How # more pop! ar, be to bout yourself No, it # vareasonabic, Him- — z, Marriage of Cousinse, weites: “Is there any la t narclage of first cousins? In some States, y tn others, no, ow n." write esant to th I suggest that you get acquainted with same employ and soe if be can’t “I am sixteen and How shal for- “Lam sending a wed. | brida of my nephe fan puerted sort of "he drawled, way. “onrtainiy, but “Thank you very much," I inter rupted, seeing another storm of qui tlons coming: “It. te quite import and I know I can depend ot Thank you for the ft, too." nt you. And aving him agape with tnaatiate curt- fl { more of others and'less of your-| sity. 1 hurried away to the passenger See, there are the| Helen put her hand o mouth. Nothing to Gain. as the Symbol of Blumpitis! ready to Repel It when It Accepts the s ned” hoped) ‘2 Cound shewf Yobroke them—why, Warren, are] “Naughty, naughty. sweared DPMOCRAT tn McPhermon, Kan,, was enas | 2vitettont | Bog, Mecha inant aol damian tha yor" nughng at me? What have Ilenough to-day. Oh, I'm so glad, 1 A Asked whether he breterred Olark of Har-| We used to Know a Race-Hawi 3 Fair Play. AE thie nontteOninnss Gorter done® Oh, dear, making fun of your|didn't want to go any way. I wanted muon, Me roped that the guation, re | Never Really Started S2Fiue Gis a ie The Bons takes a Sort of Sardonio De-| +>, 4." writes! “A young man has ge traveller. This particular poorsHttle wife on the very first Sun-|to stt right home here and look at you,| (motel pum cf ouly Mame wea em. the Rparpe hed Figured he'd ,"Shoh Ms fight ta Watching the Cur a good deal of attention and an T found @ very satisfactory dayemorning.* And she sobbed in sah ¢ we ecrces the ‘Smoky Hiver, | Bolt! Man who Thinks he is Suc ho joved I hate him, | one. He was tall and wiry and thin, nest this time, wasilel canlied SVare near Saliva,” eh the Banaan, Sanat Soldiertng on the Job! }but I don't want to tell him so, What] With a uniform which made but poor ane BON TUT which ware treaciervus, dMecting @ Bue ca| Abide dy the Derision, that's pi Fang r ace wie “ty cretense of fitting him, an@ when I . wites ford band tana, His answes ex against you but CINCH the Nezt| The Man who Roally bas Learnt his at any rate, don't play the hypocrite ane upon Ne he Nae A eel wet tank td You dack ond you} One! Lattle Laaton doesn't become Loquactous | any i Break the state of your rc! har ase ae Sak or Those Who Travel }\*°* =" — an the Bubieot |feciinga toward Bim aa wentiy an pona-| ,.03, "at, Mt first eumpee, may, aoee Anoth Uttle Recipe for Accumu- ni a, for he was plainly an extle, a st \ t bei sad — te vin « oO ‘ Ata Disadvantage, _ |isting the Godin le to ACT while theyre “se "be "pecamedared “bye "Cee| RA writen: “am a gtr of evan. | tommtanien dune aut, tn 6, fren HILE wwatting the coming of ber frend, | Other Fellow is Arguing! | 4 y § a 1 nd, I degerthed Nancy to . ade some attempt at describing the nan in the brown derby, T told him that I had lawt seen them driving in a red-wheeled buggy, and to it all he tis ith a lounging alertness, which tho mask of # familiar england sagacity. he sald at last, “there ain't any of any description taken train dohiier yesterday or to-day, and T out 4wenty-four, ¥ of and expested to do three men's He*pauved find scratched his ' ely. "I tell you what I shoulatdo though, tt Twas you, People | cloping arcund tn buggies are protty apt pot to Ko to Che most ohvious pw Naw, about four. miles ta the east of re [s Buckingham, wheré you can get a trafn olther north or south, on the ee * | Ponnaylvania, and about ten miles to e written of the Inclowed | she wast i¢ Souderton, Where you can 4 Joo \chtahea train om another branch, I engraved mano of the pendewts mixht have gone to sutth ~ am pinces; better try Stas. # near oN BY writes’ “What do tha Iatters, apk you,” I will! ‘R. 8. V. PB. mean on a wedding peeaicy n” he cafied after me, as T fast invitation?’ dear, whigh translates “Please reply.” start 5 ‘They should stand for @ Freng pirat {tho fren madles, off, fan's to ask around dt rays gooT plan and J should have the Garden gate; the world's : Brown Derby A Great Summer Story of New. York By Wells Hastings thought of 1! myself had I been myself, T set off now in search of the nearest on Yes, rent out th Be bro at but no oné can tell Now much harm driving like that does to a horse; maybe you don't find out till weeks later, N * te gentleman was all alone; thers Wasn't bo lady at all with him, Sure, J could let you have a rig and driver to take you © Buckingham.” As [ drove along the red Pennsylvania rowd to the ttle town ef Buckingham I tried to picture to myself, ae best I could, Just what the man in the brown derby had done; 1 knew that he had hired a horse in Doylestown, that he | had driven to our farm and’ in some i ‘wannes taken Nancy away with him; hours later he had returned hut #0 alone wit dently fore other town from to take the train, . One can't very welt lock “up tinguist in od dividual; u hot know, perhaps under none, provide tng the pendably unserup So at 7 the navte went first of all and, to my “Why, “Was anked. should say elim, fan. Lathrop's.” “Two ladies,’ ure, only dardiy reom for them, How many was you looking for?’ "Two are “T think I 1 Lathrop's. lowking for.” my recklessly jarge tip; for the third person whom my theory de. manded, and without whom I coud@-° not explain man la the CHAPTER. X. Mrs. Lathrop’s. at Re, fly enough, | little white trimmed yellowpo house of two stories, end it looked for ali the world as if it had strayed trom some toy villages It was set squarely in @ Mttle handkere chief of a lawn, and dwarfed and shad- ed by a towering stant elm. If it hady been in the would have made a very presentable Mrd-house; threw open and popped out to stand squarely be- fore me on somo small “You rent wald. She cocked her head and stood levkod ing at me with be “Sometimes to some people,” shed 4 ald, “very seldom single . a men. Do you smoke?” | “Not in lodgings,” I laughed, “anc besides, I am not sure that I am low’ fog for moment ny but I think eon, if you can give me some, want to ask “Question the little hall. here last week, and a suffra, week before that, and the week before that @ young woman who sald she . was getting statistics on the cost ¢ Mving. It enough guestto or #0." “My au explained, y last tf you don't you something about them. “There, ‘I know it,’ } that so: and that somebody would be arounc very wi pretty goon 1s 1t you want to know? Are you some friend of the doctor's? “The doctor?” “Yes, that longmosed young charge.” Atewe oe the proprietor told me, “I did yesterday, the he vary well to give m he must have left Nancy in some certain a village hotel; so that the prov- AMANty wre that he haa’ Teft Hee in tha care of some trustworthy, private in- oled bux#y had been put up ther for an hour the evening before, there a Indy with him? £ ; he the other middlesaged and stout- ent ay Anything to sell? 1 shook my head, . But you had some ledgers here night, 1 have been informed, who probably left early thi d, (Te at red-wheelet buggy to a and a fine state he se back in, Tt wag all a ten-ddliar no’ he bugg%, which had evi+ riven fi nd far; there- care, probably in thy whioh he ultimately meant” ‘Ais and beautiful young lady . ndor what pretext 1 could he chone was de- lous, Kingham I again followed f my exiled policeman, w to the livery stabi Joy, found out that the r ts, said the stableman, © Ain here about & T hiew of any one ine= ee ughed, “sure there was, y had the top up, and hem very plain, but £ of them was young and ‘em agound to Mra. ae T repeated, pusal two, and there ols a ot sian pig et iP apy pana e _ +e ae. Ba . quite enough,” 2 answered; ~~ drive und to Mrs. They are the friends T amor " And T left him staring at * ore Was the midnight return of thes + Drown derby. LATHROP'S T found eas, Tt was a formal tree instead of under it, it and Mrs, Lathrop, as she, the front door with @ jerg the door-sill, seemed lke, brown bird herself, lodgings, 2 believ ‘ms a-kimbo, ; but may I come in for « | { N I should ke some lunch: Now i you & question or so.” t she turned abruptly The census man was jetta the ems as if I'd answered 3 to last out @ yous tions aren't personal,” 1 ‘i t least mot personal 1° i mind, I should like to ahe erled; “T knew ing wasn't right Diaming mo for it What Be Continued) in