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T WEE-€B-EBE? Let us tHAve Some Dimer 7 yoo! Copyright, 1913, by ‘The Pries Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), POOR MR. JARR! HE'S IN TERRIBLE SHAPE! 6é E sure to humor him!" repeated Mrs. Jarr as she ushered in HK we Messrs, Rangie, Rafferty and |feel,” said Mr, Slavinaky. And Raf- Blavinsky, the deputation that come to sit up with @ sick friend (Mr, Jarr the 3. There is no rarity of this sort of char. | bet the box of beer wasn't ordered.” ity. Any amount of kind hearted men will sit up with @ sick friend~provided | Jarr, the ministering. angel. had | ferty nodded his concurrence. “I'l Get nobody put any bottled b in the ice box!" growled Mr. Jarr. n “Why, yes it was, dear,” sald Mra. they are permitted to smoke and to |had a bottle of it.” have to sui drop of stimulant ever and anon in them, But better still it is when the sick |@ Denk.” friend is eufficiently recovered, or else “Did I? asked Mr. Jarr in his best “Where am I?” manner. ‘My mind is “You don’t forget you lost $6 cents to not so far gone, that he can also sit/™@ at bki pinochle when you hadn't up with himself and mayhap smoke a] @ny change?” asked Mr. Slavinstty in cigar or two and take a drop of stimu- jant at intervals, “Helio!” said Mr. Jarr advancing to meet the sick room visitor: There was nothing in Mr. Jarr’s ap- some alarm, “Yes, yea, I jot that, to ‘Mr. Jarr, shaking “his head. sald Mother, these unfortunate alcoholics are prob- ably dying of thirst. Get some of the pearance to indicate mental or physical | beer.” debility, but at sight of the dressing frown and slippers Rangle, Rafferty and | ‘‘siroholive.” Slavinaky would have made affidavit The visttors started up at the word But Mra, Jarr with a pitying look appeated to them as thoush that Mr. Jarr was threatened with brain |@sking them to remember Mr. Jarr as fever and must be humored, Hadn't they defore—in the movies and other theatri- cal representations? Patients, if men, alwaye wear dressing | bottled beer. wowns and slippers. jen brain fever patients | With brain fever from overwork. he had been—before he was threatened “I am thirsty," said Rafferty when And forain fever |Sfre. Jarr had Gertrude bring In the “I got a fine Virginia ham sent me the other day, and we cut Where the brain fever patient ie a'tho first slices from it for breakfast ! young and pretty woman she a wears white lace negiigee and @ lace} and pink ribvoned boudoir cap. Old | folks are never attacked with drain fe- | r. They are never even threatened ith it. ‘The visitors ranged themselves sol- bmnly around the room, Mr. Slavinsky | especially giving Mr, Jarr a searching Glance and whispering to Rafferty that de saw no spots. “When little Izzy had the fever. Oi!; Such spots as he had!" added Mr, Bla-' winsky sotto voce. “Yow! Spots he had big as quarters, because we got a; two dollar bill changed to quartere and} measured them.” “Well, what's the matter?” asked Mr. Jerr, when none had answered his sal- utation. “Wher? do you think you are?! At an inquest?” “Now, you mustn't distress yourself, my deur,” sald Mrs. Jurr in a soothing voice. “You mustn't get excited or worked up. Your friends have simply} called to seo how you are, Now ait down in your chair and don't get ex- cited.” ‘Bo saying, she arranged the cushions in the big arm chat for the incurable athlete, ; “Yes! Yes! We come to see how you fare and to ask if there 1s anything we can do gor you," spoke up Mr, Rangte. “Sure, we wanted to know how you Betty Vince this morning.”” “Virginia ham? cried Mr. Jarr. “Ah, T must have Virginia ham! Get me the Virginia ham! Send for the Vir- ginta ham, at once! Do you hear? At once!" “Sure!” coincided Slavinsky. (it wasn't their Virginia ham.) ‘Mr. Rafferty, with a sigh, went to the telephone and called up his wife and (not without some difficulty tn making his wife see how those threatened with ‘brain fever must be humored) got the Virginia ham on its way around to the Jarr apartments. “Sick peaple have sald Mr, Rangte, “When my wife got the grip sho craved for champagne. | And a friend of mine in the wine bust- ness sent us a case when he heard of ‘t. When Mrs. Rangle got well she never touched !t, There's six bottles left now." “Just what I want!" ered Mr. Jarr. “A nice cold bottle! How can I eat Virginia ham without a cold bottle? “You'll have to humor Mm!" cried Mr, Rafferty. ‘Bend for the slx bottles. Mavinsky, {t's your turn next!" “I should worry!" replied the glazier Dlandly, “If mit this brain sickness ‘Mr. Charr wants to eat steams and get @ pane in his stomach, let him And he twushed merrily at the quaint concelt, nt’s Advice to Lovers Her Employer. YOUNG girl cannot be Ais about accepting eoote! attentions trom her em- ployer, A business office fs the place for) business courtesy — ® formal, imper- gonal code of man- ners which should never err on the A side of familiarity, ‘The youns woman who must attempt flirtation with every masculine individ- ual coming within reach of her beaming eyes is distinctly out of place down- wn, Tho villain employer ts much less com- than a certain sort of fletion would But with no evil inten- may expose his stenog- mon have us think, tions & man farer to censorious gomip~if she lets him, T's in her hands, and when she tact- inliy refuses wie first luncheon invita- on the right sort of man will think all the more hiehly of her, rites; "I am paying atten- nd 1 should very much married, But I am only Is that enough?” w York, oy tor like to get earning $7 a week, Not if you live in d y” “J, ¥." writes: “I am in love with a girl who said she loved me, But she Midr't write to me for two weeks, and when I did hear from her she ga’ an utterly foolish excuse for her silence. What am I to think? ‘That the young lady's affection 1s not perhaps overwheuming. “E. H." writes: ‘I like two young men very much, but they are dread- fully jealous of each other, If I talk to one the other fs angry, What shall I do?" It's not-up to you to do anything if y insist on making fools of them- A Pos ible Insult. “M. 1." writes; “The young man who has been paying me attentions recently made a remark which seemed all right to me at the time. But since then friends have told me {it wae an insult. Shall I continue my friendship with the young man? Nothing lke this has ever happened before." I should not give up a person whom 1 Uked for one remark tn which out- siders and not myself discovered an insult, “A, 7." writes: “Tam very much In love with my flance, but I have found tm subject to moods whioh annoy me greatly, Do you think my love will last under these clroumatances I think you don’t really love him now i be “annoys you greatly.” “You just those longings," ' 6) JELLO, Smashum Van Co, | WANT TO MOVE MY PIANO AND DINING- ROOM SET IN OWE (Copyright, 1008, by Doubleday, Page Co,) YORK 1s the Caoutchoue City. There are many, of course, who go their ways, making money, without turn- ing to the right or the left, but there is @ tribe abroad wonder- fully composed, Mike the Martians, solely of eyes and means of locomo- tion, These devotees of curlosity swarm like flies in a moment in a struggling, breathless circle about the scene of an unusual occurrence. If a work- man opens a manhole, if a street car runa over a man from North Tarry- town, if a little boy drops an eg on his way home from the grocery, if a casual house oF two drops into tho subway, if @ lady loses a nickel through a hole in the lisle thread, if the police. drag a telephone and a racing chart forth from an Ibsen So- clety reading room, if Senator De- pew or Mr, Chuck Connors walks out to take the alr—if any of these incl- dents or accidents takes place you will see the mad, frresistible rueh of the “rubber” tribe to the spot. It would seem that Cupid would find these ocular vampires too cold game for his calorifle shafts, but have wo not yet to discover an immune even among the Protozoa? Yes, beautiful Romance descended upon two of this tribe, and love came into thelr hearts as they crowded about the prostrate form of a man who had been run over by brewery wagon. William, Pry was the first on the spot He was an expert at such gatherings. With an expression of intense happ!- ness on his features, he stood over the victim of the accllent, Hstering to his groans as if to the sweetest music. When the crowd of spectators had swelled to a closely patched elrcle Will- jam saw violent commotion tn the crowd opposite him, Men were hurled aside like ninepins by the impact of some moving body that clove them lke the rush of @ tornado, With elbows, umbrella, hat-pin, tongue and fingers nails doing thelr duty, Violet Seymour forced her way through the mob of onlookers to the first row. Strong men who even had been able to secure a seat on the 6.2 Harlem ex- press staggered back like childrens as |she bucked centre, Two large lady epectators who had seen the Duke of Roxburgh married and had often blocked traffic on Twenty-third street a he Evening World Daily Magazine: Friday: February 28. 1913 _ SORE gt eee yet ~~~ i 8(A Short Story if) of New_York fell back into the second row with but happy, She was looking at what ripped shirtwaists when Violet had there was to sew, A man was painting finished with them, Wiltam Pry loved upon the fence: “Hat Bricklets~They her at first sight. The ambulance removed the uncon, sclous agent of Cupid, William and Pry, William Jabbed a lady in a black Violet remained after the crowd had silk raglan tn the ribs, kicked @ boy in Aispersed. They were true Tub’ the shin, bit an old gentleman on the People who leave the scene of an ace!+ left rar und managed to crowd nearer dent with the nee have not genus to Violet. ‘They’ stood for an hour look- tne caoutchou coxmogony of t) n paint the letters, ‘Then necks, The delicate, fine flavor of could be repressed no affair is to be had only in the aft r. He touched her on the arm, taste—in gloating over the spot, In gaz- ome with me,” he said. 'T know ite, where the Ad pple Sho looked up at him shyly, yet with unmistakable love transfiguring her ts a bootblack without an ing fixedly at the houses opp hovering there in a dream mo: quisite than the opium-eater’s e ; William Pry and Violet Seymour were connolaseurs in casual They knew counlenance, how to extract full enjoyment from nd you have saved it for me? she Vary sn6R looked at ench other, @*keds trembling with the Arat dim resently they looked at ench other, ois, ot a wanan. beloved Violet had a brown birthmark on her “rl! ny oe Rance Matsina’ festa kaaits neck as largo an a allver half-dollar, ,lOgcther Anes Nurrien oe ant there William fixed his eyes upon it, William black’# stand. An hour they nent ty Fry had inordinately bowed legs. Violet FUNK oe en nee from the fifth Allowed her gaze to linger unswervingly A. Window clean ae Sham ke upon them, Face to face they stood SHAIREea Gaile: GIMNEl Gam WAllE other. Etiquette would not allow them Merc on Unt iiaae Gna “area ieonien’ to apeak; but in the Caoutchoue City '¢ Four | NhICharad: awiiiv USE is permitted to gaze without stint at the °™ a aie tar as ie trees in the parks and at the physical Ore NO! warns & i) ; blemishes of a fellow creature. Me? aid V returning the pres they parted. art At length with a sigh But Cupid had been the 4 stand all day r of iu ure ure not. 1 rubbering with you." heroine waa in front of @ board fence femember the Intenso excitement Into near Broadwa whtch the elty was thrown when Elia Willian saw a large crowd scrambling Jane, a colored woman, was served with and pushing exetiedly in front of a % S™bpoena, The Hubber Tribe en- billvoard. rinting for it, he knocked eamped on whe spot. With his own nan old woman and a child carry. hands Willlam Pry placed @ board upon hottle of milk, and fought his two ‘beer 8 in the ‘treet oppomte way like @ demon into the mass of Hiiza Jane's residence, He spectators, Already in the {nner ling sat there for * stood Violet Seymour with one sleeve Then r ¢ and two gold fillings @ corset the d y ho a steel puncture and a ed wrist, sent for a kin r STILL ANOTHER UNUSUAL STORY “THE WINGS OF THE MORNING” BY LOUIS TRACY As Startlingly Original and Exciting as “TARZAN OF THE APES” Will Begin in Monday's Evening World, March 3, (Yow LET THUM ONE ELTHE HAVE THUMPIN TO BAT! sty, WHY, ALL OUR LARGE CARS ARE ENGAGEO Just Now, But. fork VM NOT MOVING DOLLS FURNITURE ‘Two souls with euch congental tastes could not long remain apart. As @ Po liceman drove them away with his night atl that evening thay plghted their troth, The « vf love had been well sown, and had grown wp, hardy and vigorous, Into a—let us call tt a rubber plant. ‘The wedding of Willlam Pry and Violet Seymour was set for June 10. The Big Church tn the Middle of the Block was banked hgh with flowers ‘The populous tribe of Rubberers the world over ts ra nt over weddings, They are the pessimists of the pows. ‘They Sure the guyers the groom and the banterers of the bride, They come to laugh at your marriage, and should you escape from Hymen's tower on the back of Death's pale steed they will come to the funeral and Fit in the same pew and ery over your luck, Rubber wil! stretch, ‘The church was Yehted. A grosgrain carpet lay over the asphalt to the edge of the sidewalk, Mrldesmatdy were pat- ting one another’ speaking of the tled white ribb on thelr whips yewailed the space of time bo- The mintater wa pus! over his possible fee, essaying con ture whether !t would suffice to pure chase @ new broadcloth sult for hime self and a photograph of Laura Jean Libbey for his wife, Yes, Cupid was in the alr. And outside the and tween drinks. huroh, oh, my broth= orly)—Yeh. They made, set ready to sell one of those cheap ers, urged and heaved the rank aod /chicken soup out uv pigs’ feet and then crs you gotta let ‘em go €or ecraptren file of the tribe of Rubberers, In two]tiey made sweetbread patties out uv Slmost, and one of the good enes you bodies they were, with the grosgrain |'om afterward, The chef tol’ me when can— arpet and cops with clubs between,|{ give him one uy pop's clgare that| Wille (blane-ty)—@ay, pop, you can’t They lke cattle, they fought, | got broke do no joy ridin’ with them tight things, they and surged and swayed) My, G. (gravely) ~And I dare say that | They'll go an’ thy on yuht | and trampled one another to see @ Mt) that wasn't the mom grievous fault the| Mr. G. (sathering tre)—Indeed! of a girl In a white vell acquire Heenss| place had. So [ was Koing to suxgeat| Mrs. G. (dreamily}—Amd the thought i to go through a man’s pockets while he/that inetead of folng awry this sum. | just came to me that as long as we ] eeps. mer we atay in the city and— ALE buying @ car we ought to get a j Rut the hour for the welding cam@| Mrs G. Unterrupting)—Oh, papa, you! Classis that will take @ limousine body ' and went, and the bride and brides|wouldn't have us awelter in the city all in the winter—for my shopping, you kroom came not, And impatience @lsummer, would | know, and the theatre. ‘@ @ con- ‘ Jarm and alarm brought about} winte (whining)-Aw may, pop, the, ventent. } 1 they were not found, An@|sidewalk’s too blamed hot to play on,| Mr. G. (severely)—Now, the whole policemen took a hand G. (pompously)--Now {f you two | family wil please wake up. From the and dragged out of the furious mob of} wit let me finish what T have to say— state of my finances at the present mo- onlookers a crushed and trampled thing, figured it out and I have found ment I would be Just about able to buy with @ wedding ring in Its vest pocket, |that with the excess money wo apend|tho funnel that you use to pour the and a shredded and hysterical woman|in the summer, added to @ little I have | gasoline in, 1f you two had stayed upon ating her way to the carpet’s edge, ragge? and bruted and obstreperous, Willtam Pry and Violet Seymour, creatures of habit, had joined in the hing kame of the spectators, un- able to realst the overwhelming dealre to gaze upd vos enterin| pride and b the rose-decked church, Rubber will owt them 0m, }KetcHep Him LAMB ASTIN Henpecked Husbands ‘by Madison C. Peters at Meecha da nl i och NO. 9—OTHER WIFE-RULED CELEBRITIES. eyecare sme EB ONFUCIUS'S jealous wife eo int mies her, Who can tell but hi mpt in which he hek! womanhood, eo that among other grounds for Givorce, besides jealousy, he records dlecbedience to her fatherda- law or mother-in-law, fallure to bear children or talking overmuch and bringing trouble on ber househeld? Chaucer wrote his famous lines from bitter experience; “Marriage fe such a retile rout, ‘That those who are out would fain get in : ‘And those who are in would fein get out.” ‘ Ho is #0 satirical about wives in many of hie poems that he may in our historic ilst of henpecked, But Mra. Chaucer was not wholly the poet had an affinity. Pope's lines: “Rorn to no pride, inheriting no atrife, Nor marrying discord in @ nodle wite,’ are aupposed to refer to the marriages of Dryden end Addison. Dryden married Elisabeth Howard, doughter of the Karl of Berkshire, Ghe ‘was like the lady In the famous poem, who felt annoyed Qesnuse of her (ife-part- studious habite, mplained that efterneon je went to pore in books too eoon.”* She once rebuked Dryden by the remark that if he had beep @ Sook he would have shown her more attention, To this the inconsiderate satirist replied that he wished she was an almanac, for that was a book he could change every year. Joseph Addison married the Dowager Countess of Warwick. It was e spien- aid but dismal union. Thelr home, Holland House, alttough large, could not fhold Addison, the Countess and one guest—Peace, Addison might instead of stay’ will stay where he Hkes It best. Titian, the great painter, had a domineering, dictatorial wife who deman an itemized accounting of all his expenditures, and, though very rich, the man was often perplexed to know how he might buy a drink and not Wet hie wife. find {t out Andrea del Sarto, the Alstingutshed painter of the sixteenth century, merrie@ = * & widow whose unreasonable jealousy made his friends afraid to visit him. Bven the puplla who risked staying with him in the tope of learning from him, Ike thelr master, suffered continually ¢rom her words and even biows. When Andrea was seized with a fatal etckness his wife kept away from bim for fear of infection, Richam Hooker, famous Engilsh divine, was so well entertained by a parish- foner that he allowed her to select a wife for him, He recetved eo much kind- and attention that he felt himself bound to believe all she eald and came to bo persuaded by ther that he was ‘a man of tender constitution and that ft wan best for him to have a wife that might prove a nurse to him and such aa one am she would and could provide, if he thought fit to marry.” And she pee vided ‘her own daughter, Joan, the kind of @ woman Solomon compared te dripping house."" oe — and often wido And the lesson this series seems to convey a young woman who does not know too much and éring her up want her to go, fa, ia Domestic Dialogues -— By Aima Woodward — Coprrigit, 1018, by The Gree Publish ing Co. (The New York Bveuing World), . JUST DREAMS! do very well. It may not look as costty 8. G.—My goodness, how they're Of De 88 Reavy, but it'll clim> hill, M rushing the seasona nowadays! (#4 tRat’s more important. Women begin to wear atraw hats! Willie (succinetly)—Gee! Fuh get hel- the first of February and felt ones in| /¢Fed et in thie neighborhood yuh go Auvcust, And no one thinks they're /O"@ Uv them cars, All the kids crazy except the men, j‘em @ mile away an’ they got @ Mr. G.—Yes, they're beginning to send | Yell about ‘em, They ala't got me summer hotel circulars and book- | #Pect for ‘em at ali! lets already. Mr. G. (coldly)—Reattyt Willie (from behind a wilderness of| Mrs G. (inpatientty)>~Wistte, mashed potatoea)—Geet I with it wus|@ulet, Mamma wants to speak, Léssen, summer now, - Mr, G.—Well, Mrs. G.—I hate summer, Wille (injured)—-Yen! It don't make no difference to youyou don’t have to 9 to school, afi Charley. Lissen to me. I don't. Mr. G. (sternly)—@ome day you'll! to#o Inexpensive care—they're often (hank your parents for having insisted !emons! on giving you @ good education, But 1| Wille (efinttely)—@ure they are! Don't I know? Mr. G. (angrily) —Well, I must say my family 1s pretty well posted em the au- tomodile question. Mrs, G. (meekly)—Well, Charley, I was only aking from the economy stand- point, you know. They say when you don't wish to go into that now, What I was going to say was thie: We've had | pretty poor luck with summer hotele the last few seasons, haven't w Mrs, G, (feelingly)-Oh, terrible! That West Bay House last summer wae the worst ever, 1 Willie ¢ laid aside, We would be able to buy one| the ground fnetead of indulging in of the cheaper makes of automoDiles| aertal pipe dreams the chances are we'd nd go out each week-end. ‘that would | have tad some sind of @ machine this give us the needed change of air. We! summer; but when you begin te talk could see the country and, at the same| of ten-thousand-dollar care, @e. why, time, we would get sufficient recreation. | it's ali off. ALM, OFF! Do you under. Willle Gubiantly)Oh, bduliy! stand me? Mre. G.—Oh, papa, wasn't it sweet of} Willie (graphicaty,’ as he leaves tha; You to think of that? room)—Here, there, you! Wateh pear Mr. G.—Ope of the cheaper cars will /step! ex.