The evening world. Newspaper, April 7, 1913, Page 17

The Evening World Daily Magazine. Mon J Copyright, 1918, ty The Prem Publishing Oo. (The New York Evening World) “Please be quiet You talk continually from morning tif night!” “Old Or. Germ kteving fe dangerous. “Well, that’s the only change | ever get. i'm alwaye eo tired that { wee plies bcpentredastic let Ike you.” 7 +“No, sirl I've swore not to kiss no men CIN we women get de vote!” jeleep from night ti morning!” “Well, ¢ never knew of any harm sowing Se any one whe Mesed mer, “And your mother really eald you were ‘ugly ae ein?” “Haven't you a kise for uncle this morning?” “Yep. At ‘east, she said | looked a wh Marriage Customs in Many Countries By Madison C. Peters Caperight, 1913, by The Pres Pubttthing Oo, (The Now York Brentng World). f aa HIT MONDAT {eo otill a great day in St. Petersburg, when the cele- Hy | W drated festival of the choosing of brides takes place. The daugiite: The Lessons We Never Learn Until Too Late By Clarence L. Callen Coppright, 1018, by The Prem Publahing Os, (The Rew Yorh Rrening World), RE you acquainted with the : out dame at that time the ailment HELLO, Hospita. ! How 1s MY FIDO? IN RUSSIA. that on every echool day of the hysterical demand wae made thet chess year @ schoothouse ts burned ém|dama ehould be repaired and made eafe this country? It ts a statistical fact. It is one of those ata- tlatioal facts show- ing that if we are & careless we are also a lucky people. Of course the luck of the traders assemble on that day in all their finery, marshalled along the flower beds, their mothers carofully stationed behind tiem. ‘The young maidens ere eo decorated—hair, ears, arms, neck, hands, feet, any part of the person to which adornment can be fastened, #o laden are they with gold and jewetry thet scarcely any part of their natural beauty remains uncovered. Meanwhile the young men with their flowing caftans and beards are [1% paraded by their fathers up and down before the mute and blushing beauties. Bight days after the firat bride show the interviews take place at the Parents’ houses, and through @ professional match-maker the young people are bethrothed. The wages of this go-between are as regularly fixed as the percentage of a bro! Months may de spent on the preliminaries—the pros- peste or dowry. The girl has no voice in the matter. It is time enough for the couple to assume the unimportant part of becoming acquainted when their 4d fate has been irrevocably fixed. In ancient times @ betrothed maiden always used to send her future husband a whip, wrought by herself, in token of her submission to him and om her wedding day he gave a gentle atroke upon the shoulders to show that be was the matrimonial master, Among the nobles the wedding is usually an evening function, the bridal ct pair fasting during the Gay which precedes it. The ceremonies are numerous; %, many assistants end masters of ceremonies have to be invited—iadies of WE'RE CUTTING HIM honor and bridesmen. The party seeking the bride, among the peasants, umally chooses a byway ¢0 as not to meet anyone, for @ meeting would be UP Now - VERY 1 an evil omen, FINE BEEF Having arrived at the house of the bride's father they knock at the win-| @ow ahd ask for admission. They refuse to sit down, saying “We have not! come to eit down nor to feast, but toask in marriage. We have a brave youth,| if you haven fair maiden. Might not the two be brouxht together?” ‘The oride’s parents, thanking the visitor for the compliment, the latter now Yabo off their caps and eat. This done the matchmakers ask for a final answer. } Pleading for time to think the matter over the parents finally give thetr consent after which a candle is lighted and placed before the holy picture. ‘The contracting parties cross themselves, pray, strike hands on the bargain; and the matter ie settled. The wedding clothes are blessed by the pricat. Solemn is the blessing bestowed by the respective parents of the bride! anQ bridegroom before leaving their homes. Sacred pictures, which precede them into the church, are waved three times over their heads, two wax tapers) ere given to the pair and the desrer of the taper which goes out first will be the firet to die. | In the marriage ceremony a ring of wold is given by the man to the woman emi by the woman te the man and afterwards exchanged by the heat mean, The bridal pair are crowned with filigree of silver or garlands, and the leet act ts the dissolution of the crowns, which in olden times took place) tpon the eighth day, when the bride was conducted to the bridegroom's house. | Dering this last ceremony wine mingled with water is given In allusion to the marriage at Cana, H ‘When the priest, followed by the bridal pair, walk around the ‘“maloy” a upon which the Cross and Gospels are placed, an address on their duties 1) ola wmv nnnnARARAAAAAARARRARARARARSPRORRDD, Aslivered, they kies each other, the Penalstion is pronounced and the newly e Mat | CAMARA NY Bee Renin re yi ~ wedded pair Kise the holy pictures. The peasant bride {a now led to the h WwW f th M other B 0 Tnaegtorn's home "His parenta. most the Youne couple at the entrance. to if e ings 0 e Morning junusvac ston} 2Y ouis Tracy the house and bless them with bread and salt, while the relatives pour parley | | | my mind the memory the trapped people—-men and women— leaping from the windows of the o@ Hotel Royal when that hosteiry, almest made to order asa fire-trap, went up i flames one morning in ‘8. Absut etghty people were burned to death In that fire There was a fierce demand then that all h hould be made safe. Were they? Weil, the Windsor Hotel fire happened not #0 many years later, and, after @ good | many excellent people, inoludtrig ¢ lamented Tom Ochiltree, had loat ieteeia see Sivhia te hate regs thelr lives in that fire, it was found that ishactneuss, at: Gelitinn 5 the Hotel Windsor always had been ® Cleveland, burned & fen eet Neer fre-trap. Again we heard the hysterical ‘Or do you Foumebrauet Tas 4 on ta| Cemand that the notele should be made waka pyle ‘tom When fe. Have they been? Practical fire- that terrible thing happened there wasa| men Whe know what they are tatkiny aton-wide demand that Al echool-| Revale “in thie towne "and. hundreds nee a! “4 id be properly protected from | throughout the country, ¢rom which few would have a chance in the world to The statiatica back thom up. Our luck | #0e* If Ares swept them. consiate in the fact that most of the |, Rverzealy remembers how, after the loc In Chicage & children are not in the schools, But that | feW yeare ago, which destroyed so man nort'of luck can't alwaye continue, ‘The | Valuable Iivee, there wan a frensicd de mathematical proposition called the ma-| Mand that the theatres should be mad: turity of chance is againat it. wafe from euch awful visitations, Ars ‘ow there 1s a cdntinent-wide outery | ll of our American theatres, or even « that all of the many rotten, dangerous | Masority of them, safe from fire at tir ama tn the United states must be re- | Present ill Are they #0 arranged a a made safe, @ Needless aao- e le can get out of thew rifice of Ilfe and property in the Middle| When fire breaks out? Men who know Weet through the giving way of ancient | Shake their heads sadly when you xk Game that crumbled like tinfotl before | them this question. And the same men the onslaught of swollen, savage waters | Shudder when you ask them about the atarted thie outery, moving picture theatres, ‘Will it De heeded? Perhaps, Let ttbe| We Americans are @ hecdiless and a hheped eo. But tt ts easy to recall the| forgetful fot. It tsn't that we don’t me outcry that wae made after the|care. It ts because we are too profoundly Johnatown flood, probably the worst ain- | absorbed in our individual concerns, and xlo catastrophe due to @ breaking dam | perhaps because, too, we aro a little too in history. Everywhere in thie country | much (mbued with the de'll-take-the where there were antiquated, leaky, | hindmost spirit. burned achool- house is crowded with children. You remember how AND THEN CENTRAL CROSSED THE WIRES He HAS THE MANGE! MANGE! TWOWE fou CAN'T HAVE 1 ORDERED PrmeBeer on Coperight, 1019, by The Prem Pubttshing Ce, (The New Yert Evening World). Ere VAN BURDEN, author of . Pipes ts an actress whose wider stage experience has been ohammedan may be able to listened for a moment. Ther the plateau some of its occupants, and|ained tn Landon, Hence her famiMarity ie pointed out. “In any event sound save the occasional reports ninety wounding the remainder with # shower . let us wait until the moon wanes, That yards away, He hitched up the lower of lead and debris, with the aireote ang pines of thal aity, s the darkest hour. We do not know rungs of the ladder until they were #x The Island bird*, long since driven | Nevertheless, she was born tn Michigan and down over them, which expresses the hope that harmony and happiness may be theirs. ‘They now enter the house and sit down on a bench while the bride hides her face with a handkerchief, which is taken away by her mother-in-law or an aunt, after which she receives the married woman's head-dress, ‘The 4. Clode.) “The PRECEDING INSTALMENTS. ‘ | what may happen meanwiile.” feet from tho 1, and then cropt to the remote trees, clamored tn rau- | and made her debut in “The Cowboy end N wetding Seeat follows, which among the Ruasien peasants is an occasion of, Phe words had hardly Jett her mouth Nolselessly, close to the rock, for some cour peal, and from the Dyaks came! the Lady” én ‘Nat Goodwin's piss de fe greet mirth. v when an Irregular volley was fired at forty yards, yells of fright or anguish. tn haw Yon Y The marriageable age fixed by the church is eighteen for boys and aix-| os them from the right flank of the enemy's He halted beside a mmall poontres — ‘Tha mullor, unmolested further, reached | 1", Ow J | teen for girls, Men must not marry oe eighty or women aster viaty. are Le A perp struck | yarae ga Hionmed to find something, ombed- the jedge 0 fied Iris prostr is where| The books of Sir Gilbert Parker’e boy- | eral Manager.” yeard penance—exeluaion from the Holy Communton—tn the penalty for a Y heads, the common fatlin, roots, nis dintance he she had fallen, dead or unconactous, he| hood reading were Shakespeare, “Da ‘Anna Coleone tats, euthey b eecond ee five years’ penance for the third, while a fourth marriage is manenetry at night ‘being to take too high Could plainly hear the muttered con- knew not which, He felt hie face be- 4 days an eee Adventurer,” { an aim, § But the impact of the missiles Versation of the Myaks, and could #ee come grey in the darkness, on @ Tock #0 highly {mpregnated with minerals caused sparks to fly, and Jenks with a of them prone on the sand, ft tug he hauled the ladder well ter fact proved how fatal would away from ground and sank to hand, A”: saw that the Dyaks would obtain by this Dean attempt on his part to reach the kuces beside her, A rela of almost means @ most dangerous index of their ™ I. They must discover him in- He took her into hisarms. There was| Gene Stratton gineieat ty AR: faulty practice, Telling dri tooccupy at stantly once he quitted the sombre no light, He could not see ber eyes or| “Freoklen" and ‘The Girl of the Lim- red, re once her pafo cornerdhe rapidly adjusted *hadows of the cliff. Nps. berlost,"" has an Engiiwh eparrow trained i, riffe on the wooden resia already pre- | A Vigorous outburst of fring sent At Inst whe sighed deeply. A strong! to do pretty much everything tut talk, Pared in anticipation of an attack from Nim back with baste, Iris was up tremor of returning life atlrred her| “yane cy ya that quarter, and fired three shota atthe there alone, He knew not what might frame, ene Grey, author of “Widers of the opposing crest, whence came the ma. !«ppen. He was nuw feverishly anx- “Thank God!" he murmired, and| Purple Saae,” hae @ tarpon record in Jorky of gunsfesh fous to be with her again, to hear her bowed his head, Were the sun shining| Florida. His fish ran four and @ half One, at least, of the three found a Voice and be sure that all was well. he could not see her now, for his eyes | {aches over etx fest human ‘billet. "There was @ shout of TO Ms horror he found the ladder were blurred Heth Els, who has just brought out surprixe and pain, and the next volloy S¥aying gently against the rock. Bome “The King’s Hive Riband,” was moved was using it, He sprang forward, to author#hip at the tender age of ten. 4 and seized | “1 had @ governess," she enye, “who for- n Think of your- fe eldl Whee Gas Thonaned’ Ue ton? | bade me to write decause she thought Impossible. Macaulay's “Tletory of England,” King- lake's “Eothen,” Carlyle’s “French Rev- Betty Vincent's Advice to Lovers A Promise and Its Sacredn Rois iene, 80s PROMISE js an exceedingly important thing and) tint del eis A tet overome hy. tui WaahiG be went iF the Keaing OF 1 Wy Mumanly itera msaeetary cawten ar ine SuRted from the ground love. ‘This ponatd! ‘attack, vould do no damage owing to the angie, A girl often prides herse!f on being capricious and rears ut he endeavored to disconcert the maken @ definite engagement with a young man kno’ CHAPTER X11. arksmen by keeping up a steady fire Ing all the time that she intends to break it. Als (Ooatinued) in thelr direction, He did not dream of bottom rung when Iris’s voice, close at "1 fainted—1 think. I have no hurt. 1 Oe ora mak 6 teas 1b mak (3 Wald We pen ral For the Defendant attaining other than a moral effect, as Hyd ond shrill w shrieked: ed you! Something told me you had her, untt! the sobs ceased and she pro- whilst adjusting the heavy stone 'a young p ord | ‘or the Defendant. there Ie a lot of room to miss when "Robert, where I went to heip you, of die with tested with a weak Iittle laugh— front of the cape, { sesure you I was too lightly, apt to “forget a date” without the shadow |g HE sailor looked long and aiming in the dark. Goon he Imagined next instant you. And yer t got much breath— glad to leave the place that day with a p ‘ dato” then that ‘nofse! And th ‘Robert, 1 hav of a real excuse, There im no legitimate defense for earnestly at the well. Their thatthe burst of flame from his rifle his 4 Mwht! What did you do?” ij after that excitament—but please—leave whole skin, If the stone had woobdied, the conduct of elther girl or man. H own bucket provited out helped the Dyaks, because eeveral bul- 5. Whispered, “Hold tight, and In a tall tree near the Valley of Death me—the remains! or allpped, welltt was @ case of deter- If you feel that there is danger of being unable of a dish cover and ar lets whiazed close to his head, and &°,, as you cap he had tightly fixed # loaded rift ss mined by & Tope ahout thie tl Not without you 1 rifle which o-de-80.' to keep your word you shouldn't give it. But once lay close to the brink, A fromthe ergutne firing rocommenved 4.115" for God'e sake! I follow at your Pointed at & loose stone in the sock CHAPTER XIV. “May I ask how many more wild ad- having promised you should do all in xour power to/ stealthy craw! across the sandy valley, re eon pa all hie skill and man- Heel ‘ bila Svar ReaInE the ledge held by the The Unexpected Ha, . pontine 1) undertook without my Yi ’ aki yaks. ‘Th 0 “4 ne. make good. half a minute of grave danger, and he jnulation of the wooden supports She began to climb, He took some junber of * s ne rested against « pec 'ppe' neweees! All this does not apply to keeping an engagement W' of marriage when love is gone. Here an insistence on | at the pledged word is exalting the lettor at the expense Of the spirit, Rut; Meed™ for duye to o in the ordinary exigencies of life, where ihere is no such clear distinction | ¢ ald be up the ladder again With fulled to dislodge the occupants, Every aticle from between his teeth, a string + to serve their Linperatlve minute one or more ounces of lend @Pparently, and drew it toward him, + pitched right into the ledwa, damaging Mounting the ladder at the same time, in de> the stores and tearing the tarpaulin, The end tightened. He was then about cartridges, and these were in di- communteation with a train of powder leading to @ blasting charge piaced at the end of a twenty-foureinch able little girl,” he sald, fa love with you. “Have you breath enough , ‘Wonsense!” she fetorted. “I knew why you came pk jeus Setere you admitted !t to your- on caps extracted él y OU are a dear unresson- “One othes, of great magnitude. 1 fell risk to tell er sunset while those which struck the wall of ten feet from the ground, Two Dyas, 1 ry the ladder?’ Detween letter and spirit, one's word should be as g00d as one’s bond, gloom, for rock were oe 3 f valliie Geesal ‘ pdr) e drilled with « crowbar. ‘The tmpne . lown the vr “Date, pease? les with fo°G, ore. Saneerous to Iris by reason pein y, rushed from the cover if the puliet againat the stone could not “When I discovered you were gone, I wea, to begin at the very beginning, P in in the habit of taking a dleeping ‘| fall to explode b 1d with fright. Don't you o us spe he Nazar n . 0 explode rome of the caps. necame wild with frigl Different Nationalities. drug. Should 1 give her up on that, Wmavous st The “hazard lay i. "ne contd guess what had hap Band clinging on with one fd ced the contents at thes handed. see, I imagined. you were wounded and Ri vOWae Tynan simeom board tie RO." writes: “I want to marry ala unt twice crowing ie white and, were any Tv lying flat on the sloping plat he drew his revolver and fred carisdgew co hufflcleney of had fallen from the ledge. What else Sirdar, Now, didn't you?" artoin young ledy, DUC one 19 of @ Alle [ eee ene vou tey to help her coneiQh (te, Tivkaa tiding Lehind the houte s«neesing close to the projecting shout- the pair beneath, nMclency of could $ do put follow, either to Relp And they were safely ontaried on 6 “vent nationality from my own. Dolauss her bad habit? He held Pay view of fie own ae oe tne cll the Dyaka were a0 ntly discern t being tamped You, OF, tf that were not posible——" nvermation of no interest to any other sou think this difference mar our ce : Me Che ." exposed. | , alone oh oF k 1 Iie found hor hand and pressed it to Deron in the wide world, but which pro- ea ink thle 6 c r tea powers. The one aided natire of tie enh Hone “et Peedi The rifle was vided them with the most deughtful iad a ae writen; “E Bot inte converses | cand ae Er ae gue, a they mw his wore He We ee ly crave your pardon,’ he topic tmaginable, ot ni . ing Woman, without an P st. ees Metta , bombardment Be sannaing thin naval at explanation {@ more than ‘Thue the time sped unti the rtaing atid rt A d asked her to let me ea “ Ui. serious devel ial Pe aa acy was | Who behaved unrea- Moon silhouetted the cllff on the white , D." writes young man and}take her out some evening, She re- you ! vey & Of course 1 carpet of coral-strewn sand. The black witch tte Fu .Thave planned to marry in three years, | fused, altior . bt my parents and myself want t 4 my Intentions were ner fectly honorable. What shail 1 do?” shadow-line travelled slowly closer to the base of the cliff, and Jenks, guided warned you , wWeetheart, I risk. The reat danger passed a Yow e ent announced at once. He] Accept the young woman's declrion: je q i Walt aii " Lief aS Pegs ogee 0 leo by the stare, told Uris that nidnight gaye he doesn't want that done for a|it tx wise, considering the circumstances ig the pel, [twa etal, (nea ugk aaa, ; opm can tad Bere wee as aed | year, and my parents have forbidten {of your meeting, undertakings which Fee lite UTuIOn Deain Chace Dane (oe t hale comnrehend. _"! tight have been blown to pieces (To Be Continued.) Peay ‘baving anything to do with him ~ Here goes for the V 1 our weak point, but f can from the bi : iguana aitaiae The Silent Bullet. her, had dono this thing — « . her. he forgave him, “The Winge of the Morning,” when Mr, Reeve has etruck an absolutely Af Re aticks to his decision, If he really] “A.C.” whites: “A girl tells me that Come!” is the pith cared for me wouldn't he do as! wished she loves me, but I doubt i. For though ‘Thomas Atkins under the vielnic + asic what he proposed to the rock, showed ead the ra ‘of the nty the eatery of Cio ledge, and ro> without tellit ) celvoum= this? she ts very nice to me when we are Stances. hae ‘i Ble Jane be very nice to me when we are “Xow tiere waa no V. C., but there pauiin as she pulled It, Inetantiy iia vealed Jenks ani the Dyaks to each knowing he acted for the best, but he finished, wi!l be followed Gy one of the! new vein Of delicate fiction. Hie her, | Bia SSS Neerwean Sw a Poel) 0. TS eed Skis at loceo the ropecladder and, armed other. ‘here followe! instantly « tre- Must never, Hever decelve her again in Most remarkable and etartlingly original! Oraie xemmedy, 19 00 brlillant ee Ghee d you | To got without consulting hor was im- only with a revolver, dropped down the mendous explonion thet shook earth and such @ manner, She could not bear it, serials ever written. , “H. ©," writes: ‘Il am very much in) think she cares?” bere ‘a girl, but I find that he] Why not? @he t probably « dit shy very loowe stone in the What better excume could men desire This serial fe "The Gent Bullet” oy loom Hotmes, ent bts southwest pile of rocks, hurling from for caressing her, yes, even equeesing Arthur B, Reeve, Possible. po they diecussed the project, rock, He was quite invisible to the sir, dislodging Natuzally ehe ecouted it, enemy. On the ground %