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ut Mt , : The Frogs. efor ser “S’Matter, Pop?” { eatatttta,t x BR “The Evening World Daily Magazine. Saturday. April 12,1913" ©’ x Ee x Re Ox OH ABOUT A covet NB Yo MRS. JARR SAVES HER “J CASH BY SPENDING IT. JUST don't know what to dol” whimpered Mrs. Jarr. ‘Here I was counting upon being able to elf @ little dress or two—nothing ‘ou know—maybe one of the litte ready-made old rose ratines I see in the little shops—only I’m afraid they’ be 80 common that I wouldn't be able to wear it, But that’s always the way! Anything I can everybody @ise has. So what's the use to get it?” ‘ou should worry and get a new @ress, eh?” asked Mr. Jarr. “If worrying got me a new dress I'd have a mighty fine wardrobe!’ Mrs. Jarr declared. “But it just goes to show how little you men care. But there te one thing I'd like to know, and that is will the Income Tax reduce the high cost of living?” “I should worry and get @ summons by the Internal Revenue Collector!" re- torted Mr. Jarr. “I think the Income ‘Tax is a grand litte thing. I notice, though, that the boss isn't so pleased with it. He ‘s it's iniquitous and he eannot see but that it is establishing a Privileged class in taxation. All people should pay a tax on their incomes, the ‘Doss says. And here it falls heaviest Be says, on the thrifty and provident. “I'm sure we're not improvident, Mrs. Jarr said, bristling up, “What did Be mean by talking like that to yout” “Ol meant nothing personal,” Mr. thought it un- fair that the Income Tax should be laid only upon people who earned or re ceived mose han 4,000 a year. All he waid to we was: ‘Is it fair, Mr. Jarr, that you will not have to shoulder your ‘burden of taxation, simply because your Income ts under $4,000 a year?’ % why didn’t you speak right up an@tell him you would © no obje tion to paying the Income Tax if he raise your salary to over $4,000 @ fear?’ asked Mrs. Jarr, “E-never thought of it," replied Mr, !, if you had the bille to met think of it," sald Mrs, Jarr. you'd nate just what I was explaining to y ju. Everything gets dearer all the time. M i vegetables are dearer, clothing is dea’ er, shoes are dearer. And some little money T had saved to get a little dress for myself—well, it's gone: “Stolen?” asked Mr, Jarr. +low Mucd Does THe Butcder MAKE ? “Well, it's robbery, the prices one has to pay. So while it wasn't exactly stolen, atill—after paying the bills one is worse off than one was before. “We should have saved money,” sug- gested Mr. Jarr. “We should be sav- ing money now." “Tell me how?” asked Mrs. Jarr. tw five dollar raise of salary raise of the cost of living. Oh, dear: “I guess thrift is a sixth sense,” mused Mr. Jarr. ‘Some people seem to ‘de able to put @ little money by for a rainy day, and we can’ “Why worry about rainy days when the sun is shining?’ asked Mrs. Jarr cheerfully. ‘Sometim I think may’ it Is best we are poo: I'm sure the Stryvers's money doesn't make them any happier, and Clara Mudridge Smith’s money doesn’t make her any happier.” working on go through and I get @ bunch of money, you bet I'm going to put it in the bank! “You'd better not,” warned Mrs. Jarr, “I wouldn't sleep at night for fear the bank would burst or the bank president would run off with our money—for It would be just our luck if the bank presi. dent would take OUR money and run away and never touch a cent in the bank that belonged to anybody else"— “Now, don't start worrying about los- ing the money before we get It," advised Mr. Jarr. “But I tell you, dear, it would be nice to have a nest exg—say @ thou- sand dollars, in bank, drawing intercst for ten or twenty years. Why, in about seventeen years it would double.” never saw @ man like you!" cried Mrs. Jarr. “First you only want, to Dut the money in for ten years, and then you talk of putting ¢ in for seven- teen years, or twenty years! Why. what good would it do me then? I'd be an old woman?” But {t would te proviston for our old e, a fund to keep us in comfort.” ‘Oh, nonsense!" retorted Mrs. Jarr. “The way the cost of everything is in- creasing, we'd lose money if we put anything in bank for ten years! The ‘only way to save money is to spend it! Not Her Fault. MPTBE operation was mecessful; also the patient was dead, ‘The doctor spoke kindly to the mourning widow: “Marvellous that the poor man Lived through so Many years of wo much disease and muffering!"* “Yes, doctor," the widow replied, ‘we had tried our best to make lim have the operation Jong, long before this,""—Lafe, List. A Poker Player’s Luck. BRAHAM B, NICHOL, who, being the beat with some of Washington's biggest and richest men, was being told one morning of evening before when @ stranger had ‘By Cora M. W. Greenleaf. WONDDR if you've heard the frogs ] in the meadow lands and bogs, ‘Mong the sedges rank and cool, in the edges of each pool, Eehoing deep or rising shrill over forest, field and hill, Mingled with the evening fog—duet, chorus, monologue— This the message thef would sa: “Spring is here—it's come to stay the messige that they bring Welcome, welcome, vibrant spring! Take Tell me, have YOU heard the frogs’ soft clodious prologuer Of .he story of the year that begins when spring draws near? they said? winter fled.” your pain o'er past mistakes melt as ice melts from the lakes, room within your heart for Joy to bud anu hope to start. ‘Létt up your earth-bound, cold, dull ey for warmth and wisdom to aki T@ai year ip gone, the winter fled, The fature's yours! The past is dead! Then ars The Day’s Good Stories joa's | 4 “Whenever there's @ lot of soup sronnd I'm i EES How Failure Talks. J his heritage from his father, said to @ ing in accord with tis nature, into the most day?’ was the question that was put to e man yawned and answered Piette een Violet Was, Needed at Once. of his choice, the congratulations that “Joe,"" said one of these friends, “I shore te around Mise Violet,’ Judge, Tepresentative Stephens of Los Angeles got to ‘The tupa fishermen, he said, got out in emall pound tuna was not considered good ** 'ouse me, Mi @ Nite motab "Golly!" exclaimed the mesenger, as if pictur. about twelve blocks away with @ fork in my OHN D. ROCKEFELLER Jr., discussing report helpful precepts, on the high road to failure. “"*¥en, indeed. Every fine day 1 postpone & W's & certain darky of Mobile, Als, @n- were showered upoo him included @ note of surprised! We-all norer thought you'd speak up. ‘“Dat's true,’ said Joe; ‘but de fact is, old ene A Thing to Be Dreaded. talking about tuna fishing off the coast of | motor boats with a long line batted with flying rt, At this juncture he was approached by @ large expression in hi ‘Oh, yes,” smile ing the scone, ‘‘ain't dey feared dey might hetch ‘—Vhiedeiphis Telegraph, hand,""—Argonaut, auccess with that homely wisdom which ts “The failure resde a wrong meaning, © men- “*hre you laying anything by for o rainy “The man looked up from his newspaper, lot of wbek.’ ‘Milwaukee Wisconsin. nounced his engagement to the dusky one wonder, It's going on two years sence you bemun to foot man, 1 didn’t lose my job until last ight.”"— N the Capitol st Washington the other day California, fiah, and to catch anything Jem than @ hundred. colored messenger dey went fai ‘out very frequently, one?" HE TAIES “IN'A “PACKERS. TAWE “Well, if some little schemes I am! ABouT FIFTY THOUSAND, > YEAR, F.THine Lor Butfrde It AWAY.¥ fom = JAMBI Ton (Tu Ber He 1s IN HISLCAREER RIGHT on Noel, You CANT. BEAT THAT BOY FOR INTELLIGENCE THE 6PARIC OF, 1§ GLOWING IN HIS MIND RIGHT NOW, By C. M. Payne Be x | FIGURING It Can’t Be Done! WIRE, WF YOULL EXCUSE ME FOR AWHILE ~ Gon’ “To “TAKE MY BATH @ © OF “TONIGHT - SEE? dust FOR & CHance.? fle Be wrth You iW HALE AN HouR. wee $ | woNT Be LONG! ( KNow WHERE HE'S HEADED ,OPEN window FOR AND (LL S@E TOIT He (Lt PUT @ STOP ‘To “THIS SORT of [The Wings of the Morning | Suil Another UNUSUAL Story (Copyright, 1900, by B, J. Clade.) fried, striving desperately to effect @ hour for such explanations, Leave me SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALMENTS, C4telees complaisance, ‘“The ship's to deal with Lord Ventnor. I am con- Robert Anstruther, a you Ncer in #t0re® may provide Iris with some sort tent to trust the ultimate verdict to you, foata, To tie victim ct & conedracy on Whe part of of rig-out, and an old friend of here 18 Gir Arthur, You will learn in due course a yp So es janisel on board at this moment, Mitle expect- all that has happened. Go on doani, 4 in ‘abo ing her presen Lord Ventnor hae 1, Meet Lord Ventnor as you woukd accompanied me in my search, He will, meet any other friend. of course, be delighted” — marry him, I know, Anstruther flushed a deep bronze, but I I broke in— ‘ather, why aid he come with you?” S'r Arthur, driven into this sudden 4° squall of explanation, became dignified. “Well, you see, my dear, under the circumstances, he felt an anxiety almost commensurate with my own.” “But why? Why?" Iris was quite calm. You will not I oan trust you.” said this with a smile thet robbed the words of serious import. ‘Believe me, you two can find plenty to occupy your minds today without troubling yourselves about Lord Ventnor.” “I am very much otliged to you,” murmured the baronet, who, nobwith- ‘standing his worry, was far too experi- enced a man of the world not to ac- knowledge the good sense of this advice, With Robert go off, i ‘Fock. whi for such an, soneryeney near, she was courageous. Even the no matter how ruManiy méeht be the Prosch more than debty Tn nu perturbed baronet experienced @ new guise of the strange perton who gave It. and ‘own, 'ineNective fire ont sensation as his trou died len yo teil “That is settled, then,” mid Robert, Nat ofthe water casks before her searching eyes, His daughter taughing good naturediy, for he well st reer he fener, vention aamising. |The Wad jeft him a Joyous, needless girl. He knew what a weird wpectacie he muxt for a Darley, amet deenancls ets, re der, found her a woman, arone, self rellant, present to the bewildered old gentleman, or wine lu over to their cause, purposeful. Yet he kept oomnk — Even Sir Arthur Deane was fancinated Anstrutner conteaaey his love for Iris, who sccets the moat straightforward means as the by the ragged and hairy giant who car of wag sends marines on the inland, who drive off only honorable way of clearing @ course ried himself #0 maaterfully and helped pre Drake ows Fie httlude hase ut Bo beset with unsuspected obstacles, everybody over the stile at the right to'Bie Arthur as hot . “It is only reasonable, Iris, that your moment. He tried to develop the chang CHAPTER XV amanced husband should ‘suffer an in the conversation. A agony of apprehension on your account, «ny the way,” he sald, “how came pdabosn dy thas was possible to effect vou to be on the Sirdar? I have a list your rescue. ef of all the passengers and crew and A Difficulty. janced—huaband ? Your name does not appear therein.” “Well, my dear girl, perhaps that in hardly ‘the correct phrase from your point of view. Yet you cannot fail to remember that Lord Ventn “Father, dear," said Iris, solemnly, but in a Volce free from all uncertainty, “my aManced husband stands here! We plighted our troth at the very gato of death, It was ratified in the pres- ence of God, and han been blessed by Him, I have made no compact with Lord Ventnor, He is a base and un- worthy man. Did you but know the truth concerning him you would not mention hia name in the same breath with mine, Would he, Robert?” Never was man #0 perplexed as the unfortunate ship owner. In the {natant that his beloved daughter was restored be convinced of ita Infallibilty $f HI. M. to him out of the very depthe of the 8. Orient Is able to provide w lady'e fea he was asked elther to undertake outfit.” the role of a disappointed and unfor- Str Arthur Deane gladly availed him- questioned or gainsaid, Robert and Iris, giving parent or sanction her marriage self of the proffered compromise, Ie without spoken word on the subject, had ty a truculent-looking person of most assisted Iris Into the boat, though that tacitly agreed to avoid the slightest for \dding if otherwise manly appea active young person was far better eble Semblaneo of subterfuge as unworthy ance, who had certainly saved her from to support him, and a word to th alike of thelr achievements and their death in ways not presently clear to officer in command sent the ste flying love. him, ‘but who could not be regarded as back to the stp. Anstruther, during @ Yet what could Sir Arthur Deane dp? a suitable aon-in-law solely on that momentary delay, made a small request “Oh, that ta casily accounted for, I shipped ax @ steward tn the name of Robert Jenks. “Robert Jenks! A #teward!”* This was worse than ever. The un- happy ahipowner thought the sky must have fallen, “Yea. ‘That forma some part of the Promised explanation.” Irlg rapidly gathered the drift of her lover'a wishes, “Come, father,” she merrily. “I am aching to see what the ship's stores, which you and Robert pin your faith to, can do for me in the shape of gur- ments, I have the utmost belief in the British navy, and even a sceptic ahould HEN, being much more self- Posseaved than the older man, who was naturally in a state of agitation that was almost painful, he turned to Iris, “I think,” he eald, “that your father should take you on board the Orient, Iris. There you may, perhaps, find some suitable clothing, eat something, and recover from the exciting events of the morning. Afterward, you must bring Sir Arthur ashore again, and we will guide him over the island. I am sure you will find much to tell him meanwhile.” The baronet could not fail to note the manner in which these two ad- dressed each other, the fearless love which leaped from eye to eye, the calm acceptance of a relationship not to be ‘To frame a suitable protest at uch @ account. on his own account. LAeut, Playdon, moment Was not to be dreamed of. As What could he do, what could he say, nearly as big a man as Robert, de- yet he was top shaken to collect his to make the position less intolerad spatched a note to his servant, and the thoughts. Anstruther's proposal, how- Anstruther, quicker than Ivia to appre- «ie speedily returned with @ complete ever, helped him to blurt out what he clate Sir Arthur Deane's dilemma, gal- assortment of clothing and linen. The | intuitively felt to be a disagreeable lantly hetped htm. ite placed a loving mun also brought @ dressing case, with fact. Yet something must be said, for hand on the girl's shoulder. the result that a dip in the bath and his brain reeled. "Be advised by me, Sir Arthur, and “Your suggestion ip admirable,” be ten minutes in the hands of an expert you too, Iria,” he esid. "This is ne valet made Anstruther a man, By Louis Tracy IN THIS — VERY, VERY IRREGULAR! You Can Be Your Own Beauty Doctor A TURKISH TOWEL FOR INDIGESTION By Andre Dupont. Coperight, 1918, by The Prem Publish ing Oo. (The New York Rreatng World), FEEL,” anid the Average Girl, “as if I'd eaten a miastonary.” a “A what?" exclaimed the Woman ef Thirty, looking at her- ta our f pri “Don't you remember the old nonsense thyme about ‘the Cassowary en the Plains of Timbuctoo, who ate up @ missionary, body, bones, ené tyme ‘ book too? That's just the way I feel. Especially the hymn book. 3¢ les Ake lump of lead on my chest.” if you will eat Welsh ratbits at 13-o’clock at night, what can. yeu-em- pect?” “I noticed that you ate near!; vatingly happy thts mornin as much as I 414, and you ccem tw te “T haven't had eves —— “What 414 you ' take for tt” Be, ‘A Turkish towel.” | “Is thet a conun- drum or are you trying to be funny?” “I am absolutely { serious. Of course, I ‘ don't eat the towel. I use it to exercise with. Just after my 4 fo through a few simple stunts with the towel, that atart my blood to circulating briskly and Acting under his advice, the bodies of the dead were thrown into the lagoon, the wounded were collected in the hut to be attended to by the ship's surgeon, the prisoners were par- aded jn front of Mir Jan, who identified every man, and found, by counting heada, that none was missing, Robert did not forget to write out « formal notice and fasten It to the rock. ‘This proceeding further myatified t officers of the Orient, who had gradu- ally formed @ connected Idea of the Breat fight made by the shipwrecked pair, though Anstruther squirmed in- wardly when he thought of the manner in which Iris would picture the scene. An it was, he had the first innings, and he did not fail to use the opportunity, In the few terse words which the mill- tant weribed Briton best underatands he de- the girl's fortitude, her un- eorfulness, her uncomplain- and dare. Little was said by his auditors, sa to interpolate an occasional question as to why euch and such a thing was necessary, or how some particular drawback had peen surmounted, Stand- r the well, it was not necessary to explain to them the chief features of the island, and point out the measures he had adopted, When he ended, the first leutenant, who commanded the boats sent In pur suit of the flying Dyake—the Orlent sank both sampans as soon as they were launched—summed up the general verdict: “You do not Capt, Anstruther, vies you from the b do, | know——from exclaimed stout midshipman, o1 those who ern Iria, Robert waited until the laugh ated away. “There is an error about my rank,” he said, “I did once hold a commis- sion in the Indian army, but I was court-martialed and cashiered in Hong Kong #ix months ago, I was unguatly need our admiration, convicted on a grave charge, and I hope some day to clear myself. M while T am a mere civilian. It wi only Miss Deane's generous sympathy which led her to mention my former rank, Mr. Playden.” Had another of the Orient’s twelve- pounder shell# suddenly burst in the iidat of the group of officers it wo have created less dismay than th. unexpected avowal. Coi nartialed: Canbiered! None but a service man can grasp the awful algnificance of thoee words to the commissioned ranks of the army and navy. Anstruther well knew what he waa doing. Somehow, he found nothing bard in the performance of these penances now, Of course, the ugly truth must be revealed the moment Lord Ventnor art what some one once reforred tu aa ‘the department of the interior work- ‘ng smoothly, It makes me feel fine and so good-natured that I could forgive even my mother-in-law. You can judge by that whether I suffer a bit from pretty good proof of immunity. But if you know anything, please help a poor sufferer, I've taken #0 many pills and tablets and capsules and { hottics with ‘a epoonful efter meals’ printed on them that I'm just éle- and what they had done for her I hadn't the & eltehtest faith in them. But she kept at me unt! exasperated me so that I made up my mind to try them just to prove she was wrong. But, greatly to 4 my ourprine, they commenced to do me good in a week's time. % “Every morning—and evening, too, if I hi ten anything indigestibie— T put on a lonse gown and, taking @ Turkish towel, grasp it firmly with one hand near each end, I ri it well over my head and then lower it behind me an far as I can, keeping it pulled out etraight all the time. Next I @riag the towel around the back of the head and, grasping the ends firmly and ‘ma, holding the towel taut all the time, I bend the body to one side and then to the other, keeping the towel just behind the top of my head. This exer- cise, doctors eay, ie very beneficial for the abdominal muscles and aide diges tion wonderfully, #o much for the sec- ond stunt. “The third stunt banish indigestion, The towel is held 20 ingeniously that the chest ts ex- panded and the shoulders kept stratent, which in diMcult in most bending exer- cises. The towel is hold in each hand, brought stratcht acrose the back end brought up the arms to the elbow, which are bent slightly to hold it steady. Holding {t in this position, I bend from the waist as far forward as possible. Now holding the towel back of my neck ‘once more, with arma outstretched, I swing the body from the waist line as far around to each side as I can, “This te all f do, if T in a hurry. But if I have a little more time I bring tho towel around the back of my neck, stretch my arma straight out tn front and, taking a deep breath, move them backward as far as I can. 1 do this slowly and inhale all the time, Then T bring the arms forward, again exhaling breath. It takes much longer to tell lout these towel exercises than it does to do them. ‘Tho whole atunt, detng wach exercine alx or aeven times, only takes me about ten minutes, or fifteen when I'm eapecially thorough.” in also great to “But what has all this to do with beauty?" ; “why, it atrikes straight at the most powerful enemy of woman's beauty— indigestion.” who have been and wif be once more ; his peers. The first Meutenant again phrased the thoughts of his junlore— “I, and every other man in the ship, cannot help but sympathize with you. But whatever may be your record—if You were an escaped convict, Mr, An- atruther—no one could withhold from you the praise deserved for your magni+ Gcent stand against overwhelming odds, Our duty ts plain, We will bring you to Singapore, where the oth- ers will no doubt wish to go immedi- 1 the captain what you heard his name. Tt was not tote to the 004 fellows crowding @round him, an: rig every attention that the frank hospitality of the Iittish satlor could suggent, to permit them to adopt the tone of friendly equality which mgtd diacipline, if nothing else, would not allow them to maintain, ‘The first Meutenant, ‘by feason of his rank, was compelled to say something— “That 1s a devilish bad Job, Mr. An- struther,” he blurted out. “Well, you know, T had to tell you," He mmtiod unaftectedly at the wonder- ing circle. Tle, too, was an offic apprectated their sentiments. ‘Th jgnedly worry for him, a man and modest, such a aplendid type of the soldier and gentleman, yet, by thelr common law, an outcast, Nor could they wholly understand his de- meanor, ‘There was a noble dignity in his candor, a consctous innocence that disdained to shield itself under a par- tial truth. He epoke, not as a wrong: door, but as one who addresses those have been good enough to acquaint us with, Meanwhile asaintance, murmur of approbation ran through the little circle, Robert's face patel somewhat. What first-rate chaps they were, to be sure! ‘I can only thank you," he sak, wn- steadily, “Your kindness is more trying than adversity,’* (To Be Continued.) Detects Criminals by Science. Cratg Kennedy, ctive.;most remarkable detective, Read ie runs down criminals by science, not tures in “THE SILENT BULe merely by clues, He reduces crime to by Arthur, B, Reevs, which wilh @ aclentific problem and then solv in The the problem, He is perhaps Sctioa's we will give you and—er—attention in Worla,