The evening world. Newspaper, April 22, 1913, Page 17

No, STAy were ‘You Ae You MI6HT STRP ON tela PaAin-y, 1918, New Shoe its Yo okt MRS. JARR LEARNS OF 4 SURE CURE FOR FAT. ND is tt you, Mre. Gratch? How do you do? How well you are looking! Come tn and talk! take your umbrella. Will you cup of teat” Sart poured thie all out beoaure lad to see the caller, who was ether than that martyr to the aver whose ample wealth of fect of United States Caval: g2 f H z & i jis if? <= i! 3 & 3 g § deployed on the day of the je of the Hikerettes, March Washington, D. C. & beautiful handbag!’ Mra. “And a big initial D. on i Ai i went on. “Yee,” eaid the visitor, “1 am Mrs. Dinkston still, but I have warned NI- ehael Angelo that the initial ts remov- | said adle and the let.er G. takes its and { will be Minerva Gratch a and renounce him and his name forever if. “Go you sre etill Nving happily with Wi financial obligations of paying h's ‘When my second husband ran onlan’t that include him Lemon the jeparted?” tnterrupted Mre. Jarr. “Se Gratch-Dipkston only gave Mrs. @ e014 look, and went on: never alluded to him as my late go T gay to Michael An- when he retirns to our apartments after midnisht"—— ‘whieh makes him your ‘late’ band, too.” suggested Mrs, Jarr. “We stands excused tn that.” Mre,, Dinkston. “You know, as Note§ Plantavenst.’ his trottery is fn society?” “Bis trottery?” queried Mre. Jarr. “Yes. He renounced poetry itself for ‘the poetry of motion. He conducts a trettery, or dancing academy, and in- etrects the bude and grand dames of the highest sostal circles In the tango, the turkey trot and aj) the modern dances.” eald ‘The ccle- Dinkston practically self-supporting,” replied the neted mill. tant suffragette. “But somehow I fee! that the place for | man is in the home.’ “But Mr, Dinkston was always a Bo- hemiat Home ties were nothing to him, jgected Mrs. Jarr. ‘T am @ new-fasbioned wemen about such things, however,” Mrs. Dinkston went on. “I say the husband's place te In the home.” “So I say, too, at times,” remarked Mrs. Jarr. “Well, that is néither here nor there,” the euffragette leader. ‘T find that frivolity still obsesses my sex. They sere nothing for the Cause except to Make themselves conspicuous. They are Ret as oar embattled sisters abroad are. In England the cry of womankind ‘s ‘Chaos or the Ballot!" “And what is the cry here? asked Mrs, Jarr. “The cry here \s, ‘Oh, I do love to turkey-trot!' An@ T’m afraid I'm get- ting fat!’ “Well, It 1s & tragedy when » woman loaes her figure,” remarked Mrs. Jarr, looking in the pler class with some sat- faction. “The Cause needs funds, you know,” Mra, Dinkston continued, “and the leed- ere in the Cause need funds. Do not worry, Mi jar," she added. ‘Tam on @ collecting tour. I have taken a leaf from the book of my angelic Angelo— Tahal pray—for the good of the Cause— on the vanities of our sex, a sex un- worthy of the eacrifices we militants make for them!” asked Mrs, Jarr. ' Ml follow a suggestion Mr. @ Rodent Reduction Rink. ‘What?’ gaaped Mra, Jarr. ' “A Rodent Reduction Rink,” repeated Mrs. Dinkston. “Stout women wilt be put on roller skates, and then I shall release rata and mice in the rink”— “Dreadful!” cried Mrs. Jarr. “Herole measuros, But I am a bust- ness woman. And it ts all for the Cause,” said Mrs. Dinkston, ‘Will you give my cera to Mrs, Stryvert” Betty Vincent's Advice to Lovers Fiekle-Minded Swains. q heart-breaker, 19 suffering. A ‘rerel tare T writes to ask me to geve some general advice to.giris on the subject of fickle-minded Young men, and also to counvel youths against girls of changeable disposition. ‘ Of course, the deliberately fickle person, the professional epicable and wantonly causes much But I have the feeling that fiokieness is often an error of judgment rather than ef intention. And then fen't the blame at 1% you are the least equally divided? sort of person who makes an excellent firat dmpreesion, but who cannot keep it up—who, in short, | doesn't wear well—aro you justificd in condemning those; of your acquaintance who grow a bit cool with the) passage of time? If some people didn't begin biuffs which they are unable to maintain other people wouldn't be eo frequently accused The. Proper Gift. “Qv C." writes: “What is the proper rt of present for my girl friend? We re not engaged, as we are too young o thiAk of marriage. Would it be roper to send a present?’ Flowers would be a quite suitable \presemt for any occasion and you may them, “HH, Z." writes have known a boy for some time and he has given two levely books, What might I gh bim for his birthday?” Why not @ book’? “A. @&! writes: "I care for a young Very much, but we quarrelied two @g0 and now We Go not speak ito eae other, How can I regain his ip?” you’partiy to biame for the ify apologise for your aa ‘ | we aatrwrites: “1 am a young man in a position to marry, but want a country girt for a wife, City girla are too frivolous, How can I get into corre. spondence with a country giri?” Spend your vacation in the country and get acquainted. The Diftident Youth. “C, P." writes: “Whenever I am in the society of women I become bashful and self conscious, t @ cure for this mental atu- ude’ Don't think so much about {t or about yourself, “1K, KK" wrt “A git) and I were jin the same play and J escorted her home from rehearsal every night. 1 took It for granted that I should have th me privilege on the night of the | final performance, but she went with | nother man gud seemed vexed that I had not formally asked permission to ‘be her escort. Was she right?" T think so. It ts never wise to assume that favors will Ge granted te you Ma STaPPING On Tea, Pant; It Can’t Be Done A, When Dreams Come True Visions of Yesteraay Ave the Facts of To-Day. By Clarence L. Cullen. Copgvight, 3018, ty The Prem Publishing Co. (The New Yors Broning World), HINGS are changing. The dreams of yesterday are the facts of tor vindicated. For ine atance: Persone not yet middle - aged easily remem when this was not ® frewh air coun- try. Folks who wanted fresh air in thelr reome while they slept os with the so-called “fresh ‘The “night air’ then waa universally deemed miasmatic and deadly, The man who wanted a bit of alr to circulate In his office was regarded as @ nuisance by ‘his office mates. Now the United States is perhaps the leading fresh alr country in the world, AU of us are fresh air enthusteste—not cranks. We ere deep breathers, We demand and get el) the fresh alr there is. Few af ue would dream of sleeping with tightly closed windows, We reso- lutely refuse to work in stuffy effices. Fresh alr has become # permanent fad with us. We grab every minute'a time that we can pare to be In the open alr, And 90 nothing t@ heard about the ‘frewh air crank’? any more; because it wouldn't mean anything, seeing that if It were employed now it would include all of : It has pot been so many years eince & man of first-rate business and social standing could get as drunk as hose Without losing caste. But he can't do It now, It ie simply ruinous nowedays for @ man of any standing at al! to be seen drunk. Thie takes in workiagmes of nearty ail grades, The a ser tn me Sas we thing of the flown years. The self-re- specting workingmen of to-dag Ie just a8 JGalous of bis reputation for sobriety as (oe the bank president, And the drink. ing workingman soon lande tn a rand. In all stations of life the drink- ‘ng man nowadays is thrust completely out of the picture, Wis vice is not Ins ulged or coddied. He must keep sober, or back with the traflers he falls and stays. This complete change of view with regard to drunkenness hes taken lace well within twenty years, Persons whose hair hardly ts gray |'t. easily recall what a dtminutive and vided affair the Woman Suffrage qu ton used to be ~The women euffra; merely furnished material for laughter, Women \tke Susan B. Anthony and Ellgabeth Cady Stanton and the few othera who were at the forefront of the early ‘suffrage etrumgie were absurdly and often contemptuously earicatured. “Lomg-haired men ami sherthatred women" was a bromide phrase of scorn ‘In the general mouth. The wuffragists were deploted as angular, emaciated spinstera with corkscrew ourte, Itke Miss Democracy. Legislative committees yawneé borediy in the suffragietn’ faces when they appeared te plead their cause, ‘Neodlees to invite attention to the dif- forepee Pad yore for women now in seve tates: one of the socept tacts of Iffe, Whatever may be the . ividual view of the questio: this countey—secepted as a Ive propo. sition, ‘The corkscrew curls have disappeared | PO from the comio papers. They would look mighty archeic today, The suffrege- demanding ladies don't wear them—and as a matter of fact they never did! Tt fe only when we mmep oursetves ewelse that we fall tate otep et least not in @ form such . Id use — CHAPTER I. (Ocetinest.) The Murder. ENNEDY'S laboratory was brightly lighted when I er- tived earfy the next evening. One by one hia “guests dropped in. It wae evident thet they had little Mking for the visit, but the coroner had sent out the “invitations,” and they had nothing to do but scvept. as politely welcomed Gy the ofessor and assigned a geat, much as have not been able te obtain that note as iS what were ite contents, But in a certain waste. basket I found @ mass of pubp-like paper. It had macerated, perhaps chewed; perhaps |t had been also eveked with water. “There was s weshvasm ning water in this room The ink had run, and of course was illegible. The thing wes so unusual that I at once asoumed this wae the remains of the note in question. Under ordinary cir- cumstances it would be utterly value- lese as @ clue to anything. But to-day science fe not ready to let anything pass ag valucions. “I found on microscopic examination that it was an uncommon tinen bond paper, and I have taken a large num- ber of microphotographe of the fibres in {t. They are all similar. I have here alse about a hundred micropho- tographs of the fibres in other kinds of paper, mat them bends. These T have acou! tod in my etudy of the es you can #00, this one in questios biect. None of shows fibres re- of may conclude that it is of ui very narrow and armchairs used by the students during lectures. At last Kennedy was oer to begin. Be took his tion dehind the long, quality. Through en agent police T have seoured samples of the note paper of every one who could be concerned, eo far aa I could eee, with are the photographs of the Gres of these various pote papers, end emong them all ts J ns oe that cor- flat-topped table which he used for hia of Gemonstrations before Bis classes, “I realise, ladies and gentlemen,” he began formally, “thet Iam about to do @ very unusual thing; but, as yeu all tnow, the police end the corener been completely baffled By mystery and bave requested me te tempt to clear hd at eset pointe’ in it 3 will begin to say by remertel; 9 tl mere facts would be inconclusive, ft would never convince - viet anybody, resin “tn other words, elreumetantial evi- dence must first lead to @ suspect, ané then this suspect must prove equal to accounting for the fects, It te my hepe that each of you may P win that wit be @ tension was not relieved even when Kennedy stopped began to fuse with © IRtie fo mal whi coxph at any moment. felt the tension 20 only after he was composed Duttyslike material. hi a hand "ane aiming 9 latest Reanedy ploked up a of coareé homespun from fe he pried it eut. I doubt tf even the tnepector himself could have told us that when an ordi. nary leaden bullet fg shot through @ woven fabric the wesve of that fabric {a in the majority of cases Impresesd on sometimes clearly, sometimes fainthy. Mere Kennedy took up @ piece of fine patiste and fired another bullet through ‘wmvery leaden buttet, as T have said, which hae struck such a fabric bears an impression of the threede which is” recognizable even when the bullet has penetrated deeply into the body. It ts only obliterated partially or entirely en bullet haw been flattened by striking @ bone or other hand object. Even then, aa in this cane, ff only part af the bullet in finttened the ri mainder may sti! show the marke the fabric, A heavy warp, aay of cotton velvet or, aa I have here, homespun, will be imprinted well on the bullet, but te, containing one bun- to the inch, will show marks. “Byvene layers of goods guch as @ coat, whirt and undershirt may each leave thetr marke, fut that does not concern us in this cage. Now I have here a plece af pongee elk cut from a woman's automobile coat, I discharge the dullet through {t—so. I compare the bullet now with the others and with the one proded from the neck of Mr. Parker, I And that the marks on that fatal bullet correspond preciscty with those on the bullet fired through the ngee coat.” Startling ae was thie revelation, Ken- nedy paused only an inetant before the nest, “Now I have another demonstration. A certain not ree in thi Mi Parker was reading it, or renting 11, ot the time he was ehet 1 Chrust ket. Now lest any one should question thie method T might cite a case where @ man hed been ar- rested in Germany charged with ateal- ing ® Government tond, He was not Searched ¢ill later. There wae mo evi- dezce save that after the arrest « large number of spitballe were found around the courtyard under his cell window. Thia metiod of comparing the fl with those of the regular Government paver was used, end ‘vy It the men was convicted of stealing the bond, I think # 19 almoat unnecesaury to add that in the present case we mow precisely who"—— At this point the tension was so gre that it snapped, Miss La Ni de me, had been leaning rd ii tartly, Almost were wrung from her pored hoarsely: “They put me up to doing it; I didn't want t. But the affair had gone too far, 1 couldn't see him lost before my very eyes. I didn't want her to get him. The quickest way out was to tell the whole story to Mr, Parker and stop it, It was the only way I could think of to stop this thing between another man's wife and the man I loved better than my own hushand. (od knows, Prot. Kennedy, that was all''-—~ “Calm yourself, madam," interrupted Kemedy poothingly. “Calm youraclt, What's done done. ‘The truth must come out, He calm. Now," he con- timed, ufter the first atorm of remorso had spent iteelf and were all out- warily composed aga! ‘we have said nothi: whatever of the most myste- feature of tte caer, the firing of the shot. The murderer could have the weapes into the peeket or wet and }, the tetas ef this coat’—here he drew T orth the automobile coat and held it Soft, aiept the bullet hele~"and he or she (I will not dey whieh) coud Macharged the pistol unseen, Temoving and secreting the weapon terwar@ one very important loco evidence would be Tl person could have used euch @ cart- Him aot Sve’ mode with wa, jens powder, je com would have concealed the flash of the shot very of- fectively. There would have been po amo&ke, But neither this a heavy blanket would ha: the report of the shot. “What are we to think of thet? Only one thing, I have often wondered wh the thing wasn’t done before. In fect have been waiting for it to occur. There te an invention that makes it almost weible to atrike @ man down with fnpunity in broad daytam in any place where there is sufficient nolee to cover up @ click, & ‘Pout!’ and the whir of the bullet in the “T rel jartfora ot ‘hie writer over there or 40 long as you keep the keys 4 ‘The inspector will etact that imita- tion eteck-ticker in the comer. Now we are ready. you, end an outsider not would eever have thought the culprit. To a certain extent I have reproduced the conditions under which this shooting occurred. “At once on being sure of this feature of the case I despatched a man to Hartford to see this inventor, The man ohtained from him @ complete Met of all the dealera in New York to whom such devices had been sold. The man also traced every sale of those dealers, Ho gid not actually abtain the weapon, but if he working on schedule time necording to agreement he fe at this search warrant possible place Person sunpected of thia crime could have concealed hig weapon, For, one of the persons intimately con- nected with this case purchased not long ago a silencer for @ thirty-two-calibre revolver, and I presume that that pore won carried the gun and the silencer at the time of the murder of Kerr Parker.” Kennedy concluded In triumph, hie voice high pitched, his eyes flashing. Yet to all outward appearance not a heart beat was quickened. Some one iu the Wigs, self-posbession, T" my mind that even et the last Kennedy was bafited. “T hed anticipated some such anti- climax," he continued after a moment. “Sam prepared for Mt." Me touched a bell and the door to the next room opened. One of Ken- nedy's graduate students stepped in, “You have the records, Whiting?" he asked, “Yes, Professor.” “I may say,” cach of your choirs where the i 1 ie ij 3 £ : ff i if EF i i E HE i ih i i H My is 4 plas H = ty el i! 4 + FI Hh 54855 i i : i b : i & > 2 ? a rot. jetcher he gad Occurrence Kho caving @ clase Uhh hurried out to FF was ry Mins Bond, who hae 8 fonleed wit added Mennedy, as he paper and, it any. came directly to the ere Was something mlesing nade," ¢ T had no need to oor, the