The evening world. Newspaper, May 17, 1913, Page 11

T he Evening World Daily Magazine Saturday. May 17 Do Va THEE, CHICKEN? IM GONNA PLAN THIS CORN AN UP IM GONNA Gi YA A WwW lishing Co, (The New York brent World). MR. JARR’S WISE UNCLE TELLS OF A $120 FEAST. ad fs Hes ‘Doat," drawled Uncle Henry a: he grunted sympathetically, while | Gus, straining and perspiring, tugged at the flywheel to get the motor started, hame would you call it?" wiping his face with his sleeve and straightening up with @ Broan, for his back hurt him, there's lots of good name! @aid Uncle Henry. “Yes,” Gus asented, “lot's of ‘em. We was thinking of calling !t ‘The Dill Pickle,’ but then we'd have to paint it @reen, Rafferty said to bore it full of holes and call it ‘Sweltzerkase.’ But I think ‘The Floating Debt’ {s more sig- miftcent. *Bigmificent? ‘Uncle Henry. “Iva a word meaning ‘erticular @rand,’ that feller Dinkston “Wal, you should give it a hightone mame (ike ‘Sea Bird,’ advised Uncle Henry. “But it ain't a dird and it ain't going to sen,” expostulated Gus. ‘What's that got to do with it? asked Uncie Henry. “Lem Beasley calis his place a first class barber shop, and ft ain’t. And I got a boat on Mud Creek I call The Gea Bird,’ and you can mame your boat after my old scow and I won't charge you nothing. coufse, you can set ‘em up, or gimme a ike the name of this What's that?’ asked body is on the make. mation boat which runs like a do watch from Haverstraw until the robe I got a gessolene an@ since then I've turned this wheel seotion to cough, and all you fellers think of is to stick me for a treat on account of it." It wouldn't be a bad idea." sus- gested Uncle Henry. “When them war- ships is carried down into the water they hit {t with a bottle of champagne, an@.1 don’ men fer kicking. wasted.” “Sooner would IT hit myself over the nose with a quart of champagne,” sald Gap sullenly, “Look, because 1 don't have n kex of beer down here all the loafers. what come to my place won't come down to help me start the ma- chines in it!" sto me like a wasteful thing, Because {t's money \ “l Unele Henry, "Now there's } Bf that vig wheel you've been turning { around, What good is it when ft does / tura? If 1 had that boat I'd take off WHEN IT GROWTH of} couple of sregars, or suthin’ of that| sort.” "There you go!" cried G “Every: | rt ber what sold it to me gets his money, | “i. Million times and can't ever get the | t blame the temp'rance wim-| Att YA Go ItH TO TH HERE Tree AN YAW tT \ IVE HOLE ae sc that wheel and all on a grindstone, then you could go up and down this |DIe erick sharpening scythes for folks j4nd make some money out of It." “What do you think fellers along this river have scythes for?" asked Gus dis. Gustedly, “To mow the water weedi “1 don't pelleve in wastetulness, plied Uncle Henry, ‘Jim Tibbits bought @ automobile and he gears it up to pump water and run his ensilage cutter and saw cord wood and turn his cider press, He lets the wimmen folks ait in the machine and they have a ride, you might say, and yit, as the machine is Jacked up it don’t wear out no tires— now if you had gotten an automo- bile’ But Gus had turned disgustedly to his task of trying to get his engine started. “What air you turnin’ that pesky thing around fer?" asked Uncle Henry. “I'm polishing my nails!” snorted Gua, | to start an engine so am to turn the thing in the water that makes the bost gol” | "Git out | in the water and turn the | wheel,” advised 17 |was to take my advice you'd change} {ts name and call it ‘Tue Sea Bird! | Then you could git a pole and push her up the creek and ketch Ash, “Before the chemical works and the tannery killed the fish, and before we bottled Mudville’s healing watern—good | to remove paint or pimples or cure dys- | pepsy or ringworm—T used to fish from my scow The Sea Bird,’ and onet 1) caught a hundred and twenty dollars’ worth of fish for breakfast “What?” erled Gus, straightening up again and looking murderously at Uncle Tlenry. “Jest no. A hundred and twenty dol- lars’ worth of fish,” repeated Uncle Henry, “Four pickerel it was, And as {t was out of season T could have been fined $% each for the pick And as one was undersizedf that was $0 more, and" —— Mr, and Mrs, Jarre and Mr. and Mri Rangle and the children followed the crowd rushing to tie riverside. The | report was that Gus had gone violently |{nsane and was trying to kill an old man with whiskers’ with a monkey | wrench The whiskers didn't have the monkey wrench; Gus had that. The old man {had the whiskers. He was Mr, Jar I wife's uncle, sald Rumor. Henry. “If you Betty Vinc Advic “Street Car Etiquette. T be numbered amon make spectacles of HE time of stre is fast approa his mo it her But when che two are travelling in an open other pubtt yveyance ordinary decorum demands certatn restraints, fun and taughter are all very wail, but they should not degenerate Into maudlin man- 1! were you Vd also make a definite After Five Years prone propieal in j PI. wrt he’ Lewnrbixte a MC writes: “Tam a college freah- girl whom | ked very mush. Man of nineteen, with a private tncome. % ae i nim fn love with a lady of twenty. We liaven't apohen sliver, Jwant to} 8 make up. What shall I four and | asould like to marry her im- | Write and apulugine for your whare tn) MAdintely, Bhe te willing, De you think 9 It advinable 7 ne © ely you Ane wid, ' — - |G. 1 writes: “T have teen engaged OY VO writen OP am very mun jo & young lady for @ year, but she Jove with a youn lady, bot | haven » be erowing cold to me because | proposed wo her. twrite vernes, Wau! vect tu her frigndwhip with a cers it Qe prover to wend Fer some prataing | ir Am £ in the wrong to do her and maxing Knewn my longings and. imientions!"’ ‘ Pemiectiy proper to send them, bus if And T sincerely ent’s e to Lovers eet oar excurali ching, me to the nearby beaches If indeed it ts not already here hope that none of my readers will the Irresponsible young persons who themselves every summer by thelr pub- He love-making. There are many things perfectly proper and permissible In thelr place, but ridiculous and in extremely bad taate out of their place ff a young woman's flance t# paying her w call there Is no reason why he should not kiss her or put ITH COMIN TO TA $e “Some people might think I was trying | | thing and then maybe it will start the | TTA DO TICK AROUND 'T GROWTH tLe GET WHAT é Seonammamaaad A_SPRING FANTASY. ¢¢ee Mid-May. JHE forest in May is a wonderful place, And usually just as dusk kind she pic home” with her arma full of dogwood must pause a moment. arena | her steals a spell, Something that quickena her pulse and makes her heart) rave, beauti | beat and her head swim. j turn and the Limply she leans against a stout trecs spellbound, because she feels that| come to know on the other side of the tree sits a Prince Charming awaiting her sympa-| He thetic glance to awaken him to life and love and understanding of all that is worth while in the wide world, ‘Round the “other Gaull there I8 a Prince Charming, Ehoueh not the | her hopes an | Love's song « (Copyright, 1912, by Dodd, Mesd & Co.) affair,” the dus as something perhaps get in beat on the reat te Worst part ef the @hele # ag sree ne Copyrigh by The Frese Publishing Co, (The New York Freniog Worll,)) m3 By Eleanor Schorer. a tures, Not a strong blue-cyed, masterful youth—but a Httle creeps stealthily over the tree tops the Maid about to “skip along | chubby boy and his elfin-eyed chum, Pan If ever the Maid chanced to find a map, of flesh, on him would she build | «i heap her dreams. He would be all that her mind fancied— ful, perfect! And not until autumn, when the leaves begin to elfin-eyed chum ceases to nestle in tree hollowa, would she w that the Man was not all she dreamed, was only a SPRING FANTASY, The Maid had been in love with the Muste of May—with Pan's pipes, and dancing feet and the chirp-chirp of happy birds. ELEANOR SCHORER, woree, and each seemed the point of blurting out my sympathy lows to come up here.” s i marked that the varnish on the chair is | and aet things Flight. Anyhow, tho Aa PO Del) BAR SREB corny way not avon bliatereds |” Y arly iw the “morning Kennedy wa ix ata c . a ee ‘ore the chair, he he 4 pe work quicl ‘Tell me, 1 ing? she asked: id etarted down: the body hai heen found, he pointed oat “New, Walter, 1m going to ask you atthe camp? Any one exe #aid did and ; ar 0 to us the peculiar ash marks for # to qome down into the living-room with "No," he replied, guardedly ‘measuring Mtalra to Investigate, Evers tine we ie around, but tt really seam to ma me, and we'll take a look at it in the hin words, “Uncle Lewis had invited dark, but that amell was all over the ft) 5 else ted him daytime. his brother at in niece and house. I looked in each room downs 7 I hurried Into my clothes, and togeth beohow ta nd James, Juntor—we Staire ax f went, but could see nothing, Mire 1 Ee snihmic an Oho We, KanDy. we $e Abd 108s cali him Junior, ‘Then there are Grace The kituhen ang giolae: orn are Bl) hour in viewing the room, At last Cragg With the exact # unt and myself and a distant relative, Har- ight. 1 gla Into the a room suddenly atopped tunate man had heen discovered, Ken- rington Brown, and—ch, f course, but, while th opel) was more 5 9 : C no’ he sald, “T think Pil walt til medy began a minute examination of uncle's physician, Dr. Putnam,” able there, I could #ee no evidence of daylight before 1 wo any fin tie floor, using his pocket leona, Every “Who is Harrington Brown?’ asked # fire except the dying embers on toe Cie re with certainty und fow momenta he would stop to exam Craig hearth, tchts, though perhaps they # Ine & spot on tae rug or on the hard> He's on the other side of the It had been cooll#h that night, and ‘ gn the mUDipht Ww w floor more Intently veral ley family, on Uncle Lewis's mother's We had had few logs ‘la | We'd better leave every tines T saw hin scrape up something elde, I think, or at least Grace thinks, (didn't examine the roomethere seemed . with t blade of his knife and ca) that he {s quite In love with Isabelle. no reason for !t. We went back to our room again and went fully prosenve the scrapings, @ach in & Harrington Brown Would be quite @ rooms, and in the morning they found ny, @ sort of library the hall, separ of paper Of course the ‘an't wealthy, but the gruesome object I had minsed In We were sitting in silence, each oe tt idly by, ( could not for the life iy ia mighty well connected the dari is and shadows of the Wve wniedt with ha own thoughi# on the of me he just what good tt did for me ralg,” aighed Tan ‘T with ing-room." mystery, when the telephone Tt to be there, and I as much, Ken- he hadn't done it-l'ncle Lewis, I mean. Kennedy was intently listening. roved to be 4 long dista ail from nedy laughed quietly Why did he Invite his brother up here “Who found him?" he asked New York for n himself, Hie uncle's “You're « material witness, Walter," when he needed to recover from the “Harrington,” replied Tom. “Ha attorney liad recelved the news at hit he replied, “Perhaps I shall need you awift pace of last winter in New York? roused us. Harrington's theory {s that pjome out on Tang Island pnd ha day to testify that [ actually 1 know—or you dan't know, T aup- uncle set himself on fire with @ epark hurried to the clty to take Aharge of se wpots in this room.” pone, but you'll Know it now—when he from his ci charred cigar butt the estate, Hut that was not the news n Tom stuck his head tn {and Unolw Jim got tomether there was wag found on the floor, that caused the grave look on Tom's “Can | hep?” he asked, “Why didn't [nothing to tt but one drink after an- We found Tom's relatives @ ea@fened, face an he nervounly joined us you tell me you were going at it so Jorher, Dr, Putnam waa quite disquat- allent party in the face of the tragedy. ‘That was uncle's lawyer, Mr Clark, early” led. At leant he professed to be, but Kennedy and I apologised very profuse- of Clark & Burdick,” he sald. “He hae No, than answered Craig, rising Chats,” he lowered him voice to a whiae ly Gor our Jntruaion, but Tom quickly opened uncle's personal safe in the trom the fo was just making a aa if the very forest had ears, interrupted, ax wo had agreed, by ex- offices of the Langley ertate-you careful examination of the room before they've, been just waiting for Uncle plaining that he hed insisted on our member them, Craig--where all the any one was up so that nobody would | Lewis to drink himaelf to death, Oh,” coming, am old frienda on whom he property of the Langley heirs !e @4- think I was too interested, I've finishe'! hie added bitterly, “there's no love loat felt he could rely, eapectaily to eet ministered by the trustees, He eave he But you can help me, after all. Do you Estwoen me and'the relatives on that the matter right In the newendpers.” can't find the will, though he knows think you could describe exactly how acore, 1 own ammure you. J think Craig noticed keenly the ret!- there wae a will and that It wee placed every one was dressed that night?” How did you find him that morning?’ cence of the family group in the mya- in that eafe some time ago, There ‘Why, I can try. Let me eee. To be- ed edy, aw if to turn off this un- tery—f might almost have called it t@ no @uplicate,”’ gin with, uncle hed on a shooting jacket family secrevs to ngers, suspicion, They 44 net seam ie, know \ The full of thie information —thet was pretty well Quant, ae yeu weether to (ake Ub a8.6a cesident Ce — lanow, Why, ie éeet, we all hed our AND ATH THOON ATH My Bact wud TURNED HE THA WATCHED T Ae. OuT. (LAN woo ie een eauty Secrets By onde }Of Famous Women Dupont THE “WITCHCRAFT” OF DIANE DE POITIERS. Copyright, 111, by ‘The Tre Mublish ing Co. (The New York Rvening World). J about the court that Diane de Poltiers, whom the King he@ cated the Duchess of Valentinola, practived witcheralt It must be no.” wald the gowsips, shaking thelr heads wisely, otherwire can her eternal youth be bh ed” should therefore be burned at the stake. But they did them in corners and behind clowely #hu powerful person and one whom It was di sty offerd, The dark-eyed, dark- browed young Queen, Catherine de Medic, also inclines to the witehcraft story, and when the waiting Woman she had brought with her from Italy expressed it ax her opinion that the Duchess had sold her soul to the devil in return for « was whiape: juat “for how Without doubt she is a witeh and pot say these things very loudly doors. ey were content to whisper the fair Diane was a very fresh and rosy complexion the Queen thought there might be something in [that theory, Diane was an old woman. she was well over fifty yet ahe looked younger and fresher than many a fair one of scarce thirty years. What wan Diane's eret of Did she ever tell it? Did any o j know it? Yes, Oudard, her |For in those days (169) every Indy had a perfumer or apothecary among her numerous jainers to pre- pare lotions and all sorts of weird cos- | Meticn that were then thought neces- sary to preserve their beauty. But Oudard wan a secretive man, and dur- ing the lifetime of the imperious Diane he kept bis own counsel in spite of all jthe bribes that were offered isim By beauties who felt themselves growing uld, When, however, the relan of the great favorite at length was over and nhe had breathed her last he wan pre- vailed upon to tell, This was what he awore to under oath: “I, Oudard, apothecary, surgeon and | pertumer, do declare on my faith and on the memory of my late honored and much loved miatrens, Madame do Poitiers, Duchess of Valentinols, that the only secret she possessed with which to be and remain in perfect health, youth and beauty to the age of seventy-two, w And, in truth, T assert there is nothing in the world Ike this name rain water, a constant use of which is im- perative to render the skin soft and velvety or to freshen the color or cleanse the pores of the skin or make beauty last an Jong as lite. Thus the only service which Monasleur Oudard renflered his tlustrious mie tresa wan to gather the rain water for her when it fell, bottle it and seal It eo that there would be plenty to last through the falr weather, All the mysterious bottles and filters that were sent dally to the palace, which caused go much com- ment, contained nothing but water Now It must be remembered that In the middle of the sixteenth cemtury @ bath wan not the common neceasity of life it is to-day, but was considered by most people & very unnecessary and decidedly unpleasant luxury, and 60 was rarely indwlged tn—almoat never by the common people, and only once or twice a year by the great nobles, unless they were esp ily fussy. It was considered far more refined to drench oneself In atrong perfumes than to take @ bath, It wan an age when the beautiful Margaret of Navarre boasted that she washed her hands several times a week far oftener than did any of her friends. But the beautiful Diane had discovered tn her early youth that i¢ she bathed each ¢ In soft Water and then took an hour's exercise when the dow was on the grass both her complexion and ger health would be kept In perfect condt- SYNOPSIA OF PRECEDING OMAPTERS, | COUld nee the lines of his face tighten. to entertain a renerve toward the rent when T saw by the look which Craik | tion. And thus in a day when womdh Ori Hsasety te ceientiag, bo, solves crime H phe know Uncle Lewis wae a@ hard which was very uncomfortable. and Tom exchanged that they had al-| aged very uiickly (because they rarely myster along absolutely or nee, Associ; drinker, but he never seemed to show Avr, Langley’s attorney in ready realized it and understood each, bathed, stuffed themselves with heavy es he tn la reearches fats ete ths 1E much, We had been out on the lake had ‘been notified, but appar other. Without the will the blood-rel food and drank much wine) it wae mon). morning at he i ahomelte 3 in the motorboat fishing all the after- out of town, for he had would inherit all of Lewis Lani ; fotolia " ‘mameoge from, ia noon and—well, I must admit woth my from, ‘They seemed rather anxlous to ley's Interest in the old Langley est bing oN ver apewge) Cag Reads Hee a ae the Aa Murndtes, Uncles had had frequent recourse (> get word from him mand hin sister would be penniless 8 BAAR RACAL, FOURS Ae freeR se piety “Tan's hari-dtiaking uncle, Lami tangiey, ‘pocket pistols,’ and I remembered they Dinner over, the family group sepa- It was late, vet we aut for nearly ai! Gi} she: Id was: to) Ua tha’ treet: aerate: mw foe b33 CK, ny of iis home, referred to it each time as ‘bait.’ rated, leaving Tom an opportunity *o hour longer, and I don't think we and eat but moderately. Whether this Ws, copy Cerny, Secreves the eaten, wih “Then after supper nothing would do take ua into the gruesome living-room, chanked a half dozen. sentences. In ai! | was her own idea or that of Oudard, further detaile of the mysterious tragedy, but flazes and ricke; disgusted, Of course, the remaing had een that tin ‘ral seemed absorbed in| her perfumer, history does not ee: -——_— and after reading a bit went moved, but otherwise the room wa: thought, At length, as the great hail! But it Is certain that no other CHAPTER VIII. Harrington and my uncles sat up wita actly as it had been when Harrington clock sounded midnight, we rosa ue if by | of the court followed such @ emuiaas Dr, Putnam—according to Uncle Jim— discovered the tragedy. 1 did not a ; ‘or @ couple of hours longer. ‘Tuen the body, which was lying In an ant ; ene “Spontaneous Combustion.” itarrington, Dr. Putnam and Uncle Jim room, put Kennedy did, and spent some oa fee eee Ho. the tallan pecthines of Siete apap Went to bed, leaving Uncle Lewis stil time in there. voles, ‘Ene, (Git man, Til Gee ee the ering de Medic!, who js gald to hay 6 BS," assented Craig, “But— grinking, After he rejoined us Kennedy next eX- jotroin of thin mvaters If hitean inte | troduced confectionery benbons Into wait. Let's see the Record “ar remember waking in the night, amined the tre It wan full Of suenee can ao ice a France, preseribed all sorts of complt- story | frat The OMe: and the house seemed satursicd wisi a aalen from the jogs which had eon URINE CAN Me ie ated lotions and cosmeticn for the doesn't know you're Up cuir odor. | never smelt anything lghted on the fatal night, He noted at- Lepeyit dak ) Craig,” responded Queen ant court ladies instead of the here, You can hold up the Tio’ st'in my life. Bo 1 got up and tentively the distance of Lewis Lang amping rach of un by the hand, | vee ar a ttle aap and danean Star and give up time to look things slipped into iny bathrobe. 1 met Grace ley'x chair from the fireplace and ree “Thats why I ao much wanted you fel- app | which w have done them mucte more good. For a red or pimpled face he recommended a lotion composed of two ted apples. ery, fennel, the hind leg of 4 toad, a handful of barley meal, the whites of four new laid exwe and @n oun deer muet | shooting Jackets on The ladies were in "Many ravblis about here?" asked white ir? Kennedy at length, when they had ex- Craig pondered a little, but dit not hausted the burden iene keom disposed to pursue the subject Cire "ON | sewoone this morning, ther, u Tom v« Infor sir,” replied tie ; mation that since the tragedy none of — “Indeot ent ‘Do you them lad been wearing thelr shooting you » couple fer Jackets “We've all been wearing city clothes,” I 1 at © you mean?’ he remarked 8, alivenst want to violate Could vou get y iwe ‘This is the closed sea ‘our Cousin Jun 4n hour or two this morning the ba 1 10s all rigne, afr, or en a tramp in the woods’ ‘ Cralg after a moment's thought thls afternoon, or ally. Crabe,’ responded ‘Tom in the stable [na doubtfully, “1 ought to go to Saran know when you have the arr nts for 4a si about them, win's body to New York," M m persuade them to go with — ¢ All Treasury note to you. Anything, Ko long as you keep the twith a grin and me from interruption for an hour or towne two." “Thanks,” he said, “1H tet you know ‘They agree! on doing that, and as by when t have the buanes. that time moat of the family were up, As we Walket slowly back from the! we went in to breokfast, another allent stables Tom down at and suaploiour meal the boathouse just putting off in’ the After breakfast Kennedy tactfully imotor-boat with his uncle and cousin, withdrew from the family, and I did Craig waved Ww bim, and he walked ap the same. We wandered off in the di vo moet us reotion of the atavles and there to "While you're in Saranac,” said Oratg, admiring some of the hor ‘buy Me a dozen or 80 test-tubes. Onby, groom, who seamed to de a dont let any one here att house and pleasant eort of fellow, wan quite ready to talk, and soon he and Creig deep, in dacussing the game of Bort eountra. know you are buying them, ‘They might ask question — cca