The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1913, Page 21

. 1013, wort Nes York" By Henry Clews, Henry Cletwos & Co, HB work expected of him. Ability {© a matter of growth. with brains and special talents, absorbing the necessary—and Vour dally occupations, yeu can given @ larser one, , know \yoraclf reliable there, wherever he Gnde it. fore TOU can be strong. A banker must be a man capadle of We cannot be given the contro! of money if Me 8 must be respected, his interpre. of vast movements accepted and 11 times unquestioned. prempt and sure decis'ons. Mot considered eafe in his hands. Gecialo: jtadility at He MUST be STRONG man. So if your ambition turns to banking you should first of all etudy yourself the capacity for ining great strength. You should make sure that you have the qualities and the capacities which will lift you . above a minor clerkship into positions of great responsibility, Uniess your ambition and your determination reach out of the road, ‘There are hundreds of others to whom your place there more rightfully be longa, ind gee if you ha: cleat to the top, ke attributes to the beginner. things to do, } our adiiity as a climber. se teh ef 0 entedrated fi pest and tm examining him ashe’: f it if hit EE fonthly, eae Predestination. were taking a walk slong a ri @ne day, ef Aifference of their respect! {t for which a f Yong tunn the Methodiet Bad gone but a J fe ing to get out of here! pact il Es 3 os THE ROAD TO THE TOP Those Who Are at the Summit Point Out the Route to Others Who Are Beginning to Climb, i.— SUCCESS IN FINANCE— Founder of the Banking Firm of “Road to the Top" in banking, or in any kindred financial line, de- mands of @ young man eteadfa application to his Gutles and an tn- telligent compre- hension of the No Matter how well you may be endowed you will never come into possession of your full powers unt!] you have grown into them, and you grow into them only by number ef apparently unnecessary—detalis of Progress is a matter of mastery, You @rest master your smal! field before And You awet begin by mastering yourself. ‘Yow must know where you are weak and etrengthen yourself at that point. ‘You srust know where you are erratic an@ eteady yourself there. You must where you are careless and make Tor great strength ts only little A chain fe not strong if one link is weak or poorly welded. A cable ts not etrong if one ‘Teuthfulness, honesty and ambition fare the ohief requisites for success in| any line, Power to resist temptation and the faculty of acquiring a knowl- edge of the details of your chosen ephere are two of the most necessary To perform lationships it fosters in the office, but even the most trivial duties in a wi Prova! of your way to win pro- To the young man who does| his plac @mall things well will be given larger Once you make your beginning, the r you Gegin as a young man in your teens) @ t your carly twenties, the speed 8 whieh you dlimb will depend upon What fs tn Wee will come out just as fast as your Just What He Said. early days of Arizona an elderly and amoow Obiet Justice was presiding at the murder case, An aged bed bess ruthiewly killed and the only calle} to give his tentimons (ewyer for the defense objected on the ground be wee too young to know the osture of an Dappra wo you if you wld ‘ud git me!" the boy reptied, T'd get you," sternly aid the Chiet what I ald!" answered the boy,— ministers, Presuyterian and Methodist, ; oud track isonesing good natureily the creeds, , coming to the yawning mouth of ont thin road te ated that they go in, {! distance when the brother exclaimed with suddeu de What if a eo ohm, ih 6 ability brings It to the eurtace and tt will be recognized just as raplily as you can demonstrate its existence, A college education im an asset to every man, the value of which cannot be overestimated. However, if a young man {9 @ graduate of a high echool, he really has ample knowledge of what is Necessary to success in @ unancial or mercantile line of vusiness. Actual and | French thi lan tie we ' Practical experience in a business house | “Nest time I 6! the twelve,” Sharmien: during the yeara that would ordinarily | hrwetuot dug pine waited Malai tua ae be apent in college in most cases, | ith £ Tee of clare, bells. of greater beneft to a young man in tne amming cae ot ie a his work than would be a study of the typagh Co}, Sparmien’o, a rich Brazilian, owns Pricelem tapestries. One of these tapcstrion Is Moles, Later, it lo returned, Accompanying ie a Bote signed with the Initiale of Arene Lapin, the French thiefgenius, The note by sayin, a: PS18 OF PRECEDING INSTALME: pag Q ‘Svarimenta’ classics and tho higher branches of iusband's arm tn sation win” mathematics, &c., unless a young man le fitting himself for a profession, HE gale nies molionions Go don't let the inck of a college edu- their eyes staring at the win- cation deter you from making a hegin- # dows. The Colonel repeated: . ning. There are rules for euccess which “What does this mean? 1 you can learn in the great school of don't unceretand © © © No life just jecessfully, You ean learn one put myself knows where that bel. to he honest and to be truthful and ig pzeg. 6 © © to be willing and to be ambitious and And, at that moment—here again the to be @ gentleman. If you can, bY evide ce is unanimous—at that moment actual performance of duty, impress came sudden, absolute darkness, tol. your employers that you possegs these lowed immediately by the maddening tra! you will be chosen for work din of all the be re these traits are indis; ble and Your course will lead upward and on-| every room and at every window, ward, For « few seconds a atupid disorder, I insist upon your being honest, Not! an insane terror, reigned. The women only because banking calls for absolute la and al} the gongs, | from top to bottom of the house, in screamed. The men banged their fists honesty, but because your personal suc-! on the closed doors, They hustled and cess depends upon it. i fought. People fell to the floor and I demand that you be truthful, not were trampled under foot. It was like only because vour employers otherwise panic-atricken crowd, by will not truet you. but because the re- threatening flames or by a. bursting spect of your fellow -men hinges upon !t./ghell, And above tho uproar rose the I advise you to be willing, not only Decause It attracts the your superiors, but because tt leaves no room for habits of laziness which Would militate against your success. I tell you to be ambitious, not only because it wine the tmmediate ateps of Promotion, but because in ambition Hes the secret of your personal growth and efficiency, I call upon you to be a gentleman, not only because of the agreeable re- Colonel's voice, shouting: "Silence! * @ © Don't move! @ ¢ ¢ It's all right! © * © The switch is over there, in the corner, © © © Wait a bit ©e0° Here” He had pushed his way through his Suests and reached a corner of the gallery; and, all at once, the electric light blazed up again, while the pande- montum of bells stopped. Then in the sudden light a strange aight met the eyes. Two ladies had fainted, Mme. Sparmiento, hanging to her husband's arm, with her knees dracging on the floor, and livid tn the face, appeared haif dead. The men, pale. with thelr neckties awry, looked as if they had all been in the “The tapestries are there! some one. There was a great surprise, as though the disappearance of those hangings ought to have been the natural result tention of ‘because only the thorough gentleman, who knows the uses of tact and cour- tesy and refined bearii Acquire these five traits and success must come to you, oried BULES OF THE ROAD By Henry Clewa, moved, A few valuable pictures, hang- ing on the walla, were there atill, And, though the same din had reverberated all over the house, though all the rooms been thrown into darkness, the ctives had seen no one entering or trying to enter, *“Bemdes," sald the Colonel, ‘t's only ‘he windows of the gallery that have alarms, Nobody but myself understands how they work, and 1 had not set them yeu” 4 I these days of grudging gift<nakin, had a twinkle which hie companion could act see, ““‘what fe to be will be,’ you know,” “Yea,” wae the retort, “but 1 don't want {t te be im here!" —Lippincott's, —->—_—_ The Supreme Test. “D EB your bushand treat you unkindly?"* woman, toked the lawyer, “Then why do you want o “Oerainly oot!" said the aneuteran tial “1 don't aot want to andy Ube ki ivoreet™ Hy want a divone, it was decidedly refresh: 0 hea woman say, Just love to give “hristmas presents,” and it seeme quite deplorable that @uch a generous and mode! Christmas spirit should be curbed by atern necessity. For with @ sigh he continued, “But I can't afford to spend more than 60 cents for a gift be- se I have @o many to buy for.” ‘| The sigh was quite irrelevant as the gifts she purchased were selected with special care to suit individual taste and in severa! instances she te satisfying longings expressed, so It ts saf her gifts will Christmas pr 1 meroly He Could Try It. GENTLEMAN gar toner party te Dublin once and fuvited Mz, O'Connor, one of the wittiest men tn the Emerald Ile, to amuse and divert his guests, Mr, O'Con. nor accepted the toritation with pleasure, But from the beginning to the end of the dinner be preserved a solemn and eerious face, ‘The host nglit thie very strange and just before rising from the talde remarked to lim jestingly: “Why, | O'Connor, old fellow, 1 don't believe the biggest | fool tn Ireland could make you lenge to-night,” Whereupon nt should, hls quest anewered tne eolema| For her slater, who has @ desk in dove, speaking bis fire word that evening: “Try,” her room, she beught ome of those new —Wisburgh Cssntele- Telegu, Gai pens in a evier to match the rooms suggestive reading, Another brother wil! adorn the wall of @ friend's room. (Pronounce It Slowly While Welting for Your Train.) Edith Swan-Neck §{4n Arsene Lupin Story} (Copyngi, 11d, 07 our SRN EM TONLE | PTL LCL CL IT ET ETM LNT | | OTT ENE Time-Table Tompkins He_ Takes a City Friend =————_—SSSS——— People laughed loudly at the way in which they had been frigntened, but they laughed without conviction and in @ more or less rhamefaced fashion, for each of them was nly alive to the absurdity of his conduct, And the} had but one thought—to get out of the house where, say what you would, the atmosphere was one of agonising anx- tety. Two journalists stayed behind, how- and the Colonel joined them, @fter attending to*Edith and handing her over to her maida. The three of them, togetner with the detectives, made a @earch that did nut lead to the dimcovery of anything of the least in- terest. Then the Colonel sem fer @ome champagne and the result wae thas it was not until a late hour—to be exact, a quarter to three in the morning—that the journalist took their leave, the Colonel retired to his quarters, and the dotectt withdrew to the room which had been set aide for them on the ground floor. ‘They took the watch by turns, a watch consisting, in the fret piace, in keeping awake, and nex, in looking round the garden and visiting the gal- lery at intervals. ‘These orders were scrupulously car- ried out, except between five and seven in the morning, when sleep gainel the mastery and the men ceased to go their rounds. But !t was broad daylight out of doors. Besides, if there had been the least sound of bells would they not have woke up? Nevertheless when one of them, at twenty minut ven, opened the lery and flung beok the shutters, he saw that the twelve tapes- tries were gone, This man and the others were and for starting their own investigations before informing the Colonel and telephoning to the local commissary, Yet this very ex cusable delay can hurdly be sald to have hampered the ation of the police, In any case tne Colonel was not told until nalf-pest eight He was dreaved and ready to go out The newe did not seem to upset him beyond measure, or, at least, he man- eed to control hi motion, But the fort must have been too much for him, for he suddenly dropped into a chair and for some moments, gave way to @ regular ft of despair and an- Guleh, most painful to behold in a man of hie resolute appearance, Recovering and mastering himeelf he went to the gallery, mtared at the bare walls and then sat down at a table and hastily scribvied a letter, which he put into an envelope and sealed: “There,” he said. ‘Tm in @ hurry. turnishin @ret that she could not make it one of those with the gold pen, that cost $1.25, @nd she wanted wo much to include the Glass quill holder containing tiny eo)- ored glase balls, but these were & cents 4. brother she eelected @ very andy Gesk acceseory—a brass stand holding upright @ pen, two lead pencile, @ dive pencil and a rubber. A cousin will receive one of those am- ber neck chains that are now eo fash- lonable, and a ehum wilt be delighted ith the dainty little blue neck orna- ment of orepe Ge Chine. Another te to Dinner—Almost, tage Oo.) ve an important engage- ment. © © © Here te a letter for the commissary of police.” And, aeeing the detectives’ eyes upon him, he added, ‘Iam giving the commissary my views * © © telling him of @ suspicion that occure toma, © © © Ile must follow it up. © © © ZT will do what Lean.” © 0 @ Ne teft the house at @ run, with exchted gestures which the detectives Were subsequently to remember. A tow minutes Ia! the commissary vf police arrived, He was handed the letter, which contained the following words: “Tam at the end of my tether. The theft of those tapestries completes the crash which I have been trying to con- ceal for the past r. I bought them Qa & speculation and was hoping to et @ million franca for them, thanks to the fuse that was made about them. Aa it was, an American offered me az hundred thousand, It meant my ealve- tion, This means utter destruction, “I hope thet my dear wife wil for- give the eorrow which I am bringing upon her, Her name will be on my lps at the lant moment." Mme Sparmiento was informed, She remuined aghast with horror, while jn- quirles were instituted and attempts Made 40 trace the Colonel's mov. Late in the afternoon a telep! m we came from Ville d’Avray. A wang of railway men had found a man's body lying at the entrance to a tunnel after @ train had passed. The body was hideously mutilated; the face had lost all resemblance to anything human. There wore no papers in the pockets, But the description answered to that of the Colonel. Mme. Sparmiento arrived at Ville @Avray by motor-car at seven o'clock in the evening. She was taken to a the removed, n-Neck—recognized her room at the rallway station that sheet oe @ eo In these aircumatances Lupin 414 noi recetve his usual good notices in the reas: “Lat him look to himself,” Jeered one leuder-writer, summing up the genera: inton. “It wou.d not take many e@: Ploits of this kind for him to forfelt the popularity which has not been grudged him bitherto, We have no use for Lupin, except when hie roguertes are Derpetrated at expense of shady company-promoters, forelmn adventurers, German barons, banks and fnanctal companies. And, above all, no murders’ A burglar we can put up with; but » murde) no! If he te not directly guil 8 at least responsible for this death, There ta blood upon hie hands; the arms on hie escutcheon are stained coe The public anger and @isgust were in- oreased by the pity which Editn's pal She had @ twinge of re-) will get either the Indian cluvs or dumm ‘ely he Naa been wishing for, For sister's baby she selected the cut- est palr of moccanine and for the thr year old she purchased three bibe that she will embroi Brother's new: arrived daughter will get a dear little worsted bonnet and her mamma will be made happy by a dainty record book where she can record baby’s wonderful advance: it For one friend she purchased @ box ‘ationery; for another a m outht A soft pair of boudoir slippe: will rest the weary feet of one woman after business hours, The girl whe is Boing to get @ Mitle cetrich feather fan | gathering a set of white tollet articles Little brother te going to get a book! elected from his echoel grade list of will have another piece added to the Collection, Another favorite pennant By Gus Mager (Cuperight, 1918, by The Prem Pubiishing On, Wertad By Maurice Leblanc face aroused. The guests ef the night before gave their version of what had happened, omitting none of the tmpres- Getatis; and a legend formed straightway around the fair-haired Ming: ehwoman, @ legend that assumed ao really tragte character, owing to the Popular etery of the ewan-necked heroine. And yet the pubti- could not with. hold {ts admiration of the extraordi- nary skill with which the theft had been effected. The polica explained tt, after @ fashion. The detect! had noticed from the fret and ai beequently stated that one of the three windows of the gallery was wide open. There could be no doubt that Lupin and his confederates had entered through thia window. It seemed @ very plaustble euRges- tion, Still, In that cage, ho econdly, to cross the garden and put up a ladder on the flower- border, without leaving the leaat trace behind; thirdly, to open the shutters and the window, without starting the della and awitching en the lights in the house? The police accused the three deteo- tiven of complicity. The Magistrate in charge of the case examined them at length, made minute inquiries into thetr private lives and atated formally that they were above all suspicion. Aa ms, there ned to be would be recovered at thie moment that Chief Inspector Ganimard returned from In- dia, where he had been hunting for Lupin on the atrength of a number of moat convincing proofs supplied by former confederates of Lupin himself. been Feeling that he had once mo: tricked by his everlasting adve fully believing that Lupin had des patched him on this wild-goose chase #0 as to be rid of him during the busi ness of the tapestries, he asked for a fortnight’s leave of absence, called on Mme. Sparmiente and promised to avenge her h nd, Edith had reached the point st which Hot even the thought of ance re- Neves the sufferer's pain. She had din- mised the three detectives on the day of the funeral and engaged just one man and an ol4 cook-housekeeper to tafe of om reminded her too cruelly of the past. Not caring what happened, she kept her room and left Ganimard free to act as he pleaard He took up his quarters on the floor and at once instituted a a the most minute investigation started the inquiry afresh, questioned the people In the neighborhoud, studied the distribution of the rooms and set @ach of the burglar alarms going thirty and forty times over. (To Be Continued.) An uncle le to have @ desk calenda: with @n appropriate sentiment for each Week of 1914. A girl in public life Ie to ive @ clippini made up of strong pes to preserve personal men ions, Mra. Newlywed wii get « similar set for recipes. For mother she tought @ coffee perco- lator which cost considers than © cente, “Dear Mumste, ehe certainty something extra." The janitress te to be mate happy by & palr of warm gloves and her husband wil get @ pair of suspendere in « fancy box. The office boy will be proud of hie scarf pin and the elevator boy te to set @ pair of allver links, Hor regular waitress at the restaurant wil] receive @ eet of collar and cuffs 5 SMATTAR “PoP FAVORITE The fovorite recipes of famous women of the United States will be printed im The Bvening World on Mondaye, Wednesdays and Pridoye. Many of the dishes described have won national renown, eppesring on the menus of state dinnere ené other notable functions, Mra. J. Thompson Baker. (Wife of the N. J. Congresemen,) Chicken and Spaghettt. BY one-half pound ef epaghettt. Line a mold with it, bending the epaghett! and leavin; the centre. utter tn @ one eR, some chopped parsley, a grat- ing of nutmeg, walt and paprika. When it beging to cook ad@ @ cup of chopped, OF AMERICA’S FAMOUS WOMEN “iS if oup of oream,! cover, Optimettes. By Clarence L. Cullen NEVER MIND, IUNDERSTAND ITIS NOT BEING DONE NOW, ANYHOW? RECIPES cooked chicken, Now fill the Bellew in the apaghetti with thie mixture and eteam for one hour. Gerve with temato eauce and chopped parsley, New Jeresy Gingerbread. N® cup each of brown sugan, mo/ lassen, hap pes yeh ome cup lard and butter, A eupe flour, two eggs, one teaspoon eneh of taking eofa and ginger; one each ef mace, allepice and cloves, an: one and one-half teaspoons of cinnamen Mix thoreughiy and bake tn o moderate oven. Mrs. Sidney Ballou. (Wife of Hewatten Judge) Put al) but vinegar together to doll for ten minutes; adé vinegar, strain throug); cloth ant clear; pour ever heaping tablespoon gelatin that has been 4is- solved tn cold water, strain again and Dut directly on ice over might. Boll well one tin of tomatoes, strain and use a5 quart of bdotling water in above recipe: pour inte clroviar weld. To serve fil! centre with mayonnaise and garaish with endive Pineapple Baled. (Hewatten etyle.) BLCT smal firm pineapples, cut off top carefully te make a cover. Scoop out fruit, mixing with @ rich French Greesing. Put back in ahell and Uee « pineapple for each person. from, the Tronomy Administestion of ry Wr'wOuakay Comveny, Hatmerd, Ind, Coprright, 1918, by The Prem Pubtiwhing Co, (The New York Evening World), EXMORSP without makes It a Cruise less Bhip! When you Talk Gloomily about the {nevitable Day when to hia Friends often C4LULY iy the One who Braga most Inveterately about Himeelt to hia Wifet Another Reason why we Feel that there t@ Something Wrong about us 'e that we've Never been Able te Work up 4 Cent's Worth of athustasm over the eo-termed Blameless Man—or Woman! The Untempted Ones Uve [ran quilly in their Cold, Sequestered Cloister but the Tempted Ones Fight and Win or Fall in the Open! Our Understanding avout Nirvana ts hat {t'@ a Place where NO-body Criti- or Knocks ANY-body about ANY- thing! SPR the Man whose Interest you Want to Eng for when he Tells you over the Phone that he'll “Think :t) ton Over" you're Going to Get a Rejection Bip from him by Mall ts the Morsing' Most ef us, when we Bury the Past. want te Hold Prolonged and Neetlens oe ever the No-account 01) ing! Looking Back, we Discern that we were Happiest when we were Tafkiny: Vootemy adout the Elusiveness of Map- pinesat A Man whe Appears to Knew what he is Talking About informe ud that Op- pertunity never Sits Down on the Deor- step and Waits after Ringing en On- answered Beil! Bide your Time, of cowrse; But Keep Hammering Away at Bome Bort of a Worth-WMile Side Line while you're Waiting! Whenever we Hear a Corrugated Grab quote that Unprovable Dictum, “Eivery Man has hie Pri we Concludg with Reason, that the Quoter has at Gome Timo or Other old himecif Pretty Cheaply! We know a Lot of Men whose Boast It la that they “Drink Like Gentlemen,” . Dut {t's Queer that None of Them ever te Able te Convince his Wife of thas Ae- eertion! Introspection te a Nice, Me Word. but its Medicinal Properties are Nil unless {t's followed by an Invemtery of Ournelve, Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers Don’t Elope! Y Gear young M people don't #ope Juat Decaure you think it's roman- Ue end thrilling. It'e alwaye undig- nified and tt may be dangerous, Nothing oF no- body can prevent @ young American man and woman from marrying each other, pro- ’ vided they wait tt each {9 of age, After that they may walk boldly forth at high noon and have themeecives united in an open and ahoveboard fashion by all the processes known to Churoh and Mate Then why e@hould the girl especially, take the risk of @ Mgnt sone unseemly hour ac Ihe was lease busy, Furthermore, it is a statistical @et that most elopements end In the dtverce court. Marriage undertaken ae am ¢s- capade 1a not apt to bring lasting hap- piness, “M. R.” writes: “Tam in tove wiD ® irl to whom I shall be married Se fore long. But she ia much r than Tam. Would the difference im eur height make our marriage unhappy? Not if you really love each other, There are many happy couples where the man ts below the woman tn height. "E. H." writes: “A young man mage an appointment with mo for last @um- @ay afternoon, but did not keep it. When I called him up to find out way. he ald business had ‘nterfered, bet that he would telephone go as seem a0 Thad tekete ter @ nd wrote to ask him if he would © along, but I har. wu thing ¥ ARAN pron seubaehionete me RET gOS Re inal eee ee ee