The evening world. Newspaper, July 17, 1914, Page 12

rem kee A Page of Comic Sketches and Stories Fun for the Home and the Ride Home ‘i ue “sMATTER POP” DONT PUT NO NY HAFTA nN THAT PICNIC \ +t CHOEBE = DONT WANTA make if TOO) Heavy T By Eleanor Schorer. LL the beauties, all the dangers, all the adventures of the Afri- can wilderness are thrown in wy wot? AND 48 WouLd MAKE SUCH A TSG SPLASHY —-— / OF NES MSS MARY (was ouUITE AN ATHLETE Im . % usa Yin, ‘Atay, yy iG ” Mie DID YOU G 1) FoR waATER SPORTS IN COLESe. MR CovNE P plein! CAR OW 'NDEED YES 1 PULLED STROKE IN OUR. VARCITY EIGHT N'KNOW- WE Sweer THE RIVER, NM IKNOW- Bom nes / GREAT SPORT a /Snomen! Sort HEY? Proou! Comrrignt, 1914. by the, I'rere Lubitaning Cony ha New Yors Evening World.) THE BEAUTY SEEKERS Jar pambly By Rov MtCardell Satisfactory Kesulte Guarantee “That's comforting to real Mrs. Mudridge-Smith remarked. “But you know, of course, that I really don't 1 AINT KEEPIN’ NOu FROM HAVIN & LITTLE FUN. BEL? a a L\Swer —-- Dr. Cosmos’s establishment know that from a peep hole concealed in the wall pattern the keen eyo of the head of the suare, a woman, was siz- ing them up. For it is the plan of the proprietors of these look over all new patrons carefully to estimate how much “treatment” can be forced upon them and to make a shrewd guess at how much money can be cajoled from thea for the me. Evidently the “head nurse's sizing up was satisfactory to that person- age, for a smiling, handsome, red- cheeked woman bustled in. She wore a fetching nurse's costume. At the doorway she cted a pleased sur- VISIT “DR. COSMOS.”’ | NEED to take any beautifying treat- Giant splendor upon the screen. For I'm not a whit stouter than ment. which have to thank Paul J. f ears ago. I could Drise. Rainey, the daring sportsman, who OW, we won't put ourselves | 1 008 Our are teen only alothes |. “The Princess Patricia? ‘This im in- deed an honor!” mos must lea’ come at once!” sped. Dr. Cos- has presented more animals to s00- ‘astorbilt and Jogical gardens in every part of the ‘world than any other individual; has completely into the hands vf the first beauty spe- get out of style in a few months, and I always give mine to my French Billed 114 lions and countless other Qnimals; has taken bis iife between @et teeth and defied what he calls the ‘three terrors of the jung! he lion's paw, the phant’s trunk and the 's hoof”’—to give to the world beautiful, interesting pictures @f animal life and the mothods of @apturing wild beasts, Of which most ef us would otherwise never buve the Jeast inkling. a cheetah ehased, d shot by natives With poisoned arrows. And another @heetah treed and lassoved by Mr. Rainey, wrapped tightly in a sack, ; @luny across poles and carried by na- ba back to camp. ine herds of buffalo, twenty-foot Giraffes, playful elephants, baboons, webras, y, fight, live and die ye ; The tribe customn of the natty are shown—their military drills and “ dancing claasos and celebrations. ‘We see the huge waterfi “Birth of the Nile. alluringly beautiful and @eadly lake swarm thousands of tall, slender, pink birds of the crane Birds of prey dovour the carcass of ‘The woust, anxious to hide In the’ brush, ts hard pressed by the persis tent dogs. After dashing from one an unfortunate water buck, the victim| cover to another the frantic animal ef some lion appetite. turns and with all the force of his Dogs are ied to the well-pickea, frenzy rushes straight for the cam- bones to take up the trail of the king | era. ef animals. They are off in a twink- Ung, on a lion bunt which resulted fo the killing of fourteen lions and the taking of the remarkable picture of a charging Hon. a With @ bullet in bis neck he turns two somersaults, falls on his side, bites furiously at the ground, gives two last gasps and Iles quiet, within fifteen yards of the camera, It's simply wonderful “HELP WANTED!” | der's Corners and wouldn't be back | til next day, so he writ a note to | keeper she was, HICKVILLE DOINGS From Our Hickville Correspondent Hazen Conklin Copyright, 1914, by the Prom Publishing Co., (Mie New York Evening World,) PERSONALS AND LOCALS. T'S all over Hickville now, the caper Artie Bodle cut up on Abbie Daniels, who {5 nettin’ her cap for Hosea Titcomb, our Indefattygable seclecktman. Artie found out Honea had went to soe bis brother in Fod- Abbio in Hosea's handwritin’ tellin’ Abbie she could be hbis'n if she'd slick up bis house while he was gone, so's to see what kind of a houso- There ain't so much as a bed bin made in Ho: ‘s house since his wife demised and they say as how every dish In the house was stacked up in the kitchen used. Ab-| bie she hustled over to Hosea's and wot in by a window, and by nightfall she'd got the dishes washed and the bedy made, Hosea havin’ slept in ‘em all as long as he could stand each one without It's bein’ made, She only | quit then because her back was like to have broke. She was over and| at it again at sun-up, Hosea he| come home about noontime and the| minute he stepped into the kitchen be atarted scratohin’ Bis head, Me says: “B'gosh, either this ain't my bouse or this ain't ME!" And he went out to the barn and his boss seemed to know him, so he went back to the house and he started lookin’ around like he was lost. He wot into the parlor and there was Abbie puttin’ the last licks into smartenin’ it up, Hosea he was eo dumbfounded he couldn't do more'n claw his whiskers, and Abbie, she says: “Do I win, Hosea?” And be didn't say “1 not knowin’ what she was drivin’ at, so she throwed her arms around his neck and like to of choked him to death, She had him half way to Rey, East's house before ho come to enough to ask her what it was all about. She didn’t git him to the parsons, though. When she told him all about It he was so mad he stamped away from her, cussin’ somethin’ terrible, and he ain't showed his head outen the house since. Abbie, she's figurin' on suin' him for a breach of promise, and she don't know yet it was Artie Bodle done the but! thing, Bud Halters has got folks pickin‘ cherries fer bim now at the Hal- ters's Fruit Farm. He gives all a drink of milk aforo they start pick- in’ so's they won't dast eat no cher- Cherries on top of milk will give you colick sunthin’ flerce, Bud says as how he wishes he could get ie birds to drink milk; 01 in ‘em and spoil @ lot that he @ aetbia’ with but preserve | | and sell to Aunt Jane Taggart and Abigall Peabody for their summer boarders, Giddeon Spriggs took a hand lamp last night to go out and see what was ailin’ the chickens In his hen house. It was a skunk. Gid took a axe helve and aimed a swipe at it, but knocked the chimbly offen the lamp instid, The lamp went out and Gia he lald about him until his hired man coms with a lantern which he set down outside the door because by that time Gid had got the wust of the gument. Gid killed ‘en chickens, but the skunk got away. | This mornin’ he seed his box trap was sprung and thinkin’ tha skunk had sprung !t he opened it to set | it again. The skunk hadn't sprung it, but another one had, and he was Inside. Before he got outside Gid wished he'd staid inside. Gid couldn't. give him as good as he sont. —_———_— Up in the Air. FUNSTON,” said a war correspondent just back from the fror “was admir- ing one day in Vera Cruz the splen- did flying of one of our army airmen. “No uncertainty about that chap,’ the General said, ‘He's not like a filer I heard about recently. “+A millionaire paid this filer $100 to be taken up in his monoplane, Up they rose, but the dipping, the sig- zagging and the sideslipping were terrible, “)"Easy, man, easy!” the million- aire roared above the ehriek of the wind and tho thunder of the motor. they pick’ ry “Easy! This is only my second trip, ber. ‘It's —Wassingule Wan aald the pilot.” '"~ {flattery and clalist we come to,” ad- vised Mrs, Jarr. "You know how you are, Clara; a little you are just a victim for all sorts of people!” Remembering her recent experi- ence in the toils of the fortune-teller Zareef, the Occult, Mrs. Clara Mud- ridge-Smith winced. But she ven- tured a feeble remonstrance. “But, you know, I said ‘Let us consult Agrippini, the Inscrutablo, before we nake any arrangement with Zareef, Occult," she whimpered, Sonsense!" snapped Mrs. Jarr. ‘From the very minute Zareef set his eyes on you you acted as though hypnotizea! just what I was going to He hypnotized me, so how could I help giving him $500 in gold to ‘magnetize’ for me? Besides, say this for hia—he wasn't one bit mercenary, Why, when I offered him the 50 cents fee, for which he ad- vertised he would tell your past, pres- ent and future and give you the psychic Secret of Success, he waved it aside, And so, if he did run away with the $500 in gold, 1 will ing! to my dying day that he WASN' mercenary!” “Well, in going to see beauty clalists I feel we are consulting di onstrators of an established profes- sion,” sald Mrs. Jarr. “We will not la . remarked tl colored maid find them tricksters and charlatans, and withdrew into the mysterious for their advertisements say ‘Skilled recesses behind. Treatment At d. Astoundingly ‘Gompright t4, Wrens Pu ins T wit| THEN—HE TURNED AROUND! Co. (MY Rvening World) THANK GOODNESS THAT DRAWING IS FINISHED. we are at the beauty id Mrs, Jarr. “Now Clara, don't let us be hum- bugged this time! h, 1 never let anyb humbug replied the other, areof, the Occult, simply imposed upon my fi in human nature, Could I help ha’ ing faith in human nature? No; it is my disposition to trust every one, lam innocent of the ways of the Mrs. Jarr sniffed at this and her deurest friend affeeted to be hurt. “Now, don't you be thinking mean things of me!" she sniffed. “My heart 1s broken by the way my brute of a husband never says a word to me just because 1 reproach him for the stingy way he treats mo, Last night I talked to him at the top of my voice for six hours—anyway, he didn't bit of sleep—and he only nd never once fell on his and begged my forgiveness. And so I'm really only going to a beauty specialist, not because I need to go, but In case I SHOULD need to 0 years and y are no lines in my face, are there “Certainly not!" said Mra, Jarr, without looking at her friend. But by this time they were ascending the elevator to the floor where were the ateliers of Dr. Cosmos, the Beauty Builder. ‘A colored maid escorted them into the richly carpi waiting parlor and begged them to be seated on a dainty gilt and brocade sofa, '™ head nurse will see you in Little did the two new clients of to each other. “$75. $100. ‘With Period | 6 Rooms a We Pay Fretgaht and R, All Goods Delivered by Ov “She thinks you're the Princess Patricia of Connaught,” whispered Mrs, Jarr and Mrs. Mudridge-Smith 7 Open Evenings Until 9 o’Clock Our Liberal Credit Terms ”$5:00 $1.00 to $1.80 $10.00 $1.50to$2.00 $150, $15.00 $2.00 to $2.25 $200. $20.00 $2.50 Eat 00. $30.00 $3.00 Allowed on Cash Sales i Terme for Complet frigerator, three Chairs, Kitchen Tabla, 12 yards Oilcloth, ing, ‘Complete Apartment Nuitton. «$379.00 Furnit value £100. on exhibition, «+ 6-Room Outht Greatest 4" $275.00 ever offered for the pric Grand Raplds Furniture Rooms furnished at . . $85.00 $148.00 R. 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