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SPP, New York, Saturday. GS 2 September 5, 1914 | @% Fun for the Home £9 a“ WAR AGAIN, Tut Ber: ‘LO MR. LOUDER — PLAN BALL WITH Nou 7 Cm ON OUT IN_ THE gucnl sue whats” BUT You'Re RIGHT NARD an’ Prey BALE THE 81G IKEAP WHY me? IN THIS. PA AND FOLKS, WEO ORTER WIv ME, WILL YP WONT SOME OF YOUR, ha ane wonnanive! thous ie sees KIO_ PALS’ Do JUST AS teria LOUDER IS 6 TIMES DECEIVIN’. Nee om Goop "carer" SO | t wISHT THEY WAS’ 4 : OF KOU LITTLE THOUEHT (Db FInd oF R y Z , OUT For. EM! tl TOMMN 1S WHISTLING NT : ’ BECAUSE HE Has @ - vy ¥ . Aen RE. ae titi BIG IDES! IF You Dont | * Qo ‘a . BevieEve 'T, yuST FoLLow HIS TRAIL ———— , \ You STICk oUT Here. ¥ ‘ ig shah My hy WHILE 1 Go tty AND TALK : EARN “He #1000. He wu Have. IN A BIG WAR Fim wT MF OVER WITH "THE. Boss Ser Punen fet fon Sales eee Nemes = = MAPPEN TO Hed DART Err wren == Novelettes of the New York Streets == “ East Seventies— The House ng had realised that she had|@he did her own hair for the frst|/at a ption slip. Mrs, Strong) white cots stood along each side, In Di: ided.” With/ time in years, How tired she looked, Good heavens, he was each oot sat or lay a child. Hore and v o had) how worried and pale. ‘She dressed lerriman had iied to her. He was| there a nurse maid work: id . Of course must not with ed nl ab las ae k fori mpotats tered feaation eagerly, “we really deat do an; Barn joaprect Not for] toward Madison avenue—theretfore be et all ‘ Bverything ie Bertectly well > saree “The Haleulous “pureery oe ie samt goving. the lives jul A lerriman dream ident; sled poor |-nourished tets, BRYAN | third dream of bmeke and flame en- suey bay . Strong, . Why be) yd lee ae I can't tell you how they have picked STRONG Pay walls was too much for her. peg at eee oe ut up CI par owe | ( gd ie voreete” fn be ladybird fy away home, Pa 4 peat mente, We hare, At ‘was not & Gecided that she must go to New regrette business mi (er submer, repl prom| ‘our house is on your children “seperetitious| York at once, atop at some cone Sa ae ay) #4 ieee re-| by drawing ber eyes to the beautiful will burn.” aieare tens been held | for Mr, jusband' hereabouts) ite club house across the square. “Ladybird,” be used to call her ‘ol le nephew and niece, Mrs, but when,/ venient hotel and from there recon-jand his excellent state of health. that. With the thought, and without | Strong ought to feel very ha: over It was not § o’clock when ap) be Ail ey, Roitre and see for herself just what} Then her coffee and nibbied her “toast Mel-|realizing the nonsense of the jingie, L-8 their teeth sees chil i, will conditions were. To the amasement| Oot know of her visit to the cl ba,” Dut ahe felt already Weary win | ee ee eer ce hes owe doorstep and |iives, i wish we Goula persuade Fou, ef her household, she announced her ty. the day. However, she had come for pod, od of her ep 4 would think her anxiety about the ‘purpose, it ‘Then her eyes widened in| Mrs. Andrews. I'm sure you'd never immediate departure, accompanied] house an excuse for coming home and . and, however foolish | masement. She looked in freely at |Tesret it—and there are @o many of enty by her maid and the three| reopening the discussion. It was late i @ uncurtained windows of the draw- | these poor little things.’ “poms.” a She 1 ung when a tant posited iv- | ing soem, abe comet ig R mate one the visitor in entg- 1 onsense. | White ot * o 4 The journey was a hard one at pod asa. ee hot a in an moment later and the olirse appeared “Would you like to go upstairs?’ best. Boston in early September wi holding in her arms a pallid baby. | the head nurse inquired hopefully, proved insufferally hot, and the trip The shock was teo much for her| The visitor would. She had been to New York was hotter yet. PF windows of r corner suite looked| yer vusiness to look after it. She|nerves. She almost sat down on the | Hone too sure of her own paychol- yet. Poor) out upon the square, with Its lights| walked out into the early morning| first low step. So that was it. Bryan |0sy. Now she was pt Sanetie, -| Bryan. It was the fret time she|/and shining pavements and the dark| sunlight, looking very dignified, very children to her house, was bound for that thir Bir of tl ark he elect ‘6 . @ look st the two children had thought of him pityingly—but| of the p: punctuated tl trice, at and rather militant. Why th The fl St was dreadfully hot in the city.) the tuatied the 1 fom SRearaes | CROmS she fool that crossing the Plasa Rilleved that Bry*" |tion of the frst. Mrs” Strone saw ‘he #0 loved the cool pine . her lib: 4 den turn-* 4; bulk of th titan Club. Bhi second nurse appeared, She glanced |her library and den turn-* into a Gotted lawns and stony beaches of| stared at in and felt aoe stir | ing ber husband? And, anyway Out, seemed surprised to see the lady | Daby farm. She wondered only about | suppress e siesta, and with the giggle Vege tusneeiad te onan his fault—all bis fault How coula| in her Beart. Of course be was there, | street was public, wasn't it? She ing before her, but immediately | the floor above -her own and bis | tomething tense and evil, acifish and | to an he be so absolutely selfiah? How] Playing bridge presumably, wk bis) a pertect right recovered herself and amiled s greet- |, (Mr. Btrong is ao kind. the guide| iateful. -A moment more and she could he expect her to take his or.| cronies. What would he think if bel she? Bbe lifted her ing. He in here cvéry free moment, te |stood in her own sacred boudotr and | th Dhaned nephew and niece into her| knew her so near—would he be giad?| higher and marched deliberately to-| “Mrs. Andrews, I ste ge] mee ae ere arore, enenaver eoa | beheld the twins that had so appalled ns ‘3 Swn home—break up the comforts of| Would he geome ing over to eee) ward the club, crossed directly in| smiled, naming one of Mrs. Btro him-rof ‘course our own seltienent|her. They were not terrifying at all,| A sound at the door made them years, turn the place topsy turvy for| Def, OF would he shrug his broad| front of it, glanced at its windows| closest friends; “You've come to see doctors are dreadfully busy, and it's|@uite the contrary, They were most | turn, There stood Bryan Strong lowe strange children, lttle more than|®#houldere and La playing? Bhe| with “I-dare-you" eyes and was keen-| the creche? We're a little upset #0) .°rort nein, such a good man-_| Cnsasing. ing exceedingly guilty. bcs * babies. Let him brovide for them by was angry with herself for wonder! a Suanpsiee ot Sue Py nnd senty i fie morning. Mie geet oui ao genti id so sweet with the chil-| “Oh, lagyl” one of them cried, and ne, eee gayly and sh leased; but let him not bring ta the ‘strange guilty feeling, as if she wore| might be good enough to offer us! Aven: Weve omen wondered how his held OU: Nim laimed the other. “A| upsot, tant It? Tope vou wen’ tee Giscord and responalbilities of a per-| #1eeP—and hiding for some stealthy unlawful] your house for next summer, If we) wife could bear to go to the country turning your house into aca. heelth sonal relation, had been indig.| fortably til! the clamor of Purpose Instead of simply sasuring| could convince you that we didn't! tomes . “| The nurse entered from the adjoin- | Tesort—hey, ‘Ladybird!’ “She looked nant ¢ he should have propo: gine awoke the sina nirets, cents of the safety of her own prem- upset, things too much, I hope we) «pernaps she isn't very stron, room—no less a sacred spot than| &t him over the shoulder of the such @ thing, and had been amazed t of bid in an instant, may. Mrs, Strong remarked weakly, Mrs, Strong's own bedroom, and was | cddling twin, D that he had dared to plead. It was with frightened She turned east as.she reached her| Mre, Strong did mot answer, but pretty hot in town, you know. about to admonish the infants whose| “Oh, no," she whispered, “and, the perfectly ridiculous and she told him| spark showering machii t familiar street and stopped eshort| followed her guide into the lower; The nurse agreed garrulously, They| protestations of admiration were be- | see—I had ‘to fly away horas Ctab. a0. westward, She felt s1 vestibule, It was bare of its tapes- | were in the hall once more and Mra,|coming boisterous. Mrs. Strong| She pug down the baby gently, and the house was hers, not ac-| _ She had also told him other things— fi tries and almost devoid of furniture. | Strong looked aloft. smiled came forward and ploked up | joined ‘her husband, ‘They wallwed pa, but practically, for| #MArP and ugly things, Bhe had been| {te way across the avenu The rugs had been removed. The! “Could I see the little Strongs? r'4|the nearest twin, who promptly ' down the stairs obliviously, and ; perha} in @ bad humor and she had not! tinued westward, was stairs were bare, She mounted in’ really like to, you know. clutched her veil and pulled her hat to tho street, where his waiting always told her it should|pcrupied to show it, and a host of| beating heavily, She felt frightened | open, Before it stood @ gray motor| silence to the floor above. The house| “Of course, Mra, Andrews.” awry. The nurse was distressed, but hummed. Tho head nurae them ‘and he was a man of his|odds and ends of marital differences, | and horribly alone, car. She recognised it .| resounded to cries and cooings. She| Mrs, Strong laughed aoftly—her | the boo-foo lady on . go with shocked ‘amazement, ow tl she had laid away in pepper and] She went back to bed and to wake-| Vaughn's—and even as @azed| entered her own drawing room and dream and ¢! “Aren't they dears, » “And! “No wonder Mr. Strong. to for heaping and rams Teton Hd Blister He the Seve. tt ame the Hater ran atin”, down the| found it converted into a dormitory. occurred to he! T'm eo glad they have so many little Maine,” she exclaimed to ¢ ere aired at once, quar a an e arose wi e puree ateps, stood walls hi floor to were on fire—there were certainly ita. It's fine for them.” id" The.bed--eesumed serious proportions herself, but anxious to he Up and out. ip the. passage, glancing ‘with ‘white Little children: to bura.” Ghe could aes! ‘The head beamed: “Then aa Se ee saree 4 ETHER? all en THES aie i eH ter | s & 2° eye i i stTEE ur Ag Hd E i rh AD RRO se NEN a REE ue!