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j ., . { . ° 7 fewayed easily to tho balls of tie | \ " vening World’s Figure Improvement Contest Diet and Exercise Lessons Copoetgtt, 1916, by The Prem Publishing FIRST POSITION SECOND POSITION Developing Course. Lesson I. OOD health is always to be at- tained if one but gives the thought and time to the few! hygienie rules necessary to fol- low in order to gain and keep It. Poor health will mar what ever beauty you may possess and also interfere with your busl- ness and social s@asures, and Wien once women are @onvinced of the wonders for health | Gnd beauty that a few minutes’ daily xe cises, baths and deep breathing | ‘Tactics will bring about, I feel sure} that they wilt follow the course with! persistence and patience which are Becemary to attain satisfactory re eults. TO-DAY’S EXERCISE. O-DAY'S exercise is to help} Umber muscles to prepare , them for advanced movements end development. ‘Teke your position, lying on the etght side, keep the right arm out- @tretched and under the right side of fhe head. The left arm should be Selded across the front of tho body, fingers resting lightly on the floor. Raise and tower the right leg ten tines, the knees rigid and fou ted downward. Kelax all eked berwecn each raising of tho) Turn the body over to the left @nd do the same exercise ton| with the left leg. Repeat this exercise several times each day if @anveniont, and practice the first| Jeseon exerciaso in conjunction with | it, according to rules given with each. TO-DAV’S MENU, REAKFAST — Sliced and cream, graham milk or cocoa. Lancheon—Chicken soup with rice, baked apples. Dinner—BDroiled bhue fish, mashed potatoes, stewed corn, cup cusfard JAEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT AIDS. OW to stand is the all tmport- ant thing to learn before start- ing any culture | @ourae, because perfect health and! figure depend on correct sitting and standing position. The the spinal column must @uch that no one part tere: with any other, otherwise many weal organs will bo thrown out of their rightful places and round shoulders, large abdomen, curvature ef the spine and oth may arise, To know standing correctly, tak against the wail and < calves, and a8 much ¢ cluding the shoufiers, the head, without rai touch the wall, 1 weight is on the he Ddananas bread, t yo the body and back of the chin, to this position ‘t d should | feet. The proper position of the body de- pends upon the correct position of the spine, In standing th of the body should but not stiff and risid, ne forward nor too fur ther too far head and ¢hest shoi/d always be ever #0 elightty fo and always in the lead, When the weight is thrown upon the heels, which is the usual standing and walking position, an undue pressure over the kid neys and a congestion at the base of the brain cause violent head- aches and many nervous dis- orders. Remember tn w are merely a locomotion, but or at least have the appe: ing so. While this posit on may feel awkward at first the feeling will grad- ually disappear as you practice th correct and healthful standing posi thon, Every woman should know stand and how to walk tn erder to ing the different portions f the trunk into right relations wi en other and make muscul pleasure thatead of @ faticuing dis: comfort, Careful observation — of women in etrect cars, restaurants and theatres will convince any woman that many persous do not even know how to take the right position in sit ting, which I will deseribe later, j Answers to Queries NEVELOP BUST -MARGAI IO" The following is the Vaucaire t and bust developer, 1b develops entire ‘eody gradually and on the breast glands and is effecuve and entirely harmless: Lactophos- of lime, 10 grams; fluid extract rama, Uinoture of fen- Women Who Wish to Reduce and Thin Women Who Desire to Develop Their Figures. Conducted by Pauline Furlong. DEVELOPING EXERCISE—NO 2. | Side Leg Raising. jcareful and do not dig deeply in the} r exercise A} y in New Courses for Stout Oo, (The New York Wrening Worlt) > A class of siz stout women who wish to reduce their weight and one of siz thin toomen who desire to gain weight, for eight weeks are competing for two prizes of $50 each, to be awarded the woman in each class who accomplishes the greatest im- provement in her figure. They will follow the courses of diet and exercise lessons prepared by Miss Furlong and pudlished daily for the beneft of all RVE- NING WORLD readers. nel, 10 grams; simple syrup enough to make twelve ounces, Take two spoon- fuls before meals three times a day. EAR WAX—R. L.—Use the blunt | end of a hairpin to remove it, but de | ear, SPECKS BEFORE EYES.—Mrs. | George M.: All of the conditions | whioh you outline to me are the re- | sult of indigestion and constipation The complexion will also clear when you have corrected these disorders Blackhead treatment will be repeated s00n, SUNLIGHT FOR HAIR.—T. L: The hair should not be exposed to hot rays of sun for any length of time, Both fresh air and sunilght are beneficial to the hair, but too much sun burns and bleaches and changes the color of it. A daily shampoo takes all of the natural oil from the hair and a man_ ehould | have one but once each week and a woman once in two weeks. | HELLO! IS THAT You Dearie 2 THAT'S NICE 2 BILLY FoR ME . Good BYE WiLL SEE You Soon. Goop Bye! wrists, By Maurice Ketten = PICTURE oF A LOBSTER -Yes NO. SURE WHY Nor? No | CAN Nor. oF OURSE .Yes . WE MY tore a) THE DEATH THOUGHT BEST NOVELS PUBLISHED ON THIS PAGE COMPLETE EVERY TWO WEEKS. (Copyright, 1918, by Street & Smith.) sYNo OF PRECEDING INSTALMENTS, ‘The f Lotta Cameron, ouce the possemor of & fortune, ts found im the river, Penning: Tyler, a broken old man and former specu aim bis niooe, Oraig Kennedy ter Jameson, me porter, go to on the Kennedy af firme the ar They hear that a 8 fr m Tylor dics ar, Tho two men pay where Kennedy gubmite « vollous dream for interpretation, CHAPTER V. (Continued) The Psychic. he th lights seemed to grow dim- mer. “Take that hand,” ke said, in a low, vibrating voice Suddenly in the half darkness a glow hand appeared before us, I started, Alterero laughed, The hand was moving slowly about, I nerved spoke, however, myself, d out and grasped it, It was 1g death, The lights flashed up. I was holding a hand of wax, just a hand and wrist, othing but a wax hand with luminous paint" he continued, "L carried it under my robe, and in the darkness I pulled tt forth and of- painted fered it to you: Now, that wag all the old fakers used to do—fool you in the dark, What I do I can do in the Nght. Place it over on the table, seo-I concentrate.” At his word I released the hand, Immediately in the now broad Nght of the room the magic hand began to dance on the table, to twist its fingers, With the lights ont, tt con- Unued; and it was hard to say which was the more weird, the gleaming hand alone in the darkness or the axen hand in the Iteht the professor “concentrating” lenat five feet away from it in the middle f the room, Next, a8 the lights grew dim again, 4 spectral ight seomed to flash across the room, and I gould have sworn that I saw shimmering ghost, he said, “you felt yourself p presence ¢ my control then, Mt lest you should have any dount ut 'e ash Id think that 1¢ your mouttal is had no eulity outside your own imaginations Lam going to allow you to photograph it, [see you have your own camera with your ewa plates, If you will set corner and me, you will that farthest Nght of 't up in ake a flash place alive, since he must know what was passing within ourselves? Craig Kennedy at His Best—Begin it To-Day that?” Alterego asked. But as for any means of getting « telephone over in the corner. “There ls a Al- Bup- sea on developing the plate that your ready I could feel what a dread spell pose you call up his office and ask if ax impossible to get down through camera takes What even your mortal this man might cast about those he is there, You cam make some ex- the roof of Alterego's house as it eye cannot see int it. You saw whom he had convinced of his magic cuse.” would have been to get In at the front it when the room was darkened. Or powers. Indeed, he had me more I did #0. A woman's voice an- door, so carefully was It guarded. Mr. Kenn shall snap Mr, Jameson surrounded by controls which his un trained mind cannot feel, and Mr Jameson shall do ike He for yi his friend, I will prove to you that by my power 1 can call spirits which the ordinary human eye cannot see in the light, but which the lens and sensitive plate can see, You shail have as many spirit photographs, taken by yourselves and under your own conditions, as you want,” Half, convinced already, I set up my camera, touched off the flash, and took a pictur “Take anothe! urged Alterego, than half convinced, and I winced at his glances as ff he were a mental surgeon Jaying bare the innermost se- crets of my soul. "You are young lady, Mr. Kennedy,” he con- cluded gravely. other, never cease to regret ft. to you ts to leave this young woman to work out her own problem, what- ever it ia, to do with her capture. sue her Into the cemetery of forlorn hope. before it is too late “If you will go back to the room, Walter,” asked Kennedy, “and drop @ plees of string out of the window I'll attach the end of this wire to it, and you can haul tt up. I think that will de the simplest thing to do.” An I hauled up the atring and waved to Kennedy down on tho roof that I had made the wire fast, he pulled himself up our sheet ladder to the hotel fire escape, undid the sheets, climbed the fire escape, and a fow moments later came down the hall to our rooms, ewered the telephone, evidently the stenographer's; I made some laine ex- cuse and rang off. Sidney Douglass was there, sure enoug! “Marvelous, marvelous!" exclaimed Kennedy, as we started to bow our- Ives out from Alterego's presence. By the way, I understand that you conduct @ school where you teach these psychic mysterles. Could I at- tend?” Alterego paused impressively “Itis given to few to study them,” he re- plied, “The class will meet shortly, : but--no, only after you have gone No good can come of It, BtOP through a period of testing and pro- in love with a certain “She belongs to an- But tf you interfere you will My advice Your butterfly dream had Do not pur- CHAPTER VI. I took another, Then, at his bid- bation could J allow you to attend. - , ding, Kennedy assumed his position, _ Kennedy appeared to comprehend, you must make another appointment, The Spell Worker. after glacing about, much to to accept this hidden advice, What It jrow would to-morrow night at the OR what purpose Kennedy ent of Alterego. meant, Jf tt meant sinything at alk T game time dot \ } had been lavishly using jo mirrors here, Mr, Kennedy,” was at & lone to know. Had Cralg “Kennedy assented with every mant- | j good copper wire down on he said, some secret love affair of which @VOM seatasion of gratitude, and, conducted Alterego's root I did not I must say Yt is not @ pleasure J his most intimate friend, was igno- 4» iss Brownlow, we departed, ° know, but while he was at when one is in the state of mind that Fant? Oh—and the thought came tO sumped into our waiting taxicab—and work I had been going over In my 1 was in to have one's seif photos me with somewhat of @ shock—d!d toa, around the corner to the front mind hastily the trend of some of graphed, surrounded by spirits—or, Alterego know of our visit to Mariam gniranee of the hotel, where Craig the questions he hud asked, I know belie rather, ng one's self to be 60. Kennedy snappedme n Nor that room se were thero the rigid tes ing to have im 1 The wonders of end, nor arenuy to rego was will- was this < med neve ny Limits Douglass th coald not make out wh and the warnin or had a deeper, ing. Altereo had not forgotten the men- fase morning, and had Ken- by her? I r the dream » gibberish sinister mean- that in the room where he had loft the It black disk the psychic school would meet that nig day I looked at my watch I re ized that the tin for its meeting was dismiased the cab, and entered. Craig walked the clerk's desk, and afier a moment or two of parley engaged a room, o “It in an outside room, facing the west?” he asked, The clerk assured him that tt wae; ty been to ul fist approaching. Rack in our room tn the hotel Craig “I ati) have another thing ¢o show as he paid, and we rode up to it, No produced a 1 box which he had you," he added at length, “Here In his" he sald, with @ half amile, sooner had the boy left us than Ken- carried out to the taxicab when we this oubinet 1 can materialize @ spirit, “is what I may call my spirit detee- nedy threw open the window and had started from our apartinent to ask It a question, send it forth to K tive bureau, a veritable spook bureau jooked o Some twenty-five or visit Alterego, He placed it on a the answer, have the answer to which people come to find out What thirty fect below us was the roof of table. and nnect the brought back us here, and spoken gage and profound counsel they MAY Ajterego's house of mystery. that I had pu n the outright, ah b 0 US gat all sorts of 4 ns which — “What are you going to do now?” I y f below had I au. Now ask me s ; The trou 6 human mind. T Wave agked, myatified, os ae pare Spirit will find out anything—oaly often considered enlisting the spirits — “woll, the first thing is to get down — what it was that he had been do- give it a little time : : of famous detectives who have passed to thut roof, Let me see—if 1 fo GOWN jny ‘The jittle oblong box wag one Kennedy seemed to en papal crag tothe great beyond, for the purpose Of the fire esoape over there, and then of thoan which I had grown to know mament. ¥ -4 PP sped att <q clearing up mysteries In this Hfe, Let make a rope of @ couple of sheets I y De arar ie eln aus Manabe aula. "Aa rit me se9, you asked what a certain Mr. can do it. Come on, Let ue try it.” 1 Tt was, as I Cat Bila aes k Sidney Douglass was doing at this 4 few moments later found us on suspected, the recelving end of Alterego 1 ne ‘ ait ma e nw h moment, I believe?” the roof of the house below. Kennedy the dioteecagt Deanne! ‘i Pee ial ta have nnedy nodded m the dark had a large coil of wire, and he WAR craig adjusted and worked over the recovered his nal state, recesses of 1 a deep gut. carrying it around and around the By i een tapped back and ow lk 1d your dream,” he tral votce answered edge of the roof, making roughly & touched a switch. It was @ tense mo remarked ‘Sidney Douglass at his ofed huge circle, Aguin and again he com nh Walla ework’: Would ib Ao Konnedy assen with bix stonographer, working late pleted the ercult, I thought of the wnat he evidently expected of it? Alterego again appeared to project OM @n important case.” Uttle instrument that he had left y14w could it? his mind ¢ deb elf, His face Kennedy and I exchanged glances, downstairs in the bookcase, I[ felt And yet out of this wonderful little worked, and he began slowly to re- “Perhaps you would like to verify sure now that it was @ dictograph. »... came a vo it was strange! peat, word for word, what Kennedy ™ ~— pera a 7 er a voice that I knew, Yea, it wag had writts 1 Thad read, It was @ ® Alte "s voice, He was saying an y vee ed HANDICAPPED ¢# By Jackson Gregory § Anak Konuld’ nat quite:eetah fr n Kenne pocke A x ‘ourth aio. ° from Kenn nind or from The Story of a Tenderfoot Who Made Good : Miata? thal tia lan tiien own? An‘ if from our minds, what Begins in The Evening World Oct. 80 the students in his psychic class? ehance bad we of ever leaving this ». “‘Cratx,” 1 exclaimed, enable to Be Why Don’t Men Propose? What Are the Reasons for The1916 Husband Famine? Are Bachelors Alarmed by Marriage Failure Statis- tics? Is There Warrant for a Fear That Young Women of To-Day Are Potentially Incom- petent Homemakers? Opinions of Evening World Readers Are Invited, By Nixola Greeley-Smith. LTHOUGH many women seem to agree with the mother who wrote me that the young mien of New York show an ever-growing avers sion to matrimony and the girls an unwillingness to begin marriage on @ small income, a great many marriages do take Place In this elty of surface cynicism and romantic soul In 1914 63,052 marriages were celebrated in New York and 1,200 divorces were granted. naturally does not represent all the residents of New York whose marriages were dissolved, To get a divorcee here one of the parties to the marriage has to be proves gullty of a erime, and rather than accept this etigme anybody who can afford it gets bimaelf or herself a vorced in States where the laws are more liberal—or aren} 2 more lax according to your point of view. Statistics ama aneme vere covering the whole country show that one marriage ia every twelve is dissolved by law in the United States; therefore that one marriage in every twelve is a failure. It # urged sometimes that the high divorce rate In the United Staten ea- tablishos the greater Idealism of the American woman—that It proves American women wil not end tho| yqgMARRY MILLIONAIRES, violation of the marriage vows which . ! the European woman accepts, tf not| “uth Ie I think, that nearly every with indifference, at least with restge| AMerican girl sees In herself the future nation, At one thine IL belleved thia| Wife of a millionaire and trains for the myself, It seemed logical that tf two-|2™ At least, she is not equipped for thirds of the divorces were obtained | 28 lessor Job. She ean seldom cook, by women two-thirds of the huabands| Quite often she takes a queer pride im ve the fact that she is unable to sew. An must have proved unworthy, It WAS| every ono of tm has heard some Ra logical, but not true, Many men, | woinan say “I believe in being help some doubtless from high motives gf | | If | don’t know how to do it It chivalry, others from a pecullar vanity |Never have to do it”—a spirit which men have, permit their wives to ob-| has bankrupted inany homes It | were @ young woman wonder tain divorces which they migbt get! tng why I did not receive an offer of themacly But it docs not matter |marriage I should aay to myself, “What particularly how or why or by whom have I to give a man in exchange for life mort 9 hh a divorce is obtained, Whoover gets tt | Capacity? Am lequipped to make hip for whatever reason, It publishes the [home comfortable and charming? De bankruptcy of an undertaking entered | I know anything about the business ef Ly running @ household?" And by houses upon by two human beings with faith |b 5141 don't mean what women call aa and hope and love. establishment. L mean knowing how Now, why are #o many men and to cook a good dinner, over m twoe women compelled to Me these pa- | burner as etove If necessary, and how . 0 provide happiness in a furnis titions tn bankruptcy of the heart?! oom T have known women utterly Does the man marry with the purpose) bewildered and exhausted by the prob- and the ability to fulfl his legal and) lems of @ #ix-room flat, who persuaded moral obligations under the marriage fremoely that Pe Gee know thi : Jobs ae their jobs were too sm contract and 1s the woman rae te for them, who belleved that if they to fulfil her share of the partnership? | iad Shadow Lawn or Warwick Castle Both are willing enough. Our mar-|to run they would be marvels of eff- riages are founded upon love usually | cient se ieee oan a ereene 6 do far too mu reamin or what the man and woman take for about marriage in this SOuatane Hut as Kipling wrote long ago: A ey Its cold, and love aln’t enough for @ soldier.” TOO MANY GIRLS WANT TO love. By Arthur B. Reeve connection with it, I knew that it was - And if our young mirls want to be when your vittles “Reauty don't happy wives they will have to wake up from the fiction-fed vision of aaa “= themselves giving the housekeeper her orders fe the day, and think @ few practical thoughts about de- serving the living they expect thelr future husbands te provide, Even after @ girl marries A man making $25 a week she may keep on dreamey Ing of herself as @ millionatress, may try to dreas and live the part. “And neans disaster for herself, her husband and thelr children tf childrem come to them GIRLS THINK MARRIAGE A “GETs RICH-QUICK"” SCHEME, The truth is that marriage seens a girl a get-rich-quick wn investment of her only self, on Which she exe 0 per cent, dividend, supreme Court judge told me once that many of the girls who @pe plied to him married with the dee Uberate purpowe of getting a divoram and alimony, press my astonishment, “what Is this magic? lo magic, perhaps,” he 1, “This ts Just our old friend tograph, You saw the machine I left tn the room down below in Al- terego's “Yes; but that doesn't enlighten me. How did you get the connection? You couldn't get In down there to connect these wires with it," | “Very simple, Walter,” he smiled "TL ean get down there by tnduotion,” “Induction?” [ repeated “You remember I left the recelving istrument down there in the back of the bookcase, Hut didn't you notice anything unusual? Think!” “Why, the flat coil of wire,” I re- plied, not yet comprehending. “Exactly, The coll, Every one knows that when a current flows through ill they |, “then the poor devil of a husband finds out they can't cook and sew and don't want to learn. In @ moment of discouragement he deserts hie homa, and then the wife brings suit for divorce or senaration, a lives happily fter on the §4 or $5 a week | am obliged to or- der him to pay her-what for heaven only knowa!” Now it is not enough for a womas to contribute @ certain amount of hair and eyes and skin toa marriage, Yot these things and the ability to rum * up bills are all many @ young fellow the primary of an Induction coll al- ternating currents are set up tn secondary coll by These colle may the what t# called in be widely ora the limits of the in nee are reacped For tn- duction. separated be ductive influ stance, if a telephone transmitter and| gets with hls wife-that is, with the 4 source of electromotive foree of, say,| girl with whom he goes through @ twenty-five volts are included in a ceremony of marries. peekuse ae ‘ a being ts not really ~ circuit of copper wire, say, twenty | jo) however jindly society and the five turns, and of proper diameter,| jaw may view ‘her case. There are and th er is included| too many such beings, ao many that na ut ataty tume,|YOUnK men, observing thelr selfah, | Neas and inoiicioncy, are discourage and also of the proper approximate! om matrimony, And many sweet diameter, words spoken into th@/and intelligent and efficient girls transmitter may be distinctly heard tn! wonder why they do not receive pro= the recetver a hundred fest apart, hore is Another 608 See providing the colls have thelr planes fact goed enauah fer tae Ge pa 1 nership ce. We will nduetivity method with a discuss him in a future article. low-voltaxe teurrent works with MOTHERS WON'T LET SONS G&T ld-fashioned telephone, I rea- MARRIED. how more valuable It) ty pear Mise 8 1 be this high developed ® ny case has a great deal ; Craig continued. “Down t larriage question of y primary coil of wire, Up privat ry with a on the roof I weund around my see- rn in New York and earns ndary Tt ts just as te Thad the ry large enough to sustain primary and ondary coils of an 2 rlably. Am twenty-one indu coll-only here they are ut @ year and a half ago, I met oparated. When Alterego and the ung man, who was persistent rest of them tuk down there it sets < lovemakipg f the very bas up dista 1 the dulicate re sand » continued to press n t very senaltive entions) pon spite the dictograph. ‘I se them. ny prima nd after much ur n 4 ney on his part, [ really 1 by grew to love him with all my heart When we had been going magnities them, ther about @ year, h.s parents {a being said there to nag him about keeping ts if T had been able to y and urged him to give me cod string my wires such om that they educated t 4 ed, dt thought he should ree 1 1 retul I was in pla 1 be mw and pay them back below book the 11 thousand dollars they 4 Alterego knows ent on him, After six months of t 1 gra Later 1 sus extreme nagging and abv the ' ' 1 that out hut he part of his parents, ta ow s, and in this battle their favor and gave me up aphs we have him Why don't men propose? Thetp beaten. Now, Igten.” mothers won't let them, Not in alb (To Le Conunued Mondasy) | eases, but in many, UTH, This number ~ My i 4 ’ te » as b sity .