The evening world. Newspaper, October 25, 1916, Page 17

Improveme Tein ay See Sree HOME PAGE Evening World’s Figure nt Contest FIR6T POSITION Pos Reducing Course. Lesson IV. 100 much cannot be sald about the good effects that physical culture exercises have on the igestive and eliwinative organs, which must be fn condition before beauty of face and form can be at- tained. Number four lesson for stout readers shows another | mat exercise for 3 va alding theso vital Pacninm euaon® 'rgans in thelr important work, and a few minutes’ daily practice of the exercises will be sufficient to keep any one in good physical condition. | TO-DAY'S EXERCISE. BGIN by bending one knee up-| B ward, meanwhile ralsing the! hitp on tho same side as far as) Possible. Drop this log and bond the Other knee, and raise the other hip and continue with each leg until alightly fatirued. If you are a begin- Rer with the exercises do not perform this one more than five times with! @ach leg. Tho hip raising ts very necessary, as it tonses all of the lower abdominal muscles, SUGGESTED MENU. LASS of hot water and lemon Juice half hour before break- fast. LUNCHEON or BREAKFAST: Grapefruit, shirred eggs, bran bread and coffee (black or sweetened with | Orystallose). ' DINNER: Bluepo!nts, broiled calves | liver, string boans, sauerkraut, stewed fruit. . _— i MEALTH AND REDUCTION AIDS. F the food ts not digested the blood and tissues cannot be fed or re- | newed, and no woman can ever! hope to attain health and a good fig- | ure if she is the victim of indigestion. @eorders than almost anything Imewn to the medical profewsion and fe afl but universal, Of course, tho eedentary worker suffers more from this complaint than those who per- form joal labor, #o remember that physical activity itself creates not only the demand for food, but the power convert it into healthy tis- aus, ‘The stout woman must also prop- erly assimilate the food that she ents if whe would attain health, and tt is @ well known fact that many fat persons suffer from anaem dim. | erished Dlood, although heavily dened with superfluous fat, To-day’s leg raising exoveise atim~- lates all of the eliminat! ‘e organs and increases the blood cire ilation to @ remarkable degree. ‘The I.nee rals- tng exercise ts a positive cure for obstinate cases of constivation and reduces the high stomach, After you heave become a little more practiced | you may grasp the ports of the bed, ever and back of your head, and hold thie tense position whilo ralsing the arm mus- | m This stretches the cles and those at the sides and makes the knee raising firmer and more tense, Still another form this ex | ercise and equally beneficial is per- | rmed by claspiig hands around | ch kneo as it 18 raised, | s| Answers to Queries. } INGROWING TOE NAILS. — Q@PORGE T Inarowing toe nails, caused by wearing tiaht, ll-fitting and narrow shoes, if neglected may become inflamed and fester, Soak feot in hot soapy water for ten mine utes, dry them well and cut the nail) Y shaped in the centre of the top and also scrape the top quite thin. Do not cut the corners, but place absorb-| ent cotton, saturated with th peroxide under m with an orange wood stick. Repeat the opera= tion each night, adding fresh cotton, and when the corners have worked their way out cut them off. Keep the nail cut V shaped and wear sensible vhoea to prevent the return of the dngrowing nail Perspiring — feet @hould be bathed each night with hot, water and soap and then in cold| Dry between the toes and powder | talcum. Wi ean stockings ol and two teaspoonfuls of salicylic acid mopped on the feet will also relieve excessive perspiration and bad odors. WANTS MEASUREMENTS~-F, I..; Th you sent mo y off and are really those for one four or five inches taller than you, except the bust measurement. You “f hydrogen water for five minutes longer. well REDUCING EXERCISE—NO. IV. For Description Read To-Day's Leston SECOND FOURTH POSITION Overeating causes moro common ff, Ke _, Diet and Exercise Lessons in New Courses for Stout Women Who Wish to Reduce and Thin Women Who Desire to Develop Their Figures. Conducted by Pauline Furlon Coprright, 1910, by The Prose Publishing Oo, (The New York Pvening World), NTION 4 clase of sit stout women who wish to reduce their weight and one of sig thin women who desire to gain weight, for eight weeks are competing for two prises of $50 cach, to be awarded the woman in each clase 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 benefit of all EVE. NING WORLD readers, pounds over are about thirty-f weight and should reduce. As you re only nineteen years oid, you 1 take warning, Or elde you will be a little, round fat woman ten years from now. It is true that the corset and some clothes, too, do hide a mul- tude of defects, BEEF SUET IN PLACE OF BUT- TER—K. Kk. L, If you really ike the taste of suet eat It on your bread, It Is nutritious an@ wholesome and certainly much cheaper end similar In many wa taw product of the cow, SUGAR 8UBSTITUTES—IRF D, saccharine, sweetena and cristal- lose are some sugar substitutes. They are usually dissolved tn warm water and then added to dried frults and other dishes to sweeten them for the obesity diet, Do not eat sugar, SELF-CONSCIOUS—RUTH C, The leas you think about yourself and this trouble the better. There is nothing physically or mentally wrong with you. Juat forget yourself when you Gre talking with people and pay at~ tention to what they are saying to you. being u BEST NOVELS PUBLISHED ON THIS PAGE COMPLETE EVERY TWO WEEKS. (Cageright, 1919, by Strest & smith.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECKDING INSTALMENTS, bad of Lotte Cameron, once the powmsor found Sia the fiver, “Pebutigtan ss and forpi aigcula a, Sig Rewind, Janeen, reorter, go 13 Kennedy They hear ‘tbat ae had bee frou sone, myaterionw inPuwcce called. thi 4b adunite that detertive, work on vin ae ad Walter he cnet. yes not drvwned fee: Gash thguwut abd Nok her witht De, al enape Poste Then "Trlet dies asatesant, ge Bove Of Marian "Tioaglaan who. laa < lle cuss him of Tent her money y BoeesNlati ng . Parouah one 44). (orden, a timber of dy or, wi) witienly takes fligat ug Gimivenm shout the ewe tine, SS Deueiaae CHAPTER VIII, The Drug Fiend. 7 HOW, tf you could only keep i } quiet for a day or #0," I } told Kennedy, J “Keep quiet,” he blurt. ed out, “with that fellow at large? Why, every moment that I am quiet gives him just that added chance to commit other crimes—or get away. No, I shall go crazy if I have to keep quiet. It was, I saw, no use, IT might ag well tell him now of Mra, Colton's messoge regarding Marlan’s disap- pearance, I had ely Gone so when the telephone rang. By the look on Ken- nedy'4 countenance I could see that something was wrong. ‘I'll be there immediately,” he snapped as he hung up the receiver. “Walter, that was Mrs, MeNeill tel- ephoning from the Stanley Arms, the apartment house where Mrs. Colten lives, She haw just\been found un- conselous in her room, Call a cab while I finish dressing.” He came down carrying in bis hand @ little box in which were some rub ber tubes, a couple of pieces of metal nd a sort of rubber face mask which he examined carefully as we sped along, It did not take us many min- utes to reach the Stanley Arms, a small and quiet place, with only a few @partments and a good deal of privacy and comfort, such a @ woman of Mra, Colton's tastes would be expected to like. An ambulance was already there, We hurried upstairs, unannounced, and, seeing no one in the halls, it struck that this was indeed a place y of access, As we entered the maid was pouring forth her story to Mrs, MeNeill, She had found her mistress in the bedroom, with the door locked as it was every night. The wind opening on a fire escape were closed and locked, just as the maid had locked them before she saw Mrs, Colton lock the door, which com- municated with @ semi-private hail. a eee sist han butter) [THE DEATH THOUGHT HELLO JOHN! WHAT'S IN THAT Box 2 STOP Your KIDDING SOHN . | KNOW You HATE CANDY. | WAS AFRAID You'D FORGET IT'S HA NEVER t Oupy ol MY oe GET A CANDY, Rox = Been nie 704 IG EAT A i EOF N CAN DY. THE Sweetwess | IN OF IT With MAKE THE TOBACCO TASTE E “THANKS JOHN IT'S NOT FOR ero Desoription. HB design offered to-day shows an interesting in- terpretation of the Jumper, that one-time over popular article of feminine apparel, Dame Fashion this winter Is bound to ac- cept it In its new and attractive form, atyle tendencies being par- ticularly suggestive of its possibilities, The popular use of contrasting fabrics for ist and skirt makes necessary some con- DEAR) Lust (| THE KIND OF CANDY | LOVE 55 SOU - IT'S FoR ME > 7 HELP, NE SToP SMOKING o Z You Are SO a GHTFUL It seemed to me strange that she should sleep thus without ventilation until the maid told how the old lady had lately been pursued by some fear, and had insisted at night on barri- cading herself against an unknown danger, But in spite of ali her pre- Cautions, some one oF something had ained access not only to the outer all Dut presumably to her room, For there on the bed, cold and motion- less, lay the form of the gentle old lady who had visited us in our Inb- oratory, “The woman is dead,” whispered the ambulance surgeon to us, rising from his exam{nation of the figure on the bed. “Asphyxiated, I should by some gas, although there does not seem to be any {iluminating ens Jet in thin room.” “No, nor moaned the maid, who had overheard the wales “itis the fonr the fear—that killed her. Craig made hasty inquiry to Just what had been done, and the young doctor told him that he had used both the Sylvester method and the Schaefer method of resuscitation, with no effect. Rhythmic traction of the tongue, stimulants, chest and heart massage, all the ordinary man- ual methods to indice artificial res- plration In the patient after the heart had ceased to beat had heen tried. The woman was scientifically dead. What wan there to do? T recalled @ Ofse where Kennedy had used th new electric method of resuscitation in & case of syncope and Apparent death, but he had not his delicate ap Paratis here, nor waa there time to wet it. He rose from the examination of the woman with a look of silent desperation. “Is there a vacuum cleaner in the house?" he asked, The maid and the doctor hastened downstairs to get the portable ma- chine of the caretaker. Kenneay took from the little box which be had plowed up in his haste in our apart- ment the tubes, the metal valves and the rubber cap. He attached the leaner to the electric-light socket, and set ft going. “If there had heen time,’ he re- marked under his breath, as he worked feverishly, “I should have gent for the new Draeger pulmotor which T have in my laboratory, a German device which works wonders, It would have been better, but the rinciple In what Tam going to do js the same. There {8 not a minute to lose.” The apparatus which he was tm- provising consisted apparently of an ordinary vacuum cleaner, a sort of @lectro-magnet valve for turning on and off the flow of alr at regular in- tervaln of three of four seconds and an ether vaporizér, The valve was timed by small clockiike mechan- ism. As Kennedy worked the thing I wondered how long life could be re- tained and brought back again in a body that was dead according to the ordinary testa. Pumping away, he was now forcing pure air into the woman's lungs--then allowing it to be expelled with the noxiows gas, A alight, almost imperceptible tremor of tho eyelids was his reward, An involuntary murmur ran around tje group, Was it ap optica: filusion? Craig Kennedy at His Best—Begin it To-Day Sull without a No, there was just the yord, ho took up a final," was the reply, “providing we do oring of the che Th est tube, and dropped juto it a little not spread the net In sight of the u kyon bent over Hquld from a bottle on the shelf quarry aiemed t be 4, &bowe the table. His face lighted up, JAPTER T flow of bi |. He and he regarded th etlon atten. HA there we: pul heartbeats. They tuvely for sume tim Phen he turned CHAPTER IX. Brew stronge spiration that bore to me, atill holding the tu @ close resemblance to tnat of a “Nitrous oxide,” he said, The Psychopathic Ward. WAS looking in amazement healthy body was noticeable when — “Nitrous oxide?” 1 repeated, “What sey Craig paused to seo if bis Work had do you mean?” at the comparatively sim- had eifec:. The eyes vpsued part — “1 jean simply that a test of the ple means that Kennedy Way, and cleared perceptioty. blood of Mra, Colton shows that she had used to accomplish Mra. Colton was saved, Science bad way poisoned by nitrous oxide gis, the tracin t of what triumphed over death You remembe e iF Ou! the sample of blood “With rest and care, sho will be a® which 1 wqueczed from. slim. had occurred and wondering whither well ax ever piton's, v Ina few hours," ap- thumb? 1 touk that sami{ cause tf would all lead. A tgp at the door nounced Kennedy, “I leave ber to | Knew that a gas—and it p d to roused me, and | opened it, A man, you, Mrs. MeNeill, and 1 shal sug> be nitrous oxide—Is absorbed through shakes’ { there, He touched gest you get a nurse immediately. Lh the lungs into the ¢ MON ane bie earn iarooes vuaker zee: Seu the meantime don't touch a thing 10 jty presence can. be ca con. bla hat ae he entered, thia room. One can never tell what derable period after aditinistration. To be wpevitic, In this case by ‘ly thin Prof, Kenedy?" he inquired, Craig replied that it was. “Lum from the psychopathic ward may give a clew.” 1 tound Mrs, Colton had been made comfort- nieruMopie examination that the able, and Kennedy was engaged ina number of corpuscles ia her blood i painstaking search, Up and down the was vastly above the normal, some. °f the hospital, sit’ the man ex- floor he worked his way, examining, thing like Letween seven and elght "A helper, sir” testing, looking through @ pocket jililion, or nearly tw that of ord. d Kennedy, “What lens, now and then dustiug an article Yes, she was poise With a little gray powder in the hope as." swalow has just been of bringing out a finger print or two, "Lut with all the doors and win- wuld, 1 she le But he had not the air of @ man who dows locked?” I aaked akeptically, calling for you, was finding anythug. “You, with doors and windows “Misa Brownlow," rep Ken- A low exclamation caused me to locke nedy, Jumping up. "Wh Walter, turn quickly from the window to ob: — "“Manifestly,” aald Kennedy,” tf no thut i our friend, the firat student servo wimt he was doing, He had one could have come in by the wine What has happened to her? What cut a new lock out of the door into dows or doors, how else Was the gas dur want of in the hall, and had wrapped it up to adeniniatered, without some one en. | ‘The helper did not know, and we carry away with bim tering the room? I found no traces had to curb our tinpatienes until we Kennedy took @ needie and gently of an intruder, The keyhole, | hed the hospital. Developments ran it into Mrs, Colton’s thumb be- thought, 1 cut away the entire | ming 8» fast that we did not side the nail, A few drops of blood and have submitted it to t Cente, out of touch with things cored out. He aoaked it up with a “Home one came to Mrs, Coltune As we hurried out plece of guuzo which the doctor had door in the night, after gaining. #1 h Ned left, and took It with him, Quite evi- trance to the hall, Thia peraon found a dently be was sauistied with tho the door locked, knew It would bo . Miss Brownlow had been found dur- areh, locked, knew that Mre. Colton always If the night wandering aimlessly “Walter,” hoe cried, as we journeyed locked it through fear, and slept with about the city, hatless, and with little uptown to the laboratory, “I cannot the key under her pillow ow also, Money, Tt was impossible at a glance heip thinking that this ah omen, no doubt, that she always closed and to tell Just what class 5 fell, We saved her life, Our luck locked th windows, know at she Whether @ drug taker or insane, Closer has changed, ‘Tho next thing ts to was living in constant fear of diaas- @amination would have Inclined one Und out what has become of her ter. Knowing that av to the former opinion, for as she lay daughter, Marian, If you will drop this person nearly exhausted on tha white bed of of and ‘inform O'Connor what has perhaps, a tank of the ward we could mee that her eyes occurred, and then come on up to the oxide, certainly th glazed and dilated, her pulse laboratory, L think 1 may have some making the gaa expedition and t she was, In fact, only “Through the keyhole st f conscious, moaning and groaning, red to be as the gaa was InJe ed, soon ren- in physical paln so much as CL told him as dered her unce and that Mental, we had been, He had nothing him- would have been ail if the person had , “Cb!” she was raving, as we en- self to add, but over tho wire he as- been aatisfled. A little bit would tered softly with the physician in sured me that we could count on his have been harmiesa enough, Mut the CRAKE “I have been thought six feet help Whenever Kennedy was ready person Was not satisfied. Tho inten derground, just like the rest, Save to move. tlon Was not to overcome, hut to Kill, Me-Ht da the death thought When I rejoined Kennedy in the 1 un of Baa was kept up until 4 Here It was asain. 1 murmured un- laboratory, he was working over the the room was full of it. Kor some Ar MY breath. isennedy turned to microscope, while by his side stood has eseaped death, for the tt doctor. in racks a number of test tubes of ga ave cleared slowly. ‘Suffering from 4 replied the various liquids. On the le be-*tunately it did give my tmy phyaleian softly, 1 disturb the fore him jay the lock which he had pulmotor a chance, Why the p » once vscine, and can~ cut from the door. did not succeed in giving her en edt Vis PR i Atter ia, you “What was it?" Lasked, as 1 burst gas i don't Raow. Perhaps it ran out " i t it, for that In eagerly, “Not radium this time?” Or olse the intruder in the hall_may ent combinas He shook his head as if to discoure have been scared away, At any rity is, She age conyer n, without taking his we have managed to undo the work ( yang t eves off tha microsec throuwh of this ” A ' ry, and which he was squintiag, His lips tut who ts It? T asked, wr tbat the Wantlane™ hasn't were moving, as if he were counting. “We are pretty close to that erim- pretty badly off, ian't eho? 1 Bn nnn AAA fh HANDICAPPED & By Jackson Gregory The Story of a Tenderfoot Who Made Good Begins in The Evening World Oct. 30 ventured “Pretty badly.” Kennedy was ber unfortunate gir! the replied dootor, er the was ng and @ to save her, Brownlow,” he safe now, and What has happened?” with frie Bhe seemed to understand that Kens By Arthur B. Reeve necting link, which in the Jumper can be sup- plied most pleasingly. Tho pinin finishing of the lower edge of the bodice, which often lacks any sort of belt, and is cut to a low square or V_owith chemisette and sleavey of some transparent fabric, achleves an 6: fect very like a Jumper, but which is credited as @ bodice, At the leftis showne design in what might be rome etepe de chine or satin for tho skirt and the same color chiffon for foundation waist, with a jumper of blu. velvet to com- plete the frook, The skirt fa tucked to with. in a hem's width of iteclf, To sew them in, self color chenille threada are used. The result is well worth the trouble, for the sbining basting stitoh ie evidence of the hand work which distinguishes high class frocks. With the Bodice “cutting up” eo around the lower edge, it Is no wonder that the shoulder straps which are in lone with It in front are buckled fast \in black, The old neck line is fin- lished prettily with a basting atiteh tn |the chenille, and the sleeves frill airily over the hand, A band of ribbon of a deoper @hade than the ailk lends weight to the chiffon bodice, At the right 19 a suggestion for a{ Jumper to be made out of the material of one’s sult, completing an effect J yet she was apparently nedy was there cont 1 the wanderings of fighting,” she cried. "T ean hear them. Can't you? And what are those tanks for? Why did they bring them in? Where are they now? What have they done with them? Will no one #top that fighting? Some one Will be killed. Help!" Her ery, which she had meant to be @ piercing shriek, was all the more heartrending because in her weakness it was but a je moan, Kennedy tinued to soothe her, A moment later she opened her eyes and nerved herself to speak agai Hut it was in @ different tone, It wa with the resignation of one who kes & confession It was | who “1 told Mr. mn that Marian Douglass had told Prof, Aiterego. 1 told him, and this is my punishment.” Again Kennedy took her hand and stroked It reassuringly, “L told him ulso of the dream that you wrote out for Alterego,” she con- tinued, In @ low voice of desperation. "Oh, Cwhall die! T shail die, Let me Ask Professor Kennedy if ho forgives me," she oried, wildly, look- | ing about without seeing. “Tell him) that L did it to injure him, but because she was going to steal Mr, Gordon away from me. 1 loved them both, There was something about Alterego that fascinated me, but it! was Gordon who won my soul. And | now she ts gone. Where ia she? Is) she with him? Jay, Jay, have you, left. mer Thus she waa rambling along in- coherently, while the doctor shook his head, He bent down and asked Ken- nedy if he should not give her some- thing to quiet her, Kennedy mere! took his hand, as if to say; "Not yet.” “Alterego knowa that I told, Oh, what a power it was he held over mo at night, Thers was sometuing about | him T could not resist, Hut when | daylight came it was Jay Gordon, the| great, strong, powerful maa, | loved, IT can see them now, the other stu dents, op, atop! ‘They ate thinking | me underground, they are pushing me] into my grave by their thoughts, and) their thoughts are stronger than} mine, H What it waa the poor gil saw or thought she saw we could not guess as yet, but that she was telling the truth about having played the tn | formant we could not doupt, y had the thought on Professor Kennedy,” she oried half fearfully Hour after r Alterego | would repeat over and over again fa! you, too, us: ‘Why does not some o lim? Why doea he not det He knew you, even before you came to! nat did he do?” asked Cralg 1 to get us towather, « f you,’ ha sould pay, ‘unite ye selves in thought against my ene- mies, against Kennedy, that he must leave off persocuting me, He ts ripe for destruction. Then, often, a ser- | Vant would appear with glasses of| wing and ca d wo would start thought on me one, sometimes with wild visto 4 ant that none of the dead haunt me for what I helped to do tn_my ignorance.” (To Be Continued) over putting the death | ribbon placed a’ Original Designs for The Home Dressmaker Advice in the Selection of Materials and Styles for All Types * Furnished by The Evening World's Expert. By Mildred Lodewick PLEASING rene cerar! N OF THE MPER WAIS’ lik@ @ frock, yet being more versatile, for the jumper need be worn only when degired, leaving the skirt for blouses. Silk or georgette ere; be weed for the foundation walst, and’ velvet for trimming and piping. « Answers to Queries, * Fashion PAitor, Mvening World: I have @ black breadcloth suit from last year, which I would Ike to make more tip to date, The coat ripples Around the hips and seems a little too short, It buttons up front from watet to neck with collar of fur and fur cuffs, Am twenty-nine years of age. Lc. A seven-inch band of black velvet added to the bottom of your coat would make a marked difference, Why hot change the shape of the collar to a broad rolling one, making it of vel~ vet, edged with the fur? Velvet pockets might be used to decorate the skirt, Fashion Eiitor, Brening World: I would appreciate your advice concern- cerning @ tan serge dress which I would lke to make for af- ternoon wear, I am tall and slender, weigh 116 pounds, have light hair, «ray eyes and slight color, ANNA K. Black velvet collar and cuffs would be pretty, with can soutaohe braiding. Fashion Rito, Kveving Worlds 1 am fourteen years old and make Ing & simple school dress of blue Tho waist I copied from one of designs, with some wool embroidery. on the front; but the skirt ie very plain, gathered from the belt. Can ‘Ou @umgent A way to trim it @ bit? do not care for pockets, as I have them on other dresses, LST, Tassels Of the worsted you used to embroider with could be attached Along the top of the hem at distances of nine inches apart. A couple of iene also could be placed on the cuts, Paahion Kultor, Evening World I have three ; and a halt yards y of serge, na (): blue, and woulk ve appreciate advice " about what to combine with It for a dress, the of which I sire you to suggest, T am forty years of age, tall and well proportioned, Thanking you ia advance, MISS C, Q, Black satin as shown, | SS used with trimmings of blue bri small and large buttons of ser white fallle coll and cuffs, at Fashion Billtor, Evening World: Kindly . form me as to what colots and siyle would suit me best for a simple dance frock, Have gray on 1 would ike to wear with St, Ain seventeen years old, 5 feet 7 inches tall, slender, with brown hair and blue eves. BM. L. Dull blue or rose taffeta would be full J sultable and becomin~ could be trimn A around the Rye from the belt 1 round Bertha of grey edged with atlver ribbon, — Pa 2 A Ce DR A j eae a at mee a Pate — Fe S par as ba a