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«Evening World’s Figure vement Contest : ‘ Diet and Exercise Lessons in New @ourses for Stout . Pad physical perfection. : Impro Women Who Wish to Reduce and Thin Women Who Desire to Develop Their Figures. Copyright, 19) REDUCING EXERCISE—-NO. VIII. be ‘ For Description Read To-Day's Lesson, o Reducing Course. Lesson VII. EALTH culture for girls and women {!s a matter of or- Ranic necessity, as the bones and musoles, which comprise two-thirds of the weleht of the body, must be kept in a strong aod healthy condition in order to form the func Piss? ons for which Paine raion’ they were created by nature. Daily exercise, even if performed but a few minutes, will improve and tone up the entire system and inerease the quality of the bones and muscles, and only through these simg@e methods can you hope to attain the highest degree Many times & great deal of suffering and misery might bave been avolded late in {f the muscles had recelved even a fraction of tle attention given to the brain In youth. TO-DAY'S EXERCIS: HE Ulustration shows a leg- raising exercise and should be practised as follows; First, He flat on the floor, legs and arms ex- tended. Slowly raise right leg until it is at right angles with body. Keep knees rigid and lett le® Mat on the floor.* Second, lower right leg and relax muscles of entire body. Third, raise left leg in same manner, keep.) !OWing this rule yeu will maatica tng right leg flat on floor, Fourth, lower left leg and return to original étarting position, The leg-raising ex- ercise is very strenuous aed should not be dane more than six tifies with each leg, even if you are prace tised, Do the exercise several times each day, if the thighs are larg Some persons never master this exer- cise, so do not be discouraged If you nnot do so. SUGGESTED MENU. | LASS of hot water and lemon, Juice half hour before breakfast. Luncheou or breakt Baked apples witbout sugar or cre) boiled salt mackerel, bran muttins, coffee (black). J If hungry before dinner, orange or apple. Dinner: Roast lamb, stewed toma- toes, spinach with egg, sliced pine- appl HEALTH AND REDUCTION AIDS. T*t only way to develop muscle flesh, which takés the place of the soft unhealthy adipose tis- eue, is by strenuous exercise, which increases the blood supply ou which the muscles feed. This same condi. tion is true also of the under-deve: oped body. From observation and experience, it is an established fact that it is the natural tendency of the human body, if nov abu®ed by wrong living, to take its normal shape, All. around muscular development is best attained by the various exercises which have been described in these lessons, any and ell of which are beneficial in attain. Ing the state of perfection and equilibrium which speiis health and attractive personality. Do not, there- fore, regrét having mastered an exer- else for chest developing if you have been practising it to reduce the fat. from the shoulder blades, for in doing 90 you have caused friction in the fatty deposit, which ts the only rea) way to remove it. This explanation hag been repeated tn hopes of mak- tng this ever-puzzling question clear to readers, ‘ + © } pAnswers to Queries. 3 TRUNK RAISING--MAURICE Ru: ‘This exercise will be {llustrated in thé near future. It is the best one for onatipation and strengthening the ack, HOLDING THE BREATH—KATH. ERINE M.: Do not hold the breath all. Take as deep an inhaation ou can without strain, and then lowly through the nostrils, M this a habit, especially when you in the open, CURF ON SCALP HANNA 2: @ some one apply olive ofl on a toothbrush to small parta in the hair, Brush the sealp until the dandruff ts soaked with grease and quite loose, without irritating the head. After twenty-four hours shampoo the hair With meited castile soap. Massuge the gealp each night to loosen tt from the ead, DRY SKIN-—-ETHEL T.: Do not use soap nor hot water on very dry niki Use @ thin almond cream, whigh eleanses thoroughly without remov- the natura! olle from the fa we away the excess cream wit! cheesecloth, ea* r ‘FOO GHOAT—FRANK L.; You may pers) ' owed in the obomity sdiet. | eat an| to Conducted by Pauline Furlong. by The Press Pubfishing © The New York Bwening World). A class of sia stout women who wish to reduce their weight and one of siz thin women who desire to gain weight, for eight we! are competing for two prizes of $50 each, to be awarded the woman in each class tho accomplishes the greatest im- provement én her figure. They wilt follow the courses of diet and exercise lessons prepared by Miss Furlong and published daily for the beneftt of all EVE- ING WORLD readers. | acer aa aaa eee increase your Melgft through stretch- ing oxercises, especially transom swinging, until you are twenty-four. FATTENING FOODS—RENA D. No, cabbage and sauerkraut are fot tening, unless cooked with fat meats. Both are healthful, especially raw. BUTTERMILK—MRS, I. T. R. Buttermilk and @kim milk are al- M. Most cer- tainly candy and pastries of all kinds eaten daily will couse pimples, if you crave sweets eat dates, figs ond other wholesome sweets, Dates and figs are fattening. BACK COPIES—MRS. H, K. D. A limited number of back coptcy of the present series may be had for ‘ENTS BACH PAPER. Please met tion which co! you desire when ordering, ATER DRINKING—EDNA M of water are not too much ch day. Take mero if you Do not drink with mea it you are trying to reduce, In f the food more thoroughly and satisfied with much less, THE CROSS on THI THE EXACT SPOT. ONRIRUUNG. THE é 13 FRIDAY GARTH ON THE THERMONETER SHOWS THE - HE HYPOTHENUSE OF TRIANGLE BISECTING TH: A BREAN IN THE SOLID SouTH a: BEST NOVELS PUBLISHED ON THIS PAGE COMPLETE EVERY TWO WEEKS. (Copyright, 1918, by the Jyank A. Munsey go) SYNOMSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP figut sod ieathinrand va sank fone Me er tells ao z CHAPTER VII, (Continued) OUGHT not to mix bust. ness into a social cull, I know; but I want to tell you personally that 1 very much pleased with the way are tucking in, You asked if any one needed a good man the day you cama Ido. Why, I always want more of them than I can find. A young mam like you, with your gdvantages, your edGcation—there ure all kinds of op- portuniies, Yes, right with me. The West is the place for young men V's as true to-day ay it was in forty-nine, and truer, Opportunities are greater; the need of men is more urgent. Right now, right w-day, I ain looking for a inan, 4 young inan, who knows a wing or two about en- gineering, who can build bridges and cut irrigation ditches and save me money doing dt!" He threw out his hands. “And I can’t get him!" “Will you tell me about the posi- tion?” asked Conniston with keen in- terest in Voice and eyey all "Certainly. I am runing four cate ranges—using clase to elghty thousand eres doing 1@ too. Thai, of course, you know, But that to get: i 8, Fancl house, 0 de is making Ung to bo a side issue with me. Tam doing something elae which is going to be # thousand times bigger, ten thousand times while, You have been to Crawfordsville?” “No, Ihave been within 4 couple of miles of it. I saw it one day from | Blue Ridge."* “Well, then, you know of it. It is ina valley t something miles long, which has always been one of the richest valleys Bev W. Sheltered by the m wapered by ¢ springs which creat ¢ Bm Indian Creek. The clima@ is | @. And Anything will of the California fovt.4 soll is fertile. grow "I saw that twenty years ago. 1 knew that the place was mado for a town site~and J made the town, “The town has a railroad, a aar. row-gauge from Bolton on he Pacifie Central and Western. Building suen a town, giving it railroad comnection, electric lights, and all the things which go with unlimited water er, was simple enough,” Mr, Crawford was leaning forward in his chair, his cigar between nis fingers, his eyes very steady upon @onniston's- 0 Cie + Alone in the Big West, a Tenderfoot Finds Himself and Makes Good | HANDICAPPED “But now,” be went on, his eyes clear but his brows drawn over e come to something differ- ‘atirely different, Out yondel in the lap of the ‘desert, ts what th gall Rattlesnake Valley. It is alley at all, merely a great depres- n, @ sort of Natural sink. It ts twenty miles wide, forty miles long. There is no drop of water within thirty miles of it, no m@igle spring, no creek It is nothing but sand, dry, barren, unfertile sa@ld, five hun- dred square miles of it, to look at iu An@ right there, in the heart of that eink, I am going to build a town.* “And it's for the work over there that you want ag engineer?" Yes. I want him ba you happen to know one “I know one. 1 won't say how much good he {s, though. I'm an enyinepr mysell.” “You!” It wae Argyl's voice, “My dad is a mining engineer. He always wanted me to do something for myself, you know. He sent mo to college, and since I didn't care a rap what sort of work I did I took a in civil engineering to please a Civil, instead of mining,” he added, “because 1 thought It would be easter.” iad any practical experience?” demanded Mr. Crawford. Conniston shook his head. “It's too bad. You might be @ lot of use to me over there—if you'd ever done anything. Conniston colored under the plain, blunt statement. ‘T didn’t Br that you could use me.” He spoke Hghtly, hiding the things which he was feeling. “I don't mup. pose that I know enough to run @ ditch straight. I've beon rather @ rum loafer” Mr. Crawfo: too. Do amiled. “I suppose you have, But you are young yet, Conniston, A man can do anything when he is young.” There was the grinding of wheels upon the gravel outside, a man's ©, and then a man’s steps as ho ran up the front steps. A moment later Roger Hapgood, immaculate in gray sult und cane smiling into the libra hand outstretched, his manner that of @ man so thoroughly at home that he did not stop to ring. He did not at first see Couninston where he sat half hidden in nfs big chatr, “g evening, Mr, Crawford. I ran on @ little business for Mr, Winston, Ah, Miss Argyl So glad to see you.” His little hand, whieh had heen gwailowed up tn one of Mr. “4's, and which emerged rosy af xem pied, was proffered gallantly to the girl And then Hapgood saw Conniston. “Oh, I say," he stammered, a trifle 4 "e Conntston. I didn't Vm still with the Halt ." siededston satd, nettled but amuses, no move to or p Roggr How @o, Conniston?” naplied Mr, good, attorney, of Winston & ood, alrtly, was bursting with importance, of which seemed already to have popped out of his infuted little ‘eing @nd now protruded froman in “How are E MAP SHOWS WHERE MARS , THE € SQUARED CIRCLE DENOTES ot RNa else, THROUGH THE G ! OBSERVE THe anne OF VENUS POINTING Te Pw PLEIADES, OR SEVEN TERS FAY SUFFRAGE ORING THE By Maurite Ketten ANENDNENT THe RETORT SHows A EMICAL EACTION IN FAVOR OF A POLICY oF WAR OR. NON COMM ITTAL RECIPROCITY WITH A HIGH TARIFF OVERPLUS FROM THESE S | PREDICATE THE Sure ELECTION OP NR HUGHES ented THE AcciD@NT OF HR WILSON side pocket in the form of very legal-looking papers, Mr rawford, upon his feet, sald bl we've sgt business, Hapgood, we'd better bé at it. Let's go into the offce. Argyl, you will excuse us?. And Mr. Conniston?” He went out. Hapgood tarried a moment for a lingering look at Argyl, “You will excuse us, Miss Argyl? Vill burry through with th wy fast as can.” “T gay, Conntston called after him. “I want to congratulate you, I'm immensely glad that you are so in i up with it! Miss Crawford, what do you say to a little stroll out on the front lawn while these men of busi- nese Pranasce their welghty affairs? t's, © most wonderful nigh ou eve saw.” si dla And while Arcyl rose and threw her wrap about her shoulders H: good glared at Connjston, And Gri Conniston grinned With @uct sheer, unadulterated joy as he hag not felt since he could remember, CHAPTER VII. HEN morning came Connis- todand Lonesome Pete were the last two men to craw! out of their bunks at breakfast Conniston was the last man to finish. Ife dawdled over his coffee until the cook stared curiously at him. He use! up @ great deal of time buttering his hot cakes, he ate very slowly, Only after every other man had left the table did be push bis plate aside and go o@t into the yard, His manner was unusually quiet, his jaw unusually firm, his eye unusually determined, He saw with deop satisfaction that all of the Half Moon men except Lonesome Pete and Brayley had rid- den away upon their day's work, He made und smoked a cigarette, tossing away the burned stub. He glanced at his watch, yoticed that he was already half an hour late in go~ ing to work, and turned back toward the house, his expression the set, even placid éxpression of @ man who watts and waits patient Five minutes passed—ten minutes —and he stood still, making no move to get his horse and ride upon his day's duties, And th walking wiftly, Brayley case out of the trees and hurried, lurching, toward the for!" he paces to a0 at are you waitin’ harply when twent wain't you @pt nothgn ton made no answer, turning ravely upon Brayley's fice, for the man to come up to to-day? 5 Con: his ey wajting bim. "Can't you hear?” called Brayley again sharply, coming on swiftly with the law, so taken © THE BRASS CHECK +b By George Allan England A Modern Mystery Story With a Real Plot Bigina in The Evening World Non. 13 “What are you waltin' an’ loafin’ here or Wor fuat & moment Conniston atoo) as though hesitating, leaning slightly forward, balanced upon the balls of hin feet, ‘Then he sprang forward suddenly, throwing both arma about the stalwart body, driving the heavier body back with the impact of the one hurled agains: it. Brayley, standing carolexsly, loosely, his fect not braced, but close together, unprepared for the attack, foll heavily, lifted clean off hie feet, borne backward and slarnmed to the ground with the breath jolted out of him, Conniston on top of him, “You durn coward!" he bellowed, ay his breath came back into bie body. “Sneakip’ coward!” For a moment the two men lay writhing and twisting upon the ground, half hid jn their quiet strug- gla by the dust which puffed up from the dry ground about them, Then, as Brayley again gathered hic strength in & mighty effort to rid himself of the man who held him down, Conniston loosened his hold, k and up to hin feet, in each and Conniston held one of Prayley's guns. A quick get ture, and as Brayley rose to his fe he saw his two revolvers fying sky= ward over the high fence and into the big corral, “You got ‘em!" Brayley orted, hoarse with anger, “Shoot, you damn coward—un' ‘be damned to you or answer Conniston jerked his own gun trom his belt, saing it to lie with Brayley's two tn the dust of the corral, For & moment Brayley stood, open~ mouthed, afaring at him. Then, as understanding came to him, a great roar bafet from his lips and, with his huge fists clenched, he rushed at Con- niston, In the sudden access of rage which blinded the man Conniston might have stepped aside, But it was no part of his grim purpose to As Brayley rust nniston, too, eprang the two met with @ dull, 4 of pauting bodies. Brayley’s weight was the greater, his rush flercer, and Cen- Histon was flung back in ‘spite of his dogged determination not to give up an {nch. Ho hud felt Brayley’s tron fist be- fore, but not with the rago behind it which now drove ‘onniston's face, T and hurled his body ry his back As the ond blow swiftly and swung w qllecting every ounce of his and putting {t Into the Brayley tried to lift his arm to pro. tect himself, but the fractfon of a sec- te, Conniston’s fist landed upon the corner of the fore- man's jaw, just below the ear, Bray- ley's arms flew out. and with a groan driven from beneath his clenched 1a htarm, rength neniston * rushed, a leap ¢ 4 teeth he went down in heap, Fors moment he lay, unable to. rise, the black dizzinese showing in bis ewim- ning eyes, A month ago Conniston gould not have struck such @ blow by many pounds, Already the range had done much, very much for him. But before @ man could count five both the pa and astonishment had gone from Brayley’s eyes, giving place to the red anger whioh surged back And with the return of clamorin, rage Brayley's dizriness passed an he sprang to his feet, Again was Con- again telling him: that he had a promise to keep, and that now or never was the time to make good his word, He was over the man whom he had set out to whip, and as Brayley strug- gied to hia feet tt was only to receive Conniston’s fst full In the face again, only to be hurled back to the ground with cut, bleeding Hps, Again’ snarling curses, which ran into one another like one long, viclous word, Brayley got to his feet. And again Conniston’s fist, itself cut and biveding and sore, drove into his face, knocking the man down before he had more than risen, As the blow landed upon the hea done of the oheek Conniston’s han: went suddenly limp and uselens and his face went sheet-white from the pain of it. Some bone bad broken, he realized dully. Urayley got slowly to bis fest, sway- Ing like a drunken man, reeling when he firat stood up and lurching elde- wise until his shoulder struck the high fence of the corral. Conniston put up hi right hanging powerie and followed him. Brayley, deep chest Jerking visibly as his breath wheezed through his awelilig lips, waited for Rim, the anger pone once more from his eyes, w h followed on's movements curiously, " panted drayley what are ae t of Ee) 3 F a * left arm, his at his side, you walt A quick leaped into the . and he 4 b \y And he step orward, lifting his fiste Conniston swung at him with his left hand. The blow whizzed by Brayley's ear, for he had foreseen it nd ducked. But as he retaliated with a crusting blow Conntston epring to the at king. New it wos Hrayley again who nie llht of hope. surety eyes. But Conniaton nee and touk it hack, Aud he did defense of one arm lek you yet." nderstay man's tace, Wo di not offer By Jackson Gregory Desoription. D AINTY negll- wees havo auch an irrestatible charm = that feminine heart every ro Joyful when ite own- er 8 attired In one of them. ‘The two designed for to-day would make suitauie brea st FowOSs, ae they haven't such @ decided — deshabille effect as some nogti- Koos. The back view model shows @ Ken- erous cape of la which may be oy from lace flounctng, making & — seam down the tack, and boing gathored allghtly around the neck. If of all-over | lace the ciroular cut 19 prettiost, Palo lavender crepe de chine oF pussy willow silk would be pretty with a cream lace cape hung over tt, and turquoise Blue fallle ritibon trim- ming tt around the hip line, Purquolse blue velvet could be used for the novel collar, which flares {nto points at the back. 4 At tf right’le @ but distine- int@a straight wide belt of silver thread- ed lace, and the sleeves gathered In- to a narrower band of the matertal. ‘The opent in the sleeve is made by @ row of Htching, cut apart. With @ tiny upstanding collar of lace, what better could serve to clogs the neck in front than a bow of the same? Pale gray Georgette orepe to develop this design would be effec- tively completed by coral pink moire ribbon dropping ite streantere front after being pulled through allts in the lace belt to define the natural waistline. I have @ dark biue serge eu from last year which I intend using this winter for every day, aa I have « new one for best wear. Would like to fiz tt up @ Little tf eo an suggest | pl something, It te coat fart Httle all eround, 86 inches long. Skirt} Conniato! their inefficient guard bal struck Saco more, ,the last blow winging from the shoulder, And) ts Brayley went down heavily, ke @ falling timber, and lay stil, He waited. yley Lifted bie head, ven struggled to his elbow, only to fall back prone. Tee the foreman roused himself again, | “Well,” he snarled, tacing Connis- ton, “you licked me, bry iotl BoM Want to up some “No, Conniéton answered him. 6! You know I had to do it, Brayley. You bad it coming to ou after that first night in the bunk use, Now, | want to shake hands, if yeu do.” With a keen measuring glance from under swelling eyelids and no faintest hesitatién, Bri y put out his hand. “Shake,” he grunted. “You done tt falr. 1 didn’t think you had it in you. An'"—with a Aistorted grin— 'Vll ‘scuge the left hand, @on!" They went together tote the corral and picked up the three revolvers. “You can go out to the east an’ give Kawh a hand,” ley ‘she swung up to his horse's back. reckon you won't much good for a day or two ex st rid T had @ talk with the ol man abou! you thts mornin’, He wanted to know if you was makin’ good. Lucky for you"—with @ twisted grin—"that he Asked before we had our little set-to, You're to git forty-five a month from now on, An’ at the end of the week you're to report over to Rattlesnake to fo to work,” Saturday morning Greek Conniston pocketed the first money he had ever earued by good, hard work. Brayley banded bim three ten-dol- lar gold pleces=his month's wage. Conniston asked for some change, and for one of the gold pleces re-! celved ten allver dollars. He knew that Mr. Crawford and 1 bad gone tnto Crawfordsville 5 ur to Brayley, #1 and that to } 1 owe tt to him fo a little roll of s from bis sult. rings behind his the case, ted tt to the saddle, and rode away across felds toward Rattlesnake Valley He was to report tmmediately to| the oflce of the reclamation work in Valley City, A mile, two miles, to Nis right as he rode tnto the vallay, he could see a slow-moving mass of men and horaes,-could catch the gline ipon ferking acrapere and ‘Tyere was where the front ranks of luaana of Mr. my Was pushing the Mooped low very low. Grkion wo war aguinst the desert. There was | body double, dropping sugdenly under Mhere the brant of Bat Pruxton's| Brayley’s thre "end hurled Te! vility lay himself bodily ta meat the attack, hia _ TO bis left, #lall several mile away, left shoulder thrust forward, striking Brayley w the full tmpact of his hundred @nd eighty pounds just be Bra Con ey sprang him, 1D, ain t driven with ever ower left in him— beat” me! Into the already cut face, rayley down upon his knee. . Bravley was swaying to his feet, his two btz hands Iifted loosely, Weakly, before him. through was Valley toward the « ity np, Tle swung his horse | which ag yet was Craw: Original Designs for The Home Dressmaker Advice in the Selection of Materials and Styles for All Tifpea j Furnished by The Evening World's Expert. “ By Mildred Lodewick THAT CAN BE WORN BREAKFAST GOWNS, Kirt. A piping of «ray, one-half inch wide, could be used to finiah the bottom edge of the coat and front edges lar of the same Peshion Bitter, The Blue velvet ahd gold neck. trimmings. to meet a narrow col- material. I Save @ royal blue charmeuse gewn made pan- Bier style over blue velvet. The waist has a vest baci and front of velvet over? MISS A. F. rill in the back of vest with the charmeuse to high dace Fedtdon Bitttor, Drening Worlds DEES 8. Sine Cress of eave Siemm ‘ ot hair, dark browm eyes and rather dark complexion, White, dark brown, R38. dark blue darig red, yellow and pale blue, front, have youth THe ball frog of velvet ch ott. brown Gooking, Would iki chiffon velvet combined with charmeuse, sult- able for after- noon and in- formal evenivg affaires? Am 6 feet 71-3 inches tall, -Inch bust, fort, years of age My hair ts almost white tn eyes and am a MARGARET, Duttons which link she bodice and trim tee n sloaves may be of steal Deada; the tiny collar of peacook blue faille \ _ ft ELS os a table delicacy injured scarcely more than a man’s gream of - # town, and rode on at a swift gatiop, | the voice of ‘singers, eccording | Now, more than ever, he saw what to the grave Plny, who seta tt some ¢ ie ditteuttios wer fropt | down as @ fact. And many encient t undful of men acarring ast of this Western Rahara, fF oment he conld ase the houses be- | ¢ him, even down to thetr door. ps and a moment later only the roofs peered at him over the creat of | & gently ewelllng rise o (To Be Continued) ¥ a New Jersey penny of ghould fall ght hold w eold for 4900, for an , Writers agreed with him, '