The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1916, Page 9

gae | |:For Beauty [Diet and Exercise Rules and Health ih This Column The Evening World’s Physical Culture Expert Will Answer Readers’ Queries Regarding Diet and Exercise Required for Im- proving the Figure and Bettering Health. By Pauline Furlong Covoriaht, 1916. by The Prem Publishing Oo. (The New York Prentne World.) BRONIC fatigue, which has been exaggerated, and constant head- aches, about which so many women write me, are usually the first Gigns of some nervous disorder existing, and the woman who iselways tired certainly loses all aggressiveness and force, which {8 so neceasary to sparkling and charming personality. Nervous persons are subject to many unpleasant attacks of fear, Insomni: heart palpitation and irrita- bility, as well as fatigue, and the cause must be re- overcome. moved before any of these annoying conditions can be When the nervous system is overtaxed through overwork the body becomes enfeebled, the vital organs are rendered incapable of performing their important duties, and the destructive process, which is always going on in the body, becomes greater than the repair. This naturally causes an accumulation of poison: and usually a severe and often permanent injury to the entire nervous system. Another class of sufferers from nerves are the {dle women, and these cases are even more difficult to handlo and overcome than the most im- pertant to the world at lar Tn attempting to cure nervous dis- orders drug medication 1s worse than wscless, because the cause must be removed and a complete change in surroundings and dally mode of liv- Must be brought about in order 0 the mental attitude, which te ly the real seat of the trouble. of all, nervous women must to relax, because the muscli body, even when at rest, a1 ‘® slight tension, and the easiest to learn how to properly rel to practice some physical exercises times cach day which cause you to hold the muscles tensed for a few seconds at a time, and then com- A. pletely let go of yourself before start- \ing the next movement. It is espe- “Piatty necessary that you learn to all muscles, as well as the brain, when you retire, if you would get the best out of sleep. Answers to Queries. ATHS—J. H. M.: Cold Bah are roost certainly not fatten- ; meither are they reducing. They are stimulating and beneficial to those who are robust enough to stand the shook of them. Bananas and grapes fare the only really fattening fruits. All fruits are healthy. Rubber gloves ‘will reduce fat hands somewhat and aoe and hand exercises will also he }ONS—HAROLD H.: You see a chiropodist or surgeon. They can be removed through opera- tion, but thie may not be necessary. a feet can be removed through operation quite successfully. it does not le ros, @ number who have had this performed and are satisfied. It isa very simple operation, I am told. SKATING—MRS. GEORGE M. R Yes, skating |» very good exercise and espectally when in tho open alr. Tf too strenuous It is reducing, as it causes profuse perspiration and stim. | ulates the blood circulation to a re- merkable degree. A cool show ‘should be taken immediately after if the body 1# very warm DROWSINESS AFTER EATING A . E.R. T.: Too much food, lack o} : s exercise and constipation may cause | STNOPSI8 OF PRE this heavy, sleepy ing to appear fter meals. To offset it tako a urisk OF Wash hands, wrists and face ith very cold water. Standing by hi window and taking several x of ten deep breaths of cold) . 0 stimulate the blood elrou- | SU», ation and overcome this. t de 4 Nght foods, such reen vegetable: DIZZINESS FROM ROLLING Advice to Lovers By Betty Vincent T 18 almost Christmas time, and therefore I want to remind which govern the exchange of gifts between young men and young wom- who aro friends. The most im- wtant thing to remember is that expensive gifts are absolutely taboo, No young man lias the right to give any article of wearing apparel or any plece of jewelry to the girl with whom he is on terms of mere friendship. PNo girl should accept euch a gift, if it {8 made to her. Tho presents which a young man may properly ke fall into four groups: books, ndy, flowers or music. And girls who wish to make presents to the oung men they know sliould see to it that such presents are simple and inexpensive: “A. B." writes: “I am in love with @ girl’ whom I have known for sev- wal years. I have not declared my love for her as { do not earn enough @t present to think of matrimony, Yet I want to lpt her know about my feelings, ay she seems very cool to me. What shall I do?” Why not tell ler frankly how you are situated and ask her to wait for you? "G. M." write: “There is a re- Yhnod and sensible girl who uses her eyes to attract my attention, although T have told her the practice was lin- oper, But she insists on doing tt, iitnoush I know she means no hanm Pleaso tell me how I may cure her of the habit.”” My dear young man, my advice to you ts that you attend to your own affairs, You don't have to associato with this girl unless you choose to do and her manners are certainly not our business, A. V." writes: “Is it proper for a ung girl of fourteen to go out with Roy friends a few yours her acnior?” A girl of fourteen is too young for love affairs, but she may have friend- ships with boys as well as with girls, ’ @ AROUND EYES—cRACH | end farm, where bi ar | Dard eXietenc elves Iti that there aro certain strict rules | the overworked MRS. L. P. R.: Try rolling slowly at first, until you have become accus- tomed to it. Do not roll within two hours after eating and even longer time is better. Heavy massage with @n ordinary rolling pin will also help reduce hips. EXCESSIVE PERSPIRATION— ften bh id water and then apply some of the following mixture: Alcohol, one pint: salicylic acid, two drams. This treat’ ment positively destroys foul odors. Wear clean stockings and clothes each day also. VERMIN IN HAIR—MRS. ESTHER P.; Vermin can be removed from the hair by applying tincture of larkspur and not larkspur seeds. Apply it gen- erously and then tle the head in a towel over night. Then give @ com- plete shampoo. Repeat if necessary after twenty-four hours. Absolute cleanliness, brushing the teeth after every meal will keep them clean, healthy and white. A little pumice stone on @ puff of cotton, tied around @ toothpick and rubbed on the teeth will clean them, but do not use this often, as {t destroys the enamel. MOLES—ANNA M.: moles removed with the ject needle, This will not leave a scar and ts painless, _— EARACHE.—FSTHER M.: The best thing to relieve earache ts to apply hot applications by means of 4 hot water bottle. Earache is easier prevented than cured. Those subject to it should place a small piece of absorbent cotton in the ear before know | going Into wind and cold. JOHN, GIVE ME SONE Weneaae PAY FoR THe OUR DAUGHTER Te Gnee To HER BROTHER Ae AND SONE TO PAY FoR THE ESENT | BOuGHT FoR OUR DAUGHTER To GIVE NE Ae PReecs | For HE e OUGHT FoR You To Give To ME ANO THE CHILDREN BEST NOVELS PUBLI: ON THIS PAGE COMPLETE EVERY TWO WEEKS, Copyright, the Frank A. Munsey Co. Hamilton Burton, child of and to in. Wall you Paul, tu enews acqualnt whom t and tle There ip @ general ie ht in the crash acciden CHAPTER XXII. JEVER had Paul Burton Played as he did now. The music ewelled and pealed through the place. His heart was singing its swan song. While his fingers strayed the woman sat spellbound, and finally he swung into “Home, Sweet Home,” A gasp caine into Mareia’s throat. As Paul Burton left bis seat and came down to her, his face was drawn and he said bluntly, “SHE is here to-day.” Marcia did not have to ask details. The music bad told her everythin, “Now that matters have turned out as they have,” the man spoke delib- erately, but tensely, “I shan't see you again. Now that I'm @ bankrupt and it’s all over, I want you to know that I love you—that I love you without doubt er hesitation. In this world and whatever other worlds there are, there is only you * * * you whom I lost because the coward MUST lose every good thing life holds.” He broke off and asked very humbly, “Just in farewell—may 1 kiss you--once more? With’ a torrent of sobs she came into his arms. ‘From the fir she told him, “I've been just yours. I've never thought of myself except as yours. Take mi Poverty doesn't frighten me. I've known it too long -iUs almost like an old friend. Lot's fight our way back together, “No, he said bitterly or once I_know myself. If I ever become a nfin, God knows I'll come to you. But [ haven't done it yet. I mustn't know where you are, dear. Um strong enough—Just now, but in some dark, weak moment I'll come hurry- ing to you, if L can find you—before "ve proved myself.” “I'm going out-—on the road—this afternoon,” she spoke slowly, “I'm going to wait.” . . In the weeks followed Paul |anade a resolute attempt to keep bis promise. For a while he played in a restaurant, but bis constitution had been shattered by theve late months terda: and eickness intervened. Mary, too, endlessly sought employment. She went often to the cemet where Jefferson Edwardes slept, and her single extravagance was the pur- chasa.of a few flowers to carry with or On one of these occasions she hap- pened upon a burial in a lot near that she had just visited. ‘The de- ceased had been a person of sufficient consequence to warrant newspaper attention, and Mary, in passing the Spot from which the carriages were starting away, halted reverently. As ed she went on again, someone overtook her and touched her arm. Turning her head ehe recognized Smitherton, He had been the most considerate of the newspaper men with whom her family’s late affairs had compelled ‘ae her to have repeated meetings. The reporter looked her straight- forwardly in the eyes and inquired dlunt!; ‘You were in the office yes- looking for employment, out" he said. weren’ "Yoo, @ positi interest’ story of my life The young man nodded. ‘T know ¥, and I saw your eyes. You won't make any mistake by trusting me, Miss Burton, Now I want to talk to you, and you needn't hesitate about telling me things,” There was a frank boyishness about thie young man, and h' ner reminded her of Kdward thought his eyes had something that same straight rlessness and honesty. “You are going with me from here to a little restaurant T know, near by, and you are hear me out. T know that going through a game sc whether it be a man or woman.” In the end she went. “CHAPTER XXIII. N old year was dying and a A young year was about to be born. Along the blazing stretch of Broadway from Thirtieth Street to Colum- bus Circle seethed and sounded the noisy saturnalia of New Year's Eve One splinter which was carried along on the tide gazed about out of a chalky face-—morphia stamped. This chip bore the name of Paul Bur- ton At Longacre Square he was held uy; at a crossing, while the erowd shrunk back on itself, waiting the raised hand of the traffic policeman. Find- ing himself josthed, he glanced at the men tn evening dress and fur coats was laughing into his, and he recog- them all. The face of Norvil Thayre 6 faughing into his, and he recog- ed that au evening well started had inted its flush on the cheeks of each of them. “My word, Burton!” laughed the Englishman, “I haven't se you since the war of the Roses. How goes it, lad?” Then, even in his heightened gayety of mood, Thayre recognized the want and distress which had left their impress and pal- lor on this face, and his eyes so- bered. With the other rules of the eeavon he tot, that forgetfulness of { Fiening World Daily Magazine | AND SOME To PAY For, THE PRESENT | FOR, ou R Son T SISTER OME Ta PAY RESENT | For THE BouGuT For OUR SON GIVE HE ,Patron saint. St. George AND SOME PAY For THE PRESENT | BouGHT FoR THE WHOLE FAMILY TO GIVE You CAN You BEAT IT Who “Santa Claus’’ a Really Was aA By Elean HPN the firet Dutch familly came to New Amsterdam, as New York City was origt- nally calied, they brought Santa Claus with them, ‘The genial saint had Jong been a yearly visitor in the Netherlands, and the children would never have consented’ to leave him behind them. Now Santa Claus is really only another name for St. Nicholas. In Hol- jand his name ts written “Sant Nickolass,” or “Nick- lass.” ‘This was gradually shortened by the people to “Klass,” and from that to “Klaus” or “Claus,” as wo epell it, the transition ts easy. Now in the Middle Ages and even before this time each country had its was supposed to take an especial Interest in the destinies of England, Bt. Denis of France, St. Patrick ot Ireland, and #0 on, while St. Nicholas was chosen for Holland. Just why this selection was made no one now knows, but it may be because this saint was sald to be the protector of sailors; in many old paintings he is rep- resented with an anchor, and the Netherlands was above all things, « maritime nation. But besides being the patron of sallors St. Nicholas was also the protector of ttle children, especially orphans, and so It gradually came about that brated by making gifts to little folks, or Clapp. dy feasting and revels, and, of course, religious services, but the exchange of gifts was not an especial feature. The Dutch children received their presents on St, Nicholas Day, whieh was on Dec. @ and again on New Year's Day. Until quite recently, and even sometimes to-day, in old- fashioned families in Tolland and eer- tain parts of Western and Southern Germany, in Austria and German epeaking Switzerland, St Nicholas 19 @til honored on his own day. At this time the shops are full of cakes and candies made especially for the season, And in many places on the eve of the day father or uncle or elder brother used to dress up !n a long robe, with a cap representing a Bishop's mitre on his head and # pastoral staff in his hand and visiting the homes of his little relatives or friend» ho would anxiously inquire into their conduct during the past year. Then the mock St. Nicholas left with promises of reward for the good children and @ mild scolding for the bad ones, but at this season many infantile delinquen- cles were easily for given, and the good saint often let the ttle culprits off with merely a warning. Before he or ahe went to bed each clild set {ts shoes out on the porch and filled them with hay or straw or put in a carrot for the white horse that carried the good saint on his journey from door to door, In Now there is another curtous thing| the morning all good children found in connection with the history of our modern Santa Claus, and that ts that Bt, Nicholas did not originally bestow his bounty on the children on Christ- mas, for during many centuries i Christ's birthday was celebrated only them, CHAPTER XXIV. steadily wo: no money w st accorded, so he hastened to k 1 Rreater speed, The top steps were slip nd Old Tom was giddy and bls His foot shot sideways and his body went He clutched doa- hand rail and missed Down the long flight of iron-edged rolled and lay shapeless on the pavement An ambulance came with much clanging of its gong, and when they examined him at Belle his pockets, they found eo and Mary's memorandum, So the: ity, and sent a t phone message to the theatre—to followed a half-hour later by a sec- ond announcing that life was extinct. While old Thomas was making his dash for the top of the stairs at the elevated, the landlord, followed by a physician, tapped on the door of the room Thomas Burton had left—and, receiving po response, the pair went Bwiftly the doctor labore 4 the patient rallied a little and bor lids wavered and opened. Then her eyes closed. sician bent over the bed with his fin- wers on the pulse, and then bent his ear to the breast. “We have nothing more to do bers,” he announced briefly. All of the scraps of were received by Mr. Abey Lewis. Ho had taken his place near the phone and stood sentinel there. the second communication arrived he procured a pair of clippers from the stage carpenter and quietly connecting wire where it would not show taking no imprudent chances, in and hike along with us. We have @ table reserved at Kenley's close to the platform shan't miss many tricks.” A deep embarrassinent flooded the ge of Paul legs uncertain, without warnin hurtling backward perately for th I dare aay we & dispossess not for execution on the morrow. time to act and she called a certain number downtown, After a short wait a voice answered ) Thayre leaned forward and explained in a lowered voice, “you go as my guest. ing the party to-night.” Ten minutes later, the street, Paul Burton sat near the of the cabaret cafe whero every table had been re- vance, and from whose doors many applicants were being turned away. retrieved from vue, searching Platform in a “This is Mary Burton, Mr. Smither- ton. Do you--do you think you could still find me work in vaudeville?” Tho reporter's brusqueness He knew that this was the girl's last stand, and that she had not served long in “I say, men,” he suggested with the enthusiaam o° & new and bright idea sparkling ju “let's call the head waiter fe Burton play for us. The Management will be jolly well pleased when they know they're getting tho instrumentalist other effort had failed, avery path of “IT don't think, M: * ho assured her. escape closed. ‘The day of the ordeal arrived. Mary could not remember any occasion to which she had gone with such a sense of terror and miegiving, neither Abey Lewis, who had “put her on,” nor any of bis subordinates, sus- It had pleased the manage- ment to call a morning rehéarsal, so Mary had not been able to go tome before her matinee debut row, if all went well, she could re- move her parents to greater comfort, so it was her affair to see that all Paul Burton, as he took bis seat at the plano, forgot that it was New eve on Hroadway. He remem- bered only that here dream-world and when he began to play the clamor of the place slowly and unconsciously uiet came—not at elirium may eoften slowly intasleep under the stroke of &@ soothing hand They did not hear the first peal of the midnight clock, until the sudden darkness which that stroke heralded reminded them of the hour. The place which had blazed with light was now as black as some sea- floor cavern, and that should have gnal for a hundred horns and rattlers and shouts of greeting and the reaching of hands to meat and grasp other hands across the ta- bles. But in Kenley’ except for the peals of music that came from the platform. @t last the strains ended in etlence, and a deep breath passed among the tables as though from one composite pair of Then once more the instru. once, but as a Her mother had been less well than 1 during these last few days and Mary had impressed upon old Tom Burton the necessity of remaining on er own absence. out of the advance she had received, Old Tom had drawn a small allowance By forenoon Thomas Standish Burton was more than tipsy, and by 2 o'clock «he emerged from a side door his step was so unsteady that he found the elippery footing a matter requir- ing studious attention Finally he opened the door of his wife's room and entered. But after one step be stood still, then he bruah- ed a sleeve across hin aves to ane Viizabeth Burton tay. the floor near her watch during reached the early and stood for a while at the elbow of the ticket-taker, the throngs crowd in, commencement of the performance ho went inside and sat near thi back of It was only when he knew that Mary's act was due in @ that he went behind might want just a word or smilo of encouragement at the final moment, heard the orchestra for the overture, and shivered felt much more like a victim waiting turn to be thrown than a young woman her debut as @ “headline Her fortitude wavered aa she looked at her w: but held, and at last seif on the stage with no co: ollection of how she h beyond a shadowy memor it was quiet more clearly ‘The old man hurried over to her and micceeded in lifting her weight to the was not to end til morning—for the Notes that sounded across the place were the opening bars of Sweet Home.” There were only a few bars after that a loud crash as though a to the liens the old man stood about to make stupefied, then he thought of Mary. Down the stairs he hobbled and on floor he knocked upon the landlord's door and implored him to a physician while he went out to the telephone After three trials he got the thea tre number and was told that Burton could not answer just Old Tom Burton rushed out of t saloon and was hastening at his awk- ward gallop to the Eighth Street sta- tion of the elevated, tell Mary in person and to bring her For a while number of hands had simultaneou fallen, with violence, upon the ke and then the lights blazed again from all the opalescent chandeliers and al! the wall brackets. Across one end of the room gleamed a huge electric stgn, lying hunched with his face on the keyboard of the instrument, sagged the unmoving fig- ure of Paul Burton. But the faintness which had come upon Paul Burton was the faintness 6 curtain rose, {ts eyes on the beauty of a fallen roy~ and the public Te was going to ,' quite distinotly whistles of admiration anc home. Around the turn of the rails he saw , and "Some girl twenty-five minutes, during which time Mr, Lewis and Mr How a Strong Man Took a Bride in the Northland | By JACK LONDON |___ Will Appear on This Page Next Tuesday Mr, Lewis rubbed his hands. we have arranged better 1f we was running the world firet-page storica to-magrow in By Charles Neville Buck every paper in town. We'll have to hire the Hippodrome.” “First-page stories, what do you mean?" Lowis looked at the young man and enlihtened. “Oh, I forgot you didn't know the latest. Well, tho girl's mother ts dead and the old man’s just followed sult in a pauper’s cot in Bellevue. How's that for heart inter- est? You're a reporter. | ask you, will they feature that on Park Row? Will they give us space for that, I ask you?" And she went on... my Goat" ‘Oh, of course I ain't told her yet," Mr. Lewis hastened to add, “she might have gone up." "Great God!” exclaimed the re- porter, and did not rouse himself while he saw the curtain descend, then rise and fall time after time to a thunder of applause. He saw ary Rurton with her distaste masked behind the regal tranquillity of her splendid eyes and her cruelly wasted courage, bowing, not like an actress, but lke an empress. Then she passed them and closed the door of her dressing-room, Smitherton heard Lewis's vole once more, accompanied by something like a sigh. “Now comes the tough part,” wald the manager, “I've got to 60 and break it to her.” ‘The reporter stopped him. “To hell with you!” he cried out flercely. “I'll tell ‘her myself.” He went slowly to the door, but the manager had followed him with some excitement, and with no realisation that his voice was loud, as” he prompted “Put it to her tactful. Remind her that she’s made on Broadway, and, now that the old man and old Woman are both dead, she's free.” The dressing-room door suddenly opened, and they saw the girl etand- ing there unsteadily, but as they ap- proached she took @ backward step and leaned againet the wall “IT heard you,” she said. ‘They are £0 Smitherton knew that words could hardly help. He closed the door again and turned aside, Even Lewis moved away and stood silent But a few minutes later the dress- ing room door once more swut outward and they saw ber at th threshold. Mr. Abey Lewts laid a hand on her arm “Mies Burton,” he suggested, “you ain't quite got ‘the paint off yet. It needs a litle more cold cream, still But Mary did not hear him “Let me ." she conmanded, and they « ide and saw her go ring night aad the rushed after he ne at least put you ina tur fed, but she shook her head "You can do only one thing now she sald “Por God's sake leave me alone,” Though he knew she w in no con dition to be left to herself, the spell of her eyes was upon him, He stood there and saw her turn the corner, buffeted by the wind, and disappear. Then he became ‘conscious of a newsboy's shrieking: “Last ‘dition= All "bout the Burton trad-egy!"* (The End) \ that the fodder had disappeared—the horae had eaten it, of course—and the shoes had been filled with cakes and candies, And as the shoes were mostly wooden sabots or “klumpjes, ae the little folks in Holland call | they held quite a good deal. | tho bad children’s shoes there was nothing but a switch, As time went on and Christmas |Day began to be more widely cele | brated, the vist of St, Nicholas was | Popularly transferred to the twenty fifth of December, the day on which mankind recetved the greatest gift of all. St. Nicholas was always rep- |resented tn the low countries as an ol4 man with a long white beard, dressed in a long occlesiaatical robe, for the real saint wasa Bishop; so nowadays we find the tiny images of Santa Claus showing fn old man with white beard and hair, the Bis- hop's robe has become @ rather long bolted red tunic, and the Bishop's mitre, Santa Claus's pointed cap. He no longer rides @ white horse es did St. Nicholas, but drives a dashing team of reindeer, he has long ago lost his saintly character, and ts now supposed to come straight from the mysterious North up near the Pole, where anything may happen. He is to-day the very incarnation ef the spirit of Chriatmas and seema a aost distant relation of the gentle old saint who lived in the time of the great Roman Emperor Constantine. About the peal St. Nicholas who wee canonized by the Church, very Httle is known. He waa Bishop of Myra in Asta Minor, and he died eomewhere between the years 345 and 853 A. D. Legond declares that his life was al Ways holy. It ts often very curlous what the centuries do to the memory of # good man, or a bad one either. for that matter, After more than six hundred and seventy years, the dignified, austere, bul undoubtedly kind-hearted Bishop of Myra bas been metamorphosed into @ jolly tat old man whose whole duty in life is to Mill the children’s stockings on Christmas Eve. —_ How Mistletoe | ___Grows MM tesuiment to which so much sentiment has been attached as a Yuletide decoration, ts 4 leafy, green shrub commonly found growing upon various spectes of broad-leafed trees throughout th and showing a@ specially country strong sentimental attachment for the jouk, says Popular Science Monthly, | It fastens itself upon the tree jpenetrates {ts tissues, and draws |nourtshment from it,- deforming and sapping {ts vitality, Birds feed upon the mistieto rries and scatter the seeds from tree to tree, ‘The pod in which tt d is enclosed is sticky ind pulpy and readily adheres to any part of the tree upon which it falls, whether branch or trunk, When germinating, a splke-like “sinker root" bores through the bark until tt red tre ches the sap, of which it robs the Mistletoe has become such a destruc- jtive pest in this country that ¢l Government scientists recommend ita extermination,