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: ' ' > 4 ‘ 4 PLESH—MRS. H. L.: ( petite, headaches, faintness, rld’ Perfect Figure Contest To Make Perfectly Proportioned for Their Height Women Who Are Fifteen or More Pounds Over or Under Proper Weight. $100 in Awards to the Six Con- testants Whose Weight and ‘Measurements After a Three Months’ Course of Diet and >} Brercise Most Closely Ap- proximate Those Designated as Perfect for Their Height. 7 Yauetrated Lessons, Prepared by Miss Pauline Furlong, Will Be Published Daily in The Evening World, By Paulin the Perfect Figure contest. whose weight is the weight and Jose the appointment. me, care of the Perfect Figure Con- test, Evening World, 63 Park Row, N. Y. City, and ask for an appotnt- ment, stating your height and welght, and giving your name and address. I will then mail you an appointment card, directing you where to find me, » and at what time. When you call I will welgh and measure you, and !f you are eligible you will be entered as a contestant. A suite of private offices has been opened by The Evening World for the contest purposes, where you will ome in contact only with me, the young women who are acting as my asaistants in various capacities and possibly other contestants who may be waiting their turn to see me, The contest will {lustrated daily and will of the first of the leasons Monday, Jan continue for twelve week: The $100 in awards will be dis- i one of $50 ond, one of $10 to the contestant who ranks third and thr bound book containing all the Mlustrated lessons published in 4 the contest course will be pr commence with} the publication in The Evening World sented to every woman who fin- fehee the contest. To assist every contestant in either Seducing or developing her figure to Proper proportions each one will be @ personal chart, which will her present weight and meas- ta, and will also indicate those to which her individual figure must eontorm to be considered “perfect.’ Answers to Queries. ALUM SOLUTION FOR SOFT Use cold alum tion to harden the flesh under the Take two tablespoonfuls pow- dered alum and one pint hot water, After twenty-four hours strain and ‘uge the clear portion as often as con- venient. TOO THIN—J. G.: Space will not it me to answer your query in I and outline exercises aud three meals a day to help you gain weight. You can send me forty-eight cents and 1 will send you the entire devel- oping course, DANDRUFF—M. K.: This subject 4 has been covered at least once a week for many weeks, Dandruff ts a foreign substance on the scalp and should be removed. It may be of dry or oily variety and arises from differ- ent conditions, Poor circulation ts probably the greatest cause of dan- drut, Dry dandruff must ushed from the scalp with a stiff brush and kept away by oil massage applied nightly. TOO FAT—A. B.: If you have be- come disgypted with yourself you should stick to the obesity course un- til you have reduced, It is not a dif- floult matter to do so, You are near- ty fifty pounds too heavy now. If you are this heavy at twenty-four years of age you will be dangerously fat a few years from now, and should try to reduce for health's s@ke anyway, SWIMMING—MRS. G, 8: Bwimming, like other exere de- Yelops the muscles and reduces ex- cess fat. It is one of the very best all-round exercises for all, ANAEMIA—MRS. KATE R.: A lack of red corpuscles in the blood ¢ this condition, Weakness, loss J T. pation, pale lips and cheeks are some of the symptoms of anaemia, plenty of fresh alr day and night, daily warm baths and cool sponge | baths, massage, nourishing foods, green vegetables, salads, raw eggs and milk will improve this condition. Drugs and tron tonics are not ad- vised unless prescribed by your doc- uses | Rest, | ¥ PES KIDE FOR THE FACE—M, New <= HT AND MEASUR' CHART, = AAA ARAMA AAA ARH Pereeeerreerrrrrrss e Furlong Y _ Copyright, 1917, by The Prose Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wortd.) VERITABLE flood of application letters daily is pouring into my office at The Evening World from women who wish to enter I must ask all who write for appointments to remember that the contest is open only to women at least fifteen pounds greater or leas than it should be for their height, according to measurenrent chart printed above. Also, I can grant no appointments for any purpos other than that of entering the contest, and each ap- Plicant must be not less than twenty-one years of age. My appointment calendar already i» completely 5 filled for every day this week until Friday, so no Paitine puaowg More appointments can be granted now earlier than that day. I must ask every woman who receives my appointment card to {present herself at my office promptly at the time specified, else she must This rule I must make in justicesto all the others gbose calls have been arranged for according to a definite time schedule. For the benefit of those who have not already made application I jwill explain that to enter the contest it 1s necessary for you to first write H. G.: Undiluted peroxide ts cer- tainly too strong for the face. It is vegy drying to the skin. You cannot expect to reduce the breast or any other part of the body within two weeks, WATER DRINKING—R. H.: I do not see how water drinking could affect the lungs to any great extent. Of course, it is benefictal to the blood, eliminative organs and all parts of the body. It should be taken at any convenient time between meals, before breakfast and before retiring. TO DARKEN EYEBROWS—a. B.: Use the eyebrow pencil to darken the rows. BRAN BREAD FOR CONSTIPA- | TION—MARGARET T.: Please send two cents for this formula and repeat your query, THAT LEAK” was OUTRAGEOUS | THOSE SPECULATORS WHO TOOK ADVANTAGE OF ADVANCE INFORMATION WASHINGTON To CREATE A Ex ROB THe ocr ae SUCKERS IN WALL STREET OU To BE MORBED ih THINK af THE PooR (DOWS AND THE WERE CAUGHT 14 THE NE IN ON (T PooR SUCKERS WHO SLUMP | To MAKE MONEY LUKE THAT IS A SIN! WorSE HAN RORBERY | O,'S THAT So! NEXT TINE You GeT A TIP UKE THAT, LET By Maurice Ketten t Adair it Prer iT IT WAS THE WERE THE Bur | DonN'T Give A HANG !1 HAD INSIDE INFORMATION MYSELF AND CLEANED A NI LITTLE PILE i ROUGH ay FELLOWS WHO NOT IN.ow ° TIP PRretry Touay ! ‘ (The Evening World’s Kiddie Klub Conducted by Eleanor Schorer Korner * LY, w, THEY VISITED GEORGE WASHINGTON Dicky and Dot in th HEADQUARTERS. Wonder C By Mary Graham Bonner. Copyright. 1917, by ‘The Pre Publidhing Co, (Tie New York Evening World.) Trip Up the Hudson. 66 B shall take @ trip to-day up the Hudson River,” said Unele John. " “Oh, what fun!" exclaimed picky. “Are wo going to any special place? asked Dot. Yes,” eaid Uncle John, “we are going to seo Washington's Headquar- ters at Newburgh. So, on a boat Uncle John took Dicky and Dot, and up the Hudson they went. They looked at the beautiful Palisades on one side, and on tho other the tall buildings of apartment thouses with so many windows, and so many home: “What quantities of people live in the Wonder City,” sald Dot. "Of course,” laughed Dickey. “Don’t we see hundreds every day? There have been crowds wherever we have ne."* “But ft seams as if there were so many more, somehow, when we sce a be K for them all," said Dot. Thore Uncle John took the children to used to sit in!” try it too! Be names in the tig book in which are written come from arters of Washington, which utifully situated. In front of the house Dicky and Dot saw a large cannon which they were told was fired off every year on the urth of July, when some one made @ patriotic speech, and followed in the evening’ Back onca more they went in the “sf along the Hudson to the Wi City, in view again, and Dicky and Dot were thinking of all the marvellous things that existed in the city, Dicky sald: “There would never have been @ nder orge Washington. taken that trip.” “And written Of course Dot had to re they left they wrote their the names of visitors who all over to visit the head- are 60 hen fireworks celebration, And, as the tall buildings came if it hadn't been for I'm 0 glad I've m glad,” said Dot, “that we've ,our names in the book of s. City id ou ed by Ma of ‘Nort h White Plains, N. Y. The Evening World ‘will pay ONS DOLLAR each for accepted {deas for these Wonder buted by Kiddie Klub members, Suge what lots of homes there have to bo| gost only REAL “wonders City Stories contri- which Dicky and Dot might see in the big ‘At last the boat reached Newburgh. | city. Write only on one side of the paper. address and ‘the house where at one time George; Put your name, age, Washington made his headquartags. membership certificate number at the ‘They looked about them at all the|top of your first page. Mall to Won4 things that Geo ‘Washington used. der Story Editor, Evening World, No, Some of them looked old and different, | 63 Park Row, New York City, but many seemed much the same. Thoy just had @ different meanini because sect @ great man had o used them. i jo John showed thom letters at PUBLISHED ON THIS PAGE COMPLETE EVERY TWO WEEKS. ¢ i BEST NOVELS NG CHAPTERS, Mary is wrecked in a Seas, and of the crew only pee in the sole remaining boat, After four days at soa le lands on an loebeng inany miles {n extent, Hocney discover a man frozen to death on the ice, ‘The. flqure is Grangely lifelike, drewel in rich qttire, Purther exploration reveals dently an aged.» lure he fives two other froag men in And’ te eas the cabin > his delight rv Of food conties jun Mor wines, all frozen Tut urmerred bythe Textney carries one of ie men ou deck, but ‘finding other very heavy, places him ‘before the fire to thaw a bit. Suddenly the figure moves! After | hour of work Kenney rewtores the life current, In man TiS Biers, t0 be 4 Frenchman,” The letice tells iim that the vewel was « pirate raft, caught in the ice forty-eight yeam before, CHAPTER XIV. LIGHTED a pipe and sat pondering his story a@ little while, There was no doubt he had given me the exact truth so far as his relation of it went. ‘The impression he had made upon me was not agreeable. To be sure he had suffered heavily, and there was something not displeasing in the spirit he discovered in telling the story—a spirit I am unable to communicate, as it owed everything to French v vacity, largely spiced with devilment, and to sudden turns and ejaculations beyond the capacity of my pen to imitate. But a professional flerceness ran through {t, too, He had spoken of chests of silver— where was the treasure, in the run? There might be booty enough in the hold to make a great man, a fino gentleman of me ashore, I was mechanically stirring the saucepan full of broth, when the Frenchman suddenly sat up on his nAttress, cried he, sniffing vigorously. 1 something good—something I am ready for. There is no physic like sleep,” and he stretched out his arms with @ great yawn, then ros@ gilely, kicking the clothes and ma tress on one side and bringing a benc close to the furnace, "What time is it, sir?” “Something after twelve by the captain's watch," said I, pulling it out and looking at it. “But ‘tis guess work time.” “The captain's watch?" with a short laugh. “You est, Mr! “Paul Rodney," said I. modest, Paul Rodney. That watch is yours, sir; and you mean it shbil be you “Well, Mr. Ta: erled he, are mod- ‘assard," said I, colorin; in spits of myself, though ‘be could not witness the change In such a light as that. "I felt this, that if £ left the watch in the’ captain's pocket it was bound to go to the bot- tom ultimately, and"-— "Bah!" he interrupted, flourish of tho hand, “Let us eave the schooner, if possible, There will be more than one watch for your pocket, more than one doubloon for your purse, Meanwhile, to dinner! My stupor has converted me into an empty hogshead, and It will take ma a fortnight of hard eating to feel thut I have broken my fast," with a With a blow of the chopper he struck off a lump of the frozen wine, and then fell to, eating perhaps as a man might be expected to eat who had not had a meal for eight and forty years. “There are two of your companions said L, He started. “I mean frozen,” I continued; “they'll be the bodies of Trentanove and Joam Barros.” He nodded, “There is no reason why they should be deader than you were. It is true that Barros has been on deck while you have been below, but after you pass a certain degree of cold fiercer rigors cannot signify.” “What do you propose?” said he, looking at me oddly. “Why, that we should carry them to the fire aud rub them, and bring them to if we can.” Why? I was staggered by his indifference, for I had believed he would have shown himself very eager to restore his old companions and shipmates to fe. I was searching for an answer to his strange inquiry, “Why?” when he proceeded: “First of all, my friend Trentanove was stone blind, and Barros nearly blind, Unless you could return them their sight with their life they would curse you for disturbing them, Bet- ter the blackness of death than the blackness of life.” feigyhs is the body of the captain,” id I. He grinned. “Let them sleep,” sald be. “Do you know that they are cutthroats, who would reward your kindness with the pontard that you might not tell tales against them, or claim a share of the treasure in this vessel? Of all desperate villains I never met the like of Barros, He loved blood even etter than money, He'd quench his thirst before an engagement with gunpowder mixed in brandy, Tonce saw him choke a man--tut! he ts very well—leave him to his repose: “You knew those men in life," sald I, “If the others are of the same pat- tern as the Portuguese, by all means let them He frozen.” “But, my friend," said he, calling mo mon aml, which I translate, “that's not It, either, Do you know the value of the booty in this schooner?” I answered, no, How was I to know it? [had met with nothing but wear- ing apparel, and sme pieces of money, and a few watches in the fore- castle. He held up the fingers of the right hand: "One, two, three, four, fve~ five chests of plate and money; one, two, three—three cases of virgin ail- ver in ingots; one chest of gold in- gots; one case of jewelry. In all"— vused to enter into a calculation, ng his ps briskly as he whis- to himself-—“hetween ninety and one hundred thousand pounds of your English money.” I stifled the amazement his words excited, and said, “You must have met with some rich: ships.” “We did well," he answered, “For- tune Is a strange wenc Who would think of lodged on an iceberg? Now bring those others up there to life, and you make us five, What would follow, think you—what but this?" He raised his beard and stroked his , Mr. Rodney. finding her throat with the sharp of his hand. Then, swallowing a great dfaught of brandy, he rose and stopped to list “It is blowing hard," sald he; “the harder the better. I want to see this island knocked into bergs. covery sea is as good as a pickaxe. Hark! there are those crackling noises I used to hear before I fell into @ stupor. Where do you sleep?” I.told him. “My berth ts the third,” said he. “T ba nol to smoke, and will fetch my pipe." Te took the lantern and went aft, acting as if he had left that berth an hour ago, and I understood, in the face of this ready recurrence of his memory, how impossible {t would be ever to make him believe he had been practically lifeless since the year 1753, oven and sipping it. “Last year! ‘Tis twelve years since I was in Paris, and three ars since we had news from ‘#! thought I. To tell this m: the news, as he calls tt, would obli me to travel over fifty years of hi to) = Why, Mr. Tassard,” said I, ‘there's plenty of things happening, you know, for Europe's full of kings and queens, and two or more of them are nearly always at loggerheads, But sailors— merchantmen like myself—hear little of what goes on. We know the nau of our own sovereign and what wages sailors are getting. That's about it, sir, In fact, at this moment I could tell you more about Chill and Peru than England and France.” “Is there war between our nations?” When he returned he had on a hairy he asked cap, with large covers for the ears, “Yes,” gald T. and a big flap behind that fell to be- | “Ha!” he cried. “I doubt tf this low his collar, and was almost as long as his hair. He produced a pipe of the Dutch pattern, with a bowl carved into a death's head, and great enough to hold a cake of tobacco. The skull might have been a child's for size, and, though it was dyed with tobaceo juice, and the top blackened with the live coals which had been held to it, it was so finely carved that it looked ghastly and terribly real in his hand as he sat puffing it. He eyed me steadtastiy while he emoked, us if critically taking stock of me, and presently said: The de hath an odd way of ordering matters. What particular merit have I that I should have been the one hit upon by you to thaw! Had you brought any- one of the others to, he would have advised you against reviving us, and go I should have passed out of my time you will come off easily. You have good men In Hawke and Anson; but Jonaulere and St. rae, hey! and Macon, Cellle, Letenduc He shook his head knowingly. I knew the name of Jonquiero as an admiral who had fought us in 1748 or thereabouts. Of the others I had never heard. But I held my peace, which T suppose he put down to good manners, for he changed the subject. CHAPTER XV, HEN his pipe was out he rose and made several atrides about the cook-room, then took the lantern, and, en- tering the cabin, stood awhile surveying the place, “So this would have been my coffin frosty sleep into death as qutetly—ays, 4 and as painiesaly, as that puff of but for you, Mr, Rodney?” sald he. smoke melts {n to clear air.” “opwill be like lving on the roof of Thah perhaps you do not think you house I have a mind to see how she ree ekrd py my ewakening you to \1.5 what d'ye say, Mr. Rodney? Shall I venture into the open?” “Why not?” sald I, “You can move briskly, You have as much life as you ever had.” “Let's go. then.” he exclaimed, and, climbing the ladder, he pushed open “Ye my friend, I am much obliged,” said he with vivacity. “Any fool can die, To live is the true business of life. Mark what you do, You make me know tobacco again, you enable me to eat and drink, and these things are pleasures which were denied me in that cabin there. You the companion door, and stepped onto recall me to the enjoyment of my the deck, gains, nay, of more—of my own and “lia!” cried he, grinning to the the gains of our company, You smart of his checks, “this Is not the make me, as you make yourself, a cook-room, eh? Great thunder, you it that this ice has been rth? Why, man, ‘tis ieler than when we were first rich man; the world opens before me anew, and very brilliantly—to be sure, am obliged.” “The world {s certainly before you, as it 19 before me," sald I, “but that’s all; we have got to get there.” He flourished bis pipe, and ‘twas like the flight of Death through the gloomy air, “That must come. We are two, Yesterday you were one, and I can understand your despair. Courage! between us we shall manage, How long te it since you sailed from Eng- and?" “We safled last month a year from the ‘Thames for Callao,” “and what is the news?" sald he, taking a pannikin of wine from the THE BLIND MAN’S EYES | By William MacHarg and Edwin Balmer Begins on This Page Monday, Jan. 165 ed up. “L hope not,” ald I; “and I think not, Your blood doesn’t course strong yet, and you are fresh from the fur- nace. Besides, It ts blowing a Litter cold gale, Look at that eky, lis- ten to the thunder of the sea “May the blessed Virgin preserve us!” he said. "Do you say we have drifted north? If this is not the very heart of the South Pole you shail lo me We are on the equ ‘@ are your companions, I, pointing to the two bude little distance before the mainmast He marched up to them, and ex- claimed: "Yes, this is Trentanove and that is Barros. Both were blind, but they are biinder now. Would they thank you to arouse them out of their comfortable and force them to el, as I do, th{e cold to which thoy are now as insensible as I was? By heaven, for my part, I can stand it no longer,” and with that he rao briskly to the hatch. The heat comforted him presently, and ho put a lump of brandy into the oven to melt, and this comforted him also. I_ was atruck with the notion of the bed of ice on which the achooner lay going afloat, and sald: “Ara sex an wind to be helped, think you? If the block on which we lie could be de- tached, it night beat a bit against ite parent stock, but would not unite again, The schooner’s canvas might be made to help it along—though suppose It capsized!” “We must consider sald he; “there ts no need to hurry. When wind falls we will survey the te He warmed himself afresh, and, after remaining silent with the air of one turning many thoughts over in his mind, he suddenly eried: “D'ye know, I have a mind to view the plate and money below? What say you? I answered instantly: “Certainly, I should like to seo this wonderful booty, It is right that we should find out at once If it ts there; for, supposing it vanished, we should be no better than madmen to ait talking here of the fine lives we shall live if we ever get home.” He picked up the lantern and pat: “I must go to your cabin; it was the captain's, The keys of the chests should be in one of his boxes.” He marced off, and was #o long gone I was almost of belief he had tumbled down in a fit, However, I had made up my mind to act a wary part, and particularly, never to let him think I distrusted him, and #0 T would not go to see what he was about. But what I did was this: The armsroom was door, L lighted a candle, en- it, and swiftly armed myself a ort of dagger, a kind of ding-knife, a very murderous Iit- edged sword, the blade about hes Jong, and the haft of There were some fifty of these weapons, antt I took the first that came to ‘my hand and dropped It into the deep side pocket of my coat, and returned to the eook-room It might be that he was long be- cause of having to seek for the keys; but my own conviction was that ho found the keys easily and stayed to rummage the boxes for such jewel: and articles of value as he might there find. I think he was gone near half n hour. He then returned to the cook-house, saying brietty have the keys,” and jingling them, and after warming himself, sald; “Let us my I was moving toward the forecastle. "Not that way for the run,” cried he “Is there a hatch aft?” T asked, “Certainly; in the lazarette.” “I wish T had known that," said I; “T should have been spared a stifling scramble over the casks and raffle forward Je led the way, nd coming to the hatch that’ conducted to the lazarette, he pulled tt open and we descended. He held the lantern and w the light around him, and sald: ye, there are plenty of stores hore reckoned upon provisions for id diately under the hatch stood several twelve months, and we were seventy of a crew.” We made our way over the casks, balos, and the like, Ul we were right aft, and here there was a small, clear of deck in which lay a hatch, 8 he lifted by its ring and down | through the aperture did he drop, I) following, The lazarette deck came Cousin Eleanor’s “Klub Column’’ EAR KIDDIE COUSIN Once in I have recetved a letter from a boy cousin telling that he sent me a poem on Deo. 20, and has not seen it printed in the Klub column as yet. Now ,I know that each “Klub Pin.” and every kiddie who contributes to the “Korner is anx- fous to #ee his or her poem or story printed, and for that very reason I am most careful to publish all ef Bo low that we had to squat when| forts in the order m which they are still or move upon our knees. At the! foremost end of this division of the! ship were stowed the spare sails, ropes for gear, and a great variety of furniture for the equipment of a ship's yards and masts. But imme- small chests and cases painted black, stowed side by side #0 that they could not shift: Taxsard ran his @ counting. “Tight! er the lantern, Mr, Rodney,’ I took the light from him, and, pull- ing the keys from his pocket, he fell to trying them at the lock of the first chest, One fitted. The bolt shot with @ sharp click, like cocking @ trigger, and he raised the ld. Ca over them, | 3) ho; ‘hold The chest was full of silver money. | } and T picked up a couple of the coins and, bringing them to the candle, perceived them to be Spanish pleces of 1789. The | § yame money was tarnished, yet it re- flected a sort of dull, inetallic Ieht The Frenchman grasped a handful and dropped them, as though, like a child, he loved to hear the chink the pieces made as they fell “There's a brave pocketful there,” I said. “Tut!” erled he, scornfully, “ "Te @ mere show of monoy; resolve it into wold and it »mes a lean bit of plunder. This we got from the Con- questador, It was all she had this way. Destined for some mon: © sent to me, must be pationt and await their fair turn to see their contributions pubs lished and must realize that I doing my very best for them keeping their interest at heart every moment of the day. Certificate number .. That is why my cousing WOULD LIKE THE KIDDI KLUB COLORS To B! Questions and Answers, write the whole sory: fut tery, I recollect, But disappointment aE ‘en ene pint , {8 good for holy fathers. It makes| 2. Wa'somot as wany ‘wertes ta tre Sole them more earnest in their devotions |") Ys. wan wee with, and keeps thelr paunches from gwell-|, 10° 7% bas om ante Ing." A Xm Oat oe rer Ho let fall the Id of the chest, ‘teen “published? SY Poeme which locked fteelf, and then, after a oly So me. short trial of the keys, opened the a 1 to the oH op| her's duty to te itn Fae” io, Kormer and for Cher own contmbutions and Ghose Rett has ee Yo pigs of lead, |. Alay the, girle of my section of the town have @ meeting Ouce 6. wok? and when he pulled out one and bade |" See DE! res ass toes ae me feol the weight of tt I still thought | ey a ee aa Pav hadi aa hare the ‘cowsns fies No, 8 to No. 3%, it was lead, until he told me tt was | yay | send them tn and baoune a’ member? virgin silver X'Yeeyou"may’ ab loug aa your coupons ram Chis was good booty!” erted he, |G" 8iuy« colored ablld join the Kiddie Klub? taking the lantern and swinging it] © Yew over the blocks of metal. "Et would | 4 9,MAy my ain rearold tread become @ Kids have heen missed but for me, Our|**\ Yio “iy’Shlid up to fiftem may fom our n und it the hold of th: buceancer in hest half as deep} oa in as th thought it to be a | psn == e of marr ade, for there were two layers of boxes of marmalade i x Bowell on top. F Fouad iene ate || How to Join the Klub and found those pretty bricks of ore |!—— cece eae snug beneath believe Mendoa | —— made the value of the two chesta— | RRGINNING wah sas number, clip out ste of silver though It be—to be equal to|_ ie mp coupons painted ia the Kiub Kemer Peay osvedt od wate stat Toendays, Thuemiaye and Satuniaye, | Wha you ‘The next chest he opened was filled |2AZ® tk feanone, sombemd, in rutation, lare say, of a dozen p only had this pirate honest traders but a picaroon as well, that had also plundered tn her turn another of her own kidney; so that, as I say, this chest of jewelry might represent the property of the passen kers of as many as a dozen Vessels. Tt was as if the contents of the shop of a jeweller who Was at once a gol1- amith ‘and a silversmith had been empticd into this chest (To Le Continugh) rer fiftec Kivery member ts vreseted yin And @ membe PIN COUPON EVENING WORLD 2 Vota! ti Roe BB bee with « lverony Tabi covtificate,