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PAGE The Evening World’s Perfect Figure Contest Conducted by Pauline Furlong GO IN THe * ody should now be on the left hip. ‘ a» back. This movement strengthens all ~~ side and proceed to bend three times. > OW many of my readers know ‘ that the human body ts abso- lutely dependent on the brain 3 and spinal column for the supervi- sion of the various functions of the system, and that digestion, respira- tion and locomo- tion, memory, thoughts and emo- tions are entirely subject to the proper workings of » this elaborate, complex machine? In life we all know that there ts a g00d reason for everything, and the overtired brain is in evidence through constant headaches, tremor, insomnia, frritability, mental depression and other physical weaknesses. It ts the same with food, and women who keep | the stomach overloaded and distended » create @ false appetite and | foundation for many serious disor- ‘Those who make {t a habit to than has been their reguinr ~* custom will soon learn that much less food satisfies the appetite and cer-| tainly brings about better condition » of bealth and greater persona! com- fort. In these enlightened and strenuous times everything in the way of busl- ness and pleasure is taken at hod! speed, and through numerous lab saving devices keen, relentless} @ competition we ail hurry through! ordinary duties as though we were trying to catch a train, No one living in @ large city can get away from the constant roar of F street traffic, loud bells, automobile horns, noisy street cars, &e., which shriek out at us a warning of bodily +, harm, and this condition * with ‘the almost constant u: eye of many a s business hours, » naturally causes strain and dangerous reaction upon the tired, already over- worked brain, Is it any wonder, then, that chron headaches, dizziness, constipation ‘Toss of appetite, insomeia, inuis tion and fatigue are more evidence In all persons to-day However, no mattor how serious! these conditions that exist really are, they can be combated through just a fow almple and hygienic rules fol > |, lowed each day. Some sort of phys cal activity, In the way of bodlly exertion, sufficient rest and just * enough nourishing food to sustain the system will offset even too much mental work and bring about health » HAIR STOPS GROWING—HUNIC teoWi—The hair will only grow a ce ~tain lengtp and nothing will make {t longer. It can be made thicker, however, through cleanliness, brush- a: ing, massage and carcful treatment ° HENNA FOR HAIR—M. it: nd | *' two cents and please repeat your soquery. OLIVE OIL ON FACE-pP 11 ‘Olive oil rubbed on the skin ts said 44? to make it yellow, There are many wholesome creams and lotions for the coupled eof t | Patent Medicine Popular Now in China : HINA will soon be the greatest prietry medicines. Hygione “as we understand it, ts practic unkyown among the Chinese, and th sickness and suffering to which the 2‘masses are subject on account of in ‘SeMeclent treatment, or lack of any fs Xreatment, is probably greater than in any other country. This is ¢elally true of skin dise > Whioh ses, against » native salves or blood tonics se effective, “Ten years ago the proprets médicine trade in China was a »-mgible quantity, but big st vive been made since then, The trade however, i# still in its infancy st Phrough judicious and persisten advertising ‘the natives are gradually educated to the necessity of some attention to their all ments and are responding readily * enough, To Make Perfectly Proportioned for Their Height Women Now Fifteen or More Pounds Over or Under Their Proper Weight. Copyright, 1017, ty The Prees Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Side-Raising Mat Exercise. Developing—Lesson XXVII. BENEFICIAL stretching exercise for the digestive organs and muscles of the trunk is shown with this lesson. | . Lie on the floor on your left side, left arm extended under the | ve’ bead and right arm falling loosely over the front of body, legs extended and together, toes pointed downward and stretching back. Bring the body | up from the waistline to upright position, resting and supporting it as you , do 80 on the palms of the hands. This movement should come from the | ye =<Side only and is not as strenuous and just as beneficial for the sluggish | « »Mver as the “liver squeeze,” which has been shown. The weight of the | exercise keep the feet and knees together and the head and shoulders | «+» benefit to the spina! column. Repeat the side-ratsing three times on the) left side, relax to a resting position and then turn the body to the right| to each side, relaxing completely between the movements. ‘ Lesson Talks and Answers to Queries. OTHER. Room AND WATCH AUNTIE DARN STOCKINGS \ MY LIFE HAS BEEN LYERY SAD When taking this waist-stretching of the trunk muscles and is of great Repeat the bending at least six times face more agr tainly just as e oll, Too much h ages blo ble to use and cer- as pure olive avy grease encour- kheads and large pores, TO DARKEN HAIR—R. C.: Since! I do not know the formula for the hair dye you mention I cannot tell you whether it will accomplish re- | sults or harm you, | WAS LEFT A PENNILESS ORPHAN AT THE AGE oF TEN FRECKLES—SARAH D.: Frecki re an excess of coloring matter | the skin, They are really the sam: as ton only scattered and form spots. Protection and prevention of them | with cream, powder and vell, when in the sun and wind, are much better and easier than cure, NERVOUS SPELLS—M B.: al. though I never answer unsigned let ters, nor print the names of readers, I shall answer this reader because the question is of such weneral in-| terest. I certainly think you should continue with the exercises, even though you have nervous spells, bi jet them be gentle, such a d breathing, stretching and relaxing Can You Beat It! at Rates heat MY FATHER WAS KILLED IN A RAILROAD ACCIDENT AND MY MOTHER WAS RUN OVER BY AN AUTO ULNUST BE GOING IHAVE ENTOYED NY CAL VERY HOW Do You LIKE Your. NEW BeAu 2 He's AN IDIOT} HE LAUGHED ALL THE TINE | WAS TELUNG HIN THE SAD Story OF MY LIFE OPPO RTUN ITY. Fete Knocks, but There’s Nobody Home in This Strange, Startling, Delightfully Funny Story. net once or twice on Lan pollaned oor beside the runner, and with no ceety, NOVELS PUBLISHED | Soot Penden oa ming the same little tune, EVERY TWO WEEKS, And just as pure premonition had sent Anthony's skin to crawling, just nk A, Munsey Co.) as his scalp was prickling and his eyes narrowing angrily, David was OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, with the: Fry, mi Ry way of raiment, David, the grip rtusiie, Dealt emptied, wore the daintiest tatlored walking gown, short of skirt and dis- eels at a toxid playing eilken stockings and patent rates, David qoes,t? leather shoes, with high, slender, ‘eo Wiat Fry has to offer, French hee David’.. slim,round, girl- that b main throat suggested the faintest powder- ing; David's abundant hair was dressed bewitchingly, with little red= dish blond curls straying down about the temples—and had one spent morning on Fifth Avenue It would really have been rather difficult to find a more thoroughly attractive or r gowned girl than Davic Yet, in spite of her charms, John- fon oiler, who had bounced |in- stinctively ‘from his chair, could do CHAPTER VII, no more than atare at David with the * ul eneral expression of & # nv ° B turned the knob and would Shitchea from water. Becond after have entered rather breezily gecond he gaped before he could ask: but that Johnson Boller, “Who's that?" ‘3 fully groomed and ready for ‘That's David!" Anthony said the day, walked out sud- the boy wa: denly and resistlessly and looked «Lt would seem ao. ‘Then the enormity of the joke on Anthony Fry overcoming him eud- denly, Johnson Holler opened hia mouth and laughed—not 4 mere, de- Boller cont expression of mirth, but a roar 4 ich suggested a wild bull in agony. pursues = Phis Nisgara ‘of sound left Johnson Inspiration came swiftly to AM- gover and ended in a deep, hasy thony wheeze—and the torrent broke loose « (Coprright, the F permuading + he twice But bed na anit nachelor joller buy she cap get a piri” around with “Where's the boy?” ‘Er sing,” said A akfast?” "L breakfast in liere am a rule,” said axain and he hugged his fat siden . st this mo tu know and rocked and roared again, un he, “but-Just this morning, you know Siiging, genuinely startled, entered nought wo might go below, It’s the living-room, and stopped, more n id nd regarded the nuth wide open Wiking said hot so quiet down there and there's genuinely startled, more to see Johnson, and’ altered David with t Johnson B wied comfort. "Bless my soul ably in a chair near the corridor and ot any Ree em, anacaeal grinned I—I beg pardon, sir!” the faithful Nix!" sald tte, with a shake of the one choked. | “Fhe young lady” be pat here a ip e young lady,” sal n 5 ead, “We'll eas Highs bere: Im Olt aie aloe hed the edge Of 8, Fescr Jone with that noisy stuf, Anthony, and bie volce had the eine off tiket and STAs 8 homelike, And theDy she came here last night, under @ another thing," he added more seri- misapprehension, while masquerading forget Smmedi- roapr vusly, "L want to cross-examine that as a boys You wi r mf little shaver in private, ag it were, ately that I have told you thia, ’ aaa suttiing him inthe house “Very good, sin” Wilkina maid; and being one of those rare, model crea- without knowing anything about Lim tures we read avuut but rarely meet, is downright crazy, 1 wont to ask he straightened up and ‘forced his him about that French doll and” tone back te e matter of fact mum. Hn ‘ppod. ‘The window at the ble. “As to breakfast, gir? he ¢ ridor was open and the Anthony glanced at Mary, rning breeze Was blowing “Yes, I'm quite buman,’ she said y past him, Also he sniffed crisply, “leat breakfas ng perfuine around here “For three, Wilkins,” instructed sulle Anthony iain And now, with Wilkins moving tn- “Strong-—rank!" cessantly in and out, @ peculiar, al gu Don't yo most silent constraint came upon L smell noth them, Anthony, at the window gazed n expensive J i 1 his upon the distant street and tried his nostrils suddenly, “but PN sea" best to. th there was just one started for the corridor and awful thought obtruded itself upon He topped short, David left the room his mind and, although hoe thrust it vas coming doWn—and still it away again and again, the thought lid not sound like David! David, in came back and mocked at him Anthony's +> es, six or seven siges shnson Boller, recovering tn a too liar suid have been thumping long, delighted seriea of wheezes, footsteps were firm 1 ambled to @ corner and gazed " e sharp rap of @ at Mary affected to read uncon cernedly, She was certainly pretty Dad forgotten that she might have and watching a pretty girl had never people and might have to explain to wearled Mr. Boller; but far beyond them juat where last night lad been ott t fio joke passe: her prettiness was the terrific joke DUA es snony bad abled from Wilkins, quite himself again, worked Wor Yes, up to the age of forty- deftly. Tho service elevator from the five he had been alone and contented, pantry whined softly to the Fry year in und your out, indulging overy apartment and stopped, and present- tle foibie wit gti Ny soul to ques- ly, silently, Anthony motioned them [100 guin& 4s he liked and coming us to the table. . an 0 ! . Johnson Holler came shaking plea- , But that was over now! That was santly, albolt with countenance over aud done with forever! Ans grave enough. Mary came daintily (hoo! Pry. wine ny weed Mary and thoughtfully, But Anthony Fry “Byoune" woman, came as one going to his doom. avilonniwornia a) Coffee was poured then and food oye sD wuld, nerved and Witkine moved Out. kod _,“E have done so," Anthony went on 8 he gone now?” Mary aeked steadily, marching to the gallows as & brave im should, with never a fal ter once | 1 started, "be oat nirie--mind, 1 ny has no attractions, The bach sighed Anthony, w thout wasting any more time, Wouldn't it be as well to d just what we are going to do? r state, | fondly imagined, was to Anthony sighed bitterly, my chosen state until death. “Now that you have elected to Mary looked at him rather too orit- change into a Very charming young ically, examining the wrinkles at the woman, I have no idea of what we're corners of his ryes and considering golng to do, If you mean by way of the extreme width of his part. getting you out unnoticed,” a Kood enough Idea,” she Mary's head went a little higher. ul What has It to do “That 1s exactly what I mean, of ting me out of here?* course," sald she. “As for my 1s a great deal to do with tt, ing Into my own clothes, what else 4s you Will see,” Anthony said, with was there to do? I couldn't wear & vering sigh. “For the fact those ridiculous things you gave me; of Your presence I alone will take the nothing in the world could have i tempted me to go on the street in Thanks,” sald Mary, them, even tf I could have worn “And since the blame ts mine, I will them. I telephoned for Felice and mike what amends I can” Anthony had her bring my things because I-- Pry concluded and nerved though he I wanted to feel sane again, 1 think, W#% hit voice broke, “I will consent my de in and If she had made auch a to,marry you wretched disturbance, poor child, I'd ae erled qonnsen La ees havo been Into them and out of here a.’ ihn intake of her breath Was yen ible i eb, olor pone “And I," escaped Anthony, “should have had to explain,” “You're very precious of ot in embarrassment, plainly in ans Mary's eyes snapped, too, and i tle toward him ques. t good name of yours, aren't yo Mary if ineredulous of her asked tartly cs ‘I have always been,” said An y WHAT®™ naid Mary thony iw vent to marry you!” An And then, all unaware that Mary's t ted pretty Nps 1 weed and that Mary cried, “Why, It her eyes w opinions which wou t marry you tf you were ten caused Johnson Boller fairly to quake tities st man tn the world!” with glee, Anthony's head dropped ie lower und he stared at his untouched — “N Mary salad wildly, plate. “y not another thing to do.” “It must be lovely to be such formed her, with © forlorn, thoroughly good and proper man," wunte “Your gs Mary sald sweetly, "Couldn't you M4 possibly forget yourself for a moment y find some othe way of pre and tell me how you plan to tm gery td mary Leys out of here? Couldn't you spend just Wanty. “lin enkaged now to the I'm xolng to tell my people ee: WT 6 bias wan ioe Kh?" gasped Anthony and he sn't ery over the prospect "Oh, yes, T have people—a mother Of ty "the young woman and a father and then some more,” Mary informed him. “Nice »pl i . y: gee 4 almost a# proper in thetr notions as t night, he'll shoo you are." as + as you're sitting Anthony merely sta at her num Unconsciously, perhaps, she tf)! for the first thine had driven the last, long nail into his on the point of coffin, Her people! Momentarily, he p ways and means BILL JENKINS, BUCCANEER, Sequel to “The Brass Check,” but 1 Complete Story Will Begin on This Page April # ” Anthony sald dully, ‘ ot me here and you've kept said heartily: me here,” said Mary, and it wae plain " that her cven temper had not yet re the "Long ate,” grinned young Mr. | really wi way to get me out of here and what yining. to aay when | do ” “Yes.” murmured “And if it will help any In rousing gightly. you out of that mighuy pathetic stat may aa weil the alilehtest bolleo put Lt thougt ['d drop in for a mo- have a general alan for me long be- /)4 eis? P the ““Vining's eves twinkled Johnson Boller, Anthony said with diificulty, looked hands were gripping the edges of the table nervously, and his head was bent again; and then shook his hy pel the scowl. Holler, whose detween Irrepressi some concern, lent minutes, gentioman to #ee you Wilkins smiled “But this gentl up now, sir,” your friends, and the It is Mr. Robert looked at Anthony, again he nodded Vining Bob this morning,” ewuse Mary Th about Wilkins banda lightning flashes, Mary own th David's r the bugger was buzzing “Wil you see him, sir?” asked Wil alr and that ony pee er tiprrt rains Harlem Office, No. 155 West ; Qne Hundred and Twenty-fifth The Evening World’s Kiddie Klub Korner a Conducted by _Eleanor Schorer ALL LOYAL KLUB MEMBERS MEET EVERY SATURDAY AFTER- NOON AT WASHINGTON IRVING HIGH SCHOOL, NO, 40 IRVING PLACE, MANHATTAN, TO REHEARSE FOR OUR COMING Pageant | OF NEW YORK CITY HISTORY. e COME TO-DAY AND TAKE PART | ‘OU will Se proud as peacocks when our pageant, which will be the important, brilllant feature of the whole Kiddie Klub year, Ss place near the end of spring. Every one of you can and ought to come into the pageant and tf you realiy wish to p mo as well as yourself, you will moet your other cousins and myself a: Washington Irving High School to-day, ‘The songs and dancing and acting are more fun than any one of you can realize untll you've been to one of our rehearsals. I shall expect you this week. It ts not too late to Join, as some of you have thought, Kvery week new faces appear, It makes me so happy to seo them. | Come and bring your friends to eee what a good time we have practising. Cousin Eleanor. i P, 8.--Boy Scouts are always in attendance a» guides and ushers. | Dicky and Dot in the Wonder City | By Mary Graham Bone ———————. Copyright, 1917, ty The Press l'ublishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) School Bank. [JT was bright and early In the morn- {ng and school was goon to oom menos, Dicky and Dot saw a great many of the other jchildren were hurry- |ing, “We must get to the bank,” they ald. | “What bank?"’ asked Dicky, and added: “You won't ~ / ik . have time to go to a Le ee \ 4, bank before schoo! THE CARDS WERE MARKED WITH THE opens. The banks AMOUNT THEY HAD SAVED, are way, way down- Ld town. At least the one I went to was| school bank which was run by some and the others—well, I don't know| of the older pupils with the help of Just where they are, but they are not/two teachers, The children put in their cards, which were then marked “Indeed one bank 1s," gaid the boy| with the amount of money they were | who seemed more eager than any of] Saving. the others, There was another section for the rhaps you would like to come children who were drawing out their put in another boy. joney, Some of them wanted to get “Where is this bank?” asked Dicky, | birth presents, while others had He was much puzzled, The children | #V¥ed up enough for roller skates and looked so surprised that he only|/fferent things that they had wanted knew of downtown banks or banks] fr some time, ¥ far away, and they seemed to say by | re t it a fine scheme? the expressions of thelr faces: oF (tie children, ked one | And indeed they ald great surprise of Dicky For to the son nd Dot tho i “Yea, of course, said the childrer and you are allowed to belong any in But I only have ten cents,” sald Dicky, “And I only have five,” added Dot “Well, you can begin with five cents in this bank,” explained one of boys. t of getting Mary out—@ut Mary her- was with them—a tall, broad-shoul- So Dicky and Dot each got cards self was speaking again. "t think that that ridicu- thirty, bright and steady of eye, and lous proposal lifts any responsibility with tl dered person of a year or #0 P&St and put their money in the bank. "What a wonderful idea,” said Dot flush of health upon his “when Christinas comes we will not abv carefully shaven ch Ho entered have to ask for the money fron ! like the muscular person he Was | mother and daddy to give them their 1’ had not meant to tmply that It lithely and easily presents! And we can have lots Anthony clasped Vining’s hand and | things this way—just by not spend x It tly ltt y ve break. | its tt, on ally little things we don't | “And we can get the things wa t after awhile,” said Dicky, 808 pertlane S989 | Tho idea for to-day’s story was suggested by Evelyn H. Bennett, aged pallok nine, of No. 1828 Cornelia Strest, rq Ridgewood. »d morning, Bob! Yo No ess I imagined tt," he aatd. 1 Well, it's early, NEW CLUB PENNANT. ment in passing ands thought of the alle attle last night. He Johnson! Heard ye were staying here, Did you go, too? "You," sald Johnson To! “It was one grand lemon, Anthony, it not?” asked Mr Vining, | $46, 26 Inches % what you ade of felt ta Klub oxtore, bive and 3 wid Mg inci: Sold amy 0 cents, or cote : aprawling comfortably for a atay and | Sue poate, Sne a ad Brg pinching the end of bis elgar 7 BA * A his throat iy pet chair for a normal quarter-|}HOW TO JOIN THE KLUB AND was divided hour. TO, JOIN THE KLUB amusement and | °1t wae ail 0 ay sittl ost chee Which both called 16d be proved he was u Mary and Boller had improved eae Lo wan a howling outrage Wi . le Anthony himself aettied down in| Sw wnnnnnnnnannnnn he agreed al I've geen th h pretty bad fo wiing outrag It was all of tha Heginning with any number, OF dime coupe, ke he, night” His voice trailed oddly and for |} iim Seq can't gee him," Anthony answered cause, Wilkins, coming from ni Caden where in particular, was standing in| giftern seas the corridor, He looked straight at) $11 meuniere his way his master and with great meaning fs one of and having caught his attention he KIDDIE KLUB allowed rolled hin eyes toward David's root COUPON NO. phoned and nodded lightly. Again he | $ and Anthony rose abru pull excuse me for & moment he asked, in the same low HOW KLUB MEMBERS CAN when tha mATictod hi Earn 25¢ a Week good auth biti FOR SPENDING MONEY, acroas the room and t t twenty-five of your friends and relatives Wilking as he ked tnt grown-u ‘ to save thelr WORLDS for you wishes to see u, sir” the) S every day. invaluable one whispered, “She rang For every six WORLDS, wheth for me and ehe saya it’s urgent.” er MORNING or RVENING week Jay editions, THE wo at © Wilkins | 3 pay you OND CE breathed verfently, ‘"I really would Occ avant. to Mr, Fry. She seems tn a bit of a) $ woRLDS, ONE teniper, If 1 may say so i oun assed him without f na DAY WORLD WORLDS, elthe t EVENING editions. to it Loliver your papers and collec hess b rent SATURDAY WORLD wil ?. MORNINGS at any of the follow oe places : Main Office, nd f Frankfort Street. ' Uptown Office, No, 1393 Broad (Thirty eighth Street), Annex, No, 13 tv ‘ Street. Bronx Office, No. 410 East One vi Hundred and Forty-ninth Strect Ay Brooklyn Office, No. 31? Fulto Me 1 softly Street. oO sald Ant 1 You will be paid at t *] you know given for whatever numt ngor Know him Mary echoed wild WORLDS you deliver, but N¢ t's Im t y YTHPR papers will Ye “Walt, we have a surprise for you!” dike eperraty it, pears ° - com! - [children in this school had a@ real; "We are all members in our class, Way--no matter which class you are t | | } | ate