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(Come race] Frening World Daily Magazine The Evening World’s 917. by the Mee (The New York Brewing ca Bay Original Designs for The Home Dressmaker LL PLECTOR TELL CK SOHN LUFFING _ | DIDN'T WANT | | Gl) Hi ie BO AT PEST OF A BILL | Advice in the Selection of Materials and Styles for All Types Furnished by The Evening World’s Expert. By Mildred Lodewick Copyright, 1917, by ‘The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening Worl.) Description, | LTHOUGH the A difference in last years clothes and those of this year is not #0 marked as usual, tt is gounded in the one question which is heard on all sides, ‘How narrow shall my skirts be?” in- stead of as last year, “How wide shall they be While this ques- TCAN' GET To q tlon assumes consid- erable importance, It Mat Exercise for Reducing Hips and Abdomen, plag aN tt isnot 0 Important - ma, for the Reducing—Lesson XXIX. A MAID SAYS reason that althoygh HIS is another exercise for the lower body muscles and is not too HEIs ERY the etlhouctte ts trenuous for the very obese, It is also an abdominal and hip re Sic straighter and «lim mer than last year, ducer and combines shoulder and arm practice also, Lie on your tii wiagpanting the right side, legs extended iogether, right arm extended under the head. Ash caOw auih, Raise the left leg up sideways as high as you can reach without strain. ie ick ot Keep toe pointed down and knee rigid. As the leg comes up inhale a deep narrowness is many breath and raise the left arm and throw it back of the body as far as you times achieved, not can reach, Then exhale and lower the leg and arm. Do this three times through the olimt- and then relax on the back completely a few minutes, Turn th iy on nation of material, the left side and proceed with the exercise in the same manner, raising but by the use of the right leg and arm and breathing deeply meanwhile, Do this at least soft drapy fabrics nine. times on each side. which, no mattgr Lesson Talks and Answers to Queries. Perfect Figure Contest Conducted by Pauline Furlong To Make Perfectiy Proportioned for Their Height WomenNow Fifteen or More Pounds Over or Under Their Proper Weight. Copyright, 1917, ty The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) how much ts used, slink In to the figure. O many little things, given énough| back rounded, head drooping and| thought, until they become a/| Stomach protruding. | |So skirts are really: quite ax wide as last habit, will correct #o many UN-| CANNOT MASTER A SHOULDER healthy as well| EXERCISE—A MAN READER: Most | year, but thelr “per sonality has as uncomfortable | certainly pass by the exercises which | || TAKE ME To NR J ON T GET. You MAKE changed conditions that it] 27 Rot easy for you todo. ‘There ure! |) QUICK _ ig we eXcITE| ( NE SICK 1 Instead of flaunt {ss pity that the| which answer the ausce pupeoer Do A DOCTOR. 1AM 3] ling, faring, nirta- large majority of CTOR LIARS ONLY THE BILL tious and bold, they people pay so Ut-| TO DARKEN LASHES AND COLLECTOR ure modest, prim, tle attention to fare tea tee en OTHER T.: conservative and them, Take the|to darken the eyelashes and let them ey, ABS tae: SAU Ee correction of the| alone if you value your sight more ia the causo of this X*” improper eitting|*4n you do your lashes, change. Tho atiff taffeta of last year cate ‘ — seuukerumone position for in! scars FROM PIMPLES—N. G.: stance; because this 1s one of the bad | These can be somewhat and probably be genre ape alld soft crepe de chines, habits, formed in youth, which should tele effaced by persistent massage be’ overcome at any time of life, If with cold cream, to lubricate the foulards and satins, ETTY AFTERNOON FROCK APPROPRIATE wisp organdies and FOR STREET WEAR, fingers. Do not press blackheads out like summer fabrics, @ proper working of the organs of the| with the finger nail: The afternoon frock 1 have de-|iming, what prettier means of fasten- body and perfect health are to be en- sgned for to-day would be pretty in| Ing the bodice could replace them KNEE CAPS MOVE—GERTRUDE dJoyed. : When the shoulders are rounded, | M.: If the knee caps would not move dark blue soft eilk of some sort, such | *N#n @ pretty lacing with @ narrow as poplin, The drapery of the skirt velve' ? should be of the knees would be atiff. the chest hollowed and the entire! worry about this condition. reewe hy at each side, back and front in taced aploucusly darts, so on the open edges with blue and | yet string could sed, Whi Ss } weight of the body, when’ sitting, Is on wiuscies Which Cannot sup. L ij s which Cannot eup.) | DEVELOP ABDOMINAL Mus. white barred R fon or sheer batinte hi r silk, to match revers Port At, the breast bone and ribs aro unk riateing, and sleove facings of the same. With jay underpuffs, If body twisting and ctrell f . flattened and lowered in the front) complish this if you do them evecy buttons assuming the role of trim-| were used for this di model at the right eu, ita, Tevers Nk, alao saa and cause a contiuual pressure on the| day for at least ten minutes, for stomach, liver and other abdominal| Several months, . nd facings of plain belt, would look of Serious diseases such as constipa- tion, indigestion, improper circula- tion of the blood, &c., result from this and the vital ongans are crowded! out of their rightful places and the muscles of the back become perma- | OPPORTUNITY _ Fate Knocks, but There's Nobody Home in Thie Strange, Startling, Delightfully Punny Story. By Edgar Franklin Answers to Queries Fashion Editor of The Evening World: Kindly advise me what color would » as the driven.snow and breathing in Jobnson Boller looked around wildly into @ taxi and tell the man to go Wilkins's pantry and his humble bed- business in any case, Anthony's ward-|be pretty for a facing to a tan hat? nently stretched and relaxed. BEST NOVELS PUBLISHED @ Queer, strangling way; and what- and helplessly, across to West End Avenue room beyond. - robe trunk was stood erect and the |I have light brown halr, brown eyes, Erect and correct sitting ory ON THIS PAGE COMPLETE ever he, eyes may have expressed, tell you, she isn't here!” he be “And the corner of tana eel lia we she find her?” choked Bol- faucet rolled off swiftly, headed for|rosy cheeks and clear ekin, T am deep, full breathing will cure} } eye melting love for Johnson Boller was gan, “You see" Street!” Anthony supplied, . : the palatial home of ‘Theodore Dalton. | very fond of dull blue, but my winter and deep. daches, backaches, side- BAd SUL not included. “And I tell you that she is," said “Exactly!” said the girl: “Go to 9he fan't there A Ginok ch tee and, le ihe GET ih: [Gal Wan taal with Ghat Gatek aches and other pains often of mys- ‘uma ee © For this unpleasant condition the his wife. “I'll find her, and when [ the side door and take in the trunk, | Keatrice had finished her unlovely interested way, Wilkins managed to M, T. terious origin, and eventually correct . k A, Munsey Co,) hat in her hand seemed largely re- DO find her, Johnson’ Boller, some through the yard, of course, and say hunt. Even again, she was with them; open the iid for an inch or more, and| Lavender or leaf green would be ‘ round shoulders and flat, hollow SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHArTers, *Ponsible. It was a pretty little hat, one will pay. Do you hear? I'll suf- that it is for Fellce—Felice Moreau, &nd now she looked straight at John- in the space appeared a little pink | delightful. oe, Anthony Fry, millionaire, persuades David expensively simple, but it was the fer—suffer for it, perhaps! But she'll my maid. Have you the name, Wil- #on Boller, ignoring the very exist- nose and, presently, as the nose with — *Setiaren should be made ‘under- Frente to visit bi oe exclusive beebelor hat of a lady) P pay!" paneer kins?" ence of Anthony Fry. drew, a brilliant Pf oye. Fashion Favtor, Evening Werld stand the value of proper standing, Pater to Dera "Who is the woman?” Beatrice Then Beatrice was gone! “Felice Moreau, miss. Yes, miss." T haven't found her,” said Bea- “Gan you open it a little more? at I am coming to walking and sitting position early in 4 plamter's bewer, Cried vibrantly. “Who is she?” Flami eyes, heaving bosom, p: “And then take it to her room and trice, “She's hidden somewhere, or asked Mary. you for advice on & fe and mothers and teachers should | ¢ ent ic iniste §=Anthony was making queer thetic little hat—all had vanished t get out!” Mary concluded “Don't else she's with other friends in this es, mine.” spring dress, Ihave mouths; Johnson Boller was doing gether, but they had vanished down lock the thing. Load it into the back Wretched, sanctimonious hole, nothing whatever, even now; and the corridor, and life leaped suddenly of the cab with yourself and try to Beatrice’—Johnaon Holler began, said Mary, “be absolutely sure when three seconds had passed Bea- through Anthony's veins, Even now get it open a little so that I'll have With @ great, hopeful gasp, that you take me to Felice’s room!" trive whirled abruptly on the only there was a chance—faint and for- air, when we've started!" But I will find her! lady aa- “understand,” purred Wilkins, just other possible source of information Jorn, but still a chance. He turned, Saying which, Mary Dalton, who *ured him, “and when I do—I'm going above the rumble of traffic. amateur detective resent, which happened to be Wil- did Anthony Fry, just as Johnson knew a really | desperate sittiation DOW: Mary's whole face almost ap- ite David, “Mo } ta are Bat ut att ing. Boller flew after his demented spouse when she saw one, and who also in- yromer’ Beatrice's eyen awam, Pt mple by making this im- and frequent tople of corfversation, Hold the head high and the chest up and out, as though tt were really in the lead of the body at all times, bo. ere and when sitting, the feet should when you get to the } i 3 yards of dark ; raisin color satin, | and do not know what to get to go with it. Would like rest, the floor, with just F, who has tumed back ‘@ Joury “You were here!” she said swiftly, @nd glided Into Johnson Boller's bed- perited much of her father's execu- cra roma the dress for best ‘unnecessary pressure on them. Never h Mme, Boller preeutly etart to enter, woman’ Mary, very white indeed, was walt- and stepped into the trunk and hud- Boller rose hurried he e¥e8 cing what the other servants eay oF two yeare old, hay sip forward and recline in the chair, CHAPTER Now, {t chanced, Wilkins was far {i dled down aa pretilly and gracefully ceused swimming and Biased at him! Mind what the other servente say oF By anos Baad 20g and if your chest ts flat keep the x. more Intelligent than he looked. Give ‘Where ts she now?" she panted. as if |t had been reliearsed’ for weeks! yy, a paver going there again, runk, You inaist that it t# for Fe- Gz e 4 correct position of the body in mind EATRICE turned—and ten fim the mere hint to « situation and A ipbeenans 9 NPR She looked at Wilkins, and Wil caniling ara Sls SAD, AWeTaIas Hie ana tian to be abllveredl a ner brown e7es, gue ; @ cou! throt ome! course rd! GY aa a: awed F nal Ko el, ) Golivered. to ner ’ e . h ah - y + mother. You will he » ve he ome sort % oO AO WEAK HEART—M. D.—I should Anthony and caused his Hitchin came upon them, he had &fraid that the time has come when Wiikins looked at his master and yers, Johnson, Within a ee my es company you to the room, do it, I Chiffon a ttle key to this affair so he We'll have to atop planning and act. peta: ‘confiden:ly and bowed. The lady !s—er—easentially crazy just mo woman here last POW. It !s painful enough, but you'll adviee you to consult your doctor hair to stand cn end. His cauent © about the weal heart and you should |jaugh, oo smiled qui Sr tans any viovent cxercless at all.| ona” Coming simultaneously, was @ sary, lighter than your A moment she paused before John- think she'll undefstand. eatin, aliver braid- i ’ “My eye, sir! A bit of all right, son Boller, looking him up and down “Yes, miss,” Wilkin agreed, “| loud, weird thing, splitting the still night, ma'am,” said Wilkins,“ have to leave as you are.’ Yes, ven that, Mr. Fry with @ scorn ao terrible that, inno- Sheer admiration shone in Mary's am rete, aeacistet vietar acts move- air, Mrs. Boller, the wife of that gente. without a hat, for #he has tha oat ie nal’ bilie inte ee ee oy cceeree a pringed vise Tingih tre fi i oo] OE ee, Cae laxing completely ty ‘ ‘i man tharel? ply leave!” thrust several is into his hand. bly, Another moment her eyes ‘king, you're @ jewel!” sald tte) 1 expect to be ment will help you some. our bedroom, Johnson!" he cried, Johnson. Woller returned to Nt Through the room, then, went Wil- semed to soften a little, for they were Owner. “Where are we now?’ ” ” “And if I'm recognized?" t “4 married in Jun — ‘She means your bedroom! 7 pr 7 kins and trunk together and to the deep and wonderful, maddening! ‘On West End Avenue, Miss, with- e FAT LEGS, THIN BODY—Mrs. Fu] won ne ue : Johnson Boller, with a thick, sen It in unavoidable, door, The sober black felt affair he beautiful, but mililone of miles from ina block or two of your home." and desire a aport is ‘Well, of course Beatrice replied. shout, bounded forward and Mary stamped her foot, y TN. This 1s another question which “Well, A landed aii " aie bi Wilki: “well, it 4 f had used these three years waa on ¢he unworthy creature who had once Mary disappeared coat for sum- has been answered repeatedly. If the ol) hate down M6 the end Of aCe. mesons belWeed ins and ete At tant. and 1 think you're Wilkins's head now, and ho lugged called them his own. This apparent- “Shut the trunk, Wilkins,” ber votce| mer wear. What fat 1s superfluous it may be removed | the corridor, deur madam,” Anthony ved. the estunidest man I ever knew!" she the trunk onward—turned in the ly was Beatrice's fashion of saying sald aoftly. “We're sate . through exercises, heel and too rais- | smiled wildiy, and went #o far as to,’ There was no lady here!” Mr, Bol- said fiatteringly, as nhe aped to the outer hall and lugged It to the freight an eternal good-by to one she had She, who had quffered eo many|WOvld you ad- ing, bicycling, which may be prac- | tay her by laying hands on her arm, 16m shouted: or ere! = Give me @ han! sievator—and now, as Anthony once loved—for, having looked and ince last night, seemed as-| Vise? I have a tised ona machine for this purpose, Iiight, down there—see? The temtta Viastt” the tornad’ ane, Fs wa “With what?" watched from the | doorwey. Mette thrilled him, she moved on, and the vat at last all was well, and as|serge suit and @ In most gymnasiums. If the calf | “re trices distinctly atartied, glanced _"S0 this,” said Mrs. Johneon Boller ‘The wardrobe trunk, of course. liseatar nme OM? WEP Coen soned Raping Nee the Sette CEOnT the Whale casita) | lines ault 99 the MUhing which will correct this de- {at him and nodded and left. Anthony, With deadly alm. “in what happens wee i oben bee Te cemend t£YINE to The door cloned on the tittle car CHAPTER XI. gazed placidly at the alan on the cor-|°*t could be te ‘ rawing the first real breath in ‘a Mink T've gone awa: bi not do it in ay nibaa ‘Anthony’ ma AS, ne 4, closl: he trunk ved |#Omewhat drensy, formity and have asked the advice | § a0 ray Her husband turned upon her there. I'm roing out in in The door od on Anthony's apart ier, and, closing the trunk, leaned . of many doctors who tell mo there | full, minute, Flared at his friend In threw out he hanes ane enid pei eter ment, with Anthony | inalde—and OW, for a little, let us watch forward to the driver, I have ecen some + 1x no remedy for this abnormal con- slid from Johnson Bollera _ “Beatrice!” he cried. “T swear to quite stuptdly, again he wan that atately, dignified, the movements of the In- big Mmastone place over there, | of satin, Intend sition oller’® enaen Tella we lomcavna haa roticent and austern being; the An- Retiseat cece RNeuliing i uink it Is" said, be, "Go to the! making coat my. My mistake, old scout,” he _ “Don't touch me, you creature!” “Yes, there's room and to spare, if ‘Qh Fry of \* ae Water ee ca fide Kate, old chap.” 9 eolf, Am 6 feet 5 mINCORRECT POSTURE —T. 3: |onuckiod aofils. "You saved the duy said his Beatrice, “1-1 couldn't have you'll take out those things!” the girl tent tet ceetone: Rak Getta | eee he SUR to the | Renonds only, and shep rolled to @/ inches, welgh 126 @ incorrect standing posture nis hat ‘ou glowe: bout?” thought it. You seemed different said quickly. “No a them In the *° ie , was no trouble de curb h 2 See 1s what you mean, 1s standing with| Sioa" wlaped Anthem trom other m closet neatly: she'll look in thera! SNK with an unieniadie thud. mheretore, he stood In the side street priceless personal attendant lifted out |byunds, have light pair, Sray-biue er irily, “Well, did you ever i ; i soo the Uke of it? Shes back, bless thony’s cold eye, Tt was an amused ‘Get him hero, quick!" sala Mary. & [one an 1 perilous journey, and his burden, and looked about for the “Wait a bit and take me back,” he| Satin ta used, but @ hea oe rl 5 J “ certain ph Sy ry eye too, and the ancer was in it; and . She seemed to have taken matters Staring straight ahead. taxt—and presently one of these bandit smiled at the driver as he started for | #/K such 48 khakt-kool jg ood 4 pes litle Beart! She couldn't’ stand sve too, and the enoer was in iti and | ne eee Renda oct are And now all was well--AnthoRY ygniclea rolled up to the curb and the t# handsome biack tron gato in tho looking. Oyster white trimmed with “and so 1’ out of it!” ol. & woman here, bla " nthony, after an Instant of blank not exactly wel i Jol q pase- the famous singing teachers,| | "And so I'm let out of it str Bole woman here, Ty eee Fry Staring, ‘pushed four times on. the ler and his wife were’ coming down barked ing throng. There was a little olec- i ui ‘Prening World perhaps the greatest and most) aiong to the little dove-cote, and see UP and down. button of Johnson Boller’s room, the corridor and, almost as he heard “Taxicab?” tric push beside it, and Wilkins, hav. | ) I desire to have a successful was Mme, Mathilde | how. she looks after all this time. T | “Then he brought the woman which algal indicated that Wilkins tam, the May aennd Li an “Yeu,” said Wiking, VI wish" {n# aid @ finger on It, walted se. frees made which Res “ id a ¢ “m here?” was nee: na hurry. One xhining, earing glance = 4, e . Beason, Wh wae Bore AP yoeen?| gcrey ts leave you with ihe protien | YS Bome four or five’ seconds they whizzed over the oalm Anthony and “Stick the box up front!" snapped “Presently a houseinan opened @ Will not be taney, fort, Germany, and died in Novem. | BUFFY In tides “And you remained!” finished Jobn- stood, breathing hard, both of them, the purpl», perspiring Johnson Boller, the driver, “I kin give you@ hand” gute and looked at Wilkins; and Wil. | but yet dressy. ber, 1913, at the age of etghty-seven, | OYA NP oy .'e mouth opened to protest, 8on Boller's better half. “Where is and listening for the sounds of dis: Then Beatrice had turned and hurtied “I'm taking the box tn back with Kins, picking up his trunk, stepped | Something suitable y As Mathilde Graumann she made/yer he did not protest, Instead, ue she?” aster which might echo any minute into Johnson Boller's room Itself, and me," said Wilkins. through and Into the back yard, and for various ¢goa- her debut in 1844 and attained fame | jumped, just as one jumps at the un. “She isn’t here now!" came almost from the cogrider. They had not Johnion Holler dropped into’ the “Nothing doing!” said the driver, then. the door of the basement jaun- a ae a concert singer in London, but| dynected explosion of a Are-orapkercs automatically from Anthony’ echoed when Wilkins appeared chair beside Anthony and whined What d'yo think that paint's made of “TY being open, into the laundry it~ ons an ce many of it was as a teacher that she excelled.| or gown the corridor a séream, Once more Beatrice laughed. “You! Wilk ‘s your name?" It's over!” said he. “It's over!" —pteel?” welt. | your designs are. In 1853 #he became the bride of @| shrill and sharp, echoed suddenly.” “Isn't she, though?” said she “That Mary said, “wittkine T'm going to “Oh, no,” Anthony replied It was entirely possible that Mary ly the under-laundress wap pres- Please advise me. Siciiiian noble, Balvatore Murchesl.|" And after the scream came a long, sort doesn't leave a twenty-dollar «¢t into the trafk! Have you grasped — Boller turned duily, Heatrice was was stifling by this time. Wilking @nt, which caused him to @ Am = twenty - five who died in 1908, From 1854 to 1878] ohoking gasp, 8o that even Wilkins hat behind, Mr. Fry—nor @ bag tat?” with them again, and yet there had used his wits as he fumbled in his 4@, sald coldly: Mme, Marchesi taught singing prin- | appeared in the doorway and Jobnaon worth perhaps five times as muen, ‘“Why—yes, miss!” been no scream, no cramh. 7 pockets and asked For Felice | yeare of age, dark cipally in Vienna, although sho spent] Boller darted forward to learn what She had moved in quite cozily, . “ANd you, Instantly, are going to about Beatrice nothing “Your cab, old chap?” The—the poor young lady's maid!" brown hair, pale a few years in Parls and Cologne.| had overtaken hts only darling. He hadn't she? If I hadn't appeared, take the trunk, with me in it, tomy gest a woman who has tasted “Company's!” said the laundrese with @ sudden | complexion, gray- During that period she developed sev- | was spared the trouble of going down her trunk would have been along— home—vou know where that 1s? You sweets of revenge, White lips whut, “Put this five-dollar bill into your nivel eral famous singers, including Ktelka| the corridor, Even as he darted for- or perhaps it is here now If ¢ don't, of course, Well, load the trunk she sailed past them, on her way to pocket and give me & hand setting the il take It to her room," Wilking blue eyes, 5 feet 5 Geeater, Tins ai Murska and her own | ward. Beatrice had rejoined tham; hadn't*—— Mrs, Boller continued, and box in the back,” said Wiking “It's said PAA will that be, and woere Inches tall. ughter, anche Marchesi, and havng looked at her just once her voice broke as the unearthly ry wen packed with delicate stuff, and the W! ‘ind the young woman heresel Mies N. C. In 1881 Mme, Marchest established | Johnson Boller stood in his tracks, calm splintered and departed BILL JENKINS, BUCCANEER Master instructed me particular to ‘Tho under-laundross dried ber eyes Gray blue soft taf- herself permanently in Paris, where | rooted to the floor! “Where is she?” And, her whole , , keep @ hand on it.” on one corner of her apron fete, Belts of mate- rial or old oliver such gifted pupils as Emma} Because Beatrice, the lovely, the mien altering in an instant, Mra, Mele. Emma Eames, Emma | loving, Beatrice of the melting ey Boller's hands clenched tightly and Sequel to “The Brass Check,” but a Complete Story Lyne and Sybil San- and the high color, had left. them ed With outraged fury. Will Begin om This Page April ¢ The lady in the doorway was white ‘ad So, while the hardef o 1 “1 dunno @bout Felice," Belay ahd the tal in hte ned uncertainly. -"Mebbe. Sr fected that @ murder must have been bere comes Mr. Bates now,’ committed, but that it was none of his (To Be Continued.)