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ng World’s Perfect Figure Contest Conducted by Pauline Furlong To Make Pertectiy Proportioned for Their Height Women Now Fifteen or More Pounds Over or Under Their Proper Weight. Copyright, 1917, by The Prees Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Breathing and Stretching Exercises. Developing—Lesson XXXV. 4 Ste with the head down, backs of the hands together, arms ex- tended in front of the body. Take a deep breath and raise the hands | until they are under the chin, backs of them still together, Grad- ually bring the head up also. Qontinue the breathing in, head raising and arm lifting until the face is to- ward tho ceiling and the arms extended upward beside the ears. Slowly exhale and lower the arms in a large circle to starting position. Do this ten times by an open window, This simple little breathing and stretching exercise may be practiced without causing fatigue to slender women, elderly ones and those who are not very & Peniren puntos hollows in the neck and shoulders. Many thin women and aged persons suffer from anaemia, and where there is an insufficient number of red blood corpuscles it is ess spleen strengthened through deep breathing and other gentle exercise, The red corpuscles carry the oxygen to the blood, as told in other lessons, and when the supply is lacking it must necessarily do double the usual amount of work or the waste matter in the system will not be burned up and thfown off from it. A diet rich in fron must be supplied through proper foods, eggs, red meats, greens and egg drinks, egg lemonade and egg milk should be taken regularly to supply the needed amount. Next to correct standing and sitting | After food has been Pee or te iat digestive organs it is taken by the Position and erect carriage, the flexi! 41504 to the tinsues, and it also car- bility of the chest w jes the waste mutter from them. essential to proper br These are its chief dutles in the the chest is stiff and does not yield, | system, Jess breath will be taken at each in-| NERVOUS SPELLS—MAREL M.: papetion, asthe | Ath ugh L never answer unsigned TO STRENGTHEN THE EYES—/) ahi unseen t BEATRICE A, D.: Rest the eyes) question ts ¢ and do not » in them through over- work under 4 poop light, Bathe them! jaye ppells, put let in sult water and practice some eye them be gentle, is deep breath. exercises, such as rolling them up 1ng, siretching and relaxing, re) REDUCE DoYour BIT Wit THE fee HELP INCREASE. FOOD SuPPLy strong. It is also a good exercise for double chin and} ntlal that | the circulation be stimulated and the stomach, lungs, intestines, liver and | REDUCE So 1 CAN RMY ANO AT THE SAME WHAT hal “TIME HELPING MY COUNTRY The Bluebird. 66] HAVD o« very tl- lustrious = guest oainng upon & me,” Prof, Bombus Whispered to our friends Bob and Bess as ho ushered them into his Hving room, “One time @ great au- thor named a wonder- ful play after her.” “Mistress Bluebird, allow me to introduce Miss Bessio and Mas- ter Bob." The children had seen the play, They were overjoyed to moet the original inspiration and more than surprised to hear the pretty blue-feathered creature talk. “1 dropped in to visit the Professor on my way to market and was just taking leave as you came, There are soven little mouths at home awaiting my return,” explained Mistress Blue- bird. She was about to go, much to tho disappointment of Bessie and Bob, when Bombus saved the situation by announcing that they might accom- pany the proud mother, SEVEN IS A VERY LARGE FAM- ILY FOR A BLUEBIRD, With Mother Bird sometimes on the ground, sometimes hovering above their heads, tut always on the watch for morsels of good they walked on, Marketing was over whon @ fuszy caterpillar and Rh tempting grasshop- por presented themsclves, only to be- wilder the Bluebird as to whieh one to choose until the grasshopper hop- ped away and there was no longer cholco, Mr, Caterpillar was pped up, Mistress Bluebird sled about and headed homeward, fnviting the delighted company along. Her dwelling was one that the Woodpecker family had occupied last wish that you could come she said to Hob and Beas as @ho perched on the threshold. She ap- portioned the caterpillar evenly be- tween thé brood of seven, each of which not long ago had been @ lovely pule-blue egg. “I prefer living in bird houses in some one's yard, One is really eafer there and I am wire enough to know It, Of course I cap service in the way of ridding the fruit trees of worns,” into white, and went inside to repri- and down and all the way around in _ —-— —— circles, use barum sulphide ono pre- gurenrwuovs wane tT BILL JENKINS, BUCCANEER pared chalk two parts, made into a vaate With Water, Apply. to the, hilt @nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnann 3) Her} Wash off with water within two BEST NOVELS PUBLISHED minutes. Nothing but the clectric ON THIS PAGE COMPLETE Reedlo will remove the hairs perma-| feVERY TWO WEEKS. nently, SALLOW AND BLOTCHY SKIN (Copyright, the Frank A. Munsey Co,) <LAURETTE R.: Keep the system| gyopsts or PRECEDING a Clean through light diot and exercise} SYNOPSIS OF PRIDEDING CHAPTERS, and breathe deeply of fresh air at} all hours of the day and night, This clear the complexton and make, it pink and healthy looking. | HAIR STOPS GROWING ALICH | Rs The hair will only grow a certain length and nothing will make it Jonger, It can be mude thicker, how- er, through cleanliness, Drushing, massage and careful treatment, EYE STRAIN-—DAVID N.: Granu- lated eyelids are frequently caused by st about glasses | mm to 0 local and use boracle acid in an eye cup oat i him a §20woK each day several times to clean thy lashes of the particles STIFF NECK—MRS. R. P. RB: Binee you are relieving this condition Malcoluy” bvere and. then. low claim ari, rs hin her pier ready to ar aon tere rece. ch wring Prorett and CHAPTER through massage, continue with it| timo took oaths never to kes deep and vig- | rest or sleep tll thelr fair orous. Acidity may cause this, and | ladies hud been delivered from bondage, a0 Jenking swore that and make the str in this case careful diet is necessary. Head and neck turning and twisting | 070) ia ae to stimulate tho circulation will also | ® would do, relieve the pains, Ho now, raime was he to tind it? A gleam of light TO HARDEN MUSCLES AND RE-|;, 4 second-hand clothing-store DUCE FLESH—MA TIN B.: Only} Park Row, New York City. through « course persistent and Vigorous exercise can you overcome | Jenkina repaired, ths condition, ‘This does not mean] ‘The of @ little bell, operated the practi xereise when | by th ; of the door, called you are em, but milder | from iidden lair a curious, aye f 4 mun, bent and shaken become ng en th creeping paralysis, Proceeding prevent strain and stand with a Kind of crab-like gait, this in- Vanced movements, Any t dividual peered out at Jenkins from elves. whieh ts all party of the |bencath thatched brows, and mumbled boty will u e you have no | something whieh sounded like an in presial’ y vody to correct, |quiry as to the customer's needs. reduce or develop. I've been tn @ serap,” Jenkins ox plained. “Its me for a new outfit, SLUGGISH CONDITION OF THE |sen? BLOOD EDNA Be 1 blood | palsiod one expressed a desire Ligh eh ea to pert and for|to know what would please the gen {hia reasca should be kept’ actively | tleman's fancy He compre sed, after considerable | dickering, by choosing a khaki suit — |the cloth at least suggested deeds of ee ‘ war flannel shirt, a broad-brim Eaportant Notice Wh ica cie‘aid two red handannas, One « h he ti round his neck, the to Contestants |] other made a decent sash This Perfect Figure Contest (|) | aie y foea at that set me | closes Saturday, this week. | gray rat intimated that about Suntestants competing for the []/$8 would square the bill, After & money awards will be weighed |] lively altercation, Jenkina got it andr maaainad: die Aha | jsawn ta HlxeAtty, and threw his geld comparisons next week, be- Ii Astonished, the creeping-palsied one ginning Monday. | ered it up with a 6haking claw, Secure your appointment {|i inla by the light of now by writing a letter or Sas ret SAG Snen Fareiog: Boe postal card to Miss Pauline se PRL ig Furlong, Perfect Figure Con- jf) Zish snuliesh you got? test, Evening World, No, 63 ure! ft nev u to his soul, “Il ought to be wise to what's in it—a fellow that makes as ft ‘em as Idol” .lsy’s answer was a gasD- A kind of film passed Clutehing the of that tine September morn, Mke the What's dat, boss? white vapors rising over there from— dem red Dandanners you got mo up?” de- manded Jenkins, noting the sudden gleam of desire tn eye of the Ethiopian, “AIL rlcht, boss!" elid with startling alaerit: on Buoephalus, Dat pandanner's imino already, Ah reckon, do up-boat always hue de right ob and seemed diaplease: “Suffering sardines! again, #0 help mo Mike!” Yea verily, here was the canal—but might the Victory be? That was the vital question, Jenkins remembered only too well how he had once before tried to find the yacht and had succeeded morely walking directly away from it. This time he would wait and let tho yacht come to him, Nothing easier. and fiction truth usually puts fiction to the mi It happened so this time. Hardly than half an hour after Jenkina’s ar ing ejaculation, over his bleary eyes. coln in his crooked paw, he turned and shuffled toward the rear of the through @ door, the color-loving www And the muletecr Hill Jonking, cigar clerk, who helped to reue closed ft, vanished. Jenkins waited for his change, One minute he waited, two, three. Then he began to get impatient. fourth minute, Impatience gave way to annoyancee fast verging on anger, To the door he strode and was about to bang on it, with a shouted demand ® for what Wag due him, when all at once ho stopped, frozen with sudden ejaculated the youth, Cra, @hado yellow with sudde @pprehension. [id pie? You know thow can , Thus one team of mules must slow itn pace, letting the boat come on, CHAPTER XIX. The tow rope naturally falls into tho OT for long, however, did ‘The other boat serenely wails Jenkins pursue his mad on over ft, the other tean walks over that part’ of the Une which lies on | team starts leav CHAPTER XVII. EVDR in all his life had Jen- kins Destridden any equine creature except those fero- us-appearing boats pasa? py RUE rIOWS we traordinary spe w acle greetod his eyos. and behold! here came, fr , the old man's Jenkins couldn't ry-go-rounds of Wherefore, now that Opportunity was beckoning, he found sed how to accept her the tow-path, ahead once more, and all is well ‘The African's turned to a wail o! catoh the words, but 4 sentences told him, on! Palsy was telephoning, ‘Telephoning! Tre ea Ue he recelver, being hang shuffle of feet within, that the old man was re- Rt Canajohario the charge of a Coney Island. is. tal young colored man, towing a brace of boats in tandem, Byen in the distance Jenkins rec- ognized the Victory behind the other loadings suddenly He dashed 1 mule, with cries of “HH But Jenkins, taking th weaknens, a yick latd the | A lash bien he through a too well, that To whom? himself nonp! for 4 confession ¢ ing to the opposition t whip on vigorously, on, boss, git up dah, why don’t famillar gymnastics at that sight; but gymnastics became scrobatles when the leading boat re- If as—what do you think? r than the Lottie Pes nat could tt mean? Sam and Mac already captured their other way Pound? “Den Ab'll learn an’ how to make ‘em $ the knights-errant of olden ‘bout three jumps he had reached One jump took hin Again night swallowed with no resources old seven cents, and ands of the enemy his nautical garments, ho you de gee-haw! Nix on that whoa business! up, you mokes!"" More shouts @rose, proxtinately at | You can hardly blame our hero for Jenkins beheld anotier mule. bls amazement, When you, too, leara him Dreathing What was taking place noar, at, by, tion Jenkins Get Had Stinoon prey, or was It th Why were those two boats together © the frayed collar, This, } upon, and with an 1 to Jump aboard therefore, he set boy running toward awkward leap tr Where and how only by his own terrors—for nothing else chased him—he kept bis best speed out of that‘accursed town. For a long time, how long he knew not, he kept his way through country rouds dim lit by the stars and by @ pallid, anemic-looking moon that hung Wi Jenkina never understood tt. occurred, just thing he knew, the colored boy, and the newcomer were battling at the kins heads of the rearir But ‘Alas, he jumped short, sld—An aptte crate efforte—and th both arms round Hucephalus, it the animal—to d to these urgent Inquiries, Our adventurer couldn't, however, stand there gawking in broad day- light, while Trouble with a big T, in the form of two boat loads of enemies, bore down upon him, Self-preserva- tioning even tn the bosom rial buccaneer, stung bin in time to keep from being recognized by the cund Burke, still at the helm of tho seemed to solve the problem, Thither found himself w unging mule beneath the evitable, leaps from his kins tried to hurl him Kk of his hay-burner ter from the negro boy stack looked good to him in Here at least, dug far leeward side, he found some from the nipping autumn night this extremity to action Just just clear of In plunged Rucephalun, down the bank, stern-tirs ing with hilin the most wildly vocifer- ‘ord uing short of a Turning, Jenkins walked wostward ed cogitations and goul-sicken Hy along the tow-path, slumber wiped away his wild scramble he at- Jenkins of New York, and pirate on record, slept exhaustion in the bosom @nd squealed an other mules, jorted variety of Jenkins pirau- for guido whistiing ragt he wakened in a ohill, drab na considerable cold in hia luck ever le the lashing of thom: me 7 b #3 in the canal would have reduced him | arto ain't killed, or somethin to a pulp had any flailing hoof gone out, boss," warned the dusky nting far abead svod Tnules #'wan, you Bucephalue ~giddap, you Gin'ral Grant lutching his both hands, and hatled the colored boy confused plans in his head and not a cent in hie BOCMet St ana two determination with pennies had sipped out! the haystack has ing on small coins ditto, but he raised and several sneezes that bovine feed- Yeu, quite true, another boat wascom- — Just as he scrambled up, dripping ud he worry? one of the taut strained “Ah had_ one, yestiddy,” quoth the voit she must ob dono through one o' them dog-gone hi And once more the irrepressible me 1 to issue from his puckered ropes broke did not find his capital hus the procession advanced bolted alon, startled a gentle were hardly ted along a hundred yards away y and Jenkins's steeds distances was rapidly k ' ; , plow,” thought Up rose @ hawner, fatefu Retier Blow. HOM the hatches of the Lottie Peck , as the mule never mind,” and tautene from the water 1 Jerk the flesing rr flung back on ite haunches \ caught In the t my purpose to tell the de- morning filght, 1 by necesaity, he sawed much n exchange for an eager break~ “Could I get a Job like that?” Ain't you see dat “It looks like some skilful job, all Bet you a new bandanna couldn't teach me fearful of arrest, lost and daring not how to do It.” » canil, he plodded THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY The Story of a Traitor’s Repentance Begins _on This Page April_16 Jonkins's wild eyes inking through if possible, take Iverettas and rescue details were all @ blur, he began to . as his terrors seemed evaporating under the cheerful light like a houne « artied face px The awards will be made jo8 nie plang no soon as all contestants have ||| mented Paralysis, “but 1 been weighed and measured | an ! ire it's goo : , armed with rome annoyance. The peg the winne mined \dea of his Sally's gold pieco being questioned wag gall and wormwood Bau wore a windowsash for new style of haberdas! Ye “All O, K, That suits me!" retorted Moanwhile, puffing and viowing like Jenkins in his irritation, giving Buce- tho proverbial whale, Jenkins had Phalus a vigorous kick In tho slate forward with fresh cane, Te ee going on there saved him. But tn tl fall of Troy no doubt the Instigator of it all escaped. ‘Thus, Jenkins. ing through the undergrowth of hardhack and bayberries he van- ished from mortal eye. flight. No malefactor over the scone of his ex- ploits without a powerful desire tu return and view his handt- work, Our hero felt this, too. He the woods, and see what wi doing. scouting brought >a ing leaves of which he could peer out at the tn, on, and over the canal.’ In the first place, two or three mules were Firat running away, wet to the marrow rifled ‘beyond oontrol, Jen- 1 them already far down . the towpath, with fragmenta of whit. = flo-trees, tugs, and snaking cable at > thetr heels Pthiop, developing om the unexpected’ energy, waa pursuing them with shouts and @ broken whip ha all in vaiu The up-boat, tho Lottie Peck and ‘Ming the yacht lny jammed tightly to- | gether. The Lottie seemed to have ake some injury, sprung a leak ‘ ! curgo, for Jenking aw she ayed Lad an rie tit Aimoon Sam, Cll now tnvistble, once more pped his head up out of the rs t abin—minus his sash necktle--and shouted to gor one on the unk king beheld debris hurling up. from | Victory, on rescue bent, came Malcolm Everett, | en-—mem- | From a xtous face , ig person in @ bath-robe ant slippers, on the foredeck, And ‘ was this? Sally now came “badly hurt?” Jenkins could Don't move him till 8 there! I've been @ nurse—t t 1 | M n was close to the, vit pe the astern of Pook le > att amber over on t@ the Hed Copal boat lowed by his men and 8 f Hn once more became v onof Wor a tense second the two men faw an therMaleolm peering . down, Simoon, badly battered, glaring! ue, up (To Be Continued.) The Evening World’s Kiddie Klub Korner Conducted by Eleanor Schorer Outdoorland, Copyright, 1917, by Tho Press Publishing Co. (The New York Fvening World). only pay the rent in such coin as a daily song of happihess and @ little “Peep, peep.” remonstrated the wee birdies who objected to thelr mother chatting when they must be fed. | Mra, Bluebird drew herself up to hur full seven inches of #tateliness, show= ing her lovely orange breast blending ith his sudden crawled up the sloping bank to the battleground of the towpath, Only the Get up, there!” »xtremely ilvely and nolay activities he shouted at the lending mules as he o*ine en there a f curled the cracking lash about them, “Let her come decided to creep out to the edge of of bushes Vien he popped down again, Jen- | BLUEBIRD PERCHED ON THE THRESHOLD, mand the youngsters for their rude * manners. “I really should have taken you to feo Mistress Bluebird first time we met because she is the forerunner of thir fay season, ‘That is probably why the Bluebird is for happiness, because it ushers in the happiest season of ali tho year, But I did not get the letter which told all about her until yester- day. It came from Phillis Highton, age fourteen, No, 2840 Eighth Avenue, New York City.” ‘I wonder who the next one will be from," aid Bess. “I do not care so long a it Is as full of interesting ex- perience for us,” answered practical Bobbie, ot "any “Sard, "ualtne your shots’ Interetinae aoe ira wae With ae much etait ao pomdbig, SMe: Tusninw wil, ava Coe, dollar 9. the author to tah “sccepted etary, “Atiren “Oyelostian 8 Park Row, New York it My Dear Cousins: It hag been @ long while since there has been space tn thi jolumn for own = deli ful stories and From to-day on I resolve to least one kiddie contribution each Klub day though itt does mein not being able to write you long a letter ag I #hould like. Cousin Eleanor, P, 8—By this time every cousin knows that his Klub is to have tts PAGEANT, "Young Manhattan,” {1 Central Park on Saturday, May 26, and that rehearsals are conducted at Washington Irving High School, No. 40 Irving Place, Manhattan, each Sat- uriay at 146 P.M. 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