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ae . Ovrem ie Gi means ¢ ~e wood oF be the salvation of both. Approach the drowning one from behind and grasp him by the hair, or collar, with your left hand, throw him on hie back and grasp his right @houlder with your right hand, keeping him at arm's length with mouth ‘Q24 nose above water, Then “tread water” unt!! you ees an opportunity to Grasp bis right wrist and pull it behind bis bead. §@t in position to swim on your back and pull the drowning person on your chest and swim back to shore. Hold the bead on the chest with one hand, that the otber arm and legs may be free to paddle, and it is better to quietly in this position and await further ald from the shore than x: attempt to ewim back if the current {is strong and going out from the If necessary, duck the drowning person under the water until he is un- @enscious to loose a death grip on you, and do not let him get a firm hold 0m your arms or neck. Tomorrow 7 shall tell how to revive drowning persons, Answers to Health and Beauty Questions. PLAT FOOT—MAURICE R—Long | healthful laxatives and water drink- ing and exercises will also overcome this dangerous disease, and continued standing may this, and also weakening of Mgaments which support the arch from some other cause, Heel and toe raising will strengthen the muscles in +he feet and wearing an arch sup- S” port will also help soma NERVOUSNESS—HARRIET R.—~ AM of the conditions you mention in our letter—insomnia, blushing, haunt- {ng dreams, fatigue, depression, &c., ‘are the result of diseased nerves. No medicines will cure this as quickly as right living and a busy, active Jife, interest ip others, &c, RED NOSE—MARY G: The weather has little to do with the color in the face unless exposed to trong, cold winds or hot sun. Indl- gestion, constipation, tight clothing an@ poor circulation are the causes of red nose and anemia and other in- disorders cause pale cheeks. f of the conditions will have to be ted before the face will show =-@lthful, youthful color. MRS. C. N. M.: Appl not fattening, are nourishing and 00d for both stout and thin, Eat ono) each night before retiring and follow it with two glasses of hot water to prevent constipation. The longer you continue to take drugs for this trouble the longer you will have to continue taking them, and you aro causing the eliminative organs to be- come weak and eventually wholly in- | Ve irege of performing their rightful dul ‘by continually taking medl- cine, Many foods are natural end Adviceto Lovers By Betty Vincent Unfortunately, the girl who leaves ber family for a holiday sometimes feele that the making of that holiday ards observed at home. But to have good time, it is not necessary to igned to protect girlhood. yourselves while you are awé friendly with other young pe whom you may meet, but do not for get your self-respect and your good anjoy be His Engagement. “BL W." writes: “Lam a young man, eighteen years ld, of good family, and ain consi ered rather good-looking, which pos- ibly has been the cause of my pres- ent dilemma, I am formally engaged to two girls of about my own age, but I do not love either, “Lately I have found the girl Ilove, but I am afraid to propose marriage fo her because of the other two, to of whom I have given a ring. {ll you kindly advise me ag to he most honorable course to pursue?” In the first place, you must tell mach of your flancees how you feel oward her, and ask to be released yom your engagement. You could ‘ot make either of theso girls happy. \But be very sure you know your mM mind before engaging yourséit the third young woman AV, A." writes (ewill you please tell me through four column what is the correct + thing for u girl to say to a young man about to be married, whoin sho has Known for several years? Also, MYnow should one express herself to girl on the same subject?" The young man should be congr and the girl wished all p “Yam very much tn love with a young man but my parents disap Prove of him. Should I meet him out- side my home I do not approve of love affairs, If you are of age, and feel that you have the right to “).Ghoose your friends, at least let your Wilmmats know what you are doing, acation Beauty Hints and Health Talks By PAULINE PURLONG Whet to Kat, How to Kxerciae, and What You Should Do to Get the Most From Your Outing. | Fhe Mew Fem Beecing Want Réscue of Drowning Persons. Potwlbie to reece & drowning Pereom Fithewt entering the water, Oy by throwing & rope, lfepreserver, ple of her object tor Bim to cling to for support you will Ge serv ‘og Une beet interest of ai) it te a@viaw®le te aesure (he Grownlag person that be WH be renewed, by calling to him, as this will often hoop him quiet and prevent weakness from fright If you are obliged to enter the water to drowning person, remove y possible, eapectaliy the @hoes, and support yourself with & lifepreserver or beard or ben, if ir clothing as if you do so both of you may érown, and te thie it fe sometimes necessary to etri! one in the face to make him loosen bis bold. This ts not ‘Take « few strokes to CORRECTIVE EXERCISES— WALTER G.: Chest raising, chicken 4 thing practice and al) der exercises will pel you to assume better standing position, which is the meaning of cor- rective exercises, DIET FOR KIDNEY TROUBLE— EDWIN C.: Any light, simple diet in moderate quantity will prove benefi- celal in kidney trouble or any other disorders. All alcoholics and stimu- lants must be avoided. You ‘should gopsult a physlolap, for further ade NERVOUSNEBS AND FIRM MUS. CLES—MRS. G'&.6-In-cases of ner- vousness and other disorders physical culture exercises ara the very best especially outdoor exer- ‘Those who fret should get out and mix with a cheer- ful group and Indulge in tenn! swimming and other outdoor The flabby muscles will such treatment jn a@ very short while and thereby overcome many common The zreen-Goods Kin CRAIG KENNEDY, THE SCIENTIFIC DETECTIVE, UNDERTAKES ONE OF THE STRANGEST CASES IN HIS LONG CAREER OF BAFFLING CRIME japrright, Street & SYNOPSIS OF PRI lent, are suspected of ats C che RuDected Of strange eal se ei ie labo, eg eee he submilte to cai YF dear girls, while you are away | fn on your vacations I hope you! letter, will resolve to do nothing which you would be asbamed to do pt home. t mm, comparisons wits the Black Hand CHAPTER VII. of weathered oak, and as we went dut he looked up the laboratory care- fully, adding, Degin to learn caution. The Black Hand letter will soon begin to mean HAT Black Hand letter was written in the back room ot the Paragon—do you re- includes a relaxation of moral stand- | member the place?” asked Our dinner was eaten tn haste and silence, and we arrived at the little financial oflice of the Star with time ‘The building w: the most part, as we rode up In the elovator, and the contrast with the bustle of the day was atriking. In the office window, leaned out and looked up, “Thore’a @ light up there,” he re- marked, “Some one must be im'The wires are ali right, too. one has observed them.” Ile placed the oblong box ifow overboard the conventions de-| J recalied it distinctly, I | section where a few years ago everything had been Jewighb, but with increase of Italians in New York the character had grad- | ually changtd—a strange thing about | the east side, where successive waves of immigration have stratafied the population, each wave of new arri- | vals shoving the others up a peg, as it were, on thelr broad backs, and by their nimble fingers. Paragon had impressed me very much that morning, because {t had seomed @ peculiarly dark and vicious place, I had not fancled the looks and actions or the cosmopolitan groups that, swaggered about, and I remember thinking at the time that it would be a splendid place to hire an agent at the lowest rates either to kidnap @ baby or chloroform an old found the ends of the wires where I bad stuck them out of the and connected them with the he adjusted and turned down a awitch. no one Is up there, after “It's ‘past the wonder !f this, thing works?” I regarded the oblong box with curl- sity, What was it? larger oblong faces was sot a thin sheet of metal within Just then, as if from th box ftaelf, camo a sound t have sworn opened and shut said a woman's It seemed to be somewhere in the room with us, and I turned, startlod, as if in the silent office ghost had taken “Hello, Harriet, In one of tte “Are you game to visit the Para, again before the tine limit of our tet, asked Kennedy sud- e you going?" T asked simply. you Know the answer," 1 CHAPTER VII, ulated, : 66 sible happiness. -T, M." writes | notion to walk answered another OW for a bite to eat, and a voice, which I could have sworn was look-in on that tete. down in the office of the International Wireless Tel. I was nonplused, and looked frat at the oblong box, and then at Kennedy for an explanation, His face was tri- was wrapping up @ little oblong box sists of one of the most BEST NOVELS PUBLISHED ON THIS PAGE COMPLETE le, that thing I pu jer’s office last night. fester. it's all up, makea you EVERY TWO WE Summer OA, WOT ee tome F The Fvening Word pret for The women & . Ber oun (thes eeasone are beeinning to | CveriN@ each other mowadaye | (© ouch an exten! thet no sooner are our affections placed eorensiy and ontiofies a our Cummer clothes than sip Pan) @lipe before our eyes ber mew fo erations and turns the heads « Bearts of all women upside don r @acontent reigns eupreme uni ome of Such frocks ts added into the wardrobe While there is no epecial style predominating, there te @ characteristic alr about thom which is different from the sum- mer motels There are hints of the bustle affect, of draped effects, of tunios, of platts and of narrow skirts, but the design I am offer- fing to-day ts on Princess lines Which I believe ts particularly @uited to the American woman On account of ite individual charms of simplicity, amariness and practicability there ts reason to believe that this style will be the choice of the wise, This frock may be developed of any ent weigh) woollen materipl, or heavy um, and though ® plain = back- ground is sugmest- in my sketch design would permit of @ plaid- od, striped or fig- ured material, Seams down the sides of the front and back afford means of fitting the frock to the figure it: easy, grace- ful lines, while the centre of the back ‘a chosen for the place where buttons step into line for the purpose of fas- tening the frock. These may be of gray pearl or covered with the dress material. Larger ones of the same sort call attention to the pockets in each aide which, on account of their piped finishing and buttonholes and buttons, prove equally decorative and useful. The main elaboration of this frock appears in the mustered lines of stitching which guard the bottom of the skirt ten or twelve inches deep, and surround the sleeves in five or ix inch banda. A rolling sar Collar of white satin Decominfay tts “He has hired a firm of private de- tectives to shadow me.” “He has?” All day there has been a man watching in front of the apartment. ‘The man was there when ‘I came out. I saw him follow me, Fortunately I had started early, for one of the maids told me about it, and I wanted plenty of time to get here. So I rode uptown and across to one of the fer- ries, where I gave him the slip. My shadow went to Jersey and I came down here.” “You're a trump.” lo, you see, no one knows I'm here, at any events. But, Chester, {t's too risky. We shall have to give up the luncheons. Don't you think 80? If he finds out, there's no telling vhat he will do, You know he has an ungovernable temper.” ‘Well, what of {t? | I'm almost ready to quit and break up the firm anyway. And I'm sure he js too If he gets his Yelephotograph company started. You remember that thing L told you about that he was starting with Miss Fairchild on the side? not one of the firm's ventures, “Yes, but he'll never do it quietly. He isn't that kind. You don't know him as Ido, He may have neglected me, but he'd never forgive you for taking pity on my loneliness, No man would, you know.” “But jt looks as if he was doing the same thing himself. The other night he took Miss Fairchild to the theatre, One of the boys in the office got the tickets.” “I know {t" “Then why not bring sult against him?" “I haven't any facts. I can't afford to hire detectives, and all that sort of thing.” “I'll help you." “No, no, Chester. The scandal of the thing would be too great. I could never stay here and face my friends through it all, for he would fight to the last ditch, That's the kind of man he js. Perhaps you wouldn't mind, but you are not like moe, couldn't stay here In Now York.* ‘ot even if asked you te ay, Harriet? e alee “Chester, I'm tired of tt all. It's eating my heart out. [ can't stand much more, Chester, I can think of only one way out Will you go with me to Paris—anywhere? Tot us begin all over again Get what you can out of th now: We'll have money enoug e'll be careful of it, invest it safe ly, and live economically, You can do tt abroad. You know Willlam will ruin the firm If he keeps on in these reckless deals of his. You've got out of the firm and the trust company all you can expect. Remember what you told me at luncheon the other day.” “About what? I've tol you #0 Many things at luncheon,” “About Mr. Snead, and how he committed sutcide. “Oh, yes. Poor olf Snead!” “Let's cut loose, and we can tne vest what mon you ha We'll \tve abroad, never come back to America again. No one will know us. And if they do, we won't care for them. We can ‘start a new lite to- gother,” < o=-ntmoanttd “Harriet, 1 ciin't do it’ yet.” “Why not? William's specula- tions are beginning to make people talk. I read about ft in the news- papers, and I hear people make lit- tle remarks now and then, Why not get out before the crash comes?” “No, I can't desert the firm yet” ot for me You oughtn’t to put it that way. That's not fair, It's really for you that I want to satay a little longer, until IT have garried the thing through.” A sijence, Then—— . that?” asked Miller hastily. replied Mre, Moore, “This fs a lite grain of recinus which [ have carried wrapped up in this pa- per. It's a poison more deadly than strychnine or cyanide of potassium. Since William began persecuting and neglecting me I have carried it with me constantly, Syppose 1 should swallow it? “Woul@ you care? I don't believe you would, You wouldn't like the notoriety, perhaps the sus- picion that you had potsoned me, but beyond that-——~" little scuffle followed, I looked at Kennedy in alarm, Had she taken it? hen you do care?” asked the woman. “Care? You know I care. Harriet, you can be unkind, unjust to me sometines, You know better than to carry a thing like this around with you.” “What are you going to do with it?” “Put it in my vest pocket for the present; throw 1t away later, Har- riet—-look at me—there—-now, prom- ise me you won't do anything rash like that again?” “Promise me you will go away from New York.” “Ifatriet, give me a week--one week to yeulize on what securities I have that lean market, Let me set things straight. You wouldn't want me to leave things In auch shape that I could be brought back to straighten them out, would you? Now, see. Here's a new r. ‘The Crown Prince sails a week from to-day, I'll eee if I can engage passage to-morrow.” “ didn Chester, forgive me. Really, T mean to take it—that poison, I Rut, Chester, I do believe he ven mé half insane.” understand, Well, {t's no eons for a while?” s ou understand, Don't you ) shall T gee you, Chester? y time you say." “T)) try to slip away from the de tectives and call you up. If 1 can't, Vi] moet you here as we did to-night gay Sunday. Only watt for me. I may have @ harder time to get rid of them than I did to-day. Now goodby until Sunday, Chester, unless you hear from ma.” The d closed, We heard the ele. wat li ring, and the elevator shoot to the floor overhead, then down ‘A noise came out of the Motograph Mke a man's fingers ‘drumming thoughtfully on a desk. A ghort time afterward a door banged shut again, and the elevator bell rang @ second “Graig looked out of the window, and craned his neck around at the thors above us. “He's gone too. The light 1s out,” he said, a8 he glosed the win- dow, detached the dfctog: and placed it in an etapty drawer of & desk. CHAPTER IX. ‘T was etill comparativey early as we left the towering office bullding, and walked up Broad and around into Wail Street. ‘The clock on old Trinity chimed the quarter after nin There was no nolse except the rattle of aa occaa- jonal trolley on Broadway, and the sharp squawk of an awomootle born as it warned @ belated pedestrian of its approach announced , a8 we swungwn one of the surface cars. We rode up as far a one of those narrow, deserted streds off Broad way, which in the dayjime are jam- med with trucks, and whose alde- walks are blocked withpacking cases until it is impossiblg for man or beast to get through, e Craig left the car, and we walkid rapidly to- ward the Bowery, Th) atreets were deserted enough now and I felt that here was as good } place as any to commit a murder, TlePetore i bur- ried Kennedy lagged behind “Come on," IT urged, “{ don't like these deserted » especially when we know we are marked. ‘They're too dark and perie. Let's at least get on w& ‘eot with some light and life to it." 1 turned to #66 what was keeping him. Aa I looked I gasped in aston- ishment. He bad a fark mustache and beard aig laughed at my surprise. “Don't you like 1t?? be asked. “T always fancied I'd look well in @ beard.” “Not in that one, though,” I re- plied. “It's too unkempt.’ “LT intended it to be. Come, step into this dark room a minute. Were ia nnother suit your ¢ ighter one, that will Just mplexion.” te disguise, at: umpied it up to look naturi ind fastened it on me, They were { falaa beards, too. Kennedy had ted them for utility and decep: t “ rather than style, Wa sed up our clothes a bit, distriv- hands and linen, turned up our cuffs, - and bid the shine of our shoes under @ coat of dust. Altogether we looked like a couple of clerks who had en- joyed the Bowery not wisely, but too well. his pocket Kennedy produced hi ightened uted a Iittle dirt judiciously on our THE THOROUGHBRED Read What Happened When a Butterfly Wife Was Put to the Test. The Story Begins on This Page Monday, Augusé 27. The Paragon was an evil-l place even from the outside, over, this was exactly the proper time of the night to seo it at its best, or, rather worst, after 9 o'clock, on & cold winter evening, we the atreeta eerless and deserted. MWe lounged into the back room, down at one of the tables. y rolled a cigarettes I tried ssyme an air as if T was used to a place, and enjoyed It, The opposite us was occupied by a party of four Ltallens, conversing in low, gruff voices that seemed to re- move afl the music from that sunny language. Now and then a volce|9 inches tall, not t would rise, and remark would b wafted over to us, A newspaper wa, lying on the ‘table, and Kennedy picked It up, passing part of it to me. There was another group that I could have sworn was composed of experienced yeggmen, ready to rob anything from @ roost to a post office, In the farthest corner sat a man, all hunched up at a table, ale thought he was asleep, and had pald little attention to him until one looking up suddenly to make a r mark to Craig, | caught him furtively under his lowered eyelids in our louder than the r a tow words of on the yeggs. The next time I looked up he had again shifted his positio&, and was draped ungracefully over the table, with his ear toward the patty of Itallans, and bis eye again fixed on ‘This tine he continued to look us at me without m L felt a shudder recalled having a of mofey in my pac Why I had not left tt at home I eduld not say, except that Kennedy had hurried me #o that [ had forgotten it. Anyhow, I felt certain that that fellow had an X-ray eye, and knew aa well as I did that L had something worth while in my_ pocket, Kennedy was confining hig atten- The Home Dressmaker’s 4 by andnntneaiens Ot Oe Pee hee Tet Gems Horm, wie these devigna by tts fashion om OO Commemiag this summer by making zing y rection. Instantly he shifted his eyes, stretched languidiy and unsteadily, and gaged vacantly Wardrobe Karly Fall Dress Pointers. NEW SEASON DESIGN FOR Wom- AN WHO SEWS AT HOME, hes the neck, and « facing of the jam@ on the sleeves turns back to form a narrow cuff. Two buttons and eyelets on the back of the sleeves are there just becuuse they are deo orative, . Answers to Queries. Fashion Editor, Rreaing World: I have cight yards of Alice blue stik @ Mulle and would like to make it into a dress suitable tor afternoons and eve- Pn Avaee een, blond, id have « nice figure. Whatd © you consider tf — Proper length t ekirt for my height? H. R. DBP, Lace banding and tiny lace edging. Blue moire ribbon around yeck, Fashion Editor, Evening World: I wish to make @ neat, becoming dres \of inclosed material (tan and blue plald |gingham) and would thank you for a sug- |westion as to style |of dress, Iam 5 fect wall developed; am teen years old. Have brown hair and blue eyes. Would white go well for Yes, white would be pretty, combined here suggested. MIs8 L. F. W.— This design would develop « dress for you, using your with # color taffeta, I have aix yards of pale rose pink taffeta. Can you suggest @ design for an afternoon dress? Would like it to have long sleeves of the silk. Am nineteen years of age, 5 feet 6 inches tall, weigh 118 pounds. I de- sire the dress for formal affairs at tion to the group of Italians, One of <) college. thea th leac small and his ir brown and curly. Hut for the scare on his cheek the harde would h beon a handsome man. As it was, his face had a eort of In-|Tibons tied telligence about {t that was more sin ster than the commonplace looks of bis companions. “Mafla or Camorra?" T whispered to Kennedy as I found him too steal. ing a glance at our cultured friend breath. (To Be Continued.) a thickset fellow of perhaps six or seven, seemed to be the r. He had the swarthy complex. {ee of paukharn italy) hin dare teaea’ \ Ry \ ae and 1 look on his face he| S~A. he, HY) great scarcity of s “Mafia,” replied Kennedy under his Italy and the Government pro- MISS M. Folds of white \ pet across front of neck, cream lace colle also deep cuffs with pink around them, Skirt draped on hip GRAPE SYRUP NEW SUBSTITUTE FOR SUGAR. "io hibition of its use ia wine-mak~- ing has drawn attention to the sweet- ening methods which were employed during the economic crisis of 1790- 1800, when it was found tat eyru of grapes furnished @ fairly satiaface tory solution of the problem, ‘Although it is recognized that syrup of grapes cannot tyke the place of for genere) BUDO a ja os excellent sweetening ma lade, &o, tncrsgslng trite value ‘ ay oneal —5