The evening world. Newspaper, September 6, 1917, Page 15

Letters Toa Sold verity M Love Transcribed ty Man Mare ua satisfactory Tf think you are, And you can't stop me! Sold te eo many of us the French are friends and brothers, trothers for whom we have an affection that is half abashed Your letter came at a fortunate moment. Our little matd ing to help Mr. Hoover, and father ts trymg to endure it heroic about most of the changes In the menu, but, poor dear, food! 1 wonder if it ever will seem a really important thing t to take as seriously as love or war or any other awful veri! @alled them “chicken food” this morning. days that raise prickles on the adults. And a German band was trying to play “Hall, Colu the windows. In the midst of the woe Laura brought In your bothering detail of my life sudgenly shrank to a mote in the of your love and glory * Your larger growth must not confront the pigmies we were, * Thave a plan. However, I'm not going to tell you about { ——____ that the corn muffins of Laura are just this side of ambrosia. And it was one of those tepid heeks of bables and on the dispositions of ‘Nevertheless, | believe that we who have been left behind must pnt into our lives other things than details. You who are living with supremely great \ events and emotions must not come back to women swamped In pettiness letter, There's only one thing more to tell you to-day—that I love you. : ROSEMARY. ier draal! By Mildred Lx The Brening World's Pestion bape ot, oy tm te a eee aie reaten 9 be . . 4 bhow TT! ” 1 ‘ ner mvtlo® right therefore to epe beemuse he “murt eur or,” when ov r quemtone bnows that whe al . pported Rebind Yor the eoonomicatly t 4! / \ 1a « , , pigeons on mi San erent ways of making ghns rane icbdbeey hag + of discarded frovks or nee . ‘ the seman of OY Tie pouse portion, which Is ad sense ‘ th the short peplum, | or of #ilk or ® hae bees loved by a knight of today Dear 4 f olive-drab arthor, : Fou are finer than Kir Launcetot, Me and his companions fought Me | ys iai thoughtless little children, for the te of pride, exeltement, tfidividual The sport rot prestige « mihetrel® praise rage tint reeleesly clear. | appeal to the waman eyed and imperrons! Phe borin (bu Jinguets you, an tt does so | the autump sport Ae many other colton! ed mypathe Aw ' Yet for the ump! © under @ top coat decidedly more smart ’ odd an Ide dare tort life and death beside of that veiled godd on 1 da ms ta -pihegs hied the perils of the mediaeval knight are like 4 stage combat, “full Of sag ty which ts attacbed sound and fury, elenifying nothing shirt (roms ond tho eliutitly 6 " —There {9 one adfantuge in writing letters Instead of talking to you. I | cuffs. These and the odd collar ma @an tell you, as many times as | like, in go man ‘ se T Ike, Just how | de of satin oF ait or of Batist main blouse portion would be 4 lerly mi! you never had to acquire; one of the reasons why I fell in love with you is |!" Diack eatin, being thus adaptats because you were less the barnyard oraggart than any other man of my ae. | {OF Wear with any fort kirt faintance. ‘Thet's.why my Ietters are not going to spoil you, so you must| TR* back ts perfectly plain, t Baba hoy bd \ake your bouquets only relief belng the soft knot and I delight in your description of the way France received you all. It ts ‘#8 of the sash, Thi how @0od that you could co straight to her soil, The En ) aro our allies, bur | °Yer may be replaced if red by 4 tailored belt of the skirt material which buttons together in ba The front of the blouse cuts to He is silently | 2olnts which effect @ bolero and a , ho does Ike | Odishly trimmed with French by 10 us—a thing | nholes ty. 1 confess ‘The smart tle may be of any color Father | 8!/K, such as emerald green, brick *, allenduring and I ate try mbia!” under letter. Every suniit stream or of a black and tan plaid, Answers to Queries, Fashion Kéitor Evening World I want to make o of the popular Tuxedo collara in white satin for iny dark blue serge dress of and want to ask you how finish the edge of it. 1 know ia customary to make such collars double thicicness, but I have only jenough goods for a single thickness, G. 3-8 it til] my next A bias fold of the white sat! of an inch wide could be use Answer That All Women Wonder . (Copyright, the Bobhe-Merriil Go.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALMENTS, & succesful busine mas, le turced tm OE Bens Krein dead Renter thy toner nieea ialare by, Pestime, conditia q secures a job ‘as draughtsman jn a contract: fine suburban, ome furuished, hire a #128 secon si-hand furniture {¢ of living “made over,” «1 , Fa@sbese’isrention hla intiinney drave the Soup ‘eagether™ eh e oxpertinect prove Ceila'n tomedig eapatel al ha are ot die prooperl tym Fe niccese, by fi nt air ia Working i hperiied Uy ' Qralt Mivttiwations He eo his employer that, Ube can prodiice «$2000 cath eurey it through fora belt interest Li th ity ‘Slesiowee. bie CHAPTER XV, {Ooatioued.) HH contractor blew up at this point and spoke at length and at large, the upshot of his harangue being @ demand to know his competitor's motive in spy- img around his office. “Not epyin Alfred said quietly. “Tou'll wee that for yourself in a min- ute If I'd.been a spy, instead of coming to you now, I'd be goin® around to the council's subcommittee and getting a job as their expert. I am an expert. I know that line of work as woll aa anybody in the United States, But I haven't done Trve come to you and offered you an absolutely fair proposition.” ‘What did you come for, then?” peotite said cross that bridge when to the contractor the subcommittee would have given him expressed, without comment, to t! ia he had proposed, stat persisted the contractor, “Did YoU simply have a tip that those fool Aldermen ments before. There were going to butt in?” paragraph THOROU Here Is the Answer to the Question That Every Man Asks Himself, an bas’ 10 love nlm deeply, but bas bidden her feelings fross Mm, ‘devon ‘tow ‘bia mctare Ofte at Ba rua, hirey «$12 6 month fat 1A the city, ain salle hee mat Thavtn him by siiince and etates, that. 42.000 incre wil Ne. fequaate Without her husbenite knowled . me fn ter sto to place in March's hands arn sotet levtetaece ¢% salle = job CHAPTER XVI. { would have been almost a relief threatened him with going to appointed as their expert. That get fighting mad about, and his temper craved a fight. was there all right, though it wasn’t Alfred drew a folded paper from his pocket and handed it It was & memorandum of the bargain he had stated it a few mo- in it, stating that the agreement was Blair put up the eight hours of t The contractor longer Withou oficet unless thin forty= wondered it @ while speaking: At Inst: “Oh, it’s ail damned foolishness,” he said. “You'll never set the About 3. money “Don't count on that," sald Alfred, “or you're likely to get fooled, Here, do you want a pen?” Fifteen minutes later, with the signed memorandum in his pocket, he walked into his bank and sat down in the President's office, An hour later he walked out again with the money, He was not in to ‘share a Wevk, month for ty, faired Ini refuses and t ber with thelr fo first thine the lec*t surprised that it bad come out this way, ‘The opportunity Was so luminously clear to him, and his confidence in his own ability’ to make the must of it so clearly baged on expert knowledge and tried ability, that he could hdrdly have failed to get the help he needed. It was just a question of maki everything transparent), Alfred. “I'l Clear. ROTSaeY: T come to | His personal credit, 1t should be pointed out, was eaceilent: ‘Phe way he'd poured his own money into the cleaning up of the Wators-Macdonald mess was a thing no banker would be likely to fofget He went straight back to the off and spent the rest of the afternodn nailing down all four corners of his if Alfred had and getting agreement with the contractor, He something to jeant to leave no unstopped rat hos in that document. For heaven knew there were rats enough! The threat ‘The contractor lost his temper «& good many times, climbed up on his dignity, appealed’ to the high gods. His new partner was trying to con- vert him into a more figurehead. “Exactly,” said Alfred — coolly, “THat's the essence of this bargain, My authority's not to be questioned, and everything else !s. I'll do all the hiring and all t ng: ‘Then those specifications! T crooked from beginning to end. I'l £0 to the coun- across, ‘he contractor. ed almost as Was one more Blair hesitated ed @ second, then simple truth. bees a he maid. “I needed a Job and I answered « blind ad, in Tho Nows Al “Down and out, eh? commented the contracwr. He didn't belleve a - word of Alfred’ story, Then, wth this a ce, “Where did you get fwonty thousand dollars?” “[ haven't it,” eald Alfred, “If you take up my proposition, I'll have to ‘and borrow it somewhere.’ @ contractor stared blankly across the table. ‘Say!” he de- manded roughly. “What's the idea, fvdnging me here and kidding me along with a pipe like that, when you Naven't got a cent? What do you think it will get you “You don't need to worry about that,” Alfred said. ‘You aren't out anything for listening, even if It Is @ pipe. All you have to do ts make up yohr mind whether you will ac- cept it or not, in caso 1 can come across, That's the next step—yes or ne from you, If it's yos, I'll try to borrow the money. But I've got to ‘have @ proposition to borrow it on.” “You've got no more chance to get that money”—— the coptractor mur- ured, and then let the sentence ‘away while he gazed moodily &t the tablecloth and the pattern he epyias on it with his thumb- "What will you do?” be asked ong the Phone Booth Line f] (Done Tey AND 'T YOU KNOW a red, purple or @ neutral color such) as tan, which would be especially) en Bai | 800d looking if tho skirt were of tan| | You to suggest a style for me. Design Offers Opportunity for Employment of Fabrice Prom Discarded Frocks or Suits lam welgh about 1 do not wear corsets because like them. I want to get e serge material. ‘Thanking erely, MISS A. B. Box pleats over each shoulder. As the back sectlun of tho dress ts ip one plece pleats extend to hem. Ta front a 7-Inch sash embrofdéred in middle 1s fastened to waist as side weams, where {t drops, tying low in back. Round neck'ine is ems from last year which I would like to xteen years old and use this fall for a few weeks, T I a little, also the top edge of crown. Could I cover this part with wool embroidery or gomething? Would thank you for any suggestion. Iss T. ©. You could bind the edge of the brim with narrow purple gros-grain rib- don, and use wider ribbon for a band near the top of the crown, which! cil and get them straightened out. If and tell Mer that he'd borrowed any ur friends Come to you and twenty thousand dollars and made Squeal, send them to me. But what himacif a partner dn the enterprise? I'd do, if L were you, would be to ke If he could get twenty thousand dol- my wife and gv to the seashore—any- lars as asily as that—Jjust by going where, and not como back Ui the and asking for tt—why hadn't he done Job's done. it threo months ago? He'd had just The contractor writhed and atrug- a touch of that feeling himself aa he gled—would have got away if he came away from the bank. The could, But the numer check kept him fascinated. At 6 o'clock it was all over, Even os he had caten the foreman a week or 80 ago, Alfred Blair had now eaten the contractor. And it was not until this deed was fully accomplished—until he had put on his hat and coat and stood ready to walk out of the office, that the thought of Celin came into his mind at all, or of what the new altuatioa was going to mean to them. Of course there mightn't be any profits—at least not for Alfred. To the eyo of cold reason that posstbility would appear to bo worth taking 6@ on that whole effect of the day's doings upon him was to make that routine work of his over @ draughting board, at twenty-two fifty a week, seem a little unreai—llike playing a part. Wouldn't she feel thi even more strongly feel that she'd been sacrificed, not to necessity, but to a mere vagary of his own temperament? Perhaps if he waited a while before he told hern— not until the job was finished, of course, but for—say*another couple of nths, and then perhaps broke it sBradually, promoted himself by easy stages—- He didn't like that notion any too - well, either, Anyhow, the thing wants ously, He didn’t take It very seri- ed thinking over. He could take time ously, to be sure, but then he knsw for that—a few days—what would his eye wasn’t coldly reasonable. Ha they matter one way or another?-— knew he was going to succeed, Still, to come to the right cgnclusion. Of one never lost any chickens by re- course he'd teil her. It Mrould be out- fraining from counting them till they rageously unfair to try to keep her In the dark, ‘The only question was just how he'd do it, and when. CHAPTER XVII. were hatched. And from Cella’s point of view, mightn’t it, werhaps, be @ dness not to tease her with hopes vhich she could seo plainly onough ght turn out groundless? Wouidn't she be happler if he walted till ARRING one bad moment just job was done and paid for and then after she entered the store, presented her with the results, in, as rn ihe A aii it were, a package? To balance that mn Whe Noorwalker Came Up evening when ho told her of his and asked, rather mechante- failure? ally, what he could do for her, Celia et n there was another angle on found no difficulty in carrying out the he thing, She'd been a_ perfectly Sieh bates corking aport about the whale busi, rst item of her programmo—namely, ness--ever since that night when hed the sale of her jewels, told her of the smash hadn't Old Col, Forsythe, the sentor part- been a whimper—a reproach. [it ner of the firm, had known her father that was because of her unqie for years, ¢ Mak wince aha Weak ing bellef t the come-d r nt ae bh > neceasary. And wouldn't that ¢ little girl, and from the moment she was shown into his office be ehaken Jf he were to go to he everythin fren isten-pont ) []f LET ON | ALD VA (SEE? — secret # \ ‘STUFF t edge of the brim, however, ts worn | With something. By Henry CAN HEAR, eM nnn rn tee Benne krening W broidered, also cuffs of long tight) turns over the edge and is gathered y ob sisters vo obtained | sleeves. . hs bit to He flat on top. great advice from your fashions and —— : | Fashion Mditor Kvening World Fasoton Balitor Bvening World |! as tho youngest sister would Ike} "Tivo a purple beaver fait hat|, 1 have nd torpoliclt your good H ut how to make a ah id dress. TP have @ 1-8 ig and would like to set it off I want the dross for business and am anxious for something pretty, ‘Thanking you tn advance, MISS FB, G, Black taffeta used for lower part of bodice and upper part of skirt, about 8 inches below belt. A rolling taffeta collar, also cuffs edged with 1 inch bias bind of check. Wide belt of check on the bias. Narrow green tle dropping long ends. ¥ wo was easy for her, He had, probably, « bad mome'it of his own after she'd told him her errand, which she did complete, tn one gentence, as sho held out her parcel to him. “L want to sell these things for two thousand dollars,” sho said. She add- ed, over the look of acute unhappiness she saw come into his face, “I mean I hope they're worth that much. He explained, while he was cutting the string and opening the packa, why it was that tho amount things had cost was not a trustworthy guide to what they might be worth when one wanted to sell them. ‘We can't sell secondhand jewelry, you know, and all we can pay for ty the unset stones and the bullion value of the aotting.” His face cleared instantly, though, when ho saw the contents of her treasure box. Alfred's taste, luckily, had beon primitive, Jt hadn't rum to encrusted buttorfies and things like that~had confined itself to what @ gambler or a p wional baseball bh would speak of as rocks. nese thing bly more than t are worth con: wo thousand dollar said the jeweller “Oh, that's nic sald Cella. com- fortably, “Hut it's Just two thousand that I want, Ho if you'll p out What comes to that, Vil take the rest back.” The thing could done on that basin, but not, it ed, #o Instanta. neously as Cella had supposed, To his offer to mail her a « during the day, and send the re back to her by special mes ehe de- murred. — Sho'd walt for the money, !f she might, and take jt away in east T can give you $2,00 he sald, “and t , t things re precisely valued ch involves xamining and we them very sely, you can 1 and select, THERE'S SomECNE | f] LISTENING ON THIS. | | TURN COMES ! STENING ? UH Wa | z By Jack Callahan | 19/0" Sota ASK'T HAD A CHANCE To []{WOULD You PLEASE 2. f] COT INA WORD YET BUT WAT TLL HER, Pauline Furlong’s Daily Article on Health and Exercise Choice of Exercises to Take Must Not Be Limited to Mere Muscle Developers, but Should Include Those Which Aid in Digestion and Arsimilation of Food, Saya Evening World Authority By Pauline Furlong, hope the “she . doa « . . fer 5 : i * nls , eenere 4 you that the t te that exe p iromand on the pa he one muscles sh m is paid to the qua and smount 1 to the elimination of body's wale 4 which in weak aded with poisons im o6 and no benefit fever ave dertved tise ‘ take to exercise only certain parts of the body, and ey movements for all muse are the most benefit si} explain why It ts nd blond to all parte of the body and whee specta relses for only tain parts of (t are indulged in the vital organs are robbed of their natural and needed supply of blood, whieb starves am@ weakens them to such an extent that they become ready prey to disea Do not aim to develop the muselen of the chest, arma other parts of the body too quickly, because In doting so you are draining the lungs, stomach, Intestine d liver of the blood which ty essential to thetr apkeep and developing instead a great amount of sary muscle It is obviously a phystological principle that the body must be brought to superb health and strength through the vital internal organs and not through vast muscle area, Answers to Health and Beauty Questions. BOILS—ARTHUR B.; These may) there will be fo many disfigured | be caused by Infection. The bacteria! rows the io bat peice phn etn through the skin by way of the) women tind some | Front fands and halr follicies Of | bemoes ice Gee ee : Greet s#atiafaction. now many and find what causes the boils to von. [ of then personally who have had Meee reap: the akin. clean, Gwe | u® Work done and do not hesitate pure soap and water several timoa| recommend it, \each day. to wash the parte, and if| bDiackheads are all present, aw is) SLEEPING SICKNESS AGAIN— lly the case, extract them with|MRS, LAURA C. Do net worry » commedone, Then apply Aloovel| about. the boy, but send him to bed to the Dolly and blackheads on a puff |eartier and he’ will be willing to get Jor ‘cotton, Regulate the diet and|up in the morning I feel sure. bowels and take éxercise, physical activity cause eruptions and other d Lack of many skin rders als | diseane, I am advised, is caused by the bite of a tropteal fly. ° PROTRUDING EARS—-DRNDST | HEAD WNOISES—MRS. CHARLES |} Rt This cap be corrected through|D.: ‘Thede may be caused by ear surgery. Tt Is a very alight ope: | troubles, arrh and sometimes in- tion and you need not have any fear| digestion, You should find the cause about having Jt . Facial sur-|through a‘doctor and then remedy gery 19 coming Into Its own, since | the trouble accordingly. @ A REAL STORY OF THE BATTLE LINES. With Sketches by the Author Bruce Bairnsfather The English Soldier-Artist “BULLETS AND BILLETS” BEGINS MONDAY, SEPT. 10 to keep, whatever will leave us the nervously precise in their movements. $2,000 worth we have bought.” He ‘The moment he was settled tn hi also pursuaded her to take a ¢ ut On @ pair of tortoise. inatead of the twenty hundr undid the patent fast @ollar bills whe wanted, She hadn't cnvelope and drew out # quantity ef thought of pickpockets. «, Major March's addr axcertaine from tho telephone book, down in the lower twenties somewhere, just off ue, involvin de. in & crowded street car-made the Col onel’s suggestion seem worth taking. A momentary fright she had on tha Vague oddity there was about every- way down would have been « good thing he did. His sheets were spread deal More serious if she had had those out so candidly under her eye that ehe typewritten sheets, freshness proclate just out of the script, evidently, fetching awa whose pristine nd that they weee machine—« manu- that he was just y from the typist whaid t for him. An author, prob- That would account for the twenty hundred-dollar bills. in her bad definitely to turn away and look wristbag. ‘The adventure began just out the window jn order to avoid read- block after she had taken the street ing them, ar, When a man Kot beside her, ‘The car wasn't empty enough to muke this action Sof his really marked. He'd have had to sit 2 and sat down st before they reached the street 4 to get off, she pressed 4 signal and stood up, seemed to startle her come down beside somebody. Still @ panion rather unnecessarily, for he were plenty of other places where he snatched off his spectacles, nmed might have sat, and he had chosen her his pages together anyhow and him. seat rather a tly —plumped dowit self to let her go by fn it without that customary moment | She said: “Oh, I'm sorry!" and of hesitation to Kive her a chance to “Thank you,” Ina tone which her move over a little, and quite involun- faint ainusement over him made a t- tarily she glanced around at 4 mechanically Impersonal than The glance assured Ho one 1 ordinarily have used, 4 completely preoccupied—u Even so, one would hardly have aware of her as anything but a lump the he heard anything more than that took up so much spac the con vility in it and she was a seat. He had a big manila envelope in» al 8 n, obviously his hands, which were pale and w pret followed her sen down the ats! behind her and got off the car just It wAs still more diseon- en she'd crossed the wa e fore borhood, with its ments, s boarded-up regi rusty Uttle stores h unwashed, she'd hardly SEND OVER FOR. MIS3 ) HIBBITS @ VES! it's have given bim two thoughts VERY IMPORTANT. was, when saw the number tie ted painted dimly on a transom had an Impulse to keep right on ng as briskly as possible to the [nearest car tine. She uered it, of course, anc went up the three rickety > the @ Above which th was painted. It was an une little wooden building one story hat had once been a retail shop. Ww window—not plate gl but common panes—had been pai been, to baffle the curlosity of the passerby She tried the door and found locked; knocked smartly on it and got noa rand was turning away, bag- fled when she saw that her purguer | from the street car had halted at the | foot of the steps and seemed, inde. visively, to be waiting for her to come down, That was when she got her momentary fright. (To Be Concluded.)