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Sy The Four Ages of | Beauty | By Nixola Greeley-Smith Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Os, (The New York breaing Wor! THE SMILAX.—No. IV. ONSIDER the smilax, Keep in your mind’s eye the tender, apparently fragile, fealue.) | festoons which drape the triumphant arches of great weddings, or float delicately from the bridal bouquet. Then remember that of all things that grow, the smilax is the hardest to kill. Indeed, it ie 60 astonish- ingly sturdy that it will lie under the snow all winter and emerge gloflously green when April sounds the reveille of sprin| Could there be a subtler frony than that which makes the smilax the symbol of weddings, particularly when | it is carried by the smilax woman? 4 She comes in all ages and sizes, and whatever her ‘G-< + age oF size, she ts still the wisest of the female sex. Wronteerievsnm One of the chronic despairs of my life 1s that I was | not borh a smilax woman, that a fever called feminism ‘lighted my | twining tendencies from birth. Some of the most successful twiners,(tion of the smilax type. You cannot | to be sure, now wear the mask of the| beat it, You «innot change it. You new womanhood, which is really just) Cannot kill it. And by one of the ex~ the earliest womanhood of all. The quisite retributions of life, every milax lady may be found in large |man tends naturaily to marry it. Dambers at Suffrage meetings, in the} Whenever I see a smilax woman at eamp of the militants particularly. the altar, drooping Opposite some In fact, quite the perfect type of fond fajuous “pillar of strength” who emilax woman is Miss Alice Paul,|wants only to have her cling, 1 am great captain of pickets, even now tempted to take her hand and say: ecizing a flambeau with zoal to des-| “In the name of all the women who troy President Wilson's books and| have loved and suffered and died a epecches, presumably because he has thousand deaths I thnk you.” @one more for Suffrage than ali the} Judith was a smilax woman. So other Presidents put ‘together. was Jael, whose notion of getting at Theard Miss Paul make @ speech to} dea into a man’s head was to pre- ber followers the other night. Sien-| Cede ft with @ nail. In its entirety der, darkly indomitable, ruthless, re-/I must not be taken as denouncing Jenticss, she was more like Bernard|the method. it may have been the | Bhaw's version of the kitten Cleo-| only way. patra that one would hope naturally ‘The smilax woman does not fade to find outside the Metropolitan Mu-| easily. But faded or not, she con- geum's Egyptian exhibit. She was|Quers. For her power is not of femininity rampant, coldly furious, as | Perishable flesh but of unconquerable pable of deviation from a set pur-| 8Pirit. She need not be beautiful. ose as the tides are of altering their| She ts not often wise, It is sufficient @etication to the moon. If I were|for her to be beautiful enough, wi the Congress of the United States | ough, strong enough to cling. and only one woman in the country| No argument, no reason of ex- wanted the Fodera! amendment passed | Pediency, no impulse of love or pity Before March—and her name were|°&S dent the armor of her omnipo- Alice Paul, I should say, “Certainly, of] tet helplessness. So she rules— course — anything —everything you| W!l always rule the world. ask, Miss Paul. The Revenue Bill] Nietzsche said once that martyr- can wait. The reconstruction pro-|40m proves only that somebody was gramme does not matter. We will] ©*traordinarily convinced inasmuch gettle tho railroad question whenever |®* People cling to their own ideas we have made you perfectly comfort- | #4 reject others in direct proportion fable and happy. Here's the Consti- |‘ their ignorance and stupidity. tutional amendment you, want, Don’«| The smilax woman is frequently you like the President's face? We'll such a domestic martyr. Once in rave Him see a beauty specialist at| the Roman Arena the famiahed wild ‘once, Do you think the Senate should | beasts turned aside from their cower- wear togas or ballet skirts? Come|!"® Prey and refused to eat her. I and select them for us now!) have always felt that she was a I have mentioned Miss Paul only |smtlax woman and that the lions and she is the absolute perfec-|tizers had been warned in time, --{ HOME PAGE : Thursday, December 19, 1918 Coperient ps The Ties Prat oS (Toe New York Bveu itis FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS For A FUR Coar | Twat's SOME Nally The Housewife ’s Scrapbook mas. Mix together thoroughly one cup of bread crumbs, two cupfuls rye flour, a half teaspoonful of sult, four teaspoonruls of baking powder, one teaspoonful of cinnamon and one aspoonful of cloves. Add one cup of chopped suet, o! apple and one cup of see Mia weil and gradually stir in one cup oF corn syrup or molasses and one cup of milk. Pour into a greased tin—a well covered coffee tn will answer ni sand steam two and @ haif 3 pours, Serve with hard sauce, which ere'beeu, stew trots ber di ‘ —— id Enderby fon him. Cook beans and peas in as little thoes be teats eceeny 16 Oo water as possible in order to retain | thai ae this plum pudding for Christ- Yeast oe et the thieves bs lavol ‘cures @ lace in thy vera £0 ees Aer, Ghevmpany ‘bat"aeseatied $40,000. a cfyplogram 1b the pocket of he cot, . The bam will not dry out and get ard if you fry out some of the fat and let it become hard, Then spread ft over the cut end of the ham about @ half inch thick, This will exclude CHAPTER VI. (Continued.) (Copyright by George @. Doran Company.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, Miss Arua Haswel & o tee ur place pearls T hate acting! It is not a man's explanation of the s Lim & letter to Alfred Mouut, ber jeweller, detective bas been oniploye ol Ty control thing frie Tears that Roland Quarite, th Bodery scarches his tou and finds another “Taken by itself the letter would not 2° feeling of art to make it w« be conclusive, things” — warles Confesses His Love vacant ccc ras Core poi ct, einiocsoen” ae And Is Confronted With op Fale The Theft in a harsh strained voice as if the Leaving Miss Hamerton, I walked painful thing he had kept hidden so twice around Bryant Square to put long was breaking out in spite of him. my thoughts in order, “Irma, how soon can you replace | finally made up my mind to search me in the cast?” Roland's aparcment that night On “Eb?” she murmured. I could im- my previous visits I had marked a @gine the painful start she suppressed. little safe there, Surely it must con- “I want to get out. I can't stand it tain some conclusive evidence one any longer.” way or the other. What I hoped to “But why?" she whispered, tind was some natu nd bonest im of money he ‘Miss work.” had receiv. years. “Eo: “It was your father’s profession and 1 had taken a bunch of skeleton Neditgy"eee YOUr mother’s,” she murmured, keys and a set of mmiature house- ing man of “They were the real thing,” he said breaking tools. I didn't require them, gloomily. “They had a genuine cali. for I found that the little #afe had ‘They loved their work. I hark back one of the carliest and almplest to an earlier strain, I guess. 1} forms of a lock. th The safe door swung open at last. with the other While. 1 hate the tinsel and show The first thing I saw was @ case such and make-belie I want to lead a us jewellers di. Upon pressing the aur. spape off the fat before COULD hear the voices on the things?" re @ With you" !"=—— the spring the er flew back and 1 z the ham and ufterwar a stage. Roland wes about to come “Well, his provoking you by a bet You are mad!” she whispered uw lying on a bed of white velvet a slicing th a rward spread 6 J P & you by a by : ¥W on again as before off, 4 hastily returned all the % wear the pearl “I know—but I have had a stroke str’ of wonderful dusky pearls. penta bers to hie pocket as I found _,“There’s nothing in that,” she said Of, luck" —— For many moments 1 aued ay If you wish to serve cauliflower ese : 3 ghar in-ulterior “luck them in stupid astonishment, Gi Whole boil it in cloth, You can |them—vxcept the cryptogram, That I mo he would have spoken of tno _ “I have come into some money. Oh, knowe what I expected to find. Ce: then lift it out of the ewucepan with-| put in my own pocket. bet since, would have lost {t, Rething much, but enough to give mc tainly not that. What did it mean? out breaking it, ‘When he came in we picked up our weulda’s he, to keep uv from suspect. 4 Start ia some new cou if you It looked just the same as the string |A nice way to use stale bread tg| Conversation where we bad dropped to slice and steam it Then butter |it geasoned stewed tomatoes. to translate my find. This is what I ts Delicious sandwich filting i made | 8° P Dy running through the meat chopper| ‘TI. has known of her loss for a half of a Spanish onion and one smal! | couple of weeks. She hus put two de reen pepper, Mix a cream cheese eee or aa oa and ith salt and paprike and add to the | ectives im the company. Faxon # Shopped| mixture to form a paste|the girl Covington, I have this which should be spread on thin slices | straight. Watch yourself. J of bread, So this is why Quarles cultivated my i endship! I thought, feeling all the Now that the picnic days are over | frien 2 one woman uses the thermos bottle | bitterness of finding myself betrayed. fn tho kitchen and finds it a time|y could no longer doubt my evidence saver In many ways. One excellent | xy diy feel for the youns \ y friendly feelings is ne Makes of It 1s vo alley It is to prepare her | viiow were curdied, udding sauce in the morning, She CHAPTER VII. hen pours it, piping hot, into the thermos bottle and when ready to WOKE up next morning with a leaden weight on my breast. I serve her dinner dessert she has the sauce at hand. ean the white painte: Neier Pent oes bad no zest in the day which warm wate pread a little whit- bore with it the necessity of ing ove rth, then rinse with] toning Miss Hamerton what I had pant water learned, At three I called her up and 0 snug in any|said that I had something important loth in| to report. She said she was expecting oe erot | thts |some one later, and did not want to will give you|go out. Could I come to her? I told her bunglingly enough, God makes knows, of the second cryptogram and weather. | where [ bad found it. It crushed her of soft. like a flower trodden underfoot. und into] Presently, however, she began to ter, |fight. “The first thing tue thief would sue ldo when be found imselt under sur velllunce,” she faltered, “would be to Jtry to divert your attention to sume one else. I felt ike the criminal myself, try- ed te@oonvince her against her heart. If you i the t inte @ 4 few pieces of camphor gum | on closet. It will retain the color of the linen articles, T conceded the roasonableness of to think it ‘ano his—taken by itaclt. “But his bank loved'you. You would be quite jus- seven pearls, Was it another of well and pour over the slices, well-] As soon as I got home I made haste account?” “Bank account” she repeated, atar- {he door. But T oy tled. We had not told her of thia, “On April 6 Mr. she whispered, me to go. “What shall I say to him? What shall | “I am not so enamored of make-~be “Don't see him.” T cried. I promised.” her. This wretched business had to I sat there, I don't know for haw be cleared up before they could hope 4s at a pistol shot answer it, but she out, waved me buck. She went to the in- ‘There I waa still when she came me—quickly.” but 1 was sur- In, She was trembking and breathing 1 drew out the case. She ga prised at the steadiness of her voice, tast, ‘What is it?” she asked, “Let him come up, her stricken face strument falteringly: "she said firmly. gp, I knew who it room. Sbe noticed that the transom I asked. roof garden so 1 won't meet bir,” I man?” she murmured. “I man nature, want you here. not meet me!” f hor face, “Oh, thank you!” she said ees ried “Wait in the next room.” could come wie me! Oh, lama fool Miss Hamerton had shown me. [ it I had to tell you I counted them, There were sixty- tifed in laughing, and showing me Roberts's replicas? you! It seemed I slipped the case tn my pocket, cowardly to go away without telling locked the drawer and locked the safe 1d her of tt ricky again, I switched off the Ughts and forty thousand doilirs in cash'ie the _,"Y08 are asking me to give up my Iet myselt eee Second National Bank." All the ght went out of her face. ": CHAPTER VI. Are you sure? sho gasped. have seen the entry in his pass- I verified it at the bank,” It crushed her anew, She had no W! I could atand better having TAS ir dae more fight left in her. bere “He's coming here, profession?” she murmured unstead- “I ask nothing. I expect nothing. ss H ‘ON | receives if you could!—~ You'd have to HAMERTON received it up. Lt would kill me other- me the following morning he sank back Done of you than hulf.”. He laughed looked out of her white of motion, harshly. “Am I not ridiculous? Tell face like stars at dawn, The instant she caught sight of my f he said Heve either,” she murmured. “You have news?" She was weakening, | trembled for 1 nodded. “Good or bad? she whisper carpet like @ for any happiness. breathlessly A Hf 1 loved you I could give it up," There was no ase beating around and we both she whispered, “but I am not sure.” the bush, “Bad,” I eaid bluntly. I u a i) s ee Went to the window and lean A hand went to her breast, ‘Tell fee, AS ; sign of recognizing it. I snapped it MN eee te outer open. “Is this the lost necklace? was open. With @ little cry, she seized upon up in a kind of panic, "You heard!" she said deflantly. it examined the pearls, breathed “I will have myself Carried up to the “Were they the words of a guwity ' them, looked at the clasp. “Yes! she exclaimed, joy struggling ber fuce with an underlying terror. “Where did you get it?” afe in Mr. Quarles’ flat" thing She looked at me stricken stupid. APything Thad to repeat the words. “Not if I know anything about hu The ewoetest gratitude lighted up She was very near tear Her voico elee would be unbelievable! I must have “Give me one day more,” I mug- | “Oh!-you would not deweive mo?” one here—some one I can trust!" gested, he whispered. x I obeyed vary “No! No!" she eried with surpri ‘T wish to God tt were not true! soon as he entered I ing enerey ‘T will not ry tis 1 cried. nsom over the door tragic farce any further the In bis room—dis room ° mut uld hear everything pearls now. | would not hom tered iddeniy #he sank down ip pussed between them. if T did get them back, They are npled white heap on the floor. He must have been highly wrought gone. Let them go!" | gathered her up in my arms and up because he apparently never so- “Give me twenty-four bourse t laid ber om the qofs. ) — 7 It was a long time before she spoke, then she looked up and said uuietly, “I must go away, quite by myself. Can you help me find a place, some place where nobody knows me?’ “I will find you @ place,” I said. “Perhaps I'd better not go alone,” she said. “If I could only find the right kind of person. I'm go terribly alone, That nice girl you brought into the company, Miss Farrell, do you think she would go with m There was something in this mo painful than 1 mvey, “She'd jump at the chance,” I said brusquely “You have been so good to me,” she said. “You can say that!” I said as- tonished. “Oh, T've not quite taken leave of my senses,” she said bitterly, “If J hid not known the truth, it would have been much worse, his struck me as extraordinary generosity tn a woman who loved “IT have something else to ash of you,” she said in the piteous be seeching way that made me want to cast myself at her feet. “Anything,” I murmured. “Mr, Quarles is coming here at tiv Please gee him and tell him—Oh! tell him anything you like, anything that will keep him from ever trying to see me again.” “I will start packing now,” she said. “It will give me something to do." She atarted to thank me again, but T would not let her go on, I really could not stand It. “Very well, you will see,” she sald with a smile, and left me. Shortly afterward Roland Quar! carne striding down the hall. | opened the door to him. He was astonh: ed to find @ strange man in the room. He did not recognine me without iny Faxon makeup, anderby,” T said in response to his inquiring glance, “You met me here once befor 1 gave him my card, hoping thut he would take the hint, and save m further explanations Not @ bit of it. “Investigutor? What does that mean? Detective?" Precisely, a ‘s it all wbout?” he cried ir k at me closely," I said wured at me, angry and puz- € seen You velore—iuore Then his face xon!" he erted. “Is it same,” 1 said tare you doing he he demanded. ‘Miss Hamerton's pearl necklace was stolen from the theatre two mouths ago. She engaged me to re cover “Hler aris! Stolen!” he ejucu lated, amazed, — © like you, Roland, but e ugainst my will, T wan fe by litt to believe that you were the this This touched him, but not quite tn he way Lexpected. “Me? The thief? he gusped—and guddeuly burst’ tnto harsh laughtor, ‘How did you at. give at that?” The Evening World's 4 Kiddie Klub Korner’) Conducted by Eleanor Schorer Copyright, 1918, by The Pre Publishing Co. (The New York Breuning Worlap i My Dear Cousins: You Are Cordially Invited to Attend the Christmas Play “Che Wishing Ring” a Which will be given by Kiddie Klub Memben for) Kiddie Klub Members : AT THE MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE, N. Yo ¥ On the morning of TUESDAY, DEC. 31, at 10.30 o'clock, ‘ Your Kiddie Klub pin is the only ticket of admission that you need. Each member may bring one adult to our party. 1 hope you have noticed that the date of our Kiddie Klub play hee been changed, We are now to have it on the 3ist of Decemter, It és all the more exciting having it set off for a few days because it makes 4 the present period of anticipation a little longer. From what I have acen of the “Wishing Ring” refearsals I should venture to say that you cannot expect too much; that no matter how much you anticipate, the Kiddie Klub actors as directed by Mr. Stuart Walker, the “Wishing Ring? oe music which Mr, Carl Bdouarde ia arranging, the ballet which Mise Mare goret Curtis and MUe. Galli are working together on with your Cousina, and the rhythmic dancers whom Mrs. Florence Flemming Noyes ts ame by ranging in @ fairy group, will all live up to your highest expectation, re Your Enthusiastic COUSIN ELEANOR." Cousin Eleanor’s Klub Kolumn NOVEMBER CONTEST AWARD | While his enemies crouch feartafty -«9r WINNER. and dare not e’en replying? “MY PRAYER TO SANTA CLAUS."| While upon his feathery pinions flemt= Oh, Santa Claus, please hear my aire oe Ris Bigh ormiaiena ‘ ae What cares he concerning others an@ Ie for the children “Over There.” their friendships and opinions? . The boys and giris of stricken France| He's entirely independent, not Mee) 9a) Who do not ever sing or dan some, a poor defendant r ric, taipbikd) eunlasea’ aod aRViOI: ‘Gainst the might and will of cach and every other false pretendent foam, So this bird has been sel: Thoy know no love, they have 00|”° Gihera were begets ea when aft home, As the emblam of our Freedom whielt & beg from de in him js seen refi But wandering beg from door to door reflected. And this emblem ere all ¢ “ ‘ © ns no on Til thom they strength eustall ie ©, never may it 6 sil ceria tom more. 8 the emblem of our liberty whislt Now Santa, of my sweets and toys we so proudly flourish. By THOMAS H. Please give to these poor girls and) yor. g an H. DAVISON, New boys, pao del : And grant their stockings filled will) BEMOCRACY THE WINNER, , be + America is a country free When Christmas morn dawns o'er the ca. Png op for you and me ~ 7 8 & country that wants fusties °"! By MARJORIE ‘STRACK, aned | So we sought } thirteen years, Brooklyn, N.Y. ; fought for democracy, ad | We sent a force of two million bey THE EAGLE. Onin the dangerous sea r Have you seen the e: flying, ali] OUF boys fought bravely reat tyranny, ° ve To stop the Kalse the world below defying, ————=-« | So he abdicatea When he knew we'd win And all the Allied soldiers Have a chance to see Berlim ‘The Kaiser has found out "Twas not easy to control the wort And all bis plans todo ie ia: Were altogether foiled. * og | OUR flag in brightly wavt 7 provoked |" Grer the land and ea ja Because we fight for justice “4 And to end autocracy, 1% dy one “In the first place you a bet with Miss Hamerton which in- duced her to wear the real pearls om the night they were stolen. His face turned grave. “Tru Naw shaken a said, ‘1 forgot that. What else?” | And autcoraeys Could Gee L “On April sixth you deposited forty | ip Ge : P thousand dollars in cash in the See- SrERY, BO Dereon Shall ever wear a crown, berg “6 ond National Bank.” He paled. “Anything more? By STANLEY COHBN, aged deven “Do you care to explain where you a Jersey City, N. J, ¥ got it?” T aske % Not to you, he gold proudly. "do CHRISTMAS 18 HERE! , bon on with your : My ‘Arn clue Was in the cryptic |Chrigtuas is bere, Christmas is here, . * letter found on the stage With dolls and drums and @ lot of ay “1 remembs You couldn't trans} Bee ak teak wt | 2 ‘aNiaut I did. your friends Ped “What's it got to do with m For when Christmas comes your = '° “Nothing. But | found a second troubles must end, ty letter written in the ame cryPtO-| On sistman ip here, Christians ts . Hegel He me With jolly sleigh bells ringing eleam 5% “But—but ul i ly « devilivh | Chrietmas trees shining from youg s combination « Imatances h windows so bright Stummered. “You haven't. proved {Sparkie and glitter out in the night, any aing Christma, here, Christ: here, he pearls awe n ecovered,” when eo te . Makes .on pearls b. been 4 Twit stockings to hang by ‘a poi : Where?” he shot at me. Bo bees H 7 yi * « 5 yp your safe. (a be food children and then im the |'/') is legs fail bim suddenly. le half fell ina chair, staring at mo] 5" will come and leave things yas | .«.. witlessly, “Oh, my God!" ho mut- 4 iba tered buskily. “Those, hers!" ok, FARM RIESE Wet Kew! I believe 1 smiled “And you—you have told her this story?’ he fultered That's what | was engaged fc ‘Oh, my God!” he reiterated x blankly, Wim Fits Mo | . His ae aH wm 8 4 ne ‘ A. Member who have belonged to Bie GF yee , vie matter /the Kiddie Klub for three months or Seer ale ger and hive broken or lost their dhe Nianed up, Of crtraa in get new ones by sending rela A CS coupons (numbered in rota= deca ee eae ) Name, age, address and cars Beeeenny one 1 or must be given, New whas led be eruflcales can be obtained im the pl Cree ) hacwaa nee way. Lf you do not know your “ re cuuc ic is cee cn a ate number tell the date upom n y sme a member, or as 4 you can recall, the original pin end ? . n each member apes pale Be $ Stent : Klub, only one pin and re 1 Neate may secured, ac . Ifa mem~ r pin or certifi- be required to three coupons and five cents HOW TO GET A NEW KIDDIE’ KLUB PIN, ty | obtain @ new pim anything you have to sa wurmured, (Beet Aer rabgs ,e |for another pin and three coupone obied, pier ous wale ne wapable 2nd three cents for another certifi of such a thing pate “am DT hot ' he wud @ very low HOW TO JOIN THE KLUB AND OBTAIN YOUR PIN, z with any sum wx of the com are xiou ¢ He shook bis head Tr deosn't, matter,” be it “T doubt if He bent a proach ot 3 1 au Vm « ) vou’ tant” etate Nawh AGB "gad Nines “Klub Pin,” tolen ot the blue pearls. Little did 1 sus: pect what Was on the wa (Te Be Continued.) 405 COUPON NO, >

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