The evening world. Newspaper, October 18, 1919, Page 13

YUNG bady. -shenting A “Dorotlr lengthy ‘letter whieh T Biinting in full because 1 think it horoughly describes the condition of number of young ladies. “Lam a@ young girl almost nineteen 3 carp of age,” says Dorothy. “I have & lovely home, good parents, a good ecucation, lovely clothes, and, as one might say, get almost everything 1 want. So you see I ought to be very happy, and om quite so, except for ne thing. I have no so-valled ‘ewoetheart.’ “Now 1 am not the only girl in this focality in this predicament, for it oes not seem to be characteristic of the boys of this age to have a ‘wteady.’ However, I know of young girls of my age who have plenty of young men friends. And, as both my parents and I are forever receiving bits of praise about my good scholar- ebip, my good looks, and my lovely ‘ways In general, as these people put , I cannot understand why I have 0 young men friends. When I go to @ dance, I have plenty of partners and really enjoy myself; but no one ever asks to take me out or to visit me. “When I have had an opportunity te have some one I could call a "friend,’ for some reason they have Courtship vand Marriage hérsélf mot suited. One for example, did not has written quite @| dante or: believe in going to the am | theatre. Advice by Betty Vincent In general, he lacked ‘life’ Another, whenever I went to a dance with him, always wanted to dance with me. That I know is wrong, and besides, there were plenty of others who wanted to dance with me at. Teast once. In short, no matter whete I go I have never yet met @ young man I would like to have for a ‘steady” or to marry. iow, Miss Vincent, what shalt I do? Shall I wait patiently? I just long for @ gentleman companion, but do you suppose I am too particular?” Yes, Dorothy, I am afraid you are just a Httle bit too critical about your would-be admirers, However, my advice to you and to any other young ladies who are lamenting the fact that they have no sweettrearts is by all means DON’T SIT DOWN AND WAIT PATIENTLY. I am al- ‘ways sorry for the girl who waits for her prince to come marching along in the twentieth century. Few men go “a courting” in this busy age, Timo and distance do not permit, Few ask to call or continue the acquaint- ance after a pleasant evening at a dance or social. Simply get busy and interested in life. Find some work or some study that will be a life work and then without ‘jwaiting patiently” you may find a man who is interested in the very things you are, New York, Oct, 17, Wo the “Hick” Batter ‘The traffic cop at Forty-third Street end Broadway certainly is whimsical fm running traffic. One day you are permitted to turn up Broadway, and the next day you are likely to be phoved over to Sixth Avenue and get finto @ worse jam, Can't a regular traffic rule be established and save a Qot of time and congestion? AUTOMOBLIST, New York, Oct. 17. Go the “Kick” Bator: ‘Why doesn't Mayor Hylan take a fide in his car through Central Park. heads on rivets aie oaphere with only 6 inohes, of a under bim and nothing but Tl say it won't be long. these strikes TU say Q Wheat would ‘Who'd Pay ing ean on strike? yd pay wageo then? ‘Trouble with him is that he’s foo darned proud to open up a lunch wagon or something people want and money that way. I started at $1.50 a week. Now 1 $2 an hour when I work; and lun me, I work. Why, man, a hod- ‘carrier has to be educated to his Job before he can do it. Pil my whole week's pay of the dank clerk couldn't get a hod teller, but ‘What with all etop_ P. I ul be UP Ore ILADELPHIA WORKER. me with ber eye, into the space. And every ‘wp, and there is plenty. of w don’t these people think that oats may ‘de tired when he is com- ome from work, and might like gf ‘Now York, Oct. 17. ba reg x" Colom: is nN it “Kiok” in js a pleasan tonovation. ‘The public needs just yr their injured feel- euch an outtet for fe ,] ss. werner “In Secret” By Robert Chambers HIS t@ one of the latest works of this famous writer, a thrilling, gripping story of Mystery, Love and War In the swift rush of action in its vivid pages Evelyn Erith and Kay McKay of the Secret, Ser- vice are carried over submarine infested eh intrigue, plots and attacks, and into the depths of the Valley of Mystery that lies beyond the Alps, It is their discovery of “The Great Secret” that alone prevents German domination of the world, This story will begin in serial form on this page Monday, © | What Is Your Kick?) a question. Let's go: The Mayor's Committe on Profiteering was 0! ganized to deal with unrul: to thd, lords who had a rush of bl head when the question of rents came up. ‘The intimation was that if land- lords persisted in raising rents the taxes on their property would be raised, Has this been done? Am I to understand that if the landlords saw the handwriting on the wall they would lower their rents rathe> than see their taxes soar? FAIRPLAY. te te "Hae Staten Island, Oot. 17, One of my best enemies is that man who rides in elevators, and gets off at the first floor, Ho's the first into the car, and goes all the way back. Generally he lights a cigar to etart things. When the car is jammed full he is in the last rank And he shouts: “Out at One!” shoves every- one aside, tramples on everyone, and finally reaches the door. If he can’t walk up one flight why doesn’t he at least stay in the front of the car? . LRK « Note siverroas Kaa | of thet Pretrece a eome pet kick |The Evening World wants to know | about yours. Send it along to-day. | WANT FAIR J TREATMENT ( The Story of “Lady Kate of the Police’’ and the Master Crook, Belknap. Bim and he threatens to irs. Savage. Degins to antes. en Belknap. ards. while. watching "Bulknap,, ™ ap. ‘drops a letier to Belknap. Harvard ering hie aseliagt ta” Uniuown toe te nee the light. ran, ap tells Lady ‘The Net tte Yrak 4. Mew company.) , the Macaulay Company.) Harrah, bosiess ot Myuuesl, discovers one of her gues, Contad Belknap, reveal ber family sncleicn be is unwilling to «ai t a a, mruling Uo canlalb. aud Belknap sare ot duis cheating unless ye i bed i & mysterious Kato thet this man tes Mectel an is & Hecret Service operative. on House of Mystery. He tells her bo bes come CHAPTER XXVIII. (Conceited) VERY recourse has been tried in vain. It was not until Jast night that, if @ sudden flash of vision, 1 realtzed where sha conceals the stone. Two hours’ gtace from this prigon will enable me to get it. And this crime, Lady Kate, is not as bad 4s you'may believe. She is old and the care of the stone is a burden to her; she would be better without it, and, and to me it is worth more” — Kate watched bim as with glowing eyes he told of his passion for the priceless gem. As ho paused she w- tertupted him: nut. you have told me but half, You must answer my other questions, First you must tell me your relation to Senorita Corvant — “She is my wif he answered without hesitation, “We were mar- ried: ten years age, divorced .later, and since then she has come to love andther man. I still love her, how- ever, and have kept her with me by thé threat of harm to him——" ‘Yes, the. same methods of intimi- dation’ you have used to me,” said Katherine. “And the same man,” answered Belknap evenly, “the name of the man whose life i threatened In Ro- berta’s: case and whose liberty I threatened in yours is Roderick Max- wilton.” Katherine started to her feet, white to the hij “My Mprother!” she exclaimed, “Where is he now?" “I don't know. Perhaps Roberta may, She ak Bin at Myquest, out- side, a few nights ago——" “Then I saw him, too,” cried Ro- “Pogsibly; he bas a hundred dis- guises. If I did not know of'the jm- posstbility of his entering the secret service because of the crime that hangs over his head I should say that he wag Carruthers, the operative, But that is absurd. He could not get into the department without a clean record, I happen to know that he is ‘ Sean but the department does “I have made my decision,” said Roberta, “and I must ‘go. Lf you will send me proof of my brother's tnuo- gence I will release you to-morrow evening as you ask." ‘I will do more,” Belknap respond- ed; “I will send pasitive documents that will prove him guiltless.” Back at Myquést Katherine bur- ried to Roberta's room, ‘{ have come,” she sald, “to ask about my brother Roderick. 1 am aware that you can use your yolte— I have known from the beginning that you were the Roberta whu had the telephone tatks with me I know still more, that you are t wife of Conrad Belknap, now divorced and willing and anxious to become my sister-in-law, And fot must tell mo how -I can communicate with my brother,” cannot tell you yet,” replied the girl, “He Ls nearby; he loves you very dearly and is watching over you, but he cannot divulge his identity till the hour is propitious.” Meanwhile, at the’ Nest, .Belknap paced the room, thinking over Kath- erine’s strange new. attitude toward his schemes, Puazled and baffled to find, @ solution he flung ‘himself into a chair and tried to read. The. pages blurred before his eyes, and with angry motion he cast the book across the room, ‘ ‘There was a creaking of levers, and slowly the steel plates of the window at the end of the hall opened, letting in & flood of sunlight. The book, thrown at random, had touched the spring that operated the mechaniam of the window. He ran to the win- dow and peered out. Myquest and the lake lay below him. A drop of a few feet to the ground, and he was free, But he had been observed, Car- ruthers and Harvard, standing on the landing at the boathodse, had seen the window open, amd the face ap- pear, and both knew that it could be only ‘Belknap who was concealed in the Nest. All this time Katherine was work- ing out her own plan, She had gone to Mme. Savage 43.s00n as she left Roberta's room, Too So re Piano, By VaR “Madame Savage,” she said, have decided on some charades ai tableaux to amuse my guests, and am basing one of the scenes on a story I read long ago called ‘The Jewel Worghipper.’ I wonder if we might borrow some of your gems for the picture? We are using Betty Clan- cey's wonderful pearls, and I thought we that perhaps you might let us have the——" Yes," smiled the lady, “you may even have the Nadja for a little time. Bend low and I will whisper to you. Go to the music room and get that ther com- scrubby old cane I always carry on d. Com my walks, an@ always put away in a corner of the music room behind the The stone is concealed in a box screwed onto the head of the cane—a most outlandish place, dear, but a safe one—for who would expect to find it in @ place like that?" Katherine soon had the Jewel, and locked it safely away in her own room, restoring the cane to its orig- inal position behind the piano. With- out breaking any of her promises she had foiled Belknap’s plan for the theft of the gem. That night a cold rain and fog Ddlew in from the misty sea, and the atmosphere within the house at raves was charged with unrest. absence was commented itted, and one after an- other the guests slipped away, obvi- ously to read, or write letters or to By 10 o'clock they were all gone, and Katherine, left alone, slipped out the fromt ‘door and started for the Nest. She would perhaps have been dis- turbed if she had known tha her husband, having taken Tom Clancy into his confidence, had gone already to a post of observation where he could watch the Nest. Furthermore Carruthers and his men had thrown @ cordon around the grounds of My- quest, through which they believed no person could pass. But she was not prepared for what she saw when she entered the build- ing. Belknap had discovered another one of the mysteries of the Nest, for, over. against the great stone fire Place, within a network of steel wiret that extended from eneath the granite shelf straight out over him and down in front of, and at either side of him, he was as securely ty to- “I feel it my duty that Myquest is 1d, you “{ do not care for that,” he “Yes, I will & He turned and smiled slowly. The door closed and he was gone. CHAPTER XXIX. 'T was exactly twelve minutes, ac- cording to Bingham Harvard's watch, after Katherine entered the Nest. when Conrad Belknap ame out of it, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 cK PAGE 1919 | CAN'T SLEEP (N Tae STReer A HANG, WHERE | Don't Give Ou Seer | The Evening World’s Kiddie Klub Korner Conducted by Eleanor Schorer Coprright, 1919, by The Preee Publishing Co. (The New Tort freeing World.) ; The Lantern and the Fan. A Japanese Legend Retold and Iilus-| for you.” and gave her a paper lan~ trated by Marguerite Murphy. tern’ with a lighted candle inside of i Day t. “Now you can carr fire in’ Aged 10. | paper.” 4 ‘Oh, oh, oh,” sald Nan Kin, “eat )AN KIN and Tsi Ann were two/ N little Chines: girls. They wanted to go away from their homes to make a long visit, | “You may go,” said the father,| “but when you come back, one of you| must bring me fre in a paper; the other must bring me some wind in a| paper, If you cannot bring me these }things you must never come back.” | | Nan Kin and Tsi Ann were so glad to go they quickly promised to bring whatever he wanted. They did not! |think how hard it would be to keep \their promise After they walked and walked and walked they were very | tired. it us rest awhil dan Kin, While they were resting they |thought of their promine “We can never go back,” sald ‘Ts! Ann, “You know we cannot carr |fire In @ paper.” “No,” said Nan Kin, “and we can not wrap wind in @ paper cithgr. Jugt then @ beautiful Fairy’ came along. “Why are you so sad, why ou cry? Perhaps I can help you.” “No, no, no, you cannot help us,” id the girts. Then they told her not carry wind in a paper. "Yew she can,” said the is something for you, she gave her a pa ." said the Fairy, “| you wave this fan you will have wind am sure I can help you.” The girls|in a paper.” , went with her to a beautiful house.| “Thank you,’ thank you,” said the After they had rested a while the| girls, and they went happily on their Fairy said, “Here, Nan Kin,, this ts| way, Cousin Eleanor My Dear Klub Cousins: | Was in a factory with my brothers and Have ye Kiddie Klub pennant! sisters, One day we were all packed for your very own? Every loyal) together in large crates and sent away member ought to own one of the/to a big stationery store, I Was very » Klub’s proud banners, They are) proud, for thy color was one of the mide of felt in the Klub colors, old | finest and my lead the softs. One and blue, and bear the words “Kid-|day a little girl came in and sald she * de | wanted a nice pencil for about & |“nmere nave becn ro many absorbing [*eRts,_,The man picked one out Tut Cee ee dau about that 1 {the girl did not like it so the mam let |have not mentioned our bright point. | er on Cat pa hecoalt, . He are led flag in a great long while, So it is| x spied me a f she would take me, She carried me quite possible that some of our new | heme ahd 1 always socompanied |Cousins did not know that there was te pahoal a0 ghacwrata with Be hing. Much less that we she wrote with me . ‘give. thorn. I was a stump and had to be thrown ve them away free to each Kiddie na filib ‘member who secures. five new away, ‘Thus my iife of members to the Klub and also to) ie 4 ; tvery, new. member “who brings In| By LOUIS KLEINMELER, New /) with him or her four other new mem: | ork City. bers, - — Of course six coupons numbered OLD PEOPLE. consecutively must be sent with each | When peopie get old and gray application for membership together | mm with the signature, age, and address lof the new member just as required when Kiddies apply for entrance in- dividually, But if i all get et | gether and help, saving coupons is as | food fun en any other game They go early to their rest. COUSIN ELEANOR. | By THOMAS H¥ILBRON JR., aged Ho’ peepee ven years, Brooklyn, N. Y. | AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A LEAD) PENCIL. As far back as I can remomber 1) ‘hey hate to work much in the @ay, And when the sun goes down You will hardly see them frown, But like the sun sleeps in the West AWARD-WINNING ESSAY —SEP- TEMBER CONTEST. VARNADY. Ho descended the first steps swiftly, was lost sight of along the winding path among the boulders, could be soen again in his descent of the sec- ond stairs, and then—to the astonish- ment ef those who watched—he start- ed rapidly toward the house, He encountered nobody. The house had not been closed up, nor tho lights extinguished. He entered the music- room at one of the windows, ‘As directly as the needle of a com- paas points north, he went to the cor- ner behind the piano and secured the “serubby old cane. Ho lifted it, examined it attentively, worked at the knab on top, found it secure, tried the ferrule and loosened it as far as it would unscrew, Then he tried the knob again, and opened it. He turned white to the lips when he discovered the object wrapped 14 foil and tissue inside, He extracted it. He held it worshipfully in the hollow of one hand and stared at it, His other hand moved us if to unwind the wrappings, and stopped. He put the Object that was wrapped in foil and tissue into his pocket. He went out of the music room like @ flash, It was wonderful how quickly he could move when he want- ed to—like a cat or any other preda- tory anima!l—naturally. The two watchers lost sight of him i oP 1, Which Is the largest city in South America? 2, For what kind of paintings is Sargent best known? 3, What famous journalist is known as "Marse Henry? 4, In what book does the character of Jean Valjean appem ? 5, What mark is placed after a note of music to show that it shoyld be increased one-half? 6, What State is called the Buckeye State? 7, What island on the Pacific Coast is noted for its glass bottomed boats? What is the mineral deposit called from which radium is secureé? ~ 9 How many feet in a fathom? 10. What can be put in green vege- tables when cooking to keep them green? 11, How many degrees 4g in the in- terior angle of an equilateral tri- angle? 12. What is the strait Alaska and Siberia called? ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY'S QUESTIONS, 1, India; 2, Weevil; 3, Cossacks between Salt Lake City; 6, Browning; 6, Perry; 7, Cyclops; 1 Bwitzer- land; 10, Potato; 11, Copper; 14, Lion. then and could not follow. They had thought that he would leave the by the way he entered it—but haw Belding, otherwise Conrad Belknap, was far too. wise for that sort of thing, “We have lost him,” sald. “40 around to thesrear, Tom,” Bing } plied, and darted away without im- parting his own intention. D Harvard, as it happened, having vuften been in the posien:o! himself, presaged Be! ments by what he fab himself under like circu B, his ideas were wetl abaumed. went to the rose bower, from’ which he could watch the sidy entrance: Belknap appeared at Mat, -m cautiously, He darted’ amo shrubbery, and kept himsé}tam deepest shadows; but ary : him lift his head and point, as a hunting dog points, in the direction of his course, 4 f Harvard caught sight of him again as he went out upon the platform at the boathouse. Belknap secured a paddle and lifted @ canoe into the water. He got into itand paddled out upon the lake, mak- ing his way directly toward the das If it had been possible to approach the Nest by that route, Harvard would have thought that he was returning to the chalet He was not. He paddled directly to the dam at the opposite end from the Nest, and Harvard, running Uke a hare, followed along the shore of the lake. But when Bing Harvard got near enough to the dam he could see only an empty canoe that was hugged against it “What the dickens” —— he began to ask himself, but before he completed the self-asked question he had thrown off his t, vest and shoes and was in the water He swam quickly to the canoe where it was hpeged against the dam and then he discovered that three vig spikes had been driven securely into a block of wood which, in it» Tom Clancy <> turn, had been ingeniously wedged into'the masonry of the dam itself; and that a hemp rope no larger than a clothesline was knotted around the spikes—a knotted rope, to facdli- tate descent, Bing had no doubt. It was Belknap's prepared getaway, made on the aly; but it was a daring method. The fall from the top of tho dam to the jagmed rocks below was 60 feet, a& Harvard knew “By Jove," Bing muttered to him- self, the fellow deserves to got away! And he will, df he reaches the bottora in —" He stopped, fascinated Sy what he saw The block of wood into which the had been driven, that had been wedged into the masonry of the dam, trembled; it was coming loose. Harvard reached out for it fran tieally. Hé would have grasped and held ‘it if he could and saved the pe) the man be had been pursu- A True Dream. * | I dreamt a boy friend and I were tying on the bank of a river. He was |! dressed in a red bathing suit. All of a sudden the river seemed to rise higher and higher, and [ was washed into it. I called to my bey friend to save me, but he couldn't. It seemed to me in my dream I met my rescuer the next day, and pointing ~ a bandaged finger at me, he satd: -, But be was not quick enough. The block of wood came entirely loone before he could seize upon it “see what I did when I resc and disappeared across the top of from the river.” Then Lawone® babes .the dam. During an instant, which, By MABEL SHERWOOD, aged sepmed an oternity, Harvard listened; ‘but no cry came up to him from the depts below; only a dull thud, a sub- dued crash and silence, ‘They found Belknap half an hour later. It was apparent that he had been. killed instantly. His neck wa, broken, and there was a jagge wound right temple besides, y While * unmindful of what ipwas golng on, the guests at Myquest ‘slept peacefully, Within the larger garage, to whioh the body of Belknap was carried, a group.of people was gathered. There were several strangers there, who went outside, presently, at the re quest of Carruthers, for they were the'men who had been assisting bim Rodney Rushton was there, and Tom Clancy 4nd Julius, Roberta was there, clinging close to Katherine Senator Maxwilton was there, he having sion of ealogy with Roberta when Watherine summoned her. Bing Har- vard was there, very silent and very well, When Carruthers sent his men away he closed the door and turned to face those who remained, but As he made the turn he awept one hand across his face. A& if by magic the hideous scar that had go distorted and changed his every feature was torn away and he eleven, Livingston Manor, N, ¥. ° paths . OCTOBER DRAWING AND PAINT- ING CONTEST, Subject: “Autumn Flowers.” DN ‘prizes of four Thrift Stampe (the equivalent of $1) will be awarded each of ten Kiddie Klub members, ages from six to fit- teen, inclusive, who make the best color drawings or paintings of au- tumn flowers, A certificate from the parent or guardian of the contestant saying, that the work is, to the best of their ": knowledge, original and has not been’ copied, must accompany each drawing, or painting, Pictures may be done with colored crayons, oll palpts or water colors. Contestants must state name, age, address and certificate number. Address Cousin Eleanor, Evening World Kiddie Klub, No. 63 Park Row, New York City. HOW TO JOIN THE KLUB AND OBTAIN YOUR PIN. Beginoing with ber, ci Out six stood revealed to all as Roderick Maxwilton, Katherine, who had been a long i up tet time in consultation with Julius, was ina half measure prepared for it; hy - panes OR ertheless she started forward with a quick cry of joy and threw her arms coupon no. 834 around her brother's neck, to the|@ utter amazement Bing. = = —— =: It waf the Senator (who, oddly, who | fore we leave the silent member of med not od at all) neomed ni Surprises at a t- | this party I have) something to tell. stepped to Bing’s side quickly and tered the three words that explained | He has been as bad as bad could be, the situation iene there was an explanation for it, ‘It is Roderick,” he sald; then, after | an ¢ He |s dead now, In a moment, he added, “I knew yester- | his possession when his clothing was day, Bingham, He took me aside and ‘ched we found quite an assortment ~ told mo. Then to-night, after dinner, of pipers. Some of them related to we went together to hs mother, and | the hiding places of certain engraved Bingham she is as happy now as|plates which the United States Gov- she was on that day, years ago, when |ernment will now secure and destroy, brought him into the world,” Others referred to matters connected perta,” the Sen went on,) with me, and are proof sufficient of, come here." Then: * . Ro-|my innocence of certain acts with berta is a Muxwilton |which I was once charged, if, happily, many times removed. it were not the fact that I have al- closer kin to your wife, ready been acquitted of added, turning to Clancy had |own department, So I al |that no further reference be made to bh the same great-grandmother. Sh his misdeeds, and In making that prow Lam proud to state, a Maxwilton.”” “You bet she is!" Roderick an-| posal I know that I will have the nounced, reaching out and clasping|approval of my chief, He is dead. ol h hands, “And sho is going |Let him rest.” to be # Maxwilton by name as well as| “And he died without knowing that by nativity,” “ “This is hot’ & moment nor a place | Katherine exela . “Lam very glad for rejoicing,” Katherine announced, |of that, Yes, I am glad of It.” “go, although tt is late, I want you| And, until she told her story llibrary, they did not know what &. meant, (THE END.) . all to come with me to the librar I have eomething of interest to tell “One moment,” said Roderick. “Bo- » ss) 3 { 1 | | |