The evening world. Newspaper, February 10, 1920, Page 17

Ain eh Millionaires - «who take in roomers Pi simple country folk down in Texas went to bed one night as poor Is parent-love a as the proverbial church mice and awoke Are wives harder to get menace? to find themselves millionaires! along with than husbands ? OXER ht so, because, as he REAT men almost invariably mothers NAT cae But they cannot accustom themselves D told his Charny, his wife to their new prosperity, and, living far had called him a “drunken satyr” from the maddening crowd, they do the eave um ue most extraordinary things imaginable And Charny agreed with him, with their newly acquired wealth. Old because Ais wife had told him that he never kept a promise in his life. Jake Wells went right out and bought And he sometimes did! himself $4.80 worth of bananas, ate them, Gouverneur Morris, in “The Great in America on this vital problem. and then just naturally died. fue rolllehinay Ukeny af aetna ake - Nothing more amazing and dra- matic has been written about human Mrs. Snodgrass, wife of the village doctor (who doesn’t know how rich she understandings and how they were overcome, Don't fail to read*it in the cur. ~. is), built a large wing on the old home- rent Cosmopolitan. f stead so she could take in more roomers! | Another oldlady—whose profits quickly re & passed the million mark—went to the They discovered the fountain | When a financier ’s wife hardware store and bought “paw” a new of et Hh pawns her jewels ax so he could cut the kindling easily. HONY” DICK and “Overcoat” ‘OU won't know until the end of the story why she did it. But when the pretty young wife of a feeble, old millionaire is seen to fre- quent a pawnbroker’s, and then enter house, being watched “Her Secret"—by Will Payne—- is the first of a series of the adventures of Ben Bodet, business detective, who —we prophesy—will rank as one of the most interesting sleuths of fiction. And the surprising thing about it all is that it’s true/ The great oil boom that has recently transformed the most deso- late section of Texas into a land of untold wealth has produced a new phenomenon in our national life—something unlike ' anything the world has ever seen before, Don’t fail to read “Millionaires Made While You Wait” By FRAZIER HUNT in the latest Cosmopolitan Bennie had just relieved an oil magnate of $500. But when they went and lost it on the Kentucky Derby, they simply didn’t have the heart to go home to Mrs. “ who kept the cash (and who also kept track of their prowess.) So they decided to take a little fishing-trip out California way, and that’s how they happened to discover the Beauty Fountain. You who have applauded his “Boston Blackie” stories will delight in this crook story in a lighter vein by Jack Boyle in the current Cosmopolitan. Don’t miss these in the same number— “KINDRED OF THE DuUST”— Peter B. Kyne’s great story of a rich lumber laird, his only son, and a beautiful girl. “THE CROWN PRINCE OF PYNE’S FALLS, MASSACHU.- "The story of an aviator who didn’t see service until he “THE FATHER OF WATERS’— One of the greatest stories Rupert Hughes has written. “ THE MAY-FLY”—You will prob- ably recognize more than one girl you have known in this story of a flirt-—by Dana Gatlin. “UNEASY STREET’’—A dramatic chapter in Arthur Somers Roche’s great novel of love and mystery. “THE CRIMSON TIDE’—The concluding instalment of Robert W. Chambers’ unusual romance of the Bolshevist menace. “THE RELAPSE OF CAPTAIN HOTSTUFF”—Old Reliable is ac- cessory to a holiday celebration strictly according to Hoyle—by Harris Dickson. “HER HOME, THE WORLD’— a poem of unusual beauty and sentiment—by Mary Carolyn >. “Nearly everybody worth while reads | Cosmopolitan” got back home—by Royal Brown. Davies. America’s Greatest Magazine mopolitan | - ae