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i} Doris Doscher’s Talks on Health and Beauty Dorte Doscher, the noted Health and Figure Improvement Popert, | Ras been specially engaged by The Kvening World to write for its | women readers. She will answer questions reiating to her artictes. ! Miss Doscher, adjudged by experts to have a perfect figure, posed \ fer the figure on the new quarter and for many noted pieces of sculp- { ture, She is also a lecturer for the Board of Education on subdjecta re- \ dating to exercise and health. By Doris Doscher. Copyright, 1971, by the Pree Publishing On. (The New York Evening Worl.) BDSITY 1s incansistent with health and longevity. inconsistent with" beauty. Excessive fat is Therefore, if you wish to be healthy, live long, and possess pbeauty—reduce, ‘Therd are.severat ways to get rid of your surplus fat. You may take Turkish baths, but tho method cannot be recom- mended for everybody. You may take drugs, but this method is suicidal You may fast, but this is very weakening; or you may engage in strenuous exercise, bug this increases your appetite None of these methods has a permanent effect, and they only leave th® bod shrivelled, wrinkled and with impaired health. I know that excessive fat is a disease, but I warn you against any strenuous methods that will not only fanpair your health but defeat the object you seek— Health and Beauty. It tias taken you a long time to accumulate this excessi¥e fat, and so you must not be discouraged if you do not see results in two or three weeks; buf I as- eure you, if you are sincere in your efforts to follow instructions faith- fully, you will have the reward you desire, This reward is permanently yours as long as you stay on @ pro} erly balanced diet. * And though i can essure you that @hanging your diet and putting you @n an absolute schedule would ac- e@omplish reduction, { would also ad- ‘Vise you to take up some forin of @ystematic exercise, jo that your weight will become mote evenly dis- tributed, if you can gradually become accus. tomed to a cold shower with a vi orous rubdown every day, paying es- pecial attention to such purtyas have accumulated, excessive tat, "you will find this roving your figure and health. Fat wjll never form where there is perfect circulation, and this rubbing can be made the meafig of a morning exercise. ~~. Those who are overweight should eliminate as much starch and sugar as possible from their diet, and sub- stitute vegetables, especially gf the leafy variety, such as spinach and lettuce. Tf you masticate your food thor- oughly you require only half of the amount of food. For you to understand more readily ‘what is a correct reducing diet I have [eeaceaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaananaamenaee REDUCING MENU, Breakfast. Half Orange One Stice Zwieback Two Egg Whites, Curdled One Glass of Milk Luncheon. ‘Spinach Endive, Lettuce or Celery Small Baked Potato without Butter One Square of Corn Bread Dinner, . String Beans Cold Slaw Baked ‘Chicken Cottage Cheese with a little Maple Syrup ng f suggested one day's Menu for you in the box accompanying this article, Miss Doscher will answer through the columns of The Evening World any questions bearing on her articles or your own health and beauty prob- toms. \ > The Bunk By Neal R. o’Nara y Consistency Is a Jewel, but Put'icity Is the Whole Hock Shop, and the Press Agent Is the b.rd Who Proved the Bunk Isn’t Always Used to SleepOn. Cops 21, by ‘Tie Press Publishing Malina Rew Yuu Bevlog Word. ANY an intrepid thinker and M many a darikg pioneer has missed his place in the his- tory books through lack of a snabpy press agent. Who would associate an apple tree with Newton, a cherry tree with Georgie Wash and a chest- nut tree with Joe Miller if it wasn’t tor the nifty legends that the press agents laid out? .,The printer's ink that daubs mi- Yady’s gloves is the stuff that shat- ters empires, batters thrones and flatters movie stars. Without it there'd be no Intelligence, no mark- down sales, no comic strips. And what good would all Babe's four- base clouts be if they weren't served np in eight-column headlines? Con- sistency, thou art @ jewel! But, publicity, you're the whole darn hock shop! ee Magellan discovered the strait, but Doe Cook discovered the four-flush. Magellan got back, but that’s all he did get. But Doc? Well, Doc got more publicity than Sheridan forty miles away. And Doc was further away than that. Doc didn’t trek far enoysh North to get Arctic circles under his eyes. He never even changed his B. V. D.’s, and when the day's work was done he had to dring mint juleps in front of an electric (an. That's how far North the Doc- tor got. They afterward proved he was a dud, but while the discovery was hot he beat Peary to the news- stands with his copyrighted bunk and also beat him on the lyceum ~¢ireuit by about three laps and a “haty, Proving that the race ts to the swift, provided you beat it to the nearest telegraph office. Oo, Re bis 166 and pushed Heinzie in back of page 14, And all that Edison advertised was the lemons he bad picked. He got more. advertising than the Pueblo flood by werel) copping the entrance exams to our leading nut asylums. There are all kinds of ways for snatching a rep. Steve Brodie jumped and landed “on the frout page with photographs. But the boy that stood on the burning deck got just as much mention by standing still and refusing to hop into the water. You never can tell what kind of a racket the public is going to fall for, But you can bank thai they're waiting to fall for something Yake Barnum, for instance—ne toqk every one else. Barnum packed his menagerie with lions and giraffes, byt thy bull he had tied in his press depa:tment was what put his show over big. Now Noah had fourteen ties as many animals as Barnum, but he had no press agent to toot that fact. There wasn’t even an animated weekly on the scene when the old boy launched his ar Ponzi got himself five acres Liberty bonds before the cops nabbed him on suspicion, Ponzi ad- vertised for help wanted to find the end of the rainbow, Entrance fee, anything you want to pay, provide it’s all you've got. The kid copped more press notices than the World War and the submarines. He gyt housemaid’s knee from locking the combinations on a flock of safes. Publicity! A chap like Ponzi could sell garters in Hawaii if he took the right kind of space in the hula-hula dailies, And so forth, through all world ‘ul story. Heinz spent a million peter a only goes to show that the bunk fhis 57 and along comes Edison with {en’t always used to go to sleep on. °f? The Housewife’s Scrapbook F you want the hatr rfbbons stiff, oven for a few minutes. The heat after washing them rinse them in cold water in which one table- wpoonful of sugar has been dissolved. The armmoying blaze from dripping Mat can be aveided in broiling meats By soattering a little salt over the poale, Do not throw away worn emery pa- ewer until after you have tested ite J) Qetulness by placing it in & warm Hi and Yan ® will usually restore its former rough surface and it will do @ervice for some time . To remove finger marks from nished wood use sweet oil. If wood is oiled use kerosene, var- the If the milk has soured do not throw it away, Put it in a pap and soak the silverware in it while you rest « ake out and w as usual.» They will look quite as we as though you had used silver polish. ‘ WHY NOT LET Me PROTECT YOu ARE IN A FAIR WAY TO LOSE YOUR HUSBAND MRS JOHN ote RS Hee BeBe ot, PLEASE DON'T WORRY ABOUT MY HUSBAND | HOPE You LL LAND THE LOOK AT THAT VAMP_VAMPINC, MR JOHN ! ARENT YOu AFRAID THAT VAMP WILL ‘STEAL HIM FROM You 2 By Maurice Ketten No IT'S HIS BUSINESS To VAMP HE SELLS VANPING INSURANCE POLICIES e Copyright, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co., appreciate the O you always right girl and the right man when you meet them? I some- times wonder if we appreciate our “real friends’ and when we are young and giddy do not often seck the companionship of others far ivss worthy, Young men frequently com- plain that they gave up the “right girl” for some silly little girl who danced well or in some way amused them, Now a young girl bas written that she did not care enough about the “right man" and wishes to regain his friendship. ‘Think twice before you give up your “true blue” friends. “HOPEFUL” writes: Dear Mi cent—Last sum- mer | met a young man who cared @ great deal for me, At that time | did not care particularly for him and was not always kind as | might have been to him. ‘ 1 made friends with other young men and found they were not half as true or as kind as this young mart, Now | have discovered that 1 love this man when it is too late. Except that a friend of his told me he was asking for me | have heard nothing from him, Send word through this friend that you would be glad to have him call, “M. D. C2” writes: Dear Miss Vincent—I have been going out with a young man for two months. Two weeks ago he made a date but did not keep it and | haven't heard from him since. The other night my sister met him and he told her he would meet me after bi eo next Thursday. Shall | friend- ship if he did not care enough to drop me a line or call me up on the telephone? > The young man was most dis- courteous and’I should be rather r>- luctant to see him. It was his place to write, phone or call and explain things to you, “F. LU" writes: Dear Miss Vincent—! am en- gaged to a girl whom | love very ‘much and we are contemplating marriage within the next few” months. Prior tb our engagement she showed her love for me, but as s00n as We were engaged she cooled off. We live about. one- an(-one-quarter hours’ travel apart, and although | very often leave her at a very late hour, neither she nor her parents ever invited me to stay over, although | know there ia plenty of room Courtship .and Marriage By Betty Vincent (The New York Evening World.) for me. 1 have never even been invited to dinner or to have cof- fee at their home. Do you think they are treating me squarely? When a young man is engaged te is usually invited to Sunday night luncheon or to dinner once a week. I think you are being rather shabbily treated, Are her parents cordial to you or are ther ind’ “erent and coo? “MAY” write Dear Miss Vincent—I am in love with a young man whom | hardly know. He always smiles at me and | would like to be better ac- quainted with him. How can I meet him? Do not form friendships of this sort, Unless you know some one who knows him and can youch for his character, do not form a friendship like that, The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell opyrigat, 1931, by the Press Publishing Co., IPE other eveping—oh, it hap- pens once in a white—Mr, Jarr got home from the office before Mrs, Jarr got home from shopping. In fact, she was quite late. But he never said @ word to her because married men are always kind and pa- tient. He met her at the door in a clean collar and gave her a kiss, thus carry- ing out the advice of Marmaduke Mush’s column on “Hints for Home- Loving Husbands” in the Perfeot Gentlemen's Magazine. But do you think that woman ap- preciated it? No, she did not. She was brusque, almost to the point of being rude. “Huh,” she said. “Beer on your Copyrtant, HE wom , It was a foolish matter that years, > The Spite Woman By Sophie Irene Loeb © by tho Press Publishing Co., (The New York Bening World.) » Hated with an unquenchaby: hate he Woman across the way—her nelihbor for many years caused the break, and continued for Not only in thought but in deed did she carry her venom yen her children: she bade to conduct her feud 4 e Against the children across the way. Pale “8 were carried to and fro, and bitterness grew and grew. Times without number friends tried to make peace, But the spite worm hud entered the soul of the one And she revelled in hugging it clove, Came the day when a crowd gathered near the house across the way. They called her 4nd told her that her child the woman of spite— y in the arms of the one she hated. And she had to go into the house across the way, For the frail body 'twixt’ life and ¢ h could not be moved. Days followed of anguish and misery, And the woman of spite scarce spoke ‘fo her who had spent sleepless nights To save the babe of her bitter foe Slowly the child returned tri And clung to the woman acr Whom he had learned And Une woman of spité marvelled the shores near the shadow, 3 the way love in Uhose days of tender care. at the child Who would have none of his mother in this crucial time, Phen came the awakening—the years she had wasted in courting hate, Until she had lost the capacity to love. She found that her children only tolerated her Because her bitter spirit had entered their make-up unbdidden, And even her enemy could win them away understood at last that the canker of spite grows into a monster eats the joy in life of those with whom from her. t comes in contact By this be 10 is ever a burden. This w nan learncd in sadness in the day of her remorse; tood that each can beat down spite place cubévete the trait of wilerance and forbearance. (The New York Evening Worl) breath!" “It's only home brew,” he replied “not @ kick in it—and yet you kick at ati” His eyes would have filled with tears, only he was one of the old style husbands with tough sensibill- u ‘Toere are not many of th left in these days, when a young mi waits shrinkingly until some strong and sturdy woman asks him to be hers, and prowises to support him in the Style he has been accustomed to. Edward Jarr’s eyes did not dil with tears, then. He only said, in matter of fact tones “Don't be grouchy, dear, You didn't pin your faith and forty dollars to the hope of the Caucasian race “I don't go to the races, if you lease!" aid Mrs. Jarr sharply. “I eave that fer you to do! But I do know that {f you had to go downtown and shove your way through crowds of rude and pushing women if you wanted to get a look at the things on the bargain counter, and in such stifling weather as this, you would be as good-natured about it as I am!" Then, just to show how good- natured she was, Mrs. Jarr slammed the door behind her with a bang and threw some packages she had in her hands to the @ofa across the room “And you've got a new hat! And you've had your hair pushed off your tars, so you can hear every word I say,” cried tho best of husbands joy- ously » had my hair dressed that way because the warm weather is here, hair going and, anyway, bwia are out of style at lust, thank goodness, Mr. Nosey! Mr, Nosey regarded it with great interest. “Well, I'm glad you women are go- ing back to sensible styles, I thought that way of piling hair around the ears would not lust longer than six years, It made women look like” “It made them look like they were in the fashion,” said Mrs, Jarr, "4 suppose you want me to look Uke those women who live in Arkansas and Oklahoma and who wear a little nubbin of hair on their heads and have their pictures printed with glow- ing, thankful letters to patent medi- cine people!” “My dear, toll me, as friend and husband, why do women wear thone hair puffs over the ears, or the way yours is now?" he aske And Mr rr reached over and seized the centre of her newly ar- ranged colffure up in a peak and pulled, It came ke the hair of a Bu How in iced Money provided ne anarrien Louise "Menton emoteelie of Monte Cerio,” who is about to di Hanmom, ‘with ween itso In love It wh | ean axe 18 In love tt hom ‘Dorse dialieen Musi ta. os, whose identity ant moti bath toulae 1 iy told ty Bet ne ec tar -: ng told by ner mother that Hu jell and thea wade veh to Madd te, meet * le ‘hiding in “Genom She warns. Bim sgalnet x ing 1h Marveliina ie is told by & stranger, Cy on te te ‘sad be ‘marta’ op “the Journey * Shi ies age le @ between Doris and himself, CHAPTER XXVIL aso ie’ (onriaendl in the Air Force, and whose portrait roa » Wee almost daily in the papers. 4 HAT I certainty wil.” = Wuuld she ever marry Hugh, she Hugh replied. “You have wondered, as she sat gazing blankly . never yet advised me out upon the London traffic. ’ wrongly.” PTER XXVI oa “Ah! Iam not infallible.” laughed CHAPTER XXVIII. | the master-criminal, The Sparrow’s Nest. | Then he rose, and crossing to the ADEMOI- ELLE LISETT® i telephone he inquired for the Grand met her two guests a& | Hotel, After a few minutes he spoke Vian's sm@ll but exclusive i to Mile Lisette, telling her that she restaurant in the Rue Dau } heed not go to Marseilles, and ask- Ou, and all three had a merry meal } ing her to call upon him again at together, Afterward The Sparrow 9 o'clock that night. smoked a good cigar and became H “M. Hugh has returned from the amused at the young girl's chatter. H south,” he added, “He is anxious to At last The Sparrow said: i fee you again.” “We shall all three go south tae ‘ “Tres bien, M'sieur,” answered the Morrow-—to Nice direct.” } smart Parisienno. “1 will be there, ‘To Nice!" exclaimed Lisette, “t+ But will you not both dine with me— eh? At Vian's at 7, You know tho place.” “Mile, Lisette her at Vian's,’ turning to Hugh. “Yes, I shall be delighted,” replied the young man, . So The Sparrow accepted the girl's invitation, asks us to dine with ‘The Sparrow said, On that same morning, Dorise Ranscomb had, afttr breakfast, set- tled herself to write som letters | when the mafd announced that Mr. Shrimpton wished to see her. She started at the name, It was the detective inspector from Scotland Yard who had called upon her on a previous occasion, A few moments afterward he was shown in, a tall figure in @ rough tweed suit “L really 1 ust apologize, Miss Ranse' mb fo. disturbli you, but I have ucard news of Mr. Henfrey, He has been in Marweilies. Have you heard from him?" “Not a word,” the girl replied. “And, Mr. Shrimpton, 1 am grow! very concerned, I really can't think that he tried to kill the young French- woman. Why should he? “Well, because she had connived at his father’s death. That seems to be proved.” “Then your theory is that it was an act of vengeance “Exectly, Miss Ranscomb. That is our vplnion, and a warrant being out for lis arrest, both in France and in England, we are doing all we can to get him.” “Then you are trying to convict Mr. Henfrey upon circumstantial evidence alone?” “Others have gone t circumstantial eviden instance. There was no ness of his crime.” “I fear I must allow you to continue your investigations, Mr. Shrimpton,” she said coldly “But your lover has deceived you. He was staying down jn Surrey with the girl, Miss Lambert, as his fel- low guest.” "| know that," was Dorise’a reply. “put I have since come to the con- clusion that my surmise—my jealousy if you like to call it so--s unfounded.” “ah! then you refuse to wasist jus- tice-—eh?" “No, Ldo not. But knowing nothing of the circumstances I do no see how I can assist you.” “Bug no doubt you know that Mr. Henfrey evaded us and went to Spain -that he was assisted by @ man whom we know as ‘The Sparrow. “T did not know he was in Spain,” replied the girl with truth, “But you know ‘The Sparrow,” said the detective. “You admitted that you had met him whgp I last called here.” . “I have met him,” she replied. “Where does he live?” “I refuse to give away the secrets of my friends,” she responded a tri- fle _hnughtily. “You are not a member of the wang of criminals, Miss Ranscomb," re- plied Shrimptqn “Whether I am or not I refuse to ay a word concerning any one who has been of service to me,” was her stubborn reply. And with that the man from the Criminal Investigution Department had to be content Within half an hour of the de- parture of her visitor from Scotland Yard the maid announced Mr. Sher- rard, “Your mother told me you would be alone, Dorise,” Ne said in his ed manner of affected elegance. “So L just dropped in. I hope I’m no worrying you." “Oh, not at all! replied the girl, sealing a letter which she had just written. “Mother has gone to Was- wickshire. and I'm going out to lunch with May Petheridge, an old echoo! fellow of mine.” the gallows on Crippen, for actual wit- “Oh, by the way," he remarked suddenly, “Tubby Hall, who is just back from Madrid, told me in the club last night that he'd seen your friend Henfrey in a restaurant there with a pretty French girl.” “in Madni echoed Dorise, for she had no idea of her lover's wher abouts. “He must have been mis taken surely.” “No, Tubby ts an old friend of Henfrey’s. He says that he and the girl seemed to be part y good friends. Dorise hesitated you tell me this in order tc annoyance!" whe exela Yot at a ve only t you t Tuthy said me. think no didn't iwiher's cur LovK 1 to lunch 8 jend Who was int of being married to a bed won great distinction Y: By William Le Queux. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING A mretery, Surrounds the death of Huse Heatres’« in Monte Promises to take bee to Hugh end brunt) INSTALMENTS, Jef, the son & known who asks her if she ¥ appeal Dorine ageing, is hardly eafe—is it ‘ “Yes. You will leave by the mide day train (rom the Gare de Lyon * and go wo Mme, Odette’s in the . Boulevard Gambetta, 1 may want * you. We shall follow by the, train . de luxe, It ig best that Mr, Henirey#+ is out of Paris, The Surete will cere tainly be searching for him." 3 Then, turning to Hogh, he told him, that he had better remain his guest that night, and in the anorning he would buy him another suit, hat and cont. “Phere will not be ao much risk in Nice as here in Paris,” he ded. “After all, we ougin not to bave vem- + tured out to Vian's.” Later je sat down, and after re- ferring to a pocketbook containing certain entries, he scritoled four * cryptic telegrams which were appar- ently Bourse quotations, but when ; read by their addressees were of quite a different character. These he went out and himself ‘ despatched from the office of the Grand Hot He never intrusted his telegranis of instruction to others. When he returned ten mii le‘er he took up-Le Solr, and Ing it eagerly, suddenly exclaimed: “Ah! Here it is! Manfield hes been successful and got away all right with the German tess's trinkets!” And with a laugh he handed the , paper to Lisetts, wno read aloud an account of a daring robbery In one of the best hotels In Cologne—jewele valued at a hundred thousand marks having /.aysteriously dis..ppeared, Internatfonal thieves we-e sspected, but the Cologne ponce had no clue. At last she tose and wished them bon soir. , “T shail leave the Gare de Lyon at eleven fifty-eight to-morrow and #0 direct to Mme, Odette’s in Nice,” she said. * “Yes. Remain there, If I want you I will let you know,” answered The Sparrow. ‘And then she descended the staire » and walked to her hotel, ‘ Next evening Hugh and The Spar- row, both dressed quite differently, left by the Riviera train-de-luxe. As ‘The Sparrow thought out a complete and deliberate plan. From one of his friénds in Lonteg he had had secret warning that t police, on the day he left Charine Gross, had descended upon Shapley Manor and had arrested Mrs. Bond , under a warrant applied for by the French police, and he also knew her extradition for trial in Paris had granted, Before leaving Paris he had despatched a telegram, a re- ply to which was handed him in the train when it stopped at Lyons early next morning. This decided him. He sent another telegram and then returned to where Hugh was lying half awake. When they stopped at Marseilles both men were careful not to leave the train, but continned in it, arriving at the great station of Nice in the early afternoon. ‘They left theitbags at a smal! hotel just outside the station, and proceed~ ed on foot to the Rue Rossetti, where they climbed to the flat occupled by old Giulio Cataldi, He greeted his visttore, rather timidly. After a short chat The Sparrow beran to make certain Inquiries. ‘This i a very serious and confi- dential affair, Cataldi,” he said. “T want to know the absolute truth— and I must have It.” “T know It is serious, Signore.” replied the eld man. “But IT only know one or two facts. I recognize Signor Henfrey.” “Ah! ‘Then you claimed Hugh. ‘You recognized me on that night at the Villa Ametta when you onened the door to me.” “1 do, Signore, T recollect every~ know me!” ex- thing, It {8 all_photographed ups my mem Poor Mademoiselle! You questioned her-as a gentleman wou'd, and you demanded to know about your father’s death. She pre- varicated—and” ‘Then you overheard ft? eald Hugh Yes, T listened. Was T not « Mademo'selle’s servant? On that night she had won quite a: large sum at the rooms, and she had given me five hundred francs. T heard much. T was interested. Mademol- » was my mistress whom I had ed faithfully." You wondere h why this young i] upon her at Sparrow. Yelock tea, re you not with Mademoiselle Mr. Benton when you both ht off that great coup in the Louise in Brussels?” asked ” sald the old ‘ wish to speak of that evening r “ |