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. : 7 . THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1992. : : Prominent Society Girls Who Will Assist — At Benefit for Manhattanville SARE / ed We sis M | A | TALBOT MUNDY “AUTHOR OF "THE EYE OF ZEITOON" 50% : Robert E. Johnston PEOPLE AND THINGS IN THE STORY, THE TREASURE OF SIALPORE, fabulous wealth gathered by genera Jeweled tions of maharajahs, is sought by three persons. The first is ; Adjustca Pi YASMINI, daughter of the last maharajah and a Russian princess. Toher, Regulated instead of bequeathing the secret of its hiding place, he left only a riddle for a clue. Guarantecd GUNGADHURA, a distant cousin of Yasmini, is placed on the throne in her father's place by the British authorities, who hold that a woman could not successfully rule the territory. He employs spies of all kinds to watch Yasmini, believing that she has knowledge of its whereabouts. Though he is a dissolute, unscrupulous man, he was chosen over UTIRUPA SINGH, another distant cousin, DICK BLAINE, an American mining engineer, is hired by Gungadhura to ‘ search for gold in the vicinity of Sialpore. THERESA BLAINE, his wife, strikes up a friendship with Yasmini. The latter enlists the services of TOM TRIPE, the maharajah’s English drili master, and his dog Trotters on her side of the intrigue. SIR RONALD SAMSON, the English Commissioner, is the third anxious to find the treasure, on the Government's account holding that Gungadhura might cause trouble should he find it and mistrusting Yasmini’s impetuous ways if she should be the lucky one. Fearing to eat lest Gungadhura poison het, bod gid to escape, Yasmini begs less to cdme to her own palace (where she is a prisoner). less comes with Dick, who stays with Tom Tripe while she joins Yasmini. - While Yasmmi and Tess plot the former's escape, Dick and Tom Tripe wait- ing some ‘ance away in a shed, Gungadhura arrives with three eunuchs and demands admittance, “As he shows his face at the gate Yasmini strikes at him with her knife and he suffers an ugly wound in the face, He is forcing the gate se ae elephant, heen ban by rum, chases Tripe’s dog Trotters to jate, frightening Gungadhura and his*aids away. Yasmini to admit the terrified dog. wags ly The diversion created by the drunken elephant allows the canis to esca from the palace with Dick and Tom Tripe. Yasmini persuades Ty ith her on a secret mission to a place some dutaook, bd mae MUKHUM DASS, the money lender, steals the silver tube hidden { Blaine’s cellar and soon after is found murdered, Meanaiile pei in wale go forth to take part in the ceremony for which the former left her lace. The commissioner and the other officials decide Gungadhura should a LEK solidly th ated and } ‘ ‘ 7 MISS MARGA HENNE SSO” to return every pynny lupticnte it dn any other jewelry store. tiate peony lexs than three shapes ¥ Ree wreniam WARBORTON. PretooRams: which Miss Marguret Hennessy is Soclety girls Nave promised to as-|Art Theatre. a succe chairman sist in making the benefit perform- The special ye anee will be Edythe MecCoon and Mrs. William ance of Tolstoy's “'T'sar Fyodor Ivano-|given by the Junior Auxillary of the} Jolin Warburton will distribute pro-| ADJUSTED $ vitch,” to be gtven at tne Moscow! Manhattanville Nursery Association of | grams. REGULATED pants sin demellc.teat dy ue ene, | WHITE GOLD-FILLED Jolly, Round, Cheery Santa Claus Behe oxo ut tls tetvat aay," | GUARANTEED FOR 25 YEARS Was Made So by a New York Poet)" 0.085 Just 100 Years Ago This Month.|:.::.)3:° If son want the biggest possible show for your money and tn few dol I “filled ladies? ninary visit with pastoral aff and mitre, at each hous quen in the early in his bishop's * ively engraved, the solid gold wrixt watches, and have let with white Ps inqui ¢ " is 4 : a it the child ts Seen corre car, i accra wth te ld consent la ae fasrint Betore Clement Clarke Moore Wrote Famous Verses! °\.)))".. sinat | (eeee ratchania has chosen him for her husband and has already named him Maharajah. Dick s i iy BAe Ree o is directed by Gungadhura to cease his mining operations and begi h for the treasure. The Maharajah gives Dick ; fiveFitane ohie Mikiim bed aol, gives Dick a map from the silver tube which HE Princess Yasmini caravan travelled {n company with Omanoff Singh. those of the Rajput's swarming for nied free, OF That Endeared Saint to All Children, St. Nicholas pewn res. Se tae Was Pictured as Gaunt Personage Riding a Horse, | wich St. Ni down the chi By Ruth Snyder. vary in dif shoes pie 170 NASSAU ST..NY. 2 ey “ “Twas the night before Christmas, when all through tue lou: Pear VaviGUAly A’ Park Row and Nassau Si zone Higtiness, the polo tournament. Utirupa was Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; ae Oe awhile —————————— “Word has reached | *™ong the travellers, ‘The stockings were hung by the chimney with ‘i Mina Hest : Mme frequently of late of pressure Fencvaci beatalastie Prince every night, In h_pes that St. Nicholas soon would be there sitar OM AER cruputato! peel Micner bidutit (5: teas on! Sou to: dia: parently as much’a man as he One hundred years ago, this verys month and year, the above lines were | {n turban and the comfortable Rajput epeae Ge costume—shorter by a head, but as in the shoe In t close @ secret you possess. Let \ written, Every child from then on nl ’ x gone from. their shoes and (i thal me assure you that my official |straightstanding and as agile, ‘Tees until now has heard the famous lines, | \i0/"0n eat f and hel him by| place sweets and playthings.” Protection from all ‘llégal re- | Used to watch them under the trees, But who is this St. Nicholas whol ii vote, St. Nicholas. made his . stratnt and improper treatment 18 |terruption ® Marm 1 cane of In- lnapired this poem? Wie, ia. the Santa Claus, the American St. Nicho- | /rumise that He would inform no one las, we all love and look for around postal is at your service. Further, that in On the third day, nearing Stalpore ease your secret is such as con- | toward evening, they tiled past two it became the custom of the olde 3 Christmas time? Where was he born?| U3 pee ate + cerns vitally the political rela- saceeri of Royal Horse Artillery, ““lF | WERE A MAN— SHE WAITED, BUT HE GAVE NO SIGN] oy wien? and why? Hat aee Aa, oe oe less i children tions, present or future, ‘of Sial- rawn Up on a level place beside the | MANHOOD,” s 8 ‘Ss road to let them by—un act of court- Pore, the proper person to whom | esy not unconnected with its own re- to comfde it is myscif. Should | ward. It te never a bad plan to let you wee your way to take that |'he possibly rebellious take a long only safe course, you may rest | 10K at the engines of enforcement. When he of their young relatives, whe which the River Palace stands. haps Your Highness will recognize tt.| Clement Clarke’ Moore, who wrote dren—just one knows—! ‘ covering the @ morning 4 | ‘ ‘ the above lines in his poem, “A Visit] °° i 2 grow fat and t al eee is D>) ‘Now we've all admired your] Look “5 i . lotd praise to St. Nicholas . Raeotn | ability to make men work. But] Gungadhura looked and started like | fm St. Nicholas," was born in New ad Hee \ / va theyre’ll be a new maharajah ina day|a man stung. York in 1779, in a section wher¢ m from y A “ ” “i ” « e #, many little boys and girls, descend- Nicholas} and rosi é \ é AnD lnuehen or two, and, strictly between you and If I abdicate?’ he asked. e nd girls, r Le eel a Sssured that your own interesta | nowdah beside as ene ap iB A me, ag one friend to another, there'll] ‘That would be sufficient. The as-| @"ts of the old Dutch settlers in New Belginin ay zi Bol end-—1 kn wa , % will be cared for in every way the guns of the gods! Ik ees segs be a very slight chance indeed of your} sassin would then be allowed to plead] York, lived. It was from ono of his a great white horse come ridi age fi | al (hy possible. gods were helping un!” new the! vetting a contract from the incoming] guilty to another chayge there ia Duien icieln stern in Uttle, Cer nt : ihe sous of] automobite d é io “ = " ies Nina tb r near ne legend of} . Nicholis— pirits of the inno-! dr t eigh ide ag: it he j Look lke Englis »]man to carry on your mining in the/against him, and the matter would] he e : ; ja Hi a SE dk have the honor to be, eMnAR WEN en ERE tO Mer Tita” Pal like 1 eave you trouble| te dropped. Santa Claus—as the tittle Dutch | 4 Gi l0 all at Your Highness’ obedient So think the English, ¢ and expense.” “I abdicat children grew to call him Then | ANS . ‘our § servant, thinks Samson, who sent’ for th 2 Real ood of you." “On behalf of His Majesty's Gov-| stew cee caw had Bam ban ° SWest 30%! fF wi Vy ieiea ten aed “Roland Samson, K. C. S. I."" 3o, too, perhaps Gangadhura witi| ‘Er—found anything down there?*{ernment T ocept the abdication, Slin) 90) he witis Women the Nicht ee | or Minit with Sage Tea and “That looks fair enough,” said Tess |'hink when he knows the guns are{S8mpson nodded over his shoulder} t's, please raced ' | Before Christmas''—not to be pub. | [SPS UEeeNeey” <= a ‘, Ee varaiiye when Yasmini had read the note to] °2@ne! But I know better, I never] toward the tunnel mouth Samson lald a formal written act Not yet.” of abdication on the tablo. by the|!!shed—but for the amusement of his promise the gods 0: girls # too much, but let TAanReat myehing tf! throne, Gungadhura signed it, Sam-|0W8 Htle boys and girl them make me promises, and look on her. “I dislike Samson for reasons of Open Saturday 9 A. M. to 6 P. M as ‘ a es son took it back and folded it away. But all the boys and girls in the A p 2 ; ee Ts thone are the use ef the penne | Saleca took up another mater, | "But my soni “8% J country wanted to hear about Santa Sy SUPER-VALUE any A or one guns the gods!" Sains another matter, Y r vante hi ‘Hah laughed Yasinini. He Fung of the gods: “By the way, they've arrested your] ‘‘In case of abdication by a reign-| Claus. They wanted to know how day and Saturday Only! RUGS LINOLEUMS AND CARPETS 50% Savings and More 7x9 sists: BRUSSELS $4 9) Gx vn VELVETS 34h makes love to you! Is it not 807] sumson, Setting ready to “request What a Jest for the gods if I should |Gungadhura’s abdication, had drawn | make him marry me! I could! 1] UD & contract by which Utirupa would ready-t on, improved by the ade ion of other ingredients, “Wyeth's Sage ani c butler, Chamu und the murderer of|!ng Prince, or deposition of a reign-| he looked and what he did on Christ srgrettncl o oa e ot ing Prnce,’’ sald Sampson, “the Gov. | Mas eve. So the poem went all over near a railway station. The murder-| ernment of India reserves the right tu| the world. eas) “ompound.” You could make of Samson a power in noone the property on which the] ér has squealed, as fue leans aepoint jis suet ee , Tordky the \dddies. ins America -ati ange or Bae English fort stood within his territory| say. They often do when aes 2 ee Sa OF ia altaig ese id draw this _ ! leary iis territory ‘ ,[ picture Santa ¢ 1 t Clarke ; ae But the man would weary }to te in exchange for his property to} causht. He has told who put him up| Inside his hall Gungadhura nat|pleture Santa Claus pene Fier mie with his conceit.’* be, the River Palace. It would be an g one : ree | advantage time. By hair disape ther ap- ation or two your hair bee comes beautifully darkened, glossy and Inxuriant. faded hair, though no is a Moore described him, to tt." alone for just so long as it took the | Moore ¥ fs “Guess I'll givo you this, then. 11's | Sound of the closing door to die away. Vote ones ire eee the map out of the silver tube that] Ten another door a: the Stevie thy ee s jc! But @ miniature sleigh and eight Mukhum Dass burgled from my cellar, | *ron® chair opened, and Patall, his felndoer, c With a litle old driver so tively str and quick, 7. hat American sold you," she satd,| 1 knew in a sold you, and the map and the ier asure to the English ! Down the chimney Saint Nicholas 1 know i ier came with a bound, By courier, the commission celved @ reply, It was deuced curt, | “dmuinistr it seemed to him, and veiled a sort of Mahara suggested laughter. Samson went by forced marches to 5 “The Princess Yasmini Oman- ted the High Commissioner of the off Singh," it ran, “hastens to “It isn't a good bargain," sald the return thanks for Sir Roland |latter, “He ought to give us more Samson's kind letter. She is |than that in the circumstances.” to both parties, from an ive standpoint, Sir Roland to point out to the new gathute gave it to me: with in Paysite dancing girl, entered, She 00) Jat him with pity on ~urlosity ictions to dig st ‘e's blood on {i “Too bad, Blaine!" said the Com- missioner, ‘So you even had a map of the treasure, eh? Another day or two and you'd haye forestalled us! I sup ve. You'll cote moment tt must be sign of old age, desire a r appe ¥ at once with Wyeth’s Smith's woven extra heavy, Heat yalie § “at @ ere f He was dressed alt in furs row) 4 6 AX Mi i N ST E q and Sulphur Compound, ut, however, nfraid of impris- A2tB & supremely magnificent bar-Tpose you'd « contract with Gunra- peel ave no slgn of hiy head to his foot XLV i otk mae er cuneen @ament:'or of undue preavure the beet fiuanclat tara (tae ee | anise for a hus tail eS BONBON! And his clothes were all tarnished \ w reputation f TPATS y H7e; }the best thanclal bargain this pr . 0 Gee ek bee He egh ieee diyloe : ae sine snd wt for her ret, that § nce ever had the chanvo o! 4 4 were # man | know what shes and sovt. = rw ve a <a es re ehe e In Guugadhure's presence Samuon! woud aoe H His how they twinkled 9x42 ROVAL VELVET — asin SONS 108 tie runs Matrikon wt eye 7 went quickly to the poitt Peace, Patall! 4 tulad TheDR His dimples how merry xX 4 ap tas wruugh the Hiete of Stalpore eimcrs Weep ered “ft is Kuown who iurdered Muk-|ppey are like roses, Ib Ave us making, The treasure of pore is bur ney al . hum Dass, ‘The assassin has ben caught und has confes Gungadbura’s eyes ¢ auimal’s. I fect it in] As cheeks were Not & word more. He frowned ut|ied in the River HORNS Site the letter, und read ond reread it, | Millio i! niffag at the scout and Lolding up + the paper to the light, so that sita] The High Commisstoner whistled. ry bone “Send Hiy droll little mouth was drawn send. Men do their own work! UP'in:@ bole, And the beard un Ata chin was us ace grounds! Think of {t—Millions! chs and crores! HEAVY VEL Teeth Without Plates i I Save Decayed AY Teeth, Tighton "Loose Teeth, Ti red like an m 1 know what 1 would do to an Ame ‘phat ‘ud mean Aiding 1 have here'’—- Samson reached tn | (can ur ‘any other mun who sold me white as the snow. pattern. feom which to make your select 7 A \ Badly Deceyed Teeth red R va something to the sleut—"" Seon at Garche| deco ia elit Bepals Jal Pegs H nox wide: per yar Ram very nearly had a chance to read} province, wouldn't It! It mould bef ee te, ae ertatn plece of parch. | (Copyriatt, The Bell Syndi Inc.) | The stump of a pipe he held tivht i ment—a map in fact—that was stolon| The conclusion of this excitingly from the body of Mukhum D: Teeth 7 in his teeth 5 +t through the kiothole In the door. | dificult in @ case like this to err on Per- |remantic stéry comes to-morrow. And the smoke 4€ encircled his ‘The Inst phrase was the puzz! the side of silence, Sampson, Who'll fully Extracted. Heavy Felt Base INLAID = Floor Covering 39@ | LINOLEUM $1.19 | NNN Neon nN Nima c head lke a wreath; $1.00 vsti be f é ‘ - It read ut first like 1 boast, But he | have to be told = - He had a broad fuce and a little ; tint wa ato offers 7d | A sate gd at Rassias } i an it. Aw an Orlentaliet of | “Nobody. but de Wing, Tl round belly =e ESM 2 nares aes a nPATER RECATR OD H ; have to ask him f 4s to guard ; That shuuk when he laughed like 2 Prepaid Mail Orders Filled Prometly. pier Nt hie ' ' Gistinction be bad Jong as line iver Palace rounds Tees IVE OURSELF THE APPIEST @ bowlful of jelly rf a pudiuded that hyperbole in the Kast}ate American diggin in the grounds He was chubby and plump, « always based on rome fact hidden |by contract with Gungadhura, He'll right jolly old elf, > 5 uwithe user's mind, often without the | !#ve te be stopp and I'll have to HRISTMAS OF OUR IFE And T laughed when J saw lan H faa a ss a take Some sort of explanation . : in spite of mysel?, ich knowledae amg the dk Hotter polut out to Utirupa, that Make some poor child happy es , tell for Sit ” contracts with foreigners aren't re- aS Seas - And that's*how Santa Claus looks Hibs A t ane the map of the proviner.!' | sanded cordinity to most of us—tat, round, cheerful ert exgetly au he thought as he Rory 18 No Seaman why CBEDS Read dnd ‘riding his reindeers. But it has i died tt 4 thout uuld recognize the contract between been only since he has been in Amer | é Jace av junds, the State offwas a private contract—no oMictal and cheerful and riding his eight tiny Pincers ' Par) 4 3 Rckieea: ison wontrived to reach Bialpore by Eleanor Gates cea Come in | Biter ' 3 * , Jou the morning betore the day set for and Join Originally Le came from Asla’Minor. through tl ¢ take away Lie so-culied River Pat-1 ine polo tournament, He barely ul- = stock in New at us te our dignified credi Il deposit makes anytl ONCE —take a full year to pa sin weekly ormonthly payment Then’ he was tall and thin and rode a gray horse or a white ass. It seems that in the town of Patara in Asia Minor, there lived a nobleman and his three daughters. ‘This nc man Was so poor that he was unable to furnish his daughters with suitable b With the Wrowd kere surrounding 1 himself time to shave before © Dick Blaine. wusting time and money, vald. “I've come to tell and the piver y 1 yo longer run The Rich Little Poor Boys’ Christmas Club through the Susie of Sialpors Thet would in afety of Uh ' ny ents “6 GS STRICTLY CONFIDENT! sod} 'Now-—that's good of bond given with every diamond for reflection 4 ract with Gungadhurn jx No Dues Save the Will to Make Some Child Happier; feces paniten, ae wan on tus purchase, i © What if the femous tronure of | BOL Werth the paper it's written on."* Membership Pledge and Story in polut of abandoning them when st SOLITAIRES FROM $25.00 TO $1990.09 DR Weve tatialGommavhers 1; tow ‘ Nicholas, a patron saint, heard of his The tiaear ane titeet i Sialpore wer mewhers | oy ii not be Maharajah after wae intention, Golng secretly to the house f R EE talog. ever i ag Hfoutdn of the f Patite ‘ome-| noon to-day?" Data eeidarana ona. alga be these a Bic AEE ional Evan toy “You don’t mean it! Che tc Carl® purse of gold in an open window Ff “That information is confidential, ee di This was given to the eldest daughter . . butt new will be out by nd night a Monday, December 11, Mic pore web lu An on ee re ee eee - \ H & vo : nicht a third ‘ptrec fur = ‘ “at Y b porate: Pach een WORK MONDAY WONDERS, 2 : (a f ' Adin | : ?