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Use Common
Sense When
You Meet
Strangers
By DOROTHY D1X.
It la most unfortunate that In order
In warn young, Ignorant and unsophistic
ated girl against certain perils that beget
them it is necessary to overestimate the
danger and lay unnecessary emphasis
i:pon it. They have
not Judgment
nough to dis-
riminate tn dlf
lerent cases, . and
ho to protect them
you must warn
them against the
hazard entirely, aa
you would keep a
child from falling
out of the window
by telling Jt to atay
in the middle of
the room.
For instance. It
I a well known
fact that there, are
gentle, gray-haired,
motherly looking
t.
'.'N
as
da women, ap
parently the very essence of resoectabll
it v, who travel about on boata and
trains for the sole purpose of scraping
Acquaintance with pretty young country
girls going to the cities to seek employ
ment. It is the horrible business of these
harpies to gain the confidence ot these
i-arpies 10 pun
i.frls, and to t
p titer until tl
1 1.1.4 r ovifl t till a
benevolently offer them
they can frnd something
to lure the poor Innocent
into places of Infany, from which many of
them never escape.
For thla reason the welfare societies
for young girls, the Traveler's Aid eo
clet' and every mothar who Is w'.ae to
tti. ilnrlr . , nf . a iifi.lrf tmfiv... n
i lie WE., n a u . , . 1 ' J v. V. I w, , 1 1 b. ....
the minds-of girls the (larger of making
chance aoquaintance when they are
travelling with any wonan, no matter
how much like a mother ' she clipears.
iTrice, when a benevolent old lady speaks
iTfrice, when
via young
' aibbed, an
i e girl son
girl she is apt to be severely.
ind should she artlessly offer
somo peppermint drops the girl
would decline, because fchc would be aus
picious of being drugged. Nor, If the old
lady should faint, would the girl rush to
lier rescue, because she 'has been told
that that is a favorite trick. " '
Now, obviously, moat of the garrulous
old ladles' who are travelling about, and
who would like to fall Into conversation
with the girl they meet, and who re
mind them of their own granddaughters,
are guileless and harmless as babes. But
how la the girl to know which old lady
i a leader In the church In Bird Center
bi.d which la a white blaver? She dem't
.tell, and so- in the interest of her own
tafetv sKe has to oe taught to be-sus
picious of, all strange women.
Precise! the same thing lato 1 said
about the.girl'a dealings with men. The
r.reat majority of men are.cnivs.lrous
toward women, and a pirl wojIi! be as
tate with them as "Miw would with her
own brothr. But there Is that terrible
minority who- are wolves 1n shep'p cloth
ing, and who ruthlessly prey on inno
ence. and to prote?t herself against
them the girl has to be taught to 'ware
every etrange man
She ha3 to be taught the danger of what
deems an Innocent flirtation; not to pick
up acquaintances who have not been prop
crly Introduced and vouched for: not to
i nicr Into conversation with men she ac
Idcntiy meets; not to mi or unun wim
r accept courtesies from men she doesn't
now. This strenuous rule often brings
about Idiotic and ridiculous results, as In
the case of a kind-hearted ana police
gentleman 1 know, who seeing a young
wnmRn having a 350 hat about to Tie
melted down Into a pulp In a sudden
shower, and mindful of how hi. own wife
would feel about such a catactrophe, gal-
ntly proffered his umbrella to the lady.
Ir, ' khe exclaimed, haughtily. "I will
11 the police If you speak to me again."
RtiU another man of most lnnoetnt In
(itlon who aeixed a girl ry tne arm ana
tched her from sudden death under
the wheola of an automobile got "Wretch!
Iow dare you!" for hla pains.
Of coui-Be. this is carrying thn -matter
tn a xllly extreme. Still, in order to pro
ie t the ewe lamb against the wolves it
lms been necessary to engender a distrust
of all wolves tn her confiding breast.
But while these swoeping rules apply
to young glils, women of mature age are
not bound by them, and they shculd have
enough Intelligence and knowledge of the
world to know when ana where to make
exceptions, and to be able to dlscrlminats
between men who are deep, dtay-eyed
villians and "men who are companionable,
and who Icok upon women, not from the
point of sex, but as fellow human beings.
This point of view 1 emphc sired by
the experience cf a young woman of my
acquaintance, a woman of 32 years and
a level -headed business woman, who spent
a recent Sunday afternoon In the part.
i middle-aged man occupied the other
nd of .the bench on which she sat, and
ifter a while made some casual rcmar't
ibout the parsing throng. She aapwered
n thn iwiiie spirit, and they drifted into
i most Interesting conversation (hat they
olh eiioved. and thry parted without the
nan maUinp the slirhtert attempt te finj
nit wh ) the young woman was.
It was ll aa Innocent .ind friendly and
m personal as two -ships that I all each
ther as they pnsa at sea, but the young
woman's fxmlly gave her a terrific scold
ng when they 1 tard of It, and considered
hat sho had committed a grave ii.dlacre
ion. ThU It utter i:onncn. A woman of 33
-ears has enough ense to taVti care of
lersolf unless she la an imbecile, and
(hould not be allowed o-.it at all. Also a
justness vvmnn learns mighty quickly
o sis man up and tell what Ms inten-
ions arJ, even Iwfore he knows himself.
tVhatevei the society woman and tha
lome-keeptng woman may think obout It.
he w.-man who work with men soon
'inds out that every man Isn't trying to
!llrt with every woman, and that no
ftoman ha auttident attraction to make
rien pursue her after she stuvvs them
that she doesn't wish to be pursued.
After all, the beat chaperon in" tha
world is good, hard, horse sent. The
woman who uei that crn size up any
situation, and tread the sale path between
ffudca: and piudery;
fay
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Synopsis of frevioua Chapter.
Aftor the tragic death of John Ames
bury, his prostrated wlte, one of Amer
ica's greatest beauties, die". At her death
Prof j titililier. an agent of tfta Intereau
kidnaps tne beaut It ul -J-yar-old . baby
girl and brings her up la a paradise
where she sees no man. but thinas ane
ia taught by angels who Instruct her for
ner mission to rerorm tne worm. At tne
age of 18 she is suddenly thrust Into the
world where agents of the Interests are i
ready to pretend to find her.
ine onq to l eel the toss of the Utile 1
Amesbury girl most, after she had been
spirited away by tiie interests, was
loinmy Barclay.
Fifteen yea.a later Tommy goes to the
AdlroiidacKs. The Interests are responsi
ble for the trip. Hy accident he Is the first
to meet the little Amesbury girl, as ahe
come forth from her paradise as Celestia
the girl from heaven. Neither Tommy nor
Celestia recognizes each other. Tommy
finds it an easy matter to rescue Celestia
from I'rof. ' Bttlliter and they hide in
the mountaina; later they are pursued
by Btllllter and escape to an Island where
they spend the night.
That night. Ftllllter, following his In
dian guide, reaches the. Island, found
Celestia and Tommy, but did not disturb
them. In the morning tommy goes for a
Swim. During hla absence Btllllter at
tempts to steal Celestia, who runs to
Tommy for help, followed by Btllllter.
The latter at once realises Tommy's pre
dicament. He takea advantage of It by
taking not only C'etestla's, but Tommy's
clothes. Btllllter reaches Four Corners
with Celestia last In time to catch an
express for New Tork, there he places
Celestia in Bellevue hospital, where her
sanity U proven by the authorities.
Tommy reaches Bellevue Just before Btll
liter'a departure.
Tommy- s first aim waa to get Celestia
away from Btllllter. After they leave
Bellevue Tommy Is unable to get any
hotel to take Celestia in owing to her
costume. But later n persuanea his
lathar to keen her. When he goes out
to the taxi he finds her gone. She falls
Into the hands of white slavers, hut
escspes and goes to live with a poor fam
II v by the name of Douglas. When their
son Freddie returns home he finds right
In his own house. Celestia. the girl for
which the underworld haa offered a re
ward that he hoped to get.
SIXTH EPISODE.
As for the man. Orady, ahe had looked
Into his eyes Just once, and he, too, be
lieved. But dark thoughts tormented him.
There weie upon hla conscience, for one
tad just been born In him. many sins
ot hard-heartedness. brutality and work.
In that building there was not one girt
whoae life he might not have lightened a
little If It had pleased him. It had
pleased him to do the reverse. Suddenly
h felt moved to take the whole world
Into hl.i confidence, and to promise
amends to those whom he had injured.
"Girls," he said, In a loud, strong voice.
"Just one or two words, please. I don't
know what the talk we've been listening
to haa done to you. But It got ma. I
charged this I don't know whether to
aay lady or whether o say angel a big
price for the privilege of speaking to you
for ten minutes. I want to say. first of
all, that it won't coat hr a cent. And If
ahe needs money to carry on her good
work in this world ahe can have my
pile. But that's not all I've got to aay.
Be a little patient. Don't crowd Mr ao.
If I'm aay Judge ot faoea she won't go
without letting the last least one of you
touch her hand. Girls, I've been a slave
driver ao long that I cot hardened to the
work. If there was ever any kldneas In
ma It seemed to me that I had to atamp
It out to get results. I've driven you and
driven you till you hat me and fear
me. and till you can't rail your soul
your own. I might have been different
and got the work done Just the same.
But I wasn't. Well. I'm going to be. Sha
said things would get better some time.
They're better right this minute. Can't
you feel the difference? Can't ou feel
that I m sorry for the things I've said
The
Celestia comforts
and dona to you? I te") you I'm ashamed.
I don't know what fcfteps jne from sink
ing down through the floor. Tho hard
est things I've got to say comei next
eome of you girls know me for a hard,
cold-hearted man. Is there any glr' here
who can aay worse than that of me?"
He paused a If waiting for a reply.
Then he went oni
"Well, there Is one gill here who could
say worse than that if me. If she would.
But ahe won't. She won't squeal. Bo I'll
have to do the quelling. Molly Bryanl
Step forward please. Molly Bryan. I've
something to say to you that I want all
your friends and well-wishers to hear."
Very slowly a slender plrl, with tragic
haunted dark, eyes came forward.
Stand alongalda of me, Molly, anU turn
so's everybody can aoe you. Some of
you," he went on, "have known Molly a
long time. Was there ever a better hearted
friend, or a cheerful worker? Look at
poor Molly now! She looks aa sad as the
East river on a winter Cay. It's no news
to any of you or I wouldn't go into it.
But Molly a got no big brother, or na
heavy fisted father to look after her.
All aha bad was herself to look after
herself and a heart that truateU every
body. And you know as well aa I do, as
well aa ahe does, what's coma over her
to make here look the way they do. Look
here-"
He took a much crumpled paper from
hla breast pocket.
"Girls," he said, "this here la a license
for me and Molly to get married. It s
four months old now, but U'a a perfectly
good license; la perfect good working
order. I fooled her -vlth It. That what
I dJd-"
He turned abruptly to the girl at his
de.
"I don't ask you to f.rglva i.-ie now,
Molly, not this moment I don't, not till
I've mado food with you by kind words
and thoughtful deeds. But I do ask you
to step out wtth me right now to the
office of the nereat magistrate, and
nd lit always be good to you."
Celestia gtepped swiftly forward, took
the gtrl'e thin, pretty f-ice between her
two hands and klaaed hi.
"I know you'll be happy." she raid.
After Celeetla. many others, some cry
ing with excitement, oame forward to
kUs Molly and wish her well. And then
the manager made Molly take hi arm.
and he led her the length of the room,
looking proud and manly, and out of the
door. They paased very close to Tommy,
and, of course, he could have stopped
them and told them about the two young
men smoking cigarettes, but he didn't.
The scene which he had just witnessed
seemed to have wiped the matter froan
hla mind. As for C'celestla. she seemed
to have disappeared under a wave of
glils, and Tommy turned on bis heel and
moved toward the door with the Intention
of waiting fur her outside the building
where she had told him to wait. He had
bla hand on the door knob, and had
started to pull the heavy xlnc-awathed
door open, when from tho outskirts of the
crowd came a very young, sick-looking
girl said suddenly In a loud, piercing
voice:
"I smell smoke! I smell smoke!"
There a a dead silence. And then
another voice .poke.
"It's coming through the flooi. Look
at It! Look at It!"
Tommv, a sudden great dread in his
heart, hurried toward Celestia. Ha hadlj
travsrsea nair tne length of the room
when 'he girl who bad spoken first
creamed at the top of Iwr lung, 'Fire!
Fire! "
Other took up the try. and upon the
Instant pandemonium broke louse Wild
Most Imposing Motion
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the weeping gifu
with fear nnd excitement, girl ran thl
way and that, screaming and howling.
BewiiiK machine were overturned, girls
fell anl were trampled on In the ruah
for tho ioor, the room'a sole exit Tommy
waa almost knocked down.
There waa no longer any doubt that
the building was really on fire. Just
how the smoke got Into the sewing ma
chine room you could not see, but there
was plenty of It, enough to make Tommy
cough and to fill his eve with tear.
Celestia. after a desperate attempt to
calm the girls, had not moved. It seemed
almont aa It she was waiting for Tommy
to come and get her.
"Come, Celestia," he said, "let's - get
out of this."
As he spoke billow of amoke shot up
between two planks, and for the first
time the crackling of burning wood could
be heard.
By this time really horrible thing were
ore
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happening at the pine-bound door., It
opened Inward. The first girl to' reach
It had flung herself against It, of course,'
and tried to make It open outward. That
same girl now looked aa If she wa try
ing to climb over the top of It. The pres
sure of her frenxied companions had lifted
her head and shoulder above tl.em, and
It was doubtful If there waa any more
lire lert in her. The noise those poor
girls made waa frightful. They were
man'acal with terror. They screamed
that the door had been locked, they
yelped, they howled like . wolves; they
bit, scratched, hit and pushed, pushed,
pushed to get at that door.
(To Be Continued Tomorrow.)
.Keep on Thinking.
Cholly Before T met you I thought of
nothing but making money.
Mhel Well, don't stop. Father Is not
as rich as people think! Philadelphia
Kecord.
Muscle for Les
Good muscle and good brain are a combi
nation that will beat the world. There is
The Shredded Wheat Company. Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Mysteries of Science and Nature
Discovery of Ancestor of the Horse in California Brings
Up the Whole History of the Strangely Suggestive
Development of the Men's Most Faithful Slave ' .
By OARUETT P. RKRVIKS.
A recent dispatch from California tell
cf the discovery In the southern Hlerra
Nevada mountains. In atrata of the
Miocene age, of a fomll three-toed horse,
which la described
as a long-sought
"mieslng link'' In
the evolution of
the horee.
While there In
evidently some
mintake here, aa
I shall presently
thaw, nevertheless
the discovery Is of
deep Interest.. If
lor no other reason
than that It may
aerve to call gen
eral attention te
the marvelloita his
tory, which ex
ploration of the rocks of the earth's erunt
hue brought to llfc'ht, of the origin and
development of the. horae from a little
animal no bigger than a fox, which lived,
some two or three million ycra sgo. In
the far western parta of our country.
If the fossil Just discovered in Cali
fornia had five toea Instead of three it
would be, Indeed, a muuMnc link and one
that paleontologists have long been. de
sirous to find, for It la generally believed
among them that the horse once naa an
ancestor with five toes, and they know
that It had one with four toes, because
a specimen of auch a one, found In Wyo
ming, exists and can be seen In the Amer
ican Museum of Natural History.
The story of how the original toes of
imjj
Advice to Lovelorn
By HATrnXTTJ YAX&TAJC
The fltaaje.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I have a daughter
of 10: ahe has been working In factories
for alx years. Hhe haa gotten very thin
and nervous and tired of working In this
way Hhe la now doing everything poral
Me to regain her health, also having her
voice cultivated. Her teacher haa already
promised her a ten-week-engagement aa
chorus girl. I am In favor nf it. but my
huanand (her step-rather) is mucn op
posed. He would rather have her be a
typewriter or telephone girl, but she does
not 'Ike either. Now, what shall T do?
!et her have her way. or talk her out
of it'.' Klndlv arivtm a
FBRFLKXED MOTHEK.
A self-respecting girl who ha ability
and the willingness to work ran keep her
head and aave her dignity and reputation
In almost any condition of labor. Don't
force your daughter to take up uncon
genial work. Htenographere and telephone
operatora have their temptattone. top, A
girt who haa a good voire and the desire
to succeed on the stage would be very
tool In h to lone art opportunity such a
your daughter' teacher can offer her.
Von Weald Trohahiy Be Happy.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I anf 41 years of
age and five year ago my wife died and
left mo with three children. Lately a
lady friend whose age ia 12 yearn, has
been trying to make love to me, and fro
nuently talked marriage, saying that if
she should ever become my wife she would
take goo care of my children. She
see ma to be honest and all her people
eeem well pleaead. Now I like the girl
but my only objection la the difference
between out ages. LAWRENCE B. W.
Cilice the girl love you and ahows it so
frnnlily, I think you are quarreling with
your good fortune In heidtatlng(to make
her your wife If you love her. Don't do
her the inJuatlce of marrying her to get
a houfcekeeper nr a governess for your
children. If you really love her you will
be able to bridge the gap between your
ages.
iu " rJ
mors digestible, brain-making,
muscle - building material in
than in beef-steak or eggs. Wise old Mother
Nature made the whole wheat the most, per
fect food given to man, and along came an
American genius and made it digestible by
steam-cooking, shredding and baking it. The
tasty, delicious crispness of the baked wheat
pleases the palate and delights the stomach
after the heavy foods of winter. The food for
the man who wants to win wholesome, health
ful, nourishing. Delicious for breakfast with
milk or cream, or for any meal with berries or
fruits.
the horse were gradually changed lato
a "hoof," while the animal grew larger,
stronger, swifter and mora graceful. Is
aa fascinating a a fairy tale and at the
same time aa authentic and uncontra
dlrtable aa a Roman monument. It la.
perhaps, the completest and most con
vincing chapter In the book of evolution.
Moreover. It Is distinctively an American
contribution to evolutionary history, for
the "eohlppus," the four-toed ancestor
of the horse, as well as the "protorohlp
pus." the "mesohlppus" and the nrotohlp--pus"
(all of which had several toee. and
an Increasing tendency to merge them
into one, have all been found In the rock "
strata of the great west.
If our five toea. or fingers, should by
a process of evolution be merged Into a
I single one. the nails at the same time
i blending Into a uniform horny covering
or hoof, the result would be what hap
pened to the horse, as he changed from
hla early am eetra) forms. Ixwiklng at '
this evolution, In Ita successive i steps,
shown In the A merles n museum, one la
Irresistibly Impressed with a feeling that
some guiding purpose controlled It. ah1
one can understand the thought that this
purpose arose like a soaring ambition In '
the mind of the little eohlppus, aa poet
ically expressed by Mrs Stetson (quoted
by Mr. Frederic A. I.ui-as In hla "Ani
mals of the Taat"):
""aid the Httle eohlppus.
I am going to be a horae.
And on my middle finger nails
. To rune my earthly course."
Of course, the changes undergone in
the structure of the feet were not the'
only onea that the progenitor of the
liorse BK)rnpnrm. Alirrw uric mwiij .
othere, onapleuou among which wa
the evolution of the teeth, fitting the
animal to live on the grassy plains,
where Its further development wa to
occur, and where the speed Insured by
the form of Ui hoof wa easentlal to the
preservation of this brave but Inoffensive
animal.
When the eohlppus began hi aspiring
course there were no men, the coming
friends, companion and teachers nf hla
descendants, yet In existence. But our
progenitors, too, had made their appear
ar.ee upon the planet, although not , In a
shape externally recognisable as human,
and the two geanealogical lines,, so. widely
dltferent and yet destined to be o in
timately associated, ran their separate
courses upward toward their Invisible
meeting point. At last when th pos
terity of the eohlppus had become true
noreea, mtviii, airuiig. irBumuie, is imui,
companionable, diligent and tireless, they
were encountered, on the fields of tbla
world, by the big-brained brood of that
still unrecognised brute ancestor of man,
who caught the gleaming spark of mental
fire, which nickered. Inefficient In the
bony skull of some huge ape-like crea
ture,' and blew It into a flame that wa
to light the world. '
To thl predestined encounter the as
piration of the little eohlppus had ld
his race. HI highly organised and high
spirited descendants quitted their wild
life at the call of a still . nobler, more
masterful, Intelligence than theirs, and
became the willing subjects ot man, con
tent to be subordinate in the empire of
liiiiin-power. and never seeking to es
cape from It, but. on the Contrary gain
ing, through their aubmlsslon, an added
acceleration to their evolution, for th
nobler form that the horse has taken
under human care and training he could
never have attained by the simple opera
tion of nature' tendencies. The horse
aa he Is today la partly the product of
human Intelligence gulldlng the blind
force of life'.
oney
Wheat