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TFAIiT f'ltAKK. traveler- for r. I'inilnn.ill ulino
I house, In in a tm!.. Hal nt Young-town, fu(Tfr
hk I ItiK from complete nirvnus breakdown. Die r -I
"lilt of a on li s of rnvsHrnus, im xi lii -i I 1 f
happenings: which have driven him almost to
madness.
Twit1 neforc In the last two years this ninn,
who Is rcniwried for his ni l vp. Ills free ami
easy style, his "hustling" ability, has Ucn driven almost
Insane liy worry anil tin1 inystiry tliiit surrounds him. nnd
to which neither lit- nor those with whom he is usm.k dated are
able to ills. :over the sllgntt st elew.
The entire mystery wiich may drive him to death unless
It Is expla inert -hinges nn one thing. Sometimes onc e it week,
sometimes every day fur a week omt timer once a month.
Dip bed clothes from the bed in which he Is sle, ping have
mystt i iously disappeared, and never ve t bus any trace of
them so far as he can discover - been Poind.
The r petition of the mysterious disappearance of the
bed clothes has charmed -he man from a Jolly, tare free, hard
working business man. Intent on beating the other fellow and
making a sale In face of Kll obstacles, to a half Insane, nerv
ous, trembling Individual Vet the firm which employs him
has Insisted that he shall teinnln at woik until the mystery
is solved and the cause for the disappearance of the ta d
clothes is found.
When They First Disappeared.
The first cxpt i i. nee Crane had In losing bin bed clothes
was In February, pMUt, wncn Crane was selling good in HMls
boro. a country town In Highland county, Ohio. Crane had
sold u big bill of goods to Felliel Urns., one of the leading
stores of the town, and, of course, went out In the ( veiling
with members of the firm. Harry Gordon and Irving
Smith and Kl Hough were with him until late ill the evening,
when he retired to liis I'limii lii the l'arkcr house.
The night was bitterly cold, and he lef the steam turned
oil In full force, yet, before daylight, lie Was awakened by a
sense of chilliness and discovered that he was lying on the
bid without a ntltr h of bed clothing. He was angry. He
huspcetc.l Hint some of Hie ctowd with whom lie had fore
gathered in (lie evening hiul played a joke upon him, and he
rang for the bellboy, demanding bed ch'thef. He left Hills
boro convinced that Smith and Cordon had played a Joke on
him-but lie concluded that it would be wive to say nothing
about it, for fear of arousing resentment nmi "queering" his
trade in the town.
The m x t night he made Grecnlit Id nrrt stopped at the
Harper house, forgetting all about the bed clothes. He sold
a big bill of goods to Max ( itiggc nhcliucr, nnd tliat evening
"set them up" to the boys around Onrrtr.lnrs' place for a
couple of hours, as was uls custom, before letirlng to his lied
In the hotel. He retired somewhere annul midnight, and
before 'J o'clock waked up and found that all his bed clothes
had disappeared.
Thought It Was a Joke.
Tills time he was pu.h . lie rang for more tied clothes,
and denounced tie ft Hows with w hom in' had enjoyed the
evening. He believed, molding to ids story, that he had in
advertently mentioned Ills adventure u(, Hillsboro to the.
crowd, and that some of tlieni bad decided the joke, was good
enough to repeat.
He determined to have revenge in s: mc way nn the
Jokers, and filed the matter away for futuie reference in his
mind, plotting to "get even" when lie returned to those
towns. He went his way In peace for several weeks, and had
no more adventures until in March he stopped at Die A.'ing
ton in Washington Court House. He arrived in the town
late In the evening, stepped Into the bar foi a minute after
registering, and, being tired, went direct to Ids room. He
waked up at r a. m. and the bed clothes ware gone again.
Astonished and angry, lie demanded more clothes, and, re
ceiving them, went to bed again and slept until morning.
He came downstairs and, taking the dork aside, he made
diligent Inquiries, as to wnether any of his "friends" either
from Greenfield or Hillsboro had seen the register and de
cided to repeat the joke There was no trace of any person
who ever heard of the two other adventures.
Possibility of Its Being Joke Removed.
Crane, on that trip, visited both Hillsboro and Greenfield
and sounded out his acquaintances as to the ' Joke," but they
were amazed at the Idea of such thing, end declared they
never had thought of playing any Joke upon him, much less
such a trick as exposing him to catching cold.
I'uzzled and only half satisfied, Crane returned to Cin
cinnati and went to his home In Imyton street, where he lived
with his mother and sister.
That night Die bed cl allies wa re stolen ng'aln. lie waked
up feeling cold and the clothes were gone His sister and
mother both looked suspiciously upon him when he told the
story nt breakfast, and gave hlni to understand that they
thought he had staid out too late and had hidden the clothes
himself.
Crane was angry by that time, but his anger cooled and
he commenced to worry. He could not understand It at nil,
because the stealing of the bed clothes off his own bed in his
own home seemed to preclude the possibility of any outsider
doing the deed. For several weeks he puzzled himself about
the matter, then be half began to accept his sister's theory
that he had been the guilty party and had hidden the bed
clothes while sleep walking or while under the Influence of
undue stimulants.
He was extremely enreful for several months about bis
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thinking habits. He nev r had been a hairi drinker, but he
had been In the habit of taking a : glasses of bet r before
going to bed, and, because of the mysterlou. diup . arunce of
the bed clothes, he stopp-d ecu that. I'ntil September Dure
was nothing unusual in its life, and he had one of the most
prosperous stasoiis of bis tartar. Sabs were luge and his
commissions big. so he lagan to plan to marry girl with
whom he was in love, bt Hexing that his ir.e,,n,t. at last justi
fied the step.
On Sept. to. lon.'i. fn ip was ii Lexington. Ky. He had
little business and met few people, as Lexington had Just been
added to his territory, and he retired, worn out. about pi
o'clock. H fore 1J o'clock the bed dollies had disappeared.
He confesses that on thit occasion he was frigid, tied, lie
did not ring for more be J clothes, as the night was warm,
and he li ft the lot. I without sating anything to the clerks.
Tin- loss of the bed lin ii and a handsome .overht was dis
covered and Crane was dunged ..ith pi' king them In his
trunks. He of course denied Die chnrec. hut offered to pay
the full oift price of the missing nrtiile. returning to Lex
Imrton from Frankfort to settle the claim ai d sleeping there.
That night the bed clothe disappeared again lie Invited the
hotel people to search his luggage, and
as he.
liuslness required that he remain In Lexington for several
days, and, after paying the hotel people f.. the two sets of
bed clothes, lie moved ov r to the I'h.enlx-nnd that night his
bed dothes disappeared again.
Suspects a Mysterious Enemy.
Crane by that time wis In a state of panic He concluded
that he was being pursued by sonic, mysterious enemy. Ha
they were as puzzbd
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ven thought that there was somet! .ng sul t rn itural In ti e
disappearance of the sheets and shams, and began to wond. r
about gtiosts.
m Sept. la he went to Louisville and pi I up at the Gault
house. That night Die ted dothes disappeared again, and
b" was thrown Into a condition of terror, lie h ft tils trunks
In his room at the tlault and went to sleep that night at t lie
liOUlsville hotel, further down the street, ami the bed clothes
disappeared again, lie bad io.kt.l and bet red every door
arid window of his room, nnd he found them locked and burred
again In the mornlng-but Die b. d clothes wtie gone.
He was frantic over Die mysterious affairs, but even his
wildest Imaginings could not reach a satisfactory solution of
the case. He was planning to b." married In Ot tob. r. but,
after much deliberation and consultation with the young
woman who was to become his wife, and i xplanatlon of his
strange case, they ngra. , to postpone the marriage until
tin' mystery could be solved.
There were no further oevt lopmt nts until June of loot, and
Crane was lieglnning to think of the matter as a freak of
sleep walking on his part, when one night he stopped at the
Warner house In Chillico'hc o t happened Di.it Dure was
a street carnival on and the hotel was c owded. so Crane
doubled up with ids friend. "Hud" M.'Keihaa, a grocery
salesman. They retired at II o clock, and at I o'clock " Hud "
kicked him and accused him of pulling off the covers. They
had nn argument, and finally both, fully t wake, got up to
search for Die bt .1 clot lies. They had disappeared utterly. Not
a trace of Diem could be found. Mi Kecl an was mad, tlc
i luring Crane had pi ay-d a trick on hlni. but when he saw
the frightened condition of his companion he cooled down and
tried to treat the matter as a Jest.
Bellboy Frightened by Disappearance.
It was no jest for Crane, however. II.- worried over Die
renewal of the occurrence and could not forget It. Two nights
later, in the Healy house at New V ienna, O, the bed clothes
disappeared again, and Crane, reduced to a condition of nerv
ous excitement, was rea.lv for anything. The next night he
arrived nt lllaiichester a fit subject for a hospital bed
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house, to protect him, and. to sat'sfy his guest, Hawk sent
lieu Kent, one of Die bellboys, to sit up in the room with
Crane while he slept.
At '1 o'clock In the mor ning Kent rushed downstairs, fright
ened almost white, declaring that the bed dothes were gone.
He vowed he had not fall.'n asleep, but thai he had turned his
head for a few minutes nnd shut his ( yes, and, when he looked
up, the bed clothes were gone.
That experience provd Die undoing of Crane. He went
home, and for weeks was sick with brain fever. When he
recovered he told the entire story to the head of his firm and,
because he was the best salesman they had, Die firm re
quested him to resume w irk and try to solvt the mystery.
In his effort h to find Die key to the stiauge occurrences
Crane wrote us much as he could remember of the details
of his experiences during the first year of losing bed clothes,
and the facts given herein are taken from his memoranda.
Since then Du re have been nine recuri ences of Die dls
rippearanee of bed clothes but they ceased suddenly In Oc
tober of 1.01, and Crane hud mi more troin le until May ,"i ot
this year, when he was i topping at the Clarendon in Za.ui s
ville, O. TIJf n Die bed clothes went uway suddenly.
Pinned Them to Maltrets in Vain.
Iicterniined to solve the mystery, Cruoc on the next night
slept nt the Todd house in Jackson, o., und pinned the bed
clothes to the sheet un ler him villi safely pins, crawling
into a sort of sleeping bag. lie remained attake, partly from
nervousness, until after midnight, when he dropped off Into
a slight doze. He awakened again shortly after :t o'clock
and Die bed dot lies were ull right. At Ili.V according to ids
wutch, he wakened again and the bed dollies were gone
and he was lying on Die hare nialtrt ss.
For Die next three nights in Culdwtii, Cambridge, and
New I'hiladclphla the bed clothes disappeared, and he ar
rived ill Youngstown In a condition of physical and mental
cullupse.
hospital, nnd, that night, altliougn
ill the ward, the bed clothes disap-
liioiiilng he was raving,
lie was taken to a
there were four nurses
peared from his col. and the next
being driven temporarily Insane.
Two days later he recovered sufficiently to explain to tho
physicians and tell his (nicer story. He does not know
whether he takes Die bed dothes himself and hides them,
whether be Is being pursued by some relentless enemy, deter
mined to drive him mad, or whether the bed clothes are
snatched from under him by some superhuman force.
He declares that If he llvcs-liu will solve Die mystery
and marry the girl he loves.
H
ow the Ideal Girl Should Look
COMPOSITE BUILT ON SPECIFICATIONS OBTAINED FROM EX
AMINATION OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MODELS OF NEW YORK
F.K.: are the specifications of the ideal girl of
y y 1 the future.
B fl I Ijtnguld. with long violet eyes.
JL JL I Her cheeks will be round and Du re will he
a dimple In her chin.
Slightly above medium height, she will be
plump, but not fat.
IbT forehead will bt high, and she will be
inclined to be Intellectual.
An Italian artist. Hector tie Jurio. has discovered the ideal
girl. Her features arc found in real life. She is a composite
picture. She is an Ideal gathered from the best features of
the best looking girls in the world. She Is a group as it
were of the seven prettiest girls in the universe. She com
bines the nose of one, with the mouth of another, and the
throat of a third, the eyes of u fourth, the dimples of a fifth,
the chin of a sixth, und the forehead of u sevtiith. She is
a composite ideal.
Changes to American Ideals.
Win n Mr. tie Jurio caino to this country he saw at once
the necessity of changing his models. He had worked with
his eyes upon Die old masters, and his pictures were classics.
They were severe. They were hard in feature ami rigid ill
outline. They were too sharp. They were too unyielding.
The Minervas. the Junos, and the Vtnuses which he drew
wire not the lovable, soft type of today. He saw that be
would have to recreate Ids Ideals.
So In entered an art school, and for awhile he studied
there, und lure his model became, not the statues of the art
galleries, but the living, breathing American girl. No longer
did the Venus de Milt) seem to him the prettiest girl in the
world of art. His plcal became the soft faced American girl.
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Gibson Girl Near his Ideal.
" 1 think of all the girls now being drawn," he says. " the
Gibson girl Is the nearest the Idntl. She Is feminine and
jiretty. She is big and handsome, but with It all she does
not lose her girlish lines. She is far from being museuluit .
Not even her height and her erect bearing make her anything
but feminine."
Mr. tie Jurio made a study of the heads of all the best
models In New York. ' And. In doing this, he took pains to
select no one articular typo. He took the seven prcttitst
girls In New York in the model life, and was particular to
sec that they wa re not only beautiful but varlt d. One of the
models was a Canadian-American girl. She had the high,
haughty carriages of the Fnglish girl. Another was .t south
ern girl, with the soft, round mouth of the girl of the south,
with the dimples In the chin. In selecting the others he took
the California girl, a girl from the middle wast, a girl from
the French type, with her iKitriti.in nose and handsome, oval
(becks. He studied Ids types well, ami from them he made
his Ideal.
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How Ideal Will Be Made.
The Ideal girl is to be. to a great extent, tho self-made
girl. She will not tie horn as an ideal, nor will idealism be
forced upon In r. Hlie will grow into the Ideal, and the state of
utter btauty will be largely dependent upon herself. She will
become ideal by stages. She will realize lit r beautiful possi
bilities and will work for them.
Ami here, according to this artist, are the points which she
will possess:
She will be (llbsonost)ue In type, like the Gibson girls, but
n little different. She will be younger than the oldest Gibson
girls, hut a great deal more modern. She will show many of
the best features of the newer types of girl.
Her complexion will be the newest thing ubout her. It
will not be a pcachcs-and-iTcani complexion. Its hue will
be more on the olive. The ideal girl, with the olive skin, will
last a long time. Her skin will Hctually grow more beautiful
as she grows older. At Hi) it will be perfectly smooth, per
fectly char, without flaw or blemish of any kind, lovely as
the petals of it cream rose.
The peaches-and-creain girl, the girl who is perfectly
fair in real is one whose complexion is not always good,
and when it is bud It Is bad Indeed. It fades and it changes,
and it becomes gray and wilted. But the olive skinned girl
endures forever.
how to Get Olive Complexion.
A physical cullurisl. tt aching some golf girls how to get
t lit olive compluxion. udviscd t lit in to play the game without
a hat. " You will not feel the sun so much," said he, "und
your color will be better."
"The hit.'' said he. "shades the forehead and keeps It
from burning. It also protects the cheek bones. It preserves
tile color of the upper part of the face, hut havts the lower
XII t exposed to the uclion of I lit dements.
" And what is the r. -ul!? When a golf girl takes off In r
hat she r. veals her face, which has been exposed In ci rt.tiii
ways and protected In other ways. Across Die forehead
and on the upper i t.. . k boms slit1 is a cream white, often a
pure milk win!.. lint the lower part of the face is burnt .1
' scarlet, lbr nose is bright red; her chin Is a vivid poppy;
In r neck and cheeks are all burned a bright shade. Across
the middle of her face tin re is u divided line, and above this
she is a tr. um white. Hlie is disligui t t.
"And the same with her hair. It is protected under b. i
hat, while the back of le r hair Is burned to a liiit shad' .
She is sHilled. and she must wait until midw inter bt fore she
w ill look nice again."
Olive Complexion Made to Order.
There is a story told this London season of a society
beauty who desired an olive skin. Her face wus tanned In
spots, and her complexion was not good. " I Khali stain it
olive," saltl she.
Getting a jar of cold cream, she rubbed a little vegetable
rouge Into it and, when it was all a light brown, she upplled
It generously to her face. And then into this she rubbed an
olive face powder. The result was a deep olive skin, a lovely
lone which went well Willi every color under the sun. That
night she made her bow ut court, dressed In creamy white,
with her ruddy olive skin showing above the gloss of her gown.
She made a great sensation and the next day the papers were
tilled with glowing accounts of l.tr beauty.
The eyes of the coming ideal girl will be languid eyes. They
will he deep and not too alert. The brilliant questioning type
will disappear from the world of art and the languid, content
ed tpe will come In. The girl who was once admired, the wide
awake gill, the girl who-io soul was In her eyes, Inquisitive,
inquiring, and eager, w ill disappear and In her place will come
a more beautiful type.
The intellectual girl will go. ton, the girl with educated
eyes und a cold gaze. The languid eyes arc the restful eyes,
they are the eyes of the girl who is not always anxious to bo
on the go. They are the t yes of the gill who Is not always
ambitious, not always envious, not always wanting this or
that. They are the dreamy, contented cyt of tniiiance, the
cis that can look at you and enjoy you. They are not always
thinking of something better than you arc.
Eyes Can Be Made Beautiful.
' How can a girl make her eyes beautiful?'1 asked a woman
of a painter. " She cannot paint them, but she can remodel
Hi. in and change lit r thoughts so us to redder them."
A woman can rctnlor her eyes by thinking beautiful
thoughts. Angry thoughts make Die t yes dark and snappy.
Hull thoughts make them pule. In maturity, when cares come.
Die eye grow Into a brown. When one Is happy they are
violet. Happy, tranquil thoughts will make the eyes a deep,
beautiful violet, and health will tnrow Just the rigid amount
of shadow under them.
Here are the things which Artist de Jurio says will distin
guish the fat e uf the coming ideal woman:
" Her fort head will 'je high, smooth, creamy in tone, and
of the Intellectual kind.
" Her eyes will be tb t p and dreamy. Possibly they will
be of the lb bit w type. Her eyes will shade Into vloh t.
The chin of the ideal girl will be beautifully rounded. It will
not be sharp nor hard nor masculine. It will be curved and
lht.re will le always a certain childish delicacy about it.
It will be dimpbd.
" The skin of the ideal woman w ill be creamy and even
In tone, with a tendency toward an olive.
"The contour of the face will be Gibsonesque, soft arid
round, with nothing of the musi,iino. In it."
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