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Hunting a Husband
Maynard Fails to Get the Widow's Letter Dismissing Him
and She is Greatly Mortified.
.' ' By Virginia Terhune Van DeWater.
I Beatrice was up and at work early on
fthe" morning after Helen's call, altering
gown that she bad. worn a tew, times
elnce 4t was made. She would not wear
i the! costume In which she had appeared
lat that first dinner, a few weeks ago
the dinner at which she had met Henry
jltlahchard. Her friend , would remember,
I the! dress, and every woman had a dread
lot making it possible for another woman
to say truthfully, "There's that same
old frock again 1"
( So Beatrice worked deftly at a soft
black, crepe" de Chine which' had been
fashioned with a lace yolk and sleeves.
! These she removed producing the de
collete, effeot she desired. Folds of chlf
(ton at the shoulders and sleeves reaching
jto the elbows, finished with a graceful
rufle of black lace, threw Into relief her
'fair skin. She knew that she need not be
wshamed of. her appearance as she tried
on the completed product. By artificial
light he effect would be especially good.
Lata in the afternoon came a box
emblazoned with the name of a fash
ionable florist. In It was. a heap, of
fragile, delicately-tinted orchids. Accom
panying the box was a-note. Beatrice
gazed at the flowers and read the note
with the naive delight of 'a girl in her
teens. )
"MyiiDear Child Away again on busi
snesy .to Chicago this-time so -1, , shan't
teee yeu until a week from Saturday.
Helen, 'has told me of her dinner com
pany tonight Please wear these flow
ers,' then and think once in a while
Iduin the evening of the dinner at
(which I met you, and of your old friend
HENRY D. BLANCHARD."
i "Oh, he is a dear0"-, exclaimed -the
widovy, It Is, strange, how a .little con
crete evidence of affection will call forth
'more real evidence' of affection from a
woman than do unfailing self-sacrifice
land unselfish devotion. A pessimist has
ideclared that "tact and an open purse
(will win any woman."
As with all cynical maxims, there are
many exceptions to this one. Neverthe
less, a grain of truth lurks within it.
Unobtrusive fidelity may pass unnoticed
and unpraised by its object. While a gift
bestowed, or an extravagance done in a
woman's honor will bring tears of joy
to. her eyes and exclamations at gratl
tude to her lips. If more husbands ap
preciated this fact they would not forget
to carry home the occasional box of
j candy or basket of fruit which seems to
an unthinking wife to denote greater de
votion than do weeks of uncomplaining
and wearing toil for wife and children.
This day was desined.to be one of aurt
pries for Beatrice Minor, and not all of
them- were pleasant. At 6 o'clock the
postman brought her a letter bearing a
special- delivery stamp. The envelope
was crossed and -disfigures by directions
and redirections in red, ink. It had. been
addressed fn' haste and to the number
of her street on the east side instead of
the west side of town. The postmark was
that of another city and had been
ttamped early the preceding morning.
The writing was Maynard's. Tearing the
iletter open Beatrice read: , ,
"Dead Lady An unsuccessful attempt
ito catch you by phone disappointed me
I in my hope of hearing your voice this
.morning. I am leaving hurriedly for the
west on a trip as tiresome as it is im
portant, 'and on two hours' notice. For
i give my ' inability to spend- this evening
with you and try to believe that I shall
?be wfth you In spirit Hastily, but al
ways yours, , ROBERT MATNARD."
"Then," "said Beatrice slowly to herself
in the silence cf , her own , room; "he
never receive my letter." - ' ,
Worried and chagrined, she called up
the district messenger office and asked to
have the matter "of the delivery of. her
note investigated. She learned that the
letter she had sent by the messenger boy
the morning before had been delivered
at Robert Maynard's office 'and signed
for by one of his clerks'.
What could she do? It was out of the
question lor. her to ask Maynard's clerk
toi return the letter to her, fon that
would place her In an embarrassing po
sition and the man would have no right
to comply with her request. Moreover,
ehe wished Robert 'to receive the frigid
little note; ' she wanted him to under
stand that she meant to have nothing
more to do with him. And yet here
he was writing to her, all unconscious
that th bomb that was lying in a dainty
em-elope in New York. Or, perhaps his
,mail would be forwarded to him.' Well,
ehe hoped it would be, and at once,
i Her'-futile impatience at the thought
;tbat her feminine thunderbolt had, ap
, parently, ben dissipated into thin air,
' was increased to helpless anger and con
I sternation when,' an hour after the ar
rival of the letter a . five-pound box of
her favorite chocolates was left at the
door, and, on opening the parcel, she
found Maynard's card inside. Before
leaving town he had evidently directed
the confectioner toesend the bonbons to
day. Had he been aware of her deter
mination to break with him and desired
te punish her for writing the letter which
he had not received, he could not have
devised a wiser or more effectual course
than that which he was pursuing in his
endeavor to please her.
'The woman .eyed the ' chocolates dis
tastefully. "They would choke me if. I
tried to eat them!" she exclaimed. "The
children like them, of course, but such
a feast, would make them ill for a week.
What shall I do with them?"
The thought of taking them over to
Helen flitted through her mind, but she
dismissed it as absurd. Women do not
give each other five-pound boxes of candy
at tl a pound, she reflected, and Helen
would be sure to suspect that there was
some reason for such a sudden and un
precedented exhibition of generosity. No,
she would Just put tfce box away for a
few days and try to forget the matter.
With which resolution she suited the ac
tion the word, turning the key In the
lock of the drawer in which she depos
ited the sweetmeats as if this action
would also turn a key on her thoughts.
"I'm. not going to think of them nor of
the sender again tonight!" she vowed.
But she had' made this decision without
taking Into consideration, a lover's in
genuityespecially with" a TDver as per
sistent and -generous as was. Robert May
hard. Ten "minutes later Mary knocked
at her door and Informed her that a cer
tain florist had Just telephoned to say
that a gentleman had left directions with
him to send Mrs. Minor flowers three
times a week, and should he deliver them
iu the mornings or afternoons? .When
Beatrice found herself coloring confus
edly under the maid's curious gaze she
replied curtly, , "In the atternoons!" and
felt that the climax of her endurance
had been reached. For was not a man
whom, she had declared both to herself
and .to Helen, she disliked sending tho
flowers and candy as , though he were
certain of her favor, and fatal item
was he hot utterly. Inaccessible by letter
until his indefinite return?
A dozen wild schemes ran through her
brain. She would telephone his office
and get his address; she would return the
candy and refuse to receive the flowers
But her- breeding and modesty interfered
to forbid her carrying out any of the
suggestions of her overexcited mind, and,
although she managed to . appear calm,
she set forth for Helen's house In a dif
ferent frame of mind from that in which
she had expected to attend the dinner.
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If You Want to Be a Pretty Girl
Pay Strict Attention to
the. Care of Your Feet,
Says Elsie Hamilton.
By ELISE HAMILTON.
Most women who start out to beautify
themselves, begin with .their complexion.
Then they get busy with their lialr,
and after that they are ready for the
dressmaker and the milliner. I think
one ought to begin with one's feet.
No girl ever feels that she is well
dressed until she is well shod.
If your hat is left over from last
year, or your gown Is not in style, you
can make up for these shortcomings by
your animated face and smile, but it
takes an absolute genius to distract peo
ple's attention from downtrodden 'shoes,
or badly blacked pumps, and a hole in
one's stocking would upset even the
president of the United Women's Clubs
Slot Seats in
Shady Lanes
San Jose., Cal., is trying to meet the
demands of its people for more seats
in the public park by installing a nickel
in the slot seat. These contrivances are
set up In shady places, and are perpen
dicular until a nickel Is inserted and a
handle shoved down. Then they become
horizontal and provide room for two.
They are two swinging "seats and serve
both for rest and entertainment.
At the outset the seats were put in
every public place under the' impression
thatpersona using them would enjoy
seeing and being seen. But they did not
appeal to the public, and most of them
maintained their perpendicular position
nearly all the time. Then a shrewd of
ficial suggested that a few of them be
put-in secluded places, away from the
throng. This was done, and straight
away they became popular, especially in
the late afternoon.
Another curious thing that has been
noticed in connection with the new sites
for the seats is that they are never oc
cupied by two men or two women or
by very old couples. The popularity of
these hidden seats has grown so that
committees on public welfare are agitat
ing putting up many more of them, only
they want the scats to be free. They
say that if the people how such a de
cided Inclination to get away into quiet
nooks, and rest, it shows an Intellectual
advance that ought to be encouraged.
The park authorities, however, fear that
If enough . of these seats were provided
to supply the demand, the park space
would be entirely covered with them.
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4 Cheerful Ontlook.
"Father, dear," ssid Amaranth, "Willie
Smlthers Is going to call at your office
this morning to ask you for my hand.
Isn't there some little hint I can give him
before he goes so s to mak !t easier
for him?"
"Yes," 'said Mr. Blinks, "tell him to
take ether before he comes. It will save
him much paln."Harper' Weekly.
of the World.
Betides the looks of one's feet,' there
Is the one more important question of
the feeling of them.
People who can be amiable when their
feet are tired and uncomfortable deserve
halos. Probably, If we knew It, most
of the bad temper that shows itself, es
pecially in crowds at the ferries and sta
tions and at the theaters, is due to people
having to hurry along on aching feet.
If you want to preserve your beauty,
your looks and your disposition, keep
your feet comfortable.
The white stocking craze has been a
lot to ease aching feet, and there's noth
ing so comfortable a nice, clean pair
tl white stockings and a fresh pair of
shoes and slippers, ftockings ought
really to be changed twice a day, and
the girl who hates to darn will find
that this saves her a great deal of work,
Changing b tickings, like changing your
shoes, brings the wear and the rub1 on
another part of the foot, and conse
quently saves the stockings.
My hobby Is shoes and stockings, and
as long as my feet look all right, I
feel that I can face the world with calm
ness. If you want to know how sensitive peo
ple are about the way they are shod lit
in t. street car and gaze fixedly at the
feet of the woman opposite you. She will
get so uncomfortable that ten to one
you can make her get up and leave the
MISS ELSre HAMILTON,
i (Ot 7.ieg(eld' "Vinom Widow" Company.)
car because she is quite sure she has a
hole in her stocking or something is the
matter wtib her shoes. The same applies
to men, though, on the whole, men are
more particular about their shoes than
women are e.nd you seldom see a man in
very moderate clroumstancee whose shoes
aren't nicely polished, while lots of women
overlook this part of their toilette.
It you are a dancer or have to stand
on your feet for a long time every day
you must realise bow important it Is to
keep them In good condition. They ought
to be bathed every day and if you come
home tired and want to freshen up
quickly a foot bath In warm water with
a handful of salt in It will do you more
good than a nap. Many people's feet
hurt them because they are never prop
erly dried. If the stocking la put on
while the foot Is still damp, it is likely
to make the feet very tender and unless
one takes the trouble to dry the toes
separately the best thing to do Is to dust
the foot with foot powder or talcum
powder.
Many of the girls in companies In
which I have played have complained
so of fatigue from standing and walking,
especially during rehearsals, and very
often this was entirely due to flattening
of the arch of the foot. If you have
pains In the calf of the leg or get very
tired from standing and feel as If your
feet were made of lead, you are probably
flattening the arch, and if you cannot
get shoes made so that they will hold the
arch up, wear the soles which come on
the Inside of the shoes and which are
made to correct this trouble.
When your feet are very tired and the
sl!n aches, as it often seems to, rub the
soles of your feet with vinegar or with
lomon Juice after bathing. I know of one
beauty shop where the customers' feet
are managed before face massage Is
given, and It's an awfully good idea, not
only because.lt promotes circulation and
all that, but because it is so restful. This
beauty doctor said that more wrinkles
come from foot troubles than from fi
nancial worries, and I guess she must be
right, for if you ever had seen the pained
looking faces of the girls with the ach
ing feet you could be sure they are mak.
lng real wrinkles In their (aces, lines
that won't come out on salary day.
Lots of girls get stockings that are too
short or too narrow, on the pleasing the
ory that they make their feet ' smaller,
but they only curl the toes over, cramp
the Joints and push the toes together.
If you get a foot encased in a small
stocking and then put It In a shoe one
size too narrow or too short, you have a
fine idea of what slow torture is. My
shoemaker tella me that women's ankles
are growing bigger becauso they tire
wearing pumps. Pumps throw the foot
out of gear somehow and the weight l.-t
The Revolution of 1830
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
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Jnlr BT, 1830. '
It was eighty-two yeara ago today
July J7, 1830-that the French people
threw overboard the French Jonah,
Charles the Tenth, and, tacked the ship
of state in the direction of the demo
cratic haven at
which, after much
rough weather and
hard sailing, they
were ultimately to
arrive.
Louis the Eight
eenth, the old Bour
bon, who tried to
hold down the
throne of France
after the second
abdiction of the
great Napoleon,
died In 1824. and of
ficial title of Charles ,
the Tenth, succeeded to the royal honors.
Charles was bigoted, Ignorant and Im
moral. When it became apparent that he
was about-to become king he threw over
his dirty life the cloak of pioty. but
as the "Lord's annointed" he was th?
same old sinner that he had always been.
It did not take the French people long
to see that Charles had made up his
mind to declare war to the knife against
all constitutional liberties In the king
dom, and they prepared themselves to
fight to the last ditch.
With wonderful patience they bore with
the despot until the enactment of the
famous "Ordinances of St. Cloud," which
suspended the liberty of the press, dis
solved the Chamber of Peputies, provided
tor a new system of election for giving
absolute power to the king and filled the
council of state with the ultra loyalists,
who were prepared to do the king's bid-
people' ;
ding quite regardless
rights.. ......
.. These vile ordinances ware promulgated
July 26, 1830; and two daya later the light!
ning ot the popular indignation struck.
Insurrection broke out at once and did -not
let up until the tricolor floated ovef '
the Tullerles and the right ot the people '
had been vindicated. J
Charles, finding that the army had de
serted him and that the people were lnf
earnest, abdicated the throne and struckr
out for England," where he died in 1856.
In the meantime the French people'J
made the mistake of putting another king
on the throne instead of kicking the ,
throne to pieces and declaring a republic
On August 9, 1830, five days after thjj(
flight of Charles, Louis Philippe, the new'
constitutional monarch, ruing not bv,
"divine right." but by the will ot thtj
sovereign people, king of the tricolor, no;
of the lilies and the white cockade, took,
oath faithfully to observe the amended;
order. , .
Louis Philippe was a gentleman andr,
personally was well disposed toward the
popular rights, but his will power an'
Judgment were not on a par with hi
good Intentions and in the hands of; bad'
men he became a "rock ot offense" to thai
people who had trusted him and even" '
tually had to go the way of hla prede
cessor. Getting back to the ousting of Charlet '
X.' which was the real beginning of mod-
em democracy in France, -it -la well -te-note
the fact that the beneficial revolu
tlon was largely owing to the preesT
Thiers, the editor of the National, mar''1
shalled the forces of tho "fourth estate"
and threw them with irresistible momenf
turn against the enthroned wrongs. It
was a battle between power and opnlon,;
and opinion won the day,'
f Little-Bobbie's Pa V
By 'WILLIAM F. KIRK.
What do you think little Bobble ought
to study this summer wile he Is having
his vacashun? sed Ma to Pa last 'nlta.
You remember how I asked him to go
down to the office & be a office boy.
sed Ma, and how
you lafiea at me
& toald me that
yure idea of beeing
no worker was bee
ing a office boy.
go I thought maybe
lt.wud kind of nice
for Bobble to study
law this summsr.
You know that
luvly woman, Miss
Blackstone, that
was up to the house
last nlte. Her hus
band is 'a lawyer
& she toald me
that he made enuff
munny to go to Europe every, year.
. Vou doant say so, 'sed Pa. Dear me.
Pa sed, that is singular. I knrw a lawyer
onst Pa sed, that made enuff munny to
go to the South Sea Islands & stay
there. I doant reemember Jest how ha got
the munny, sed Pa. but he waes cer
tainly no piker, I think he "got away
with four or five hundred thousand
dollars.
You are too fresh, sed Ma. I doant
mean that kind of munny. I mean munny
that la earned by honest lawyers, by the
sweat of thare client's brows. Why doant
you let llttel Bobble go ft study law with
Missus Blackstone'a husband?
He can If he wants to. sed Pa. If he
wants to. spend these hot days lernlng
about the statute In such case made &
provided, he can do It If he wud like to
stop going swimming at tho old swim
ming hole & lern to draw up a fore
closure complaint in wlcb a widow & her;
nine children is the ten defendants, Pa
sed, he can go rite down to Blackstone's
offls tomorrow.
But you must remember, sed Ma to Pa,
badly balanced and the ankle bone en
larges. If you like a high heel (I'm "one
of the people who do) be sure and get
your shoes wide enough at the toes. Of
course no shoe should be more than an
Inch and a half In the heel, but a great
many people don't find sensible' flat shoes
at all comfortable.
Girls have had so much trouble keeping
their pumps on tor the last couple of
years since pumps have been so fash
ionable that the whole way. they walk la
changed. Girls have to waddle a llttlo
to keep the pumps from falling off that
Is the trouble with their walk.; You can't
wa!k well or look well If your shoes hurt
you or If you have to make an effort to
keep them on. . , .
("lamping the toes to keep one's pumps
on also makes the feet ache, that causes
wrinkles and ugly looks- So If you want
'.o be pretty get good understandings.
that you doant -know at much about ,
lawyers as Missus Blackstone, the wife',
of one. .'
I ought to know something abou(j-;
lawyers, sed Pa. I get a lot of letter-,
from them & beesldes, aed Pa; wen I-'
was a young man I used to be a stenog-'
repher In a law offls & I used to study
law, too. I used to make out dlvorc
papers, etc., sed Pa, 1 1
I doant quite beleeve that, sed Ma.
You doant, doant you? sed Pa. Well
this is the way the divorce papers went!.:
State of Wisconsin, County of Wieconn
sin. John pfngbat, plaintiff, versus;,
Mario iMngbat, Defendant. The plaintiff.
In the above entitled ackshun, thru t;
attorney, alleges that both parties to the
above entitled ackshun are & have been
resldenti of tho above nalmed state and .,'
county for a term of years. The plain."
tiff further alleges that the defendant
has been gnalty of cruel and inhuman',
treetment , to this plaintiff. uch at
banging him on the bean with holders &'
talking all the time he Is reading, all to-'!
the grate mental &. fizzlcal anguish of,
this plaintiff. " "
Oh, keep still, fed Ma to Pa. It seemSj.
tn ma la.itlv. sl'n fed. that you newer ;
cum hoam without having a awful brak- t
ing out around the mouth. Cant you taiifc
about two mlnntts & then let me have a
few moments of convorshashuh? sed Ma;!
The question etill Is, sed Ma, do y0H
want Bobby to study law? Do you want
htm to be a lawyer?
I doant think he wud maik enuffl
munny beeing a lawyer in New York.,
sed Pa. Colleckshuns is awful bad. . y
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II ONLY A FAMILY SPAT
'Gertrude!" ,.
"Yes. John." , (
"We've been married long enough now;
to talk plainly to each other."
"What's the matter now?"
"If I do something you don't- like I;
want you to tell me of it, and if yoi
do things I don't like I think t ought;
to tell you of them, too."
"I suppose I don't suit you at all?", ,
"Yes you. do, but I think we ought fan
talk over our likes and dlalikea. In
that way we can get along so much
better." . .
"John, i want you to understand right;
now that I was brought up every bit:
as well as you, and know how to b-
have. And as to my cooking, I can do''
as well as your mother ever did."
"I had hoped that you wouldn't lose
your temper. ' But If you're going to
act this- way we may as well drop the
matter right here." , ;; ;..
"What is 'the matter,- anyhow?" a.
"I only wanted to suggest that' wheii'
you darn, -my socks it would be better,',
for me It you would tie the knots on",
the outside, instead of the Inside."
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