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Hunting a Husband
The Widow is the Hit of the Evening and is Showered
with Many Compliments.
By VIRGINIA TERH
, Although Beatrice did not expect Sidney
' Randolph until after 8 o'clock, 'he had
' finished her light dinner and was dressed
and ready to receive him by 7 o'clock.
iHie wandered about her pretty draw
ing room, surveying critically the pic
tures and bric-a-brac with which it .was
adorned, studying them from a new view
point, " seeing them as she thought the
artist might see them. . y Y
The light summer curtains, swaying .in
the. warm breeze, caught her eye and she
gased at .theni with trepidation.
They had been trang only a few week
,ago, and, In spite of the open windows
and New York dust were fetill Quite clean
or would have appearod so to the casual
observer.
But Beatrice noted suddenly 'that they
had lost their pristine starch and fresh-'
ness. Moreover, Jack had that afternoon
leaned from one of the- windows to watch
; a fire engine passing in the street below,
and in doing this had creased the thin
net. 4 i
" The longer the widow looked at the
draperies, the more untidy did they ap
pear to her, until, with sudden decision,
f!Sh summoned Mary, . and, . with foer as-
i stetance, took thenv down and;: huig in
''tnetr place .the" new muelin .curtains she
l)d bought that day .for" her. dwh room.
'TC&r. weM VefatftytreVted
but they ; were," at all events Exquisitely
cln,.nnd fresli. ; - .v ', '
In spite of ; Beatr ice's? , outward com
poure. 1 Bhe felt embarrassed ' by her
-maid's surprised demeanor.
' All women are secretly in dread of
the disapproval or secret ridicule of
their servants. Jt has been said that
no -man is a hero to his valet. - ant
certainly few women are heroines -to
their maids. So Beatrice was foolishly
conscious of the expression of sup
pressed vexation upon Mary's face, and
the girl's remark-"Beally, ma'am,' them
parlor curtains ain't what you could
call really dirty a blt"-made the nominal
mistress vaguely uncomfortable, as if
she, had been guilty of some misde-
mBUishe checked any discussion of the
matter by the calm assertion that the
Bw- curtains looked far better than the
a ha maid that she
old, ones o". t . .
would let her know if she needed herl
hen, a few minutes later, the ddor
. I?' , mHRr of china in the
Den rune, ' .,
kitchen gave evidence that Mary wa
busy washing the dinner a...-..-.
probably, not as neat in appearance as
Beatrice would wish her to be when
Bhe ushered in the expected-
the widow herself hurried to admit her
caller. Her pleasant smile of welcome
froae on her lips as she t'?0
man Instead of the expected visitor. The
negro, In no wise abashed at her change
, expression, took off his hat. grinned
cheerily, and. after h'
pocket, produced a letter which he
handed to Mrs. Minor.
"Mister Randolph done sent dls, ne
remarked by way of explanation, an
he say dere ain't no answer.
"Very well," replied weaince,
tYlShtm not open the letter until she
wtts seated in the drawingroom. for she
knew already what the contents would
be- - ' ' ' ' "
The things we long for most are
oftenest denied us," ran the note, and
the arrival of . a plutocrat fresh from
the' western ranges who Is termlned
to elevate western Ideals by taking back
with him some of my work is, in this
case the messenger of fate to keep me
from you this evening. This once mer
cury triumphs over ApUrod-te. much to
the disappointment and distress of
"Your humble servant,
"SIDNEY RANDOLPH."
A sigh of self-pity escaped the reader
as'he looked about the softly lighted
room and felt that aU her work and ex
pectation had gone tor nothing. She ac
knowledged to herself that she was sad
dened and chagrined by having her in
terview with Randolph suddenly set aside
and that her disappointment was acute.
She sat alone musing, watching .the
stern New . York skyline melt away
rgalnst the darkening heavens, and was
so deeply absorbed In her. meditations
that she did not hear the doorbell ring
and started vtolontly when Mary an
nounced "Mr. Blanchard.!" j., i
'I am glad to see yw," atammered
Beatrice, as her guest entered. Then she
stopped short in amazement.
For it waa a new "Uncle Henry" who
confronted her-a whlskerless, youngish
looking man In a fresh new suit of gray,
with a carnation in hl buttonhole.
"Pon t recognise me, ehT" he asked,
v.ith his usual -chuckle. "I hope I don't
look, any worse? It was too hot. for
whiskers, so I shaved mine off. Now, I
feel lens like your father when I come to
'lee you.". .
"Te change, is very becoming." .said
By MABEL HERBERT URNER.
Beatrice, truthfully, for she had not
known until now what a fine, clear-cut
face the old bachelor possessed. v
Her elderly friend chuckled again.
"You'd say that anyway," he declared,
deprecatingly.
"But when did. you get back?" asked
his hostess.
'This morning," replied Blanchard. "I
went up to Helen's this evening, ' but
found things upset there, so I came on
up here." "-"
'"Did you have a pleasant trip?"
"Yes, in a way. Maynard you know
him and I were ori the same Pullman go
ing out I had a good trip from a busi
ness standpoint I'll be a millionaire
one of these days If things keep break
ing right" he added, with a laugh.
"How nice," responded his hostess,
vaguely. "But when does Mr. Maynard
return?" .: -
"He got back yesterday, I guesa," an
swered Henry Blanchard. ;
Beatrice . did not betray her surprise.
"He's a pleasant fellow," she observed
carelessly. As she spoke she remembered
with relief that Mr. Blanchard had not
recognized him as the chief rioter of the
roof garden episode.
"Yes," agreed the bachelor, absent
mlndedly. -., After ; which observation he
proceeded to glye a sway account of his
recent trip. '..-..'.
When he had gone. Beatrice suddenly
appreciated that . although thlB was the
day on which Maynard's flowers usually
arrived, none had come. Moreover, that
he had been In town for twenty-four
hours, and had not communicated with
her. .V ' ' ; : ' ' ' ''
"I always thought, she muttered il
logicallyv "that he; -war fickle."
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II MATTER OF PERSONAL PRIDE
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
The success of any public reform de
pends upon the enthusiasm of .the indi
vidual. A plan Is prepared for bettering public
conditions. Committees are appointed,
city officials assume certain responsi
bility, certain days are set aside for put
ting the reform Into effec and with a
whoop and a hurrah, and perhaps a band
or two, that being the mariner In' v h(ch
men call attention to their efforts,, the
work .Is begun. ' . ;' i v '..
' It It is a success" or a failure depen Is
hot on the committee, the Civic officials
with sashes, or those who whoop and
hurrah. That "depends on the private In
dividual! ' , : - . ' ;
; And. itr ninety-nine reforms. .In every
hundred, that "private 'individual" is a
woman! '
She is not on any committee. Her
existence is not recognized by the men
fostering the reform. They do not think
of her as having any connection with the
success or failure of their plans. But,
nevertheless, without her co-operation
their most widely proclaimed, their most
loudly heralded reforms are a failure.
This is particularly true in the com
mendable attempts made to establish
clean-up days for a city, the same as
there are clean-up days in the home.
Certain days are set aside for collect
ing and destroying ail the refuse found
in. streets and vacant lots. In some
towns' there ire tin can days, fly days,
weed ' days, etc., with an effort to rid
the city of certain pests on certain days,
with prizes-offered for th individual
doing the greatest amount of work.
The result of such campaign work
doesn't end with a city made more beau
tiful; sanitary conditions are Improved,
and A pace has been set that means the
city will never entirely relapse into for
mer unsightly and unhealthful conditions.
Backsliding is bound to follow, but the
city will never slide back to the point
from which it made its first advance on
thef first clean-up day. ' '
The mother) of the home in whose busy
hands there has been" laid this responsi
bility is not the only woman who can
help in this Important work.
The daughter of the home is equally
responsible and I make this statement in
the face of a protest that many of them
leave their home at an early hour in
the morning and work behind counters
downtown, all day.
They haven't the time, I know, to per
sonally engage in clean-up work. They
bolt their breakfasts in the morning and
rush off to a hard day's work, and are
tired .beyond, all clean-up campaign en
thusiasm when they return at night
Many of them find time to assist over
burdened mothers in the care of a house
and If any spare time is left it has so
many calls made upon it that the charge
that these girls must also help in a public
campaign seems ridiculous.
Make every plan for public good a mat
ter of private ooncern and individual en
thusiasm. Without such assistance no
public reforms wtlieuceeuV.. ...v -,..-.
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By REV,
THOMAS B. GREGORY.
New and Pretty Dance for the Summer Ballroon
HOW TO DANCE THE HOOP WHIRL, A FASCINATING NOVELTY
Aacat IS.
The "Lone Star society," founded In
Alabama sixty-four years ago today
August 12, IMS kicked up a rumpus that
lasted almost without Intermission for
forty years and ended
finally, with nothing
less than the politi
cal independence ot
the Island ot Cuba.
There has ever
lurked In the fa
mous "Monroe doc
trine" the Idea that
it is a sort of "mani
fest destiny" that
the United States of
America shall ulti
mately have politi
cal control of the
whole Western hemi
sphere, and it was in keening with said
Idea that the Lone Star society was or
ganised. The prospective of the society, as ex
pressed In the preamble to its constitution,
was anything but a modest one, its pur
pos being "for the extension of the
Institutions, power, Influence and com
merce of the United States over the
whole of the Western hemisphere and
the Islands of the Atlantic and Pacific
oceani."
xne society began its work with an
ittempt to wrest Cuba from the domain
of the Dons. The attempt was battered
with senatorial resolutions and presi
dential proclamations, but It kept on
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because it has to be very strong as well
as light. But this would not be necessary
The hoop which we ubs Is aluminum,
for the ballroom danco, as some ot the
features which require a strong hoop
cannot be used, , except by an expert
dancer.
My hoop is covered with heavy satin
to match my gown. My partner is in
evening dress and the black of his
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First Position.
(Posed by La Petite AdeialOe and J. J.
, Hughes of "The Winter Garden.)"
By LA PETITE ADELAIDE.
It's difficult to get something really i dances appear at
Of course it is not possible to transplant
the dance as I dj it On the stage directly
to the drawing room, but it can be so
modified that it would make a very
pretty feature for cotillons, fancy dress
balls and parties, where eccentric dan
cing Is expected.
As most society girls go In for fancy
dancing nowadays, some of these odd
all balls. The hoop
new that will be a simple waltz or two
step at the same time.
. Now that everybody's doing It, almost
everything has been done, but the "hoop
dance'' Is really, novel, and I am glad to
describe it for dancers who enjoy a new
trick that would not be too difficult with
a little practice and by simplifying the
dani-ft, which Is comparatively dignified
.ind sedate when you think of "others we
have had, is especially adapted for the
bail room.
I dance the hoop dance to a slow waltz;
the amateur should divide the waltz off
In eight bars, using from eight to six
teen bias for each one of the steps and
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clothes and white frock make a good con
trast. If this dance were to be used at a
cotillon as part of a cotillon, the hoops
could be of different colors and might be
arranged to match the girls gowns. By
simplifying the dances, as I am going to
do for you, several eouples could do It
at the same time: the hoops oould be of
wood, the ordinary hoop used by children
at play.,. The hoop should be big enough
to go around two partners and leave a
toot of space between them.
To begin with, the partners advance
from opposite sides to the slow move
ment of a waltz. At the end of the
fourth bar they should m'et. the Klrl
having brought In the hoop, which the
man takes from ber, holding it behind
him. The hoop should be raised above
ins head, and both partners must be
waltzing, but without touching each
other. It is quite difficult for the ama
teur to do this, as the ordinary dancer
depends so largely upon the guidance of
a partner to keep absolutely In step.
It will help you to look right into your
partner's eyes, and also you must be
perfectly sure of how many bars you
are going to do together in this way.
At the end of the sixteenth bar the man
turns the hoop forward and brings it
over his head and that of the girl, plac
ing the side of the hoop at her back and
brining both of them into the circle.
They are now held in the ring, and tho
leans far back against the hoop, but
without holding on ( it. He leans
against the hoop, holding it first with
either hand. They dance eight bars In
this manner, and another eight in slightly
quickened tempo, the -man having let go
until it materialized in the person of out
Nerclso Lopez, who, at the head of an
army of patriots, assisted by sympa
thiser! from the United States, made the
rule of Spain in the "Oem of Antilles"
tremble to its foundation. .
In the summer of 1861 Lopes and fifty
others were captured and executed, and
for a time the agents of the Lone Star
were inactive. But the friends ot Cuban
liberty In the island and In our own
country did not despair of achlevipt
Cuban independence, and in 1854 thy
were again ready for another expedition,
when a spirited proclamation from the
president put a stop to It ;
Hard after the president' proclama
tion and the consequent abandonment ot ,
the expedition came the report of Messrs. f
Buchanan, Mason And Soule, recommend' 1
ing the purchase of Cuba by the United ,
States, but the Spanish minister declared '
that the sale of the island would be the '
"Sale ot Spanish honor Itself," and the
project went up in smoke. '
And so matters dragged along from 1851
onward, Tor more than forty years, until,
the measure of the mighty being full the
United States congress passed the reso
lutions which made Cuba forever free
from her old-time oppressor.
Spanish "honor" would not listen jto
the proposition of Messrs: Buchanan,
Mason and Soule. but it had to listen jto
the thunder of Manila Bay and Sonttaga.
At last Cuba was free, and the work et
the Lone Star society In the dlrecUoa
ot the Oem of the Antilles was finished.
The Gambler
My ELBERT HUBBARD.
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Copyright 1912, International News Service
ur the "morality" of gambling nothing
need be said. All I affirm is that it is
(imply absurd to enter on a bablt when
success Is defeat and to win a calamity.
The successful am
ateur gambler gradu-
u.iuo into a profes
sional he has to, for
business men shun
him.
No 'man who plays
cards for money can
p his position '
long. The fact la.
o. us has a
surplus of b r a i n s ,
and if we are going
to succeed in busi
ness all the power
we" have to our credit
Is demanded,' The',
man who can play '
cards at night and '
do business In the '
daytime hasn't yet been born.
Life is a bank account, with so much
divine energy at your disposal. What
are you going to do with It? If you draw
your checks for this, you cannot draw
for that. Take your choice. And above
all, do not draw on the Bank of Futurity
by breathing bad air, keeping bad hours
and bad company,
The man who succeeds in business is
the one who goes to bed before 10 o'clock
at night; and only one thing is he Jealous
of, and that is outdoor exerclMe.
Gambling robs a man of rest, and the
keen edge of life la lost In shuffling the
pasteboards. All he gives to his em
ployer or the world is the discard. Out
side of his play he Is a weak, inefficient
person, and his weakness la very .apt to
manifest Itself in burdening his friends.
The curse of gambling does not fall on
the gambler alone, any more than the
drunkard alone suffers for his fault.
Suffering falls upon every one within
the radius of the gambler.
If your gambler Is on a salary he very
titl mn AAmai arAllMit frti 1la txa iau kafnua
pay day, then he gets to discounting his 1 others, with ill soft sentiment omitted
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salary to a money shark; then, If he can
he will "borrow" his pay before he earns J In our work
It, without first consulting you. He In
tends to pay it back, oh, yea!
He wins and pays Jt back. This en
courages him to borrow; more the next
time. He takes more In order in win
more. He is now obliged to play heavily
because his debts are accumulating. It
Is an old story, and dosens of men in
Sing Sing can tell you all about It
To do business with gamblsrs leads,
as a rule, to disappointment, because
with gamblers the idea of reciprocity
mutuality and co-operation, except to
skin somebody, does not exist -
From betting to beggardom la only a
step. No man can play the pasteboards,
or the races, continually, and win. And
of all the fools, the biggest is the man
who bets on "a sure thing.'"
', John Madden has followed Tthe business
for a quarter" of a century, and says: ,"l
quit betting years ago, and If I ever bet
again It will be because the disease has
gotten the better of my business Judg
mentt'; 4 ;
The bookmaker gets It all-he has but
to wait and the whole thing Is his. It
Is Just like the game where the dealer
takes care of all the bets and gives the
first booster an ace In the hole. If the
boosters do not get ths "Uv one's"
money the dealer will. He gets all the
others have, as sure as death, if they
continue to play.
Do not Imagine that all gambling Is
done in the cities. "Man made the cities,
God the country, but the devil made the
small towns." Hardly a village In
America is free from the scourge.
Gambling means blurred vision, weak
muscles shaky nerves. Loss of sleep,
lack of physical exercise, Irregular meala,
bad air, excitement form a devil's mon
opoly of bad things and the end ! die
grace, madness, death and the grave. '
I am not a member of the Christian
Endeavor soeiety. the Epworth league,
the Baptist union, the Knights of Colum
bus or the Soeiety for the Suppression of
vice, ana an I say here is simply a
little plain talk by one business man to
Boys, we need all the brains we have
of the hoop, so that they are whirling
around, keeping the hoop In the air by
prensing against It with their backs,
Another eight bars are danced with
the hoop circling them around the neck;
to keep the hoop firmly In place, you have
to press backward and it takes some
practice before you can waltz this way,
each one bending back, with the hoop
around the neck. . -
Of courte if the stronger partner pulls
In one dlr sect Ion, the weaker one has to
follow, but this looks awkward, and the
direction in which the dance is to be
taken must be carefully planned before
you do a dance like this for your friends.
Continuing to waltz, but without touch
ing, the girl turns round Inside the hoop.
Tnis brings her with her back to her
partner, facing the rim . ot the 'hoop
round her. neck. She takes the hoop,
swings clear of the man., raises It above
her head, so that it makes a frame; the
man standing behind her, or I should
waltzing behind her, holds the sld ' .
hoop out and sixteen more bars are
danced In this position. This makes a
very pretty effect, and Is not difficult if
you have already gotten accustomed to
the modern dances In which v the girt
dances in front ot the man, so much of
the time.
Without, losing step, the girl waltzes
round again, facing her partner, awing
the hoop over his head, so that It
catches them both around the waist both
partners bending very far back and con
tinuing to waltz. This of course.
quite difficult but an lnexp-"
dancer would not have to b-"o
far, and , the dance coui-geS' of
at this part. - -
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