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The Girl Who Paints
A Valuable Talk with Pretty Ruth Shepley on
the Miss Who Foolishly Disregards Her Nat
ural Charms for Pigments.
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Bombs Bigger Than Cannon
A Gorman invention
That Defies Precedent,
and Is Scaring Franco
By GARRETT P. SURVI8S.
To shoot a bomb many time larger In
diameter than the cannon that propels It
la the problem that a young engineer of
the famous gun hop of Krupp, In Ger
many, set himself to solve, a few years
ago, and his successful eolutlon hna led to
an Invention which tho German army
may use In tho next war.
The young Inventor's fellow- workmen
were Inclined to laugh at htm when he
proposed to fire his projectiles frbm out
sldo Instead of inside the gun. Thoy
pointed out to him that nothing like that
had over been done or thought of. Their
minds were hidebound by precedent and
tradition, and they tissumed that what
had never been done never could be done.
The' did not remember that some of the
greatest Inventions In existence have been
Miss Ruth Shepley.
by MAUDE MILLER.
"I like you." said Ruth Shepley. "You
have no paint on your face. Oh, what Is
the matter with the girls of today7 Is
their .mind or thefrieals that all wrong"
"One or both, I thlnk-or they would
not tlntjhelr facee In rainbow hueeiand
then comnlacentlv march out to show jthe
world the Immodest result. ,
"Yes, Immodest. For I think palntln
the face:'.and'--wearlng -waists that are
only cobwebs and not waists' are . all
equally Immodest. Immodesty means ad
vertising your ' charms and It Isn't
chnrmlng not one bit."
I "sat back and prepared for an Inter
esting and unusual chat. W were in
nuh, Bhepley'a cosy dressing room at
the Gayety theater. The time was' be
tween acts of that Jolly farce, "Nearly
Married."
And my heart was In the Interview .with
this delightfully pretty glrl-whose clear,
plnk-tlnted skin, firm white flesh, soft
masses of brown hair and marvelous long
lashed gray eyes-were enhanced by Her
honest earnestness, willingness to give
me (and you too, little sfsters) the bene
fit1 of her worth while Ideas.
For Ruth Ehepley nas laeas spenea
ths way: I-D-E-A-S.
"Do you know I often wonder what
will become of the next generation and
tho ono after that. I am afraid we will
be a rare of consumptives If we are not
very careful. Just think of the way girls
stand chest sunk in and stomachs pro
truding. That chokes the. lunga and
gives them no chance to supply them
selves and the lungs with good, fresh atr,
"Then consider thin stockings and
pumps as protection against pneumonia
on a rainy fall day. The present fash
ion of waists of cobweb tissue hurts
health and modesty alike.
"Now, I think beauty Is wholesome
health, plus modesty, plus naturalness.
"Bight hours of sleep every night, sim
ple food, interests to keep you from get
ting morb.d and plenty of brisk walk
ing, ought to keep health Ip order. Be
sure to get enough sleep eight hours if
necessary to rebuild and relax after the
day's work. Then walk a mile the first
day, two the next, and so on; until you
can Just sprint off your ten miles. Flow
ing blood and red cheeks will result. Tho
Scotchman can digest his 'oatmeal be
cause he is out In the bracing air so
much that his oystem can conquer any
thing. Plenty of sleep and plenty of
air assimilated during long tramps In
all kinds of wind or weather will make
you capable of digesting oatmeal. Try
it. ,
"Then be modest. Modify the fashions
to auU yourself as to becomlngness and
decency. No girl can be really pretty If
her Immodest clothes are arousing
thoughts that are not pretty. For
'beauty Is in the eye of tho beholder.'
, "NoWj a sweet, happy face, glowing
with health and free from weariness,
must rise above a modeotly dressed body
We agree, don't we? And for a final
touch to the beauty we are trying to
create, I would add that as the face If
natural and free from the artificial alt)
of paint and powder the manner most
unaffected honest and natural, too.
"Third act!" boomed a warning voice.
I hated to leave this girl, whose whole
some health and sweet modesty bloomed
In natural beauty. Do you blame met
f
The Head Waitress
"Marie is sure mad at you," said the
Head Waitress to the Steady Customer,
as .he grabbed a handful of paper nap
kins In the Cafe d'Enfant. "She says she
won't ever speak to you again for spread
ing th'at story about her being stuck on
a mounted cop."
"I didn't spread the story," asserted
the Steady Customer. "I Just heard It
and kidded her about It Some people
:an't stand a little kidding."
"That's true." said the Head Waitress,
"burthen Marie Is a very sensitive girl.
AU.blondts is sensitive. I've got a blond
sister and she's so sensitive that she al
most broke up the moving picture show
the other night by weeping out loud at
all the sad pictures."
"I went to a moving picture show at
New Rocholle last night," said the
Steady Customer, "one pf those shows
where they have Imitation vaudeville be
tween pictures. Two banjo players came
on the stage- One of them looked like a
bartender and the other needed a shave
so badly that his face cast a shadow on
his dress shirt front. I heard some people
behind me talking about them. Ono
woman declared they were fine looking
fellows and had good features. I couldn't
understand that because the features nf
one of them was alt covered over with
bristles. Then her companion remarked
that they looked like two nice looking
young men they had seen eating cheese
landwlches in an- owl wagon. I never
saw anybody yet who couid look good
and eat a cheese sandwich at the mu
tiros."
"Some people ain't got no idea of
beauty,," said the Head Waitress. "I
n a lovely young girl the other day
gushing all over high-collared bloke
wl(h thousand-legger on his upper lip.
I never could stand for no man with one
of them eye-brow mustaches, and I can't
is no beauty In rt, at all."
"In tho old days every man had a
mustache and a beard," replied the
Steady Customer.
"That was because there wasn't no
safety razors and no barbers," said the
Head Waitress. "I've got a brother,-ln-
law with a face full of fringes, and 6 very
time he kisses me I feel llkS'a lost babe
In the woods. Well, here's your check,
Maybe If you smile sweetly at Marie
she'll speak to you, but I doubt it."
"How do you do, Marie," remarked the
Steady Customer pleasantly, as he ap
proached the cashier's desk. "I'm sorry
If I hurt your feelings."
"There's your change," said Marie,
"please move along, you're keeping oth
ers watting on the line."
"Br-r-r-r, but the weather has changed
cod," said the Steady Customer as he
went out.
Advice to the Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX
To Make Yon Jealous.
Dear Miss Fairfax; I am 24 years old
and have been engaged to a girl about
two years. She Is also corresponding
with another, and has this gentleman's
picture In every room In the house. I
would like to know very much for what
purpose she la doing this. She is adways
fair with me when I am with her, and
seems, to be inclined to be Jealous of me
when I speak or some otner gin friends.
A collection of photographs of pretty
girls will do more to cure her than ac
cusations and protests.
I am sorry she does this. Love Is too
precious to be risked losing In this man
ner.
Dot Yob Unit Wot.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young maji
of 25 years and deftrly love a cousin four
years my Junior.
Should I gain her love In return for
mine i woum reel aeciaedly contented.
Please advise me how I am to gain her
love. Jl. A. C.
First cousins should not, marry. Uhe
doesn't love youi don't try to gain her
love to her eternal sorrow. De man
enough to keep your love a secret from
her and try for your own sake to over
come It
The bomb ready to bo flrod.
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The new bomb.
made by boldly defying precedent and re
fusing to believe In Impossibilities.
Tho plan of the young Invotitor was
very simple. He put his big bomb on
tho end of a rod Just large enough to go
Into the barrel of the gun and reach the
powder. Then the bomb rested, on the
mouth of the gun like a soap bubble on
the end of a blow pipe. When the pow
der blew out the rod It sent the bomb
ahead of It.
Anybody could have thought of that
arrangement. Tho difficulty lay In mak
ing the proper adjustments; Tha bomb
must be firmly held In position, and yet
when fired it must automatically separate
Itself from the rod, because. If the latter
accompanied It in Its flight, Its course
through tho air would be erratic and un
certain. Then there were many calcula
tions and experiments to be made in
order to determine tho proper charge of
powder to be employed,, the best way to
cause the bomb to explode when It
reached its object, tho steadiest form of
mounting for tho gun, etc.
All these difficulties have been over
come, and during the last two years the
bombenkonnone, or "bomb cannon," has
been gradually Improved until now the
German war officials think so much of
It that they are keeping as secret as pos
sible the experiment that they are mak
ing with It
In Its latest form this gun Is able to
throw n. bomb five or six tlrnes larger
than tho diameter of tho gun barrel to a
distance of 1,000 feet and there Is said to
be every reason for believing that soon
this distance may bo greatly Increased.
In their present form theae strange
guns bear a considerable resemblance to
huge frogs crouched for a leap, with big
balls on tho end of their long noses.
Tho bombs are Intended to contain not
only explosives which blow them to pieces
when they strike, butt, also asphyxlat'ng
gases which, spreading rapidly around tho
place of explosion, will stifle or kill
everybody In tho Immediate neighborhood.
Tho wnr officials aro reported as count
ing upon their use especially in sieges, foi
tha guns are so easily movablo that they
could be run up Into tho tranches dug by
the besiegers around the defenses, and
from there discharge tholr bombs over
tho walla,
H haa been pointed out that this kind
of warfare (with asphyxiating gases) Is
forbidden by the terms of the peace con
ventions at Oeneva and The Hague; but
In France, where a careful eyo Is kept
upon all the warlike activities of Ger
many, It la sarcastically remarked that
at The Hague convention the Oerman
representatives had a clause Introduced
Into' the restriction which renders It null
and void unless tho solo object of the
projoc(lles Is to spread asphyxiating
gases.
Now, the solo object of tho new 'pro
jectiles is nof. tp spread such gases, since
p, part of their effectiveness depends
upon the direct result of their explosion.
That being the case, say the French
critics, wo may expect, when the next
war comen, to find our soldiers asphyx
iated by deleterious gases released by the
explosion of these new German bombs,
and If anybody objects our enemies will
point to the wording of the law, and thus,
by a genulnne lawyer's trick, escape re
sponsibility. And, In confirmation of this
assertion, they aver that the German
War office is keeping secret the composi
tion of o, powder which, In the act of ox.
plodlng the bombs, releases a deadly
gas.
Advance Season Styles
FULLY DESCRIBED BY OLIVETTE.
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The model wo illus
trato today is n
prautieal winter
ovening tiont of fig
ured volour do
Initio trimmed in a
braiding of narrow
soutaeho, and long
silk tassels.
Protty color com
binations will
easily suggest
themselves. Brown
with brown braid
iug and tnssols of
brown and old
gold, or Chinese
blue with n bit of
ivory in tho lassols
and ornaments that
finish the capo-liko
brotellos falling
from the front fast
ening over tho
Bhoulder as capo-
sleeves and extend
ing to tho waist in
ho back. The main
body of tho gar
ment is mado of an
oblong piece of
cloth, slit at tho
back, out in points
at the side and
from bore extend
ing in a gradual
ourvo to tho throat,
with tho omniprps-
ent dvapfng draw
ing tho. material up
toward tho center
fastening.
-OLTVETTB.
Things to Look For in a Wife
Health Comes First; After That a Sense of Humor,
"Faculty", Liberality of Spirit, Sympathy
and Lovableness
By DOROTHY. D1X.
The other day I had a letter signed by
thirteen young girls asking me what
qualities, In my opinion, they should look
for In a husband Now a club of young
men asks me to
write an artlele 3BJaa
tl what qualities r
think men. should
leek far In their
wives,
it J were a young
mart contemplating
matrimony the
first thing that I
should look for In
a wife would be
health. The very
foundations of do
meetio happfness
are a sound stom
ach and steady
nerves. No woman
can take a jb right,
cheery outlook on
life If she has got
chronic dyspepsia. No woman can be
amiable and good natured If her nerves
sre In a qulvr all the time.
Besides whloh I should not look for
ward with any degree of favorable an
ticipation to spending my life paying
doctor bills or sending my fragile Marie
to the seashore in the summer and
Florida In the winter, and to coming
home at night after a hard day's work
to a house where ,1 woiild have, to walk
on tiptoe for fear of disturbing my suf
fering spouse. If Illness comes, as a
often does, to & woman after marriage,
a man must bea his wife's invalidism
with tenderness, -fortitude and sympathy.
It Is a misfortune which neither he nor
she can help; but a man who deliberately
picks out a sickly and neutrotic woman
for a wife Just goes out to hunt trouble
and he always finds It a-plenty.
The next quality I should look for In a
wife would be a sense of humor. -The
girl who hss a laugh hung on a hair
trtggsr, and that goes off at the slightest
'Jolt of her funnybone, would get me If I
were a man, for I should know that there
are lota of things in matrimony that a
woman has e'thtr got to laugh over or
cry over, and I should prefer a home
where the sun shone to one that was al
ways damp and foggy. Believe me, son,
the woman who sees the funny side of
things and can make a merry adventure
Of the ordinary mishaps of U(e Is the sort
of a wife to tie to. Tragedy quesns are
ail right on the stage, but heaven help1
the man who has to eat his breakfast
opposite to one 365 times a yearl
The third quality that I should look for
In a wife is what New England folks
call "faculty,' That means being equal
to any situation that arises and knowing
how to do things. It means the kind of
a wife who can cook, and wash, and
sew, and trim her own hats, and help
her husband make his fortune, and then,
when he's got It, she can help him spend
It as If sho never did anything In her
life but transmit orders to an English
butler and wear hats from Paris.
So, If I were picking out a wife, I'd
choose fc girl who knew how to turn her'
hand to anything that bobbed up; who
could cook a dinner or order one In a
restaurant; who oould pick out a dress
that suited her or make one, who knew
how to check her trunk, and run a bank
account, and give first aid to the Injured
when any accident happened In her
vicinity, No helpless, doll-baby woman
for me that would be like a millstone
about my neck and prevent me from aver
winning In the race for success.
The fourth thing that I wbujd consider
would be the line of conversation that the
lady carried. If I were looking forward
to an uninterrupted session of about
thirty or forty years of a woman's so
clety I would really try to'flnd out If she
Interested me to such an extent that I
wouldn't be llablo to yawn my head off.
When I had her for steady company I
would try to ascertain If the woman I
proposed marrying had any brains in her
head, it she was educated, and had some
Ideas about what she read, and If her
taste "was sympathetic to mine.
For I should know that two people
can't spend years and years and years
asking each other "'ooso duck is 'oof
nor handing each other hot sir love talk,
I should know that no man on earth Is
so lonely as he who Is married to a
wpman who rannot understand the sub
jects In which he Is most vitally Inter
ested, and to whom h has to always ex-
plain things In words of one syllable, as
ir sne were a child. I should want a wife
Who would be a cnmtmnlnn tn m nnl mn
I would marry no lady, no matter -what
sort of hair she has on the outside of
ner head, ir the Interior furnishings dldn
match my own mental rnmnlMlnn
The fifth thing that I should look for In
a wife would be liberality of Spirit. I
wouldn't marrv a sir! uhn wa nl.ii
and Jealous, if she were as beautiful as
venifs, ana as rich as Croesus", and i
model of every other virtue on earth
For r should know that that sort of i
woman thinks that marrlaira rnrmtlttltm
a wife her husband's Jailer and entitles
ner to exercise over him a tyranny that
makes him afraid to call his soul his
own. I should know that neh wir in.
suits evarv nnn nf hit nM triA. iu..
she makes his own mother afraid to
come to see him. that she smells his
breath every tlmo he comes In the house
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tremDies every time he Is decently pollt
to a strange woman for fear of the cor
tain lecture he will get when he return
home,
And lastly, and above all, the thing
that I would note most in tjie girl I was
thinking of asking to marry me is how
she stands with her family. If she has
tho glass of fashion while the balance of
the family look like a rag bag. If father
and mother look cpwed before her and
she's forever correcting their grammar,
and manners; if little sister and little
brother slip around as If they were afraid
of her, not for muh, no matter what sort
of a good looker she Is, nor how charm
ing to strangers,
I shouldn't want a selfish little beast
for a wife, one who would take the best
of everything, and regard me as only
good for a shopping ticket. Nor should
I want a critla on ths hearth.
Hut If I found a girl who was the light
and life, the tenderness and the Joy of
her own home, I should know by that
sign and token that I'd be the wise guy
If I could get her to Illuminate m own
little flat.
Look for theso qualities-health, and
good humor, and faculty, and Intelligence,
and sympathy, and Just lovableness In a
woman, son, and you'll get Uie wife
whose price will be above rubles.
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A Smart Winter Coat.
f Fascination of Archaeology
lly EDGAR LpCIEK L Alt KIN.
This Is mv twelfth attemot In twelve
years striving by every means within my
power, to Interest people In the great his
toric study of archaeology. Part of
these articles) were written on Ameri
can archaeology, especially of the prehls
torfo rulna In Mexico. Yucatan and West-
em South America, of Peru, Bolivia,
Ecuador, One or two were on island
rulna In the Paciflo ocean, and upon
the Swastika, symbols In the prehlstorio
solar-worship cave on cataiina isiana.
And Maya antiquities in Central America
were written ud. These were of Interest,
but they all fall short of fascination and
of literary and hlstorlo value In com
parison with archaeology of the Orient.
At no time since the key to the cunei
form writings on clay bricks and In the
rock-hewn inscriptions In Babylon and
Nineveh was discovered: nor since tho
hieroglyphics were read in Egypt, Nubia
and Meroe has there been a more in
tense Interest manifested than at the
present. nee "Waning of Light of
Meroe." Scholars, antiquarians, linguists,
religionists, artists, sculptors, literati,
architects and historians, evsn wealthy
men and governments, notably the Ger
man; those and others are absorbed In
the exciting subterranean explorations.
Th search Is really for origins of what
we now believe, say arid do. The origins
of religions, laws, alphabets and litera
ture ara onlv to be discovered deeply
burled In Meroe, Egypt, Arabia, Pales
tine. Babylon, Nineveh, Antlocii. Crete,
riree. noma, nut the richest finds so
far are beneath the soil, or rather shift
ing sands, of Egypt. These are now at
tracting the attention or tne civiusta
world. And they are almost equaled by
'iMriu in MeaoDotamla. The mag
nificent laws of Hammarubl are now
common In a hundred books. We see
where our laws come from. t many
million of dollars could be expended. In
excavating cities now known to be sub-
marred under a strip of alluvial deposits
of the Euphrates and Tigris, over 120
miles In length and or varying wiam.
all along eastern Arabia and north of
the Persian Oulf, the entire literary and
religious world would be startled. For
Bibles of early man now rest In sacred
shrines, and In the adytl of a hundred
temples, engraved on tiles, bricks, tablets
and cylinders, safely packed jn protect
ing soli deposited by the rivers at flood
times. This literature Is rich, Indeed.
Th futelnatlnff work of excavating of
the magnificent Cslreon Is now going
on with feverish anxiety and expectancy
at Abydoo. The Egyptians lived dally
pn.i hnurlv. and shaped their Uvea with
ever abiding reference to the future state.
Everything said and done, even in house
hold motters, as well as In publlo was
based on the long-time Inherent national
belief that what they said and did would
shape their careers In. the dim world of
shades beyond this "fever called living."
From before Menes, the first king of
the first dynasty recorded by Manetho,
B, C. t&OO. to the overthrow of ancient
worship by the Itomans, Osiris, his god
des, Xsls, and. son, Horus, wore tho cen
tral national deities of Egypt. And, sea
this, the lone inclined stono-llnsd en
trance to the subterranean chambers of
usma is now ceing cleared of thousands
of years of accumulated detritus and
debris. Corridors are extending onward,
and these lead, beyond doubt, to
chambers filled with the choicest works
pf sacred art, gems and precious things
dedicated to tha beloved Isis and adored
Osiris. The very anelsnt tradition hat
the Veil of Ills may be removed at some
psriod may now be on the eve of coming
(me.
If war could only end and the wealth
worse than wasted be used In excavating
this Oslreon, this center pf a hundred
centuries of worship and receptaole of
costly votive offerings of worship of the
nations of tho ancient word, what floods
of light would Illumine the origin of our
own culture and beliefs. It seems that
the gra,t relltgous bodies of the world
ought to Join in securing funds for tbls
work of searching out the true origin of
all religions. They are in the chambers
In rock, at the ends of theae long cor
ridors and passages In ths newly dis
covered Osreon.
For In these chambers the wire of tha
earth, during many thousands of years,
came from other great religious centers
and temples In Ceylon, Cambodia, India,
Bactrta, Iran. Babylon, Nlneyah, Palm
yra, Tadmur, Arabia, Petrea, Jerusalem,
Meroe, Greece, Itome and Gaul to be In
itiated In secret and most solemn rites,
when the candidates simulated death,
only to be resurrected and then told at
low breath by hlerophanta that when
ths body actually dies the mind still lives.
And the hundreds of millions of wealth
of gold and Jewels brought as tokens of
affection by the initiates are probaby
there now. For the entrance to the In
cllned way was almost Impossible to dls
cover by M. Navllle of lMe. The pol
ished walls of descent to tho crypts,
rooms and chambers of this simply amaz
ing Qelreon, the world's tempi of Osiris
and Ills, are literally covered with rock
cut inscriptions from the great Bible of
Egypt-the Book- of the Dead. These in
scriptions are selected passages from
their scriptures relating to the career of
the departed n the future world. These
(.tt given In such minute detail that tho
traveler at liberation of the ra(nd by
dsath of the body, the freed ego, or per
sonality, could anticipate his destiny, be
yond his Jordan, the Nile.
And now the managers of the coming
world's exhibition tn Ban Francisco In
115 ought by all mean's make Immediate,
effort to secure a few of these Egyptian
wonders, now txtlng sent to nil the ns
tlbnal museums of Europe. This Is Oc
tober, .
Lowe Observatory, California,