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Woman 9s Crowning Glory
Simple Home Rules for the Preservation of the
By MAUDE MILLER.
HAT would you think If you
tJ won three beauty prizes
T wt
1th your hair? If exnerts
all over the country had told you
that your hair wa perfect. length,
lealor and quality, and that you had
' perfectly health)- scalp: "
l tblnlt you would be vrytvaln
about your treeses'ahd would Iniaclne
that you had gained possession of u
beauty secret that no one else could
know anything about.
Miss Mary Cranston, who Is one of
B. F. Keith's stars. Is the lueky pos
easor of this wonderful head of, hair,
.and she attributes Its beauty to a
"very simple treatment of'her own.
Woufd you like to tea my hair?"
tahe said, shaking the wonderful gold
'mats down' over her1 shoulders. "I
do It up so simply that I never need
fa mirror, and the oftener I have It
round where the wind can blow
through It, the better I am pleased.
"I always wash my hair thoroughly
'"MY HAIR 18 ALWAYS
AND GLOSSY."
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f Unbalanced Social Conditions
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Egypt, Persia, Babylonia-, Greece and Rome Wgxe. .Founded
Upon Slavery and Fell ?
Br ELLA WHEELER AVILCO.
Copyright, MM, by the Star Company.
For thoughtful people- who wonder why
women want 'the vote, in England so
badly, the following statistics may prpve
of Interest,
They are authentic
and are worth pon
dering over,
In England 70,000
peoplo' dle every year
from tubercu 1 p s 1 a
and $00,000 suffer
from It This terri
ble diseaao )s caused
by a lack 'of con
n1fnr and decen
cies of llf,e. -Fresh,
air and sanitary kUN
roundlngs ere. rieede'd.
T e n a nts, however,
can have no say at
to how the aheltpra
In which they exist
shall be ordered orpo"llced.
Knlnd has Kn area of 77,00.000 ocrea
and a populatl6t of 4J.C03.0X1. More than
one-half the land la. .owned by 2.500 per
sons. Less than J0.COO peorle pwp two
thirds of the tolul land of Scotland,
Ireland and England, There are 33.000.003
people that have not ' land at all, and
consequently not any homes of their
own. The average amount of land
owned by the British peer-Is .000 acre.
There ;ls one peer who owns over 1,000,000
acres. The average land owned by the
British cottager Js one-auarter of an
acre. The phfaae "bless our native land,"
In the British national anthem., U rather
meaningless tn.njl W a few thousand
Drltlsh subjects!
The annual income of Great Britain,
from land and rent. Is about Jtt.0CO.000 a
week. About on.ialf of this goes to (
6,000,000 people whow annual Incomo '
rm. tmn. tutt n Tnr, r'n . 10.oM.OW .
that are so poor that they cannot prov'de
the necessaries of life. The average wage
of these Is IS a week The -i erase wage
ot the t.000.000 industrial women Is $1.75 4
eek. The paupers of England, If lined
once a. week, and Just before the
shampoo, I rub a small amount .of
vaseline Into. the' scalp':
"This softens th cuticle and opens
the poVes, bo ,tha not only th'ej'hftlr
Itself comes out from the -shampoo
soft and glossy, but all the dead akin
particles that cling to the ,seatp'. In
spite of any amount of brisk rubbing,
are cleared away, and the blood has
a chance to circulate freely, ao that
the process of nourishing the hair 'Is
not Interfered with.
"1 use plain castlle spap for wash
ing, and Inthe'.last, rlns1ig'.,water I
squeeze the" lutce of. half a lemon.
This Is mV own Idea, and- there Is
nothing in the world so good for Im
parting lustre to the hair.
up four abreast, would make a' ltncfour.
miles long,
Kgypt. Persia, Babylonia, prcece ( and
Rome wero founded upon slavery, and
slavery, corrqpted and imbeelled, finally
overthrew them History emphasizes this
.Instruction In Jlhe downfall of Kgypt,
when ! per cant of Its; people pwnd 97 per
cent ofilta wealth.. ,
In Persia, w-hen-l per cent of .Jt In
1 abllants owned all "lh land; ln Baby-
lpnla, wh'en 2 per cent of Its cl Mr-ens conr
ti-plled alf that was 'ro'aucffl; ln Qreeco
and Ronte, when 1.80Q- persons owned. suf
ucieni'y lo jorce seroiceaiaiinout
from the then known world."- " 1
1 Of the ICK.OOO.OOO people In'-thel'-UnltqU
ftates Kt,((0 aro without lands or
lumts of, their, own
; Thl, move than any otbrttatement
that can-be made, shows the failure; ot
the United states. as a. governm.eiJtB;.cJ.'tho
people tor' the people; for it'-watf toget
londs and homes of their owtvtKat' th
colonists, bv fqunded the republic, left
Great Britain. This was their Ideal. They
hail r.o other.
Prof f'hailes J. nushncll. In a lecture
at Washington, O. C., August 1907, said
'The control of tho nation wealth
and, through It, of th nation Itself, Is
fast centering Into the hands of a few,
It la said that the control of one-twelfth!
of the nation's wealth Is represented at !
the meeting of the twenty-four directors
of the United States fltee) corporation
alone, and that the all-Important railway
systems of the country are controlled by
Just 'six; men," with only one supremely
dominant"
On the otier hand, 10,000.000, or one
tenth, of the people of the country are
In constant poverty, whllp 4,000,000 are
paupers.
"t'nder the 'pressure of these abnormal
conditions, drinking, smoking, murder,
suicide. Insanity, robbery, graft ahd so.
(.la! vice are Incrcaslnc faster than the
population, causing financial loss that
more than counterbalances our annual
national gain of wealth,
j "The modern trust Is the response under
' Individualistic condition to the Inevitable
and Hozv to Care for It
Hair Told by a Triple Beauty Prize Winner.
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"USE AS .FEW HAIRPINS AS POSSIBLE."
'Hair to' be bea'utlrut should be ot
a unirorrh; length. Ttot thick o;i the
head and' uneven at the ends. And
that Is "why I wear my hair as simply1
as' possible. Hairpins are responsible
for all the broken ends of hair. It
girls would only' remember this',- and
would use 'as few hairpins as possi
ble, there would never be so many
short ends to worry about.
"Talking about hair brings me to
the, very latest Idsa In halrdresslng
colored wigs. I wtar a colored wig
myself on the stage, but simply as a.
novelty, for they will never become
popular. To become popular a thing
must be In Itself of enough lmpor-
By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIX.
Q. "Can ybu give me a list of the fUty
living who really think?"
A. It Is not usual to pay high nonora
to the. master minds of the world until
after they have "paased out" or died.
But I will mention the names or a lew,
because the entire world has already
classed them as mssUrs. that Is, men
able to add to tho already vast Bum of
hurnan knowledge.
I suppose that Joseph J. Thomson,
Cayendlsh. laboratory! Cambridge, Eng
land, now stands at. tho head 'of the hu
man species. He discovered the only
entitles In existence electrons. That Is,
he broke up tho chemical atom that had
juled from jtho days of .Deinocrltu and
JrcppUs, the Greeks, down to Dulton
and Thomson. Th'se, not atoms, were
the- first entitle! in the universe.
Thomson Is also an exalted mathema
tician, and therefore woi In possession of
the colosial power" to show the mathe
matical place Qf these electrons in nature.
Newton' wrought three mighty works:
Ho discovered universal gravitation; he
discovered' differentials, or the conseoii
tlVe htatc, and then put them to Inces
sant tise. Here aro some others;
Madam -Curie, the discoverer of radium,
who was. able to add to knowledge;
Ernest Ruthorford. tho great jnanlpulatoi
of elections, and discoverer of the
.mathematical laws of radium emana
tions. Albert A. Mlchelaon, who with con-
demand for a more unified and econouv
leal huslnehs organization
A student of the. stars In calling the
horoscope of Vincent Astor and his brld-
to-be, mentioned Hti Industrial and social
revolution !h 191T. Afte ' reading the
figures quoted above, this thrsatoned
revolution does not seem an Improbable
occurrence.
Meantime, constructive efforts at better
conditions are being made by a society
In Cincinnati, O.
The more people thnk about these
things, the better for all of us. The day
Is not far off when every one will be
obliged to think rerlously of our social
conditions.
Better begin now,
( f "Fifty Men Who Think"
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Mits Cranston says:
"I always wash my
t thoroughly onca a week.
"Before the shampoo I rub a
small amount of vaseline Into
the scalp.
' "I uso plain castlle for wash
lng my hair.
"In the last rinsing water I'
squeeso the Juice of 1
tapes' to Interest
one; otherwise It
practtcaljy every
never comes to
etky. -. :
VColored hair Is a wild freak of
fashion. It Isn't ,e'ven becoming to
people. It Is simply the .fad of' a,
moment, and as such deserves noth-'
Ing more than a little leniency until
fashion shall turn Its back on It for-'
ever,"
And with a few clever twists Mlsa
Cranston had plied all her wonderful,
hair up under a tiny green hat, and
almost before I could tell her ' how
beautiful I thought It was she hail
aid goodby and was gone.
summutc skll) measured tho absolute
length of waves of cadmium light, now
accepted by the entire scientific, world
as the set and. tlxed-for-all-tlme stan
dard of length. He found 'the absolute
number of wave-lengths In one absolute
centimeter, no that if the mater, the
bar of plutlnum-lrldlum In France, were
destroyed, a new one could be made with
unerring accuracy.
Robert Andrews Mllllkon, who startled
every scientific man In the world by ac
tually isolating and weighing one elec
tron. This snumlngly Impossible thing
elicited the admiration ot all students of
nature on earth.
"William Ramsey, In his near approach
tn nature's arcane place, the absolute
zero of temperature. In the terrific cold
of solid helium. I saw him, handle liquid
hydrogen ao cold that If you touch It
wth the finger you . are ready for Us
amputation.
VaWleniar Poulsen, the JnVentor of the
astonlshlpg Instrument, tho tHrgraphone.
Hero words are Impotent In description.
But the energy that causes sound In the
aural areas of a personality's brain Is
actually put into and taken out of the
first layer of tho molecules 'of metal on
n llsk Instead of the Indentations on' a
phonogrnphlc record. That is, a highly
polished kmooth disk of metal will talk
to you. Kdlson-llttlr use to try to re.
count his 'maanlflcenee he studies dur
ing tho regulation time of Mathematician,
from ten to twenty hours dally.
Charles Proteus fitelnmetz. another
twenty-hour man; he known what a
gigantic alternator will do before they
build It. His equations In eleotrical en
gineering are classic and aro published
around Ihe world.
I eannot take apace to mention more.
aava Uroshear, 'the mllllonth-of-an-lnch
In accuracy man, the spnctro-balometer
and lens maker But the mighty recent
dead: Kelvin, the master that deducM
the equations for the- Atlantic cables;,
and a greater, the simply amazing math
ematical formulas upon whloh are now
based all wireless work. And .with awe,
when I write the names Polncare and
Newpomb, the supreme mathematicians,
for all other mathematicians look upon
them with a veneration that cannot b
told in words. They both added Integrals
to the growing Hit., and created new
equations out toward Infinity Itself.
THE PROFESSOR'S
You Can Begin This
Great Story To-day
by Reading This
First
Professor Crosby, waiting at a subur
ban station for a trolley i. to take nlni
Inln Hnlrn. tvhcrn lio has a social en-
KBgement. encounters Miss Tabor, whom
he had mot tho previous winter nt a so
cial party. They compare notea, ami
fln.l Ih.vnrii hnlltlil fur tlin same PlUCC.
and waiting for the same car. While
valtlng they talk of themselves In a
casual way, and Crosby Imagines he has
touched on smoothing closely personal tii
Miss Tabor, They start on the trolley
Journey, and the car Is overturned. W hen
Crosby lecovera consciousness, ho finds
hlmsolf unhurt, but witn u lair, stranso
girl In his arms. The motbrmnn and the
conductor leave Crosby und Miss Tabor
In charge, and they set about to restore
th alrl to consciousness. When she re
covered she seemed rnther annoyed at
the conditions. Crosby finds his pockets
havn iiin emntlml. but recovers every
thing. Miss Tabor finds all her articles
but a fine gold' chain she wore, around
her neck. Crosby finds this, but on It
hangs a wedding ring The girl suggests
they leave her. but they Insist on seeing
her safely to h.r home. Arrived at the
Tnbor, home Crosby Is given a fulsome
welcome by sirs. Tanor, ami a somcwnni
mixed reception by Mr. Tabor. They
Insist on her remaining over night, and
ho retires. Before ne rails to sleep ne
hears voices In the hall noar his dohr,
and rising hurriedly finds ho Is locked In
the room, Before he could learn the rea-
son. ha wns asked by Miss Tabor to dress
and come downsta:rs, Then ho was nskod
to leavo the house and not to come nacK.
No explanation wan given mm.
Now Read On
OH.WTRIl IV.
n Insult In (ho Morning,
I paused at the gnte nntl looked back.
In the upper windows light were showing
behind the shades, and now" and then a
swift shadow passed across the pane.
Yet the house was altogether quiet, free
within and without from any e.vldcnco o
tho Unusual. A waning moon glowed
large and distorted through the shrub
bery, nnd from all about rose the sweet
breath and Innumerable tiny voices of
the night, comfortablo chirps and rust
llns. Jhe creak of frogs and tho rasp nt
an occasional katydid; accentuating by
their multiplicity and smallncss tho acme
of oyenylielmlng peuco. . Ap went on, a
quick movement i at,, my fet made. , nte.
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Atartf. men l smiioa. vo regognwo mo
Clumsy hurry of a toad; nnd tho In
cident seemed to point tho contrast bo
tween the human tonslon ot the last half.
hour and
1 tho huso 'normality" of the putej;
Willi JSWrif Men It'ErewH moro
orld.
qilMCUIl lor lUC M ocueio m wq, iuihuhi
from. which 1 had corner the strain ond
qocrecy, tli'e troubled voices and. the mov
lig lghtabecamo fictitious! as tfio'scepea
qt a. sensational story, plausible In the
reading, turn to pasteboard and . tinsel
when we have closed tho book. C ty
tho quiet gloom" was real, tho hush at
fresh aroma of ordinary night.
I hud anticipated some difficult- In
gaining udmlssleii to a cpunry,,'fnri at
such an Jiour, but as I climbed tho hill
I wan surprised' to e'eo It still drTen'Vnd
alight; and a glance at my watch deep
ened my surprise Into astonishment. It
was not yet midnight, and I had felt
that II was at least 2 or S In tho morning.
8o here was another contrast to add to
tho eenso ot unruallty: find I entered the
low-celled and clingy little office feeellng
like Tennyson's Prince returning from
a fight with shadows.
M' room was cool and pleasant enough,
but siren and excitement had evaporated
my drowsiness and I lay . thinking In
reminiscent circles, trying In ' vnln to
puzzle out some theory that would fit
the circumstances of tho night. The mora
I reviewed details, tho more they seemed
to fly apart from any .reasonable associa
tion, charged as they were iwllh one mys.
terlous electricity. If Home accident or
sudden trouble had befallen the house,
tho nocturnal alnrm would be motivated;
but what motive would that furnish for
driving out Ihe guest! Home unwitting
provocation of my own (though I could
Imagine nothlnjc of tho zort) might have
made my further presence unbearable;
hut what of the anxious hustle, the hasty
conferences, tho errands of tho man we
had mit at the gate? And who was he,
by the way, that he should have a latch
key and th airs of Intimacy, without
being, from what I had observed, an In
mata of the house? The fear .of Infectious
disease was the pulj' thing that I could
Imagine that would explain tho Im
mediacy of my expulsion, nut If I Won
the bearer of a plague, why had Lady
been allowed to talk with me In the hall?
Or If one of themselves had been stricken,
why hod sho dented me, for all tlino, or
Indeed made any mystery of the mat
ter' Then I remembered her silences
during tho day, tho ring, hidden In her
breast, and her hesitation and doubt over
asking mo to slay tho night. Whatever
the trouble was, It had cast Its shadow
before, and I could not rid my mind of
the conviction that all those matters must
be fitted In, and they must all ultimately
find their places In the explanation. At
any rate, an explanation was due me.
and I' meant to have It. Wither them had
been some foolish mistake or I hod been
treated outrageous!). It was not curios
ity, 1 told myself; tho sorrows of tho
skoletons of this family were no business
of mine; but I would know by what right
they had ejected me.
Over th telrphone next morning, Mr
Tabor won ominously agreeable, "Cer
tainly." he said. "Von have a perfect
risht to the reason. When you have It, I
think you will agree that you have no
more cause for complaint than you have
for remaining In the neighborhood. 1
Will be down at once." '
Half an hour later ho was eated In niv
room, polished, choleric, aquiline, a man
to bo a fierce filend or a difficult enenn
WELLS HASTINGS oJ? BRIAN HOOKER.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS by HANSON BOOTH
COPVRIOHT 1911 tr. T'ME HODU3- MEIIHIIL COMPANY
He wasted no time In approaches.
'You ask why you wcro sent fiom the
house last night. Well, here It Is: YoM
have arranged to gti to ISurupe, nnd aru
actually on your way thrrv. Yoi seo my
daughter on a train. YoU forco yourself
Into her company, presuming Upon a very
slight acquaintance, and follow hrr home
You como upon u In such n way that wv
can hardly avoid receiving you as a
guest. Then It develops that you spent
two or three hours between hero nnd tho
station Instead of coming straight ovor;
and you arrlvo after dark. Now, In any
caso "
"That's distorted and unjust," 1 Inter
rupted, "1 haven't forced myself upon
anybody. Besides, we oatno homo as
quickly as. possible. Tho trolley"
I had remembered Mlsn Tabor's version
ot tho accident. "Oo on," I said, "lut
mo hear tho whole ot this first."
"Wo needn't discuss terms; tho facts
aro that you throw nsldo your arrange
ments very conspicuously; that you to!
low a young lady -entirely out of your
way; and that you bring her home at an
unreasonable hour, after wanderlwt or
loitering about tho country. In any case
this would havo been officious and In
ixnsldcrntc. lhrt In tho caso' ot a limn
with such h past as yaurs,' )t, might cam.
promise her seriously. -To havo you stay
ing nt the houso afterward was out of
tho question."
This was too much. "What do you
mean?" 1 said. "There's nothing tho mat
ter with my pust. l'vo nothing whatever
to bo ashamed of, and this Is tho first
time In my Ufa l'vo been accused ot any
sitc.lt ' thing. My university position Is
in'pof enough of that. It's a mistake or
an infernal slander."
Ho looked ino straight. In the eye. "I
knuw mure about you, Mr, Crosby, than
you wcro prupated for," ho eald quietly.
"Don t waeto your tlmo In posturing."
'U beg your pardon," I retorted, "you
know nothing about me, but you've, said
decidedly more than one gentleman can
say to another without explaining him
self. 'We're two men together. Be 1$
good us to tell mo Just what you charge
me with."
I had risen from my chair, struggling
hard for enough self-control to make my
words carry conviction. Mr, Tabor sat
unmoved while ho deliberately lighted a
cigar, Watching mo over the end ot It. .
"I have' rio deslro to dig ovor your life
with you," ho snld, "any moro than I
have to contlnuo your acquaintance. . I
camo horo to toll you .why our Invitation
to you was withdrawn. Well, I've done
ho; you havo an ovll reputation. That'a
all."
"Hxcuso me, but that Isn't all. It Isn't
true, and"
! "Thero la just one more point,'' he
went on; "whert you arrived, of course
nono of us realized who you wore or
how you Jiad come. Later, when wo un
derstood tho acts, yoji wpuJd'n.qK.undcrt
lng. But Mrs. Tabor was eo excited oyer
tho matter, that I saw fit to relievo her
Immediately, at the cost ot disturbing
your sleep. I owe you an apology tor
that,, and for thitt only,"
' J'LtiOk here,' Mr. Tabor, said I, more
TAKE Comfort along 1 Wear
Crossetts. They're ready for '
a stroll down the boulevard or a.;s
hike 'cross country. With com-
fort 'always right at your libels
ana toes,
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MYSTERY
calml), "1 don't know what you have
been told about me, but f It dmionorabl
lt a damned He. Now, I'll wait her
white sou make any Inquiries you like.
I'll put you In elmmunlcatlon with any
body vqit choose. And when you've looked
looked me up nnd are satisfied, t shal
expect a very complete apology for th,
whole matter."
"Thank you," he answered, "4 'am quite
satisfied with my present, Information. I
have no further curiosity. And now per
haps 1 havo taken enough of your Sme
He rose.
Then I lost my, temper. "That's alto'
gothcr too thlnl" I dried, "I'm rcCelveu
as your guest, and then I'm locked Intt
my room, 'm 'sent away In tho inlddL
of tho nlshti and told not to ask why.
You explain it on the absurd ground
that I'm a disreputable character, and
thon you won't cither "specify you.
charges or Investigate tliem. I believe
you are making up the whole story to
cover something in your own house, and
If you were a younger man I'd ha e It
out of you."
. While I was speaking he had turned1
composedly to pick up his hat and slick
.He facod me now .without a quiver of the
f - ;'''
f "Dfln'l Muster Mr. .nrcAv. ha said
slowly, uncovering the tip of one yelloe
tooth In the faintest suspicion of a smile,
"It Isn't any real use. Well. I won't
offer to shake hands, but I'll wish you a
pleasant summer after you've forgotten
this row. Shall I go flre't?." V"
It there was anything more to say, l
was too angry to think, ot It. "After
juU," I sold through shut jaws. ' Ooou
morning."
I followed him down tothe verandi
where we wont through a ytxnt6y or
leave-taking for tho benefit ot 'the people
In the wicker chairs. At th corner ?
the building, discreet swinging doors gave
entrance to tho -bar; and uo Mr. Tabor -started
down the drive, thero cam from
within a stream ot savage gutturals nnd
tho squeak' and clatter ot an overtlltel
chair. A. stock fellow In a flannel shirt
lurched through the swinging doors and
followed him at a clumsy run, cursing
In a tangle ot English and Italian so
tnpld. and furious that by the car alone (
should have thought halt a dozen people .'
were involved. It had the multiplied brll
llanoy Ot a virtuoso's; piano playing, Ot
tho dispute which followed, the words
woro Indistinguishable; but there was no
question that each was threatening tha
other. The Italian danced and raved and 1
gesticulated, whllo Mr. Tabor pointed a
steady forefinger and retorted In low and '
frosty monosyllables. And presently th 1
foreigner slouched back jnto the bar.
Which immediately filled wtlh babbling
bystanders. J followed ' tdi' find" him
standing physically with his foot upon
the low rail, and metaphorically with his 1
hack against the wall. , He was the samp
jnatj.thqt hod' pursued ur- trolley Kar,dt '
:.th day previous;" a medium. sized; sltfdky,
leathorcolored rascal in a shlhy black
suit and blue flannel shirt, with a blue
fur upon-hls face, ahd 'blue tott& mark
on his hairy hands.
(To Be Contlhuod Monday.)
$4J(P to $6.00 everywhere
LEWIS A,CROSSETT.Jn"c.,a
North Abingtoa, him.
Gun metal
blu'cher, Mlth
popular long
q uarter and
short furcpart.
Note the hug at
the heel and the
grip oa the foot
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