THE BEE OMAHA, THTRSHAY, MAY 2S, 19U.
cr
The Professor's
The First Breakfast
By Nell Brinkley
Mystery
BY WELLS HASTINGS
AND BRIAN HOOKER
Illustration! by Hanson Booth
Copyright. 1911, by The Bobba
Merrill Company.
You Can Begin This
Great Story To-day
by Reading This
First
Prof. Crosby casualty encounters at a
suburban trolley station Mies Tabor,
whom ho had met nt a Christmas party,
both being bound for the Alnsleys. On
the way thes trolley Is wrecked, near the
Tabor home, and there Crosby goes to
Pnd tho night. After retiring he Is
summoned and turned out, to find ac
commodations at a nearby Inn, no ex
planation being given him. He en
counters Mr Tabor In a heated debate
with u rough looking Italian the next
1ay, and learns the Italian Is one Caruccl.
Later nt the Alnsleys he meets Miss
Tabor asaln, and they are getting on
famously, when Dr. Walter Held, Miss
Tabor'M stepbrother turns up, and carts
her off home. Crosby Is warned he must
nut try to see Miss Tabor again. Ho
persists, and Is Invited to accompany her
on a midnight trip to tho city, where
they rescue Sheila, Miss Tabor's old
nurse, from the effects of an assault
committed on her by Caruccl, who turns
out to bs Sheila's husband. In escaping
.from the city with Sheila, they have a
.brUSh With the tlfllli-P. lillT nvnlrl Violnc
detained or identified. This gets the
newspapers JMO the game, and one of
tho reporters, who comes closest to the
trail, turns out to bo Maclean, an old
pal of Crosby's, who is persuaded to sup-
lucre uiu iauur name, anu to assist In
cleaning up the mystery. In the mean
time Crosby has gotten Into the good
graces ofthe Tabor family, has learned
l!lai 11 Js Margaret who wedded Dr.
Reld, while he Is In love with Miriam,
who answers to the family pet name of
imu). no ana .Aiaciean locate Caruccl
jvorklng with a sang of graders near the
"To rtrtf n nv a . .1 . .
. ,f"u uianuBe. 10 Stir UP
l quite a- row with him, when Sheila inter
! vonea. Crosby returns to the Tabors.
wnero ne gets into an intimate conversa-
tlOn With Mrs. Tahor rinlir , K. l.
'P',ed Sy,L"dy and her father! As a
t ZXl i. i J. conversation that To lowed
Lady Is left with her mother, who seems
TabnrycneJltd' Whl,e F80 an I Mr
?h. .u?.2.i haV? H smoko and talk over
the situation. Tabor explains that his
Thi6 lJltaItl has. becn shattered sine
the death of a daughter several years
r.i?fiTl,5Rid "V!1 con1'n are becoming
?rte?KS.Ie:Carucl '! thB torm-center.
a& -,Vheycattfe,tnat ne ,nust Rotten
rid of. Sheila Is to help. Crosby com
.h i. a " and encounters MacLean."
r.-..;.? it " . p aomo. iniormatlon as to
cartjccl. MacLean explains the situation,
that Is leading up to the solution of the
mystery. It Involves a visit to a spiritual,
ktlc seance, which Crosby makes under
- i. ncveiopes the
V ""1, vicieiiuB 10 promice the spirit of
rTor ? defid daughter, the wifo of
Dr. Held. Leaving the scene of the
seance. Crosby sees Caruccl on the street
and follows him to a drinking place,
where the Italian meet Dr. Held and a
giant, and drinks aro served for three.
It becomes apparent that Reld lias a
scheme on foot, for Crosby notes that
Caruccl' drink Is drugged, while neither
of the others In drinking. A large roll of
bills Is handed Caruccl Just before he
Vollapses and Is carried out. The giant
comes back with tho money and gives It
to Held. Crosby accosts neld, and they
quarrel. Held has planned to have
t-arucci shanghaied; Crosby meets Sheila
and tells her what has happened to her
husband. She- tells him of the death of
Miriam Tabor and her infant child, and
lays the blame on Dr. Reld. with a sug-
Bvmiuu wiai .-urs. jaoor nceas a priest
more than a doctor. Whl1 Onshv f
purzllng over Sheila's story, he Is called
on the telephone by Tabor, who tells him
Mrs. Tabor has started for town alone,
and asks Crosby to keep track of her.
I rosby encounters Mrs. Tabor, and goes
Mth her while she keeps an appointment
with the man Reld had twice taken
iferetly to the Tahor home. After the
Interview- Crosby takes Mrs. Tabor to
the depot where he encounters Sheila,
nnd to her he gives his charpe. On call
ing the Tabor home by 'phone, ho gets
hold of Dr. Reld, who seems put out bv
what Crosby learns. Crosby encounters
the mysterious stranger about to enter a
train to go to tho Tabors, and follows
Urn. finding out that he is Dr. Paulus, i
noted alienist.
Now Read On
f f f, i y
CHAPTER XXII.
I Learn "What I llnf to Do.
I did not sleep mudh that night: but it
was no longer the frustrate misery of
indecision. I was done with all that,
with beating myself aimlessly against
blind bars and running weary circles In
the w:heel, with tossing helplessly In a
Planning for the
Stork's Arrival
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Madame, Isdlclbs
"Seauiy Lesson-
LK!M.N VIII PART V.
The llnnd Their Possibilities.
Xalls properly kept are filed a little
every day and cutting is not necessary, hut
n the average case the operation Is com
menced by cutting the nails the proper
length nnd filing them Into shape. I'se
the file swiftly, taking one aid of tlr
nail at a time; round them nicely, follow.
Ing the shape of the fingers,
After the nails are the proper lensth
and shape, soak them for from three to
five minutes In the bowl of soapy water
to soften the. skin about them so It may
be easily manipulated. Now wipe the
fingers gently and with the blunt end of
the orange wood stck push down the.
skin at the base of the nails until the.
white half moon Is visible, taking car
not to break the skin. Rub away any
hard callous spot with the emery and
trim closely away with the scissors any
ragged bits of flesh. With the cuticle
knife scrap away any skin adhering to
the nails, but do this gently, so as not to
Injure or scratch the surface of the nails.
;lf the ends of the nail seem rough,
smooth them with the emery-board. After
this Is done the finger tips should be
nilt back Into the soapy water and
cleaned with the nail bruit!. If they r
not perfectly clean, put a. bt of cotton
wool on the pointed end of the orange
wood stick, dip It In the peroxide of hy
drogen and rub under and about the nallt.
The final step la to cover the nalU with
nail paste or powder and polish with tho
buffer, taking one nail at a time. Wsih
the nalla again to remove traces of pow
der or paste; they should now be rosy,
polished, perfect In shape and fret from
decolorations. If this li done once a,
week a few minutes' dally care of the
nails Is all that Is necessary.
In the dally care of the nail avoid tha
selstors. but file them a little every dij.
Never clean them with a metal Instru
ment; use an orange wood stick and' be
careful not to press this too far under tho
nallft so an to Increase the looso or white
part. To avoid this have' always on your
dressing table a bottle 'of strong soap and
water; put a bit of cotton on the end of
your stick, dip It In this and clean th
nails with It. It will not work so quickly
as peroxide, but the constant use of per
oxide will dry the nails and render them
brittle.
Note-The subject of "Manlcurlnj" was
partly covered In the last article. Lescon
VIII Is divided Into five parts and should
be read throughout to obtalnfull infor
mation on the subject
Here Is the end of a dream and a be
ginning! Past the awning of the little
breakfast "porch the Spring birds sing
and sail bluebirds a-mating and a-nst
Ing, too and maybe "out for brcabwat,
too," (thinks Love, as he licks his sticky
fingers. They started, you see, most
very decorously the groom In his morn
ing jacket, serenely squared at his trim
place his hair as smooth as a bird's
wing his face pink with the shock of Icy
water the little bride, her pUrla knot
ted high. In a sweet-smelllng lUtli break
fast gown of the heaven-blue of hr tyes
queening It across and around tne tall,
thin glass with Its qn fs'r, whits Ijrldr
rose. Tho table wae threo fee, across, I
reckon that's a Ions way, but they
found that hands could touch ,cr.i clsup'
across It. The bride poured the thick,
clear coffee from icr gleaming jot that
her best chum gave her. Love folded hit
fat lega tinder the table, sitting hetwetn,
and eyed the maj-maladj! And ono cf
the bride's monogramed nap'tlns muffled
his fat neck and stuck nut like ox'.ra
wings below his tars.
One of the groom's hands crept out and
edged the tall, thin vase on ln"i ir tuo
aside with a laugh. "Can't yo'i b;o your
golden face, sweetheart?" Miitn he- And
tha clear, brown coffee cooled and 'cooltd!
Love dropped his eye, tight d In Jeep,
sweet luxury and "waded Jn!" And the
groom's eyes called and tha little orldd's
two blue ones answered back and flint
thing, what with him a-cooxlnir nnd she
a slipping pussy-footed round the cloth
on her two little satin shoes first thing
the two of 'em were on ona ld of
the table!
Her chair yawned empty tho toast
hardened and the coffee grew cold a
ten-water fathoms down. ,
But Love-he ATE hit breikfttt-wlth
hit heart at peace tor "I have earned
a. rest," quoth he. "Lon8. tleeplefd.
moonlight nlghta love song and valks.
poetry and fastng-and strenuous dayt
1'vt had now I can EAT! 1 wasn't hun
gry then but now my birds aro under
one roof-trec--and Where's Hie marma
lade?" -NI5I.T, nillNKLLT.
Madams lie'belt't next, lesson will ha
entitled "The Present Fashions Aro
They Becoming' to tha Average Wonum''
Madame Ite'bell will discuss the present
freak fashions, the spineless figure, low
necked gown, th tpllt skirt, eto., t'elllnit
how they were originated In Pari, and
why.
i
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Amon those things which all women
should know of, and many of them do.
Is a splendid ex'.emal application told
In most drug stores under the name of
'Mother" Friend." It la a penetrating
liquid and many and many a mother tellt
how It so wonderfully aided them through
the period of expectancy. Its chief pur
pose la to render the tendons, ligaments
and muscles so pliant that nature's ex
pansion may bo accomplished without tha
Inton.. ilnln an fitter! characteristic Of
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iin penoa oi epi;wiivjr.
"Mother' Friend" may therefore be
considered aa Indirectly having a splendid
Influence upon tho early disposition of
the future generation.
Whatever Induce to the ease and com
fort of the mother should tear It Imprest
upon the nervous system of the baBy.
At any rate It Is reasonable to believe
that tinea "Mower s menu n u a
companion to motherhood for more than
- ...... (, I.., Via r remedy that
women have learned the great value or.
Ask at any drug store ror "Moiners
Friend." a penetrating, external liquid
or great help ana vsjuo. ahu
Ursdneld Regulator Co., 402 Lamar Bldg.,
AtlantaY GaT for their book cf useful
end timely information.
mesh of irresoluble circumstances. I saw
now what I had to do; and the problem
was not what the trouble might be, not
even what I must accomplish, but only
how I should accomplish IU The Caruccl
story might be true wholly, or In part,
or practically not at all;. It did not mat
ter. Assuming all of It, If Lady was
Miriam, and Reid had married her when
he waa not free to do ao, she waa not
his wife even In law. Whether his wife
was now living or dead made no differ
ence. Lady was not bound to him in
theory and certainly not in reality. She
waa free to come to me If she choae, and
I had only to make her see It.
But I did not for a moment believe
that the trouble was to directly her con
cern. Mrs. Tabor waa tnaane, or wua
feared to be, that waa beyond a doubt,
and that beyond a doubt waa the root
and center of It all; that waa what the
family had to elaborately striven to con
ceal, either because of the nature of her
Illusion, or because of some scandal In
the events which had brought It about.
That waa reason enough, granting their
determination to keep It secret, for all
that I had seen, from the midnight alarm,
which had driven me out of the house, to
Mr. Tabor' terror of the alienist; and
her absurd suggestion that he himself
waa Insane clenched th matter. What
supported It still more was that If this
were to, then all these honest people had
front point to point spoken the truth;
Mr. Tabor had, a he said, trusted me
to the edge of caution; Lady had told
the truth In fear, and Reld under pres
sure; Sheila had told the truth, only In
flated and colored by superstition- And
as I thought over the substance of what
she had told me, I wondered whether by
some chance her tale had not been truer
than I thought, nearer than even the
other knew to the heart of reality. I
would not take her ghost too literally;
but Mr. Tabor might have tome Illusion
of her dead daughter'! presence, and I
remembered the voice I called Miriam that
had spoken In the circle of tplrit seekers.
Waa there not surely some connection
here!
Vet, however that might be, It all closed
round a single need. I cared nothing,
after all, what the shadow might be, ex
cept a that concerned my taking Lady
away from It. It would be tike her loy
alty to feel the fam'ly trouble a bond
that she must not selfishly tyeak. but
like her girlhood to dream her mother'
delusion a taint that must forbid her
marrying. But he wa wrong In both,
and tomorrow I should tell her to and
take her away with me. Even If she
were right, I should do the ame: I had
grown to care for the others, and I was
not wholly careless of humanity; but In
the face of this greater matter, family
and race and right Itself, If need were,
might go to the devil. I was fighting for
her and for myself, and for that wherein
we two were one desire.
I fell atleep at last thinking of that,
and Imagining what X ahould need to say
and do; and the next morning I went
out to Stamford in a curious mood of de
liberation; feeling, on the threshold of
crisis, unnaturally calm and sure; aa If
I were somehow going with the stream,
a small embodiment of predetermined
force, a mouthpiece of the thing which
was to be.
Aa she had done once before. Sheila
opened the door fof me. It waa very plain
that the waa glad of my coming.
"Sure, If Mr. Crosby!" she exclaimed
softly. "Whafa the matter, air? You
look whlto and tired like. 'Tit all the
world teems upset lately."
"I want to see Mist Tabor. Sheila. Will
you tell her that I am here?"
"That'a the very thing I'm not to tell
her, sir. She tald moat particular that
ahe waa not to see any one today; but"
Sheila' frowned at me forbiddingly, "you
alt down an' wait a minute, tlr, an' I'll
do me bet. I'm a servant girl no longer
ordhera la nothing to me." '
"But, Sheila-" I began nervouly.
"But nothln. Mr. Crosby. Tou sit down
an' wait," and ahe wa gone before I
could y another word. I aat In the
great room, a if at the portal of Judg
ment day. every fiber of me keenly alive,
and yet my mind knowing no particular
focus of thought. The future gaped be
fore m like eternity, something too
vaguely large for definition or compre
hension, I remember that I kept whUper
Ing dryly to myself that man was master
of his fate, and feeling Inflnlteiimally
comforted by the sophistry.
The curtains of the room parted, and
Lady stood looking In my eye. I saw
before he spoke that she knew why I
had come.
"I waa sure that It waa you," the said
at last. '"Sheila told me that a young
man wa downstair, and that the could
not get him to go away "
"She told me," I said, "that you did
not wlh to see me. Was that truer'
Lady tank .wearily Into a chair. "Sheila
should not have let you In." the said. "I
wtt afraid that you might come here;
and you know that It wa wrong of you
to come. You know that aa well at I do."
She tpoke monotonously, with pausea
between the wordt. leaning back along
the deep chair. The laet few dayt mutt
have been hard onea for her. She waa
very pale, the little blue velna In her
temple djatlnct and clear lined. It tore
me to see her so; and for a' moment t
wondered If I had done well to come, and
felt a wave of that uncomfortable reac
tion which meets one on the threshold of
a test; for a moment only, then I knew
that even though I tired her th more,
It wa a price that we must pay for her
sake as well as mine. No good ever
comes of halt understanding.
"No. I don't know that," I said lowly.
"You don't believe that' I'm altogether
selfish, or that I would com now, when
I know that many thing have distressed
you, to give you any further reason tor
distress"
She leaned forward, one white hand
raised. "Please," she said, "I am not
sure not really ure why you have come.
But I am certain of this, that you have
made a mistake In coming. There's noth
ing on earth that you can do to help us
Just now there's nothing anybody can dp
there's nothing anybody can do."
"Oh, things aren't to bad aa that." I
kniw that I wat only temporltlng, and
raged Inwardly at myself.
Lady'a eyet dropped, anl one hand
played nervously with a loop of the
chain that hung about her neck.
"I don't believe you can understand
Juat how bad they are. The worat of It
la that I can't tell you oh, It wasn't fair
of you to come today" her voice broke
ever so little, and her eyes brimmed with
unshed tears-'Tm tired and disheartened,
and I want advice and comfort no, don't
come near me I can't tell you anythlng
there's nothing I can tell to anybody in
the world."
I wa standing before her. "No, 1
can't comfort you now," I said. "I'm here
to ask you things, and perhaps to hurt
you very much. But you mutn't think
I've come carelessly. I came because I
had to because there are things I have
to understand to go on living."
Her eyes were frightened, but the set
tled herself back at If to meet wbatevtr
blow my questioning might give. "I
don't think that you are very generous
today," she tald;. and her voice grew
harder than I had ever heard It. "Neither
shall I antwer anything that I may not,
But but perhapa you are right perhapt
there are tome thlngt that you have to
tay and have It done."
"You told me once," I began gently,
"that your name war Margaret. Waa
that true?"
(To be Continued Tomorrow.)
Mistakes Husbands Make
(S31,
I$y ADA PATTEHSOV.
Tti.w m I mini' fit thm. N'nM wlin
ha observed them will deny hls. The
husband thenuelvei will make no de
nial ao long aa the charge la not tpe-
olal, but general.
Nor will any
truthful p e r a o n
contradict the
tatemtnt that
ome of the mis
takes are very
grave. But It It
one of the leaser
mistake that
called forth ad
vice from a bril
liant New Yark
woman:
'Men have
progressed more
than women be
cause they have
alway mingled
with their kind, In public meeting places,
club and drink rendttvpu, where they
could play their games Hnd discuss cur
rent eventa," she said, "fntll now women
have for the moat part atayed at home
and accepted their men folk'a view.
There la a valuable euggeetlen in that
remark. It mlEht well be embodied In a
circular and aent to every married man
In America. By discouraging th women
of their families from association with
other women men are making one of their
many mlatakea, Like rooet mistakes they
art boomerang that react upon the per
sons who make them.
Home men like beauty. A few are In
different to It. All men become to used
to It when It Is under their own roof
and they have a dally vision of It that
they cease to prize It. But all men like
women they classify at "bright," by which
they mean entertaining. A "bright"
woman, aa men regard her, It one who
it mentally responsive without being ar
gumentative. They like Uer to aeore thera
In repartee, but to do to with a amlte.
No creature In trouaera ever liked a sar
castic woman, but every one of them
likes a "lively" woman. On one point
there haa never been a dissenting maaru
line voice. No man likes a low spirited
woman. Tha female pessimist I a mis
take of nature, or, better, of her own, for
It la in the power of every pealmlat to
become an optimist, Men Ilka women to
be quick: wltted, to be fairly well In
formed, to know a little Rbout every tub
Ject save those too profound. A man
want the woman of hi permanent Inter
est to be merry, chatty, sparkling, but
reaching no tiresome depths. The pro
found woman is to him as great a mis
take as the female pessimist.
The emblem of the woman of hit ad
miration, the woman he find compan
ionable, the woman he marries If he can.
Is the mountain atrtam, not the deep kpd
quiet lake. He choose vivacity and
hun profundity.
A husband's nilstake Is to expect his
wife to be "bright" without furnishing
her with the means of brightening. Ho
subscribes for the dally newspapers? Let
me remind him that Bacon has said;
"Reading maketh a full man." Books,
newspaper, magazlnea, add somewhat to
the fund of knowledge, especially If the
faculty of selection be employed. Perusal
of them will make a woman well In
formed, but thy do not make her
"bright." The husband who wants his
wife to be lllum'natlng may set her at
the school girl task of reducing her ex-perlencet-to
writing even in diary, and
of asking her to write synopses of the
chapters of novels she has that day read.
I know a college professor who Is "bring
ing up" a young w'fe In this way. But
again Baron: "Writing maketh an exact
man'' nnd woman. Presently I suspect
the college professor will find his wife
pulling his breakfast table temarka to
pieces and picking flaws In h a data lectures.
J
The man who ha tniri n iit rnAw-
and writing do for a man and woWin
h given u the bet recipe for making
an entertaining conversationally. "Con
ference maketh a ready man." AJlow
your wife to hold conference with other
woman, on, nusuand The danger of
her watlng her time at bridge whin?
There I that danger, I grant you. The
peril of her meeting tllly women at
hotels, teat nnd dances and of there
learning th vulgar art of flirtation.
There I some prll In this direction, I
grant you. and if you have married a,
feather headed woman, you are Indeed an
object of pity for all mankind. But riven
an average woman with an average he1
full of common aenie and the will be
better Instead of worae for talking life
and Itt problemt over with other women,
of her own or a tuperlor kind. Wherever
two or three women are gathered to
gether something eenalble la said and tht
something may be a torch in one of tha
dark placea of life in which your wife J
groping.
Even the art of light conversation l
one that mutt be learned. A woman
never learnt it by sitting frowlngly at
home alone. Solitude makes for tulltn
nea. If you want a "bright" wife let
her sandpaper her wit against those of
other women. If you find yqur life part
ner aulky and mopy when you come home
from work, ht-r mood Is probably not her
own fault I It youra. By instating upon
her having no women friends you hav
turned low the light of her Intelligence.
For youra ia not wholly a brightening In.
fluence, my lord man. If : ou fancy to
you are adding another to the mlttaket
husbands make.
36e ANDEKBIL T oi ef
7fwry5urth tStrcet east atdfiark &&enue3&aorJe
WALTON HlMAJVKAlXi, Manager,
An Weal Hotel with an Ideal Situation,
Summer lutes'
