Hlustrations 5 AE
IrwinMyer
“PRETTY EYES."
Synopsis—Proud possessor of a
printing press and equipment, the
gift of Uncle Joseph to hig nephew,
Herbert lilingsworth Atwater, Jr.
aged thirteen, the fortunate youth,
with his chum, Henry Rooter,
about the same age, begins the pub-
lication of a full-fledged newspaper,
the North End Daily Oriole. Her-
bert's small cousin, Florence At-
water, being barred from any kind
of participation in enterprise,
on account of her intense and nat-
ural feminine desire to "boss," is
frankly annoyed, and not at all
backward in saying so. However,
a poem she has written Is accepted
for Insertion in the Oriole, on a
strictly commercial bas cash in
advance. The poem su 8 some-
what from the inexperience of the
youthful publishers in the “art
preservative.” Her not altogether
unreasonable demand for republi-
cation of the masterpiece, with
bauty unmarred, is scorned,
the break between Miss Atwate
and the publishers of the Or
widens, The Sunday followir
Florence's particular chum,
Fairchild, pays her a visit
are joined, despite Florence's open.
ly expressed disapproval, by Her-
bert and Henry. Florence will not
play. Patty and the visitors in-
dulge in a series of Innocent Sun.
day games. Among them is one
called “Truth,” the feature
which is a contract to write a ques-
tion and answer, both to be kept a
profound secret. The agreement is
duly carried out
IT
tha
of
PART i[l—Continued.
we 7
speak of Julia's
the
“1 say you won't
family,
engagement outside
you, Florence?”
“Papa!”
Julia write
“Yes.”
“To get
“It would
“To who?"
“*To whom,’
suggested primly,
“Mama!”
Aunt Julia
to? Noble Dill?
“Good gracious, no!” Mrs. Atwater
exclaimed. “What an absurd idea!
It's to a young man in the place she's
visiting—a stranger to all of us.
only met him a few weeks ago.”
she forgot Florence, and turned
to her husband,
expression
“It's just as I said.
Julia such a reckless thing!
“But we don’t know anything at
about remon-
strated.
“How
young?”
“All In
gasped, “Did Aunt
was engaged?”
she
she
married?
”
Seem 80.
engaged
to get
gain
her former
foreboding
wearing
of experienced
to do
the young man,” he
do you even know
the world she said about him
MmYFnqL-
At This, the Slender Form of Florense
Underwent a Spasmodic Seizure, in
Her Chair.
was that he's a lawyer. He may be
a widower, for all we know, or di.
vorced, with seven or eight children.”
“Oh, no, Mollie!”
“Why, he might!” she Insisteq. For
all we know, he may be a widower for
the third or fourth time, or divorced,
with any number of children. If such
a person proposed to Julia, yes know
yourself she'd hate to be disappoint
ing!”
Her husband laughed. “I don't think
she'd go so far as to actually accept
such a person and write home to an-
nounce her engagement to the family,
I suppose most of ler swains here
have heen In the habit of proposing
to her just as frequently as she was
unable to prevent them from going
that far; and while I don’t think she’s
been as discouraging with them as she
might bave been, she's never really
accepted any of ‘em, She's never been
engaged before.”
“No,” Mrs. Atwater admitted, “Not
She's never announced
“Well, I'd haté to have Julia's job
when she comes back!” Julla's brother
sald ruefully,
“What's that?"
“Breaking it to her ‘admirers.’ "
“Oh, she isn't going to do that!”
“She'll have to, now,” he said, “She'll
either have to write the news to ‘em,
or else tell ‘em, face to face, when she
comes home.”
“She won't do either.”
“Why, how could she get out of it?"
His wife smiled pityingly. “She
sit set a time for coming
has she?
Julia's
home,
ways to know she'll never
writes that all the family can be told,
she knows the news will leak
out here and there, in confidence, lit-
because
home they'll all have been
their first spasms, and after that she
hopes they'll just send her some for-
giving flowers and greet her
usher at the wedding!”
“Well,” sald Mr. Atwater,
afraid you're right. It
rather like Julia to stay away till the
of the worst Is over. I'm really
sorry for some of her love-lorners.
I suppose it will get whispered about,
they'll hear it; and there are
the poor things that
“I'm
does seem
of
ioudly.
“Which one?
“Noble DilL"
At this, the slender form
ence underwent a spasmodie
also noiseless,
“Y os"
ht
“He certainly
declared. “Noble's
last week that
sald Mr. Atwater,
suppose he will.”
will!" Mrs.
mother
told me
pen In his coffee as a lump of sugar:
and when any
either doesn't
one
know it, or else jumps
When he says anything, himself. she
they
‘hat he's talking about. He was try-
Julia went away:
gone Mrs. Dill
ng In her experi-
ence. She gays he doesn’t Inherit it:
Mr. Dill wasn't
about her”
Mr.
wasn't
ng enough before
since she's heen
anything like
Atwater smiled faintly. “Mrs
anything lke Julia”
said his wife “She
a sensible girl, I'd hate
y her place, now, though.
ils Noble about this!”
“How can Mrs. Dill tell him.
he doesn’t know it herself”
perhaps she ought to know
80 that she could tell him. Some
ought to tell him, and it ought
done with the greatest tact. [It
to be broken to him with the
wns
“Well
the consequences
“Nobody could foretell
quences” her hushand
the conse
interrupted
“No,” she sald "1 suppose that's
I think he's likely to lose his
ly, though”
“Do you think we really ought to
tell Mrs. Dill, Mollie? 1 mean, seri-
ously: Do you?
For some moments she considered
his question; then aswered, “No. It's
possible we'd be following a Christian
course in doing It; but still we're rath.
er bound not to speak of it outside the
family, and when it does get outside
the family I think we'd better not be
the ones responsible-—especially since
it might easily be traced to us. i
think it's usually better to keep out
of things when there's any doubt.”
“Yes” he sald, meditating. *I nev-
er knew any harm to come off people's
sticking to their own affairs.”
But as he and his wife became si.
lent for a time, musing In the fire.
light, thelr danghter's special convie.
tions were far from coinciding with
theirs, although she, likewise, was si.
lent—a strangeness In her which they
should have observed. But so far
were they from a true comprehension
of her, they were unaware that she
had more than a casuoal, young.cou-
sinly interest In Julla Atwater's en.
gagement and In those possible con-
sequences ¢» Noble Dill, which they
had sketched with some Intentional
exaggeration, and decidedly without
the staggering seriousness attributed
to thelr predictions by their daughter,
They did not even notice her expres.
slon when Mr. Atwater snapped on
the light, In order to read, and she
went quietly out of the library and up
to her own room.
On the floor, near her bed, where
Patty Fairchild had left her coat and
hat, Florence made her second dis-
covery. Two small, folded slips of
paper lay there, dropped by Miss Fair.
child when she put on her coat In the
darkening room, They were the re
plies to Patty's whispered questions,
In the game on the steps—the pledged
Truth, written by Henry Rooter and
Herbert Atwater on their sacred words
and honors. The infatuated spalr had
either overestimated Patty's caution,
or else each had thought she would
80 prize his little missive that she
would treasure it in a tender safety,
perhaps pinned upon her blouse (at
the first opportunity) over the heart,
It Ia positively safe to say that neither
of the two veracities would ever have
been set upon paper had Herbert and
Henry any foreshadowing that Patty
might be careless: and the partners
would have been selzed with the ut-
most horror could they have conceived
the possibility of thelr trustful mes-
sages ever falling into the hands of
the relentless creature who now, with-
out an instant's honorable hesitation,
unfolded and read them.
“Yee, If I got to tell the truth, I
know I have got pretty eyes,” Herbert
had unfortunately written,
you think so, too, Patty, because your
eyes are Herbert Illingsworth
Atwater,
100,
Jr.”
ner,
“Well, Patty, my
eyes are
Mind Was the Thought of Wallle
Torbin,
sure name is Henry
looter™
as my
Florence stood close to the pink-
droplight her
table, reading
pathetically
Her eyelids
precedented
stared,
to prepare
of
shaded electric over
mall white
again
dressing
and again these
little confidences
withdrawn to
sti sett
retiremen
WOers an ut
remarkably
mouth
itself for the attempted
f bulk beyond its total eapacity. And
tokens, so immoderate
the consequence of
8&0 she
while her seemed
reception
plastic
$ to be ordinarily
short poignant
were overiaid by others, subtler and
more gleaming, which wrought the
true significance of the contortion—a
joy that was dumfounding,
of horror,
Her thoughts were first of Fortune's
miraculously dovetalling into the
for the Sunday evening meal, and both
engrossed her mind the
of Wallle Torbin.
Master Torbin, approaching four.
feen, was In all the town the boy
most dreaded by his fallow.-boys., and
by girls of his acquaintance, Including
many of both sexes who knew him
only by sight—and hearing. He had
no physical endowment or attainment
worth mention; but boys, who could
“whip him with one hand” became
tually was
he Inspired was moral, He had a spe-
ercised clumsily enough by most hu-
in other words, he had genius—not,
however, genius having to
anything generally recognized as art
or science. True, If he had been a
violinist prodigy or mathematical prod.
igy, he would have had some respect
from his fellows—about equal to that
he might have, receivéd if he were
gifted with some pleasant deformity,
such as six toes on a foot-—but he
would never have enjoyed such deadly
prestige as had actually come to be
his. In brief, then, Wallle Torbin had
a genius for mockery.
Almost from his babyhood he had
been a child of one purpose: to in-
crease by ghastly burlesque the suf.
ferings of unfortunate friends. If one
of them wept, Wallle incessantly pur.
sued him, yelping In horrid mimicry:
if one were chastised, he could not
appear out-of-doors for days except to
encounter Wallle and a complete re.
hearsal of the recent agony. “Quit,
papa; “pah-puh, quee-yet! Ill never
do It again, pah-puh! Oh, lemme
alone, pah-puh!”
“1 may have a slight surprise
for you"
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Thirty years after, one puzzles In
valn over why he could dance from 9
p.m to 4 a. m, and enjoy it,
|
The girdle shares with the
ingly new feature of this winter's
clothes, Honors are about evenly divid-
Perhaps
talked of than
fashion correspondent,
sleeve has been more
new girdles are so elaborate
to plunging into heavy expenditure on
out one of these girdles,
sleeves she must have,
is llkely that less expensive coples of
the
all
that these will
exclusive frocks.
the firms showing exclusive models
are putting great stress on girdles,
These are, without doubt, a very im
portant part of the costume, and, al
though elaborate, they many
slimpler ways of girdling dresses. The
addition of a new girdie ls an excel.
lent means of feluvenating a last
venr's frock.
It may safely that
never have been more important
they are In the present fashions. Pai
united on this fen
every sult cr
be seen on
At
present
suggest
be sald
ture, Every dress
ries some sort of
y every one of whic
waistline,
Models of Ancient
AS the new
n style, so also are the girdles
f them are devel
metal, and the Paris
£50
low
Inspiration,
ixsance
Many
in perforated
»
dresses are Rena
oped
dressmaker gets
one of thes:
The
less
or
sometimes
fifully worked
ifter the style
that period.
will recall that
ibout the Seventh century
miths' trade be
interesting way ! thelr work
an Important part in the art histors
of both France and Italy, culminating
LJ the nes
decorations of the Empire perio
A remarkable
girdles
the
nan
steel girdles farmer
are gilver all bean.
in
of
(ine starting
the gold
to develop In
an
plays
were, In elaborate bre
thing about the
is that thes
1se¢«l on even
Lanvin
dresses. on
and on tal
instance
most dressy
them
dresses
fumes
santin
velvet sults,
atter they are
around the figure and of even width
Those for evening dresses have the
rnaments across the front
Ke breastplates In fact,
he ideas are taken from the armor of
might
they
the
uses on
of
lored
chaped
4
nany of
period,
at
out to
One
them If
the Renalssance
nder In looking
$
ive been brought take
ice of the
On Day and Evening Dresses.
It will also be recalled that the
worn
not
tOrset
®t corsets were
of the dress and
Nese girdies
perforated gi
the front take
oF 2}
Combined With Jet
bochons.
Large
dresses. Another novelty belt at this
house is the wide Egyptian
hand embroldered, the width of the
girdle being from 12 to 15 Inches
From It hang long fancy Oriental tas-
soln,
Such girdles are sold separately If
n customer so desires. As the dresses
are so «imple and the girdles so elab-
orate, an order Is often given for a
girdle alone, the Intention being to
use it on frocks which the purchaser
already has,
Another idea borrowed from the
Renaissance period is the padded gir
dle of embroidered silk. These are
often In materiale matching the dress
or of a handsome hroeade, The padded
part Is placed across the front and
naturnily enlarges the waistiine,
A ondded belt Is astonishing, espe.
with the thickest
stomach. It is, Indeed, the hour
curveless figure, In some of
the Lanvin models one sees a double
girdle In this padded style
which the fullness of the skit drap
ery Is somethnes drawn in puff style
fn la Juliette,
Lanvin has many beautiful girdle
effects, most of them taken from the
Polish Renaissance styles. Some sre
padded, and novel in both thelr com
position and adjustment, On both
cially
the
part across
and evening dresses
mnkes use of the apron effect and the
interesting of her
adjustment of the apron drapery.
many belts are made of scales
INE La & p
Be 7
Type of Girdle of Meta
Which Is Meeting With Favor ir
Paris.
together Ingeniousis
These are
ve A v
goid fn
ibs of metal set
} the
14
oid
make belt flexible
and «
scales
steel, silver
Sometimes steel are con
bined
with large cabochons of fet,
Every imaginable design is used fo;
beaded girdles both In cold
These often finis}
h
walt} + vy « # 1
ike ornam and tassels
heavy
ents
and xilk., the
often
Tin and Steel
Leather
tiisse OMe
recalling Chinese effects
Adorn New Clothe
ornaments with steel nal!
on the new girdles
lored leathers stodde
steel nallheads
girdles =
on Yers
fr the ometimes
ninating
Another
ntroduced
in an ormament
interesting girdle eof
Lory
by Lanvin iz obtained
a tht
2 ii
name of
every material
nt one time or
been clothes of paper and clothes of
but It remained for the design
von
er of the present day to make wearing
apparel from tin and Tin is
in hi or and has met with a ready
ance, judging by the amount of
wom.
ston]
gh fas
Cent
It was the Paris creators who first
thought of using this metal. Many
f thix winter's French hats show a
trimming In the form of large
leaves with the metal slashed to rep.
veining
tin
rosent
binck plush hat
maker who favors sneh trimming
bende are formed Into fringes.
Iy¥ related to the old-fashioned stom.
They give the appearance of
metal frames omamented
with all sorts of unusual embroidered
ings and cordings, jets and
strings of pearls and various beads.
carried out in dress trimmings and
it, therefore, may be sald tc be dis.
tinctly a Lanvin feature.
Gone are the days when one pald
any consideration to the size of one's
waistline. It Is a far cry from the
days of the hourglass figure, snugly
helted ®0 as to appear as small as
possible, to the present day corset.
lesa figure wearing a girdle of fur or
one consisting of great puffy silk
roses that are stuffed to make them
appear even larger.
Premet Is one French maker who
uses fewer belt effects or girdles than
any of the other houses, as so many
of her models are draped In such a
way as to form a figuregirdliing out.
line,
Cleaning a Toaster,
A small soft paint brush Is just the
thing for cleaning an electric toaster,
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The Kitchen |}
{| | Cabinet |
Sr rrr rd
Gpyrighs, 1921, Western
Who is
#nys the
No inde
the wrong
ment,
Newspaper Bieta
the wisest womar who
right thing at the rt
J-—trit she who |
things at the ter
she
DISHES OF CURRY.
fare the little
“when they are
good they are
very, very good,
(if you like cur-
ry) and when
they are bad they
are horrid.”
Oue thing is
best borne In
mind when using
that Is to cook it with the
ingredients of the dish, when possible,
In the Orient there are forty or more
ways of preparing curry powder and
the
Dishes
girl with
of curry lke
the curl,
curry and
there flo we get perfection
fruit
we have been
mincement and
the
tO use,
kind
accustomed
Curry of Succotash.—~Take two cup-
fuls each of fresh | > and
or two cans of each : heat
asoning
flat
digh : cov Fr 3 h ry sauce il gerve
with pe
mashed
cooked corn,
untii hot
with gait. ne Wer mld hu * On A
nked
potatoes and chutney
Curry Sauce.—Simmer two table
spoonfuls « butter,
large onion
finely minced, then add one tart apple
cook three minutes; then add
chopped :
1 of }
one-half cup highl
etable stock or water
ul of stock and one cupful o
which one dessert spoonful
Chicken Curry. —nut
ing bird and fry brown in oll
in
ove fre the frying pan and
» oven. Mix together
spoonfuls each of flour and curs
der, then add gradually one
stock Fry two sliced onions in the
hot fat, add the prepared stock, cook
five minutes, then turn |{ he chicken
Cover and allow to fifteen
minutes Serve hot wolled
soned § 4
more
two table
pow-
1 of
“OR.
rice, seems too
¥
!
fa
“If 1 knew that
A word not
Might leave its trace on
face,
I'd never speak
kin
harshly
If I knew that the light of a smi}
Might linger the whole i
And brighten some heart with
heavier part
1 wouldn't withhold ft
day
would
FOR DINNER TODAY.
True economy means wise dist
between essentials and non
This applies to
of
noe-
tion ORL
the
as
Fruit
OREO
tials
economy strength
well as materials,
d vegetables are
ial to good health: eggs
meat
not an
mod-
Cream is
fat;
are essen us
substitutes and
extravagance when
erate in price
an easily
an wied
aige
necessity
ik is an absolute Y.
A meal the
needs of the body is not an economical-
ly prepared meal, although If the day's
are balanced the result is the
which does not meet
meals
same,
Hamburg Steak.—Do not buy the
chopped ment but get a plece of round
steak, put it up with some suet or
pork through the meat chopper, season
with onion, salt, pepper, a bit of clove
and form into flat cakes. Broil or pan
broil and serve with a brown sauce,
Baked potatoes with boiled cream on-
fons will be good vegetables to serve
with this dinner,
Chicken With Corn—Scrub and
roll in seasoned flour and brown in a
little hot fat. Lay the pleces In a
baking dish and cover with milk. sim-
mer slowly for two hours or longer,
Season well when half cooked and
add a cupful of corn or more. The
fresh corn, cut from the cob, is best,
Serve the chicken
with corn and gravy poured around it
Stuffed Onions.—Parboll large-sized
onions, take out the centers, leaving a
cavity to hold the filling. Chop the
onion, which was taken from the cen-
ter, mix with cold sausage meat or
bacon and bread crumbs with season
ings. Fill the centers, pour around.
add good beef broth or add water and
butter. Bake until the onions are ten-
der, basting occasionally, Cover with
a spoonful of buttered crumbs and
brown just hefore serving,
Tomato Custard.—Fut into a but
tered baking dish one pint of canned
tomatoes, one teaspoonful of sugar,
one fablespoonful of scraped onion,
one-fourth cupful of fine soft bread
crumbs, Beat four eggs slightly, add
one-half teaspoonful of salt, one tea-
spoonful of sugar and one and one
half cupfuls of hot milk, Pour it over
the tomatoes and bake in a moder
ate oven until the custasd is set.
Neric Magee,