HI Bt p= DRRRAT $— $—4—4—1 THE CHARMING CHANDLERS ! a (ppt (© by D. J. Walsh.) UCIA IVES met Mrs. Chandler at a meeting of the Woman's club and fell in love with her. With great enthusiasm she told her husband all about her new ac- quaintance, “She's charming, charming, I wish you she was dressed. Do you know Mr. Chandler? Isn't there some way you can get to know him?" she Inquired anxiously. Alvin shrugged his shoulders, “Oh, 1 know him now—in a Run up against him two or three times lately at the club. But let me tell you one thing, Lu, we can't go fn for all the things the Chandlers do. We haven't the money. 1 sup pose he gets twice the salary 1 do. and then his father is pretty well fixed, I hear.” Lucia’s blue eyes sparkled. “All the more reason why they should be nice to know. All our quaintances are in the hunzalow class except the [leaths, and the Chandlers live over on Hope Hill- right next door to the Adelbert Bald: wins. I'm going to call with Mrs. Hillis.” “All right. simply could see how Alvin, wy. qe- on her the son ut us 1 say" three-year-old ¢ ap- In proach of his } the child terrupted Alvin, He eaugh up and began to play with him, Lucia did gosto call on Mrs. Chand ler In company with Mrs. Hills who possessed a small roadster—sec ond hand, but who would have known It since Archie Hillis gave It that coat of varnish? Lucia wore the hlue linen that had been of her troussean and had so agreeably admitted of he. ing made over. Altogether they a very nice appearance, the two them, and Mrs, Chandler was delight. fully sociable, Lucia, it was true, was a little palled by the size and appearance of the Chandler house. The of her new black pump sank an inch inte the pile of the lovely rug and the velvet chalr nearly swallowed up her small proportions, Mrs, Chandler served them with ced tea nnd cakes, presented by a maid. and had her own son, four-year-old Gilbert, brought in for the eallers Gilbert did somehow fall to Lucia favorably. He walked up close to her and stared at her. “Have you got a boy?" ed. And when she assented, ed: “Bring him over, 1 want play with me.” Lucia told Alvin bert was not as mother, Still, children to it families, Suppose Normar bert lasting chm 30 to college together! Enter busi ness together! What a delicious tion. Mrs. Chandler returned Luela’s eall, but to Lucia’s disappointment she did not bring Cilhert, She made an ex cuse—he was taking his afternoon nap. Lucia brought awakened from ly pink and Chandler took heedless silk, and him, while exultation, Then for two or three weeks Lucia saw no more of her new acquaintance There came ar Sunday afternoon beautifully still and warm. when Lu cia felt an intense longing for a little excitement, Lunch was over. Nor. man had awskened beautifully re freshed from his nap, Alvin had read the paper through and she wanted a place to show the new frock which she, with the ald of Miss Gray the dressmaker, had fashioned from hor old gray crepe de chine, “let's go and see the Chandlers, Alvin,” she suggested. “She asked me to come some Sunday afternoon and bring Norman,” “I'm willing,” Alvin arose unexpect- edly. As they strolled toward Hope HIN Lucia felt that they looked altogeth. er too nice to be walking; they should be in one of the ears that passed so rapidly. Perhaps—her pulses guickened—perhaps the Chand fers would take them for a spin in thelr wonderful new Swift “1 wonder if | were in thelr places and had a Luda, and Alvin and a Norman come all the way to eall” she thought girlishly. “I'd t. ke them up the long lake road and bring them back to supper. cool and cholee, served on the veranda.” It was possible that Mrs. Chandler might feel the same way The Chandlers were at home and looking a iittle bored, but thelr wel. come was not effusive, “So hot, Isn't It?" murmured Mrs Chandler, dabbing at her nose with her handkerchief. “Now, Gilbert, take the little boy and play with him nice ly. Show him all vour toys” Lucia settled back In the deep wicker chair luxuriously. Cigars had already pussed between Alvin and her husband and they seemed to be find ing something to say to each other She likewize tried to be entertaining Half an hour passed when It be came evident that Norman and Gil bert were having trouble Norman was trying to get upon Gilbert's trl cycle and Gilbert was In a most un host-like way trying to pull him off, an foe green she to see, impress he demand he add- him to ht Gil charming as his she thoug there wn cement i should become Chandler & sounding Norman in, just hecoming Mra quite his siesta, dream him on of wrinkling patted him little Lueia Vey «1. her lan, her and preened marvelous to with cooed Norman was not pugnacious, but he held his ground, It was not until Gil bert struck him that he fell off the machine with a volley of shrieks that brought Alvin to his feet, Down the steps went Alvin and to the ald of his son, while the Chand. lers sat immobile, and Lucia, al- though burning with anxiety, dare not move. Norman had a bruise on his dear little cheek and a stain on his new sult. Lucila bit her lip, “Guess he'll need a compress,” Al vin sald. “We'd better be Lu" As Lucia arose the Chandlers be- gan to murmur apologies. But It was tao Inte. Alvin was angry, Lucia was fairly in tears as she spoke the nec- essary farewells and followed after her grandly stalking husband who had Norman against his shoulder. “That ends the Chandlers ns far as I am concerned,” Alvin sald, Lucia could not find a word to say. She was disappointed, distressed, troubled abou Norman, She could not blame Alvin for saying what he thought, A soothing compress with a touch of Florida water soon made Normin all right. They were fussing with him when the telephone bell rang. Lucila answered It “Mrs. Heath! You We weren't here-—- we'd love to, Mrs, turned excitedly to Heaths want us to go the Inke and stay to supper after ward, Oh. Alvin, isn't that fine? Alvin, holding Norinan, her gloomily. “The Heaths amount to They're not petty upstarts HE Hereafter you to the bridge that's earried you my dear,” he sald. rung he just eame In Heath," She Alvin. "The for a ride to have fore? Oh, fat foaked -—{ "handlers, hest stick safely over, Lu, Barclays of Londen Creat Banking Hous: of Barclays ins tin y time have und ich The history hank the titutions wi from been hr under its control, and hich make It rit ost une of th 3 nin, Kays f.ondon Morning i period of from XE to the extends over J} years, Mr. PP. W. Matthews, spector of the London Bi ing house, who, with the nssistance A. WW. Tuke, a local d } has compiled the b 3 banks, in rector of Bar clay and mental wor In the period under review the char acter of changed. The igiOry BHCC producing a mony completely h-bank Seven has golds und trader-bankers of the and bankin early ers teenth " teenth conturies, con sisting of indivi art nerships, have given place to the big of “Towarc the duals and smail today. end of the Elgl the staff institutions teenth century of Darclavs consist ed of three clerks, and on the appear ff new clerk com fer the first ime he in the follow i nwing ioe of the third ns with hrond sone cont hal ree buttons, Rapped sleeves Worn H of waistcoat the in powdered hale with pig and a golden those faotmen of wolien the Green day. reaching with an buttonhole ; the present an dered nearly own bouquet knees the in enormous a corked hat, tail, a bag wig. cane similar carried by the rank.” There 1s a recorded legend attach Ing to David Bevan, the father of Robert Cooper Lee Bevan, one of Bar clays directors in 1888, who died two later at Trent park. It was sald of the father that he fell asleep during a sale by auction and, nodding at the psychological moment, awoke to find himself the owner of Trem park. There Is a story of another diree tor, Douglas Kinnalrd, He was “a conspicuous figure In the political and literary circles of London” and » close friend of Lord Byron, who made him his trustee and dedicated to him his “Hebrew Melodies” It Is sald that the poet once asked the hanke: to act as his second In an duel with Southey, but that fortunately pence was restored, mainly hy the “serio humorous expostulations” of the relue tant second, headed to subsequently of years Franklin’s Thrift Chain It Is possibly not well known tha! lenjamin Franklin originated one o the most practical and beneficial “end less chain™ schemes ever developed. A friend In need asked lum for » small loan. Franklin accommodated him, but Instead of asking for the re turn of the money he asked that the gum be given to some person In need of assistance, This person In tary wis to give the money over to still an other worthy Individual, How far the “chain” was carried before being broken, history does no record. ut the Iden was character istic of Franklin's sound common sense and generous Impulses, Thrift Magazine, Their Omission Audrey's mamma had taken her to the pleture show, and as the prelimi nary explanations began to unroll the child evidenced Increasing Interest After she had read, "Story by Pen dally. directed by Puffer, photographed by Snapp, assisted by Short, titles by Begnd and Begash, eriticlams by Grimm. costumes by Scant and Short passed by the national board of cen sorship,” she begun to Inugh, “Mamma” she gayly sald. “they haven't told who removed the gentle man's Appomntiox, of why,"- Kansas City Star, Several Reasons for Vitality of Village Near large cities, of course, reul es tute subdivisions intlate the little set- tlements, and they grow out of all recognition of thelr former selves, go- ing well along the way to becoming cities themselves. But farther away the contributing factors to continued existence are some extremely modern developments which one would hardly suspect. The country depends upon the automobile; the country people learn that it ean take them away from their isolation and provide that temporary escape so necessary to a tranquil existence, Very well, then, what need to move away permanently from a familiar and pleasant location where the family is comfortably set tled? If they wish to anywhere for a change there Is the cur. Then, of course, radio i= another In fluence, for It districts a full information RO measure of entertain ment, which of that that is prized of all, sophistication : pen the telephone con existence wore sant and nects friends and relatives Tuking into the vitality of the village puzziing It has survived the era of change and mastered a difficult situa by adopting the changes itself in The less arduous, these things is tion sted United towns, of States und it resisting progress, full of Is sufe to predict will is still circumstance ve for Hudelphin Record. Con many 3 veways and Walks that lends of the than neat, artis placed walks and driveways ul thought given te their plac rhaps there Is nothing to the ngs of a nppeRrance sur home : and arrangement at the tite thes built will than in the ntiractiveness more repay they will Ey ibill to the exterior of the home fawn offers a variety of poss in location and arrangement, Like streets and highways, and driveways mus » igned to meet the needs of those While it is general who use them desirable to have them take the most direct route, pleas effects can often be obtained by ¢ use of gracefa uryes It is folly fo « Riroy a fine to be in line * is partially hidd is ip of trees or bushes, ling such ion curves, must tree provis miade for the growth of from raising or cracking ithe to prevent it the concrete, Build Permanent Home The permanence of the home is Just as important as the per. manence of all other buildings, yet cerned about the durability of the ma that go into about that into schools, structures and the mere fact of difference In buildings seems to have ference in the public mind. are everywhere acknowledged to the bulwarks of the country. and the type and number of homes are usually taken as a good criterion of the xin. bility and prosperity of a population, terials homes as hosp like. those so #0 oice made a ’ Zoning Gaining Favor Among outstanding achievements of the last year or recent years, says the Kansas City Times, are the passing of enabling acts In more than 8 score of states which legalize zoning In cities nnd towne; the decision of the United States Supreme court which estab lished. In 8 definite and comprehen. give way, the constitutionnlity of zoning; the growth of the regional planning idea, and notable progress In several large cities In the actual car ving out of zoning and planning pro visions Keep Woodwork Painted The home owner who remembers that unproiected wood weathers and decays, protects It by keeping it well painted at every point. The tough flexible waterproof film which good paint forms over wood Is a needed protection, rewanrdirg the home own er hy value and appenrance main tained over a long period of years, Saving Trees and Shrubs When building a home It Is advise able to make the contractor respon: gible for trees and shrubs you wish saved. This may be done hy includ ing a statement concerning them In the general conditions of your con: tract. Fence Fraines House To the artistic eye u home is a ple ture with the house as the center of interest, around which group. in pleas Ing composition, those other elements that create an atmosphere of restful Sports Fur Coats Liked by Misses Straightline Models That Combine Furs and Ma- terials Get O. K. The sports models in fur coats have eome to the fore as the season ad- vances, The desire for straightiine coats with effective eombinations eof either different pelts or a eloth fab. rie for trimming bas led to the ere- ation of cents that are exceptional ly chile. The flat furs, such as natural neelot, earncul, krimmer, pony, beaver, calfskin, otter, nutria, sealskin, heared leopard eat, leopard and kid skin, ereate some of the newer sports models. They are usually designed slong the simplest of lines with a flare noticeably nbsent. A feature of these eonts Is the eombination of a longer halred fur for eollars and cuffs principally wolf—or the use of wool én materials in ereating the popular Tomboy ealinr. The Introduction of colors that are bright and youthful are seen In the conts that mse a cloth collar, cuffs and odd bindings and pipings on the cout, Diagonal effects are extremely im- pertant in the for fashionable furs. Spiral workings are frequently Trimmings to lenther pipings, skunk like silver fox, blonde badger. mode pelt used, also run pointed fox and Straightline Coat in Light Grav Cara cul, Gray Wolf Trimming Rabbit «kin in inter combined to new and often dyed shades are sports effect Young =n picture give n Loretia tion well known uciress, worn, Epworis mo clothes for stralecht whose has chosen model a line coat in light grey earaecul trimmed in gray wolf. A black clvet har lends another new note to the ensemble, smartly close fitting Frayed Edge Is Among Fashions for Winter The latest innovation in piece mode which distinguishes the present from the mode of the pass season is the frayed edge, according to Delineator “Whenever one thinks one knows all about the three-plece mode, some thing happens. Frayed edges hap pened this season. Instend of the peual binding of edges and hems” says the Fashion Monthly, “the fab ric of the frock Is raveled omil ot mikes a self fringe. This Is done to finish the lower edges of skirts and blouses, to trim cuffs, collars und seart ends. It has the casual touch tha suits it to the sports mode and is en tirely new ™ three the New Stocking Without Heel Identification Now that most women have bad their (il of the new types of stock lugs. or rather the fancy heels that one has seen on them in recent rea song, it is time for a change Along has cone a new stocking that is with aut any heel Wentification, but instead nue un shadow like seaming down the tatek or, in other words, a =light rein forcement for abomt a hallinch on either side of the seam. This extends from the sole to the very top and is very becoming, giving an unbroken fine from the heel of the shoe to the hem of the dress, This new stocking Is made in chiffon and medium weights, and in all the new colors Dress More Elaborately for Pre-Dinner Hours The more formal afternoon frocks preddinuer hours. One many dress in silks und velvets if one wishes There wre velvet conte trimmed with masses of fur. Shawl collacs ot times reach to tie fect. Others rench to the waist Hoe, snd then sprout Inte panols of fur which increase in width as they Velvet and Lace Back Among Season’s Fashions Here is shown another creation feading couturiers. This model is of orchid tissue welvet, with collar and cuffs of ecru lace. The shirring at buckle, Late Fashion Notes of Interest to All Women vet oul of felt and ve fire most when earried in wis tailored blue suits Russian cross work irked on oyster linen, of neck ele, Is worn sport in . & tine consisting wing enrrines new costumes that arf of the hour of slik, either striped or In squares It is about the throat much as a man wears his muller, The new velvet that Is transparent is mo that u great is predicted for it are now equally suitable worn lovely EUCCPES shown in black. They sre for afternoon or eve ning wear. The sn for Httle fen of six, of all, is made eal coat lelivgte ry upon ariest new evening frocks wes lout ends is #0 that The effect feminine amd graceful indeed Is for lds and rhinestones are the new cos jewelry evening Combing tions of emera particularly popular and many pieces can he obtained In the same desizn The little a plaid stre girl who goes to schoo! In and a tan swester Is well dressed little come in differ skirt tn be n girl The swenters several ent models A weleome fox neckplece those 3 of change from the much worn are gkins that nhont the now KR. two sable oan twisted eclonely throat A short jacket with flared skirt Is made by a French designer and mod eled after the blue enat of a French soldier. It is donble breasted and trimmed with fur dved to match hive of the cont, Close fitting felts are wonderfully hecnming this sepson, especially the ones that are cut in nn straight ine with the eyebrows and down over the enrs {lke enr-flaps The two-skirt frock Is a new, charm. ing end practical Innovation. Over a straight-line frock of hiack «lik is an extra skirt which i« cracefully gath. ered and which can be used, If one prefers, as a shonlder cape. The only “note of color ig the gold metal ends to the three hows which adorn the front nf the hlouse, Paris Dressmaker Says No “Prevailing Fashion” There Is no such thing ne “the pre vailing fashion™ or “the prevailing mode” In women's clothes declares Madeleine Viennet, famous Paris dressmaker, in the Delineator. Mue Viennet strongly deplores the constant ory of American women for what they rerm “new modes” “The mode,” says the Parisian cou turiere. “no longer consiste for me of noything more than the best mannor of draping a given fabric over a given woman, fo that each shall show off the other to the best possible ad vantage. Every woman ought to have her own manner of dress, her ‘mode ~and this is the mode which 1 should be only too happy to seek for each it she would only follow it. Women ought only to ask of our skill and our experience the, ability to bring ow their own selves, not to create for them a uniform of which they wilt rapidly tire, forcing us to constam clmnge. Wowen, according to thet: uge and their nstural conformation may be divided into four dr five well defined entegories, and it is very rar for the mode of one season to dress decently tore than one or (wo o these types” A Wife's Transformation The Story of the Comeback of 8 Woman Gone 10 Seed By Mary Culbertson Miller INSTALLMENT X Manicure Difficult Job. {E process of shaping those rag- ged nails and softening the skin with ¢reams began, “The hands of a gentlewoma. are one of the most con spicuous symbols of her station. They establish at once her habits and ber gentility. Fve watched women whose every gesture in eonversation reveals them,” said the operator, pow a busy manicurist, “And In consequences their care Is & matter of supreme im- portance.” She paused, looking for a special tool. “You never notice” she went on, “how much you show your bands unless yew particularly want not to show them™ Eagerly Helen watched every move- ment of the operator. The cuticle the well around to groomed hand, and the skin from many little white And underneath told a tale of “Do you use the point of a regular file to clean your nails, ma- To that Helen nodded: Very properly she was horrified, “Oh, my dear madame — you must never use a sharp instrument; It the nails, aod dirt edges In the scratches” “Then that's why I could never get Care of Nails, “If you will rub vaseline In under the nnils that will seften and clean will rub remove ugly stains, in cold eream nightly. me nourishment as And, madame, see that your buffer is nlways clean, as a dirty buffer only rubs in dirt instead of pol- Esch nail should be rubbed Press the skin around the where “It belongs with your every time you wash so that the show. Muassag- You must faces, separately. towel iten It. ft and seems It will also keep the to make the What a little will do for neglected hands and ”» care “How long will it take before my “If you persist in rubbing the skin food in every might-—six professional to give your homds a Madame's bgnd very pretty when her nicely normal 81 arance, 5 in a nice The roughened skin will have by that and we'll surface” “Are you finished with Mrs Crane? inquired “The bain nk nails, shaped ime (2 by the Dell Byndicate, Inc.) Nickname of Cockney The man came down to breakfust “A quiet eonntry boliday 7” be grum- to a farmer's daughter. “Why, pandemonium was unexampled. roosters crowing. horses neighing—no, 1 didn’t sleep a wink.” The pretty daughter of the farmer gave a tittle laugh. “You city people have such perves!™ she sald. “None of you can stand our pastoral repose, you are all like the cockney.” “What cockney?” he asked. “The first, the original Cockney.” the replied. “He left London, just like you, to spend his holiday In the country, and just like you the noises wouldn't let him sleep. He sald at breakfast that the wild beasts’ roar Ing had been something frightful. And as he talked ® cock crowed. “That's the one’ he sald, excitedly, “That's the feller. He's been neighing like that all might” The girl laughed. “And ever since that time,” she sali, “Londoners have heen called cockneighs."—London An- EWers, “Get Even,” but Do It in the Right Manner We all believe in getting even—and keeping even, But there is a right way and a wrong way to do this. The right way helps and blesses avery body, including ourselves: the wrong way harms us most of all Perhaps you have never thought of It in Just this Hight. Yet it is very true that a resentful thought, a deed prompted by the spirit of revenge, 13 sure to prove a boomerang. returning fo smite the one who sent it forth. No matter what somebody else has sald or done, it isn’t possible to square the account In any such fashion, On the other hand, If we are wise enough te “square up” in the right way as we shall surely be when we have proved by metual test that It Is the right way: If we meet ani- mosity with friendliness In thought, and word, and deed, If we sometimes turn the other cheek Instead of slap plug back, If we even wish for others the happiness we desire for one selves—whit then?—Needlceraft Mag- azine. Wie
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