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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