WIFE (® by D. J. Walsh.) P IN the old doctor's library, kept with loving care just as he left it when he went on the long journey ten years before, crouched an old woman, with gentle but haggard face, More than one friend of the old doctor's wife had begged her to spend the day with them, thinking to save her some of the anguish of the sale. But the old woman was positive in her refusal She must stay at home, she said, to see that no harm came to any of the treasures and to bid them good-by and to know into whose care they were going. “Going—going!” called tioneer. “Why, gentlemen, lous! That desk Is worth $40, worth a cent. Offer something son.” “Five doorway. “ive dollars and ten cents, a harsh voice quickly. The old woman shivered. She had heard that rasping voice many times during the day, from one room to an- other, and now it had come to the doctor's loved library, where she was crouching. Giles Cady in very young days had entered her hushand's employ as office boy, then had studied medicine with him and finally been taken into partnership. In those days Doctor Brooks had been considered very well-to-do, and Giles Cady had pothing. Giles Cady was now well to-do, and it was he who was closing out the doctor's wife under a mort. gage for some money the doctor had borrowed, “Going tioneer: “going—" “Six dollars,” from the doorway. “Six-ten,” rasped Giles, the auce- it's ridien- if it's in rea- in the dollars,” sald a volce " rasped his going,” repeated the auc- along the hall into the library owner around. Then he walked straight to the old doctor's wife, “1 reached town only an hour ago, Mrs. Brooks,” he said in a low voice, “and just heard. 1 came straight here. I'm sorry, Isn't there some. thing | can do?” “Not a thing, Harry,” smiled the old woman, the tenderness returning to her eyes. “Just your coming has made me feel better. The doved his young people, as he called them, and you were one of his fave rites.” “He saved my life when I had that fever,” sald the young man in a troubled voice. “He sat up with me at least half a dozen nights 'in suc cession, 1 wish I could" “Going going—going.” singsonged the auctioneer. “Why, gentlemen!” “Six-fifty,” from the doorway. “Six-sixty,” snapped Giles. “Twenty-five dollars,” called young man sharply. All.in the room turned quickly, The auctioneer smiled, Giles glared. “Twenty-five-ten,” he yelled. “Thirty.” Giles stamped across the room. “What do you mean, sir—-what do you mean?” he sgpluttered, “Why, that I may get the desk. of course. What did you mean by bid- ing against the others? You wanted the desk, too, of course, It's really a very valuable article, 1 believe the doctor was your benefactor, though, so naturally you want it." Giles half opened his mouth, as though to make some angry retort. But the room was watching and he forced a sickly smile to his face and turned away.” “Thirty-tén,” he muttered. “Thirty-five.” “Thirty-five-ten,” The young man looked at his com- panfon with an amused smile, In which was wonder at the manner of his competitor's bidding. Giles' repu- tation did not lcan that way, “Forty.” “Forty-ten.” “Forty-five” “Forty-five-ten.” The room's amusement had changed to amazement. What did it mean? There evidently was something behind it all, for Giles was not a man to throw away even a cent. “Fifty.” “Please, Harry,” whispered Mrs Brooks. “Yon've goaded him far enough. The desk Is Invaluable to me, but couldn't be to Giles. I don't un- derstand.” Harry nodded, and when the savage “Fifty-ten” eame, remained silent. At the “Cone to Giles Cady,” the new owner sprang forward and began to open drawer after drawer in his evident anxiety, seemingly forgetful of the onlookers. The old doctor's wife watched him enrfously. “Nothing there, Gilles,” she ealled, “except in the third drawer from the right, which has several of the doe. tor's letters. [| meant to have taken them out, but neglected it. You mony hand them to me now, as they are of ao use to you" “1 bought the desk, which means everything about It.” Gilles retorted ungraciously, He pulled out the third drawer and took from It several letters, which he examined carefully, opening and shak- Ing them out and looking into the en velopes, Then be tossed them con temptuously to the old woman, “Take ‘em if you want ‘em.” rasped. “They're no good.” He was beginning to recover his composure now that the desk seemed glanced " doctor the he . to be empty. And, besides, he was becoming conscious of the curious and even suspicious glances of those around. He laughed constrainedly, “Jest looking to see if the drawers pull in and out easy,” he muttered. “I'm sorry you can't find what you are looking for, Giles,” spoke up the woman quietly. “I remember now that you came Here right after my hus- band's death and insisted on search ing the desk for some papers that be- longed to you. I refused, because I haven't trusted you for a good many years, Giles. But I looked the desk through and there was nothing in it belonging to you. Several times since then you have tried to get into the room and once when you thought | was away. But, unfortunately, I hap- pened to be sleeping in this very chalr and awakened in time to frighten you oft.” “I thought some of my papers were here and as you wouldn't give "em up I meant to get 'em,” rasped Giles dog: gedly., “The doctor must have burnt ‘em when he destroyed a lot of his bills before he died. He always was a shiftiess old fool that way.” “Stop !" Giles quailed her voice, “1 don't want you to allude to my husband in any way, Giles,” she went on. He vou-—or, I mean, he tried to, and failed—and, In some way 1 do not understand, all the misfor. tunes have come through you, direct- ly or indirectly, After the sale Is over 1 suppose this house will belong to you and the Instant it Is legally I shall go out znd I hope we not see each other again” “With all my heart,” grinned Glles, maliciously, “and 1 wish I hnd my money hack so you could take this old box alonz.™ The yourz man had heen watching him keenly. with a curious light ¢om ing to his eyes, “You don't asked, with an lessness, Ma i under the scorn of made 80 want the desk? he appearance of eare NO, “I'd give a I was jest don’t.” shortly. whole doliar to back out, execlted.” “All right” sald Inoking toward the go the fifty and ten the young auctioneer. and take the desk Youthful Note in New Sheer Velvet Black Is Favorite for Both Formal and Informal Appearances. There Is a possibility that youth will be stressed even In a season where the formal pote Is used to de- note all that is chic. Simplicity in the costumes, while not always the dominant note, is one that Is not be- ing neglected for the person who wenrs and looks best in the frock of youthful charm and simplicity. Black velvet happens to be one of the season's favorite fabrics. It ap pears in many costumes for both for- mal and informal appearances. There are dresses of black velvet that spell almost severe outlines and the sim plest ot details in the matter of trim ming. And there are, too, costumes of black velvet that may be seen for the most formal of parties. Rhinestones lames and appliques do their utmost to make effective the formal frock of black velvet. The youthful note that Is so very smartly inspired in many of the new frocks obtains its charm through sim. pli=ity of line and of trimming. There Is an absence of panels, side fullnesses and points and rather a stressing of the slender silhouette, Virginia lee Corbin, the moving | picture actress. a type demanding few minutes, [ may be mistaken, I believe there Is something this. I have a friend who has exactly like this, and he showed a number of secret drawers about It secret receptacles” forward. “Don’t you touch that threatened. “It's mine, and-—" “Hold this fellow back, you, for a few minutes™ man requested, The auctioneer stepped In front of Giles, “Better strand quiet an while,” he advised. "I'm wor you, 1 know, but you've sort of funny, and folks won't too much, ‘specially as likes the old doctor's wife, can go ahead,” to the young man The young man slipped a t™ desk, the been stand touched a spring somewhere, and In- a little drawer shot out, and his heady eyes Giles saw It began apprehension. In the drawer were several! letters, The young man glanced at the outside of the envelopes and his eyes grew tender. He carried them to the old woman. “They are yours,” he said In a low voice, “written to the doctor before your marriage, I think” He went back to the desk and agaln slipped his hand In behind somewhere, and another tiny drawer slid ont filled with papers. The young man glanced over them rapidly and passed one to the auctioneer. Giles made a grab for It, but was pushed back hy one of the strong hands of the auctioneer, while the other held up the paper As he read It the auctioneer’s lips pursed themselves Into a whistle, and he strode to one of the windows, which was open. People below were carrying out some of the things they had purchased. “Fil, there!" yelled the auctioneer, loudly. “Put everything back in its place. The whole anction’s off.” Then he went back Into the room. “W-—what's the matter?” the rasping volce of Giles, trembling in spite of his efforts at hravado, “What right have you to eal my ane tion off 7" The auctioneer only grunted con temptnously, “Just this right, Giles,” sald the young man, sternly. “That paper 1 gave the auctioneer 8 your receipt and cancellation of the mortgage In full, so this house and all its con. tents belong to Mrs, Brooks. Besides all this. 1 have several papers here, receipts and other things which In. volve you pretty serfousty, 1 shoold Judge, Now, 1 know Mrs. Brooks wouldn't wint to prosecute anyhody, hut I shall take this Into my own hands, as the doctor's friend. How. ever, 1 will compromise with her gen. tleness by giving you just twenty-four Bours to make restitution of every. thing. You know what It all Is with out my explaining Now ga!” Giles slunk from the room, The young man went to the old doctor's wife and took her hand “1 am glad” he sald, “more than | ean tell at the way things are com. ing om.” “And | am glad, too” she returned her eyes shining, “not so much for myself, for 1 shall he going to the doctor pretty soon. But he would rather have it this way.” blustered | Frock Buttons Down Front Around the Collar, and | hans se tines In buttons her clothes lected a frock of charming the new sheer velvel Its { down the front and around the collar and cuffs are (ts only trimming. The i black Is particularly effective to the very blonde prettiness of Miss Corbin in the picture "No Place to Go” Miss | t%rhin wenrs this costume as well as several others Indicating the new mode In winter elnthes. | slinplielty In all Flashes of Fashion of Interest to All Women Chartreuse. and yellow greens. as well as squamarine shades, nre among the interesting new color develop ments. Vionnet has scored with English wonl conts and dresses. Black taffeta dance gnd dinner | dresses often are draped to one side and ornamented with a huge chou of | silk. Badger and natural iynx. raceoon und furs in soft or creamy tans and hrowns are much in evidence on conts While a certain amount of gray fur is used, it Is brown fur that Is Im portant, Marten, sable, fox, and other snimai scarfs are Joined and used for elung uted collars, or worn as separate neck pleces. Suede shoes, especially browns, have peen revived and sre worn with fur coats and with stockings blending with brown fur, Feather flowers have burst nmss popularity, § Turbans again, Also a revival of eolffure bands for evening wear, Cloth Made Moth-Proof by Many Manufacturers Clothes moths really do have sn hard time chewing up woolen cloth and oth of fabrics of animal origin that nave teen impregnated with one of the a rious woth -prooting solutions oow io wide use according to Dr KE A Back of the burean of entomology of the United Stutes Department of Agricul ture. It is mislensl.ng, however to offer an absclute guarantee of protec tion, he states, and the common method of aerely spraying the fabrics confers but title protection The only any to do the Job thoroughly Is 10 wet the cloth while It {a till in the whole plece, and many manufnciurers have installed special machinery for this purpose, into Unpressed Plaits An et plant purple volver dress has a surptice tuadice and irvegitur panes to the skirt which leaves lx deep plafts unpressed to shimilite gathers. | old. F ashioned Muff Is Sponsored by Actress Dolores Costello, charming “movie” star now making “Glorious Betsy,” is sponsoring the comeback of the good old-fashioned muff. With a veiours suit with a large ermine collar, the muff of velvet and ermine makes an attractive accessory which is prac. tical as well as smart Thin Design and Weave Important in Stockings Stockings longer are selected with attention enily to color weight, but be as well for thin design They have responded all fashi toward ment, with the result that to be chosen more carefully than ever t of the costume, Ho Hi consideree and wenve the trend of lively embellish now ast tu ons they hase to sult the res in moment, at the meshes are hosiery for evening the open-work much io demand, ily those that show un Infinitesi: the center of each tiny web, in addition a very slender and grace ful clock extending well up the leg. Another sheer stocking Is made with a lacy knee design, which, though it is produced in weaving the sik looks more like an of real chantilly iace, made in hinck The short spired the wenr espace] nal dot in nimast and have on insertion when expecially skirt, no has In for siyvia, In which a fancy banding is brought out in a jacquard design just below the knee Some of these designs are two or more inches wide and terminate in an open work pattern covering the knee Joint. In another design of this style. In the composition of which the shoes seem (oo have hod a8 say, there are deep ankle insertions worked out in oblonge. (One side of these Is bor dered by very narrow clocks, which end In a smuil replica of the original motif. For those whe prefer thelr stock ings without tracery. there ure very sheer designs in gossamer weaves, with and without clocks. Clocks, by the way, are a trifle wider. doubt, idea unuther Paris Adopts Wooly, Gay Togs for Winter Sports Fuzzy and bright are words to reckon with in picking a winter sports costume. Paris insists on one or hoth elements In the togs for skiing to bogenning. okating, curling. moantain climbing and all the other “ings” the snow countries, Long knickers which tuck Into ga toshes are the universal cholce for show sports. Paris shows them in fleecy navy blues dark browns and dark greens with fleece lined jackets in bright checks, pinids or stripes. to mate. Under the jacket (s a pull aver sweater, Aviation helmets are advocated for winter sports wear by some outfitters and are shown in a variety of colored feathers of Cardigan Sweater Has Grown Into Real Coat The cardigan sweater has grado ated. It Is now a coat. Mere than oie house is making spring conts ex netly Hike eardignns, elongated to dress length, fashioned of fine woul ens. and lined with finely printed silks to accompany matching =ilk dresses The actual line of the cardigan remaing anchanged, ft Is tike the plain. collarless swenter which for the Inst few senrons hag heen made of Jerseys, silks and other fabrics to mnteh the dress with which It is warn, The pinin band which takes the saee of a collar extends to the hem of the cont. and Is sometimes without buttons or buttonholes, ——————— Silk Patches Perfectly good new silk #8 cut ap and made Into the tovellest patch work comforters Silk of all different colors pitched as neatly and primdy as your greet grandoamther might have done 1. The putehieg are then «tliched together amd then aade ap with » fight pulling of down or cotton. so that the result Is soft and atiractive. A Wife's Transformation The Story of the Comeback of a Woman Gone to Seed By Mary Culbertson Miller INSTALLMENT XI Right Walking. ALKING is being made fashion able to some extent by our golf- ers. But that was not the reason it intrigued Helen Crane for she had no acquaintance with a mashle, That, and taking up her dancing again were among the million things she intend ed to do In that pew life that she had lifted the corners of the vell to peep into. Fatigue was felt by Helen because she didn't know how to walk—she was throwing her body out of poise. A person's walk may be as individual as his face. Many times you've heard yourself say, “1 recognized “er by her walk.” That, of course, might be a tribute or just the reverse. “Right walking is beneficial” the rhythm instructor, engaged Miss Whyte for her special client, “No other exertion Is as’ invigorat- ing and restorative the harmonious infuses a grace by play und jesldes, muscles as physical “The blood Is awa sluggish sleep and courses through the smallest veins, ening your body, nerves and causing soundly and restfully. vise you geleet some Interesting stretch and forget purpose in walking, yourself In ple around you to to Mrs. should you. One of both body and nerves.” “l try to walk three since I've begun tut is course. proving nod to the Preliminaries ig Right Walking. “1 think first we'll try a tle lim bering up, Mra Crane. are probably a little stiff. Now then raise foot at a time from floor and shake it gently from knee, Stretch it extending the and muscle comes into play.” in hand, “Rest a moment, try It * Twenty minutes later, “I think that will do. take a free firm stride, upper part of the body, upon each hip—without hips. “All rig hit! petus forward foot. In this way body is not felt. Your leg held” gtraight but pot sOY, ing a slight give at the knee; An ap one {oes again alternately rolling the Now, give a slight im- from the ball of the the weight there be and the t together. Naturally the shoul have a slight movement, almos ders will avoid the awkn churning. that you so often see, these days i the natural motion of the body, but be careful not to swing them as if they were pendulums, “Please step on a crack of the floor, Mra, Crane. stem of a fern. leaves perfect on that, it in the relation of the leaves and the stalk. The heel the point of at- tachment, and the rest of deviating line. room slowly member that In your walks” “You are doing splendidly. spacing. Concentrate and then quickly. He she sald Now, step on the ball of the fool. Now shift the weight of the body to the left, and do the same thing with that foot, Please continue to shift the body from one foot to the other and take little two-steps for lightness and balance.” After a prescribed period the in gtructor, crossing to her desk, said: “Come over here and sit down, If you please. | want to talk with you for a few minutes, We have a schedule {o arrange and we must ft these walks in with your other exercises We can’t have yoa doing too much” Care of the Feet After Walks. “Tell me about your feet-—do they give you any trouble at all? Ilo quired the instructor. “l have corns.” “If they are in an advanced stage 1 would advise you to visit a chirop- odist, flome treatments In such cases are seldom satisfactory. In two or three treatments these specialists will evict these disturbers of the peace and guarantee that there will be no replacement. “The more the feet are bathed and rubbed, the better their condition and the shapetier, and the less their tend. ency to enlarge. Special attention ghould be given them two or three times a week. Callouses should be gently scraped with a pumice stone, and then protected by a perforated plaster. The nalls should be cut straight across, The slightest break in the skin caused by paring a nak too clesely should be Immediately bathed In an antiseptic lotion so as to prevent any infections” “I'm ready to drop when | return from any walks” Helen smiled. “it's rather a good thing to do, to rub the soles with a slice of cut lemon after sou've given them a warm bath, Then throw yourself on the bed, face down, nnd rest ‘your feet, soles up. The warm baths are always refresh: " (® by the Bell Byndicate, Ine.) || SHE WENT FROM BAD TO WORSE Down to 98 Pounds — Fi “fwould be better if I had another baby, F Jwhich I did. But I fgot worse, was al sickly and Vegetable Com- as it helped her very much, so it. After taking four bottles, I weigh 116 pounds, It has just done wonders for me and I can do my house- work now without ene bit ef trouble” —Mzrs, M. Rigssrxors, 10004 Nelson Ave,, Cleveland, Ohlo. it some good fairy should appear, and offer to grant your heart's desire, what would you choose? Wealth? Happiness? Health? That's the best gift. Health is riches that gold cannot buy and surely health is cfuse enough for Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound may be the good fairy who offers you better health, Build Up Your Health With Dr. Pierce's “CMD"™ GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY Ligeid or Teblcte. 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To clear this up vaporize CAMPHOROLE, and inhale sccord- ing, to directions CAMPHOROLE opens wp the nose, and geis into the Finusea, kililng the germs that multiply by millions in those stuffy cavities, reduces the inflamed swollen mus cus membranes, and gives good drainage for the discharge, This Is what every bo cialist tries to obinin In erder to get resulta It is impossible for germs to live In the anticeptic yapars P uced ar CAMPHOR- Keep a Jor handy and use at the first wign of a cold. At An ©e. - ni aA vasa ates Hanford’s Balsam of Myrrh Since 1846 Has sealed Wounds and Sores on Nor Fe te. 4d Wa
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