m i iw. wi j xmmm aaikk. The Yukon By William MacLeod Katne (Continued.) She smiled forgiveness. "All you said was that I might have sprained my wrist. It was true too. I might have —and I did." Sheba showed a whitfc linen bandage tied tightly around her wrist. "Your wljole weight came on it with a wrench. No wonder it hurt." Sheba noticed that the Hannah was drawing up to a wharf and the passengers were lining up with -.heir belongings. "Is this where we change?" "Those of us going to Kusiak transfer here. But there's no hurry AVe watt at this landing two hours." Gordon helped Sheba move i:er baggage to the other boat nnd joined her on deck. They were both strangers in the land. Their only common acquaintance wus .\lacdonald and he was letting Mrs. Mallory absorb his attention just now. Left to their own resources, tlie young people naturally drifted together a good deal. This suited Elliot. He found his companion wholly delightful, not the less because she was so different from the girls he knew at home. She could be frank, and even shyly ludacious on occasion, but she held * imle fcote of reserve he felt bound to respect. Macdonald left the boat twenty miles, below Kusiak with Mrs. Mal ory and the A chauf feur with a motorcar was waiting >n the wharf to run them to town, 3ut he gave the wheel to Macdon ild and took the seat beside the Iriver. "Are you going to the hotel or lirect to your cousin's?" Gordon >sked Miss O'Neill. "To my cousin's. I fancy she's iown here to meet me. It was ar ranged that I come on this boat." Elliot caught a glimpse of the only people in Kusiak he had known before coming in, but though ne waved to them he saw they did lot recognize him. After the usual telay about getting ashore Vie vaJked down the gangway car;v ng the suitcase of the Irish girl. I I I . I I Give the Kiddies j | Real Furniture Gifts I §2 Remember how proud you were when jgf p| Santa Claus brought your first little red chair p —or a doll bed or doll cart —pqssiblv you stiil i| yj prize it highly. Do the Same Thing for Your Little Tots §| H —NOW. <| gifts for children are the kind that en- §1 dure. We've a wonderful stock of these sensible, |=jl| serviceable, useful gift things; among them are— £3! Doll Beds Child's Mahog any j^j Doll Carts Windsor Chairs and §§} Reed Chairs 1 a m E ■A! t, TII rr Child's Enamel and Ma- K Folding Play Tables hogany Chairs and m Folding Play Chairs Rockers 1^ Child's Clothes Trees Doll's Vanity Dressers f§|| B|| Child's Tea Wagons and ChifFonieres with || | Child's Tea Party Tables triple mirror and six and Chairs drawers £ _ Child's Kitchen Cabinets Child's Austrian Bent- 5| ■H Do 1 l's D r essers with wood C h airs with || Mirrors, Ivory or Ma- cane seat, mahogany '= B§j Ranging in Price From $1.35 to SIO.OO 'H Child's Doll Carriage <JjC M ®"i Regularly $6.50, Special at g Made of genuine imported Reed—upholstered H in gray corduroy—beautifully designed—rubber 1 GOLDSMITH'S I Kj North Market Square J A Man's Gift From a Man's Store^^^j U Wm. Strouse 7|j THURSDAY EVENING* ' Briusifis Up Father •> Copyright, 1917, International News Service -> By McM-CHlllS VHAT ARE YOO T* THE CUSTOM ,f SAY ON£ 1 YOU DONT T T ° 1 f' , WCARIN' THEM MR JktfS-YOO %EE V/ORD A<JIN :-£*. UNDERSTAND - THERE AN' ' CLCfVE-b FER? I'M CON<i TO 4IVE. VLL BREAK THE I'M THE. BEST TtU - ME- >"OUR • CERTAINLY I 9 WONT y° u I THE ORIOE AWAY CRYSTAL ON TOW? MATH AT THE THE BEST MAN I 00; J H HI ~ ND °E 'CI&SK , VASHYOUR v -N TONVCHT WRST-WATCH! WEDDING AT TH!> WEDD)N * V H Wfii=S °® S Sheba followed at his heels. On J the wharf lie cdme face to face w.t'.i j a slender, well-dressed young j woman. "Diane!" he cried. She stared at him. "You! What I in heaven's name are you doing; here, Gordon Elliot?" she de manded, and before he could an-1 swer had seized both hands and I turned excitedly to call a stocky j man near. "Peter—Peter! Guess: who s here?" "Hello. Paget!" grinn?d Gordon, and he shook hands with the hus band of Diane. Elliot turned to introduce h : s friend, but she anticipated him. "Cousin Diane," she said dryly, "don't you know me?" Mrs. Paget swooped down upon the girl and smothered her in her embrace. "This is Sheba—little Shcba that I ha™ told you so often a'Miul, Peter, 1 sli ecried. "Glory oe, I'm glad to see you child." And Diane kitsed her again warmly. "You two met on the same boat, of course, coming in. I hope you didn't *ct her get lonesome Gordon. l.ook after Sheba's suitcases ivter. You'll eoir.t- to dinner to-night, Gordon— | at seven." "I'm in the kind hands of my 1 countrywoman," laughed Gordon.! "I'll certainly be on hand." "But what in the world are you r tloin.!? here? You're the last man I I'd have expected to see." "Ini in the service of the govern-! meiit, and I've been sent in on j business." "Well, I'm going to say soini-- I thing original, dear people," Mrs. j Paget replied. "It's a small world, j isn't it?" While he was dressing for dinner j later in the day, Elliot recalled j early memories ot the Pagets. He! had known Diane ever since they | had been youngsters together .'it j 3?hool. He remembered her iis a! restless, wiry little thing, keen as a j knife-blade. Always popular so- J cially, she hart surprised everybody > by tefusing the catch of the town I to marry a young mining engineer j without a penny. Gordon was in j college at the time, but during the| next long vacation he had frateru- j ize<l a good deal with the Peter j Pagets. The young married people! hart been very much in love with | each other, but not too preoccupied | to take the college boy into their j happiness as a comrade. Then the j Arctic goldflelds had claimed Pagfet and his bride. That had be6n mere thar. ten years ago, and until to-day Gordon had not seen them since. While Elliot was bruahing his dinner coat before the open win dow cf the room assigned to him at the hotel, somebody came out to the porch below. The voi'je of it woman floated faintly to him. "£'een Diane's Irish beauty yet, Xcd ?" "Ves," a man answered. The woman laughed softly. "Mrs. j Mallory eame up on the same boat] with her." The inflection mig- j : gested that the words wers meant j ! not tc tell a fact, but some less ob-' | vious inference. "She's wonderfully pretty, and of eourse Diane will make the most of ; I hei. But Mrs. Mallory Is a woman j among ten thousand." "I'd choose the girl if it were. i mo." said the man. "But it isn't you. "We'll see whet] ' we'll see." They were moving up the street ] : and Gordon heard no more< What 1 he had heard was not clear to him. j Why should any importance attach j to the lact that Mrs. Mallory and ; i Sneba O'Xeill had come i<p ilie j | river on the same boat? Yet he was I vaguely disturbed by the insinua tion that in some way Diano was entering her cousin as a rival of the older woman. He resented the idea that the line, young person ality of the Irish girl was being j cheapened by management on the j j part of Diane Paget. Elliot was not the only dinner I i guest at the Paget home that even- ' ing. He found Colby Maedonald i j sitting in the living room with j j Shcba. She came quickly forward] ' to meet the newly arrived ';ueat. "Mr. Maedonald has been telling j 1 me about my father. He knew him| ! on Frenchman creek where they i both worked claims," explained the! I girl. The big mining man made no com- , Iment and added nothing to what f-he; said. There were times when his faco was about as expressive as a I stone wall. * The dinner went off very well, j Diane and Peter had a great many ques'io.Ti to ESk Gordo.i about old I friends. By the time these had i been answered Maedonald was I chatting easily with Sheba. She listened with glowing eyes to the ! strange tales this man of magni ! ficent horizons had to tell. Never before had she come into contact ! with anyone like him. . (To foe Continued) SHIPS VIA PANAMA Tokio, Dec. —Thirteen freight steamers of the Japan Steamship Company, hitherto sailing to Lon don by the way of Cape Town, are to be sent through the Panama Ca- I nal. The new route, besides boing i safer, is one week quicker. Lose Your Fat, Keep Your Health Superfluous flesh is not healthy, neither is it healthy to diet or exer cise too much tor its removal. The simplest method known for reducing the overfat body two, three or four pounds a * week is the Marmola Method, tried and endorsed by thou sands. Marmola Prescription Tab lets, containing exact doses of the famous prescription, are sold by drug gists at 75 cents for a large case, or if you prefer you can obtain them by sending direct to the Marmola Com pany, 864 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich. They are harmless and leave no wrinkles or flabbiness. They are popular because effective and con venient.—Advertisement. HARRISBURG TETJEGRXPH Life's Problems Are Discussed By Mrs. Wilson Woodrow I was talking to a great authority <on dress yesterday. "What is the answer to this eternal riddle of clothes?" I asked him. "Why do some women look well tlressed in the simplest, most inexpensive garments, and others with a small fortune to spend on their adornment fail to rise above the commonplace or, worse, the tawtly? is a 'tlair' tor clothes a gift bestowed upon the few, or are there some general rules which can be mastered by the many?" "The answer to the riddle is 'line,' " he said. "Any woman with a teeling for 'line' and can unaei etand of its importance can be well uressed." "What about color?" I asked. "Oh, color?" he shrugged his shoulders. "Color is a great temp tation. Only a woman who has a real artistic feeling for it should at tempt it. Monotones for the ma jority, believe me." "A dun-colored world," I mused. "But a less frantic, a more rest ful one," he answered quickly. With this conversation in mind, my eye roved over an assemblage of women a little later, wondering what on earth was tho matter with them. The older ones, that large contingent in any gathering of wo men—who are just beginning to get gray and should have finished get-, ting fat but have not—had an up holstered look about their bodies and a fussy look about their bonnets. As for the younger ones, they were either sloppy or else their clothes were more conspicuous than their personalities. And tak ing the whole group together a birdseye view of them, as it were —they didn't mingle in a harmon ious and decorative whole. The'r clothes were on them, and yet not of them. I had stopped saying hopefully, I "Peradventure, there will be one| well-dressed woman," when my puz-1 zled and disappointed eyes were! gladdened by the sight of what seem-i ed to be the real thing. Her beauty, if she had any, would! not bear analysis. There were ai dozen women present who outshone l her in that regard. But she was in! the "picture"; she suited her en-j vironment. My first impression of| her was one of grace and charm, of! something subdued yet vivid. Then I I began to dissect her appearance. I discovered that her gown very sub- | tly emphasized the best lines of herl figure; that her hat was not merely becoming to her face, it was nwir-j velously suited to the shape of her j head. It was, in fact, becoming nil i around, and the lines of it in some! way converged into that of the gown. I It was not merely a hat on top of aj woman's head; it was the right thing; in the right place, and it conveyed j just that touch of daring audacity \ that the gown needed to redeem it j from its severity. I began to look j for false notes —shoes, gloves, veil,! etc. They were all perfect. The lady had not a really good feature in her face, neither had she a strikingly good figure. But she knew what to subdue and what to emphasise, and she had achieved 1 something more than the effect of being well dressed. A casual ob j sever would never have noticed her I clothes, but would have carried away Fashions of To-Day - By May Manton § There is no prettier suit for ihe small boy than this one. It gives just sufficient hint of the sailor to delight his little heart, it is essentially practical, it allows him perfectly free movement and at the same time it is smart in effect. You can make it of one material throughout or of two. Blue trousers, blue collar land cuffs with white blouse makes a very pretty suit. All white is always attractive, and you can use blue or other color with white collar, belt and cuffs. Tan and buff with white are much liked this season. For the 4-year size will be needed, 2% yards of material 27 inches wide, 2 x /i yards 36, 1% yards 44. The pattern No. 9577 is cut in sizes for 2, 4 and 6 years. It #577 will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of 9577 Boy'i Suit, 3to 6 years. this paper, on receipt of ten Price 10 cents. Cents. a very strong impression of an un usual woman. Clothes are something more than coverings. They are indications of| character. 1 did not meet this I woman. I did not have to. I linew! all that I was interested in know ing about her from her clothes and, the way she wore them. She is fastidious. She is reserved, j She is disciplined. She has herself| thoroughly in hand. She concen-j trates on one thing at a time. She! does not scatter nor splatter. She! understands herself and her temper ament. She has a strong personal ity, and she does not allow her gar ments to eclij\se it. I contrasted her with another woman who stood near her in a lovely gown and gorgeous lurs; but she wore them so wretchedly that she suggested more than anything! else a badly dressed doll. Nothing that she had on belonged together j or belonged on her. Her clothes J were scrambled and so was her! mind. I could tell that by the breathless way she talked. "My dear," she kept announcing to every woman within earshot, "l! have exactly live million things on! my hands just now. X am a fit sub-| ject for a madhouse." It was ob- j vious. You felt physically tired after j you had looked at her for five sec onds. There was another woman whom j I talked to for a few minutes, and later some one asked me: "What is| she like? Is she attractive, inter-1 esting?" I stared at my questioner a mo ment, and then said stupidly: "Why, | I dOH't know," which was the truth, i I am one of those people who do not see details very readily. My| eye takes in things in the mass, and i when some detail obtrudes itself on I my attention it assumes a dispropor tionate importance. .1 So I had io confess that my in terest had been focused on some very peculiar and bizarre trimming on this lady's frock, and I had been so; occupied in trying to rrtake out just what it was that I hadn't heard a word she said, nor did I register.any. impressions of her at all. She was no doubt a very delight- i ful person, but the far too elaborate! and bewildering trimming on her ( frock had reduced her to a nonen ity. Did you ever notice a woman's! shopping expression? It can be* studied in any of the big depart-j ment stores. It is absorbed, tense,, harassed and ultimately wild-eyed, j It seems strange that Freud or some: disciple of that great psychoanalyst! has never discovered the devastating! effects on the feminine constitution | of the unceasing subconscious wor- j ry about clothes. I think the remark that hysteria j has wrecked more homes than drink was yttered by Dr. Weir Mitchell. What creates hysteria? 1 unhesi tatingly answer, clothes. The know ledge that from the cradle to the grave we can never get away from them. These questions are always before' us. How to get them? What toj j get? How to pay for them when] got? ; Doctors talk about muscle-strain, ! eye-strain and nerve-strain. Why do i they never lay anything to clothes- I strain? I am so tired of jumping rapidly from one frock into another that if i somebody doesn't invent a costume | that will be trim and suitable for j morning, just the thing to shop, : ride, skate, walk and work in, and luen by fastening or unfastening a ( snap here and there, become a sweetly pretty frock for afternoon, I suitable for teas and things, and i then at 6 o'clock, with the pushing of a button, transform itself into a bewitching evening gown—why, I'll do it myself. And then my grateful sex will erect a statue to me. Only I hope they will not put it in the Mall at Central Park with all the other crimes against sculpture. Holland Cattle Killed by Nuts in the Shell Washington. Because of the shortage of fodder in Holland, farm Store Open Evenings Until Christmas Make It A Jewelry Christmas GIVE SOMETHING FROM DIENER'S When you buy DIAMONDS at Diener's It Means More to You Than the Mere Purchase Itself It means that you are sure lo get the very finest quality stones and then you are sure to get exactly what we represent diamonds to be in weight, quality and workmanship in cutting. We have only one way of selling anything — ONE PRICE, And when it comes to buying a diamond, you are protected by our ONE PRICE. The utmost in value, the assurance that you can place your utmost confidence in us, the excellent large assortments —are reasons why you may feel perfectly well pleased with any purchase you make here. All Diamonds are purchased unset and mounted by us. Ladies' Diamond and Platinum Rings AFTER DINNER PRIMER'S CLUS- GREEN GOLD DIA RING—aII platinum, T , ER RING ~ Al [ RING Ob , . ' platinum, composed long design very oval shape, center Q £ jg ver y fi ne ]y clft( unique, three dia stone surrounded by fi ne quality diamonds monds set in platin -22 diamonds, #125 $225 um $40.00 ALL PLA T I NUM GREEN GOLD RING RlNG—unusual de- • —Square top, 5 dia sign, composed of 2 monds mounted in large diamonds and w- -.g_.platinum, open work 6 smaller top, for ....... SSO platinum, with odd SBEtgy!; / . superb collection of pierced mounting, a very fine diamond most unusual design rings at, Men's Diamond Rings S3B to S6OO Besides the plain and fancy Belcher rings, we have many odd and quaint settings that appeal particularly to men. MEN'S FINE DIA- MEN'S DIAMOND MEN'S DIAMOND MOND RlNG—Gypsy RlNG—Round Belch- RING Fancy facet sitting S6O cr setting for ... S3B Belcher design, SIOO Diamond Diamond Diamond Brooches La Vallieres Scarf Pins SSO to $225 SSO to $450 $7.50 to $l5O "WHAT WE SAY IT IS, IT IS" DIENER JEWELER 408 MARKET STREET "" DECEMBER 13, 1917. ers have been feeding their live stock with nuts, and as a result many of the cattle have died and the health of a large percentage has been affected seriously. FranK W. Mahin, United States Consul at Amsterdam, writes that all kinds of substitutes for fodder have been fed to animals. The death of stall-fed animals has been frequent and is attributed to spoiled or otherwise unwholesome food. In many such cases the animals have been freely given acorns, chestnuts and beechnuts, unshelled and un cooked. All of these nuts, it is averred, in their natural state have poisonous elements, especially in th®j shells. It is sajd that horses havei died within two hours after eatinffl raw and unshelled beechnuts in con-, siderable quantities, the stomach an4i intestines being fatally disordered. Experts advise that nuts be fed to stock in limited quantities, not! more than a kilogramme (2.2' at the utmost datly, and' then only after they have been shelled and boiled, care being taken to throw away the boiling water. It is remarked,' however, that nuts can be fed more freely to pigs than to* other animals, and that, besides, they are very fattening. 7
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