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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
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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' '
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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
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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)
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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
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It gives just sufficient hint of
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it allows him perfectly free
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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
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For the 4-year size will be
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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
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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
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"" 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.
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