iIJBI all the Ksiwilxj SPH SAMSON BROUGHT RIGHT UP TO DATE A Leaf From Billy Sunday's Book of Bible Love Stories Billy Sunday has published a book of love stories. They aren't original —but almost. "The book," he ex plains in his Foreword, "is the de velopment of a project to clothe the outstanding charactors and les sons of the Bible in the language and environment of to-day." Billy Sunday objects to the criti cism of people who don't "want to see themselves as God sees them;" people who are looking for "a tal cum powder, violet scented, ladylike proposition." There are plenty of fellows, he argues, who will "pass out the gospel done up in tissue paper and pink baby ribbons." But the Bible, contends • the Bev. Mr. Sunday, "is a mirror of life —not the life of one period, but of all periods." So he sets out the men and women of the Bible "from the viewpoint of the men and women of the Twentieth Century." All the love stories he retells are decidedly interesting. But perhaps the two that stand out with the greatest poignancy (punch, one should rather say in this connection) are the stories of Adam and Eve and of Samson and Delilah. Curtailed in the telling, the Sam son and Delilah story runs as fol lows: Samson in a Panama Samson was the first strong ma< to exhibit before large audiences — but he wasn't strong enough to ex hibit before himself in private. He thought he was making a big li it because he was making a big noise—and had Buffalo Bill hair. He was just like a kid home from] college for the summer vacation,! when he breezed in on his dad one I day in his father's office. He was all dolled up with a pur ple band around his new Panama, pushed down onto one ear over the I Howing locks, and he was wearing purple socks, and a purple necktie, and a silk handkechief with a pur ple band falling out of his breast pocket. Also ho flourished a dinky bamboo walking stick, and altogether! thought he was the original Big Noise. His father was trying to answer) the telephone and dictate a letter! at the same time, for it was the| rush season in the cattle trading | market. But a little thing like other peo ple's business never bothered Sam son. He pushed his Panama a little further over his ear, blew out a cloud of cigarette smoke, thinking that this made him look like a real man of the world to the blond ste nographer, and said: "I've come to tell you 1 want to get spliced, governor. And it's up to you to come across with the velvet and arrange for the wedding 'jells. She's the original sweet dream, and I want to cop her before the alarm clock goes off and wakes her up!" "Who is she?" asked his father, hanging up the telephone, and tell ing the stenographer to come back after lunch. "She and her folks live over In Tminath," said Samson, dropping in- Use Cocoanut Oil For Washing Hair If you want to keep your hair in good condition, be careful what you wash it with. 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Purely Vegetable Small Pat Small Dose, Small Price Carter's Iron Pills Will restore color to the faces of those who lack Iron in the blood, | it most pale-faced people do. MEmmmimMONEY IIIIMSI BACK IT FAILS MONDAY EVENING, HJUUUSBUHQ OMRS TELEGKXPB FEBRUARY 11, 1918 Bringing Up Father Copyright, 1917, International News Service *- * *-* * By McM I I 7 ' I I ! I I ™ Df ?V JUt>T I I DIDN'T *> K FOR: | FOR. DO\OU WAJST ' & | - i JO^T n"S vervimpoOte i VltD\TIN<," TO A'bK t y to a chair and sticking his feet up on the desk. "They've got ail the cash they can use, and have two motor cars, so you needn't lie awake nights about their bank roll. "But she sure is some flashlight, all right! She's got me sitting on the ragged edge—with my feet hanging over." ♦ * A Call on Delilah Samson blew himself for a lot of hothouse foliage and approached Delilah with all the ease and grace of a seasoned flirt. The Philistines noted his fondness for the girl and decided that noth ing could be better. "He is going to put his knob in the noose this time like a house atlre," they said. "Patience, bre thren." Delilah was the queen vampire of the whole cast. She was the finest chef in the trouble kitchen. Delilah didn't have a chance to lose. Soft boiled conversation was her forte. She had Samson woozy inside ol five minutes, and in ten minutes he was ready to give her his motor >car and unlimited credit at the gas filling station. Delilah strung Samson until he looked like perch trailing through the water back of a rowboat at the end of a perfect fishing day. He was a mountain of muscle, and she was a frail little thing, but when she gazed into his eyes Sam son lost his last vestige of judg ment and fell with a plash that shook the whole river. Of course, Delilah had been fixed with a nice fat bride. "You are the strongest man in the world, Samson," Delilah flattered him. "You've got them all leary of you. Tell me how you do it. Where do you get that stuff?" "Take the ferry for Hoboken," he jollied. "Now, you are teasing me!" she pouted. "Nix on the stalling! If you love me, you'll come through!" Told His Secret She had him roped and branded at last. "If my hair was cut," he said, "I wouldn't be any stronger than any other bald headed gent. I wouldn't have enough pep to punch a railroad ticket.' Then Samson went to sleep and Delilah took the scissors and re moved his Seven Sutherlands Sis ters, Whicli had been his pride and joy. The crowd rushed in and gave him tho once-over and tied him. The terrible giant was in their power. They made him a prisoner and put out his eyes with hot irons. • * * He could hear the laughing and jeering of the mob that had once fled before him. . With a sudden strength he groped his way blindly to the pillars of tho temple, torn by despair and rage and agony. With a last desperate prayer on his lips and a last desperate heave of the temple in his hands, bent his giant body until the sweat oozed from every pore, and then a surge of returning strength and power swept through his veins. The mighty temple above him creaked and swayed—and fell in a crash of ruin and death. Samson's finißh was as foolhardy as his life had been. Daily Dot Puzzle ~ i ,6. t ? *24 * 15* * 2 .25 1 *4 7 "V 27 6 • 4 . .26 • * *2S • 5 32 •*.0., fa • *. * V *35 IS *\z . 5b . 38 *, 55. 37 • * 55 4. 54 51 * i. if * . • 4B • 52 • M Ms , < \ f M ~ V 4.•;) vO Draw from one to two and so on to the end. THEFOUR OFHEARTS A SERIAL OP YOUTH AND ROMANCE By VIRGINIA VAN BE WATER CHAPTER XI (Copyright, 1918, Star Company) "Dora, darling!" Mrs. Livingstone called from the door of her room on the morning after Milton Van Saun's and Gerald Stewart's visit, "I wish you and Cynthia would come here for a few minutes. 1 want to talk with you." When tile girls had obeyed her summons, she broached the matter that was uppermost in her mind. "Your engagement is to be an nounced next week, Dora, dear." Dora laughed. "I am already aware of that fact, mother, dear!" Iler mother smiled in her usual in dulgent fashion. "My blessed child," she protested gently, "I wish you would not be so frivolous and abrupt when I want to talk of a serious subject!" "You mean my engagement?" Dora demanded. "Surely that is not so awfully serious, is it? It seems rather amusing to me." Her mother, ignoring this remark, continued: "Of course there will appear an nouncements in the society columns of the various Sunday papers. But I have been thinking how we could best tell our friends about it. I have decided that it would be agreeable to have a select and small dinner— only about a dozen people—and an nounce the good news then. Your father and I asked Mr. Stewart to dine here soon. We will make the date a week from Saturday night, and have him as one of the guests. Thus, you see. some of our friends will know of the happy event before they see it in the Sunday papers." "All right," Dora assented. "I don't care just how it's done. But I am crazy to know whether people will be surprised about it or not." "I fancy only a few of them will be greatly surprised." her mother observed. "You and Milton have al ways been together so much." "But that is just the reason it will be a surprise," Dora argued. "Peo ple have thought of us almost like brother and sister. In fact, I have felt that way myself." A SntlMfleil Comment Cynthia glanced quickly at Mrs. Livingstone. Was she satisfied with her daughter's sentiments towards the man who was to be her hus band? But Mrs. Livingstone smiled se renely. "That is an excellent way to feel," she remarked. "I have al ways said that pleasant friendship forms the safest basis for a comfort able marriage." "Then you do not believe in love matches?" t The question slipped from Cyn thia's lips almost before she was aware of it. Her aunt answered in her usual bland manner. "Not in violent love matches—no. If a man and woman are good friends, they learn to love each other after marriage." Cynthia was silent. She was thinking of what her father had told her of his engagement to her moth er, of the love that had been so strong that death itself had failed to make him forget the girl who had given him her heart and hand. Fashions of To-Day - By May Mainton ♦ This is one of the prettiest little play frocks or school frocks that the Winter has to offer. It would be charming made up in plaid serge, as it is here, or in plain serge with plaid trimming, or you could use the design for one of the linen or cotton materials if you like. It is a very simple little dress and at the same time a very smart one. Body and skirt are cut together so that there are the fewest possible seams. There are bloomers, too, and the dress with bloomers is always a satisfac tory one for Winter wear. Here plaid gingham is trimmed with For the 6-year size will be needed, yards of material 27 irjrhes wide, 2% yards 36, 2 ya"i*s 44 for the dress, yards 27, 1% yards 36 or 44 for the bloomers. The pattern No. 9632 is cut 9633 in sizes from 4to 8 years. It will be mailed to any address by 9632 Child'* Dress with Bloomers, 4to the Fashion Department of this 8 years. Price 15 cents. paper on receipt of fifteen cents. Mrs. Livingstone became aware of her niece's silence. "You do not , agree with me, Cynthia, do you?" t she queried. i Cynthia flushed. "How should I , know anything about it. Aunt . Amanda?" she parried. "I have nev : er even fancied myself in love, and I have thought very little of mar . riage." "I know your father and mother were very devoted to each other," Mrs. Livingstone said. "But theirs may have been such an affection as I have spoken of. It may have de veloped after marriage." Cynthia did not contradict this statement. The subject of her par ent's mutual devotion seemed too sa- I cred to discuss with such a materi ( alistic person as her aunt, i "Well," Dora broke in, "I am mighty fond of Milton, and 1 dare , Bay we shall get along well enough . together. I guess I'm not one of the ( girls who could lose her head over any man. Now to go back to the plans for the dinner. I think It's a ' pretty good idea—don't you, Cyn?" "Yes," Cynthia replied. "I think , It's, a very charming idea," A sudden thought occurred to 1 Dora. An An-knurd l'redlcament "Cyn:' she exclaimed. "You'll come to the table that night even if . you are in deep mourning, won't you ?" , Cynthia Long hesitated. Here was an awkward predicament. Her sor row for her father's death was. so ( fresh that she shrank from meeting , a number of strangers at a gay function. She hoped that her aunt would come to her rescue and sug gest that she be allowed to dine , quietly in her own room on the evening of the proposed dinner. But Mrs. Livingstone made no . such proposition. Instead, she look , ed amazed. "My dear Cynthia," she protested, "you do not think of secluding your self from all society in that old . fashioned way Just because you liap , pen to be in mourning, do you? Surely you would be making a mis take to do this. Moreover, Dora would feel most uncomfortable it her engagement dinner was the cause of your spending an evening alone." There was but one course for Cynthia to take. She showed her good breeding by acceding promptly to the plans of her hostess. "I will do just as you think best. Aunt Amanda," she said. "If you and Dora prefer having me at the dinner I will, of course, be present. But," as an after-thought, "I have no regulation dinner gown, you know—only my black mourning and afternoon dresses—nothing proper for an evening function." 1 "You can buy very stunning even . ing gowns in mourning materials," i Mrs. Livingstone told her easily. "I • advise you and Dora to order the car at once. Then you can go down this i morning and select for yourself an 1 evening gown in black. You will . need one frequently. Be sure that > it will be ready in time for you to > wear it on Saturday night, my I dear." (To He Continued) LIFE'S PROBL ARE DISCUSSED By MRS. WILSON WOODROW I happened to run across an es say written about twenty years ago by a woman who was something ot a celebrity in her day. It was a plea to women, urging them to set up bank accounts for themselves where ever possible and telling of the sat isfaction and serenity of mind which came from such a step. It sounded like a voice from the. Dark Ages. "Yet, at the time she was real ly proposing a rather radical de parture," smiled a contemporary of the writer who was with me. It was the exception then rather than the rule for a woman to have knowl edge of business or finance. Most of us could more easily have drawn the Sistine Madonna than a check. We were appallingly ignorant in ev erything relating to money." "Except probably in ways of spending It," I observed significant ly. My friend always has been and is to-day rather extravagant. "Ah!" she shook her head, "I come of an era, you must remem ber, when woman was Just about as much of an economic factor in the world as a canary scattering Its birdseed around Its cage. She was there merely for ornament and to air her pretty little accomplish ments. ' As for the birdseed, it was always on hand, provided for her entirely without toil or thought on her part to do with as she chose, and apparently came from an inex haustible supply. "Why should she bother to hus band or take care of it, when to throw it about furnished some amusement in her otherwise idle and monotonous life? That was the era and the atmosphere in which I was brought up," she repeated, "and you can't teach an old dog, or an eld canary either, new tricks. "Indeed," she went on, "when I think of the ideals which obtained and of what a sealed book all busi ness except that of squandering was to us little more than a gen eration ago 1 stand in amazed won der before the alert, competent, business-like woman of to-day. There are still plenty of canary birds, of course, just as there have always been bustling, sober-mind ed, thrifty sparrows; but the age lias taken on much more of the sparrow complexion. "You know," she smiled, "it is said that sparrows were introduced into this country through the me dium of a single pair brought over for the purpose of combatting the wasteful ravages of the grubs and caterpillars that were destroying crops and vegetation of all sorts, but the sparrows increased and multiplied so miraculously and are so aggressive that they have to a great extent driven out all the other birds. We have perhaps lowt some thing in the way of color and orna ment by the change, but we have saved our food supply. • "And, to tell you the truth," she reflected. 'I doubt very much if the canary bird role ever was a natural one to woman. It was forced upon her to a great extent, but it was only a masquerade in borrowed plumage, as proved by the celerity with which she has doffed it as soon as her opportunity came. As it says here," she picked up the essay which had started our discussion, and read aloud: "'A definite allowance and a check book will make of many a woman an economist and a man ager who would otherwise be a wasteful spendthrift —on a small scale, doubtless, but one quite as ex travagant in relation"*to her means an are the titled dames of high de gree in London, who are hopeless ly in debt to their milliners and tailors—for there is something in that exactness of figures, those in exorable figures which traditionally will not lie, that educates a woman'." I wonder if there is not a good deal in what my friend had to say. We have always been called the extravagant sex, I know. Never a man went on the financial rocks but he and the world promptly blamed some woman for it, either in con junction with wine and song, or else because of a vain and Inconsiderate wife or daughters. And I am not denying that wom en have been the world's great spenders. In very ancient times men were the chief offenders. It was they who went robed in pur ple and fine linen and decked them selves with gold and precious stones. "Solomon in all his glory," was the synonym. There were Cleopatras, too, and Theodoras wasting wealth like wa ter, of course, but women in gen eral went simply clad and kept in the background. Then in the Mid dle Ages and down through the reigns of L/Ouis XIV. and XV. in France the two sexes ran in this respect about an even race, neck end neck, so to speak. The day of woman's general and superior prodigality dawned when Eugenie came as Empress to Paris with her beauty, her youth and her love of display and iet the vogue for clothes. With her ended the era of one black silk dress, which served our grandmothers as "best" all the days of their lives, and with the black silk went, too, the cameo or hair breast-pin, which with a ring or two made up her modest stock of jewelry. Ever since there has been a mad v/hirligig of fashion with the styles whisking in and out almost as of ten as the wind changed, and every woman, rich or poor, young or old, plain or beautiful, tall or short, fat or lean, striving to outshine every other in the costliness and splendor of her apparel. To be out of style was esteemed worse than a. crime. I.a Mode! Upon that altar women have stood ready to sacrifice their homes, hus bands, children, happiness, virtue, love, comfort, even their looks. And a. host of milliners, dressipaker3, jewelers and makers of cosmetics have fattened upon her vanity. She has set the pace and the whole world has danced to the pipings of her extravagance. It has been the cause of some of the great political scandals of Paris, of such financial debaches as Mrs. I,angtry describes in her life story, "Myself and Others"; it has made New York what a well-known humorist called It, "The City of Dreadful Debt," and the contagious influence of these great capitals has spread out to infect and poison the people of smaller communities. Yet in the face of all this, I maintain that woman is not natu rally an extravagant being. Her extravagance has been due partly to a love of beauty and beautiful things, partly to her desire to please, more to the demands of Mrs. Grun dy and the supposed necessity of keeping up appearances, but most of all to her lack of training in busi ness methods and business prac tices. The "cost of high living," as James J. Hill once expressed it, pro duced its natural* result. Young men hesitated to marry on account of the expense. Fathers found them selves unable to stand the drain their daughters put upon the family in come. Woman was literally forced into the wageearning vocations. She had to learn that arithmetic of busi ness which Lamartine, one of the most notorious of spendthrifts, stig matized as "the negative of every noble thought." And her aptitude for it is shown by the fact that within a genera tion the science has been mastered. Ignorance of addition and subtrac tion is no longer regarded as "lady like." It is no army of wasteful canary birds that abroad has kept the wheels of industry and business going and the fields tilled and plant ed for the past three years, and here at home has conserved the food supplies, kept down needless waste of all sorts, and has assisted so materially and with such busi nesslike ability in the raising of funds for the government and for the various relief movements. Thrift, calculation, frugality! Why that is woman's long" suit. She is by nature meticulous, with an eye for detail, provident. It is man, the hunter and fighter, who never stops to count the cost until his object is attained. For the mere joy of kill ing he exterminated the bison from our western plains. From the beginning he has heed lessly wasted Nature's resources. He sees things in the large, he looks cut over wide vistas for his game, he is impatient of checks and re straints, he cares only for results. His is really the extravagant sex. Thrift is simply order, and wom an is naturally orderly. It was only her fostered ignorance, that and a spirit of competition—the desire to outrival her era of extravagance. But the day of competition is over. An age of co-operation is dawnintt— for nations, for business enterprises, for individuals and woman will yield to the trend of the time. She will never go back to the old conditions; it is idle to think it: but those who fear economic chaos after the war are shortsighted. Kach sex will settle down into Its own place, with but little confusion, end the work of the world will co on better than ever. Every successful firm has two partners, the one a man of vision, initiative and daring, the other methodical, cautious and saving. This as X conceive it is the eco nomic future of man and woman, equal partners, but each working in his own especial province. He will dream big dreams, but she will make them workable and by her arithmetic correct and supplement, not negative, his "noble thoughts." And shall there be no more cakes r,nd ale —no pearl necklaces, or Paris gnwns, or embroidered lln rerie? Assuredly there will. Thrift does not lie In scrimping or nig gardliness, but in gratifying every reasonable desire that one can rea sonably afford, but only at a rea sonablo price always bearing In mind Kranklln's motto: "Nothing is cheap that you do not want." j Daily Fashion j Hint j FOB THE SFORTWOMAN. 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