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thank you enough for what you are do
ing for me-
AS the outer door closed Mrs. Blair ap-
peared before Wayne.
well, what are they saying Is tie
male population taking 1t calmly? Is
there rebellion anywhere"
Wayne tossed his magazine aside as his
sister bent over and kissed him. She
brought his mind to bear upon her ques.
| ton.
My dear Fanny, why do you ask any
thing SO preposterous? Do you suppose
anybody is going to tell our father that
| he ought to consider well the seriousness
F., of second marriage, his duty to his
children. his duty to their mother and al
that kind of rot? Not on your life. my
dearest sister. Nor is our fathers pastor
! going to ask him for the credentials OF
body downtown is delighted. He got q
| jolly from every man he saw at the clut
today. where, by the way. l was taken to
| show our delight in the prospect Of seeing
So much for us males; how about the
women? Are there any signs of revolt
! l met Dicks mother a while ago and she
| had her knife sharpened.'
MANY people are still away. but my
telephone has rung all day and the
| towns buzzing."
| Its good thing for the town to have
| something that 1t can concentrate on for
few days. Dick wingheld says the
| trouble with us here is our lack of So
cial unification. Our approaching step
mothers advent may have the effect OF
concentrating social influences
| The older women resent it: they de.
clare they will have nothing to do with
| her"
Those estimable ladies whose husbands
have paper in banks where father Is a d.
rector will sing different tune this even
ing"
Men don't know how we women feel
about such matters: II mamma had not
been the woman she was 1t wouldn't be
SO hard"
"Oh, yes 1t would Fanny. Besides you
don't know what sort Of a woman father
going to bring home to I'LL our Christmas
stockings"
Please don't make 1t all more horrible
sort of thing. Wayne. thes Christmas and
the birthdays and the Sunday evenings al
the piano. when she taught US to sing
songs together-it's all that that hurts
me-
Her eyes were bright with tears. Wayne
rose and walked the length Of the room
For Gods sake, Fanny. cut all that
OUT
| That's what it means to me and II
means even more to you. think we
made a mistake in not showing resent
ment when father told US. But we took
it as calmly as though he had told us he
had bought a new chair or hat rack.
| You're rating the lady as piece Of
furniture, which Is putting 1t pretty hlgn
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Joshing a Lady.

DOSS SLACK. scribe Of the Sons Of
IN Temperance. said in the course Of .
brilliant temperance address in Trenton:
THE trouble with drinking is that q
man may so easily become a heavy
drinker without realizing it. There's a
lot Of truth. you know. I'm the story about
the bricklayer.
A college settlement lady once accosted
a gang Of bricklayers as they lunched.
Tell me. my men, she said. is it true
that you bricklayers drink great deal
Of BEER?
1.-The bricklayers looked at one another
as they sat on the sidewalk, with their
backs against a house wall. and pals and
kettles between their legs. Finally one, OF
them spoke up and said:
~ don't know as l can answer that
question: madam. You see. IL all depends.
Some days one Of us bricklayers'il drink
anywhere from thirtyfive to forty beers.
while. on the other hand. some days he'll
drink quite a lot.
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Silly Questions.

NTHE late Myra kelley's. notebook %
=! said a magazine editor of New
York, was full Of overheard bits that
she proposed to work into stories
'One bit that will never figure in .
story now. she related at dinner be-
fore she went abroad.
"It concerned little schoolboy. Jurgis
who said to his mother one
night, in Me inimitable Myra Kelley dia-
lect:
"'ven derl match's fire goes out. NUT
ter. vars gofs it to. hey?'
THE mother answered impatiently:
~ dunno.l Such questions is silly. Wy.
you might As veil asst me we're yer pa
goes ven he koes out
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by equestrian statues of Gen. George s.
Meade and Gen, John F. Reynolds, both
at Gettysburg; at statue OF Justice on the
appellate court building. New York: Com
mander Hall on the naval arch; group
representing Truth at the Pan-Amer-
lean exposition; sculptural decorations for
the court Of records, New York, and
numerous busts and reliefs. 1t is said of
his statue of Gen. Meade that it has an
air of distinction and monumental dig
nifty and that few equestrian statues in
this country are more happily conceived.
Very recently Mr.. Bush-Brown has model
ed small portrait group of a niece and
grandniece Of Mr.. Mcclure. the director
of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
The little daughter is represented as
standing at her mothers side and partly
resting against her shoulder. The moth
erS arm is thrown affectionately around
inclined forward. Though in reality a
sketch, this little group. cast only i'll
plaster, has real charm and distinction.
MISS BLANCHE GRIER of Philadel-
IVA phia has also come to Washington
with the intention Of making it her home
Miss Grier is an illustrator, a pupil of
Howard Pyles. whose work has already
found ready acceptance. Miss Grier is
occupying Miss Francis Benjamin john
stons attractive studio on V street
MISS HUNTER of New York is an
AVA other of the out-of-town artists who
is working in this city at present. She
is making interior views OF the beautiful
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Larz Anderson
Miss Hunter is a member of the New
York Water Color Club and the New
York Women's Art Club.
IN the catalogue Of the fifth annual ex-
hibition Of selected American paintings
which opened in the Albright Gallery,
Buffalo, the 11th of this month it is noted
that a number Of paintings have been
loaned by the National Gallery. One is
a portrait by Abbott II. Thayer. and an
other is figure painting by Thomas w.
DeWing. both Of which belong to the
Freer collection. A third is a landscape
by John W. Beatty. director of the art
department of the Carnegie Institute.
Pittsburg, plymouth Hills recently
purchased from the National Academy of
Designs exhibition in New York by Mr..
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| tivity. In the face of present congress
siOnal interest in this matter the present
volume adds timeliness to its other sub
stantial aspects.
THE UNDESIRABLE GOVERNESS. by
F. Marion Crawford, author, of
"Saracinesca." etc. Illustrated. New
York: The Macmillan Company
The desirable governess. in, this case,
is one whose mental. and moral perfec-
tions must remain wholly uncomplement-
ed by personal charms. This, in view
of the sensitiveness OF the male members
of the family to the disquieting power of
beauty. So. in the search for a COVER
ness with the desired qualities and in the
accompanying experiences and episodes.
the plot of this light, bright story
moves along in farcical humor, and in
the familiar storytelling grace of which
its distinguished author was SO complete
ly the master.
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ing that she was asked to elucidate. Where
upon she deftly picked her hunk of gum
from one OF the unused switch pegs, In
serted it into the waiting orifice, and
prattled right ahead.
"Oh, the outrageous lies they phone to
their wives to excuse their not being
home as they ought to be- said she.
looking. however, not quite so Mortified
might have been expected. ''and their
deliberate callous, cold-blooded. foxy
way of lying, too-o-o-oh.'
Detailed counts of this allegation were
called for.
"Oh. WELL" said the telephone girl. you
ought to hear EN- that's all. Two Of 'em
that came in here about Z O'Clock last
evening were sampes-samples Of the
limit. They were men around thirty, and
both OF them were what men folks call
happy-soused. They strolled in here, arm
in arm. sort OF leaning on each other.
They weren't so happy-soused that they
never become so far gone as to lose their
cagyness, in my opinion.
Well, whatcha going to hand her,
matey?' the lean man asked the fat one.
Search me- said the fat one pushing
back his hat and scratching his head.
Gotta pull some new stun. She's jerry to
ell of the Old comedy
".Old boyhood pal OF yours just breezed
in from Minneapolis and you've got to
take him around? suggested the lean
man. grinning
Jaw, nav, nothin like that said the
fat one disgustedy. That's an alma ma c
A. D. 1887 number. Nix. Gotta spring
something new and neat.
MAN that you've got big deal on
with breezed along and dragged you off to
dinner?' suggested the lean one again.
Say, tin those lumpy Ones wheezed
one fifty times and never got 1t over yet
Gotta run over to Baltimore to fix up
a hurry business gag:
"'Nothin' resembling It.
"'Friend of yours took you over to Ana
costa to look at bungalow SITE?
Tried that last summer and got the
boots
MAN interested in mode! tenements
kept you downtown to SHOW you lot Of
model tenement blue prints!
"'Say, how old dye think my wife is
bout six? Shed want to see the blue
prints. believe me-
Your boss took you out in his new
motor car and the machine broke down in
Bladensburg, and you'll be home as soon
as repairs are made?
'F1iv. too
went to the hospital to see an old
side-kicker that's dying of-er-house-
maids knee something:
Not a chance.
".Fellow bet YOU you couldn't walk to
Great Falls and back. and you took him
:" Million to one shot
o." Man In your Office took sick from eat
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II ~
occasional amusement and now
occupied as a studio by Mr.. F.
D. Millet The exterior is by no means
impressive The facade of the building is
plain and unpretentious. Shops occupy the
first story, and to reach the hall one must
ascend a long flight of steps after gain
ing admission at the private entrance. AS
studio this hall is admirably adapted,
being uncommonly spacious and especial
ly we'll lighted. 1t was here that the
mural decorations for the Baltimore Gus
tom house were executed two or three
years ago. and more recently the series
of impressive historical panels for the
Cleveland Trust Company of Cleveland,
Ohio, were painted. 1t was the commls-
sion for the Baltimore custom house dec
orations that first brought Mr. Miilet to
Washington, his desire being to execute
them here in consultation with the ar
chitects of the building, Hornblower &
Marshall. But it is undoubtedly the pc
culiar availability OF Forrest Hail as a
mural painters studio that has kept him
here At present he and his assistants
are at work upon series Of decorations
for the postmaster's room in the new
federal building at Cleveland. the subject
OF which is the carrying and delivery or
the mails. Every method employed, from
primitive time to the present, will he IL
Illustrated. There will be pictures of the
old stagecoach. of the post rider, of the
reindeer and dog sledges, the canoe. the
packet boat and the great modern
steamer.
These paintings will be in color and
historically accurate. SO that they will
serve as records as well as pictorial COM
positions. but each. while complete in
itself, will be treated a factor in a
great decorative design-that is. instead
of treating these subjects as themes
for separate paintings. to be placed I'M
relatedy on the walls. they are presented
as a part of a conventional frieze. This
frieze, running completely around the
walls of the postmasters office and ante
room, will be about 127 feet in length
and from two and one-half to over four
feet in width. according to location, to
consist of a semi-conventional design of
cornstalks and morning giories. in old gold
on a rich, atmospheric blue ground The
pictorial panels set In conventional geo.
metric forms are spaced in the center of
the frieZe. and thus serve to accent the
repea ted pattern. In effect a renaissance
design is suggested, and yet, upon scru-
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CHAPTER VII-Continued.

Wingfeld walked to Mrs Blairs gate
with Wayne. talking of pictures and mu-
sic. He was a diligent collector Of anec-
dotes of the brief sort that end with
abrupt and unforeseen climaxes and he
recounted a number for Wayne's amuse-
ment. He carefully avoided any reference
TO Col. Craighill's marriage. though he
knew Wayne better than any one else
and might have spoken his mind without
offense. Wayne had appeared unusua.4y
dull and depressed, a mood that frequent
ly followed a debauch. and Wingf1eld.
familiar with his latest escapade, wished
TO lift his friends spirits If he could,
At the Blairs gate he declined Wayne
invitation to enter; but before they parted
he made a point of suggesting that they
have luncheon together the next day. He
was wiser and kinder than most people
gave him credit for being. and here. 1t
had occurred to him. he might do little
good.
Wayne entered his sisters house with
a latchkey which it had been her own
idea that he should carry. Mrs. Blair
came out of the reception room while he
was hanging up his hat and coat and
asked him TO go into the parlor for few
minutes.
Il have a caler-a matter of business
I'll be with you in a minute. \. ayne. Find
something 10 reaO. won you
He babe her take her time and sought
a table covered with magazines in three
languages. which gave to her library q
rather clublike air. Mrs. Blair believed
in self-culture and .practiced it la carte.
not overlooking the hors d'ouvres and
desserts He lighted a cigarette and
turned over the periodicals until he found
one that interested him. The murmur of
voices reached him from the room across
the hall: and he argued that the caller
was no one he knew. he should have
been asked to come in and speak to her.
such being Mrs. Bair's way. In a few
what appeared from her tone to be a sat
| isfactory conclusion. 1t had grown dark
| and a servant frightened the hall and ad-
| joining rooms with the mild electric glow
| that was Mrs. Blair's ideal of house light
! ing. Wayne. lifting his eyes at the soft
| flooding Of his page. saw that his sister s
caller was the girl he had met in the art
gallery. Her long coat made her appear
| taller as she stood against the back
ground Of the reception-room pOrtieres
| She was laughing happily at some re-
| mark of Mrs. Blair's. She murmured
something that did not reach him. but
Mrs Blair caught her hands. excaiming
Don't trouble about it; 1t will soon be-
| gin TO come easier. You are going to dc
| something really worth while: remember
I have faith in you and you're bound 10
arrive. No one ever disappoints me-
Il certainly hope l shan't be a disap-
pointment to YOU, Mrs. Blair. can never
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THE convention of the American Fed
= Grafton of Arts brought together in
this city Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day large number of artists and laymen
interested in art. The delegates to TINS
convention came from all parts of the
United States, as far west as San Fran
cisco and as far south as New Orleans.
There were teachers in the universities,
painters. scuIptors, architects, city-build-
ers. and many phases OF art were
brought up for consideration. George de
Forest Brush, speaking on the subject Of
Modern Art Development" strongly
urged the necessity of giving art students
beautiful examples from which to study
and surrounding them with an environ
ment, in which beauty was the dominant
note T. Lindsey Blayney gave forcible
arguments Tor the Introduction OF lac
study of the history Of art in the COL
lege curriculum. and Arthur Fairbanks
told of the possibilities Of the art mu
seums as factor In the education of the
people. Art in the schools was dealt with
by Dr. James P. Haney. What the arts
was told by F. Allen Whiting, and ways
OF reaching the people were suggested by
b. T. Hartman. Senator Newlands spoke
on the subject OF Art as a National AS
set and outlined a specific policy for ag-
gressive activity on the part Of the fed
GRAFTON. Mr. Slayden of Texas explained
some Of the trials of the congressman in
regard to art matters, and Robert Tn
derwOod Johnson urged the Importance OF
estab lishing art museums in the several
states wherein none al present exists.
In addition to all these interesting top
les civic theaters. international con-
crosses. the national galleries. mural
painting. architecture. archaeology, all
found place on the program and were
presented by able speakers, experts in
the several fields. Among those in at
tendance were E. Fl. Blashfeld, H. A.
MacNeil. c. c. Curran, William T Ev-
ans. Edward Robinson, acting director of
the Metropolitan Museum: John WaBeat-
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THE "HELLO GIRL" TELLS A STORY

ing soft she'll crabs at lunch and you had
Nd?
THAT likewise is fiimz.'
Then the lean one grinned in puzzled
sort of way and looked around kind of
hopelessly.
Gee he said to the fat one. you've
slipped her most OF the repertoire,
haven't YOU, palo'
"'.Fraid I have replied the fat man
gloomily. But say. if we're going to
that doll burlesaue show, it's time to eat.
and I've gotta pass her some old thing.
Let's see,' and he pushed his hat up from
one side and scratched above his ear.
Gosh, I've got it! I'll blame 1t all on
you, see? I'll tell her that Your wife 8
out Of town and that when l met You on
my way home YOU were picked up to
the necktie, and that l had. Of course, to
take care of you, and
lice that. ice that said the lean one,
grabbing his fat friend by the coat lapel.
Put that in storage before you pull 1T
and get me in butcher than l am al
| ready. Why, you big lummox. doesn't
your spouse hate me enough already
without your piling up this new stuff?
How dye know but what my wife has
spent the hull afternoon with your wife,
anyhow? Don't you know that the min
your wife'll call up my wife, and they'll
get to comparing notes. and they'll both
swear it's a frame-up and all that: Say,
cut out these Bwana Tumbo set-every-
body-in-German lunches Of yours, won t
YOU?
"'Oh. 1 meant for you to blame it on
me to, when you phoned your wife, ex-
planned the fat man. but l guess I've got
a shrimpy number, at that. Say, how d
1: do for us just to tell EN- that we're
soused and that we'll be home next
Thursday a week il the day isn't cloudy.
and let it go at that
Nov l know you're bugs said the
lean one. Let's go hang little dram
on ourselves and think it over. and away
they trudged arm in arm again, and they
didn't come back, and so l suppose they
ended by not sending any kind of word
TO their wives.
1.-The way those two did fan over what
they called the old stuff the excuses
they'd used so often before! Do you WON
der that telephone girls have got to be
shown before they'll consent to listen to
the tinkle of their own wedding bells?
But the men who come here to send
phone excuses to their wives don't mind
the telephone girl at all. They take 1t for
granted that the telephone girl Is used to
all that stun-which OF course, she really
discussing just what lies they're going to
try to fix up for their wives. Why, some
OF them even ask me to suggest a new
excuse!
only a couple of evenings ago 1 had
a case like that He was q careless look
ing middle-aged man. and he was twist
ing his nustache and looking real re-
Elective as he sauntered toward me here.
He gave me the number he wanted, and
then he leaned over-not leeringly or
fiirtily at all. understand but just in q
cold-blooded businesslike way-and he
said:
Got anything new In the square-it-at
home line?
''Of course. I knew perfectly we'll what
he meant. but l wasn't going to admit it.
But my refusing to admit it didn't cark
him any.
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charity.

John D. ROCKEFELLER, the morning
} of the recorh -breakins collection in
Dr. Aked's Church. made wise and
terse remark.
What" said a fellOw-member to Mr..
Rockefeller. lis happiness
.'Giving it," replied the multi-nillion-
aire.
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Evans. This picture has been highly
praised by Mr.. Beatty's fellow exhibitors.
JAMES HENRY MOSER, Hobart Mich
OILS and A. Everett L. Warner are all
represented in the twenty-second annual
exhibition Of water colors, pastels and
miniatures which opened in the Art In
stitue, of Chicago on the 10th OF this
month. This exhibition comprehends
4o4 works. and includes the Rotary Ex-
hibition" sent out by the American
Water Color Society. which has during
the past season made a circuit of eight
OF the midwest cities. 1t is in this sec
tlon OF the exhibitin that the works of
the Washington artists are set forth.
Il
FORGE A. HEARN Of New York was
~ In Washington this week and visited
the National Gallery of Art, in which
he expressed much interest Mr. Hearn
is trustee of the Metropolitan Museum,
to which institution he has very recently
presented five early Dutch and English
paintings and fourteen by American
artists. He has just purchased for his
private collection a painting by Whistler
of oonsiderab bic note, The Gold Girl" a
portrait of Miss Connie GilchriSt. the
actress. who afterward married the
Earl of Orkney.
Two of the paintings by f. A. Abbey
.. for the Harrisburg capitol are includ-
ed in the Royal Academy exhibition in
London this year. One is entitled "Penn's
treaty With the Indians and the other
The Camp at Valley Forge Both are
very large canvases-the largest, il is
said that have ever been shown in the
Royal Academy. and neither is receiving
very warm commentator from the Eng
fish critics. who claim that they are
merely enlarged illustrations and not
decora tons al all. They are, however,
attracting much attention.
MISS JULIET THOMPSON has been
AvA holding an exhibition of portraits
that she had recently painted in her
studio in New York this week. Miss
Thompson is former WashinRtonian
a student of the Corcoran School and a
member of the Society Of Washington
Artists. LEILA MECHLIN
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

GWENDA. BY Mabel Barnes Grundy.
author Of Hazel OF Heatherland,"
etc. New York: The Baker and
4 Taylor Company. Washington: Bal
lantyne & Sons.
EVERYDAY BUSINESS FOR WOMEN;
Manual for the Uninitiated. BY
Mary Aronetta Wilbur NJ. A., teach
er Of banking and political economy
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su c h
liars! Such awful,
frfghtful, terrible.
hideous. dazzling.
unholy liars as men
are"
Twas a telephone
girl calculating it
"a telephone girl
in one of the main
hotel Hobbies.
The indictment
was so overwhelm-