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there were almost humps on her shoul-
| ders
Miss Vining turned off the gas sud
denly--blew the candle out, jerked down
the shade and fell hopelessly across the
hard little bed.
She was craying-softly.
From the far off down stairs came the
sound of Mollys laughter and door
| slammed loudly.
| Miss vining knew that Molly was COM
ing home from an afternoon of enjoy
ment, probably taking in all the moving
picture shows and eating chocolate sun
| daes to her hearts content.
| Molly was the landladys daughter-the
official peach" of the establishment, as
the breakfast table 'near-wit" often re-
marked
Besides Molly, there was Mayme, a
stenographer, who was a perfect killer"
with the men,
There We're two of the boarders dead
gone, on Mayme.
Gladys Perkins, another boarder who
came just two weeks ago, had already
captured one of the other men and he'd
taken her to the band concert at the park
Thursday night.
Miss Vning looked up at the SMOKED
ceiling of the uncomfortable little room
and pondered on the pitiful lack of love,
friendship, filtration, affinity business"
or even interest, in her own life.
you ought to dress BETTER" Molly had
told her once. = IF [ made $75 a month
keeping books, I'll be jiggered IL I'd let
any of it get loose from me-"
Miss Vining was supporting her mother
and a lot of small brothers and sisters
down in the country out of her meagre
salary, and she couldn't see her way
clear to dress any better than she was
doing, which was plain, but neat. and al
ways immaculate.
And
She was not repinng now, because she
was working for those she loved.
Not she!
1t wasn't that
But
She longed with all the strength of her
starved little heart for some one to love
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Little Miss vining dragged herself
EARLY up the three flights of stairs in
trs. Smiths boarding house.
Even three flights up, and the end room
h the back piazza was not immune from
he al-pervading smell OF cabbage cook
hg for dinner.
but
Miss yining often whimsically told her.
blf that the smell of boiled cabbage was
he one odor that harmonized exactly
fifth the establishment.
Tonight, however, Miss Vining was not
h a mood to make light of things.
She was heart sick and discouraged and
her grief was very personal.
She walked deliberately to the window
he one lone, little. dirty window and sent
he shade, full of holes and tattered, up
As far as 1t would go.
The light even at such an early hour
was very faint, and so she turned on the
little gas jet and in addition
lighted a measley little Candida pink
one in a Dresden andlestick-strangely
out of keeping with the tawdry room
which somebody had given her at Christ
mas time.
She stood before the mirror of the
cheap, little bureau looking intently at
her reflection in the glass.
She was taking an inventory of her
'looks.''
Not even one who loved her-and Miss
vining smiled bitterly at the irony of the
call her-prettyl
she was plainly and irretrievably-
homely.
Her thin mud-colored hair, hung in
limp locks about her face, that was OWL
Ishly pathetic.
her chin.
on it-just above her eyes-were two
great bumps of concentration
Turning to get hopeful view of her
profile, she faced again the truth that
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THE HOUSE OF THANR,

BY Elizabeth Dejeans. illustrated in
colors by Frederick C. Yohn. ]. b. Lip
pincott Co, Philadelphia.
THE House of Thane" is the first novel
from the pen OF Elizabeth Dejeans since
1.-The Far Triumph" published in 1911.
That enthralling story of modern Amer
lean life definitely placed her In the fore
front of American authors of today. In
1.-The House OF Thane'' as in her former
stories, we find again the same fresh
ness of viewpoint and the same deep in
sight into the emotional life of men and
women. 1t might be termed vital por-
trayal of the modern pirate-a subtle
story of emotional American life.
Mrs. Dejeans, who has spent the win
ter in New York has Joined the summer
exodus for "the other side" and means
TO journey westward for three months
stay in Japan. though October. she says,
will bring her back to New York. Mrs.
Dejeans is an experienced traveller. Her
father, Capt. i. L. James, was an army
officer so she began her journeyings
early. She had the unique privilege OF
a girlhood spend in the interior of Ja-
pan, entirely among the. Japanese. and
she still speaks the language with facil-
ity. She has also lived in China and
India, and knows England almost as well
as her own country.
Mrs. Dejeans expresses herself as SYM
pathetic with the Japanese in their con-
tention with California. II cannot help
feeling towards them much as one does
to distant family connections. l lived
among them so long, and understood so
we'll their viewpoint If they were a lit
tie less clever, thrifty and forcible-as
are all people who possess their SINGLE
ness of purpose-California would prob
ably take a less n-themanger at
titude''
Asked il the background of her next
novel would be Japan, and the subject
matter of an international character. like
80 many of our American European
novels, Mrs. Dejeans was non-committal.
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Her answer was, ut would be something
OF temptation to novelist, wouldn't
it?'
Mrs. Dejeans says of her latest novel,
THE House of Thane," just issued by the
Lippincotts, II have taken for my tramp
ing ground in The House of Thane a
city not so far east as New York, 1t is
true, but none the less conservative for
that and in sharp contrast is the desert
oil camps of California. I have tried to
snow the type of man who drill first
for a bare livelihood. and then for his
fortune and finds it--loses it, and finds it
again-his grip all the time on the throat
OF circumstances, potential creature.
big in spite OF his faults All that the
world contains is his to snatch, even the
body and soul of woman-a modern
pirate, thinking to steer his bark as he
will. Those who have lived as I have
among our western John Thames. and
have seen them, dozens of them, trav-
cling the we'll beaten millionaire's road
will know how true Is my portra val
The little Marys are quite as usual, and
travel their short course quite as did
Mary Kelly--unfortunately.
Mrs. Dejeans has lived for a number
of years In California, and knows its oil
camps its desert townsites, orange groves
and Pacific Newports.
THE BEND IN THE ROAD.
BY Truman A. DeWeese. Illustrated. nv
Harper Bros, New York.
Truman A. DeWeese, whose book, 'rrhe
Bend in the Road has just been pub
lished. was the author OF the John and
Jane Letters. written from the world $
fair at st. Louis These were printed
daily in 800 newspapers, and Mr. De-
Weese was awarded a gold medal for
them. The "TIill Top Farm of THE
Bend in the Road" is situated in reality
near East Aurora, New York. and the
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"how little Miss Vining has reminded
me of meadow grass. and clean country
clover, ne wmown hay, haybe, but to-
night-well, tonight she is a cheap ar
tificial rose
A dream that was so tiny he scarcely
recognized it as a dream, suddenly
folded its little wings and flew disap-
pointedly away. "Yes, Mrs. Smith"
he was saying to his landlady a few
minutes later. "I will give up my room
tomorrow. I'd like to be farther out in
the suburbs during the heated summer
months"
Suddenly in the half light of the
piazza Jim Ashton's face assumed a
strangely repulsive look to little Miss
Vining.
She heard his remark with contempt.
and her own pitiful efforts at being gay
and laughing as if she were happy
were horrible.
Way deep, deep in her heart she was
thinking what a hopeless idiot her part
ner was, and what fool she had been
to try to play the other girls game.
She was merely giving an imitation
of a girl with beau. Molly had gone
sulking to her room--mad because Jim
Ashton was talking to Miss vining.
Mayme had gone bit later when
her beau had suggested that they join
Miss Vining and Mr.. Ashton on the
piazza.
Mayme had refused, and when she
went up stairs her beau Immediately
hied for the couple on the dimly lighted
porch
''Nyi but we are belle" Mrs Smith
| sneered from the door as she asked
them to please turn the light in the hall
down lower when they came In.
| Mayme's beau got up and made his
adieux.
Just then jim Ashtons cigarette
flared up and he handed the flame to
Miss Vining to light the cigarette she
held between her fingers.
| AS she leaned forward to catch the
light Jim Ashton leaned forward, too,
and kissed her smack" on the lips.
| AS she fed to her little aerie she
seemed to hear him trying his level
| best to explain.
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cannot praise your Vegetable Compound
too highly. Every woman should take
It at that time. / recommend it to
both old and young for female trou-
bles." = Mrs. EMILY SUMMERsGuL,
Swarthmore, Pa.
Baltimore, Md" "My troubles began
with the loss of child, and l had hem
orrhages for four months. The doctors
said an operation was necessary, but L
dreaded it and decided to try Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The
medicine has made me well woman and
feel strong and do my own work. -
Mrs. j. r. PICKING, 1860 Sargent ST.,
Baltimore, Md.
Since we guarantee that all testimo-
mails which we publish are genuine, is it
not fair to suppose that if Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has the vir-
tue to help these women it will help any
other woman who is suffering in like
manner2
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second novel, Henry Kempton." which
is vivid picture of soldier life, and has
again chosen for his hero a very uncon-
ventional character. Cool and calculating,
ambitious and heartless, Henry deter
mines to climb the social ladder by every
means in his power. Articled to a solicitor
when the story opens, he is only waiting
for an opportunity to follow his inclina-
tions and enter the army, when an ac-
cidental meeting with a dukes daughter
precfpitates matters, and he immediately
throws up the study of the law. Later,
we follow his career as a soldier; see
how he falls under the spell of one of
his senior officers in the Twenty-fourth
Hussars: how he wins the V. c. for the
mere purpose of bringing his name into
prominence; how he is invalided home
and meets Lady Violet for the second
time, and finally, how he is taught,
through his experience with a worthless
woman, to estimate at its true value the
love of one who stands by him in the hour
OF his humiliation.
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SAVED FROM
OPERATIONS
Two Women Tell How They
Escaped the heSurgeon'sKnife
by Taking Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound.
Swarthmore, Penn. : :" For fifteen
years l suffered untold agony, and for

one period of nearly
two years l hadhem-
orrhages a nd tn 9
doctors told me I
would have to un-
dergo an operation,
but | began taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's q
v e G e t a BILE Com
pound a n d a m in
good health now. I
a m all ov er the
Change of Life and
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F R { c K Ii s
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Them with The Ofhinc Prescription

Don't Hide Them With Veil Rcnlave
Them with The Othimc Prescription
This prescription for the removal of
freckles was written by prominent
physician and is usually so successful
in removing freckles and giving clear
beautiful complexion that 1T Is sold by
your druggist under an absolute guar
antee to refund the money if it fails.
Don't hide your freckles under a veil;
get an ounce of othine and remove
Them Even the first few applications
should show a derful<improvement,
some of the lighter freckles vanishing
entirely.
BE sure to ask the druggist for the
double strength othine it IS -his that
Il sold OH the money back guarantee.
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She waved her hair, and arranged it "a
la Gaby Delys," and bound ,around her
head an old braid that Molly had dis
carded a few days before and thrown in
Miss Winnings bureau drawer, when she
came In her room to ask her to fasten
her waist, before she went out with her
best beau"
Miss Winnings face was ghastly pale.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-20
THE ADVENTURES OF DIR.
WHJTTY''

WHITTY"
BY GA. Birmingham. George II. Do
ran Co., New York.
There were certain escapes which were
forbidden to ~. j." the inimitable hero
of Spanish Gold, .The Simpllins Plot"
etc They were impossible for y. j." be-
cause he was curate. Dr. Whitty fell
heir to these exploits.
He came to the conclusion that the time
was ripe for waking Up his native town
OF Ballintra in Connacht An unwise but
we'll intentioned diplomat he traps HIM
self and many of his fellow townsmen in
his artfu web.
The adventures of this wrong-headed
reformer are absurd and fiery; yet all
the while we are convinced of the like
lihood of their happening-in ireland.
Mr.. Birmingham, commonly known as
the Mark Twain of Ireland, and author
of half a dozen successful Irish novels,
is by far the most racially typical of his
present day literary countrymen. His
novels, with their droll humor, are now
familiar to the average reader every
where in America and England. The Rev.
o. Hannay for that is his real name,
started his literary career with Sc
rious book on the state of Ireland. THE
Seething Pot" which caused considerable
excitement there, and put the author in
jeopardy of life and limb for while.
This volume was followed by the famous
sSpanish Gold" and his other lighter
works, including "The Red Hand of I'll
ster," which dealt with the probable re-
suits of the passing of the home rule bill.
Mr. Birmingham's new book is an ac-
count of how DR.. Whitty, who did every
thing u. j." didn't dare to do, stirred
up his village.
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civil WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
IN FLORIDA"

By William Watson Davis Phi. d. Long
mans, Green & Co., Fourth Avenue and
Thirtieth Street, New York.
William Watson Davis, in his "Civil
War and Reconstruction in Florida" ac-
cording to his publishers, has completed
his work as the result of exhaustive his
torical research. Mr. Davis is south
ern mana native of Florida--who has
sought consistently to present through
process of historical investigation the al
most forgotten truth concerning the most
tragic and vital period of Florida's recent
history. F'lorida's experience epitomIses
that of the entire south.''
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winter home of the author Is in Buffalo.
The lure of the country, how the city
toiler may easily find that rare content
ment which comes from living in intimate
relation with the soil, is the theme of
1.-The Bend in the Road" which Mr. De-
Weese has made such charming story
out of.
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there, with his brave virginians-
dead. Even now l can hear them
cheering as l gave the order, For
ward! ! can feel the thrill of their
Joyous voices as they called out all
along the line, Wen follow you, Marse
George, Wen follow you-well follow
YOU Oh, how faithfully they kept
their word-following me on-on-.to
their death. and l, believing in the
promised support, led them on-on-on
oh. God"
In the collection are four other let
ters written before and immediately
after Gettysburg which shed much new
light on the events of that terrible
three days. Among other things Pick
EFT settles for all time the contro-
versy that has existed as to the actual
responsibility for his famous charge,
whose failure blasted the hopes Of tho
south
OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED
CRENIEWS L&TER)
"ELDORADO"
BY Baroness Orozy. George H. Doun
company. New York
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"THE LONG WAY"
BY Mary INLAY Taylor. Little Brown

and company. Boston.
"The Long Way" is moving drama
of love, or sisterly devotion and of
self sacrifice that at first seems wasted
but later resolves itself into a beacon
light, pointing the right way to half
dozen or more people blinded by the
tempest of their passions. Eva and
Rachael Leven represent the two ex-
tremes of femininity: Eva beautiful,
weak, sallow and selfish; Rachael
strong, self sacrificing, with true yis-
ion and high ideals. Eva compromises
herself and imperls her reputation,
and Rachael takes the burden of her
fault. Eva dances, but Rachael pays
the piper until her sister awakens to
realization of her own unworthiness
and the enormity of Rachaers sacri-
flee. The men are the types these diff
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lDCLrYSnAr1r1Y's
| EpHILOSOPHIl

Er GRASS WIDDER may
be GREEN, but dar's one
thing sho' an sartin, Ole
Miss, she aint nevah
troubled wild = w E E D S.
Naw'm.
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"A DARK LANTERN"
WILD GRAPES.

By Elizabeth Robins. The Macmillan Co.
New York.
A new edition OF "A Dark Lantern" by
Elizabeth Robins, is Just out, the original
having appeared some years ago. and
was one of the most widely read novels of
the day. IT is a powerful and striking
novel, English in scene, which takes an
essentially modern view of society and of
certain dramatic situations The Dark
Lantern is brusque. saturnine. strong
wiled doctor, who makes wonderful cures.
DULLES his patients. and is hated and
sought after. The book has the absorb
ing interest of a strong and moving story
varied in it's scenes and characters. and
sustained throughout on high spiritual
intellectual and emotional planes
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'Aw come, now. Miss Vning. he was
saying. whats the use gettin' huffy?
I've kissed every girl In the house, but
you and"
She slammed her door. and alone in
the dark she heard her heart beating
like a sledge hammer. while her head
indicated for the moment, with the fumes
OF the cheap cigarettes, went round and
round.
This time, she didn't fly up the shade
or turn ON the gas, or even light the little
pink candle in the Dresden candlesticS
which somebody had given her at Christ
mas time.
MOI
Instead
She was kneeling beside her hard little
bed, when the last faltering boarder
wended his way up the stairs, ''hiccough-
ing and stumbling-in the wee sma'
hours of the morning.
Miss Vining was praying with all her
might and man
She was praying for something that she
had lost-somethng that no matter how
ugly she was and how minus beaux
counted for more than anything else in
the world.
Something that made life sweet and
KIND and bearable, even under such try
ing circumstances.
1t was her self-respect and it was gone
ana what was she to do2
In the meantime the young lawyer had
made up his mind to go and the next
evening at supper his place at the table
would be vacant
lie doesn't know probably until this day
may never know, indeed-that that one
evening was the only time that poor lit
Tie Miss Vinng. broke loose" and tried
to be belle twice to play the other girls
game.
It's seems a pity that he didn't know
that she was an artificial rose just for
that one evening-doesn't it?
She went back to her little meadow
grass sef-after that one luckless ex-
perience-trying to forget the mortifca-
ton of it ALL
He won't ever knowi
That's the pity of it,
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BY DOLLY DALRYMPLE

her-the cry of every human heart,
Her people she knew were graceful in a
dumb sort of way, but somehow things
are so soon taken for granted and be-
sides she had almost weaned herself away
from them so seldom could she afford to
go to see them.
That morning when she went to work
Mrs Smith, her landlady, had stopped
her in the hall and said:
Miss Vining, it looks powerfully to me
like you've got a crush on the new
boarder, the young lawyer. He has asked
me several times who the sweet looking
girl was who sat off at the table by
herself. Fix yourself UP and don't let
Molly ornMayme cut you out. Get your
self a beau. They're a great asset.
would If 1 were you"
Miss vining began rejecting upon the
prospective beau.
He wasn't handsome like either of
Molly's beau. neither was he dashing,
like the floor walker that liked Mayme,
but that mattered not bit.
If he was interested in her and had
asked about her, then she craved to find
favor in his eyes.
She was trying to work out how she
could take Mrs. Smiths advice and fix
herself up and not let Molly or Mayme
cut her OUT
IT WILL" she said defiantly. with swift
determination. Whats the use of a girl
trying to be lady? What's the use of
pasting up high and lofty thoughts and
doing the best you know how? What
does a girl get out of it? I'll show Molly
and Mayme and Gladys and all the rest
of them that can get a beau as well as
they can. I'll show them that I can
have a little fun, too, before l die"
She was putting on her best slippers
the ones heretofore kept religiously for
Sunday wear.
She slipped into her Sunday" dress,
and left off the "guimps," putting a
string of cheap pearl beads about her
bare neck.
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THE HEART OF A. sor.DrEp

CAS- REVEALED IN THE INTIMATE.
LETTERS OF GEN. GEORGE e.
PICKETT)
PUBLISHED BY SETH MOYI.E INC,
2S6 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK.
Under the secret preserving title of
"rhe Love Letters of a confederate Cen
eral'' a remarkable series of actual let
ters written from the great battlefields
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ferent natures would naturally attract
and effect The back ground of the
story is the luxurious life of the veal
thy class in Washington society, but
the book concerns itself with but one
problem and one set of characters.
WILD GRAPES"
By Marie Louise Van Saanen MADAME
AlgD Moffat Lard & Co., New York
1t is quite delightful to welcome wild
Grapes a new novel from the pen of
Harie Loise Van Saanen MADAME AlgD.
Her previous book, "Anne of Treboul"
was published several years ago. The
theme of the new story Is centered around
type of woman that is fortunately in
the minority among American women,
but nevertheless 1t Is one whose demoral-
izing Influence must be reckoned with
Men do not sufficiently recognize her at
sight. They often treat her as a child
until it is too late.
Madame Van Saanen, with her husband,
Edward Van Caanen-Algi, brilliant
young architect, whose mother is a great
favorite of the Roumanian queen-poet
Carmen Sylvia, Is stopping in Paris.
THE ART OF THE WALLACE COL
LECTION"
By Henry c. Shelley illustrated with
full page plates Duogravure l.. c..
rage and company. Boston.
The Art of Wallace's Collection" by
Henry c. Shelley who is remembered
for his volumes of "Old Paris" Inns
and Taverns of Old London" and The
British Museum" Mr.. Shelley's name
has for some time been connected with
the Boston Transcript to which paper
he contributes a weekly English let
ter He has also been connected at
various times with other American
newspapers and magazines. Mr.. Shell
ley's new book is the fourteenth vol
ume to be added to Messrs Pages. ex-
cellent are galleries of Europe series.
The new volume in this we'll known
series is devoted to detailed descriptions
and the interesting history of the great
art treasures contained in the Wallace
Collection in London. which was origin
ally founded by the Lord Marquis of Hert-
ford and greatly enlarged by the fourth
Marquis of Hertford, and remains one
of the most interesting and valuable art
museums of Europe.
The Wallace Collection is not onv IA
nous as a great gallery of paintings by
the worlds masters but also Is unique
In its display of arms and armor. and
other objects of art.
Mr.. Shelley. whose reputation is that
of a writer of ability. has given a care
full. comprehensive and concise account.
which will interest the general reader as
well as the art student, and the lover of
"things beautiful"