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morning. and when got there the Teddy
told me to come in an set down. She
was beaut'-lemme tell you-tall and
fair and mighty sweet and she looked
troubled. she did. She was a-cleaning out
her writin' desk. She looked so troubled
the pretty dear-that l could have cried.
but she didn't pay no attention to me.
Queer thing, but wimmen folks an girls
don't seem to think that messenger boys
is alive an KNOWN. There 1 sat on de
sofa, an she kept stackin de cards-de
letters, I mean-an' putin old dead flow
ers and trash tied up in blue ribbons
carefully in de bundle, and a whole pack
of Special Deliveries and loads of let
tergrams,' an all at onct she jes broke
down and put her pretty head the
desk where all de letters was tied up
and cried and cried like her heart would
break. Suddintly she raised up, an in
twinkle of de eye she was mad as blue
blazes again. She snatched open a box
that had a diamont bracelet in it and
then she grabbed some other boxes and
some books. and, Gee! She packed 'em
up quick and fast. Mad as she was, she
was sorter sad at the same time. and
wiping her big brown eyes she handed
me the package and l read the address:
Mr.. Henry L. Nameless.'
And she mentioned the street and
number aloud"
go on. do" begged Nancy. What
happened thenT
When ] got to de gemman's apart
ments," he said, ''he made me come in.
He opened de note on top of de package,
and when he read it his face got gloomier
an gloomier. He read on then he got
mad. I saw 1t wasn't no place for me,
an I started away, but he said:
Set down.
HE couldn't cuss de Teddy dat had sent
him his things back the boy went on.
80 he started to cuss me. All at onct
he stopped an / noticed dat his express
sions was something like the young led
dys had been-an' 1t made me sorrier
fer him than I had been for her. Then
ups an tells him that I'd left her
cryin' her pretty ewes out one minute
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"ln nv next incarnation" Peggy said
thoughtfully, IF / am consulted as to
what sphere in life I'd prefer, | shan
'hesitate-PH beg them to make me the
brunette relative of hand organ man.
The one who grinds the organ while the
gentleman passes the tambourine around
in the corner saloon, and pays his re-
spects to the policeman on the beat
"ff I wanted to see life and assure my
days against dullness," Nancy said, "and
| were consulted, I would say: Make me
a small, freckled-faced boy, and help me
to get job with the A. d. T. There S
nothing like a messenger boys exist
ence.'
DO you really think that messenger
boys have any thrills in their liyes?'
asked Peggy.
Reckon" repeated Nancy. II know
they have"
"How do you know" asked Peggy.
Because I had a girl friend who once
worked on a newspaper in New York. .
confided Nancy, land she used to tell me
about how the whole editorial force had
to go back of Saturday nights to help get
out the Sunday edition, and how always
a little red-headed, freckled-faced mes
senger boy used TO have to accompany
her home in the wee sma' hours. On the
way he'd regale her with stories that
would make the very hairs of her head
stand on end. Nick Carter was windy old
bore in comparison to the small escort and
the thrilling experiences he had passed
through. He used to tell about the mur-
ders he had ferreted out of the many
crimes where he had been consulted as
to the quickest way to run the criminal
down, and all sorts of other thrillers.
Why the stupidest looking messenger
boy is full of romantic adventures, If you
only get him going"
I'm from Missouri. You've got to
show me- Peggy averred, and so Nancy
waited her time.
A few days later the two girls sat to-
gether dispatching some six or eight
notes, while the little uniformed messen-
ger stood first on one foot and then on
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or something good to drink and tells you
the secrets of his life, which otherwise
he wouldn't mention?
Ter call came to the Office the mes
senger boy started as he gulped the ice
cold lemonade which Nancy had brought
him, FER a reliable boy to come to de
hotel to stay from to II O'Clock. The
time job for me- sez / to myself and
the boss agreed. l beat it there and was
took up to the top floor-straight' down
the hall an turn to the right"
By now the story was under headway.
The Teddy was a fat party with blue
earrings and the other member of the
family was the kid, aged 2, kicking up
storm at sea, right in the middle of the
bed The Teddy explained that she was
the kids MOTHER the messenger boy
went on, land that the reason she had
sent for an A. d. T. was that the kid
was scared of strange nurses. He liked
little boys and would stay with any one
he ever saw. The Teddy said she'd sent
for a trained nurse, but the kid hollered
so she had to send her away. She finally
came out with the whole story. She
wanted to go on lark and the kid was
a handicap. Unless he took a fancy to a
person she couldn't go and leave him,
and she hoped I'd be the pacifier this
time"
I'm to stay with him." sez I. "Is that
the size of the order?"
II found out it was he continued,
land Immediately begun to make myself
agreeable to the kid. He took a. fancy
to me at once and then his mother told
me how he'd nearly had the Group for
three nights and that I'd have to be care
full and give him his medicine If he. got
to coughing. | told the Teddy that | had
four little brothers and sisters ter home,
and they had the Group at various times.
and I knew just exactly how much cough
medicine to give em. She pointed to the
bottle containing the dope-teaspoonfu
was the dose-and as giving medicine was
my long suit, said l understood.
Didn't she cry seem distressed at
leaving the kid?" Nancy broke in GU
rio,
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Compound and now am stout, well and
healthy. I can do all my own work and
can walk to town and back and not get
tired. would not give your Vegetable
Compound for all the rest Of the medi-
cines in the world. ! tried doctors med
icines and they did me no good. Mrs.
MARY EARLEwnSE, R. I'D. No.3, Utica,
Ohio.
Another Case.
Nebo, Ill.-"I was bothered for ten
years with female troubles and the doc
tors did not help me. Twas SO weak and
nervous that I could not do my work
and every month I had to spend few
days in bed. I read so many letters about
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound curing female troubles that I got
bottle Of it. 1t did me more good than
anything else ! ever took and now it has
cured me. feel better than have
for years and tell everybody what tho
Compound has done for me. IbelieveI I
would not be living to-day but for
that. - Mrs. HETygE GREENsTREET
Nebo. Illinois.
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love story that carries a warning with it.
He brings lesson to every one who reads
the book.
Deity he holds the interest in suspense
the reader breathless for what may hap
pen-"In Another Moment"
Without exception, I'm Another Mo-
ment' is the greatest story of its kind that
has ever appeared The author has the
knack of avoiding the melodramatic char
acteristlcs that mark the other stories of
q similar type. What he tells he tells in
manner that is true to life, and because
of the truth of it ali impresses his reader
with his own convictions apd makes him
understand. I'm Another Moment is n
story to be recommended highly-it is a
story that should be read.
ROAST BEEF MEDIUM"
By Edna Ferber. With 26 illustrations
by James Montgomery Flagg. Fred
erick A. Stokes & Co., New York.
Intensely interesting, absolutely
unique and entirely original is Miss
Edna Ferber in the world of letters.
None other has just the same gift
as she; none other has just the way
of telling things.
In her short stories entitled But
tered Side Down." this was conclu-
sively proven and now she comes to us
as ain LII IL Stciy VI utcPly
character. Roast Beef Medium
In the "foreword" to her story Miss
Ferber tells more accurately than any
reviewer" just what Roast Beef Me.
dunn" means.
She says:
Roast beef medium is not only a
food; it is a philosophy"
Emma McChesney, to whom we be-
came very devoted in Miss Ferber's
short stories, again appears and she is
one Of those real persons that miracu-
lously get into fiction--as done by Edna
Ferber There she is, as sound and
sensible and successful and womanly
as if we were Just shaking hands with
her in the office instead of reading
about her.
She Is a business woman-a travel
ing saleswoman for petticoats. She can
sell bill of goods to hard customer
as well as she can bake cake in a
balky oven. She is the kind that takes
hold and does things. Yet she steps
out Of the sleeper at Bay City, Mich
at 5 a. M, looking as fresh and trim
as if she had Just come from the
witchcraft of a French maid. And she
likes a little pink satin bow in the
lining of her hats.
Everybody finds Emma good person
to know. She's straightforward and
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BY DOLLY DALRYMPLE

NO, leddy, said the messenger boy
she wussunt the cryin kind. Not her.
she wuz a real sport. She put on some
fne togs and left US, and soon as she'd
closed de door de kidean' me got to play
IN race horse. l done hurdle over de
chair for him and he nearly split his fat
little sides wild laughin', when all Of a
sudden what dyer think happened?"
Couldn't guess for the life of me-" said
Nancy
DE kid got to coughin," said he "an'
then l knew 1t was all up. De medicine
didn't have de effect thought for an so
l SEE, Me fer a doc. An rings up me
own physician and tells him to come
round to de hotel to room steen thousan
an umpty-ump, dat kids there sick
Hurry!
"The doc got there in his benzine bug
gy in little er no time" the messenger
boy went on. "and when he looks at de
po' little kid he begins to talk bout desc
wimmin folks that goes off an leaves
their kids In strange hands and that they
ought to be beat or something as bad
and all at onct de door opens and In
walks Mrs. Gay Girl-blue earrings an
allan she falls down over de kid and
sez somethn' bout her Precious Lamb
an all dat rot an I get me pay and
leaves"
II suppose you'll be hanging out a sign,
Babies Amused While Mothers go a-Gad-
ding suggested Peggy.
who. meT' asked the A. D. T. "Pve
been running messages now for bout FIVE
years, and the things have saw! Gee!"
Tell us some more" begged both of the
girls in unison.
Last week. said he, 'I went down
to the Terminal station wild a couple in
taxi that said I was responsible for their
happiness. Wouldn't that jar your"
He parroted the phrase with vast
amusement
How did it happen?' asked Nancy.
1T was about a month ago." said the
little boy. II had call to go to GER
tain home on the South Highlands, just
like I had a call for your house this
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THE JOY BRINGER."


BY Grace MacGowan Cooke. Doubleday,
Page & Co. New York.
Grace MacGowan Cookies new novel
1.-THE JOY Bringer," is very charming
book. Ever since this title was announced
some time ago, stream Of inquiries as to
its meaning have been sent to the pub
fishers, who have had to dig into Hopi
Indian lore for the explanation.
1.-The Joy Bringer'' Is the free transla-
tion OF the Indian name given by the
Indians Of the leading characters in the
is practically unpronouncable to the An
glo-Saxon tongue, Mrs. Cooke decided
that 1t was best to use the English
equivalent. The scene of the book is
laid In the Arizona desert-a part of it
at the chief pueblo of the Hopi Indians
reservation. Mrs. Cooke is perfectly
familiar with the Hopi indians and their
country .inasmuch as she has lived in
the west for many years and while she
was writing her book lived among the
Indians Mrs. Cooke also will be re-
membered as the author of THE Power
and the Glory" a remarkably success
full book dealing with child labor in
the cotton mill district of her native
southland.
While staying at little Hopi Indian
village during the time she was writing
3.
Cooke learned something of their Ian
guage and translated into English one
Of the Indian lullabys. which is as fol-
lows:
What does the owl say. baby-baby?
Out In the dark night near him cry.
He says that therell be plenty of peaches,
Laid on the housetop by and bye.
He'll have feast. the gray old robber.
When the peaches are put to dry.
In explaining the lullaby to a friend,
Mrs. Cooke said: 1.-THE Hopis are great
child lovers. have never seen a child
struck by one of them. nor SO far as
I understand the language OF gesture and
tone. harshly reproved. Their nursery
rhymes are many and delightful. Nearly
always they have the appropriate action
which takes hold on the child's fancy,
and are sung to the plaintive chanting
airs of the people as lullabys. 1 got my
Hopi landlord, from> whom I rent the
Hopi house I live In, to help me trans
late this enc. To appreciate 1t one must
know that the peaches raised in these
sandy bits OF orchards are extraordinarily
delicious--finer than the vaunted fruit OF
California, indeed of fuller flavor, be-
lieve, than any budded peach can be.
They form an important part of the
dietary and the wealth OF the orchard
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Better Than Spanking

Spanking does not cure children of
bed wetting. There is a constitutions,
cause for this trouble. Mrs. M. Sum-
mers. BOX w, Notre Dame. Ind. will
send free to any mother her successful
home treatment. with fun instructions.
Send no money. but write her today II
your children trouble you in this way.
Don't blame the child. the chances are
it can't. leslp 1t. This treatment also
with urine difficulties BY day or niA ht
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THE AMATEUR GENTLEMAN"
BY Jeffery Farnol. With Nine Illustra-
tions by Herman Pfeifer. Little, Brown
& CO., Boston.
By the complete and overwhelming suc-
cess of THE Broad Highway" Jeffery
Farnol has permanently fixed his name in
the minds of hundreds of thousands OK
readers throughout the English speaking
world, and the publication of a new novet
from his pen Is certain to arouse the wild
est interest. "The Amateur Gentleman"
the first story he mas written since 1.-THE
Broad Highway" possesses the same
qualities which gave that book Its uniyer-
sal appeal-the charm OF style, the fresf,
unusual humor. the vigorous yet whim-
sical characterizations The period is the
early eighteenth century the scene Eng
land, and you will read of country things
and people. of gentlemen of fashion and
fine ladies, of romantic adventure, and
hand to hand encounters, and most OF
all of true love-the whole making an en-
Continued on Page Thirty-Seven)
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an mad as a March hare the next | told
him how she'd made me wait until she
dried her tear drops off of the special
deliveries and / ventured to say that
believed that those letters was wrote bv
one dat she was very fond of. Y orter
saw him then. He apologized without
askfn' me pardon in so many words and
the box of roses that took back to her
had stems as long as your leg an de let
ter looked like a brief by a young law
yer dat had tried to tell all de law he
knew at one time"
And they got married?" Peggy in
quired interestedly.
"Betcher life," said the A. D. T. ''They
looked me up an | went to the station
wild 'em, as told you in de beginin. an
de wad dat feller rammed into my hand
when he got out of that taxi was Just
about twict as big as the wad the Teddy
at the hotel gimme for mindin' de kid
Wimmen folks don't part with money like
men nohow. I'd a sight ruther work for
men than wimmen any time
ing that Nancy in the meantime was
bringing In the pitcher of lemonade and
putting 1t beside him, as we'll as a platter
of cookies and box of candy
Our notes are ready" Nancy, told him,
land they must so. You'll have to con-
tinue this lis our next"
"All right ma'am," said the A. d. T.,
"tes~ as you say"
DO YOU believe those fairy talesr'
Peggy asked as soon as the door was
closed and the boy had gone.
That's not the point at ALL" Nancy
returned. II told you that the stupidest
looking messenger boy could make Nick
Carter look as silly as a broken umbrella
In windy day"
II wonder" mused Peggy curiously, 'if
when they qualify for their places with
the telegraph companies they are re-
quired to give proof of truthfunessS along
with reliability and the other virtues a
messenger boy is supposed to- hav@?"
I'm sure I don't KNOW" Nancy an
swered. II wonder, too"
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came. i ha0 numD
spells and was dizzy,
had black spots be-
fore my eyes, my
back ached and /
was so weak l could
hardly stand up. My
face was yellow,
even my fingernails
were colorless and !
had displacement. ]
took Lydia E. Pink
hams We e e table
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clear -headed-yet humorous and big
hearted and pretty. She can. use the
vernacular to great advantage, too, es-
pecially when she's little excited. And
her advice is worth taking.
This book gives her career from the
beginning. The parts of 1t. as published
in the American Magazine have been
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gentle voiced man who seems to under
stand them so we'll.
Recently when a friend congratulated
The book has been hailed with delight by
Tarkington's many admirers, because It Is
story of American home life, depicting
a typical middle western city with real
American human beings moving through
the pages, every bit as much alive as the
people you see on the streets Of any place
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Harrington on his new fund of material,
the author of "The Gentleman from In
diana" and Monsieur Beaucaire" gmil-
irgly said: why, yes, perhaps, but were
all friends together, and 1t never occurs to
me that l am gathering material"
Perhaps" said the friend. that's why
l. edrick is so real"
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and her readers will look forward t.
other books from her delightful pen il
the near future--books as charming a
'"rh Children of the Meadows"
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about the same size anywhere In the Mis-
sissippi valley
''Hedrick Madison is the most ingen-
iously diabolic child that ever wove a
novelist's plot for him. If you can
. enjoy his perform
ances for what they are worth, you will
be getting full value tor the price of ad-
mission to the pages of The Flirt.' He
drick is chorus and villain and the comic
element-all in one. He reads his sisters
like SO many crystals. and he voices his
annoying revelations at dramatic moments
only. d. . Booth Harrington has no
sympathy for him-not the slightest trace.
And he describes him so accurate
ly that the boy Is almost human, in spite
of him. To most readers, Hedrick will be
quite as interesting as the Flirt herself.
'The room In which Valentine Corliss,
the returning native, first sees Cora,
the firt, is as vivid In the readers mind
as some actual room; and there are clear
cut moments Of description and intuition
combined that, as in ones own life. make
together lasting Impressions and images.
Cora Madison, like Hedrick, is
rather too good to be true. particularly as
she is pictured with Mr.. Harrington S
latest manner-as IL with light, firm pen
ell lines. But she is a wonderfully true
study. and truer In many ways than
most women will admit"
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HOW THIS WOMAN
FOUND HEALTH
Would not give Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound
for All Rest of Medicine
in the World.

Utica, Ohio" suffered everything
from a female weakness after baby
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THE. AMATEUR GENTLEMAN"

owners, and are spread on the flat house.
tops to dry for winter use"
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very popular. Like all Edna Ferbers
creations, it is something new ana gen.
uine
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-02-14
at 34th Street
Paris ideas for Spring in
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g In tomorrows display of new conceits in tailored
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This special purchase in which the opportunity for low
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Tomorrow at SOC & 81
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Such prices would be nducement though the seec-
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Women's Gray Kid OF
Top Boots. Value So o'oo
the ceverest innovation in feminine footwear
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and because OF that prices kept at pretty
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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-02-14

Really. tina clubs are the best possi-
bic training school for the duties OF
full citizenship. which I firmly believe
will be conferred on all women before
long. Not only are we kept Informed
on the topics Of the day and the social
questions go much In need OF solution.
but we are receiving drili In the actual
machinery of government and In par.
liamentary procedure. was most IA
vorably impressed with the orderly and
systematic way in whiop the women
managed the elections at the last meet
Ing OF the City Federation.
But don't know why I'm defending
clubs 40 hotly." she ended with laugh.
Even that hypothetical neglected hus.
band OF the funny papers seems no
longer to object to our existence. or
course a woman can overdo clubs just
as she can ovcrdo eating oatmeal, but
] fancy one excess Is about as rare as
the other"