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as the iespectabler people were sifted
out. Hysteria is kind of fretful IA
tigue, and the wearier these. children OF
Joy were, the more reckless they grew
Willie Enslee first iRsinuated, then de-
ciared that he had had enough. He
yawned frankly and abysmally. He
urged that it was high time they were
all in bed. But the women begged al
ways for yet another dance.
Forbes finally agreed with Willie that
il was no place for decent people He
began to wish very earnestly that Per
sis were not there. This longing to
keep another heart clean or to restore
It TO an earlier purity is the first bios
som Of real love.
The floor grew so rowdy that Forbes
would no longer take Persis out upon il.
He did not ask her to dance again. Even
when she raised her eyebrows inviting
ly he pretended not to understand.
Then she spoke frankly:
"Sha'n't we have another dance
They're playing the tune that made Rob-
ert z. Lee famous"
"l'm afraid I'm too tired" he pleaded.
As soon as he had spoken he felt that
the pretext was insultingly inadequate
addressed to a woman and coming from
a soldier used 10 long hikes But il was
the only evasion he could imagine in
his hurry. Instead OF turning pale with
anger, as he expected, she amazed him
by her reply:
That's very nice OF you"
Nice OF me" he echoed, fatuouSly,
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OVER THIN ICE

hardly knows whether the mood COM
pels the fingers or the fingers suggest
the mood.
And now the rapture of the dance was
his, and he was enabled to play upon her
grace and her miraculously plant SYM
pathy. Her brow was just at the level
Of his lips, and he began to wish to press
his lips there. Now and then her eye
lids rose slowly and she looked up into
his downward gaze They were mys-
terious looks she gave him. They were
to her as impersonal and vague as the
rapture that fills the eyes when the west
is epic with sunset, or when an orehes-
ira pours forth a chord Of unusual
ecstacy, or a rose is so beautiful that II
inspires a kind of heavenly sorrow.
But Forbes misunderstood. He
usurped to himself the tribute she was
unconsciously paying to the mere beau
titude of being alive and in rhythmic
motion to music
Persis had accepted Forbes at Ten
Eyck's rating as gentleman TO whom
she could intrust her body to embrace
and carry through the complex evolu-
tions of dance on a floor whose very
throngs made a solitude and conceal
ment for wantonness of thought and
carriage
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now they trotted. now twIrIed madly as
on pivot. Their feet seemed 10 be
manacled together except when they
dipped knee almost to the ground and
thrust the other foot far back
Then gradually, in spite OF him, the
music began 10 invade his own feet. He
felt a yearning in his ankles The tune
took on kind OF care-free swaggerD a
flip boaStfulness. He wanted to get up
and brag, too. His feeling for Ten Eyck
was not OF reproof. but of envy. He
longed to take his place
Ten Eyck brought PerSis back to the
table, and the other women returned.
Mrs. Neff's partner nodding his head
with a breathless satisfaction as he re-
linquished her and rejoincd his own
group
The waiter had meanwhile set cock
tails about, and deposited two silver
pals full OF broken ice, from which
gold-necked-bot protruded. And at
each place there were slices of toast
covered with the black shot OF caviar.
The dancers fell on the appetizers
with the appetite OF harvesters. Persis
thrilled Forbes with a careless:
ITS too bad You don't trot. Mr..
Forbes"
He's not too old to learn" said Ten
Eyck. ITS really very simple, once you
get the hang OF it. And-get up here a
minute and I'll show you"
Forbes was embarrassed completely
when Ten Eyck made him stand up and
embrace him. But the people around
made no more fun of them than revival
lists make of preacher and new con-
vert They were proselytes to the new
fanaticism. Forbes, as awkward as an
overgrown schoolboy. picked up a few
ideas in spite of his reluctance.
He sat down flushed with confusion,
but determined to retrieve himself, In
little while the music struck up once
more.
Lave your pick in the air. the bands
begun again" said Ten Eyrk Come
on, Winifredr' Bob Fielding lifted Mrs.
Neff to her feet and hailed her away, and
Persis was left, TO Forbes.
Don't you want 10 try ~" she said,
with an irresistible simplicity.
I'm afraid Id disgrace you"
You can't do that. Come along.
Wen practice it here"
She was on her feet, and he could not
refuse. He rose. and she came into his
arms. Before he knew it they were
swaying together. He had a native sense
OF rhythm, and he had been a famous
dancer, OF the old dances.
He felt extremely foolish as he sidIed,
dragging one foot after the other. He
trod on her toes, and smote her with his
knee caps, but she only laughed.
You're getting it! That's right.
Don't be afraid T.
Her confidence and her demand gave
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So intimate a union is required wher
two people dance that it is easy to un.
derstand why the enemies OF the dance
denounce it as shameless carnality. Il
bis hard to explain to them how potently
custom and minute restraints permit ar
innocent dalliance with the materials oi
| passion. One can only compare it &c
skating over thin ice, and say that sc
long as one keeps on skating a tiny
crust OF chill permits a joyous exercise
without a hint OF the depths beneath
And the ice itself gives warning when
the danger is too close: It's tiny crack.
ling sound is thunder in the ears.
This was Forbes experience 4 beau.
tItul woman OF exquisite breeding gave
him certain enfranchisement OF heI
person. He could take her in his arms
and she him in hers. She would make
herself one flesh with him; he could
sway her this way and that, drag her
forward or backward, co-exist with her
breast to breast, thigh to thigh, and
knee to knee. But he must not ever
so slightly. take advantage of her faith
IN him. He must not by the most deli
cate pressure or -quirk of muscle imply
anything beyond the nice conventions
and romantic pretenses of the dance
Actresses make the same distinctions
with stage kisses, and endure with pride
before thousand eyes what they would
count a vile insult in the shadow of the
wings or. at a dressing-room door
Forbes made the old mistake. Moth
ing venture, nothing gain, is a risky
proverb. He ventured almost uncon-
sclously, without, any baseness OF motive.
Or, rather, he did not so much venture
as relax his chiTalry. He breathed too
deeply of ner incense, paid her the trib-
ute OF an enamored thought, constrained
her with an ardor that was inhnitesimal-
ly more pe4onal than the ardor of the
dance.
Somehow she understood. Instantly
she was little frightened, a little re-
sentful. As subtle as the pressure Of his
arm was the resistance of her body The
spell of the dance was dissolving, the
lily:
Forgive mer'
She simply whispered:
"All right"
And the spirit of the temple of dance
was rescued and restored. He had
sung a triae sharp, and she, like per-
feet aecompanist, had brought him back
to the key.
When the music ended he mumbled ::
viii you ever dance with me again? ?"
She abashed him with the true for
gIveness that forgets, and spoke with
all cheerfulness:
of course! Why not?"
The incident was closed in her heart.
Its influence had just begun in his.
The turbulence of the dance increased
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to be tired ;"

TO be tired"
"Umm-humm." she crooned.
Why"
oh. Just because.
Forbes never dreamed that The
gaucherie OF his excuse showed the des.
peration of his mind and the strain OF
his feelings. and that while his lips were
mumbling it his eyes we're CRYING
Don't stay here any longer. \ on are
tired, You do not belong here. beg
you to be careful OF your soul and body
Both are precious. Il makes q great
difference to me what Won zee and do
and are"
All this was writ 50 large on his
read it. Even WnIired read 1t and eN-
changed a glance with Mrs. Netf who
read II, too Naturally. Per,is under
stood. The feeling surprised her in a
stranger Of 50 brief acquaintance. But
she did not resent his presumption as
she did Willie'> equal anxiety. She
rather liked Forhes for it.
Then she saw hi, CONSERVATION at her
miraculous powers. and she liked him
better yet for a strong and simple man
whose chivalry va, deeper than MS gal
lantry And when man from another
table came across to ask her to dance
with him, she answered
Sorry. Jim. we're ust off for home.
Come along. Willie. Are YOU going to
keep us here all night"
Willie lost no time in huddling his
flock away from the table. He fused
about them like green collie pup.
They slipped weary arms into the
wraps they had flung off with such
eagerness. In the elevator they leaned
heavily against the walls. and they crept
into the limousine as if into a bed.
Forbes said that he would walk 10 his
hotel 1t was Just across the street.
They bade him good night drearily and
slammed the door.
He watched the car glide away. and
realized that he was again alone. None
OF them had asked him to call. or men
toned a future meeting. Had he been
tried and discarded
Once in his room. Forbes stared from
his window across the slumbrouS town
The very street lamps had the dronInS
glimmer of night lights in a bedroom.
The few who were abroad wore the ap-
pearance of providers or watchmen or
fasteners home New York was not so
lively all night as he had been taught to
believe.
He stepped into his pajamas and
spread himself between his sheets, too
weary to reach forth a hand and turn
out the little lamp by his bed.
He had slept no more than half an
hour when suddenly he wakened. The
last CRY OF bugle seemed to be ringing
in his ears. He sat up and looked at
his watch. 1t was the hour when for
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full one and she him. as if they were
plighted lovers.
Willie Enslee brought the dancers of
their pInionS and back TO earth by a
fretful reminder that the bouillon was
chilling in the cups, and the crab meat
was Scorching in the cha1ng dish.
Persis did not raise her eyes as she
slipped her cocktail She looked down,
and her lips seemed to find other lips
there. Forbes wondered whose
There was some rapid stoking OF food
against the next dance. When it irrupt-
ed, Forbes, greatly as he longed to dance
again with PerSis. invited Winifred for
decorum's sake Winifred speedily
killed the self-conhdence he had gained
from his first flight.
As Forbes wrestled with her he
caught glimpses of PersIs dancing with
Willie for partner Little Willie's head
barely reached her bare shoulder. He
clutched her desperately as one 'who is
doomed from babyhood not to be a
dancer. Still he hoped ludicrously
about. and almost made her ludicrouS.
Forbes longed to exchange partners
with Willie. for he felt that he and Win
fired we're equally ludicrouS. They
were making the heaviest of going. He
gave up in despair and returned to the
table.
When the music stopped there was
another interlude OF supper. People
gulped hastily, as at a lunch counter
when the train is waiting. Forbes in
tended to sit out the next dance; but he
found himself abandoned as on a desert
island with Mrs. Neff.
Come along, young man." she said.
I'm afraid | don't know how"
Then ~ teach you"
But
Don't be afraid of me. I've got a
son as old as you, and | taught him"
Forbes had danced at times with
elderly women, but NOT such dance as
this. 1t was uncanny to be holding in
his arms the mother of a grown young
man, and TO be whirling madly, dipping
and topping like gired puppets.
When the music ended with a Jolt
Mrs. Neff clung dizzily to him, gave him
an accolade of approval with her fan.
and booked him for the next dance but
one. If Forbes had had social ambi-
tions, he would have felt that he was a
made man. Yet if he had had social
ambitions he would probably have be-
trayed and so defeated them.
Mrs Neff having granted him a re-
prieve of one dance, Forbes made haste
to ask Persis for the next. She smiled
and gave him that wren-like nod.
BY now Forbes was familiar enough
with the trickeries of the steps to leave
his feet to their own devices. He was
a musician who knows his instrument
and his art well enough to improvise:
soul and fingers in such rapport that he
The Washington herald., 1914-09-27

Chapter III of this fascinating serial.
bearing the GIlHriEg title OF "TYifhH q
Magic IHelosure." ,,iH appear in this
paper merit Sunday. In it the iyresist-
ibie fate 7rhich is leading the young
lieutenant aud the beautiful society
,romGH into a closer intimacy is most Gf-
tracfiVcIv foTeshGdo5red
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WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY? R = sgEEsE =! HgszEz gs27Ez

With Illustrations BY James Montgomery FIagg
The chronicle=news., 1914-08-10

essnts will he repivedaagain-a week
hence when Georges Carpenter. the
French lieht-heavy weight, and
Young Ahearn, the American. who
has grown into the middleweight di-
vision. meet in London in 22-
round contest for purse Of 1000.
Promoter BRUCE has secured an
option on the services of "Gunboat"
Smith. for two bouts under his man
agement, in one of which Smith is
to meet Bormbardier Wells, and In
another Burge hopes to bring the
French and American heavyweights
together again. SO as to settle the
question Of supremacy. which still is
a much discussed topic. owing to the
iunsatisfactor termination OF the
Carpentier-Smith bout in London last
month. Hf
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AVIATION MEET FEATURE
AT STATE FAIR

Pueblo. Colo, Aug. 1O.-Binding
contracts calling for the twice daily
appearance OF one OF the countrys
leading aerial navigators in Pueblo
during State Fair week and one
cross:country flight to Colorado
Springs and return from the State
Fair grounds on Colorado Day, were
signed this week by the officers OF
the Colorado State Fair association.
Two of the latest tyoe of bi-plane
are to be shipped to Pueblo the week
preceding the fair in order that they
may be set up and the mechanism ad-
justed to the high altitude in which
the bird-men admit that it Is ex-
tremely difficult to fly. The con-
tract calls for two machines in order
to preclude the possibility of disap-
pointment owing to accident to a
single machine.
Although the name OF the aviator
who is to appear in Pueblo has not
been made known by the bi-plane
company. President W. F. Raber and
Secretary ]. L. Beaman are endeav-
oring to obtain the services of Eu-
gene "Bili' Heath, the daredevil
air-man whose stunts were the feat
ure OF the recent Los Angeles and
Chicago meets.
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FOOTBALL PRESSING CLOSE on HEELS Or
'- NATIONAL GAME: SEASoh OPENS soon

their heels with the game against
Ursinus on the following Wednes-
day, and on the succeeding Saturday
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsyl-
vania. Dartmouth and host OF
other elevens in various parts OF the
country swing into action. Early in
October the middle western and
southern university teams don MOLE
skin and FROM all points of the COM
pass will come the sound OF thnd-
ding pigskin and the clash of tackler
and runner.
Before the month closes the prem
Ter elevens of the country Will begin
to meet foes worthy OF their best
efforts and the season will be- at Its
height. The schedule for the middle
Saturday Of October is typical of the
increasing activity. Carlisle plays
Pittsburg: Aamherst meets Trinity;
Princeton faces Lafayette: Chicago
lines up against the State University
OF Iowa: Oregon will oppose WASH
ington State; Wisconsin and Purdue
clash. and the United States Naval
academy will establish q precedent
by jourenying to Philadelphia to play
the University OF Pennsylvania
eleven. "t-r
From this date on the big games
follow rapidly. Saturday, October
"a. finds among other prominent con-
tests: Harvard vs. Pennsylvania
State, Cornell vs.. Brown. Princeton
ys. Dartmouth, Chicago VS.. Perdue,
Michigan vs.. Syracuse, Pennsylvania
vs. Carlisle. Williams VS.. Trinity and
Yale VS.. Washington and Jefferson.
The final Saturday OF the month will
witness the biggest intersectional
game of the season when Michigan
plays Harvard at Cambridge. Other
sections. however. will not be lack
ing in feature contests for Cornell
and Holy Cross play at Ithaca. Chi
cago and Wisconsin at Hanover, Car
Isle and Syracuse at Buffalo: Dart
mouth and Amherst at Hanover;
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SECOND ROUND
OF GOLF TOURNEY
STARTED SUNDAY

The second roundof the Country
club, tennis tournament for the
Rhodes-Harbridse cup was played off
yesterday afternoon. Forty entllys-'
iastic golfers entered in the meet,
only 16. however. qualifying for the
finals. Fair weather prevailed, maxi
ing 1t an ideal golfing day. A large
number OF Trinidad people were in
attendance to watch the future Oui-
NETS and Travcrs in action. ..
Interest grows daily in the tourna-
ment for the Rhodes Harbridge big
loving cup and every evening. a score
of loyal golf fans can be seen on the
links at the Country club trying out
their sticks and practicing up on the
putting grounds. The Country club
golf links are now in the best shape
.hey have been in this season and
some keen spirited rivalry promises
to feature the tournament now in
session. No little amount of relief
was felt when 1t became known that
DUSTY" Rhodes, the winner of the
first round. and who gets his name
present for the second round of the
tournament. Rhodes is now in Dem
yer competing against the crack golf
ers OF the state at the Colorado State
Golf tournament which is being held
in Denver
The following qualified ye5terday.
VIII Samuel. Roger Sherman. A. l..
ha!;. II. ]. Wightman. Oscar SAM
l'el. Harry Zimmerman. A. Har-
bridge, Sam Morse. A.. H. Mason, Fuz
Fenner. s. s. Sanders, Dan Kelley, +.
~. Williams. Sidney Ballinger, j. C.
''udelscn. VIII Kerr and LeweIlyn
Davis. Abe Mason and Carlton Jeff
ryes both qualified, hut owing to
The fact that they are junior mem
hers they cannot participate in the
finals.
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STARkv|LLE WINS :
DECISIVE VICTORY
over GARAGE TEAM

In game featured By hard hitting
and loose playing ut times on the
part of both teams, the fast Stark
Vile team took the -Tr:nit,sti>- osu7,e4s.
aggregation into camp yesterday az
ternoon to the tune Of 10 to l.
Both teams In the main played good
fast baseball but errors at crucial
times lost the game for the CARA ye
boys.
Day. on the slab for Wendeu's
Pets, pitched a tight game and al
lowed but few hits. On two orcas-
iCns poor support back of him e.
abled the miners to run up tallies
which spelled defeat for the motor
lists. Twice the Starkville team htd
three men on bases and none out
when Day struck out three straight
batters who faced him. KamorrA,
for Starkville, delivered brand of
uail which fas not easily solved by
the garage boys.
Up to the fifth inning the score
stood | to in favor of theTrinidal
team. In this inning. which proved
to be the fatal one for the Trinidad
aggregation, Starkville filled thS
bases and n fly was hit to Sales at
Second base. 1t is said that Sales
caught the fly fairly but thinking
that his catch finished the inning.
dropped his glove and started for the
bench, when the umpire declared thy
runner safe on the ground that Sales
dropped the ball. A protest vas
made but nevertheless the game waj
finished with the umpire's ruling
standing
The game was one of the best o;
the season and showed that Captain
WcndelTs men are capable of putting
up good exhibition of baseball. IL
all probability the Trinidad garage
team will journey to Las Vegas sun
day where they will cross bats with
the New Mexico ball tossers.
The batteries for Sundays game
were: Trinidad Garage, Day and
salaZar; Starkville, Kamorra and
Gross
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New York, Aug. 0.-Spectre-like
foot ball Is beginning to stalf base
ball. Although the prospective pen-
nant winners and the worlds cham-
pionship contenders are vet in tho
making the gridiron game is barely
a month away. Coaches and candi.
dates for the eleven are studying the
rnles anew and soon the tackIins
dummy will tremble and sway un-
der the clutch Of the eager player.
for on Saturday, September 19. the
initial call to mimic conflict will
sound and from that day until the
first Saturday OF December football
Will rise and wane in its short. but
Active reign. a.i=' ?
Viewed from every angle the ap-
preaching season promises to be a
most remarkable and record break
Ing period in the gridiron sport.
More than 1000 college and high
schools are scheduled in the east,
south and middle west. and contests
are to be played on every day except
Sunday during the two and one-half
months OF the football cycle.
Not in number OF games alone is
t1,e coming season depending ror its
fame, however. for the 1914 cam
paign will witness features that
cause football to stand out with un-
usual prominence. Many spectacular
International contests are scheduled.
including the Harvard Michigan
game. Both Yale and Princeton uni.
versities will dedicate new and man.
moth stadinms. A host of former
famous players will appear as coach
es and cities to which big football
games are unfamiliar will entertain
eievens. notably Washington. where
the Army-Navy game will be played.
Az has been the case for several
years the Carlisle Indians and the
Albright college eleven have the
honor OF opening the season with
the game set for Saturday. Septem-
Ter ~. Cornell follows close on
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NOT so STRANGE AFTER ALL

you may think 1t strange that SO
many people are cured of stomach
trouble by Chamberlain's Tablets,
You would not, however, if you
should give them trial. They
strengthen and invigorate the stom-
ach and enable 1t to perform its func:
uons naturally. Mrs. Roise Rish,
Wabash, Ind, writes, Nothing lid
me the least good until l began MS;
ing Chamberlain's Tablets. 1t is de-
eide lily the best medicine for stomach
trouble I have ever used" For sale
by all dealers.
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". 0. ". PICNIC
AND FIELD DAY
GREAT SUCCESS


held forth at the annual Woodmen OF
the World picnic yesterday afternoon
at Central Park. Woodmen from
all over this locality gathered at Cen
trail Park yesterday afternoon with
their wive: and families for the
grand reunion and day of festivity.
The picnic. although an annual affair
with the 'Woodmen, was by far the
largest attended the woodmen have
so far held.
During the afternoon field sports
were held and in the evening dane
ing in the pavilian was the chief di-
version. Central Park was gayly
decorated for the occasion and In all
1t was jolly throng which attended
the picnic. The many concessions at
the park were doing a rushing busi-,
ness and boating on the lake centin-
ucd until a late hour. = % :
The afternoon of sports opened
with baseball game between the
married and the single men which
ended In Z to tie at the end of
the sixth inning when the game was
called.
The following was the program:
100 Yard Race for boys under l6:
Prize, pair OF shoes. Won by Charles
Montella. ..-
IS Yard Race for girls under 12:
Prize. pair shoes. Won by Anna
Dennison.
so Yard Fat Mems Race. 200 lbs.
or over: Prize. box silk hose. Won
by c. c. Ross.
Ladies' Nail Driving Contest: Prize
pair silk gloves. Won by Mrs. Ehr-
Itch.
25 Yard Race for boys under G:
Prize, ball and bat Won by John
Hill.
Potato Race for boys under 16:
Prize. pair silk hose. Won by George
Romero.
25 Yard Race. for girls under 6:
Prize. doll. Won by Emma Hainlen.
so Yard Egg and Spoon Race. for
girls under IA: Prize, pair sandals:
Won by Harriet Walker.
100 Yard Ladies' Race. Prize, pair
$3.50 silk hose. Won by Ruby Cow
ling.
100 Yard Mems Race: Prize box
cigars. Won by Willard Jamison.
Fat Women's Race. 25 yards:
Prize box handkerchiefs. Won by.
Mrs. Ehrlich.
so Yard Dash, for boys under 12:
Prize baseball mitt. Won by Edward
Hatton.
Mems Potato Race: Prizes: Dress
shirt and the potatoes. B. Rogers,
first: George Waldon. second.
100 Yard Race for girls under 49,:
Prize. pair kid gloves. Won by Ruby
Cowling.
Pole Vault: Prize $1.OO cash. Won
by B. Rogers.
Pie Eating Contest: For boys un-
der Is. Prize, cap. Won by John
Galranchi. ... .r,
Quarter Mile Race: Prize $2.OO
cash. Won by A. Galardi.
Needle Threading Contest: Ladies
Prize, gold plated thimble; mems
prize, silk necktie. Won by Mrs. A.
B. Conder and A. B. Conder.
so yard Three-Legged Race: Prize
s1.o0 cash. Won by George Romero
and John Hatton.
Tug of War: Prize, box of cigars
Won by the single men against the
married men.