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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-27

believe Rhoda would If he'd just go at
it right"
Her daughter, to whom Mrs. Kent
was speaking, laughed.
Did you ever know Tom to go at
anything right" she asked.
There. indeed. was the rub. Tom
never did Ego at things" right. While
he was not of that odious fraternity
that goes about Boosting that 1t says
lust what it thinks" and while he
was not in the least vainglortous
about this popularity, he simply could
not help telling the truth disastrous
ly.
sometimes l feel as If there were
really something wrong with him." his
mother used to mourn. How can he
he as Intelligent as he seems and yet
say the perfectly dreadful things that
be does? You know, there are times
when I'm really afraid he never will
get anybody to marry him-that is.
If course, any desirable person" This
most unnatural fear shows her des-
perate state of mind.
Mrs. Kent had been quietly delight
cd when Rhoda Sherwin, the daughter
~ an extremely prosperous old
friend. came to visit them and seemed
RI take a decided liking to Tom.
Rhoda was desirable in every way.
she was far from pretty in her re-
tined stnuous blondness, but she was
most attractive, II you happened to
he discriminating enough to admire
her type. And then she would have
nIenty of money, and money was so
Convenient. OF course. nothing could
have been more dtstastefuI to Mrs.
Kent than to have her son marry
brazenly for money, but there was
no reason why he shouldn't fall in
love with a sweet, refined girl like
With utmost deIicacy Mrs. Kent
nursed the fncip;ent love affair along.
Her maternal coverings were tactful
and unobtrusive, her methods subtle.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-27
Who was BOss9

A youth about to embark on the sea
of matrimony went to his father and
said:
my wife2"
The old man smiled ndssaid: Here
are a hundred hens and q team OF
horses. Hitch up the horses. put the
hens into the wagon, and wherever
you find a man and his wife dwelling.
stop and inquire who is the boss.
Wherever you find a woman running
things, leave a hen. Il you come to a
place where a man is in control, give
him one of the horses"
After ninety-nine hens had been
disposed Of. he came to a house and
made the usual inquiry.
"I'm boss of this farm" said the
man. So the wife was called, and she
affirmed her husbands assertion.
Take which horse you want" said
the youth.
"I'lI take the bay"
But the wife did not like the bay
horse. and said things to her man. He
returned and said to the youth:
II believe I'll take the gray"
Not much" said the young man,
you get hen"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-27

it"
It was dve days afterward that re-
.ceived the note from Uncle Nicholas
which announced that he had been
formally elected The fact was no
news to me. Miss Craske, the clubs
secretary, had already alluded to 1t.
I called at once upon my uncle to
tender congratulations.
We took a taxi to the club forthwith.
Miss Craske herself met US in the ball.
Even the fact that she was wearing
gold pince-nez did not make her look
more than %. AS a matter of fact.
she's %. She greeted my uncle with
a blend of cordially and respect.
at expect Mr.. Fosdyke has told you
our history and aims" she said. 30
won't enlarge upon them. You will
ind good many of the members al
ready in the reception room"
NV uncle is not man whom one
would accuse of shyness, but his step
lacked, I thought. something OF its
usual confident briskness. A CLEAN Of
relief flashed over his face when he
caught sight of Larford. the explorer,
at the far end OF the room. We intro
duced him to several people, and al
lowed him to drift away.
''Well?" Miss Craske said to me.
''weIl?" said.
Pm sure that I shall like Sir Mich
olas." said Miss Craske. 'And $4,000
or was it $4,000 a year, think you
said"
eyed her sternly.
You see." she continued. speaking
IN the strictest confidence. my name Is
on the active list. And Sir Nicholas
is so delightfully."- romantic.
Really, I've a good mind
"I doubt it." said I. "And consider
ing that the unfortunate victim"
"HighIy favored candidate!" Her
eyes twinkled behind the pince-nez.
Hasn't been in the building 20
minutes, the thing strikes me as being
slightly precipitate-not to say indeli-
cate"
"Pooh!" said Miss Craske. "Twen-
ty minutes is long enough for any
woman to make up her mind. You
should see me at the Winter sales!"
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Salvation by Pine Zinc,

The colored parson had Just cone
Guided a powerful sermon on Saliva
ton Am Free" and was announcing
that collection would be taken for
the benefit of the parson and hrs
family. Up jumped an acutely bru-
nette brother in the back Of the
church
Look a-year, pahson," he inter
rupted, says Everybody's, "yo' amt
no sooner done tellin' us dat saliva
ton am free dan yo' go askin' US TO-
money II salvation am free, what's
de use In payin' TO It? OATS what I
want to know. An I tell yo' pint
eddy dat amt soin' to glib yo'
nothin' until I find out. Now"
Patience, brudder, patience" said
tho parson. I'll Iucidate: S'ppg0
yo' was thirsty an come to q river.
Yo' could kneel right down an drink
yo' fill, couldn't yo'? An It wouldn't
cost yO' nothin', would TT"
COB cou'se not. OATS Jest what Z
Dat water would be free" con-
tinued the parson. rBut s-posin' 20
was to hab dat water piped to yoP
house? You'd have to pay, wouldn't
yo'?"
Yves, sub. but"
wal. brudder, so It is wid saliva
ton. De salvation am free, but it's
de havin' 1t piped to 20 dat 20 got Co
pay for. Pass de hat deacon, pass
de hat" - =.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-27

quite in that style, and some OF II
The sometime Friend, by-ths-b BY
was of the feminine gender: lh9 ,t,1
Eas not one of the masculine WY" WIN
whom she was intimate. FernapS'
fundamentally, that was why mat
She had quite convinced hersell Iu0'
1be really was about to die
The review of her life concluded she
mad taken a long. last look at the
moro cherished Of her personal pc
Iongings. That, she felt sure WIS
one of the things suicides always w.
All about the room were renlh ue .. .
nj old time enthusiasms whlCh nov
lett her cold-porcelain, an Eastern
Toa+|cally. a kakemono, prle-dleu'
a sDbinx OF Jade, AS she con
Ventilated them she realized with sat
Ssfaction that they formed exactiy me
backpround she could have Wlsneu:
have omitted to say that she hao
r,t on her most becoming fTock LOT
SSe occasion. or the froch she thought
became her best. She spent sTeas
SeeI If money on her clothes, but
tEeeIy 7Sere always somehow ineffective.
Sbe wore. most ill-advisedly, greens
80 naacock blues. Women with her
TipeIiv she had come. with a ro-
,,,ant{c sense Of being fascinated
apainst her will, to the table on
which Law the instrument of death.
1t had been some days before she
couId bring herself to buy il. She
bed seen it in a curio-shop window,
ns che nassed in a mood of black de-
,o-ossion at the tail of three days
9anrotic imaginings. 1t was a dagger; ;
= 1retty. ieweled toy-quite the sort
~ Thing they commit suicide with in
S,ovaIs directly she had seen it she
bed yisualized it in her hand and her
SeIf wing stark and cold and white. =.
The incident came at critical time
for her. - -
well letter had just earned herself the
anithet which proclaimed her back
,,I,n1ber by marrying. Their intimacy
TI1xe all intellectual women, until
+bev marry, Agatha thought marriage
an alternative term Of humiliation. Al
- a. argued the Sometime Friends
Interest in some one else besides
AGATHA. which was wounding to Aga
tba's amour proper. She was only
interested in people who were inter
estcd in her. -.
oP friends had never been wide one,
she was, moreover, naturally fastid-
SoTs Brains and breeding were q
zinc qua non With the Sometime
FrienCi's secession the supply of those
noesessing the necessary qualiflca-
tons was exhausted.
Wherefore, on the night OF her
friends marriage, Agatha had assured
her diary that friendships generally
were superficial and unsatisfying; had
protested, further. that friends were
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-27
Two Happy Hearts
By Walt Gregg.

Tim sorry.' I said. "but I'm afraid
you1l have TO see the thing through.
It's consoling to know that Miss
Craske is a particularly nice girl and
I've no doubt will make the man she
chooses extremely happy"
Ny uncle rose, favored me with one
last. despairing scowl. and departed.
Two days passed, and then, on the
club steps, / found myself shaking
hands with Larford. He grinned the
sheepish grin of the engaged man.
you'll fnd Sir Nicholas in the
smoking room, fancy" he said.
ny uncle was sitting on the window
seat Miss Craske was near-very
george" said my uncle family.
you will perhaps be surprised to
learn that-that Miss Craske-Milli-
cent-your future aunt"
"I think" she said kindly, that Sir
Nicholas. is trying to tell you that he
has made me happy woman. and that
we are engaged to be married"
Its true, George. According to
Rule II, Section 5, I am compelled
Corrected to lead Miss Craske 20 the
altar. We shall be glad of your con-
gratulations; but''-he rose, and edged
toward the door-"as I've a man
must see about a patent ventilator,
l."
He was gone. Miss craske and I
found ourselves face to face.
"Of-all-the!"
Eighteen thousand year, I think
YOU said? And I'm still waiting for
your congratulations" Miss Craske:
At II O'Clock that evening my tele-
phone bell rang furiously. took up
the receiver.
"George!" said a weak voice.
''Yes?"
''Can you come round to see mer
Providentially, an empty taxi was
passing the door. was whtraed to
Mount street. My uncle was alone.
He looked thinner and more detected
than ever.
George. you must find way out
for me"
You're referring to your engage
ment%
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ner, and then only occasionally. II
was, indeed, one of Agatha's minor
grievances against her.
Once her craving for them had been
SO strong that she had surreptttiously
purchased a small barrelful and con-
sumed them IN the seclusion OF her
bedroom. Even that had not cured
her, as such orgies generally do. But
she had never repeated the expert
mept, and had now perforce to be
content with the occasions on which
her favorite delfcacy was included in
her mothers menus.
Her abstentton sprang from feel
ing which had followed (like a sick
headache) hard upon the orgie, that
the qualification Of such mundane i'm
pulses was inconsistent with her tenn
permanent. In the course of years she
had quite warped her temperament
by her notion of what was consistent
with 1t.
1t came to be quite practice with
her to lie abed hours after the time
of rising, because there was nothing
In life worth rising for. When she
did get up, presumably only because
even lying inert was matter OF sucn
indifference to her that her dressing
Was scanned: even. occasionally, on
particularly morbid days, her aoiu-
lions. Once downstairs. she
would only lounge sluggishly through
the hours till bedtime came again.
II was at the end OF one such
wholly listIess day that she had seen
the dagger. It gave her an excuse
TO 20 home empty-handed' to WaVer'
and to vince.
On the second day she had seen
the blade, tapered, flexible, shining.
AGAIN she had returned without 1t,
of 81
perverted, dreadful Joy. The act.6o-
he had now become wholly desirable
the only real thing in world OK
gloomy shades.
Eventually she had purchased the
dagger at the full sum asked She
dreamed one night that some one else
had bought It, and reached the shop
next morning before the shutters were
down. Pale but triumphant, she had
borne away her prize, and, that same
day. had sucked a certain sickly pleas
ure from the making OF her prepare
tions.
She drew the weapon from its jeweled
sheath, with intense appreciation OF
the value, dramatically, of the act OF
doing SO. She raised her arm and
held the blade aloft, agreeably con-
scious of a duplicate arm doing like
wise in the mirror behind her. To
pose had become more than second
nature with her-to be natural was
the most wearisome OF poses.
Momentardly petulant at the picture
of being found unduly mutilated. she
ran her thumb somewhat carelessly
along the blade of the knife to test
it.
She was instantly startled by sem
sat1on OF pain. Her hand felt wet
She looked down and saw blood drip
ping onto her dress. She flung the
knife away with an exclamation and
examined her hand anxiously. The
wound was actually small cut in
the bend OF the thumb. but TO her, in
her overwrought state, it appeared
nothing short of a cash.
Panic-stricken, she recalled tales of
lockawS hard on that there occurred
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-27

change prisoners. Uncle Nicholas has
had his NIL of unconventionaltty Tor
the rest of his blameless life"
Explain! she commanded.
explained. Miss craske sighed
@1f-if he hadn't been 20 unrea'oa-
He hadn't met you he didn't un-
Then he shall understand now"
she said firmly. and crossed to the tet-
Are you there-sir Nicholas F'os-
dyke? Yes, I'm Millicent-Millicen
Craske. George has just called TO tell
me of your generous oner.
Will I accept? Certainly not! Ws9S
wait-I want you to understand Why.
The whole thing has only been joke
Ia stupid Joke. There isn't any r. 7.
P. Club. George and just invented
it because you wouldn't hear OF his
marrying, or even let him introduces
nae.
''The people you met were members
OF an informal social gathering-k
you'd lived more in London. you'd have
known more about IL. We let a few
of them into the secret, but not many.
Mr.. Larford was one. and Bessie Ling
was another-they'd been engaged for
more than a month, but hadn't made
the news public Explorers are %
dreadfully shy, you know
Eyes, we've behaved abominably-
inexcusably But we don't want your
money. Sir, Nicholas. We're going to
try to scrape along on Georges two
hundred and my fifty, and we hope
you'll forgive US and come to the we'd
ding I beg your pardon3
Yes? How dear OF you to
say sou
She put back the receiver and turn
ed to me with shining eyes.
George, put on your hat again and
tell the commissionaire to whistle for
a taxi as he's never whistled IN hts life
before. You're to go round at once to
receive the avuncular blessing. He
isn't a bit angry-just relieved. He
says the experience has been worth
thousand year to any man"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-27
By Annette Angert

to her the possibility that the dagger
had been poisoned, and frantically she
sucked at the injured place. She
imagined herself to be suffering tor
lures.
Losing all self-contro1, she shrieked
aloud-once, and again, and yet
again. No one came. The blood
was, as we have seen, her favortt9
dress, but the fact OF its ruin did not
now concern her.
She rushed to the other side of the
room and pressed her thumb madIy
against the cold marble mantlepiece.
With the renewal OF hope 1t gave her
she found energy to shrek again with
redoubled vigor. Still no one came.
Then she burst into flood Of tears,
for it seemed to her that she was
being left alone to diet
Eventually, overcome, It is to be
supposed, by the unwonted strain of
five minutes genuine emotion, she
tainted. When she woke, an hour
later, from the heavy sleep into which
she had almost insensibly fallen iS
was to find herself in bed with q
small piece Of court plaster on her
thumb
Then. with a flush OF humiliation.
the events OF the afternoon came
back to her. She had not the sense
of humor to laugh at herself and have
done. She merely felt acutely that
she was a pitifuI, impotent comic
thing. and began softly to cry.
To her, after an interval. came
Annie, the second parlor maid, with
tray.
20. Miss Aggie, said she, "I've
brought your tea, Miss Aggie, And
your mother says, Miss Aggie, that
as you've been overtired today, she's
sent you up some anchoyfes with
your teas a special treat"
Life has its compensations.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-27

live alone, and had suggested as much
after the parlor maid had retired.
They were folk as conventional IS on
ly the well-to-do can be, and she was
their only child They had declared
so simultaneously. and in so exactly
duplicate an inflexion, that they could
never dream of such a thing, that,
since she was mantfestly unable to
provide for herself, there the subject
had dropped.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-27

worth eating but things like cav1are.
artfchaut a lhufls, anchovies. Par
ticuIarly anchov1es. She had q pas
sion for anchovies.
1t may seem unfmportant. 1 men
ton it because her liking for them
was probably at this time her only
genuine, unaffected. whole-hearted
emotion Her mother thought her
taste for them plebeian. and stead
lastly set her face against the APP
pearance at any other meal than din
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-27
The Life ii OTHER

But, the refusal happening to coin
eide with the apostasy of the Some
time Friend, her grisly tandem, Nor
bidity and Introspection, had from
that time onward been given free
rein.
She was able, in fact, to draw from
the bitterness of life a satisfaction
which its sweets no longer gave her
The figure holds for her attitude to-
her palate. She now found nothing
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-27
|ZNjI'

SSLNVS and active man do
Ing nothing"
THAT being So" said I. ''the hour
1880 and the restaurant of the excel
lent Frangetelli less than a dozen
yards away, would it not be well to
occupy the feeting moments with a
couple or those lunchcons for which
ne is so justly celebrated ?''
Not" said my uncle firmly, EFF
there are to be any illusions, yelled
or otherwise, to your more imme-
date liabilities"
THE conditions" said. "are ac-
cepted," and with that ] took the arm
OF my Uncle Nicholas.
The fact is, George" he said a. the
wafer appeared, II find myself driven
to the border-line of destruction b. tho
diabolical sameness of existence. Dav
after day 1 encounter the same stupid
people, hear the same inane remarks.
eat the same loathsome weIl-prepared
food.
i don't want my youth again, for I
shouldn't know what to do with it if
had It; / don't want to be poor, for I'd
sooner struggle along with my $4,000
a year than work for my living. But if
you've any suggestions to Offer
Merely said (the thought had
been in my mind from the frst). that
you should become an honorary mem
Der Of the r. T. P. Club"
beg pardon?" said my uncle. sharp
".
''The R. T. p. or, in palmer English.
the Right-to-Propose Club. 1t is quite
the newest idea. and refreshingIy I'M
conventional. It is run by ladies, but
there is a large honorary membership
of men.
''The young woman of today is still
fatally handicapped. She hasn't-no.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-27

DO Yish that he'd
fall in love with
her and that she'd
marry him." said
Mrs. Kent wistful-
ly, as the car
rounded the corner
and Miss Sherwin
turned and waved
her hand at her
hostesses. And l
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-27

HE lady had made
her will, and had
written a farewell
document OF sever
al sheets. 1t was
headed, To MY
Sometime Friend"
and ended, DE
Profundis - Aga
ina" and all the
rest Of it was
nr,,n nR IL
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-27

TIL a grunt of dis
gust my uncle turn
ed to move away.
Our eyes met.
George, !" he said
severely, elf there
is one thing which
annoys me more
than another. it is
the sight of a young
and active man do
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-08-27

Small pillows are covered with slips
trimmed with hand-knitted or Gro
cheted lace, or machine-made. lace
that resembles IT, They stand primly
on end with the extra length OF the
slip and its lace edge falling half way
down their length.
White scarves, with ends finished
in scallops and simple embroidered
sprays, calculated to stand frequent
Tubing, are the crisp coverings OF the
dressing case and wash stand. The
simplest of curtains are made OF 9
good quality of scrim in cream white.
and two sets for each window make
it possible to keep them Immediately
clean.
The walls in this room are French
gray with small fiowerstripe In pale
pink and little green, and the man
tel (Which is not visible In the pic
ture) is adorned with pair Of glass
candlesticks, furnished with white
candles and pink shades. They make
pleasing setting for few personal
photographs and one single small vase.
At the end OF the mantel little table
Is handy for any use to which It may
be put.
Mere man not only likes to be COM
Portable, but he likes things that look
comfortable. therefore the room Is fin-
nished with a very capacious rocking
chair for himself and two straight
chairs for convenience.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-08-27
Illl

appears to be wrapped about the fig-
ure in oriental fashion. 1t Ii sup
ported at the sides and back BY stays
and decorated with ribbon roses. 10
makes lovely finish for the hand
some sheer. lingerie dresses which
are worn all the year round.
A pair OF boudoir slippers made Of
plain pink satin ribbon need only .
short length to make them. and are
delightfully."- frivolous and dainty.
Ready-made tufted soles are used In
making them, the tufted sides COW
cred with the ribbon cut to ut over
them. The uppers are lined with thin
silk and finished with a quilting Of
very narrow ribbon IN light green.
A little square of ribbon is set In
each and extends over the instep
This is also outlined with the mar
row quilting, which il brought down
on the body Of the slipper for deco
ration, as shown in the picture A lit
tie ribbon rose and daisy or q tiny
rosette Is perched at the front. the
last captivating items III the daintieat
of footwear.
JULIA BOTT0MLEY.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-08-27

Ribbons, that for 30 long a time
have been used for the feminine fin
ishins touches upon the garments
wherewithal the gentlewoman chooses
to more than clothe herself, have ex-
tended their field OF usefulness IL
10 not go many years ago that they
became a part Of all her lingerie,
strung through headings and tied In
flower-like bows. Now the smaller
garments are themselves made OF rib
bons. and lace or other ribbons are
employed for their decoration.
Many Of the wide, soft weaves In
satin or tafieta stand washing very
well, but the luxurious small belong
ings made Of ribbon In which aplen-
dor-loving women indulge themselves.
are not made for utility. They are
merely to be beautiful and appear for
brief career, but a glorious one.
when special occasions require special
tinery.
A corset cover made of wide satin
messaline ribbon Is shown in the pic.
ture. A pointed edging of val lace
ia set on one edge of the ribbon and
Sewed down along the edge oil the
points. The ribbon 10 cut away from
under the pointed scallops of lace, A
beading. edged with narrow val lace,
is set about the top of the carmen,
and forms a support over the arms
Narrow ribbon run through the bead
ing is tied in a bow at the front, ad
iusting the bodice to the figure. Flat
bows over the shoulders are added
decorations.
A casing is run along the under sids
OF the lower edge Of the bodice. and
narrow ribbon. run in. confines tbs
waist to the figure.
At tho right OF the picture 4 wide
girdle IL shown which when adjusted