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BRASS : Novel of Marriage : BY Charles u. NOrrl
SECRETS OF HEALTH

The free flow Of nutritive blood
Is intercepted by any pressure.
such, for instance. as that exerted
by the habitually worn tight hat
band on these blood vessels.
It is for this very obvious rea-
son that the loss Of hair generally
begins at the crown and Is mnat
frequently limited to the area
above the constructing hat band
That is one reason why in the
absence Of actual disease (alopos.
cia) badness is more common
among men than women.
The foregoing facts suggest the
following as tending to prevent
badness:
Exercise your scalp by frequent
" moving 1t voluntarily backward
and forward. Exercise 1t also BY
massage and friction. Keep the
skin free from dandruff BY sham
poo once or twice a week with any
good toilet soap. followed with q
little plain vaseline carefully rub
bed in after drying.
Wear only loose-fitting hat Or
cap. preferably Of some porous ma
teriaI. Go bareheaded all you can.
the more the better. especially In
q cool atmosphere.
Tomorrow: Service and the sue
cess Of achievement.
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This improper treatment may be
of several kinds.
Thus the scalp, which IL com
forward over the skull by volun-
tary exercising the broad, fiat
muscle that extends from just
above the eyes over the skull to
the back OF the head. This ought
to be done several times every
day and the ability to do It is In
creased by experience. Failure
to do it results in wasting Of the
scalp, like the wasting Of any
unused muscle, with consequent
tendency to badness.
The skin Of the scalp, partscu-
larIy If It Is not exercised as just
indicated, tends to shed q larger
proportion Of dead cells from the
surface which mixes with the oily
secretion and forms dandruff.
Another thing to remember is
that the blood vessels that supply
the hair with nourishment come
up under the scalp from the base
to the top Of the skull.
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CHAPTER L.

One night Marise woke up with
a start, staring into the darkness,
feeling very cold and sick. She
knew what had happened. She
had come to her senses in time.
She had almost slipped into the
trap, the trap set for her by life,
which she had 80 MORALLY feared.
She had been playing a foolish,
reckless game Of hide-and-seek with
herself, pretending that she did
not know what was happening.
She knew perfectly well what was
happening. Neale Crittenden was
in love with her. And she was
falling in love with him. She
wanted him.
Oh, this was the way It must al
ways happen. This was the way
all women were caught in the trap
these dizzying moments of Joy,
this causeless singing Of your
heart, this blind, rapturous rush.
ing forward with outstretched
arms to clasp all life to your
observation-disclosures, deadly life
that only sought to debase you.
She had always wondered how
women could go on, go on to the
fatal moment from which there
was no drawing back. Now she
knew. You were poisoned, you
were made mad till you longed
for that moment with all your be.
ing.
But she had come to her senses
in time to draw back. She would
save herself, defend herself, since
there was no one to help hec,
now more than ever. First of all,
she knew passionately, she must
not think of him for a moment or
she would not draw back. She
must not remember how he looked
or spoke or moved, not even the
sound of his voice. She must con-
centrate her thoughts on the one
fact that she had almost bean
caught in that great dreadful trap,
that she, Marise, who knew so
much better, had almost fallen in
love-love!
CTO Be Continued Tomorrow
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TELL THESE
AT DINNER

The Oriental does not believe
In Z simple answer to = simple
question. He Is thoroughly happy
IL he can enveIop his meaning in
q verbal fog.
A certain Persian used to buy
six loaves Of bread daily. "A friend
inquired the reason.
The man said. Zone Of the
1oaves 1 keep; another throw
away; two return, and two I
lend"
The friend expressed himself
as puzzled, and asked for further
explanation.
The man replied: THE loaf /
keep is the one I eat myself. the
one I throw away Is the one I
give to my mother-inlaw: the
two I return are those / give my
parents. and the two / lend are
those I give to my children"
The queue at the barrier Of the
railway station was growing
longer and longer.
In vain the old gentleman
searched in every pocket for his
ticket. At last. when the people
behind him were beginning to
show signs Of becoming really
nasty he had to confess to the
collector that he had lost it.
Never mind, SIR" said the coll
lector, give me your name and
address, and It win be all right.
I win report the matter, and it
win be quite in order"
That's all very WELL" replied
the traveller. ''But that's mot
what's worrying me; with no
ticket I don't know where I'm
going"
The mild-looking man walked
into q hotel and forgot to close
the door.
''Shut that door" yelled the
rough-looking stranger in the arm
chair. Don't you know how ID
behave? Where were you brought
up? In a barn?"
The mild little man complied,
but on looking up a moment
later the rough man noticed that
he was in tears. Going over TO
his victim, he apologized.
ooh, come" he said soothinsly'
"you shouldn't take it to heart
because I asked If you were
brought up in a barn..
"That,s it, that's it," sobbed
the little man. "I was broug II
ND in a barn, and it makes me
home.sick every time hear an
ass bray!
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HER FATHERS CHILD
UST A LITTLE STORY OF LOVE AND HUMOR

i. ThereF SAID Tr1pler to him
self. perhaps that win have
some effect" and he mailed it
with greatest satisfaction.
Two days later. as he APP
preached his home, he was con-
scious Of an indefinable some
thing. U
He stole In and upstairs. He
opened the door of the sitting
room. Mrs. Tripler. who had
been sewing, rose solemnly to
greet him.
"That letter; oh. how could
your"
why. don't understand. Was
it not all right?''
Mrs. Tripler wrunE her hands.
Dear, dearT' she exclaimed.
''The poor thing has been pros
trated about it. Really. my dear,
I should have thought you would
consider the consequences. Az I
said to her this morning, what
dreadful thing it would be II your
father should never come back
and you should have only that
horrible letter to remember him
by all the rest of your life! I
said that to Bessie, and it made
her feel dreadfu1ly. I don't be-
heve that she ever win get
over it."
But it was true." blurted out
Tripler. why should the truth
be such a terrible thing for q
man to leave behind him?"
This only made Mrs. Tripler
worse.
IF you hadn't put It In let
ter" said Mrs. Tripler, ut
wouldn't have been quite so bad"
Tripler pressing q treasured
$40 gold piece into the hand OF
his suffering daughter bent over
her.
Twill you forgive me, dear?"
he said. ''Of course papa didn't
mean it. And you shall have a
new watch for Christmas. Your
dear old papa gets nervous at
times, and doesn't always mean
what he says"
Half an hour later he stole
gently back to his wife.
"She seems better now" he
whispered. ST think she win be
all right"
"And you promise never to do
such q thing again?"
Tripler smiled a feeble, penitent
smile.
ct PROMISE" he said.
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* AOO0Eb SOIL couture
"a for tonight" murmured
Josephine dreamily to
herself industriously twisting to-
gether the beautiful golden
strands, land the pale-blue nous
seline de soie-not the evening
dress" she was shocked at the
idea, though nobody had sug-
ested it, ''the h!gh-necked one
with the little myosotis embroid-
cred on the ruffles." Josephine
worshipped that dress.
Her strong, dark, flexible fin.
gers lowered around the golden
head as though she were calling
down blessings on 1t. AS a mat
ter Of fact she was. She slipped
off the silk peignoir, washed with
almond-scented water the white
arms and neck, ard the white
tired feet. She dried them with
fine linen towel by emile pat
tings, not to coarsen the skin.
She put on the white silk stock.
ings and white h:gh-heeled Slip
pers and white satin underslip.
She stood a moment to be sure
she had thought Of everything.
Then carefully she slipped on the
pale blue mousseline de sole.
"A-ahr' it was as sweet as she
remembered it!
Eugenia had submitted to all this
with forlorn patience. That was
all the good it would do. He would
look at her as if she were dressed
IN a meal sack, never even notice
that she had changed her dress.
I What else could she do, could anv.
one do? What more did he want?
She was betrayed: somehow life
had played her false, a callous,
heartless, dishonest trick! Why
should she care so much? She
olont want to care. Why did she
long to have him look kindly at
her. till her heart ached? Why,
every day, every day, should the
disappointment hurt her so? She
hadn't done anything wrong to
deserve to be hurt so. If she
could only stop caring. If only
Marise would go away.
Eugenia sat very still, while
Josephine set a jeweled comb at
exactly the right angle in the gold.
en- hair. One loved little hand was
at her heart as If by pressing harl
on 1t she could stop the ache, the
other held the fresh, scented hand
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Thrilling and Gripping Serial Of Married Life From Inc
Pen of Successful American
Novelist.

Paul WINGED in fear, dodg1nS
as from an expected blow.
Who was responsible2 The
school? Constance? Who
ever it was had heavy score
to settle, If there was such U
thing as retribution.
He appealed to his wife.
"You can help lot, Leila-if
you want to-" lie urged ear.
nestly.
She affected a shudder and
drew back her head with vigor-
Gus shake.
Hes not my child. / don't
want the responsibility. !.
I've got enough to do to look
after my own. If you
want him round the house, make
him behave himself"
Go Be Continued Tomorrow
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BY Charles A. L. Reed,
NJ. D.
CORNER President Of the American
Medical Association

CORNER President Of the American
Medical Association
TVHERE are many reasons
why you should take excel
- cellent care Of your hair.
In both instances hair is
health-giving attribute.
Hair grows from little follicles
OF pockets in the skin just as q
tree or plant grows from a little
hole which Is has made and which
it fills in the earth.
A hair and a tree are precisely
alike in the particular that each
lives on nourishment- that it de-
rives from the soil in which it
grows.
As tree shrivels or dies for
want Of water during a drought, SO
does a hair shrivel and die for
want of blood in an improperly
treated scalp.
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; no purpose. Leila openly
displayed her aversion. Philip
could not carry out his plan to
send him up to the ranch for
the summer. Rosemary had
written urging him to send Paul
to visit them; his small cousins
were wild at the prospect. Buc
Philip was obliged to consider
young Sam and his brother; he
remembered their boyish health
mess, their candor and innocence.
Not would NOT do to send Paul
among them-not yet, at any
rate.
He listed his large hands. and
looked at PauPs sullen little face,
the evasive, watery expression in
his eyes.
by God-it's a rotten shamep'
he exclaimed aloud.
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BY Thomas L. Mason.

Z
Tripler, that she hasn't
been brought up right"
Mrs. Tripler sighed. She, also.
had her misgiyings.
Perhaps it is our fault" che
replied, ''but she is now too old
to punish by any ordinary
method"
In answer, Tripler enumerated
the faults Of their fourteen-year-
old daughter.
IT am going to try something =
said Tripler, IT don't know what
it win be, but something must be
done. I will think 1t over"
TripIer kissed his wife and
made for the train. His daughter
wasn't there to say goodby. She
had run off to play tennis.
He went over it in his mind on
the train; and when he reached
the end of his journey, he penned
the following piece:
MY Dear Daughter:
'eThere are two things in the
world that are more to be de-
sired than any other. They are
the love and respect Of those near
to us. and the respect Of those
who are our friends.
Now. we are bringing you up
in the best way we can, giving you
an education and fitting you for
your own life. But you are doing
nothing to indicate that you APP
preciate this.
First, you are selfish. You
think Of nobody but yourself.
When you are disappointed, or do
not get what you want, you dis
play it by temper.
Second, you are thoughtless
about others, and never seem to
care how much trouble you give
them. You leave your room in
disorder every morning. You
scatter things about the house,
and when you are reprimanded
for this, you seem to take 1t as a
personal insult that you should
be reproved.
Third, your manners are not
good, in spite of the fact that you
have been repeatedly shown their
defects. You make no effort to
interest yourself in others. II
your are introduced to anybody,
you affect the most irritating in
difference. You answer your
mother back when she reproves
you. Your lack of any sense of
obligation to others is shown on
every occasion; yet. If you your
self are thwarted, you are quick
to resent it.
Fourth, instead of your being
treated unjustly yourself, of
which you have so often COM
planned you treat those with
injustice; for you assume that
,-panatively thin and has compare
lively few blood vessels at best,
If made thinner by disuse and
thereby drawn more tightly down
upon the underlying skull the re-
sulting increased pressure will still
futher reduce the blood supply to
the hair.
1t follows, therefore, that to keep
the scalp well nourished 1t Is a
good thing to do what so few peo-
pie ever do, and that is voluntarily
to move the scalp backward and
they should put themselves out
for you on every occasion, but
you are not willing to do the
same for them.
Your affectionate,
FATHER"
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By Virginia Terhune
Van de Water.

VAN ue wafer,
Author Of Nationwide Reputation
and Writer of Popular Novels
and Short Stories.
6LoWLY and with some diff
Guilty at first. she revealed
as much as she could re-
member Of the conversation with
Paine.
She must trust the man she
loved. She had always said she
could. And she would now.
Then, gradually, certain facts
detached themselves from less
important items and stood out
before her.
In the first place, Richard
must have been gambling. Paine
would not dare make that bold
accusation had it not been true.
She recalled one happening at
ter another. The NEW business
into which Richard had gone.
The money that some friend had
returned to him with which he
had bought his new clothes.
Then that legacy. Then the
mortgage he had threatened to
foreclose. Then-and with this
thought she hid her face in her
hands-his resentment when she
had suggested his return of her
loan. Had he gambled even with
that?
But no.-there must be some
mistake somewhere! She tried
to remember the look in his eyes
when he told her he loved her.
But It caused her no thrill. Still,
he could not be what this mao
Paine had said. He-Paine-must
have some grudge against Rich
ard-or he wanted to set her
against a man he fancied she
cared about.
Why?
AS If in answer to this question
she seemed to hear again Paine's
remark about her ability to do
as she pleased with what he
termed her fortune"
Did he desire to know her bet
ter because he fancied she had
money? And was he afraid that
Richard Rankin would get some
Of that money from her?
But, of course, neither man
would be the richer for know
ing her-even If she were fond
of either Of them.
Unless one Of them. married
herI
The sentence started out at her.
1t was as il she had heard the
words spoken aloud.
She sprang to her feet. Was
that why Richard had urged
her to marry him soon-renewing
his pleading only few days ago
after having heard her declare
that she would not marry for six
months? Was it because he
would find her money a conven-
fence?
Was that why Paine wanted
to know her better-because he
fancied that she was rich and
might bestow herself and her for
tune on him?
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THE LOVE GAME
A ROMANCE OF CITY LIFE

AS 10Od was u1uSOuS. IL COulQ
not be true. It was all a bad
dream.
Certainly Richard had had a
legacy left him. She knew that
was no lie. It was his to do as
he pleased with.
Yet-oh-what did it all mean?
He had spoken of foreclosing that
mortgage. That looked as If he
wanted money and more money.
Could that be why he wanted
her?
Again she dropped into chair
and hid her face in her hands.
Winifred Scott slept. little that
night. Instead she lay thinking
over what Paine had told her.
She knew she would not have
comfortable hour until she
learned the truth.
There was only one person who
could give 1t to her. This was
Richard Rankin, the man she
was engaged to-the man she
had promised to marry.
She must send for him and ask
him to explain certain things to
her. Yet as she remembered his
frequent irritability OF late she
was almost afraid to question
him lest he resent inquiry into
his affairs.
But surely IL her money and
his were to be combined-as he
had said only this afternoon
she had a right to know some.
thing about his business methods.
He had acquired money. Look
ing back to the time when she
first knew him she was sure
that he had been desperately
poor. There was no doubt Of it.
What had changed the current
SO suddenly?
Had Donald Muir's loan of
$1,000 given Rankin a chance to
gamble?
She felt strangely sick as she
unused on the fact that this could
hardly have been the first time
Dick had INDUCED in this kind
Of thing. Paine had told her
that a while ago Rankin had had
a run of rotten luck" and had
been obliged to take position as
a clerk somewhere. After which
he got hold of some money,
staked it and won"
That was probably Muir's five
thousand, or hers.
She had hoped she was helping
in the reform work on which
Dick was intent. And she had
called her guardian ''hard" be-
cause he would not extend the
loan.
Donald! She whispered the
name aloud. The sound of it
gave her courage for a moment.
Then she realized that he was,
after all, only friend. She
must not talk to him of her sus-
picions regarding her betrothed
Donald himself was not the type
of a man who would approve Of
a woman's disloyalty to her lover.
She sat up in bed, pushing the
heavy hair back from her throb-
bling temples.< She could not
think of Richard as her lover
while she remembered Paine's
story.
But why should she believe
Paine? That was her error. Her
conscience smote her. She had
listened to the gossip of a per-
son whom she scarcely knew,
gossip about the man whose wife
she was to be. Oh, how she
hated herself, despised herself.
She recalled Richards hand
some face, his dark eyes. his nlu-
steal voice as he told her of his
love, called her his good angel.
If he could know Of the treachNry
in her heart he would be horri.
fied-would lose his faith in the
goodness of women.
To Be Continued.
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ROUGH EW N

; kerchief clutched tightly, in case
this time should not keep back the
tears. She mustn't cry. She
mustn't cry, because Josephine
would have to do her face all over.
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CamOufIage Extraordinary.
The present craze for high
sounding titles reached its height
at a case in a city court last
week, when an alleged forger de-
scribed himself as Handwriting
expert"
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By Charles G. Norris.

sible to send him away to
school, in tho fall he might
enter the public grammar school
10 the neighborhood.
He sought Constance to explain
matters. She impressed him as
being dowdier, more forlorn than
ever. Her black dress was rusty,
the linen collar about her neck
slightly soiled and rumpled, her
hair untidy. The last remnant
Of her old sparkle had departed;
she was dispirited, and listened
20 Philips proposed disposition
Of his son with melancholy APP
athy.
Ell guess he'd be just as happy
with you as with me. I amt
seen much Of him lately. I'm
Just too dead beat to naks the
trip down there to the school on
Sundays. and they don't let him
come home often. He wouldn't
like It where live-I know"
Philip was relieved. He had
been afraid Constance might be
sorry to have him take the boy.
Paul came home in June, and
his father greeted him with great
heartiness. He thought the neat
uniform set his son off splendidly.
but after the severe braided coat
and striped trousers were laid
aside, he was frankly puzzled.
There was something in Paufs
face and manner that he did not
understand. The boy was sullen,
suspicious and had sly, re.
sentful look. The long nose with
the knob at its end. the closest
eyes, gave him an expression that
was almost wicked. Philip ex-
planned TO Leila this was an in
herited handicap. hut his wife took
an immed ate dislike to Paul
Hes got a hang-dog look that
no decent boy ought to have. I
don't like a boy that won't look
you in the eye. He's sneaky-
that's what's the trouble with
him.
Philip hardly knew what to say.
He had to admit the truth Of
LeiIa's assertions, and he, was
troubled. He had entertained
great hopes for Paul. had fancied
him growing up into a fine COM
panion. bringing new interest
20 his wife and himself.
He questioned the boy about his
school. but Paul was reticent.
What had happened? What had
they done to him? His son had al
ways been queer, unhealthy, his
digestion easily upset. and Con-
stance had frequently mentioned
his sensitiveness.
did you like your school,
Paul?"
The boy scowled and dug his
fists into his pockets.
you don't want to go back2"
A quick. apprehensive look shot
from the closest eyes.
''Naw-w-I don't want to go
backr'
why not7" Why don't
you want to go back?"
Silence.
His Decision
well, I'm not going to send
you back; only you must be a good
boy. and try to please your Aunt
Leila. and be helpful about the
house. And you must learn to
love your little sister and take care
of her. Next August you can
enter the Horace Mann Grammar
School; that's the same school
your mother went to-"
Philip failed to get any response
from his son, in spite Of persistent
friendly overtures. His methods
might be clumsy but he kept on
trying. Leila refused to be inter-
ested. Paul hung around the
house. moody, silent, resentful Of
suggestion, constantly suspicious.
He had picked up bad habits at
school. Philip argued with him,
threatened to punish him, to