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THE RHYMING
OPTIMIST 30" 80
War Debts.
BY Aline Michaelis-

~ EE! It's great to hear TIA
nations putting. out them
~ fine orations. telling all abessk
the debts they should, not paSy
some of them would like to bore
row several millions more tornarH
row, but they never speak abmlf
a reckoning day. Oh; they Hs6
their cash in powder just to shoeo
folks into chowder; there are ,lanaa
that never quit that kind Of stuff;
but to see them, gaunt and weaSEf
makes us feel a little leery, so, va
claim that, all the woxld's, had
wars enough. Though. the pros
poets out in Turkey still may
seem a trifle murky and. the Boil
shevik. goes raging on his way
If all men would stick, together
they'd pull through to fairer
weather and they'd make an end
to turmoil. strife and fray. UncIe
Sam has been the banker, but no.
nation seems to banker to return
the mighty sums that he has lett,
though they ask him for more
money they consider that it1s
funny he'd expect them to bring
back a single cent. If the profit6
from our labor help some man to
slay his .neighbor, If our har6s
earned gains must go FOR spread
ing strife, we might better far By
resting than so 'foolishly invsHa
ing in new means Of taking price=
less human life. If we use otir
strength for ruction, for distress
and for destruction, II we fit our
boys to'march to martial druntsSs
IL we find ourselves delighting III
the, fireworks and the fighting,
then we'd better just sit Still aifd
twtrl our thumbs: For no other
debts so foolish. so preposterons
and mulish as the debt that mer
incur In making wars; we shoT!6
let the warning ella take a
taste OF poison gases and export
the tishtine faction HIp 70 Mara
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with you," she finished, irnpul-
siveiy., - ~
There was something warm,
rnotherly in the older, wornan's
reply. -
"And we'd love to have you.
Miss Deane., I'll send the car
around right away
Clancy shrugged as she sur
veyed again her meager ward
robe. But the Walbroughs must
know that she lived in a lodging
house-she supposed that they'd
obtained her telephone number
and address from Sophie Carey
and the fact that she didn't
possess gorgeous evening gown
wouldn't mean much to them,
she hoped. And believed, too.
For they were most human per-
sons, even If they did, according
to Sophie Carey, matter a lot in
New. York.
Mrs. Gerand was quite breath
less when she announced to
Clancy, half an hour after the
telephone call, that a big limou.
sine was calling for the newest
Gerand lodger. Clancy was al
ready dressed in the pretty fou-
lard that was her. only evening
frock. Mrs. Gerand solicitously
helped her on with her shabby
blue coat. Her voice was low
cred in awe as she asked:
''It amt the Walbroughs, is it?
The. chauffeur said, Judge Wal
brough's carr but not the Judge,
is it,"
care there two Of them?"
laughed Clancy.
Mrs. Gerand shook her head.
mot that I ever heard of.
Miss Deane. But-gee, you got
swell friends, amt your"
Clancy laughed again.
Have II"
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Charm and Beauty, Magic and Intrigue,
Temptation and. Triumph In Man
hattan's Exotic Whirlpool

, Clancy. In her relief. she was
extremely enthusiastic.
The deep voice at the other end
of the wire chuckled.
"You know the meaning Of the
word 'palaver,' don't you, young
woman? The happy way you
speak. anyone'd think was a
gay young blade like David Ran
dali or Vandervent instead Of an
old fogy." T
"'old fogyv Why, Judge Wal
brought"
Uancy's tone was rebuking, po-
litely incredulous, amused-every-
thing, in short, that a young
girls voice should be when a man
just passing middle age terms
himself ''old." Walbrough
chuckled again.
''Oh, it's a great gift, Miss
Deane; never lose it. The young
men don't matter. Any girl can
catch one of them. But to catch
the oldsters like myself-oldsters
who know that they can't catch
you-that takes genius, Miss
Deane.
Clancy laughed.
please don't fatter me, Judge.
Because, you know, believe
you, and"
"Sh," said Walbrough. AS he
uttered the warning, his voice
became almost a roar. 1.-THE
jealyous woman might overhear
us; she is listening in the next
room now"
There was the sound Of a
scuffle; then came to Clancy's
ears the softer voice of Mrs. Wal
brough.
Miss Deane, the senile person
who just spoke to you is absurd
enough to think that If an old
couple-I mean an old man and
his young wife-asked you, you'd
probably break an engagement
with some dashing bachelor and
sit with us at the opera"
IT don't know the senile
person to- whom you re-
fer" retored Clancy, ''but if you
and the judge would like me to
go, I'd love to, even though I
have no engagement to break"
I'VE won't insist on the break
ing, then. Will you run over
and dine with us?"
Clancy was astonished. Then
she remembered that she had
dined rather early at the Broad
way lunch-room. It really wasn't
more than six-thirty now. People
like the Walbroughs, of course,
didn't dine until after seven, pos
sibly until eight.
'I won't do that" she an
swered. "I'd intended to. go. to
bed-it's such terrible night.
And I ate before I came home
but I'd love to come and SIT
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night
IT have the explanation, Tony"
I replied. "And nothing ever
made me prouder. Betty got
back here-spent. You didn't
dare take her to a hotel and leave
her alone. So you brought her
here. l think it's very simple
and very natural" .:
"She has been like this from
the moment I saw her." confessed
Tony. "She's like an automatic
toy that's run down. The spirit
of Betty isn't in her body. If we
can help her recapture it, that
will be a beautiful modern mira
Gle" g..
mo wonder you dared not
leave her alone her first night
here" I sighed. > .-
Then we both fell into one Of
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II WILL" said Tony. Then he
flung himself to his feet and
threw back his head, and his face
shone with luminous glow.
But first you must tell me!
Carlotta-how is she?"
l stared back at him for a
moment and my heart pounded
as if I were hearing Jim's foot
step outside the windows.
"She had to go away. There
was business trip-some tim
berlands which someone had to
inspect. It means stupid weeks
Of waiting in the Northwest. She
went, so Neal wouldn't have to
leave Phoebe-or Pat go away
from Jeanie."
"She would" replied Tony
proudly. :'Carlotta Sturges is one
woman in million. There's
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BY John Goodman.

HHE was frightened; she tried
desperately to shake his de-
~ cision; she argued and pleaded.
But he was adamant. Joan began to
realize the limitations of Philip. So
far she could command him, but no
+ father. 1t seemed. to her a mad
thing for him to do, but Philip
Motisfont, K. c., had said his
say. He had the money and re-
fused to keep it while his wife
became bankrupt. Financiers
might do it. He was not a fl
nancier.
you can't pay 1t, Philip she
said with CLEAN Of hope.
but l can. l have some money
of my own. and my uncle who
died little while ago-that was
why / was away from you, JOAN
has left me twenty thousand, /
find. / didn't expect it. Well,
I'm realizing all that. Even when
I've paid, there'll be some left"
"How much. Philip" she asked
eagerly, and rather suspiciously.
Don't be a little Jew!' he said
smiling. 'Therell be some left"
He had no intention of telling her
how little-how very little BE
sides, have strength, some sort
~ brains. and a profession. TIL
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TELL THESE AT
DINNER

A boy was leaning against q
post when a man came by.
What. are you .doing7" he
asked the boy.
Nothing said the boy.
Get any pay for it?''
- "No."
why don't you work.. can
offer you job?" said the man III
a persuasive voice. -:
Regular" asked the boy.
eyes"
amy pay?"
mo-" said. the man, mot for
the first week: but the second
week I'll pay YOU" ....,.
WELL" replied the boy, I'm
all right here, 80 IN come round
to your place the. second week."
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!. about her when, dinner ended and
then started for the opera. {, She
did not know, that, before he went
upon the bench, Judge Walbrough
had been the cIeverest cross-ex-
aminer at the bar and, that all
through dinner he had been verify
ling his first estimate of her char
acter. For the Walbroughs, as
she was later to- learny did" not
'pick up" every lovely young fe-
male whom they CHANGED to meet
and admire. A happy couple, they
still were lonely. at times-ionely
for the sound of younger voices.
And the significant glance that
the Judge cast at his wife at the
end of the dinner went unnoticed
by Clancy. She did not know that
they had passed upon her and
found her worth while.
And with this friendly couple
she heard her first opera. It was
"Manon," and Farrar sang. From
the beginning to the tragic de-
inouement, Clancy was held en-
thralled. She was different from
the average country girl who at;
tends the opera. She was not at
all interested IN the persons,
though they were personages, who
were in the boxes, She was inter-
ested in the singers, and in them
only. She had never heard: great
music before, save from a phono-
graph. She made a mental vow
that she would hear more again
soon.
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HINTS FOR THE
HOUSEHOLD

Carrots, turnips and parsnips
may be kept fresh by covering
them with sand or earth and
keeping them in q dark place.
Before putting knives away rub
the blades with mutton fat or
vaseline and roll them in brown
paper. This will keep them from
rusting.
When boiling pudding in a
cloth put an old plate at the bot
tom of the saucepan to prevent
the pudding from sticking to the
pan.
Before using brass kettle,
which has been put away for any
length of time, 1t should be
c'na ned ont with salt and vinegar.
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By Arthur SOmers Roche
The Most Popular Author Of Love
And Mystery Tales
Today.

VTYHAT about that case?
" Oddly enough-yet not
w SO oddly, after all,
when one considers that Clancy
was only twenty years of
age-up to now she had given a
great deal Of thought to her pre-
dicament and practically none to
the real way out Of it. She
marveled at herself.
Why in that case, she'd be in
desperate danger, as great danger
rs she had been in just before she
picked up the paper in Wander
vents anteroom, and the only way
out of that danger, without lasting
disgrace at the" least, would be
the production of the real muir
derer of Norris Beiner.
The real murderer! She drew
In her breath with a whistle.
Beiner had been killed; she was
suspected. These were facts, and
the only facts that she had
reckoned with. But the greater
Fact. though up to now ignored
~ her, was that somebody had
killed Beiner. Some one had
entered the mans office and
slain him, probably as he lay
unconscious on the floor. That
somebody was foot-loose now, per.
haps in New York, free from
suspicion.
She Strengthened up, alert,
nervous. Suddenly, horror-a
horror which fear had managed
TO keep from her till now-as-
sailed her. A murderer! And
free! Free to commit other muir
dersi She started as a knock
sounded upon the door. And,
queerly, she, didn't think of the
police; she thought of the muir
derer Of Beiner. It was with
difficulty that she mastered her
self sufficiently to answer the
knock. -
It was Mrs. Gerard. Miss
Deane was wanted; on the tcle-
phene..s It, was not a moment
when Clancy wished to talk to
anyone She wished. to be alone,
to study upon this. new prob
1em-the problem that should
have been in her mind these past
three days but that had only
popped into it now. But the
telephone issued commands that
Just now she dared not adisobey.
It might be Grannis or Wander
vent. She ran downstairs ahead
Of Mrs. Gerand. A booming
voice. recognition of which came
to her at once, greeted her.
s"Hellop'
Miss Deane? This is Judge
Walbrough speaking"
>"Oh, how do you do?" said
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Apparently mislnderst standing 81 her. believing
she was not telling the truth, Grannis had then
left on the table the money and departed.
Clancy's adventures started the moment she
landed in New York from the country. an in
telligent and beautiful country girl determined
to become famous film actress. She assumed
the name Of "Florine Ladue" and diately
became enmeshed in tragedy asa result Of an
effort to land position with some moving pic
ture concern. She made two good friends David,
Randall and Mrs. Carey. The Beiner death cut
short her theatrical ambitions, but she became
connected with real estate concern and because.
Of her business ability was rapidly achieving
success. She had hoped that the past Was:buried
until Grannis confronted her and recognized her
as the girl at the Zenda party. .s
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friend blew in with a Comanche
Indian astride a calico pony. But
what have you done with Betty?"
1--WE put her to bed" 1 said
seriously.
My voice trailed off into a gasp
Of laughter that was almost hys-
terical. Tony put an extra
cushion in a big wicker chain.
and patted it invitingly. The mo-
ment l was established there,
Ralph sLacy came toward me
with outstretched hands and babe
me goodnight.
"a fine man." said Tony as
the door clicked after Mr.. Lacy.
And, by the way, how is the
business?"
TITS fine" I said. "Oh, Tony
Tony, she's 50 pathetic! Tell
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A Refreshing Novel. Of, Youth and
Mystery Written by One of Amer-T
ica's. Foremost Story ellers

night. The hotels that she knew
were crowded almost beyond ca
pacity with people Who were Re, ;WsssII-
Ing to pay any price for any 1soSst
OF accommodation. The outrGge-
otIs prices cfiarged-and paid
in the restaurants. The gorge0Ns
) motor cars. The marvellous ico@0
clothing that the women wore.
Some one must produce. these, Iux-
urfes. Who were paying for ,them7
Surely not persons who had toiled
and sweated to amass' d few a.
lars. Easy come! Her own9lt te
nest egg, bequeathed to herby n
distant relatiVe-it had come easffy;;
it had gone as easily. or course,
she hadn't spent it, but-it Ras
gone. But she was too young II
philosopher: She forgot herssif
in the performance. - 1fe am
She was throbbing with gratitude
to the Walbroughs as, the opera
over, they slowly made their way
through the cfattering thousands
toward the lobby. They had gfvsR
her the most wonderful evening Of
her life.s 49, $e'.' RaI
She was about to say something
to- this effect when some one ac-
costed the judge. For the monneffe,
he was separated from the two
women, and verbal expression OF
Clancy's feelings was postponed
For when the Judge joined ther4,
he was accompanied by a NAH
whose mop OF hair would have reii-
dered him, noticeable without the
fading bruise' upon his face. It
was Zenda! ~ H
His recognition was as qufGR
as Clancy's. His dreamy brown
eyes-one OF them stfil discolofed
Lighted keenIy. But he fad
been an actor before he had 81
come one Of the most famous al
rectors in Screendom. He he'd
out his hand quite casually. y foa
Hello, F1oriner' he said.
: WaIbrough stared from one 10
2 the other. =
!, You know each. other? Flor.
eine1S1, + - ~ 81
/, IA name" said Clancy duickk
~, shat I called myself when
I hoped to get WORK upon the
screen. = >-<,s. es...y': -..-+.-. sdl
She, breathed; deeply. OF, couyse,
Judge Walbrough and, lends
didn't know that a woman named
Florine Ladue was wanted mr
Beiner's murder; but STILL
Ion the screen?' That.seTaN
n.y. said the Judge, Sophie
Carey told us that you wer4
thinking of stenography until she
put you in touch with Sally Hepv
derson. Huh! No fool like an
old fool! was thinking would
put new idea in your head.
and you have it already II
TO Be Continued Tomorrow. } nt
Copyright. 1881 cosmopolitaB BssM
corporation.1I.tsg.-: earit
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TIL say you have" said Mrs.
Gerand.
The Walbrough home was on
Murray Fiji, though Clancy
didn't know at the time that the
section of the city directly south
of the Grand Central Station
was SO named. It was not a.
new house, and it looked as
though it was lived in-some-
thing that cannot always be said
of New York homes, whether
in apartment buildings or in
single houses. It was honey in
the sense that the houses in
Zenith were honey. And, even
though a colored man in even
ing clothes opened the front door,
and though a colored maid re-
lieved Clancy of her coat, Clancy
felt, from the moment that she
passed the threshold, that she
was in a home.
Her host met her at the top
of flight of stairs. His great
hands enveloped hers. They drew
her toward him. Before she
knew it, he had kissed her. And
Clancy did the. thing that made
two dmiring acquaintance
adoring friends for life. She
kissed the judge warmly in re-
turn. For Mrs. Walbrough was
standing trifle behind the
Judge, although Clancy hadn't
seen her. She came forward now,
Infringing her hands with a
would-be pathetic expression on
her face.
''I can't trust the man a mo-
ment, Miss Deane. And, to make
it worse, 1 find that 1 can't trust
you" She drew Clancy close to
her. She, too, kissed the girl, and
found the kiss returned.
"Why shouldn't kiss him?" de-
manded Clancy. "He brags so
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; much, I wanted to find out II he
knew how"
Does he?" asked Mrs. Wal
brough.
Clancy's eyes twinkled.
"Well, you see," she answered,
I'm not really a judge myself 5
The judge exploded in a huge
guffaw.
with eyes like hers, Irish gray
eyes, why shouldn't she have wit?
Tell me, Miss Deane: You have
Irish blood in your"
my first name is Clancy" re-
piled the girl.
Enough" said the judge. He
heaved great mock sigh. Nov,
IL only Martha would catch con-
venient cold or headache
Mrs. Walbrough tapped him with
an ostrich plume fan.
tom, Miss Deane is our guest.
Please stop annoying her. The
suggestion that she should spend
an hour alone with you must be
horrifying to any young lady.
8 Come"
The judge gave an arm to each
OF the ladies, and they walked,
with much stateliness on the part
of the judge, to a dining-room that
opened off the landing at the head
Of the stars.
Clancy felt happier that she had
deemed it possible for her to be.
Perhaps it was even stupid. But
to be with two people who so evil
IDENTIFY liked her, and who. so pa
.tently adored each other. was to
partake of their happiness, no
matter how desperate her own
fears.
Dinner passed quickly enough,
and Clancy found out that she had
an appetite, after all qche judge
and his wife showed NO uiinue in
terest in her. Clancy would have
sworn that they knew nothing
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to Clancy persons with whom he
was acquainted. Ordinarily, Clancy
would have been thrilled at rthe
mere sight, Of the demi-gods and
goddesses. Tonight. they left her
cold. YET out of courtesy, she
professed interest. ~ go
). "And there's my, little friend
Darcy she heard the judge say.
She reused herself from abstrac-
ton, an abstraction in which she
was mentally reviewing the acting
and singing of the superb Farrar.
'"Who is he?" she asked.
The judge smiled,
Munitions. Used to live in
Pennsylvania. Now he dwelleth
in the Land of Easy Come"
For second, her thoughts far
away. Clancy did not get the I'M
plication. Then she replied.
'"But I thought that the NUM-
lions milli0naires made SO much
that they found it hard to get rid
of it,
''This is wonderful town, Miss
Deane. It affords opportunity for
everyone and everything. No man
ever made money SO fast that New
York couldn't take it away from
him. If the ordinary methods are
not sufficient, some brilliant New
Yorker will invent something new.
And they're inventing them for
Darcy-and ten thousand other
Darcys, too"
Clancy stared at the squat little
millionaire a few seats away.
HE doesn't look very brilliant"
she announced. s->t .e&~~
."He isn't" said the judge.
"But he's worth Millions pro-
tested Clancy. - 49,. r.9
THAT doesn't prove ,brilliance.
1t proves knack and tenacity.
that's ALL" said her host. Some
Of the most brilliant men know
are paupers; some OF. the most
stupid are millionaires,"
"And vice versa?" suggested
Clancy.
The judge shrugged.
1.-THE brilliant n1IIlionaires are
wealthy despite their brilEance.
My child, money was never SO easy
to make-or, SO easy to spend. And
those who make it are spending
it."
"But isn't every one spending,
not only the millionaires?" de-
mand Clancy.
Its the fashion," said the
judge. ''But fashions change. I'm
not worried about America
The curtain rose, cutting short
Walbrough's disquisition. But, for
a moment, Clancy pondered on
what he had said 1.-THE Land of
Easy Come" The people that she
had met, the moving-picture mil
honaires-theirs had come easily
Would it go as easily? Even David
Randall, worth approximately half
million before his thirtieth birth
day-she'd read enough to know
that brokers went bankrupt over
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LOYALTY AS
'~< AN ASSET
Widely Known Lecturer and Writer
and a National Authority on
Juvenile Problems.


MY BOY. you owe it to your
/" self and to the firm you
AtA work for to be loyal to
the business or quit.
You will remain a small, cheap
personality so long as you con-
tinue to take all you can get and
give the least possible.
But the business concern can
endure your disloyalty far better
than your career can Withstand
It,.
So long as you slight the bust
ness while the boss is not look
ing, so long as you do cheap work
and try to cover it, to that extent
you cut off the possible growth of
your personality.
You hear much about service
in business, and in employment.
Do not get this matter wrong.
1t is not so much the service of
the job j., as the service of the
ideal which is required Of you.
What is an honest, dependable
workman or employee? That ideal
you must serve, if you are to
grow in your capacity to earn an
income and receive promotion.
A highly successful manager
of a cafeteria explained to me
one of his business secrets. Per-
haps his statements will help
YOU. He says:
Il study my employees to de-
termine which ones are trying to
get real pleasure out of their
work. | know that these will
serve nay. patrons best and will
make the place attractive. Then
a happy workman is always an
efficient workman. He will do
honest work for you. You can
trust him behind your back.
When | find one Of this cheerful,
happy sort ! keep him and in
crease his wa ges"
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CLANCY FACES HER PAST,

#Grannis had taken Clancy Deane to fash
ionable New York restaurant and given her
banknote, the biggest she ever had seen in her
life, 81, 600: It was all so strangely mixed up
with the staying Of Morris Beiner, whose face
Clancy had slapped some hours before he was
killed. There more where that came FROM"
said the man, in crooks jargon, as he left her
too startled to either accept or refuse the bill.
The sudden twist of events had left the little
country girl fashionably clad as she was, speech
less: =~
AT. first Grannis had threatened her with the
police. When she had accompanied him to the
restaurant he had at first questioned her as to
sher knowledge of one, Ike Weber She replied
truthfully that she had never met Weber before
attending party composed of theatrical people.
You'll stick to that in 'court?" he asked. And
she nodded. +