CHAPTER Xlll—Continued
—l7
"T!ie words, spoken ill their sweet dear
voices, tell uoncliaianih ' from their
pretty lies. All \ery Jf -cilcsg un 1 i;JJ
inhibit* d and frt-e. Thrtt, tltey told
\ou. was the main tiling. Sometimes
Dirk wished they woithki'r work so
hard at their* pt:i}V- llh'v "were ntt
ever getrini{ up pngtottit* tint piny*
and l.ir„v festivals for charity: Vene
tian fetes. Oriental bazaars, charity
halls, In the programme performance
of these many of tKCifi Utis lifttor.
acted I letter, danced better 1ll:in
professional performers, but the whole
thing always lacked the flavor,'some
how, of professional performance, on
these affairs they lavished thousands
in costumes and decorations, receiv
ing 111 return other thousands which
tU'ey soberly turned over to tlie cause.
They found nothing ludicrous In this.
Spasmodically they went into busi
ness or semi-professional ventures, de
fying the conventions. Piiuln did this,
too. She or one of her friendi- were
forever opening blouse shops: starting
tiifte Shoppes; burgeoning Into tea
rooms decorated In crude green and
vermilion and orange and black: an
uoiiß'-ing their affiliation with an ad
vertising agency. These adventures
blossomed, withered, died. They were
the result of post-war restlessness.
Many of these girls had worked in
defatlgubly during the 1817-IJIIB pe
riod; had driven service cars, man
aged ambulances, nursed, scrubbed,
conducted canteens. They uilssed the
excitement, the satisfaction of achieve
ment.
They found Dirk fair an inc. relent
ed Paula's proprietorship. Susans and
Janes and Kutes and Bettyr and Sa'
lys—plain old-fashioned 'names f*»r
modern erotic misses—they tulked to
Dirk, danced with Idm, rode with him,
tllrted with him. His very unattaln
ahleness save him piquancy. That
I'aula Storm had him fast. He didn't
rare a hoot about ?irls.
"Oh, Mr. Dejong," they said, "your
name's Dirts, Isn't 1:? What a slick
name! What does It mean?"
"Nothing, I suppose. It's a Dutch
name. My j>eople—my father's peo
ple—were Dutch, you know."
"A dirk's a sort of sword. Isn't It.
of poniard? Anyway, It sounds very
keen and cruel and fatal—Dirk."
lie would flush a little (one of his
assets) and smile, and look at them,
and cay no.liing. He found tliut to
be all that rial necessary.
He gut on enormously.
Between the girls he met In society
anil She girls thut worked In his of
fice there existed a .similarity that
struck and amused Dirk. He Raid,
"Take a letter. Miss Roach." to a slim
young creature as exquisite its the
girl with whom lie had danced the day
before; or ridden or played tennis or
bridge. Their very clothes wece fault
less Imitations. They even used the
same perfume. He wondered, idly,
how they did It. They wfre eighteen,
nineteen, twenty, and their face* and
liodies and desires and natural equip
ment made their presence in a business
offer a pcradox, on absurdity. Yet
they were capable, too. In a mechanlc.il
sort of way. Theirs were mechanical
Job"- They were lovely creatures with"
the minds of fourteen-year-old chil
dren. Their hair was shining, perfect
ly undulated, as tine and flossy and
tenderly curling us a young child's.
Their breasts were flat, their figures
singularly sexless like that of a very
voting boy. They were wlae with the
-wisdom of the serpent. Their legs
were si lin and sturdy. Their mouths
were | touting, soft. pink, the lower lip
• little curled hack, petal-wise, like
the moist mouth of a baby that has
Just finished nursing. Tbelr eyes were
wide apart, empty, knowledgeous.
Tlif) managml their prlvnte afTuirs
tike jenerals. They were cooL remote,
disdainful. They reduced their boys
to desperation. They were brigands,
d. speradoos, pirates, taking all, giving
llttrle. They came, for the mnst part,
from sordid homes, yet they knew. In
some miraculous way, all the fine
art* that Paula knew and practiced.
They were corset less, pliant, bewilder
ing, lovely, dangerous.
Among them Dirk worked Immune,
aloof, untouched. He would have been
sucprlsed to leurn that he was known
nmooy them as Frosty. They admired
■tnd resented him. Not one that did
Dot secretly dream of the day when
he wonlil rail her into his office, shut
the door, snd say. "Loretta" (their j
names were buritanklan monstrosities.
b«rn of grafting the original appella |
* tlo t onto their own idea of beauty in |
not'jen- lature hence l>oretta. lino- I
gene, Natllne, Natalie, Ardella), "Lor- j
etta. I have watched you for a long. j
long lime and you must have noticed
how deeply I admire you."
(t wasn't impossible. Those things !
happen. The movies had taught them
that. Dirk, nil unconscious of their I
pitiless all-absorbing scrutiny, would
have been still further appalled to
learn how fully aware they were of hi»
personal and private affairs. They
knsw about Paula, for example. The)
admired and resented her. ton. The;
despised her for the way In which she
openly displayed her feeling for him
(how they knew this was a miracle
and s mystery, for she almost never
mine Into the office snd disguised all
her telephone talks with him). They
thought he was grand to his mother,
flrllnn had b*en la hit office twice, per
lupC Oa oee of these occasions she
ht.d-spent Are minutes chatting socia
bly with Bthsllnda Quinn. who had
the face of a Da Vinci cherub and tbe
ssul of a man-eating shark.
«•>«■» si wars talk ad to everyone.
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EDNA FERBER
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She enjoyed listening to-street Cnr con
ductors. washwomen, Janitors, land
ladiekxHerks. doormen, chauffeurs. po
llceinen. SometlilHg about her made
1 hem talk. They opened to her as
(lowers to the sun. They sensed her
interest, lier liking. As they talked
Selina would exclaim. "Yon don't say!
Weil, thut terrible!" Her eyes would
be bright with sympathy.
Selina hud said, un entering Dirk's
office. "My land! I don't see how you
can work uiuong those prettj.; creatures
and not be a sultan. I'm going to ask
some of them down to the farm over
Sunday."
"Don't, Mother! They wouldn't un
derstand I scarcely see them. They're
Just part of the office equipment."
Afterward. Etliellnda Qulnn had
passed expert opinion. "Say. she's got
ten times the guts that Frosty'a got.
I like her fine. Did you see her ter
rible hat! But say. It didn't look fun
ny on her, did It? Anybody else In
thut getup would look comical, but
she's the kind that could walk off with
anything. I don't Snow. She's got
what 1 call an air. it beats style.
Nice, too. She said I was a pretiy
little thing. Can you beat It! At that
she's I cer'nlj yam."
All 'Take a letter, Miss
Quinn." said Dirk half an hour later.
In the midst of this fiery furnace of
femininity Dirk walked unscorched.
Paula, the North shore girls, well-bred
and professional business women he
occasionally met In the course of
business, the enticing little nymphs be
encountered In his own office, all prac
ticed on lilm their warm and perfumed
wiles. He moved among them cool and
serene. Perhaps his sudden success
had had something to do with this;
nnd his quiet ambition for further suc
cess. For he really wss accounted
successful now. even In the spectacu
lar whirl of Chicago's meteoric finan
cial congtejlatlon. North-side mammas
regards. his Income, his career, and
Ids future with eyes of respect and
wily speculation. There was always a
neut little pile of Invitations In the
mall that lay on the correct little con
sole In tile correct .little apartment
ministered by the correct little Jap on
the' correct North-side street near (but
not too near) the lake, and overlook
ing It. 0
The apnrtmcnt hnd been furnished
with Ponlu's aid. Together she and
Dirk had gone to interior decorators.
"15ut yon've got to use your own
taste, too." Paula had «ald, "to gi\e
I: tlie Individual touch." The apart
ment was furnished In a gM>d deal of
Italian furniture, the finish a dark
tak or walnut, the whole mnssive and
yet somehow unconvincing. The effect
wss somber without being Impressive.
There were long carved tables on
which an ash tray seemed a desecra
tion ; great chairs roomy enough for
lolling, yet In which you did not re
lax; dull silver candlesticks; vest
ments; Dante's saturnine features
sneering down upon you from a cor
rect cabinet. There were not many
books. Tiny foyer, large living-room,
bedroom, dining-room, kitchen, and a
cubby-hole for the Jap.
Dirk did not spend much of his time
In the place. His upward climb was a
treadmill, really. His office, the apart
ment. a dinner, a dance. His contacts
were monotonous, and too few.
His office was a great splendid of
fice In $ great splendid office building
In street. He drove bark and
forth In a motor car along fhe boule
vards. His nodal engagements lay
nor;h. LuSulle street bounded lilm on
the west. I.ake Michigan on the east.
Jackson boulevard on the south. Lake
Forest on the north. He might have
lived a thousand miles away for nil
be knew of the rest of Chicago—the
mifhty, roaring, sweltering.* pushing!
screaming, magnificent hideous steel
giant that was Chicago.
Selina had had no hand in the fur
nishing of Ids apartment. When It was
finished Dirk had brought her In tri
umph to see It. "Well," he had aald.
"what do you think of It, Mother r
She had stood In the center of the
room. a una 11 plain figure In the midst
of these massive somber caned tables,
chairs, chests. A little untile bad
quirked the corner of her month. M 1
think It's ss cosy as a cathedral."
Sometimes Selina remonstrated witb
him. though of late she had taken on a
strange ret I retire She no longer asked
him about the furnishings of the
houses he visited, or the exotic food be
ate at splendid dinners. The farm
flourished. The great steel mllla and
factories to the south were closing In
upon her but had not )« set Iron fool
tm her rich green seres. Bhe was rath
er famous now for the quality of her
farm products and her petti. You saw
"ltaJong aspuragus" on tbe mean at
the Rlackstone and the Drake hotels
Sometimes IMrks friends twitted him
about this and lie did not always ac
knowledge that the similarity of names
was not a coincidence.
"Dirk, you aeern to see BO one bat
Just these i>eople," Sellna told hint In
*»e of her Infrequent rebukes. "You
duot get the full flavor of life. You've
got to bav* a vulgar curiosity about
people snd things. All kinds of peo
ple. All kinds of thmts. You revotre
In the same little circle, over and over
snd over.*
"Haven't tune. Can't afford to take
the time.
"You cant afford not to."
Sometimes «»ina caw lata town
for a week or ten days at a stretch,
and indulged in what she called ar
orgy. At vHuch times Julie Arnold
«>nld Invite her to occupy one of the
guest rooms at the Arnold house, 01
Dirk would oiler her his bedroom and
tell her that he would be comfortabl*
on the big couch in the living room, 01
that he woukl take a room at the Uni
versity club. She always declined. She
would take a room In a hotel, some
times north, sometimes south. Iler
holiday before her, she would go of!
roaming gaily as a small boy on a
Saturday morning, with the day
si retching gorgeously and adventure
Homely ahead of him. sallies down the
street without plan or appointment,
knowing that richness In one form or
another lies before him for the choos
ing. A sociable woman, Sellnn. savor
ing life, she liked the lights, the color,
the rush, noise. Her years of
grinding work, with her face pressed
down to the very soil Itself, had failed
to kill her zest for living. She prowled
Into the city's foreign quarters—
Italian, Greek,. Chinese, Jewish.
She loved the Michigan boulevard
and State street shop windows In
which haughty waxed ladles in glitter
ing evening gowns postured, fingers
elegantly crooked as they held a fan,
a rose, a program, meanwhile smiling
condescendingly out upon an envious
world flattening Its nose against the
plate glass barrier.
She iwnetrated the Black belt, where
Chicago's vast and growing negro pop
ulation shifted and moved and
stretched Its great Jimbs ominously,
reaching out and out In protest and
overflowing the bounds that irked It.
Her serene face and her quiet manner
her bland Interest and friendly look
protected her. They thought her a
social worker, perhaps; one of the
upllfters. She bought and read the
Independent, the negro newspaper In
which herb doctors advertised magic
roots. She eve% sent the twenty-five
cents required for a box of these,
charmed by their names—Adam and
Eve roots. Master of the Woods.
Dragon's Blood, High John the Con
queror, Jezjbel Roots, Grains of Para
dise. .
"Cook here. Mother," Dirk would
protest, "you can't wander around like
iIInLHIJ
SH« Liked to Stroll Along the Crowded
Bidewalks.
that It Isn't safe. This Isn't High
Prairie, vou know. If you want to
go round I'll get Sakl to drive you."
'That would be nice," she said, mild
ly. But she never availed herself of
tills offer.
She would go over to South Water
street, changed now, and swollen to
such proportions that It threatened to
burst Its confines. She Uked to stroll
along the crowded sidewalks, lined
with crates and boxes and barrels of
fruits, vegetables, poultry. Swarthy
foreign faces predominated now.
Where the red-faced overalled men had
been site now saw lesn muscular lads
in old army shirts snd khaki psnts sad
scuffed puttees wheeling trucks, load
ing boxes, charging down tlie street In
liugrf rumbling auto vans. Their face*
were hard, their talk terse. Any one
of tWse, she reflected, was more vital,
more native, functioned more usefully
and hobeatly than her successful son.
"Dirk Mom.
"Where Y beans?"
"In th' ol" hennery."
"Tough."
"Best you can get."
"Keep em "
Many of the oldqr men knew he#
shook bsnds with her. chatted a mo
ment frlendllly. William Talcott, a
little more dried up, more wrinkled
his sparse hair quite gray now, still
leaned op a gal nil tl»e side of his «oor
wsy In his shirt sleeves and his neai
pepper-and-salt panta and vest, clear
unllgbted. In his month, the heavy gol
watch chain spanning his middle.
"Well, you certainly made good. Mrs
DeJong. Remember the day yon con*
here with your first loadT"
Oh. yes. She remembered.
"That hoy of yonra has made hi
mark. too. I see. Doing grand, at*"
he) Wa al, gnat satisfaction having i
son turn out well Ilka that. Yes
slrree'. Why. look at ■/ date
Oa^ltne—"
Life 4} High Prairie had Its aavot
too. Frequently 70a saw strange rii
Uors there for s weak or tea days a
a time —beys and girts wboaa dty nails
fiTfj m ir Alf A Wpi? /IT IP AXIirR /IT) ATT A TUT %T
t i % I
grave way to a rich tan; tired-looking
women with tugging figures who drank
Selina's cream and ate her abundant
vegetable* and tender chicken* aa
though the>- expected these viands to
he momentarily snatched from them
Selina picked these up in odd corners
of the city. Dirk protested againat
this, too. Selina was a member of the
High Prairie school board now. She
wus on the (iood Roads committee and
the Truck Farmers' association val
ued her opinion. Her life was fall,
pleasant, prolific.
Chapter XIV
Paula had a scheme for interesting
woaien in bond buying, it was a good
scheme. She suggested it so that Dirk
thought he had thought of it. Dirk
was head now of the bond department
in the Oreat Lakes Trust company's
magnificent new white building cm
Michigan boulevard north.
Its white towers gleamed pink In
the lake mists. Dirk said It was a
terrible building badly proportioned,
and that it looked like a vast vanilla
sundae. His new piivste domain waa
more like a splendid bookless library
than a business office. It was finlahed
in rich dull walnut and there were
great upholstered chairs, soft ruga,
shaded lights. Special attention was
paid to women clients. There was a
room for their convenience fitted with
low reatful chairs and couches, lamps,
writing desks, in mauve and rose
Paula bad selected the furnishings for
this room. Ten yesrs earlier It would
have been considered absurd in a suite
of business offices. Now it waa a
routine part of the equipment.
Dirk's private office was almost as
difficult of access a 8 that of the na
tlon'a executive. Cards, telephones,
office boys, secretaries stood between
tbe caller and Dirk DeJong, head of
the bond department. You asked for
him, uttering his name in tbe ear of
the six-foot statuesque detective who.
In the guise of usber, stood In tbe
center of the marble rotunda eyeing
each visitor with a coldly appralalng
gate. This o4fe padded softly aliead
of you on rubber heela, only to give
you over to the care of a glorliled
office boV who took your nams Yo'l
waited. He returned. You waited.
Presently there appeared a young
woman with inquiring eyebrows. She
conversed with you. She vanished.
You waited. She reappeared. You
were ushered Into Dirk DeJong's large
and luxurious inner office. And there
formality fled.
Dirk was glad to see you; quietly,
interestedly glad to see you. As you
stated your business he listened atten
tively, as was his charming way. Tbe
volume of business done with women
clients by the Great Lakes Trust com
pany was enormous. Dirk was con-
servative, helpful—and he always got
tbe business. He talked little. He
was amazingly effective
Ladies in the modish black of re
cent bereavement made quite a somber
procession to his door. His suggestions
(oQen originating with Paula) made
the Great Lakes Trust company's dis
creet advertising rich in results. Neat
little pamphlets written for woyaen on
the subjects of saving. Investments.
"You are not dealing with a soulless
corporation," said these brochure*.
"May we serve you? You need more
than friends. Before acting, you
should have your judgment vindicated
by an organization of investment spe
cialists. Tou may have relatives and
friends, some of whom would gladly
advise yon on investments. But per
haps you rightly feel that the less they
know abont your financial affairs, the
better. To handle trusts, and to care
for the securities of widows and or
phans, is our business."
It was startling to note how this
sort of thing mounted into millions.
"Women are becoming more an-J
more used to the handling of money,"
Paula said, shrewdly. "Pretty soon
their patronage Is going to be as valu
able aa that of men. The average
woman doesn't know about bonds—
about bond buying. They think they're
something mysterious and risky. Tley
ought to be educated up to It. Didn't
you say something. Dirk, about classes
in flnsnce for women?"
"But would the women come?"
"Of course they'd come. Women
will accept any invitation that's en
graved on heavy cream paper."
The Great Lakes Trust had a branch
In Cleveland now, and one In New
York, on Fifth avenue. The drive to
Interest women In bond baying and
to Instruct them In finance was 10 take
>n almost national proportions. There
was to be newspaper and magazine ad
vertising.
(To si coirrwciD.)
Whmm Pedagogue* Kicked
Scotland's army of schoolmasters
la the year 1782 seat a memorial to
parliament pointing out that while
their average Income was £l3 a year
that of a plowman waa £l4 te £l#.
No relief waa granted until IHB, when
ibe Schoolmasters' act was pa—a*,
and their Income was legally fixed at
•not under 800 merka (£l6 Us. 44)
nor over 400 merka (£22 4a. Cd).* The
heritors had alao to provide a bouae.
-which need not contain man than
two roana, Including the kitchen, and
with ground for a garden or not mere
than a quarter of a Scots acre, or two
boils of meal aa It* equivalent." They
were highly indignant at being obliged
to "erect palaces f« domlniea," bat
legal compulsion could no longer ha
Ignored. Thereafter, conditions were
st ten* good enough to prevent school
masters from resigning their dhaa to
htronsa tea dies aa had actually hap
pened daring the darkest day a!
A SO-pound pumpkin waa gnmn In
a California field which, when tncnai
bun olaa. marts US at th*
Week-End Outfit
in One Suitcase
The conquering heroine of the' pre
spons era was an earnest believer In
tbe strength of numbers and her week
end sallies into strange countries were
never ventured without tbe accom
paniment of a wardrobe that was as
extensive as U was pretentious. Those
were the days, writes a fashion cor
respondent In the New York tferald-
Tribune, when quantity was the meas
ure of smartness and when no occa
sion was too trivial to demand a
change of costume. Starting with tbe
morning frock, a summer* (lay which
did not witness at least four distinct
costumes was counted among tbe lost
and tbe enterprising demoiselle who
could Improve upon that number was
at once tbe envy of her sisters and
tbe glowing light of social gatherings.
Manifestly, It was impossible to pack
tbe necessary wand robe within the lim
ited confines of a single suitcase, and
the pleasure-bent week-ender was com
pelled to travel, ladeq| heavily with
luggage or else run the risk of hieing
occasionally out of the picture.
Those unscientific times are past,
due partly to the comparative uncon
ventlonallty of the summer mode, part
ly to a more enlightened uttltude on
the part of the gentle traveler, and
partly to the general vogue of sports
wear. Fashion no longer contents
Itself with seasonal changes—lt Is
continually undergoing minute evolu
tions and the hallmark of haute chic
demands small monthly wardrobe
changes instead of the voluminous
semi-annual acquisitions thst char
acterized the past. The modern
Parlsienne does not burden herseli
with many clothes at a time —her an
nual number of frocks Is, perhaps,
l greater than ever before, but they are
added at diverse periods as tbe occa
sion demands, and as they are added,
other costumes are either discarded or
revamped to coincide with the smart
est and latest dicta of the mode.
Wardrobe Should Pit Suitcase.
The result Is a wardrobe which is
always chic and never cumbersome
and which Is comfortably sufficient
I unto the three days of tbe sportive
! week-ender. Indeed, the greatest boon
to the modern week-end habit baa
been tbe general simplification of
fashion. You simply cannot pack "frills
and furbelows Into a suitcase. It yon
appear with a wardrobe trunk or a
/Plurality of suitcases your hostess im
mediately becomes apprehensive and
you can hardly blame her. Obvloualy,
then, the ideal week-end wardrobe must
J be modified to suit a single suitcase
and tbe present status of tbe mode
makes that task no longer a problem.
Apparently the dressmakers were
thinking of the feminine week-ender
when they evolved those delectable
Jumper aults that are tbe prop of
every smart woman's existence nowa
days. Whether it Is made of kasha,
crepe de chine or foulard, the Jumper
frock Is the easiest garment to fold
that baq appeared -on tbe modern hori
mm jJ
Wm ' Wfl
m ■
U I
m ■
B Tmm-"-'' *V;-^B
b A ljL
Trim and Sportaman-l-iks Suit sf
W«armbl« Batbriggan.
son of the mode. Erea its plaits can,
be coaxed to lie Sat, and It la an ex
cellent plan to pin tbecn Into place If
the material of the dress is not too
flimsy, always taking cam to choose
line steel dressmaking P>»s and not the
clumsy white wire variety.
For Golf. Tennis and •ridfa.
The oatare of the Jumper frock will
Tory utwdini to tkt type of place la
which you ire going to spend your
week-end. If yon expect to stay k
•D atmosphere of niblicks and maahlea,
naturally there sbonM be a correspond
ing atmosphere of woolen and fine Jer
sey doth about the garments yon take
with you. If tenals la Included la the
program, a f»w plssi white crepe
4a chine frocks will anawar the ra-
quirementa. These crease less readily
(ban cotton and they shake out Into
chtrnilng folds as soon as they are
hunft np In a roomy cupboard.
After games the most usual occupa
tion Is bridge, and for this you will
require a change. But let It be a
change into a frock that, but for Its
color and material, might almost be
worn for tennis or golf Itself. Ths
smartest clothes of the present season
all have that sports allure. Even yonr
dinner dress should have such a sim
ple cut that if you put It on in the
daytime nothing could be easier than
an impromptu game, quite possible In
Its straightline simplicity.
A charming- idea for the bridge
frock Is the new Jabot idea. It is an
excellent suggestion, for there should
be something reminiscent of the Jabot
In your week-end case—it is so typical
of the present season's tendencies. It
can be carried out in georgette crepe
or chiffon and there Is no need to ad
here severely to plain material. The
wild riots of flowers that are scat
tered over a beige or black ground are
a charming feature of summer chiffons.
They have this additional advantage—
if your rubber is prolonged until tt»»
dinner gong sounds, you may appear
dressed, fresh, ready for dinner and
even the dance following without
looking very much as If you had kept
on your afternoon frock, for with chlf
Ensemble of Floral Print, Suitable
_ for Weak-End Wear.
fon It la difficult to say where the aft
ernoon aids and the evening begins.
When yon Intend to Include a really
formal evening affair during your
week-end visit, put In a straight
fringed frock.
You might Include a little shawl to
throw over the shoulders—lt Is s real
boon on those delightful summer nights
when one feels tempted to stroll In the
garden between dances. Paris Insists
on some- dainty accessory on these oc
casions—not from a practical point of
view, but because It adds a balancing
feminine triviality to the slender lines
of the July evening frock*.
Easily Packed Incidentals.
It Is advisable to reduce shoes and
other accessories to a minimum when
you are paying a week-end visit Keep
a small extra bag for your shoes, and
you can also use It for last minute re-
membrances, for even the most method
ical of us lnvsrisbly leave out some
thing of which we think frantically
when straps are fastened and keys
put into the handbag. Often enough
ft Is just the pair of shoes that goes
with the particular frock around which
the week-end wardrobe Is constructed.
Fashion bss been liberal In late years
by sanctioning gold, sliver or blond
satin shoes to be worn with every kind
of evening gown. Now the mode Is
changing and the slipper should match
the frock. This Is rn additional com
plication, but It Is essential la a sur
rounding which plsces a premium on
smart clothes. Jn lam formal places
you may choose a pair of Mood satis
shorn and wear them with your bridge
frock as well as In the evening.
Above all other things, remember
that costumes worn In Rome should al
ways be Roman. The habit of swim
ming upstream has no place !a
modern fashions and It is particularly
inappropriate In the short-visiting
week-ender. If yea sre going to vUt
at some mountain resort -which prides
itself on a certain lack of convention,
leave, that Pa too robe du sob- at home
end forget that very Parisian chapeau
by Lewis. And conversely, If your
journeys end be at some watertag
place where fashion Is the alpha and
omega, donl attempt to convert the
filial— populace by wearing clothes
that ate plain and commonplace. Ths
mode has places for Rs —'~ , ~narlm.
hat the week-end habitat la not one «
TWICE IN THIS
WOMAN'S LIFE
+ ——— —
Lydia L PinkhamV Vegeta
ble Compound helped Her
from Sickness to Health '
' Ellenaburg, Washington. "When I
was first coming into womanhood I suf
»•,... ... " fared terribly every
could think of, so she
■| took me to several
■ doctors arid they only
helped me a little,
■f Mother was talking
KL' to another lady about
mv condition and she
W"- told mother of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vege
mm table Compound.
f — ' ' """Mother got me six
bottles and at the aid of the first month
I was much better, BO I kept on taking
It until 1 had no more pains. When I
rt married and had my first chOd I was
terrible pain so that it was impossi
ble for me to do my housework. I
thought of bow the Vegetable Compound
had been of so much benefit to me when
Iwas a girl, sol went t» Perier'sDrug
store and got six bottles. It aura did
help me ana I still take it lam a well
woman today and I can't say too much
about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. I will answer my letter that
comes to me to answer about what TOUT
medicine has done for me." Mrs.
WILLIAM CARVER,R. F.D. No. 2, Ellens
burg, Washington.
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Respond instantly to
a snort treatment of
Dr. Thornton's
EASY TEETHER
Ask Your Druggist
Oil SORES, PILES
MB ECZEMA VANISH
Good, Old, Reliable Peterson's
Ointment a Favorite Remedy.
"Had 61 ulcers on my legs. Doctors
wanted to cut oft lag. Peterson's Oint
ment cured me." —wm. J. Nlchoa, 4#
Wilder Street, Rochester, N. T.
Oet a -large box for 35 cents at any
drugrarlst, says Peterson, of Buffalo,
N. Y„ and money back if It Isn't the
best you ever used. Always keep Pe
terson's Ointment In the house. Fine
for burns, scalds, bruises, sunburn, and
the surest remedy for Kching eczema
and piles the world has ever known.
He Feels Like a
Boy at Forty
i "Foe over a year I suffered from headaches
and cooertpartop- Someone at my club eus- -
geoted Bcecham'e Pills. 1 tried them and
they relieved aae. I'm only forty and I feel like
s boy sssln afar taking Beecham's Pills."
Mr.J. 0.. Yankees. N. Y.
Ylifc man fivei «eod adefcx. Follow It, ami aae IU«»
Ssdb ills slw Mfous-
For FREE SAMPLE—wite
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Bay from your drusgiet in If pnd fas boxaa
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Gland Exploitation
Gland preparations have been more
widely exploited during the last year
than any other form of pharmaceutical
product.—Science Service.
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asaL Hanea Use inadleaUoa heala by peas
traUac tha laSaiMd eye aarfaeaa. Uy.
Let us draw upon content for the
deficiencies of fortune.
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