Somethinglolive; For _ ,___.
By ANTHONY BEIMBRT .
Copyright, use. by The lecture Newcpaper Symon“.
.‘WHAT do you think's the
matter with him? He
can't die happy till he's it
read his obituary notice in the
papers."
“Poor Dad. he's troubled over
llls pasti"
"Vanity-3" thought the doctor.
luit said nothing. "That's a thing
no man can do." he remarked
presently.
Old Cyrus Hamp lay dying.
Cyrus was a millionaire. and the
most notorious miser in Wall
swnct. Also renowned for his
:~f‘.2‘£‘\‘-‘(l. merciless strokes. Many
suicide lay to his discredit.
‘7 I'us was a man who would have
1 "it‘ll up a widow's mortgage and
' ”.1 cut her throat into the bar-
'i.l‘..
Nobody could be expected to be
sorry that old Cyrus was passing
r':t at eighty-five. The old man
‘n in simply been growing weaker
- after day. And now this ex-
, ori'inpry craze possessed him.
“l"s on his mind." said the
_‘ .hter. “He can’t die easily
‘Ltllll he's seen it. Couldn’t—~—
.m1:ln't sarnething be done. Ungle
’r‘re'l'f"
‘ What sort of thing. my dear?”
“Why—couldn't we print one
mpg: of a paper or something. giv-
,v~.: him a column of..eulogistic.
:‘xurmgr biography. It‘s his sin:
that are troubling him."
This was not very daughterly,
in: then Cyrus was Cyrus. .
"it isn't his sins. it's the fear
.f being unfavorably commented
on after his death." thought
l’nrln Fred. ““‘ell. my dear. it
might be done. but it's going to
”But we ought to do it for
father's sake." said Mildred. “You
are a printing plant. Uncle
Fredethat's what I was thinking
of. lou could print a fake copy'
of the paper."
“l'll‘see what can be done."
Uncle Fred replied.
It was all arranged that night.
and Uncle Fred put all'his hands
to work faking a newspaper. It
was a. fairly good fake, and likely
enough to pass muster with Cyrus.
And the next morning the doctor.
the daughter, and Uncle Fred
brought it into the room.
“We’ve worked it. father," said
Mildred. "Doctor Johnson gave
out a repert of your death to the
press yesterday evening. 'But you
must hurry up and get well. be-
cause it will have to be contra-
dicted today."
“Hurrumph!” grunted the old
miser. “Lift me up in bed and
lemme read it." -
.They placed the newspaper in
his hands. adjusted the Light. put
on his spectacles. and left him.
Cyrus read slowly'and painfully.
It certainly was a eulogy. Not
a word about the old miser's
peculiarities. Not a word about
his heartless speculations in the
Street.
"Our esteemed fellow citizen."
Cyrus read, “passed away pain-
lessly in his sleep late yesterday
afternoon. The end. while not
unexpected. will come as a pro-
found shock to the community in
which Mr. Hamp's labors were ex-
pended over a period of more than
a generation.
- an everlasting sum of money
in {wire on entire issue of a. news-i
paper." he answered. I
Lyrics of Life
Dducus Munch
THE COOKIE JAR
The cookie jar is very far
l’p \‘onrier on the shelf.
A11”: tint is “by that babies cry-n
lie minnot help himsclf.
“ baby's small. but I am tall.
,x: you can plainly_see:
Arri every day it seems someway
Lia riiwuys comes to me?
Now. as you know. you shouldn't go
Arr help yourself to things;
Y -t store's a song that all along
.‘~lv mother always sings-—
‘t all about us helping out
‘ "m pm me that we meet
. . rll’iffi and cln‘es. and I suppose
" means with things to eat.
3c in;- his sake. I sometimes take
A v ankle; maybe {Wm
i‘» :- issiz's the way the good books
. .i‘x'
"Tint people ought to do.
‘5‘. ~ muzht to feed the folks in need.
"‘~ o~i;ht to help. you see,
The i‘.‘lr.L'T)’. yes—anti. well. I guess
TE: 1: that means him and me.
By PERCY CROSBY
(Mu-4‘13, 112.2. By The fixture newspaper I’ll-Wonk.
"Mr. Hamp was a well-known
figure in Wall Street and at his
country place on Long Island. He
was quite a character in his way.
Beneath an exterior rugged and
austere makeup he had the simple
heart of a child."
"Hurrumph!" said Cyrus Hemp.
“His deeds of benevolence.
though always done under the
mask of secrecy. were an open
secret. The smiles on children's
faces rippled into happy laughter
as he approached to pat them on
the head. Many a man and
~ woman alive today can testify to
Cyrus Hamp's goodness. to his
simple unobtrusive virtues both as
a citizen and a man."
"Hurrumph!" said Cyrus Hemp.
“The community will be the
worse off for the passing of such
a. man. There are few eyes that
will not be dimmer today when
they read of. the death of this
great, outstanding- figure ,of
finance."
"l-lu -rr~rr-rump!" yelled Cyrus
Hamp. etting the paper fall.
And so loudly did he yell that
Mildred. the doctor. and Uncle
Fred. who had been waiting out-
side. rushed in.
“Oh. father.
tar?"
“That—that notice!" Cyrus
gasped. "Me—me who skinned
“em alive and hung their scalps up
in my vineyard; Me. the scourge
of widders and orphans! Me
who's got more suicides to his
credit than any bloodsucker in
the land. Me! To write that
notice of me! The fellow that
wrote that drool's got to be
h'ounded to his grave. and I'm go.
what's the mat-
ing to live to do itl"
\
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521v KID, YOU 'sposz:
>473 SOMEBODYLS‘
Wax/305,9?
THE YOUNG LADY ACROSS THE WAY
When There's a Boy In the Family.
younggirlheil with
fHElflLMT
FLAPPER
SA¥S—
By jusz
V‘ HE whole town's talking
I about
in 'The White Sister.‘ " an-
nounced the Flapper. . "He made
almost as big a success in it as she
did. If Lillian didn't want to act
she could support herself. as a
casting director. She was the per-
son who discovered Glenn Hunter.
you know. and along with Dorothy
saw James Rennie's possibilities
as a movie actor. _
“And. saying ‘the whole town's
talking' reminds me of the play.
‘The Whole Town‘s Talking.’
which John Emerson and Anita
Loos wrote. It has two bad acts.
the first and second, and one
funny one. the third: but the play
as a whole is nowherinear as
good as what you’d expect of any-
one as clever as Anita Loos is.
Everyone was rather surprised at
it; all New
thinking they were goin to ham
2. great treat. 5‘
"Everyone is waiting breath-
lessly to see what Lenore Ulric is
like on the screen. The “'arner
Brothers got Belasco to give them
the screen rights to three plays.
by giving him all the money in
the world. and unless the three
pictures made from them are per-
fect wonders. the motion picture
industry will have the laugh on
the Warners.
l‘iI suppose you heard about
Billy Bitzer‘s deathhpo? ”Well.
of course you know who he was-—
York {leaked to it.’
KLUMPH
Griffith's famous camera man.
Ronald Coleman..who worked with him way back
Lillian Gish‘s leading mangin the beginning of things. when
' Grifiith
was grinding out short.
pictures with Mary Pickford; He
Was with Griffith almost to the
last. and did a lot of things to
improve motion picture photog-
raphy: invented the fade-in and
the fade-out. among the things.
He was no small factor in the
growth of Grimth's fame. and I
hate to think that he's gone. -
“Do you feel that King Vidor
is the man to direct ‘Ben Hur?’
Well. if you do you're the one
person I've met in a week who
does. I think he‘s a good director,
but that's not his sort of story.
Of course. when I heard that
George “'alsh was likely to be
‘Ben Hur' I lost interest in the
:picture at once. and then to pick
Vidor for director—if he is the
one they select—makes it just an-
other picture. lt‘ll take expert
exploitation to put that picture
over!
“Seena Owen finally decided to
.go abroad; I was hoping she'd
'change her mind and stay home.
ibut she .felt that England called
land she must answer. She hasn't
.been over since she went to
;Sweden years and years ago when
gshe was just a very small girl, and
all {she remembers about the trip
.is that she met lots of nice little
fboys going over and coming back.
gDon't tell me that it pays to take
;a child traveling!”
l
4—-
t
r ‘AS TO A CHAPERONE
EELIEVE it was Jane ‘Addams
I “13.) said that there was some-
thing very beneficial in small
town and village gossip for. narrow
though it might seem. it acted as a
metrainlng influence on young wom-
en who without it might often be
led’ beyond their depths in uncon-
tlonalify. ”We all of us hate the vil—
lage gossip; we despise the Mrs,
Grundy who peels down the street
behind carefully drawn lace curtains
to feast. her eyes upon any intima~
tions of unconventionality on the
part of her neighbors. But Mrs.
Grundy, standing there with those
narrow. suspicious eyes of hers.
serves a purpose in thevsocial order.
for there is not a. young girl or
young girl’s mother, or young man
or young man’s mother in the
street. but knows she is there. So
the pretty girl. when asked by a.
good-looking. newcomer to take a
stroll with him on Sunday after-
noon, hesitates and then asks her
elder sister or aunt to accompany
them. “It isn't that I think there
would be any harm in it," she says.
“But people in a. small town tails:
so.“
A young girl always has infinite
confidence in her own ability to act
with dignity and discretion under
any circumstances. and the more
wholesome her ideas of life the less
suspicion she has of her escort’s
character or discretion. But be-
cause other peopie might, not feel ,.
about it as she does. she avails her-
self of the services of a chaperone.
What She Does
But a chapsrone serves" a purpose"
beyond keeping neighbors” tongues
from wagging or changers from
mISiudsihz, ’3 you“ 'Tz‘irl- first
among these thrch‘aperone makes
irzevidentvtonhe eocortthat the
' is carefully
.brought up and. though he may as-
;sure the girl he asks to go walking
gor motoring with him that he would
érather go‘ alone with her. his esti-
imation of her-will rise when she '
' suggests that some older womar’ ac-
company them or that they get. an-
other young couple to share their
Among. certain very conventional-
and formal persons the idea. seems
to be that any married mman may
act as 'a Chaperone for any 0 ion,
and that any unmarried wo an—
unless she' be positively tottering
with age—needs _such a. protector.
Persons who mingle with their eti-
quette a leaveriingof good sensedo
not insist that the chapel-one be
man-i . A sensible young woman
of may act as chaperone for
young girls better than a. silly mar-
ried woman of twenty.
When It's Absurd » ‘
The sight of arfunmarried woman .
of mature years insisting on a. chgp—
erone is sometimes pathetic- I eup-
pose some of these. prudent maids
blush to think that Joan of Arc
rode triumphantly to Orleans with-V.
out a. dugnna and blame the unmar-
ried Charlotte Corday more because
lshe went. from Normandy tdkParit
withouui’a chaperone than‘because
she rendered her service to theeause
of liberty by sticking a knife in the
undefende‘d Marat's back.
the matter of chapel-ones 'arin all
other social institutions.’- In differ-
ent localitleaand among different
classes ot‘persons the rule regard-
hag chum differs so that it is
hardtolaydawnanyhardandfafl
relations the subject. This musket:
a‘goohvnuggestion: Find out what
’Zi§>thg.frule:of the set in which you
BTW .517 om fl mm 8-:
outing. ' -'
But :there is a happy medium ‘in ‘
Brocades and "eh-eta. Flu-e and
'Meul Thom Are Converted
Into Charming Negligeu.
IGS of white silk demurely
w parted in the middle and
rolled over either ear are
onered for a price to the woman
who will buy them. ' In effect they
are wigs—in f~o§'no more nor
less than l‘oudoir. caps. Of
course there w ill be no widespread
use of the:e picturesque little
wigs: ‘they will not be popular
so that— women whocannot afford
My them'will feel constrained
to make them. They are interest-
ing. however, to show to what
lengths of ingenuity the makers
other dancing figures—ya design
too striking for a dinner or dance
gown. but quite charming for a
‘negligee.
No material seems to be too
gorgeous or too rich for the neg-
ligee and many of them are made
with a. foundation of gold or sil-
‘ver tissue. Fur is frequently used
'freely. often edging the long angel
sleeves that almost touch the
'floor at the sides. The French
woman finds a negligee of chiifon
velvet trimmed with fur. however.
rather more comfortable in cool-
weather than the American
woman. whose first notion of com-
fort in late autumn and winter is
,a sizzling radiator that maintains
0! women's clothes. will go in de-gsummer heat despite winds and
—-~- *vfsing novel ways of revealing the
grace and charm of women. ,
[Always one can go a little-
farther in gratifying one's whim.
in. buying boudoir array than in_
the :
eigening wean;
Few very smart women like to be:
really conspicuous in any gather»
‘ing—but in your own home. in:
room or
boudoir, you may be as conspicn-;
Some women‘
assembling costumery
street or . formal
.for
your own dressing
bus as you like.
with a native fondnesafondness
for very bright color combinations
wisely enough choose the drabber,
more conventional effects for the
clothes they wear away from home
——-and spend their love for vivid
tones in clothes of the uegligee
deescription. For really one may
be as extreme and as striking as
one wishes .in one’s owu rooms.
Notinfrequently the distinguished
dressmakers here and iii-Paris use
a freer. less constrained hand in
designing negligees than they
would dare to use for more formal
clothes. '
. For example, Margaine-Lacroix
of.Pa.ris_h.as a negligee of gray
chiffon which serves as the back-
ground for a painted assemblage
of Pierrots and Pierrettes and
.4
A gay and extraordinarily becoming
boudoir cap made of white silk to
resemble a wig.
; rain.
HOUSEHOLD
Edited by ~ANNE RITTENNOUSB
YOUR CEREAL SHELF.
AKEFS and distributors of ce-
M real breakfast foods deserve
much credit for the excellent
containers in which theyI send out
these foods. but the housewife should
do her share in caring for the cereal
after it reaches her house. or she
cannot expect to have cereals fresh
and in good condition.
Usually all cereal, such as oat—
meal. rice. corn meal, or other meal-
like cereals, should be transferred
from their box or carton and placed
in a. glass or porcelain or earthen
jar of some sort that has a close—
fitting cover. “'ide—mouth fruit jars
are excellent for this purpose. You
(an buy some of the quart and two-
quart sort especially for this pur-
pose. D'Ul". stick paper labels on
them. heca 5- these will peel and
Come off a r 3'. ...ie. and. cf course,
must he reneu ed whenever the jars
are u-: ‘ . instead take a little oil
paint ' fine brush and
pain: (i the cereal the jar
contams on the cuts-ls of the jar.
Prepared iEZ'E'il‘ that are served
\rit‘ l . - king: snazzid he bought in
small amounts and no: ‘n pt Oflvhfll'ld
for ion: .1: a 'i
of dry :-c:‘e..i
ready cooked t ' .. If
you keep 1 i '
original C":‘.t
covered. Hr: .« even
of these crzsp cc
tin or glass cox-.12;
crispness.
A convenient place for keeping cee
reals of all sorts 's on a l:;;h shelf
lat the side of you Here they
‘are always conve n; and the heat
from the store 1 .- s to keep them
dry. Moreover
are safe from.
- hold izrants
*‘rc that it is
keep any‘
. a wavered
.er they soon lose
to or other house-
.ar sometimes will
.enter v: . houses, despite constant
vigziao if the cereal is all in cov-
qered to T era there is no reasoi‘;
i why it would he kept in a cupboard.
i 1?. is alwavs best. if possible. to
3ktep ‘nne c In just for cooking ce-
'real. thus there is no chance that it
should take up fla\‘o:‘s from strong
» i jegetables or other strong food.
3, F. A.
PITIFUL indeed is the case of
' the man or woman who‘is in-
_ capable cf finding a generous
trait in the conduct of his or
her intimates. misconstruing their
every word and act as a symbol of
selfishness of the lowest form.-
Persons of this regrettable type
are pborer than the veriest beggar.
. for their hearts are‘e'n'ipty of ‘char-
ity and cold as stone.
They never are able to scatter
sunshine so that others may bask
in its genial warmth and go on
their way lighter hearted. .
To this deficiency of charitable
feeling may be ascribed the present
deplorable state of unrest and dis-
satisfaction among the soulvcrea-
tures‘bf all the world. unwilling in
their I'ugly'moods to settle down
and. perform in amity their duties
to one another;
W's see miniature wars on all
sides of us. arousing ranimosities
and hatreds that long ago ought to
have been buried andjforgotten.
eSome of us are forever in fer-
ment. carryingtiong our shoulders
tile aggravating chip, strutting up
and down the highways. seeking
some one in like humor to knock
it off. .
vlt is this evil spirit that is
during: our ideas of right and
wrong and carrying us back to the
dark ages. Under its terrible in-
fluences we gradually are losing
our sense of righteousness. our
boasted chivalry. and happiness.
- Pride.- greed and passion are
taking the place of benencence. hu-
mility. kindliness and pity. The
finer and noble: sentiments are
being ruthlessly swept away by
moral insensibllity. hebetude. cal'
-lousness and even open hostility.
We are ins state of petty mad-
“ness. without indulgence or sym-
Pflhy. seemingly, insinuating that '
everybody excepting our adorable
Ieives‘is‘ in the wrong. .
ltiswithagreatreluctanoe and
rep . start of will that-we
- show respect to out-superiors,“
inbmit to their helpful guidance
even-when it is needede sevens
Eon an ‘embarrassingsituaticn‘or
automaton failure: :11 of which
7 ‘ . “41m, innate
Something til Think About
Empty of Charity
WALKER
deeper troubles and graver com-
plications.
There would be no such barriers
between us and others if our
hearts were true and holding fast
to the ennobling priiciples and
fine faith of our ancestors, which,
be it said with sorrow we appar-
ently have purposely forgotten.
W'hither are we going?
. » Jewel
T° Day 8 Color
Luck" flower
Br mLonEo MARSHALL
' TL RQCOISE.
ODAY‘S talismanic gem is' the
I turquoise. According to Sir
John Mandeville. when this
gem is worn as an amulet no ac-
cident or injury can befall. Travel
by land or sea is rendered safe.
and in modern times the power of
the turquoise is stretched to em~
brace motor and aeroplane jour-
neys. Volmar quaintly puts it:
“Whoever owns the true tur-
quoise set in gold will not injure
any of his limbs when he falls,
whether he be riding or walking.
so long as he has the stone with
him-O!
Though the amethyst is to-
day's natal stone it is not particu-
larly lucky. If worn constantlye
it has the tendency to bring about
an overly suspicious state of
mind. It. is believed to cause »
cynicism and to give a woman a
sharp tongue.
Striped materials. in .. which
green do the predominating color .
shouldrbe chosen today if oneosz.
serves the ancient laws. . ,
The humble forget—meant is. -
today's lucky flower and is be-
lieved to bring happiness . and .
contentment when it opens j“ ,
heart to the sun on n -' "
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