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I i hi i'' ' f ' 1 i?i |[ V A I W ll THE DAILY I 1 SHORTSTORY | k ''A Story Without a Plot." Ir By LOUISE OLIVER. If kg ,(C*pyrlght, 1917,' by the McCIure wti'-^%L*r VAv?nftnAr Syndicate. 1 If T was half pait ten on a dreamy. " . I languorous, moonlight night In ' * midsummer, a night on which hearts instinctively seek a mate end linger longingly. Bertie Patton on the Ford's front porch, swinging slowly In the green a willow seat, shifted uneasily when he / heard the town clock strike the halt / hour. He knew that the lights In the ' parlor chandelier now filtering thru r> the finely webbed curtains and trac' lng a graceful pattern on Rose's round >' cheek would snap out In somewhat less than fivo minutes. Ten-thirty was Papa Ford's hour. Never had the honeysuckle smelled r so sweet, never had Rose looked so I. adorable, never had parting seemed so 1 Cruel. Bertie sighed. P 4L"Well, Rosle, I guess I'll have to go Times seems awfully short." fc "Does it?" I "I like that." r "What?" Rx. "I like you aaylng you don't know .whether the time's short or not" | ' "What time are you talking about?" u "Why, the time I've been here this f evening of course." "Oh? I'm glad you've enjoyed It." f "Well, haven't you?" "M?Yes. Its been very pleasant" Rose snapped off a twig of honeyh suckle and burled her nose In it "Pleasant! You talk as though you had been at a sewing aoclety." "Say, Bertie, If you're trying to pick a fight you may as well go. I hear papa anyway." Bertie was Instantly contrite. "Ex. euse me, I didn't mean It, Boss." There waa a step In the vestibule. St it waa Rose's mother this time o called. "Rose, your papa went out with the Rlnemans In their new car and hasn't .come home yet. My head isn't any : better, so I think I'll go to bed. I wonder If Bert would mind staying a little (longer. I sort of hate to close up tha house till papa comes. I don't think he'll be late." Oh. ecstacyI Ob, blessed words! Bertie longed to kiss the hem of her gown. He cleared his throat manfully. Tee, 111 stay, Mrs. Ford. Don't you worry." , And Hose supplemented, "You may as well turn out the lights, mama. They seem to hurt my eyes." "All right. If I should happen to go to sleep and your papa doesn't come don't sit up too late. You'd better get your sweater. It's blowing up cooler." "Yes, I will if I need It mama." "Well, good-night." "Good-night." The lights went off and there was quiet, escatlc peace. Now the moon traced filigree leaves on Rose's fair cheek through the vines. In her white dress she looked like some dainty, elu slve fairy, ethereal, a creature conjur. Art mfinnHcht and dream* Bert 1 wondered i? he could possibly be a awake. To test reality, he lighted a cigarette. "Nice, Isn't It? he remarked. "What?" "Just to be here." He had thought of casually, quite accidentally, laying a hand on hers as it lay beside him in the darkness, but he lost courage. "Say, Rose, do you want to go to the Stepamore Club picnic?" he supplemented instoad. 'Tja going." "Excuse me." "That's all right. Thanks for asking tne anyway." "I thought there was plenty of time ?two weeks." "I promised a week ago." "My, somebody was In a hurry:' 1 "Oh, I don't know. I've often been tasked to things three weeks ahead." "Well, here's hoping then. How about the boat excursion on the 10th. || =-: CONFESSION We are in Lob Angeles tonight, little book. Dick, very white and weak, lfe sleeping in the next room, I wanted to get a nurse for him, but be laughed at me and said be would be all right in the morning. In coming over the mountains Dick became very ill as we reached the high altitude lust before we got to Santa Barbara. His heart must be very weak indeed. Dr. Virot told me, however, he did not think there was any organic trouble?"over-tension and work have weakened the organ," I OB WU. When we reached the highest altitude yesterday Dick could hardly breathe and once he lost consciousness. I am quite sure It we had not started down the other side of the mountain range Immediately, It would have been very serious lor him . i When he could speak he said haltTttigly, "You?must?think I am a regular milksop, Margie, to go oft In a faint like a woman." "N'o, dear, I know you are weak and X don't consider it the act of a 'milksop' as you put It for anyone, man or woman, to faint. "I am all right now,' he &id after I had given him a heart stimulant and we had reached the lower level just outside Santa Barbara. Tonight at Los Angeles, however, he had to he carried to the ambulance In which he made his journey to the St. Francis hotel. Wo are now B nicely fixed, but If Dick is cot strong er in the morning I am going to get him a nurse. ^H For the first time, little book, since k Dick has been sick, I am facing the [ finery, "What if he should die?" Bom, how it seems to me no one can really contemplate death for one's ^B VgeK or. those who are nearest to them. HUB; am going to make a terrible con ^Tnssion, little book. There have been ^H: times when I felt I would be happier if Dick were dead?times when I | looked at him and said to myself, "I I cannot live with him?he hurts me so. My sonl sickens at the thought ^H hwdiis to be with him all ay long/ 3AGE F I Beauty Lessoi TO HAVE A BEA rake a Lesson from Justine Johnai mmm. Third of a series of articles analyzing famous beauties of America. (BY IDA focGLONE GIBSON.) (West Virginian Beauty Expert and Author of "Confessions of a Wife.') 'T know of nowhere that the aesthetic laws of gradation and gentle curvature are more beautifully illustrated thar in the column that supports Justine Johnstone's head upon her exquisite shoulder's" said the man who sat across from me at a cabaret table, And as usual he was right. Justine Johnstone has that exquisite line from ear to shoulder that made Mrs. Langtry's fame as a professional beauty. Many women spend hours beautiT hat's threa weeks. Think you'd bo allowed ?" "I've been asked to that too." "Thunder" Bertie's tone threaten ed storm. "M-hum." . "I hadn't and idea there were so many worshippers at your shrine." "Thai's not polite. Besides thera aren't so many dozen that you can't ; count. I'm going with the same person to both, it that's what you're dying to find out." 1 "That?that Dixon. I'll bet a jitney!" ' ' Don't call him that Dixon.' He's S OF A WIFE ; " i life through." But, do you know, lit j tie book .although I thought I was , contemplating Dick as dead I was do- . ing nothing of the kind? I was only . wanting to have him dead to me. j I know this, little book. I cannot , think of Dick's really dying without the utmost horror and grief, and 1 j aiso huow uadit is me most oinaing j thing in all life. I have the habit of , Dick?a habit of years' duration. Al- j most unconsciously my mind goes to ( him under all circumstances. He is t mine in a nay that no other human f being is mine or has been mine. Here is the reality of the marriage ? bo?d?you may love others more, t you may respect and admire others s more, but it comes to this at last? t" your husband or your wife is really r a part of you, in spite of the paradox s I'll a step ' TAPTHER M THIS OCE/W Duuess TOM sers otJ I Tue CfTHB? EHO OF Trtis ROP?t? r * 4JAMD n 1 ,; 1}: W&l'" . /?.'? ' . ORW J ns From Lite UTIFUL NECK tone, 8aya Idah McQlone Gibson. BP v * **&* * ***& -53^. , * |/J^\ A \ O Bit A Pf?^" > ' - ' ^ I o'n ''^ tying their faces but stop there. I have always contended if one massaged the head and neck carefully little time need be spent on the face. No girl can afford to get fat if she, wishes to have a beautiful neck, for nothing is so fatal as rolls of fat to I columnar beauty. i An excellent cream to use on one s throat is made of sweet almond oil. 1-8 pound; white wax, 1-? ounce; spermaceti, 1-2 ounce! oil of bitter almonds. MO dram; oil of geranium. 1-S dram; tincture of benzoin, 10 drops. Melt all together and beat with an egg beater until cold. If you wish a beautiful neck, do not wear a very low necked bathing costume. Sunburned skin never regains no delicate texture. been awfully nice to me." "Why, lie's old?too old fey you, Rose." ' He isn't?he just looks distinguished, and you're?you're jealous." "Distinguished- Good night! Just because lie's mustached like a Magyar and wears glasses and lives in New York." "Eert Patton, you're horrid! I think I'd better go in and look after mamma anyway. Good night." He cauhgt her hand In both of hi3. Rose, Rosie dear,, don't go. Sit down, won't you?" He pulled her gently toward hlni. She yielded finally and that you still may be as far apart as the poles. Poor old Dick sleeping in the other room! I expect there have been times when he too wanted me out of his life quite as badly as I wanted tiin out of mine. Jim Edie once said ,vhen he and I and Kitty Malram were talking about marriage. "There are" a lot of women who are capable of loving a man devotedly but are not capable of making a man happy." I wonder if that is so. Most women think they are the only lovers n the world, but are they? Do they aot want to be loved Instead of loving? 1 think, little book, I am one >f those women and.I am beginning :o think 1 have been somewhat exifeant. With Dick lying In there bo white ind still that I have just had to put oon t A hie K AA rt A Irnnn< 4# H vkava Li J OUI tw Uia 1IC1M L IU IWUW it it YTCIC still beating, 1 have almost come to he conclusion the greatest mistake nost women make is In trying to exict love instead of giving It. DOINGS OFT: it vim. MAWE 11 nr^rri HER FEELSAFEfc, \ HOT sc . -tom r fast tc - .L,.' ~ " OMEN Simple Way to Pr I Wash your bottles. Set In jar ot water to heat and keej Dip corks to bottles In hot paraffii hours. Prase juice from fruits. In elder, frt Heat almost to boiling In add-resls ; ware, crockery, aluminum.) It you wish to clear juice, let M sta pour off, leaving sediment pour juice Into hot bottles. Dip corks In boiling waterufor oae Place'in position in bottles. Hold'in position by wrapping a em anil tying with string. L'ay^hottles on sides to cooL Store in cool, dry place. DONJT MISS,! 1 Cot this out NOW and save it'W; sat down. He slipped an arm boldly i 'around,'her. 1 "Rosle, dear, I love you!" asttn... DflMnnl" j " iVruj t w * ?"?? * "Yes,.! do. Rose. I adore you. Clear 3 eraxy about you. You don't care'about < that New1 York fellow, do you?" I "1 don't know. Papa seems to like i him. That's what he's here for. Papa wanted somebody reliable for a good i place ho has open and Mr. Dixon came ] to see about It." I "Lucky dog!" lighed Bertie. The | question of income had been the one ; that loomed big Id his dreams of hap- , iness. "But you, Rose? Can't you say you I?lo.ve me? I love you!" "I don't know. You see papa?" Suddenly a horn sounded and a car stopped at tho curb. "There's papa now!" Rose sprang 1 up. Mr Ford came up the path slowly . limping, and the car slid away. "Oh, that you, Rosie? Waited up, did you? That's a nice girl. And Bert Patton? Well I declare! Mamma in bed? Don't tell her. We had an accident. No, not much hurt?just my foot, but we might have been killed, all of us. It was that young ais, Dixon, out Joyriding, ran into us, the fool! Catch me giving a good Job to a scatterbraln like that. Don't have him around again, Rose. I dont like him. i Come on in now, girlie. It's late. Say I good-night to Bert!" Then as If it suddenly occured to him. "Oh, say, Bert, I wonder?I need somebody for that place right away and I was Just wondering whom I'd get. I never thought of you?you're young, but you've got a level hoal. I believe. Suppose you come around and see me to-morrow, will you?" Bert's head reeled, but as Mr. Ford said, It was level. He knew a chance when he saw one. That's fine. Mr. Ford. Sure I'll be around thank you. I was going anyway. Rosle kind of promised she'd marry me sometime, didn't you. Rose?'. "Yes!" whispered Rose clipping a trusting hand into his. "I wonder," said Bertie that night as he stepped blithely homeward thru the darkness, "if I Just couldn't lasso the particular star I sat under tonight and wear It on my lapel. Such iucs!" Sometime* there ii a story wli.iout a plotA Lesson on Nutrition in British Stew By BIDDY BYE. Army rations have a scientific value wnicn Btioiua not ds negiectea oy me woman who cooks for a family. There's an important lesson in nutrition in the famous British beef stew. 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