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The Elopement of Enid
Alice Dorset, slim, fair and within
three years of forty, turned suddenly
upon hearing the click of the front
gate; then her face paled.
' A messenger boy with a yellow
envelope in his hand was coming up
the path.
■ Something has happened to Enid
—something has happened to Enid,”
kept running through her brain, as
she tore open the telegram with
trembling fingers
Then she read:
"Come at once. Am in very com
promising position, Manor Inn. Elm
ton. ENID.”
With haste she could catch a trainl
out which would get her into the |
station about 10 o'clock that
night. The drive from there to the
Inn would mean another half hour J
at the outside. Mrs. Dorset was
thankful that Enid had chosen a
familiar place to her for an escapade.
Enid Dorset had been in boarding
school for six months, and each
hour of the past six months Mrs.
Dorset had been in constant dread of
her daughter’s proclivities for get
ting herself into trouble.
"Thank goodness she’s safe and
sound, whatever else has happened."
was the thought uppermost in Mrs.
Dorset’s mind as she pinned on a
dainty toque of mouse colored beaver.
When the train drew into the sta
tion at Elmton one other passenger
alighted. He was a clean-cut. hand
some boy. with perhaps twenty-one
years to his credit.
In the dim light of the station
platform Mrs. Dorset observed that
the boy was met by a gentleman who
descended from a large, double-seat
ed sleigh, and she overheard their
greeting.
"Ned. my boy—a—this is rather an
awkward affair, but it’s jolly of
you to come and help me out.” The
older man was plainly embarrassed.
"I’m right at your service any time,
dad.” the boy laughed joyously. "Do
we go straight to the inn?”
"Yes. I wonder if any one else
is going in our direction?”
In the true spirit of the country, i
John Alien looked about the station:
and spied Mrs. Dorset. H» approach
ed her and raised his hat.-
"Madam, can I be of ariy service
to you?”
"I heard you mention the inn,”
answered Mrs. Dorset, with her a>
pealing eyes meeting his. "and was
about to get a conveyance—”
"Which would be foolish when we
are going straight there. If * you
will accept a seat in my sleigh—”
“Thank you. I will."
When they drew rein at the inn
door Ned Allen was ahead of his |
father in helping their fair passen-1
ger from her nest. There was a
gleam of fun in his eyes when he i
heard his father's impatient order to
the hostler. It had not taken John'
Allen long to feel the magnetic at-,
traction of the silent little traveler.
They entered the spacious hall
with its blazing fire and slmultane-1
ously Alice Dorset and John Allen
turned to look at one another. In|
his eyes a deep admiration sprung,
in her a half timid appreciation of
his attraction.
Then a cry from the far end of the
hall startled them.
"Mother, mother!”
Mrs. Dorset rushed to the side of
the girl, who was sitting propped in
a huge armchair.
“Enid, darling! What does this
mean? What are those horrible
bandages doing?” Alice Dorset held]
the girl in her arms.
"John Allen and I were eloping j
when—when the sleigh overturned j
and my ahkle got twisted. We came
here, and tnat old doctor made me
stay.” Enid turned wistful eyes
upon her mother and then looked up
to see a handsome boy who strongly
resembled John Allen staring at
her with open admiration. She cast,
a demure glance at him before con
tinuing her narrative.
"It isn’t because I don't love you.
mother mine, that I wanted to elope
—it just seemed more fun and excit
ing—l met him about three months
ago, and”—
The boy and his father were ap
proaching.
"So our passenger was Mrs. Dor
set?” John Allen took the hand of
Enid's mother, and dropped it quick
ly. All emotion had gone from his
voice, and in his eyes an expression
of intense pain lingered. "Ned,” he
turned to the younger people, "this
is Enid Dorset. How is the ankle,
little girl?” There was a new ten
derness in John Allen's voice.
"It is perfectly fine now,” laughed
Enid, with a friendly glance at Ned
Allen, who had lost no time in ap
propriating a seat close beside her.
“It won’t be lonesome here, now that
I have some one to talk to.”
"Enid, dead. If you are being
amused so nicely I am going to run
off with Mr. Allen for a few minutes.
You see. dear—he must ask my con
sent before he steals my little rose.”
There was something deep in Mrs.
Dorset’s voice that made Enid look
quickly up at her mother and a
hidden spring opened in the girl s
heart.
• "Mother, dear—l—don't want to
marry—anyone. I have never really
loved—but you. Will you tell him
that, please?" Enid buried her head
, in her mother's neck for a second,
then let her go.
John Allen glanced questionlngiv at
his companion when she led him
into the seclusion of the small ante
room. When she was seated he drop
ped down beside her and remained
silent.
“Enid has never known a father's
love,” murmured Mrs. Dorset; "we
lost him when Enid was a wee
child.”
“Perhaps had she mentioned that
I would have analyzed my feeling'
for her before it was too late The
despair in the man’s face prompted
Alice Dorset.
"Enid was telling me," she said ir
answer to his questioning eyes, tha
she thought she loved you this after
noon when she started to elope"—
"And now?" John Allen's face 11
up with an eagerness that made th.
blbod tingle in Mrs. Dorset's veins
and she looked quickly down at th
toe of her mouse colored shoe.
"And now—she loves only me."
"I have always noticed that Eni
and I"—
"Jt's rather queer, isn't it?”
"What?”
"That you and Enid should bot
make a mistake."
“I started to tell you that Eni
and I are very much alike when
comes to loving.”
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Copyright, 1911, by the New York Evening Journal Publielung Company.
When girl troubles and the big REALLY troubles rnn you down (hold your little ear close, little girls who are hunting for ease, for the hurt in your poor little heart), don't be 'shamed,
and don't think your legs are too long: hunt out that wonderful, half-forgotten comfort of your mother's knee. Oh, how it helps! You're never too
big; your mother always has room on her knees and In her kind heart.
Cynthia Grey's After-Supper Talks
Isn't it true that most of us put.
in a lot of time wishing for the
things we can't have? And that too]
many of us spend money for things
we can't afford? If we love pretty
clothes and all the dainty accessories,
and most of us do, it's so easy to
squander the pennies that we need
for real necessaries. I know, for I’m
on the list of working women.
And how are we going to train
ourselves to do otherwise? Well, it
is hard, isn't it? But we can do it.
Each of us has, of course, a stated
salary, anywhere from $5 up to—say
125. We who work for the smaller
sums must know’ where the pennies
go—it's imperative.
In the first place, an account book
is a necessity. It is so easy to fall
into the habit of spending either
wisely or foolishly, and the little ac
count book helps up on the side of
economy. If we mark down each
dime as it goes we soon find that
we become more careful.
We must eliminate from our hearts
all envy of our idle sisters and t
pretty clothes. Although our own
apparel may not be costly. It may be;
of good material, well thpugh simply'
| the WOMAN |:
| BEAUTIFUL
Lucile —Your druggist must have
prepared the tonic improperly or elsoj
you must have an extraordinarily sen
sitive skin. I. and members of my
family, have used this ointment on
I various occasions and have lever
found it in any way irritating to the
scalp. We do not apply it to the face,
as It is merely a hair grower. Po
mades are always greasy.
Mrs. W. B.—The formula printeo
below is excellent for bleaching the I
l skin. I am sure you will like it.
! n A' mon d meal complexion bleach:
, Ruy a 50-cent jar of theatrical cream
: and a pound of almond meal. Beat
together one teaspoonful of the cream
and some almond meal and add
j enough hot water to form a thin
spreading paste. Cut into squares of
thin cheesecloth big enough to covet
the face and tear a hole In the cen-j
h ter of each square for your nose, so I
d a little while now?” asked Enid's
It mother. "And, incidentally, wait till
you're off with the old love before
r you're on with the new."
made, and neat always, without great |
expenditure. We of small salaries
must watch loose buttons, worn but
tonholes, spots, dust and wrinkles
carefully and regard them as our bit
ter enemies, which we can conquer
only by the labor of our own willing
hands. There's a whole lot in look
ing well, you know;
We can be just as well groomed on
$5 a week as if we were getting ten
times as much. Our hair can be
clean and well brushed and combed,
our bodies can exhale that indefin
able odor of cleanliness without which
the most expensively gowned girl is
a failure, our hands and nails can
show careful attention, and our faces
can prove that Instead of confronting
the world with a grouch we are brave
enough to face our failures cheer
fully in the hope of better things to
come.
Thus the path of the small-paid
working girl will be made easier.
She will win friends, will become sat
isfied that the world isn’t such a
bad old place after all. In time
she'll be earning twice as much mon
ey as the careless, discontented girl
who started in on the same pay at
the same time.
you won’t smother. Now dampen the
squares and spread the paste be
tween. Bathe the face in very hot,
soapy water, massage for a minute
and then applja the pack, patting it |
down so it touches the face all over. •
Now lay over all two medium-sized !
Turkish towels and as soon as they |
cool replace with others. Keep this'
up for fifteen minutes, then remove |
the pack, wash face in warm water, j
then cool, then very cold. Two of
these applications a week for three
weeks, then one a week for six weeks
will bleach the skin beautifully and
make It soft and like satin.
Jay H.—Before having your ears
operated on. why not try binding
them close to the head when you re-'
। tire at night? In a few weeks this
I simple treatment will oring gratify
ing results. As you are so thin you
I should take two tablespoonfuls of ol
ive oil after each meal, also drink a
cup of cocoa four times a day. I
hardly see how you can grow shorter.
Don't you think you Imagine that?
Since you long to be tall you might
practice stretching exercises for fif
teen minutes night and morning.
Hold every muscle tense, then stretch
your head, then the spine, after which
raise on your tiptoes. In reply to
your last question. I presume the tonic
you refer to does some good.
May Blossom—l "really honestly”
think the milk diet will cause you to
> gain flesh. Order four quarts of milk
ana take a glassful every hour from
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
This “Helmet” Severe Beauty Test
Worn by just the right Person, on a head w ‘h a!1
bination of curves and colors, this helmet hat is sal be nnarrow
others beware! It is made of closely woven white straw pipea
"ords of black velvet, and decorated w Ith a smashing big bow ot tne mme.
the time you get up in the morning
until the milk is consumed. Take
one meal a day. The milk diet will
plumpen your neck and shoulders and
bust in no time On a diet of fout
quarts of milk daily you should gain
from two to four pounds a week. I
heartily approve ot your .ordering
your skin food of the firm mentioned
by you. .
Helen S.—The following method of
reducing flesh is as simple as it is
effective:
Dissolve one pound of epsom salts
In one quart of rainwater. Shave fine
three bars of white soap and dissolve
In the epsom salts solution. Now add
two more quarts of water and it is
ready for use. At night rub the prep
aration on such parts ot the oody as
you wish to reduce and let it dry in.
When morning comes, wish It off.
Continue the use of this fat reducer
until the desired results are obtained.
In addition take the juice of half a
Lmin in a cup of hot water three
qjartert of an hour before breakfast.
The average reduction in weight is
two pounds every week.
While all gowns for morning ond
afternoon wear are still straight, short
and narrow plaited flounces, and even
those that are gathered are appearing
at the bottom of them, and especially
Is this fashion being adopted in lin
gerie gowns now being designed for
spring.
Touring cars. Cut rate. New phone
44*
Cynthia Grey’s
C o rrespondents
Dear Miss Grey: lam in love with
a girl whom I met last summer and
she loves me. We have talked of mar
riage, but I am attending high
school and hope to go through college
and marriage would not be advisable
just now. Am afraid if I wait some
thing will happen to part us. Please
tell me what is best to do. —B. I. M.
A.: Go ahead and finish your edu
cation, and if you two children love
each other in the right way, you'll be
married one of days. When that
time comes, although It seems a long
time to wait, you’ll be glad you wait
ed.
I
Dear Miss Grey: (1) What does
non-de-plume mean? (21 What will
remove mildew from India linen? (31
What will reduce large tonsils? (4)
| What day of the week was February
. 27, 1869? Also February 26, 1884? —
Mrs. E. B» B.
A.: An assumed title. (2) Mix
powdered starch with the same quan
tity of soft soap, half as much table
salt and the juice of a lemon. Spread
on both sides of mildewed spots and
lay In sun. Repeat several times. If
this does not remove It nothing will.
(3) Gargle with hot salt water three
times a day. At night put two or
three hot fomentations around the
neck, then rub in a little liniment an I
bandage throat with-a warm flanne-
When the bandage Is removed In the
morning, bathe neck in hot. then cold
I water. If tonsils remain enlarged,
Consult a physician. (4) Saturday.
Tuesday. •
WHEN BUYING MEAT.
Strange as it may seem, not a gieat
many of the younger housewives are
positive, when, they buy meat, that
they are getting what they pay for.
In selecting beef, see that the grain
1s smooth and open. If the fiber parts
or breaks readily on being pressed by
the finger, It will be found to be
tender.
In color it should be a deep rose,
and the fat a rich cream color; If
the fat is white it is an Indication
that the beef is young and lacking
in flavor, and if a deep yellow, the
meat Is likely to be .tough and of in
ferior quality.
The choicest cuts for roasting are
the sixth, seventh and eighth ribs,
the sirloin and porterhouse cuts. In
selecting steak, avoid the first three
or four cuts, as they are likely to be
broken and stringy.
Sirloin and short cut porterhouse
steaks are the best, although the pin
bone roast Is considered best by
many. Round steak is almost in
variably tough. Beef tenderloin cut
The Girl Who Loves
(By Dorothy Dix.)
Two young men have written me a
letter in which they ask me to settle
a dispute that has arisen between
them.
The point at issue is whether a girl
who kisses a young man, to whom
she is not engaged to be married, dis
plays thereby an affectionate disposi
tion or not. A contends that she does,
and asserts that he would not marry
any worrtan who did not like to kiss,
while B takes the opposite position
on the subject.
As far as my opinion is concerned.
I should say that any girl who kisses
a man to whom she is not betrothed
—and the wedding day set—shows
that she has an exceedingly affection
ate temperament. Entirely too affec
tionate. Dangerously affectionate It
likewise showis that she is utterly
lacking in maidenly modesty and deli
cacy. And it indicates that she is a
great many kinds of a fool.
If I were a man, I would no more
pick out for a wife the girl that
would let any man with whom she had
a casual acquaintance kiss her than
I would go to a florist shop and buy
the battered, bruised, over blown roses
that had had their freshness rubbed
off by too much Handling. The girl
and the rose with the bloom on them
for mine, every time.
Only Contempt for Such a Girl.
This is also the opinion of most men.
It bakes a man of very undiscrlminat
ing taste to really care for a girl
whose lips are free to every Tom, Dick
and Harry who comes along. Of
course, as long as a woman is young
and good looking and has a nice red
mouth pouted to a Cupid’s bow, every
man will kiss her who can; but such
kisses only make him have a contempt
for the girl, and ready to believe any
evil he may hear of her.
That kind of a girl is not the sort of
a woman that a fastidious man wants
to marry. His w’ife must have kept
her lips as austerely pure as those of
a saint; for every man. In love, is a
monopolist, and his eternal creed is
that his lady love shall be fire th him,
and ice to every other man.
It is a pity that girls do not under
stand this, and how they cheapen
themselves by permitting familiarities
from men. It is a thousand pities
that they do not understand that the
higher they hold themselves the more
precious they become, and the more
they refuse men tokens of affection
the more eager are they for them. A
man will risk his life tor the kiss he
has to steal, whereas he won’t turn
his head to meet the lips that are of
fered to him.
There are girls so foolish as to
think they make themselves popular
with men by letting men kiss them.
Perhaps they do in a common, bar
gain counter sort of a way; but it 1s
a popularity that is dearly bought, and
comes to nothing of advantage to the
girl. Every man who kisses her kisses
away something of her innocence,
something of her purity, something of
the aroma of girlhod. something that
makes her less desirable in every other
man’s eyes.
Like the Touch of Pollution.
That it vulgarizes a girl to permit
men to kiss her goes without saying.
It coarsens her very soul, for it lowers
her every ideal of maidenly reserve
and refinement.
Certainly no modesfy In a girl sur
vives the indiscriminate and promis
cuous kiss. It is burnt up like a bit
of white paper in a conflagration.
Scientists are always telling us of
the physical danger that wo run from
the kiss microbe, but moralists may
well strike a deeper note of warning
for the kiss Is the death of purity and
the opening of the gates to perdition
to millions upon millions of young
girls. Fathers are too careless to tell
them of it, mothers are too nice to ex
plain to them the why of it. and so
they are left to find out by their own
bitter and tragical experience that
there is no innocent kiss between men
and women, outside of the peck on
the cheek bestowed oy one’s own fam
ily.
Every kiss is the electric current
' that sets off the mine of explosives of
' which poor, weak, humanity la com-
J posed, and is not a thing to be lightly
I trifled with by careless hands. There
j is not one of the sad sisterhood of the
I street, not a girl hiding a guilty secret
| in her breast, not a woman whose hus
■lgnd has divorced her whose sin did
not begin in a kiss.
Hold Yonr Lips Inviolate.
Therefore I would urge every girl, If
she values her happiness and the.
whiteness of her soul, to hold her lips
inviolate and to keen her first kiss
as a precious jewel to give as a wed
ding present to her husband.
As to the man who thinks the fact
' that a girl kisses every man that
| comes along is a sign of her having
lan affectionate disposition, I should
I say Beware( I should be afraid that
! she had acquired the kissing habit
1 land would not be able to break herself
, of it even after marriage.
DECORATIONS FOR
BRASS BEDS.
Brass beds leek charming and at
tractive and often brighten an other
wise. dark bed room. bu. many people
complain that they are far colder than
an ordinary wooden bed that has a
high head and footboard to protect
them from drafts. To overcome this
objection a clever woman devised a
scheme which not only corrected this
defect, but also added a decorative
note to the room.
The hangings and window seat
were made of gray chintz, having gar
lands of pink roses scattered over the
purface. She bought more of this
material and made covers that slipped
easily over the brass rods at the head
and foot of the bed. were fin
ished at the bottom with daintv frills
of the material. A frIK was also fas
tened around the mattress, which
showed beneath the bedspread.
The covers were found not only to
add much to the physical comfort, but
were also useful 1n protecting the
brass from the usual dents and
scratches that are apt to come with
the daily wear and tear of a much
used room.
They were made to be removed
easily It required for special occas
ions.
across the* grain also makes a most
delicious steak. <
Although many people fry beef
steak. It really should he broiled in
order that the finest flavor be given.
A peculiar green-nlue and the deep
est navy blue will be very popular tUU
spring