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Show ?T- j ffa-i- ' ?' THE PAYSONUN, PAYSONVUTAH VELVET FOB BCILS i Material Makes Handsome Dress for Little Misses. WMMMIIMIHMHMMII i .Through the Looking Glass S of BATTLE i ? By EVELYN NESBIT Simplicity I a Good Rule to Follow in , Have you ever seen a chicken fly? Development ef Garment for Or a waddling duck look longingly InChildren. to the sky and try BIS' velvet or a good quality of her wings? Velveteen makes a very handsome dress Try as they for a little girl of six to twelve years. may, they cannot Simplicity Is a good rule to follow In reach the clouds. the development of all garments for They cannot do children. It Is especially Important what every saucy when a rich, heavy material such as sparrow and evvelvet, velveteen or velours is chosen. ery black crow The design shown in the sketch is an can do. All of which excellent one. It Is so simple that the average home dressmaker can make goes to prove her own pattern. The dress Is a modi- - that If you are a chicken dont' try fled Russian blouse, waist and skirt g gathered in simply at buck and to be a sparrow. sides, while the front shows a wide box And if you are a plait or panel. The dress buttons at the duck, dont try to A left front, and a narrow belt of kid or be a crow. patent leather gives a smart touch to chicken cannot the frock. This helt may be in black, even be a duck. The chicken has white, or color, according to choice; Neck and sleeves are finished with this fact brought a frill of fine white organdie or georg- - every time it tries to swim. It is good to have ambitions, but nature has imposed certain limitations on every human being. You cannot have Mary Jones nose, no matter how much you despise your own button of a nose. You console yourself with the fact that Mary Jones could not have your beautiful curls and your sweet disposition if she angled after them for a century. It is waste of time for a woman- to long to be a sparrow if she is a duck. Let her make the most of her ducklike qualities, and she will beat the sparrow anyway. . Be as ambitious as you can be. Ambition is the axle grease that makes the world go round. But .misdirected ambition is like pride it goeth before a fall. It fills the world with grumpy, discontented fools, who do not realize how well off they are. be-in- , , 1 i LINEN TEA CLOTHS CHARMING Table Spread Combined With Filet Crochet on Quaint Mahogany Fun- niture la Greatly Admired. A linen tea cloth combined with filet crochet on a quaint old mahogany table was recently the subject of comment and praise at an afternoon tea and the hostess said: My store of linen was small just a roll or two but It was homespun by my two grandmothers. Both these dear ladles loved to tell tales of their early. days. One had spun her linen in New England and the other in Old England, and I determined to enhance my heirlooms with my own handiwork.' This tea table cover has only a square of linen in its center, but the filet lace Is broad enough to make it seem of considerable size. The lace motif is the crown and scepter In honor of my British ancestry. Another cover I value is made from the ends of an old homespun sheet I it on the under side with fine stitching before I made it into a dinner cloth. It has some insets of filet and wherever it had to be cut or punched I strengthened the linen by running a little embroidery stitch around it This made-ovlinen has been in odd moments and is a treasure to me, and I know my daughters will appreciate it and add to it as I have 12-in- : Black Velvet Frock for Small Girl, ette. The cap U of velvet, trimmed in ermine, and the young lady may carry a muff and wear a scarf of this fur, this completing an extremely smart street outfit ART OF CONSTRUCTING A HAT Secret Lies In Pinning All Materiale - Securely Before Sewing Them The Blind Stitch. The secret of making a successful hat lies in pinning all materials securely before sewing them. Where the done. tins facing Is used as a finishing to the edges of the brim, the covering of the er . A Romtnce of the American Army France Fitfhtintf on the Battlefields (Copyright, by W. G. Chapman.) CHAPTER XVII Continued. 12 "Be silent, sir l Gentlemen, he continued, addresdug Mark and the Colonel. you are Interested In knowing what happened to this man Hampton. He could not rid himself of the belief that Justice, though slow, is pretty sure. He had faith in God. Unfortunately he had less faith in himself. Am I wronging you, Hampton? he continued, addressing Hartley. "No, sir, muttered the man on the stretcher, feebly. He wishes me to tell the whole story. He went to Cuba and flung in his lot with the rebels. He became disgusted with their means and methods, obtained a pardon from General Weyler, and took up his residence In Santiago. The outbreak of the war surprised him there. ' He knew that Santiago would fall, and he had been warned that he would receive short shrift at the hands of our people. He longed for death, but he had two things that kept alive the desire for life. One was his child, the other the desire for vindication, which had become a monomania. He tried to escape into the jungle. He saw that it was hopeless. He was hiding In a little but when f, he heard footsteps. An American who had strayed from his company, was coming into the clearing. At that moment a stray bullet caught him in the head, killing him instantly. Hampton saw his chance. He took off the dead mans clothing and put it on ; he dressed the body in his own. He knew that by this means he could pass through the lines in the guise of a wounded man, until he had a chance to get rid of his uniform in the cabin of some Cuban, who would be only too well pleased to give him some rags in exchange for it And, leaving his money and papers on the dead man, he knew that he left his Identity behind, for the bullet had destroyed the features. There os the child but Hampton knew that he could take her no farther. With the Americans site would receive food which he had not and shelter and protection. Afterward he would regain her. He lurked in the bushes until he saw Captain Wallace appear, watched him, trusted him, and went away. He learned of the childs adoption, and for years he haunted her home, her school,. 11 places that were her residence, ever craving her, ever restrained by the realization that, till his name was cleared, he bad no right to her. His idea of vindication had become, as I said, a monomania. "Now, gentlemen, I have little time to spare, but I must carry this story to the end. I said that he bad less faith In himself than he had in God. Once, for three years, Hampton lost his child. She had gone to San Francisco. In his despair he went to Wash- sol-die- . top and the facing should be sewed' BEAUTIFUL AFTERNOON FROCK be- fore the blind stitching is begun. One should be no more sparing with the quantity of pins used in millinery than those needed in dressmaking. The amateur milliner has often discovered to her sorrow thut, although . her hat was smartly designed and the colors well pnt together, the finished product showed unmistakable evidence of home manufacture, because here and there the stitches were plainly visible. For those women who have ' pot learned to use the blind stitch, a simple explanation, may be valuable: The needle should be slipped into a fold of the material and worked through it, so as to catch the folds together without piercing the top of the The needle is drawn out material. from behind the fold and again inserted from the back and the needle run along as before. FOR AN EFFECTIVE Embellishment Easily Produced, Af- -, ' fording Charming Decoration for Collars, Cuffs or 8klrL 5 V" ' , try. She met her confederate In an Inn at a village not far distant frantic at her appearance, he induced her to let him drive her back through the den. When the auto comes to take you back to the hospital I shall feel that my new life has lost the best part of its promise, said Mark. It was A long and extraordinarily imaginative speech for 1dm, nud he stood shamefaced after he had said it, like a boy who has delivered a grown mans aphorism. Captain Mark, said Eleanor, you knew who I was, and you could not you could not have believed my father innocent, and yet you had faith iu me. You must have suffered when I used to talk about my dreams of him, and you liid your suffering and your knowledge because of me. That was nothing, Eleanor. Captain Mark, she whispered, bendI I kissed you toing toward him. Hnes, and on the way renewed his lying promises. This time she doubted him. Two men had overheard their conversation. One was Captain Wallace, whom the pair had broken as they broke poor Hampton. Him the traitor day. That was nothing, Eleanor. bad seen, and he devised a scheme to Captain Mark! What do you mean? send him to the trenches and contrive to have him sent on a false and fatal How dare you ! errand. With that point I shall not . Mark looked utterly disconcerted. I now deal. The other man was Hamp- mean I mean, Eleanor, Pm Just your ton, who had enlisted under an alias, old guardian a sort of old friend, you in the belief that he would obtain a know, and you were glad I had come clue that would unmask the traitor. He back safe. contrived to go back through the lines, 0, Captain Mark! said Elennor, found the woman, and somehow per- shaking with helpless laughter which haps by Gods wonderful mercy ob disconcerted him still more; and yet toined her signed confession which I lie thought her lashes were wet with tears. Captain Mark, are you really have here, in full ! He wheeled upon Kellerman. Ma- going to make me say it? Say what, my dear? in a deep voice jor Kellerman, That it ought to have been you. that vibrated almost with pity, 60 But you mustnt let that worry you, charged with significance that its Eleanor. HowIts often done in such cases not could either escape meaning I just thought you were too old to ard or Mark, you are under arrest. You will go toward your quarters, first kiss. You know, I wanted to 0 thank you, thank yon, said Elearemoving your belt and arms. Kellerman saluted weakly and stum- nor wearily. Captain Mark, you dear, bled out of the cave. The General absurd guardian of mine, I see you looked at Mark. nrent going to spare me. So listen, The soldier Weston receives a free love you, and have loved you only, and and. full, pardon for his valor in the nobody but you, all through my life, field this day, he said. He is also from the time I got your first letters to discharged honorably from the service the time you came to see me at the Misses Harpers school, and from then of the United States government.' Mark looked at the general in as- to now. tonishment; this was the last thing .. Mark looked at her in incredulous that he desired. Joy ; he was no' longer capable of feelThe General approached and clapped ing astonishment, hut it all seemed like hiraon .the shoulder. Captain Wal- a happy dream, unreliable but, while it lace," he said, your written resigna- lasted, dear beyond all imagining. tion from the United States army canThe Colonel knew it. And others. not be accepted, owing to the state of Everybody did but you. And do you war. After the war it will receive con- know why I have told you what Ive sideration. In the meantime you will often pinched myself to keep from tellresume your duties on the hendquar-tersystaff- ing you? Because you loved me without exactly knowing it . But I did know it, my dear. Tears rushed to Marks eyes. He Without exactly knowing it, and tried to speak, he was conscious that the General and Howard were shaking when you admitted a little bit of it to him by the hand; and then a quick yourself you were prompted to commit glance from Eleanor drew him to where those foolish acts, to be so rjide to me and hurt me so much. But a woman is she kneeled by Hartley. A. single look showed, him that the never deceived. She always knows, knew. man was dying. My dear, said Mark solemnly, Mark kneeled on one side of him, you with Eleanor facing him over the hnve been everything In the world to stretcher. The bearers, who had fallen me since that very first day outside back, stood still as Images behind. And Santiago. Of course I hnve. As you hnve been behind them Mark had the dim consciousness in the background of his to me. And that is why I told you, so mind' of Kellerman, broken as he had that we two should not be unhuppy ail broken so many, and fumbling, always our lives. You see, dear Captain Mark, fumbling, now with his tunic, now it isnt as If you didnt care for me. If with the belt that he was trying to I had cared and you hadn't, I should have hidden my feelings and never, let detach with shaking fingers. Hartley! whispered Mark, hold- you drenm of them, and you never ing the dying mans hand in Ills. TUnt would have. So its really you who was you today I missed you, but I hnve told me ail this, and I've Just been interpreting your thoughts, bebelieved In you. You saved me. There was a fluttering pressure of cause all I did just now was to tell Marks hand in turn. .Hampton was you what you wpnted to tell me withspeaking; he was asking foy the Colo- out knowing that you wanted to tell me what you. did want all the time. nel. . , I am here, Hampton," said Colonel Isnt that so. Captain Mark? Yes, answered Mark, feeling comHoward in a choked voice, ' as he leaned over him. pletely at sea, but incapable of contraYou believe in me now, sir? mut- dicting anything that Eleanor chose to tered the dying man, rolling his head say. Isnt that so, Mark, dear? uneasily in the effort to see. Of course it is, said Mark. May God forgive me, Hampton 1 So you have actually told me that she me. wife Tell your Hty forgive her that, and tell her her words came you care for me, and you want me to true. I betrayed my best friend, and give you my answer. Is that what you he-sai- - TRIMMING 1 An effective mode of trimming frocks of organdie or other sheer cotton or: linen fabrics is by means of what, .Ip known as double work, and this Is something that can be accomplished at home as well as by the proThe effect is fessional, dressmaker. produced by turning back the material or, applying it, over the body of the This is a dainty afternoon frock of frbek in a simple design ' and then chiffoa with Chenille striped satin gray of of a line jcitning.lt by hemstitching of same shade used as handing. fghey stitchery and cutting it close along this line, thus producing the deFurniture Cleaner. sign in the double thickness of the To save time and labor while doing mljiterlaL It is an effective way to finish co- housecleaning try putting some olive llars and cuffs, and a charming skirt oil in a pan of lukewarm water which trimming can be produced by turning has been made slightly soapy with a up the hem In a Wall of Troy or other pure soap. Use this to wash furniture, design and stitching It back along that then polish with a dry soft doth. line. One need not, of course, work Woodwork, leather and all will look this hemstitching by hand, but it can like new, for the olive oil feeds, while be done .so much a yard at the shop the soapy water deans, and there are where yon have plaiting lone and but- no injurious chemicals to eat the ton melds covered. . She forgives you, Howard, said Yes, my dear, of course It is, anHampton, speaking now with such sol- swered Mark. Eleanor looked down thoughtfully. emnity that his words seemed to his listeners to be inspired. Theres only Well, I'm not sure, she said, in a one thing I want, Howard, old meditative manner. You know, you man. have been terribly, abominably rude to . me so often. Yes, my dear boy yes, Hampton. Put my name back on the mess Mark had- a great horror of losing her. list, whispered Hampton. Through his tears Mark was conAnd youve broken your solemn scious that the interminable fumbling promise, and you cant imagine what a outside the cave had ceased. As shock that gave me, because I idealized Hampton fell back there came the sud- you in a childish way, and I never den crack of a revolver shot. dreamed that you were capable of not The Generals form blocked the enkeeping your word, Captain Mark. trance as they raised their heads. Mark T, Eleanor? asked Mark in bewilplaced his hands across Eleanors eyes derment. Eleanor,, surely I never and drew her away. , promised anything that I didnt do. Do you remember that evening in CHAPTER XVIII. AVnshington, the evening when you came to see us, and we didnt get on Perhaps it was because they had well together at all, at first? seen so many horrors during the past And suddenly you became the little hours that these that I had adopted, Eleanor. girl seemed all to have fallen away that And suddenly you became my dear There night at staff headquarters. re- was a brief hou of rest after inter- Uncle Mark again! Well, do you minable labors, the lines had been held and the great assault repelled In confusion ; for that hour every man seemed bent upon forgetting the incidents of war, and something like gaiety ruled in the messroom. All the past seemed very far away to Captain Mark Wallace as he stood with Eleanor in the little cottnge gar- ' 11 A No, sir, it Is not thundered the General. It is on the evidence of the woman Hilda Morsheim, alias Kenson, secured by Hampton under circumstances which Kellermun uttered a low cry ; he was trembling now, and all his bravado seemed to have oozed away. Tills woman, strangely enough, loved her confederate, went on the General remorselessly, fixing his eyes full on Kellermnns now, while Keller-mn- n blinked like a bat In daylight, and turned bis head weakly from side to side, as if under the intolerable glare of a searchlight. Her claims on him were strong enough, God knows! She wanted him to marry her, to take her away from the old scenes that they might have a chance to redeem their wretched lives together. He had promised her that so many times and the worst of women is as wax in the bands of the man she loves. ' But be had become Infatuated with another, with a girl as much above him as ' With a cry that seemed hardly human Colonel Howard sprang toward Kellcnnnn, bis fingers twitching as if he sought to fasten them about his throat. Mark caught him and held him, while the old man swayed to and fro, Ills outstretched arm extended toward Kellerman as if in imprecation. Eleanor, at Hartleys side, did not even look toward them. This woman, Morslieim Ivenson whatever you call her, came to France, upon receipt of n message which had cut her to the heart, shown her the hopelessness of her dreams, and taught her that the one man. in whom she had believed was worthless clay. To do her justice, let us suppose that, even in her worst acts, she had been sustained by a sense of duty to her coun! and the fold pinned all around, first '.on one side and then on the other, By VICTOR ROUSSEAU of You Are Under Arrest." ngton, he sought out Hilda Morshelm, who was still plylug her trade, and begged, as he had never begged anyone, that she would .vindicate his name.. There , was a stillness as of utter death Inside the.littie cave. She saw in him ope of those useful spies such as her organization used, broken men with Inside knowledge of conditions. She used him, held out promises, broke them; in his despair he made himself a slave to her and and her confederate, forgetting his manhood and what he had been. Time tad again they broke faith with-him- . He had Just realized that he had noth-n- g to hope for from them when Cap-&l- n Wallace appeared on the seene. Yes, he was a rotten dog, sir, said CeUiwman, with the ghost of a smile. Is Is on such evidence that you res suffered for it, and I shall suffer want me to understand, Mark? to the last day of my life." Captain I Love You and Have Loved You Only." member promising me that you would never give me up any more, no matter who might seem to have a better claim on me? Do you remember that, Captain Mark Mark? Of course I do, dear, but you were speaking of guardians. I, Captain Mark? Guardians? she asked. I was speaking of Of Colonel Howard and me. Of you, dear. Just of you, answered Eleanor. So wont you please, please not make me humble myself again, and take me into your arms and and kiss me? (THE END.? SURELY SOME CRAP SHOOTER Dusky Stevedore in France Was Rapidly Getting Rich at Expense of His Comrades. They used to shoot some craps In stevedore company No. , but they dont any more. This as a conser quence of a stern company order is? sued after a prolonged argument with the dice which followed the first payday on this side. There was a game at every opportunity for about a week, and tlui came a lull. Simultaneously with the lull the men began to turn up shy ii apparel and equipment.. Investigation disclosed that one dusky private witjii a pair of dice that behaved parttew larly well had made a sensational, clean-un- . : He had gathered most of the francs in the company in the first three days and then started on perk sonal effects. At the conclusion of the series he . had nearly enough francs to finance a war of his own 'and more clothes than the supply, sergeant, not to speak of 36 identification tags,' seven boxes of O.C. pills, a bottle of castor oil, 11 towels, most of the soap In the com- -' pnny nnd a packing case full of other articles. At the suggestion of the captain he returned all of the helong--ingnnd most of the francs.. Ah learned dnt game In de old Tenth cavalry, he exclaimed, and wanted to show dese new sold lent dnt dey didnt know nuffin about It" Stars and Stripes. s Ah-Jus- e. Has the war made any change in Spongeleigh? I should say so! . In what respect? Spongeleigh says that in view oi the fact that his friends are buymgf Liberty bonds and contributing to waff philanthropies, he considers it his pa triotic duty not to borrow more tpu $5 at a time from any of ham Age-Herai- J. k |