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Show V) 1 MARIO MENCCAL THE GIRL IN THE CAR By EILEEN FARLEY feoOOCOOCOCOMOMOOCOCCC WOMANS EXCHANGE HAS Wo NOW BECOME A HAPPILY ACCOMPLISHED FACT. Village Good ervee Too Small to Support One Bread, Pickles and Pre Find a Beady Market Family Heirlooms May Be Disposed Of Designs in Dace and Dlnen Here Displayed Unequalled by Department Stores Simple Meals Furnished Shopping People. BY MARGARET E SANGSTER. (Copyright. 1Su6, by Joseph B Bowles ) The woman's exchange was originally a happy thought, and is now a fact happily accomplished in all our larger towns and cities. There is no village that might not with propriety have a womans exchange if women, married and single, found it convenient to or- ganize and carry one on with, of course, a cooperative basis. The exchange needs only a pleasant room located on a business street or near a business center. Here may be brought for sale articles of beauty, costly wearing apparel with which the owners would like to part for a consideration, and various domestic prod ucts. If there Is a wopia'n in the community who has a special gift for delicate cookery, she may save her neighbors trouble and add something regularly to her own exchequer by selling her cakes or pastry, her home-mad- e loaves, her pickles and preserves at the womans exchange. Sometimes a womans exchange establishes a reputation for a particular dainty, and people send from far and near to obtain it for their parties or social teas. It is desirable- - that orders should be definitely taken for perishable goods or else there will be loss either to the consignee or to the exchange. Women who wish to consign articles of value to an exchange, must plainlv state the amount they are Worth and the lowest selling price the owners are willing to accept They will probably be asked to pay a small entrance fee and a commission will be exacted on the sale of the articles. A pathetic Interest sometimes attaches to the beautiful objects seen at a woman's exchange. Here Is a lace flounce, an heirloom. JLooking at ita filmy CHSury, priceless In the eyes of an 'fiifSn who loves real lace, and observing that It will be sold at a sacrifice, one reads between the lines the lack of ready money, the story of waning fortunes, the decay of an old family, In brief, the mutations of fortune that In due time come to those who have long been prosperous. Few houses there are that do not sooner or later feel a chill breath from the biting winds of adversity. This length of lace adorned the gown of a fair lady who, danced at a ball with Marquis de LaFyette. It has been worn by other women of the household, at gay assemblies and bright weddings since that proud day, and now it is to pass Into the hands of strangers and Its price will procure comforts for an Invalid or pay the tuition of a struggling and offered in dainty individual sets at small tables. A lunch room of this kind, if properly administered, is a source of profit except in small suburban villages where homes are within easy reach and no one wishes to take a meal at a restaurant The attendants in a womans exchange must be courteous, accommo dating and sensible. They do not decide questions of price, nor do they pass upon the quality and quantity of goods received. This latter duty falls upon the board of managers or a selected The attendants have precisely the obligation of the clerk in an ordinary store, they stand between the customer and the merchant the merchant in this instance being the consignee. If they are good saleswomen they will often be the means of causing much satisfaction to both parties. The bookkeeping at a womans ex change must be accurate and exact and the utmost care must be taken to keep a detailed account of every transaction Returns to consignees should be ex tremely prompt. If articles after a suitable Interval are found to be unsal able the consignees have no cause for complaint, if their property Is returned in good order Anyone wishing to address ft woman's exchange may do so by the simple method of sending a letter by mall directed to the president nf the woman's exchange, appending city and state The postmaster will forward such letters to the proper place. All that is necessary is to be assured that the town in question possesses an exchange. TORTOISE SHELL THE BEST. Style of Comb That Can Be Worn by Everyone. Let only the golden-haireor blackhaired girl risk the gold and ivory combs, and the silver one Is for the brunette alone. No shade of hair was ever born or Invented which could not wear tortoise shell. Its tints and are universally lights becoming. These combs are all expensive, for Mr. Richard IiUinghim crawled from under his car and surveyed his hands disiya'lv He looked at his watch and not.ti that the time of his dinner engagement was pat-t- . Tfien he relieved ids mind in a single explosive word "Naughty, naughty." chided a voice in his ear, "and wickedly useless " Dillingham w hit led about and the shadowy bundle ptrehed on the fence stirred and laughed Then the bundle shook itself and jumping to the ground Inquired trenchanilj , "Smashed? b g your pardon, said Mr DU llngham, lifting his cap "1 took you for a wistaria vine "Thank you, said the girl, gravely Then, abruptly, "Is it fun to ride in an Dillingham wondered whether anybody had ever discovered that tiny dent of a dimple near her left eye that winked at him wiekc'lly when she laughed "No one could ever call you plain Mary' " he said, absently, and started to find himself thinking aloud. And If perchance, I might wish to address you one never knows what may happen what " her dancing eyes questioned him. "For ease in, conversation Im RichJust poor ard, " he assured her. Richard " ' Poor Richard in an automobile," she laughed. He ordered sweets with the coffee and she munched them with the abanautomobile" He hesitated Then "Will you step don of a child. Then with a sudden return to school girl naivete, she exInto my auto as she filled her wisp of a " Said the spider to the fly, claimed, the gltl finished, as she put her hand Into handkerchief with almonds "Oh, dear, I 'forgot that plaguey old his and stepped lightly up school. And now I've got to go back. thickwas indistinct in the ier face ening twilight, but he could see that The girls will be Just crazy when I she was tall and he liked the musical tell them. And Pm going to take huskiness of her voice and the tilt of those to prove it It was a lovely dinner. And you've been lovely, too. her head. Then she added slowly, "What must The girl had been settling herself in ou think of me! silence and now she began abruptly. Its horrid to tie first wher. one has What must he think of her. Dillinga date with a man And 1 was five ham wondered If she would be very minutes late on purpose," resentfully angry if he told her all that he Dillingham, dumb with amazement, thought about the flickering dent of dimple and the sweet harshness ot gazed at her silently She turned suddenly and peered at her voice and the tantalizing witchery of her him through the dusk Then: ey$ and the panted oval of she cried, 1 believe you're her chin and tfh, well "Oh, eorrv you come and you think I'm But It is what you think of me hoi rid and silly And if you do, why that is worrying me," he finally Adid vou come and why are you so ssured her, forgetful of the fatherly adand oh, I'm very much vice. stupid ashamed. I want to go home, said the girl, Her voice faltered aud Dillingham aud at the unsteadiness oraier' tones paled at the suspicion of tears in her Dillingham Jumped up repentantly. , voire. When Dillingham returned three "Don't Shat is not et all. Don't minutes the little table looked He stoped suddenly desolate after, mention it with its disarray of emptied with the feeling that he was making dishes. He looked about uncertainly. an ass of himself. Assuredly the girl Where she had sat a pink coral stickwas laughing Wbat kind of a conpin stabbed a torn corner of the menu foundedly puzzling woman thing was card to the table. He picked it up It, he demanded indignantly. and read: But, of course, you didn't know it 1 never saw Grayham Manor. There w as a bet, she went on, brightening is no Annabel Morris. You were You a difference. makes and that up, 1 deserved. know I'd have to come on a bet, don't only you and nicer than all was that 1 was fiction It except you. 1 suppose you think school girls with no prospect of dinner hungry silly things? Good-bor breakfast "Awfully," said Dillingham,! with Plain Mary. The girl beside him conviction. DtiUngham wondered next day And laughed suddenly, an odd, gurgling, low chuckle, quite the kind of a laugh again at Intervals ell the succeeding he thought to accompany the prettiest week why she was hungry, and hls heart stood still At the thought that voice he bad ever heard. You should be relieved that I'm she might be hungry at the moment of only a school girl," she rebuked, mock- his thinking In some obscure corner of the city. I might be an' escaped5 ingly. Then one night, gloomy and morose, you know." Of course, you didn't have to come, he dropped Into the Modern theater because I wrote yew - thw- not,-H- - ebe to waitll the opening tilgtivet went on, and injury had replaced tears comedy. Listless he watched a bizarre Mn her tones. And I would never have ballet In mismatched stockings and written It If Annabel Morris hadnt powdered wigs come prancing on. box of chocolates Then hls glance wandered restlessly bet'me a that you never even noticed me when over the audience and back again to you zipped past If you knew Annabel the stage. only you wouldn't want to, she's And there winking, disappearing, such a catty cat but If you did, youd wlnklufe again, in the face of a girl at know why I simply had to take that the end of the front row was a Uny . bet. And, of course, you did see me dent of a dimple near the Jeft eye a why, you smiled three times, so I dimple which he foolishly felt he could almost count your teeth. owned by right of discovery. In the gloom the girl missed the An hour later she walked swiftly twinkle In Dillingham's eyes and he from the stage entrance, her manner could feel her start of dismay, as he stiffly repellent, and Ignoring the waitresponded, grimly: ing groups of men about the door. "And now what am I going to do lifted hls hat and smiled broadly One , Madam-What's with you? I'ake you back to her. at I suppose, and tell Silly Idiot, she murmured beneath her how I found you straying from the her breath, as she escaped hla bearfold. Perhaps you can suggest some ing. will Madam fiction for that delightful naughty, plain Mary," a 'Naughty, spare both our feelings. voice chided In her ear, and she , com-.You then? did you "Why from chin to needn't have, she cried. In a quick wheeled suddenly, rosy forehead. little flare of anger. She paused and Of course, in the saffron Journals It added in a suddenly meek little voice, was beaded Millionaires Romance And I'm so hungry," Door Ends In Oranga DiLingham smiled In silence at the Regun at Stage but Dillingham, himself, Blossoms, do But he what should tone. forlorn with her? Suppose he did take her to knew from the first that the stage dinner he was hungry himself and door was really the finish. then a little fatherly advice he had (Copyright, 1904, by Dally Story Pub. Co) Bisters of his own-- . Well, where shall it be? he asked, Juvenile Literature. briskly, aloud. "Ye Old Inn Is hereold lady editor of a magazine The about, I fancy. children talked fluently from her she for Oh, that would1 be lovely, chair on the piazza of a searocking cried, and at the relieved brightness of shore hotel. her voice he laughed aloud. "I would never print, she said, a In the subdued light of the.-story with an unhappy ending, a story porch, he surveyed the girl that would briBg tears to little chicuriously. She was prettier than he ldrens eyes." had thought, with her dead white skin "Then, sneered the .unsuccessful and black hair, and older than her "if Hans Xndersen had contributor, school girl chatter sounded 20, perMier or The Tin The submitted. Then as she sat haps, he decided. to you youd have turned Malden' Ice her chin and down hastily propping him down, eh? on her hands closed her eyes, in seemMost assuredly I would If those he hastily sheer exhaustion, ingly ended unhappily." stories a In minute summoned the waiter. "Humph! he was at her elbow, bolding a glass She sipped a Aside from Its sadness, too, much X of wine to her lips. little, then took It from him, and of our Juvenile literature is vicious and degrading, the editor went a. swallowed it with a quaint grimace. The wine warmed the pallor of her Take, for example. Perrault's tale of Bluebeard.' Why, the tale drips with skin, and when the soup came, she attacked it with dainty ravenousness. blood. There is more murder in It She looked at Dillingham, serene and than In murderers row in the Tombs. evenWbnat does It In Irreproachable Take Cinderella. she teach ns? ' Why, that housework 1 ing dress, and he wondered-I- f would discover now that he was an dishonorable, and that balls and .parImpostor. But there was - no suspicion ties are the highest things in" life. in her Trank eyes, but an- unconcealed Dick Whittington Is a story that inculcates a low form of worldly approval that amused him: -are The Arabian Knights' All this glory for a imple school simply Indescribable In their debasgirl?" she questioned, saociiy Neither Hans So simple you have not even told ing moral effect. nor Perrault, nor the Grimm me your name, he said, gravely. . Dear me, bow unfortunate I'm In- brother nor the Arabian Nights' she regTetted. How- writers, whoever they were, would cognita ever, as first aid to conversation, I be allowed, should they return to life, will admit that I'm Mary just plain to contribute to the childrens mag sines of Mary. 1 Spoken of as the possible successor to President Palma of Cuba, should the latter resign in order to bring about peace on the ibland NO TWENTYTHREE A NEW KIND OF MONEY. Was It Neither Good or Bad, 'Bout Middlin. But The Many of the older New Englanders 'lving will doubtless remember the great prevalence of counterfeit money in circulation during the forties and fifties. In fact, no one doing business on a large scale could well afford to dispense with a counterfeit bank note detector. An old gentleman living in Barrington, X. II was in possession of a note which he strongly suspected to be spurious. Having no means at hand to assure himself on the point, he sent the bill in question to Dover, in care of the local stage driver, with instructions that he have it exarrjjned at one of the larger stoics of that town. The driver promised to do as he was desired, but characteristically forgot to carry out his errand. He was charged to remember it a second time, but let it slip his memory once more. A third time he was admonished with the utmost particularity, and yet once more he forgot. Being both ashamed and afraid to again acknowledge his he determined to thoughtlessness, brave It out upon his return, Well, anxiously Inquired the old now , ten-doli- FOR HIM. New York Judge Couldnt the Point. Jeat , See Among some loti juiors summoned to the Court of ginetd) sessions ol the peart of the eoiHitv of New York a sense was one whose t.u e c les.-e-d of suppressed miniment He was a well dressed, up to date Manhattan ese, and confided to !il neighbor the fact that he could not be held for serv Ice becaase his name bad been mis Several spelled ia the subpoena. names were called and then the name of Dole, to which no one responded. It's 23 for mine, lie chuckled .to his neighbor, showing him a blue slip' of paper. The judge then made the usual announcement relative to fining those who had not responded to their names The mat of mirth rose to ak whethei Mr. Dole was to be fined. The mat ter was referred to the clerk. Herei where I get out! he chuckled once more to his neighbor do you Dole, how spell youi name? Interrogated the clerk. Not Dole at all, but Dool, replied the man, g&yly. What'i the number of your aul poena, Mr. Dool? Pulllnthe blue slip from hla pock- - y. lady-lunati- c, NIECE . CANDY STORE SAVED BY PRESIDENTS t S rAJraat Jfc .TU B Wf'Wi J - five-poun- d -- etndent Her-Nam- Near the lace is an exquisite shawl of creamy crepe, wonderfully embroidered and deeply fringed. Half a century ago it crossed the water and was the gift of a traveler to his sweetheart. She wore It for years with the sort of pride that women take In raiment that cannot be bought in every you may have it, or 1, if shop. To-dwe have the price in our pocketbooks. A fan, an Ivory carving, a picture, what Is there not here that tells Its story to those who pause, reflect and sympathize? There is not a woman's exchange In the land that does not hint at times of altered fortunes borne with noble and of womanly devotion, not reluctant to give its best If it may add Some brightness to the shadowed lot of a loved one. only the genuine materials or the best The Imitations are worth buying. handsomest ones are Jeweled, which brings them to a fabulous price. In selecting any comb, be careful to choose one with long teeth curved so that the comb feels firm In the hair. It is both dangerous to the comb and embarrassing to the wearer to have It fall. If you aro within reach of any Chinese importer, he Is the best one to furnish you an Ivory comb. The Chlnesehave been quick to learn our desires, and they have adapted their handiwork accordingly. Some of their shops display combs carved in exquisite designs. Many of these are set with stones. Two smart examples of coiffure ornamenta are the shown. The one on top Is of shell In More cheerful are the suggestions amber in Spanish style, the other posthat we find in the table scarfs, doilies, sesses distinct beauty of ita own, and embroidered Is quite the newest fancy. coverlets and with a skill and grace that . rivals Paris Fashion Hints. epalntlng. Linen is the twin of lace Lingerie robes promise to be better In the affection of the feminine breast The woman who does not prize ex- than ever during the coming season, quisite linen Is so exceptional that she only they are to be far more elaborseems to have an odd twist In her ate than ever, representing a fabulous jnental outfit There is a wide scope amount of work. Yokes are conspicuous upon the for decoration In linen for the table loveliest of blouses yokes definitely not only, but for tho drawing-rooand often the cut or the lines of a yoke connived at and the tingle opportunity for Its sale Is In an by the way the trimming la disposed. stores The empire scarf of colored gause la The department exchange. cannot often furnish specimens so In high favor and lends the note of unique and designs so artistic as are color to an otherwise single-t- o aed shown by the lady who presides at the gown that la Parlslennea eye for dra. matic effects requires. exchange. 0 A board of managers with president ' Remarkable Fancy Work. secretary and treasurer, are essential rather remarkable fancy work an Some of Often conduct exchange. to the it adds to Its other sales a funcheon was recently exhibited in London, the and tea room where simple meals are work of a woman living in Cape Town, furnished to shopping people, the pe- South Africa. Several screens and culiar inducement to theqi being that some exquisite panels were decorated themselves in a quiet with flowers and figures made entirely they may refresh ot fish scales. The scales were threadand place with well-servfood. A few viands should form the ed on silver wire and dyed Just the bin of fare, they should be the beet right tint, and the results were quite of their kind, and the tea, coffee or wonderful in both color and general chocolate should be beyond reproach effect. ay self-respe- ct tea-clot- well-cook- A little candy shop In gay Paris, over the door of which appeared the sign American Candy Store. was struggling against financial disaster, but seemingly without success when Miss Maud de Vinson, a niece of President Roosevelt, came to its rescue by making its sodas the popular drink of fashionable Paris. Now the entire French capital la talking of the little its beautiful American patroness. shop and gentleman, did they say it was a bad bill? Well, no, .not exactly, answered the driver, hesitatingly. Not exactly!" exclaimed the other In surprised tones. Did they tell you that it was a good one? No, not exactly that, either, responded the driver, they said It was bout middlin. et, he replied: Twenty-threeThe courtroom roared. The Judge f row ned. ou can serve on this jury, said he; 23 doesnt go In this court ! Will Replace Sage. Ith the death of Russell Sage there is but one person left in ail the country who can dip her hands in her money bags and say to Wall street: "How much do you want and how Kind Lad. That person Is Tommy Pa gave me a framed, mot- much win you pay? to tht said: Little Boys Should Be Hetty Green, the richest woman in America, with the possible exception Seen, and Not Heard. Hobby Whered yer put It in yer of Mrs. Russell Sage herself. Even with Bussell Sage room? living she has re peatedly gone to Wall street with her I sent it ter th Tommy Naw! deaf an dumb kids at th asylum. 1 roci ey when the financial wolves were thought Itd cheer em up. Cleveland ravening and cent per cent was in the clouds and exacted her merciless Leader. tribute, ghe la the one of all others who win replace the veteran Sage in A Silent Hint. She Wbat In your opinion-i- s the the Wall atreet world of finance. flower that should be typical of wom- College Bred en? Tes, she Is college bred. He The morning- - glory. hat do yon mean by college She Thats a queer selection. Why bred?' the morning glory? "She knows how to make fudge." He Because It knows when to shot Washington Post np. Baltimore American. To Prohibit Barmaids. n Te Here. Movement is on foot in England A statue of Gen. Nicholson, the mu- to Prohibit women from acting as tiny hero, was recently unveiled at barmaids, if passed, the proposed bill Delhi by Lord Mlnto, the viceroy of will Affect, between 30,000 and 40,000 women. India. East-lndla- vine-covere- d . good-lookin- g an-bltio- An-ders- ." I t TT Jfex V |