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PLAINDEALER, it's '$ ~L . • By AGATHA CHRISTIE (Copyright Dodd. Mead A Company) TOMMY AND TUPPENCE Love, adventure, fighting, humor, an attractive hero and heroine, a capable literary workman for an author--given these and you have always a (food story and often the kind that keeps you up o' night to finish It. Add a real mystery, cleverly handled, and you get a real thriller of a yarn. Well, they are all hera. That's why "The Secret Adversary" la hard to lay down until the last pa«e la read. In fact, this story Is "good measure, pressed down and shaken" because It's got a World War tingle to It and a patriotic thrill. Mr Brown, the evil genius, of the story, rules a clever and dangerous band. So cleverly does he remain in tiio background that not even his agents knowingly set eyes on him. So. in the next to the last chapter you are in for a surprise when you learn the Identity of Mr. Brown and realise that he's been walking about In plain sight all the time. Agatha Christie, the author, is a young English woman who has developed the writing of a mystery story to a fine art. She wrote "The Mysterious Affair at Styles," which was widely read on both sides of the Atlantic. Her new story Is international, too, and thus has thrills for all English-speaking readers. PROLOGUE It was 2 p. in. on the afternoon of tfay 7, 1915. The Lusltanta had been struck by two torpedoes In succession and was sinking rapidly, while the boats were being launched with all possible speed. The women and children were being lined up awaiting their turn. Some still clang desperately to husbands and fathers. One girl stood alone, slightly apart from the rest She was quite young, not more than eighteen. She did not seem •frald, and her grave, steadfast eyes looked straight ahead. "I beg your pardon." A man's voice beside* Iwr teade her start and turn. She had noticed the speaker more than once amongst the first-class passengers. There had been a hint of niystery about him which had appealed to her Imagination. He spoke to no one. She noticed that he was greatly agitated. There were beads of perspiration on his brow. He was evidently in a state of overmastering fear, ^nd yet he did not strike her as the kind of man who would be afraid to meet death! "Yes?* Her grave eyes met "his Inquiringly. He stood looking at her with a kind of desperate Irresolution. "It must be!" he muttered to himself. "Yes--It Is the only way. IVe got to trust someone--and It mast be a woman." "Whyt' ••Because of 'women and children trat.'" He looked round and lowered his voice. *Tm carrying papers-- vitally Important papers. Tliey may make all the difference to the Allies In the war. You understand? These papers have got to be saved! They've more chance with you than with me. Will you take them#" The girl held out her hand. •Walt--I must warn you.' There may be risk--if .I've been followed. I don't think I have, but one never knows. If so. there will be darfger. Have yon the nerve to go through with it?" ,.'f. The girl smiled. >*I'll go through with It all right. I'm real proud to be chosen! What am I to do with them afterward?" "Watch the newspapers! I'll advertise in the personal columns of the Times, beginning 'Shipmate.' At the end of three days if there's nothingwell, youll know that I'm down and out. Then take the packet to the American embassy, and deliver it into the ambassador** own hands. < Is that dear?" "Quite clear." "Then be ready--Tm going to say good-by." He took her hand in his. * "Good-by. Good lack to you," he said ta a louder tone. '"V Her hand closed on the oilskin ^jacket that had lain In his palm. '*£•' ^ The Lusitania settled with a mote decided list to starboard. In answer to a quick -command, the girl went _ forward to take her place in the boat, CHAPTER I The Young Adventurers^ Ltd. "Tommy, old thing!" ® "Tuppence, old bean!" The two young people greeted each other affectionately, and momentarily blocked the Dover Street Tube exit In doing so. The adjective "old" was misleading. Their united ages would certainly not have totaled forty-five. "Not seen you for simply centuHes," continued the young man. "Wliere ere you off to? Come and chew a bun ,1 with me. We're getting a bit unpopu- > Jar here--blocking the gangway, as It were. Let's j?et out of it." ; The girl assenting, they started walkt ing down Dover street toward Piccaj^ jdillyv , ^ "Now, then," Mid Teuuay, "where 9%C-;..jshall we goT* fe; The very- faint anxiety which unv| deriay his tone did not escape the f jastute ears of Miss Prudence Cowley, jknown to her Intimate friends for ..j^-v&^pome mysterious reason as "Tup- ' t :•> -wjjpence." She pounced at once. * 'Tommy, you're stony!" "Not a bit of it," declared Tommy unconvincingly. "Rolling In cash." , "You always were a shocking liar." said Tuppence severely, "though you did once persuade Sister Greenbank • sthst the doctor had ordered you beer ^s'f4;T;aa a tonic, but forgotten to If i the chart. Do J9m rejaHmberf Tomaay chuckle# "I should tfiink I did! Wasn't the old cat In a rage when she found out? Not that she was a bad sort really, old Mother Greenbank! Good old hospital -- demobbed like evfcpy thing else, I suppose?** . ¥ Tuppence sighed.' "Yes. Lou too?" Tommy nodded. "Two months agfe" "Gratuity?" hinted Tuppehca. - "Spent." "Oh, Tommy!" "No, old thing, not In riotous dissipation. No such luck { The cost of living--ordinary plain or garden living-- nowadays is, I assure you, if .you do not know--" "My dear child," interrupted Tuppence, "there ^ nothing I do not knofo about the £ost of living. Here we are at Lyons', and we will each of us pay for our own. That's that!" And Tuppence led the way upstairs. The place was full, and they wandered about looking for a table, catching odds and ends of conversation as they did so. "Funny scraps one does overhear," mjrmured Tommy. "I passed two Johnnies In the street today talking about someone called Jane .Finn. Did you ever hear such a name?" But at that moment two elderly ladles rose and collected parcels, and Tuppence deftly ensconced herself In one of the vacant seats. Tommy ordered tea and buna. Tuppence ordered tea and buttered toast. "And mind the tea comes in separate teapots," she added severely. Tommy sat down opposite her. His bared head revealed a shock of exquisitely slicked-back red hair. His face was pleasantly ugly--nondescript, yet unmistakably the face of a gentleman and a sportsman. His brown suit was well cut, but perilously near the end of lis tether. They were an essentially modernlooking couple as they sat there. Tuppence had no claim to beauty, but there was character and charm in the elfin lines of her little face, with its determined chin and large, wide-apart gray eyes that looked mistily out from under straight, black brows. She wore a small bright green toque, over her black bobbed hair, and her extremely short and rather shabby skirt revealed a pair of uncommonly dainty ankles. Her appearance presented a valiant attempt at smartness. The tea came at last, and Tuppence, rousing herself from a fit of meditation, poured it out. "Now, then," said Tommy, taking a large bite of bun, "let's get up-todate. Remember, I haven't seen you since that time In hospital In 1916." "Very well." Tuppence helped herself liberally to buttered toast. "Abridged biography of Miss Prudence Cowley, fifth daughter of Archdeacon Cowley of Little Missendell, Suffolk. Miss Cowley left the delights and drudgeries) of her home life early in the war and came up to London, where she entered an officers' hospital. First month: Washed fcp six hundred and forty-eight plates every day. Second month: Promoted to drying aforesaid plates. Third month: Promoted to peeling potatoes, j Fourth month: Promoted to cutting bread and butter. Fifth month: Promoted one floor up to duties of wardmaid with mop and pail. Sixth month: Promoted to waiting at table. Seventh month: Pleasing appearance and nice manners so striking that am promoted to waiting on the Sisters! Eighth month: Slight check in career. Sister Bond ate Sister Westhaven's egg! Grand row! Wardmaid clearly to blame! Inattention in such Important matters cannot be too highly censured. Mop and pail again! How are the mighty fallen! Ninth month: Promoted to sweeping out wards, where I found a friend of my childhood in Lieutenant Thomas Beresford (bow, Tommy!), whom I-had not seen for five long years. The meeting was affecting! Tenth month: Reproved by matron for visiting the pictures in company with one of the patients, namely: the aforementioned Lieutenant Thomas Beresford. Eleventh and twelfth months: Parlormaid duties resumed with entire success. At the end of the year left hospital In a blaze of glory. After that, the talented Miss Cowley drove successively a trade delivery van, a motor-lorry and a general. The last was the pleasantest I've forgotten bis name now. 1 next entered a government office. We had several very enjoyable tea parties. I had Intended to become a land girl, a postwoman, and a bus conductress by way of rounding off my career--but the armistice intervened ! I clung to the office with the true limpet touch for many long months, but, alas, I was combed out, at last. Since then I've been looking for a JOD. Now, then--your turn." 1 "There's not so much promotion in mine," said Tommy regretfully,* "and a great deal less variety. I went out to France again, as you know. Then they sent me to Mesopotamia, and I got wounded for the second time, and went Into hospital out there. Then I got stuck In Egypt till the armistice happened, kicked my heels there some time longer, and finally got demobbed. And. for ten long, weary months I've been job hunting! There aren't any jobs! And, if there were, they wouldn't give 'em to me. What good am I? What do I know about business? Nothing." ' Tuppence nodded gloomily. "What about the colonies?Mrkhe suggested. • Tommy shook his head. "I shouldn't like the colonies--and I'm perfectly certain they wouldn't like me!" "Rich relations?" "I've got an old unclewhO*s more or less rolling, but he's no good.w': "Why nyt?" * "Wanted to adopt me once. < I fMfused." "I think I remember hearing about It," said Tuppence slowly. "You refused because of your mother--" Tommy flushed. / "Yes, It would have been a bit rougn on her. As you know, I was all she had. Old boy hated her--wanted to gel me away from her. Just a bit of spite." "Your mother's dead. Isn't she?" said Tuppence gently. Tommy nodded. : Tuppence's large gray epes looked misty. "You're a good, sort, Tommy.1 always knew It." *»'•* "Rot!" said Tommy hastily. "Well, that's my position. Tm just about desperate." "So am 11 I've hung out as long as I could. I've touted round. I've answered advertisements. I've tried a Plaits Very , in Season s Mode KEEIBUTSO, GOES TO WORK "Trading Under the Nam* of 1 Young Adventurers, Ltd.; Is Tl Your Idea, Tuppence?" every mortal blessed thing. I've screwed and saved and pinched!,, But It's no good. I shall . tar* to go home!" "Don't you want to?" ' "Of course I don't want to! What's the good of being sentimental? You see, there are seven of us at home. It's awful! All housework antf mothers' meetings! I don't want to go back, but--oh. Tommy, what else Is there to do?" Tommy shook his bead sadly. There was a silence, and then Tuppence burst out: "Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say^t's mercenary of me, but agreed 'Tommy with there it is! "Same here,' feeling. There was a pause. "Of course," resumed Tuppence, "marriage Is my best chance. I made up my mind to marry money when I was quite young. Any thinking girl would! I'm not sentimental, you know." She paused. .. "Come now, you can't say I'm sentimental," she added sharply. "Certainly not" agreed Tommy hastily. "No one would ever think of sentiment In connection with you." "That's not very polite," replied Tuppence. "But I dare say you mean it all right. Well, there It la! I'm ready and willing--but I never meet any rich men! All the boys I know are about as hard up as I am. No-- marriage Is fraught with difficulties. Remains--to make money!" "We've tried that, and failed," Tommy reminded her. We've tried all the orthodox ways, yes. But suppqse we try the unorthodox. Tommy, let's be adventurers!" Certainly," replied Tommy cheerfully. "How do we begin?" That's tlie difficulty. If we could make ourselves known, people might hire us to commit crimes for them. Look here, Tommy, shall we re»lly? Shall we form a business partner* ship?" "Trading under the name of the Young Adventurers^ Ltd.? Is that the idea, Tuppence?" ^ It's all very well to laugh, but I feel there might be something In It." "How do you propose to get in touch with your wouldrbe employers?" "Advertisement," replied Tuppence promptly. "Have you got a bit of paper and a pencil?*' Tommy handed over a rather shabby green notebook, and Tuppence began writing busily. Shall we begin: 'Young officer, twice wounded In the war--'" "Certainly not." "Oh, very well, my dear b®y,*But can assure you that that sort of thing might touch the heart of an elderly spinster, and she might adopt you, and then there would be no need for you to be a young adventurer at all." "I don't want to be adopted." "I forgot you had a prejudice against It. Ndw listen---how's this? 'Two young adventurers for hire. Willing to do anything, go anywhere. Pay must be good.' (We might a^ well make that clear from the start.) Then we might add: 'No reasonable offer refused'--like flats and furniture. How would that strike you If you read It?" Tommy was holding the paper thoughtfully. His face burned q deeper red. " • Shall we really try It?" he said at last. "Shall we, Tuppence? Just for the fun of the thing?" "Tommy, you're a sport! I-knew you would be! Let's drink to success." She poured some cold dregs of tea into the two cups. "Here's to our joint venture, and may it prosper!" "The Young Adventurers, Ltd.!" responded Tommy. , ' They put down the cups and laughed rather uncertainly. Tuppence rose. "I must return to my palatial suite at the hostel," ""f * "Perhaps It Is time I strolled round to the Rltz," agreed Tommy with a grin. "Where shall we vtneet? And when?" ' "Twelve o'clock tomorrow. Piccadilly Tube station." The two young people went off In opposite directions. Tuppence's hostel was situated in what was charitably called Southern Belgravia. For reasons of economy she did not take a bus. She was half-way across St. James park, when a man's voice behind her made her start. "Excuse me," It said. "But may I speak to you for a inoment?" Tuppence turned sharply, but" the words hovering on the tip of her tongue remained unspoken, for the man's appearance and manner did not bear out her first and most natural assumption. She hesitated.« As If he read her thoughts, the man said quickly: "I can assure you I mean no disrespect." Tuppence looked him up and down. He was a big man, jciean shaven, with a heavy Jowl. His eyeKwere small and cunning, and shifted their glance under her direct gaze. "Well, what is it?" she asked. The man took a card from his pocket and handed it to her with a bow. Tuppence took It and scrutinized it carefully. It bore the inscription. "Mr. Edward Whlttington." Below the name were the words "Esthonla Glassware company," and the address of a city office. • Everywhere one seta well-dressed women this season they are wearing plaits In some guise or other. .Plaits •re representative of the peason's gowns. They are almost necessary to establish the tone of the well-dressed woman, declares a fashion writer In the New York Times. There is an artistic encouragement, too, about this new fad for plaiting. The American woman has gone In largely for simplicity, but* at last It seems that she has awakened to greater possibilities. She finds that she can be Just as picturesque as the woman who reclined on the porch in the old days, not in the same way, but with equal charm. Take her morning dresses, for Instance. They are made of soft 3ilks, In dark and inconspicuous colors, but with artistic and flowing lines. She now has a little plaited cape to throw over her shoulders for street wear and under that her gown has no sleeves at all. This cape can be worn with a street hat. It has no extra weight, no bulgy quality about It, and it piakes of her gown, no matt&c how informal that may be, a thing suitable for street. Indoor or country wear. Sometimes this plaited cape reaches the waistline only, sometimes it is of three-quarters length, and again it reaches to the heels. . But in each Instance It is light in weight and extremely graceful, so that whatever its expression or wherever It is worn, it becomes a part of the costume. The longer capes are likely to have fur collars and the shorter ones are provided, In many Instances, with collars of their own material, either tucked or plaited. They are tied in front with informal bows of narrow ribbon and there is realty nothing about thfem to suggest the formal. The long ones perhaps are a trifle more useful than those which are shorter, because they can be worn with evening as well as daytime dresses, and this, of course, Is something not to be scoffed at. It is in the evening that a light cape is most necessary for comfort,, no matter how it may be desired during the daytime hours for good looks alone. '• Is Generally Liked. The plaited dress Is populaf wifh all. An Interesting gown has a plaited apron in front and a plaited cape dropping from the shoulders. That Is an excellent example of the partially plaited dress which has made such a hit this season. It can be plaited in other sections, for it can have plaltod side panels, or plaited sleeves, or plaited front and back sections in perfect regularity. But if it is an accepted street or afternoon or evening dress for this season it will have some plaiting about it. Plaltings do away with all necessity* for extra bits of trimming because they are trimmings In themselves. The panels of plaits, though they are made of the same material as the gown, have a way of looking like so much trimjning. There may be a bit of ribbon "binding, or sash of tulle, but in the main the dress that Is platted in any one place has the plaiting alone, to answer for Its style. The plaited skirts a$e all that Is necessary to show the general prevalence of the style and the heartiness with which it has been accepted. They are an established feature of the season ^nnd just as smart as they can be. Any wpman who has one may feel sure that she is walking in the best circles so far as fashions are concerned. And they are economical. They can be worn with so many and different sorts of overdresses and overblouses that one single skirt is capable of being multiplied into any number of various and beautiful gowns. The smart women know this and have adopted the plaited skirt with little or no reservation. They have degUtoli that, for the present at least. they are the adherents of the plaited skirt because It does to much to place their dressing In the highest rank of smart styles. Blouses are plaited In many and various ways. And they are the most delightful of all accessories to the wardrobe. They have burst into the forerank of fashion with no little zest and are filling a place that has long been denied them. Printed Silk Blouses. » There are blouses of printed silks plaited over their entire surface. They are usually minus sleeves of any sort, but the width of the plaiting falls over the arms in the most graceful manner and manages to suggest a sleeve wlth- He After fourteen years of Idleness because of 111 health, J. Keeler, widely-known Maryland cltlsen, has gained forty pounds at the age of eighty years and gone back to work every day. Mr. Keeler, who r» sides at 3706 Thirty-Second St^ Mt. Ranter, Md., gives entire credit for his extraordinary rehabilitation to Tanlac. "My stomach was in such terrible condition I could hardly digest a ^ thing," says Mr. Keeler. "It would - , swell to nearly twice its normal size i and I would have frightful pains " through my stomach and back. I felt. ; so weak, dizzy and miserable work was out of the question. In fact, my 5; friends gave me up on three or four ' occasions. "Five months ago I began taking Tanlac and Improved from the very first bottle. I now eat anything on the table, have gained forty pounds, and . am back at work every day. Actually. I feel like a boy again. It would be ungrateful of me not to praise Tanlac." Tanlac Is for sale by all good drug- • gists. Accept no substitute. Over 87 million bottles sold. * Tanlac Vegetable Pills are Nature's own remedy for constipation. For sale 7 everywhere.--Advertisement. Wrong One Landed. My best gentleman friend had called and, as I was not yet "dressed up," I asked my little sister to entertain him for a few minutes. As I was descending the stairs I distinctly heard her say, "Sister says If she lands you she's going to ask you to take her to Call- • fornia on a honeymoon trip, wftl you take me along?" I was so shocketf I did not half look to see where I was going and fell headlong down the few remaining steps. My friend picked me up and .said, "'Twas you instead of me who was landed."--Chicago Tribune. X FEELING OF SECURITY Dress With Plaited Panels Done, in Dark Blue Crepe de Chine. One Of the Panels Makes an Apron and the Other a Cape. out the least attempt at being formal. Then there Is the blouse which has a plaited plain panel In front and a printed silk underarm section that repeats the silk used in the making of the skirt. This is a clever adaptation of the vogue for plaits and one that will be accepted by any woman who has In mind the making over of a frock that may have seen better days. Even coats are taking on the plaited vogue. They are showing hidden plaits and those that appear on the surface The coat for everyday, with plaited sleeves, has become quite a factor in style. It Is as plain as can be so far as the body 6f the garment is concerned. When it comes to the sleeves, there is that fullness of plaited stuff which gives grace and charm and a flowing line. For Instance, there Is a coat made of light brown wool brocade. It Is lined with orange crepe de chine. There are light brown chiffon sleeves, extraordinarily full, gathered Into tight little cuffs which start In wide, square armholes, and at the cuffs there Is a fold of the orange crepe peeping from underneath--this to tlr the two materials together and to give the general color scheme an excuse for being. These sleeves are particularly attract tlve for evening wraps, but they are toj be found on street coats, as well, and there are evening capes that show plain surfaces with plaited chiffon linings to help them. 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THING OF MOST IMPORTANCE PlaiLtetedd Ht ats Predominate ' have^-mo *X*X*X*X*X4X«X<*«X«X«X*X*X*X«X<0>X<9>X*X*X<0>X*X*X*X«X*X<>X* HERE IS SPORT FOR STRENUOUS Angling With Rod and Line for Swordfish Can Be Guaranteed to Furnish Thrills. of super thrills and of grievous disappointments. To^the swordfish angler the landing of one fish is a seasim's Bwordfishing ,fo r broad..b.l.l.l swordfls.h j triumph. Many have gone out yeur . . . ' after year for swordflsvh. w.i.th. out success, but they keep on doggedly In the knowledge that a lucky turn of events may at any moment bring achtove- M with rod und reel no doubt heads the list of the most ^strenuous kinds of angling. Thli* remarkable form of sport has been practiced for a number of years on the Pacific coast In the neighborhood of Santa Catallna Island and to a less extent, and more recently, along our own Atlantic seaboard. In many respects 4t Is the most fascinating of all forms of fishing, C. K. Stillman writes in the Health Builder. There is considerable difficulty in finding the prospective victims as they swlnf or float solitary .tear the surface of the sea, and more yet when found in persuading them to bite. Once hooked,' the swordflsh Is a"very resourceful antagonist and hard to keep on the line. The angler never knows what is going to happen next and is never entirely free from apprehensipn that the fish may attack his boat. No fishing Is more productive, • *> Monster Pisnet. E^eryttilng connected with the win Is staggeringly big. Those little dark sun-spots which you peer at cautiously through the medium of a smoked glass are. most of them! mftny thousands of tyiles across. One was measured and found to have a diameter of miles--which means that the earth could have been pitched Into It Jlke a golf ball into a pail of wuter. "How much do you know? And how much do you want?" *•--• m (TO BE CONTINUED.) As for hats, they have^ more plaits ttian all of the dresses put together. They seem to have taken to the Idea with enthusiasm, and women who have decided to wear hats with plaited trimmings, or hats m»ide entirely of plaited stuffs, say that they have never been better satisfied. They find that plaltings, when applied to hats, are even more successful than with dresses, and that they give ascertain style worthy of any style of dress. There are plaited flares of taffeta silk applied as fans to the front of crowns. They are hfeld together by means of rhlnestone buckles or tied In the center wKh knots and bows of their own materials. They are used for trimming the backs of short-brimmed hats, as much of the style of a hat this season is centered at the back. Some of the hat3 are more naive In the manner of their appearance. They are trimmed with plalTed ruchings that run around the bases of the crowns In more or less thick masses. Sometimes they are made of silk, again of narrow ribbons, put on In tiers, and ag^in they are plaited chiffons and plaited malines or laces, which give to the hats that airiness of summer appearance which Is much to be desired. Some of the little tight cloche shapes have plaltings around the outer edges of their brims, and these, of course, are done in narrow widths, with every attention to plaiting them finely. These are particularly attractive when done In dark blue shades, or In black, or In one of the many tan or brown shades so pejj^gar this season. Idle to Think Woman Would Look at; M*eTeeth When Her inConsideration. . *3Ptie dentist was busy filling a yotmg woman's teeth. When he had finished the first tooth he handed her a mirror that she might see the result for herself. Then he continued his task, each time handing her the mirror after a tooth had been filled. Finally, when his task was completed and she had! handed back the mirror with thanks, he asked: "Well, Mrs. Danforih, how do they iook to you?" ; "Look to me? Why, I haven't seen them yet!" she exclaimed. "I mean the teeth I have just filled,* said the dentist, thinking she had not understood. "Oh, I forgot about the teeth," she replied as she reached for the mirror. "What did you look at each time, then?" queried the' dentist, wonder- Ingly. "Why, my hair of course."--Harper's llagaslne. ^4 sm.i- . - New ZeaMnd Bird a Plaflus. The kea, a parrot of New Zealand, as large as a fhirken hawtw has beeh known to kllj thousands of sheep yearly to sntlsQr a cravlng^f«r kidney fat „ '*&:%• Education of Chinese Girls. Because thoy marry as soon as they leave the grades the little girls In China receive chiefly n moral education in school. The average girl enters school at the age of ten. :md is married shortly after she finishes her brief educational course. The proverbial Chinese politeness is taught In the •choo] as well as In the home, From their very entrance Into school up to the time when they leave the classroom the little girls learn how to greet, bow to receive visitors according te the old Chinese laws of .ceremony, how to offer ten, how to offer an umbrella to an aged lady or how to share It with a companion. Home economics are taught, fiirls help their mother In the household and clean father's books. !>urlng the last yet.r In grade school, flie young Chinese daughters of modern families leant civics ard receive ^ sort of patriotic Instruction. , For the Tiny Girl. =, . Children's dresses of flowered voile are as pretty as they ara simple. For the very tiny girl there are wee frocks of rose and lavender crepe de chine beautifully smocked and with filet edging. acpund the collar. Large Hsts. Large hats of straw and hors^Mtt braid are now being shown to accompany the full-skirted, ruffled bouffant styles of the moment. ? / - 7 ' 1 'f1#.1 til,; Telephoning by Night. Speech can now be efficiently transmitted by means of light over a distance of several miles, said Prof. A. O. -^flanklne at the Royal Institute in London. Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the telephone, was also the Ineento- of the photoplione, by which he was able to transmit speech by light jver a maximum distance of 700 feet. The substance used Is selenium, but anfortunately It cannot be relied upon to do the same thing every day. Con- ".'rol, however, Is steadily being secured. •sr Severe Styles in Two-Piece Suits Stressed An advertisement reader "The b«| nuts are grown In America." Trn* enotkgh. but why brag about ami • "" While three-piece suits form a group of considerable scope in the collection prepared by one New York firm, a particularly favorable attitude is directed toward the tailored two-piece suit. In both types, of course, the handling has been of a strictly tailored character, but In the two-piece Jackets and skirts the severe styles that are synonymous with the term "talloMnade" are most stressed. The Jackets of these models range In length from wrist to 34-Inch, and are of both the altogether flat, straight outline and of the other straight outline that is softened by fullness produced by the soft girdling. Polret twills In plain and hair-line effects are popular fabrics In this group, while a dastlnctly new feeling Is found In the velour checks that are used repeatedly. Covert cloth, also In plain and checked effects, Is another novel expression. Leather-bound edges, or, as in the case of the checked and striped fabrics, Ingenious workings of narrow stripe Insets applied on the bias, form favored trimming Ideas in these models. The Inevitable demand for tweeds is met with In a number of mixtures and flecked woolens from abroad that are fetching. One of conspicuous design and value-was a four-piece affair, consisting of Jacket, skirt and knickers of gray tweed, with accompanying waist of old crepe de chine. t In the coat group practically every type of coat that could be possibly demanded Is offered. This quality prevails not only In style, but as regards price scope. Sports coats of fine fabrics, day coats and capes of all the plain and novelty fabrics that have been sponsored for the season are on viMfc-.-- X .* v.. On the Right Sleem. Many of the boudoir rcbes of today that fall in long classic folds have only a few huge flowers scattered over them Instead of a formal pattern. One such robe, In orchid georgette, has a double handful of golden lotus, most of them concentrated on the right sleevC , Just Get Outdoors and Dig. The reason why a man imagines that he's run down and needs a res#ls because nature Is trying to convince him that he needs more exercise.--Boston Transcript . «? What He Needed. Stfthhy--rm trying my best to get ahead. Bruce--That's line. You need one. Restless ~ Nights 7 When Coffee disagrees Drink Pbstum Jtxere's a Reason „\ *» • 'Sir'" riSffiM*