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A delicate operation restores his health, and after five prosperous years In Aus­ tralia, he returns to New York--one back from the dead; We find him --In this Installment--talking with his old law partner, Druinmond, L about the prospects of finding that little girl wife. A beautiful actress enters the story. A MW Ji:V, irv CHAPTER IV--Continued. :! % -Would yon know tier If you saw «MI don't know." Whltakfer frowned tirlth annoyance. "She's six years ;^#|dep-w • "Well, bat what was she llkef V Sfimmmrfnd pursued curiously. .. 1 ! Whitaker shook his head. "It's not to remember. Matter of fact. I don't believe I ever got one good square look at her. It was twilight In the hotel, when 51 -found her; we •at talking in absolute darkness* to­ ward the end; even in the minister's •turfy there was only a green-shaded lamp on the table: and on the train-- well, we were both too much worked op. I fancy, to pay much attention to details." . "Blonde or bruneT* '"1 swear I don't know. She wore ;;.,|SiW of those funny knitted caps, tight ^iApwn over her hair, all the time." , * 1 Drummond laughed quietly. •>?V'don't feel in a joking hnmor." Whitaker said roughly. "It's a serious (batter and wants serious treat- • ment . . . What else have we got > 0 mull overt" Druinmond shrugged suavely, "^here's enough to keep us busy for fpveral hours," he said. "For Instance, fere's my stewardship." • "Your which?" b "My care of your property. Yon left «< good deal of money and securities fying round loose, you know; naturally "" I felt obliged to look after 'em. There l no telling when Widow Whitaker ;y might walk in and demand an account­ ing. I presume we might as well run over the account--though It is getting late." "Half-past four," Whitaker informed ,*_ Mm, consulting his watch. "Take too fiS - ling for to-day. Some other time." Drummond's reply was postponed by • ' 0ke office boy. who popped In on the ft^els of a light knock. t'. ,«**Mr. Max's outside," he announced. "O the deuce!" The exclamation itemed to escape Drummond's lips in- voluntarily. He tightened them an­ grily, as though regretting the lapse of self-control, and glanced hurriedly p- • ; askance to see if Whitaker had no- ^ ttced. "I'm busy," he added, a trace sullenly. "Tell him I've gone out." % ' "But he's got 'nappointtr.eut," the boy -rotested. "And besides, I told • Mm you was in." , "You needn't fob him off on my ac- ^punt," Whitaker interposed. "We can f x fpish our confab later--Monday--any i*r > time. It's time for me to b<e getting j;;" - Bp-town, anyway." r/• ; "It Isn't that," Drummond explained ? * #>ggedly. "Only--the man's a bore, y •/ ." |pd--" ^ -V "It Isn't Jules Max?" Whitaker ex- i'f ' <(ltedly. "Not little Jules Max. who ^ : «Sed to stage milnage our amateur 1* gfiows?" *' • "That's the man," Drummond ad- * f spitted with plain reluctance. Ill S •' MTh*n have Wm In. by all means. I ?/ want to say howdy to him, If nothing J-".. Mtiore. And then I'll clear out and leave - . yon to his troubles." ' <t<!- .» Drummond laughed a trifle sourly. *?Max has developed Into a heavy- i\ height entrepreneur, you know." ; "Meaning theatrical manager? Then -'Ifo-a"-^Srhy- iwH- s«| --sot--'Bat'"i ,v fuessed he'd drift into something of (he sort." A moment lata- Whitaker was vig- r" «rously pumping the unresisting--1 n- §deed the apparently boneless--hand of j Jules Max. The hat that had. made Hammerstein famous Max had appro­ priated--straight crown, flat brim and Immaculate gloss--bodily. Beneath it Ikla face was small of feature, and fat. ^ A pince-nez sheltered his near-sighted ; *yes- His short, round little body was Invariably by day dressed In a dark inornfn8-coat White-edged waist- k( *oat, assertively-Htripj'd trousers, and jr;; putent-leather shoes with white spats. .. IK- had a passion for lemon-colored *loves of thinnest kid and slender jnalacca walking-sticks. His dignity Was aa awful thing, as ingrained as Ills strut. He reasserted the dignity now with • jerk of his maltreated hand, read­ justed tils glasses, and - resumed his Stare. "Either,"• he observed, "you're Hugh Whitaker come to life or a deuced out­ rage." "Both If you like." "You sound like both." complained the little man. "Anyway, you were tfrowned In the Philippines or some­ where long ago, and 1 never waste time on a dead onei. . . . Drummond " He turned to the lawyer with a vastly buslness-liks* air. "No, you dont 1" Whitaker Insisted, -putting himself between the two men. ^ £V; ***. f man: •1'- . : you might at least admit that I'm a live one." A mollified smile moderated the small man's manner. "That's a bar­ gain," he said, extending a pale yel­ low paw; "I'm glad to see you again, Hugh. When did you recrudesce?" "An hour ago," Drummond answered for him; "blew In here as large as life and twice as Important. He's been running a gold farm out in New Guinea. What do you know about .that?" "It's very Interesting,'* Max con­ ceded, "You've asked him. of course?" he demanded of Drummond, nodding toward Whitaker. Drummond flushed slightly. "No chance," he said. "I was on tf»e point of doing It when you butted tn." "What's this?" inquired Whitaker. Max delivered himself of a startling bit o^ Information: "He's going to get married." Whitaker stared. "Drummond? Not r««lly?" Drummond acknowledged his guilt brazenly: "Next week, in fact." "But why didn't you say anything about It?" "You didn't give me an opening. Be* sides, to welcome a deserter from the great beyond is enough to drive all other thoughts from a man's mjlnd." •^There's to be a supper In honor of the circumstances, at the Beaux Arts tonight," supplemented Max. "You'll come, of course." "I'll be there--and furthermore. I'll be waiting at the church a week hence --or whenever It's to come off. And now I want to congratulate you." Whit­ aker held Drummond's hand in one of those long, hard grips that mean much between men. "But mostly I want to congratulate her. Who Is she?" "Sara Law," said Drummond, with pride in his quick color and the lift of his chin. "The greatest living actress on the Englfsh-speaklng stage," Max an­ nounced. preening himself Importantly. "My own discovery." ' . "Of course I've heard--but I have been out of touch with such things," Whitaker apologized. "When shall I see her?" "In honor of her retirement," Mut answered, fussing with a gardenia on his lapel. "She retires from the stage Anally, and forever--she says--when the curtain fnlls tonight." "Then I've got to be in the theater tonight--If that's the case," said Whit­ aker. "'Fraid yon won't get In, though." Drutnmond doubted darkly. "Every­ thing in the house for this final week was sold out a month ago. Even the speculators are cleaned out." "Tut!" the manager reproved him loftily. "Hugh is going to see Sara LawH act for the last time from my personal box--aren't you, Hugh?" "You bet I am!" Whitaker asserted with conviction. "Then come along." Max caught him by the arm and started for the door. "So long, Drummond . . * 0t v • .?•, . . •! .4""- *' CHAPTER V. Curtain. Nothing would satisfy Max but that Whitaker should dine with him. He consented to drop him at the Rltz-Carl- ton. In order that he might dress, only on the condition that Whitaker would meet him at seven. In the white room at the Knickerbocker. "Just mention my name to the head waiter," he said with magnificence; "or if I'm there first, you can't help see­ ing me. "Everybody knows my table the little one In the southeast corner. . . . Shoot, James!" The latter phrase was Max's way of ordering the driver to move on. The car snorted resentfully, then pulled smoothly and swiftly away. Max waved a jaunty farewell with a lemon- colored hand, over the back of the ton- neau. Whitaker went up to his room In a reflective mood in which the theatrical man had little olace. Since his arrival In New York he had fallen into the habit of seeking the view from his window when in meditative humor. A view of ten thousand roofs, Inexpressi­ bly enchanting. . . . Somewhere perhaps--in that welter of steel and stone, as eternal and as restless as the sea, was the woman Whitaker had married, working out her lonely des­ tiny. A haphazard biscuit tossed from his window might fall upon the very roof that sheltered her; he might search for a hundred years and never cross her path. He wondered. . . . The possibility that she might hav* married a second time did not disturb his pulse by the least fraction of a beat. He even contemplated the chaacs ttat sbs might he dead with n^n-ft* ioquanlmtty. Fortunate, that be dldm love her. More fortunate still, that h«s loved no one elss. „ Incontinently IM wrote and dls< patched a long, extravagant 'cablegram to MVs. Petti t In care of the American embassy, little doubting that she would- immediately answer. , t * • * • • • • , When eventually he strode Into the white room, Max was already estab­ lished at the famous little table in the southeast4 corner. Whitaker was con­ scious of turning heads and guurded comment as he took his place opposite the litrle fat mnn. "Make you famous In m night," Max assured him importantly. "Don't hap­ pen to need .any notoriety, do you?' "No, thanks." ; "Dine with me here three nights hand-running and they'll let you into the Syndicate by the back door with­ out even asking your name. P. T. A'a one grand little motto, my boy.* "P. T. A.?" "Pays to advertise. Paste that In your hat. Look me over," he requested abruptly, leaning back. "1 guess I'm soiae githly young buck, what?" Whitaker reviewed the striking ef­ fect Max had created by encasing his brief neck and double chin In an old- fashioned high collar and black silk stock, beneath which his important chest was protected by an elaborately frilled sljlrt decorated with black pearl studa. His waist was strapped In by a pique waistcoat edged with blacki and there was a distinctly perceptible "Invisible" stripe in the material of his evening coat and trousers. "Dressed like a fool," Max sufnmed up the ensemble before his guest conld speak. "Would yon believe that de­ spair could gnaw at the vitals of any­ one as wonderfully arrayed ?" "I would not," Whitaker' asserted. "Yet, I'm down in the mouth, be­ cause this Is Sara's last appearance." Max motioned the waiter to remove the debris of a course. "I've got It In CLEVER ENGINEERING WORK c.-; Dual-Gauge Track and Skillfully Devised Switch for Rolling 8toc((~ pf Tw» \ Widths. • •, • a j Running an Engine at Good Speed Over a Dual-Gauge Stiriteh and Qnto the Sidetrack. '< * F0RUNIF0RMGAU6E CHANGS THAT 18 BEING FORCED ON AUSTRALIAN LINES. "He's Going to Get Married." my knob that she's my mascot. If sne leaves me, my luck goes with her. I made her, ail right, but she made me, too; and It sprains my sense of good business to break up a paying combi­ nation like that." "Nonsense;" Whitaker contended warmly. "If I'm not mistaken, you were telling me this afternoon that you stand next to Belasco as a produc­ ing manager. The loss of one star isn't going to rob yon of ttiat prestige, Is itr *, I "You never can tell," the little man contended darkly; "I wouldn't bet thirty cents toy next production would turn out a hit. I've had several close calls with Sara--she's threatened to chuck the stage often before this; but every time something happened to make her change her mind. I've got a hunch maybe something will happen this time, too. If it does, I won't want any partners." How much information do you wager that Max is In a position to give Whitaker if he were of a (TO UK AS PHILOSOPHER SAW LIFE Problem That Has Been Successfully Overcome In This Country Must B« Grappled With in Britain's Great Colony. A railroad problem which is fast becoming obsolete in this country-- the problem presented by different lin§,s having different gauges--is still a" very serious one In Australia where, for example, the gauge in Vic­ toria is 4 feet 3 Inches and In New South Wales 4 feet 8V» inches. Bays Popular Mechanics Magazine. Now that the systems there have been joined together, it Is believed that a uniform gauge must ultimately be adopted, but such a change will nec- essarly take years to complete. As a means of making interchangeable the rolling stock of roads of different widths, a dual-gauge system on which trains of either gauge can operate has been devised. With this system three rails are employed instead of two. The chief problem ip devising such a railroad has been the construction of switches. What has been called a third-rail switch seems to solve this difficulty. In this switch the rails are so merged and curved that cars ?f either width move over it without In­ terference, In a test made a few months ago an engine running 40 miles per hour passed over one of these switches in a manner that was pronounced satisfactory. The track is laid so that the single rail comes next to the station platforms. UNITED STATES FAR IN LEAD 8crap Heap for Locomotives. The Great Northern is the latest railroad to embark upon electrifica­ tion on a grand scale. The steam lo­ comotive is to give way to the electric current on 300 miles of that excellei^ Hill railroad. Our country is witness­ ing a silent revolution in motive pow­ er which will appear more interesting to future generations than it does to our own. Substitution of electricity for steam on railways is going forward rapidly in all parts of the land. Not only are passenger trains in city sub­ urban areas electrified, but such roads as the Norfolk and Western haul their heaviest freight trains over the moun­ tains with electric power. Some years ago It was estimated that it would cost the railroads half a billion dollars to put their locomotives on the scrap heap and electrify their lines. The ex­ penditure Is indeed very heavy, but when the money outlay Is measured against the many advantages, includ­ ing cleanliness, speed and resiliency, it is, after all, but a small price to pay. Walter Pater's Idea of Success Was Hardly That Held by the Mod­ ern Business Man. - Th€ servlv6 wf or erpec*- latlve culture, toward the human spir­ it is to rouse, to startle It to a life of "constant and eager observation. Every moment some form gro#s per­ fect In hand or face; some tone on the bills or the sen Is choicer' than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement Is Irresistibly real and attractive to us --for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience but experience It­ self, ts the end. A counted hum\>er of pulses only Is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that Is to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass mo<.t swiftly from point to point and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite \n their purest en­ ergy? To burn always with this hard gen. like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. . . . Great pas­ sions may give us this quickened sense of life ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which .come naturally to many of nai Only be sore It is passion--that It does yield you this fruit of s qui<k- ened, multiplied consciousness.-- Walter Pater. Usual Thing. "Why didn't you interfere when tiiw cook chased the waiter with a cleavei and the waitress yelled murder?" "1 though! it was aa mUmOf i^featursiF-' . '-:i; To Prevent Trains Being Blown Away. The danger of trains being blown off the rails, not uncommon on light* nar­ row-gauge railroads, has been virtu­ ally eliminated on a stretch of 36 miles along the Atlantic coast of Ire­ land, forming part of the West Clare Railway, An inventor devised for the railway a pressure-tube anemometer, with electrical apparatus for giving two warnings by ringing a bell in the 8tationmaster's house, the first when the velocity of the wind reached 65 miles an hour and the second when It reached 85 miles an hour. When th^s first warning is given, over a ton of movable ballast, kept for the pur­ pose at every station, is placed on each vehicle of any train on the line at the first station It reaches. When the second signal is given, traiaa are stopped until the storm abates. American Engine Breaks Records. An American locomotive of the deca­ pod type has broken European records for hauling a heavily-loaded freight train. The feat was accomplished on the Nikolaief division of the Russian Southern railroad, where the locomo­ tive hauled a train 2,800 feet long, with a load of 4,424 tons. The experiment was conducted by Professor Lomo- nosof, a member of the engineering board of the Russian Ministry of Ways of Communication. A Russian engine was tried against the American, but the latter clearly proved its superi­ ority. Car Easily Removed Prom Track. A car for use on a railroad track by the general manager of a western line, has,.been constructed by remodeling an eight-cylinder touring automobile and equipping It with wheels having a steel lining and the railway-wheel flanges. Eight seats face the rear and two face the front. The steering wheel has been removed, but otherwise the car is op erated like an ordinary automobile. By means of an air jack fastened under the car the latter can be ratted off thff trark and turned about by one1 map*. More Than 250,000 Miles of Railroad Ar* Now In Daily Operation In \ This Country. Vast is the only term that can be applied to describe the railroads of the United States. With its more than 250,000 miles of railroads (257,569) the United States not only leads every other nation in the world, but exceeds by 50,000 miles the total railroad mileage of Europe. In fact, it has two-thirds as much mile­ age as all the rest of the world com­ bined. The length of tracks, including switches and sidings, Teaches the enor­ mous total of 391,000 miles--enough to reach around the earth and moon and with a surplus sufficient to girdle the globe six times. Over these tracks 65,- 000 locomotives are operated, draw­ ing 2,327,000 cars. The average nnm* ber of employees of all the railroads In the United States whose annual oper­ ating revenues amounted to $100,000 or more last year was 1,409,342, the number of miles of road coming under this classification tbeing about 225,000. The total compensation paid these em­ ployees was $1,165,000,000, an amount exceeding the total revenues of the United States government for 1913-14 by more than $120,000,000. The aver­ age yearly wage of railroad employees is therefore $826. Among the railroad employees in 1914 the largest (average daily compen­ sation went to general officers, $16.05, with other officers ranking second, $6.48. Third in line of average daily compensation were the enginemen, $5.24, followed by conductors, $4.47. ' For the 12 months ending June 30, 1915, our railroads carried 976,000,000 passengers," 76,000,000 fewer than dur­ ing the previous 12 months. These travelers paid the roads $646,000,000, about 66 cents each, and the average receipts a passenger mile were a frac­ tion under two cents. The number of tons of revenue-producing freight han­ dled was 1,806,000,000, for which ship­ pers paid the roads $1,977,000,000. The average freight rate a ton per mile for these shipments was a little less than three-quarters of a cent. Railroads In Equipment Mart. Buying of equipment on a large scale by the railroads is becoming in­ creasingly apparent. The carriers are becoming a big factor In the steel market, as a result of orders for more than 25,000 cars having been placed in the last five weeks, with 10,000 more pending. The carriers also are buying structural steel and have or­ dered 100,000 tons of rails for 1918 delivery, the rail orders going In at the advance of $5 a ton over the price that prevailed for so many years. Railroads are not buying because they prefer to buy at this time of year or for any other reason that might be classed as choice. They are buying because they must, regardless of price, deliveries or anything else. Prices are mounting steadily and the roads have abandoned the notion that by waiting until winter or spring they can obtain better prices or earlier de­ liveries. Keeping Tracks Clear of 8now. An apparatus to keep snow from drifting on the railroad track has been invented by a Minnesota physician, who lost a patient last year because his train was snowbound, it is a new form of snow fence, consisting of a number of transverse planks so ar­ ranged as to deflect air currents close- to the ground, thus causing the wi^d to sweep low through the railroad cJut, cleaning the track of snow Instead of piling it In a drift across the trfack. A few sections of this fence erected at points where drifts occur5 cos^. far less than the delay of a single /snowbound train, and a number of demonstrations have proved the practicability of the invention. / Blouse Remains High in Favor, #- * No Change in Styles Has Any Cf- on the Demand These Garments. TOO SERVICEABLE T| P||P Those Marfu fn America Fuiry iquifr to Any Sent Over by Parisian Design- •ry--Variety of Materials for Frocks -(• a Feature of thfe Season. New York.--1The people who make and sell blouses are complaining today and the demand for these garments is falling off because the one-piece gown has been found so satisfying, and the top-coat so comfortable. So they are. The coat suit was only intended as a strictly street garment, but it iias been adopted as a costume that serves all purposes, until one retires for the night, and from the way that hundreds of women wear it, one feels they are deprived of actual happiness by hav­ ing to discard it when the light is turned off. A falling off in blouses is always threatened as each season advances; and each season sees them selling like peanuts at a circus. Whatever one wears, one is brought up on the tradi­ tion that a certain number of blouses are necessary to happiness; they fit in where other garments fail, to satis­ fy. The jaen who make than, and nothing else, in New York, say they cannot take another order for six months, and that for six years they have not had a breathing spell even between the seasons. Smart women who- used- to .order their blouses from Paris, because of the exquisite needlework, have found this method made almost impossible TAILORED SUIT IN BEIQE. sit® -v - . VsX \\\\V It is of beige velvet, with buttons of red. The skirt is plaited, and the jacket is belted in the front and hangs loosely in the back. since the war, and* their orders have recently made specialists in this coun­ try sufficiently rich to thlfik of going to Europe themselves. Distinction In Frocks. No one who is going out to shop can fall to be bewildered by the variety of frocks that are offered, and wonder if they are all intended for the same oc­ casions. Velvet, Jatin, serge--very lit­ tle of this, however--velour, medieval homespun, and chiffon follow each other in rapid succession through the hands of those who sell. And when all Is seen, satin is usu­ ally chosen. The reason for this uni­ versal choice Is that it is the lightest fabric to be worn under a topcoat in the open and the smartest to serve In the house. Fashion allows satin to be employed with more frequency than any other material except chiffon, but the former is a better choice than the latter for no especial reason, unless It be that we are tlre<J of chiffon as we are of taffeta. No special pleading can make one turn to that silk today for any purpose. The really new note struct in fab­ rics for frocks is the homespun that is an imitation of the kind spun by the good wives of the middle ages, for they were not above such work, you remember; one of the proudest noblewomen of England was noted for the excellence of her cow-milking. She allowed no henchman to meddle "witii liils pfiit of lifcr many duties. , The master weavers pf Paris brought ^out thlssimgh, servic«able and really lovely iwterlal a yen* after the war started, ^jssibly for economic reasons, and the French women saw its virtues at once. It pleased tiem, even the smartest of them, to a dipt the mate­ rial of other, and simpler days when barons were at war all the hours of life, and the designers, falling In wltlfcj; the scheme of simple things. Invented those twelfth century frocks that wer#t * worn for nearly three centuries byt •*» f > their ancestors. In Homespun Effects. ^ « i " Callot has taken nip this homesptui. / i*/ » in the weave that is like that spui in India and worn by the Hindus, an s h e h a s e m b r o i d e r e d „ l t i n t h ^ & , palm leaf design which was fash* r ^, f' ionable under the reign of Napo* -," ^ leon. Other designers have built tha* homespun into severe frocks that hang't J? straight from the shoulders and arer" 'l girdled in below the waist with silked"'. • cord knotted at the ends. But the woman who chooses such * . a frock, while she will have the sat*x isfaction of knowing that it is in th# first fashion, must keep well In mlnd^ that its opportunities are limited. will hot serve for the theater, the resr" \ taurant or an afternoon reception oi!f; , card party. It is also heavy and* <> • ; \ ^ warm under a topcoat, and only gives* v ' " s i t s f u l l m e e d o f v a l u e i n t h o s e s e a - * % sons and in those climates that permi^r it to be worn in the open with nothing' additional but a set of furs., By thdl ^ v early spring, it may be in high favor. ^ Satin Leading OtHer Fabric*. ^ ,/jv On the other hand, satin in a thicife V weave seems to offer Itself as a fab^Jr is;^#^ ric for the majority of activities tha^„. f. fill up the life of the American wonw an. It can be stretotted far enough taj v "• "-C ."v 'V-A take the place of a coat suit if oneN must be economical. The dressmakers are using it fod.^Lk morning frocks worn by schoolgirls* £ for afternoon occasions that rang#^, r-EVENING WRAP. mm ittiiiS UNI •is"*? Increased Use /of Petroleum. The United Statfcs geological survey reports that theya was a marked In­ crease in the u^Sse of petroleum as a locomotive fuel >.>y the railroads of the United States fin 1915. The quantity of oil fuel so consumed last year was 36,648,466 barrels, an Increase of 5,- 555,200 barrels, or 18 per cent ov« the similar consumption of 1914. When J to 8how Appreciation. Never, never wait for post-mortem praise. Sp/eak the kind of words which love pr jmpts, and remember that words -of loving kindness are the best possible tonic which can be given, even to tNe happiest of the mortals.--Kate Tan-patt Woods. Irhproved Telegraphic Instrument. Af diaphragm and horn resembling a phonograph's have been invented to > ijinUe rr^iegraph instruments audi- I bio an4 save the qm of ^additional I wuuleit .t'zuk.' A . « « . This wrap by Martial et Armand is of rosfe velvet embroidered in silver, and trimmed with skunk. from weddings to restaurant dancing, for informal'eveniug frocks that serve not only the wqman who has few op­ portunities and less desire for the gorgeous gowhs that the smart set wears, but also for the fashionable' wom^n jvho wishes, for a time, to avoid the brilliancy of splendid eve­ ning attire. Along with velvet. It forms the foundation for the most Oriental and medieval ball gown, but in Its simpler forms it is in dull colors and merely trimmed with chain stitchery and a bit of -metallic thread. Gray has taken j hold of the public as a color that serves the several hours and the in­ troduction of much cut steel and tar­ nished silver thread gives the oppor-. tunlty for stimulating a dull color Into decided gayety. * \ 8lavic Designs. That early fashion in embroidery, where thick worsted threads were em­ ployed in Slavic designs is still sold in the shops that cater to a large trade, and there Is something attractive about its rudeness and elementary attempt at ornamentation, but it is being rap­ idly pushed Into the chaos of things that were, by reason of the preferred method of ornamenting with bullion threads. This is as Slavic as the oth­ er fashion, but it suits satin better. It is not held for evening gowns, but bits of it are spread over a wide range of garments. By tlie way, it is well to put your thoughts on fanciful chain stitchery, ' for it is to be in the forefront of fash­ ion during the winter. (Copyright, 1916, by the McClure News­ paper Syndicate.) can Crocheted Handbag^ Any woman who can crochet make herself one or the vividiy col­ ored bags of mercerized cotton. These bags are llned with silk and have draw- strings and promise to be very popu­ lar this season. > Bags and Hats of Chenille. Chenille is now coming to the for* for bags and for hats, as well as em­ broidery- NEW DISPLAYS SHOW STYLE I is wide enough for perfect freedom I without clumsiness. Any Woman Careful in Mtetfiloii of Materials Can Dress Modishly and Becomingly This Season. A woman dressed modishly but con­ servatively for the street looks uncom­ monly well this season, and even the more extreme tailored lines of the rath­ er severe type are distinctly attractive. As for the afternoon and evening clothes, only the woman with innate bad taste can fall to find something both becoming and modish in the new displays. There are «<mart plainly tailored suits meant for wear with fur sets or with­ out.. The best of these are not built upon th£ extreme lines, but following the new silhouette at a respectful dis­ tance, they are the best-looking plcHn tailored suits that have been seen in many a day. They are not shapeless, neither are they given over to excres­ cences. There are gracious curves in them, but they do not fit tightly at the waist nor flare too. radically over the hips nor at the skirt bottom. The skirt » This sort of a suit will -all tor 'nnlWk;tft'T"" ';' cleverness, jjart of the tailot®"> * v" than does the straight, shapeless Nor-*^^ folk sort of model, which with manyf^e; " variations has been so popular. It will^1' too, call for more shapeliness on thai i •' part of the wearer. A disinclination toSs^t** give up a comfort which has, with^^^ fashion's encouragement, led to utter-g, ,• ly careles^, unbeautiful and unhealth-^J, ful slouchiness of figure, will preserve®^' a certain percentage of tailored cos-^ , tumes cut on the loose, straight lines**?: and the high-collared models are a hap4f -- py compromise. But where a girli^f - passes wearing one of the new tailored^, • suits with its trimmer lines and moref^:.!;^ pronounced curves admiring glancesL ' follow her, and la time the leaven will ^ ^ work. ; % : Hatpin Holder. The discarded powder box with « perforated top may be made to duty for a hatpin bolder. The box mayv , - be covered with a piece of fancy rib-y|-,Ts^J„' bon or brocade, the edges finished wit||?.; ribbon if necessary. 1^5 * p** . "tP-3 vr&A .j V.K..IT. . t -.lit . I