CHAPTER t

The Women Ac roc* the Street. Thle U a etocr or atoiiea. eepe

* » yet tp**parab'.o

«J of wheel* a whir, the frolic and the

i of life. What a wotnai b is to her irtory. this tale Is : but at oijtht, when the gaicp l really fools nobody) la over,

e may be taken from the

reading lamp and Idly went orer the day's ©Tents. The puppy, sniffing the tobacco smoke which he thoroughly detested, retreated under the dlran he had hi* '•♦on's den of bones, palette-knives old tabes, brushes and what nots. From time to time Forbes could hear him rattling round some

thing.

Births, depths and divorces; murder. robbery and graft; striaes, wars and plagues; the subject-matter never varied, only the names and places could be called news He read *ltb

wondering who she was. the lazy Interest a wannedover yarn l, the brunette, the Venetian rod nbout the clever gentleman thief who October brown, on the street, at had baffled the metropolitan police for lo be restaurant It was a nearly a yaar. A well known amateur _

It was his detective was giving the reporter an j it. rescue the heroine march the rll the argosies j esposltlon of his view*. Here was an lain to Jail and all that. Heaven 1* scouring the j artist. (Forbes crackled the news ; witness of the plots for detective lor treasure; and whenever he paper peevishly: was there anything ' etorlca he has offered me! He has. I a pretty woman, bowa-oo he fol- left to which this term hni not been t>elleve. the best library of drecUve la her erake. He was an Ulus ! applied? Anybody who did his work Action In town. Well, his longings

him for bis manliness and indepun deuce; and the dowagers eagerly courted his favors, for like all artlstr he was an exceedingly well-informed gossip. He bad the faculty of leading them to the very lip of the precipice and then swerving them back before they bad time to look over. The most amiable kind of a gossip, always prom lelng 10 disclose something and never doing it; and having a good deal of quiet run out of It without hannieg

Every man who does one thing well has a craving to do another man s work badly. Forbes was always hungering for detective ’vork. He longed pick np the tangled akeln. unravel

; ho drew exquisite colored cov well was an artist. Rot!) »r the magazines and full-page The thief, declared the amateur, was i for the celebrated love *t» ! not a professions! Re was a man of Ilm of Mr. Popular Piffle. Indeed, he! infinite pnlencr. of Infernal clever- . shared honors with Piffle, and made nrSB. never took money, had made •Bite as much money. thre** daring raids end ceased further Every day now for a week, between to apply hit talent* To date the man three and four in the aflornocn. ahe had taken over a hundred thousand . had gone by. slim. trig, supple She i dollar*’ worth of Jewels.

Jy. for nobody but Somebody

lid have carried her head the way t did. Where her Journey began. V It ended, he had never bothered

! to Inquire,

to expect her at such a time h day and to realize hit expect* Her hair burned like a copper ■ In the sunshine, and her face

■ white

i and ended within three

Bo far. not a single part of the loot

had been offered to the known "fences." here or abroad. This was i the phase which puxxled and baffled

police. Now t? (Mr. Amateeri d to the theory that the thief was

a man who moved In the exclusive

(two more words Forbes

hated i from which the Jewels had been

By George! U he went joat now he purloined. Even the police admitted ‘d follow her. His Ingenuity would | that be possessed an Intimate and acis of meeting her. Inoffensive j curate knowledge of the hablte of bis knew women tolerably well I victims. But the geaiiu of the man jreur little milliner's saelvl 1 was made manifest In bis ability to

w way up to the stately esar-! t all the Rusaise their vanity

went unaatlafled. The onlv thing Hire) detective work he ever did successfully was to recover the new pa!ul tube* before the dachel poisoned him-

self.

He walked uptown, wondering who the mysterious burglar could be. He searched carefully among his large ac lly among the men

. . . Taa. this to . . Oh. that you. What? Eight tlB Deuces what* Oh.

j) game of poker, with the t paring for the dgars and JJeuees wild; 1 know; you # tto two-spot anything you What? Opening your at tonight ? ... In the WisiVu that* . . Why. *y a'btock or so away. . . . r*. Rather play poker

I a dash (nr hi* hat he studio and down the lly and recklessly- Too gone. He dashed Jill>k*r party breathlessly

bi» It would be Just

_ net, the unknown ig to forte* aside from W of her face and

Too Lata! She Wat Gene!

be disliked; but even then there was nothing tangible. Lota of duffer* gambled and didn't pay their debts I never went to Jail for It- If only bad a due of some sort to start with! He knew that be had the ablll ind It was a shame ha could find nJet m give him credit for po» seasing the chlefesl attribute of all

great detectives—hope.

continued on. whistling an one of the popular operas, thoughts, ever volatile, shitted from plots of criminals to the purbllndnesv of the general run of art editor* and their more or less slovenly mini the three-color process printers: the pretty girt he bad met at Cennee last winter; to the campaign tonight at poker. For once he was going to play 'em does; he would keep out of every pot that dealt him no two-epot: and when he got a real hand, he would play It hare!. With deuces wild even an open player like himself had a chance once In a while. He turned a corner, still whistling. The girl with the copper-beech hair; supposing she never went by again? Could he poeeibly do her from memory? Forward with swinging stride, twirling his cane and sometimes striking the ferrule against the flagging, pi eased with the spangle of anewertnc sparks: on toward the big drama. For he was only an Implement of fate, chosen haphazard to accomplish a

destiny not his own.

The Dryden wae a new apartment house, built especially for person* who bad plenty of money and too small * family for the upkeep of a large bouse They were given all the comfort* of home: valet*, maids, cooks, waiters and beUboys. more like a private hotel. There were ten apartments, five on each side of the ornate marble en trance Forbes ran eagerly up the steps; the doorboy swung open the

• the

tad the Temple of 1 be all the same

liked travel.

Forbes made for tbo stairs. The •levator (called lift here) was np. and he was too Im^tleut to wait. Besides, he wanted to surprise the boy*, mola diamstically. He scarcely paused at the first landing He would rather

l In his ,

JSo Scarcity of Gifts Because ofWar

ECAUBK of the European war there nas been considerable comment to the effect that there will be a dearth of Christmas toys this since the toy

Germany will not be available to American children. French dolls hare been the standard during at least

berg, Germany, is famed throughout the world as a toy center It must not be supposed, however, tat little girls will have to go without doll* this year. Several manufacturers In the United Bute* are log oat dolls by the thousands and they are of the veiT best type. One large factory In PhUadeli&l* to

type of Indestructihls doll from wood, which Is a light and really worked material and to not likely to spilt or break. Those who have made a study of this manufacture, in connection with the study of the wood-us-ing Industries of the state of Fennsylranla. predict that do Us of the type made by this and other similar fac-

es! u first place for At

made of different materiel. Rocking horses are usually made of white ash. In the native fareata, basswood occur* sparingly and very seldom in groups or in solid stands. In the lake states In particular It to aawod Incidentally with other Umber, but the logs are usually kept sepr rate and generally sawed tn accordance with standing orders from special Industries. K to umixed for many other products besides toys, because It has quallUee which fit It for a wide range of uses. It to one of the softest of the so-caUed hardwoods. It lacks taste and odor, to very easily worked, does not warp or check badly, to tough and takes paint very well. It It one of the wood* preferred for boxes to tala food products likely to be contaminated by the tastes or odors which might be derived from other wooda For the earn* reasons It finds considerable use In the manufacture kitchen wooden ware. It Is In w demand as a material for house finish and a great deal of it goes Into the seen parts of furniture and musical instruments. Other Important uses tor trunks, picture frames and

In farmers' wood lota, in particular, it Is a tree which should be favored.

It to a fairly rapid growi

In this branch of manufacture. Thus, j to free from defects and U usually

Painting the Feature

Ob* to growing

wait. Was there e woman

unlucky speculation? Horse* and cards? Or was It what be i sir. A us teur) had stated In a previous article: simply a brilliant hoax, a practical Joke, a careless wager by an Idle rich young man. who. when the time ar rived, would quietly reetore the Jew el*, give a dinner and then search

about for some new abnormality? At I play poker then eat. And In his any rate. In his opinion the Benlllon . uberance ho failed to bear the warnsystem would never get bo!d of the lug call from the doorboy. who had man to measure him for future Iden come on that day and was not yet acUfication. curat sly versed In the topograph' and In this Mr Amateur was perfectly | occupancy of the apartments Forbes correct They never got hold of the : continued hi* rapid ascent, two steps man Almost, however; only an aim * 1 at a time- He wanted lo be at the length away; *-dutch, a distance mix door at precisely eight like thsi old Judged, and off he went. Into specu. chap whaf* hls-nsmc la “Kouud the like an exploded atom. World In Eighty Days."

He tiptoed Into the private hall, the outer door being unlocked. There wa* a light over the tranrom. He could see them in hla mind's eye. Jtllson Wheodon. Jones. Oartyls. Mil ler and Crawford, peering Into their hands, thdr faces like Buddha gods He Helened. Not a sound, in the middle of a play, no doubt Btealihllv

photographer; so Forbes j he put bis hand on the knob, turned irked in the beat of light*. In the ! and pushed It with the cry "PoilccV m , , nand* of his Japanese valet he on hi* Up*. The word died there, dry lad and r dresaed well, dined well, adding to | ly. He aaw no poker game In action. . And night a pint ui* v oamnertln; went out Inau-ad. n nun In evening dress, lull the studio again, smoked and ! masked, knelt with hi* back lo an ned of the wonderful thing* i open safe Aa for the artist, he raied which he very well know be would j panl-stricken Into the round, black.

trade slogan. "Made tn the ; salable. In selling this tree from *

U. 8 A.." will have a direct bearing j woodlot. the department of agriculture

via*

1 It Is Better to Climb for It as Seeker* Have Lesmjd—Open Season Begins Early in

Fat. Jollp. red-faced, full

Hr * been kvepInK tab os each or

In the picture he'* looking to

rblch Uadi's hove mind'd their parent*.

Which yoanratcre have ‘ If you have been good an.

*] HE hunter took deliberate )] aim and fired Into the blgb- | it branches of a swamp eUn. m Only a bunch of foliage, cut from Us supporting bough by the charge of bird shot, fell a yard

or so away. £

Old SaatsTI bring yea a lot

comment of a "tenderfoot*' who j •trained his eyee b object of the shot "Missed nothing." cam' 1 der - *- ♦‘•id and grave, "Shootin' greens." he ad» mixed dry. by of explanation He plqft or hoe. Water clump of loaves fieckqfa!. a HtUe at a U berrie* and threw tntiixtnre Is mu*b* t three or four pound* o too much water is m reward of hto margsaui. ore no , , , The open season for will leak out «- gtna early In Decemb*r.<i e the Kansas City Star, a. until only a day or so to* i* ^ ^ mag. or. In the lean year 0 j*, sr/J crop to exhausted. l nr fc ^ a ‘ - d! "shooting* - mistletoe I'd part displaced, taowevffl

the crop and carrying 1* ti in sack* siting f"ur» their *■ That p leaving the h gun method the c the globules ft the fall to «

varying day by day according to t quantity offered. The true mistletoe to a European ' evergreen, but It* American ot-osin resemble* ft so doeelr aa to baffle sC but botanists. The leaves are of the ‘ same yellowish green and the blossom*. alike In color, give way In turn ; to the wax-like berries. Botn are parasites, growing on the bough* c deciduous tree*. Apple 1

mat yelknr-halTsd dotlle that's gain* to Motly to oa* present ehe might have had.

For Molly behaved herself nicely.

Her Is cruel to kittles. It'* That Freddie's mother had of Mildred and

And Henry—the boys Tbere'e a red sled I

Henry a Jab

Playing war with hla Ha

Bob. and tor

Dick wfll wake up >o And a new tool Phil will get those shin', .i: new ak Joe's football outfit *urr will pleesr He can now go and play with hla mate*.

Their good trails old Santa C As be con* the long list o'er ai

Look! he's smiling U

In shifting the earner cf doll manufac- | advisee that It should be held for ape tore from Europe to America. ! eta! prices and not told In a lump with

The following toy* are now made | others.

In this country from American woods: j Basswood has several advantages at Toy animals, blocks, epinon and forts, a standing tree In the woodlot.

CHAPTER II.

Why Hurry?

Forbes lived the way of most bachelor painter*—a kitchen, two bedrooms and the studio, which was nothing lees than e huge living room. Upon a time It had been ccupled by a fash

* that the girl with 3 the eop,'iey-b'< ' h ae. knocking at hi* reek with that per I accords oi.!y her

never attempt, let alone arcompllch. He was much In demand scdallv. le was witty, clever, good looking, with real talent back of his popularity The young married people and their Junior* never omitted him from their

American Architecture.

Blr ChHetophcr Wren, the archl who built St. Peal's cstbedrsl

frolics: be had a perfect right to play | Ixmdou Is again comlug

a fashion

done bad been to sit tight In • and wonder who ehe < . uc again U'tnor ahmbed beck lo the studio Kfca elevator boy opened the d.v.r B»d toesed la the evening newsp.ix-r nought the comfy-ehair under tht

with them. HU family history was very good, so good. In fact, that his cepabtllly of taking care of himself of standing on his own Inga made him

rather Intereat'ug to know

He danced well, never went beyond moderation tn tippling, paid his loser* and took bts gains at cards with an equanimity cf heart and countmsiu, truly oriental. The old men liked

children'* coelr, clrcu* seta, doll*, doll furniture, game*. Christmas tree holder*. awing Jumpers, children's ,,tanoe. pastry sets, babies' play yard*, toy shooting galls rice, hobby horses, pop guns, toy wagons, toy autoe and wheelbarrows. Basswood Is the principal material for wooden toy* and for wooden parts of metal toys. The barewood doll. In particular. Is unique and Ingenious. All parts of It are made of wood and are artistically carved and enameled In color. It to difficult to tell that h is made of wood when It is finished. Tbr various porta of the body are Joined with steel bands which not only give great flexibility and freedom ot movement, but together with the wood make the doll practically to-

destructible.

Next to basswood, sugar maple, beech, birch end while pine are the principal woods used for toys, although elm. oak. chestnut, sab. yellow poplar and other* enter into toy manufacture. Pennsylvania, which stands first among the slsles In toy manufacture, alone ueee the equivalent of nearly •.500.MO board feet of Urn her for toy*, with a total value cf 1182.000 each year. The total amount of wood used annually In the Halted

the first place. Us blossom* furnish • considerable source of honey which to always In good demand, and when the tree U cut It readily reg'r.eratas itself from sprout*, the be*t of which should be favored In reproducing the stand.

Our “‘"■letaias Customs.

Most of tb< Christina^.-uvtoms tn

America bare been transplanted from Kurope: Our Christmas tree comes from Germany, our Santa Claus from Holland, the Christmas storking from Belgium or France, while 'Merry Cbristmae" was the old English greeting shouted fron window to street op

Christmas morning.

The Optimistic Note.

It to a time for Joy and gladness •ind good >hc«r. lor tbU o'd world, with ail Its faults, to on Ha way fo-

rward* the kingdom of hca)

omniiKttence of love assures' Its get-

The most practiced m-hitecu are adapting his style to modern cocdi Ilona The Influence which ha* sc long been indirect It now becoming • drtintu- w hoc.) end Is exerting l fn.fc end powerful effect upon American nrcbllecture. HU etyle Is chiefly di* Ungushsble by H* tasteful renal* Hunt spire rising not (rum the root, but from lu own bees on the ground.

a own bae^ o

BUtes for toy manufacture 1* nearly tlnc lhprc _ ^ t , mo every ^ wlM n.COO 000 feet, and the principal tov ^ , h< , bp , t of chrlrinn. every place manufacturing etntee after l*nnosyl- , u alur of obterraac ,, and every soul vania are. In order. Wleconeln. Malna ^ tr , n ,rcrm«l Into the Christ «f hto Michigan. New York. Ohio. Vermot leader.

Mnssnrhueetts and New Hampshire Basswood Is the favorite for such toy* a- animal*, uoata dolls cirrus sets si. 'dren's planes. Blocks end dolit' fu. unarc and my sMhiclc* are generally made of white pine. Stick aoreee with a borae's bead and a sUck to ride upon, a more pretentious variation of the oU-taehioned broom

tore© *-• likely to be made of white * '" due although the stick brad may be £<rvi-<•

That when Christinas bell

. holiday thin*

Will bring to each good a

little f<

That obedience, klndnsea. good c Are the (hlng* mamma wants aa

Toy In ft*nl«^nan»' rarer. Oh. bear.

JlnsUng and Ua-

How lb* slrlghbella

Ming.

How the reindeer ere prancing to bo Bklmmlng along o'er the housetop*. Unmindful of void. Ire or enow. Banin's peek Is rramrasd to o'crfiovrtng; Is your name ou hla visiting fiat? Now In bed abide, down tbs chimney bstl

•lids

Prepared. "I'm going to have s fin* time st Christmas.' sold one young miss to another “Mr. Hoggins Is coming to our party, end he to color-blind, you

'Does hie color blindness add to your enjoyment?" asked bur friend. "Esther!" was the reply. “H. thinks all the holly-berries ere tulstlo-

The n part h « —— the spear with which Hottrru the life of Balder, the whiter of summer, who s st Raganarok. twll and doomsday of t the old Noree ie| Among the Drill mistletoe found g believed 1 healing far msi

n which the r Jlrectly t certain old K ““ ' rives today. ths Christmas t every ardent swain who nasth I shadow lories tribute of s hto* m each half-resisting maid who pa: may know their hearts only bow rites centuries old and born wt> » Yule logs flickered through esfi , lighted halls on wintry nights; \ir,l fairies ruled; sway; when n

Had On* Already.

"1 don't know what to give Uxsle for a Christmas present." one cl girl is reported to have said U. __ mate, whUe discussing the gift to be

made to a third.

"Give her a book* suggested the

Thay were married st the be* J isr-'' **» - ^ » from each ether. mu« w„. _ o dsri.-ag,- whtopured.l tell m. h ConUno ^- “I want I teU me how much yon intend I n tbit * l ChrUtm “ 1 ■» that I Cfcn calculate bmoney I shall have left to l

Remember the day* when you ‘ were little, and plan your ^

Christmas accordinglv

i Christmas. ‘merer crowned

° n » Popular |

« to eew tb* b “l children at u