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The Herald, 1911-10-27, Page 3Why let that headache spot! your day`s work or pleasure? Take SriKr4,.,n6i. 25c. a Box at your druggist's. Guaranteed to contain no morphine, opium or other poisonous drugs, by, the. 30• Stational Drug and Chemical Company of Canada. Limited„ . o w MoabreaL The Me Cr quer- Or, Illona's Two Escapes. "And to be brought up just in this Wretched hole of a place! And all your new toilettes for Baden-Baden lying in the boxes. And I had counted so much upon the Girondiate hats!" Baden-Baden i always dreadfully monotonous," remarked Illona, stiflinga yawn. "And the Plage costumes for Ostende," went on the; Princess, despondently. "The 1'renoh bathing -dresses." "Ostend! That means travelling over half Europe in order to see the same gg00oplongetrasse.that "are to be met on the Vienna 1Li "And the lawn tennis sults—" "I never oared for lawn tennis." "And the English yachting oostumes—" "Yachting always makes me sea -sick." "But you aro not sick the whole time; and think of the opportunities! The high - a t titles and the largest fortunes aro to oe found on board of yachts. Oh, Illona, lona, another summer will have passed and you are still—" ' An old maid," finished Illona, oom- posodly. The Princess Bank bank in her chair with a groan. With your millions of caprices it will Dome to that. I cannot yet understand Why you refused the Marquis Pleuretto." ']Because he dyes his hair, mamma, and I don't want a painted husband. It might aortae off when he's kissing me, you know." "Oh, Illona, I wish you were not so fri- volous! And there was Count Stumfenspor --his hair wasn't dyed." If Count Stumfenspor had had as many brains as he had horses, I might pos- sibly have taken him into consideration." "And Prince Sehnappingen?" Illona laughed a little wearily. ''Count Sehnappingen was in love with my gold -bags, not with Inc, and I don't want a bought husband any more than a Painted one.' Another of your caprices! But you can't say the same of hie rich cousin. That man's bouquets during the Carnival must have cost a fortune," "Possibly," said Illona quietly. "I know that I greatly preferred his bouquets to himself." But what objection had you to him?" "None, except that 1 didn't care for him." 'Kut, an nom du cell, There is nothing In the world that you' are for, child. Piere have I been taking you about for— ow many years is it? I shudder at the for— t ought. " ,in the winter it will be ten years since my Brae ball, mamma." "Don't speak so loud. There might be people listening. 'Verily, ten years! And on the 30th of this month you will be —" "Twenty-seven," said Illona. "Twenty'even! O'est terrible. Ten Car- nivals, ten summer -seasons, .half of the Yieuna aristroeraey at your feet,, and nothing mores yowl Are you made of stone, Illona, or of ice?" zllona mado no reply, but stared out in silence through the streaming pane. She was not unlike a fair statue of ice as site leant there, immovable, in her White draperies. Illona was tall and slender, with soft, brown hair, a well - poised head and delicate, clear -out fea- tures. Pier complexion was of that color- less sort which late hours and town•lifa aro apt to produce, but in this case the dead-whito tint did not lack a charm of its own. The finely moulded lips gained dmore vivid hue by contrast, and the ark eyes looked all the darker, They Wore strange, those eyes; they betrayed nothing of youthful vivacity, rather there was to bo read iu their depth a Spirit of world -weariness which accorded but ill with her years. Aud verily, it was no great wonder if Illona, now in her twenty-seventh year, had grown weary of the world. The plea - "Perhaps stay at home." "No, that is impossible, but I' shall have no time again for my letters, and then there is the long drive—Dou't you think we had better telegraph to Vienna for your- fur cloak?" "As you like, mamma, only it will pro- bably reach us after the garden party is over.' "Ma pauvre tete! That is true. But go we must. There is no ohanees for you, for of course there are no marriageable Eulenburgers, and the Duke's adjutant is in love with you already and you won't have him; but at least you can show a toilette. What will you wear, mon en- fant?" I don't know, mamma." "Perhaps the new torchon dress with the Russian embrondery?" "As you like, mamma," "Or else the blue with the Mousque• taire hat, although it is almost too good for Eulenburg." "As you like, mamma." "No,—I have it! The pale pink—that is the dress for the occasion. Illona, you will wear the fouilles de roses eerasees to -morrow, and of course the new corset de Paris." Illona smiled a little inattentively, but her answer was the same as before. "As ,you like, mamma." CHAPTER III. The amiable, elderly gentleman, who bore the title of Duke of Hirschkron, was, if possible, more amiable than ever, while receiving his' guests next day in the gardens of his chateau. Among the ladies there wore some who looked anxiously from their fresh toil- ettes to the thunder clouds over in the west, and from the thunder clouds hack again to their toilettes, but, on the whole, it was a quite passable sort of summer's day for a mountainous climate like Eu- leuburg. The group of bright dresses under the trees was diversified by dra- goon uniforms and by a plentiful aprink• ling of black, for it is needless to say that at this ducal garden -party ail the non-military gentlemen were in full even- ing dress. Just now Countess Ballaban comes min iug over the vast expanse of gravel whish 'lies stretched .before the doors of Hirsch- thal. For an inexperienced or diffident person the solemnities attending. an ar- rival at Hirsehthal were unquestiouably trying. To step easij ;r. and, if possible, gracefully over a $,age, conscious the while that the eyes of earlier arrivals aro following your movements with an any- thing but charitable closeness, to hit off the right moment for your curtsey, and last, but not least, to find your way into your own legitimate group, where alone you • will be in your proper place, all this constitutes an ordeal of: which ?nervousor inexperienced Eulenburgers have been known to dream, more than one night in advance. But Countess Ballaban was neither in- experienced nor nervous. The fine Hirsch- thal gravel had crunched several hundred times, at the very least, under her state- ly shoe soles. She always was very sure of her business, and appeared to -day to be even more so than usual. Scarcely had she reached the haven than she turned to her next neighbor, and said, still somewhat breathlessly, for the day was hot: "We aro going to have an addition to our circle to -day." "Really? Who?" was eagerly inquired. "The Szentmers. They have been oblig- ed to interrupt their journey." It tools but a few minutes to spread the news throughout all the groups, and now all oyes turned, more or less furtively, &tree which to moat girls are ladled out towards the entrance gate. spoonfuls she ha drunk of iu full The carriages had almost ceased arriv draughts, Since her seventeenth year the queen in every ball -room, surrounded with suitors, led, or—as she herself called it— dragged in triumph from ono fashionable watering -place to another, paraded in every Vienna saloon' for ever dressed ac- cording to the newest fashion, admired, adored and envied on all sides—what could the world still contain for her that was new? There were moments in which B- lom. put the question to herself, and there were moments, tae, in which she would have been almost ready to change places With her younger sister, who, being lar loss pretty, was also Inc less persecuted. Her early triumphs she had naturally enjoyed, but very soon this universal ad - her head,vhadhbegun so to ding hurled with in her. It was several years now since the mo- ment of quitting a ball -room had become to her much pleasanter than that of set- ting et eamelia footwithin was The iirere rritant, and' as ter hot -House violets she found their scout unbearable. Nothing seemed capable of attracting her attention. With her beau- tiful, tired oyes she looked at all 'her • ;Miters and looked past them. It was a gaze whish appeared to be always search - Ing and never finding, and which grew ever more tired with the fruitless search. The poor Princess could not under- stand her daughter. Was Illona deter - 'seined a tout prix to remain an old maid? Was it for this cud that this self-sacrific- ing mother had for ten whole years borne such huge fatigues? For this end that she had kept so strict a look -out upon her daughter's staylaces, and had actually waist spoken tofu ash the small st lintonVi- enna? i- enna? These pathetic reflections were inter- rupted by the entrance of a maid with a perfumed note. Al). three ladies gazed at it in astonishment. "Who on earth can be writing to us bare? An Eulenburger billet! as far as I can see," said the Princess, who had turned the note round, "there is Hirseh- thal' on the seal. That would mean that it is from the Duke." "Heaven guard us from an invitation!" said Illona to herself. But it was an invitation. The Duke, who had oftenmet the Szentmers iu Vi. mane, had heard of their interrupted jour- hey and requested their presence at a garden -party, to -morrow afternoon, at his summer residence; Hirschthal. • "O;f course we must go,"' said the Prin- ems, a little • excitedly. Of ooursel" repeated Diana with -a touch of bitterness, "But it will give me •a whole lot of things to think of. Ma pauvre tete! Dresses to be unpacked, carriages to be erdeted, and then to leave Gisela alone all Illona, don't you halee?Whshawe ; ing; every eligible Eulenburger was al- ready within the sacred precincts, and still these agonies? — or was it de- lights — of expectation trailed on. The iced Macedoine had been dis- posed of, and the younger portion of the guests, giving up all hope, had left their chairs at the suggestion of a stroll in the park, when once again carriage wheels were heard.. An old geutleman was seen to jump out, an elderly lady followed him, and finally a tall, slender figure in pale pink. There could be no doubt that she was magni- ficently built, but the features were not at once recognizable. Every step that brought' her nearer more distinctly re- vealed the delicacy of tint, the softness of outline, and by the time she made her curtsey to the Duke there could be nu more doubt remaining that the cele- brated beauty was equal to her reputa- tion. CPIAPTER IIL—(Cont'd) Thera followed a volley of apologies on the part of the Princess, waved, aside by the amiable Duke to whom that lady's no- torious unpunctuality was nothhtg new, then a series of introductions, and finally, at the end of a quarter of an hour of bowing and smiling, Illona found herself moving along one of the gravel walks in company ofsome dozen or so of her now acquaintances. On one side of her walked Mimi Engelsbrecht, on the other side the Duke's adjutant, Count Ram- bert, with whom she had danced ire- niveltlbut during many gthe past Carnivals. CCarnia Car, nivel Count Rambert had the goldenest and silkiest moustache, the bluest eyes and the whitest teeth that it would have been possible to imagine, and yob Moue veryd he re. uttedbyhis uteikevooe. '2o the inexperienced Mimi it seemed utterly incomprehensible that such open adore• Mon should be so coolly received. The straggly procession moved onwards, until at the entrance to a fairy-like pa- vilion, built entirely of birch -stoma and smothered in climbing roses, a halt was made. I have heard of this rose pavilion," said Illona. "The Duke told mo about it last winter." "And so did I." responded Count Ram- bort. "During the ootillon on Carnival Tuesday I gave you a oomplete picture of the Hirsehthal park. Surely you must remember, Princess. Illona?" "I ani afraid I havo forgotten," said Illona, • Perhaps the eotillon. music wag too land," suggested Baron Strobel, showing his teeth in an amiable grin. "You must know that we Eulenburg - era are very proud of $irachthal," put in Captain i{lmmel. "Hugely pr,'na,:' empb iiized venLJe lieutenant. "And the Duke gives splendid dint said the fat lieutenant.. "You will them, no doubt, in autumn," "No,. I shall certainly not enjoy 4 replied Illona. 'In autumn we shall bably be et the other end. of Entente ,P:u. forget that we are only on the . ,s through." Illona stood now surrounded by Jn," .• and on every fade admiration was zaftro or less plainly written. She was certainly worth looking alias she stood there in the deep tree she, Her wide straw hat. set off hor aneq.` s advantage. At the first glance her dit' appeared to 'savor of an almost Child!° o simplicity; but the artlessness was Jn e� ality nothing hat higher development: of art. • Princess Szentmee know very wol:l that the untrimmed skirt of pink art p- nat would serve to show off Illona' feat • build far better than more int draperies could have done. The belt i d broad sills sash might have been n nounced suitable for a child •of six yeance and yet eaoh fold and each turn of tife. ribbon had been .olosely studied and care- fully adjusted by the Princess herself. "Whatdo you think of her?" whisper- ed Lili Enrelsbrecht of Fanny Rosen, "Lovely!" answered the good-natured Fanny, but she said it somewhat sorrow- fully, for her cousin Fritz Strobl formed ono of the circle around Illona. "I wonder .she eau etand being .,laced BO tight," remarked Mimi. "' "Her hat is delicious!" sighedBaroneaii'' Lebra, who was feeling too pensive even to giggle, "I wonder ii I could managa: to copy it?" "And I wonder whether it would snit. you as well as it does her," retorted Lill,. a trifle sharply. Strangely enough 'a slight feeling of irritation seemed to have eprung up among the ladies. 'It is strange what newness does,'" -- philosophised Penny. . "Oh, those men!" murmured Baronep, Lebra. "Have they all proved unfaltk fol?" Yes, a]1 except one, but this ono be-,, longed to nobody in particular. It was the same young man who had played se passive a part the other day in the garten. He alone had not approaoltea Illona. The celebrated beauty seemed te. have made no impression whatever upiiti him. The exception was conspicuoua enough to attract Illona's attention. A. faint -curiosity stirred within her; she wanted to know why this one man dis- regarded her so completely. However is different she might be to the universal admiration Illona was not used to being Passed over iu this way, and she found' that she did not like it. When presently the straggly procession. moved on again, the temper of the Eaten - burger ladies still had no chance of im- proving. It is true that all the gentlemen, could not simultaneously walk beside the new beauty, but what consolation could be derived from this circumstance, seeing that their eyes and their attention alike. remained fixed upon that pink figure . in advance? It was not until the Thiergarten (pres served shooting -ground) was reached that the company broke up into smaller groups and Illona thus ceased to be .,the central object of attention. "Oh, look, that was a deer!" cried Mimi' Engelahrecht, excitedly. `Did you not see It? There, between the trees!" "I have just remembered that we loft the gate open," said Count Rambert, and he hurried back to close it, "Ah, now it has disappeared! • + But from that mound up there we shall be sure to see it. Aren't you coming?" And Mimi, in her anxiety not to miss the doer, took to running. Illona followed much more slowly. She folt no curiosity about the deer, but Mi- mi's childish interest.. did, after all, in - LEADING PAPERS • DISPI TSE L''ANGE S 'LSP FOOD. Thousands have no doubt reaxttii'e commendable articles recently ap- pearing in some ' of fhb 'leading American and Canadian papers on the use of alum in beaking. Until the Dominion Government follows the lead of England, Trance and Germany and prohibits the use of alum in foods, there isebut one safe- guard against alum, and that is to buy only a baking -powder which has the ingredients plainly stated on the label. 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Nei- ther were any other members of the com- pany visible. But after all, what matter ;was that? Either she would overtake 'Mimi within the next few minutes or else Count lambert would overtake her. It was so beautiful here in this distant portiort of the park that even the world- weary Illona could not resist the magic of the forest. Brilliantly green scraps of meadow -land contrasted vividly with the a , l dark tree -shade. R I heid m summer flowers were in full bloom; think moss spread a carpet under IlIona's feet, while here and there an opening in the trees afforded a glimpse of the yet wider depths of the woods. With every step the forest seemed ±0 darbieker. growing more entrancing, but also "Can the dusk have fallen so soon?" thought Illona standing still at last under a giant pine -tree, (To be continued.) flAN. •. .,,e HEALTH IP! PURE SUGAR Sugar is one of the bast. and most widely used foods. 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