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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1913.
THE EVENING STORY
HIS
A NATION-MAKING
$Y BISHOP
(Copyright, 1913, by W. Werner.)
ANSWE R
BOOK
W. A. CANDLER
Everybody In the slum district knew
the doctor. Everybody, from the
grandmother with the patient face fur
rowed by time and time’s tears to the
little' bit of anatomy barely able to
crawl to him, loved him.
When first he came among them his
youthfulness had been looked upon
with suspicion; his insistence that cer
tain sanitary rules*, he laid down be
carried out. treated with contempt,
until it was discovered that in spite of
his boyishness he was adamant, when
grudging respect was given him—a re
spect which gradually coupled up with
devotion when he proved himself not
only a capable physician, but the best
“friend in need” the district ever had.
Workers in the club settlement who
had induced him to come to the dis
trict for “experience” were constantly
.hearing tales of his skill, and of the
peculiar faculty h e had of forgetting
to jot down calls he made on the poor
est of his patients.
"You’ll never get rich down here,
doctor,” one of the settlement people
remarked once, “if you don’t send in
bills."
The doctor's smile was whimsical.
"Getting experience, am I not? Isn’t
that what I came for?"
"Perhaps,” was the tentative reply.
"Sometimes I think that this work is
becoming a big factor in your life.”
"A mighty big one,” tersely. "It’s a
strenuous game down here. It brings
to the surface the red blood in a man;
it seems something particular^ worth
while, and I like it. In fact, I think
my year or so’s ‘experience’ will de
velop into a life interest nothing , can
eclipse.”
But that was before he met Miss
Manners at the settlement. She was*
there with a group of society girls
interested in slumming. And Miss
Manners, with an authoritative into
nation in her voice laughable in the ex
treme to the doctor, was giving her
views on the subject of sanitation,
when, In one of his casual glances out
the window, he uttered a quick ex
clamation of alarm. In an instant
he * had left the room and was back
with a child of the slums.
He made no response to numberless
questions save the snapped out “Brush
ed by a truck,” until he had examined
the inert little body and the child’s
eyes had opened. Then for a moment
the doctor’s winning smile was visible.
•'Not so bad, little chap, as I feared,
but I’m going to fix you up right away
H I only had a nurse—”
“Can’t I help you, doctor?” Miss
Manners was very eager. “I have seen
an anesthetic given, and I could hold
things, couldn’t I?”
After a moment's hesitancy he accept
ed her aid.
It was when the operation, during
which he had marvelled at her helpful
ness, .was over that she showed for the
first time the sjgns of strain. He
caught her as she staggered and wheu
the momentary faintness was over told
her she had done splendidly.
“I’m glad,” she said, simply. Then
as she withdrew from .his supporting
arm, her eyes looked into his with won
derfully touching humility, but they
were quickly drooped—in quiet amuse
ment, had he but known it—when his
own showed warm admiration. Miss
Manners was an adept at reading tell
tale signs. No one knew better than
she when young men were impressed.
And the doctor was impressed. So
much so that as the days which fol
lowed saw Miss Manners a frequent
visitor at the settlement, “impression”
merged into admiration and admiration
evolved into love. And all he had was
the living he made as slum doctor.
He smiled bitterly as he thought of.
her father’s income, and he tried to
avoid her and get the better of mis
placed affection. Succeeding so bril
liantly that on the evening when she at
tended a concert at the settlement and
was more than usually kind about his
work and shyly concerned that it was
developing into overwork, as he escorted
her home in her limousine, he found
himself telling her what she had come
to mean in his life, and learned that
his love was returned.
In the first days of their engage
ment he lived in a state of supreme
happiness. It was wonderful after an
unusually strenuous day to return to
the bachelor quarters and dream of the
happiness in store for them and plan
for the future. He never had a
thought that plans are oftimes merely
dreams until h e woke up one day to
realize that Miss Manners only smiled
gently when he spoke of these lofty
plans of his, invariably bringing to his
notice the careers of their most emi
nent physicians, dwelling for long mo
ments on “ambition” and “exalted po
sitions.”
“Ambition is a great. thing,” he
would always concede, “but mine does
not soar toward an ‘exalted position,’
that’s all. I want to count, little girl,
down here where I’ve elected to cast
my lot, and I’m going to put up a
fight to do so.”
Then smiling inscrutably—or was it
pityingly?—Miss Manners always
changed the subject.
Early in the summer she left with
h^r family for their country home,
where the wedding was to take place
in the autumn.
“Better throw up your work,” her
father said to the doctor at the sta
tion, “and join us.”
“The bread and butter wagon might
object,” was the smiling rejoinder.
“Pshaw! What’s that?” Father’s
voice became suddenly confidential. “1
like you, boy, and I’m going to make
“I’M GDAD,” SHE SAID SIMPLY.”
a..piighty big settlement on daughter.
Ywon’t need to worry about the
dollar^. Daughter and I have certain
plans, too, tha,t you’re going to hear
about very shortly; and—”
The doctor welcomed, the interrup
tion which came. His farewells were
almost in silence. He walked home in
a dream, even forgetting the letter
she had handed him at parting that xie
was to answer that nigh ; without fail,
she had told him. His thoughts were
infinitely remote just then. He was
very young and he was in love, and
the money question had, somehow, re
mained in the background. He made
a fair living, sufficient, with economy,
for two; but, evidently, it was sup
posed that he would live on his wife’s
income.
His wife’s income! It didn’t sound
good to one who prided himself on high
ideals. He was frowning when he turn
ed into the home street. And when
he entered his quarters, instead of pick
ing up the old corncob and dreaming
over the rings of smoke as they curled
upward, he paced restlessly back and
forth in the surgery.
Suddenly he thought of her letter. He
opened it forebodingly. It was as he
had feared—the unfolding of the won
derful plans. Father was interested, so
she wrote, in a sanitarium for the fash-,
ionables. and desired her doctor to be
head physician. It would be very fine,
she assured him, with a splendid salary,
and his name would be known through
out the country. It was very dear of
him, of course, to want to devote his
time to the creatures in the slum dis
trict, but he must know that her ambi
tion for him would not tolerate. Nor
would her family ever consent to the
commonplace life he had mapped out
for her. She would expect his answer
at once, telling; her that he would not
aliow his talents to run to seed in the
slum district.
Her letter fluttered to the ground.
The frown of worry became a frown
of pain. His work that he had been
so happy in before the one woman came
into his life, among the “creatures” who
had come to love him, was considered
of no moment; it was merely “talent
running to seed.”
He was about reading her letter again
when the surgery bell rang and it was
hours later when he returned from the
call that had been urgent. He had just
witnessed a hard battle between life and
death. life and he had won; and
though he was tired and spent, his eyes
were triumphant, and it was his old
smile wreathing his lips as he recalled
the adoration in the upraised eyes of
the mother who had tried to thank him
for saving her little one.
Once more the pipe went unnoticed 1
and he returned to his writing desk.
And his answer? The doctor’s tal
ents are still “running to seed” in the
slum district; and he is still a bachelor.
But he is very happy, and liis name
stands high on the list of doctors whose
ambition it is to work where the game
Js strenuous.
Big Gain in Tax Values
VALDOSTA, Ga., Sept. 19.—Valdosta
tax values promise to make the biggest
gain this year that they nave ever made
In one year before. The exact figures
are now available, but City Clerk Hol
comb has gone far enough to show that
they will be considerably above $800,000
and will probably reach the million-dol-
lar mark.
W E HEAR periodically of how
Christianity Is about to die,
and how the Bible is fail
ing into utter neglect; but somehow
nothing of the sort comes to pass.
Voltaiire, for example, boasted that
while it required twelve men to write
Christianity up, he would ypove that
one man could write it down. He
set himself to the task very earnest
ly, but he failed to make good nis
boast. The very printing press at
Fernley, upon which were printed his
virulent attacks upon the religion of
Christ, was afterwards used at Ge
neva for printing the Bible. So also!
the house in which Gibbon wrote the:
closing chapters of his “Decline Aud!
Fall of the Roman Empire,” a work|
in which he sought to undermine |
Christianity, was after his death
transformed into a hotel, and over!
the door of one of its rooms used by
a Bible agent was placed the sign,
“This Is a Depot of the Bible.”
In recent years we have heard oft
en of how “the old faith” could not
live “in this scientific age.” Even
some who are called preachers and
are drawing salaries for talking non
sense in pulpits have united in the
cry. But facts seem not to justify
the statement that the “old faith”
is perishing. A number of scientific
theories have gone to the scrap heap
as late as the recent discovery of
radium, but the “old faith” seems to
he going bravely forward.
Here, for example, are some facts
about the circulation of the Bible
during the last year.
The British and ForeigD Bible So
ciety sent forth 7,899,0 >0 copies.
The Bible Society of Scotland issued
2,359,985 volumes of the Scriptures,
and the issues of the American Bible
Society amounted to 4,049,610. Thus
the Bible Societies of the English-
speaking world alone circulated in
one year in “this scientific age” a
grand total of 14,308,595 copies of
the Bible. If to this huge sum we
add the number of copies circulated
by such publishers of the Bible as
the Oxford Press, Nelson and Sons,
and others, the aggregate would
mount still higher.
In our own country the organiza
tion known as the “Gideons,” a body
composed of some of the brightest
business men in the land, have placed
189,930 Bibles in the hotels of the
United States, the hotels of Califor
nia leading the list with 34,052
copies, and Ohio, Iowa, and Texas
following close behind in the order
named.
In the new Republic of China the
agencies of the American Bible Socie
ty have circulated up to the present
date in 1913 over 1,000,000 copies
of the Scriptures, and it is expected
the circulation will reach 2,000,000
by January 1, 1914. The writings
of Confucius, China’s revered sage,
have had no such circulation; nor can
those writings ever have in future
the circulation and esteem to which
they attained in other days.
If Christianity were dying and
the Bible falling into contempt and
neglect, these things could not be so.
Matthew Arnold pointed out the
source or the Bible’s perennial pow
er, when he said years ago, “To the
Bible men will return: and why?
Because they can not do without it.
Because happiness is our being’s end
and aim, and happiness belongs to
righteousness, and righteousness is
revealed in the Bible. For this sim
ple reason, men will return to the
Bible, just as a man who tried to
give up food, thinking it was a vain
thing, and he could do without it,
would return to food: or a man who
tried to give up sleep, thinking it
was a vain thing, and he could do
without it, would .return to sleep.”
Some men talk flippantly of the
inspiration of the Bible, saying,
“Certainly it is inspired, and so are
the writings of Homer and Virgil
and Dante and Browning and Tenny
son.” This sounds very broad-mind
ed, but it is in truth very shallow
and very silly. Do men return s to
Homer and Virgil and Dante and
Browning and Tennyson as they re
turn to the Bible? Could not man
kind better spare all the other books
that were ever written than to under
take to live in a Blbleless world?
There is some quality in this book,
or rather some quality in this collec
tion of hooks, not found in any other
writings, and whatever we may; call
this quality, it is something without
which men can not get on well. Per
haps, we might as well call it inspi
ration, as our fathers were accus
tomed to name it.
Pascal said long ago "there is a
vast difference between a book which
one , makes and throws among a
people and a hook which of itself
makes a people;” and the Bible is a
nation-making book. The greatest
nations have been made by it. The
explanation of the fact that the
greatest Bible Societies in the world
are in the great English-speaking
nations is that the Book has made
these nations, and they seek to give
to others that which lies at the foun
dations of their own greatness. Even
Professor Huxley, with all his scep
ticism, perceived this, and said,
“For three centuries, this book has
been woven into the life of all that
is best and noblest in English his
tory; it has become the national epic
of Britain, and is as familiar to noble
and peasant, from John O’Groat’s
House to Land’s End, as Dante and
Tasso once were to the Italians.”
This is really an understatement of
the case; the Italians never did live
on Dante and Tasso as the British
people, and all the English-speaking
peoples, have lived for centuries on
the Holy Scriptures.
It is within the memory of living
men when an African embassy, bear
ing from Madagascar costly presents
to the late Queen Victoria was wel
comed with royal honours to London.
In response to the question concern
ing the secret of England’s greatness
which their Prince had hade them
ask of the British sovereign, the great
queen handed them a copy of the
Bible and said, "Tell your prince that
this book is the secret of England’s
greatness.” Who will dare say that
she was mistaken or spoke falsely?
The greatest nations draw their
lives from the inspiration found in
the Holy Scriptures, and this indis
putable fact shows the supernatural
quality of the Book, setting it apart
and above all the writings of unin
spired men. Wendell Phillips said,
“The answer to the Shasters is In
dia; the answer to Confucianism is
China; the answer to the Koran is
Turkey; the answer to the Bible is
the Christian civilization of Protes
tant Europe and America.” Speak
ing to the same truth of the Bible as
a nation-making book, Thomas Car
lyle said, “The period of the Refor
mation was a Judgment Day for Eu
rope, when all the nations were pre
sented with an open Bible, and ali
the emancipation of heart and intel
lect which an open Bible involves.
England, 'North Germany, and other
powers accepted the boon, and they
have been steadily growing in na
tional greatness and moral influence
ever since. France rejected it; and
in its place has had the gospel ot
Voltaire with all the anarchy, mis
ery, and bloodshed of those ceaseless
revolutions of which that gospel is'
the parent.”
These facts wjiich bespeak in un
answerable power the value of the
Bible are known and read by all In
telligent people. Why then should
any man seek to weaken the hold of
the Scriptures upon any other hu
man mind? Such efforts can not
overthrow the Bible, but by them in
dividual and national life may be Ir
reparably damaged. Wherefore said
Lord Macaulay, “Whoever does any
thing to depreciate Christianity and
the Christian Scriptures is guilty ot
high treason against the civilization
of mankind.” And our own revered
Chief Justice Joseph Henry Lumpkin
declared, “Banish the Bible rrom tne
land, or what is the same thing, suc
ceed in loosing iti hold on the public
mind, and my word for it, the ex
periment of self-government will
prove a failure.
The source of much of the loose
living socially and loose theorizing
politically now prevalent m our coun
try is in the evil influence which has
issued from un-Biblical and anti-
Bibllcal teaching in the land during
the last decade. The revolt against
the safe-guards of the constitution
and the rejection ot the saving truths
of the Bible have an lnseparanle con
nection of cause and effect, and the
latter is the cause of the former. If
the foundations are destroyed we
must not be surprised when the su-
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IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THE
RELIGION OP THE SOUTH?
I have been reading with ardent in
terest the discussion of the tariff bill
in congress and also the currency bill.
Both bills (as I see this subject) are
extreme and need conservative modera
tion, but I chanced to read what Con
gressman Hardwick, from Georgia, said
in a public speech. It appears in the
Congressional Record of September 12,
and I note his declarations. While he
made free to condemn the currency law
and boldly declared it unworthy to be
enacted into law; that it had serious
el.ments of danger, and would certain
ly create trouble in the future, yet he
was “going to vote for it” for he placed
the party he belonged to over and above
these forebodings and these manifest
dangers. Said he: “I want to say that
down where I come from, the love of
the Democratic party is almost a re
ligion.” “This bill in many respects vio
lates my conceptions of the fundamental
principles of Democracy on this great
question and is dangerous to the coun
try.” He also said: “We make sacrifices
because we love the party, and I will
make a sacrifice when I vote for this
perstructure begins to topple.
That acute Frenchman, M. de Toc-
queville, who next to the Right Hon
ourable James Bryce is the best for
eign critic of American institutions,
said, “Religion gave birth to Anglq-
American society.” Our country will
throw away its birth-right ana run to
ruin, if it does not speedily return
from its backslidings from the faith
of our fathers.
What will the men, who decry the
Scriptures, give us in the place ot
the Bible, when they have succeeded
in discrediting the Book, provided
they can successfully discredit it?
Their own vain talk? That is not
sufficient to steady even themselves.
They hop from theory to theory, like
a foolish bird hops from limb to limb
in a tree, hunting insects to feed
upon; but they give us nothing after
all their theorizing which satisfies
themselves even, let alone other peo
ple.
We all have trials to bear, temp
tations to overcome, and duties to
discharge; and we can not endure
our trials, triumph over our tempta
tions, and faithfully meet our duties
without some invigorating moral and
spiritual inspiration. The Bible
brought to our fathers such a source
of life as we need, and nothing has
been brought to us which is at all
adequate to take its place.
It will be time enough to denounce
and renounce the Bible when the
rationalists and liberalists have
brought us something better by which
to live. That time does not seem to
be near at hand. Drivel in the mag
azines, or even in the pulpit, is not
food upon which men can live in the
kind of world which we inhabit.
bill.” “The proposition that these gen
tlemen (Democrats) give us as a remedy
reminds me of a doctor’s proposition,
who treated a man for acute indigestion.
The doctor said to his patient: ‘Go out
and eat al you want. Eat more and
more and more and more and if that
does not kill you, you will get vwell.’
I am afraid that is what this bill pro
poses, after you boll It down.” “Will the
patient die in this case?”
As a Georgian myself, one who has
vital interest In the progress and pros
perity of our common country, I cannot,
for the life of me, discover the need of
such a rabid cure for the financial indi
gestion of the country.
Nevertheless, it will be enacted into
law and for the sole reason that down
here, where we live, according to Con
gressman Hardwick, we make the Dem
ocratic party “almost our religion.”~”lf
the bill is wrong, unsafe, unsound, dan
gerous and a troublemaker, we should
either change our votes in congress or
otherwise change our religious tenets.
MOTHERS WARNED TO BE CAREFUXi
ABOUT NURSES.
The advice of the state board of
health to mothers who hire nurses for
their little children is timely and per
tinent. The statements thus made are
alarming as to risks and dangers. I will
only allude to the subject this time
and give their reasons more fully at an
early date.
There has been nothing more impor
tant given out by the state board of
health during my recollection of such
reports.
We are extremely particular about
taking lewd persons into our houses as
companions, but we know absolutely
nothing about the moral characters of
the majority of our cooks and house
maids as well as nurses. They can spend
the night in all sorts of company, yet
they will come into the kitchen and get
a breakfast and we will eat it without
any thought as to the company they
keep or how they live at home.
But.I will write a longer notice or
review of the latest declaration from
the state board of health on the ques
tion of nurses for the children that you
are so careful about in all other sorts
of ways, and yet you are so easily pleas
ed when you pick up any sort of a nurse
to handle it.
The question of character is not con
sidered at all.
WHY DO WE AVOID IT?
A scientist writing on the immortality
of the soul, says, “Where among the
educated and refined, much less among
the masses, do we find any ardent de
sire for the future life? It is not a sub
ject for drawing room conversation, and
tlfe man whose habit it is to button
hole his acquaintances and inquire ar
dently after their souls is shunned like
the ancient mariner.”
The clergy do not discuss death un
less it is from the pulpit, in preaching
funeral discourses. Our newspapers do
not discuss it, although It is the one
certain thing that comes to human ex
istence, namely, the end of life. They
will grow frantic over strikes and money
panics, and print pages on baseball and
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society entertainments. They headline
everything- like a presidential election,
or rumors of war, with inch-length
capital letters, but they, only write of
dying peppla from the viewpoint of the
present, n<*t of the hereafter. Thou
sands upon thousands of generations
have appeared on the globe and they
all disappear In one way, namely by
the death route, but we do not meet in
convention, or caucus, or by organist
associations to confer together ao,r*l
this going away. VV e may see death's
mark printed for months on the faces
of our nearest and dearest, yet we avoid
the subject as if it was treason or
sacrilege. We flatter them with the
hope of continuing life instead of talk
ing with them of the inevitable hereaf
ter, and what it means. The gay and
the giddy repeat with monotonous
weariness the same old vices, and the
same old follies, just as they did in
Noah’s time when he was building the
ark. They do not seem to care a penny
for the life to 'come. “Let us eat and
let us drink, but do not bother us about
the grave and what follows death."
There is no talk of excursion privileges
on the last trip that stops at the ceme
tery. Pray! Why do we habitually
avoid it.
If we were stopping in the United
States for a few months and knew we
must move over to England or B’rance
to live the rest of our lives, which
country would be more interesting to
us? Which would we talk about most,
certainly oftenest ’Suppose we knew
that we had to sail very soon, and leave
certain ones of our family to come on
later, how frequently would we talk
about the trip and the necessary part
ing? You know and I know of people
who never open their lips to talk to
their own, their nearest and dearest,
concerning the eternal trip, the one thal
is certain, of the journey that cannot be
indefinitely postponed during all theli
intercourse with them.
They have their wills written, they
prepare for children's comfort and sus
tenance after they themselves have de
parted but they are mum on the life
after death. When death comes the )
shock also comes. If we believe in the
immortality of the soul, and in God’s
pardoning mercy, and the reunion after
death; why do we think about it ’ so
little and talk about it less
In a> word, I repeat again:
Why do we avoid it?
FAMOUS ACTRESS LOSES 70 POUNDS OF FAT
Texas Guinan, Star of the “Passing Show” Company, Offers
Her Own Marvelous New Treatment to Fat Folks
NEW TREATMENT GIVES ELEGANCE OF FIGURE AND STARTLING RESULTS QUICKLY
If You Are Fat and Want to Be Thin, You Can Reduce as Many Pounds as You
Desire By This Astonishing New Method
As Texas Guinan hail to perform at tbe matl,
nee it seemed tbe easiest thing In the world to
arrange an interview without consulting her.
The vigilant stage doorkeeper was easily passed.
Tlie dressing-room was hospitably turned open by
a maid, and then—well, Miss Guinan, that is,
what is left of her, appeared.
“So you have come to learn the story of my
weight reduction, have you?” said Texas in her
breezy style, with her glorious countenance
beaming in smiles at her supreme gladness,
realizing how appreciative tbe world was in*be-
stowing admiration and applause upon her, ail
on account of the new glory of her
form, which she transformed almost
as If by magic with her own mar
velous new treatment.
“While you are not going to get
away with my secret,” said Texas,
“it Is true that my seventy pounds
of weight reduction was brought
treatment, but it cost me a
pretty sum of money to learn
about with my own delightful
of it, and I am not giving
my secret of how I lost my
weight free to reporters, but
I have written a book tell
ing all about this wondrous
new treatment wbich rescued
me from the thralldom of
fat. This book has just
come off the press and is of
fered free to fat burdened
men and women, as I early
learned in life that the only
w a y to know happiness was
to give it to oth e rs, and if
by letting the world know
of this harmless, quick meth
od of reducing weight I can
do a great good, then I will feel
that I have not lived in vain.”
“But won’t you give me an lakling
of its component parts? Just a sug
gestion as to what it is, or will I
have to be content to read your free
boob telling me all about it?”‘~
“That is exactly it,” said Texas, “but I don’t
mind telllug you wbat the treatment is not.
It does not consist of internal drugs or medicine;
there is nothing to take internally. Neither is
there any pink colored camphor water, or worth
less, harmful stuff to rub on the body. There
is no sweating, no bandages, no Turkish baths.
The treatment does not consist of a single
exercise or physical culture of any description.
There is no diet. One may absolutely eat all tbe
food they desire of any kind, and go right <>n
reducing without depriving themselves in any
way.
“There are no enemas or Hushing of the colon,
no harmful massaging, no sweating garments to
wear, no immerging yourself in hot baths with
the tub filled with obesity water or epsom
salts, nor does it include any medical concoction
of any doctor, and it has nothing to do with any
drug store prescription to have filled. There is
no formula to carry out, no soaps to rub on the
skin; neither Is it a religious faith cure or
Christian Science stunt. It is not a vibratory
electric massage treatment, mental suggestion—
no, and It is not a belt or mechanical device
of any kind.
“I have tried many such fakes. I tried drugs,
pills, capsules, harmful concoctions to rub on
the body. T have tried sweating and taking
Turkish baths, exercising, physical culture and
everything known to science without result, and
without losing weight. As I was about to de.
epatr and give up in disgust all further efforts
MISS TEXAS GUINAN.
God's masterpiece and the most fascinating
act r ess in America.
to reduce my enormous weight, which was two
hundred and four pounds. T, by lucky accident,
learned of the most simple, harmless, rapid,
safest fat reducing treatment on earth. I tried
it on myself with astonishing results. My
friends stood aghast in amazement, marveling
at the wondrous change in my appearance. My
fat just rolled away. After the first three
days I noticed It beginning to leave me. My
reduction grew greater and greater until finally,
I was almost appalled with (relight when I
realized the stupendous sucre-- of my efforts
and when I awoke to the fact that. I had re
duced 7(> pounds of my fat without leaving a
wrinkle, and the glory of my new figure and
the. grace and beauty of my < urvep gave me
the admiration of the world. t enjoyed the
triumph of my life and the success of my whole
career when my manager, Mr. Shubert, on ac
count of my glorious new figure, made me
the star of the ‘Passing .Show.’ and, mind you.
this very same manager had said T was doomed
to oblivion Just a short time before when 1
tipped the scales at two hnudred and four
pounds. I was crushed and bewildered when
he told me be could not give me a part in the
I asslng Show unless I could reduce my enor
mous weight, and my heart hangs heavy with
the memory of the fat days that are gone
when my fat, ungainly figure made me realize
^ 1 was doomed to despair and failure.
.. 81,cc ? 8 » iu Inducing lpy own fat proves
that there Is no such word as ‘fall.’ I sitn-
ply would not be resigned to «ny fate, and
although everyone said ‘Texas, there is no
way out of your dilemma/ and tolfl me that
no fat reducing specialist could reduce my
1 ,1e tormlned not to give up in despair. .
with the result that I absolutely conquered >
. fat ; Mr new - Kreat book on obesity,
which gives full particulars of my simple, safe
quick, harmless fat reducing treatment, Is now
ready and will be sent free to all wbo wish to
reduce their weight aDy number of pounds.”
It is simply astonishing the furore this new
treatment is causing among tbe Intimate friends
of Miss Guinan to whom she has given it A
letter from tjie world's most famous dancer
La Petite Adelaide, says: “Dear Miss Guinan:
r^t me congratulate you upon the high excellence
or yotir remarkable new obesity treatment,
which I find reduces me as rapidly as I de
sire Sincerely, Adelaide.” Other letters of
praise and gratitude are pouring in to Miss
Guinan from all parts of the country from those
who have reduced with her successful trent-
nient. Louise Brunelle. the Quaker maid, one
of the earth’s greatest beauties, states she lost
ten pounds the first week with this astonishing
new treatment. It Is Said this renin rkable
treatment is not unlike the treatment used
by the court ladles and famous actresses of th**
Old World, who have been using a similar
remedy throughout Europe, and the remarkable
thing is that Texas Guinan is the first to
introduce it in America. Her free book, wbich
is now ready for distribution, should be re
quested by all who desire quick reduction. It.
is written in a fascinating style. It explain*
how, by ber treatment, Texas Guinan. who is
acknowledged America's most successful star. •
reduced her own weight seventy pounds, and
conquered tho monster FAT.
This glorious little wouiun Is doing her ut
most. to benefit fat men and women who are
in need of a perfect home treatment. Every
thing will be semt to you in a perfectly plain
package so that in your own room, away from
ail prying eyes, you may plan to reduce your
weight at once. Miss Guinan wants to help
all who are burdened with superfluous fat, and
thereby make her life really worth while.
Write her at once, aud learn the anguish
she felt when her girlish beauty started to
develop to abnormal proportions. Read of the
tears she wept when that monster “fat” made
her realize that she must give up her profes
sion and fade into oblivion. Learn liow she
experimented, liow she tried everything and,
finally, with patient effort aud determination
she conquered her fut. Learn of these things
so you may improve your own form and destroy
your own fat so it will not be longer uoeessarv
for you to suffer the Jibes and sneers of ornern.
Remember there is no exercising or physreni
culture of any description in her treatment, jib
harmful massage or worthless poison Isutv j/%.
tions. You may eat as many meals daily a?,
you desire and go right on rapidly reducing.
A most astonishing part of this fat reducing
treatment is that it does not produce wrinkle?
or leave the skin flabby. All who have boon
dieting and starving themselves, trying to iV 1
duce their weight, and who have been takinv
exercises and Internal lmtbs and who have beer
taking internal and external remedies, should
write for a copy of her great FREE book on
titled “RAPID WEIGHT REDFCTION WITH
OUT EXERCISE, DIET OR INTERNAL REM
EDIES.” so that you may start to reduce your
burdensome fat as rapidly as yon desire. Sim
ply write a brief letter or a postcard and ask
for her new book. Everything will be seat
absolutely free. To not send any money, be
cause it is absolutely free.
Address TEXAS GUINAN, Suite 695, L&nco
Building, Lob Angeles, California.—(Advt.)