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v t 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- HANDSOME FULL-SIZE DINNER SET FREE TO EVERY LADY WHO WRITES US WAS LOW WAGE CAUSE OF GIRL’S SUICIDE? | S^TrustYouwHh^* The Most Gmutu> Offer of the Century Our Goods/ Ever Made bvan Old Established House. READ AND BE CQIVIHCED. and Premiums. To gain a wider distribution for our strictly pure, hisrh-grade srroceries and family supplies, we now offer ABSOLUTELY FREE, a handsome embossed, artistically floral decorated, full size 54-PO. DSNNER SET for sale of 12 BOXES SOAP of extra quality ar.d finely perfumed, giving as premiums, with each box of7 large cakes. Bak ing Pov.-ger, Perfume, Talcum Powder, Teaspoons, Shears and Needles, (as per Plan 400) illustrated above. 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Simplvsend us yourl namea address and ask for this FREE PR ESENT. ] [LONGSHOREMEN CALL OFF GIGANTIC STRIKE tZy Associate! 1‘rith.> GALVESTON, Tex., Sept. 22.— I Three thousand' five hundred long- I shoremen, cotton screwmen and I Iraymen settled their differences to- lay and called off the strike which I iias crippled the Galveston water 'front for several days. w ^OUAITRY rJOME topkS £W)Ctet> 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 SAVE$I5*6$50 ON YOUR NEW BUGGY From the Golden Eagle Factory Diroot to You 190 STYLES IN •'NEC | 1LUJ -_ _ CATA- jfP HARNESS LOO Jm OOLOEII^tKSL TOO w EAGLE VCHICLES^Wftk WRITE FOR FREE CATALOG ISO N.w Styles at Whole. m j sals Factory Prtoss <- GOLDEN EAGLE BUGGY CO. 32-42 M....S1F..I ATLANTA, » —■ - . GEORGIA 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.)