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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1913.
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7 he Evening Story
Her Value
(Copyright, 1913, by W. Werner.)
Saturday evening: the Clover club of
the Young: Women’s Christian associa
tion save a party to one of their mem
bers. She sails for bonny Engrland
this week and this grave her friends a
chance to be with her one more time.
None of us know that we shall ever see
her again, as her home is over there
and her parents, of course, want her
wiu* them, but she loves Atlanta and
the “Y. W.”
“How did she happen to be here?”
I hear some of you say. There is a
brotner here and when she came to vis
it him two years ago she liked Atlanta
and her associates so much thatt she
got into the business world and has
made such a name for herself that her
employes hate to see her go.
The party was given Saturday even
ing because almost all the offices and
many of the stores close at 1 p. m.
that day, thus giving their employes a
chance to do something for themeslves.
From 6 to 9 were the hours set and
very promptly the guests arrived. Some
were in suits, some in their newest
fall costumes, and some took that op
portunity to wear their prettiest sum
mer dresses, for the girls are infomral
in these parties.
Each guest was decorated as she en
tered the Y. W. C. A. rooms with two
tiny flags, one was our own U. S. and
other Ada’s flag. Over the pi
ano was a beautiful British flag, and
the decorations were green and white,
the club colors. Delicious fruit punch
was served, and later a dainty supper
of chicken salad, pimento sandwiches
and nabiscos.
Every member of the club is a fac
tor in the business world, yet they find
tim 0 for their club meetings once a
week and an occasional frolic, for “all
work and no play” is as bad for Jill as
it is for Jack. Their parties do not
cost them a great deal, because they
prepare the refreshments themselves.
Those pimento sandwiches were made
by two sisters after they had been be
hind counters all day long. The com
mittee in charge of the decorations
went straight from their typewriters to
the Y. w. C. A. rooms Saturday and
had things ready when the first guest
arrived. Every year the club gives
some sort of entertainment to raise
money to send delegates to the summer
conference and pay incidental expeness.
This June they sent two delegates
from ‘ their own club and also paid
all the expenses of two girls from a
big factory. That was something
worth while for it opened a most de
lightful vista to those girls.
I wish every girl that comes to this
or any other city could be induced to
join the association right away and
tnus get in touch with the club life of
the girls. In so many ways it is a
help to its members. The girl who be
longs to a “Young Women's” club has
the finest sort of social opportunities,
bae also is sure to be looked after in
sickness or sorrow. I could tell you of
a dozen instances where they were vis
ited in sickness, but I can only give
you one:
A girl came here to learn a certain
business. Before she had been here long
6he-was taken sick. A timid girl, she
had made few acquaintance^ except
among her immediate associates. Some
of these were members of th£ associa
tion, and when she was sent to the hos
pital it was reported to the Clover club.
Thinking that she would have few vis
itors the girls appointed certain ones
to send her post cards, one every morn*
Ing and another in the afternoon. The
morning card was to have a jolly idea
and the other was to give her a bit of
comfort for the weary hours of sleep
less nights. From the treasury was
taken money to buy her a growing flow
er and the girls took up a collection and
sent her money to buy ic ecream once a.
day, for she was under too much ex
pense to afford ice cream, and to a fever
ish girl nothing is nicer,
I went to see her as often as 1
could, I was there one afternoon when
she spoke so beautifully of the way
the girls had brightened her hospital
life.
“I think I shall always remember it,”
she said, “for I believe I shall go to
heaven when I die, and that may be
very soon and even in heaven I shall
remember.”
I asked her if she was suffering more
than usual. She said no, that she
felt stronger and was freer from pain.
That night God’s messenger called for
her forever, freed her from the ills hu
manity is heir to.
There were five marriages among the
Clover girls last year and each one had
a shower or a dainty reminder; so you
see the members are cared for in sick
ness and in health their pleasures are
added to.
You won’t And a jollier set of girls
than these association girls. Once I
chaperoned some of another club, the
S. I. S. P. girls, on an evening’s frolic.
Ponce de Leon was in its palmiest
season. We took our supper with ns,
and in a cosy nook enjoyed that.
Then we began at the beginning and
saw it all. Twenty were in the party,
and the idea got out that it was an
excuqpon from one of the girls’
schools, and various courtesies ♦ were
extended to us. That, club has done
some splendid philanthropic work, too;
so you see they do not join it and
fall into a sanctimonious rut. They
are like Leigh Hunt advised his dear
little girl to be—they “do noble
things,” not “dream them all day long,”
and would blush to know that I am
telling you of their kindnesses.
There is so much that is horrible,
that is discouraging, that is debasing,
published every day it seems that
each of us should try to find some
thing encouraging, something uplift
ing and enlightening to tell when pes
simists publish the other.
This Chat is like life—it shows the
sunshine and shadows; and to each
one who reads it .1 can only say, “The
blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich;
and He addeth no sorrow to it. He
hath showed thee, O man, what is
good; and what doth the Lord require
of thee but to do justly and to love
mercy, and to walk humbly with thy
God?”
Do these things, and a peace the
world cannot give will keep a song in
your heart at all times. So believe
this woman, who is
Faithfully yours.
LIZZIE Ci THOMAS.
TRUE AND BEAUTIFUL.
'Tis first the true and then the beautiful,
Not first the beautiful and then the true;
First the wild moor, with rock and reed and
pool,
Then the gay garden, rich in scent and hue.
’Tis first the good and then the beautiful,
Not first the beautiful and then the good;
First the rough seed, sown in rougher soil,
Then the flower-blossom, or the branching
wood.
Not first the glad and then the sorrowful,
But first the sorrowful and then the glad;
Tears for a day—for earth of tears is full,
Then we forget that we were ever sad.
Not first the bright, and after that the dark,
But first the dark and after that the bright;
First the thick cloudy and then the rainbow’s
arc
First the dark grave, then resurrection light.
’Tis first the night, stern night of storm and
war;
Jx>ng night of heavy cloudy and veiled skies;
Then the fair sparkle of the morning star,
That bids the saints awake and dawn arise.
—HORATIUS BON AH.
TWO GOOD SUGGESTIONS
Dear Miss Thomas: Some of these days there
will come a wise man, or woman, who will
show us a way to do all our housework in
half the time that we now take. True there
are all sorts of devices now. I have a fireless
cooker, and can stay away till the last minute
and find all that I put in it just right. I have
a gasoline iron and can talk to my friends
and do the work, provided I don’t get too
emphatic and run that iron up to the scorch
ing point. I Want a vacuum cleaner as soon as
I can get two neighbors to go. in with me,
they are too expensive for my pocketbook,
and are not needed every day. I know a
woman’s club that bought one and rents It to
its members. It has more than made its price
for the club. I don’t see why some enter
prising girl does not get one and make her
Christmas money helping her neighbors with
their fall or Christmas cleaning. It would be
silch an accommodation that she would be
considered quite a public benefactress. Had I
the time I would certainly invest in one and
make it pay for itself.
Won’t some of the readers tell us of their
summer or fall work, and how they intend to
make their Christmas money? We might help
each other with our plans and suggestions.
HELEN WHITE.
WHO WILL ANSWER THIS?
Dear Miss Thomas: Two children are In
school, two are at home and one is in heaven.
Four boys on earth and a dear little girl among
the angels. Her little life was only three
months, three months of keenest suffering,
therefore we saw from the first a loving Fa
ther’s hand in her removal.
My husband is not a rich man. I have had
to work hard and there is no other prospect
for any of us. True, I’ve lived comfortably
and have been able to stay at home, but there
is a terrible burden on the mother of a grow
ing family If the Income does not reach all the
way. I’ve made ends meet, but It has taken
systematic work to do it. I know just what
my husband can hand me every week and I
try to supplement that by all sorts of devices.
I’ve bit on one now that I hope will be a
pleasure to the whole family. A friend gave
the boys a pair of Persian kittens, they have
become staid cats now and the boys have
sold three of their kittens. At first the idea
of parting with the beauties almost broke their
hearts. I reasoned with them and showed them
how Dice it would be to have $10 to put with
some I had and get father a new overcoat.
That appealed to them. I would have hated
for them to sell their pets solely for the money
itself. There will be time later on for them
to be taught to bailk it. Too many children
are thinking of their parents as money-making
machines. As you have said so many times.
Miss Thomas, selfishness is back of nine-tenths
of the unhappiness in the whole world. The
love • of money is said to be the root of alJ
evil, but from selfishness springs that love of
money. I am often troubled about a “symp
tom” one of my sister’s boys shows. He is
an affectionate child, but what he gets he
holds on to. His brother is only fourteen
months younger and always has the same things
Rachel Vernon was pressing: her son
Steve’s trousers in a hot kitchen on a
mid-summer afternoon. Her back seem
ed broken in twain. Sweat dampened
the edges of her gray hair and the.
hand that held the flatiron burned like
fire.
Rachel was a flat figured woman, with
lean brown arms and hands. She had
never been pretty and middle age had
ruthlessly deprived her of whatever
charm she once had. Wifehood and
motherhood she had accepted as her
Zt was very hot in the kitchen.
sacred destiny, and neither her husband
nor her four children ever had heard her
complain that she was giving more than
she got.
Yet now, with her strength worn to
the last shred of endurance, with her
whole body mutinying in one violent
ache against more toil, she raised her
eyes $o the window and looked out at
the day’s washing swaying on the line
and wondered at the ways of Providence
which made environment for woman
without consulting her as to its fitness.
Rachel had eyes that looked very dark
in her sallow face. They saw farthelf
than the gleaming washing and what
they saw made her shudder. For she
was beginning to doubt the scope of her
own physical endurance.
“What will become of them if I give
up—if I have to give up?” she thought.
“They are so dependent upon me. But
I must not give up yet.”
The screen door opened and a little
girl ran in from the back porch. She
was six years old and proportioned like
a fairy. Like a fairy, too, she was an
exquisite thing of radiance and beauty.
“Mamma,” she gasped, “look!”
She held up a tiny bleeding finger.
Her big blue eyes were full of a pained
surprise at the hurt.
Rachel smiled, knowing the nature
she had to deal with. “Oh, it's’ only
a little cut. I’ll bind it up.”
She neatly covered the hurt, then she
kissed the child tenderly. “All right
now, dear, aren’t you? Then run
away,” she said. “Mother is busy.”
“I want to iron, too,” pouted the child.
Rachel reached down a toy flatiron
from the shelf, took a towel from a
near-by drawer and gave them to the
qhild. . “Now you can iron, dear.”
She drew a long breath as she watch
ed the child make her elaborate prep
arations for ironing. The make believe
task was to her as serious as the real
one. And yet how different! “You
mustn’t bother, dear,” she said. “Keep
your work over on that side of the ta
ble. You see, these are Steve’s pants
and he wants them to wear to a party
jtenight. And I've a great deal else to
do before supper.”
Rachel was beginning to feel a little
giddy. It was very hot in the kitchen—
growing hotter from the range and the
concentrating rays of the afternoon sun
each moment. That was, of course,
what made her feel faint. It would
pass away in a moment. She was of
late somewhat afflicted with vertigo, es
pecially when it was hot. She rested
oxi her iron looking at her child’s bent
head with its aura of gold. Suddenly
the air shifted and spun, the little at
tentive face blurred, the opposite wall
drew in and blackened before her sight.
She felt herself going, cried out. grasp
ed at the air and fell crashing, with
her head an inch from the iron edge of
the stove.
Presently she knew' a great commo
tion was about her. The telephone bell
was ringing, a doctor was bending over
her. In the backbround familiar faces
showed, blurred somewhat. She heard
voices considerably softened, but did
not care to distinguish what they said.
Then upon all this confusion uncon
sciousness came a second time.
Daw’n around her. She knew it was
dawn, that gray, cool light which gath
ered between blank white walls. Blank
white walls. Why, all her walls were
papered! And the woman in seersucker
—nurse! She moved her head, spoke:
“Is this the hospital?”
The woman smiled. “Yes. All is
well. But you must not talk. You
must rest.”
Cool, competent Angers slipped from
her wrist to her forehead. Something
was held to her lips. She swallowed
and—slept.
Days pased before she was able to
think connectedly or realize exactly
what had happened to her. Then she
learned ^hat her fall was the outcome
of a physical collapse; that she just
had missed braining herself on the
edge of the stove; that as it was she
had broken three ribs. Two or three
times each week her family came to
see her fo r a few minutes. Her hus
band usually brought Katherine. The
boys came singly or together. All
acted shyly in that environment and
in the presence of the nurse. They
did not talk much. Yet they told her
that they were getting along nicely.
They had Mrs. Griggs in to do the
work. She came at 7 and stayed all
day. She was very good about looking
after Katherine. When she was
not there they looked after Katherine,
Yes she did worry-
given him that Charles has. But If it la de
visable you may count on Charles having all
of his share put away and he will be enjoying
George’s. He does not take it by force, of
course, and Nellie tried punishing Charles but
it hurt George, too. Their father laughs and
calls Charles “a shrewd trader.” But I don’t
think the underlying principle is just right. T
watch for all such in my boys and they never
pass through a day without hearing me ask
the question “Is it honest?” I don’t want
them to be so generous that they will have to
be taken care of in old age. I believe in putting
up a little that really, costs self-denial, but I
don’t believe in putting up one’s own and us
ing another’s.
I wish some of the other mothers would tell
us how they are working out these problems, j
And I think it is a little as the mothers who i
have worked them out can do to tell us how
they managed. As we go along a public high
way we find red lanterns, or pieces of timber
across the dangerous places, telling us not to
walk there. Why can’t some of the older
parents show us how to avoid the weak or dan
gerous places along life’s road?
Sincerely, GEORGIA HOBSON.
No, she needn’t w<TPry. There was
nothing to worry about—she would
find there wasn’t when she got home
again.
Yet she did worry. Lying there in
her cot, carefully tended by a nurse,
who put the personal element into
her work, she could see behind her
closed lids every corner and cubby
of her house. Yes, Mrs. Griggs would
look after it well enough. The fam
ily would not suffer. They would not
miss her. Ah! That was why she
worried, why her heart grew heavier.
They would not miss her—she who
had tried to fill so large a place, to
make herself indispensable to them,
to impress her personality on their
very souls. She had stepped out and
her little world went on, not as if she
had never been, but certainly as it
it could get along without her. Some
times she felt that she could not bear
it silently.
In time she came hot only to dread
going home, but to feel that she did
not want to go home at all. She had
been forced to see her own inadequacy.
How could she go back and take up
v/hat had been wrenched from her
hands? They had learned to do with
out her. They must now learn to do
without her.
The time for her departure from the
hospital arrived. She was still weak,
but better than she had been in a long
time. There was no longer any excuse
for convalescence.
Her husband came with a cab to take
her home. His manner was contained.
He seemed to have got a great way
from her. So indeed had they all.
Her heart beat fast as the cab turn
ed into the narrow, familiar street, and
faster as it drew up before the house
where she had lived all her married
life. Her husband stepped out and
opened the door. He led her up the
steps and into the house. Her children
were all there. They came forward
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(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—A de
termined eiN>rt to compel congress
to act on the proposed amendment
to the constitution- which would give
nation-wide votes for women is to
be made during the week of the con
vention herd, beginning December 1
of the National American Woman
Suffrage association.
Arrangements for the convention
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by Dr. Anna Shaw, president of the
association, who will be the principal
speaker at the opening meeting; by
Judge Julian Mack, formerly of the
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Special attention is to be given
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LOO A
The lessons during the past quarter
have covered that part of the history of
the Children of Israel which dealth with
their distress in gyut, their deliverence
and subsequent disobedience. They be
gan with th record of the people in
such distress that they were in destera-
tion. They described the discovery of
the child, Moses, subsequently to be
their leader; his and preparation; his
efforts to arouse the nation and to
supplant the broken spirit of the peo
ple by such courage that they dare not
bringing upon the Egyptians a terrible
retribution for their wrongs upon Israel,
his learing the people out of Egypt and
on their way to the promised land. We
follow him past the springs of Moses,
through the days, and among the moun
tain tops, until we come to the plain of
Er Rarah. We see him draw near to
the mount where God was and disappear
in the cloud covering the mount, and
assend Es Sufsafeh, where he received
instructions for the institution of the
worship of Jehovah. Watch him as he
comes down, forty days later, and find
him righteously indignant at the people
quietly and kissed her. It was the
calmest of welcomes. She sat down and
looked about her. All was in good or
der seemingly. She had no fault to
find. Yet she wanted to cry. Instead,
she asked:
‘Did my fern die?”
“I guess not, mother.” It was Steve
who answered. He rose and went into
the next room and came back with his
arms full of green luxuriance. “I saw
to this myself every day, mother,” he
said.
“And I looked after your window
box,” put in Ted. “Mother, it’s a
dream.”
She was beginning to wonder very
much. These careless boys had proved
themselves not so careless after all.
Presently they led her up to her
room and there she found a transforma
tion. It had been done over in the
color she loved. There was a new rug
on the floor and a new sewing chair.
“We all saved for that rug,” Steve
said. “I guess we got the one you
wanted. We tried to.”
She stared about her, her eyes swim
ming. “It£s beautiful—beautiful,” she
murmured.
There was a silence while they all
crept closer.
“We missed you, mother,” Steve sai<L
softly. “Gee! If you had seen ur
trying to eat and crying over every
mouthful.” -
“I guess yes,” breathed Ted and
Dick.
Katherine clasped her mother's knees.
“Dad and the boys said I was real
brave for a little girl, mother,” she
confided.
Her husband wiped his eye*. “It’s
been a terrible experience for us all,”
he choked. “But, thank God, it’s over
and we’ve got you home safe and
sound.”
One after another each added his
quota to the budget of general thank
fulness. And so Rachel was made to
know the truth that ever after was to
enrich and sweeten her whole life. She
had her value after all and the knowl
edge was worth all she had paid for it.
for having forsaken God so soon, and
having made the Golden Calf. We catch
a glimpse of the spirit of Christ in him
as he goes back into the mount, and
intercedes with God not to destroy His
chosen people, but to blot him out, if
necessary, that the people might be
saved.
There has quite a change taken %*-*ce
among the people themselves. under
the cruel system that Pharoah instituted
they had become disheartened, cowed in
spirit, and without hope of ever being
able to realize the promiss which God
hade made to their fore fathers, to
Abram, Isaac and Jacob. By a very
cruel plan the king of Egypt was en
deavoring to wipe them out of exist
ence as a nation, while preserving them
as servants; by destroying all the male
children that were born, it was his hope
within a generation, through marriage,
to mingle their blood with the blood of
his people, and thus ©perpetuate them as
slaves, haroah had not reckoned God
into account at all, and Israel’s ex
tremity became God’s opportunity Next,
While the plgues served to terrify the
Egyptians this also served to sertngth-
en the spirit of the Israelite’s. Dis
couragement began to give place to hope,
and the spirit of the people was hearten
ed eo that they were able to acquire
their independence • of life which was
necessary, to their strength as a nation.
Encouraged by those evidences of God’s
powers they were willing to near God’s
servant, and followed him through the
Red sea. The mfirvel of it is that they
should have ever doubted God after
that; but when some few weeks later
the monotony of the desert road made
them discouraged with their lot, their
supplies having been exhausted, they
complained, first of having no water to
drink, and then of the water getting hot
ter, and then of the sAmeness of their
food. If it wasn’t one thing it was an
other. Finally their discontent cul
minated in the idolatrous act, when, un
der the leadership of Aaron, they wor
shiped the golden calr. With the for
mation of this image, they became guil
ty of idolatrous practices which always
accompanied the licentious worship of
idols among the heathen.
THE GOD OF ISRAEL.
The great truths we have been learn
ing as we have studied these lessons
are not the details concerning the peo
ple nor lessons of Moses’ life primarily,
but about the God of Israel. We cannot
understand the teaching of this unless
we appreciate the broadness of the plan
for God’s people of which this has
been a mere section. We must realize
that God has a plan, that for the devel
opment of His plan He had chosen Ab
ram and had given him a special prom
ise which He was sure to keep. God
had not forgotten His 'people when they
were in Egypt. He finally established
them in Canaan. Though often they re
jected Him, just as often He forgave
them. Today for ^disobedience God has
let his people be in darkness but He will
bring them, when the King comes back,
where* they will acknowledge him and
through the restoration of Israel the per
fect plan for the whole world will be
perfected. You can see. therefore, now
only a small section in God’s plan. But
while he had apparently forgotten them.
He had not taken His thoughts from
them for one moment. He shows Him
self through His dealings at that time
as God who hears the cry of the dis
tressed, and as one to whom we can
turn in our distress, and know He hears
and answers. We see Him as a God who
delivers His people, and as a God who
cares much for the comfort of
His people, their physical needs,
that he gave them food to
eat and water to drink; for not one
day did they lack anything Iftat was
necessary, and during their whole forty x
years’ wandering, their clothes waxed
not old. and their feet did not swell,
so minute was the care God gave to
each of them.
He gave them a vision of Himself and
of His will, which in its essence shows
Him as holy, and majestic, and as
utterly incapable of sin in any form.
He revealed His will to His people that
they might know how they should walk,
so that He might make them a kingdom
of priests and a nation whose chief
characteristics will be holiness. Best
of all, He showed Himself a God ready
to pardon, merciful and gracious, slow
to anger and abundant in loving kind
ness. When they forsook Him, He did
not forsake th&n, but forgave them
freely when they sought forgiveness.
Did you ever know the meaning of
the word 'loving kindness? It comes
from the Anglo-Saxon word kinness,
the relationship we bear to our closest
of kin. Those relations sometimes are
not all that they should be, when they
are controlled by loving affection—then
we have loving kindness or loving kin
ness such as that which God displayed
in His relations with the Israelites as
those who deal in the most loving way
with the nearest of kin. And this,
above all others, is the most glorious
picture God gave us of His dealings
with Israel.
As you go back over your own life,
how like the Children of Israel you find
yourselves — distressed, discontented—
disobedient. That sums up all of them.
As you think of the great provocations
you have given God you can appreciate
the truth of Nehemiah’s description of
Him. I am sure that you will say from
your heart’s experience “Thou are 8
God ready to pardon, merciful and gra
cious, slow to anger and abundant in
loving kindness.” If you cannot, shut
yourself up in a room and stay on your
knees until you catch a glimpse of your
own life and His, and until you acknow
ledge Him as Your God.
FAMOUS ACTRESS LOSES 70 POUNDS OF FAT
Texas Guinan, Stal* 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, Yoii Can Reduce as Many Pounds as You
Desire By This Astonishing New Method
Alien Statistics
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—There
wer* 138,244 Immigrant aliens ad
mitted to the United States during
the month of July, according to sta
tistics made, public by the bureau of
immigration.
As Texas Guinan bad to perform at the mati
nee it seemed the easiest thing In the world to
arrange an interview without consulting her.
The vigilant stage doorkeeper was easily passed.
The dressing-room was hospitably turned open by
a maid, and then—well, Miss Guinan, tbat is,
wbat is left o't 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 the world was in be
stowing admiration and applause upon her, all
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
1 have written a book tell
ing alJ about this wondrous
new treatment which 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
way to know happines* was
to give it to oth®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 iakling
of Its component parts? Just a sug
gestion as to what it is, or will I
have to be content to read your free
book telling me all about it?”
"Tbat is exactly it,” said Texas, “but I don’t
mind telling you what 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 singlo
exercise or physical culture of any description.
There is no diet. One may absolutely eat all the
food they desire of any kind, and go right on
reducing without depriving themselves in any
way.
“There are no enemas or flushing 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. I 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.
and. giro up -la 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, I, 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 threo
days I noticed it beginning to leave me. My
reduction grew greater and greater until finally,
I was almost appalled with aellght when I
realized the stupendous success of my efforts
and when I • awoke to the fact that I had re
duced 70 pounds of my fat without leaving a
wrinkle, and the glory of my new figure and
the grace and beauty of my curves gave me
the admiration of the world. 1 enjoyed the
triumph of ray 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 I was doomed
to oblivion just a shqrt time before when I
tipped the scales at two hnudred and fopr
pounds. I was crushed and bewildered when
he told me he could not give me a part In the
‘Passing 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, uugainly figure made me realize
that I was doomed to despair and failure.
“My success In reducing my own fat proves
that there Is no auch word as ‘fall.’ I glni-
ply would not be resigned to .ny fate, and
although everyone said ‘Texas, there Is no
way out of your dilemma,’ and told me that
no fat reducing specialist could reduce my
weight, I determined not to give up In despair,
with the result that I absolutely conquered
L fat ; My new * * reat txjok on obesif v.
which gives full particulars of my simple, safe,
quick, harmless fat reducing treatment, Is now-
ready and will be sent free to all who wish to
reduce their weight any number of pounds.”
it Is simply astonishing the furore this new
treatment is causing among the Intimate friends
of Miss Guinan to whom she has given It. A
letter from the world’s most famous dancer.
La Petite Adelaide, says^ “Dear Miss Guinan:
Let me congratulate you upon the high excellence
of your 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 treat
ment. 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 remarkable
treatment Is not unlike the treatment used
b.v 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, which
is now ready for distribution, should be re
quested by all who desire quick reduction. It
Is written in a fascinating, style. It explains
how, by her treatment, Texas Guinan. who is
acknowledged America’s most successful star,
reduced her own weight seventy pounds, and
conquered the monster FAT.
This glorlotis little woman 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
nil prying eyes, you may plan to reduce your
weight at once. Miss Guinan wants to help
all who are burdened with superfluous fat, ami
thereby make her life really worth while*
Write her at once, and 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 rnat she must give up her profes
sion and fade Into oblivion. L’earn how she
experimented, how she tried everything and,
finally, with patient effort and determination
she conquered her, fat. Learn of these things
so you may improve your own form and destroy
your own fat so it will not be longer necessary
for you to suffer the jibes and sneers of others.
Remember there is no exercising or physical
culture of any description in her treatment, no
harmful massage or worthless poison body lo
tions. You may eat rs many meals dally as
you de«lre and go right on rapidly reducing.
A most astonishing part of this fat reducing
treatment is that it does not produce wrinkles
or leave the skin flabby. All who have been
dieting and starving themselves, trying to re
duce their weight, and who have been taking
exercises and internal baths and who have been
taking Internal and external remedies, should
write for a copy of her great FREE book en
titled “RAPID WEIGHT REDUCTION WITH
OUT EXERCISE, DIET OR INTERNAL REM
EDIES.” so that you may start to reduce your
burdensome fat as rapidly as you desire. Sim
ply write a brief letter or a postcard and ask
for her new book. Everything will be sent
absolutely free. Do not send any money, be
cause It is absolutely free, f
Address TEXAS GUINAN, Suite 6M, Laaea
Building, Los Angeles, California.—(Advt.)