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IDIANAof th? GREAT GAME •®jF TH? STORY OF A WOMAHS HUNT FOR A MAN. EY ETHEL LLOYD PATTERN Off , ' No. 56—Stirred Depths ♦ , ♦ ♦ Ton cannot turn your back ♦ ♦ upon a trouble. If yon do it ♦ •e come* rashing from behind over ♦ ♦ your bead. ♦ ♦ . ♦ r the end of my weed's visit with | Mrs. Henderson, Mr. ColbjCs sis- | ter. I left heY home defiant and ' A T unhappy. I had looked forward to these | few days with such nigh hopes. My i hopes had dashed, to earth. When Mrs. Henderson asked me to come to stop with her I bad fancied it was be cause Mr. Colby was in love with me; that his sister for this reason was anx ■ious to please me. As it turned out. Mr. ; Colby did not come into the country at ' all while I was at his sister's place. His i name was scarcely mentioned between us. And during the early part of the week most of Mrs. Henderson's guests had been women; women who spoke a strange language to me. who were interested in •.well-written and well acted plays, who seemed to have read books of which I had never heard, who spoke intimately and at length of the various picture galleries, out door sports, and gardening. If their ktnc Os conversation bad not been so eutliely new to me X think I would have been bored. I was defiant because I was re sopred that I would not let anybody nay I “was not just as good as any other girt” I was unhappy because some depth of decency, hitherto unsus pected. bad been stirred in me. I had caught a glimpse of something -'miner and better than, the life I had led. Had there been some one to whom I could have turned in my trou ble I think I might have been able to struggle forward toward the light I had seen. But as it was I returned to my home and a mother who displayed but a careless, half-beamed Interest in me. It was but natural jhat I should plunge at once into my old gayeties. The night I returned June called me up and asked me to dtne with him. 'And, although before I had gone away I had resolved never to see hiifi again, because I realized our romance was at a crucial point. I- promptly accepted his invita tion. I even permitted him that first eight to put a hundred dollars in my pocketbook to buy some "prettiee." as he expressed IL In the taxi, as we re turned hornet his arms were once more about me as they used to be. “Say. Di.” he whispered close to my cheek. “When are you going to give tn and be my little girl ? I’ve massed you awfully this last week. We can't go on like this forever, you know. You can see it’s got to come sooner or later-, can’t you?" 'in the darkness of the vehicle as we rolled along I shut my eyes and tried to think. “Give me a Ifttle while longer, June." I begged. "I don’t know what to do. Please let me think It over.” His answer was a kiss. No. 57 —Hurt Pride e- Vanity distorts a girl’s views ♦ of life more than any other qual- ♦ ♦ tty. ♦ OW began a very brief ypan of feverish gayety for me. I had visited Mrs. Henderson, Mr. Col- N DVs sister, in her home and had tried *to be like the other girls and women who were her house guests. In spite of <ny efforts, the difference between ufl had been forced upon me. I had begun to realize that “to be a lady” is not the easiest task in the world. One may not fall into the position emphasized. I learned that all these firm* pe*ta! tnfay fer faH fa- Lm. IYM frrroa-;:» ho*. togatyvcrt'w '4 ir>r -/.- VjtAVtv i —• to wmaare, w-.ia-cl * r<ti, . emt. »M to »rO wm-2 W1 Wfc if jafWMAhl Sreaaorororo E'«; r »t« ‘’•WJJ V, VW, 7 C^Nat' J| toll yn* t:-y ■-» wb. -• na ret it— - rei ’-' mw uLS sloto sls a fa ynar spare ttex. It fa dead BBfc racy—yea cerer aawa nobb«cr EtH- suitor arßoraatunniaapaturu. 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But once 1 had been thrown among | them, into • their companionship, some . better instinct had been aroused in me, too. Although I was not as yet rehdy to undertake the burdens and responsi | bilities of a fuller life, I had caught i just enough of a glifnpse of something better to be unhappy with that which I had. Accordingly. I plunged even more fe verishly into my life of gayety. in hopes of stifling the still, small voice of conscience, which was speaking to mu for the first time. For nights X danced madly in the gay restaurants of the city with June and his friends. 1 bought several new evening dresses with the money my admirer gave me. I told myself I was well rid of the stodgy women with whom I had be come acquainted at Mrs. Henderson's. Then one night my gayly-colored bal loon of joy burst in midair. I saw Mr. Colby, Mrs. Henderson’s brother, seated at a table across the restau rant where I was dining with June and several others. At once I waved my hand to him gayly. I expected, of course, that he would rush to join us, ply me with questions about the sort of time I had had at his sister's. I scarcely could believe my own eyes when he nodded pleasantly and went on eating his dinner. For a while my hurt pride made my laughter the louder. I pretended to be absorbed In my companions. But my glance from time to time stole in Mr. Colby's direction. At last I saw him rise from his plaoa He did not even do me the honor of deliberately avoid ing me; instead he sauntered down* the aisle of tables, passed me so close I could have touched him with my hand, but did not pause. Again he was gone. The lights in the room grew dim; the mirth about me sounded hol low. I felt as though this man had given me my chance for better things, and I had thrown it aside too lightly. It seemed to me that I must be beneath his contempt for him to be able thus carelessly to pass me by. Then vanity came to my assistance. It whispered to me that perhaps he was jealous, jealous of June! The very coldness of his manner might be an indication of his real interest in me. And as I thought this seemed to me a reasonable solution of his treat ment- I could scarcely wait for the following morning to telephone to him. The answer came back over the wire that “Mr. Colby was engaged. Could I call him up later?" Again I told myself these were but the actions of a man who cared so much he could not bear to see me in the company of another. I resolv ed to write to him. Indeed. I did indite a very bumble and sweet little nota tell ing Mr. Colby how happy I had been during my visit with his sister, and asking him if he would not come to see me. Days passed and I received no an swer. The colder I felt Mr. Colby’s manner to be toward me the more de sirable he seemed. Now all the stub bornness in me had been aroused. I was very sure of my charms. I felt certain that if once I could make this man come to see me I also could make him forgive me anything. But ap parently he was determined not to make the first advance. Very well, then, I would do so. I knew that Mr. Colby had bachelor quarters. I resolved to call upon him. No. 58—The Pursuit ♦ XK>ve is the one free thing in ♦ ♦ the world. If you can capture, ♦ ♦ buy it, or sell it, it is not love. ♦ s O at 8 o'clock on the following night I put on an evening dress and went to call on Mr. Colby. Os course, I did not tell my mother where I was going. Perhaps she did not ask. I don’t remember. My incomings and outgoings were never a matter of vast import to her. anyway. Now, like most women who eat arid drink too much, and take too little exercise, she passed her days and evenings in practically a comatose condition. Doubtless, she no ticed that I had plenty of pretty gowns >nd plenty of invitations to parties, he could assume that I was popular, hat was all my mother cared about. So, on the evening of which I write, avoided the sitting room, in which knew she was probably reading the .cning papers, went down the hall and it to the taxi which awaited me. 1 ad chosen 8 o’clock as the right time for my call. I had figured, and more or less rightly, thaj Mr. Colby at that hour would have finished his dinner, and if he were going to any party in the evening would not yet have started for It. But almost I lost my courage when the taxi drew up before the house where Mr. Colby has his rooms. There was about it an atmosphere of quiet elegance which was disconcerting to me. I somehow felt it was unusual for young women unchaperoned to pass the sacred portals of this bachelor abode. But I nerved myself for the ordeal. Not watting to be announced, I stepped into the elevator and told the man upon whom I wished to call. In another In stant a valet had opened the door and 1 was in Mr ■Colby’s sitting room. Ap parently I had gauged my time cor rectly. The man I wished to see was comfortably ensconced beside a small table which held his after-dinner coffee and his cigarettes. He was reading. But ■- ”! — , r • Hurrah! How’s This • ; Cincinnati authority says corns I dry up and lift out with fingers. t ♦ ♦ Hospital records show that every time you cut a corn you invite lockjaw or blood poison, which is .needless, says a Cincinnati authority, who tells ! >ou that a quarter ounce of a drug call led freezone can be obtained at little • ost from the drug store but is suffi < cient to rid one’s feet .of every hard or ■ soft corn or callus. You simply apply a few drops of freezone on a tender, aching com and soreness is instantly relieved. Shortly the entire corn can be lifted out, root and all. without pain. This drug is sticky but dries at once and is claimed to just shrivel up any corn without inflaming or even irritat ing the surrounding tissues or skin. If your wife wears high heels she will be glad to know of this.—fAdvt.l THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1917. the soft rustle of my skirts caused hint to put his book down at once. He rose to his feet. Complete amazement was pictured on his face. Then he recovered himself and spoke to me courteously. "Why, this is a very pleasant sur prise.- ’ he said. “To what do 1 owe the honor?” And with a nod he dismissed his man servant. T)h!” I cried, ’’You don’t mind my coming? I couldn't help it! I phoned to you and wrote and you never answered! I did so want to see you!” • “Did you?” asked Mr. Colby, “I’m sure I didn’t realize it was anything important. What's the trouble?” This reception was scarcely what 1 had expected. You remember I had made up my mind this man was in love i with me. What else could his interest , mean? 1 thought that later, when he had seen me in the company of June, and had bowed to me so casually, it was because he was jealous. And, naturally,’ the more he avoided me the more had 1 felt he was the most desirable of my admirers. In consequence, my pursuit. But now the cooL, commonplaeeness of Mr. Colby’s greeting was scarcely in the picture with what I had felt to be his emotions. I had imagined he would be almost overcome by my dar ing and generosity in thus seeking him. Instead it was all too plain he was a little bored and politely puzzled. There was a pause as we each more fully di vined the other’s thoughts. It was I who spoke firsL In my bewilderment and hurt pride, the image that had been in the back of my brain leaped to iny lips. “Why, you don’t care for me at all!” I stammered. Mr. Colby flushed a little. “Well. I wouldn’t put It exactly that way,” he said. “But if you mean you thought I was in love with you per haps it would be better for me to tell >Oll the truth. I am not in the least, you know. I like you awfully. Di, but I don’t care for you that way.” "Then why did you hg.ve me meet your sister and all thatr’ I cried. “What is this?” said Mr. Colby. Why have you come to my rooms?” No. 59—“ We’ll See” ♦ A girl must leeXn that life ♦ ♦ gives her nothing. It pays her ♦ ♦ a wage according to her work. ♦ FOR a moment or two I think Mr. Colby actually believed the worst of me. That is. that I was try ing to pretend I had thought he was in love with me and that he had caused me to care for him on false pretenses. In short, that I was bent upon* what would practically be blackmail. But I had not fallen so low. Such a thought had not even crossed my mind. So now, when he demanded to know with a sudden new streak of coldness in his voice “why I had come to his rooms?” I answered him telling the truth. ”1 wanted to see you,” I said, “and you didn’t answer my notes nor my telephone." “Why did you particularly want to see me?” Mr. Colby asked curiously. I realized he was angry. I felt in stinctively that he was not the sort of man with, whom I would care to quarrel. I would certainly get the worst of it. I wished I had not come. It seemed to me best to tell him what I had really felt. To go as quickly as possible. “I thought." I told him honestly, "that you cared for me a little, or you ’would not have asked your sister to take me with her for a week. I r.eally do like you lots better than June. When I came back from the country and you did not come to see me I had to go out a lot with June. But I was just hoping that you would ask me.” Mr. Colby paused for a moment be fore he answered. “It’s pretty hard," he sajd finally, "to get the point of vieyv of girls of your kind. Di. For example, I can’t help asking why you had to go out with June. I think there is no law in ex istence that could make you do so. When I suggested to Cora that she take you with her for a week it was because I thought you had better stuff in you than most young women of your kind. You complained you were ‘lonely* be cause nice girls, as you say, would not 'be friends with you.’ My dear, at my sister’s you had your chance. What did you do?” The color came hot in my face and I could "not meet Mr. Colby’s eyes. I fidgeted in my chair. “If you don’t know what you did,” Mr. Colby continued, when the silence had become uncomfortable, "I’ll tell you. Di. Instead of making friends with a couple of awfully nice girls who were out at my sister’s, you promptly struck up a swift and fervent flirtation with one of Cora’s house guests. She /told me afterward she tried to warn you off. But she said that she did not feel she had any authority actually to forbid your doing anything. She tells me on the first night of Mr. Adams’ arrival you went out in the garden with him and stayed for hours, instead of remain ing with the others to dance. My dear, apparently that sort of thing is in you. you are a chump!” “I—I—” I began to stammer. Mr. Colby stopped me with a ges ture. ”1 don’t suppose it's your fault. Di,” he said. “It’s the way you are made. That’s aIL And it’s all in the day's work. Perhaps I was wrong to try to give yon ideals that would only make you uncomfortable were you to try to live up to them. But only this I want to make clear, since apparently you have misunderstood. I did not have you asked out to my sister's place be cause I am the least in love with you. My interest in you was exactly like Cora’s. It seemed to me if you were really a girl fighting against a force that was too hard for her we both of us. or either of.us, should give you a helping hand. But it appears that if you fight at all against your environ ment you do it in a very half-hearted way. I don't think there is anything to be gained by going any further into the matter.” The tears had crowded to my eyes as Mr. Colby talked to me. He was stab bing my heart. And for the first time, I think, it was my heart that was hurt rather more than my vanity. However, it was the Di of my early training who cried aloud.* “But everybody wants me, to work!" I protested, “and it isn’t that I’m not willing to work. When you met me I was at Silberstein's. But there isn’t anything I can do!” Mr. Colby made an impatient gesture. “Nonsense!"' he said sharply. "You’re an able-bodied human being! There is always something for you to do! Os course, you can’t find anything that doesn’t require any effort and that will pay you a thousand dollars a week! And that’s the sort of job, you are look ing for, my dear! Don't let us talk about it.any more. You would best fol low your plans as you have made them.” I rose to my feet indignantly. t • "What are my plans?” I demanded furiously. “How do you know so much? What do you think I am going to do?” "O, that's easy!” Mr. Colby told me coldly. “You’ll get some man with money to take care of you, and in re turn you will give him just as little love and loyalty as you possibly can and get away with it!” •'I won’t!” 1 cried, “I won't!” And ! I clinched my fists. Mr. Colby half closed his eyes and looked at me. Mr. Colby half closed his eyes and I looked at me. “I wonder!" he said slowly. “We'll i see!" SPELLING AS A NEWSPAPER ASSET A newspaper out in the Dakotas has a society column in its page make up. Like the over-crowded columns in Geor gia newspapers which have sodiety col umns, mistakes occasionally occur. This Dakota editor went into raptures over a brilliant society event in his town where the chieftest leader in the society was Mrs. Orlando Overlook. In relat ing at length the happenings at Mrs. Overlook’s party, he said, in type’ that the function of the winter’s occasion was “Mrs. Orlando Overlook’s Feet.” He was promptly called down. Women s feet unless they can accommodate them selves in a Cinderella slipper, must be omitted in the function notices. It is allowable I notice to mention shoes in a bridal costume provided the shoes cost above a dozen dollars, but it is a seri ous offense to. society to write about a society woman's feet! The hapless editor tried tq wiggle out of ns tight place-in the following man ner : • “We wish to apologize to Mrs. Orlando Overlook. In our paper of last week we had as a heading: 'Mrs. Overlooks Big Feet.’ The word we ought to have used is a French word and pronounced the same way, but spelled fete. It means a celebration and is a very tony word.” But will Mrs. Orlando Overlook ever forget and forgive this repentant edi tor? Would if have been more tolerable if this honest mart had kicked his “print ers’ devil” in the next issue? I know not The deed was done apd jf Mrs. Overlook’s feet are sizable and w labeled anything approaching. No. 6, the deed as recorded will stand! The apology was worse than useless. And the pangs that Mrs. Overlook has suffered who can tell? Just one little letter in one little word has out raged her feelings and put her feet along with the Dakotas “on the map.” Spelling is a lost art in a majority of public schools. Along with a fash ionable penmanship that defies the pa tience of the recipient and does not im mortalize the sender, spelling plays a significant part in all our business af fairs, including society functions as de scribed in the accommodating news col umns of the daily journals. I occasion ally glance over the descriptions of the dress parades that occur in Atlanta so ciety. The word “gown” that our fore mothers would have frowned down in their heyday of youth and fashion Is the word that Is played upon in extenso. The only gowns that were spoken of in my childhood were “night-gowns— and my grandmother called hers “bed gowns.” Why abandon the word “dress" and dally with “gowns?” If your newspaper should accidentally report that an At lanta Mrs. Overlook had appeared “at night,” in her “bed-gown” you can set it down there would be a racket!—Ac cidents will happen. If a woman goes bathing at Palm Beach and comes out, in her skin-tight costume with naked feet, it is allow able; it seems to say it is all righL But that costume on the public street would be all wrong. If her body is absolutely nude above her arm pits, at Mrs. Overlook's function, that is all right, to be recorded in the papers, but the "d—l would be to pay” If the nude shoulders and bosom were accidentally alluded to in the wrong place. POLITIC AX JUDGES. Anybody with half an eye can see that we have too much politics mixed up with the election of our judges. Per haps we can settle upon no better plan than the one now prevailing—but we can easily agree that if this is the best — the others are very poor indeed. Elec tions by the legislature got to be insuf ferable. Trading was carried on—swap ping of votes was brazenly performed, and some of the judges who were seated on the woolsack —were contemptible not only in their subservence to the people who used them, but in their ignorance of law. That plan beat itself it was so promptly convicted of being an intol erable method. Some of the evils that were palpably shown in legsiative judges—have contin ued on, into these popular elections. There is too much trading, too many combines, with those who are seeking other oflices, as before stated. It is a glaring evil, when judges run for high er-paid offices, without resigning the judeship. No man should be allowed to do it, without resigning from the bench. If he te defeated —then he can make the other fellows suffer —when cases come before him, and in which those who oposed him are asking for justice. Political judges—-should (as I believe) be appointed by a political governor one who can get some praise if he picks out a capable judge, but who will get the blame if he falls short of his bound en duty—to select a proper man for this high and responsible position. Hon. A. H. Stephens used to say, that the repub lic could stand until the judiciary be came rottne, with politics and bribery then the crash would come. A judge should, like Caesar’s %ife, be above suspicion. If a judge is some body’s useful man, on the bench, he is not only a misfit, but unworthy to hold the office. MOTHER! IF CHUD'S TONGUE IS COATED If cross, feverish, constipated, give “California Syrup of Figs” A laxative today saves a sick child tomorrow. Children simply will not take the time from play to empty their bow els, which become clogged up with waste, liver gets sluggish, stomach sour. Look at the tongue, mother! If coat ed. or your child is listless, cross, fever ish, breath bad, restless, doesn’t eat heartily, full of cold or has sore throat or any other children's ailment, give a leaspoontull of “California Syrup of Figs,” then don’t worry, because it is perfectly harmless, and in a few hours all this constipation poison, sour bile' and fermenting waste will gently move cut of the bowels, and you have a well, playful child again. A thorough “in side cleansing” is oftimes all that is necessary. It should be the first treat ment given in any sicknqfs. Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bottle of “California Sjirup of Figs.” which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. 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It is greatly to be feared that such is the case at this time with re spect to the observance of the Sabbath in the United States. This nation was founded by men act ing under the compulsion of the strong est religious motives, and by its moral life chiefly its greatness has been ac complished. It cannot, without serious disaster, trample under foot the prin ciples which gave it birth and which have prevailed throughout its history. In the south these principles have been preserved longer than in some other of the country, our sec tion having had less immigration from Continental Europe and having been exempted from other influences which have injuriously, affected the people of some other parts of the United States. Sabbath observance has been and is better in the south than in any other part of North America except Canada. But forces are at work among us to subvert the Sabbath. They are work ing persistently and shrewdly. They are at work right here in the city of Atlanta, and many of our people seem blind to what is going on. Under pretenses of serving various charitable causes “moving picture shows’’ are open every Sunday. This opening of these places on the Sabbath, if not stopped, will lead to other things of a worse nature, if there be any worse things. Presently we shall have an ag itation for Sunday football and base ball. Then still greater excesses will be indulged; and the final outcome will be the utter subversion of the Sabbath. This does not seem to arouse the at tention even of the preachers as much as do other things of less importance, and it is to be feared that the serious menace to our civilization which it in volves is not clearly perceived. Even thoughtful and pious people do not per ceive that the destruction of the Sab bath involves the overthrow of relig ion. It has been said that the Sabbath is the lungs of religion and when it is de stroyed religion perishes of consump tion. The statement is not too strong, and the progress of this “white plague,” which threatens the life of religion in our country, must be speedily and vig orously resisted. Practical atheism can hardly express itself more thoroughly than by the habitual and universal violation of the Lord’s Day. And the atheists know this. They know that when the Sabbath is gone there will be no worship, and when worship has ceased there will be no re ligion, and with religion overthrown ath ism will prevail everywhere. Men of the world need to consider this fact. A Sabbathless city will be a riot ous and ruined city, and this is especial ly true In this period of the world’s his tory when the contentions between capi tal and labor are so sharp. There is a peril here that should appeal to worldly wisdom, if not to religious fear. The labor unions use Sundays for their meet ings, and many of the employers of the men who compose these unions disregarj the Sabbath Day by both labor and amusement. 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The greatest statesmen of the world have perceived and proclaimed the importance of maintaining the Sab bath. Mr Gladstone was not a fanatic, but in an address against the Sunday open ing of museums in England he said: "From a long experience of a labor ious life, I have become most deeply Im pressed with the belief that the alterna tions of rest and labor, at the short in tervals which are afforded by the merci ful and blessed institution of Sunday, are necessary for the retention of a man’s mind and of a man’s frame in a condition to discharge his duties, and it is desirable as much as possible to re strain the exercise of labor upon the Sab bath, and to secure to the people the enjoyment of the day of rest.” If the same debate in the British par liman tet the Early of Shalftsbury said, “Sunday is a day so sacred, so impor tant, so indispensable to man, that it ought to be hedged round by every form of reverence. Its adaptibility to the wants and necessities of society, the wisdom of its institution, proves it to be Divine; and the working people of this country—the great bulk of the working people—regard it in that light. They differ, no doubt, many of them. Some take a religious view of the mat ter; others take a more political view of it; but all axe of this mind that the sanctity of the Sunday is to them a great protection.” The Earl of Beaconsfield was a He brew. and might have been supposed to have had little sympathy with the observance of the Christian Sabbath. But, he took the same position on the ques tion and spoke in the course of the dis cussion as follows: _ “Os all Divihe institutions, the most Divine is that which secures a day of rest for man. I hold it to be the most valuable blessing ever conceded to man. It is the cornerstone of civilization, and its fracture might even affect the health of the people. The opening of museums on Sundays is a great change, and those who suppose for a moment that the proposal could be limited to the opening of museums will find they are mistaken.” And Mr. Broadhurst who was a Trade Unionist member of the house of com mons, said: “To those who live a ceaseless life of toll, the Sunday is that which the cooling stream in the desert is to the weary traveler. They know they will arrive at it, and It is one of their great hopes in life that they on that day of the week feel that all men are equal for twenty-four hours and that they are having a foretaste at least of a future in which they shall share with all mor tals the results of a life of labor. What ever you do, do not take away the poor man’s Sunday. *lt is - the otfly day he has to himself. 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