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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,192a
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WAY OF SECRETS
By NELL ADAIR.
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1 don’t believe in secrets. You can
go on thinking that you have a per
fectly good secret, which no one in
the world suspects, and all at once the
secret will pop out at you—laughing,
so to speak, In your face.
I knew, when I confided in Sallie
and Polly, the twins, that they were
absolutely trustworthy. Neither of
these cousins would betray me, if it
cost her life. You see, we were
brought up together, and felt a mutual
Interest in each other’s welfare. From
pinafore days, we freely confided our
troubles and joys, confessing the bud
ding attachments too, which seem too
Billy to tell one’s mother. I didn’t have
a mother, though I tried to borrow
theirs until I was old enough to keep
house for Daddy. I could feel that
her sympathy In my case, was not the
same as it was with the twin daugh
ters. I can’t remember just when 1
began to care for David. For that was
the secret—my love for David, which
I kept buried from sight In the “worth
iest” corner of my heart.
David was so good and wise and su
perior altogether, that it seemed pre
sumption for foolish me, to love him
at all. But I did —and that was un
avoidable. Wise as David was, this
fact never entered his head. He was
so much older, you see, and accustom
ed to the society of older and more
Important persons than his senior part
ner’s daughter.
Daddy and he were lawyers, and
when daddy was left alone in the big
house, and 1 growing up over at Aunt
Mollie’s, David managed the greater
part of the business, while daddy form
ed a habit of wandering about in dis
tant lands in search of forgetfulness.
Now, that he was back contented with
his loved wife’s daughter, David was
still left the burden of care —having
so long been the business head. And
that may have accounted for the new
worry wrinkles around his eyes, and
the whitening hair at his temples,
which only made him more distinguish
ed and attractive in my eyes.
We had spent many comfy evenings
together before daddy’s library fire,
when my dresses were growing longer,
and my hair learning the process of
“being done up.” My! How 1 loved
David then; he was the hero of every
book that I read and every play that
I saw. and he never guessed.
With my housekeeping dignity, came
many lovers to woo. Yes, many, I
frankly admit it. I could count more
admirers of my own, than Polly and
Sallie together, and I sometimes think
that it was my indifference which kept
them guessing.
It was when my cousins accused me
of being a coquette, that I confided
to them my love for David. They
were speechless with astonishment at
first. They couldn’t understand it, I
fancy, any more than could David.
And at that I broke down and cried.
“If my love for him is so unbeliev
able to you.” 1 said, “David will never
know. I can’t go and tell him about
It, so I shall have to live single all
my days.”
“Why!” said Sallie, “David is sure
that you are inlove with Bobby Brant.
I know this from remarks he has
made.”
“And he is glad for you," Polly add
ed, “he told me himself that Bobby
Brant was an ■exceptionally fine
young man.’ ’’
“Glad!” I exclaimed.
“Isn’t there some way—some diplo
matic way. I mean," Sallie suggested,
“that you could show him your affec
tion? Perhaps he’s like these older he
roes in books—loving you to distrac
tion and seeing no hope in his case.”
One evening, when I’d cried my nose
red, and had sent Bobby Brant home
In a huff. David came into the garden
as I miserably hoped he would, and
seated himself at my side in the couch
hammock. He looked so nice, and
white faced and kind, that I wanted
to put my aching head right down on
his shoulder—yes I did. but instead
with the perversity which usually seiz
ed me in his presence, I gazed straight
ahead, without a welcoming smile.
"Met Bobby Brant going out." he
Baid, and looked at me questioningly.
Carelessly I hummed the line of a
song. “He’ll be coming back again
to me.”
“Undoubledly.” David tersely replied
and we were silent. Presently he
spoke.
“I’m going away in the morning,
Nell, to be gone a very long time. I
need change of scene. This is good
bye.”
I was losing him forever. Positive
ly the realization came to me. In a
few moments he would be gone, and
there was no way that I could hold
him.
Shadows enveloped us. We were
very still. Then in startling sudden
ness. Sallie’s voice spoke from an in
ner room. Directly through the open
window behind us came her words:
“Poor Bobby Brant,” she said, “he
knows now that his goose is cooked.
I wonder if he suspects that it is Da
vid whom Nell really loves.” “Didn’t
you guess that she loved David long
before she told us so?” Polly asked.
“Sure,” came back my other cousin’s
voice. “Everybody knows that fact, I
guess, but David.”
Coldly I quaked in my hammock.
Then breathlessly, joyously. David
leaned toward me —
“If that Is true,” he whispered, it
such a wonderful, beautiful thing can
be true—Oh! tell me Nell, and end
the hopeless longing of sears.”
So that is why I don’t believe in se
crets, and that is also why—David did
not co away.
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SETS NEW STANDARDS
FOR SOUTHERN FAIRS
SOUTHEASTERN FAIR. ATLANTA. OCTOBER 16-26, AGAIN
PRESENTING NEW FEATURES AND ASSURED OF
UNPRECEDENTED RESULTS.
With a record for an ascending stand
ard of excellence as a fair which seem
ed to reach its high peak last year,
the Southeastern Fair. October 16-26,
presents a program of exclusive fea
tures which has already resulted in
such an increase in the demand for
space for exhibits, privileges and con
cessions by the most prominent con
cessionaires in the United States, that
there is not the least doubt in the
fninds of Secretary R. M. Striplin and j
Ms executive committee that the 1920
(air will exceed the last fair and will|
have no equal as an agricultural and
livestock exposition in the Southern
states.
The arrangement with the promoters
of the National Hog and Cattle Show
to stage this enterprise at the South
eastern Fair resulted in the greatest
demand for space in the stock barns
that has been experienced since the
fair was organized. The establishment
of the International Club Stock Judg
ing Contest started a flood of inqui
ries from ail over the continent, ae
to the requirements for entering thia
contest. The machinery manufactur
ers and dealers having learned of the
benefits of demonstrating at a great
fair have increased their demands and
the capacity of the big Automotive In
dustries Building will be Insufficient
to accommodate all exhibitors If the
number of early inquiries for epace is
a guide.
The Midway, which once seemed
ample to accommodate all the amuse
ments and concessions that would de
mand accommodations for years, is
already outgrown and new space must
be provided to keep this popular sea-
The big Midway run* along the greatest ride In the South—the Roller
Coaster at Lakewood Park, the home of the
Southeastern Fair.
NATIONAL HOG AND CATTLE SHOW
INSURES GREATEST LIVE STOCK EXHIBIT AT ANY
FAIR.
Through an agreement between the
Southern Cattle Men’s Association and
the Southern Swine Growers’ Associa
tion, the National Hog »nd Cattle Show
was organized, and, alter considering
all the plans for holding the same, it
was decided that a co-operative ar
rangement with the Southeastern Fair
Association to hold the show in con
nection with the annual fair. October
16-26, would serve all the interests in
volved to the best advantage; in fact,
considering the splendid equipment
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of the Southeastern Fair in the way of
buildings and the further fact that a
mile and a bait of standard railway
track to connect the grounds with the
Atlanta Belt Line Railway, had been
contracted for. the committee decided
that there was no other place either
in Georgia or the Southeastern states
that possessed such advantages.
The immediate result of the agree
ment was to enlist all the leading breed
ers in the South in an effort to make
the first show something that would
really be of international importance,
and it was at once reflected in a de
mand for stalls in the cattle and swine
buildings that left no doubt of the
popularity of the proposed enterprise.
This gives assurance of a livestock i
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ture proportionate with the expension
In other directions. More ground
must be made, so the big steam shovel
will be requisitioned again.
Work has already started on the
rail connection with the city belt line,
so that the Southeastern Fair, which
will have the long desired accommoda
tions tor exhibitors, which means so
much in handling the fair successfully.
The interest in Woman’s work, boys’
and girls’ clubs domestic and fine arts,
as well as the many lateral educational
teatures, exceeds all previous expres
sion and it may be said that the origi
nators of the Southeastern Fair will
find every feature filling their fondest
anticipations.
To keep the reputation of the fair at
its past high level as the greatest an
nual opportunity for real satisfaction of
a desire for clean enterta n inent, the
amusement features are being shaped
to leave nothing wanting. The Grand
Circuit races will again include all the
fast equine stars of the United States
and Canada. The Auto racing will
have another day added, featuring the
opening day, October 16th. Auto Polo
is again assured and the usual best
program of fireworks that money can
buy. The big free act program in front
of the grand stand will be filled with
the best and most novel numbers that
can be secured.
With this splendid promise for «
great fair, we (eel sure that every read
er of this paper will begin now to lay
plans for spending at least one day,
where one gets more education foi
nothing and the biggest show for the
price of admission that is offered any
where.
show which has never been equalled
In the South and second only in im
portance to the International Livestock
Show at Chicago, and it is the ambi
tion of the Southern breeders and the
management of the Southeastern Fair
to attain a success that will assure
the National Hog and Cattle Show a
standing equal to the greatest live
stock expositions on the continent.
The added interest to those who
have been visiting the Southeastern
Fair will be the Fat Stock division,
t In which there are premiums ottered
segregating 111,000, a eum much larg
er than some state fairs otter for all
t of their livestock.
The accommodations which will be
provided for this show will be such
as to please the exhibitors in every
way. The connecting rails of the
Southeastern Fair will unload the cat
tie and swine alongside their pens
and every other convenience for car
Ing for them will be provided and s
show is insured which will add much
to the importance of both the Boys'
Fair School and the International Glut
Stock Judging Contest, which are now
permanent features of the Southeast
ern Fair.
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