About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1924)
TUSEDAY AFTERNOON, y ea ™ besi book (ffij'BlACK "Atherton ” s 5St , _ . xu m->a* a . ■»<■ iimi " -.. r. - iwu—uiwjitw ■iinin'"iii»'i'~' . XUI (continued) t< Gora regarded her with frank ad- U miration, wholly utfasSumed. "Oh. f you couldn't lose Clavey if you a tried. He is mad about you. We v can all see that, and 1 knew it ba ll fore he did himself. It's only— nj really—that I'm afraid you'll be y| bored to death with so much shop (j if you don't set up one for your self." oj “Oh, I never intend to be bared l, t again as long as 1 live.” Mary c j Zattiany was a very shrewd woman 2 and she determined on a bold j- stroke. Her suspicion lingered but b had lost its edge. Gora Dwight < was deep and subtle but there was a * no doubt that she was honorable es “I shall tell you something,” she I eaid. "but you must give me your °* word that you will not betray me — M rot even to Lee.” <4 Miss Dwight's mind, not her al body, gave a slight stir of uneasi p; ness. But she answered warmly: di "Os course 1 promise.” it "Very well, then. It is this. I t| shall never return to America. I el sail in a fortnight. Lee follows ji soon after, and we shall be married A; in Austria.” T "But but his play!” Miss Dwight was too startled to act. “Ho must be here for rehearsals. Some one has said that plays are not u written, they're rewritten, and it’s pretty close to the truth.” “1 shall consent to his returning in time for rehearsals. Prolonged sc honeymoons are indiscreet. It is G better to divide them into a series, ii I fancy the series might hold out s< indo itely if adroitly spaced, a] Mor ?r, being a mudgrn myself, j I I jew methods. And he will 0 b« -x; busy to miss me. I shall be s l equally busy in Vienna.” jl “Hut will he. consent? Lee? He’s h not used to having his plans made . for him. He's about the most dotni nating male I know.” IC "I feel sure he will when the time - comes. It is woman's peculiar gif : you know, to convince the dominat ing male that he wants what she wants.” Gora laughed. Rut she also could turn mental somersaults. “I think it a splendid arrangement. Then we should not lose Lee altogether, for we really are devoted to him. He is an adorable creature for all his “ absurdities. But 1 can't endure the thought, of losing you.” "You must pay me a long visit in Vienna: Many visit.-. I can assure you that you will find mater.al there, under my guidance, fur a H-aliy great novel.” Gora's eye . -y..:l:l. d. She was . The extra day we ge: this Leap Year could be used in wondering why picnics are a sur e sign of rain. > Hi I. Z* < ■ Vso?>%A A \" ——— 1 From time immemorial, leavening 1 gas has made the “touch” which i made the paste of flour and water a digestible food—the staff of life. A flat and soggy loaf or biscuit is an ' unleavened food. So it is that leaven- ing agents such as yeast or baking j powder are employed. To insure, to the American housewife | complete leavening of her biscuits, cakes, muffins, etc., which is so impor tant to perfect digestion, the pure food authorities found it wise to require a cer tain standard of leavening strength in baking powder. To maintain this guaranty of digestibility— to insure minimum deterioration of leaven ing strength, baking powder is packed in tin. This prevents absorption of atmospheric mois ture. Dampness produces premature reaction in the can—results in loss of leavening gas. The food official, would properly condemn bak ing powder if packed in cheap sacks. But what about self rising flour? It comes to the southern housewife from remote northern mills packed in porous bags. What happens to this mixture of baking materials and flour? Chemical analysis shows that much of it has lost its leavening strength before it reaches the consumer. , Breadstuffs made with, such self-rising flours cannot t rise properly—they come to the table heavy, flat, and , 1 soggy. ‘ Why don’t the pure food officials demand that self-rising j flours contain 0.5% leavening gas, the equivalent to the ( 12% required of baking powder? 1 Calumet Baking Powder is scientifically and legally cor- rect—the last spoonful is as pure and sure as the first. Packed in the strength mH Til ar--:-—-- tive Ignorance of the denaturalized brain, she had believed that a bril liant gifted mind could concentrate itself upon any object with equal fertility and power, but she had seen too much of the Sophisticates of late," and studied Clavering in too many of his moods to cherish the illusion any longer, Play wright ing seemed to her a con temptible pastime compared with the hideous facts of Life as ex emplified in Europe, and she had restrained. herself from an angry outburst more than once. But she was too philosophical, possibly too fatalistic, not to have dismissed | this attitude eventually. Clavering ■could not be changed, but neither could she. There would be the usual compromises. After all, of what was life made up but of com promise? But the early glow of the wondrous dream had faded. The mistress was evidently the role nature had cast her to play. The vision of home, the complete matehood, had gone the way of all dreams. XLII She was not sorry to forego the doubtful luxury of meditation on the sadness of life. When Miss Trevor's card was brought to her she told the servant to show her up and bring tea immediately. She was not interested in Agnes Trevor, a younger sister of Polly Vane, but at all events she would talk about her settlement work and give a comfortably commonplace •atmos phere to the room in which tragic clouds were rising. As it had hap pened, Mary, during these past weeks, had seen little of New York women between the relics of her old set and their lively Society-lov ing daughters. The women between forty and fifty, whether devoted to fashion, politics, husbands, chil dren, or good works, had so far escaped her, and Agnes Trevor, who lived with Mrs. Vane, was practically the only representative of the intermediate age with whom she had exchanged a dozen words. But the admirable spinster had taken up the cause ot' the Vienna children with enthusiasm and raised a good deal of money, be sides contributing liberally herself. She was forty-two, and, although she was said to have been a beauti ful girl, was now merely patrician in appearance, very tall and thin and spinsterish, with a clean but failed con pkxion, and hair-colored On the extra 1924 day we could visit the laundry and ask why they like to tear button off of shirts. pll artist at rtnee. “I should lute that! How kind of you. And what a setting!” “Yes, Austria is the most inter esting country in Europe, and the most, beautiful ‘.o look at —and de scribe." “It will be heavenly.” Gora made up her mind at once chat she would waste no more ingenuity to stop this marriage. Its modernity ap pealed to her. and su£ foresaw new impulses to creation. “The Ameri can Scene,” conceivably, might grow monotonous with time; and with these daily recruits bent upon dsecribing its minutiae with the re- I lentless efficiency of the camera. And with all her soul she loved beauty. With the possible excep tion of Bavaria she knew Austria to be the darling of nature. Once more she chose to believe i this woman would manage Claver ing to his own good, and to the sat isfaction of his friends, who. as ahe well knew, were alarmed and alert. They were too polite to show it, but much of their enthusiasm for Madame Zattiany had dimmed with the knowledge that she was a sci entific phenomenon. Fundamental ly the brilliant creative mind is quite as conservative as the world ly, or -Hie inarticulate millions between, for they have common an cestors and common traditions They feared not only, to lose him. moreover, but had begun to ask one another if his career would not be wrecked. Miss Dwight concluded that such an uncommon and romantic marri age might be a spur to Clavering's genius, which might weaken in a conventional marital drama set in the city of New York. She rose and for the first time kissed Madame Zattiany. “It will be too perfect!” she said. “Let me visit you in summer when he is re hearsing. He can arrange to have his first-nights in September, and then write his next play in Austria, i filling his time while you are ab sorbed in politics. Heavens, what a theme! Some day I’ll use it. Per fectly disguised, of course.” "And I'll give you points," said Mary, laughing. She returned thu other’s embrace; but when she was alone she sighed and sank back in her chair, without picking up her book. Miss Gora Dwight had given her something to think of! The last thing she wanted was a se rial honeymoon. She wanted this man's companionship and his help. But she had slowly been forced to the conclusion „ that Clavering’s was a mind whose enthusiasms could only be inspired by some form of creative art; politics would never appeal to it In her compare- Next Feb. 29 we could use to ask the compnay why streets cars are usually going the wrong way. hair beginning to turn gray. She p had left. Society 1 her early twen- ( ties and devoted herself to moral- | izing the East Side. She came in with a light step and an air of subdued bright energy, very smartly but plainly dressed in dark blue tweed, with a large black • hat in which a wing had been accu rately placed by the best milliner in New York. Her clothes were so well-worn, and her grooming was so meticulous, her accent so glean and crisp, her manner so de void of patronage, yet subtly re mote, her controlled heart so kind that she perenially fascinated the buxom, rather sloppy, preternatu rally acute, and wholly unaristo ,cratic young ladies of the East Side.' Mary, who had a dangerous hab- J it of characterizing people in her Day Book, had written when she met Agnes Trevor: “She radiates intelligence, good will, cherrjpess. innate superiority and unjffipro mising virginity.” “Dear Mary!” she exclaimed in her crisp bright tones as she kiss ed her amiable hostess. “How de- - lightful to find you alone. 1 was afraid you would be surrounded as usual." “Oh, my novelty is wearing off,” said Mary drily. “But I will tell them to admit no one else today I find I enjoy one person at a time. One gets rather tired in New York of the unfinished sentence.” “Oh, do.” Mary’s quick eye took note of a certain repressed excite ment in the fine eyes of her guest, who had taken an upright chair. Lounging did not accord with that I spare ascetic figure. "And you are quite right. It is seldom one I has anything like real conversa- ‘ lion. One has to go for that, to , those of our older women who have given up Society to cultivate the intellects God gave them." “Are there any?” murmured j Mary. » ; "Oh, my dear, yes. But, of course. I you’ve had no time to meet them I ir. your mad whirl. Now that things ' have slowed down a bit you must ! meet them.” "I'm afraid it’s too late. I sail ■ tn a fortnight.” “Oh!” Miss Trevor’s voice shook oddly, and the slow color ertipt up her cheeks. But at that moment the tea was brought in. “Will you pour it out?” asked Mary. 'Tm feeling rather lazy.” “Os course.” Miss Trevor was brightly acquiescent. herself before the table. We man retired with instructions that Ma dame was not at home to other callers. (T> Be Continued) Only 26 men are running for president of Nicaragua, but then Nicaragua is a very small place. London women are wearing pan talettes. You know what they are. Look as if a safety pin slipped. News from South Africa. Pound hailstones fell. Big as ostrich eggs instead of big as hen eggs. Trapshooting records for 1923 i wer e the best in history, but crap I ehopters’ records were not. j ! Automatic music boxes may he fixed with a good ax. Quick News From Our Buyer Exclusive agency for SILV ER STAR HOSIERY—none better to be had New goods direct from the milk They are soft and fine and wear like iron. OPENING GUN AGAINST HIGH PRICES Ail Silk Hose, black only; all qgg shades later GENUINE FULL FASHIONED HOSE No imitation —none like them |£| anywhere ’ NO. 112 FULL FASHIONED HOSE All Colors; $2.00 values NO. 5050 FULL FASHIONED HOSE All colors. This celebrated number is known everywhere and sells for j QO $2.00 to $2.50; our price NEW LOT MEN’S SOCKS Big Values, 25c, 49c, and 79c Get in line and come to the store of H. S. Walker & Co. “QUALITY AND SERVICE” Americus Man. Sacrel > Z i State Board Board, PrenUAd During Macon Meeting Dr. E. L. Murray, who is secretary of the Georgia State 'Board ot. Pharmacy, returned last night from Macon,, white he presided duiiitig a meeting- of the state board, called to hold added examinations during which fifty-seveji applicants for lic ense were passed upon by the board. Only three official meetings of the board are held yearly, Monday’s meeting being- termed a “fill in” mainly to accommodate studentt, Ma con. The first regular meeting of the hoard for 1924 will also take place at the Hotel Lanier April 14, it was announced. MenjJjers of the board are' E. L. Murray, secretary, Americus; F. E. Johnson, chairman, Savannah; J. T. Selman, Atlanta; M. D. Hodges, Marietta, and J. E. Bush, Barneswell. RAILROADS CALLED BIG FACTOR IN PROSPERITY That the railroads are perhaps the gieatest single factor in maintain ing- national and individual prosper ity is the assertion of W. A. Win , burn, President of the Central ot Georgia, in a statement discussing the Outlook for the coming year. Mr. Winburn points out that funds of savings banks and lite insurance companies are largely invested in railway ecurities; therefore, every man or women who has a life insur ance policy or a savings bank de posit is directly concerned in main taining railroad credit. The rail roads are large purchasers of ma terial and supplies and in their own 'operations and allied industries put billions of dollars into circulation land give employment to hundreds of 1 thousands of people. , As an illustration, Mr. Winburn 1 states that the Central of Georgia • serves 625 communities with em ployes in each and with large num bers in such cities as Albany, Atlan -1 ta, Columbus, Macon, and Savannah, i Should decreased business necessi tate a reduction of force the effect , would ibe an immediate slump in trade at the community retail store, which in time would find its way back to wholesalers, factory, and farm. The railway President declares that no extension of special priv ilege is asked but that if public sen timent would permit the railroads to operate without further restric tions and political tampering-, it will go far toward making 1924 a per iod of continued development and widespread prosperity. USE TRUTH SERUM’ TO SOLVE *AXE MURDERS’ BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Jan. B. i Birmingham’s “axe murder” crimes are believed by Solicitor James G. Davis of the Jefferson county Cir ■ cuit Court to ibe at an end with the arrest of five negroes who have, ac ' cording to this official, made signed confessions of participating in many iof the forty-four attacks which re . suited in twenty-four deaths within ’! the last three years. A drug was employed, the soiici , tor said, in the examination of the five persons, but in each case the statement of th’e person talking while under its influence was corro , borated while the prisoner was in normal mental state. children and boy sroutsalHMH in the work of mosquito elimina tion. Dr. Chambliss figures in detail are as follows; Americus, Georgia; Street De partment, ditching and oiling, $448.00; sanitary Department, $450.00; special supervision, $50.00; sextons at cemetery, weekly emptying urns, $25.00 total, $973.00. This was money spent for • nti-malarial work and does not include thirty barrels of oil used on ditches and our sew erage, which was furnished grat is by the various garages of the city. In Sumter county, outside of the city of Americus; Leslie SBO.OO, for ditching- and weekly inspection of the town to elernin ate mosquito breeding places; DeSoto, for the same purpose, $150.00; Plains, $50.00; ridding the public school building of mos quitoes before fall term opened, $220.00; County Commissioners in Sumter county for drainage lowering- culverts, $300.00; sup ervision of mosquito work in the county, $750.00; total 1550.00. It is estimated conservatively, by the comparison of fifty or more jobs / a rn \ '■ \- aa I / Clearance Prices On Beautiful Silk Underwear ™ *" '■ A Where’s the woman who does not W love Silk Underwear —and with prices so radically reduced on the finest grades, Kayser, etc. You may fill your wardrobe most eco nomically. , j A Crepe do Chine Teddys and Gowns. Tailored binations; and fancy; Peach, Silk in Pink, Orchid, Flesh. etc. DeiriraßWl|| Green. models. $3.95 $2.50 Pajamas Pussy Willow, in assorted colors. Dear to Flapper's heart. Beautiful garments and popular. Were $15.00 Fancy Overblouses ■ Developed 1:1 ' irpe d<- Chine. (Joi / i ois aie Navy, White, (jiay. Were /J t 1 *».£ $«.50. Hi M $2.50 Sport Suits bm.ut liu.'r- --ms ot Knitted Jersey. I inc tor th'- l>i::,in< -s girl, or for she who mdii: -in sports. C oat or slip our stvi.s 111---. S- .ire new. Special It' I y pr i < ed. QIfIPTQ Woolen Skirts, For w W new dimity L | hBHHHH tion to the TThiortnt of work done and mqney expended. In the City or Americus malaria was reduced thirty per cent and saved the peo ple 4,500 from malaria, whig-T cost $2,919, saving- the people, above the amount expended, sl,- 581.00. In Leslie, DeSoto, and Plains, the per cent of malaria saved were in proportion to the amount of work (Jone, ranging from eighteen to twenty-five per cent reduction. The lower part of this county, where little or no done and only ten per cent of the malaria were elimin ated, cut the total per centage for Sumter county, outside of Americus, to fifteen per cent. It cost the county outside of Ameri cus $1550.00, money spent with the estimated expenses or work done by the individuals. The county was saved $12,750.00'. It saved :.the county and city $17,- 250, and cost the county and city $7,569, leaving a balance to the benefit of the people for their co-operation in the move, of $9,- 681, above all estimated expenses.
