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THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL*
AUNT JULIA'S
LETTER BOX
“Help for the Helpless—Kindness to All,
Dumb Things 9 *
RULES
No unsigned letters printed.
No letter written on both sides of paper printed.
All letters not *o exceed 150 to 200 words.
Dear Children: I have received three or four letters in the
last mail which ask if we have definitely decided to take care of an
American child next year and making the statement that they want
to help if we do and will send their mite when the announcement
is made. I thought everybody knew that we had definitely de
cided to care for a child at Faith cottage, Berry school, Rome, Ga.
We will be glad to have any help we can get, and as we have
said before, try to earn your mite and give, because of a generous
spirit, not because you think a dime or a nickel or a dollar will
get a letter printed. It will not. I have had to throw out several
good letters because the child wrote, ‘‘l will send my dime if I see
this letter in print,’’ or “I am sending a dime. Please print this let
ter.” The space in our column is not for sale; it Is for the pleasure
and benefit of the children. Lovingly, Aunt Julia.
Dear Aunt Julia: Will yon please let a
westerner in your happy circle? I bare been
a silent reader of your corner for several
years. I came from Denver, Col., about six
years ago, but I am living In North Caro
lina now. I like both countries fine. Myrtle
T. Thomas, of Swords. Ga., will you please
write to me? I am fifteen years old, nnd
in the tenth grade. Will look for a letter
shower on December 19, 1920. Hoping to
see this in print, I am, a new cousin,
MISS GENEVIEVE M. LEE.
Laurinsburg, N. C., R. F. D. 2, Box 83.
Dear Julia and Cousins: I am going
this morning to try to take the pleasure
of writing to you all. Say. let me have
a seat by some of you soldiers or sailors,
because I enjoy their letters very much.
Come on, you boys who have been to
Fiance; we all would like to hear from
you. Auntie, I was very anxious for you
to adopt an American child. I think it
would be better to adopt an American
child and help it to get an education, be
cause charity begins at home. What do
vou cousins think of it? All that are in
favor of that let it be known by saying
“I.” Opposed, "No.” I knew the most
of the crowd would say "I.” Well, I guess
I had better close before Mr. W. B. wakes
up. So cousins, please write to me and I
will answer. I received several letters
before and they were highly appreciated.
I am an old cousin.
DUEL STRICKLAND.
Slocomb, N. C.
Auntie inclosed 10c for the American
baby.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins How are
you all this cool fall wesOierfl We’re stand
ing it fine. We are two girls from the dear
old state of Georgia. We llv e in town nnd
like town life fine. Well, we will describe
ourselves nnd go. T, Addie, have black
hair, brown eyes, brunette complexion, be
tween sixteen and nineteen. I, Lillie Mae,
have brown hair, brown eyes, fair complex
ion. age between fifteen and eighteen. Would
like to hear from some of the boys and girls
near our own age. Will go with love to you
all. Two new cousins.
ADDIDE HAWKINS.
LILLIE MAE ELINGTON.
Summerville, Ga,, Route 5.
Dear Atint Jnlla and Cousins: Will you
allow a little Georgia boy to join your wise
and happy band? My father takes The Jour
nal and I have been a silent reader of your
most interesting littl fi page for a long time.
I guess I had better describe myself as I
know you are wondering how I look. Yes, I
lock out of my eyes. Here goes: Blue eyes
and sandy hair, fair complexion, age four
teen, height 5 feet 3(4 inches. How many
of you cousins like the new rules? I for one.
? hope Mr. W. B. will be absent when this
reaches you. Some of you cousins write to
me. Your new cousin,
JULIUS ROGERS.
Senoia, Ga., Route 8.
Dearest Aunt Julia and Cousins: May I
come in for just a jiffy? I’m from the dear
old. state of Alabama. Wouldn’t give it soy
any other state in the union. Say, cousins,
what do you do for pastime? I crochet and
read a little. Dean Ritche send me the
book. Elsie Dinsmore and I will return
the favor and also the book, i wll Ide
scribe myself and go: Brown eyes, brown
hair, dark complexion. 5 feet 2 inches tall,
weigh 142 pounds, seventeen years of age.
I llve In the country and wouldn't give it for
any town I ever saw. Aunt Julia, I surely
am glad you are going to adopt an American
child. I didn’t get to send Yvonne any
thing and I’m surely going to send this one
as much as 3 cents. Listen, cousins, you
all write to an old girl and I will answer
all letters received for Issu e do like to
write letters, so guess I will have to quit
before Mr. W. B. comes in from his morn
ing walk. Aunt Julia, please print this let
ter for it’s my second time to write to the
letter box, so let the letters fly to me all
cousins. VANCE YARBROUGH.
Dadeville, Ala., Route 5.
Hello, There: Guess you cousins will be
surprised to see a letter from a,South Caro
lina girl once more. I have written to Aunt
Julia's letter box once before a long time
ago. You consins ought to be here to help
me pick cotton. I like to pick cotton very
well, bnt gee, how I do hate Jo pick old
peas. Have any of you cousins iwetty sam
ples of if you have I would like
to exeUjfnge some samples. I guess I had
better ring off before Mr. W. B. gets my
letter. WILLIE NANCE.
Blairfc, S. C., R. F. D. 1.
|
Dear -Aunt Julia and Consins: Will you
please jidinit an Alabama girl into your hap
py band of boys and girls? Have been a si
lent reader for a long time and sure do
enjoy the letters and think the rules are
fine. I live on a farm and like farm life
fine. For pastime I read good books. I
love music and flowers. Will describe my
self nnd go, so don’t get scared: I am 5
feet tall, weigh 107 pounds, light hair, fair
cmoplexlon, dark blue eyes, age twenty
years. Would be glad to correspond with
some of the boys and girls between the
ages of twenty nnd thirty. Find enclosed
10c for American child. Love and success
to all. A new cousin.
THELMA CRAWFORD.
Brewton, Ala., Rout P A, Box 67.
Hollo, Aunt Julia and Cousins: Move over
aand let me sit down by Aunt Julia, for it
is raining out doors. I won’t describe my
self. you all! might langh nnd make nie
ashamed of myself, but all you boys and
girls write to me for I know you will get
an answer. With love, your cousin,
SUSIE M. WATSON.
Northport, Ala., Route 3.
Dear Aunt Julia: Can you make room for
three north Georgia boys? I, Grady, have
been a silent reader of the letter box for
some time, and I, Fred, have been reading
the letter box also, and I, Charlie, like the'
others, have been a silent reader of the letter
box for some time and I enjoy it fine. Well,
as we haven't much time we will leave off
desoription and our ages for you to guess.
Come, now, all you cousins, especially the
girls, that want to write. Just send your
!eters t 0 GRADY ALLEN,
FRED SANDERS,
„ , „ „ „ CHARLIE HIX.
Hartwell, Ga., Route 5.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here comes
a new cousin. What do you cousins dd for
patsime. I read books, i have been n read
er of the letter box for a long time. Who
has my birthday, February 25’ I go to
school and am in the third grade and my
benchers name is Miss Myatle Roy well. I
will close, flood-by. Your new cousin
Norcross, Ga. EDNA OLARK ’
Dearest Auntie and Cousins: Wonder If
you will let me in for a few moments this
wrltL no °wi th ‘ S 18 n V s,>c<,nd time to
write. What are you all doing these davs?
I am picking cotton, you bet, and having a
fine time. Believe me, I will he glad wheS
school start! Guest you all are wondering
how-J look, but I don’t want to scare vou B
so will only tell my age. I was fifteen years
old the twenty-first of July, 1920. AU you
cousins near my age write to me. Will try
tn answer all mail received. Your niece '
w „ LOUISE
Matthews. N. C„ Route 18.
; Dear Aunt Julia: Please open the door for
| ” Uttle cripple girl agnin. I am a very
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gloves, stockings, sweaters, draperies,
everything, whether wool, silk, linen,
cotton or mixed goods, new. rich,
fadeless colors. Have druggist, show
you "Diamond Dyes Color Card ”
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Fashion Suggestions
CHILD’S ROMPER DRESS.
One can be tree to romp and play
when clad in a practical garment
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In oi-dering patterns and maga
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them to—
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ATLANTA JOURNAL,
22 East Eighteenth St.,
New York City.
happy girl now, as I have got so I can
walk again. 1 have quit my wheel chair,
for 1 don’t need it. I’m going to school
this winter if nothing happens. How many
of you cousins like to read the Letter Box?
I for one. That is the first thing I look for
when we get The Journal. It js awful cold
here now to be the 3d of September. We
live on a farm, and I do enjoy it so much.
We expect to move to the city In a few
months, to be near the school. Aunt Julia,
please print this, and if any of you cousins
went to write me just let your letters fly to
JENNIE RUTH NAYLOR.
Hayne, N. C., Route 1. Box 29.
Dear Aunt Julia: I’ve been a silent read
er and admirer of Aunt Julia’s letter box
ever since I could read, but have never
written before, but don’t see many letters
from Florida, so. cousins, I will introduce
to you a Florida girl. I am a brunette:
am five feet five inches in height, weigh
125 pounds. My birthday is October 17.
Guess my age. Arnel E. Heafner, I should
like to eee some of your cartoons, and, lis
ten, cousins, if any of you have taken
typewriting and shorthand by mail and wish
to exchange your lessons for a music course
by mail, or I might buy at a bargain price;
please write.
. „ BEULAH SMITH.
Madison, Fla.
I just thoglit I would write a few lines
to our good old letter box this lonely after
noon and thank dear Aunt Julia for print
ing my jonquil letter. It sure was a sur
prise to me, seeing it In print, but a happy
surprise to be sure. I received a good
many letters and haven’t got them all an
swered yet. I am in the eighth grade at
school. I want to go to an Industrial Insti
tute this winter. I certainly believe that
everybody should strive to get a good edu
cation. My mother thinks so, too. 1 have
a dear correspondent who lives at Council,
N. C., which I gained through Aunt Julia’s
letter box, and also luive some from other
states, but I think this one, her name is
George Hale, is the most loyal one I have
ever written to. I want to get a corre
spondent from every state in the union if 1
can. Well, as sister has Started the phono
graph right at my elbow, I will have to
close, for writing is impossible. lovingly,
DEANE RITCH.
Matthews, N. C.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins Here is a
dime for the little girl at Miss Berry’s
school. I learned it myself helping papa
when he was shipping beans and cukes up
north. I like to live on the farm in Flor
ida, though was born a Buckeye six years
ago. How fine It is, we nieces and neph
ews of Aunt Julia, can help somebody else.
With best wishes to all.
ERNEST ROSENTRETER.
Wauchula, Fla.
A Proverb Puzzle
Can You Solve It?
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The answer to The Tri-Weekly
Journal's last proverb puzzle was,
"Haste Makes Waste.” Did you
guess it?
Here’s another. The little cartoon
shown above illustrates an old, fa
miliar proverb—one you’ve probably
heard many times. Can you figure
it out? Look for the correct answer
in the next issue of The Tri-Weekly.
Carpet Embroidery—Latest Fashion Fad
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NEW YORK. —Now carpet embroidery is quite the thing in
fashion realms—at least in Paris. These two young society women
posed at one of the recent races to demon.Swate that fact. Their
frocks show the latest of French fall Fashions, and the chief feature
of both is the heavy carpet embroidery. On one frock it forms the
lower half of the skirt, and odd-shaped trimmings on sleeves and at
the opening at the neck.
The other frock is one of those favorite one-piece affairs, with
flare pockets at the sides. Outlining the pockets and continuing on
down to the hem, are wide strips of richly colored carpet embroidery
in gorgeous Oriental flowers. A wide revere collar is of the satfie
embroidery.
ALICE US.
(Known to thousands of Southern children as'AwitJulia)
In this I’istallman.t Aunt Julia
tolls something of the methods used
at the Berry school for making real
men out of the boys who come there.
Likewise, she knows that the plan
has worked most succosufully. The
next chapter will tell of Aunt Julia’s
impressions of Faith cottage, where
a tiny protege of The Tri-Weekly’s
Batter Box children will find a home.
The "Journey” comes to an end with
a message about Faith cottage.
Along the road is just a beautiful
forest from which the boys have
cleared the underbrush and through
which they have built fine lanes and
roads. Back of this is the farm and
here the boys are taught to plant
and gather crops, learning always
the best way to do it, so when they
go back to their Own farm, why,
there will be so much less loss of
time and money. It isn’t a case of
“somebody says," it’s I know for
I’ve tried It, and it’s right.”
It’s a big life to be at Berry and
it makes men-—five hundred or more
of the graduates and ex-students
from Berry school served their coun
try in the world war. Eleven made
the great sacrifice. And the gradua
tion class of last year put a bronze
tablet to these heroes in their chapel,
where these boys had worshiped in
the good, old-fashioned way.
There’s nothing crowded about the
school —it gives such a feeling of
being able to breathe and grow. The
buildings are good, attractive and
lasting and best of all, most of
them the boys built under a master
carpenter. When we passed one of
the largest buildings and I was told
that was the dining hall, all of a sud
den I thought "My goodness! How
many biscuits do they have to cook
a day?” You know how it is for a
MARY MEREDITH’S ADVICE
TO LONELY GIRLS AT HOME
I am asking you for advice, for
I feel if I should ask for advice
from my parents they would refuse
it. My father always did quarrel
with us girls, now all of them have
left home but me, and I know he
doesn’t want me to go anywhere and
when I do, he curses and quarrels
for a time after I come back. He'
always did hate to buy us anything
and we always tried to work out and
earn our clothes. I try to do every
thing I can to please him and al
ways do what I am told to do. Do
you think I would be better off if
I should leave home? I cannot stand
this miserable life. I am only seven
teen. Do you think I am old enough
to leave home, and could my father
bring me back home to stay?
Do you know where I could get the
address of the navy department and
the particulars of how I can join
the navy?
How is my handwriting? Please
print this as soon as possible.
Thanking you in advance.
ANXIOUS.
Yours is a very sad case in
deed. I know of more than one
case where the father was the
cause of driving his children
away from home. And in his old
age he will whimper and whine
because his children will not sup
port him. Love, begets love, and
parents should have plenty of
love and understanding and a
fairly broad view of life, if they
expect their children to love and
respect them. He could make you
return home, until you are of
age. But suppose you go to him
in a tactful manner and ask his
advice about going away from
home, to accept a position. Tell
him how anxious you are to be
self-supporting. Use your very
best behavior toward him, and
control yourself. He may see
your viewpoint, and give you
permission. There is away to
•io everything. But you have
my sympathy. Just be patient,
and try to keep your temper, for
after . all he is your father,
though I must admit he ill de
serves the honor. You might
write a letter to the recruiting
(ij.'ce at Charlesron, S. C., and
ask them about the navy prop
osition. Your handwriting is ex
cellent.
small family of hungry youngsters—
and here were over 200 boys and
over 100 girls-—all healthy and hun
gry !
That brought me straight up
against the thought of how much
it must cost the school to run and
how hard Miss Berry has to work to
make this aream possible. She gives
all she has, and begs and begs and
begs, and everybody ought to want
to help, for most of the students can
only give about qne-third of what it
costs to keep them there. •
Miss Berry has been offered all
sorts of money if she would take city
boys into her school, but her schools
are for the children who are away
from the towns and cities where boys
and girls can get their education
with so little trouble.
As we drove through those
grounds, how I longed for all my
boys and girls, for that is a Joy
Place as well as a school, and I
would like to picnic on those lovely
■slopes, only we would have had to be
very careful to straighten everything
up, for the boys keep the grounds
so spick and span. They have tall
wire baskets fastened to trees at
short distances apart and a sign over
them that reads, “Please help keep
our grounds clean;’’ and as for de
mocracy, why it lives there. Its
shadow just goes other places. All
the work is done by students, and
all are social equals. No work is
menial except work poorly done.
(More of “A Journey with Aunt
Julia” will appear in the next issue
of The Tri-M’eekly Journal. Watch
the label on the front page that
shows when your subscription ex
pires. You can’t afford to miss a
single copy of the paper while th’s
splendid feature - s running.)
I am not coming to you about love
affairs as I regard my boy friends
as companions. I correspond with
one boy. 1 am fourteen years old
and am an eighth grade graduate
My people don’t treat me right and I
am going to leave if they don’t go
to treating me better Do you think
I could make my way through the
world by myself, and where do you
think I could get a good job? Please
answer this through The Journal.
Thanking you in advance for your
•best advice.
•’BROKEN-HEARTED GIRL.”
BROKEN-HEARTED GIRL:
I am glad you haven't “boys”
on the brain. And while you may
think your life at home hard
to bear, my child, it will be a
great deal harder if you had
your living to make out in the
world, away from the sheltering
influence of your parents’ homfe.
The world is cold at best, and
young girls haven’t any business
being thrown out on the wave
broadcast. You may feel like
going to seek your fortune—as
they say in the fairy-tale books
—but when you have gone
through the years now ahead of
you, and look back, it will be
one lasting regret* that you
weren’t wise enough to stay at
home. For, after all, they are
the ones 'who love you best.
I would very much like to have
your advice about the following: A
good cure for blackheads, a good cure
for crows’ feet, wrinkles and large
pores. I will thank you for your ad
vice very much. Please write as
soon as possible. Yours very truly.
FANNIE D.
FANNIE D.:
Your letter was misplaced.
Blackheads are clogged pores,
which have become enlarged.
Bathe the face in warm water,
with pure soap lather. Rub the
lather into the pores. Rinse off
with warm, clear water. Do this -
several times, lastly cold -water,
into which a few drops of ben
zoin has been added. Just before
retiring, rub reslnol salve, Pal
mer’s skin success salve or any
other good salve into the skin.
Bathe the face in warm water in
morning, .astly very cold water,
do not use powder until face has
healed. The main thing is to
keep skin thoroughly “clean”
until pores heal. Cold cream is
good for crows’ feet.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1920.
WLFD L O\)W.
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Chapter XXVII
THE day after Ben promised to
go away,” continuel Miss Hal
deman, “I told Betty he had
gone. He had not yet done so.
but I was so fearful of the effect his
absence might have on ‘my sister
that I insisted on telling her before
hand, so we could have him stay if
it seemed best. Betty lay perfect
ly still for several minutes. Then
she looked up at me, a strange ex
pression in her pansy eyes.
"Will is in love with you, Isn’t
he, Jean?” she said.
"I was awfully startled. For a
minute I thought she had regained
her senses and had just used the
wrong name.
" ‘Yes, it’s Ben, honey,’ I said. ‘Yo„
remember Ben, don’t you?’ But at
that she shook her head impatiently
and my heart sank under a new load
of dread. '
“ ‘No, it is my husband I am talk
ing about,’ she said. ‘But he does not
love me any more. He loves you.
I know it from the way he looks
at you, even when he is holding my
hands.’
"Try as I would, I could not seem
to reach her with another word.
"That night Ben came to say good
by to me and I told him what Betty
had said. I knew exactly what I was
doing and what effect it would have
—that Ben would detect the weaken
ing on my part and that I would no
longer be able to control him. It
was my evil hour—and I disregard
ed everything—even my sister. I
was frantically in love with Ben.
AU that feeling that I have been
choking back so long came to a head
that night. I knew what would hap
pen and wanted it to be so, no mat
ter who else suffered.
"Ben flatly refused to go, as I
knew he would. ‘I shall stay right
here and marry you. We will have
Betty think I have gone, but I will
not go until you go with me,' Tie
said. His self-control had deserted
him, too, and I was unable to put
aside his pleadings.
It grew late. I had already put
little Frankie to bed and settled
Betty for the night. She had seemed
sleepy, or dazed, I could not tell
which. I slept in Betty’s room, for
I could not get a night nurse. I.
had to economize where I could. •'
"Well, it was past time for Ben to
go and I tried to make him sav
goodby, but he would not. I had
awakened to the folly of my ac
tions by that time, but it was too
late. Ben swore that he would not
leave the house until I had promised
to become his wife at the earliest
possible moment.
“I felt I was on the verge of mak
ing the promise—his lips were on
mine as he urged it—and yet I knew
that to do so would break that other
premise which I had made to my
mother on the day she died. No
matter how the matter turned out,
even‘if in the end it should prove
for Betty’s best interests, I knew
I was now on the point of thrust
ing her aside for the man I loved.
"And so, in utter desperation, I
finally suggested my last recourse.
I could never tell you why I did
it. After my mother’s death I had
lost all faith in God and that sort
of thing. But that night I was so
desperate that I was ready to beg
help anywhere at ail. Ben had the
broad simplicity of faith which such
men seem to have, when they believe
at all, and what I suggested did not
appear to surprise him. So; in a
stammering whisper I asked God to
show us what to do and to make
us strong enough to do it.
"When I was about to lift my
head Ben placed his hand on it and
held me down gently. Then, he, too,
prayed. ‘God, if it can possibly come
to pass, let Jean be my wife,’ he
said. ’Make her love me as I love
her and let her live to hold my child
in her arms—let her feel its little
fingers on her neck—its lips at her
breast —let her ” His voice
choked, and he could not say more.
Neither could I. When I finally
looked up his eyes were fixed on
mine, and he held out his arms.
They closed around me.
‘‘That appeal seemed to have
changed everything. I knew I had
asked for help in good faith, and
THE COUNTRY HOME
CONDUCTED BY MRS.W.H.FELTON
Care of the Peet and Com Troubles
When I see a young woman on
the street with the heels of her fine
shoes something less than four
inches high and with the weight of
her body flung on her toes and the
ball of her foot, I say to myself,
“your corns are giving you trouble.”
When grown people complain in my
hearing of bunions and scalding heat
around them I again say to myself,
“You have allowed your pride to
make you very uncomfortable be
cause your shoes have been built for
looks and not for comfort."
Nearly every country newspaper
in nearly all of its issues, has pic
tures —X-ray pictures of the contor
tions of the bones of the human feet
and other pictures showing how a
well-cared for foot should appear.
If we know the difference between
crooked bones and plain, natural
bones we also understand that the
human family has a sight of trouble
with poorly cared for feet—judging
by the attention that our newspapers
feel obliged to offer to the reader —
on crooked bones and corn troubles.
How many people are you inti
mately acquainted with who never
complain of corns or bunions or
otherwise painful feet? I have lived
a long time and the only ones I can
remember are children or colored
folks who have gone barefooted the
most of their days.
There are thousands of working
girls and older wage-earners who
stand behind the counter all day
wearing high-heeled, fashionable
shoes, who are more than uncom
fortable, they are in pain and so
restless toward the close of the day
that they are eager to get home and
get into comfortable old shoes, until
they finally creep into bed for the
night.
Many folks who look spick and
span can be just as miserable as
their envious neighbors can wish
them to be with hard corns, soft
corns, tight shoes and cramped toes.
I remember a very fine Washington
City lady, once upon a time, who
wore the finest of furs, the costliest
of hats and gloves and’ the most ele
gant of foot-gear, who confided to
me her Unhappiness with painful
feet. Os course she must go and
dance and be on dress parade, for
she had the money and had come
to the Capital City to splurge in
first-class company*
I asked her to show me her feet,
and maybe I could prescribe for
them, as I also had a corn on one of
my little toes, that almost made
me “turnt fits”—if I -walked too long
on hard pavements, etc.
She shucked off the beautiful
shoes and stocking—before my par
tor fire, and the memory of her
bluish, greenish foot-stain, still re
mains with me. The blood had been
compressed until the root looked
actually dark and discolored—and I
could easily understand that pride
had done her a turn—because she
wanted to show up pretty little feet.
Now. I am going to tell My Coun
try Home family what I prescribed
for her corns, at the same time in
forming her that it would be wise
for her to adopt bedroom slippers,
until her feet were restored to their
natural color.
For nearly half century my corn
on my little toe had been annoying
at times and I learned by using it.
that nitrate of silver. generally
known as Lunar-caustic, could be
easily and safely applied to a corn,
and although it would darken the
sound skin around the corn, it would
take out the pain, and finally the
corn itself would scale off. and stay
away, until I punished myself again
by hard walking. and too much
standing at a time —which I had to
do some times.
I used a little mop made of a
sliver of wood, a&d », Ju.ltl.ft ftotton
that Ben had too, and my spirits
lightened, for I felt that now it
must all come out right in the ena.
Ben did not press me any further
for a promise, but we both felt that
somehow we were to have each oth
er. ‘Poor little Betty,’ Ben said.
“I love her next to you, Jean. I
will help you take care of her all
my life, as tenderly as Will would
wish me to.’
Chapter XVIII
z z-w — PRESENTLY Ben said some-
* • I— J thing else, which neither
1 of us regarded much at the
time,” the nurse continued,
as Nora listened intently, "but which
I remembered and thought deeply
about afterward. It was understood
that he was to go away and wait,
and he was begging me not to meke
him wait too long.
“ ‘I want you as soon as I can get
you, Jean,’ he begged. ‘I am hungry
for you! I need you so. Sometimes,
when Betty in her pitiful ignorance
turns all that love that belongs to
my dead brother toward me 1t
makes me almost desperate. I long
so much to feel that she is you
and take her to my heart.’
“Before he left we talked of my
mother and I told him of the part
she would have in my wedding out
fit. I had to cry, but the tears did
no tseem to burn as at other times.
“When I tried to open the door of
Betty’s room, I found it ocked and
then I noticed that the hall smelled
strongly of gas. I knew what had
happened. I was able to think and
act quickly. A little porch opened
off from this hall and from a win
dow in Betty’s room also.
"I smashed the pane of glass and
climbed through in less time than
it takes to tell it. The room was
dark. I had sense and self-control
enough to throw wide the windows
and wait a few frantic seconds be
fore I put a match to the open gas
jet.
"Betty seemed to have ceased
breathing, but I thought I could still
feel a faint flutter at her heart.
The noise I made soon brought help,
but Jhere were some hideous minutes
to wait after I had done all I could.
Inhere was a note pinned to the pin
Cushion. It read: ‘Dear’ Jean, dear
lister; I want you to be happy.
Anyhow, marry Will, since he loves
you. But I could not stand it.’
"For the second time that night
I fell down on my knees. I did not
really pray—l just promised. I
promised to give up Ben or anything
else of my own in the world if God
would just save Betty’s life. He
did it.
"He did more, as I have come to
believe will happen, provided you are
willing to do all you can yourself.
Some one had communicated with
Ben, and he reached z the house just
as Betty was recovering conscious
ness. The minute she rested her
eyes on him as she came into the
room I knew that something had
happened to Betty. Her eyes looked
clear and natural. She even smiled,
‘Why, here’s Ben, too,’ she whis
pered. ‘When did you get back home,
Ben?’ Then she turned away and be
gan to sob. At last' she realized
and Remembered everything. She
had recovered her reason complete
ly-
"But, you see, I made my promise
in good faith. God certainly kept
His word. So I kept mine. It was
not so terribly hard. Since I had
kept my promise to my mother,
also, she came back to me In away.
That is, I seem to feel her near me
all the time, I knew I was strong
enough to give up Ben and strong
enough to make him learn to do
without me. I was far more suc
cessful than I dared to expect. I
did even better —in helping to bring
him and Betty together in the after
years.
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tied on it. I dipped the little mop
in a weak solution of the nitrate of
silver and water and sponged off the
aching corn, two or three times a
day, and then I let it alone. It has
never failed me. I keep it nearby
to this day. ,
But when bunions get a firm hold,
yoy had better call the doctor. They
have been known to eventuate in
blood poisoning; and prove fatal.
This happens when the victim’s
physical condition provokes that sort
of a result. They are obstinate
things, If they do not finish you.
The suffering gets so bad that
folks will cut out holes in the leath
er of their shoes, and wear them
thus multllated on Sunday as well
as Mondav .
Eeventv-Year Clocks
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"Our brain are seventy-year clocks.
The angel of life winds them up
once for all, then closes the cases
and gives the key into the hand of
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" ‘Tic-tac-tic-tac’ go the wheels of
thought. Our will cannot stop them;
madness only makes them go faster.
Death alone can break into the case,
and seizing the ever-swinging pen
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lence at last the clicking of the ter
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long beneath our foreheads.”
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