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THINGS OF INTEREST WITHIN THE CIRCLE OF THE HOME
AUNT JULIA’S
LETTER BOX
. “Help for the Helpless—Kindness to All
Dumb Things’
RULES
No unsigned letters printed.
No letter written on both sides of paper printed.
All letters not s o exceed 150 to 200 words.
My Dear Children: Such a short time until Christmas morn
ing. Let me pass along to you an idea that has been passed to me;
■ Nearly all of us have some one particular friend that we want
to remember “differently.” Well, here lea nice way. Get a fair
size Christmas box. Then fin»d out if that friend has any particular
days in the month that are full of meaning or sentiment; select
some little thing, say five 2-cent stamps; put into an envelope;
mark “New Year’s Day for some of your Christmas letters.” For
February, get some other small thing, possibly a handkerchief and
so on for each month in the seal each little gift tight, and on
your Christmas card ask that each be opened as marked. That will
mean a year’s pleasant surprises, and the cost is so small, the box
will look as if it held only one gift. Lovingly,
AUNT JULIA.
H<»re I come again to visit the Letter Box.
While you cousins in the upper states are
sitting around the fire to keep watm, we are
enjoying the balmy breezes and beautiful
sunshine of south Florida. We have not had
any frost yet. Our oranges are getting ripe.
I am busy in school now. lam in the eighth
grade. I am thirteen years of age. It is
Only twenty-five miles from ' Arcadia to
Punta Gorda. Punta Gorda is on the bay,
•nd it takes only a short time to run down
■nd go fishing. I am in the fifth grade in
music. I wish to hear from anyone who
would like to write to a Florida girl.
An old cousin.
MARGARET WEYER.
Arcadia, Fla., K. F. D.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I just wonder
what you all are doing this rainy and lone
some day. I have just finished reading "our
Letter Box,’’ and found some very interesting
letters. I will not give my description this
time as I did before. We can’t tel! very
much about how anyone looks just to listen
to the description, can we? But I will give
my age now, as I left it for you to guess
before. lam seventeen, and will be eighteen
the 20th day of next June. Who guessed
Tight? I received many letters from the
cousins before, so many that I just could not
answer them all; but I will take this
method of answering them. They were all very
Interesting and very much appreciated. Will
some cousin who has The Journal of October
K, 1920, please send me Aunt Julia's page,
As tnv paper of that date has been destroyed.
How many of you read Dorothy Dix’s talks?
Gee! doesn’t she write some good ones? I
gness I had better be going. Best wishes to
all for a Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year. Love to all.
LILLIE GILSTRAP.
Bascom, Fla.
P. S. —Aunt Julia, you will find enclosed
my bit for the American child.
Listen! Did auntie say that I might
Come in? Just a minute, anntie. I’ll prom
ise not to stay long. What are you cousins
doing now? I pick cotton when it isn’t too
cold. It was too cold today. Isn’t it grand
that “we" are going to educate a little
American baby? I certainly think it is.
Whnt do you all do for pastime? I read
most of the time. I guess most of you all
■re going to school now. I'm not, because
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our school has not started. We have a nice,
new house already except the desks. Come
over after a while and we will go to school.
How many of you cousins belong to the To
mato club? I do. The club work i» both
interesting and profitable. Now, if any of
you want to write to a fourteen-year-oid Ala
bama brunette, let your letters fly to
LETTIE GIBBS.
Arab, Ala.. Route 1.
P. S. —Here’s a nickel for baby.
Dear Aunt Julia: We are three girls at
the Martha Berry school. We room together
and have the grandest, times. We are
learning to cook and sew and how to be
model housekeepers, besides the many other
things you learn at the M, B. S.
First—l am 16 years of age, and about
five feet and weigh 125 pounds. My hair
is light brown. My eyes are dark brown
and my complexion is very fair and I al
ways have a smile for everyone. Second —
I am 16 years of age, also, and about five
feet and weigh about lift pounds; I am a
high blonde and my eyes are dark blue. I
am always cutting up and up to some kind
of mischief. If I were not doing these
two things ,my classmates would think I
was sick. ,'Last, but not least; I am 18
.years old; I have brown hair, hazel eyes
and I have medium fair complexion. I am
five feet, two inches in height, and I weigh
125 pounds. We enjoy reading letters from
Aunt Julia's corner very much and we would
be delighted to receive some letters from
the cousins.
FLORENCE HATCHER,
LOUISE SHEHEE,
IRENE HOLLOMAN.
Mount Berry, Ga., M. B. S.
Auntie, Dear Auntie: I know you are
tired of my silly letters, but as this, the
month of Christmas, dawns, I just must
write you all once more. I received some
real nice letters from the cousins last
time, so many seemed to want an education.
Dear cousins, do not stop striving to get
an education, for America needs you, and
if you keep trying you are sure to win. A
number of the girls and boys stay and work
here in the summer and go to school in
winter, so you all might write to Miss
Alberta Patterson, Mount Berry, Ga., »for
more information. I would be Indeed glad
to welcome any of you to ‘‘Dear Old Berry."
Somehow, Aunt Julia, the description of
myself was not correct, as I have golden
brown curls, large light brown eyes, fair
complexion and two large dimples; I weigh
114 pounds, 5 feet 3 inches high, my age
is not over 19 or under 14, so you see am
just the age to correspond with you “all."
A word to the boys: Dear cousins, you all
do not seem to feel at "home” in our cir
cle Why do you ■>’’ rot write more often?
All girls like to read letters from boys.
Will some of you write to me? Will not
lots of both girls and boys write to me
and send me your pictures? Will answer
every letter that has a picture in it. You
can never guess how I like to receive let
ters. Yours forever,
MISS DE ALVA HARRIS.
Mount Berry, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here
comes two chums to join your charming
circle. I, Annie, will describe myself, as
it seems to be the rule; so here I go: Fair ■
complexion, dark hair, blue eyes, 5 feet 5
inches, weigh 125 pounds. I, Emma, have
been before, so will not describe myself.
We are going to school now, both in the
seventh grade. Our teacher’s name is Miss
Mattie Henderson. Oh, cousins, aren’t you
glad it will soon be Christmas? We are.
Guess we had better ring off before Aunt
Julia gets the broomstick. We hope to see
this in print; will come again if it is
printed. By-by cousins,
P EMMIE STRICKLAND.
Waycross, Ga., Route 5, Box 59.
ANNIE STRICKLAND.
Waycross, Ga., Route 2, Box 60.
Good morning! This is Aunt Julia, isn t
it? lam a new cousin, but if you will gt e
me the floor for a few moments to talk on
that very interesting subject, ‘ 'What to Do
on Christmas Day," then I will sit and .isten
to vou or any of the cousins talk on any sub
ject you please. I think we should oe
very ‘cheerful and try ,to make everybody
cheerful on that day. We should attend
speaking, preaching, Christmas tree or any
thing that is of benefit to us as well as
amusements. I don’t think we should let
the day pass without doing something to
remember the day. We should not forget
that a Christmas present is always appre
ciated, even from the largest to the small
est. I will now apply the brake and stop,
thanking you for your attention and hoping
”ou a Merry Christmas.
Your new cousin,
BURTIS FOARD.
Indian Trail, N. C.
p S. —Come to see me with a letter. Don t
forget it, I'll answer it.
Dear Aunt Julia: As you said for u« to
write about what we can do for Christ
mas I thought I would try my luck. Moth
er and I make handkerchiefs, crochet bags
and make them out of scraps, make dolls
and doll clothes, shoes and stockings, lit
tle caps and aprons, pretty pin cushions,
doilies, crocheted and embroidered, balls
for little boys. Mother says that little girls
can make stove cloths. Take a piece of
white goods and fold the edges in and
quilt It. They are handy around the stove.
Make a pretty gingham bag and hang close
to the stove to put them in and see
how much mother or grandmother will ap
preciate them. Mother makes rag dolls
and dresses them up like babies. They, are
cute. By by,
MARY DANIEL.
Douglasville, Ga.. R. F. D. No. 2.
Dear Auntie and Cousins: 'Would you
admit a little Alabama girl into your happy
band oJ boys and girls? I do not see many
letters from this part of the state. What’s
the matter, kids? Come on. Don’t let the
others get ahead of us. What do you cous
ins do for pastime? I play the organ, go
to school and read novels. Well, as it is
a rule, I will describe myself and go. 1
have brown hair, brown eyes, and brunette
complexion; am 5 feet 4 inches high.
There, now! Stop that laughfng, for I shall
leave my age for you to guess. It is be
tweep 12 and 18. Now, cousins, some oft
you write me. I will answer all letters
received, so let your letters flv to
ESTELLE NICHOLS.
Pigeon Creek, Ala., Route 1.
This is my first letter to Aunt Julia’s
letter box. I have read several of the
letters in the box and enjoy reading them
very much. Is it very cold up in the north
ern states? We are enjoying the warm
summer sunshine, although it is winter. I
fancy you girls would feel funny in white
summer dresses. Wouldnt you? We girls
wear them all through the winter. Our
fruit is turning and is beautiful on the
Use Dandelion
Butter Color
Add n half-tea*
spoonful to each gal-’
lon of winter cream
and out of your
« chum comes butter
* of golden June shade
to brin£ you top
prices.
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S-JL I IjrN eufficiont to keep
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The Tri-Weekly Journals Fashion Hints
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9849.—Lady’s one-piece apron. Cut
in sizes 36, 40 and 44-inch bust
measure. Size 36 requires 3 3-8 yards
36-lnch material with 5-8 yard 36-
inch contrasting. Price 15 cents.
9826—Lady’s and misses’ camisole
skirt. Cut in size 16 years, 36, 40
and 44-inch bust measure. Size 36
requires 3 1-4
Price 15 cents.
9840—Lady’s and misses’ one-piece
dress. Cut in size 16 years, 36 to 42
inch bust measure. Size 36 requires
4 3-4 yards 36-inch material and
2 1-2 yards binding. Price 15 cents.
9738. —Lady’s and misses’ dress.
Cut in sizes 16, 18 years, 36 to 42
inch bust measure. Size 36 requires
4 5-8 yards 36-inch material with
3-4 yard 2 6 inch lining. Price 15
cents.
£B2B—Girl’s coat. Cut in sizes 6
to 14 years. Size 8 requires 3 1-4
yards 36-inch material. Price 15
cents.
9822—Lady’s and misses’ dress
Cut in sizes 16, 18 years, 36 to 42-
trees. The orange packing houses are now
running, and it is very interesting to watch
them put up the fruit. The girls and boys
in Arcadia have real good times together.
We go on camping trips, marshmallow
roasts, fishing excursions, etc. I would
love to hear from anyone who would like
to write. Will write again to the letter
box and tell you more in my letter than
the first. A new cousin,
MABELL L. SIMMONS.
810 East Oak st., Arcadia, Fla.
As time permits and gives me the pleasure
of expressing my thoughts to Auntie and
the cousins, I will ask Aunt Julia to let
me in just to get acquainted with you all.
If I succeed I will come again. I have
been reading the letter box for a long time.
I surely do enjoy it. I think the letters
are both interesting and edifying. I surely
had -a fine time Thanksgiving. Ate dinner
in Dalton and* in the afternoon Mary Nell
Trlppe, Lizzie Brooker and I went out to
see one of our aunts who lives three miles
east of town and remained until Saturday.
Well, Christmas will soon be here. I hope
every one of the cousins will be visited by
Santa; you, too, Auntie. With love and
hest wishes for each and every one.
Your new cousin,
RUTH DANIEL.
Dalton, Ga., Route 3.
Hello, Auntie and Cousins: Merry Christ
mas to all! Oh, I was about to forget—
Christmas gift? Gee! Didn’t I hear someone
say How did yon “get that way?” Well,
honest now, I mean It. Oh, no, T don’t mean
FACTS ABOUT
FURNITURE
(In this series of illustratefl
sketches, The Tri-Weekly Journal
presents the most Interesting and
important points concerning “Period
Furniture.” Each little article will
he complete in itself.)
Type of Jacobean
Gate-Legged Table
The Jacobean period held sway
during almost all of the seventeenth
century. A characteristic of this
style of furniture is the rich and
heavy carving, particularly that
known as strap-work. Oak was the
wood generally employed.
The gate-legged tables of this pe
riod are either round or oblong. The
distinguishing feature is two drop
leaves supported on movable gates.
The eight legs are under-framed and
symmetrically turned.
inch bust measure. Szie 36 requires
.» 1-1 ya”ds 40-mch uia’eriol w :■> 1
yard 40-’nch contrast'ng Price 15
cents.
9834 Lady’s and m'sses hat. Cut
in sizes 23 1-2 and 24-inch head
measure. Size 24 requires 1-2 yard
32-inch material with 1-3 yard 27-
inch buckram and 1 yard binding.
Price 15 cents.
All Patterns 15 Qents
Our 32-page fashion magizine, con
taining all the good, new styles,
dressmaking hints, etc., sent for 5
cents, or 3 cents if ordered with a
pattern. One pattern and one fash
ion magazine for 15 cents.
In ordering patterns and maga
zines write your name ciearlj’ on a
sheet of paper and inclose the price
in stamps. Do not send your letters
to the Atlanta office, but direct
them to —
FASHION DEPARTMENT,
ATLANTA JOURNAL,
22 East Eighteenth St.,
New York City.
that which is made of sugar—am too sweet
already, though the bees don’t know it, ha,
ha. Now I’m some little mind reader —no
dolls, please, unless they <an talk, walk
and ’most old enough to vote, eh?
Cousins, would you grant a simple little
request? It will only cost the price of a
postage stamp and—er—maybe a bit of exer
tion in bursting an old rail for kinding. I
want to get a good list of papers on my sub
scription list to read this winter. Will you
please send me a copy of any paper that
you think contains reading matter which
would help a boy? I’ll appreciate the favor
very , much, and return it if possible.
I am learning to write short stories and if
anyone would like to read what I write I’l
be glad to tell where you can get them ns
they are published. Cousins, if you have
sympathy for a boy who is trying to travel
the upward way, seeking higher ideals and
would like to tell him so, please don’t hesi
tate to write. Your true friend and cousin,
LUTHER HUFF.
P. S. —December the 15th is my birthday.
May I expect “greetings" from you? Then
write it now—please.
Talbot, Tenn.;
CHRISTMAS
Is Coming!
Here Are Some Tri-Weekly
Journal Suggestions for Mak
ing Simple, Inexpensive Gifts
at Home.
Potpourri Bag
To make a dainty potpourri bag,
cover a cardboard circle about 4
Inches in diameter, with silk. To
this shirr some crepe de chine and
georgette of contrasting color. The
bag is filled with potpourri. Baby
ribbon is used to tie it. The top of it
is trimmed with ribbon ends and
flowers.
Pincushion
A pretty pincushion is barrel
shaped. The cover is made of a
large piece of satin ribbon and is
filled with wadding. It is trimmed
with satin fruit and ribbon at each
end. A narrow ribbon is used to
suspend it.
Useful Gift
An attractive gift consists of
several sticks of sealing wax and
a seal. The wax should be of vary
ing color. A dainty box should be
used for it. The sticks are tied to
gether with a full bow of ribbon
to one end of which the seal is
tied.
Por the Boudoir
A frilly lampshade will make
an appreciated gift for a young girl.
Take a wire frame of the size and
shape desired and cover with a
foundation of rose-colored silk. To
this ru-ffles of Valenciennes lace are
sewed. A row of tiny rosebuds fin
ishes the top.
Dainty Gift
Dainty powder boxes are easily
made. A glass bowl is used for a
foundation. Plaited rose or blue
satin and a piece of net is gath
ered together in the center around
the feet of a small kewpie doll. The
doll is dressed in net and rose
buds. The powder puff Is attached
to the silk and forms the cover of
the box.
A Pillow Cover
Organdie makes a very attractive
pillow cover for a young girl’s
room. Use two shades of pin organ
die. An oblong of the lighter organ
die is stitched to the center and
two rows of hemstitching trim the
edges. Five organdie roses add a
finishing touch.
The Tri-Weekly Journal's Own Serial
The Only Thing That Counts
A Mystery Romance of Modern Bohemia
By the Famous Novel »st
Carolyn Beecher
(Copyright, 1920.)
CHAPTER XVIH
KIRK LANSING was a very Ilka
ble fellow, clean-cut —both
body and mind. He was hand
some, 100, in a strong mascu
line way. And he loved Helen West
field.
From the first he had been drawn
to her—as long ago as that day when
she lunched alone at Claremont. And
constant association had but deep
ened the feeling. Helen had invaria
bly shown a beguiling power of lis
tening to all he had to say, but he
felt he knew as little of her as he
had on that day when he watched
her lunching alone.
Yet he loved her.
Lansing was single simply because
he had never met a woman who
stirred the depths of his nature. He
rath’er fiercely held that it was every
man’s duty to marry and have chil
dren. But beyond a few passing
fancies he never had been in love;
never sufficiently so to ask any girl
to marry him.
Often he wondered if he had a ri
val in Kellogg. Helen treated them
so exactly alike—he thought. Only
Adele had noticed the slight differ
ence. And with the most intense in
terest she watched, sure that a dra
ma would unfold itself before her —
would it be a tragedy?
Adele never had been able to dis
sociate Helen from that photograph
she had shown her. Mystery there
was and some time she would solve
it. Now it but lent piquancy to what
ever Helen did; to her relations to
other men.
Once Helen had said to her:
“Men are all alike; it isn’t in them
to be true!"
One day Adele and Helen attended
a studio tea in the Studio des Ar
tistes. There Helen was introduced
to Clifford Sloane. He Immediately
attached himself to her. His atten
tion was flagrantly noticeable, be
cause he was usually the one sought,
not the seeker. When he spoke to
her there was such a depth of pas
sion in his rich voice, such longing
as she never had dreamed a man
voice could portray. His face had
mirrored both the passion and the
longing.
Helen thought, as she gazed at
him, of a line she had read in a mag
azine the day before:
“A world-weary man, longing for
something beyond his reach.”
She felt as she listened to Sloane
like some character out of a novel.
There was a feeling of unreality
about her. So engrossed were they
that neither observed Lansing’s ap
proach.
“The taxie is here—do you wish to
go?”
As Helen lifted her eyes to the
speaker they rested for just a mo
ment on other eyes so full of pain,
so sombre, that she quickly lowered
her own. It was almost as if she
had done something indelicate in
looking at another’s misery.
Helen rose at once. No thought
of introducing the two men came to
her. Perhaps she thought they were
acquainted.
The man with the pain-ridden eyes
stood until she had passed from the
room. Then with a cynical smile he
sank back in his seat.
“How do you like Sloane?” Adele
asked when Lansing had bade them
good night, and they were alone to
i gossip.
“I don’t know, Adele. <He inter
ests me—repulses me—while he also
attracts. Tell me about him.”
‘‘He has a bad reputation, Helen
They say a woman seen alone with
him is marked."
“That part doesn't interest me. I
have no wish to be alone with any
man.”
“Not with Kirk Lansing?"
A wave of color was Adele’s an
swer. She laughed and said:
“He’s a prince, Helen! Beside him
Sloane isn’t worth even mention. I
think he is rather badly hit—ht
would be a good match, dear.”
“I like him very much,” Helen
said, her color subsiding.
“He will ask you to marry him—
you see if I am not right.”
Now Helen paled.
'I hope not! Oh, I want to keep
him as a friend, Adele! I shall never
marry.”
“Nonsense! Why not? You are
young, lovely, free. Why shouldn’t
you marry and have a home of your
own?” Had she imagined it, or had
Helen winced when she said that
word "free?”
“Don’t talk of it, Adele.”
And Adele, Wise beyond her years,
sensed the hurt in Helen’s voice and
said no more. But her thoughts
rioted. And in them she mixed Helen,
the man whose photograph she had
shown her, Kirk Lansing and Morti
mer Kellogg. Never once did she
give a thought to Cifford Sloane. Nev
er once did she think that he was to
play a part in Helen’s life.
The following afternoon Helen had
finished work for the day and was
dreamily staring out her favorite
window when Sloane came. He had
not been announced and when she
called “Come” Helen had no idea
who her visitor was to be.
Startled, she rose to her feet.
‘You did not expect to see me so
soon, but you knew I would come,”
was his greeting as he took both her
hands in a close clasp.
Chapter XIX
FOR many weeks after her meet
ing with Clifford Sloane Helen
saw much of him, more than
she quite realized. She had
piqued him by her cool. Indifferent
manner. Women had flattered, “run
after’ him for years. To meet a wom
an who seemed not to care whether
he came or went, but who was polite
ly Interested when with him, who did
not repulse his visits, while she
scorned the slightest advances on his
part, was an anomaly to him, and
one that aroused all the hunting in
stincts in him.
Clifford Sloane was a man without
a conscience—where such an attrib
ute would thwart his desires.
He was not a marrying man. So
he had told every woman with whom
he had had any sort of affair. So
he told Helen.
“That makes you the more inter
esting. It shows you are a sensible
man,” she returned to his surprise.
Usually his had been
met with disappointed looks, cha
grin, or in laughing derision.
“I’ll make her lose that calmness
before I am through with her,” he
muttered when alone.
Then he set about to find away.
• In the meantime Helen was more
and more with Kirk Lansing; daily
she looked forward with delight to
the time she spent with him. Yet
so sure was she that she could
never be more to him than she now
was that she made no attempt to
discourage the attentions of others
• —among them Clifford Sloane.
For the moment Helen was filled'
with a deep satisfaction with the
life she had chosen. She breathedl
content and it gave to her beauty
a peculiar charm.
She thought a good deal about
Lansing, yet not of him alone. Oth
ers shared her thoughts, but none
of them absorbingly, for she had
her work to do. And she did it
well. Her stories were in demand.
Editors wrote her asking for them.
Adele laughingly proclaimed her
jealously, yet was intensely proud of
Helen’s success.
“Isn’t it just wonderful to be
free?” Helen said to her one beau
tiful day in the spring. Her win
dow was thrown open and before it
Helen stood taking long breaths of
the balmy air as she watched the
kaleidoscopic view of her beloved
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1920.
square. Then, flinging her arms
wide, she exclaimed.
“Give me freedom or give me
death!”
“Trying to paraphrase Patrick
Henry, are you?” Adele teased. “One
might think you had been in jail at
some time to hear you prate of lib
erty and freedom.”
“Isn’t being bound —not able to do
as you wish—being in jail?”
“Does any one in the world do
as he wants to, Helen? I thought
I should when I left home. But I
haven’t —not one single thing. I do
what I must. Os course I am free ■
in away. But really free —no!”
Helen said nothing, although her;
eyes glowed. To her freedom meant i
just exactly the life she was now
living—a life unhampered by the
wishes, the whims, the objections
of another. But often, when alone,
as she thought of Lansing, she asked
herself:
“Am I falling in love with him?
Am I? I must not! I will not! Love
only brings misery. Only the man
and woman who spurn love, who
take what is given without return
ing In kind are happy. I will not
love?”
And Cupid, the sly little god, laid
his finger beside his nose and
laughed softly.
“I am giving a little dinner in my
apartment,” Clifford Sloane tele
phoned to Helen. “Please come.”
“Who are you having?”
He named over several people
Helen knew by name, one or two she
had met.
“Have you asked Adele?”
“Yes. Unfortunately she has an
engagement." He did not add that
he had discovered the engagement
before he had set the date.
“Well —I don’t know.”
“Please don’t disappoint me. I
have a Jap servant, who is a vio
linist. He is wonderful, and I heard
you say once you were fond of
music.”
“I am, passionately!”
“Then promise you will come. Only
four besides you are to be here.
You see, my place is small."
“I have heard it is very artistic.”
“Come and judge for yourself.”
Like a wise man he urged her no
more, but told her one or two inter
esting things about the other expect
ed guests. When Helen hung up the
receiver she had decided to go.
This decision she was to regret
all her life long.
“She won’t be the first icicle to
melt,” Sloane said to himself, a grim
smile lighting his somber face just
for an instant.
Chapter XX
t y’M awfully sorry you can’t go,
* * I Idele,” Helen said when she
» | old of her invitation.
“So am I —if you are going."
“Just why that tone?”
“Oh—l don’t know, but somehow
I don’t like the idea of your get
ting in with Sloane the way you
are. He isn’t healthy, that man.
Half his time in spent posing, try
ing to make people think he
knows all there is to know, and that
the knowledge has worn him out.
Bah! I wish we .never had gone to
the Brevoort that night, I sort of
feel to blame that you ever met
him. Who else is going to this
party?”
“That nice Mr. and Mrs. Austin
Wheeler, and a Mr< and Mrs. Pond.
Do you know them?”
“No —I know who they are though.
I don’t see why such people bother
with a man like Sloane.”
“One would think you had had an
affair with him at some time you
are so—well, fussy when he is
mentioned.”
“I did! Just the beginning of one.
It never amounted to anything, be
cause it was at the same time that
I had that other on my hands—the
man whose photograph I showed
you.” It was the first time Adele
had referred to the incident, and
she had not meant to. She gave a
startled glance at Helen, but be
yond a quick tightening of the lips
Helen gave no sign.
“If the Wheelers are going I shall
feel better. Mrs. Wheeler is a dear,
and he is a nice sensible man.
Sloane won’t be quite so gloomily
fascinating with them around.”
Then: “I am going to spend the
night with Lillian in Yonkers. I
don’t like to come home so late at
night alone; neither do I like to
break up her party by leaving
early.”
Lillian Frost was an old friend
of Adele’s who had married and
was living in Yonkers. She was
giving a house-warming in her new
home and Adele had promised noth
ing should prevent her going.
Adele was so sure that Lansing
was in love with Helen, she liked
him so well, that she did all in her
power to encourage a like feeling
in Helen. She felt rather sorry for
Mortimer Kellogg. He, too, appeared
to care very much to be with Helen
and was constantly planning little
pleasures for her, often including
Adele.
“I’m not one, two, six when Hel
en’s around,” she said to her mir
rored self. “I used to be rather
stuck on myself; thought I was just
a bit worth while. It takes all the
conceit out of one to be with a girl
like Helen that all the men are
crazy about. She doesn’t seem to
care one bit about them either—
although—l don’t—know. Lately I
have noticed she seems happy when
Kirk Lansing is with her. I hope
they will make a match.” Then,
as she almost invariably did when
she had soliloquized about Helen,
she added: “I wonder—l wish I
knew.”
Opening her dressing table drawer,
she drew out the photograph.
“You never knew how much I
; liked you,” she said whimsically,
“how near I came to falling in love
with you. Perhaps I am a little,
even now.” She gazed for some
time at the rather weak but hand
some face, then with a half-sigh,
half-sob, put the photograph back
and locked the drawer.
To tell the truth, Helen was
rather excited over her visit to
Sloane’s studio. She had met Mr.
and Mrs. Wheeler and was charm
ed with both of them. She also knew
the other two guests to be refined,
interesting people. Then, too, like
all story writers, Helen was al
ways on the qui vive for copy—
atmosphere. She felt sure she would
at least find things different in '
Clifford Sloane’s studio. Originality ;
would be expected of such a man. I
She bought a new dress for the j
occasion, a filmy black affair, cut !
modestly low and showing her white I
neck and arms to advantage.
“I was awfully extravagant,” she ;
told Adele. “But I got a good price I
for my last story and I really need- I
ed an evening dress.”
“I can’t see why you think your- j
self extravagant! You earn the |
money yourself.”
“I know—” Then, blithely: “And '
isn’t it nice to feel that one can i
earn money—can take care of one’s
self, be independent?”
“I never saw a girl so keen on
any subject as you are on that,”
Adele replied, “I like my Independ
ence, too. Proved I did by hustling
for myself when I was just a kid.
But I never thought much about it
—being free, and the world owing
me a living—until I knew you.”
“Well it does, doesn’t it?”
“I guess so—but we have to do
our part, too.” Adele at times was
quaintly serious. When one rallied
her about It, she always said it
was due to her “Methodist bringin'
up.” •
(To be continued.)
MARY MEREDITH’S ADVICE
TO LONELY GIRLS AT HOME
I am coming to you for advice. But
not about love. I will describe my
self so you can imagine how I look:
I am 14 years old, light brownish
hair, grizzly blue eyes, weigh 118
pounds, 54 inches tall and real slen
der. My neck and face is so long
and slim. What can I do to make my
neck look shorter and to hide the
bones that are so large. Right on
the back of my neck the bone comes
out too far. How can I avoid that?
And how should I dress my hair?
Straight back or pomped over the
forehead? Won’t you please tell me
what remedy will remove black
heads and pimples nad hair on
your face? The hair has grown
too far down on the back of
my neck and down the sides of my
face, very ugly. Won’t you pleafce
tell me what will remove It? And
what will make my neck more
plump? Do I weigh enough for my
height? And how long must I wea:
imy dresses? How long should a
I heavy coat be below my knees and
! what will make my finger nails thin
; ner, as they are rough and thick and
so large for my fingers? Am I too
large to wear curls or let my hair
go down? Am I old enough to have
boy friends? The boys do not care
anything about me yet. I guess lam
too young. What do you think is
the reason? Plehse answer all ques
tions. Hoping! you the greatest of
luck and success and thanking you
kindly for advising a
LONELY BLUE-EYED GIRL.
Wear your hair low on the
back of your neck, curls if you
want to, or tied back. It doesn’t
matter what the style of hair
dressing may be, always wear
your hair the way it is more be
coming to your face. You will
fill out as you grow older, and
the bones will be somewhat hid
den and hollows rounded out.
Grease the finger nails in vase
line at night on retiring and
file them several times each
week. Care and attention will
help them wonderfully. To rid
your face of blackheads, you
must keep the face clean, use a
good soap, castile or glycerine
soap is good. Warm water and
an absolutely clean wash cloth.
Lather the face well with soap
and rinse off in several waters
to remove the soap. Lastly cold
water. Do not pick the face, but
be sure that the skin Is kept per
fectly clean. Avoid powder or
face creams until the face heals,
then a pure cold cream rubbed
well into face at night and re
moved with warm water and
lastly cold, in the morning, will
benefit you.
Here comes a lonely girl for ad
vice. lam a girl of sixteen. Am I
old enough to go with the boys? I
am in love with a boy about nine
teen years old. I have -been with
him but once and he seemed to en
joy my company. He hasn’t been to
see me since I went with him. I
have seen him once or twice. He
writes to me aliout once every two
weeks. Helives about twelve miles
from my home. Do you think he
cares anything for me? Please tell
me how I can win his love. Give
me your best advice. Hoping to see
this in print.
CROSS-EYED.
There isn’t any set method
about winning a boy’s love. Just
your natural self, and wait fur
ther developments. You have
plenty of time for loVe In the
future, so why worry about it
now. You are old enough to
have a few boy friends. •
Will you please give me a little
advice? Where is there a good college
or school I can take a course in do
mestic science? I prefer one in
Georgia. How must I entertain a
boy friend at home and is it proper
ito have your friend call once in a
! while when you have sick ones at
homes?
Thanking you very much for your
advice. Please print in Atlanta
Journal.
RUBY B.
There is a splendid college in
Milledgeville, Ga., free, where a
girl can take up any course of
| study she wishes. Millinery, do
‘ mestic science, etc. Write to M.
M. Parks, president Georgia
TURTILE MEAT IS
CHEAPEST WE HAVE
Our fresh water turtles are being
neglected as a source of food supply.
The United States fisheries bureau,
in calling attention to the matter,
says that they furnish meat exceed
ingly palatable and far cheaper than
any other purchasable in the mar
kets.
The famous diamond-back terrapin
does not come within this category;
it is a brackish water animal.
The animal most importantly con
cerned is the snapping turtle, which
even nowadays does not often go
higher than 12 cents a pound. Half
of its weight is clear meat, utilizable
for soup, stews and fried cutlets;
also steamed, simmered and curried.
This turtle ranges all the way
from Nova Scotia to the equator,
and westward to the Rocky foun
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known; and the New Englander who
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Wabash, the Ohio or the Mississippi,
or to the prairies of Illinois, recog
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The snapper is found in lakes,
ponds, rivers, creeks, marshes and
bogs; and often it travels overland
a considerable distance from water.
Courage and tenacity are its most
conspicious moral attributes. When
it takes a grip on anything with its
powerful jaws it holds on like grim
death; if approached, it does not beat
a hasty retreat, as do other water
turtles, but boldly faces the enemy.
Snapping turtles “mud up” during
cold months in boggy places, under
logs or often in muskrat holes. Oc
casionally dozens of them are found
in a singly muskrat burrow. Hunt- :
ers in the winter go after them with
big hooks- made from iron rods
sharpened at one end.
Snappers, weighing from five to.
thirty pounds, are shipped to market
in barrels, with holes bored in the
sides and burlap nailed over the top. ,
One wholesale establishment in Chi- >
cago handles about ten thousand of
them annually.
They are voracious creatures, feed
ing on frogs, fishes, crawfish and oc
casionally young water birds. Many
a duckling do they devour. With
such a diet, it is not surprising that
their flesh is so palatable. Their liv
ers and eggs are used in snapper
soup, and their shells afford an ex
cellent substitute for the soup bone. I
If one would see giant snapping -
turtles, one should visit the gulf I
states, where the so-called “alligator i
snapper” has its home. Sometimes ;
it attains a weight of more than 200 |
pounds. It is very abundant in the I
swamps of Louisiana, where a fishery
for it is actively pursued at certain
seasons.
The “slider” (familiarly known to
every small boy) is one of several
species of fresh water terrapin !
which, though less good to eat than
the diamond back of lhe salt marshes,
furnishes excellent meat for soups
and stews.
Least appreciated, relatively to ’
their gastronomic merits, are the
soft-shelled turtles, native to our
large streams and lakes. They are
hardly inferior to the diamond back
terrapin, but are seldom seen in our
markets for two reasons—because
they do not ship well and because lo- j
cal demand, where they are caught, :
uses up the supply. They are home |
consumption delicacies, like the hon
ey banana, the emerald-gem musk
melon and the fall pippin apple—too I
good for the ordinary market and
sure to lose their original flavor in
passing through the hands of the
middleman.-—The Kansas City Star.
€
•Normal and Industrial college,
Milledgeville, Ga. You may play
games, talk, read, play on any
musical instrument, dance, do
anything in a lady-like manner
to make the young man feel at
ease. There isn’t any set rule on
entertaining one’s friends. It is
perfectly proper for the young
man to call to see you when
there is sickness in the home,
unless the person is seriously
ill and you are needed at the bed
side. It is an act of courtesy
for a friend to call at your home,
for we like to have our friends
about us in sickness as well as
when everything about us is
running smoothly.
I’m coming to you for some good
advice. There is a boy going with
me and I love him very dearly and
he says he loves me and wants me
o wait until I finish school. Tell
‘ is it right for him to want me
wait until then to marry. Tell
- would it be right for me to
■ve other company when he is
'••ay? is it any harm to receive
ristmas presents from boys.
Thanking you for your advice,
ANNIE H.
I think every girl should enjoy
the few years allotted to her be
tween school and marriage and
have more than one young man
friend. It is not right or in jus
tice to her Self to have only one
beau, when others wish to pay
her attention, for the simple
reason that men always like to
have another man in the run
ning. Unless others find his
lady friend attractive he will
get tired of her himself, as a
rule. Jnless you intend mar
rying very soon. Do not con
fine yourself to one beau.
I would like for you to give me
some advice. I am eighteen years
old and my mother has been dead
sixteen years. Don’t you thing it
would be right for me to marry at
the age of nineteen? I am engaged
to a boy about one year older than
I am. I -am 5 feet 2 Inches tall afiil
weigh 110 pounds. He is 5
and 11 inches and weighs
you think it would be all right for
us to marry? He goes to college
about twelve miles from here. Is
it proper for him to come to see
me every Sunday? Is there any
harm to kiss your sweetheart it
you are engaged?
Thank you,
“PEGGY*
I see no reason why you can
not marry at the age of nine
teen, provided the young man
is steady, and Is capable of pro
viding for you. You, of course,
realize that it costs more for
two people to live than one. And
therefore, It is necessary to take
that into consideration. Pull to
gether, and you will no doubt
be reasonably happy, even if
you do encounter a few hard
times. Marriage is real! yall
right if two people love each
other sufficiently to bear and
forebear with one. another. I
think it is perfectly proper to
have the young man call on you
on Sunday. You will have to
figure out for yourself the kiss
ing part. •
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