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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 mm Bend yonr name VisSl and addrtes, rise Zas~7ut-ffj,n?.CTSja S-X* and eolor and I will tend this tnr eatertOz<-f you. You don’t pay ono penny until it it de- MiWwKwa liveredtoyow door by the I postman. fflji.; * Army For Ken or Woman Thia it a real j made al RJSSmJ 1 heavy mixed marlno yam. EwevS«4'H?Md’’ iSzM'iE-ja 81 ip•o va r WztjWjM4®ffl.iWSffi ityie, with V neek and fall lengthaleevee. p. 5:!; i|U i ■IIJ |W!tt I!lf®' Jirejsi 'l& nt flt w i^i r ei or Ken S4to «. Colors, thikl cr navy blue. Ko one hat ever reduced price to thia extent. It is the biggest money-saving bargain ever offered. We will ted only two to a customer and will not sell to merehzsta or wholesalers. Dyajgveatev STitcsm J° 2 t s cß d your name Uciivery rite asdaddreet.nomon ey. When the sweater ia delivered at your door by the postman, pay him SI .SS for the sweater. V7e bare paid the delivery chargca. Wear it. If yon don’t find it ail you espeet, return it and we wdi cheer fully refund your money at once. Orc-.r b’i'a. 7?. Waiter Fie!d Co. », e fc £& RHEUMATISM £ Z WEAK KIDNEYS CAN BE CURED Use DUPLEX APPLIANCES / X the new method of treatment »o successful / that we sell them under two weeks absolute A guarantee; money refunded if not benefit- “Y >A'U|2 >G ed—you to be the judge. Worth their weight in gold to sufferers from Rheuma- I 'I » tikm, Lame Back, Stiff Joints, Weak Kid- L. ncys, Muscles, Anaemia, Neuralgia, it \ Cold or Sore Feet, Insomnia, Nervous 1 ' \ Troubles and all diseases which arise from jSsIU/I x i m P cr f ectc i r cdfcti° n . Bands,per pair, $3.75 * Inner Soles, per pair, $1 "* Both pairs complete, post-paid, $5.00. T.T MELEES, [ f I I 4166 Endlong Ave., Los .uigeies, Cal. Wafeathmed' SAVE 1 25-lb. bed. 1 pair Mb. pillow,. 1 blanket, foil Rite, 1 counterpane large •lie. all tor 815.95 t&.iSSVf' (Retail value »27.00) Same a, above with VIRKS JO-lb. bed $18.05; with M-Ib. bed J 17.95; with 40-lb. oed 818.05. Bed, ; 30 ’ 1 * > - • U - B5 ‘ 351 - «« »5. eo-lb. *13.95. Two 2 1-2 lb. pillow, 91.05. New feather,, beat ticking, g 1.000.00 cash depoait in to guarantee satisfaction or money back. Mail order today or write far new Catalog. SANITARY BEDDING COMPANY. OoportmoM 106 Charlotte, N. C. New Feather Beds Only $10.50 New Feather Pillows, $2.20 per pair. New, Sanitary and Dustless Feathers. Best 8 ox. 'Ticking. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Write for new catalog. Agents wanted. Southern, feather & Pillow Co., Dept. 15, Greensboro, N. C. 31-Piece Dinner Set Given Full size dinner china,guaranteed f « \ against crazings \ J P. ure white color. N. Every piece dec- < rated with Iff royal blue band |i (» I IM, HjSWgfflJLrg' 8 : an d y Our initial g,'— -tamped in pure ® coin gold - just I rsJi /S#/« the set for a fam tv ®((® (l ® * ®KS ily of six. Simply -ell 4 o packet, Cuticura Talcum ■—— — Fascinatingly Fragrant “ Always Healthful Sample free of CutlccTs Laboratories,Dept. U Halfen Haas Everywhere 25c. FITS Ts you have Epilepsy, Fits, Falling Sick ness or Convulsions —no matter how bad— write today for my FREE trial treatment. Used successfully 25 years. Give age and explain case. Dr. C. M. Simpson, 1628 W. Mth st., Cleveland, Ohio, THE ATLANTA TRI WEEKLY JOURNAL. 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. ' DANDELION . j I I Butter Color II | AH stores sell 35- ! I cent bottles, each S-JL I IjrN eufficiont to keep o ) t l )at “Golden ) Shade” in your but- ter nil the year round. Standard Butter Color for fifty years. Pureh vegetable. Meets all food laws, State and National. I,’sed by all large creameries Will not color the buttermilk Tasteless. Well* & RknarJwa Co.. Burliogtoo, Venaost. The Tri-Weekly Journals Fashion Hints .MA I I J A, //w’ 1 . J IV 2 || || zJ (NZ I'A j n W w aaE ®Jlli WJW j9B*AO W\ I I \ tlffw Ww i■ ■’ Moi -L : X h " ih™ \f 11 ' I j MJ s32# mRM O WW Ba '/f Ji JV ™ 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 tains. Hence it is very widely known; and the New Englander who has migrated to the banks of the Wabash, the Ohio or the Mississippi, or to the prairies of Illinois, recog nizes it as an old acquaintance. 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. 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