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THE LOVE TRAP
HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR.
What has gone before.— After a two
year engagement in a small town, Gail
Martin is jilted by her fiance, George
Hartley. Shortly afterward, Gail's Aunt
Debbie dies and leaves her niece $5,-
000. Gail has but one desire, to leave
town, and, taking her money, she goes
to New York. Here she succeeds in
stepping in between Arch Kennerley, a
scion of the idle rich, and Fay Morrison,
who in Dalesburg played the vamp with
George Hartley. The tables are turned
and Gail, with the knowledge that her
money is fast slipping away from her,
promises to marry Arch Kennerley.
Right after this she is introduced to
Jeffry Arnold, the one man in New
York who has interested her and whom
she has despaired of meeting.—-Now go
on with the story.
CHAPTER XLIV
Romance
TTfE all take our little moment of happi-
Vy ness when it is presented to us, that
’ ’ is if we are at all wise. And so it
Lucrane, Gail had room in her thoughts for
just this one thing.
She had met him, she had been intro
duced to Jeffry Arnold, and the reality of
him was far more wonderful than all her
dreams had been. In fancy she summoned
him up before her. She live* over again
that moment when she had looked up | into
his quizzical blue eyes and that still more
wonderful moment when his look of amuse
ment had changed to something else. W’hat
had that look of his indicated? Her cheeks
flamed at the memory of it, and at the
knowledge that something hitherto unawak
ened in her had leaped to meet it. If he
had read her look aright he must know
that he meant more to her than just the
casual stranger that he was.
What did he mean to her? Gail asked
herself the question and in an instant her
heart answered it. He meant everything
she had always sought. He meant youth
and illusions, and romance. He was the
dream man suddenly materialized, he was
the lover of her fancy. Os course it wasn’t
logical or reasonable. Stern realists laughed
at. such things as love at first sight or any
thing of the kind. But the fact remained
that she had cared for Jeffry Arnold at first
sight. Something about him had stirred
the unprobed depths in her, and tonight
she had been unable to hide the fact. Did
he know, did he suspect the truth, and
hadn't, his eyes flashed a message of under
standing to her, or had she imagined it?
She remembered that impulsive moment
when she had held out her hand to him. She
wanted to touch his hand and had yielded
to the impulse. In the darkness her cheeks
flamed at the shamelessness of the thing,
her pride was up in arms, and yet if Gail
had but known it, she had yielded that night
to the first natural impulse that had come
to her in months. She had forgotten herself
completely, she had shed all her inhibitions
she had ceased to pretend, and for one
breathless moment had been elemental wom
an, living only in the glorious present.
“I can t expect him to care for me. I
can t believe that he remembered because
he couldn’t forget.” Raj; her thoughts.
And yet why not? He had remembered
her, and that was important. And then
suddenly she lay back in a corner of the
taxi, absorbed in delicious intoxicating
thought.
CHAPTER XLV
Greenwich Village
IT had happened, this thing that she had
•thought impossibly romantic!
In the taxi on her way up to the Hotel
was with Gail. Stifling her conscience, she
took what the gods had to give her and
forgot for moments at a time that she was
miserable.
On the morning after her meetings wßh
Jeffry ArnoJd h e called her on the telephone.
Would she like to come down to Green
wich Village for an al fresco dinner? If so
he would ask Mrs. MacDonald to bring her
down to his studio at 6.
Would she like it? Why, just the sound
of his voice over the telephone set her heart
0 beating fast and made her breath come
short. He did like her, he wanted to see
her again What did' it matter if she had
promised.the evening to Arch? She would
get out of it somehow.
That evening in Jeffry Arnold’s studio was
so.-; V- 6 atl °p'\ - t0 Gail, J?rolu Gracia's de
pGon of , Illn1 ’ he lived abject poverty,
but when she saw this place she could have
laughed aloud at her credulousness It
was a huge room with high-vaulted ceiling,
he skylight ran from about half wav up on
ie north side and extended over the ceil
ing. Back of the studio were two bed
-1 ooms, a bath and a small kitchenette The
o^hHh^ W / S SilDply furnished. A couple
k€ L d -’ K carved Italian chairs, a low
o\ei which was thrown a piece of tap
rofL'i som e good Turkish rugs and an old
. fectory table hardly filled the big room
iiX " n ail Jiked most was tlle handle
Kht. Candles were everywhere in iron
an°d n ih S around the w aH, in brackets here
‘elnd and tWO enormous ones burned in
candlesticks as tall as floor lamps
and ‘Tft fi f ° r th l ee 1 Was served b y a silent
other d n f ,!' fl ? ge a ed Ja P anes ' e . and afterward
other people dropped in and they all sat
around and smoked cigarettes and talekd
3 what"? that really mattered. Everyone
a dpHH 1 he i° r She thou§ht - and there was
a delicious give and take about the conver
sation that was highly stimulating. How
different it. all was from the feverish, hectic
life Gail had been living for the past few
months, and how little monev seemed 10
matter among these people who were reallv
doing something.
Gail herself took very little part in the
conversation, but when she did speak she
was terribly aware of Jeffry Arnold’s blue
eyes. He sat across the room from her, but
it seemed to Gail that he studied her con
stantly. It had been that way through din
ner, and each time she had looked up to
find his eyes her, she had felt con
fused and unable to go on with what she
was saying.
She longed to know more about his work.
She wanted to ask him to show her some
of it, but she was too shy to suggest such a
thing while the others were present. How
ever, she and Marjorie remained for a few
moments after the rest had gone, and it
was then that he showed her some of tils
canvasses and outlined the work he was
doing. While Gail was absorbed with the
pictures, Marjorie had wandered off to t.e
other end of the room and for just a mo
ment Gail and Jeffry were conservative
alone.
Quite suddenly he bent down close to her
and said almost ii her ear. “Why do you
always turn away when your eyes meet
mine?”
The question was startling in its sudden
ness. and for a moment Gail's voice choked
in her throat, and she couldn't speak. It
would have been eiyty enougn to parry such
a remark if she didn’t care so desperately,
but as it was she felt •itterly at a loss.
“Do I really do that?” she said at last,
trying to speak lightly, and turning her
face up to his at the same time. His blue
eyes blazed into hers, and with the color
hot in her cheeks, Gail's eyelids instinctivel v
drooped.
Thursday. “Discovery’’ and “The Folly of
Deceit." If your subscription expires in
March, renew now so as not to mi«s an in
-1 stalhuent of this story.
THE COUNTRY HOME
BY MRS. W. H. FELTON
THE M’DOWELL TRAGEDY
THE youth who has sent his parents and
both his sisters to violent deaths was
not ignorant or illiterate. He is nine
teen years old. It would have been more
fortunate for the murdered ones if the mur
derer had been illiterate and engaged at
steady labor at some occupation which kept
him busy from dawn until dark.
Education for such degenerates is fatal to
the safety of those who were obliged to live
with him. His mind was occupied witih doc
trinal books, of which there are a great
number too many. The wretched creature
will be adjudged insane, of course, but he
is no more so than many others who have
been hung.
There are numbers living who will re
member the Woolfolk tragedy, where a
maniac nearly wiped out his entire family—
perhaps seven in all. It happened near Ma
con, nearly thirty years ago. The murderer
in this case would receive no education, lie
was besotted with hate for his own people.
The McDowell tragedy will recall the Wool
folk case, and with dates and particulars.
As a rule, idleness is the cause of much
of such degeneracy. Idleness is the mother
of many troubles. When idle people are left
to themselves their thinkers get tangled with
evil or lustful or criminal suggestions. Hard
work and rigid discipline in the home might
have saved McDowell and Woolfolk from
themselevs. A great many people should get
away from themselves as a safety precaution,
by hard work, with rigid discipline. This
McDowell youth was talked to and advised
religiously when his inner part, his mind,
was faltering on unhealthy things. Like
Dupre he was degenerate, and the world
would be in better fix if the Dupres, the
Woolfolks and Frank McDowells had never
been born. Education for these degenerates
is a school for villainy.
A great many people have been sent to the
insane asylum because they were fanatically
trained and there have been many suicides
because they could not understand the limit
between sound religion and unhealhty fa-
DISCRETION AND LIES
By Dr. Frank Crane
DON’T tell it all.
The love of truth is a most worthy
sentiment, but even it can be carried
to hurtful extremes.
Imitate Nature. She is full of W’lse con
cealments. She is a famous keeper of se
crets.
In fact, one of the most striking traits of
Nature is her way of covering her tracks,
hiding her laws, and misleading us as to
her aims.
How long is was before men guessed that
she was really revolving the earth around
the sun, or that the solid land and level
sea w’ere on the surface of a ball spinning
like a top!
How long she kept mum about steam,
coal, and electricity.
Instead of being open, frame, and simple,
Nature is all symbols and veils. What you
see, ten to one, is not so. Only the trained,
wise, skilled, and patient can come at her
secret.
Hence it is w’ell to be truthful, but you
must distinguish between lying and discre
tion.
To lie, it is essential that there should be
a wrong intent. A statement that deceives
the hearer is not necessarily false.
The wrong in the case is always in the
mind of the teller, in the normal condition,
from which the statement springs.
Your confessions may be more wicked
than your silence. Perhaps the most merci
ful things about you are your reticences. (If
you understood, perhaps you would consider
your friend's silence is the greatest kindness
to you.)
See how He who rules this earthly ball
hides His purposes.
If He should tell it all, w r ho could endure
to live?
Let us thank our stars that:
“Heaven hides from all the book of fate
All but the page prescribed, the
present date.”
There are terrible secrets. Well, let them
be. They would be more terrible revelations.
If you have anything that is gnawing
within your bosom and which you must
needs confess, tell it to God. Or to some
soul that yon are quite sure has some of
the largeness, charity, and understanding
that God has.
For it takes a very, very wise and strong
person to endure being told the whole truth.
Don’t you know that all the little dear
elements in life spring from illusions?
And you might call illusions lies; but you
would be wrong.
(Copyright, 1924.) '
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ATLANTA OFFICE.
QJUST where is the Teapot Dome oil
field? A. B.
* A. It is an extension of the Salt
Creek field about 40 miles north of Casper,
Wyoming.
Q. Why is New York City called Gotham?
M. F.
A. “Gotham” was the name of a town in
Nottinghamshire, England, the inhabitants of
which, about 1,200, were ridiculed for sim
plicity and short sightedness and were later
termed in derision “the wise men of Gotham.”
Washington Irving in his book, “Solomon
Gundy,” applies the name “Gotham” to New
York, satirizing the shortsightedness of many
of the inhabitants.
Q. Was the Dixinude larger than the
Shenandoah? A. R. W.
A. The Dixmude was the larger. It had a
gas capacity of about 2,500,000 cubic feet,
while the Shenandoah has a gas capacity of
2,150,000 cubic feet.
Q. What is the per capita wea th of Cana
dians? J. M.
A. The per capita national wealth of
Canada amounts to about $2,500. In the
I nited States the estimated per capita wealth
is about $2,700.
Q. Where is the longest stretch of railroad
without a curve? E. L. C.
A. The longest straightaway is a stretch
of JOO miles on the Australian Transcontinen
tal railway, crossing the Nullarbor plain.
Q. How does the knot compare with the
mile? K. D. S.
A. Ihe statute knot contains 6,082.66 feet,
the British admiralty knot 6,050, while tiro
mile contains 5.250 feet. The statute knot is
determined as follows: The circumference of
the earth is divided into 360 degrees, each
degree containing 60 knots; therefore, ’ there
are 360x60 or 21,600 knots to the circumfer
ence; 21.600 divided into 131,385,456, the num
her of feet in the earth's circumference, gives
6,082.66 feet.
A j here iS the lar & est fla s in the world?
A. Several claims have been made of a
largest flag.” but the largest one that we
know of is the one owned by the City of
( anton. Ohio. This one is 53feet wide and
120 feet long. Tiro stripes measure 1 feet ILS
inches in width and ihe stars are 5 feet in
TUESDAY, FERRI ARY 26, 1»24.
naticism. False prophets have emphasized
“sins against the Holy Ghost” until many
people have been overcome by the threats
and not reminded of the promises of the
gospel, until they become insane, and there
are as many kinds of insanity as there are
impressionable children to be frightened and
misled.
The burning of the Salem witches is a
ease in point. Those Salem preachers were
as cruel as the infamous Jeffries in Bloody
Mary’s time. When children are young their
i minds are like putty to receive and like mar
ble to harden. A young child’s life in the
church should be carefully protected from
continual threats as to damnation for the
sin against the Holy Ghost. This goes with
out saying.
This McDowell murderer had been the re
cipient of too much fanatical attention. The
parents should have taken him in hand
when he burned up his lovely sisters, if they
had suspicion, which it is claimed they did
have, and thus saved their own lives. That
oversight makes it plain that too much at
tention was given to shielding this murderer
and too little to the constant watch over the
• youth, and they have paid dearly for their
pride in the concealment of their suspicions.
The question is, what shall be done with
this parricide and fratricide? He is not fit
for the penitentiary, for he might kill his
roommate or stab his keeper. It will do no
good to punish him as common murderers
are punished. He is an exception to rules —
even in the horrible situation which prevails
in the Georgia penitentiary.
To hang him xvould be like slaying a
mad dog—-one of the big terrors of dogdom
are mad dogs.
He is unfit for the insane asylum because
he would be too near other people who are
; a menace to themselves as well as all who
are not on a watch for violence, night or
i day. How many poor creatures are walking
■ around terrorized by the “unpardonable
sin” against the Holy Ghost, we know
not, who are ripe for murder, also self-
• destruction.
MODERN PSYCHOLOGY
By H. Addington Bruce
THE essential difference between the
psychology of today and earlier psy
chology is that the latter was merely
a philosophical account of mental phenom
ena, while the former studies these phe
nomena through observation of behavior.
Thus psychology has shifted from a meta
physical to a scientific basis, and as a con
sequence has become more exact and more
practically helpful.
The shifting began in the seventies of
the last century with the opening of Wundt’s
psychological laboratory in Leipzig, and w r as
accentuated when Pierre Janet, a few years
later, applied the observational method to
the study of the mental states of hysterical
persons.- Janet’s maxim was, “We can bet
ter understand normal mental processes
by studying their exaggerations in the abr
normal.” On these experimental and cliniV
cal foundations has been built the super
structure of twentieth century psychology.
Investigators in all civilized lands —but
chiefly the United States, France and Ger
! many—have contributed to its building.
And a marvelous structure it is, set off in
various compartments to each of which
new treasures are continually being added
Sy devoted groups of workers.
In the space at my disposal it is Impossi
ble to do more than outline sketchily the
subdivisions of modern psychology. The
mind, it soon became apparent to the ex
perimental and clinical observers, functions
somewhat differently at different periods'
of life. There is a mental evolution, so to
i speak, through childhood and adolescence
to maturity. This led to the developing of
the special subdivision of child psychology
and adolescent psychology.
Also it led to a subdivision of genetic
psychology, devoted to the study of mental
growth through the successive life stages.
It being likewise seen that mentality varied,
not-'only according to the age of the indi
vidual, but also according to the contact,
of individuals' with individuals, the subdi
vision of social psychology was formed, to
i include study of the mental phenomena of
races, nations, communities, classes, sects,
crowds, mobs—in fine, any collection of
individuals acting as a whole.
Then, again, since it was perceived that
1 mental phenomena are not the exclusive
1 possession of human beings, the subdivision
of animal or comparative psychology came
I into being. Many people do not appreciate
,the value of this subdivision. Yet, as Bald
win remarks:
“The study of animals is of extreme im
portance for our science; for animals show
striking evidence of the phenomena of con
sciousness both in its lower and in many
of its higher forms.
“It is perhaps destined, judging from the
contributions it has already made to some
departments of research, to throw as much
light on human psychology as comparative
anatomy has upon human physiology.”
Finally, out of the findings of experi
mental psychology and clinical psychology,
there have developed sundry subdivisions
,of applied psychology. The most important
of these up to the present are medical psy
chology, educational psychology and busi
ness psyenology. As their names suggest,
j they are devoted to indicating the ways in
which psychology can help physicians, par
' ents, teachers and business men.
| Bearing in mind the youthfulness of mod
ern psychology, its progress must indeed
be accounted astonishingly rapid. And hear
ing in mind the many contributions it has
already made to human welfare, there is
1 reason for regarding its future most ob
; timistically.
(Copyright, 1924 )
diameter. The weight of the flag is liiOfi
pounds. This flag was carried in the G. A. R. '
; parade in Washington, D. C., in 1915, and
was hung from the dome of the capitol.
Q. Whence does the plumber derive , his
name? Y. F. S.
A. The plumber was first of all a worker
in lead. The Latin word for lead was
plumbum.
Q. Please quote what Charles Frohman
said when he knew that he would drown on
'the Lusitania? D. W. R. j
A. Isaac Marcosson, in his biography «f !
Charles Frohman, says that Frohman loved ■
“Peter Pan” the best of all the Barrie plays
which he produced. “Curiously'’ enough, it
was little Peter who gave him the cue for
his now historic farewell as he stood on the
sloshing deck of the Lusitania. At the end
of one of the acts the little boy says: ‘To
die will be an awfully big adventure.’ These
words had always made a deep impression on •
Frohman. They came to his mind as he |
stood on that fateful deck and said: ‘Why j
fear death? It is the most beautiful adven
ture in life.’ ”
Q. Has one a right to reproduce a Gov
ernment bulletin? A. V. F.
A. Government bulletins are not copy
righted, and may therefore be reproduced at
will. It is not safe to take liberties with
them, however, that might lead to misrepre
sentation. if a dealer reproduced a seed bul
letin. for instance, and inserted his own ad
vertisement in such away as to give tiro
impression that the Government indorsed j
.him, he would be violating the law 4 |
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BY CAROLYN BEECHER ...
CHAPTER LXll
z ; T T GW is it that you have been unable
11 to get work? The doct °r le,la
A nurses are very scarce,” Althea
asked Miss Bundy.
“His discharging me has hurt me. Peo
ple think I must have done something bad,
instead of just taking a drop of whisky
when I was sick. Now if you could get him
to give me a good recommendation I could
get a place right away—and pay you back.”
“I’ll speak to him.” Althea had no idea
that the woman's cunning mind realized
Peter would give her no recommendation;
that her plea would make his wife think
him hard and so more pitiful toward her.
“If you will, and if you can spare me a
bit, I’m sure something will turn up soon.”
Althea drew a ten-dollar bill from her
purse.
The woman's eyes glistenbd. It was eas
ier than she had hoped.
“I’ll drop, by in a day or two and see if
you have a slip from the doctor for me. It's
hard after nursing all these years to be out
of work because he was so hard on me,” she
said, clutching the bill. “I’ll run along now,
and thank you, Mrs. Graham. I have to
see my friend, the engineer. He heard of a
place today he thought I might get and I
ain’t the kind that lets any chances slip.”,
“Poor woman!” Althea said when she had
gone. “We all have our troubles.” Then:
“1 wonder if I should have given her that
money? But how could I refuse her-41
know what it is to be poor.”
Thoughts like these satisfied her con
science to a degree, yet she knew deep down
in her heart, just as surel - as Miss Bundy
knew, that she gave her the money because
of what she heard about Peter through her
■ —Peter and Mrs. Williams.
Peter came in almost immediately. Said
he:
“I passed that Miss Bundy just now. Hau
she been here?”
“Yes, she came to beg for a reference,”
Althea answered. “She says she can’t get
work because you discharged her. I told
her I would speak to you about it.” This
time she felt no impulse as she had before
to tell him about the ten dollar*.
“I shall give her no reference! She’s in
competent and drinks. Such a person has
no business with the sick. The harm they
might do is incalculable.”
"I felt sorry for the poor woman. Couldn’t
you manage to say something for her—
enough to get her some sort of a place?”
“No, it would be little less than wicked t.f»
recommend her in any way.. I should he to
blame if anything- happened. I felt sure she
drank before I caught her end she is not re
liable in any way.”
“You are very hard, Peter.” If she meant
hard aside from his refusal to help Miss
Bundy, he did not perceiye it.
“It is necessary at times,” he replied.
“He IS hard! Hard to me es well as to
others,” Althea said after he left her. “Hard
er to me—because I love hfm.”
Peter wondered a little at Althea’s dense
ness where Nurse Bundy was concerned. She
was far from attractive in eny way, was un-,
educated, pushing, obnoxious, yet Althea had
consistently stood up for her since she first
entered the house. Even now when she knew
of her shortcomings, her incompetency, she
still urged him to do violence to his con
science and give her a reference.
Miss Howard had quietly and efficiently
taken up her work again with him and it wag
with an air of relief, of content, that he en
tered his office. Her dainty appearance in
her white uniform, her shining hair, her se
rious eyes, solneway struck him as wonder
fully restful. That Althea should refuse to
know this refined girl and should like such a '
woman as Miss Bundy was beyond his rea
soning.
“Why does Mrs. Graham dislike me
Miss Howard asked. '
The doctor started. It was strange she
should ask that question just as the same
thought was in his mind.
“I don’t think she dislikes you,” he par-. 1
ried. “She never has said she did.”
“But she does!” the girl insisted. “I have’"'
tried to approach her several times but she?'
always rebuffs me. I hate to feel I may have;
done something to offend her—if I have.it"
has been unconsciously.” '"
“I am sure of that!” Peter said
“but I don’t think you have. She is '
with her housekeeping and her friends. t
am sure she doesn’t mean to be unkind.” .
‘‘lt isn’t that—just being unkind. It’s ak ?
if I weren’t on earth. It can’t be pride, !•
know she isn't snobbish. Rut it worries mg.
—I should like her to lie nice to me,”
finished wistfully. ■ •
“Please don’t worry, I ain sure it is need-,
less.” Peter said kindly. “No one could.?
really dislike you, Miss Howard, and now
that everything is going so nicely for Doris
I hate to see you depressed.”
“And all owing to you! IAM ungrateful.-
I’ll not think of it any more.”
“That’s being what I call sensible,” ■
said with his infrequent smile.
Continued Thursday
Ml FAVORITE STORIES (
By Irvin S. Cobb ’
A company commander of one of the col
ored regiments serving in France during the
Big War brought his men to a position iji
the first-line trenches during the advance’
through the Argonne forest. Presently lt>.
dawned upon him that his outfit had lost 1 ’
contact with the supporting forces on the
left. It was necessary to re-establish liaison.
He beckoned to him a strapping black,
private and bade the latter carry the word '
to the main body of troops. The prospect
for -the messenger was not a pleasant one.
He must cross a distance of two hundred
yards in the open under fire of enemy sharp
shooters. T '
“1 don’t need to tell you.” counseled the , '
captain, “that the Germans will try to wing*
you. If you run in a straight line they’re'
likely to get you, but if you zigzag I don’t
believe they can hit you. Good luck to you.” -
Late that evening, the Germans having
fallen back, the captain found his messenger
in a forward dressing station. The latter
was awaiting removal to a field hospital. He
had been punctured, painfully but not seri
ously, in three separate places, by three sep
arate bullets.
The commander stooped down by the
wounded man:
“I'm glad to see you alive.” he said,‘“but
sorry to find you shot up this way. Why
didn’t you zigzag as 1 told you to do?”
“Cap’n. suit, dat's percisely whut I did
do,” answered the soldier. “But I rekiu de
trouble wuz dat I zigged w’en I should a'
been zaggin.”
A gentleman who had been imbibing heav
ily of tile forbidden stuff bumped into another
gentleman who also, it was plain, had had
recent dealings v ith a bootlegger. Each felt
congenially inclined toward the other. They »
fell into a somewhat hiccoughy conversation. '
“Seems like to me. I’ve seen you some
where before,” said number one, between
puffs, as he vainly endeavored to light the
sodden'stump of a cigar with a dead match.
“I wouldn't be surprised,” said number
two. lurching slightly. “X
“Didn't I see you one time in Chicago?”
“Not me. 1 never was in Chicago.”
“Neither was I. Well, then, the question ?
is. who the hell was tlrom tvj guys that met
out in Chicago?”