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THE QEOR.QLAMS MAGAZINE, PAGE
“The Gates of Silence"
By Meta Simmins, Author of “Hushed Up"
TODAY’S INSTALLMENT.
The remembrance of the time-limit
fixed from the day of condemnation had
come to him as he lay there, not by
remembrance of the words spoken to him
by his warders, but subconsciously
through words written in the very heart's
blood of a man who had sinned and
Buffered:
The man In red who reads the Law
Gave him throe weeks of life
Three little weeks in which to heal
His sou! of his soul's strife
And all through the night the words
haunted him. those words and others
that told, in burning language, what lay
In store for him when the three leaden
weeks had dragged their slow length
along.
The moment of awakening had come
all too soon, and lying there "as one
sees most fearful things in the crystal
of a dream" lie saw "the greasy hempen
rope hooked to a blackened beam."
Three weeks to live' And at. the end
a murderer's fate and the murderer's
•'■hroud of flame." At that thought
Rimlngton had turned his face to the
wa 1!.
For three weeks he must live, watched
day and night eat, drink, exercise, that
he might keep himself tit and well
against the day of his death The re
volting. ghastly barbarism of it all!
Away in the blue-and-white bed room
in the house by the river at Weybourne,
under the picture of the Good Shepherd
of which she had told him which, in
deed, he had seen ten years ago when
they had played together boy end girl—
•what was Betty thinking of- Betty, whom
he. had last seen In the arms of Paul
Saxe? Did she know of this awful for
malism. that to Rimlngton, as he thought
of it, seemed In its precise cold-blooded- ,
news more dreadful, more cruel, than
those old rough-and-ready methods of
execution the world now execrates'.' Had
she read and remembered something of
these methods, or did her woman's im
agination compass something more awful
■till?
..Three weeks to live, and after that the
gallowa! Oh, the Ignominy of It! The
awful, bitter shame! Remembering the
stricken old man and woman, his uncle
and aunt, In the Red House, In Its tan
gled, neglected garden by the river, Rim
lngton felt the perspiration break out In
beads on his brow. First Toby and now
himself!
It was not for nothing that Betty
Eumsden,., on that first joyous day of
her wooing, had felt the shadow of the
man lying dead in his grave, thousaaids
of miles across the sea. fall coldly across
her sunlit path in those Thames side
woods.
Thoughts too poignant, too soul-searing
and sacred to be set down, thoughts of
bitterness and revenge; thoughts also of
those things that are as high above these
Ignoble passions as the heavens are
above the earth —the mind of the man
lying with his face to the wall had l>een
a battlefield where a thousand conflict
ing emotions warred together. Never had
any sound in life seemed so welcome to
him as the clamor of the prison hell,
breaking at last the Intolerable stillness
that seemed to have lasted an enternlty.
Something to do, occupation for the
body to help to stem that awful advanc
ing tide of thought. Rimlngton even
forced himself to cat something of the
breakfast provided for him, and found a
certain solace, as a woman might have
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done. In the tea which had been allowed
him Luxuries for the condemned man—
In the three weeks of life that were left
to him. he would fare sumptuously in
comparison with the other men hemmen
In by prison walls, who see the face of
the sky only through a lattice of iron
bars.
In Brixton, while waiting his trial, Rim
lngton had disliked nothing more than the
dally chapel Not because he wax irrelig
ious, but simply because there, more than
in any other place or in pursuit of any
other occupation, it seemed to him the
whole awful degradation was more clearly,
more bitterly brought home to heart and
mind.
The rows of convicts in their garb of
varying hideousness, every evil character
istic of facial shape and expression thrown
into strong relief by their shaven faces and
shorn heads; the attendant warders, who
naturally made no pretense of devotion or
attention; the ugly blasphemies of the
prisoners, made under cover of the sing*
Ing; the ribald conversations carried on
under shelter of the responses—the
whole ugly formalism of it all had sick
ened him It was no one's fault -not the
fault of the chaplain, who could not force
his office on any man without his own de
sire; not the fault of the officials, least of
all the fault of liturgy, curtailed and mu
tilated though it was merely the result
of brutalized men herded together in a
ghastly wilderness of silence, making use
of the only outlet for speech that they
possessed.
But this morning It was very different
- this morning that was the ante-chamber
to the day of death! Like a man In a
dream Rimlngton marched to the chapel;
like a man In a dream, thinking nothing
of how his presence there, a man set
apart, added horror to those who shared
,ln the service with him, for these living,
fettered men who saw before them, In his
solitary stale, the man who was to swing
in three weeks time. For Rimlngton
there was new life In the words the chap
lain read In his cultured voice that sound
ed so strangely thin and rarefied In con
trast to the robust, coarse volume of the
prisoners' voices. The prayers passed
him like smoke; his own desire rose up,
formless and vaporous, mingling with
them?-
FAMILIAR WORDS.
Familiar words sounded in his ear, stir
ring long-dead memories In his heart.
"Lord. Thou hast been our refuge from
one generation to another. . . . When
Thou art angry all our days are gone; we
bring our years to an end. as it were a
tale that is told "
Memories stirring In his heart of the
doomed man as he listens—memories of
a little gray church in Suffolk village, of a
green churchyard within sound of the sea
memories that crj'stalllze suddenly, over
whelmingly. Into a knowledge of where
last he consciously heard those words—by
the side of an open grave tn that green
God's Acre where they are burying a
woman, his mother, while he himself, a
weeping, miserable hoy of nine, sees all
his world crumbling in the clay they ate
casting on the coffin.
The voice of the chaplain continues,
and the rough voices of the prisoners
respond; but the man In the place of
state, with his own attendant warder,
sees nothing of the words in the great
black type at which he Is staring. Ho
has remembered now that this Is one
of the Psalms from the Order for the
Burial of the Dead, and he Is asking
himself will It be that which will be
read over him when he stands pinioned
with the white cap over his eyes above
tile aw ful pit of death.
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AYER.
ONCE upon a time there was a
girl who thought she was too
tall, and it worried her a great
deal.
When she was about thirteen she
began to sprout just like Alice in Won
derland, after she had eaten of the
growing side of the mushroom, and
she grew, and grew, and grew until
she thought there was nobody in the
whole world who was so tall as she was
or who possessed such very long legs
and arms and such long hands and feet.
She asked her best friends if there
wasn't something that would keep her
from growing any taller, and she was
quite sure she was going to be a
giant or monstrosity of some kind.
Her family made such fun of her
height that she became horribly self
conscious, and when I first knew her
she was Just about as awkward as any
girl could be, for nothing will make
you as gawky as the ridicule of your
own family.
"You are certainly the human giraffe,"
jeered her elder brother, and at danc
ing school she was called the animated
grasshopper. Naturally she didn't im
prove any, under this kindly admoni
tion. but grew more awkward and un
gainly day by day, and in the secrecy
of her own room she shed bitter tears
of mortification over her size and gen
eral length of limb.
I think she would have developed
Into one of the angular, thin and gawky
girls we see so many of, if a kindly
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The Making of a Pretty Girl
No. 4.—A Cure for Scrawniness
old aunt had not taken her in hand.
This dear old, lady was a natural en
courages, and instead of telling the
lanky girl how awkward she was, and
how ridiculous she looked when she
stooped in trying to hide her height, she
praised her, telling her what a splendid
thing it was to be tall and strong, and
how proud the girl should be of her
size. It took a long time before the
girl learned to stand up straight, in
stead of crouching in a vain effort to
look small, and much patience and per
severance was expended in training her
to use her arms and hands naturally
and gracefully.
This girl was alskt much too thin, and
she seemed to be all angles and elbows.'
She had never had a good appetite and
she had generally’ Indulged in the wrong
kind of food for one of her build. Now
she was encouraged to take a glass of
milk between meals in the morning, in
the afternoon and before going to bed.
She ate plenty of cereals and all the
starchy, sweet vegetables, sucli as po
tatoes. peas, torn and beans, as well as
salads, and rich fruits like bananas.
Cream soups, macaroni and spaghetti,
puddings and other substantial foods'
formed part of her dally bill of fare,
and this regimen, with the encouraging
tlritery of the old aunt, soon began to
turn the angles into curves. Besides
that, after her daily bath, which was
in warm water and not cold, she was
told to rub herself with oil, a pure olive
oil scented with lemon verbena, having
been prepared for her and kept in a
cool pl ace.
Like al' tall, thin girls, this one need
ed plenty of r. «i and eight hours sleep,
with an extra nap In the in ddle of the
day. soon made . great < bange in her
personal appe trance. Her morning cos.
fee was taken away from her and even
tea was denied, bur instead of that
t ’enty of chocolate wa« supplied. For
sweets she ate lates ar.j figs, especially
the former, instead of candy.
Where there is no chronic trouble,
the girl who is a'.' co thin, nine times
out if ten. can trac much of her physi
cal ailment to s wrrryirg disposition.
You can worry yourself thin even
quicker than getting thin by diet or
drugs. The thin girl is usually over
conscientious and overenergetic, and
naturally’ she can not acquire flesh as
long as she is overdoing physically.
I am dwelling on the thin girl's trou
bles because usually the very tall girl
is the very thin one. and the tall girl
will never become really graceful until
she adds to her weight or begins to
think of herself not as a skinny hat
rack of bones, but as a generously’ pad
ded and well proportioned person.
Physical grace is not acquired by
any rules out of books, but by a study
of the art of beauty and motion in
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other people, in art. and especially in
those graceful persons whom we see
on the stage, and who personify all that
is beautiful and gracious.
The awkward, thin girl can not do
better than to take as a model some
woman whose physique Is the ideal of
her own slim figure. The actress has
studied the art of motion and knows
how to make the best of herself. The
length of limb which worries the awk
ward girl is an added beauty when it
is mastered and dominated by grace.
One of these ideals is personified in
the statuesque person of Miss Catherine
Kaelred. whose beautiful arms and
hands are the despair of her imitators.
The grace with which she moves them
,1s a study In itself. She is a. very tall
and regal woman and her arms are long
and her hands have long, slender fln-
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Miss
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Beautiful
Poses.
gers. For many years Miss Kaelred
practiced this exercise, which is one
of the very best for limbering the wrist
and arm:
"Hold the arm out from the shoulder,
the hand stretched out. placing the gn
gers on an imaginary bar, raise the
wrist without moving the fingers; now
lower the wrist, still keeping the fin
gers on the same spot. At first it is
well to place the fingers bn a firm
base, a shelf or even the back of a
high chair will do. In raising the wrist
raise it as if’from the shoulder, and
lower it the same way. Don't raise the
wrist from the elbow. Raise the wrist
with a long, undulating movement, al
most a snake-like movement."
Some of Miss Kaelred’s rules are
worth remembering by the tall girl:
"Never try to look shorter than you
are. Be proud of your height.
"Don't forget that a large woman
must be stately and slow of motion.
"Cultivate repose.”
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A Foolish Thing to Do
By Beatrice Fairfax
IT often happens that a girl who is
said to have a will of her own, so
far as her family is concerned, has
nont so far as concerns her young man.
Her parents find her as unmovable as
a rock wall. The young man, though
he be of too slight acquaintance to be
called a friend, and makes no preten
sions of being a lover, finds her as easy
to mould as so much wax.
This is both unfortunate and danger
ous. Her parents exert their influence
for her good. The young man doesn't
always. Their influence is benignant
Yet, girls who know this follow
blindly where a man beckons, and re
fuse to go where their parents prayer
fully guide.
I greatly fear the writer of the fol
lowing letter is a girl whose young
man finds she is easily influenced:
“I am a girl of eighteen,” she writes,
“and made the acquaintance a month
ago of a young man the same age. He
has taken me to several places of
amusement, and on one of these occa
sions he took my ring. When he took
me home that evening I demanded my
ring, and he refused to give it to me.
He told me if he ever lost me as his
girl I certainly would not lose my ring.
I have asked him many times, and he
refuses to give it back.”
Cupid, attired as a policeman, is not
a familiar or lovable picture, but there
are cases where Cupid should drop his
bow and arrow and take on a police
man's club. This is one of them.
Every few weeks I get a wail of woe
from some girl who has given her
young man her ring, or her watch, or
some other trinket dear to her, which
he refuses to return.
Her father,, or her brother, could
compel him to return what he has
taken, but her pride forbids the admis
sion that she was foolish enough to let
him have it.
Such a girl has such a will of her
own in her own home that none of th*'
family dares so much as borrow a little
bit of her finery, or use any trifle that
is her personal possession.
But a young man comes along. Per
haps, as in this instance, she has known
him, only a month. When he asks for
the ring on her finger, she lets him
carry it off.
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Anty Drudge Joins the Union.
Miss Highbrow — (visiting the Teamsters’ Union) —“So
you have made my friend, Anty Drudge, an Honor
ary Member. And why, may I ask ?”
Honest Mike — “Well, you see, it’s this way, mam: I drive
a coal wagon, and Gerry over there drives for a
wholesale butcher. We get terribly dirty—l all
sooty and Gerry all grease and stains. It’s the same
with all the boys. Anty Drudge told us about
Fels-Naptha—how it dissolves the grime and grease;
and you only use lukewarm or cool water. Saves
money and makes our wives happy.”
“Wear” is nothing but “rubbing.”
Every time you hard rub your clothes
against anything, little particles are
rubbed away.
Boiling softens the fibre of cotton,
linen, silk and wool, and when rubbed
hard on the washboard they wear away
faster than at any other time.
Try to think how many days of wear
are represented by one trip to the old
time washtub.
Fels-Naptha requires neither boiling
water nor hard rubbing.
And there is no washboard wear on
the clothes washed the Fels-Naptha way.
Fels-Naptha is made to do away with
boiling and hard rubbing; therefore if
you use it as an ordinary soap, you cause
yourself unnecessary work.
Use Fels-Naptha in cool or luke
warm water and it will do all we claim.
It will cut the washday in half, sum
mer or winter, and do silently and effec
tively all the real hard work.
If you follow the simple directions
on the red and green wrapper, you will
never return to ordinary soaps and the
way of washing.
If he cared for her he wouldn't make
such a silly request. If she cared fn
herself. she wouldn’t grant it. If she
had a little of the will in his presence
that she has in her family relations, it
would save her many a humiliation
This lending of jewelry is a bad
practice among girls. It is infinite i
worse when among girls and young
men. The girl gains nothing by grac
ing such a request, and she stands tn
lose more than her jewelry, which in
itself may be trifling.
She stands to lose her self-respect.
She is letting the young man know tha‘
his influence over her is greater than
her good sense.
She is giving every hostage to love;
he is giving none.
When the rjght kind of a man com
wooing all he asks the girl to give is
her heart.
He adopts no highwayman methods.
If his love demands a little keepsake,
he asks for a flower she has worn.
He never says, “Give me your jew
elry, and if I ever lose you as my girl
I’ll give it back to you.”
Such an unmanly declaration shou :
make any girl know that the best thing
that can happen to her is to be lost as
his girl. Being the sweetheart of
man so lacking in al] the little tend?
gallantries of love floes not spell happi
ness.
So I beg of all my girls when a ma:,
does as this little girl's young man ha.-
done, that they tell a big brother. <> ~
father. It is not enough to wait ti "
this highwayman in the court of love
acts of his own pleasure.
That may be never.
Up-to-Date Jokes
Englishman—Do you know of any
thing a man can do in order to live a
hundred years'.’
Irishman—Certainly. He’s only to
keep on breathing.
The barber (after the shave)—Hair
dyed, sir?
Customer (bald-headed)—Yes. it dir •
about five years ago.
