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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 1,1 ,y y^ /77b Give the little folks all the Faust I f Macaroni they want. It s a wholesome 1 | and nourishing food contains just the .1 elements required hy their growing bodies. AT YOUR GROCER S 11 / I In sealed packages 5c and 10c 11 f j MAULL BROS. St. Loui.. Mo. I) “W.J JU isiiiiiiii.i i -■mill . wimiiii Ing. \ w? 8? - S SPs ’ 4^^*—— Northern Lakes " The lake resorts in the West and z '/f"'"' North are particularly attractive. '(/ The clear invigorating air added to boating, bathing /and fishing will do much to upbuild you physically. ! / We have on sale daily round trip tickets at low fares and with long return limits and will be glad to give you full information. Following are the round trip rates from Atlanta to some of the principal resorts; Charlevoix $36.55 Mackinac Island -- -. $38.65 Chautauqua Lake Points 34.30 Marquette 46.15 Chicago 30.00 Milwaukee 32.00 Detroit 30.00 Put-in-Bay 28.00 Duluth- 48.00 Petoskey 36.55 • THE ATTRACTIVE WAY TO ALL THE RESORTS ON THE Great Lakes, Canadian Lakes and in the West |£ SI CITY TICKET OFFICE 4 Peachtree Street phones { n A“.’ n 7 ? oßß 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. To Be Continued in Next Issue. Mr X\ ■■ Ms 88l i // aS •Ji w / Hi i I 1 tip- i s H HI !*■ w iNblv '4 a 4 , v ZAz JU n IS * I il Rli' ‘ Bv MARGARET HUBBARD 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 for Coffee Lovers “(Jos© A Delicious Combination of pure, flavory Coffees, sound wholesome cereals and selected high-grade chicory. Contains less caffeine than ordinary coffee. Is more nutritious. I Makes more cups per pound and costs less. 1 lb. Cans 2Oc lb. Can* lOc 6 lb. Pail SI.OO Ask Your (grocer for It. Cheek-Neal Coffee Co. NASHVILLE HOUSTON JACKSONVILLE 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 Do You Know—- « The Derby was first run in 1780; the Oaks in 171*1. Pins were first manufactured by ma chinery In England in 1824. In Scotland, during the month or June, over 100,000 poor persons were in receipt of relief. 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- These Photo graphs Show Miss Catherine Kaelred in Two 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.” SOME WORKING GIRLS LOSE TOO MUCH TIME Two Girls Tell How To Avoid It. There is nothing that teaches more than experience. We therefore quote from the letters of two girls who suf fered and were restored to health. The same remedy is within reach of all. Brooklyn, N. Y. “Prior to taking the first bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound I suffered agony every month, but after your wonderful medicine had been taken a while I felt a little better, and after taking seven bot tles of it I feel that I can truly say I have no more pain or inconvenience. “ As I am out in the business world as a stenographer, I come in contact with many girls, and when the opportune mo ment arrives I tell them about the Veg etable Compound and I know that quite a few are taking it.”—Helen Canet, 556 Dean St. Another Girl’s Experience. Tishomingo, Okla.— “I am a stenog rapher and book-keeper, and Lydia E. I will gladly answer her letter and tell her what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has done for me." —Mrs. Mattie Copenhaver, Tishomingo, Okla. Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound has saved my life. lam enjoying the best of health now, but I was suffering from fe male troubles and painful periods, and would have backache, headache and fainting spells. If any woman would like to write to me 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. anty\ \\\ drudgeX zWfij \u 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.