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THE GEORGIAN'S MAGAZINE PAGE
“The Gates of Silence”
Bv Meta Simmins, Author of "Hushed If"
TODAY S INSTALLMENT
Her Story.
Edith felt a certain sense of relief Hope
revived in Iter heart. If the man so read
ily admitted his knowledge of Levasseur it
might be conceivable that he was sine re
in his failure to recognise Iter, anti if owe ’
he could Ik- brought to do so no doubt lie
would not refuse to admit the escapade.
She wished for nothing but recognition
his word to back up het own
She leaned forward with a little gesture
of plead'lig
•T'r. Me-ton, I feel convinced that if you
but realized how 'nfinitely important it Is
to me that you should remember, you
would not hesitate Doctor, your profes
sion is a merciful one; you work to bring
healing Believe me here is a ease to
your band in which yon can work a mira
cle of healing h. v h w«»nl
The doctor, who had lw*en leaning back
tn his chair, sat upright, the tips of his
hands together. His eyes were used on
her penetrating look. In which there was
nothing of aptirehons -m. onl: the steady
inquiring g«7e >f ih«* doctor.
“M’’ den? 1 lady. I wish I could persuade
you to believe me." he snM. earnestly "1
would do anything that I could to help
von most willing? . only what you ask
is m pass bl> I can not remember what
has rot happcjvil You are under a mis
appr<-hension. and ’;»ke me to b» Home
other individual. ' have no recollection
whatever of meeting you. and it is not
possible that. Ind I done so. such a tact
would have slipped m.v memory, which is,
as a rule, excellent \nd I emphatically
affirm t’ at neve” until Inm May d‘d l set
foot in Rune scot Surely you will believe
me?”
Edith Barington flung back her head
with a quick movement, half irritation,
half despair
••Dr. Merton, I can’t believe you!” she
cried. “Can you pretend to me that you
do not remember that June morning eight
yee r s ago —not so many years out of the
life of a man—when In the sheer gayety
of your animal spirits you assisted your
friend. Edmond Levasseur, to play a
cruel trick or a girl? No; I realize that
to you then it did not seem what It must
appear now. Then, no doubt, it only ap
peared In the light of a hugs joke. Only
It wasn’t a Joke —not for me. I was that
girl, and the consequences have nevsr
ceased to work; they are working now.”
A Flat Denial.
As she looked at him memory worked
in Edith Farrington’a mind, and the
name that lad so long escaped her th*
name she had striven in vain to re
member on the night of
death, when she had made her confes
sion to ’er busband came to.her.
•'Does this help you to renumber?" she
Asked, in a low, distinct voice. "You
were iof Robert Merton then. li whr
Robert Seton, clerk in Holy OHers. who
ma«qtmraded at that marriage service
ice.
h she had expected the man looking at
her to appear Impressed or startled she
was bitterly disappointed Not for a mo
ment did the face before her relax ItH air
of patient attention Only at her last
words Dr. Merton permitted himself to
laugh
•Mrs. Bat rington if you persist in this
foolish -misapprehension, you will give me
no other alternative but to regard you
are being mental!\ unhinged. I have no
desire to do that Ido not diagnose your
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Anty Drudge Tells How to Prevent
Laundry Mistakes.
/oruM —“HeaTetns, Jenrina! Ixiok what cam** bark from
the laundry I Three psnra of women's stockings and
five pettiooate. Why I’ve got some woman's laundry
instead of my own."
Xnly Drudge— “l’ll tell yon how to avoid mistakes like
that. Get Fels-Naptba soap and have your things
washed the eaey way at home. They'll be cleaner
. nd fresher and wear twice as long and then yon
won't get them mixed with other people's clothes ”
\ou owe it to yourself and your
folks to use Fels-Naptha.
You owe it to yourself to cut down
the time of washing clothes one-half, to
save yourself its drudgery, to make it
easier and more pleasant all around
\ou owe it to your folks to quit
making washday a day of cold meals,
steamy and smelly house and general
bad temper.
Fels-Naptha does it, summer or win
ter —washes all the clothes in cool or
lukewarm water, without boiling, in little
time, with no hard rubbing, and makes
them cleaner, whiter and sweeter than
any other way.
Follow directions on the red and
green wrapper.
trouble so arbitrarily. But since you do
not come to me as a physician, I can only
repeat mx former assertion—l am not
the person you imagine me to be.”
11 spo’.e with an air of finality and
arose, with an appearance of desiring to
bring the conversation tn a conclusion.
His air was that of a busy man dis
pleased by waste of valuable time.
Edith felt she ground give beneath her
feet. She knew absolutely and certainly,
' with a woman's conviction by intuition,
which is a hundred times more strong
and deep than a man's conviction by logic,
that this doctor who stood before her,
looking at her suavely, if a little pity
ingly. and the xoung. smooth faced cleric
who had united her in that blasphemous
mock marriage to the dead Levasseur,
were on< and /he same. She cast dis
cretion to the wind, and in manner and
look r.»vx there was that which would
have given credence to the supposition
that her mind was unhinged.
Putting Her Off.
"Can you swear by everything sacred,”
she cried, "that you are not the man who
morning of June is. eight years Oh,
morning of June IM. eight years ago* oh,
it was a cruel and despicable thing for
a man to concoct, but it is over and
done and can not be helped. Only to
me the consequences remain, terrible, un
foreseen
rupted her with a deprecating gesture—
I can not bear that you should lay open
to m»* any secret of your life. Os course,
a doctor, like a priest, by virtue of his
profession, is made acquainted with many I
strange secrets, hut since you do not '
come to me professionally I do not feel
justified in listening io what is obvious
ly intended for other ears.”
Edith rose to her feet.
"Mrs Barrington' Dr. Merton Inter
" When .i woman has gone through what
1 have gone through.” she cried, "it Is
uselmus to try “to* play the game of bluff
with her. You can not swear. Dr. Merton,
that you were, not the man.”
Mariam, It would be ridiculous for me
to bring the narAe of sacred things Into
the matter I have, already dented all
knowledge of the circumstances at which
you hint.”
But desperate now. Editß. refused to
be misled Krom pleading she passed to
threats
"What you did was a punishable thing,”
she cried, "hut T have no desire to insist
upon that aspect of it. AH I want from
you is a private admission to my husband
that you did this thing ’’
”A most modest request,” said Merton,
ironic ally.
All al once, as she looked at him,
realized that she might with as much
hope have expected to touch a chord of
sympathy in the. stone statue of the man
in the central gardena of the square out
side Yet she persisted.
"If you can not deny it. it must be
true Besides, I know- it is true.”
‘I have denied it. not once, but many
times, Mrs. Barrington,” he said, sharp
ly. "And now—l must really ask you
to have the kindness to bring this inter
view to a close.”
He moved toward the bell, and Edith
followed him swiftly.
"Doctor, no one need ever know." she
said, desperately. “It would be a matter
between my husband and yourself All
I want Is your word that what I believed
to be a marriage did take place All I
want you to do is to prove to my husband
that I am not the wanton he thinks me.”
Her voice rose a little in the scale of
pain. "Don’t you realize what hap
pened”
Tc So Continued in Next Issue.
If You Want To Be a Pretty Girl---
Pay Strict Attention to the Care of Your Feet, Says Ehse Hamilton
By ELISE HAMILTON.
MOST women who start out to
beautify themselves begin with
their complexion
Then they get busy with their, hair,
and after that they are ready for the
dressmaker and the milliner. I think
one ought to begin with one's feet.
No girl ever feels that she Is well
dressed until she is well shod.
If your hat is loft over from last
year, or your gown Is not in style, you
can make up for these shortcomings by
your animated face and smile, but it
takes an absolute genius to distract
people's attention from flown-trodden
shoes or badly blacked pumps, and a
hole In one’s stocking would upset even
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MISS ELISE HAMILTON.
<t)f Ziegfeld’s "Winsome Widow" t'o.)
the president of the United Women's
Clubs of the world.
Besides the looks of one's feet, there
is the one more important question of
tlie feeling of them.
People who can be amiable when
tlieir feet are tired and uncomfortable
deserve halos. Probably, if we knew it.
most of the bad temp r that shows it
self. especially in crowds at the ferries
and stations and at theaters, is due to
people having to hurry along on aching
feet.
if you want to preserve your beauty,
your looks and your disposition, keep
your feet comfortable.
White Stockings.
The white stocking craze has done a
lot to ease aching feet, and there’s
nothing so comfortable as. a nice, clean
pair of white stockings and a fresh pair
of shoes and slippers. Stockings ought
really to be changed twice a day. and
the girl who hates to darn will find that
this saves her a great deal of work,
''hanging stockings, like changing your
shoes, brings the wear and the rub on
another part of the foot, and conse
■ .icntly saves the stockings.
My hobby is shoes and stockings, and
as long as my feet look all t ight I feel
that I can face the world with calm
ness.
If you want to know how sensitive
Iteople are about the w ay they are shod,
sit In a street car and gaze fixedly at
the feet of the woman opposite you.
She will get so uncomfortable that ton
to one you can make her get up and
leave the car. because she is quite sure
she has a hole In her stocking or some
thing is the matter with her shoes. The
same applies to men, though, on the
whole, mon are more particular about
their shoes than women are. ami you
seldom see a man in very moderate cir
cumstances whose shoes aren't nicely
polished, while lots of women overlook
this part of their toilette.
If you are a dancer or have to stand
on your feet for a long time every day,
you must realize how important it is to
keep them in good condition. They
ought to be bathed every day. and if
you come home tired and want to fresh
en up quickly a foot bath In warm
water with a handful of salt in it will
do you more good than a nap. Many
people's feet hurt them because they
are never properly dried. If the stock
ing is put on while the foot is still
damp, it is likely to make the feet very
tender, and unless one takes the trouble
lo dry tlie toes separately, the best
thing to do is to dust the foot with
foot powder or talcum powder.
A Popular Complaint.
Many of the girls In companies In
which 1 have played have complained
so of fatigue from standing and walk
ing. especially during rehearsals, and
very often this was entirely due to flat
tening of the arch of the foot. If you
have pains in the calf of the leg or get
very tired from standing and feel as if
your feet were made of lead, you are
probably flattening the arch, and if you
can not get shoes made so that they
will hold the arch up, wear the .'es
which come on the inside of the sitoes
ami which are made to correct this
trouble
\\ hen your feet are very tired and
the skin aches, as it often seems to. rub
the soles of your feet with vinegar or
with lemon juice after bathing. 1 know
of one beauty shop where the cus-
Up-to-Date Jokes
'Array (on his holiday)—Fancy livin'
ere all yet life! Ain't yer ever been to
London and see the sights?
Old Salt (eyeing him narrowly)—
No, sir! But some of the sights comes
hup and sees us.
Wise —In a battle of tongues a wom
an can hold her own.
Husband—M —yes, p'haps she can;
but she never does.
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turners’ feet a/e massaged before face
massage i» given, and it's an awfully
good idea, not only because it promotes
circulation and all that, but because it
is so restful. This beauty doctor said
that more wrinkles come from foot
troubles than from financial worries,
and 1 guess she must be right, for if
you ever had seen the pained looking
faces of the girls with the aching feet
you could be sure they are making
real wrinkles In their faces, lines that
won’t come out on salary day.
Lots of girls get stockings that are
too short or too narrow, on the pleas
ing theory thqt they make their feet
smaller, but they only, curl the toes
over, cramp the joints and push the
toes together. If you get a foot in
cased in a sum? stocking and then put
it in a shoe one size too narrow or too
short, you have a fine idea of what
slow torture is. My shoemaker tells me
that women's ankles are growing big
ger because they are wearing pumps.
Pumps throw the foot out of gear
somehow a.ntl the weight is badly bal
anced and lhe ankle bone enlarges. If
you like a high heel (I’m one of the
people who do), be sure and get your
shoes wide enough at the toes. Os
course, no shoe should be more than
an inch and a half in the heel, but a
great many people don't find sensible
Hat shoes at all comfortable.
A Great Trouble.
(tills have had so much trouble keep
ing their pumps on for the last Couple
of y ears sine - : limps have been so
fashionable that the whole way they
walk is changed. Girls have to waddle
a little to keep the pumps from falling
TWO WOMEN
TESTIFY
What Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg
etable Compound Did For
Their Health—Their own
Statements Follow.
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Ithas done for me. 1
, had bearing down
pains, was dizzy ami
WsK-tfS’Tfew wen C had pains in
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'A f not be upon my feet
u.-\ - zA I lon S enough to get a
‘ meal. As long as 1
laid on my back J
f would feel better,
r " but when I would
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Town pains would come back, and the
Joetor said I had female trouble. Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound was
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I commenced to take it. f hope it will
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You can use this letter.”—Mrs. Cassie
Lloyd, New Moorefield, Clark Co.,Ohio.
Read hat This Woman Says:
South Williamstown, Mass. —“Lydia
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tainly has done a great deal forme. Be
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1 have told my friends about it. ’’ Mrs
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town, Mass.
off—that is the troubh with their walk.
You can't walk well or look well if y our
shoes hurt you or if you have to make
an effort to keep them on.
Cramping the toes to keep one’s
pumps on also makes the feet ache:
that causes wrinkles and ugly looks.
So if you want to be pretty, get good
understandings.
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© © The Manicure Lad} 7 ®
((rpHERE was a young man in
I here this morning to have his
nails did." said the Manicure
Lady, "and it is the first time since I
have been in this business that I have
ever saw a elevator, or laviator. or
whatev. r it is they call them bl ight
young souls that go s smiling up into
the azure sk:?s like them meadow
arks that Peicy Kelley used to write,
abput. He was a grand looking fcliow.
George, the kind of a looking fellow
that you used to be, I guess, before
you got fat."
"1 don’t want any of that kind of a
game.” said the Head Barber. "I got
troubles enough on earth without
going up into the sky o look for
troubles. It's hard enough to live on
the earth and 'keep from going in tin
air."
"1 guess vyott a"? right about that
part>of it," agreed the .Manicure Lad;.'.
"I v 't. Id like to r.alth ;• h.tndsr.ine
young gent like him sailing up toward
the..Uvt-cy clouds in i nice big biplane:
but as for me. 1 want to keep rnv little
fee t on ter?a cbtta."
"On terra WH.\T .’" asked lite ib :e!
Do You Know—-
Maiw.rtehin, on the borders of Rus
sia in Asia, is the only city in th? world
| peopled by men only. Chinese women
, are not only forbidden to live in this
I territory, but even to pass the great
wall of Kalkan and enter into Mon
golia. .All the Chinese of this order ate
exclusively traders.
In south Russia there is a coin in use
worth one four-thousandth part of a
penny, and the Malays circulate a
wafer worth one ten-thousandth part
of a penny.
Although first imported only ten
years ago, ostriches in Madagascar now
compete successfully with those in
Cape Colony in the feather industry.
Mahogany trees do not attain tiieir
full growth till they have reached the
age of 200 years.
Seafell Pike, in Cumberland, 3.210
feet high, is the loftiest point in Eng
land.
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■Terra cotta” answered the Mani
cute Lady. "That's Latin for solid
ground, or at least it is as near as I|
remember. How would you pronouncoi
it?" :
"When I went to school we used to •
see a word in the geography that was i
spelled something like Terra del
Euego,” said the Head Barber. "That
might vhcit you mean.
-Nov 1 know what 1 mean!" ex
claimed the Manicure Lady. "I mean
terra drma. Ain't it funny, George,
that a well-educated girl can make
such a mistake in the .enunciation of
' a word? If you had come to me yes
terday and told me that I could hava
did .'itch a thing as to renounce a word
wrong. I would have gave you the
scornful sneer."
"I don’t Imo? what you mean when
’ you say 'renounced’ instead of 'pro
nounce.' " corrected the Head Barber.
"What are you trying to do —kid me?”
"N 'v... never!" exclaimed the Mani
cute Lady. ”1 may have a lot of faults,
George, the same as a lot of people
have, hut I think I ini too good a lover
of fait play to kid a poor dunce. I’d
rather try my fine work on some men
that come in here to have their nails
did—men that km w more in a minuto
than you will ever know, George.
"But as I was -eying about this
youn air man that was in here this
m t'nfng. I always feel -orry when I
th.r., of one. Wilfred has wrote a
real'y good poem, which he calls 'The
Bi o!o n Wings,' ami in it tells about
a biplane or a monoplane or whatever
they call them airships, all about how
it fell to the earth with fluttering
wings and never rose no more forever.
I cried when I read it."
"I don't blame you." said the Head
Berber. "If I had a brother like yours
1 would cry. too.”
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