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Daysey Mayme
and Her Folks
By FRANCES L. GARSIDE.
THE ETERNAL QUESTION.
THE friend* of a married woman
meet her for the first time in
years, and they a«k her a ques
tion like this
"How many children ha\e you now'
If ahe says "Eight!" some friends ex
claim. in tones of horror. "Well, why
on earth did you have so mans
Other friends, who are extremely old
fashioned. and therefore ran. sa\ in
pious tones "Well, the Lord HAS been
good to you!”
Which leates the mother of eight
without a word to sat
But when friends of a spin, meet her
for the first time in years they ask In
the tones of one who knows. How does
It happen you have never married"
It is the eternal question every spin,
meets on every eternal occasion, and
the degree of pity in which it Is asked
never varies, the mother of eight ex
pressing as much pity as. the mother
of one
Daysey .Mayme Appleton has met this
question every day since she passed
twenty-five. Let ft be known to her ■
credit that «he never looked at her |
married friends with a question of
amaze, and replied with the question, |
"How does it happen YOU have?"
She Makes Up Her Mind.
But recently she made up her mind
she would answer the eternal question
She would tell the whole story.
She tailed on a friend, the mothfr of
nine. The mother of nine used a baby's
dress to wipe molasses candy off a
chair which she handed her caller.
She prepared to feed the youngest,
after slapping her seventh for pulling
the hair of the eighth, and giving the
eighth a cookie to console it. Then she
sat back in her chair and looked with
pity at Daysey Mayme "How does It
happen," she asked, “that you have
never married?”
Daysey Mayme was prepared.
"When 1 was nineteen." she began,
as one who has a long story to tell. "T
was engaged to Phil Barbeck, and he"
"Stop teasing that cat!” screamed the
mother of nine. "And—Johnny, if you
take another cooky from the jar I'll
w hip you."
"Excuse me." she said to her caller.
"Now. do go on."
"And he.” resumed Daysey Mayme.
“didn't like It because I flirted with” —
The mother of nine left her chair
abruptly, so abruptly that she deposited
the ninth on Daysey Mayme'a lap be
fore it had finished its dinner. Which
mad- it set up a howl. She grabbed
her fifth by the arm. and her fourth by
one leg and dragged them, screaming,
to the door, cuffing both as she pro
ceeded Then she shut them out. and
returned to the ninth, who. however,
refused to he consoled because of the
interruption to its meal, and yelled
louder.
The mother of nine walked the floor
with it till it was quiet, and while she
walked Daysey Mayme's answer to the
eternal question proceeded with inter
ruptions like these
It Was Like This.
• "another man. and (If it's the ice
man. tell him to come tomorrow. 1
haven't the changer so I broke the en
gage” (There, look at the way you've
torn your pants. I’ll have to sit up all
night to mend them) "ment, and
then there was Will" (Drat that
child, what is it screaming for now?)
"arbey, but” (No. 1 can’t give
you a cent for candy. It is all I can do
to get money out of your father for
necessities, without such foolishness)
—*-etc.. etc., for two hours, when Dav
aey Mayme left, with her story still un
told.
"How does it happen you have never
married?" remains a question she has
never answered.
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| “THE GATES OF SILENCE” * By META SIMMINS > AUTHOR OF “HUSHED UP”
TODAY’S INSTALLMENT.
So the days passed, and the weeks
lengthened into months, until just as it
seemed to him when he had got to that
stage of his prison life when the outer
world had become more or less of an ab
straction. and the Inner life of the prison
a more or less numb pain, the news came
to him that for some reason hla time of
probation had been shortened, and that,
Instead of spending the probationary nine
months at Wormwood Scrubs, he was to
be drafted off at the end of the third to
one of the regular convict establishments.
The thought of the Journey from l«on
don to Bilmouth—which, after the veil of
mysterious secrecy which is characteristic
of prison discipline in such matters was
withdrawn, he finally learned was bis
destination -did not, oddly enough, fill
Jack Kimington with any sense of shrink
ing On the contrary, he felt a certain
quickening of Interest In him under the
crust of apathy that every day had
seemed to be hardening upon his heart.
To leave this whitewashed cell, to
breathe air that was not the contami
nated air of a prison exercise yard, to see
green grass that was not overshadowed
by prison walls—perhaps to hear birds
sing; the more he let his Imagination
play over the pitiful fact of his journey
from one place of degradation to another
the more Rindngton's excitement grew.
For all the pain that In accomplishment
it cost him, perhaps this change saved
him his reason, or at least arrested that
mental degeneration that was undoubtedly
in progress.
During the first weeks of hfs impris
onment his mind had wrestled with the
problem of the crime of which he was
accused until his brain had reeled
Who had killed Fitzstephen?
He had forced himself to face the facts
of the money lender’s death from every
point of view, to callously fix the guilt
upon first one and then another. Betty,
even a crime of madness; the man who
had escaped prison ami the death of
the rope to die at the hands of Anthony
Barrington. Paul Saxe himself. For a
time the conviction of Saxe's implication
in the crime was so strong as to Induce
that paroxysm of despair in which ail
things solid Had slipped from beneath his
feet, but gradually the conviction had
died It was not Paul Saxe. It was not
Betty; no. never again would that
thought cross his mind! The weary
treadmill of his thoughts had never
brought him any nearer to a solution, a
elew or a hope, and gradually the
thoughts and wonderings and mental
strivings had ceased.
Even the glad vision that had some
times comforted and sometimes mad
dened him, when he had seen in imagi
nation his cell door flung open and a
remorseful governor come to inforuj him
that the criminal had confessed, and
that he was free -even that had passed
also. He had begun to acquiesce in
his lot—begun to settle down to be a
number, a man without a name, a small
nut or rivet in a vast and complicated
piece of machinery, when just in time had
come the mercifid awakening of the
change to Bilmouth.
"The shame of niollei
That was the phrase that came to Kim
ington s mind when he saw his fellow
travelers collected and himself mirrored
in the person of each one of them. The
hideous prison garb, marked ironically
with the. symbols of swift flight, the
ringed stockings and the great boots.
He felt sick with sliame at the sight of
them, familiar as it was To be linked
to these men with the shaven heads and
the evil, degraded faces, chained to them,
and paraded for all the world to see A
rare sight to be pointed out to fortunate
children on station platforms, to be jeered
at. perhaps spat upon, by the virtuous
free! In his cell, thinking of this Jour
ney. Kimington had thought of none of
these things. Now the thought of them
was to poison every moment of what had
loomed up as a great and glorious event
in his life
lie dreaded lest any one should recog
nize him as he stood in his infamous
garb, waiting beside the tram while
about him his companions laughed and
joked and made tile most of this nm
| merit of comparative freedom He need
not hmi feared; * ven Bettv herself might
[have looked twice at the tall figure, a'
little bowed about the shoulders already,
without recognizing in this clown with
the shaven head and the white, drawn
face tjie handsome boy who had taught
her the first lesson of love under the
overhanging trees of a Thames backwa
ter only a few short months ago.
He was thankful when at last the train
moved out from the station, thankful for
the roar and rattle of the train after the
silence of his cell, thankful even for the
coarse laughter and conversation of his
companions, the sound of human voices
upraised in something that was not an
order or a reproof; thankful to be herded
with those to whose level the law had
reduced him. out of sight of the shocked
or horrified or gloating eyes of the free.
7’he train rushed on with its burden of
the living dead, through the mean pur
lieus of the great city, past suburban gar
dens ablaze with autumn flowers, out
through the wide spaces of the open coun
try in Its glorious livery of red and gold
Overhead the wide spaces of the sky,
about him the smiling, flying fields of an
English countryside, before him the gray,
desolate, hilly stretches of the peninsula
of Bilmouth, bleak and treeless, with its
vast gray quarries and its huge, unlovely
fortresses where, in a world of silence,
men work out the expiation of their sins
When the gang of convicts alighted
from the train a damp mist was blowing
up from the channel. Chill and penetrat
ing, it struck home to Rimington's heart,
yet the shiver that ran over him was not
wholly physical. The desolate, cheerless
aspect of the place seemed as though it
might have been created for a convict
settlement, so desolate was it, so plainly
was the blight of formalism over every
thing The exquisitely kept roads stretch
ing to the vast prison, the mighty cliffs,
even the magnificent sweep of the bay
veiled in the gray mist seemed to em
phasize the fact that this was a place
where Nature herself had made an im-
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passable barrier between the fettered
and the free.
Here the prison gates opened daily and
belched forth their stream of slaves, the
men who quarried these stones and made
these roads. Their blight seemed over
everything. Rimington thought—the pris
on blight that kills all that Is beautiful
and bright and free in the hearts of
men.
When, for the third time In his life,
he passed behind the second great inner
gates of a prison and heard them clang
behind him, here more than ever before
he realized that he was shut in by gates
of silence into a world of silence, a world
of ghostly formalism peopled by silent
shapes in the hideous livery of degrada
tion. a world that might have been, that
was for all practical purposes cut off from
the world of the living by thousands upon
thousands of miles. "That ft may please
Thee to show Thy pity upon all prison
ers and captives " How many who hear
that intoned Sunday after Sunday in the
churches of England cast a thought to
the thousand nameless men In one penal
establishment alone?
Was there one in the world of the liv
ing thinking of him nowV was-tbere one?'
Apart from this air of clrill and gloom,
there was nothing -to mark particularly
this prison of Bilmouth. to which he had
come from the other he had left. He had
heard from his ffctlow-prisoncrs on the
train vaguely he remembered having
read—that penal servitude at Bilmouth
was considered infinitely more severe than
at other prisons; that the climate in it
self constituted an additional punishment.
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I its keen air creating an appetite that
the prison dietary was incapable of sat-
I isfying. But so far the reception by the
> governor’s deputy, the (to Rimington) un
, speakable degradation of the bathing in
the bathroom cubicles -behind the wooden
bars, beyond which the attendant ward
ers paraded, to silence talking and admon-
I ish cleanliness: the scrutinizing of the
■ body for personal marks of identification,
and the medical examination were exactly
the same as those to which he had been
’ subjected before. He submitted himself
to authority; no one but a fool or a mad-
■ man would have dreomed of doing other
' wise—and heard himself, with a thrill
of relief and joy, certified as in sound
health. That meant, he hoped, that he
would be drafted into the outdoor gangs.
Later, when bls fresh clothes were given
to him. he knew that this was so, for
1 there was a difference tn the uniform
1 and the boots were heavier.
■ ’Fo work outside! No more to be
penned into the little Iron cubicle with
its stone floor, measuring seven feet by
four, but to work.—to exercise his muscles
1 under the open spaces of the sky. Thank
1 heaven for that. There were sulkers and
complafners all around him. men who
( knew the awful sharpening effect of the
Bilmouth air. that makes a man so hun-
■ gry all his days; but in Rimington's heart
there was something that nearly ap-
1 proached thankfulness He seemed to
I know now that If he had been called upon
‘ to go through his nine preliminary months
! of solitary confinement he would have
1 gone mad. ,
i
A Woman Called Deborah.
, As time passed this sense of thankful-
ness did not die out of Rimington's heart.
The outside work was hard. Every morn
ing at half-past 7 —for it was winter now
—having been up for two hours (the pris
on day begins at 5:30): having already
done his meed of indoor toil, the cleaning
of his cell and its utensils; having break
fasted sparsely on thin cocoa and eight
ounces of brown bread. Rimington. in
company with twenty others, forming a
squad, marched briskly out through the
great gates, a warder leading and a sen
try, with rifle loaded and cocked, follow
ing, to begin his work in the cuttings of
the quarry; but it was work that wearied
him and made sleep imperative; that
eased the gnawing pain in his heart and
brain by giving him, as it were, a tangi
ble substance to fight and wrestle with.
To Be Continued in Next Issue.
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Lovelorn
'By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
AN UNUSUAL GIRL.
Dear Miss Pai: fax:
I am in love with a girl about
my age and would like to have her
go to the theater with me. When I
make an appointment she doesn't
like it I was told by’ an old friend
that he has seen her with other fel
lows going to the theater.
She says she loves me and would
not like to lose me and that she
can express her love without mak
ing appointments.
HEARTBROKEN.
She is a. most unusual girl if shs
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the e with others. Perhaps she doesn't
She loves you. she says, and still
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she cares for you very much.
DON'T LET YOURSELF CARE.
Dea Miss Fairfax:
I am seventeen and I am going
with a young man five years my
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