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THE QEOBOrIAN’S MAGAZINE PAGE Daysey Mayme and Her Folks By FRANCES L. GARSIDE. x THE ETERNAL QUESTION. rrxHE friends of a married woman | meet her for the first time izi years, and they ask her a ques tion like this: "How many children have you now?” If she says "Eight!” some friends ex claim, in tones of horror. "Well, why on earth did you have so many?” Other friends, who are extremely old fashioned. and therefore rare, say in pious tones. "Well, the Lord HAS been good to you!” Which leaves the mother of eight without a word to say. 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 it be known to her credit that she, 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 ghe made up her mind she would answer the eternal question. She would tell the whole story. She called on a friend, the mother 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 nave never married?” Daysey Mayme was prepared. "When I was nineteen," she began, as one who has a long story to tell. “I was engaged to Phil Barbeek, and he"— "Stop teasing that cat!" screamed the mother of nine. "And—Johnhy, if you take another cooky from the jar I’ll whip 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’s lap be- , fore it had finished its dinner. Which made 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, cu both as she pro ceeded. Then she shut them out. and returned to the ninth, who. however, refused to be 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 qiarf, tell him to come tomorrow. I haven't the change), so 1 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)— —"went, and then there was Will" (Drat that child, what is it screaming for now?) "arbey, but" (No. I 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 Day sey Mayme left, with her story still un told. ' How does it happen you have never married?” remains a question she has never answered. Do You Know— (treat Britain spends more money on the upkeep of its roads than on its navy. - Violet is the color of the clothes of those who are in mourning in Turkey. Including natives and Europeans, the population of India is 315.000,000. Trial by jury does not exist in the Netherlands. FOR THE NECK AND SHOULDERS A Free Prescription That Instantly Re. moves Blemishes. Tans, Freckles and the Wrinkles and Marks Left by High Collars. 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It will not rub off If you put it on one hand only, or on one side of the neck, and note the difference you will see the wonderful change It makes instantly. The results are permanent, and continued use of this prescription will result in a skin a soft and smooth as a child's, a skin from which redness and roughness and freckles have been entirely removed. * * Mid-Summer Creations From the Paris Shops * * Wx —— j—_ !/ ' ■ A/A'T c // \ . Aw' // w? ■ • ■■ ■ „ \ It A i a id HR-- H ' ; '"Wi - yj wcr r.j \o\fc 'AAA / bi I y -a. ' 'A/ < % MwwgQw : \>. -- ? A PICTURE HAT OF CHIFFON. A CHIC CONFECTION. A THIEE-CORMERED CHAPEAU. Ibis charming hat is made of pastel-blue chiffon, which Tills chic confection of straw and ribbon is car. led out The turmd-up draw brim is edged with velvet and is swathed round the slightiyjathere I brim. j n shades of blue and white. from the rown springs a cluster of ros, s. “THE GATES OF SILENCE” * By META SIMMINS ’ s ‘- AUTHOR OF “HUSHED UP” • — ———— I TODAY'S INSTALLMENT. i 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 his 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 Don 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 his destination -did not, oddly enough, fill •lack Rlmington with any sense of shrink ing. On the contrary, he fell 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 aii‘ 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 imaginative play over the pitiful fact of his journey from one place of degradation to another the more Rirpington'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 his impris onment his tnfnd had wrestled with the problem of the crime of which lie was accused until his brain had reeled. Who had killed Fitistephen? He had forced himself to face the facts of the money lender's death from every I point of view, to callously fix the guilt | upon first one and then another. Betty, ! even a crime of madness: the man who I had escaped prison and the death of j 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 all 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 clew 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 Jiad seen in imagi nation his cell door flung open and a remorseful governor come to inform 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 lime had come the merciful awakening of the change to Bilmouth. "The shame of motlei That was the phrase that dame to Rim 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 hoots. He felt sick with shame 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 platform,. to be jeered al. perhaps spat upon, by the virtuous free! In his cell, thinking of this jour ney. Rlmington 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. He dreaded lest any one should recog nize him as he stood in his infamous garb, waiting beside the train, while about him his companions laughed and joked and made the most of this mo ment of comparative freedom He need not have feared; even Betty herself might have looked twice at the tall figure, a I little bowed about the shoulders already, without recognizing in this clown with the shaven head and the white, drawn face the handsome boy who had taught ' her the first lesson of love under the overhanging trees of a Thames backwa ter only a few fUi.ort 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. The 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 i/ 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 tiie train a damp mist was blowing up from the channel. Chill and penetrat ing. it.struck home to Rimingtnn’s heart; yet the shiver that ran over him was not wholly phvsical. The desolate, cheerless aspect of the place seemed as though it might have been created for a convict settlement, so desolate was it, so olainly was the blight of formalism over every thing. The exquisitely kept roads stretch ing to the va*»i 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- WISCONSIN ■ .mi J FOETONE Freed From Pain, Weakness, Terrible Backache and De spair by Lydia E. Pink ham’s Compound. Coloma, Wis. “ For three years I was troubled with female weakness, irreff- ularities, backache and bearing down pains. I saw an ad vertisement of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege table Compound and decided to try it. After taking several bottles I found it was helping mo, and I must say that I am perfectly well now and cannot thank VlVllUiuu ntwi iiik /■ clli'J VCUlllUu V'Hlllh you enough for what Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound has done for me.”—Mrs. John No. 3, Box 60, Coloma. Wis. Women who are suffering from those distressing ills peculiar to their sex should not lose sight of these facts oi doubt the ability of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to restore theii health. There are probably hundreds of thou sands, perhaps millions of women in the United States who have been benefited by this famous old remedy, which was produced from roots and herbs over 3C years ago byawoman to relievewoman’s suffering. If you are sick and need such a medicine, why don't you try it? If yon want special advice write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi dential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence* passable barrier bet.veen Hie fettered I an J the free. Here the prison gates opened daily and ' belched forth their stream of slaves, the i men who quarried these stones and made j these roads. Their blight seemed over ; everything, Rimington thought—the pris- I 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 hehin.l 1 im. here more than ewr he realized tliat he was sli n: in by yates 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 it 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 now—-’was there one? Apart from this air of chill and gloom, there was nothing to mark particularly this prison of Bilmouth. to which he had come from the other lie had left. He had beard from his fellow-prisoners 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. i howoioo,,' pun i.-n loeio , as time passeo rnts sense of tnanKIUI- Choose this superb train ■ / to Colorado. ■ Let the Kansas City " Florida Special take you to Colorado. , It will take you in the greatest comfort—superb electric light ed, fan cooled sleepers, electric lighted chair cars and coaches —and Fred Harvey service in the Frisco dining car. It wiH take you via the most interesting route —through the beautiful Ozark county. It will take you via the short cut to Colorado —from Jack sonville, Atlanta, Birmingham, via KansasCity, right through to the Rockies. Leave Atlanta 7:00 a. m. Colorado 7:45 a.in. secondday. Kansas City-Florida Special Tickets: 6 North Pryor Street or write A. P. MATTHEWS, District Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Georgia. ! its keen air creating at appetite that | tiie prison dietary was mctpable of sal | isfy:ng. But so far the reception by the i governor's deputy, the (to Rimington) un- I speakable degradation of tiie bathing in | the bathroom cubicles behind tiie wooden I bars, beyond which tiie attendant waid i erk 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 dre-omed 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 his fresh clothes were given to him. he knew that this was so, for .there was a difference in the uniform and the boots were heavier. To woi'k outside! No more to be penned into the little iron cubicle with its stone floor, measuring seven feet by four, but to wot 1.- to exercise his muscles under the open spaces of the sky. Thank heaven for that. There were sulkers and complalners 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 proached thankfulness He seemed to know now that if lie. had been called upon to go through his nine preliminary months of solitary confinement he would have gone mad. A Woman Called Deborah. As time passed this sense of thankful- ness did noi tiie out of Riii im'> heari The outside v/ml; w; hard. Ev i-v morn ing at half-past 7 for ii was winter now having he> :i in for two h< irs (ih’a<pris on day begins in 5:.10i; laving already done his meed us indoor toil, the cleaning of Ills cell and its utensils; having break fasted sparsely on in cocoa and eight ounces of brown bread. Rimington. in company with twenty others, forming a squad, marclied briskly out through the great gates, a w. leading ai.d a sen try. with rille loaded and cocked; follow ing. to begin his work in the cullings of the quarry: but it was work that wearied him and made sleep imperative; that eased the gnawing pain in his hra’t 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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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 she doesn’t like to go to the theater. Don't "d what others say about her going there with others. Perhaps she doesn't. She loves you, she says, and still 'oes not care to make engagements I hat would mean she would have your| company. It. really doesn’t look as ifi • ' she cares for you very much. DON’T LET YOURSELF CARE. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am seventeen and I am going ,r| with a young man five years my senior He has been calling on me '■ occasionally and of late has been coming to see me regularly. 1 have been to quite a number of parties with him. but he doesn’t seem to pay much attention to me there, but to other girls, and still he tells me he loves me. LILLIAN. Unless his lack of attention to you becomes rudeness, don’t appear to no tice It. 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