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THE GEORGIAN’S MAGAZINE PAGE
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
j years, and they a«k her e qu»»-
< tion like this
“How many children have >ou now"
If she say* "Eight!" some friends
claim, in tones of horror ' Well why
on earth did you have so many"
Other friends, who are extremely old
fashioned. and therefore rar', say in
pious tones "Well, the Lord HAS been
good to you!”
Which leaxes the mother of eight
without a word m sa
But when friends of a spin meet het
for the flrst 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 everx eternal occasion, and
the degree of pity In which it Is asked
never varies, the mother of eight ex
pressing a« much pity as ihe mother
of one
Daysey Mayme Appleton has met this
question every day since she passed
twenty-five l<et it be known to her
credit that she never looked at her
married friends with a question of
amaie, and teplied 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 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 callor.
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, "I
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
whip you.”
"Excuse me." she said io 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, cuffing both as «he pro
ceeded Then she shut them out. and
returned to the ninth, who. however,
refused to be consoled because of the
interruption tn 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 ihe ice
man. tell him to come tomorrow 1
haven’t the change), so I broke the en
gage" (There, look at tlie 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 1 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 n»vei
married"" remains a question she has
never answered.
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FtHE GATES OF SILENCE” * By META SIMMINS * OF “HUSHED UP”
I -
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 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 I<on
don to Btlmouth—which, after the veil of
mysterious secrecy which is characteristic
of prison discipline In such matters was
withdrawn, he finally learned was bls
destination slid not. oddly enough, fill
Jack Rimlngton with any sense of shrink
ing On the contrary, he felt a certain
quickening of interest in hint under the
crust of apathy that every day had
seemed to be hardening upon his heart
To leave this whitewashed cell, to
breathe glr that was not the contami
nated air of a prison exerdse'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 bls journey
from one place of degradation to another
the more Rimington's excitement grew.
For all the pain that In accomplishment
ft coat hint, 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 impels
onment his mind had wrestled with the
problem of the crime of which be was
accused until his brain had reeled
who had killed Fitzstephen?
He had forced himself to face the fafcts
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 and the death of
the rope to die at the hands of Anthony
Barrington. Paul Saxe himself For a
tune the conviction of Saxe’s implication
in the crime was s<» strong as to induce
that paroxysm of despair in which all
things solid bail slipped from beneath his
feet; but gradually the conviction bad
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 lie had seen in imagi
nation bls cell door flung open and a
remorseful governor come to Inform him
that the criminal bad confessed, ami
that he was free- even that had passed
also. He had begun to acquiesce tn
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 merciful awakening of the
change to Btlmouth
"The shame of motl.»
That was the phrase that came to Rlm
ington s mind when lie 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 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 platforms, to be jeered
at. perhaps spat upon, by the virtuous
free! In his cell, thinking of this jour
ney. Rimlngton 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 glori >us event
in his life.
He dreaded lest any one should recog-
I mze him as he stood in his infamous
garb waiting beside the train, while
about han j.is companions laughed and
joked and made the most of this mo
ment of comparative freedom He need
tot have feared; ev«n Betty 1 ■ rst 11 might
have looked twne at the tail figure, a'
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 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 Ws
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
’he 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
L’nglish countryside, before him the gray,
desolate, hilly stretches of the peninsula
of Bllmouth, 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 Io Kimington i 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 io 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 o!
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 tn 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 it may please
Thee tr» 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 ndm 71 - 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 he had left. He had
heard from his' fellow-prisoners on the
train —vaguely he remembered having
read—that penal servitude at Bilmouth
was considered ingpitely more severe than
at other prisons; that the climate in It
self constituted an additional punishment,
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its keen air creating an appetite that
the prison dietary was incapable of sat
isfying. But so far the reception by the
governor s deputy, the (to Rimington) un
speakable degradation of the bathing in
(he bathroom cubicles behind the wooden
bars, beyond which the attendant ward
ers paraded, to silence talking and admon
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 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 work outside! No more to he
penned into the little Iren cubicle with
its stone floor, measuring seven feet by
four, but to work to exercise his muscles
under the open spaces of the sky. Thank
heaven for that There were sulkers and
eomplainers al) 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 he 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 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 bls work in the cuttings of
the quarry; but it was work that wearied
him and made sleep imperative; (hat
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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Advice to the
Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
AN UNUSUAL GIRL.
Dear -Miss Fairfax:
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 sh*
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these with others. Perhaps she doesn’t
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DON’T LET YOURSELF CARE.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am seventeen and I am going
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occasionally and of late has been
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me he loves me. LILLIAN.
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