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THE GEOOQHAH’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 year* and they a'k her a ques tion like this "How many children have you now If she aay» "Eight/ some friends ex claim, in tone* of horror Well, why on earth did you have so many Other friends, who are extremely old fashioned. and therefore rare, sav in pious tones "Well, the Lord HAS been good to you ! ” Which lea'** the mother of eight without a word to aay But when friends of a spin, meet her for the first time in years, that ask In the tone* of one who knows, "How does it happen you have never married It is the eternal question every spin, meets on every eternal occasion. anil the degree of pity in w hich it is asked , never varies, the mother of eight ex pressing as much pity as the mother of one Daysey Mayme Appleton has qiet this question every day since she passed twenty-five Let II be known to her credit that she never looked at her married friends with a question of amaxe. 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 railed 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 have 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 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’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 a< she pro reeded. 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 marl, tell him to come tomorrow 1 haven't the changel. so I broke the en gage" (There look at the wav you've torn your pants. I’ll have to sit up all night to mend themi— -"merit, 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 Dav sey Mayme left, with her story still tin told ■ How does it happen you have never married ?" remains a question she has never answered. DO YOU KnOW- Great Britain spends more money on the upkeep of Its roads than on it* navy. Violet is the color of the clothes of those w ho are in mourning in Turki v Including natives and Europeans, the population of India is 315.000.a00. Trial by jury does not exist in the Netherlands. FOR THE NECK AND SHOULDERS A Fees Prescription That Instantly Re. moves Blemishes, Tans, Freckles and the Wrinkles and Marks Left by High Collars, The Dutch neck and the evening gown too often expose the discolora tions and blemishes- of high .collars or the effects of tan and freckles It Is easy to overcome these conditions and make the neck beautiful and white and soft and smooth to remove, in other words, every blemish and to make the Dutch collar as attractive as it is com fortable This prescription can also be used on the shoulders, and it is mar velously effective to beautify the hands and arms. If you want to try it go to your drug gist, get an empty two-ounce bottle, also a one-ounce bottle of Kiilux Com pound. Pour the entire bottle of Ku lux into the two-ounce bottle add quar ter an ounce of witch hazel, then fill with water. Prepare this at your own home and then you know what you have. One application will astonish you. It is deliciously cool and sooth ing and is not affected by perspiration <t win not rub off. If you put it on one hand only, or ;>n one side of th< neck, and note • m 11 fferem >■ you will see ihe wonderful -hang, it makes instantly. The resul's . as soft and smooth as a child’s, a skin from which redness and roughness and fr*. k'r-s have L>. < n entirely removed. fA ' —— - ——l —I ♦- * Mid-Summer Creations From the Paris Shops * « / iO’ '\ \-i<pP r /r 44.1, // i o’-- I T I ns IW ■ - j2allF 7 J ? -- • 1 QQQo 1 A PICTURE HAT OF CHIFFON. A CHIC CONFECTION. A TH RE E-CORN ER ED CH A PEA U, Ibis charming hat is made of pastel-blue chiffon, which This chic confection of straw and ribbon is carried out The turned-up atraw brim is edged with velvet and is swathed round the slightly gathered brim. in shades of blue and white. f rom the rrown splings a of roses. pTHE 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 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 Lon 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 Jack Rimington w ith 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 air that was not the contami nated air of a prison exercise yard, tn see green grass that was not overshadowed by prison walls - perhaps to hear birds sing, the more he let bls imagination play over the pitiful fact of his journey from one place of degradation to another the more Rimingtons 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 bls impris 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 facts of the money lender’s death from every point of view, to callously tlx the guilt upon first one and then another. Betty, even a crime of madness; the man who had escaped prison and the death of I the rope to die al the hands of Anthony Harrington. Paul Saxe himself For a time lire conviction of Saxe's Implication in the crime was so strong as to induce that paroxysm of despair in which all things solid bad slipped from beneath his feet; but gradually the conviction had died II 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 menial strivings had ceased i 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 inform him 1 that the criminal had confessed, and that be was free even that had passed also He had begun to acquiesce in bls lot- begun to settle down to be a number, a man without a name, a small nut or rhet m a vast and complicated pie, e of machincrv when just in time had • come the merciful awakening of the change to Bilmoutli "The shame of motlci ’ j That was the phrase that came tn Rim ington's mind when he saw his fellow r 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 I at. perhaps spat upon, by the virtuous 1 free! In his cell, thinking of this jour -1 ney. Rimington had thought yf none of 1 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 ant one should reepg- ■ nize him as he stood in his infamous , garb waiting beside the tram while f about him his < ontpanions laughed and 1 joked and made the most of this mo -1 memos comparative freedom He need 1 not Itat, feared even Betty herself might have looked twite at the tall figure a little bowed about lhe 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 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 subur ban gar dens ablaze with autumn flowers, out through the wide spaces of the open coun try in itp glorious livery of red arid 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 gra.s 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 Rlmington’s heart, vet 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 fnr 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 .mightv 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 WOMAN’S FORTUNE 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, irrec- ■ 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 1 found it was helping me, and I must say that 1 am perfectly well now and cannot thank | hiiiiiim *■* fiw you enough for what Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound has done sot me.” —Mrs. John Wentland, R.F.D., 1 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 i United States who have been benefited i by this famous old remedy, which was i produced from roots and herbs over 30 1 years ago by a woman to relievewoman’s suffering. If you are sick and need such t a medicine, why don’t you try it? If you want special advice write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. tconfi i dential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a i woman and held iu strict confidence* • 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, Rlmington thought—the pris on bligjit 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 mites. "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 r>ne 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 Bilmoutp. to which lie had come from the other hf- had left He had heard from his fellow-prisoners- on the train vaguely he remembered having read that penal servitude at Bilmouth was considered infinitely rpore severe than at other prisons: that the climate in it self constituted an additional punishment, Choose this superb train Vj A 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 will 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 Kansas City, right through to the Rockies. Leave Atlanta 7:00 a. m. Colorado 7:45 a .m. secondday. Kansas City-Florida Special Tickets: 6 North Pryor Street or write A. P MATTHEWS, District Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Georgia al A 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 Rlmington) 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 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. 1 To work outside! No more tn 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 ' heaven for that. There were sulkers and complainers 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 Rlmington’s heart there was something that nearly ap- 1 proached thankfulness. He seemed to 1 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 nut 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 Hie 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. . J, 3M Wife gSjf Northern Lakes The lake resorts in the West and 7 , North are particularly attractive. // The clear invigorating air added to boating, bathing // and fishing will do much to upbuild you physically. 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R, JENKINS, President. nm BINGHAM hsm I h” B*»*» for Collage and Man -0) - in aHt I. Collets South.' V.“ flXn. N9> Against Fire pronounced t e BEST by lEO doctors and b» <wr riX. ' WA . p" CP . | Gal "®’ 19 pound* f-rm of entrance accentuates our Climate Fare\cd Cara of Pupils. Military, to help in making Men oi Boys. Eox to * Cd Cara 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 van express her love without mak ing appointments HEARTBROKEN She is a most unusual girl If sh* doesn't like to go to the theater. Don't heed what other- say about her going there with others. Perhaps she doesn't She loves you. she says, and still does not care to make engagements that would mean she would have your company. It really doesn’t look as .1 she cares for you very much. DON'T LET YOURSELF CARE. Dear Miss Fairfax: 1 am seventeen and I am going 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. T have been to quite a number of parties with him. but be doesn't seem to pav 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. Remember you have 'he privi lege’of giving your attention to other # men. and remember,, also, that Jealousy never gets a girl anything but further cause for it. A SPLENDID FOOD TOO SELDOM SERVED In the average American house hold Macaroni is far too seldom served. It is such a splendid foot! and one that so well liked that it should he served at one meal every day. Let it take the place of potatoes. Macaroni has as great a food value as potatoes and is ever so much more easily digested. Faust Macaroni is made from richly glutinous, American grown Durum wheat. It is every bit as finely fla vored and tenderly succulent as the im ported varieties and you can be posi tive it is clean and pure—-made by Americans in spotless, sunshiny kitch ens. Y.our grocer can supply you with Faust Macaroni—in sealed packages 5c and 10<-. Write for free. Book of Recipes. MAULL BROS., St. Louis, Mo.