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THE GEOBGIAN’S MAGAZINE/PAQE
“The Gates of Silence”
By Meta Simmtns, Author of “Hushed Up"
TODAY’S INSTALLMENT.
Her voice cracked a little. Suddenly
Rimington found himself wishing that
she had not come. She brought an ele
ment of discord and unrest into this
place, whose iron discipline had become
almost an anodyne to the unrest in his
own heart. His aunt's words empha
sized her belief in his guilt, which, though
unspoken, he had always known to exist.
It was monstrous of her to come there
with her tongue dripping gall.
A Narrow Man.
Somehow, since he had come to Bil
niouth he had ceased t<t find the consola
tion. in religion he had experienced dur
ing his previous incarceration. The chap
lain had taken a dislike to him. or so
Rimington believed. He was a narrow
minded man. a formalist of a very petty
creed, and instead of using the power
he had to render his charges’ lives more
tolerable, he had put a premium on hy
pocrisy by interesting himself only *n
those who professed a whole-hearted al
legiance to his own views. He was ill.
Rimington had heard, and was about to
be transferred to another and lighter
charge. Jack thought of him as he
watched his aunt—he would have been
a man after Deborah Rimington’s own
heart.
Then, when his aunt spoke again, her
words made him ashamed for his un
spoken thought.
"Jack, I haven't many minutes to say
all 1 have to say." she said. ’And there
is much. First, Betty. Her love. dear.
All her love, all her thoughts, all het
hopes. You understand?"
Did he understand? It was a flood of
sunshine let unexpectedly into a darkened
room. He felt blinded for the moment,
conscious only of the glorious glow and
\warmth. He hardly heard what his vis
itor was saying.
And for myself. Jack: I want you to
know that is true of me. too. While your
uncle lived, my dear, my duty was to him
I was but what every dutiful wife
should be. his shadow’, his other self. 1
\nd now that he's gone 1 am free to live J
my own life—so far as any of God's crea- '
fures may live for themselves. And now
my life is going to be for you. my boy.
It is true 1 never loved you as I loved
your brother—one can't control one's
heart Even among the disciples there
was John more loved than the others.
But I love you. too. and from hence
forth my life will be yours. There are
others working for you out in the world
—you know that. 1 suppose Well, that
Is not my way. It is the future I am
thinking of—all that is mine will be
yours, and it may be more than you think.
Things are changing. But first, and P,r
the present. Jack, it will comfort you to
know that I have come to Bilmouth
come to live here within the very sight
of this house of shame. I will be al
ways with you—every flay at the throne
of grace—come with me there. Ah: Jack,
while it's yet day . before the nightfall and
thp end of mercy."
‘Aunt —aunt! It's ridiculous." Rim
ington hardly knew how to stem the tor
rent of her words. He had never heard
her speak like this. That she had been
religious, and deeply so, he had always
understood, but she had been reticent
and restrained, the last woman in the
world, so he conceived, to have shown
her heart to any one. far loss to speak so
to him in the presence of a third person
“\ou must not think of coming here—it
is not- fit for you: it would add to my
pain to think of you amid such distress
ing surroundings."
"Hush! I am here. I have taken my
house: in a few weeks it will be fur
nished. Then. Jack. I mean io live as
you live- to rise with you, to sleep and
cat with you. to tread every’ step of your I
agony with you. Is that too much to do .
to save a soul a soul for whom He
died ?"
Sheer Madness.
Her voice rose shrill and strained and
het eyes blazed. To both men—the pris
oner and the warder—she seemed like
one carried out of herself.
The twenty minutes were running out
rapidly. Rimington. marshaling his argu
ments, controlling his faltering tongue,
found himself able to make no headway
against the extraordinary determination
of this woman, who, in her own quiet
way, had loved the simple good things of
. life —quiet and ease and the absence of
the actively unpleasant that constitutes
the ideal of happiness for so many—to
plunge herself voluntarily into a life ci
penance, leading outside the prison the
life, so far as she could, of this relative
who was inside it.
It was madness—-that was all he could
think—but a madness of which she would
soon tire rising at 5:30 in the bleak win
ter mornings, going to bed at 8 in the
chill of a stone and iron cell. What could
she know of his life, save the mere ex
ternals? —and thank God for it.
"Aunt Deb. you mean to be kind
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you're an angel—l love you for it; but
it’s the maddest, most mistaken kindness;
it is making an addition to my punish
ment—not a mitigation of it." he said.
"Boy, 1 owe it to you for the years I
neglected you." she said, solemnly. "It
is expiation for all the prayers I have
left unsaid: it is bowing voluntarily, as the
Book says, under the almighty hand of
God. We have sore need of that—l. sinful
woman that 1 am. far more than you in
your heedless youth."
Once again Rimington winqed. During
his trial, during the weeks he had lain
waiting for death, he had found it possi
ble to bear with fortitude the disbelief
in his innocence of those who had known
him; now it seemed more than he could
bear that this woman, who had known
him since he was a tiny child, should
come here and speak to him of resigna
tion and humility!
"Jack"—*she had come as near to him
as the bars permitted: he could see her
face very clearly now. framed in the vol
uminous folds of the crepe veil —the face
of a woman who for hours had been on
the rack of pain: the great eyes were
surrounded by shadow’s and full of tears,
as he looked they overflowed and began
to run down her cheeks; she seamed un
conscious of everything. "Jack, my dear,
dear child; it breaks my heart to see you
hero behind the bars, like a beast of prey.
Oh! be patient -yet a little longer—re
lease must come. Pray for us all that
we may have courage. lack, don't lose
your faith in us all- in the girl that loves
you and waits for you."
“I Am Happy.”
"Tell her nothing." cried Rimington.
hoarsely. ‘ Tell her nothing of this." He
ran his hands quickly over his motley
dress. "Tell her 1 am full of hope—that
that I am happy and well, and— that
it is not half a bad life when you are
used to it. Tell her I love her!"
His working fa e. that was like some
grim travesty < f the face she had known;
his broken, unfamiliar voice, his outflung.
roughened hands with their- hideous.
' broken nails—these were the picture Mrs.
I Rimington carried with her out ipto the
| world A gray world, damp and rank
' with the creeping mist from the sea.
through which were stealing figures of
shame, men in gangs who might have
been chained together, so closely were
their ranks set. men who moved to the
w’ord of command more briskly than any
regiment of soldiers, slaves quick to re
spond to the goad of fear—that knowledge
lay locked away in the breast of every
one of them of the punishment that
waited unfalteringly for every fault —of
the cocked rifle for the runaway, of the
various manacles in the "jewel room."
where the punishment fetters were kept
as exquisitely as a society beauty's jew
els; of. in the last and most desperate
resort, the cap and the triangle, or the
degrading birch.
"The discipline of fear" —she had never
until today realized what that. was. The
power that behind a single man enabled
him to keep twenty desperate, ruffians in
subjection as easily as a firm mistress
can manage a school class.
This visit of his aunt, so strange, so
unexpected, involving as it must have
done great trouble to her to procure,
like the change from Wormwood Scrubs
to Bilmouth, was a turning point in Rim
ington's prison life. Just as Um* change
from the one prison to the other had
brought an interest into his life that saved
his mentality, 'so this visit of a woman
—and that one who had always stood in
his mind for the embodiment of domestic
beauty and purity and daintiness—savqd
his self respect, arrested that deteriora
tion of personal habit of which he was
beginning himself to be aware.
Will power and strength of mind in
themselves are hardly enough to stand
'up against the immense forces arrayed
against the man who knows that, for all
the years he can see stretch before him.
he will always be a prisoner; who real
ises that the brand of the broad arrow
for a man in his rank of life is like the
chrism of some priesthood of shame,
marking him as an outcast forever; only
some exterior force like the knowledge of
a trusting and waiting woman can aid
him. And to Rimington had come the
knowledge of two women who avowed
their life work to be a preparation for
his release.
A Pet Theory.
Sitting there in the ice chill of his cell,
w’ith the dim gas jet burning outside the
corridor window. Rimington thought
steadily of Mrs. Rimington’s visit, and as
he thought the singularity of it. which
had at first loomed so large in his mind,
began to diminish, and the beauty and
mercy and charity of it to increase. He
remembered now that Toby and he had
often laughed at a pet theory of hers,
wftich was that widows should he “wid
ows indeed," devoting their lives after the
death of the beloved to works of charity
and deeds of mercy, cutting themselves
off from the world.
To Be Continued in Next Issue.
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A Slightly Draped Skirt.
Up-to-Date Jokes
‘"Let us go to Mr. Simpson's wedding,
my dear." said a newly married wife to
her husband.
"Oh. no: let us stay at home. It will
be a dreadful' bore."
"But, my dear, you must remember
Mr. Simpson attended your wedding."
"So he did ( grimly i. I had forgotten
(hat (revengefully). I shall be there."
It was in a country village, and he
was making preparation for "flitting"—
the fourth removal in about twelve
months. The vicar happened to be
passing, and remarked:
"What, removing again. John?"
"Yes. sir,” replied John.
"You are taking your poultry, too. I
see. I think they will be getting tired
of being moved about.”
"Getting tired?" said John. "Why,
bless you. sir. they are quite used to it
now. Every time they see a furniture
van they run into the yard and lay on
their backs with their legs in the air
waiting to have them tied."
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A young lady who was by no means
beautiful, was introduced to a gentle
man who was endowed with good looks,
but no; manners. During the course o'
their conversation the gentleman
aV k ed:
"Are there many more young ladies
like you in the Potteries?”
The young lady replied: "Oh. yes;
we are all good-looking there. You
I see. we make our own mugs."
“Os course I am wrong! I am always
in the wrong, am 1 not?" exclaimed an
irate husband dining an altercation
with his wife.
"No deal." was the irritatingly
sweet answer, "not always."
"Not always!" echoed her husband.
"\\ hy. whenever did you allow that I
was right?"
"I ast week. dear, when you admitted
you were wrong. I said you were right
then in confessing it."
A noted professor of music, a Ger
man. was supervising the work of an
orchestra at rehearsal, and he became
much anoyed with the conductor for
his erratic n-e of the baton Stopping
the band, he said to-the culprit:
"Mistaire Jones, you would make a
beautiful conductor—for zee omnibus;
you vas alvays behind."
Parmer Jones was on a visit to his
nephew in New York, and th« two
went tea case in Broadway for dinner.
They had given their order and were
waiting for it to be brought when the
younger man. who had been glancing at
a menu card that lay on the table, said:
"By the way, uncle, did you ever have
cere bro-spina I meningitis?"
"No," replied Uncle Jones, after a
few moments mental struggle with the
question: "and I don’t want any. "I’d
rather have fried liver and bacon snv
day."
For Sweethearts and Wives
(Aunt Ruth in Household Helps.)
“If the eyelashes are short and thin,
plain pyroxin should be applied to lash
roots with thumb and forefinger to make
them grow thick and beautifully long
Thin eyebrows improve with <lail\ appli
< at ions of pyroxin.
“Men admire glossy, well kept hair.
Any girl can keep her hair light, fluffy
and beautifully lustrous by dry shampoo
ing every week or so Put four ounces
of powdered orris root in a fruit jar. add
an original package of therox and mix
together Sprinkle a little on the head
anil brush through the hair Therox re
moves dust, oil and dandruff
“Now comes the time when dainty
complexions look shiny from perspiration.
A complexion beautifier that will not rub
off or show like powder is made easily bj'
<lissolving an original package of maya
tone in a half pint of witch hazel. Gently
massage face, neck and arms with this
solution daily, and the skin will lie soft,
lovely, smooth and satiny.
‘ Embarrassing wild hairs can be made
to vanish quickly from face or forearms
by using delators? paste, maxi? by mixing
powdered delatone with water, (’over the
hairy surface with this past? for two or
three minutes, then remove, wash the
skin, and the hairs will be gone.”
From the Latest Paris Designs
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I shown on the left, is slightly *S
draped at the left-hand side (
S aiM decorated with six square (
S buttons,
? The Walking costume I- tarried t
> out in charmeuse. The long lines s
S of this model give a most elegant s
? appearance especially becoming to <
S tall figures. The skirt opens <
j slightly, revealing an underskirt s
s of ninon over brocade. The wide <
( belt and the bow at the throat are i
( velvet. • <
< The chief feature of the pannier I
( costume is the deep pannier. The (
( kimono bodice has sleeves to the (
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Advice to the
Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
YOU OWE HIM AN APOLOGY.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am eighteen and have been
keeping company with a young
man two years my senior for the
past six months. About six weeks
ago we went to a place of amuse
ment and, after coming home, had
a little quarrel, but made an ap
pointment for a few days later
which I deliberately failed to keep,
being still angry from the previous
evening. I have seen him many
times since, but he rover speaks
to me. M. R.
You w. 'e rude to him and owe him
an apology. Having made the appoint
ment. you should have kept it. You
made your first mistake in making it
while still resentful and mad.
LOVE IN A TANGLE.
Dear Miss Ea 1 rfax:
I have been keeping company
with a young lady one year my
Junior. Last week we had a dis
agreement and since then she has
been angry with me. although I
have written her a note of apology.
I have told her I love her and I
feel sure she loves me. G. A. V.
If she loves you. and you love her.
your little tiff will not last longer
than a summer shower. You have eat
en your humble pie. Give her time,
and I am sure that she will be gener
ous enough to ask for her share. Then
all will be well, and the skies will again
be blue.
APPEARS TO BE INDIFFERENT.
Dear Miss Eairtax:
I have been keeping company
w ith a young man for the past year
The other day I wrote to him ask
ing him to come to a dance which
was at one of my friend's houses,
and he did not come. I again wrote
asking him to come and see me,
and he did not come.
ANXIOUS.
If a man plainly a girl he
doesn't care for her society, she owes
it to herself not to rare. You have
asked him twice, and he has refused
Don't 4tsk him again. X third invita
tion from you will look like pursuit,
and nothing so cheapens a girl as th.rt
attitude.
A Pannier Design.
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Do You Know—
Baron Marshall Vonßieberstein, the
new German ambassador, is said to
have a novel method of avoiding any
possible indiscretions on the part of his
blotting pad. He uses a typewriter
specially constructed for him. who.-e
secrets are knqwn to himself alone.
This machine marks cryptographic
signs understood only by the baron and
his correspondents. It is kept locked
up in the ambassador's desk, and is
brought out only when he has a con-
! fidential letter to write.
! An American agricultural journal
( prints on its front page the novel an-
> nouncement that, as farmers are so
> busy with the cultivation of their fields.
( and have no leisure for reading, the
< news of the day will be briefly printed
I on the first page of the paper, and the
j other- page will be soaked with a "death
> to Illes" preparation. Thus the paper
> will serve two purposes; it will supply
> important news and will serve to ex
i terminate flies.
> Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth, holder of
, the world's long-distance riding record.
! has made a new record by outdistane-
' Ing two army officers in a 900-mlle ride
from Washington to her summer home.
1 She was the only one of the five start-
I ers to complete the trip.
It Is estimated that the total produc
tion of automobiles for 1912 will ap
proximate a quarter of a million. There
are between 350 and 400 automobile
factories in the country, and they turn
out an annual product worth nearly
half a billion dollars.
WOMEN SHOULD
BE PROTECTED
Against So Many Surgical Op
erations. How Mrs. Bethune
and Mrs. Moore Escaped.
Sikeston, Mo. “For seven years Isuf
fered everything. I was in bed for fout
F ) . ° r hve days at a time
' ‘‘very month, and sc
weak I could hardly
t walk. I cramped and
’ tv- : had backache and
’ U headache, and was
.• \ T so nervous and weak
fre-—' ;'A_ that. 1 dreaded to see
anyone or have anv
onemoveintheroom.
JH) The doctors gave me
; t 1 m«-dicin>• to ease me
at those times, and said that I ought to
I have an operation. I would not listen to
I that, and when a friend of my husband
i told him about Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
i etable Compound and what it had done
for his wife, I was willing to take it.
Now I look the picture of health and feel
like it, too. 1 can do my own housework,
hoe my garden, and milk a cow. I can
entertain company and enjoy them. I
can visit when I choose, and walk as far j
as any ordinary woman, anj r day in the I
month. I wish I could talk to every I
suffering woman and girl.”—Mrs. Dema
Bethune, Sikeston, Mo.
Murrayville, Ill.—“J have taken Ly-1
dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound |
for a very bad case of female trouble
and it made me a well woman. My
health was all broken down, the doctors
said I must have an operation, and I was
ready to go to the hospital, but dreaded it
so that 1 began taking your Compound. I
J got along so well that I gave up the
doctors and was saved from the opera
tion.’’—Mrs. Charles Moore, R. R.
No. 3, Murrayville, 111. I
Daysey May me and Her Folks
ANOTHER WALK-OUT.
TT THEN she did her hair in curl
V/y papers she couldn't sleep at
night because of the bumps all
over her head, each bump being a curl
in embryo.
When she wore shoes in which her
feet looked pretty her toes were pinched
and her corns grew.
When she rubbed on the cold cream
she experienced the greasiness of a
fried oyster, and when she put red on
her cheeks site felt like the flag of an
■t uctioneer.
All these Daysey Mayme Appleton
did. and mote, that she might prove
attractive to some man
"And what do the men give up for
us?" she a.-ked.
"We are always discontented with
our looks, and he is entirely satisfied
with his.
"We go to more torturing pains to
win the admiiation of a moon-faced
Strengthening Food For
Summer Days
You need nourishing food these hot davs—
food that gives strength and stamina—but you
must not overtax the digestive organs with
heavy meats. The ideal summer meal is a
dish of delicious
bl FAUST d
vv BRAND IvV
==J SPAGHETTI L==
It is a delightful dish that appeals to the
lagging appetite of summer time. Tender
and tasty, easily digested and so full of whole
some nourishment. Serve Faust Spaghetti to
your meat-weary family and save doctors’
bills. It is easily prepared and most econom
ical. Write for free book of recipes. All
grocers sell Faust Spaghetti —5c and 10c a
package.
MAULL BROS., St. Louis Mo.
GEORGIA MILITARY ACADEMY
THE SOUTHS MOST SPLENDIDLY EQUIPPED PREP SCHOOL
College Park, Eight Milea From Atlanta, Georgia
Fills every hour of a boy’s life with wholesome mental development, body
building, moral and social training, and preparation for a man’s part in the
world's work. A thoroughly disciplined, modernly appointed, attractive school
for boys and young men a gentleman’s school, limited to about 125 boarding
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teachers and pupils. Every sanitary convenience. Electric lights, steam heat,
artesian water. Elevation nearly 1,200 feet, no malaria, perfect health.
Best Table Fare and Prettiest School Campus in the South.
Three regular Courtea— Claaaical, Engineering, Commercial.
Member Southern Aeaociation of Collegee and Preparatory Schoola.
Active U. S. Officer in Charge of Military Department.
Classed A by U. S. War Department.
P.rrat, url.d to visit ~d compare the School with the beat in America. COl. J. C. WOOOWARQ, A. M., Rftt.
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GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS; private park; beautifully shaded and landscaped,
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BUILDINGS—Boarding department (limited), one of the most beautiful homes
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DEPARTMENTS- Kindergarten, primary, academic, college preparatory, domes
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METHODS Small classes; last year 235 pupils and 18 teachers, allowing one
teacher for every 13 pupils.
ACCESSIBILITY—Three car lines, Peachtree. West Peachtree and Buckhead
lines; 20 minutes from center of city.
PROTECTION—SpeciaI police officer at' 2:30 and 1:30 to protect students get
ting on and off cars.
CATALOGUE and views on request; thirty-fifth year begins September 12.
LLEWELLYN D. AND EMMA B. SCOTT,
Principals.
I hone Ivy 847.
Wesleyan College
Macon, Georgia
One of the Greatest Schools for Women In the South.
p OR PARENTS desiring a most healthful school in a warm and delightful
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Bv Frances L. Garside
butcher boy than he undergoes to win
the love of an heiress.
"And what do we get for it? An ice
cream soda, and a partner for the next
waltz!
“It is time to strike! We must walk
out together, and throw rouge bottles
at the head of every man on the way.
"We must—■”
But Daysey Mayme came to sudden
pause in the proclamation she was pre
paring to issue to vote-creamed and
straight-fronted sisters.
She had caught a glimpse of a splen
did .voting man. who gets nine dollars a
week, and is just too generous for any
thing He was turning the corner. He
was coming to call!
In her haste to get on her special
seeneiy and powder her nose and tint
her cheeks she upset the ink over her
proclamation, and two minutes later
was demanding assistance from her
mother in getting into a corset two
sizes too small.
The walk-out had been postponed!