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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 ! i SLT? . 1 "I " Vacation Days UOffiS’'''"’' are here. Plan now where to go and let u» help you. The mountain and lake resorts in the North and West are attractive. The clear invigorating air will do much to upbuild you physically. We have on sale daily round trip tickets at low fares and with long return limits and will be glad to give you full infor mation. Following are the round trip fares from Atlanta to some of the principal resorts: CHAUTAUQUA LAKE PTSS34.3O NIAGARA FALLS -.535.85 DENVER- 47.30 PUT IN BAY 28.00 DETROIT 30.00 PETOSKEY 36.55 DULUTH— 48.00 SALT LAKE CITY 60.30 MACKINAC ISLAND 38.65 TORONTO 38.20 MAMMOTH CAVE 17.40 WAUKESHA33.7O THE ATTRACTIVE WAY NORTH irWl'XI CITY TICKET OFFICE 4 Peachtree Street phones ' i | l 7 l ß oßß 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. * Some Suggestions For Summer Days * iWwi ® |K|I I w*' 1 wtv ' ImL I W H] A MB • HU fl ; H...* L I I BSf 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." __ /• 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 i H ■ r ■ok i l I I ' " I ■* : A Walking Costume. > pH E skirt of tue day. frock S 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 ( i wrists, finished with lace ruffles. < 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. | 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 pupils, so grouped, as to give every teacher about 12 Cadets for tutoring and over sight at night. Delightful home life—a big happy family of successful, cultured 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. WASHINGTON SEMINARY ATLANTA, GA NEW LOCATION 1374 Peachtree toad, just bevond Ansley Park GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS; private park; beautifully shaded and landscaped, affording privacy of the country. BUILDINGS—Boarding department (limited), one of the most beautiful homes in the entire city. New Academic building a model of school construction In lighting, ventilation, heating, with open-air class rooms, gymnasiums, audito rium. etc. Tennis courts and other outdoor games. DEPARTMENTS- Kindergarten, primary, academic, college preparatory, domes tic science, physical culture, piano, pipe organ, voice, violin, art, expression. 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 climate among the hills of Middle Georgia, the Wesleyan College, at Macon, Ga., presents a most inviting opportunity. The conveniences of the buildings, the climate of the city, the religious and refined atmosphere of the college life make the School ideal in all respects. Young ladies from the best families of the South find it a most delightful home where they can accomplish the greatest results in their work. It has a thoroughly trained faculty in every department. The rates are very low. Write for catalogue to 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!