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THE GEORGIAN’S M AGA ZINE PAGE,
“The Gates of Silence”
By Meta Simmins, Author of'‘Hushed Up"
TODAY’S INSTALLMENT.
The woman crouching outside the door
listening heard a sudden blundering
movement —a rush of feet across the
room, a clink of glasses and the sharp
•fush ot a siphon, and clasped her hands
tloser against her lean breast.
Inside the room Barrington stood with
the glass In his hand, the sweat dripping
off his face; his knees were shaking; it
was more than he could bear. He was
a coward; he could not face it—not that—
•iot to oe shut up forever in a prison
house of darkness. He set the glass to
his lips—there was forgetfulness, at least
to be purchased here; purchased at a
price, to be sure—the price of self-re
spect.
His self-respect! He laughed aloud.
His self-respect!
The woman outside the door trembled
at the laughter; there was the ring of
madness in it. She glanced round her
fearfully over her shoulder into the shad
owy hall. The silence that followed that
laughter seemed full of voices. The stairs
creaked stealthily as under the pressure
of some invisible foot. From the kitchen
came the loud ticking of the white-faced
clock that, as she held her breath, whir
red and broke into the hour. Twelve
o’clock, and all the long hours of the night
to pass before she dare hope for help or
succor; they stretched out before her in
a far-reaching vista of terror, peopled by
graj’ shapes of fear, these hours of the
night shut up here alone with a half-mad
man.
But the laughter was not repeated;
silence settled down like a pall on the
lonely house. Presently sleep crept on
the woman out of the ambush of her
fatigue: her limbs relaxed and she fell
sideways, sprawling grotesquely across
the mat. So Anthony Barrington found
her when he opened the door in the dawn
ing and came stumbling out.
He stood for a moment looking down at
her; then woke her, gently enough, and
told her to get off to bed. She went
limping and stiff after her hours In that
cramped position. Her brain was more
bewildered, her sight more blurred than
that of her master, who had been drink
ing during the night.
As Barrington stumbled up the stairs
he knew that, by all the laws of justice,
he should have been drunk, but he was
not drunk. It seemed to him that his
brain had never been clearer, his visions
more unblurred or distinct. It was as
though a veil had been drawn from the
face of life and he saw with a marvelous
clearness the beauty of things as they
were. There was apparently not only for
getfulness at the command of the yellow
Imp in the spirit decanter-—there was the
gift of sight.
It was raining heavily when Betty
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Anty Drudge Tells How to Prevent
Washday Smells.
/owes- “Holy smoke! Is some one burning glue in the
kitchen?”
Mrs. Jones —“No, Theodore. It’s washday you know,
and what you smell is the sud«-eteun from the wash
boiler. ”
Anty Drudge — “Why don’t you use FoJs-Naptha and do
away with the washboiler? Then there will be no
steam to permeate the whole houseorery washday.”
The Different Kind of Soap. That,
in a nutshell, is Fels-Naptha.
Different —because Fels-Naptha i s
more than a soap —it is a different way of
washing.
Different —because Felt-Naptha gets
the wash ready for the line in about half
the time of any other soap.
Different —because Fels-Naptha itself
does the work of loosening the dirt from
the fabric, which every other soap leaves to
you to do with the washboard.
Different —because with Fels-Naptha
there’s no backache: no need for long
bending over the tub, as with other soaps.
Different —because Fels-Naptha saves
the clothes: (1) from weakening of the
fibre by heat; (2) from the wear of hard
rubbing.
Different —be cause Fe 1 s-N apt h a
actually does in cool or lukewarm water
what the best other soaps will not do even
in scalding hot water.
F'ollow directions on the red and green
wrapper, summer or winter.
Lumsden came through the station gate
at Kenworth and stood looking about her
for the vehicle that Nanna, Barrington’s
servant, had told her would meet her. It
was windy also; as she stood on the step
little gusts of rain dashed against her
face. She put back her veil. It pleased
her to feel the cool, damp breath of the
wind against her hot cheeks.
The driver of a ramshackle fly addressed
her, touching his hat.
"For the Chantrey, miss?” he asked,
and Betty was conscious of a start. It
was not so that she had been accustomed
to be met on her visits to Barrington in
the past. Her brother-in-law's servants
had always been of the smartest.
“Mrs. Galbraith said she hoped you
would excuse it being a keb, but she’ll ex
plain.”
Betty thanked the man and got into the
cab. As she leaned back in he ciR-ner
she thought there would be much that
Nanna Galbraith must explain. The old
servant’s second letter had only reached
her yesterday, to be followed later in the
day by an urgent telegram that had re
sulted in this journey. *
Was it anything about Edjih? What
had happened to Tony—what was this
danger that threatened him? Nanna had
been mysterious and incoherent, after the
manner of the inexperienced letter writer.
Poor Tony! Betty's lips twitched. What
a dreadful blight had descended on them
in the days that had followed the one
mad hour of joy when love had come and
kissed her on the lips under the trees by
the riverside. In Betty's calendar all
dated from that day—the news of Toby’s
death had. come then —Edith had brought
her news of Lavasseur's return into her
life.
Even in her thoughts she could not go
through that record of horror again. She
tried to forget—to occupy her eyes and
her mind with the countryside that was
visible through the rain-blurred windows
of the cab.
A Changed Man.
The drive seemed interminable, and the
house, as she approached It, struck on
her with an air of intolerable depression,
it looked so dark and dreary with those
funereal sentinel trees. Betty felt a thrill
of thankfulness at the first glimpse of
Nanna's familiar face; the second showed
her how changed the old woman was.
There was a haunted look on the comely
face, a furtive fear peeping from the
blue eyes.
"Ah. thank heaven, you’ve come, miss!”
she said. Her old voice trembled. “No;
the master's no idea you're coming; he
—well, you mustn’t be took back by the
master. He's a changed man. Miss Betty.
His eyes have been troubling him, or
something. He’s never been the same
man since—since —”
To Be Continued in Next Issue.
A New and Pretty Dance For the Summer Ballroom
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(Posed by La Petit Adelaide and J. J.
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By LA PETITE ADELAIDE.
IT’S difficult to get something really
new that will be a simple waltz or
two-step at the same time.
Now that everybody’s doing it, almost
everything has been done, but the "hoop
dance” is really novel, and I am glad to
describe it for dancers, who enjoy a
new. trick that would not be too diffi
cult with a little practice and by sim
plifying the steps.
Os course, it is not possible to trans
plant the dance as I do it on the stage,
directly to the drawing room, but it can
be so modified that it would make a
very pretty feature for cotillons, fancy
dress balls and parties, where eccentric
dancing is expected.
As most society girls go in for fancy
dancing nowadays, some of these odd
dances appear at all balls. The hoop
dance, which Is comparatively dignified
and sedate when you think of others we
have had, is especially adapted for the
ball room.
I dance the hoop dance to a slow
waltz; the amateur should divide the
waltz off in eight bars, using from eight
to sixteen bars for each one of the steps
and features.
The hoop which we use is aluminum,
because it has to be very strong as well
as light. But this would not be neces
sary for the ball room dance, as some
of the features which require a strong
hoop can not be used, except by an ex
pert dancer.
Covered With Satin.
My hoop is covered with heavy satin
to match my gown. My partner is in
evening dress and the black ot his
clothes and white frock make a good
contrast.
If this dance were to be used at a co
tillon as part of a cotillon, the hoops
could be of different colors and might
be arranged to match the girl’s gown.
By simplifying the dance, as I am going
io do for you, several couples could do
it at the same time: the hoops could be
of wood, the ordinarj’ hoop used by
children at play. The hoop should be
big enough to go around two partners
and leave a foot of space between them.
To begin with, the partners advance
from opposite sides to the slow move
ment of a waltz. At the end of the
fourth bar they should meet, the girl
having brought in the hoop, which the
man takes from her, holding it behind
him. The hoop should be raised above
hfs head, and without touching each
other. It is quite difficult for the ama
teur to do this, as the ordinary dancer
depends so largely upon the guidance
of a partner to keep absolutely in step.
It will help you to look right into
your partner's eyes, and also you must
be perfectly sure of how many bars you
are going to do together in this way. At
the end of the sixteenth bar the man
turns the hoop forward and brings it
over his head and that of the girl, plac
ing the side of the hoop at her back and
bringing both of them into the circle.
They are now held in the ring, and
she leans far back against the hoop, but
wiUK><it holding on to it. He leans
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'against the hoop, holding it first with
' either hand. They dance eight bars in
| this manner, and another eight in
I slightly quickened tempo, the man hav
ing let go of the hoop, so that they are
whirling around, keeping the hoop in
the air by pressing against it with their
backs.
How to Dance It.
Another eight bars is danced with the
hoop circling them around the neck; to
keep the hoop firmly In place you have
to press backward and it takes some
practice before you can waltz this way,
each one bending back, with the hoop
around the neck
Os course, if the stronger partner
pulls In one direction, the weaker one
has to follow, but this looks awkward,
The Manicure Lady s
By William F. Kirk
TWAS reading the other day about
| a foreign princess that came
over here on one of our best
young said the Manicure
Lady. "There was an awful interest
ing story about her; It said that she
was one of the most beautiful young
women in the world, and then the story
went on to say that she thought the
American men were kind of coarse.”
"I guess she was at least haft right,”
said the Manicure Lady's friend, the
Head Barber. "Ther«» was certainly
enough coarse work on their part this
morning. I shaved four of them this
morning and had to cut the hair of one
of them, and I didn’t get a tip out of
the crowd. If that isn’t coarse work
there ain't no such animal, as the
farmer said when he looked at the
camel.”
“I think them foreign princesses is
awful interesting, George,” said the
Manicure Lady. "Brother Wilfred was
saying the other night that he wished
he could get an audience with the
princess I am just telling you about.
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and the direction in which the dance is
to be taken must be carefully planned
before you do a dance like this for your
friends.
Continuing to waltz, but without
touching, the girl turns round inside
the hoop. This brings her with her
back to her partner, facing the rim of
the hoop around her neck. She takes
the hoop, swings clear of the man,
raises it above her head, so that it
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makes a frame; the man standing be
hind her, or I should say waltzing be
;! hind her, holds the side of the hoop out
i ind sixteen more bars are daneed tn
this position. This makes a very pret
ty effect, and is not difficult if you have
already gotten accustomed to the mod
ern dances in which the girl dances in
front of the man, so much of the time.
Another Motion.
Without losing step, the girl waltzes
around facing her partner,
swings the hoop over his head, so that
it catches them both around the waist,
both partners bending very far back
'and continuing to waltz. This, of
course, is quite difficult, but an inex
perienced dancer would not have to
bend baek so far, and the dance could
be very slow at this part.
After this, in my dance, I begin a
regular whirlwind, ending up by sitting
inside the hoop and being swung
around by my partner, w r ho holds the
end of the hoop behind his neck. Os
course, an especially constructed hoop
is necessary and the trained dancer.
The amateur dance may end with
the two dancers inside of the hoop,
holding to It with their hands and
dancing rapidly In a circle while they
work their way off the stage. The
minute you hold on to the sides of the
hoop the dance becomes very much
easier, and I suppose it would really be
better for the ordinary ball room danc
ers not to let go of the hoop until they
have a good deal of practice.
He had a poem all wrote out in de
fense of the American man. He showed
it to the old gent first, and father gave
it a kind of a knock by telling Wilfred
to wait till he grew up to be a real man
before he wrote poems about real men.
The poor boy took it kind of hard, be
cause I know’ he had his heart all set
on going to the apartments where the
princess is stopping, getting an au
dience with her and reading the poem.
"The poem was kind of punk at that.
It went like this:
“ ‘Fair princess from a foreign clime.
To you I write this little rhyme.
If I could meet you for a chat.
To American men you’d lift your hat.'”
"I guess it’s just as well that the
princess didn't meet your brother,” said
the Head Barber.
"Why?" asked the Manicure Lady.
"He ain't much of a provider up home,
George, but he's got as much brains as
a lot of barbers that I know."
“But you don’t hear about a lot of
barbers wanting to meet any princess,”
said the Head Barber.
"No," agreed the Manicure Lady, "I
ain't heard nothing like that* lately.”
Advice to the Lovelorn
By Beatrice Fairfax
PLAY TIT FOR TAT.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I have been going with a certain
young lady for about two and a
half years. I went roller skating
some time ago and expected to see
her there. And naturally I expect
ed to skate with her. When I got
to the rink I found that she was
skating with some young man
whom 1 had never seen nor heard
of before. She no more than rec
ognized me and stayed with the
young man all afternoon. I acted
as if I didn’t care, and skated with
another young lady most of the
afternoon. I just received a letter
from her telling what a nice fellow
he is, PERPLEXED.
Reply very courteously, and tell her
what a nice young lady you skated
with.
If this plan results in a wider sepa
ration, with no sign of a breach, and
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you can not live without her. go to her
with a proposal of marriage.
Unless you are engaged, you haven’t
the right to object, no matter whom
she goes with.
CONCEAL YOUR LOVE FROM HIM.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am eighteen and have known a
young man for two years. I have
been going out with him quite a
bit , lately, and I love him very
dearly. He is 21 years old. Can
you give me advice on how to find
out whether he loves me?
HEARTBROKEN.
There is no way of forcing such a
condition if It does not exist. Neither
is there any way of compelling an ad
mission of love.
The most effective plan is to conceal
the state of your heart from him and
feign indifference to the state of his
heart. You sign yourself "Heart
broken.” Never for a moment let him
know that your heart is 'even slightly
Involved.