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THE GEO OGHAM’S MAGAZINE PAGE
“The Gates of Silence”
Bv Meta Simnuns, Author of "Hushed Up"
TODAY’S INSTALLMENT.
“Well, isn’t she worth even the descent
Into hades’’
Betty gazed at the fare nf the woman
who looked out from the canvas at her
The first glance was a revelation of beau
ty that almost took her breath aaa tie
second a revolt against the insult
fared tn all her tenderest susreptibilitie 4
—• sense of horror which, as it seemed,
would never leave her
And yet the subject an<l the treatment
tn all save one particular were absolutely j
conventional It represented the woman •
bearing her box of spikenard exceeding I
precious, the glorious ha : of tradition
streamed over her whft* t aro shoulders,
and from the cloud' background shone
nut the spear of light, symbol of the H«>l>
Spirit. Once again the painter s wife had
served as his model Barrington, who had
Ttaver painted Edith, who had never suf
fered others to paint her
Only In one instance the departure
from conventional treatment yet it made
of the picture a nnakery. a blaspheme
and a horror The eyes of the .Magdalen
were not tear-filled, cast up in penitent**
to heaven, they looked out from the can
vas, filled with evil laughter, the malig
nant laughter of the woman who has
tasted of all things, who has seen all
things, and, behold, they were ver> evil
Not Finished.
“Oh!” The girl gave a little cr> and
flung up her hands to her face to shut
out the sight of it
“You like it’’’ Barrington s voice came
to her as from a great distance, penetrat
Ing into this world of horror where het
senses sickened and reeled. \ »>u like it
No. I don't expect you do It Is too trip
It eonSeys too notable a lesson But it ,
la not finished yet. the foreshortening is ,
wrong here Oh, for three weeks more
of sight—three
“Tony'.” Rettx had found her voice <
again, the world was settling about her. ,
the spasm of spiritual nausea passed
She was dealing, not with the Anthpny «
Harrington she had ktc-wn, but with a <
man outside reason a man who. because
he believed himself to be wronged, was ,
full of the waspish instinct to sting and (
elav. even If it meant his own life and ,
the light of life to do s<» “Tony, you i
must destroy this thing. You must Lm (
don'f know what you have done Even »
1f she was what you imagined her to bo ,
-*-and she was not that—ft was scanda- .
)oub, brutal, unmanly. I haven't words |
for ft —for you Tony. dear. it isn't |
thinkable'
Barrington replaced the Covering over i
the picture and turned, looking down at
Betty’s flushed, upturned face He stood i
between her and the easel, as though he
almost dreaded an attack on it and what i
it held. i
“Little fool' 'he said *So you believe ,
in her yet? Though it was she who sent
your lover to the scaffold and the other
fool to his judgment'’ Though she has
turned my blood to gall and robbed me
of my child and of faith in everything
even in myself—”
“Tony, you wrong her’ She elnned in
one thing only—her love for you It was
her one fault —her fear of losing you I
know what you hint at, but it isn't true.
Whatever her will was. she failed in ac
complishment. He he was arrested be
fore her poor letter reached the police
That was for you too. Tony!”
Barrington raised his head and laughed
—terrible sounding laughter. As Betty
looked at him she was reminded sudden
ly of Samson in the house of the Phil
istine*. Samson degraded, mutilated, yet
Samson still. .
“Betty, she Is your sister, but 1 can’t
help it She was bad false to the core
I— I am glad the child died. If I dared,
I d thank God for that!”
His voice ceased suddenly He made
a curious gesture with his outflung
hands
"Whip that?” he said, and stood in
the attitude of one who listens. “Oh.
heaven! Betty, it's come! The darkness
—the darkness!"
Betty Lumsden knew what fear was.
the fear that grips on Hie heart with
fingers of ice, the fear that numbs the
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brain and destroys reason She had
I »<,ked into the gaunt eyes of fear in
'hat room of horror in Tempest street.
">.• •:«* she had seen a man lie dead But
she had never heard fear speak as it
, "P<<ke in Anthon\ Barrington s rattling
voice.
“Tony' < »h. no, no!"
She hardly knew what she said. She
tor k a step toward him. and saw that
he stood afraid to move saw that those
♦ yes. twitching no longer, but fixed in a
dreadful stare, saw nothing of her. noth
ing of what they looked on.
“It’s true. I tell you! Something
; snapped in my head, and the light went
cut It s black —quite black!”
"Tony!”
She crept < loser to him, put out her
hand, and felt his close on it desper
ately “The darkness will lift If you
keep very quiet the darkness will lift
Come back with me tri the house/’
She felt that. <time what might, she
must get him away out of this place,
where everywhere around her Edith’s tor
tured eves looked down, and Edith’s lips
laughed dreadful laughter.
The Darkness.
' N". n<« I can't see. I tell you. It’s
darkness." he whispered, like a little
child “Betty, you ran' leave me. You
wouldn’t do that you wouldn't leave me
alone In the darkness’’'
No. no Only for a moment to send
for help to send for the doctor. Tony—”
He had taught at her desperately in
a grip of whose strength he was utterly
unconscious.
"I won’t leave you." she murmured
“Only come away here-let us sit dow-n
and wait Some one will come, perhaps
Have you no means of communication
with the house? No, let us wait. You'll
bo better soon. It's the excitement
the you've not been <*a refill enough.
Byt I'll take rare of you now; oh, mj
poor boy!" There were in Betty's
eybs; she strove to keep them hack, to
control her voice.
1 shall never he better He gave me
six months at most It's the blvk end
Oh. Betty, Betty:”
She made no effort to speak. There
were no words she could say. She could
on!.' wait. But she did get him. at last,
trembling and starting like a frightened
horse, away from the easel to the long
oak settee with its tumbled cushions that
stood against the wall, where he sat hud
dled against her There, with her arm
about hkn, she made soft sounds of sym
pathy over him, as she might have made
them over a child.
“Betty, I’m a coward I can’t face It,
I can’t”—
“No; you’re not a coward You’re hard
hit. that’s all. but not afraid.” .Betty's
voice was very tender, the grip of her
hand on his was ns firm as that of a
man “There's no one to see you now
there’s only me. and I understand. This
will pass you'll be your splendid self.”
“There's nothing to struggle for. The
pluck's dead gone out of me. If I were
only dead!” groaned the man, miserably.
Hetty said nothing She had raised her
eyes from the marred face on her shoul
der to see standing at the far end of the
studio, looking at her with an expression
hard to read on her white face, Edith, her
sister and this man's wife.
The House on the Moor.
Mr Paul Saxe sat in the’ spartanly
furnished inner sanctum of the palatial
suite of offices at Chichester House. There
were no flowers In the big vase on the side
table Miss Trended had left her post
suddenlv a few weeks before, and her
successor, a male stenographer pith largo,
flat face and lint eyelashes, had received
no orders regarding the tilling of flower
vases and could not quite possibly, have
executed them if he had
There was a subtle change in the face
of the financier It was less haggard, less
worried looking, than it had heen a few
months ago when, on one memorable oc
casion. a message had come tinkling over
the wires, conveying the news that for
the moment had startled even him. -
“This night thy soul shall be required
of thee He had long since given up even
wondering what the meaning of those
words could be. lust for a few hours a
few days he had dreaded -he hardly
knew what he dreaded some lurking
shape that would step out of the shadows,
some figure started up out of the past,
that would lav chill fingers on this fair
fruit of his success and turn it rotten at
the touch
If less haggard, the man's face had
hardened; the air of radiant youth tlitit
had given it that curious, almost efTimln
ate beauty was gone His character had
hardened also, or else he l ad dropped the
pose of softness, that was why there were
no roses In the tall glass vase that re
mained as a memorial of the time that
was past
There was a pile of papers on the table
before him. letters waiting for his signa
ture. that the sandy-haired clerk had
brought in some time ago. Paul Saxe had
not looked at them; he was thinking a
student of character might have seen
him there, like a crafty brown spider in
his web. weaving, always weaving, nets
for the taking of a girl's white soul But
they must be* woven very craftily, woven
invisibly, so that she slipped herself into
their enmeshing center He would have
no woman won by- force to grieve and
pine beside him His wife must become
his wife of her own free choice within th**
limit of that year of grace, and he knew
enough of human nature, enough of wom
en. to realze that, once having made her
bargain. Betty laimsden would be as true
as st«*e| to it
Another Message.
It seemed to him that they were spread
ing well, those tine, impalpable nets.
The entrance of a clerk with a tele
gram broke in abruptly on this day dream
Saxe, rousing himself, looked at the ot
ange-colored envelope with a certain ap
prehension. as though he. to whom such a
mode of communication was more com
mon than postcards, belonged to the fast
dying race who associate telegrams with
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One of the Ziegfeld beauties in "A Winsome Widow" company.
By MARIE VERNON.
PEOPLE say it's the fat man who
suffers most in summertime, but
don’t believe it. The real sufferer
is the girl with the nerves.
Why, I know girls who can start in
and worry themselves into heat pros
tration, so that you have to give them
aromatic spirits, put ice to their necks',
fan them and sympathize with them
until their nerves calm down, for it ia
Just a matter of nerves.
On the stage, people seem to expect
a display of temperament, but from
what 1 have noticed this temperament,
when it isn’t put on. is just nerves un
controlled, arid the greatest actresses—
those who make the most success—
don't indulge in nerves, and, indeed-,•
they have learned to control them abso
lutely.
I was in the company once with our
best loved American woman star. 1
won't tell you who she was. because
you ought to be a"ble to guess. Never
during all the time that I was there
did she give a single display of nerves
behind the scenes, though she had to
be very emotional before the footlights.
Somebody asked her why she was so
quiet and self-possessed at the time,
during rehearsals or when things went
wrong in the company.
"I can't afford wasting my vitality in
having a tantrum and in losing self
control. which is really what an attack
of nervps’ls,” was her answer, and it
gave me a good deal to think about, as
she was a delicate •little woman»-the
kind you would expect to go all to
pieces at the slightest thing. ,
A Good Lesson.
I learned from her to hold myself in
hand and to govern and control my
own nervousness, and since that time,
though I don't want to flatter myself,
I think I have grown much better look
ing.
The girl who lets herself have nerves
will soon find a lot of little lines and
wrinkles forming in her face. If she
has a very fine skin, they look like tiny
little etched lines on the surface of her
face, and when she is gay and merry
they don’t show at all. Put the min
ute she is the least bit tired or begins
to fret and worry she looks ten years
older in a very few minutes.
1 suppose nerves come from a poor
constitution, but 1 have seen lots of
perfectly health/ girls give away u>
their fretful thoughts, and become just
as nervous as if they were chronic in
valids; while, on the other hand. I
know girls who really do suffer con
siderable physical’pain, but who have
such wonderful self-control that they
never indulge in tantrum, or let you
even think they have aching nerves In
their body.
1 don't know what the medical cure
for nerves is. but lots of times a girl
can cure herself without having to go
to a doctor, for 1 was my own physi-«
cian. and I think 1 made a very suc
cessful cure.
When I found that mt nervousness
was beginning to affect my looks and
that I was getting thin and harassed
looking. I del idl’d that raw nerves
were avert poor Investment for a girl
who xx anted to make a success on the
si age.
1 decided, first of all. that I wouldn't
worry about anything that could be
remedied, and that I would make my
self stop thinking of the troubles that
couldn't be changed Os course, this
took some will power, and nobody can
do it for vou, so tite nervous girl has
to just buckle down to a hard mental
drill all by herself. 1 worked hard at
!he Girl With "Nerves"—-the Cause and Remedy
the things I wanted to do, and f tried
not to be idle, picking up sewing or
reading a book during the time that J
otherwise would have spent in fret
ting I was very thin, and looked
about for a diet that would be sooth
ing to the nervous system and fatten
ing at the same time. After a while
thia is about what I settled on for my
daily meals:
What To Eat.
I
For breakfast, cocoa, a cereal, twe
eggs and plenty of bread and butter.
For lunch, cocoa once more, macaroni,
vegetables, rice or potatoes, and a
fruit salad. At night, I had a good
soup, meat, one fresh vegetable and
potatoes, and fruit for dessert. I ate
. lots of toasted bread, with butter, for
all my meals. You eat more butter
on toast than you do on ordinary
bread; have you ever noticed that?
And butter, of course, is fattening.
Just before I went to bed 1 had a
glass of malted milk or milk with an
egg beaten up in it. When 1 was play
ing 1 ate a little heartier supper and
kept a bottle of milk in my dressing
room to drink between times.
Do You Know—-
Occasionally one reads that, when
human bodies are thought to be in riv
ers and can not be found, "a loaf of
bread has been floated down the
stream. " But very few people have the
least idea what connection there is
between bread and the finding of bodies.
When the river has been dragged with,
out result, a loaf of bread is cut in
two. a place hollowed out in the middle,
and a quantity of quicksilver inserted.
The two halves of the loaf are then
fastened together again, and the bread
is thrown into the water in the place
where the body is supposed to be. With
out fail, the loaf floats along until it
reaches the vicinity of the body, and
then revolves quickly, hovering over
the spot.
A German merchant, resident tn
Moscow, has left all his fortune,
amounting to half a million, to all those
of his employees who have served un
der him for five years or more. Their
portions are to be reckoned on the ba
sis of the first annual wage multiplied
by the number of years they have been
in his service. Those who have worked
for the firm less than fixe years receive
a joint sum of $50,000, which is to be
divided according to wages and length
of service. The staff have decided to
organize the business inherited by them
into a joint stock company.
Scotland contains a considerable
number of well preserved and impos
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centuries. One of these forests eon
lains mote than 5.000 acres, with many
trees more than thiee feet in diameter.
•‘Don't kiss each other on the public
highway; it's awful to see a woman
doing a man's work," is one of the
"Dont's" of the Wellesley College Girls.
Nearly $4,000,000 worth of furs were
sold at the Irbit (Russia ! fair this year.
Os this amount squirrel skins biought
$1,640,70c.
Most gems can be imitated, but at
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erald have failed.
One-sixth of the te:ritorial surface
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empire.
I had always been very much af
fected by the heat and groaned and
complained like other nervous people,
so I made up my mind that I would
never mention the heat again, except
in a casual way, and that I would
stop complaining about it. I soon
found that 1 didn't feel so hot, and I
looked much cooler, which is always
sustaining to one's vitality.
Even now that I don’t confess that
I have any nerves at all, I am very
careful not to indulge in tea and coffee,
and I pay strict attention to my diet,
because I think that your disposition
depends very largely on what you eat
and how it agrees with you. I couldn't
work well if I didn’t feel in good
health, and I certainly could not be
amiable unless I felt right up to the
mark. Now we all know that beauty
depends on an amiable spirit and a
happy disposition as much as it does
on regular features and good eyes.
Given the regular features you ought
to be able to develop a good disposi
tion, and if you have nerves you can
and should conquer them, for there is
nothing more certain than that giving
away to fits of nerves will ruin the
prettiest face and give it a pouting,
peevish expression.
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There Is No Recipe
By Beatrice Fairfax
"No man ever yet failed to make love
from ignorance how to begin.”—Eden
P hillpots.
"R. W. V." writes:
"I am a young man of 25. with
fairly good looks and plenty ,of
money.
."With every available effort I
have tried to gain the affection of
’a young woman whom I love dearly,
but she always acts very coolly to
ward me. though she accepts ail my
attentions. Her parents do not ob- _
Ject to my keeping company with
their daughter, and always receive
me cordially when I visit them.
'Please tell me what to do to \Vin
her love." •
A CYNIC has defined courtship as "a
period of varying length passed
by a man and a woman in trying
to deceive each dtjier."
How true that may be only those
who claim to have been deceived van
say. But if there be any deception, it
is a deception that pleases, it is a de
ception without which no education can
i be complete.
It is an experience that makes the
heart more tender, that broadens the
sympathies, and that for the time be
ing turns to a rose pink all that is gray
in the world.
If in the years to come the rose pink
begins to fade, there will always be
the sweet memory that the color once
prevailed.
This young man wishes to paint the
world a rose pink for the girl he loves,
ftnd she refuses to permit him. In his
dilemma he asks to be shown the way.
Only One Recipe.
My dear young man, there are recipes
| for mixing all kinds of paint but the
t rose pink of romance.
Moonlight is not essential, though the
i scene is best laid with it as an acces
! sory. It is not necessary that “we
two" be alone. Love has been told
many times in a crowd, and the telling
is Just as sweet.
You say you have fairly good looks
and plenty of money. Neither is need
ed, and ’he love that is most sincere,
the most lasting, and the most beautiful
of all is told oftenest without either.
She accepts your attentions, but re
fuses to accept your love. This does
! not mean there is any fault with either.
It is possible to love less than you
love, and win that for which one made
no effort. It is possible to win a girl
by paying her no attention.
No one can define and outline and
portray every little detail of a court
ship that will end in success. It is one
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lof those illusive things that recognize
no guide post nor boundagy.
You can not compel her to love you.
With every argument in your favor,
and with her parents urging the match,
she can not compel herself.
A Fine Art.
Our ancestors used to make quite a
study of how to win a fair one's af
fections. and with them if became a
fine art.
But with all their gallantry, their
stilted phrases, their long-winded and
verbose love-making, they succeeded n<>
better than the man of today who de
clares his love in six words over the
telephone.
Love requires no special scenery. It
needs no coaxing or attentions of the
kind you are giving. It is not a mat
ter of will.
Remembet that, my dear young man.
and if your present methods of siege
have failed, try riding away to a newer
field ” That has often succeeded where
faithful devotion has failed. She is
sure of you now. With the first feel
ing of doubt there may come a realiza
tion of what losing you will mean.
She.thinks life would not be pleas
ant with you. Let her iearn what it is
without you for a time.
If you have been kind and consider
ate and devoted, she will miss all this,
and will signal for you to return.
Some women never know they love a
man until they are about to lose him.
Further than these suggestions for
playing the game, 1 know no more.
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