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THE MAGAZINE PAGE “The Gates of Silence” By Meta Stmmtns, Author op “Hushed Up" t ■ TODAY’S INSTALLMENT. Stripped of the formality necessitated by prison discipline, his request, as he finally made it, was very much the same in form and substance as it would have been had they been two men sitting over the fire in a college study, and amounted to this: "I am engaged to a woman 1 fear to be In trouble—it is uncommonly ridiculous to believe in dreams—but this has be come an obsession with me. It is not pos sible for me to write to her, and I know that even if nothing fresh has happened, her heart must be full of anxiety on my behalf. Would it be possible for you, as a favor—- amazing favor to a very sick man—to write to her”- The chaplain interrupted him with a shake of the head. 'T am most awfully sorry, my dear chap,” he said, and there was genuine: regret in his voice, "but it isn’t possible. It is against the rules.” Rimington made an impatient movement of his hand. "Yes, yes. I know.” lie said. "But is, it imperative that you should adhere to the rules au pled de la lettre? Ido not want you to write for me—couldn't you, your self” — The chaplain sat down on the edge ol the bed. "Look here, my dear he said, earnestly, "if I could —I would. But don’t you understand —you —surely better than many of us here—that I. not of the whole body of the prison, am most bound to keep the rules? If I break them —how on earth can I expect any one else to keep them?” He looked at Rimington with clouded eyes. "If there was anything on earth I could do to help you, I would. I believe in you, you know—l don’t know whether that matters in the least. But there is only one thing 1 can do to help you—and that I do.” Rimington, who had looked at him ea gerly, with a lightening face, siank back on the bed with a faint sound of disgust. "Pray, you mean, I suppose?” he said. And as the other nodded bitterness welled up in his heart. "Isn't it rather a waste of time?” he said, turning away. "I am afraid Biimouth does not foster any be lief in the efficacy of prayer. 'Here crawling coop’t we live and die;' it jolly well seems to me not much good to lift vain hands to It for help”— "I suppose you know I could report you for a bad mark, A 44?” the chaplain said, rising. A change had come over his pleasant face that made It like a mask. There was nothing now but a displeased severity In his blue eyes. "I shall not do so, of course,” he said, “nor report the appeal you made to me. Good day.” He turned and was gone, leaving the bleak infirmary ward the bleaker for his going. Rimington turned on his side and groaned. What an aas he had been— what a vulgar fool to insult the only man who in that grim place of silence had spoken to him as though he saw nothing of the convict’s dres-J heeded nothing of the convict's record',“but saw straight through to the soul Wf the man below' The convict in til, adjacent bed, who had, judging from 'his breathing, been sleeping during the interview, sniggered faintly. / "Riz 'is temper nicely, didn't you?" he said appreciatively; "’lm and’’is pray ers.” Raising his head, Rimington swore at his companion comprehensively, in a man ner that surprised himself. Then, turn ing in his bed. e buried his head under the coarse cloties and presently wept tears of sheer weakness, weariness and chagrin. His Conscience. Far away from the desolate prison ward the prison chaplain, in his uncomfortable sitting room, stood with his hand on the mantedpiece, looking down into the fire, w’hlch here ip Biimouth seemed in some strange way to be less glowing, less comforting leaking than the ordinary run of fires In his heart there was rag ing a conflict which might have sur prised sonje of his fellows among the prison officials, to w'hom discipline was a fetish. Had he done right in refusing the re quest of t> man in whose eyes there had been a F/mger of appeal as had looked Colorado If T'ou’ve Lost T'our Punch You’ll find it again as soon as you strike the Rockies. The mountain air will fill you with fresh strength and new vitality. Os course you are fagged! Why man alive, you wouldn’t treat a dray horse ora machine as cruelly as you’ve driven yourself these past twelve months. And now with your last shreds of energy oozing out under the stifling summer heat, no wonder you feel only half a man. Take a rest, but go where you can get it. Colorado is just a little way off. Pack your grip, take your golf clubs and retire for repairs. Any way of going to Colorado is a good way, because it gets you to Colorado. But the best road is the Rock Island and the fast limited trains of the Rock Island Lines set a new standard in travel comfort. Every mile of the journey is one of real enjoyment. Through Sleeping Cars From the Southeast —electric lighted—are operated in connection with the Frisco Lines to Kansas City thence the short line to the Rockies. The Colorado Flyer— every morning from St Louis —and other fast daily trains from St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis, Chicago, Omaha and St. Joseph for Colorado, Yellowstone Park and the Pacific Coast. Get our booklets "Under the Turyuoiie Shy" and "Little Journeys in Colorado" and learn about a real vacation. iB H. H. Hunt, District Passenger Agent JwWRjhSI No. Pry ol, Street, Atlanta, G*. * PHONE MAIN 661. out of /the gaunt face of A44? he asked himself. His /fingers trembled on his breast and his HRs moved. In all his life he had never/ felt such heart-sickness as he felt now. when he thought of the manner of his /parting from the miserable convict who/ had cast his fugitive tag of Omar Khayyam at him in a moment of chagrin. What on earth had made him lose his tenflper; he whose watchword was “blessed are the merciful?” i A Dash for Freedom. The fortnight he had been forced to s/pend In the prison infirmary had been ,r ” godsend to Rimington. the relaxation jbf discipline, the improved food and en forced rest, made almost a new man of /him. More than once the thought oc curred to him that he owed his deten tion more to a kindly impulse on the part of the doctor than to the actual state of his health; the man, after his kind, was rough tongued and more than inclined to cynicism, but Rimington had a feeling that his disposition toward him was not unfavorable. W hether or not that feeling was true mattered little enough to Rimington. He felt a warm gratitude toward the doctor, and when, on the morning of his dis charge from the infirmary, he certified him as fit for work with the outdoor gang, his eyes lighted up with a flash that drew a shrewd glance from the medical officer. "That suits your book, eh?” As the doctor put the question, Rim ington felt a quiver run over him. Could it be possible that this man suspected that thought which had never been spoken did his secret cry aloud from'his eyes? He felt a mask drop over his features, every muscle stiffened. "Yes, sir. More healthy than the in door work, sir," he said, and could have imagined that the doctor winked. "Better than the tailor's shop and The Biimouth Bulletin? What!” and Rim ington drew a breath of relief. The doc tor attributed his anxiety to get back to the harder outdoor labor to his dislike to the close assocaitlon of the workshops and the ugly talk that circulated there. "Yes, sir,” he said again, in a stolid and noncommittal manner, and with an other sharp look at him the doctor went out. He was not quite sure in his own mind regarding A 44. There were times when he believed him to be entirely in nocent of the charge brought against him and others when his belief wavered. To day was one of them —for the first time, it seemed to him, there was a shifty look in the man’s eyes. Then, since he was an eminentlj' just man. this prison doc tor. he gave the prisoner the benefit of the doubt and dismissed him from his mind. Life at Biimouth and kindred in stitutions did not tend to foster straight forwardness. and he had only too keen a conception of how near to the animal a man can descend during a long term of imprisonment. Making Plans. The snow had disappeared and the earth was sopping with the moisture of a thaw, following a week's frost, on this first day with the gang; all the natural conditions were favorable to an attempt to escape, Rimington thought, as he worked. He would be the better able to sustain the exposure and hunger that would be inevitable. Every day as he went out he examined the ground and his surroundings eagerly, surveying them with the care of a general, testing their strategic possibilities, and every night as he lay in his bed in the darkness and felt the chill of the prison wrap about him like a shroud, Rimington calculated the chances of escape, narrowed them down and weighed them, and every night and every morning, with something of the di rect simplicity of a child, he prayed for the crowning mercy of a fog. There was something of madness in his brooding, since surely sane reflection must have shown him the hopeless folly of the thing he meditated. With friends and accomplices at hand to provide money and change of raiment, even then the chances of permanent escape were almost fantastically problematical; but playing a lone hand, as he did—without money, without a goal—what earthly chance did he stand? To Be Continued in Next Issue. The Making of a Pretty Girl The Athletic Miss ’ By MARGARET HUBBARD AYER. a- Y lady is an athletic girl." said l\/I the proud mother of one-year old Nannette Tarbox Beals. To show what she could do, the baby swung valiantly, supporting her own weight while holding to her mother’s fingers. The daughter of this well known business woman, Mrs. Jessie Tarbox Beals, began her athletic development when she was about two months old. for there is no age limit for the ath letic girl. You can begin whenever you want to, and you can go on as long as you like, or take up athletics when you are well advanced in middle life. The grand mother of some friends of mine still goes swimming at 80, and she attrib uted her superb health to the practice of outdoor exercise. Every girl should have some sort of outdoor fad —something that combines exercise and amusement —some sort of athletics. When you talk of athletics many a girl thinks at once of golf or tennis, polo, riding, or some sport which ne cessitates an expenditure of money ei their for habits or costumes or for the implements used. Riding, for instance, is quite beyond the pale for those of moderate income who live in the city, and the girl who lives inland can't en joy the delights of swimming as can the girl who is in New York, for in stance, or in the lake cities. Not Expensive. It is this idea of expense that keeps so many girls from joining some ath letic club or league. Bqt there are al ways ways of avoiding the more ex pensive forms of sport, just as there is always time for the girl who wants to take it to develop herself physically and to gain health and good spirits in regu lar out-of-door exercise. If I had my way, the girls who want to be pretty, and of course that in cludes, all girls, should belong to small groups or clubs who would pursue the culture of beauty out of doors in some form of athletics. The girl with the athletic fad has no time for foolish wool gathering, and if she is bent on making herself physically strong and well, she will not be the one to dress in some of the ridiculous fashions of the day or to paint and powder her face and make herself conspicuous in other ways. The girl who wants to go in for the simplest, as well as the most healthful, form of athletics can join a walking club or get one up consisting of friends and, if possible, one older person, as chaperon and instructor. Very Popular. Tl/ese walking clubs are quite popu lar in England, and there is no cost attached to such an organization. The chaperon or Instructor should be a per son of moderate leisure who has time to study up the points of historic inter est in the neighborhood. No matter how new the city or town, there Is al ways some place not far awa ■ where some interesting event in history oc curred. Get books on the subject at the library. The walks should be taken to these points of interest and the instructor A Man Pleased With Himself "And in truth this was Richard’s way; whether glad or sorry, he must play with his feelings and dress them up in fine words, and dandle and make a show of them." —Tales from Shakespeare, • \ a girl of nineteen and in love I with a man of twenty-seven," writes M. A. H. "He calls on me and takes me out on an average of three times a week. He is a perfect gentleman, and does everything in his power to make me love him. "Lately he has told me that I am too young-looking for him to ever marry. He said that I would be a full-blown rose when he would be a faded one. He has broken my heart, and I don't know how to act toward him. My love is growing stronger and stronger all the time. He still visits with me three times a week, and should he do that if I am too young for him? Should he con tinue his attentions and make me love him more and more, when he is of the opinion that I will be a full-blown rose, when he is a faded one, and that there, fore we should not marry?” After reading the above letter, it is hard to believe the writer is nineteen. Her absolute faith in the man, her im plicit belief that he means what he says, would indicate an extremely ten der bud of ten or twelve years. My dear child, the man is like Rich ard the Second —he likes to play with his feelings and dress them up in tine words, and dandle them, and make a show of them. Down in his heart he hasn’t the re motest notion that he will be a faded NATIONAL SURGICAL ■ INSTITUTE For the Treatment of VsL DEFORMITIES i ' established ,b7 *- a, ' Give the deformed /toXflV HS children a chance. / / jAfl \ Sendustheir / | \ Zj names, we can / I I \ help them. 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That delight, coupled with the supreme one of hearing himself talk, are joys he can’t resist. I am sorry you love him. He max' be, as you say, a perfect gentleman, bu even such super-excellence will not make up for a lifetime with a. man who thinks little and says much; who has the very vapid notion that knowledge and wisdom find expression in verbose and flowery speech. Undoubtedly he also writes poetry and the practical side of life oppresses his sensitive soul. My dear girl, every woman in the world who married the man who wrote sonnets to her eyebrow had to support him afterward. Instead of hanging your head like a poor wilted rose, as you art doing you should hold your little head high. Take him at his word! “It would be tragic,” you must say to him, to find myself a full blown rose in years to come wedded to a man who has become a faded one. 1 will have no more of you. My future mission is to find a tender young bud of a man who will burst Into full bloom at the same time I do. Then *we can hang, side by side, fading and drooping away in hap py unison, and shedding our petals into one funereal pile on the green grass beneath us.” - I am sure that such a reception of his soulful emotions will cause him to lift his dropping head and decide that he Is none too old. nor a shade too faded, to be y our mam. Meet fire with fire. Show this selfish dreamer that you also have selfish dreams He thinks his eight years’ se niority makes him tNo old for you; ac cept his decisiop and h< will at once begin to argue that he is not a day too old. But whatevet you do. my deal, don’t pine. Youth Is spent I irgely in wasting many emotions and exaggerating many others. This man who is content to monopolize your beat years and seeks to evade'marriage behind a rose.t rimmed hedge of selfishnes Is not worth one laing He Is unworthy of a single re gret. An Exercise for Broadening the Chest and Expanding the Lungs. course. These clubs are very popular in Germany as well as in England, where a group of young women with a chaperon, and sometimes a guide for longer trips, will go on walking tours lasting from two to six weeks. Walking clubs should train their members to the longer feats of endur ance by slow degrees. On rainy days, when the members can not take their outing, they should meet at tiie home of the member who has the largest rooms, ond go through systematic exercises to strengthen themselves in lungs and limbs —deep breathing exercises, which I have frequently given, and foot ex ercises, of which this is one of the best: Stand erect, wearing soft slippers, or, better still, in stocking feet, raise the arms above the head, lift the body, stretching upward, inhale deeply and raise the body on the toes, keep it rigid, retain the breath foe several seconds, exhale slowly, lowering the body and arms. An exercise for broadening the chest and expanding the lungs: Stand erect, extend the arms forward, hands together, throw the chest out, and at the same time swing the arms back ward, clapping the arms behind. FACTORY GIRL ~ GIVES IIP Too Sick to Work Doctor Advised Operation. Re stored to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Compound. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.—“l run a sew ing machine in a large factory and got all run down. I had to give up work for I could not stand the pains in my back. The doctor said I needed an operation for female trouble but Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound helped me more than the doctors did. I hope that every one who is suffering will get the Compound. My pains, nervousness and backache are gone and I i have gained five pounds. I owe my thanks to your medicine for it is the »i.i.i.i.i.iiiiii.i mi.; i. i.i.i working girls friend, and all women who Buffer should write to you for special ! advice.”—Miss Tillie Plenzig, 3 Jay ■ SL, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 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Would you advise me to sell out and go to the city or try to forget this dear girl? ANXIOUS. If she loved you as a woman should love the man she marries, she would be willing to go to the ends of the earth with you. If you give up a good business chance to please her now. how do you know you would not have to make further material sacrifices to satisfy other whims? Tell her the sacrifice it would mean to you. If she refuses to marry you. devote yourself to that business. Time will bring you a sweetheart mdte sen sible. YOU ARE MOST CONCERNED Dear Miss Fairfax-: I am in love with a young man and he professes to be in love with me. Several people have remarked that he is not in my class and I should not go out with him. How ex er, I have alway i found him a perfect gentleman, and do not think that I should give him up. M. IT, T. That is a question for the girl to decide for herself. Friends are some times prejudiced against a girl's lover, and as often they take his part w ith as little reason. They are such tin uncer tain and unstable factor that it is im possible to advise one to heed or ignore them, unless one knows the full cir cumstances. Whatever you do, do with deliberation. And remember always that if these objectors are your friends they are concerned for your interests, THE DANGER OF DRIFTING. Dear Miss Fait fax: I am a girl now past nineteen and am slightly inclined to matrimony. I havp had a number of young, men call upon me, but it s»cms to me I seem too shy to accept any one of them, although they all seem to he very nice and manly y oung m. n. I am going out with one of the young men for companionship only. I am getting of the opinion that he thinks I am i ally in earnest, but I wish to state that I am not for him, as he thinks, and 1 don’t like to tell him to stay awav. ANNA. 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There are a score of wayM in . bich a girl can let a man know shw 1 -n't care for him seriously, and it iri only just to him to let him know it is too late. PLAINLY SHE IS FICKLE. Dear Miss Fairfax: 1 am a young man of twenty and have kept company with a girl one year my junior for two years. I was engaged to marry her and I loved her dearly, and she told me that she loved me just as much. IVe wept out one night. The next tim- we mei she did not notice me, and has not since. I see her often and have written for an explana tion, but she has never answered • me- W. J. G. If her action is based on rumors tod your discredit, she is not treating fairly by not giving you a chance to explain. If her coldness means she is tired! of you. you only add to her displeasures by persisting in j our attentions. Don't write; don’t call. If she cares for she w ill take the next step. 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