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THE GEORGIAN'S MAGAZIHE PAGE
“Initials Only” * By Anna Katherine Green
A Thrilling Mystery Story of Modern Times
TODAY’S INSTALLMENT. •
(Copyright, 1911. Street & Smith.)
(Copyright, 1911, by Dodd. Mead & Co.)
■'Not yet. Mr. Hammond insists upon
waiting for the coroner. (Mr. Hammond
was the proprietor of the hotel.) She Is
lying on one of the big couches near
which she fell. If you like, I can give
vou a glimpse of her. She looks beauti
ful. It's terrible to think that she' is
dead."
Under a Spell.
I don't know why we consented. We
were under a spell, T think. At all events,
we accepted his offer and followed him
up a narrow' staircase open to very few
that night. At the top, he turned upon
us with a warning gesture W’hich I hard
ly think we needed, and led us down a
narrow hall flanked by openings corre
sponding to those we had noted from be
low. At the farthest one he paused and,
beckoning us to his side, pointed across
the lobby into the large writing room,
which occupied the better part, of the
mezzanine floor
We saw people standing in various at
titudes of grief and dismay about a couch,
one end of which only was visible to
us at the moment. The doctor had just
joined them, and even' head was turned
toward him and everybody bent forward
In anxious expectation. I remember the
face of one gray-haired old man. I shall
never forget it. He was probably her
father. Later, I knew him to be so. Her
face, even her form, was entirely hid
den from us, but as we watched (I have
often thought with what heartless cu
riosity) a sudden movement took place in
the whole group—and for one instant a
startling picture presented itself to our
gaze.
Miss Chailoner was stretched out upon
the couch. She had dressed as she came
from dinner, in a gown of ivory-tinted
satin, relieved at the breast by a large
bouquet of scarlet polnsettias. I men
tion this adornment because it was what
first met and drew our eyes and the eyes
of every one about her, though the face,
now quite revealed, would seem to have
the greater attraction. But the pause was
evident and one not to be resisted. The
doctor was pointing at these poinsettias
In horror and with awful meaning, and
though we could not hear his words, we
knew almost instinctively, both from his
attitude and the cries that burst from
the lips of those about him, that some
thing more than broken petals and dis
ordered laces had met his eyes; that blood
was there—slowly oozing drops from the
heart —which for some reason had es
apefl all eyes till now’.
Miss Challoner was dead, not from un
suspected disease, "but from the violent
attack of some murderous weapon. As
the realization of this brought fresh pan
c and bowed the old father's head with
•motions even more bitter than those of
grief, I turned a questioning look up at
George's face.
It was fixed with a purpose I had no
rouble in understanding.
“I Know the Man.”
' Ye: he made no effort to detain Mr.
Slater, when that gentleman, under this
renewed excitement, hastily left us. He
was not the man to rush into anything
impulsively, and not even the presence
of murder could change his ways.
"I waet to feel sure of myself,” he ex
plained. "Can you bear the strain of
waiting around a little longer. Laura? I
mustn't forget that you fainted just
now "
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GEORGE F. PAYNE, PH. G. 38 '/* Edsewood Ave., Atlanta. Ga.
"Yes, I ean bear it; much better than
I could bear going to Adela’s in my pres
ent state of mind. Don’t you think the
man we saw had something to do with
this? Don't you believe”
"Hush! Let us listen rather than talk.
What are they saying over there? Can
you hear?”
"No. And I can not bear to look. Yet
I don’t want to go away. It’s all so
dreadful."
"It’s devilish. Such a beautiful girl!
Laura, I must leave you for a moment.
Do you mind?”
“No, no; yet”——
I did mind; but he was gone before
I could take back my word. Alone. I
felt the tragedy much more than when he
was with me. Instead of watching, ae I
had hitherto done, every movement In the
room opposite, I drew back against the
wall and hid my eyes, waiting feverishly
for George's return. I
He came, w'hen he did come. In some
haste and w’ith certain marks of > in
creased agitation.
"Laura," said he, "Slater says that we!
may possibly be wanted and proposes
that we stay here all night. I have tele
phoned Adela and have made it all right
at home. Will you come to your room?
This Is no place for you.”
Nothing could have pleased me bet
ter; Jo be near and yet not the direct ob
server of proceedings in which we took
so secret an interest! I showed my grat
itude by following George immediately.
But I could' not go without casting an
other glance at the tragic scene I was
leaving. A stir was perceptible there and
I was just in time to see its cause. A
tall, angular gentleman was approaching
from the direction of the musicians' gal
lery, and from the manner of all present,
as well as from the whispered comment
of my husband, I recognized in him the
special official for whom all had been
waiting.
"Are you going to tell him?" was my
question to George as we made our way
down to the lobby.
“That depends. First, I am going to
see you settled in a room quite remote
from this business."
“I shall pot like that.”
“1 know, my dear, but it is best.”
I could not gainsay this.
Nevertheless, after the first few min
utes of relief, I found it very lonesome
upstairs. The pictures which crowded
upon me of the various groups of ex
cited and wildly gesticulating men and
women through which w'e had passed on
our way up, mingled themselves with the
solemn horror of th£ scene in the writing
room, with its fleeting vision of youth
and beauty lying pulseless in sudden
death. I could not escape the one with
out feeling the immediate impress of the
other, and if by chance they both yielded
for an instant to that earlier scene if a
desolate street, with its solitary lamp
shining down on the crouched figure of a
man washing his shaking hands in a
drift of freshly fallen snow, they immedi
ately rushed back with a force and clear
ness all the greater for the momentary
lapse.
I was still struggling with these fan
cies w'hen the door opened and George
came in. There was news in his face
as I rushed to meet him. .
"Tell me—tell," 1 begged.
He tried to smile at my eagerness, but
the attempt was ghastly.
"I've been listening and looking,” said
he. "and this is all 1 have learned. Miss
Challoner died not from a stroke or from
disease of any kind, but from a wound
reaching the heart. No one saw the
attack, or even the approach or de
parture of the person inflicting this
wound. If she was killed by a pistol
shot, it was at a distance, and almost
over the heads of the persons sitting at
the table we saw there. Bui the doc
tors shake their heads at the word pis
tol shot, though they refuse to explain
themselves or to express any opinion
until the wound has been probed. This
they are going to do at once, and when
that question is decided. I may feel it
my duty tp speak and may ask you to
support my story."
"I will tell what I saw,” said I.
"Very good. That is all that will be
required. We are strangers to the par
ties concerned, and only speak from a
sense of justice. It may be that our
story will make no impression, and that
we shall be dismissed with but few
thanks. But that is nothing to us. if
the woman has been murdered, he is the
murderer. With such a conviction in my
mind, there can be no doubt as to
duty.”
To Be Continued in Next issue.
The Making of a Pretty Girl &
Why Some Grow Fat and Others Don't
By MARGARET HUBBARD
AYER.
FASHION experts tell us that the
reign of the thin woman is over,
and that the new styles will favor
her fatter sister, but I don't believe it.
You may favor the fat sister all you
like, but she will go right on trying to
be thin. Few women are contented
with their looks, anyhow, but no fat
woman likes to think that she has lost
her slender proportions. Fat is awk
ward, and, what is much (pore, it is
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Sleeping this way produces the double chin
aging. Even the very fat girl of four
teen looks older than she is.
, Many a girl inherits a tendency to
flesh, just as she inherited brown and
curly hair. If fat runs in your family
it is hard to overcome it, and a con ■
tinual fight has to be kept up against
the increase in weight.
Ordinarily the woman who is too fat
enjoys good food, but some people who
are fleshy eat very little; when they do
eat. however, they always choose just
those foods which make flesh. Then
they like liquids, soda water, plenty of
water with meals, ice cream, and half
watery foods. The amount of fluid
one takes has much to do with increas
ing the weight, and I suppose one
thing every woman knows by now is
that alcohol in any form promotes a
false appetite and aids in storing u|i
fat in the tissues of the body.
The Apple Woman.
I once knew a dear old apple woman
who was exceedingly stout. Yau
would‘have thought to look at her
that she’d long passed the age when her
personal appearance was the slightest
consequence to her. But dear okl
Mary was still somewhat vain and
her tub-like figure worried her, 1
knew that she got plenty of exercise,
and asked her what she ate and drank.
“Nothing at all! Nothing at all!” she
assured me. “I don’t eat enough to
keep a bird alive, and 1 never drink
anything but tea.’’ And how mWch
tea do you drink, Mary?” "Oh, sure,
twenty-two twenty-three cups a day:”
Well, there was the secret of Mary’s
fat. and she certainly never suspected
that the teapot which simmered all day
long on the stove had done so much
to make her lose her slender shape.
Almost every woman who is too fat
has some sort of a little bad habit
simmering in the background like
Mary's teapot. Something she never
suspects has helped to make her fat,
ami it's only after much cross-ques
tioning that you can find out what it
is.
There are all kinds of bad habits
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HAD TETTER FORTEN YEARS;
TWO BOXES TETTERINE CURED
Mr. Lew Wren, of Chicago, writes us
that he had suffered for ten years with
tetter, many doctors in nearly every state
In the I nion having failed to cure him.
A druggist recommended Tetterlne to
hint and he bought a box. Tt gave him
relief, and the second box effected a com
plete cure. Telterine at all druggists or
by mail for 50c from the Shuptrine Com
pany. Savannah. Ga.
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that tend to make one grow fat. First
of all, there is a dumpy way' of sit
ting as when one falls to pieces oVer
the top of her stays and slumps in at
the waist just as much as her steel
armor will allow’. Now', if you want
to keep your figure, you cannot afford
to slump at all. but should cultivate
a good straight backbone and hold your
shoulders back naturally, not stiffly,
but so that you are never sitting in a
round-shouldered position.
1 have seen so many gil ls of eighteen
or nineteen whose shoulders were
round, and whose backs already looked
old just because they do not sit up
straight. When sitting at a desk ot
sewing table, when you are reading or
writing, place your chair sufficiently
far from the table to allow you to sit
well back in the chair, and then -bend
forwaid from the hips. This position
is really more restful than the hollow
chest and round-shouldered one. and
it is just a matter of habit to get ac
customed to It.
There are all kinds of braces sold
now which hold the shoulders back
and keep one from getting a broad and
round-ihoultiered back. They are good
for the fat woman, because they remind
her to hold herself correctly, which
will make her look taller and less
dumpy. The same kind of a b.ace is
made by the Snglish army officers of
three handkerchiefs. Knot the ends of
two Os the handkerchiefs together, slip
these over the arms and around the
shoulders. Now pass the third hand
kerchief across the back and under the
two arm-circles, and have some one
Up-to-Date Jokes
A German gentleman at breakfast
one morning said to the servant: "Did
1 come home very drunk last night,
Gretchen ?”
Her reply was: "Oh. I.or. sir. yes!
Why, you kissed the missis!"
Chortles—Say, old boy. ate you fond
of moving pictures?
His Friend—Well, 1 should say so.
Chortles —Then come round to our
house next Tuesday and give us a hand.
We’re moving that day."
Jones came downtown the other
morning with a somewhat bruised and
swollen forehead. His friend Briggs
viewed the contusion with interest, and
asked:
"How did it happen, old man?"
"Collided with the hat rack last
night.” said Jones, shortly.
“Accidentally?" asked Briggs.
“No. Briggs," replied Jones, sweetly
"I have every reason to suspect that
it attacked me'purposely.”
The barber’s shop was well patron
ized, when in walked a shabby stranger.
"Good-morning, sir!" called the bar
ber. doubtfully.
"Good-morning!” replied the strang
er. "My good man, will you shave one
side of my face for a dime?"
The barber winked at his waiting J
customers. "Certainly,” he replied, j
"Take a seat, please."
Presently it was the shabby strang
er’s turn tO'OCcupy the seat of honor.
“Now, which side shall I shave?” asked
the barber, as he waved the lathering
brush in the air.
"The outside!” replied the shabby
stranger, meekly.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
Tht Kind You Have Always Bought
Form the habit of sleeping with your
chin up and you will avoid the
dreaded doub'e or triple chin.
knot this together, drawing the shoul
ders back bv pulling the harttlkerchiefs
which bind them.
Another bad habit which the stout
woman easily falls into Is that of go
ing around with hei head bent down so
that she soon has two or even three
chins. Chin straps for reducing the
chin are sold everywhere nowadays, or
one can nlake them of a piece of linen
leut about three inches wide, with tapes
at the end. The linen should pass un
der the chin and tie over the head, and
press the flabby part of the chin in. as
well as holding the mouth shut while
sleeping.
The Way to Sleep.
Young people often lose the pretty
contour of the fa.ee because they sleep
witli their mouths open, while the wom
an who is inclined to be fat if she
will form the habit of sleeping with
her head up, instead of bent very far
down, or with such a chin strap to hold
the mouth shut and the chin up will
not acquire the dreaded double or triple
chin.
Another bad habit is for the fat
woman to consider herself fat; the
minute she says "I am too fat to run
upstairs, too fat to walk much,” that
is just the time to begin work to de
crease one's flesh: to walk and run up
and down stairs as much as possible,
for indolence invariably accompanies
the fat woman, and that is the most
difficult thing to overcome.
Body massage, if one can obtain it.
would help reduce the weight, and face
massage will do much toward dispers
ing- the fatty tissue that disfigures the
youthful face.
But, alas! the fat woman does not
care about strenuous exercise. and
much prefers applying- medicated soaps
or trying to melt down fat at the
Turkish bath, or by spasmodic hard
work encased in rubber garments un
der a sweater.
Os course, the more you exercise the
more you will perspire and the sooner
you will melt down your fat.
trouble is that few women are willing
to keep it up long enough to feel the
good results.
An excellent movement for reducing
tile waist and abdomen is the follow
ing: <
Valuable Exercises.
Die flat on the back, preferably on
the hard floor; extend the legs stiffly,
then raise first one leg. then the
other? stiffening all the muscles and
getting some action in the muscles of
the waist, which with the* fat woman
are usually quite weak and flaccid.
After repeating this exercise several
times, bring both legs together to a
position as nearly as possible at right
angles with the body.
The woman who will roll on a hard
floor a hundred'times night and morn
ing will soon find her flesh melting
away, but it isn't a comfortable way
of doing it.
Skipping the roi>e, usually considered
quite a childish game, will also reduce
flesh, but if there is anything the mat
ter with the heart, it is not advisable
to try it.
Biding, tennis playing, bicycling and
especially swimming all will reduce
weight. *
The woman who wants to get thin
must never take naps in the daytime,
and she should not sleep mote than
seven hours at night. This applies, of
course, only to the fat woman of robust
constitution.
Dr. Arnold Lorrand advises abstain
ing from meat entirely, in order to re
duce flesh, or to eart very little, if any
of it, while for the rest of the diet,
almost every woman knowjs those
starchy, sugary and fat-forming foods
which she shouldn't eat, and which she
generally adores.
The ideal weight for women of vari
ous heights is about as follows;
5 feet 1 inch, weight 120 pounds.
5 feet 2 inches, weight 126 pounds.
5 feet 3 inches, weight 133 pounds.
5 feet 4 inches, weight 136 pounds.
5 feet 5 inches, weight 142 pounds.
5 feet 6 inches, weight 145 pounds.
5 feet 7 inches, weight 149 pounds.
5 feet 8 inches, weight 155 pounds.
5 feet 9 inches, weight 162 pounds.
5 feet 10 inches, weight 169 pounds.
5 feet 11 inches, weight 174 pounds.
6 feet, weight 178 pounds.
§ e The Manicure Lady e §
By William F. Kirk
WILFRED and me
and Sister Mayme was to a
swell party the other night,”
said the Manicure Lady. “It was gave
by a artist that has just opened a new
studio, the same as the studio that I
was telling you about a few weeks
ago. We had a grand time.”
"I think you are .wrong in going to
studio parties," said the'Head Barber.
"I have told you that before, and you
know w'hen I tell you anything I mean
it.”
"I can take care of myself without
any bone-headed barber telling me
where to get off," said the Manicure
Lady, frigidly. "This artist was a per
fect gent. The only thing I didn't like
about the party was one of his lady
guests. I think she must be one of
them ladies that is all the .time look
ing for adventures. I think they call
them adventuresses, or some name like
that. She hadn't no more than seen
Wilfred when she started making eyes
at him, because she had heard the poor
kid telling that he was a poet, and I
guess she thought that poets makes a
lot of dough. Goodness knows they
don't, George; but as long as she
thought so I suppose that ain't neither
here or there, but to get on with my
story.
“The mintue Wilfred noticed that
this blond beauty was shining up to
him he swelled up like one of them
poisoned puppies that you read about
in the story books. I guess in the
next hour after he made the flash he.
must have recited about seventy of his
worst young poems. Don’t you see,
George? He was trying to make a hit
with her and con her into giving him
a little dough, but he was waiting for
a good chance to approach her, and all
the time she was playing the same sys.
tern. I had more than one good laugh
before the two Jf them found out that
there wasn't a quarter between them,
and probably wouldn’t be for some time
to come. Wilfred was telling me on
the way home that in the old days
poets used to have patrons and patron
esses. He said that any time a poet
was on his uppers he would go and
dig up some rich old guy or guyess and
tell him the facts in the case are
these;' I think it was a pret,ty good
system at that, George. Barbers and
manicure girls can make enough to
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How One Washerwoman Was Converted
to the Fels-N&ptha Way.
Anty Drudge —“Why, bless my soul! Mrs. Old School,
the washerwoman has seen the light at last and hag
adopted the Fels-Naptha way of washing. *’
Grocer’s Boy—“ She was forced to it, Anty Drudge.
Mrs. Millionaire, her best customer, told her that if
she didn’t use Fels-Naptha she’d take her washing
away. Was tired, she said, of having her clothes
come back all yellow and some with streaks of dirt
still in them.”
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A generation or so ago, if a woman
had an errand she walked —she had to,
there was no other way.
Later she could do it in half the time
by riding. Now she can do it almost
instantly, by telephone.
That’s Progress, and Progress is made
possible by science.
Fels-Naptha is science applied to the
washday problem, and it’s results are just
wonderful.
Formerly washday was a time of sick
ening odom, back-breaking labor, a disor
dered house and the severest test on the
clothes. 1 his was necessary. There was
no other way.
The Fels-Naptha washday—the
scientific washday—isn’t a washday at all in
the old sense; merely an incident in the
routine of household duties.
And if directions on the green
wrapper are followed, the resTTt is certain.
get by, but poets' is awful helpless
creatures. At least, Wilfred is. He
had to nick the old gent’s bank roll for
four bits to make this studio party that
I am telling you about.”
"Studios don’t make no hit with
me." said the Head Barber.
“You ain’t classy enough to under
stand them," said the Manicure Lady,
“If you want to enjoy a studio you
ought to have one of them artistic
tempers, or whatever they call it.”
Do You Know—
The title of the white house, Wash
ington, was strangely bestowed. Soon
after it was built it was proposed to
call it The Palace, but this was op
posed on democratic grounds. Congress ’
then determined that it should be called
the executive mansion. It became
known as the white house because,
when rebuilt after the British soldiers
had partly destroyed It, it was painted
white to hide the traces of smoke and
flame upon the walls.
For some time in Vienna street .sav
ings banks have been in vogue with
considerable success. These savings
banks are an adaptation of the penny
in-the-slot machine. Any one passing
wishing to deposit a small sum drops
his money into the slot. Instead of re
ceiving bonbons or chocolate in returp,
he gets a ticket for the coin deposited.
The tickets are later honored on pres
entation at a government department.
Encouraged by the success of the
Vienna experiment, the people of Paris
are to introduce the same system into
their streetfc.
A lightship has just been placed In
commission In Germany that is pro
vided with a complete equipment of the
most modern devices for aiding and
warning mariners In place of the old
fashioned mast-beacons, the vessel car
ries a single powerful electric light set
on top of a hollow mast or shaft,
through which the light can be reached
In stormy weather. The lightship has
wireless telegraph and fog and subma
rine signals. Diesel oil engines run a
dynamo, and two large accumulator
batteries stoie the electric current for
emergency use. The new vessel is 150
feet long and 25 feet wide. It will ba
stationed . near the shallows at tin
mouth of the River Elbe.