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THE'QEO'RVQIAIWS. MAOAZIME PAGE
“Initials Only” * By Anna Katherine Green
A Thrilling Mystery Story of Modern Times
today ’S installment.
. .nvrfght. 1911. Street & Smith.)
r, i.vright. t'.'ll, by Dodd, Mead & Co.)
PART I.
Poinsettias.
••A remarkable man!”
It was not my husband speaking, but
6 ., passerby. However, I looked up
e t George with a smile, and found him
1.. down at me with much the same
humor. We had often spoken of the odd
phrases one hears In the street, and how
interesting it would be sometimes to hear
e little more of the conversation.
That's a case, in point," he laughed,
he guided me through the crowd of
theatergoers which invariably block this
part of Broadway at the- hour of 8. "We
< n all never know whose eulogy we have
j .-- heard. 'A remarkable man!' There
are not many of them."
\o. was my somewhat indifferent re
. it was a keen winter night and snow
was packed upon the walks in away
to throw into sharp relief the figures of
such pedestrians as happened to be
walking alone. "But It seems to me that,
f , far as general appearance goes, the
one in front answers your description
most admirably.”
I pointed to a man hurrying around the
Corner just ahead of us.
Yes. he's remarkably- well built. I
noticed him when he came out of rhe
Clermont.”
This was a hotel we had just passed.
A Strange Sight.
•Rut It’s not only that. It’s his
height, his very striking features, his
expression—” I stopped suddenly, grip
ping George's arm impulsively in a sur
prise he seemed to share. We had turned
the corner immediately behind the man
of whom we were speaking and so had
him still in full view.
What's he doing?" I asked, in a low
whisper. We were only a few- feet be
hind. "Look! look! don't you call that
curious'.’”
Mt husband stared, then uttered a low
"Rather.” The man ahead of us, pre
senting In every respect the appearance
of a gentleman, had suddenly stooped to
the curb and was washing his hands in
the snow, furtively, but with a vigor and
purpose which could not fail to arouse
the- strangest conjectures in any chance
onlooker.
Pilate!" escaped my lips, in a sort if
nervous chuckle. But George shook his
head at me.
"1 don't like it," he muttered, with un
usual gravity. "Did you see his face?"
Then as the man rose and hurried away
from us down the street. "I should like
to follow him. 1 do believe—”
But here we became aware of a quick
rush and sudden clamor around the cor
ner we had Just left, and, turning quick
ly saw that something had occurred on
Broadway which was fast, causing a tu
mult.
"What’s the matter?” I cried. "What
can have happened? Let 1 ® go see, George.
Perhaps it has something to do with our
man."
My husband, with a final glance down
the street at the fast disappearing figure,
yielded to my importunity, and possibly
to some new curiosity of his own.
A Tragedy.
"Pd like to stop that man first." said
he But what excuse have I? He may
be nothing but a crank, with some crack
brained idea in his head. We’ll soon
know; for there's certainly something
wrong there on Broadway.”
"He came out of the Clermont," I sug
gested.
"1 know. If the excitement isn't there,
what we've just seen is simply a coin
cidence." Then, as we retraced our steps
to the corner—" Whatever we hear or
sei', don't say anything about this man.
It s after eight, remember, and we prom
ised Adela that we would be at the house
before nine.”
"i'll be quiet.”
"Remember.”
It was the last word he had time to
speak before we found ourselves in the
midst of a crowd of men and women,
jostling one another In curiosity or in
TOE'S HEALTH
RESTORED
Husband Declared Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound Would Re
store Her Health,
And It Did.
Ashland, Ky. '“Four years ago I
seemed to have everything the matter
with me. I had fe
male and kidney trou
ble and waa bo bad off
I could hardly rest
day or night. I doc
tored with all the
best doctors in town
and took many kinds
of medicine but noth
ing did any good un
til I tried your won
derful remedy, Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vege-
St*' p'■
\ £.
-
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i ’.. 'i
ta ble Compound. My husband said it
restore my health and it has.”—
tv,^ AY yatt > Ashland, Ky.
■ here are probably hundreds of thou
sands of women in the United States
'' have been benefitted by this famous
0 d remedy, which was produced from
mots and herbs over thirty years ago by
a ’roman to relieve woman’s suffering.
beadAVhat Another Woman says:
' amden, N. J. —“I had female trou
de and a serious displacement and was
”7 and discouraged and unabletodomy i
®ork. My doctors told me I never could
° p ured without an operation, but
s to Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
a ?k° l am °f that affliction
,'; J have recommended it to more than
my i r j en( j g W jf. h the b ea t results. ”
'’ ■ rs. Ella Johnston, 324 Vine St.
you want special advice write toi
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opened, read and answered by a
“Jan and held in strict confidence.
the consternation following a quick alarm.
AU were looking one way, and, as this,
was towards the entrance of the Cler
mont, it was evident enough to us that
the alarm had indeed had its origin in
the very place we had anticipated, I
felt my husband’s arm press me closer
to his side as we worked our way to
wards the entrance, and presently caught
a warning sound from his lips as the
oaths and confused cries everywhere sur
rounding us were broken here and there
by articulatq words and we heard:
"Is it murder?” i
"The beautiful Miss Challoner!"
"A millionairess in her own right!” i
"Killed, they say.” ,
"No. No! suddenly dead, that's all."!
Woman’s Curiosity.
"George, what shall we do?” I man-j
aged to cry into my husband’s ear.
"Get out of this. There is no chancel
of our reaching that door,’ and I can't!
have you standing round any longer ini
this icy slush.”
"But—but is it right?” I urged, in ani
importunate whisper. "Should we goJ
home while he”——
"Hush! My first duty is to you. Wei
will go make our visit; but tomor-j
row"
"I can't wait till tomorrow," I pleaded,j
wild to satisfy my curiosity in regard!
to an event in which 1 naturally felt ;iq
keen personal interest.
He drew me as near to the edge off
the crowd as he could. There were neww
murmurs all about us. ’
"If it's a case of heart-failure. * wltjf
send for the police?” asked one.
"It's better to have an officer orotw» j
here," grumbled another.
"Here comes a cop.” f
"Well, I'm going to vamoose.”
"PH tell you what I'll do,” whisper ed
George, who for all his bluster was as
curious as myself. "We will try the i; ear
door, where there are fewer pers< ,ns.
Possibly we can make our xyay in th ere.
and if we can, Slater will tell us all we
want to know.”
Slater was the assistant manage r of
the Clermont, and one of George's old
est friends.
"Then hurry," said I. “I am/ being
crushed here."
George did hurry, and in a few min
utes we were before the rear entri.mce of
the great hotel. There was a mol > gath
ered there also, but i.t was nel, 1 ther so
large nor so rough as the one on, Broad
way. Vet I doubt if we should hi we been
able to work our way through it if Slater
had not. at that very instant . shown
himself in the doorway, in comr any with
an officer to whom he was gs ving final
instructions. George caught > .is eye as
soon as he was through witli the man,
and ventured on what I thong} it a rather
uncalled-for plea.
A Hasty
“Let us-in, Slater,” he bagged. “My
wife feels a little faint; slid has been
knocked about so by the crowd."’
The manager glanced at fmy face, and
• houted-to the people arounu u« to make
room. I felt myself lifted up, and that is
all I remember of this part «>f our adven
ture. Flor, affected more than I realized
by the excitement of the event, I no soon
er saw the v/ay cleared fori our entrance
than I made good my husband's words by
fainting atvay in earnest.
When I ,came to, It was/suddenly and
with perfect recognition of I my surround
ings. The small reception room to which
I had been, taken was one 1 had often
visited, and', its familidr features did n.ot
hold my attention for a moment. What
I did see and welcome was my husband’s
face bending I close over me, and to him I
spoke first, lily words must have sound
ed oddly to • hose about. "Have they
told you anyrtiing about it?” I asked.
"Did he —”
A quick pressure on my arm silenced
me, and then 1 that we were not
alone. Two or' three ladies stood near,
watching me. ani one had evidently been
vising some restq rative, for she held a
small vinaigrette' in her hand. To this
lady George madei haste to introduce me,
and from her I ' presently learned the
cause of the distii banco in the hotel.
A Bia Mystery.
It was of ( a somewhat different nature
from what I expected, and during the re
cital I could not prevent myself from
casting furtive glances at
George.
Edith, the well-known daughter of
Moses Challoner, had fallen suddenly
dead on the floor of t!»e (mezzanine. She
was not knofam to have' been in poor
health, still less in danger of a fatal at
tack, and the shock was consequently
great to her fhlends, several of whom
were in the building. Indeed, it was
likely to prove a shock to the whole com
munity, for she , had groat claims for
general admiration and her death must
be regarded as a .calamity to persons in
all stations of life.
1 realized this mjtself. for 1 had heard
much of the young lady’s private virtues,
as well as of her gneat beauty and dis
tinguished manner. A heavy loss, in
deed, but— *
“Was she alone when she fell?” I
asked.
"Virtually alone. Some persons sat o a
the other side of the (room, reading at
the big round table?. They did not e'/en
hear her fall. They sdty that the I®nd
was playing unusuallyifloud in the r Musi
cians' gallery;”
"Are you feeling quitl, well. now,?"
"Quite myself.” I gratefully; rr/plled as
1 rose slowly from tha: sofa., Then, as
my kind Informer stepped aside,,! turned
to George with the proposals 'that we
should go now.
Anxious toXLeavrg
He seemed as anxious :is myself to
leave, and together We m lived towards
the door, while the hum ofa excited com
ment which the intruskinyof a fainting
woman had undoubtedly interrupted, re
commenced behind us Itt'/ethe whole room
buzzed.
In the hall was enciMmtered Mn. Slater,
Whom i have before/mentioned He was
trying to maintain/ order while) himself
in a state of great'agitation. Seeing us,
he could not re/flafn from whfstperlng a
few words into nr® husiband’s ear.
"The doctor had'.Just gone up~ : her doc
tor. I mean. He'S' simply dumbfounded.
Says that sb«e was tthe healthfesn woman
in New York yesterday. I thihk—don’t
mention It—that he. suspects something
quite different from ’heart failure/’
"What do you mean?” asked George,
following the assistant manager /(own the
broad flight of steps leading to tthe of
fice Then, as I pnrssed up to Mr.
Slater's other side.. "She was by 'herself,
wasn't she. in the half floor abesve?"
“Yes, and had been writing a letter ,
She fell with it still in her haatd."
"Have they carried/her to her room*'
il eagerly inquired, glancing fearfully up
.at the large semi-cin-ular openings over
|looking us from the I place whene she had
fallen.
To Be Contiotisd in Next Issue.
\ Beauty (Secrets of Footlight Favorites
Simple Aids For the Country Miss
Bj ETHEL DONALDSON.
I IX JN’T tbelieve that any girl < m the
s tage w orries about her looks/ when
s he's w ell and happy not/wprk
ing too hs rd in a play that shp dikes,
Where the ghost walks regtilatly/ with
well- ailed pay envelopes. But when
you'rs cut in Pocatello, miles and
miles | fit,m home, with months of ona
nightjs/ands behind you and the same/
besot ie / ypu. .and only what the hotels
out (he re call plain cooking to susta/n
you., I veil, that's the time when yon
, set of it all the secrets.of beauty t aat
you i* : ver heard of and try them ion
youitr elf if you've got that much /en-
1 ergyj left. '
Tty was the first time that I eve gm
,to Ime of those jumping-off places,
j whe re we had played a matin' je per
foiinance and had ap evening p srfqrm
an« e and a twenty-four hour /jolt on
I ttifl railroad to look forward /to that
, I d ecided that the home folks who had
sa id I was a pretty girl w ere very
n> itch mistaken. I looked at ,myself in
a ie of the cracked two-by-f purldressy-
V room mirrors, apd deci,fled; tliat/ 1
| would try first aid to the /beaifty
-11 seeker.
J I found a modest little sijfcn; swinging
* over the door of a rnotteyt looking
house, which announced] /that; Miss
O’Brien was disposed t<x/dc> fuy-e cu |-
> lure. I liked the nannr fj’BMen and
trusted that she was<d "cul
ture” me. /
i A Motherly i Soul. *7 ’
; Miss O’BrienMvas tall ajud more than
I expected. She’wa® atfag|and mother.
. ly soul, and after she’d* lo oked me over
she said:
, "Yer too young to begi a with beauty
doctors, but I'll give ye ; one of these
here little wooden thing s for to mas-
: sage yereelf with, and v /hen yer tired,
you just remember w feat old Miss
O'Brien told y.e.
‘‘Food first of all. and ghen rest, if ye
, can get it. Then watei wand soap, like
this.”
t Then she began her i ibeauty culture
■ and as it’s the only /kind I’ve ever
1 tried,' and the kind Ji. i going to stick
1 to. I’ll pass It along ■ :o you. for dear
. Miss O'Brien lives so far away that it
won't interfere with t er trade.
She began by wpah fng my face with
warm water and a de an piece of Turk
ish towel; after that jshe soaked some
more of the toweling ♦ in the juice of a
1 cucumber, which sh e kept in a glass
! jar, and which was nnice and soothing
, if a little sticky, on j the skin.
; Without washing qfhj s off. she rubbed
quite a lot of cold c ream over my face,
I and then produced four or five little
balls of different sises, some not larger
; marbles, and the biggest about
the size of an eai fly Bermuda potato.
They were made of plain wood, and
polished but not p fainted.
She used the lat sge ball for my neck,
chin and cheeks. rubbing it quickly
over the skin and I pressing it with th<?
palm of her ham. J. When she was
through with thru she took a ball of
smaller size, ran it up and down the
creases on the t dde of my nose, until
I felt that all th< »lines in my face were
being ironed ou f; she bade me close
my eyes, and, tai/king a smaller ball yet.
very gently ma ssaged around the eyes;
under the eye and above the
Advice to the Lovelorn
By Beatrice Fairfax
LEARN to LOVE HIM LESS.
Dear Mis f Fairfax:
I am < dghteen years old and am
very m' jch in love with a young
man so- jr years my senior. I know '
this yo ang man likes me very much,
but st /Il he goes with another girl.
I love/this man dearly. Please tell
me h ow I can win him. LOUISE.
The re is no ru i e by which a. girl can
comp »1 a man’s love, but of this I am
sure: / That the girl who is indifferent
tom /p n j s more admired by them than
one hvho con'firma, even tn himself, that
she/i s madly in love.
Let him go with the other girl, and
if/you have opportunity, encourage his
attentions to her. That will bring him
r to your slde quicker than if you sought
to discourage him.
LET THE MATTER DROP.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I’ve been acquainted with a
young man of about 26 years of
age for about five months. I met
him through business, and recently
I asked him to call on me. He
called at the house several times,
and the last time he called he said
he would telephone me during the
week or the first part of the fol
lowing week. So far I have neither
'seen nor heard of him.
CAMILLE.
If you urge him to come, it will look
like excessive zeal on your part.
He knows how to find you; let him
make the next step. A girl makes no
greater mistake than to let a man see
she is desirous of securing his atten
tion.
MOST DECIDEDLY YES.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
lam madly in love with one of
the best girls in the world, and as
I only make 121 a week I feel that
I can not marry her. But I will
get a raise of $5 in six months.
Would you have me tell her to
wait? MAURICE.
Tell her you love her. You will be
getting $26 a week by fall, and if she
is the nice, sensible girl I take her to
be. she will spend the intervening time
in acquiring a knowledge of practical
housekeeping. If she loves you, she will
find away to make you happy on iour
salary, and also save money.
j Jg —x
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B .. A >
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T-" I'HUI Isa—l V A
MISS. ETHEL DONALDSON.
(One of Ziegfeld's charming members of "The Winsome Widow” Co.)
eye. but never touching the eye itself.
I had almost fallen asleep when she
began upon the forehead, for which
she used a larger ball again, rubbing
out the weary and tired look which
had begun to make me appear years
older than I really was
The Final Touch.
After she had gotten all through she
wiped the cream away, and then apT
plied hot water again to my face and
more cucumber juice, but this time it
was scented with cologne and wasn’t
sticky.
When I got through with my face
treatment. 1 felt like a new person, and
I’m sure I looked like one. Dear Miss
O’Brien beamed as delightfully as il!
she had accomplished an important
feat.
Os course, I bought the little wooden
HE HAS THAT PRIVILEGE.
Dear Miss Fairfax;
I am keeping company with a
young man two years my senior
and 1 love him very much. He told
me he loved me.,too. But 1 caught
him with another girl. Will ymi
kindly advise me,what to dd?
A. G. X.
1 do not ifke thattword "caught.” It
implies doubt, suspicion, jealousy, nag
ning, a lack of faithland fairness, and
a spirit of ownershiplthat any man of
spirit will resent.
You are not engagx'd. He has the
right to go with ano.ther girl. You
have the right to go with another
man. Do Tot make a prisoner of him
because he loves you,,and do not make
a tyrant of yourself.
If you w ant him ,to ignore other
women, give him to'understand that
you don’t care how many It goes w ith.
IT WOULD BE PROPER.
Dear jiliss Fairfax:
Is it proper for a man. meeting
a young lady socially a number
of times, to ask if he may call, or
mufat he wait until she invites him’’
IMPATIENT.
Ask if you may etall. and if you make
yourself agreeable she will ask you
to call agri in
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graduated balls and some of Miss
O'Brlefi’s cucumber stuff and some of
her cream. The last two I used up long
ago, but I find that I can always em
ploy any other good cold cream and
lotion instead.
I massage my face as she told me to
whenever I am tired, and find that it is
not only great fun to do it, but that the
results are always very encouraging,
and that after one of these treatments
I look much refreshed and feel much
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L ;
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•*
Baker Rogers
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He knows one thing—how
to make good, clean, pure,
wholesome and delicious
white bread,
‘ / i
People who know say
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than any one in the South.
So Baker Rogers is content.
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Small wonder that it is
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|L— By Masseng Ae
Daysey Mayme and Her Folks
By Frances L. Garside
EXTRACTS FROM MOTHER’S
DIARY.
j T~'VERYONE." Mrs. Lysander
1*^ John Appleton always claimed,
"should keep a diary. Think
how eailightefiing the story of today's
doings will be to Posterity."
Mrs. Appleton practices what she
preaches. She kept a diary. And Ly
sander John, while looking in her writ
ing desk for a nail, found it. Being a
Man and Unscrupulous, he read the
following from its page.*:
January 4—-I ( ironed this morning.
Will have to put my blue waist back
into the wash because the starch stuck.
I noticed Lysander John shaving with
extra care today. I feel that he is
Drifting Away from Me. I will have to
watch him.
January 10.—Lysander John sat all
Do You Know—
The wonderful machine which makes
pins measures and cuts the write, points
and polishes it, puts.a head on one end,
repolishes the pine, and puts them by
rows into the'papers in which they are
sold.
Some Os thw newer French army aero
planes are soxdesilgned that their wings
can be folded, thus enabling them to
be towed on xtheir'Own wheels behind
an automobile.
Single orange trees have been known
to produce 20,000 oranges, while a lem
on tree more than 8,000
lemons. ,
At the 000-year-oM Audlem ohnrch,
in Cheshire, the onrfew Is regularly
rung, after which thecate of the month
is tolled —a survlval offathe times when
no almanacs existed.
The amcnini of, heat produced by an
average maai in a day's* work Is suffi
cient to raise £3 poundsiof water from
freezing toitha-boiling point.
The term ‘ "spiinster” owes its origin
to the. fact thait in olden/times the Jaw
did not permitfa w'omanito marry until
she has spun airomplete.set of linen.
The thermometer which has served as
a model for all\those made ever since
was constructed!by Faflnenhelt at Am
sterdam in 1720.
Cuba’s besttcustomer of cigars 1#
Great Britain,\which takes 60,000,000
every year. ,
Mild beer has lito 1 1-2 per cent al
cohol; bitter, up toUOiper cent.
Salt is produced In almost every
country in the world.
Hard boiled eggjs/take four and a
half hours to digest.
Only one person in« 15,000 reaches the
age of 100 years
of last evening and gazed into the
grate. He said he was thinking of busi
ness, but I know better. When a man
sits and looks into the fire like that. he.
is thinking of a Woman! When it is
business he is thinking of he has a
pencil In his hand. Heard today of a
new way to make squash pie.
January 15.—Chauncey Devere failed
to pass the examination, but it was the
teacher's fault. She is so jealous of
his w onderful brain she is keeping him
back. Lysander John came home a new
wav today. I must look into that. Some
Woman lives on that street, I will wa
ger. Oh, I know the men!
February 2—l am not satisfied with
the results of henna. Some say com
mon wash soda will give as pretty a
color to the hair. I have a. new wrin
kle, caused by watching Lysander John.
February s—Was so. proud at the
concert tonight. Daysey Mayme sang<
louder than any one else on the pro-F
gram. Lysander John must give up ci-/
gars to add to the fund for cultivating p
her voice. L
February 7—l am trying to make,®
husband understand that the room jn
which we keep the palm Is the r/ ■op-4‘
servatory, and not the “setting r» om ,,
It is discouraging work uplifting •/, ‘
February 9—Lysander John j, e
had to go to ths office tonight. </// f didn’t i
say a word. But I followed hC jm j
course, he went to the Office. '/ jj e d)(J
that because be must have kw/ __ ,
. -*wn i was
on Ms track. Oh, the dupU«» (y thage
men!
February 10—Tt Is allft # h
for women’s magazines t 0 te „ wt)tntn
they must keep the wrlnj- tJew <way but
how can a woman do Its when „ he *
man to ’watch 7 W» »
beef fortoupper.
Lysander (jbhn tY ad n ,
anticipation lot thergreat mental stimu
lant posterity wo<id find In the bo’ok
overcame bHm an/j he sat like one who
Is dazed bay fond f he power of thinking.
’™ S!S=HB W~ 7W t , , H !
A SPT iE’NDID FOOD TOO
SELDOM SERVED
In the average American house
hold Ma earoni i» f ßr too seldom
served. I i is such a splendid food
and one tthat is so well liked that
it shoul d be served at one meal
everytdTty. Let it take the place
of pdta toes. Macaroni has as
BTeat a f< k>d value as potatoes and Is
’a r lCh m ° re easlljr Rested.
plnHnnn? facaToni is made from richlv
glutinous, i American grown Durum
wheat. ItU, every blt fls flnelv U
vored and (tenderly succulent as the im
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