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THE GEOMIAN’S MAGAZINE PAGE
Only By Anna Katherine Green
A Thrilling Mvstery Story of Modern Times
TODAY'S INSTALLMENT. |
(Copyright, 1911. Street & Smith.)
(Copyright, 1911, by 1» M»-ad A, Co.)
“Not yet. Mr. Hammond insists upon
waiting for the coroner iM Hamnvn-l
*as rhe proprietor of tlie hots. i She I
lying on one of th< big < k .« .« near I
which she fell If you like. I can give
you a glimpse of 1«r She i oks beaut I I
ful. It’s terrible to think that she is I
dead.”
Under a Spell.
I don't know why w< consented We
were under a spell. Ith : k M all events, j
we accepted his offer and followed him I
up a narrow staircase open to very few •
that night Ar the top. he turned upon
us with a warning gesture which I hard- I
ly think we needed, and led us d >wn a
narrow hall flanked by openings corre- I
spending to those we had noted from be- I
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 disma> about a couch,
one end <»f which onl' was visible to
us at the moment. The doctor had just
Joined them, and every head was turned
toward him and everybody bent forward
in anxious expectation 1 remember rhe
face of ohe gray haired old man I shall
never forget It He was probably her
father Later. I knew him to be *-•<» Her
face, even her form, was entirely hid
den from us. but as we watched <1 lave
often thought with what heartless ci.
Fiosltyi a sudden movement took place in
the whole group and for one Instant a
startling picture presented itself to our
gaze
Miss Challoner was stretched out upon
th** couch She had dressed as uhr came
from dinner in a gown of Ivory-tinted
Batin, relieved at the breast bj a large
bouquet of s arlet I men
tion thia adornment because |» was what
first met ami drew our eyes and the eyes
of eye.-v one about her, though the fare,
now quite revealed, would seem to hav< i
the greater attraction But the cause was |
evident and one not to be resisted. The
doctor was pointing at these poinsettlas
in horror and with awful meaning, and
though we could not hear his words, wo
knew almost instinctively, both from his
attitude and the cries that burst from
the Wps 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 f< r some reason had es
caped 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
emotions even more bitter than those of
grief, 1 turned a questioning look up at
George's face
It was fixed with a purpose I had no
rouble in understanding
”1 Know the Man.”
Yet 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 mtlrder could change his ways
“I want to feel sure of myself," he ex
plained. “Can you bear the strain of
waiting around a Mttle longer, Laura? I
mustn't forget that you fainted just
now
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GEORGE F. PAYNE, PH. G. 38 . Edjjewood Ave.. Atlanta. Ga.
i Yes. I can bear it; much better than
; I >ul<; b*ar going to Adela's In my pres
ept 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
j I don't want to go away. It’s all so
I dreadful.’*
"It's devilish. Such a beautiful girl!
! I aura, 1 must leave you for a moment.
Do you mind?"
“No. no; yet"
I d.d mind; but he was gone before
1 could take back my word. Alone, I
: felt %!ie tragedy much more than when he
was with me. Instead of watching, as I
' had hitherto done, every movement in the
i room opposite. I drew back against the
i wall and hid my eyes, waiting feverishly
I for George's return.
He came, when ho did c<»mc. In some
haste and with 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 Adda 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, to 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 ti c 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
w a it Ing.
"Are you going to tell him?" whs 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 "I shall not like that."
"I know, my dear, but It is best."
I could not gainsay this
Nevertheless, after the first few min
utes nf relief. 1 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 we had passed on
our way up. mingled themselves with the
solemn horror of the scene in the writing
room, with' its fleeting vision of youth
and beauty lying pulseless In sudden
death. 1 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 when the door opened and George
came in There was news in his face
as I rushed to meet him.
“Toll me tell," I begged.
He tried to smile at fny eagerness, but
the attempt was ghastly.
“I've been listening and looking." said
he, "and this Is all I 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. But the doc
tors shake their heads at the word pls
! tol shot, though they refuse to explain
I thc inselves or to express any opinion
, until the wound has been probed. This
: Jiey are going to do at once, and when
! that question is decided, I may feel it
I my duty to speak and may ask you to
support my story " .
“1 will tell what I saw.” said I
“Very good. That is all 4hat will be
required We are strangers to the par-
I ties concerned, and only speak from a
sense of justice It may be that our
j story will make no impression, and that
Iwe si all be dismissed with but few
j ’banks But that Is nothing to us If
the woman has been murdered, he is the
murdere r. With such a conviction in my
mind, there can be no doubt as to my
I duty."
To De Continued m Next Issue.
The Making of a Pretty Girl
Why Some Grow Fat and Others Don't
By MARGARET HUBBARD
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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 w'ith meals, lee 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 up
fat in the tissues of the body.
The Apple Woman.
I once knew a dear old apple woman
who was exceedingly stout. You
would have thought to look at her
that she'd long passed tile age when her
personal appearance was the slightest,
consequence to her. But dear old
Mary was still somewhat vain and
her tub-like figure worried her. f
knew that she got plenty of exercise,
and a ked her what she ate and drank.
"Nothing at all! Nothing at all!" she
assured me. "1 don’t eat enough to
keep a bird alive, and 1 never drink
anything but tea." "And how much
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,
and 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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, that h. had -offered for ten years with
tel r. many doctors in nearly everj state
in the I'ni >n having failed to cure him.
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him ami lie bought a box It gave him
relief, and the second box effected a com
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ear. y. Savannah, ua.
that tend to make one grow fat. First
of all, there is a dumpy way of sit
ting as when one falls to 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.
I have seen so many girls 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 or
sew ing 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
forward 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-shouldered 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 brace is
made by the English army officers of
’ three handkerchiefs. Knot the ends of
: two of the handkerchiefs together, slip
i 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!
1 Why, you kissed the missis!”
« chortles—Say, old boy, are 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.
M e’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
! customers. "Certainly," he replied.
• "Take a seat, please."
Presently it was the shabby strang
er’s turn to occupy the seat of honor.
L Now. which side shall I shave?” asked
! the barber, as he waved the lathering
I ■ brush in the air.
I "The outside!" replied the shabby
II stranger, meekly.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Form the habit of sloeping with your
chin up and you yvill avoid the
dreaded double or triple chin.
knot this together, drawing tiie shoul
ders back by pulling the handkerchiefs
which bind •them.
Another bad habit which the stout
woman easily falls into Is that of go
ing around with her head bent down s 6
that she soon has two or even three
chins. Chin straps for reducing the
chin are sohi everywhere nowadays, or
one can make them of a piece of linen
cut 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 face because they sleep
with 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
rpinute 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. ■•Tie
trouble Is that few women are willing
to keep it up long enough to feel the
good results.
An excellent movement for reducing
the 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 rope, 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.
Riding, 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 more than
seven hours at night. This applies, of
course, only to the fat woman of robust
constitution.
Dr. Arnold l.orrand advises abstain
ing from meat entirely, in order to re
duce flesh, or to eat very little, if any
of it, while for the rest of the diet,
almost every woman knows 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. 1
The Manicure Lady e e
By William F. Kirk
<< T) ROTHER WILFRED and me
| j 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 when I tell you anything I mean
it.”
”1 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 hia lady
guests. 1 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
tem. I had more than one good laugh
before the two of 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 pretty 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-Naptha Way.
Anty Drudge— “ Why, bless my soul! Mrs. Old School,
the washerwoman has seen the light at last and has
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.
I hat’s Progress, and Progress is made
possible Ly science.
Fels-Naptha is science applied to the
washday problem, and it’s results are just
wonder fid.
Formerly washday was a time of sick
ening odors, back-breaking labor, a disor
dered house and the severest test on the
clothes. 1 his was necessary. There was
no other way.
Ihe Fels-Naptha was hd a y —t h e
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 red and green
wrapper are'followed, the result is certain.
get by, but poets is awful helpless
creatures. At least, Wilfred is. H»
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 thetff” 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 tha£ 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 tvas 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 return,
he gets a ticket for the coin deposited
The tickets are later honored on pres
entation at a government departmen’.
Encouraged by the success of th.'
Vienna experiment, the people of Pans
are to introduce the same system into
their streets.
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 -t t
on top of a hollow mast or shaf',
through which the light can be rear ’
in stormy weather. The lightship has
wireless telegraph and fog an<l subma
rine signals. Diesel oil engines run a
dynamo, and two large accumulator
batteries store the electric current f. ■
emergency use. The new vessel is l.'o
feet long and 25 feet wide. It will be
stationed near the shallows at th'
mouth of the River Elbe.