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THE GE O IMMAN’S MAGAZINE PAGE “Initials Only” * By Anna Katherine Green A Thrilling Mystery Story of Modern Tinies TODAY’S INSTALLMENT. (Copyright, 1911, Street & Smith.) .Copyright, 1911, by Dodd, Mead & Co.) \t last I slept, but it was only to r ,, use again with the same quick realfza of my surroundings which I had ex perienced on my recovery from my falnt irg fit of hours before. Someone had stopped at our door before hurrying by .wn the hall. Who was that someone? I rose on my elbow, and endeavored to peer through the dark. Os course, I could see nothing. But when I awoke a second • ime there was enough light in the room, early as it undoubtedly was, for me to .jtect a letter lying on the carpet'just inside the door. Instantly 1 wa? on my feet. Catching , letter up, I carried it to the wln ,i,?w Our two names were on it—Mr. Mrs. George Anderson; the writing, Mr. Slater’s. I glanced over at George. He was sleeping peacefully. It was too early ... wake him, but I could not lay that etter down unread; was not my name on ,? Tearing it open, I devoured its con ents —the exclamation I made on read ng it waking George. The writing was in Mr. Slater’s hand, tnd the words were: “I must request, 4 at the instance of Coroner Heath and such of the police as listened to your adventure, that vou make no further mention of what you saw’ in the street under our win* dows last night. The doctors find no bullet in the w’ound. This clears Mr. Brotherson.” Sweet Little Miss Clarke. When we took our seats at the break fast table it was with the feeling of being no longer looked upon as connected in any way with this case. Yet our interest in it was, if anything, increased, and when I saw George casting furtive glances at a certain table behind me, I leaned over and asked him the reason, being sure that the people whose faces I saw reflected in the mirror directly before us had some thing to do with the great matter then engrossing us. His answer conveyed the somewhat ex citing that the four persons seated in my rear were the same four who had been reading at the round table in the mezzanine at the time of Miss Challoner’s death. Instantly they absorbed all my atten tion, though I dared not give them a di rect look and continued to observe them only in the glass. , "Is it one family?” I asked. "Yes, and a very respectable one Transients, of course, but very well known in Denver. The lady is not the mother of the boys, but their aunt. The hoys belong to the gentleman, who is a widower.” Anty Drudge’s Vision. Anty Drudge had finished her weekly wash before noon and she sat in her comfortable rocking chair and dozed. And in a dream, she saw an u happy woman bound with fetters, her right arm chained to a washboiler, her left arm to a washboard. And the sun was setting and it was growing dark. And she dreamed that she touched the shackles on each wrist of the woman with a bar of Fels-Naptha soap. And they fell off, and the woman arose glad and free — free from washday drudgery for evermore. And Anty Drudge, arousing front her slumber, knew that what she dreamed was true. The greatest emancipation proclama tion since Lincoln’s is printed on ths back oF the red and green Fels-Naptha soap wrapper. It is the directions for using Fels-Naptha in washing clothes. It is also a different way of washing. It has freed millions of women from wash day drudgery for all time to come —from slavery to the old back-breaking, health wrecking methods which used to be thought necessary. Are you still a slave to these old-fash ioned methods, drudging away every wash day, wasting your time and your work and wearing out clothes before their time? Then stop. Use Fels-Naptha. Wash your clothes in the new and easy way in cool or lukewarm water, summer or winter, with out boiling or hard rubbing. Easy directions on the back of the Fels-Naptha wrapper. “Their word ought to be good." George nodded. The boys look wide-awake enough if the father does not. As for the aunt, she is sweetness Itself. Do they still in sist that Miss Challoner was the only person in the room with them at this time?” They did last night. I don t know how they will meet this statement of the doc tor’s.” “George!” He leaned nearer. "Have you ever thought that she might have been a suicide? That she stabbed herself?” ‘No. for in that case a weapon would have been fbund " "And are you sure that none was?" "Positive. Such a fact could not have been kept quiet. If a weapon had been picked up there would be no mystery, and no necessity for further police investiga tion.” ’ "And the detectives are still here?" "I just saw one." "George’." 1 Again his head came nearer. "Have they searched the lobby? 1 be lieve she had a weapon." "Laura!" "I know it sounds foolish, but the al ternative is so improbable. A family like that can not be leagued together In a con spiracy to hide the truth concerning a matter so serious. To be sure, they may all be short-sighted, or so little given to observation that they didn't see what passed before their eyes. The boys look wide-awake enough, but who can tell? I would sooner believe that—” 1 stopped short so suddenly that George looked startled. My attention had been I caught by something new 1 saw in the ' mirror upon which my attention was i fixed. A man was looking in from the i corridor behind, at the four persons we t were just discussing. He was watching • them intently, and 1 thought I knew his t face. i “What kind of a looking person was • the man who took you outside last i night?" I inquired of George, with my eyes still on this furtive watcher. “A fellow to make you laugh. A per s feet character, Laura; hideously homely ) but agreeable enough. I took quite a i fancy to him. Why?” ! "I am looking at him now." “Very likely. He’s deep in this affair. Just an everyday detective, but ambl- • tious, i suppose, and quite alive to the i importance of being thorough." "He is watching those people. No. he isn’t. How quickly he disappeared!" "Yes. he’s mercurial in all his rnove- I merits. Laura, w'e. must get out of this. , There happens to be something else in , the world for me to do than to sit around t and follow up murder clews." To Be Continued in Next Issue. By EVELYN RORNER. SOMEBODY has said that the hand is the second face, and 1 believe j if one has pretty hands one has a ’ good right to be proud of them, for i there are more pretty faces titan j pretty hands in the world, and it's | much easier to beautify the face than to make the hand graceful and charm ing. A woman’s hand has so much to do I mean, of course, the average woman, who has to care for her house, to look after her children, and who has het hand in a hundred and one different things during the day. So it is no wonder that there are so few classic ally beautiful hands in the world. The hand that rocks the cradle may still be white and soft, but when it shreds the codfish, blacks the stove, does the family mending and washes clothes besides, you can forgive it for looking worn at an early age. However, even housework n 6 longer has terrors for the woman who wants to keep her hands pretty, and who knows how, for a cure has been found for almost ail the troubles that beset a busy pair of hands. When a woman’s hands get very red for no apparent reason, she is usually wearing some tight band around her body, either a corset that is too snug or tight garters. Even tight shoes will make the hands red; and, of course, long immersion in cold or ho! water will do the same 'thing. Then . again, when the hands grow red anc none of these causes are found, the person may have rheumatism or gou‘, for it is one of the first signs of these troubles; and, of course, the cure has Io be found at the doctor’s office. Preventing Dirty Nails. If one has any dirty work to do like polishing shoes, for instance, or the kitchen stove, and one can not save one’s fingers from getting dirty, a little grease or lard, rubbed around the finger nails, will keep the dirt from getting in them Aftev the hands have been thorough ly washed, they should be dried with powdered starch, and sometimes it is a good thing to use oatmeal boiled and strained, instead of using soap. Oat meal makes the ha.nds nice and soft, and so w ill almond meal or bran. For the woman who has much house work to do, there are various kinds of gloves to protect the hands while do ing it, and if she objects to the odors which may linger on the skin, she can remove the unpleasant odor by rubbing them with powdered mustard or by putting mustard in the water in which she washes her hands. I have found that the best whitener for ordinary purposes is plain lemon juice and the oil in lemon peel. This softens the skin and makes it delight ful to the touch. When your hands are very rough and you want to get them soft in a very short time, take a little sweet cream, cold cream, buttermilk or butter, wash your hands thoroughly in warm water, then rub in ,any one of these creams you may have, while the hands are still wet. Rub until there is nothing left to absorb; then wash off quickly in warm water, just enough to do away with the sticky feeling which is so un pleasant. People whose hands chap very easily ought to do this every time they wash their hands, using an inex pensive cold cream und a pure soap. I have heard lots of women complain that the use of grease in any form on rhe hand and forearm would make the hair grow’. Well, there is a simple remedy for that. It consists of a five cent piece of pumice bought at the drug store, and rubbed on the arm in this way. Light Rubbing. If your pumice stone is soft and fairly smooth, as it sometimes is, you won't need anything else but a little light rubbing over the hairy surface. But if the pumice stone is coarse and rough, wet it a little with soapy water, and then rub it briskly and lightly in a circular manner over the skin on which the hair is growing. You will soon wear off the hair, and if you rub lightly you won't irritate the skin, if you do, apply a little glycerine or cold cream. Most people can use glycerine on their hands and arms, though they can not-use it on their face, and it is a good thing to have on one's wash stand. for its constant use will keep the hands very nice and soft. Probably the tngin reason why the skin of so many hands is so coarse and ugly is because people don't take time enough to dry their hands prop erly. but hurry over them as best they may. The little white spots on the nails are due to poor circulation, ami the ridges on the nails come from excess uric acid in the blood. The white spots occasionally come from bruises or bumps, and then they soon disappear, but when they are the Do You Know— Fish have no eyelids. 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