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
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results of other troubles one must
seek tlie remedy elsewhere.
If you want to get your hands very
white, here is a paste wide h isn’t diffi
cult to make, and which keeps them
in good condition. Take about two
ounces of almond meal and four ounces
of sweet olive oil. four ounces of
strained honey and a quarter of the
yolk of an egg. Melt the honey in a
double boiler, pour the almond meal
in it and mix it thoroughly; then beat
in the yolk of the egg. add the oil drop
by drop, and knead until a firm paste is
produced. When the paste is cool, ap
ply to the hands and wear gloves over
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lam 19 years of Age. I have been
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Should I object to his going? Do
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I think he will ask you to marry
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