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TOE QEOBQIAM’S MAGAZINE PAGE “Initials Only **- By Anna Katherine Green A Thri/iing Mystery Story of Modern Tinies TODAY'S INSTALLMENT. (Copyright, 1911, Street & Smith ) (Copyright, 1911, by Dodd, Mead & Col “Then they will bear being turned over again I want to be witness of the operation.” “Where will you see Miss Clarke?” r “Wherever she pleases -only I can't walk far ” “I think I know the place. You shall have the use of this elevator. It has not been running since last night, or it would be full of curious people all the time, hustling to get a glimpse of this place But they'll put a man on for you.” "Very good manage it as you will. I’ll wait here till you're ready Explain yourself to the lady Tell her I'm an old and rheumatic invalid who has been used to asking his own questions. I’ll not trou ble her much. But there is one point she must make clear to me.” Sweetwater did not presume to ask what point, but he hoped to be fully en lightened when the time came And he was Mr Gryce had undertaken to educate him for this work. and never missed rhe opportunity of giving him a lesson. The three met in a private sitting room on an upper floor, the detectives en tering first and the lady coming in soon after. As her quiet figure appeared in the doorway. Sweetwater stole a glance at Mr Gryce He was not looking her way, of course, he never looked directly at anybody, hut he formed his impressions fop all that, and Sweetwater was anxious to make sure of thete impressions There, was no doubting them in this instance. Miss Clarke was not a woman to rouse an unfavorable opinion in any man's mind Os slight, almost frail build, she bad that peculiar animation which goes with a speaking eye and a widely sym pathetic nature Without any substan . tai claims to beauty, her expression was so v.oman’y and so sweet that she was invar ably called lovely Mi Gryce was engaged at the moment in shifting his cane from the right hand to the left, but his manner was never more encouraging or his smile more be nevolent “Pardon me," he apologized, with one of his old-fashioned bows. "I'm sorry to trouble you after all the distress you must have been under this morning But there is something I wish especially to ask you in regard to the dreadful occur rence in which you played so kind a part You were the first to reach the prostrate woman, I believe.” “Yes The boys jumped up and ran to ward her. but they were frightened by her looks and left it for me to put my’ hands ; under her and try to lift her up " “Did you manage it'."' “I succeeded in getting her head into my lap. nothing more ' “And sat so?" “For some little time. That is. It Feemed long, though 1 believe it was not more than a minute before two men came running from the musicians' gallery One thinks ho fast al such a time and feels so much ” “You knew she was dead, then?" “I felt her to be so.” “How felt?” “I was sure- 1 never questioned it.” “You have seen-women in a faint ?” * “Yes; many times.” “What made the difference'* Why should you believe Miss Challoner dead s|mply because she lay still and apparent ly lifeless?” “I can not tell you. Possibly death tells Its own story I only know how I felt ” “Perhaps there was another reason’* Perhaps, consciously or unconsciously. I you laid your palm upon her heart?” Miss Clarke started, and her sweet fare showed a mon.ent's perplexity “Did I?” she queried, musingly Then with a sudden access of feeling. ”1 may have done so; indeed, I believe 1 did My arms were around her. It would not have been an unnatural action.” "No. a very natural one, I should any Can not you tell me positively whether you did this or not?” MRS. CREATOR'S AWFUL EXPERIENCE During Change of Life —How Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege table Compound Made Her a Well Woman. Natick, Mass. —“ I cannot express what 1 went through during the change i of life before I tried Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound. I was in such a nervous condition I could not keep still. My limbs were cold, 1 had creepy sensa tions, and I could not sleep nights. 1 was finally told by two physicians that I also had a tumor, I read a' one day of the wonderful cures made by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound and decided to try it, and it has made me a well woman. My neighbors and friends declare it has worked a mir acle for me. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege table Compound is worth its weight in gold for women during this perodof life. If it will help others you may publish my letter.’’—Mrs! Marion Sweet Grea- TON, No. 1 Jefferson St., Natick, Mass. Change of Life is one of the most critical periods of a woman’s existence. Women everywhere should remember that there is no other remedy known to so successfully carry women through this trying period as Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. If you want special advice write to Lydia E. Piukhani Medicine Co. confi* dentiaL Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered hy a womau ami held iu strict confidence. b Yes. I did I had forgotten it. but I remember now.” And the glance she cast him. while not meeting his eye, showed ’hat she understood the importance of the admission. "I kn6w." she said, "what you are going to ask me now. Did T 'eel anything there but the flowers and tulle? No. Mr. Gryce, I did not. There was no poniard in the wound.” Mr Gryce felt around, found a chair and sank into it. You are a truthful woman.” said he. “And." he added more slowly, “com p■•.•?<! enough in character I should judge not to have made any mistake on this very vital point.” ' I think so. Mr Gryce I was in a state of excitement, of course, but the woman was a stranger to me. and my feelings were not unduly agitated.” “Sweetwater, we can let my suggestion go in regard to those ten minutes I spoke of The time is narrowed down to one, and in that one, Miss Clarke was the only person to touch her.” "The only one,” ec hoed the lady, catch ing perhaps the slight rising sound of query in his voice. I will trouble you no further.” So said the old detective, thoughtfully. Sweetwater, help me out of this.” His eye was dull and his manner betrayed exhaustion. But vigor returned to him before he had well reached the door, and he showed some of his old spirit as he thanked Miss Clarke and turned to take the elevator. “But one possibility remains ” he con fided to Sweetwater, as they stood waiting at the elevator door "Miss Challoner died from a stab. The next minute she was in this lady’s arms No weapon pro truded from the wound, nor was an'’ found on or near her in the mezzanine What follows’ She struck th< blow her self. and the strength of purpose w’hich led her to do this gave her the additional force to pull the weapon out and fling It from her It did not fall upon the floor around her; therefore, it flew through one • f those opening into the lobby, and there it either will be, or has been found.” It was this statement, otherwise word ed. w’hich gave me my triumph over < Jeorge. The Red Cloak. "Mhat results? Speak up, Sweetwa ter.” “None. Every man. woman and boy connected with the hotel has been ques tioned. many of them routed out of their beds for the purpose, but not one of them picked up anything from the floor of the lobby, or knows nf any one who did.” “There now remain the guests.” And after them pardon me, Mr. Gryce—the general public which rushed in rather promiscuously last night.” “I know it; it's a task, but it must be [carried through. Put up bulletins, pub lish your wants in the papers—do any thing, only gain your end.” A bulletin was put up. Some hours later Sweetwater re-entered the room, and, approaching Mr. Gryce with a smile, blurted out: “The bulletin is a great go. 1 think— <>f course, I can not be sure—that it’s going to do the business. I’ve watched every one who stopped to read It Many showed interest and many emotion She ■■■ to ha\e had a troop of filends Hut embarrassment! Only one showed that. I thought you would like to know.” “Embarrassment? Humph! a man?” "No, a woman: a lady, sir; one of the transients. I found out in a jiffy all they could tell me about her ' “A woman! We didn’t expect that Where Is she .’ Si ill in the lobby ?” No, sir. She took the elevator while 1 was talking with the clerk.” “There's nothing in it. You mistook her expression.” “I don’t hii.k so. 1 bad noticed her , when she first came into the lobby She was talking to her daughter, who was with her. and looked natural and happy. But no sooner had she seen and read that bulletin, than the blood shot up into her face and her manner became furtive and hastx There was no mistaking the difference, sir Almost before I could point her out, she had seized her (laugh ter by the arm and hurried hev toward the elevator. I wanted to follow her. but you may prefer to make your own In quiries Iler room Is On the seventh floor, number 712, and her name is Watkins. Mrs. Horace Watkins, of Nashville.” Mr Gryce nodded thoughtfully, but made no Immediate effort to rise. "Is that all you know' about her?” he asked “Yes. this is the first time she has ; stopped at this hotel. She came yester day. Took a room indefinitely. Seems all right; hut she did blush, sir I never saw its beat in a yoiSig girl ’’ “Call the desk Say that I’m to be told if Mrs. Watkins, of Nashville, rings up • luring the next ten minutes. We’ll give her that long to take some action. If she fails to make any move. I ll make my own approaches ” But he returned almost instantly. “Mrs Watkins has just telephoned down : that she is going to- to leave, sir ” “To leave.?” The old man struggled to his feet “No. J 712, do you say? Seven stories.” he sighed. But as he turned wdth a bobble, he stopped “There are difficulties in the wa\ of this interview.” he remarked. "A blush is not much to go upon. I’m afraid we shall have to resort to the shadow business and that is your work, not mine ” But here the door opened and a boy brought In a line which had been left at ’he desk It related to the very mat ter then engaging them, and ran thus: “1 see that information is desired as i to whether an\ person was seen to stoop i to the lobby floor last night at or shortly , after the critical moment of Miss Chal- I tones s fail in the half story above i can give such information. I was in the lobby at the time, and in the height of the confusion following this alarming in- | I cident. 1 remember seeing a lady one i i of the new arrivals (there were several coming in at the time) stoop quickly 1 down and pick up something from the floor. 1 thought nothing of it at the time. I and so j aid little attention to her ap , pearance I can only recall the sudden > ness with which she stooped and the color of the cloak she wore It was red. and the whole garment was voluminous. if >ou wish further particulars though in ; truth. 1 l.a .» no more to give you can find me in room 356 “HENRY A M’ELROY "Humph' This should simpllf> our 5 task," v. s Mr Gryce's comment, as lie i handed the note • ver to Sweetwater • ”¥->u can easily find out if the lady, now ••n the point of departure, can be Iden tified with the one described by Mr. Me- J if s’e <-an, 1 am ready to meet, he- anywhere Here g<«. - rfed Sweetwater, 'land quickly left the room I; \\ l.v’. he return- • » was md with his , m- st hopeful air I To Be Continued »n Next Issue. Beauty Secrets of Foothght Favorites Advice to the Woman H7?o Is Getting Fat By FLORENCE GARDNER. rpHE nightmare or my life is the * dread of getting fat. Oh, yes, thanks, I know I’m quite thin now, but the fear of becom ing fat and falling in large billows over myself must have begun in my cradle days, for I don't remember a time when I didn’t think the worst kind of punish ment in the world would be to weigh 150 pounds. I’ve put the weight up tn 200 now. be cause I know there are lots of women who weigh 150 pounds and look all right. But I hope the time will never come when 1 weigh more than 130. There's nothing about reducing weight that I don't know. I've studied the question as seriously as if I were training for the human skeleton at the circus, and I've never let any sugges tion as to how to get thin escape me. I have a w hole scrap book on the subject. J know that I don't need to take my own advice yet, but I may some day, so I am preparing to reduce a double chin long before I've got one, and to deduct pounds from my weight while I am still in the thin category. Just this afternoon I rode in a Fifth avenue 'bus with one of those women whom I fear to resemble some day. She was not very tall—about my height, and I don't think she was very old. either, though that is one thing you can never tell about fat people. When they are all puffed out they have neither lines nor expression to their face, so that they look 25 or 45, and all the years In between. Well, this women had two daughters, who sat beside her. One was evidently fourteen and the other was eighteen, and both were beginning to resemble mamma. Mamma sat In her seat like an enormous feather bed tied in the middle, with a pair of fancy yellow shoes attached to one end. The shoes dangled about two inches above the floor, and I am perfectly certain that mamma had not seen, them for several years, and probably had said good-bye to her waist line before she was twen ty She had five double chins—l count ed them—and her necklace, at least the front part of It, was completely hidden from view by the large fold of flesh that hung over it. A Family of Chins. Her eldest daughter already had one double chin, and the little girl, who was quite puffy in appearance, had already a good-sized dent under her chin, which is the first promise of what is to be. My eyes were riveted on that fat lady, who, by the way, was encased in the most expensive of lingerie dresses. It must have taken a terrible tug to get her into it, but probably the fat chil dren helped As I sat there, worrying myself sick like that, I suddenly Came to the conclusion that the two girls were what the boys call "chumps.” There they sat next to mamma, with her terrible example always before them Probably when she's at home she groans and grunts and has heat prostration in the summertime, and nervous chills In the winter, and heaves when she goes upstairs, and comes down as if an invisible derrick was slowly aiding her to descend; yet these girls have not the sense to say, "We won't be like mamma.” If 1 were one of those girls I'd make up my mind to avoid fat. if I had to be as heroic as Joan nf Arc, or a lady aviator. I would not eat fat-building things. I wouldn't drink water with tny meals, and I'd give up potatoes and bread and beans and peas and corn and starchy puddings, and eating meats more than once a day. You see, 1 know' ail about It, for I will never, never be fat. I weigh my- Do You Know— _________________ a Dr. Alexl Carrel, a young French scientist now connected with the Rockefeller institute of New York, has Just demonstrated that the heart can exist and develop without the body. His most recent experiments were made with chickens' hearts, and In one case lie succeeded in maintaining such a heart alive—and beating nor mally «-for more than three months. Cape Town newspapers state that the latest thing in the sartorial line Is trousers for oxen This method of clothing beasts of burden is not due to any accession of style In South Africa, the garments having become a necessity to protect the animals fr.om the tsetse files, which are a torment and often a fatal enemy. A bathing bicycle for life-saving, which has attracted attention at New Brighton. Iles flat In the water and is worked by pedals which operate the propeller The apparatus, which ob tains a good speed, is unsinkable Traveling postoflices have proved a great success in Canada, where they go round from farm to farm, prepared I to sell stamps, register letters, or issue I postal and money orders Bismuth and nickel-steel both have the curious property of expanding win n they cool instead of contracting, like other metals. in India the natives, when brewing tea, frequently use a sliver ball filled with the haves through which the boil ing water may flow AU blood < ells of a human being have their origin in the r< <1 marrow of the bones, whence they make their way into general circulation. » Four adjoining municipalities in the French district of Dijon each have one of four brothers as mayor. The average annual output of the world in rubber is 90,000 tons Ital? s Income from foreign visitors is reckoned at J-o .000,000 a year. ■ - .. < 7 I i oH /1 11 i ■’ii W ■ I * 3 7 ’ x-’A \xG-— \ Le MISS FLORENCE GARDNER. (A Ziegfeld beauty In "The Winsome Widow" company.) self once a week, even in summertime, i when I get steadily thinner from danc- 1 Ing. I think dancing is an excellent way 1 to reduce, especially If you take very : little liquid refreshment; but you can't ; ask fat people to dance. In the first i place they look funny when they’re i trying, and then they are also lazy, : they don't like to exert themselves. Os course, people get fat because they 1 are lazy and even all the methods I ■ know about won't help you reduce un- i less you are very determined and se vere with yourself. ] One Remedy. When I find I am gaining more than a , pound or two in a year, I rush to the Turkish bath to melt myself down, and that is where you see the most ridicu lous display of feminine inconsistency. A woman will spend two dollars for her bath and massage. She will stand he roic pummeling, and stay in the hot box until she is almost parooiled; then she’ll come out and have herself weighed, say to the patient attendant, “Lizzie, isn’t it grand ? I’ve lost three-quarters of a pound. Oh, dear. Ido feel so faint, though. Just be a good girl and order me a nice little snack of something to eat—let me see, this is the day they have spare ribs at the restuarant; of HER CONDITION QUITE CRITICAL Suffered From Terrible Train of Symptoms. Thinks Fatal Out= come Was Avoided by Timely Use of Cardui. Columbia, S. C. —In a letter from this city, Miss Carrie Meetze says: “I was a perfect wreck, from sickness. I had pains in my right side. weak, fainting spells, dizziness; then numb and cold feelings. "At times my feet were so swollen I could not walk a step. "I also had backache, headache, was nervous, appetite good at times, more often not. and my kidneys troubled me. "A friend advised me to give Cardui, the woman's tonic, a trial. I did so. and from rhe very firs.t it helped me. "At the end of two months the swell ing in my feet had gone down, and I was relieved from all the pains. “I continued taking Cardui. and now I do almost all my housework. "I am willing for you to publish what I write, for the good of other women, for I am sure that Cardui saved me from the grave." The symptoms described in the above letter are proof that this lady was suf. feting from womanly trouble, and her cure shows that she took the right medicine for her trouble, namely: Car. dui.- the woman's tonic. If you suffer as she did. do as she did, taki Cardui, and it will surely do for you what it did for her. Why not'.’ N it Write to: Ladies \dvisor> Dept.. I < 'hattannoga Medicine Co.. Chattanooga, i Tenn for Special Instructions, and tU- I page book. "Home Treatment for Worn 'in. sent in plain wrapper, on request. course. I’m afraid they are fattening, but I have just reduced, so I can af ford to eat something. And oh, Liz zie, there's some sweet potatoes au gratin, and a little pattie, and I do love macaroni so, and just a little bit of pud ding, and a bottle of beer. Beer is so strengthening, and I feel the need of it.” And Lizzie laugns in the sleeve of her bathing suit, if it has any, and winks at me, and says, “Can you beat it?” That's how they get thin at Turkish baths. It costs them two dollars to reduce, and about two and a half to put the weight back again, via the res taurant, so it is cheaper to stay at home. Must Be Careful. If you are going to take the Turkish bath treatment you want to be very careful not to counteract the good the bath does you by an enormous supper. With a weekly Turkish bath, care ful diet and exercise, I think that even the fat lady in the bus could bring herself down to something like nor mal proportions. The minute I get a double chin, this is what I am going to do. I shall wear the highest and tightest of collars, because that will remind me to keep my neck stretched up. Whenever 1 have time I will stretch my neck as if I were a goose, and raise my chin as near to the sky as I can get it. Then I’ll turn my head very slowly first to one side and then to the other, stretching and lifting the neck, and I shall cultivate the haughtiest and top-loftiest expression, not because I feel that way, but because I refuse to admit the existence of more than one chin. Up-to-Date Jokes It was Sunday afternoon, and the curate, calling unexpectedly to visit a member of his flock, found him out —in two senses. The gentleman's young son came to the door and announced his father’s absence. "He's gone to the golf club,” said he. casually, and then, reading, perhaps, some shade of disapproval in the parson s eyes, he extenuated thus: "He's not gone to play golf, you know, not on a Sunday; only to drink beer and have a game of cards.” Having thus cleared his father's character, he shut the door on the dumfounded cleric. Sitting on the beach, the little boy watched a very fat bather disporting herself in the surf. He knew nothing of tides, and he did not notice that each succeeding wave came a little closer to his feet. At last an extra big wave washed over his shoetops. "Please stop," he yelled to the fair, fat bather; “stop jumpin' up and down, else you’ll drown me!" The Shipwrecked Aeronaut —I sup pose you farmers have plenty to do now ? The Farmer —Alius did. First, it was them bicycles, then the motor cars got to breakin' down, and now you airo nutty fellers come ftopptn' down all over the land. Yes. I hardly get time to look after the crops. “Tommy. I'm going to punish you severely." "What for, pa?" Now, don't try that Innocence game. I know all the bad things you’ve done today.” "No, you don't, pa. You don't know I hid the strap you lick me with.” "Why should I be placed under the lash like this because my name is fairly well known?" asked a prominent man who was undergoing a stiff cross-ex amination. "Because." retorted the counsel, "a men who is in the public eye must al ways be under the lash.” What Do You Say? By Beatrice Fairfax 44 | book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."— Emerson. I would like to have my girls read that carefully, and then consider it. If every’ one of you is a quotation from all your ancestors, what is it you say? If a. girl is flippant, does she realize that her flippancy makes others wonder what kind of a mother she has? If she is careless in attire, and has loose strings hanging where strings should not be. does she think that she is a quotation from her ancestors, a quotation that tells the world her mother is a very untidy woman? If she is loud in dress and boisterous in speech, does she know that she is a quotation that says her mother talks always in a shrill scream? If Emerson is right, and it is hoped, for the sake of many’ mothers, that he isn’t, many girls are quotations that arouse no interest to learn more of the book. I refer to the girl who laughs in a shrill calliope screech. I refer to the girl with buttons off, and a collar that is soiled. I refer to the girl who regards a quick impudence as brilliant repartee, and who would not refrain from say ing a witty thing because it might hurt some one, but would, rather, say it the quicker. I refer to the girl who uses slang herself, and regards slang talk In a young man as the height of brilliant conversation. I refer to the girl who parades her “beau" in her talk with other girls as though he were a paragon of all vir tues, and she the most Irresistible of her sex to secure him. I refer to the girl who tells her se crets to other girls, and never confides in her mother. I refer to the girl who demands one standard of behavior for her brother, and is lax in the standard by which she measures the young man who courts her. Parents and Home Last. I refer to the girl who makes her obligations to her parents and her home come the last in her little world; who places the friends met away from home above those she left there; who slights the love of those who have done the most for her for the attention of those who would do the least. I refer to the girl who contrasts the flattery of her friends with the kindly criticism of her parents and counts the former as of greater value. If Emerson is right, and his admirers say’ he is never wrong, there are many NATIONAL SURGICAL INSTITUTE For the Treatment of SiC DEFORMITIES 7 EETASLISMEO ’874. •A jiV', Give the deformed a chance. / i ‘7*«* Sendustheir / f \ )/\| names, we can / I I \ help them. This Institue Treats Club Feet, Dis eases of the Spine, Hip Joints, Paraly sis, etc. Send for illustrated catalog. 72 South Prvor Street. Atlanta, Ga. , Eczema and Ringworm Cured. Tetterine is the only “dead sure" cure for eczema. It is a fragrant, soothing, healing antiseptic, which never fails. It Is equally effective in the cure of ring worm and all other violent skin and scalp diseases. Ask your druggist for Tetterine. If he hasn’t it, send 50c to the Shuptrine Co., Savannah. Ga. i Northern : Lakes The lake resorts in the West and ■ '/y North are particularly attractive. // />- The clear invigorating air added to boating, bathing // an d fishing will do much to upbuild you physically. , f / We have on sale daily round trip tickets at low fares and with long return limits and will be glad to give you full information. Following are the round trip rates from Atlanta to some of the principal resorts: Charlevoix $36.55 Mackinac Island-$38.65 Chautauqua Lake Points 34.30 Marquette 46.15 Chicago 30.00 Milwaukee.32.oo Detroit 30.00 Put-in-Bay 28.00 i Duluth 48.00 Petoskey 36.55 I THE ATTRACTIVE WAY TO ALL THE RESORTS ON THE Great Lakes, Canadian Lakes and in the West | SWpl CITY TICKET OFFICE 4 Peachtree Street phones {*^* a ’ n 7 » o#B girls who should sit down and ca , ly write what they are as quota ior ’, of their ancestors. If they are frank, and desire tc ha just, they will confess that as quc ;i . tlons from ’their ancestors they hal permitted themselves to become bar" garbled. They will admit they are not quota tions from their ancestors, because th* have permitted false standards, foblisi customs, lax discipline and parents indulgence to so twist and turn th en ' that the original sentiment is distorted or wholly lost. Being just, and desirous to quot« their ancestors to their credit, they will continue this self-analyst till it be comes self-reform. One who finds a quotation that pleases wants to know more of the book. It is my hope that every girl will so impress others by her modesty, in telligence and neatness that those wb> know her will long to also know her mother. AND SHE WAS RIGHT, TOO. Two ladies while taking their morn ing walk, were met by an old gipsy woman, who said: “Pretty ladies, I will show you your future husbands’ faces in a bucket of water for the small sum of one shill ing.” The ladies at cnce gave the old wom an the shilling tnd went into a room and looked anxiously into the bucket of water, but only siw their own reflec tions. “We only see otr own faces,” said the ladies. "Well, they will be your husbands,’ when you are marred,” was the cool reply. GETTING MORE lOOD VALUE FOR LESS NONEY. When you consider tie high food value of Faust, Spaghetti and the delicious dishes it the cost ' seems ridiculously low. Don’t von think you should serve it much more often? It will me>,n a con . siderable saving in you* house hold expenses and a sure delight ' to your family. I Faust Spaghetti is made fronAmer ' lean Durum wheat, by i n , . clean American factory. We se-a'it tn dust, dirt and damp-proof pakag s to keep it clean and wholesome »til i ■ reaches you. Your grocer sells vvaust Spaghetti in 5c and 10c packagq, MAULL BROS., St. Louis. Mo. WILTON JELLICO > COAL $4.75 Per Ton SEPTEMBER DELIVERY I The Jellico Coal Go. I 82 Peachtree Street | Both Phones 3668