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THE GEORGIAN'S MAGAZINE,' PAGE
* ‘lnitials Only’ By Anna Katherine Green
A Thrilling Mystery Story of Modern Times
(Copyright. 1911, Street X- Smith.)
(Copyright, 1911, by Dodd, Mead & Co.)
TODAY’S INSTALLMENT.
‘’No; they’ve gnne th? other way. Tt
W a red hot anarchist meeting, and
no mistake. They have arrested one of
the speakers, but the other escaped. How,
we have not yet found out. but I think
there’s away out somewhere by which
he got the start nf us. He was the man
I wanted you to see Rad luck, Mr. An
derson, but I’m not at the end of my
■**®oiirces. If you’ll have patience with
me and accompany me a little further,
I promise you that I’ll only risk one
more failure Will you be so good, sir?”
The Incident of the Lifted Shade.
The fellow had away with him hard
to resist Cold as Georg? was and ex
hausted by an excitement of a kind to
which he was wholly unaccustomed, he
found himself acceding to the detective's
request, and after a quick lunch and a
hug? cup of coffee in a restaurant which
I wish I had time to describe, the two
took a car which eventually brought them
into one of the oldest quarters of the bor
ough of Brooklyn.
The sleet which had stung their faces
In th? streets of New York had been left
behind them somewhere on the bridge,
but the chill was not gone from the air,
and George felt greatly relieved when
Sweetwater paused in the middle of a
long block before a lofty tenement house
of mean appearance, and signified that
here they were to stop, and that from
now on mum was to he their watchword
Georg* was relieved ] say. but he was
also more astonish* <l than ev*r What
kind ofthaunts were these for the cultured
gentleman who spent his evenings at the
Clermont? It was easy enough in these
days of extravagant sympathies to un
derstand such a man addressing the un
•asy spirits of lower New’ York he had
been called an enthusiast, and an en
thusiast is often a social agitator—
but to trace him afterwards to a
place like this was certainly a sur
prise. A tenement such a tenement as
this—meant home home for himself or
for those he counted his friends, and such
a supposition seemed inconceivable to
my poor husband, with the memory of
the gorgeous parlors of the Clermont In
his mind Indeed, he hinted something of
the kind to his affable but strangely re
ticent companion, but all the answer he
got was n peculiar smile whose humor
ous twist he could barelx discern in the
semi-darkness of the open doorway into
which they had just plunged.
“An adventure! certainly an adventure’’’
flashed through poor George's mind, as h?
peered, in great curiosity down the long
hall before him, into a dismal rear, open
ing Into a still more dismal court. Tt was
truly a novel experience for a business
man whose philanthropy was carried on
entirely by proxy—that is, by his wif?<
Should he be expected to penetrate Into
those dark, ill-smelling recesses, or would
he be led up the Inng flights of naked
Btairs, so feebly Illuminated that they
gave the Impression of extending indefi
nitely into dimmer and dimmer heights of
decay and desolation?
Sweetwater seemed to decide for the
rear, for leaving George, he stepped down
the hall into the court beyond, where
George could see him casting Inquiring
glances up at the walls above him. An
other tenement, similar to the one whose
rear end he was comtemplating, towered
behind but he paid no attention to that.
He was satisfied with the look he hud giv
en and came quickly back, joining George
at the foot of the staircase, up which he
silently led the way
It was a rude, none-to-well-cared-for
building, but it seemed respectable
enough and very quiet, considering the
tnast> of people it accommodated. There
were marks of poverty everywhere, but no
HIGH COST
OF LIVING
Most Serious Problem of
Today. Due Largely to
Sickness. Read
This Letter.
CLIFTON MILLS. KY.—That the
high cost of living is due largely to
sickness, especially among the women
folks, no one can doubt, but in the fol
lowing letter from Mrs. Sylvania
Woods. <’f this place, it is brought more
forcibly home to us:
“Before I began to take Cardui, the
woman's tonic, my back and head would
hurt so bad, day and night, I thought
the pain would kill me I was unable
to attend to any of my household du
ties
“I had only taken three bottles of
Cardui when I began to feel like a new
woman. Within a few months I gained
35 pounds and now I not only do al)
my own housework and washing, but.
most of the time, run a big water mill,
while my husband runs the farm.
“I wish every suffering woman would
give Cardui a trial, for 1 am sure it
would help them, as it has me."
At an expanse of 33.00, for three bot
tles of Cardui. Mrs. Woods regained
her health and is now able to attend
to the numerous duties which former
ly she either had to hire done or neg
lect, thus Increasing her cost of living
Lady r. ader, are you suffering from
any of the ailments so common to your
sex ’ Wouldn't it be worth a few dol
lars to uto feel well enough to look
after your lally work?
Chi.. 1 ’ Ladles’ Advisory Dept .
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squalor One flight—two flights—three—
and then George's guide stopped, and.
looking back at him,made a gesture. It
appeared to beone of caution, but when
the two came together at the top of the
staircase, Sweetwater spoke quite natur
ally as he pointed out a door in their rear:
"That’s the room. We'll keep a sharp
watch and when any man, no matter what
his dress or appearance comes up these
stairs and turns that way, give him a
sharp look. You understand?”
"Yes; but—"
"Oh, he hasn’t come yet, I took pains
to find that out. You saw me go into
the court and look up That was to see
If his window was lighted. Well, it
wasn't."
George felt non-plussed.
"But surely," said he, "the gentleman
named Brotherson dosn’t live here."
"The Inventor does."
"Oh!”
"And but I will explain later."
The suppressed excitement contained
In these words made George stare. Inded,
he had been wondering for some time at
the manner of the detective which show
ed a curious mixture of several opposing
emotions. Now, the fellow was actually
In a tremble of hope or Impatience;—and,
not content with listening, he peered every
few minutes down the well of the stair
case, and when he was not doing that,
tramped from end to end of the narrow
passage-way separating the had of the
stairs from the door he had pointed out,
like one to whom minutes were hours.
All this time he seemed to forget George
who certainly hArt as much reason as
himself for finding the time long But
when, after some half hour of this tedium
and suspense, there rose from below the
faint clatter of ascending footsteps, he re
membered bis meek companion and becko.
ning hhn to one side, began a studied
conversation with him, showing him a
note-book In ■which he had written such
phrases as these:
Don't look up till he is fairly In range
with the light.
There's nothing to fear; he dosn’t know
either of us.
If it is a face you have seen before; —
if it is the one we are expecting to see,
pull your necktie straight It's a little on
one one side. ‘
These rather startling injunctions were
read by George, with no very perceptible
diminution of the uneasiness which it was
only natural for him to feel at the oddity
of his poison. But only the demand last
made produced any impresion on him,
The man they were waitink for was nd
further up than the second floor, but In
stinctively George's hand "had flown to
his necktie, and he was only stopped from
Its premature re-arrangement by a warn
ing look from Sweetwater.
"Not unless you know’ him," whisper
ed the detective; and Immediately launch
ed out Into an easy talk about some to
tally different business which George
neither understood, nor was expected to,
I dare say
Suddenly the steps below paused, and
George heard Sweetwater draw in his
breath in irrepressible dismay But they
were Immediately resumed, and presently
the head and shoulders of a workingman
of uncommon proportions appeared in
sight on the stairway.
George cast hint a keen look, and his
hand rose doubtfully to his neck and then
fell back again. The approaching man
was tall, very well-proportioned and easy
of carriage; but the sac of it as
could be seen between his cap and the
high collar he. had pulled up about bls
ears, conveyed no exact impression to
George's mind, and he did not dare to give
the signal Sweetwater expected from
him Yet as the man went by with a
dark and sidelong glance at them both, he
felt his hand rise again, though he did
not complete the action, much to his own
disgust and to the evident disappointment
of the watchful detective.
"You're not sure?" he now heard, fiddly
interpolated in the stream of half-whisp
ered talk with which the other endeavored
to carry-off the situation
George shook his head. He could not
rid himself of the old impresston he had
formed of the man In the snow.
"Mr. Dunn, a word with you,” suddenly
spoke up Sweetwater, to the man who
had just passed them. "That's your
name, isn't it?”
"Yes, that is my name." was the quiet
response, in a voice which was at once
rich and resonant; a voice which George
knew the voice of the Impassioned speak
e> he, had heard resounding through the
sleet as he cowered within hearing In
the shed behind the Avenue A tene
ment. "Who are you who wish to speak
to me at so late an hour?”
He was returning to them from the
door he had unlocked and left slightly
ajar.
"Well, we are— You know what,"
smiled the ready detective, advancing
halfway to greet him. "We're not mem
bers of the Associated Brotherhood, but
possibly have hopes of being so. At all
events, we should like to talk the matter
over, if, as you say, it’s not too late."
"I have nothing to do with the club—’’
"But you spoke before it."
“Yes."
"Then you can give us some sort of an
idea how we are to apply for member
ship.”
Mr Dunn met the concentrated gaze
of his two evidently unwelcome visitors
with a frankness which dashed George's
confidence in himself, but made little vis
ible impression upon his daring compan
ion
"I should rather see you at another
time, said lie. "But"—his hesitation
was inappreciable save to the nicest ear—
"if jou will allow me to be brief. I will
tell you what 1 know—which is very lit
tle."
Sweetwater was greatly taken aback.
All he had looked for. as he was careful
to tell mj husband later, was a suffi
ciently prolonged conversation to enable
George to mark and study the workings
the face he was not >et sure of Nor
did the detective feel quite easi at the
readiness ~f his reception, nor'anv too
well pleaaed to accept the Invitation w hich
this man now gave them to enter !il«
; room
But he suffered no betrayal of his mls-
I givings to escape, him, though he was
■ careful to intimate to George, as thev
waited in the doorwav for the other to
light up, that he should not be displeased
at his refusal to accompany him further
:n this adventure, and even advised him
t- remain tn the hall till he received his
summons to enter
But Ge, rge had not come as far as
tins t > la, k out now, and as soon as
-tr -aw Sweetwater advance Int > the now
«'"• elite interior he advanced too and
lagan to look around hint
The reoni like many others in these
old fashioned tenements, had a jog mat
Where tie <1 or waa, »o that on entering
I the\ 1 ad to take several steps before the>
I <llll.l get a full gllinp Its four walls’
I" '' n they did. b-'h showci surprise
t ornf <rt. if riot elegance, confronted them,
| win. li Imp, esstoi however, was Imine-
,ately lost in the evidences of w..rk.
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This picture by Nell Brinkley, is reproduced by permission from Good Housekeeping Magazine for
•September, and accompanies an article by Octave Uzanne, entitled “The Store of Furs and Muffs.”
By MARGARET HUBBARD
AYER.
YOU wouldn’t think that this dis
dainful young person with the
falcon ’ perched on her wrist, in
her courtly dress and high, gold-em
broidered cap was the ancestress of
our athletic girl of today. But she is.
When the first woman made up her
mind that she would stay at home no
longer, but would ride to the hunt with
the men folks, she created just as much
of a sensation as the first woman avia
tor-'-and, oh. dear, how they did talk
about her!
Os course, the athletic girl had ap
peared in Pagan times, but during the
early Christian era. and the following
dark ages, it wasn't considered nice for
a young lady to do anything at all but
stand around in stained glass attitudes,
and wait for a possible husband to re
turn from the crusade.
When she was too old (o be anj
longer attractive, she was made to do
every kind of work and quickly devel
oped into an old hag, so that there
were only very young girls and- very
old ones, and neither of them stirred
far from home.
Then came the great innovation. I
suppose some fine lady like this one
with the spirit of a Columbus, and tha
courage of a lion, decided that shi
was bored to death with things as they
were, and that she would stand no
longer leaning out over the parapet of
the castle, watching and waiting for
something to happen, but that she
would go out with the men and get
the exercise, the excitement, the fresh
air and the fun that they found in the
chase.
So She Did.
And so she did No woman had ever
[ done this before, not since the year one
! anyhow, and it was looked upon as a
wicked and immoral thing, for if you
think that people gossip nowadays, you
ought to read the pleasant things they
said about each other in the Middle
I Ages so properly called dark No wom
an who was pretty un
less she locked herself up In a cloister,
and the fact that every right-minded
I»erson looks upon gossiping nowadays
with disgust shows that the world is
certainly growing better
Well, the busy-bodies got together
i when they saw this beautiful lady
; mounting her palfrey, which is medie
val for a horse She didn't wear a
divided skirt, but she did w ar a low
necked dress Th< people of her time
would have been shocked to death at
the one, and even we, broad-minded as
wv are, might object to thv other. 1
am sure if a woman rode down Fifth
avenue in a low-necked riding habit
she would be quickly and quietly led to
the police station, and from thence to
the psychopathic ward of some hos
pital.
The first athletic lady wore her hand
somest clothes to go hunting in. In
that she was entirely feminine, be
cause her escort was composed of men.
In those days women dressed to im
press the other sex, while now they
dress to be envied of their own.
This great lady wore a magnificent
surtout sort of robe of green velvet,
bordered with ermine—for she was a
person of high degree, and to wear
ermine was her privilege and right.
Her petticoat was a gorgeous thing of
heavy silk embroidered in gold and
precious stones —the real kind—were
set among the golden Howers.
She wore very elaborate slippers,
too. They had points about an inch
long and were made of kid or satin or
velvet, embroidered so thickly with silk
or golden threads that you had to
guess at the material beneath.
Hundreds of Them.
Hundreds of these slippers are pre
served in the Museum of Cluny in
Paris and other places. The ladies of
those times undoubtedly had small
feet, but they were quite broad across
the totes and were not the long, nar
row, aristocratic foot which is the
present ideal in that line.
But the most wonderful thing about
this first out-of-door girl was her
headgear. Fancy going out into the
woods with a cap on your head that
was two feet high. And just think
how your dignity would suffer If some
low. bending branch of the tree sud
denly knocked it off your head, dis
playing the simplest coiffeur of today.
Sleek, parted hair, the long braids
twisted up tight in a kind of a cabu
chon effect over each ear.
However, the great lady's way was
probably made clear for her, and there
were no mishaps on the first hunt, for
she went again, again other ladles of
equal rank joining her, when they saw
the effect of outdoor sport upon the
lady's health and temper.
Think what it must have meant to
them to get out of doors, to get the
splendid exercise of the chase, besides
the excitement and interest of it all
after being shut up most of the time.
No wonder if, on their return, these
first athletic girls started a new and
still more daring innovation. They
decided they wanted a bath, and they
took one
The Mi il< Xgi s were th* ages,
and the woman who first took i cold
bath fell under the displeasure and ban
of all the neighbors who heard about it,
for such a thing had never been done
before. Undoubtedly it was the devil’s
work, said these neighbors, to whom
whispering servants brought the tales
of secret and thorough ablutions in cold
water.
"Why should she want to wash? No
body else does,” said the gossips. ‘Wa
ter should be used to drink and to
cook with; it is ungodly to cleanse one.
self so often. She is no better than she
should be.”
Had to Suffer.
And so the first athletic girl had to
suffer from the malicious and envious
remarks of her friends who watched
her grow more beautiful day by day,
and attributed it to a secret under
standing which she had with the devil
instead of to the cold baths In which
she had begun to delight, and which
she took daily until she was old in age,
but never old in looks.
Exercise and cleanliness have gone
hand in hand ever since, for this out
of-door girl handed down the secret of
her perennial youth and beauty to her
children.
From anaemic, stckly-looking crea
tures, the woman of the Middle Ages
blossomed out in the Renaissance in a
magnificent superbly vital creature,
glowing with health which we see in
the paintings of Titian.
They did not know that they owed
their looks and beauty to that daring
spirit who first attempted out-of-door
exercise, and then brought baths into
fashion, but they did. And beauty Is
to be bought nowadays at the same
price—exercise, fresh air and plenty of
water.
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Advice to the Lovelorn
By Beatrice Fairfax
A FATAL MISTAKE.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am 29 years of age, and have
been keeping company with a man
two years my senior, for the last
four years, whom I deeply love. I
felt he was in love with me. so
proposed to him, as he is a little
backward. That was three weeks
ago, and I have not heard from him
since. What can I do?
MABEL G.
My dear, you can do nothing. You
have frightened him away forever,
and I am not sure it doesn’t serve you
right.
A man wants a woman so long as
there is an element of uncertainty in
the pursuit. As soon as he sees she is
as crazy about him, he loses Interest.
You have let this man see you are more
anxious for him that he was for you.
That was a fatal mistake. Pay no
further attention to him. and if he
comes back, which I doubt, regard your
proposal as a joke.
YOUR MOTHER WOULDN'T ASK IT.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I have been keeping company
with a young man for two years. I
do not love him, but know that he
loves me. I have a ring from him.
We have been angry twice already.
Everything he wants his way. He
doesn't want me to pal with my
friends. You might ask why I ac
cept a ring from him. My mother
Up-to-Date Jokes
“What does this mean, Bridget?” ex
claimed the lady of the house, return
ing from shopping.
“The telephone’s been taken out.”
"Sure, ma’am, the girl across the way
came over and said her missus would
like to use it for a little while, and I
sint it over to her; but I had a terri
ble job gettin’ it unscrewed from the
wall, ma’am.”
Little James, while at a neighbor's,
was given a piece of bread and butter,
and politely said “Thank you.”
"That's right, James,” said the lady.
"I like to hear little boys say 'Thank
you.' ”
"Well,” rejoined James, "if you want
to hear me say it again, you might put
some jam on it.”
Reference to newspaper headings re
calls one of the neatest we ever re
member. A number of casks of whis
key had been washed ashore on the
east coast of Scotland, and the witty
Celtic sub-editor entitled the para
graph:
"Spirits from the vasty deep.”
Buttons (Western hotel) —That new
comer says that you are starving him.
Proprietor (furiously)—Tell him I’ll
make him eat his words.
Buttons—l did, sir; and he said they
would be better than nothing.
Binks—Tomlin is one who suffers
from liver. He has a little canter every
morning before breakfast.
Winks—Yes, I know. And he has a
pretty big de-canter every night after
dinner.
He—Why do you say I’m the most
obstinate person living?
She—This is the seventeenth time
you've proposed to me.
He—Yes; and what about your obsti
nacy, considering you’ve refused me
every time?
"Yes,” said Charles. "I have had some
trying experiences in my time. I was
struck senseless once.”
"And when,” asked Sybil archly, "do
you expect to recover?” _
A well known bishop, being told by a
country parson, “My lord, I have not
had a holiday for five years,” replied:
"Then I’m sorry for your congrega
tion."
The Brute —I think women are much
better looking, than men.
The Girl—Oh! naturally.
The Brute—No, artificially.
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-.-W' CMP tor bmtftartuMi. aUmdi*. ua.
says he is a good boy Do
think I could learn to love
man? Does it pay to saerifi.-
life and happiness for nr.
er’s sake? '
Your mother wouldn’t ask
make such a sacrifice. You di '
in accepting the ring. Give
and tell tha man you don't !ov
and never again make the nt: '
trying. Love, my dear, i s neve
ter of will.
MAKE iT AN ISSUE.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am keeping company n<<
young man about my age ;
for him very much and he
return his love for me. B ut , ...'
time I ask him to mv home
jects and says he is ashant.
B. i: ,\
Tell him to come to your ho.,
you will no longer see him It is - PV /
fair to a girl to ask her to rm ■ • > ,° r "
lover on the streets. I may go
and say it is really an evidence •
of respect.
YOU ARE TOO HUMBLE
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am a girl of twenty and a
weeks ago I was going with a v .
man two years my senior He w« nt
off on a visit. I received word fn 4
him every day while he wa< e , ln "
On one occasion I told him I was
going to have company from a
nearby town. After this I n<. ve r
heard from him. I wrote a letter
of apology, but in vain. M. E. B.
Unless you really owed him an apo],
ogy, you were wrong in making one ’
You did no wrong in inviting other
friends to call. Stand on your own
rights, and if he remains angry be shad
that you are not married to a man so
unreasonable.
MRS. STEVENS
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$4.75 Per Too
SEPTEMBER DELIVERY
The Jellico Coal Co. I
82 Peachtree Street I
Both Phones 3688 I