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THE GEORGIAN'S MAGAZINE PAGE
“Initials Only” * By Anna Katherine Green
A Thrilling Mystery Story of Modern Tinies
(Copyright, 1911. Street & Smith.)
(Copyright, 1911, by Dodd, Mead & Co.)
TODAY’S INSTALLMENT.
The man who lived here was not only
B student, as was evinced by a long wall
full of books, but he was an art lover.
e musician, an inventor and an athlete,
an much could be learned from the most
fur sory glance. A more careful one
picked up other facts fully as startling
and impressive. The books were choice;
the invention to all appearance a prac
tical one; the art of a high order and
t he music, such as was in view, of a
character of which the nicest taste need
no t be ashamed.
George began to feel quite conscious of
the intrusion of which they had been
guilt), and was amazed at the east with
w htch the detective carried himself in
Ihe presence of such manifestations of
culture and good, hard work. He was try
ing tn recall the exact appearance of the
figure he had seen stooping In the snowy
9 treet two nights before, w’hen het found
himself staring at the occupant 6f the
room, who had taken up his stand be
fore them and was regarding while
they were regarding the room.
He had thrown aside his hat and rid
himself of his overcoat, and the fearless
ness of his aspect seemed to daunt the
hitherto dauntless Sweetwater, who. for
the first time in his life perhaps, hunted
in vain for words with which to start
conversation.
Had he made am awful mistake? Was
this Mr Dunn what he seemed, an un
known and careful genius, battling with
great odds in bls honest struggle to give
the world something of value In return
for what it had given hitn? The quick,
almost deprecatory glance he darted at
George betrayed his dismay; a dismay
which George had bqgun to shares, not
withstanding his growing belief that the
man s face was not wholly unknown to
him even if he could not recognize it as
the one he had seen outside the Cler
mont.
"You seem to have forgotten your er
rand," came In quiet, If not good-natured,
sarcasm from their patiently waiting host
"It's the room.” muttered Sweetwater,
with an attempt at his old-time ease
which was not as fully successful as usual
"What an all-fired genius you must be I
never sa.w the like. And in a tenement
house, too! You ought to be in one of
those big new studio buildings in New
York where artists he and everything you
tee it beautiful. You’d appreciate it, you
amild." .
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the gleam which answerer! him from a
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Anty Drudge Talks to an Indignant
Woman.
Mrs. Topflat— "Just gaze at that skirt! Looks like a piece
of Swiss cheese. Full of holes. My washwoman
must use quick lime instead of soap.”
Anty “Why don’t you wash at home ?”
Mrs. Topflav- ’At home, indeed! Why, a you know,
I live in an apartment. Boil clothes on a gas range?
Most likely land in the hospital.”
Anty Drudge— ‘‘Why, dear, use Fels-Naptha and you
don’t have, to boil the clothes. Lukewarm or cool
water is all that’s needed winter or summer. And I’ll
guarantee your clothes will never again be freckled
with holes.”
No sensible woman wants to do more
work than is necessary to accomplish the
best results.
And yet —
There are women who take a full day
to do the weekly wash when it can be done
in half the tirrte and far better.
Is this because they don’t know the
bels-Naptha way?
Or is the reason that they are so gov
erned by habit that they hesitate to try a
new method?
The Fels-Naptha way is so easy, so
simple. Full directions are on the
ted and green wrapper.
very uncommon eye. It was a temporary
flash, however, and quickly veiled, and
the tone in which this Dunn now spoke
was anything but an encouraging one.
‘‘l thought you were desirous of join
ing a socialistic fraternity.” said he; "a
true aspirant for such honors does not
care for beautiful things unless all can
have them. I prefer my tenement. How
is It with you, friends?”
Sweetwater found some sort of a reply,
though the thing which this man now
did must have startled him. as it cer
tainly did George. They were so grouped
that a table quite full of anomalous
objects stood at the back of their host,
and consequently quite beyond their own
reach. As Sweetwater began to speak,
he whom be had addressed by the name
of Dunn drew a pistol from his breast
pocket and laid it down barrel toward
them on this table top. Then he looked
up courteously enough and listened till
Sweetwater was done. •
A very handsome man. but one not
to be trifled with In the slightest degree.
Both recognized this fact, and George,
for one, began to edge toward the door.
"Now I feel easier.” remarked the giant,
swelling out his chest. He was unusual
ly tall, as well as unusually muscular.
"I never like to carry arms; but some
times it Is unavoidable. Damn it. what
hands’” He was looking at his own,
which certainly showed soil. ”\\ ill you
pardon me?” he pleasantly apologized,
stepping toward a washstand and plung
ing his hands into the basin. ”1 can not
think with dirt on me like that. Humph,
hey! did you speak?”
He turned quickly on George, who had
certainly uttered an ejaculation, but re
ceiving no reply, went on with his task,
completing it with a care and a disre
gard of their presence which showed him
up in still another light.
j But even his hardihood showed shock
I when, upon turning around with a brisk,
i Now’ 1 m ready to talk,” he encountered
| again the clear eye of Sweetwater. For,
|in the person of this none too welcome
Intruder, he saw a very different man
from the one upon whom he had just
turned his back with so little ceremonv;
and there appeared to be no good reason
I for the change. He had not noted In
his preoccupation how George, at sight
I of his stooping figure, had made a sudden
(significant movement, and. If he had, the
I pulling of a necktie straight, would have
meant nothing to him But to Sweetwa
iter It meant everything, and It was in
j the tone of one fully at ease with him
-1 self that he now dryly remarked:
"Mr. Brotherson, if you feel quite clean,
land if you have sufficiently warmed your
• self, I would suggest that we start at
| once, unless you prefer to ' . vc me share
‘this room with you until tic >rning."
To Be Continued in Next Issue.
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MISS ZANA CURZON.
(One of the beauties in Ziegfeld’s ’Follies of 1912" Company.)
By ZANA CUE.ZON.
IE you can wear apple green without
looking -tike a fright, you may be
pretty sure you have a good coifi
plexion.
Apple green is the test of beauty, so
| far as skin and coloring go.
I had an apple green dress once, and
it was a perfect tragedy, for a while
i at least.
■ I can say truthfully that apple green
is the most unbecoming color in the
world, unless you are one in a thou-
: sand, and have a clear, white skin, and
faint rose-colored cheeks, and look like
the apple blossom which ought to hang
on the apple green bough.
i This famous dress was presented to
me by a relative, one of the kind who
gives you the things that are popular
> at the moment.’or that somebody else
tells her would make appropriate gifts.
I didn't want a green dress, because I
don’t care for that color anyhow, and
my heart was set on a fur collar. But
what can you do? You have to take
what you get. though in some future
existence I hope we will be allowed to
choose our own gifts.
A Fright in Green.
The green dress came to stay, and
not long afterward the giver paid us a
visit. Naturally it was expected of me
that I should wear the gown she had
bought me. and I sacrificed myself and
my vanity on the altar of gratitude and
wore the green dress for the first time,
though 1 had had it for several months
and usually wear anything at once
Well, in that dress I simply looked a
fright. Billows of green chiffon and
greener taffeta threw their ghostlike
shadows and reflections on my face,
and if 1 ever had any illusions about
being a pretty girl 1 lost them on the
minute.
You have seen those plants that
spring up in the darkness of the cellar,
potato shoots and pale, pathetic-look-
• Ing onion sprouts. I looked like a cross
between those vegetables and *the
greenery-yellowrj- picture of a futurist
painter.
1 could have cried, only that would
have made my nose red, and I thought
things were had enough already.
My heart was filled with rage at the
giver of this dreadful frock, which
showed up every one of the careful!/
hidden imperfections of my complexion
and which even seemed to kill the color
of my hair and eyes.
I marched down into the sitting room
where the family were waiting for me
like an indignant tragedy queen going
to the scaffold. Families do not spare
your feelings, and I can tell you that by
the end of dinner 1 was doing every
thing in the world to control my temper
and my tears.
They called he "ghosty” and "green
face” and made all kinds of unpleasant
remarks about my sallow-looking com.
plexion. and 1 was glad when dinner
was over, and 1 could escape to my
room
I tore off the wretched green dress
and settled down to have a good cry.
There was a knock on the door, and
the old cousin who had given me the
frock came in. She was all sympathy
and sweetness, and remarked:
"Well, my dear, I hope that you will
profit by this little lesson."
“Lesson? What lesson can there be
in making me look perfectly hideous?"
1 sobbed
"Several, as you will find," she re
turned "1 have been noticing for some
time that you were thinking too much
about your looks, and so I decided to
show you that you greatly exaggerate
them You have nice eyes, and hair,
and good features, but. like a great
many girls, you think that your com
plexion is good because you covet over
its defects with a little powder, which
by the way, is perfectly noticeable to
every body
The Lesson.
"If you wi re really pretty you would
have th< first Clear |lin<i|>l<- of bea.rt',
which Is healtli That shows in a good
complex ..n, ill" tip tv oil would bl able
Io weal that gt'*en Ute- ,uiii look like
the apple blossom which should grow"
with it."
"But what can I do about it?"
"1 am going to t* 11 you." said the
olil cousin. "We shall have a little
secret together, and some day we will
astonish the family. You will begin by
giving away that box of candy that you
have on your- grille, and I will send up a
dish of fruit fn: you instead. Before
breakfast 1 want you to drink a great
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Do You Know—
The oldest newspaper in the world
was one named The Wochenblatt,
which was published in Gruningen, a
small town of some 1,200 inhabitants,
In the Canton of Zurir k, In Switzer
land. It was the only newspaper in the
place, and was at one and the same
time the organ of the Liberal-’'onser
; vatives and the Social-Democrats.
' Pages one and two belonged to the
' Liberals and pages three and four to
the Socialists, and the two parties
abused one another heartily in its
pa gee.
A new club appealing to mvers of
dumb animals is in the course of for
mation in Mayfair, under the patron
age of many veil known people. A
novel departure will be the dogs' cloak |
room, consisting of premises, w ith at-i
tendants. which will be utilized for thi
purpose of taking charge of members'
dogs when visiting the club. Boarding
the animals at the club will be one of
the features, and there will be a cater
ing section where dogs can have their
meals.
The boundary line between Canada
and the United States is marked with
posts at mile Intervals for a great
part of its length. Cairns, earth
mounds. and timber posts are also
used and through the forests and
swamps a line, a rid wide, clear of
trees and underweed, has been cut
Across the lake artificial islands sup
port the cairns. which rise about
eight feet above the high-water mark.
The Russian royal special train is the
heaviest and most luxurious in Europe.
When it was constructed it was devised
to stand a charge of dynamite, and it
can not be taken fast over most of the
European lines, because their rails are
too light. The train contains a small
chapel, with an icon of peculiar sanc
tity, a library, bath rooms, drawing
room, dining room and bed rooms.
A curious ceremony which takes place
at Whitsuntide is that which is enacted
in the parish church schools at St.
Ives, Huntingdonshire. The custom
dates back to 1875. when Dr. Robert
Wilde left money for the purpose. He
directed that the minister and church
wardens should purchase six Bibles,
that the minister should preach a ser
mon, and lots be cast for the Bibles.
The surveyors for the transcontinen
tal tail way in Australia made use <>(
camels. The chief surveyor indicated
the trail for those who followed by at
taching a heavy chain to his camel
and letting the chain drag on the
ground.
The Women's Trade Union league of
New York announces that it has ap
pointed a committee to-consider the ad
visability of a state-wide campaign in
favor of a 54-hour working week for
women
Rene Forschler, who is a prisoner in
Paris, probably holds tile record for the
number of burglaries con.imitled by a
man aged only 26 He has admitted
being the perpetrator of 205 big Job.-.
Cartoons wer - originally large chalk
drawings, marie as studies preparatory
to oil paintings, tlmy fi.rmerl. had no
satirical meaning.
Switzerland is to put the ban on all
ittifieial wlms and ciders, beginning
next year
Switzerland consumes about ."i.O'in ■
000 bottle- •>! mm< till Wall I i-.o li year.
big glass of ho: water —drink it in little
sips, and star, in as soon as you get up.
which is about three-quarters of an
hour before breakfast. If you don't
like the taste you can squeeze In the
juice of a bit of lemon.
’ 1 don't want you to drink either cof
fee or tea for breakfast. You are really
a little too thin, so 1 am going to have
malted milk for you. and then you must
avoid meat at breakfast, which includes
ham and bacon.
"I want you to make your luheh al
most entirely of vegetables. Eat two
and three helpings of salad, if neces
sary. but get plenty of fresh green
things. If you are hungry in the aft
ernoon. inslead of drinking tea or soda
water, drink lemonade. You must go
without desserts at dinner unless there
ate stewed prunes or apricots or other
fruits, and every night before yop go
to sleep I want you to drink the juice
>f two oranges ami one lemon. Squeeze
It out in'o a glass and take it as a re
freshing tonic.
The Fresh Air Cure.
”1 have arranged with the cook that
she should have a large jar of pre
served apricots stewed without sugar,
ready for you to eat whenever you
want, and you can often make your
lunch off this fruit, graham bread and
salad.
"You stay in the house too much,
reading foolish novels and eating can
dy. and if you r ally want to lay
claims to beauty, you will have to have
more out-of-door exercise."
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She seemed so interested in my wel
fare, and indeed I was so disappointed
' about my looks that I would have done
almost anything, So it wasn’t difficult
| for me to ob l .v orders, and follow out
her instructions, even when her visit
was over and she went home.
We had arranged that she should
come back to spend a week with us in
two months. She arrived just before
dinner I did not go down lo
see her. but waited until all the family
had gathered together at the table.
I stood before the mirror fastening up
the apple green dress, and this time I
was not only happy but grateful, for
the dress was immensely becoming, and
showed up the fresh pink color in my
cheeks and the clear white skin which
I had acquired by strictly following out
my cousin's rules for diet.
1 made a triumphant entry into the
dining room, and 1 felt amply repaid by
the compliments 1 received for the
work and drudgery of two months of
exercise, careful dieting and self-sacri
fice.
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The Kind You Have Always Bought.
"pHIS is the caution applied to the public announcement of Castoria that has
been manufactured under the supervision of Chas. H. Fletcher for over
30 years—the genuine Castoria. We respectfully call the attention of fathers and
mothers when purchasing Castoria to see that the wrapper bears his signature in
black. Vvhen the wrapper is removed the same signature appears on both sides
of the bottle in red. Parents who have used Castoria for' their little ones in the
past years need no warning against counterfeits and imitations, but our present
duty is to call the attention of the younger generation to the great danger of intro
ducing into their families spurious medicines.
t It*is to be regretted that there are people who are now engaged in the
nefarious business of putting up and selling all sorts of substitutes, or what should
more properly be termed conterfeits, for medicinal preparations not only for
auults, but worse yet, for children’s medicines. It therefore devolves on the mother
to scrutinize closely what she gives her child. Adults can do that for themselves
but the child has to rely on the mother’s watchfulness.
B Letters from Prominent Druggists
addressed to Chas. H. Fletcher.
Central Drug Co., of Detroit. Mich., says: “We consider you- Castoria
tn a class distinct from potent medicines and commend It.”
Christy Drug Stores, of Pittsburg. Pa„ say: "We havo sold yonr
Castoria for so many years with such satisfactory results that we cannot
refrain from saying a good word for it when we get a chance."
Jaccb Bros., of Philadelphia. Pa., say: "We take pleasure In recom
mending Fletcher's Castoria ns one of the oldest and best of the prepara
tions of the kind upon the market."
Hess t McCann, of Kansas City. Mo., say: "Your Castoria always gives
satisfaction. We have no substitute for it and only sell 'The Kind You
Have Always Bought,’ the original."
The Voegell Bros., of Minneapolis, Minn., say: "We wish to say that ws
have at all times a large demand for Fletcher's Castoria at all of our three
stores and that it gives universal satisfaction to our trade.”
Polk Miller Drug Co., of Richmond, Va., says: ''Your Castoria is one of
the most satisfactory preparations we have ever handed. It seems to
satisfy completely the public demand for such an article and Is steadily
creating a growing sale by its merit.”
P. A. Capdau, of New Orleans, La., says: "We handle every good horns
remedy demanded by the public and while our shelves are thoroughly
equipped with the best of drugs and proprietary articles, there are few
If any which have the unceasing sale that your Castoria has.”
M. C. Dow, of Cincinnati, Ohio, says: "When people in Increasing num
bers purchase a remedy and continue buying It for years; when It passes
the fad or experimental stage aud becomes a household necessity, then
It can be said Its worth has been firmly established. We can and do
gladly offer this kind of commendation to Fletcher's Castoria."
GENUINE CASTORS A ALWAYS
/f Bear “ the Signature of
The Kind Yon fiave Always Bought
Exact Copy of Wrapper. |f| (JS© p Q| . () ver QQ YeafS.
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:: Making a Man Over ::
Ry Beatrice Fairfax
Some play to marry the man they
love;
My prayer will somewhat vary;
1 humbly pray’ to heaven above
That I-love the man I marry."
—Rose Pastor Stokes.
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< GEORGIA girl writes
' I am seventeen and deeply in
love with a man three years my
senior. My mo; her likes him. although
-he says he will never make a mtfn of
himself, and wouldn't like to have me
marry him. I would like to marry him
because w® agree, and* I believe if we
.ere parted our hearts would break.
He Is the only child in the family’ and
his parents have spoiled him. I would
like to know how I can break him of
this so that my mother can like him in
all his ways."
My dear, you are praying to marry
the man you love. With the task be
fore you of making him over, you will
have great need of praying to love the
man you marry.
Your mother says he will never make
a man of himself. If her judgment is
biased, or not, this remains true and of
importance: She is looking at him
with eyes that seek her daughter's hap
piness. and no woman was ever happy
as the wife of a man who failed to
make a man of himself.
After love comes to a woman she
loses what we will call "ambition for
herself.” She grows ambitious for her
husband, and will make any sacrifice,
undergo any privation, to further his
chances. If he has a talent, she will
deny herself necessities to provide him
with the means to cultivate it, and in
numberless times when a man arrives
at the top it was with the aid of a
meek little woman the world never
hears aboul.
If he is content with the mediocre,
if he has do thought of the future be
yond rent day. and is never prepared
for that, her discouraged hopes find
new life in her children. She becomes
ambitious for them, and many a woman
has been to Gethsemane twice because
of the heritage of worthlessness her
children received from their father.
Your lover lacks every quality which
a man should need to make a man of
himself, and, in addition, is hopelessly
spoiled. He can never be a man be
cause he will always be a baby, and
he will always be a baby because his
parents have always carried him.
My dear, the task you would under
take is heavy beyond your strength.
You would like to marry him because
you agree. How long would you agree
If he treated you as a spoiled child
tree s his mother! Would youy love
outlive the blows with which a spoiled
child meets caresses'.’
You believe if you were parted your
heart would bleak. Your heart, I am
sure, would suffer many a pang, but as
he is the selfish product of weak paren
tal raising, he won't feel badly long.
If you married him. yours would al
ways be a heavy burden, the long,
dusty toads. It would mean a life of
unappreciated self-denial, and I am so
.yixious for your happihess, Little Girl,
1 i opt you will wait just a little bit
long' r.
When you ate a little older, and have
looked about you a little more, you will
know that the most helpless, most
hopeless, most heavily burdened trav
elers on life's highway are the women
w he married men with the hope of re
forming them.
Up-to-Date Jokes
Little Mary's father had denied hers
pleasure which she had confidently ex
pected to enjoy. That night, when she
said her prayers at her mother’s knee,
she concluded witl| 'his petition:
"And please; don't give my papa any
more children. He don’t know how to
treat those he’s got now.”
Landlady—You believe in mustard
plasters, doctor?
M. D.—Rather! 1 always order them
for patients who call ntc out in the
middle of the night when there's noth
ing the matter with 'em.
Miss Homeleigh—Perhaps you won't
believe it. but a strange man tried to
kiss me once.
Miss Cutting—Really? Well, he’d
have been p strange man if he’d tried
to kiss you twice!
Mary - I'm positive Fred loves me and
I intends to make me his wife.
Helen—Why? Has he proposed yet?
.Mary - Xo; but ho dislikes mother
more every time he sees her.
First Horseman—Pulling, is he? Why,
don't you try riding him on the curb?
Second Horseman Ride him on the
curl)? Good heavens. I can't scarcely
i tide 'im In the middle of the road!
Manager—Where's the livitjg skele
ton. Joe? It's fils turn to go on.
> General Utility Boy—He went and
■ slipped while he was washing his hands,
I and W'ent dowm the waste pipe.