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THE OrEOR.QIAN'S MAGAZINE, PAGE
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“Initials Only” By Anna Katherine Green
A Thrilling Mystery Story of Modern limes
(Copyright. 1911. Street & Smith >
(Copyright. 1911. by Dodd. Mead & Co )
TODAY - S INSTALLMENT.
•"This good-by—do you remember it?
The exact language. I mean?''
"‘1 do; it made a great impression <>n
me. "I shall hope for our further ac
quaintance.' she said We have one very
strong interest in common ' And if ever'
a human face spoke eloquently, It was
hers at that moment The interest, as 1
understood it. was our mutual sympathy
for our toiling, half-starved, down-trod
den brothers and sisters in the lower
streets of this city; but the eloquence
that 1 probably mistook. I thought if,
sprang from personal interest, and it gave
me courage to pursue the intention which
had taken the place of every other feel
ing and ambition by which T had hither
to been moved. Here was a woman In a
thousand: one who could make a man of
me Indeed. If she could ignoie the social
gulf between us, 1 felt free to take the
leap Cowardice had never been a fault
of mine. But 1 was no fool even then
1 realized that 1 must first let her see
the manner of man 1 was and what life
meant to me and must mean Io her if
Ihe union I contemplated should become
an actual fact. I wrote letters to her.
but I did not give her my address or even
request a reply I was not ready for any
word from her I am not like other men
and I could wait And I did, for weeks
then 1 suddenly appeared at her hotel.’’
The change of voice - the bitterness
which be Infused into this final sentence
made every one look up. Hitherto he had
spoken calmly, almost monotonously, as
if no present heart-beat responded to this
tale of vanished love; but with the words,
“Then I suddenly appeared at her hotel."
he showe I himself human again, and be
trayed a passion which though curbed
was of th® fiery quality, befitting his ex
traordinary attributes of rnind and per
son
'This was when"’ put in In Heath,
anxious to bridge the pause wlilcb must
have been wry painful to the listening
father ■
"The week after Thanksgiving I did
not see her the first day, and only cas
ually th<- second. But she knew 1 was
in the building, and when I came upon
her one evening seated at the very desk
in the mezzanine which we all have such
bitter cause to remember. I could not
forbear expressing myself in away she
could not misunderstand The result was
of a kind to drive a man like myself to
an extremity of self-condemnation and
rage She rose up us If insulted, and
flung me one gentence and one sentence
only before she hailed the elevator and
left my presence A cur could not have
been dismissed with less ceremony.”
“That is not like my daughter What
was the sentence you allude to? Let me
hear the very words ' Mr. ('halloner had
come forward and now stood awaiting his
reply, a dignified but pathetic figure,
which all must view with respect.
"I hate the memory of them, but since
you demand it. I will repeal them just as
they fell from her lips " was Mr Bhoth-
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Anty Drudge’s Cure for the Blues.
An y Drudge "Won’t you come home to tea with me,
children?”
John ‘‘Come on, Sally, you have had the blues all day.
A little fresh air will do you good.”
Afrx. Hardtrai/ ‘‘No. I have to get up early to-morrow
and get at the washing, so I want to get to bed early
to-night.”
Anty Drudge— ‘‘Of all silly creatures! 1 suppose you
have been thinking about your washing all day. No
wonder you are blue. Now just go and put your
things on right away. When you get down to my
house I will give you a few cakes of Fels-Naptha and
your blues and blue Mondays will vanish forever, and
John’s only day home will be more pleasant in the
future.”
Isn’t a short, smooth road better than
a roundabout, rocky one?
Isn’t that the road yon would take by
preference?
W ell, the shorter, easier, smoother road
in washing clothes is the Fels-Naptha way.
No rocks in your path; no boiling, hot
tires, steaming suds, or hard rubbing.
Fels-Naptha banishes the disagreeable
part of washing, takes out the backache,
cuts the time to half, and makes the clothes
cleaner and whiter than it is possible by
the old-fashioned way.
Follow the simple directions on the
red and green \vrappcr.
erson s bitter retort. "She said. ‘You of
all men should recognize the unseemli
ness of these proposals. Had your let
ters given me any hint of the feelings
you have Just expressed, you would never
have bad this opportunity of approach
ing me' That was all; but her indigna
tion was scathing ladles who have
supped exclusively off silver, show a fine
scorn for the common ware of the cot
tager."
Mr. Chailoner bowed “There is some
mistake.' said he "My daughter might
be averse to your addresses, but she
would never show Indignation to any
aspirant for her hand, simply on account
of extraneous conditions. She had wide
sympathies wider than 1 often approved
Something in your conduct or the confi
dence yon showed shocked her nicer
sense: not your lack of the luxuries she
often misprized This much I feel obliged
to say, out of justice to her character,
which was uniformly considerate."
"You have seen her with men of her
own world and yours, was the harsh re
sponse "She had another side to her
nature for the man of a different sphere.
And it killed my love that you can see—
and led to my sending her the injudicious
letter with which you have confronted
me. The hurt bull utters one bellow be
fore he dies I bellowed, and bellowed
loudly, but I did not die. I'm my own
man still and mean to remain so."
The assertive boldness some would call
it bravado—with which he thus finished
the story of his relations with the dead
heiress, seemed to be more than Mr.
("halloner could stand. With a look of
extreme pain and perplexity he vanished
from the doorway , and it fell to Dr. Heath
to inquire:
"Is this letter a letter of threat, you
will remember —the only communication
which passed between you and Miss Chal
loner after this unfortunate passage of
arms at the Clermont?"
"Yes. I had no wish to address her
again. I had exhausted in this one out
burst whatever humiliation I felt."
"Ami she? Did she give no sign, make
you no answer'""
"None whatever " Then, as if he found
it impossible to hide tills hurt to his
pride, "She did not even seem to con
sider me worthy the honor of an added
rebuke Such arrogance is, no doubt,
commendable In a Chailoner."
This time bls bitterness did not pass
unrebuked by the coroner:
"Remember (he gray hairs of the only
Challoner who can hear you, and respect
his grief."
Mr Brotherson bowed
"I have finished." said he "I shall
have nothing more to say on the sub
ject." And he drew himself up in ex
pectation of the dismissal he evidently
thought pending
But the coroner was not done with him
by any mean u He had a theory in regard
to this lamentable suicide which he hoped
to establish by this man's testimony, and.
in pursuit of this plan, he not only mo
tinned to Brotherson to . reseat himself,
but began at. once to open a fresh line
of examination by saying
To Be Continued in Next Issue
The Ten Ag es of Beauty > > T. No. s .—The Coquette
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Furs and Muffs.’
Bv MARGARET HI BBARD
AYER
WHEN she was a ve>y little girl,
and her mother gave dinner
parties, just before dinner was
announced it was found that all the
men guests, led by her lather, had dis
appeared from the drawing room. They
Do You Know—
The greatest depth of the sea yet dis
covered is 32,089 feet.
The guinea pig family is fully grown
when only six weeks old.
Egypt has 1.412 miles of state rail
ways.
In London only persons over the age
of sixteen may pawn goods.
Thirty-tinee years is the average
length of a generation.
Last year Switzerland exported over
11,000,000 watches of the aggregate
xaltte of more than $25,000,000.
About 8,000 new species of insects
are named annually.
Gold can be beaten so thin that it
would take 282,000 gold leaves to pro
duce the thickness of a single inch.
The life of a steel rail on a main
railroad line is twelve years.
The average weight of a man s brain
is three pounds eight ounces, and of a
woman’s brains t'V’ pounds eleven
ounces.
On an average, the Scotch aie the
tallest men in Great Britain, thp Irish
next, the English third, and the Welsh
last
Germany holds the record for the first
dally paper. It was printed in 1524
England’s first daily papei did not ap
pear until 1622
The smallest coins in the world are
used in South Russia, where there is a
coin worth one four-thousandth part of
an English penny and in the Malay
States, where a wafer is circulated
worth one ten - thousandth part of a
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had gone upstairs and gathered about
the crib of the future coquette, who
conversed blithely as any of the young
ladies wid. flirted with them outrageous
ly at the age of three, ordered them
about, and treated these men who were
to be the fathers of her'future beaux
as if they were little boys, made only
to do her bidding.
"That child is a born coquette!" said
her mother, and some of the girls
whose beaux had left them to go to the
nursery sighed, envying the baby win.
already showed the power she had ovet
the other sex
The coquette w ho is born to rule by
virtue of charm, fascination and beauty
is an irresistible person. The coquette
who is made by artifice, whose attrac
tions are forced and w hose high spirits
are artificial is ft nuisance, and she
generally, ends by being a disgrace to
her kind.
The fascinating women who have
ruled the hearts of men and have been
called coquettes for want of a better
name have, generally been able to bar It
up their title for supremacy with other
attributes besides a pretty face and a
charming manner.
The women who were famous in the
eighteenth century’ for their wit and
attraction wore extremely clever and
learned. These pretty young women,
with their curled and powdered hair,
their brocaded frocks and panniers,
went through a pretty severe schooling
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before they were turned out as belles to
rule society.
They were taught Latin and mathe
matics. besides their , own language;
theyniad to be able to understand and
criticise poetry, and all the arts and
manners in those days were a study
in which no well bred girl could fail.
Besides that they must dance more
gracefully than the women on the
stage, they had to know something of
music and conversation, which was
then a high art. was the medium
through which they showed off their
learning, their sharp wit and intellect.
Indeed, it Wasn’t easy, to be a belle
in the days of paint and powder. It is
much simpler in our time, when a
pretty’ face and pleasant manners make
up for all deficiencies of mind and
education.
MISSED MUCH AND OFTEN.
"Morning!" said Mr. Busitnan. as he
met an acquaintance traveling up
to town on the late train. "Strange
meeting you! You travel up
a bit earlier than this. What’s become
of the train you used to catch?"
’ “Ofi,’’ ieplievi the other, "that train’,s
been taken off!"
"Taken off is "it ?" asked Mr. B . with
unnecessary’ curiosity. “I suppose you
miss ft?"
"Not as often as 1 used to do," came
the witty response, while Mr. B. found
it advisable to glance hastily at his
morning paper.
NOT A MOUSER, ANYWAY.
Mrs. Muggs—That horrid Mrs. Frills
told Mrs. Nextdoor that I was a regu
lar old eat! What do you think of that?
Mrs. Muggs—l think she never saw
you in the same room with a mouse.
WHEN LITTLE IS SAID.
"A man always gets on easier by
taking his wife’s advice.”
"Yes. When things turn out badly
there isn't so much talk about it.”
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HE LACKS SELF-CONTROL
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I known a gentleman Mr
six months, and have been gome
out with him quite frequently a , '
each time we go out he wishes n
kiss me good-night, and J don’t a,
prove of it. He tells me he is nL
' like other fellows and will not fore.
me to. as he thinks too much of
me. He also says he would rathe.'
not be alone with me if I won't .■
him kiss me, as the temptation is
too great. B
If he loves you to that ungovernab A
degree, doesn't he love you enough i 0
ask you to be his wife?
if you were engaged, and had every
assurance that he is not “here toda-.
and gone tomorrow,” I am sure your
objections to his kisses would be with
drawn. He seems to want the privi".
leges of a fiance without the obliga
tions.
DON’T CONSIDER HER FEEuINGS.
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I am a young man sixteen yea;.
of age, and for the past four years
or so one of my former governesses
has been following me, coming up
to the place where I work, My
folks object to my going with her
and I would like to know of away
to get rid of her without hurting
her feelings. She is about 30 years
.Os age. BOTHERED
When a woman of 30 pursues a boy
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quality of being capable of a. hurt
You must tell her outright to pester
you no further. You owe more to your
parents and to yourself than you owe
to her.
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