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THE QEO ROASTS MAGAZINE PAGE * initials Only By Anna Katherine Green A Thrilling Mystery Story of Modern Times (Copyright. 1911, Street & Smith.) (Copyright, 1911, by Dodd. Mead & Co ) TODAY'S INSTALLMENT. "No. Mr. Gryce; nothing new. It’s the same old business But, if what I sus pect is true, this same old business offers opportunities for some very interesting and unusual effort You're not satisfied with the coroner's verdict in the Chal loner case?" "No. I'm satisfied with nothing that leaves all ends dangling Suicide was not proved. It seemed the only presump tion possible, but it was not proved There was no blood-stain on that cptter point.” "Nor any evidence that it had ever been there " "No. I'm not proud of the chain which lacks a link where It should be strongest.” "We shall never supply that link." “1 quite agree with you." "That chain we must throw away." "And forge another’" Sweetwater approached and sat down. “Yes; I believe we can do it; yet I have only one indisputable fact for a starter. That Is why I want you to tell me whether Fm growing daft or simply adventurous. Mr Gryce. I don't trust Brothers.on. He has pulled the wool over Dr. Heath's eyes and almost over those of Mr. Chal loner But he can't pull it over mine Though he should tell a story ten times more plausible than the one with which he has satisfied the coroner’s jury, I would still listen to him with more mis giving than confidence. Yet 1 have caught him In no misstatement, and his eye is steadier than my own. Perhaps It Is sim ply a deeply rooted antipathy on my part, or the rage one feels at finding he has placed his finger on the wrong man. Again It may be " "What, Sweetwater?" "A well-founded distrust Mr Gryce, I'm going to ask you a question.” "Ask away. Ask fifty if you want to." "No; the one may involve fifty, but It is big enough in itself to hold our atten tion for a while. Did you ever hear of a case before, that in some of its details was similar to this?” , "No, it stands alone. That's why It is bo puzzling." "You forget. The wealth, beauty and social consequence of the present victim has blinded you to the strong resemblance which her case bears to one you know, MRS. MELHORN ENTHUSIASTIC Over the Good Results Ob tained From the Use of Cardui, the Woman’s Tonic. Johns. Ala., —In a Jotter from thio town. Mrs. M. Melhorn says: "1 was in ttery bad health last year, and did not recover as quickly as I should. "I ached all over, and would often have a headache for a whole week at the time I would almost go crazy. I was felt so tired, I could hardly walk across the room. *"My doctor aitfd I would nover get welt without an operation, but I decided Carflul, the woman's tonic. “Thnve only taken four bottles, and 1 fee* Rka a new woman, already. “I reoommend Cardui for young and old. and would not give It for any other kind of medicine." H*»d»cbe-1» one of the most common symptom* of womanly trouble. Back ache, uMHichw, nervousness, sleepless new weak, ttred feeling, are others If you have any of those symptoms, don’t neglect them- -do as Mrs. Melhorn advises—take Cardui, the woman’s ton ic. She know* what it will do, for It made her well, after she had tried other treatments in vntn. Cardui Is purely vegetable, gentle aoting, woman’s tonice, that has been successfully used for more than 90 years It will help you, just as It helped thousands of other women In this time. Give Cardui a trial. N P —Write to: Ladles Advisory Dept . Chattanooga Medicine Co. Chattanooga Tenn., for Special instructions, and 64- book, Home Treatment for Wom en, sent in plain wrapper, on request (Advertisement.) WILTON JELLICO COAL $4.75 Per Ton SEPTEMBER DELIVERY The Jellico Goal Co. 82 Peachtree Street Both Phones 3bdß in which the sufferer had none of the worldly advantages of Miss Challoner. I allude to —” "Watt! the washerwoman In Hicks street! Sweetwater, what have you got up your sleeve? You do mean that Brook lyn washerwoman, don't you?” "The same. The department may have forgotten it, but I haven't. Mr. Gryce. there's a startling similarity in the two cases If you study the essential features only. Startling. I assure you." "Yes, you are right there But what if there is? We were no more successful In solving that case than we have been in solving this. Yet you look and act like a hound which has struck a hot scent ” The young man smoothed his feature' with tn embarrassed laugh. "1 shall never learn," said he. "not to give tongue till the hunt Is fairly started. If you will excuse me. we'll first make sure of the similarity I have mentioned. Then I'll explain myself. I have some notes here, made at the time It was de cided to drop the Hicks street case as a wholly inexplicable one. As you know, I never can bear to say 'die,' and I some times keep such notes as a possible help in case any such unfinished matter should come up again. Shall I read them?" "Do. Twenty years ago it would not have been necessary. 1 should have re membered every detail of an affair so puzzling. But my memory Is no longer entirely reliable. So fire away, my boy, though I hardly see your purpose or what real bearing the affair in Hicks street has upon the Clermont one. A poor washerwoman and the wealthy Miss Chal loner! . True, they were not unlike in their end." “The connection will come later." smiled the young detective, with that strange softening of his features which made one at times forget his extreme plainness "I'm sure you will not con sider the time lost if 1 ask you to con sider the comparison I am about to make, If only as a curiosity in criminal annals" . And he read: " 'On the afternoon of December 4, 1910, the strong and persistent screaming of a young child In one of the rooms of a tear tenement In Hicks street. Brook lyn. drew the attention of some of the inmates and led them, after several in effectual efforts to gain an entrance, to the breaking In of the door which had been fastened on the Inside by an old fashioned door button. ” ‘The tenant whom all knew (or an honest, hard-working woman, had not infrequently fastened her door in this manner, in order to safeguard her child who was abnormally active and had a way of rattling the door open when it was not thus secured. But she had never refused to open before, and the child's cries were pitiful. " 'This was no longer a matter of won der. when, the door having been wrenched from its hinges, they all rushed in. Across a tub of steaming clothes lifted upon a i bench in the open window, they saw the body of this good woman, lying inert and seemingly dead; the frightened child tug ging at her skirts She was of a robust make, tieshy and fair, anti had always been considered a model of health and energy, but at the sight of her helpless figure, thus stricken while at work, the one crj? was A stroke" till she had been lifted off and laid upon the floor. Then some discoloration In the water at the bottom of the tub led to a closer exami nation of her body, ami the discovery of a bullet hole in her breast directly over the heart " ’As she had been standing with face towards the window, all crowded that way to see where the shot had come from. As the' were on the fourth story it could not hate come from the court upon which the room looked. It could only have come from the front tenement, towering up be fore them son e twenty feet away. A sin gle window of the Innumerable ones con fronting them stood open, ami this was the one directly opposite. " 'Nobody was to be seen there or in the room beyond, but during the excite ment, one man ran off to call the police and another to hunt up the janitor and ask who occupied this room “ 'His reply threw them all Into con fusion. The tenant of that room was the best, the quietest and most respectable man in either building " 'Then he must be simpjy careless and the shot an accidental one. A rush was made for the stairs anti soon the whole building was in an uproar Hut when this especial room was reached, it wax found locked and on the door a paper pinned up, on which these words were written 1 Gone to New York. Will be back at 6:30! " ords that recalled a circumstance to the Janitor. He had seen the gentleman go out an hour before This terminated all inquiry In this direction, though some few of the excited throng were for battering down this door just as they had the other one Hut they were overruled by the janitor, who saw no use In such wholesale destruction, and presently the arrival of the police restored order and limited the inquiry to the rear building, where it un doubtedly belonged.' "Mr. Gryce" there Sweetwater laid by his notes that he might address the old gentleman more directly >. ”1 was with the boys when they made their first of ficial investigation This Is why you can rely upon the facts as here given. I followed the Investigation closely and missed nothing which could in any way throw light on the case It was a mys terious one from the first, and lost noth ing by further Inquiry into the details. To Be Continued in Next Issue. Help for the Crippled yi Children a Chib Feet. Ihßeaaes of the Spine and Hip Joints, Paralysis and other alliictions b uccevsfu Ily LTRffy treated. Established 38 years, w jJtl Write today for illustrated cat* / flw a log, K HAI National Surgical laafitute, 72 S. Pr»«j St. Atlanta, Ga. ~T Eczema and Ringworm Cured. | Tettpiine 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 , “ rm and all other violent skin and scalp .'Ureases Ask your druggist for Tetterine | If he hasn t it. send 50c to the Shuptrine | <_o , Savannah, Ga. The Ten Ages of Beauty * Illustration from Good Housekeeping for September. \Wp H"'I" ' wk vw ■d? / O - A. "7 ’ WO V? A Ofc w .? ityffa & This picture, by Nell Brinkley, is reproduced by permission and accompanies an article by Octave Uzanne. entitled “The Story of Furs and Muffs.'’ Bv MARGARET HI BBARD AYER. THE most wonderful thing about girls is the remarkable way 1n which they, can adapt them selves to a new type or style of beauty. About every twenty years. In modern times, the popular type of beauty seems to change, and straightway the girls model themselves after that particular type. Some years ago—about fifteen, to be accurate —the streets were thronged with Gibson girls; they were tall and stately, and for the most part blond, but where is the Gibson girl today? You don't see her. The girl of today is small and svelt, with big inquisitive eyes and a little nose that curls up, and a full-lipped mouth that turns up at the corners, and bunches of curls over each ear, and site peers at you from under such a reminiscent little hat that you know you are quite familiar with her. for, of course, she is the Brinkley girl. Almost a hundred years ago the fem- Daysey May me and Her Folks Bv Frances L. Garside A LITERARY TRIUMPH. > ,f RS. LYSANDER JOHN APPLE IVI TON had all the seriousness and importance of the drummer of a country bund. It seemed in some vague way to Ly sander John that she looked larger. He had the feeling that he was in the pres ence of a woman who, mentally and physically, wore larger sizes than she wore when he left the house that morn ing. There was a note of triumph about her; a spirit of achievement that he could not define, yet could not deny. "IVell?" he said, in a man's way "Well, what?" she said, in the pro voking way of all women. He had asked a question. He felt Do You Know— Over 150.000 native troops are in cluded in the Indian army. In England and Wales the average death rate per thousand head of the population is fifteen; In Germany it Is Just over eighteen, and in Russia thir ty-one and a half. b’ortune tellers in England are liable to be punished as rogues and vaga bonds by acts of parliament passed in 1743 and 1524. ——- Turnip seeds have been known to be dormant for seven years through being planted too deep, and after that time to sprout. The steward of a Chicago hotel has invented a machine which will wash and dry 18,000 dishes or plates In an hour. The best rubber gloves for the use I of electricians are tested to resist a J current of 10.000 volts As many as three million tulips have ben grown in a single field tn the Lincolnshire fens. inine world was going wild over Lord Byron's poems, and no matter what they looked like, or how nature really made them, somehow, with the extraor dinary adaptability of the sex, they transformed themselves into living portraits of the poet's heroines. Lord Byron, though he utterly dis dained such things, started innumer able fashions, some for men, but most of them for women. One of them we still have with us —the Byron collar — which is fashionable again this year, but in those days there were mantles a la Byron, curls named after the fa mous man. thick and gorgeous mate rials which had his sanction and bore his name. All Lord Byron had to do was to admire some famous lady and straightway every girl in town tried to look as much like her as possible. Being a famous heart-breaker, he kept changing the fashions in beauty all the time, but out of all these tragic love affairs and ideals there developed the Byron girl, whose pictures you see here—a born flirt, beautiful, daring, co quettish. made to walk upon the hearts that if she didn't want to answer it made no difference to him. He didn’t want to know, anyway. Seeing that he no longer cared to know, she became anxious to tell. "I was elected," she said, in tones of triumph. Lysander John is so accustomed to his wife's election as a member of lodges and clubs and other organiza tions that he looked bored. Her news was of no interest. "To the Women's Press club!” with her voice in high G. Then Lysander John woke up. “But you can't be a member of THAT club," he said. “You have never worked on a newspaper; you have never writ ten a book. Why." his voice increas ing with Indignation at what he be lieved must have been a fraudulent claim, "you have never written ANY THING." "I have, too" she exclaimed, bristling for a fight. "Who are you to question my literary achievements?" "But you haven't written a THING: you can't write!" persisted Lysander John. His wife smiled, and her smile was one of cold scorn. It was the smile of the winner Just before he produces the w inning card. "I told them what 1 had written,” she said, "and they elected me unani mously." “But —but—" She knew what he was trying to ask. "1 told them." she continued, "that I once wrote a recipe in a friend's cook book." DR. WOOLLEY’S SANITARIUM A • J llil • I and all inebriety and I Opium and Whisky J years experience shows ■yBMWBML 't-ese hseases are rjrable F'aH<n"« aso treat eh a ' rh»ir : hnrres Consultation eor.fider'la' A book on the sub- ■£l Ject free PR R R WOOLLEY & SON., No. 2-A Vie. tor Sanitarium, Atlanta, Ga. of men. and the great-grandmother of the Brinkley girl today. She wore side curls a la Byron, and adapted modern Greek garments, which do not resemble classic Greek clothes in the least, to her needs, as soon as she heard that her idol had de. termined to fight for the independence of Greece. Indeed, the Byron girl had a fright ful time changing her wardrobe to suit the passing fancy of the poet. One moment she wanted to look Spanish and again the Italian beauties set the example. Probably in her heart of hearts, though she mourned the great poet in tensely. she was rather glad to settle down to early Victorian prose, after his death. NERVOUS ’ DESPONDENT WOMEN Find Relief in Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound —Their Own Statements So Testify. Platea, Pa. —“When I wrote to you first I was troubled with female weak- ness and backache, | and was so nervous that I would cry at the least noise, it would startle me so. I I began to take Ly dia E. Pinkham’s' remedies, and I don’t have any more cry ing spells. I sleep sound and my ner vousness is better, I will recommend ' i? H 1,1 111 Z'iWi! your medicines to all suffering women.” -Mrs. Mary Halstead, Platea, Pa., Box 98. Here is the report of another genuine case, which still further shows that Ly dia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound may be relied upon. Walcott, N. Dakota. —”! had inflam mation which caused pain in my side, and my back ached all the time. I was so blue that I felt like crying if any one even spoke to me. I took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and I began to gain right away. 1 continued its use and now I am a well woman.” -Mrs. Amelia Dahl, Walcott, N. Dakota. If you waut special advice write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi dential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened’, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence. :: A Privilege Usurped :: By Beatrice Fairfax STRAIGHTFORWARD DISCUSSIONS OF LEAP YEAR PROPOSALS. 4 4 T'j UT though I loved you well. 1) I woo’d you not; And yet, good faith, I wish'd myself a man: Or that we women had men's privilege Os speaking first.” —Shakespeare. M. G. R. writes: "This being Leap Year, I proposed to a young man with whom I had been ac quainted for a long time, and whom I dearly love. He accepted me and seem ed to love me. "Later I found that my dearest girl friend had proposed to that same young man and he had accepted her also. I am not pretty or stylish, and my friend is both, but I love him in away of which she is not capable at all. Do you think that he was joking with her, or with me?" With-both of you, my dear! What in your vision is a serious thing has prob ably become to him the rarest of jokes. If he accepted you. of course, he ac cepted the other girl. It might prove an embarrassment of riches if he regarded the proposals seriously, but he doesn’t. And no man will. When a woman asks a man to marry her, she steps out of her own province, and is very likely to be misjudged and misunderstood. She offers her heart and hand to a man. He becomes the hunted when every custom, right and tradition have made him the hunter. If he went to the woods to kill a deer and the deer chased him for the pur poses and desire oS being killed hunting would become a huge joke. Courtship, though a more delicate matter than going into the woods with a gun, alike loses its zest and its joy if the girl becomes the pursuer. It is a jump from the sacred to the profane. Designed as the rarest of all joys, it be comes the rarest of all jokes. Women have argued since the world was young that they should have the privilege of proposal, and there is much to prove their contention. In the first place, no man knows what is good for him. When he is very young no one expects wisdom, and the older he grows the less he displays. When he is old and needs a nurse to care for him, he picks out a wife who makes a good dummy on which to display pretty clothes. Not one man in twenty has good marrying sense. The women claim that if they could be the choosers there would be more happy marriages. That is a question time may settle, but the time Is not now. Surely, the writer of this letter knows that no one person can change an es- For Home. Decoration Sap Lu* *4^ir- wW5Sm® ■ V *js* ar-^f' X -wr s ,xs? * <IE tew. r 4$- $’ ■ '* wwiWTOS>9ft%aßwff%wl.ißaiKTOKSwH These Beautiful Pictures "" W!5 ~ —-!? K*j& “ / \ ' \tf*- . 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I am taking it for granted that she observed all the little niceties of courtship, and gave him one. Then, I beg, with the ring in her pos session, she will wear it as a reminder of her folly. If ever again she feels that she must ask a man to marry her, let her rub the ring to invoke the mem ory of the humiliation her first proposal cost her. When the right man comes along let him do the proposing. The men are very jealous of their rights, and the right of courtship is one they will never surrender. If a girl wants to win a man, let her study his likes and dislikes. Let her give him flattery in just such amounts his nature craves, and administer it so delicately he doesn't know it Is flattery. Let her appeal to his superior wisdom in all things, and win him by tact and subtlety. A bold proposal of marriage is like a knock-down blow compared with the thousand other means nature has provided every woman for winning the man she loves. FEED THE FAMILY BETTER AT LESS COST. 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