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The Men Are the First to Receive Christmas Cifts; a Handsome Assortment of Hints ® # MAGAZINE r The Real Saint The Cold Witch Being the Adventures of a Golden-Haired 11 d d> Ky STELLA FLORES Faincenther Friend* Copyright. If 13, International News Herr tee. Once Upon a Time i. 1 IFF 1* or>e Ion* story of lnju% tic* to worrmn Rho Is dlscrexL •4 fted for •very failure. nrwJ Man If audited with hor e**»ry suoc*«s The little homage that has been ion* *o her^ ha* always had It* llttW Joke tied to It an big ae tho tin o*n tied to a country dog's taiL Man flattered her by mAking her a symbol of Justice. Thon ho tlod a bandage over har eye* to dlacrodii •or judgments. Ho ma<l« hor tht symbol of Liberty, hoping tho com pllmont would soothe her Into forgot fulness of hi* refusal to lot bar vote. Ho made her tho symbol of Patloare, because that la a virtue of which he la willing to lot her have a monopoly Sho Invented Lore. he stole thf Idea and made a boy child Lov« » rep resentative She lnvontod UhrlsfmAS, i ar.d he made an Inane-looking man. too old to hold any other polttlcal Job, tho Christmas saint. It la tlmo. Children Dear. In these da ye when every woman is demands Ing her rights and tearing tho veil of hypocrisy oft the face of man. that you should know the truth. *ho saint who floats through your anta-Chrietmas dreams. dropping from a reindeer chariot baga of goodies and toys is a man. la he not? — with a long. white beard and highly colored cheeks? Then wake up PV>r while von dream thePe sits near your bed. unappreciated, un sung and undreamt, the real Christ mas aalnt. Your Mother 1 HDR f HEF.K K PALE. Her cheeks are pale, through much midnight preparation of your Christ mas gifts; her eyes are not merry, as were the eyes of the m«n of your dreams they are tender and loving, and perhaps a little wistful, because your wants are ao many and her re source* so Inadequate. But, no mat ter how little she has, there la always something for the children at Christ mas; and though every gift repre sents self-denial, she never telle of the aaoriflce. nor complains when the credit la given to the Imaginary old man with the lazy-fat stomach and the long, white beard There Is always Christ nnts where there Is a Mother. It la not a cele bration that depends upon environ ment embracing a toy shop near a ten cent store. It depends solely upon the existence of a Mother. In the days of the pioneer, when the nearest toy shop waa hundreds of miles away, there was alwaju Chiiat- maa if there was a Mother. A string of beads, won by a Itttle cajolery or trade with the Indians, a cookey man, a bright red apple, a beAnbag. or a home-knit mitten, saved the stocking by the Are from the tragic droop of emptiness, and strings of bright- colored corn, with Winter bouquets of dried grasses and wild berries, gave the bouee the look of Ohrlatmg* cheer. There is always Christmas where there la a Mother. It la an event that depends not on any man. If It were left to man to dress the Christ mas dolls the fig-leaf fashion would a glorious revival, and after two or three yaa.ru of worry the word. “Christmas’ would pass away to find a resting epot 1° the cemetery of dead languages VRY -OF THE WOLF. If ti were left to man, the faint, cry of the wolf at the front gate would scare Christman Day off the calendar. With a Mother in the home, there la some sort of a Christ mas though the wolf Is scratching at the door. True. Children Dear. Father will claim the oredit because he worked to earn money te give Mother, but no Father works as hard to earn money to give Mother as Mother has to work to get It from Father. Bhe stands between your cries for more and bis demands that there be lass She is the middleman who stands between the producer and the consumer, and her only profits are your am Ilea Christina* morning And your praise and gratitude for the alleged Christmas saint! —FRASCEti L OARHIDE. 7iSv V, 3k A s'/:/,. ", \ \V - IV 4* <5 m ! u> p \ vvt m srSSi ,,1 ■Tf, ta' 7 h naTT V V J&av /^y i JI Hi: I , 1 ; 1 P’' • ' . UMT'^v ili 1 i-3bkv. '/> /* V _ .sr.upr«u^.i V. l-'isl •i - fjh\ ,\0„3 f ‘'"N 'V & sj-iv.Hi iSI B EFORE hei father’s will is read the great newspapers pjint pages about the Gold Witch—the world’s greatest heiress. People who hitherto have greeted her indiffer ently sue for her friendship. Beautiful Helen Van Rurg, the proudest girl in society, runs over before sailing for Europe to say good-by and to vow undying friendship. Tom alone stands aloof. ___ __ L W HEN the will is read, all but five hundred dollars is left—not to the Gold Witch, but to her guardian. Stunned at this strange outcome she congratulates herself on at least having so many fripnds. But she finds out that the penniless orphan is quite a different person to her wealthy friends. Cut to the heart she takes refdge in the con servatory, where she tries to realize that she is really alone in the world. No, not quite aione. For Tom, whose pride held him away from the heiress, hurries to sympathize with the forlorn little maid. SNAP= SHOTS BAY .4 Thrilling Story of Society Blackmailers (Novelized by) Do Y ou Know— Henry Elionekv, a well-known American long-distance swimmer, has just succeeded in swimming from Brooklyn Bridge to Bay Ridg»\ a dis tance of about four intlcs. with hands and feet tied, lowing a boat in which were seven inen. The total weight of the boat and its* occupants was 1,363 pounds. The swimmer \.as three hours and ten minutes in the water. Five years ago a bachelors' club was founded In Severance, Colo, with twenty members, but the club has just been disbanded owing to the fact that all the members are, rr are about to be. married, and. according to the rules, are no longer eligible for mem bership. Princess Mary, in accordance with a promise made to her some tinv? back by the Duchess of Fife, secured the last maiden signature of her royal highness—excepting the signature in the marriage register. The Duchess signed „the Princess' autograph al bum at Buckingham . alace on tV» afternoon before the wedding. A lady who is a noted autogriph hunter ha-1 offered the Duchess $500* to be paid to any charit> her royal highness might name, for her last maiden sig nature. A clever American has invented an ele< trie motor roller skate. It is actu ated by a motor at the back of the skai* . but it has the drawback that the skater must carry in his hands or on his back a *'a r of rather heavy cumulators to supply the current. By LILIAN LAUFERTY. The man who tells a girl not to talk about thing* she doesn’t under stand Will use a lot of ingenuity to keep her from understanding things he does not want her to talk about. Sometimes the man who calls his eweet heart a “cute kid’’ when aha plays baby before marriage, will in sist that she Is noting In a “ridicu lously childish manner" if site tries the same little tricks when she hap pens to be his wife. The woi*an who treats a man in a frankly friendly manner either feels us friendly as she acts or is In love —and not necessarily with another man. For in the hands of the woman who knows how to use It, frankness Is as dangerous a weapon us co quetry. SOME MARRIAGES —are like treaties between countries that do not apeak the same language. Love acts as a board of arbitration aivd the two strange countries meet. Join. become one And docs the 'board of arbitration” stay on Its Job? Does love remain to keep the peace? Oh. rvo! The two foreign creatures who are yoked learn to speak a sign language both can un derstand. learn to combine the cus toms of their countries or they suf fer tht horrors of internal war' are made with much elegance an-d leisure and repented with very In elegant haste — float across the honeymoon Into a vinegary reaction from too muo 1 sugar — make h spinster long to see the ol . > ear out at a suffragette meeting, in stead of causing her to be jealous of the younsa wife a no is b Issfully cer tain of nc longed for sure thing hate for New Years Eve are like an echo of Thanksgiving and a forerunner of Christmas - all peace on earth and good will to man *nd wqgnan And after all. thpse are .ns on * > real marriages in a world that see'.ns to ><< k power to lell teal jewels from paste. (From the play by George Scar borough. n«>w being presented at the Thirty-ninth Str*M*t Theater, New York. Serial righth held and copyrighted by International News Service.) TO DAY’S INSTALLMENT. And Captait^ Holbrook smiled—which was quite natural. Then in a manner calculated to stimulate injured inno cence and confidence forced on most personal matters, he* sauntered over to the mantel and gave all his attention to dusting off with his index finger a minute particle from Judson Flagg's dispatch box. ^ “The impudence of the lad I" thought Father Shannon hut he managed to think it without the betraying twitch of a single facial muscle. On the Trail. “The woman is still here." said Chief Dempster in his most granite-like tone H< smiled in appreciation of Larry’s elaborated stagi setting, and well-con ceived histrionics. “You think so?” returned the Cap tain reproachfully. You're not only accessory after the fact, Captain Holbrook, but the woman who killed .Iudson Flagg is hidden In tills apartment,'' and hm he made his declaration a smile broadened the firm lips of the chief of the secret service. Holbrook shook his head in easy nega tion. “Wasting vour time.” “What's that door?” questioned the chief grimly, pointing to the portal that led to Aline s hiding place. Indignantly the captain replied “That door leads to my bedroom ' And that one?” Kitchen and servant's room.” The two men measured each other. Chief Dempster left for a tour of the “kitchen and servant's” room. * “Sit down, Mr Graham.” said Larry, the hospitable ■ Your resistance isn't helping your # sternly. Captain Holbrook measured this man the District Attorney of the Cnited States He wondered if the father could suspect from what shame the resistance he decried was saving him He won dered whether her father would also prove Aline s friend if the evil hour of knowledge must come, lie thought of that old Ro’uan father Yirginius. who had slain his young Virginia at the threat of dishonor-and he asked hint- self what would the District Attorney, of the 1’nlted States do if he knew that his daughter measured up to the standards of those who must be con sidered guilty until proven innocent. For though the law says a man is in nocent until proven guilty -the mark ..f shameful guilt smirches a woman who is dragged before the bar of Jus tice In our scandal-loving country. Holbrook squared his shoulders and divided that he must light Aline s tight | alone—against her father—if that need I be. Stern Measures. The three men, held by such carying emotions that they might have been worlds apart, instead of ail inextricably bound In the same cause, waited Demp ster’s return. “Chief, what are you finding?” called Graham at last, impatiently. “Nothing yet,” called back the Chief's voice. “1 think I’m very patient, sir -neither of you gentlemen has any right to search these premises.' said Larry, who had firmly decided on what his course must he “You're mistaken,” said Graham with quiet determination to see this thing through now He little guessed what “seeing It through" must mean to him and the little girl who had grown up as his heritage from the wife he had loved. And now Chief Dempster came back from his fruitless search and walked with grim determination toward the door that led to Holbrook's room Holbrook left his position on his hearthstone and stepped between the oncoming host and the door he must not surrender One minute.” said he quietly. "B> wluu authority?” ”M*ne,” said Graham, rushing to his doom Holbrook hit his lips at the grim irony of it all. "Your warrant?" demanded the Cap tain. with a forlorn hope. “I am the warrant.” said Graham. Holbrook half closed his keen gray exes as if to get a fore-shortened view of this most amusing picture Then he opened them wide in amazement, and placed himself a human barricade- be fore the citadel of safety where Aline cowered. Again the captain essayed the heredi tary light tone of the sons of Erin. "Louis Fourteenth said. ‘I am the State ' That misleads you. In America —even a district attorney must conform to tlje laws. Mr Graham.” ”1 mean to get info that nmm." said Chief Dempster It was quite evident that he did mean to do just what he said. ( Could Holbrook stop him*' The End of the Struggle. At all events he meant to try. "You can’t.” said he. “Will you stop me?” asked Dempster. “1 AM steppin’ you,” explained Larry pa t iently. The chief smiled in grim amusement. “Do you think you van stop both of us?” The captain's hand was on the chief's wrist now A steel vise gripped the arm of the chief of the Secret Service of the United States. A steel voice an swered him—and steel eyes glinted at him while taut muscles rippled and hardened to steel, too. and Larry Ho'- brook held the citadel of his lady safe from marauding chiefs and high offi cials. “1 KNOW 1 can stop both of you—- uhl both of YOU know It." was his stern declaration. “We didn’t come here for any rough and tumble, Holbrook”—began Chief Dempster in a tone reserved for crimi nals who are cornered and must soon acknowledge It. “Thank you,” interrupted Holbrook with courtly irony. “But we didn’t come here without men enough." He went over to the en trance door—and, opening it, called down the corridor, “Donnelly—Ha gan ” "Yes. sir,” floated back his answer. In that moment Lawrence Holbrook tasted the grim salt flavor of possible failure. But he still meant to find a ’ way—though what that way was to be he himself scarcely knew—but in the hack of His mind a plan was formulat ing. He took one step from the door. "One moment. Chief—don't call them.” The Chief allowed himself another smile. Holbrook had fought well—but defeat was near He could not guess for whom that defeat would spell dis aster. “Wait there.” he called to his men. "Close the door, if you please.” said Holbrook. He shrugged his shoulders. "I can’t stop all four of you " And then he opened the door and called: “Aline, my dear—a moment. . . . Your father's here.” Slowly—almost as if she were walk ing in a sleep troubled by dreams of 1.error. Aline Graham came trembling into the room. With a fathomless question in their depths, her eyes fixed on the man to whom she had given all her faith, phe waited for the word of command from her captain, who held her life in his hands. In that moment the District Attor ney of the United States became an old man. Life turned him around with an abrupt command to "right about face.” and he looked at the law from tho side of those whom he had beer, forced to drive to doom if they could be proven guilty. His daughter! His little Aline—here in Lawrence Holbrook’s room—in hiding—a fugi tive! His aching brain could scarce ly compass it all. “Aline!" he cried at last, when si lence had sapped all life-giving oxy gen from the heavy air. “Aline! Why? In God's name, why?” The. girl looked at her father in pain tha- 1s world-old. So innocent Vir ginia must have looked at her father when he lifted the knife that saved her from worse than death. And so every girl who is pure in heart, tHough circumstance has cruelly sul lied her life, must chafe in sorrow at her woman's heritage when she sees how another man has forced her to $5—OPERA GLASSES—$5 Pearl Opera Glasses of exceptional value for this season of the year— the Xmas Gift for any member of the family. 42 N. Broad. Jno. L. Moore vY Sons.—Advt. hurt her loving father, who scarcely knows she is a woman—the father who still dreams his girl is an inno cent child. But she did not speak— she waited her command from tne captain of her life. “Tell him what you heard in your library,” said Holbrook, calmly. The Chief stood watching Aline. He was looking beyond her words—he was striving to And the motive power for all her possible deeds. "That HE was t<» be arrested.” cried the girl to the District Attorney. And "he” meant the man she loved. Another Confession. “You frightened the girl, you two sensational gentlemen, with your talk of murder and my arrest for it,” said Holbrook, with seeming probity. “How did you get here?” asked the father. “With B'ather Shannon.” “What’s your interest in this. Fa ther Shannon?” questioned the Chief, with ready suspicion. "I sympathized with the young lady’s fears. I share her belief in Captain Holbrook’s innocence.” The church was militant now— lighting for the maid and her gallant defender Graham still centered all his sorrow and dismay on the daughter whom he felt was disgracing him, but he meas ured disgrace by the pennyweight. “I'm a sworn officer of the Govern ment. For my daughter to betray se crets heard in my house is as heinous as my own disloyalty w'ould be.” Tm sorry, father—awfully sorry,” said the girl, ineffectually. ”1 can t express my indignation— my s^nse of outrage,” exclaimed the father—never guessing that he was tilting at straws. ’’The girl loves him. sir.” explained the priest, gently. “She does not! ” “Yes—1 love him.” To Be Continued To-morrow. Advice to the Lovelorn By BEATRICE FAIRFAX D YOU OWE IT TO HER. EAR MISS FAIRFAX: C )ME, gather closer, children, dear, and listen to these Christmas tales J am about to relate. Once Upon a Time There lived a little urirl who was never satisfied. She waited a Whole Lot of things for Christmas, and when she got out her stocking to hang it up in front of the fireplace, she was mad because she saw how small it was. “It will never hold all I want,” she grumbled. "I \tfish I was a woman and wore stockings big enough to hold something ” Then she remembered that she had seen a pair of her grandmother’s stock ings in the closet, and when no one saw her she got them out. and hung them by the fireplace instead of her own! And when Santa Claus came down the chimney that night, children, dear, he saw those stockings large and thick and sensible, and thought they be longed to an old lady! So he put in them a pair of spectacles, knitting needles, a night cap and a Bible! And lots of us. children, dear, who want a whole lot of things as we pas-* through life, and are not satisfied with what is our share, are going to catch it some day, just as this litle girl did. * * * Once Upon a Time a little girl and a little hoy looked in a book and saw a picture of a kindly faced old man. He had red cheeks, a big jolly stomach and a long beard, and he carried a sack on his shoulders filled with toys. "That is Santa Claus.” their mother explained, and ever after that his pic ture was looked upon with great love. They wrote letters to him, they talked of him. they dreamed of him they wished he would come to their house to live or that they could go to live in his house where all the rooms were hung with sugar plums and filled with toys. “We don’t see.” they grumbled to their mother, "why couldn’t you have let us stay in the hole in the tree where vou said you found us, and let Santa iind us?” But she only smiled tenderly at their complaints, and at night when they lay asleep dreaming of their imaginary saint, a real saint, tired and worn, sat up late dressing dolls and scheming and planning means to buy them the things they wanted. She denied her self new 1 clothes, and wore her old hat, and stood between their wishes and their father’s complaints that he wasn't going to give a cent to this Christmas tomfoolery, and on Christmas morning was rewarded by their gratitude to an imaginary Santa Claus and the cross looks of her husband. For it is not, children, dear, till you have grown up and must he Santa Claus to your own children that you realize what a pitiful experience Christmas means to a mother; A visitor one day mentioned to Vol taire that he had recently spent some time with Albrecht Von Haller, the distinguished Swiss physiologist. "Ah,” said Voltaire, "he Is a great man. a great, poet, a great naturalist, a great philosopher—a man of wonder ful accomplishments!” “What you say. monsieur.” the vis itor said, “is all the more creditable in you, inasmuch as Von Haller does not do you the same justice.” "Alas,” replied Voltaire, with a grim smile. “Very likely we are both mis taken.” * * * A Scottish farmer recently paid a vis it to a South of England cattle show, and while walking around got talking with a. native farmer. Neither could well ‘understand what the other said. The Scotsman got a little nettled at this, and put it down to the English man's stupidity. "Man,” he said at last, "yer cows moo a’ right, and yer cocks craw quite plain, hut I’m hanged if I can mak’ you oot.” * * * Visitor (sampling stout with evi dent appreciation)—Really, this is splendid stuff. They say that it is both meat and drink. Workman (interrupting) — Shine, an’ it’s roight ye are, .sor; an’ if ye take plenty av it it’ll foind ye lodg ings, too. I am tw’enty and have been keeping company with a girl one year my Junior for the last three years and w r o>uld like to marry her only for my parents’ objection, which is on account of different nationality. I therefore ask you would it be right to marry the girl or not? B. A. B. A FTER monopolizing a girl for three years it is no less than dishonorable not to marry her if she loves you. But twenty is young for a man t marry. Wait at least till you are . age. • HAVE FAITH. JJEAR MISS FAIRFAX: I am eighteen, and deeply in love with a man three years m. senior. I have been told by jealous boys that when I am absent he i.s going w'ith other girls. He w’rltt-s me nice letters, also takes mo to theatres, and he says he loves me, and doesn't go with any girls bu me. WONDERING U NLESS a girl has faith she o never know a happy love affa If you cannot believe him see no mo: of him. Don’t enter into any to' tionshlp with any one and eA; good results if you are suspicious How to Stake the Best Cough Remedy at Home A Family Supply at Small Cost, and Fully Guaranteed. Make a plain syrup by mixing 1 pint of granulated sugar and pint of warm water and stir for two minutes. Put 2L ounces of pure Pinex (50 cents' worth) In a pint bottle, and fill it up with the sugar syrup. This gives you a family supply of the best cough syrup at a sav ing of $2. It never spoils. Take n teaspoonful every one, two or three hours. The effectiveness of thte simple rein ed.'' is surprising. 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Student# may enter the different departments to advantage on the l*t of January. ParenSa /,# " •Ire for their daughters the beet Instruction under the most favorable surroundings, apply COX COLLEGE AND CONSERVATORY. COLLEGE PARK. GEORGIA