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gi o Sy L
The Unchastened
- Woman -
Novelized from the play by Louls K.
Anspacher. now running at the Thirty
ninth Street Theater, under the direc
‘!on of Oliver Morosco. Copyright, 1913,
2y the International News Service
By ANN LISLE.
(Continued From Saturday.)
*What do you mean!” cried Mich
ael, sensing her undertone at last
*“That isn't argument. That's eva
sion.” |
Lawrence sprang to his feet and
burtled out an order: “Emily and
Michael, vou've said about enough
now; please go!"”
Hildegarde's tone of qulet dignity
atiempted command of the situation,
“By nc means, Mrs, Knolys will be
good enough to explain herself.”
Caroline knew, however, that it was
she who dominated the situation. She
was the focus of attention now. The
center of the stage, a position which
she had commandeered all her life,
like the true pirate she was was
again completely hers,
She smiled very charmingly. “Since
You insist, It is simply because 1 re
fuse to git at the game table with my
husband’'s mistress.”
There was a moment of absolute
silence while each nature reacted to
the audacity of Mrs. Knolys' state
ament. To anyone who had looked at
her Emily must have delivered at
once the confession of her own guilt,
She fairly drooped before the fusil
lade Mre. Knolys had directed at her,
Krellin was the first to recover
himself, and, obvious for the first
time, he shouted his flerce denial.
**That's a lie! A black, malicloas
h!'l
“Oh, no!” returned Caroline, still
smiling with an effect of indifferent
ease that tormented Emily the more.
“She doesn’'t even know your hus
band!” cried Michael, stumbling on
blindly in defense of his sweethear:,
~ Caroline’s taunt was absolutely
confident. If everyone else were star
ing at her, she, at least, was devoting
her attention to Emily.
There was something rather mag
mificent in Krellin's quiet dignity as
he towered, dark and menacing, over
the woman who was managing at last
10 elude him and to conquer him be
cause he must now of necessity lose
his sense of humor,
What was life and death to him
was nothing to Caroline but a sii-|
uation which other situations less
pleasant to herself had at last en
abled her to create.
“‘Ask Her!"" Cries the |
Ei: “Madam, lam not here to insult w]
but to defend her against your
’ to do so!” stormed Michael
g “Ask her, and you will learn it was
lor my husband’'s sake your article
‘Was repressed.” concluded Caroline,
turning her final dart upon the man
5 . “But he no doubt has paid
R Madden for any loss you may
m suffered. Come, Susan” She
to the Sandburys with a mad
air of social grace which had
Mot for one moment deserted her.
o had a delightful luncheon. My
please, Lawrence.”
. “Mre. Knolys.” sald Krellin quietly,
“of course, you can not go until 1
‘have relieved your mind from any
w«m about your hus
- Caroline decided that it was time
10 direct the attention of the com
:.y 10 Miss Madden. She managed
L with a word. “But unfortunateiy
1 seem to affect Miss Madden dis
agreeably.”
- BEmily Madden staggered to her feet
and suddenly the kind old arms of
that Ignored derelict, Mrs. Murtha,
went about her.
g “Fer th' love o' Gawd, th' poor
M soin’ t' faint!”
. “Take me home, Michael--take me
%’ cried Emily
. “Take Miss Madden home” was
Michael's order to Mrs. Murtha., He
. f proposed to stay and deal
with Caroline for Emily's greater
” But though he was a man and
r not know it, Emily's greater
at that moment lay in just one
Ahing—the comfort of his arms about
. Busan Ambie was vociferating her
r——- -
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terror over and over again in de-
Imands to her Carrie to come away
from these awful people. Lawrence
'nns apologetically tryiag to extract
| Caroline from the difficulty he per
!~:.~tf~«l in thinking someone else had
'mariv. Hildegarde was Dbesieging
Michael to go with Emily. ‘
But the two antagonists were con
scious only of each other. |
Wild with rage, Krellin was facing
his insolently smiling enemy. “Mrs.
Knolys has permitted herseif to utter
a filthy, common, vicious lie! And
.
Krellin in a Rage
Gives Her the Lie.
“Buot this is not the time to discums
it, began Hildegarde,
“A filthy LIE!” went on Michael in
fury.
“See here, you can't use that kind of
larguage to my friend,” cried Law
rence, |
But Krellin swept him aside sav
agely. “Your friend! You little lap
dog! 1 want nothing from you—just
'l(mk to yourself!"”
But now Hildegarde came to Mich
ael's side and turned him to the door
way through which Mae Murtha was
helping Emily-——and Emily, so weak
and shaken that Michael could hardly
recognize the truth of his perceptions,
But he knew where he wase needed
now, and as Hildegarde urged him on
he turned with stuppressed vehemence
to the woman whose words had had
the malign power so to alter Emily.
“Mrs. Knolys, 1 shall do myself the
pleasure of continuing this conversa
-1 tion in the presence of your husband.”
} Then, as he went, a new antagonist
approached Caroline. 1t was Hilde
):nrde, quiet and sure of herself. No
}mnre was she held In leheck by the
- difficulty of acting as hostess to this
aloof and censorious woman of the
world. The lawg of hospitality could
hold her ro longer. Now she could
dismi®s the dragging necessity of he
ing agreeable to lLawrence's friend,
The situation had given her again the
privilege of being supremely herseif,
“Mrs. Knolys, 1 must have a word
with you” Hildegarde's volce was
very quiet and very sure. Instinc
tively Caroline felt respect for any
adversary who ald not rely upon
shouting and the emphasis of the
raised voice for vietory.
“Now, she's going to begin'" ecried
Susan dizzily, more hectic than ever
from the Scotch and the excitement.
“Of all the frightful experiences!
QCarrie, you must get out of this." .
“Hildegarde, don't you think we'd
better drop it?" asked Lawrence an
grily.
“Il’ isn’t only in (errreme to Miss
Madden that 1 wish to speak”
returned Hildegarde, meaningly.
Caroline smiled loftily, So Law
rence’s wife was really jealous! That
bad its effect on her—but not quite
the effect poor, addle-brained Susan
Ambie seemed to think.
Hysterically that individual shout
ed: “I knew it, Carrie! But you're
wrong, Mrs. Sanbury! No matter
‘what you think * * * people have such
vile minds!"”
And, not at all suspecting that in
her susplcions of other people's view
points she laid her own mind open to
the criticlsm of not being quite free
from vileness, Miss Amble made a
mental clutch at her somewhat dislo
cated faculties and went on, gpecifi
cally: “T was with Mrs. Knolys all
the time, except once when 1 took sick
* * * yvour husband knows it * * * ang
80 does Mr. Knolys * * * and——"
TWhat are you talking about ™ ask.
ed Lawrence, with a stupidity that ac
tually was not entirely feigned. He
had boylishly ideallzed his relation with
Caroline into a lofty friendship, which
that lady would utterly have scorned.
And, since he hardly knew his own
mind in the matter, he could searcely
have beén expected to guess hers o
the world's.
Susan ambled on, seeing in herselt
the noble defender of an innocence of
which she had, after all, no reason to
be very sure. “And if her kindness |s
to be misinterpreted * * * then— "
“Say, Miss Amble, what's on vour
mind?" demanded Lawrence, angrily.
i But Caroline silenced him with a
gesture. There was 100 much of ob.
OUR MISUNDERSTOOD NERVES @ By WOODS HUTCHINSON, A. M, M. D.
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[t’s not a “‘killing pace "we live to-day, As a matter of fact, modern business life furnishes the brain and nervous system more wholesome exercise than did any pre
vious condition of man—which is to say that men and women whose nerves are a ‘‘wreck’ would better look less to ‘‘bhusiness cares’’ for the
cause and more to their habits of eatine, sleeping and exercising.
vious innocence in his uttltu:ie. It
did not fit in with the sudden, rather
desperate Inspiration that had come
to hér. On Hildegarde's face there
was an expression of puzzled dnuht.{
With that Caroline Knolys intended to
deal,
‘ Susan collapsed suddenly. The la!t1
‘flarp ol emotion had leit her ‘N“'«‘l
}wetak. She was guilty of more maud- |
lin tears and a sobbing, “Oh, every
body's crazy!"” 1
Lawrence answered her, disgusted
ly: “You're right there!” And then
he turned, rather helplessly, to Hilde
garde: “Hildegarde, 1 hope that yu\
don’t think-—oh, what's the use?" But
the expression on Hildegarde's face
had startied him, too; it was quite un
like the sweet plagcidity that was ac
customed to dwell there 5
Abruptly, Caroline broke in: “Quite
50! Lawrence, get Susan home.”
Lawrence attempted to protest, hut
orders came to him from a new quar
ter. It was Caroline who dismissed
him!' .
} “Please go. | wish to talk with yourl
wife,” ordered Mrs. Knolys. “Send the |
‘motor back for me immediately, * &
Oh-—and remember you have (-ngage-l
‘ments for this afternoon.” l
Lawrence obeyed orders, and, e\'en'
as he went, he was mystifled by a
look crowded full of meaning which
passed between Hildegarde and Caro
line. As he left the room Hildegarde
closed the door after him with a
strange air of finality. There was a
pause as the two women stood tak
ilng mental measurements of each
other.
~ Into the somber sllence Caroline in.
terjected a sudden remark: “You're
not going to lock me in, l.hope!"
Gravely, Hildegarde replied: “No:
but after you leave this room. 1 want
you to pass out of our lives forever.”
“Your life, that's very simple. You
have something else to say to me?"
asked Caroline Mghtly-—so lightly
that the studied insolence of it struck
Hildegarde like a blow. |
“So many things—~l hardly knaw‘
where to begin.”
“lLet me help you. We'll eliminate
Miss Madden,” returned Caroline,
“We will not ellminate Miss Mad
den. We have a different sense of
values—you and I -but we are both
married women. Emily is different!
She has nothing but her friends, Mi
chael and me, and we together will
force you to retract.’ 7
Hildegarde had chosen at last to
project herself from the backgroumd
in which she had remained quletly
and patiently during the long hour
when Caroline had dominated the
unfortunate luncheon party,
When there was nothing more st
stake than her own discomfort and
belittlement, she seemed quite con
tented to endure in silence. Many a
good woman s like that, For herse!f
she will not ight. but when someone
she loves is involved her sense of
Justice compels her to take the fight
to her unwonted center of the stage
and to battle for what she considers
A cause worthler of conflict than her
own mere self might be,
Hildegarde's quietness was very ev.
ident to Caroline. And Mrs. Knolys
had very little respect for martyr
folk. But Hidegarde's strength es
caped Mrs, Knolys entirely.
“Retract the trath? What else?’
demanded Caroline, scornfully.
But Hildegarde went on with quiet
determination. She was not self.
conscious in her strength and firm
ness, but she knew that she meant to
stand by Emily,
“And make a full apology to her”
“1 have never apologized in my life.”
Mrs. Knolys's tone dismissed the sug.
gestion. what had never been moat
assuredly would never be
(Te Be Continued.)
UR nerves are the most misun-
O derstood things about us—and
the toughest. They are a sin-
Bular mixture of mother'\s darling ana
tough Kid. ;
They are not misunderstood in the
suffer-in-silence, hugging-their-cross,
Christlan-martyr sense of the term. On
the contrary, they scream so loudly be
fore they are hurt, and faint so con
vineingly whenever “chores” are men
tioned. that they escape all discipline
and dirty work in the body household.
And a. they are abundantly able to
lick anybody else in the body family
that makes faces at them they have the
easiest tlme and “softest job” of all our‘
M)’ tissues, |
It is the business of the nerves to
be gensitive, to respond instantly 1o the
:flrst whisper or thrill of danger, and
their paradox is shat the healthier they
‘ure the more delicate they are. “Steady”
lmyrvn. in the sense of stolid, dull, stow
responding neurons, are the worst and
{"unheauhlu!" kKind that anybody can
have. \
I Civilized nerves are far more sensi
tive than savage nerves. but civilized
man, by virtue of more sensitive nerves,
has grown taller, stronger, more endur-
Ing, become less subject to diseas than
the “nobiest” savage ever yet discov
ered and lives nearly three times as
long.
The trouble is that we have allowed
our nerves to impose on us. Not con
tent with being of great and real im
portance, they have insisted on being
considered the “whole show” and
crowned dictators of the body republic.
Just as one given an inch of advan
tage is prone to make it a vard, so our
nervous system has gradually presumed
upon its privileges until it has hypno
tized us Into the belles that the state
of our nerves is the most important
consideration In the world.
It is only f‘lr to recall that we have
curselves actively qassisted in creating
this fllusion of the supreme importance
and delicacy of the nervous system.
Ever since we discovered that we had
a brain, we have been so enormously
proud of that swollen cephalic bulb
which houses what we are pleased to
term our mind that we eagerly bow
ldnwn before it and worship it and de
clare it to be the only thing about our
'vfla body which is really worth consid-
Lering. 4
Mind maketh man, and the brain is
the seat of the mind!
Recently. however, we have come to
suspect that our mind, whatever we
mean by the term, so far from being
confined to “our braln or even chiefly
residing there, pervades every region
of our body,
We Have the Whip Hang.
Fortunately we still have the whip
hand of our nerves, and possess means
to limit their tyranny and check their
delusions of grandeur whenever we will.
'\'Mla in one sense the brain and nerves
are the higgest and bossiest things in
the body, n another sense they are
the weakest and most dependent. .
They have wonderfu! executive pow
ers, but they have no control over the
finances. Brain may be president of our]
body republic, but stomach still re
mains the legisiative body which alone
CAn ralse money and vote supplies ‘
We can. at will, starve or poison our
nerves into wild but impotent revolt,
or we can feed and play them into good
behavior - |
In fact. the secret of success In deal-
Ing with the nervous system Is to pay
little or no attention to it directly, but
to feed and rest and exercise all the
rest of the body Into perfect condition;
then the nervous system will “Baa-baa
long 100, as the Chinese ver.
o} “Mary had a little lamb™ bath it
"xn ng that is done to the dain or
mind, or by the mind, has the slight
st permanent effe®t upon either Insan-
Ity or nervous breakdown. save in so
far an mental Impressions influence
physieal conduct.
Food is the master word in nearol.
ORY. Just as much as i {8 In catt e
feeding, or egg-production, or factory
iw!nw Take care of your digestion,
your play, and your sleep, and your
nerves will take care of themselves’
Our nerves are not breaking down
under modern ¢ivilization; on the con
trary, they are thriving and growing
fat on it. 2 :
But if this be true, how did we get
such an absolutely contrary impression?
The misapprehension rests mainly upon
two facts,
_ In the first place, as we have already
Seen, we mistake the ringing sentinel
’ohallenge of the nerves at the first foot
fall of danger for a sign of disease or
‘weakness in them.
It is often the people most “delicate”
in youth who live to-‘the ripest old age,
because their nerves always scent dan
ger ahead in time for them to 2ide
step It.
The second reason for this wrong im
presslon is that we confuse the recogni
| tion of a discase with its prwulencm'
and imagine that because we have had
the wit finally to discover a dlnelse.{
therefore it has ouly Just been created!
It is only within the last two or three
hundred years that humanity has be-}
come intelligent enough to recognize the
large bulk of nervous and other chronic |
diseases. !
Whereupon, with logic positively In-‘
fantile in its feébleness, we dub them
“new” and declare that they have only
Just come into existence, and that if
they continue to increase at the rate
at which we have discovered tgdm.
they will devour us alive and wipe out
the race within a few generations! We
mistake an increase of our ability to
recognize and talk about a disease for
an increase in Its prevalence.
The Insanity Bug.
Take, for instance, the widely trum
peted belief in the increase of insanity.
The most thoughtful and competent ex
perts, both medical and statistical, are
now almost unanimous in the opinion
that the Increase of insanity in modern
times is almost entirely upon paper.
That Is to say, we are recognizing
and officially registering every year
more of the ill-balanced minds in the
community than we ever did before.
So far from ilnsanity being peculiarly
a disease of civillzation, a penalty of
education and culture, it is precisely the
opposite.
Every savage tribe that has been
carefully studied has shown a higher
percentage of insanity than any known
civilized nation, and every half-civilized
race yields more lunatics than any high-
Iy civilized one.
It is the lowest and most primitive
class of sociely that sends (he largest
percentage of its numbers into the in.
sane asylums, both public and private,
and the highest class that sends the
lowest percentage. Our forelgn-born |
immigrants, for Instance, contribute |
mearly double the percentage that our
native-born population does. !
But when all is sald and done, and
the very blackest figures are accepted,
the most thoroughly registered nm_u
highly Intellectualized of modern com
munities, such as Massachusetts, for in.
stance, show & total Insanity rate of
only about four & the thousand, less
than one-half of one per cent. |
~ Andl even allowing that there are four
mild, or unrecognized cases outside the
asylums for every®one in them, this
would make only two per cent of all
Krades of mental defectives In the en
i"" community,
If the grim ecluteh of circumstance,
and the “slings and arrows of outra-
Keous fortune,” acting upon our de
fenseless nervous systems through more
than five thousand vears of various de-
Krees of clvilisation, have succeeded In
craging only two per cent of us, we
surely need not have any vo‘ mv.'
apprehension for the integrity of our‘
nervous systems in the future! 1
The strong probablflity i= that so far
from insanity being on the increase, 'oi
have less of it now than we ever had
in any previous age.
He would certainly be &« bold man
who would contend, in view of the dis-
Kusting and degrading superstitions, the
childishiy ignorant beliefs, and the im
becile philomophies of the universe,
which mw “got by,” but were im.
plicitly bel by the human race l'(s.‘
theee or four thousand years ggo. thet
the prevalence of lusanity and l-ohb‘
- mindedness could possibly have bkn
less then than it is now.
i Indeed. a considerable ‘percentaga not
only of the priests, magicians, prophets
and founders of new religions, but also
of so-called wise men,, geniuses, states
}men and great conquerors of past ages,
)like Alexander, Attila and Genghis
' Khan-—to say nothing of their modern
would-be imitators—can now be recog
nized as clearly and unmistakably in
sane,
The most charitable view that we can
take, not merelv of the beliefs, but of
the behavior of our ancestors in that
riot of murder, pillage and pestilence
known as the Dark Ages, is that a cous
siderable share of them were really—
not quite responsible.
This interpretation is supported by
the high percentage of insanity and lm-l
becility in the most direct and un<
|chun¢ed survivors of that period, the
'ruynl houses of Lurope. ‘
| True of Other Diseases.
. What is true of insanity is equally
true of practically all other diseases of
the nervous system. Some of these have
‘been known by the medical profession
for hundreds of years—indeed, In a
%vnxue sort of a way, for thousands of
Years—but the vast majority of them
wWere practically unknown to the laity,
‘and hence imperfectly recognized by the
profession until about forty or fifty years
ago.
As a consequence, we have suddenly
disgovered the aceumulation of cmtu-,
| ries, so to speak, within little more
than a single lifetime, and the apparent
mass and magnitude of them, not un
naturally, alarms us. But the moment
we begin to get their perspective, to
‘ltudy them in relation to their com
parative proportion to diseases of other
[urunn. Wwe are reassured at once.
| Roughly speaking. the body is made
:up of five great”systems of about equal
' magnitude and importance, the digest
| ive, the circulatory, the respiratory, the
| nervous, and the motor, represented re
| spectively by the stomach and intes
| tines; the heart and the blood vessels,
{the lungs, the brain amd the nerves,
iand the muscles and bones.
. Arranging these five systems accords
j ing to the number of deaths due to their
| breakdown or disease, with the weakest
land least resisting at the top, the lungs
[ occupy that bad eminence—consump
tion, pneumonia and their a'lies being
responsible for’ nearly a third of all
I deaths— while the nervous gystem comes
‘nexl to the last,
| That is to say, judging by the fre
fquency with which its diseases and
| breakdowns cause death, the nervous
| System is the toughest. .
| Not only is this general statement
true, but when we stugy the returns
!mon closely, we find that many, if not
imost, of the deaths attributed to the
{nuvon- system are really due to and
(dependent upon diseases beginning in
;-omo other system.
i For Instance, apoplexy, or “stroke of
‘mulyula." usually classified, and in a
|sense correclly, under discases of the
[ nervous system, is really due to decay”
tand rupture of the coats of the blood
| vessels supplying the brain, and might
| fairly be classed as a disease of the
! circulatory system,
| The control which these and similar
fuc!- RBive us over the prevention of
! nervous diseases is most fmportant and
| practical. In the first place, in a 4 small
| percentage of cases, like Insanity, fee
| ble-mindedness, and certaln paralyses
ot childhood, we have to begin, in
Holmes' phrase, “with the grand
lurcnu." tor heredity plays a heavy
pare,
But in a large majority of cases con«
{trol of the causes of the disedse falls
kvmun the lifetime of the individual,
The Most Important.
‘ The first and one of the most im
| bortant ways to prevent and check the
|*pread of nervous diseases is to fight
Aguinst general infections and fevers.
It would hardly be too much to say that
two-thirds of Jour definite and serious
diseases of the nervous system are due
to its invasions by the germs or poisons
of general infections.
First and toremost among them comes
syphille, whaich Is the sole cause of the
two most serious forms of general paral.
¥ known as paresis and locomotor
Ataxia. It also causes between 10 and
15 per cent of all insanity in men, as
paresis ends in insanity.
Then come the after-effects upon the
brain and nervous system of such dis
cases as typhoid fever, pneumonia and
tuberculosis, particularly, and in a less
degree, scarlet fever, measles, diphthe
ria and even the grippe and tonsilitis,
A careful study of the number of ad
missions into our State asylums shows
a steady increase after each extensive
epidemic of these infectious diseases
in the State.
Nearly 15 per cent of ail insanity is
now attributed to “the poisons of .the
common infections; these are regarded
at least as its immediate efcitlng
causes,
The second commonest cause of in
sanity is overwork, especially under un
‘favotnhle conditions. The percentage of
[»openlh'es in our modern factories who
are made at least temporarily insane by
[the long hours and the monotony of
their work, and of school! children in
rflerm-n,v who comnit suicide, is pit
iable.
’ The next commonest cause of nerv
ous diseases is under-feeding, particu
lariy a shortage of certain elements
which will be deficient in any but a
rich and well-varied diet.
Chief among these come fats, partic
ulariy butter and cream, which on ac
count of expensiveness are apt to be
omitted or limited in amount. Para
PURITY
The ingredients of the food
you eat and give your children
should be pure and healthful
beyond any question.
Various food officials and
pure food experts have frequently
endorsed Royal Baking Powder as
being superior to all other simi
lar preparations, and many of the
great chemists of the world,
including most of those of
official position, have given
like testimony.
No other article of food has
ever received such emphatic
commendation for purity, strength
and wholesomeness, from the most
eminent authorities, as Royal
Baking Powder.
- Because Royal Baking Powder
adds only healthful qualities to
the food is one of the reasons why
it is always preferred by teach
ers of cookery and “he medical
profession.
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New York
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doxical as it may sound, nearly two
thirds of our brain and nervous system
consists of fat, a delicate, phosphorized,
fatty substance called lecithin, which
plays an important and most vital part,
not only as a food and protection to
the nerve cells, but by entering inte
their chemical reactions in a most inti
mate way.
We are only just beginning to under
stand the reason for the high value
which jman has always placed upon but
ter and cream, or, failing these, other
animal fats in his dietary.
No vegetable fat or oil will fill the
bill, and animal fats other than butter
or cream will fill it only imperfecty,
especially in children.
You can starve your nerves into “‘see
ing things,” not only by fasting as the
founders of primitive religion did when
:they wanted to get new revelations and
see visions, but also by living upon a
‘monotonous, inadequate diet, poor in
fresh meats, fresh vegetables, fresh
fruits and butter-fats.
So that if your child is thin and nerv
ous and excitable the best thing to do
P! to let his mind entirely alone, forget
that he has a “temperament” and try
i!o put some fat on him.
(Finish this interesting article in Good
Housekeeping Magazine for December.
You will find a wealth of good fiction
and features there also.)