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2 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN'S MAGAZINE AND FICTION PAGE .
Boys and Girls
Sports for Boys.
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How to Finish a
Handspring Neatly
By DR. E. D« ANGELL.
“You've got to have speed for
she hand-spring,” Beppo told the
Poys, ‘“‘especially at first. After
you get it in good €tyle you can do
4 hand-spring from a standing
position but it is easier if you take
& little run—or rather quick step
or two toward the mat,
“Now, thers is another point
that you must Keep cleary in mind
and that is the position of your
body. You have been doing tricks
based on the roll-over, with the
body ®urled up, but in the hand
spring you must keep the body
rigid—for all of your body must
vlear the mat.”
As Beppo concluded his expla
nation he took two or three quick
steps on the mat; when his right
foot was advanced he bent forward
and touched the palms of both
hands to the mat as his legs shot
up. There was not the slightest
pause for his body was pushed
vigorously in the air and his hands
left the mat an: instant before his
feat touched. He did not land on
the mat with a dull, heavy thud,
but as light as a feather and his
lege and body werp perfectly
straight.
They found that they could get
over all right and land on their
feet but each time they tried they
would fall on their back. As Ailen
fell bisck Beppo noticed that he
half turned and put his hand down
to break the fall and the little
clown seemed very angry about it
and told them that they must not
try to save themselves by putting
their hands back on the mat as
that was a very easy way to break
&N arm or sprain a wrist,
“What will we do if we can't do
that?” asked Allen. “Watéh me
and you will gee” replied Beppo
and he did a hand-spring. As his
feet touched he fell bhack in imi
tation of the bovs, but instead of
putting a hand back to save him
self he came quickly to a sitting
position—then on his . back and
continued rolling backward all
curled up until his feet touched the
mat.
- "By making a back roll all curled
up you can break the force of a
fall and that is the way a profes
sional acrobat would gave him
sell,” he said as he came to his
feet, ’
(Tqmorrow. how the automatic
coupling device saves lives.)
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Business of Homemaking
g By Mrs. Christine Frederick.
3 TIME-SAVING DEVICES.
3 OME of us are fortunate
i 3 S enough to have maids or but
! : levs and thus have our daily
%f-"‘saflla served to us smoothly and
1 silently by their human hands. But
& Naere are also many whose pock
! ewook circumstances or choice
| eliminate the human servant, and
%! hence we have to rely more on
* mechanical servants who shall help
| serve our meals.
'#° I know from experience that it is
. one of the hardest details of a
4 é woman's work to serve a dinner on
which she has just spent ecnergy
‘.'uul time in cooking. When she
~ bas finished cooking she feels like
sitting down and not “getting up”
to serve other members of the
£ family. More and more mechanical
4 servants are being put at the dis
-4 posal of this woman,
; First of these in importance is
4! the tray or trays on wheels, Sev
‘eral styles of this device are avall
“ | able, one with two trays ahout 30
4. inches oval, fitted in a well made
: fitfl 1 stand. which has three legs
1’ Yitted to rubber-tired wheels. Such
1. & tray can be used near the stove
¥ 'tNlb cookifig, and used to carry in
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN e A Clean Newspaper for Southern Homes . 0 THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1920.
The American Girl
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Susan Kills Flu
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With Health Rules
By MOLLIE PRICE COOK,
Kerchoo! Kerchoo! Out came
Susan’s handkerchief and down
went her head! “I'm really all
in,” she said.
“Now you're talking,” said Su
san’'s big sister, “just stop every
thing and go to bal. Don't eat
any dinner, take hot water and
lemon, keep warm and rest; you'll
be better in the morning.”
But Susan found several things
to do—and several things she
wanted to eat, inciuding freshly
baked bread, cookies and chocolate
pudding. The puppy got out on
the back porch apd Susan ran to
fetch him, forgetting to put on her
hat and coat. Then she sneezed
some more.
What was the result, ‘When
Susan did get into bed she had a
high fever, a headache, and a very
sick feeling hll over. And she re
mained in bed seven whole days,
missing the taffy pull at church,
the skating tournament, and the
St. Patrick’'s Day party.
“Never again!” Susan vowed.
“I'll not miss another paMy for
any old cold.”
So Susan read up on colds. She
gent o the U. 8. Children’s Bureau
in Washington and asked for
pamphlets on diet and health. She
wrote to the Y. W. C. A. for leaf
lets on hygiene, and she read the
articles on health in the news
papers and magazines, She copied
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the rules angd suggestions that
seemed most important in her
notebook:
Sleep from ten to twelve hours
every night. Plenty of fresh air in
the house, winter and summer.
Lots of exercise (ou§ of doors, if
possible). Drink much water (es
pecially between meals), at very
little candy and cake, but a lot
of lettuce and other vegetables
and fruits of all kinds, Keep warm
and dry. Wear loose, comfortable
clothes and underclothes.
Change stockings at least twice
a week. Two baths a week (if not
a daily bath). Brush teeth twice a
day. Hands and face washed be
fore meals and at bedtime. When
a girl feels sick she should stop
eating, take a warm bath, go to
bed and mind her Ps and Qs.
“That's a full program,” said
Susan to herself, “but 1 guess it's
easy enough if a girl gets the
habit.”
(One market the H. C. L, can't
touch, tomorrow.)
~ both hot dishes and the regular ta
ble service to the dining table.
Another silent servant is what is
often called the “lazy Susan.” This
device is a revolving stand made
either in wood to match the dining
table or of glass on a similar base
or pedestal. This permits the host
ess placing a plate on the “Susan,”
which is then revolved gently so
that the plate with its portion
comes cpposite to the person for
whom it is intended, who removes
it and swings the “Susan™ back to
the hostess, who then serves others
in the same way. Some of the
wooden “Susans” are now being
seen for the first time fitted with
special china sections, whieh per
mit four or five dishes to rest in
the “Susan” at once, so that it can
be revolved slowly and the person
help himself to mashed potatoes,
lima beansg, etc.
Then in the matter of individual
dishes we are finding it is more ef
ficient to have one dish with three
or more partitions than to have four
separate dishes on the table. With
this digh it is poszsiblé to serve no
tatoes. two veegtables and a relish
bv passing one dish instead of
four
(Copyright, 1920, Wheeler Syndicate, Ine.)
Revelations of a Wife
By Adele Garrison.
HAS LILLIAN REALLY SOLVED
THE PROBLEM?
ICKY looked a bit sheepishly
Dat me when Harry Under
wood told him to go with his
story of the mysterious million
aire who admired me. “You see,
Madge,” he explained, “Harry
knows this elderly admirer of
yours, I am sure, and I was tell
ing him the stery to see if he
could guess the man’s name from
my description of him.”
The explanation was feeble
enough, I guessed that the real
reason for Dicky's rehashing of
the incident to Harry Underwood
was the vague uneasiness he felt
concerning the meaning of Rob
ert Gordon’s strange interest in
me.
“How ridicnlous you are, Dicky,”
I said impatiently, for this dis
cussion of me with Harry Under
wood annoyed me extremely. “As
if Mr. Gordon ever had any thought.
but a kindly memory of my mother
in his asking to be introduced to
me."
“Who said he had!” retorted
Dicky with a shrewd, quick look
at me. My cheeks flushed as I
recalled the tacit admission T had
made, and then Harry Underwood
Joined the conversation,
“Robert Gordon, eh!” he said
triumphantly, but when he saw the
chagrin in my eyes at having in
advertently given him the name
with which Dicky was tantalizing
him, he added sootningly: “Don’t
you care, Mrs, Graham, I would
have guessed it in another minute.
There is only one man on Broad
way who answers the descriptiop
Dlrky was giving, sand that 1a
Robert Gordon, 'The Quester.’”
“The Quester?” I repéated won
deringly.
“That’s what Broadway has dub
bed him. You must remember the
chap I mean, Lil, the fellow I told
you about who's always haunting
the cases and sits alone as if he
were watching for somebody,”
WHAT HARRY SAID.
I remembered Dickys vivid de
scription of the man, “watching,
always watching,” even as [
turned apprehensively to ILillian.
She had been with me on the day
when the mysterious Mr. Gordon
had first seen me at the Hotel
Sydenham, and methodically fol
lowed me until he had found out
my name and home. 1 had not told
Dicky of this espionage, had even
managed to give him the impres
sion that 1 had never seen the
mysterious stranger before the eve
ning when Dicky had introduced
him to me. Mr, Gordon, himself,
at that time had spoken of see
ing me before and of his efforts
to find out who I was, but evi
dentlyy Dicky had taken it for
granted that T had begn in ig
norance of those efforts, At the
first opportunity I meant to tell
Dicky the truth, but T hated to
have it revealed to him by a
chance word when we were in the
presence of others, s
But . I need not have feared L.il
lian's diseretion. Her expressive
face showed no trace of knowledge,
only interest and curtosity,
“I ecertainly remember your varns
about him, Harry. Whether I had
ever met him or not is a question
which T am debating in my mind
now,” she said lightly, I think
Harry's dramatic soul yearned -to
kidnap the gentleman and put him
in a playlet, melancholy smile,
watchful waiting and all.”
“I'd sure like to kidnap his ma
zuma,” Harry Underwpod chimed
in fervently. “Wonder if T went to
him and volunteered to be a sort
of assistant Quester if he would
loosen up with some of his kale?”
He stopped, looked at me quiz
zically for a second and then
Nruck the table a blow with his
fist that made the glasses dance.
“I have it!” he said. ‘Tll Dbet
vou're the object of his quest.
Now you really ought to let me
in on this, Mrs. Graham. 1 could
take yvou by the hand, lead you to
the' old boy, and say: ‘Here is the
lost heiress of the fortune you stole
from her ancestors, and for whom
your remorseful soul has been look-
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The Rhymin
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By Aline Michaelis.
H. the smart man is a wonder,
with his flock of Drilllant
stunts, and it's hard to keep
him under if he just gets started
once. He is quick and he is know
ing, understands the why and how,
and he helps to keep things going,
does this gink of lofty brow, You
can bet he's always winning, for he
knows just what to do and he sets
old Earth a-spinning just like she
was spanking new. It is great to
be the master of a flock of ancient
lore and to reel off Sanskrit faster
than t'was ever done before, Smart
guys feel no hesitation when they
meet Old Man Cube Root. Mental
stunts are their vacation, calculus
they think quite cute. Yes, their
feats are most surprising, and their
game can not he beat: they are
bound to keep on rising and they
do it tout de sweet. But cne thing
is sometimes missing in the learned
fellow's act, and the gallery goes
to hissing if he hasn't any tact.
You have seen the sort of chappie
who could rub vour fur just right:
with whoin every one was happy,
every day crammed ful of light?
You have met him—always smiling,
always saying what he should, all
the dreary days beguiling with the
magic of his mood? Then I'm sure
vou have not worried, as upon his
‘ words you hung. over whether he
was flurried by the ancient Hebrew
| tongue. Yes, I'll bet vou've scarce
{ 1y noted if he knew anatomy,
! though his stock you've always
| quoted with its limit as the sky.
Cleverness is very jolly: but I'd
Inve you noteé this fact--folks ean
stand n lot of folly if il's salted
down with tact,
ing, 10, these many years!’ Then
when he turned over his dough to
you, little yours truly would get his
share.”
“That's one certainty, that you’'d
get yours!” Dicky retorted, laugh
ing, and then he added thought
fully: “You sure would have
thought Madge was the lady of his
search the other night if you had
seen him keel over when she told
him her maiden name. I thought
he was in a regular swoon, but he
rallied, and passed the incident off
by saying he was subject to spells
of faintness.”
“What's that?” Lillian asked
sharply, and I saw her manner
change in an' instant from idle
curiosity to alert attention. “Tell
me what happened.”
LILLIAN IS “MYSTERIOUS.”
She listened, attentive, absorbed,
as Dicky described in detail Mr.
Gordon’s emotion when in answer
to his questioning I had told him
my malden name, and his declara
tion after further questioning that
he had found the daughter of his
dearest friends, that my mother
was the best friend he had ever
had, and that my father had been
In one of our long confidential
tains at the house in sMarvin, while
Grace Draper lay hovering between
life and death in Lillian's apart
ment, I had told Liilian of the life
tragedy of the little mother I had
Idolized and of the father I had
never known, the father who had
run away with my mother’'s best
friend when I was 4 years old, and
had never been heard of since. I
knew that she must read the rid
dle of Mr. Gordon's interest in me
as I had. He must have loved my
beautiful mother hopelessly. The
indefinable aversion with which he
surrounded his mention of my
father’'s name showed how he re
sented his desertion of my mother.
But Lillian's manner puzzled us.
By adroit questipning she secured
every bit of information Dicky
could give her about Mr. Gordon's
appearanceg, conversation and ac
tions upon the night he had taken
his after dinner coffee with us.
Then she plied her husband with
questions about the romantic his
tory of the man.
“Oh! zine the questions, Lil!”
Harry Underwood said irritable at
last. “What are you trying to do,
solve the mystery all by yourself ”
“I think' I have solved it Lil
lian returned quietly, ‘“but I shall
not tell even Madge about it until
I am sure 1 am right.”
(To Be Continued.)
Copyrighied, 1920, by Lever Bras. Co.
Good Night Stories
By Blanche Silver. -
MAMMA AND DADDY SCARLET
TANAGER BUILD THEIR
NEW HOME,
T was a lovely warm day when
l Mamma and Daddy Scarlet
Tanager returned to the ecool
shades of the woods.
They had traveled far without
much rest, were tired and hungry
and terribly cross, at least, Daddy
Tanager was, soo Mamma Tanager
thought. Any one out ot sorts gen
erally thinks everybody else is
cross but himself, so daddy felt
Mamma Tanager was exceeding
fussy.
Daddy Tanager spiec a corner in
the fence rail that was marked “for
rent,” and setting down his heavy
grip, of course, it wasn’t really very
heavy, but Daddy Tanager was so
cross it felt like a load of bricks,
and mopping his forehead, he de
cided right then ani there that the
corner in the fence rail was as
good as any place to build their
new home, and in a very decided,
curt tone he told Mamma Tanager
80. :
“Oh, dear me!” chirped Mamma
Tanager, hopping over to the cor
ner of the fence rail. “I don’t like
this location at all. Why, it's——"
but she got no farther, for ruffling
up E\s red coat around his neck
Daddy Tanager threw his grip into
the vacant spot and sat down upon
it with a mad chirp.
“Now what about it!” he exclaim
ed crossly. “I prefer this apart
ment to one in the oak tree!”
“Well, 'm the one who has to
stay in it most of the time,” said
Mamma Tanager in her quiet little
way. She had often seen Daddy
Tanager cross, and she knew it
would be best not to fuss. “Don’t
you know, daddy,” she said in her
sweetest tones, “It'¢ s 0 near the
ground folks will spot us too quick
ly. Then, besides, we nave no leaves
over us to keep out the storms.
Do you think that would be advis
able?”
But Daddy Tanager was So cross
rented the corner of tne fence from
he couldn’t see his wife’s reasoning,
olid Billy Rabbit, shaking ont his
red feathers proudly "« gan to work. |
Mamma Tanager siiook her sober
little head, stamped on the ground,
pulled out a juicy worm, swallowed
it, and began to gather bits of twigs. |
Before long their nest was ready,
and a Jirorderly looking nest it was, ‘
with notning but the bhlhie sky above
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Mamma Tanager looked up among
the cool leaves of the oak tree
and sighed as she setiled herself in
her new home. Daddy Tanager,
like most folk who get their own
way, tried to make nimself think
he was proud of his new home, but
his heart smote him as he flew
away after food for his wife.
“Not o very good place for stormy
weather, after all. Maybe it would
have peen better in the oak tree.”
he thought as he pulled out a nice
bug from the grass. Daddy Tanager
took it back to Mamma Tanager,
who was trying to make herself
comfortable in her wretched nest.
That night a storm broke over
the meadows and Marama and Dad
dy Tanager had to flv to the oak
tree for shelter. When they re
turned 10 their nest the next morn
ing it was soaked and 21l falling to
pieces. Mamma Tanager never said
a word, but Daddy Tanger pulled
her off the nest when she attempted
to sit on it.
“I should say not! Whoever
heard of a Scarlet Tanager build
ing in a fence corner!” he laughed.
“I've found the very spot—way up
in the top of that heautiful oak
tree.”
Clever Mamma Tanger crooked
her pretty, sober head and looked
at the oak tree with a critical eye
and with a twit as mnuch as to say,
“Oh, of course, if you say so,” fol
lowed Daddy Tanager to the tip
top of the oak tree. There they
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. By Frances Duvall :
. ' "AFTERNOON TEA.
| HE stateroom semed unbear-
T ably stuffy to Keitha, in spite
~ of the open porthole which -
admitted the tangy breath of the
salt “air. :
She slipped out of her frock and
’ donner a warm negligee. .
A roll of the ship sent her stag
. gering across the small floor space.
She landed on, the coueh at the
opposite side and got up with an
increased feeling of unpleasantness.
.Climbing into her berth, she laid
her hot cheek against the cool pil
.lows gratefully. After a few min
uteés, the unpleasant feeling passed.
and' she sléept more soundly than
she could ever remember.
A knock outside her door brought
her back to conscipusness. She
opened her eyes to find that twilight
had descended. The fittings of the
| stateroom were vague blurs.
-“Does madam wish %ea?” asked
the voice of the stewardess she had
passed on her way to her cabin.
Keitha debated the thought of
tea.
’ “Yes, thank you,” she replied
without enthusiasm.
The stewardess entered, bearing
a tray on which were a dainty tea
service, sandwiches and small
« cakes.
“You may take dback, the cakes,”
said Keitha, when the stewardess
had switched on the lights. “T'll
have just the tea and perhaps a
sandwich,”
The woman looked at her sym
pathetically.
“Madam is not getting seasick?”
“T hope not,” smiled Keitha.
“Wouldn’t it be too stupid of me?”
She po .red out a cup of tea
and chose a sandwich cut like a
star,
The woman, busying herself
around the stateroom with a re
arrangement of the towels, a touch
here and there to Keitha's ivory
toilet articles, gave her an amused
glance.
“Madam is not seasick if she can
endure the sight of a sandwich.”
“But it is very good,” protest
Keitha,. taking anether. “I feel
horribly sleepy and not too ecomis
sortable when I stand up.” &
“It will pass.” replied the
- comfortingly. “Your -
band enquired for you. I told him
vou were sleeping. Shall I,_{all
~him? Perhaps he would likgygis
tea served here.” A
| “Oh, no,” protested Keitha. “He
The Rinso granules, dissolved first in a
little water, stir up into a soapy, bubbly
tubful. You leave the clothesin over night,
or for three hours in the morning.
And Rinso has done the work—it has
loosened all the dirt just by soaking. You
simply souse the clothes up and down, and
rub a few badly soiled spots, cuff edges, etc.,
lightly between your hands in the wonder
ful Rinso suds. Then rinse well—and the
whole tubful is sweet and spotless!
*You need never boil your clothes, except
occasionally, if you want to sterilize.
Don’t have even one more of the old
back-breaking washdays.
Try the new way of soaking your
clothes clean—this very week. Get Rinso
from your grocer. One package will do
your whole week’s washing. Lever Bros,
Co., Cambridge, Mass. (Makers of Lux.)
- is fond of the sea, let him stay on
deck.”
“You do not like the sea?
queried the woman, as she took the
tray. \
" “T am fascinated by it—but I
think I fear it,” Keitha replied
frankly.
The stewardess turned har head
to the porthole and her eyes fol
lowed the broken line of the slate
grey waves in the mist.
“Twenty years I have followed
the sea,” she said slowly. “Do
not fear the sea. It is kind, kinder
than most people.”
“Ig there anything more, madam‘?""
she added briskly, returning to her
official self.
“Nothing, thank you,” answered
Keitha, preparing to curl luxu
riously again into her pillows. ;
The stewardess went out, drop
ping the curtain behind her.
eitha lay for a long while
ching the sea through the oval
of her porthole. She was wide
awake again and her thoughts re
turned to the Beunet{ household,
to the French girl waiting to claim
a fiance who would never come,
most of all to Marcia Holmes,
speeding eastward to take up life ¥,
again where marriage had forced
her to leave it off.
She was dozing again when Ben~-
nett's quick step in the corridor
gutside her stateroom awakened
er.
“Keitha,” he called, “may I come
in?”
At her assent, he entered, switch
ing on the lights, and turning to
regard her anxiously.
“You poor kiddie,” he said with
more tenderness in his voice than
she had ever heard.
He knelt by the berth and took
her hands in his. ;
To her own infinite surprise,
Keitha turned her face against his
shoulder and began to cry softly.
(Copyright, 1920, Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
(To Be Continued.)
RESERVING HIS POWERS.
“Who is your favorite composer?”
asked Mrs. Glensome. “Bethhoven,”
replied Mr. Blakes. “You must be
a student of music,” remarked Mrs.
Glensome. “No,” replied Mr. Blakes.
“I mention Beethoven for the sake of
relieving myself of conversational
strain. If the other man doesn’t like
Beethoven he won’'t want to hear me
say another word. And if he does,
hel'}l' want to do all the talking him
self!”