Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-12-19
HoQv Aqgie Had Spells That the
Home Remedies Could Not Touch
BY GEO. ABE.
Copyrighted, 1901, BY Robert Howard Russell.

head, which caused the whole Building
to Vibrate.
Somebody is tearing out the Second
Story" he said in Alarm.
''No." replied his Faithful Wife, ''but
the Worst has come. Daughter is
having an Attack Of Physical Gull
ture."
They went up and looked through the
Key-Hole. Aggie had on a scanty Suit
Of Blue Flannel and she was trying 10
beat the Shape out Of Punching
Bag.
rs there anything we can dor"
asked her distracted Pop.
Nothing" was the Reply. We
must let Nature take its Course. She
will get over it in about Three Weeks.
In the meantime we must watch her
carefully or she may elope with some
Weight-Lifter."
Truly enough, the Spasm of Muscu-
lar Development lasted only q Days,
after which she took a good Rest and
slowly regained her Health. Her Pa
rents felt hopeful. The Violent Ex-
ercise seemed to have worked all the
Art and Actoritis out OF her System
Just as Father and Mother were be-
ginning to feel easy in their Minds
an awful Thing came on. Aggie wan
dered out one Afternoon and happened
to stumble on a Club Meetiug az which
an Authoress with Gold Spectacles did
a Balancing Act on high PEDESTAL.
Aggie came home with the Literary
Microbe biting her at every Step. She
decided to write an Historical novel
and she thought she had better hurry
and get at it before she was too Old.
So she began to wear her Clothes loose
and had Pencils stuck In her Back
Hair and Ink-Stains on her Fingers.
She succeeded in getting acquainted
with some Of the Literatt. Now and
then she would bring them up to the
House and Feed them Father couldn't
see them at all. Aggie said it was
great Privilege to meet People who Do
Things. Father said that some OF them
ought to do Time. The Dealer In Pig
Iron was not very Bookish.
Just about the time that Aggie was
convalescing from the severe Case OF
Literature, she was seized with Social
Reform. She discovered that she had a
Mission She was going out among the
Working Glasses to show them how to
be Intellectual Mother suggested that
she remain at Home and show Father
how to be Intellectual. For nearly ten
DAYS she was out uplifting the Lower
Glasses. Then one day she bounced1nto
the house and said: "Mommer, am
going in for Photography"
Mother groaned, but she was not
greatly surprised. She was getting used
to the Fads and Foibles.
Aggis began to blow up the House
with Flashlights and she converted
the Clothes-Press into a Darkroom
The Premises had Chemical Odor.
The Pictures would have been all right
If the Light had been better, or If they
had been given Time Exposure or the
Camera hadn't waggled. or Something.
AS 1t was, they were full Of Fog and
Moth-Balls.
One afternoon Aggie was swiftly
transformed from q Kodaker into
Menticulturist- She brought home
Book so Deep that Mother couldn't
make Head or Tail Of it.
Next Day Young Man walked into
the ONCE and said to Aggie's Father,
''sir, should like to marry your
Daughter"
81 don't know who you are" was the
Reply, but you can have her..
MORAL: The Quick-Change Artist Is
too much for the Old-Style Parent.