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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18

= ic0Et fat men about me. sleek
hedded men
d such as sleep o nights.
Y0n CGShaS hath Teen d hunorg
TOOK.
He thinks too much. Such men are
ddngerusi
Pa dropped his fork & looked at Min
yunette the way he looks at me wen
my report card says Department, 90
But Minyunette dident motifs Pa, she
kept on talking l think the charac-
ter Of Shakespeer's Portia is a butt
full one. she sed. So wise & yet 90 sweet
and womanly. ! can see her now in my
minds eye. saying
The quality of mercy is not strained
II fdlIeH as the gentle rain iron,
heGUcR
1t is tloice blessed, it blesseth him
See here, sed Pa, I doant want TO
be any Simon Legree, but it wuddent
be bad ide, Minyunette, If you showed
a littel moaT sped out in the kitchen
& littel less in here. I am as hungry
as Jailed suffragist sed Pa. & it
doesent help my hunger any to heer
you spouting Shakespeer The next
thing I know you viii be raving about
Lord Byron and trying to reesite all
of Childe Harolds Pilgrimage Come
on, now. sed Pa, moar spuds & less
Shakespeer.
Didn t Like It.
Minyunette dident like il at all the
way Pa talked She took off her apron
& sed to Ma, Madame, I regret that
| shall be compelled to seek elsewhere
for a pOsishun WHARF the environ ments
is moar en-vironng, Sed Minyunette.
l was sure | was going to like it here,
beekaus you are a sweet nature, but
yure husband is rude II of TIE soil
Our souls are not at-tuned. she sed. &
so. obaying the word OF rate. our ways
part
Good MITE, sed Pa
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

TILDRED writes: Il am deep
MI " in love with a young man
three years my senior l
have been keeping company with
him for the past three months. l
would like to bring him up to the
house, but my father objects to me
bringing any boys up to the house.
What shall l do?'
In the category of sins which
fathers visit upon their children, no
mention is made of the heavy pen
atty that often results when a girl is
compelled to do all her sweetheart
ing outside the protecting walls of
her home. If the streets, the parks,
the public walks or the dark corners
Of steps are made a girls parlor,
then | contend her father is visiting
upon her innocent head as great a
burden as If he violated all the NOR
al and physical laws. In the most
trying period of her life, when
through her love she is weakest to
resist, she is cast out on the streets
without even the environment of ia
miliar scenes at home to remind and
to restrain her.
One can not be as easily tempted
when in the familiar scenes of ones
youth and innocent dreams, as If in
strange surroundings. II is as if
every chair. the table, even the pic
lures on the wall, looked with ac
cusing eyes, surrounding the girl
with whose life they have always
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18
The Melody

shall be old and gray You cannot
put happiness aside and say, Wait
few years; l cannot give you any
of my time now; later on I will call
for you VIII you not come to me
now and live with me as my wife?"
But she did not understand him.
She struggled out of his arms,
wounded and unhappy, an intense
pain shooting through her every
nerve and fiber. For solitude had
made her shy and susDecting; his
suggestion hurt her, and she asked
him to leave her. She no longer re-
membered the passionate words that
passed between them; but he left
her, pale and angry, his black hair
in disorder and his eyes shooting
fire at her
Two days passed. Then one even
she saw it in one of the papers-a
short notice which most people would
have overlooked. He had shot him
self He had gone straight from her
and had sent a bullet through his
brain. She thought of all the hard
words she had said to him and felt
how unjust she had been to him.
As she was putting her room in or
der she felt a sudden desire to go
out, to see people around her and
hear them talk, to feel the cool even
ing air in her face
From the park she heard music
which irresistibly drew her in among
the trees, where it was so much more
pleasant than in the dreadful rush
ing and crowding of the streets. She
stopped in front of a large restau
rant with many chairs and tables out
side and music in the veranda, where
few persons sat drinking and talk
ing.
She sat down on a bench under a
dripping tree, where she could hear
the musicians. Here she sat for
long time quietly and sad, with her
hands folded and her head thrown
back
Suddenly musician got up to play
violin solo. He was a tall, dark
young man; he stopped a little. His
eyes were sad and melancholy under
the heavy brows.
As he started to play she stood up,
trembling. She felt like rushing up
to him and asking him to stop, but
she fell back on the bench and hid
her face in her hands
THAT melody contains all life" he
used TO say; love, suffering and hap
pineSS."
When the violinist lowered his bow
she stood up and went home Like
small shadow she disappeared among
the crowd. Nobody had look or a
thought for her
But her pale, tired looking mouth
was smiling, and in her eyes was the
light of happiness. No longer did she
dread the visions of the day or the
dreams of the night.
She had a hand to clasp now in the
darkness, a hand which was to guide
her through eternity.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18
The Misfortunes of Joe Brick

alrous fellow, so felt like kissing her
hand, but had to kiss her forehead
Instead
81 do love you so. Joe, she whis-
pered.
"And ! adore you. Ruby. There is
no other woman in the world half so
beautiful to me as you are!
we left for Canada in our private
car, starting on our famous trip
which filled columns in the newspa-
pers, We were to cross the Rocky
Mountains and stay for some time IN
Monterey and Los Angeles, but the
pitiless hand OF destiny interfered. We
were as happy as two turtle doves
during the first part of our journey,
and l felt that Ruby loved me more
every day
The Fatal Day.
"Then the fatal day came. The
train. our own special train. OF
course, was speeding along at 70
miles an hour, when suddenly the e
was a shrill whistle and the airbrakes
were damned down hard. Train rob
our drawing room.
Hands up!' cried a gigantic fell
low standing In the doorway
Ruby behaved like a heroine and
smiled indulgently at the bandit
while my hands shot upward.
Hands up! roared the robber once
more, and as Ruby, of course, was
unable to comply with his request he
fired at her, killing her on the spot.
THAT is how | became a widower,
sobbed Joe. The king Of agricui-
ture accused me of leading his daugn-
ter. his right hand as he called her,
into a trap. He blackballed me in
the Billionaires' Club and did not
keen a single promise to me In con-
nection with my schemes. That Is
why l am a ruined man to-day. BY
the way, can you lend me a hundred ?''
Only to-day I learned that Joe IS
spending his time in a nice, quiet re-
treat for the feeble minded. He had
told the story of his misfortunes to 4
dignified old Judge while awaiting his
turn at a barber shop.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18
By Virtue of Age.

YES" said the old man to his Wis
itor. I'm proud of my daughters,
and it is the ambition of my heart to
see them all comfortably married.
Whats more" he added knowing
". I've made a bit OF money in my
time, so my girls wont go to their
husbands penniless. There's Mary
for example. 25 years old, and a real
good lass-Ill give her 81, 500 on her
wedding day. And to Bet-you see,
she has past her thirty fifth summer
I'll give her, at any rate, a couple
Of thousand; whilst the man who
takes Eliza can rely on taking with
her at least $4,000 OF the very best"
BY the way" inquired the young
man. how old is Eliza"
Forty" replied the elder.
Hum! l suppose you don't happen
to have a daughter somewhere be-
tween sixty and seventy"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18
Little Bobbie' S Pa
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.

T II JSBAND deer, sed Ma to Pa last
evening, at last l have found a
perfek jewel of a servant She
cairn to work this afternoon, & I want
YOU to motifs her wen she is serving
dinner. She is as brite a gurl as I have
ever met. She is a cullurd girl, her
nalm is Minyunette, & she went to a
gurI's college that Booker Washington
had sumthing to do with Her flow of
English is perfeck, Ma sed, & l was
thinking that litteI Boobie cud improve
his English by jest lissening to her talk.
Didn't Warm Up.
1 dOant warm up vary much as Won
are talking, sed Pa Sumhow I afnt
very keen for a servant that knows
moar than we do You know how long
that one lasted with US that was all
the time talking about Henry James &
Shopenhaur
Oh, but this CURL IS different, sed
Ma. She is vary quiet & I doant think
she will air her nollege any.
knew Pa wasn't going to like the
new gurI, tho. I had herd her talking
to Ma beefoar Pa calm hoam, & this is
what she sed wen she was talking off
her wraps: l presume that the duties
connected with the situation viii not
be arduous. That dident sound like our
other gurl that we had beefoar her, she
sed when shall pitch in?
She Comes In.
Well, wen dinner began Minyunette
calm in to wait on the label She had
a high forehead & woar glasses.
Wife, sed Pa to Ma. you & little
Bobbie are going to a Shakespeer read
ing tO-nite.
Oh, sed Minyunette, I adoar Shakes
peer. He is so many minded, his scope
is so all en- bracing. I was just look
ing at yure fat husband. she sed, &
thinking of Shakespeer's lines
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18

There is no room in their memory
for the cry Of the heart for its mate,
and. lacking this memory, they are
as unfit to be parents of young girls
and boys as an Egyptian mummy.
They are without sympathy and I'M
Outstanding, at the period when the
young in their charge need sympa-
thy and understanding the most.
Without these they are also with
out charity. l have a notion that
the father of Mildred, who compels
her to do her "sweethearting'' on
the streets, would be like flint in his
judgment if she yielded to the I'M
wholesome influences of the dark
corners of life and erred. Yet he
would be more to blame than she.
Wisdo INTO Refuse.
1t is wisdom to refuse to let a girl
bring a man to her home of whom
her parents know nothing, but It is
better to grant her even this priv
ilege than to let her meet him on
the streets. If they know nothing
of him a closer inspection in their
own home gives them every oppor-
tunity to know him better.
They can never know the manner
Of man their daughter is learning
love if they compel her to see
on street corners, and, being ign,
ant of him, they are without argu-
ment or weapons if he is undesirable
open the parlor for the girls. It
is their right
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18
The Sins of Our Fathers ::

been a part with a moral influence
that is never lightly brushed aside.
The girl who receives her lover in
her parlor impresses him, though
perhaps unconsciously. with the
sanctity, the responsibility. the dig
nifty of a home The girl whose par
lor is the streets may be good and
pure and sweet, and usually is, but
girls whose object is not moral also
meet men on the streets, and the
similarity upsets his moral balance
An Impression.
The girl in the parlor usually has
father or a mother in the next
room. and the young man who calls
is impressed with the fact that there
is some one loving her, shielding
her to whom he will have to account
if he offends. The girl on the street
corners is without mother or
father, so far as any impression of
personal security goes. She is
thrown out like waif; if she be-
comes a derelict the father or mother
who refused her the privilege of re-
ceiving her lover in her parlor is to
blame.
The memory of parents is crimi-
nally short. There are few of them
who can call back to the days when
they loved and were loved. and when
the clasp of a hand or a kiss, was
worth more an all the wealth in
the world . defied the wisdom of
the ages. y have forgotten the
call Of youth
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18

W THEN evening came with the
wv shadows she let her little
frail hands fall into her lap
as If every muscle and tendon had
suddenly burst. Her finely shaped
dark haired head rested on the table.
She was sitting in front of her sew
ing machine, at which she had been
working all day. All around her were
scraps of silk and wooden goods
fashion papers and patterns lay in
piles on the table and when she
moved her arms some of them
dropped on the floor. Her head was
dizzy with complete exhaustion. She
was unable to think, but felt the in
Creas sing darkness as a blessing which
put an end to the toll of the day.
1t was ten years of work that had
aged her. These years had been 10
her like one long walk through an
endless desert without a single oasis
to relieve the monotony; her feet
had left no tracks on the sands; not
a single cry from her lips had been
responded to; nobody had met her on
the way to shake her hand
But on the other side all these
years of weary thraldom there We're a
few years when she had been young
and had lived. In those years the
two had sat together, watching the
coming of dark, and were glad and
laughed at everything,
She was young then, and worked
for small wages in a dressmaking
shop. He had long hair. dreaming
eyes. an ineXhaustible fund Of hope,
and a violin-that was all but ne
was an artist He was young, gave
lessons on the violin and managed TO
make both ends meet He was al
ways bright and happy. Nobody
could laugh as he could, or cheer her
up as he could. He knew how TO
make everything appear in a golden
and rosy light.
one night he came to her unex-
pectedly and took her into his arms.
81 cannot live without you" he
said why should we wait until
we can afford to marry. Then we
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18

the left foot. When the weight
is coming on the right foot and
the right wrist is foremost, throw
the head to the right and give
the body (which must be bent
slightly back throughout the ex-
ercise) slight turn to the right.
Alternate this from foot to foot.
Always practice these eXer-
cises in regular alienation from
right to left or left to right and
back again to insure even bodily
development Real beauty Of form
demands as first requisite absO-
lutely even and uniform develop
ment, for only when it Is absO-
lutefy normal is the body truly
lovely as Our Maker meant it to
be
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18

a SHORT time ago l met my
"A friend Joe Brick. He looked
worried When l greeted him
with a smile he groaned.
"Oh, If you only knew If you knew,
but you don't"
Then feeling, like most unhappy
men, a desire to confide the story of
his misery to somebody. he told it to
me and a pitiful story it was indeed.
MY affairs were going splendidly
and | was already hoping to become
a member of the Billionaires Club
thought, would help me along In so
ciety | had often met Miss Ruby
Smith, daughter Of the king of agri-
culture, young lady of unusual
beauty. but who unfortunately had
neither arms nor legs. She was called
the trunk woman. She was known to
be amiable and sweet tempered, and
was extraordinarily bright SO bright
indeed that most of the schemes
which had made her father the rich
est man in the United States had
been Matched in her brain.
Il Decided to Marry"
81 decided to marry Ruby Smith,
and one afternoon, dressed in my
very best clothes, asked her father
for her hand
He looked at me sharply and
said:
MY daughter is very rich; how
much are you WORTH
81 told the dreaded magnate all
about my hopes l proved to him
that l had an idea which would rev.
olutionize the manufacture of beet
sugar that I had a scheme to cut the
cost of oleomargarine in two, and de-
picted to him all the details of my
plan to increase the crop OF Brussels
sprouts, to triple it's present size by
sprinkling the plants twice a day
with water from the celebrated Man
neken fountain in Brussels. and how
there were untold millions in my idea
of exporting black radishes to the
negroes in Africa.
He was greatly impressed, took
me into his arms and exclaimed:
"'You are to be my son-ln-law, if
Ruby will have you for her hus-
band
Miss Ruby received me most cor
daily. Poor little one, how beautiful
she was! A regular Venus from Milo,
only more perfect still, since her legs,
too, were missing.
Il shall not go into details 1t is
enough to tell that she accepted me
and date was set for our wedding
1t was celebrated with great splendor
1t was the happiest day in my life.
After the ceremony my wife received
all her old friends with open arms, in
spirit at least, in our new home. /
felt my future was assured and knew
that l would surely he elected for
membership in the Millionaires Club,
which was the height of my ambi-
ton Alas, it was not to bel"
MY dear little wife my darling
Ruby. I said to my bride when we
were alone: What do you say to Civ
ing up all our old habits for a few
months and leave this feverish town
for an idyllic wedding trip"
You really think Of everything
joel she exclaimed. and as she could
not clasp my hand she looked righl
into my soul with her angelic eyes. J
am ready 10 follow you to the end If
the world
Il have always been a most chiv-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18

from one foot to the other, with
the arms hanging at the sides.
Then combine the arm and leg
motion, and see what gain in
balance results.
Lift the arms with dropping
wrists, and as the hands reach
the shoulders, and the elbows are
at waist height, turn the fingers
up. at the same time turning out
the hand above the raised knee.
and elevating the appointing
fingers of the other hand above
the head
Poise, balance, and reduction
of superfluous hip-fesh-is this
not vast deal to gain from one
dancing exercise?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18
FRECKLES
Now Is the Time 20 Get RId Of These
Ugly Spots.

There's no longer the slightest need
Of feeling ashamed Of your freckles,
as the prescription othine-double
strengths guaranteed to remove
these homely spots.
Simply get an ounce OF othine-
double strength-fFom Jacobs Phar-
macy and apply a little of 1t night
and morning and you should soon see
that even the worst freckles have
begun to disappear, while the lighter
ones have vanished entirely. 1t is
seldom that more than an ounce Is
needed to completely clear the skin
and gain q beautiful clear complex
ion.
Be sure to ask for the double
strength othine, as this js sold under
guarantee Of money back IL It fails
to remove freckles
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18
Do You Know

There has been such a decline Of
recent years in the marriage rate of
Trieste that one of the civic digni-
taries suggests the institution of a
system of compulsory matrimony.
1t is proposed that on a given date
in each year all spinsters who have
attained their twenty fifth year and
bachelors who have attained their
thirtieth should be required to pre-
sent themselves before the syndic in
whose Jurisdiction they reside. The
names of those who on medical ex-
animation prove to be thoroughly
sound would be sorted according to
sex, placed in separate urns, and
then drawn two at a time. The cou-
pies whose names are drawn to-
gether would at the conclusion OF
the draw, be united forthwith by the
syndic.
A travelling theatrical company,
which is at present visiting Lille,
France, gives performances in a
couple OF barges, which are lowed
along the canal from town to town.
One barge does duty for the theater,
while the other serves to house the
players. The floating theater is COM
| fortably fitted, and there is a large
| stage, with scenery painted by a
member Of the company.
One Of the competitions in connec-
ton with the Welsh Territorial Ar
tillery, which recently concluded its
training on the sand dunes at Penn
brey, was a bun eating contest. Two
sappers set out to eat fourteen buns,
the prize to go to the man who got
through the lot in the quickest time.
The winner ate his fourteen in 25
minutes, his opponent finishing FIVE
minutes later.
A baseball player in America has
been insured for S50000
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18
Condensed Measure.

do you call this a plnt?" asked a
sharp servant of the milkman, whom
she suspected of giving short measure.
Yes" replied the man.
We'll, it won't do" said the girl
when we want condensed milk we'll
buy it at the grocer's."
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18
Lazy Constance Stez0art Richardson
How to Acquire a Beautiful Figure Through
Dancing.

The last figure illustrates a lit
tie faun-like movement that is
splendid for back, throat and in
step. as well as for fiexibility of
wrist. Walk forward on tip-toes,
with the uplifted hands crossing
first to the right and then to the
left as the bodys weight is thrown
first on the right and then on
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18

That tones the liver, the best liver
and stomach remedy known. It acts
like magic on the whole system-aLs
good for children as grown persons.
Try one bottle and be convinced No
gripping or bad after effects.
Sold by all merchants and druggists
A large bottle for 2bc. Don't take any
substitute, but insist on the EA-
TONE. Thousands Of testimonials
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18
Is Very Simple.

Figure two is gayety shown in
one step of an old dance of
triumph. 1t gives the most mar
vellous control of thigh, knee,
ankle and instep, and will serve
to bring down an accumulation
of weight about the hips and
thighs. Furthermore, it insures a
graceful control of arms and
shoulders.
The practice of this seemingly
complicated exercise is simple
when once you carefully analyze
the picture | have posed for you.
Beginning with the left foot, rise
slowly to the toes, at the same
time raising the other leg with
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-18
Where He Was Hit.

Benign Old CONDEMNATION little
chap, Where did that cruel boy nit
you?
TommY-Boo- oo-oo! We were
'avin' a naval battle, and s torpedoed
me in the engine room.