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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07
ANXIOUS.
CERTAINLY.
Dear Miss FairfaX:

Dear Miss Fairfax:
l am twenty and in love with
a young woman. know that she
has learned to love me, too, so /
went up to the house once a week
10 see her. and once in while l
took her to a show. The last time
7 took her out l wrote next day
and asked her how she enjoyed IL,
hut have had no answer. Would
il be right for me to write and ask
the reason why she didn't an
syver2 II. +. Z.
Perhaps she didn't get the letter
Perhaps she thought she would an
swer your question next time yol
called. instead of by mail. Give hel
the benefit of the doubt.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07
Superstition
A Story of a Mother S
Blindness

~ IsCHA, the dairy girl, began her
u story.
"Catharina was a widow with
four children. Nellie. the prettiest of
her daughters, who was a servant in
town. came home one day with bad
cold. ana very tired. She went to bed
and could not get up the following
day. The doctor told Catharina that
she was not to let any one else drink
from her sick daughters cup, and to
keep her spoon and fork separate
from the rest.
when he had gone the mother and
children looked at each other, and
shrugged their shoulders.
Nobody is going to tell me that
my daughter is dirty and that We
must treat her like a stranger said
Catharina.
"Melie put down her cup, which was
still half full of cafe au-lait, and her
mother drank some of the coffee to
show that she wouldn't follow the
doctors foolish instructions. She gave
the rest to her youngest daughter,
Clara.
The patient grew weaker from day
to day, then she appeared to be a lit
tie better, but she had no strength.
"One day a man came into the
house and offered to buy Melie's two
fair braids of heavy golden hair, which
reached to her knees.
No; l will not be bewitched and
attract evil spirits TO the house. re-
piled Nellie.
when she died the man came back
and renewed his offer.
81 viii give you 200 francs for it..
You surely don't intend to bury that
beautiful hair he said.
No, no. sobbed the mother; we
will not be bewitched and draw down
on our heads still more misfortunes.
1t Must Be Done.
After the man had left, the broth
er and the sisters agreed that 200
francs was good price and that the
money would pay all their debts and
pay off the loan on the house, which
must otherwise be sold.
But the mother refused to listen.
Now, listen, mother said the son.
! don't think you are right He said
200 francs. and l am sure he will pay
more than that, and we have no right
to refuse when we can get this money
without hurting anybody.
Then he went out and came back
with the man, who paid 300 francs, on
the condition that he might shave the
hair Off close to the head.
THE mother refused to touch the
money.
You viii see calamities fail fast
now she said.
After the funeral the bed was
made up and the two sisters slept in
to give the patient the whole bed to
herself Then they divided the clothes
of the dead girl among themselves.
THE next day it was decided that
rather than part again and return
sick the brother should work the
fields, the older sister should look aft
er the COWS, and the younger sister
should sell butter and eggs to the no.
tells in the town.
zone evening the older sister. who
for some time had had no appetite,
fell i'll. Tho doctor declared that It
was their own criminal carelessness
which had spread the infection and
that they would all fall i'll if they con-
tinued to live as they did and refused
to isolate the patient.
The mother replied that II they
We're to get the disease they would get
it anyway.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07
Grandma Talks
About Babies

Has a Large Circle OF Listeners Who
Profit by Her Wisdom and Experience.
In almost any settled community there
Is a grandma who knows Mothers
Friend. Not only is she reminiscent Of
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07
Do You Know
That

Frank Hinse, Of Rockford, England.
ate a barrel of apples in ten days. Il
was a regulation barrel. HiAes ac-
complished the feat for a BET. His
wager netted him $50, and he was %
pounds heavier when he had finished
He has now a dislike for apples which
he can not express in words. He fig
ures 1t will be 80 years at least before
he asks any one to please pass the
apple sauce" Hinse was visiting the
warehouse of a friend when he re-
marked some apples on display looked
so good he believed he could eat a
barrel of them. His friend Wagered
$50 that Hinse couldn't eat a barrel
full in ten days. Scores called at the
store daily to see how Htnse vas get
ting along. and many side wagers
were. made.
In Italy marriage brokers are q
regular institution. They have pock-
etboolzs filled with the narnap of mar
riageabIe maidens in various ranks oa
life, and go about trying % arranz@
matches. When they ara eoCcessfua
they receive a commission, and ver9
likely something extra az q voluntary
gift from their customer.
Frank Baccus. the giant gegro %
Nevada. a pioneer OF Caffuenia, has
just died in. Reno, at the age OF lac
years. He was feet inches high
and weighed 230 pounds, and recallsd
events of 100 years ago. He was born
in Missouri and came West in 10B0
Baccus was formerly a asawe, buA
worked out his freedom.
The first telephone ever. auealisa IA
a private residence n stiii 20 be ssGs
at Marlborough House. II WAS made
in 1873 on board the wSsstliD Thua-
derer, and was subsequently, Nxed %
between the school room and the boaa
doir of the then Princess Of Wales.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07
HE DOESN'T CARE FOR YOU.

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
have been going with
gentleman about a year, i'm which
time he gave me several presents.
We went out together three times
a week until about a month ago,
when he failed to meet me. As
he did not write, ! wrote to him
and asked him for an explanation,
but got no reply. I have met him
since, but he avoided me
HEARTBROKEN.
II he had any love for you. it has
grown cold. It is a humiliating eX-
perience which you make more HUI
initiating by attempts to get him
back. You must take no notice OF
him when next you meet.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07
TELL HER so.
Dear Miss Fairfax

Dear MISS tdlTldAs
I am a young man % years OF
age. There is a young girl whom
l love very much and l know she
cares a lot for me. The only time
/ can see this girl is Sunday
morning at church. ! would Ike
very much to keep company with
her 7but my position occupies
most Of my time at present and
it is impossible for me to take
her out on that account. What
shall l dO2
ANXIOUS.
Explain conditions to her. l thinI
that you will find that love can thrive
on only one meeting a week. In TIT
meantime. there is the mail box.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07
AS YOU LOVE HIM, YES.

DEAR MISS FAlftf "A
l am 20, and l went with
young man % years old for two
years. This young man loved me
very much. | did not love him at
the time. In the meantime l met
a young man I thought l loved.
After giving the first one up, l
found six months later that l
loved the first man. ! mad met
him I'm the meantime and we had
a little quarrel Now l love him
and l would like very much TO
meet him. Do you think he could
forget the girl he loved so very
much in a years time? Would you
write and ask him to call, as /
think he would2 ROSEBUD.
There would be no improperly il
a friendly letter. and much to rec
ommend il.
II he is manly, and worth loving, h
will bear you no resentment for YOU
mistaken judgment.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07

What your idea concerning grace and beauty? The above
picture photograph of Mile Marie Louise Derva the French
actress who has been hailed the of Sarah Behard
whom the critics style the persOnfcaOn of classical grace
and beauty
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07
Eldest Daughter Agrees.

when the doctor left she burst into
sobbing and said that they had all
been bewitched because they had sold
the dead girls hair and now they
must all die.
The eldest daughter, who was
frightened, shared her mothers opin-
ion, and when the man came to buy
her hair she cursed him and told him
to leave the house.
when she had died and they had
led the mother FROM the room, the
brother surreptitiously cut off her
hair to sell it for pocket money. The
mother heard nothing about this until
little Clara told her when she lay
dying.
After she had buried her last girl
the mother sat motionless for hours at
"a time in a corner of the room moan
ing.
"The son tried to console her, but
she cried: No. they are all gone. You
are the last, and now it Is your turn
The doctor came into the room.
Woman he said, you have now
lost three children from consumption.
Leave this house, Don't let your last
son sleep here; everything is in
feCted'
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07
What Being Lucky" Is.

This is where you have TO be quite
honest with yourself and where the
natural girl has the advantage. She
does not fool herself and pretend to
be something that she never can be
and was not intended to be. So she
starts fair and square. II she has al
ways lived in a world Of pretense and
imagined herself something quite diff
ferent from what she really Is, II she
thinks she's Billie Burke when she Is
really Sarah Jane, she will try TO get
what Billie wants and IL may not suit
Sarah at an.
Being lucky IS getting what your
heart desires, isn't ~ Then one must
be quite sure Of what those desires
are. / know lots Of girls who don't
know what they want at all and then
wonder that they never got II. Isn't Il
absurd and isn't # true?"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07
Boy the Last to Go.

And turning to the boy, he said:
you must leave this house and
take your mother with you. Then we
viii disinfect and burn everything
But the boy cried
oh. ann strong and healthy, and
1 ann not afraid OF anything
"'Au bewitched,' m0aued the old
woman.
Sometimes I pcrspire q little
went on the boy. and wiped his fore
head with his hand.
They VIII all die God has pun
ished them muruUred the old
woman.
- am strong and I defy all the
devils, cried the son.
As he spoke be felt something
warm come into his mouth, and the
blood gushed over his lips.
The doctor laid him on the bed.
where he died two days later after
another hemorThaEg.
For months the mother sat In hes
corner moaning necessarily
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-07

shut her gray eyes and began. Il
think luck is made up OF four words
one for each leaf Of the clover I will
and cam You have got to know in
your heart that you can do the thing
you are aiming for-that you can fl
.he position Won are irving 70 get
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26

H. M. Eieenor. tising your pills. and
resolved to try them. did, and took
only two boxes, and / am now sound
and we'll l regard my cure as remark
able. can recommend Dodd's Kidney
Pills to any one who is suffering from
Kidney Trouble as was" Write to Mr.
Fleenor about this wonderful remedy.
Dodd's Kidney Pills, SOC. per box at
your dealer or Dodd's Medicine Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y. Write for Household
Hints, also music of National Anthem
English and German words) and reci-
pes for dainty dishes. All 3 sent free.
Adv.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26

k.s-.ss..A your future Christmas re-
kss&SSS4N membrance would be COM
pleted in ample time, and un-
der no circumstances would the next
Christmas season find you in rush
and hustle, planning and finishing be-
lated Christmas gifts. What an idle
dream that was. for here 1t Is Christ
mas time approaching again, and you
are racking your brain and attempting
to decide what to give at the eleventh
hour, in great hurry and turmoil.
Isn't 1t SO?
What not to give, would be more
appropriate phrase. For in the selec-
ton Of your gifts some regard has
to be given to the adaptability and the
utility of the present. A wise idea Is
to spend more time than money in
thinking what would be suitable and
practicable for each individual. Your
gift would be all the more appreciated
II 1T expresses something Of yourself
and shows that your own personal
thoughts have been bestowed upon a
selection of the tokens.
The real essence of the Christmas
spirit is not expenditure. How easy
1t is to purchase gorgeous gifts If one
has well filled purse! But IL the re-
cipient can buy the same article with
little effort, the gift idea will not be
remembered for very long. Let your
gifts be expressions Of love and
thoughtfuluess. The thought and time
you put In gifts of your own handi-
work will mean much more than II
you simply give something for the
sake Of giving.
The cost of homemade gifts is gen.
orally small. A multitude of gifts can
be contrived of materials you have at
hand, and of odd pieces of linen, rib
bons and silk. Clever fingers car
fashion charming novelties. Gladness
is the keynote of the Yuletide season
Go at your tasks in a cheerful. blith
some manner, and you will find your
work one of Joy. The following sug
gestions may provide you with numer
Gus ideas for attractive gifts. which
may be made inexpensively.
With little effort dainty sachets tt
| perfume your friends gowns may bt
made at very small cost. Make sil
sachets in pastel shades of satin rib
bon about two inches square. Fill
with soft cotton busted with som'
fragrant sachet powder. Place tn,
sachets one on top of the other ant
tie with narrow gauze ribbon. Gil
safety pins are attached to eacl
sachet 30 the bags can be pinned OF
the different frocks.
One distinct novelty is colonia
pin cushion. For this unique cushion
you will have to purchase glass car
dlestick in simple design. Cove
one side of a four-inch square of care
board with some pretty silk whicl
harmonizes with the color scheme o
your friends bedrooms. Form {
mound-like cushion of cotton on tn
other side and cover with the sill
The cushion is fastened to the candle
stick by fine wires or thread. Aroun
the edge of the cushion sew beade
fringe about three inches long.
Another pin cushion has for tn
foundation a four-inch wire tea strair
er The back is fitted with disk c
cotton covered in cretonne. The wir
part is lined with flowered cretonn
and filled with cotton. Wind the hal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26
INEXPENSIVE CHRISTMAS GIFTS
BY PEGGY POWER S

die with narrow ribbon and finish
with pretty bow.
The girl away at college would sure
ly be overjoyed with shoe bag,
which she can hang inside her closet
door. The shoe bag should be half
the length of the door with compart-
ments for shoes, slippers and rubbers
and long compartment on one side
for an umbrella, and on the other for
books not in use. The materials used
should be heavy denim with the COM
partments bound in tape.
A pleasing notion would be to make
any articles for the girls away at col
lege in their college colors. A piece
of gay colored cretonne bound all
around with a pretty braid would also
be acceptable as trunk cover.
Dear to every girls heart are pretty
dress accessories. The new Robes
pierre collars with jabots of frilly lace
certainly will be welcome addition to
your friends wardrobes. The collars
are usually made Of black satin with
the ruffies of lace about two inches
wide.
Chic boudoir caps are made Of cir
cles of shadow lace 1S inches wide
with soft ruffles of narrow lace around
the crown. The rutfles should be made
in the back wider than In the front
to give the effect of Dutch bonnet.
The cap is decorated with little pink
rosebuds and band Of pink ribbon.
Exquisite La France roses are made
out of folded satin ribbon in three-inch
lengths. Turn the ends back at the cor,
ners to form the petals. Group the
petals together and join to wire
stem which has been twisted with mar
row green satin.
A natural looking bunch of violets
is formed of tiny bows of twisted VIC
let ribbon tied with green silk wire.
Hat pins, collar pins and buckles
are wonderfully effective when GOV
cred with ribbon roses made Of mar
row folded ribbon grouped closely to
gether. If you prefer you can use
satin cherries made of tiny circles o
satin filed with cotton, with petals
of green ribbon.
The girl who dances will find mucl
pleasure in receiving pretty pair o
beaded satin slipper bows to mattel
her party slippers.
For the traveller a small cretonn
pillow with pockets on one side 70
magazines and newspapers would b.
a convenience.
A set of envelopes of white linen +
hold the necessary articles, would a.
t so be a useful gift. If you have tim
you could buttonhole the flap in sea
lops. One envelope for handkerchief
one for the night dress, one lined i
rubber for the toilet articles, and on
/ large one for the extra waist. TIL
: pieces you have left of the linen 20
r can utilize for napkin rings, scallope
: and finished with monogram, or fo
4 boudoir lamp shades, which are muc
( admired when inserted with media
a ions of fine lace.
e For the invalid a thoughtful littl
:. gift would be cover for the drinkin
: glass. A glass circle the size of tn
! top of the ordinary glass Is required
d crochet a cover over the glass in
simple stitch in two colors of merce
e lied cotton. In the center sew a CT
l. cheted ring for a handle.
+ A tray with a narrow wooden bo
g der and brass handles could have
e pretty piece of embroidered linen u
l. der the glass.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26

to quit work, and
doctors failed to do
me any good. / kept
getting worse all the
time, and it at last
turned to inflamma-
ton of the Bladder,
and I had given up
all hope, when one
day I received your
LITTLE h0Oklat adyer-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26
Found Ii.

What became of that friend of
yours who was always looking for a
soft thing?"
Hes in a padded cell, poor chap"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26
The Great Dancer.

She-Has Jacks auto got him into
any serious trouble yet?
He-Well, understand he has be-
come engaged to the girl he's been
taking out in it.-Boston Transcript.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26

It's the things we shouldn't do at
all that we never put off till tomor-
row if we have chance to do them
today.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26
The Point.

Here are some excellent oysters
on the half she'll"
"Ah, there you touch me on the
raw!"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26
SUFFERED FOR 25 YEARS.

Mr. R. M. Fleenor, R. F. D. SO, Otter
bein, Ind, writes: 81 had been suffer
er from Kidney Trouble for about 26
years. 1 finally got so bad that had
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26

Avoid Dangerous Nostrums. Take Deans
Mentholated Cough Drops. They have real
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26

81 see the mercury keeps going
down"
"Which-tablets or temperature?"
Baltimore American.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26

Be sure that you ask for Wrights Indian
Vegetable Pills, and look for the sigma
ture of VIM. Wright on wrapper and box.
For Constipation, Biliousness and Indges-
ton Adv,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26
Its Mature.

"That article is rather vague"
"Of course it is. 1t is all about
London fogs."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26

DR.. Peery's yermfuge Dead Shot, kills
and expels Worms In very few hours.
Adv.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26

Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inhamma-
uon, allays pain &C urea wind collie Sc bottles
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26
The Mem

The Menu.
did you have homily when your
minister came to dinner?"
No, we had fried chicken"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26
A Sinner.

"why are you so fond of the shoe
business?"
Because there's where 1 shine"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26

INvALIDs AND CHILDREN
should be given MAGEE'S EMULSION TO
strengthen the body. Never fails. All druggists.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26

Sore Eyes. Granulated Eyeids and Sites
promptly healed with Roman Eye Bal
sam. Adv.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26
Looks tjks IL,

Isn't that girl stuck on herself?"
You would think it to see how
she's glued to the mirror"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26

PNEUMATICA STOPS YOUR PAIN
or breaks mp your cold in one hour. ltsmnrvelous
Used externally All druggists, rs cents. Adv.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-12-26

0ST certainly you promised
yourself last Christmas that
your future Christmas re-
membrance would be COM
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-16

son for offering the bill is this: JUS
tice delayed is justice defed. There
are $50 cases on the supreme court
docket now. II the court should hand
down two decisions a day, Sundays
included. it would require two years to
finish the docket, provided no new
cases came up
STONE REVIEWS MISSOURI AFFAIRS
Senator Stone would say nothing
about his conferesce with the presi-
dentelect.
Governor Wilson declared later,
however, that Senator Stone had come
merely to talk over the general situa-
ton in Missouri and that he had also
discussed with him cabinet possibili-
ties.
The president-elect has asked Col
onel George w. Goethals. who is in
charge OF the Panama canal work and
who is understood TO be a candidate
for governor general of Panama, to
come here on Friday.
81 want to go into the Panama stu,
alton as far as l can" said the presi,
dent-elect, but l am afraid l cannot
discuss it very thoroughly these busy
days"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-16
NEAR DISASTER IN
BREAK OF LEvEE

Lawrenceburg, Ind, Jan. 16.-A
break in the leyee early today flooded
large portion of the lower city and
drove many residents from their beds
to safety. The break was discovered
by a levee patrolman, who gave the
alarm, and the city was aroused by
factory whistles and bells Several
thousand sacks of sand were thrown
into the break and danger of a disas-
trous flood, it is said, has been averted.
Evansville, Ind, Jan. 16.-The Ohio
passed the 4S-foot mark today, the
highest in several years. Three square
miles of Evansville proper is under
water. Many families are driven to
second stories. City employees are
using skiffs and launches to distribute
food.
Cincinnati, Jan. 16.-The Ohio began
to recede today, after remaining sta
tionary at 62.2 feet 20 hours.