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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23
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everybody in town Will he there.
1 SOMETIMES wish there wss an
American Balzac to recount the
Coincide Humane Of our modern
hotel life. Such amusing and often
such distressingly sad things mark
the strange social existence that thou
sands Of our people are forced to live
in few hundred square feet, bounded
on all sides by walls Of stone or brick
No one less than Balzac is competent
to attack such a theme, and poor old
Balzac has been dead these seventy
years. BY the way. 1t Is a pity Balzac
isn't more widely read by our fash
ionabre DANES and demoiselles. A
few pages OF any one OF his Scenes
Of Partisan Life" will put into tho
heads of the most frivolous fear
of God and the utilities Of foolish
living.
But I have, as usual. gone OF at
tangent. ! started to tell OF a little
incident that still has the Majestic
Hotel by the ears. There came up to
Atlanta and to the Majestic q few
weeks ago a rather ancient widow
from Middle Georgia. In day or
two she had formed quite friendship
for a good-lookng young fellow. who
couldn't have been any older than
her dsshing daughter-whoss dashlng
titillates our larger Eastern cities
every now and then. The young squire
OF ancient danes and the widow be
gan to monopolize the parlor on the
second floor much to the chagrin Of
the hotel dwellers, who had been in
the habit of repairing thereto each
evening for the playing OF bridge and
the clearing Of such gossip as had
come to ear during the day The trou-
BILE was the young b. lu and the an
Client belle would close the door, and
none Of the ladi, had quite the te-
merity to enter. They held q caucus
and determined TO appeal to Manager
Lee Barnes Colonel Barnes notified
his clerk to have a bellboy proceed
and open the door. SO said, so done,
But the door was Immediately closed
Buttons returned, the beau closed the
door again, and so on. The comedy
was kept up for q night or two.
Then in desperation Colonel Barnes
suggested that the ladies sit the
couple out" They tried II It worked.
The widow from South Georgia
moved the next day to another hotel.
TWO clubmen of my acquaintance
made a wager some time ago
to the effect that whatsoever
should marry first should receive a
check of some fifty dollars from the
other. One of them became a Bene-
dict recently and as | hear the story,
the wager was turned over to the
bride with the request that she do
with IT as she pleased on the wedding
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23

because he scented his handkerchief
with strong cologne and wore two
rings on his little finger.
OF course, the men have griev-
ances also, and it is not always the
girl who is disillusioned, A worldly
bachelor, and you all know him, said
he came very near getting caught,
but when he heard his vision Of love-
liness go walking noisily down the
isle of the church, humping her heels
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23

it 10 prejudice me against the young
man. Yes, she certainly succeeded
for every time I was with him great
brown spl0tches would rise up before
me until ! came to hate him. He was
not a good match then, but since
wen, he is wearing all sorts of but
tons and bars and epaulets on his uni
form, and Uncle Sam thinks there
are few Ike him
Another girl threw her beau over
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23

some. But aren't they annov,Dr,
Always rubbing against sometbina
they've got no business touchins
Several women, l hear, who nav faS =
ulous prices for their chapeans a.
hate to spoil their feathers ara c S,u
sidering having a hole bored in IN
linousines to send their stick -
through. If you see any automohiieSs
around town with a stove-pipe hnI.
just remember that some ladv own.
it who Is a slave to fashions.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23

brazenly as she walked he decided
she would not do for him. Another
said he was dissuaded from making
the final plunge in the matrimonial
sea by seeing the girl he loved wiping
her face with the hem Of her tango
petticoat after a dance. So l decided
that there are many and good rea'
sons for broken engagements, and,
although the couple that suggested
this investigation have not made pup-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23

lie the reason of their change of
heart, know it has something to do
with the color of the young mans
neckties.
low many women in Atlanta
really think the "stick-ups" on
the hats this season are pretty,
graceful or becoming? l suppose
the little women like them, for 1t
certainly adds twice their height TO
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OUR 1914 CATALoG JUST OUT
Ehowz sil new styles In Oolcged Wornen's Hnfs,
We sre the largest import1ns and msnufscturs1s
VI Coiorad Peoples HAIR being the oldest an4
most rsllabss nrm in this ana We guarantee par
loat satisSaction or money refunded We positively
Euaeantes that our hair ID supczics 30 any on tho
market and our pzioea Aps lower than those euoee4
anywhere else.
ThiI hair win stand ec<nhins and wNshkns eas
sans as your own We sSn ka;x 10 sAs pound.
hair noka and al styles Of hEr, sso sxocp-
lonsly enc Ine q toilet ARTICLES sad strsisntentns
saruhs az Wholesale prices
Send Scent sssrnD for fss ssaHs~ Axvuts
wsnted sseryvhers.
NuMARiA HAfa cowRANY
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23

journey The groom stood for the
joke in splendid spirits,
I HEAR that Ferol Humphrles VIII
! 20 to Washington in December t.
be q bridesmaid at tho wedding
OF her cousin Robin Young to Ed
ward Peoples. Little Katherine Hum
phries VIII be the only flower girl
and Mr.. and Mrs. HUMPHREYS will
also be there for the big event. You
sec, Robin feels very close kin to Fe-
rOl now, for 1t was while on a visit
to her that she and Mr.. Peoples be
came engaged The HUMPHREYS orig
luaHy came from Washington, and 1t
is with great anticipation of meeting
with old friends that Ferol Is plan
ming her trip next month.
N FRIEND of mine is JUST home
~ from a delightful trip to Chi
Cago. Red silk hose must be
the fad there, unless my eyes deceive
me. Let me tell you what ! saw on
Whitehall street the other day. a
stunning young girl passed me as |
was waiting for a car. ! barely had
time to notice that she was wearing
red slippers and stockings with a
black suit trimmed in red buttons.
| couldn't see who she was, she came
and went so quickly. And did you
hear anyone tell about that ardent
Georgia girl at the football game last
week who wore a flaming red cos
tune adorned with black fur? That
Is some loyalty to a college, believe
me-
" BROKEN engagement between
~ two well known young people
in society has set me to
thinking. Not that / am often given
TO anything so serious as thinking.
but ! did wonder WHY so many en-
gagements that began successfully
never come to aught. SO ! asked a
number OF girls, all of whom you
know, and this is the result Of my
investigation. One man made so
much noise while eating his soup that
the girl was ashamed to go out to
the Driving Club with him, so she
bade him a fond farewell, and unless
he reads this he will never know that
he lost very lovely girl through
plate Of cream of tomato soup
The reason another girl gave up
the cherished idol OF her dreams was
because she was informed that the
aforesaid idol had freckles on his
feet My mother told me that, and
long afterward | learned that she did
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23

afternoon. 1t has been arranged for
the benefit of The American and
Georgian's Christmas Fund, and
everybody in town Will he there
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-23
Sale of Black Pile Fabric Coats
---Other Coats Specially Priced

Very fine silky finish Zibe-
line; velvet collar, jet buttons,
yoke back, kimono sleeves;
800 % inches Ta3n. long; Sz4. rs
Black Ural lamb cloth; circular
band of plush at bottom; plush in
laid collar and cuffs; silk frog and
tassel at fastening; full satin lined;
large plush buttons; Q7H TX
$25 value .....,.. pAOssc
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31
NEW LAWS IN IOWA.

An unsuccessful campaign has been
waged in Iowa to abolish contract labor in
the state penitentiary. 1t is expected, how
ever, that the present prison board will not
renew the contracts, according to the Des
Moines Register. A womans' reformatory
will be built at Anamosa. The trades and
industries at Anamosa will be improved.
The State Farm proposition was defeated.
Provision for district custodial farms was
made. The farms at the state prison and
the state reformatory were enlarged. The
Board of Control was authorized to work
prisoners on the road under the supervision
of the state highways commission. Twen-
ty-6ve cents was fixed as the charge for
visitors at the state prisons, the, money so
collected to be used to buy books. The
term escape will no longer apply sim
ply to the territory within prison walls.
County clerks are required to report to the
board of parole comprehensive statistics re-
garding crime, conviction and the cost of
same. The governor may pardon first
offenders after the Judge has suspended exc
cution of sentence.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31
REMEMBERS WE'UNS
Mrs. Elsie Bennett, a Chicago Reeder, at
a Recent Entertainment, Selected Her
Reading from the Book: "Prison Prob
Iems."

Nothing is quite as incomprehensible as
the failure of readers, entertainers and lee
turers to see that the psychological moment
that comes to those who succeed is now
presented in the mighty sociological study
of what to do with our erring ones.
The popular magazines feature this new
problem, newspapers TEEN with it, legisla-
lures are busy investigating the causes of
crime and the people are stirred.
The press has been extremely generous
with its comments on the book of "Pris-
on Problems and few have been unuSu-
ally generous, but that's not what we wish
to drive home.
Here is the idea: Mrs. Elsie Bennett,
one of Chicago's wide-awake readers, re-
Gently gave an evenings readings at the
Pacific Congregational Church that at
tracted unusual notice, not so much on ac-
count of how she read, but it was what she
presented. Her program consisted of Sc
lections from "Prison Problems and the
audience devoured every word that fell from
her lips.
Rev. Arthur F. Lindbeck, the pastor,
wrote: "Mrs. Benefits very interesting
and instructive readings at our church Sun
day evening were masterfully rendered and
left deep impression on the hearers. She
pictured very strongly and forcibly the
longings that are found within the poor
prisoners heart.
Mrs. Bennett is a graduate of school
where "Prison Problems is used as sort
of text book from which readings are stud
led for platform presentation, and this fact
is sufficient to show that it is up to the
times and knows what. to select as well as
what to teach!
That this is not a mere hobby is proven
by the fact that even the Divine Sarah has
heard the call of the hour, as the following,
clipped from one of the leading magazines
will show:
'Tn the prison yard of the San Quentin
(Cal.) penitentiary Nine. Sarah Bern
hardt, few weeks ago, played for an hour
to an audience of 1850 prisoners. The
rudely constructed stage and the scenery
were the work of prisoners, and half doz-
en- prisoners acted as ssupers' in the play.
Six men who were condemned to die sat
well to the front of the yard, unshackled,
with only one guard beside them. The
audience was on honor to behave, and
proved itself we'll deserving of the warden S
trust. Exchange.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31
the GAME OF MAKING GOOD.

In the game of making good there's a
time limit.
When we were seventeen the future to us
was a world unexplored, with time unlim-
tied.
But at thirty-four, or fourty-seven our
perspective has changed.
We look into the future through wiser
eyes and are startled-time has acquired
boundry lines.
We look back at opportunities lost-at
things done which we ought not to have
done-at things left undone which we
ought to have done-at long hours and well
meant labor which ptoved proftless.
And it shows in our score.
We stand at the crest of the hill-the
game is half over-to win we must capital
ize the future with experience gathered
from the past.
But we cannot afford to miss even one
opportunity.
There is a limit-a time limit-and
every day, every hour, every minute is re-
ducing just that much cur chance of roll
ing up good score in the game of making
good.
We can't afford to go through the year
not knowing whether we are winning,
playing even or going behind.
A year is 365 precious days., 700 hours
the best days and hours of our life
and we can't coax them back.
If we are losing we want to know to-
day, so that tomorrow we can change the
trump
And next week we want to know how
much we profted by the change.
If we investigate we find that large per-
centage of all failures are due, not to lack OF
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31

ambition, ability or hard work, but rather
to each mans ignorance of the actual con-
dition of his own particular business.
Further investigations convinces us that
the great majority of small retailers are
capable, hard working business men,
working in the dark, waiting for the end of
the year to find out if their score has gone
up or down in the game of making good.
But we find the man who is making a
"killing the men with the best score
is the man who labors less and thinks more,
the man who systematizes, who installs
proper accounting system, the man who
knows which clerk deserves raise and
which should be fired, who knows which
lines should be discontinued and which
pushed.
He is the man who knows this week
what he made last week.
He is managing.
We have the same opportunity.
What he is doing we can do; we have
the same condition ability and energy.
But we must be up and doing; we've
reached the crest of the hill, and
In the game of making good
There's time limit. R. Worden,
in The Business Philosopher.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31
HANGING NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

The Indiana Bulletin, quarterly publ
cation of the Board or State Charities of
Indiana, reports number of laws passed
by the General Assembly of 1913. Among
the most important appear the following:
The establishment of the Indiana State
Farm sfor the care and confinement of
male prisoners over sixteen years of age
convicted of any violation of law, the pun
ishment for which has heretofore consisted
of Jail or workhouse SENTENCE commit
ment of such cases to this institution will
be optional in sentences of sixty days or
less, and compulsory for all other sentences.
The farm is to contain not less than 500
acres and is to provide ''varied forms of
husbandry, fruit growing, stock raising,
brick making and the preparation of road
and paving material Under other laws
we find: The death penalty will be in
hicted by electrocution instead of hanging.
Arrangements may be made between the
State prison and reformatory and boards of
county commissioners for the employment
of prisoners on public highways. Amend
ments to perfect the juvenile courts law.
Emphasis on compulsory school atten-
dance. Prohibition of "selling, buying,
receiving or using cigarettes by any person
under the age of twenty-one.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31
INMATES NOT ALL
FROM THE SLUMS
The Prisons Of Today are Well Filled
With Those of the "Better Glass"
Many Once Respected in the Business
World Help Swell the Population.

1t has recently been stated, comments
Detroit paper editorially, that the caste of
the prisoners in our penitentiaries is chang
ing; that instead of the lower, the real
criminal classes, prison walls now enclose
many men once respected and esteemed in
business, and those who have held respon-
sible official positions. If this is true, and
circumstances seem to warrant the asser-
those spasmodic moral agitations that occa-
sionally shakes US up, or to that feeling
that disposes jury to ''put it over on the
rich man who defends against poor man
who brings suit3
1t is right and Just that law should be no
respecter of persons, but that so many men
of standing and opportunity should be
found guilty of state prison offenses indi-
Gates general and lamentable laxity of
moral principle. The first cause of such
deviations is almost invariably the anxiety
to get rich, no matter at what risks, moral
or otherwise. Ours is materialistic age
We live for the things of the body rather
than those of the spirit. The teachings of
the home and the school are almost wholly
materialistic. The teaching of dogma is
thing of the past, almost entirely, and we
rather pride ourselves on our liberality of
thought. But we have given nothing to
our young people to replace dogma. We
teach them that the way to happiness is
through self-indulgence; we keep from
them the knowledge that real happiness is
only to be found in acts that bring hap
mess to others.
The evil which men do today comes less
from "natural depravity' than from the
moral emptiness of the instruction they re-
ceive when they are little children. The
child in school is taught everything on
earth-"all the ologes of all the colleges
except honesty, fair play and brother
hood; all about the wonders, with the
Wonderworker eliminated.
The excuse for the beginning of wrong
doing is that "the other fellow does it,
From the manufacturer who adulterates his
goods to the employer who holds wages to
the lowest level under plea of competition;
from the promoter who snares the widow
and fatherless, the maid-servant and the
laboring man in his net to the contractor
who cheats on his specifications, the un-
moral game of "When you re getting, get
plenty is played through all its devious
ways.
That is why an increasing percentage of
''the better class end in prison. For the
education that fails to implant moral prin-
ciple as the rule of life is merely instruc-
ton, which may bear evil fruit.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31
MANY VISIT new PRISON.

These days throngs of people from var
ious points in this state and from other COM
come from St. Paul by trolley car. Many
of them complain that an additional fare
of five cents is charged.
1t is said that the trolley line officers
have been again asked to eliminate the ad
ditional fare of five cents from the city to
the prison and that the company has the
matter under consideration. There is a
bare possibility that change may be made
before the state fair, when there will be
rush of visitors to the prison. saltwater
Gazette.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31
PRISONERS PAID TEN CENTS A DAY

Kansas is paying the prisoners of the
Kansas penitentiary 10 cents day, the
money to be used to help the dependent
families of the prisoners.
w. L. Brown, chairman of the Board of
Corrections, announced that the new rate
went into effect at the prison July l, and
would be put into effect at the reformatory
as soon as possible.
Kansas has been allowing 3A cents a
day to each prisoner to be given him upon
his release and as something on which he
could start life anew.
The 1913 legislature passed the law in
creasing that to 10 cents, and if there are
dependent children of wife, the prison is
to pay the money to them. Louis
Republic.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31
TWENTy-sEvEN YEARS AGO.

The convicts at the Minnesota State
prison are soon to have weekly paper of
their own to be called the s'Prison Mir
ror.' There are several printers detained
in that retreat and they have agreed to set
the type on the proposed new publication.
Lew Schoonmaker is to be the managing
editor. The paper will be devoted prin-
cipally to the views of the intelligent in
mates of the institution. The manager is
an expert printer, and years ago he was at
the head of paper published at the Wau-
pun, Wis, prison, where he served brief
term. Saltwater Gazette.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-07-31

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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-02


Perhaps this simple method of dry
ing fruit for winter use may help some
busy housekeeper to save time.
Make a frame of soft wood two
inches wide, and one inch thick that
will cover the top of your stove, and
tack on this frame good wire screen
ing. At each corner drive in staple.
also drive staple in the ceiling just
above the stove corners.
Now securely fasten stout cord In
the staples farthest from you. and run
the cord up through both staples in
the ceiling and then down to the
staples near you and fasten. In this
way one may lower the screen to the
proper distance for drying or raise 1t
up out of the way when wishing to
use the stove. A large quantity may
be dried quickly in this way. Apples
dipped in weak salt water will not
turn dark while drying.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-02
Convenient ironing Board.

A stationary ironing board is a
great convenience to the housewife,
as it is ready for use at a moments
notice, and any husband can make
one. Its broad end is fastened to the
wall 35 inches from the floor with
three stout hinges. At about two
thirds of the distance 10 the other end
of the board is stout leg. SO inches
long. attached with hinge. The board
is placed at the left of the window,
with the range not many steps away
This location insures good light and a
breath of air in warm weather. When
not in use the board folds up against
the wall, the leg falls down the length
OF the board. and the whole is secured
by button on the edge OF the window
casing.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-02
KEEP PIANO IN ORDER
INSTRUMENT NEEDS CARE ~
TONE 10 TO &c PRESERVED.
Keys Must BE Kept Clean and Care
Taken That the inside Of tho
Case IL Kept Perfectly Free
From Dust

The keys OF piano should be regu.
larry wiped of with q soft piece OF
silk or cheesecloth. II they are much
soiled Il may be necessary to wet the
cloth with water or few drops OF al.
cohol; but they should be dried imme'
diateiy. In case the keys are of cellu.
loid alcohol should not be used In no
case use soap or a washing powder II
ink is dropped on ivory keys It is prac.
tlcally impossible to remove II. and a
new piece OF ivory must be substi-
tuted. Celluloid keys may be polished
by adding to pumlce powder either
benzoline CT. turpentine. or even milk.
Black keys, II not OF ebony. may be
retouched with black spirit enamel ap-
piled with camel's hair brush.
The interior of a piano Is often a
repository for dust, scraps of paper
and even the nests of mice. These
should be removed with much care.
To get at the inside of plano II is
necessary to take It apart more or
less. Usually the lifting of the lid re-
veals the necessary wood buttons OF
screws. On releasing these the front
will come loose, the "fall'' or key
board cover can be lifted away and
the key-slip in front OF the asys be
unscrewed and removed. These In
vestigations should be made by one
who knows something of plano con-
struction or by one who has me-
chanical knack for putting things back
where they belong.
The dirt can be removed with stifi
brush and the wires cleaned with fine
emery cloth. glass paper or piece
of thick leather dipped In an equal
mixture of -four emery and coarse
emery in parafin oil.
The felts on the hammers can be
cleaned by applying dry pipe clay and
then rubbing II OF with nailbrush.
Much trouble is caused by keys
sticking. This may be remedied by
removing the tight keys, cleaning the
pivot and key pins of rust; or. II they
are too large, rubbing them down with
fine emery cloth. afterward applying
little grease, but not oil If care is
not taken, however, the keys may be
come too loose and rattle.