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THE BRID GEPORT TIMES MAGAi
UNSEEN HANDS
4 BeWildering DetectiUe Story By Robert Orr Chipperfield

sharply at the travelling bag in the girls hands.
 You were going away. Miss Chal, surprise. 'I am very sorry, but that will not be permitted. No one must
 leave this house on any pretext what ever until they are authorized to do so.''
 Cissic's lip curled. Are you aware that the butler has already gone t" she asked in her turn. ''Surely if the servants The butler if he does not return | here of his own volition will be
 caught in the dragnet and brought in before nightfan," Odell interrupt o,i Ter sternly. "He will be taken to
 headquarters, questioned for hours. if on no graver charge. You will be suitably protected here in your own home, Miss Chalmers, and here you must remain.
 She tossed her head. By whose authority?
 "Mine." He spoke quietly. He took her bag from her unre-
 sisting hand. placed it on a carved chest which stood against the wall and turned to Miss Meade. , "Your telephone is in the library, is it not? I should like to use it for a moment. Are there any exten- sions?" "OnIy one, and that is in my sis MISS Mc5uS Tepl4Cu. IL you turn it off and shut the library door you will have absolute privacy Thank you. Can you tell me Peters's home address?" "He has no one except married sister who lives over in New Dorp, Staten Island I will get the address
 for you"
 As she hurried away he turned once more to the girl. Miss Chalmers, I shall want a lit f1e talk with in about hour She bowed stiffly and, turning upon her heel, walked down the hall to-
 ward the back staircase, while he en- tered the library.
 What had she meant in saying the aunt had had her way in spite of everything? Miss Meade did not look like the sort of person who could
 maintain her own way in the face of
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prove that the spirit of Christmas gets them" in spite of themselves.
 We have digressed far from the subject-that of clothes for the board ing school girl For, alas, and alack1 her time among us is limited. And when she re-enters the portals of learning she will wish to take with her a well replenished wardrobe.
 Wondrously attractive are the modes for the yoyn nger set, and what is still a more telling point in their favor they manage to be more than just pretty-they are interesting. Bariety is, of course, responsible for the latter-for up to her old tricks she performs them so well that scarcely any two frocks are alike.
 Color has a great deal to do with the charm of the sub-deb clothes and the student of subjects sartorial will be much entertained by. noticing the numerous ways in which it is cleverly introduced. There was a tme when black was considered nothing short of undesirable for girlish wear, but now a designer gives to a black vel vet frock an underdress of Chinese red, and collar and cuffs of the same
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even the mildest opposition. And what had Miss Meade herself meant you?''
 It was .unthinkab1e that she could have been referring to the recent deaths; no matter how sorely tried she was by her niece's willfulness, such a thought would never have come to her. What, then, could have been the portent of that expressed wish?
 He had turned the telephone switch cutting off the extension and called headquarters when Miss Meade gid ed into the room, laid a slip of paper on the stand beside him and went out again, closing the door behind her Odell conferred with his cap tain and issued his preliminary or ders, and then, picking up the slip, he glanced at the address and sent out a general alarm for the missing Peters.
 This accomplished, he emerged from the library, to find Miss Meade waiting in the hall.
 How many servants do you en. ploy?" he asked as he approached her.
 ''Iour., Peters, Jane, the house ready told you, and Marcelle, the cook. Then there are the furnace man and the laundress, but they are not inmates of the house. Would ! you ilNC IO see tily Ol tlloIIl
 Each of them in turn, but first will you show me Mrs. Lorne's bou. do;r?"
 "yes. We can reach it from the hall wi Aout disturbing MT. I<orne The boudoir connects their apart n.ents. and my sisters room has beer closed since her death.'
 She led the way up the servants staircase to the pretty room, ren GEreG cheerful and summery by whit, wicker furniture and gay chintz dra perieG. II seemed impossible tha tragedy should ever have enterec here. yet the detectives eye focuset at once upon a garishly beaded In oian basket upon the under shelf 0 the table. From it overfiowed tanSle of varicolored silken threads and in it's cen:er square of tai linen, held in an oval embroider, frame. showed a glowing poppy hal
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but startlingly distinct, in Miss Meade's usually colorless tones:
 Silence, Christinel I wish that it had been you!'
 room door and peered cautiousely out into the hall. The pretty girl was struggling to free herself from her aunt, whose hand was clapped across her mouth and who held her in a firm clasp. Cissie's young virility, though, was more than a match for the frail. middle-aged woman. and Miss Meade ali at once relaxed and stepped back.
 "The young man whom Mr. Titheredge brought from police head quarters this morning is in the draw ing room now" she announced: and as Odell hastily drew back he caught the yelled warning in her tone. "I am sure that he will not permit you to go until he has had an opportunity to talk with you; and certainly you shall not leave this house without telling either your stepfather or me where you are going"
 "Why, Aunt Etfie' The utter stu pcfaction in the girfs tones betrayed clearly the fact that her aunt's new found assertiveness was unpreced ert- ed. 'I shall go and come as I please. As for the police, what have I to dc with them? I am amazed that you should attempt to dictate to me when even motEer-
 ster spoke, "It is simply because your ster spoke, cit is simly because your mother is no longer with us and your .~, ,stepfather lying injured upstairs thal I must try to make you listen. You shall not Eo." sFs
 Oden heard a little scuffle, and tn, handle of the great front door turned violently with dull clang .ot bronze. Then Miss Meade's voice rose desperately.
 Sergeant Odell!'
 He strode out into the hall to fint the pretty girl, now flushed and witt her cold blue eyes snappincs fire standing half in and half o;:taiGje tn. door, with her aunt's restrainin2 hand upon her arm.
 "This is the young man iron headuuarters of whom I told you C.ssie My oldest niece, Miss Chal mers."
 Odell bowed. and then glances
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SYNOPSIS.

Two mysterious deaths and two un- Accountable accidents, either of (which might have terminated in a fa- taIity, throw the home of Richard her son, Julian Chalmers arc under circumstances that seems to point to murder and Barry OdeH sergeant of detectives, is called in by Samuel Tithercdge. the family lawyer. He has just obtained an account of Ju- Hans death from Miss Fife Meade Mrs. Lorne's spinster sister.
 She broke off as light but de- termined step came along the hall from the direction of the servants staircase. Odell too, glanced curi- ously out through the open drawing room door just as a tiny, fairylike figure with masses of golden hair be- meath small black hat walked quickly past and toward the entrance door.
 "Cissier' miss Meade rose and slip ped out into the hall. "Cissie, where are you going?"
 Away! Anywhere!" A girlish treble es clear and cold as a mountain brook fell upon the detective's ears. q told you all last night that I was go- ing, and then we really didn't know anything. we only felt it. If you think I'm going to stay in this house O minute longer"
 "But, my dear-'
 "Oh, you needn't worry, Aunt Ellie. I sha'n't go to any of our friends and tell of the terrible things that are going on in the sacred Meade house. I wouldn't disgrace any of them by being on their hands when the notoriety starts: and I'm not going to stay here to be mur- dered, either. I don't know about poor mamma and Jule. But I do know about father and what so near ly happened to Gene, and I don't in- tend to be the next one. You've had your way in spite of everything, but I won't live another day in the same house with a."
 To the listening detective it seemed that the clear voice snuffed out like 0 flame; and then there came, low
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Coming home for the holidays! Is there any experience that can give one keener delight? The boarding school girl and the bride and the fond parents of their first baby all say no, and those of us who may not have been lucky enough to have been the 'prodigal son. or daughter at this happiest time of all the year must envy those who have and perforce agree with them.
 We grown-ups make a great point of saying:-"Oh, Christmas is for the children. It is all very we'll for them to put their faith in Santa Claus and tune their tiny ears to the rat-tat- tat of reindeer hoofs, but we have got ten all over that" But have we? In spite of our determination to let this year go by without giving gifts, time after time we hear some sage make some such resolution as this:-"Well, I am sorry to say it, but Christmas has become a bore. I am going to remember all my friends this year with just a card" Then at the elev- enth hour these very determined souls chase wildly out to the nearest stores and buy fast and furiously and for just as many. All of which goes to
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bright shade. and gone is all sugges- ton of the sombre.
 Neither is there anything very bad nor old about black tulle falling over silver net with t~uch of the silver in the capelike effect at the back. The fabrics that find favor for the afternoon are innumerable and their development, defes any description that must be crammed into little time and space. Velvet, wool cloth and satin are three that yield the palm to none, but there are ever so many more that give them close race. If mademoiselle boasts many changes she is sure to include in her
 rousseau a daytime frock of white cloth, wool, perhaps, or broadcloth or duvetyn. But .t is apt to be em-
 broidered or braided so effectively
 that in spite of it's youthfulness it
 achieves an air of sophistication that
 is immensely delighting to it's girlish owner.
 ! The figured silk is an always accept
 able sight in the eyes of all who be-
 hold it. And my lass often dons a
 smart affair of foulard in which to
 go a-teaing.
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:. HOW TO MARCEL

One of the things I learned while I was abroad was exactly how to mar eel the hair so that it would not look too stiff and yet so it would have the smart wave that many people find quite becoming.
 It is exceedingly difficult to marcel
 properly and frankly I do not know
 whether any of my readers can ac- conpliSh it or not. The first thing to do is to buy fairly large curling iron. You may have to pay anywhere from 75 cents to S1.50 for one, and if you are fortunate enough to have your house wired for electricity you may even want to spend $6 or S7 for an electric iron, the heat of which can be regulated.
 The first thing to do in marcelling the hair is to lift up a portion Of what
 I might call the top layer of the hair with a comb; run the iron under this
 ' ith the outer part of the tongs under heath; then when you snap the tongs against the hair, give them little twist so that the hair held between | he two prongs will come to little | ridge. Open the prongs of the iron and move them down along the hair l so that when you again snap together l the two prongs you are on the other i side of this little ridge you have | formed. This makes a little rather
 sharp undulation along the hair. Now | slide the tongS down about an inch or an inch and half and repeat, the | outer prong of your curling iron stlll 1 held on the unOeTnSdlh part OA IiIS | hair, so you can form his necessary | little ridge.
 | This is really all there is in produc- l ing a marcel ware, but this little is | important, and will require a great | deal of practice. You will not find ii l hard to marcel the sides of the hair but it will be almost impossible to dc l the back. The whole secret. lies ir pinching the hair into' the series o1 i ridges which form the marcel. The first day of any marcel is not so pret- ty, but it 1oosens. the wave be- ! gins to grow very attractive
 Blue Eyes-A girl of IS years, five feet five inches, is about correct ii she weighs 120 pounds. If your hail is little darker than golden why no
 ry to tighten it by using egg sham.
 DOGS and sun baths, and perhaps hen | aa shanpoos. You can make youl 1 eyelashes longer and perhaps a yer. 1 title darker if you will rub them witt | T little castor oil. The dark eyebrow and lashes would be in charming con
 finished, from which a scarlet threat like a thin stream of blood mean dered over the side of the basket. To be Continued.
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year ago you bleached your hair with peroxide and it fell out. You stopped bleaching, had it bobbed, and now it is coming i'll thick and healthy. Then it again! Don't you think that it is much better to let it continue thick and healthy and not try any more un- fortunate experiments? You can bleach it a very little by using the eN- tra-henna shampoo which I have des- cribed. or by giving it egg shampoos and as many sun baths as possible. specialist, the only way you can re- move superfluous hairs from the face is to pull them out with pair of tweezers. They will come back, but can always be pulled out again. The growth of fuzz on the upper lip can be discouraged and bleached by rub | ping that part with mixture Of per oxide and ammonia, half and half. A. M.-One of the best astringents | for f1abby skin is ice. The place under i he chin should be rubbed with ice
 for about ten minutes every day. Dr. Sophia H. Huntington, of Bra zoria, has the distinction of being the | only woman railroad surgeon in Tex
 as. She is the mother of fifteen chill
 dren.
 The second banking institution in l the country owned and operated ex- l clusively by women will shortly be | opened in Philadelphia At present | there is only one, which is located in l ClarkSville, Tenn.
 The Massachusetts minimum wage board has handed down a decision i granting scrubwomen a minimum
 wage of S15.40 per week. This is al ] the rate of 37 cents an hour, fixed | on a basis of AZ hours employment 1 weekly.
 Mrs. Charlotte Cameron is the most l famous woman traveller in the world i having made two trips around the
 world. She has the distinction of wis tting every country in the world ex- | cept Australia, New Zealand and some
 of the islands of the South seas.
 1na1a, after centuries of blowing with a crooked stick, is learning tt use American blows and tractors. A:
 a result the Maharajah of Bikanil has offered a thousand acres of lan6 and the salary of a trained teacher to the Methodist mission board if i | will send some one to take charge O. the agricultural development of hi: state.
 An anti-dumping bill to be intro duced in the House of Commons vii
 seek to -ohibit the sale of good
 in England at a lower price thai that of the country in which the
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A SKIN BLEACH

can be used to bleach the cOfnpleN1On is moistened starch. To prepare this, take little plain laundry starch and dissolve it in enough water to make 6. paste about the consistency of cream. Rub this over the face, and neck. too, if you wish, and over the arms and elbows if these are not as white as you would wish.
 It will dry on immediately and it may feel a little stiff and uncomfort- able, but this need not worry you. This can be put on at night before you go to bed or at any time during the day, while you are at home 1 would not leave it on more than half an bit drying. Rinse it off with warm water.
 I have seen this have splendid effect when used every other day for two weeks. Of course, there are some skins which do not react so readily. There are many" complexions where the treatment must be internal and mentatons. But if you wish winter skin it is certainly not expensive to experiment with the starch and it can not do any harm. If you have a very cel1ent for it will absorb much of the
 grease in the skin and help to draw up the large pores.
 If you have coarse pores around the nose I can recommend thlS traat- rnent highly, although if the pores advise you to use my blsckhead ! cleansing powder instead, as this is a 1 little more effective. Laundry starch | is usually made from corn and one of l the ingredients of the blackhead cleansing powder is cornstarch, though | wheat starch is sometimes used Catherine-You write to me that g
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BEAUTY CHATS

trast to your light hair. Have your physician remove the moles from the skin; you must not touch them your self. If you wish to use cucumber juice as a bleach you can rub undi- luted juice into the skin at night and let it dry.
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Because women in Yoncal1a Ore, were elected to fill every political of
 flee in the town. all the men of the i town council resigned in a body.
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Girl students at the Pennsylvania State. College have club based on the army officers mess, and; they are able to run the table on 50 cents a day.
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An anti-dumping bill to be intro duced in the House of Commons will seek to -ohibit the sale of goods in England at lower price thar that of the country in which they have their origin.
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Loraine-There is only one way to remove superfluous hair permanent ly from the face and that is to have electric needle treatment.
 If Mrs. Anna Franl1e, Tyler Hotel, Jefferson street, will send me the name of the city where she resides, I will send her the formula she re- quested. I am sorry that the name of the city has been lost, and her en- velope says only City,
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| Dr. Sophia H. Huntington, of Bra zoria, has the distinction of being the
 only woman railroad surgeon in Tex | as. She is the mother of fifteen chll- dren,
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fnished, from which a scarlet thread like thin stream of blood mean dered over the side of the basket.
 To be Continued.
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The second banking institution in the country owned and operated ex- clusively by women will shortly be opened in Philadelphia. At present there is only one, which is located in ClarkSYille. Tenn.
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I'm going to ask you to act as cashier again tonight" said our lieutenant when I arrived at the can teen. You handle the money so quickly and accurately, Mrs. Harri- son, that it might be a. good idea for you to give bond and take the cash ier's place regularly"
 "Oh, I'd much rather be a waitress and do the cashiers work just in | emergencies" l replied quickly: little cage. it flashed through my mind that someone else would have
 to go my bond since I hadn't a pos
 session in the world with which to
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-05
Buick New Series
Models Announced

For the nineteen-twenty-one sea-
son, the Buick Motor company have
announced seven new models, en-
bracing roadster, five and seven
passenger open types and five and
seven-passenger sedan, three and
four passenger coupes, in enclosed
designs.
Thus, complete line of cars is
offered,-a model for any purpose
and to suit any particular choice Of
the most discriminating purchaser
From chassis standpoint, no no
ticeable changes are to be seen by
the eye, yet many improvements and
points of refinement are incorporat-
ed, each with the>sole purpose Of add
ing strength and wear-resisting quail
ties. The characteristic principles of
Buick engineering are manifest in ev-
cry detail, while the world renown-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-05
Gortatowskys Lease
Albany Auditorium

ALBANY, September After a
lengthy discussion of the matter,
during which feeling at one time
ran high and a difficulty between
Councilmen Enrich and Jones threat
ened, the city council instructed the
auditorium committee to draw up
lease with Gortatowsky Brothers for
$1,000 a year for the Municipal Au-
ditorium during the theatrical sea-
son, the lessees to pay for lights used
and for the cleaning of the building.
Three bids were submitted. Arthur
Lucas, of Atlanta. offered $4,000 a
year for the building to be used for
motion pictures and theatrical pur-
poses. W. A. Mitchell, of Dawson,
Offered 81, 200 for the theatrical
season, proposing to use the build
ing only for road shows. Gorta-
towsky Bros, of Albany, bid $500
year with the understanding that
the city was to do the cleaning.
The discussion which followed
showed that a majority of the coun-
ell favored eliminating the Lucas bid
on the ground that the auditorium
should not be used for motion pic
lures.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-05
Miss Herndon Asked
To Return to Tenn

Miss Louise Herndon, who has
made her residence in Americas for
the past two years, and who has
been identified with every activity
connected with the Central Baptist
church received a telegram Saturday
urging her to return to Chattanooga,
Tenn, where she labored for five
years. Rev. r. o. Bell, who is as
sistant pastor of The Tabernacle
there, has resigned, his resignation
taking effect today, and Miss Hern-
don has been offered the place he
held in the organization of the
church. Rev. Mr.. Bell viii devote
his time exclusively to evangelistic
work, and Miss Herndon being &C.
quainted with every department OF
the church, would fill the position
very capably.
Rev. T. F. Galloway, pastor of the
church, and the deacons have for
mally notified Miss Herndon of their
need of her services, and have urg-
ed her acceptance by telegraph. She
has as vet made no definite decis'
ion. but it is thought she will remain
in Americas where her work for the
past two years has been of major
Importance.
During the first year if Miss Hern-
don's i'll health, induced by heavy
work in Chattanooga, she vas grant
ed leave of absence with full salary,
such was the esteem in which she was
held by the church. Since coming
to Americas, Miss Herndon has made
remarkable progress in her work,
especially among the young people OF
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-05

affairs. returned Saturday to her
home in Commerce.
Miss Helen Williams returned to
Montezuma Friday after a pleasant
visit of several weeks to relatives
and friends in Americas.
Mrs. NJ. H. King, of Plains, is Wis
iting her sisters, Mrs. M. E. Raines
and Mrs. Sara Shrumpert.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Goodson and
John Goodson, Jr., of Albany, are the
guests of Mrs. ]. R. Kersey at her
home on Hampton street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Pittman an
nounce the birth of a daughter on
September 3 at their home on Jack
son avenue.
Miss Mary Louise Reese, of AL
bany, spent the weekend with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Reese,
at their home on Jackson avenue.