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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-02
HER TERRIBLE SECRET
By DR.. Frank Crane

This Is story which I heard from a WON
an acquaintance who said she had it from
her mother.
1t suggests good many things and will
| be read by not a few women with peculiar
appreciation.
1t is of man who was Of that domineer-
mig, jealous and petty type that is all too
common. He had that suspicion of woman
kind that some men think to be wisdom.
He was always setting little traps to catch
her. He would listen in at the telephone
and had a pleasant way Of going through
her letters on her desk when she happened
to be out Of the house.
If she would call him up at the office he
wocld not answer right away, but wait to
see if any was with her and he could
overhead her conversation.
| If she put on some new and attractive ar
| ticle of apparel he kept his eye open to see
whether she was not out to lure some other
male.
| He lay awake good deal to see If she did
not talk in her sleep and say something that
would give him clue.
| When she returned home on any occasion
she had to give a very circumstantial &C
| count of all the places she had been and all
the people she had met.
In other words he was the kind of gentle
man that is referred to as a foxy guy.
| AS matter of fact, however, his wife
was simple and perfectly innocent soul.
| She was good deal Of child and had no
uotion in the world of doing anything wrong
or even wanting to.
Then came the tragedy.
One day the husband discovered a little
drawer in her writing desk that was locked
He tried to open it and could not. He asked
her where the key was. She said she had it,
He told her to give it to him and she declin-
ed. He wanted to know what was in the
drawer and she would not tell him.
Consequently it was Ohio! and At Last!
for him. Here was the guilty secret All
along he had suspected that there was some
thing.
straightway that little locked drawer pos
sessed his whole imagination. He thought
OF 1t In the Office, at the breakfast table and
when he tried to go to sleep in bed
He made strenuous attempt to be decent
and mind his own business, but it was no
use. He simply had to get into that drawer
by hook or crook and find out what this ter
rible thing was that he knew was going to
break up his home, wreck his happiness and
reveal the terrible hidden crime of this wom-
an whom he had taken to his BOSOM
An so one day when she was visiting her
Aunt Mary in the next town he got a chiseI
and broke the lock to the drawer
And when he had opened it and looked in
he saw in one corner of it a little box of
rouge!
Any ordinary white man would probably
nave sat down and cried, to think of this
poor, dinky little sin which the dear soul
mad been trying to keep for her very own
Or he would have called in the iceman and
given him dollar to kick him around the
room for fifteen minutes.
But all this man said was:
"Thunder!"
Copyright, 1922. by Frank Crane)
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Cine Us the Benefit of You,
Adn;ce


EADERS of The Tri-Weekly Journal
* have doubtless noticed several
changes in the makeup of their pa
uer recently. More ere contemplated These
are being made in the effort Of improve
ment.
Will you not give us the benefit Of your
suggestions? If you like the things we are
doing, it will be very helpful for you to
write a few lines telling us so. If there Is
anything you don't like, either by omission
or commission, also be good enough to let
us know.
Remember, it > YOUR paper.
Our duty Is to please you. We cannot al
ways be sure we are right, unless we hear
from those whom we are striving to please.
Don't feel that criticism is unwelcome. On
the contrary, 1t is the editors hest aid. Kind
words are mighty nice and comforting, but
complaints, when justified by fact, are even
more valuable.
Let us hear from you.
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Mems ta1lOrs wouldn't have the nerve and
audacity to suggest a more radical change
than an extra button on mems coats every
five years. And even when he agrees to
that, man thinks he is making a terrible
concession to the fashions.
Twenty years ago men stopped parting
their hair in the middle and began parting
it on the side. -
But in that time women have changed
from bangs and buns to pompadours and
puffs, from pompadours to fishhook curls,
from fishhOOks to marcel waves, from the
marcel to b0bbed hair-and now they are
going back to long hair and buns again.
Whew!
woman will spend more precious time
strength and energy in selecting a new fall
hat than man would in buying factory
or making a new law.
woman will waste more golden mo-
ments in matching up her tea-set or select
ing cretonne pattern than a man would
waste in choosing a house, wife, motor
car or a religion.
A woman lets the little details Of life-the
set of ruffle, the cut of a shoe, the color
of her front hair and, above ALL the ever
ever, ever CHANGING fashions-absorb her
soul, fill her mind and eat up her days and
years and youth and strength!
And then she wonders why men do more
work and better work, and yet manage to
have more freedom, more comfort, more time
for play and q better time in life, than SHE
does
(Copyright 1927
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WOMAN THE TIME MAS TER-By Helen Rowland

All over the country, women are risin o
to protest against the horrors of the new
long skirts!
Yes, dear heart, they rise that wav-but
before they go to bed every mortal one of
them has probably sneaked down to the
dressmaker with half a dozen of her old
skirts-and left them to be Iengthened
That is WOMAN for you! She is called
The Eternal Question" because she never
knows the answer to her own problem, and
the answer is never the same two days in
succession.
The great mystery Of the sexes, to me-.
is not that men have ruled the world for
so long, but how women ever managed to
stop changing their minds long enough to
get the ballot or any of their other rights
and privileges.
Women are the champion tfme-wasters
and energy dissipaters of the world!
They talk of freedom in one breath
and in the next demand eagerly to know
the latest commands, dictates and ulti-
matums from Paris.
They protest with their voices-and rush
to obey with their pocketbooks They are
perfect gourmets for slavery!
question like that of the length of
his clothes wouldn't occupy a MANS mind
for forty seconds. If he liked long skirts,
or long hair or long boards, he'd accept
them; if he didn't, no power on earth could
thrust them upon him.
1t has been something like thirty years
since there has been half an inch change
in the length of mems trousers or the height
Of their collars.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-02

!;-Name the territorial possessions of the
United States? '-~
The outlying possessions Of the United
states are Alaska, American Samoa, Guam
hawaii Panama Canal Zone, Porto, Rico
Phllllpplne Islands and the Virgin Islands
Under which Pharaoh did the exodus
OF the lsraelites from Egypt take place?
A. 1t is still disputed question under
whlch Pharaoh the Exodus took place The
traditional and most general view is that
Rameses II was e Pharaoh of oppression
and Menphthal of the Exodus. The mummy
or the former has been discovered
S-How long has Representative Volstead
been in office? Who is his opponent in the
coming election? r. E. T.
A. Mr.. Volstead was first elected to the
Fltty-e1ghth congress from the Seventh CON
gress1onal district of Minnesota His oD.
ponent IN the coming election is the Rev. Mr.
y. j. KVale, of Benson. Mr.. Kvale is a Demo
crat who claims to be dryer than Mr.. Vol
stead. He is pastor of the Norwegian Luth-
eran Church of America
4-Who were Geri and Freki?
A. According to the sages these are the
wolves of Odin. They lie at his feet as he sits
on his throne in Valhalla Odin needs no
1000. SO he gives all the meat set before him
to his wolves.
5.-How long after an invention has been
In use can patent be filed? F.B.
A. An application for patent may be filed
legally within two years after an invention
has been in use
6.-There is short poem about birds
being helpful to the farmer. Can you quote
1t and tell me the author? o. D.
A. Longfellow gives the following in one
Of his poems on birds: "They are the wing
ed Wardens Of your farms, Who from the
cornflelds drive The insidious foe, And from
your harvests keep q hundred harms"
lis the divining rod valuable in locating
gold or silver? N. G. Y.
A. Many inquiries. have been received re-
garding divining rods, mineral rods, ct cetera,
with reference to their adaptability for To-
eating buried treasure. Special instruments
such as the dip eedle, magnetometre, and
the dial compass have been successfully used
in prospecting for magnetic iron ores These
instruments are not useful in prospecting for
precious metals or ores that have no mag
netic effect.
8.-Do many people from the United States
tour Canada in automobiles? E. e. H
A. According to tie Canadian Customs De-
partment over 100000 cars from this coun-
try entered Canada for this purpose last year.
9.-Why is "Between you and I" incorrect? ?
A. J. B.
A. Because the proposition between con-
trolls the case of both Eronouns, which must
be in the objective case
1O.-Will the feeding of meat increase the
production of eggs from poultry? S. Z
A. Hens given meat, fish, or milk products
in their diet will ay from SO to 66 per cent
more eggs than those which have only grain
food and what bugs and wormg they can pick
up on free range.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-02

famous moving picture director said the
other day that woman must possess both
beauty and intelligence in order to become
a successful film star, but that she mustn't
look intelligent. She must have brains but
she must keep them under her hat, as the
phrase goes.
That is pretty much the specification for
the successful woman everywhere else, as
we'll as on the silver screen.
Why the world has this prejudice against
feminine intelligence no one knows. 1t
merely exists, and is blind force with
which the prudent and discreet do not stop
to argue. Hence, the first thing every
really clever woman discovers is the advis-
ability of not letting anyone find out how
clever she is. That is why few women are
as big fools as they appear.
A woman who has beauty may make the
most of it, and flaunt it in our faces and
we applaud her for it, and admire her. The
minute, however, a woman begins display
ing her superior quality of grey matter be-
fore us, we turn our thumbs down, and she
is finished.
Hence the woman with good hard, horse
sense, and the desire to arrive at her goal
puts the DINNER on her brilliance, and
tlufts her hair to down over her TALL knobby
forehead till we never even suspect that she
is highbrow.
Yet while we sternly discourage a woman
from showing that she has more than barely
the results of brains from her,
We want her to b educated, we'll read. a.
good taIker, and an intelligent listener
competent to do whatever work she has in
hand. But she must do all of these things
as II she were gifted amateur and not
highly trained professional
Funny, isn't it? But true, that a woman
must deliver the goods yet keep the source
OF her supply religiously concealed
one OF the first things that woman finds
out when she starts forth to make her own
IVlng, IS that she must never let the men
with whom she works disco -er how much
she knows about business. She must affect
TO be as ignorant as the most ignorant among
them She must listen to them as to oracIes
When they tell the things she knows a. great
zeal more about it than they do. She must
grow round-eyed with wonder over their
achleVements, and never boast of her own
skill, nor talk of her ambitions
She must let her own success be attributed
TO luck, or pull thus shall her co-work
ers speak OF her as really quite competent,
Tor woman, and boost her up the ladder
OtherWlse, they will make things SO uncor
PORTABLE for her, she will be forced to re-
sign. ~
Above all, Foxy Susan sings low with her
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25.-WHEN MAN BEGAN TO Y
HIS FOREHEAD


y EFORE we go on to tell how 5000 or
y 1000 years ago men began to gather
into the first towns and to develop
something more than the loose-knit tribes
that had hitherto been made highest political
association, something must be said about
the things that were going on inside these
brains OF which we have traced the growth
and development through a period of $780,
600 years from the ape-man stage
What was man thinking about himself and
about the world in those remote days?
At first he thought very little about any
thing but immediate things. At first he was
busy thinking such things as Here is a bear;
what shall l do?" Or "There is a 6uuirreI:
how can get it?"
Until language had developed to some ex-
tent there could have been little thinking be-
yond the range, of actual experience, for Ian
guage is the instrument of thought as book
keeping is the instrument of business. 1t re-
cords and fixes and enables thought to get
on to more and more complex ideas. It is
the hand or the mind to hole and keep.
In Days Before Speech
Primordial man, before he could talk.
probably saw very wildly mimicked very
cleVerly, gestured, laughed danced, and Iiv-
ed, without much speculation about whence
h came or why he lived. He feared the
dark, no doubt, and thunderstorms and big
animals and queer things and whatever he
dreamt about, and no doubt he did things
to propitiate what he feared or to change his
luck and please the ina ginary powers in rock
and beast and river He made no clear dis
tlnction between animate and inanimate
things; if stick hurt him, he kicked if
the river foamed and flooded, he thought it
was hostile.
His thought was probably very much at
the level of bright little contemporary boy
of four or five. He had the same subtle I'M
reasonableness of transition and the same
limitations. But since he had little or no
speech he would do little to pass on the
fancies that came to him, and develop any
tradition or concerted acts about them.
The drawings even of Late Palaeolithic
man do not suggest that he paid any atten-
ton to sun or moon or stars or trees. He
was pre-occupied only with animals and men
Probably he took day and night, sun and
stars, trees and mountains, as being in the
nature of thfngs-as a child takes it's meal
times and it's nursery staircase for granted
So far as we can judge, he drew no fan
tastes, no ghosts or anything of that sort
The Reindeer mems drawings are fearless
familiar things, with no hint about them of
any religious or occult feelings. There is
scarcely anything that we can suppose to be
a religious or mystical symbol at all in his
productions. No doubt he had a certain
amount of what is called fetishism in his
life; he did things we should now think I'M
reasonable to produce desired ends, for that
all fetishism amounts to; it is only incor-
rect science based on guesswork or false an
alogy, and entirely different in it's natu g
from religion. No doubt he was excited by
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TAVE you ever given any thought to the
so-called minor eccentricities of gen.
- ius?
Robert Louis Stevenson did his best work
in room with scant furnishings and bare,
Whitewashed walls.
zola, even at midday, pulled down the
blinds and used artificial light In such a
light, he insisted, thinking was easier to
him. g..
Schiller found that his mind worked to
best advantage when he had some decaying
apples in or on his desk.
Jokai could not write unless he had violet
ink or lead pencil. Black or blue ink made
work impossible to him.
Kant, staring out Of his study window,
used tower as a focus for his thoughts.
Growing trees at last obscurrod his view OF
the tower. Then he wrote to the city faith
ers, begging that the trees be trimmed so
that he could once more see the tower and
think
To Rousseau ideas came most readily
when he walked bareheaded in scorching
sun. Whitman, according to Dexter, wrote
much of his Leaves of Grass" while prone
upon the white sands of long Island
beach, with such a sun as only seems to
blaze there"
Mark Twain did not crave sunlight to ac-
tivate his mind, but he did find that he
could think best when lying down. So with
Milton, LeibnitZ, and Descartes. Others,
less illustrious, could not really think
in recumbent or sitting posture.
They had to walk about in sfe fashion Of
Rousseau, though perhaps preferring shade
to sun. AS the psychologist Ribot has re-
marked concerning them, "they worked only
when walking, or else prepared for work by
physical exercise
Even the kind Of paper used for writing
has been matter Of Importance to not a
few authors. Some must have ruled paper,
others paper Of certain color or shape.
And the appearance of the writing desk
seemingly counts fer much. For some 1t
must be clear of books and papers. Some
think most quickly when the desk Is a litter
of untidiness, or when some particular OBJ
jects are on it. 1 am reminded of Ibsen, who
used to keep a number of little images on
his desk.
Dress plays it's part, too. luton claimed
mum when he was in full evening dress. A
less, when it is a question of developing his
thoughts, unless he discards collar and neck
tie and works in loose ill-fit.ing clothes.
"Puerile idiosy1crasies," :pu may deem
these. Perhaps. But also it may be that
they actually we're, as those addicted to
them thought, stimulative to creative mental
action.
And it may very we'll be that your own
mind, though you have not appreciated this,
functions most vigorously under specific con-
ditions of dress, posture, desk conditions,
and so forth. In that case, obviously, it is
a matter of practical Importance to you to
your personal aids to inspiration
and so far as possible avail yourself of them.
Copyright, 1920
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Prosperity Steaks Out

q N increase of approximately forty-six
~ million dollars in the value of
Georgia crops this autumn, as COM
pared with the record of year ago, is but
one Of sundry striking facts set forth in the
current report Of the Federal Reserve Bank
Of Atlanta, as evidence of reYiving prosper
ity.
Business conditions In the Sixth Reserve
district, which comprises Georgia, Alabama
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Tho HartwaII SIM

Under date Of Friday, October 20, the pub
fishers of the Hartwell Sun issued an at
tractive 2O-page Hart County Public
School Edition. which carried interesting
news and Statistical matter of educational
Importance to every citizen of the county. No
other weekly newsr aper in Georgia issues
greater number of prosperous special edi-
ton than the Hartwell Sun, of which Louie
L. and Leon Morris are editors and publish
erS
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-02
North, Georgia Apples

The North Georgia apple crop is big one
this year, and orchardists in this section will
sell their yields at splendid prices. This is
a great section of the country and those who
live here seem to appreciate it fully
Gainesville News.
The apple exhibits at the recent South
eastern Fair assembled from he orchards of
Habersham, Rabun and other mountain
counties of North Georgia was in all prob
ability the largest and finest display ever
seen in America
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Potato Curing House

The potato curing houses established in this
county last year will be a big help to the
farmers in disposing of their crops without
having to carry them over and stand the
loss Of rotting during the winter. One such
plant has been installed in Marietta and will
care for 10000 bushels.-Marietta Journal.
Without an adequate curing house, it has
been estimated that about fifty per cent of
the sweet potato crop rots every year.
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OUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

At political gathering in England an ora
tor waxing indignant said. 'To ridicule the
idea of this country being invaded is to fol-
low the example Of the camel, which buries
it's head in the sand when an enemy ap-
proaches." The rival speaker rose and re-
torted: Surely the gentleman in giving ut
terance to this apothegm, must have meant
to refer to the ostrich, which, in those cir
cumstances, has habit Of putting its eye
through a needle"
There had been row in the works and two
men were discussing it.
"And what did Hogan say when Kelly
called him liar?" said one.
Nothing much"
"Why, that's funny" said the first, Hogan
used to be mighty hot-tempered fellow"
"Well, he never said q word, except Have
ye had enough YETI"
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It's easy for the defeated candidate whc
was promised the support of his friends t.
believe King David was right when Re said
Cali men are liars
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-02

The cake-eater's conception of polish is
represented by patent-leather hair.-Ashe-
vile Times.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-02

Harvard college was established in 1886
just six years after the landing of 1000 Eng
lishmen at Boston harbor.
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Maybe we should not expect more THAI
near peace in the Near East.-Little ROcl
(Arkansas) Gazette.
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Editorial Echoes

Marseiles, on the Mediterranean coast Of
France, was founded as trading post by
the early Greeks, 600 to 700 years before
Christ. 1t was then called Massilia
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-02

What would you say is the matter with
the country, when we have 20 have ma
tional laugh week?-St. Louis Globe Demo
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THE WIFE CHEATER j
81
A New Romance ~
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

Joan Stockbridge's friends advise her
not to marry Norman Wayne because
he has never been known to care for one
woman more than few weeks at time.
Alice Wilson's warnings make Joan
vaguely unhappy.
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saturday-The First Doubt
AIDS TO INSPIRATION
BY H. Addington Bruce

7 TAVE you ever given any thought to the
ri so-called minor eccentricities of gen.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-06-08
the HAND OF A CLERGYMAN

. ELIGIOUS feeling 10 shown by
ANhngers Of conical shape. with long
first joints. This shows. also great
power Of Intuition. A cross upon the
mount Of Apollo, lying at the base OF
Apollo. the ring finger. Ia held to In.
dictate deep religious feeling by some
writer's Of chiromancy.
Dignity Is, OF course, absolutely es-
sentlal to the successful clergyman.
and this Is marked In the hand by a
long and strong third or lowest pha-
lanx Of the finger Of Jupiter, the fore
finger.
II the third pbalanx Of the finger of
Saturn. or middle finger Is long and
strong. Il Is an Indication Of generosity
Of nature. The second or middle pha-
lanx Of the third or ring finger (ths
finger Of Apollo) shows. n strong and
well developed. a love Of work. and
great energy In carrying out ones de-
signs.
OF course. the clergyman. II he IL to
preach well. must be possessed Of elo-
quence. and this trait Is marked In the
hand by a strong tip Of the little finger.
the finger OF Mercury.
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