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CHAPTER XXXU
The Kiss

The Benedicts left early, aud Herbert
STAYED on a few minutes, while Norman
drove the Benedicts to the station in the
car. .e.
Edith was very quiet, she made no effort
to ioin in the conversation and [ was I'M
comfortable because she kept looking from
Herbert to me as though trying to fathom
the relationship between US. [ was a little
cross with Herbert because he so polntedly
addressed all his remarks to me and TOOK
no notice at all of Edith, but, although l
knew it was an unworthy feeling, 1t gave
me little sense of triumph for all that.
When Norman returned, Herbert lett.
His good-by to Edith was purely pertunctory
and / who was watching her closely, fan
cied that for a moment a CLEAN of anger
lighted her eyes, but 1 could not be sure,
and even if it had been there, it was gone
in a moment.
On the way upstairs I went first and Nor
man and Edith followed We paused for a
moment on the landing and Norman who
had been joking with Edith, said lightly:
Good night, little sister," and bent his
handsome head suddenly as though he were
going to kiss her.
My heart leaped strangely. Of course it
was all nonsense, and after all there was
no reason why he should not kiss Edith II
he wanted to, but didn't want him to do it..
Something in me cried out against it, even
though it was just in fun.
And then as I stood there unable to turn
away, Edith raised her face and Norman bent
lower. There was a moments intense ST
lence while 1 stood there staring my heart
beating suffocatingly in my breast. I had
caught glimpse f Edith's face. and it wore
a strange, subtle look, a look of purpose. 1t
did not seem at all as though she were let
ting Norman kiss her for joke. And then
suddenly it was all over and Norman was
turning laughingly to me- For a moment
1 could not speak. I wanted to treat the
matter lightly, but 1 couldn't. A tumultuous
anger was raging through me, anger directed
toward Edith, and did the cry worst thing
I could do, just stood there staring at them.
Joan doesn't approve, Norman" Edith
drawled slowly. Just look at her; she is
absolutely shocked at my forWardness''
[ laughed then, strange high laugh that
did not sound at all natural to my ears.
Nonsense, Edith, Norman can tell you
that am quite unshOckable.' But my voice
trembled aflittle and as Norman came to-
ward me, 1 turned quickly to my door; I
didn't want him to touch me, I couldn't bear
it, now after what he had done.
Good night, you two" 1 sarg back lightly,
and then l was alone in the haven of my
<oom, but with the scene that I had wit
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-09
NO. 56-A Famous EARLY Traveller

NO. 56--A Famous EARLY Traveller
20, in a few paragraphs, we trace the de-
~ veIOpment of the simple social structure
w. Of the early Sumerian cities to the COM
pick city crowds, the multitude OF individuals
varying in race, tradition, education, and
function varying in wealth, freedom, au-
thority, and usefulness, in the great cities
of the last thousand years B. c. }
The most notable thing OF all is the grad
uaI increase amidst this heterogeneous null
titude of what we may call free ,indlVlduals,
detached persons who are neither priests,
nor kings, nor officials, nor serfs, nor slaves,
who are under no great pressure to work,
who have time to read and inquire. They ap-
pear side by side with the development of So
cial security and private property. Coined
money and monetary reckoning developed.
The operations of the Arameans and such
like Semitic trading people led to the organ
ization of credit and monetary security.
In the earlier days almost the only prop
erty, except a few mOvables, consisted of
rights in land and in houses; later, one could
deposit and lend securities could go away
and return to find ones property faithfully
held and secure.
HerOdotus, the Historian
Towards the middle of the period of the
Persian empire there lived one free individ-
ua1, Herodotus, who has a great interest for
us because he was among the first writers Of
critical and intelligent history, as distin-
guished from mere prtestly or court chron-
icle. 1t is worth while to glance here very
briefly at the circumstances Of his life. Later
on we shall gu +e from his history.
We have already noted the conquest Of
Babylonia by the Aryan Persians under Cy-
rus in $50 B. C. We have noted, further, that
the Persian empire spread in Egypt, where
it's hold was precarious; and it extended also
over Asia Minor.
Herodotus was born about A B. G. in a
Greek city of Asia Minor, Halicarnassus,
which was under the overlordship of the Per-
slams, and directly under the rule of po-
litical boss or tyrant. There is no sign that
he was obliged either to work for living or
spend very much time in the administration
of his property. We do not know the par
ticulars of his affairs, but it is clear that in
this minor Greek city, under foreign rule, he
was able to obtain and read and study manu-
scripts of nearly everything that had been
written in the Greek language before his
time.
He travelled so far as one can gather with
freedom and comfort about the Greek archi-
pelagOes; he stayed wherever he wanted to
stay, and he seems to have found comfort
able accommodation; he went to Babylon
and to SusaA the new capital the Persians
had set up in Babylonia to the east Of the
Tigris; he toured along the coast of the
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-09
TO CURE NIGHT TERRORS
BY H. Addington Bruce


T AM asked to suggest cure for fire.
quentIy recurring night terrors in boy
six years of age Such a request inn
plies on the part of the one making it,
singular misconception regarding the ma
ture of night terrors and the possibility of
dealing with them by measures uniformly
appropriate in all instances.
Whereas, the fact of the matter is that
night terror have an astonishing variety of
causes, direct and indirect. So that a rem
edy which would prove efficacious in one
case might be quite without effect in
others.
To be sure, most cases have in common
an Internationally, and indicate that the
afflicted child is being subjected to expert
ences which for one reason or another pro-
fOundly distress him. Thus, a child whose
nurse or parents insist on telling him
alarming tales is altogether likely to de-
velop night terrors.
So. too, a child UNFRAMED to get along
smoothly with other children, and as
consequence left much to himself by other
children, may have night terrOrs as con-
sequence of the painful emotions his social
unadaptability breeds in him. Here, man
ifestly, the proper remedy is to help that
child learn the ordinary requirements Of
social intercourse.
But physical conditions likewise may
enter to provoke attacks OF night teTrors
through rendering child less resistive to
emotional stresses than he normally would
be-
In the case of some little victims Of
night terrOrs what is needed as much as
anything else is improved dieting. Chill
dren who eat meats or sweets in over
abundance, or who are poorly nourished
through detetic errors of any Sort are
children thereby predisposed to night ter
rors.
So are children habitually sleeping in
under-ventilated bedrooms, permitted to
stay up late at night, permitted to
over-exercise during the day. On the OPP
pOsite, under-exercise may itself be a con-
tribut0ry cause Of night terrors
The same holds true as regards many
comparatively trivial physical ailments or
defects common in chiIdhood-eyestrain,
dental disease, adenoid growths, ear dis
orders, tOnsillar troubles, ctr. In the case
Of any OF these night terrOrs may be a
symptomatic indication.
From all of which it should surely be
apparent that the one wise course to par
sue, if one has a child suffering from night
terrors, is to have the child given a thor
ough medical examination, preferably by
physician having knowledge of the psy-
chOlogy Of childhood.
In many cases, to be sure, home train
ing, directed to upbuilding emotional con-
troll and freeing the child from needless
sources of fear and anxiety, may suffice to
effect cure. But since Internationally
has so many roots, and since unsupported
physical disturbances may be exercising at
least a contributory Influence, the possible
aid that competent physician may rem
der should by no means be ignored
This particularly since the effect of such
aid may be to benefit ones child in ways
additional to Kidding him of his night ter
rors.
(Copyright. 1927
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-09
THE WIFE CHEATER
A New Romance
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

Joan Stockbridge marries Norman
Wayne in spite of many warnings from
her friends She chooses him in pref
erence to Herbert Livingston, a man
who loves her devotedly but lacks Nor
mans charm. Norman is the kind of
man who has never been known to care
for one woman more than a few weeks
at a time, and shortly after the mar
riage, he becomes infatuated with Alice
Wilson, a mutual friend This is fol-
lowed by the advent of Mrs. Benedict,
, the wife of an artist, and Joan realizes
that she is living over volcano that
may some day engulf her. Just at this
time, Herbert Livingston moves out to
Hilton where the Waynes live, and
Edith, Joan's younger sister, comes to
Hilton for a visit Joan finds Edith
changed into a woman of the world at
twenty.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-09
THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY
BY H. G. WELLS

Black Sea, and accumulated a considerable
amount of knowledge about the Scythians,
the Aryan people who were then distributed
over south Russia; he went to the south or
Italy, explored the antiquities of Tyre coast
ed Palestine, landed at Gaza and made
long stay in Egypt.
Ancient Tourists
He went about Egypt~loOking at temples
and monuments and gathering information.
We know not only from him, but from other
evidence, that in those days the older implies
and the pyramids (which were already near
ly 5000 years old we're visited by strings OF
tourists, a special sort of priests acting as
guides. The inscriptions the sightseers
scrubbed upon the walls remain to this day,
and many of them have been deciphered and
published.
AS his knowledge accumulated, he con-
ceived the idea of writing history of the at
tempts of Persia to subdue Greece. But in
order to introduce that history he composed
an account of the past of Greece, Persia, AS
syria, BabyIonia, Egypt, Scythia, and of the
geography and peoples of those countries.
He then set himself, it is said to make his
history known among his friends in Halicar-
nassus by reciting it to them, but they failed
to appreciate it; and he then betOok him
self to Athens, the most flOurishing of all
Greek cities at that time. There his work
was received with applause. We find him
in the center of cbrilliant circle of intelli-
gent and active-minded people, and the city
authorities voted him reward of 10 talents
Ga sum of money equivalent to $4,000 In
recognition of his literary achievement.
But we Twill not complete the biography
Of this most interesting man, nor will we en-
ter into any criticism of his garrulous, mar
vel-telling, and most entertaining history.
1t is book to which all intelligent readers
come sooner or later, Astounding it does
in Illuminating errors and Boswellian charm,
A Great Emancipation
We give these particulars here simply to
show that in the fifth century B. c., a. new
factor was becoming evident in human af-
fairs. Reading and writing had already long
escaped from the temple precincts and the
ranks of the court scribes, Record was no
longer confined to court and temple A new
sort Of people, these people Of leisure and in
dependent means were asking questions ex-
changing knowledge and views, and develop
ing ideas. So beneath the march of armies
and the policies Of monarchs, and above the
common lives of illiterate and injurious men,
we note the beginnings of what is becoming
at last nowadays a dominant power in hui.
man affairs, the free intelligence Of man
kind.
OF that free intelligence we shall have
more to say when in a subsequent chapter
we tell of the Greeks.
Copyright, 1920
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-09
SCIENTIFIC TEST OF FAITH
BY Dr.. Frank Crane

DIV LII. Esdllk OIdIl9
Each of us has faith of some sort And
none of us likes to think that it is merely
fanciful.
No one is pleased at the charge that
his system of belief is a "cosmos without
facts" (ZangwilD or that the dearest OBJ
jects of his worship and confidence arc
matters of lunar politics" (Huxey).
At the same time faith can only be exr
ercised toward things that we do not know,
toward things that are not demonstrable.
For If we know a thing it is not an
accurate use of language to say that VIZ
| believe it to be so. Belief in the nature
or the case, is the preponderance of prob
ability.
The realm of science covers the thingf
that are movable and the realm of faith
covers the region beyond that, a region
much more important and influential upop
the spirit of a man than that of science.
But although these two realms are dis,
tinct, they have direct bearing upon eacr
other. They should never be in oppositiont
but, in the we1l-balanced mind, should exisS
in corrobOrative harmony.
And i particularly science IS the test OF
faith. That is to say any intelligent faith
must have the power and the disposition
to accept the facts Of science and utilize
them.
Science and faith in the well-ordered
mind
never affirms what it cannot prove, nor
denies what it cannot disprove. 1t only
saws that up to a certain point such and
such things are true and such and such
laws hold.
But that is not enough. No human
being is satisfied with stopping at that
point Our instincts, our imagination, our
love and hope and fear always go be-
yond.
II ie Por chic excursion into the nm
movable that the spirit of man draws all
it's higher qualities, such as its moral
principles its reverence, its nobility, It's
power of self-sacrifice, its loyalty and its
sense of duty.
If we regard man as primarily spirit
then he is vastly more indebted to what
faith draws out of the unknown than to
what science gathers from the known.
But science is of immense vafue to
faith in keeping it sound and wholesome.
A faith that scOrns science and its teach
ings slumps into superstition and becomes
a dangeroIs credulity.
The unknown must always bear a ra-
tfonal and friendly relation to that which
is known. Once faith lets go of science
it becomes grotesque, it weakens the
powers of the mind and, worse than that,
it often becomes cruel and unnatural
There is no reason in the world why a.
rigidIy scientific mind should not receive
and enjoy all the uplift and comfort OF
faith, and there is no reason in the world
why one whose faith is strong should not
think with scientific accuracy.
The faith that relies upon prayers and
religious professions to resist yellow fever
instead of killing the mosquitoes, the faith
that uses amulets, charms or religious
images instead of Intelligent sanitation
against cholera, is a harmful and septic
faith.
In the normal mind science and faith
are as man and wife, and "what God hath
joined together let not man put asunder."
Copyright 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-09

Old Joe Rogers had been livery stable
keeper for years, but motor cars had spoiled
his trade so he retired, keeping his favorite
mare.
"She will do for pOttering about the town
and keep me from being bored" he said
One day man called to hire horse he
had often been there before, but did not know
that Joe had gone out Of business.
Said Joe: 1--WE nothing but Old Betty, you
know. She's all right to drive, but she won't
go out of the shafts and tries to throw any
one who attempts to ride her"
"Ill try her." said the man. So the mare
was brought out and he rode her round the
yard, the beast making not the least objection
Joe was puzzled, but when he saw the mare
looking sideways he gave. his leg hearty
smack.
ITS his feet. She thinks she's in the
shafts he said.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-09

~ announces:
Rome Bankers Plan Revolving
Fund to Aid Floyd Farmers
And the brief account that follows marks
one of the great strides toward that ideal OF
cooperation between financial and farming
industrial and commercial welfare of this sec
ton, or of any section of this country, must
depend.
Briefly stated, bankers and leading bust
ness men of Rome, in Floyd County, met and
decided to create revolving fund" to aid
Floyd County farmers in producing a larger
and better crop of cotton in me coming sea-
son; the fund to be devoted mainly to the
purchase of pure seeds and of calcium arsen-
ate In sufficient quantity to cope with the
soil weevil successfully.
The seed and calcium arsenate purchased
Sy the fund are to be supplied to the cotton
growers at actual cost; and the fund will be
raised to the amount of 900, if that much
is needed to supply all the requests for seed
or the boil weevil extermnator.
Half the fund will be advanced by Rome
banks and half by Rome merchants and
others interested. Committees have been
named to carry out the purposes of the
meeting.
+ That is as practical a move as yet has been
made toward working out the terrific prob
lem imposed by the boil weevil. 1t is the
true spirit of cooperation.
The mutual dependence of industrial and
financial and agricultural interests long has
been proverbial, particularly in the South and
West, and most particularly in the South
There can be no real southern prosperity that
does not intimately include the farmer. Like
it or not, we must accept tn, view that the
foundation of prosperity in the Cotton Belt is
the cotton crop. Perhaps we now have achiev-
ed sufficient diversification of crops to re-
lieve some of the old strain en- King Cotton;
but King Cotton remains, and 50 far as we
can look ahead will remain, the great agricul-
tursl product of great agricultural section
The Floyd County bankers and business
men not only realize the acute interest they
have in the agricultural prosperity Of their
community-they also are acting on the
realization.
An abundant cotton crop of high quality in
Floyd next season means good times in
limos for tho
for the merchants. And, OF course, good
times for the cottow growers.
So the Floyd plan is going long step
ahead Of the cooperation that already exists
in creditable degree throughout the state
the assistance to the farmer by banks and al
lied interests in carrying his notes and part
Of his crop when necessary.
The Floyd plan looks farther ahead. 1t
contemplates helping the farmer in advance,
And 10 sounder investment ever was made
than that same type of advance assistance
We shall see farmers and bankers and -mer-
chants in Floyd cashing in this coming fail
on this forethought.
The county unit is admirably designed,
both in size and organization, to adopt this
advanced style Of cooperation. general
adoption of it through Georgia would be an
inestimaD1e gain TO the state, agriculturally
and fndustrially and financially.
Incidentally it would beat the boil weevil
in Georgia.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-09
OUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

Sinclair Lewis, the novelist, while abroad
took furnished flat in London, where he
entertained the bohemians of the city lavish
ly. At one of his supper parties young art
student said to him:
"WeIl do you like prohibition or not, Mr..
Lewis?"
GLOW can 1 tell you?" the novelist answer
ed ''You see" he added we're not so dry
yet that we have to pin on our postage
stamps"
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Copyright, 1929

scotchman said to a friend, after merry
evening:
DO ye ken whaur Andy Graham lives the
noo?'
"Whsht!" said his frie: :, "but ye're
Andy Graham yerseP"
I'm mo- as1in' We if ye ken Andy Ora
ham," was the reply I'm askin ye ken
whaur he lives, ye loon"
political cataclysm grew out Of the marriage
Of JacksOns warm friend, Senator Eaton, of
Tennessee, to the dashing widow, an inn
keepers daughter, the beautiful and bewitch-
ing Peggy O'NeilI. President Jackson never
faltered in his support of Eaton and in his
defense of the senator's wife The ren0wn-
ed and brilliant John Mcpherson Berrien, of
Georgia, was attorney general in Jackson s
cabinet, and he resigned his position in con-
sequence of the affair.
Let the people rule" was Jackson's be
lief and doctrine. This maxim expressed his
democracy. 1t was an excellent principle
then, and it To o splendid faith now.
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Copyright, 1929

messed in the hall a moment ago still dane
ing tantalizingy before me- With trembling
fingers 1 tore off my clothes, snapped off
the lights and crept into bed.
Try as l would l could not put the thought
of that kiss cut of my mind. In spite of
what Herbert had said, 1 felt that no man
could resist Edith if once she made up her
mind to attract him. Norman had kissed
her, and although I was woman and Edith's
sister, 1 fancied she would be rather lovely
to kiss. There would be the readiness of
that peculiar perfume she used, all about
her, and the dainty slimness of her together
with her provocative manner could not fail
to move any one as impressfOnable as Nor
man.
Next-"Fdith Plays the Vamp" and Edith
and Herbert"
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The Declining Slope
BY BERTON BRALEY

BY BERION BRALEY
~ the Downhill side of Forty, though
you're slender, and you're fit,
~ And you kid yourself about 1t, you
are slowing up bit.
You may play as hard as ever, but you
don't come back so soon,
And you'll catch yourself doing long
about mid-afternOon
You may doll up blithe and sporty but you
still remain, in truth,
On the Downhill Side Of Forty which is
quite a way from youth!
N the Downhill Side of Forty you're
less prone to take chance,
~ You don't gamble quite SO freely
with adventure and romance,
Though you may have been a gypsy, you
don't roam unless you feel
That you're sure of never lacking for
bed or for meal;
You are just a wee bit cautious where
your errant footsteps stray
On the Downhill Side of Forty when
your hair is turning gray.
~ n the Downhill Side of Forty it is not
so bad a time,
~ Though you can't deny you're get
w. ting just little past your prime,
You can watch your children growing into
women and to men,
And in them you get your outh and all
it's glory back again,
You won't mind the growing older with
the youngsters and the wife,
On the Downhill Side of Forty-but the
Sunny Side OF Life.
Copyright, 1921
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Next-"Edith Plays the Vamp'' and Edit
and Herbert"
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! Co-oberation IN Floyd

A N inconspicuous newspaper headline
~ announces: -
Rome Bankers Plan Revolving