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A Purple N By FRANE (Copyright, 1911, by Ai Arthur looked in perplexity fron Angelica's dirt-streaked face and be draggled costume to the trembling ant cowering Thomas Jefferson. White Thomas .'Jefferqoa's complexion, nor mally rich seil brown, had for th< moment Assumed the - pleasing tini peculiar'to an ashen heap. ."Get out of here and finish thai work, and mind what you are about Won't you please' sit down?" - The first portion of the remark wai addressed to Thomas, who departed with commendable promptness; the latter, naturally in a more concila tory tone, to Angelica, who flung her self into the indicated chair. Arthur carefully surveyed Angelica and his heart sank until he imagined that he heard it thump -against the soles of his patent leathers. Angelica's pur'ple velvet gown bore numerous huge blotches of black; her plume, recently nodding in its im maculate whiteness, dropped ashamed beneath a burden of sooty filth. There was also dirt upon Angelica's face and fire in Angelica's eye. Arthur realized that this was an occasion calling for the exercise of the most delicate diplomacy. His in quiries, deftly put, at length elicited a fairly coherent recital of the events immediately preceding the stormy ad vent of Angelica ihto his sanctum sanctorum. The story was: Thomas Jefferson, in the discharge of one of his numer ous duties as factotum of the gents' furnishing house of Burke & Foster (Arthur being the first named of the firm) had inadvertently swept a mass of filth, the basis of which was soot, from the top of the unrolled display window awning at the identical in stant that Angelica passed beneath, with disastrous results to both hat and gown. "What is the extent of the dam age?" Arthus asked. "It's ruined," Angelica glowered. "I--er-refer to the pecuniary loss," Wri Dar Rsts Gown." Artur astly ntejeced diserin "I aid$30fo mysit," sh- n A"riteu Duisatus vent to hat and perencd ye heo owwn.me -Ainery asicl, inerwasented dscertin ait respetio to the htr.Ovosy waglocas obvous ame a deepa Jfrson anrsecoedtbtegh foarso "per'iee $300 fi ore my st"shan-bl nounices, unponprwhisingasly gge incc y the takofsp on eemeet witd resprctng thmeou ha Obiungry itogeny itomas Jfso'sllt. deut ythes alsount fomis thate as tomex Jefracsbod reve bu turighp. llr perthur, aortheisiblre orepesentlatbve ofervices, o which hv o doa engaed ting.e as The eaistayroutgof thmc adt'ewohng numerousend hugryt u t hec amonth frmouns wgsth o furx Arthurhas the hundl preoltartiwa ofth fxirm, wuld Arhvrt reudo soe thing.t The euasewa outc of atnew heat, wond he waeno rioed oto gav upckfo the amitout an efforth pened tel hat I'hnre loll"s wan the teat sum Arthur required tov theomplened."prcaeprc f e heartadh was not disposed to n S"Very tell,"o hatlld"h an-wrdi e meohht feznd on, I will aveyo ahe ceaned." She was on the point of sailing majestically from omeie when she caught sight of her reflection in a mirror and hesitated. Arthur uinder stood and, springing gallantly across 'the room, with a deep bow flung open the door of a lavatory. * * At this evidence of thoughtfulness, Angelica thjpwed Perceptibly, and it was with a little less than her queen of-all-the-Russias air that she en tered the lavatory and closed the door. Fifteen minutes later it was a dif ferent Angelica who emerged. Her face wore its usual aspect andt while elvet 'Gown A. WELLS 40oiated iUterary Preo".) the spots in the gown still looked. big there was a vast improvement ir i the general appearance of the gar ment, and her hat, denuded of its plume, which she bore in her hand. was really presentable. Arthur looked at her if she were a butterfly. Angelica, furiously an gry, and with soiled face and gar, ments, was relieved of the greater per tion of the visible effects of Thomas Jefferson White's blunder, and re stored to a state of partial calm, was rather more than charming. ' Arthur was humbleness itself as he bowed her out, and Angelica was graciousness personified. After which Arthur sat down and made an honesi effort to clear away the mass of mail on his desk. But somehow Angelica's face as he had last seen it continu ously intruded itself between his eyes and h,.- work until, noon arriv ing, he gave up despair and departed for lunch. Then he sought out his friend Mr. Samuel Hayes, of the Universal Dry Cleaning Company. "Sam," said Arthur, depositing his glass upon the mahogany, "can you clean purple velvet?" Mr. Hayes frowned meditatively at the bit of twisted lemon peel at thl bottom of the glass, and finally an swered confidently: "Show me anything I can't clean in E the dry goods line and I'll blow you to a dinner." Arthur was delighted. Arrange ments were completed on the spot for 1 restoring the purple velvet gown to its pristine beauty, and Arthur hast ened back to his ofice. Two hours later the velvet gown, carefully wrapped by Arthur's own hands, was speeding via special mes senger to the plant of the Universal I Dry Cleaning Company. If Arthur imagined that his trou bles were over he was speedily dis. abused of the ideal. The expressed confidences of his friend Sam was not borne out in deed. It proved an easy task to rehabilitate the hat, but the gown-ah, the gown! The stains refused to go, even un der the stimulus offered his cleaners. 1 Meanwhile, Mr. Hayes learned to an athematize his friend Arthur In 0 most whole-souled manner. Arthur, on his part, thought evil things of Mr. Hayes and took a fiendish pleas use in exacting the penalty of the dinner, when that gentleman at last confessed himself beaten. ..Then began a campaign among the cleaning establishments of the great city the like of which was never seen before. Arthur scarcely ate or slept Business was neglected. His face be came haggard. His eyes assumed 'a wild, unearthly light. Bly day and by night the gown was upon his mind when his thoughts were not ocupied by the owner- of the gown, whom ho had seen several times, ostensibly in regard to the progress he was making in the elimination of the spots. As far as Angelica herself wvas con cerned, sh6 had lost inter-est in the fate of the gown, and her attent~lon became rather forcibly centered ~in Arthur. Summer was passing by. The gown, like a frayed and oft-rejected manuscript, came back from the last of the .dry ciganers, the pile prac tically gone from it and the results of I Thomas Jefferson White's misguided i efforts bigger and blacker than ever. T Arthur called at the home of An gelica, bearing his personal check for three hundi'ed dollars.. Some hours later he 'Aft. The steps which led up to Angelica's fr-ont door' may have been in their usual place, but as..Arthur floated on air, -he neither sawy not needed them. Also, the three hundred-dollar chetic re posed in his pocketbook. The following dayr, tho stub bear ing Angelica's name was marked. "Cancelled," and the next following displayed the name of a well-knowvn jewelry firm. Autumn arrived. Thomas Jefferson 'White, resplendent in a newv suit of black and distinguished by his broad and happy .grin, opened the door for an endless procession of guests at An gelica's home. As the harpers struck'up the wed. ding march and the bride glided intoI the large drawing room, a universal gasp of astonishment went up, when it was discovered that instead of the conventional whi~e she wore purple velvet. From Dickens After Death. When I was in Australia my fathet and I used to correspond with each i other regularly. I remember receiving z his last letter to me after I had heard the news of his (leath. In this letter, written only three weeks before hisi death, he wrote: "You will doubtlesa I have seen in many of the papers thai I the queen is going to bestow all man. ner of titles and-honors upon me, bul you can take it from me personally that during my life I shall remain as I sign myself at the end of this letter,' lie signedl himself plain 'Charles Dicle en s."-Al fred Tennyson Dickens, i:1 the Strand. Deserved Them. liowoll -He is a good vote getter. Powell-He ought to get the votes; ho is a liberal fellow and is always willing to pay the market rillce fo: thorn. AS IT MIGHT HAVE DEEN f Mr. George Ado, Instead of Mr. John Greenleaf Whittier, had written "Maud Muller.") Tand Muller, on aL suimmer's day, ighled: "I'm Built Like a Bale of Hlay. I am composed of Hips and Chins ntil I seem a Pair of Twins." dl summer, then, she worked away list like a Farm Hand, every day, Intil she looked both Trim and Sweet nd Yearned for something Good to Ea Gon the Lawnit gentle Guise, laud Muller took her Exercise. hoi Judge came riding down the Road d noted how well Maudi showed. To asked If ho might have a Drin aId seemed to be About to Wink. ho got the Sugar and the Mint, ad the Glad Nosoe Paint did not Stint .on mixed the Judge a Julp Slug hat ilt him like a Kissing Bug. 'he Judge attempted to got oay lut Maude told him: "On your Way. Iom a Simple Country Girl, ut this Is an Imported Curl, kew s e tha Bloom upon my Cheek SMassaged in just Twice a Week. I may stay with the Folks at Hum lut. Jedge. I guess I've Traveled Some." 'he Judge rode Slowly back to Town d there called on Samantha Brown. he Julep Still was Up his Nose. Lnd what did he Do but Propose! Sau MuAftller wed a Farmer Lad Viho had a Plutocrat for Dad. l metimes Maud thinks about the Judge ndt Jmes. gbues the GoodOld Budge 'he Jude rode owlythackummerwn hn the called Rodng downth BrWy, 'he Judle bstilews wllp hioftehn bu whteih Awfu ut opDrsnk aontm ad think ahot whnthe Juksdgre he Jude hil on that umer ofouse MORAT,: 'hough ('upid says thiat You are T ou cannot Tell from Where You Sit. Of the Family? "First," says the lecturer, "our fore athers ascended to their domiciles by neans of the tree trunks, next .they regressed to dwellings built ulpon ho ground, and naturally Invented a ude ladder by which to mount to the *pper floors; they then dlevelop~ed the (airways, and from that by easy tages came the elevator. Therefore, ye may say, the tree trunk is the ather of the elevator." "And," asked the bright scholar in rear seat, "after that may we rea son hat the stepladder is the stepfather ?" Sartorial Suggestions. "But, sir," deferentially says the allor, "while, of cour'se, we can makce our .trousers with a 60 inch waist 'and, sir', allowv me to r'emlInd youi that our waist mueasur'ement Is already ifty-t wo, and-" "Thlat's just it!'' interrupts the fat ustomer. "I've been trying to reduce ny weight for a fear--and~ no luck. Iow, if I can yank my waistband out Ix or eIght inches I can unconscious ' create the Impression withi myself hat I'm getting thinner." Correcting the Legend. "H-uh! " sniffed thuo mnan with the stute eye, looking up from the pages f"Le Morte d'Arthur." "What is It.?" asked his wife. "Some of these writers had better et their facts straIght," lhe corn. ented. "What Is it, dlear?" "Why, this fellow says that King Ar-t hur's sword was E~xcalihur'. Any fool news that caliber refers to guns! luh!" The Strike. lie struck hel'. She stood before him, lproud, beau, iful and defiant. "I have told you," she saidl, in do ermined tones, 'that 1 will noi." "Lizzie," he repeatd, "1(1nd me a ollal' out of my wages4. ll pay it ack In installments. I haven't even ~ot lunch money." But she was obdurate. It neOver pays to str'ike a womuan MOVING PICTURES BOON TO INSANE WEEKLY SHOWS PROVE HELP. FUL TO STATE WARDS IN KENTUCKY. PATIENTS KEEP GOOD ORDER Crime, Suicide and Violence Avoided in Selection of Films for Exhibition -Diversion Prove, to Be Highly Beneficial to inmates. Hopkinsville, Ky.-A moving picture tnachine has recently been installed in 'he Western Kentucky' Asylum for the [nsane hero. This asylum cares for 1,220 patients and among them are those with every conceivable mania. Some are idiots pure with no minds Lt all. Others are very dangerous and 'heir wits seem to have been sharp 3ned by their affliction and their ca paoity for outwitting keepers and do ng violence greatly increased. There is a middle class of irresponsibles, whose minds seem to come and go, )ut who need constant watching. There are, too, those who are true ies and are allowed to go about the rounds, work the farm and go into own by themselves. But when the icturo shows are given only one class s barred-idiots who have not suffl ilent mental strength to grasp the subjects and follow the movement. All the others go and everyone of hem thoroughly enjoys the perform Luces. When the State Board of Control of Tharitable Institutions and the asylum )fflcials decided that a moving picture nachino would be a good thing, they )ought the largest and best on the narket. They then contracted for the lewest and highest class films and the ihow is equal to any, if not better, han those you pay money to see. Of course, only the light and enter aining pictures are shown. Any sug ;estion of murder, crime, violence or uicide are shunned as a pestilence, or these would only aggravate the iallucinations of the demented audi mnce rather than to lift them to more :heerful levels of 'thoughL The patients are taken from wards n columns of two and are seated on ong benches running across the hall, hag. Th paint oldgv bey entve Codve froiteto paes me noesideo the rordos gvnd womn etwon or the atted haesiTe replaintsr coul pictues atohey audroences on how toee tav) fore, fo arbing ofeatd nay undversad moo.S from theirpae ist they word inl gieepn. wtwa atents hon rbud ateawordthg noIet or texplanay. o icu Bthe and~ee womn hem to ene specay formo the at of theading cones.1 If they lers forunytey paght vith thoacrs; if to.ey rosete ale they aun onaykesp up th what sn bing thownvers are ia ted the Rocontanac of thdianslupo vomen and cholden serem catountrd speciallyenofto the actin ofm thndov coee abou te be foruny, the lauh vienho te acsttheyt wohdearen-n dao the aunc taes theoe oods ,nd ifadl lobviers adiappied then defnseless tthemetorot ad sownd heorwive and children.wr apue Wlkenot the Indiawrn camp an yeac abou t 1)etotued he dth s to the mettemout, to ha earnes h ofathent cpressed their oeelongs nd mhand moilnduttked twords. But whpet them whts routed rehe red hinr avend c ohild threa Wiesn ther Iars were painthe yale ndancyladd. sbie ta Nao bmatted hat to thbectiyve, he patientsllo xpreosey.i Theyiap y mand nd tteredh wy ording ou h en tmehten exrouessted. Noreaytet wsble hat thec mv-e ng picture machine will boenmo a lix ure in all of the modernly equipped savlumn. TEACHER USES CHAIR ON OFFENDING PUPIL Unusual Chastisement Causes Great Sensation in Illinois Town. Alton, III.-In an effort to maintain discipline in the high school of Upper Alton, Principal I. W. Bush broke a chair on the head and shoulders of Ralph Reeder after slapping him in the face for an alleged infraction of the rules. This unusual form of chas tisement caused Edward Reeder, fath er of the boy, to swear out a warrant against the principal, charging him with assault. Recently an epidemio of gum-chewing swept over the school, and the incessant wagging of jaws in terfered seriously with studies. The board instructed the principal to stop / Swung it on Him a Couple of Times. the gum-chewing at all hazards. Bush said Reeder, who is fourteen years old, was one of the worst offenders, and that he repeated the offense in spite of the strict orders. Bush said he slapped the boy on the face two or three times, and the lad resisted and put up such a strong fight that in self-defense Bush picked up a chair and "swung it on him a couple of times" until the chair broke. MENACE OF COLLAR BUTTON Point Presses into the Spinal Column and Often Is Cause of Seri ous Trouble. Chicago.-The doctor didn't say, "Your asthma and bronchitis are caused by your collar button," but after feeling under the collar at the back of the patient's neck he did say, "It's a wonder a person who wears such a collar button can breathe at all. "I suppose for 25 years you have been wearing high, rigid cellars," con tinued the doctor, "with a collar but ton half an inch long pressinlg heav ily against the spinal column near where it enters the brain-where li enlarges into the medulla oblongata, The tail, stiff .collar, worn as tight as you wear it, cuts off a good dleal of the blood supply from the head, When you lean forward over your desk it chokes the big blood vessels that suppIly the brain; then when you lean back it presses hard against the base of the brain itself. B~ut the cel lar button, such as you wear, and as most men wear, is wor-se than the collar, and together they are certainly a vicious combination. TIhe medulla contains vital centers of the auto. matic action of the body. The chief of these centers is that controlling respiration. If the medulla is injured death ensues by suffocation. In cases of laanging it is the injury to this cen. ter that causes dleath. The medulla is also the center' for the vasomotor nerves, regulating the size of the liood vessels. A heavy aind continiu. ous pressure on the spinal column .*.. ... I How the Button Injures the Spine. C such as is exerted by a collar button q that. is so long and so firmly held as to imbed itself deeply in the tis. 2 sues of the neck cannot hell) but af. feet the nerves leaving the medulla, causing troules10 in breathing and a long line of distressing symptoms due to vasomotor nervous distuarbances. "I would not say that a shorter col. lar button and a loose and soft colla: wvould cure your asthma, but they cerr tainly are among the remedies inidi cated. Just think of the weight o1 pressure that is pmut on that collar butt ton, with heavy winter clothing, tight fitting as to collars of vest, coat and overcoat, forcing this small piece oj metal deeper and deeper down or these nerves that control the mos vital functions of the bod." TRAD . 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