her dreams Gina re-lives tnat dreadful epi
sode over and over again and awakens with
a scream of mortal terror;—the evil face of
Moy Tao leering through opium fumes—the
thunder of axes against iron-studded doors—
the arrest — the staring, jeering crowd — the
ride in the police patrol—
And later, the furnishing of bail by a glib
stranger—the taxi ride in the cold grey dawn
—the sip of brandy to help quiet her nerves—
oblivion—and the terrible, terrible awakening
from drugged sleep—
“Poppies on Beacon Hill” in True Story
Magazine for May is the story of an unsophis
ticated girl She was not bad, not even weak
—just ignorant of life. What happened to her
might as easily happen to any boy or girl sent
out into the world unprepared to cope with
life. She eagerly sought a taste of life and like
so many others, was given a taste of death.
In her inexperience she did not know that
the line between good and bad is finely drawn,
that it is often hard to tell where fun ends and
vice begins—and she paid for her lack of knowl
edge as thousands of others pay.
Until five years ago there was nowhere to
Which men and women, bojs and girls could
safely turn to get a knowledge of the rules of^
life. Experience was the only teacher and young w
souls and minds and bodies were ruined by
thousands in her hard school.
Then came True Story, a magazine that is
different from any other published. Its founda
tion is the solid rock of truth. It deals with life
in all its phases. In it you will find everything
that makes up life, in the same proportion that
they appear in life itself.
Every story in True Story Magazine is true,
has actually happened. Each contains a moral
or hammers home with sledge hammer blows
a living truth. It treats of all of life’s problems
fearlessly, honestly and in a manner that can
give offense to none—a book of life that instructs
its readers while it entertains.
Like a great lighthouse, its piercing rays of
truth and hope and encouragement cut through
the clouds and fog banks of ignorance that ob
scure the world. Already it has saved from
wreck and ruin the lives of thousands who
theretofore had walked in darkness. It will help
you, too. In five years it has reached the un
heard e£ circulation of two million copies month
ly, read by five million or more appreciative men
and women. Once you become acquainted with
it, you cannot help but be captivated with its
charm and helpfulness.
Other Thrilling Stories From Life
Here are Just a Few of the Absorbing /. • w in the May Issue of True Story Magazine
onmn weaning lung." If Bruce Carroll had realize,
that the first years of marriage are a period of adjustment during
which both must bear and forbear his attitude toward Joan's ideas
of life would have been different And had Joan been willing to
put herself out just a little in order to please her husband, Helena
Dail would never have received Bruce’s phone message asking if
he might dall that night If every young man and woman of mar
riageable age could read this story of s wedding ring that was
needlessly broken, many a marriage tha: would otherwise end
unhappily would be a glorious success.
“Cm a Worn Ohm Back!” in her
inexperience this girl mistook infatuation for
love and against her parents’ wishes married
a man whom she scarcely knew. If she could
have foreseen the dreadful and degrading fate
that was in store for her, rather would she
have taken her own life than pronounce the
words that were to tie her to the beast she
married. Never was the old adage “Marry
in haste and repent at leisure” more perfectly
illustrated than this story which will teach
a lesson of caution to everyone “who reads it.
“Hie Easiest Way." In these days of
prohibition, bootleggers, and pocket flasks,
thousands of young men and women who
never before indulged in liquor consider it
quite the proper thing to take a drink. The
girl in this startling true story took her first
drink to be a good fellow. Later she liked
the exhilaration that it give. Then she
craved it desperately and in order to procure
Whiskey, she who had always been the
acme of respectability.But read this
powerful temperance story and decide for yourself if whiskey pays.
He Fiery Funwct.” He told her he loved her and although
she loved him, she cast herself into a fiery furnace rather than
blight his life by marrying him. Could there be an episode in
any woman’s past so terrible as to warrant such an act? Read
this story of a man and woman whose lives were needlessly
ruined and see just how dreadful the results that follow in the
train of ignorance can be.
What a Teacher Thiaki of Tree Story Magaaw
I saw my first copy of**TRUE STORIES* letm then one
year ago. I reed it with some interest and considers bis
doubt. Should I as a teacher read such stones and allow
my teachers to rsad them? Of course the book meet not
be seen by pupils nor left where it could be seen by any
one at my boarding house for fear of thecensurs it might
bring upon me.
One evening after returning te my room and settling
for an hour or two's reading I began s hunt for my story
book. After looking things over for some time I located
it spread open on the bed of a tweoty year girl neat
door. I was angry that ahe should molest ray papers.
Never before In cleaning up my room had she misplaced
a aingls thing and this waa * forbidden fruit." I took
pains to hide it securely before leaving the house again.
Two daye later the girl approached me end asked roe to
let her have the megecine to finish a story. I let her
have it after she had promised to let no one alee see K.
1 think every chum she hed in town reed the copy end
have been regular readers ever since.
In another high school today a senior came to am end
requested me to get her e copy of True Story. She made
no apologies for asking for this magarine and while we
were talking one of her teachers came by with a copy in
her hand.
Yea. the storlee grip, some herder that* others hut efl
take hold on the interest. They ere heart stones and
coming from torn hearts they find ready response in
other hearts. Every heart has a story and some of tbene
stories are so foil they meet overflow. a
There are some things in this magarfoe that I don't
want young girls te reed bet there ia nothing In the
copy before me as risque as the average daily paper
broadcasts.
I find True Story In hotel lobbies and t eani help think
that it has a place In the home. \
Other Absorbing Stories
In This Issue Are:
“His Father’s Name”
“Soul’s Port”
“Three Who Were Thieves”
“That Brat of Mabel’s”
“Confessions of a Crook”
“Scandal’s Shadow”
“The Cost of Cowardice”
“The Price of Pride”
“At the Dangerous Age”
“Say It With Smiles”
Real Help for All in
True Story Magazine
No matter where you live, what your station
in life, or whether you are young or old —
you will find every story in True Story Mag
azine not only intensely interesting but vitally
helpful aa well.
cMagmine J
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