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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-02-23, Page 2If ever I make a printed book, Which the gracious gods forefend, 1’11 make me a rcd-and-yellow book, A hale and hearty and mellow book From the first page to the ned.• KEA SsiVice Im ^gvnryou ever been hungry? Oh, I hanging and. th<*7ff>hble chin. | W iWun the lusty appetite that-Years of contact with impecunious I ■" "Hngs, nor do I mean tho:lodgers ha4l> made a sneer of what-, W^ation of discomfort that: might* onc<have been a smile. w^:\dinner is delayed. I mean “’Sornjf” she repeated, and her Wor an hour, not for a’shrill vojfo cut my very soul. “I can’t ^month, two months, ;p^y inWrent with sorrow. Not even 7 meaji^ hunger that u’ithjRiy own sorrow, „ much less a ’ • Isefijpnmiand sorrow that I get- from ’ffyo$1,’‘ Her own witticism apmsed her, ‘-could See that it did not soften your WIAGIC BAKING POWDER Mode, tn Canada - No Alum I The New Book (From Palms) A little blue book of poems, And most of the poems blue— Tough luck fox* the poet and publisher, Tough luck for the reader, too. comes ’ ’ 1 hungry’ day, not fol three months! is a slow starvat;^^ tent to melt the fleSBfe, - muscles, but works a. 1 upon the heart and mind,’’ " |her. Perhaps you do not believe in such’ From the room at the end of the an alchemy. Nevertheless you will hall one of the brood saw me. He concede that the mind possesses great raced toward us, stopping breath­ dominion over the body. A„_ __ / ’ treatd i ~ masters, 1 „ __ ____vi then, mistreated, destroy the mind! that, ruling, has made no success of its reign? I say that no famished man will observe, after he has con­ quered fear, the laws that men with- full stomachs have enacted. Conscience, and the wprds it con­ jured up before mv mind! Honor, fidelity, duty! Well, I had won honor on a certain bloody meadow1 between two hills in France. Fidelity? For thirty years I had held the faith im­ planted in me in childhood- Duty? Well, in my pocket was a paper prov­ ing that I had been honorably dis­ charged from the army of-~does it matter which army? Does it matter where I was born, who were my par­ ents. what had been, before the war. my station tin life, my education? < ■ Let it be enough that I called myself Jrit is not con-L fa alchemy buFT r —. And mis- lessly. slaves overturn their harsh | “Make a penny disappear, Mr- Ains- Why should not the body, IW’ he cried. fa—‘ ’ ’• 1 ■' • *1 “Let him make a dollar appear,” 1 suggested his mother.” | “Ain’t you got a penny, Mr. Ains- ley?” asked the child. I suppose my shame appealed to Mrs. Gannon. Anyway, she pushed the child away, harshly ordering him to go back to the kitchen. But pity for my humiliation, could not make her forget her own needs. “The rent of your room was due yesterday, Mr- Ainsley,” she said. “I’m always willing to give anyone a fair chance, but with plenty of people wait­ ing for rooms, people as is able to pay for them, you can’t expect me to. let you have the room free.” She told the simple truth. Even this grimy house had become attrac- . tivo to me, because it afforded me! shelter from the elements, because, for WHITEST. UGS^S HOAR'S PIl make me a book like a ripe plum That’s bursting from its skin, And dainty women will nuzzle it, And heavyljowled gentlemen guzzle it And gulp it down with a grin. I’ll make a book like a yellow peach That smacks of the summer sun, Full of the earth, and the sap of trees, And the warm rains, and the cool breeze When the day is done Soma people still use bulk tea—They think it cheaper—It Isn’t—for they are paying for dust and siftings and for waning flavour—They have not discovered “SALADA”—dust-free, fresh, full- flavoured—sealed in metal. "SALABA" TEA A Goodwill! Tour i?Canadian-American Motor* Cade to Visit Europe and British tales RECEPTIONS ARRANGED A friendlier feeling between (.'ana- Sees White Race Forced to Unite a gentleman, that I still call mvself!its degradation, it was better than a gentleman, and that scores, even-^ harci benches of the park. Mrs- hunoreds, of your so-called best pec-! pie, term me such. But I was a very; hungry gentleman that night, r.ot so' long ago, when I returned to the! shabby, even filthy lodging-house on ^hom/'on Street, that I called home. My lanaifldy ugg pu a clmir halt Sh.c hr/ wicn a frown. Even had I been the kind to shirk an issue, I could net have avoided this one. For she lose, from the rocking-chair at the rear of the hall. For a moment she would remove her ’watchful eye from the brood of half-grown children who played in the kitchen. Sorry as I was -tai’ myself, I was sorrier for hei‘. Looking at her, as she shuffled her caryct-slippercd feet over the torn and stained oilcloth of the hall, one found it hard to believe that she had. ever had youth, beauty and happiness. One seemed to know feat she had stepped from girlhood into middle age, and that the step had net been the bound­ ing stride of confidence, but a fehrht- e>ned, unci armed lean fate. Ev« ■’ as tl'.c the- fir gl‘0 wh the W! < V. ithcut a w..*rd liar. I to me. I could fee ir.y. and marveled, th cm’-.eh red in my anaevmc my. t furnLh my cheeks with a bitch. There is no humiliation more pain­ ful to a gentleman that his inability To pay his debts to persons dependent for their livelihood upon his financial integrity- Red with shame, I could only stammer: “I’m sorry, Mrs. Gan­ non.” I suppose that years before poverty and worry and disease had left their indelible marks upon her body and chaiaetor, her mouth may have been nlea-aut, even inviting. It must have been ki?saole, for although I l1^ have to go. That’s all there 1» tv thul." never seen Mr. Gannon, and! vaguely,ghfi t ]1H. hands on hel. hi an(1 ivttr<_fkT’£?rrtrtrl i I*, nr hr* Heir! mtc?hnr! Ti’Aivi t ... * even’the hard benches of the park. * Gannon would have no difficulty in V; J sir te that puwc “V derm a good the question with understand that j a wound, followed by illness, and the [ latter succeeded by eighteen months of .malnutrition culminating in what i promised to be actual starvation, un­ fitted a man for manual labor? .Oh, I could work like a giant for ten min­ utes, but after that brief time I be­ came as weak as a newborn, kitten. But these were matters that pride kept me from divulging to Mrs. Gan­ non. She had troubles of her own; ; mine did not concern her. i “Well, there ain’t nothing fore for mt to say. If you can’t pay me, you’ll me is to that.” understood that he had vanished from:, my landlady’s ken a few years ago, the presence of so many young Gan­ nons argued the bestowal of caresses upon my landlady’s lips. But now her mouth was thin and eharp, in violent contrast to the over- Wi Add to the joy of the open road—this pleasure­ giving refreshment. A sugar-coated gum that affords double value. Pep- pcrftdnt flavor in the sugar coating and peppermixit^-vfx flavored gum \\inside. \ w f 1 4 Bctwceji Smotes W 1 J33UE No. 7—*28 stared at me. I had no.ve,: in ail my life done a thing which the world calls dishonort able- I should have been able to look anyone in the. eye. The consciousness of virtue should have sustained my glance. Instead, it fell before her truculent glare. Then I made up my mind. Z “All-right, Mrs. Gannon; I’ll pay you to-night,” I told Wn ; “It’s to-night now,” she reminded! me suspiciously. I“I mean in an hour,” I explained.! She eyed me unbelievingly. Then,! reluctantly, she said: “Don’t think! you can put anything over on me. I: get my dollar in advance, like it’s due, | or out you go-” . I I nodded to her apologetically, hum- ■ bly, She pursed hei* lips, started to say something, chanyed her mind and let her words become an indistinguish- and waddled 'zigzag lines appeared and vanished before my c-yes; tiny points of light grew into great molten moons and then faded suddenly into darkness. * Nausea attacked me, and I conquered it only by a miracle of effort. At last I reached my room on the top floor. It was hardly more than a cupboard. There was no window’; a skylight gave what light and ventila­ tion there were. There was no chair in the room, nor any carpet. The” walls had once been papered, but noiv there’* remained only a few strips; grimy, cracked plaster, met the eye on every side. Yet even this refuge *was to be de­ nied me unless I found means where­ with to meet the debt that living in ! these quarters incurred. I had come to this room, stifling my contempt with difficulty. Now it was as desir­ able as an apartment in a palace- Dizzily 1 clutched at the Avail and •worked my way around to the bed and sat down upon it. I was shaking and perspiring. It as bad enough to be hungry, but to be homeless also, was unendurable. Well, I would do the thing I had sworn never to do: I would pawn the miniature, painted upon ivory, of my mother. For the oath that I had made to myself, as my other possessions passed into the hands of the pawnbroker, that I would die before I parted with the last re­ minder of different days, was no long­ er binding. My duty to Mrs. Gannon was paramount. I had a shabby/worn-out--feuitc-4se in the room. I had thought when I came here that I owned the irreduc­ ible minimum of clothing possible to cover one’s nakedness; but I had seen vanish, one by one, the articles of clothing and of the toilet that I had thought indispensable, not to luxury, but Vo life. Now, save for a shirt, an extra pair of socks and a collar or two, the suitcase was empty—save, of course, for the ivory miniature. I had no idea what a pawnbroker would ccnsider the thing worth, but I knew 'that it was worth millions to me; for when I should part with it, I would also part with hope. ■ Looking at it, my eyes blurred, not with the tears of weakness, but with tcar.s of grief. I seemed to see my whole life pass before me- I was a drowning man, sinking in the waters of failure and despair. I saw myself as a child, winning my mother’s smile by some playful prank. I saw myself at a fashionable prep’ school, at college, in Paris playing the part of a wealthy young dillettante. I could neither paint nor write nor compose, but I flattered myself, that I had a cultured taste for all of these. Then I saw myself reduced to sudden poverty by the failure of a trust com­ pany to which the care of the estate left me by my father had been con­ fided. I remembered the blank be­ wilderment that had overcome me as I faced poverty, a bewilderment soon succeeded by confidence in my own latent abilities. (To be continued.) If ever I make a printed book, Which the kindly fates forefend, pll make me a fat unstinted book, A nothing-concealed-or-hinted book From the first page to the end. Warren Gilbert.to Wilson Publishing Company publicist: the nom for some consider- Turning the Tables. class of children were wrestling able murmur, turned down the hall. I mounted the stairs, ed, but I mean that I by the most desperate t iMMMiib. • <hau, American and European motor­ lots which, in turn, will be transmit­ ted to a much wider circle of popple on tho two continents will, it is hoped, be engendered as a result of two per­ sonally conducted “goodwill” tours to Europe this summer organized by the White Star Line under the official aus­ pices of the Montreal Motorists* League, it is stated in an official an­ nouncement by the White Star Line. A novel feature of the tours will be that those going to Europe with these parties will tako their own cars and motor through Europe and Great Bri- 1L 18, llUYVUYCl, 1*1 <1 icon * . tulii. future than might be suggested by Wherever41iey go receptions will be considerations of this kind that M. arranged in the principal cities and it 360 now exist, could by a common re­ solution make war an impossibility, Competition a Factor It is, however, in a less remote tain. Wherever-tliey go receptions will be •Ppliakof fprsees dangers against which the nations he includes in his combination of the whte races would be well advised to reach a -common agreement. Before a ’’desirable con­ summation against Bolshevism can be fully achieved Europe will .have need to find a way of dealing '‘with the competition of the powerful American creditor.” M. Poliakof apparently believes that the pursuance of this object will assist European nations to forget their domestic squabbles and troubles and, one must assume, thereby con­ vince the United States that a policy of isolation is incompatible with her own nterests in a future world where European Publicist Believes Study of Wcrld Map Shows a Double Menace For Common Agreement London—A new line of approach the consideration of world problems of the future is suggested in an arti­ cle in the February number of the Fortnightly Review from the pen o1’ M. Poliakof, a European whose contributions, under de plume of “Augur,” have time past been attracting able attention. M. Poliakof has given a new turn to the famous dictum of Lord Salls- ... ............. bury, ‘Study large maps. Salisbury S|rUggie wpi ne between demo- had in ,mind chiefly maps of Europe, I cj,acy an(l Boishevism, between the which in his day more or less repi’es-- races and a gigantic league of ented the world with which he was ’lwr raceg thah r'emerabering the concerned. He allowed for the ex"i theory anent scratching a Russian tension of European interests and am-'a)1(1 fillding a Tartar, can not he des- bitions to other continents, and maps which showed the possible rela­ tionships between European powers and remoter districts of the world were not barred from the study which he invited. But even Lord Salisbury did not call for the survey of maps on such a grand scale as M. Poliakof does. In fact, the latter says: "Maps are misleading things indeed, and traditional geography is the- mother of the worst preconceived notions in politics, daily use grasp the tion.” For the standard maps in make it difficult for us to principles of race distribu­ Offers Map of World There is but one map which M. Poliakof invites the study of. .This is the map of the world which repre­ sents the contin^ffts .together in their respective positions on the sur­ face of the earth. Thus, while Salis­ bury said, “Study large maps,” Polia­ kof in effect says, "Study'Mercator projection.” From that it will 1: seen that the lands peopled by Ui white race or dominated by it ai grouped in two blocks on both side ol' the Atlantic. “On one hand Europe with Africa, on . the otht America, North and South; in th .West we find Australia as a powerfu racial cutpost in the Pacific, while in the East are great territories in As exploited by the whites for their mat rial advantage.” I What is the deduction which collar is high about the neck or 1’ol^d low for the warm weather, and but- ,':r‘ .tons and buttonholes or braid loopsp"**;- j finish the front closing. No. 110G cut in sizes 4 to 16 years. Size 10 requires 3% yards 32-inch, oi’ 3% yards 36-im'h material. Price 20c the pattern. IIOW TO OPvDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain­ ly, giving number and size of Ksuch patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number and address your order to Pattern Dept., Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Ade­ laide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by return mail. OUR BOYS’ PAJAMAS. It is essential that boys have com­ fort while asleep as during the play hours. Mother will be happy to find this simple pajama pattern is large i and roomy for the little fellow, yet ! tailored enough to suit the grown-up iboy. Any soft washable material is I suitable for this night-garment. The J ( I A with a lesson in arithmetic, and the scholars found that fractions were too much for them. The trouble started when- little Doris declared that she would rather have half a jam tart than two-thirds of it. “How often have I tried to drive it into you,” said the exasperated teach­ er, “that two-thirds of anything is more than a half? Now you all know,” she went on, “that Doris prefer!, a small portion of tart to a large piece. Funny child, isn’t, she?” Doris having been held up as a model of stupidity, put up her hand. “Well, asked the teacher, sharply. "Please, miss,” raid Doris, in a small, clear, piping voice, "I don’t like tart!” I say mount- climbed them effort, Silver cribed as altogether white. The accidental locking of a pair of handcuffs prevented an actress tak­ ing her part in a London theatre-re­ cently. During an interval she slip­ ped on/the handcuffs to test them, and then found the key had been mis-, laid. Her understudy had to finish the play for her. is anticipated that the Touring Club of I rance and the Automobile Associa­ tion of Great Britain, with which the Montreal Motorists' League is af­ filiated, will tender official receptions to the parties and, in this way play their part in promoting goodwill'be­ tween Europe and the North Ameri­ can continent. Already there have been inquiries from Winnipeg, Vancouver, Toronto, several cities in the province of Que­ bec, Ontario and Manitoba, and with the announcement of these (ours in the United States it is expected that there will be a regular string of re­ quests from American motorists. One of the principal ideas underly­ ing these parties is to persuade Cana­ dian and American motorists, who al­ ready have much in common, to tra­ vel across the ocean together and, by personal contact with motorists in Great Britain and in Europe, build up a firmer feeling of friendship between the people on the two continents. The first party, with their own <ar:-, will sail from Montreal on the White Star liner Megantic on July 2Q and return from Liverpool on the White Star liner Cnlgark’ on August 31. The second group will sail from Montreal on the White Star liner Al­ and return same steam­ “The modern woman is hard,” says a writer. But a diamond will make an impression on her. ....................iws? It is, in a nutshc mt the white races in Europe and t white races in America are bound 1 mutual interests in “a mighty part­ nership within wheh they may quar­ rel, but. the interests of which as a whole they have to take into account as a first moral charge on any inter­ national policy they may set in mo­ tion.” Incidentally, it may here be observ­ ed that among the reasons for the skepticism as to eventual results with which a good many European obser­ vers have regarded the Coolidge- Kellogg proposals for the out-lawry of war is the belief that the world of the future will present wider grounds for conflict than was apparently en­ visaged in the idea that some five or •six of the lowers, as they. A thrifty person Is one whose needs keep his wants in lhe*background. ! Minard’s Liniment for asthma. AU YOUR Ljmiiiiijl. 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Board! v’.Mi fonm-r- ly d^fae ••1 the lamlia: pe with hn hl po-Jers now are among the most inf­ lected riiins of the eternal'city. Cost rather than beauty was the mo­ tive who started the boycott. less there are now fewer billboards in juxtaposition to Rome's ancient monuments than at any time in recent years. The great spaces which were usually plastered with theatrical ad­ vertisements are now bare save for a few steamship advertisements. Billboard advertising has been a municipal plum for years, but recent­ ly the monopoly was farmed nut to a private company. The private com­ pany raised rates ns soon as oiilrart' exp'red at the end of the year. The jump in prices was so great that thoulre managfrs held an indi« nation meeting. Tiny deckled to rt-v in the future osi newsp.tper annoum-1.- meats. Each theatre also agreeul ’■> elisplay (he program of all the nth- >• features during the cvcuing. Tills ap­ plied to motion pictures as well as m legitimate theatres. The movie the.- Ires flash their rival’s' announcements on (lie screen n-hile the kgitima-.'1 theatres post their rival's ottering: prominently in tha lobbies. Canada Over Threshohl Prosperity Ottawa, Canada— “Canada no longer standing on the ! of opportunity. ' She has D todrU threshi-M StCJipK' across Hint threshold .'iiul is proc’. ing swiftly along the corrido:.': <d tr jiven’lnus ccor.omn deVvlopim nt. ; Her pi ogress is alrcatly attracimg Jh ; 'Utt-. ntlen of the rest (f t.’e w: r:(l.” s'l.'d t're'ghtcn J. Jliil. of 11m Bal : <»n ! StutMical Orpanlzatiim, in a-' dress given rccmtly in Ottawa. “Fundamental conditions in (iv: D>> minion indicate that gviirral 1 ness in 1923 will CAcecd that of Iff and v,-hili’ in the United Slirm t trend will be ssliphtl Canada Canada i ii'.intiiir through mi- L t (k-vnv.iirb ’J it’ i;i going to be u* v.aH. is to-day in a .; '<> an indep- iub < . P-; ' 1 stated Mr. Hi’!. “Wlmt do they mean by the 'witch- ing hour?” “Don't you know? TIkU-'h the hour when (ho wife greets yoa with ‘Which story is it !’:b time?”