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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1937-12-02, Page 2THURSDAY^ DECEMBER and, 1D37 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE a Bceter ©mwa-Aiiunraie EeVUbJished! 1873 and JL£87 at Exeter, Ontario Published every Thursday morning SUBSCRIPTION—$2.00 per year in advance RATES—Farm or Real Estate for sale 50c. each Insertion for first four insertions, 25c. each subse quent insertion. Miscellaneous ar ticles, To Rent, Wanted, Lost, or Found 10c. per line pf six word#. Reading notices 10c. per line. Card of Thanks 50c. Legal ad vertising 12 and 8c. per line, In Memoriam, with one verse 50c. extra verses 25c. each. v M°mber of The Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Merry’s thoughts. Orchids and he’s ever so much older than you.” Merry made a wry face, you did know him, ducky,” ed> "could older?” “No 18 and The Merry turned -eff the lights climbed into the twin bed beside her mother’s. 'Pale, haunting moonlight streamed through the two portholes. “Ducky*!” Merry called. “Umm?” “If it’s a crime to be nearly 90. what a sinner you must be at 41!” She chuckled softly. “AIL right, dear,” came the drows ily amused surrender. ‘ 'Long after Helen Millington slept “But K she coax-* you blame him for being . Ohly after all, you are must be nearly 30.” swaying gently, and he ship was WOMAN’S RIGHT TO BE ADMIRED To Hove Charm—-Vitality— A Good Figure “Fruit-a-tives” fruit liver tablets will help you tremendously to hold attractiveness. Good akin, attractive personality, and a nice figure depend on whether your liveris healthy pr not If it is not strong and active you’re bound tn be too fat, flabby, pasty faceij, dull, lazy. Soon your attraction will go. A healthy liver expels fat producing waste, keeps your blood pure, skin good, supplies energy. "Fruit-a-tives” mad® front fruits and herbs is the quick, safe and most natural way of keeping your liver in good health. Thous and; of women take "Fruit-a-tives” to keep attractive. Try them. 25c., 50c. all druggirts. FRUITATIVEStJSs ■Standing before the mirror, pin ning to her pastel yellow formal the orchids Basil Norton had sent her, Merry hummed a light little tune, her blue eyes bright, her cheeks flushed. iFor the first time in her life she was going to a dance at the Palm Gardens—that ultra sophisticated roadhouse fifteen miles out of town where Jan Brady's famous orchestra played nightly and where all visiting celebrities went fcr recreation. “Ducky!” she trilled gayly,, seeing her mother's reflection in the door way. “Don't stand there with such a woe-begone expression! As if you didn’t like having your daughter en joy herself!” Merry thrust her arms out straight and pivoted slowly. “Do I pass?” -Helen Millington’s eyes were a little misty, She could haye said: “You are the loveliest sight I ever saw. Lovely, perfect, unspoiled beauty. So lovely and delicate and radiant tliht I am afraid for you?' Instead, she stood there smiling, a half-corrected paper in her hand and | replied, “You’ll do very well, 1 think darling.” Merry danced across to the door, with her two forefingers pulled the corners of her mother's smile higher, and kissed her lightly. IShe knew her mother was utterly unhappy about this date. “Ducky,” she said softly, justify herself,, “if you (had positively that I. couldn’t go I wouldn’t have gone.” “No, but you would ihave been the most disconsolate young person in the world. You would have felt un reasonably abused—since I don’t really know anything about this Nor ton,” Helen chided with a half smile “No, darling. I think I’m being a very unwise parent. But only for tonight remember! This is your last fling before school starts.” (Continued Next Week) has already begun.” Merry turned reluctantly, mute ly appealing for understanding in the smile she gave Basil. Basil, with a sweeping gesture, “Even her brother—” which he quite evidently meant far a compliment. 'Outside the Georgian Room, Merry faced John. “I didn’t want a scene. So I came,” she said wearily. “You know you don’t want to dance with Merry lay wide-eyed listening to the me. So what do you want?” -John carefully selected a cigar-et- ’ ship, the soft flapping of her dress- te before replying. “He’s having a good time,” Merry told herself scornfully. John always had a better time if he could annoy her, Mother had tried to explain it. John had been 5 when his father married Merry’s mother, a little past '6 when Merry was born and it had been hard for him to welcome her or to feel that she had as m-uch right as he to their father. Merry had tried to understand, tried to make allowances when he broke her toys, .when later he did other .-things she thought unfair. Especially after • Father died. She and Mother want ed John to feel he still belonged. They had taken him on this trip which Mother had promised Merry ‘why after graduating, because they didn't ' want him to feel out of it.* It had taken almost all their savings to do it “But you and I have jobs, John, Mrs. Millington .had said cheerfully, “We can swing it and Merry and I will need a man with us.” He had been rather decent—for him— the whole trip—until now. Almost as if lie (knew what she CHAPTER I ’ denly. . x ... I Basil! Her dancing heart stepped.Phosphorescent moonlight caress-, ised for ,x inoment as Ws uu ed the great white lmer turned it gure closer und Uen sRipped to an enchanted palace drifting than ever as she smiled into his black, amused eyes and ‘said: “And here you are!”* Basil's hand covered her. “Yes!” ’ His face was very close. “Does any thing else matter?” I “Aren’t you—” -She laughed un- . certainly, afraid she mi^ht betray i tliis unseemly happiness. “Aren’t you 113,0 (Oh just a trifle—^conceited?” “Conceited? But I mean only that ‘Here I am and here you are’ pretty : nearly spells everything for—people j like us, doesn’t it?” And again his laughing eyes went questing over her pale, upturned -face. Tiny waves like sighs broke against the ship’s hull, waves widen ing to an endless eternity, so that something of t^js night, this ship would never be lost. Waves that broke in on Merry’s consciousness with the distant music and the ma jestic liner and the handsome man'thought in the tuxedo and made her feel that I Father died. She and Mother want tonight she was falling in love. To night! “Lovely little lady,” Basil’s voice was a low caressing whisper, " did you come .up there all alone? Looking for me?” She felt his lips brush her hair.” | Of course not! I came because—•[ it’s all so beautiful and—tomorrow j we dock. I—” She laughed. “I guess I wanted to hold on to it as long as I could.” “Oih!” (She saw his eyes travelling over her again, saw a glint of seri-| ousness replace the twinkle. “Why (thinking, John %poke, finally, after did I have to wait until the last; he had nonchalantly thrown away night to 'know you?” His arm slip- • the match and taken a few reflective ped about her and the hand which puffs. the tune of a concealed elfin arches-I tra whese love-sweet notes came up, the companionway only distantly. | ■On the silver upper deck Merry' Millington pulled her wrap more closely about hei’ and gazed across; the shimmering Pacific, strangely' moved by its lovely unreality, i strangely lonely., although she 1— run away from the gayety below. Even Merry was surprised that she had left the admiring clasp of Jason Weeks, who’d been dancing with her, that she had preferred to come up here alone. But something about her had changed since—three months ago—she had sailed -with John and Mother for the Orient. . It wasn’t that, at IB, dates were a new experience. She’d had them all through high school and espec ially during this last year when the seniors had so many parties. But they were with boys she’d always known, boys who remembered her when the golden waves which now rippled back to a soft knot at her neck used to fall in heavy bright ringlets over iher shoulders, boys who could look at her sweet, natural dignity and remembei1 when she had played mumblety-peg and liop-scctch with them. ■So, though Grant High School boys had vied to take her to parties, had cut- in on her dances .with pendulum frequency, it had taken this trip for Merry to discover that, high school days over, life was unhestitatingly opening new doors to her. Perhaps this feeling had been born in the cherry blossom atmosphere of Tckio when, in a formal of silvery blue, she had danced with the hand some'lieutenant, John had known in the States. And he had treated her with the gallantry and respect due a young woman and not a little girl. There had been in his attitude even a little show of fear that he might not please her and in his conversa tion a camaraderie as of one adult to another. j whisper of the waves against the i ing gown against the dooi’ as the boat swayed. She was seeing moon light, .but not that which, like two searchlights, touched the foot of her bed, the back of a chair, and reflect ed vaguely around the rdom. Merry’s thought bathed a whole deck which was deserted except for two—a slender girl, gold of hair and very happy), and a handsome lover, tall, dark, ardent. “I love ycu,” the man said. 'But—Merry aroused herself.—'Ba sil hadn’t said “I love you”—unless Tested Recipes ■CX Home .Mrs. Millington and John and Merry had been home for three days now—long enough to restore normal cheer to t'h-eir little Colonial cottage and a semblance of routine to vaca tion disorder. Helen Millington had started teaching again—the job she had returned to after the death of Merry’s and John’s father two years before. John was back washing cars and filling radiators at Mor ford’s garage. And next week, Merry started in at Reed College. “Me to> work and Merry to school,’ John had said a little darkly the morning he went back on the job. * Helen Millington looked up quick ly from the preparation of his break- more to told me to-night Tomorrow during the farewell luxurious Georgian painted murals and candelabra, she had a And now—Basil Norton. Oh, life was .wonderfully beautiful tonight— so wonderful that tears swam peril ously close .to her long dark lashes, Tomorrow would be different. To morrow she dreaded. These last two days on board, she had been aware of .Basil’s eyes fol lowing her when she and John play ed deck tennis, moving after her when she and .Mother strolled on the promenade, lifting to meet her ■own glance as she settled snugly under a steamer rug. iShe had been so aware of him that she 'had learned to look fcr his tall figure in the companionways, in the foyers, in the lounges and for his interested questioning smile across the dining room. She had be gun to weave romantic- dreams about his identity;. And tonight dance in the room, with its its shimmering seen him excuse himself 'from group and come directly toward her. He had looked down, approving her, (his smile including Helen Millington Merry's mother. “How is it we have never met-" he asked. And in another moment Merry was dancing across the glittering room in his arms, dancing faultless ly to his faultless leading. •“Lovely little lady,” he sang soft ly in tones meant only for her ears. And when they passed Helen Mil lington waltzing with a .gray-ihaired army officer, Basil had said; “I do not believe your mother approved of me—barging in this way?’ “Nonsense!” Merry assured him. “=She’s modern—-the dear. She 'has to be.” “Has to be?” he laughed. ‘Why ’has to be’? Are you so terribly mo dern?” “Of course I am!” Merry agreed with mock solemnity. "But mother would be, anyway. Y>o>u see, she teaches in high school.” “■Surrounded by flaming youth, huh?” “Flaming youth” was very trite, Merry thought. But, thinking, she forgave him immediately; forgave and forgot as she said, “Exactly!” Basil chuckled. The lights dimhed to imitate moonlight, and the or chestra’s tone softened. His arm tightened about her, “Let’s explore the alone—you and I,” he But when the music remembered she .had (promised the next dance to lyouhg Jason Weeks, whose mother and hers had become verv friendly reluctantly she turned bac-k to» Jasbn, 'who awaited her, light peering thickly through round glasses, Moonlight Madness At intermission Merry had fled— up to the moonlight—‘alone. “Hcxe you rau!” a voice slid- “I wouldn't drink any more, sir,” said the waiter, his gray eyes serious, his low voice clear and commanding. Basil drew himself up with dignity. Professional Cards BANK OF MONTREAL ISSUES STRONG ANNUAL STATEMENT Gain of over $30,000,000 in Current Loans brings total to $204,760,- 812, increased from ;—Total Assets are —-Liquid Assets at are equal to 79.58% ities to the public The Bank of Montreal’s ,annual statement, just issued, reveals an in crease of over $30,000,0-00 in cur rent loans as .compared with last year’s statement, indicating the ex pansion that has occurred in trade and manufacture throughout the Do minion. As a result of the greater amount of business handled there was also a -moderate gain in net pro fits. The statement, which is for -the year to October 30th, is being pub lished throughout the country in an easily understandable form, with explanations of .its various features The general statement shows assets of $8.29,633,950, up $805,981,99'8. Of this amount liquid assets at $599,0151,153 equivalent to 79.58 % of liabilities to the public. Included in liquid assets are government '•fond -other bonds and debentures, totalling $437,381,825. Growth. of Current Loans $174,141,011 $839,633,050 $599,051,153 of all JLiabil- ■total from total are moonlight— whispered, stopped. She de-* his had been holding hers tightened its clasp. “You are like a soft-petaled rosebud, little Merry.” he said husk ily. “A bud? You’ll have me dressing in baby blues and carrying a rattle!” She "laughed, trying to hide the ex cited tripping of her heart. 'They stood watching the water following the moon path to the shoreless horizon. And Merry threw back her head and laughed; laughed because she must—because every thing was perfect. Interrupted ‘Tomorrow the trip will be over, -but that doesn’t mean everything is over between us. You—” His eyes caressed her as he .bent closer. "You —want to see me Again, don’t you? “Of course, if you-—” “Merry!” Basil and Merry drew apart very quickly to face another tuxedoed young man. in the companionway. “Our dance, Merry?’ “But, John!*’ Merry protested, and ■old association of John’s spoil things before rankled within the her “You’ve got me all "wrong, as us ual. Mother wants you.” Merry scanned the guests in ballroom, trying to make out mother’s trim figure in its neat black formal'. “Why? What does she want?” John shrugged. “For one thing it is midnight and we’ve got a lot of packing to do.” “And the other thing?” “O.K. The other thing is this Nor ton. What do you knew about him?” Mother’s Advice An hour later .Merry had folded the last flimsy bit of her lingerie, . . • - • - - ’ tlie his the ing her, though she explained politely and my brother, John, made her add lightly: after mo?* John nodded, ignoring Basil’s haul, “Com* on, Merry, our dance evitabiyi; “Mr. Norton, this is And resentment “He lootkis had given John a hand ’ with trunk, and John had gone to room. “Mother/* she ventured timidly. “I told Basil Norton he could come and see us when we got home?* ■Mrs. Millongton preparing for bed paused. “Darling,” she said wearily, “let’s talk about him tomorrow.” ‘1A11 right, but—why don’t yOu like him?” Helen Millington smiled aS loosened the pins in which was streaked gray. “My dear, I can’t him,” she explained r.ot l-n.-.v z,u she her blonde hair so slightly with say I don*t like patiehtiy. “I do Ixi'f. Imo"' •APPLE SALADS Whether fresh, dried, evaporated or canned the apple is a wholesome food, easily) prepared, attractive and palatable at all times. There:? is no waste in a good apple. Due to the large amount of pectin contained in apple juice, it may be used in other fruits to give a consistency to jams and marmalades, and even the par ings and the ceres of apples may be utilized for jelly. The following recipes are taken from the bulletin “Canadian Grown Apples,” issued by the Dominion Department of Agri culture. This bulletin may be ob tained from the Publicity and Exten sion Branch of the Department at Ottawa free on request. * Baked Apple Salad Bake Canadian-grown apples until tender. Stuff the centres with nuts and raisins and serve with salad dressing or whipped cream. Salad a pound of cold two large Cana- Add two 'Chop- GLADMAN & STANBURY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, &o Money to Loan, Investments Made Insurance Safe-deposit Vaults for use of our Clients without charge EXETER and HENSALL CARLING & MORLEY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, &o LOANS, investments; INSURANCE Office: Carling Block, Mfciin Stree*. EXETER, ONT. Dr. G. F. Roulston, L.D.S.,D.D.S. DENTIST Office; carling Block EXETER, ONT. Closed Wednesday Afternoons Apple ■Cut in dice half veal or pork and dian-grown apples, ped pickles, one tablespoon of olive oil, one tablespoon of vinegar, salt and pepper to taste, and mix with mayonnaise dressing. Red Apple Sahid Scoop out the centres of bright red (Canadian-grown apples so as to make them into -cups. Put them in to water containing a little lemon juice until ready to be filled. Mix equal parts of the apple pulp with celery, grapefruit and cream dress ing. (Fill and serve Dr. H. H. COWEN, L.D.S.,D.DS. DENTAL SURGEON Successor to the late Dr. Atkfasuo Office opposite the Post Office, Main Street, Exeter Office 36w Telephones Res. 3 6] Closed Wednesday Afternoons ARTHUR WEBER LICENSED AUCTIONEER For Huron and Middlesex farm sales a specialty PRICES REASONABLE SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Phone 57-13 Dashwood R. R. No. 1, DASHWOOD the apple cupe. Garnish on lettuce leaves. Brazilian Salad skins and seeds from■Remove white grapes and in halves length wise. Add an equal quantity of Canadian-grown apples pared, cored, and cut in small pieces; shredded fresh pineapple cut in small pieces. Then -quantity of Brazil nuts, pieces, with lemon juice, ■cream or - mayonnoise dressing. •f also, add' and celery add 14 of broken in Mix thoroughly and season Moisten with FRANK TAYLOR LICENSED AUCTIONEER For Huron and Middlesex FARM SALES A SPECIALTY Prices Reasonable and Satisfaction Guaranteed EXETER P. O. or RING 138 fast. “Your choice, John,” she remind ed him. "It’s not to late to go to school yet—if you’ll do it.” “Yeah? Who’d pay the bills?” “I would. We could swing it.” "Yeah?” John’s dark face soft ened. “I believe you'd try, at that, (he marveled; and reaching out gave her an awkward pat on the shoulder. Merry, watching, remembered that John’s mother had been part Indian and thought again she must have been very beautiful, for John, when he smiled was good-looking in a dark out-door way. That must have been why their father, a young lawyer in a new, small town, had fallen in love with her. “Would y,ou like to, John?” Helen Millington was asking seriously. And John laughed. “Can you imag ine me (24 years old, going back to high school?” he scorned. “Nope, I have been out too long?’ . “I’ve always felt you’d be sorry you quit. Your father told yoit so, too, Remember?” “Yeah . , , I’m not sorry though.” John cheerfully spoared another hot cake. “If you ask me, schools are a lot of bunk. 'That had happened this morning, and tonight, although she hud keen looking forward eagerly to college, 000),00 0-. although to her, school was anything' ooo.ooo *>-■. » from 408.328 ■The department in which the most notable increase has been made is that of current loans to manufac turers, farmers and merchants. As a result these loans now stand at $2014,£60.,8(12, up from $174,141,011 a gain of over $3-0,000,000 for the year, these figures reflecting the steady improvement in business con ditions in the Dominion. Deposits also showed a steady tendency to ward higher levels with the result that total deposits now- amount to $717,79'9,10'5, as compared with $6911,312,0'54, in 193 6. A good gen eral idea of the Bank's Strong posi tion can be gathered from the state ent, which 5 shows it now has total assets of $829,6'33,950, with which to make’payment of liabilities to the public of $752,73(6,7'53, which leaves an excess of assets over .liabilities to the public of $7'6,897,197. Moderate increase in Profit^ As a result of the substantial in crease in general business net pro fits show a moderate increase over the previous year. After deducting government taxes of $942,9)57 the total profits amounted to $3,408,- 328.80, equivalent to 4.47 per cent, on the capital, rest and undivided profits. These compare with $3,1)8,1,- 501 in the previous year. From the profits the usual dividends were paid and an appropriation was made for bank premises of $400,0010 leaving a balance to be carried forward o $1'2-8,328. The principal items of the state meat with comparisons with? those of the previous year, are as follows: Total Assets 1937, $(8,29^633,950, 1936, $8 0’5,-0'811,9'9 8; Liquid- Assets, $599,0.51,153, $606,472,587; G-oV’t and other Bonds, $437,381,825, $442,7 81,>097; Call Loans outside Canada, $19,878,944, $25,400,166; Call loans in* Canada, $6,857,700, $8,1’69,98I8>; Total Deposits, $717,- >799,105 '•nf hurl;, $691,312,054 $36,000,0'00 $3 9,000,0(0-0; $3,18'1,501. Cream Dressing Yolks of 2 eggs 1 tablespoon sugar 1-3 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon mustard Pepper 2 tablespoons 2 tablespoons Cayenne 1 ciup cream, thick. eggs, add vinegar slowly, su butter, and seasoning. Cook hot water, stirring constantly, thick and smooth. Cool. Beat vinegar butter . whipped until Beat gar, over until in whipped cream just before serv ing. USBORNE & HIBBERT MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office, Exeter, Ont. President, ......... ANGUS SINCLAIR Mitchell, R.R. 1 Vice-President .... JOHN HACKNEY Kirkton, R.R, 1 DIRECTORS W. H. COATES Exeter JOHN McGRATH .............. Dublin WM. HAMILTON .... Cromarty R. 1 T. BALLANTYNE .. Woodham R. 1 AGENTS JOHN ESSERY ............... Centralia ALVIN L. HARRIS .... Mitchell R. 1 THOS. SCOTT ....... Cromarty SECRETARY-TREASURER W. F. BEAVERS ........... Exeter GLADMAN & STANBURY Solicitors, Exeter B. RESTORE VIGOR T0~ I EXHAUSTED NERVES BY TAKING Cedar Chests AND NEW FURNITURE / They Help To Bring The Shattered Nervous System Back To Its Old Time Condition 1 I Also furniture remodelled to order. We take orders for all kinds of ca binet work for kitchens, etc at the DASHWOOD PLANING MILL Shingles & Lumber Buy your Shingles now while the price is right; also White Pine Pressed 10 in. and 12 in. wide at ‘540.00; Matched Siding, White ’ine at $40.00; all sizes of 2 in. umber at low prices. Capital $36,- nost, $39,- Profits, $3,- P1COBAC PIPE TOBACCO FOR A MILD. 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