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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1943-04-15, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-APVQCATE, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 15th, 1943 “Secrets in Love” by Phyllis Moore Gallagher ^Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Mrs. Polk had been furious be­ cause Thalia had allowed an "in­ sipid little English hussy with as much physical appeal as a poorly dressed Maypole" to annex Wash­ ington’s most eligible 'bachelor, “That could just as easily have been your engagement that wag an­ nounced to Topy Covington,” Mrs. Polk had said resentfully when she had read the announcement weeks ago. “But did you turn a hair to get him over to this house? Did you do one single thing to make him conscious of you when I managed to have him here? No, you did not! You spent all your time thinking about Hewitt Gill. And you made a fool of yourself down in Florida when he was there. Every, one was laughing at you quite openly be­ cause you had not the slightest subtlety in throwing yourself at him." it LOCiniART—MCINTYRE A quiet wedding WM .soleinnizefl at the Presbyterian church manse, Nairn, when Sarah Elizabeth Mc­ Intyre and Peter Andrew Welling­ ton Lockhart, both of Alisa Craig, were united in marriage by Rev, Robert Bruce, The attendants were Miss Mary McIntyre, sister of the bride, and Wilfred MbSCiubWi Parkhill. After a short moon the couple will reside groom’s fqrm west of Ailsa Mrs. Mar*y CpTOSy EHes Fpliowibg a. short illness, Mrs. I Mary Coursey, aged 78, passed away Thursday; April 8, at her home on the third concession of Biddulph, commonly called the Coursey line* Her husband’s fam­ ily were pioneer settlers in that district, Mrs- Coursey was born in McGillivray Township, a daugh­ ter of the late Richard and Sarah Neil. She was a member of the Anglican Church. Her husband John Coursey, died in 1917. She is survived by one son, Har­ old, with whom' she lived; a broth­ er, Richard Neil, McGillivray Town­ ship; two sisters, Mrs, E* Simpson, Mooresville; Mrs. Wes Boyle, Kin- lougli; and two granddaughters, Mrs. Bert Zyrbrigg, Hamilton, and Jean Coursey. The funeral took place on Saturday at 2 p.m. to St. James Cemetery, Clandeboye and was largely attended. C.W.A.C. NET SHOWS FAVORABLE COMPARISON Candidates fpy eoliStnWUt iq tU<s Canadian Women’s Army Corps must b© either A. or B. medical category, at least five feet tall, weigh not leas than 105 pounds, and have no dependents. They must have grade 8 or equivalent education and be British subjects between the ageg of 18 and 45 years, A comparative table, showing the approximate renumerations between what they received in civilian life and in the C.W.A.C., reveals some in­ teresting statistics. For instance a Grade 1 Civil Service employee gets $60.00 -month basic pay, plus $10.00 cost of Jiving bonus. From this amount there are deductions of $7.00 taxes, $32.00 room and board and $1.50 medical and dental ex penses, making a total of $45,00 es­ sential living expenses and leaving her a net balance exclusive of car fare of $17,50. On the other hand a private in the C.W.A.C receives $27.00 a month in pay and another $37.50 if living opt on subsistence, From this $04.50 her room and board would take $32,00, leaving her a net balance of $32,00. There are no,tax deductions, and her clothes, dental and medical NOSE FILLUP, SPOIL SLEEP? If your nose fills up, makes breath­ ing difficult, spoils sleep—put3-pur­ pose Vicks Va-tro-nol up each nostril, Va-tro-nol does 3 important thing? for you: (1) shrinks swollen mem­branes; (?) soothes iridtation; <3> helps flush out nasal passages, clearing clogging mucus, relieving transient congestion, It brings more comfort, ipakes-breathing easier, invites sleep. When a Cold Threatens, use Va-tro-nol at first sniffle or sneeze. Helps to prevent colds developing. honey- on the Craig. lllllHllltllilllllllllllllilllllllllltllllllilllltin? “if you’re willing," Hewitt was say­ ing, gently, "J think we could have a lot of fun together from flow on," What he saifl in important; hut dark eyes read sage in them* quite ovei* whatever had happened between him and Peg Patterson; perhaps he never woulfl be really. But he was very much the same Hewitt she hafl fallen in love with last Autumn. And time—-oh, time was the weaver of miracles. All needed Was Hewitt looking at like this—and time . , , At the Embassy Paul Stranyan’s Ambassador entertaining at a. dinner in honor of a famous aviator from his home­ land. He was receiving his guests in the long drawing room, ablaze *with lights and scarlet flowers. The Am­ bassador kissed Peg’s hand and pre­ sented her to his hostess, who was the wife of his military attache. In that moment Peg seemed a very self-assured and calm young lady in her trailing black dress with her fair curls piled high on her head. But Peg wasn’t calm at all. This Embassy had once been the Rich­ ard’s mansion, And moving down the long drawing-room to a blue brocaded identical brocaded TOUCH” down on heart. This was a different sofa and there was no sign on it now, but the drawing-room was terrible, haunt- ingly the same. She was thinking how many changes had come into her life since that Autumn day when a young man in wedding splendor had introduced himself by saying, or the sitting And fog of her thoughts she heard some one say, excitedly: “Hel-loo there, Tony! Why Evangeline, darling! ■ But how perfectly -delightful!” Peg’s eyes tuimed swiftly toward the Centex* of the drawing room. The days seemed to recede, one pil­ ing swiftly upon the top of another, until it was Autumn. It was last Autumn all over again, and yet how completely dif­ ferent, Anthony wore tails now in­ stead of wedding splendor. And he , was not alone. A small blond girl had come in with him. She stood ' beside him now with an obvious possessiveness. CHAPTER XXX golden days; flays In luminous indigo. A part of each one of them had been spent on the beach, lying on an air-filled with Hewitt sitting maroon beach robe his shoulder, his with a deeply burnt made him terribly handsome, Nights of Magic There hafl been nights of magic too; swaying palms and a sky like sequin-sprinkled blue velvet and Hewitt holding me in his arms as they glided to a rhumba orchestra There about straight to her blood, arousing the primitive flames in it. The was as heady as wine, and completely sensual. They had gone from the patio one night with the and a consciousness of their close­ ness still in their blood. Far up the . beach Hewitt had made a place for her on the sand beside him. They had sat there in the aura of hibiscus and tropical per­ fumes with the shimmering silver of the sea stirring in the distance. She “I’d want But .all that pale, dew-washed dawning, as she had walked alone down the beach with burning in shame, she nized what ways, would an agony of do, sweet. . of a heel . when her arms had been avid ten­ drils around his shoulders, when her lips had been pressed close against his submission, ed Hewitt, thought it man, had been cheap—and flung that cheapness face, untouched. In Washington she by the telephone, out of the house for fear bickering” much better might miss Hewitt’s call. Still, he did not call and all sorts of tales came to her through her friends who dropped in for tea. She shut her mind sharply on that thought. Her eyes, suddenly dim with tears, went to the choc­ olate frappee she had been eating without realizing it. A Caller A long while latter, Thalia and her father got up from the fable. She slipped her arm through his. She said, “Sometime, Dad, I’ll give you the lowdown. Sometime when I can talk about it—and go to pieces.” They were passing at the ment through the enormous toward the drawing room where a silvei* service of coffee waited t them on the low Sheraton table. They had just settled themselves on the sofa when the rang and that Mr. 'Gill Tljalia said Mother Criticizes Mrs, Polk had said another time: “Wihat earthly good did it all| do you, Thalia? If memory serves me correctly, Hewitt Gill hasn’t been to this house once since we returned from Florida. He hasn’t telephoned you. He hasn’t sent you so much as a wilted dandelion! Every one says he’s simply 'fried’ all the time now .,and starts fights in night clubs! ’ Still you sit home, drooping, camp­ ing by the phone. Passing up very splendid engagements simply be­ cause you think—you hope— that wretched person will call you, Well, he hasn’t yet, and I don't imagine he will, and if you have any sense at all you’ll have a few cocktail par­ ties and ask some attractive bache­ lors, Count Stranyan, for instance. I don’t believe interested in She’s one of terly boring the type at sophisticated least, not seriously.” Thalia Mother,” making tirades.” just stood and listened, eyes dark and sullen and her mouth a grim red line. Indeed, Thalia had ■ Stood the than the Senator. for one moment he’s that Patterson girl, those stiff-backed ut- conservatives and not all who’d attract a man like Stranyan. At sometimes said I’m sorry,” or Please, 'Mother, you’re yourself ill with these But most of the time she with her mattress so close, a draped over skin glowing tan that had was always a rhumba something that went rhythm corrupt cabaret rhythm had thought, ' do anything to me—anything . , desperately: make him >> itself wasn’t really Thalia meeting his an unspoken mes- Perhaps he wasn’t she her was tyou Roll Tlwm Better Wifhl OGDENS^ C/GAR£TT£ TO BA CCQ what it she beat SHORTHORN lOALF BORN AT GRANTON WITH SIX LEGS A seven-year-old gave birth to a farm of Arthur though normal legs. The extra from the shoul- GRANTON - Shorthorn cow freak calf on -the Houlton. The calf, otherwise, has six pair ders and calf fectly healthy, pects it to live. vicKswe VA-TRO-NOL of Tegs extend and aye now crossed in front have become stationary, is over a week old and is Mr, Houlton The per- ex- son)Father (admiring his infant —rThat boy will be a great states­ man some day. Wife—-Oh, Charles, do you really think so? Father- Sure. Look how easily he wriggles out of everything. Is :;xs attention are supplied freq. • * The net for lance-corporals would, be $35.00, corporals, $40.00, and sergeants $50,00, ptor further information regarding enlistment in the C.W,A.C. consult the local recruiting advisor, Mr, B, W. Tuckey or the Mobile Recruiting Unit which is in Exeter every Friday, How Does Your Label Read? sofa that stood on the spot where another blue­ sofa with a “DO NOT sign had stood, she sank it with a suddenly stirring ikaa her cheeks had recog- done for And al- Hewitt’-s words mind in “No can had was. she really felt, against her humiliation: . . I’m not that much , .” He had said that cheek in demanding Even though she lov- never any She had her as she had possible to love it did not excuse her. Hewitt back in had camped scarcely going she 7$ I i •t f "Does that sign mean you blue-brocaded affair you’re on?” then suddenly through the gf - 6-. Sag », I: 1 "/ F /F W EATf! The brains found estate tiated there to his a season at Newport, had been an inspiration. Mrs. Polk’s eyes had hardened for battle. She was socially se­ cure in Washington and Florida, but Newport was something else again. She had departed this mor­ ning with firm instructions to, Thalia: I’m leaving you here to look after father until adjourn­ ment, and I hope by - the time you join me yourself Then thanked eyes. “I’m pany, I “I'll hate myself for it because I Gill’into the you’re a swell guy and you don’t«ney," deserve a daughter like me, r_i' somehow I can’t seem to snap out of it.” The Senator had said simply: “I know, kid. Well, battle it out on your own 'lines, whatever it is. And remember, if there’s any part for the old man, he’s here to play it.” And now Thalia and her father were having dinner in silence. She glaflced up at him every now and then and smiled in gratitude be­ cause he did not try to force her into conversation. Then she slipped back, into dark, turgid pool of lier thoughts. Not very pleasant thoughts. She had made a fool of herself over Hewitt and she knew it. She had been cheap, but only because She had been desperate and had fear­ ed all along that she was playing a futile game. For a little while down in Florida things had gone as she had planned them. Lovely solution and Father Promises Help Senatoi’ had cudgeled for a one. He had wired to a real firm in Newport, had nego- for a massive pile of bricks. and had finally announced! ; wife that she was to haveThe idea| I I in Newport you’ll be quite again.” she was gone and Thalia the Senator with to be rotten she had told a 4.* not mo- hall l hei'! com- him, doorbell the butler* .announced was calling on Miss "Show Mr. please Dab- to her fath- see Hewitt May we join swiftly: library, Then she turned But' er, “Dad, I’d like to alone for a minute, you later for coffee?” The Senator smiled. In that mo­ ment his daughter, his beloved young daughter who was the very meaning of his life, seemed wash­ ed in a sudden brilliant radiance. I At the library door, lTialia (paused. Hewitt was standing by the 'long French window; a much {thinner Hewitt—a much older -one. He Was Sober. And his hand, hold­ ing a cigarette, had not the slight­ est tremble. Hewitt smiled a little when she came down the three steps. He said: “Thalia, this was ' nervy of me, I suppose, but I drop- ! ped in tonight thinking perhaps maybe you’d take pity on a guy who’s been a crazy dope foi’ months. I thought maybe you’d let me take you dancing somewhere.” Then foe took her hands in his palms. Her fingers were trembling Thalia knew; but she didn’t care. the could never re­ sile got through even those brief before the butler Afterward Peg member just how that dinner. Or strained moments announced that dinner was served. Anthony, seeing her there on the blue-brocaded sofa, came straight to her and took her hand. He said he was certainly glad to see her and where on earth had she been keep­ ing herself, and she said it cer­ tainly'was nice to see him, too, and hadn’t it 'been a long time and she’d been around. Then he was introducing Evange­ line Martin and Peg was feeling the girl’s eyes moving over her like cold marbles. “Why she acts as if she despises me! Why should she look at me like that!” Peg wonder­ ed through her confussion. Aftei* that there was an awkward silence, though Peg felt every one in the room had ceased their chat­ tering and their cocktftiil sipping and their hors d’oevre selecting just so they could quietly listen to the wild thump of her heart. ’ When Paul Stranyan came and joined the little group swayed toward him dizzily, grateful for fingers on stand it,” just can’t But she Anthony told her that he was re­ turning to France in the morning now' that Joan was quite herself again, and fectly Silly, fishermen’s sails. Anthony tion around after a while to the DamaraS. They spied once too of­ ten, lie decided, and Peg said: “Yes my goodness, didn't they though?" Which wasn’t a Very original thing to say Wheii two people had been stood up before a firing squad, (To be continued) No longer can anyone sit back calmly with the knowledge that Canada is a great storehouse of food—that our fighting forces and we at home are sure of ample food supplies. The beef shortage and the rationing of foods are evidence that supplies-are growing scarce. There are two reasons for present and threatened food shortages. First, our nation is exporting more food than ever before in her history. Second, our. farmers are short-handed. They need help because agricultural workers have left them to join the armed forces and to work in munitions plants at wages higher'than the farmer can pay. Because of the nature of his work, the farmer’s greatest need for help comes with seeding in the spring and ends with late harvesting in September. There are two very difficult peaks to get over with haying and harvesting in the Summer when the demand for manpower on the farm is tremendous. Experience or no experience, YOU CAN HELP. There’s an Ontario Farm Service Force Brigade in which you can serve regardless of age, sex or occupation. Five of the Brigades are outlined here. 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The Farm fe- Service Force places them on selected farms with every regard for their welfare. $ - y ___ Wages for inexperienced help are $25 for the first months plus board, room and laundry With higher wage’s arranged by mutual agreement. Experience^. Farm \ Cadets commence at $30 per month. Transport- ation to the place of employment is paid by the | force. Write for descriptive Farm Cadet folder. sW-sWw WH E-1 1 5! These are the wemen who work from six months to tlic year ’round on poultry, dairy or mixed farms. From 20 ydars of age upward" they undertake milking, feeding and care of stock, field work, haying, stocking grain, threshing, Working With horses and tractors. Giris or Women Who ®rc willing to 'engage in this type of Work should Write for full Infor* mation to the Director of the Farm .few : Service Force. Extreme care is taken 1 t, t. s. & !>■ ■t' sg te. ■s Tono In "HELP WANTED" A C.B.C. Presentation produced with the eo- operation of the Ontario Farm Service Force. EVERY WEDNESDAY 7.30 PJ4. W ...................relatives or frlenda iti the eouniry to spend their boil- days Working Willi them ’ dtiring tlic peaks of liayinR, g harvesting attd threshing. If J-qii Want to help and have no farmer relatives or to sec that members of tlic Woman’s Land Brig* a'de are placed in coil: Scn*fll situations With lunximuirn opportunity to : iff\ Jearti the job and where IH'I due consideration will he AWaa given for health tthd physical limitations, _..7_.....-........... ' friends ihe Ontario Farm wk ' Service Force will Uhdtf, r ; take to assign you to a ttitt- tfenial TtirriiCr. Tliousamls of Ontario citizens spent their l«olidetyn Wtklhji on farms jail summer, but more than rSver will be nccilcd this year. Why hot Join them? Write for full information Wday. ONTARIO FARM SERVICE FORCE, * PdrllartiOni Buildings, Toronto. I am Interested in doing what t can to help Ontario farmers this summer. Please Send me information on (ho Brigade checked below; Q Farm Cadet Brigade Q Farm Commando Brigade O Farmerette Brigade Q Holiday Service Brigade Q Women's Land Brigade Name......... Address...... Post Office. Ago fif under 21). Phone 'n F' .11.7 «■ v i»1 « » * « < »• ■ V ■■ AGRICULTURE-LABOUR A 10 A?