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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1919-1-9, Page 6alotherie Taking Her Chance. tete at sore of the .thiegs whit ehe 1 weeder if you have noticed in. has. eeeretly longedto do.. for yO1 ): neigeibothood these past few .hne candent because of the claims of months tat Mere:teed, tendency or. the I others? She Will do teem better Part of home -keeping women towards than :she et uld have done :Nees ago, 12 -expression? That is., a greater for age :awl experience have thasehe . ma -tuber of married women, mothers het their value. end excellent lioueekeepers who are Would it not he a splendid thing fQ beginning to do smite of the things us to think :that school days :never they have wanted to do all time lives are peer .—D,II. but have never done because of :Hoe or Cold. • • emite a little) of it in my eiwn little t An aversion for Itikeweemness, eirelee and I have been wonderieg if, whether in matters of political and it is "purely local," or if it ie ration -i religious allegiance or in affairs of • 'wide. - - • !diet, is characteristic :ef the race. For instanze, there is one womaai And the hostess Makes no mistake of thirty-six who has always wanted i when she serves a beverage either to study art. Up until this fall her Seining, stet:ming hot or very, vey ardistic. instinet ha e expressed itself:J.:cold; but when the tea brought in cutting over her old dresses fori neither hot or cold, but just in be- danghter, and eutting down father's.. tween, the is. sure of pleasing no one. old pants for sot, dresses havel One of the first rules that the pro - been reaily rather Wenderful for style,0fessioeal cook is given is to serve eII cut without a rettere. The hot things hot, end...told things cold, eneeher heti 'eecelleet hicas, but with !anti to serve nothing M. betweee. One •ne trainizig ' whatee'er the did not wonders why thie is. One wonders itnow how to express them. This fall ince we have been told, that ehe niade a great resolve. Aere ssj wed drinks aee not entirely beneeciel, the reed from her home is a school! and it has Oen been suggested that house where night class:ea are held.' thecerous growths in the digestive Amelia, other subjects taught is; system are sometimes produced of: dressineRing -deeign, and a part of 0.ery hot liquids—one wonders why the couree leesons drawMg. She', there should be an innate repugnance• decided to take up the • work. Lest! on. the pare a human .font for the: week the showed me a design for lace !lukewarm drink or viand. whieh the had drawn. and which her This is as good an explanation as teacher etilti was better than the work any:one can suggest: 'Bacteria breed of evme of the students in his day d in lukewarm temperatures. • They claesee who had sallied draw ug for =Inuit breed as long as the temper- yeare. ; attire is quite ae iinfaverable to their "Yoe never can tell what you're go.' breeding, and likewise kills bacteria lag, to he eallea on to do these days,": already developed. Hence instinct she nye, and "Tem and, I thought teaches the savage, -to drink water might As well 'be :getting prepared If i from the Pool Whose water is cold and I can do eemethine with deeasmaledng! te avoid the pool ,or spring where the • rn be in better share to take care di 'water is worm. • Or rather nature rayseef. An& anyway, I've teweyet makes the one palatable and the oth- wanted to draw. I hoped one of the H er unpalatabre., children wcrald take it up, but they can't draw a straight line, so I am at, it, after all these years wishing." prees of bousework? I have seen! RAPII) 'PROGRESS se,..,..us to gine them what they re - Aired, By this time they had gone so far that it wee impossible te cliscour- OF ART OF FLYING. age them -Led so they persevered until on Decernber 17, 1908., they produced a machine which rose from the ground ley means a its own power, made a AIRrii-kNE IS °Nix FRITEEN short Circle and alighted safely , YEARS OLD dirse Fliehe Lasted. Fifty -Nine Sec- onds, Present Record is Twenty - Four Hours. It was nearly two years later be- fore their machine was capable of fly- ing six miles. This accomplished, the Wrights had all the capital they re- quired at their dieposal. They were on the highway to fame and fortune, and never afterward were they obliged to look back. It is just about 15 years ago that successful flight in an- airplane, and the Weight Brothers made their first THE FuTuRE oF now people are talking about flying "agate Coeyrizet Rot:loam manses comean:toigagecial aereneettene with anlos, Allen CHAPTER XXXV. hear, and no more is it the word I'm - Jerry might reflect upon the com- for using to your Maguire replied, However wisely or regretfully plications that precipitate surrender "I've got to keep on till you feel inore than that about me." to passiou lead introduced into his "But if I can never feel more than life, he was not able to withstand the n 4 cm you across the Atlantic. Machines 'have RINE alluremeet of Nora's face Nora's "Then till you're willing to marry been built in the lastiyear capable of a speed of about three miles, a minute; THESURMA form, Nora's voice. He could eee me on liking alonei" flaws her character, he could elide II I did thato you wouldn't be cize the course the was pursuing and happy." an aviator has risen 28,900 feet in the "Not so happy as I'd be if you went air, and we have airplanes capabld, et MAY RECLAIM OogAstee HIDDEN disapprove of her ideas; but when he was with her he never failed to feel lame 15 tons. The single flight re- - the whole hog with me. But Pd be cord is 24 hours, as compared with the TREASIJRES„ longing and 'desire, to exalt al the good to you and proud of you, and I to aesure himself that he would find; when you found I wasn't a W first 59 seconds' flight a Wilbur erldence of his attraction for her, and guess, riglieIt idbtful . s ouif, ie the his- her ultimately as pliant in mind bad sort of a husband, you'd feel you Also I masc. Food Snook, and Aid could make nee a pretty good sort of such z ecord of progress in an equal once was the odd factor that made a wife. I'd be willing to take yoa tory of inveetion there bas been any 'lc - - - in body, That she t t: time. Navigation and Undersea their relations so difficult, was. uo so a . on those terms \sou i n t feel i t I ,11' t so gusty. I was ermeh of a gamble." ITEMS OF INTEREST Then there is the woman next door. Relating to War Activities in Which Before her marriage she studied mu -1 Women Have a Part. sic. But like many another woman, In the Women's War Museum DOW =laic went into the discard when the on exhibition In the 'Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, there is a stall de - babies arrived and disbweshing and scrubbing stiffened her fingers. The, voted to the Queen's War Work for girls are now fifteen and seventeen Women Fund. Among the many cut - years old. They have had several: Mita is a portrait of Queen Mary terms of piano lessons, and still have I to be driven ta praetice. A month wbieb. is being given to every woman in India who lied a relative killed in ago the mother said ‚over the back the wan One of the trades calling for the greatest thill is the malting of conn passes. This work had eever.been urn- dertaken by women 'until dilution of labor became necessary. Of the in- finite number of delicate parte de- manding absolute accuracy, women have succeeded in making all but two or three and even these will shortly be to their credit. The Roll of Honor of British women who have given up their lives that Bri- tain might endure now numbers 650 and the list is by no means complete, This, roll regards service and not rank and shows that, to England, this "choir invisible" is indeed immortal. It Is the intention of the British Government to make the Imperial War Museum a record as complete as is humanly possible of the way in which England did, her part in winning this war. Every British subject should in- form himself thoroughly as to what this exhibit includes. Whore each works at high pressure to contribute the part expected from him he is not trepared to either know or appreciate what other equally devoted. patriots have given as their' share towards vic- tory. This exhibit will do muchato dis- pel that lack and create genuine ap- preciation of the fact that all work was equally valuable. During the war the corporation of Glasgow employed women in its parks, on its tramways, in its clerical de- partments and its bacteriological la- boratory. Mrs. Burleigh Leach, Chief Control- ler of Queen Mary's Auxilliary Corps (Waac's) began doing "her bit" as one of the first recruits of that eplendid 'mother of patriotic British. women's organizations the "Weraen's Legion." That was, in September, 1915, and from that day Mrs. Leach has never rested. When. the armistice was sign- ed, Mrs. Leach had under her 40,000 women and girls of whom nearly 7,000 were in France. She was about to ask for 30,000 more. Although' one age limit was. eighteen years, Mrs. Leach fence: "I wane the girls begin their mu- sic, but I dread it. There is al- ways such a time to get them to practice. Seems funny, when I've always loved it and would give a good deal even now for their chance." I thought of my friend who is drawing. "Why don't you take the chance?" I asked, "Let the girls wash the dishes and mop the floor and you take the music lessons. They are old enough to show some talent, if they have it, and if they don't care enough about music to practice for love of it, why drive them to it? You spend the money on yourself." "Do you think I could?" she eeked Wistfully. "George waits me to. We were talking about it just last night:" "Of course you could," I said. "You can play better now than either of the girls." A half hour later I heard her at the piano, and for two hours she played scales and finger exercises. At noon she called across, "My fin- gers aren't near as stiff as I thought they'd be. I am going down this afternoon to see about my lessons." Perhaps the most surprising par- ses', though, is the quiet neighbor around the corner who always comes in if anyone is sick and does more in ten minutes than the average woman would do in an hour. She has had a large family, six children. The youngest is now fourteen, and they all assume that mother is their personal property and, incidentally, that she Isn't quite so wise as they are and needs careful watching. They have been in the habit, all their pert young lives of telling mother what she ought to do and deciding things for her. This fall she made a decision for her- self. She decided to go down and take the Red Cross nurses' aid course. The family was aghast The idea of mother going down town to do anything was beyond them. They told her outright she was too' old, and politely hinted that she wasn't refused to place the other limit say-, bright enough. But for ogee mother hag she had found that some women was "sot." at sixty were infinitely more useful "I've always wanted to be a than others at forty. In spite of her muse," she stuck to it, "arid doctors real importance Mrs. Leach is one of all say I do better in a suck zoom the most unassuming women imagin- than lots et trained nurses. You never can tell what's going to hap- pen. Father may drop off any mi- nute with his weak he.art, and the able, therefore delightful. She has none of the pushing, masculine traits of the woman who eennnands badly. Her smile is ready and her laugh in children won't want enie in their factious and genial. Knowing Ger, horn es. I'm going to get in shape to many thoroughly she pa'ophested the be independent if the need comes)' war long before itcan3e. Her husband So mother carried the day, and is is Erigadier-General Leaeh, corn now, and proudly tell everybody how mend of the famous South Wales lessons she • brings home on licr twice- Bordevers, a -week trips down to her elasses. In November, 1914, the mayor and he family think it quite ' the thine Council of the city, of Lyons 'work Provide An Antidote. way for marriage. Of course, if I'll thy this for myself; no one has bicycle repair shop, which they later Kate and her family found the strug- ever pinned anything on me, and no developed into a modest little factory. Science that gave the world the sub- gle too hard, he and his mother must one ever will, I've stowed ;may Here, besides making a comfortable marine may settle the future of the bop mem; even that responsibilit Y some money. How did I get it? By living, they developed their mechanic- "scorpion of the deep" be providing an he °ugh to be Able to bear aa a mar- grabbing it pretty much wherever le al skill. Which of thein thought a antidote that will completely neutral- vied man without too desperate re- was in sigbt—same as any business the flying machine first is a moot lee the "sting" of the hidden monster. sults for his wife. point.It appears that the idea was Indeed, It is not altogether unlikely s Nora, listening, agreed --"011, yes, pdwer I had to get me money. I had tune. I used What knowledge and that when the curtain is fully lifted e ." `Vrtiu won't ' d 'f knowledge and power that were use - either public ventured to speak of it serious- with us, Nora ?" and I've got all I could out of 'ern. naval scientists revealed it will be a ly to the other for fear of good- It would be nicer if we could be Just the way a public service corpora - found that the U-boat has been robbed of its terror. Already we know of ' depth bombs, nets, smoke screens, "zigzagging," torpedoes, mines, sound In view of the thousands of lives A curiouserty in elivinf to "Wouldn't it be quite a gamble for es 'it -is worth notieg that ference be swept from, the table ihto hoskliererrItannaegs,41enlisatrjaceterr41:1171:-.Idli"nik,do(linse'te hinadtwtielmatPela;eady: alIlddoIn'un't* Engineering, wrong no tic;, an an eve uri-• me?" au that have been lost in airplane crash- Will the submarine at the peace ough fixed. Seems to me the C011 retureed again and again to the en Wright lived to succumb years later the waste basket of civilization—ban- well to typhoid, never having had an RM.. nod as an “intolerable thing' —or will dispute over the propriety of her girl who takes me is getting a Pretty deut, and that hie brother Orville still It remain a member "persona grata" of securing and Jerry's accepting such sure thing. Not so many poss,bili- old age. Ile was in one accIdent, in Altura status of the submarine? to furnish, Size annoyed iTerty • ev and not so -many chanees for an up - handsome awl got hie way to make— Patrick Maguire might be disposed which he suffered a broken lege bis Fighting the laBoat and the cone mailer." - ties, meybe, as in a young thap survives and bids fair to reach a ripe the navies of the world? What Is the aid to his advancement at the law as companion, Lieut. Selfridge, losing bis ardly beast cunningly concealed within 1111:1; over t e fa se dthepit.erileon'smo`;rae; season rteit thaast ye eourse 1 enow yeu ve got in. an airplane disaster, civilization that the question of the New Itrid siossonrs gal; needed raocili, she aren't diere a good many people thai A Toy Was the Inepiration. future status of this instruerient a think—that disapprove uf yon?" Was deprived of the daily pleasure re& Now, with the time of reckoning clothes. She exasperated iii lisr her I've got enernies—pletity of 'em i life and becoming the first victim. of Its sheer coat of steel has so engrossed and she was no Ion e 'Ws PB 1, I- ," ,,, - N , `413 l It is said that the interest of the warfare has of necessity been defer- and excitement of dressina4ug in fine "Sure, Surest thing you know, Wright Brothers in flying , Was nest at lieu& a great towering iuterroge- aroused when their father presented tion point emerges from the thin mists them with a toy called a lielicoptre., of the sea at the bow of the sublime- unwillingnese to take up a svortbier Mostly among the reepretable folke terest in the fall styles and the new vacation and by her expectant ie- too. I guess my wife would6 frozen out of the blue -blood circles, a fragile thing that would fly for a Me; upon its slippery decks and evil- opportunities connected therewith But say—it's quite a gamble you'rethat Bilbow and Slosson had promised short distance. The plaything nettle- eyed perisco,pes is cast this shadow of her. , taking if you're waiting to marry i into one of them, Nora." ally did not long "'survive, but its ettue impend...Jug inquisition, reflected 1 wonders never faded from the minds full and free upon the culprit by the at ber quiz2ically, He Often -the evening that began with Re °lulled caresses ended' SV1t11 coolness, of the boys, though years were to searching sun of a reclaimed civilize - had stopped the car under an aeple le But the forces that drove the two tree that overhung a country road; i asunder seemed less strong than he couldn't be bothered_ with the interveee before they began the seri- tion. Aireadv it ha b de d tl at . s een eree i 1 ose t at were pulling them toeetli- - - ' steeeing-wheel during suth a vinous ous seedy of the flying problem. Germany must pay, end pay to tlaut- th h At sebool in Dayton, Ohio, theee*are IDOSri for the diabolical carnage enge ela ey parte on t e verged of eortheiersation as this, If th d h said to have taken little interest in 'leered groin the turrets of the U-boats wasn't thinking of such people," a quarrel, each one was soon Anxious N tire literate* °a artistic hilinohnn a and from the chambers of the German ora answered. "Just ordinary nice to bring about a resumption of af- people. I Was wonder they wondering 'what Admiralty, where "unrestricted War, fectionate relations. And in that iv e their study, but eanly showed them - ink o you. au see, I ve healei—" salves poeeessed of if strong aealytical litre" was ordered by the arch-villians Very fact, *might Jerry, lay the ra world. The case of the sub- hopeful promise for the h future, j ,—a 'Qst "You mean, there's a lot of peopof le • f I school studies Were cue short Mantle VS. the wcnid is about to be He told Nora of Kate plans and 's pl high-grade crook. Weil, I suppose aculty and were keen on mathematics, of the t think I in grafteikind opened a small called, showed her how they cleared the that's a good deal a matter of opinion. however, and they natured ridicule. However, the notion at last got it- self expressed somehow, and they set to work in their spare time with detectors, underwater guns, magnets the conviction that in the development and various other anti-submarine de- af the idea of the gliding plane lay rice.. s In peace time the submarine may be Made ineffectual altogether for wartime. That the submarine may serve hue were on the right track, and after a inanity in peace times in various ways couple of experiments they built a is contended by those in authority. biger model on the same principle. Already it develops that the submarine Model followed model, each a little will lead the way In 'undoing some of bigger than its predecessor, and each the wrong of ehe U-boat.' In the sal- vaging of sunken ships and the re- covery of lost cargoes the submarine will play an important part. Even be- fore the war this was proved feasible.' Millions of dollars' worth of vauable merchandise awaits reclamation on the bottom of the sea. Many vessels were sunk in the North Sea and the English Channel, where the water is comparatively shallow. Engineering thought now is directed toward the de- velopment of the best diving and lift- ing apparatus for this work.' Peace Time Pursuits. Navigation Under ice fieldi 'is an - With the first machine befit with.; other peace pursuit mapped out for these funds they moved to the sane] the submarine. Ports bound with ice dunes of North Caeolina, there t&. continue in more favorable circuth- stances the . investigations that they had begun in Ohio. Their first tenta- tive flights were made at Kitty Hawk in 1900, and their machine was supposed to fly on the kite prin- ciple awl carry a man againstfawind blowing from 15 to 20 miles an hour. the secret of ultimate success. Their first niodel, a sort of improved kite, aye them reason to believe that they of them adding to the enthusiasm of the young ineentors, How They Obtained Capital. Then came the time when they had spent about all their money, without, e of course, having received a dollar in return. It became necessary that they should either give up .the fascinating puesuit �r raise more capital. They appealed to their father, a retired bishop of the United Breffiren Church, whose sole property 'consisted of a emall farm in Iowa, and he, without a moments hesitation, sold it Mid gave his sons the necessary cash. The firet experiment was successful, fields during great parts of the year may be made comimmicabIe, accord- ing to submarine engineers. North, pole explorations via the submarine also are hinted at, the underwater craft escaping the long rigorous de- lays due to ice fields. As submarines in wartime have dynamited their way ahead with torpedoes, so, ittis held, ma,y they clear their pathway a ice Manses. although there was no man aboard, In engineering lines also it is ex - and they concluded that they had only pected to work revolutionarY changes. to increase the wing surface by a In general submarine engineering comparatively small area to get the e ‘'work, says an expert in the con - necessary lifting power. To their struction of breakwaters, lighthouses, driving piles and building abutments, and in the deepening and iraprove- ment of waterWays and harbore, the submarine will be utilized. In astonishment they they tound that this in- crease made an almost imperceptible difference, and they came to the con- clusion that they were either on the wrong track altogether or that the pecting for and the recovery and see - tables of air pressure in common iese aration of gold from river beds and were at fault. It developed that the seanoast 'bottoms, submarine devices latter was the case, and the Weights have been found te be very efficient continued. . For some time thereafter they con- and economical. A new method of laying tunnels under water has been tented themselves with gliding down proposed in which adaptations of the the hills, against the wind, and found submarine will Play a great part Thus hitewedaesedeaysyarldosmilaiktellflisighatvsaarof Wse.#vhearuati a utility entirely impart from that of a it is evident that the eebmarino" has danger 'or' difficulty. In 1;902 they military weapon.' It weighed 7b5130iltpot-ho their , first but heremolar. again To keepTheTfHat' ecid,.e of a. ceee5,;e, ceivecl a check. from hardening, smear a little butter Obstacles Encountered, over it,and so keep it from the air. They had supposed that there wore When bailing fish, always tie it up in a thin cloth and add a little vine- gar to the water. This makes the, had on you is clean gone, „and you fish firm and keees it:White, may be ready o chuck tneenoie at It has beenee's Hill ate cl that Noah's', nic"eY6ti-o' ark was 547 feet long, gi feetbyoad",i me to ger Dave out!" said Nora. 211d 54 -.feet high. Its ta Pac' Y, CC- "Why, I can't -belp liking anybody cc r aing to Bisholi we S 72,- that ,how.,.; rue he likes Tne,,y7 625 tOILS. "Liking's not the word want to in ,existolce tables by wll,toh they- -could, calculate from their own knowl- edge or Or pressure the speed at now, arid preduly eveeybody how out a, system of re-educatien foe the the folks in charge of the' ecnrse say French disabled eeldiers. and the wine thet moteer is the best in the, class, was begun the following month at I don't know whether it iS the war Vecole Joffre. That work spread even hi "labss hroug,ht these women out at that early date all over lerance and or' not. But whate;vee it is, I like it. has been adOplecl by England will tvir oat the way and inc., variations suited 1,0 the climate am ,t1,,er still -nee a med. time te nee Wee the nationality of nrineb maimea, vbich it would be necessary for the propellers% to spin in. order to' drive the machine. They learliedlhat there were no-s`uch tableS,, but -only a Set of: artiquated empirical formulae'. 'Here i again they had te make their, own eoe perit.euts; and rely. on .their olyn ob. all by 'ourselves, wouldn't it?" tion needs, well say, a banker to float "I'm sure you wouldn't find mother is, and the banker takes it out of at all hard to get on with." "I can't help thinking that any- thee corporation return—i.thith in same eings saying oluatmowfletdhgeeptlabnlidc' body else's mother Would be hard, —them a 'way. Or if I didn't find her so, I power. The banker's graft is ye - would probably jar on her—which spectable, and mine ain't, but from would be just as bad," "Mother and Kate have always got my point of view there's no particular difference between 'em. Of course, that ain't the usual point of view, but it's mine," Intricacies of 'finance it was impas- sible for Nora to understand, and she therefore did not urge him to be more explicit. But she did put to him a question that went straight to essentials. "If all the things you've done could - be proved against you, would they put you in prison?" (To be continued.) COLORS FOR SAILORS Navy Blue Has. for Centuries Been Worn by Sea -Goers. The blue color so prominent in the uniforms of almost all marines is of hoary origin. Vegetins, in his fifth book' on the military affairs of the 'Romans, traces the origin of this color to the Veneta an ancient people dwelling near the coast of Biscay, and well versed in seamanship. It was, cusomary among them to paint their outgoing ships as well as the masts and sails with a blue color; also their soldiers and sailors wore blue uniforms. According to our author, the Latin word. "Venitas" -which Weas both the name of..the color and that of the people, points to its origin. From the Verteti the custom was adop- tee by 'the Romans. Thus the son of Pompelus; after defeating . Caesar's fleet in a:, naval battle, wore the navy blue, although entitled to the purple. The Veneti were subdued by Caesar after a severe maritime war hi 56 B. C. "It's a 'good plan to put somethrng - by for a rainy day; a little sunshine, ler instance." on all night, "Oh, yes, a mousy little girl. Pm afraid she wouldn't find me so easy." "I don't feel that I could leave mother to live alone—" "What do you expect my mother to 'do?" "I thought that she and Dave—" "And suppose that Dave wants to get. married some time?" "Things could be adjusted somehow when that time came." "What makes you think that your mother would be willing to have me come into her house?" "Willing! Why, she looks forward to it." That assertion mollified Nora. ,"Does she truly? Of course that would make it beTter. If she liked me a lot, and would always let me do just as pleased—" - "She would." ."Do you think so? Of course I really wouldn't mind, Jerry,—at least not very much. I only thought it would be nicer if we could be just our own two little selves." Encouraged by the successful tee- mination of this skirmish, Jerry pressed foe an assurance that Nora would marry him just as soon as the departure of Kate and Peter and Betty made him free to get married. She asked how soon that would be; and bearing, in mind what, Kate had told him, he gave her an approximate date. "Oh, no I think Pd better not promise " 'Nora saia. "After what happened before I -think ,its bad luck for me to make a definite promise of that kind." "But there isn't anybody else now that—that you couldmake such a mistake with?" Jerry asked suspici- ously. . "You silly boy!" Nora Covered he confusion and bei niushee by mi. - bracing him and letting kiss -her as long as he would. The truth was, " she had Patrick Maguire very much on her mind. Ma- guir4consternatiOn over having been unable to contribute in any way to Dave's release had been quite appeal., mg . He took her out in his auto- mobile and gave vent most plaintively to his disappointment "Not that begrauclge your brother hie freedom a bit earlier than what -we expected," he said. "But I was looking forward to haying a hand in it. I was hoping make you feel a little grateful to, me, Nora. 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