HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1919-8-14, Page 2r Housebreaker
By Florence Morse Kingsley,
Further down the street he tried'
again, to be again repulsed, this time
with a sxnartry shut door in face et his
hating request for food.
A third attempt was effectually
blocked by a big dog which bounced at
him, barking vociferously, as he at-
tempted to enter the gate. Other
dogs in different quarters of the town I
CHAPTER I. i you're an escaped burglar? I've a responded in a scattering chorus of i
In the dusk of a rainy autumnal good mind to -a•'' barks, He had never been afraid of
evening a tall, rather heavily -built Then he relaxed into a beefy dogs, but to -night in the darkness: and
young fellow shouldered his way chuckle in which he was joined by the the rain, this angry yelping filled him
through the gathering darkness with ferret -faced young man, with vague tel
the same steady, plodding gait he had ''Didn't take him so long to ketch He was walking rapidly now; like
maintained since early afternoon. His, on—eh, Charley?" one pursued, hunger and fatigue alike
clothes Frere sodden with rain. Oc-: Their raucous mirth pursued the forgotten .in the desire to escape from
cas'or:ally cold triek:es of moisture' sodden figure on its way to the street, that unfiendly village. There was
from his drooping hat brim made There were brightly lightedsupperfainhad•, tem ort in
he r f et that thesram
themst;ives felt on Ids steaming shoul-; tables in several of the houses he upper current of air the oleos parte
ders. His shoe. weighted. with mud, passed, with fathers and mothers and pP "
and water, cruelly hurl his tired feet.' comfortably clad children gathered in ed, revealing the cold face of the
"If 1 could find a barn somewhere," the cheerful glow. He approached ?noon,. Be looked about once mare in.
the back deer of one such house, search of shelter and saw close at
he The night
to himself. h =:raiz that his foot- hand an gid -fashioned pickei fence Caliadiau Voe-ageur under Direction of Ciinadian I�atione.l Ilailwati•s,, clearing for fhe:
night before he nearea sleet in a ° Fread.ng on t eWest Indies from Montreal, July 10th, with lI cargo of general merchandise.
d 4. hit skirting the road for some distance..
tumble-down ala h:�use the :bar
EXPANDING CAIN TRA
E
' of a barn and been awakene
h t through in h had waited cn the fanny, which appeared guarded- It t p 'rated white
tl r,:.igh the Broken roof. Why had
he r ? :'Ther there til, the storm . of a dripping rosebush lie watchedthe with flowers led to a verandah gar -
os
over? 'There wee art. ; a,cve, he .,•' 1 halting pancakes �t the stow" landed with vines. Late tioneysackles
red ruin
falls milt make no soon white- e -h -
haired gid grandmother was eating Presently he found the gate and stood She is eolteduled to return with sugar.
� rresolute staring at the house tt.
, r L- supper, and an appze-cheeked girl i 11
1' rain t ripping rot
vas a ice.
to be a large one From the shelter the fence; a gravel path bordered'
r meinca:ed, he might have lernaleu t h acting p.
�hc turned with a start at sound of were in bloom; their penetrating
fere and at lea:; kept w trii and dry, lzns thrid knocic, lfragrance floated out to him like a
lits enaYty stoniaclz fu-tti;h•1 the l "Scmed:in' t' etrt you're wantin'? visible presence. There was no light
ar. ewer,
`•tf I hadn't lost my money--'" was' Ani= rrl zddy. Go 'way from me kitchen, were busy: In the back of the house, e
his second hypothesis, mattered, er I`ll set the dog oil ,'e:" c decided. Ile would ask them for a
titre igh erased teeth. flick at heart, be hurried out of the crust and leave to sleep in the barn.
What could have lieeele of the yard, aware of the sudden commotion g work. Th
' � - _ n• � S the an e -
f illy in the corner of his handier- eheeked girl dispensed her pancakes " like this..
chief? He had drowsed for an hour and her information. (To
lander a tree by the roadside, being
weary with his fist day of steady
tramping. When he awoke --if indeed
he had slept ---the handkeeeldef was
missing from the pocket of his coat.
He sear. bed for it vainly, gaiug hack
over miles of his journey. Reluetatiit-I
ly he deeded that the rnerey had been
se:..len while he slept. There was no -I
thins for it but to go on.
Ile +gge?:y telling up the long slope
a hill, he paused at it to with an I
involuntary exe:amation Below him
te�inkhed the lights ell a village. From'.
thesteeple of a church a ?bell was:
cut very thin, and either brown or
white bread is used. A particularly
dainty and delicious sandwich for a
refreshment sandwich is made from.,.
cucumber~. Try to pick them all
about the same size. Peel and crisp
on the ice. Cut small circles of bread,
a little larger than the slices and put
one slice between, covered with a bit
of mayonnaise.
dd In the morn,na he Would wor c There
Sure it's a tramp ve are—an' all wet in any of the windows. Its occupants
h
If a more substantial sandwich is
lar „ a .1 must he work to be done at a place desired, a supper sandwich for ex -
"Chamber of Horror:." In London, of
ten dealer bili he ilea nnot.e,t _ o e r the dining room,, P
""Doctor" peals in Risks,
HIPSHIWV" IC 3 The "Doctor" is a man who deals
in overdue risks, and for an increased
FAIL TO Tliftli pretuium is willing to take tiro original
�" deiwriter's responsibility ou his own
shoulders.
Where the original premium was, say,
POSTEP AS "MISSING" AND "LOST" gds. per cent., the "doctor" detoands
five guineas --or, as the risk increases
through the continued non -arrival of
the overdue ship, ten, twenty, fifty. or
more guineas for eacnr.100 insured.
In sore cases an underwriter has
"JVhicli #lie Warta at Large paid as much as seventy and ninety
AT LLOYD'S.
be continued.)
ample, make a potato salad with chap-
ped chives, cut large slices of ereetn
bread, spread with butter, put a let- Knows Nothing. guineas per cent. to reinsure an over-
due Messed, wlitcln has turned up safe
tuce leaf on each slice and fill with ly after all, to his chargin and the
the salad, In the very heart of the city of Lon.„doctor's” great jubilation.
Another sandwich that is papult�r don there is a "chamber of lzurrarR" it is thus easy to see with what tree
with the nzaseul ne side a the family which hone but the privileged may en- Liidation a ratan Ilia has staked a
is an onion sandwich. Cut the onions ter, and of which the world at large large sunt on an overdue vessel most
into very thin slices and let them knows nothing, says a London maga enter the "chamber of horrors,'" dread -
stand for some time in cold salted sine, iizg day. by day t see the fatal an -
water to extract some . of their There is itothing at all gruesome in nounceluezat that must zneau a heavy
strength. Spread thin slices of brown the aspect of this chamber, which. is, loses and may mean absolute ruin to
bread with butter and a thin coating in fact, a small, cheerful room leading
ofmustard. Season with paprika and out of the great hall of Lloyd's, and him -
on the walls of which is an array o i lRinard,a Liniment cues Garza. ixt
A vegetable club sandwich makes a flimsies, yellow and brown.
be at up,or two or threeempty splendid emergency lumheon, Toast It is in these ttuioceat-loolting ;
Rooms For Farm Women ; p P . two slices o£ bread for each person pieces of paper that the latent, tragedy
Coma
s ep feint ' harking \' hat i. the value of a rest room' orange boxes might be put together and broil one slice of bacon, Have lies, for they tell of slips miseing and
F dog the haul, The z.. h tk, of draped with m:lslin and mace to serve
tet clogs arra the distant *at;Ic of i;. the nearest town or village to the ready lettuce, tomatoes, and mum- lost, and eachtelegram has 'quite n
wagon wheels ti Waled upwards thou:zglt farm :vomer. in the neigh?bring corn- the purpose of holding a b!Srary. A hers sliced. Put on half the slices a- tragic import:ince to some o the 150
,,# m z tiee It wood i,e anitieul to .
linoleum or con oleum on the large , then h •
r R l t nice !underwriters wile haunt the loom
Elie mist ar rain.
- floor will add eatly* to the attractive-, leaf of lettuce tomatoes, en
The road, descending rar'dly Irina estimate, hut I have not the slightest i the bacon and cover with cucumbers �` •
henever a leaves Part she is
tIc heights, brought the wayfarer into doubt that women who already enjoy, Hess of the room, and muslin omitted.
n5' and more lettuce. Add a spoonful a£ Insured by her shipleaowners at Lloyd's '
:'.hat was evidrntly the nein ,street,' tl:s,z, privileges would net part with I on windows should not be omitted. l mayonnaise and the second slice of against loss or damage to herself or '
f There are women's organizations in,
I, r he passed a grocery store, zdrug-' them for the Iniad. All state they toast and serve at once, her cargo: and this rick is divided
gist's window, with its green and have raazz} time. Leen repaid for the' every community willing to take rare' A very good sweet sandwich is made among a number of underwriters, who
purple lights, and a hole] v:ithcirann time and money ,pent in their c.=glib- of the rest room, though some perma by mashing berries; gooseberries and insure iter for certain sums rangini,
nent organization must stand back offront £100 to thousands at pounds, in
from the street under a rev: of drip.:eche l'.v the woman whoent. The has it to see that it is properly a ui pod,, eningn'them shouldande spreadingbetween return for a premium.
Bing trees. Tantalizing priors of p young,
area fox, and of continual and de-?
freshly baked biscuit and broiling , children, knows what it is to get them, slices o£ white bread when cool. Nage Gambles.
meat stole forth into the night. , nicely dressed. all looking spiel: and' l ndah1e service to the camnlzinity. Unusual sandwiches for a garden
A slip is passed round from one un -
The lad -he teemed sear ely more,' Mian, ready for zt drive of anywhere' party can be made by picking nastur- derwriter to another, ;Ind on the in -
in
in the light of the big arc -light from six to fifteen miles, to the near- ; My Veranda, ' tium, clover or rose blooms and pack -
formation supplied as to the destiva-
ir. front of the hots] --shoal: his wet est town to do her shopping. The day The old-fashioned house in which I Ing them about both the bread and tion, cargo, and class of the ship, the
coat with fingers that trembled slight is hot, the raacl�, are dusty, and whop; once lived had a long front veralYla' Lotter to be used in an air tight tin names of her owners and captain, the
ly. His hat apperxed reduced to .I they arrive at their destination, the facing the north. But it was little' box the night before, Wrap the but insurance required and its rate, each
drippin p pulp• after a moment's lzesi_ children are all mussed up, and the comfort we derived from it, for con- � ter In a cloth. When the sandwiches underwriter puts down on the slip the
tation he thrust .it into his pocket„th
moer feels tired, blown about and e tinually we had to watch to keep the
glad for once of his heavy thateh of ; untidye How nice it is to know that babies from rolling off of it,
curling hair, they can go straight to their rest' When my third baby came 1 deter -
"If I only had that money,'' he room, have a wash and tidy up gen mined to alter that veranda, so that 1
thought, and pictured himself eating eraily, rest a little while, and per-{ would have a safe, cool place for the
a hot supper at one of the white tables haps make a cup of tea, before they little folks to play and a comfortable
glimpsed through the windows of the start out to dotheir shopping and to , place for all of us to sit when the
brightly lighted dining room. "It was meet their friends. I day's work was done.
my money, all .tight," he added de-
fiantly.
The front door of the hotel, hospi-
tably wide, revealed glimpses of a
cheerful red -carpeted room. Behind a
white railing was a desk, and behind
the desk a ferret -faced young man, no
older than himself. He glanced up
at the sight of the big, sodden figure
which confronted him
Even if one is lucky enough to awn � I had the veranda screened in, a
an auto, the rest room is none the ( flower box built at the east end and
less valuable, as even in an auto one i a 3apanese screenhung at the west
gets pretty well blown about on a end. Clematis and honeysuckle climb -
windy day, and after battling with the 1 ed up the netting in front. With a
elements for even a comparatively i hook high enough on the screen door
short distance, one appreciates being to keep little fingers from unfasten -
able to get. one's hat on straight once i ing it, I could put the three little tots
more and the stray ends of one's hair i out there to play with their toys and.
pinned up. It is also nice to have a know that no harm could come to
"Hello!" he said, "what can I do place where one can meet one's friends them. Later I added a long strip of
for you?" and have a chat, instead of having matting, porch pillows, a hammock
His tone was doubtful. He had to stand in the street, or in some and a veranda table.
learned not to- appraise a would-be store. Undoubtedly women will come The summer that the veranda was
patron too hastily. to town much oftener if they know screened in I noticed that our living
"I—I've been tramping all day in that when they have finished their room was nearly deserted. I took my
the ran. Somebody stole my money. shopping, they can go to a nice bright sewing out on the front veranda, my
I want a job and—" cheery room of their own, where they husband read his paper while he rest -
"You're a hum,". decided the clerk can sit and talk with others or read ed in the hammock; the hired girl
promptly. "Get out of here—quick!" a magazine while waiting for the found the screened veranda the cool -
"Pin no more bum than you are," men to get through with their busi- est place to shell peas and beans ,in the.
contradicted the stranger "I want ness. This means a long dreary inter- morning and to crochet in the after-
noon; in the evening guests always
said: "Let's sit on the veranda, it's so
cool and pleasant here."
When it came my turn to entertain
the missionary society they voted to
have the meeting on the big front
veranda. When I needed three rooms
for entertaining a large crowd one
summer evening the "screened veranda
made the third and was the most pop-
ular of the three. Banked with flowers
and green branches at both ends, it
certainly did look inviting.
llify veranda became so popular that
the next summer there was quite 'an
epidemic of screened. -in verandas in
our neighborhood.
something to eat and a place to dry
my clothes; I can work to pay for
it."
"Oh, you can, eh? Well, all I got
val spent sitting in the oar or buggy,
if there is no rest room, which de-
tracts very considerably from any
pleasureewhich the outing has for the
to say is you got some nerve. Got a women. Many farm women say they
watch? Or a card? Any way to had rather stay at home than stand
around,
identify yourself ? Where did you
come from?" Rest rooms have a variety of uses.
In most places they are social centres,
where the meetings and entertain-
ments are had. It is very much -easier
rotund expanse unduly emphasized by to get a good attendance at a meeting
a showy double watch chain. The when it is held in a bright comfortable
odor of hot food appeared to attend room where the members are at least
his sleek, comfortable person like an sure of warmth in winter. Dishes are.
aura, The stranger drew a deep kept on hand, and es a rule there is
breath. He had grown rather white a small stove where a kettle can be
around the mouth.
"What's ups Charley?" demanded
the stout man, his sharp eyes begin-
ning with the wayfater.'s muddy boats
The door of the dining room opened
and a stout man with a red face came
out. He wore a white aistcoat, its
boiled, so that a light lunch can be
served with very little trouble, which
is greatly appreciated.
The establishment of a rest room
and finishing with his shamed face. is rota fiery ddficult problem. It is
„ necessary td secure a room centrally
,.,� Says lie lest, his money on the located in the town or city. Rent is
way,' draw1e the clerk. "He'd like
supper and a bed. Guess there's plenty naid for The nextithangttb doy lisato furnish
nnual tax.
mio where he came fromoi the room. This need not be expen-
tee `tis z'a i -f what i
go , Interrupted e e stranger. y a
„ suggest a couch; some chairs, inelud- smaller in fancy shapes this is an
not',��z,,Ve,�lne a ���auee?�; in a �of�er tt,*o� some >;�enches, a idea}, menu fax;thPporch to als2:
~'Ill iv�� Gu 'lust �ia1f a. minute to �:
are made they will have the flavor and for which he is prepared to make
himself responsible in case of loss or
damage.
The limit is entirely at the discre-
tion of the underwriter, and there have
been cases in which a man has ven-
tured £50,000, and even £100,000 on
the safe voyage of a vessel.
When a mats thus risks hundreds or
thousands on a stake so full of uncer-
tainty as the safety of a ship, which
naturally encounters so many clangers,
her voyage is a matter of daily anxie-,
ty to him until she reaches her des-
tination.
When she is overdue the anxiety
of the underwriter increases, and each
day that passes without the ship's ar-
rival'at her destination being reported
adds to it. He begins to see the wis-
dom visit
bed in
dem of reducing by "hedging,"
and at this stage the "doctor," as he
is called at Lloyd's, comes on the
scene.
odor of the Sowers used. Serve on
sandwich plates garnished with the
flowers.
Oldest Countries Least Advanced.
The history of China dates back to
thousands of years before human foot-
marks began to appear in Britain.
From Asia civilization spread west-
wards, travelling right across Europe,
and thence to America. To -day Japan,
instead of absorbing the apathy of her
'nearest neighbor, is touched by the.
westward flow, and is raising her
head.
The majority of domesticated ani-
mals are Asiatic hi origin, such as
horses, dogs, mules, donkeys, sheep,
goats, honey bees, chickens, ducks,
etc., and this alone shows that domes-
tic man had his first kingdom in Asia.
Yet it is strange that the countries
with the longest human histories are
to -day the least advanced.
Ideal Marriage Age.
Sandwiches, Delicious and Dainty,
From the Garden.
The mgst delicious of all the sum-
mer sandwiches can , be made right
from the garden. Nothing makes a
more acceptable lunch fora summer
day than a vegetable. sandwich, with a
o you. work or Iiacrisp, cool filling and a bit of mayon-
t " thet "Wh - sive. For the ideal rest. room let us naise and. a glass of iced tea. Cut
t" g yfew shelves for dishes and a small Lettuce ;s'andwie fes have for. a long
get oat o' that doer." The big man .stove. The main idea should be to time been favorites. To make them,
empliasized• his remark with a violent ick the lettuce the night before, wash
m ke the room attractive with the
gesture. "How do.I know but what least possible expenditure. Wonders J. thoroughly and put in a cheesecloth
can be performed with empty boxes bag on the ice. When ready to use; it
46'. L. SWUM/on Dean 8„Petted
Victory �o de
Italie= of Victor�y,EondA.vaill find dentate
prices quoted on the fib'•ial page of the
',Coronto morning papers. .
� .T. L. Mc1 INNON & CO.
TeV lers in Government and„1ri��ulcipal
IIoxds
:ua ittuaa t1 Ur., 33 itteliiid t, . ..' 'i orent
and some pretty inexpensive muslin. will be `very crisp, . Vegetable sand -
1 For instance, an empty apple ori wishes are always better made just
orange box can be transformed into before using, as the dressing softens
a. -washstand while another veoul'l their If this be out of the question,
make a ' dresser, A 1ool:ing-gla3s, they may ' be opened and the mayon-
needless to say, is a most' essential' naise or cooked dressing spxearl an
article, as are.also a wash jug and them....
basin. Paper towels cost very little,' Another good sandwich. is made
tomatoes simply sprinkled
and are.. more sanitary than the oxd 1from riper oti v kind. Booii-shelves should also:. with a b,it, of salt, The tomatoes are
Interesting points regarding matri-
mony are raised by a clause in the will
of a - London magnate. Much of his
property is left in trust for his Child-
ren, the income from their shares to
be paid to their mother until each
child attains the age of twenty-seven.
The maker of the will expressed an
"earnest wish and desire” that no
child should marry until that age was
reached. -
Ntinard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria.
NEWS
WANTED
TO SELL
Foster Oil Burners
We want e live man in every district
to demonstrate and sell a proved coal -
oil burner.
Fits any coal -burning range. Cheaper
than gas or coal, and has no pressure
tanks or holes to block up. No dirt,.
no ' smoke, no odor. A. real money-
making proposition for e. bustler.
BOIIUNZOI tiara. CO.,
118 Balmoral Ave. S., Samiltoa, Ont:
All grades. Write for prices.
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