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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1921-3-17, Page 6jai For Purity, Flavour a,rt Aroma El 41A. fl' you have not tried ite send tis a post card fora free sampte, stating the price you now pay a.nd if you use Black, Green or Mixed, Tea Address Salad&,Toronto B716. �tU By FREDERIC BOUTET. (Translated by vWrmn. L. McPherson.) The servant, an old woman with ant know. I had to come. I have been impassive face, returned to the elite - chamber where the soldier was wait- ing and made a sign to him. He fol- lowed her through the semi -darkness come. For two days I have kept pass - of a salon, apparently in disuse. The ing before your house, without daring hobnails of his heavy shoes grated on to enter, But to -day I had to: I the floor. She pushed open a door, for him. ° He. entered. A gentleman who was seated at a desk near the window got ,.ita lumber in Paris two days. I came for only • one thing, and I had to wait three months for my furlough in order to couldn't help it, Think—think of it- her letters—" His yoice left him. "Her letters! They were all I had. ingly. He was tall `abut somewhat bI ani a miner from the North and my stoop -shouldered. He wore a short family stayed on there. But her let - beard streaked with white and there tern -they took the place .of every were ,deep furrows in his face. His thing. They always said exactly what eyes were hidden behind spectacles. ought to be said. You could have be - He put down the book which he had lieved that she had known me all my in his hands. "Please be seated," he said, in a politely colorless tone. "What can I do for you? _ I am M. Noirtier." The soldier took a Leat. He had to make an effort to keep from trembl- ing. A frightful embarrassment left him almost tongue-tied. His bronzed face was clouded. He could no longer. understand how he had had the audac- ity to come. He couldn't remember what he had meant to say. He would gladly have turned and fled. Not dar- ing to look at his vis-a-vis, he gazed mechanically about the dully lighted froom. Against the walls were some books in oak cases; a little fire, hardly sufficient to warm the chimney, flick- ered in the grate. Through the win- dow the November fog could be seen He gave a sob. M. Noirtier, his settling down on the trees of she Lux- head in his, hands. listened. "I beg your pardon .for telling you all this," Perrot went on. "I can't help' it I must say it I have suffer - life. She talked to ine of my parents. She told nae that I would see them again. She spoke to me about myself and; told me , the things which people think in their hearts but don't know how to explain to themselves or others. She just said the things which I needed to ` hear, those which add to one's courage, which snake one see better why it is necessary to fight. And other things, too. She told me what was going on here, in Paris— stories which made me laugh. She gave me advice as to how to keep well. In short, they were letters expressly for me. I looked for them every. week. And when I was in the line I read them over again. That helped me. Now it's all ended—" embourg Gardens. It was nearly dusk. "What can I do for you?' M. Noir- tier repeated. The soldier made an effort. "I am Louis Perrot," he stammered. "I carne—" "Ohl yes. Oh!! yes. I know—" M. Noirtier spoke quietly, but his hands were shaking a little. "Youare the one to whom my wife used to write--" " "Yes. That's it. She was my god- mother." the soldier answered, in a voice choked with emotion, the depth of which contrasted strangely with his simple and quite conventional phrases. "Then it is true --then it is truet" he resumed, ~after a silence. "You see, I couldn't believe it." M. Noirtier made no reply. He Hooked steadily, withoutseeing it, at the book which he had laid on the desk. Finally- he raised his head. "I thank you for coming, M. Per- rot." he said, in his distant manner. "My wife was parch interested in you. I know that. For that matter, she was always very active, very devoted. She was engaged in many relief works. She wore herself out on them, even after she had become ill. But who could have believed—it was so :sudden!" He stopped and made a despairing gesture. "Don't Iet's talk about that. Let's *talk about you, M. Perrot. You must have found yourself greatly neglected in the. last three months. Grief oughtn't to snake us egoists--especial- 41y so far as you are concerned. I should have thought of that before. I ' can't :e t"'znyself as your correspon- dent I am too much tied down with may work. And really, I couldn't write letters, to you—not in any case. But I have some relatives— " The soldier straightened himself up In protest. "I don't want that! I don't want that!" .he cried. "I don't want any- one else! I didn't come for that pur- pose. I came in order to find out—to It was another lady, an acquaintance orf yours, who wrote ane:' Ile stopped again, and then resum- ed. "She offered to continue writing tq me, since now I hail nobody, But 1 didn't: want that. That would have prevented my thinking •alway"s—" He lowered his voice andwent on. "I had hard work getting it into my head that it was true. Sometiines I didn't believe it. And perhaps only since I have seen you—since 1 am here, where she was—that I al- together believe Now it seemed almost as if he were talking to himself. "We soldiers out there—we know that we are likely to be killed. We expect it. It may :happen at any mo - n -fent. So it never occurs to us that ,people in the mar can die. And here I am, ,alivel And she!" Ile stopped. A deep silence fell in the gloomy room, where it was fast growing dark; There was a sudden break in the silence, and the soldier noticed that. M. Noirtier was sobbing. "I have made you suffer," Perrot stammered. "I beg your pardon. I shouldn't have conte. But couldn't help it." M. Noirtier didn't raise his head, "No, no; don't apologize," he said. He tried in vain to control himself. A still more violent sob escaped him. He couldn't prevent himself from groaning: "But I am an old man. I am alone --without hope—without her." "Yes, certainly," the soldier mur- mured. M. Noirtier finally collected himself; He -sat therein the dark, absorbed and silent. "I must go," said Perrot. "Yes; I must go. But I would have liked-" "What ?" asked M. Noirtier. "Well, I should have liked- If it isn't possible you must tell me so. I should have liked— If you have, a picture? I should have liked to see. her." M. Noirtier didn't answer. He light- ed a lamp on the desk and pointed to a pastel on the wall above him. The soldier saw a delicate figure, with blonde hair and with clear eyes, in which there was an expression of sweetness and thoughtfulness. "That was made some years ago,"• said M. Noirtier. "But she hadn't changed at all." Silencefell again. They stood there, under the eyes of the pale fig- ure in the pastel, each pursuing his own memories. Then the soldier went away. Y, (The End.) edtoo march. Think of it! I was on relief with`. my section, when I got the letter. I didn't even look at the en- velope., n-velope., I was sure that it was from my godmother, since no one else ever wrote to me. I went to a quiet spot to read it, so that nobody could inter- rupt me. nter-rupture. I wanted to be happy all to myself. And then—then I opened it and read. At first I didn't understand. Grandfather smiles f 'while Baby ' -tells him ho' nice his 'tC ells. beard feels and how sweet a �rrt aa The secret is the morning wash ,with ' L•3aby s iOwrA Soap—the soap Mother arsesfor hers/4f and for the children.= Roses of France and other natural perfumes gime their aromato a•1 s,'. Women! Use "Diamond Dyes." Dye .Old Skirts, Dresses, Waists, Coats, Stockings, :• Draperies, Everything. Each pacgage of "Diamond Dyes" contains easy directions' for dyeing any article of wool, silk, cotton, linen, or mixed goods. Beware! Poor dye streaks, spots, fades and ruins .ma- terial by giving it a `dyed -look." Buy "Diamond Dyes" only. Druggist has Color Card. Do You Like Sweet Peas? I Charlotte Grant is a fifteen -year- old girl who has made herself famous growing sweet peas. When asked by the writer why she grows sweet peas, Charlotte answered at once, "Because 1 love flowers! One year I had twenty-five different kinds of flowers. Then I decided it would be better to make a study of one variety. Through the school .I got started in sweet peas and•this is my fourth year raising them.'.' So Charlotte has been the "sweet -pea girl" of her neighbor- hood since She was eleven years of age. All winter she plans and looks for- ward to her summer garden. All the string that conies around bundles is saved for tying the summer's blos- soms, for training the vines up, also in winter there is time for reading the best books and magazine articles on sweet -Pea culture. Charlotte's first interest is in the pleasure to be had working in flowers, watching them grow and !bloom and enjoying their colors and .fragrance. She walks through her garden dozens of times a day just because she is so fond of the flowers. To the boys and girls who like to make their own spending money it will be of interest to, know that on five rows, one hundred feet each, Charlotte made :$150 last year and expects to make more this year. She has a very good system o1; ecdount keeping so knows just what her expenses have been: Plowing .. $1.50 Seed 12.00 Fertilizer , .. . 2.50 Striae ............... . .. » . 5.00 Total expense$ 21.00 Sweet peas sold 171.00 Less expenses ., ,.. 21 .00 $1500o Besides the flowers sold, there were flowers for the house, flowers to send to her aunt in the city and flowers for the neighbors. This is one of the interesting things about her business 'career: Charlotte frames lier own price and gets it. A local florist takes every blossom that she has foto sale, in fact she grows practically all his sweet peas fol° hila. She gathers the blossoms early in the morning,ties thent in bunehes of one f,Itneircd each and tnkas them to nnti.r- l.et in a pretty ficl;rc' bds:l'et, The t,iinard's C raiment for Burns, etc. MADE JN.CANADA BY CANADIAN PEOPLE MODERAtE IN 'I O' E ~FIRST CR DE IN. A UAIITY Ask Your Loom IT'S YOUR GUARANTEE eaten. TRADE �, .,.> MARK ordinary market basket would do, but Charlotte thinks they look so much prettier in a flower basket. To keep them fresh, she places <.a piece of. newspaper in the bottom of the basket, then a layer of wet paper and stands the sweet peas up in the basket. A paper may be used to cover the basket but Charlotte wants the flowers to look pretty so she goes to "market with their heads bobbing over the top of the basket -,bunches of white, pur- ple,salnion pink and deep pink sweet peas of theSpencer butterfly variety. Last year,she carried two hundred and sixty-three bunches, or twenty-six thousand three hundred blossoms to market. The best day in the year net- ted twenty-five dollars. Charlotte can pick two thousand blossoms in an hour. When asked if that was not pretty quick work she said, "Yes, it's quick work, but I have a quick way of doing it. The florist showed me how to just bend the stem the opposite way from which it leans and it will` snap right 'off. This way you don't have the piece of the stem left to take up the moisture from the plant." . Of course sweet peas do not "just grow"—they require plenty of hoeing and weeding just like other plants. This is how Charlotte -says she does it: "I have the ground plowed and plant them just as soon as the frost is out of the ground, 'I, dig deep trenches with a hoe, drop the seeds and cover them up net more than half an inch— if you cover them more it takes longer for them to come up. Leave them alone but pull the weeds out by hand G ON EVERY .. GARMENT Our new serial, "By the Law of -Tooth and Talon," will begin next week. The story tells of the struggle between Bolshevism and Justice and is full of dra- matic situations. You will not have a dull moment while following the excit- ing course of events which terminates in the - final triumph of Right over Might. first. My plants abloom from the mid- dle of .dune to"+the middle of ,' Sep- tember." . Here is a possibility for every boy or girl who likes °flowers. until they get to climbing on., the string. After they start climbing, you hill thein up, just keep the weeds out and cultivate in between the rows. "Cultivate in between the rows and then after you have cultivated at least twice, take grass and put in between the rows and bank it up well around the sweet Peas I take the grass that. has beencut from the lawn. The grass. holds the moisture and I never have to water MY'plants. After this there is no more care until picking time. "I have tried' the wire fence and twine on which to let the vines climb and I prefer the twine as they do not grow up quite to straight and they t lade theroots better. The ones on the wire`-rence:always _giit blooniing look and exercise a lasting influence. on his conduct In their relations a s wzth all who. visited their home -as with each other, with the boy himself,' and with the little ...Serving maid—both the father and. the mother were -unfailing- ly courteous, considerate and sympa- thetic. Over and above all this, they set him a constant example of diligence, of that earnest activity which is itself a powerful factor in moral discipline. Wedded by Eating -Out of Bowl. Training for Kindness. Training a child to be sympathetic, humane, and kind, is much more than a - matter of preaching these virtues to .him. In fact, it is primarily a mat- ter of giving him object lessons in kindness and surrounding him with an atmosphere of kindness. . Many parents forget this. They think they are doing all that they need to do when they rebuke a child for unkind words and acts, and tell him again and again just why he should be kind. Perhaps five minutes later, and in his presence, these same. parents pro- ceed to act unkindly toward eadh. other. Gross words are exchanged. Possibly there is an outright quarrel. Be sure that the child will not ig- nore this. He is all eyes and ears to .drink in theimpressions created by his environment. And the anti -kindness example set by his bickering parents is certain to be of more forriiative influence on his character than the ' pro -kindness preaching which- they themselves have signally failed -to practice. The parents -then, must manage their own lives wisely if they would 'have their child grow to,i1 e a man; or Woman of kind thoughts and sympa- thetic disposition. Believing as he- did in the impor- tance -of earlyenvironment influences of parental example, a fattier endeav- ored to secure for his son wholly en- nobling surroundings. IIe even laid down rules `to be ob- served by the maid of all work; a simple but good-hearted girl, in- her dealings with the child. 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Only by actually going thele writes Agnes Egerton Castle, the author, ;tri The London Daily' News, can one real- ize the sadness' of Paris, "I have just spent, three days," shall writes, "in the once City of Light, which: I had not revisited since the War. , I brought to it memories of _ streets, gold and blue and gray, like a delicate ,water -color, thronged with merry, busy people, brilliant with shops, kaleidoscopic with color and movement, The blue and gray and.. gold were there—bright, clear, frosty weather, with air, intensely vivifying, impossible to' describe save by 'the trite comparison, iced wine: To draW it into 3rour lungs see fined in itself a • 1 g sort of ecstasy. But there is no - oestasy in Paris; it is a sad city. , 1 "Its citizens are dressed nearly'ttil -I" inmourning, and even those who are "- not wear sad -colored clothes. You see a few elegantes in splendid furs, a,cer- tain number of expensive Americans, and here and there a painted thing with vivid liues, out of place and out of taste, lost and futile as a butterfly - in a winter 'of dark trial. But taken as' a whole, Paris is .,filled- with the gravity of those who -have only just left the death chamber. O Stamp of the Ordeal. • "Upon every countenance you see the stamp .of the 'ordeal: Men and women alike'have looked on horror so long, have so long fronted the ex- treme .of 'huniak suffring, have had so strenuously ,to brace their souls to meet . personal and public calamity, that they havetaot yet been able to lay .. off their armor. The eyes still behold, the soul still stiffens herself. France ' has agonized and France cann • of for- get. "And life is difficult. The people are cold and -food is scarce. Last year, of all- years; pestilence fell upon the cattle, foot and .mouth disease rav aged the restored herds. Milk is all but unobtainable; even the wealthy have to get a doctor's certificate for a daily pint for each child. You won derhow it fares with the poor. You • See tate pinched faces, and you guess. Sugar. too, seems "wanting-sugap ra. milk, these two necessary heat givii'. factors for :health; and with this, fiat shortage People _.Lrnooverished. "Signs of the struggle for existence meet you at every turn.., Along tho boulevards and nearly all the streets booths have been set up, filled with pitiable grinicrack wares, such as would hardly pass muster even in a. county fair; and as if it were indeed a fair, every 300 yards or so some un- fortunate arrests the traffic, gathers a ring about him of staring, silent peopled mournfully t'o display some feeble acrobatics. "Paris, indescribably altered,' heavy with the memory'of'the past, -weighted with the burden of present 'difisculty, hardly able, yet to look to -the bright- ness of the -future:!' It is only when one is there that one realizes how. little, with all our own great share of it, we have really endured, compared with the French, what it was the noble. and beloved dead saved us trona at the cost of the supreme sacrifice. "In contrast with London Paris is as a town still in a state of siege. Eng land never knew the foot of theenemy cn' her soil, slie never saw the town invaded, the home burn, never heard the ring of the conqueror's heel on her own pavement, never saw her youth, her girlsand her boys, driven Portal like cattle to toil for the aggres- sori,- "We ought all to bear a heart toward France very full of sympathy and for, bearance." Ears of Blind Serve The as -y es. One of the 'most remarkable iliven tions given by the twentieth centurs to mankind is the' "optophonc," which enables the blind to read ordinary, print. It was successfully testecl- a short time ago at the imperial College of Science, in London.,_ The contrivance, which ove,s• its creation to Dr. E. E. Fournier ci`_;be, of London, is equipped with. a tele- phone receiver which is adjusted to the ear of, the blind person •like any,. head phone. 'Musical notes in certain arrangements, respresenting the vari- ous letters of the alphabet, are pro • duced as the latter are passed over the inStruinent in tial ersiilg a litre of print. ' Up. to the present time ' the only.' known means for enabling the blind to read has "been tale raised -letter "s,'s tem, to be followed by. touch. Thid demands Specially- printed, costly and bulky volumes, with conseclneut limi- tation. of the amount of. literature,. available to sightless persons. Fur- thermore, the requisite 'sensitivenesd of touch is in many instances acquired with great dilffculty, es•pocially by< adults, hese sv'itnoo121, try the optophodiadntiie, whicgS hctia, FenGvcrcders al& books and newspapers available to the blind. A fair facility in the use of the installment can ?,'e attained af' terga few lessons