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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1925-11-5, Page 2"It's ;awful for me, without you," wm ee Jolla, Addie trembled toward Idea "4 know. Oh—I. know. But she's just life a child John, How could I :leave leers John laid hie hand oven". hers. "We wok have child=ren, tor,' he gag',and Addie began to cry. John came again and again. The last time he said; "You don't love me enough, that's why," They were standing beside his buggy in the late tv ill ht. She eovered her face with H66dt her hands, then ran away into the house. Their letters ceased after that. The following spring,. when Almira came out to spend the day, she said, "I guess 'maybe you heard about John Moore's getting married. Folies. thought he was going to pick you, one time." Her mother lived on :for nine years Wore she died; their father became ill with, cancer and Henry had come home to carry on the farm. Looking back, it seemed that her ]mother's ill•- ness was easier to bear than her father's; he never lost the use of his tongue, When things got to going well; Henry married, He was forty at the time, Addie a few years younger. He married a nice girl. It was right that a man should marry. "I'm ' going to get nee a school again," Addie told them one day a month or so after the wedding. In the Iittle district school that At last she was a teacher, conscious "Sho 1" said Henry, "Why, you'll weathered the winter storms beyond I of the aura of consecration that sur- always have your home here with us," thei y crest of the hill, sli.e had always rounded her profession in the eyes of It was not that Addie- doubted her stood head of her dans, The teacher her ,,old neignb"i;•rs and the new ones welcome not that she wanted to leave said she was bright; other people said near her school. Before the first half them. Only, to be a teacher 'again • , she was smart. Her facility with her year was over she was conscious of So she did what she could to find'.a studies gave her distinction in school something else far more invigorating. school but there were young gigs ,end the folks at home were proud o She had a gift for teaching. She everywhere looking for the same •her, could make things plain to'her pupils, thing—and finding it, She was the youngest of the lam- by her gentle persistence urge even In the end .she went to work for old ily, but she passed her next older the most reluctant of them along the Mrs. Stoddard in town, It was a big sister by two grades and was in the path of study. And nothwithstanding' house, with lots of fine things in it. sametclass witSh r breth r, whoyand was her gentleness, or perhaps because of `Mrs. Stoddard liked her carpets swept it ,.was he who said at supper, before her •patience that was _never ruffled-• and the rugs taken out and beaten. the whole family, the daythe rade or hurried, etien the big boys became' Addie grew thinner. After some years ated from the district school: g submissive to her discipline. It inay Mrs. Stoddard died, and left all her "I'frm going to work. But Addis's have been kept them that t her mere personality • money to the missionary society, ex-. got to be.a teacher. She's got to go dept twenty-five dollars to Addie. to. high school, pa, and be a teacher:' "Even the toughest- of those big Just at that time Heney s four chill For in the opinion of such people boys Moore, you,neday 't they?" asked dArdedn1ecame flack to the farm.fever,own with scarlet . so at that time, teachiranking only not work, He had come in a buggy to drive As it happened, it never did seem but a calling, ranking only below the pp minister's in dignity. So to Addie her home over the muddy roads of the right time for her to leave until- thatronouncement of Henry's seem-; April, for she boarded with his sister; Henrys family had increased to seven. ed as momentousas ma nificent as a mile or mare from_ the school, He, After a time the older -children were the announcement in the dawn of a 'had sat in his buggy and silently ob-i big enough to help, and Addie began British Prime Minin t to the young served the small final scene of the j to think about finding a school again. Victoria. Akin dem was beingoffer-• ed her. school day. Some of the older boys i She tried every way she knew, Once g - were making a mud slide from the' the school board let lien substitute for All he family stopped eating and schoolhouse steps to the road. Addie, -a week. t a y s pp d moment from the doorway, said quietly: Then Almira fell down and broke looked at her. Then after a mo e their father said "Whyes. I guess "14Iaybe you'd better go home, boys." her hip. Both her daughters were maybe, so. y' Of course they appeared not to hear, married. So of course they sent for She worked for her board during and covered their departure with sun- Addie. Alneira's husband gave her a the four years of high school, but at dry cuffings and scramblings Addie nice pocketbook foe Christmas- their end she was given a little school picked. her way around the slide to. Next year she went to keep. house some twenty miles down the vol=ley. the buggy. She laughed a little at for a widower with four children. She John Moores remark. felt she must earn some money, and "My brother Henry says I'm real save, so she would have something good at training all sorts of critters," laid by for her old age. She stayed she told him. "There's nothing I Iike in that place until the widower mar - any better than training a colt. And ried again. - all -our hens follow me around, all She went back to the farm for a things." ``'`° the place. I'm real fond of young good rest, and because she wanted to �'� �,�, sea them all, especially the baby. p 25,E �. Young things. John Moore looked 'All -All -the children loved her. They sideways down at her. She was so, minded her better than:they did their young, herself, and so pretty. He.;own mother. could --see her with the colts and the' She would not have stayed there as hens, and children, He was only a ,long as she did, though, except for the few years older than she was; and al-. fact that there were measles and ready she was becoming desirable int whooping cough in the .school . that his eyes. year, and one after another of the He was working and saving toward children came down with them. It a farm of his own; some day .. . I did seem foolish, but Addie herself But not yet. He felt himself unworthy! took the measles. , of her; but before the second year was l It was provoking, tdo, and made her over his sense of unworthiness was feel ashamed, that after the measles borne down by a stronger feeling. i she became rather deaf. • Before she went home for the second! She became increasingly aware that summer they were openly "going to-, Henry's house was crowded too. It gether." In that time and place, that wasn't that they did not want her, fixed them in a definite relationship., But -it seemed better to find work That summer her sister, Ellen, was somewhere. married. Almira had married while 1 She went to keep house for a very Addie was in high school, and- lived old lady who. was even deafer than with her husband's family in thenear- "she was. It seemed—well, queer, to est town. Two children had come, and be in a house so quiet, without any Almira had settled into a state of children. disheartened, querulous ill health. But she stayed in that place four The preparations for 1e n s wedding t years, until Henry's wife died. His meant more to Addie than Almira's oldest daughter was married,_ the next had.• For one thing, she helped Ellen' one was teaching school, another was ,,,,, , , sew; and,while she sewed her thoughts.•', off in the normal school, studying. , ldi27 t`'.f `M wound themselves into dreams. 1 • Sometimes she helped the baby with Before the next summer came John his lessons. His name was Frank,and Moore told her. that he had almost I it was silly.of her always to thik of enough to buy his farm. He had set -1 him as the baby. But that was the way she felt about him. After a time there were only two'. boys left at.home. Then the older one married, and Frank went oft to col- • g p p lege. He worked' his way through and .re seal a in airht alu iin u foil. Their fresh flavor is liner than any japan. or us>.powcle r. Try SALADA. C BY EDITH BARNARD DELANO. makes your food do more good. Note how It relieves that stuffy feeling after hearty eating. Sweetens the breath, removes C food particles from the teeth, es gives new vigor to tired nerves. Comes to you fresh, clean and full -flavored. you FALL AND Wi :TEI means entertaining. Yon will have to think of fall clean- ing. For S1D small we can reno- vate or dye your r u g,s , furniture cover 's ,; curtains, drapes, etc. Prompt i fail Girder; Service. Carriage paidone wa'`. ARKE 1 .DYE• WORKS LIMITED LEANfRS&DYERS ri 1m1 ' ,;'O? .it',E, ST tied on the one he wanted; there were many for sale in those days. He took her' one day to see the house. It 'heed - 'ed a bit of new roof, and paint and bright a. ere. They would not need i much furniture at first.. If his first sett'' -ed' in the city. After a year or. 'married e crops werecigeed, they Shue two he brought his. bride` to see them. g year. wasAddie loved her at once.- • Before they calmly happy; but ..in April got the letter calling her home. Her mother • had had a stroke, and there was no other woman . in the family to take ty "cane of her. . Mrs. Hurd never recovered her r power of speech, never again uid � do more than make h r ;,- s known by s ; -' ; ern c Addie alone knew the meaning. After a year or so, she could be dressed and set in a chair by` the stove or the window. Addie had never a moment of impatience. As the toil- some', months wore on; her mother came to seem like a baby to .her,. Sometimes she would kiss her moth- er's hair after she had brushed and knotted it. Sometimes she would put leer cheek against that nerveless end. Sometimes she would say, when her mother whimpered, "There . now, my •baby, you be good and let 'Addie get on with ler work." She and John More wrote to each other, end sometimes he carne to sea: I her. Ile was working hard, and at last, on a Sunday, when Addie had. cleared away the midday dinner, he asked her to go, for a drive with him. Her mother, from her place by the window, made strange inarticulate sounds. "She don't want me to go," Addie interpreted, "We'll, ' just sit on the Porch steps, Jobe." He told her aboutthe house. die Chad it ready. His planting was done land in the pause before haying time he wanted to be married. Addie titre ed very white. I "You see how ma is, John, There's TORON TO anobody gee but me to take aired her. kShe's o pitiful, too, halving to• sit there like that. It must be so awful ISStJe' No, fee lien" Vaneeleses al e � Mustard Use it in cooking as well as on meats, sandwiches and for salad dressings. Iieen's Mustard adds spice and zest to cooked dishes—brings out hidden flavors—puts a new relish into familiar cliches, and aids digestion by stimulating the flow of saliva and of the gastric juices. /Recipe Betook Free Our new book will show you how toimprove your cooking. Plenty of recipes. Write for a copy to-day—it'sP+REE. C0LDlIAP1•nrEN (Cana d; bcpc, IP, IO Anhcrstet. 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If you know of a good case write your letter NOW. Ob- serve the above conditions carefully of your letter may be,thrown out,, Address all letters as, follows:— The Dr. Williams' -Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Letter Coptest Department went back to the city. Molly put her arms about Addie's neck and kissed her. "You're so wonderful, auntie," she said. . She!" said Addie, because- she did not know what else to say. , It seemed stranger than ever, after they left, with only herself and Henry at home. Still and all, she thought, she and Henry always liked being to- gether. Evennow they had their-. jokes, for Henry never minded' her. being a. little deaf.' Fortunate'.y,•her. deafness hadnever increased; some- times she caught things quite That was -what happened the day. of Henry's funeral. Most of .the .chil- dren came home for it; two lived too. far away. Addie knew they had'talk- ' ed about her a. good deal, during those `days. On the afternoon after the burial they were sitting in the, parlor: They did not think she could hear. "There isn't a spare ` inch in my !house,'" said one of Ahnira's daugh- - "I'd take her`," sairlienre 5 eldest, "but when your children are as old as mine 'are there's .always aoung com- pany. I never know ]omany I'll have." - Frank was out of the roam, but Melia? was there. ,As far as Addie could see, she was. taking no,partin the discussion; she was smiling at little,-al'gof from them all. Thdeswife of the, oldest boy was speaking., "It's awful," she said, "to 'think of an old person's not being 1 wanted. Why, she's: only seventy- four. She can do a good day's work }yet. I think it the duty of one of the nieces to take her." Frank had come into the room, Re was a big man, and they hacl all been conscious that his success in the city' had made him—well, different, "Are you talking about auntie?" he asked, "Because none of you cam have her. Mo11y and I have wanted her ever since we were married,' but we couldn't take her away from pa." Addie began to tremble, Mely crossed the room and -sat down beside her, putting her lids ease to the o:d woman's ear. "1 want you to 'teach ins," she. said. Addie choked for a moment, looked off as at something afar. "Why, 1, haven't been a teacher---for—fifty years,"+.she said, "1 want you to teach me," said Molly, "to bring up my ehildren .as. vtte.l as you brought up Prank. I want you to teach' us to live the way, you hay." Addis's eyes turned to Frank. Ile sasoremsaeaaisietroustaivai hh this i.�8oap 4st. i t The thick soap -sudsy solu- tion — a wonderful even soapiness—goes all through your clothes loosening even ground .in dirt. TAILORED CLOTH FROCK. Molded in the new silhouette, on tailored lines, this frock will be indis ;pensable 'for general wear, to the smart` and carefully dressed miss and. small woman. 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Given good health; there is nothing in the world to stop you from ;succeeds ing if you try. Gall to naiad the people you know and have read about who have fought against great odds•, and often their own disabilities and have gained their sad because they believed. that they could, Milton was blind when he gave us "Paradise Lost" and •"Paradise. Re- gained." Lord Byron and: Shakespeare were lame. Beethoven yeas : deaf. Alexander the Great was small of sta- ture. Nelson, was delicate! so was Na- poleon .Bonaparte. Think of - the, moderns anti their difficulties. Arnold *Bennett wrote from, New Year's Day to New Year's Eve before any editor took his MSS. Corki sweated in, his bakehouse, Kipling started in obscur- ity in India. Each one of these said to himself: "I can if I will." They Willed and they did! "Ours is the world an•d"everything that's in it" If we will only lay claim to it. There is nothing to preventus when we make up our minds' to go. for- ward. Our strength is tremendous when one cosies to think of it. The. •psychologists° speak;, of this as auto -suggestion! tbalst'a man may say to himself: "You can if you will," and he invariably -does. It doesn't mean an over -abundance of confidence or •swell -headedness, ,hut` -just a quiet belief in one's own powers to accomp- lish a task. We meet some who 'Say they have tried, this and it doesn't work. There are people who interpret this self -con- - fidenCe as running one's Heald at a well and reeling biiok. It ds' ,not that at all, The greatest thing a man has in his mind. All is cOtroiled by that. Nothing has yet been -`abcompiished, "K but that someone has said, "I can do >, that." If a man's mind tells him; he '„ can—he can; and there - will be no breaking of skulls in the effort! The greatest mistakes weever make Is to sit with folded hands ,and say: "Well, I can't manage it!" Whether it be the job of chilly work or the learn- ing of a language or an act of service to e, neighobr, if we snake up our minds `that .,we will do it we shall find ourselves succeeding. The twiddling'of .thumbs or the be- lief that anything will work itself out automatically ie a stupid.. delasion. • The word "can" comes to us'. from the Anglo-Saxon word which means "to know:" So that whatever we may - know, .whether it he by instinct o otherwi?e,we are apt to perform. It . is wonderful what we . }snow and can remember. There may be mueli we don't know,' but it is surpr!ttng how much .we de know; and because we know, •we are able- Now, believe in whatever -and who- ever you like; but amid' all your be- liefs, put these..two iirat-your belief in God• and theif your belief in your self. Nothing can help you like these two beliefs. Let them'. dominate your lige. Finer your line dr activity and then say: "In the name of all that is best and noble I will win through:" You will, and othens'vviil recognize it. Two Flights. In his. volume of _Early Reminis- cences Mr, S. Barin; -Gould relates an amusing coincidence. As a little boy of not more than five. - or- six years old, he was driving with his father and mother from the family home at Bratton to Lew House, to visit his grandparents.„ The'equipage was a gig,, and he was `tucked snugly on the floor at the feet of his,elders. In descending Lew Hili+he says, the horse trod pn a roiltug t,tane and fell. Thereupon my father and mother shot like a pair of rockets over my head and -the splashboard.and fell into the road, I burst out laughing. My fath- er was very angry with me, and my mother looked distressed. . When re- proached,- ,said: "I could not help it;. you both looked like rooks taking flight from a field where you had been feeding." - "You bad, unprincipled• boy!" said my father wrathfully., "We might.both have broken our neck." "Oh,. then I shonid have erl"ed and not laughed." "I3ut, my dear," put in niy mother, "it was 89, rude. of you to sa•y we look ed like 'roo•ks." "I love rooks," said I. rust fifty years after this i was driv- ing my wife down the same hill in a ,dogcart, when I told tier this story; I Jr ad hardly,.concludedwhen---bother St!—at the aanie place down ,vent the. horse and I shot out,' No bones were broken, but the (knees of. My trousers were horribly hIacc:rated, None who have t e not formed such en attachment cen compaebend" how lovable an old pair of trousers' may be to one, As I was contemplat- ing the rents•, 1 heardt my wife laugh, and Hooked nit -half tproa•Chf ully, hall! angrily. 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