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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1925-12-3, Page 22,4',•••••• The Challerij..:i • BY MELLA RUSSELL McCALLUM. PART II. The next morning Airnee was beau- tifully. penitent. She looked tired, N Li . s Th. Totanta Fto4na aal fr latt wt tt Etaltayus allek Aktijaa 140011"11$ Nap!. York CBI, adott threa ynao.$ $'.ountt 'at TrainIna .to yOuna, woman, 1..1.AY$114, t)-$ tetkato4 tanaktIon., and dcatroua kaaRMIP, aurats, Tata eclogue ttita,adatNtd thq *Wit' Pour *saga. ass supie receive ',uniform' ot the, tiFtwol, a montkly allowance' attli trwollno $txnetties to and from Nov York. rnr turthot Informatton apply to lila $SuottintalPoPt• , .. anyway, don't forget that you have a them. He had evidently recognized mission mese and a fie one. Shali Nielson's height across the crowd He pre we eat the rest of our lunch?" ssed the painter's other Ann. "Your etchinge, Adam!" isegan Neil - "Say; I want to get your ameeert got a real healthy outing, strm aight. AI doing a—a seeetao ael however. He wondered if she ever "iThey're notiim,g to the b . onny plc- . for you or for Challeuge . , ((Ever es,a pielmicking Aimee?" he w., ,, ture, man!" , 2 gor era The Scotsman eleolted over the asked "For 'Challenge,you mean." words. - "I Wn ent oan Automobile picnic one And, hee-ause he sate that she liked Clearly the building was doomed. Slinday in A.ugust." . the ccnicrete, he let it go at that. The walls might hold, but the interior l `!.1I -mi With thermos bottles, and a On the whole, Neilsen was rather was gene. Smoke began to curout past -midnight ride: down 13roadway, . "Why, how did yo a know?" plperhaps she had oiled a mental eased with the excursion. The girl ipf the wini dows- Glass snapped. Neil - had breathed pure air perforce, art f t d Peres studio was on the thrd floor. pegthat. ' The worst of the fire was still above , Neilsen smiled. to tie to; but her utter lack of Intel- I t"God! Ldok I". "Will you go on a fresh -air picnic lectual compensations made hira un- The Crowd sent' UP a cry of horror, With me next Sunday? Ola I forgot easy. How long could she reniain "as a studio window, not yet broken en- , —you have a Saturday evening steady? -- , swung open, arid a figure emerged, "I'm not going to keep that elath, sg He bad better get at his final gag. Aimee, Barefooted—in the blue shift. She stood on the'eill, and she had the gagement. 1-1e was ready for it now. Mr. Neilsen. I called that fellow up. aIt went fast. He knew his subject eggmeeo, bellowed Neilsen. "You. I got to thinking, you Were so decent not to bawl 'me out—and what if I didn't eat around herea11right Mon- day? But I didn't lenow yeas ever went out with a model." "I don't, It'll be like going out with your father." a - Afterward he had his qualms. How could he keep her from attaching sentimental interest to the excursion? And if she didn't, her mates would. She would tell them. She might even boast Many artists met their models socially, he knew. Well, the thing was done. He was going picknicking with a seventee. n - year -old girl. How Adam Beith would laugh! He packed a lunch with sandwiches, none too dainty, but nounshing, d a 11 ' "Then what, ter you?" brewed a. quart of coffee, adding She shxugged, and flung out her so perfectly that he didn't have to little fool!" strain for effect. Hendricks, looking She stood still, on oee feet, head over his shoulder, whistled. A too flung up. It was the poets! Neilsen gay sea, with a hint of malice under stared, fascinated, hardly—breathing; its joy. The girl in blue, laughing, for on her face was the expression he had missed getting in the picture— daringethe mocker. The canvas mea - real challenge—not merely gay ignor- slued three anclea half feet by four epee! He would never forget it! 'feet. Below. the 'firement were spreading But Neilsen wasn't quite satisAeds the life net. Inthe..„iltinshipof horror, s lie didn't know why, The girl was the throng silent. A . moment gay and confident. The sea was gee mere Aimee beld the pose:Then, with and confident. What more did he a gay laugh which all could hear, she want?" jumped. The blue drapery was on 'cit's almost done, isn't it?" Aimee fire. ' asked. There was a great, collective groan. The fireinen fought back the crowd, She took great interest inthe work. fought back' the three artists at the She had never before- posed so long edge of the rope barrier. The net for one thing. strained, "I suppose it is," Neilsen said. Adam Beith it was who caught up the picture unharmed. Neilsen -step- ped over the rope --over the protests— and picked up Aimee. With Hen- dricks clearing an avenue he carried her out beyond the throng. A dozen coats were whipped off to inake a couch for her. Neilsen laid her down' tenderly and 'arranged the blue shift about her. ,She was still smiling—a ghost of that last gallant challenge. • By this time Hendricks had found a physician in the crowd; but,Neilsen didn't need a physician to tell him that Aimee was dead. Haw she came to..be in the burning studio he never knew, though he guessed that. her love of "Challenge" had drawn' her there for a farewell sight of it; but she had done her last service to art when she saved his picture. • ' (The Where -Prison Means Honor. Prison life in this country has lost many of the tenrors, bet the "prison taint" remains. We are still very far removed from thd point of vieat of the natives of West Africa, who consider a terra af imprisonment in one of the Government prisons the greatest' hon- or that could be conferred on them. In this part of the world convict la- bor is almost universally employed for suck tasks as roacl-making, laying mit public' gardens, and building houees. In addition, householders who want any kind of job done are in the habit of, sending to the town prison, which will supply a gang of competent eau-. victs iu charge of a warden to carry out the work. As a result, the...Sateet African gets It into his .Woolly iieaiCthith hae been epecially selected to render ser- vice to the Government, and, when be Is released andereeirne to lits_own home and friendi, his prestige among them, is ertorneve. In fact, one man who had had Ins sentence shortened, plenty of cream and sugar to the arms in a yearning gesture. "Then, for me—one---good--tnee! One of Hortense's friends is going to give us a house party. They're hold- ing it up, waiting for me to get one here. To a swell place, fifty miles thermos bottle. He WAS to meet Aimee at the ferry. She looked the youngest thing- on earth. He wished she hedret worn a silk dress. Her small black velvet hat made her look still younger by its ruh p te river, with a dance hall and a sophistication. She had on, French - billiard room and a wine cellar. The heeled slippers. fellow's mother is -in England, and the They scrambled about the woods servants are away on their vacation.", for,a time; but the French heels were ((You're too young for such parties.' no 'good for that, and she seemed re - "Well, I've got to do something, lieved when they came to the ledge a haven't I? You can't say I haven't rock that he had found the other day. been steady lately." Neilsen tried to talk, tut they had,no- "You've been an angel." thing to talk about. They ate their - "Yes—a jack-in-the-box angel, lunch, reserving half for -later, and he ready to bust out!" produced a popular magazine he had The day came soon when. Neilsen bought in the ferry house. .She seized declared that he could do no more to upon that eagerly. the picture. He wasn't satisfied, but She sat facing the river, her knees he could do no more. The sea was drawn up to her chin, poring over the well -enough—he could see that; but pictures of movie actresses. He want- the girl—was her confidence slightly ed to sketch her in a new light and a new scene; but 'he hadn't brought her out here to pose. He kept his hand away from his pencil and watched her. . After a time she flung the maga- zine down petulantly. She had none superficial, where he had Intended it supreme? It must be the challenge of ignorance—for what else would challenge the sea?—but it must be ab- solute, and he hadn't made it so. There was a hint of Aimee's own cynicism in his girl. He -wheeled the easel to the far end of that tenderness which the lover of of the room and pushed everything books bestows on the meanest printed else to one side. Aimee, still in the page. "Oh, but a person g,ats tired read- ing!" she . yawned. "The little old town looks good from here, don't it?" wyege "It's a great town. Id hate to have along," said the artist, smiling. "I to leave it. I've bad some good times have prayed to it to be good work." there, all right! I tell you, I was "Is it art, Mr. Neilsen?" homesick for it when I was out on the "I hope so, but it isn't all I wanted road; but I guess it wouldn't miss me it to be." any." "Oh, yes, it would! It's the art centre of the country, you know:" "I never trail much with artists, Mr. Neilsen. They're either—you bine drapery, clasped her hands. "It sort of makes me think of church, Mr. Neilsen, up there in the end of the room. I could get down and worship it, hostly!" "I think I have prayed for it right Aimee looked p-uzzled. She gazed at it several seconds longer. , "And now you're finished with ine!" "Yes—finished." She ran out to change her costume. "I want to thank you a thousand know—or else they're like you, and times, Aimee," be said seriously, when let us alone." she returned. "Use me as a refere "I don't mean that. I mean that ence. You've been a good child." He you're doing such a service for art." forced a jocose tone. He was feeling bit blue at the prospect 16 losieg She turned around and grinned fi-er. "When dos the 'wonderful house "Go on!" "Think of the pictures that give party begin?' "To -morrow. We're going to motor pleasure to people. They all had to out. Some time we'll have!" have model% except the landscapes.; "You ought not to go, Aimee. Well, An artist couldn't learn to paint with-' do be careful." out a model.". , They shook hands, laughing a little. Aimee was silent. Then she tripped away. "Didn't you ever think of it in that , Neilsen had a strange, empty, let - way? You give something ,,o art that down feeling that afeernoon. The pic- rture was done: Every one said et was no one else can—your beauty. You good. It was good, only ---- think of it as just earning your liv- 1 Bat no doubt he was foolish to be Inge and so it is—just as the money, dissatisfied. He cleaned his brushes 1 reteive for pictures is my livine and decided to go out for the rest . but it's more than that." "I had an artist talk that way duce, before to me. He was drunk. I didn't take no stock in it; but you—my God, you'll have me throwing bouquets at myself next!" "Throw alljou'Jake; but remember, it isn't ojest ,for me—it's for art. You'll be posing lor other seriouswork, too—pictures that will be finer tban mine, I don't doubt." . "You talk so queer, it scares me -- as if I had a—a duty!" "Pm not sure but you have; but alter a few ears I'd Iike t ' a o ste y u marry some nice fellow and settle down." 1 Aimee squared her shoulders and s too t ier e icir . "Not for in net! I saw all the mar- ried life I want to before I left home!" "But what will you de?" "I can take care of reYself!" , "Hut, "I should worry ebout the futurel 1111 manage," "You cesa't ge at things that way, Ahnee. You've go/ to have some plan." "That gill ill 'Challenge—has she a '‘'Nonsense'i ritee'e diiVerent." . Yet, he lenew ft wasn't different. "Well, of the day. He hunted up Hendricks, and drag- ged him away froin the book manu- script he was perusing, preparatory to illustrating it. Hendricks had a Bmall ear. They drove out through Yonkers, and up the river. The passive exercise was soothing to Neilsen. He listened with half an ear to Hendricks' talk. He was re- ceptive to the late October landscape and the tonic air. The, flat, let -down feeling departed. They tithed at an inn, and, clrove homeen the early eveting. When they were within a few blocks of the studio th. heard fire enginee Presently they found the crovvd -so large that they I the car and proceed on foot. Theri they saw that it was Neilsen's building that was burinrig. A choking oilderi. rage filed NeiI Sen. The ineastice of itt leis best work! "tli his patleht, inspired laber. Ilendrick's grasp on his arm tight- ened. s • The 'firemen had roped of the arowd. One was running along shout- ing. e "No cauee for alar -r -tun ! I very wan is gut!" "Tis nothing but a lot a.v impty goodie places that's buenitie" Went 011 the cheerful firefighter. , Suddefily Adano teith poenced ou SMART BOLERO COSTUME. The Spanish bolero has coine into its own this season; and is gmartly, hiterpteted in the frock pictured here. Figured crepe fashions, the under - bodice, and narrow braid makes a neat finish for the collar, cuffs and 'edge of the bolero which ripple,s across the front only. The back is in one piece, and has two wide tucks either side of the centre back runniog *from the neck to the hem. The front of the skirt has an inverted plait, while a narrow belt covers the joining a the skirt and the bodice. 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Enclose 20e in stainps or coin (coin preferred;.wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Pattern Dept., Wilson -Publishing Co., 73 West Ade- laide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by return mail. A Real '!ire -Eater. Soule ef the performances that one sees at fairs er circus sideshows are so 'inexplicable that the spectator usually ta.ke,s it far granted that they are not what they appear to be. Knife - swan° wing d fire-eating are ac- complishments which it is hard to con- vince the ordinary observer are any- mast be remembered, does not depend thing but sleight-ef-hand. Yet we find ,on the quantity of food eaten, but On. in Rey. S. Baring-GouId's delightful Its quality and suitability to winter A wa s IV IC, afh• 33718 The choice teas iised' exclusive. ly inSaIada yield richly of their delicious goodness. Say Salada. BRIGHT REMARKS THE CHILDREN MAKE It was Teddy'adist term at school, dWhy one man did all the works and and, hie int:liege hact been telling the then another man came around and rioh, old unele he* well the boy was got all the money." getting along with his studies and how dearly' he loved his school, "Well, iny little man," asid ethe insole, "what 'do you do in school all day?" ."I wait till it's time to go 'home," was Teddy'ssinatter of fiet reply. A school girl who was: asked to de- fine drawing replied: "]t Is just- thinking and then mark- ing wound the think with a pencil." Dick had had his first lesson, J.11 as. fronomy and when he came home from school he began. to enlighten his small sister on the mystery of the stars. "Do yeti know," he said, that the little star you see' way up there,is verY much bigger than this whole 'earth?" "Then why doesn't it keep the rain off us?" she asked. Joan, aged six, and Kathleen, aged eight, were having an argument as to who was the taller. • "Of course you are not es, tall as I am," said Kathleen, , "You a,re-only-as high as my shoulder," , • "Yes," admitted Joan: "Ina your feet don't go down any farther than mine; so Pna as tall as you that way!" A little girl had been to churoli for the first time. On returning home her asked Sam, grasping the apple. mother asked her•what she thought of "Why, always give the larger part the Bervice. to the other persoe, my child." "I liked it very much, , " she replied Stun thought a few minutes in all - "but there was One thingeI didn't think was fair." - - "What was that, dear?" asked the mother. Jimmy 1 three --years eid and very fond of telling his dreams at the breakfast table. One- raoraing his father, thinking- to apply an intelligent test, said: "Bet, Jimmy, I don't be- lieve you know what a dream, is." aunlY'ls: answer came quick and sure. "Yes, I do. It's moving pictures while you're asleep." Johnny had been taken *1:s his moth- er to a museusnof natural histoese and he .was particularly interested in the big stuffed animals, "Well, Johnny, where have you been this afternoon?" asked his father when he got home. "To a wonderful Place, dad " ex- claimed Johnny. "Mother took me to 'a dead. circus." "What makes that new baby at your home cry so rauch, Tommy?" "If you had all your hair off," was Tommys reply, "and your teeth out and your legs were so weak you couldn't stand en them, I guess you'd. feel like crying, too," - "Here is an apple, Sam," said his mother. "Divide it with your sister and be generous." 'How shall I be generous, rnamma?" ence. Then he handed his sister the. apple. collect there was- no chloroform in those days! Sad to say, he died in teHere, Ethel, you heard what moth - hospital. en said. You divide it, 'stead of me." His Last Order. NELSON'S DAY eear oar, rvor,*•••••,11 October 21st wail the 1.20th anaiver. earg,of Trafalear--the greatest naval 1! LC Wry in the worides history. In it Neleon oehattered the naval tiower of France and Spain; and put an ead to Napoleon's long-chetishel grai4li Selaerue of an invasion of iingland) , In Totaling the hietory of the:events ,which preceded theeereat battle oae is etrtta bY eine significent fact When - lielton sealed from Poetize:blip in the Victory to join the British' fleet eff Carla, he was attended by male on' other sbep, the frigate Euryalue, cent - Mended by his friend, Captain Black- wood. -- If the /French naval secret serVice colld only have learnt this they might have captured the Victory, with the intrepid admiral en. board! In that case, the history of Europe might have taken a veTy different tourse. What a scene that was. at Parts - Month; at peon of September 14th, 1805, when Nelson started on his ‚last voyage! The Bulldog Breed. 'All classes, men;. women and -child- ren, broke into a deafening cheer as they recognized the slight figure, ren- dered familiar by the engraver's art, er the men, who had already eecured the safety of their country, and whose lefts: esaPtillae vaicetclorisrn. their eyes sYncl1Y- ,, many of th.e.spectators were moved to tears; others knelt on Southseas beach and invoked. blessings and Heaven's protection on hia head. Nel- • son himself could not restrain teens: of gratitude, ana, turning to his com- panion, Captain Hardy's lie remarked: "I had their hurrahs before; 1 -have their hearts now," The main story of Use great battle is, of course, familiar to most or us. Perhaps a few pereonai touches, how- ever; may be of sufficient interest to bier re -telling. One eccemerns a, gal- lant' seaman oir the Leviathan, who had one of his arms shatterea by a cannon -ball. He refustl to be -tarried, below by, his inessmatee,•telling them they were of more us•e at the guns, and coolly walked clown to the cockpit. 'Here he would not allow (be sur- geon to attend to litm until' Els thin came. The brave fellow, during the time his arm was being amputated, cloie to the shoulder, sang "Rule, Bri- tannia!" in a clear, steady voice. Re- performance twenty times upon the, principal day of the fair. He has been examined by some a the dootors here, wi o have warned him that he must give up swallowing the boiling oil or he will ruin his digestion. He replied that he knew that he -would have a short life, He had tried other ex- • pedients to gain a livelihood, but 'ha& failed; he was driven to this by prava necessitas." Chilblain Time. Li a few weeks the cbilblain season will open. If you, are a sufferer, you know from painful 'experience what chilblains feel like. But do you know what causes them? Most people are under the impres- sion that the causes are external -- cold weather, snow, frost, and so on. That, however, is wrong. The causes ofthilblain,s are internal. A chilblain is merely the outward. and visible re- sult of a wrong internal condition— stagnant blood; _poor circulation, wrong or poor nutrition. Nutriticn, it Reminiscences. a tory 01 hiS kojourn conditions. becaus.e of his geed con:duct, took the ., . . . in Freiburg, Germany, which Shows - , Those who get plenty of exercise, respite as: a great insult and mcIP•tred that he was corivinced'that (me fakir who clothe themselves warmly, and what he had done -that he should be et least, did exactly What he pretended' turned out before the proper time._,- to do. - One reason for this queer notion is "Perbaps, the most curiou,s exhibi- that prisons, with ideal sanitary ar- tion at th,e fair was, this—a man strie- rangemente, separate beds for each fed save for' a pair of drawers and a inmate, and three meals a day, are sleeveless jers*ey, Who called himself palaoes of siilendor and delight tem- the Modern Pluto, aigc,e, performed with pare with- iiit' average native hut, red-hot irons in a manner in explicable With its mud' floor and squalid sus,: to. inee • I was• close ate hirn and'eaw roundinge. that there was no deception. He first get an iron scraper, abott the size of a,hoe-iron, which waseheated red hot • ing at my feet;' and in which s•everal night- end morning. in a c'earcoat .fire that wag kept burn- . irons were glowing. With this he _ High Finance. .•1 Strarige„Occurrente. "T-Iovs did the eceidenthappen?" teeth till lie had bitten off a pieee ede nutritious "heating" feat,never get chilblains. The clothing by the way, must be loose, for tight • boots., tight gives, or anything that impedes the circulation, is certain to produce ehilblainse Porridge, Mt bacon, drip- ping, and so allt are "heating" - Mode: There is no external cure for Chil- blains, . but the fie:lowing , Is the ap- proved medical remedy for broken ones.: Goethe (one ounce) and methy- lated collodion (three ounces) applied Had to Feet it Up. Wiee--"dolin, I went down and paid my milliner's bill to -day." Hubby—"Well, did you foot it up?" Wifie—"Yes eirhen the -bill was paid conformed to the dead hero's. injunc- I didn't have even carfare 'left." tion. Another story illustretes Nelson's great qualities as a practical seaman 1 as well as a lighter. Just before. his ideath he gave,his flag -captain, Hardy, order's to anchor. , . After he had passed away this order was conveyed to Adiniral Collingw o who sncceaded to the comman , .ut he, for reasons best known to bimself, !declined to do so. • There ayes a remarkable sequel to the ignoring of Nelson's dying com- mand. A gale sprang up on October 22nd, and prize after prize was either wrecked or scuttled. Eventually the only survivors otathe eighteen cap- tured vessels- were the four which had 4 Minard's ,Liniment for stiff muscles. There Was a, remarkable scene at Nelson's public funeral at St. Paul's He Was Irffindne. Cathedral, on January 9th, 1806. Royal - Two students were discussieg their ty, Cabinet Ministers, and nobles of the land attended, but the chronicler tells us that the most interesting fig- ures- were the brave sailors from thei Victory; , As the coffin disappeared into the crypt,they tore his flag, the White En- sign from the 'Vietory, to pieces, every- one who could retaining a fragment d' in chances in an examination; "Wellrsaid one, "If I fail I shall sue the examiners." "How can you do that?" • "Because the law -expressly forbids anyone "to utilize the ignoranee of others to harm them in any way." -• scraped his arneelegs, both his cheeks ' Mrs. Newlywed—"And how much! and throat. The white ash ,from the are these crackers?" iron fluttered about, and some fell on insekkeleeve. Theli the toek a red:hot poker and lickee it with his tolague until the ia:on cooled. To make sure Grocer—"Twentaseeven cents pound, nia'aM." , airs. N. --"Ob, that's too, much. ten , goingeo get them at Blood's." gelliood's that there was uo deception, I tried' tee is fouriblocke away', touch it, but had. to withdraw my finger She leaves, but returns in a few Pretty smartly, and an Englieth friend minutes. • of mine standing by lit his cigar at Mrs, N. --"Oh, they are twentseeigbt the poker after it had left the tongue cents a pound there, and yours are of Pluto. only twenty-seven, so I'm gains; to get Then the mail took a thin fiat iron youri:"- bar, red hoe, and worked at It with hie Grocer—"How much do you want?" , Mrs, aT.--"Half a poised!" 'Mistook a puncture -proof tire for a abou's three quarters ' I la life-preseever—and -went down. 1 A Mozrtian Reason. A young composeT went to Moza,et, ooe y' k 1 b 1 :11. e. t about writing AS symphany. "A sym- phony!" --- eeclauned gozart --- "You ere leech too young for that," But, master," ohJected the yam:teeter, "you 'had written many syinelmniee before Yoli were ine age." "Yee," replied tho 'great ,coreposer, "but dide't,need to halt beg it was deem." in otheravords, he did it becaase it was in Iffin to do 11., Wrien heerse urea Minard's Linitnent. ••• 121 c ong, whicb he spat down from his mouth, aText trod on red-hot plates, but I did bet thOt so much of thiseas ortly drew his feet over them one at, ter tho o tiler ivi the t r es ling bis weight upon them. ' "Laztly, he swallowed a couple of apoonfula of boiling oil. This; seemed to be a goeetcr eeort than the reet et the pei'iormance, for bis face turned purple, end dropa of sweat stood on his forehead. I Was too alas° to the mang-I eould touch him with -my hand —for any cIeceptimi to be practiced. Ail this, moreover, sven.t on for eight days from eleven a.m. till' late at night. I was told that he went theou.gli the _—. 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This question, asked In a geological sense, was set before the British As- sociation by Professor J. W. -Gregory, who proceed to answer it by the use of wireless time signals for the de- termination of -variations in longitude. leept Up for a sfew years., he said, theee woula afford a conclusive test 0! the theory recently .advanced by Wegener that the Atlantic Ocean was produced by drifting apart of America on one -side ana Europe and Africa on the other. The reality of a drifting motien of whole continents Is now aeoepted, by many geologists. Recent investiga- tions have_ shown that beneath the up- perneost sixty miles or so of rocky crust ther 18 a semi -molten layer Of lava overlying thd earth's, Solid' ceh- tral Core, and on this viscid mass continental '61ocks fird more or le uncertain footing, i•eace, Hath Her Victoeles, Tho French government has jug awarded the ribbon of the Legion of Honor to 1)r. Henry Vadon for dean- tien to deter in exceptional circum- stances. While he was performingsa turgital operation sn involuntary movement of the patient drove an in- strument into the physician's rand. Althongh immediate trsaianeet would have averted datger, Vadon re- fused to receive it unt1i. he had sem- pleted the operate -1i, Kee devotiee, to duty cost him his are%