HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1919-11-20, Page 4THE PLOTTERS
To begin with, they quarrelled.
Being thorough ie all things, they,
quarrelled as thorough!y as they had
loved. Then, with equal thoroughness
they swept up the pieces --returned
the presents, burned the letters, and
tried to persuade themselves and their
friends that the whole affair was
washed out as utterly as if it had
never happened. She •stayed where
she was, and he went to live in a 1
different town.
That's the prologue.
f a theatre with her aunt,'
'
to love. Billy had known
nd unfailing interest, to
Two years in the East had altered
Billy very little indeed, to outward
seeming. In the wide, carpeted pas-
sage between stalls and exit he bore
down upon Doris and her aunt with
all his old exuberance.
"Spotted you just at the end of the
show," he explained, after the first
rush of greetings. "I was upstairs,
and, of course, when I saw you I dash-
ed down right away, before you eould
give me the slip. And how are things
going with you, old girl?"
Doris gaee him a resume, which he
punctuated with questions, even as of
yore. Then, by .chance, he mentioned
a forbidden name, and her pretty face
hardened, and she stopped him -with
an imperious gesture.
"Please don't speak of him, Billy,"
she said firmly. "I never want to think
about him or remember him again."
"Oh, I say!" exclaimed Billy,'his
eyebrows almost vanishing into his
hair. "Is it as bad as that still?"
"So far as I am concerned," said
Doris implacably, "Derek has ceased
-to exist; and, above all things, I don't
wish to he reminded of him. Nothing
could possibly restore matters to their
old footing, or make amends for his
behavior. That incident is quite—
quite closed!"
"But I spay, Doris—"Billy began
protestingly.
The story commences when Doris,;
coming out o
met Billy for the first time in two
years.
Billy was not the man with whom
size had quarrelled. Billy was merely;
an old and devoted chum. He and she'
had grown up together, and their
friendship was of the quarrel -proof
brand which neither absence nor
proximity, letters nor the lack of
them, car.ever chill into indifference
or warm in
all about the dead -and -gone episode,
and Doris bad listened with sisterly'
affection a
most of Billy's love affairs. Love, in
the old days, had been wont to attack
Billy much as hay fever does its vie-
tiros—nothing serious, but bad while
it lasts.
Ieughly miserable, with red eyes and al "And I £h.ouldn't have done it ,if I'
remorseful cranscience, the ,sole mitiga-, hadn't seen you writh a girl," she said.
tion of her wretchedness being the re- "'Then You're not --•-you're Atm"
that she hid saved her pride. Derek dime across the room.
'I'Ms cod contort upheld her untilthe, "There's never been anyone elee in
, afternoon, when, the maid announced my life except you," he said. "On lily
Derek, honor, I've never cared for another
She faced him from the window; he, woman --never tried to, Oh, Doris,
stood unsmiling at the other end of kid, ise it to late to pick up the broken
the room. i threads and mend them? Is it too.
"What was the idea, Doris?" be' late?"
asDoris, suddenly beyond speech,
seised.
afraid I Nail to understand,", shook her head and turned away. She
sa,'d Doris coldly, her eyes hostile..,. felt his arm round her ---felt both her •
"Saying you were engaged to hands caught in one of his.
Whyte•," � "There's nobody else ?" he whiner -
"I don't see clow my engagement ed,
concerns you. "Na:'
"Considering that it doesn't exist,! "Doris! Doris! Oh, my dearest, I
I think I have a right to inquire," j don't deserve this. Oen you ever fox
"You forfeited All rights long ago. give me for the past three years ?"
My affairs are nailing to you now," E "Don'ts It was my fault --mine all.
"On the contrary, they pre every- ,along. I spoilt those three years for
thing to me." - you."
Doris was white, and quivering with "There wasn't a minute in them that
anger• could mat.,.ii with last night for
�`I refuse .to be insulted like this," wretchedness. When you,<'d gone home
she said. "I knew you were capable .'I made Billy tell me what you'd said
of a good deal, but I,deln't dream that about me, and I thought then that I
you eould sink to such depths. You couldn't possibly stand a chance, I
come to me straight from ' your only came over because I was etill
wife--" :hoping against hope."
"Oh, Doris, we've been ti pair • of : "Did Billy tell you that he and I
fools, yoti and I!" said Derek. "She weren't engaged?"
"There was no need. I'd been with
him and hes wife all the evening."
"His wife?"
"The one I borrowed. They've only
"Please, Billy!"
Billy subsided. The aunt, who neves~
cared whose toes she trod on, put in.
her contribution.
"Sinful pride—that what it was!"
she said. "Pride on both sides! You
were a trifle worse than he, but not
much. Great pity, as I've always said.
He was a good„ boy. Nothing but
isn't my wife.
"Not your wife?”
"No; any more than Billy Whyte's
your fiance."
"Then what made you tell me she just finished their honeymoon. He
says Miss Anne didn't give him a
was
"The same mad reason that pos- chance to tell you the whole story."
"sessed you to say that you were en- "Derek, what an idiot I've been!
gaged to Billy. Pride—sinful pride, What you must have thought of me
as Miss Anne used to call it." Ire all three of you!"
laughed a little bitterly. "Madge rose "Not patch on what I think of
to the occasion well, I must say, •see- myself. We've both been pretty fool-
ing that I sprang it on her without a ish all this 'while. it seems to me.
moment's warning. But I shouldn't. Don't you think it'•s about time we
ridlou pxzde' have aim it if I hadn't thought you reformed?
"And you -what about you, Billy?" YeDoris'were
sensa ofhumor—always one Doris agreed he that
it was.
asked he bo tom of ly.he of her saving graces—began to get the
At the well that of her heart she right.t. better of her. lainard's Liniment cures Diphtheria.
perfectly well her aunt was
"Oh, top -hole!" said Billy en-
thusiastically, and shuffled and looked
down his nose, very pink and pleased.
"The fact is, I well, I met the dearest
girl in the world when I was. in hos-
pital down South, and we got en-
gaged."
"
"Really? Oh, Billy, how glad I am!"
exclaimed Doris sincerely.
Billy grew pinker and his 4mile
broader. The aunt, scenting immin-
. ent rhapsodies, cut in with more
alacrity than consideration.
"Do you think you can find us a taxi,
Willie?" she asked. "We shah never
get one if we wait much longer."
"Right
you are, Miss Anne,"said
Billy cheerfully, and piloted the old
lady to a seat. "Just sit down here
until I came back."
It was at that moment Doris saw
Derek.
He was coming down the passage,
his tall head well in view above the
• few late -comers who straggled out in
front of him. Before she could recover
herself, his eyes had met hers and she
knew that an encounter was inevitable.
And he was accompanied by a girl.
That did it. All the old pride,
strengthened by repression, flew up
ready for battle. She gave one quick,
j glance round, as if for help; then turn-
ed and followed Dilly, overtaking him,
half way down the steps outside. In!
all his life he had never failed her yet.
"Billy," she said, desperately, "Ii
want you to be a pal to me. I'm going
Ito compromise you dreadfully."
} "Pleasure's mine!" said Billy with-
l'out hesitation.
You could never take Billy at a loss.
He was a pearl beyond price in
emergencies.
"Then we're engaged!" said Doris,
I p gerson lips as in their schooldays'
I She transferred her diamond ring—
' a recent birthday present from her'.
father—to the third finger of her left'
hand, and went back—to run clean
into Derek, rendering escape impos-
sible. There was nothing for it but to!
make the best of a bad job. His come;
panion had halted to straighten her
hair before a chance mirror.
"Well?" said Derek.
He looked down at her with a queer,
almost tender expression in his eyes.
"You here!" Doris said foolishly.
She ignored his proffered hand, and!
saw him flush at the slight.
"Only for a day or two," he said.
"You're looking -very well." He caught
sight of her left hand, and took itup
quickly ansl examined the ring. "So
you're engaged?" he said.
"Yes," said Doris, and contrived ae
little smile and a lift of the eyebrows'!
that tacitly inquired what he had ex-
pected. "I have been for some time.
Are you surprised?"
"I hadn't heard," said Derek. "We11,
you have my good wishes, both of you.'
I'm married now, you know!"
"Marniedl" said Doris.
"Sure. Quite a hoary Benedict by
this time."
He turned to the girl at the mirror.
She tucked a handkerchief into her
vanity -bag, and came up to them. The
light gleamed on her wedding ring.
"I've met an old friend, Madge. This
is my wife, Miss Hamer."
He slipped his arm through the
girl's with a surreptitious squeeze, and
the girl looked from Doris' face to his
with keen, sweet blue eyes. Before
she could speak, Billy reappeared.
"I've found a taxi—" he began;
and stopped.
Derek was regarding him with dil-
ated eyt
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An Eight -Hour Day for Babies.
An eight-hour day far babies. Why
not? Everybody else has 'em. This'
as an age of uplift and organization.
There are societies of every sort for
preventions, benefits and rights; laws'
governing • the time and conditions
under which loch men and women may
work; laws insisting• upon a proper
treatment of bow wows, horses, don -1!
keys, pigs, and even lobsters. Corn -1
placenttly the old world rubs its hands
and inquires, "Everybody happy?" i
Decidedly not! What about that
unclassified morsel of humanity, neith-'
er man, woman, minor nor animal? I
What about the baby? This is, Ire-''
peat, an age of uplift, but the only
uplift he gets is a playful toss in the
air. What of his rights, benefits and
preventions? He has about as many,
at the present time as a Chinese gold-
fish—the right to live, be fed and
to be displayed to the greatest ad-
vantage.
He has raesed his voice in his own
behalf many times, but the trouble is
he speaks a foreign language various-
ly interpreted and but indifferently
understood. If he cries, according to
parent parlance, he is either hungry,
uncomfortable or in a temper, more
supposedly the latter.
It is no use. I3e has raised his voice
—now I raise mine. An eight-hour
day for babies, shorter hours, longer
naps; away with social duties and
visitings.
Gaze upon hint. They he lies,
crumpled down in an exhailsted heap
upon a hard and corset -proof lap, or
dangling in head -rolling impotence
over a rough -coated shoulder with a
mouthful of fur fora pacifier, a spec-
tacle of speechless infelicity.
I have often caught these little trav-
elers regarding me with an expression
of morose resentment. Peering out of
their lace bonnets, always askew, the
accusation in their eyes is uninistak-
able.
"Ah, here's my fiance!" Doris said
coolly. "Billy, you and Derek used to
know each other, didn't you ?"
"Yes, in the old days," said Billy,
playing up nobly.
Derek smiled.
"I must congratulate you, Whyte,"
he said. "You've met my wife, too,
I think?"
"Yes, I rather fancy I have," said
Billy. "Quite a reunion—what?"
Here considerate Providence took a
hand in the person of the aunt, whom
they had forgotten. She pottered pur-
posefully round the corner, inquiring
after her taxi. The group broke up.
Billy accompanied Doris and her aunt
to the bottom of the steps.
"You're a brick, and I can never
thank you," Doris whispered as the
aunt bundled herself in, "You're sure
-sure you didn't mind?"
"Not a hit," said Billy.
Quite illogically, Doris cried herself
to sleep that night, She awoke thor-
generally use the cold- ,starch n,.ethod,
which is somewhat simpler: two
tablespoons starch, one-half teaspoon
borax, two cups cold water.
Add'the/cold water gnadially to the;
starch. Mix well and add the dissolve
ed borax. Dip the article in the solu-
tion and rub well, repeating: the pros
cess. •several times.
With a cloth remove -Ya'il surface
etarele roll up in a cloth', anti `allow to
stand over , night. ,Iron according to
the directions given for starch. jelly,
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"Under the magnetism of friendship
the modest man *becomes bele;; the shy,
confident; the lazy, active; or the im-
prudent and peaceful," ---
petrous,
Thackeray.
let it include our littlest citizen. Let
the right of the baby be looked into
and his voice be heard -and understood.
Away with grown-up excuses . and
reasons. His first two years should be
of uninterrupted tranquillity; his place,
in the home- An eight-hour day for
babies. Who will join their voices to
his and to, mine?
To Launder Collars and Cuffs.
Since I live on a farm andam quite
far removed from a laundry, I always
do up the stiff collars and •ruffs at
home. By using .starch jelly I are able
to secure just as high a gloss as that
obtained at the laundry. The follow-
ing are the proportions which I use:
two tablespoons starch, one-quarter
cup cold water, one cup boiling water.
I add the cold Water to the starch
and make a thin mixtzue without
lumps. Then I addithe boiling water
slowly, stirring constantly, and allow
it to boil up.
After'I have my jelly prepared I lay
out the collars and cuffs which have
been washed and dried and apply the
jelly with a soft cloth, rubbing in thor-
oughly on both sides.
If they are to be very stiff I allow
them to dry, repeat the process, and
roll them up in a towel while still wet. '
In twenty or thirty minutes I iron
then first on me side and then on the
other with a iron rubbed with paraffin,
until perfectly dry and glossy.
If a very high gloss is desired I
rub a damp cloth over them and again
press until perfectly dry.
When washing articles which I do
not care to have especially stiff I
"Give us our right," they signal
gloomily. "Dawn with train rides,'
sleigh rides, shopping, movies and
visits. An eight-hour day." Uneasily
I avert my eyes and reflect anew upon'
"man's inhumanity to—babies."
'Added to the late -hour habit is the
exhibition evil, largely the outgrowth,
of parental pride. At all hours of;
the day and night the baby ie rudely';
awakened and/brought out like a new,
pat or bonnet fax inspect'on, rnade tod
laugh and look at pretty pretties and
be jostled up and down.
Just what is a baby, anyway? A!
side show or an ornament? Frankly,
it is hard to- tell. From the manner -
of handling they get from grown-ups
one would think they were labeled like
certain bottles of medieine: "Shake'
before taking" That is another thing'
to be considered along with the eight -i
hour day, a ,society for the preventit,n •
of shaking. No wonder so many babies
look rattled. They are. \
And while we are cn this .abject,!
I may as well suggest anot.h r uplift,+
namely, the elimination of marketing
eting
from the .baby coach. In many c:c .:hes,
the visibility eft the !Ally is nil. The!
coach itself might be an It.;lian push -I
cart and the mother a vegetable vend -1
or, for all the passerby may know.!
Moreover, it is a Sacred invasion uponi
infant right. Ignorr•:n nsly the peer
baby is trurndled alb?:g, .t!th the'farnily
dinner on top of- hire forced to view!
the scenery through L = r,y tops and;
tsIacl !clave tcs za;y noth!:er of the.
weight of potatoes and other sundries!
on hie sreall teed.
If, truly', this is an age of uplift,
1
The clothes„ you were so proud of when
new—can be made to appear new again.
Fabrics that are dirty, shabby or spotted
will be . restore to their former beauty by
sending thein to Parker's.
Cleanince and vein
is prope=rly ;done at PARKE:WS
Parcels may be sent Post or Express.
We pay carriages one way on all orders.
Advice upon- cleaning or dyeing any
article will be promptly given upon request.
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Toronto
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you can see it. Bovril_ not only makes
the d'sh more enjoyable, but also gives it
additional food value.
The body-building power of Bovril has been
proved by independent scientific investigation
to be from 10 to 20 times the amount taken.
Use
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and whiteur, refreshes ecd deli.
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A golden stream of
Crown Brand! -Corn
Syrup is the roost
delicious touch you
can give to Pancakes! •'
in the Kitchen, there
is a constant call for
Crown Brand Corn Syrup
for making puddings,
candies, cakes, etc.
Sad the day when you are
too big to enjoy a slice of
bread spread thick with
Crown Brand?
Could that day ever cone?
Ward it off e Grace your
table daily with a generous
jug or Crown Brand Corsi
Syrup, ready for the dozer!
desserts and dishes .
it will truly "cr'own"e
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everywhere ---in
2, 5, 10, and
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'WERE DOES ALL •
THE GOLDGO
MILLIONS LOST YEARLY
BY WEAR AND TEAR.
Enormous Amo fnt Of Gold is.
Now Used in dew UUery---
Increase in Wealth.
Iu 1846 the whole .world produced
less than `thirty million ,dollars worth
of gold, . Then the California ggld-
fields were discovered, and •in four
years production had leaped to ninety
mililons a year. ,
Ic 1860 It Was ono hundred
twenty millions; by the end of the.
century it was throe Hundred, inilllons,"
while today the 'gold !nines of the
world are turning out very neary five
hundred million dollars worth of gold
every year.
Within about seventy years the out-
put of gold has been multiplied by
seventeen, yet inethe same period of
time the population of the world has
increased ; by only ninety percent,
This being so, it might, well be MIRK -
hied that there would now be more
than enough gold for the world's pur-
poses, ' and that the precious metal
would have consequently depreciated
in value,
As a matter of fact, nothing of the
kind has happened. lin the first place,
while the population of the world at
large has only increased by about
ninety per cent. during the period
mentioned, that of civilized countries
has doubled, and more than doubled.
It is the civilized countries that use
gold as a medium of exchange and as
their basis of currency.
Next, the individual wealth of these
countries has increased enormously,
and therefore their people require 'a
great deal more gold for purposes of
coin. Several countries which in 18550
were working on a silver or paper cur-
rency have come up to the gold stand- ,
ard, the latest of these being Spain.
Swallowed Up by Jewellery.
The third and perhaps most impor-
tant point of all is the enormous
amount of gold now used in industry.
For the arts such as jewellery, gold
plate, gold leaf, for purposes of orna-
ment and decoration, the world is now
using three times as much gold •in .a
year as the whole amount prods L 1
in 1548 --that is, about ninety million
dollars worth.
The wkste of gold is another factor
whielt keeps down the supply, Few
pegple consider how great is the waste
of gold by wear and tear. Pack two
thousand half-soveriegns in a bag and
send them on a Journey of a thousand.
miles: • at the end of that journey one
half -sovereign's weight of the gold is
clean gone. It is in the shape of dust
adhering to the inside of the bag.
In the course of one year's ordinary
use a 'sovereign loses one and a -half
per cent. of its weight. Careful calcu-
lations go to show that the annual loss
which actually takes place by wear
and tear of gold coin can be no less
than twenty millions of dollars. All
this prodigious suin is dissipated into
fine clust, and utterly lost.
Every ship that goes' to the bottom
takes with her a certain amount of
gold. It may be only a few dollars
worth, or—as in the case of the famous
Lutiue—a million may be lost in a
minute,
Every fire that occurs means a des-
truction of gold, and there Is never a
minute, day or night, when scores of
human habitations are not burning.
London alone has 2,400 fires yearly.
Besides all this, there is the matter
of hoarding. In countries where
banks are not found in -every town, the
people who have gold hide or bury it.
In many cases they die without reveal-
ing the secret of the hiding -place. In
this way India alone swallows up more
than two and a half million dollars
worth of gold yearly. China more than
this, while Africa is at present absorb-
ing gold in this way at the rate of
more than five million dollars a year.
The money is paid es wages to the
Kaffir laborers at the mines, and by
them carried away . to their kraals,
whence it never returns.
A New Use For the
• Aeroplane.
The Department of" Agriculture •
Ottawa has discovered a new .use for
the aeroplane, The Entomological
Branch is investigating the mosquito
in the Lower Fraser Valley In British
Columbia. Ily using the aeroplane the
country can be surveyed in order to
map out the swampy areas and other:
breeding places that are readily lo-
cated in photographs taken from over- ry
head, according to a statement by Dr.
C. Gordon Hewitt, Dominion Entorno-
logit, •that appears in the October
Agricultural Gazette, The aeroplane
was used in makint a comp, ehonsive
survey of tho complicated water sys-
tem of the Frazer Liver .and the ad-
jacent bodies of permanent and tem-
porary water in that district. A flight
reported by Dr. Hewitt has demon-
strated the possibility of using this
machine also for making surveys of
timber that is being killed or has al-
ready been destroyed by various in-
sects. Its use, it is believed, will help
very greatly in the entomological work
with various insects being carried ou
by the Fede+:al Department of A.gincul-
turn,
,.
I'iench authorities estimate that 1
in every 80 of the allied soldiers who
r r�'r chit Country married a Freneh
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