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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1920-10-14, Page 6Ma.rk Well Your aff uard`1S' the name. it This is the genuine 'tea of all teas'. a uspost card for a Tree if you do not use Salida.,sc send i� yeti ��� sample, stating the prior you nopay and. yo on Black, Green or Mixed Tea. Address Sa1ada,'T I� t e n �V id:bIy Ictaillcd 13y BLANCHE FULLINGTON. III, Braxmar drew a long, deep breath, '`You've got a beautiful house here, Katherine," he said at last. "It's just about ,ideal -I don't know how a lean thing as a marriage license in your could ask for a lovelier hone. Do you pocket, do you, Ted?" she asked, know—1 suppose I'm romantic and all quietly. that—but it seems a pity to ine that He stared down at her ,incredulously. you can't come here to -morrow night— A dozen expressions chased one an - after your wedding." A dull red burn- other like Blonds across his face. Then, ed in his cheeks. He was scrutinizing slowly, his eyes still holding her own, his well -kept nails with studious attest- he drew from his pocket a thrice -fold - tion. "There's a lot of sentiment con- ed sheet at heavy paper and spread it nested with a place like this—where out before her. you're going to spend your married "Why, how odd!" she exclaimed, life—years of it, anyway. You'll go. turning to the clergyman with exag- en a honeymoon, of course, and pro-gerated amazement, her face all sweet bably spend your first hours togetheriwrith blushes and laughter. "Would in a big, cold hotel, where people will you believe it it's made ont in the look at you and laugh aiid say `bride names of Edouard Braxmar and Kath - and th andgraam —when you might be here, Brine Penn! Well,Ted—you3ouhave your just you two. --alone with the crickets minister and your license—your bride —and the stars! I suppose girls feel awaits you! I don't wish to appear differently—they like the excitement unmaidenly, but it looks to me as if of going away somewhere. To ole it you needed only a couple of witnesses would seem—coming here, I mean —and a ring—to make the thing com- iike a--well--a sort of sacrament—" plete! "I think we are going to have a Dazedly, Braxmar took from en- tailer," Katherine broke in, composed- other pocket a jeweler's box contain- ly. ing a brand-new wedding ring. Braxmar's flow of eloquence came The old clergyman was smiling, he to a sudden pause. The girl's indiffer- seemed to feel no great surprise at the ence was like a dash of ice water in turn affairs had taken, "There are his face. He sprang to his feet and some men haying in the field at the advanced to meet the approaching foot of the hill," he suggested. "No doubt we might induce two of them to leave their work for a few minutes." Braxmar slipped an arm about the girl's waist and turned seriously to the minister. "How would a service now affect the one which is to take side and laid her hand an his arm, The wise, whimsical sxuile.of the manning curvedher lips again. "You don't happen to have such a guest. "I owe you another apology, Kath- erine," be said stiffly. 'My thoughts seem bound to .tray ---and nay tongue with them." Up the curve of drive a motor was coming—a little, tiny, rattling, thump- place to -morrow night?" he asked. ing affair, which bore about the same ( "Not at all. You know a second relation to Ted's gray racer that a ceremony is often performed in cases ferryboat bears to a battleship. It where there is some doubt as to the went on four wheels, and it was pro- validity of the first; or when the mar- pelled by a gasoline engine; and there nage was a secret one." n.Il resemblance ended. But as it chug -The puzzled look still rested on ged along it seemed to be humminga Braxmar's brow. "It seems very cheery song, as though it said: "Oh, strange to pie that you happened yes, I'm old and pretty well worn out, along just now, sir," he ruminated I know; but I'm doing the work that's gravely. "Almost as if same one had given nae each day to the best of my ability, and, all prediction to the con- trary notwithstanding, I've years left planned the -svhole affair." "Yes—doesn't it?" agreed Kath- erine. in me yet." "There are a great many queer And the man who stepped out at things happening all the time," the old Katherine Penn's front door was the clergyman said, a faint smile lurking logical owner of the ear. It seemed as at the corner of his eyes. "I say it is though it must have absorbed his spir- the hand of God you, perhaps, call It all the years he had run it. For he it fate. And still, while I believe all was little, too, and old, and shabby; things are ordered according to some but he was just as cheerful and just divine plan, I find that what we call as brsye as the automobile he drove.strange coln•cid'ences may often be et wd; situ, geesy, shrewd eyes were deeply blue. mild Hie '" i, traced to human intervention, if we -. ' follow the clue far enough. His skin had the healthy, toughened look A slowly dawning comprehension which comes of being exposed to all overspread Ted's face. "Katherine," sorts of weather. His expression was he inquired, suspiciously, "did you ever full of kindliness, forbearance and see this gentleman before?" understanding. He was short of sta- "Never, Ted," she answered prompt- ture and rather spare, dressed in a neatly brushed suit of black, with trousers which bagged at the knee. His waistcoat was of •clerical cut and his collar fives fastened at the back. ly. "He married my father and moth- er, I believe, but I wasn't exactly among those present." "Did you ever write him a letter?" "No, dear." He carne up the steps, smiling gent- "Or—call him up by telephone?" ly and giving his hand first to Brax- Katherine had recourse to the wit- mar and then to Katherine Penn. Her ness's Last resort. "Really, Ted, I— slim fingers he held for a long moment don't remember," she stammered, and in his own, looking down rather hid her scarlet cheeks against his earnestly into her flushed face and breast. shrinking eyes, But instead of ad- The minister, being a man of tact, dressing her he turned and spoke di- went out then to call the men from rectly to the man. the hay field, leaving these two alone "You have a fine place here," he together, said, courteously. "May I ask .if you "Why didn't you tell me you wanted are going to settle among us? If so, to be married here, darling?" Ted in - I trust I can count on your swelling quired. the number of my little flock." They were on the settee, by the Braxmar hesitated, stammered and empty fireplace, and his arms held her turned appealingly to Katherine, "This close, Is going to be my home," she stammer- "Because I wanted you to want it, ed, very sweetly- el. am afraid 1 am too," she explained, slowly. "I knew not much of a churchgoer, but I shall if I once mentioned it you would agree be glad to help you in any way I can." with me instantly, and I should never "When are you planning to take up know that you felt about it as I did— your residence here?" the clergyman that you didn't do .it just to please inquired. me. But you suggested it first—with- ""Oh, very soon—within a month at out any suspicion in your mind that least. I may be married to -morrow. it was the thing I wanted most of all We have planned on a little trip, of in the world. Oh, Ted to be married course, and then we are coming here•" here in our own little home, away from all the curious staring people who don't care anything about us any way. I shan't mind. it to -morrow night—I shall be laughing at them all! Do you there's no room there to really love like the way I've spent my last day and live—it's only fit to work in. Your of freedom, Ted?" wedding—is that going to take place He showed her, quite convincingly, here, too?" that he did, !Katherine shook her head. "We've "You played your part in my little arranged that for a city church," she drama as if you had been rehearsing said. "It seemed more practical, in it)"she went on, after a while. view of the reception to follow imme- diately at oar town house." The minister's eyes narrowed with disapproval, "Too bad—too bad! You • aught to be married here, among the ' scenes you're going to live in—with l+�od's sunshine all around you and the l tiiirds to sing your wedding march, rerhape you think I'm overen,thusias- "tic, but I love the country, my dear— I feel as if all the beautiful things of life should come to pass among its green fields and leafy trees." Teddy Braxmar turned to him eag- erly. "That's what I've been telling her, sir," hemeed. "Here is this house all ready—just •baiting for its occu- pants! It's a shame to slight it so, ]1 .say—a sacrilege!" Katherine crossed the piazza to his n ,p60170 How to Make French Pastry. The equipment for making French pastry includes a measuring sup, board, rolling pin, and a. few fancy cutters. The ingredients for pastries are pastry butter, ice water, salt, with jams or marmalades, chocolate, nuts and confectioner's sugar for some varieties. You can be as fancy as you like in dozens of different ways after you have once learnedthe secret of the puff paste. Alll be material utensils • sh u d s and t n 1a n as cold as possible. Stift two cupsful of pastry flour with one-half teaspoon- ful of salt. Measure one cupful of butter and place it in a bowl of cold water. Work the butter with a wooden spoon, dipping the spoon first into bailing, then in cold, water until the butter is very smooth. Remove the butter from the water and pat it until all the water is out,of it, Keep out two tablespoonsful of bi tter and shape the remainder into a fiat oblong cake and place on the ice. Work the two tablespoonful of but- ter into the flour with the fingertips and moisten the dough with just enough ice water so it will hold to- gether. Turn the dough out on a floured board and knead until it is smooth and pliable. Chill for about ten minutes and then roll it out to one-fourth of an inch thick in rec- tangular shape. Spread one-fourth of the butter on the lower half of the dough and fold the other half over it. Press the edges together and turn one over and the other under the enclosed butter. Chill for a few minutes and then roll and spread with another fourth of the but- ter; repeat until all the butter bas been used. Lastly this should be laid in a cloth and chilled thoroughly, or it may be kept overnight if desired. The secret of delicate puff paste is to have the paste very cold and the oven very hot. After cutting the pas- try out into the desired shapes place an heavy paper, chill and bake in the oven on a low shelf with the temper- ature about 500 degrees F. Turn the sheet frequently so that the pastry will rise evenly. It takes about thirty minutes for the puff paste to 'rise and He smiled serenely. "That's good," he said. "That's fine. I like to see you young people coming here to build your nests. The city is too crowded-- Ted joined them, putting ,into the min- ister's hand a bit of paper, which con- cealed within its fold a yellow -backed bill of a denomination that faithful shepherd seldom saw. "There's atelephone number on that piece of paper, sir," said Ted, as he stood by the rackety old ear, tall and straight and boyishly dignified under the burden of his new responsibilities. "We're going to ask you to do one more thing for us when you get to the village. Our telephone hasn't been connected yet, you see" (with a de- lightfully proprietary aeeent on the "our"), and we'd be awfully obliged if you'd ring Mr. Penn up and let him into the secret. And just say, will you, that Katherine will be home to- morrow morning—that she's unavoid- ably detained, and is spending the night with—her husband!" (The End.) "Weren't you surprised when. I called you up this morningin the way I did ?" Braxmar solemny shook his head. "Katherine," he said, "1 have long since ceased to be surprised at ally - thing you may say --or do." And so they 'were married very quietly at the foot of the branching staircase, before their own hearth- stone. The western sunlight came in at the open door, adorning the room as no altar candles could have done, A little, homely, poor old man, with- out vestments, a tattered prayer book in his hand, pronounced them man and wife. The haymakers went back to their labor, and Katherine Braxmar follow- ed the clergyman to the porch steps to bid him good-bye. A moment later Mlnard's Liniment For Burns, Etc. at the end of this time place the sheet on the top rack in the oven and brown. Attractive ways of using puff paste are almost endless. It can 'be cut in shapes (using a sharp knife dipped into very hot water) and baked..When done these may be put together with icing and the top iced also. They may, be covered with custard filling and one placed on top of another and the top decorated in many fanciful ways. The pastry may be cut in squares and put together with jam and a few chopped nuts and the top iced Fruit, hot or cold; small fruits sim- mered in fruit juices; raspberries with currants, ete., are always delicious with puff paste, being really an aristo- cratic form of the old-fashioned tart, which is a neglected dainty, simple and wholesome. • A Shelf Above the Sink. Most housewives appreciate the convenience of having a shelf above the sink, to hold soaps and powders and the various paraphernalia of dish- washing. A very useful one can be obtained by putting up one of the glass shelves commonly used in the bathroom: This is easily cleaned, not unsightly to look at, and: has the merit of being moveable. Mending Gloves. There is a right and a wrong way to mend gloves. If therip is at the. top of the fingers, look carefully to see how the . other !seams are sewn, and then place the kid in its natural posi- tion, lose together. edges g tion, the two raw r g Now take a very fine needle with thread the color of the glove (cotton or linen thread is better than silk) and go in and out of the original little holes. The good or bad results of glove mending depend upon matching the color of the glove with the thread and the putting of the needle in the same little holes. The stitch which is an imitation of machine stitching, is obtained by a fine backward stitch. Certain makes of gloves, instead of having two raw edges brought to- gether, have one side hemmed over the other and then stitched .with a row of back stitching. French gloves have two raw edges brought together and are finely over -stitched -crossways, and although this requires a -little patience, the result is worth the time. First sew over and over in slanting stitch and then cross overt each slanting stitch. Finish by pressing the work done under a row of fine back stitch- ing., A quicker way of doing this is to overcast in fine thread, but the work is not so neat or so nearly like the new glove. • Oftentimes the ends of the fingers will almost completely wear tut. If the tear or the hole is a small one, it can be mended neatly by catching the two edges and button -holing them together on the wrong side. If the gloves are in a very bad condition with the tips all worn, it is better cif the fingers ;are long enough, to clip the ends anci then hem them. If the tips are past repairing, turn the gloves inside out, and after cutting the tip Surnames and Their Origin JONES VARIATIONS — Johns, Johnson, Johnston,Joynes. RACIAL ORIGIN—British. SOURCE—A given name. Some wag has given Jonah, of Bibli- cal whayle fame, credit for being the first Jones. Such, however, is not the case. It is derived from John, which originally was a Hebrew name, Jehohanan, meaning "grace of God." Jonah, or Jonas, is an entirely differ- ent name, and is the old Hebrew word for "dove." It was natural,perhaps, that in the period when family names were being formed so many persons should have adopted a given name that was so popular. Since there were more Johns in the world that Peters and Williams, it was natural that there were more "John's sons." So when some one called "Peter, John's son," had a SIM of his own, and the latter grew up and decided he would take his grandfath- er's distinctive name rather than his father's he unconsciously started a new custom, and became a Johnson, or a Jonson, or a Joneson (for they were not so particular about spelling in Medieval England). And in the course of urns many of these "John" families shortened their names by dropping off the final "on." Others didn't. The spelling Johnston, . of course, is simply a misspelling which, perpetuated through several hundred years, has become legitimate. Indeed, such changes in the spell - of the "John" names are muck to be desired if family names are to per- form the real function for which they became and continue necessary, that of differentiating one individual from another. With more "John" names in the world than any other, there • is really no way in which a man can better lose his identity than by calling himself John Jolles-•-unieas, of course,, he is able to advertise it In s•olne con- nection, making a virtue of neceasity, off, work in close buttonhole stitches round and round, tightening the stitch es with each row, and decreasing until you cart close it rip. Thiss will be most satisfactory with black lord glovesor With lisle thread or woolen gloves. Gloves are apt to tear around the thumb, and the annoying part of it is that the harder you try to repair it, the worse it seems to become, The French needle worker takes a very fine needle, the finest that can be in,- (laced n-dtaced to take the thread or silk, and buttonholes the raw edge nil around, doing this very closely and taking as little as possible of the kid, just emu& to hold the stitches firm. A second row is then buttonholed, taking instead of the kid, the top stitches of the first row and .continuing in this way until the hole is filled. If the work is well .done and tire.. thread a perfect match, it will never shbw. When buttons are lost and you can- not match them, put on an entirely new set. When t'hq fastener tears a hole in the wrist of the • glove, rein- force the under side wiith a bit of kid from an old glove, buttonholing 'it in such a way that while itis firm, the stitches and mending are not visible. Woolen gloves may have the worn tips renewed by taking wool of the same color and crocheting new finger tips. Silk gloves •must be carefully watched for any tears or breaks, and immediately darned with very fine silk. If the 'thin places on the finger tips are darned before the hole appears, the gloves will last twice' as long. With gloves of the same color of silk, I have often repaired them by usiing a portion of the good parts of the fingers of the old pair to patch a better pair, making the joining in such a way that it never shows. Trees Made to Measure. Can you grow a square tree? It sounds impossible, but the experi- ment has been tried with success by theDnglan.l Sool of Forestry at. Cambridge, ch There exists in the school a won- derful specimen of the oblong tree, which has assisted the discovery of a secret of growth. The trunk in ques- tion is about SOin. by 2in Its curious shape is due to no more than a little bruise or two which persuaded it to grow in one direction and not at all in any other. Other discoveries and experiments prove that an artistic bruise --it may be no more violent than strong pres- sure with the finger-tips—can mare a tree expand in a desired direction. Mlnard's Liniment Relieves Colds, Etc. There is no other' country in the world which has so great a prepon- derance of women as has England. A. novel camera is equipped with a small telescope of the same focal length as the camera lens, so mounted that when the telescope is focused on an object the sharpest results are ob- tained on plane or film. KING VARIATIONS — Kingson, Whiting, Whiteing. RACIAL ORIGIN English. SOURCE—A nickname. Whence come the tremendous num- ber of King families which are to be found in every section or this country? One thing Is certain. The family names in this group do not came from kings at all: • There is only one instance on re- cord in English history where a per- son of royal birth adopted the parental title rather than the parental name as his surname, and if there is one point to which contemporary historians al- ways pay attention, it is to the doings of their kings. One of the henrys once did choose to style himself "Fitz- Empress" ("son of the empress"), but he did not pass the name on to his posterity. Ring as a family name could not have deveiop.ed from such a source as this without leaving abund- ant historical record; and save for this one exception, there is no such record. But among the most important di- versions in the lives of the medieval English were the pagents or festivals with which the numerous feasts in the religious calendar were celebrated. Every great nobleman not only had a professional "fool," but at certain sea- sons hie followers would .choose a "King of Misrule" to lead the merry- making, as for instance in .the Christ- mas celebrations. Besides, each vil- lage in the land enthroned its "king" and "queen" on May Day. . One old record reads: "We, Adam .Bakhaus and Harry Nycol bath made account for the Kenggani (king -game) that tym cion William Kemps, Kenge, and Joan Whytebrede, Quest, and all costs deducted, 4 1,, 5 s.,.0 d. Naturally those who took the part of king in such festivals got such nicknames from their neighbors,. and ie the course of time the nicknames became family names. 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For years, the name of "Parker's" has signified perfection in this work of making old things look` like ,stew, whether personal garments of even the most fragile material, or , household curtains, draperies, rugs, etc. , Write .us. far further particulars, at' send your parcels direct to , p. M" w, Cleaners -44 791 Yonge St., qq� is Fi � Rte 10roz3"tss�i WONDERS OF UNDER. GROUND LONDON RAILWAYS ,AND RESTAU- . RANTS UNDER FOOT. Buried City With Miles of Gas and Water Mains and. Telegraph Wires. A man may spend the. whole of hie life in Loudon, and yet never set eyes on that wonderful underground city which stretches its maze under the , "Babylon of bricks" with which he is efamiliar, says a London writer. 1 He has, itt fact, without realizing. It, been walking over a buried city, with its networ:!c of scares of miles of streets. And yet this silent subterranean London may be explored by anyone, who will take the trouble to get the necessary permission. We descend to our underworld. be- neath Holborn Viaduct and find our- selves in a well -lighted vaulted pass- age, with a well -paved floor and walls faced with white bricks. Beside us. run the pipes of the gas and water companies, troughs containing the wires of the Electric_ Lighting Com- pany, and the telegraph wires of the General Post Office. Overhead. run. • the pneumatic tubes through which the written telegrams are blown from the district offices to St. Martin's -le - Grand. As we wander on we find passages, branching off to right and left, each. labelled with the name of the street above it. Thus, walking westward. along Fleet Street, we see Shoe Lane leading off to our right, Whitefriars and Bouverie Streets to our left, and so on; each familiar London street 1i to in our subterran- ean. ub errs - itS duplicate 1Ca l t 1st having a 1 g etian city, and each house above hav- ing its corresponding number below. At intervals we find shafts communi- cating with the upper world, admitting light and air; and through them we Hear the tramp of feet and the ruutble. of wheels. A River Underground, Now we hear the muffled rush of a train beneath our feet; again through a grating we see a busy station far below us. If we wish to carry our exploration farther we must equip ourselves in a rough smock, sea -boots, and a sou'- wester. With candleein hand, let us descend into the derk-depths beneath Farringdon Street, and make our first acquaintance with the historic Fleet River, which once flowed through green fields from. the heights of lump stead. Now we find ourselves in a vaulted channel four yards high, through which the waters of the Fleet River flow swiftly towards the Thames, As we proceed the sound of falling water grows loud in the car, and soon we; are looking ou a cascade which pouf its, waters with a roar into those of the Fleet. A waterfall beneath the hurry- ing traffic of Litigate Circus! But the most remarkable part of un- derground Loudon still remains to be seen—the great, far -spreading system of sewers. The sewers of Loudon are so long that, in a straight line, they would stretch from Liverpool to Rome, These sewers, have a capacity so enormous that they will carry away daily the contents ofn.lake as large as Hyde Park and three and a, quar- ter feet deep. Some of them have a diameter of over twelve feet; their fall ranges from two feet to fifty feet in a mile. A Dips -in a Roman Bath, Nor` have we yet exhausted the won- ders of hidden London, Deep below the city run liundresd of miles of enormous gas and water mains.; and in' between, at different revels, is the most wonderful network of under- ground railways in the world. There are wine -vaults' which con- tain thousands of casks of Wine. Be- neath St. Paul's -Churchyard there le a spacious., well-equipped restaurant where hundreds take their meals daily; and this is but one of many un- derground eating -houses, while there are bakeries which daylight never en- ters. Near the Strand you may have a dip in an underground hath into which Severus may have plunged seventeen centuries ago. Seeing Lightning Strike. One July a scientist had the unusual fortune to see a holt of lightning strike an isolated cottonwood tree about a quarter of a mile away,- says a New York paper. The flash appear- ed as a s•ttperb coivann or shaft of light about four hundred or five hundred feet high and eight to twelve inches in diameter, perfectly straight, verti- cal and steady. The shaft was white, with its base tinged with red. This column seems» to stand between two diverging trunks et tate tree, and last- ed about two seconds. Afterward the scientist found that one of the two trunks of the double tree had its bark stripped eft in the shape of a ribbon six inches .vide and two yards long. The other trunk Sho"tved two furrows begiuning ten feet above the ground+. They looked as if they had been plougesed by a piece of steel, There was no sign of fire, - °'"W IS l+ranoh•shipbuilders have converted an out-of-date vgsr.•ship :into a cargo vessel of modern design and ecqulp•. hent.