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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1925-4-15, Page 6FACTS 40017 7` A $4=49—No. Tea a everage xr^t----t Tea first became known in China nearly 3000 years before Christ. In that country tea was greatly prized, both for its remark- able qualities as a beverage and for the almost religious ceremony attached to the drinking of it. UP to the sixth century, tea was used only for medicinal purposes. Even in the seventeenth century it cost $25.00 to $50.00 per pound, All tea caddies were constantly kept under lock and key. Today when even fine quality like " SALAPA'' costs less than one-third of a cent per cup, it is not surprising that the consumption of tea is increasing tremen- dously. CHAPTER XVII. A Quaint Little Bloomer Dress Frocks for little folks are beeotning more interesting every day, and there is almost as great variety as for the forthy'—at any rate in the plenitude grown-ups. What little girl would not AN OFFF:zt or rtaxntAGu. of her milk, adore this quaint and winsome little When employed the business Then Flora would move a little to bloomer frock No. 1025? It may be uponmakeY room at her side, and Betty of'dmadef gingham, e law i '1 customs dea ch br the t Willie Gt ro 's c t0m am a Percale, Y wouldgt g c o sitY. Ile downuonstool c tp herand not alter with the weather or the ,ea lean her brow a ainst a soft flank. cotton rep or the dainty, patterned sons. He was a small man, with very i There was no holding back of milk English prints. The kimono sleeve long arms that hung level with his• under such a persausive hand, which upper portion is attached to two semi knees. He wore a battered stovepipe could humor a cow as well as a gal- circular skirt portions, forming an hat as straight up and down as if it; lent, and yet could set bounds to both apron effect, and tied at either side had been made with a gross of others that neither might pass, to n suit tne ube wearer's statn ure tones lengths Then when the milking was done, with pattern alsofincludes bloomaterial or mers tgather- were out of proportion to the length and the reaming luggies of white milk ed into knee bands. Elastic is insert - i carried to the milkhouse for the mis- of his body, and he walked with a longi tress of Black Dorn„ t r„ deal ,"t,h ae- ed at the waist, The pattern is 'cut tretell' mr stride which did not v either up or down hill, cording to her art, Betty came back What the Sheriff's officer's medita to the byre, Every cow—Flora, Meg, tiuus were on the way to the eBlackdits- Blossom, FIettie, Beauty, 'pecklie— Bernal it would be hard to tell. Ler_ turned her head, red -horned Ayrshire Pattern mailed to any address on tainly they had nothing to do with and black curly -polled Galloway alike, receipt of 20c in silver, by the Wilson the message that took him there, which to see if it was Rob Armour or an- Publishing Co., 73 West Adelaide St. was to serve a certain legal paper other who was to put them out. When Toronto. Orders filled same day as upon Matthew Armour. g P p it was another" a perfumed sigh of 'received. Kit had none to bed when Willie bovine thankfulness pervaded the Gilroy arrived. The kye were just byte. Each cowknewthat the deed. ---^t, leasing the byre after milking -time, be done sympathetically, and "him, him—" of what he will say under the eapable superintendence ofe, that they would go forth out of the next time, of what he said last time, Miss Betty L able rough. Nov cows byre and up into the croft so quietly of what he is doing now, and im are diemitted and matronly animals. that (a great point with a self- especial when he wilt come again! resThey du not like to be hurried, and both their nimalaindhuld dabcus:- Barring a flirtation or two with' there is a s •ret athetic and an ung • n -their neighbor, lads. whose names, as far as her affec- y P y morals all the wav sae far free Cain). h'.davard et t time et night?" • Ituainess, business, :Betty, nothi less," said the little Man; "my we will not petanit me 4 clay's rest e r t this trying thno, The t't�uee service• must be attended to." "Aye, it maun come hard on you alt your time e life!" said Betty, who like ail her sex, gold not get uli a syrepethy,fer that too frequently. be Caved. • The Sheriff's officer, with the r. embranee of his brother's advice bis mind, 414 tett relish the atluete to his age, '"Betty," he said, "1 lute kenned Y. a rang' time••-.--" "Aye," interrupted Betty, "I h hoard my mother say that ye were man weer up In years .at my christe ing. Minna mind whether she sal ye were at hers as weep" ye, were Willie Gilroy, "I am n near your mither's ago—nte near!" "Some folk age quicker than ithez Meister Gilroy," said the girl, wit sympathy in her voice but mockery i her eyes, "and we a' ken that ye ha had your experiences. Let me see was Margit your fifth'or your sixth? "Fourth)" cried the Sheriff's office eagerly, "only my fourth!" • Betty did not deign to. answer, 'bu turned and began to walk slowly bac to the farm, swinging her willow wan to and fro in her hand daintily as s d}d so. "Yell Me far to gang." she said "I wadna be lteepin' you!" "Oh, nae hurry," said Willie,'"na hurry aver I am gaun nae Earth than the B1aek Bernal." He pause to give effect to what he was gain to say. "I'm some dootfu' that y will be wanting a new place at th term, Betty1" Betty Landsborough turned. upo him sharply, Ye dente dau'e to tell me," she cried, with the inconsequence of a women with regard to the instrumen of affairs legal, "ye dinua dare to sa that we hae brueht ony o' your nest law -papers to vex my Moister. Ro will wring your neck Iike chuckle's if ye hae." The little man wagged his head. "Neither Rob Armour nor half dozen Robs dare deforce the messen ger o' Her :llaijes'y the Queen whet in the performance o' his duty," h said grandly. 7 a cannot 1 t;'z the the er Y P rand n which „ o l z an sent. "It's a) ulr, puir business," Betty'• p Sal ! "Maybe, maybe," the Sheriff's ofd eer went on, with offended dignity "but it's an hottest business. And yi that brings in a fair share o' guid sil ler. Aye, it boils the pot, and that 1 male than all the stock on the Sarni o Black Bernal will do. 1 has a peace warning to deliver to ltiathy Armour elder though he be, that will send him t o' title comfortable daonsittin'..An' hae it frae a creditable source that he's sale behind -hand at the baftk." ` Betty Landsborough said nothing. With a sinking heart she contemplat— ed the ruin of that worthy household where she had been so happy. She knew well what servant lasses had often to put up with in other places, and the house of the Ruling Elder had been a haven of aeurity and peace to her. But the Sheriff's officer had -yet more to say. "Aye," he continued insinuatingly, "yell be wantin' a new place, Betty, id that afore tang. Weel, ye ken toe. m a ratan that weemen_folk has been artial to a' my life, though I say it ysel'. Noe, Betty, I speak to you as frecnd, do you think that ye wad his ng Ila veli n.'s. 0, try or, Om - in; n o0 a3 li 0 s, n e r t k 4 he e Bathe in sizes 4 to 10 years and requires 171 yards of 32 inch material for the aft dress and lee yards for the bloomers, athetie way of putting them out of the byre. Rob Armeur's way was the unsym- pathetic—not so Betty's. Rob, a general squire of dames, al- ways wanted ta, get away to visit at And so all m order, as If milking; to good and evil after their kind the the neighboring farmhouses. So he had been a pleasure, each Flora and, hearts of men, yet making either pre-.' let the chains fall one after another Blossom and Specklie took her even 1 ferable to the dead stagnation of with a rattle into the stalls, brought way out of the byre, orderly and calm,' selfishness. down his hand with a surprising giving her head a Tittle =hake just to! As she stood looking into the sun-' "flap" upon each cow's flank, and said in a Ioud, stable -yard voice, "alum per beast!" The motherly, cud -chew - )ng matron so dealt with turned about • teens were concerned, were certainly at "Gently the -n -n!" said Betty, as.writ in water, Betty was heart -whole. 1' each neck chain fell into its place, not, untouched by love, ignorant as yet of p with loud clank, but with a faint mus- the breathing of that divine breath, m ieal clinking. "Gently, beauties!" which goes round the world stirring a ettle the neck hair, where the links set across the pasture bars the lately, of the chain had irked its glossy sur -;bereaved Willie Gilroy, Sheriff's offi- face, leer and proven expert in matrimony, Only once the voice of Betty Lands- came .down the heather, walking as it with . urprise and resentment }n hes borough rang out determinedly. i were in six -league boots—so dispro Idea -moving heart. She gave her tail "Gae way frac there, Rob Armour, portjeinate to his size, and especially it flick of protest, and immediately she cried; "gin the puir beasts set' to t11TTe sagging and swaying mourning pushed her horns into the flank of her their e'en on you they will no gang "weeper" in his hat, were the stridett'. neighbor in front, who in her turn quietly to their pasture. Ye are a with whieh he conquered the breathiest' girl an the threshold, in the place ram -stain, overgrown, headstrong bur miles. where it is always elippery. Thus, ac- tock. Get awe' tui' you!" 1 "A geld and heartsome evening to cording to the methods of Rob "Oh, Betty," said the voice of Rob', you, Betty!" said Willie, cheerfully; A^': -lour, the black Galloway and fleck- Armour from the stables to which he, "ye are takin' the air?" ed Ayrshire rows poured tumultuously had retreated, "haste ye wi' the kye; Betty turned and looked at the little Into the Bernal yard, and tank their and I'll walk wi' you doon to Whinny -!man with the Large tolerance which in' ways to the hill pastures strangely liggate. I ken that we are gaun to'moments of good nature we may ex - disturbed in their minds. It had al- the shopthere the nicht!" 'tend to a spider --even to an earwig. i ways an effect on the milk next morn- "Deed, I'll gang nae sic gait wi': She was a perfectly healthy and log when Rob Armour undertook the You, Rob Armour! Tak' yoursel' aff healthily perfect country lass, well putting out of the milk -givers the to the Crae and get Leezie to gang wi" aware of being pretty enough to night before. you to the shop o' Whinnyliggate, choose whom she would marry, hut "But with Betty Landsborough on She's no particular!" who was not in any hurry to finish the quarter-deck how different both "Betty, I'll never speak to Leezie. the job, r, method and result! again, gin you will come wi' me the; Betty was completely happy at. the She had milked them with a hand • nieht!" Bernal. She was fond of her mistress, light as a caress. I "Come wi' you I will not, so gang' afraid (but not too much afraid) of "Now, Flora," she would say, as it your ways, Rob Armour!" answered her master. In matters of the heart tame to the turn of some placid and! Betty Landsberough with finality. tshe took it out of her master's sons, FIossy beauty --as it were at the bo -1 Service in a countryside so primi-and especially out of Rob, the eldest, pine climacteric of "fair, fat and tive as Whinnyliggate argued nothing' and she was devoted to Kit Kennedy." iof social inequality. And Betty Lands -:She considered herself with justice a ' borough, the daughter of the cooper in fortunate young woman. the village, a man with a good bust "Guid e'en to you, Maieter Gilroy!", Hess connection, took her place not as she said, coldly, recognizing the Sher-' ; servant but as helper, almost as iff's officer. "I heard o' your loss and i daughter in the house of Black Dor-:1'm vexed for it. But what brings ye nal. She was a handsome girl with' Clark rippling hair, a pretty, firm' i mouth, a clear complexion, and the ' dark blue Irish eyes which, like the sky reflected in a hill tarn, light .up a plain face and ennoble n beautiful one lli;tty took hr,r way to the High Croft behind her cattle humming a heart -free snatch of song and twirling a little slip of willow in her hand. She,;yaaarlinl home dye carried the wand for form's sake, but; Ing and tinting is she never laid it upon one of the meek: guaranteed with Dia- file of curve before her, which, aft -1 mond byes• ,fust dip l serving precedence as completely asi ,y i humans at a state reception, had each; ill cold wate: to tint 1'�, their appointed order of coming and' colt, deltcate shades t1,j jt going, not to be departed from on pain' or boil to dye rich, of horning and forfeiture of social l permanent a o 10.5 s. standing, I Each 15 -cont package Betty I,andsborough put up the contatus direotions bars slipping them into their slots 50 simple any woman with a little familiar clatter and can dye or tint lin. faisteneng the rross pin of each. And genie, silks, ribbons, shirts, vaa.5u, now with her face to the brown moor - gazing into the west, thinking the lands she, stood awhile thoughtfully drapelies,ccoveer'i gsc tester gings, eevery tilingnew. Buy "Diamond Dyes" --no other kind --and toll your druggist wbetber the material you wish to color Is wool or i;tlk, or whether It is lluen, cotton, or and the stars of heaven speak only of mixed goods. Pass it around after every pini: Give the fancily, the benefit of its aid. to digestion. Cleans teeth too. Jeep it always in the , Itottse. R8i "Fasts tittle-lzelps iniicli " LE' —haus eta '10--•'2b. COLOR IT NEW WITH "DIAMOND DYES" t• sweetly tangled thoughts of a young maid before "he" fomes to gather all the strands into one, and to make sky end earth, the night and the day, the flower and the tree, the sun, the moon like to come an' keep hoose for me?" Betty turned upon hint a regard sol fixed and stern that the least sensi- tive man might have taken warning. But Willie Gilroy was completely 1'1 nee u collar-stud which never Panoplied in the armor of his own rolled into a chink;. Conceit. 1'd like a fountain pen that held' a pint 'pinna be 1 , 1,8u` Betty • I ken it's 0 Clothes tot longer when washed paoperly=` sags Mrs. Experience, who tells ;Mow to wash them. a "Soule woolen a-citually rub holes in clothes trying to get them clean with.harsh, ordinary laundry soaps, which are only half soap anyway. No wonder they, say, `Washing is so wearing on clothes', "The easiest way I've found to wash clothes --easiest on clothes and easiest on myself --is by using,Simlight Soap. No boiling or hard robbing is needed --•tire pure Sunlight suds penetrate through and through each fabric, loosening dirt and dissolving grease spots. Then in rinsing, all dirt and soapy matter just runs away. "And as every bit of Sunlight is pure, cleansing soap, it lathers generously, does not fade anything washable and is far more economical. Sunlight keeps your hands nice and soft, Levers. Toronto make it." - 5,45 • tight s1 ap Inventors, Read This. An English writer had noticed is a newspaper an advertisement. saying that a suecossfnl iuveritor invited sug- gestions for things that ougbt to be in- vented responded with the tollowing, verses: I'd rather like a Bolt ball which would give a plaintive squeak When hidden 3n long grass to, guide the steps of those that seek; I'd simply love a razor blade which did, 01 in'eetiee, shave As many tunes as those concerning. which the advertisements rave. 1 wouldn't mind on whiter nights a new electric sheet Through wheel on getting into bed there glowed a gentle beat; llellnrte, wbo {considers cheeks the pro- per place for roses, Would like, the says, to see an unob- trusive Inuit for noses. 0r 1A O 01 Inn; surd o' overs•omi a at first, but I as- l'd like a •phone which always gave sure yr trying I mean it certain he the number it was told, said, trying to subdue a certain colt- descension. r1ud, oh, I should be thankful for a "To be your hoosekeeper -ye want cure to stop a told! me to be your hoosekeeper—and Mar- git (your sixth) hardly could in her 1'4 like ai era• that ran itself on kind - grave! What do yon tak' me for?" ness and fresh air; Betty finished her sentence with a 1'd like a way of making sure that vehement question, and bent towards summers would be fair; the little man as if she would have an-, I'c} like -but why extend the list 1 nihi}ated him on the spot, think my little rhyme But 1Vi}is.e Gilroy was not ty; Contains enough 10 keep the wizard even by this. He expected thatt Betty; iBee tty would be overcome. busy for time. "I tak' ye for a sensible lags," he went, on. "that kens a geld offer when; (lomets have been known to exceed she gets it. Faith and mind 1 dinna a hundred million miles in length and say, but if ye are a guid lass andi ten million miles in breadth, biddable, and your faither (wha is;, weer -to-do) does the richt thing byi ye, I nrirhtna e'en utak' ye in time' Mistress Gilroy. Of coarse I (inna promise that, till we sec hoo ye turn oot. The offer is 'withoot prejudice,' as we say in our business. But still I'll notsay but what 1 mieht. 1'e are a :nod bit lass, a guid worker and no that ill to look upon!" The Sher 1R" s officer put his treed a little to the side after the inannc: of a cock sparrow. Eh, what eay ye to that? he asked, perkily. "That's a fair offer, Betty 0 it rxa? Ye didn 1 expert the like to that whim yr left the onetead 0 the Black Deena) to •cera' cot the kee. What say ye to tbat-•-what say ya t that, niy bonnie woman?" "Thai 1" pried Betty Lrtudsborough, briefly. And a- the tint kit word h mouth u•rn heed unpc ::.cl by n strong fight aim, 10011 stenished Willie on the ver with a Ding thet (Tacked like a pistol ••!rot and he its „ ger rd acre•;.i h road to the bodge before he ewu;d 04 eov:n• inm,•e}1. that'1) try «tiatmer to on hnpideft :amity that ought by riches to be o,i the tap o' a barrel orygan wi' at 1tl hil) -i On and a Melee pint for pen Met in lie hued. 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There are, however, an small number of others still le more or less good preservation, al• though they aro now used for far dif- fsront purposes from triose for which they were originally intended, Hertford Castle, in the middle of the town of that name, to to•day the centre. of municipal activity, slime It baa been converted into civic offices for the use of the old borough. As in many other cases whore a castle is now used for more modern purpose than formerly, the old-time courtyard and the emcee around the various buildings have he Canto public gardens and pleasure grounds, The castle at Durham has been con- verted into a university College,. and Provides, in addition to hails and lee- tyre ee ture rooms for the use of teachers and students, Irving accommodations for many of those collected with the uni- versity. Winchester Castle, or the Great Room that is all, that remains of it, was -' bought many years ago as a public hall for the county. The county auth- orities have always tried to make this hall a chronicle of the history of Hampsbire; and, besides such famous relics as the Round Table of Icing Ar- thur--which, however, is said to date only from the time 01 King Stephen— they leave placed on the walls the names of knights, sheriffs, and lord- )leutenants of Hampshire from the earliest times down to the present. The greatcastle at . Nottingham, which dominates the whole town front the high hill on wt°Sch it stands, is to. day the museum for the town and coupe ty, and contains a really line collect tion of interesting and curious antiq- uities. uities. Rose Castle, Cumberland, has been for many decades the °Metal residence of the Bishops of Carlisle; wliile' the famous Castle of York now does duty as an assize court and prison At addi- tion to providing suitable lodgings fora, the judges when on circuit. Carlisle Castle 1s employed by th War Ofllee es a barracks, while Dov Castle bas also become a military 80 Lion. Walmen Castle has, for nearly two' centuries, been tits omctal residence of the warden of the Cinque Ports. ° Punctuality. Some one defines punctuality to be "fifteen minutes before the time." At aureate, It is not one minute atter the time. 1 must tell you an anecdote of the first Marquis of Abercorn. He Invited a number of friends to dinner. The beer for dinner was five, and all those Invited knew It, of course, Well, the )tour arrived, and but one of the guests had come. Down sat the marquis and his one guest to table. The anarquia was punctual, if only Cue of the others was. By and by another dropped in, and was very ouch mortilled to Rod din- ner being eaten. And one by ono all the rest came, and were likewise mor- tified, But the marquis had taught them all a good lesson, and 1 venture to say that the next time they were invited mouIe of them got in to the cof- fee only, but -were on hand for soup. General Washington was so very ennetual that, on enc occasion, some friends who were espectingehim at a certain hotu', on finding that he bad not arrived, all concluded that their watches most bavo got wrong; and :euro enouglt they bad, for Washington soon came, and was not a minute late. No doubt lets habits of punctuality helped to make trim the great man that he was. Nor is any ono too young to begin the •Cultivation of habits of punctuality, The -boy who Is on time at schoai, on time in class, on time when sent on an errand, and 80. on, is apt to be the punctual business or professional man, 'i'Ite habit of promptness is likely t0 cling alt through life. Some persons, on the contrary, go all through life in a ship -shod, down -at• the -heti way, tend never prosper. They are late at church; daa't meet their note, go to protest, and are 1n,.trou- bie generally. Washington's way "kits the best. The Mantas. of Ahei'coi'n was in the right. Anti thse two are good examples for our boys and girls to follow. Never bo behind time, tu)11 if you tate, be a lit- tle a!)ead of It, and you will never re. pent the habit of punctuality. Because s •. of You. Yoe are lite friend of my heart and mind, Patent, forgiving, and sweet and Bind, Facing the storms of love, • with the fair, Taking my load with your own to bear, Trusting and trusted, and tried and true— Whitt friend -nos over a friend like you! Tlename ive are Minute, the sun's more bright, Llaeb toilsome. hour holds more delight, And even though the day has been 1nug, It's sweeter far at oven•song, The very spy's a 1)}ue1' brae 'Demnee of you! —Mary Carolyn Davies, .+