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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1914-6-4, Page 21llllllllllllllllllllilll (11 IUB . ;l�!�l 11 13, 1 -e• - - t„ 116 ant.' saa The Wed mg, g° Eve Or, Married to a Fairy. CIL>,PTE RIF,—(Continued). "Very, very nice," she answered eagerly "Everything I want, le fact. But I'm a perfect little demon for spoil- ing -my dresses. I never can keep any- thing decent more than a week or two. But.I. will try and take more care of things if you buy them for me." She accompanied this speech with an- other of those upward looks of hers, - starry blue eyes inliquid, bluish white, such a look, 'half -audacious, half -Inno- cent, that only Jailith could give; and, needless to say. She had her own way about the hat and the umbrella, and in- sisted uponsporting both, and having .her old hat put Into a bag for me to carry, together with the shoes. Luckily, it. was September, and there was hardly any one about, . I do not ,'.area straw for fashions as a rule, but I did not particularly relish being seen parading the West End laden with such awkward -sized and shaped Parcels as 0 wide. shady hat, apair of new slippers, a. pair of. old boots, and a large bag of bonbons. LiliCh as a companion was in herself sufficiently conspicuous. Her delight at her new patent leather shoes with steel heckles. and her big black hat crowned With marguerites, knew no bounds. She trlpped„nlong, wreathed in smiles, stop- ping at every ehop-lbindow, floudshing her new • silver -handled umbrella, and *Very now and then standing in the 'laetrile of the pavement to lift the edge a her skirt and gaze admiringly at her feet, could scream for .joy!" she confided to me. "Now, when 1 have the .gloves and the handkerchiefs, and the hatch and the purse, and the rases, I shall be perfectly haply, and shall want to dance Instead of walk. Clearly a decm'eus deportment while shopping In the Kest End. of London while shopping In the West End had been one Of ..the items neglected in the anlshing" curriculum et 01 orland FIo 11? 'T f. -you really won't base your parcels Sent direct to Bristol, you must at least let me ,'barter o.''hansom for them,". .X Said, and forthwith hailee a cath, 'glut surely," she objotted "you: are going to gel me something .to eat?" Malice the Clothes as yiffilto as snot; Pry It 1. Hermfhel)e 4511 T1 prsli'cd,ohfontrest,(he, "I thought of that," I said. "We wi 1 drive to Paddington, and I will get you some tea in the station—" "But tea in the station isn't good enough for me—not nearly good enough! I want to have some dinner, just when you have yours. I an sure you would. let lee 1f you knew how hungry I am.". "But, my dear child, your train "Oh, there are plenty of trains!" "The last goes to Bristol at nine—" "1301 there is a later one at ten." "11 is not in the time-tables,v "It is only on Thursday during the summer.. Besides, what does it matter if I don't go back to Morland house to- night? Airs. Morland doesn't'expCet me, and my friendsatWeston-super-Mare. think I have gone to Bristol Why shouldn't. 0 have a lovely treat, and stay in London, and have some dinner with you, and go to a theatre--" "Child! What are you thinking of?" "And spend the night with Mrs. Jack- son, at Battersea, as I did that evening I came up, fifteen months ago." I looked at her in dismay. Was it possible that fifteen months of the Care- ful and expensive .repressive training of Morland House, and the example of that most well-bred and exemplary man- nered person, Mrs. Stanhope Morland, had so utterly failed to eradicate the na- tive 13ahenianlsnl and unconventionality of my little marsh. vagrant? She was quite in earnest. Her blue eyes gazed as frankly up into mine as though there were nothing of a start- ling nature in her proposition.. Against 1ny will the thought flashed into mY mind—what would be the 'future of such a girl—young, coquettish, extravagant, pleasure -loving, and at the same time wholly innocent, confiding and affection- ate, should she fall into the hands of a villain? Yet there were certain clearly defined points of difference between this lovely, unconventional maiden of to -day and. ideal head beeof n 10 1118 and whose n Ser- vant This girl knew the power of her own beauty, and .her manner, though friend- ly, natural, and occasionally coquettish, hall altogether lost the effuulve affec- tion which had moved aforetinies equal- ly delightful and embarrassing, Her eyes were as bright and clear, her sniffle dila both waasa ring edo shade morermean- ing, allnest as 12 al) echo of the world's matinees had already reached her ear. le one word better than another was. wanted In describe the inipres8i0n giver) by Lpith's manner, It Was Boheultan," and Bohemian 110 its old sense, and not Ito latter-day signification. Not the wee Ir , isy hlaatllertf p e. t Ic- %u„ t°inglil ""n 811:1511 ' 5S'i stLn- ilr0tes and theft -kind admire, but Lite Bald -to -mouth, happy-go-lucky, ha.if- teaP@,81f-smfle ortettpce strag- gling sug- 11105 poo-ts, painters, and journalists, a life' that 't had known closest , in my i'arls etiulent days, Was brought before me irresistibly 'by this lowly, shabbily dressed child, with the worn shoes, the patched gloves, and the thin, sweet voice, Tree, she SP0110 grammatloally on the whole, and without either Cock- ney or provinolaT accent) her aspirates were duly noted, anct she expressed her- self in much the same terms as tvould have been enployed by the ladies of my a0,plalntatu'oe. And yet '11161'6 was 10 marked --an 1lmfstaka,bl8 barrio' hes Wee I' dein send her. For 011e thing, 01,o was infinitel,; 11101.6 11601po000000d with lie, a young m^•• W11O Wali a comparative etr'onger, 1' any girl of seventeen I had ever met, except—ail fatal.: -exception which S hated to rentemberl—the 'little models and grisettes of the Latin quarter in Paris, Yet Lilith was perfectly modest in her manner, and I had clearly seen}low angry, undesirable attentions from strangers could make bet•. But there was about her tone, her looks, and her gestures, a spontaneity, a sans -gene, which smacked of the world of Bohemia, but which never foe one moment sug- gested the cultured and decorous influ- ence of. Morland house. Truth to tell, I loved her better for that hint of untrameled vagabondage about her, for her ringing laugh and as ready tears, her naive greediness and love of angry, and her harmless delight In her own prettiness. I was equally side of the shams and the slang of what is .called the best society, the good girls of which are usually dull and narrow- minded, and the more amusing ones too often scandalmongering and vicious in thought, If not something worse, •-Too soon I should. be. "on the shelf," so far even as an innocent shopping stroll with a lovely little Bohemian was concerned, and I determined to make the most of it, "You must certainly go back to Bris- tol to -night," I said, in a firm, judicial tone; "but if you are a good girl you shall go by the last train. First of all, we will drive to Paddington, leave these parcels of yours in the cloak -room, where I suppose you left your other lug - "No; it's to be sent on from Weston - super -Mare." 1 "Well, in any ease, we will drop all these impediments there, and find out if that train you speak of really .does "But I know 1t does—every Thursday. Do you suppose that, living there, I shouldn't know?" Then,' I .said, ignoring the interrup- tion, "we will send a telegram to Mfrs. Morland, announcing the time of your return—you will be fearfully late, by and bye--" "Oh,the telegram is already sent! Just before I met you I telegraphed to 1011 Mrs, ),'Iorland not to expect me be- fore one o'taodc or a tittle after;" "Then she itnows you ore in town?" "She'll know by this time, 13ut she will think I am with my friends, so it's all right,- So that, you see, 01r. Hervey, we needn't go to Paddington Mattel', which 1s a nasty, ugly place; but I can Just have my' (llimer now directly. Isere is a shop with lovely 1'0d tomatoes and dear little live lobsters and small bot- tles of champagne In the wludo)v. I've had nothing to eat since nhre *'clack in the meriting, and tis seven. After din- ner youhast tante me to a theatre, just to see a little bit of It—I'd rather go somewhere where there's dancing'like a. burlesque or a music -hall, And You can keep 0011' eyeson your watch all the time so as to whish me oft. like a Cinde'elIa when the clock strikes half - past nine, Then I shall have had a meet beautiful day, and P11 go back as good as gold to the blackboards and the French verbs at :Worland house for an- other nine months, Until I am finished' to a turn, like a, joint nicely roasted!" She Ives in bubbling good humor, eyes and lips laughing, and little dimples peeping in and out of her cheoke, I took her int, tlie.l estayrsint ,yvhicll had cap - 111 led ]t;er 118ti'° by iii Tr 1110 place T 'should have omen o1' dialler with a lady, although it Ward Wl)1i 11100')),, for the 80001101100 of He cuisine, It wquld certainly be the last time that 0, and my Little ward would dine out together, and she might as well have her own wIty 1n everything, Needless to=say, I immediately en- countered lust the very person ' I did 1Int Watt to see—Herbert' Wilson, the little b)aek-and-white a'lirt with Whom I had pparted In Regent Street about an hour I saw hill raise his ey8hrows at the sight of my all l�t'aikative oonpanfon, bund 10 Molt attherl1.1;tiedand It0nsy" ed till the room together, and the Wait - era flew to attend upon her. I hardly know whether I Wall pleased.or annoyed at the stir her beauty created, She hor- self tools ft very calmly, as a matter of course, to lyhieh she was quite twos - tamed, but 1 could see that she was fully conscious of the effect she was making. "It's a pity you didn't let me go on the stageand dance," she whispered to me confidentially across the dinner -table. "You have no idea how the men would go to look lit 100." "Don't talk like that, for heaven's sake." I exelatmed, In a low voice, bend- ing ley head over the menu and pretend- ing to study it. If you knew how I think of 'you as a little wild dower, set apart on a high bank away from the de- secration of the popular stare, 1110 vul- gar criticism" of the jostling crowd, you would rate yourself more highly," She gazed at me in silence for a min- ute or two, resting her chain on her hands, and her elbows on the table, I. think I Bite the vulgar .crowd," she said presently. "And wild flowers are made to be picked." "And cast away to die by the road- side -when the plucker wearies of thein!" I hardly know why I spolce the bitter words, but their effect 011 Lilith was startling, All the color faded out of her cheeks and lips as suddenly as it had dole when she first recognized me at Oxford Carole and piteous expression came into her eyes, such as one sees in those of a dumb 0010101 unjustly treat- ed, "What is the matter child? Are you ill?" I inquired anxlou0ly,seeing that tears were gathering in her. eyes. "It's nothing—I'm tired—something you said. Do give me a glass of. cham- pagne: 1t will pull lie together." I called to a wafter, Who at once serv- ed her, and e,1 a few seconds she was laughing ria me over the edge of her foaming gleas, and toasting our next merry Meeting, "You will send 1110 down some cham- pagne when YOU are married to Lady Margaret Lorimer, won't you?" fife said. "So that I can drink to your future hap- piness. For I suppose I an, not grand enough to be allowed to conte up and see the wedding?" 1:1 jarred 11000 lee intolerably to hear her allude to my wedding, and I . am ashamed to say that her platter-of-factt, mention of It, and the 1.0101 absence of 'feeling she .displayed on the subject, hurt me 1more. than I can say. "I do hope," she said, later on, a, little timidly "that you will think better of :et:III:determination not to allow 1118 to the stage. After all how 'tm I go- ngo live after I leave school'." ou will marry," I said a little bit. "Never!"' The answer came out with unexpected force and directness; and, looting across at her, I saw that her sensitive face had grown pale again. "Yon will certainly marry," I reiter- ated. "Bpi, my child, I. don't want 501) 10 feel forced into a loveless litarriage for mere .money's sante. So I have ar- ranged with my lawyers to. settle a-lit:- tle income upon you—only a Mulched and MY pounds a year:—but whatever more you want—since you say you are 80 'eery extravagant—youshall have 10 5011 conte to m0. I don't want'You ever to brow what poverty means any more." Tier lovely eyes sought mine with an expression '1n .them, half -puzzled, half - tearful, which I could not Understand. "Sou etre doing all this for me," elle' murmured; "although you don't even want me for yourself. I can't -under- stand 111" CPIAPTEIt \V.' That evening's experience was partly. delightful, and partly a painful ono to to me. I,ilfth's frank enjoyment, her omele- tte beauty ---that evanescent beauty Which rims the blood and clouds the Or- deretandhlg—tho rc'esponsibfe, 0hlld- like gaiety that seemed to radiate from her, all 1)1000 1111,150 charmed and he - witched leewhile her l,ppa'ert resigns: tion tap the idea of 01$marriage end her way or talking as though out future lives nm8t'ne0essarlly lie apart, filled me With a sheen regret. childish Nlfa.ttr{ttlOn for m0 should htiVe b60one :se speedily tr'an'sfetlrlbd"1h1t0 0011110 indifference. Both Nirholns Wray aid Its, ;lorininl 11ad erttitl,nt'le,l that such 0) 11111 11e' the ease, Fwd It had hetet my awn Nish. let now, Its we rat. side l y side to the cal, with Unties este close tinning( . in' au• 11, and her breath on my cheek while elle lhattertd into ell ear above the lease of 11, cab- 1011ve1e, 1 i,,',,n1e endrlseat y 1,050,8001 by 1111 Insane 11esh'e lu solo,' het hl my, *111118 and !else n1y heart out On her soft, red 111s until she had promised to Jive me again as she used to do, Mare than (lle, tuderd, t lied to turn lay head sharply from her (het 1 11115)11 1/1.-1 be ;squalid bey,' 1111 inseelt by the 111110.0)11 pl lulu,ticot al ilei' flowerlike bee y 1111 the earele.s ul1'ectlountencer of her manner. i t•peeiailll when elle laughed, as 0110 did constantly, those two even rows 01 ma11pearly-teeth leepelt out 'front the fresh led1esa or her mouth, 'f had to set my rave hard, lord eemi1,11myself' doggedly of my engagement le 1.110y Alt—alga of I'..11111es dependent position, and ora baud rod ()tiler things, to keep myself from kissing her parted lips. .and the worst or It was 1Iva I. knew she would not have minded it the least hit. Aly kisses, 1f they were not 100 pa$Otoinate, would have 111ea111 just no- thing to her, but very much to me. Poe I laved tier with every heart beat of my heart. 1 1,11,1 to volt her as a child, nod I loved lire ten tinges more now in her early womanhood; loved her with a yearning tenderness a romantic adora- tion, -and a longing that was fleece 111 Bs intensity, N•l le, every element Indeed that goes to make up Lim one paeelon of a mans life for a woman, • She did not 1010w, sho did not under- stand, she never suspected It for a mo- ment. She was by no 111ea115 a good actress, and she mulct 1101 have preserv- ed her unruffled friendliness ;old chatter- ing joyousness had she guessed the feel- ings whish wore warring in my heart. Had she shown she cared for me even a little, I'»lust infallibly have broken down in my Vole of kindly and indulgent guardian, and taken on theve'y differ- ent one of ardent lover. But had 1 been thevainestof men I -Could not posstblY have construed LI71L11's light-hearted manner into encouragement for love- making; and so honor prevailed and that less wee never 51180, At the variety theatre. which sho her- self chose as the plane of m0080010111, she most ardently wished to visit, 1t was all I could cls 10preventher from clapping her 'hands and stampieg- her new 11mbrella on 11re groin token of hos ]ceea 011jaymeni. Pen5oundmtlly, 1 111111 110 taste for such shows: the "song-and- danee artistes" rived me; the sight of feminine high -licking and mushroom ballet -dresses I considered inartistic and more or lessrepulsive; the. "comic" singers failed to amuse lee, and the Mechanical evolutions of the ballet in- terested 108 110 more than so much ma- chinery set in motion. 13ut LUtth, whose sense of humor was far from peen, laughed ecstatically when a m1111 with a reddened eos0 and a brok- en hat sang about going "On the booze from morn 1111 night. From dewy eve till clear daylight," held her breath at .sight of a very or- (11118ry trapeze.perfo•mance-and thought the Sisters Firefly, two plump and be- rnlgletted Jewish ladies, who delivered a nasal duet with the refrain,."Get away, boys!" followed by an enrpluliac clog - dance, "sweetly Pretty and clever." (To be contine01*.) 1' A' FRENCHMAN'S INVENTION'. Wonderful System Demousti'atea to British Railway Men.A new and wonderful system. W13ie.11, it is claimed l will revolution-' ize high-speed traction throughout the world was demonstrated in Lon- don recently before meahanidal' ex- perts of several of th•e most impor- tant British railways. This new system, which is the invention and discovery of a French scientist, Emile Bacheket, has at once elioited an offer of a great railway chief to lay down a, special five -mile circuit track in order that the enormous speed claimed for ib (300 miles an Hour) may be tested. 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CA ADA SUGAR REFINING CO., LIMITED, ED, o MONTI.' _, tr:^ 1, ....r� r' r.r•c � . ,.v:. s•.^n„y;" On flu Farm lig 8} v 511raro'Q.�wmCs,'saver 0 taaID NOM ti and ff;11'1'1111:s. The value of a plow or o1110)' alai implement consists of it doing "rho thing we want it to do, The plow with a light draft simple turns, and eats the furrow with the least-re�i' sistitnge, resulting 171 veil' 9111(i,til work to look upon, but its effect upon the soil is not nearly so valu- able its 111111, of the plow that. runs hardy)' :111(1 gives MOM resistance to the soil and breaks it ftp finer. The plow that has a harder draft goes through the .soil and not only, breaks it up and turns a furrow, but in the process it grinds and pul- verizes it into smaller particles. The more thoroughly the soil is broken up, the more the plant food is made available and plant food is what we are after, In purchasing plows we want to study their con- struction with this in mind. The same applies to the selection of the harrow, The harrow that has nn easy draft cannot do a.: good work as one that moves more snit and runs deeper. A harrow should do smooth work and incorporate the vegetable matter and fertiliz- er.s with the soil in a uniform Platt- ner. The function of the harrow is still further to reduce and refine soil particles, because in every process of refineme'n't we are getting at the plant food which is still so abund- ant in our soil On the avera.go farm where there are various types of soil, a disk harrow, a spring tooth harrow and a smoothing harrow are practical necessities. 1t is worse than folly for farmers ,to spend for commer- cial fertilizers or chemical -lamb foods- until they have first made use of that which is so plentiful in their own soil et the present time. Farm Notes. Do not forget that the implements and machines en the farm'repre- sent an'investmenb, and that when exposed to the weather they deteri- orate rapidly. thus making the up- keep and original 'cost a heavier charge against the equipment. Every farmer should grow grapes, at feast enough for family use. And ]et this family supply be a large one for purely economical reasons. There is :no 'fruit more universally lived and relished than the grape. `Be£tHe starting the day's work think wihat can be left undone with- out in the least disturbing anybody or anylbing .except your own sense of order. We spend too much energy on things that don't count. Tho White Holland, the Narra- gansett, and the Black are all splendid varieties,., though smaller than the Bronze turkey. For mar- kets that require small birds, these are more suitable. A few boxes fitted up for bird nests or houses and placed in trees where cats cannot get at them often help to keep very desirable feather- ed neighbors in the neighborhood. Ten quarts of corn, or its equiva- lent should feed a hen ten weeks, if she is of a large breed, but ten quarts in three months if she be- longs to one of the small breeds. Silage is very low in protein. In fact it is lower in protein 'than oat straw. 1t is valued because ,it is succulent and aids in the digestion Ler 0 of'hfoods. Both oowpeas and soybeans can be grown on soils that are too acid for clover production, but for best results acid soils should be limed. • Sour milk has an important stim- ulating effect on the growth and vitality of little chicks, and for this reason is a most valuable food. Field peas, barley or .any of the clovers are excellent nitrogen crops, therefore well adapted to the or- chard., The results of a single experiment with crops of any kinds should n C, w.arra.nt general conelualons. An evergreen windbreak adds tt" the beaus , 1'0 ,y of any home both su,n- mer and winter, The expense is not .great, Potash, phosphoric acid and ni- trogen are the plant foods that have to be supplied to most soils. Where breeding ducks have ac- cess to bathing water a less num- ber of drakes are required. Plant radish seed every ten clays. so von will have fresh, tender ones for a long season. Pen months of the ,year is usually' the highest limit of time d;lripk avllieli a hen will lay. - To muga -.bran in the mash. for the chlckeila'has o tendency of foes - ening. 1110 bowels. Goru•ds are excellent to hide un- sightly places about the farm, In using, salt in the mash, allow an ounce for every 1.00 poultry. Reinforced concrete is used for. lining shallow dug wells. 'P liolnestte Pleasantry. Mrs. Kicker -•-The road to ta man's heart is thtnug,h his stomach. Kniokorl--,And a lob of you seem to think it should be laid with, bricks, He had a molar crowned and thew To sleep he lay him down; \.l. . tis 1 . ha found' uneasy lies .I '1"11 ,'•h.Catliti .*Mar** t e.terove-q,. 0