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The Brussels Post, 1915-7-22, Page 2THE FATE OF AZUNIA• 9 Or, The South African Millionaire, CHAPTER It carried one miles away, this room, for all that it was in the heart of fashionable London, It aroused remembrances of pictures of the in- terior Of mosques notwithstanding that it had no tessellated flooring, nor barefooted Mohammedans and Be- douins standing in silent prayer on -holy carpets. Inspiration seemed to be wafted backwarde and forwards, inspiration idyllic, yet mystic, as if it were a casket of great thoughts, of• unuttered suggestions. And the silent woman of bronze looked like the linking image of a united past and future, reminding one of Ancient Egyptology, of sphinxed and pyra- mids and buried sarcophagi, the while she spoke from the heart of an- tiquity of the great dreams of the future, the great dreams which while they seem so vast as to envelope the world,in reality make it shrink to the size of a crystal ball small enough to lie in the palm of one man's hand, while the room seemed' full of delicious odors, the woodful odors of great forests that have been steadily exhaled for all time long before the sphinx and the pyra- mids. And as they came in, Azuma greeted them in African fashion, and Adolphe said something to her in her f own tongue which made her look swiftly at Judith, Her look made ju- dith feel uncomfortable. "What did you say to her?" she asked. Something exciting, .disturb- ing, yet scintillating, seemed to come to her in this room, something which resembled the nervous exciting rest- lessness the desert air brings with it, the feeling of tingling flesh, and nerves pointed like needles which the desert wind, laden with tiny grains of sand, inspires. Adolphe laughed, "Ah, you must not ask questions. Azuma and I have many secrets, haven't we, Azuma?" The girl gave him a swift look from under her dark lashes, which it was impossible to read so much did it seem to contain, adoration, grati- tude, wistfulness, doubt, and some- thing else, which Adolphe Lieb alone could read there. "Oh, do make her tell us our for- tunes," Judith exclaimed, stirring her cup of tea and looking around the ream, then at Adolphe, then at Azuma, smiling with that wonderful smile of hers which held in it at once which blew louder and louder, roar- ed and falminated and scattered whirlwinds of sand, then fell again lower, lower, softer, softer,. a weird lullaby, then sleep, sleep, a, sigh. Then silence. "Ahl" Judith heaved a sigh and for an instant no one spoke. For an instant, they all seemed caught inmeshed by the spell of the music, then Adolphe Igeb's laugh, his healthy good-natured laugh broke the chrism that had fallen upon them, He held out the bow and the violin to Azurna, and moved from where he had been standing near the fireplace while he played, towards Lady Ju- dith. "I have something to show you," he said, "which only you must see, will you come a moment with me?" "Dear me, how very extraordin- ary," remarked Lady Glaucourt, what can it be?" "Perhaps she will tell you after- wards," he laughed baek, as they two disappeared. And it was in the conservatory, the place he loved to read and write in, with its flowers and plants and tanks of strange tropical flowers, that Adolphe Lieb in answer to her rather nervous question: "What on earth are you going to show me?" leaning towards her and covering her two honda with his, as she sat on the low seat beside him and looking into her eyes, half whis- pered: • "I have brought you here to show you my heart." CHAPTER XIX. And now a year had elapsed since Judith's marriage to Adolphe Lieb, a year which sometimes seemed as if only a few days had gone by, some- times as if it was long years ago that Adolphe Lieb had said to her with so much of sincerity, with so much expression of feeling: "I am going to show you my heart." It had been a quaint proposal yet it had pleased her because it was so in keeping with the man. And now to -day they were both in London, in the huge house in Park Lane which since Judith had come to ive there had lost much of its new- ess, its desolate appearance. Gay triped awnings at each window hrew little glades of cool shade upon he masses of pink and deep rose -col - red geranium in each window. On he air there seemed to hum the noise f busy pleasure which is like the um of bees, and which in great ities seems to give something of litheness to labor and of labor to litheness, which joins with the sun- hine and the chirp of sparrows, to arrol forth the tra la la of life. And udith noticed this morning the con - rest between the interior of the beau- iful house and the exterior. Glare nd sparkle and stir outside, and within cool darkness, and the con - rest pleased her. It seemed the im- ge of her life, the contrast of her eeper inner feelings with the super- uity of her daily environment, super- uity of wealth, of social occupation, f va et vient and frou frou and aughter and chatter and transient motion, and perhaps occasionally a ash of real amusement, The inside—how cool it was, how given over to breeze and shadow, yes, there was almost a solemnity, a grav- ity of demeanor in the darkness which the shaded windows threw on the marble staircase, on the panels of different woods in the different rooms, on the great tessellated hall floor, on the porphyry columns which sustain- ed the staircase and the upper corri- dors, on the carpets which were thick and raised like moss and on the flow- ers which bloomed everywhere, on the pictures on the walls, the lovely pictures in which the landscape seem- ed to have been suddenly steeped in twilight, and the eyelids of the men and women in the portraits half clos- ed by the all enveloping shadow growing drowsy, while little canopies over the bird -cages threw tiny stripes of sunlight between the bars, casting the shadow of the bars across the flooring, and catching the rad- iant plumage in flashing gleams as it did from here and there through cre- vices between the blinds, 00 the soft pale yellow dress she wore. Cool like the inside of a grotto, in- viting to repose of thought to intro- spection, to meditation, while outside, though muffled and dulled like a far- away drum, came the faint roar of a hundred different moving things, reminding of the boiling in a pot of a score of different herbs. She could imagine it all outside, at the back of the house, in South Audley Street narrow and congested, and m Oxford Street, far away to the right; in Pic- cadilly not so far away to the left, and closer along Park Lane, on the other side of the Park railings be- hind the greenery a thinner stir, less closely packed, lighter in kind, but still moving always, the panorama of vehicles and humans, heavy and light, ponderous and maliciously diaphan- ous, great heavily laden wagons, mo- tor cars, and electric cabs and han- soms, open victoria e with their bur- den of butterfly -apparelled women omnibuses and water carts, here an there an American epider looking like some insect, some monster mosquito darting hither and thither over the surface of a thickly weed -entangled pond, and weaving through, in and g I authority equal to that of a Major out amongst the traffic the human out the whole tee months, for they in the R.A.M.0 and the Press is ants, wine busily hurrying, some had been away ten 'months, stopping '' ' eager to give her the salute, She ra- stopping to chat or gaze into shop sit Paris on their way home linger - windows, some leisurely saunterifig Ing everywhere that nleased. them ther relishes the humor of the situa- along, unconcerned with the Web and Judith had felt the allurement, the Lion when she trios to persuade the woof of life, watching it from a dis- strange satisfying content and ela; public, against its will, that she is twice, or through spectacles of Mu., tion whiali his gigantic.. wealth not a Major—that no woman can Bien, or with criticising, iheredulons, brought to her, and he 'had begun to hold a commission in his MalestY's roofing wonder or diedain. reap some of the benefits of her poi -g rmy That in the 8treets, and yonder in tion, while he wondered at her render ; Once in Jait the Park the throws of men and wo- Acquiescence in mow matters. Yet, men,. the little children seeking to now it seemed to Judith that so he she She remembers that the only time imagine themselves in pastures of had enioved flue— months, why she , before the war when the authorities green and gold, riding, driving, tout -I rejoiced in this first anniversary of L elloweci any Special interest in get - n 0 so much sadness and such arrogance. t "She doesn't tell fortunes, Lady o Judith, do you Azuma?" He said is something again to her in a language c they did not understand, but Azuma b shook her head. He had asked her b if she would show them her pebbles, s tell them something, but she wasn't c going to show off. "She won't," he said, it's no t good." Then he asked her if she t would sing? a But the girl looked down shyly, her whole body seeming to writhe in pro- t test against having attention drawn a to her. "Not one little song, Azuma?" Instead Azuma walked past them, fi the rings on her feet tinkling faintly, o muffled on the thick Persian carpet, 1 and opened a cabinet. The eyes of e the three visitors followed her, fascin- 11 ated, while Judith noted how at home she seemed in the house of the mil- lionaire. But Adolphe Lieb only smiled, he knew what she was going to do as Azuma took out his violin and brought it to him silently, putting it into his hands and making a gesture which seemed to invite him to do his best to entertain his guests "Do you play the violin?" judith could not tell why it surprised her. Then she remembered that Mrs. Gel- ling had told her that he did. "How very interesting," Lady Glaucourt remarked, talcing another cake from the table, in the semi - ironical tone in which she always commented on what she didn't under- stand. "Yes, you must, you must. Azuma was quite right, make him," she said, smiling sweetly at the girl. And without much protest Adolphe took his violin and tuned it, screwing two strings a little tighter, rapidly, with an accustomed hand. Then he began to play a rhapsodie hongroise,' while Azuma squatted on the floot, falling silently, noiselessly into a: graceful position, her eyes fixed on her master, absorbed, enthralled. Could it be that they were in Lon- don, in Park Lane? The music, ex-' visite music which might have brdught the performer :fame as an artist, seemed to deny that they were, as the notes rem and fell, seeming to seek an exit at the open window, or to feel with tender an- tennae of Sound for breezes which drew hi and out, breezes which had , come from far away where flowers grew and the sun fought duels, light with light on dancing waters. Now it seemed as if horses galloped, tear - Ing along mountain paths, down hills,! down, down; now little rivulets sang and streams gurgled, and fountains plashed, and birds sang, sang in lit- tle spurts with chirping, twittering' gladness, with spasmodic notes caught upwards to hide the dirge, the diem! wailing dirge, which was the theme of the music, which seemed as if somewhere hearts were breaking, breaking in the sunehine, souls moan- ing ift inner hollow caves, hidden away beneath stratas of shadow, which the sparkling sunshine and the music ouid not reach. Now it seemed to Judith that pain and joy galloped side by side, light and shadow danced together, playing hide and seelt, while the surroundings, the whole presentment of the room eeerned to make the music speak of Eastern scenes, of deserts, sand up - cm sand, \meter and vaster like in- creasing uttermost thought, deserts with Waving palms reaching otit .gi- gentle denunciating arms to the wand, New Millinery Model From Paris. An undyed satin toque trimmed with rabbit ear bows of black velvet. Sorelli, of Paris, considers this one of the smartest creations of the season. The lower hat is a straw turban with broad band of blue, taffeta trimmed with large silk poppy on either side.—Designed by Ellen°. teuflng, chatting, walking, laughing,' their wedding, was because she had and the air seeming to condense emo- glided with the stream and been satis- tion and sound into one great roar of fied to be happy. life which rolled in subdued, re- strained thunder over the great city (To be continued.) from one end to the other, giving the , impression that rolled it over the whole world and under it, coming 'WOMAN DOCTOR back again in dense coagulated waves, and stench of decay as the sea is DOING FINE WORK thick, heavy with smoke and dirt laden with shell and weed, to roll over it once more, again and again, in endless—flux and reflux of eternal muffled sound. ORGANIZES AND MANAGES MILI- And this morning she seemed giv- en over to meditation because it was TARY HOSPITAL. her wedding day, and Adolphe had insisted in German fashion that they should have a family party. Her fa- ther and mother and brother were coming, and other relations who had at one time been cold, but who had become tremendously related, since Dr. Louisa Garrett Anderson Has Served Prison Term as Suffragette. her marriage, a few intimate friends, Since September Miss Louisa Gar - and of necessity the Gollings. What red Anderson, an Englishwoman of note as a suffragette, has been doing great things for the wounded. Early in the war she and the British Gov- ernment felt mutally shy of one an- other, and her first hospital was opened under French authority. Her next hospital was at Wimereux, she wondered this morning was why Adolphe wanted to celebrate this day, whether he was sincere in re- joicing over it? It seemed to her as if it were not possible that he should. She went further and asked herself whether she herself rejoiced or not. A year, how quickly it had gone, yet how full it had been. She had where she was among her own peo- behaved very well at first, insisted ple, and where the rations (most in - on going during the honeymoon to contestable of all evidence of recog- Frankfort to see his old mother sisters,.and been very nice to them, and nition) supplied to her patients were the official rations of the British sol - not giving herself airs, but taking them by storm by her charm and dies. beauty and winning simplicity. Some- The mutual shyness having been times she had wondered since, what dispelled, the War Office asked Missd had prompted her to do all this, 1t1 Garrett Anderson to return home an was so unlike her, that she could not make a hospital in London. Out of herself discover whether she had done 'her own resourcefulness, experience, it as in a dream or because she was herself, her real' self, the while she: and!initiative she makes her hospital. It has five hundred beds; it is to be had been conscious of something mo- i in working enter hi record time• it therly and tender and protective in • . old Frau Lieb which was missing h., :is to be wholly self-sufficient2that her own mother, is to say, Miss Garratt Anderson hers Then they had spent the winter in , self is wholly self-sufficient. 117 South Africa returning later by Cairo, l has she come by the necessary abi - and Judith had felt the charm of the , ity? Not, certainly, by the fostering Veldt and been delighted with the foresight of a paternal Government. house Adolphe had built there. She : as leo count was taken before the war had eget taken a,n interest in the ! of the Mines,. and in his great schemes of possibility of a woman doing cornering the diamonds, and in coin the things she is doing, and even af- she had been an interested partici_ i ter the war was well in hand there pater in the conversation and discus.was still no effort made to securxe . sions with high government officials, ! the services of the whole group of e with the Khedive, and expert engin- I traordinary young Englishwomen to ears on the feasibility of establishing: which she belongs. She now holds CapetoC ' • 'I . The Charm of Eastern Fragrance is typified in every sealed packet of 11 Selected leaves froxn.the finest plantations, famous for teas of subtle deliciousness. SALADA is fresh and free from (lost. BLACK, MIXED OR GREEN• 817 The Handy Barn. Good barns 'cost money, but when the farmer once knows that by the proper construction of his barn and other outbuildings, he can save the work of a man, it will readily become clear to him that .the investment will pay big interest in the long run. There are a few things that are absolutely necessary in the farm barn. It must be well lighted, well ventilat- ed, easy to keep clean, so arranged as to economize space, so as much stock as possible can be housed. It should be easy of access, and its loca- tion should be such as to insure a well -drained barnyard. With the above features incorporated .into the farm barn, the sort or style of the building matters not. A Well Braced Long Ladder. Farmers who have occasion to use long ladders often find them weak and dangerous when set up at the proper angle. This can be overcome by a wire brace. Get a blacksmith to make two V-shaped irons, and fas- ten them to the side sills with small bolt. Bore small holes through sills at each end. Take two pieces of No. 9 wire and fasten to the sills at one end by 'passing through the holes and forming a lock by turning the end back through the holes over small iron pins, then pass the wire over the V- ifons drawing them tight with a lev- er and fasten at the other ends in the same way. This brace will more than double the strength of the WM,and add but little expense. Making Good Butter. The essentials in the making of good butter can be secured by any- one who will take a little pains. There has been so much discussion of the subject of caring for milk and cream through the columns of the farm pap-, ers that it really seems that a bet -I ter grade of butter could be made, now with modern equipment than at any time in the past. And if a high- grade article can be produced, and it is sent to market packed in a dainty manner,that will appeal to the eyes as well as .to the tastes of the buyers,1 it will sell at a price that will assure' the producer a good margin of profit. Ten Good Poultry Rules. 1—Provide fine grit, charcoal, shell and bone from the start. 2 ---Give grass range or plenty of green food. 3—Have fresh, clean water always available. 4—Feed only sweet, wholesome foods. 6—Avoid damp and soiled litter. 6—Disinfect brooders frequently. 7—Test all beef scrap before feed- ing. 8 --Keep chickens active by allowing them to become hungry once daily. 9—Feed moist mash sparingly. 10 --Keep dry mash always before the chicks. ting and keeping hOld of her was when a magistrate, not without com- ments, sentenced her to six weeks' imprisonment. For forty years her mother and her aunt had worked with all propriety, for the cause of Women's Rights. After that space of time, the ridicule of Parliament and the booings of medical students—of students beaten on their own ground —palled on the younger generation, and a window was broken. Some good, as it happened, came of the in- cident—and the sentence. Miss Gar- rett Anderson's articles on the condi- tions and management of women in prison make, with Lady Constance Lytton's papers on the same subject, an invaluable basis for reform. The family record is an extraor- dinary one. Her mother, Dr. Eliza- beth Garrett Anderson, was one of the first Women doctors. She be- gan her medical studies in 1860; and though the College of Surgeons and the College of Physicians refused to admit her to their examinations, she obtained a license to practise from the Society of Apothecaries in 1865. Paris had fewer prejudices than Lon- don and, passing the medical examin- ations of its University, she receiv- ed her M.D. degree. Later on, when England realized that she was not to be denied, honors were not lack- ing, and her daughter's degree is a London one. H.M.S. Warrior, launched in 1860, was the first ironclad. Bees suck over 200,000 flowers for every ounce of honey. During our wars with Napoleon our Navy captured or destroyed 683 French ships. When a young man Sir Hiram Maxim contemplated becoming a prize-fighter. A. cock -crowing competition was held in Paris ten years ago, the utter- er of the greatest number of cock -a - doodle -does in a quarter of an hour being proclainied champion &antis- cleer. EXTRA GRANULATED with the fruit you order for • preserving. Tell him, too, that you want it in the Packages originated for Aga% Sugar — 2 or 5 lb. Sealed Cartons or 10, 20, 50 or 100 ib. Cloth Bags. Then you will be sure to get the GENUINE REDPATI-I— Canada's favorite sugar for three generations—the sugar to %Those preserving purity you can safely trust good fruit. CANADA SUGAR REFINING CO., LIMITED, MONTREAL 135 • What to Wear and flow to Wear its We, tolerate unbecoming clothes as ?va tolerate tireconie acquaintances,' and we enjoy beautiful clothes as we enjoy the sweet companionship of churning friends, writes Mme., Qui Vive. Why not,then, choose gowns and comrades with wisdom and die - °nation? We have been accustomed to place our precious ruchings about our necks and 'tis very fine we feel, too, with such soft elegances framing our alabaster chins. But it is net enough, my hearties! A good thing is better when there is more of it. Hence we are now putting ruching e about the hems of our skirts. A lavish act surely and an extravagance of which any woman should be ashamed. But it Mniet be did," This native trimming appeared first on a model designed by the fam- ous Cheruit, the material of which was black taffeta with moire in leaf effect. The bodice was draped in the back with crashed folds which crossed in front, surplice fashion, and were tied in a sash at the back .of the waist. Nothing very startling about that! Perhaps the ,great -de- signer was disappointed and had te give to the thing some strange new touch. So the hem of the skirt was finished with a white ruching, the very same.that we stitch so tenderly in our stocks and collars. Say not there are no new ideas under the sun. Study fashions and you will find that some new cry is screeched each day. And many answers the call. Speaking of strange "newnesses" in the shops, there are the new under- muslins of figured and flowered or- gandy, run with black velvet ribbons instead of the old-time wash ones. and chiffon, all generously flowered Combination suits, of corset cover and bloomers, come in organdy and net and ribboned. They are lovely and only the strong of mind can resist them. For nightgowns, petticoats and negligees the flowered materials are lovely, and they wash like fine linen and look better after every laundering. Get busy these sum- mer days, little one, and make your- self a brand new outfit of underwear. The sweater is giving away for the sports coat of knitted silk, which is both warm and light and a bit more elegant than the old-time convenient wool affairs. Unlike sweaters, the silk coat is lined, and the color of the lining appears in collar and cuffs. Sometimes there is a belt, while again there is a sash with the fringed ends. Semi-norfolk jackets come in the same materials and are very fetching. Fashions come and fashions go, but nobody remembers a time when the norfolk wasn't good. In the garden of styles it is a perennial. Pin tucks are used as decorations for blouses, and white handkerchief linen is very "voguey.' A beauti- ful blouse, recently viewed, was made with pin tucks in groups, with one - inch tucks between. It, had long sleeves and deep tight cuffs'which were piped with blue and finished with French knots in blue silk. The collar also was piped with blue and both blue and -white crochet batons were used as fastening. An under - bodice of light organdy was worn with it. Very chic and "sassy." S• CROWNS MAY • PAY FOR WAR. The Austrian Crown Has Been Stolen, Lost and Pawned. European powers may be pretty hard up when the war comes to an end, and all manner of schemes will probably have to be adopted to scrape money together. Will the royal trees, ures of the war lord and the Ausrian emperor be sold or pawned? It is interesting to king; that the crown donned by the monarch of Austria, which was made: originally for Stephen of Hungary, some eight centuries ago, has been stolen, lost and pawned. On one occasion it was pilfered by a queen, who fled across the frozen Danube with it, and there, being in need of ready cash, she pawned it for 2,800 ducats. When it was finally traced and recovered it was placed in a fortress M Hungary and guarded night and day. At the time of the revolution it was buried in a forest to prevent it being annexed by the Austrians, and it re- mained under the soil for nearly a hundred years. • There is no doubt that this crown would fetch a big price if put up for tale by auction. it is adorned with 63 fine sapphires, 60 good-sized rubies, 1 emerald and 388 pearls. The gems are sunken in a mass of pure gold, and the crown weighs altogether about fourteen pounds. There were some very severe storms whichictCharlawoc afosw,pf otolhirnaenecii,,A1 istios(rnt1rsoi a2notim1dre000r2terfeoisee, the war. Terriffie gales uprooted several trees, one of which was an encient elm. In the disturbed ear111 at the foot of the fallen tree the crown worn by former kings of I" e - Mad, dating hack ta. the fourteenth ceatury, was found. This crown, by the way, hag been lost sight of :ilium , the middle of the eighteenth cent.,ey, The British navy is the. only navy that had practised firing at eubmar. Ines before the war.