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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-8-17, Page 6I "May Dunsford'efger idulst Ob• Y013 T H E FEUD mut beet Gemto spite her! I should love that!" WU de my best—for our 'sake." At last one evening he appeared, e eager and excited with the news. "The chief called me into his room, Neither Alice Lovell nor May and asked me if I thought I could un- L)unsford could have explained ex- dertake the work. Ile mentioned that aetly how their qualsrel had original- the• salary would be—" ly started, but at school they were "Not as much as that, George, sure - bitter enemies, each with her own ly?" Miss Lovell gasped. companions. The two parties would f f Inquired whether I had any inten- whisper together, throwing black tion of getting married, and if so, looks at one another, full of disPor- when. Said it steadied a fellow. I aging criticism, told him 'as soon as possible—next Their parents, perhaps, fostered month, most likely.'" this spirit of enemitY, for they were "You were taking a lot for grant - in the sine trade. Mr. Lovell, when- ed! But—but won't May Dunsford ever he could bring himself to men- be jealous and wild?" tion his rival, made statements bor- "Are you only pleased because of that?" "She'll be so envious!" declared Alice Lovell joyfully. He repeated his question. "No, of course not; but it's one reason, and a big one, too!" Miss Dunsford made it her business to find out the date of the wedding. Outside the church she stood and watched, making, sneering remarks to a friend. "She'll think she's everybody now, I suppose! Dare say he was the only offer she ever had in her life. I won- der where they're going to live? By the way, we're moving. Father's tak- en one of those new houses in Larch Avenue—very select and quiet, of her pretty face and showy dress; Pantechnicons came and went one but Alice Lovell also had two or day in the following month, and the three "love affairs." Dunsford family took tea, picnic Then Stanley Chesilton entered , fashion, in a disordered kitchen their lives. Afterwards they strolled in the gar - He was a junior clerk in a City of- den. lice, very smart and clashing, with a A voice from .the other side of the remarkable taste in socks and ties. fence made the girl stand rigid. Alice Lovell knew him first, and To her amazement and disgust, she often received picture postcards with caught sight of Mrs, Pinnock engag- dering on the slanderous. Mr. Bus - ford's opinion of Per. Lovell could not be expressed in polite terms. Hence the children -were, if any- thing, encouraged in their attitude; and as they grew up and left school they still proved their mutual dis- like in various ways. If they met in the street, May Dunsford would pretend not to re- cognize "that Lovell girl," who on the other hand, would stare in a man- ner which was intended to show her undisguised contempt. Hitherto, young men had been con- sidered of little account, but now they grew in importance. More were attracted to May Dunsford, because mysterious messages in a private ed in weeding the flower -beds. apher, which usually meant "Meet "Then they actually live next door! iety, when Mrs. Pinnock and many me outside the station at 7.30, -if Just to think of it! If only I'd known, more hardly dared open a paper. rine." Her parents, although she did father, in time! Why, we shall be Then an official assurance settled not suspect it, knew of these "an- , continually running across her and the matter. pointments"; but the Chesilton fam- her precious husband. How sicken- "The Tide Turns," read Mrs. Pin- ny was reputed to be very well off, ing!" nock happily. "Enemy Driven Back" so things were allowed to take their Mrs. Pinnock, on her side, was ,Everyone, she reflected, must share sourse. I equally annoyed. her great relief. She longed to meet The girl was proud and excited and I "Still, we've been able to furnish someone she knew, to say how glad happy living in an atmosphere of ro- nicely " she informed her husband she was. ••• A Little Yet to Learn. . OUNDMD soldier (recounting some of his experiences): "And yon should have seen the French girls—they was all over us, worse than you ladies." --London Bystander. mance. complacently. "She won't find it easy May Dunsford was pressing through ton was introduced by a mutual ac- look of our front l'00111." nock made an impulsive movement to I h Tokio and rents relatively high. In have log dear ones can fully under who everything may do duty Inc the hum- _ , ble monument. That is why no two diem Hospital for limbless sailors and 501 - Presently, however, Stanley Chesil- , to make any nasty remarks about the the outskirts of the crowd. Mrs. Pin- 1 est cost. Food and clothing are cheap who fall in battle. Only those quaintance to May Dunsford, and the Arthur Ellis, George Pinnock re- intercept her. Their eyes met; then picture -postcards arrived less fre- ported, had left to take up a position the ether girl immediately stared quently. Finally, after a stormy in- with another firm, where he hoped for above her head. terview one evening under a tree on a speedy increase of salary. She passed nearer to peruse the the common, they ceased altogether. "He'd probably have got married to announcement. Perhaps they were delivered at May Miss Dunsford if they'd given him Once again they came face to face. Dunsford's address. At any rate, old Blain's place. But I was the The crowd surrounded them, forcing she was irequently in young Chesil- lucky one." them together. ton's company. "We can't help her troubles!" re- Both tried to maintain a hostile at - Her delight knew no bounds. She 1 tortd his wife, shrugging her shoul- titude; but somehow it proved im- had scored off the Lovell girl this possible. "Arthur's gone!" blurted out Miss Dunsford. wages to anyone who volunteers." "I—I didn't lcnow," Mrs. Pinnock Time passed, and everyone was War had broken out, and thousands stammered. hinting that the couple would soon be had responded to the appeal for re- "I'm glad now. I tried hard to making a match of it, when Stanley emits. From offices, banks, and keep him back; but he insisted. He Chesilton's fickle fancy was suddenly warehouses in the City a steady was perfectly right." attracted in another direction. Miss , stream of men came forth to enlist, "My George has gone too. It'll Dunsford was neglected, and he was : eager to serve their country in her make things very hard for us, won't seen with a different girl. ;hour of need, furious at the accounts it?" But we musn't mind. We must SMALL SALARIES IN JAPAN. Men in the Learned Professions Poor- ly Paid. and French Give Them Dr, Takata, Minister of Education, Decent Burial. has recently published a popular book on dietetics, explaining the food values One important phase of Red Cross ous articles of general consumption, control of the army, and which has at- string or strap or bit of wire; pm - proteins, hydro -carbons, ete.—in work which has now passed to the showing where and how the hightst tracted too little attention, is that haps instead two pieces of a broken An anonymous Glasgow citizen has nutrition may be obtained at the low- of marking the graves of the soldiers box or two splinters from a paling are nailed together; anything and land to the Princess Louise Scottish presented Erskine House, on the Clyde, together with 350 acres of T E ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE GUELPH. Young Man--- If you can't go to War Co to College LEARN to increase your earning capacity on the farm. LEARN business methods. LEARN how to produce better crops and better stock. LEARN to grow good fruit, better poultry and the best of everything. September to April at the College April to September at Home. Public school education is sufficient for admission. College Opens September 19 Write for calendar giving particulars. G. C. CREELMAN, B.S.A., LL.D, President. FROM OLD SCOTLAND NOTES OF INTEREST FROM HER BANKS AND BRAES. What is Going On in the Highlands and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. Admiral J. E, Beareroft was knock- ed down and injured by a motor car in Great Western Road, Glasgow, • Women Volunteer Reserves col- lecting vvaste-paper for Glasgow Cor- poration are now a familiar sight in tho city. The Clyde members of the Amal- gamstted Society of Engineers have applied for a wages advance of four cents per hour. ' M. D, C. Dundas, for thirty years headmaster of Inverallochy Public school, Aberdeenshire, has been an - pointed registrar of old Kilpatrick. At a meeting of Stranraer Town Council ex -Bailie R. B. Dyer was unanimously elected Provost of the Burgh, in place of the late Mr. Fox. The Marchioness of Shute has re- ceived from H. M. the Queen a gift of tobacco and cigarettes for the pa- tients in Mount Stuart Naval Hospital at Bute. •eeeeeeereseee; The death has occurred at Bore - land, Minnigaff, of John Alexander McGill, one of the best known and penters enough remainiag living to d niisetrstitighly respected farmers in the MARKINGGRAVES tims of this war, nor are there ear - OF DEAD SOLDIERS ,bnillarkieed coffins thfe°yr upon They briar: The Dumbarton Tramways Com - LABORS tlefield, their comrades having just pany have commenced to train lady _ car drivers, and have been running sufficient time to hew their rugged their first car with lady driver and FRANCE. graves with a few stout strokes from - haps advances or ere they themselves lady conductor. the elementary department of Ar - Miss Sprot, an assistant teacher in OF THE RED CROSS IN . spade or pickaxe, while the enemy per - must move forward to renewed battle. They always try to mark the grave. broth High School, is retiring from Germans Burn the Bodies, But British • To make the cross they do the best the teaching profession after a service extending over forty years. they can with whatever may lie near. est tc their hands. Twigs are broken As the result of a disastrous fire the works of Messrs. Neill & Co., from a tree or gathered from the ground, themselves victims of gun- Edinburgh, the oldest printing -house fire, and are tied together with a in Scotland, having been founded in 1749,was completely destroyed. time with a vengeance. She smiled in triumph when they met. ders. "The chief's promised to pay full .Alice Lovell was little affected. In- , of the enemy's uncivilized brutality. deed, her only sensation was one of , Alice Pinnoek looked across at her satieraction. It was her tarn to , husband, instantly apprehensive. smile at Miss Dunsford's dejected air, ; "The firm'll pay full wages," he re - and she enjoyed the situation long • peated. after Mr. Chesilton had left the She reached across, seizing his neighborhood. hand. Decidedly there was no love lost "It's the single men that are ex- pected to go, George." "Not only the single ones. Every- one that's under the age limit — ac- cording to my idea." "You—you don't mean to say that you think of joining?" He nodded slowly. "You'll be all right, dear. You will have plenty of money." Her lips quivered. "But I'll be so lonely." Her husband held her tight for a between them. If either could have hurt the other's feelings, or wound- ed the other's pride, she would have clone so almost with' enjoyment. May Dunsford and her companion passed the other couple at a crowded corner. She edged markedly away. "Is that anyone you know?" "That plain, frumpish -looking girl? Yes; we used to go to the same school once upon a time. What on earth try and not mind." "We can only wait miserably at home, while they—" "This"—Mrs. Pinnock nodded to- wards the placard—"all this may be happening to them later on. They'll be abroad—at the front. We'll have to comfort and encourage one an- other." "I'm only next door, you must re- member," said Miss Dunsford indis- tinctly. "Look in any time you can. I'll al- ways be very pleased." "Thanks! P11 -often call." "No, no; I shall expect you every day. Promise you will cense!" "I'd like to, May Dunsford con- fessed. In that moment the past was for - made you raise your hat, though? moment. gotten. To their own amazement Pm sure I didn't take the slightest "Look here, you're not going to be they found themselves walking off to - notice of her. She's no friend of like Miss Dunsford next door, who's gather. • refused to let Ellis go? Yes; I met "Just like old friends!" Mrs. Pin- mine—or ever was The young man looked back over him in town yesterday, just by chance, his shoulder. and ho told me as much." No Scientific Explanation Can — Be the German dead, which it is their She felloevs from our office. I don't "Not me! That's just what I should Given. possible they bury their own, Some- Also Take All the Straw Crop for Army's Use. "But, you see, she was with one of Mrs. Pinnock raised her head.dutyto spose of. When it is at all di have much to do with him, but I be- have expected of her," she observed A phenomenon that has always times a dozen, a score or even a hun- A notice has been issued in England lieve he's quite a decent sort." scornfully. aroused curiosity is tho sudden turn- dred are interred in a huge pit. When under the Defence of the Realm Act "What's his name, Arthur?" When, at last, he had been drafted ing grey of the hair under the Influence it is possible the names of those un- "Pinnock—George Pinnock." away to the training depot, she real- fo great emotion. Several historical in- der the sod are preserved. annpuneing that the whole of this "Trust Alice Lovell for getting feed that she had now a new reason gressively smaller and fewer is made etanees are open to doubt, such as the hold of a man with something funny to look down on May Dunsford. manifest by a study of human jaws ease of Marie Antoinette, who is said A Labor of Love. about him. Pinnock indeed!" "I wonder she can hold up her rumiing back through the centuries to to have becoine grey in the night be- Mr. Ian Malcolm, one of the lead - "I don't know for certain," re- head!" 1 1times 0 000 Years fore her execution, but there are sev- ors be British Ited Cross .work, says marked Arthur Ellis offhandedly, 'but I believe they're supposed to be engaged." "Fancy her being engaged!" "It's quite a usual sort of thing." The young man, taking her arm drew het into a quieter thoroughfare. Bending closer, he lowered his voice. "I was thinking that we—that is, you and I—might soon --might fol- low their example." Thr the end of the week IVIiss Duns - nock whispered.—Lonclon Answers. the East and ,West News, the neces- resting -spot of the dead soldier should crosses in the great areas are like each other; each has blood-stained The Scottish Miners' Executive at view of the low native salaries, says stand the keen desire that the exact sits for the greatest economy in ex- Glasgow decided with reference to nenditure is visible, and the pinch be known, and that some permanent its own features and its own poetry. the postponed hplidays, that two comes hardest in the middle rather memorial should be raised, even if it Even the smallest one is great with days should be observed, and that than poorer closes, for the former were a metal cross, so that the grave dignity, whether it be of metal or of each district should select a conveni- a respectable appearance en salaries ate desire the British Red Cross or- ers or tottering and nearly vanquished wealc, capable of resisting all weath- I strong or ent date. Town Council, R. A. Smith was ap- At a meeting of the Kirriemuir must not only live, but often keep to might be identified in the future. In willow, black or white, respect for this universal and passion- • no greater than the men who work at trades. A primary school teacher earns $15.50 a month, but his lowest budget for four in family reaches $17.33, and his wife must work at home to earn the deficit. He will quit smoking, he , whose last resting -place will never be says pathetically, when the new third , more specifically identified than baby comes. A magazine editor and "somewhere in France," but thanks writer who has a wife, two children to the labors of the Red Cross, many and a maid spends $32.75 monthly on other thousands of graves will be ganizations of the other belligerents, by the . storm's wind. Some have !pointed to the town clerkship, ren - has done its utmost ' to mark the been driven into the ground so surely dared vacant through the death of graves pf the fallen British soldiers, that they stand no higher than a his father, .A.rch. Smith, who filled and an enormous amount of time and good -tent peg; others are bending the position for forty years. labor ha e been devoted to the task. Of and insecure, as though the hand - At a meeting of Falkirk Town course, there are many thousands which planted them were fearful lest Council, presided over by Provost it should inflict yet another wound Boyle, a resolution was adopted that upon the dead." the Council petition the Government French Honor to Dead. to at once take the necessary steps to In his search through France and have interned all enemy aliens. f B •*t's1 raves Mr Mal- The death occurred at Kirkwall re - rent, food, light, heat, wages and sun- marked and may be visited when the colm Was deeply impressed by the =illy of Capt. George Robertson, in dries, including theatregoing, but ex- war ends by mourning friends and eluding clothes. His earnings are Ir- kinsmen. regular, but always below his expen- ses. Happily he has been able in three years to borrow $125 from his wife's relations. His wife's trousseau is not unknown to the pawnshop. An official whose family consists of three adults and four children earns sympathy of the French people. He his Seth yera. 12 P • says that while he does not remember son introduced steam communication This will be a solemn satisfaction having seen flowers in a single way- between Kirkwall and the North Isles denied in great measure to the friends 'cl tta o in his long wanderings, of Orkney, which had been previously •-.......-.•:. of slain German soldiers. They have neither does he remember seeing a carried on by sailing craft, no graves; they have pyres. The Ger- single British grave near a French man practice is to burn the bodies of with flowers. They are renewed even habitation that * was not garlonded RUSSIAN WOMAN A GUNNER. $3750, and his mere living expenses all the dead in or near their lines, and Just meet the amount. In ten years for this purpose some of the huge he has borowed $300 from his wife's furnaces of Northern France have family, presumably for clothes. A been used. Friend and foe are alike British soldiers are buried in Roman A number of women are known to doctor ivith a wife, four children, an incinerated. The Germans say that Catholic churchyards, and Mr. Mal- be in Russian infantry regiments and outgo of some $120. He earns , $95 probably they are right. Bodies buried colm says that the priests have always cheerfully permitted Protestant burial uniform and attached to a field bat - one has been found wearing a gunner's assistant and three servants, .has an this method is the more sanitary, and but owns his house. He has private in a hurry are rarely buried deeply, otherser ve epsl atcoebs,e whheledreoviterhtahsembe. eInn dmeasinrye thebatteryrind allows her to•accom- Her husband is in command of and when the tide of battle ebbs and h b dies and rebury pany it even inth action, but he will not put her on the rolls. She complained about this humor- ously to a Novoo Vremya correspond- ent. "Women are allowed to enlist only when the officers either do not know or pretend not to know that they are evomen," she said. "My husband refuses to 'look the other way,'" ' Nina Vlaclimirovna is her name. She served first as a nursing sister and went through her apprenticeship of danger clueing the retreat from Ga- licia. "Only once since I have beeis with the battery," she said, "have I been under such heavy fire as I had in the Winter, and could not be more lovingly tended if they were in an English countryside. Many of the Says Being he Action Is Like Seeing a Play in Early .Life. means and must be quite a swell among doctors, for the learned author states that two-thirds of the Tokio doctors earn no more than 350 a month. Truly, the learned profe.ssions in Japan have their heroes. ' SOLDIER'S HAIR TURNED GREY. flows, and the shells plow up the sired exhumations occur, and the them, the communes have deeded lit- tle cemeteries for the purpose, and ground it often happens that unde- imperfectly-buried dead. The Ger- rials of the British army in France these, we may be sure, will be memo - health of the living is menaced by the the bodies of the fallen. The British tier generations to come. mans solve the problem by burning and French burn only the bodies pf ENGLISH COMANDEER HAY. OUR TEETH ARE GOING. Science Says They Are Growing Less Durable. That our teeth are becoming pro - year's hay and straw crop has been commandeered by the Army Council.. to go through then." Applications for the sale or pur- Tho officers and men of the battery chase or removal of the commodity11esay she has never shown any signs of must be limited to the amount dealt in Each evening she walked along the ago, and even to those of prehistoric eral well authenticated eases vouched that it is amazing the trouble that or used last year, Sale will be allow, fear. She says that being in action is main thoroughfare of the suburb, and people whose bones have been dug up. for by medical observers. One of soldiers will take to give their fallen like seeing an exciting play early in stood among the crowd outside the 10- That they are growing less,dure,ble is these refers to a young soldier in the comrades decent sepulture. la a army ynly of stocks not required for stock life, when one has just begun to go to cal newspaper office, where the latest breathing -space after a charge or the breeders may go on making a termed use, but farmere arid the theatre. "It makes my heart heat war telegrams were displayed. cay. The tendency to a reduction in 110 was in a trench in tne Argonne repulse of the enmy, when they are shown by their extreme liability to des Present war. use of their own crops. fast," she said. "Perhaps that is "Our troops reached the firing -line. the number of teeth Is shown by the district which was blown up by a mine. awaiting every moment the signal to fear; I don't know, I don't know They displayed conspicuous gallantry, departure of the third molars, These He was projected Into the air and then renew the attack or to beat back an- what I shall do when the war is over, against odds. "wisdom teeth," as they are called, fell beneath a pile of debris. When other onslaught, the men will throw It will be so odd wearing skirts again "List of Casualties." tour in number, are in many individ- he was extricated he was found to be down their rifles, and taking pick and and living at ease in luxurious sur - Mrs. Pinnock terned away, with a ua1s missing or undersized and inept- deaf, and a few days later in an Eng- shovel will make a grave for their rouridings and having nothing to do." lump in her throat, almost cannon- -----------e , in other Instances, lish hospital, he noticed to his great fallen comradee. In every case they ing into someone immediately behind • ford wore a ring on the third finger her. She had begun to apologise, of her left hand, and for some time when she looked up and 'recognized afterwards she carried one glove, in 1 May Dunsford. Both abruptly mov- the hope that Alice, Lovell might ob- 'red beide. serve the important fact. "She only comes here out of curios - That young lady, however, was al- ity," thought Mrs. Pinnock fleshing. ways far too occupied with her es- After that, she often saw Miss cert. About this time they were dis- Dunsforcl; but each ignored the oth- cussing a particularly interesting er's presence. topie—the earliest possible date of "Allies retreat before German ad - their wedding. vance." "You say that old Mr. Blain is The news looked grave. leaving, George, after forty years That evening May Dunsford step - with the firm, Well, who's going to ped nearer as Mrs. Pinnock passed. do his work? You could!" A slight gesture and a half -appealing • "I might be pronioted. I've hinted glance seemed to haply that she -wish- as much Co the chief already, Can't ed to speak. But Alice Pinnock, stif- clo more. Ile may decide upon some- felling continued on her way, ciao.0118 As a Matter of fact I'm "The impertineneel If that girl • pretty sure his choice lies between had dared to say a word -- Ellis end mysetf—Arthur Ellis." Thera followed some days of Ana" perfect control." tail to "erupt" Evidently they are surprise that there were tilts of white will try to leave some sign beyond A Mean Remark. "I can't eat," declared the bride- groom. "Too nervous." "Nonsenee," argued his best man. "Back up and run trlla to form, The condemned always eats a hearty soldier lies below. Almost invariably breakfast." destined to disappear entirely. And hair on the left side of his head. The the heaped-up earth that a British FOR ONE-ARMED MEN. because they are no longer required loss of color was complete from the ---- for use nature is making them of such roots to the ends of the hairs and the Plates Invented For Soldiers Who poor material that commonly they start, longest hairs were just as white as the Have Been Crippled. ready there are signs that other teeth, amidst them. The grey hairs wero theyto1pena Ona - aaorvulnet eoidifo persona YofifPnl(stil Lei stopping pbi nge t -difficult{nve e to decay as soon as they appear. Al. shortest. There was not a brown hair such as the lateral incisors, will fel. solidly implanted and could be pulled low the same route. Our teeth are Out only by considerable force. ffilingfroorriveriltidhiengtabillpe, till sciodZie and f merely tools. They aremot equivalent Subsequent investigation brought, to lirnbe, hut are only natural imple. aut the fact that the patient's lett side a cross of some kind will be erected. Sometimes it is an improvisation of twigs,- sometimes of hoards, occasion- ally of metal; and the name is pre- served, often in a mere lead pencil scrawl. It has been one of the du- ties of the Red Cross to follow the army, search out these little graves, replace the fading penciled -words with chisel or paint brush, and erect a permanent cross or stem: Henry Lavedan, a retie writer, says on this point: A French Description. "Remember that soldiers are for the most part buried in their uni. forms; there is not in France oak 01' pine wood sufficient to shroud the vie - 0 Just One Thing After Another. "Oh, Tom, baby has a tooth," "Huh 1 More expense ! Now we'll have to buy him ti, toothbrush." He is a wise man who can gather doilare from another's lessons, plates invented by Dr. A. E. Shipley, meats and were developed originally of the head and face was most in- of Cambridge, England, ere intended to meet certain needs. If Um needs lured by the explosion and the fall of to help them in this respect, One is diminish the teeth must do likewise, earth. He also fluttered trout an in- a soup plate with a depression in the ---":•— cessant twitching of the ieft eyelid, centre from which the last two or Euphemistic, three spoonfuls of soup ean easily be As his hair was whitened solely on the left side the physidans eame to the removed. The other, whicli has verti- "Would you call Uncle Peter a conclusion that the injuries sustained cal sides and an overhanging rim, is StingY man 9 were directly responsible, but they ar. for solid food. Against this pieces of "Well, no ; I'd nierely say that he rived at no definite conehision. In meat or pticiding can be rushed with. bad ell his generous Impulses under feet, science has yet to find it cause for Out any risk of their toppling over the the sudden turning grey of the hair. edge of the plate. 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