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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1939-12-13, Page 25, - paw ballot ...and THE BRUSSEL POST ,..41:1,4 111:31AT 7.1:F.11 VOTED 'IN 11E1.0,13 'POLL AUDSTIONNAIRD Comparing this new gasoline to the premium -priced gasoline you have been using: In ltnackless pertotrilance At good'? lit101 as goal On pick -UP, acceleration At goon BOO GO as good? For pOWer, especially On WS As goal Seigel Nat as goodt For ai1atoU14dperiarillanCe AS goon BOO N01 as good? 91.2% said AS Good at Hetet 93.7 % s.1:1 Good or Bettct 94.9 % Said AS GOod05105105 903% sold 115 1001 or Sella It was tested, not against ordinary gasolines but against premium -priced fuels ... in an impartial survey among 1475 motorists in 14 cities. More than 250,000 miles of severe road testing! Before a single drop of Nu -Blue Sunoco was sold, 1475 users of preznium-priced gasolines tested an unidentified gasoline which was Nu -Blue Sunoco with the coloring left out. These tests were con- ducted from Florida to Canada by in- dependent, unbiased research authorities. The returns showed that these motorists voted 9 to 1 in favor of Nu -Blue Sunoco! 9 out of 10 proclaimed it equal or superior to premium -priced gasolines in road performance. TO MAKE A FAIR TEST, don't dilute Nu -Blue Sunoco with other gasoline. Let your tank run practically empty. Then put in Nu -Blue Sunoco. Compare it particularly with premium -priced gaso. lines. We'll rest our case on your findings. The quicker you start using Nu -Blue Sunoco 4 — Me quic4e4 'ttat. 41:r 44.157i,v.:41:, 441WV:4 P'4". 4?..1" it071; 14r;44,.., rid? 45tat • 1^Vis 'Arvtgekaliti,, arry Cha , *don98 " Phone 8 Brussels, Ont. e T e ENTITLED Dr,o4mDza, 18,111, 1950 EY ES sh 4, .1 e C2 red For NOW 11 Neglecting your Eyes often leads to very serious Troubles, besides the usual Headaches, Nervousness' Sick ' Stomach, Blurred Vision etc. 'Having your Eyes Examined by the old Time "auess" method is often quite useless as the important Error is perhaps not detected. Our "25 Point" Analytical Examination enables us to Accurately Measure every Delicate Eye Function and fit Corrections that give clear comfortable strain free Vision. 1 expect to be at My Brussels' Office in Miss Bryans Home all day sts 3 She shrugged her thin shoulders 00 hopelessly. Tears, so long held in. aosnaoMmatcol check until this meeting with her sister to whom she could unburden her heart, flowed silently down her face, and, seeing them, Mavis took her Ira her arms and stroked her hair with Loving touches. By Anthony Carlyle Win ing Path '1 was thinking of the child you were expecting, said Mavis, and she spoke meobanIcaltY, as if she were weighed down by all the trouble in their lives, "It was a terrible thing thorn when yen were to co to be the mother of a helpless child, ,Nancy. That was one reason why 1.—I—intstlered„ q'And I gave in because I wits weak and 1 let you make that ter - hie sacrifice for me, such as no her -woman in the world! would Ire made,' the younger giri 1.144. deliberately allowed you to rui.t aur own life that you might save mo—I lot you serer the 'clegredation of the divorce court Dor my salmi" "It Was the beet thing to do'" said Mavis. "And you must Dot -- you shall not—blarce younself now, Nancy, What I did and what I suffered I vrould do and suffer again gladly for your sake. OnLY it makes me very, very unhappy when I hear Etrini is behaving so 1:41,d17." "Tett are wonderful," said NanzY, and she suddenly took her sister's face between her halide and gazed down st her with, suoh Bad yeartr ing that the other telt all she had .. seenificed had. been in vain. "you are a saint, Marino, and I shalt seer he worthy at all you have borne for me, "Hush, hush." pleaded Mavis again, and Nancy turned away, "But I've, been punished!" she cried, passionately. "If my life was miserable then, it Is ten thous- and times more so now, and I de,. serve it all! No, I can't he silent, I must speak now—there is some relief in talking to one who under. Stands and who—cares for me." She brake off with a breathless sob, arid Mavis regarded her in Silence. there was 110 much and yet go little she could say to this sister confide, and the lunoyledgo brought -Whom she had made such a Sacri- fice, *And I have been tempted, Marise,"Nancy went on, "Terribly iemipterill There have bean Moments When I have telt I could not endure it any longer, nit4 must give in must leave, 11 all, Only the re - of all you, did for me, alt You gave up for my sake, has kept Met strong. That and the thought of the Child.Jio it Were not for the child—" Slia feared yearningly 0111 of one of the wide Wilidotwt, then her eyes filling 'with sudden, blinding team, she flung out a paesionate hand Mid, caught at Mavis with twitching' f • Not for Mavia was the blessed 1 relief of tetiltit DrYSyed and rebel - 1 lions that there should be so much pleading fingers. . 7TREMIN human suffering and unhappiness in "My baby!" she whispered, with a , , a world full of Jul/Sly things, she break in her voice, i'My little soni I stood, holding the sobbing figure He is all I have had to keep me from close to her heart, and more than going mad with fisery. He is " ever did she wonder why one youth - very dear to ine, but I would rather . tut Mistake should utterly wreck he were dead than, that he should more, that one gre? Thurday/ ©c 4th to give Expert Eye Examinations and supply necessary Corrections. Write or phone for Appointment. F.F.Ilom th, Phni. B., R. Eyesight Specialist Harriston Brussels, Phone 118 Phone 26X 4,4.4+4 +4,-,e+.4,474,4,--•4444-4+44-•,--40,4•4•44+4•44•43•47,4•14,` •474•4,4,- •4 4,4 sear -To -Ye • • Yo, oeeeog•• o • • • 4. • • .er pant altogether, believe me," Apart from the differenee in their "I dont think I can stand much ages, Nancy had been the weaker " one of the two girls always, and had more," Nancy responded. 'There must be an ,end soon, there must!" never possessed. the quiet courage an d strength of Mavis. From her A.nd that was what Mavis was very babyhood Slie had had to rely on someone stronger than herself, and, when Mavis had gone away she had been elft desolate indeed. Mavis was one of those feW wo- men who can pity. as well as under- stand the weakness of human nature—who have the power to put all thought aside of self and think only 4::if those she loved. She had taken over the care of the frail and fretful little atom of humanity -who Was Nancy's son, and his fnother, watching her, had known. the first of comfort since grow 09 to fear and lige his tether and pity his mother." "Then for his sake, dear, you Mixt be brave," ventured Mavis, though she felt her advice- in the face of such confession was hard indeed to foilow. "And remember I will do everything I cam to help and comfort you." "You are wontlerfull" whispered Nancy, She rose and moved unsteadily over to the window and stood lean- ing against the pane in an attitude of dedection, "If it were not for the child----" She saki again, wearily, "At times even all the love and gratitude I have In rriY heart for you, could not keep me from resisting tempiatilon were it net for tho child. Long age Hiram fortelte,d all right to my cOn- sid.eration, and I want to be happy, Lite 01+0 1110111 of happiness and peace, Marise, but you see how it is—my hands are tied! There l my baby, arid) 80-.-..4" afraid of; that in, her desperation Nancy might risk all and ran away with Julian Forrest; and if she did that there would be her husband to reckon with, :tad knowing illm, Mavis shuddered, Therefore it was to Julian she appealed. "You must go away--anywhere— but go right away altogether, where You will never see her again:" she begged, "Must I?" he asked, and he knew the stern eyes watching him had in them a force he could not resist. For Mavis, had spoken very plan - she had borne litlan. ly at the danger In which her sister Since Mavis's, arrival, Julian For - stood with regard to Hiram Gel!' 91 - rest had called very seldom, for he ing should he find out she really knew the gill he loved sopassion,- truly love& Julian Forrest. "Mas se ately and hopelessly was M sate —must I, It Is so little to just sae hands But never a day passed her now and then, to hear her but he did not either 'phone Mavis or send flowers for her sister. Bat for all that she did not see him, Nancy still yearned in secret for her lover, and there were times when Mavis, noted with dismay, the wild, strained light M her sister's eyes. 1 And she asked herself, too, how much longer Nancy, Weak, over- burdened NallaY, .C.4tild bear tise strain? And bad the sacrifice She had made -1L sacrifice that hasi cost her all her heart held dear ---been made in ram? CHAPTER VIII, Misunderstood. Once, after one of Julian's very rare visits, she found Nancy lying :ace downwards on her bed beating her hands together end. muttering hysteriCalfly that she could not and would not continue to live as she was doing, , "It's so hard to bear," she had cried, possionately. "So bitterly hard; Every time he comes I want to tell hini it must he for the last Lime, and he must not come again, Yet I cannot let him go out of my life. I am not strong like you. Marise I'm a coward, s weak, wretched little coward,. And surely there cannot be any harm in seeing him justtor a, little while?" "But, Nancy, my dearest, harm would come eventually," Mavis had said, in a quiet, soothing voice. “Therde nreetngs can mean onlY more suffering and added. pain. And then, there is always the fear Mem will verist his anger on you or the child It he thinks, you are getting any happiness out of meet- ing Julian. It would be beat to OGNITINUED, 701 09," Maids dropped a gentle hand an his arm, "if know," she said, "but for her sake it would be wiser and safer to go away—for ever, Julian." And leave her to that brute!" he muttered, brokenly, his jaw set anti his face pale and drawn. "I cannot do it, It would be like forcing her to the torture chamber—" 'II will stand beside her," said Mavis, "and he will net do her so much harm as be would were you , and she to be found together. Listen, Julian:, if the worst came to the worst and you ran away to- gether, he would follow you and God only knows what be would do to her or to you in his fury. I have seen frinftit most terrible rages. And then, -there is the child. The law wouldnot let Nancy have the baby if she left her hashand, unless she laid bare In a court all the degrada- tion of her life with him ,and she is certainly not .10 a fit state, to go through that ordeal. I am right— I know I am—and I swear I will never desert Nancy. I twill <10 everything I can to make her life as easy as Possible under the existing oonditions, only you must go. It will be for the beat 131the end," 11 was net without some dread that 1VIevis saw her sister was on the verge of a complete nervous breakdown, and her dread of meet - Ing anyone who knew her, thrust aside, she agreed to stay at the handsome house Miran Goldentag had.taken on allying In, Lando. ' And Nancy clung pitifully to Mavis, With Intr therei she telt elle hadsomeone on, whom she could leen, someone in whoinht she could whom he loved to dearly, and tor a certain sense Ort security, vii•liMaadintm•M 'awmalvowaremmawmovzsgowolt Here Is Something New For Christmas Gifts SUITeASES Large, Medium, Small $11.40 up These are pre-war prices. which will not be available again ' N. Chapman Harness Shop Brussels • I