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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1940-9-25, Page 2•M "I was just saying how forgetful husbands are .. . WHO a4/..947/tway raedIfee LONG DISTANCE .. and put me to shame!" A 300 -mile station -to -station call after 7 p.m. (and all day Sunday) "i usually costs no more than a couple of movie tickets. With rates that low, a fellow can easily keep in touch with his family when he's away from home. Why not call them up ... tonight? 1 The House Beautiful By Mander Ross "I'm afraid I am intruding," he which Hazel had never glanced be - apologized. "I saw the steps and fore. Who was this man who had mounted. As I came along the sands stepped into their seclusion? Some I noticed what looked like an hotel of those long -hidden secrets that lay and thought this was the way up to far back behind her dark eyes came it" nearer the surface as she looked in - "No," said Hazel, "but you can get to his face. to the hotel through our garden. At first glance she had taken him { "So tresspassers are not to be for an elderly many but now she de - Prosecuted this morning?" n,e emit- . aided his years were not as many as ed. she had supposed. It was his Van - 7 'Have you had breakfast?' put dyke beard that suggested age. She saw now that the eyes were yorng. ILL"I was looking for it," answered the stranger, "hoping the hotel -would oblige." "They will have finished theirs hours ago. You'd better take the chance while you have it—here." 'A seductive odour of coffee vast me half way uP the cliff " "Sit still, Hazel," cut in Mabel, (� "this gentleman 1s doubtless a con- noisseur. I'd better make it." She was off with the coffee-pot in her hand, the grass soles of her .Spanish "alxfagatas" leaving a damp trail behind her, "You do not like the crowded places," the man said, conve'ssation- 41 ally. "My friend does not. This is m9. first experiment with loneliness." I "Not loneliness," he corrected, mildly. "Underneath that rock lives a colony of some sort, I have no tt•doubt, There are a million ants all industriously carrying on with their 8 G clever jobs in your garden—shell ( fish at the water's edge—a thousand f birds in the trees—bees among the 1 blooms- ilio innumerable all about 't16, And every living thing a mys- tery, a miracle to wonder at." 1 Ile was speaking casually, yet nis } words opened the page of life into CANADIAN RED CROSS immimmumin They were friendly eyes, trusting and to be trusted. 'Won't you sit down, Mx, --' "Mr. Strange," he supplied. "And thanks." He took one of the deck chairs and commenced to fan his face with his trilby. He wore old grey flannels, but a silk shirt showed under a sporting coat. Comfortable tennis shoes covered his feet, but with them were silk soc1m. She found it difficult to place him, He bore a rucksack on his shoulders which he now unbuckled and re- leased, 'I wonder whether they have a room at the hotel," he said. ''I could loiter here a little. And I ,promise not to take advantage of this meeting to break into your solitudes." "1VIL friend Mabel—Mabel Doyle her name, and mine is Hazel Vinoy is 00• of this trip. She has a way of getting the things she wants. She even lured me from a crowd of my own set in Deauville to bring me on what she said was a holiday from a holiday." "Already I like her." "So beware," went on Hazel, "She will include you or ignore you as she thinks best, And you will be powerless to abject either way," Mabel tame in with the hot coffee and poured it out, She placed a roll, butter and honey at Mr. Strange's band. "Mr. Strange is thinking of stay. ing at the hotel," Hazel announced. 'Mabel permitted her eyes to rest on the newcomer for a moment. "We hope you will Come across occasionally. It's the nearest Way down to the beach, indeed, the only Way hereaboutst" "The offer that I may use your steps is indeed hospitable of you,'' Mabel's instinct had told her thls man was the right type, and She hart wondered whether his lntruslon would help or hinder tier "cure" of her friend, he decided be would TFIE BRUSSELS POST assist. Ile was as far away as a es three faces. I can see them all man tiould be from the crowd to clearly. I know them as a palmist which Hazel was accustomed. knows his. hand. I could rely on She put his age dawn at some- each. with the same sureness I can thing approaching forty and thought reply on my own feet. But friend. he might be a professor or a writer, ship suggests a crowd to yon. ♦nd There was something unworldly it is impossible to be intimate with about him. When after half an a crowd. Haven't you any special hour he rose to go the girls wander" friend who mesas tremendously to ed wit hhim to the gate. you?" "l hope yOu'll find a room, said yes, I have," put la Mabel, and Mabel. ''Let us know. We shall in a moment she Was telling hint in the garden all morning, I (ince" in John. His white teeth gashed in a smile before he turned, and with his ruck- sack swinging from one hand went across Ilhe dusty white road. "Nice, isn't he?" queried Mabel, "1 feel sure John would like him." "Then he has all the passports he needs," laughed Hazel, "And what's our programme now?" "I was curious that the two girls had changed environment. ' Back in Deauville Hazel bad or- dered their going and comings— everything was according to what she wished. Now she had uncon- sciously placed herself in Mabel's hands and looked to her friend for guidance. The latter had been afraid Hazel would want to get back to the crowd. That was why she welcomed the coming of •Strange. He would provide some diversion to break what Hazel might regard as monotony of bathing, lazing and sleeping, That afternoon he wandered across the road, pushed open tate gate and whistled as he strode up the path. The sound brought. Hazel from her chair in the shade of the lawn. "Well, did they let, you in?" she asked, cheerfully, "It's perfect. I have a bedroom to which I mount from a seperate street door up a staircase which is all my own. A great bed in a little white room that probably once was a loft over a stable." ,Mabel saw how Strange woke Hazel to new life. He talked about Wednesday, September 25th, 1949. Strenge's eyes regarded her softly while she spoke, and he nodded ap- proyingyl, "Your sweetheart is a very lucky man," ho aid. "Love is so supreme that it is best left alone unless it masi;ers you. Never try to make a of it. There is no compromise in love, You will find ifhat out one day, as your friend here has, Miss Hazel." If he noticed the silence of em - harassment that settled on the two gtrls he made no comment. Ob- viously, he was the last man who would pry into .anyone's affairs— even his friends'. Instead, he turned, toe the piano and idly struck a few chords, "Play," suggested Hazel, glad the conversation had trailed off. (Strange played with all his son' They were enraptured. But he did not go on for long. "It wants the evening for music, don't you think? I shall go a stroll along the sands. And you?" His eyes questioned them both. people --Of friendship and war—of "It wouldn't .spoil your lite it yen idleness as against indolence—of the never save him again?" glory of ,giving what 'Was In one to "He 's a good fellow, 'hut there. is ;hose about him, I nothing wondertud about oar en- gagement ea there is about Mabs'," "Give him up then. If our meeting makes) you turn back fr•opr going down the wrong road it will wit have been in yainJr "I've been Coming to that decision for the last few days. "The fact you can as much as con- template it, proves you mast do it, When you are in love you daren't think of your sweetheart being talc - en from you," #,I'11 Write VO -night.." 'No, watt till you return and tell him, It will prove your strength of purpose both to him and your - "Let's go too," suggested Hazel, It was the first of many walks. As the next few days slipped by these three grew together in a common bond. Hazel forgot Deauville tor hours. She was not aware of any desire to return. "I wonder what Mr. Moreton thinks of our absence," Mabel re- marked one afternoon. Hazel shrugged. Reggie seemed a long way off. "Have you written to say where far places and drew her mind from : we are " asked Mabel. :he ordinary world, dropping gems Hazel shook her head. of quaint philosophy andi 'knowledge Mabel was wishing that M about nature and her manifold ways. .Strange was a younger man. There "I never go into towns if there is was no doubt his influence was a way round them," he said one.". affecting Hazel. She had lost her "Then you never meet anyone, • listlessness, her laugh rang out objected Hazel. I brightly, she was full of energy, "I have three friends -I'm very ready for any small adventure, The fortunate," was the quiet reply% three walked and bathed, played Have you any friends, Miss Hazel?" , tennis, and always after dinner "Heaps." Strange came to sit on the terrace "Which means no one, If you and they talked—,talked about speak of friendship my mind pictur• everything on earth—of books, and And once Hazel had an overpower, ing desire to tell 'hint her own story. He had asked her to go with him along the sands, and Mabel who was letter -writing, saw them off frown the stairway. She returned indoors and as she wrote to John her mind keit interrupting itself with thoughs of Hazel and Mr. Strange. She couldn't imagine this st'r'anger opening the gate that was to lead to Hazel's happiness. Meanwhile, as they strolled by the sea's margin, Hazel was telling her new friend about her engagement Rti=SNAPSHOT GUILD TAKE A PATTERN PICTURE the pattern effect adds Interest to this puppy shot. Keep your eyes open for natural or "accidental" patterns. Or, arrange some patterns yourself —they make novel pictures. PATTERNS make interesting pie- plant in the shaft of sunlight that tures—and there are subjects for slants through your window. Note pattern pictures all about you. I the shadow it casts. Picture the two don't mean formal, ready-made pat- -and you'll find the shadow adds terns, such as you find in cloth or "pattern interest" to the subject, wallpaper; but rather the pattern This is especially true if shadows effects which occur through a extend toward the camera,. Pointing away, they're not so effective. Nat - grouping of objects, or through the urally, when shooting toward the action of light and shade. light, you must take care that For example, do you have an bright direct rays do not strike the ornamental iron gate, or know camera lens. where there 11 one? Then study the Often objects can be grouped for shadow it caste on a sunny day. a pattern effect. Sometimes they ar- Thls shadow will "repeat" the out- range themselves—as, for example, line of the gate—and if you include in the picture of the puppies above, both gate and shadow in a picture, Here, you have an informal "wheel - you can get an interesting pattern spoke" arrangement, a very effective effect. type of pattern. Note that the shad- The same holds true of a atalr• owe extend toward the camera. Since. way railing, a window grille, or a the camera was pointed downward, chlid's tricycle, Shoot a scene the lens Wu protected from direct through the window grille -using light. a smell lens opening—and you'll Try some pattern arrangements— hate a novel pattern picture, Shoot using flowers, dishes, books, eggs, or he tricycle with its shadow on the other handy objects. They make in. Sidewalk—not at noon, but a few tereeting pictures, with nice decors. hours earlier er later—and there's tive quality—and they'll add variety Place a Ytl�i iiowers or a potted 216 urs collection. another ells, to your pieti John vaa Guilder and he was reading as clearly es self, Moreover,, there's something though it were printed, that she was cowardly about hitting anyone not in love, and that the person to through the post. A man I knew blame was than mother she spolte of decided to make a clean sweep of with complete loyalty, but with na his staff once and instead of having warmth of affection. them in and telling them, he want "So Miss Mabel really brougbt off on a holiday nadi left a little you away to think it out from an bundle of notices behind. He was outside angle?" smiled !Strange, not one of my three friends, Hazel, "One day you• will find no gift too Oh, and that reminds me, one or great to repay her. She's a fine girl, them is coaling over to stay with me Jove, I envy that fellow, John." for a time. I hope you'll like Bill They walked a few minutes in Gladdon. He'll be here tomorrow.' silence busy with their thoughts— ''Fancy having news like that -sit how many utiles apart. Then he day and never telling us," she chid= said; "Anil yet I suppose she will ed him, "Who is Bill Gladdon, and think hermit repaid if one day she what is he? We must take it he is comes to your wedding with the worthy of entering our Eden since real man of your choice. This one you think so much of him." isn't, Won know that, don't you?' "That's a very pretty thing to "Yes, said Hazel, quite frankly, say," putting into a word thoughts that "I never say things which are had been slonvly forming in. her merely pre'ty," she retorted. mind for days. TO GE CONTINUIID. • 1 1 «Business Cards W. S. Donaldson — Licensed Auctioneer ' for the Counties of Huron and Perth phone 35-r-13 - — Atwood, Ont. All Sales Promptly Attended to --CHARGES MODERATE For Engagements phone 31 'The Brussels Post' and they will be looked after .immediately. WILLIAM SPENCE Estate Agent Conveyancer and Commissioner G'E'NERAL INURANCE OFFICE MAIN STREET, — — ETHEL, ONT. Dr. C. A, MYERS PHONE 4 Office Hours 10. a.m. to 12 a.m. 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. WILLIAM STREET, BRUSSELS, ONT. , D. C. 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