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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1921-6-23, Page 6Theec ret of the Old Chateau `""•�•• • ,*- �-"4 By DAViP WaITNLAW, n--�---*r +Tr - (Copyrighted) Syeopsis of :'revious Chapters, ; intention of returning to the house Vitiate itenoen and Eddie I ave,ton,`whieh they had left a moment bofo'e. modern soldiers of! fortune, Have beer I Knowing what he diol, however, of %ambling with ]Aubert Baxenter, a, elle desperate Amite of young Rena p .cus attorney, in hie London ton'e •filamens, eeppled with the sudden opartments• After their departure i diesppearanee of that gentleman from lute at night Renton returns to the, ale his usual haunts, left Eddie but house, murders lirxenter and irides one conclusion --and upon him it bad the body on the roof. While waiting; a fur -reaching effect, Morally, Mr, fcr night to conte again in order tQ,Haverton was no whit better than he make his escape he finds on a dealt a had ever been—it was not in his na- curious`old yellowed document telling .lure t0 be so; but his nuaarow escape of a mysterrons Chest ]eft in the caro from being enmeshed in the webb of of one of Baxenter's ancestors by a the Regents Park mystery had given Preach nobleman. the Marquis do frim a severe shaltfn u 1 DarUgny, of the'Chateau Chauville. The chest has been handed down from kis be sat 'in hisg'fiat this bright one generation of Baxente•s to an-, Spring morning le told himself that other` and carefully guarded in the although the straight road was in - hope that some day its rightful owner .finitely less interesting and lacked will be found. Renton decides to pose !many of the allurements of the broad - as the missing heir and claim the,ex . thoroughfare, it was smoother chest, He goes to Franco to make travelling for n nhan of middle age some needful inquiries about the Der-iwhese nervous system had never been tigny family. The story of the myster-1 0f the hest. Ile shuddered even now ous chest goes becl: to the troublednt the remembrance of what his life clays of the French Revolution and the had hem during those first few weeks escape of the Marquis and little grand-; following the discovery of the body daughter to England, where the chest on the roof. F -Ie remembered the and document were given to the Bax-; fee,in s with which he had each enters for safe keeping. Now, moreintorning opened his newspaper to than ane hundred years later, Hubert! watch the developments of the case Baxenter's body- is found, but the' In which at any moment he Wright be police find no due, Meanwhile, Renton called upon to take a principal part. ohangee his name to Baptiste Dartin,; group' by hear, day and night, he had and visits Canada; then he presentsbeen ursa•ed and tortured by tho do - his fictitious claims to Robert Bax- mons of nuticip•.ition. Not a knock on enter, new head of the firm, and re- his door neo a friendly tap on the eeives the treasure chest. Robert calls echeu'.rer in the street but he told himn- sn on Stme]laB oab great success o• n 10 the self Leet Iris hour had come. The fac that 1'o was innocent weighed littl stage. She tells him he must wait a wit, him; the explanation, should i year for her answer. Dartin is at first become known that he was with Bax - greatly disappointed to find only acaber on that night, was beyond even altry thousand pounds in the chest.' hatelling fertile brain. Unlike Renton, he Ile is relieved to discover later a large load Iliad no porticalar reason for re - where the oin real treasure is hidden. iving Bax -" to "'" hisgpre eu•ce in ➢lortimerantrathathld Teiraeet rnte a quaint locket and chain which, Ho said that there were a hundred he fond in the chest, Dartin goes to I and one things that might incriminate Fraeee. By posing as an artist he g 6 g•iins admittance to the Chateau i hi per handkerchief, a , a scrap of Chauville, and in a eerret•vault finds, paper, a cigar end, a thumb print. on immense fortune in genes, gold Haverton tont was tint�the 1011 of deadly feawhich held r HELPFUL EXERCISE I used to sit in ponhp•and state and took no exercise, and I achieved sueh grievous weight I pained the doctor's eyes. 'Teas very little grub I ate, 1ny appetite unsound; but every bite increased my weight three quarters of a pound. And then I heard the doctor say, "you surely lard the earth; you'll have to walk twelve miles a day,and thus cot down your'glrth," So I put on my nine -league boots, and walked till I was lame, al- though I never cared three hoots for walking as a game. But one must; heed whatever rules the doctors may invent, whatever sort of 'pathic echoo,)g Those docs may represent. And so I walked along the shore about a hundred miles, and then I walked is hundred more, in all the ragtime styles. The first result of all this toil was appetite renewed; the women had to fry and boll great quantities of food. My appetite was strange and weird, it clamored still for more; the loaves and fishes disappeared, and all the larder's store, My weight, increased by leaps and bounds, 110 bounds and leaps it grew, and where I used to gain two pounds I now gain twenty-two, The fat lean fails in all lie does, in all the schemes the tries, and alecks always round him buzz, and talk of exercise, clangorous rival in the eighteeneyear- old girl. And so it was that Haverton, who /tad been waiting like some hawk watching its, prey, swooped down and attaoked Stella Benham with the offer of a prirfcipal part in a good tour. He had chosen the right moment, when, smartinng under a keen resentment and longing to leave the surroundings which had become distasteful to her, the girl affixed her signature to a con- tract before she rightly knew whet she was doing. Eddie was thinking a great deal t about the clever little actress as he e looked out of the window of his wen- t appointed flat. He had finished and enjoyed an early ,breakfast and now sat smoking an excellent cigar and gazing out over Hyde Park, stretched out beneath him in all the enticing glamor of Spring. It was barely nine o'clock, but the grass was already well peopled and the musical soondis of motor horns, as the cars 'sped west- ward along Piccadilly, told him that the town dwellers were taking early advantage of this May 'Sunday. Stella—a pretty name—Stella Hav- erton would sound well, eh? Eddie tried to tell himself that forty-eight was but the prime of a man's life— a little before the prime, perh=aps—and that hair a little gray over the ears was noir unattractive. His 1:vo years of comparative honesty had had a most beneficial effect, not only upon the actions of Mr, Eddie Haverton, but open the appearance of that gentle- man. His mirror, as ho turned from the window to it, showed him a well -set- up man, broad and full-ohented with- out being stout. Fits hair, token straight back from the brows, success- fully disguised a partial baldness, and his moustache, small and trim, was brushed up et the ends and gave something of a military aspect to his face. He did ret need the monocle which was inseparable from his right eye, but he wore it as an ornament, and it suited and gave a certain dig- nity to his rather large fate. He toolrfrom has pocket a tiny red memorandum book and consulted it. The company in which Stella was •"starring" had finished the night be- fore at Barehester and were opening to -morrow at the neighboring town of Maystone. Perhaps Stella and some of the 'company would spend the Sun- day in Barc'hester•, preferring the old county town to the smoke and grime of Maystone, in which case -well; his new "Shiley" would take him down in no time -it wound be a run, anyway. After all., it was a pity to stay in town on a day like this. -Eddie Haverton pressed the little electric button by the fireplace and ordered the car to be ready in half an hour. (To be continued.) Ind rare pictures. He knew well that among the thumb CIIAPTF.R XI.—((ont'd,) impa-essions at Scotland Yard his had their place, and memories of three Seizing the scarf firmly in both years he had passed in a tiny apart- eme.le Vivian raised him: t if until his meat overlooking the granite -strewn roes rested upon the coffin lid. Then, tors of Dartmoor, which had followed with ;t little spring iia stated his the. taking of those impressions, _iin-h, The sini for crack of splinter-, came beck to him in shuddering force, ii'; wood ars he "took 0R' feom the. But that time of terror was all over a'::i casket enured a little thrill of now. Iiubert Baxenter lay unavenged herrnr to rent through )rim, het he. in the fanily vault at Highgate and neat up, hand over Band, until at last the affair of his death no longer his fingers -gripped The edge of the:claimed the public attention. The po- llee -rine.. With this hand-held anal; lice had apparently dropped the case, to:,;em , by the scarf it Win not difficult, and the most blatant of the "yellow" 11 e!rher up and Vivian, exhaustod•press had long been silent on a sub- =l;appy, rank down in one of the' iect from which they had squeezed all attic pews of the chapel. /sensation. Through tate wiudov above the altar) And Eddie Haverton; ever since :he rays of a young moon struggled that November night, had run straight thinly. A glance at his watch told —that is to say, that in any venture ?Man that it was half -past ten, and! to which he put his brain and hand he looked round for a means of coin- he was careful to retrain well on the oleting his escape. To a man who right side of the hedge planted by the hnderstocd bockeraft as ire did this was law around that pa/titular business. t simple natter, and by the .time the He had been suocessful in the past and .... flode• in the tiny belfry was chiming his good fortune seemed to holdood - _liven M. Baptiste Dartin was m the now that are had chosen a more re - fettle plantation of firs which sur- putable mode of life. Everything he sounded the Sacred 'building, touched turned out well—a dairy, Cautiously 'he made his way to the which he ran for a few months, was lodge end, scaling the gateway, cross- disposed of to a company at a large Al the bridge and reached the high profit; he assisted the faalen fortunes . toad, Midway between the chateau of a perm weeks and the circulation and the "Three Lilies" he came upon rose at once until it reached auarter lief Venni, who was returning from of a million, q :he inn, But these were but speculations, Vivian - stopped him. FIe had been side issues which Eddie's astute brain into Blois, he tell the man, to order told him were good. It was in the the -flames for the pictures. By the theatrical field that his chief energies way. would it be convenient for hint wore expended. Always a keen play - to finish the dining -room sketch thegoer, he rnrpudly`•turned to financial next afternoon? In the meantime, account his experience of many yeatie. would Henri healer hint by returning He did not advertise his present Ion- to, the Three Lilies as his guest, nection.with the stage more than need there to 'open a bottle of the 'real' be, but the theatrical world were !veld .excellent claret that •house provided? aware that he was the power behind It -took Vivian three days to finish the throne in more than a'few touring the sketch, and when -finally he de- sutcesses, and that London managers parted from Marley he left old Henri were beginning to speak of and fear In the seventh' heaven of delight, for .this man -Who robbed them by 'his ape- hadnet tbc,gentleman taken his pit- cions offers of some of the most prom- Leree into -Blois ' and. returned with using members of -their companies. them framed: lit .gold? Perhaps the For Eddie Haverton's scent for "tale gentleman • would come again • and ent" was keen, and man a ohorus paint some more pictures, in fact,, he girl and two-line •actor owed a big had almost said as much. . I success to the mean who had watched Three days later the gentleman in them from the stalls. question was seated with a jewel -1 It had just been like' lois luck that `..oiler of great wealth and indiffer- Haverton should secure the services put morals' hi an office in a street:of Stella Benham. It was his rule, behind the Hoogstraat in Rotterdam. For the first time in the 'merchant's and he found it a paying one, r watch Lie was "able the performances care, uhwlesge of handed with the collection whichn*as with infinitenutare, His knowledge *l- ed out before stint. But there me eusies cf tor of the life and encs ether jewel merchants in Holland, and gave ci the advantage behind the scenes by the united efforts of three of the gave slow an advantage that he was erineipal tines in the trade the col- not slow to take. lection of diamonds, emeralds and •Stella's reign in the name part of " rubies from the Chateau Chauville The Slum -Duchess" had been but changed hands to the satisfaction'of brief. Mies Foster, who heal hoped the gentlemen who had called to dis- to stimulate the taste of the publlic pose of theta and who bore on his by her absence and to return to therm card' the name— - enhanced by comparison, rapidly re- covered from hex indisposition on ;hearing of the. success of her under - i study. She returned to her duties in `I three days and Stella was again rele- gated to her previous position in the front row of the chorus. But this was to her impossible after those•giorious three days in the pub- BAPTISTG DARTIN CHAPTER XII, The Blackmailer. Eighteen lean -Hie had passed sines lrc eye. She had fondly hoped, when the night when Hubert Baxenten''inet,the applause lead eounded in her ears, with his death in Mortimer Tcrraeo, that it rang the knell of drudgery and Still, with the exception of the in the profession so far as she was murderer himself, there was but one concerned, and that before her stretoh- mao who suspected anything of the ed the nose -strewn path of success. truth of that mysterious affair. She hadcaught a glimpse of the or- , True, ,'Sdehe Haverton had no knetvt_ 'chard and .to leave the fruit wee hard. edge whim he parted from Vivian The stuffy, common dressing -room Renton in .the fog at Regent's Park now seemed to her more stuffy then Direr" that his companion lied any ever: the one dresser to four girie was a very different person from the wonnaet Who lied for three nights done her heir aril buttoned her shoes with eu:e,h respectful attention. The talk of her companions, too, their suppers, their loves, all struck Stella as being essentially vulgar. A lady by birth, she had never been reel'ly papular with these girls, whose looks! were their only asset and whose figures were of vastly more account than their morals. Now that• jealousy was added to their dislike Stella's life became unbearable. `.there is litre doubt that hod Mose withal himself been at hand some promise of better bhinge would have been held, out to the little actress. But the old manager was laid tip with an attach of gout and was unappronohe able, and his deputy, a monocled none entity of tender years, seemed inclined t� a h! 1 ed. Q ret on his own inabia f mid any ideas, be Might have had In the Matter of Stellae advancement - - Were promptly nipped in the bud by ISIWe N., 21--'21. Miss Vogler, who scented a 1)0s11461 GilelITiT;OMPANYi,IH5 r00ONit?,GANAO' n_.:. No Place for Fear. Most every, day brings some grave situation, Not to be feared, but faced. Alternatives offer, in state and in na- tion, Not to be feared, but faced, Dilemmas confront us each hour of tloe day, Presenting both right and erroneous ways, These gaanda•los shouldn't depress us; for they Aren't to be feared, but faced. Bach day of our life brings a problem or two, Not to be feared, but solved, We've off with the old one, let's on with the uew— Not to be feared, but solved. Tho puzzles involving the right and the wrong; The question stow not to be weak; but be strong; These "sums" in life's school -day come hobbling along, Not to be feared, but solved. Bach day iu the field there arises a foe, Not to bo feared, but fought. I•Ie's not to be dodged or avoided, you know— Not to be feared, but fought. There's nothing on earth unmistakably right That we may maintain without etren• nous fight. Intrenched we find always iniquitous might— Not tightNot to be feared, but fought, To guide pilots flying on the Paris to London route, the French Govern- men! is placing captive balloons in certain positions at a height ief about a utile, It is a good thing to have what is called an education; but es between the man with Greek alone and the maft without it but with brains and determination it would be easy to say Which would go farther, as many ably men have shown. Don't waste time bewailing your lack of education, AUTO USED PARTS We carry a full line bf used parts for all makes of cars, oleanod and free from dreaee and dart. Magnetos, gears, s rings, anmtl!st° engines, tires, aft, Htt'hent prices saki for old c000. en Write, wire o or ph o 4LUTO04OfXLIb India P&IITO (Ow 1050 Dailies At. Westi = Tetente *Land sa ikaaa 41'Se. A New Little Girl in Heaven. "Ohl what do you think the angels say?" Said the children up in heaven; "There's a dear little girl coming Home to -day, She's almost ready to fly away From the earth we used to live in. Let's go and open the gates of pearl, Open them wide for the new little girl," Said the children tip in heaven, "God wanted her here, where the little ones meet," Said the children up in heaven, She will play with us in the golden street! She has grown too fair, she has grown too sweet, For the earth we used to live in. She needs the sunshine, this dear girl, That gilds this side of the gates of pearl," Said the children up in heaven. "So the King called down from the angel's douse; Said the children up in heaven; "1VIy little darling arise and come To the place prepared in thy Father's home, To the home my children live in; Let's go and. watch the gates of pearl Ready to welcome the now little girl." Said the children up in heaven. "Far clown on the earth do you hearthem weep?" Said the children up in heaven; "For the dear little girl has gone to sloop; The shadows fall and the night clouds weep O'or the earth we used to live in; But we'll go and open the gates of pearl; Oh, why do they weep for their dear little girl?" Said the children up in heaven, "Fly with her quick, 0 angels dear," Said the children up in heaven; "See—she is coming! Look there!• Look there! At the jasper light on her sunny hair, Where the veiling Clouds are riven! Alo—uish—ltush—hush all the swift wings furl! For the Ding himself at the gates of pearl Is taking her hand, clear, tired 'little girl, And leading her into heaven," Edison Showed Them. In the old days, telegraphers copied. messages from the wire with pen and ink in a beautiful, round, Iegible hand, at a speed of from 30 to 40 words a minute. Thomas A. Edison, who started out in life as a telegrapher, invented the telegrapher's bandwritiug, and to this day he writes in the same style as he did when copyiug Associated Press dispatches from the wire in New York fifty years ago. It has been said that Edison was the greatest telegrapher that ever sat down to a key. A trampish looking man strolled in- to the Western Union office at Mein- Phis emphis one day, many years ago, looking for a job. Because he looked rather seedy,' the manager decided to have soma fun with hien. Consequently he sat hint down at the fastest wire in the office. The man answered the call, and the operator at the other end began to sand a Tong press dispatch lute a streak of lightning. Tho man leisurely picked up a penholder, examined the pen, pulled it out of the holder, inserted a new pen, dipped it in ink, lighted a match and touched it to the pen to burn off the finish oil, tried the pen till it worked to his satis- faction, then started to copy. FIe was three hundred words behind when ho began copying a ftve•thousand•word dispatch; he finished five words be- hind the sender, and turned out a per. feet copper -plate copy, "You must be Tort Edison," gasped the manager. "I am," was the answer, "Name your salary and you can have any job in the office," Just Like Gay Paree. A soldier, whilst serving In Franco during the war, had picked up a smat- tering of the, French language. After some 'eoliths he was dis- charged, and, with the money he scraped together, opened up as a coal inerchant. He was very proud 0f his knowledge Of Frohch, and tools every opportunity of "airing" it to his oustoners. A woman mitered the office one day, and asked hint; ".I•Iow do you sell your coal?" "A la canto or eel do sac," was his 0111y. Ecgand Island Only for Wbmelt, In the West Indies there is an 011 legend to the effect that among the In• in nelerable small islands fir tits Carib- t bean Sea there oielacs one that is In. blotted only by w0m1u, • These Aro Picnic Dups. A picnic lunch to be worth the name, is tasty, wholesome, satisfying and simple, Plain, simple food well Pre- pared, Neatly and attractively paelcedt always tastes good 'in the big ou•t- of-doors. A *RIO kWh that was ervj2yed and approejated' by all who partook of it Consisted of beef hash, lettuce ssanid,- wichoa, pleleles, sponge oalce, lnitle, coffee and fruit. Two pantries con- triulyuted to the feast ,and not more than elle-hallf flour was spent in pre- paration. The hash was prepared, seasoned, put in a spider, covered, wrapped and packed. Lettuce was Washed and wrapped in damp cloth; ,butter, put in jolly glees with oover; bread and cake, were each wrapped in oil paper and all packed in the lunch basket; cold intik was put into a there mos bottle, ground coffee in a small cheesecloth )bag in the pail 111 which it was to be made. Over a camp fire liy the roadside, the hash and coffee were cooked while the r•enhainder ,of the lunch was spread in k1 grove nearby. Another 'picnic lunch eaten on bhe share of a lake might have taken a prize for little work and real enjoy- ment. Raw fried potatoes, fried white fish, bread and butter, jelly sandwiches, picldos, ginger bread, milk and coffee made up the menu. Those proficient in fire building and camp` cookery prepared the fish, potatoes and coffee while others attended to Laying the cloth and placing the food. Everyone enjoyed the eating and no one ob- jeoted to necessary dishwashing with the lake for a dishpan. Hot picnic dish -6 cups sliced raw potatoes, 2% cups ground raw ham, 3 cups sweet whole milk, 30 teaspoon- ful salt, 2 teaspoonfuls flour. Put the potatoes and ham ,in a buttered and crumbled baking dish in alternate lay- ers beginning with potatoes ,and fin ij 1p with ham, sprinkle the flour ovei a different layers, add the salt (nob t ) much es ham is salt) and ilk bake slow oven for one - leaf te 'two hours. When done, wrap in a eleta: cloth, then in several thick- nesses et paper and it wi11 keep hot for an !tour or more. Date and nut bread -3 cups bread sponge, 1 cup ground peanuts, 1 cup chopped dates, al teaspoonful salt, 3 cups flour or enough to make a stiff dough. The sponge may be talion from the regular setting of bread and bhe other ingredients added. Let the dough rise until double in size, knead, shape into a loaf, let rise and bake. Butter only is needed when making sand- wiches from this loaf, Filling for sandwich—% lbs. strong cream cheese, r/, Ib, butter, 1 medium- sized sweet green pepper. Grind the cheese and mix butter and cheese to- gether until smooth and creamy, add the peppers which have been •ohopped, and mix well. Pimentos may be used in place of green peppers or both may be left out. Thin slices of rye bread spread generously with this filling make -an exoellent sandwich. Peanut sandwich filling -1 cup shel- led peanuts, 1-3 to 1-2 cup sweet cream, '/ teaspoonful salt. Remove the brown skin from the peanuts, put then! through the food- chopper using the •pulverizing plate, add the salt and dream. With a fork, 'nix until sineeth, Cooked mayonnaise may be used in place of cream if desired, Sandwich glorious --Cut day' -old slices a little less than one-half inch in thickness. Spread one slice thinly wdbh butter then with blackberry jam. Spre�act anoliherBike With ootbage cheese Seasoned with cream and salt, place the two slices together, cut in any shape desired and wee. Ginger snaps -1 cup sugar, 1 cup m'o'lasses, 1 cup fat, 6 cups flour, 1 tablespoonful vinegar, 1 tebi'espoonfui ginger, 1 tablespoonful soda, Mix the sugar', fat, molasses land vinegar thor- oughly, ' Add the soda and egg and heat well, Sift the ginger with. three cups of flour, beat well, Add remain- der of flour, knead unto shiape, set in cold !place for an hour oe until chilled. Roll thin and bake on inverted tints in not too hot an oven. 'lihe dough is very ewe after adiding last flour. No Roar is needed when rolling piepat- atory to cutting the cookies. Preserving Eggs for Winter. !Spring and early summer are the best times for preserving eggs for winter use. Then the eggs are not only !better in quality but 'are more plentiful and therefore cheaper, One of bhe most •satisfactory meth -i ods is to put them in water glass. The. solution should !be in the proportion of one part water glass to nine parts of water which first has ,beim bailed and coaled. Place eggs in a stone jar and pour liquid over them. Teri quarts will be a sufficient quantity for 15 dozen eggs. Powdered water ,glass is on the market, and if prepared according to directions on bhe package, is more satisfactory than the liquid. Either one, though, is exteblent, If water glass is not available, an equally effective preservative may be made by slacking 2 pounds of quick lime its a small quanity of hot water and nixing with 2 gallons of water and 1 pound 'of salt. Allow this mix- ture to settle and use •the clear Liquid 1 on top. bt will suffice for about 12 dozen eggs. It should be reneambered in putting eggs sway that all biose having thin shells, or cracks should be discarded, These are as good as any for imme- diate use, Nevar wash the eggs that are to be "put down" for winter eggs. Use only perfectly clean eggs. Fifty dozen eggs will be enough for a fancily of five during the months of October, November, December and January when the price is highest. Candling does away with the danger of putting down unfit eggs. If more people knew •how simple the pro- cess is, the practice would be more general. An effective apparatus may be made as follows: take a cardboard box large ,enough to contain a lantern and punch a few hales in the top Tor ventilation; level with the height of. the flame cut a hole about the size: of a half dollar and the apparatus is complebe. To use it, darken the room, light the Lantern., and' hold the egg, large end up, these up to and before the circular opening. A good egg will appear clear with the yolk seen dimly in the centre. The air space will be about the size of a dime. If the egg Locke Nark and has a freely moving yolk it is unfit for use. Foodless Meals. Science, which does so touch for our comfort and well-being, delights now and then, by way of compensation, to play a joke on us. Hardly had we heard the premonitory horn of &Ir. Ford's mechanical cow, announcing the coming of synthetic milk, when Prof, Richard L. Garner, in the Forum, invited us to a futurist meal. Iu the. aesthetic sense it is, indeed, more than a -ureal, for it is served in surround- ings that would justify any reperter in describing it as a "collation," and it appeals to so many of the senses that it might even be called a "ban- quet," In fact the sense of taste is almost the ouly one that It does not satisfy. Tho dinner of the future, as Profes- sor Garner pictures it, is both com- pact and ethereal. He shows show much man has reduced the bulk of his food in proportion to the amount of nutriment in it, The science that has giveii us soup tablets anis desiccated vegetables and "iron rations," and that 1s all the time finding new ways to peek nourishmeut.into smaller com- pass, will, he thinks, do far more for us In the future, Not only will tt rob our dinner table of the grossness of moat served in such wise as to indi- cate the animal from which it was taken: it will put the chemist in the Mace of the farmer, and the florist in the place of the cools, "The host of that day will assemble Ills guests about 0 table adorned with exotic flowers from which will be exhaled invisible fumes of ambrosial proteids, wth exquisite odors that will fill ,the air with vital essence and stimulate the olfactory and palatal nerves to the verge of intoxication, and by some yet•to-be-disdovered means absorb the necessary food," In spite of its refinement the picture loaves us cold, The mind recurs to homelier but More substantial food— to Sant Weller's "very goed.weal pie" and Bob Cratchit's `Chrlstmes goose and Dr, Johnson's Gargantuan' dinners. It goes back to Th4,elceray's bouille- baieso, and the old memories that hang round it, We are still so gross that we prefer ntarrowfats to sweet pees, and kidney beans to scarlet runners. The "automats" and the "cafeterias" have already changed eating from an agreeable art to a dismal science. They have robbed tt of its shining linen mid delicate china and replaced then with tho marble slabs of the food morgue. They !lave squeezed it dry of laughter and entertaining con- versation . and all 1110se attractive 00' ces^o9os thatsoftened 1 it from mere reading, Nothing tamales but the end, If, 01015, the meed of "science 'aro to menet 1113 eventually to give Up that leo and 'cente111 eu'bsoives at dim net• time with a couple of whirl's of a tubeless and a little Sniff of heliotrope to top off with, we shall rebel. Let us be gathered to our fathers while yet the earth is green with growing corn and the morning is resonant with the cackle of the laying hen. So long as the golden disk of the full moon returns to the heavens' we shall think of pumpkin pie, and so mug as the setting sun tints tine snow-capped mountain peaks with rosy light we shall order shift ice cream.• Besides, how could you give a din- ner or matte a restaurant pay if every- body could get a square meal by sniffing at the crack of the door? e ---- Prince is Chancellor of Uni- versity of Wales. The Prince of Wales was installed on June S, at Cardiff, as Chancellor of the University of 'Wales. Among those who afterward' received degrees from the Prince were Arthur J. Bal- four, Lord haldane and George E, Mc- Clean, London director of the Ameri- can University Union, in recognition of the work of the union In promoting Anglo-American university relations. In his speech to the Assembly the Prince introduced a few sentences of Welsh. }Viten later he handed the degree to Mr. Balfour the Prince re- markod that last week lair, Balfour had presented hint with a degree it Cambridge and had addressed hint in Latin, with which be was 1101 very familiar. Ifo had the sal'oiaotiolt of ]cauwing that Mr. Balfour knew .considerably less of his remarks In Welsh than he did of what Mr. Balfour said in Latin. 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