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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1921-10-27, Page 6—.and the worst is yet to com'e The Woman Seller The Story of a, Crack Salesman Who Invades a New • • Clinches His Prospect. BY RICHARD CONNELL to 7 PART H. "I guess I've become used to being •"You ought to start a, school of a bachelor," said Mr. .Mulqueen, "I Reenautic Salessnamship," smiled my i have a pretty good time, I've got a wife, "Put your picture in the maga- dandy little fiat up over• the store, antd clues, with your finger . pointing I know how to cook. Nobody to lump stiaigh't out of the ad like a pistol, on my neck if I put my feet on the while you say in big, black letters; mantelpiece or drop ashes on the rug, "You, Miss Woman, I can teach you I can throw together a pretty good how to sell yourself in ten lessons. dinner. Sometimes I have the boys Begin to -day to learn the gentle in from the lodge, and we play pin - science of Putting Yourself Over.' " ochre." "That's not audio a bac) idea at that," I made noises denoting interest and Said I. attention. My wife thought 'tor a moment; I "Then I have an eighteen -foot sail - knew she was thinking by the way ing dory," he went on, expanding with she puckered hes brow. that camaraderie which makes men "Here's another," she said. "You exchange confidences in hospitals and rosy that a good salesman can•sell any- jails. "Seven months in the year I can thing?" take her out for a run on the Bay. "Ile cam," I said Sundays I usually fish. I caught over "And you modestly admit you area a hundred mackerel when they were cod salesmen?" running last September." g "Others have said so." "What did you do with them?" "Well" said Helen, "why don't you "Made a fish chowder for the boys sell Mize Quest?y' from the lodge." Just then her vicsting time was up. Do yen expect any of them will The next morning I heard sounds in lie out to see you?" I asked. the next cubliele—bumping • and "Oh, I suppose net," a bit sadly, I thumping and whispering and a thought. "They're all pretty busy, I shuffling of feet, and I (Iodated that guess." another scarlet -fever patient was be- "My vile comes to see me every ing installed there. The partition pre- day," I remarked. How Helen man - vented me from seeing, of course, but aged to gat around the hospital rules not from hearing. Presently Miss and do this, I never learned; but she hcesdish, the head nurse, came in with slid. It's a way she has. her pedigree hook, and I heard hex M"Oh,u1 see married then?" asked n. ate: - q "What is your name?" "You het I am," said I. I wish "Timothy U. Mulcluoesi," reared a Helen scale) have 'heard me, vcier so loud that it startled me, but - "How Zoog?" o cheerful that I didn't resent it. "Five years," I replied. "TTrw c•'.4i are you?" How do you like it?" he asked. o,Jin—let's s•ee—fcrt "Like it!" I exclaimed. "Man, it's -ono.' the greatest thing that ever h'ap-• Mani ed'?" paned." "You don't tell me'!" said Mr. Mul- queen. I thought I read genuine sur- prise in his tone. "I do tell you," I said, and I wish Helen might have heard my unfeigned enthusiasm, "Aren't wives a nuisance?" he asked. "Wives may be; but a wife, the right wife, isn't. Decidedly not. Why, Mr. Mulqueen, a noon doesn't begin to lave until he has a wife to share his joys and sorrows with. Every ex- perience I leave now I enjoy twice as much as I used to—once when I have it, and again When I tell my wife about it." "Well, you ought to know," admit- ted Mr. Mulqueen. "But I don't sup- pose you can have at good times as you could when you were a bachelor." "Why not?" "Isn't your wife after you with a rolling pin if you stay up after ten?" I laughed. • "Honestly, Mr. Mulqueen, I believe you tool: your ideas of matrimony from the comic supplements. You're all wrong. I thought I had good times when I was a batch in the big city, but married life beats them seven =ways. When you have a good wife you have a real pal—the kind that sticks." "Honest?" Mr. Mulqueen was in- credulous. ."I can 'guarantee it,,, I said in my most convincing Dekker Eight voice. When my wife visited me that day she brought me magazines, ice cream, and some homemade jelly. I shared them with Mr. Mulqueen, I waited until supper time to send in the jelly by Miss Quest, f or I knew that his evening meal consisted of a healthful but unexciting baked potato and a cup of weak tea. "Say,' boomed his voice over the partition, "this stuff is some stuff! What is it? Quince? Where do you get it?" My wife made it," I answered. "You- ought to taste her rhubarb and pineapple jars" He made appreciating sounds with his lips. "I've got some pretty. fancy stuff in my store," he said, "but it's not in a class with this, Unrmmmen." "Wait. ta'l'l you sink a tooth into come of my wife's brandied peaches," I said. "How long do I have to wait?" "She's bringing out a can to -mor- row," I said. "Too bad we can't have any of her three -layer ehoeolate cake or her lemon -meringue pie." • Mr.•Mulqueen sighed deeply, ' "I haven't had a decent piece of lemon merigue pie in twenty years," he said. He subsided into silence; he did not even num, "'yeas happy till I met you on the ramparts of Quebec"; I knew hint to be ruminating. "The ones I get at the baker's are filled with billboard paste and have crusts like cardboard," he said' pre- sently. His tone was doleful. "I thought you said you could cook, Why don't you Make your own pies?" I said, - "I tried," he said. "They nearly killed me.i1 "Any woman could make a goad lemon pie from my wife's 'recipe,' I remarked. He seemed to consider this state- ment, "Maybe I won't be glad to get back to my wife's apple dumplings with molasses sauce," I observed. Mr, 'Mulqueen moaned, -"And her chicken et la Maryland," I added, "kw, cut it out" begged Mr. Mal. queen, (To 'be e'onelluded.) Territory --and "No," very loudly. • " Yeur cccupn,tio;:, Mr. Mulqueen?" "Lee's 'cc, You -night say 'business ^inn,' cr you might say 'merchant,' or von might ray `proprietor.' Better put i:own 'preprdetcr'. It sounds best." Miss Beeanislt laughed. "Starlet fever doesn't seem to wor- ty you." she on:'d, - "Nothing dime." replied Mr. Mel - queen, "Yore case it a light one," else told him, '"But you'll have to take it easy fox .th•ree weeks." ' "Tf I must, I must," said Mr. Mul- gm•rn cheerfully. She went away, and I heard him h,intmteg softly to himself a •little ,ora• of which he appeared to know rots one line: • "I was harpy till I met you, on the ramparts• of Quebec." ' T thought it chest to get acquainted with my neighbor without delay, for the worst hardship in a hospital for a men inclined to conversation as I am is to lie all day with his talk bottled up meld's lion. So I called out: "How arc you feeling, Mr. Mul- nns:en ? " "Not so had, not so bad," he roared. "What are you in for?" "Three weeks and scarlet fever," I laid hint. Ilis laugh made the par- e: 'en tremble. - We exchanged minute descriptions rl' o:n• t'emlition, were equally en- tueiasttie over the prospects of a diet- eI' milk tweet and mashed potatoes, and agreed unanimously that:a large porterhouse steak, richly dight with -ions"and a bottle of a certain illegal .:ember fluid would "go good." The phrase is ItIr. M'ulqueen's. "e on in business, Mr. Mulqueen?" T inquire:!, "Yes; Toe go the neatest little gro- cery store in South Beach," said my -neighbor, 'pride in his accents, "Bueins:s good?" "Fine," he answered. "Of course I've only got a little store. I've only owned it a year. I had -to save up ue:e:'dy twenty years before I could get a bits'inees of my own. It was a dons pu;l" He told me of his hard struggle, his hope: anti disappointments, about the Iiisppy day when he saw kis name on 0 sign, in large gilt letters, with 'Pico." after it, and I began to like my ne:ghbor• he had a philosophy :,rut a ready laugh. "Are you married?" I asked him. "No, I am not," he answered with ecnsidernble emphasis; "and d d'on:t want to be, either." "id rrcly you're net a woman hater?" "Yea, I am," he said flatly. "Oh; coons, you don't mean that," I protested "What did the giz'Is ever do to You?" "Oh, nothing much," he answered. "But I've learned to get along without luxuries:" ' But -.wife is a necessity, I think." "Not to me, she isn't," said my neighhcr, "And did You ever think of marry- leg?" "When I was young and foolish,. I did,".extawered Mr,. Mulqueen. "But when I was young and wanted to get Married and couldn't afford to, no girl would have anything to do' with one; now that I oan afford to, I won't have anything to do with them." "I should think living all alone woa:ld' be pretty lonesome sometimes," I ventured, Stupidity Street. I save with open eyes Singing birds sweet Sbld iii taee above For the people to eat, geld in the shops of Stupidity Street. '` eel% %N ! T saw in a yleion r"'a t' The wortu hi the wheat, And iii' the cusps nothing Por people to eat, Nothing for tale Int Tlulilriity Street. h, I • FROM WAR "SCRAP" H STEEL TO IRITIS BLAST FURNACES GET- nTING INTO SWING. Debris from Battlefield Be- comes Every Grade of Steel in Britain's Great Works. After many weeks of silence and idleness, the steelmakers are starting up again, although timidly, with all eye on the blast furnaces, says a writer in a London newspaper. They are giving the ironmasters a lead. If the blast furnaces get into swing, as they are beginning to do, the steelmakers can go on, Otherwise, they must very soon come to a stop ago in, The great steel works I have just re- turned front have some half a dozen furnaces in operation out of about twenty-four, and are what is known as "working off the floor." That is to say, they are using up all the scrap - iron which is lying about the yards, much of it consisting of debris of the war. There are small mountains of shell cases, old and new, great guns sawn Into sections like cheeses; boiler- plates; machinery castings—in fact, any old scrap -iron. In the acres of. this scrap which I inspected in the neighborhood of Sheffield there was almost everything one could think of ranging from locomotive axles and crank shafts to safety bicycle parts and tin cans. "Any Old Iron?" They are all grist to the steel- makers. The ordinary tin can is, of course, a misnomer. It is not tin! it is not even iron uisually, hti't-a very soft steel. Out of this heterogeneous col- lection the steelmakers will, within certain limits, make any sort of steel theyswieh, ranging from the softness and flexibility of lead to flint hard, such as they use for high-speed tools, which in working become red-hot and will go on cutting without losing their edge. It is all much the same to the steel- maker. In practice certain ores yield better results than others, but, gener- ally speaking, he will take any old rubbish out of the scrapyard and snake from it high-grade steel, such as is used for razor -blades and ball -bear- ings. It is all a matter of refinement. In non-technical phrase it is boiled and rebelled, heated and cooled, and kneaded while hot like a lump of dough in the hands of the baker—only in this case the hands consist of a hydraulic press which administers a "squeeze" of 1,500 tons force. The scrap -yard in which I was per- mitted to stumble about looked a most awesome spectacle of msrupted human achievement, and reminded me forcibly of various "somewheres" lu Prance. It was all mouldering with rust, and look. ed as depressing a wilderness of rub- bish as one could hope to see. But rust does not worry the steelmaker. Rust is iron, and is used again. Putting the Lid on It. The chief difficulty about it is that all this scrap has to be broken up small enough to go through the fur- nace doorways, and this is not so easy a job as the uninitiated may suppose. I saw little gangs of men here and there engaged in reducing these• mighty stacks •of iron, and steel to a workable size. One gang was dealing with big cast- ings. They make a pile Of these and a crane raises a weight over the pile, and drops it front the top of the jib. The weights used vary from a ton up- wards, When one of those drops plumb on to a pile of east -iron serail, it is well not to be standing too close. Wrought -Iron has to be treated dif- ferently, I found, a blue -goggled loan Working quite on his own in a corner with an oxy-acetylene outfit. He was directing a flame no bigger than a match on to the boiler -plates • of a bat- tleship, and cutting them up, not quite like cheese, but with a most astonish- ing ease and quickness. Close by was a blasting pit. This, I found, was used for masses of iron too large to be broken up by the pleas- ant method of "dropping the weight." The pit, .is filled with great frag- ments: A lonely man comes along with, an extremely handy and portable electric drill, and drills a hole in one of the larger fragments. He puts in a charge of dynamite puts the lid on the pit, and strolls a few yards away casually. Then there is an explosion; the man strolls casually back; the pit is emptied and refilled. And so it goes on day and night. "Pigs" Preferrea. This is the sort of material the steel- works are using now. They would much prefer to use the neat and handy "pigs," which come from the blast fur- naces. But the blast furnaces have been cold for months, and there are no "pigs" available except the few they have in stock. Some of the blast furnaces. have been started, and there are hopes that in a few weeks supplies will begin to come in. Meanwhile, the steelmakers are using up the debris of the war and clearing their yards. So when you ride your new bicycle, or shave with your new Sheffield ra- zor, you may reflect that it has in its time in all ,probability played many parts. - •• - It may have been,' and veryprobably was a shell case which never reached Fritz, or it might have been a bit of barbed wire'behind which.. you shelter-. ed in your own particular trench,. and on which you, were 'possibly hung up when you participated in the delight- ful entertainment known as a night at- tack. Fit as a Fiddle at Forty. Too often the man of forty tells him- self that he is growing old. "Not so young as I used to be" is a phrase against which I would earnestly warn all middle-aged people. Don't say it —don't even think it. That is my first practical hint, and the most Important of all, says a health specialist, - Fix your allotted span at seventy years or more, cling to the thoughts, ideas, and actions of youth, and you will find that old age wfll,pass you by. I•Iundreds of cases have been brought to my notice where the great mistake has been made of selecting exercises of a too strenuous nature. Some people put far too much vigor into them, and then, on account of en- suing stiffness and lassitude, throw up the whale thing in.disgust, Exercise need be of it very mild and pleasant character only, such as could be performed in five or ten minutes at the outside without the least sti•ain. A -few bending movements to keep the digestion in working order are all that is required, and when there is an ob- jection to exercise, you can arrange a splendid substitute by following the morning bath with a brisk rub down with a rough towel or a pair of flesh gloves. A plain nourishing diet, a careful mastication, plenty of sleep and fresh air, and moderation in all things are the golden rules for these who would live to a ripe old age and maintain their health. "All work and no play makes .tacit a dull boy," and for that: reasoti a hobby of some description should be taken up. it your bobby takes you into the open air so muck the better. You will have succeeded It ofibteining relaxation for the mind and exercise for the body at one and the same time, Don't worry over things which can- not possibly ho avoided on altered, Worry kills, and nothing destroys health so quickly cr ages one so rapidly. A new device develops, fixes, washes and dries photograuphic films within s, single space- saving cabinet. ' It Is the Harvest Moon! It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes And roofs of villages, on woodland crests And their aerial neighborhoods of nests Deserted, on the curtained window panes ' Of rooms where children sleep, con country lanes And harvest fields, its mystic splendor rests! Gone are the birds that were our summer guests With the last sheaves return the laboring wains! The songbirds leave us at the summer's close, Only the empty nests are left behind, Ptld pipings of the quail among the sheaves. . —Longfellow, My Meat Chopper Saves Time. In nean'iy every hotesehold' nowadays one finds the useful food chopper, but many do not know its full value ex• opt for Chopping meat, I have made it a great labor and time Saver in my kitchen to putting it to various uses. 1VIy chopper contains three knives of different degrees of fineness, which I use accerding to 'how I wish the foods chopped—coarse or fine: Instead of grrtid'g such .thing* as eleodoblate, lemon . and orange rind, h'ors'eradish, 'cheese, etc„ I pass them Uhrengh the maehine, using the finest cutter. Chocolate prepared ie. this way only takes ,a few minutes to melt; the cheese comes out in smooth, white flakes that -are especially' nice to sprinkle over baked dishes and in making cheese sauces. The horse- radish and onion does not get in un- pleasant contact with the eyes when a grater is used, or in unpleasant con tact with the fingers, either, When making a cake in which chop- ped fruits are required, I pass these through the chopper, using the coarse or fine knives according to the way I wish them cbopped.o Nuts are also ground up on the •chopper. If I have trouble getting fresh shredded cocoanut I buy a cocoanut and make my own. It has a much better flavor than stale cocoanut. When I am making Marmalades, butters, and 'jams in the summer I pass the fruit through the machine. Any fruit that is required crushed or strained may be prepared in this way, thus saving much time. Fruit for ices and fruit punchees :may be passed through, using the coarsest knife for the fruits required for the punch, and the finest for the ices. When preparing vegetable soups, I find it economy of time to pass them through the chopper, using the ocearse knife, except in the ease of parsley or something I wish very fine. Carrots cook much quicker when out up in this manner than when sliced. If, you do not have a slaw cutter, try chop- ping up the cabbage in.this -manner for slaw or saliad, using the largest knife, In masking chopped' pickles I pass the vegetables, one variety at a time, through the chopper—it saves slow cooking and looks much nicer. When I wish's little spinach or beet drove a -•umber, multiplies his pre- vious number by it, chooses from the box the figures in the product and adds them to hie score. The winner is the player whose score first reaches 100, 200 or 509, es may have been agreed . upon in the beginning, The Baine is a help to Children who are learning the multi- plication table, and also affords good drill in adding. The element of chance Sustains the interest, The Diamonds in Your Ring. There is a tremendous amount of de- tailed work in setting presloss stones, After an apprenticeship of six years a setter has. still a long period of train ing to undergo before he can attain the -experience of a first-class crafts- man. Concentration and meticulous care are essential. Very often impaired eyesight is the fate of the diamond -setter, unless he is careful to obtain a good light. This can be readily understood when we Iearn that a single ring contains some- times as many as two hundred small stones, each hardly bigger than a pit's head. Specially shaped .holes have to be cut, and the adjustment of a stone in its setting is a fine art in itself, The hole is so cut that, the stone is slipped in with a little pressure, and in such a way that it cannot possibly fall out. In old-fashioned rings silver takes the place of the more, modern plati- num, which is used in the better grades of rings. Silver has the disad- vantage of tarnishing and softness, and will not stand the necessary heat of soldering so well. People aro often confused about dia- monds, rose diamonds, and brilliants. They are all three "diamonds," but a rose diamond has a flat bottom, with only the upper half cut and polished. A brilliant is a completely cut stone. Rose diamonds are not as valuable as brilliants. A diamond -setter's workshop comes in for a good deal of spring-cleaning. The floor is regularly swept, and the dust burnt in a special furnace. From the residue is recovered a valuable de- posit of ggid and platinum dust. This residue is called "'mel," and gives a handsome return when sold. The setter -mist also wash his hands juice far coloring purposes, or a little before leaving the workshop, for gold- dustonion juice for flavoring, I pass the has a trick of creeping inthe pores of the skin and beneath theo an. ger-nails, The water is drained off into a tank fitted with an outlet tap halfway down the side. The lemel sinks to the bot- tom, and once a mouth is collected and melted down into a very substantial ingot. vegetables through the chopper, catching thejuice that runs out in a deep saucer or spoon. All stale bread is saved and crisped in the oven, and placed in a jar.. When the jar is full the bread is ail passed through the food chopper. The crumbs are returned to the jar, and are ready when I wish crumbs to roll croquettes and such like in. Crackers are also -ground fine on the chopper. Stale cake is dried In the oven and passed throughthemachine in the wine way as stale bread, and used 'in making puddings. Of course, we know the value of the chopper -when it cones to meat• Suet is nice passed through the chopper, whether. for use in puddings or to be tried out, and much, time is saved. When 'buying a machine ,select one than can be taken entirely apart, so that it oan be easily cleaned, and keep in a dry place. It need not be cleaned every time used.; pass a piece of stale bread, through it instead. A Number Game. Cut an old calendar with large figures into squares; where the num- bers run abo'te 12, cut the figures apart and discard most of the l's. Paste all the pieces on unifoam squares of cardboard, and put them into a convenient. box. The players sit rotunda table with the box before them. Each in turn draws a card without looking, and then the first player --call him John— draws another. IIe must read his numbers aloud and give the product of them, as, '7 times 4 are 28. If he does not multiply correctly, he must return the number he drew to the bort, and the next player proceeds to draw and multiply. If he multiplies cor- rectly, lie selects a 2 and an 8- from the box, and adds them to hie '7 and 4, which makes lois score 21. Then each • o.tiher plum in turn "Gassed" Plants. Amazing possibilities lie in the science of agriculture. Recent experi- ments in England have shown that crops may be increased from one and a half to four times by an alteration in the air which the plants breathe. The method is a simple one, and consists of increasing the proportion of carbonic acid in the am. In the recent experiments, the car- bonic acid in the air was increased over one hundred times: it is claimed that as a direct result the plants tin- der treatment grew faster, stronger, bloomed earlier, and produced more fruit. Potatoes, sugar -beet, barley, onions, and peas were among the crops treat- ed, and in every case extraordinary improvements were noticed. A "treated" plot of potatoes yielded four and a half times as Much as an "untreated" plot; the barley yield was doubled, the onion yield trebled. Difficulties in using this treatment on a Large scale are such as adverse winds blowing the gas in the wrong directions, and the expense involved in laying pipes to the fields. But in greenhouse cultivation, the new cultivator will do wonders, and the recent experiments fully justify exhaustive researches in this wonder- ful uew method of increecing the crops. For the New Dictionary. An Optimist—"An Irishman buying goods of aa. Scotchman, which he hopes to sell at a profit to a Jew." Your Opportunity. Large Canadian institution estate - halted 1887 with pssets'in excave of $30,800,000, which are rapldiy .in' creasing, doslres al kcal reprec:entia- ties in this district, Only men of character and ability, however, will be considered. If you feel you ora .competent to place our preposition before the best people In your corn- munity, we can offer you a contract which will e, Previous sailingbeivery eOsperlencremunerativedesir- able but not essential, If you are the right kind, enargetic, am!sltious and progressive, we will develop you slang proper lines of salesmanship. Apply in confidence, stating age, past experience and length of reel. sienna to ADVERTISER 184 -Bay St. Toronto The Mounted. Between the silence and the stars He takes his lonely way O'er barren tundras where the wolves And foxes seer- to stray. 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