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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1938-12-15, Page 2PAGE 2 di ;1,11,.15-dwiv feraseecw osseen.44,6.- ,. He glared at her, as if he suspected that there was defiance in, that ..quiet answer, but he dismissed her with a wave of his huge hand. Only -when she was half way up the corn - anion did he call her back again. "There's another thing," he said. '"I'll have no flirting on board this Wm amongst the staff—what the passengers do is no concern of mine. ;So you needn't think you can wheedle. The Clinton News -Record 'ith which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA 'TERMS OF 'SUBSCRIPTION '31.50 per year in advance, o Can- adian addresses; $2,00 to the U.S. or 'other foreign countries. No paper .discontinued until all arrears are ipaid unless at the option of the pub- • lisher. The date to which every sub- scription is mid is denoted on the idabel. .ADVERTISING RATES — Transient :advertising 12c per caunt line for ;first insertion. 8e. for each subse- equent insertion. Heading counts 2 :lines. Small af.vertisements not to -exceed one inch, such as "Wanted", '"Lost, "Strayed", etc., inserted once for 85c., each subsequent insertion 15c. Rates for display advertising made known on application. 'Communications intended for pub- lication must, as.a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name ,of the writer. G. E. HALL - - Proprietor II. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer .teinancial. Real Estate and Fire In- -saran:3e Agent. Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies. Division Court Office. Clinton fFrank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. ,Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public • Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. vgloan Block -- Clinton. Ont. A. E. COOK Piano and Voice 'Studio—E. C. Nicklel Phone My. 08-tf. D. II. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street. (Few Doors , west of Royal Bank) 1 Hours—Wed. and Sat. and by appointment., FOOT CORRECTION .40 manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phene 207 • GEORGE ELLIOTT decensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron Cerrespondence promptly answered Immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record, 'Clinton, or by calling phone 203. 'Charges Mbderate and Satisfaction Guaranteed, By KAYE._ FOX _ THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., DEC. 15, 1938 your bedroom • stewarli into .doing isomething to know that ,he was no your werk for you ,in exchange for 'likely to make her work more dif- a: few kisses."ficult. , If she had had to 'cope with "I've been on the Brent Tor for some elderly martinet of a, doctor, as two years, and Mr. Robins has iouriC well as with Perrin, her luck Would no fault, eithee with my work or my' have been out. conduct with the men," Christine told . "Perhaps he's come to sea because him etiffly. \ he's got something against him," Miss "But I see more than Mr. Robins, Crane 'suggested. "I've heard tales believe me," he warned her, and at about ship's doctors----" lastelet her go. ;• j But not in this Company. "This Christine was more angry than' CoMpany gets the raw youngsters scared. It was simply insulting to who want experience, and Who are send for her like this, before Sign- full of .silly ideas—that last young ing-on. and to start bullying her be- mafl. actually started showing me how cause she was her mother's daughter, to put On a bandage." • without knowing anything at all "I've got to take this parcel along about her—it Was insulting not only to our cabin—you'll come with me,. to her but to Mr. Robins. And Per. won't you Mrs. Parr?" Miss Crane. rin knew perfectly well that she said, as they reached ethe foot of .the could not refuse to sign on, at the comPankil• last moment, without losing her job Quite obviously, she wanted to get with the Company. rid of Christine, and Christine was Not even a bell -boy' had overheard glad enough that she would' not have that conversation. If she reported to walk to the ferry with, thene— to the office that Perrin was so she would have more than enough hostile to her that \dire could not of the two of them after the voy- sail with him, he would deny every- age began. They did not even speak to her as they turned away, though she knew that the moment.they were out of hearing they would begin tear- ing her to shreds: And as she walked alone to the ferry, leaving the Hay Tor behind her, Christine was almost sorry for Mrs. parr and Miss Crane, though she knew that once they were at sea together she was going to dislike both of them pretty badly. They were so old that they had a grudge against youth itself, so that they were Prejudiced against everyone who was young and hopeful and full of life. There were some stewardesses, like her own mother and the two on the Brent Tor, whose experience at sea made them even wiser and more tolerant, but there were others like Mrs. Pier and Miss Crane, clinging desperately to petty conventions, so afraid of losing their dignity that they still formally called one •another by their surnames after months together. Fay was already at home when Christine reached the flat, eagerly talking to her mother about the shop- ping which she had to do before sail- ing day. , Christine had a vague idea that it i "Was it Mr. Perrin, Christine?" was punishable by quite it icing term Mrs. Lind asked hurriedly, when Fay of imprisoninent. • had gone to her own room for a When ehe offiCial stopped reading, Mrs. Parr and Miss Crane, who had been sitting like statues, came to life suddenly and rose to their feet, or it was their jealously guarded priv- ilege to sign -an before any of the men. There was a little discussion between them—which was probably repeated every trip—as to which was actually the senior, and then Miss Crane triemphantle picked apthe pen and signed her. name. Christine, of course, signed immed- iately after the other two. As she wrote the firm signattfre which com- mitted ..her, to three and a half months on the Hay Tor she was a little paler than usual, but there was no panic in her heart, for she had accepted Perrin's challenge, and was secretly defying hin to do his worst. She lifted her head again, and across the table her eyes met thel trying valiantly to hide her grief at THE McKILLQP MTJTI5AL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: 'President, Thomas Moylare Sea - ;forth; Vice ?resident, William Knox, .Londesboto; Secretary -Treasurer, M. A. Reid, Seaford'. Directors, Alex. iBroadfoot, Seaforth; James Sholdice, ' Walton; James Connolly, Goderich; ".:Vir, R. Archibald, Seaforth; Chris. Leonhardt, Dublin; Alex. IVIcEwing, Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton. thing that he had said. It would be her word against his, and he had been a. trusted servant of the Comp- any for many years. With her head held a little higher than usual, she went back to the smoke -room. Signing -on had not yet started, but it was obvious that the papers had arrived from the office for the men were all looking ex- pectant. "Mr. Perrin kept you a long time, Miss jordan," Miss Crane said, with O curious glance at Christine. "We began to wonder whether you were coming back at all." "He sailed with my mother ofice," Christine explained briefly. He want- ed to know whether I was a rela- tion!' • * * * One of the officials began reading something very hierriedly—the regu- lations to which nobody ever listened very carefully, though they were read in an abridged form. All that mattered was that. once you had signed -on there was no going back, for it mounted to desertion if you failed to join the ship on sailing .day if you had signed -on for the voyage. List of Agents: E. A. Yea, R.R. 1, •Goderich, Phone 603r31, Clinton; • James Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, Brucefield, R. R. No. 1; R. F. 1VIcICer- ',ohm', Dublin, R. R. No. 1; Chas. F. -Hewitt, Kincardine; R. G. jarmutb, d3ornho1m, R. R. No. 1. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank o/ . Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin • Ciett's Grocery, Goderich. Parties dediring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will he promptly attended to on aPPliea- sign to any ,of the above officers ad- dressed to their respective Meet _offi- ces. Losses inspected by the director • who lives nearest the scene. ',CAN' [fat, • 'Attif ys moment to fetch some patterns. "It was, and he remembered you," Christine said, in a very casual tone. "As soon as he saw my name on the list, he sent for me and asked whether I was your daughter." "And he was—kind about it?" "I can't find those patterns any- where—do come and help me look, Christine," Fay interrupted, and smiled at her mother and went away. As Christine had expected Fay and her shopping kept them all busy until the night before sailing day, when Christine had to join the ship. Most of the men did not join until the last possible moment, but it was the custom for the stewardesses to be in their own cabin fairly early in the evening. Christine was a little later than usual that night, for Mrs. Lind was friendly blue eyesof the ,man who Was just steeping down to speak to one of the officials. And because he Was the first person on the gay Tor in whose eyes she had read kindli- ness, she glanced quickly at his uni- form, hoping against hope that he was someone with whom she might have dealings- during the voyage. CHAPTER 11 • A COLD RECEPTION "Another yoting man just qualified, and trying to scratch up the, money at sea to buy a practice," Mrs. Parr sniffled. "He'll be under our feet all the time, I suppose, like that last young man who was on the make, and who persuaded every silly woman on board that she'd got some disease which needed a lot of attention from him." the thought of losing Fay, and Chris- tine knew that it was easier for her to pretend to be cheerful when they were all three together. She lingered at the flat until after nine o'clock, and by the time she walked to the wharfit was close on eleven. The quartermaster at the head of the gangway told her the way to the stewardesses' cabin. Her heart sank when she saw that there was no light in the cabin, and realized that Mrs. Parr and Miss Crane must be al- ready in bed. With a murmured ward of apology, she sveitehed on the light. This cabin, like that on the 13rent Tor, had really been ,planned for two stewardesses only, and had two bunks, one above the other: when three stewardesses Were quartered there, the third had to sleep on, the settee. Mrs. Parr was asleep, or appar- ently asleep, in the bottom bunk, and Mrs. Parr and Miss Crane, ignor- Miss Crane in the 'top one, and the graphs and other personal posses- sions. Every peg was occupied. They had left her no space at all for the small treasures which every steward- ess takes to sea, “So you havt coin° 00 board, Miss Jordan," Mrs. Parr said, waking 'up with an affected start as 010.4stine closed the vvardrobe door. "Mr. Per- rin was here at nine, and lie seemed a little surprised that you were not already here. He came to tell us the arrangements for the voyage—of coarse, as the junior, you will have the top deck." "Is it a full ship this trip?" Chris- tine asked. "Every state -room occupied on this deck. I advise you to go to bed at once, Miss Jordan, without wasting any more time. We shall all be busy to -morrow, and we need our sleep— at least, Miss Crane and I do". She lay down again, and Christine hastened to unpack the few things she wanted for the night, and to go to It was very quiet on board. The stewardesses' cabin was on the. lower of the two passenger decks, so re- mote from the men's quarters on the deck below that they could not hear he noise and bustle of the crowd of stewards and cooks unpacking and settling in. Untillhe engines started at midnight, there, was no sound in the cabin except Mrs. Parr's heavy breathing, and an occasional smother- ed snort from Miss Crane. SAILING DAY • Christine baited sailing day, which was one long series of small tasks, with everyone on board in a bad temper. 'Have you a copy of the passenger list"? she asked pleasantly, when NTS. Parr woke with a dreary yawn and sat up in her bunk. Without a word; Mrs. Parr pulled a typed list from under her pillow and handed it to Cheistine. It was the list which told them for which state -rooms they were responsible, egad how many women and children there were in each, and it had to be studied carefully. Christine, glancing down the list, saw that Pay was in Miss Crane's section, on the starboard side of the lower passenger deck. She herself, as junior, would have the top deck, for the rooms there were more ex- pensive, se that sometimes several were empty, arid there were fewer three -berth rooms: on the lower and more crowded deck, one stewardess had the port side and the other the starboard side. On this trip, they were all going to be kept busy, foe the women pas- sengers were fairly equally divided between their 4ections. Since the stewardess was only responsible for those rooms occupied solely by women and children, and kept strictly to her own section, it sometimes happened that one stewardess had very little to do, while another was run off her feefi"eur bedroom stewards are Grant and Cater," Mrs. Pair said, sourly enough, but as if she was remember- ing that she couldn't very well refuse to speak to Christine for the whole of the voyage. "Cater has been on bedrooms for a long time, but Grant only came up from the saloon last teip. And Edwards is your bath steward." "Are they eggy to work with?" Christine asked, welcoming even this small sign of friendliness. "You'll find Grant easy enough, I expect," Mrs. Parr said, and pursued up her lips—so Grant must be young and suspect, Christine guessed, and the other two Were older men, She would not see any of them until close to sailing time, for the 'rooms were put into order by the staff which had been working on the ship, • and there , was nothing for Christine' to do in her own section until passengers came aboard in the afternoon. (Continued next 'week). a ing Christine completely, began to settee was made up as a bed. The talk about the doctor as they all went narrow spece between the bunks and out of the snake -room together. the settee was nearly filled by two It had been with a feeling of re- large trunks, and Christine's oWn ;lief that Cluistine had soon that trunk, brought en board earlier in the stranger with the friendly eyes the day, was oat in the alley -way. was wearing the uniform of ship's She saw at a glance that they had doctor. Ile was the only officer with set themselves to make her ,feel like whom she would come into personal an interloper. The two small shelves contact, for she would be working over the "clock"—the tip -up wash - under his orders in ease of sickness stand which they must all share— among her passengers, and it vstie were crowded with framed photo - TIME TABLE e rains will arrive at and depart from Clinton an follows: Buffalo and Goderick IMv. Going `Batt, deeart. ........6.58 Going East, depart • 3.00 p.m. Going West, depart 1145 p.m. (Going West, depart 10.00 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce Going North, ar. 11.25 lve. 11.47 p.m. fl'oing South str. 2:50, leave 3.03 p.m. CANADIANS NOW ELIGIBLE FOR DID YOU EVER WONDER e%Sdieeeeesesfeede,NWeeePeeee%**Ne(eWsre%WegeeeSesee%Ws`,,Weeens",eseesese; YOUR WORLD AND MINE (Copyright) ROW A CAT PURRS? % • Pmeing, alosg. with all forms of s mewing and yowling' is a modified • Le expiratory action; that is, it is pros • duced as a stream of air is expelled •• by JOHN C. ICIRK'WOOD re from the lungs. The expelling of Hie eesiWeeFeesegneeesesVieseSSgsWeeeWeiWgsWese'eSeeseseggesseseessegesete'S4 'breath is supplemented by a special Is any day in any individual's lifc a commonplace day ? It rnay seem to be so, yet if we were to record its happenings, its conversations, its occupations, its reflections and ex - marvellous drama, and I scarcely sound-procIncing mechanism which is 'dare run counter to the diet of !Ideated in the laeynx or expanded up - its author. • per end of the vvinepme. I Inside the larynx there are 'two periences, our day would be found to commonplace. Let me a young man whom I hold in highest theeca be Inc from comvitY. kinds o.:91so: The superior or false vocal regard, for the cleanness of his life elpr'-''s o:df snotielmbearaehnesidwehi of In the course of the morning called prove my contention by telling of a single day in ray own life.' ' I3efore my daily paper arrived—at about 7.15 ame—I read 0 few pages of a book which is the recollections of a British bookrnan. I read about R. L. Stevenson,, Conan Doyle, Zola, Dreyfus, Jerome K. Jerome, W. W. Jacobs, and rnan,y rnany more. One thing was impressed on me, namely, the death of so many famous authors in their 40's—Stevenson, Maupaeiant, Gissing, Frank Norris, Jack London, Henry Harland, and many others. On my way' to the street car on my way to work, I saw on the pave- ment a cigarette lighter. I was wondering if I should pick it up, but, net being a smoker, I passed on, Perhaps same school child saw it and salvaged it. I walked briskly to the street car street, the morning being cold, and because I was feeling, fit. Most mornings, because of a heart ailment, I have to go at a very slow pace, and often I have to rest for a minute or two before being able to go ahead. I do not understand why somedays I am feeling so much better than others, but I am always grateful for ability to walk smartly. I went into a grocery store, just newly made over, to allow customers to choose their wants from the shelves, and stumbled almost to the point of falling, because of steps just inside the doorway. I had to con- clude that many others do the same thing, and if they do, then the own- ers of the modernized store and the architect advising them, made a ser- ious error, in the revising of this Store's entrance. On the street car I saw a friend who informed me that she had a packet of letters to show me—letters from a mutual friend—one whom I have not seen for 40 years. Always one's letters as delivered by the poeturan a're opened with ex- pectant interest. My mail is never a heavy one --alas! Yet my letters this morning were satisfying. In two of them were orders for writings of mine, and in one of them notification of the acceptance nf an article which I had submitted a Tew days previous- ly. I had sent along postage stamps to pay for the return of my article, if it were not being accepted. The letter advising me that the article had been accepted and bidding me send others began so: • I am returning to you herewith the two pictures of the Ring that • you were kind enough to send • The We are gbing to run some pictures af him in the rotogravure section at the time he tours Canada, but these whieli you emit are not big enough for reproduction in the rotogravure section. KING'S POLICE MEDAL Members of Canadian police forces and fire brigades are now eligible for the award of the King's Pollee Medal a deceeation confeired by Mis Maj- esty M recognition of bravery. A recent orderein-couneff renewed the application of the award to Ganad- ians. The order -in -council approved some time ago, cited the provisiogs of the royal warrant, which set forth that the Kirtee Police Medal might be conferred "on those of our faithful subjects and others who have either performed acts of excepeional courage and skill or exhibited conspiceous de- votion to duty" as members of ponce forces or fire brigades. Recmmendatien for, award of the medal, it we's decreed, is to be by "one of oer ministers of state for our Dominion of Canada," according to the phrasing ofethe royal warrant. The regulations Covering the award set forth that the names of those proposed for it are to be submitted Annually to the King during October. Twelve medals constitute Canada's yearly allotment, althOugh more may be awarded if jestified by exception- al circumstances. The qualifications for the grant of the medal for gallantry ate: "Conspicuous gallantry in saving life and pnoperty, or in preventing crime or andesting criminals: , the risks ,inctuned to be estimated with dueregard to the obligations and duties of the officer concerned." Seeing that I had not sent pictures of the King to this newspaper in a purpose to sell them, I called up the writer of the letter to inform him that he had evidently mede some mistake—that it must be some other nerson to whom he should have writ- ten about these partraits, Than I was told that the pictures referred to were those on the postage stamps which I had sent! The buyer of my articles likes to have his jokes, One of my morning letters was from an old friend dwelling all by himself in North Carolina, in or near a place called Maggie! • My friend disapproves of my energy. He wrote: • , Whenever I think of you, and then dere to think of myself, I imagine that your notion of a perfect heaven is that of the Am- erican Indian who dreams of wandering around forever in a vast shadowy realm abounding in undying game, with his bow drawn and his quiver full; while • my heaven is of the E'ast Indian type—a blissful land where the everliving, non -rent -paying dwel- lers do not mingle freely with ona another, each keeping him- self aloof and reserved, abomin- ating automobiles and telephones and radios, and eveey other de- vice which Multiplies contacts with others, giving us more of their time, and leaving us less • of our own; a land whefe to lounge unclee a tree and specul- ate without bothering to call upon arguments and to search painfully for proofs; in fact a • Nirvana as conceived by the present East Indians, except that sometimes some of them confuse the gnawing's of hunger with a sort of spiritual ferment in the region of the navel. But You have good' aubhority for your love of activity. Goethe says that the two essentials of happiness are health and activ- ity. I differ from him, painful " as it is to do so, for I have just . finished re -reading Faust and am more than ever humbled by the pewee and splendor of that pass (one on each side) from the and the fineness of his ideals. He is • a salesman. He called , arn,ytenoid cartilages downward and greet me. It is pleasant tohaveformal to the epiglottis. These false young men call to keep warm a vocalecords are very prominent folds' f membrane. It is when they are sound friendship, and to pay a comp- liment to age. • caused to vibrate by the stream of air expelled from the lungs that the Another caller during the morning sound of "peering" is produced. was a man from Denver—a former Toronto resident. He had come to The inferior or true vocal cords BA Toronto ori behalf - of two men in located below the ealse cords and are Denver to secure distributors for a less prominent and sharply edged. It dentifrice in powder form, and for is the vibration of these true vocal a new mineral food, put up in cap.' cords that produces the sound of sules, and declared to be effective mewing or yowling, as the case may treatment for many aihnents, among be. The more the cords are stretched them hay fever, artleritis, acne, by muscular action, the higher and prostrate gland, neuritis, and so on. shriller will be the resulting sound, The story of this peeparation is: In just as the tighter a violin string is Nevada is a desert, once the bed of stretched the higher will be the pitch an inland sea. Deep down in this of the tone when, it is bowed or pluck - waste land are found ae variety of ed. Though the vocal cords are the minerals much needed by the human main' agents M the production of body. These minerals are now being soun.ds, the tone and qualities of the made available to persons suffering' sounds are modified by other factors, from ailments due to a deficiency a such as the shape of the cavities in essential minerals. I read all the pointed matter, in- the larynx, the pharynx, etc. eluding the testimonials, about this The reason for the cat's purr may mineral food, with deepest interest. ' lie in a condition of contentment and Many persons who ha,ve used this 'relaxation' wherein the false vocal nature -made food have found new Tcarhedscaatr,e loose and free ta vibrate. if consulted, might give a l health from its use. I ant honing, therefore, that my friend succeeds in less mechanistic explanation. finding e_distributor for it in Can- ada. Among those entering my office was a young woman who had been There's an odd angle. in this fog knocked down by a cyclist, and story. whether she herself was injured I "I'm lost, can you tell me how to do not know, but her gloves and get to the corner of Victoria and stockings were soiled. So she enter- 'Triumplh streets," a man asked Ron. ed the building where I have an 01- ole Matthews, Vancouver entertainer, fice, and seeing on my door the name in the befogged East End. "Take my of a woman—a public stenographer arm and I'll see you get there," Ron- -she entered, to ask permission to ole 'emickly led the way. wash and dry her gloves and stock- The odd angle—Ronnie is blind ings! She asked, also, if there was any stenographic work which she could do, so I suppose she is among of one of the other papers which the unemployed, treasure island in Nova Scotia, and am sending is a story dealing with a Otne of my, letters was from a on page 5 of another issue is a write - preacher to whom I had sent, at his up dealing with a rather novel sub - request, a pamphlet of mine, entitled, ject, alligators!" How to Find a Job. He wrote, "0111 Not a commonplace day, was it? a Sunday evening i05. the near future I 'hope to preach on some such sub -I ject." Another letter was from the ad-• vertising manager af a newspaper. He 'said, "Our Winter Fair Edition proved to be the largest and mOst , profitable edition hi, -the history ofj The News On the front page ' BLIND MAN SHOWS WAY WHEN PAL LOST IN FOG 4IINIII1M611•Irf•MIMIW••1:UMM•g.....1111 eSNAPSPOT GUI ILM tiv SNAPSHO IS AT MGM" Night snapshots are easy with simple lighting arrangements. It's fun, too to create "table -top" picture scenes as shown here. QNAPSHOTS at night are fun, and L7 a delightful way to spend long winter evenings. Nowadays, with in- expensive lighting equipment espe- cially designed for the amateur, night snapshots are easy with any casnera. •. You can arrange interesting- and artistic "table -top" pictures, using toy automobiles, doll houses and • miniature furniture, with a bit of , dark carpet for grass,or sugar for snow, or a bit of glass on top of a dark surface to portray a quiet pool. ' You can also take informal portraits of members of the family, pictures • of them reading or busy with:10E1er activities, snapshots of the pots, and interior views of the home. Indeed, there is a wonderful range of pic- ture chances, none of which occur outdoors. The picture above shows how night snapshots are made. A photo bulb Is Screwed into a bridge lamp, with a cardboard reflector replacing the lampshade. The photo bulb yields an extremely bright white light, especially suited for picture - taking. With two large photo bulbs in cardboard reflectors, three or f011r feet from the subject, you have enough light for snapshots with a box .camera. With a focusing type camera you would get satisfactory results by setting the lens aperture at 1.11 and the shutter speed at 1/25 of a second. In the picture shown here, the light coloeed wall serves as a reflec- tor to illuminate the shadow side of the "table -top" scene. Ordinarily, two lamps are used for e picture, :1 one to illuminate each side of a sub- ject. By' changing the angle and pose tioa of the lights, ninny interestieg shadow effects can be obtained: piece of cardboard can 8.81'Ve he a background as la the picture Omit. For eight snapshots, the camera should be loaded with a fast film of the "super" type. With siower films, It Is necessary to provide twa or theee times as much. light. And for closemps, as shown here, a •por- trait attachment must be placed on the camera lens (unless yours is one ' of the finer focesing cameras). In night picture -taking), it is im- portant to have your photo lights at a correct distance from the subject —not too near, and not too tar away. An exposiire guide is helpful in plac- ing the lights -9r you can make sev- eral "test' pictures of each scene, Don't miss the fun of night snap- shots this winter. You will learn much abott pictere-taking, and pro- vide xnany an interesting addition . to your album. 214 John van Ciiiilder.