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THE CLINTON NEWSRECORD
— THURS., DEC. 29, 1938
lehristine -who has been a Tee Line
'.stewardess for some time, is suddenly
transferred to the "Hay Tor," bound
for Shanghai. Her pretty selfish, half-
sister, Pay Lind just secured a post
in a beauty salon in Shanghai, and
her passage is booked in the Hay Tor.
Since Fay is bitterly ashamed of the
'fact that Christine is a stewardess,
Christine promises not to let anyone
,en board know that they are related.
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Fay's cabin is not hi ,Christine'e sec-
tion of the ship.
On signing -on day, Christine dis-
covers that the Chief Steward of the
Hay Tor is Mi. Perrin, who has a
grudge against her mother formerly
a stewardess cin the same line. Per-
rin warns Christine before she sins
on that if she puts on airs with him
she will find life difficult.
I Frain the very first, Christine's fel-
low stewardesses, Mrs. Palm and Miss
Crane, shows 'a dislike of her for no
!reason and the only person who is at
all friendly is Arthur Grant, a cheer-
ful yeemo bedroom Steward with
whom she works. Grant warns her
to be careful, because many of the
stewards ,are Perrin's toadies and
' everything is reported to him.
Among the passengers in Grant's
section is a wealthy man called Mart-
in Royde, who has oftexr sailed he Tor
'Lines before and is well-known to the
, staff. He is notorious for giving wild
parties and splashing money about,
One of his friends, Pieria Smythe, a
'sophisticated woman of thirty, is one
I of Christine's passengers, -and Royde
hiinself oceupies the cabin de luxe
in Grant's section.
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CHAPTER III
CHRISTINE MEETS FAY
It. was Mrs. Carlyle, the dear old
lady in number ten, who made it pos-
sible for Christine to visit Fay, She
rang for Christine soon after dinner,
explained that she was a very poor
sleeper, and .asked Whether it would
be possible for her to have a glass of
hot milk brought to her room at ten,
o'clock every night •
As a Tule, this was the sort of re-
quest which Clexistine hated, since
it meant that she would never be able
to go to bed until after that glass
of milk was carried up — and she
would have to get up. at five -thirty,
for number four wanted her morning
teaat six. But she jumped at the
excuse for being out of her cabin at
ten, an hour when there were few
people about, and only two bedroom
stewards "on watch" on the two pas-
senger decks.
Mrs, Parr and Miss Crane began
to get ready for bed at about nine,
for it happened that none of ,their
passengers wanted anything after
that tine
"Aren't you finished yet, Miss
Jordan?" Miss Crane asked, as
Christine settled down on the settee
With 41 book.
"I've got milk to take up at ten,"
Christine explained.
"Take it up at half -past nine, Miss
Jordan."
, "She'd better take it up at the hour
it's asked for," Mrs. Parr said, grudg-
ingly. "It's Mr. Perrin's rule that the
passenger id always right and if
there's a complaint about the milk e,
being cold, Mt Perrin will have some. a
thing to say about it." `
Christine simply rushed down the
companion te, the pantry at ten o'-
clock, got the milk, previously order-
ed front the pantry -man, and hurried
up to number four with it, Cater,
and a steward whom he did not know
were on watch,and they evete both
at the bar, talking to the bar steward:
there seemed no one elsa about ex-
cept for a few passengers, and of
course passengers did not matter.
It was absurd, really, to feel so
guilty as she walked along the star-
board alley -way, lookieg ear Fay's
room,' but of all the unwritten laws
which ruled the ship, that one which
forbade poaching in another steward-
essM section was perhaps the most
stringent. Of course, if this has 'been
ihe Brent Tor, Christine could have
explained that Fay Was a friend of
hers—she need net even say she was
her sister—hut she knew already that
on the Hay Tor tha worst , possible
construction would .be put upon any-
thing that she did. '
"Oh, Christine, I thought Yhted for-
gotten all about me," Fay exclaimed,
as Christine opened the door. •
"I couldn't get away before, Fay," ,h
Christine said, closing the door very
carefully behind her, "and I can only
stay foe a few mint:tee now."
She sat down on Fay's bed—there
was no settee ib„ these little single -
berth • rooms, --and Fay snuggled up n
against her,. more like a rather scared r
child than 'the very self-confident girl r
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Canine will arrive at and depart from
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Moing East, depart. 6 58 nom
Going East, depart 3,00 p.m
t Going West, depart 11.45, p.m,
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,and I don't think I shall ever get
to know anyone on board.'
yes, you will," Christine as-
sured her. "They all get friendly in
a few days. There's always someone
on board who starts organizing deck
ganees and things on the very first
day, and there'll be dancing on the
promenade deck as soon as it's warm
enough—you won't be lonely for long,
Fay."
"And my clothes are all right," Pay
said, cheering up a little. "Christine,
I must show you the frock I bought
"I'm afraid so—the Old Man hardly
ever drops inspection, except in real-
ly bad weather."
We'll never •manage this room in
time," Christine said desperately, but,
at that moment Mrs. Smythe and Mrs.
Collins siRdled out into the alley-wey
and Christine and' Grant set to work
They were both quick workers, and
in a very few minutes Christine had
made the bottom bunk and. Grant the
olo one, Grant had emptied the slops
and swept the carpet, and Christine
had opened the "clock" and polished
.the basin and soap dish. But the
dressing table, covered with •bottles
and jars and eoated with spilt powd-
er, would really have taken half an
hour to do properly,ancl Christine only
had time to dust it hastily.
"Inspection started," Edwards call-
ed out to them, as he ran past the
open door. "The Old Man came down
from the bridge five minutes ago."
Christine ,shook out her apron and
set her cap straight, and went to the
end of the alleY-way, near the main
companion. ,
Almost as soon as she had taken
her plade, the Captain, followed clos-
ely by Perrin, came through the door
from the smoke room, and started
their inspection of the port side state
rooms. Number eighteen was the room
nearest to the smoke -room and Chris-
tine's heart sank when they disappear-
ed into that room, and stayed for
what seemed to her a good five min-
utes.
Inspection, on the Brent Tor had
as a sort of last minute inspiration never been such a lengthy business
this morning. I hadn't time to try it as this they lingered almost as long
on, except in the shop, and I want in two other rooms, and by the time
you to tell me whether it ought to that they reached Christine she was
feeling thoroughly strung and nerv-
"Geod-morning, Sir." she answered
the Captain's muttered "Good -morn-
ing" to her—the only time that a
stewardess ever spoke to the Captain,
from beginning to end of the voyage,
was when he passed her on inspec-
tion.
Perrin, his face like a thunder-
cloud, paused before going down the
main companion to begin inspection
of the deck below.
'Miss Jordan," he said, "go back
and do five, eighteen and four prop-
erly. I will have no slackness on this
ship, and the sooner you learn it the
better."
(to be continued)
be shortened, just an inch or so."
"Hurry up, then".
"But you've only just come Chris-
tine," ray protested, "and I'm, sure
you can't have anything else to do
to -night."'
"I share a cabin with two others,
Fay, and they are probably counting
the minutes till my return—rm not
suppoeed to wander round the ship
at night, you know."
But Fay, rummaging through the
wardrobe for the new frock, took no
notice—she wanted Christine's comp-
any, and she didn't care in the least
for the rules and regulations of the
ship. Christine stayed for a good ten
minutes longer, admiring the apple -
green frock which suited Fay's fair
beauty so exactly.
Cator came round the corner of the
alley -way when she was on her wee
from Fay's room to her own. Ile
gave her a rather shrewd glance, but
though this was not the shortest way
from the upper deck to the steward-
esses' cabin, there was no real reason
why she should not have come down
the main companion and along the
lower starboard alley -way, instead of
down, the narrow companion amid-
ships. As a rule, the stewardesses
did not use the main companion, but
they sometimes did so at night. She
said good -night to Pater, and hoped
that her voice sounded natural.
Mrs. Parr and Miss Crane were al-
ready asleep, and Christine went to
bed in the dark, making as little noise
as she could. ,
She had no time even to think of
Fay the next • day, for the ship was
pitching just enough to send all the
bad sailors to bed. No one in Cheis-
tine's section was 'really ill, but half -
a -dozen of them stayed in bed for
breakfast as a precaution, though
they were able to eat quite substantial
meals, which Christine had to carry.
up on trnirs from the pantry. •
UNDER THE LASH OF THE
BULLY
It was in the pantry that morning
that Christine had her first encounter
with Perrin since coming on board.
He was standing at the hot press,
nd in all the rush and eurmoil of
the pantry at breakfast time he seem -
to miss nothing. Christine heard him
swearing at Grant liecauee a tray -
cloth was crooked, and at the second
pantry -man for burning a slice of
toast on the electric toaster.
"Fish, please," Christine said to the
chef, puttieg down the tray which
she had ready for Mrs. darlyle. The
white -capped chef, standing beside
Perrin, was serving- reortions of fish
with a perfectly blank expression, as
If ho wanted to emphasise his com-
plete lack of interest in anything
which the Chief Steward might sey
to the staff—Chtietine made a ment-
al note that the chef wasn't one of.
Perrin'S toadies,
"HeY you—Miss Jordan," Perrin
shouted suddenly. "Did they teach
you on the Brent to take trays up
without salt?"
"Mrs. Carlyle doesnit take *hit,"
Christine said einetly.
"Pathe salt cm at once, and dont • with inc."
hands were shaking a little cm
she•picked up the tray. Perrires bully-
ing tone took some getting used to—
and Mrs. Carlyle had definitely told
er not to bother to bring salt.
She hoped against hope that there
would not be any inspection that
morning, for she'd have to hurry is
get finished before eleven, with five
trays to carry up, and the baby ir
umber four to look after while his
a
other was at breakfast. Of course
here would be no inspection of the
owns in which passengers were still
in bed, but they would have to be
made reasonably tidy, and Christine
had several other rooms as well
"Is there going to be inspection
0 -day?" she asked Grant, as he join
✓ her outside the door of eighteen.
whom Christine had seen at home,
only the night before,
"I've never felt se lonely in my
life, Christine," Fay said. "They've
put me at a table with a whole lot '.
1
of stuffy people, who looked down t
their noses at me all through' dinner e
THE CHRISTMAS TREE'
Mingling with the great company
of folk singing Christmas Carols
around the glittering community tree
shedding its radiance over tha wide
open space of the park on Christmas
Eve one instinctively recalls the
legendary story of the first Christ-
mas tree. It Was an eventful Yule-
tide nighb hi the dim past of A.D.
724 that Boniface, a missionaey from
England, reaching Central Europe,
came upon a group of worshippers
gathered around an'altar erected be-
neath a magnificent oak tree to Thor,
he god of thunder and of war.
The worshippers were assembled to
witness not only the. sacrifice of the
most beautiful horse in the commun-
ity, but a human sacrifice as well.
A lad of twelve years was selected
and fearlessly went forward to the
altar. Then as the mallet of the
priest was raised to descend upon
the head a the boy, Boniface inter-
cepted the blow with his staff, sur-
mounted by the Croas of Christ. As
the priesd's mallet broke in many
fragments on the altar, Boniface step-
ped before the altar end pleaded for
the boy and for the Christ he served.
SO impassioned was his plea that the
worshippers of Thor became worship.
pees of the true God, and abandoned
their pagan ceremonies. Recognized
as a symbol of the true religion, the
greet oak under whose spreading
branches the altar had been erected
was recognized as the first Christmas
tree.
CHRISTMAS TREE IS NUTS
Apples grow on apple trees,
peaches on the peach; you know,
among a thousand' trees, the graft
you'll pick from each, All except
the Christmas tree; dodging all the
nuts, from that come dolls and drums
and eings and ties and pipes and
scores of things—the Christmas tree
is nuts.—Ex.
WISDOM IS 'PHIS ,
A Boy on holiday after fishing off
the pier for three hoers at last gO't
a, bite. An old, lady near by loudly
stated that it was a shame to catch
such dear little fish. The boy was
quick with his retort: "Well, he
wouldn't have got into trouble if he
had kept his mouth Aut."
"We have been born to associate
with our fellowmen, and to joie in
community with the hutnan
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This lack of individual stre»gth--of
indiViclual initiative - seen when one
YOUR'WORLD AND MINE finds himself unemployed. 1„ The un-
employed printers, carpenters, elect-
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i::: ricians, machinist, labourers -,-all tend
0 to congregate daily. They hang about
„,,, employment bureaus. It is uncommon
,'0....N0V.00.,W000002'00:%'0000000000,00000000.000.00000000.,! himself nowadays—to go out, all by
,17. for an tmemploy-ed man to rely on
Some social reformer,s have advo- it is a system which has tended to himself, to find work—this by mak-
catecl that when men die, their pos- the world's advantage. ing work. .
session's, in the form of money, and I am quite ready te sanction legis- I
land, and securities, should, pass to lately which curbs the geeed and the'
the. state; in other words,, that wealth cruelty of individuals mid coepoe '-
should not be inherited. This is an tions,, and which takes. from theam M°st (4 us
Most of u want to live seftly.
intriguingeiclea. Probably, if it: were much of their wealth via taxation and physical work. Most ,of us want to
turn. our backs cm hard
an idea. in operation, it would prevent inheritance duties. If enterprises ,seeI live in, cities—to be near crowds of
great fot•tunes. It would tend to de- the expedient of taariffs, then it is ee
viec people, to be near to movies and to
many men. from trying to build 'up state. assistance and protection
eager to accumulate millions of to the state a goodly portion of their eel
riinfySto_irves, to be near factopies, WhiCh
A e us soft --and precarious—
stroy initiative: Men would not be quite just that they should return
money if they lamer ehat when theY gaits. Also, it is quite right filet ,.eapvlioiyment. Most of us went eo lean
V an stronger and more enter -
died, their accumulationa would pass, the' state should insist on all em l'ising Persgr's. 1%"st a US Me" .
An idea occurs, ta me—whether or- Time was, in Gomat Britain and in. 13''
employees juPelisiY; marry women who want to live soft-.
to the state. , ., iers treating their
iginal or not, I do not know, yet I other einurtries, when the state per- and when times of distress come,
hardly think that it can be original. mitted employers to hire young child- it is our wives .and our •children who
Indeed, I feel very sure that it is an Tem at age of 6 or 7, to work in mills I bind
attraetions, .
US tightly to cities and theie
idea vrhich has often bean put forward and factories, and te keep' them at! All the while Mather Earth is beck
by men acutely conceened with human week for 12 to 14 holu•s a day; butl onin to' us, sa in , "Come u to me-,
welfare. I seem. to remember th,at the developing conscience of the pub- all ge who are wYorrcless 'in greaut 't'
the idea was put into. operation by lie led to the enactment Of laws for' andYtowns. Let my bounty feed yelottl
Utopian enterprises -- tee utopian the prevention of child employment Most of us are very foelish and bliacii
scheme of Brook Farm, by way of , The cam a istic system, does not we want to earn our free(' and t,uh,
exanm e. The idea is that the wages neeessatily mean unrestrained lib i ter out of otn- own bodies, despite the
of all werkers should be nooled--eurn- 'to exploit human beings.. el Y readiness of Nature to, assist us with
ed over to the state,‘ with the state
Speaking for myself I like that see- he)! fertilitY' her rains and winds. .
distributing to,' each worker a due por-
tion of the pooled money. The ells. I am not urging all unemployed to
ial system which allows individuals.
tribution would not be equal; it would a very tie immure et. persona, tree. become farmers, trying to farm my
100 acres. Farining 100 •acres 're -
however be equitable. Labour would dam, and which encourages individuals
be graded --...Class A, Class B, and so quires capital and homes, and be-
te express themselves as individuals
—to be assertive of their individual, Piements' BillS it is Pussible t°' make'
on. Those in the A. category would
receive each -week se mueh money; ism" as few as five or ten acres eustain
it family, by intensive cultivation. 1
those in 13 category, so much money; I am opposed to persons losing their do not say that the farmer of 6 or
and sa on. By this arrangement, the individualism in masses. The present- ,10 acres will have much to sell—
high-grade workers would be able to day trend is in. -the direction 9f mas- tho-ugh in European countries many
live more abundantly than the low- sism. Most 9f us tend to become 'eultivators of 5 acres de produce a
grade workers. Provisien could be like those about us, in our ways of large quantity of products which axe
made for \ advancement from one Being
grade to another, according to a man's and thinking and playing and sold. The main hmnediate problem
!behaving We dress alike; we eat Der rilanY Persona is subsiStenue-
desserts.
. !identical foods - adveztised foods; we I ...., -
Out of the pooled -wages of all furnish our homes according. to pat -I -.mere is another reason why mom
workers, pensions would be paid td 1
'teens established for us by adver- should respond to the beckoning. of
the aged and feeble and incapacitat- .
ed. It would be an obligation of the resorts and other places of interest; Illiviouther Earth: Mother Earth can and
give sustenance to many whom
tisers; we go in crowds to the same
,we listen, in our millions, to the same industry rejects as being toa old at
state to provide work for all able to '
work. 'radio programmes we are mode to 50. To these rejected' ones there will
I do not put female this idea with think alike by what is printed in our remain many years of life -20 to 25,
probably. Why should not these years.
any seriousness. I have not tried to newspapers and maga,zines-magazines
think the idea through. rt is just be spent in the country, on a holding
a with circulation of three millions or et, a, few ems.? •
fancy. It could form the •subject of mere, and whose circulations widen
a debate fee• those vile like dehatingi by copies being passed from hand to I ant convinced that in the Years
and who belong to debating societies. heed, eme
,ins i u n
.--....-- . 1' t't tio s offer us employment, for el
big factat'ies, stores and ahead' in Canada, many of tlie. unene-
loyed and unemployable will accept
Deep down in my heart I like best the doing of work almeet the same as Mother Nature's invitation ---to go to,
the present system oe rewarding that being done by our neighbour, her and live on her bounty.
Our schools turn out millions of 1
workers and of carrying on business;
students every year all having the'
or to put it differently, I lil e the
t - selfsame education,
capitalistic snstem—the systein which' !
permits individuals to earn as much I suppose that all this is inevitable. lieE I knew you and you• lemew me; if
both of us could clearly see,
as they are able and willing to earn, yet it is destructive of individualism lArramenwinithe an inner sight divine the
and to stazt selfish enterprises—ent- 'which means that it is destructive of g of your heart and mine,
erprises devised to rneke them profit, individual strength. Our present-d'ay rt. sure that we would differ less and
I am fully aware that the capitalistic independent of others; on the contrary
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which profit they are free to retain. social system does not teach' us to be clasp our hands in friendliness,
Our thoughts would pleasantly agree
if r knew you and you knew me,
system permits men to exploit men, lit makes us woefelly dependent on,
and that it breecls avaricious men; yet others.
I —Nixon Waterman:.
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