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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1924-04-17, Page 2choose E515 The most delicious Mend procurable"' A ut the tiouse BAD CHILDREN. Iilish all of this, as we are ir, very It has been discovered that bad chit -t moderate circumstances, but please do dren are frequently suffering some, not talk to me about stingy husbands. --M, W. H. physical handicap which makes them abnormal, . You know yourself that if the children, are excessively tired or hungry, they are perfect demons com- To prevent ugly dust lines on the pared to what they are when cam- paper behind the pictures drive a fortable. We may follow this up and sinal brass -headed tack in each' lower find that many times tho naughty corner of the frame to hold it out 'tricks of children can be traced to de- :From the wall so that :lir can circulate fects in their care or well-being which behind it. ' can be easily remedied. No normal child is naturally cross, in spite of those who •insist that some If we press every seam on coats and babies just naturally have three- dresses as our work progresses, and months colic and are cress. He may then give a final pressing when a gee.- have it all right, but it is an un- meet is finished, our work will take natural condition and the' whole on a professional look that can hardly household suffers. But the baby is be secured in any other way. cress for a physical reason, pure and simple, perhaps due to mistakes on EVER TRY BATH MITTS? cur' part and not because he was born Make a pair of bath mitts from nn with a bad temper. old bath towel and use for. taking Older children are much the same your bath. Until you try it, you have way. When Jimmie has a cross day he probably ate too much rich pud- ding the night before, or maybe his oyes have caused a slight headache. Very young 'children are frequently cross because the ears ache and they cannot` tell the mothers, but it will be noticed that they keep rubbing the head near the ear. Little backs some- times ache as well as big ones, and the child who is habitually cross needs a good physical examination rather than, punishment. He may have mere- ly developed ugliness of temper, it is true, but quite often there is a res- �; 0' i e. son even for that which, when made 4 �, el s;r 't clear, may surprise the parents, ! - � . `T�^�,--, , There has been so much said in the °, `' last few years about the effect of thebeing that eve have overlooked to some 7", \-4; i fey BEHIND THE PICTURES. PRESSING THE SEAMS. Hidden the studio and finally' rested .on the —..----------11 great .open fireplace. , "A to the, wise," he said after a Parise "I'vesaid all I intend to stay, Mae, Ardington. .I must be' gee= ting.baplk to' London. The door of the•studio• opened and Herrington entered the room.Ard- ingtgn introduced him µ.toe Mr; Crust, "This," he said'; "is the gentleman who has charge•of the case." - --- BY J. B. HARRIS-BURLAND "Whitt case?" queried Merrington sharply. CIiAPTER lhlk Cont d. that. But you can leave everything] 'iYojr •wife's death,",said Mr. Crust Trehorn made ra' supreme cin ort to ."• ' gently. "We are doing our best to be calm. He knew that ifit came to "l., rather think I shall, go to, bed, find out who le el leer."• an open 'quarrel: with Arit Ui r at, Fletcher. I must have caught n chill I "No one murdered her," said Mer - this moment Ardington might do or _Fletcher. long motor drive we had yes- rington. "I las an accident. say anything., .Ariimngton was a bit terday— 1 Yes, perhaps it was, Mr. Merring- "Oh, I hope your ladyship is not ton," said the superintendent slowly. queer in the head: ; l (going to be really ill,":said Fletcher "Biittbe pollee have' duties 'topeg, My dear chap, he said quietly, y ladyship form; and one of them is to `bring "what are you talking about?" ,,anxiously. , "Would your lad she• like "You and Ruth Of course 'to see a doctor?" i murderers to: justice. They cannot you're iii'love'with the Bradney. Owoman. What i•` 'Ruth said that she did not wish° to say to themselves, 'It was an .accident' man would have done ,,what y.,u've 'see a doctor, but she asked for a tele-' unless there is proof that it was an done for Lad Bradney unless he gram form, and' wrote out. a message accident. Goodnight, Mr. Herring- 1 . ,,, to John Merrington. "Sorry, too ill to ton; good night, Mr. Ardington," Ardington rang a bell and the head footman showed Mr. Crust out of the room. Merrington sank' into a chair and ;covered his face with his hands. Ardington smiled grimly, walked to one of the windows, and pulling aside the curtain, looked out into the dark "Ab,lthe then think it was a 'case of come to -morrow," she wrote. "Letter love at first sight?" (will follow, Ruth Bradney. "No 'out I think you took a ianoy "Please take that to the post of - to herievhen you firsset eyes on her, fico she said to Fletcher. "Don't and then—the rest followed." send one of the Watsons. with it, but "And you eh?" laughed Trehorn. tel a it yourself." "You've been. .just as eager to hush ' "Yes, my lady," Pletcher replied, up, this affair" and she vanished mto the house. Ah ness; "t sake �'etl g. YPs for Merrm ons i ' , when she had one Ruth felt that s e "Oh, this is horrible," said Merring- I' point Tree' was more alone in the world than ever. ton liter a. long silence. "Has ,this — Pin not going to labor the p r e The sending of that telegram meant this. been oing:on all the time? horn. I have eyes, and can seepretty that she"would never see John Mer - well with them. Of course, I was onl jokinjoking when I suggested getting Pier- •rington again. And she loved him. g when of the way, Personally She longed to see him.; she was hun- 1 don't think he'd be the least likely gxyAndr the sight thereof rim: to kill himself. He'd probably make l e wand she sasArdington in the sunshine won - love to LadyBradney again, and she wondered, as had they'd,go off ogether. Butyouand I dared, what would have happened if have got to look after ourselves, 7're- to win him back to her. Her.imagine- ten time of it,. I'm afraid, lane tion could not even picture ever so wouldn't have left here if he hadn't vaguely what would. have happened if she had flung herself and the story of that night and the claim to - his love into the middle of his • grief for his a ed at rington ought to know.esterything.n th d wife. Her own brain idol But Ardington was not to be shaken the thought of such a tremendous bupe een f the t h had taken•u I heave]. Perhaps he would have been finished Inc job." "You think the game is up, eh?" ' "Yes, and that's why. I,think Mere a position e. 15 , know," disgusted with her -at. first; perhaps think Herrington ought to he h „would not h believed d h r insisted. "Ho .might leave hero and a .,ivou have a ieve her; per,- insisted. be, quite helpless—he'd be fight- haps , would even ards the sight in in. the dark: Well, I'ni only of ltehfer. ever afterwards.t g,, y grv- "I have done the right thin," she ing you my opinion. said to. herself. "At any rate I have I don't agree with .it'' h tt • tried to do the right. thin ." no idea how much enjoyment you can So tt seems•But you d e et But she would suffer—already dur derive by using them as wash cloths. think over what I've said. ling this week -end she had suffered. A This was a distinct threat, but Tre- You can take a. sponge in hal£ the horn saw that he was helpless. Of.barrier had beenraisedsb..—aween her - 'usual time. self and her h would eep hem al- 'course, he could not - prevent Arding- black ;wall that would keep them al - ton from telling Merrington the ways apart.eShe would still live with truth. 'him, and leek after his house, and they I'll think over it, Inc answered would still.be friends and talk. pleas - coldly. "And I'll be getting home. l antly:. to each other.' But there would Good -night, Ardington.' never be anything more than that— ,They ,parted at the front door, still i never She, knew now that her- love !i'6 f,� - ?� apparently the best of friends. But for John Merrington would endure, as Trehorn drove. down the. avenue 1 i under the dark trees Inc. carried with ! again, she sir toever g sets eyes endured n him him , a bitter and sudden 'hatred of:belon�ed teethe ]man she loved. she t Ardington. He did not know what g was at the back of Ardington's mind, but he was quite certain that Arding- ton had no desire to benefit anyone, i and least of all tete unfortmtate Mer- rington. He had never' trusted Arding - ton, and now he hated him. The sug- gestion that Merrington'.s death would .. CHAPTER XXX. be best for everyone could only have "What is it you want to get out of come from a cruel and callous nature. nee?" said Ardington coldly. • And the worst of it all was that "Nothing; ' Mr. Cruet *relied. "1 Ardington had' been right. He, Frank only thought you ought•to know, how Trehorn, was in . love with Ruth matters stand." Bradney. But it was mt the sort of . "Nonsense. You wouldn't come here love that would murder a man to ac- and tell me that Mr. Merrington is complish its desire, He would do any- going to be arrested for the murder thing for. Ruth Bradney, tell any lie of his wife unless you .wanted me to for her sake, make any sacrifice `to of you ,to give her happiness. put the rope round his But it would not make her happy if neck. Why, ,its as. good. as warning he told Merrington the truth. Of that Mr. 1elerr escapton and giving him a chance to escape. he was quite certain. * * "Oh, he can't escape," laughed Mr. 5 The week -end, so dreaded by Ruth Crust,"nor can you for that matter. Bradney, had passed without incident. I've old you about this evidence It had, indeed, from a social point of might not care Berrington mbeurder you view, been an unqualified success, to rave a Merrington er werein Lady Anne, not, of course, used to your house. If Mr. wouldn't y roughing it in a cottage, had been a arrestednhere is would t be very 4673. This model is good for the most charming com anion» -She. had pleasant for you, would it? I think g g • P if I.were you Pd suggest to him that new figured silks and printed cottons. praised everything and had paid so he returned to London." many compliments to her hostess that "Hone very kind of you," said Ard- Ruth had blushed with pleasure. ingion quietly, "but then you see I Fletcher had worked like a slave, and don't believe a word ' the Watsons had shown all the energy you've said." of youth, As a cook Mrs. Watson had Mr. Crust's eyes wandered round A PRETTY "DAY" DRESS. mental activities on the physical well- extent .q the physical discomforts on the - mental well-being. Many a naughty child needs the doctor or the dentist and he gets scolded instead. For that matter, we grown-ups are not any too easy to live with when we are not feeling well, so .why .expect more of the children? A simple physical ex- amination may show that crossness is not just due to old-fashioned original sin. IN MODERATE CIRCUMSTANCES BUT HAS THEM ALL. I do not like this spirit of antagon- ism so often exhibited when the ques- tion of household conveniences comes ug, so ,much stress being laid on the man's abundant supply of tools, etc. I find very often the wife is slow to put in improvements when she her It will also develop well in linen and self has the money. A hearty ee_ alpaca. operation between husband and wife The Pattern is cut in 7 Sizes: 84, is the better way. I have never yet 36, 88, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust been obliged to ask for any kitchen convenience. Our house is equipped with: 1. Electricity. We have a power washer, iron, and vacuum cleaner, lights in all rooms, including closets and dark corners. 2. Two electric water systems, one for hard water, and one for soft. Thesesystems have no storage tanks (except the cistern for soft water), date Spring and Summer 1924 Book and were installed by my husband of Fashions, himself, thus . saving much expense. The hard water is piped to the kite cher sink and the bath room, besides three out -door hydrants for sprinkl- ing lawns and cleaning porches and windows. It is also piped to the hen house and barn. The soft water, hot andcold, is piped to the bath room and kitchen sink and the range res- ervoir. 8. A Large kitchen cupboard, eight : ti",sae`ee feet Iong and as high as the room. Wish We Could This cupboard is made in two parts Turtle—"Pardon me while I pull in with a space of eighteen inches be- my head, Here comes a fellow' I owe two dollars tog" She wondered if her husband .had noticed the change in her—the change, from the woinan who height be won back to some pretence of love to the woman who could never pretend again. measure. A 38 -inch size requires 4% surpassed herself. The weather had yards of 40 -inch material. The width been fine, and there had been long ex - at the foot with plaits extended is 2 gFeditions in the car. Sir Alexander yards. had been in high spirits, and had not Pattern mailed to any address on even grumbled about the room at the receipt of 16c in silver, by the Wilson inn, Publishing Co. 73 West Adelaide St, Ruth at `last had time to think of Toronto. Allow two weeks for re- Jahn Herrington. Her husband and Lady _Anne had left for London in the ceipt of pattern. car, and it was to. return that same Send 12e in silver for our up -to- day. ..Ruth was tired, and there was. a certain amount of reaction after the bustle and excitement' of the week- end. She sat out on the balcony in the sun. She seemed very lonely— alone with the sea and the marshland. se a for u r Yi"aeniloDe.aan[oe by Stagnant! And most certainly she was tired—so wrerc. Forart.e, have 51e1 mtitlo from elmp tired that it would' not be ,Very diffi- idcao, "Patent Protection" bookieeon request. cult to pretend that she was i11. And HAROLD.C. SHIPMAN EliCO. ofcourse she would have to pretend FArEMT ATTORNEYS sTT- 6AN{,A, STaetr that she was ill. Her next sitting ,CANADA; memaeal had been fixedfor tomorrow. She would have to.send1a telegram to Mer rington—a telegram that would. prob- ably be the last communication she would make to .him. "I, shall have to be very ill," she thought,"and then Alec will write or send.. a wire." Fletcher, who had hot returned to London, came out on to the balcony and asked for orders. Fletcher had taken control of the household affairs. "I. am not feeling at all well; Flet-, cher," said Ruth. "I've been over- doing. it." Yes, mv. lady, I. was afraid of WOMEN CAN DYE ANY GARMENT, DRAPERY Dye, , Or Titit Worn, Faded Things New for 15 Cent's. DiamondDes. Don't wonder whether you can dye or tint successful;'/, because perfect honi'e dyeing is gltaranteecl with Di•a mond Dyes" even if you. have never dyed before, Druggist's have all col- dgpinf'gvgARTpi,ANT BROc1tviaten ..' ors. Directions in each package. i • tween. The lower cupboard is ten inehee•wider than the upper one, mak- ing a large -convenient shelf for set- ting things, this shelf being covered The arrival of a party of Swazi with aluminum. The lower part iso fitted in England reminds the London+- hoed with a covered tin bread box, , Chronicle of the visit of a similar de - above which is a bread board which potation in 1894 and its introducton to pushes in when not in use. I Queen Victoria, which shook a little 4. An enameled sink, seventy-two even her experde¢ced equanimity. inches in length, with .front apron,! „We: rbine, p great mother'' trans - high back, and two drain -boards, &flaw the interpreter, "to bring to tike east 10 one piece, This sink has fan -I our babe. Take him, 0 mother, to thy cots for warm and cold soft water and knees;, told him to thy breast.", for cold hard water. At that stage the queen was beam - It has taken 'many years to aceom- ing alarmed. "But where' is the child?" she cried. "I don't see him " "Here, 0 Mother said the Swazi, gravely bringing forward a powerful savage six feet tall and weighing eon. siderabiy more than two hundred pounds. "Here he is." rJ Forget the wound even though the scar reminds. The Official Baby. ORE.. We want YOUR Cream. We pay highest price. We supply cans. Make daily returns. To obtain hest results write now for' cans to BOWES CO., LTD. TORONTO ISSUE No. 16—'24. ItB BEAgnio"CT fl E -S', WithYou DON'T , SQUEEZ$ YOUR . •WAI ' WPAR rrta mgr. T547 mums. 50.4551049 55 EV¢RT o5ovrs 55r of 1•oset toot', HA! THAT SMART A1TTARANCE THAT MEN DESIA6 . amyl, FORT eageto IN-VElelTIONSi. Minard's Liniment for Dandruff. "Yes, I m afraid so, old chap: I thought you understood—" `Yes, yes, but it's . never been brought home to rue like this." "No, the ugly part—the business side—of this cruel tragedy has been kept from you." Merrington shivered as though a cold wind .had passed through the room.. Then ,was nothing beautiful —nothing sacred about death when the law began to touch it with its dirty fingers. He felt as though some- one had desecrated, leis wife's grave, "Butyou more than anyone else in the world," Ardington contin- ued, "must wantto know the truth, and if Paula wap murdered, surely you, more' than anyoneelse in the ter 'even] mea &pleasaen't: :. endagreeab1e sweet and a bene8tt as Goof fogs teeth, /Breadth rased digaateeet. lti{ekes the' next •o'9gee' tapttg better. world,must want to bring the murd• erer to justice." (To be continued.) Sentimental. "Let me see," said the young man thoughtfully, "I've"got to buy Sonia flowers,. and some chocolates, and theatre tickets, ami—" "Doing mental arithmetic?" asked the'senior clerk. "No, sentimental arithmetic," was. the reply, Mlnard'r Liniment Heals Cut` No one is born without faults; be is best who is beset by least. could not have maintained its unchallenged position in Canadian homes if it were not the best. 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All this seciretiven.ess is due to the fact that the coining of these vessels into the fleet marks the end of a long Period of experiment that has had the,. effect of changing radically the'meth- ods of conducting naval warfare. (Henceforward it will be a combine. tion of sea and air lighting. The "inystery,aWiipe" are the protagonists of the new era; 1118 by means of them that the problem 'et how to put air- craft into the fighting -line afloat has been solved successfully. It is not safe to assume that there's nothing in a namee-until you have looked behind it. By doing so you may sometimes discover that the name does.not tell yen everything about the bearer of it. That is so in the case of the "mystery ships," Officially, they aro described as "aircraft carriers." "Nothing novel about that," say you. "fire heard of there before." You may have done so. But these vessels are edmothin'g far more im- portant than mere floating pantechni- cons, as all "aircraf t carriers" have hitherto been; they are .real mobile aorodromss,'fully equipped' for carry- ing aeroplanes to any place on the world's oceans, and enabling .them to fight thero.. , Moreover, the ships... are capable of doing a bit of fighting them- selves. Great Britain Still Lending. One of them—tate Hermes—le the fleet ship ever designed and built. ape. °]ally as a seagoing base for aero- planes. She is ordered to join the Mediterranean Fleet. When she ar- rives, this Fleet, shortly to become the most important sea -going command in the Navy, will bo able to take • with it wherever it goes a ''nest" from which a swarm of "hornets" can "busty out" at any moment and to which they can return after their flight has ended. Other of the these "mystery ships are reincarnations:' They were orig- inally battle -cruisers, and. have got a new lease of life as mobile, bases for aircraft. One 1p joining the Atlantic 'Pleat; the remainder will be sent wherever required. When 'they all have "passed into service" the Navy at sea will have become a part aerial part naval, tome ---equally able to fight over the.we.ter, on the water, or under the water. Whilst Britain has been thus recon- structing the "Empire's Sure Shield:' her competitors abroad have followed along 'similar linse. Only, they are a long way behind her. ']'hat explains 'why. the "mystery chips" are being officially kept a "mys- tery," The Admiralty do netseethe wisdom of telling the whole world "secrets" that have coat hor so much to d'iscver. It is thus that Britain shall keep her proud title: "Mistress of the Seas." • A Poem You•O Know. "The Skylark." Thousands know the memorial to Sir Waiter Scott 1n. Edinburgh, but, mew are familiar with the beautiful statue to his friend, James Hogg, in Ettrick Forest, beside St. Mary's Loch. The poet was called "Tho Ettrick Sleep - herd." Bird of the wilderness, Blithesome and cumberlese, Sweet be thy matin o'er moorland and lea! Emblem of happiness, Blest 1s thy. dwelling-glace— Oh, to abide in the desert with theel. Wild is thy lay anis loud, Par in the downy cloud;•,,, Love gives it energy, love gave it birth. Where, on thy dewy wing, , Where are thou journeying? Thy lay is in heaven, thy love Is on earth. O'er fell and fountain sateen, O'er mope and mountain green,,. O'er the red streamer that heralds the day; Over the cloudlot dim, •Over the rainbow's rim, Musioa] cherub, soar, singing awayl Then, When the gloaming comes, I,ot6 intlse .heather blooms, Sweet will they welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happinesk Blest is. thy dwelling'eplece 0h, to abide in th'e desert sifth tJheei ' Thoy Count, Too,' Teacher "Now, Willie, ;117 James gave yen n CIO; and Da1id gave you a dog, how molly $cgs Mould you have?" Willie—Four"' r Teacher "Now, /dear, think .hard. Would yott have four if James and, David each gaveyouone?" Willie --Yep. You see, I got two dogs at ham° now." . In the country districts of the United States there are now seventy. cars to every thousand persons, whereas in cities nd in towns• there are one 'hundred and twenty sever} to every thousand• of population, Theon• • - etically,'therefore, 'the farm territory` ie the better field for future' sales, and the manufacturers whose product best suits the farmer have, the best chance of inirtlasi ,g, theer. business.