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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1925-11-05, Page 6hen �jtt$�' yi'� ��9t Air L' $C 7SW �t'.�f s t lea leSISeel its strcggt 1, Wed j1Ie.voese H4304, for that reason is mever ' old in X 4 0 Your 'gym ,cer sells this eflcious blend.. Try SALA A.. �R1 " For What We Are About To Receive" BY MILDRED HOUGHTON COMFORT. tended over six months and the usual l expenditures were mounting. Sudden -1 • ly. she stopped eating and abruptly' charged into her subject. "Sam, what's the matter with us? !I've been thinking ever since you said' grace that if we really believed, we wouldn't be fussing about the Attlee.", "You're .irespousible for this faith -business, my dear; When you married, me, your relatives' ideas certainly die-,. fered front yours as, to what you were about to receive." "You nusn't joke about serious, religious things, Sam def." "It was no joke." Sarah laughed, then sobered. "I have faith in the future, Sam, she announced, "but sometimes Sus- eess seems a long way off. While we're waiting, I want to be happy. The hard part is being duly thankful for what we have—and for what we expect is coming to us." Junior had slipped down from his chair and was staring out into the twilight his nose pressed against the glass. F1?e raised a sudden war whoop: "It's snowin, mama. I can see it corrin' down by the street, light." Sam and his wife rose, Sarah hold- ing the sleepy baby quietly against her and Sam putting his arms about the shoulders of Margot and Junior. They peered through the window at the yellow blot of light outside. Big flakes oe white, showing an unearthly iridescence, descended continuously. "I love it," said Sarah softly, "It wards his wife both the baby's portionlreminds me of Thanksgiving time at and her own. Margot took care of her home, with the harvest all done. own potato daintily like a little wo We'd drive to 'church through the man of a household. Sarah smiled at snow, usually. And the service al - the fuss Sam was making, swearing ways impressed me so. And Mother's softly under his breath at the potato wonderful dinner afterwards! Nothing "scorchers." The plates were passed ever tasted so good. They'd talk of back to him for scalloped salmon and how much they had to be thankful for the meal progressed. The potato-oe-•'even the year of the crop failure. I cupied baby stopped pounding with was so thrilled with the spirit of it his spoon and between the parents all that my throat ached and yet T passed a look of sympathetic under— standing. Each sighed audibly—a membranae of Dad's voice and the sigh that meant' "Well that's done! words of the Thanksgiving grace al - PART I. Sarah Burton bowed her head me -1 chanically while her, husband said grace, with her left hand patting the eager baby in the high chair, who,• mistaking her overtures for play,; crowed happily; and, with her right, admonishing into quiet her son who sat tilted forward on the chair that was uncomfortable for his short little' legs beating a tattoo on the nearest) table leg. She raised her eyes slight -1 ly, a signal for her daughter to drop her hands demurely into her lap. Then came her husband's voice, its crisp, business -like quality deepening unconsciously into the sonorous tones her father had always used when be said grace. "For what we are about to receive, Q Lord, snake us duly thankful. Amen." Such a short little prayer lint the one touch of old-fashioned form that she had insisted on carrying over into her new life when she had left the solid, square paternal home for the uncertain protection of Saznuel Bur- ton. Sam had come under the censure of Old Josiah Wells because of a pro- elivity for wandering into untried paths and &iso because of a belief that somewhere, in the outside world, lay glamorous opportunity. This was the very reason for his attractiveness to Sarah. The idea of leaving her home town in which she had been born and bred had stirred her roman- tic imagination. This imagination, inherited from generations of pion- eers, was as wholesome as it was searching. Not so much the hectic desire for experience actuated her as the hope that somewhere in the out- side world was to be found the ideal hone: for her and Sam. The children broke into shrill chat. tering as the "gram' closed and the patriarchal voice `df Sam again re- gained its crispness. He heaped the mealy whiteness of a baked potato on Junior's plate, meanwhile shoving to- o rar so g ,S wags cheered me when things seemed. "Saw old man Barnes to -day." This to be going wrong. hat grace con- weneed the from Samuel, helping himself and m ost the two things faith and gratitude;' grinning good-naturedly as he always most " After the children had been put to did when the ordeal of serving was bed Sam wiped the dishes for Sarah I • did he say?—Don't eat so' but without the lightsome accompani- "Whatment of jokes -with which he usually fast,. Junior—no, no, Baby mush t. lightened that uninspiring job. Sarah Sang, why do you suppose they enjoy brushed back the little tendrils of squashing a whole. fistful of mashed soft brown hair that were forever potatoes when ..." curling about her face, and her eyes, "Fingers were made before forks, of the color of crocuse, grew wistful, I suppose."then mischievous) tender. When the "What did he say, Sam?" resuming came. to the pots and pans, Sam seat, the conversation, as she wiped with a ed himself broodingly in the kitchen damp napkin between the chubby fin- rocker. Seizing a lock of his heavy gers of the baby. dark hair, his wife tilted his head. "Threw all kinds of bouquets. Says back until she could look directly into you're what every landlord's looking the serious brown eyes. for—the kind that'll fix things up in- - "What's the matter?" she queried stead of seeing how much they can in mock severity, "Tell Sarah this destroy. Says you have the old- vert/ minute," fashioned spirit " She held his head firmly in spite of "Did he lower the rents"- dry:v his squirmfngs and he threw up his "No, he didn't, Sarah, but ... hands in token of surrender. "But what?" "Well, what is it?" she insisted "Somehow, I couldn't force the issue, seating herself on his knee. The bad my dear. Tie .s so grateful to you;bies were asleep—who cared about for always keeping things so nice that dishes? "It's about Thanksgiving," began Sam evasively, "Yes," prompted his wife. "You want two turkeys, I suppose-" "That's it," he laughed with a note the Ise reminded me! But you did that of relief, "I want two turkeys .. . of your own free will, you know. He Wo,l, I want something almost as bad —I want to invite a guest to our ex- sure was sincerely grateful." elusive family dinner." old house in Belleville and he could said our Thanksgivin • dinners were it seemed like asking far a tip afte someone had said. `Thank you.'" "Did you remind him of how I cleaned and painted that awful flat in Montreal and made it a lovely And I fl d at d xeu91 thmisuse, Brei ; "A guest? Why, of course. Whoever charge a bigger rent after we left. a g exclusive? At horns we used to take That woman took it because it was so in everybody that looked the least clean and smelled so homey, she said." "He knows that, dear." s "And then he persuaded us to take this darling little house but with this exorbitant rent." "He didn't own property here;' Sar- ah. I've always thought he bought it just because we were coming here to Inv e Better than a hot water bag. 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And look at the Mulvey house. "I—I—I just couldn't help it, honey. Then you've already asked him? Look at it!" If I hadn't, I believe he'd have asked I've looked at it, honey—every day. himself." They're a shiftless lot. Does seem Sam looked suddenly like Junior rather queer that in six short years when he feared he had been "into one house can become a beautiful mischief," yet feeling vaguely that he home and the other a wreck. Strange, was 'ustified or every pane of glass we puttied in, • while the Thanksgiving preparations they let their youngsters knock one were in full progress that Sarah be- ont. Every spring that I spent paint- gan to understand the ineffable joy ing screens and touching up the porch of contentment. tailings and trellises, Mulvey spent +'I don't know how it happened," in his car. The time I took to prune she confided happily to Sam on the trees and cut grass, he took to sit in eve of Thanksgiving Day, while he the shade and smoke. And the Lord i.nportant:y skewered the turkey she only knows what's gone on inside the had cleaned and stated. ' "I don't houses—you scrubbing and cleaning know liow it all came about. I was while Mrs. Mulvey cavorted all over so tired mitt disgusted with every - the neighborhood. But it's a satis- faction anyway, isn't it, Sarah? Isn't thing. Every day, when I wiped up it worth all our effort to have things the living room floor around the rug, look right? The two houses --exactly • I'd say to myself, Doing the same alike at the start and—well, it's like thing to -day, to -morrow and forever twins. You can never tell from the and ever. 1 couldn't get any satis- faction out of the polished fl°or. looks how they're going to turn out." "When I looked at our beautiful "Did you tell Mr. Barnes these white tile in the bathroom, I'd think, things, Sam. 'You're white just so you can show Didn't have to. He knows. Pe-, 7:111Y pots.' And you - know how wonder- culler old chap, you know. He always 1 full it looms up Sam, whenever I has seemed to take a personal interest y lick d promise.' in us, ever since that time toBelleville , , _ how little neglects count up. i'' It 'was during the next two clays NURSES Tho Toronto 'Hospital for Inallrabte..'hn • affiliation. with *toflppunu pmt Alllod Hospitals. New York City.. Wars n throe yedry' Como of Tralalno to Youngwomen, having iha raautton education. and destrooa at h000mint nurses. Th1, Hospital has adapted the eight. hour system. The pupils resolve Uniforms of the School, n monthly allowana,a and roweling etpensoa to and from Now York. For further Information apply to the Supbrintomdaiit. ' THE FASHIONABLE FLARE. Fine wool twill fashions this frock with the front of the skirt flaring in the clashing new manner. Very simple and very clue are the Iines of this youthful frock,, which may be worn successfully for any day -time occa- sion. 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Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Pattern Dept., Wilson Publishing Co., 78 West Ade- laide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by return mail. The Clever Beaver. Sitting upon the bank of a Columbia River slough, I observed two beavers making their way from the water's edge up a beaver slide and back to a small clump of willows. They selected h give it even a le an a proms e. when we invited him to Thanksgiving Even the cooking that I'd alays en dinner." joyed suffered. I'd scrub the potatoes "It was fine, Sam. Remember how viciously,—much as I like good baked you went 'way down town to geta potatoes andeasy as they are to pre - turkey and they vwere so high that you ed in a 1 thEveryen track - e tdiirt, I'd snape the at thefts. came back without one? And then he • Guess I snapped at you, too, Sam— sent tie one himself. Yes, Junior, of sometimes:' course you can have another potato but no more jam—no more jam. We'll Sam's boyish grin was an admission excuse you now, Margot. Poor baby -'a as well as forgiveness. Sarah's voice sleepy—g t lumber'and. right deepened. away continued his reminiscences. Those four animals got behind the "I remember mighty well how queer 0 o s i (To be concluded.) And Did Those.. Feet in Ancient Time. And did those feet in anelent time Welk upon England's mountains green? And wase the Holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon oar clouded hills? And was Jerusalem buiided there Among these dark Satanic mills? Bring me my boaof burning gold? Bring nie my arrows of desire! Bring me my spear! 0 olcuds unfold':t Bring me my chariot of fire! I will not cease from mental fight, Nor, shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem In hingland's green and pleasant land. William Blake. Etiquette in Persia. The Persians are exceedingly gen- erous with money, says. Mr. Thomas Pearson in Asia,' but they are miserly enough in inatters of prestige. You have to go to Persia to learn' the true meaning of that weed. I have heard it variously used all my life, but no- where is it fraught with such ewful meaning as in Persia. The proper seating of guests at table, for example, becomes a problem before which oven the most valiant quail. In Persia In- fluence and prestige cluster around the centre of the board; those seated at the ends i1nay oonsder themselves lucky to have been invited at all, A guest quite properly resents. being seated below some one whom he con- siders his Meal -tor and often prefees to remain at home rather than submit 10 the indignity. The proper way to prepare a room for receiving Persians is to plass chairs around the room. side by side, with their backs to the walls, In front of the chairs there should be little tables, possibly one table for every four chairs, and on the tablas should be fruit and sweets. No one ever disturbs the artistic arrangement of fruits and sweets, but they are es- sential to the setting of a banquet. At intervals you will send large trays fill- ed with cups of tea about the room. The first guests arrive, and, having greeted the host, who sits near the door, they make their way to a far corner, where they s11 down and spend the first few minutes in taking in every detail of We room and of its fur- nishings. Then they begin to talk with their ueighbors. At intervals more guests come in, and the chairs are fillets. Half the fun of a Persian party is watching the other fellow come in. Persians have an interesting habit of remaining seated when a per- son enters the room, but of bowing and smiling and half rising after the newco'user has taken his chair. The latter acknowledges the courtesy by half rising in unison with the crowd the moment he has touched his chair, This procedure passes the time ad- mirably if you know the game and keep your wits about you. Thus, when a -personage enters the room, every one bows and smiles and has a per- fectly heavenly time, but when an in- conspicuous somebody conies in every one is deep in conversation with his neighbor and pretends lie does not see. Once, alter some local disaster., a meeting of publicspleitee citizens was Balled for three o'clock to subscribe funds for relief of the victims. I pre- sented myself at what seemed to me to be the proper time. I was the first to arrive and was ushered out upon a terrace overlooking a famous garden, Around the terrace stood an impres- sive array of chairs and tables. In due course other persons arrived and chose seats as seemed hest to them. At 'half past six the mast important personage arrived, and the meeting was called to cyder. After a few ap- propriate words themain business of the occasion was taken up. A line book was passed around on a cushion, and every one inscribed his name and AFTER EVERY -a MEAL affords, benefit as well as pleasure., Healthful exercise for the teeth and a spur to digestion. A longs lasting refreshment, soothing to serves and stomach. The World Famous Sweetmeat, untouched by ;hands, full of flavor. r RAW MATERIALS OF IV1IC INDUSTRIES after it a sumof money. The idea, I had thought, was to write down what - you were prepared to give, but it ap- peared to be rather to write clown what you wanted your neighbor to think you could give. The host pro- mineut persenagee, to whom of course the book was passed first, set down such staggering figures after their names that the meeting proved to be a euocess. How much Wes aotually colleoted from then, I do not know. On the -,Beach.. Old • Rounder—"You're a trained nurse, eh?" She (arohly)—"Yes, I'nm really a trained nurse." 0, R "What's your -best trick?" When hoarse use Minard's Liniment. Trials of the Accompanist.- „ The accompanist has anxieties which audiences, engrossed by the solo performer, little realize, Many are the difficulties and dangers avoid- ed by the swift manoeuvring of the man at the piano, and distaeters are often escaped only by his capaoity to tide over awkward: moments. Some. times his task is beyond him, however. The Isle henry Bird, a famous ac- companist, used to tell of his experi- ence with a lady singer with a pro- nounced vibrato. When rho and Mr, Bird bad left the platform she turned to him and said—"What on earth were yon doing in that song?" "Well, tnadame," he replied—'I tried you on the 'black notes and I tried you on the white notes, but I think you must have been singing in the cracks," I, Irish. Pat—"I wrote O'Leary in char-rge o' gin'ral delivery to -day." . :Mike—"But are ye sure he'll git it?" Pat—"Ah, but I mailed it be special delivery to make sure." COLOR IT NEW' WITH "DIAMOND DYES"' Just Dip to Tint or. Boil' to Dye • Each 15 -cent peek - a e contains direc- a willow about six inches n c mune 5 fereuee and immediately began cut- ting with their sharp, chisel -like teeth. Within two hours the tree fell and then one of the animals began to cut of/ a section of the trunk about four feet in length while the other rested, sitting upon the log. In one-half hour the task of cutting the log in two was half completed, and the beaver that had been resting took up the task cwhile the ono that had been working rested, and within the next half-hour (the log was severed completely, Than a strange - thing happened: one of MMS beavers stood upright, braced its body I with its stiff tail, and made a peculiar Illi whistling sound. Directly two more 1 beavers joined then, canning from some distance clown the slough. After holding a short consultation,. they all pitched in and Legan to turn the log about so that it was parallel witbthe slough. Then they began rolling it juat as nicely as any crew of men could have :done: It was in- deed a curious and interesting sight. PUZZLE.Fina SANTA CLAUS First 4 Prizes each a Wrist Watch 100 Prizes nd `Ls ilii �`•' of each a Fountain Pen , Hundreds of other Prizes 1f you coo solve this Pinsk and win sell 24 Frozen Perfumes at ler each, youcan win o00 - of the plwve prises. will you do this. It h very easy. 11 so fust mark Santa with an 'Land sondit to ma et once and if correct ,ve will send you the Porfum to soli right away Selfast Specialty Co, Dap, W Waterford. Ont A Bishop on Honeymoon. heavy willow log anti pushed with o:d Barnes looked ,when I told him I A bishop once said: "Honeymoons their fore paws, and over and over was coming here." "'Better settle down, Sam,' he said.. 'Bayport's a good suburb to bring up a family in. And you've hauled that poor little wife of yours around enough.' „ "I didn't mind it, Sam," tenderly. "We learned a lot. But now I want to stay. And we oughtn't to keep this' house at this rent—not with your sal- ary cut." Sam winced. "It's only a temporary cut," he offered. `Business is picking up are a forced Homage to false ideas, a' rolled the heavy timber till splash, it waste of money and a loss of time, landed in the waters Them they float - which soon comesto be dreary and ed it down. to the bottss they were weary. Most of all, they are a risk building: -W. R. for love, which ought not so soon to --- be unpleasantly tested by the inevit- A Woman Blacksmith. able petulance of a secret ennui. Six The dis•tincLion of being the only days, if you must, and then go straight woman, blacksmith in New York City home.' goes to Mrs. Sophie Jenkinson, 54, who . has been at the forge for 30 years. She Reading is the inspiration of youth has neverbeen hurt by a horse and Is '791 YONGE ST and the consolation of old age.—Mr.I not afraid of any horse. - T ° ii ORd'![ 29 T. P. O'Connor, M.P. again " __ _ Sarah shook her head stubbornly. � tions so simple any woman can tint soft, delicate shades or dye rich, permanent colors in lingerie, silks, ribbons, skirts, waists , dresses, coats, stockings, sweaters, draperies, coverings, hangings ---everything! Buy Diamond Dyes—no other kind— and tell ycur:druggist whether the ma - aerial you wish to color is wool or silk, or whether it is linen, cotton or mixed geode. If you're acquainted with happi ISSUE No. 45—'25 The temporary cut had already ex- MInard's Liniment for stiff muscles. nese, introduce him to your `neighbor. SPECIAL PURPOSE CLAYS ARE SCARCE. Large Variety . of Clays Em- ployed by Canadian -Manufacturers. 1n the ceramic 'Industries a large variety of clays is employed, ranging from impure brick clays to high grade white china clay. Clays and shales suitable for making common brick and high grade face brick are plentiful and widely distributed in Canada. The bricks produced fa•onn these clays are not only of good strength and form but also embrace'a wide range of col- or; and they are manufactured in an assortment of sua•face textures. There is little need for importing any build- ing brick into the country since almost any desired artistic effect may -be ob- tained by the use of brick tirade from Canadian clays. Unfortunately as touch cannot be said foe the special purpose clays as for the brick clays, since their distri- bution in Canada is rather limited. Nevertheless, there are large and valu- able deposits which are indeed import- _ resources. Fire Clays In Canada. 18'lreclays occur in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. Fire- bz'ick and refractory shapes are made from local clays in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia. Such 'firebricks as aro manufactured else- where in Canada are made from im- ported fireolays on account of the re- moteness of domestic deposits. Pottery elays of very good quality are obtainable in Alberta, Saskatche- wan, New Brunswick, 'Nova Scotia, and Prince &tweed Island. Those of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, and also some from Nova Scotia are red burning and produce a good body foe art pottery, while in Al- berta, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia there are deposits of light-colored stoneware clays. The deposits in southern Saskatchewan supply the re- quirements of a pottery at Medicine Hat, Alberta, and the Musquodoboit deposits in Nova Scotia are being worked as a source of raw material for a pottery at St. John, Nrw Brunswick. In the southern Saskatchewan field a high grade hall Olay is also being worked, and shipments are made to various points in Canadcf. Tills clay 1s refractory, highly plastic, and burns to a very `good- white, It may be re- garded as ons, of our most valuable clay resources. China Clay Is Scarce. +'•{ mar L , 4o j10 . n +.,a'p:..,?t4::M3 in,.s ,uu.,+} 'p :K' .1•�f..M 't.[".,.:2^lvt� Every Wma eserves The SMP Roaster is a fine tine saver. You put the roast fowl in the oven. The roaster does fhe:rest, bastes, roasts to perfection. It roasts with very little shrinkage, thus saving dollars every' year. None of the taste meat juices are lost; all the rich flavor is retained. Besides you can buy cheaper cuts, for it makes cheap cuts taste like choice °ries. l' The close fitting cover keeps' all the cooking odors and the grease .nsida tho rooator—the smelt of cooking doesn't fill the house, end tlic pven is kept sweet and clean. Hest of all, it cleans out in a jlffY after the roasting These are splendid vessels. Price 135c. to $3.50 according to size end finish. Sold in all hardware stores. IVI enaZneted . 204 iASTER Kaolin or china clay is known to QC - cur. in but few looalitics in Cancel, ,y.• and has only been produced on a com- mercial scale at one point, namely, near St. Romi, in the province of Que- bee. A deposit In northern Ontario has received considerable attention re- cently, but until railway facilities aro available, it cannot become &producer. In British Columbia, a deposit, appar- ently of commercial valte, occurs near Williams Lake. Other deposits of ess kaolin are on :record, but such infor- mation as is available concerning them does not warrant including them as potential producers. One of the most important raw ma- terials at present Ie'oduced in Canada for use in ceramic industries is feld- spar. There, are extensive deposits of this mineral, especially. in Ontario and Quebec, producing a largo tonnage an- nually of high grade potash feldspar. The major portion of this goes to the United States, where it is ground and used in the manufacture of porcelain, vitreous enamels, and. glass. Other mine peoducts are used ex- tensively in the ceramic industries,. many of which are found in Canada, but for certain reasons their produc- tion for ceramic use is ltmitod at pre- sent. He Was Too Honest. John Radcliffe, born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, in 1650, was one of the greatest physicians, but he happened to have more than the usual amount of human hpnesty, therefore his troubles. In 1699 he was physician to Icing William III. William sunt for him one day and the doctor found his royal pa- - tient with very swollen ankles and a body very much emaciated. He look- ed things over and said nothing. Finally the king arcked: "Well,, what do you think7" ".Why, . truly," replied Radcliffe, "I would not have your majesty's twos- legs wolegs for your majesty's three king- domes:" That was the end of Radcliffe inso- far as the king was concerned, but the Queen Anne had groat faith in him until ome day she summoned him for the twentieth time in a few days he bluntly told the Queen that her "ailments were nothing but vapors. -of the hind." ' That ended his work in the royal household; but when he died he had enough money to leave forty thousand. pounds, gold, to Oxford University. Closer Home. Teacher—"What aro the products of the West Indies?" Frank—"I don't know." Teacher—"Yes, you dc. Where do yen get your sugar?" Frank—'We generally borrow it from next door."