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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1925-11-26, Page 6The challenge BY MELLA RUSSELL TyfcCALLUM: PART II. The next morning Aimee was beau- tifullypenitent. She looked tired, however. He wondered if she ever got a real healthy outing. Ever go ;mimicking, Aimee'?" he asked her. "I went on an automobile picnic one Sunday in August." "Hen! With thermos bottles, and a past -midnight ride down Broadway, eh?" "Why, how did you know?"' Neilsen smiled. 'Will you go on a fresh -air picnic with me next Sunday? Oh, I forgot —you have a Saturday evening en- gagement." 'I'm not going to keep that date, Mr. Neilsen. I called that fellow up, I got to thinking, you were so decent not to bawl me out—and what if I didn't get around here all right Mon- day? But I didn't know you ever went out with a model °" its joy, The girl in blue, laughing, "I don't, It'll be likegoing out , daring the mocker. The cant as mea- sured three and a half feet by four feet. But Neilsen wasn't quite satisfied, Ile didn't know why. 'The girl was gay and confident. The sea was gay and confident. What more did he want?" "It's ahnost done, isn't it?" Aimee asked. She took great interest in the work. She had never before posed so long for one thing. "I suppose it is," Neilsen said. "Then what, for you?" She shrugged, and flung out her arms in a yearning gesture "Then, for me—D'one—good—time 1 One of Hortense's friends is going to give'ue-a house party. They're hold- ing itrep, waiting for me to get done here. It's a swell place, fifty miles anyway, don't forget that you have a mission now, and a fine one. Shall we eat the rest of our lunch?". "Say, I want to get your sermon straight. Am I doing a—a service for you or for `Challenge'?" "For art." "For 'Challenge,' you mean," And, because he saw that she liked the concrete, he let it go at that. On the whole, Neilsen was rather was gone. Smoke began tocurl out pleased with ills excursion. The girl Lof the windows. Glass snapped. Neil - had breathed pure air perforce, andfsen s studio was on the third floor. rhos she had found a mental eg;The worst of the fire was stf 1 aboveto tie t o; but her utter lack of inptel- th"God! Look!" 1ectual compensations made him un- The crowd sent up a cry of horror, easy. Ilow long could she remain as a studio window, not yet broken; steady? swung open, and -a figure emerged. He had better get at his final can- Aimee! Barefooted—in the blue shift. vas. Ile was ready for it now. She stood on the, sill, and she had' the It went fast. He knew his subject picture in! her hand. "You bellowed Neilsen. so perfectly that he didn't have to little fool!" strain for effect. Hendricks, looking She stood still, on one foot, head over his shoulder, whistled. A too flung up. It was the pose! Neilsen gay sea, with a hint of malice under stared, fascinated, hardly breathing; for on her face was the expression he had missed getting in the picture— real challenge—lot merely gay ignor-. ante 1 He would never forget it! Below the firement were spreading 'the life net. In the kinship of horror, the throng was silent. A moment more Aimee held the pose; Then, with a gay laugh which all could hear, she jumped. The blue drapery was on fire. There was a great, collective groan. The firemen fought back the crowd, fought back the three artists at the edge of the rope barrier. The net strained. Adam Beith it was who caught up the picture unharmed. Neilsen step- ped over the rope—over the protests— and picked up Aimee. With Hen- dricks clearing an avenue he carried her out beyond the throng. A dozen coats were whipped off to make a couch for her. Neilsen laid her down tenderly and arranged the blue shift about her. She was still smiling=a: ghost of that last gallant challenge. By this time Hendricks had found a physician in the crowd; but Neilsen didn't need a physician to tell him that Aimee was dead. How she cause to be in theburning studio he never knew, though he guessed that her love of "Challenge" had drawn her there for a farewell sight .oil it; but she had done her last service to art when she saved his picture. (The End.) Where Prison Means Honor. Prison -life in this country has lost many of the terrors, but the "prison taint" remains. We are still very far removed from the point of viewof the natives of West Africa, who consider a term of imprisonment in one of the Government prisons the greatest hon - Is girl, eor that could be conferred on them. zine down petulantly. She had none He wheeled the easel to the far end In this part of the world convict la - of that tenderness which the lover of of the room and pushed everything bor is almost universally employed for books bestows on the meanest printed else to one side. Aimee, still in the such tasks as road -making, laying out Page blue drapery, clasped her hands. public gardens, and building houses. "Oh, but a person gets tired read- "It sort of makes me think of In addition, householders who want Mgrshe yawned. "The little old church, Mr. Neilsen, up there in the, any kind of Job done are in the habit town looks good from here, don't it?" and worship it,end of the ihonestly!"could get down of sending to tee town prison, which "Yes•" "I think I have prayed for it right will supply a gang of competent con- "It's a great town. Id hate to have along,' said the artist, smiling. "I to leave it. I've had some good tines have prayed to it to be good work." there, all right! I tell you, I was "Is it art, Mr. Neilsen?" homesick for it when I was out on the "I hope so, but it isn't all I wanted road; but I guess it wouldn't miss me it to b any' Aimee looked puzzled. She gazed The' Toronto flainitel fo 1 entireties, In, rmlietlan withnett rte and Allied 501011011, NnN YorR, Gt7. Cffors o three years' Cures. 01 Tralnlfa' to x0000 Women, I1ar,n0 003 required education. anddesirous oI hoonmi01 Runes, This Hospital has adopted tho eight- , halm Odom. Thu pupIA reecho uniforms of , . the School.' a monthly .110WAnCe traveling . expenses to and from New 'fort,Fnr Iurlhe1 Information apply 0 Ihu 5upoolnte•sd0nt.'' them. He had evidently recognized Nielsons height across the crowd. He pressed the painter's other aria, "Your etchings, Adam!" began Neil- ecu, "They're nothing to "the bonny pic- ture, man!" The Scotsman . choked over the Words. Clearly the building was doomed, The walls might herd, but the interior with your father." Afterward he had his qualms. How could he keep her from attacking sentimental interest to the excursion? And if she didn't, hes mates would. She would tell them. She might even boast. Many artists met their models socially, he knew. Well, the thing was done. Be was going picknicking with a seventeen- year -old girl. How Adam Beith would laughl He packed a lunch with sandwiches, none too dainty, but nourishing, and brewed a quart of coffee, adding plenty of cream and sugae to the thermos bottle, He was to meet Aimee at the ferry. She looked the youngest thing en earth, He wished she hadn't worn a silk dress. Her small black velvet hat made her look still younger by its up the river, with a dance hall and a sophistication. She had on Freed,. billiard room and a wine cellar. The heeled slippers. fellow's mother is in England, and the They scrambled about the woods servants are away on their vacation." for a time; but the French heels were "You're too young for such parties." no good for that, and she scented re "Well, I've got to do something, 'loved when they came to the ledge of haven't I? You can't say I haven't rock teat he had found the other day. been steady lately." Neilsen tried to talk, tut they had no- "you've been an angel^" thing, to talk about. They ate theft "Yes—a jack-in-the-box angel, lunch, resering half for later, and he produced a vpopular magazine he had ready to bust mit!" bought in the ferry house. She seized The day came soon when Neilsen that eagerly, declared that he could do no more to upon g y' the picture.. He wasn't satisfied, but She sat facing the river, her knees he could do no more. The sea was drawn up to. her ehin, poring over the well enough—he could see that; but pictures of movie actresses, He want- ed to sketch her in a new light and a new scene; but he hadn't brought her the girl—was her confidence slightly superficial, where he had intended it supreme? It must be the challenge out here to pose. He kept his hand of ignorance—for what else would h .1 the sea. bat it must be ab solute, and he hadn't made it so. There was a hint of Aimee's own cynicism in away from his pencil and watched c a' cage ?— I1er. After a time she flung the maga- "011, yes, it would! It's the art centre of the country, you know." "I never trail much with artists, Air. Neilsen. They're either—you know --or ere they're like you, and times, Aimee," he said seriously, when becauee of his good conduct, took the in Freiburg, Germany, which show's let us alone." she returned. "Use me as a refer- respite as a great insult and inquired that'he was convinced that one fakir, "I don't mean that I mean that ence. you've been a good child." He what he had done that he -should be at least, did exactly what he pretended yo to de at it several seconds longer. "And now you're finished with me!' "Yes—finished." She ran out to change her costume. "I want to thank you a thousand SMART BOLERO• COSTUME. The Spanish bolero has come into its own this season, and is smartly _interpreted in the frock pictured here. 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Baring-Gouid's delightful Reminiscences a story of his sojourn Al a result, the West African gets it into his woolly head that he has been specially selected to rontler ser- vice to the Government, and, when he is released and returns to bis own home and friends, his prestige among them is enormous. In fact, one man who had had his sentence shortened, you're doing such a service for art:' forced a jocose tone. He was feeing She turned around and grinned. a bit blue at the prospect fo losing "Go ons" her, "When does the wonderful house "Think of the pictures that ive pa qty begin?" P B To -morrow. We're going to motor pleasure to people. They all had to out. Some time we'll Ravel" have models, except the landscapes.' "You ought not to go, Aimee. Well, An artist couldn't learn to paint with- do be careful." out a model." They shook hands, laughing a little. Aimee was silent. Then she tripped away. Neilsen had a strange, empty, let- "Didn't you ever something of it in that down feeling that afternoon. The pic- ture You give something to art that ture was done. Every one said it was no one else can—your beauty. You good. It was good, only— ., think of it as just earning your liv-I But no doubt he was foolish to be ing, and so it is -just as the money dissatisfied. He cleaned his brushes I receive for plctures is my living; but it's more than teat." "I had an artist talk that way once before to me He was drunk I didn't turned out before the proper time. One reason for this queer notion is that prisons, with ideal sanitary ar rangements, separate beds for each inmate, and -three meals a day, are palaces of splendor and delight com- pared with the average native hut, with its mud floor and squalld sur• roundings. and decided to go out for the rest of the day. He hunted up Hendricks, and drag- ged him away from the book manu- take no stock in it; but you—my Sod; script he was perusing, preparatory you'll have me throwingbouquets at to illustrating it, Hendricks had a q small car. They drove out through myself next!" Yonkers, and up the river. "Throw all you like; but remember The passive' exercise was soothing it isn't just for me—it's for art. to Neilsen. He listened with half an You'll be posing for other serious ear to Hendricks' talk. He was re- ce tive to the late October landscape t P work too --pictures hat will than mine, 1 don't doubt." be finer and the tonic air. The flat, let -down "You talk so queer, it scares me— feeling departed. ifI a—a duty!" They dined at an 'inn, and drove as hadd ty home in the early evening. When they "I'm not sure but you have; but were within' a few blocks of the studio Allelic after a few years I'd like to see you they heard fire engines. Presently marry some nice fellow and settle they found the crowd so large that • life -Wes down." they had to park the car and proceed Aimee squared her shoulders and on foot. A "Perhaps the most curious exhibi- tion at the fair was this --a man strip- ped save for a pair of drawers end a• sleeveless jersey, who called himself the Modern Pluto, and performed, with red-hot irons in a manner in explicable to me. I was close to him and saw that there was no deception. He first gat an iron scraper, about th'e size of a hoe -iron, which was Heated red hot in a chareoel fire that was kept burn- ing at my feet, and In which several irons wore glowing. WI•th this he scraped his oa'm, legs, both Isis cheeks and throat, The white ash from the e'''en, fluttered about, and some fell on my sleeve: Then 11e took a red-hot poker and licked it with hiss tongue until the icon hoofed. To make sure that there was no deception,,1 tried to touch it, but had to withdraw, my finger pretty smartly, and an Englielh friend of mine standing by iit 11is• cigar at the poker after it had left the tongue of Plato. The.626 - choice teas use exclusive. •dve ly an Salad yield richly of th e r deliciousgoo es Say $mala. 11718 BRIGHT REMARKS THE CHUB It was Teddy's first term at school, , and his mother had been telling the rich old uncle how well the boy was' getting along wallet's studies and how dearly he loved his, School. ' "Well, my little man," asid tlfe uncle, "what d0 you do le school all day?" "I wait till it'll time to go home," was Teddy's matter -of fact reply. A school girl who was, asked to de- fine drawing replied: " "Ilt is just thinking and then mark- ing round the think with a pencil," Dick' had hal his first lesson In -as- tronomy and whoa he dame home from school he began to enlighten his smalls sister on the mystery of the stars. "Do you know," he said,'5that the little star you see way up there is very mach bigger than this, whole 'earth?" "Then why doesn't It keep the rain off us?" she asked. roan, aged six, and 'Cathleen, aged eight, were having an argument as to who was the taller. "Of course you are not as'tail .se I am," said Kathleen. "You are only as high as ,nay ehohlder." "Yea," 'admitted Joan, "but your feet don't go down 'any tamtiier, 'than mine; so I'm as tall as yen that way!" A little girl had been to church for the first time. On returning home her mother asked her what see thought -of the service. "I lilted it very much," ehe replied, "but there was one thing 4 didn't think was fair." "What was that, dear?" asked the mother. Then the man leek a thin.2lat Iron Strange /Occurrence. w: bar, red hug, and worked at it with hie "How did the accident happen?" teeth till he had bitten ,off it piece ok a puncture -proof -tire for a about throe -quarters of an inch long, ewer—and went down." which he- spat down from his ntosth. Next he trod on red-hot plates, but I Mozartian Reason. did not think so much of this, 'he A young composer went to Mozart on shook her head hard Then they saw that it was Neilsen's building that was burning. '`Not for mine! I saw all the mar- A choking sodden rage filled. Neil- one day' anrl'asiced }now he should sell,ter the other molt out resew his tied life L want tobeforeIleftlooms!" The injustice of it! "His bestla'botit writing a avmpbony `"A sym weight' upon them, "But what will you do?" sen. "I can take care of myself!" "But, child—" "I should worry about the future! I'll manage." "You can't go at things that way, N MAKE "Why one man did all the work, and then another man came . amine and get ail the money." ' Jimmy ie three years old and very fond of te:'ling hie dreams at the breakfast table. One morning his father; 'thinking to apply an lgtelligent test, said: "But, Jimmy, T don't he - neve you know what a dream is." Jlmmy'a answer came quick' and ante. "Yes, I do. -'It's moving pictures while. you're asleep." Johnny had been taken by his moth- er to a museum of natural history, and he was, particularly interested in the big stuffed animals. "Well, Seemly, where have you been this afternoon?" asked his father when be got home. "To a wonden•ful place, dad " ex- claimed 3ohnny, "Mother took me to a dead circus." "What makes that new baby at your home cry so much, Tommy?" "I6 you had all your hair off," was Tammys reply, "and your teeth out and your legs were se weak you couldn't stand on thein, I guess ,you'd feel like crying, too." • 15Here' is an apple, Sam," said hie mother. "Divide it with your s4ste and be generous," - "'How shall I be generous, mast>tma?" asked Sam, graspiug the apple, "Why, always' give the larger part to the other person, my child," Sam thought a few minutes In sil- ence. Then lie handed his sister the apple. "Here, Ethel, you heard what' Moth- er said. You divid.it, 'stead of me." 14F/SON'S `DAY 'A:Yet-Ober 2tet; was the 120th aniiiver e nary of Trafalgar—the greatest nava victory in the world'si. history, In 1 Nelson shattered the naval power 0 Fiance and Spain, • and put an end to Napoleost'sl long-ohea'.ished' grandiose scheme of an invaSeen•of England. - Ing rreadingthe history of the events which"preeeded the great battle one. Is struck by one_ sienlfloant face When ',, Nelson sailed from Portsmouth In' the Victory to- fain the Brit'ish fleet off Carts, he was' attended. by only ohs other ship, the .frigate Euryalus•, cam - mantled by his friend,: Captain Black- -If the:Fronds naval sec(•et service could. only have learnt this they might have, captured (he Victory, with the intrepid admiral onboard! In that case, the history of Europe might have talee'n a very different course. What a scene that was et Ports- mouth; at noon of- September" 14111, 13'05, when Nelson started on' les fast voyage! The bulldog Breed. All classes, men, women and child- ren, broke into a deafening cheer as, they recognized the slight figure, ren- dered familiar by the engraver's art, of the :man wee had already .secured the safety of their country, and Whose naive appeared in their eyes synony- mous with victory. . - Many of the spectators were moved to tears; others knelt on Sontlisea beach and invoked blessings and Heaven's protection on his head. Nel- son himself could not restrain teals of gratitude and, turning to: his com- panion, ('el.tain 1 -lardy, he remarked: "I had their hurrahs before; I have their heat s new," • The main stcry of the great battle is, of course, 1; miller to most of us. Perhaps a few r. ssonal touches,: how- ever, may b of sufliclent Interest to bear re tt iltug. One concerns a 'gal- lant seaman on the. Leviathan,- who had one of his sins shattered by a cannon -ball. Ile seerad to be carried below by his mossmates, to'1 lig them. t✓they were of more use at the gum', and coolly. walked down to the cockpit. Here he would not allow the. sur- geon, to attend to him until his turn came. The brave fellow, daring the time hls arm was being amputated,. close to the shoulder, sang."Rule, Bri- tannia!" in a clear, steady voice, Re— collect there was no chloroform in dioses' days! Sad to say, he died in hospital. porformance twenty times upon the principal day of the fair, He has• been ei'amined by some of the doetors here, wi o have warned hint that he mint give up swallowing the boiling oil or he will• ruin lois digestion. He replied that he knew that he would have a short life. Ho had tried other ex- pedients to gain a livelihood, but had failed; he was driven to this by prava neoessitas." —n - Chilblain Time. In a few weeks the chilblain season will open': If you are a sufferer, you knon' from painful eitperience-what chilblains feel like: But do you know what causes thorn? Most people aro under the Impres- sion that the causes are external— cold wanther, snow, frost, and so on. Teat, however, is wrong. The causes of chilblains are internal. A chilblain is merely the outward and visible re- sult of a wrong internal condition— stagnant blood, poor circulation,. wrong or poor nutrition. Nutrition, it must be remembered, does not depend on the quantity of foots eaten, but on its quality and suitability to winter conditions., Those who get plenty of exercise, Who clothe themselves warmly, and eat nutritious "heating" fool, never get chilblains. The clothing, by the way, must be loose, for tight boots, tight gloves, or anything that impedes the circulation is certain to produce chilblains. Porridge, fat bacon, drip- ping, and so on are "heating" foods. There is no external. cure for chil- blains, but the following Is the ap- proved medical remedy. for broken ones: Coptiba (one ounce) and'-niethy lated collodion (three ounces)' applied night and morning. High Finance. Airs. Newlywed—"And how much are these crackers?" Grocer—"Twentysevent cents a pound, ma'am." Dors. N,—"Ob, that's toe ankh: l'm going to get them at•Blood's." (idloal's 'is four blocks away'. - • IShe leaves, but,. returns in a few minutes. g Mrs. N. --"Oh, they are twenty-eight cents a pound there, and yours -_are tinily;twenty=seven, so I'm going to get yours.'' - Gd`ocea•.._"Holy much do you want?" Ioirs. N.—"Half a pound!" 1y drew his feet over them one af- work! All his patient, inspired labor, Hendrick's 'grasp on his no,,, tight - 1 phenyl" — exclaimed Mozrrt — "You I "Lastly, be swallowed N. couple of spoonfulis of boiling oll This d ened. 1 master;' objected the youngster "You' to be a greater effort Chan the reed of The firemen had roped off the bad tivrltten many symphonies heists: the perfoa•maaica,• dor his taco turned crowd. One was running along shout- I, purpie, and drops of sweat stood on ing. Lyon were 'my age. - "Ye",' replied ills No cause for alar -rens! Ivery wan great composer, "but 1 didn't need to 'Ills forehead.. I' was too close to the are mach too young for that." But, s seemed .n1an—1 colt touctrhnn svitif tn. Aimee. You've got to have some plan." " I ask how it was done."In other worsts, y hand "That girl in `Challenge'—has she is,°Tis nothing but a lot av impty be did it because it. sues sn'him tp dol —for any deception to ba practiced. a. plan?" stoodio places that's burnin',"went on 'it. All this, moreover; wend. ou for eight "Nonsense! That's different." Yet the cheerful firefighter. I c days from eleven a.m. till late at night - he -knew it wasn't different. "Web, Suddenly' Adam Beith pounced on When 1loarye,use Minarc's Liniment. I was told that he went though the • It is better to he -able to look batik to a day- well lived than ahead to a niolrth of -promises.• e` Had to Foot it Up. ..•„ Wille—"John, I went down and paid my milliner's bill to -day" hubby—"Well, did you foot it up?" Wille --"Yes; when the bill was pend I didn't have even carfare left." Mtnerd's Liniment for stiff muscloa, .--,.--..-.--.- He Was Immune. Two studenls were discussing tllell� chances in an examination. "Well," said one, "if I fall 1 shall sue the examiners," "How'can you do Haat?" "Because 111e"law expressly forbids anyone "to utilize the ignorance of others to harm thein fn any ways." Houde,tiee:r ss- leers Atter Dishwashing To Item their hood. Nh:tp and soft. 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There was a remarkable .sequel to, the !entering of Nelson's dying coin- -mance A gale sprang up ou October 22nd, and prize after prize was either Wrecked or scuttled. Eventually`the enly survivtn's of the eighteen cap tueed vessels were the four which load -conformed to the dead hero's injunc- tion: There was' a remarkable scene at Nelson's public funeral at St, Paul's Cathedral,,on January 0th, 1506. Royal- ty, Cabinet Ministers, and nobles of the land attended, but the chronicler - tells us that the moat interesting fig- ures were the brave sailors from the Victory. . As, the coffin' disappeared into the er"ypt they tore hie flag, -the Whiti(]tln- sten.frolnl the Victoryrto pieces, eeelle one Who could retaining -a fragment - as a memento of their beloved chief. For the inforlllation of readers who May not know it, it may be added that in the Painted Hall at Greenwich Hos- pital may be seen Nelson's coati with the bloodstains and bullet-hole.in the shedder. - y Conti stents Adrift? Are Europe and Amtrica •drifting flirtlter apart? " This question, asked in a geological sense, was set before the British_ As- sociation by Processor J. W. Gregory who proposed to answer it by the use of wireless time signals for the de- termination-of e-termination of vanalttons in longitude. kept up for a few' years, lie said, these would afford 31 'consilmsalve test of the theory recently advanced by Wegener that the ,Atlen'tio Ocean .was produced by drifting apart of America on one side and Europe and Africa en the other. The reality of a drifting motion of .- whole continents is now accepted by many ,geologists. Recent investiga- tions have shosin that beneath the up- permost sixty miles 01' SO or reeky '4 crust Cher is a semi -molten layer of lava"overlying the earth'e solid cen- tral core, and, on this viscid mass•thie continental •hlocits find more "0'r'lese uncertain footing. d Peace Hath Her Victories. Tho =French. _government has inert awarded -.the ribbonof the.Legion of Honor.. to Die Henry. Vadon Lor devo- tion; to duty in:exeeptional circum- stances. While he was performing a surgical operation.. an involuntary movement of the patient drove en in- etru)neet into the physician's. eancl. }if; ... Although -immediate treatment would epee averted danger, Dr. Vadon re- fused t6 'receive it until he bad com- pleted the operation. Hie devotion to duty cost ham his arm.