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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1942-12-17, Page 2£ r s. In the Laurentian mountain. turn tons,, modern fog eie,let , ski torts, Mt, Daddy ski run sand uulrne:I .trails on property. . . Official train service. Write: THE ALPINE, Ste. Marguerite Station, P. Q. • 'G SERIAL STORY OF BRIGHTNESS GONE 'BY HOLLY WATTERSON The story: When Candace Bech falls in .love with her cousin Peter Frazier's medical school friend, Martie Corby, Peter realizes that he loves Candace — and is jaelous. Peter trumps up an excuse to leave early for a summer hos- pital job, taking Martin with him the morning after he meets Candace. Later Martie calls at the house of Bruce Frazier, Peter's father, and Belle, his second wife and Candace's aunt. There he and Candace tell each other of their love and • plan for mar- riage when Martin has finish- ed medical school. * * * DOMESTIC TEMPEST CHAPTER VI 13'1"E/ came home unexpectedly the end of July. The circumstances of her return had an ominous air. Bruce was with her and they had with them, beside Belle's ever-present per- sonal maid, the servant couple'from the apartment in town. Candace saw neither of them that night or the next day, but whenever' she passed through the halls .she could hear their voices: Bruce's low and, it seemed, pleading, Belle's strident; and' once she thought she heard Belle sobbing angrily. She saw Bruce alone for an in- stant the next morning before dinner. It had been weeks only since she'd seen hint, but she was shocked by the change in him, he SHE'LL ADORE THESE �'S•r,. ,,:ti's. These kitchen towels are very special—for a bride. Of course they'll make a hit at a Christmas bazaar, too. All the stitches are easy and a set can ba finished in little time. Need any more be said? Pattern 361 contains 6 motifs averaging 6 x 7 inches; color schemes; illustrations of stitches; materials required. Send twenty cents in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Wilson Needlecraft Dept., Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. looked so tired and so almost old. She said lightly, "It's been a tough summer in town, hasn't it, Uncle Bruce?" He sighed. "Plenty tough," he agreed. "You have stayed there all the time," she said, "You should have come out here. The • Hobbses and I would have seen that you were surrounded with teeth air and loving care—" * * 7 Candace saw his expression change — he stood ett'aighter, as though he had snapped to atten- tion, and his face took on the harried expression that the serv- ants invariably wore during one of Belle's not fufr'equent rages— and she knew that Bell had en- tered the room behind her. She thought indignautly, he treats him as though he were her servant, too. She turned slowl9, her chin unconsciously lifting, and allowed Belie to advance• without making any move toward her. Belle was as usual beautifully turned out, but her eyes were nar- rowed unpleasantly and the tiny broken vens that showed In her cheeks when she was excited were in evidence. Prepared to endure th usual kiss of greeting from Candace, she was 'clearly taken aback when it was not offered. .And in Candace's posed aloofness, that was In . sharp contrast to her own hectic air, she sensed a change. "You've grown older," she said. Candace laughed. "It's a habit we all have," she agreed. Belle looked almost apoplectic at that; but Candace's tone had been pleasant and there was noth- ing in her expression to indicate malice, and after a tense instant Belle apparently decides to let the remark go. * * The conversation during dinner degenerated, in their combined efforts to keep the peace, into almost childish prattle between herself and Bruce, having to do with how she had been keeping herself occupied. Then Buce said, "Which college is it to be this fall?" Candace smiled; her face lighted happily, "I've been dying for a chance to tell you both," she con- fided. "I go into training at Mein rymount Hospital next week." "You what?" Belle questioned sharply. Her tone erased Candace's smile. She repeated carefully, "I'm going into training, I'm going to be a nurse." "Oh, you are," Belle said, smirk- ing. "How romantic! How too, too charming! So there's to be a glori- fied scullery maid in the family! How delightful." She dropped her tone of sarcasm. "Get that insane Idea out of your head at once," she ordered. Candace paled. She said slowly, "I'm afraid that's impossible. My plans are all made." "Then you'll just have to un- make them." Out o3 eight, under cover of the tablecloth, Candace clasped her hands tigbtly together to still their trembling. "I haven't the slight- est intention of doing that," she said. At the unexpected defiance, Belle looked to be on the point of ex ploding, Hobbs had entered with a tray and Bruce said, "Belle!" warningly. She shut her lips sharply againet whatever it was she had intended to say, then waved Hobbs out. "No dessert," she said. "No col - fee. We'r'e to be completely un. disturbed." In the drawing room she turned on. Oaudace, "Now you'll explain to me the meaning of this high- handedness." GOOD EATING NEWS Get out that strawberry jam you made Iast slimmer, for here's a cake that calls for preserves instead of sugar. Not only do the preserves add the sweetening, but they give the cake a delicious moistness so that it stays fresh for days. Bran in the batter accounts for the unusual nut -like flavor, The recipe, which is well worth saving, follows: All -Bran Strawberry Jam Cake ' 2/8 eup All -Bran 2 eggs, separated 1 cup milk 1/ cups cake flour 1S cup shortening 1i teaspoon salt 1 cup strawberry jean 2 teaspoons baking powder ll teaspoon almond flavoiYlig Soak All -Bran in milk about five minutes. Blend shortening with 1„ cup jam, Add egg yolks; beat we11 stir in soaked All -Bran. Sift flour, salt and baking powder; add to creamed mixture alternately with retraining jam, Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour into shallow greased baking pan; bake in moderate oven (350°E'.) 30' 10 as minutes Yield 9 pieces (9 x 9 -inch pan). Note Finished cake may be topped with meringue made of 1 egg white, 1.16 teaspoon salt And 2 tahlespoone.strawberry jam, Brno staid, "I'll 'matinee Asia, Belle•'" Site whirled en flim. "May 1 point out to you,'" she remarked, cher tone dripping scorn, "that under the cireusnstauces you can scarcely Claim t0 be able to man- age auytllinge I'll nlantige this— and I prefer," she added sharply, "to do it alone," e * * Camino turned .her baole so ae not to see Bruce's igttaniluous retreat. from the room. What the trouble .between them was she couldn't guess, but .she was hot with :Maine for him at Belle's" treatment all. her indignation lash- edher into a fury that made her forget soma of her own fear, Behind her Belle said, "Now you'll explain to me, please, this sadden romantte urge to touch cool hands to fevered brows and all that -and incidentallyto empty bedpans and tliiugs. You've thought of all that, 1 suppose?" Candace hadn't, she h. dn't really thought much of anything ,beyond the actual details of ,getting en- tered and started. She said quietly, "I'll do everything that's expected of me, of course." Belle bad lighted a. cigaret and was inhaling deeply and then ex- polling xpalling the smoke in angry gusts. "It's a simple reversion to type, I suppose," she said, "Peasants don't mind doing things like that. And your father was a peasant. Witha gift of music, but a peasant for all of that. Did it ever occur to you," she demanded, "in your zeal to do things that are expected' of you, that something might be expected of you for all I've done?" Candace said miserably, "Of course, Aunt Belle. I owe you a lot, 1 know: But—" * * *. "But what? But you're just like ' your mother in that, that's the ans- wer, not an ounce of gratitude in your whole make-up. I should have known. 1 wasted my whole youth doing without things so that she could have thein. But when site had a chance to marry well so that she could snake all that up to me, did she do it? No! - No; in- stead she fell in love, 'romantical-q, ly' in love like any -cheap little servant girl, with her violin teach- er and ran off and married hint—" Rembered bitterness threatened tor an instant to choke her; she brought herself up sharply. .'You might at least have consulted me about your plans. Why didn't you?" Candace said honestly "It never once occurred to me that you'd be at all, interested, or care what I did." "I don't care, really," Belle ad- mitted brutally, "My only real in- terest is in getting you off my hands as satisfactorily as pos- sible, in a way that will reflect no discredit on me—and that will be permanent" She narrowed leer eyes, peering at Candace through the smoke of her cigaret. "I'nt going to be unpleasantly frank," she said, "You have not a penny to your name but what I choose to give you; you haven't an 'ex- traordinar'y brain; you have noth- ing at all but a certain youthful prettiness. If you take my advice, you'll go off to a good college while it's still possible, and you'll take every opportunity to meet eligible men, to make a good mar- riage. That's your only chance for safety. If—" • • • A thought struck her and she paused speculatively. "It's pos- sible," she said, her eyebrows raised, "'that in your quiet way you've been ahead of me all this time. It's possible there's already a man in the picture. Are you," she demanded, "in love with Peter?" • Peter! It was as though Belle had accused her of being in love with a brother; Candace's face flamed. Belle took the blush as con- firmation. "1 thought so,".she said. "That explains the nursing no. tion. I suspected something of the sort a long time ago—" Candace said quickly, "aunt Belle, stop! It isn't Peter. Peter has nothing to do with it, he doesn't even know—" "Then," Belle said slowly, after a long pause, "I'll finish what I was sayiug. I1 you can't manage matrimony, which is the safest career for any woman, you'll have to earn your' living. But. it will have to be in some dignified field. You'll promise that 'or my help stops right now.—Well, what have you to say?" Candace said quietly, "I'm going into training, of course." Bello crushed out her latest cig- aret with an air of finality. "1n that case, there's nothing more to be said. Except that, since you do it against my wishes, the sooner. you do it the better." •She swept coldly from the coons. (Continued Next Week) "Herr Meyer" Among Germans, Marshal Goer- ing is generally referred to these days as "Herr Meyer," Newsweek reveals. It seems they havenit fogotten that speech Goering made to the Rehr miners in the early days of the war, when he promised: "Germany is bomb- proof. If ever your work should be disturbed by the R.A.F„ or a Single British bomb should fall on German territory, than my name 30 Meyer." Early Christmas Mailaxx;� Essential All indieetionspointto a rbeord volume of Christmas mail this year and wartime demands on manpower . a n d transportation make it imperative that the ape peal to "Mail Rally" be closely observed, The Postal authorities advise that for delivery by Christmas, mail trust be posted on or before the following dates: December 15111—British Colum- bia. December 16h — Alberta and Saskatchewan. December 17th—Manitoba and Maritimes. December 19th Ontario and Quebec. December 20th -Local delivery. Last year—in spite of many appeals for Early Mailing -more than 10,000,000 letters and Christmas cards were dropped into mail boxes in Toronto' on December 22, 28 and 24, and in- coming ,trains on those datee brought in many additional car- loads of mail. As a result of this deluge of last-minute mailing, Christmas mails - could not be cleaned up until several days after Christmas. Shortage of trained help is very acute this year .and public co- operation in Early Mailing is ab- solutely essential. Plans For Better Post -War Britain Freedom From • Want For Working Classes Object of Sir W i 1 1 1 a m Beveridge's Proposals `Sir William Beveridge, noted British economist, has given Brit- ain a plan for post-war social security which forsees a system of compulsory state insurance covering every person in Britain, regardless of age, income or job, against almost all fcrms of per- sonal want or insecurity. The outlines of the plan, drawn up by 'a government -appointed: committee were made public last week. The report now goes to Parliament for action—which Sir William urged be started imme- diately so the program could be instituted right after the war. Theoretically there would be work for all. The _state woule control medical services, - If a ' man couldn't work for some rea- son, he would get (basically) $5 a week for himself and wife and $1.50 for each child. Retirement (not "old age") pensions would be provided for all, beginning for men at' 65, for women at 60. Housewives would be recognized officially as performing special services and possessing special needs, which would be covered as would those of any wage earner. The whole scheme would cost about 28,200,000,000 a year, with $1,200,000,000 paid in $1 weekly contributions from people with incomes plus contributions from employers, while the government paid the other $2,000,000,000. This would mean permanent drain on the exchequer that would keep the postwar income tax above 7 shillings in the pound (35 per cent). The benefits were worked on the basis of a cost -of -living which has risen 25 per cent. since 1938. The plan,' if carried through by the government will go far towards securing the British people freedom from want and Will greatly strengthen the demo- cracy by raising the happiness and well-being of the common pian. A volcano in the New Hebrides is generally in eruption every three or four minutes. British Sailors' Society Al Ilolnc and Abroad Incorporated -(iSstnblislied 1511) Under Distinguished Patronage come Thousands of Sailors Wl11 be entertained this coming CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR it our 105 stations all over the seven seas by this, THE OLD- EST SAILOR SOCIETY IN THE WORLD. Send Gifts to BRITISH SAILORS' SOCIETY George 57. •Specdie, Dominion Secretary, GO Alberta Avenue,. Toronto, Ontario. Will be greatly appreciated. COUGIH IG COMES AT WRONG TIMES Thousands use Lymoids to Stop Embarrassment "I'm a switchboard operator," writes a Toronto girl. "and LYMOIDS has helped me over many an embarrassingthroat tickle. Pow i ohms varrY them," is hoarseness of ldeeashnt couching em. heroism's you ,.-try LYMOIDS, i`ool bow this excellent blend of medicinal oils soothes and relieves throat irritation. is -i MOSSO/TS ssLi. LYMOIDS Ln handy size 100 mut 25e boxes. If unobtainable, send l0a in stamps er coin, to LYMOIDS,'119 Pearl Street, Toronto. ISSUE 51—'42 A XB,i°•tR. rIOU'ND R SORT I OTJilII $TE, ADELE E HAUT P,Q, CANADA Snow Vacation A distingtdslled k,liur- • eullpn resort Inv. es ylall to „1101I1111Y )r health" Official xkt school, sal -tows, excel. Tent etdslte, all slon- veniences and tasteful appoint stents, D 0f,l.,v ^J train service. Soled clientele. Write -- halt„ '0055 C7[ANTDC01Rn, Ste. Allele en bilgl, TABLE TALKS SADIE B, CHAMBERS On this fourth year of war please accept my heartiest wishes- fora "Happy Christmas." It will not be a' merry, one for many who are anxious about members of their family in the army.. But to Make us all happy we need only to compare our conditionswith those of last year, True there has been great sacrifice and touch sorrow,but we have seen'. the sun peeping through the cloude of our anxiety and sorrow. "Victory" is emblazoned upon our national sky and in fact on the horizon of the world. It will be• A DIFFI- CULT road yet IFFI-CIJLTroadyet with many turns - .and byways to follow,' but ever will we be encouraged' by the thought that the objective of our goal is to bring about a world. wide justice and the brotherhood. of man. Therefore as we cele- brate the birthday of the One who has given us everything we have personally, nationally and internationally', who is there'., among us who cannot say "Happy Christmas to All"? Christmas Dinner Menu Cranberry and Grapefruit Cocktall Roast Chicken ' Savoury Dressing Creamed Mashed .Potatoes Mashed Turnips Giblet. Gravy Salad Chopped beets in Lemon .Telly with Boiled Dressing Carrot Pudding Brown Sugar Sauce Beverage .of Choice Cranberry and Grapefruit Cocktail Boil cranberries and sweeten in the usual way. Strain and chill the juice. Have quartered grapefruit sections ready also chilled. Place grapefruit in sher- bet glasses and pour over the cranberry juice. Savoury Dressing 2 cups stale bread crumbs 2 tablespoons melted butter 1 tablespoon chopped parsley 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon powdered sage 1 teaspoon sweet marjoram (powdered) 161 teaspoon pepper Mix altogether and moisten with butter. Salad Chop one pint of pickled beets or freshly boiled ones. Season with salt and, pepper. a"/4'uisten very slightly with salad .dreetmp)g. Prepare a pint of lemon jelly powder. Wlien cool stir 111 the chopped beets. Serve on 'lettere with salad dressing and 'garish with parsley. Carrot Pudding 1 cup sugar 1 cup raisins 1 cup currants cup suet 1 cup grated carrot 1 cup grated potato 1,, teaspoon pelt 1 teaspoon soda Ph cups flour Dissolve soda in a little cold water, Mix all ingredientspre- pared in the usual wayy anti: turn into a buttered mold. Cover and steam three hours for a large mold or one hour for individual molds. 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