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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1942-12-31, Page 6SERIAL STORY- OF TORYOF BRIGHTNESS GONE BY HOLLY WATTERSON THE STORY: Peter Frazier ar,. rives; at an upstate ,New York hoee pital., for a uttmma;r's study, ' pea pleated by the .knowledge thatha,, is. in love with Candace Bech, and jealous of his medical schoptt roommate, Martin Corby, whom Candace loves. Candace ie the' niece of Belie Frazier, his father's socend wife, and the two haver been brought up together in the Frazier home. Belle bitterly op- poses Candace's decision to - go. into nurse's training, but' knows nothing of her love far Martis. Peter meanwhile begins his duties at 'the hospital. 'BAD NEWS AT HOME CHAPTER VIII The rounds and the discussion afterward, lasted several hours and when they were over Peter felt whipped, beaten. He had been asked questions by Dr. Stacy about things that he'd net yet'hed opportunity to learn, and about other things that he knew per- fectly well but couldn't get out the answers to hecause of his tongue-tied state; the Chief, he thought, had ettieetd watching him squirm as to ' he'd gotten his bug impale!! .1w edge et a pin. Dr. Morrison t.tmu up to him afterward, "It's not aivvays as bad as that, you know," he said. "I'm sorry you wcre let in for it. It's just that—well, the Chief got the idea front last year's group that you summer fellows treat this place as a resort, He means to work you all thoroughly this year, I understand, and I gathered rather that you were put through the ropes so that you'd warn the others as they arrive, get them in the proper mood." a 4. q. He meant him to be reassured, but Peter was not. It looked like a tough summer ahead. With a sigh, he gave up all hope of a week -end trip hone. He'd write instead, long newsy letters. But after a bit even that hope dwindled. lie had never worked harder. He worked mornings in the laboratory until time for rounds, in the afternoon he was i- the X-ray room. There were rounds again in the evening, and after that he sat poring for hours over books, trying to get the things he was learning sorted out and clearly in mind before they degenerated into a confused jumble and disappeared. Letter - writing was a time-consuming luxury he couldn't afford; he sent postcards of the "I -ani -well — hope - you -are -the -same" vari- ety instead. He would explain to Candace when he got back. She was a swell girl, a sensible one; she'd A COLONIAL QUILT ~d .tta cetet By Laura Wheeler Snowball was a favorite with quiltnakers in Colonial days .and it is just as pretty 'today. Make - this two -patch, two -material quilt in your spare time, a bloek at a time. liven a beginner finds it easy to do. Pattern 358 contains diagram of quilt block; accurate pattern pieces; directions for making quilt. Send twenty cents in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) for this pattern to Wilson Needle. craft Dept., Room. 421, 73 Ade- laide St. West, 'Toronto. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. - ISSUE 1-43 A understand, He' had very little time to worry, but if ever worry crept in he comforted himself with the thought that he would be away ,from her only for the summer. Just a couple of months, already partly over. Nothing very ' much, he reassured himself, could happen insuch a ,short time. e m_ He had been becoming' Moreno- ; ingly oreae;"iugly uneasy abouthis .father.' Harly in the slimmer: Bruce had written a i brief and apologetic note mentioning that the slump in business had put him in rather a bad spot .and asking if Peter .could 'manage 'without his usual allowance for a time. Later he had written, even more briefly., that he had. given up the New York apartment temporarily in order to curtail expenses. And for the past several 'weeks all letters to hint had . retrainedun- answered, there had been no word at all, Peter hurried to Tuckawayst hoping to find him there, but in- stead found cause only for fresh uneasiness. He learned that the Hobbses were gone and with them the couple from the town apart- ment; in their place was a brace of trim maids and a butler with a broad Mayfair accent, sporting a morning coat. Mr. Bruce Frazier was not at Tuckaways, the dean said; he did not believe he knew Mr. Frazier's present where. about. And who was inquiring, please? Having to identify himself Irked Peter. He gave his name shortly. "I will see Mrs. Frazier," he or- dered. * ro * It seemed to him that Belle kept him waiting unnecessarily long, and that neither relieved his anxiety nor improved his temper. He swung on her when she en- tered finally with an air of sup- pressed rage. "What's up?"- he demanded. Belle raised disapproving eye- brows. "Just what—" Peter hitched a shoulder patiently. He said, aware of his brusqueness but not really caring, "It's silly to waste time on the amenities when there's something wrong and I know it, What is it?" "Something wrong?" Belle re- peated. He could have shaken her. But •he realized that her ineffectual• sparring meant that she too was uneasy, and he was startled. He had never seen Belle at a loss before. "Surely," he said reasonably, "there's something wrong when I'm treated as a stranger in niy father's house, when a servant acts as though he's never heard of hint—" Belle had reaehed for one of her innumerable cigarettes and he had to light it for her and wait while she took several deliberate puffs. She said finally, "This is not your father's house. Your father no longer lives here." He sat stunned. "What! What's happened?" ' he demanded. * * o Belle rose, as though site felt at a disadvantage with his young length towering over her, and went to stand at the flower -filled fireplace. "Your father left me,' she said. "Impossible!" Peter said. "What —Why—" Belle he}self showed, signs of impatience. "Da. n't he told you anything?" she demanded, "I knew that he'd been wor- ried about business, that business was poor—" Belle laughed sharply. "Poor!" she repeated. Her tone was hard. "His business is gone," she said, "Everything is gone." Peter repeated stupidly, "Gone? Everything? But--Tuckaways?" Belle flushed. "Tuckaways," she said defiantly, "is mine." She left the fireplace, returned to her old place. "I didn't order hits out, if that's what you're thinking. But he had some quix- otic idea of throwing Tuekaways too into the hole to satisfy cred- itors, and when I refused he left." There was for a minute something almost like an appeal in her ex.. pression. "I have known what it is to be poor. I can't face that again to satisfy some silly con scientious scruple." Peter asked blankly. "Where iii he now?" .:'At his club, for the time be- ing," She licked her lips nerw- ously. She said, as though to re. assure herself, "He'll thank uta later, for this: He'll be glad enough to have the place to come back to." Peter, thinking of his father, remembering his rigid code Of honor, said grimly, "I doubt it." He swung about abruptly and left her standing there,, rt * Bruce's business had gone bad once before, in the early nine- teen -twenties. Peter remembered clearly those lean days, when they • had Iivedsin a horse whose rooms had a hollow sound because alnnost WOMEN OF S 'I' ,t 13ehindOritain's firing line, the women of the production lines are taking an ever-growing part in war. work. Today, woolen such as these make up more than 13 per cent of all the workers in Eng- land's steel and iron industry. eveything they had once contained had been sold for what little it would bring, and when frequently' there was not enough to eat. Bruce had come triumphantly through that time and ^Ise would, probably, through this. Of course in the earlier period he'd had Peter's mother, with her never -failing faith in him and her courage, .on whom to. rely, while in this Belle's defection had prob- ably hit him hard. Ile must see Ins father and determine just how things stood; until he knew, there was nothing he could do to help —and nothing he' might gain by worrying, either. An even more immediate con- cern was Candace. He had 'been absurdly pleased to learn she'd gone in for. nursing. She'd make a perfect nurse, be felt. She was gentle, and she was poised; he could not imagine her being in- different to any really sick person, but at the same time he could not see any faker putting anything over on her either. And she was intelligent. A dream of coming - back to a home where Candace waited and of being helped to clear his mind in his more doubt- ful cases by an understanding die- eussion of them with her had be- come part of his hopes for the future. Now he was not too sure it was a good thing. What if she had gone into nursing simply beeause it was a means of livelihood when all other support had been snatched from her? It was a tough enough grind even for the `girls who loved the work, it could be deadly where there was no Otte - est. He hurried to Merrymount. (Continued Next Week);' No. 1 Hotel Manager The British War Office is now the largest hotel manager in Lon- don. It ruts 51 hotels as .clubs for service nien and women.' The clubs have bed accommodations for 8,001 Bees Fan Wings To Ventilate Hives Among the honey bees, ono of the services of the indefatigable "Workers" is that of providing hive ventilation by fanning their wings to set up a current of air. This air movement Serves a very practical purpose. It carries oft the water (in the form of water vapor) as it evaporates front the .newly -made honey: ' At the end of the clay the.u'orIc- ere spread themselves over the honey -combs and fan the air with their wings. - This hastens the evaporation of water from the honey, after which the heat libav- ated by the bodies of the bees tends to cure or ripen the honey. Groups of bees at the hive en- trance or on the landing shelf keep the ventilation of the hive going all night. Looks Like Hard War For Hitler It looks as If Herr Goebbels may finally be on the right track in analyzing the American -British war effort. Recognition of this comes from no less a personage than Lord Halifax, British Am - Halifax pointed out in Balti bassador to the United States. more that German radio propa- ganda beamed for the United States has said that "England will fight to the last drop of Iowa blood", while similar broadcasts directed at Britain have said that . "the United tSates has resolved to fight to the last Tommy." "Well," concluded "Halifax, "if we are going to fight to the last drop of Iowa blood and yon are goipg to fight to the Last Tommy, it looks like being' a hard war— for Hitler." here's hoping that Getman ra- dio listeners can add one and one and get two. SIDE GLANCES By George Clark " iJo you Mind if fide real?" !fill double -lurked." Bats Return Home 'Ere Winter Comes SometimesOld FlyCave 100 Miles To Bats need no haute 'during the lush sug:mor nights when the air is full of edible insects, observes Timer magazine. By day they tang in convenient roosts—trees,ehim-. noys,ar,bnu•ns, But when the chill mouths come and insectsdisap- pear, torpor comes over then and with it a aonging for, their own cavo, the sante spot' where they have spent previous winters. Bats 'sometimes Dy 100 miles to find their old' cave end sleep in it until ' spring. Charles •E. Molt' of Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences, re- ported in `frontiers" on lila ten. year study of the homing -urge of the common (Little Brown) bat. • Most bags ran he caught ,only sir caves when hiberirating. 'No one has yet 'devised a bat- trap for catching t]tenr ani the wing. But in- winter they oat easily be pick- ed from their under„round porches and fitted • with light aluminum hands .for identiflcation. Mohr has been beaming bats for years, One Intruder Found Last winter a group of Corner students joined Mohr in a thor- ough ,exploration of .the bat ;caves in Center and • Mifflin Counties; Pennsylvania, The limestone ridges tbere ere honeycombed with small caves. All banded bats were found in the same cava as In previous years. Elven bats that had been carried off and released, far away were back again. Only once did° Mohr Dad au intruder: this stray bat's own care had been sealed by a rockfall during the summer. Charles Mohr is not the only bat - bander. Don Griffin, of Harvard, has banded thousands of bats in New England, had also noted the homing urge. Bats from a cave near the coast were released 15 miles at sea. Two days later they were back in their own cave. Nearly All Bats Hibernate Curiously, the caves are not used for accouchements. In early sum- mer female bats congregate in hol- low trees, barns or vacant houses, (Malo hats are excluded,) Here each gives birth to her Jive young, only one per year, with occasional twins, The baby clings to its mother as long as it is suckling, but the mother leaves it hanging from the roof or .wall while she goes on brief foraging expeditions. There are a few varieties of. bat which do not hibernate, in- eluding the Red Bat, the Hoary, and the Silver -haired. Some live in the forests of Washington or Canada, eating insects during the summer, but when winter comes they migrate southward. Jags Move 1,000,000 Troops In Manchuria A (Chinese Government review of conditions in Manchuria said about 1,000,000 Japanese troops now are concentrated in that reg- ion and Japanese military prepara- tions there have been increased considerably in the last year, (The estimate of 1,000,000 Japanese troops in Manchuria has not, been confirmed by other au- thorities and ' is about double • earlier estimates.) The review said the Japanese had built fortifications' along the southern bank of the Amur River and the western bank of the Us- curi, both of which form boun- daries between' Japan's puppet''. empire of Manchukuo and Russian Siberia. -The review said Chinese work- ers employed on Japanese military installations had been killed after- ward to prevent the leakage of secrets. The Japanese had re- cruited labor. for Manchuria by. press gangs operating. in. North China Provinces, it was said. Chinese youths also were being forced into military service, osten- sibly in armies of various Japan- ese puppet regimes, the review said,but the Japanese have placed little confidence in these levies, estimated at about 300,000. About two-thirds are being used for gar- rison duty in China, but some have been sent to the Southwest Pacific war area, it was repotted. They Heil Hitler When a' lecturer in a British war camp casually mentioned Hit- ler's name recently German pris- oners jumped to their feet and cried "Heil Hitler.” • Arme4 Cargo Shp Sinks Axis Raider LI, 5, Merchantman • 'i0hts To Finish In south Atlantic Fighting to the finish, a tirtited Stvates merchantman took, one .en ems surface raider to the bottom with her and left a second sey�,,erely damaged in the South Atlantic, the Navy Department disclosed, It was the first reported ,stanee of an orttned ntorehentmata sinking at surface craft of pros, Battered i`totu stem to sterns her "engines crippled, 'elle traded Shell for shell with the raiders i'o1 a Seisms ' thirty minutes, • • she slipped under stein -first, the siinaller --- but 'snore heavily deemed -of tate raiders was a inose' of flati)es, with.survivete clamber, iug' over the,sides to he pielceal up, by the larger'' (inti severely da• -' maged''raider. • Only 10 of the 41 menthols of thesnerohanttttan's crew 'and five men -of a navy grin crew survived the lust September battle and the, 31 clays in :an -Open boat before survivors reached the South At latltio coast. The out:qunned tncrehantman was bit by 'four salvos; The largo guns of the smeller raider app sr.. ently were fired together from a central control system. Finally a direct shell hit wt the magazine, put the after -gen. out of action. Five shells were not exploded by the hit, .Captain Paul Buck, listed as missing, gave the odder to abandon ship. • Only one lifeboat had conte through the battle unbattered, and it had drifted away from the ship. Many survivors were unable to reach that comparative safety. The boat headed for the South Atlantic coast, its course set by only the most rudimentary navi- gational instruments. Squalls and high winds beset the craft. Ex- hausted then bailed • until their arms were numb. But the squalls brought rain and drinking water to keep the men alive. Several of the more seriously injured men died, nottfithstanding first aid treatment. After 26 days one of the men saw a butterfly. Another saw two moths. Land was near.. The color •. of the water changed from dark blue to light green. Five days later there was this brief entry its the lifeboat's log — "Hooray; sighted land at 4• a.m." Fifteen .haggard men staggered , ashore, reached a -small village and were taken to a hospital. Draw Air Recruits From Air Cadets Wing Cmdr. W. H. Aslim, de- puty director of manning for the R.C.A.F., predicted that within the next year or two the R.C.A.F. would get from 10,000 to 11,000 air crew enlistments a year from the air cadets alone - Air cadet membership totals 20,000 at the present time. The. University Air Training j Corps now has squadrons at 11 universities in the Domiarlon with a total enrolment of some 2,000, he said. Advice On Buying And Darning Hose Always buy two or more pairs of stockings that are just alike,' then if one .stocking wears out you can replace it without sacri- ficing the pair. Wash daily and they willwear longer. Finely darn the heels and toes before' they have been worn at all. When holes appear, tack a piece of coarse net lightly to the stocking over the hole on the wrong side, then darn overthe net. ' Do this when darning large holes in the knees and heels .of children's stockings, How To Glamorize The Baked Potato Laura Pepper, chief of the con- sumer section, Department of. Agriculture, comes up with a suggestion for glamorizing baked potatoes, which have more vitamin C value if cooked in their skins. Slit your potatoes when baked and insert a sliver of butter and a square of quick -melting cheese— put the potatoes back in the oven just long enough to melt the cheese. Incidentally this is say- ing on the butter. GOOD EATING NEWS How to make a meat out of four pork chops is good news to every war -time cook. The secret lies in the following recipe for Pork .Chops with Corn Dressing. Notice that the dressing goes into the pan iirst, with the chops on top and that the whole business is baked, Here are the directions: Pork Chops with Corn Dressing 4 cups soft bread crumbs I/a, teaspoon pepper 1 cup All -Bran t/a teaspoon poultry seasoning 1 tablespoon chopped omen 1 cup drained whole kernel cot% Ve cup chopped celery 1 cup'stoelt, eprn liquid, or milk 2 tablespoons fat 4 pork chops 1 teaspoon salt t/s teaspoon salt Combine bread crumbs and All -Bran, Cook onion and celery in fat until lightly, browned; add to bread Mintture with seasonings, Dorn and -stock or other liquid. Mix thoroughly. Press into baking dish, arrange chops on top of dressing and sprinkle with salt. Cover and bake in moderate oven (876°F.) about 45 minutes; remover and bake 15 minutes longer. Yield: 4 servings (S -inch baking dish).