The Seaforth News, 1930-01-02, Page 6Y�Y
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CIHIAPTER V.
MEW; THE AM. _..
Garrick and Diek walked slowly
'down Forty-ninth Street rest and across
, Sixth Avenue, laughing at Ruth's ruse
—aud a bit sore.
".I suppose you feel put out!" pun-
ned Garrick.
Dick was too puzzled to get it, "Sire
certainly put us through the Inner
Circle with as Much neatness and dis-
patch as a sardine goes from the river
to the t
n in the movies. Only,1•
yonder why?" •
Garrick was thinking...of. the threat
..
message. "Could it be that she took
that way of keeping us "out of den -
"Why that's like the affair over at
Gerards' the ether night," supplied
112rs. Walden.
They found Glenn at the Cecil,
looking a bit fagged,
• "Rath? -why she's all right, Mrs,.
Walk -eta": he hastened. "Yes, •, I heard
something about an_ accident.. Just
the steering gear went wrong. But
she was quick enough to get from
under and, the car took .the feitee in-
stead of up the bridge and off—at
least that's what I heard."
ger?,,.
He .stopped short and :looked back,
A tough stranger was; lurking back
of them. Garrick moved ahead and
stopped again. The stranger stopped
and slouched: into a garage. Garrick
,walked back quickly and as he passed
hien looked over and smiled. "Pm on,"
he laughed and the man dropped his
eye in sheepish sullenness.
They turned the corner and aga]u
into Piftieitli. Stiaet As they passed,
the other door of the garage which
ran through the block Garrick hesi-
tated as if to walk through it and
locate the shadower. As he did so
he saw another man slink into a door-
way.
"We've discovered one; another has
moved up to take his place, An old
and very effective device," •
Ile hurried down the street with
Dick, plunged into the subway, waited
for a train, then walked on out the
other exit. No "tail" could hold down
Garrick if he suspected he was being
shadowed.
What did it mean? Still speeulat-
ing, they went on to Garrick's city
apartment at `Bachelor's Hall and
turned in.
' The next morning was rainy, damp
and depressing. Garrick and Dicic
had breakfasted and were discussing
the even Is of the day before. Gar-.
- rick's mind was most active when his
physical being seemed laziest. Stretch-
- ing out in his chair, raising his arms
slowly above his head, he yawned and
was about to deliver himself of some
sage observation on life in general
and the case in particular when the
telephone rang.
"Hang it, what's this? Answer it,
Dick, old titan?"
Dick's . mind and body were both
o;Iert. He . had breakfasted with e
eouple,of invisible .companions, love
and anxiety. "Garrick," He held his
They harried young Bucicley with
questions, but he was guarded. He
protested that he knew nothing more,
winding up again with the assurance.
"She's all right, though."
"But how, do you know she's 'all
right?" insisted Garrick.
"Because I vas talking to Vire over
the wire when I made the appointment
to meet her at the tea rooms of the
Champs Elysees at three and she said
she was. That's all I know."
It was nearly three when Garrick
and. Dick sauntered into the lobby of
the Champs Elysees, looked about cau-
tiously, and proceeded to got under
cover.
Before the tea room on the mezzan-
ine floor hung a sign: "Radio Concerts
Daily." They nosed in, saw that the
coast was clear, and selected a table
in an angular corner, with a mirror
so placed that it was a veritable peri-
scope
An orchestra in Newark was broad-
casting some selection as they sat
down at the table and ordered tea and
crumpets.
It was not more than sixty seconds
after three that they saw Glenn come
in, looking pale and tired, select a
table at the other end of the room and
drop into a chair facing the entrance.
Ten minutes later Vira bustled in,
excited and angry about something,
and worried: Glenn rose and greeted
her, all animation, now that a girl was
in question.
Garrick and Dick, watching and
wondering what to do, had fallen into
a discussion of Ruth and Vire and
Garrick was taking a cruel delight
in sounding Dick,
To his serious mind, Dick confessed,
it was just this vivacious type of
Ruth that had for hint the greatest
attraction. As he put it, an intellect- i
ual girl would have been merely in-'
tensifying his own nature.
Garick was urging him on and de-
livering a little scientific homily on
wise old stature that brought together
the dissimilar end aeveraged them,
There was no approval of the butter -
hand now over the transmitter, "My fly and the candle in Dick, however,
word! It's Mrs.�Walden" .land they were soon into a discussion
"Nita Falba? mare? Tell her
's a little reception room down
there, We'll be with her right away,"
Nita Walden was distractedly wink-
ing quick and balling the handkerchief
in her hand as she gazed out of the
window at her car in which McKay
was biting with bulldog grip at. his
pipe as if contemplating something
distasteful. •
• Garrick closed the door as she rush-
ed exi:itedly to him and seized his hand
with, fingers that clinched ancon
•sciouslg,
"Guy .. I am desperate! It's Ruth
again—my little girl. You must find
her for me. 1 can't take anyone into
my confidence except you and Dick. I
cJ '1't.:soar: which way to turn. She
didn't come home last night. I have
walked and walked the floor waiting
for her. T haven't even had a tele
• phone call front her or anyone'' else.
What shall I do? She never, never did
this before. My Ruthie-ray little
girl. Olt, Guy, I can't stand the worry'
and uncertainty of it. Help me,
please." •
There was a knock at the door.
Garrick opened it. It was McKay.
'pleare, sir, I was just talking to a
'-%xtenil• of shine a chauife
ux, who ulnves
for some people out on the south shore,
who lire up the street. Miss Ruth's
car was wrecked: out on the Island—
ran info a fence or something on an
approach to one of the bridges on the
Motor' Parkway --over the embank-
ment --near Smithtown:"
"Was she hurt? Where is she?"
Mrs. Walden's acute ears had caught
even the modulated words.
' "No one knows, ma'am. • There was
not a trace of anyone around the car
:just the machine, left there." •
Garrick took down the telephone
reeeiv and called a Beyant number.
Dick glanced over quickly. It was a
numberhe had 'seen in the hallway
I
_of the Inner Circle and hacl made a
• mental note of, Evidently Garrick
had done the same. •
"This is Glenn Buckley's brother,"
he prevaricated. "Is he there? Well,
do ~so-t,knbviw where I can eall hint?
- oYon think he's at the Cecil? Thanksaas.
dna lvi,.ick
tented, without betraying
rt and i1lt was he had called. "They're
fhurstiay trends of his, I thought per -
yam, might i '
Uera,, else give 125 seine iu-
Christanoon. Suppose, Nita, you have
• mother •ag drive us over to the Cecil. It's
and Williak Avenue."
ving to so were rounding the Gland Cen-
1 phristt sas;,d Garrick bought a couple .of
notong 1Peo,g' papers.
It o'bnheciir nether robbery on Long Island,"
• C''`
commented, as he, glanced down
ons the big`, ,headline: "The Parr
j state in, Smithtown."
"The ,Parrs?" commented Mrs. Wal.
X ,len. "Wt v they're' friends of mine,"
a 11erC " into two sections,for "hard labor' and
ordivary prisoners adds the writer
in the�lally Chronicle
"At the end of six months of their
incarceration,' prisoner's who have
e I worked and conducted themselves
well are to be permitted to buy, out
e. of the money they earn by their prison
y work, luxuries, including tobacco,
d books, drawing material, and such
r l things, and t� subscribe to a news-
paper
'Their cells will remain Lighted un-
g til 9.30 p.m, and they may be used
- to help in the house, the garden,, or'
the kitchen
r _ and be Permittad_uiore_
'freedom u connectipn with social ga-
therings,
a-therilgs, etc: •
rI "A prisoner who has arrived atthia
stage may be promoted to• Stage I1,
where.theaim of • the at}thorltios is
to bring the -prisoners. to feel that
confidence is piate'd in them,' and,ihat
'they are expected to prove themselves.
worthy of that confidence.
"Their doings ate not.etrictly watch -
"Quality y
Tale of Old Bailey
And a New Kind of Prison th
Inmates of Which Will B
Given a Fortnight's Holida
After Good Behaviour an
Return to Complete Thi
Sentence.
"Judge Gregory, Iags made a stron
appeal at the Old Bailey for Govern
relent assistance'n finding work fo
;
prisoners.
discharged
•
"When .a man. had ben convicted
man times he said,an em )lo e'
31 Y
rightly. hesitated to take him into his
employment. •
"'In my view,' he went on, 'it is
wrong in a highly civilised State that
such a state of affairs. should' exist,
and I cannot help feeling that some
steps should be taken by the Govern-
ment to provide employment for men
1 uthis position iu order'.that they may
have an opportunity of becoming good
citizens if they really'so•'desh.q.
"The Judge was dealing with a man
who had pleaded guilty to a number
of charges of uttering forged cheques
and who had been previously convict-
ed ten times.
"Work had been found for the pri-
soner, said the Judge, and he would
be bound over, 'I ant going to: try a
great experiment' he added."
"The man, said Judge Gregory, had
stated that when he came out of pri-
son he found it almost impossible to
obtain a „situation to enable him to
live an honest life. In consequence
he. had been driven back to crime,"
` 'I hear that same story from many
other young men who are brought
before me, went on the Judge, 'and
I believe• it to be true. It is a matter
that has oppressed me very much in
recent times. I recognize that it must
be correct that when a man has been
convicted many times for• serious of-
fences, the ordivar tradesman or
manufacturer, or other employer heal-
tates, and rightly hesitates, to take
a man with such a history into: his
employment.' •
"The Judge made the reference to
State action quoted above, and con-
tinued:
"1 Hope Somebody ... Will"
"'How it can be done it is very
difficult to say without inquiry, but
I hope somebody, either some Depart-
ment
epart
ment of State, or, if that cannot be
done, some association will voluntar-
ly undertake to inquire if it is not
possible in some way to provide pro-
ductive employment for men who
leave prison without any reasonable
chance of obtaining work.
"'If that is not doue it appears to
me that there must be hundreds of
young men who will be trete time to
Y g v o
time, discharged from prison, whose
only chance of getting a living is to
go back to their evil companions and
asst for their assistance. Unfortunate-
ly, that assistance is only granted, ou
most occasions, upbn terms that they
share again in some crime,
"'In the present circumstances I
believe your cry for help, and I have
"Stgange circumstances," •:went on
Garric&c, "A girl and two Bien,"
of Rae and the evident dissipation she
showed,
"One does not readily think of girls
sowing wild oats,' remarked Garrick.
"Yet they often do. This is one of the
strange anomalies of the new freedom
of women."
Dick frowned as he thought of the
glamor of the •life they had seen at
the Inner Circle. What the end of it
all might be,. he evidently preferred
not to guess. At least he -did not pur-
sue the subject.
"Do you Imow, I've been worrying a
good deal about the handwriting on
that autographic film," Garrick chang-
ed the subject as he brought out du-
plicate prints he had made. "Whose
is it? ' Do you happen to have a note
or letter from Ruth?"
Dick could not avoid the point-blank
inquiry. He pulled a little note from
his pocket, Garrick took the note and
laid it down on the table beside the
print. Then with his pencil he began.
noting the formation of letters, the
capitals, a score of little character-
istics.
"The. writing is Ruth's all right,"
he remarked. "I think I'm getting a
line on Truth. She's a game bird—lint
she flies funny."
There was a pause. The concert
number` was now a solo, "Love's Old
Sweet Song."
Suddienly — ah -h -h Bios zz zz zz
BUM' zz zz zz.
A. shade of annoyance passed over.
Dick's face as the song was broken
into: Buenas—dot-dash-dot-clot-dash.
Breit scowled. Garrick tapped the
table absent -windedly.
Then suddenly each -looked up and
caught the eyes of the other.
"Paging Miss Ruth Walden from the
Sea Vamp, Meet me in the Pink Room
tonight. Jack," The dots and dashes
ceased. Then th- solo started- again.
Garrick looked ilsto ah.: mirror which
gave him a reflection of Glenn and
Vire. They had got ii, too, The dots
and dashes had meant only interrup-
tion to most in the room.
A few moments later Glenn paid
the check and the two rose to go. Gar-
rick hastily did the same,
"They will tali Ruth," he nodded
to Dick; as they went out.
"We've justsimply got to hear what
is- said in that Pink Room tonight,"
considered Garrick,
Dick's face lighted, up as if a sun
ray arc had bee nawitehed on. "Hy
wireless dictagraph!" he exclaimed.
(To"be continued.)
"You know, deal',` it's a funny thing,.
hut whenever father comes home aud
catches dear Algernon calling on me,
my love flies out of, the window."
Minard'a Lialment for Coughs,
taken steps to try and assist you.
I am going to try a great experiment.
Through the kinclness of Colonel Cecil
Bevis, of the Central Discharged Pri-
soners' Aid Society,- I am in a po§i-
tion to say that you will be found em-
Ploy/tient.' 00
"The Judge then bound hire over.",
A Real Departure,
"A novel experiment in prison life,
in which `high grade' prisoners will
be given a fortnight's holiday a year,
permitted to accept work from out-
side employers, and given a share in
the management of, the prison, is
about to be tried out in Germany.
"For the purpose of the experiment,
a model prison is under construction
near Brandenburg (and will'serve the
province which includes Berlin). Pro -
'vision will be ruatle for 900 prisoners,
and it is expected that the new in-
stitution will be ready for its first
occupants early in the coining :year."
—Daily Chronicle,
"The new prison will be divided 1
ed and supervised, they. are permitted
a certain amount of self-administra-
tion, and any group may elect a;;spe
cies-of prefect Who shall 'form a con-
necting 'link between them and:' the
prison authorities.
"Pr'isoners iu Stage. II no longer.
,wear. arisen uniform, but are given
clothes ,kardly dietinguishable from
those of free civilians of the artisan
class,
'Rooms are provided in which, after
the day's work is over, they may meet
to read, write, or enjoy themselves
in some other quiet.way,
"Among many further privileges
granted to prisoners in Stage II Is
that they may possess musical In-
struments, decorate their cells . with
pictures,• and may keep plants.
"When a "prisoner has been six
mouths in Stage 11, and has served
altogether, half of his term of punish-
ment, he may be -.permitted a week's
holiday to visit his family, or for a
putpose which advances his education.
or helps in providing for him when
he is released, . . •
"When' a prisoner has been sik:
months in, Stage III, if his progress
justifies the privilege, he may accept
work with an. employer outside the
prison,, provided the latter pays the
full local wages.
"Twenty-five per cent. of the money
thus earned is placed to the prisoner's
credit, the rest must be handed over
to the prison authorities for his board
and lodging, Such prisoner workers
are not to wear' clothing or bear signs
that would distinguish thein; from free
workmen.
"Among the othen numerous pri-
vileges enjoyed by the prisoners in
tate final stage is the permission t0
wear' their own clothes, and t0. - use
their own bed linen. They' may re.
calve and write as many letters as
they choose, emit their correspondence1
is notread cad lmless the authorities
con-
sider it advisable that this should be
done. •
"The cells need not be locked dur-
ing the day, and the prisoners may
have two week's holiday in the year',
on conditions similar to those on ,
-which the occupants of Stage II ob-
Iain their one week's holiday.
"While the necessary improvement
of the morals of criminals is aimed ,
at, the view is held in the Ministry
for Justice that more will be accom-
plished by cultivating the psychology t
of the offenders."
Gasoline Recei is Counted
d
I of counting refunds made,. the
total amount of the gasoline tax col
lected by forty-seven of the states
and the District" .of Coiumbla in the
first six months of 1929 amounted to
$175,140,140, says the Bureau of Pub -
lie Roads, United States Department
of Agriculture,, on the basis of figures
reported to the bureau, In New York
the tax became effective May 1, and
the Illinois law did not become efecr
tive until August 1. A total of 5,-
693,872,662
,
693,872,602 gallons was taxed 40' the
forty-seven states and the District of
Columbia. The average tax paid
per gallon was 3.07 cents. Our south-
ern neighborsonce more prove "Save
or take . the ,pennies, the pounds will
ook after themselves."
Still Travel in Old Fashioned Style
This. unquestionably_
is -the finest green; ' tea
(Olt E E•H)
-JAPAN'
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A
'F ear from th = Mettle 656
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How to Be Happy Though Famous
By DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS AND MARY PICKFORD
We, like-all'otltel mortals,,are bus
ly engaged, in the quest of happluese
The reader will please not- infer
that we tante ourselves' to be 'author'i-
ties on the subject of success and_]tap-
pinees. It is, our belief that no one
lipon whom fortune has :heaped'a full
ineasure of success has really the
slightest idea of ho;�i. it all happened.
We would be -great:, hypocrites if we
did not acknowledge that luck has
played a leading part in our lives. So,
let us set down our little homily thus:
"Be as lucky al possible and nothing
can prevent your ultimate success"
1,sense 'of loss, It sounds paradoxical,
but it is really a fact that one of the
best ways of adding to our happiness
is by decreasing the number of ,our
pleasures. .The needs: of. life, there-
quirements for happiness, are so few
and simple that they are within the
reach Of everyone, 4
Good digestion, which ,means good
health, plenty of fresh air and.exer-
cise, occupation with some worthy
purpose, even if one does not get very
far with it, and the' zest of life and
peace of •mind that go with those
wingathis, so far .as we know, boxes
the whole compass of human .enjoy
Take away one item, and you may
chase happiness to the ends of the
earth and not find it. Add to them ad
lib, -set the sumbersome machinery
of pleasure running at full speed, in-
troduce every new device for enjoy-
ment that man/ can invent—and you
will have added nothing important.
Such a philosophy runs against the
l
riestless current of the times. Yet we l
know that it suits us. We discovered
long ago that what we' liked best were!
simple things, freedom from social'
compunction, the right to live without
dictation. And here at home, resting
quietly after a day's work, seeing pod
l
pie we want to see, affecting nothing
we do not feel, refusing to do things'
because someone else finds them 1
amusing, looking forward to the 111 -
tura with enthu —
slasm this is the best
way.we know -of being happy,,
Being ordinary is, under the condi.;
tions of modern life, something of an
arta One of the commonest illusions
is that In order to make an impression
on other people we 'must assume
qualities we d0 not possess, adopt airs:
that sit but poorly upon us, and in;
general try to.austain the fiction that t,
w•e are more gifted, important, and
splendid than we really are. The
tent to 3
p ton is arti ltl v
c ail
P great for a
person -in the public eye.
The motion -picture star is in con-,
t stant danger' of believing what his
press agent writes about ltisn and try -I
ing to behave so as to uphold the 11-�
lusion, The best corrective is a sense
of humor, Witen aomeone tells us
If there is one thing that exceed
the futility of telling people bow t
be successful, it is telling them how
to be happy. The very' term "pursuit
of happiness" is misleading, for it
implies that, like, some kind of game,
it should be chased to its lair. Where-
as everyone knows from common ex-
perience that the harder you go after
it, rile less chance' you have of find-
ing
To us, happiness is the direct result
of learning to be contented with con-
ditions that cannot be remedied, and
discontented with conditions that can
be improved—and then striving to im-
prove them. • •This , almost exhausts
our total stock of wisdom on. the sub-
ject.
We, invited a newspaper; writer to
our home in Beverley Hills for the
week -end. Although . he politely did
his best to conceal it, it did not take
a naiad reader to detect that he had
come to study us so•that he could pass
on to otherb the secret, of our sup-
posed success. He left us, we fear,
baffled and disappointed.
For what did we do that evening?
Before dinner we stood out on 'the
lawn and. watched the yellow full
moors with` binoculars, and observed
that the top was dented by a huge
crater, Going indoors, we sat before
a log fire while George Ade and
Charles Chaplin, who were anions our
guests, engaged iia spirited contes
to see who could remember and sing
the oldest songs, At dinner, we fear,
the conversation did not soar to any
great heights. Fife tallied of the us-
ual things:. the future of California
and the motion -picture business," em
next productions, and so on, g
After dinner, someone made the as-
sertion that no one in the company
could walk naturally through the din-
ing room, without exhibiting a par-
ticle of self-consciousness, precisely
as :if no one were watching him. Tliis
Camera Aids at?
Antarctic Dispute
Inventor Tells How Pictures
Will Map 2,00'6,000
Square Miles
BRITAIN'S CLAIM
New York.—A wealthy young New
Yorker's hobby, now a valesd instru-
0
anent of science, may play the decisive
role in an international complication
1
over Antarctica.
As Commander Richard a Byrd's
successful' South Pole - flight centres
wide attention upon "the bottom of the
world" and its commercial possibili-
ties, the prospect grown' that Great
Britain and the United. States may
come to diplomatic blows over the
question of sovereignty there.
Statesmen on both aides of the. At-
lentis, it seehis, are alive to the .possi-
ility that fabulous deposits of coal, oil
and other minerals may.lie buried
beneath the Antarctic's centuries of.
ice -and snow. .
THE CAMERA DOESN'T 'T L
N IE,
1
While they are framing circumspect
notes to one another, Sherman M,
Fairchild, still in his early 30's, goes
about the daily routine of..directing
the varied aeronautic enterprises of
which he is the head.
' High'up in one of Gallant's Mono-
lithic business buildings, remote alike
•
from. the cold of Antarctica and the
mounting heat of diploltatic pique, he
is not -unaware that the first aerial
Tphotographs of the South Pole'terri- )
TWIT may determine whether Britain ca
or the Unified States is to have donne
ion over the frozen wastes. Por Fair,
child made these pictures possible. f: '
As heir to the frtune omilif
a
aire New York Congressman,
child devoted- -pasir of his pa
the he hobbyt ateny - ..
Of All
q' `J,
�i
t�1rLr}lr .;•
The development of aviation turned
his thoughts. aloft, to equipment that
would accurately picture what the
birdman sees.
VALUABLE BEYOND EYPECTA-
TIONS.
Thus was developed the camera now
in use by the United States military
services, and a science whichsoonat- •
tamed proportions, beyond allexpecta-
tions of its young originator.
Fairchild may not have had poten-
tial international consequences in
mind when he suggested to his friend
Dick Byrd that aerial cameras, be in-
cluded in the' elaborate equipment he
was assembling for his. South Polar
venture, Thinking oftithe advantage
Byrd lost onhis North Pole flight by
having neglected so to equip, himself,
he foresaw only the scientific value
of such pictures of Antarctic regions.
From a mere adjunct his exploit,
r � to
Byrd's camera 'became an indispen-
sable factor in it, for he relied on its
lens to see for him many things which
speed, distance ar glare rendered in-
visible to' hint and his -three compan-
ions
ompan
ions as they sped Eich the' Little Ant-
emica;,base to - the pole and back.
OPERCOME SNOW'S GLARE.
"Our experience with aerial photo-
graphy in other 'sub -zero- territories
enabled us to supply Byrd with the
best possible equipment fol•, his 'South.
Pole un.c!ei.'talting," Fairchild expllaiu-
ecl.
"To a stoe K-3 camera, standard
with U.S. L�rrny„• we added a blue -
Minus filter to eliminate the excessive
glare of the snow -reflected sun, Wo
lined the camera with balsa wood as
insulation against the cold and lubri-
cated it with'a special. oil which is
fluid at any temperature. To carry orf
static created by movement of the
metal parts, the camera was grounded
to the plane with a• heavy, detachable
chain. ,
"At 5,000 feet, the. mean altitude
of Byrd's 1,600 -mile flight, the cam-
era% focal plain was 2,800 square
miles, Of this, however, perhaps only
300 square miles in the foreground
would have 'any useful detail.: With
660 expostures, which Photographer
Ashley C. McKinley was" believed to
have taken this Would give Byrd cam-
era coverage of 1,848,000 square miles
of Antarctica.
' "Pieced together, these photos will
constitute a huge pictorial mosaic of
the regions over which he flew. In a
stereoscope, they would be lent a third
dimension, bringing into accurate pr
portion'every minute elevation. o
terrain.” a .
f
Tt' is this close-knit 'P ;rte1�I
air 'Views, revealing topographical fea-
tures beheld neither by Byrd nor the
British adventurers 'who went before
Um, which would be of inestimable
value• in estalishing or discrediting
ti.oir rival demands: Byrd already
has officially claimed for the United
States two vast ranges ,at the edge of
British -claimed territory, On Vulgarity
"To rue the paramount test of vai
garity is any person is the way Irs
winch that person treats his in-
feriors," writes Beverley Nichols in
the Cluistmas. Loudon Magazine.
"If a -duchess is rude to her maid, -
even iu the privaoy of her own bed-
room, thea that duchess is a vulgar
woman, though she may trace her
ancestry to the remotest beginnings
of history. ):1," again, an employer is
rude to his office boy, and takes' ad-
vantage
d
vantage of lits position to. makesar - '-
castic .remarks about him In front of
his clients, then that man is a vulgar
man even if lie holds au 'entire. in 1
justly in, the palms of his. hand. Any-
body, in' fact, who 'indulges In that
cruellest form of blow, the snub, is
vulgar."
led to other similar diversions. They
were; not very intellectual, no doubt,
but they caused endless merriment.
Then we walked outdoors again, plan-
ned a picnic breakfast el a mountain
top at sunrise, and went to bed before
11. Our newspaper friend, was 'un-
questionably ' disappointed at such a
commonplace evening.
Tho most unhappy people we have
met are those who are constantly
seeking new and more extraordinary
ways of gratification, who feverishly
follow every new cue to pleasure;' and
careen madly after b•appiuess. The
pleasure seeker is nearly always a dis-
contented person, finally deserted
even by' the illusion efrhappiness, and
the man who makes a business of
pleasure is the last person to find it.
But this philosophy is not very orig-
inal either. Disguise it as we ntay, it
is only another plea for simplicity,' a
brief for the simple, ordinary( and un
fashionable1 r --
p easu es a suggestion
that the feverish rush after enjoy-
ment is carrying us waypast our goal
Into a land of satiety aud boredom,
This experiment we would recent -
mend because we have found it suc-
cessful: that those' whose lives are
crowded with, amusemette look over
their list of social engagements for
the week and ruthlessly cancel throe -
fourths of them. We think they would
be surprised to find with' what it
. quickened sense of enjoyment they
would greet the ones that remained
and,:wlth'•what a feeling' of 'teller they
would welcome a fewevenings in
which they could. do exactly as they
liked,•
When once the adjustment is made
—add,that.is always difficult --ono is
sure to find thatofor no reason other
than force of habit or some social
coercion more fancied than real he
has been doitig in
MBnot only
did not add ona,jot to hie, general hap-
piness, but actually bored and depreee-
ed him.
It has been our experience that oue
can come closer to a full enjoyment
of life by this process of eimpliflcation
and elimination than by adding and
multiplying one's feints of amuse -
RED MEN MIGRATE DOWN NORTHERN, RIVER BY BOAT meat, There are a lot of uon-aesan-
Indbau bravea, with their squaws,: papooses, dogs and canoes, migrate,tials masquerading as pleasures that
down the Mackenzie River by steamboat and land at likely. looking spots.. one can dismiss w inctnl.t the .slightest
that we attract larger crowds, when
we appear in public, �tllan• the Presi-
dent, we reflect that a white elephant
walking,; dawn plain Street would
draw a• larger crowd ,than any aro of
ns.
'The strain of acting up to people's
expectations Inas grown too great, 'e
have fallen back on the simple expedi-
eirt of being ourseh'es and reselayind
our acting for the screen. Incidentally,
'cultivating a taste for' simple things
has been a great benefit to us in our
work in that we find 11 easier to speak.
the common human language of hope,
love, fear and the other elemental
omotions. �
And we are' inclined to believe that
nothing. great of any kind -calf bel
': achieved with a feeling of anperiorityl
to what one -is doing or' for the peo-
ple for whom it is done—that nothing
notable has ever been written; com-
posed, chiseled, or acted with the
tongue in the cheek or with a sneer.—
"Liberty." - _
"The eall of the wild remiade a man
that his beet friend is hie dogs,
Minard's Liniment for Distemper.
' SELF-KNOWLEDGE
We, ignoraut of ourselves,
Bog often our own harms, ' which the
wise powers "
Deny us for'sdur good; so find we Pro-
fit,
By losing of our. pi'ayeri. 1
—Shakespeare.
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