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The Seaforth News, 1932-12-15, Page 7o1r THURSDAY, DIE,CENPBER 15, 1932. THE SEAFORTH NEWS. Special Offer- -N T o Subscribers New or Old For the next few weeks the subscription to The Seaforth News is 50c a year, new or renewal., No matter when your subscription expires, subscribers will save by re- newing now. SOc a Year rid Re e Ftv,'.ti Yearly Subscripti ns A PROFIT-SHARING OFFER The Seaforth News takes pfeasure in making this very special offer of 50c a year, Rather than spend large sums of money in ,ether drays, such as premiums or contests, The Seaforth News is giving every subscriber who is a citizen of Huron or Perth, this cash advan- tage. This offer is good for the next few weeks only. SNOWDON BROS. Publishers. Nov. 5, 1932. The Seaforth News Dh H. McInnes Chiropractor Of Wiigham, will be at the: Commercial Hotel, Seaforth Monday, Wednesday and Frilay Afternoons biseases ct all kinds success - Y fs71 treated, Electricity used. LADY' AASTOR All Virginia is divided into 'many parts. One of .these the Lan,gh'onnes inhabited. Of 5hese the bravest was Nancy. At Mirador, Mbeinarie tCounty, Va., dwelt Iivlaster and Mistress Chiswell Dabney Langhprne, wh'o'dttring the era of cotillion‘ and lancers and be- fore the tango, el he coach, the trap ;and sidesaddile and 'before the Ford, bestowed upon iihsi? ha'pp'y commun- ity a living Pllei dell a milting con- :stellation of figbeautiful star -eyed daughters. Of these 'sisters Irene Langhorne was the most be'autifu'l, and the most gracious; but 'sister Watley was indeed the bravest, and it is of her we sing, !It is a pleasant lean to sing; one :about Nancy Langhorne: A song! ,pitched largely in \tia'jor ,eh'ords and 'broad, :ch'eenftel, ascending nte'lodies.I Undoubtedly it is a babbleh'ymn more often than not, but 'not without ro- 'mantic naotunnes ane .ballads, It is a Pleasant song to sing because it is about a girl who never has grown up,. Of course, none of us does grow Where Weight':Counts rr you were a working man de- pendent upon a not too 1'lberal sup- piy of daily work to sulpport your. ramrly, what would you think if Your weight went down from 150 to A6'pounds'?. Herbert was alarmed when this happened to him, but 'ileo didnot want to . take "time oer" nor to spend money on himself. However, coughing and weuttneae hadtheir .effect end one day he had to, be hur- ried to the Toronto Iiospitahfor Con suntptives. The experienced doctors at the hospital shook their' heads when Herbert's weight was known iso little to. build on! Bowe^er, patiencel, 'gond nl rstng and complete 'rest have • hathe desl,ied effect. Isis weight, has i.ti- creasod twenty-two pounds, and be ' :reels surethat he will be able, to return to support his family at no .distant date: • Financial assistance is urgently needed tocontinue the good work 'for many such as Herbert, Will you :please lend your assistance by send-. •ing a generous contrthutten to G, A. :Reid, 223 College St., Toronto 2: up. We know and do a lot of things N where we are young and growing. Later we simply cons'olid'ate our ideas, b fi a g g c' e st army and he knew that he had a the . Langhorne Pleiades 'had lost one choice, He decided that he would be Of its stars, she brought with her etter off taking the chance of con- ict with the boys than the certainty f daily assault and battery of no en't1e variety at the hands of the racious Irene and the femin'inely:ac om'ptished Nancy. He has been gen- rous enough in Water years to tell this tory himself attd to say that he act - ally did go back and fight, that his and realize upon the result ,with a bit more restraint. iWe ceaste' to invent. IW.e simply becotne cautious. Accord- ingly, in order to understand some- thing of 'Lady Astor, :British Member of Parliament, who has just arrived in America fora short visit to her na- tive state, we must.first observe Nan- cy .Langhorne in her teens, She was a child devoted to amaz- ing contrasts of habit that were a never-ending source of delightful, amusing or painful surprises to her devoted parentsand sisters. She was graceful; she loved pretty clothes; alae was musical; she danced lightly. She could be delicate in manner, sweet and thoroughly feminine; that is, for one moment she might. The next mo- ment s'hte' was Virginia's champion tomboy. She would ,put dawn the lid of the piano after .finishing quite pret- tily a saccharine Chopin ndCtttrne and five minutes later, if you heard a hubbub outdoors, you would find 1liss Nancy in the middle ofthe, street p'la'ying football with the boys—and as boys played it, too„ She was dainty or rough, respect- ful or i'nupertinent, peaceful or tunbu- lept, as she seeftod to believe the sit- uation demanded. Ent undoubtedly her roughness, her ilmpenbinen'ce and her turbulence were. the emotion of the ever -reforming' Woman. Lf you were the one she roughed or insult - e' it was far "your own ,goad. 'Take the case of lJohn: Powell, later the ,famous American pianist and Com- poser. John was the fattest and most overgrown boy of the camomunity. He had a complex about it and shunned' competitive contacts with other boys. (ales. Langhorne girls liked J'o'hn, and !Nancy had a plan to cure him. It Was a .plan which required strength and daring. She knew she ,must have help. 'Seo she went to the more beau- tiful, the more gracious but so'mew!hat larger sister, !Irene,. One day sisters Nancy and Irene waited in ambush at the Langhorne gate, where John Powell had to pass on the way home from s'c'hool; When he arrived abreast of the gate the two young ladies pounced upon him, upset him and rolled the sunp'rised boy about in the dust.. This was for ilisr own good, they informed him. It was to induce him to go back and: play 'a4th—acrd yes, when necessary. to; sustain his self-respect, 'to 'fight—each and every boy in the neighborhoo'd. efahn Powell rubbed himself' here and there, and' reflected, He knew memories of things pleasant and un- pleasant. All had not been ri'din'g to hounds and dancing in the Camm'on wealtth of Virginia. There .was a stra- tum there ,that walked and limped, that never rode or danced. There were, 'particularly, too many tired wo- men and too many poor and hopeless, childreu•, former boyish tyrants were so con- ,And when she reached London she founded by his unexpected and fero- found still wider there the gulf be- cious btliigerenty that they let him twicen the carefree luxuri'ou's and the alone and paid him decent respect wayd'own-und'er stratum of those too front that day (onward- ;This 'narrative reveals the young girls' daring, courage and' rough -and- ready- determination to achieve a pur- pose which, outwardly a gesture of suffered the ,most. .America ° ignored b'na'ado, was inwardly an emotion of these more than sufficiently, yes; but sympathy and, understanding. in England their plight was worse. But Nancy Langhorne also possess -Here they were forced into uncon- ed a more strictly feminine type o'f'scionatbQe degradation by force of sympathy. 'Another story, w'hic'h law. proves that her' sense of denvacracyl 10f course, site magnified and:exag'- 'was 'sincere, automatic and natural, gerated; she 'was that kind. But she also will help explain her later poli' was sure she ,was right—something tic'a'I''success. ' had to be d+one about' it, What weap- It was said that she had a most ons with wth'icih to ,fight? Determine - fastidious taste in manners of speech tion? Yes. Wit? Yea. But not enough, and dross. Whee She oocasion de- those two arrows. There must be a mantled s'he could do herself tip abso-; bow and a taut Trow -string. lately to the point of immaculate per- Quer marriage arid her husband's lection, elevation to thepeerage gave her IOn one o'cc'asion, when. she .n was, the opp'ortun'ity to stand for Perlia traveling by train dressed .in her usual molt. Nro one but herself—not even impeccable manner, she dbsenved a 1 her husband—knew she hard a chance tired and poor mother ,surnonnded by to be elected, She had sublime eon - dive or six of the dirtiest' children to fidence in herself, however; for ,dor- be found in the commonwealth. The ing the preceding years she had roam dainty 'Nancy stepped. 'nearer and ed about among the poor of her noticed that the woman .was so tired neighlborhood ,day after day, talking it was impossible for her to keep from over the problems with the mothers, nodding. Every time •&lie would nod providing nursing and medical atten- a child would tug or s'qu'alwl and tion Ear the sicic and 'establishing the awaken her. first creches in ;tate communities. 1This was too much (Dor Naacy'•s im- Many men of the parties dict not pulsive nature, so she quietly 'herded understand her at all. To the Con - the c'hild'ren a'b'out her and drove them servaltives 'tlhe was supposedly a men - dawn to the 'farther end of the car. ace to established class traditions: To Then she went to the only meansofthe Liberals she was a supposed So - ablution on this day Coach --the water eia'tis't, a b'it' leftish. To the S'o'cialists cooler. 'With • a combination of ice she was supposedly a posing aristo- weter and 'her handkerchiefs she re- Gratin upstart, As a matter of fact, she dinned their han'd's and faces' es nearly was simply a ;bright, sympathetic, inl- et a condition of Cleanli4nes's as her ptl'sive young wotnan who believed equipment peemti,tted. And. she kept that as things' stood' the women - of the children about her, quieting theist England and their chi'l'dren were trot With sta,ries 'for the rest of the trip, `having a good break; that they had while the tired. mother s'le'pt :on: itot the American ,woman's pluck or !When, therefore, we jump abruptly daring to do anything about it, and er the years to the vigorously therefore she, stall N'an'cy Langhorne campaigning Lady ;Astor' it will be in impeltuosity and aggressiveness, well ,1or .us to carry with us these would do something about !t, piceteres of this tempestuous- yet ten- !Therefore, when her o ppanents der American schoolgirl.' spoke of the impertinence exhibited For..when she left for ,England' and by any woman who sought to sit in numb and dumb from long and hope - leas servitude even to :understand the misery in which it Lived. Again it was the women and their little ones which Painful Piles Go Quick—No Cutting -No Salves. Itching, bleeding or protruding piles go quickly and don't come back;' if you really remove' the cause, Bad blood circulation in the lower bowel and hemorrhoidal veins causes piles by making the, affected parts weak, flabby, almost dead, Salves• and sup- positories fail because only an Internal medicine that stimulates the circula- tion and drives outthe impure blood can actually correct the cause of piles. Dr. J'. S. Leonardt discovered a real internal Pile remedy, After oroscri'b ing it for 1;000 patients with success'in oyer 900 cases, he named it . H1E!ItiI- RIOIIID. Ohas. Alberhart and druggists everywhere sell H1E/M-PuOIID Tablets with guarantee they will end your Pile misery or money back. Parliamen't, and partioulerly Of the ignoble and'humiliating spectacle that would be presented if the first woman to sit there were an American, the goodhousewives told them to lay off their Lady Nancy. ,And the good housewives argued with and convinced their good men. Her wit and deadly riposte in debate and on the soap :b'ox are too well known to require repeti tion here; .but it is the fact that the women Largely were wont to her not by her speeches, but by her everyday contact with them. to fact, it is not at all certain that her Beady and some- times astringent wit has not at times' done her more harm politically than good, ,Atuhough at 4 St. ,Jamas' .Square she was to become hostess to bhe great of all nations in ,politics, professions and the arts, her success was not im- mediately or easily accomplished.. Many of the conservative aristocracy of both sexes hes'it'ated to come, see and be conquered. In this emergency Ed•watd V'PI ,was once .more the good friend of the deserving 'foreigner. His Majesty not only accepted her invita- tion to a reception, but personally in- vited a number of the most difficult but necessary personalities. (His invita- tion was a command and was obeyed'. The . aristocracy came, and taw; but they were not yet conquered—particu- larly the l'ad'ies. Edward devoted himself so much to the young American h'o'stess, and seemed so allured by her witty con- versation that the ladies went into a huddle, determined to break ' up the twosome. They' proposed that . she join them at bridge. Quite truthfully she told them she did not play bridge. In fact, she said, looking alternately at them and His ;Majesty: "'I know little I cannot tell' the king from the knaves." !Well, that was that; and the ladies, looking to the ICting for his reaction, saw him shaking • with laughter. How- ever, the ladies' attendance on suc- cee'di'ng occasions was due not to the lady's wit so much a's to the,gro'wling conviction that Iady.Astor was on the women's side. She battled against men and their traditions, they found; she fought for women and their future. As to prohibition: Lady Astor's po- sition is consistent with that which she 'has maintained on other public social questions, It is the women who suffer most from an excessive liquor trade—of this she is convinced; but she does pot believe any habit -re- straining law is advisable unless the people -themselves want it. So she hammers away at the points far re- form that will be honored by popular , acceptance .and' approval. She advo- cates restrictions as to hours .and the manner of public sale; and She was so disturbed at the sight of young boys and girls visiting the bars of "pubs" that she introduced d bill ,providing that no liquor should be sold to those under .eighteen years of age. She knew she could go this far with the support 01 most fathers and all mothers. Her bill was resisted in Parliament. But Mr, Mlc'Question, representative of the 'brewers, gave her an opening one day when ,the House was dis'cu'ss- ing the composition of a committee to consider the bill, ,Reasons were re- gnested, he said, for the failure to in- clude upon the .committee "custom- ers" and "habitues" of the public houses. ;Lady Astor welcomed She suggestion and answered him; "By all mean's ,p'l'ace the habitues on the com- mittee, but in each such case I de- mand that the wife of the habitue go on the committee at the same tine." There was no applause, and her suggestion was not adopted. But the Horse reflected upon the Matter, and When the bill came up it was carried almost unanimously. '10 must not be assumed that Lady Astor always has clear sailing. She often is heckled. Naturally, her, weal- thy environment is envied by many who do not understand what promp'ts her ,politicalcareer. S:o'.nte looked upon her as a pubti'city-seeking and con- ceited snob. One woman -01 an audi- ence once shouted. at her: "My child iS as good as yours!" Lady Astor answered : "Which one of my c'hildren .do yoti mean? I have, -five. Four of Clintearethe -best chil- dren in .the world. And as for the ifibh, for, the last two years .I haven't been able to do a; thing with him. I can readily believe that your boy is PAGE SEVEN behaving better (( than he is." tAlthsough her answers are quick, deadly ande'to the point, she is more sensitive than would appear on the surface. When she was introduced into the House of Commons, the first,, woman to take her seat there, she was escorted to the desk by Asquith, and Lloyd George, at that tiree the former and present ,Prime Ministers, respec- tively. There was uo applause; the members remained seated and even the immaculate, 'Spattedand button- iered ,Austen Chamberlain kept', his silk topper on his `head. None of these acts was intended as an individual affront, but she felt the ,general` "at- mosphere of the chaneber• was hosti'le. And. a few moments after' her instal- lation she fled to the private chamber provided• for her, and there she had an honest, old-fashioned cry. Yes, she knows how to be humble and apologetic. But she is always fearless and never will allow tactics witch she considers unfairto be used against :her, Diuriag one of her first speeches, a member who likes women neither in nor out of .Parliament be- gan to mumble audibly. As she pro= 'seeded his mumbling Constantly grew louder and attention was distracted from her speech. She, of course, bad the opportunity of pro'testin'g to the Speaker. But that is not Lady Astor's way; it would be an admission that she co'u'ld not succeed without calling Dor help, She stopped ,abruptly, turned and walked over to the stumbling dis- turber and stood facing .him. Pointing her finger straight et him, she burst, out: "Now see here, yowl stop that! How do you expectme to go on with my spteeob if you keep nyuinb'lieg all the time? I don't do •that when you spea4r." This tine there was. some applause, and the speech went on without in- terruption. There has been ire Mum- bling since when 'Lady Astor has spoken. While she adores being the centre of the stage, Lady Astor can be :generous, and is happy to play sec- ond fiddle on occasion. On her wed- ding day there was the usual grated reception. Nancy was radiant, happy and bubbling with excitement. ,But the most beautiful and royal appear- ing person present was sister Irene, iwlh'e had become the wife of .Charles Dana Gibson, the artist. Guests would speak to sister Nancy and turn to gaze at Irene, "Irere's the really beautiful lady of the family," said Nancy and placed ,Sister Irene at the top of the line. Many greeted her as Nancy 'before they discovered that the bride had put her beautiful sister ,in the place of 'Manor, !Lady Astor's ideals are fund'amen'tal and devoid of illusion, 'They are prin- cipally occupied with equality of human oppotitunity, protection and 'compensation for women. tIs she a S.o'cialist? "Seciali'sm can be possible only when individual greed- disappears and that is still a long way .off." she assents, ifs she a prohibitionist? Yes, when the people themselves, un- derstanding it, desine it -but at pre- sent only So far as they San be edu- cated to understand it and desire it. IIn the meantime make it impossible for minors to learn to drink and for the wage earner to spend too much time in the pub. They tell about a hand -driving taxi driver who, recently beat a red signal, threatened bhe traffic cop's knees, missed the safety zone by a hair and Tightly grazed a bus, all in one dash. ,The cop hailed him, then strolled over to the taxi, 'pulling a big hand kerchief from his pocket enroute. "Listen, cowboy!" he. growled, "On per way back I11,1 drop this and see if you can pick it up wit' yer teeth." :Mistress'. "How is it, Mary, that when you entertain your young man in thekitchen, we don't hear .asound? Maid: "Well, you see, ma'am, he's so bashful that for the present he does nothing: but eat," !Suitor: "Sir, I would like to marry your daughter." ,Her Pal "No, young fellow.' You are too young. You are only twenty years old and she is twenty-eight, Wait ten years. Then you will be thirty, and she Will be ,twenty-eight," IHusbandt "If a man ,steals—no mat- ter what -he will live to •regret it," !Wife (sweetly) "You used to steal kisses ,from .me before we were mar- ried." !Huslband: "Well, you heard' what I said," ,First Girl: "I like .a man with a• past. A man with a past is always interest- ;Second Girl: "Th'at's true; but I don't think he's nearly so interesting as a man with a futures" Third 'Girl: '"The man who interests me is themanwith a present; and the more expensive it is the more interest I take in .him," d'oetor instructed .a poor Irishman to take the medicine he presci•ibed:pf- ter every meal. "Sure an' I will," Pat replied, "if yell only tell me where. I can get a areal to •ta'lce before t'he'e- dicing"