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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1919-06-05, Page 2Pure Cleans 1 Ec mo real C Preserved 81 sold only in Sealed air.tigl t packets to preserve its native goodness. ' 8574 Used in Millions of Tea -Pots daily FLIZA iET S LTTE By IDA M. BUDD, The house seemed a bit lonely as something black. He was shocked to Mr. Mason came in at tea -time. He wondered where Mabel was. Then he remembered that she was to stay all night with her sister, who was The maid had tea ready and he sat down with his thoughts full of busi- ness, as they usually were. It was lonely without Mabel and the meal was soon finished; then he went up to his room. Mabel had laid out the coat and vest he would want to wear to the entered. lodge that evening, and a clean hand- on,.Don't you know me, Elizabeth?" kerchief. She was not a lodge- asked, reaching for her hand. he worker herself, her spare time was She inclined her head affirmatively without a word; the hand he took was unresponsive to his cordial clasp* Again he thought of the letter. Elizabeth had never seemed resentful before. He walked over and held out his hand to Livy with a word of greeting and then asked: "Where is mother? Asleep?" "Yes," Elizabeth's voice answered; "come and look at her." She rose as she spoke and, al- though he tried to say that he would wait anal" see her in the morning, he seemed jiowerless.to do so." There was sol thing' so. strangely -compel- ling under that quiet manner; in fact .Elizabeth was so, . unlike Elizabeth. He followed her with a peculiar feel- ing as of something oppressive .in the air. As she opened the discs leading see how frail and weary she looked, Livy sat by the stove in a dejected attitude. Mother was not 'with them; perhaps she had retired. He was conscious of a sense of dis- appointment He had not realized before how eager he had been to' look into the dear, wrinkled face and to see the faded eyes brighten with the joy of meeting him. He stepped softly to the porch and rapped. Elizabeth opened the door. She looked at him strangely as he given to church activities. But she never forgot or neglected anything pertaining to his comfort or conven- ience. He donned the garments and thrust the handkerchief into his pocket. His hand came in contact with something. He drew it out and a look of annoy- ance came into his face. It was Elizabeth's letter. Mabel had asked him a week ago if he had answered it and he: had prom- ised to attend to it right away. It was. not thefirst time she had inquired; the letter had been received at least. a month before. But Mr. Mason was a very busy man. This business life was a veritable Nero in. its tyranny but—well, if youwere going to suc- ceed you simply had to submit to it, that was all there was to it. Still lie did not feel quite comfort- able about the letter. He knew he into mother's room he closed his eyes would have answered it before only for an instant with a sudden dread that it contained a request which he had not Butte decided how to meet. Elizabeth had asked the loan of a few dollars to enable her to 'buy a sewing machine, the old one having, after many years of use, gone out of commission. She explained that, within the past year she had earned enough with her pen to buy several machines, only that it had been necessary to apply it in other ways. She was sure, how- ever, that, if she could get the family sewing done she could find time for her writing again and could return the money in a few months. Mr. Mason stood for a moment in deep thought. With Elizabeth's res- ponsibilities in the honie—mother in her eighty-sixth year and Livy, a life-long cripple, to be cared for, and practically all the household tasks to be performed by her own hands, it was unlikely that she eould find much that they might, meet a sight he coald not bear to look upon. Then turning hastily, he passed through the outer door of the living room to the front porch. Something swelled out on the evening/ breeze and swept his arm; he grasped it; it was the streamer of black crepe. (To be continued.) CAPTURING A MPNE-LAYER Clever Ruse of a Diver Resulted in Surrender of German U -Boat. Extraordinary things happened to the U.S. destroyer flotilla as they hunted the German submarine, but the strangest adventure of all came in a British port where some of the IIS. ships were tied up. A German submarine mine -layer had wormed its. way in and was letting out its mines time for writing- when the crew was startled by a tap - And then there was the possibility ping on the conning tower. Some that the granting of this request one with a hammer tapped out this might open the door for others and message in International code: lead to no end of annoyance. Well, lie would see. He couldn't write be- fore to -morrow anyway, as the lodge was to install that evening. And with was too confused to act, and again this relieving thought he laid the let- came the dashes and dots spellingout teron the dresser and went down a warning: "Depth charge has been stairs. wired and lowered." It was very Iate that night, or Then up came the submarine, and rather very early the next morning, a thoroughly frightened commander when Mr. Mason, having borne with surrendered to the destroyers. The much credit to himself, his part in man who hammered out the message the installation ceremonies, retired. wasa diver at work on a sunken ship But he did not sleep. He tossed in the harbor. and turned, adjusted and reajusted "I saw this feller," he said. "I the pillows, and was wider awake than ever. When at last he fell into a light doze he was suddenly aroused by the tantalizing flutter of a letter. lie recognized it at once—Elizabeth's. He remembered that he had left the real letter on the dresser. It might be wise to take care of it. Mabel would find it and it might lead to renewed inquiries. Be secured the letter and put it into the pocket of his business, coat. Then he went back and this time he slept. But he dreamed. Not that there was anything disturbing in the mere fact; he frequently dreamed. More - Will the Lesson Stick? Start the Baby Right. V7e have zecently.passed, through From the instant a motherhears a trying time, which brought new that first significant cry which pro- experiences and which taught us claims to the world the birth of a many things in the way, of economy new life, she is confronted by a prob- and thrift. Now that the war has hem wiinoh increases in complexity been won many people seem to think: with the passing of the years. there is no longer any necessity for Upon the early habits of the baby self-denial ' and are speedily falling will depend her ability to fulfill her back into old habits of extravagance.' many duties. She can train the baby In such cases the lesson has surely! to "be entirely dependent upon her been in vain so far as theindividual' during his waking hours,._ and thus let him become the spoiled child who later develops into a family nuisance, or she can begin even when he is in his, tiny crib, to : sow the seed of self- reliance, which will make ;him the• responsible and desirable citizen. She would not be guilty of pulling up the sprouting plant to see if it vfras grow- ing; why carry her baby about'p•her arms or hold him in her lap when 1}e• can kick and crow so much snore freely in his own bed? The baby who is bathed, fed, given is concerned. Quckly, indeed, do we forget. Never again will a similar opportunity pre- sent, itself for getting a start in the right direction. At least it is hoped and expected - that the terrible ex- periences in battle -torn Europe will never be repeated. The hope of the nations lies ,in the direction of peace for all future years to come. So prone are we to follow along the beaten path' of habit that it requires some- thing very much out of the ordinary to arouse us to make an effort in a his nap regularly, allowed freedom in different direction, which to grow and not hampered by So with the self-denial made net- too much attention will develop into essary by the war, with everything a healthy, happy, helpful child and be possible done to encourage economy in food and in dress, with thrift stamps and bonds to the limit of our ability as a means of gaining the vic- tory, it gave us a splendid start on the right road. Shall we allow our- selves to profit nothing by the les- son and drift back into our old habits of extravagance and selfishness? Shall we not rather, with our newly acquired mental equipment for serv- ice, determine from now on to devote less thought to self and more to the great Brotherhood of Man? Shall we not be broader -minded, more sympathetic and charitable, less ready to criticise and find fault, more generous with time and means toward the unfortunate of alli.lands, and less inclined to limit our efforts„to those with whom we are imore -intimately associated? "Lord God of Hosts; be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget!” "Rise and surrender or depth charge will be exploded against your hull." The commander of the submarine used to know the Interrational Morse code in the navy, so I tapped him the message with my hammer." "Was there a depth bomb, as you told him?" "No! That was bluff. I figured that if I could scare the submarine to the surface the destroyers would have no trouble in taking care of it." THE LAZIEST OF BIRDS, An Inhabitant of Australia and Indian Ocean Islands. The laziest of birds is the frog - mouth. He sleeps all day, and at over he was not superstitious and night, instead of flying about in search hence did not atta'cit any importance of food, he sits on a limb and literally to the visions, pleasing or grotesque, of his head upon his bed. But this dream impressed him rather strangely. He seemed to be walking along the old familiar road leading to the old weather-beaten a joy to his parents and a pleasure to their friends. Two Women. She kept her dwelling ,as epic and span As the shining sides of a nice new pan. And prided herself she had done her best Though she never sat hi the shade to rest, Her children's clothing was always clean And never a hole by chance was seen She thought she surely was doing right Though she never sang them love - songs:: at night. - Her husband's* -wish was her law and creed,` She'd ne'er neglect his slightest need, Though• .she : felttoo weary to talk with him And her fern grew stooped and her eyesight dim. Now her shiftless neighbor across the way ' Would leave her dishes to talk or Swat the Fly. The blow -fly becomes active at the first signs of settled weather, and its progeny soon numbers thousands. It visits every place that smells favor- able for depositing its eggs and de- veloping the larvae, for the fly is impartial and will follow an odor no matter whether it comes from a pal- ace or a hovel. Piles of decaying manure, decaying animal and vege- table matter, etc., are all;ideal places for fly breeding, and it is in such places that eggs are laid. The fly can follow an odor as ably as any four -footed animal, and it likes foul smells best of all. Its sense of smell ip a very reliable guide to food and breeding places. It is plain, then, that cleanliness about the house, barn and the whole outdoors determines how many flies one is likely to have. Garbage pails, pig -pens, rotting vegetables and the uncovered outhouses should receive attention in order to forestall the flies' activity about your house. Without going into details about the various diseases they are said to carry it is known that flies leave germs by the wholesale wherever they walk. Admirably adapted for carrying microbes on account of cer- tain hairs and spines on the outer parts of his anatomy, the little pad which holds him to the ceiling also carries germs.. When crawling over filth of any, kind this little cup - shaped pad never fails to gather a large number of microbes, which are deposited later on other surfaces. Flies love filth, and it seems almost impossible to exterminate them if nothing is done to put an end, to their breeding places. waits for the insects to come and feed him. He is such a sound sleeper that you can push him off his perch with a stick and not wake4iim. He inhabits Australia and the islands of the Indian Oceau. farinl,nage from which he had gone In size the frogmouth resemi)les the years before, to make his own whippoorwill, and gets Ills name from way in the world, lie strolled leisurely up the long path, thinking hoary pleased and sur- prised mother would be; noting the fragrance from the apple trees his father had set and cared for, and the whiteness of their clustered blossoms through the deepening twilight. The mate on the roofs of houses. on fences Iight from the kitchen lamp streamed or stumps. Only after the sun goes out in long rays over the path and down does he show any inclination to discordant and out of rhythm with the grape -trellis beside it. 'move about. All day he sits with feet the world and with Isis own nature by With stealthy step he neared the glued to the limb of a gum tree, indif irregularity in sleeping and eating h t i 1 d` t b] d diet diet his wide mouth, which serves as his insect trap. Too lazy to fly for his food, like other birds, he crawls along the limb of a tree, opening his wide mouth and snapping it shut, catching what flies` and gnats come within his range. At night lie perches with hie play. Her babies rompers were plain and cheap But she held' them close when they went to sleep And -her husband found her; -compan- ion, friend, Sweetheart and wife at the long day's end, Which of the women do I admire? Which in your home would you de- sire? e-sire? Martha, the toiler, was not denied, But Mary sat at the Saviour's side. Essentials to the Child. The absolute necessities for the child, if he or she is to be healthy and strong, are these: 1. Happy spirits, born of sympathy and understanding and loving hind- ness on the part of the parents or guardians. 2. Several hours of vigorous play and work outdoors every day. 3. At least two' hours of quiet hap- piness with older people daily; di- rectly after the noon meal, with little periods of quiet'happiness with older persons the first thing in the morn- ing to' key them for the day, and the last thing in the evening to key their minds so that sleep'can do for them its proper work of regen- eration. 4. A scientific diet in;which fresh vegetables and fruits (not too much fruit on account of the acid) form at least 50-50 part of the entire intake of. food, with a corresponding de- crease in proteids, carbohydrates and sugar, dessert, etc. 5. Long acid regular hours of sleep with the windows wide open. 6. A cold shower and rub -off the first thing every morning. You know what happens to a watch if you wind it three or four times a day one day, and let it run down the next day, and never wind it twice at the same time; well, just so much more can any child's life be made WORK EXPECTED OF MACHINE, What Hawker's Airplane Would Have Accomplished if Trip Completed. The following calculation by an en- gineer of a company supplying motors for a majority of British airplanes shows what Hawker and Grieve ex- pected their machine to accomplish in the transatlantic flight covering a period of at least twenty hours: The blade of each propeller to travel 12,000 miles. The piston in each cylinder to travel 40 miles, so with four motors of twelve cylinders each the pistons' distance would be 21,120 miles. The engine to make 2,160,000 re- volutions. The valves to be operated 26,920,- 000 times. The pump forcing water through the radiator to have a lift of 33,400 gal- lons. The actual work performed by the engine would represent approximately 4;600;000 feet tons, which is, sufficient energy to lift the steamship Olympic, of 45,000 tons, 100 feet in the air. TORONTO HAS NOW HER OWN CREATOR OF FASHIONS. Toronto has made another step to- wards becoming the recognized centre of Pashions for Canada, for it will now have its own Creator of Fashions in the person of Suzanne Berique, who has been established in Paris for some years and who enjoyed the patronage of"many of Paris' foremost society women, including many Americans. The following are some of the lead- ers she was privileged to dress: La Bayonne de Bethune. La Vfcomtisse de Sampignit. Madame Vanderbilt. Madame de Castanet. Mademoiselle Harrison, etc. Temporary apartments have been secured at 105 Bloor St. West, Toronto, where she will open an establishment catering to the very highest class of dressrnalting in - all its branches, in. eluding. ladies' lingerie, gowns, man- tles, etc. She will create new models or design special gowns for any per- son desiring exclusiveness. In order to protect her art and patrons from un- scrupulous,persons who would falsely claim to wear her creations, a trade mark and Serial number is sewn in every garment and a complete record, of, same is kept. Hours, 2' to 6 p.m.' Please write or telephone for an ap- pointment., Fpr,no consideration nor for any money will a new creation or eaipedially -•deeigned gown be' dupli- dated for. any: one else. She will be to Canada what Worth is to Paris. tebldow. Elizabeth vat sewing on, ferent to the rain or t e rop ca sun. and by inor ane a or un a'anee MISSING Captain Grant A. G'rooderham, re- turned flying officer, missing from home since noon' of Friday, May 2. Was suffering from loss of memory. Age 27, short, height about five feet four inches; broad shoulders and walked very erect; clean shaven; cleft in chin (may possibly have grown a beard by this time); grey eyes, heavy brown hair. Was wearing dark grey suit, blue overcoat with belt, green fedora hat and tan boots. Any infor- mation as to his whereabouts would be gratefully received by his parents, at 40 Madison Avenue, Toronto. Tele- phone College 1107. Thirty thousand fur seals will be destroyed at St. Paul Islands, Behr- ing Sea, this spring. Every part of the seals will be utilized. Canada has to remit to foreign ,countries a sum of well over half a million dollars a day. simply to pay our, indebtedness abroad;+ according to 'the Canadian . Trade ..commission, Dominion trade is rapidly running. back. to pre-war standards. Yet the largely increased debt whish war brought us makes it imperative, says the Canadian Trade Commission, that this should be prevented, and that peace -time work can be on a war- time scale. oft QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY KINGSTON, ONtaaao ARTS Pert of the Arts course they be covered by correspondence. MEDICINE EDUCATION APPLIED SCIENCE Mining, Chemical, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering SUMMER SCHOOL RAVIIATI0H SCHOOL Juty and August. December to April 20 GEO. Y. CHOWN, Registrar. All grades: Write for prices. TORONTO SALT WORKS CI. J. CLIFF - TORONT, Can be preserved• ct a coot of 2t per Damn' with Mewing Egg Preserver 7ple, ft a Taut 4,tb it solid^ a,meetan ni,is-s- teedt to, •keep eggs ire for nine months and longer, J4 60o boswW ao 30 dozen. cii'gs Get itfrom your dealer or send die to 'Fleming Egg Preserver Co, 1,6 Craig fit. FT. 5do8treai Salt in the oven under 'baking tine will prevent scorching on the bot- tom. The favorable trade,; balance of $572,000,600 of 1917 .had already dropped to half that figure in the last fiscal year. The Dominion may have to face an adverse balance of trade next fall,.and that is' why the Can- adian Trade Commission wishes the enormous .importance of exports 'to be grasped even by children. a.: GOVERNMENT FOR '�U ,ITY s�:iia COOKI• AST Di NO r DELIGHTFUL UV. CLARKusercasioureee► i ,."�"»,. intra STURDY WEAR Put the boys and girls in t shoes this summer. They can have two or three pairs of ma* for the price of one pair of leather shoes. The how price of " and their sturdy 'wear; make them the most satisfactory and economical summer shoes you can buy for children. The Best Shoe Stores Sell ►*: SOME NOVEL HONEYMOONS ROMANTIC BEGINNINGS OF WED- DED LIFE. Trip Through Cloudlend, Sojourn on, • Mountain Peak, Journey in Dense Forests Are Among These Bridal Exploits. The aeroplane honeymoon of Maier` D. L. Williams 1t.A.l+., and Itis bride, who recently began. their wedded lite, in this uubonven'tional fashion, was, not the first example of a. cl'oudland wedding: trip:, As long ago as 1373 (when aero-• pianos and airships were probably not even' dreamt of) • the, late. Sir Henry Colville, then a dashing• young captain in the .Grenadier Guards, and his bride' startled society by opening their' hbioynioon in a balloon,. ,r'obably. one of the most roailantic' and' enjoyable Of these aerial' looney-. moon trips , was that of M, Camille rlemmerion, the famous Belgian as; tionomer, and hie. charming and dal' •hiss bride. For 13 Hours they sailed together "'in'company with the'suneet-• kissed clouds and, "later, under a. canopy'of twingling•stars." "My delight," Madanao Flemruarion says, "was inexpressible; to sit be- tide my newly -made husband—here in the sky, travelling I knew not where. We were in the •staixy spree, baying at our feet clouds that seemed' vast mountains of snow; an impressive, unearthly landscape — white ceps,. ,glaciers, valleys, ridges, precipices. It. 'was a scene beyond all words!" At one time there was quite a craze for freak honeymoons;they were• spent on tandem bicycles, in caravans,. 'on motor tours, while an American took his bride •tram the church to lois small boat in which they were to cross the Atlantic. Honeymoon In Polar Regions. An adventurous pair of Swiss lovers,. both keen mountaineers, chose the• • summit of Mont Blanc (which is 15,- : 732 ft. above sea -level) as the -places for 'their honeymoon, and there, amid J. the snow•elad•pealts..and under Aratic- like conditions, they ' braved it. to -• gether for over a week. Even more strenuous and hazardous. was the Honeymoon of.tlie Comte de Lesiktin and his bride, who left the altar on a perilous journey from Pekin :too Calcutta,. climhifig mountains 20,-' 000 feet high, tramping through dorsi-• ate regions. whore for two.nonths:they saw no living soul, escaping drowning• in swollen rivers as by. a miracle, ing on the genie they' could shoot; and wandering for days - on vast deserts. and mud plateaux.. It was the fear of a boring honey- moon that inspired 'Mr• Max Fleisch- man, the American millionaire, to spend $75,000 on an after -wedding trip - to the Polar regions. A spacial ship, was chartered and manned by a crew of 19. When Mn. Fleischman returned. with his bride to Cincinnati lie de- olared the honeymoon worth every penny he had spent. "Forty-seven days," lie said, "we spent running steadily against the gathering ice in an effort to land ' on the north-east coast of Greenland." Very fine sport was had, and the hap- py couple, dressed in leather -lined sheepskin, were lucky enouglt to kill 30 head of reindeer, 100 seals "and 23 polar bears. Most Adventurous of `'rips. When Major Powell -Cotton led lila bride to the altar at Nairobi, in tisk East Africa, it was the prelimin• any to perhaps the most remarkable wedding journey ever undertaken. Turning their faces westwards the brave couple plunged • into the very heart of "darkest Africa," malting their way through hundreds of leagues of dense forest, hob -nabbing with pig - mins and cannibals, who bad never be- fore set eyes on a white woman, ex. ploring the wilds of Congo Land and Uganda, and after a year and Moro u_ such adventures as made Stanley famous, finding their way hack to civilization, travel -worn, but .vowing that they had` had an "Ideal honey- moone Quite different. was the honeymoon s enjoyed by a, well-known cyclist end his bride. This resolved itself into a run across Europe, via the Balicins, to Constantinople by motor bicycle and' trailer, a trip,whieht although success- fully completed, would have daunted most young couples. Needless to add, this happened before the war. It was a Scottish couple Who hit upon the uncommon idea of spending their. honeymoon in a furniture van, which they hired and had fitted un for the purpose., In this somewl at pen derous velriclo they made their way leisurely from Glasgow to Aberdeen. Passing Him Along. It isn't exactly a common acaur- rence to find a man standing in a pub- lic highway holding a rain b"y the horns, and. the passerby was interest- ed, ' "Will. ye pleaso,hold on to this behat while I climb. the lane and open that gate?" asked the man politely, "Certainly," replied the stranger, And he did so. "Thanks!' said the man from the other side of the fence, "The brute attaolced me an horn' ago„ and we'fe been struggling, ever since, But ;O,o long as ye hold his horns he can't hurt, ye. And T wish yie the same heels ie• getting away as. I'vc had," S t