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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1926-09-30, Page 6HAL'S REVENGE . BY gUINEVERE. Hal thrust his halide tato his pock- ets and d with a defiant air, "I to - ,i,:r I'm going!" the said, de-! cidedl].'• "But 3...e. can't;" answered his sister Nell. `Cat he, Dorrie?" Dorrie Trent shook her head. "Aunt Prissy is going with us, an% that's a_," she said. "Nell and I pan- ned this trip just for ourselves." "Well, I don't see what difference it can make if Lenny and L go, too." "What's that?, Did you speak to mo, Hal?" asked,Lenny, looking up from his book. "It's just :mean!" exclaimed Hal, with an injured air: "The. girls are going to row over to Barr Island for.. s the day, ;and take their lunch, and they won't let us go with them. It would be grand fun, and we could get some of those shells we want for OUT aquarium." "So we could," said Lenny. "We can get the shells for you," Dorrie said. "You needn't!" Hal returned, short- ly. "Never mind him," said Nell, throw- ing* her arm around her friend's waist, "Let us go` and tell May to put up our lunch." And they went out together, leaving Hal to scowl and shake his fist at the door closing behind them, "As if we'd trouble them at all!" he said, indignantly. ""I'm going down- ' stairs to aslc Mother." Mrs,', Mortis had already heard Neil's plea. "We' don't want the boys to go," they said. "They are always teasing us. We want to have a quiet day with Dorrie's aunt." "And search for shells, and sketch in our folios," added Dorrie, "Very well," said Mrs_ Morris. So, when Hal came rushing in, he 'teased and argued in vain, and went back to the library with a doleful face. "Mother says we can't go, Lenny, and that settles it; but it is all NeWs fault. Such a lunch as they're going to have! Chicken sandwiches, cold custards, grapes, and an apple pia. Oh, what a feast!„ And Hal threw a book at tho cat, who had strayed in, and danced a jig to relieve his feelings. Meanwhile, preparations were going on downstairs. The lunch was pack- ed in a light willow basket, and tet oat in the porch. Hal and Lenny sat on the gate -posts to watch them depart, looking at each other with comical glances, and appar- ently quite recovered from their -die ap poi n Linent. The girls waved their handkerchiefs no they drove away, and Aunt Pris- cilla smiled upon them graciously. ""Nice boys!" -she remarked. "I won- der they didn't want to go, tool" ""Oh, they did," said Nell, "but they found they couldn't, they stopped, teasing" "Dorrie, did you put my bottle of tonic in the basket?" "Yes, ma'am," anewered Dorrie. "I mean I gave it to Lenny to put in." - "Then it's all right, I never could do without my tonic," said Aunt Pris- cilla. A little old-fashioned and fidgety was Aunt Priscilla. She made the girls wrap their capes round them on the water, and clutched the aides of the boat every tine it rocked, and did not want them to wander out of sight, hut she was a pleasant olcl lady, 'neverthe- less, and helped them search for shell, and gave them ideas about drawing that proved of nmrh assistance. It was a warn day, but there was a delightful breeze at Barr Island. With basket in hand, they strolled along the beach, finding ehe5ls of every description, smooth and rugged, round and cane -shaped, and a few pink -lined like the curled leaf of a rose. "Hal will be delighted with these," said Nell, when the basket was full, and they wandered bask to the rock where Aunt Priscilla sat reading. "Well wait until after lunch to begin our sketches, for it is nearl;, noon now." "Please, .Atint Priscilla, a we i in wadine?" n_l:ed Dorrie. Aunt Prisc;la"looked doubtful "I'm afraid the water is too ,cold:" "Oh, no. It's real warm," assured Nell, • ""Yoe will cut your feet on .the tones." "It is all sandy," Dorrie explained: ""But the crabs—" "We're not afraid ,of crabs," they r•ied in unison. So, with bare feet, they raced on the sand and through the water, and to s s c Ibsen one, would never think that Nell Morris was' called dignified in chool, and thatDorriecould sit in the parlor and entertain company as de- murely as her mother, or wait on her ick cousin with manners as quiet and gentle as a real nurse. "I'm awfully hungry," said .Dorrie, when their shoes and stockings hard been replaced. "And I feel in need of my tonic," Aunt Priscilla added.' "Open the bas- ket, Nell," With visions' of cold chicken and apple pie, the girls knelt on the rocks, and raised the lid of the well-filled basket. Then Nell started back, with a cry of dismay. "Oh, Dorrie, Dorrie,.;our lunch is gone!" "What?" cried Dorrie. It was true. Slowly they drew forth the contents of the basket—a piece of wood, wrapped in a napkin, and a few chips and stones; that was all. No bottle of ..tonic, no sandwiehes,syno grapes, no cold custards nor apple- pie, and then the two hungry girl's set up a howl that brought Aunt Priscilla from her seat on the rocks. ""Just see what those horrid boys have done!" exclaimed Neil. "`What! No lunch?" asked Aunt Priscilla. "And no tonic? What shall 1 dol" "And we aro all hungry as bears," groaned Dorrie, "This is Hal's work, I. know," said Nell, "`because we wouldn't lot him and Lenny come with us.' "But I can't do without my tonic," put in Atint Priscilla, distpally. "S take it before every rhea:." 6 Wolf, as vie haven't any meal, you don't need any tonic,' said Dorrie, with an effort et merriment. Then Nell looked at Dorrie, and Dorrie looked at Nell. Past noon and no lunch, and John was not to come after them until six. o'clock! They covered the basket, and then' Nell tock up her sketch -book. "There are some pretty little scenes here. You don't care if we go on an exploration, do you, Aunt Priscilla?" asked Dorrie, "No, if you don't go foo far; but I WIFE, REAELX The,. other day I was at a friend's, oommen: ',fie loves mualc`:atnd dame- homey, and met a woman 1 had.iiuown• Ing and pictures, and so do•I:. We are many 'Ye'ars-,..age-51e.:104 marl -04 `IMPPYh'b'en•wveiu•e to8etbee, but whoir + singe I Hist, sew: her': W'e` tallest]• of 1 am alone I sit-aud�w•onder-and won- ~ , maim thing% including: husband .,and d:er—whether ho could, make me -'really'. When Columibus discovered Ander •.happiness. .• ', , ,. •,. , ' .�hapD9.' •' - 1 . -'ca, as the-school=booksatiii'aay he did "1 , an honestly say that my husband "I went Out; with him last' night; wo he wee a few centuries too late, Fo has ....dile, inc, happy,".said Mrs. Smith: had a jolly little meal and: afterwards some -time Past`. the •historians have:.:. "Re„tlly I•lappY?" We went .down to the dance hall and •agreed that not only did; Cabot, in' an enjoyed the dancing. I mime 'home • hglish ships roach the mainland be *HQ DISCOVERED ;Ai4IICA?; PROPOSED EXTENSION T0 -EXHIBITION GROUNDS' Plan prepared for the Canadian National E.rhibibLon manag.e.ntent of the 1 D proposed. extension oil the groun:ds•.east to Straohan avenue where a. hand- some new ,eastern e'n,branee is to be erected.. It 1e proposed to brhtg.Houle- vard. Drive to the entrance and construct a new east and --west avenue 10 eon- nect with the street running math of the grandstand, Boulevard Drive sweeping southwest to the lance shore. On the north side of the avenue west of the entrance int to proposed to erect a new eleetrical building and en the south side a new automobile buliding. Provision is to be nail'e also for a new Dominion building, to he the nucleus of an Empire Court. . Changes in the street railway entrance are'elso to bo made. The tracks will be brought in on the north side of the grounds: The exhibition directorate will ask the city council this fall to sanction the plan, but,it vPIli be some years ! before 1t is part into execution • why she had ever come on this !wild, senseless trip. They Would be caught in the rain,. too, she said. She saw a dark cloud spreading. • By-and-by Nell started up. "Theao's a boat!"she cried. "Is it ---yes, it is John." It was John. He thought a stern? was threatening, he said, and he had better come after them; so they all went back, a quiet, subdued party, Hal and Lenny saw them coming! and darted nut of sight behind the lilac bushes. But Mrs.`Morris found them and administered to both, a severe scolding. But Hal had his revenge. Aunt Pris- cilla refused to aecompanythe girls on any other pleasure Artie, the sketches were not made, and tho Barr Island trip was a failute. Four hours ago, under the tree, Hal and Lenny had enjoyd a feast of chicken sandwiches, cola! custards and apple pie, and that accounted 'for their small appetites at dinner -time. And; to add to the disappointment of the girls, the looked -for storm did not take place. "Next time we plan a pleasure trip we will take care that 'Hal -does not am so hungry!" ]hear of it," said Nell. At a little distance from the beach { "And don't set your lunches out on they sat down 1 the front porch," suggested Hal, teas - "See this pretty rock, with the ferns ingly, and grasses, and this queer -shaped; Dorrie sighed. flower," said Nell; "I'll try this." i "After all," she said, "I don't think Dorrie, too, sat with busy pencil, but; after fifteen minutes' work she leaned' back. "Mine is finished," she said, and! thrust the paper under NeN'n eyes. There was rudely drawn two girls in shade hats savagely attacking a 1 hugs calve, and a Tittle, thin lady hug -1 ging a bottle of immense size, labeled! "Aunt Priscilla's Tonic." 1 "Oh, Dorrie!" said Nell, laughing, "you— There, your aunt is calling us." Then they, exceed their books and went back to the beach. Aunt Priscilla was in despair, and began complaining dolefully. ]ler head imbed because she needed her lunch, and she wished she was home again. it would have been so bad if you had only left Aunt Priscilla's tonic:" I think she was as much to blame as I was," spoke ctp Ilal in his own defence. "It was the dark clauds-we all thouglr't it would rain," said Lenny. However that was, the greater share of the blame fell on Hal, and though The Flute Among the Daisies. I heard a soldier, idle in the sun,' '- Play softly on a flute. There where he sat Tlie shoat, warm tuwrf wee thick with daisies starred. Mol fling was all about him, blue and gold; - • High heaven over him, without: a - cloud, And through the heat there blew:a lit. breeze.• The air he played was delicate and sweet, Simple and artless, rippling like a stream. It was a tune familiar and outworn, Yet from the place, the hour, and sir cunistauce It rook new grace, a freshness like young dawn. e • The breeze made merry with it, and, light -foot, ]-lanced with it like a playmate here and there, Arid all the multitude of daisies heard Ilow their gay innocence had found a voice. —W. Kersley Holmes,. in "In the Open." ' :Che' question fell from my lips al- most unconsciously. I"was sorry I had perfectly happy, but 'this ' morning I fore him, but the Vikings had landed spoken, for. there was no answer from, found myself in the' same state of per- in New.Engiand a 'good few centuries Mrs. Smith, and when I'loolte1 at her plexity—analysdng our conversation eerirer.: `' ' I thought 1 detected on ]ler face a and my: own feedings and wondering Now, a -discovery in Spokane, Wash- 'shadow—not a shadow of gloom, but whethgr _ Ted is jusi• the one man. ; iugtou, not enly provides -Ibe lase, un- just the fleeting shallow that you may could go through lite with, the one:answerable answerable bit of evidence regarding see sweeping' across the moorland 'on Alan who co}tld matte me, really happy.. the Viking discovery of America, but a• summer's day. I glanced in the d'1- Can't you help nee?" ' I also .shows that the •adventurous' sera - Nell finally forgave him, and present- Perhaps. ed him with the shells for his aquar- 'td -Time Schooner --"W611, I de- ium, she never referred to that day at Q dare, it looks as though we'might rection of her gaze She was looking, I sphook my head, at her husband sitting on the opposite'. * * " " side of the oblong table. He was not I arn'inclined to think that it Is evesi endeayoriug to entertain eny:`easier for a woman to make a Allan body. 'JIB was . just eating his really happy than for a man to• make,. supper, • ; a:'tvoman so. She bias always, the ad- * ;° ? " j vantage that most inen4ind some poi.- .. Smith was,typtcal Of 'a countless; tion' at toast of their happiness ..1n previously been ,fouud- number of -'amu: Iio had male's wo their wor7c, .A man has -two mistress: A Maeage:'i+om the Past, mita happy, but, hahadnot made her -ea to serve and One. must be his work. Nearfl'DOlrane:.'".tall�ir a1iyvabouid�er, really happq: I don't think it was -1'n , It is thus easier for a woman ,to. on which is. an insdriptlou whish Ards Iris power to -make his wife really hap- Make 'a` man really happy , thee it long puzzled the a hepti iogiets,° 1V lost py- " For.with all his; good qualities he would be , if he had no outside he ot'them, however, put' it, dowu as In- 1 lacked something which she admired' terests. In the contrary case, to Matte flan writing. This theory scone to in others, He was jest ordinary. a' woman really happy 0 man must have been wrong, for the inscription It is very difficult for a man to make Rill her whole life with a' happiness in was examined by a Norwegian eoleut- a woman really happy difficult which there will be no unfulfllisd ]tope let recently, and he at Duce declared that one mjghtrtlmost .bbink it impos• or unsatisfied desire, that s Bible. I knew 'a charming girl who I think it would help more women to went about" a goods deal with a 'friend be really happy es d:iatimet from being; of mina whom I thought 8 very fine Merely happy if they would take up. bellow. some work that would distract their ' IWas hoping they would a thoughts from themselves and benefit match, of it," and one day I asked her those around them. It. may be, after said to record a light between Vikings in a bantering way "when it was eon- all, that the real true happiness is not laird Indians at Spokane in the year Ing off." to be found through:tb:e,esedaum of an-; A.D. 1011), or more than fifty years be - She She answered. me quite seriously. other at all, bat lies iu the develop- 'fore William the Conqueror landed in '. "You know," she said, "I like him im meat of our own powers of self -ex- England. • . rovers penetrabed much farther into the country than has generally been supposed. For Spokane is,over 2,000 miles away from the New England Stator, which are described- in the Saga' of Lief 1114 Lucky, '.and where traoes of the hardy:_Noilsernen have ha it const •ted of Norse runes, 'or - letters. The runes -are ,small and' difficult to decipher•, so, at the time of writing," the tall inscription has not been trans- latest, One portion of it, `however, is - ueenseiy. We have a great deal ,in :pression.: ,hl. L. Confidence. A touring chars -a -bane packed with sightaaeors- wound slowly round the narrow turns of a deeply -descending gorge. As it rolled lower and lower, the battlemented walls of granite rose sheer up for about four hundred feet, split and turreted by untold ages into the similitude of a' fortress over- hanging the road. A.n awed sense, as of relentless pon- derosity, seemed to overtake the com- pany when, on rounding a`. fresh bend in the road, a delightsome sight lie medlately cleared the•atmosphere. From many a little cleft In the dark, towering wall sprang tufts of hare- bells, heavenly .blue, each thread-like stalk gayly swinging and shaking its fairy belle on the breeze as in a very abandon 'Of .carefree joy. Things' so bright, so graceful, so airy seemed born of the summer sky rather than of earth. The dark gray background threw into exquisite relief their deli-.. sate symmetry and lovely color- No longer was the great rocic mere• pon- derosity. It was mighty, strength as- suring security. - The bagpipe did not originate is Scotland. It'•can be traced in ancient Persia and, by inference, in Egypt, Cha-dea, and ancient Greece. .f Mosquito bites'' can be treated wits tincture of iodine, a weak, solution of ammonia, or iodine and glycerine mixed. In' its details this encaunter; seams' to have resembled the hundreds. of struggles which took place, centuries later, between' ftontiefsnlen and In-' • dittos. The Viking party consisted of twenty�fourmen, seven women, and a baby: ''They -had Damped near` this rock, and were surprised by Indians.. Placing their womenfolk on top- or the' rook for.eafety, the'Vilcings formed a ring round the moulder and fought ort their assailants as long as they could. Ireland's Ancien. "Colony." Finally, twelve of the - Vikings were killed, but the rest managed to es- cape. Some of them returned to the • scene f the conflict Leiter, buried their s a h dead, au dluscribed tlio, runes telling of their last fight. Another part of the inscription is' said to;allude to a still earlier expedition rof the Norse - Whore will traces of these hardy OF 9 y y wandersra be dieoovered next? Per- -PERI OF NIOT ER S S NIA`� Per- haps In Central America, whore there are legends of a herded white man 1 who came from the East and intro, When the Sweetest Thing on Earth is Dangerous, faced culture. eh When we s eak of the qualities ak a ren that 11 peer girl or boy has nn according to borne authorities, no itie oonly - p q ever, the Vikings were not the only good mother we always put sympathy chance in the world, with the inevit iriropeane who found their way across at the head of the list (writes a wo- able result that unless their children the Atlantic intheearly days of our man correspondent). ane made' of sterner stun' than most history. The Round Tarim' at New - youngsters ate they ]racoma the am -ort; Rhode Island, bus•r scally been Perhaps the thing drat we renters• pel her most about our.own mothers, hlttereti idlers and loafers who never claimed as Irish in. character, and 'a when we have : gi en old and they try to do anything, and vette go reap of a' pol'11 n o1. North Amc+rica, 9 through life bewailing their lack of dascribed as Ireland. the Great, which have gone from us, 1s how they kissed •luck. 11 the place to make it well when we Their =there' pity was their ruin. !dates- from the eleventh century, its stumbled and fell; the tines we wept She mad them failures when she' °aid to. have bleu found in the library. out our sorrows on their breasts, and oP the Vatican. how we could always. turn from a might just as easily have made them 1 world that beat and bruised us to the successes by filling them with ambit "� ,---r -- healing who poured , over, our scars the tion and courage,; ineteat of -sell-syn- f using Otherni to Do healing balm of her sympathy, pathy:. Niue tenths of the men who j are doing the big things ill this min-- Wrong. Yet sympathy is odor the virtues try to -day were poor boys who had 'few The drat duty of evory,nlau is to that lean ,to vice's side, and probably advantagets of education and no luxur• be and -to do good. There can news r he no other thing in the world has wreck- les, They had mothers who told thein any- possible substitute 'tut a man's responsible Ear ed •so many lives, ,ishow fortunate they were to !lava a job, personal rectitude. If he makes ship so many weaklicationmothers' indis- and who Aired their imaginations :vith,wrenk of his own life, the moral un] - criminate application of sympathy'to tales o±' -diner poor boys who bad verse hna suffered an irreparable, loss. their children. For pity paralyses ef- fort. We can be pitied lilitil ere are too helpless: to straggle against mis- fortune: We can be wept over until r leen: worked their way up to tame and for- Whatever religion •toadhss of forgive - tune. , i nese beyond our merit, no system of Barr Island without adding: come back!" There isn't a day that some mother theology knows a Way to atone for L or' - It was a:] Halls fault, too." doesn't sets me what she shrill do with sonal wrong -doing. Fog our ueva,,ones molt a son who refuses to wont, who :ern': girt Lt -is passible for n like to iia Bless Her Heart.even get up o breakfast in the r"R'hat's the trouble, hits. Barr?"Ilubert, who hadbeen sent to bed The Trials of Cife. lived syr worthily or unworthily that for bein naughty, could not get to ing, and who forces liar, or hclwhat It is in and of itself buika'sma l the grocer asked the young bride who - g k he ore t down Anci that is• what many ,mothers .do ters, to -support ,him, The mot ; r'o ortio❑ to the influence !tsx -rtr,sleep. At ten o'cloc pin proportion had stormed into his store. I stairs and said to his startled mother: when their childiev are placed in an ,worried to death over hire, but when' on other lives. "I've been cheated," was the reply. nirfortunate environment, or :came to' I' point out to her the obvious solution 1'Olroam the first king of the nurt.h- "I ordered macaroni for dinner, and "Didn't you say I was not to go to Je until I had made my peace with grips: with #hey real trials of lire, - the the hiu .wlticli is Willing him era kin dem of Israel, was n•ot !ttulc!r;g all the delivery boy brought me was a °le°'p Mother Pours over them the 'inexhauat• out of the house and forcing him to g lot of empty stems!" „ Able needs of her sympathy until° she earv'his own living, she throws .-up her in-line dualities. He hail shown sour- - - _ ,•a:-.-,: Yes dear, was the reply. , age and ability. Moreover, even the Happy Bird Marriages. PP One reason why mated birds get; and dad." delve and tilers isn't a bit of fight lett It is in vain that I Point out to her nroug he was not without Inuvara- a :long so pleasantly is that a bird lover th lion; ho snrartec] unlet the sting an ' tlieiri' a lover. He does not icoesoa 6 p 1� She felt that she was going to have a "spell," she said, and Dorrie, who knew what .Ant Priscilla's spells were, sighed to herself. She remembered the times at home when the and lady, wrapped in a shawl, with her head bandaged, lay on the lounge with meanings and groanrngs, and found fault with everything. "I wish John would come," she said. Their pleasure for the clay was over. Aunt Priscilla did not want them Lo leave her -again, and she sat there with her hand to her head, and wondered n my enemies,mummie? "Well, I've come down to forgive you makes them so -sorry 10 themselves hands in horror. I' that their morale is' complete! broken matter in which lie, dill Me great that if the boy had to wook 01' starve,of • In lulu' lu sur • he li:ruld work, So she goes on en- • j bis --septent as will! Zululand the air is so clear that injury which was bjects of flu size can he distrngurshed. Tho mothers tyle no the most halm come, in her son in bein„ a patasite as his own, There must have rr:•e n, or eight miles with their pita' are those who, having because she is.so sorry for him, hi his hewn ]told -later stn at a distance of seven g manyday starlight. little else to give their children, aver- A mother's :lone thingthyls the sweetest acclairi ed` bias a hero; and her oar - nem Whelan them with the sympathy that le and mast precious on earth—and cowl missed the -choice of. becoming, their undoing, It Is a -common thin, • the most dangerous. .Wise Is the wo• y A lightning flash• lasts for about p worthily illustrious ors both dcc_,r.ly may to hear these others telling their child- 1 man who knows how to use it go cmi:p-ronin part of a second. ( forgotten. But, he twins won his � - , r –�•. _..._. .• .. � m w place in laistoty as ire drop the delicate little attentions, so 0 dear to the feminine heart, but con- I' times to bring her the reddest cherry,' b and to sing for her els late& songs,! ural!,the vs,,ngest beetling is feather- ed and Bono. on REG'LAIR FELLERS—By Gene Byrnes . _.:.___...ill,.+l slid 8'n• A 04 MO LOOK! PINHEAD DUFFYI PIE'S 0101 OF THE ROSKTALt ---7 *�• _a " ars. 4.14 i FEEL AWrzewr�!�t� FEEL*luaears AY�SGT Ap r of .0 tA0N Qv/ERI MY MOTHER • WANTSA TAUS o seOU WHY, 110W ARE YOU PWN6AD3. WE WSRE 'WARM) AgyOirr j `(OUR I •We�AiS,NT S9svv��r• • tARG, DUSAte. . -Olen'`( gWALLERPD A SUTTON ned, and Who made Israel in Sic: ere Trifle. Whether it is ever poseiblo to dates others to sin without sinning our. selves- is.'a question :we need -nit. ills cuss. Certainly, if -see Solely that wmi.' to he the result of an act which 1pit• sell might riot ba a wrong one • wc, should •sin in doing that act. nut very little of the good wc. do is done for ourselves To bo considersle or Oa good of others is of the 5L9.ess•euro of goodness In ones oulr life, it. fsjust as possible to exert a per- manent influence for good.is for. harm. If Jeroboam bad done it good thing which had become a custom, aril his name Thad been forgotten as !.hat of one '11 11,0111 in any way aecotir,pkisited it, still .weld high heaven have made sure of the record, anti a world that aright not have known whom to thank • swould have breathed a blessing on a than unknown but still a be_net'actor, - who did right so incanspicu+nisly'that. •1- '` ` � •� . the world forgot Mei, but so affective -1 Caen"'ly that for generations he ' helped' aµte �orr'rriu• rszs tyT. � others to do right,