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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1927-02-10, Page 6au Cannot in bulk.' S&.d only $n sealed packages. ;off o Money BY SOPHIE ItEBIR. PART I. "Dona worry about me, Aunt Mary." ,said Anne Thorne, "That Mr. Fink who Was here will meet sire, and anyway I ,in take care of myself." Her appearance bore out her words; tot you. Why, you're my mother, a handsome girl, with cleat• gray eyes Aunt Mary Some women are moth - and clear pink cheeks and a fine, dI ere with their bodies, and some with sect, up -headed way with her, The 'their' hearts, and that last is you." ,. pink was burned to rose -red now, and Mrs. ()hailer's eyes twinkled with her eyes, usually so serene, were brit- quick tears, "you lamb-you''ve been /WAY alive with an inner fire. more to me than I could be to you,, "I know you can," agreed Mrs. precious. I feel like, you're, my own Chaney, "But if I could be with you --I took you when you were such a --there's no use talking though. ° 'Ade- little tike." line can't run the house herself." She "Then why—" "New, Anne! Let's have it straight once and for all. Just becausgyon've inherited this money I can't letsyou clump a lot of it on me and get my Life all out of kilter. That's what it would amount to. You don't understand yet about money. It does queer things to folks," et elm/ •alai + c c over Anne's bright- ness "That's true anyway. I. can't tell you holy many people have spoken o hie—asked are If maybe be I'd like to give the town a hospital, or endow the library, or build a new Methodist church, or a parish house for the Episcopalian, or give. a townelock-" "The nerve!" "And Mrs. Devlin thought I might like to have Lelia trained for grand dont let"s begin that argument all over again. You know how I feel," I. do -anti I think you're down - eight meati: After g11 you've done.for me, you don't want me to do anything looked. at the girl with affectionate concern. She 'and Anne always lin- gered a little after the last meal of the day, when the boarders lied gone their several ways to movies, prayer Muting, lecture or whatever other • evening diversion Cartertown pro- vided, - "11 would be lots more fun with yon," said Anne. "Oh, Aunt. Mary, 'when I get thinking about it I'm al- most too excited to live, Ever so much money -ever and ever so much! You can sell the boarding house and never do another bit of work as long as you live." "An idle life is n useless life," said Ivfrs.''Chaner sententiously. "I'd go braxy holding my hands. However, ores, and Mire, Case wants me to ono of the close-Iippeci,'silent "Haynest .!. +a 4 yam. �/p , send young •Edg i` to seientifie schools- prond,.end unapproachable:; i 'i'P IL )Ig��CC� I�� i ,. LFS o"t'�n: because hes going to be en inventor, "Salt • of tho earth, but just a teeth "the lazy little rat I wish she knew Mite'toueliy," went the local phrase, • " what I know about hint. Everybody But now, suddenly, out of a clear ®.The Royal. B nk 0f Comics wants to help me spend but you, and sky, came news that Anne was heir to you're the one who ought to help ate." all of the. properties 'of old Andrew ' The fifty-eighth annual E'etresal meet- the hank's growth and expansion dm- , Now, now, don't start that .again Thorne, the great-uncle who hart' so tag of The Royal Bank of ,Causele, held Folks ought to be. ashamed! Anne, .wickedly deserted her helpless' in- at the•hsaad office, marked the close of what does • Louis say -about the fancy, A dry, well-dressed, gray little a very smocalssf01 3`eez• and was attend - money, I:me.1?" • 1 man namedfink had appeared at ed byalas gagathodaeofe'Ue.rehoidece. "He didn't say much of anything Cartertown only a week before, sent is Several annelm oemento of special when l told him ee,; the phone. And by Andrew Thorne's attorneys, who $fiterest' wea'e made both by Sir Nee I.heven't seen him," Happiness came had been searching for Anne ever beret Holt, president, and C. E. Nom, back to her face as she spoke of Louis, since the death of the unrepentant old general manager, In his address, 31r• "He7l be, in this evening, and I've got sinner, their clic et. It had taken over I kiea'lb'ert Holtgave a complete review to run over to Thelma Downes' and a month to find her; tor though he had of the outstanding features of the give her the key to the apparatus clo- expressly willed everything to hes', he -growth in Canada's tirade and industry Iset. I brought it home from school had -seemingly with malice. afore- and took the view that during the past inc this afternoon. She jumped thought -loft no direetioris as .to her Year there had been steady and' sub - up itnel came round the table to Mrs. whereabouts. ' ',Having fey eted her stantlaul improvement in almost every Chaney and hugged her tight with her out, and through then'. invaluable 'Mr. department of Canada's busyness life. strong young arms. "I wish you Fink verified her claim, the attorneys Disoussang the necessity of the re - weren't so obstinate. You don't help now required her presence in the city. me one bit." I In the morning site was to.start, Myst Charier returned the hugwithlys. Chimer rose and bo anto 1e ar " ,; tl i merest. Ityou obstinate,' 7a table dis' i ' hot oust na 'rte I s who're ' helper P d y, Aciehne the and always were." She sighed with ler in the kitchen, was waiting.. to pretended regret. "If you weren't too }rash the dishes. There was no use Lig to spank—_" "1 know -you'd love to! Tell Louis I'll be only a minute, if he comes be- fore l'in baek," • She hurried away on her errand. 14Irs. Chaney sat still, .thinking, her Peril in it for the Irving maternal"relit- capable working hands folded in idle_ tion she held to the -girl. She knew it, nose. Her thoughts ranged back over but was helpless. A ring at the door - g g the years. .Anne's historywas simple enough -until now. Andrew Thorne, a tall, quiet young man had been sent to Carteret:17m'by a teachers' tigen:ey to rule over the newly created high school. He brought with him his wife and three-anontii1-old dapghtert and. they boarded with Mrs. Chaney. A early epidemic of grippe naught them - both and there was the baby, left with- out a penny for her ,care, without a worrying -about it, she supposed, but she was a shrewd and sensible woman, with only one great affection in her life --Anne, : This , sweeping change' that had eonie to Anne's status had bell brought' anend to her meditations. It was Louis Haynes, and directly s, a be- hind him 'came Anne, so Mrs. Chaner did not need to give hint her,niessa e. "It's so nf' g _ CC this CYeiling, T thought You'd ' like to drive," he said, and Mrs. Chaney watched them as they' Went G?wtj the walk and get jute Louis' shabby elderly liivvct'. They made a striking couple, both tall, both straight and both good-looking. Mrs, (limner friend, and seemingly without a Tela_ shook a discouraged head at their tire save for one uncle ot1 out father, backs: '"Louis Hamel' never: live on an older Andrew Thorne, to whom any wife's money," she told the parlor iVIrs. Clianer wrote, and who replied,window curtains: "Never in: this briefly that, he would not burden him-}world.'. self )villi h.er, and she c They drove off together Louis to ould be put -in Anne, into the soft springours and an asylum or sent to the poorhouse twilight, for all of hiiti. Through the little town and out to • Mrs. Chaney tore up the letter and where the road stretched its concrete ' child oroand brought letter „up, smoothness between the Tolling, pros - took fondly and tenderly,and A»ha had porous farn7s of Carter County like a grodzr straight and ,=-mart, helping path in swell-ortlerei!, Drell=cared-fox with the tVor- of tita.boaxi;tli helping garden. The orchards were in early with rat books and. fbx botharding last:two blossom, delicately pink and white, $w bridesmaids °f sRejsm, stn teen years teaching inthepriniari echoed roldsldt? ti ".unb the (If the town, and "going with,” as'the le beginning greens; still called it in Cartertown, Louis Haynes pate' but at rah fresh, a eye a' border owner of the spacious Haynes farm, of soler that allured the eye. Beyond were the three miles out on the highway, and fields, some of thein already seeded; some with hared bosom wait -- ' ing. A fair land; quiet; tended know - 74,3 14s1- The Father; of Confederation ingiy, for many generations: Louis, a little more pinched of lip than usual, drove silently and did not look at Anne, but she looked at 1,110 - his tainted straight features, the ras- cally curl of his lashes that belied the gravity of his expression, his strong hands, all the bigness and straight- ness and `brownness of him that were so endearing. She didn't; know why she found it hard to begin. She had meant to chatter nineteen to the dozen when she got with Louis, She had thought she could tell him everything she'd thought and felt in these four extraordinary upside-down clays. But he seemed so restrained, so stiff— "Aren't you glad, Louis?" she asked at last. "I mean, foi' nit" • "I don't know whether I am or not. It's made me feel strange --crit ori' tra , from you." "I don't see why. Now it's no use you looking lie that, Louts, We've £a. got to talk this out," "How'm I looking'" "Like . one of the silent ilayneses, Stop it." He laughed and se did she, and the restraint relaxed. "I've stopped, Now begin the oratory." "I don't now where to begin, Some- times I'in eying so high I can hardly come down, and then -well, I don't know, My- gracious, Louis, think of the things ,I can buy, pretty clothes, the useless kind I've always wanted and knew it was foolish to get, andall the books 'I want, and -and every- thing! I've got an awful spendthrift streak in. me, Louis, and it's certainly been working on my imagination ever since I knew about this money. Ant I very silly?" "I never think you're silly." "Oh, Louis, you're so dear. It will be fun, won't it?" He looked straight befol•e him. "That' just it, Anne. You've got so much now and I've got so little, I've got the farm and a good house, and They Breathed Life into Confederation and ; e old . . e a Nation was Born ,Out of the separate Colonies of British America, they created a powerful Dominion, forming what is now an important part of that great Empire upon which the sun never sets. Shoulder to Shoulder with the Progress of the Canadian Confederation Marches the Record of Confederation Life Sound, conservative, avoiding. the spectacular, but building astruc- ture of enduring strength, Confederation Life Association records another year of progressive achievement in 1926. 1867 1871 Confederation Life Incorporated by Act of Parliament Confederation of Canadian Provinces 1927 60th Anniversary Confederation of Canada The Association enters the sixtieth year of the Confederation of Canada with INSURANCE IN FORCE « . . - - 230,747,937 ASSETS_ _ _ _ 50,660,858 INCOME, 1926 r .. 12,334,566 NEW INSURANCE WRITTEN AND REVIVED 45,076,77A Paid and held for benefit of policyholders since 1871 $107 6 9,77$ Full Annual Report sent upon request CONFEDERA'I'ION FIFE ASSOCIA'I'IOAT A GROWING COMPANY IN A GROWING COUNTRY HEAD OFFICE TORONTO, CANADA ay N 1; DA si I'll make you a good living. Of course Bret' Fred taking out his share last fall to go to, Alberta. has crippled me. I've got that note in the bank to pay off, for the money he got. But .I can do that, give[ me a few years. But you, with thousands and thousands of dollars maybe, and Lord knows what, besides in the wry of property - where am I ,alongside all that? No- where. And I know it. It puts things out of proportion." "But why does it? It doesn't change me. Why cant you share what I've got just as I'm going to share what you've got?" He shook las head violently. "Never in a thousandtyears. Before I'd he the kind of a louse thatlives on a woman's Ns '''i SES The Toronto Ile,pitai for Incurable, In affiliation with Bellow. and Allied Hospital,, Now York City, afters a throe, yearn' Coupe of TroIeei lto Aunts .women. Iinvinp tits required education, and &Strm,p ahbseominp nurse.. This Hospital has adopted the aloha, hour system. the pupil romans, uaitorn, at the School, n monthly alloWenec and: iravelina cocoas, to Ind Dom New York. Fpr DN., Information write the.SucorIntondenL 38805 No.'6—'27. • CO! i•ERs4TION Al , - CHARI Ing the year. or epec:iel tnipost was'.--"----------------------7---- the -•--•- -._ - =-- the Ino eaee of .$0,.504,1137 in eemaner: no ious,.reuren ber the ou falt'Y tale ciad loans In Canada. This, reflected of the two sisters who were so (11' bgalneao' stogy Ity . arising from tate fere 0t in dfee csltion that every .tine° country's growing peosPerl'ty. ' care of them spoke pearls fell from be, i laps, while, wheu'the other opened het' 11,atIonng to tiro constructive co- mouth,. toads jumped out? opet N Bron the Bank had been iii ,r pose- • f`lie'nrosds people say saws nearly ns_, P;101.1 to gave. towards oreign .the e, devolvement' - tclltal�o. in rel'ealin tkstr clinma.etea•s of Canada's, foreign trade, Mr. Neill K and tls0n hfs as ponies i+,ltd tsar• said in parte: ., would be. Their eonvessation,"althoagii "Sin hi en tlI I "Since t s bank first tom once, they are often 'not consv,ious of it, to establish branches abra,til over shows whether they are kind and 'e twenty-five_years ago, we have ec- tho:tghtfui1 or self-centered. (louver. ,C'', I(mired an intimate'knowledge of many sateen etiows, too, wlletherpeople tave foreign markets. We have done 0Ui' made any use of their brains' and of during at all taxes, Sir Iler'bert said: utmost to use this knowledge for the .theta• ltav'ots of obseavati:on. , "What Canada needs is to follow the'benefit of Canadian- trade by placing All of _us want to be able to talk examine e so f bY the . United 3t les in ft tei n UuvafiM. touch with eur ex- well, all to saythings tla� wtd1 UoP pleas - the a s Ghe red tioa of ell. taxes and in the porters and boating advantageous ant' and agreeable anti interesting to -- cost of government, so drat by econo sources of eauppay for Canadian import-otherb. The Bible takes, n•otice 01 the" macs due' to the efficiency 'of'adminis- ers. - The'Nanagers of our foreign fin - tS o art of ronvorsatiou, olid in Pro- branchee are familiar with Canadian ; verbs w'O find, "A word spoken In due produoi.s, and tt- goes without saying season/bow good is 1t!" The way to , that our opportunities'10 be of service interest people is to make theist feel ,i' a have ben numerous, 'more particular- ', that they have a Part in tiro converse, ly since' the majority of our foreign tion. ' branehee .are located in countries The first thing in becoLiTn g a gook .which are not competitors' of Canada, couversatltouailet is tet cultivate a0 in- ' but rather buyers of our Products andnem• sweetness and thoughtfulnesti that suppliers of bbur•neoessities. T knew will express themselves in a tolerant that during this past: quarter ofa esu-' and sympathetic attitude of mind to- tury wo have been able to facilitate ward others; the next thing' is to de- the movement of Candi:ut goods to velop your intelligence so that you of- the extent•of-many noL1liens of dollars." for something to tlioae with whom You ...s. Dation we may ,s-ecure a substantial reduction .in tie.tattie burden of taxa- tion ret'hea• thania change of -incidence. Canada has frequently shown that .site is not without courage In facing, her economic problems, and there ars hi. deeatfons that a bold eo-ope'rative policy of administrative economy en the 'part of all governments would inset with sltrong pubi o',approval and support." • - C. B. , Neill, general manager, , save a number of interesting pirticulai•s of •property -and that's what it would A13, it dada Cif t. u r it -I'd amount to,i and you knew it -I d t>haot Additional Qualities. .kfter.,we have cultivated the right: " t kind of feelings inside, there' are eneny myself." �-- ; • As is. already rather generally things wo should attend to so that the I Jts not fair to talk like that, known, the University of Toronto is 1/10)' give as much pleas pre as we can. You re as bad as Aunt Mary. If I'd 1 t to celebrate, nett, October, the one In Conversation. asked for this money or tried to get at, hundredth anniversary of its -found Of course we want to make our l it would be different. But, for all ing, The Alumni Federation i utak- voicesgentle, Great-uncle Andrew wouldn't do n s and easy to from e ing plans to arrange .for a birthday A loud, harsh voice detracts from the thing for me when.I was a baby, he gift to the University en that coca- charm of any person. left it'to me, straight enough, and it's sion. Various suggestions of a suit- • it is Inconsideratet• - . honestly urine. And loolc what wet Kgo as it •as ae- could.do right off.- You couI(,pay that he,giffay se ms made , but. the one less tot tale indistinctly it di or very under - note for Fred; you c tild build the new that so fay seems to make, the great- en that others tlnd it difficult to under- y 4_.. .est•a p al to the graduates is that the stand, And It does not show much stable and hog ,house yourre. been' none needing acid bund 'eat the bast new- 3 be used to place a carillon of pride in our speech If we lease off the est wa , ou bells . ir, lite 7oldie>'s 'J ower, which Mast lettere of words lvh?n' the .say y, y coutcl got a• tractor and the graduates ey 'a 1 foil sora a 'o. "running,'," Ilin ' r .. 4t.c- d 5 $ g, ," to , , u we ad'tl a le't•... buy some of the pedigreed cows you're The Soldiers' Tower P.01 f iba Univer- I5 as in "hvitit" anal "onot',; om if' w•o - so crazy for; you could mane a i'egu 5iiy of 'Foronta is said` to be the tang sti.de our w-oisie Logetiie•,: ns, "Comms a.o model Smiu—:' est sinle mini tial of t Great'Weir try, Ironttcher?" It no affected (To be continued.)g P he Pip is t e c-tl 't i» tile; 'British Empire. 1t ',vee built say "Tannin;;" ;tad `riot me try, won't with' money raised by graduates and you?" ane to add letters to words apt •t to- "^'"-- former students of the Provincial peat's illiterate, 11131esE A CHIC NEW FROCK. Charmingly youthful is the Attrac- tive frock shown here, having the modish surplice closing, tuck, at each shoulder and a becoming i•ounrd col'l i% The long sleeves arct gathered to wrist -bands and. etc finished with frills. The front of the skirt is shin t 0nor- c +a roCw lett to ltuc�oss the odice and there back. A chic bow is pieced at the left hip end dm g button- adorn the front cursing at the � Underwear uncle Nn:1473 is for misses and sn1a11! 'tor 15 cts University of Ontario. At the. time And when you stick an conversation's it was built, the filen, was to pit a burrs • • Carillon'oi` tells in it but there wa,t'Don't iitt'ew your pathway with thee'' ' not sufficient money for tlie'purpo5e,tlaondful urs.- Now it is proposed to mark the one So wrote Oliver Wendell JZohnes. i ity hundredth anniversary of the Univer-It is a bifid habit; -that of throwing irr- ityr in this distinctive way, and ser- meats -into every sentence, -but an - Oliver thus vyauld be a birthday gift outer chabit, Ltslly formed and 'Co that would neves' be forgotten: more desirable, to that. of tieing worn-' 'e - For Colds-Mtnard's Liniment. °tiSt phnlre coni PlaI. _..,anid4''o.ids orighi Ln be left out of. . f. - Reason. the con ersation•of discai>mntt.ting pee The Reason. pie, because they do not belong li sses Mother --"Ir you wanted to go slcat- good comp.Uty. This dace not mesa.' ~"� ' trg, why didn't yon conte and ask me that, all slang has to )>0 given up, fol• Tryst 1' 90010 slsn. expressions aro 050ept- Ssnnnle--"'Caus'e 1 wattled to go," able, but it does 01000 i.hat lnouy _ __ words have coarse assoelations. and It Depends. belong only to the street. __Examples "How long )vin this lawn mower of these are swell`" 'put," "her fel- last?"' asked tho careful buyer. ler" and 'beau 'Air [;tilt Yep Icitd "Flow inane and what kind of neigh. din' " is back-al1•ey tall: olid 8"u111.bolls have eons?" countered the ex- not ba beard from nice. 1°118. "Wire" perleneed htudwnre dealer, for telegram, "photo,' ad," "auto"' ' a.ud "0 K," as wall as other shortened forms of words used in business, do ' ,. not sound well i11 social conversations auh hppnal a'' ti " inolth051�0g" haitvealbeeens adttt0�p{,crltbyxigoodan custom. 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