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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1935-01-17, Page 61 PAGE SIX .V WINGHAM ADVANCE; -TIMES ita •SYNOPSIS Ellen Church, 17 years old, finds herself alone in the world with her artist mother's last earning ringing in her ears,. to "love Tightly," Of the world she knew little. All her life she had lived alone with her mother in an okl brown house in a small rur- al community. All her life, first as a new baby, then a bubbling child; then a charming young girl . she had posed for her talented mother who sold her magizine cover painting through an art agent in the city. . Mrs, Church's broken life . . . the unfaithful husband, his disappearance . and after seventeen years of sil- ence announcement of his death was at last disclosed to Ellen. The news of the husband's death killed Mrs. Church. . . Ellen, alone, turned to the only contact she knew, the art agent in New York. Posing, .years of posing, was her only talent so she was introduced to two . leading ar- tists, Dick Alven and Sandy Macin- tosh, Both used her as a model and both fell in love with her .. , hut Ellen, trying to follow the warped philosophy of her mother to "love Tightly" resists the :thought of Iove. Her circleof friends fr' e d s t s small, artists and two or three girl models. Ellen attends a ball with Sandy. While dancing a tall young man claimed her and romance is born. A ride in the park, proposal, the next day marriage to Tony, and wealth. But she'd "Love Lightly," Ellen told herself. She'd never let him know how desperately she loved him, even though she were his wife. Ellen insists upon living her own life, rnaintaing her home in her small room, even though Tony is wealthy . . . Jane, of Tony's wealth set, is disappointed in Tony's sudden marriage to Ellen. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "I don't get Jane," she said finally. "What's she playing .for, Tony? Not that it's very sane to ask --I know what she's playing for. It's you." There was a seriousness back of Tony's casual sounding speech. "Jane and I," he said, "knocked around together for years. I suppose she'd gotten to sort of taking me for granted . . After all, we weren't res- ponsible when we met, you and L We shook all of the world's plans into a cocked hat. - Ellen spoke resentfully. "That," she said, "makes me feel Like a spare tire. If you want an an- nulment any time, you and Jane—" "You'd drop rare as easily as that?" said Tony. "You mean it?" Ellen wanted to say that she didn't mean it; that she wouldn't give hint up, not for fifty Janes. But instead she made her mouth into a straight line and iowered her lashes so that Tony couldn't look into her eyes. 1 , "I'd let you go as easily as I'd let go of this--" she told him, She op- ened her fingers' and the huge chiffon handkerchief that she was carrying fluttered, like a dead butterfly to the conservatory floor. "I'd—" "Yes, you wottld1 said Tony gruf- fly. All at once he had gathered her. so tightly into his arms that her body felt bruised against the hardness of his body. "I'm sick and tired of this stuff;" said Tony, "it's time for a showdown. We're not fencing, you and 'I—we're married. It's tirne we behaved like- human beings, or—" He stopped. For there was a.rustle of skirts (skirts do rustle this year) and a,voice spoke. "Oh—but I'm intruding!" said a voice. "It always seems as if I choose the wrong time for my entrances, doesn't it?" Of course, it was Jane—it couldn't be anybody else. She stood in the doorway of the conservatory — the light was behind her. They couldn't see the outline of her face—the ex- pression of her eyes and mouth—but somehow Tony's awns had loosened, somehow Ellen was wriggling free of them. "You don't know," said Jane, "how silly I feel:" Tony didn't say anything at all— perhaps it was because he couldn't trust his voice. Ellen didn't say any- thing either, for a moment, and then "It's quite all right," she said, "we were just rehearsing our big scene." Jane -tools a step into the conserv- atory. "It seems to me," she said at last, and levelly, "that it's always a big scene, that it's always a rehearsal. You and Tony aren't married, really." "Well," Ellen extended her slim left hand, "here's the evidence, and I have my marriage lincense ,;some- where„” If Tony had been clever enough he could have read the desperation of her bravado. Jane went on — her t•oice had thickened, "You know what 1 mean," she said. "You and Tony don't belong togeth- er. You belong with fellows like Sandy and with that Dick of yours. Tony — Tony's down my street. It's all so silly. It's like playing hide in the dark, and finding you with the wrong person when the lights come up" "Yes, .;isn't it," agreed Ellen. She wouldn't give Tony a chance to,say it first—she'd say it. "I wonder," said Jane, "why you came to my house- "I wonder," said Jane, "why you asked me?" Tony spoke at last. "Oh, for crying out loud," he said, 'it's complicated enough without-" Ellen was smoothing. the skirt of ler pretty. dress. "Yes," she said, "it is complicated HAUPTMANN'S GRIM NEIGHBOR , rs7�r4� �aJ; 44 It an ot,cn-air, worshnp across the road, from, the IIunt.ct'don county court hoose and jail, a stone carver is at work, Sometimes above .the buzz of the ctnnt re ettl, 'where Bruno N'auptniann • is err trial, the tattoo - 114 like cadence of his steel pencil ran be heard writing the biographies of de- parted souls. 'l'he above picture sh'nvs the carver at work with por- tions of the; court -house' walls in the be ekgrottnd:, enough without me, I think," her eyes were so bright that only tears could have made them so, "f think it's just about time that I did the con- ventional thing --even though' I ant a professional Bohemian. It's about time I told you, Jane, that I've just had word front town. The obvious telegram—or what have you. Explain to your guests that my grandmother is ill; tell them that a great-uncle has died and left me a legacy. .'fell then I've gone back to pose for Dick tomorrow and tomorrow's Sunday, too. : That'll, perhaps be nearer " the truth:' All at once she was running from the conservatory, scurrying along through ,the darker corners of the room. Andethen she was out of the door and racing up the stairs. Now she had gained the haven of her room and was tumbling things into her suit- case. There was a knock at the door, For a moment Ellen didn't answer, and then with an effort she steadied her voice until she could speak. "Come in," she called. The door opened. It was Jane's mother. "I met Tony," Jane's mother said without preamble. "He told me that you weren't well. That he was afraid you were going - home, Something like that, Is there anything I can do?" Ellen's voice was steady. "I was going to leave a note for you," she said. "To tell you—hoes sorry I am. Yes, there is something i wish, maybe that I could be taken to the station. I've had a telegram, "You'd drop me as easily as that?" said Tony. you see." "Pooh child," said Jane's mother, "I hope it's not bad news!" Ellen's eyes, meetings hers, knew that she didn't believe in the mythi- cal telegram. "Yes,"" said Ellen, "I'm afraid' that it is bad news." . Jane's mother was still standing in the doorway. Swiftly she spoke. Jane is my daughter," she said, "and I love her very much. Maybe she's a little spoiled; but she's a dear girl. And you must remember that sift has loved Tony for a long tune," "Whereas I haven't," answered El- len. "Ah," said 'Jane's mother, "you haven't! You'll have to love him a great deal to make up for the time you've missed, throat choking her, managed tonod a quick affirmative. "We poor working girls," she said, "like our moments of vacation with; coir rich relations." left"on'tl" said Tony gruffly, ancl. he 'D. rAl Thursday, January 17, 1935 welt is th ebuoyancy of youth, coffee and toast restored to her a certain amount of confidence in herself. Her voice didn't even tremble when she called Dielc on the phone, "If you're working today," she told him, "I'ni just the girl that will help you. Here ant I, all alone in town over Sunday." The taxi seemed to crawl through the quiet Sunday streets. and yet, at last she was with Dick in, his old familiar workroom. ''Ellen, with scarcely more than a word•of.greeting, went behind the ac- :ustorned screen and changed into ler" Indian dress. And then she was ntt again and posing, a little kneei- ng figure once more once again the child priestess. When Tony came knocking at the !oar, after the first half hour of her >osing, when at Dick's bidding he Tushed the door wide, she did not thane her position. Even though his :orning was—just now—more than a iurprise. • "I'm here," • Tony said by way of greeting, "hunting for my runaway wife!" He didn't addres Ellen at. all; he spoke to Dick, "Yes?" answered Dick, and •went on painting. "I didn't know," he add- ed, "that she was a runaway." Ellen spoke. She spoke dully, al- though she was in an agony of an- xiety and embarrassment, `"I didn't tell Dick anything about the house party — except that I'd come home" . she warned Tony. "I shouldn't think," said Tony, "that you'd have to tett him any more.. He's' got sense." "Which he doesn't always use," Dick threw in. All at once he had thrown down hisP alette. "You two kids," he said, "had better beat it away from here. I'ni tired. T can't work any More today, I suppose you had something of that sort in your mind when you 'came here, Brander? Tony still wasn't speaking to Ellen. He was speaking over herhead, at Dick. "Ellen ran out on us last night," he said, and his tone was cool. "Well it was a dull party. I don't blame her! As soon as I discovered 'she'd gone, I set out after her, of course. But I got—" he fumbled for words, "in so late that I went to the club. When I stopped at her place this morning I found that she'd blown, as usual. If you—" his voice was wistful, "if you've really finished working-" there was something pa- thetic in proud Tony's appeal, "I'd like to take Ellen out with me for a little drive somewhere or other," "Oh, by all means, said Dick. He was busily scraping bits of paint. to- Customer: "These shoes I bought gether wilt his palette knife, from you are too flimsy to walk in," Ellen hadn't been consulted. . Manageress: "Our establishment, Almost before she knew it she was madam, does not pretend to cater for clattering down the uncarpeted stairs pedestrians." of the building with Tony, toward the red roadster that waited in the street Health is the condition when all parts of the body are working toge-. then in harmony, If the Harmony is dost, ill -health follows, and where there is actual discord, we have dis- ease. Our own personal happines and our usefulness depend, in larg measure, upon our health which, t repeat, means health of. mind an body. : The past century has .witnessed ad- vances in medical science which havb. given such an understanding of dis- ease as to enable us to go far in bot the treatment and the prevention o disease and in raising the standard of personal health. In no branch o curative medicine has there bee greater advance than in the care o the insane, It is not so many year since men- tal ^ disease was regarded as a dis- grace. There are still those who feel that, their family is disgraced if one of its `nrenibers requires treatment in a mental hospital, A similai- attitude used to exist with regard to tubercu- s e 0 d h f s f n f lexis, Mental disease is not any different from physical disease except that in the one case, it is the mind rather than the heart or kidneys which is not functioning properly. Just as long as mental disorders were looked upon as evidence of possession by a devil, those suffering from such disorders were treated with cruelty. With an understanding of the true nature of the sufferings of these patients, there was developed a more humane care until now we have the mental hospi- tal rather than the asylum. The foundation of mental health is laid in childhood. It begins with the earliest training of the child in reg- ular habits of feeding;' later comes at r c es the earliest establishments of other habits, out of which the child learns to share with others; to do without things now so as to have ,pleasure ater on; to work for the joy of get- ting things done; to accept disap- pointments. 'Phe world in which we live is a very real place. We have to meet many difficulties. If we secure men- tal health, through proper training in childhood, we shall face these diffi- culties and: not run away from -them or keep to ourselves. Running away means trouble through ill -health, Fac - 'ng up to reality means.happiness.and mental health through a satisfactory adjustment to the world in which we live. Questions concerning Health, ad- dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 College St.; Toronto, will be answered personally by letter. i out.sde. Nothing was said about the house party. Believe it or not—nothing. When the sun was actually setting, Tony left Ellen at her door. This time he kissed the tips of her fingers as lightly as it is possible for a man to kiss the tips of any girl's fingers. "I'm not suggesting," he said, "that we dine together tonight. We're both worn out." It washis one reference to the night .before, "But let's get together tomorrow, you and I,' May- be we can go somewhere outside of the city, for supper." And Ellen, with the pulse in her She was turning, and then -- "I'll make your excuses to the rest, at breakfast," she said. "Don't you worry, And if you don't want to go down through the crowded rooms, now, I'l! have the car wait for ybtt at the side doer. It will take you right to your door, of course, Traffic is not heavy—this time of night. It will be quicker than the train-" Ellen was looking at her. "My another's hair," said. Ellen, "was tike Your. hair. Her eyes were' sweet—like your eyes. But site was alway s so tired." "I'rn tired, myself, nimtt of ...the time," said Jane's norther, and then itently she had -closed .the door. When Torty arrived ten minutes late, after locating the room through a certain amount of bribery and cor- ruption—when he tapped at the door of that room ' there was ne 'answer. After a; moment he pushed the door even . th+ugh he didn't belong on the floor. Brut there wasn't anyone in the room when he' entered. There wasn't even the dust of powder on the immaculate top of the Vanity table. It was nearly dawn when : Ellen ar- rivedback in her own little room, She threw her suitcase, unpacked, across a seat, and undressed herself rapidly and flung herself across her bed. And, though .she had quite ex- pceterl to snb herself to sleep, she tl dn't,. ':Exhatition is 'like that 9.t drains one of the emotions! There: was bright ttinshine. * * '1: • The next evening they drove. 'ou't to the country, to a little inn. If their talk were a trifle less formal, now,; it 'wasn't because they were speaking. to each other as married couple speak.. It was because they were beginning to. have a slight basis of reminiscence upon which.. to build coatver'sations. Ellen could almost settle "herself into the reel 'roadster as . if she be- longed in it. And Tony didn't look quite so finely drawn ae he had at the house party, when they had had their encounter' with Jane. (Continued Next Week) A HEALTH SERVICE TOP THE CANADIAN MEDICAL AZSOC'IAT1oN ANo L1.PI Tr INSURANCE COMPANIES IN CANADA MENTAL HIALT1. No on'e, can be truly healthy Unless he enjoys health of both mind and body, We have minds and we have bodies, but arc not separated the .one yet- .front the other a matte do they work low, 'buttery sunshine — lying across together, either helping or• hamper-. Ellen's face when she wakeirod. And, leg the individual in doing his best, A LITTLE( DECREE FOR LITTLE LADY Too much of a master at home was Victor Wetter, 48 -inch tall master of ceremoniesi n a stage troupe, accord- ing to his 38 -inch tall wife, Mrs, Stella :Royal Wetter, and so the judge de- icided to give Mrs. Wetter a "small w he sized decree". She isshown ith h -r attorney,. Edward , M. Koza. Clover Seed Scarce. One of the many results of the un- usual drought of the past summer. has been a smaller than usual crop of clover seed in all the principal seed producing countries, and, so far as Canada is concerned, the smallest red clover crop harvested in many years. Quebec and Eastern Ontario produc- ed most of the red clover seed grown in Canada this year, the amount of which is estimated' at only 1,500,000 pounds. The limited Canadian production ;,this year is largely seed of the hardy type, but unfortunately, the total Canadian supply is only about ane - third • of the total normal Canadian demand for one seeding. Red Clover seed, when obtainable from Northern United States or 'the more northerly countries of Europe, is acceptable as a substitute fat Canadian seed in .tun- es of domestic shortage in Canada,. but because of the almost universal shortage this year, adequate seed sup- plies of this kind will be difficult to obtain, from any source. Purchasers of red clover seed for next spring may expect to find it priced considerably higher than in. any recent years,,ancl would be well advised to seek their requirements early. A 'widower was to be married for the third time, and his bride had been married once before. The groom -el- ect wrote • across the bottomof the invitation to a friend: "Be sure to come. ,This is no am- ateur performance." "Has my boy," wrote the proud parent to the schoolmaster," a nat- ural' bent' ;in any direction?" "He has," replied the schoolmast- er. "He gives every indication of be- ing an industrial magnate some day. He gets the other boys to do all his work for him." Professional J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan. • Office -- Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes. H. W. COLBORNE.. M.D. PHYSICIAN `AND SURGEON Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Phone 54. Winghatn A. R. & F. E. DIJVA.L CHIROPRACTORS CHIROPRACTIC and ELECTRO THERAPY North Street — Wingham Telephone 800. Directory R. S. HETHERINGTON BARRISTER •arid SOLICITOR Office -- Morton Block. Telephone No. 66. .Dr. Robt. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (England) L.R.C.P. (London) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated, Office adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre St. Sunday by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272. 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