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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1931-04-23, Page 6A GE SIX Wisigharo Adv .nce.Tites. W. Logan Craig - Publisher Published at WINGHAM ONTARIO Every Thursday Morning Subscription rates — One year $"°. Six months $1.40, in advance, To U. S. A, $2..Q per year, Advertising rates en application. -- Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co.. Established 1840 Risks taken on all class of insur- aaace at reasonable rates. Head: Office,, Guelph, Ont. enuseF.ia.: c_cesENS. „,. learn. J. W.DODD 'Two doors south of Field's Butcher shop. ,FIRE; LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE P, O. Box 366 Phone 46 WINGHAM, ONTARIO J. W. .l~ IELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer, Block, Wingham Successor to. Dudley Holmes i J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone '4:'. iagham Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC, ( Wingham, Ontario i DR. G. H. ROSS c i t , --- DENTIST ., " ^ Office Over Isard's. Store 1 H. W. 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THE %YINGHAM ADVANCE' -TIMES ASMor K rwtiece raormsei OrfrA Maggie Johnson, who father is a letter -carrier, is the domestic drudge of the humble home where her moth- ' r does' little except bemoan the fact that she. has "seen better days" and her sister, Liz, who works in a beauty, shop, lies abed late. Maggie has to get the family breakfast before she starts out to her job in the Five -and - Ten -Cent Store. There's a new boy at the Five -and - Ten, Joe Grant. He tells Maggie he hasbeen assigned to work as her helper in the stock room., He seems rather dumb, but Maggie helps„ hire through his first day at the store and shares her lunch with hire in a cub- by -hole of a place that belongs to a mattress factory next door to the 1 ive-and-Ten. They are looking over some cheap icture cards, One of them has a notto that strikes Maggie's' fancy 'The way_to begin the ideal life i :o begin." She and Joe talk abou and Joe is surprised that. th ;irl has higher standards than he ha suspected. When he goes. home that right he is thinking about Maggi S nd his home is the home of the nvner of the Mack Five and Ten cent Stores, though Maggie does no suspect he is the boss' son." Maggie, at home, begins to suspec hat her mother's complaints are du o that ' lady's belief that happiness lepends upon material things, whil it the- store she continues to sur her; gailanfi little smile. "1 don't. mind wipin' 'cm one bit, Maggie," her father's mild voice said surprised/y. "I'll help you," said Joe, putting, his hat and coat on a chair in the corner of the kitchen and helping himself to `a' dish towel. "When we haven't a maid we' eat out here. I'm one that's always had," said Mrs, Johnson. "So it don't come very easy for.ire to put up with this. sort of thing." "I see," Joe said, nodding..He sat down on the edge of a chair, and cleared his throat, and said politley:. "Mrs. Johnson, if you've no objec- tion, could Maggie go out with me. for a while?" "Why, I haven't no objections, Mrs. Johnson said discontentedly, af- ter a moment, "Maggie isn't nothing but a child, Mr. Grant, an' her father' $ an' I don't want her to get no silly ut notions into her head." e "Tenlp'rarily--temp'rarily she has d accepted a position in a—well, in a five-and-ten," said Ma. e, "I work there myself, you know, Mrs. Johnson," - "I've no doubt you do! An' I've t no doubt it's a real. nice place an' all that,"conceded Ma loftily. "But t it isn't Maggie's sort of ..place. To e put the whole. thing into anut-shell. ---" • Mrs. Johnson was resuming' e' briskly, when Joe's opportunity to rise .Joe by her appreciation of the ' ealities of life.'•s_,.h.rti;is<T .>,. ;;,, . R I 5 ar•ms were Heavy with links of gold and platinum, her legs looked bare, if they were not actually bare, her feet were elevated dizzily upon pin- nacles of gold leather. Her cheeks were smoothly and brilliantly roug- ed' her lips stiff ..with grease, her eye- brows shaved into two startling, inky arcs. Millicent's breath was thick of alcohol and nicotine, her eyelids, col- oured with blue oil, were lowered with fatigue and boredom, and she had no more heir than'her brother had, . r. I thought t you g had to go to prison to get a clip like that!"said Joe. "Isn't it adorable? They call it the cocotte," Millicent told him enthus- iastically, "It's a crown'of glory. �If I were a girl," Joe said, with sudden fire, have hair. Beautiful braids and curls and masses -of hair.:It's-pret- ty!" "Say the worth, Joe, and I'll be. your little covered wagon,". suggest ed Millicent, in an; odd tone, and with a darling little laugh. "Nothing doing; I'm, in toll," Joe answered, "You're not in coil! You're work- ing. I like you an awful lot, Joe. You think I'm •crazy, saying this. Perhaps I am. But"—her voice hus- ky—"but I like you an awful lot, Joe." Girls always said that to him, and n love with hint before'. Maggie dis-^° ^f^^�'`' :overed it. But he was a little slow n discovering that he ,in turn, was ailing in love with Maggie. But'he .dmitted to himself that his admire - on for her was: growing, and the iris in the store began to notice omething defferent about her. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "But now, lissen, Joe," she resum- ed seriously, "here's what I want to ask you. Could anyone who wasn't born to be a lady—now, f'rinstance, eke me—my mother talks a lot about my grandmother Petheridge, but—: but my . mother"—she hesitated— you wouldn't say she was always uttin' others first, and thinkin-ger n' servin-ger others before she does. erself.. You couldn't—honest!—say hat, Joe. So that—" Again she wised. "An' 'Lizabeth positively is of a lady!" she admitted regretful - y. "Well, anyway, I do not' think ire is a lady—not yet, anway. But e—do' you think—" Again she floundered. "I guess I iuldn't1" she said hastily, shrinking ick,` gallant, and he saw she was ying to save his. feelings. "You an't have to tell me, Joe," she said. "Maggie, I not only believe you. ruld, but I believe you will!" "\''yell, if you say so," she almost ng, and she rattled joyously away. On the next Sunday be went to e her. He reached the Johnson cottage in to neighborhood of three o'clock. He had to wait a few, cold, wet, lent minutes before footsteps, wadi - y approaching through the house, otified him that it had been heard. Miss Elizabeth Johnson admitted rn. For want of any guidance, -for iz, after a shout of "Maggie! Man ere!" had almost immediately` disap- ared eared into what later proved to' be er bedroom door,—Joe had follow- d the little hall into an empty dining. oom smelling of rotting apples and st, and put his head in at the kit- enhdoorway. Ala Johnson, a heavy, . woollen ki- ona tied about her ample form' with aggled tassels, was in' the rocker. At the sink stood a nondescript for- rn little figure- that Joe could not r some minutes at all identify with e, gallant picture he had formed of aggie's father, Behind the table and between the. tk and the stove was Maggie. She oked at him and said delightedly: "Well, what do you know! . I nev- heard you ring.,: If it `isn't Joe ant! Joe, have you had dinner?" 'Just up from'the table. Hello, aggie," Joe said, grinning. "This is xny mother, make you ae- ainted with my father; S'''op, this is e Grant," nt said Maggie, to g�x' Rfa was evidently not favourably pressed by Maggie's friend, I didn't know you expected a call - Maggie," 1 didn't, Ma, Sit down, Jae, You n't have to fftish those if ;you do t want to, Pa. I hate to have you axe off your apron," Sornetiines -- my father—kinder ps ixte, ;foe," she stammered, with Doty "Who's the other woman, Joe?" she drawlled theatrically, "God., you area brute!" "There isn't any other woman." He believed it. discover whether she was really cap- able of this elision was destroyed by Maggie's abrupt reentrance into the kitchen, and in another minute they were out in the dull, cold, wintry Sunday street, and she was dancing along at his side. "Want to go to a movie, Maggie?" "Oh, I'd love it! "How about 'The Highwayman'?" "Oh, Joe, no! That's a sixty -cent show. There are lots of nice little ones over on Chelsea Avenue here for twenty-five." They were at the window, he put down his money. But there were no- thing .Ieft on this Sunday afternoon but loges, at a dollar a chair. Mag- gie's face fell, and immediately' her eyes widened and she caught at his arm. "Joe, don'tbe a fool! Two dollars! It isn't Worth it!" But he saw her give a little bounce of sheer enjoyment and felicity as they went in past the mirrors - and marble columns and red boundary ropes, and he thought it was. Their seats were in the very front of the balcony deep, comfortable scats with wide arms. It was pleasant, somehow, to have that earnest little fragrant baby face come close to his in the dark, and that fuzzy aureole of gold brush his cheek, and that eager little whisper reach his ears. Joe kept his handsome head bent close to hers, and leaned his shoulder even closer. Her face, was beaming with satis- faction and wet with tears when they came otit into the chilly dusk, In parting he presented her with an enormous box of sweets. "Oh, Joe Grant! Oh, Joe—two pounds! Oh,thank you—thank you!" "Oh, hush," he said. "Now yoti run in and I'll watch you until you're inside the door." She fled up" the path, tried the knob of the porch door, called a joy- otts "Good -night and thank your •in- to the dark, was silhouetted against a gush of red light, and then was one l:r' Joe walked two blocks to his car, raging at himself, "Gosh, what a fool I am! What on earth did 1 do that for?" Millicent Russell, sitting next to him at dinner, ;was a pretty girl. From a point an inch or two below her arta-pits, to a point an inch or two above her knees, the was packed into' a; tube of spangled sating Her presumably to all other fellows, when an evening had reached about this point, Joe reflected. That was the way persons got engaged, nowadays. Millicent was trying it now. -Right here, at the Carters' hot, crowded, stupid party, Millicent Russell was trying to land him,'. "Nothing stirring," he said briefly. "Chine on, let's dance." Millicent raised the 'heavy 'heavy eyelids, looked a him with superb insolence. "Who's the other`: woman, Joe?" she drawled theatrically. "God, you are a brute!" "There isn't any other woman!" He believed it. Yet, even now, when his face was close to Millicent's curl- ed, perfumed bobbed; head, he, had a sudden memory of Maggie, child- like and eager, in a sleazy little faded white dress, 'with • a mop of living gold tumbling upon her small should- ers. Sunday night, It was an actual re- lief to think that to -morrow would. be Monday, and he would be back in the clean busy stir of the Mack again. He told himself, when Monday ar- rived, and lie reached the store to find a demurely radiant Maggie pret- tier and more endearingly propriet- ary in her manner toward him than ever, that this nonsense must stop. Therefore, it was with a real sur- prise that he Beard himself saying to her, late on Tuesday afternoon: "What you doing to -night, Mag- gie?" `Night school," she answered, colour and breath beginning their us - nal acceleration instantly. "Night school! I didn't know you went to night school!" "Why --why, but you told me to!" she accused him, reproachfully. "I—when did I? How do you mean?" "Before Christmas: Just after we first began to talk, You said °Maggie you ought to go to tight school!" "Did' I?" He was stricken, "What do you study?" he asked, "Political economy and French," she e arse veredr. b ave! y. " a tt Th s a darn good choice!" ce! Joe assured her, "If ever you go abroad. you don't want to be embarrassed' about pronouncing words." "Maggie!" came a harsh voice from. upstairs at this point. " Maggie John- son! What's happened you down in the stock room? Start yourtrotters up here with them felay medallions!" "Oh, holy Nellie!" Maggie ejacu- lated, seizing the; greets Bards upon which the medallions were stitched, and fleeing from Joe's too seductive neighborhood. "She sent me down for thein fifteen minutes ago," She left Joe very thoughtful. He took an opportunity, when they hap- pened to be entering the automat to- ggether fora late luncheon, to say cle- liberately; "Look here, Maggie. I've got some- thing. on niy mind to say to you, and by George, I'm going to say it, I want to warn you. Don't waste time, at seventeen, taking any crush too seriously. "And who do you think I've got a crush on, Joe?" "I know damn well whom you've got a crush on!" Joe growled, "Is tat so?" Maggie asked, flush- ing, "Suppose the person I had a crush on had a crush' on me?" she asked, A person might tlike P g you a lot, Maggie, and. wish for all sorts of good things for you," Joe said rather slowly. "Without—without, I say, having a crush on your' "Well, that'd be enough for me," she answered, still in the same ;and- acious, high-spirited key. "I don't want any kissin', an' as for pettin' parties." "Now, look here, you little idiot," he said, half angry, and half laugh- ing, "'don't you think you can get away with- that sort - of thing! When your hour strikes, my dear, you won't be so sure that you can get what you want! You'll be sick for more than kisses, then, Maggie, and afraid' to take them. The whole world will turn itself. into a sort of blur, with a man in the centre, and. when he,speaks you'Il answer, and you'll" say what he wants you to say, too. Don't fool yourself. You and I are friends — friends friends --I was down and out when we first began to tack together, j and you gave me a right steer' and it kind of made you like Inc.• I -like:. you—I love you -I think you're a perfectly keen kid. But that kind of love's different. You're too young to known anything about it. Believe me it's got, a lot of pain in it, and it leaves a scar—you don't get over it (Continued next week) THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON LESSON XVII,—April 26 How to Pray. --Luke 18. Golden Text.—Lord, Teach us to pray.—Luke 11:1. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING. Titre,—March, A.D. 30, a month before Christ's crucifixion. Place=Peraea. The healing of Bartimaeus at Jericho. EARNEST PRAYER. And he spake a parable untb them. Probably to His disciples, as they were the audience to whom the pre- ceding verses (Luke 17:22) were ad- dressed. To the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint. Prayer is the unfailing source of the Christian's confidence. Bold prayer, determined prayer, prayer that never gives up --that is what this parable commends to us. Saying, There. was, in a city a judge, who feared not God, and re- garded not man.' This judge is not set forth as representing God, but as a complete contrast to God. And there was a widow in that. city. The Bible is full of tender thought for widows, and accounts of kind deeds performed to aid them. And she came oft unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.' Mof- fatt's translation gives better the thought of the original: "Justice ag- ainst ,iny opponent." She can come because she is a widow, uncontrolled by any one; a wife or daughter could not come, ,for the Oriental husband or father, if he approved of the cause, would come himself in their place, and if lie 'disapproved would not allow them to. come. And he would not for a while, Doubtless he was waiting to seeif he might not be offered a bribe. But afterwards' he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man. This has been praised as hon- esty and sincerity with himself; ra- ther it is utter shamelessness,—piety and humaneness alike were nothing to hien. Yet because this widow troubleth Me, I will avenge her. He does not care for the doing of justice, but he cares mightily for his own comfort. Lest she wear me out with her con- tinual coming. The literal meaning of the verb is, "lost she give no a black eye!" The determined assaults of the women are especially violent, and they know no such word as fail. And the Lord said. That is, Jesus. Hear what the unrighteous judge saith. 33y giving to the jedge thus plainly the 'characterization of "un- righteous" ottr Lord makes it per- fectly clear that in hitt he is not setting forth the nature of Clod, and urging persistent prayer , on the Thursday, April 23rd': 1931 ground that Cod must be worn out c by our, determination -the old idea of "wrestling in, prayer." And shall not Gocl avenge his elect. God's elect are those whom God loves above all others, and is eager to heap their lives with all good things. That cry to him day and night. For even God's dear children have trials. and endure suffering, praying` con- stantly to be 'relieved from them, as. Christ prayer in Gethsemane, "Let this cup pass from inc." And yet he is long-suffering over them? He suf- fers then- for a long time to continue in their misery, knowing that though. "all chastening seemeth for the pre- sent to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit." (Heb. 12:11:) I say unto you that he will avenge them speedily. Men may think that their relief is long in coming, but God will send it as swiftly as His love and wisdom seems best. Nev- ert le he sshe w n the San of man tom= eth. When' he returns, in power and glory, to judge the earth. Shall he find faith on the earth? "Here is re- vealed the kind of faith that our Lord is in doubt about finding on the earth at His coming; faith that men will, down through all the ages, so put in practice the lesson of this priceless parable that they will al- ways pray and not faint. SINCERE PRAYER. And he spake also this parable un- to certain who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and set all others at nought. This is a perfect picture of the Pharisees, that proud and overbearing sect who called all other Jews "people of the earth," that is, no !letter than beasts. 'Two men went up into the temple to pray. Virtually all the public wor- ship 'in the temple' was connected with the sacrifices, but the temple was also frequently used for private prayer. The one a Pharisee. A mem- ber. of the Jewish sect which prided itself on its strict observance of :the innumerable religious rules and cere- monies laid down by the rabbis. And the other a publican. Tax -gatherer for the hated Romans, and so him- self hated and despised by his fellow Jews, A greater contrast than the two could not be imagined. The. Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself. It was not a pray- er at all, but only a soliloquy. He was not communing with God, but with his haughty and conceited self. God, I thank thee that I am .not as the rest of Hien. It is legitimate to thank God for delivering us from be- setting sins, but it never entered the Pharisee's head that he might sin or had sinned; he merely congratulated himself that he was better than oth- ers. Extortioners, unjust, adulterers. He would have been kept from the third sin by self-respect and the pow- er of public opinion, but the first two sins were well within Pharisaic bounds, Or even as this publican. Thus the Pharisee judged his fellow worshipper, hardly condescending to mention him in the same breath with himself. I ' fast twice in the week. "The Pharisee's description of his fasts and tithe -giving is doubtless quite cor- rect. I give tithes of all that I get. The Levites paid to the priests a tithe of what was given them. But the publican, standing afar off. Possibly standing at a respectful dis- tance from the Pharisee, but mare likely in reverence he stood far off from the Holy Place, near which the Pharisee stood in order to show how Gams f+ il,!„8PS 1 or r Chi For "i'a? 'uub es due to rnrnIGCSTraK ACU' STOMACH Kees -reties! eremeces eeses•tsuseee OUR STOMACH UST a tasteless dose of Phillips: Milk k ofgn a M esra in water. That t, is an alkali, effective yet harmless. It. has been the standard antacid for 50 years. One spoonful will neutralizes' at once many times its volume in acid. It's the right way, • the quick, pleasant, and efficient way to kill all the: excess acid. The stomach becomes. sweet, the pain departs. You are. happy again in five minutes Don't depend on crude methods. 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