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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1931-05-21, Page 8ti TIM WT 'GAM ArYVAXCE-TINMS Thursday, May 21st, 1931 Wi*glimn Advance -Time W. Logan Craig - Publishe Published,at WINOUAM ' ONTARIO Every Thursday Morning Subscription rates — One year $2.00,' Six months $1,00, in 'advance. To U. S. A. $2,50 per year. Advertising rates on application. s. r Wellington lion Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 1840 Risks taken on all class of, insur- ance at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont,,� e.r am a. 41QsENS, '; J. W. ODD Two doors south of Field's Butcher shop. LIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE P. O. Box 366 Phone 46 WINGHAM, ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc, Successor to R. Vanstone Wingham Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER. ETC. Wingham, Ontario DR. G. Ho ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store H. W. COLBORNE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr.'W. R. Hambly Phone 54 Wingham DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Lond.) PHYSICIAN AND . SURGEON Maggie Johnson, whose father is a letter=carrier, her mother a lazy wo- man who has "seen better days," and her sister a bootlegger's sweetheart who works in a beauty parlor, is a stock girl in the "Mack" stores, the ;Five -and -Ten of San Francisco. A boy whom she knows only as "Joe Grant," but who is really Joseph. Grant McKenzie Merrill, son of the owner of the "Mack," is learning the business, by starting at the bottom. He doesn't like the job until he meets Maggie. And neither of them realizes that they are falling in love with each other, at first. Joe is impressed,' by Maggie's intelligence and goodheart- edness, and gives her advice on the subject nearest her heart, how to live the ideal- life. She makes a sugges- tion for a better way of selling cer- tain •lines. He tells his father, as if it were his own idea, greatly pleasing the old man. He finds that the girls he used to know don't interest him as much as Maggie does, and when Maggie discloses her love in a burst of jealousy, he realizes that he loves her, too. Joe is afraid that if Maggie finds out who he really is she will not have anything more to dowith him. So he pretends that it is some other fel- low's car when he takes her home in his big yellow roadster. And on the way they talk, at last, about marriage. Joe that night reveals to his father forthe first time that he has been working in the store under an as- sumed name, and tells him about Maggie. DR. R. L. STEWART Graduate of University of Toronto; Faculty of Medicine; Licentiate of the Ontario. College of Physicians and Surgeons. Office in Chisholm Block Josephine 'Street. Phone 29 DR. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office over John Galbraith's Store. Fa A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated Office adjoining residence next -ea Anglican Church on Centre Street. Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272. Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 o.nt. A.R.&F.E,DUVAL Licensed Druglesa ar`'ractitioners Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, Toronto, and National Col- lege, Chicago. Out of town and night calls res- ponded to. All business confidential. Phone 300. J. ALVIN FOX. Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Hours: 2-5, 7-8, or by appointment. Phone 191 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "Joe, do you and your father talk aboutthings ?" she asked, as if she liked the picture. "Not, much. But lately we have been, more, he answered truthfully. Her eyes were flashing, and the beautiful little face that had been so pale when he entered was shinging with its lovliest radiance now. Suddenly—suddenly she was in his THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingham to wait a little, to get a new perspec- tive on this engagement and this girl, and Dad's idea was that it would be a very easy way .to break off your present relationship with the Stores."' "Now, Joe, why not get your pass- ports, and take up Brewer's tickets -- in less than six days, you'd be at sea, and have time to think all this out, and get your mind cleared about i' all. Tell your Mary Margaret that you are being sent away by the firm —she's very young, she's extremely young, and if—when you come back, you both feel the same way, there'll be plenty of time to make plans then. "You see, Joe, marriage is more than falling in love. ,'on want to be proud of your wife, as the years go by. ;A girl who belongs to an 'entire- ly different class of society not only makes her husband unhappy—makes him the butt of ridicule and pity for his friends, but she herself is bitter- ly unhappy too. She doesn't know howto amuse herself, she has no re- sources. • . esources... It went on for a long while. And. for a long while he listened. Then she said, more lightly: "Now run along to bed, dear. We have had enough of this for one day. But to-morrow—think it over. It's late, Joe. Get to bed quickly and go right to sleep, dear." He obeyed as far as getting to bed was concerned. But sleep was a different matter. Then it was Monday again, and there was a pleasant fresh bustle of girls husy in the Mack. RICHARD B. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter, or address fL R. 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted any- where, and satisfaction guaranteed. DRS. A. J. &.. A. W. IRWIN DENTISTS Office MacDonald Block, Wingham: A. J. WALKER• RWITURE AND FUNERAL SERVICE A. J. W*HII ;icetlsed Mineral Director and Ezralalrner.` int 100, Res, Phone X24. r l al Ii tttiet ful Coae;lt. ...,4,bLiJdW a'Anit�.d C1tA:%n;�� The front door and the side door were propped wide open, and fresh damp air blew through the place that would be hot and close and jaded so soon. Joe, on the mezzanine floor, stopped up there for a minute and stood looking down at the confusion and activity of the store. And presently, with an odd, sharp twist to his heart, he saw Maggie. He had rather dreaded meeting her to -day after yesterday. But, 'unex- pectedly, he wanted to talk to her now—be near her, assure himself that • ~ ht't.J 4'117• Her shabby little shoes, her plain little gown plindly. She hieard Idea say: "My mother, Maggie." moved behind Joe arms. "Joe—don't" "Maggie—you belong to me. We love each other!" Instantly the little arms went about him, tightened, the small head, with.. its crown of gold, was pressed, with the little loving, jerking digs of a child's head, against his heart, Joe kissed the top of her head and the rosy ear that a curving filament of gold hair left free, kissed the eyes that were flooded again with tears, and the sweet fresh mouth that was ready, now to return his kisses. And to Ma was first announced the engagement of marriage between Mary Margaret Petheridge Johnson,. spinster, and Joseph Grant. In his mother's dressing, room, be- fore dinner, he had told his parents. the whole story frankly. Mrs. Merrill took the successive shocks heroically. Her son, working in one of the stores? Joseph Merrill a stock clerk?" And in love with one, of the humblest of his co-workers? All this had been before dinner. Now' it was late at night, and Joe, coming in quietly from a dinner and cards with some of the members of his own' set, found himself summoned to his mother's room again. She was its bed. "Sit down, 'dear, Sit here on the edge of the bed, if .you like,"' she said comfortably. "I've been thinking of your affair all evening." "Dad tells me that some roan nam - d Maker or Bradley was %going to Japan for the firm next Saturday," she began again, "Oh', Brewer, you mean?' "Brewer. Well, Brewer isn't go - g In fact, he's leaving the Stores, believe, Whitt I suggested was, lf. yongo for the firm to Japan. art y h ,l'�tl �t i. z, .ikerkrft d'Atxs'Wolt4t•I, eighteen." Joe paused. "You haven't thought of marrying her and taking her to Japan with you, Joe?" Joe looked at his father. "I merely suggest it. I dont' want you to miss -anything good, my boy." "We could postpone your sailing for a boat or two—no use rushing things. Then. you two get away, and your mother—and your wife's family —can reconcile themselves to the idea by degrees." " Wife's family!' " The boy re- peated the phrase in an undertone. "It doesn't frighten you, Joe? "Not—you don't know her! -but° not when it's Maggie." Joe took Maggie to lunch the next day. The firm wanted him to go "on a trip," he told her, and she must go along. She had to have her picture taken, and they'd have to be married, And after twenty-three minutes in seventh heaven, they jumped into a taxi, went up to the City Hall, and got a marriage license. "They wanted me to start to -mar- row, Maggie!" "Tomorrow!" "But now we're going to. put it off a couple of weeks, so that you and I can combine the trip with our honey- moon." - Maggie and Joe, both finding them- selves drawn for the Friday night shift, whispered a rapturous plan for dinner together late that evening, when their work .shouhd be over, at eight. Joe's aristocratic mother called him to the telephone at about five o'clock. She and his father were coming into town to -night, she said to stay at the St. Paul, and see him off to -morrow, and they wanted to know if he would like anybody else invited to an in- formal little good-bye dinner? "When you say `good-bye to every- one'; you mean to my girl, too, Mo- ther?" "My dear.—I only meant that it is a separation, and things will be diff- erent when you come back, and how- ever sweet and charming your girl, as you call her, may be, if your feelings had changed.... . There hadbeen more of this. Joe had presently interrupted it unsym- pathetically: "You'll be at the St. Paul, Mother?" "Yes, dear. And we'll take a room for you there," "Thanks. Well, . I'll tell you who I'd like to bring to dinner, Mother. I'd like to bring Maggie." "I want you and Dad to meet her. My plans have change slightly. 1 may not sail .to -morrow. Anyway, I want you to meet her." He could hearpanic behind her carefully cheerful tone. "Certainly bring her, Joe. Under those circumstances, perhaps I'd bet- ter not ask anybody else." Joe had seized upon this instantly: "How do you mean `under those circumstances?" But his mother had been too smart for him. "Merely, dear, that your father and I would like an opportunity to really. know her a little." "I want you to meet my mother and father, Mary Margaret," he told. her, as they toiled to and fro with crates and trays of merchandise. "They want, us to have dinner with. them to -night." "Honest, Joe?" "They're living at a hotel, now," he said. "Joe, where is your father and mo - titer's hotel?" "It's right on the square, opposite the new bank building;" , "Oh,. right near time St. Paul?" "It is the St. Paul." She eyed hon, incredulously, amus- edly.' ,,5 "Yes, it is! Now you tell another.". Joe, within a few hundred feet now of its august doorway, felt a first prick of misgiving, "Joe, you're' kidding!" "No, I'm not, darling. This is just a restaurant, like any other, and yott'11 find the food isn't as good as your own cooking.—The young lady will leave her coat, too, please. Lebeau, Mr. Merrill's table, please," They were in the hands of the bow- tug, obsequious 'headwaiter. Maggie did not hold Joe's hand, but site kept her frightened little person ,close tri the shadow of his las they entered the warmth and intimacy and beauty of the Legend Room. White 'tables, at all of which were diners, brilliant big lights far over- head, and little lights onthe tables, women whose ahoialdcrs were bate aid whose hair- roa1dceinto o r giroe of end rrrl iow'l,'u+ til 1 & S (and Perfumes and flowers and soft II music—it was all a wild whirl to her stunnned senses. Her shabby ; little shoes, her plain little gown moved beside Joe blindly. She heard him say; "My mother, Maggie." She saw a steel -bright, handsome face looking at her under beautiful scallops of fea- thered hair set with a jewelled -jig retic. She 'murmured: "Pleased to meet ju, and sank dizzily into a seat.. Mrs. Merrill's handsome eyes flashed with 'a malicious satisfaction. She had hoped; in her somewhat. twisted conception of mother loyalty, that Joe's girl would not nuke much. of a showing to -night. 13irt she had hardly dared hope for a conquest quite so overwhelming ,and immed- iate. "We took the liberty of ordering, Miss Johnson," she saidsm ` oothly, "although' perhaps etiquette might hinted that we wait!" Joe eyed his mother -shut his jaw hard. But Maggie looked' up, and he. saw with a sort of delighted terror that she had been angered into self- control. "I thought you knew,". she said clearly, "that I don't know anything about etiquette! Are you-" she pur- sued evenly, turning to Joe's father— "are you G. J. Merrill of the Stores?" "I ant, my dear," said George Mer- rill kindly, feeling sorry for the be- wildered little thing. Maggie grew very white and sat back slightly in her chair. "Joe never told me—I didn't know it," she said in a lifeless little voice. "But now that you do know it and 1 ought to have told you long ago, and I'm a fool!" Joe said quick- ly, uncomfortably, "—it doesn't snake one scrap of difference,does it?"' She raised her eyes to his, there was a second of silence. "Not at all," she answered them, quietly. this little willing slave of a whole hurried scene was in a special sense. his proprerty. And presently, running upstairs, she nodded to him joyfully. "Hello, Joe! Say, Toe—" And her smallness and sweetness and her ab- surd little -girl seriousness were be- side him; "Hello, Mary Margaret! How's the world with you this morning?" "Happy, huh?" "I guess I've got enough to make me happy,"' she said`soberly. "Yoh aren't scared of thirty-five a week?" "I'm not scared of anything. I wish -I wish they would fire you, Joe!" "Fire me!" he repeated. "Joe -to show you how much -I like you!" she faltered. "If you came home to me some night, fired, and if 'we didn't have a cent—" Joe could not speak his own eYes were wet. "Maggie!" The call vas rising into a chorus downstairs. "Maggie John- son! ' What'd you do with them all - linen monograminecl ` handkerchiefs? Maggie! Hustle and get me about a half box of them red hatchets and cherry trees—at the candy counter!" And in another second she had fled down the stairs. Scriotts days, these, for Joseph Grant Mackenzie Morrill. For he had got into the habit of talking confidentially with his father. "She loves you, does she, Joe?" "Sure she (foes." "And she's straight and pretty and in tt'l lit;ent "She's quicksilver." "It would be hard for you f.o g'in' to Japan next Saturday, Joe, and leave her behind ?r" is a 1igk 0,1 Hints For Homebodies I Written for The Advance -Times By Jessie Allen Brown somewhat to blame. Instead of.start- ing at the appointed time, they wait for people to assemble. If they just startled on time, people would make an effort to get there. When they know that the meetings never start punctually, they do not hurry. ' And. you cannot blame them, If, you are at the head of some meeting, try starting at the minute, and you will find that by the -third meeting that is started on time, people will be there, ready for it. Of course to do this, you: have to be on time yourself. It always annoys me, to have to sit and wait for a meeting to 'start, and f, find by listening to the talk around me, that a good many others feel the same way about it. Vitamins And Constipation You may think that subject of con- stipation appears in this column very frequently. But as doctors tell us, that from 80 to 90% of their patients. are constipated, to a rrior'e or liens degree, and as the cause and cure of the condition is so closely related to Punctuality Punctuality is a real virtue. The person who is unpunctual, habitually is either careless or very inconsider- ate. It is difficult to prevent being late occasionally, but there are peo- ple who are never on time. We all know several of them. So much time is wasted, sitting, waiting for meetings to commence. A meeting of fifty people, which is twenty minutes late in starting, means that one thousand minutes have been wasted. There are too our food, it,js easily understood why I deem it irnuortant. Research work with vitamins has disclosed the fact that vitamin defic- iency is the chief cause of constipa- tion. Instifficient vitamins causes a lack of tone in the intestines, until gradually they refuse to act properly, or the condition will never be cor- rected. Cathartics should not be used reg- ularly, o1' the condition will never be corrected. Mechanical methods of some kind are the best correction. Coarse foods, mineral oil, oc sugar seem to be the best suited. No set rule can be made, as every individual is a law unto themselves. If the lack of vitamins will cause constipation, it is reasonable to sup- pose that the inclusion of them in the diet will help to better the condition. In addition to using mechanical means to move the bowels, have a •diet that includes generous quantities of vita- mins, and gradually the intestines will recover tbne, and eventually there will be little need for mechanical aids to evacuation. Remember, however, that the condition did not come in a day. It was a long, slow gradual pro- cess, and the recovery will be the same. Be sure that your diet inculdes plenty of ruit and vegetables. ' Peo- ple tell me that they always have vegetables .and plenty of salads. Fur- ther enquiry brings forth the facts, hat the have one ve stable a day be sure that your diet is such that it will not develop. Thoughtful ex• amination of the diet, will probably disclose • that -it •already has ;:t high vitamin 'content. Coffee Tins The brand of coffee that we Use is done up. in ,tins. And they keep .4c.- ctintanlating.�� I have used thetnin ev- ery way possible around the kitchen, yet there are,so many and '1 hated to throw them out. 'Finally, I asked the other members of the• family if they had any use for them! `Dict they! Now,I am :threatened with dire hap- penirigs if I dare thrown one single. can: away.'In one room"the cans'are : put to various.—uses, Otte holds a collection of soldiers; another, the parts 1)1 an erector Set; there is a can of marbles and another is full of what I would call plain junk. Opinions. differ.. The other lad has the "trad- ers" of his statrip collection, housed in one. Then below decks they are used to hold nails; bolts and screws; and radio parts. Another has had the top soldered on and serves as a bank for the coppers that we get as change. :Perhaps, this may suggest Some uses for your ennptics. Peach Rhubarb Whip Wash one pound of dried peaches with in warm water. Cover cold wa- ter 'and shunter until tender.' Add One pound'of rhubarb, cut in inch pieces, anti two and .ane -half cups of sugar. Simmer until of the consist- ency of orange marmalade. Add a spoonful of grated orange rind, cool and fold into the beaten whites of eggs. Serve with a custard sauce, made of the egg yolks, sweetened with brown sugar, This makes a good dessert for a Bridge Luncheon and will serve eight. Chocolate Cake cup butter ;r' cup sugar 2 eggs - 2 tablespoons molasses a. cup sweet milk 1 teaspoon soda cup nutmeg 2 dessertspoons cocoa 1 cup flour . teaspoon salt Cream the butter and sugar. Add the beaten eggs, the molasses and milk. Sift in the dry ingredients. Bake at 350 degrees. Ice with a but- ter' icing and cover this with melted chocolate. ' t y g ,- besides potatoes, and a salad poss- ibly a couple of times a week. When possible have more than one fresh vegetable, and salads at least once a day -twice is much better. Salad ve- getables need not be eaten with a dressing, but include such vegetables many.. interesting things to do, in this as cress, radishes, onions and celery. world, to waste time like that. If you are one of the fortunate 10% Those at the head of affairs are who do not suffer from constipation, You can't believe everything you • hear, but,of course, you can repeat it. Itching Ends Right Away "i had eczemafor several months. Single appli- cation of 'Sootha-Salva' ended itch and burn right away. My skin's now clear." Jane Paula. "Sootha Salva" is quickest' known relief for eczema. <Ifching stops: scales go. AU druggists; I,r. Drive 42,500 Tons at 251/2 K t he largest east bronze propellers in the world are seen above in this unique view of the after end of the new 42,500 ton Canadian Paeifie Liner "Empress of Britain." These huge screws, the two larger ones each weighing 25 tons, and the smaller pair;' 171 tons apiece proved their rability' during recent trials to drive this new palatial ship through the water at a speed of 25.52 knots. Another outstanding feature of the picture is the huge rudder, which weighs 67 tons, This hue l ell.o had to be transported to the builders' yard on a specially constructed truck. It eras preceded during the tomes,' , ,,, ,. a anatr cgangwhich removed. h ' o .a .r ettons encountered by c u tion. whtele horn ilea rtnci other btu titer®d on the TJrt lrs� roads. .,I► ,p,E; b Lower left is an insert of th Exrt resa' of! Britain as he steamed over the measured mile at the fastest speed to b lM t . Yri ,its utter .: �� ` e: ;v t !tines dt',u to, y� lt' �.: M^ �.' +w•,W;Agoi. ra