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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1929-06-06, Page 6Wellington Mutual Fit;, e Insurance Co. Established 1840 MeadOffice, Guelph, Ont: Risks taken on all class of insur- ance at reasonable rates, ATBNER COSENS, Agent, Wingkiarn J. W. DODD Office in Chisholm I3lock FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND ;•- HEALTH INSURANCE -- AND REAL ESTATE P. 0. Boa; 360 I'kione 240 "WINGHAM, ONTARIO J, W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc; Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R. VANSTONE BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to Loan at Lowest Rates Wingham, - Ontario J. A. MORTON BARRISTER, ETC. Winghamn, Ontario ' DR. C.. . 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. Hanibly Phone 54 Wingham DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND LR.C.s.. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Load.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON:, 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. O. W. HOWSON 1 DENTIST , Office over John Galbraith's Store. 1 F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated Office Adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre Street. " Sundays by appointment. :Osteopathy Electricity ?hone 272, Hours, 9 a.in. to 8 p.m. 1 A.R.&F. E.DUVAL Licensed Drugless Practitioners "t Chiropractic and. Electro Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic 1 College, Toronto, and National • Col - 'lege, ' Chicago. Out of town and. night calls res- ponded to. A11 business confidential.' • Phone, 601-13. 1 J. ALVIN FOX Registered Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC AND DRUGLESS PRACTICE ELECTRO -THERAPY Hours; ' 2-5, 7-8, or by' appointment. Picone 191. i D. H. McINNES e CHIROPRACTOR ELECTRICITY 0 Adjustments given for diseases of ;, all kinds; we specialize in dealing -with g children. Lady attendant. Night calls • wt responded to. Office on Scott St., Wingham, Ont. li Phone 150 b It GEORGE A. SIDDAL c i r ` '°N3-.. — 13RQK.ER -- in Money to lend on. first and second mortgages on farm and other real es- it tate properties at a reasonable rate of a interest, also ort first Chattel mort- tl gages on stock and on personal notes. A few farms on hand for sale or to t rent on easy terms. Phone 73. Lucknow, Ont. el THOMAS FELLS :AUCTIONEER 't REAL ESTATE SOLD It A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock •s. Phone 281, Wingham IN' it RICHARD B. JACKSON AUCTIONEER ?'hone 613r6, Wroxeter, or address R. R. 1, Got'rie, Sales crrnducted any-. where and satisfactiott guaranteed. George Walker, Goi•rie, can: arrange elates; b i� ' r' la re ttt st lr fc' 11 et cit ti g; tt ft rc bi sv. cc it; DRS. A. J. & A. W.IRWIN DENTISTS °flit e M tcOottald Block, Wingham 'A. J. WALKER FURNITURE AND FUNERAL SERVICE A.. J. Walker Licensed runerai Director and Embalmer, Office I'ftohe 106, R"ea, Phone 224° 1atr:e.t. I,itrtntisihe 't al Coed, WINGHAM AD'V'ANCE -TIMES. Thulreday, June 6th, 19!29 •copYRIGsT t927 by The BOBBS--MEARILL CO. SYNOPSIS Chapter I.—On the verge of nerv- ous collapse, due to overwork, Gay Delane, successful New York artist,. seeks rest at. Idle Island. She rents. a cottage, the "Lone Pine" from an island character,: the "Captain,"and• his sister, Alice Andover, "administra- tor." THE STORY She closed her eyes again. The little yellow face receded' into the dusk,' the small figure faded noisely into the shadows, and there was not: the slightest sound from the small, swift moving feet as he stepped over the sill of'. the window on. the forest side, and padded' away among the trees. Hours after, when Gay wakened from her sleep, the house was still and dark. The greatness of her re laxation pleased her. "T shall go on like this for weeks," she thought blissfully, "smelling sweet scents of sea and woods, hear- ngistrange noises' of ghostly breaths and of fairy fingers— Oh, good ilea- ,ens, I wonder where the matches re!" Roused Roused by this rude thought from the swee fantasy of d sweet a tasy reams, she got up from the couch, and felt about rer with outstretched hands. De- ciding logically, to follow the walls until she came to the kitchen door, vowing she would. find matches over theleitchengas stove, she crept along the Wall to the left, working her way, I • following hand, until she found thein at last, struck two together, hurriedly, and was glad to have the full light of electricity flooding the' I • •Doers and windows stood' open to the night as when Auntalmiry eft in the afternoon, But on con- sulting her watch, Gay was amazed o find it was the hour of: midnight. "1Ve11, I slept," she said philosoph- calIy. On the kitchen table she found her basket of groceries, and feeling ,omewhat refreshed she took a real nterest in unpacking its contens and rranging them neatly on shelves in he little wall cupboard. Carefully he closed and locked the doors and indows. She opened a can of prepared soup nd heated it, made toast, opened 'a ar of pickles. For the' first' time since she left New York, she was' sufficiently rest - d to feel a mental reaction to her nvirontnent. She arranged her modest supper n a tray, and look it to the wall - eat by the window which looked own over' the bay. The wriggling, (inkling lines of many little colored ants in the black showed where oats rode out the night at anchor. itertttittc;ntly the black was mellow d, turned to white frnlst, by the slid - g rays of a lighthouse' searchlight. "Ni'ee," she said to herself,"1 like I'm glad I carne, Auntalmiry is, dear, the Captain is a lamb,' and tat administrator Berson who • tries o be so bossy is a kind, sweet, gen- coria fraud." Remembering then that she had not t so much as aeon the upper storey f' her thew hot'ne, she left her tray t the window, and, cup of souls in c r hand, went op at once to explore, switching on the lights of the stair - ay from the lowest step. She found modest enough above . the stairs, tit clean and fresh, all to her liking. here was a large closet on the land - g, and to the left, a nicely appoint- cl bathroom. rhe bedroom was rge' and cheerfully bright in fur- rshhig, a bed, an old bureau, a corn - ode and two small chairs tnatchittg. Her nature.' energy somewhat re- ored by the long' sleep, Gay carried' crbags upstairs and unpacked them, Wing the little silken garments away to drawers that srnetled sweetly of dar, Site had brought with her no - Mg' but the sheerest necessities for °acing,`,. ;(ler weariness had been so eat that her only desire, her only tmight, had been to escape, escape en work, escape from the city, find Gay :Delano, not st New Yorker by rth, had become one by la'bor.Worlt xs hoe daily bread, She cottnted a ,e- ttiplislttttettt the trtd of lifer suceess great re wterd, With Gay Delete there was no interest as to one's pos- session, from whence one came, ,nor. from what family line had sprung:' The sole point of personality to her was this; "What is he doing? What has he done?" Tlce death of both parents in quick succession bad thrown her upon her own resources at the age of seven- teen. 'The last of the family funds, the insurance, all had gone" into a final year of practical preparation for life -work, in which, with the incon- gruously blended driving of necess- ity and desire, she had studied steno graphy,,and at the same .time contin- ued her classes in art under the best. teachers obtainable, She Counted Accomplishment the End of Life, <`T've got to work—but I am going to paint," she said. From the strictly clerical work' she had been obliged to accept at first; bread-and-butter . work she called it, she had gradually worked away from it, wetting intoethings more to her taste and her talent, and at last, when she was able, abandoning :it altogeth- er. 131ack and white copies of style figures, fashion pages, hack work of illustration„ all grist to Gay; and al- ways, through the formative years, she kept some hours, mostly at night and on Sunday, for more advanced sl udy. For the definite business of earning a living, she had a remunerative con- nection with the advertising house of Burnham and Morey, for whom she did conventional paintings in bright colors at their order. The work not only paid well, but was varied in type, usually interesting, and exer- cised the artistic virtues of a quick eye' and finger for striking color ef- fects. Put ahvays, besides this, she kept on, studying better things, paint- s, all her hours p'f :leisure the tw t1..ttgs her heart desired. ". From the day, 'she had entered upon the study of stenography, in her seventeenth year, Gay, had never al- lowed herself time for a full and com- plete vacation, sufficient to give both soul and body recttperatiore. She said she hadn't time, there was too much to learn, too'rnuih to do, :Even her one memorable trip abroad, although it continued over a year, had afforded her no rest, for in addition to hdr studies she had taken with Iter also a contract for a series of pictttr+es kr the Sunday Magazine, so that she re- turned to New York at last afire with zeal, aflame with ambition, and far less rested than whet; she went. 13ttt outraged flesh and violated nerves claimed their revenge at last for the eleven years' defiance. For folly six months before the final June tot of heat forced her into full skurrender, she had been a' prey to quivering nerves that jangled in a jaded body, and when the inevitable forced itself upon her, she accepted it with a eertaio joy. If she must rest, she would make that rest a sport. If she must go into retire- ment, the exile nlcould'be a ltnatrlotts one. Perhaps—who knew? ---even on a good little island of idicnese might lurk some stimulant for ' au ardent though (flagging spirit, Adventtt•e' perhaps,;ttnusentetrt certa.iely, or even —ah, Romance! A ' Gay, most ardent of free -soul advo- cates, decrying tliough . she did the scampering confines of marriage, touted always sensitive heart -string to the strumming fingers of Romance. Marriage, Gay argued, was not de- signed for the ambitious worker. For the complacent,, for the self-satisfied, for the indolent,' all very well; per- haps; but marriage and ambition, pas- sion for accomplishment, were never rtiessniates. Gay's first romance, ten- der sweet blossom of her ardent young womanhood, joyously promis- ed the full fruitage of marriage "when the war is\over," lay buried with the soldier who did not conte back. And Gay's first passion of grief soon sub- sided into a philosophical reflecton that perhaps after all it was better so, that she was not domestic, not the type for 'humdrum hona:e life:- That experience confirmed her in her de- termination to live alone. Alone, but not lonely. Free; but not' unloved, Ali, if on the good and idle island should come a fresh awakening for her 'stilled affections! "Lumley Lane, or instance, she thought :whimsically. "Lumley, the lobster -man. A stern and silent na- ture, bronzed and bearded," She smiled to 'herself as she "turn- ed out the lights and slipped into bed. The room was seeped in the essence Of evergreen, Gay slept,: glad for the silence of the Idle island. Next morning_ she wrote a note to her friend, 'Nancy Moore, asking to have her easel crated and shipped to. her, with her paints, her canvases, and many of the pfetty useful things of her studio wt'hicli would add to the charm of her new home. "It is the Land of Leisure," she wrote, "the Land' of Emotional Lei, sure. It is Idle Island, the World of Wasted ,Effort, the Center of 'Silence. Every ;one works, but the work a- mounts to nothing. Every one is in- tensely busy, but it is the business of passing time. Every one is persist- ently intent on doing, but it is the do- ing of nothing at all. 'Soft, slow, un - hu rri ed---" n-hurried—" "Hallo'!" It was a human voice that boomed out upon the silence like a neighboring foghorn that aroused Gay from the mellower :mildness of her picture. She ran to the, door startled: at the sudden vocal crash in the stillness. startled more greatly when she. saw the ferocious : ,rnarition at her door. An immense man, a monster of a man, with a tuft of bristling orange - colored beard, and a great shock of bristling orange -colored- hair, and a great round face like a giant orange, with pink -rimmed pale blue eyes. "Hallo," he boomed again,with a broad pink smile of greeting "H-hullo," stammered Gay. "Lobsters" he shopted.. "Autitai- rriry says lobsters." "Ah, yes." A fleeting reminiscent smile for the Lobster -man of her fan- cies. "You are the I: obster-man?" Style eyomitl Its Price 'Class, 9i c it'lOW Comparison Only eustom-built cars can eorpare in beauty of design and luxury of finish with the new --style Willys-][dight. Sweep and verve of linee, distinctive harmony of color 'and perfection of detail make it the outstanding creation of today's style specialists. And never before has such a large and powerful Knight - e• ed ear been offered at so low alrice. The new -style Ws -Knight brings the .atented, double sleeve -valve engine within easy reach of the thousands who have previously been restrained from buying by the necessarily higher cost of this superior motor. • It offers an engine free from costly carbon cleaning and valve grinding. An engine smooth, silent, powerful at the be. ginning, that actually increases in power and smoothness to a mileage linnit impossible to determine. Arrange today for a demonstration. gele Oho,/ "FINGER-TIP CONTROL". One button in center of steering wheel controls starter, lights and horn. Simple design, easy oper- ation. No wires in steer- ing poet. ILYS GflT: D. MacDonald, Wing4am •.COACH $1420 Sedan $1545; Coupe $1420 Roadster $1420; Tourin $1325. Willys-Knight 56.A. Coach $1220; Sedan $1345.. Prices F. 0.B. Factory, Toronto, taxes extra, the chilly little islands of the North. Every day the Community .house on the bay shore beneath Gay's grassy hill slope was open for bridge and tea, and every Saturday night offered its New England shore dinner,' fol- lowed by dancing to the strains of a real jazz orchestra with saxophone accompaniment, playing the popular song hits of the season not more than twice removed. There were auto par- ties, beach parties, bathing parties. At dusk every fine night she could' count the slithery' fires of half'a doz- en or more shore parties, where clam "Yup. That's ice. l umey ,Lane. ' were baking, potatoes roasting, or How many?' She told him to bring her a lobster twice a week. "Lobsters," he shouted,' "run about. fifty or sixty cents." 'Lunney said his woman would boil them for her without extra charge. He frowned portentously, "She'll boil them, that is, long as she's able, She's expecting. "Expecting?" Gay echoed faintly. "Yup. Increases" His facetious grin was' illuminating. "Oh, hose' nice!" "Well, yes.- unexpected. Very, Been married twenty, year' now. No - thin' dein'. All of a sudden—yup, there you are!—She's skeered," he volunteered ,cheerfully. "She's afeerd o' dyin'. She says it a'n't' according; to tater'," "Oh, tell hernot to be frightened," Gay comforted. "It often happens. And is there a hospital on the is- land?" "She won't go to do hospital. She says she don't trust these new (angled nurses, highty-tighty.. She'd rather trust to the wotnetr cosnin' in, the old way." "If. 1 ane here then I'll be .glad to help, if 1 can," Gay offered generous- ly, enerous •Ty,' "1 was in, the hospital for five months during the war," in training,. and I'm not a bit lttghty-tighty," 'Melt, tow, "that's real neighborly, miss. Firsterate. I'll tell tidy woman yolt said so, She'll be countin on ye:" "Oh, t •am quite e*pert with babies. ft was the, only thing they had time to teach us before the war ended. They seemed to thiole the army was- 'tt't going to do much bat increase the population" Lumley Lane burst into a loud haw-haw, acid set off down the hill, Gay ran to her desk and added a postscript to her letter to Nancy Moore. "I aria not going to havo an affair. with the lobster -than, after all, .:dear. He is not as stern and silent as 1 ex- pected. Resides, ho is expecting."' CHAP'T'ER III Midsurm'ner was gala there for ;ti11. lobsters broiling. But Gay did, not share in the gayety and the summer holiday life of the island. She reveled in rest, in free- dom .from • the, nervous pressure of an impatient city jogging her 'elbow. When her easel paints arrived, she installed a studio in one corner of the big bright living room of the Lone Pine, and felt at peace with' the world, Auntalmiry eves her friend. Auntal- miry was everybody's friend. She was a sort of • unendowed institution, she went with the island, , l?,trt al- though Auntalmiry no longer worked for a living, not as we; speak of work- ing for a living, she earned her keep,, because' she did what, she could.. Whenever there was fruit to can ire the house of a native islander, ,jelly to make, or tornatoes,to pickle, Aunt-• almiry,'although not Hired for the oc- casion, was always there, always at work For fifty years, she had presided at the arrival of all the small expected - ones around Evergreen; : She had sat up with the sick, mourned with the C ° .ad n w e , w t over the dead. She P everybody's children while mothers, went shopping, played bridge, or had more children: (Continued Next. Week;) Both hands on the wheel! BoCh eyes the road • Never forget .. a single moment's careless. � � ess ness while, driving may a easily involve you in a bad smash. A little inattention may mean serious, even fatal, injury to ourself � ry y and others' lou are a passenger, for your own safety's sake,, leave the driver free to watch the,. road and traffic undistracted. Let us all, work to Beth ,� er to prevent accidents. ighwaySatiety err ttee flou,FGeo. S. atm"-, Chairman n