Zurich Herald, 1928-02-23, Page 2' Have you ever been hungry? Oh, I
de not mean the lusty appetite that
exercise brings, nor do I mean the
faint sensation of discomfort that
tomes when dinner is delayed. I mean
hungry! Not for an hour, not for a
day, not for a month, two months,'
three months! 1 mean a hunger that
is a slow starvation, that is not con-
tent to melt the flesh and shrink the
muscles, but works a fatal alchemy
hanging cheeks sad the double chin.
Years of contact with impecunious
lodgers had made a sneer of what
might once have been a smile.
" `Sorry?' " she repeated, and her
shrill voice cut my very soul. "I can't
pay my rent with sorrow. Not even
with my own sorrow, much less a
secondhand sorrow that I get from
you.;" Her own witticism amused her,
but I could see that it did not soften
Mode in Canada e No Alvan!
upon the heart and mind. ver.
Perhaps you clo not believe in such From the room at the end of the
an alchemy. Nevertheless you will hall one of the brood saw me. He
concede that the mind possesses great traced toward us, stopping breath -
dominion over the body. And mis-
treatd slaves overturn their harsh
maeters, 'iii by should not the body,
then, mistrthe mind.
that, ruling, has n aderoy no success of i suggested his mother." Mr. Ains-
Ain t you got a penny,
ley?" asked the child. to
I suppose my shame appealed
Mrs. Gannon. Anyway, she pushed
the child away, harshly ordering him
to go back to the kitchen. But pity
for my humiliation could not make
her forget her own needs.
"The rent of your room was due
yesterday, Mr• Ainsley," she said. "I'm
always willing to give anyone a fair
chance, but with plenty of people wait-
ing for rooms, people as is able to pay
for them, you can't expect me to let
you have the room free."
She told the simple truth. Even
this grimy house had become attrae-
lessly.
"Make a penny disappear, Mr• Ains-
ley!" he cried.
"Let him make a dollar appear,"
The New Book
(From Palms)
A little blue book of poems,
And most of the poems blue—
Tough luck for the poet and publisher,
Tough luck for tho reader, too.
If ever I make a printed book,
Which the gracious gods feeefend,
I'll make nye a red -and -Yellow book,
A hale and hearty and mellow book
From the first page to tho nod.
I'll make me a kook like a ripe plum
That's bursting from its skin,
And dainty women will nuzzle it,
And heavyl.jowled gentlemen guzzle
it
And gulp it down 'Oh a grin.
I'll make a book like a yellow peach
That smacks of the summer sun,
Full of the earth, and the sap of trees,
And the warm rains, and the cool
breeze
When the day is done
If ever I make a printed book,
Which the kindly fates forefend,
I'll make me a fat unstinted book,
A nothing -concealed -or -hinted book
From the first page to are end.
Wtilbert,
Wilson PublishinCompany
its reign? I say that no famished
man will observe, after he has con-
quered fear, the laws that men with
full stomachs have enacted.
Conscience, and the words it con-
jured up before my mind! Honor,
fidelity, duty! Well, I had won honor
on a certain bloody meadow between
two hills in France. Fidelity? For
thirty years I hacl held the faith im-
planted in me in Childhood. Duty?
Well, in lily pocket was a paper prov-
ing that I had been honorably dis-
charged from the army of—does it
matter which army? Does it matter
where 1 was born, who were my par-
ents, what had been, before the war,
tive to me, because it afforded me
my station in life, my education.
Let it be enough that I called myselfl shelter from the elements, because, for
a gentleman, that I still call myself all its degradation, it was better than
a gentleman, ancl that scores, even I the hard benches of the park. Mrs.
hundreds, of year so-called best pea 1 Gannon would have no difficulty in
pie, term me such. But I was a very! e- '-"
hungry gentleman that night, not so
long ago, when I returned to the
shabby, even filthy lodging -house on
Thompson Street, that I called home.
My landlady was sated ori 0, cla^ix
- te. the ill -smelling hall. Gha ager my
Some people still use bulk tea—They think It
cheapier--it isn't—for they are paying for dust
and smf tings -aid for waning flavour:. -'-They have
not discovered 6dSALADA"— dust -free, fresh, full.
flavored—sealed in metal.
zigzag lines appeared and vanished
before my eyes; tiny points of light
grew into great. moltenmoons and
then faded suddenly into darkness.
Nausea attacked me, and I cpnquered
it only by a miracle of effort.
At last I reached my room on the
top floor. It was hardly more than a
cupboard. There was no window; a
skylight gave what light and ventila-
tion there were. There was no chair
in the room, nor any carpet. The
walls had once been papered, but now
there remained only a few strips;
grimy, cracked plaster, met the eye
on every side.
Yet even this refuge was to be de-
nied me unless I found means where-
with to meet the debt that living in
these quarters incurred. I had conte
to this room, stifling my 'contempt
with difficulty. Now it was as desir-
able as an apartment in a palace•
Dizzily I clutched at the wall and
worked my way around to the bed and
sat down upon. it. I was shaking and
perspiring. It as bad enough to be
hungry, but to be homeless also, was
unendurable. Well, I would do the
thing I had sworn never to do: I
would pawn the miniature, painted
upon ivory, of my mother. For the
oath that I had made to myself, as
my other possessions passed into the
hands of the pawnbroker, that I would
die before I parted with the last re-
minder differenty
long-
erbinMrs. Gannon
bindinn g. My duty to
was paisamol111t.,
I had a shabby, worn-out suitcase,
in the room. I had thought when I
cane here that I owned the irreduc-
ible minimum of clothing possible to
cover one's nakedness; but I had seen
vanish, one by one, the articles of
clothing and of the toilet that I had
thought indispensable, not to luxury,
but to life. Now, save for a 'shirt,
an extra pair of socks and a collar -or It
two, the suitcase was empty—save, of
course, for the ivory miniature. I had
no idea what a pawnbroker would
consider the thing worth, but I knew
that it was worth millions to me; for
when I should part with it, I would
also part with hope.
Looking at it, my eyes blurred, not
with the tears of weakness, but with
tears of grief. I seemed to see my
whole life pass before mo I was a
drowning man, sinking in the waters
of failure and despair,
I saw myself as a child, winning my
mother's smile by some playful prank.
I saw myself at a fashionable prep'
school, at college, in Paris playing the
part of a wealthy young dillettante.
I could neither paint nor write nor
,compose, but I flattered myself that
I had a cultured taste for all of these.
Then I saw myself reduced to sudden
poverty by the failure of a trust com-
pany to which the care of the estate
left me by my father had been con-
fided. I remembered the. blank be-
wilderment that had overcome ane as
I faced poverty, a bewilderment soon
succeeded by confidence in my own
latent abilities.
(To be continued.)
Turning the Tables.
A class el children were wrestling
with a lesson in arithmetic, and the
scholars found that fractions were too
much for them. The trouble started
when little Doris declared that she
would rather have halt a jam tart
than two-thirds of it.
"How often have I tried to drive it
IMO you," said the exasperated teach-
er, that two -things of anything is
more than a half? Now you all know,"
she went on, "that Doris prefers a
email portion of tart to a large piece.
Funny child, isn't she?"
Doris having been held up as 'a
model of stupidity, put up her hand.
"Well, asked 'the teacher, sharply.
"Please, hiss," said Doris, in a small,
Clear, piping voice, "I don't like tarty"
entrance with a frown. 'Even had I
been the kind to shirk an issue, I
could not have avoided this one. For
she rose from the rocking -chair at the
rear of the hall. For a moment she
would remove her watchful eye from
the brood of half-grown children who
played in the kitchen. Seery as I was -
for myself, I was sorrier for her.
Looking at her, as she shuffled her
• carpet-slippered feet over the torn and
stained oilcloth of the hall, one found
it hard to believe that she had ever
had youth, beauty and happiness. One
seemed to know that she had stepped
from girlhood into middle age, and
that the step had not been the bound-
ing stride of confidence, but a fright-' "I get my dollar or out you go."
,ned, unplanned leap • compelled by .._._
•fate, letting the room which 1 occupied, the
Even the flesh that shook upon her
rent of which was only a dollar a
as she waddled toward ane wasnot l }week, and yet a rental beyond
y my
the firm fat of the well -feel, but the power to pay.
gross flesh of those who live indoors,1"Well, what you got to say?" she
who work too hard, and who replenish demanded. "It's a wonder to ine that
their wasted tissues with food of the' a good big strong man like you
'wrong nutrition value.
Without a word she held out her
hand to ane. I could feel myself color-
ing, and marveled that there was
enough red in my anaemic mystem to
furnish my cheeks with a blush.
There is no humiliation more pain-
ful to a gentleman that his inability
to Day his debts to persons dependent.
for their livelihood upon his financial
integrity. Red with shame, I could
only stammer: "I'1n sorry, Mrs. Gan-
non."
I suppose that years before poverty
and worry and, disease had left their
indelible marks upon her body and
hnracter, her mouth may have been
wouldn't get. some kind of a fob i.
you wanted to."
I could not debate the question with
her. How make her understand that
a wound, followed by illness, and the
latter succeeded by eighteen months of
malnutrition culminating in what
promised to be actual starvation, un-
fitted a man for manual labor? Oh, I
could work like a giant for -ten min-
utes, but after that brief time I be-
came as weak as a newborn kitten.
But these were matters that pride
kept ale from divulging to Mrs. Gan-
non. .She had troubles of her own;
mine did not concern her.
"Well, there ain't nothing fore for
2e0
Sees White Race
Forced to Unite
European Publicist Believes
Study of World Map Shows
a Double Menace
For Common Agreement
London—A new line of approach to
the consideration of world problems.
of the future ie ,suggested in an arti-
cle in the February number of the
Fortnightly Review from the pen of
M. Poliakof, a European publicist
Whose contributions,: under the nom
de plunge of "Augur," have for some
time past been attracting consider-
able attention.
flow exist, could by a common re
solution make war an impossibility*.I
Competition a Factor
It is, However, in a less remote-
future than might be suggested by
considerations of this kind that M.'
.Poliakof forsees dangers against
which the nations he includes in. his;
combination of the whte races would
be well advised • to reach a common(
agreement. Before a "desirable eon-
nummation against Bolshevism can
be fully achieved Europe will have
need to find a way of dealing "with
the •competition of the powerful(
American creditor."
M. Poliakof ,apparently believes
that the pursuance of this object will;
assist European nations to forget'
their domestic sciuebbles and troubles'
and, one must assume, thereby con.
vine, the United States that a policy •
ivleacant, even inviting. It must have R lite to say. if you can't pay me, you'll
been kissable, for although I had
never seen Mr. Gannon, and vaguely'
understood that he had vanished from
my landlady's ken a few years ago,
the presence of so many young Gan -
tons argued the bestowal of caresses
upon my landlady's lips.
But now her mouth was
sharp, in violent contrast to
thin and
the
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have to go. That's all there is to that.
She put her hands on her hips and
rtared at me.
I ilad neve, in ail my life done a
thing which the world calls dishonort
able. I should have been able to look
anyone in the eye. The consciousness
of virtue should have sustained my
glance. Instead, it fell before her
truculent glare. Then I made up my
mind.
"All right, Mrs. Gannon; -I'll ' pay
you to -night," I told her.
"Ws to -night now,"- she reminded
me suspiciously.
"I mean in an hour," I' explained,
She eyed me unbelievingly. Then,
reluctantly, she said: "Don't think
you can put anything over on me. I
get niy dollar in advance, like it's due,
or out you ego"
I nodded to her apologetically, hum-
bly. She pursed her lips, started to
say something, chanyed her hind and
let her words: become an iedistin•guish-
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M. Poliakof has given a new turn of isolation is incompatible with her;
to the famous dictum of Lord Sails -1 own nterests in a future world where"
bury, "Study large maps." Salisbury'
the struggle will be between demo
had in mind chiefly maps of Europe, i cracy and Bolshevism, between the
which in his day more or less repres- • white races and a gigantic league of
ented the world with which be was l other races that, remembering the
,concerned. He allowed for the ex -1 theory anent scratching a Bussian
tension of European interests and am -land finding a Tartar, can not he des-
bitious to other continents, and l cribed as altogether whit.
maps which showed the possible Tela l e •p
tionships between European powers
and reinter districts of the world
were not barred from the study which
he invited. But even Lord Salisbury
did not call for the survey of maps on
such a grand scale as M. Poliakof
does, In fact, the latter says: "Maps
1 s
are misleading things indeed, and
traditional geography is the mother
of the worst preconceived notions in
politics. For the standard maps in
daily use make it difficult for us to
grasp the Principles of race distribu-
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There is but one map which M.
Poliakof invites the study of, Tbis
is the map of the world which repre-
sents the contineuts together in
their respective positions on the sur-
face of the earth. Thus, while Salis-
bury said, "Study large maps." Polia-
kof in effect says, "Study Mercator's
projection." From tbat it will be
seen that the lands peopled • by the �.._.
white race or dominated by it are ---
grefothedin two Atlantic..blo' OnDone both.
handsides is
Europe with Africa, on the other
America, North and South; in the
West we find Australia as a powerful
racial outpost in the Pacific, while in
the East are great territories in Asia
exploited by the whites for their mate -
The accidental locking of a ptir of
handcuffs prevented an actress tak-
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cently. Durzng an interval she slip-
ped on the handcuffs. to test them,
and then found the key had been mis-•
laid. Her understudy had to finish
the,plaY for her.
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