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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1928-03-08, Page 2stave gg gee **VA!, 44. For all washing anti cleat-1mq 111 SavesSeap Saves Work LEGERDEMAIN BEGIN HERE TODAY. "Yes, I suspeeted as 1 ," said john Ainsley, a man of education and breeding, whose war wound left him unfit for manual labor, returns hungry to his shabby boarding-house. To pay his landlady the week's rent for his room—$1—he is compelled to pawn an ivory miniature of his mother. At the pawnshop he. is puz- zled at the sight of a prosperous - looking, fur -collared man dickering with the broker. After leaving the shop, Ainsley hue - ries to a little, restaurant to get food. He is stopped in the entrance by the fur -collared individual, is taken to the rean's home, and is revived with hot soup. As he eats, Ainsley tries to take stock of his host and his surroundings. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. The man unquestionably was not a gentleman. His clothing was too gar - Isla, his jewelry too blatant. His speech, too . was coarse and sloven; and he used phrases that betokened an unfamiliarity with polite speech. His apartment, .moreover, was fur- nished badly. The pictures on the walls clashed violently With the fur- nishings. I would have set him down my host- "Starvation hurts a gentle- man's insides juet like it does an ordin,ary roughneck's, don't it? Are you proud?" "Suppose you explain," I suggested. "Make it snappy, eh? All right, I Will. I take it you have no friends in particular. You wouldn't be starving if you had. Ain I right?" "Go on," 1 said. "If you got a chance to make money, real money, important money, you'd jump at it. Am I right?" • "Go on some more. You interest me,". I 'smiled. "There's a lot of Money lying around this town 'Waiting for a good man td pick it up," he said. "Show it to me," I suggested. d!Suppose I do? Have you got nerve enough to grab it?" he demanded.. I reached far another cigaret, then drew back niy hand empty. The con- versation had takele a turn that mys- tified me. I was not euro that I wished to place myself under further obligation to mei host. "1 don't think I understand," I told Everywoman's, Maid -of -all -work AtimeoRsolotod • Wild Geese I hold to my heart When the geese aro flying— A wavering wedge on the high, bright blue - 1 tighten my lips to keep from crying: 'Beautiful birds, lot me go with youl" And at night when they honk—and their wings are weaving A pattern across a full gold moon - 1 hold to a heart that would be leav- ing If it were freed .to fly too soon. I hold to my heartt that would be going— "You know that I won't,"1 repliedA comrade to wild birds of the air, . . .1 "Will this cover the cost ef what I I .As wayward as they—and never ate?" I admit that it was uegracious, even, to a confessed crineinal. But after all, he bad insultedine. Isplaced two dollars upon the table—how piti- ful the amount was when laid beside his huge wad of bills—picked 'up my hat from the chair on which it had been dropped at niy entrance, nodded to him and started for the 'door. "Wait a minute," he said. "When yea think this over, .you'll change your mind. You'll want to find me. I won't be here. This place is rented for the night. just go to Weinberg and tell him you want me. That's the kind' of a man I -am—no hard, feel- ings." "None here, either," I told him. "But I hardly think we'll meet again." "You're belly's filled now, Wait till you're hungry again." "I win," said I. And with that I walked from the apartment to find myself a moment later in Washington .Square. I looked at the great clock on the Judson Tower. I could still keep my word to Mrs. Gannon. I did. Then, with two dollars left of the five 1 had received from Weinberg, I climbed more easily thistime than last, to my room. I sat down upon the bed and re- viewed the last hour. And as I thought of how a cheap criminal bad carried IVA to his lodgings, fed me, patronized me and insulted me, 1 was sick with shame. A man of niy education. and breeding, who bad sunk so low in the social scale that he was open do such an insult, who was as unable to cope with the elementary facts of life as 1 was, was unfit to live. . It was a harsh judgment :which I rendered against myself, but a just' one. Incompetents clutter up the path of progress. Society, in making civil- ized life difficult for the incompetent, is enactingeriatural decrees; for na- tu.re, before -society began, destroyed the incompetent. A sudden determina- tion came to me. I had parted with the last possession that had amaiket- able value. . Of course, X leadenly gnver- coat, but 'freezing wan not Wble immediately as a parvenu, po1b1ypossibly him. one of the recent species of profiteers, Ile put his hand into a pocket and but. for a furtiveness of e manner. withdrew it. I don't think that ever Moreover, I had first seen him in a in my life 1 had seen so .much actual pawnshop. 1 cash as he placed on a table beside Why had he followed me :What, him. Certainly there must have been was he? Well, I iould Wait for. the'I fifteen or twenty thousand -dollar bills, answer. And so, forcing myself toand as ninny more of lesser denomina- be sloW, to chew each reoesel carefully, I times ranging from •fifty to five hun- . ;.I waited for him to direct the convea- sation, for I said practically nothing. He delivered a monologue, based for the most part on places he had visited, ' events, mostly of a sporting nature, which he had witnessed. I began to think that lee was probably a gambler, perhaps a follower of the race -track. Then having decided that I had eaten ;11 that it was well for me to take at this time, I followed his ex- ample and walked with him into the next room. "Smoke?" he asked. . . Perhaps I had suffered almost as much through the .abstinence from tobacco as through the lack of food. Certainly his question aroused nieni- eries of sufferings that had seemed unbearable. With the first dizzying inhalation of the cigaret he, gave me, 1 felt my own man once more. 1 had been the sport of circumstances, bit of flotsam on the city's tide. Sudden- ly I felt master of my own destiny. "Drink? Cocktail? Highball?' Chain- pegne?" he asked. I shook my bead. "Never touch it," I said. "And I thought in these days no one but millionaires had such a variety." "Who said I ain't a millionaire he demanded. "I beg your pardon," said I, mar- veling at the queer vanity of him. "It's all right," he said. "I sup- pose, having seen me talking to Wein- berg you thought I was busted." "I didn't think anything about it," I replied. He laughed in a peculiarly harsh, people pass a law. joyless tone. "I guess you were be- "Bootlegging?" I suggest. 1 yond thieldng about anything. I took "Bright boy," he said. "Other a look at you, and says I to myself: things, too." 'This baby's about due for the mor -4 His eyes were almost hidden be - deed. "Understand those?" He pointed to the wad of bills.. I managed to lift my eyes from the money and looked at him. "Go on," I eaid again. "I'ni in busin.ess," he said slowly. -"It's a new business., and there's lots knowing Where it is going--an,c1 never care - 1• hold to my heart—for here lies duty; And here is the path where my feet must stay— But 0, that quivering line of beauty Beating its beautiful, bright -winged way! —Grace Noll Crowell. Wilson Publishing Company "Understand those?" he pointed to the bills. oi money in it. People don't lose their thirsts simply because other X felt myself color. "I do look pretty badly," I, admitted. "And on top of what Weinberg had been tell- ing you about me, it was easy to guess that I wasn't a millionaire." His eyes, hard blue, narrowed. "You see things, don't you? Tumbled right off to Weinberg wising me up about you, eh? Well, I knew right off that you were no boob. I thought you were tle lad I needed; now I know it. Like e little dough?" I iaughed. Odd, how a few ounces rd. food change the whole world. "What do you think?" I countered. to starvation. * * But why starve or freeze when there was an easy alterneitive That is, the alternative would be easy if I were in full possession of my faculties. But if I became hungry to the point of starvation again, niy faculties would be impaired, niy will be gone. I could see myself begging of passers-by, even possibly, rummaging in refuse -pails for a bone dr a cruet, like any fam- ished dog. The alternative, of swift and simple self-destruction, was infinitely prefer- able to such degradation. I would eat again—already my stomach cried for more food, so long had I gone hungry —then walk to the waterfront and rid ()tidy of one of its unfit. (To be continued.) tween their lids now; yet I knew that their pupils studied me intently. "How far would you travel with a man who could toss you a bunch like that on the table?" Ile pointed at the wad of bills. "I'need a man like you, a man. that can look and talk and act like a gentlemar.. I got ideas, but I ain't always able to put them over. You see, I know my own limits. It doesn't matter how much of a front I wear it don't fool the people that want to fool." understood him. "My face is my fortune. Is that it " I laughed. He nodded. "You can make it your "I'd say that you were ready to do fortune. It hasn't made much of a anything to make a stake," he said, one for you yet. Anyone can tell that "Almost anything," I amended. you have been educated, and used to "Fassy?" he asked. good things and all thatsba where's "I'm a gentleman," I told him. The it got you?" words sounded grandiloquent, absued. "Here in your apartment, accepting Baldwin Employs •*•••••••• chatity," I replied. He waved a disclaiming hand. "Not chaeity—business," he coereeted me. "Thank yeu," said I. "I'ni glad you. put it on a businese basis. How much do you think the food I ate was worth?" "What you mean?" he asked. "I mean what I told you awhile ago. I'm a gentleman," I said, "—not bootlegger or a crook." His thin lips curled in a sneer. "1 e it'better to be a gentleman I550 The colour and exquisite flavour of "SAILAIDA" Green Tea are natural—Ordy the 'process of curling Is different from Blaclk Tea—Both are equally pure—"SALADA" Green Tea Is sealed, In air. tight alurninum—fresh—delicious—satisfying—, 38c per 4-1b. at all grocers. Ask for this• tea. IP Women. of 1928 We look back with amazement and pity at the woman of 1828, it is said, but we look with admiration also, for it is out of their dreaming and striv- ing that our freedom has come. So writes "A 1VIodern. Girl" in the London Daily News, who says that women are standing untrammeled on the thresh- old of 1928, a year that will probably bring to Englishwomen, with an in- creased franchisee even more freedom than they have now. A -hundred years ago, it is recalled, the ladies of. but the destinies of nations, "lie in the hands that a little while ago were pale and weak with idlenese. the land sat in stifling idleness. There were no professions open to them, we are reminded, and if they were so un- fortunately placed 'that they must earn their own living or starve they could only hope for employment as a "companion" or as a governess. We are then offered this picture of "poor Miss 1828," which shows a startling contrast between the young ladies of that day and those of to -day: "Look at her standing there in her stuffy thick clothing, her hideous frilled 'pelisse' with its puffed sleeves, her face hidden. by an ungainly flap- ping bonnet 'as large as an umbrella.' She has been grounded like Amelia Sedley in the principles of religion and morality. Her head is stuffed with Mangnall's questions, her fingers are sore with. Working 'samplers,' her body is stiff with that strange cult known as 'deportment.' She is just sixteen. years of age and ready to 'come out' to a life of social and do- mestic inanition. When she dances, it is to pace soberly through the mea- sures of ,a minuet or the quadrilles, for shez„has not yet been introduced to the 'sprightly polka' or the glamor- ous waltz. Little wonder that she breaks the monotony of her days -by occasional fits of hysterics oi a grace- ful -swoon. "She had her vanities, poor dear— her looks' were one of her few in- terests. She was as frightened of cor- pulence as is her modern sister. Rossh fresh cheeks were considered com- mon, and she deprived herself of ade- quate food for fear of growing fat and 'material.' A pale and tired gentitlity was her creed. She moved of neces- sity in a small and circumscribed cir- cle traveling no further than her feet, or the slow; lumbering coach, would take her, for the revolution of trans- port had hardly' begun, and railways were not yet familiar." Of all the changes the swiftly mov- ing hundred years past has brought about, none is more dramatic, thinks "A Modern Girl," than. the 13nprove- ment in the status of women. Not only their own destinies, we are told, Kaiser's Old Home Decays Berlin—The threatening decay of the "Neues Paleis" near Potsdam, the ex -Kaiser's farmer residence, was reported by government building ex- perts on their annual round of inspec-. tion. 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