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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1930-02-27, Page 6Salada Orange Pekoe Bien gives neatest satisfaction "S 11 1 011RANGE pLKOE BLEND A �f 'Fresh iron the gardens' 751 Thc Stcp on. the Stairs By ISABEL OSTRANDER BEGIN HERE TODAY Detective Sergeant John Barry is spending the evening with his friend, 7' f Semyonov in the latter's rooms lio . , on the fifth floor of a New York apart" ,iCa entlewan nese ment house. A revoivLr shot 's heard below till this young g from below and then hurrying foot- let me in! Oh, you're here, Sergeant steps on the stairs. They rush down- Barry! This is my regular beat, sir, stairs and in the studio the occupant, on and thinking there was something an - the third flour discover the Icon the 1 ,, • oA lady lives on the top floor, theh(�es The),Baby Cry? one above mine. I do not know her. Of the. shop T can tell you nothing, but; there is a janitor or superintendent who occupies the basement, although I have never found him there when he is wanted for Madden repairs •or other emergencies. 'there are no other occupants of the building, to my knowledge." "Thanks, sir," Boyle turned again to the telephone and the municipal machinery of investigation into the death of Miriam Vane was set in mo - ton. "Well," Boyle squared 'his shoulders "I'll get what ' air,g at1S fied with a s When the baby cries without visible cause, the parents become eonceral- ed, and the puzzling IitlestiOn arises'': is the. child ill? Has he a pain •which he can not tell us about? It is with these momentous tines- tions that a children's specialist, Dr. Musser, deals in a most interesting way in a recent pamphlet, published in Germany. The purely pathological part is iateudod fol specialists, but in the chapters that Ileal with the mind tl relation to the f tho child and his dope I can. I'll ask you,. sergeant, to environment, Dr. Rlusser convoys a see that these three gentlemen stay in this room. Don't let one of then multitude of thoughts and sugges- put a finger on the corpse, either!" j tions of interest not only to' parents He added the last in a hoarse this -1 but to teseherS and psychologists also. per that must have been plainly and- We quote from a review by Gottfried ible to the entire group, for even the Stiasny in the Illustrirto Zeitung young man in the ;1 -air, overcome (Leipzig) as follows: "First of all, the quest".0n is raised: with as roe policeman he appeared, eduupetProvided th.e child continues to cry, and as th ahevstartedreup the does this under all circumstances stairway withaa heavy tread he raised mean discomfort or illness?? a "Itcan'td face. "B no means. We forget only "It be!" he muttered as if to y himself. "Not Miriam! 1 must' be 1 too' easily that •cryilrg is the infant's only possible expression --the only vent for his frequently overbubbling temperament, making his individual- ity—surely this expressian is justified even at this ago—known, to his fam- ily; "And when the ,,aby thrives, is rosy and strong, sleeps soundly and shows the proper increase in weight, in that case we have to Ileal with a high-spirited child, a 'distinct per- sonality,' who makes his existence known in a different way from a child with an ordinary temperament. More - The latter advanced with aggres- going sive authority which suffered a sud- "So it's Miriam Vane, the woman painter, that's been murdered, as that police officer said?" Griswold drew his dressing gown closer about his lean form. "I should like to know, sir, why you banged on niy door and dragged me into it?" . He turned irascibly to the profes- sor, wht. shook back his inane of bushy white hair and smiled with suave. urbanity. "My dear friend, the sound of the den change. "What's been going on here? I rd a shot and I've oeen pounding a beautiful woman, lying a floor in front o-:: an unfinished por- trait. A bullet has just pierced her breast. GO ON WITH THE STORY usua — "There is, Boyle." Barry nodded grimly to the policeman. "In that studio yonder there's a woman lying shot through the heart!" "A. woman!" The young man in t"inner coat Mirian i Vane! It's n pcss ble!" "Not He rushed past the group to the studio doorway, clung there for a mo- ment in werdlet s horror, then col- Lapsed into the nearest chair, burying his face in his hands. Boyle was instantly all business. After a quick examination of the body he turned to Barry. "Wouldn-he began,ou mind but telling mthe other Ser- geant—'?" interrupted him. "Not in the least, although we know very little. I was here unofficially, visiting this old friend of mine, Mr. Semyonov, who lives on the fifth floor —two above this—when we heard the shot and rushed down to investigate. There seems to be no one in the apart- ment directly above this one, and I took the responsibility of breaking in the door here because we could get no reply to repeated knocking and the light from the studio there streamed. out under the sill into the outer hall. ee how brilliant it is; 'it Sergeant Barry made no comment but gently dropping the limp, warm head back upon the rug he rose and started a swift, comprehensiv, , search of the apartmeree From just behind him over his shoulder a large reflector threw the powerful light whose re- fracted rays had penetrated even into the outer hall; back of the easel and at one side where the artist could- ob- tain btain the best view of it stood a smelt, improvised model throne with three steps and a section of balustrade, and back of it again the drawn shades over a row of half -opened windows flapped in the little, hot breeze which had sprung up with tha passing of the threatened storm. A long table covered with scattered tubes of paint and brushes, a few plain chairs and many canvases of various sizes stacked again the walls completed the furnishings of the workmanlike studio, the ceiling f which was one huge skylight of glass, and the detective turned back into the luxurious living room, his hand me - shot came from below my rooms sonde- i oyer, the healthy child display^ wli°ere and my friend and I could not everywhere a certain inclination to - tell whether it came from your apart- ward perseverance. Just as, at a f listen- 'er wearies arieS 0 one."nes • this he went of fiddle later age, again and again to the same fairy- ing at ungodly hours over my head " whether it comes from above or the top floor!" the other retorted. "I move down here, away from my club, and niy office, and my bankers in order to get peace and quiet and I land in this sort of thing!" A scream, shrill Int subdued by distance floated down to them at this juncture and the professor murmured in an aside to Barry: "Evidently your excellent friend of the police has broken the news of the tragedy none too diplomatically to my neighbor in the skylight apartment!=' (To be continued.) chanically searching for and finding Y °li all. must be some special light for artists the Instantly ht switch the inthe eglow of many to paint by at night." "I'll have to report this at once low, opal -tinted lamps sprang into being and revealed the sheer beauty of the arrangements of the room, but Sergeant Barry's eyes searched only for some sign of disorder that would indicate hurried flight, and finding hone, he opened the door. at the back. It led into a boudoir upholstered deli- cately in light blue and rose, and through that he passed into an ivory and gold bedroom and to the tiled, iii- the stairs below:' maculate kitchenette beyond, but no- Barry, whose eyes had turned to where was there a sign of alien pres- that collapsed figure in the chair, epee. ht that he saw a shudder sweep thought "The icebox contains only butter hand and cream, and that dress and hat upon the bed would indicate that Mrs. Vane had dined out," the professor observed. "Vane? Miriam Vane?" Barry wheeled suddenly. "Is that who she is, the artist who has created such 1 a stir with her new type of portrait- ure among the celebrities?" "Yes. Her portraits are danger- ously near caricatures, for some per- verse impulse has seemed to guide her brush although so subtly that her clients themselves have rarely detect- ed that sardonically revealing touch or two; but the critics have raved about her genius." The professor turned. "It is evident that•we are too late here; for this kitchenette door leading into the outer hall is bolted from the.inside; but someone is coin- ing." Someone had indeed arrived. They ' hastened back to the living room to find standing just within the doorway a, young man in a dinner coat with wildle rumpled hair, and a policemanin uniform, to the station." Boyle, who had been listening attentively, nodded and turned to the professor. "Have you anything, sir, to add to what Sergeant Barry has told me?". Professor Semyonov pondered for a moment, and then said slowly: "Only that when we heard thesound of the o t and I fancied that heard footstepsemy door it as though over an unseen had shaken the inert form, but he said nothing as the policeman paused at the screened telephone on the table to inquire: "Could you say, sir, whether those footsteps were going up or down?" "Not definitely," the professor hesi- tated. "One would suppose naturally ti.at they were descending to escape by way of the street and yet it seem- ed to ine that they were .coning up, although we met no rue!" He paused. Framed in the hall. doorway there had appeared a tall, middle-aged man clad in a tattered dressing gown, with a lean, smooth - shaven, irascible face upon which astonishment struggled with resent- ment. "What's been going on here, offi- cer?" he demanded. "I'm Griswold on the floor above. Who's been pound- ing on my door fit to wake the dead?" Basque Model Attracts Junior -with Its Moulded Hipline and 9efitr7GLEY'S is good company on any trip. les delicious flavor adds zest and enjoyment. The sugar sup- plies pep and energy when the clay seems long. - In short tit's 'good and good for you. After Every Me CIC 11 ISSUE No, 8-230 CHAPTER TI. "There's been murder going on, sir," Officer Boyle retorted ;grimly. "So it was pounding you heard?" "That was I," Professor « Semyonov ed remarked with dignity, on the way down at this person's door but received no response." "And your name's Griswo-d?" the. policeman prevented an evidently heated rejoinder by his sharp ques- tion. "Henry Griswold, end I know no- ing whatever about any inurder!" declared the newcomer. "I do not tare to be embroiled in any such—" "You're here, and you'll stay, sir, till we hear iron. headquarters," Boyle replied significantly. "So you're on the fourth floor and this gentleman here on the fifth." Ile indicated the professor with harked courtesy in deference to the sergeant, and then turned to the young man in the chair. "You have the apartment on the sec. end floor, sir, just over the .hop?" The young .m en nodiee: without lift- ing his head and replied with snuffled tones: "Yes. My name is Gordor Lacld. 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As crying becomes spasmodic—when the it listen, it comes and goes; it facial expression of the child and his flashes upon you through the open psychic attitude during the crying- doorway of some bank, windowless spell indicate discomfort—the con- tinuous crying is not to be consider- Then tyo Epas sweeps: aside her cur- ed merely as a surplus of energy tains, flashes a facet of her jewels And when the scales and the therm°- into your dazzling eyes, and disap- meter—the most reliable health -me- ears again with a 'mocking little tern at this period of life—suggest p b ld ret She possible malnutrition and illness, then it requires all of the physician's art to - ascertain the cause, which oc- casionally is concealed: "But besides eventual physical arl- meats, the • psychic attitude of the child, the 'milieu,' in which he lives, Must be had in mind to a much larger extent than heretofore. The entire medical science of our time is in- fluenced more deeply by psychic cur- rents than it was a few decades ago. The niistiuderstoocl child takes up a great deal of space in Dr. Flusser's pamphlet—the child without peace as a sheltering atmosphere and without e certain loving understanding as an indispensable Basis of development. "A momentous question: Shall one let the.baby cry until he stops of his own accord? No! The baby of the family is entitled to solicitous loving treatment. He wants love and ten- cierness, he wants to be mothered and demands this right just as a young animal seeks to obtain a caress. "Tile infant who is 'quietly sooth- ed' whenever he cries develops into a child that is calm and contented and not cross; and ill-bred, as one would r r 5 and the dee ert breaks in::i flew ers, bowers of cool shade spring up in the midst of dust and glare, radiant stretches of soft color gleam in that grey expanse. Your heart leaps as you pass through the gateway in the mud wall; so sharp is the contrast, that you may stand with one foot in an arid wilderness and the other in a shadowy, flowery paradise. Under the broad thick leaves of the plane - trees tiny streams murmur, fountains splash with a sweet fresh sound, white • rose bushes drop their fragrant petals into tanks, lying deep and still like patches of concentrated shadow. The indescribable charm of a Persian gar- den is keenly present to the Persians. themselves—the "strip of herbage strewn, which just divides the desert from the sown," an endlessly beautiful parable. Their poets sing the praise of gardens in exquisite verses, and call laugh at your ewi erme .. will not stay—she prefers the unex- their books by their names.—From pected; she will keep her secrets and "Persian Picture:," by Gertrude Bell. her tantalizing charm with then, and when you think you have caught at last seine of her illusive grace,• she will send you back to shrouded figures and blank house -fronts. You must be content to wait, and perhaps some day, when you find her walking in he? gardens in the cool of the evening, she will take a whim to stop and speak to you nyou will go away fascinated by her us words and her exquisite hospitality. For it is in her gardens that she is most h•' self—they share her charm, they are as unexpected as she. Con- ceive on every side such a landscape a grey and featurless plain, over which the dust -clouds rise and fall, build themselves into nighty columns, and sink back again among the stones at the bidding of the hot and fitful winds; prickly, low -growing plans for all vegetation, leafless, with a foliage of thorns; white patches of salt, on which the sunlight glitters; a fringe a barren mountains on the horizon . . Yet in this •desolation lurks the mock- ing bea.'ty of the East. A little water frequently make mothers believe. The child that realizes the futility of his crying, and for that reason is silent, may well be compared to a woman who' earns to relinquish love because it is not offered -to her; but to relin- quish does not meati to be contented. "It ie well known that we ourselves become nervous in the company of a nervous person. So it seems but na- tural that the infant should succumb to the same influence. As we know,. our domestic animals are extremely sensitive to the frame of mind of main The horse becomes 'jerky' and ner- vous, and the clog, too, grows to be shy and fidgety, in a troubled envi- ronment. The same may be observed in the smallest infants, who are just as little able fully to understand their environment. 'Whenever the baby le nervous and 'finds no peace,' a con- flicting evironment is frequently .to blame. The child senses that peo- ple around him are impatient, cross or Nervous, and he himself becomes neuropathic, nervous, and morose. "It is obvious that the modern type of mother in whom varied diversions, sport, recklessness, and flirtation are at ,variance with a mother's duties, must- endanger the equilibrium of the An interesting rayon printed erepe in deep lawn green and lighter tones that is simple, smart and wearable, for the growing miss of 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. It's a dress that is very inexpensive and very easy to retake. It has a two-piece skirt that is gathered and : stitched to bodice that is long -waisted and slightly moulded through the hips, wit/ deep scalloped outline ae front,. The long rather fit- child, Such conflicts in the 011110 ted sleeves have '•urn -down flared cuffs. environment may, also be caused by It's a splendid dre. s for classroom social contiitioiis. Runge=, misery, that appears so entirely stmt after school hours to go calling or shopping with mother. You'll also like Style No. 202 in navy blue wool crepe with tiny red bone buttons at either side if bodice at front with matching :aIle red sills crepe linen in a red cuffs, that lends French chic. Geometric print in cotton br oad- cloth, wool challis print, crepe de 'chine, pastel linen, wool jerse;', and featherweight novelty woolens appro- priate. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS.: Write your name ar.d address ly, giving nutnber and size of such fixed is eminently the sanctifying ere ra:tterns as you want. Enelose 20e in went of human lifer without it, the itc plain - stamps efully)nrrforoeach in preferred; nlnber, and soul heli lcann-ot tlreai nh• ch its fullest height or ler to "Wilson Pattern and unsolved sex problems cause i directly, through neurasthenia of the grownup 'people, restlessness and psychic uneasiness of the baby. For all that life brings to the new dweller on this earth, of physical and psychical discomfort, he has but t n e means of `expression --the cry. I is the physician's task to diagnose the copse, and to remove it whenever he can." Use Minard's for Neuralgia. FAITHFUL LOVE 'Love, when true, faithful, and Well house?" Boyle looked from one to address your ort Wilson a another of therm but his gaze finally Service, 9 n 3 West Adelaide Ste Toto' to ` "League C onincnl i ekes Three hree Slept e Check Falling Hair vvith'M!nard's,, to C"elnrent Peace" Concrete steps? fastned upon the professor' and t latter relslied "What do you think of a girl who would break her promise? "I should have to 'know promise was." what the Mercy Wilt thou draw the nature of the gods? Draw near them, then, in being mama. ful.: Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. —Shakespeare. Judging by the alimony they got, some of these grass widows make hay while the sun shines. ^4: SEA , •^ :3 i:R,:• 1h:_�ti { roto? ~aV'S ee ss a.idi.n �e Nowadays, people take Aspirin for many little aches and pains, and as often as they encounter any pain. Why not? It is a proven anti- dote ntidote for pain. It works! And Aspirin tablets are abso- lutely harmless. You have the medical profession's word for that; they do not depress the heart. So, don't let a cold "run itg course" Don't wait for a head- ache to "wear off.", Or regard neuralgia, neuritis, or even rheum-, atism as something you must en- dure. Only a physician can cope with the cause of such pain, but you can always turn to an. Aspirin tablet for relief and Aspirin is always available, a it never fails to help. Familiarize °yourself with its many uses, and avoid a lot of needless suffering. TRADE MAittOttitI.'