Zurich Herald, 1931-11-05, Page 3Open Window
By Saki
"Out througTi; fatiw! tSifp''three
years ago, the'y alit, „1q¢a a day's
shooting,.. They never came back"
"She has been very interesting,"
said Framton,
"I hope you don't mind the open
window,' said Mrs.. Sappleton briskly;
"any husband and brothers will be
home directly from shooting, and they
always cone in that way, They've
been out for snipe in the marshes to-
day, so they'll make a fine mess over
my poor carpets. So like You men-
folk, isn't it?"
She rattled on cheerfully about the
"My aunt will be down presently, shooting and the scarcity of birds, and
Mr. Nuttel," said a very self-possessed the, prospects for duck in the winter:
young lady of fifleeai; "in the mean- He made a desperate but only partial,
time, you must try and put up with lY successful effort to turn the talar
me." on to a less ghastly topic; he was con-
Framton Nuttel endeavored to say seious that his hostess was giving him
the correct something which should only a fragment of her attention, and
duly hatter the niece of the moment her eyes were constantly straying
without unduly discounting the aunt past him to the open window and the
that,was to come, Privately he doubt- lawn beyond: It was certainly an un -
ed more than ever whether these for- fortunate coinclicence that he should
mal visits on a succession. of total have paid his visit on that tragic an -
strangers 'would do much to help the niversary.
nerve cure he was supposed to be un -I The doctors agree ia ordering me
dergoing. I complete rest, au absence of mental
know how it will be," his sister excitement, and avoidance of any -
had said when he was preliaring to thing in the nature of violent physical
migrate to this rural retreat; "you exercise," announced Framton, who
will bury yourself down there and not ,labored under the tolerably wide -
speak to a living soul, and your nerves spread delusion that total strangers
will be worse than ever from moping. and chance acquaintances are hungry
I shall just give you letters of intro- for the least detail of one's ailments
duction to all the people I know there, and infirmities, their cause and cure.
Some of them, as far as I can remem- "On the matter of diet they are not
ber, were quite nice." so much in agreement," he continued.
Framtou wondered whether Mrs. "No?" said Mrs. Sappleton, in a
Sappleton, the lady to whom be was voice which only replaced a yawn at
presenting one of the letters of intro- the last moment. Then she suddenly
duction, came luta the nice division. brightened into alert attention—but
"Do You know many of the people not to what Framton was saying.
round here?" asked the niece, when "Here they are at last!" she cried.
she judged that they had had sufficient "Just in time for tea, and don't they
silent communion. look as if they were muddy up to their
"Hardly a soul," said Framton. "My eyes, *,
sister was staying here, at the rectory,
you know, some four years ago, and Framton shivered slig , cly and turn -
she gave me letters of introduction to ed towards the niece wi h a look in-
come of the people liege.,, tended to convey sympathetic compre-
He oracle the last statement in a hension. The child was staring out
tone of distinct regret, through the open window with dazed
"Then you know practically nothing horror In her eyes. In a chill of name
about my aunt?" pursued the self -pus- less fear Framton swung round in his
sussed young lady. seat and looked in the same direction.
"Only her name and address," ad- In the deepening twilight three fig-
"Only
the caller. He was wondering ures were walking across the lawn to -
whether Mrs. Sappleton was in the wards the window; they all carried
married or widowed state. An indefin- guns under their arms, and one of
able something about the room seemed them was additionally burdened with
to suggest masculine habitations. a white coat hung over his„shoulders.
"Her great tragedy happened just A tired, brown spaniel kept close at
three years ago," said the child; "that their heels. Noiselessly they neared
would be since your sister's time." the house, and then a hoarse young
"Her tragedy?" asked Framton voice chanted out of the dusk: "I
somehow in this restful country spot said, 'Bartle, why do you .bound'?"
tragedies seemed out of place. Framton grabbed wildly at his stick
and hat; the hall door, ' the gravel
"You may wonder why we keep that r
window wide open on an October af-
ternoon,"
drive, and the front gate•were dimly-.
said the niece; indicating noted stages in his headlong. retreat.
A cyclist coming along
a large French window that opened on the guild Bail
to a lawn.,to run into 'the hedge to avoid i'mmin-
•ent Fr�lli> ua,i
`It is, cuitewarm for the time "os ,,` re My' dear," 'the.,
1 . .i Sere we a, , y
hiss tTiat wi m -
'said anything n, glut he white mackintosh, co
year,' bearer of t
dow got to do with the ing in . through the window; fairly
tragedy?" muddy, but most of it's dry. Who
"Out through that window, three was that who bolted out as we came
years ago to a day, her husband and up,,,
her two young brothers went off for "A most extraordinary man, a Mr.'
their day's shooting. They never Nuttel," said Mrs. Sappleton; "could
came back. In crossing the moor to only talk about his illness, and dashed
their' favorite snipe -shooting ground, off without a word of good-bye or
they were all three engulfed in a apology when you arrived. One would
treacherous piece of bog. It had been think he had seen a ghost."
that dreadful wet summer, you know, "I expect it was the spaniel," said
and places that were safe in. other the niece calmly; 'he told me he had
years gave way suddenly without a horror of dogs. He was once hunt -
warning'. Their bodies were never re-
ed into a cemetery somewhere on the
covered. That was the dreadful part of banks of the Ganges by a pack of
it," pariah dogs, and had to spend the
* i° * night in a newly -dug grave with the
Here the child's voice lost its self- creatures snarling and grinning and
possessed note and became faltering- i foaming just above' him. Enough to
ly human. make anyone lose their nerve."
"Poor aunt always thinks that they Romance at short notice was hei
will come back some day, they and the specialty.—Pearson's Weekly,
little brown spaniel that was lost
with them, and walk in. at that window
just as they used to do. That is why
the window is kept open every even-
ing until it is quite dusk.
"Pbor dear aunt, she has •often told
me how they went out, her husband
with his white waterproof coat over
his arm, and Ronnie, her youngest
brother, singing 'Bartle, why do you
bound?' as he always did to tease her,
because she said it got on her nerves.
Do you know, sometimes on stiff, quiet.
evenings like this, I almost get a
creepy feeling that they will all walk
in through that window*" •
* * *
She broke off with a little shudder.
It was a relief to Framtou when the
aunt bustled into the room with a
whirl of apologies for being late in
making ber appearance.
"I hope Vera has been amusing
you?" she said.
MUTT AND JEFF ----
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lR bbit—"I understand Mr..Fos-
suni, has a case on you."
Miss Porcupine -"Yes, he's badly
stuck on me."
Fresh Air
Dressed warmly in t7ow1 is ie
work out-of-doors. The aladidarr
busily attacking their crackers am
these N.Y. school children
Bows some of the pupils
Sunday SchoIDI
Lesson
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November 8. Lesson VI—Paul in
Ephesus—Acts 19
d 8-20. Golden,
publicly, vs. 17-19. They not
moved temptation from their
ey; they removed it from others
When the church members puri -
lir own lives "that -word of God
; ,ightily, and prevailed, v. 20.
MBEGINNING OF THE END, Acts
19: 21-41.
rse 21 marks the beginning of
Ind of Acts. The keynote is struck
ust also see Rome." Rome had
Text—Have no fellowship with the '}`seen Paul's goal. Now we are
unfruithful works of darkness, but Old 'how he attained it. His desire
rather reprove them.—Ephesians fol' .ome was God's will, but he learn-
; i L ed !ie others that:
',Cis he who taught me thus to pray,
I, THE FULL GOSPEL, Acts 19: 1-7, d he I know has answered prayer,
II. SUPERSTITION IN RELIGION, Acte_ Be':'has been in such a way
19: 8-20. ' almost drove.inc to despair.
III. THE BEGINNING OF THE .END, Acts �'"was not to have a quiet exit, as
-
19.2 VICES ,flan Corinth. One of "the many ad -
1V. PAGAN AND CHRIST* ITt,rl''ealies" (1 Cor. 16: 9) suddenly
Eph. 5: 5-11. ' . G4 edChriste person
D ruining this
INTRODUCTION—Paul was permitted ' nese. •The turning from idolatry
to leave Corinth in peace and quiet: : • magic.in v. 18 -was evidently real.
After a visit to Jerusalem, Anitoch I "cowl' n serious falling off in trade.
and the Galatian churches, he canto , ? preaching that interfered with
to Ephesus, Acts 18: 18,23. slits had to be stopped.
Ephesus, a more populous, wealthy . f PAGAN VICES AND CIiRISTIANITY,
and important city than Corinth, was, .-, Eph. 5: 5-11.
capital of the province of "Asia." ot only against superstition had
"Asia" means not the modern cantina" 1 to wage war, but against sin,
ent of Asia, but that western 'part pe °nal and social. The letter t.i
of it with which the Romans first t 'CEphesians," which was probably
came into contact. Ephesus also- had eant for more than one church, deals
a great religious attraction in its fa Inong other matters, with the temp-
maus Temple of Diana. Paul, ac- ations,; which surround Christians in
cording to his custom, settled 'in this' pagan: society. In the "kingdom ' f
strategic situation and began to teach o and of Christ," v. 15, that is, the
the new reli io1. ie a;ij:ian Brotherhood, there is no
I. THE PULL GOSPEL, ACts 19' 1-7, fit om for the "covetous" man. "Covet- Said Bok:
o�4snesw," as used here, means more For some minutes at least, they stak- Among the believers whom Paul' titan there avarice. It stands for ;hat ed hundred dollar bilis on the course "One day I was lying in my
and in Ephesus, one group was spe-' i altitude of life which makes one's own and speed of raindrops chasing down h "The Bxu�h-
dally interesting, v. ". Finding these :advantage and,pleasure the sole ob- a window -pane, just as if they were weed Boy,' Rudyard came up behind
smensin,that fringe of partial converts: jact. The .,impulse wyli?�J+� 1's -het some race track,playing the pon- me with a roll of wet newspaper and
rraunu they Yuan into s oc tis:: , ave me a fearful swat. `Put that
anaganvw�� .... o-eaexn.syrtagagrie, mmol>,'to ear,_ antabex' - tri .say C ke •w g . , : , d:
rept their evident sincerit , Paul' -ac tri an down,. hd ss+atl, I yV�JtF, 4k rl~1!d
yurliy"•1ih"rirbtitve^of self-gxatttc- Often wjiat" to'"an oYdrtta7nr• -:•,�> =I. ,.....,,,._ .:,„.,,,,,,a.,t.,,
cepted then as disciples. Soon, how: cation, wherever it may lead one, is trick,' I remarked.
ever, he discovered -hal they lacked so alien to the Christian spirit that it would represent a huge fortune would * e
that peculiar enthusiasm which is not even to be mentioned, v. 3. change hands among Gates's "crowd" I was hot, and when he saw that
marked the "Spirit filled" believers. The'way to "reprove" these "works during a few hours' play at poker 0" �'
"Did you receive the Holy Spirit when 'of darkness" is to live a life so un- bridge. At one of these games a prom- I meant it. he sat down beside me
you believed?" he asked. epi tionably pure and right that it inept New York politician was invit- and tried to snake me forget it. He
Coming into a modern church, wtil 'reveal the heathen vices as they ed to "make.a fourth" at bridge. By apologize3 and then explained the
would he see a similar dullness and are; : It is still the "Royal Way."no means wealthy, caution made him genesis of the book. `I was seen
absence of Christian joy? The `,`joy" inquire as he sat down: "By the way, years writing that story,'. he said,'
in believing is too often absent, Such
joy as the average Christian possesses ! •°' ` Rising Scale what ne arewe
point,' Gates for?"
answered way'and 11 He offered to read it life—in
to
is frequently attributed to a dutiful) "Cate deaf anon stepped down from ferrel
family, good health, or a satisfactory p me as compensation' for his crugl
income. s tkt. dentists chair after the o crotid? The •genie began and ended. The swat, and in the erg I forgave him. I
How much do I owe you for that?" pointsloved hint."
II. SUPERSTITION IN RELIGION, Acts New Yorker finished 330 ahead. * * *
19: 8-20. i fte::asked. ''You'll get your cheque tomorrow,"
The dentist looked thoughtful. Gates's secretary who attended to Another of Mr. Garland's stories
After three months' preaching in a,n,1i •ee guineas," he replied. is about Bret Harte. Garland heard
the synagogue, Paul found it neeesr , `iauti� e uineas?" asked the deaf such matters told the winner.
sary, as in other places, to withdratba,,aoe`i;""�'° g * * * * it from the lips of William Demi
Ile secured the lecture room of 9wyia'; x :..ertainly, Howells.
S' .',, put in the dentist quickly; When it arrived, the New Yorker „Bret was a careless vagabond,"
� ' r= ' meas_ fell back in astonishment. It was for
Fe d v#s,t $33,000! From Gates's secretary he said Howells "improvident but highly
1 1�e �iG'� amusing, and we all liked him. He
learned that the game was for $100
a point, not $1, as he had imagined. was always in debt. It fell to me on
So he sought out Gates. one occasion to present him as a lec-
"Mr. Gates," he protested, "I don't turer to an audience in Tremont Tem -
feel right in taking this money le- ple (Boston), and when I called at
his house to escort him to the hall,
I found him in the custody of a eon -
;:table,
At the Top of Mount Fuji
Who has not heard of Mount Fuji Gotemba, the little town lying at the
and longed for a glimpse " of its foot of Fuji, As the train wound. Its
snowcrawned summit? This uaa- way through, the foothills, sheets ot
jestic heaven -kissing neap is every- rain , dasher, against the wlndowal
thing a mountain should be. It is while clouds and mist obscured all
shaped even as little children ex- view of the snow -clad peak towering
peat a mountain to be shaped, it b twelve thousand three hundred and
beautiful to look upon from near eighty :ser en feet above the" plant.
and far, it is surrounded by the halo The ascent began. It was very
of legend and tradition as j'apan's gradual, recalling in its early stages
highest and most sacred mountain. the journey up Mount Rainier in the
Best of all, it is accessible, State of Washington, or the slowly
So when I learned that the climbmounting slope of Mauna Loa on the
could be made between the time the Island of Hawaii. As in the iiawalian
Siberia Mariaarrived at Yokohama Island, there was semitropical vege•
and sailed from Kobe I resolved that tation and red volcanic soil. After a
Fuji's summit would be my first des- ' little distance bad been traversed
tination after presenting some let- wild flowers and anemones abounded
temof introduction at Tokyo. With- on the mosses under the fragrant
in twenty-four hours of landing I fir trees, In the open spades wo
would be on my way to get a bird's- heard the distant song of larks and
eye view of Japan from its very top. In the wood nightingales chanted
"Americans are certainly ener- melodiously and even responded
getic;" remarked the Foreign Office when my young companion whistled
official in Tokyo upon whom I called the notes or their song. • ,
that afternoon. "1 have been plan- 'When our eyes turned in the di-
ning to climb Fjui myself for the rection from which we had come
they beheld one of the world's love-
liest mountain views. Fog and mists
were fleeing in every direction be-
fore the piercing rays of the late af-
ternoon sun. As their gray curtains
swept away, one low mountain
range after another came into the
line of vision. Between the slopes
-were beautiful lakes surrounded by
sloping green fields.—From "We
Look at the Wold," by H. V. Kal-
tenborn.
past twenty years. Somehow I have
never got around to doing it. Yet
here you come along from America
and within a few hours are on your
way, Well, I hope you enjoy the
climb and get a clear views. 'Our
rainy season has been lasting a little
longer than usual. . . . '
A youthful member of a Tokyo
hiking club who spoke some English
and better German was soon on bis
way with the American editor to
a little man who died more than a
� using Anecdotes hundred years ago—how ridiculous!"
Some racy anecdotes of John W. Which reminds me that some auth-
("Betcha-a-Million") Gates, capitalist ors do suffer horribly when a work
and gambler, are told by Albert Ste- on a story with tragedy stalking
yens Crockett (in "Peacocks on Par- through it. I recall, for instance,
ade," a chronicle of New York in the that whey. A. S. M. Hutchinson was
"Naughty Nineties.") Gates acquired writing "This Freedom"—which fol -
his nickname, "Betcha-a-Million," lowed "If Winter Conies" he became
from his habit of using that form of a wreck while working on the chapter
wager upon the slightest provocation. dealing with the suicide of a young
He would bet on anything. One after- girl. He was haggard and "all in"
noon a heavy rainstorm came up. The and you could see in his face that it
pelting of raindrops on the window- was taking hold of him terribly. He
panes made Gates's eyes brighten. would stay up all night with his char -
"Say, John," he suddenly remarked acters and suffer excruciating agony
to John Drake, "see them two rain in their company.
drops? I'll bet that fellow on this Curious, isn't it?
side reaches the bottom before that * * * *
one over there." Hamlin Garland—in his new book,
* * * * "Companions on the Trail"—quotes
Ten dollars was the first stake, and Edward W. Bok as telling him this
then this jumped to one hundred. It story about Rudyard Kipling with
was a new sport and it became lively. whom Bok once crossed the ocean.
a_
ursas
steamer chair reading
"Phyllis has brains for
two."
"Then why don't you marry her?"
By BUD FISHER
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there preached for two years.
was the impression which PAW x
that his superstitious converts bellefe tr•t ixi1i'_
ed that even an article of. cl,,.SIti Fulfil
which touched•him had healing -4r h� , O1tie"•'
Unknown to Paul, who ceatss
would have discouraged such snag....:. ` ssa. , p.
practices, zealous admirers would a
bring to the sick various artiele ,
which had been in contact with liel• 1
person. Certain physical and meritafT
conditions were cured. It was "faith
healing." Not the articles of course,
no more than the relics of St. Anne as ,
Beaupre, wrought the cures—but thc, ;
faith in them.
The sons'of Sceva, pagan magicians
saw in these cures possibilities fol
themselves. They would use this nani•+ "My poor man, all the way from
"Jesus" which they thiught Paul used, Chicago! Didn't you find it very
as a sort of charm. The demented .hot trave"Not et lingl?, madam, I always
fellow on whom they tried it saw theake a refrigerator car in the
sum -mer."
with their lives, v. 16. The incident
resulted in many convevts. Christians
who had been practising the magteHope for the best, prepare for the
arts in secret, confessed and brought, worst, and take what comes. the page -how ridiculous-- tears for perturbed of the trio."
their books—very valuable—and burr- --nstrnownonisrl
The Perfect Lover Should Have Eavc •yih ng.
cause, in a sense, I got it under false
pretences." He went on to explain
the situation, when Gates broke in
with:
`Cut it out. We had the game,
didn't we? You won didn't you? You
got the cheque, didn't yau? Well, let's
forget about it.
* * * *
Writing to Austin Dobson just
after he had finished his Life of the
poet Gray (of 'Elegy fame), Sir Ed-
mund Gosse said—the Ietter is quoted
in Evan Charteris' Life of Gosse:
"I am in a state of agitation; I
have just written the death of Gray,
with inexpressible excitement: I have
been crying so that my tears blinded
* * * *
"Harte explained, without apparent
concern, that his tailor had sent the
officer to collect payment for a suit
of clothes and the constable, said tea
ane: 'This man shall not give his lec-
ture without handing over his fee.'
Thereupon Harte invited him to ride
with us to the hall and sit on the plate'
form.
"This he did," continued Howells,
"and. so, as I rose to present the
speaker, I had on my right hand a
distinguished novelist, and on my left
the constable—Harte being the least
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