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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-06-16, Page 2265 yew the 'lea; A Tropical Sunset Last evening was one long to be re- membered. We were favored with a panorama of celestial beauty that will not soon be forgotten, a sunset having a glory that would challenge tho brush of the most skillful artist, All day we were in the "doldrums," close to the equator, with a sea smooth and oily, stirred only by a gentle swell, from the influence of the trade winds blow- ing farther to the south. During the afternoon the clouds were solidly bank- ed at the horizon, like fantastic moun- tains of snow, leaving the dome of the heavens free and bine. Even at mid- afternoon dainty colors appeared as linings to these clouds of suowy white- ness, pink and blue, and at times shades of green, reflected frons the fragments of rainbows that now and again grace dthe sky. These colors were reflected on the surface of the sea in an opalescence, like the iridescence seen when oil is poured upon water. The water all about the ship was aglimmer with this kalesidoscope of color, as luminous and radiant as an opal. As the sun. neared its setting, the clouds in the east took on a rosy hue, which changed and deepened through various shades of purple until, after he sun sank be- low the horizon, they took on a deep, steel blue, a cloud effect I had never seen before. The west, too, was mass- ed with clouds; but the sun, red as an August moon, sank in an open space, its brilliancy reflected in flaming hues upon the adjacent clouds. Presently great shafts of pale light, broadening toward the zenith, shot up from the place where the stn had disappeared across a field of deep blue. At the horizon, fleecy clouds in fantastic shapes floated as on the surface of the sea, icebergs, ships under full sail and jagged mountains, The moon two days old, at first a thin thread, brightened as the twilight deepened, until its nar- row pathway across the smooth waters was ashimmer with a trail of silvery Iight. Venus, the evening star, poised just above the silvery crescent, in all its traditional beauty. Presently the heavens were studded with twinkling stars, standing out with startling brightness. The light faded, twilight deepened, the colors disappeared and the night dropped down with truly tropical suddenness. Twilight in the tropics is of brief duration. Night fol- Iows close on the heels of day. We went to a late dinner with the sense of having witnessed one of nature's choicest exhibitions, the glory, the sur- prising radiance of which remain with me still. I have seen many gorgeous sunsets, in. the great desert, on the plains, above the tundras of the north, in the mountains; on tropical seas, but never one comparable with this in the splendor and variety of its coloring.— Albert Field Gilmore. The Thames .A. living thing beneath ray window ROWS; It is both broad and deep, profound and calm; It passes mighty town and country farm And rural hamlets where the willow grows. Full many a valley green and rich bestows Its English waters on that widening arm; uhstauee and shadow joined in mar,rae .ec: 40th Anniversary of Salada Tea Company Forty years ago this month in an unpretentious little building on Front Street, in Toronto, the Salada Tea Company packed its first pound of tea. Founded in 1892 by the late Honourable Peter Larkin, the busi- ness progressed very rapidly and by 1895 a branch had been opened in Montreal, Two years later the united States market was invaded and ,an °face sap.,A}} ti'4n al ,' '-day k13Ig1'VO. See how the borrowed sky inverted low On stillest nights her patterned carpet spreads, When water -wrinkling winds no longer blow, Whereon the moon in stealthy si- lence treads, And looks about with measured mo- tion slow, And our struck eyes with twofold moonshine weds. --Romilly John, "Poems." Toting wife: "Now, Bill, I want you to go to the minister and arrange for having the baby christened." Bill (shipyard worker) : "You mean to say you're going to let somebody nit that little thing over the head with a bottle?" Try this Salad 2 ressii oisee Kraft Ola • Fashioned Salad Dressing will keep for weeks. t etays good right down to tie last tangy teals r onlnl, Theresa never any waste and . Is sells for an amazingly low price. Get some to -day. ,Ifnrle in Canada KRA T - ItAier >. Salad Dressing reesesessesenseetememeememetsureeteitemeete ISSUE No. 24 "32 A a ee.e. ed• s. d'o'ses n'" lac . world, devoted exclu- sively to the packing of tea, stand as a memorial to the founder—located in Toronto, Montreal, and in Boston (the scene of the memorable tea party which precipitated the Revolutionary War). The Canadian market was then con- trolled by China and Japan teas—the largest sale being China tea of poor quality. These teas were being sold from chests, exposed to air, dust, dampness, foreign odours, and so forth, all detrimental to the quality of tea. In England, which was, and still is, the greatest tea -drinking country in the world, Ceylon and Indian teas of fine quality had practically dis- placed China teas, and it occurred to Larkin that Canadians also would pre- fer these finer teas. He, consequent- ly, introduced a Ceylon and Indian blend to this Continent. He then con- ceived the idea of packing it in metal packages, in. order that it would reach the consumer intact, with its flavour and quality unimpaired by dampness, store odours, etc. This step revolu- tionized evolutionized tha tea market on this Con- tinent. He sought a name for his product and decided on "SALADA," which was the name of an old Indian tea garden. All that was left now was to tell the public about it. He wisely decided that the quickest and Cheapest way to do thin: was by means of the news- paper. The result was so gratifying that he continued to use the news- papers as his chief advertising vehicle from that day. He strove always to give the public the finest quality tea he could at the price and then advertise it for all he was worth. His achievement is the largest selling package tea in North America. Duty Nothing which a man hath reason to think is ikely to do more harm than good.—Baxter, The shadow which cleaves to us, go where we will, and which only leaves us when eve leave the light of life.— W. E. Gladstone. Harmony with the decrees of the Author of this word; co-operating with them, not vainly withstanding them.- . Carlyle. k The de .orminate moral . requirement made upon a given individual at a I given. moment of time; the individual- ized requirement of the law.—J. Mill-' ler. "Did yon notice the situation In Manchuria?" "No; is it worth apply- ing for?" Ile who tries to live most for him- self, !Nee leeet for himself. ir er ext Bri 13V •ANIYR AUSTIN. SYNOPSIS. But the call was for him. And the "Bonnie^ Dundee, termer member of voice on the other end of the wire was Hamilton's homicide squad, now attach- Penny Crain's, althoigh almost un - ed to the district attorney'n office, is surprised when he Inds that Penny" recognizable. Crain, district 'attorney's secretary, is "Speak more slowly, Penny!" Dun - going to a luncheon at the Forsyte Alumnae Bridge Club given by Juanita dee urged. "What's that again? Selim. lie offers to drive her out to the Good Lord! You say that Nits, .!e - club. 122tt—'r After a minute of listening, and a promise of instant obedience, Dundee hung up the receiver. "My God!" he said slowly, blankly. "Of all things—murder at Midge!" CHAPTER IL As Special Investigator Dundee drove through the city of Hamilton at a speed of 60 miles an hour, his way being cleared by traffic policemen warned by the shrill official siren which served him as a horn, he had little time to think connectedly of the fact that Nita Selim had been mur- dered during a bridge game in her rented home in Primrose Meadows. Even after the broad sleekness of Sheridan Road stretched before him he could do little more than try to realize the shock which had numbed him, .. "Lovely Nita," as the society editor of The Morning News had call- ed her, was—dead! How, why, he did not know. He had asked nodetails of Penny Crain.... Funy, thorny little Penny! "Judge Marshall has telephoned po- lice headquarters," she had told him breathlessly over the telephone, "but I made him let me call you as soon as he had hung up. I wanted our office to be in on this right from the first," Beautiful, seductive Nita Selim, al- most cuddling uncle,: his arm, within three minutes of meeting him—dead! A vision of her black eyes, so wide and luminous and wistful as they had look- ed sideways and upward at his, plead- ing for him to join her after -bridge cocktail party, nearly made him crash into a lumbering furniture van. Those eyes were luminous no longer, c ;uld never again snap the padlocks of slave chains upor any man • as Pennv had expressed it.... Dead! And she had been so warmly alive, even as she had retreated from him at his mention of the fact that he was attached to the office of the district attorney as a spe tial investigator. What had she feared then? Was her death a payment for some reeext er long-standing; ernme?:. Os' 'tvaseen simply withdrawing from the contam- ination of a "fiat -foot"? ... No! She had been afraid—horribly afraid of some ulterior purpose behind his inno- cent courtesy in driving Penelope Crain to Breakaway Inn. Well, speculation now was idle. He speeded again, but was soon forced to stop and ask his way into Primrose Meadows. The vague directions of a farmer's overalled son lost him nearly eight precious minutes, during which his friend, Captain Strawn of the homicide squad, might be bungling things rather badly. But at last he found the ornate pair of pillars span- ned by the painted legend, "Primrose Meaaaws," and drove through them into what soon became a rutted lane. Almost a quarter of a mile from the entrance he found the isolated house, unmistakable because of the lineup of private cars parked before the short stretch of paved sidewalk, and the added presence of grimlooking pollee cars and motorcycles. So Captain Strawn was out in full force! Dundee turned his own car into the driveway leading from the street along the right side of the house toward the two -car garage in the rear. Ahead of his roadster were two other cars, and a glance toward the open garage showed that a small coupe was housed there. As he was descending, Captain Strawn's voice hailed him from an open window of the room nearest the garage. "Hello, Bonnie! Been expecting you.... Damndest business you ever saw... There's a door from this room onto the porch. Hop up and come on in." CHAPTER I,—(Cont'd.) "I know why you want to drive me out to the Inn," Penny told hint sud- denly, as the proud owner manoeuv'er- ed his car through Saturday noon traffic. "You want to see Nita Selim. Clank! Clank! I can hear the padlocks snapping on the slave chains right now." "Meow!" Dundee retorted, then grinned down at her with as mutat comradely affection as if they had been friends for years instead of for a couple of hours. "Is Nita vera small?" he added. "Little enough to tuck herself under the arm of a man a lot shorter than you," Penny assured hint with curious vehemence.. "And if Penelope Craig is no mean prophet, that's exactly what she'll do within five minutes after she meets you—just as she is wistfully inviting you to join the other men for the cocktail party which is scheduled to break up the bridge game at 5.30. Then, of course, you'll be urged to join us at the dinner da .ce at the Country Club tonight." "Will she?" Dundee pretended to be vastly intrigued, which caused the re- mainder of the drive to be a rather silent one, due to Penny's unrespon- si•'eness. Breakaway Inn was intensely Span- ish in architecture and transplanted shrubbery, but its stucco walls were of a rather more violent raspberry color than is considered quite esthetic in Spain or Mexico. "There's Lois Dunlap's car just driving up," Penny cried, her fa•.e softening with the adoration she had freely professed for her friend. But it clouded again almost instantly. "And Nita Selian." As Dundee helped his new friend to aligat his eyes were upon the two women being assisted by a uniformed chauffeur from Lois Dunlap's limon- sine. In a moment the four were a laugh- ing, exclamatory gro:. p. ., ; lir-:whet a ;tall. ellen yoga,; !" �Ii ti ur elf Penn darling!' th o s e y t �, g beautiful creature which could only ae Mrs. Selim cried out happily. "May I meet him?" "I shouldn't let you," Penny ans- wered frankly, "but I will. • . Mrs. Selim, Mr. Dundee, .. , And Mrs. Dunlap, Mr. Dundee. . How are you, Lois? And Peter and the brats?" "All well, Penny. Petey's off on a week -end fishing trip, and not one of the brats has measles, scarlet fever or hay fever," Dundee heard Mn.s Dunlap say in the comfortable, affec- tionate voice that went with her com- fortable, pleasant face and body. , . Nice woman! But his eyes were of necessity upon Nita Selina, for that miniature Venus was, as Penny had predicted, almost tucked under his arm by this time, her black -pansy eyes wide and wist- ful, her fine, soft black curls falling forward as she coaxed: "You'll come to the cocktail party at any house at 5.30, won't you, Mr. Dun- dee?" • "Afraid I can't make it," Dundee smiled down at her. "I'm a busy mar, Mrs. Selina... You see, I'm Speci;,l Investigator attached to the District Attorney's office," he explained very deliberately. "0 -o -oh!" Nita Selim breathed, Then, step by step, she withdrew. And as she retreateu, Dundee's keen eyes noted a hardening of the eyes, the sudden throbbing of a pulse in her very white neck... "No, don't mind about calling for me," Penny protested a moment later. "Ralph has already volunteered. , . . Thanks awfully!" As Dundee backed out of the drive- way his last glance was for a very small figure in a brown silk summer coat and palest yellow chiffon frock, slowly rejoining Penelope Crain and Lois Dunlap. What the devil had frightened her so? For she had been almost terrified.... Of course she might be one of those silly women wno shudder at the sight of a detective, bscause they've smuggled in a dia- mond from Paris or a bottle of Ba- cardi from Havana. But long before his oar made the distance back to the city Dundee had. " rugged off the riddle and was con- centrating on all the facts he knew regarding the Maginty case. It was his first real assignment from San- derson, and he was determined to snake good. Four hours later he was interrupted in his careful reading of the trial of Rufus Maginty by the ringing of the telephone bell. That made four times he had had to snap out the fact that District Attorney Sanderson was playing some well-earned golf at the Country Club, Dundee reflected an- grily, as he picked up the receiver. SEND FOR FREE BOOK ON BABY WELFARE Does baby cry at night and hake you? Is be difficult to manage? Palo or underweight? Our anthori' tative hook on Baby Welfare will help you. Mothers all say they wish they had known of "Baby's Welfare" sooner --it's so helpful, sensible and saves se much trouble. Your copy mailed free. Use the coupon below [ooklet ite llotden Co. Limited, X5 George St.,Toronto,ts:t. entlemen1 Mato tend me free copy el enti Gad "Debi, weir. re " cme ., ddross -- c.W, "4 Wafers The Grahar n Wafers you have always liked best, kept crisp and fresh in a new packyage A DELI CIOUS RECIPE IN EVERY PACKAGE So crisp and crunchy ... so nourishing .. with milk ... and other beverages .... you'll like them better than ever. Dundee obeyed. In driving in he had noted that a wide porch, upheld by round white pillars, stretched across the front of the gabled brick house and extended half way along its right side, past a room which was obviously a solarium, with its con- tinuous windows, gay awning, in3•— visible through the glittering panes. -- range -and -tan wicker furniture. It was easy to swing himself up to the floor of the porch. Strawn flung open the door which led into the back room, remarking with a grin: "Don't be afraid I'ni gumming rip any fingerprints. Carraway has al- ready been over the room... The Se- lim woman's bedroom," he explained. "The room she was killed in." "You have been on the job," Dun- dee complimented his former chief, and shook hands 'heartily. It was very • necessary that a well-grounded friendship should not be marred by any undue officiousness on the part of the district attorney'e special investi- gator. "Sure!" Strawn acknowledged proudly, "Can't be too quick on our stumps when it's one of these 'high sassicty' murders. Dr. Price will be here any minute now, and my men have been all over the premises, base- ment to attic. Of course it was an outside job—plain as the nose on your face—and we:. have t;' found a; trace Bonnie Dundee aderte c '':into room. lie Although Mrs. Selim had taken the house furnished, it was obvious that this big bedroom of hers was not exactly as the Crain family had left it. A little too pretty, a little too aggressively feminine, with its chaise longue heaped with silk and lace pil- lows, its superfluity of big and little lamps, its bed draped with golden - yellow taffeta, its dressing table— But he could not let critical eyes Heger on the triple -mirrored vanity dresser. or on the bench before it .at a tiny figure, the head bowed so low upon the lace -and -gold -silk cover- ed top that some of the black curls had fallen into a large open bowl of powder. She was no longer wearing the short brown silk coat whose open front had given him a glimpse of pale yellow chiffon. (To be continued.) Children There is nothing ie all the world so' important as children, nothing so in- teresting.. If ever you wish to be of real use in the world, do something fora children. If ever you yearn to be wise, study children. If the great army of. philanthropists ever work out race sal-' vation, it till be because a little child has led.—David Starr Jordan. i •::coffee... . Sibw water:. „Xo] t sir; aar,.4 , . • so that's where you've been?" Top Prices For Lambs Let Us Reason Together From all the information we can gather there is a fairly heavy crop of lambs thsi year, and methods of mar- keting likely to be somewhat different due to the fact that Abattoir Companies have decided to place in cold storage only about 50% of what they have usually stored in previ- ous years. They realize from past experience that the consum- ing public seem to prefer fresh lamb rather than lamb from cold storage, and as an illustration we find that according to Government Statistics there was in storage on April 1st, 1932, some five million twenty two thousand pounds as againstthree million one hundred and fifty thousand pounds on April lst, 1931, showing that conditions and requirements are changing. During the last few years the quality of lambs have shown a decided improvement, and by doing so you have done much to stimulate greater consumption, hence demand for greater volume. This has been accomplished by better breeding, better feeding and castration of buck lambs. Light thin Iambs do not produce good quality lamb meat. Heavy lambs are also undesirable for the market, but good fat lambs yielding a dressed carcass of thirty-five to forty-five pounds are desirable and will command top prices, or in other words well finished lambs weighing 70 to 90 pounds live weight at the market are desirable. Lambs weighing over 90 pounds at the market are likely to be discounted in price. With all these facts before -us we feel disposed to recommend you to ship out your lambs as they get fat and hold unfinished lambs on the farm until fat, but the chief feature is to keep sending them out as they get ready, believing as we do that prices will be better during the early season of marketing rather than fall months when receipts are likely to be heavy. We are anxious that farmers may receive the best possible returns for their lambs, and are asking our ship- pers to co-operate with you by maintaining a regular ship- ping service and assure our readers that we have a full staff of experienced salesmen, and in a position to handle all classes of live stock whether by rail or by truck. The Unitedf Farmers Co. per'ative Company, Limited Live Stock Commission Department Union Stock Yards 'West Toronto