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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1924-10-16, Page 6• n• ,i. ► r ire GREEN TES ti47* you have a standard wiich to judge other teas. Salads, is the finest produced in the world. -- Try it. FREE SAMPLE of GREEN TEA UPON REQUEST. "SALM" TORONTO 1 About the Hous BY LYON MEARSON, PART II promised him anything he wanted if The visitor and the trader engaged he would let me have the gal. Things in small talk for a while, end Water- wuz pretty strict around here at that man sat in silence. He did not care time, an' it looked as if I would have to talk to this man, forowe reason. to marry her if T wuz to get her. at He disliked him, that was the long all., But I wuz willin' to do that— and short of it. Landon turned to anything, in fact, just so as to get the sergeant after a bit her. "You're in the Mounted; "ain't you?" "But although I got the of man so he asked, and Waterman'' nodded. he was satisfied to have me get her, I "Nearly got into the force myself, ;couldn't seem to bring the gal around wunst. Glad I didn't, though. My an' although she wouldn't marry no - idea of a rotten job I'll tell the world. body without the old man let her, yet Poor pay and hard, dangerous, work, she, wanted to wait an' see; maybe he: would change his mind about the In - jun buck she wanted. But we got around that all right, all right. "Her Injun went off on a three weeks' trip, an' no sooner does he get away when the old man says: 'She's yourn if you can make her go with Too 'many easier ways .of makin money, I'll say." - How for instance?" asked Water- man, dryly, looking him in the eye. The man laughed. "Come, .now, ]SETTER WAY. but before she could be seated in the sergeant --expect me to tell you that— THE � an you a member of the Mounted Adella rose very morning at seven.' rocker it had to be cleared of one silk He leered evtiy for an instant, Then wau'or the says tlier.e'll go with ae, onee She ate a hurried breakfast, made her' workbox that Adella kept on the win- he laughed, but Waterman' said no- Y paused bed *hastily, flung on her coat and' dow sill, one silk bag that after it had thing. At this point Sanderson, who again, while the others sat in' quiet, a kiss on her mother's faced been shaken was to be hung over a`kiad left the company for 'a brief per- wait d she for old to goon she did. She planted• iod came back with a bottle of whis- g that slid along the reek and landed' door -knob, one box of chocolates, a•key and several glasses. didn't want to, an' put up an awful just in front of he eat.• - Adella was silk kimono that Adella always hung ,Now you're •talkie' friend" said fight, but there stet none of them can ,»; over the foot of her'bed because of the newcomer,jovially."Fill it up get away with that stuff with your off to school.;, the "touch of color itgave to theIup The sesniieettl sed at three o'clock,for the sergen, ton. Uncle W. L. when he makes his buAdell as not at home until four. room and three books. -"Thanks, no," said' Waterman. "I'm, mind he wants a thing bad enough. She to loiter for she had "best . when I first entered .a Chinese not drinking"—quietly. She wept with me down the river, an ' house," said Aunt Addie, "I thought) The other looked `at him.: "What's LI made her'be good—you can put that friends" to see and many of them. it dreadfully plain. The walls were' the matter—teetotaler?" lin your pipe. I showed her what was ». what, an 'believe me, I knocked- a few She used the next hour for tennis or bare, there were no silk drapes such "No—I'm lust not drinking now. skating, according to the season. Then as we have over here everything was i With. a shrug of his shoulders Landon "came a few moments at the piano. Y g turned to the trader. Dinner was followed by a study period exquisitively clean, but bare. Then I� "Darn peticular some people is, that lasted until bedtime. Obviously caught sight of something on a small seems : t'ine, 'bout who they drinks there was only one day in the week in which Adella could tidy up her room, and the "rush and bang" habit marked the flash of broom and duster in her room every Saturday. First she swept. Then she dusted the class mottoes, the school and col- lege pennants, the racket, the fish net, the trophies of vacations and college sports tacked to the wall. On a shelf over the door she had eleven fancy boxes. Once upon a time every box had held candy. It was the thing for girls of Adella's age to save such boxes as an Indian room she would put those candy boxes tion. Happened about twenty years saves the scalps of his victims.' The away; she would take down those ago." The other two regarded each ignition. eleven boxes represented eleven dif- dust -catching college and vacation -other in silence table two roams beyond so beautiful with," he grumbled to Sanderson, who that I fairly held my breath. It was said nothing, a vase of wonderful calor and work -1 "Curious thing, that, about the In= manship, and almost the only bit of , than who committed suicide by just adornment in the house,' I learned making ug his mind; he was going to then a custom of the Chinese. They' die," commented Waterman,. turning have many treasures like the vase, but though the trader and speaking to him as theyusually put them out onlyone at, as the no one else was there. It was Y I as though their conversation had been a time. When they tire of one they I continued without a break. put it away and set another in its "Yes, only case of the kind I ever place. The simplicity of it enchanted heard of," replied Sanderson.. "Seems me. It seemed much more beautiful to me that if—" - . - than our over -adorned homes. I grew "Why, that's funny," broke in the to love it. visitor. Imagine you mentioning a "Now, if a girl from China had thisthing like that! It just .happens I knew of such a case richt in this sec - crazy notions outta her head while I had her. I learned her how to sit up an' say, 'papa.' "Say, but she was one sweet jane, at first! Tried to run away, wunst or twicet, butI got her back agen an' learned her proper. Never tried it no more. After that she knowed who wuz the boss, ari' she stuck to me until I got good an' tired of her -five or six years, in all. I sold her to some half- breeds over on the Plate after that, an' ain't never heard of her since— guess she's dead by now. "But what I started'- to say wuz about that Injun buck. You see, he didn't get back till about three weeks after I had skipped; there wuz no chanst of findin' us then, an' he know- ed now ed it, though I don't know what he would have did if he had found us— though, you can't never tell what an Injun is goin'-to pull on you. Anyway, her father tells him that Wind Along the Waste has gone with me of her ftl!li ,. A�j�I'r' 41 For ever wash -day method RINSO is ideal for any wash -day - method you use. You do not have to change any of your usual steps—just use Rinso where you used touseordinary soap. 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But the boxes had to lace and ribbon, glove and handker-Itradin' around here promiscuous like. rot an' he believed it. I There wuz an Ojibway village around "What does he do but say that he's be dusted. chief boxes into the dresser drawer; here then—don't suppose it's here an There were silk and ribbon powder she would- 1more, an' there wuz an Injun' gal going, to pass in his checks—commit. "bottled" sunshine, in the form of GIVE CHILDREN "BOTTLED" SUNSHINE. Children make their greatest growth when they can get the benefit of direct sunshine. Secondary, or - suicide; he :does it, too. Goes to his honest) ' sa wuz car boxes, glove boxes and handkerchief "What exquisite workmanship in here that I y _ y rot, comes next boxes on the dresser. "Too pretty to that silver frame that holds your the finest lookin' specimen I ever seen bunk, lies down, turns his face to the The though i be put away," said Adella, "I want mother's picture! Do you know, I them in sight." And they too had to didn't notice it when I stood in the be dusted, - doorway. There!" She swept every - .a -. - can t d • he wuz dead. sun, it does not shine —an' I've seen some, you can bet your wall, and in wo ays life on that. Say, that gal wuz about Say, what d'ya think of that? Shows i d ver matter. T alwuz the prettiest lookin' thing I ever lamp- Power of m n o dresser and ut the ed—thin and supple as a: reed, small, thought it wuz a kinda curious thing, On the writing desk were photo- thing else off the dr " p strong, the.ijlackest; hair an''the":black = if you know. what <I mean. graphs with frames and photographs picture there alone. How beautiful g Ile finished in a dead silence, his est: eyes you: ever seen, an' 'tom most wrthout frames, two pink candles in it,looks now: regular features. ,i. " ,;; small black,eyes gleaming unpleasant - brass: holders, a fancy calendar, a doll "Well, dear, L.must be, going. Your "Had some . eddication, too— of it ly and lustfully at the reminiscence. g in pink silk that Adella had won at! mother and I are motoring over to Ivy in a convent The name the Injures Shortly after he took his leave and sat in the Y a fair and a miniature Goddess oft Hill. Sorry you can't go with us, but lgive her wuz _`Wind Along the Waste' plodded on his way. I Sergeant Waterman " tY ' '1 b d paper upon your child, has, nevertheless, made provision for his well-being. It has stored its vital energy in the pro- ducts of . the vegetable kingdom, and has placed the vitamiines, more: pre- cious than gold, within the reach . of the human family. It only remains for you to select wisely the diet of! our , � b th h While, room, quietly, child and he cannot develop bathed and —ain't that a scream for a name? without saying a word, rickets. Li , in silver to, a use as a y e time you have weight when there were any papers changed your clothes it will be too, shortened it to Windy after a w hi e, and did without y They gazed -Fruit and vegetables first as to be weighted. All had to be lifted late. But of course you have to miss of course, ouk e,danfd�Ybut that's gettin a and so out of the window at the figureAmong standee first es off while the surface of the desk was' all those things when you have so vitamine bearers. g little ahead o e yarn. "Tier old man. was a regular Nun Paddling its way onward, piacing'the tables, the once lowly carrot stands ---the h believed is al lead m the front rank. It i sunshine itself the carefully and accurately in • wiped all had to be carefully dusted much dusting to do." kind that beh g and put back again. "There," declared Adella to herself oughter mind him in everything;- the beaten path, until it had passed brought to your table. There is no In the open writing desk were boxes a half hour later, "I like my ronin that's the way they are, among the out of sight in the pines. A little kindofvitamine, so far discovered, of fancy writing paper, a pencil hold- much better now!" She threw her,Injuns. I found that out when L got later Sergeant Waterman rose and an that the carrot does not assess. er, an ink stand with a little vase dust rag into the air. "Next Saturday so I began to;hang around Wind rounded He drew onthat he oh s fuld ur coat ando on lP holding a pen with a pink quill hold- I will have time to enjoy the day. The Along the Waste. Say --ain't that theFor Sore Feet—Mtnard•s LlnlmentL darnedest name? -I think they. give %t took his snowshoes from the wall. _ --_. to her because she wuz so slim and Guess I'll travel along with you a » Mackintosh for His Daughter. supple an light, as she Isom Waterman nodded, and waited Some few years ago an English might along up on any wind that � for the: older man to dress. family rented •a place in the Highlands some along and carried . away—or , erg a china box for stamps and an- tutu, she went vas .. disgust' . other for pens, each of which had a "of dusting off atrocious decorations 1 d 1 ht looked though h way—need the exercise, said Sander -i fancy shepherdess on top of it. All that immediately begin to gather morebe had to be dusted and the little seep- dust to cheat me out of more joys•on herdess had occasionally to have a other Saturdays!" mebbe it wuz account of her voice, Four miles down the trail, in the lee for a Pew months. It was near a loch, bath. Adella looked h' h t' d d 1'k d of a big grim rock they found the and one morning the party engaged a soap -and -water at e a which sometimes sounded like a wine FULL RIGGED at the pigeonholes and sighed. She whispering soft like in the, pines, 'far 'man who had called himself Landon. boat to them across. The weath- knew that' the dust was accumulating away—y'know what I mean? , sHis had bodyrwas Spread warm, b t all life • er had become takethe unsettled, and the Fath - there, but, "Oh, well, let it -wait an- "Anyway, she wuz some looker, I'll P er said to the boatman,"By the way, other week!" say, though I suppose by now—if she s his sightless eyes staring up at the i brazen heavens reproachfully, he had can you tell me where I cowId get a i It was eleven o'clock one Saturday old salive� uawshe pwhat T passed comink here ;that in his face that indicated he had mackintosh for my daughter" The Bend description end full piirtlouhrs to morning when she sank exhausted in gg than anything else. As I say, I hung seen something' that. usually comes in boatman rested on his. oars for a mo - her chair. Glancing through the open usefulness in •a convenient place round a while and tried to make an the a 'get—a shade out of a meat or two, and then said, "There's I L. GA8TELLO window, she saw a group of her I'd 1 nightmare that had come to horrify not ferry many Mackintoshes beer- 7S W. Adelaide 8t. Toronto friends going by to play tennis. She bl u t 1 s full the post wunst in a blow her him in daylight. The surprise mingled abouts, but there's a. fine young Mac - was hot and tired, and somehow all donald, a bachelor, who lives at the those little cluttering -adornments of fire and burned sack and all It is so h d t been fired loch, and he might be suiting the her room did not appear so attractive. of a go I young lady." "The Chinese," said a voice from The force was out to lunch—leaving the bookkeeper alone in the store. A handsome young chap strode in. "Do. they keep automobile accessories here? he asked. The little bookkeeper smiled her sweetest. "Only me," , she replied. 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A handy way to dispose of trash is to hang a stout paper bag, such as a flour or meal sack, or an old gunny sack which is too ragged for further bl ck m Drop into,it waste papers and burn- impression on her. take her down able odds andends until it , to while, with the horror in his staring orbs. when it may be tossed upon the bon- to a piece of ribbon now and then, and His revolver was in his hand,but it on— but it didn't seem to be' much• always a wise precaution, however, to "You see, there wuz a young Injun A ilgreat, jagged hole had been keep all cloths and papers which have back in the game—these two had. it all smashed in his skull, such as might been used in connection with oil out framed up to marry each other when I have been made by a sharp -pointed of such refuse sacks and baskets; butted in an' jazzed up the works. You stone, and next to him, where it had don't usually hear much about love fallen, lay a tomahawk. The head of among the Injuns—that is, the real it was a long, sharp, heavy piece of ones, not the comic opera kindat . flint, bound to the haft with rawhide least they' don't think of it the" same thong crisscrossed over the hard stone. Worn Turkish towels seem to civilized people do • but I must They examined the body briefly, still housekeepers a hopeless propos buck had a bad case of it, an' if ,it She got i twenty years, Yet the less worn parts may be made hadn't been for the old man's :havin' , remarked the trader, and the other to serve several excellent uses. Some brung her u to mind him, they would nodded. of urine I make into wash cloths. I of went anPgot Bitched up before: I) "The law—your law, doesn't' recog-. cut away the ragged parts, and from ever got there, 'nize any crime in what this man did," the rest shape square or oblong cloths. "After I got there it wuz all off, said Sanderson: "Yet it will recognize. I fold them once, usually; but if the because I made'up my mind that I'd , a crime in what this squaw did—and. pieces are worn thin the are folded have that gal ' whatever ''happened " she will hang for it. Well," with a must be so. "Who said she'll hang for it?" asked - the doorway, "have a better way." "Well," answered Adella in tired tones, "I wish I lived in China. Come in, Aunt Addie, and tell me about it. I want to hear something to take my mind off that group that just went by to play tennis." Aunt Addie entered with a smile, w,wuuu»� Chew it after every meal lit stimulates appetite and aids digestion. It makes your food do you more MI Igo !ti tam good. Note how It relieves that stutty *ceiling alter leanly eating. burn them at once. - OLD TURKISH TOWELS. many way we c v i P P. ,. !tion. � say that this gal an' that there • Injun in silence, and then faced each other. him—after t ens ears He paused for a moment, and moisten- shrug 'of his shoulders, "I suppose it twice, snaking four thicknesses. ed his sols, sensual lips with a thick, The raw edges are turned in and a darting tongue His eyes leered lust - few basting stitches hold them in fully the representative of the law :evenly. place for the machine. 'With a long "I give the old man presents'an'. "slinging is for murder. - This was stitch and rather loose tension 1 run not murder, around the edges and •also stitch white,for striping the ends, the :rugs t•IThe other looked at him gravely. diagonally from corner to corner. The are prettier, and can be made to har- "Cian't you see what it was. it was stitching crosses in.the middle and mon e with the color scheme•iof`'the sueidt of course. A man's liab.e to keeepg the cloth firm for the hand when room. do' >;nythin; on a lonely trill like • These . cloths are convenient this; when ,you're alone you get to -ee s -a'ton time. Several can be how useless l:fe is—and. you commit g Whitens teem, s BORDEAUX SAUCE made in a few minutes. suicide: Let's bury him." '°'"' ie c "16 r i If old towels are saved until a My winter larder would not be tom- Quietly thenen faced sate other. It breath Ana fete unless I had several jars 'of this 'vas Sanderson who spoke at last. ttrstiucmoudy large number have accumulated, ex- sauce, which is excellent tserve with "I think :you're tight. He committed that cellent rugs may be made from them. teees•t-e. Most of .the worn towels are still good meats. suicide twenty years ago." u IUE No. 41--14. along the edges and ends. 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