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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1925-09-03, Page 6The 'rh Flavor _ _ .■".�.� or deUlcious GREEN TEA is preserved in the air -tight SALADA packet. Finer than an7 Japan or Gunpowder. Insist upon SALADA. Love Gives Itself THE STORY OF A BLOOD FEUD. BY ANNIE S. SWAN. vA gt es itself and is not bought:"—Longfellow. eee CHAPTER XXVIL--(Cont'd.) Judy had got some of the patter of the stage at her finger -ends, and had learned a great many things 'about the private life of its devotees which had astonished her not a little. Perhaps the greatest eye-opener had been the colossal nature of the work, its arduous exactions, its austerity. There could not be even a moment's slackening, and sometimes she won- dered how Car itta could stand it, and be invariably so cheerful and bright. It may be said here that there was, one flaw • in the friendship between these two. Carlotta, out of a mis- taken idea of sparing Judy's feelings, and perhaps making the future more bright and complete, had withheld from her a full confidence. Judy was as yet unaware of the fact which Carlotta, in a moment of emotional abandon, had communicat- ed to Jean Dempster, and had imme- diately thereafter repented of doing se and had laid a vow of secrecy upon Jean. Judy did not know that Alan and Carlotta had been married at a Lon- don Registry Office on the morning of the day that he left London, and thef6 Carlotta considered that she and all her earnings belonged to Stair. Had Judy been aware that that ob- jective•of Carlotta's life was to do her part in the redemption of Stair, she would have understood the practice of the small econmies, which some- times both puzzled and irritated her. Carlotta smiled her far -away and most provoking smile as Judy reeled off her arguments in favor of a closer alliance between Madox and his lead- ing lady. She understood that Judy had much to try her, and thus forgave the pin -pricks of the. everyday life which both were beginning to feel just a trifle trying and irksome. It was Jean Dempster who was Judy's stand-by in those days. The acquaintanceship had made great strides, and often while Carlotta was at the theatre, Judy would slip down to Mrs. Isaacstein's for a chat with the countrywoman who understood her apparently, better than Carlotta. Jew York is a levelling place, and Judy, amid all the strange new whirl of her life, had almost forgotten the trammels of the old days, when she had known just thio one or that, and had had her social list marked down with a blue pencil, in a county where- in Stair could not only hold its own, but might lead, had it bean so minded. Carlota understood Judy far bet- ter than Judy imagined, and with the unerring intuition of the born stu- dent of human nature, laid her finger on the sore spot. Instead of making any answer to the jibe about Graham Madox, she leaned her elbows on her knees and looked across the floor- space of the hotel sitting -room of which they were both so heartily sick. "Judy, darling, the matter with you is that you want to go home" "But I can't," she answered dis- mally, not even trying to refute the suggestion. "You won't finish for another month, at least; and I heard. Mr. Madox saying on Sunday that he only wished he could add another month on that! As likely as not he will add it, and then where shall I be?" "At Cambridge, my dear, I hope," said Carlotta firmly. "Then you want to get rid of me!" cried Judy, in hot rebellion. "Of course I quite understand." AfterEve,:yNeai Pass it m.>roifiiid after every lineal.: Give the family the benefit of its 'aiid to cli,esfIon. Cleans teeth. too. Keep it always XZ the , house. R81, C'bsts task -kelps muck" Carlotta, with "an infinite patience,_ crossed the room and knelt by Judy:s side, laying her kind, compelling hands on her arms, and forcing the dark, rebellious eyes to meet tiers. "Listen, dearest. I've been watch- ing you all these weeks, and I .knew that it must come. When we agreed to take this- trip together, everything was different We expected to find. Alan here, and that you would have his companionship and all the con-, cerns of his life to interest you. We I have been disappointed--" and here a little catch broke her voice for an instaiit, but she made a gallant effort to recover herself. "It is cruel to keep you here, and unnecessary be- sides. Don't ook at me like that, Judy. We can't afford to drift away from one another—we daren't, do you hear? And for that reason you are going home." the same flowers in England or Scot- land I" cot-land!" Jean nodded, and drawing up the most comfortable chair, .asked Judy to sit down, and said she would rneke the coffee, .Every visitor to Jean Dempstee's; sitting -room knew that cunning little coffee -machine, which she- manipulat- ed with her own clever fingers, 'there- by producing a nectar fit for the gods, "Yo 1oo1 ever so much brighter than when I saw you last Saturday,, Had .any good news?" "I'm going home on Saturiiay," answered Judy unexpectedly, "Ohl" said Jean interestedly. "But! Miss Tenterden's season isn't over—" "Not for another month. But she's sending me home. 1 didn't know how desperately I wanted to •go until we were at the steamship officer to -day. And I. never—no, I never knew a more understanding person than ;she is. Her intuition is i neanny seine -1 times:" "The artistic teinperament," mur- � Fnu `red Jean, on the slur of the nice. menti "But. she'll miss you fright- fully!" "I don't know. • eeve been rather a pig just lately. Fact is, Miss Demp- ster, Scotch women can't lead an idle; purposeless life: If I wee busy like you .or . Miss Tenderden, I think: I should like New York huite well 'W'hat I'm mortally afraid of is that; she marries Graham Madox in the end! Don't you see it would. be a'; splendid arrangement? They seem made for one another, and of course, he is very good-looking—and nice as well•" Al curious look fiitted across Jean's face, and she suddenly found ,the coffee -machine more than usually in- teresting. "I don't think that willever hap- pen. They've, had plenty of chances before they ever came here. I wouldn't worry about that, Miss. Ran- kine. I dont think she will ever • for= get your brother." "But he isn't here, and it's the man on the spot who has the chance," ob served Judy dismally. "It's all a horrid tangle from first to last, and I've lived a thousand years in the last one. Are you all right? I thought you'd been crying when I came in?" "Weld, I had been," admitted Jean, glad to get off the subject of stage love -affairs. "I had a letter from my mother this morning, and she says Mamie is going down the hill, and that it isn't likely she'll ever see Hunter's Quay. Think of that! After. all my hard work and scraping, .and" only on Sunday I had a good count- up, and I thought I might manage it in two years instead -of three! A kind man I know in business put,me. on to a rather good investment just lately, and I've made a bit " "Oh, I •am sorry! Has she had the best advice and everything?", .. "Well, of , course, mother has done what she could; but she's poor: What Mamie wants is fresh, air, ;and the best food, and rest, and --and happi- ness. If only I could afford to take a run home, I would see for myself just what is the true state of ' affairs.- I know it must be serious: before mother would let me know anything about it at all. "And when I am gone Graham Ma- dox will have you all to himself, and the inevitable will happen! Nothing can prevent it, Carlotta. It must be better—far better!—just to accept fate. You are great on the fate -line, anyway! I lain sure that Graham Madox is your fate." She spoke hardly, but her heart was melting in her breast, for the lovely face so near her own had a haunting, pathetic look, which it was not in Judy's nature to resist. "You don't believe that in your innermost heart, Judy. You may have ceased to love me; perhaps I've been trying, -but you believe in me yet, I hope and trust, or I couldn't go on—" "But Alan is dead! There can be nothing surer than that! He never went to that Calgary ranch. He has never been heard of since, and worse than all, he has made no attempt. to • send back. Fordyce's money—because Jean Dempster told me—and that proves beyond all doubt that he is dead. I know him better than you, and that his pride is as high as the' Carlotta rose slowly to her feet. Her face had whitened a' little, but her eyes never lost their serene and steadfast look. "Judy, if Alan were dead I should know! Do you hear? I should know! He is alive. He will come back to us and things will. right themselves at Stair. Don't ask me row I know, be- -deep I can't tell you; only it is here —deep down the only thing that keeps me going,"' she said, pressing her hand to her heart. "Tryto hold on for a little longer. And now go and get your hat and we'll do the steamship offices. It is a crowded! season, but perhaps we shall be lucky! enough to get you a berth in Satur- day's boat." Judy looked for a moment at Car- lotta's face, and her own was a study. "Carlotta, I do believe you're the best as well as the greatest woman in the world! How dare you treat a little beast like me so nobly! Why don't you knock me down and trample on Hie? It's what I deserve! I won't go! I'll see it through. I'd be -a worm of the deepest dye if I took you at your word!" "You are getting a little mixed in your metaphors, my precious! But the Atlantic breezes will clear your brain," said Carlota, with a slight, wavering smile. "It is all right, isn't it? And you won't drag in Graham Madox wain, will you? His place in. my` life - is what it always has, been, and ever will be, I hope that of .good friend and faitful comrade. He is perfectly safe, Judy, and so am I." With that Judy professed herself content, and they sallied forth to- gether to the steamship office and got a berth on ' a steamer sailing on the following Saturday. "Alan's boat," said Judy, with a strange note in her voice. "And for his sake I ought to go second class."' But Carlotta would not hear of that, and a comfortable outside stateroom was duly engaged and paid for that very day. Upon the completion of that trans- action, Judy's spirits visibly rose, and that evening about eight o'clock, after Carlotta had gone to the theatre, she. took the street car to Mrs. Isaacstein's to tell Jean Dempster the great news. She found Jean alone in her sitting - room, in which there was a wealth of flowers. "You are a very extravagant wo- man, Mies Dempster!" she said, as she touehecl the sweet spring blos- soms with tender hand, their deli- cate perfume bringing back a swift vision of Stair woods' in April, ear- peted with primrose and daffodil. "Say, rathere I have an extrava- gant friendee answered Jean. "But I think I've put a stop to it," "Admirer?" smiled Judy.; "Flowers store to be one of New York's chief extravagances, Miss Tenterden gets wagon -loads of thein. What money S.0 Ua. No, 35---15:; they cost, tia0.1 Just twice at much as "I wish I could help,' of -send you home in my place! Couldn't I take your place at the School . of Steno- graphy, and give 'you .my passage?" The idea pleased" Judy. To do some- thing for somebody was certainly what gave her the most happiness in the world, and called out all that was. finest in her nature. The forced in- activity of body and soul had been bad for her in every way. Jean's eyes incontinently filled". "It is dear and good of you to think of it, and I shall always remember it. NoI shall just have to go on. An- other door will open somewhere. It always does. I have found that, even in the darkest hour of my life, when I was wanting to tumble out of it in the very quickest way I- could find." That. very night—nay, that very moment, her words seemed to be veri- fied, for the sitting -room door opened, and black Sambo, with the flourish of delight with which he invariably served Miss Dempster, announced 'Mister Fordyce." Jean' was undoubtedly surprised, for though Fordyce had called many. times at the Dormer House, and had had much to say to her over the 'phone at odd times, this was his first visit to Mrs. Isaacstein's. But she was pleased, and looked it as she intro- duced him to Miss Rankine of th out a certain diffidence. Sim was not surprised, however, when Judy nn - mediately took her leave. = It was Judy's first opportunity of seeing Fordyce, and the thought of the money he had given Alan, and the silence which had ensued, caused her pride such acute discomfort that she was glad to escape. Jean, with a murmured word of apology to. For- dyce, went down to the door with. Judy. This gave him an opportunity of looking round the sitting -room in which lYiiss Dempster spent her lei- suretime, and he did not fail to make use of it.- He was accustomed to gor- geous rooms, filled with the things for which the rich man's purse can pay, but here he found . thethings which, fortunately for humanity, T.money is powerless to buy—the es- sence of home! "So that is Rankine's sister?" he observed, when Jean, a trifle breath- less ffom her haste on the stairs, re-entered the room. "She doesn't look much Iike him. B:e seems to have annexed most of the looks of the family." "Oh, do yea' think so? Well, 'any- way, shoes got brains anda heart. She feels meeting you, Her.. pride, didn't like it, poor dear! Queer•,— isn't it—that nothing has ever been heard of him." "I'm not troubling about him. No r —I dont think anything ds at all has happened to him, except that he has shunted off into some side track. Somebody lie met on the' train per- haps offered •him something better, or, on the face of it, more attractive. That sort of thing happens in this country—especially out a bit --every day." never' thought :of that! She's worried to death, and thinks al�1 orts of things have happened to him." (To bo continued.) TAILORED BLOUSE' OP CREPE DE -CHINE. Strictly tailored blouses adopt frills and buttons for trimming, and fine. cluster tucking In the front distin- guishes this version of the hip -length blouse. The long tailored sleeve, fastening with a link cuff, is in har- mony with the simple collar that can Abe adjusted -with many buttons. Short sleeves are much in demand and are finished with a turn back cuff. Plaited frilling forms the jabot, which is .not included in the pattern. The diagram shows the simple design of Pattern No. 1149, which is cut in sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust. Size 38 bust requires 21/4 yards of 86,inch, or 2 yards of 40 -inch ma- terial. 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The amazingly rapid development of instrumental training in the public schools represents perhaps the most significant phrase in the evolution of public . school' music during the last decade. To -day, practically every progressive music department includes -in its cur- riculum some form of instrumental training. It is gradually taking its Draper place in the general scheme of school music. Its importance is second- ary only to vocal training. The latter reaching every child, must retain its undisputed supremacy as the foremost doctrine of school music. The greatest development has per- haps taken place in the high School or- chestra. Many of these organizations represent a very satisfactory standard of taste and performance. :Where this standard has not been reached the fault often may be found in the fact that the teachers, Heed by the ambi- tion to present an. imposing program of fine' music, omitted to subject the orchestra to a systematic course in en- semble training which would have pro - Tided the necessary technical pro- ficiency for the adequate 'performance of an ambitious programme. Another failing; is sometimes encountered, namely, that teachers in their endeav- or to avoid too difficult music, become blind to their duties as educators and present insignificant and mediocre music to, the orchestra for practice and performance. Gull's Transatlantic Flight. In the records of navigation, the feat of the first gull to fly the Atlalntic Ocean is au horoarable one, and worthy of record. Tlr.e gull, a kittiwake, was found in Newfoundland wearing a sit ver band upon which were inscribed the words: "Inform Witherby, High Holborn, London," and the bird has been identified as one that had been released •from the coast of Northum- berland by a: correspondent of tho'Lon- don naturalist. It is quite' likely that this gull' ways torestalied in lass great achievement by Other gulls, It is a pity to have to re- cord that the bird was shot. Have 'Long 'Limas. Abnormal length of fcrearm,'and of the leg, from the knee downward, is ohateeteristie of the native savage race of Australia. Minard's Llftitrient for Burnt. ,• • "Plowmen Pioneers. ,Strong men have gone adventuring 'Since Adam saw 'the sword, And some halve diedto terve a king .' jAnd soine to serve the Lord; And some to serve their own red blood That knew the wayward call .k\ndeanswered it, elle _found it ,good,, -. b'iom Wiazigel to )3enga1, And we have roused good songs for lade , . Who,, whether young or old, Have entered life's Olympiads Adven,turing•for gold. • So have we sung the ;sons of war; And So we sing them new. But who has twanged a ballad for The heroes of the plow? West over prairies, through strange hills, Galin pioneers fought on— What? Was it gold that thewed their wills ' And led to Oregon? • Long muskets, hooked beneath their arms- / Afraid of none ' but God— They carried -plows to virgin farms; - Lean soldiers of the Sod. • These were the men who saw wild grass , With creeping death astir; Who fought red terror in the pass, And braved the massacre. They loved the smell of virgin soil,' The fertile feel of loam; Yet mingled .daring with their toil, And so, at last, came home. Their furrows down the field of years Are straight and true and deep. Osimple pilowmen pioneers, r • God rest you in your sleep! And we who swell with lusty breath The ballads of the brave Will rouse a chant for noble death, And sing it o'er your grave! —S. Omar Barker. Modern Humanity. Research shows that what we term humanity originated away off in Asia so many thousands and thousands of years ago that it is quite impossible to even approximate the date when reran- kind first flooded the European con- tinent. Always, so it seems, the great loose masses -ef humankind have flow- ed periodically through the pastes of the Caucassions, only to find the ex- pected new land filled' with other mass- es that had poured there centuries and thousands of yea'rs ago. The fact that we data, Europe from the Goths, Pranks and such things means nothing -except that these peoples -have, :left better records of their wanderings than the older ones.. One of the great- est outpourings of record is -one 1600 B.C., when waste hordes came swarm- ing through the passes, living in tents and eaves knowing almostnothing of agriculture ,or any art except war, hav- ing no laws, and: evidently no aim ext cept to escape from Asia in the same manner and come across the water to what' is now America, and this must have been many thousands of years ago, Minard's Liniment ter Dandruff. Too Harrowing for. Him. "What did you think of that farmer's Cale of woe?" "Too harrowing for me." Even After All. A suspicious -looking customer was boasting to a grocer of the cheapness of ten pounds of sugar he had bought at a rival shop. "Let me weigh. the package," said the grocer. The customer assented and the pack- age was found to be two pounds 'short. The man looked perplexed for a moment and then said: "r don't think he cheated me much, for while he was getting the sugar I pinched two cans hof condensed milk." New Ship Material. A new Ship of 8,300 tons, the first; vessel built of the new material known as elastic limit steel, has been launch- ed in England. A handy size pack- age for occasions when half 'a pound ;is.. "just right." ,8.2b Queer Dishes. At a luncheon given recently in Lon- don many strange edibles• appeared on the menu, `among them being goose! stewed', in honey, chicken stuffed with; pistachio nuts and dates and served with honey sauce and cherries, and pigeons stuffed with cherriet. Tri Sutton -in -Ashfield, Nottingham- shire, there is an hotel where 'roast, hedgehog is a regular feature in the bill of fare. Every race has its favor-. ite dish, and whilst they shudder over roast, beef, the Chinese enjoy soups from certain kinds of birds' nests. France breeds snails specially for.. the table. •In Canada we marvel that anything so unclean as snails could be,. eaten by anyone, yet the Iobster feeds on the refuse of the sea, and the pig is fed on offal, whilst snails live only on greenstuffs such as paisley, lettuce, and vine leaves. Whale, pamel, and elephant steaks were served at a zoological dinner in Paris and were greatly relished. In. India a species of ant is dried and made into a sett of curry, and in the West Indies no more tasty dish has•yet been dtscoveredd than rats. You can eat fried dragon -flies in the Malay Archipelago, caught by boys with. branches smeared in bird -lime. Even the octopus has its partisans among the people of the Mediterranean and in. China it is dried and sold cover- ed in flour: Tasmania. Canadians who have visited Tas- mania, have capitulated to tb.e charm of the Australian isle and its inhabit- ants. The harbor, formed by the Der; went River, has few equals. Not. till 1853 , did this -earthly paradise cease to be a mere limbo to which convicts - were consigned. A great mischief ac- complished by white pioneers was`the extermination of the aborigines, of whom there were but four left :in 1865 and one In 1876. .These people kirew, almost nothing, and did get even pos- sess the art of building boats, beteg content to use pieces of bark tied to- gether with grass fibre. They made no pottery; they could not use the boom- erang, acrd mentally and manually they lived in the Paleozoic- Age, with its stone implements. Hobart has about 40,000 inhabitants and the University of Tasmania has about 200 students, the number seem- ingly depending on whether it rains or not. The Island produces tin, copper,' silver and gold, and fruit -raising, es- pecially of apples, is of prime indus- trial importance. Britain's Doles. Great Britain has ,spent :8173,530,000 on unemployment benefits since the armistice and £50,520,000 on out -of- • urork donations. 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