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Zurich Herald, 1920-03-11, Page 6Keep your eye - on this :rand se, The one Tea that never disappoints the most critical taste.s. E3578 on a Sealed Packet is Your Safeguard. VE's, Nfa ,Gla \tML VAL Vel Ta AMA& NM NiiZe N121, 'Me APA ••••11200 BY BEATRICE GRIMSHAW. EE 0 0 0 0 ez, v,:m. .rm, ,Ga,_ vs. szk V& Iliit. NM Mk lia 1131 VEi NEL. M. IM, Nia WM, . PART It. !great male papaw beside it. Flower Angus told her that they were pa- buds began to show: as yet one could paws. the male ani. the f email: tree; not tell whether fruit or only blos- the tree that bore the smaller flowers som was to be its contribution to the also b....re The :71:ult. as she could see-- world. Bv the middle of the year there it was tinder the clown, a green melons were set in clusters; as heavy TilaS4 of oval melon -shaped Christmas neared the golden glow of .fruits. dark ;L,%•eer, and. goll Lai every ripeness crept elowly over the fruits. ,color between. There was nothing in Jean had been horrified. by the lives 4-1, trees =,.. =r.="ce ',. 4'llss a':',.. -'.7,t; ,lel; - of many people who seemed to be re - were as cc.nunn as ,Lr:; z.,,«a ec',4; ce:ved in the soceety of the town; she ,... . ... .. , - have ere of Ile frz.it, e. she .772.11:e71 retreated Thankfully to the solitude "I don't like gossa.p,' said . Jean, it, but most people got tired' et' it, as of her bungalow, encouraged by flushing. She was afraid of what i.hey wei-e .a: c,ver the island. TheyA1.1 -Nilo found interest enough in might be coming next. It was three grew so thik. .Yca see. . his work on the new harbor and who years now sines she had come to the "Hew eeiek .lo they gre-e:" eis..lte:d had other reasons for wishing a free house beside the papaws, and the Jean on tne wonde7.fril even of their hend. He \vas fc,,nd of his wife and misty fear that sometimes shaped ,ite arrive!. steilding tee look r the trees- eery for:d of assuring himself that he self clearly into •"How long?" grew her heart alma sore with the beaen-3, was so. But she was not the only faster than the seedling tree. She she had seen that day• i woman in the world; and handsome avoided the women of the town; they 'Come to trait in less than a year engineers did not need to go begging lived and breathed in an atmosphere from Seed," said Angus. -There s a for a little flattery in the town of .of scandal. Little Angus and Jessie seedLing just. up. You can pick pa- Laulau, Jean, did -not flatter any one. were enough to fill her days. She aws off it before Christmas if you - She would have thought it immoral. had no desire to know too much. , "They've nearly reached their term, and they fall so suddenly." . "Term? I beg your pardon, I-,-" "They don't live long, you leriovi," "I didn't know. How long do they be—do they live?" She tried to purge her speech of the provincial taint in these days. Angus said that "the other ladies of the island" did not talk like old Arne of the boreen. "Oh, from fon to five years—five, if you're lucky." She gethered up her expensive organdie skirts and went down the road with a languid, dreamy, gait Mrs. Lang alwais •seemed to be half a -dream, "Five, if you're lucky!" said Jean to herself, going up the steps. She looked at the big trees. Four, were they? Her eye fell on -the growing papaw. It was almost a year old. Her throat felt suddenly dry. "A thirst does be on me with this child," she said, and went to the water tap. The harbor works went on; harbors are not finished in a day 'or -a year, especially "down Tahiti way." An- other baby came to the bungalow be- side the sea. It was hot all the year round. Jean lost her pink -and -white North Antrim freshness, and her hair grew thinner. Mrs. Lang told her, she was a fool not to do as the other women did, and make up a bit. "There's not one of us doesn't do it," she said frankly. "It's pink,' powder wash with some, and plait' rouge with others, and some use that magnolia cream that makes you like. ivory, and every woman reds up her lips. You look anyhow, my good girl. Do brisk up a bit, and at least put on a bunch of curls. None of us can run on our on good looks in the Laulau climate. And if you know what cats some of these women are about tak- ing away other women's husbands—" Forgotten Peerages. It would be interesting to know how many of the present titles of Bri- tish peers will be known fifty years heace. Peerages disappear at the rate of lire every four years. There are numerous reasons for this. The re- cent case of Lard Swinfen, who died before the letters patent of his peer- age passed the Great Seal, is unusual, but not without precedent, " Seven years ago\ a barony was be( stowed on Sir Thomas Borthwick, but lie died before the issue of the letters Paieut. From various causes 124 peerages became extinct between 1800 and 1900. Some peers have had no heirs, as Lords Kitchener and Roberts. Lord Kelvin, the scientist, left no heir at all. Lord Lister, the inventor of antiseptic surgery, had no one to carry on his title, which has thus4be- come extinct, Of present peers neither Lord Milner nor Lord North- cliffe has a son to succeed hint. AN OLD WOOL DRESS IS NOW WORTH $50 Angus of the red -gold hair was fon of her still. She often told herself so. And he certainly worshiped the children. They •Itept him at home in the evening once in a way, nowadays; she was thankful for that. Yes, everything was well. But when she had put baby Jean to sleep, she went into the kitchen, stole like a thief to the dresser, took down a small bottle and crept away to her room, looking about her as she went. She ut the door and blinded the want to." It was now the middle of . I She only loved him with a love that March.would have stormed the gates of hell "How winderful!" said Jean, for 1 to reach his side, had they two died the twentieth time that day. She was together and she been left in heaven not a woman of many words. Angus let inclined to yawn for about the alone' She did not see the earliest of her twentieth time. He had been ;in the islands before, and had never seen Papaws ripen. Angus's son carne anything wonderful in them. He as- in- to the world at Christmas; and when sured himself that Jean was a "queer Jean first brought her baby out. on good sort •of a girl, and a better wife the veranda, the natives had stolen all the ripe papaws that she had hole - for any man than e'er one of those • • ed to find Jean still weak and gossy pieces brought up in the is - much alone, for Angus. had got .out lands." It seemed somehow a fittingwindow. The white-hot sun of after - thing to. do Just then. , of the way of spending his evenings noon ample light -thron-gh the gave • in the bungalow since her sickness, blind. Jean opened the cochineal bot Aftemard he left her to overseecried a little. Then she kissed the getting of tea, and wandered off to the town side of the island "1 won- red gold "quaff" a little Angus's head der," he thought, as he lighted his and went in again. ipe, "whether that little cutty at the A woman called on her that day, thewife of the head engineer of the hotel has married any of them yet? She'd have me if I'd put the word." harbor works—five-and-thirty, child - He twisted the ruddy mustache that less, indolent with the tropic indolence was his pride and that of ean, and that eats to the bone, long -eyed, some- drewJ the curly red -gold "quiff" fur- what too golden -haired, somewhat too handsomely dressed. She was reput- ther down on his forehead, walking rapidly toward Laulau main street. ed to be "wonderfully good-hearted Jean went into the kitchen and be- ' and ready to do anything for any gan the long wrestle with her "boy" one." Jean had met • her before, and that is the lot of island housekeepers,' s.carcely liked her, despite the alleged The sun went down on a day that she good heart. Mrs. Lang, however, did had found fair. I not seem to see that she was not The seedling papaw grew wonder -i warmly weitomed. She toed a long fully From a threadlike stalk two call, brought a cap for the baby, of - inches long, crowned by a couple of fered to take Jean and the child out tiny pointed leaves, it shot up in a in the engineers' launch for a run week or so to something the size of about the harbor. She wet full of a stout lead pencil. Then it Went to kindness: She looked about the sitting the size of a ruler, and then it Aused room with sharp eyes, which fixed for a while to makeiroats. Afterward, themselves on Augus's photograph, firm -anchored against the merry, stared hard, and then tterned away "trades" that blew up from the la-! slily. She went out by and by; and goon, it shot skyward in good earnest. Jean, watching lux down the steps Sean used to think that she could beside the papaw, said to herself: "I actually see it grow, on hot, damp hate you!" mornings and, indeed, the tree often1 :Pretty trees you've got there," made an advance between morning. said the wife of Angus's superior of - and evening that could be measured, fixer, patronizing the bier papaws. by inches. Soon its topmost crown; `Test be nearly four years old, of leaves—large, beautifully palmate! though; best get rid of them before and raying out like a star—was leveljethe January storms." with the drooping lower leaves of the) "Why?" asked Jean. Economy of Rules It is economical to have rules, and. it is economy 'to obey them. A tremendous number of accidents result from the breaking of rules. Sometimes the rules are not laws, laid dOwn in black and white and en- forced by law, but they are rules, just the same. Many motor accidents come because of opeecling, driving on the wrong side of the road, disobeying traffic regulations In the city streets. Many accidents to pedestrians occur because they doa't stay on the side- walks, and when they must cross the streets they don't do so at thecross- ings, Many fires start becau.se fiammables are kept in dangerous places—gasolene is stored in the linen eJoset, when. we know it should not, according to the terms of our lease, be bought in large quantities, or kero- 'gene is used carelessly about a fire, in spite Ofca.ution from the Fire De- partment. So it gods. Many of the ills of inan. kind result from a disobeying of rule% This attitude in adults is mush like disobedience in children—and the re, AlUlte Etre muci the same, for punish, vot t1 some form is very likely to ifi liOnSibliold there are tertaip. tuto, more or loss 1411 forMu. lated. And they should be a help to family life: Unfortunately for the housekeeper, punishment for the breaking of these rules does not al- ways fall on those who break them. Too often it is the housekeeper or the servants who get the punishment. Nevertheless, it is possible to formu- late a set of household rules, and to drill one's family to obey them. Per- haps without actual punishment they can be made to believe that the most comforable way of living is to ob- serve the rules set down by the house- keeper. And to the housekeeper these rules can be made a means of saving time, and energy and nerve force, Think over every rule you announce before you speak of it. For a foolish rule, like a foolish law, breeds disre- mot on the part of those who are asked to observe it. There can ' be, Just rules about promptness at meals, abont individual duties for each inember of the house- hold, about opening wndows, about closing screen doors, about carinefor the clothes and many other things. And each of these mules can be eo worded that it will seem reasonable, and at the same time so thought out that it will bring relief to the one on whom. the burden of housekeeping falls. tle that she had taken from the dres- ser, and with a trembling hand red- dened her cheeks and- lips, drawling the wet cork across and across. She stared for a moment, then ran to the Washstand. "Ochanie!" she said. "Sure, it en. ekes me look like Jezebel," She washed her face ruthlessly with, the nailbrush, When Angus came in a little later, he gave her -a second look.The nail- brush had left her cheeks honestly red. "You're looking well, lassie," he re- marked. It was the first time he had seemed really to see her for weeks. Jean cried after he had gone out for the evening. "The wee of the wicked shall per- ish," she said to herself. But she could not find as much support for the statement as she eould have wish- ed in the history of Port Laulau, as far as it was known to her. Jean had the trip to Auckland that is considered the due of every wife "down Tahiti way" and came back feeling fresher and' younger. The chil- dren Venefited also, and Auckland in itself :was delightful and new. But she was not sorry to return to the white-hot suns and jeweled seas and year-long endless summers of the Laulaus, The bungalow beside the papaw tree had become home to her. She looked for the tree as soon as the house came in sight. It had grown immensely diming the month of her absence; its graygreen trunk, sealed like a serpent's skin, had thickened and shot up, and the crown was leveled on top, aspiring no more. The papaw was twenty feet high and had done its growing. In thee days it bore enormously; the cluster of cream -white blossoms underneath the crown wassupported by misses of solid fruit, ripe and unripe, enough to fill several sacks. Tall, deep-rooted and sturdy, it looked fit to last for fifty years. Angus was glad to see her back. He had missed his home comforts. Meals at the hotel weren't all they looked; and the new barmaid from Sydney had taken up with a rich tourist, to the exclusion of more deserving if less moneyed men. Of course he didn't care twopence about her, but still— she was "grey an' bonny." Odd she should have such poor taste in men. What a good little soul Jean was. She know how to appreciate a man. I/ only she hadn't grown quite so plain! She never had been a beauty; but now— He supposed it was in the nature of things. (To be continred.) "Diamond Dyes" Turn Faded, Shabby Apparel into New. Don't worry about perfect results. Use "Diamond Dyes," guaranteed to give a new, rich, fadeless color to any 'fabric, whether it be wool, silk, linen, cotton or mixed goods — dresses, blouses, stockings, skirts, children's coats, feathers, draperies, coverings, —everything! The Direction Book with each pack. ago tells how to diamond dye over any color. 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This is a very lively bird, It is very seldom still for more than a few seconds before it dashes out on some tempting bit to eat. It is partial to the wooded banks of streams. It usually keeps in under- brush near the ground. • He'd Score. Young Donald was sent to buy some oranges. The shopman, think- ing to test the youngster's knowledge of division, when putting the oranges into a bag said: "Now, sonny, which would you rath- er have—three bags with two oranges in each, or two bags with three In each?" "Three bags with two oranges ii each," was the prompt reply. "Why?" asked the shopman. "One more bag to burst!" replied Donald. Worth Trying. .In GlaSgow they tell of a resource- ful clergyman who is never at a loss for a retort. He was once called to,,, the bedside of a very wealthy but stingy man. "If," he gasped to the clergyman, "if I leave several thousands to the church will my salvation be assured?" Whereupon the divine responded:— "I wouldn't like to be too positive, but it's well worth trying." Lstrazre Miniment Sou gale every4ava. The Complete Misanthrope, Frain the French. The world Is fun of asses i I hate toseeanass rii go live in a desert—and break my looking -glass, unimeut *Atoll* Itellialatilia 9 .1.",i• a a eeee, 'ffg' Beautiful Women of Society,iduringthepast seventy years have relied upon it for their distin- guished appearance. The soft, refined, pearly _white complexion It renders Instantly, Is always the source of flattering comment. -rancramasa GHOSTS AT ROYAL PALACES QUEEN BESS •H AUNTS WINDSOR CASTLE. "Lady in White" Was Herald of Calamity to Reigning House of Austria. The news that a "veiled spectre" has recently been seen on three separ- ate occasions premenading the corri- dors of Windsor castle recalls a story told by a young officer, Mr. Carr Glyn, of the Grenadier Guards, some twenty years ago. Mr, Glyn was reading a book in the Castle library when, glancing up, he saw the black -veiled figure of a wo- man walk past him and disappear itt the inner library., As she did not re- -turn, he followed her; Tilt found to ' his amazement that she had complete- ly vanished, although there was no means of exit from the inner room. The Woman in Black. When he told his uncanny story the following morning it created eonster- ' nation in the Pelee% especially when. It was discovered that three centuries ago the roam had had an exit at the very place through whicl the black lady had passed. It was generally be- lieved that -the mysterious figure must have been that of Queen Eliza- beth herself, of whose midnight ap- pearances in her old haunts itt the Castle many stories are told. But...Queen Bess is only one of the several royal spectres which are said to haunt our royal palaces. The Duchess° de Mazarin, one of the Mer- ry Monarch's many far.orites, has been seen more than once in the rooms and orridors of Si. James' Pal- ace, which is also said to be a favor- ite haunt of Nell Gywn, of the saucy tongue and merry laughter; and of that termagant beauty, the Duchess of Cleveland. Hampton Court Palace, too, has the reputation of being visited by the shades of several great people who have once "walked in splendor" with- in its historic walls. Strange tales are told of spectral figures which vanish when accosted; of mysterious noises, the uncanny opening of doors, With- out visible agency, and of sounds of merriment and. snatches of song pre- ceeding from empty rooms. When Henry's Wives "Walk." But the most affrighting vision of all is that of a white -robed figure run - ring down a corridor, with her long hair streaming behind her, and appearing into the char.el. This start, ling apparition is said to be that of the unhappy Catherine Howard, the second queen whom Henry VIII. sent to the executioner's block; and who, sp long after her tragic death; re- peats an incident in her troubled exl istence -when, escaping from hel" guards, she rushed into the chapel to beg for her life from her tyrannous lord who was praying there, On the night before the death of Frederick III, father of the present ex. Kaiser, a sentry declared that'he had. seen the figure of an old woman, bowed with age, and carrying a broona in her hand; alid his story would cera tainly have been scoffed at as the creature of a disordered brain, had. not a similar figure been seen on for- mer occasions, notably on the death, of the Emperor William I. This gro4 tesque old lady, whose visits bode se little good to the House of HohenzoR lern, is disrespectfully spoken of ItS" "The Sweeper." A Herald of Calamity. " Spectres irlowhite or even 'in blacX are perhaps intelligible, but what oat • we to think of the "Red Man," who is said to haunt the Tuileries, and tis. have been aeen by no less famous pen sons than Catharine de Medici and thti great Napoleon, the latter of whom issaid to have held a long converse tion with him on the eve of his fated Russian campaign. During the night before the late 171.m press of Austria was so treacherously assassinated, a sentry on guard in, thi Castle of Schombrun was frightens "out of his with" by the spectacle oil a beautiful woman, robed in whitS0 and wearing a long, flowing white 'elle walking along the corridor where h.• was on duty. Thrice he challenge the trespasser, and had started in pu4le .suit of her, when she vanished suddenly and mysteriously as She hi appeared. 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