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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1920-08-26, Page 6amrust Luck �«��� �. •�.,._ ---ate,--_..�� �-<:,-„.�.R,.,;,,,.;�, When ordering Tea, but insist on gettin4 the reliable... R 5T:'8 The "tea That Never Disappoints Mack, Green or Mixed sv Sealed Packets Only. -s-a rczn-- r=ex.- sa.--1.-csz.us.s .errs z ns=.esesaesee=seesseti Last Rose of Su 13y RUPERT HUGHES. .met a man who had just conte down from: the verandah.. It was 1Yleldxlim, He peered at her in the dial light of the street lamp and called out: • "That you, Debby? Couldn't yon. stand it any longer'? Neither could I. That girl is a peach to look at, but she can't sing for sour apples; and as for brains, she's a nut, a pure hickory nut! I guess I'm too old or • not old enough. to be satisfied w alt staring at • a pretty hide on a pretty frame. Which way you going? I'll walk along with you if you don't emend.” • If she didn't mind! Would Lazarus objeet if Dives sat down on the floor beside him and brought along his trencher ? Debby was so bewildered that the s'dewallc reeled beneath her intoxicat- ed feet. She stumbled till Meldrum took her hand and set it in the crook of bus asm, end she trotted along as meek as Tobias with the angel. All, all too soon they reached her heuse. But he paused at the gate,. She dared not invite hint even to the porch. If her mother heard a man's voice there she would probably open the window upstairs and shriek: "Ikelurderl Thieves! Help!" (To be ecntinued next issu•e.) CHAPTER III. + Debby .rine ed. He probably was say - The guests made deenerate efforts *ng to himself, "Sour grapes!" At to pretend that they were unaware of leant :he thought he would think that. the feud and at the same time to But she had not meant to be foxy. The follow it. They were polite enough fox m the fable had tr:ed to leap to even to try to ig-core the salt the the grapes before he maligned them. wrathful Asaph had let slip into his Debby had hardly come near enough to ice cream. $ i thus or made effort enough toward In the cheerful stampede far the them to say that she had failed. dining room Debby had crowded into; But Meldrum had not thought, a sofa alongside another re -visitor to, "Soar grapes!" He only remembered the town, Newton Meldrum, whom she' that "Debby" was "Debby." In these had known but slightly. IIe had gone' returns to childhood circles one rarely with the older I iris and had -already knows what has happened between left Carthage wh im Debby came out—' them and now. He remembered Debby as far as she ever calve out before , as an ugly Little brat of a girl, and she went back. Ilia saw that she was still homely. But Newton Meldrum had prospered, ae-, plenty of homely women Were mar - cording to -earths: •e standards.. ire rico. He pro :ed his ignorance by his was new the "credit man" for `tcant- +ext words: where to draw the line between plants *gal wholesalelu ,u e, Debby heal not, ,,•, and entree's and men, and the more "'You nlarrteai. T'e, oy . the faintest idea esimt a credit man • ,,, no " she faltered. without dor- one studies nature with an open was. But Asaph knew all too well.! ;. g even to venture a 'vest yet:' He mind, the more there does seen to be As the i.e ver of the largest clepar d s1..lpr:sed her shame with a laughing some sort of intelligence and feeling meet store in Carthage, t ,h owed compliment: common to all living things. tl e house more that that he could."Wise lad -y! Neither am I. Shake!" Samuel Butler, in one of his books, pay. He gave "hat a; a reason fort i Then she turned on the sofa so that maintains that both plants and ani - she it still more. The Montreal! house :sant Meldrum out to she could see him better. His eyes road actually do possess intelligence, c i t Ct_m "h v.•ere twinkling. He was handsome, to see whether .:t would be mere profit -g' + not merely of a human sort, but in able to close Asaph up or t.de him citified, sleek, comfortable. Yet he some particulars above the liunian over another season. l had never married. standard. He accounts for all such Asa.h't wife chose this anxious He was balding out his hand. And imiarvels as those mentioned above by moment to give a party to Birdalinel because it commanded hers she put e:: raining that the plants know exaet A =a .h retested violently that it hers in it, and he squeezed her lows, P would genre a bad -impression on 1VIe1 fishy fin in a big, warm, comfortable ly what they are about—that they •do drum to be see„ living parties when 1 -aha, And she gave her timid, smil- what they do because, in the course of he could not pay his bill, But Josie; jug eyes into has big, smiling stare long and shrewd experimentation, they was running a little social beeseess ; and wondered why she smiled. But have found that that is the •best way of leer own, and not to entertain Bird-tshe liked it so emu The "Human" Side of Plants. In a recent book, Royal Dixon main tains that plants have "a human side." He tells of plants that wnlk, plants that fly—or at least use airplanes to enable their seeds to ilv, of plants that fish, that keep servants and domestic animals, that use animals for transpor- tation, that forecast the weather tied tell the name of day• and accomplish many other marvels that seem to ape human intelligence. We know, of course, that plants are not really "human," as that term is usually under.itood, and that they are not even on a par with the animals that we consider so far beneath us. But it is admittedly hard to tell just ch that fresh tears far them to get along. Likewise wit- Camouflaged Nature. Nature knew all about camouflage long before the Allies ever thought of it. If' she ,,hadn't, it would have gone hard with many of the birds and inseete. Among birds, as you know, the fe- male is airways more inconspicuous than the male, so as not to be seen on her nest. Her colors usually, if not always, harmonize with the surround- ings of the nest. Sparrows streaked with shades of brown are almost in- distinguishable from the dry grass they nest in, while the female scarlet tanager, nesting in the leaves, is not scarlet at all but green, like the leaves. The female bobolink is sparrow-like, but even her mate is camouflaged, The i "upside-down bird" he is rightly call -1 ed, black on his breast where the shadow falls, buff and white patches on his back where the sunlight strikes hila as he sways amon;; the grass tops. The meadow -lark's back is in:on- spicuous enough, but his gleaming yellow breast would betray him in an instant. So instinct tells him to keep loris back turned toward you, and if he sees you coming you may have diffi- eillty in getting in front of him. I have seen a little blue heron hold- ing his long neck motionless and stiff above the marsh -grass, his bill point- ing heavenward, so that he looked precisely like a dead stick. Insects even more than birds' mimic the ,things that surround them. The locusts, whose inner wings are often so gaily colored, disappear as if by magic when they have dropped to the ground. Their outer wings, folding closely over the others, are just the color of dust. Many moths closely re- semble the lichens on the tree trunks where they often alight. The queer walking -stick insect you can scarcely tell from a twig, his shape as well as color serve to hide him so well. Be a nature student. Every coun- try boy and girl should be on intimate terms with the trees, birds, flowers and insects. rt��?? ,. Evening. I shall not mind --not when rides High, And men too busy are to weep; I think I shall not miss the unsin ging sky As in tate silent grave i lie aedeep. the sun love or But ori, the earth shall throb above my he arae alinewould be to g0 into vclnntar —.tale eager . a:aiaiaalc., Tiro ch1L•iren' oreat'e!t, un eggs tx des ,s..ses snit hoax, after:. the day is rushed to Or • eceltds „ li bankruptcy. She could still get the'"appy t ars that could mio have atf lie sass, because -the. chicken • has i done, necessary* things ei ire ern—and • to mucid salt in them, far one ox two learned e;actty • Imva to do it, with a!TQChen'froei our river nook; serene, Josie getting a thing charted was just of them bounced into her ice Cream. i apazt, a little cheaper than getting it for : Yet it did not taste bitter naw. definite purpose in view; and the eggc e nothing. It didn't put von under obli ` Asaph came in then and looked, in turn Creates a chicken because the The spars -rise Blick egein, t the set - round the room with defiant eyes that. egg knows by oft -repeated experience- •` ting sun. �*atians, like accepting gifts. Asaph around , - forbade her to give the party, but of dared anybody to be uncomfortable. just how to go about that wonderful -�' course she gave it, anyway, and he,lie recognized Meldrum With a start, task. The acorn produces au oak be- Keep elinard's Liniment in the house. was not Brave enough to forbid the seen realized that the most iinpoxtant cause it wants to do it, and knaves stow. --._- - grocer to honor her requisitions. ;guest had been left to Deb Laxxabee, The dowering plant knows all about. Asaph had to invite Meldrum, and; of all people. This mis-step might bees, and produces flowers especially Josie announced that she would show; mean ruin to hien. His anger changed, designed to attract them and have much a wife can help her hus-! to anx.ety, and he made haste to carry hand; she promised to lavish on :lien- j Meldrum away. He was mspired to drum- especial consideration and to present him to Pamela. introduce him to some pretty girls (heDeborah, abandoned en the sofa, i was a notomaous bachelor). studied Pamela with wonder. How She forgot him at once for her an-' beautiful the chiid was! How she dent rivalry with B,irdaline. And now an - drew thea men! How their eyes fed Asaph forgot him in the e.,citeiuent upon hex How she queened it in her n t then distribute its pollen. The knowledge of the plant or ani- mal i,s all the more perfect, butler argues, because it is so largely "un- conscious." We ourselves only know perfectly, be reminds us, these things that we have done so often that we of quarrel. Ilt:ue court. Eterywhere sine went mt q i have learned to do them automatically. That is the way with the bees and Indeed, host and hostess ignored ;'trust be so. InPeoria they must have their fatal guest so completely that gathered about her just as para. They they Left hien to eat his supper along- must be missing her in Peoria now.side the least -considered woman in When she went back they would be town—poor old "Dubby Debby." glad. Or if she went on to Ottawa Debby had long ago fallen out of men would gather about her there— the practice of expecting attention i or in Kingston, or Belleville or To - from anybody. To -n ght she was so ronto—anywhere! grievously wounded that she forgot] It was manifest enough why the men gathered about the girl. She de - her custom of squandering the con-; lighted the senses. She inn roved time sideration size rarely got back, She p said nothing to her elbow neighbor, view. She was the view. Suavity of but sat pondering her own shame and. contour, proportion of feature, silki- trying to extract some ice cream from ness of texture, felicity of tint; every between the spots of salt. A few big, angle masked with a curve, every joint tears had welled to her eyelids and , small and included, desirableness, dropped into her dish. She blamed her- cuddlesomeness, kissableness, warmth, be , there seems to invented the plane, no self for the salt. Then she heard her and all the things that make up love- doubt that honor belongs te neighbor grumble: liness were• Pamela's. "Say, Debby, is your ice cream all The contrast between herself and Italy salty?" Pamela was so cruel that Deborah's There are in existence two of the "Ye -es, it is," she murmured, fiut- heart rebelled. She demanded of first pianos made by a harpsichord tering,. Heaven:"Why so much to her and maker--Christofori, in Florence—ear- "So's mine, Funny thing, there's none to me? My mother was as good ly in the eighteenth century. always salt in the ice dream. Ever as her mother, and better -looking in The first public nctice of a piano is noticed it?" her day; and my father was a hand- in a Covent Garden playbill, and the "Tha-that's so; there usually is --ea some man. Why was I made at all if , little" not well made? Why allowed to live first use as a solo instrument was in "A icrt: That's life, I guess. Poor if not fit for life? My elder sister that June, 1768. England has liad its full old Asaph! Plenty of salt in his ice died was more beautiful than Pamela, share in the improvement of what our cream, eh? What's the matter with but she died. Why couldn't I have grandfathers called a pianoforte, The that wife of his, anyway? Aren't they died in her place, or taken the beauty happy together?" she laid aside as I wore her cast-off "Oh, I guess they're as happy as clothes? Yet I live, and I shall never married folks ever are," Debby an.s- be married, shall never be a mother, wered, absently, and then gasped at shall never be of any use or any the horrible philosophy she had ut beaitt . Why? Why?" tered, Bitter, bitter were her thoughts as Meldrum threw her a glance and she sat with her plate in her lap, She laughed. hardly noticed when Josie took the Plate away. She fell into an almost sleep of reverie and woke with a start to find that everybody else was crowd- ing forward to hear Pamela sing. She was repeating "The Last Rose" by re- quest. Mr. Mangans had said he would like another whack at that aeeom- pa'ment. Debby felt again that stab of Bird- aline's---"Poor Debby! She never was a nose." She could not bear to remain. She tiptoed from the dining room, un- noticed, and went out at the side door, drawing her shavel over her head. She must sneak home alone as usual. Thank }leaven, it was only .a block and the streets were black ants. When you are conscious of knowing a thing, ha says, you do not know it absolutely. There is infinite interest, recreation and stimulation to be found in cheerv- ing our plant and animal brethren. The world is a great deal bigger, more varied and more wonderful than any petty round of business, society and politics. Who Invented Pianos? Although the Germans claim to have Not A 13123111 3E mars the perfect appearance of hercom. plexion. PeTin anant and temporary skin troubles are effectively concealed. Reduces un' natural color and corrects greasy skins. Highly antiseptic, used with beneficial results as a curative agent for 70 years. original Broadwocd is said to have been the first to adapt pedals to the piano in 1783. 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He reached it at last and made a successful descent when his petrol was running down to its last gallons. He Knew,. A schoolmistress asked her class to explain the word "bachelor," and was very much amused when a little girl answered, "A bachelor is a very; happy man," "Where did you learn that?" asked the mistress. "Father told me," the little girl re- plied. High Winds. Mien wind travels 'at a speed of 90 miles an hour -it becomes a hurricane, but it is on record that in tropical countries stormns have been known dura ing which the wind reached a velocity estimated at more than GO miles an hour, - Loan oft loses both itself and friend