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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-09-29, Page 6Every Man For Himself By 1-1OPKINS MOORHOUS (Copyright by Musson Compeny) A postal card will bring to you our new large Pali Catalogue, s'pon to be issued,. con,tain1ng. Thousands of Illustrations of Gifts In Jewellery, Silverware, China and Novelties, Write to -day. ELLIS OROS., Jewellers 96 - 98 Y.QNGE. ST. TQRONTQ I' -aiding., west of Island Park, or wind up away over a the Point somewhere. Ike resumed hif paddling This maty ter of his uncle-•• Was it poseiible that inursuit of political ambitions his uncle was forgetting the principles for which he professed to stand es a public mun? Was it just possible that this fellow, McCorquodale,,knew wliet:t 1 ' b t? Wasn't it men of that stamp who became the tools for •corrupt practices—the i, odlers, the heelers, who did the 'actual ballot - stuffing, the personating at the polls, ---,— =' the abri ing ? • Did McCorquodale know of what he spoke? • PREVENTS THAT SINKING FEELING The thought brought with it a sense CHAPTER I. pilings and the faint creakings of with 11,13 ria Jane it -m seat anon 'a ane te Fag small craft at their moorings, i h'ankeriir' to lose me way with no As the solitary canoe poked out for! 'r tintype!" pauseExeept for the lone policemaa who the open baythese minor sounds fell: mussed' map. Not on y i yp Front beneath rs do light at the behind and were replaced by the Whereupon the "Iron Man" had pro - entry Front Street iotrol b intersection tB make Street thebow. Deeded to demonstrate his. malleability in his patrol book, Bay steady purl of water under pIt filled with pleasing monotone the by assuring Mr. Kendrick that he was the lake had read to agree that the sun rose in was. deserted•. The fog interludes between the fussing of the y g come the ins from the lake had yard -engine back on the railway the south and made a daily; trip filled the wayower strees and was fetrackage and the blatancy of the fog -straight north to escape the heat, if ingslits . steadily through the: horn at the Eastern Gap, every half' Mr. Kendrick said so. His anxiety to lights. city, blurring the ke street minute bawling its warning into the make friends had been positively fun - the Its ades touch darkened ; . ny; but there had been a sincerity in the stone facades of tall, silent build- open lake beyond, his handshake that somehow had ings and left tinywet beads on iron There was nobody over at the big' seemed to rob the apology of its satin- rag ing and grill ork. Down towards summer residence on Centre Island' fection, And when quo is salad the waterfront a yard -engine coughed excerpt Mrs.' P.irliby, the housekeepei,I proffered a broken cigar Keu•odale''had and clanked: about in the mist some- and her husband who acted as garden -accepted it with an uneasy feeling that er •a er. The place belonged to Kendrick's I he had: made somewhat of a fool. of where, noisily kicking together string of box -cars, 'while at regular uncle, the Honorable Milton Waring,' himself; for Phil wars no prig and he intervals the. fog -horn over at the and it was usual for them to open the! himself; that 1VIcGorquodale was a pretty h d of May This good sort with a certain whimsicality that was not to be denied. . , He rested his paddle for a moment` and floated in the dark, listening. 'Aa. soon as he got home he would go to the refrigerator for a piece • of raw beefsteak far his swollen eye. Darn that eye anyway. He would have to hibernate up in the woods till it be- came more presentable. Far behind him in the mist somewhere the yard- engine was still coughing; across the water came a subdued squeal of pro- testing flanges, followed bythe dila- tant istont bang of shunted' box -ears. He listened for any sound of the harbor patrol boat; but even had he bothered. to show a light it would have been obliterated in the fog, which was the worst Kendaick had ever experienced, A raw beefsteak poultice— He fancied the fog -horn was a little louder, he would need to keep more to the left Eastern Gap bellonved mournfully into the night. After tucking away his book and rem row Lake and for the past wee]: they buttoning his tunic the policeman lin- had `been up at a rented cottage in gered on the corner fora moment in the woods, leaving Phil behind in the manner of one who has nothing to Charge of the Island residence. ig house about t e en year, however, his aunt and uncle bad chosen to spend the summer at Spar do and no place to go. He was pre- paring to saunter on when footfalls began to echo in the emptiness of the street and presently the figure of a young man grew out of the gray vapor—a young man who was swing- ing down towards the docks with the easy stride of an athlete. As he cane within the restricted range of the arc light it was to be seen that his Rename hat was tilted to the back of his head and that he was holding a silk' hand- kerchief to one eye as if a cinder had blown into it. "Good -night, Officer," he nodded as he passed without halting his stride. "Some fog, eh?" "Meanie', sir," returned the dim sentinel of the Law with a respectful salute as he grinned recognition. "Faith, an' 't is, sir." In response to a wire from his uncle, requesting pian to join them at once and bring along certain art= isles which had been overlooked, he had packed his suitcase and paddled across to the city in the morning, in- tending to take the train for Sparrow Lake. A chance meeting with an old classmate, however, had resulted in a sudden decision to delay his departure for another twenty-four hours`ifr favor of a good time with Billy Thorpe. As if in punishment, things had seemed to go wrong with him all day. In the afternoon the Rochester base- ball team had knocked three Toronto pitchers out of the box, a blow-up which had cost the loyal Mr. Kendrick twenty-five dollars and a ices of repu- tation as an authority on International Hi h upin Cit Hall towereat League standings. Then. in the even - the headh the theereet .. Ben boomedat ing, in the crowd at The Beach some- Bigbody had taken hold of his silk ribbon two ponderous notes which flung fob and gently removed the gold eerily across the city. watch which his aunt had given him Already the young man had faded on his birthday. Later still -4 into the thickening fog. He was in no It was the left eye, so swollen now mood to talk to inquisitive policemen, that it was closed to a mere slit. no matter how friendly or lonesome. There was no optical de1neion about It was his own business entirely if concealed beneath the silk handker- chief was the most elaborate black eye which: had cone into his possession since Varsity won the rugby chan>.- pionship some months before. If his which could be relied upon implicitly face ached and his knuckles smarted to fire the imagination Orf misguided where the skin had been knocked off, acquaintances through several merry that was his own 'business also. And 'weeks of green and yellow recupera- when the judgment of calmer moments `tion. And withal it cast a reflection has convinced a respectable young upon the. fistic; prowess of young Mr. gentleman of spirit that there is no- Kendrick which was entirely unjust, bofdyabet;hiinself: to -blame for what it being the'product of what is known has 1i ppened he is inclined. to solitary as a "lucky punch"—for the other communion while taking the measure fellow. of his self -dissatisfaction. I No,: it was not in the result of the It was indeed the end of a very?m- fight -that dissatisfaction lay, but in perfect day for Mr. Philip Kencleick. the cause. McCorquodale's remarks As he descended' the stairs of the, about the Honorable Milton Waring Canoe Club his thoughts were trcubl-'had been addressed to McCorquodale's ed. At that hour there was nobody two companions; there had been no about, but he let himself in with a I intent to insult the Honorable Milton special key which he carried for such Warings nephew who sat at the next contingencies. He found the suitcase table in the restaurant,' none of the undisturbed ; where he had left it and three worthies being aware that they soon had his canoe in the water. A' were within earshot of a -liypersensl- moment Iater he was driving into the tive member of the honorable gentle - thick wall of fog with strong, prat- man's family. That being so, ithad its nomenclature and in diameter and chromatic depth it was at the head of its class; in fact, it gave promise of being by daylight in a class by itself. It was the sort of decoration or he would find himself hitting Muig's ..,..�..,, .v:•rn of disloyalty a his uncle; but the good shampoo. Tincture of green soapmay not be owing to myopia atone, young man forced himself to face the p y g idea seriously. He was beginning to plus some good toilet water also but partly or wholly to astigmatism. realize that there were many things makes a good shampoo, "School myopia" may be largely about which he was woefully' ignorant Brush and comb the hair. Then ap- prevented by short hours of school• mpoo. Tiand curriculums. For twenty-two it well in with the tips of the finers, ventilated and well -lighted school years he had eaten his meals regularlyg and livedha life uncolored by ' any When you have made a thick lather, rooms, desks with sloping tops and text=books with barge print, V myopia is already' established, ap- propriate glasses are necessary. Novel Plan for Testing Airplanes. Just as the shipbuilder makes model boats and tows them through tanks in: order to learn what resistance they of fer to the water, so the aeroplane- maker tests model 'planes in much the same way. His difficulty is to know • unpxoves rr a air how a 'plane should be built to offer "shock to discover that a college the least resistance to the wind. tion was jirst a beginning—that be- any ehance your scalp should seem to Model aeroplanes are made and yond the campus of hit alma eater be too dry after a sihamp�oo, you would tested in specially designed tunnels, spread a workaday world which scoffed better use a little grease. Pure vase -through which wind is• made to pass • at deadlanguages and went in for a line applied with a medicine dropper •at varying speeds. Youcan.have a livin wage, which turned • from will be helpful, and ought to cause mere ripple or a hurricane by the of pullingover a lever. simple action The largest of these tunnels is that recently built at St. Cyr, in France. To assist English aeroplane -makers, a testing -tunnel has been installed at the laboratories at Teddington. The tunnel, which is circular in de- q„ sign, is sixty feet in length and twelve feet in diameter. At one end is a events niore significant than his. re- cent graduation from 'Varsity with honors. That ,he had captained the football team' to victory the fall be- fore was nothing extraordinary; many seem, you must renew the rinsing another fellow with equally broad water until it remains perfectly clear wash the long hair thoroughly. You are xnow ready to rinse your hair and this process must be very tluorough. No mutter how much bother it may educe - shoulders and an equally well balanced head upon them had done the, same thing, before him. Financial worries had never intruded upon his good times, while social standing was some- thing which he had come' to accept as a matter of course. Only of late had he begun to analyze things for him- self and it had been something 'of a after after tie hair has been dipped into A. If you have a bathroom, and running water, you will find a bathtub spray very convenient for'use in rinsing your hair. Shampooing ' stimulates the scalp and usually ' dry,brittle h by increasing the flow of oil. If by isoce es triangles and aalgebraic. Conlin- ,growth of hair. Part file°hair There and drums to solve the essential problems grow and apply . a it vaseline d of food and'clothing and shingled dropof roofs. It was a new 'viewpoint which close to the skin, and be careful nut planted doubts wherewhat he had sup- to spill any of the grease on the mass posed to be certainties had been wont of your hair. to blossom. (To be continued.) Keep Minard's Liniment in the house. woof When Son Wants a Confidant. Wonder how many fathers feel jealous of the way the grown-up son goes to another if he wants a confi- dant? I don't suppose we'll ever know, for most of them would die rather than :admit they cared. But all • the same, if the truth were known, father would give a great deal if son carie to hint for advice.. As a rule, son goes anywhere .else creeps"` father, doesn't hie? It's too late to help the fathers with grown sons. But here's the secret for. the benefit of young fathers with sons: 1 marinade's steak that is who are just beginning to jabber. or club is t o Listen to sonny when he wants to talk likely to be tough by rubbing it with a mixture to you. Don't tell him to stop has of vinegar and a little oil-- noise or run and tell • mother,. That is; :. one part of oil to three or more parts ifyou reallywant to b "in on his_of vinegar. Some_cooks immerse such, ta steak in a bath of oil and vinegar I secrets after he gnaws ? and leave it there two hours or more; It's very siinple, isn't it. ;,And easy then they wipe it dry and broil it. The to understand. You dont 'bother to talk much to folks who aren't a bit result is a steak that is tender and tired strokes, heading straight across been distinctly foolish for the afore -interested in you. And son is exactly of delicious flavor. the bay for Centre Island. said nephew to walk over to the other like ou. You may ibe inordinately The fog gave hint little concern. table and demand an apology. He y Shampooing Your Hair. This land -locked Toronto Bay he knew should have finished his coffee and proud of hirer„ you may love him till it If you have grown up in the belief that you must not shampoo your hair too often, here is something new for you. Hair and scalp must be kept clean and, unless you have some very peculiar scalp disease, you will profit by frequent shampooing. There are many excellent shampoos on the market, stimulating and re- freshing to use, V you prefer, how- -If your hair is too oily, a little pure aromatic ammonia or a little borax will help. But you must not use either of these things too often, for in that case you will injure the hair and make it brittle. The. Nearsighted Child. Myopia, or nearsightedness, is ow- ing to a or of the eyeball; it becomes so long that the image is focused in front of the retina instead of exacitly upon it. Few if any child- • ren are born with short sight, but the ed with acids. That 'is why a sour ,softness of the eye, which permits the apple soak's more quickly than a sweet eyeball to lengthen, is often a family apple. When you wash pears, peach peculiarity :that chibdren inherit. es and apples to keep their shape You Tlie. -trouble corner soon after the cook thein in a sugar syrup. If cook- child begins its school work; and, once so terrific is the suction. huge box -like chamber. The model is suspended in the air in the latter, and attachad to it is a delicate instrument, called an aerodynamic balance, which measures the wind forces to which the model is subjected. Model after model is tested, until one is found that offers the least re- sistance to the wind. By lessening the wind resistance of a moving body, you cut down the amount of fuel re- quired to drive it at a given speed. When a hundred -mile -an -hour gala is blowing through the tunnel it is impossible to open•the chamber door, ed in water < alone they would (cook begun, the defect is likely to increase to pieces" because of the acid'in'them. with each year of school until finally Minard's Liniment used by Physicians, Acids have a similar effect on the the inconvenience °orhthe actual dis-— "- tough •ioannective tissue of meat. 'A tress obliges the child to turn to stew `niaide of the .particularly tough glasses to correct its vision. Some- but •weld-flavoredp 'ieces of beef from tines it is not merely inconvenience the lower partof. the shank will 'big that the "condition •causes. themyopia a Labrador Miss on worker, that he tender in a shorter time if a dash of,may become malignant myopia, in could not "cleave the split," for his vinegar is added to -a slewpot:A well- which event changes in; the eye begin "stomach, had, capsized. I felt it in= Not' Likely. Uriah bad come to inform me. writes known practice of the chef at the hotel that lead' to incurable blindness cumbent on ire to administer castor like a well -marked pnssage in a favor- I cigarette 'and strolled out. Or, if he ite book and at two o'clock in the had deemed it imperative to partici- morning it was not necessary to nose I pate in the political discussion, why along cautiously, listeninthe ap-tin mischiief hadn't .he just stepped hurts, but he has no way of knowing it unless you pal around with him. And the time to :begin to be chums with roach of water craft. Awayto theour boy is right now. —-------Incacross, proffered his cigarette ease and I know a father who can't under - on Hanian's Point had gone out long Of a truth the expression upon this y y he ago, before the fog settled down like fellow McCorquodale's homely, good- doesn't want to do anything on t a wet blanket. The ferries had stopped !humored face when Kendrick revealed farm. I could tell him, but 1 daren't running for the night. Even the his identity had been sufficiently quiz - "belt line boat," Lulu last hope of bibulous or belated Islanders was back in her slip, funnel cold,,.lights out. The whole deserted waterfront Lay -wrapped in the shroud of the fog, lulled by the lap of water against -� RICH 5Ll`q� �+ `P! 131.E 3� . I �d ES r sl' MAD IN CANADA Tho irmportance of Vitamines in food is being recognized at the present time to a Vreater extent than ever before. It has been con - elusively demonstrated that yeast is rich in this .e.11 important, element.. Many people have re- ceiived great bonofit, physically simply by tak- ing one, two or threw Royal Yeast Cakes a day. Send' name and address for• free copy ""Royal )(scat 'Cakes for Better :health." j !2. W. 'GILL TT' COMt�ANY L1Mitso ToribNfdreANAisA C wi eeple Monrn�xr. o 11441 " ee; l3SUt I'4o. 39--n'21. zical. He had grinned widely as he waved the indignant young man to a seat at the table and even then the situation would have adjusted itself had it been left to the principals. But McCorquodale's . companions were a pair of flashily dressed young "sports" who, thinking they saw a chance for ing two plants dug up he spanked son some fun at IK.endrick's expense, had and sent him in the house. He could proceeded to tread upon Mr. McCor have given son a little corner of his quodale's professional pride—McCor- � own and a half dozen plants and quodale, one time known to ringside showed him how to set them out. That patrons as "Iron Man" McGorquodale, would have been the beginning of .a one time near middleweight champion. "Y'see, it's this way," the ex-pugil..vorking partnership. ist had explained earnestly. ei ain't But he hadn't time to bother with said nothin' about y'r uncle as ain't kids. Ten minutes was too ;long bo public anyways. It's in the papers off give to holding his boy, and so because am on, see? An' now another elec- he wouldn't ;bother when the boy was tion's corrin' down the pike, y'Il have four, he gets no help from him' now to be gittinr used to all kinds o' spiels. that he is fourteen. - Fac's is fat's, kid, an' when I says the Of course, little children are , more - Hon. Milt,aint no sweet -scented ger- bother than help. But the wise father atrium bet's out fer all the samoleons knows that the time to interest a boy ' he can. pick ori the little old Mazur a Tree,—why, I on?y says what I reads in work is when he wants. to work. an' hears, believe .me. You bein' his. Habit forming begins at birth, and. it nephew aunt changin' public opinion is never too early to start the habit none. See?" of being a pa;1`with you' boy. Kendrick's anger at this brazenness had prevented. him from thinking clearly. He was getting "touchy'' about, his uncle's political record of late and had had occasion to defend it with some heat during certain dis- oussions among friends; there had of cranberries for each person, and. been several newspaper attacks which measure out half as much sugar as he had resented, greatly •also. His cranberries . and, half as much' water' uncle's reputation as a, public man he as .sugar. Boil the cranberries and the water together rat a saucepan without a cover. Ali bright -colored Vegetables or fruit, if Cooked in a dish without a cover, are clearer and prettier then when they ate kept If the child keeps' his normal vision oil, thinking that that might be suf- until the age of fifteen: or sixteen, hcient punishment for what I had rea- son to believe was only a ruse to es liable to nearsightedness. The pro- cape work. It was hard for me to gressive increase in the defect usually give the oil, but harder still to have ceases soon aften the twentieth year, the boy look up afterwards with a Onlythe physician can make an cherubic smile and ask if it were the p y same oil that Elisha gave the widow exact diagnosis of myopia. The diag- nosis that a non-medieal optician woman! makes is tend trustworthy, be- cause the spasmodic contraction of one of the eye muscles may cause an apparent myopia, which unIess atro- pine is used temporarily to paralyze the muscle cannot be distinguished from the real thing. It is easy to' guess, however, that a child is suffer- ing from nearsightedness when he. has prominent eyes and dilated pupils and, though bright and quick at p'1ay, I I was there one aping when he was seems dull or mi,clhievou's at school' setting out early plants. Four-year-old —dull because he cannot see the black - son had a toy shovel and rake end hoe ever, you can make your own shampoo. board and mischievous because, not', and he was naturally right anxious to A mixture of 100 parts of soft soap being able to take part in the. school'. �a •a too, he got in the way. Father's tem -sixty' parts of alcohol nuked' a very let for his energy. But the trouble' e: per is none too reliable and afier haw help father make gar dyen. N t uxa � lly, four paints of oil of lavender, and work, he must find some otrlir out Cranberries -Sugar and Acids. There are many wrong ways to, make cranberry sauce, but there is!' ane right way..Allow half a•'eupful had been Quixotic enough to take to heart es a personal matter c' family honor and, as everyone knov.s. family honor is a thing to uphold; He had demanded that McOorquodalc•'retract his statement. McC,orquodale had re- fused flatly to do soclosely covered awing the cooking. One of the two grinning "sports" When the berries axe soft mash knew a place .where they could settle then with a spoon, remove diem frail the fire, add the sugar andstir it in well. The result will be a thick sauce that will jelly when cold, and .the skins of the berries will be of a bright, stun' red, and so tender that there' will be no need of straining the sauce. The reason that berries cooked in this way are better is a very simple one, All vegetable ae h'nloCe is tough - it undisturbed just around the oorner in the basement of a pool -room, It had beena brisk little mix-up while it lasted, but it had not taken the ex- pugilist long to discover that he was facing the best amateur boxer Varsity had produced in a number of years and right in the middle of it he had put on his coat deliberately, to the over- whelming disappointment of his two friends, "'Niat, you guys!" he had grunted, ened by being boiled with t.Ogar, but. b Bathing heavily, "1 knows when is made tender and sof by being 'boil e'e ,b ov'eIties Don't overlook these in buying. Our Travellers have the Samples. We have the Stock. Torcan Fancy Goods Co., Ltd. Wholesale Only. 7 Wellington St. E., Toronto. 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