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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1942-01-01, Page 6YEAR-ROUND RESORT HOTEa STS. ADELE EN I•IAUT P.Q. CANADA WINTER HOLIDAY Located high in the Laurentian,, this luxur- ious 3WW ad- ditios l $ t ottersM� yofl the maximum in holiday Pleasures. Ski sehoel. ski -tows , . . flood -lit IOUs . .. spacious sun - decks and dancing in the Terraee Rooni. Tle- strieted. Write for brit., rates and reservations. t0 SERIAL STORY +TSTEP$ '' ,r THE F ►"G BY ELINORE COWAN STONE SYNOPSIS Deborah Lovett, attending the spring term in a Californ- ia university, meets a strange young man in the fog. She is charmed by his manner, his Continental accent. He in- vites her. to dinner, but she refuses. At home, her room- mate, Angela,, accuses her of having inet a most interest- ing man. Deborah admits it, knows she shall Bee him again. But elle seems to hear a warn- ing. ::. CHAPTER TWO Deborah Learns More About Her New Friend Angela dropped the subject— to Deborah's immense relief. 'Somehow she did not want to taut just now about the young man she liad met in the fog. • "Well," Angie told her with an air of satisfaction, "it may inter- est you to know that I, too, have iiot been idle. I ran over to the university this morning to pick up an outline of Doctor Brooks' Shakespearean seminar, and I stumbled over a lad on the same eid"and who isn't too hopeless— one Sam Lindstrom by name. He fancies himself beyond any justi- fication that appears to the naked eye—but he's amusing. . - Oh, by the way, there's a parcel from home for you, Debby." As usual, Angela's nimble cor- al -tipped tongue was darting in- consequentially here and there, In happy oblivion of the one-sided- ness of the conversation. "On the desk there—" she pointed. "I'll bet dollars to dough- nuts it's that old woollen dress you hid so Bridgie wouldn't make you bring it" Deborah strolled over to the desk. "I'll go you one better," she laughed, poking the bulky parcel with amused resignation. "It'm my bet that Bridgie'e put in. a pair of hip boots and a kerosene heater for good measure." When Deborah's widowed mo- ther had died, it was Bridget Lan- ahan, for years the Lovett house- keeper, who had decreed that the old Cape Cod home should be kept open, and that she should re- main there as custodian during the rest of Deborah's school days. Since there was no one to ob- ject except Deborah's guardian— who ,welcomed the plan with ob- vious relief; and Deborah—who 'hadn't a Chinaman's chance against Bridgie's naive assumption that she was not only as inalien- ably a part of Deborah's modest estate as the front door of the house, .,ut also the devinely ap. pointed watch -dog of her health and •morals—the house did not remain open ; and after eight ' years, Bridgie was still in office. * a * On the first day of the special session at the university, Deborah lingered so long over the -morning radio broadcast of European news that she barely missed being late for Doctor Brooks' seminar. Slipping as inconspicuously as possible into the room ---for ,Doc-- tor Doc-for :Brooks had a widely publiciz- ed reputation for being temper- " mental about tardiness—she was • Every Ballot*. soldier and airman steeds Menthol atula'for dozens of minor ail- ments. Small in cost but very valuable in use. QUICK ReLieF FOR HEAD COLDS CHAPPING TIRED AND ACHING FEET SUNBURN iNSECT BITES CUTS AND BRUISE'S and other can t'� 4 Clone, ISSUE .--'42 it coltscicus at first only of relief that there was an empty chair at the end of the long table nearest the door. Then:=she realized that beside • her a tail young man was on his feet, and clicking his heels together in a precise little fajreign bow, was placing the vacant chair for her. It was only as she was about to sit down that she recognized him. In the bright morning sunshine, he was not quite the shining figure out of some old heroic legend, which, for that first moment, the theatrical alchemy of the fog had made him seem the evening be- fore. Yet, even now, there was about him a fleeting suggestion of the young Siegfried on a holi- day. "So?" he said softly, while De- borah, mindful of Doctor Brooks° restive glance at his watch, slid her slim length into her chair with as little ostentation as pos- sible. "It is not only the fog that is kind to me. When I go again to England, I shall hang a wreath on Shakespeare's tomb — some- thing really snappy in wreaths." "They'll be hanging wreaths on your tomb if you don't sit down," Deborah murmured, smothering a laugh. "Dear Teacher is glaring this way with murder in his eye." * v e His name, she learned after sev- eral surreptitous glances at his notebook, was Stephen Syrovy Ley von Thalmann. . . Cautious as she had been about her peep- ing,• she knew from the almost imperceptible quiver of his right eyebrow that he had caught her at it, and was amused. In spite of the arrogant set of his head and shoulders and his reckless blue eyes, she decided that he did not look at all like the swashbuckling, bully boy young German so comonly ex- ploited xploited by current journalism. She rather liked the freshly scrubbed look of him and the sensitive- ness of his cleanly chiseled mouth and chin. .After all, she told herself with a half -admitted flicker of regret, she should probably have been entirely safe in going to dinner with him last night. * * * Storm Trooper?" elle began Deborah. ran a comb lightly through the amber eloud of curls et the back of her neck. "Storm Trooper? , , . What on earth are you driving at, Angel?" Deborah asked absently. She was vacillating between the printed linen with sea -green ae cessories and the white and silver frock she had optimistically bought for more formal occasions. "That's what everyone's say- ing." Angle's pointed coral ton- gue seemed fairly to savor the spiee> of her titbit. "Oh, well—not exactly a Storm Trooper, perhaps. Something much more swanky than that, from what I've been hearing. Vane Lindstrom knows some German refugees; and he says they told. him the beautiful Ste- phen is an officer in the German army—one of the bright young nien in official circles. It's even rumored that he boasts a title— not to speak of landed, estates all over the map of :Europe—if Europe can stili be said to have a map." "I don't believe it," Deborah shrugged. "He's just another homesick boy who wants some one to dance with him." Nevertheless, she went stairs a little uneasily. (To be continued) It is pet sible that they might have gone on uneventfully through the spring—just sitting side by side, pleasantly conscious of each other, exchanging an occasional smile and a few stolen words from time to time, if it had not been for the entirely unpredict- able factor of mob psychology. The war was having its inevit- able repercussions of hysterical suspicion in the United States; and in spite of young Von Thal- mann's almost eager friendliness, Deborah noticed a covert hostility on the part of many of the class toward him. Sam Lindstrom, the dark young man with the silky sardonic tongue, who from that first day had attached himself to Angela Silva, was the ring -leader of this group. Several time when young Von Thalman offered an opinion, a murmur of antagonism edged with derision ran from chair to chair about the seminar table. The first time, he glanced about him as if unable to believe that any one could intentionally have been so rude. Later, Deborah noticed that although he "always went on with flawless, self-possession and good humor, he sometimes crimsoned to the line of his fair baar,,.and that his eyes were the hurt, bewildered eyes of a snubbed small boy, - I wonder, Deborah thought, why we Americans, who* bo'ist so loudly about 'our sportsmanship, should choose all the most stupid moments to be boorish and un- ;, kind. She found herself amused, and unexpectedly touched at finding that, for all his cocky little air of knowing that the world was his own particular oyster, he was to vulnerable. Perhaps that was why --although she told herself that ib was her Yankee love of fair play -..when he asked her again to • have dinner with him, she ave oersted. ;« * * While Deborah was dressing for the occasion, Angela perched on the foot of her bed, watching her with amused speculation in her beight;black eyes "So yoeie landed oiir''wi itiz! down - The Shark Yields Valuable Vitamins Has Now Become Source of Revenue, Says the St. Thom- as Times -Journal Until quite recently sharks have • been regarded as the most useless of denizens of the sea. They are anathema to fishermen because their presence scares fish away from the fishing grounds, and when the larger species get caught in a net they thresh about so much that they seriously damage the gear. Usually they have been solei for fertilizers. Thanks to chemical research, however, the shark has now be- come a valuable fish. There are mauy species of the sharp fam- ily but the welcome types are the dog -shark, the soupfin, the blue, thrasher and mud shark. Their er is discovered to be richer in. vitamin A than any ',.other sub- stance. From the Canadian west coast down to San Francisco, fish- ermen are now going out for sharks only, and the aggregate value of catches is something •Iike 47b,000,000 a year; money which was formerly discarded. Recently, a four -man boat out of San Fran- cisco brought in a $7,000 catch in five days, making over $1,100 for each man. The average is $700 to $1,300 a week for three men. 011 for Planes The boom is due to a San Fran- cisco druggist who begun using shark's liver to fortify feed for poultry. He found that the liver of the soupfin shark contained 20 times as much'vitamin .A. as the liver of halibut and other fish. It yielded 100,000 units per grain compared with 5,000.in the others. During this current year the Uni- ted States Government has bought four trillion units. Much of this has been sent to Britain and itus sia under the Lease -Lend Act. The rest has been "fed" to the Ameri- can army, navy and air force. Vita- min A is exceptionally valuable for night flyers, and it is also being given to people who are near-sighted. It has a remarkable effect on eyesight. Experiments have also demon- strated emonstrated that shark's liver produces a remarkable oil for use in strato- ;VW 45iik-L, Canadian Merchant Navy sea - 'Men who brave enemy submar roes, surface raiders and aircraft in order lies overo seas will�now and be war supplies entitled to wear the badge pic- tured above. The insignia draws attention to the fact that these men of themerchant fleet are vira tually partCanada's fighting force. Tho government Order in Council authorizing issue of the badge states that it is to be worn by the personnel of ships of Can- adian registry "When on shore leave in civilian attire, in order that recognition may be accorded to the national importance of their • contribution to the sea transport of troops, munitions and supplies, and the carriage of ex- ports to overseas markets." sphere planes, the lubricant being unaffected by extreme or rapid changes of temperature. This oil is valuable also in the finest mecb- aniSmS. The British Government is also using It to fortify margarine. Well i:uilt Plants Deep In Interior William S. Knudsen said that the production goal for giant four -motored bombers has been increased from 500 a month to 1,000 an announcement that un- derscored the opinion of defence officials that the Pacific war must be won by bombing Japan. The director of the office of production management said new bomber production facilities would have to be built and that every plane factory would have to adopt the 168 -hour .work week. In a war which apparently is to become increasingly a battle of bombers, Knudsen said the new aircraft facilities would be placed "inside the mountains"—deep in the interior beyond the destruc- tive range of Axis planes. Further,. preparations 'will be made so that machinery from air- craft plants now concentrated in danger areas of the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards can be moved if necessary. This recalls Russia's "knock down" factories, which have been carried backward be- yond reach, of Nazi bombers. Child Cures Fear Of Hun Air Raids Three-year-old Janet, who was ill a, Bristol hospital when it was bombed, cured herself of fear of air raids by talking to her dolls. For three weeks after the bomb- ing Janet woke up terrified every time the sirens sounded. ,At the end of that time she was •hearii telling her dolls how the bombs fell the night the hospital was hit and how the windows were .shattered over them. She told the story night after night and grad- ually her fear of the raids lessen- ed.. Now, Janet wakes only when the bairage is particularly heavy. ROSE PETAL POTHOLDERS This design is easy to do and may be made from odds and ends in the scrap bag. These dainty yet durable potholders are eroeheted in two colors. Pattern,No. t1130 contains list of materials needed, illustration of design :pnd complete instructions, To order pattern: Write or send above picture with yotli• name Mid address with 15 cents in eoin or stamps to Carol Airaes, ,Room 421, 73 Adelaide St, West, Toronto. REVEL IN WINTER At tills lati.artotas keg enselet, oeeemigike from Toronto pull Ontarlo, in the funs. oils I.nurentianK00 rooms wltii orwtjhuut private leaches .. cunifortatbto lounges . • . Busy hearths . exeetltsnt table and every up-to-date cunvenience. a stows and. 00" on the property . . . well marled . oftielal t♦1ci school, Canadian and t u*O.giean instrnetp •still winter activities. Restricted (,iitentele.� !licit. er rates.—writer. Ste. egarguerit'+ Slntion, No Watch Runs in Perfect Time Even Railroad Time.Fieces Vary From, One -Half to One Second Every Day No watch. keeps perfect time, Clarence Woodbury, writes in Am- erican Magazine. .Gine American raiload watches will run from one- half to it full, second fast or slow every day, and • one of the most expensive 'watches you. can buy— a little number which retails for around $5,000—will be off one - eighteenth doe second every day. It your watch Happens to -be- come magnetized by a dynauao or ' an Xray machine, there's a simple way to take out the juice. Expose it to the same. rnagitetie field again, and twirl it round and round, debonairly, as you retreat from it. The same watch will keep dif- ferent time in Winter and summer, indoors and out. In zero temper- aturZ, the average watch will lose ten seconds in twenty-four hours, and under a blazing sun it will gain ten. When you set your watch, turn- ing the hands backward won't hurt it a bit. Only in striking clocks must the hands be moved forward. "Don't wind it too tight or you'll break the spring!" That old warn- ing is meaningless today. The strongest man on earth couldn't wind most modern watches hard enough to break the mainsprings. Manufacturers have made them muscleproof. Tiny watches are just as accur- ate as big ones when they're prop- erly adjusted, but they can seldom take as much punishment. If you simply must open your watch and let Junior see how the wheels go round, Deeorm the op- eration in an air-conditioned room. Otherwise, you may have to pay for a repair job. Infinitesimal 'par- ticles of dust can clog the works, and if damp air gets into your watch, the moisture will condense later and may cause rust. Rust ruins more watches than all other causes combined. The life expectancy of any good modern watch is far greater than that of its owner. If it is cleaned and oiled regularly once every two years, the average 21 -jewel time -piece will tick on through. at least two centuries. Late Arrival! Club Has Few Members bers An Honor to Belong to Club Whose Badge is a Little Foot With Metal Wings it's an honor to belong to the Late Arrival Club, which was start- ed not long ago in the Middle East. You can't become .a member just by paying a subscription and being pay sed by a committee. Before you can wear its lia.dge, a little boot with metal wings, you have not only to belong to one of the Allied air forces operating out there, but you have to have returned on foot from a machine which has either crashed, or had to make a forced landing. There are about forty members in the Western Desert. Tho latest' of these is an Austra- Ilan pilot officer. Having been chr.sed by four Messerschmitts, he had to fly • his ebUllet-riddled machine so low to get away from them that he landed. win a terrific sineck, tearing ,..off the under• carriage and Lite propeller. The shock of the bump catapelted the wrscket. plane 500 feet up in the air before it finally came to rest. The pilot, considerably the worse for wear, scrambled out to find Wins21f thirty miles On the wrong • side of the Libyan-.UL;yPtiarl fron- tier. With a little fog(' and a bottle of water (most of wiiigh got spilt on itte way) he set out oh his long trek, walking only .at night for there were (layman patrols about. After two, and a� half days one of our own patrols picked him up, exhausted. ale's new back with his 'squadron. ".Glint's' a typical ":Late Arrival." Lad Was Answ 'r. To Sipping Space Frozen Lard Proves Best In• sulation For Protection of Fresh Foods Chicago packers have put over a fast one on Hitler by devising a new insulator for frozen meats. The insulator is itself an export, the old reliable export that has survived most handsomely the de- cline of international trade is Corn Belt foodstuffs — that is,, lard, t;err auesubinarine warfare cat ' seriously into the available supply' of refrigerator ships and refriger- ated efrigerated space on general cargo boats. Refrigerator ships, are costly to build, both in time, money and in materials and skilled labor nets-- ed for arms and munitions. Re- frigerating machinery takes up valuable cargo space. So the packers stepped in to provide a substitute method of shipping fresh fends. As a part of that search, they experimented with all manner of substances to insulate shipments of frozen food. Frozen lard proved to be the best insulator. Fat -hungry Britain cries for lard, so thus we have not one,.bird, but a whole flock of traffic trouble birds, killed with one inventive stone, a packaging material that is itself a food. War enters the picture of this,, latest triumph in preservation and transport of:..food.: ,But- t11e:stini- ulation of war has played a great part in the development of the food industries.. The, alit of can- ning is a Napoleonic watt'llaby, as are beet sugar and cheap soda. Oleomargarine-: is another food born in barracks. A Boy's Solicitud An American mining engineerr • just back from southern Rhodesia, told about a thing he had seen in the little village of Guela. A. native boy arrived there after a trek of 200 miles across the veldt carrying a 150 -pound sack of "mealie," the native food. The boy deposited the sack on the porch of the British Commissioner. He explained that he had heard that the Germans were trying to starve the English. He thought that the "mealie," if it could be delivered, would keep the King and Queen from going hungry for quite a long time. St. Lawrence Starch Co.