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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1942-03-05, Page 6klaiLlelisexIMMIMMOIVAMMIONP 1.111. • SERIAL STORY FOOTSTEPS IN TSI E FOS • BY ELI NORE COWAN STONE„ LAST WEEK Angela brings word that there are men near who will try to keep Stephan from getting away. But Stephan seems cheered by the news. He leaves, promising to re- turn. Deborah watches him go. The telephone rings. Bridgie hur- ries to answer it. $ STEPHAN IS HURT O1LtPTR XI "Hello!" Bridgie bellowed ami. ably into the instrument. "Sure, 'tis I-idget Lanahan, Miss Lovett's housek::,per, sphakin' , But Miss Letett is entertatuin' guests at dinner, and cannot be dishtut{bed." The magnificent finality of Bridgie's tone conjured a drawing room brilliant with the socially elite of New York, London and Paris; but the person at the other end o the line remained apparently unimpressed, for in a moment Dridgie called: "Miss Debby! Sure, an"'tis sorry am to bother you and the Cap- teiu"—so Bridgie did not know that Stephan had gone—"but there's an uppity party on the line that will have weeds wit none but 1'0.1: With an indignant flirt of her apron, she marched off to her own quarters. When Deborah want out, picked vp the receiver, and said: "Deboe- ell Lovett speaking, it was a man's voice which answered—crisp, im- personal. and somehow terrifying iy guarded: undeistand.Miss Lovett, that a Mr. von Thalmann was your guest this evening?" "Who is this?" Deborah demand- ed, her fingers cold upon the re- ceiver. -Dr. Bingham will satisfy You on that score, I think, Miss Lov- ett Dr. Bingham had been the Lovett physician for years. "Just now," the voice went. on, "I'm sorry to have to tell you that Mr. von Thalmann has met with an accident—a rather 'unions acci- dent." Deborah sat down limply on the chair before the telephone table. "Are you. there, Miss Lovett?" the voice asked sharply. 'Can you hear me?" "Yes," Deborah breathed, "An accident, you said .. Is he? Oh, but you must bring him here, at once:' "That was the doctor's idea. His own quarters, it seems, are unsuit- able. . . That is—this Ma's. Lana - ban, I think she said her name -was—can she be trusted'?" "About my affairs she's as close- mouthed as the Sphinx." "She sounded like the private de- tective to a busy corporation law- yer," the voice agreed dryly. "Dr, Bingham—about whom I happen to be informed—speaks highly of your own discretion. He'll come on ahead of us," "How—how soon?" Deborah fal- tered. "Probably five minutes if nothing goes wrong." Dr Bingham, himself) came in almost immediately — big and wholesome and comfortingly mat- ter of fact in the midst of this in- sane nightmare. Before Deborah could ask any questions, footsteps scraped on the gravel of the drive, and when she hurried to open the door, a grim little procession filed into the hall, On an improvised stretcher four sailors carried a long figure with a roughly bandaged head. At first Deborah hardly recognized Stephan in the coarse seaman's clothing and boots, . , When had he put them on? Behind carne a fifth man in a gray overcoat, inconspicuous in every way except forbright dark eyes that seemed to see everything in the hall in one swift glance. Deborah looked for Wilhelnm's sturdy figure; but Wilhelm was STOP BABY'S SNIFFLES Don't let baby suffer from, head cold one xtnnecoeaary moment. itelieve, twithout delay, that sniffling and enoezintr,,.the aoro,trritatednostrils..,cho ed-np passages that make breathing difficult d ainful. Mentholatutn brings quick and of money back. nay a 30e tube or jar of .ngentttolatit?e today from. your nearest druggist. M MENTHOLA►TUM G.a vest %®M FO nT ba JIy ISSUE 1O-'42 not among those present. As soon es the man in the .gray overcoat spoke, Deborah 'reeog- nized his voice as the crisp, im- personal one she had beard over the telephone. "Miss Lovett?", he asked, but as if he were already sure of that. "My name is Hilton. Where shall we take him?" Before Deborah could answeu,a Bridgie's voice rang from the landing above: "Howly Mither of Heaven!!" cried Bridgie, lembering'down the remaining flight of stairs. "If it isn't the Captain! What in the name—Sure, where would you be puttin' himself but in the Mas- ther's room? ... An' don't shtand there lookin' feckless entirely, Miss Debby! Put some wather on to boil." From that moment it was Brid- gie who took charge—Bridgie who led the little procession upstairs, who found linen and extra covers, and stood by while Dr. _Bingham did his grisly work. For when Deborah tried to follow the stretcher into the upper room, the physician took her arni and led her gently away: "It may not be pretty, Deb- orah," he said. "Besides, I can't have too many people in the room, and Bridgie is an old war horse at this sort of thing." "But you're •detting him stay!" Indignantly Deborah indicate& the stranger with the quick bright eyes, who had just gone into the room and closed the door. . . The four bearers had already gone after a brief whispered conversa- tion with Mr. Hilton, their heavy boots clattering down the silent street. "He, my dear," the doctor said wryly, "happens to represent thy • United States government, Ano there seem to be some matters he is very anxious to talk over with your young man as soon as he is able to talk at all." "Oh!" gasped Deborah. Could Angie have been right after all? ... But that was un- thinkable. Stephan had explained everything—or almost everything. "But, Doctor," she wavered, "is he—?" "I'll be honest with you, De - borate. I've always have been, haven't I? I'm hoping this is nothing worse than a bad concus- sion. If there's fracture, I haven't found it yet." "But he'll want me!" Deborah sobbed rebelliously. "He'll want me more than any one." "He will not," said Dr. Bing- ham patiently, "want any one ,or anything for some time to come. His first glimmer of consciousness is very likely to be an unpleasant suspicion that he is about to be most unromantically sick at his stomach." Ili the end, Deborah brought a chair from her own room, and set it against the wall just beside Stephan's door. For ages, it seemed to her, she sat there, lis- tening to every stir—every mur- mur from within. Each time the door opened, she started eagerly to her feet, Once it vas the doctor, who patted her shoulder in absent-minded reas- surance, and sent her downstairs to telephone the drug store for something he wanted. He would not say much, and Deborah found his very kindness ominous. Once it was Bridgie, looking tired and years older, to send her for ice and more clean towels. 0 t, * Much Tater, it was the little Lean with the bright eyes, who slipped down to the front hall to carry on a conversation with someone at the frontilonr. Deborah could not hear =eh, although she orept to the top of the stairway and shamelessl:e strained her ears. A few phrases she did catch: "So the other one got away, after all?" That was Mr. Hilton in the doorway. "Clean," another voice an- swered front the doorstep. "And say! If that lad pulls through, his skull's sure made of good hon- est stuff: We found what he was hit with—and it was plenty,". About dawn Deborah went to the kitchen to make coffee, As she picked up the tray to go upstairs, the telephone rang, Be, fore she could reach the instru- anent Mr. Hilton was there. "The Herald?" he was. saying. "How diel you boys get hold of this? .. Who did? . . . Okay. You may say he was trapped with information :for a foreign govern- ment inhis possession, . Yes, fatally wounded. We—hold every- thing' !" He .had just seen Deborah. Deborah remembered fumbling withshaking fingers to brace her- self against the .frame of the hall door. She remembered Mr. Hil- ton's remorseful face bending over her, comically foreshortened,. as she slumped to the floor. PAIR OF PARASKIERS. Triple -threat troops are these IJi. S. paraskiers who'll go into actibn as parachutists, skiers and expert marksmen. Now finishing up ski training near Salt Lake :City, they'll soon be snaking their first 'chute jumps. DDo Njht Gossip While Y,, u Knit. Avoid Thoughtless War Talk and General Complaint, Women can do a lot of talking while they're knitting and if they don't watch themselves they can do as much damage by their talk as they do good by the warn; clothes they knit for the Red Cross. If the click of their knitting needles is accompanied by thoughtless war talk, they aren't nearly as patriotic as thvay like to believe they are No woman can knit enough sweaters to make up for spread. ing vague and frightening wax rumors. Nor can she roll enough band- ages to make up for the damage she does by making derogatory re- marks about our army or repeat- ing groundless gossip about the Hien who are running our govern- ment. And she can't devote enough hours to war work to balance the, harm she .does by kicking about. taxes, complaining over the high cost of living, and grumbling over;; having to give up a few luxuries.` Nor is there any way in which she can make tip for her bad ef- fect on morale when she acts as though when she gives up "things" she is making a terrible sacrifice. Any woman who has a man in one of the armed forces is bound to resent such an attitude. Knitting is a great indueetnen, to talking—so while they knit wo. men should keep their minds on their talking as well as their knit- ting to see that there is no harm in anything they say. Britain Exports Despite Bombing Despite bombing of industrial plants and harbors, aiid the de. struction by German submarines, British industry has filled 98 per cent. of the orders of Canadian importers, J. B. Greaves, of To. ionto, British Trade Commissioner for the Province of Ontario, said recently. . From the outset of the war, stated the speaker, the British government's policy was to main- tain as large a flow as possible of export goods to many natiofis, This policy was maintained even at the expense' of the home mar- ket, As the enemy became more menacing and Britain's industrial power: was directed increasingly -to output of the iniplements of war, restrictions on imiiorts were introduced. "It was necessary, however, stated the speaker, to continue to ship to Canada and the Unites States as much export as possible to provid.o foreign exchange for purchase of munitions and food- stuffs." The commissioner admitted that the cost of many articles from the old land had risen sharply owing to additional insurance premiums, for air raid protection of work- ers, and owing to increased taxa- tion, interruption by blackouts, and, air raids, and the sacrifice of skilled workers to enlistment and civilian casualties, "The wonder is not that these commodities rose in. price but that British workmen continued to 'manufacture them and send them safely. to Canada," said Mr. Greaves, After that, there was nothing until she floated back to consci- ousness in her own bed. (Concluded Next Week) Eggs For Britain in Powder Form Canadian eggs for Britain are to be shipped from now on in dried powder form instead of in .the shell, the special Products hoard has stated. The change will make no difference in the; contract prices for export eggs in 1942, nor in the demand for ab the top duality eggs that can be made available for Britain. The bonus of three cents per dozen on grade A eggs to producers will be continued, Owing to the government de- cision to stop -the export of eggs in the shell, some of the milk evaporating plants have agreed to put in equipment to dehydrate all the eggs required for export. There is a plant in Saskatchewan and the intention is to put others in British Columbia, Edmonton and Winnipeg, where there is a small plant. Gananoque milk plant is converting a portion of the factory to do egg drying. A plant at Trenton already takes care of approximately 1,000 cases a day. The shipment of dried eggs will result in a. very great saving of space and in freight rates. The ordinary case of • eggs weighs ap proximately 38 pounds, and, with the packing, .about 61 pounds, and takes up about two cubic feet of space on ships, against the 9 cubic inches which the sante eggs dried take. Plenty Of Soap Not Many Suds Glycerine, That Makes The Froth, Needed For War Purposes A lot of Americans will be get- ting dirty this year, but there will be plenty of soap to clean then, That is the opinion of the. War Production Board and of one. of the soap industry's best -in- formed men who said that, as an extra measure of securing a well - scrubbed nation, plans were be- ing considered to have housewives save their cooking fat. The government wants soap made because from the manufac- ture of it conies more than ninety per cent of the nation's glycerine necessary, .in turning out muni- tionsa To make up for lost im- ports, domestic fats and oils will be used hi increasing quantities and produce soap as good as the pre-war kind although not yield- ing suds as quickly. Soap is made in kettles, three and four stories high, by cooking oils, fats and alkalis. The prin- cipal ingredients include: tallow, coconut oil, grease, whale and fish oil, palmi and babassu nut oil, soya beans, olive, corn, cotton. seed and linseed oils, and castor beans. Coconut, palm and olive oils have been shut off by the war, while babassu nuts, imported from Brazil, will continue to be brought into the country as the government can manage the ship- ping of thein. The other ingredi- ants, except whale oil, can be obtained domestically.. R.C.A.F. "Penguins" (Headquarters of the Royal Cane adieu Air Force in Ottawa which probably accommodates more non- flying officers , than any other air force centro in Canada, has be- come recognized as the home of the "Penguins." The term "Penguin" now is gen- erally accepted as descriptive oi! earthbound R.C.A.P. administra- tive officers and is taken in good spirit by the "Penguins" them- ches, It.ewer Fancy Socks. And Hosiery Colors People will need to get along with the simpler things and the simpler styles and expect more of restriction and deprivation tie- cording to further warnings from Ottawa. The policy is not new. but of its intended amplification there is fresh evidence, What is being planned by vari- ous boards working in co-opera- tion is more "rationalization o1 produ.etion" by cutting clown multiplicity of styles. This will conserve materials, labor and pia- ehinery without essential produc- tion being eut. Every administrator has been asked to confer with his trade and advise where things can be eliniiaated. For example it is proposed to cut down from 20 to six the sizes of fruit basl'ets. Men wlil have to get along with fewer fancy socks. Iii women's hosiery, in place of shades reflect- ing every color of the rainbow; they will be standardized. Four or five will have to do in place of 20. The fundamental idea is to cut down the cost of production. et TEL`' 17 S A Marmalade 1!SOi sion At this time of year most of us wish to see the empty jars and the bare shelves of the fruit cup board being replaced with spring jams and marmalades. Probably most of us commence with orange and lemon or other citrus fruit marmalades. I have been request- ed to give to you again the marina• lade recipe and a discussion on the swine, for quite a number seem to be having failures, and marma- lade making can be made very simple. • , The first 'thing of importance is choosing the fruit. Do non think that fruit you have had in the house for sometime or that is not quite fresh enough for table use will make good marmalade. In order to have a clear marina. lade with an excellent flavor you must have fruit from the finest selection. Now for the recipe: Grapefruit, Orange and Lemon Marmalade 3 oranges • 3 lemons 3 grapefruit Extract juice from fruit and pare all white membrane from peels. With a sharp knife slice very thinly the fruit peel or chop very finely. Place juice and peel in an earthenware dish and add water, 3 times the amount of juice and peel. Allow it to stand over night. In the morning place on the heat and bring to a boil. When it reaches boiling point, boil from 5 to 15 minutes. I find the first boiling varies with the type of heat you are using. If using electricity or a good type of oh stove where the heat is the fierce steady type, five minutes is suf. ficient to boil after the boiling point is reached. If the heat is slower such as coal, boil from ten to fifteen minutes (never longer). After this boiling return it to the earthenware container and allow it to cool slowly and again remain over night: The next morning measure juice and pulp, cup by cup, and for every cup of juice and pulp measure the -same amount of sugar. Place the sugar where it will get warm—not hot, but warm. Commence the boiling Ono of the largest herds in Canada in its time, as many as 14,000 head of cattle bore this famous brand of the old Oxley Ranch, founded in Alberta in 1902 by the late W. R. Hull. BRAND OF THE OXLEY RANCH of the juice and pulp. When it has reached the boiling point stir in the sugar very gradually, stir- ring constantly until dissolved. Boil until, when dropped from a spoon, it will spin a thread. This should be from fifteen to thirty minutes, but never longer. Long boiling of• marmalade makes it a dark color and spoils the flavor. Pour into containers and cover with paraffin. 'Now 1 have discussed with you the type of heat, the type of fruit, and the length of boiling. Just one thing more; when making this full recipe I never boil it all to- gether. 1 divide it into three por- tions; a smaller amount is easier to make. Occasionally for very special marmalade, I do add three table- spoons of white corn syrup to the above .recipe, adding syrup about five minutes before removing from heat. 1f dividing into three boilings, add one tablespoon to each boiling. The syrup adds a Little more of a honey flavor. 61iss Chambers welcomes personal letters from interested reader,. Site is pleased to receive suggestions on topics for her colauua, and is even ready •to listen to your "pet peeves." Requests for recipes or special menus are in ander. Address your letters to "Miss Sadie R. Cham- bers, rn West Adelaide Street, To- ronto." Send stamper; self-adaires ell envelope if you wish a reply. Farouk's Loyalty Under SuuSioiicnon Intimations of a possible breach between the British Government and King Farouk of Egypt, with the suggestion that his "loyalty to the alliance is by no means above suspicion," appealed in the British press as a result of the resignation of Prime Minister Hussein Sirry Pasha's Cabinet in Cairo, The Daily Herald's diplomatic correspondent said; "Ever since his accession., King Farouk, who is only 22, has been arrogant and domineering in his dealings with successive Ministries. He's shown no sense of the duties of a con- stitutional King. , . . BRIDE'S BOUQUET QUILT PATTERN Design No. 890 For a quilt, the "bride's bouquet" is one of the loveliest pat- terns. Plain colors and prints are used for the blocks. i'tti,tern No,, 890 contains cutting pattern: for blocks and complete ntstruetions. To order patterns Write or send above picture with your name and address with 15 cents in coin or stamps to noon 42.1, 73 Adelaide 5t. West, Toronto.