Zurich Herald, 1939-12-14, Page 7("7.34e
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Two young mels leaving an eas=t-
ern army camp in the fall of
1„317, both b a great hurry, both
carrying suit -cases and wearing
on their collars the shining new
bars of second lieutenancy, bump-
ed squarely into one another.
Each muttered, "Pardon!" at the
same time and hastened on his
way. Each was about to be sent
overseas, Each was going -home
first, for a brief visit with an
adored wife and child. Each, dur-
ing that visit, took on his knees
his baby daughter and caressed
her, and wondered if he would
come back to the thins be lov-
ed—home and wife and child.
• Brian Chalmers, turning 2 -year-
-old Elaine back to her sedate
English nurse, pulled one of the
child's sunny curls teasingly.
"Goodby, Beautiful! You'll be as-
leep when I pull out in the horn-
ing. 1i' I don't come back, don't
take any wooden nickels or step-
fathers!"
The child laughed with delight
at the jolly, meaningless .words
her father was saying. She liked
his pungent, tobaccoish, shaving -
cream shell, and the feel of his
lean, hard check against •:.17e3=. -
own. She liked his big polisieil"
boots and the funny belt that
went around his waist and up ov-
er one shoulder. " 'By, Daddy!"
she said, kissing him rapturous-
ly.
A Witch Of A Child
"She likes men," the child's
mother drawled. She was a beauti-
ful woman in a clinging sea -
green negligee, with a face that
was rather soft and petulant.
"She's going to be man -hungry,
that girl. A little witch. I'm a1 -
ready jealous of her."
The man drew his wife to the
arm of his chair and buried his
faee in the scented lace of her
negligee. "Yoti like amen, too," he
accused. "If I'ni blown to atoms
over there you'll select the @•est -
looking mourning in town. You'll
wear it becomingly for a year,
and the clay you step out of it
you'll marry Higate Deal!"
"Darling!" she remonstrated.
"Must you be spiteful about all
the men who have nice safe ;jobs
in Washington?"
"No," answered Brian Chalm-
ers."Only when they're your old
suitors and still in love witia you.
Gwen, yotell take good care of
Elaine, won't you?"
The woman's eyes opened in
surprise. "What a thing to say to
the. childta.a own mother! Please"
remember, dear, that I love her,
too. I put in hours and hours sel-
ecting her little frocks and toys."
"I know," the roan nodded ins -
patiently. "lint I'm thinking of
her character, Gwen, and things
like that. I want her to grow up
to be fine and straight and de-
pendable." He paused uncertainly
and lit a cigaret. "Lord! What
DO I want for her?" He looked
after the lovely ehild as she tod-
Red up the Broad stairway, hold-
ing tightly to her nurse's hand.
"I suppose I just want Icer to have
anything in this world that will
make her happy. Yes," he repeat-
ed it, rather like a prayer, "—any-
thing in the world that will make
:ger happy:"
"If I Don't Come Back?"
The other young man was nana-
ecI George Woodson. He and his
wife, -Eleanor, were so beautifully
and simply in love with each other
that this short leave of his was
like a bit of heaven in a sea of
horror. Through every hour of its
radiance sounded the relentless
kirambeat of approach'brg separ-
etion, of submarine -infested seas,
and a war to be fought.
They were restless in their love
and foreboding. George said,
"Let's walls along the river this
evening. It°s swell in October*"
"I'd thought of a picnic supper
there," Eleanor replied. "At the
little cove where we used to go
when we were engaged, But
there's Baby Ruth, dear. She has
a croupy cough an.d we shouldn't
Leave her. Mrs, 'Gary would come
in to lank after her, but I'm just
afraid—do you Mind terribly?
I've a party for us in the icebox.
A cold chicken and all the things
you love—"
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l:ecitk, it oAnon toot ;1,6 ttife
in his arms. "!hind, dear? It
doesn't matter to me where I am,
just eo 'you are near enough to
touch, 'Tel me, Eleanor! If I don't
come back, will you promise—?"
!ler dark eyes widened in pain
and she quickly laid her hand
over his mouth. "Don't say it!"
elm begged, "Don't think it!"
"1 will!" he replied stubbornly.
It's got to be said. We've ended
it long- enough. if I fail to etme
back you're ready to go on game-
ly. That will be your duty, just as
it's mine to go out and die, if
necessary, to get this bloody war
ended."
She replied in a muffled voice
from his arm:. "Your part is eas-
ier than nine, George. 1'd rather
go and fight than wait Here. I'd
rather die in battle than be left
without my very heart."
Just Three Years Ago
"1 ':now," he said soothingly.
"I know." To •himself he was
thinking: "'i'irar is hellish. Just
three years ago we found each
other. It was in the fall, like this.
I loved the way ehe walked along
picking' up red 'staves, sticking
them in her hat, in her dress. I
loved the way she laughed and
the way she sang, a little off key,
like a happy child. I loved the
way she closed her eyes when she
kissed roe. I still love these things
in her. l'd like •to go on loving
then forever. Instead, I'm going
off to a dizzy war that somebody
else started, and maybe have may
guts torn out with a cold steel
bayonet—"
"George," Eleanor said, "you're
shivering. Are you cold?"
"No," he replied. "You're im-
agining things. What I started out
to say, dear, is this. If I shouldn't
conte back, you'll have Ruth to
take care of. It's not as if we
had parents and brothers and sis-
ters to help you. There's nobody
you'll have any real claim on. But
there'll be my insurance. My war
risk insurance, and $2,000 more,
of the regular kind. I'll show you
the papers tonight—"
"There's no use in your urging
ore to live on," she said, "if you
don't come back to me. I wouldn't.
I couldn't. I would go to you,
wherever you night be. Someone
else would care for Ruth—"
He loved her the more, even
for this weakness, this inconsist-
ency. "All within five minutes,"
he pointed out, "you've refused
to leave your baby for a picnic
because she has clomp, and you've
refused ••to • live for her if I die.
That's logic for you."
They laughed together, rather
shakily, and she pushed him down
into his favorite chair and filled
his pip(; for hien. He said, "Isn't
that a new dress you're wearing?"
She answerea,"Of course. if
you hadn't noticed it, I was going
to put poison in your tea. I'm
making over the yellow flannel
into a coat for Ruth. ICs going to
have cunning heaver collar and
cuffs, made out of my neck-
piece." •
"More inconsistencies," he re-
marked, raising one eyebrow -
'"What'll you do for a neck-
piece?"
Eleanor answered, "I'll wrap up
in a muffler, I suppose. And l've
done something else reckless, dear.
I've bought six bronze clnyeainhc-
murns for the supper table, be-
cause Nye both love them : o. And
wait! That's not the worst. I've
made two kinds of cake for to-
night. The government may get
me for that, but this is a celebra-
tion. 111 go make the coffee now,
and you tan read the paper"
But he did not read the paper.
He went into the bedroom and
looked at his child in her crib. He
mane led at the smallness of the
two hands that lay outside the
covers and at the softness of the
round, flushed cheeks. The dark
eyes, closed in sleep, were like
her mother's. .But he knew that
the wide, engaging mouth and the
squareness of the little chin were
his own contribution. ''Funny
Iittle mixture," lie mused, looking
down at her. •
And then, strangely, be. said
something that the other young
father had said of his child: ".l:
want her to have whatever it takes:
to make her happy. Whatever it
takes!"
Though they never encountered
each other again, Brian Chalmers
•and George Z?Toodeen had ten
things in common: a rendezvous
with death on a distant Flanders
field, and the wish they had grade
for their children. It was the fault
of )ate that these two children,
in the distant year marked 1935,
should :find themselves in the same'
place, wanting the same thing, .
Whieh of you wished harder, oh '
gallant: young fathers?
(To Be Continued)
Skirts Longer
For Aftemoo0
Hemline Goes Down Whe*
Milady Dresses Up
The ionger-tban-mldcalf itay
dress is the big news in dress -UP.
elothcs. As the winter season gets,
under way, a large percentageof.
the really chic worpen one sees it
smart tea and cocktail loliargt3s,;
at informal dinners and' the thea-
tre is wesring longer-than-ct:vei'age
clay -length frocks.
There's no dressing dowel for
Lao afternoon, From 7 p.m. oii
however,' unless the oeelsibrr is
really ultra -formal, it's smart tp
appear to have dressed doll'n with-
out actually having dome It.
"Covered -up" Look
In other wordy the floor -length
dinner dress with sleeves that co.
vers shoulders and arms, is fat
more important in the average
wardrobe than a low-necked, ban-,
less gown with narrow shoulder
�..,.... if oily.
Wine It Out
In bygone days tuberculosis
was a hopeless disease and death
was expected,
but for the past
thirty years bet-
ter diagnostic
procedures and
better medical:'
care has been.
restoring many
to health so that
tuberculosis has
come to be considered curable.
Te -day health workers have
gone a step farther and claim that
tuberculosis is preventable, their,
object now is to prevent infection
entirely and wipe out the disease.
The funds raised by Christmas.
Seals are dedicated to this purpose
and will be spent entirely in the
districts in which the money is
raised.
To-
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,anada Marks
Steep Drop In
Infa t Deaths
>ig Decline Recorded Here
During Past 17 Years
In recent years a great part of
t}ie energy devoted by the medical
Profession and sanitarians to effect
a decline in the death rate has
gone to reduce infantile mortality
and 10 this field - large measure of
success has been attained, says the
Kitchener Record.
In Canada, the 'Dominion, prov-
ineial and municipal health author-
ities have all taken part in the
struggle, and usually, in. the ab-
sence of epidemics, each year is
:showing an improvement. In the 17
years for which the figures are
'available, there is evident a very
•conside•1'able decline in infantile
mortality, although the rate for
1937 showed an increase over 1936.
In 1921 the death rate for Canada
(using figures from provincial
coerces for Quebec) was 102 per
1,000 live births. This rate has
been reduced to 76 in 1937.
improvement in Quebec
Infantile mortality in Quebec,
which has exceeded that of any
ether province in the past, was be-
low that of New Brunswick In 1937.
A study of Quebec rates shows
that steady improvement has. been
made in the 11 -year period during
3Vhich the province has been in -
eluded in the registration area.
In Canada as a whole almost 7,000
infant lives were preserved in 1937
which, raider conditions prevailing
1920, world probably have been
lost.
Empire's Uncle
Malta is the only part of the
British Empire which runs an of-
ficial lottery and also an official
pawn -broking establishment,
ay's Popular Design
By Carol Aimes
ANGORA CUFFS ON SWEDISH KNIT GLOVES
DESIGN NO.. 671
Who wants woolly _bete? A remarkable number of you—judging,• feonr
your letters. Some want to wear them now; others want to tuck them
into gift packages, We hope someone remembers how much we like them
because these are, in our opinion, ultra chic, very practical and defin-
itely different m design. The simple Swedish motif is knit into the back,
wfiet and thumb a decorative idea typical of Scandinavian coun-
tries and admired by all.
The pattern includes complete directions for knitting the gloves in
three sizes — small, medium and large; material requirements, inetruc-
tions for fluffing the angora cuffs'and •for finishing:
l'o order this design, write your name and address on a piece of paper
and send with 15 cense in coin or stamps to Carol Aimes, Room .121,
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War Will Change
Styl In Shoes
Parioiennes Want Warm, Com,-
fartable Low-heeled Foot-
wear
PARIS, -- That the war will
bring about Uig changes in lvom-
on's footwear fashions is the opin
ion expressed by Charles Ritz, the
head of the Matson Lnzel. He says
women no longer want shoes that •
merely •look sportsy, but require •
them soli(:, Comfortable and yet
not he-vy. Warmth is also requis-
ite in this wtuter's footwear.
Bootees Are Popular
lieels are.. lower. and platform -
;toles tend to he half an loci„ or
1055 hi thickness. Success is re-
ported already with such styles as
a tie of reversed calf which has a
platforet sole barely half an Utah
thick composed of cork and crepe
rubber and lienee very light
weight.
111 general, ties just Covering
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I GOOSE AND DUCK
407 Yea's' Jab FEATHERS WANTED
di;o;ncdiatle lasmittntser
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11ie foundation :toile of Dur- •
hairs I+itt'tlicdral, Englama, was laid
in 10913 but it was not until 15001
11isbesi Prices X'rti(t.
Telephone A1)elatde 14.21
• v;;G 1Donalns Si. Toronto
that the' r(liNee war atenalel'ed, s
`.tlre instep are as high a. shoe as
the Parisienno wants for street
wear, but more orders than usual
at this. time of the :ear for after -
ski bootee types, leads 16. Ritz to
believe uw men are wearing these
Warm' bootees with slacks in their
,pouutry !rouses.—
Owatn Erne les
Locusts, ancient and continued
plague of Egypt, are now being
lased 'to make a kind of'soil: This'
can fie used 'by 'planes—the fat-
e tmethod by which locust swarins
sire attacked.
Sales of products of the slaugh-
tering, and meat packing; industry
in Canada in 1938,.according to
a preliminary statement, totalled
$174,982;857.
MinrinAn "lnit
PRINCE. .E :
W I N D• 5,`x,0
is Majesty Kin:
n Field Marshal's Uniform
This photo of King George it his field guar: hat's service uttil erre:
has just been released by the British ministry of information.
Pockets, Yokes
Feature Mode
They're Everywhere In The
Newest, Smartest Fashions
Pockets, pockets, everywhere,
and in the new clothes, they do
so much more than required.
In coats, the pockets that are
cut in one with set in -belts are
fine features in construction.
You'll find them in feminized
trench coats.
In Goats and Dresses
"Look to your pockets." This
is a slogan fee the resort season,
for pockets have become the de-
signer's delight, and not only are
they utilitarian, but they are also
dee arative mid have a clever knack
of providing shaping for a dress
or jacket. Vertical pockets gvie
a slimming Line, while horizontal
pockets at the bustline give an
impre'sion of width. Pockets of
draped skirts are numerous and
sgggest width that calls attention
f _t the smallness of waistlines, and
to the pegtop silhouette whi.h has
Veen continued by some hooses
dv^er since Piguet introduced it,
Take Inches Off Waist
A favorite trick in jackets is
to scoop out the pocket between
hip -bone and waist, carving a few
inches off the waist and enhanc-
ing the hip curve. Large pockets
posed on coats give swagger bulk
to the front or side face position,
they invite a hand -in -pocket sil-
houette as indicated by the man-
nequins who show them.
Yokes in coats get ail kinds of
close attention, A favorite yoke is
shallow; subtle in .a scalloped dip
at the hipline or adding a brace-
let at the shoulder.
Get Vitamins
rom Garden
Doctor Explains Why Herbs
Brought Health• to Primitive
People ---
The best source for vitamins is
the garden and market --not the
drug stoke — Dr. Elsner V. Mc-
Collum of Johns Hopkflls Es tver-
sity told ;.Boston University stu-
dents.
y Ali Except Vitamin "D"
PAH essential nutrients except
Vitamin D may be found in the
garden, he said, and `that vitamin
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Use Moderate Heat
When Cooking Fowl
Cooking poultry in the modern
way, food specialists stress, is
cooking with moderate heat. This
holds true for young tender birds
as well as older bird§ that are not
se tender. Poultry, they point' out,
is a protein just like eheee,
eggs, and other meats. Rapid
cooking with intense heat hardens
and toughen: the tissues. Moder-
ate heat, however, cooks poultry
slowly and eve.ily so that there is
little shrinkage. As a result the
meat is juicy and full of flavor,
and for every pound raised or pure
abased there is more left to scr"e
on the 'able.
Follow these 3 steps as pictured::
1. Poe.a.rethroat from. cold,
dissolve 3. Aspirin Tablets
is 33 glass of water and
gargle. Pain, rawness are
eased in a very few minutes.
2. To quickly relieve
beadtrbe, both diteam.
fort and arbor, rake
2 AsirinTabletsand
drink a furi glass of
rater. Repeat ceat-
nsent in 2 hears.
/P
,' Cberk temperature,
If sou have a fuer
and temperature dors
not go down—if
throat pain is not
quickly relieved, call
your doctor.
Roth aches and raw throat quickly
relieved without dangerous, strong drug
At the first sign of sore throat from e
cold follow the directions in the pictures
above—.the safest fast way you can use
at home for wonderful relief.
The Aspirin gargle will amaze you—
easing throat rawness almost ire -
mediately. And the Aspirin takers
internally quickly relieveq the other
painful cold symptoms.
Try this safe way. Even when taken
frequently, Aspirin does not harm
the heart, So don't risk drugs your
doctor does not approve.
SEE THIS CROSS
With Your Own Eyes
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