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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1936-01-23, Page 3301 is delicious en's The a 'k ur er By Adam Broome SYNOPSIS S1G.iVOR AR17LL1 of Milan, a Tarn- ow{ composer, is about to make his first appearance in London. He is to conduct the first performance of a sym- phony of his own composition at the Queen's Hall. The event has aroused very great Interest. The hall is .crowd- ed, and millions of listeners are waiting for the performance to come over the radio; Fare1l1 makes his entrance, and rais- ing his baton suddenly collapses. Medical aid is immediately forthcom- ing, but it is obvious that the man is dead. In the audience are two young people. Lettice I$Tanton and Stephen Garton. ' Chapter VII. WAS IT COINCIDENCE? "That's a queer thing, sir, to tote round in this country." Courtenay Weeks had only been nine months in the little West Afri- can colony, and had never ceased from seeing queer things about him; queer people, queer customs, queer houses—the whole country seemed a bit queer. But this seemed the queerest yet—a wooden 'cello case on the verandah of his new chief, Mr. Commissioner Westcott, in a bungalow miles away up country, right off the railway line where the only three resident white men were the District Commissioner, his assist- ant and the Medical Officer. Raymond Westcott was a tall, lean spare man. His hair, where any still remained, was iron grey—there 'isere wrinkles under his eyes, his forehead was furrowed and rugged. He had served just over twenty years in the Colony from the days 'when it had meant real pioneer work to administer a bush district only recently half settled. Westcott was a bachelor. But he was not soured, and though he had scoffed a little when the Public Works Department, or P.W.D., .had erected hila a fine stone bungalow in place of the inud shack to which long years of use had accustomed him, he was not backward in snaking the best rise of what the gods, in the shape of a go-ahead administration, had provided for him. "You'd have thought it a bit queer- er if you'd seen it in my old native hat. You've been so short a time in this country yet that you don't realise how important it is to have some kind of a hobby. I've had lots in my time. It's the only thing that keeps you sane when you get so much , of your own sooicety. It's when you haven't got a hobby that you begin to think of this as an enemy, instead of what it ought to be—a friend." Wescott tapped the whisky bottle beside him significant- ly. He liked the look of his young assistant. Weeks couldn't be more than twenty-three at the outside. He was tall, straight limbed, muscular, his brown hair made an excellent foil to his grey -blue eves. His complexion had not yet lost the freshness which would be stolen from it later on by the damp, insid- ious, unhealthy climate. "I used to do a lot of big game shooting till I got a charge of `pot. leg° in here chasing after some rebellious cannibals." He tapped his right thigh. Week had noticed when the D. C. came out that morn- ing to greet him on his arrival, that he had walked with, a decided limp. "When I couldn't do that any longer r went back to my old love—you see her over there," The D. C. nodded in the direction of the 'cello case which had prompted Weeks' remark. "Costs ire the deuce of a lot 1111 strings. The climate's no better for them than it is for us. I get a packet sent out every month from home, but in the rains it doesn't al- ways even see me through till the next lot arrives. And it's no good getting then out in quantities: they'd perish before you'd time to use them. I'm run out of 'A's' now and there should be some in the mail today." Weeks began to thinks he'd struck his queerest experience yet. He'd read a good. many books about the "Coast" before he cane to it. Nine months of life in EdwardsviIIe, the sea -port capital of the little Colony, had taught him a good deal more. But he had yet to learn that the "bush" could harbour a real musical enthusiast, keen enough to bring a 'cello out with him and spend his leisure hours alone, in his bungalow on the station or in a mud but on trek, playing over to himself a half- forgotten sonata of Beethoven or a transcription from Chopin, his only hearers a few curious natives, hidd- en in the darkness by a "stick" fence, the only sign of their presence the flash of their rows of white teeth in the farthest rays of the veranda petrol lamp, as, they ex- pressed to each other their voiceless wonder at the latest vagary of the incbniprehensible white man. The night was hot and steamy. An occasional fluttering of the leaves of the trees in the neatly laid out com- pound beyond seemed to herald the later coming of a tornado, the viol- ent rain and thunder storm of the "Coast." "I wonder you manage to keep it up, sir, with all these snags to put you off." The young Assistant District Com- missioner felt some inward satisfact- ion as he glanced round the tidy, clean, orderly veranda. He had felt almost as great a pang on leav- ing Edwardsville, where he had spent nine months "learning the ropes" in the Secretariat, for the bush, as he had experienced on sailing from Liverpool for Africa, to spend eighteen months or more in an un- known land, a land which, in spite of official and unofficial whitewash- ing, still had a by no means savoury reputation. In the capital of the Colony there was always lots to clo— golf, of a sort, dances, bridge, bath -1 ing, cricket, tennis, motoring; one hadn't much time to think about the climate. He had pictured the j "bush" as a pretty dismal sort of I place, with next to no European society and next to nothing to do beside his work except shoot; and he wasn't much of a hand at that. But this unexpected little oasis, after a! three days' tramp through stumpy, arid "orchard bush" and scattered, ; poorly -built native villages, was I quite hear' on'nc;.—To Bo Continued. "IT REMAINS for the more ma- ture to change their habits of thought to discard ox -cart thinking in inter- national affairs for modern thinking in harmony with the present age,"— Ililru Root. MOTHER SAVED THE DAY ... JOHN, I'M SO SORRY THESE BISCUITS ARE HEAVY AS i -SAD. 1 THOUGHT THE RECIPE WAS FOOL -PROOF, T00. SAY KITTaN-THESE BISCUITS ARE GREAT— LET'S HAVE ANOTHER! YOU MUST HAVE LEFT SOMETHING ouT MOTHER TOLD ME TO USE MAGIC, BALKING POWDER 'e,s THE WHITEST, DON'T RISK FAILURES.. It's easy to avoid baking disappointments if you use dependable IVfagio Baking Powder. Every spoonful assures full leavening power. That's why so many of Can- ada's noted cooking authori- ties always use and recom- mend it! And this fine -quality baking powder costs so little to use ---actually less than. 14 perbaking! Order Magicfrom your grocer -today! bade in Canada INEPT USE OF SMILES IS BAD Impossible, Impractical Ex- amples Cited; `Feel Like" Anything WHEN it comes to murdering the Icing's English according to a friend of ours, the greatest massacreis not in the use of slang. Bather, it's the inept use of Similes. It's funny, says our friend, but those people who watch their speech carefully and avoid slang expressions often are the worst violators of what he calls rather impossible, if not iiil» practical similes. For example, listen in on this con- versation at a restaurant. Two men have just seated themselves at a tab- le. A waitress comes up. Waitress— "Good evening, gentle- men. How's the weather out tonight?" First man—"It's as COLD AS TIIE DEVIL." Second mall—"Yes, I'm as COLD AS A BABOON." Waitress—"It's getting as COOL1 AS A CUCUMBER in here. What'll you have, gents?" !First man—"Well, with this weat- her, I FEEL LIKE A STEAK tonight HOW about you, Tom?" Second lean—"I FEEL LIKE A DRINK, first, and then a big steak. I'm as HUNGRY AS A FURNACJd. How are the steaks, anyway?" Waitress—"FINE AS SILK." First man—"What are you doing after dinner, Tom?" Second man—"Well, I sort of FEEL LIKE A MOVIE. How about you?" First man—"I'd like to go, but my wife phoned that she felt LIKE A NIGHT CLUB, so I guess that's where we'll go." And, my friend asks, isn't it stret- ching the imagination a little too far. to visualize anyone feeling like a steak, a drink, a movie, or anything else of such quality? M any New Books Canadian Poetry Fifteen Noted During Year; New Magazine All Verse EDMONTON. — Under the title; "Canada's Tide of Poetry Rising," the Journal says: "A recent survey revealed at least 15 new books of Canadian poetry that have appeared during the present year. The majority of these were by singers of established reputation such as Duncan Camp- bell Scott, Wilson MacDonald, E. J. Pratt, Arthur Bouhinot, C. F. Lloyd and Annie Charlotte Dalton. More than this, several second editions ap- peared, bringing with them the in- dication that Canadian readers were turning to the muse to a greater ex- tent than they had been doing in the past. "Under these circumstances it is not surprising to hear that a month- ly publication devoted entirely to Canadian verse is to make its first appearance shortly. There is unques- tionably enough •material available to maintain a high standard and the time seems propitious for launching such an endeavor." Scraps The wages of sin is what the lawy- ers get.—The crowd may be laughing' at your jokes, or it may be your granimer.—The only person who can tell your fortune correctly is your banker. — A fellow's assets don't give his liabilities enough of a race to make it interesting— The terrible thing about divorce is the statement you get from your lawyer—Long green is the most comforting color —Tlre job you like that pays a living is the most priceless of all posses- sions,—When we are right we credit our judgment. When we are wrong we curse our luck.—We can't truly serve another unless we satisfy Nis self-interest—Unless a woman is willing to see that the buttons are on a man's clothes, she ought never to marry. Predicts Mild Winter Basing his prophecy on the tem- perature of the Gulf Stream, which he has been studying for several years, J. W. Sandstroem, expert of the Swedish Meteorological Office, Stockholm, says that this winter will be comparatively mild in Europe. LADJES! SPECIAL! Fine Celanese Silk Stockings All the newest shades -- Greys - Fawns - Breams 39c per pair; or $1.1 O for 3 Pair Seat postpaid on receipt of payment. Specify color and size. TOur money back if not dolig'hted. EVERY DAY LIVING A WEEKLY TONIC by Dr. M. M. Lappin WINNING AND LOSING Many strange letters reach my desk, and I am asked all sorts ' of questions. Consider, for example, the following coming from a young Iady. She writes to me in part; -- "I should like to ask you this questions Why is it that nearly everything 1 do goes opposite to what I intended? I think that what I am going to do will turn out sue- cessfully, but as a rule it tukns out the reverse. I make a sale, custom- er perfectly satisfied, but at the last. moment changes his ;Hind. He de- cides to wait a while longer. I go to the races, pick a winning horse, play him first and he runs second, If I play him second he runs third, and if I play hien third he runs out, I select winners in every race and if I decide not to play they win and pay big honey. I should be grateful if you could tell me why this is thus." Well, there it is, and I have quot- ed the central block of this young Iady's letter. I am neither slighting nor sarcastic when I say that, in her letter, she portrays the type of mind which runs to a palm reader, a cry- stal gazer, or some other kind of so called fortune teller. And, of course, I make no pretence at telling fora tunes. However, there is an answer to the question which she asks. Horse racing is, to my hind, a matter of sheer chance and luck. When this young lady picks a horse and loses, I would say her luck is out. Horse racing may be good sport, but with- out being priggish, I think it is, like many other sports, spoiled by the gambling that enters into it. I have seldom known the `better' to have an all round win. As a rule, the 'bookie' is the winner all the time. If my correspondent wishes to indulge in a little flutter on the race course, then she should be willing to take her chance and smile when she loses as well as when she is lucky and wins. For my own part, if I were her, I would leave the horses severe- ly alone. I think she will be better off financially in the end. As to the sales she almost makes but fails to close, that is a different matter. I do not know what her business is or what she is trying to sell, but whatever it is, she seems to fall short in salesmanship. While she may feel in her conscious mind that she has made a sale, I think in her subconscious mind there must be a• doubt about it. The subconscious mind is, of course, the directing mind and is very much more powerful than the conscious mind. The doubt may be as to the article she is try- ing to sell, or it may be as to her. ability to convince her customer that it is the very article that he needs and that he ought therefore to purchase. To be a good salesman or saleswoman, one must have faith in what one is selling, togther with faith in his or her ability to con- vince the customer of his need of it. And that requires POSITIVE THINKING. That brings me to what I think is the chief trouble of my correspond- ent. She has never acquired the art of positive thinking. She is thinking negatively. And negative thinking never makes for successful living. My advice to her is to try and change her mode of living. Go in for some form of mental training if needs be. Centenary Of Pickwick Noted Dickens Fellowship \'Vill Mark Anniversary of "Papers" LONDON — One hundred years ago a 24 -year old parliamentary re - j porter whose "sketches" under the 1 name "Boz" had attracted some at- tention, electrified the English- reading world with "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club." Now the Dickens Fellowship is leaking plans to celebrate the Pickwick Cen- tenary. On March 31, 1936, the first month ly part of this immortal work ap- peared. Neither publishers nor author had an inkling of the stupendous success awaiting their enterprise. The letterpress, indeed, according to the publishers' intention, was to serve merely as a "writeup" to show off . the abilities of the artist, Robert, Seymour. "Pickwick" had the fates strongly f 111111 I1401111114NIIIMIIl114111111111114111114111114111II11111111J 11111 111141111111114111111111 lll1110111111 11111 1111111011N10UU The Book Shelf BY MAIR M. MORGAN TilaaealissamiaiesaistiasaaKillialialli11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111E1I111111111111111111111111111111111111111121111Milas The holiday season is over, and the quiet month of January is with us. Those who were fortunate enough to receive books as gifts now have leisure to catch up on their reading. Glauee over the followiug list of books reviewed in this column. Un- doubtedly one will appeal to you in this quiet season. SALAMINA by Rockwell Kent, ASYLUM by William Seabrook (Geo. J, McLeod), GILBERT and SULLI- VAN by Hesketh Pearson; MR. FIN- CHLEY'S HOLIDAY by Victor Can- ning, THE ASIATICS by >!'rederie Prokosch, MAN, THE UNKNOWN br Alexis Carrel, THE CLUE of the RISING MOON by Valentine Wile. Hams (Musson's, Toronto), YOUTH UNCHARTED by Stephen Lawford, MARY, UDEN of SCOTLAND br Stefan Zweig, A VISIT TO AMERICL by A. G. Macdonell, WHO SAID MURDER by Charles W. Bell, K.O., THE TRAGEDY OP HENRY THORN. TON by D'Arcy Marsh (Macmillan.,. Toronto). H.R.H. Has No Intention Of Marrying While He Is London, Eng. — With King George advancing in years, Britons are won- dering whether the Prince of Wales may take a bride when he mounts the throne. The king Is now 70 years old, and his health is reported officially as good, but he has been absent recently from various functions which he would have attended even a year ago, notably the Armistice Day ceremony at the cenotaph. No matter how soon the Prince of Wales ascends the throne, becoming King Edward the Eighth, however, it is not .generally believed he will ter- minate his long bachelorhood and select a queen to carry on the royal line. His motto "Ich Dien — I Serve" he applies religiously to his official du- ties, but he has won the long and often bard -fought battle to lead his own private life — and he has made it crystal clear that marriage has no part in his scheme of things, at Ieast as Iong as he remains the Prince of Wales. "During twelve hours of every day I have to be what other people want ,me to be," he explained once. "The rest pf my time I Can, as a bachelor, be myself. But if I married I should have to spend the rest of my time be- ing what my wile wanted me to be." He has, however, a keen apprecia- tion of women, as illustrated by his telling an audience. "You will not get very far without the help of women; with it you can do almost anything, for women have a gift of sympathy and self-sacrifice that carries all before it." Women have been constantly link- ed with his name, among them Mrs. Dudley Ward and the mysterious Mrs. Simpson, an American, who is his favorite dancing partner. He is becoming too busy for "play- boy" activities now and only occas- ionalIy does a west -end restaurant or cabaret beam in sudden gratification at the unheralded arrival of His Roy- al Highness. Handling Eggs Eggs should be collected at least once daily, and during very cold weather or very warm weather col- lections should be made at noon and night to avoid freezing or heating. The eggs should be taken at once to a cool cellar, where there is usually a fairly uniform temperature. It may be advisable to open one or two windows and substitute screens covered with cheesecloth to carry off odour or excessive moisture. Dirty eggs should be cleaned with coarse sandpaper, but not washed. Stains may be removed with a little vinegar on a clean cloth. Washing eggs de- stroys the protective coating and lowers the grade. Revive Spelling Bees (The Toronto Globe) Why not revive the spelling bee? During these hard times it would 'provide inexpensive entertainment —real entertainment. Get all class- ' es of the public into it. Let the big business executive be bowled over by his office boy; the lawyer by his clerk; the artist by a laborer; the editor by one of the printers— ' and this is among the certainties. Let there be revealed iii all com- munities spelling champions, wear- ing belt or medals. They may be proud of their decorations, but they will be execrated by ordinary folks who always leave the first "h" out of "diphtheria." against it at the start Seymour com- mitted suicide before the second monthly part was out, his inunediate successor was unequal to the job, and it was not until the issue of the fourth part that in Hablot IC. Browne ("Phiz") there was found an artist whose genius was best suited to de- pict the gallery of Dickens' charact- ers. Even so the public displayed only Lido Sales Company a tepid interest in "Pickwick" until 925 University Tower 7sniming Sam Weller was introduced in the il2ontroal fifth part. The monthly parts con- tinued until the story was wound up 6 ' 1 at the end of 1837, By then "Pick- wick" had ensured enduring Fame fox Charles Dickens. Issue No. 3 — Prince Britain Prepares For Motor Booms BIRMINGHAM, Eng. Motor manufacturing centres, Birmingham and Coventry,' are preparing for what they call the biggest boom In the history of the British motor industry. More than £1,000,000 is being spent on new factory extens- ions and equipment. A Bimingham firm maufacturing motor accessories and components is now employing 20,000 workers, Fender makers are carrying out big factory extensions and a car- buretor firm is doubling the size of its machine shop. Those Leisure Hours Why Not Employ Them Pro fltably? Specialised training ?eads to Increased efficiency. Increased Efficiency means Increased Earning Capacity. Overcome Inferiority Complex, develop mental power, and equip yoyrself for better things. Study leisurely in the quiet of your own home. 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Remember this: "Aspirin" is rated among the fastest methods gel discovered for the relief of headaches and all common pains . .. and safe for the average person to take regularly. "Aspirin" Tablets are made in Canada. "Aspirin" is the registered trade -marls of the Bayer Company, Limited. Look for the name Bayer in the form of a cross on every tablet. Demand and G e t IN" WHAT! YOU CAN'T HANG ON TO MONEY? Well now, here's a chance to win a prize. The choice of an Art. Course, or an Original Magazim• Illustration, a Political or Sporting Cart0011, or a COmie Drawing mall,, by a professional artist will be pre- ented for the best sketch subntit- ted 4 inches wide This contest closes on January 29, 1036. Prizes for the next best five drawings. The rntry Fee is Twenty -rive Cents, NO STAMPS. /inclose a stamped addressed envelope for the return of your drawing. GIFF BAKER a,0: ,`0," z ' 4 39 Lee Ave., Toronto, Canada r 11 a-;. ear• c.,;,:N, .�' a.ta0l..