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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1937-12-23, Page 2• fib CHAPTER I. MR, BRYDEN BEGINS HIS JOURNEY "Now then, guard! hurry up and unlock the door, or she'll go with- out me," cried a little man who was tugging viciously at the door of a first-class smoking compartment in a corridor carriage attached to the 9- 15 express."Do you hear?" he bawl- ed."The confounded thing's off with- out me — a thing that never hap- pened before. By George, I'll sue 'em for damages; I'll write to every news- paper in London, I'll expose the rot- tenness of this concern, I'll—Guardl" he shouted, in a state of frenzy, leav- ing the door and faking a move as if to rush to the rear of the train. "Guard!" "Yes, sir," said a quiet voice be- hind the angry passenger. "The very same compartment you had a week ago—number seventeen sixty, smok- ing-" The little man turned sharply round and faced a burly guard who was holding the door of the compart- ment open. ,The great black beard and whiskers of his face almost hid the smile that played upon it, but the keen eyes of the little man saw the amused look, and his wrath blaz- ed forth afresh. "Wen seconds more and she'd have gone without me—" "She'd as soon have thought of go- ing without me, Mr. Boyden, inter- posed the guard, "and that's saying a lot.," "Ten seconds more -- confound your interruptions — and she'd have gone -without me, growled the pas- senger, as he stepped into the com- partment. "But if she had, by 'George, I€ ; ;wouldn't have give_ n much for your berth oar tis line; and. r woul'iIny " have given much for theacornpany's traffie to the North either I'd have diverted every cent's worth of my patronage and a lot of other folks too, to the opposition line. It's mon- strous to keep a regular customer waiting like that, unable to get into one of these beastly holes." ' A Word With The Driver "I was having a word with the driver," said the guard, as he lock- ed the door of the compartment. "Is there anything you'd like bringing before we start, Mr. Boyden?" "Having a word with the driver!" echoed the little passenger. "There's too much of that sort of thing on this line. You'll be going to sleep in your van some night, and the driver'll be having a word with his mate in the Alb, and between you you'll forget where you are and what's due to the cattle in your charge, and we shall all be sent to---" Mr. Bryden did not finish his sen- tence, for the train having given a little jerk he lost his balance and was thrown somewhat violently upon the seat. "I w;sh." said Mr. Bryden, jump- ing up in a spirit of subdued fury -- "I wish they'd broken ane an arm— wish they'd back'd a Iittle bit harri- er, so that they would have given nee shock to the system. I wish they'd done anything to hurt me — then I'd have the law of 'em. I'd have swamped their dividends for six months. It was a mean, cowardly, skulking move was that. I might • have smashed my jaw against the window -sash, I might have had an eye knocked out, I might have been paralysed for ever, all on account of the wretched incompetence of the Men who are put in charge of this express. But I'll write to the direc- tors as sure as I live, and lodge a complaint against the lot of you." "It was a pure accident, sir," said. the guard• "Accident be hanged! retorted Mr. Bryden. "It was gross carelessness. A man like that drunken Williams is not fit to drive the 9.15 express," "He's a teetotaler, sir," said the guard, with mild correctiveness. "Well, if he is, that fellow who drives the 7.10 express isn't," said Mr. Boyden, illogically. "I've seen hint with my own eyes drink some- thing from a bottle he carries in the cab." "It's cold tea," said the guard. "C.old fiddlesticks," snapped Mr. Bryden. "I know better than that." "Then you know more than I do," replied his companion, "and I've tast- ed it a dozen tines at Ieast. It's cold tea with a good slice of lemon in it, and very good stuff it is, too, in the hot season." "Bosh!" He's given you the wrong bottle — a sleight-of-hand trick, I'll warrant — gives you cold tea, and puts the whisky in his pocket, and chuckles all the time, I'lI be bound. How long are you going to be be- hind in starting?" he demanded, sud- denly changing the subject, and drawing his watch forth. "We're two minutes late already — it's shame- ful, shameful It's outrageous," con- tinued the little man, replacing his watch, . 9 I thank ,_you're wrong, sir," said `�ie'gwtarcl: 'Zt- sttr`-��v€rfi`ts'"'t�'ee ilii=, utes before we reach the quarter, otherwise I shouldn't be here." . "Preposterous! Ridiculousl" ex- claimed Mr. Bryden. "You mean to say that this chronometer, one of the beat ever -made in London, is wrong?" - "You Both Are Wrong" "Without saying that, I say we're three minutes off the quarter — look at my watch, sir, and look at the clock, you can just see it from here." "Wrong, you're both wrong — believe my own timepiece before all the station machines put together— stop though, let me see." Mr. Bryden placed the watch to his ear for a moment, and then look- ed calmly at the guard as he began to turn the key and said, "I'm wrong for once — I'll admit it. I forgot to wind the thing up." "Well, 1 must be going," said the guard, upon whom the extraordinary conclguct of the little passenger had produced no other effect than a ser- ies of smiles. "You're bound for the same old place, of course, and you'll want waking at the .usual tine?" "Just the same as usual, guard," returned Mr. Bryden with a curious change from his real or feigned anger to a tone of grateful trust. "After all, there are some decent fellows on the line, and 1 really don't knew how 1 should get through any journeys North if it weren't for yam attentions to me. By the way, don't, if you can help it, put anybody else into this corridor carriage. i, fellow got in last week, and I could swear. 1 saw hint peering in at any window when he thought I was asleep. He nearly made nay heart stand still with terror - - a tall -man, with bushy hair and whiskers, and faultlessly dressed," "I saw the man get in, sir," said the guard, "but .I've heard nothing about this midnight visit before•" "No," said Mr. Bryden, with a shudder, "I've said nothin • for fear of being laughed at, But I'd rather have given fifty pounds than see that face staring at nae through the win- dew." "Don't think about it, sir," said the guard. "I'11 take care nothing of that sort happens to -night. I'll keep a special eye on you and your com- partment. Now a little sip out of the `other bottle' wouldn't be amiss, would it, sir, just now?" The guard laughed at his • little joke, and Mr. Bryden laughed also, and felt glad to do it. He sank into his seat as the guard's whistle sound- ed, and the 9.15 express began to move out of the station on its 'jour- ney. North. "If- there's one thing forwhich I especially thank heaven," murmured Mr. Bryden, as he settled himself for his journey, "it is that I'm a bach- elor, and have practically no living relatives. The first thing saves both me and some woman who might have been a wife a world of anxiety, and the second has saved me from hav- JG; `atis nt Needs Cheerful Ro,+�a Oleo Choice Its Important In Decoration of Hospital. ---Men. tel Patients is like daze.. if you "want to stay avowal awhile •ind taut about that operation, don't .t:other about the color effects in your 'loom. But If you want to be swift and lre in recovery, pay close attentiton the hospital's decorations before oosing a room, Proper colo'' selection as an aid to �.erapeutics is discussed by Dr. A. G. t icliolls, of Montreal, in an editorial in the current edition of the Canadian i4ledical Association 'Journal. Color in os itals can be used to ereate an at. osphere of cheerfulness or to eiccite cl.eiinite mental reaction in the pa- tient, Dr. Nicholls says. "Not only does the mind react vari- ously to the stimulus of different eel - '01'$, but the muscles and the skin.like- wise," the editorial explains. Listed ;as "stimulating exciting" hues are red, -orange and yellow, while blue, green and violet are "restful,` tranquiliz- ' ig>, "A color scheme that would be help - at to the convalescent patient might be quite, unsuitable for the restless or I•delirious one," Dr. Nicholls continues. 4 We have, therefore, in the decorating ,.pt.hospitals and asylums to use disere-- ing the life worried out of me. I've tkbxi, having in mind the end we wish no affectionate woman to pester me to attain:' to death about catching cold in the metalling case history, the article gelates that in Switzerland "in a red 'pavilion ; having red walls, red ear- pets and red lights, a number of mel- ancholic . women were placed and in a comparatively short time their depres- •sion apparently was overcome and they became brighter and more con- ^ tented." The conception that walls in hos- pital wards must be white—"because white suggested purity" --is passing. "It should be obvious that white ob- ;jActs can be as dirty and germ -laden ,t s colored ones, and, of course, much more monotonous." Color schemes may be daring in mental hospitals. During tests "in every group of insane patients blue was found to be the most pleasing color, green was a distant second; red a close third, with violet, yellow and orange fourth, fifth and sixth in that order. "Green was better liked by males and red by females," the editorial con- cludes. "Red, orange and yellow were more pleasing to the manic-depres- sives than to others, and green was the most pleasing to those with de- mentia praecox." train, and tell me she'll worry every -moment of the time until she sees. me again. And I've no young nieces and nephews sending me cards at Christmas, and ties and slippers on my birthdays, and wondering all the time how long it'll be before I'm be- yond the need of either, and they can enjoy the benefits of my industry . and good luck — for, he continued, pushing up the arm than divided the seat into two comfortable chairs, "I've had both. Without industry and good luck I couldn't have become they` concern of Bryden and Beldon, deal- ers in everything from a pair of curl- ing -tongs to a grand piano." Darkness was falling as Mr. Bry- den placed his silk hat on the rack and took from a little bag a rough Tam O'Shanter, a meerschaum pipe of liberal dimensions, and a tin of tobacco. A Little Fellow He filled the pipe slowly, put it be-, twee- his teeth, lighted the tobacco, and settled himself luxuriously on his back, with his bag as a pillow. "And next to being a bachelor," he continued, but thinking this time and not uttering the word's audibly, "I'm thankful to heaven for having made , nie a little. 'asx. ,mon 1. 1 n ` ' noses ' o d nix% t1e,.cSiap, a about article' made in Germany theta` he does about English grammar, says. "It's so convenient and ecohom- ical to be stall. Looking at.myseif as a sort of engine, it doesn't take more than half as much fuel to keep nae going as it does to keep old Till- man, of the Stock Exchange. And if I Weren't a very little fellow I couldn't possibly lie at full length on the seat of one of these corridor car- riages. If anybody asked me why I continue to travel in these newfan- gled things after my: scare last week, I should tell him it was because of habit and selfishness habit through having travelled in a corridor car- riage ever since they were put on the line, and selfishness because when I lie at full length on the seat no mean-spirited fellow can crush into the corner at my feet, and make me have to curl my legs up and get the cramp •" Mr. Bryden puffed at his pipe for some minutes in a sleepy fashion, and propped his head up so that • he might look upon the fast -darkening landscape. "She's getting along," he said, tak- ing the pipe from his mouth. "She, must be doing a level sixty just now. There certainly is one slight objec- tion to carriages of this sort, and that is that the double windows blur the outlook rather. But I've been th's. journey so often that I know the scenery by heart, and I don't ni:ss much. Let me see — on an average I've gone North once a fortnight for the last ten years, not reckoning the A Blizzard Completely Blocked This Street Workmen are tilling a horse-drawn truck to remove, some of the sriory at 13utfale, heavy blizzard: Ths 4014t% pI` thelia aged aisa odt hat 1110 's -drawn vehicles. ter the recent British "Who's Who" Duke of Windsor and His Wife Are Included in the Royal Family Section .The Duehess of Windsor entered the Who'd Who last week with publi- cation of the 1938 edition. The Duke and Duchess were listed in the section, reserved for the Royal Family, their names appearing thus: "Edward 'Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David (Duke of Wind- sor), • Succeeded his father, King Geo. V, January 20, 1936; abdicated Dec. 11, 1936. Married June 3, 1937, Mrs. Wallis Warfield." Selassie Still Emperor The new. Who's Who is 23 pages larger than the 1937 edition, having 3,783 pages. The editors still list Haile Selassie as Emperor of Ethiopia and give him the same amount of space as Premier Mussolini of Italy. Each received 32 lines of print. Mussolini's biography is in Italian. Chancellor Hitler, of Germany, and Stalin, Soviet dictator, 'occupied five and four lines, respectively. Lovelorn Beauty's Husband Suicides A young Hungarian beauty queen's love for tho livelier life of the United States caused the tragic journeys before thori; and that's equal to two hundred and sixty jour- neys out and the same number home, and represents a tolerably heavy mileage." Again Mr. Dryden had a short spell of silent smoking, after which he ,resumed his talk to himaclf, "Beldon always asks was why on earth I don't go by one: of the Pull- man. sleeping cars. But I always :set- tle him by saying that I don't want • su :, o acing by trying to sleep in a thing that's neither bed, hammock, ahelf, nor cupboard, and that as long as I do this journey I shush stick to the seat of a decent first-class smok- er. If Beldon thinks he'd like the Pullman better he's welcome to try it when he succccd3 tae in the branch of the business — and that he'll do in October, just "brut three -months from naw. 1`'at really I must settle down r a bit of seep, or I shan't. x'e w•m .b c• •^i:;C for work to-an8r- Here Corner. By ELEANOR DALE HAPPY NEW YEAR DEPENDS ON GOOD DIGEST ON A "Happy and Prosperous New Year" just isn't possible for anyone while they are feeling over -stuffed and over -fed from the Christmas sea- son, All the good wishes in the world won't make a person any happier un- less they get some light and easily digested food to 'offset she tasty but rich food they have been con- suming the last few days, Light, digestible and flavoursome, are moulded jelly salads. These can accompany the cold sliced chicken, turkey, goose or what -have -you left over from the holiday dinner. With tea biscuits and a light dessert, this is all you need to serve an appetis- ing, stimulating and very satisfying. lunch or supper. Here are a few moulded salads which' are perfect for any occasion but come in especially handy right now. Sunny Orange Supper Plate 1 package quick -setting orange jelly powder. 1 cup warm water 1 cup orange juice and water 2 oranges, sections free from mem- brane and diced 1 cup diced celery, salted d teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vingear Dash of tabasco. Dissolve jelly powder in warm wa- ter. Add orange • juice and water. Chill. When slightly thickened, fold in oranges. Combine celery, salt, vinegar and tabaseo; fold at once in- to slightly thickened jelly-. Turn in- to individfal moulds, Chill until firm. Unmould on crisp lettuce and garnish with anayonna.se. • ilai'.es 8 moulds, Red Crest Tomato Aspic 1 package strawberry jelly powder 2'4 cups cooked or canned tomatoes 23i, teaspoons prepared horseradish 1% teaspoons scraped 'onion 1% teaspoons salt Dash of Cayenne Dissolve jelly in warn' tomatoes, Add horse -radish, onion, salt and Cayenne. Force through sieve. Turn into individual molds. Chill until firm, Garnish with mayonnaise. Serves 4. Another salad that you will find useful anytime and especially now is YEAR 'ROUND SALAD 1 package lemon or lime jelly pow- der 1 pint warm water • 2 tablespoons vinegar 1 teaspoon salt % cup cabbage, finely shredded 1 cup celery, finely cut 1 pimiento, finely cut 1 tablespoon green pepper, finely chopped Dissolve jelly powder in warm wa- ter. Add vinegar and salt. Chill. When slightly thickened, fold in re- maining ingredients. Turn into in- dividual molds. Chill until firm. Un - mold. Garnish with mayonnaise. Serves 6. death. of her husband in the sleepy Carpathian' village of Roncona, Czec- hoslovakia. Aranka Miklos, "Miss Hungaria 1936," was the bride of Johann Sca- laj when he returned proudly to his home Iast year from Philadelphia. They were happy until Aranka, thinking of her life in the U.S., soured of their simple fain life. She disappeared. Scalaj burned himself to death in his barn. Difference In Toy Arid Model Trains Latter Is For the Man With Sup- pressed Desires There is a big difference between. toy -°'nidi ` 'iii '"'tidae]' l aim A model train is for the man whose sup- pressed desire is to be a railroad president or who secretly covets the job of being the engineer of a railway system. Building model systems often develops into a major bobby. One store we know has the equip- ment, which consists of making min- iatures of real railroads. Small copies of the locomotives and cars that pull out of terminals every day or carry freight and passengers all over the country on all the railway lines can be made with this equipment. There are parte for freight cars, oil tankers refrigerated cars and the latest pas- senger coaches. Building any of these is almost as complicated as building the real thing. The whole family sometimes joins in this hobby when it comes to making scenery—towns, stations, mountains, trees, gardens and so on. Damascus Nearly 4,000 Years Old History and archaeology tell us that the first cities oz' towns in the world were built by the Sumerians in the Tigris -Euphrates Valley, perhaps as early as 4500 I3,C. Towns and vil- lages exist on some of these sites to- day, but none can be pointed to as existing continuously. Damascus, on an oasis in Syria, has the general reputation :of being the oldest city' in the would in con- tinuous existence. It is mentioned in Genesis as already being a town in the day. of Abraham-, probably 2,000 B. C. In Africa a reasonably good case can be made out for Cairo as the site of a city or 'town for more than 2,400 years, but it is not certain that small breaks in the continuity did not occur. On the edge '.of Cairo tot. day are the ruins of. Heliopolis, found- ed some 5,000 yea's before Christ. It . had a continuous existence until Ronan tines, but finally fell into ruin, Nurses Should Soothe Their Patients' Nerves Nurses last week were urged to hold hands with their patients. Dr. Ansel M. Caine, of Tulane Uni- versity Medical School, . in making the suggestion before the Southern Medical Association meeting at New Orleans, advocated it, not as a boon, to budding romances, but as a help in 'soot'hing the nerves a patients on the operating 'table, Ile saki that "a gentle pat" on the elaeelt atrd' • "a light squeeze of the ha,ncio by. tilt .n'Urljts" "is yety Ii�lf►ful•.Y3 Declares Girls Mature at Six • But Irish Author Believes Boys Require 40 Years to "Grow Up" Girls mature at the age of six; boys not until they are 40 says Liam O'Fla- herty, Irish author of "The Informer," and to this he attributes the tribula- tions of mankind. The tall writer arrived on this con- tinent last week, from Ireland, for a short visit before he heads south to "work." "I am now 40 and have only just reached maturity," said O'Flaherty; "I have given up drinking, late hours and all that sort of thing.. Like most young Irishmen,.1 have spent years wander- ing, dissatisfied. But now I can see that was only a ;phase Tbave grown up at last. • Get Fight Out of System "Girls start in to play with dolls and dolls' houses in their infancy — play- ing then at what will later be their Iife's work — but boys never get ser- iously down to business?' "What about little boys who play with soldiers? Aren't they showing .how they- will fight their way in the world?" the author was asked. "They are so, and isn't that just What I was teilin' yet," .replied O'Fla\ herty. "The girls start to demonstrate their natural metiers first of all. You wouldn't call it a sign of maturity to start lighting. People only 'grow up when they get that out of their sys- tem." In the early 19th century, the deeks of Britain's East India mea' chantmen featured small vegetable gardens in boxes. Daily increasing temperatures caused the seed to " shoot up surprisingly .fast, making the crop turnover more rapid than in any place on land. THE SHELiO * HOTEL'S "Added " Attraitions The Shelton's added attrac- tions bring it out of the average hotel class, A swimming pool, gymna- slum, solarium, library are herb for YOUR enjoyment. ..As for your room, at is quiet, tastefully 'decorated, it's one of the Most, plecisani rooms you could find ' in any hotel. Ana The Shekon's location is ideal...on.the edge of the Grand Central tone. Rohm $r3 per day tingle llEIJON I1OTL LEXINGTON AVE., at49ih S. NEW YORK Issue No. 52—'37