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Mystcrious Masquerade
By J. R. WILMOT
CHAPTER L y ability from one dance resort to the
AT THE MN= CLUB.
If you move in any of those exclu-
eive coteries with which London's
West End is pleasantly honeycombed,
you will know that the Cygnet Dance
Laub whose unobtrusive yet artistic-
ally appointed premises almost abut
on to Piccadilly is a reserve of the
favored few.
How it has kept its reserve no one
knows. It possesses no fashionably
powerful patron—no member of the
Royal house has yet danced upon its
floor; its subscription is well within
the bounds of the purse -strings of
most; and yet there are many who
would like to enjoy its privileges of
membership.
text; neither was she one of the
moths among humans .living danger-
ously by seeing just ohw near the
flame they might venture without any
singeing.
So Roger ventured a,polite ques-
tion,
"I don't think I've ever niet you
before in what London knows as its
night life, Miss ...."
"Carstairs," smiled Molly. "No, I'm
aft aid you haven't, and what's more
you wouldn't have found me here to-
night but for an extremely fortunate
chance. It so happened that a friend
of mine had a ticket which she found,
at the last minute, she couldn't use. I
think I've been very lucky, don't you,
Mr Pf
"Barling," he supplied, easily.
"Roger Bailing, to be precise. , But
don't ycu think it all depends on what
yoi mean by the word `luck'?"
It had been on the tip o2 Molly's
tongue to reply tI,at it mean', meeting
him, but second thoughts advised her
that such a personal retort might
e;.sily be misconstrued.
"Weal, I've always wanted to dance
at The Cygnet," she told him. "I've
h: • ' such- wonderful things about
it."
"Yes, it's quite a famous little place
in. its line. I like it because it gives
nae an opportunity of meeting se many
interesting people. Yourself for in-
stance," he went on audaciously. "You
know, Miss Carstairs, I'm very in-
terested in you."
"Oh, and why?" Molly asked, some-
what coldly.
"I didn't intend being rude, but
when I first saw you tonight you look-
ed as if you had all the cares of this
old world on your shoulders, and I
hate to see p aple looking unhappy."
Molly gazed at the steady frank
blue eyes across the table. Either Ro-
ger Barling was a philanu• :r or he
was as sincere as :his voice sounded.
But Molly had no intention of divulg-
ing her plight to a stranger, no mate
tea how nice he appeared to be.
But she had reckoned without the
pertinacity of Roger Barling. She was
not to know that at that moment that
for the first time he had met a girl
who really appealed to him in a way
no other girl had ever done.
"I assure you, Miss Carstairs, that
if there is anything I can do to
help—"
Molly flung back her head with a
proud gesture and her eyes flashed,
ominously, but Roger was ignorant of
such signals. To him it was like flout-
ing a traffic control light or a police-
man's upraised hand.
"Please, Mr. Barling," Molly be-
gan, but he cut in on her words.
"Look here, you really must tell me
all about it. I'm not an ogre, really
I'm not, and I warn you," he went on,
a determined glint in his eys, "that if
you don't tell nle, I'll jolly well soon
find out."
Molly 'smiled. In that moment her
last defence of reserve was shattered,
and Roger Barling heard about the
girl who had sought employment for
four long months and had been utterly
unsuccessful in her quest. He heard
about her heart -aching answering of
advertisements; her aborti, inter-
views all over: London only to meet
with the same response. Everyone•
seemed to have no use for a highly -
trained woman secretary, The employ-
me-nt bureaux had hundreds on their
registers, although they did not al-
ways say so when they pocketed your
registration fee.
Roger Barling decided that here
was a girl whom he might help. He
was confident that someone among his
many friends in the city would find a
vacancy for her on his recommenda-
tion. And she was all alone in the
world, too,• how horrible. Mentally he
shuddered at the unpleasant thought.
This girl no girl in fact—deserved
it. Nature had designed her for hap-
piness—care-free happiness. If she
had to work for her living (also a dis-
comforting thought to Roger), well,
there ought to be work for her. If he
had an office—if he ran a business,
which he didn't—this girl would just
be the right person to run it for him.
Not for a moment did he doubt her
efficiency. He could see that.
Her parents were dead. There was
an uncle in America, it was true, but.
Molly had lost his address. Added to
which she did net want to go to Am-
erica if she could afford it, which she
couldn't.
"I hate to tell all this," announced
Molly. "I feel now that I shouldn't
have told you at all. I don't know
what made mt."
There was just the vaguest hint of
moisture in her eyes and this time
Roger did not misread the signal.
"Let's dance," he suggested bright-
ly, rising from his chair.
He piloted ,her down from the bal.-
cony
alcony to the gaily -thronged floor below
and the next moment Molly had al-
most forgotten her indiscretion in be-
ing
ing beguiled into telling her compan-
ion of her difficulties and her prob-=
lemis.
Nothing more was said just then'
iioge.
about
r• 's oiler of help, but when
b
the dance Was endedhe said: "I'm I
driving you home in map ear so that
I'll have your address. You see, I
fancy I'll be along tomorrow with a
nice little job for you."
(To be continued.)
Hospital Industries
The various odd jobs about a hos-
pital should be considered as me -
national therapy and every foreman
and forewoman should be preemi-
nently an occupational therapist, ac-
cording to Dr. L. Cody Marsh, assist-
ant physician, Nlrorcester State Hos-
pital, Worcester, Mass., says The
Modern Hospital.
"It is necessary in all hospitals to
get more patients working more ef-
lectively," according to Dr,. Marsh.
"Every employe who comes in con-
tact with patients shares in the re-
sponsibility of helping patients to get
well. The mental hospital .18 a great
social industry in which the raw ma-
terial of unhappy broken lives is
transformed into lives whole and
happy.
"To bring to fruition such a con-
ception requires first of all an indus-
trial survey of the mental hospital.
Each patient must be studied and
information gathered on his• job his-
tory, pastimes; hobbies, occupational
interests, aptitudes and ambitions.
"When a survey has been made
and the cards have been indexed,)
every request for patient employment II
anywhere in the hospital should be
routed through. a. • personnel man.
Transfers of patients should also be
handled through the personnel office.
"A series of classes should be held
for all foremen and forewomen who
are handling patients in the hospital.
These classes could be conducted by
the personnel man, with occasional
help from a leader in the community.
The latter could instruct the foreman
in the technique of producing group
spirit. There should also be instruc-
tion in phychiatry and the tenets of
occupatiional therapy. Problems could
be discussed at these meetings and
a general interchange of experiences
made in the art of handling patients,
getting them to work and arousing
their interest."
Wishes -
The exclusive nature of the Cygnet
Flub gave it a certain prestige in this
bogus age, and it was only natural
that its monthly dances, which were
occasionally described by the tag
"open," should be well patronized,
particularly by those who did not
enjoy the privileges of membership.
On this particular night in early
October the dance room presented a
somewhat picturesque appearance.
There was nothing flamboyant about
its decorations; it resented artificial -
it in its interior decoration as much
as it abhorred stucco as a cheap ad-
junct to modern architectural facades.
T_.e dance floor would hold, in com-
fort, about one hundred persons; the
tattle balcony that surrounded the
/icor on three sides was con.,tructed in
old oak culled, so it was said, from a
vansion built in Elizabeth's day but
which had to be removed from a Sus-
sex estate in order that it might not
interrupt the progress of an arterial
road. Indeed, beyond old oak, old
sporting prints on the panelled walls
and a general atmosphere of Old Eng-
lish, the Club eschewed -any other
forms of decoration.
In one corner of the balcony sat a
man and a girl at a small, oak -topped
table. The man was a typical' speci-
men of British athleticism. There
was something of the Public School
stamp about him even though his
accent was nothing worse than that
sponsored by the radio announcers.
His evening dress fitted him -s ell and
if one could have glimpsed the makers'
name on the label at the back of the'
coat it would not have been surprising
to find that it had Savile Row con-
nections. As regards physical charac-
teristics the young man had a rather
broad forehead, well -set deep blue
eyes, <. firm chin and a nose that spoke
of decently direct breeding.
As for the girl there was nothing
articularly obtrusive about - r. She
was probably five years her compan-
ion's junior. -Like him, hov-ever, she
had blue eyes, but they were. of a de-
flritely lighter shade. Her cheeks, in-
nocent of decolz r:tion other than a
discreetly applied film of poudre na-
turelle, told a story of good health,
heightened a little, perhaps., by the
excitement of the occasion. She was
of medium height, rather slim of
build and the possessor of a pair of
lie; that the right type of man would
have considered ideal for his dream
of bliss. e
At best of times names are little
more than labels In a few instances
they have a direct bearing on person-
ality and sometimes on temperament.
For moot of us, however, it is not the
name but tha emotional experiences.
of life that are the more important,
and any thought analyst encountering
the pair just then would have discov-
ered that Roger Barling was not car-
ing two hoots whether his partner's
name was Molly Carstairs or not. All
Roger was con:,e:ous of was that i„'his
girl he had met in the course of that
great and indispensable social leveller;
the dance, was an extremely attrac-
tive creature, while Molly was think-
ing that her companion was a man
of more than ordinary personality,
Roger Barking, however, had been
born with a streak of curiosity in his
nature. Ile had met hundreds of wo-
men most of whom he had never given
a second thought. But this girl was
different. If she had not been differ-
ent she would n .t have aroused his
interest.
One of the things that had aroused
his curiosity was her appearance at
The Cygnet at all. It was obvious to
Roger's trained eye that her dress,
becoming though he was forced to
admit it was, was not quite in line
with the quality that disported itself
on the Club's floor. The material, for
instance, was of indifferent quality,
and while it did not shriek of the bar-
gain basement, it was obviously not
sufficiently Bpnd Street as to excite
his imagination. -
Roger. Barling was always intri-
gued by dress. It was frequently so
expressive not only of perso uality but
of commerciality. Every dress, to
Roger's mind, was like the coven of
a history book. It bound together
between the covers, whole centuries
of love, romance, tragedy, enterprise
and human endeavor, and here seated
beside him was obviously a girl with
wasnot
She Certain). e
aek "Olinda ts" e
a background. y
the usual type of patron to The Cyg-
74t. She wan no social butterfly flit-
' s;aily and with suitable irrospon-
First Newspaper
Shown in New York
•
London Press Club Collection
With items 30Q Years Old
—Evolution of Press Re-
ports from Death of
Charles 1 to the
Present
New York. -Two hundred rare old
newspapers, forerunners of the papers
of to -clay, dating back three cennuries�
and telling naively some of the great
events in English history, are on ex-
hibition here in connection with the
annual meeting of The Associated
Press..
The newspapers are the collection
of the Press Club of London, which,
in lending them, has permitted them
to go out of Loudon for the first time.
The exhibition is sponsored -by the
Columbia University School of Journ-
alism.
Dean Carl W. Ackerman, who ar-
ranged it, remarked that two consid-
erations which still exist to-day—
"selling and the danger of war"—
gave birth to the idea of newspapers.
"In the exhibit," Dean Ackerman
said, "one may find the origin of the
modern newspaper. The early pam-
phlets were written to interest busi-
ness men and maintained a personal
commercial character. Their object
was advertising in embryo."
Execution of Charles Told
One of the most interesting exhib-
its is the pamphlet published by
Peter Cole in 1648 telling of the exe-
cution of Charles L It is prefaced
with one of the earliest examples of
newspaper headline. The dramatic
death of the Icing is told in full de-
tail in dialogue, part of which fol-
lows: -
"King: When I put out my hands
this way then—(stretching them out)
"After that, having said twlo • or
three words (as he stood) to Him-
self with hands and eyes lift up;
Immediately stooping down, laid His
Neck upon the Block: And then the
Executioner again putting lois Hair
under his Cap, the King said (think-
ing he had bin going to strike), Stay
for the signe.
`:Executioner: Yes, I will, and it
please Your Majesty.
"And after a very little pawse,
the King stretching forthe his hands,
The Executioner at one blow, severed
his head from his Body.
"That when the Kings head was
cut off, the Executioner held it up,
and skewed it to the Spectators.
"And his. Body was put in a Coffin,
covered with black 'Velvet, for that
purpose.
"The King's Body now lies in His
Lodging Chamber in Whitehall."
The pamphlet ends solemnly with
a line in large italics: "Sic Transit
Gloria Mundt."
The newspaper in its primitive
form, according to the Columbia
School of Journaislm, came to Lon-
don from the Low Countries early in
the seventeenth century. It was
known as a "coranto," probably de-
rived from current or curento, to sig-
nify that it was relaying "news while
it is news." The Thirty Years' War
was then in progress and the coranto,
published irregularly, sprang up in
London in 1621 to satisfy the -demand
for war reports. The next step was
the appearance of the authorized
"diudnalls" of Parliament. News
pamphlets in the exhibition record
Parliamentary proceedings of the
time, and also contain accounts of the
battle between Blake and Van
Tromp and de Rlyter, Cromwell's
campaigns in Scotland and Ireland,
and Monk's entry into Loudon, which
preceded the return of Charles TI.
Paper of 1667 Shown
The establishment of the first news-
paper ie. the modern sense, The Lon-
don Gazette in 1667, is marked in the
exhibition with a copy for Aug. 1-5,
1667. There also is a copy of the
first trade newspaper, "A Collection
for Improvement of Husbandry and
Trade," including many features
strikingly like those of to -day, such
as .stock prices, exchange quotations,
corn prices and want ads.
The' first English daily morning
newspaper, the Daily Courant, which
appeared soon 'after the accession of
Queen Anne, also is represented. The
I wish that it were really true,
That I_ could see the good in you,
And you the good in me;
That all of us would "gve a miss"
To foolish, thoughtless prejudice,
And practice charity.
Gives Added Enjoyment to Meals
I wish that you and I could. learn
The other cheek sometimes to turn,
And good for evil give;
For this we know, and know full well,
That wrong eau never wrong repel;
'Tis love's prerogative:
I wish that men of every hue
Could share God's gifts _with me and
you, -
That all could brothers be;
For scorn of but the least of these,
Though sundered by the sounding sea,
Still shames our pedigree.
For of one flesh we all a.re formed,
By he same spark of life are warmed;
We live, and love, and die;
And so I wish my wish might prove
A presage that we all shall love
Each other by and by,
--Paul Preston.
"Fresh from the Gardens"
appearance of the Daily Advertiser,
which i,s represented by a copy of the
issue of Oct. 27, 1741, was of momen-
tous importance in English journal-
ism because it adopted a format fun-
damentally like that of the newspap-
pers to -day, and hence has been call-
ed the first modern newspaper;
The recognition of the freedom of
the press stimulated the issuance of
literary journals in the first half of
the eighteenth century and the exhi-
bition includes copies of papers edit-
ed by Steele, Addison, Prior and
Swift, After these came the essay
journals, or "coffee house publica-
tions," of the time of Samuel ,'John-
son.
The exhibition carries the story of
journalism on through the period of
George III, -when, in the last quarter
of the eighteenth' century, the Eng-
lish daily morning newspaper came
into its- own, and • the outstanding
journals of England were founded.
The exhibition includes a facsimile
of The Times for Nov. 9, 1796, con-
taining George Washington's Farewell
Address.
There also are issues of the Lon-
don evening newspapers, including
The Star for which Robert Burrs
wrote for a guinea a week. The
exhibition includes copies of four
early American newspapers, The
Providence Gazette and Country
Journal for Dec. 10, 1785; The Am-
erican Mercury for Dec. 5, 1785; The
United States ChronicleAf or Dec. 22,
1785, and The Dailyof
New York for Feb. 4, 1786.
Veteran
The old man sits, bareheaded in the
sun,
A. battered hat beneath hien on the
grass,
And watches, lazily, the people pass.
The limping 'hours drag slowly, 'one
by one.
Now it is four, and children home
ward bound
Run by and wave at hi,m; they know
him well
As one who has a thousand tales to
tell
Of ships and battles, treasure lost
and found.
By five the ancient pipe he puffs is
cold;
The gentle sun takes
gold.
His eyes are closed, his
have wandered far,
And head on chest, he dozes
light,
To dream again that magic moonlit
night
The British marched through sleep-
ing Kandahar.
Herbert C. Uren.
•, ---
on a tinge of
United ingd.orn• is_.
Chief Market Fwr
Canadian Furs
United States Close Second—
Principal Export Silver
Fox
Canada is one of the leading
sources of the world's, supply of raw
furs. She has also developed a con-
siderable industry in the manufacture
of fur goods, and; to a smaller degree,
in the dressing of raw furs. Since
the war Montreal has been established
as an international fur market, and
sales are also held at Winnipeg and
Edmonton. The greater part of Can-
ada's production is still taken by trap-
pers, but the fur fanner is playing
an increasingly important role in the
fur trade of the Dominion.
Canada's exports of furs greatly
exceed her imports. For the year
1931 total exports of furs from the
Dominion were valued at $13,525,068,
compared with imports of $6,25,068.
Of imports two-thirds consisted of
raw furs for the fur goods industry,
the value being $4,188,850. The prin-
cipal, kinds of furs specified in the im-
port returns included. fox, kolinsky,
mink, muskrat, Persian lamb and
rabbit. Imports of dressed furs and
manufactures of fur in the same year
were valued at $2,055,677.
The chief market for Canadian furs
is in the United Kingdom with the
United States a close second. The
total value of raw furs exported from
the Dominion hi 1931 as $13,406,552,
of which $6,578,152 went to the Un-
ited Kingdom and $5,343,338 to the
United States. The principal item
among exports was silver or black
,fox, of which there were 115,800 skins
exported with a total value of $4,-
.899,892.
4;.899,892. Next in order of value in
the export returns is the item "fox
skins other than black or silver," with
a value of $1,812,511, and this is fol-
lowed by muskrat with a value of $1,-
474,017,
1;474,017, beaver with a value of $1,-
055,163, and mink with a value of
$1,252, 723. Other furs of importance
in the export trade are fisher, lynx,
marten and wolf. Exports of dressed
furs and of fuer goods are relatively
small, the Canaiian industry being
mainly engaged in catering to the
home market of 'which it supplies over
85 per cent.
The value of the products of the
fur goods industry of Canada in 1931
was $14,246,993. Women's coats, fur
and fur -lined, had a total value of
$8,219,989, orover half the total value
of all fun goods manufactured c1tiring
the year.
Loadon Girls Now Permitted
. To Wear Ankle Socks
London, Eng. — Bedford College,
London, girls, are now to row in
Regent's Park with bare legs.
This college was the last strong-
hold of skirts and black stockings
among women's colleges.
The authorities till 1927 refused to
allow their teams to wear anything
but the traditional gym tunic. Then
they substituted shorts and stockings.
Shorts and Socks
Miss D. J. Alexander, captain of
the Bedford Boats, said:
"Yes, this May we shall row on
the Regent's Park lake in shorts and
wbite ankle socks.
"It will be a far cry from our first
uniform of 40 years ago. When our
rowing club first started, the regu-
lation dress was a long skirt with a
bustle, 'a high -peeked blouse, and a
large sailor hat."
But dost thou love life? Then do
not squander time, for that's the stuff
life is made of.—Benjamin Franklin.
thoughts
in the'
A Watch
I have a watch. to keep
And if I fail
If I let -work or sleep
Or care prevail,
And do not pause to pray to God at
dawn,
When at the close of day I sit and
yawn,
Not only body then,'but soul is tired
Because my clay has not been God.
inspired.
Poland to Try Gasoline Tax
Warsaw. -- Fllowing wholesale pro-,
tests against high automobile taxes,
the government is contemplating a re-
duction in the tax on weight and sub-:, R,
stitution of a levy oil gasoline and tub
ricants, thus shifting the burden of
road maintenance to those who drive cul
the most miles. Diminished returns
from the old tax indicated that many;: {�
cars were being laid up. ,. .
11 .
A-3rnlManes of the future may be steam grows ed. • The Resler
brothers of Oakland invented an engine weighing 500 pounces which
develops 150 h.p. It was practically noiseless in test flights.
Passengers Must Pay
London, Eng. --A fine of $15, with
$30 costs, was imposed at Bow Street
recently on Isaac Collis, 52, a poultry
farmer of Danleny avenue, Laindon,
Essex, for travelling on the Distr.icl
Railway without paying his fare, 2d.
ti,
and intentlnu>, not to pay.
900 MILLION HERRINGS CAUGHT
I Nearly 900000,000 herrings were
s the
•t
were caught. in English waters this
year.
LEEP
When you can't sleep, it's because
yollr nerves -won't let you. Don't
waste time "counting sheep." Don't
lose half your nccdecLrest in reading.
Take two tablets of Aspirin, drink a
glass of water=and go to sleep.
This simple remedy is all that's.
needed to insure a night's rest. It's
all you need to relieve a headache,
during the day—or to dispose of
other pains. Get these Aspirin tablets
and you will get immediate relict.
Aspirin dissolves immediately --
gets to work without May. This de-
sirable speed is not dangerous; it
does not depress the heart. ,Tush be
sure you get ,Aspirin tablets.
ASPIRIN
irads,mork Reg.
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