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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1933-06-01, Page 2'°- -+-'e'4-0 °► A m x"10-°"'° s M -6 °- ." termed it as she led the girl upstairs, was a delightfully bright affair. There were golden chintz curtains on the windows, a wonderfully billowy bed; an octagonal table in the win - dew and below it a few neatly -eon- trived bookshelves. In fact the whole room glowed with friendship, • Some rooms are like that—delight- fully companionable places that in- stinctively offer you a welcome. Others there are that repel according to the degree of sensitiveness in the indi- vidual; and Molly Carstairs s had al- ways ways been room -conscious. Many had been the times when she had longed to own a room such as this. Eight years ago when she had lived in the Midlands, before her par- ents died leaving her to make her own way in the world, she had had a little room of her own, but it had not been entirely to her lilting. But Molly had always promised herself a room such as this one was.. And what a contrast it was to,the small, rather gloomy little room in Chelsea! So when Molly had requested Mrs. Silver to allow her to remain alone for a few moments toreadjust her noughts after the morning's cata- clysm, it was just as much for the reason that, as that moment, she wanted very much to be alone in that room to drink in its beauty and to appreciate the comfort it represented. (To be continued.) THE .. Mysterious Masquerade By J. R. WILMOT ti s�-.oPSI s Roger Bailing, dining at the Cygnet Club in London meets Molly Carstairs who confesses that she is looking for a secretarial position. Boger promises to aid her. Next morning Molly is taken In custody by a policeman who declares she is wanted by her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Silver. On their ar- rival at the police station they profess to recognize Molly, who, they declare, is suffering from a lapse of memory. CHAPTMh IV. "Lawn House," Hampstead, was, architecturally, a delightful residence. As its name implied, the frontage was prefaced by a wonderfully well -kept lawn, large enough for a tennis court, but successive occupants had, appar- ently, decided that tennis on such turf would be little short of sacrilege. In appearance, the house had more than a hint of the Georgian in its un - ornamental severity of line. There was nothing decadent about it. It had been recently decorated, and from the road- way always presented the appearance of being well eared for. The Silvers lead been at "Lawn House" upwards of fifteen years. Flora Silver had pretensions to be a hostess, and though, for some reason, she had been denied an entree into the salons of Mayfair, in Hampstead her parties were renowned for their cosmopolitanism and their brightness. At any of these parties one could al- ways rely. an meeting individuals of both sexes culled from the stock of half a dozen different natienalities. In Hampstead the Silvers were re- spected because in these days with the exodus of the quality from the environs of London, the retention of such folk as a permancy was regarded as something of an achievement. "Lawn House" and its occupants were considered to add that indefinable quality "tone" to a decaying locality. Yet Paul Silver and his wife were in the neighborhood rather than of it. There were those who, inquisitive to —know more about their neighbors, de- clared that they had heard "stories" about "Lawn House." But when once pinned down and asked for facts in substantiation, the critics of the Sil- vers' menage had to admit defeat, for such is the kingdom of Gossip. As for Molly Carstairs, she had re- covered from her faint before leaving the police station, bud that *live into the abyss of unconsciousness had left her brain curiously numb. She had consented, rather vaguely, she after- wards remembered, to being led out- side into the bright sunlight and into a 'waiting motor car driven by a chauffeur in chocolate livery who held wide the door as she crossed the pave- ment on Mrs. Silver c' ai'm. Little had been said during the jouiriey to Hampstead, and by the time the car drove in. at the gates of "Lawn House" Molly had, more or less, resigned herself to this incred- ible position with the feeling that it could not surely be long before the Silvers realized that a mistake in identity had been inside. Perhaps, she reassured herself, it would be easier to convince these people when once the atmosphere of the pollee station and its savour of the Law had been left behind. Not for one moment did she consider the possibility of her explanations being totally disbelieved. Half an hour ater she was seated in a comfortable chair in a spacious, well -furnished room where the' long French windows swept in a shimmer of opalescence from white moulded cornice to parquet floor. Mrs. Silver minus her coat and hat, was wearing an expensive looking gown of soft green texttrre. "I hope you are feeling better, my dear," she purred softly, bending with a caressing gesture over Molly. "You can't think how thankful we are to have found you again." Molly regarded the 'woman intently, If there hadn't been such a quality of sincerity in her voice, it might have gin different, but to it it seemed as if Mrs. Silver was really welcom- ing back a niece who had ben lost iirstead of a total stranger, The girl was certainly feeling bet- ter. The drive and the rest had re- stored her mental faculties almost �roa� 6 'i • tri /ct s34 tZ ioeomPation is �tmta . Your C�pees laVe .6 b‘00°. mto�rtin N SSUE No. I completely, and now she was once again quite sure of terself, "Hadn't we better. end this farce here and now, Mrs. Silver," announc- ed Molly, "You know as well as I do that I'm. not your lost niece, What useful purpose can be served by all this acting?" Flora Silver's face become momen- tarily suffused with pain; her deli- cately -colored blue eyes clouded and the niuseles controlling her rather heavy mouth were drawn taut. But when she answered, pity was the only emotion she displayed. "My dear, of course," she said, slowly lay- ing a warm hand over Molly's arm. "It was just the same last time in Paris. That funny little memory of yours will play the most outrageous tricks, but you mustn't worry, every- thing will conte all right in a day or two. Perhaps we'll run over to Paris and have another chat with Dr. La- touche." "I tell you I don't want to see any doctor," persisted Molly. "I'm per- fectly well, thank you, Mrs, Silver. If there's anyone suffering from hal- lucinations it is not I. You may have deceived the Superintendent at the police station and I'll say that's one trick to you, but before I leave this house you're going to tell me how you got my photograph for that news- paper account." But before Mrs. Silver could frame a suitable reply the door opened and in came Paul Silver, smiling hap- pily. "My darling little Molly," he ex- claimed, "I wonder if you know how good it is to have you home again? You're feeling better already, I can see that." Molly searched the man's face but could find not the slightest trace of insincerity there. These people were amazingly good actors—if they really were acting. The sudden thought disturbed het. What if they really had lost someone who so closely re- sembled herself that they had been mistaken in her identity? Here was something to be said for that event- uality, remote though she considered such a possibility to be. For in- stance, one thing against that was her clothes. Surer these people would see that it was beyond the bounds of probability that she would be wearing similar clothes to the missing girl. That was altogether too much to lay at the door of coin- cidence. But there were, so far, so many amazing things in this tangle of identity that Molly was beginning to wonder where it would all end. "I have just been trying to ex- plain to Mrs. Silver," said Molly, turning to the roan, "that you are both making a horrible mistake .. . that I am not the Molly Carstairs you have lost. In fact I have never been lost in my life. I explained all that to the Superintendent at the Police Station before you arrived, and I rather thing he was inclined to believe pie," she hinted, shrewdly. "So now that I have definitely stat- ed that I am not your lost niece, I will be going. I have a. rather urg- ent appointment with a friend which I simply cannot break." Saying this, Molly rose from her chair and faced the man and the woman stand- ing in front of her. "So you have made a friend since you left us, eh?" smiled Paul Silver. "Or was it one of your old friends, Molly?" "He is a rather particular friend of mine," Molly ashed back, feeling that her announcement had caused both Silver and his wife an uneasy moment, "and he is probably waiting at home for me at this moment." "A.nd what is your friend's name, Molly?" asked the woman, kindly. Molly was thinking quickly. It was obvious to her that her anounce- nient of the existence of a friend had disturbed these people's poise anis she was tempted to exploit it as far as she could. "I'm afraid that my memory is much too bad for pie to remember that," she smiled, "but all the same he's sure to look out for me when he finds I haven't returned to Chel- sea. He's a most persistent young man." "Of course," said Silver, in a low voice, "I was forgetting about your memory, but I'm afraid there's no going back to Chelsea now, Molly dear. You've got to wipe out for ever the days you have been away from us. Jarvis has already gone down to Chelsea to fetch your things, From today you're going to take up your life with us here from where it deft off before you lost your mem- ory, and we're not going to risk los- ing you again, are we Flora?" ' "I simply couldn't think of that," Molly heard Mrs. Silver say, and as she looked at the .woman there were actually tears in those pale blue, eyes. And perhaps if it hadn't been for atm tears, Molly might have acted rather cliifc'rently than she did. CHAPTER V. For ,dolly Carstairs the situation wasextremely interesting. She found that "her room," as Mrs. Silver had Water Highly Beneficial In Combatting Disease Many people do not realize the benefit to be had from a single glass of water. Itmay be hot or cold, as you like. You may sip it, or quaff it at a swal- low if you wish. It is Dr. Ghislain-Houzel who writes the prescription for us in L'Ami du peuple (Paris). He says: "GIasses of water quite cool, tak- en abunclantly between meals, in the morning early, in the evening as you step into bed, will promote the proper action of your kidneys, en- abling them to function more energe- tically and more effectively at the same time. "It might be noted in passing that warm water is an emetic always at hand, erre which maybe useful on oc- casion in the event of the introduc- tion into the stomach. of elements alien to it. "If tepid water gives powers of resistance to our stomach, water that is hot will not incommode it, "On the contrary, hot water may make the cleansing of the stomach simpler, and may indeed render its processes easier. "Take every morning, before eat- ing, a coffee cup full of water as hot as you can stand it. "You might, if you feel; impelled, drop in a suspicion of lemon, juices ' "Youwill soon feel the .beneficial effects of this hot drink, "Your stomach will rid itself of all the unpleasant residues that em- barrass it, and your day will%pass in a more agreeable manner, "Now and then aodoctor has his patient taken in quite a quantity of water before a ,repast, and then lie down for twenty minutes. The water may be warm, cold, or even hot, ac- cording to circumstances. "Tile practise .of water -drinking tends to abate the tendency to arterios- clerosis. "In, truth, water -drinking, cultivat- ed as a habit and as a satisfaction, practised assiduously, will ward off many of the infections which might otherwise jeopardize our existence." Headlights for Sheep Butte, Mont.—J. N. Gossett, Madison County sheepman, purposes putting headlights on sheep. A few animals wearing collars fitted with a flashlight battery and a red reflector on the lamp, he said, will protect a band of several thousand sheep from clinking coyotes and raiding cougars. He finds the light doesn't bother the sheep. Famous Inventor Died Penniless Man Who Caused Traffic Problem Obstinate Pupil A hundred years ago, in April, 1838, there died, penniless and desti- tute, one of the most remarkable of the long line of famous engineers i uC Rich- ardmhos prod ecl. He was R ch - and Trevithick, son of a Cornish tin - mine manager. Such schooling as he had was given him at Camborne, but he was always reported upon as a slow and. obstinate pupil. At eighteen he began to help his father, and from that time his fertile brain produced invention after inven- tions Whether Trevithick produced the first railway locomotive is still hotly debated, but one thing is cer- tain: he made the father of all motor- cars, the first mechanically propelled vehicle that ever ran the roads. An amazing contraption it was. Perched high above the axle of a pair of ten -foot driving wheels was a mid- get coach body into which six pas- sengers could be squeezed. The steer- er sat on a kind of box seat in front, controlling two small pivoted • front wheels by means of a contrivance like the handle of a lawn -mower. On a perch behind stood the stoker, who fed the furnace with coal and attend- ed to the queer engine. On Christmas Eve, 1801, Trevi thick's steam coach carried the first load of passengers ever conveyed by mechanical power over Britain's roads. They stopped at an inn to celebrate the triumph with a dinner, and whilst the meal was in progress the coach unhappily went up in flames. Nothing daunted, Trevithick pro- duced in the following year a second steam coach, which was actually in use for a time as a motor bus in the streets of London, journeying from the City along Oxford Street to Pad- dington. PENNILESS GENIUS. Trevithick and James Watt are rivals to fame in the early story of the steam engine. Watt was the first pian to make an engine that worked, but his was of gigantic site, since the steam pressure was only four or five pounds to the square inch, and it was believed that anything higher would infallibly lead to explosions and dis- A Blend of Distinctive Quality GREEN TEA 621 "Fresh From the Gardens!, Great Reindeer Trek An Epic of the North' Canada's Herd on the Road Dearly Four Years, Has Been Beset by Storms, Cold and Hungry Wolves On the ice -clad coast of Northern Canada a great herd of reindeer is resting after an 1,800 -mile trek which began in November, 1929, and has in- volved incredible hardships for the Lapp and Eskimo herders who occom- panied the animals. Next winter the reindeer will leave the present pastur- ing grounds at Blow River and cross the frozen delta of the Mackenzie to the reserve set apart for the herd—an area of 5,000 square miles, rich in reindeer moss and other .natural ad- vantages. Then will end one of the most remarkable managed treks Otani - mals ever attempted. These animals -2,300 in •number— promise to solve the` pressing food problem of the Eskimos. Formerly the Eskimos of the Canadian North de- pended upon the caribou for food and clothing, even for shelter. But im- provident hunting depleted the caribou herds to such an extent that the Do- minion Government decided to domes- ticate the reindeer and thus provide the Eskimo wards with a permanent food supply. The Eskimos will not be permitted to hunt the reindeer indis- criminately; instead, they will be taught to herd and care for then. It is expected that the herd will increase rapidly once It is settled in the Mac- kenzie reserve. Written into the reindeer epic is t1, exploration of two brothes, A. E. Porsilcl and R. T. Porsild, both botan- ists and biologists, who investigated the possibilites of reindeer ranching north of the Arctic Circle; of airplane pilots who charted the course of the asters. In lace of all opposition- trek; of wolves that harassed the ani- Trevithick produced the high-pressure boiler, creating a revolution in engin- eering ideas and opening the way for the mighty development of steam power. In 1804 he built a steam loco- motive which ran. on the tram rails of a Welsh mine, conveying a ten -ton load of coal at a speed of nearly five miles an hour. A few years later we find hint in London once more, this time with e. miniature railway, which was erected, in poverty at Dartford. Not until curiously enough, almost eactly where he had passed away was his true Euston Station stands today. This little railway, which was intended to demonstrate the possibilities of the train running on rails, was open to the public, who were given joy -rides at a shilling a head. From that time his career was one long series of adventures and misad- ventures. With his steam engines he undertook contracts in various parts of the country for boring mine shafts or for dredging rivers. He attempted a tunnel beneath the Thames but was defeated by an inflow of water. A steam -thrashing machine was his next invention, and this was followed by a steamboat and iron -milling machines. Despairing of making good in his own country, he spent his next four- teen years in Peru and Costa Rica constructing mining machinery. But things went ill with'him, and he was without a peny when. he returned 'to England in 1827. A petition. to Par- liament for some reward for his in- ventions proved fruitless, and he died mals; of bitter storms that made life hazardous _for , the herders and their families; of the death " a Eskimo child. In 1926 the Porsill brothe s were directed by the Canadian Government to seek out suitable reindeer .anchin regions. They finally decided that the land just east of the Mackenzie River delta was the best. In May, 1929, a Model of Famous Plane firs. Curtis Zi Dall, daughter of President Roosevelt,' esemes.e a model, the historic aeroplane in which T3loriot flew the Mellish fish ellen .rel in 1909, 'He was the first to successfully accompiisli this teal, greatness realized. _ British -Made Films Rival U. S. Product Montreal. — After years of effort British motion picture producers have at last caught up with those of Holly- wood, in the opinion of R. C. Buch- anan, former baillie of Edinburgh and one of the earliest motion pic- ture theatre proprietors 'in the Brit- ish. Isles. Mr, Buchanan is return- ing to Scotland after a cruise around the world. "I would not havee said two years ago that British pictures were the equal of the American," he declared, "because they were not. Holly- wood had had too long a start on the British studios. There was not the money in England for the costly equipment. But this has been re- medied, and we also have been get- ting producers with American experi- ence. "The result is," be said, "that in Australia, for instance. a British pic- ture can now secure booking, `sight unseen Mr, Buchanan left Edinburgh in January of this year at a time when he was satisfied that definite signs of business upturn were already visi- ble "Pretty Soldier" Was a Girl A. Sofia railway ticket inspector checking tickets on a train between Karnobat and Gabrovd noticed that one of two young soldiers traveling together with railway grasses had unusually fall and rosy cheeks and a very unsoidierly look about him. The inspector's suspicions were aroused, so he called an officer traveling upon the same -train. The officer ques- tioned the young soldier, who knew nothing about the unit to which liis uniform belonged and finally con- fessed that "he" was a girl—the fiancee of her Companion. Her broth- er had lent her his uniform and mili- tary pass so that she could travel upon a military pass to gabrovo to^ be married, for she could not afford the full fare, New Potato Has Heavy Yield I{noxville, Tenn,—Jersey Redskins, ' a new fall crop variety of Irish pota ' toes, especially adapted to Tennessee soil and climate, has been discovered by the Tlniver'sity of Tennessee Ex- periment Station, which claims for it an average of more than 200 bushels an acre, contract was signed with the Lomeli Reindeer Company of Seattle, which agreed to deliver 3,000 reindeer at the reserve at a price of $60 a head. Planning the Trek Airplanes reconnoitred along the North Alaskan coast to find the east. est route, and by the fallowi:.g Novena ber the trek began from Buckland Bap on the west shore of the Alaska Penin sula. Andrew Bahr, a Lapp, was Put in charge. Assisting him was a small crew of Lapp and Eskimo herd_ ers, some of whom brought their fami. lies. The "reindeer punchers" worked ori skiis, circling the herd again and again to force back those that had wander. ed or dropped behind. The danger of wolves was always imminent, especially at night or dare ing storms, when they would scatter the easily frightened animals and slaughter eight or nine at a time, if not driven off. In all this work shep-, herd dogs helped greatly. Though' there were 3,000 animals in the herd when the trek began, this number was cut one-fourth by wolves and storms;' and by their being necessarily siaugh: tered by the herders for food. Often the men were separated from the herd in the Arctic storms, and sometimes they Went for days without food, but none of them was lost, The only tragedy was the death of one of the Eskimo babies,. who was buried in', the Arctic wastes under the snow= drifts. But despite all hardships the strange caravan plodded slowly on, each day, struggling a few miles nearer its goal.' When Winter returns, the last 100 miles evil be covered; it is expected that the reindeer will be settled in their reserve by the end of November or early' in December. Then the Por sild brothers and three of the Lapp; herders :will remain with the herd tie teach the Canadian Eskimos how to care for the reindeer in order to profit? most from them. Caging Wild Life when I was a boy in Carolina. writes Archibald Rutledge, in Good, Housekeeping, I was cured forever o caging wild things. Not content wit t hearing mockingbirds sing from the cedars I determined to Gage a young] one and thus have a young musician all my own. On the second day in the cage saw his mother fiy to him with foot in her bill. This attention pleased me," for surely the mother knew how td feed her child better than I did. Th following morning my pathetic little captive was dead. When I recounted this experience to Arthur Wayne, the renowned orithologist, he said: , "A mother mockingbird, finding he.' young in a cage, will sometimes take it poisoned berries. She thinks it is better for one she loves to die rather.' than to live in captivity." Dog and Cat Organize Chicago—William Dixon sgys M cat and dog have a system all o their own, under which each gets day off. i. Daisy, the cat, gave birth to two' kittens 10 days ago, , Two • days lag ter, Trixie, a Russian Poteranian) had three puppies. Then the cat and the dog go � their offspring all mixed up, Dixo said, and now each nurses the other's babies, alternating by days. The new car was run in after 500 miles; the new driver was run in bei fore 50 miles. IT all and your I®.i•rby willftbb,,eglad �. Send for our new edition of "Baby's Welfare." It contains 84 pages of vital information on baby's layette, baby's bath, sleep, food, health, There are weight and height charts and much in- u i valuable infor J /nation. Write The Borden Co., Yardley House, To- ronto.