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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1933-10-05, Page 2TliE Mysterious Masquerade By JR. w,LMor SYNAPSIS. At .a London dance club lliolly Car- stairs meets Roger Darling who prom- ises to set her a job. Tho following morning Molly is stopped by a Policeman and taken to the police station where she Is identified by a Mr. and Mrs. Silver xis their missing niece. She discovers she is being used as a decoy in a gambling house. The Silvers next tell Mo11y that Major Carstairs, her lather, is returning from India. Molly meets her supposed father, and they take a flat in town. Molly meets Roger Barling at a dinner given by her father and uses her loss of memory as explanation of her silence. She receives a letter intimating knowl- edge of the real Molly Carstairs. CHAPTER X4CII. Rivington Gardena are inaptly nam- ed. At one time, perhaps, they had some justification for the title, but to- rr,,ty they are represented by a row of tall Georgian houses, with broken iron railingsskirting the footwork and flanking a plot of soil grown hard and barren through the long years of neglect. Molly picked her way carefully in the gloom, which was pierced occa- sionally by one flickering glare of a gaslami . At last she found the house which she so fearfully sought and passed up the flagged pathway to the door. She knocked an the broken iron knocker and a moment later she heard shambling footsteps. The door opened end a cracked voice inquired: "Who's there?" Molly hesitated. "I've called to see someone—a lady," she faltered, fear- fully. "Ain't no ladies livin"'ere," cho•ak- ed the voice, with a touch of malice. "But I have an appointment," Molly protested. "Won't you inquire?" • No reply came, but the door closed abruptly. Molly waited on in the hope that the owner of the voice had acted on her suggestions. After five minutes of anxious waiting the door opened again, and the same voice said "Come Inside." Molly needed no second bidding. She heard the door slammed behind her and in the dim gleam of a pin- point of light from a gas jet she saw an old crone with bent shoulders hob- bling past her. At the foot of a flight of bare wood- en stairs the grotesque figure halted end, pointing with the stick in her hand, she said: "First door on the right at the top of the first landing." The door indicated stood open a crack and the girl knocked on the panel. In response to an invitation she opened the door wider and stood frightened on the threshold. A parafin lamp stood on a bare ta- ble; in front of a fire of sorts seated in a chair was a woman reading a novel, which she flung onto the floor as she turned towards her visitor. Reassured, Molly advanced into the room, closing the door behind her. The girl in the chair rose slowly and the two Molly Carstairs stood face to face. Molly saw a girl about her own age with hard., glittering eyes, heavily made-up, the rouge thick upon her lips. She was shabbily dressed, al- though her hair was not untidy. She was wearing a thin cheap sleeveless frock that barely covered her knees. Molly sat down and looked up at the girl before her. "Did you bring the girl demanded. "What little I could get. But why should you want money from me?" The girl laughed. It was a bitter, unrestrained laugh. "From the same urge that other people need money, dearie," she said, "because I've got to go on living." "But if you're Molly Carstairs who ran away from the Silvers, you're go- ing to come back with me tonight to your father," protested Molly. "You've got lots more thinks coming' to you, dearie," said the other girl. "Here, let's see the color of the money —I need it." "But -but," protested Molly, "won't you listen to file, just for one moment. I can explain everything." "Money can talk better than you can," snapped her companion. "Give me that bag!" Slowly Molly realized that to argue with the girl was impossible. She pulled back the fastener of heir hand- bag and took out a sheaf of ten One Pound Treasury notes. • The girl's eyes gleamed' likea hun- gry dog as she snetched the notes and c:.unted them deliriously.- "1 said twenty pounds," she said. "There's .only ten here." Molly protested that that was all she could obtain, "Z7el1, we're not going to argue, dearie," smiled the girl, crossing the room and cunningly placing the notes under the mattress of the little bed- stead that stood in one corner of the room. I hope we're going to become friends, you and I—very good friends. M Little olly's not going to go hungry any more, is she?" fore her eyes, and it had looked so ' Canadian Girl simple. more , "Look here," the other's tone was' s Smarter conciliatory. "I'm not as bad as u . • I seem, really, I'm not, but now I've found you there's arxsian d there's something I'd very much like to do I'd like to put one aver on the Silvers, i want to get French Workers Save For even with them before I Colne back. Dowries but Our CinderThere's lots of things I know about them that can be turned to profitable ellas Hope to Marry account, I'll begin right away, But had happened—as if you hadn't filet Paris may be the fashion centre of me. I'll want some money to do it the in ftilo writes iFtes a capital, aianut Polis woman liv that, now, would you? You want to with, of course. You wouldn't mind working ices can take lessons in chic . pay themback, too. Let ;fie do it for from any Canadianshop girl, you. I know them. better. I'll scare Watch the six o'clock gowd pour them both to hell. What do you say?" out of the employees'• entrance of Molly felt that she had succeeded; Paris department stores, offices, fac- that she had extracted a promise from tories and business houses. Here is no snappy crowd such as pushes gaily thegirl Millionaires T want you to Carly on as if nothing Molly realized that she must take a quick grip on this terrible situation. This girl must be made to see the light reason. "Won't you tell me all about it?" pleaded Molly, "Why you ran away, and why you won't come back with me tonight?" "Not on your life, kid. I'm not coming back with you tonight. As for the other...." she shrugged her shoulders and the same cynical smile carne to her lips that Molly had seen a moment before. "D'you think I'm coming back now? No, piny friend, I'm not. For eight years I've been down irx Hell—d'you hear? Hell! If there are seven Hells I've been through them all. The first was with the Sil- vers—the swine. I -thought I'd escape forever from the purgatory they de- vised for nye, but I didn't know then that there were six more waiting for me outside." The girl's voice had soared to a steep crescendo; then it. fell again. "Why should I conte back?" she de- manded. "I never knew my father, and he—be aparently never wanted to know me. If he had, he wouldn't have let me stay with the Silvers. He didn't care. He was in India," she mocked relentlessly. • Molly sprang from her chair and grasped the girl by the shoulders. "You're wrong," she cried. "I tell you he has always cared—always will care. Do you think the Silvers would let him know how they were treating you. When you wrote protesting against the injustice they must have done, they probably burned your letter. And now he's home for good, hungering for the daughter he was compelled to send home to England when her mother died out in India." Molly had never believed she could plead so eloquently. • ' "And do you think Pin. not just as much a dupe of the Silvers as you have been? Do you think I'm mase gaerading like this because I want to? I tell you I was trapped by those fiends, and I've suffered, too," she added quietly. The girl wrenched herself away from Molly's grasp. Tear softened the hardness of her eyes, Then she seemed to steel herself. "So you've suffered, have you?—you won't now what suffering is," she said slowly. "How do you think I've been living all these years? I got entangled with a cotter of a roan; a swindler, that's what he was—a common thief. I didn't know that when he married me. Said he had a city job. He had," she went on, bitterly, "he was a swell confidence swindler in the West End. Led me a hell of a life that mean did, I had a child," she was nearly sobbing now. "She died; only lived a week. I wish I'd died, too. I'd have been hap- pier. But I'm rid of him now. He went to the States and joined a gang. Someone plugged him about twelve months ago. Since then, I've....just drifted downstream; tried to keep my- self respectable. How I've done it, God alone knows, but I have. And then you tell fire you've suffered!" - "I'm sorry," murmured Molly, her oven eyes very moist, "but doesn't what you have told me strengthen my argument that you should come home with me? Please think it over." "No,". announced the girl, deliber- ately. "I'm proud, D'you think my father would like to....but no, that's impossible. You're his daughter, and you've to go on being his daughter and helping me to live my own way. I've made my bed and here I lie." There was a finality to those words that caused a chill to break on Molly's heart. "11 ee aid you d•:cover us• :"' asked lvlolly. "Just luck," smiled the girl. "There's a womaii here who happens to clean the. block of flats where you "I'1l1 to return to her father. do anything 1 .possibly can," out of similar buildiings in Canada. Molly agreed. Drab little figures, these, whether , dressed predominat- "That's the ticket. And now, you'd lothes better be getting back home." As Molly crept down those dark stairs the girl's voice rang eerily in her ears and she knew she was desperately afraid. (To be continues..) Indian Summer with time off to come in and feed them. Moreover, their mammas get three months off before their birth, with pay, and three months after birth, also with pay. And while their skinny or buxom, cotton babies are of nursing age, they can ingly in sleazy black c• ,n come (and bring their babies) a half These are the days when birds, come back, A very few, a bird or two, To take a backward look. These are the clays when skies put on The old, 'old sophistries of June,— A blue and gold mistake. Oh, fraud that cannot cheat the bee, Almost thy plausibiity Induces my belief. Till ranks of seeds.their witness bear, And softly through the altered air Hurries a timid leaf! -Emily Dickinson. Poems. (Boston: Little Brown). money?" the stocicirigs, nondescript hats, eel purses and mended gloves. Canadian working girls may bey their clothes at sales or make them themselves. They may shop weeks at noontime for the right accessories. But they have an underlying sense of style, a trim look of chic, a real "class" that is utterly missing here. So is the colorfulness of their print- ed costumes, the clash of their gleam- ing leaming white accessories (that must be washed every night), the glint; of their silk stockings. *r ``'''.'.• 2« --- Longer And Narrower Skirts For Winter Skirts 1. ill be longer this winter, and there will be a return even to hobble frocks for evening wear. That is the edict of the fashion dic- tators now in Paris for their winter campaign, The lacquered Iady is dead. Colors have forsaken their metallic air. Flow- er shades of hyacinth, jonquil, and prune will he the vogue. . Evening parties wilereveal a strange mixture of Edwardian •off -the -shoulder gowns and mo -rn young women with sweaters of crinkly silk which look as though they were knitted in wool. Afternoon frocks of sporting cut will jostle with sober- high -necked •gowns like our mothers used to wear. The dignity of long flowing skirts is Offset by the impudenc.-of,the win- ter inter hats. They nearly'' all run to an impish. peak at the top, and are worn tilted sideways with a gay little air. Here are the highlights of the new modes: Sweaters with polo Collars to wear et. They either bring their lunch or over backless evening gowns. go clear home for it, rarely spending Sleeveless fur coats, money for food at noontime. They Velvet blouses with tweed suits. make their underwear from pink or Blouses made of wash leather. white muslin, never dream of silk. Ultra -modern artificial silk and ells- They turn their old dresses and coats tic wool. inside out, sponge and clean them Evening jackets in brocade with col- and make them up again. They do lars a foot high. their own laundry, usually with an But once again the dictatorsseem old-fashioned flatiron. In fact, they to have catered for the sylph -like practice now the economies that we figure. They hold out little hope for knew 30 years ago, before our stand - the plump woman this winter. and of living soared. The slimmers will love the new modes. There will be moans among the plump. DRAPERI[ESM.ADE NEW Saving for the Dowry. .This difference in appearance of working girls in Paris and Canada illustrates one of the most fundamen- tal differences in the two countries. In Canada, the working girl puts her wages on her back, hoping to catch a millionaire and so climb out of the working class. Even if she helps sup- port her family, she will deny herself lunches for a week to buy a new hat and sit up nights making d dress to go with it. For a smart looking Canadian Cinderella, in spite of the depression, still has a chance to marry above her station. In France, class distinctions are absolutely rigid. Paris working girls know they will marry some one in their own working class. Also they know that a little "dot" (dowry) will help them make a more advantageous marriage. So they save religiously! French working girls c.ann.ot under - hour later mornings and leave a half hour early evenings. Many other stores and factories are starting cafe- terias where food is sold at cost. long arm of British justice reached in- to this remote corner of southern Af- rica'to investigate the flogging of a white man by natives—a racial viola- tion rarely condoned, In this case, however, the natives were upheld and the white man was punished. Vice Admiral E. R. Evans, atter leading an expedition into the interior, sat under a withered fig tree to pass judgment on the case of Chief Tshe- kedi, of the Bamangwato tribe, who had ordered the white man flogged. The white man is Phineas Mclhtosh, a British subject. The naval court, after the hearing, announced that Mc- Intosh henceforth was banished from all native territories, in view of the deplorable evidence offered. Chief Tshekedi, through an under - official of his tribe, testified that he hacl received complaints that McIn- tosh, son of a blacksmith, had mis- teated a native girl, who had given birth to a child. It also was testified that other girls were enticed from their villages. McIntosh testified that lie had been sentenced to a lashing by a native court on a charge of assault. "I lived with a native as husband and wife," he said 'I am satisfied with tence." Mining Industry Is Now Second Ousts .Forestry — Agriculture Still Firmly Entrenched In First Place stand the Canadian wor4ng Cir1's ; Tshekedi had been deposed' from the restlessness. That a Canadian sten-, chieftainship during the inquiry and ographer or .clerk could save her was virtually und(..r open arrest, money for a couple Of years to take charged with infringing the llechuam a trip and spend it all is utterly be -1 land law forbidding a native court to yond their comprehension. So, too, is I try a European uncicr any circum the fact that the Canadian girl gave!, stances. up her job to take the trip! Once! . they have a job they hold onto it 1 Y�ting Princess Cornplinien$s •1 i 't grim. The mining industry is now the second largest primary producer in Canada, superseding forestry, whicb has held this place for many years. The premier position of agriculture is still firmly entrenched, says the monthly bulletin of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, despite the disastrous decline in prices and the low average grain crops of recent years, but it was apparent as early as 1929 that the position so long held by forestry was in jeopardy, owing to the out- standing record of the mining industry, not only in comparison with other Can- adian industries, but also with world mining, of which it has become an important unit. During the ensuing years the for- estry industry fell back rapidly under the impact of business recession, but the mining industry showed extraor- dinary resistance and eventually suc- ceeded to its present position. As illustrating the progressive im- portance of mining among the three primary industries, in 1920 the per- centage of total primary production was as' follows: Agriculture, 66.7; for- estry, 17.9; mining, 9.4. In 1925, the figures had changed to: Agriculture, 67; forestry, 15.2; mining, 11; and in 1932, the percentages were: Agricul- ture, 47.7, forestry, 17.8; mining, 20.2, death. Sir James Barrie The Paris working girl's petty ecou-' omies- are just as much beyond the A charming story illustrating the Canadian girl's ken. Many live in care with which the young children Paris suburbs with their families. of the Duke and Duchess of York These go to work a whole half hour are being brought up, was told re - early, just to save 50 .centimes (three cently by Sir T. M. Barrie, writes cents) on their round-trip subway tick- the Toronto Mail and Empire. He was warmly welcomed in his native town of ' Kirriemuir, when he per- formed the opening ceremony of a bazaar in the town hall in aid of the funds of the town band. Thous- ands of people watched his arrival,' and inside the hall, which is just across the road from the little house where he was born, there wasnot a vacant seat. Among those pres- ent was Mr. Peter Davies, the ori- ginal of Peter Pan. Sir James said that after all Pro- vost Peacock, the chairman,. had said "When we resumed housekeeping a month ago 1 found my draperies had become creased from packing. ,t hung them out on the line, hoping to re- ma've the creases: • Then I forgot them. The result was they became badly faded and' sun -spotted. "I was heartsick until the happy thought strucle me to dye them. I just eelyeli them a deeper green, and as: I used Diamond Dyes they look gorgeous and new. I'have never seen easier dyes to use than Diamond Dyes. They give the mast beautiful•, colors --when used either for tinting or dyeing --and never take the lffa out of cloth as other dyes do." Mrs. 3, ir. D. Montreal. Open -Air Baths Cause English Wool Boom London.—The social habits of young England aro being changed by the swimming pools that are springing up alongside roadhouses in all parts of the country. So many bathing suits were sold last year that a boom re- sulted in the wool trade, and since then the number of open-air baths has been doubled at least. ' The more pretentious of these estab- lishments offer dancing as well as swimming to customers, and it is now the growing custoni to round off a day walking, motoring, or games -playing with a plunge in the moonlight. are now. • %'heard her mention that a 'elajor Carsinirs and his datignter hal •ta'1len one of the flats. I have an old photograph of him. I went round last right and saw both of you lea -re its a taxi. It was hien all right. Then I knew you were •an imposter. I knew I'd got you; knew I'd make you. pay. I'd get some of my own back on Bite that's how, kid, ,and that's how it's going to. be, What about another ton - tier at the end of the week? "You mean blackmail?" "I believe that' the word, kid. Not n}ce, of course, butthey'd give you five years at Bow Street for imper- sonation. Shall we call it a bargain?" "But I can't!" protested Molly, fren- zied with fear, "I'lI run away. I'll not do it." The conviction of her tone startled the girl. She saw her plan fading be - Times Change A hundred long, long years ago a wild- erness was here, - And man put powder in his gun and -went to hunt the deer. But times have changed a lot since then—we've found a different plain: The clear puts powder on herr face, and goes to hunt the man. Kitchener Record. 'Mannequins Highest Paid. 1Vlannequins are the top-notch of about him, instead of going on be - Paris working girls. They have a chance to strike the fancy of some rich man, when they model all the gorgeous clothes in high class houses. Moreover, they get as high as $180 a mouth, while girls in .department stores get from $35 to $60. Models, after a few years, often become sales- women in couturier establishments, These get less pay, from $80 to $100, but they get a bigger commission on everything they sell (calling "La Guelte") than they did when model- ing, though mannequins get a small commission on every gown they model that is sold. Both mannequins and the sales- ladies at Patou's, Chanel's and the other places where Barbara Hutton (now Princess Mdivani) .bought her clothes, are the envy of all Paris now. Some of them got such big commis- sions (she bought 50 costumes at Patou's alone, none under $100) that they can rest easy for a while. Recreation is a simpler thing with French working girls than with Can - 'odious. The boy friend usually comes to supper at the girl's home or goes to a concert, picnic or to a"cafe with the family., Once in a long time the couple' will take., in a movie, and it will be a real 'treat that they look forward to. .Or, perhaps once a sea- MIIIIIMEMBESSEezemmissamissammolls .. son,. they will go to "Robinson,s,„ OPPORTUNITY! ~ the working class paradise, on the edge of Paris, where there are dance FOR 500 PEOPLE ONLY floors, movies, platforms in the trees lim ' •u to eat, and cafes CARE I cb where you p on every sicl@'•'where you sit and sup AT T./l. PER ing modest, he was• going to give it up at once. Instead, he would tell them of a little compliment paid to him about a week ago by a person whom he would describe as the most delicious lady in the land on the occasion of her third birthdaY not far from there. "She was sitting • gazing with en- tranced delight at one of her' birth- day presents. • It was a little toy table with two pointed flower pots on it, each about the size,of a thim- ble I said to her, 'Is that really yours?' and she said at once, 'It is yours and mine.' "I cannot pretend,” said Sir James, "that I am able to have such a pretty thought as that, but I think in the circumstances I may be allowed to borrow the Princess Margaret's phrase and say, 'Oh Kirriemuir, if there le grace in me that is worthy of sharing, it is all yours and mine,' u, • , , c)-11 (1•11eilr ffh 'hours. On6e married, The Snres of this ppo to n t pre, young. folks pi efeit',eimple, jnehpeusive. sent an unusaal opportunity ite pleasure to 'spending their money. participate in a Property which is 1 rapidly reaching the producing I Favoring Married Women. stage. For full' partleulers welts 1 -- tment`stores encourage mar - or wire at once. Northern Quebec The farmers plant the corn— Unless my guess is wrong, Said Mr. Crow, To feed us birds— And help the caws along. What A Pal Two men were out hunting whet suddenly the game warden appeared and demanded to see their licenses One immediately took to his heels and the officer rushed off in pursuit. Foi ten minutes the two dashed over th( fields, and finally the officer caught th( fleeing huntsman. "Now, then," exclaimed the officer, almost out of breath, "I'll have to ar rest you." "What for?" demanded the hunter. "For hunting without a license." Very deliberately, the hunter fished the necessary document out of be pocket and presented it to the game warden. "Why in blazes did you run awns when you had a license?" asked the astonished officer. "'Well, you see," was the calm reply, "the other fellow didn't have any"-_.. Sante Fe Magazine. 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To keep in step with the pro- gress of your community; to get your ep< r share of business you must advertise ' tied women working. Pond of chill regularly. Take your newspaper pub- dren as the French are, some of the usher into your confidence; ' he Can stores make special provision for near- ! give you invaluable assistance. Es- GQld Minos LootedLooted�Lootedd women who have babies The tablish an advertising budget. Plat) Galleries Lafayette has a charming a regular scliedul y • tae s i e for our advertise - 242 BAY STREET, TORONTOnursery, 2 er where 65 bouncing babies un. 1 meats. It's a policy that is followed WAverley 5402 (ler one year are cured for °during' by the most successful stores; les en gesetemmemmiimaimossthe day while their mammas work, idea that will be profitable to you, ISSUE No. 39,-233