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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-07-19, Page 2TIDE �m4 movie* With aa athletic grace, but her interest, to the despair of her smother, were .not domestic, She YOUT drove and rode well, but she rimed} with a "homeward bound" stitch, as sailors say; there was neither neats nese nor permanence about it, She the Author of "Pencarrow” had a quick wit and a sharp tongue, By : and was hard to beat in an argument. SriMiles e nevie had learnt that By NELLE M. SCANLAN his daughte Genevieve was the only member of the family who dared to contradict him. :a -.a e a u■ l B r a m o ar ae w o -a d a -K u a a a ewe• SYNOPSIS. Kelly 'lea Barrow is heartbroken when his Uncle Michael offers Gen- try, his daughter's husband, a share In the Duffield .farm. Kelly feels Gentry will not appreciate the ges- ture. it was something almost sacred and apart. He loved every ridge of the hills, every curve of the valleys, every sweep of the pasture, and the beauty he had brought about with his own hands; the trees he had planted, the gardens be had made; the experi- ments he was trying, and the im- provements he was accomplishing. Gentry didn't care. Often he had laughed at the passionate enthusiasm with which Kelly had worked. But Gentry was an .English cadet then, and didn't understand. Now he was part owner . . . and didn't care. For these reasons Kelly could not return to Duffield, nor could he work on the Home Farm, He had tried to make them see, but they would not. "It's not the money, Grannie. f'm not Jealous of Gentry, as Father said." "I know, my dear. You have a lot of your grandfather, John Kelly, in you, but you have enougb of me to make me understand." "It was my tault, upsetting you Iast night. I'm terribly sorry, Gran- nie." "The old heart is a little tired, my boy. But it is not the first shock it has had, and it won't be the last, so don't blame yourself for that." "But I do," "Tell me, what will you do now? You have quarrelled 'with your father again." "Yes. t''m sorry, Grannie, but I couldn't help it. He will never see my point of view He talks to me as if I were a criminal he was prose- cuting!" "Don't say that, Kelly." "He does, really, Grannie. 1 don't think he likes me much, He's ambi- tion for me, I know, for the Pencar- row firm, but not for me as 7 am. He resents me because I want to go my own way---", "Some day, Kelly, you may marry and have sons of your own. Remem- ber it then, Don't try t0 force them too harp. But you will; you will. If you owned Duffield, and your son wanted to be—a doctor, shall we we say?—and sell the farm, what would you say then? .What would come of all your planning and con- triving?" Kelly was silent. He knew she was right, and yet he could not sur- render. "Tell me, what are you going to do now?" "I'll get on some up -country place, and later I may be able to pick up a bit of new country cheap, and clear it. Father says he'll never give me a penny But I don't care." Bessie Pencarrow saw the sting- ing tears held back. He was stub- born. Of all this turbulent brood of grandchildren, Kelly was dearest to her. He was laying the foundations of a stormy life, but no words or entreaties could save him. Kelly thought of it all now as he rode through the short afternoon, b.as., tening to see her once again before she died He waw obligee to spend the night at the railway hotel in order to catch the train next morning. Tomorrow would he the first of October, the heart of spring ie New Zealand's cal- endar, where June brings rain, not roses, and Christmas treads on the heels of the longest day. CHAPTER Two Kelly the Stubborn. Genevieve met Kelly at Wellirpg- ton station. There was a frank fearlessness about Genevieve that was almost boy- ish, She was tall, like her father, Defiance he eallea it. The amusing, kindly, devoted father of their early childhood had become, after Jack was drowned., a brooding, disappointed, temperamental man, with a grudge against fate. True he was wealthy, and retained his place at the head of the' Bar; was knighted for his services to the Government, and had a devoted wife and six healthy chil- dren, What more could a man ask? Yet be had a sense of failure. Kelly had stubbornly refused to take his elder brother's place and carry on the old firm of Kelly and Pencarrow. • Then Mary, his eldest daughtei took he pretty face into convent, instead of making the ,brilliant marriage he had hoped for her. That accounted for the eldest three. Then young Pat flashed into the limelight, As one of the younger he had been Merely a cipher, He fed and fought and took the biffs and bangs of his elders in the rough and tumble of that infantile democracy, the nurs- ery. Patrick Aloysius Pencarrow was the youngest of the main brood, a gap of several years dividing him from the last child. Peter, Margaret, who was his immediate senior, was a soft, pliant child, and the one who would conform to her father's demands. But for her he had ncspecial ambition. "No brains, but a nice disposition," was Kelly's verdict on her in later years. She lacked the vital qualities whish Pat demanded. Genevieve, who was eighteen months older than Margaret had allied herself with Kelly, whom she adored. Pat was driven to seek adventure in books. He feasted on books of ad- venture, and revelled in thrills of the sea, which woke a wild longing to share in these dare devil doings before the mast. He would sit deep in a tale of storm and wreck, of coral islands and strange, fascinat- ing ports, without thought of time or place. He was transported hith- er and thither by the wild rush of words, which built new and enthrall- ing worlds for him. He could almost smell the very spice of. Eastorn, car- goes, ar d his flesh would creep with the curl of the lash, Into this little world apart came crashing one day his father's chance statement, which he overheard in the curtained cornea where he rend. _ auk deep into" his childish . ted,d, "Kelly will do what 1 tell him, or I shall know the reason why. I'll not be thwarted by my children. I have worked and planned for them, and I know what is for their good." "But Miles, dear, Kelly has set his heart on being a farmer with Michael at Duffield." It was his mother's voice pleading, "I say he is to come into the office and take his place in the firm. And don't you encourage bin: in bis fool- ish ideas." "Ile can be very stubborn, Mlles. And he loves Duffield; and, remem- ber, Michael bas no son." "1 know, 1 know all that," His father's voice had been impatient. "Pat will go to Dunfield with Mich- aeh 1 planned the' long ago." "I don't think Pat wants to be a farmer," Norah, his moruer, had ven- tured timidly; "Must 1 consult every whim of these children, and be dictated to by them? I say Pat is to go to Duffield, and that settles the matter," The small boy• reading bis "Trees ure Island," was stunned by this un- expected blow. They were going to send him to Duffield and make a tat. merof him, and he didn't want to go. He wouldn't em, It wag after Kelly had defied els father, and taken the consequences, that Pat, in the secrecy of his heart, made his decision It's a mystery to me why some men can't , take their foot off the accelerator once in a while. I suppose it's some kind of disease`---"'speeditis" I'd call it --and it takes a real shock of some sort to cure it. Like hiccoughs only it's a sight more serious. For in- stance --- Two days ago, about tea- time, a big car sailed past me this side of Jonesville. Had a clear road all right, but they were hopping to it --- so I thought I'd check up, and maybe tell 'em to slow down a bit: That's how I came to be right there when the crash came, two minutes later; Did that foolish driver slow down through the village? Not by a jug£ul. Just went right on as though the place wasn't there. And right by the cross-roads in the middle of the village it happened. Old man Higgins' big police dog ran out right in front. 1 heard the brakes go on then —the car almost lifted. itself off the road—I heard a wo- man scream and the dog's last shriek—the car wobbled for a second as it went over the poor tyke, and then it struck the post in front of the store. I was there almost on the. second—and what a mesal adiator and „ bumper smash- ed, fenders crushed—driver stunned and • bleeding, his wife in hysterics. And a poor old dog dead in the road. Why ca'n't people slow down going through towns and villages? You tell me. Well I'll be seeing you. Kelly'a revolt via caused open con - filet in the house, but be had suc- ceeded, Pat knew he had not Kelly's resistance to persuaelor and entreaty. He took no one into his contidence, But after a specially unpleasant scenic at home, when his fatter was more vehement than ever in his determina- tion to bend his children to his will, Pat, with the glamor of romance lur- ing him, on, packet] his little bag and stole out one evening. He had made his plans eautiot sly, One of the Col- onial clippers, belonging to the Cir- cular Saw Line, which took timber from New Zealand to Sydney, was in Wellington. Her usual ports were Aukland and the Bay of. Islands. When she sailed at dawn Pat Pencarrow was on board, ;le had ran away to sea. 1'i'+, lie i•' atc;TIN; I s New that `;tie tins if urtit d Ili w easy it Is to diop cigarette ashes, many a t i wife has decided her husband may be' was'right in saying they are good' for the rug and keep the moths out —•Cincinnati Enquirer. Distinctive Quality 708 Fresh from the Gardens Gems From .Life';;; Scrap Book "The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough," --Carlyle. • "The very circumstance, which your suffering sense 'deems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel entertained unawares."—Mary Baker Eddy. "With every anguish of our earthly part the spirit's eight grows clearer," —Lowell. "Fairer and more fruitful in spring the vine becomes from the skilful pruning of the husbandman,"-14Ies. tastasio. "Let me be pruned, that I may grow,"—Bishop Ball. "Whatever pur:fiee, sanctifies, and consecrates human Iife, is not an enemy, however much we suffer in the processes."—Mary Baker Eddy. Who Rules U.S.? The regular daily and nightly homi- cides, the regular stick-ups and hold- ups, the regular gang shootings and other crimes of violence continue at their regular rate. They are too familiar to be considered news. So, we ask, in all good faith, who runs this country? We don't see how the decent people can claim to run it. We don't ever see how the city and stat • and national governments can claim to run it. If the people or the government did run it, do you think for a minute that a few thousand criminals could terrorize with im- punity "the richest and most power- ful nation on earth?' --- New York Journal. Market for Rn While production of rayon in Cze- choslovakia has notably increased, it is still insufficient to supply domestic demand, according to a report from Mr. Sam E. Woods, commercial at- tache at Prague, made to the United States Department el Commerce. Be- cause of fashion changes, an enor- mous increase In rayon consumption occurred in 1933, amounting to 5,300,- 000 ,300;000 kilograms, as compared with only 4,000,000 kilograms in the preceding year. Three rayon factories were operat- ing during 1933, although one of these was forced tc suspend operations to- ward the close of the year. The total output of these plants amounted to 3,200,000 kilograms of viscose rayon. nd He Won! Consider the recent campaign in the incomparable state of Kansas: One candidate for the state legisla- ture boasted of his honorable dis- charge from a local madhouse, In every stump speech, he waved the documents triumphantly. "I have pa- pers here to prove I'm not crazy," he would cry. "Can my opponent say the same?" P.S.—He got the lob.— The New Yorker. Thief Carries Off 200.Pound Safe JOIHNSTOWN, Pa. -- Chas. Per- ando, 37, is serving two to four years for Johnstown's most ambitious rob- bery. A 200 pound safe, containing $1,000, was carried from a store, pried open and then submerged in a ct'eell ci In hRelieve ' ot weather, stomach disorders and indigestion occur mare fres quently. Also children may play too hard. ,Mrs. Mary Mason, d3 Atlantic St., Halifax, N.S., says, Minn the children are overtired and restless in warm weather I give them Baby's Own Tabl€ts be- fore retiring and in the morning they are happy, contented chit. dren" Safe even for the. tiniest baby, tb ese sweet l ittle tabl cts r ti ec- tively relieve olio, 'sununer tom- repent, eitmpl'rieo 2eca»a Iallre minor Dr WiIill�ipams'/� ,DABY'S'; ,iw7! `y•�l. ,, .". .s. EXPERT DENIES FEMALE IS MORE DEADLY THAN MALE Director of New York Zoological Park Says Male of the Species is More Powerful Than It's Mate New Y o r k.—Kipling was all wrong in the opinion of Dr. W. Reid Blair, when he observed that the fe- male of the species is more deadly than the male. Dr. Blair is in a position to know a lot about animals, both sexes. He is director of the New York Zoologi- cal Park—Bronx Zoo to the nature - loving, bear -feeding and lawn -litter- ing public. The male of the species, 1)r. Blair declared today, is more dangerous, more powerful and more courageous than its mate. "Among the higher forms of ani- mal life," he said, "the males are larger, iierrer and better equipped with defensive and offensive wea- pons. "It has been inv experience, hand- ling all sorts of animals here at the zoo, that the males are much harder to handle, much more dangerous than the females." The reason, he said, is that upon the reales falls the burden of pro- tecting and providing for the home. He gave credit to the females for greater docility, gentleness a n d adaptability. He also thinks females exhibit more intelligence in captivity —if intelligence is regarded as the ability or a creature to meet new situations, The females are less obstinate and headstrong than their mates,. he as- serted. In some high orders of the animal world notably among tI a birds of prey, the female is larger than the male. Even then, Dr. , Blair said, the male makes up for his deficiency in size by possessing more dash and courage. So, in Dr, Blair's opinion, Kipling was merely taking advantage of -Ids nice -sounding, but unscientific adage, Its only basis in fact, he said, firs that sometimes the females shows a little more subtlety in Its method of attack. Dr. Blair mentioned that down in the basement of the animal world, among the lower and more primitive creatures such as insects and crus- taceans, the female is usually larger and stronger than the male. Frequently, she kills and devours him after all biological responsibili- ties have been met. But going up the scale of life into the more advanced forms, the mam- mals for instance, including man, woman's place is in the home and hers is the subordinate, domestic role. Since this pattern of nature's seema contrary to the ideals of staunch feminists such as public office -hold. ing, trans-Atlantic flying women,— Dr. Blair discreetly declined to do any theorizing or interpreting. Models Flu's Woman is 'Responsible for Insect Replicas at.. London Museum Down a long, narrow passage, made narrower by the procession of mam- moth skulls stretching along it in dim perspective; past bays heaped night- marishly with• antle.red heads; and so, at last, up a ladderlike staircase to the west tower. This is not the opening of a thrill- er; merely a summary of the devious ways behind the scenes at the Natur- al History Museum, South Kensing- ton, London, Eng., by which one conies into the presence of the woman who is responsb'ie for those enor- mous wax models of flies and cater- pillars and mosquitoes whicb, placed in the glass cases of the entrance hall, have served as an interest -quicken- ing introduction to the Museum, Titivating the Monster See Miss Grace Edwards, in her tower -roost, titivating a monstrous waxen malaria mosquito. At present it is not quite itself; its evil, grey- ish body hoverb cm its stand with only one wing; its head glares he fully, waving outraged antennae from a neighboring stand. But it is better suet in this undressed state than in its finished glory, because now the intricaciee of its construc- tion are laid bare Mee stages of its evolution are many. First of all there it is life- size—and so small that you involun- tarily crinkle up your eyes at it in a little glass -covered box. Magnify- ing glasses and book -illustrations assist at the various enlarged draw- ings which must be rigidly accurate and to scale, When these have been done the actual modelling can begin. A plaster cast of the body having bean made from a preliminary model, the wax is heated, correctly tinted, and then psured into this mould to cool and harden over central wires, Authentic Sheen When the body comes out of the mould the exam markings of the mo..quitc are pained on it, and, since ,he mosquito is a hairy fellow, it is stuck, with dozens of real hair bris- tles or stiffenee silk "hairs." rhe wiag,trames are thea made of fine wire, bent and soldered into a beautiful tracery', on to this a gum- med fine silk tnuslin, which is van nisieed and tinted with the authe'htic rose and green sl.t•en of an insect's wing. A .fine feathery edging has to be gummed all round the wings. 'I'll +re le than the wicked bead' to be nimieloo proboscis and all, and the 11,,i+..:etc antennae carefully poised, r":r:r. ,ne Monster is assembled and m ,•, tin larked, ugh on a stand, wee wit ilIo(1ele (it it.r larvae and i3Oi1' n•tt:tir' 11 ftr,rl behold, it i, ri+a iv L niai:o its• bow to the public, Haw iong doe: all this take? At any rate several weeks; such works of art cannot be turned out to a fac- tory time -schedule. And that they are works of art, experts of all nations will testify. even the laymai can judge how ex- pert apert a modeller Miss Edwards is from a case in the Museum entrance- hali, showing a meal of ham and a roll with hoase-flies or it. The baht looks succulently real, the roll rather dry. A mouthful of wax would be your reward if you bit into either of them. Phe aspiring art -student should weigh well the list of necessary qualifications before choosing this interesting, but exacting career, First, > painstaking accurracy of draughtsmanship in the preliminary sketches. nes: an uncanny skill in modelling and. thirdly a color -sense keen enough to cope with the inde- terminate mingling shades of nature. That there are candidates who can pass .illi searching teat is evident by the fact that, of late years, some of the provincial museums—notably Liverpool and Cardiff—have enlisted a• woman modelle' tc make such wax morsels as they mens require. ideas Wanted Artists and Authors, Amat- eur or Professional are invit- ed to send us saleable Sket- ches, ket-ches, Illustrations, Designs, Short Stories and Articles.. ARE YOU ARTISTICALLY INCLINED? 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