HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-09-20, Page 2Night Noises Nil
As Low:lon Sleeps
London — London's campaign to
quiet the big city during sleeping!
hours was inaugurated with success'
recently. There was a stillness for
7% hours the; astonished the town,
By order of the Ministry of Trans-
port, the sounding of automobile
horns and sirens was prohibited be-
tween 11;30 p.m, and 7 a.m, in a
five -mile area from Charing Cross.
Motorists showed a readiness to re-
spond and 3000 extra pollee, posted
throughout the area, were rarely
obliged to caution drivers.
Even the late-night putpouring
from theaters with the usual frantic
demand for taxis was conducted in
comparative silence, When the first
glint of sunrise burnished the cross
of St. PauPs, market gardeners'
lorries rumbled toward Covent Gar-
den without a single blast,
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by the sentence of one of the judges,
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TIDES of *YOUTH
By the Author of "Pencarrow"
13y NELLE M. SCANLAN
syeopele ereceaue Mainers
The principal character to toe story
is Kelly Yencarrow.
Kelly is the son of Sir Mlles Pen -
arrow, a lawyer whose father and
mother emigrated to New Zealand and
brought up a family who are now the
Parente of the young people with whom
the story is 'concerned.
Sir Mlles Fencarro%v wished Kelly to
become a lawyer and to enter his
father's practice. Kelly Insists on be-
coming, a farmer. Ele Joins an uncle.
Michael Pencarrow, who (myna Dui%
field farm,
His uncle has a daugter, Ella, wilt,
fails in iove with an hingiishman nam-
ed Gentry. Ella's father offers Gentry a
half-share in the Duffield Farm.
This infuriates Kelly Pencarrow.
He quarrels with Gentry, assaults him
and leaves bufficla to work elsewhere.
Kelly received a summons to the bee -
side of his dying grandmother, the
mother et Sir Allies Permarrow.
Arrived at the bedside, he Is askerl if
he wilt apologise to Gentry and thus
Sive her the assurance that the family
a hope or reconciliation.
By the Will, Kelly inherits two
thousand pounds, and purchases some
bush land at Tapuwai.
In his second season be invites his
sister Genevieve, his sailor -brother Pat,
and his cousins Robin Herrick and
Jee IQ MaCC1911ald toCOOle te TilP_gwal•
ile they In with hini, Ically starts
a hush Are part of clearing operations.
Now read on
Genevieve picked up auy money
and watches belonging to the boys,
no matter whose; she packed all the
food, a kettle, pot and blankets, and
with Jessie, who was now trembling
piteously, began their move to the
stream, She felt better after this; the
inactivity, waiting helplessly, tragic_
ally, would have broken her courage,
The heat was terrific. The awful
glare in the sky, the crackle and roar
of the flames, the rush of the wind
swept everything before it, and
against which they battled down to
the stream, called for conscious ef-
fort, .
Following the track, Barker and KO_
bin made for Fabian's cottage at the
head of the valley. Robin was riding
Old Faithful, a good hack that knew
every itch of the country, but had
no pace, Maddened by the smoke
which scorched his eyeballs, Old
Faithful snorted as Robin urged him
to make speed, The thought of the
old woman and the child alone facing
that horrible death justified the spur
against such willing flanks.
The smoke was rolling in dense
clouds, so dense that he coud scarce-
ly see, but the lurid glare of the
flames which leapt from tree to tree
illuminated the Valley in a hectic
light,
At last they reached the doer, and
Robin held the terrified horses while
Potty dashed into the cottage,
"Here, take the youngster; he's
alive and kicking like blazes," and
Barker thrust the baby into his arms.
"Down that way, and try to pick up
the stream, but go for your life. 1,11
follow."
Robin held the squirming baby
tightly and the chubby fists pounded
his face as he fought against the
smoke.
Potty Barker followed, with the in_
ert figure. of Mrs, Fabian, a small,
lean little grey-haired woman, hang_
ing limp in his arras.
Barker's spare frame had a steely
strength, and his endurance was
phenomenal, There was no track
through the thick scrub, which was
now alight in several places from fly-
in,g sparks. The gale, the heat, the
smoke, the terrified horse, the awk-
ward burden, all hampered him. More
than once he wondered if he would
reach the stream.
Robin got through first, his horse
stumbling on the rocky bottom of the
stream. Barker was not far behind,
but twice he had been struck by
sparks which had set fire to Mrs. Pa-
bian's clothes.
"Thank God:" said Robin, when
Potty joined him. Here they halted
and the horses drank noisily from the
stream, the water of which was quite
warm.
Peter Barker looked down into the
face of the woman he carried,
"Dead! Fright, I suppose, I thought
so when I lifted her, but I couldn't
leave her behind,"
Better push on,', said Robin, who
was anxious about Genevieve and
Jessie.
'Yes, Well keep to the stream and
let the horses make their own pace.
There aren't any snags or holes in
this part; it's damned rough going.
but they are fairly sure-footed,"
"A good thing the Valley is clear
on either side of the stream down
here."
"If it wasn't, it would mean a quick
good-bye.'
As they turned their horses down-
streatn, the baby struggled in Robin's
arms, and howled lustily,
Dawn was unveiling the devastation
of night when they reached the stone
bridge and saw the pathetic group
watching for them.
"Here's your little son," and Robin
held the screaming child towards his
father, but Kelly shook his head, Fa-
bian was delirious, and hie mind won.
dered. Ile just babbled incoherently
as he lay in agony, a rough first-aid
splint and a torn sheet bandage be.
ing the best Genevieve could do.
"His mother is here, but she is
`eping—fainted," said Barker. and
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he laid her gently on the bank as
close to the stream as he dared, and
spread his coat ever her.
Two sheep, their wool alight from
flying sparks, rushed bleating down
the Valley. Kelly picked up a heavy
stick and stunned them, and threw
them into the stream to drown. It was
the only way, Already bis hands were
badly burnt trying to save some of
them by beating out the flaming wool,
Throughout the night of horror
one thought persisted: he was res..
ponsible if anything should happen
to the others; he had asked them to
come. Genevieve had protested that
she was to blame; the idea had been
Jaers. That they should time their visit
to see the burn was Kelly's sugges-
tion. Potty told him to shut up, it
didn't matter now,
As the where caught and burnt fier-
cely for a few moments, and then col-
lapsed into a few blazing logs and
twisted iron, a dull despair over-
wiaatied him. It followed the pas-
sionate fight be had made earlier in
the night to stave off disaster and
rescue his stock,
Be was ruined, His Grannie's money
was going up in these Eames. She had
given him his chance, and he had fail-
ed again. Something was wrong with
him. Even if they got out alive, he
could never come back; never live
here again, not after this hell of to-
night. He had lost his money, and
would have to begin again.
Would they, too, catch tire from
the flying 'sparks? What would he
do—stun them, like the sheep, and let
them drown painlessly; a merciful
death? His hands were dreadfully
painful; his eyes were scorched. Yes,
he could not let them burn, he would
stun them, Genevieve and .Tessie first,
and throw them into the stream,
Jessie found some comfort In the
contemptuous confidence of Potty
Barker, He kept assuring her they
would get out somehow, It might be
a few days, and they would be a bit
hungry, but it was marvellous how
long you could live on hope — and
water.
Daylight show ed the blackened ruin
all around them. The flames, now
having swept everything near, had
moved further back, but Still imp
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What Does Your Handwriting Reveal?
• GEO. ST. CLAIR
(Grapho-Analyst)
All Rights Reserved.
(Editor's Note: The striking inter.,
est in Character Reading from Hand.
writing is shown ih the number ef re.
quests from readers who wish to have
their own handwriting analysed, as
well as that of their friends. Have
YOU had YOURS analysed? The an-
nouncement following this article will
interest you.
This week I am illustrating the wri.
ting of a lady with a rather strong
character. This lady has a good deal
of capacity for emotional feeling, but
she also has, what in her case is a
compensating factor, a strong naind.
She feels deeply, but she also brings
her mind into play, and uses her jud-
gement.
Reticence is shown in the way she
closes her "a", She doesn't talk at
random, and let everyone know what
she knows. She knows how to keep
secrets. Anyone who writes the "ar
and "o" so that they are closed, is not
inclined to talk too much, and if these
letters are knotted at the top, this is
even stronger evidence of this char-
acteristic,
Another trait that distinguished this
lady is a tendency to hold very de-
cided and fixed views on certain mat.
ters. Once she makes up her mind on
any question, it is not easy to dis.
suade her,
And she can be a little ruthless, too,
There is evidence that she is more in.
There are people who have a tre.
mendous capacity for emotional feel-
ing, and who are ruled completely by
their feelings. They do things Impul-
sively, without any careful pre -judge-
ment, and are swayed hither and yon
as their emotions dictate,
Not so with this lady! She feels
deeply, and will often feel sympath-
etically disposed to other people. But
her mind will prevent her from going
to excess. She may be generous, but
it will be a reasoned generosity, and
not the blind impulsive generosity of
people who are governed entirely by
their heart and emotions,
In them.oneher particular case, there is an -
blazing
Smouldering h tad
a otter trait. She Is inclined to consid-
theblazing stumps marked the track `oe72‘e,,
her awn self-interest in doing any -
fire, Potty Barker looked at it th.ag,
She will be inclined to ask her..
any -
the queer half light and said with em.
phasis for the second time: •(self file question: What do I get out
of this?
"A fair cow.,'
Pat, who bad known something of ing
This lady has a very quickthink.
mind. She arrives at conclusions
in a lash, Note the sharp -pointed a's
and m's. And she has a facile mind,
also. Observe how the loop of the 'g'
turns to the right, instead of normally
twirling to the left, as most people do
with this letter.
danger at sea, had learnt to face and -
peril with the stoicism of a sailor.
Once only at sea bad be heard the
dread alarm of fire raised. It was
caused by a bale of oakum igniting.
They had had regular fire drill, and
the sailors and single men quickly
took up their posts, The single men
had to bring up their blankets, dip
them in water, and throw them over
the fire, They did this, and the •blan-
kets were all burnt, and they had no
others to replace them for the rest
of the voyage. But the fire was quick-
ly put out,
Pat turned his mind from that in-
cident of fire, and remembered how,
when lying sweating in the Doldrums
they had often cooled themselves by
talking about icebergs.
Both Kelly and Robin, Being badly
burnt, were suffering intense pain:,
Potty Barker, more hardened, dismiss-
ed his small injury and illumined the
long silences with au occasional pic-
turesque oath, Pat had escaped burn-
ing, but was almost blind with smoke.
The hours passed slowly, and he tried
to offer distraction with tales of the
sea, cooling tales of storms, of ice-
bergs and lashing rain and the great
green cambers that swept round the
Horn. Some were from his own exper-
ience; others were from that wealth
of narrative spilled into the pool of
the fo'c'sle'
"Better to drown than to burn," said
Kelly, speaking for the first time,
With the words, the mad obsession
that he might have to drown them
seemed to fade, banished by his voice.
It was as though his mind had been
babbling wildly, like poor Fabian, and
the realization came as a shock.
Silence fell again, until the baby
cried.
(To 13e Continued,)
Plumbing May Be Cause
Of Amoebic Dysentery
Toronto—Prevention of amoebic dy-
sentry by the inspection of plumbing
in all of the larger and older build.
hags in the United States and Canada
' was the chief topic to be discussed
by sanitary engineers at the interne,.
Lionel convention of the American So.
clety of Sanitary Engineers held here,
The hazards 01 defective plumbing
in older buildings as illustrated by
the epldernit of amoebic dysentery in
Chicago were dealt with by Thomas
Claffy of the department of leant.
tary engineers Of the Chicago Board
of Health,
terested in attaining ally particular
objective than in the means she uses
to attain it. Notice the small "d" stem,
This writing is that of a lady who
uses her head more than her heart in
doing anything. She controls her feel-
ings, A good person to have ir charge
of any position of responsibility, be.
cause she uses her judgement,
Miss "Clarice", Toronto. You will
have to come out of your shell, if you
want to get on. You are too backward
in expressing yourself. You let others
ride slipshod over you, because they
are more aggressive. Don't be afraid
of speaking up for yourself.
Do YOU want to know what YOUR
handwriting shows? Have you any
particular friend whose real character
you would like to know? A handwrit.
Ing analysis reveals the real self be-
hind the writing, and may open the
door of opportunity to you, Send spec•
imens of the writing you want analy-
sed, and state birthdate in, each case,
Send 10c coin for each specimen, and
enclose with 3c stamped addressed
envelope to: Geoffrey St. Clair, Gra.
pho-Analyst, Room 421, 73 Adelaide
Street West, Toronto. Letters are con.
fldential of course,
Women Not Lonely
lb North
•••.•••••••••••••
Eleven Hundred Miles From
Civilization, There is so
Much To Do and There are
Many Visitors.
Cameron Bay, N.W.T, — "The
Great Lone Land," it has often been
called, but to the women who live on
the Arctic's rim the north country is
far" from lonely.
Eleven hundred miles from civiliz-
ation, the few women living at Cam-
eron Bay, mining settlement on Great
Bear Lake are always busy and, even
when cut off from civilization by the
"in-between" season find plenty to do,
The two six weeks periods of
"break-up" and "freeze-up" when
nature opens and closes the water-
ways, are standout dates in the life
of those northern dwellers. It is
from these two seasons the women of
Cameron Bay date all the events of
their lives.
In the tiny log cabin village, Mrs,
T. O. Byrnes, wife of the resident
doctor, sometimes helps her husband
with his cases and amuses herself
with her radio and magazines
brought in tiy airplane. Then there
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is always her housework which in
the primitive life of the north neces.
sitates expending considerably more
effort than that required by the city
housewife, Mrs. Byrnes goes on oc-
casional trips to the Great Bear Lake
mines with the dog teams in the
winter time. She is a graduate of
St. Joseph's hospital, Toronto, and
has lived at Cameron Bay for a
year,
To Mrs. H. Reed, wife of the
owner of View Inn, the long day is
just one big round of visits from the
trappers, miners, traders and police-
men to whom the hotel is a rendez-
vous. A native of Spokane, Wash.,
Mrs. Reed has been at Cameron Bay
for two years and is assisted by
Mile. Marie Onrat who came from
Quebec City a year ago to visit her
brother in the mines,
Marie became fascinated with the
north country and is in no hurry to
go home. In her few leisure hours
she takes pictures, makes dresses,
goes canoeing in the summer and in
the winter goes for long drives be.
hind her dogs,
Anne Swanson, daughter of the
general storekeepr has a different
set of activities, She spends her
spare summer hours cultivating her
tiny garden. In the winter there are
bridge games and the occasional
party to be attended,
But the gold grubbers of Great
Bear hand the palm to Mrs. W. H.
McDougall, Day after day "Ma"
MeDouga1.. mends socks, overalls,
mukluks, parkas a,nd other garments
for her "boys." Shc was born at
Hay River, N.W.T., and has spent
her whole life in the north,
Film Players
To Be Married
HEATHER ANGEL LEAVES FOR
YUMA BY CAR WITH
RALPH FORBES
Hollywood, Calif,—Ralph Forbes
and Heather Angel, film players, are
on their way to Yuma, Ariz., by
automobile to be married.
Forbes, former husband of Ruth
Chatterton, met Miss Angel about a
year ago at a dinner party, They did
not see much of each other for sev-
eral months. Then six weeks ago they
met again on a tennis court at the
home of Charles Boyer and bis wife,
Pat Patterson, screen players, Then,
the romance began in earnest.
"We talked it over and thought we.
ought to make our romance a per-
manent institution," said Forbes be-
fore they departed for Yuma.
"I am sure we will be very happy,"
said Miss Angel.
She was brought to Hollywood from
England by the Fox Studio and has
just completed a picture, "Romance in
the Rath,"
Mae West Gvies
Big Gifts to Caste
Hollywood.—Mae West has passed
around $15,000 in presents to those
who helped make and remake her lat-
est picture, "Belle of the 90's," it
was recently disclosed at her studio.
One of, the gifts, a $1,000 diamond
ring, was instrumental in proving
that the actress knows her jewels.
The ring was too small for „the re-
cipient and he left it at a jeweler's
to have it made larger Miss West
saw him wearing it at the studio and
noticed the original blue -white spark-
ler had been replaced by a yellow
diamond. In 15 minutes she was de-
manding how it happened and the
jeweler insisted it was a mistake,
Lord Montague. Is
Hot Dog Vendor
London, Eng.—Lord Edward Mon-
tagu, second son of the Duke of Man-
chester, is running a hot dog stand
and making money, the Daily Express
declares.
He started business at Maidenhead,
famous Thames riverside resort, on
Saturday wth Li (about $5) in cash
and said he made £4 within 24 hours,
He sells hot dogs, coffee, soft drinks
and sandwiches.
Lord Edward, who is 28, said he
hopes to start a chain of stands.
"I think this is better than the
French Foreign Legion," he said
Early thie month he went to France
to join the Foreign Legion but chang-
ed his mind at the last minute,
Makes Good
London, Eng.—A Scotland Yard
detective disguised himself as an ex -
sailor selling matches, when he was
in search of a "wanted" man, In
this disguise he stood on a London
sidewalk for six days and eventually
secured his man. In the six days he
also received nearly $40 from kitid-
hearted passersby,
The authorities of Scotland Yard
have ordered that tne money shall
be paid into the police funds. They
consider the money was earned in the
employer's time, and therefore be-
longs to the state.
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natural—eat, laugh, sing without fear
of any i311pping. Prescribed by world'
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