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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-12-27, Page 6TIDE By the Author of "iPencarrow" 8y NELLE M, SCANLAN • eleeee .• She was sweet and shy, yet pert. r There was a saucy trace about her tripping movements, and cher voice had a lovely ringing quality, Ta[e was' proud, too, of Peter. "1 wife he would take his work as seriously", said Miles. "H is easily the best of the men- the chorus men,, l mean," Norah ag heed, beaming with pride. 1 T1Cere was a great ovation when the -e.•*4-r.. www, a+sn+-� yra.o.w...•r..•. 181 i' principal orechorus,0had, whetb- friend ds �I Here we see a group of young peo- ple carried on the tides of youth Young i{e11y Pencarrow finally settles down on the ' Pencarrow farm, with Genevieve his cousin as housekeeper who is in love with her cousin Robin Herrick, Cousin Nell Macdonald be- comes engaged to Erena Jolcey-Goff. Peter• Pencarrow is showing interest in Maisie Kite, a typist, of it all. She filled an emergency with ' startling success, and uow she had been chosen to play Yum -'Yule in "The Mikado," and Peter, a nice youth in the chorus, who had fallen under her spell, had brought Tier into the Penearrow circle. ' 1 Maisie mite had caught the rising tide, The .gawky Ethel had gone out with the Jewett girl, and I{ate was in the shop with her father earning her two brandyballs for stacking pounds of candles from a. newly opened box. Her mother, who has.been on her two feet from early morning, had fallen asleep in the rocking chair in the kitchen. The family thus accounted for, Mai- sie closed the bedroom door. Her eyes were bright as she climbed on to the chair, and then .to the dres.0 ing- table and unhooked the white lace curtains, Experience had taught her the value of a ready excuse. A large reel of cotton, scissors, thimble and a threaded needle lay conspicuously at hand. The curtain was dusty, but what matter! Quickly she took it down then with two large safety pins and after much striving, she attach- ed it to her shoulders at the back. She was just spreading her court train behind her when her sharp ear ' her caught otherponderous g mother's p de oua step. The knob turned and she put her head in the door again to make sure -just as Maisie spread her lace train be- hind her and, with a fan of pleated newspaper, made her curtsy to the Queen. "I'll warm you, my lady, if I catch you at this nonsense again. Take off that curtain, and top and tail the gooseberries out here. I'll teach you to be a fine lady, You'll help your mother, that's what you'll do. Me on me two feet all day working and slav- ing and cooking and washing, and you playing the la-de-dah in your room," It was Clara McIntosh who first discovered the liberating medium of shorthand and typewriting. It opened a new world of opportunities. Maisie borrowed Clara's book and she was not long in mastering the "tee dee, pee, bee, chay, jay," and strokes and dots. Clara went to the Technical School at night, and she helped Mai- sie over the first hurdles, When she was equipped with sev- eral years' experience in an Ashbur- ton offide, Maisie, by a ruse, went to Wellington for a week's holiday, But she took a job she had already ap- plied for, and did not return. Her letter was mute witness to her moth- er's distress and her father's genuine grief. With Maisie's departure went the one bright spot in his life. "She'll be getting into trouble, that's what she will; working in an office with a lot of strange men, and stay- ing in a boarding house with no one to know what she's doing. I've a good grind to go up and bring her back." "Leave her be; leave her be." Even the little hunger in anis heart could not blind her father to the advantage and relief this must be for Maisie. Hard work, a quick wit, a keen de- wire to get on, a never -sleeping ambi- tion, were spurs to drive her and keep her on a straight course. All she could save she invested in herself. She had a sweet voice and trained it. She had grace of movement and learn- ed dancing till she was the star turn at the annual display. She joined the amateur operatic society and learnt eveeybody's part through sheer love CHAPTER TWELVE "I wish you were as keen about your books as about this -this -the atrical rubbish." Miles, halving delivered this jud went, proceeded to carve the duck, Peter, in a dressing gown, was be- ing very Japanese. His legs were agile, but tennis was no training for a fan. He flipped aand flapped a fan at every opportunity, delighting to snap it unexpeetedly in someone's ear and make him jump. 'But, Father, the whole success of 'The Mikado' depends upon Peter. He has to say 'Boo' with twenty others in the second act," "You're very smart, aren't yo Genevieve?" and Peter flicked her e with the fan "Take off that dressing gown an come to the table properly," an Miles sorted the wing from the 1 and expertly sliced pieces from th breast and the plate was passed t Norah, who added the vegetables. Their jibes and jests left Peter enthusiasm undimmed. He talke about rehearsals and "my part," an only his eagerness could have reco ciled him to the job of assisting th property man. "Second assistant scene -shifter, Genevieve called him, No scene could be set, no furni ture placed in position, without Pete putting a hand to it. His tireles puppy energy annoyed the veterans but the Penearrow patronage wa worth enough to justify patience, Peter marshalled the whole clan for the first night. Sir Miles and Lady Pencarrow set in the front row of the duress -circle with eleggie. Kitty and Robin preferred the stalls, and so did Kelly and Genevieve. "I say, Mother, what about sending Maisie a bouquet?" Peter was still an adorable baby to Norah. ""Dear, I scarcely know her. You send one yourself." "No; don't you see, it would count so much more coming from you with your card on it," • "In what way, dear " "You see, .some of them are jeal- ous of her; the other girls. Just because she isn't known and works in an office; well, they're just cats, 1 And a bouquet from you -they would, all know who it came from -would ,.. well, can't you see ...,.. it would be one in the eye for them." "Who is she, really? I mean, who are her people?" asked Norah. "She says they keep a little shop in Ashburton. That's what I like about her; she doesn't pretend. And she's had such a hard struggle," No commendation could have ap- pealed more strongly to Norah than that simple statement, • "And you'll write a card; say something nice on. it, Mother --some- thing she can read out loud in the dressing -room." Norah laughed and premised, and. Peter went off singing. Miles had to acknowledge the ex- cellence of Maisie Kite's performance, and relatives in the 'audience who clapped and cheered. Norah gasped, however, when au immense bouquet of roses was hand- ed to the little Yum -Yum, Her prac- tical mind was busy estimating the cost. She should have set a limit and not left it to Peter." (To Be Continued,) - Movie "Extras" g Must Be Smar t Women Extras Parade For Test Before Casting Of Ificials --- Difference in Pa Distinctive Quality at L)oes Your Handwriting GEOFFREY ST. CLAIR (Graphologist) AU Rights Reserved (Editor's Note: 'Narked interest Is being shown in these articles, and 1 letters are coming in In Increasing - numbers. Have YOU had your hand- writing analysed? Have you any problem in which this well-known writer could help you? Seep his In- vitetion following this week's Inter- esting article). * * A surprisingly large number of readers have written in, from time to time, asking for advice regarding Ifriends with Whom they have become acquainted through the medium of correspondence clubs. Sometimes the I object is merely to have interesting correspondents, an d there is really Y no particular harm in this. The real danger arises when the object is more intimate; when, in fact, the aim is marriage. The case in the United States in which it man became acquainted with a number of ladies through a correspondence club, and murdered them for their money must be still fresh in the memory of many readers. However, it is not every case that reaches this horrible pitch, by any means. Very frequently, however, women become embroiled with rnen 'and marry them, only to find that their impressions of the man were any- thing but correct, and they have liv- ed to rue their decision. This article is especially aroused by a letter I have just received. It is from a lady reader in the East. She asks me about a man, living in the West, and wishes to know what I think of him. She is a widow, 38 years of age, with two pretty child- ren, and very comfortably off fin- ancially. The man, on the other hand, says he is 49, is still married but is separated from his wife, be- cause, he says, she made his life miserable, and was interested in other men. y One of the mat unusual meetings ever held in Hollywood takes place when the women extras of the colony parade before a selected committee of ten, in order to end the disputing that le has been going on for some time, as ar to whether a girl shall be hired as a I 'dress girl" or a "regular extra," d I It makes all the difference in the d world to the girls and it will help the i ee •as i c t n officialsbecause ',- r n no t, i e ure a call for "dress extras" won't be 0 answered by those not qualified for I the part, 's I Dress people in studio parlance, d means girls who have attractive ward - d • robes and the paise and distinction n-1 to appear in a film showing a smart ee crowd, without looking out of place. 1 In other words, they must Iook as if ( they belonged. If you get into this class your pay isfifteen dollars a day, r 1 Smartness Pays s 1 If you can't make the grade and , are only a "regular" extra, you will s play the part of street crowds or the people in simpler circumstances and get seven -fifty a day for doing it. Dress people own their own ward- robes and other extras are costumed by the studios. At present, ,Hollywood studios have figured out that more than 20 per cent of daily calls are for "dress extras," Hence the decision to end all argument on the subject by giving each girl a. fair chance to be regist- ered for this special work. The committee will consist of vari- ious casting men from trine studios and 1 two fashion artists, as yet unannoun- ced. In order to get full camera effect 1 the girls are free to appear in make - Canada's Problems Reviewed By Bank Bank of Montreal Annual Meeting In the outlook for the future there are many reasons that justify the hope for a continuation of the bet- terment experienced in Canada dur- ing the past year, declared Sir Char- les Gordon, President, in his address delivered at the Annual Meeting of Bank of Montreal, "There is com- forting statistical evidence that our resources are so large and so varied that when one door of opportunity closes another always opens. It has truly been said that Canada's salva- tion ie that she is still a land with- out a frontier." In the fields of government and finance, Sir Charles stressed the necessity of dealing with the whole subject of- unemployment, which he characterized as the "greatest prob- lem since the war"; recommended that, all forms of transportation be regulated by a Dominion board, in order to effect railway co-ordination and cut down the losses of the Can- adian National _Railways, "the great- est deterrent to Canada's financial. recovery"; and suggested that in the present strong s ong market tor govern- ment bonds, governments should ef- fect long-term rather than "short- term borrowing, • . Banking legislation of the past - year would in the main have the ef- fect of curtailing bank earnings, Sir Charles stated. He pointed out there are in Canada some 4,700,000 depositors, receiving by way 01 in- terest $37,000,000 last year as conl- ared with $12,000,000 received by shareholders. It was to the deposi- tors' interest,.; he,said , that bank i'ucecl, General Manager's Address W. A. Bog, Joint General Manag- er, addressing the meeting, stated that the increase in trade activity in the past year in Canada was fin- anced largely by a more rapia turn- over of bank deposits rather than by increased borrowings. Mr. Bog laid emphasis -on his state- ment that lending money -for com- mercial purposes is the backbone of the bank's earning power and the bank is ready, and always has been ready, to consider applications for loans that fall within the category of prudent banking risks. "Canadian business is vitally de- pendent uponxternai trade," Mr, Bog said, "and is, therefore, particu- larly interested in sterling and the United States dollar being stabilized. It does not appear probable that satisfactory stabilization of the world's moneys can be achieved up- on any other basis than a gold stand - In conclusion, Mr. Bog said: --"In Canada the depression did not reach the low levels experienced in Many other countries. P h e intrinsic wealth of the country was undoubt- edly a 'protective factor; the stabil- ity of the people ,another. A third was to be found in the banking sys- tem. In this connection as evi- dence of the cbnfidcnce in the l3ank held abroad the number of share- holders of the Bank residing out- side of Canada has increased during the past year by over three hundred; since 1929 by more than :eight hun- dred. This confidence is justified as Ian assure our shareholders and depositors that •the Bank is: in. a • strobe and soiled position." up and may even be beautified ey the make-up department of Ree.O, where the meeting will take place, As they parade around one of the biggest sound stages on the lot they will be called out by numbers' until the lucky few will remain on the stage. Good Die Too Young on the Poultry Farm; Longevity is Sought Amherst,Mass,- Development of more vigorous and longer living hens, capable of laying more than 250 eggs a year without being harmed physi- cally was the objective of an educa- tional campaign launched to -day by th poultry department of the Mas- sachusetts State College.' The high death rate of laying birds, State College officials announced, was the most serious problem facing poultry- men to -day. They said present-day hens had been bred for such high production that they literally "wear themselves out and die after a few months of high pressure egg laying." I Would .Be Trained Let me train my eyes to see all the beauty, In a strip of darkly wooded land; In snow, like an outspread hand, Drifted in gray streaks on fields cold with November. Let me train my ears to hear all the beauty In the Slow, steady rhythm of a river; In winds, when even trees shiver Nakedly, and their top -most branch- es crack and fall, Let me train my mind to remember only beauty In clouds, when they cast a sullen gray Over all the earth, and day Wavers on the edge of sorrow, on the . verge of night. Josephine Begot. MAKES FALSE TEETH FEEL LiKE NATURAL There must be a reason Dr, Wernet'e Powder is the world's largest seller and prescribed by leading dentists: it holds teeth so firmly --they fit so comfortably -that all day long you forget you ever had false plates. Leaves no colored, gummy paste keeps mouth sanitary, breath pleasant -the best powderou can buy yet cost is small -any druggist Issue No. 51-'34 He is very anxious to marry the widow, and will, he says, obtain a ive'ce, if she decides to marry him. Now I have seen letters that he as written. And they reveal not my that he is selfish and' self- entred, but also has a violent temp - r, I cannot imagine anyone living ith him having any happiness, be - use his temper is such that he ill break out into a frequent fury. nd there is very little that could e worse than this. This man is avaricious. He knows at this widow has money, and he ould like nothing better than to d h 0 c e w ca w A b th w 208 Fresh from the Gardens Reveal? get possession of some of it. Arid there is - still another angle. He is sensuous. Certainly, he. is not the type of man for my correspondent. They became acquainted through a correspondence -club. And this shows up one of the very real dangers that lurk in these clubs. Here is a mar- ried man, who first posed as a single man, until he thought he could ap- peal fax' sympathy to this widow. I am not going to lay it down as an axions for my readers that they should have nothing to do with cbr- respondence clubs.. That would be injuring innocent the as well as the guilty. For there are many people, living in remote parts of the country,. and in many cases too retiring to make friends in their own locality, who find some similarly lonely soul elsewhere in the country, and con- duct a correspondence that brings some rainbows into both lives. Aft times, happy marriages result from these mail acquaintanceships. But grave care must be taken by would- be correspondents. The dangers should be borne in mind. And it is especially to • single girls that I address this word of warning. Women who have been married and become widows, are, very often, better versed in life's intricacies, and have at least that much advantage. In the case I have mentioned above, my advice to the widow is to nave nothing to do with her mar- ried correspondent. I do not trust him, and believe that he will bring nothing but unhappiness to my cor- respondent if any marriage is to erecter. One ether word in regard to these correspondence acquaintanceships. Beware of any man who appeals for money. It may seem surprising'that such : warning is necessary. And yet I have known of women who have sent money, following the in- terchange of letters through one of these clubs, and have lost it, * * The author will analyse YOUR handwriting for you, and he will tell you what your friends are really like, without any frills. Send specimens of the writing you wish to be analys- ed, stating birthdate in each case, and enclose 10c coin for each specimen. Send with a 3c stamped, addressed envelope, to :Geoffrey St. Clair, Room 421, 73 Adelaide St. Wegt, Toronto, Ont, Letters will be confidential: The Stuff of Life All men are born unequal. The equality of humans is limited to one thing -time, The Prince of Wales and the trarinp asleep on the park bench both have twenty-four hours to use each day, no more and no less. , Every man has so many years to live -some a few more than others -- but when the end approaches, the machine wears out, and neither power, fame nor wealth can add a year. The only equality is equality of time -tine to work, time to struggle, time to achieve. No one will be held accountable for not becoming a millionaire, but he is accountable for not making the best use possible of his time. Benjamin Franklin used the years of his life so well that from a humble beginning he rose to be one of the wealthiest and wisest men of his age, He aptly defined time as "the stuff of life," A man's fortune depends on how he invests his money; his character on how he invests his time. -Dr. Frank Crane. . Perfumed Petrol Fastidious British motorists "•ca now fill the tanks of ,their cars wit scented petrol. A process has bee developed whereby it is possible to perfume petrol, and it may soon b a delight to trail a motorist as th exhause pipe of his car emits violet lilac, or possibly attar of roses. i A patent has recently been granted for a process which eliminates; the unpleasant smells' from the exhaust gases of internal-combustion engines. These gases can be given an agree- able odour by adding to each gallon of petrol four .grammes of an artifi- 42 tial musk compelled, which t is n I1 n 0 e e • claimed has the property of resisting combustion in the engines of motor- cars and converting the unpleasant smell of exhausted gas and half - burned oil into a delightful odour. Wealthy Flowers English flowers for English homes is the happy: motto of British horti- culturists and nurserymen, and how well they are fulfilling it is • shown by the Ministry of Agriculture's esti- mate, z"hich puts the nation's flower bill this year at 10,000,000 pounds, Imports of cut blooms fell in value from 1,000,000 pounds in 1932 to 600,000 pounds last year, and are not expected to rise above 400,000 pounds in 1934, One thriving flower factory, on modern lines, situated at Uxbridge, Middlesex, now works to an annual capacity of 45,000,000 blooms; four crops as against Natur'e's one are harvested yearly in its scientifically regulated greenhouses, one of which recently produced 250,000 carna- tions, each plant over 7 ft. high. Covent Garden also disposes of 250,000 roses a day at the height of the cutting season, and the year's output of carnations totals two mil- lion dozen blooms. George Dollar Ottawa --A Canadian silver dollar is to make its- appearance in the: currency, it was announced recently,. Heretofore, coinage, apart from some gold pieces, has been confined to fifty and twenty-five cent, ten and five cent pieces and cents. The silver dollar will be commem- orative. of the 25th anniversary of king George's accession to the throne, on May 6, 1935. It will be; called the "George dollar." The extent of its popularity will determine the amount of currency to be issued in this form, but it is un- derstood the first minting will run to at least 100,000. Only. slightly Y larger ger 1 n circumfer- ence than the 50 -cent piece the new coin will be thicker and, in the opinion of the experts, fully as ac- ceptable from the point of view of convenience of handling, as the! smaller coin KEEN'S PAINTING CONTEST - PRIZE WINNERS So many beauti- f u 1 1 y painted books were sent in, it was hard to decide who should get all the nice prizes. First prize of all was finally awarded to; THELMVMA HILLIER (14) Brantford 6, 7 AND 8 YEARS OLi) 1st -LOIS KIDDELL (7), St. L'atharines, Ont. 2nd -ALEX, C. NEWLANDS (6), Ber'wYn Alta. Srd-BILLY GRAHAM (8), Quill Lake, Sask. 9 AND 1st--GEORGII IRCAR( OLD Cross- field, .Alta.2( 1, Ltoss- Domid'emyF LEN ' GEORGET (9), 3rd-BE'ULA PATTERSON (10), Pine Falls, Man. 11 AND 12 YEARS OLD 1st-1)1ARI{ WEBBER (11), .Re- gina, Sask. 2nd -AMY WRIGHT (11), Sarnia, Ont. 3rd -FLORENCE DENTON (12), Regina, Sask. 13 .AND 14 YEARS OLD 1st -JEAN PARISH (13), Fort Erie N., Ont. 2nd -GEORGE S. HOLDEN (14), Regina, Sask. 3rd -ALICE TOULLELAN (13), St. Brieux, Sask, The Other Prize Winners Were ONTARIO: Marjorie Simpson (8), Brockville; Francis Carter (8), Hamilton; Leonard Butler (6), New Toronto; Doris Quinn (9) Moscow; Jack Harris (9), Teterboro; renee Jean McCallum (11), M. Ston; Mildred Search (11) Ll fi Isabelle 'toss (14), North' Tor ol Eilene • MANITOBA: ardMargaret Enike -(6), Winnipeg; Dolores Larsen (6), Win- nipeg; Yyonne Malfalt (11), Swan Lake; Louise,.Tetrault (12), Fort Gamy,; Marie. dp . Rocquigny (11), Haywood;' Ann Bowes (14), Great Falls; Leonard Woods (14), Stony Mountain; Ruth t neeshaw (14), Carberry. SASIiz1 TCHEWAN: ° Leslie Star.. ling (8), Eyre; Barry Farrow (8), Hazenmore; Kathleen Nichol (8), Battleford; Bernice Graham (6), Quill Lake; Ruberta Hainstock (9), Benson; Dora Cook (9), Imperial; Louise Metz leen Rayner (9), Regina; oYaonnelSlharpe (11), Regina; Evelyn I. Johnston (12), Regina; Germaine•Jullion (12), St. Iiippolyte; Estelle Germaine St. Cyr (11), Neville; Juanita Lambert (18), Moose Jaw: Alice Lustig (14), Bethune. ALBERTA: Ralph Ebbes (8), Ed- monton; Josephine (Dem* (10), Mun- fare; Margaret Anderson (9), Ed- monton; Gordon Vaughan (9), Medi- cine ITat; Laura E. Smith (12), Cal- gary; •Joe Tahahaski (14), Ray. - mond; T3etty Robertson (13), Ed- monton; Emma G. Pogmore (14), i3ycanor,i', Lillian 'Wood (9), Edmon- ton. ;. EN'S D.S.F. Iiii TJSTAit11 S ti n Army CHRIST MAS APPEAL, 1934 Undoubtedly there has been orimprovement in huge i ditions, but the vast . majority business con. J y of needy people have not yet been y neededreached by this improvement. Help for thenal is most ur- The Salvation ?l 'nry tient nitres youri cJ ft do maximum service. Please 'lend Your Donations to THE SALVATION ARMY, 20 Albert St., Toronto, Ont.