Zurich Herald, 1935-08-01, Page 2le
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By NELLE M. SCANLAN
(Author of "Pencarrow")
SYNOPszs
Here we see a group of young peo
pl.e carried on the tides of youth
Young Kelly Pencarrow finally settles
down on the Pencarrow farm, with
Genevieve, his cousin, as housekeeper;
who is in love with her cousin, Robin
Herrick. Cousin Neil Macdonald be.
.comes engaged to 1 vena Joicey-Loft.
Peter Pencarrow is showing interest
fn Maisie Bite, a typist.
The family is suddenly faced with
the serious illness of Sir Miles nen
arrow.
Kelly suddenly marries, Maisie Kite.
Then the Great War breaks out. Robin
feels he must inlist.
Ella sailed with her children and
was already in London. Michael
managed Duffield and lent a helping
hand to every appeal. He had no son
and was himself to old to go, so he
gave generously of what he had,
The military activity at his door
had disturbed Kelly. From the mom-
ent Potty Barker had enlisted and
spoke• of sharing the adventure to-
gether, Kelly had been chafing at
the routine of the farm. So many
married Hien had already gone, why
shouldn't he?
Maisie felt his growing restless-
ness and tried to still it. He was
doing useful work on the farm, and
he had been told there was no need
for him to enlist. But as the months
passed, and fresh drafts sailed away
to fill the thinning ranks overseas,
Kelly grew impatient,
"It's no good, Maisie, I've got to
go," Kelly said.
"But the farm—and the children,
Kelly?"
"You could manage without me,
couldn't you ? :,.It's • like this, Maisie,
I've got to. go. I wanted to from
the first, but—well, you know how it
was. You've always been a game kid
. and Michael would be here. He would
see you through the busy times. And
old Jordon could manage in between,
was hoarse from urging the youth of
the country to join up. But he told
Kelly quietly that he was zuore use-
ful cn the farm.
Maisie organized entertainments
and took concert parties to camp,
and she sang with her old poignancy.
Kelly was now in camp, a lieuten-
ant of artillery. She liked the navy
and scarlet round his hat, and he
had_ a badge made into a brooch for
her. The children were delighted to
sc: their father a soldier.
"Daddy, what's that thing you
were riding on this morning?" Matt
enn•'ired.
"'1 gun, my son."
"1,71ty's it a gun, Daddy?" asked
M �.
Kelly's training came to an end
andl he was sailing next day.
". • . Till the day that I'll be go-
ing down. the long, long trail ivith
Yoh."
A quivering note throbbed in
Ma'sse's voice as she sang, but she
choked her tears. Kealy would hate
to see her cry publicly. He hated
ere ional scenes.
Now that he came to leave, an
evc:r:ng melancholy settled on his
soul like the close of a peaceful day.
Mais'e and he walked through the
garden and down the path to the
fond. .Itis sheep and cattle grazed
contentedly on the rich fiat pastures
beside the stream. They had been
happy there. )Maisie had won back
the family, and if the Horne Farm
had not again become the focal
centre of the family, it had retained
much of its homely attraction.
Maisie had found that it was not
altegether easy to fit into the Pen-
carrow scheme without doing vi-
olence to her own ideals. If she did
not entirely surrender it was because
she felt that complete acquiescence
would be bad for Kelly. He needed
the bracing air of contradition to
keep. him from becoming flabby. She
contested many of his plans, not
With acrimony, but quietly and logi-
cally, and her steadfast faith and
her splendid loyalty made the vie
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LinJe:tong Lodge, Ardbeg, Ont.
(Sunt north of Parry Sound.)
tory possible. Maisie was not a
blind imitator of Bessie Pencarrow.
She stamped her own individuality
upon the old home and the family as
surely as that earlier mother.
Before he sailed Kelly had a talk
with Genevieve.
"Maisie will be all right, but you
might have a look in sometimes. It's
when the youngsters are in bed at
night, the time we had together, that
she might feel lonely a bit. And if
anyt)e.ng should go wrong and I
don't come back, see that she gets
a fair deal, I've made Father and
Michael trustees, but I'd like to add
you also. They're getting on a bit,
and I would feel easier about her if
you kept an eye on things. If any-
thing happened to Maisie—"
"I'll see the boys through. Don't
worry about that. But she will be
here when you come back."
"A pity you didn't marry, Gene-
vieve. This law business is pretty
damn' dull for a woman. I know I'd
have hated it, Why didn't you?"
"What a question!"
"I used to think you and Robin
might. Potty Barker was sure of it
—and Kitty was getting scared."
"Haven't there been enough wild
marriages since the war .began?"
"But this wasn't a war affair. It
was years ago."
"What would you say if I had
married Robin?"
"Damned if I know."
"Do you think he is my kind?"
"Not in some ways, perhaps; a
bit softer than we are."
"Yes, we're a pretty hard lot, I
suppose."
"But Robin's been putting up a
good showing at Gallipc2i and now
in France. He's got the guts all
rie'ht to stick it out like this. I hose
over the top. Did he ever
tell you he was afraid he might?"
"No
"Yes, it worried him a Iot in camp.
He told me twice that it wasn't the
getting hurt he was afraid of, but
funking it. Probably that's what
drove him to be so damned reckless.
Captain now and M.C."
Kelly was talking to ease the
strain on his own nerves and Gene-
vieve knew the restless signs. She
did not interrupt him, but let him
ramble on.
So Robin had been afraid of funk-
ing it!
So far he had been fortunate, just
a short speel in hospital with sharp-
nel splinters in his leg and a mild
bout of fever.
(To Be Continued.)
Advertising Held
Aid in Distribution
Paris. — Lord Luke, British in-
dustriasist, told the International
Chamber of Commerce recently
that "advertising is one of the most
economical as well as one of the
most effe..iive means of obtaining
adequate distribution."
He declared Great Britain spends
270,000,000 annually on advertis-
ing, a sum which he estimated to be
three per cent of the total retail
trade and considerably less than 10
per cent of the total cost of distri-
bution.
The delegates debated the co-
ordination of road and rail distribu-
tion to make a closer link of mass
production with distribution,
Boston In Halifax
Not many Bostonians know it,
but there is a large portion of the
city of Boston located in Halifax.
When tourists from the United
States make their temporary head-
quarters at the Nova Scotian Hotel
111
Halifax they are still on Ameri-
can so 7e' ,•
1t al dates back to the days
when oil sailing vessele came
"down" to Halifax from I3oston in
ballast. `.t'he ballast, of course, was
soil obtained in Boston. Many tied
up at the pier, close to the present
site of the hotel, The ballast was
unshipped and was used by the,
Halfgonians in levelling ground in
that section of the city.
(From the Glasgow herald,)
Inhabitants of young lands he ve.
their hardships, but they are spared
many of the ardors of the olden'
world, and live on privileges they
did nothing to Acquire. Thus in the
Australian hinterland, as it fades.
toward the dry bush country of the
Never -Never, the conning of wiirelese
has been a blessing that makesa; our,
fireside sets at home as commonplace
as water taps,
It has just emerged in the report
of the Rev, J, A. Barber, of the
Australian Inland Mission, to the
Presbyterian Assembly at Mel-
bourne, that settlers' wives • in the
back blocks now make a habit of
relieving the tedium of their' lonely'
lives by a little gossip over the air..
Many homesteads are provided with
transmitters with a radius of about.
800 miles as well as the ordinary re-
ception arrangements permitted to
the up-to-date world.
In emergency this is a great boom,`
At a hint of serious illness a doctor
may be summoned, and in no time.,
at all he arrives by air. And
there is no emergency it is al
boon -- for the women can g
their traditional whispers
taken up by the microphone an
to and fro.
It is not very clear from
cables whether or not Mr. Barber
happy about the development.
CALLED
.`.SIRE BUILDING
which actualy .passes for on-
ion with most of us, has not
seiy good name, . There may be the
Ipicion that the new facility' may
bad for Australian womanhood. It
be felt that instead of busying
tieinselves with good - works and
okiner after the master's socks, the
amen .of the lonely stations are
zsl;ig'' the fine air of Australian
orxithgs in sending idle twittering.'
gess the wide open spaces just as
eir sisters in the cities whisper
one to the other on the stairhead.
However that nay be, we aro not
prepared to be despondent about it.
Indeed, we are inclined to see in the
news fresh hope for the White
.i' tralia • policy, with gossip in the
ro of Empire builder. It has been
sa, . that among white peoples suc-
ces rut colonization is impossible.
.in ssj women have a hand in it.
Th, colonist must have a home, and
it requires a woman to make one,
end to support it with her art once
'1 is made.
The problem in undeveloped
eustralia, then, is to persuade wo-
en from the south to go north with
heir men. Hitherto that has meant
;lying up gossip, and the sacrifice
as on the whole proved too great.
pow the gossip is, as it were, laid
en the situation has taken a new and
opeful turn. We would not, perhaps,
be prepared to die for the theory,
but it is plausible.
Find Golden Voicj
For Talkii g Clock
(Manchester Guardian)
t..
After a search that has been zgo=
ing on for months through the tele-
phone exchanges of this countrm to
discover a golden voice beautiful*.in
quality, free from accent, with full-
ness of tone and nothing niggardly
ahout it, the perfect golden voice has
been found among the nine candi-
dates selected for the final test.
It was selected by a committee
such high authority that it includ-
ed Mr. Masefield and• Miss Sybil
Thorndike, who sat in a room at the
General Post Office and began at
eleven o'clock to listen to the un-
seen candidates speaking from a lit-
tle distance. Two hours later they
awarded the first prize to Miss Ethel
Cain, a West Croydon girl who
works at the Victoria Exchange.
The second prize went to Miss I. H.
Dunn, who is at the Trunk Ex-
change. All the other finalists re-
ceived a prize in addition to the
honor an.: glory of , having come -
successfully through the three pre
Sze golden voice wail be Wer t
pretty hard before it has complgted
its task of making records on ,sound
flims to be used on the "talking
clocks" that are to be installed in
centres outside London, and when
she has finished Miss Cain will be
glad to know that she herself will
not have to tell anxious subscribers
the exact time, but that they will be
satisfied with a tinned voice.
The price of Miss Cain's victory
was the ordeal of being confronted
by a room full of journalists, press
photographers, and men making
talking films in the presenceof the
judges, who included Mrs. Atkinson,
of Burley -in -Wharfedale, henceforth
to be known, because of her unfail-
ing courtesy at the telephone, as the
perfect telephone subscriber.
It was curious to see all the blaze
and dazzle directed on a girl who
spends her working hours in the
obscurity of a telephone exehange,
and who is only known to her busi-
ness world by her voice. In her
free times she often takes part in
private theatricals, a leading part
one imagines, but in spite of that
her voice fulfilled the requirement
of being "without any trace of the
theatrical."
The test passage she read from
"L'Allegro" gave every opportunity
to• show the fullness of her vowels,
and Mr. Masefield said afterwards
that she was right in reading as
she did without emphasis, knowing
that the words themselves were
enough. He said that Miss Cain had
a sense of beauty, rhythm, and
justice.
Miss Thorndike expressed her ad-
miration, but admitted that, unlike
the telephone authorities she liked
to hear a voice with the rich ac-
cents of the North, and said she
would love to hear a Scottish voice
tell her the time.
Too Close Driving
Writes the Chatham News—"Four
cars figured in an automobile crash
i, Str;lford. At least two of the
cars be -aline. involved because the
drivers were following too closely
behind other cars. This is a point
which it is well to remember. It
pays to be a reasonable distance be.
hind the fellow in front."
" 'Honor' demands that a nation
shall achieve its ends regardless of
cost."—A. A. Milne.
Predict Wheat Yield
Before Seed Sown
Minneapolis. — A method of pre-
dicting the yield of wheat months
before the seed is sown, was de-
scribed to the American Association
for the Advancement of Science re-
cently by Homer J. Henney of Kan-
sas State College.
The forecast is like reading the
future from a deck of cards. For
wheat, the cards are the weather
report on the rain of the previous
gear. They show the rains from
July to December. ' The aces and
kings are the amount of rain and
when the showers fell.
With them the forecaster can in-
form the farmer in January how
much yield to expect from the seed
he is yet to sow two or more months
Iater.
An unusual form of cannibalism
among Indians in North America
was described recently by L. A. Wil-
ford of the University of Minneso-
ta.
Bones excavated from Northern
Minnesota Indian mounds, Wilford
told the anthropology meeting,
4 'owed that while thee, early Indians
eay. not have eaten' e ••et ,ah of
eve-, •, ;.s..w444,141,4
ir az�in*tile marrow
from the bones and the brains from
the head for food and for industries
such as tanning.
Woman Makes Garters
For Bow-legged Men
Seattle—A woman's success as 0,
manufacturer of garters for bow-
legged men was held up recently as
a shining example of feminine in-
itiative.
The story was told a preconven
tion meeting of the national federa-
tion of business and professional wo-
men's clubs by Mrs. E. Pearl War-
wick of Champaign, Ill. Mrs. War-
wick is department manager for a
household loan company. Without
naming the woman, Mrs. Warwick
said:
"She knew from her husband, who
is a tailor, the difficulty of making
trousers hang properly on nen with
bow legs so she decided to create a
corrective garter. The price range
is .$3.50 to $15. Customers are
world wide.
"Since it is impossible to get a
mailing list of bowlegged men, she
advertises in magazines and news-
papers. You will be interested to
know she employs only women in her
factory.
"These women did not look for
opportunity to cone to them; they
had the idea, and the courage to
sell the idea. They took the lead."
FIRED and IRRITABLE
O you feel
weak and
nervous? Is your
housework a bur-
den? Take Lydia
E. Pinkhatn's
Vegetable Com-
pound. Mrs. M.
A. Kelly of
Woodstock,New
Brunswick, says,
"I was weak and rundown. A
neighbor brought i e your Vege-
table
ege-table' Compound. It helped me so -
muclh that I am taking so now at
the Change.".
Get a°setae NOTP It may be just
the tnedicine YOU need.
Issue No. 30 '35
Serve ea
You
If Past Thirty
Should Use Rich Cream'
Around Eyes Every
Night
"In summertime, I get wrinkles
between my eyes and lines across
my forehead," writes a' correspond-
ent. "So far, they've disappeared
every winter, but, before long, I'm
afraid they won't. What can I do
to prevent them?" •
Well, first of all, you can wear
colored glasses whenever you are
riding in a car or sitting on the
beach. These, of course, protect
your eyes from the sun's glare and
keep you from squinting. Choose a
pair that really fit the shape of our
eyes. If you expect to wear them
while reading, you ought to consult
an eye specialist before you make a
selection.
In addition, better wear wide -
brimmed hats as much as possible.
They're smart this year anyway,
and the certainly do prevent lines
across the forehead.
If you already Lave a few stub-
born furrows, learn to smooth them
out each night before you go to
bed. When you have cleaned your
face, apply tissue cream, especially
across our brow, around eyes and
on the expression lines upward from
corners of the mouth. Using finger-
tips on both hands, flatten the lines
until they begin to , disappear. Keep
on •,:ith the gentle masteage until
you notice a definite improvement.
Repeat each night.,, -
Every woman over 30 should
leave a bit of rich cream around her
eyes while she sleeps. As a matter
of fact allowing a little to remain
on the space between eyebrows will
keep the skin soft and tend to pre-
vent lines.
Population 170,496
In Greater Ottawa
er Ottawa is 170,496, according .to
the new city directory. There are
153,920 residents of the city proper,
an increase of 12,839 over 1934, and
16,576 in the suburbs, an increase of
702.
ELEVEN CHILDREN
AND A CAREER
Wife Of Australian Prime
Minister Makes Speeches,
Writes And' Is In Politics.
Washington — Mrs. J. A. Lyons,
whose speechmaking, article -writing,
life as wife of the Australian Prime'
Minister closely parallels Mrs. F. D.1
Roosevelt's, recently celebrated her
38th birthday at the White House. ,
Beamingly she chose the occasion
to talk about her 11 children --;
Desmond, Sheila, Enid, Kathleen,;
Moira, Kevin, Brendan, Barry, Rose -1
mary, Peter and Janice. Their ages
range from 18 years to "about .20
months.
How could she keep a career going
and keep 11 children going at the,
same tine? The plump and blond)
Mrs. Lyons just considers such?
things as sewing—making all the'
little children's things herself —
real delight and relaxation."
"Doing anything with the hands is,
a spiritual refreshment," she said.'
"Though, to tell the truth I once,
thought making little boys' trousers
a terrible job. And it actually hast
been pretty difficult at times.
"Still, I could get someone to stay.
with the babies once in a while
While I went out and made speeches.I
My husband is a great believer ins
the civic equality of the sexes, he is
very keen on it.
"To please him I took up politics,
I wasn't 18 when he married me —
he was then Minister of Education.
"When I was a candidate for Par-
liament—I had seven children then ---
women were asking why wasn't this;
woman at home taking care of her
children? My answer was that if I
had spent my time playing bridge, I
would have been a huge success
socially.
"Women's er,licisnz seemed to me
prejudice without reason behind
then. Men's was more clear-cut and
of two types — the first group con
home, by which they meant ground
down by hnu, ehold ties.
"The other was that women were
too fine for the sordid political at-'
=sphere. I said if it was too sordid'
if was time some cleaning influence'
gut to work.
At Last U.S. May ow To Albion
By Adopting The Solar Topee
(Front the New York
Herald Tribune.)
When the Briton rides the natives
hide in glee,
Because the simple creatures hope
He will impale in his solar top-
Ee on a tree. . . .
Thus has Mr. Noel Coward but
recently immortalized one of the
great institutions of imperial Bri-
tain. The pith sun helmet (and only
the British genius for unbelievable
nomenclature could have thought of
calling it a "solar topee") has been.
an object of awe and romantic im-
pulses ever since Kipling, if not be-
fore. ,
It has probably sold even more
tourist ticicets to the British tropics
than the cane chairs, the long drinks,
the punkahs and the fragrance of,
oleander blossoms with which it is
indissolubly associated, It has pre-
served generations of strong, in-
articulate and just young men from
the sun which,, as every one knows,
never sets upon their dominions;
and it is doubtful whether the pro-
ducers of "Lives of a Bengal Lancer"
could' have grossed as many millions
as they did were the' British Army in
India equipped with any less pictur-
esque form of headgear.
The pith helmet has exercised a
peculiar appeal over the imagination;
and at the • same time has always
been peculiarly British. For both
reasons one cannot read unmoved
the news of its tentative introduct-
ion into the American army.
Will it displace the campaign hat?
By comparison the campaign hat is
an object as unlovely as it is un-
comfortable. It is airless in the sun
and it blows cif in the wind, and.
during the war was one of .the rea
sons why our citizen soldiery yearn-.
ed to get to France, where it was
not used. But it, also, has a tradition
behind it. It is Iegitimately descend-
ed from the slouch hats of the Civil
War and the Stetsons beneath which
the western plains were conquered;
and there is reason in the contention
that even the sun in India is no
hotter than the climates from which
it has sheltered the American sol-
dier and cow -hand.
In some ,.f our insular possessions,
in fact, the pith helmet was until re-
cently regarded with disdain as an
affectation of effete Englishmen and
tourists. But the helmet • s been
making inroads. In the southwest
(and one suspects the Hollywood.
influence) and extraordinary con-
traption pressed out of papier-mache
into the form of a pith helmet com-
plete with an imitation pugree, is
now being widely adopted by truck
drivers, campers, hitch hikers and
the other adventurous souls who
have replaced the cowboy and the
cavalryman.
The trouble is that the wretched
article really is cool and comfortable
and keeps the sun out of the eyes,
Will free-born America bow to Al-
bion at last. It is possible; but, if so,
we certainly won't call the thing a
solar tepee.
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