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The Huron Expositor, 1938-11-18, Page 7Pao, 1711 HAYS & MRIR ' • 01,Meeedin9 R. S. WW1 Illerelineta. Salien, C.onveyeacers and NOtiarles Public. Solicitom for the DOMilliOn Bank. Office in rear of the D0111111104 Bank, Seafortli. Money do loan. 11.48. • DANCEY & BOLSBY. BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, ETC. LOFTUS E. DANCEY, K.C. 13. J. BOL8BY GODERICH BRUSSELS /2-37 ELMER D. BELL, B.A. Successor to John H. Best Banister, Solicitor, Notary Public. Seaforth - Ontario 12-36 McCON1VELL & HAYS Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. Patrick D. McConnell - H. Glenn Hays SEAFORTH, ONT. Telephone 174 3693 - VETERINARY A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate of Ontario VeterinaryCol- lege, University of Toronto. All dis- eases of domestic animals treated by the most modern principles. Charges reasonabie. Day or night calls promptly attended to. Office on Main Street., Hensall, opposite Town H.U. Phone 116. Breeder of Scottish Tele tliarle Inverness Kennels, Herisall. 12-37 MEDICAL SEAFORTII CLINIC DR. E. A. McMASTER, M.B. Graduate of University of Toronto J. D. COLQUHOUN, M.D., C.M. Graduate of Dalhousie University, Halifax. The Clinic fs fully equipped with complete andemodern X-ray and other up-to-date- diagnostic and thereuptic equippient. Dr. Margaret K. Campbell, M.D., L.A.B.P., Specialist in diseases in in- fants and chIldren, will :be at the Clinic last Thursday in every month from 3 to 6 p.m. Dr. F. J. R. Forster, .Specialist in diseases of the ear, eye, nose and throat, will be at the Clinic the first Tuesday ha every month from 4 to 6 P8. Free Wen -Baby Clinic will be held ems the secend and last Thursday in every month front 1 to 2 p.m. 3687- W. C. SPROAT, M.D., F.A.C.S. PJaysician and Surgeon Phone 90. Office John St., Seaforth. , 12-38 DR. F. J. BURROWS Office, Main Street, over Dominion Bank Bldg. Hours: 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 8 pm., and by appointment. Residence, Goderich Street, two doors west of •the United Church. Phone 46. 12-86 DR. HUGH H. ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate course in Chleago Clinical School of Chicago; Royal Opthalmie Hospital, London, England; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Office—Back of Do- minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5, Night calla answered from resIdence, Vitoria Street, Seaforbh. 12-88 DR. F'. J. R. FORSTER Eye,Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New York Opthal- mei and Attest Institute, Moorefield's Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos- pitals, London, Eng. At Commercial Hotel, Seaforth, third Wednesday in each naorubh, from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. 53 Waterloo Street South, Strat- ford. 12-37 DENTAL DR. J. A. McTAGGART Graduate Royal College of Detatal Surgeons, Toronto. Office at Hensel], Ont. ,Phone 106. • 12-37 AUCTIONEERS • HAROLD DALE Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in farm and household waLes. Prices reasonable. For dates and Information, write or phone Mar - old Dale. Phone 149, &aortal, or apply at The ExpoSitor Office. 12-67 "my deem," gushed the guest, after dinner. "What a wonderful cook you Alieve. I've never bad a More delicious dill:Mee—how I with I could get a cook Mkt) yours." he biostieSs smiled, "What a fun •thing," she midi "She's the ecifek lent diet harried last week_ 1 told her 35011140, :00Ming be dinner Weight." „ - (Oculdeused tL,ImujNalame 1,n fleta Meet) FIRST INSTALMENT When Joeelyne .forgettithg what her Music teacher had taught her, played music of her own, her mother, Mar cella, was alanco.ed. It was like the voice of a stranger ia the house. Silo rose from the prie-dieu in an alcove of th:e long Spanialelooking room, &Moult to recegnize as tie liv- ing room of a New York apartment, and came forward past intervening massive furniture to look at the play- er. There she sat, the daughter Mar- cella had put into a foreign Convent twelve yeale before, a smooth sleek golden girl, eighteen; years old, full- bosemed, narrow -waisted and round - hipped. "I want her to be safe," she had murmured to a nun when twelve years before she had left the little girl trem- bling in the dim waxy -smelling par- lor of the convent. And greeting her only two days ago on the wharf of her native city with all the strange tall towers stretching up behi,rid them Marcella had said again, to .the same tun, twelve years older, more waxen and more frail, "Oh, dear Sister Delice, how. shall I keep The music Jocelyn was playing now v.luli that thunder look in. her eyes and the bent position of her head, did not sound safe. Jocelyn played grop- ingly, changed the time, dropped into a definite melody and began to sing in French, softly. Marcella did not understand all the words but she made out that some &Old played in the house, ran down the street, work- ed in the garden with spade and hoe, but that always suddenly, no matter, what she did, something would cause her to look sharply back over her shoulder when . . . the little hump- back crept up behind her . . And this recurred in a refrain: "Quand le petit bossu, , Vient se placer derriere mot" It was a French nursery rhyme, Marcella remembered, but the music to which, this ,child of hers had put it was not a nursery melody. It was a Poe theme, a melody of fear. Le petit Bossu was no friendly geniut who played with children,. He was a little monster, a little master, and however the wretched haunted victim .tried to distract hereeff, whatever chattier, pleasure or duty she under- took, there of a sudden, casting a cold seadiew or making the faint sound of an uneven step, the little humpback, rha foihad came to place himself behind her. Joeelyn: Harlowe's first ball -gown -- it was for a costume ball—was white, as all first ball -gowns probably should be. She was 'dressed conventionally enough, as Juliet, in ivory satin with a cap of pearls on her head and with a rope of pearls wrapped about her slim throat, "I must marry this child quickly," Marcella thotight. Her own image, tall anid black, stood like a shadow in a mirror behtnd th.e radiant girl. "I am neither gifted nor disposed for its entegaianient or control. I must get, it off v hands, must lock it up again bane it can injure me or divert roe. true.: make it sitfe again ar it was lo the consent. I must put it out of the way." In he:. terror Marcella actually us- ed this dreadful euphemism, without any tealization of what her mind trad Faid.' She did. not know that in her 1 &Talented and angry soul she had wished a deatli. She called herself JocelYn's mother but what she vaisili- ed for in fare of a brilliant being, dee p -e y ed deep -bosomed, ruby li ppe,b, was . . . its annihilation. Sh:e call- ed the destiny a naarriage. She had even instantly, as a murderer, instant- ly conceives his weapon, a husband in lier mind. It must bemanaged quickly before Jocelyn, was fully awakened to reality. She must be made to long for it ignorantly as a release. Before Jocelyn's return from France Marcella had been busy warming chilled social contacts, melting the edges from metallic connections of one sort or another. She bad once ha,di a great position in the oity and it was not too difficult, in spite of what had once shattered her life, to wane something 'about the way you move your Mem, and, use your eyes Is different, coniventional. Perhaps Fla not going to be dieappointed atter allT"his was an address, altogether, dif- ferent from any Jocelyn had yet re- ceived. An olden man, „evidently. "Mr, Kent," she said, "you have really no right to any disappointenent, have you? Because you cant have had an interest, In me (there was shadowy delicate thermion on the r) ever before tonight." "You're wrong. I've had an interest in you for—let me see—twelve years." "But you are -just seenly" seoffed Jocelyn at her sweetest. "And I have not any French accent at. all" "Twelve years ago I sew you in a bank in Parise You were on your way to the. convent where your wise, wise mother .bas' kept you jailed for all these years. And I said to your mother, 'Give me a aret Option whe.n she comes out, won't you, Marcella?" "But, Mr. Kent, you are not so old as that?" "I am ,nineteen years older than you are, Miss JoCelyn. I was tweraty- five when you stood in the Paris bank and looked up at nee. You weren't a pretty little, girl. But I had a. sort of vision,. And even then I liked the notion of a convent -bred . ." he 'dropped his voice and di- verted his large blue eyes, "wife," he finished gravely. After a pause, "It's more than a notion now that I and close to you," even too close it seem- ed to Jocelyn, "and looking into your eyes and hearing you speak I see that you'are really canventbred. How long will that last through, here?" "And any mother did give you a first —option?" questioned. Jocelyn with .her eyes down. "She did, really. She said to me that day in Paris, 'There isn't a mart in the world.' I'd be so glad to trust ther to, Felix. Will you wait?'" "1 aro here," said Felix. "Thirty- seven years old. Successful. Una.t- tached." "And you did wait Of 'course!" "I wonder," sh,e spoke. =singly. "what you were doing alt these years? Think of it, if you will, twelve years! And you in the world, exciting, pleas- ant, dangerous, full of so mann Won- derful stirring things. And you were rookiug your SlICCeS.S. A great one, wasn't it?" "I well admit to you that it has tot been—insignificant." ' "And, learning to understand men and vemnert and life. For twelve long tears while I . . eh, Mr. Kent, .how shali I ever make them up twelve years." "But, dear dance the years between six and eighteen are act years when a gill, or a boy either, can be turned loose in the world." "Are they not?" she said. "Some- times I've dared to think, though na- turally nobody cares what I think, that a g: eat education for the world would be to live in it." "Life for a girl should sbegin with her marriage." "That is what .bhey taught us at the cenvent. I .did not knew. you believed that here." Kent laughed. But he was' giddy and filled with instant fear, There had never in the world been a lovely child line this one, so frankly (hun- gry, so ignorantly passionate, and so untaught; with not a jot of th,e deep cold wisdom of experience. He could 'hardly bear to surrender her to her next partner. He felt an .absurd knife-edge of pain and anger when she was drawn into.the young men's arms. The boy ead, a mes.ked face and a slender gondolier's waist, sash- ed in scarlet silk. Kent sought out Jocelyin'smether and bendtng les fair lean height above her he talked and talked and talked. Jocelyn danced past them where they stood ansi wo,n,dere,d why they were so flushed and serious, "It was the Jack of Hearts, wasn't it, that stole the tails?" she asked the gondolier. "Sure thing," saidi this partner, try- ing to break the soft reserve of her body to his own will, "but that chap It was a Poe theme . . . a melhdy of fear lecke ;herself remembered. So when she brought Jocelyn into the ballroom suhe was able tO obtain for her, aided by her own exotic charm, sa suffici- ency of fantastic partneirsl—toeJoce- lyre they all seemed Romeo% endl the ballroom en iridescent bubbre efecle- light—and at last even to attratt for bet the suppercartner Marcella had desired. Thie wee Felix Kent, dress- ed as the jack of Diamonds. "But you don't look rf," .he said, seating himself beside flushed, Juliet at the small palmy rose table they had taken far. themselves. "You don't look it and you don't act kt and yeti don't --yes, you, do speak It. You have a delicious little French. accent. And, you had supper with is the Jack of Diamonds. He's Felix Kent. He's Signe Waiter: "Your coffee, sir. got 'ern too." It's special from South Arnerica.." "Not tarts but diamonds?" estked Fed -Up Dirtier: "So that's where Jocelyn in a voice that seemed' to ask you've been!" X°r"l'aer. • Yor the means to get them Shopper: "Can I stick this, watt - He's nieher than; old Wh,at's-His- paper on myself?" Name. He &mid hang his Queen, all, 'Salesman: "Yen sir—but it would over with diamonds from her .1.reed to really look tattier on the wall." her toes. He could. buy the would for • her." "rene, glad to see you keeping ea "Buy the world? But just what Well," send' the annual visitor, to the wouhd that mean?" - •tekleet inhabitant. The boy laughed, stopped and made Replied the ancient: al habil, the 50 enormious gesture, all in the syn- Men1 *ail,. Tirtuei haft I eatild Walk copated rhythms of their exerei6e, round the green, Now I eau Mileage "Means whoopee, blut'ce qu'll y a," but half -Way rourld and, back." t expect ph7s4cal 'miracles but to_PraY t- maRtrite. tbektipcolev. ensatien at Lotwtl* is of .1 for apiritnal grace, but despite this at ihe shrine OW dle eiligt#1415 tint W. I tions Of 'the Virgbene power. Prit*s :cii9. 1.91:14:1:::11;!7:Tk'.1.:E;:: 4': 'I, 0: ,.,#,', i,: ' In 1887 the Bare= des -Censtatas WOW Medicates vvas organized at ' " " ;'' - Lourdes to examine and certify reEeLDEi - ported cures. The ,buoeau Is under ,, the autherity of its president elneehtt- PDDID DEPOT.: WI 4IIIIAIt ed by the 'Bishop. On -his staff are ten or twelve doctors who volunteer , ,thteir services. The personnel chang- e es and more than 1,000 medical men 'cured of tuberthei. air 'Awe% Ld .f' 5 - of all creeds, all countriee, take part leg. She wa., exainataPCI - in these examinatione every . year. and after her .1mMerstifill .1. The doctors are .aiways in attendance &Hombres, who :Ostia,* ,#.:40' nieals the Grotto. A "cured" patient ie sive sores to nave. coMplettel* hunried; away fnoan the insta.ntly gath- pealed ill a few minaitese .TO ered crowd a.nel rushed to this office uor (English war hew) eves roper* ' to be examined, X-raye.1, tested. Ilhe instantageetletly Mired of , ;a heed! record and; hietory of Otis case fnom wound, paralysis of the legS. and; R.RIP . his local doctor newt be presen.ted epsy. Although he now denies a onail o and studied for comparison with his truck, the Ministry of Penstion0 biaiS ; existing condition This rule, the refased to recognize his claim 0.00. skeptic is quick to arguee still leaves aud oontinuele to pay hien e 100 net a looph.ole. The tonal doctew might cent pentsion "fake" the record, certifying a dis- The list of eures grOW.B longer -MO,- ease that did not exist. On theother year. Deeuraentatiion ignews more ha- tband, it is diffieult to believe that all volv,ed but no more convincing tait the, the local doctore involved have been skeptics. "One wooden le,g," ,wriete charlatans. . ; Anatole 'France; "is worth all the dire ., make ee ,ednoectearseffobaurntiedueeaietioLamee Lourdes neathey carded crutches ' at, Lome -lee" AO - lawyers point out ,that witnesses are patient is hestericeal, there is no cure; incapable of reeordeg what tilley but aathe „cmaseaereiats innogt acomenaupoleratetiloyar,curbeade lea.Tveheseoeft;erdai alasHneawrdersanclitofelte.riticiata taken place; (3) the case, which, was )7,,Y. beellsalanaaneach edb;y°utphebypt.ealia tiotquoitagtittoone, z (under certain. natural. conidas) ,fnco2 a curable, lees been cured; (4) the caSeetor, Auguste Ballet. "The cures of which was incurable, has been super- Lourdes are in sortie -sense a suspen- naturally cured. In the event of this sion of the laws of nature, by a prin- mlatacaunlde inmouastt iffirePt°urrtanatftdeeer 1:,1°yneatr'has eeirPtthe'eosreaglaecw7., wihieTheh atauthe ow; n!,;61 tc)live. time to be re-examined. Then, if he laws of nature is God. Logic, there - has suffered no relapse, his cure will fora .forces us to adanit that the be "certified" by the decto,ns' bureau, ewes of LOPildes, are brought about apfrotnhoeuniaceioed esaemiracle by the Bishop pabytaIrdij:erechat Lapaiinterrygeetotti, etti,otinvatofed God." „Mlle. Elizabeth Delot went to Lew- .churclintain, e,ditor of the Catholic des in 1926 certified as having can- weekly "Amertic,a," and member of a cer of the stomach which had oom- family noted lie American arts, ,has pletely blocked the „pylo.rus and pro- remarked apropos of Lourdes: 'For duced secondary grovvths on the liv- ,those who believe in God no explene- er. X-rays bad been taken and sur- tion its necessary'. For those who do geons had pronounced it an beeper- not believe in God nfo explanation. is able case. In the water at Lourdes, Possible." Mile. Delot had a moment of ex- cruciating pain and then, felt sudden- ' "I would like te meet you again," ly neaste,d. Her subsequent exemina- he Murmured, as they gtitled through, tion, revealed not cancerous growths the waltz. . "What about letting me but healthy tissue. Gabriel Gargam went to Lourdes in: gia;rnet's"inurthteelebooPlikne," entmlberbe toldr111.1n- 1901, certified as having been par- "Goan weave your earner alyzed from the waist 1 down after a "You'll. find that in the book also," railway wreck. He was receiving an aannyue-aarl ifnrokiumry theeeneraioinlwrsafy.3,04.E00 sfrtanrocus- A woman weast to ,the bank and she said. , , • hie was compression of the spinal asked for a new ch,eque book. ic°,ngrdthebYpnoa eeedririolacnoedf thvaerptelleeraae.ed Dusaer.- .terd"I've lost the one you gave me yes- raaneart he tried, to rise, fell back, matter. i took the precaution of sign - then rose and walked a few steps. ing an the cheques as seen as. I got Within 24 hours he was walking al- it_ So, of course, it won't be of use most normally. He returns to Lour- to aereone else" des each year as a brarica.rdier. His • vertebra is edit out of place. Wife: "I've just received. a letter Other often cited cases are those from mother: She says she's. feeling of Pierre de Rudder, cured. of a nom- very seedy." pound fracture of the tibia by the Hasba.nd: "Um! I suppose that instantaneous creation of three Gann- means she's goiug te plant herself cat meters of bone; Marie Lemarchand, us." In Augnst, 1926, Mine. Augustine he said. "Let yourself go, kid. The Augault went from Craoe; Erase te 11111E1C will teach you. I'm .not dan- the Roman Catholic Shrine a gerous. Not 'half 80 dangertels as a Lourdes. She was. sineall and worn Knave of Diamonds, apywayr She would 'Neve weighed onlY seventy "I think I will marry the Knave of five pounde eecept for a smelling tha Diamonds," Said his obedient partner bulged under -her coat. This, Ibex just before she was stolen from her docter certified; was a fibroid tumor yeung tutor in the art of letting her- of the uterus, which weighed twenty self go, "bec,atese I want nothing five pounds. She was being fedi by meaner than the whele wide world means of injections. Three surgeons and I would love whoopee." , had refused to take the respeneibibity It was morning almost broad morn- of operating, so she bad come to ing, when Jocelyn 'stepped into her Lourdes. mother's waiting autemobile. Mar- She was carried ma a stretcher in c'ella had climbed in first and settled the procession of the Blessed Sacra into her corner profoundly. She lean- ment. There were many other inva ed back there like a limp long wood- lids, women with open sores and men en doll. wraipeed like mummies riding in Jocelyn, put her hand on the eide wheel chatr,s. These wh,o were able of the door and set her foot on the kneeled, aud lean the pavements be - running board. low the high, white church there rose Something cold touched her hand, a loingetra.wn chant. Some of the She stepped devise again and turn- voices were thin and breathless, oth- ed. Just belaiud her, a man had, plac- ers were 'hysterical. After she had ed himself. A cripple, He looked up received the Sacrament, Mme. Aug- inta her f ace frotn his shrunken ault said she felt very well. Next day height with bright and eager eyes. 30 doctors, Catholics and non-„Catho- In his left hand, the one that had lies from various parts of the world, 1101 touched her, he held the vanity. came and examined her. The swell - case he had let fall. ing bad , disappeared. It had net Jocelyn took it, almost snatched t changed, they agreed, into another from his long fingers, thanked elm form., There had been no -discharge. te ea: b ess ly and stumbled into t he The doctors said the growth must ear.It moved forward. have been "annihilated." The only "Why did you take so long to get evidence that it had ever existed was in, Jocelyn?" There was something a slight enlargement of the Uterus like repressed fury in Marcella's nen which soon vaeishen. Such wonders vous voice. "The air blew in oti ene are frequently reported from Lourdes Inc ohitled througn." —the in,snisentatheous growth of good "A hale man. A little man—Came tissue, the swift knitting of broken and, placed himself behind me," she bones, the immediate disappearance said painstakingly, of sores, tuberculoses, blindness, par - She gripped her mother's hard long alysis, deafness, hand in both of her own and bent In Lourdes Catholicism has a entitle down her head upon therm So she on international repute. Perhaps be- cronehed against Marc,ella's, lap veitn cause newsipaperraen are chary of her face hidden. She had never real- reputed miatacies, Lourdes seldom ty known a tnoteer's comforting. So reaches the headlines. But each year Perhaps; she did net know how to miss this pocket of the Pyrenees is visited it either, then. by no less t,haia, a million persons. Often Felix Kent eamie in, to see Ninety-nine per cent of the pilgrims them. During his visits in .the living seek spirituel, not physical aid. One room Marcella was a constant chap- per cent of the pilgrims (10,000) are eron. Jocelyn would play herr piano seriously orippled or ill, and of bhes-e cr sit with her eyes do-vna listening to about 150, or L5 per cent of the betel her mother's, hard manufactured con- n,umber of invalids, profess them- versation vrith the older mian, selves to be cured. Aad each year But the girl's eyes studied Felix about ten of these cures, or .1 per Kent. Th -e grayness on eerie temple cent of the total number of invalids, became him. His regular long face are certified by the medical bureau was ,handeomely correct, A sort of and called miraculous by the authori- in,ceadescence obliterated the expres- ties of the Diocese. These ten certi- sionlessnes,s of his large blue eyes fied cures ane so-called incurable cas- when they met hers. Watehing him es. Usually they seem to exhibit the sidelong through her tilted eyelashes iastantaneous growth OT change of Jocelyia found him a feast to her organic matter. They 'cam, in short, starved fancy for hero-worship. She to be miracles—"exceptions to the or - had: never before studied a men at der ,of nature as known in our com- such close quarters mon experience." The percentage of There came an evening when Mar- miracles ts small, but in the matter cella left them alone. of 'miracles percentages have no Jocelyn was at hertpia„no dutifully hibcanee. If one miracle occurs, it 'executing a commanded melody. It is as remarkable as a hundred. was intricate and held all her atte,n- There are annual organized pik Lion. She did not know that she had grimages to the damp grotto of Lout - been left, unchapercmed in. the room des from every corner of the earth. with Felix Kent. Beginning- Ma.ren In, when the snow He came an.d stood close to he', is not yet off the lower hills, the ho - leaning cu the piano. In' the slim LeV registees of the tiasai carry 111P v eri ty of evening dress he look ed enounceablte nen, S of central sleek and attractive, like a panther. Europe aiad the Near lease ,Jun,e and "Stop playing . . . ju,st, a minute, July bring thordes of Italians, Span - Jocelyn, please." ierde,.Beigiane and Americans the She obeyed, lame, the blind, the enhappy, and the, "Your mother has left us together." merely inquisitive. In the miclsum. Jocelyn stood up, saw that the rest neer heat the undena,c.nstrative faith - of the room was empty, sat down, ful of England tramp the streets and lowered her eyes and flushed. then, for five hot days in August, "I asked her to," Felix contieuedtire hotels and hospitals are jammed He came and sat down beside her OD with the Natimial Freneh, Pilgrimage, the loeg piano fienoh. "You're not 100.000 of the devout. The Iniat fol - afraid of me, are you?" lyw, a,nd until October 15, when the "N�." But she was shekinrg, an1 season closes, fatherly missionaries wondering why. play escort to silent annpanies of "Your freshness, my darling, is an Chieese, Japanese, Malaysians, Siam - ecstasy to me. And your wildess as, ese. lovely as a spring wind. You know I love you." "Yes," said •Jocelyn, trefmbling. "Do you think you can love me?" 'I don't knoe, monsieur!' He laughed in soft delight and drew clef er. "1 nany pet .my arm around you, loveliest?" She mane no movement nor sound but he, interpreting ber silence, die draw her to him and she came so1'. by, suddenly- so that all df her yourg hoey seerne s te be his own. Then ;se ss:ed her mouth - At that she was up mut at th.e far side of the room. Never had he seen a living creature more so swiftly. Both her haute were pressed against her lips. Her bosom panted. Her ves were distended and wet. (Continued Next Week) First Learner (up in plane); "The `plane's in a spin. What do I do now, insetorniv"t°patiri?" on (also 5 learner): "Gosh! I thought you were tee instructor." • "I went to see Mee spiritualist last nigth.t." "Was the good?" "Just medium." • "I wonder what broke off Tom's' engagement. to Dolly?" "Somebody toldhim, that her mother use b,e as pretty as she Is, and it frightened him off." • Fleet Boxer; "When I bin game - one, be remembers it." Second Boxer: "When I hit some- one, hes doesn't" • .',11;144 les Pitgrime arriving at LOurdes are met by volunteer workers. The mir- acles have dravrn thundred4 of peni- temt veluniteers, to aid the Pilgrims under the direction of two French Catholic ‚societies. These societies include princes and baesine, sehool- teac hers and bookkeepers. The men act as brancerdiers (stretcher bear- ers) and the wernen as nuns -es, dish- washers, coons. 'Thee volunteers make it possible for thousands of the needy to Visit Lourdes at a minimum of expense. The special trains begin to roll in at four in the morning. Healthy vis- itors; go to the hotels. The helplees are carried ia trucks and motor bus- es to the hospitals. Patients, are seg- regated by sex but not by disease.. No contagious cases come in Lourdes, but t pos.sibililies of infection are lim- itless . Into the same do rmi to r es (whole windows are closed in the Gallic fashion) go paralytics, con- eumptives, lepers, syphilitics. Patients with wested bodies and crooked spines aind sightless; eyes We next to patients with gar.greneue wounds. yellow ortisted. Faros, ca.neeneus seine, Yet, the local doctors say that no in- fection ;has ever spread at Lourdes and an English nurse writes: "At Lourdes it fa a joy to flout the ink - robe. No critic has ever proved a single case of disease contracted by contact with the sick at Lourdes." At 7 am, the trek to the Grotto begine. ,Each malade is assigned, a bran,cardier with a bath chair or streteheir on wheels,. Before tire Grot- to the .pilgrims halt POT hou.rs, pray- ing, saying their beads, fixing their eyes on the marble Lady of Lourdes for such long times that it is no won- der the statue, de often said to, senile or nod. At 10 a.m. the ,bathe are oP- en,ed a.nid; the sick are bathed, There are three of these bathe—one for Men, two for women—and each, bath is capable of holding three persons at a time. The sick are stripped, vonapped its towels end quickly im- mersed. The water is not changed during th,e day and it is black by nightfall. The Mother Church at Ronnie bas aidtopted no official attittide toward the miraculous report e from Lourdes 'and other Catholic shrines. It does, hoyeevet, the ditistenee of ,intracles and has "commended" thsa. ocoUrrences at Lourdes as Manifests, 9 a .1 cTheSNAPSI-10T CUIL SNAPSHOT ODIDITIES Giant frog. Some wag painted eyes and mouth on a big roadside boulder— and an alert picture -taker came along and snapped an excellent "oddity" picture. Keep your eyes open for things such as this—they add interest to your album. DO YOU keep your eyes open for odd and curious things which might be material for an "unusual picture" section In your,. snapshot album? Watch for such subjects when you are on a picture -taking Jaunt, and you may be surprised at the things you find. Oddly twisted treet that look like old men—a freakisb bit of architecture—a wall -shadow that looks like a human face In pro- file—an unutually realistic scare- crow in a fartner's field—novel cloud forms—Tall these are candh dates for the "unusual picture" col- lection. Observe reflections, too. Picture the upside-down reflection of a building in water. Turn the picture right side up, and the water ripples look like heat waves. Extreme angle shots of mine subjects, taken With camera pointed atraight tip or straight down, aften produce weird effects, Per exam*, put the paraeia On the ifocir it the heft* Of a *di - lighted circular istairtaiie and take a. "straight -up" shot—with short time exposure if you have a slow tamera, or a snapshot if your camera has a fast bens. The resulting picture will be fantastic—but a good subject for your album. Shadows often produce picture oddities. Shadows of bars at the zoo may pet a striped coat on a lion. Curved surfaces, auch as a,chrom- iuna bowl or convex mirror, produce oddly distorted reflections yeu can picture. And here's an idea: put a small subject such as a kitten or puppy on a. glass -topped lawn table, and snap a picture from tinderneath. If you take care that the glass picks up no reflections, it will be inviaible —and the subject will seem to be • floating in air! 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