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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1939-05-19, Page 77,774yt,; t• '‘f ••t;f:•%:-{'•7,',41•;:,•I''•:,.'441•!'•';‘7;"••1'1,;•• ;•;iri• • qi , '• • •,•••• e TENTH INSTALMENT SYNOPSIS - When the wealthy faster par- ents of 'Marjorie Wetherill both die she finds a letter telling that sae bas a twin sister, that she was adopted when her own par - cute couldn't afford - to support both of them and that her real name "is Dorothy Gay. Alone in the world, but with a fortune of her own, she considers looking up her own family whom she has nev- er seen. A n!eighbor, Evan Bow- er, tries to argue her out of it and tells her he loves her and asks her to marry him. She promises to think it over but decides first to see her family. She gees to their address, finds that they are destitute and gradually persuades them to accept things they need. When the doctor calls to see her mother she notices that he seems particularly interested in her she ter. Marjorie goes to Church in Brentwood, where her family used to live, and becomes very 'much interested, in the young minister there. She then sees the nice home there that her family had owned and determines to buy it back for them. She. consults a lawyer and makes plans to pur- chase it in order to give it to her lather as a Christmas present. "Well, I should say not!" saki Bet - with a catdh in the last word like. sob. • Suddenly a flood of thappineds roll - d into Marjorie's heart. This was er Home, where she belonged! They red her! Mr. Gay Came ina Little after six, king weary but with a strange w content upon him, a new self- spect. Marjorie, looking at the ght in' his eyes, realized. what a rd thing it must be for him that e could earn nothing to support his redly, and wished with all her heart hat something might come of her equest to the lawyer about a p051 - on for him. It was not until the second day ter that Mr. Bryant Sent Mar- rie word that he had the papers eady for her. So Marjorie, amid, a owl from the children, started off early in the morning again. To Marjorie the day was full of xcitement. It was so good to know hat matter of the house was ding through all right and that afternoon the deed which she might o ap in grandest Christmas wrap- ings for tier father and mother. Mr. Bryant told her that Mr. Mel- urno had told him about her atiber, and he had . been looking up several good openings that might terialize after Christmas. He idn't tell her that he had been missioned to look up Mr. Gay's record and had found it absolutely Dim peat:Arable, both as to ability id. character, but she sensed that he poke of her father with respect and t cheered her heart. "Do you suppose it would be pos- ible if there were an opening, that t could come as an offer from some- eere, and not have him know that asked about it?" she asked, the awyer shyly. "I think he would feel etter about it that way." And he seemed to understand for e smiled and suid: "I ethould think that might be ar- nged." So she went on her 'way to cone lete her shopping in a very happy frame of mind. And then, right in the midst of the last few purchases whom should he come square upon but the young Mister from Brentwood, Gideon Reaver! "Oh!" she said, a quick color fly- ing into her cheeks, "I didn't expect to recognize anybody in this big strange city." He seemed as pleased as, she was. He paused and talked to her a 'min- ute, told her how much he thought. of Ted, and what a fine fellow be was going to be, and then he hesitated and looked down at her wistfully. "I was just going into thotea room "Your Honor," ss1d the porver, re were the son of the stationmaster himself, it would not make any dit- ference." • People who Write an illegible hand must sometimes suffer themselves to te misunderstood, not infrequently with amusing resells. .Such an ' ex- irarience once came to Dr. T. M. Buck- ley, the eminent clergyman, when to the Press he sent a notice of the sitib- ject 'of his Sabbath discourse, "Oats and Wild Oath" The editor of one of the religions weektieto really did himself proud in denipheting the good minister's hand- writing. Imagine Dr. Baekley's Ishment and atnueement tiO balm trim this paper that on Sunday he was to plea& on "Cala and Virildeatta." vast' thatlie could preach an inter - eating Denman, and her brother ador- ed him. SO she relaied and • enjoyed her lunch, and' the pleasant talk that went on with it. "I have been wanting to ask you something," sihe said at last as the dessert was 'placed before 'them and ,the waitress hurried away -Wain. "Perhaps this Isn't the place to talk about such thiogr but I would so like to know something." certainly be glad to help in any way can" he said. "Well; then would you tell ine please, how can you tell whether you're saved or Dot? I'm a church member of course. But is there a way to be sure one is saved?" "There surely do!" said Gideon his eyes lighting eagerly. She met his gaze earnestly. "Sunday in your, sermon you talk- ed a lot about the new birth, and 1 don't understand it, at all. I've al- ways been taught that if I was good would go to Heaven when I die." "So was I," said Gideon smiling, "but that is not true." Marjorie gave him a startled look. "No, because tihe law must be kept perfectly , to be a means, of salvation', and no one but Christ ever has or ever could- be perfectly good, so it would, be hopeless for us if that were the only way to Heaven. But thank God it isn't. We have His own word for it! Do you believe the Bible?" "Oh, yes, of course. I so very much about tt but yea, I believe it." s "Do you believe its gospel: that Jesus was nailed to a cross for you, taking all the penalty of your sins by enduring God's righteous judgment upon them?" "Yes, of course, I believe that."' "Well, do you believe that be- cause He did that God raised Him from the dead and exalted Him in the highest heavens?" "Yes, indeed, I believe though I never heard it just that way before." "You believe, then, that Jesus is the Christ., the Son of God?" "Why, certainly." "Well, then listen says." He took a small testament out of his pocket and opened to John 5:1. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." • The astonishment on her face changed into illumination as she took in the wonderful truth: "Then I am saved!" she exclaimed, her eyes softening with the wonder of it. "Yes, it fiG as simple as that," said Gideon his t eyes drinking her eagerness. Marjorie looked up, her eyes filled with wonder. Suddenly Gideon glanced at his watch, and looked startled. "Excuse me,", he' said, "I have a wedding in half an hour and I've barely time to make it. I didn't realise how the time was going. May I talk with you again sometime about this?" "Oh, I should love to have you," said Marjorie. "I know almost noth- ing about the Bible!" "You'll have to begin to atudy it now." He smiled as he turned to the waitress to get the check. "I'd love to help if I may. I have a little book that may 'help at the start. I1I send it over to you. Good-bye, I wish I didn't have to rush away. You've giv- en me a wonderfully pleasant hour." "Oh, and you've shown me an in- heritance I didn't dream before that I had!" said Marjorie with shining errs. As she took her way home an hour later sire reflected how utterly changed was [her life just in a short week's time. The doctor was there When she reached the house. He was standing in the living room talking to Betty, telling her about a certain Christmas in his ohildlhood when he had) been alone among strangers, desolate and forlorn. Betty stood, in the doorway listen- ing sympathetically to the story, and Marjorie thought she saw a 'wistful don't know I suppose, that, al- statedr in to what this "You've given me a wo nde rfu I ty pleasant hour." to get at bite of hantelr" he said, "I wonder if you wouldn't join me? It's lonely eating all by myself, especial- ly in the midst of these gay Christ - Mae crowds, It seenas to emphasize ,one're "Why, I'd love to!" said Marjorie, with a sudden unreasoning feeling of having been crowned. She followed tiuim thorough the Chrietrnasi throngs to a table in a corner where there was comparative quiet. Marjorie, of course, bad often been out to luneli 'With her young men friends, but somehow this seemed the rare experience of a life -time. How silly she was! This man was an ut- ter stranger. All she know about lam, by telegraph with hie Mrisitnia.a gre4t- dugs. He made hie plans to' stip away from his Mather -a cannel family Christmas gathering immediately af- ter the old-fashioned midday dinner and take a plane to the city where Marjorie was st,aying. He would ar- retro in Neve*, Of time to take her out for a late dinner and the eventing somewhere. He did notilet her know of his coming. It was better to take her by surprise. The Gays, meanwhile, had been having a wonderful time getting ready for Christmas. It was the next morning about ten ,o'clock while they were just in the most interesting part of opening the presents that the doorbell rang and an enormous box arrived from one of the city florists. "Miss Marjorie Wethertill," the driv- er announced. "Sign on the top line!" Marjorie looked up and smiled. For me? How ridiculous! ,How in the world dict anybody find out where I was? So Marjorie, laughing, opened the box and disolosed the wonderful orch- ids. The card which lay on the top fell to the floor and Bud picked it up and read it aloud before anybody noticed to stop him. "Christmas Greetings for Marjorie from Evan Brower." Somehow Marjorie felt the eyes of the family upon her in question, though they hadn't taent„ she should, and the, color crept up into her fair cheeks. But she laughed. "Oh, he's just an old friend ef the Wetherill family," sive said casually. "They're orchids, aren't they?" said ''red; almost accusingly, Marjorie thought. "They're about the most ex- pensive flower there is, aren't they?" "Why, I don't know about the expensive part. Yes, I guess they are' considered rather rare. We'll give them to Mother, shall we? I'd like to have her have them. Now, let's forget them and go back -to our stockings." It is safe to say that Marjorie had never had such a happy Christmas in her life. The thrill of giving had nev- er been he-ra before. The last present was a long en- velope done up in a fascinating box with a great seal and long red rib- bons hanging from, the package. "Ho Mr. George Gay with many wishes for a Happy Christmas that shall last all the year," read Ted as he handed it out with a flourish. Ted was as much in the dark about it as any of them, far Marjorie had decided not to tell anyone her se- cret. 'But they had to wait spree time, before the legal docuratnt finally came to tight, and then tere was a note within that had to be read. Thi astounded father' -studied the paper and' then. the noteand, read them both slowly, as it, dawned upon him little by little that the document lit, held was a deed to his beloved lost (house in Brentwood. But still he didn't quite understand. So he turned to the note and read it aloud: Every Call is UR GENT "Dear Father, • This isn't exactly a Christmas gift. It's only an old possession come back to you, and this time entirely free from any obligation. Hoping it may bring you joy and comfort for many Christraa.nses to come. Your loving 'Nether Betty!" When it finally dawned upon them all that the dear lost home was theirs again, there was first an awful stillness, followed by the biggest tumult of shouting and hurrahing the Gay household had ever known. Father noticed that Mother was cry- ing softly. Smiling and crying like April rein in sunsihine "Look here, this wen't do, Mother! You're going to get all used up. You ought to lie right down and rest and have everybody keep still!" he said Q ancriousiy. '"Ch, no," said Mettler smiling through 'her tears. "Don't you know that joy never kills?" look in the young doctor's eyes. She wandered if he bad a home and ,fam- ily now to make Christmas merry for him, or was he lonely yet? If he was hew nice it would be if they were on- ly in Brentwood and corld mnivite 1im o Chrie'rnas dinner. Nice to hkve t_aciaeon Reamer too. But, of course, they eiouldn't do enythir g like that in this little house. T'van Brower was in e state of rri d when at last the message got to NM kite in the afternoon with Marjorie's address. He immaediately ewe to work trying to get her on the telephone. largo box of wonderful erebilds to her At last he went out and sent a (Continued Next Week) Invisible Spectacles Linemen on the Frontier fight desperately against wind and weather, freezing sleet and blinding storms. Aiding them to keep the lines clear, because your call must go through, is our whole organ- ization of operators, technicians, plant engineers, service men and general staff. Every day five million telephone calls travel over the voice -ways of Ontario and Quebec. OILS T°ANNGCi .jt15plQNE_ ,J MISS E. M. CLUFF, Manager. A fire alarm means action: instant action! To the firemen, as to -the telephone people, each day "relentlessly chops out its .st of accidents and emergencies". Only a few of the 5,600,000 telep • calls handled daily in Ontario and Quebec come froin people in desperate clanger. But all calls must go through at split-second_ speed. This requires the highest standard of telephone plant, a highly -trained personnel and never-ending research. • Your Telephone organization, like your fire de- partment, is prepared"for anything -anytime. It mobilizes men and resources for emergencies like blizzards, storms and floods. Special tech- nicians quickly arrange telephone" conferences;' traffic surveys, international hook-ups. And no matter what the situation, there is always instant attention from "the voice with a smile.'2 NIMMIN1b. lenses originated, 50,000 persons wear them for any one of these many rea- sons'. But there are disadvantages, to which make it. unlikely that contact lenses will ever abolish • or even no- ticeably- diminish the use of conven- tional spectacles. Unless you have a strong reason, for needing anntact lenses your eye specialist is likely to discourage you from adopting them. They are expensive, costing from $75 to $11)0 the pair, plus the specialist's fee for fitting. Furth,errnore, many persons find them uncomfortable; they feel an actual sense of "some- thing, in the eye." The "nervoos" person, likely to complain of the fit of shoes or, false teeth, never gets used to them. Persons with tight eyelids or hay fever cannot wear them at all. Quest ionnai re replies from eyesight specialists in the United States show- ed that 80 per cent. of their patients who wear contact leases to correct unusual eye conditions are perfectly satisfied, But of those who wear them for occupational or "cosmetic" reasons, one fourth to one half con- fes,s they are not completely comfort- able with them. One patient wore contact glasses 16 hours a day for nearly five years without 'any bad ef- fects. Wearers have kept them in for 36 hours at a stretch, but eye doctors recommend taking them out every four hours or so for a rest per- iod, When one first adopts them, they are worn for only a few minutes at a time, the period gradually being lengthened as the wearer becomes ac- customed to thera. Contact lenses are as safe as glass- es. With thousands of them in use, only one case of breakage has been reported --and that did not damage the eye. The glass of a contact lens is tough and its firm contact with the elastic eyeball gives it little chance to shelter. One contact lens wearer received in a motor accident a savage cut across the eyelid. A nak- ed or bespectacled eye would have been badly slashed. The contact lens took the blow undamaged and saved the eye. Even outside the eye, these tiny gadgets are hard to break. Care- less handling may snap them., but un- less they bit at just the right angle, they will bounce harralesely when dropped on a same floor. (Condensed from I4ygeia in Reader's Digest) Six thousand Americana today are wearing "invisible spectacles." The starry eyes of a dozen favorite mOvie: stars' -of both sexes- are triumphs of the laboratory. An,d numerpus ships' Officers, singers, fashion models, at least one trig -league ball player, go about their daily affairs without any- one guessing that they are peering through lenses. They wear, attached by suction to the. eyeball itself, a paper -thin shell of glass or bakelite, its center a tiny lens made to optical presoripticm. These "contact lensea" move with the eye; a foot away they are invisible. Me advantages of these lenses to actors, lecturers and others who must look their best before the public are obvious. Persians afflicted with cer- tain eye diseases, notably kerwtocon- us, in which the cornea becomes soft- tened and deformed, find that contact lenses are the beat aid to vision they can get. There are other reasons which account for their growing pop- ularity: unlike spectacles, they can- not be knocked off: they do not get misty in rata. Professional athletes of course, find:, spectacles a great handicap and are turning to contact leneee. Ships' offfcers and ya,chts- men have found they oh -elate trouble with spray. In industry special con- tact leneee serve more conveniently than sheaVy gogglee to protect eyes against chemical fumes or intense light; t Geratany, where the contact eyeball, and there is a slight suction which holds the glass so securely in place that only the firm pull of the suction tube will get it off again. The theory of invisible eye -glasses was first expounded by Herschel, the English physicist, in 1827. Little was done wfth the idea until the late 1880s, when the Zeiss factory in Jena experimenting with, the construction of a thin, accurately ground glass bowl with a spherical surface, which could be placed directly on the eye. To -day Zeiss leases are ground to pre- scription as accurately as- any spec- tacle lens. Somewhat lateg a skillful German glass blower named Muller dhveloped the blOwn-glass contact lens. These blown lenses, still widely used, are not as accurate as ground lenses, but are often more comfortable. The blown lens covers almost all the front half of the globe of the eye, with a clear glass window in the center, ani the rest cleverly painted to imitate the coloring and. veining of the natur- al eyeb,a1.1. A third type of Contact lens is the plastic., The American firm of Bausch & Lomb now puts out a white bake - lite Fens which matches perfectly the color and dimensions of the eyeball. The center part is clear optical glass ground to the 'proper prescription. Formerly 1the fitting- of these lens- es was difficult and protracted But the experiences of oeulists, optome- trists and expert mechanics have de- veloped interesting innovations. In 1932, Joseph 1)allos, eye specialist in Budapest, suggested the making of a cast of the living eye and fitting the contact lens on it exactly- as one makes a cast of the Mouth in order to produce exactly accurate teeth. The soft, pasty casting material is poured into an approximately fitting glass shell and placed on the eyeball, which has previously been anesteelie ed with cocaine. Thirty seconds lat- er this is removed, producing a nega- tive cast of the eyeball from which an accuartely fitting contact lens may be made. In Liendon a contact lone center has ben developed, venlig the Dance ,tech - pique, at which 8.s many as sixty-five glasses have been made in one day. The British specialists are convinced that with experience it may become possible to decrease the cost and make fitting eimpler. In the United States there are several firms which have been working in close co-opera- tioni with leading eye specialists, in the fitting of contact lenses. A New York optometrist, William Feinbloom., discovered that a great deal of time, inconvenience, and the risk of breakage, could be reduced 4f, instead of making a direct cast of the eyeball, he merely measured the patient's eye, made a bronze cast to those specificatkimis, and then fitted the contact 'lens to the cast, nether than the patientla"eye. To meet the "cosmetic" challenge of the contact leas, eyeglasses are now made 111 300 shapes antd a wide variety of tints, to hanfertm . more Ln fitting contact lenses, great care Is taken to minimize discomfort. Sur- faces are polished to microscopic emoothruess. Contact with the eye- ball is lubricated by a special liquid placed in the hollow of the leas each time the wearer inserts them. The liquid is synthetic tearsL The pat- ient's own tears are analyzed' to es - certain the degree Of senility, and then accurately matched in a pre- scribed solution. To put a contact lens on, the wear- er first fills the inverted sheLl-like lens with the salt solution. The shell is then held at the top of a little rub- ber suction tube, as one might hold an eyecup, then gently fitted under the eyelid's, a process learned in a few trials. The salt solution touches the closely in color and contour with the wearer's face, Contact lenses are es- • tablishing for themselves a place in the cpt ral field, and progressive out. lists and optometrists agree that the Use of this scientific triumph will grow. LONDON Exeter Hensall Kipper]. Brucefield Clinton Londesboro Blyth Belgrave Wingham •Wingham Belgrave Blyth Loadesboro Clinton Brumfield Kippen Flensall Exeter and WINGHAM NORTH a A.M. 10.34 10.46 10.52 11.00 11.47 12.06 12.16 12.27 12.45 SOUTH P.M. 1.60 2.06 2.17 2.26 3.08 8.28 8.88 8.45 3.58 C.N.R. 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Office on Main Street, Henson, opposite Town Hall. Phone 116. Breeder of Seettioh Ter- m -tem, Inverness Remote, Hewett. 12-37 • .1ka.n 1.1aOCAla '•SEAFORTH CLINIC DR. E. A. McMASTER, M.B. Graduate of University of Toronto J. p. COLQUHOUN, M.D., C.M. Graduate of Dolnousie University, Halifax. The Clinic is fully equipped with complete and modern X-ray and other up-to-date diagnostic and thereuptic equipment Dr. Margaret K. Campbell, M.D., t: L.A.B.P., Specialist in diseases in in- a tants and children, will be at the Clirdc last Thursday in every month e from 3 to 6 pan. Dr. F. J. R. Forster, Specialist in '14 diseases of the ear, eye, naie and throat, will be at the Clinic the first h Tuesday in every, month from 3 to 5 n p.m. Free Well -Baby Clinic will be held h on the second and last Thursday in h every month from 1 to 2 p.m. h 3687- fi • a ri JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D. ti Physician and Surgeon IN DR. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE it a Phone 5•W ; Seaforth h e W. C. SPROAT, M.D., F.A.C.S. e t' Physician and Surgeon g Phone 90. Office John St., Seaforth. a 1-43 El . p ;a.-- DR. F. J. BURROWS b f acaraaa Mn Streetanver, Dominion Bank Bldg. Hours: 2 to 5 p.m. and ' 7 to 8 p.m., and by appointment. al Residence, Goderich Street, two doors west of the United Church. Phone ' 46. , a 12-88 a e DR. HUGH H. ROSS i Graduate of University of Toronto, E Faculty of Medicine, member of Col- i lege of Phaelcians and Surgeons of 1 Ontario; pass graduate course in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago; Royal Opthainaie Hospital, London, 1 England; University Hospital, Lon- don, Enalaud. Office -Back of Do- minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. Night calls answered from residence, 1 Victoria Street, Seaforth. 12.-1111 i 1 DR. F. J. R. FORSTER Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New York Opthaa mel and Aural Institute, Mooredeldai Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos- pital, Loudon, Eng. At COMMERCIAL HOTEL, SEAPORTS, THIRD WED- NESDAY in each month, from 1.30 p:m. to 4.30 p.m. 63 Waterloo Street South, Stratford. Iran . AUCTIONEERS , HAROLD DALE l . Licensed Auctioneer Specialist in farm and household Bales. Prices reasonable. For dates and information, write or phone Har- old Dale. Phone 149, .Seaforth, or apply at The Expositor ()Mee. 12-27 Some year ago Mr. Winston Churthill was, travelling on the Tra- lee-Listowel-Ballybunion Railway. For aio good reason, apparently, the train stOIMed in a station: for half an hour. Mr. Churcbal, being in. a hurry to reach his destination to dine wibbt Lord Leitrim, Who was the chairman of the railway eompanty, informed the porter of bin identity and also of bis date that. evening, presuming that this infelit haveasome effect. But not . a bit et Itt • • - " '‘f ••t;f:•%:-{'•7,',41•;:,•I''•:,.'441•!'•';‘7;"••1'1,;•• ;•;iri• • qi , '• • •,•••• e TENTH INSTALMENT SYNOPSIS - When the wealthy faster par- ents of 'Marjorie Wetherill both die she finds a letter telling that sae bas a twin sister, that she was adopted when her own par - cute couldn't afford - to support both of them and that her real name "is Dorothy Gay. Alone in the world, but with a fortune of her own, she considers looking up her own family whom she has nev- er seen. A n!eighbor, Evan Bow- er, tries to argue her out of it and tells her he loves her and asks her to marry him. She promises to think it over but decides first to see her family. She gees to their address, finds that they are destitute and gradually persuades them to accept things they need. When the doctor calls to see her mother she notices that he seems particularly interested in her she ter. Marjorie goes to Church in Brentwood, where her family used to live, and becomes very 'much interested, in the young minister there. She then sees the nice home there that her family had owned and determines to buy it back for them. She. consults a lawyer and makes plans to pur- chase it in order to give it to her lather as a Christmas present. "Well, I should say not!" saki Bet - with a catdh in the last word like. sob. • Suddenly a flood of thappineds roll - d into Marjorie's heart. This was er Home, where she belonged! They red her! Mr. Gay Came ina Little after six, king weary but with a strange w content upon him, a new self- spect. Marjorie, looking at the ght in' his eyes, realized. what a rd thing it must be for him that e could earn nothing to support his redly, and wished with all her heart hat something might come of her equest to the lawyer about a p051 - on for him. It was not until the second day ter that Mr. Bryant Sent Mar- rie word that he had the papers eady for her. So Marjorie, amid, a owl from the children, started off early in the morning again. To Marjorie the day was full of xcitement. It was so good to know hat matter of the house was ding through all right and that afternoon the deed which she might o ap in grandest Christmas wrap- ings for tier father and mother. Mr. Bryant told her that Mr. Mel- urno had told him about her atiber, and he had . been looking up several good openings that might terialize after Christmas. He idn't tell her that he had been missioned to look up Mr. Gay's record and had found it absolutely Dim peat:Arable, both as to ability id. character, but she sensed that he poke of her father with respect and t cheered her heart. "Do you suppose it would be pos- ible if there were an opening, that t could come as an offer from some- eere, and not have him know that asked about it?" she asked, the awyer shyly. "I think he would feel etter about it that way." And he seemed to understand for e smiled and suid: "I ethould think that might be ar- nged." So she went on her 'way to cone lete her shopping in a very happy frame of mind. And then, right in the midst of the last few purchases whom should he come square upon but the young Mister from Brentwood, Gideon Reaver! "Oh!" she said, a quick color fly- ing into her cheeks, "I didn't expect to recognize anybody in this big strange city." He seemed as pleased as, she was. He paused and talked to her a 'min- ute, told her how much he thought. of Ted, and what a fine fellow be was going to be, and then he hesitated and looked down at her wistfully. "I was just going into thotea room "Your Honor," ss1d the porver, re were the son of the stationmaster himself, it would not make any dit- ference." • People who Write an illegible hand must sometimes suffer themselves to te misunderstood, not infrequently with amusing resells. .Such an ' ex- irarience once came to Dr. T. M. Buck- ley, the eminent clergyman, when to the Press he sent a notice of the sitib- ject 'of his Sabbath discourse, "Oats and Wild Oath" The editor of one of the religions weektieto really did himself proud in denipheting the good minister's hand- writing. Imagine Dr. Baekley's Ishment and atnueement tiO balm trim this paper that on Sunday he was to plea& on "Cala and Virildeatta." vast' thatlie could preach an inter - eating Denman, and her brother ador- ed him. SO she relaied and • enjoyed her lunch, and' the pleasant talk that went on with it. "I have been wanting to ask you something," sihe said at last as the dessert was 'placed before 'them and ,the waitress hurried away -Wain. "Perhaps this Isn't the place to talk about such thiogr but I would so like to know something." certainly be glad to help in any way can" he said. "Well; then would you tell ine please, how can you tell whether you're saved or Dot? I'm a church member of course. But is there a way to be sure one is saved?" "There surely do!" said Gideon his eyes lighting eagerly. She met his gaze earnestly. "Sunday in your, sermon you talk- ed a lot about the new birth, and 1 don't understand it, at all. I've al- ways been taught that if I was good would go to Heaven when I die." "So was I," said Gideon smiling, "but that is not true." Marjorie gave him a startled look. "No, because tihe law must be kept perfectly , to be a means, of salvation', and no one but Christ ever has or ever could- be perfectly good, so it would, be hopeless for us if that were the only way to Heaven. But thank God it isn't. We have His own word for it! Do you believe the Bible?" "Oh, yes, of course. I so very much about tt but yea, I believe it." s "Do you believe its gospel: that Jesus was nailed to a cross for you, taking all the penalty of your sins by enduring God's righteous judgment upon them?" "Yes, of course, I believe that."' "Well, do you believe that be- cause He did that God raised Him from the dead and exalted Him in the highest heavens?" "Yes, indeed, I believe though I never heard it just that way before." "You believe, then, that Jesus is the Christ., the Son of God?" "Why, certainly." "Well, then listen says." He took a small testament out of his pocket and opened to John 5:1. "Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." • The astonishment on her face changed into illumination as she took in the wonderful truth: "Then I am saved!" she exclaimed, her eyes softening with the wonder of it. "Yes, it fiG as simple as that," said Gideon his t eyes drinking her eagerness. Marjorie looked up, her eyes filled with wonder. Suddenly Gideon glanced at his watch, and looked startled. "Excuse me,", he' said, "I have a wedding in half an hour and I've barely time to make it. I didn't realise how the time was going. May I talk with you again sometime about this?" "Oh, I should love to have you," said Marjorie. "I know almost noth- ing about the Bible!" "You'll have to begin to atudy it now." He smiled as he turned to the waitress to get the check. "I'd love to help if I may. I have a little book that may 'help at the start. I1I send it over to you. Good-bye, I wish I didn't have to rush away. You've giv- en me a wonderfully pleasant hour." "Oh, and you've shown me an in- heritance I didn't dream before that I had!" said Marjorie with shining errs. As she took her way home an hour later sire reflected how utterly changed was [her life just in a short week's time. The doctor was there When she reached the house. He was standing in the living room talking to Betty, telling her about a certain Christmas in his ohildlhood when he had) been alone among strangers, desolate and forlorn. Betty stood, in the doorway listen- ing sympathetically to the story, and Marjorie thought she saw a 'wistful don't know I suppose, that, al- statedr in to what this "You've given me a wo nde rfu I ty pleasant hour." to get at bite of hantelr" he said, "I wonder if you wouldn't join me? It's lonely eating all by myself, especial- ly in the midst of these gay Christ - Mae crowds, It seenas to emphasize ,one're "Why, I'd love to!" said Marjorie, with a sudden unreasoning feeling of having been crowned. She followed tiuim thorough the Chrietrnasi throngs to a table in a corner where there was comparative quiet. Marjorie, of course, bad often been out to luneli 'With her young men friends, but somehow this seemed the rare experience of a life -time. How silly she was! This man was an ut- ter stranger. All she know about lam, by telegraph with hie Mrisitnia.a gre4t- dugs. He made hie plans to' stip away from his Mather -a cannel family Christmas gathering immediately af- ter the old-fashioned midday dinner and take a plane to the city where Marjorie was st,aying. He would ar- retro in Neve*, Of time to take her out for a late dinner and the eventing somewhere. He did notilet her know of his coming. It was better to take her by surprise. The Gays, meanwhile, had been having a wonderful time getting ready for Christmas. It was the next morning about ten ,o'clock while they were just in the most interesting part of opening the presents that the doorbell rang and an enormous box arrived from one of the city florists. "Miss Marjorie Wethertill," the driv- er announced. "Sign on the top line!" Marjorie looked up and smiled. For me? How ridiculous! ,How in the world dict anybody find out where I was? So Marjorie, laughing, opened the box and disolosed the wonderful orch- ids. The card which lay on the top fell to the floor and Bud picked it up and read it aloud before anybody noticed to stop him. "Christmas Greetings for Marjorie from Evan Brower." Somehow Marjorie felt the eyes of the family upon her in question, though they hadn't taent„ she should, and the, color crept up into her fair cheeks. But she laughed. "Oh, he's just an old friend ef the Wetherill family," sive said casually. "They're orchids, aren't they?" said ''red; almost accusingly, Marjorie thought. "They're about the most ex- pensive flower there is, aren't they?" "Why, I don't know about the expensive part. Yes, I guess they are' considered rather rare. We'll give them to Mother, shall we? I'd like to have her have them. Now, let's forget them and go back -to our stockings." It is safe to say that Marjorie had never had such a happy Christmas in her life. The thrill of giving had nev- er been he-ra before. The last present was a long en- velope done up in a fascinating box with a great seal and long red rib- bons hanging from, the package. "Ho Mr. George Gay with many wishes for a Happy Christmas that shall last all the year," read Ted as he handed it out with a flourish. Ted was as much in the dark about it as any of them, far Marjorie had decided not to tell anyone her se- cret. 'But they had to wait spree time, before the legal docuratnt finally came to tight, and then tere was a note within that had to be read. Thi astounded father' -studied the paper and' then. the noteand, read them both slowly, as it, dawned upon him little by little that the document lit, held was a deed to his beloved lost (house in Brentwood. But still he didn't quite understand. So he turned to the note and read it aloud: Every Call is UR GENT "Dear Father, • This isn't exactly a Christmas gift. It's only an old possession come back to you, and this time entirely free from any obligation. Hoping it may bring you joy and comfort for many Christraa.nses to come. Your loving 'Nether Betty!" When it finally dawned upon them all that the dear lost home was theirs again, there was first an awful stillness, followed by the biggest tumult of shouting and hurrahing the Gay household had ever known. Father noticed that Mother was cry- ing softly. Smiling and crying like April rein in sunsihine "Look here, this wen't do, Mother! You're going to get all used up. You ought to lie right down and rest and have everybody keep still!" he said Q ancriousiy. '"Ch, no," said Mettler smiling through 'her tears. "Don't you know that joy never kills?" look in the young doctor's eyes. She wandered if he bad a home and ,fam- ily now to make Christmas merry for him, or was he lonely yet? If he was hew nice it would be if they were on- ly in Brentwood and corld mnivite 1im o Chrie'rnas dinner. Nice to hkve t_aciaeon Reamer too. But, of course, they eiouldn't do enythir g like that in this little house. T'van Brower was in e state of rri d when at last the message got to NM kite in the afternoon with Marjorie's address. He immaediately ewe to work trying to get her on the telephone. largo box of wonderful erebilds to her At last he went out and sent a (Continued Next Week) Invisible Spectacles Linemen on the Frontier fight desperately against wind and weather, freezing sleet and blinding storms. Aiding them to keep the lines clear, because your call must go through, is our whole organ- ization of operators, technicians, plant engineers, service men and general staff. Every day five million telephone calls travel over the voice -ways of Ontario and Quebec. OILS T°ANNGCi .jt15plQNE_ ,J MISS E. M. CLUFF, Manager. A fire alarm means action: instant action! To the firemen, as to -the telephone people, each day "relentlessly chops out its .st of accidents and emergencies". Only a few of the 5,600,000 telep • calls handled daily in Ontario and Quebec come froin people in desperate clanger. But all calls must go through at split-second_ speed. This requires the highest standard of telephone plant, a highly -trained personnel and never-ending research. • Your Telephone organization, like your fire de- partment, is prepared"for anything -anytime. It mobilizes men and resources for emergencies like blizzards, storms and floods. Special tech- nicians quickly arrange telephone" conferences;' traffic surveys, international hook-ups. And no matter what the situation, there is always instant attention from "the voice with a smile.'2 NIMMIN1b. lenses originated, 50,000 persons wear them for any one of these many rea- sons'. But there are disadvantages, to which make it. unlikely that contact lenses will ever abolish • or even no- ticeably- diminish the use of conven- tional spectacles. Unless you have a strong reason, for needing anntact lenses your eye specialist is likely to discourage you from adopting them. They are expensive, costing from $75 to $11)0 the pair, plus the specialist's fee for fitting. Furth,errnore, many persons find them uncomfortable; they feel an actual sense of "some- thing, in the eye." The "nervoos" person, likely to complain of the fit of shoes or, false teeth, never gets used to them. Persons with tight eyelids or hay fever cannot wear them at all. Quest ionnai re replies from eyesight specialists in the United States show- ed that 80 per cent. of their patients who wear contact leases to correct unusual eye conditions are perfectly satisfied, But of those who wear them for occupational or "cosmetic" reasons, one fourth to one half con- fes,s they are not completely comfort- able with them. One patient wore contact glasses 16 hours a day for nearly five years without 'any bad ef- fects. Wearers have kept them in for 36 hours at a stretch, but eye doctors recommend taking them out every four hours or so for a rest per- iod, When one first adopts them, they are worn for only a few minutes at a time, the period gradually being lengthened as the wearer becomes ac- customed to thera. Contact lenses are as safe as glass- es. With thousands of them in use, only one case of breakage has been reported --and that did not damage the eye. The glass of a contact lens is tough and its firm contact with the elastic eyeball gives it little chance to shelter. One contact lens wearer received in a motor accident a savage cut across the eyelid. A nak- ed or bespectacled eye would have been badly slashed. The contact lens took the blow undamaged and saved the eye. Even outside the eye, these tiny gadgets are hard to break. Care- less handling may snap them., but un- less they bit at just the right angle, they will bounce harralesely when dropped on a same floor. (Condensed from I4ygeia in Reader's Digest) Six thousand Americana today are wearing "invisible spectacles." The starry eyes of a dozen favorite mOvie: stars' -of both sexes- are triumphs of the laboratory. An,d numerpus ships' Officers, singers, fashion models, at least one trig -league ball player, go about their daily affairs without any- one guessing that they are peering through lenses. They wear, attached by suction to the. eyeball itself, a paper -thin shell of glass or bakelite, its center a tiny lens made to optical presoripticm. These "contact lensea" move with the eye; a foot away they are invisible. Me advantages of these lenses to actors, lecturers and others who must look their best before the public are obvious. Persians afflicted with cer- tain eye diseases, notably kerwtocon- us, in which the cornea becomes soft- tened and deformed, find that contact lenses are the beat aid to vision they can get. There are other reasons which account for their growing pop- ularity: unlike spectacles, they can- not be knocked off: they do not get misty in rata. Professional athletes of course, find:, spectacles a great handicap and are turning to contact leneee. Ships' offfcers and ya,chts- men have found they oh -elate trouble with spray. In industry special con- tact leneee serve more conveniently than sheaVy gogglee to protect eyes against chemical fumes or intense light; t Geratany, where the contact eyeball, and there is a slight suction which holds the glass so securely in place that only the firm pull of the suction tube will get it off again. The theory of invisible eye -glasses was first expounded by Herschel, the English physicist, in 1827. Little was done wfth the idea until the late 1880s, when the Zeiss factory in Jena experimenting with, the construction of a thin, accurately ground glass bowl with a spherical surface, which could be placed directly on the eye. To -day Zeiss leases are ground to pre- scription as accurately as- any spec- tacle lens. Somewhat lateg a skillful German glass blower named Muller dhveloped the blOwn-glass contact lens. These blown lenses, still widely used, are not as accurate as ground lenses, but are often more comfortable. The blown lens covers almost all the front half of the globe of the eye, with a clear glass window in the center, ani the rest cleverly painted to imitate the coloring and. veining of the natur- al eyeb,a1.1. A third type of Contact lens is the plastic., The American firm of Bausch & Lomb now puts out a white bake - lite Fens which matches perfectly the color and dimensions of the eyeball. The center part is clear optical glass ground to the 'proper prescription. Formerly 1the fitting- of these lens- es was difficult and protracted But the experiences of oeulists, optome- trists and expert mechanics have de- veloped interesting innovations. In 1932, Joseph 1)allos, eye specialist in Budapest, suggested the making of a cast of the living eye and fitting the contact lens on it exactly- as one makes a cast of the Mouth in order to produce exactly accurate teeth. The soft, pasty casting material is poured into an approximately fitting glass shell and placed on the eyeball, which has previously been anesteelie ed with cocaine. Thirty seconds lat- er this is removed, producing a nega- tive cast of the eyeball from which an accuartely fitting contact lens may be made. In Liendon a contact lone center has ben developed, venlig the Dance ,tech - pique, at which 8.s many as sixty-five glasses have been made in one day. The British specialists are convinced that with experience it may become possible to decrease the cost and make fitting eimpler. In the United States there are several firms which have been working in close co-opera- tioni with leading eye specialists, in the fitting of contact lenses. A New York optometrist, William Feinbloom., discovered that a great deal of time, inconvenience, and the risk of breakage, could be reduced 4f, instead of making a direct cast of the eyeball, he merely measured the patient's eye, made a bronze cast to those specificatkimis, and then fitted the contact 'lens to the cast, nether than the patientla"eye. To meet the "cosmetic" challenge of the contact leas, eyeglasses are now made 111 300 shapes antd a wide variety of tints, to hanfertm . more Ln fitting contact lenses, great care Is taken to minimize discomfort. Sur- faces are polished to microscopic emoothruess. Contact with the eye- ball is lubricated by a special liquid placed in the hollow of the leas each time the wearer inserts them. The liquid is synthetic tearsL The pat- ient's own tears are analyzed' to es - certain the degree Of senility, and then accurately matched in a pre- scribed solution. To put a contact lens on, the wear- er first fills the inverted sheLl-like lens with the salt solution. The shell is then held at the top of a little rub- ber suction tube, as one might hold an eyecup, then gently fitted under the eyelid's, a process learned in a few trials. The salt solution touches the closely in color and contour with the wearer's face, Contact lenses are es- • tablishing for themselves a place in the cpt ral field, and progressive out. lists and optometrists agree that the Use of this scientific triumph will grow. LONDON Exeter Hensall Kipper]. Brucefield Clinton Londesboro Blyth Belgrave Wingham •Wingham Belgrave Blyth Loadesboro Clinton Brumfield Kippen Flensall Exeter and WINGHAM NORTH a A.M. 10.34 10.46 10.52 11.00 11.47 12.06 12.16 12.27 12.45 SOUTH P.M. 1.60 2.06 2.17 2.26 3.08 8.28 8.88 8.45 3.58 C.N.R. TIME TABLE EAST Goderich Hol mesvilh3 Clinton Seaforth St. Columban Dublin Mitchell Mitchell Dublin Seaforth Clinton Godertoh W EST A.M. 6.35 6.50 6.58 7.11 7.17 7.21 7.30 11.06 1114 11.80 11.45 12.05 P.M. 2.30 2.52 8.00 116 8.22 3.29 8.41 9.28 9.36 9.47 10.00 10.25 C.P.R. TIME TABLE EAST Goclerich Men,set McGaw Auburn Blyth Walton McNaught Toronto WEST , P.M. 4.20 4.24 4.83 4.43 4.52 6.05 5.15 9.00 A.M. Toronto 8.30 MoNaught 12.03 Walton 12.13 Blyth 12.3 Auburn 1132 • McGaw Afi Monnet °Wallah ap.•• • .,- .1